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Proverbs of all Nations
‘’Tis time to yoke when the cart comes to the
capple,” [*. e., horses.] — Cheshire.
That is, it is time to marry when the
woman wooa the man. This provincial
word ‘‘capple” is Irish also, and is allied
to, but not derived from the Latin cabal
lus. It is probably one of the few words
of the ancient Celtic language of Britain
which were adopted into the language of
the Saxon conquerors.
“Husbands are iu heaven whose wives chide
r:ot.”
V hether or not that heaven is ever found
on earth is a question which each man
must decide from his own experience.—
“He that hath a wife has strife,” says the
French, and the Italian proverb-mongers
take an unhandsome advantage of the fact
that in their language the words “wife”
and “woos” differs only by a letter. St.
Jerome declares that “whoever is free from
wrangling is a bachelor.”
“A smoky chimney and a scolding wife are two
bad companions.”
The Scotch couple together. “A leaky
house and a scolding wite,” in which they
follow Solomon : “A continual dropping
on a very rainy day, and a contentious wo
man are alike.” “It is better to dwell in
the corner of a housetop than with a brawl
ing woman in a wide-house.”
“Marry above your match and you get a master.”
“In a rich woman’s house she commands
always, and he never” (Spanish.) “Who
takes a wife for her dower turns his back
on freedom.” (French.) But every mar
ried man is in his plight, for
“He that has a wife has a master.”
“lie that’s not sensible of the truth ot
this proverb,” says James Kelly, “may
blot it out or pass it over.”
••As the good man saith, so say me;
!>ut as the good woman saith. so it must be.”
‘ Wedding and ill-wintering tame both man and
beast. ’
“ You will marry and grow tame”
; Spauish.]
“lie that marries a widow and two daughters
marries three stark thieves.”
“lie that marries a widow and two daughters
has three back doors to his house.”
And “the back door is the one that robs
the house” i Italian.]
•*Ni\ ver marry a widow unless Iter first husband
was hanged,”
Else the burden of an old Scotch song,
--Yt-’ll never be like mv auld glide man,”
will be dinned in your eats day and night.
• •I?e that marjics a widow will have a dead
man’s head cast in his dish.”
•Lapp” i- the wife who is married to a mother
less son.’’
•Tim ammo omnes socrus oderunt nu
ns,” says Terence ; and this is the com
;am testimony of experience in all ages
j and countries. “The husband’s mother is
’ the wife’s devil” [German Dutch ] “As
long as I was a daughter-in-law I never
j lmd a good mother-in-law, and as long as
I was a mother-in-law I never had a good
: daughter-iu-!uw” [Spanish.] “The moth-!
• r-in-lnw forgets that she was a daughter
in-law” [Spanish.] “She is well married
who has neither mother-in-law nor sister
in-law” [Sj anish.] Men, too, do not al
ways regard their wives’ mothers with ten
der affection, and some of the many bitter
sayings against mothers in-law seem to be
common to both sexes. Such is the queer
U ulster rhyme :
“Os all the old women that ever I saw,
Sweet bad luck to my mother-in-law.”
Alas these low German : “There is no good
; mother-in-law but she that wears a green
gown,” i. e., that is covered with the turf
us the church-yard : “The best tnother-in
■ law is she on whose gown the geese fed ;”
! and this Portuguese. “If my mother-in
law dies, 1 will feten somebody to flay
! her.”
If proverbs filled with bitterness are due
to the “unfair” sex, to the cold and sen
tentious intellect of man, women are able
; to defend themselves ; to prove it, we quote
the following version ot the creation, writ
ten by one of the fair sex :
A woman of great worth, Madame de
Malgeuestre, who passed all her life in re
tirement, rarely seeing any one but an ob
ject of charity, and dispensing with meat
j and wine, in order, she said, to be more
| herself; that is to say, more iu harmony
i with the laws of nature; thus gives herver
! sion of the creation of man and woman :
“The creation is a mystery which God
lias not judged proper to permit man to
solve. Besides is it not more reasonable
j to suppose that the human species is from
all eternity ? Alas, man strives to explain
all things* even that which is inexplicable
to his poor but feeble intellect. Nothing
I arrests him ; ‘Man is created superior to
i woman—he is the lord of the eaith \\o
, man was made to prepare his food and his
: clothing, and to enliven his hours of leis
ure—God made man in his own image—
j man was lost through woman ! and a thou
; sand other vapid assertions worthy ot this
prince of the universe !
My mother, a person of great sense an.
spirit, sought mainly for the most natuiai
aspect of things, and was accustomed to
tell us, in reference to the creation, that
man and woman were botli created at the
same time, but not in the same place ; and
that, in the interval which elapsed between
; the hour of her consciousness and that in
I which she was first, allowed to see man,
j woman experienced so great enrv'i tha e
Creator gave heed to it ; and in ordei o
remove the pensive gloom which veiled t e
angelic countenance of Nature’s most beau
tiful ornament. He hastened to gladden
her by presenting man to her, all imper-
‘THE UNION OF THE STATES; —DISTINCT, LIKE THE BIIIOWS i ONE, LIKE THE SEA.”
THOMASTON. GEORGIA, SATURDAV MORNING, MARCH 31, 1860.
feet as he was. The purpose of God, be
ing accomplished, He disHn}earc*il; woman
and man were left in one another’s pres
ence, each provided with conscience as a
guide in life, and with hearts tilled with
an imperishable love through which they
might mutually cherish and jterpetuate
each other’s being.
The woman of God—lovely, resplendent
with celestial radiance, beautiful beyond
all that our degenerate imagination can
conceive of beauty—seemed to render the
wondering man imbecile ; he cast his eyes
to the earth, his arms embarrassed him,
his tonguestammered unintelligible sounds,
lie stood as if nailed to the ground away
from her whom he should have eagerly
clasped to his breast and soothed with lov
ing kisses. The daughter of God who had
yearned for a far different comforter expe
rienced the saddest feelings of disappoint
ment ; tears fell from her angel-eyes upon
her cheeks and dried there—-man did not
wipe them away.”
“And what inference do you draw from
this ?” asked one of her friends.
“I thought you would have divided it,”
she replied.
“Well, I infer by it that the mother of
the human species was deceived, and that
her daughters, still no better mated, are
ever in expectation of the man according
to their heart.”
Codfish Aristocracy.
A writer in one of the New Y'ork Sun
day papers, thus discourses on the species
denominated codfish aristocracy :
Laugh as we may and must at the pre
tensions of those who sail under the flag of
codfish aristocracy, they arc, nevertheless,
greatly to be pitied. Their immense ex
ertions to attain Uie enviable position of
the drones of society, and their still more
violent efforts to retain their foothold when
they have once climbed the ladder, fully
entitle them to be considered working mem
bers of the community ; and the many
frights and mortifications they must en
dure, deserve our deepest sympathy. How
dreadful it must be never to dare to devi
ate from one regular pattern in dress, move
ment or speech, lest people should think
they were uot used to society ! How ter
rible the absent-mi tided remarks of some
forgetful person must sound to the juve
nile ears! What horror must assail them
when some plebian relative, too rich to cut,
appears unexpectedly at a reception, and
remarks across the room in a stentorian
voice: “I say, Jenkins, times is altered
since you and me made candles in the lit
tle shop next door to the rag and bottle
depot, ain’t they ?” Or when some old
time neighbor nods a friendly recognition
across fine rows of fashionable individuals
at the theatre, and inquires, in ignorance
of altered fortune and position—“ How
d’ye do? How’s business? Much doing
in candles now a-days?”
In my opinion, no torture could be worse
than the struggle to keep up a false posi
tion ; in vain pretence to aristocratic birth
or hereditary fortune—-the false shame
which seeks to cover the humble ladder
which it was not ashamed to climb. When
ever I see one of those recently elevated
dames (women tire by far the worse) who
seeks to show her dignity by humming lu
dicrous airs, and attempting to lead every
whim of fashion, who treats her servants
with insolence, her tradesmen with rude
ness, and her mental and moral superiors
with insult—l feel naturally some anger
and contempt but much more pity ; pity
for the mind which renders one mortal des
picable and ridiculous in the eyes of all
others—for the mind utterly wasted in en
deavors to be what Nature and Providence
never intended man tor, and for the soul
which utterly disregarding every higher
attribute, fritters itself away and is degra
ded by the vain effort to appear what men
call “highly born.”
♦-
Unjust Inspection Law.—W. E.
Mann, Esq., a prominent citizen of Pas
quotank county, North Carolina, is the
bearer of a petition at Richmond, praying
the Legislature of Virginia to repeal so
much of the “Vessel Inspection Law,”
passed in ISSG, as may be applicable to
vessels owned in North Carolina. For four
years, it seems, have the vessels of North
Carolina, trading through the waters of
Virginia, and owned by true Southern men
and manned by true Southern crews, been
under the search law of Virginia, while
her own Vessels, loading at the Capes of
Virginia, have passed free ot search and
the fee for the same. An effort too has
recently been made to extend this law to
vessels’trading to Baltimore through the
waters of Virginia, as well as to ports
north of Baltimore. This must be looked
upon bv Eastern Virginia and Eastern
North Carolina as a direct blow at their
best interests. For it is well known, that,
in the absence of a direct trade with Eu
rope, a great mercantile trade is done an
nually with Baltimore. Cut off this trade
by passing stringent inspection laws, and
where will tho mercantile trade of Eastern
North Carolina goto? Why, to New
York, where no true Southerner wishes it
to go. For, instead of the vessels of Eas
tern North Carolina keeping on their usu
al course, bv Uhl Point, they would be
found going out of Cape Hatteras and Oc
racoke inlets. We trust that the mission
of Mr. Mann may open the eyes of our
Virginia friends to this evidently oveilook
ed way of building up the North, and that
that feature of the law at least, may be
stricken out. —Baltimore Clipper.
How to Reform a Chimney Sweep.—
Make a Clean Sweep of htro.
Arlrmas Ward and Woman's Rights.
I pitcht my tent in a small town in In
jiamty ooe day larst season, and while I
was standin at the door takin niunney, a
deppy tashun ot ladies came up and sed
they was members of the Bunkumvill Fe
male Moral Reform and Wimin’sßites As
sociashttn, auff they axed me if they cood
go in without payin.
Not exactly,’ ses I, ‘but you can pnv
without going in.’
‘Dew you know who we air?’ sed one of
the women—a tall and fernshus look in crit
ter, with a blew ko’ton umbteller under
her arm—‘dew you know who we air, sill ?’
Tnipresshun is,’ sed I ‘from a kursery
vew, that you air females.’
‘VV e air sur,’ sed the fbroshns woman—
[we belong to a Society which bieeves wim
iu has rites—which bieeves in raziti her to
her proper speer—which bieeves she is in
dowed with as mutch in tel leek as man is—
which bieeves sites tram pi led on and abooz
ed and which will resist hensdtii and forev
er the incroachments of proud and domin
eerin man.’
Durin the discourse, the exsetric female
grabed me by the coat-kollar and Was
swingin her umbreller wildly over my bed.
‘I hope inarm,’ sez I, startin back, ‘that
your intenshuns is honorable ? Ime a lone
man, hear in a strange place. Decides, Ive
a wife to hum.’
‘Yes,’ cride the female, ‘andshes a slave!
Doth she never dreem of fredom—doth she
never think of throwin off the yoke of tyr
inny and thinkin and spenkin and votin
for herself? Doth sheerer think of these
here things ?’
‘Not bein a natral born fool,’ sed I, by
tlllO time u. littlo I'llil, i l l*it nciTclr tllUl
she dothunt.”
‘O, whot—whot !’ screemed the female,
swingin her umbreller in the air, ‘O, whot
is the price that woman pays for her ex
peri it use !’
‘I don’t know, maim,’ sez I; ‘the price
to my show is 15 cents pur individooal.’
‘And can’t our Sosiety go in free ?’ ask
ed t lie female.
‘Not if know it.’ sed I.
‘Crooil man !’ she cride, and burst into
tears.
‘Won’t you let tny darter in? sed unu
tlier of the excenfrie wirnin, takin me af
teckslmnitly bv tin* hand. ‘O, please let
my darter in—slices a sweet gtishin child
of natur.’
‘Let her gush !’ roared I, as mad as 1
eo<>d stick at their tarnal noncents ; ‘let
her giish !’ Whereupon they all sprung
back with the simultanious observashun
that I was a boost.
‘My female friends’ sed I, ‘be4vou leave;
Ive a few remarks to remark; wa them
wall. The female woman is one of the
greatest institooshuns of which this land
kin boste. It’s onpossible to git along with
out ger. Had thare bin no female wimin
in the world I shood scarcely be hear with
my unparileled show on this very hosespi
shtts occashun. She is good in sickness —
good in wellness—good all the time. O,
woo mart, wooman !’ I cride, my feel ins
wurked up to a hi poetick pitch, ‘you are
a angil when you behave yourself; but.when
yon take off your proper apparialand (met
tyforically speakin) get into pantyloons—
when you desart your firesides, and with
beds full of wiuiins rites noshuns go round
like roarin lyons seek in whom you mav de
vour sumbodv—in short, when you under
take to play the man, you play the devil,
and air an emfatic noosance. My female
friends,’ I continued as they was indig
nantlv departing, ‘wa wall what A. Ward
has sed ?’
The Clock of Strasburg.—The clock
in the tower of the Cathedral of Strasburg
is not only a monster in size, but is the
most wonderful piece of mechanism in the
world. It. is one hundred feet high, thirty
wide, and fifteen deep. About twenty
feet from t lie bottom is the dial, on each
side of which is a cherub, holding a small
mallet in his hand, while, over the dial is a
small beil ; the cherub on the left strikes
the first quarter, and that on the right the
second quarter. Fifty feet above the dial
is a colossal figure of Time, with a bell in
his left hand and a scythe in his right. A
figure of a young man in front strikes the
third quarter on the bell in Time’s left
hand, and then turns and glides with a
slow step around behind Time, when out
comes the old man with a slow step around
behind Time, when out comes the old man
with a mallet, and places himself directly
in front of the great Reaper. As the hour
of twelve comes, the old man deliberately
strikes, with much power, twelve times on
the bell. He then glides slowly behind
Time, and the young man again comes out
and takes his position ready to do his du
ty when called upon by the machinery.
As soon as the old nmn has struck
twelve and disappeared, another set of ma
chinery is set in motion, some twenty feet
higher still, wherethere is a high crosswith
the image of Christ upon it. The instant
twelve is struck, a figure of one of the
Apostles walks out from behind, comes in
front, turns facing the cross, bows, and
walks on around to his place. This is re
peated, until twelve figures, representing
the twelve Apostles, as large as life, walk
out, bow, and pass on. As the last ap
pears, an enormous game cock, perched on
the pinnacle of the clock, slowly flaps its
wings, stretches forth its neck, and crows
three times, so loud as to be heard outside
the church to some distance, and with life
like naturalness. Then all is still as death, j
A bad hat, taken to an evening party,
frequently comes out the next day as good
as new.
the Compromise of IWO.
What are the principles of this Compro
mise with respect to the Territories em
braced iu its provisions ? The formal de
claration of adhesion to these principles
by the Constitutional Union Convention
at Frankfort, the other day, renders it de
sirable perhaps, that this qitestioh should
again be answered in our columns. We
accordingly answer it once more. The eL
tation of the following provisions, tXMmnon
to the two Territorial measures of the
Compromise, will serve our purposes in
part :
That when admitted as a State, the
said Territory, or any portion of the same,
shall be received iuto the Union with or
without slavery, as their Constitution
may prescribe at the time of admission.
the legidvit power of the Territory
shall extend to all rightful subjects of leg
islation consistent with the Constitution of
the United States, and the provisions of
this act.
It is this last provision, we take it,
which has proved a stumbling block to
some of the Douglas Democracy, who af
firm, with the utmost confidence, and no
doubt with perfect sincerity, that the Com
promise of ISSO not merely delegates but
grants absolutely to the Territories all the
powers of Territorial legislation which the
Constitution grants to Congress itself, that,
in other words, the Compromise proclaims
the abdication by Congress of its constitu
tional powers and duties in relation to the
Territories ; that, in short, it asserts the
doctrine of non-intervention, or actual
squatter sovereignty. Now, if the Com
promise of 1850 did not, contain a provi
sion v.*ciuUiug tins imvicticc vApiesspv, k
would be effectually excluded nevertheless
on account of its mere intrinsic absurdity ;
for, it is manifest, neither Congress nor
any other department of the government
can cast off its constitutional powers and
duties without producing a radical change
in the very framework of our institutions,
and thus usurping a right which belongs
to the sovereign people alone. This is too
plain to need explanation ; but the Com
promise, as it happens, does contain a pro
vision excluding the inference in question
expressly all unnecessary though such a
provision is. And here is the provision :
“All the laws passed by the Legislative
Assembly and Governor shall he submitted
to the Congress of the l nited States, and,
ij disapproved, shall be null and of no
. . .
This provision and the other provisions
quoted above are common to the New Mex
ico and Utah Bills, which together consti
tute the Territorial element of the Com
promise of 1850. They settle the princi
ples ot the Compromise decisively ; show
ing those principles to be, first, the supre
macy of Congress over the Territoiies or
the non-existence of the right of self-gov
ernment in the Territorial inhabitants ;
and, secondly, the Territories, when they
assume the dignity of States, to be receiv
cd into the Union with or without slavery,
as they shall determine. There is not a
line or a phrase, or a word in tlie Compro
mise of 1850 which countenances the mon- |
strous heresy of squatter sovereignty in :
any shape. Not one. On the contrary, ;
not only the whole tenor but the express
language of the Compromise repudiates
the dogma in every shape.
So incontestable is this, indeed, that
Senator Pugh, of Ohio, Douglas’ right
hand man iu* the Federal Senate, intro
duced a resolution into that body,the 15th
of last December, a little upwards of two
months ago, instructing the Committee on
Territories to inquire into the expediency
of repealing so much of the Compromise
of 1850 as might be necessary iu order to
establish squatter sovereignty or absolute
non-intervention in the Territories of
Utah and New Mexico, The following is,
his resolution :
Resolved, That the Committee on Ter
ritories be instructed to inquire into the
expediency of repealing so much of the
acts unproved September 9, 1850, for the
organization of Territorial governments in
New Mexico and Utah, as requires that
all laics passed by the Legislatures c,f these j
Territories shall be submitted to Congress
for approval or rejection.
After this, or at • all events, irt view of
this surely no one can remain in doubt as
to the exact principles of the Compromise
of 1850. and least of all respecting its
complete and fitter rejection of squatter
sovereignty. There ought to be no more
uncertainty and no further dispute on this
head. The fact is too clear for controver
sy or even for misgiving.— Louisville Jour
nal.
Why so much Beauty in Poland ?
“Because,” says Bayard Taylor, “there
girls do not jump from infautcy to young
ladyhood. They are riot-sent from tlie cra
dle to the parlor, to dress to sit still and
look pretty. No, they are treated as chil
dren shouid be. During childhood, which
extends through a period of several years,
.hey are plainly and loosely dressed and 1
allowed to run, romp, and plav in the open
air. They are not loaded down, girded j
about, and oppressed every way with count
less frills and superabundant flounces, so
as to be admired for their clothing. Nor
are they rendered delicate or dyspeptic by
continually stuffing candies and sweet cakes, j
as are the majority of the American chil
dren. Plain, simple food, free and various
exercise, and an abundance of sunshine du
ring the whole period of childhood, are the
secrets of beauty in after life.”
The best way to humble a proud man is j
to tnkc no notice of him.
•Payable in Advance.
From the Atlanta America*’
Kewspapef Borrower*
The following very pithy c.unhihtiica
-1 tion reached us hv this rmunine's mail.—
We commend the ?nati. r <*F it to tin* nu
merous class of which the writer sj cuke
\\ c feel anxious that all h rrowera of news
papers should see and read It. and t*> no l
complish that, our cotemp oiarh smurt copy
the letter, as no body ever borro.ws tno
“American.” it i? tiue, ci.inj lainfs ► nn -
times touch ns that the “American'” wr
not left, or did not reach iis desiir . ti< n hv
mail, But then in the former cn •it was
Almost sure to be after a (iustv >r a stortuv
eVehing, when it was n > nmre iiian reason
able to believe it was blown or washed a
way‘, and, In the latter case, the prnvet b.nl
irregularity of the mails snlisiuei.uvily ex
-1 plains its nou-reception.
In the communication below, our friend
does not say it was the “American” his
.two friends took the privilodge of reading
before he got a chance I o even get hold of
it, so we feel bound to believe it wu< cue
of the other live. {Still he chooses to make
this paper the medium through widt h t *
enter his protest, and request us to hack
up his protest, because we can d<> it disin
terestedly. Being thus relieved of tin* sus
picion, even, of being actuated by interes
ted motives, we can afford to he severe.
Seriously, man)* can neither perceive tho
wrong they inflict, or the injustice they are
guilty of, in this matter, it is unjust to
the subscriber and perpetrates a wrong on
the publisher. M any persons, our coi res
pondent among them, take papers for the
entertainment, and instruction of thern
.....l ♦!, r :i:.. . ..1 . ~.,1 r
prints that he* may make a support while
adding to the world’s stock of knowledge. -
Newspaper Borrowers deprive flic one id’
enjoyment provided fbr himself, without,
asking or thanking for the priviledge, and
cheats the publisher. Any man who is able
to take a paper, and will not do so, but
prefers borrowing, so as to save the price*
is a mean man —mean enough to he a com
mon informer. He is conscienceless, and
would not have a conscience, because
*’A man
Cannot steal but it ac useth him; a man
Cannot swear, but it checks him;”
and because it would cause him to so let I
hid meanness, ho would be compelled t<
disgorge thfecnonnous sum ot two dollars !
to pay for a newspaper. The uian who
would borrow’ the poor man’s paper, would
if he could, box up the sunshine, and bot
tle tip the fragrance of the flowers to gnu*
ify his owu seltish nature—living like the
miser,
Abhorod by al!
Lik<* a disease, yot cannot so bo Oej.pd.
In thi: World, 18G0.
Mu. Editor : I am a poor man,and take
and pay for six newspapers, but getting a
chance to read them until mv uo-paper
taking friends are through with them is
another thing. 1 am writing this while
one of my particular friends is very leisure
ly reading the paper by the morning’s mail,
which I am very anxious to read Indore I
commence my dap’s work, as I nave to
work hard to support, toy children and pnv
the printer. 1 am writing just to keep in*
self in a good humor with him, as he is a
dear friend. I wish you would, some dav,
get hold of a had scragged, crooked pen
and some mean greasy ink, and give the
paper-hooking, honest friends a dressing
that will make them subscribe and pav tor
papers for their own use. Wei!, lie has
left, and I will get hold of ray paper before
another friend comes in. No : lam too
late: another friend has “just culled in to
glance over the paper !” Mr. Editor, 1 beg
of you thrash them souudlv.
A SUBSCRIBED.
2'-*T The Mobile Tribune amusingly
checks oft the incidents of Tennyson's po
em, for which he was paid .CIO a line.—
For instance, the opening cost 8750 ; a
passage in which a wife asks her husband
to forgive a man, costs s*sso ; the husband
rates his reply at SBOO, and the upshot of
the whole matter is,’ that the good woman
sings the baby to sleep, at a cost of SBOO
to the publishers of “Magazine;” the hus
band concludes to forgive his friend, now
that he is dead ; and then—all hands go
to sleep! The poem of 313 lines cost $15,-
000 l
Natural Compass. It is a well
known fact that in the vast prai lies of Tex
as a little plant is always to lie found
which, under all circumstances of climate,
’ change of weather, rain, frost or sunshine*
invariably turns its leaves and flowers to
the North. If a solitary traveler were ma
king his way across those trackless wilds*
without a star to guide or compass to di
rect him, he finds an unerring monitor in
an humble plant, arid he follows its gui
dance, certain that it will not mislead
him.
‘■’Doctor what do you think is the cn?t*o
of this frequent rush of blood to my head?”
“Oh, it is nothing but an effort of nature.
Nature, you know, ahhors a vacuum .”
That which we acquire w ith the
most difficulty we retain the longest ;as
those who have earned a fortune are usu
ally more careful than those who have in
herited one.
I
Seeing a cellar nearly finished, a
waggish fellow remarked that it waa
an excellent, foundation for * storv.
N 111 bur id.