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EOT 18, 1858—ts
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FIRST DISTRICT.
Appling, Bryan,
Bulloch, Chatham,
Camden, Charlton,
Clinch, Coffee, I
Effingham, Emanuel,
Glynn, Liberty,
Mclntosh, Montgomery*
Pierce, Striven,
Telfair, Tat nail,
Ware, Wayne.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Baker, Berrien,
Brooks, Calhoun,
Clav, Colquitt,
Dooly, Decatur-,
Dougherty, Early,
Echols, Irwin,
Lee, Lowndes,
Mitchell, Miller,
Randolph, Terrell,
Thomas-, * Wilcox*
Worth.
third District.
Chattahoochee, Harris,
Muscogee-, Marion,
Macon, Quitman,
Stewart, Sumter,
Schley, Taylor,
Talbot, Webster.
FOURTH DISTRICT-.
♦Tapper, Putnam,
♦Tones, Baldwin,
Bibb, Crawford,
Wilkinson, Twiggs,
Houston, Laurens,
Pulaski.
Finn DISTRICT.
Burke, Columbia,
Glascock, Hancock,
Jefferson, ♦tohnsnn,
Lincoln, Richmond,
Warrenj Washington-,
Wilkes.”
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Clarke) Elbert,
Franklin, Greene,
Hart, Madison-,
Morgan, New ion-,
Oglethorpe, Talia fero,
Walton.
SEVENTH DISTRICT*
Butts, Clayton)
Payette, LlenrV*
Meriwether, Monroe,
Pike, Spalding,
Troup, TJpsoti*
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Campbell, Carroll,
Cobb, Coweta)
Detvalb, F niton,
Haralson, Heard,
Paulding, Polk.
KlNtn District.
Banks, Cherokee,
Dawson, Forsyth,
Gwinnett, Habersham*
Hall; .tackson,
Lumpkin; Milton,
Pickens, Rabun,
Towns) Union,
White.
tenui piotrict.
Cass, Catoosa)
Chattobgfi, Loide,
Fannin, T l°yd,
Gordon; Gilmer*
Murray; Walker,
Whitfield.
senatorial districts.
1. Chatham, Bryan, Effingham.
2. Liberty, Tatnall, Mclntosh.
3. Wayne, Pierce, Appling.
4. Glynn, Camden, Charlton.
5. Coffee, Ware, Clinch.
(]. Echols, Lowndes, Pa-men*
7. Brooks. Thonms, Colquitt.
8. Decatur Mitchell, Miller.
9. Early* Calhoun, Baker.
10. Ihmgliertv, Lee, Worth.
11. Clay, Randolph, Terrell.
12. Stewart, Webster, Quitman.
13. Sumter, Schley, Macon.
14. Dooly, WilcoX, Pulaski.
L 5. Montgomery, Telfair, Irwirl.
16. Laurens, Johnson, Etjiauuek
17. Bulloch, Seri veti, Burke.
13. Richmond, Glascock, Jefferson.
19* Taliafero, Warren, Greene.
20. Baldwin, Hancock, Washington.
21. Twiggs, Wilkinson, Jones.
22. Bibb, Monroe, Pike.
23. Houston, Crawford, l nylor.
24. Marion, Chattahoochee, Muscogee.
25. Harris, Talbot, Upson.
26. Spalding, Butts* Fayette.
27. Newton, Walton, Clarke.
28! Jasper, Putnam, Morgan.
29. Wilkes, Lincoln, Columbia.
30. Oglethorpe, Madison, Elbert.
31. Hart, Franklin. Habersham.
32 White, Lumpkin, Dawson.
33. Hall, Banks, Jackson
34. Gwinnett, DcKalh, Hetiry.
35. Clayton. Fulton, Cold).
36. Meriwether, Coweta, Campbell.
37. Troup, Heard, CartolL
38. Haralson, Polk, Paulding.
39. Cherokee, Milton, Forsyth.
40. Union, Towns, Rabun.
41. Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens.
42. Cass, Floyd, CattoOga.
43! Murray, Whitfield,- Gordon.
44. Walker, Dade* Catoosa.
‘THE UNION OF THE STATES: —DISTINCT. LIKE THE BIHOWS ; ONE, LIKE THE SEA.”
THOMASTON, GEORGIA. SATURDAY MORNING. JUNE 29. IS6I,
Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.
kteiriiiiiQcence of Daniel Webster.
BY REV. ROSWELL SHURTLEFF, D. D.
Boston, Feb. 14, 1861.
Soon after the lamented Webster was
no longer of earth, having acted as pastor
.f the Church at Marshfield, where lie at
tended for Sotue years, I was requested by
some of bis Literary friends to write out
some reminiscences of the great man and
parishioHeV. This 1 could not do, at any
length, without repeating what I laid pre
viously furnished for your columns. But
the brief notice I did prepare, was substan
tially what I now send to you, and at a
time when his personal influence is so much
needed in the country, and when his 7th
of March speech, which ho himself termed
vera pt o gratis, rs spoken of approvingly
in quarters where it would have been re
garded as downright heresy at the time ot
his<leath.
Mr. Webster appeared to love his home
He was there more at ease and more ready
to converse on various subjects than when
I met him in Bostofi and elsewhere. As
he sat in his house at Marsfield, as he
walked and rode over his immense farm,
he was in fine spirits, his face often being
lit up with his peculiarly joyous smile. —
Mr. Webster delighted to he in the open
air. Almost always, when l called on him,
I would find him walking or riding over
his farm, or in the house of a neighbor, or
else about fishing or gunning. All agree in
Marsfield, that he was the first man up in
the morning on his farm, and that there
was no jveace to anv Heeper sifter he rose.
Mr. Webster frequently appeared in what
might be termed a farmer’s costume, and
often in a fisherman’s dress. On one oc
casion he met in the street, near his resi
dence, the wife of h heLgbhor farmer, who
was, for a moment frightened at the re
markable appearance of a supposed stvan
airanger. As soon ;.s she began to avi id
him, he begaVi to ’augh ; whereupon the
good wife laughed, and they both passed
on without speaking. Mr. Webster, while
he was kind to those in his employ, wished
to have them conform to his wishes. ’Ou.
one occasion, Diwellev Baker, who had,
for in anv years, the care <>t his own man
sion house, forgot something his master
told him to do. “Forgot it, forget it,’’
said Mr. Webster, “I never forgot any
thing.” Mr. Baker was always extremely
attached to him, for whom he cared so long
and, next to John Taylor, was a mourner
when he vas no more.
Mr. Wtbstei* appeared to be very do
mestic man, fimd of his wife, fond ot his
children — fond of his servants anti of his
flocks and herds—fond of home, and ot all
that pertained thereto —fond ol lx is friends
and neighbors and townsmen, and of Ply
mouth county men generally.
Mr. Webster bore the j.ko in his youth
To Moreland, a neighbor ot bis, who, or:
one occasion, mourned that his son, who
was a promising scholar, was straightened
for the means to procure an education—
was obliged to keep school, and so forth,
to pay his educational expenses ; I<> him,
M-. Webster said, “Let John alone, he will
do well. I once taught school for ihtee
dollars a month.” He afterwards offered
him the free use of lliS law and miscella
neous libra* v.
Prom my own knowledge, I should say
11)at Mr. Webster was a moral and religi
ous man. judged, as maiiy judge of a re
ligious person —by his religious talk and
pretence, he might not be fvt down as very
religious ; but judged by his reverential
and devotional appearances in church : by
his generous support of, and respect f<>r
the Christian ministry—by his observance
of the Sabbath —by his intimate acquain
tance with, and belief of the Holy Scrip
tures as the work ot G”d —by the general
tone and spirit of all liis Writings, so that
nothing can be form 1, that a good man dy
ing would wish to blot ; and I>* his niani- ,
iest loVe for that which was lovely, excel- ,
lent, and of goed report ; by the closing
days of his life, and by his Christian death;
and judged, too, as a public man, exposed,
most of his days, to the great and peculiar
dangers incident to a public and political
life, I should say that lie was, since my
knowledge of him, a good and pious man. j
In conversation that I have held with
Mr. Webster, in reply to the question,
“What has been your mode of preparation
to speak in public ?” he said, that he usu
ally studied a subject, and spoke f-om
short notes.” Just after he made that
four in New York at the opening of the
Erie Railroad, in company with President
Fillmore, when I expressed surprise at his
being able to speak so often during his
tmr on the same general subject, and yet
without repetition of ideas, he replied : “I •
have been studying and speaking on these
topics all my life.”
On another occasion, immediately after
Gen. Taylor was nominated for ihe Presi
dency, he observed, in conversation, “that
th j re is no lmnoj these days, in bein'*’
President of ihe United States, to suc
ceed such men as have for some time filled
the office. In the times of Washington it
WaS Bn honor to he President.”
S?oon after Mr. Webster made his sev
enth ot March speech, lie visited Boston,
and while in the city, made a brief address
to his fellow-citizens, from a temporary
stand in front of the Revere House. Af
ter his address, a large number of hits
friends took him by the hand in the pallors
within. Among others who spoke with
him was the venerable and Ih-verend Mr.
Cleveland, who had been a Boston city
missionary for more than a quarter of a
century. Mr. C, on taking him by the
hand, said, “Mr Webster, when you have
delivered ihe country from one or two
more foreign wars, when you shall have
saved the nation again and again from civ
il war, the majoriiy of ihe people of this
land will begin to ‘appreciate your services
Sit*. I shall never cease to love you ; I shall
never cease to pray for you.” Air. Web
ster bowed, and replied, “Your words are
like tipples of gold in pictures of silver.”
11 ii safe to say that Mr. Webster, be
fore his death anticipated something like
what we now see in this country. More
than twenty-five years ago he said, in the
course of an address at Plymouth, “I deem
the dissolution of this Union a possible
event.” There is a gentleman in this city
who heard him say this, and so impressed
was he by it, though then hut a youth,
th: t he remembered it to this day.
Toward the close of his life, he spoke
somewhat despairingly to the writer, of
our political pros]recta. Said he, “Our
people seem to forjret that our government
does not stand like ihose in Europe and
elsewhere, upon hereditary rights or by
face, hut upon the will of the governed.
When, therefore, publicsentiment i-orqainst
1 !**-• Airesent form of government, it will
come to an end.”
Seclive Jtnsculnr I’owrr.
It is a well-ascertained fact, that there
is no article of diet, more valuable, for sup
porting tlie animal system, Ilian Peas and
Beans. They harden and improve the
muscular powers. Let every farmer raise
a plentiful sfipply of both for home con
sumption. We cannot tell how long the
present Avar Ivill last* and it is prudent to
raise them, so as to supply onr soldiers
with food that will enable them to with
stand fatigue and the heitvy exercise of a
soldiers’ life fora long time. We give the
following abstract of observations made by
the celebrated Dr. Backland, of Europe,
u<;nie years since :
•’The seeds of leguminous plants, espec
ially peas and In-ans. me loaded with the
constituents of muscle and hone, ready pre
pared to form and maintain the muscular
fibre of the body of animals. Hence, the
rapid restoration of the shrunk muscle of
the exhausted post horse l>v a good feed of
oats and beads, (the English lmrse bean is
here meant.) Hence, the sturdy growth
of the Scotch children on oat cake and
porridge, and of broth made of the meal
of j lurched add kiln-dried peas.” On this
he avers a tuun can live and do a good
day’s work on 11-2 penny a day; while
the children of the rich, oq the finest wheat
flour, and on sage and rice, htutcr anil su
gat'j may appear fat and sleek*.but would
often die, ns they sometimes do, on such
non-nutritiohs food were it not for the
mixture of milk and eggs they eat in their
do y
cake and [biddings.
He further remarks, that an old laborer
of Axbridge complained to his master, Mr.
Symonds, that laborers feeding there on
potatoes, could not do so good a day’s
work now as when he was young and fed
on peas. “Peas, sir,” said he, “stick to
the ribs.” In this he uttered the very
truths of organic chemsitry.
In beans we have vegetable “caseine,”
O 7
or the vegetable element of cheese. What
is more grateful to a man when fatigued
by labor or a long walk ? Sepoys, on long
voyages, live exclusively oti peas. The
Working and healthy man and beast want
muscle, ami not fat. Fat incumbers and
impedes activity, and every excess of it is
disease. We seldom See a fat soldier, ex
cept among the sergeants,- who sometim e
eat and drink too much.
Piednxon*, to which the Sontbern ar
my has advanced in Western Virgiuia, is
173 miles from Wheeling, and 73 east of
Crafton, where the main body of the Fed
eral Western invading army was stationed
at the laet autheKtic reports.
Limits of Learning.
“Life is short, and Art is long,” said some
wise man long ago. What is possible to
learn in this life is limited by its dura
tion. Moreover, we usually acquire the great
bulk of our information, from our habits,
and setting our principles before the mid
dle of life. This is the rule; hut there are
many exceptions. Some men are learning
all their lives. Distinguished scholars
have acquired languages when more than
three score years old. Still the mind of
youth is usually more receptive of new
! ideas than that of adult age.
i Our knowledge is limited by the impos
sible. We cannot comprehend ihfiinity or
eternity. We know that our earth is but
a grain of dust-, compared with the uni
verse; but We have no idea of the extent of
the univeVse. Onr telescopes reach only a
little ways iuty ths expanse of space. Onr
microscopes areas far, perhaps, from show
ing us the boundaries of the wonderful
world which it displays to us. We cannot
see the ultimate atoms of matter, ho'r by
’observation form any conception of their
character. The causes of the foVnrs of
crystals, IVoM-woik, snow-flakes, plants,
flowers, &c., are mysteries no science can
reach. How can the acorn produce the
oak? The mysteries of nature have hut
one solution, and that is the greatest of all
other mysteries. To make tile atom, to
make the animalcule the millionth part of
the size of a grain of sand, and to make a
universe, require equally an Infinite Pow
er and an Infinite Wisdom.
We finite creatures, with a brief earth
life and few opportunities, soon come to
the limits of human science and human
thought. But there is still a great deal
within that limit. We can explore the
earth and the solar system; we can study
minerals, plants, animals, men; the histoiy
of oin* hice, limited and imperfect as it is
and often distorted and falsified, is open to
us. We have made some advances in sci
ence and art, and some brilliant- discov
eries and achievements. It is something
to be rthlvi in moucurc* tho dietuncp, size uud
weight of the planet Jupiter. It is some
thing to be able to tell the exact day, hour
minute and second of the eclipse of one of
the moons of Uransus, ten thousand years
hence. It is something to send a message
from Boston at twelve o’clock, and have it
read at St. Louis at eleven. It is some
thing to he able to go from New Yolk to
Liverpool in nine days.
A Horse’s Foot. —The foot of a horse
is one of ihe most ingenious and singular
pieces of mechanism, in the animal srtuc
ture, and scarcely yielding to any in reg
ularity and complexity*of parti*, and ol
simplicity of design. The ho<f contains
a series ot vertical arid thin lamina of horn
so numerous as to amount to about five
hundred, and forming a complete lining.—
Into this are fitted as matiy lamina be
longing to the coffin hone, which setts are
elaslic and adherent. The edge ot a quire
of paper, inserted leaf by leaf into one
another, will convey a sufficient idea ol
arrangement. Thus the weight of the an
imal is supported by as many elastic springs
as there are lamina in the feet, itmotinting
to about four thousand, distributed in the
most secure manner, since every spring is
acted upoh iii ah oblique direction. Such
is the contrivance for the safety of an ani
mal destined to carry greater weight than
that of its own body, and to carry those,
also Under the hazard of heavy shocks.
One Indian, One Kentuck— One Ind
ian, two { imo. —The sight of a com; any
of hardy Kentuckians on tire Capitol
Square last. Wednesday evening brought
to our mind an incident of the war of 1812
illustrative of the Indian estimate of the
comparative effieney of Kentucky and Oh
io troops on the field of battle. A Brit
ish officer in the Northwestern campaign
related that their Indian nllief had a great
horror of Kentuckians, while they looked
upon Ohioans as not very formidable.—
It was a common saying among them—
“one Indian, one Kentuck—one Indian,
two Ohio”—meaning that in their view it
took two Ohio men to make one Kentuck
ian or one Indian. On a certain occasion,
said the British officer, “we determined at
tack a party of Americans not far from us,
in ah open field, and called upon the In
dians to co-operate witn us. They hesita
ted at first, hut consented on being told
that they had to fight Ohio troops. In a
tew minutes ihe fire was opened Upon Us,
rather unexpectedly to our officers; upon
which the Indians all took th their heels,
exclaiming in broken English in iheir
flight, ‘Kentuck! Kentuck! Kentuck!”
This incident may be relied upon as
hist oricah — Rich m end L'n qmrer.
and t^roprietor
Volume 3 ; -Nrinb<T 31
Signs uiul Wonders.
The Clayton {Ate.) Danner of *tho 20th
instant says:—
It may not be known to those of our
readers who never go a star gazing, that
for several evenings lately there have been
signs and wonders in the heavens. The
moon has been several times seen changed
to blood red when upon the eve of setting.
At these times the Western sky would bo
illuminated with a brilliantly red light, to
height of about two degrees above the hor
izon, and across this bright gVCuud at in
tervals there would shoot perpendicular
bars of an electric white heat. This phe
nomenon would remain in sight for sever
al minutes, until the moon went down,
and then there would settle upon the clouds
a bright light of mingled white and red,
which would slowly fade away into the
blackness ot night. The most singula*
thing connected with the whole of this
strange sight is, that upon the next morn
ing the sun was sure to rise under similar
circumstances, the same brilliancy illum
inating the eastern horizon as did the Wes
tern on the evening before.
Philosophers and Astronomers would
do well to keep their eyes heavenward, and
thesnpeVstitio'us Invert of th'e marvellous
in nature ought to be on the lookout, for
while men are engaged in a great revolut
ion on earth, there are much greater chan
ges and more wonderful revolutions going
on daily abd nightly in the heavens above
us. “There shall be wars and rumors of
War on the earth, and signs and wonders
in the heavens, and the sun shall be dar
keried aud the moon changed to Hood!”
port wine From blackber
ries.
A writer in the Columbus Sun, calls at
tention to the importance of making Port
Wine from the common blackberry, which
grows so abundantly in the Confederate
States. The wine made from them isbeal
ihy and palatable, and an excellent remedy
fur several diseases. We Would suggest tO
<jmi jm udciii ttiivl skilful lady friends ttiO
importance of making blackberjy wine
and as much as possible. It would be high
ly relished by our brave soldiers on the
field, and conduce to their comfort and
health. The following are said to be ex
cellent receipts:
No. 1. Measure your berries and mash
them thoroughly; add a gallon of boiling
water to each gallon of berries; let them
remain over night; in the morning straiii
of! the juice, and allow three pounds of su
gar to every gallon of juicej and let it fer
ment.
No. 2. Gather the ripest blackbeHdeSand
mash them. To a gallon of the fruit put
a gallon of water, and let it stand 24 hours,
until it ferments; then strain it through a
hair sieve or coarse cloth, and to a gallon
of the liquid add tlifee pouhds of Brown
sugar. Put it into a French brandy cask,
and let it stand for six months. Bung it
tignt, amt ufivji It Iwao ned six months
rack it off in bottles, when it is fit for use.
No. 3. The cask should be very nearly,
or quite full: and the cork not put in very
tight for a few days. Lay the cask on its
side.
A veteran vegetable vender, of the Af
rican race, \vh ) lias traversed the streets of
Charleston with liis wagon daily for sever
al years, selling his garden supplies, and
whose monotonous cry of green peas, Irish
potatoes, “water milions.” etc., etc., is Well
known, especially on the Neck, was hailed
by an old negress, who inquired if he had
any Northern cabbage. “Northern cab
bage?” replied the dealer, “Northern cab
hag-?” “Say, gal, who do you b’longs
to? jink dis hete chile is wgine to lam
inate bis wagon with Northern cabbage?”
And without waiting to nilow the woman
to make some other purchases, he drove
furiously off, in the most indigment man*
ner.
TJe Old Nortli Slate.
TheMorth Carolina Regiment covered
itself with glory at the battle of Bethel.—
After the enemy had got possession of &
disabled Howitzer gun. it was necessary to
dislodge them. The North Carolina boys
undertook the task. With bayonets fixfcd
they advanced upon the foe. The charge
only wanted one accessory to make if us
grand as any charge in history. The Yan
kees fled like shot wild ducks, amid the
derisive shouts of the advancing heroes.—
They had no idea of coming in contact with*
cold steel. —Uichmond Whig.
THE LONGEST DAY.
June22d, was the longest day of this
year. The days commence growing shotft
ll by degrees from that