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From the Louisville Journal.
A Dream of the Old and New Year.
1 had a stiange wild dream —and as I dreamed
Methought I stood within a ruin gray.
Where broken columds in the moonlight gleamed.
Telling a tale of splendor and decay.
Its dome was shattered, and the solemn skv
Looked caimly down upou the crumbling wall.
And a dint robe of shad- w j ; eerned to lie
Upon it sully, like a funeral pall.
Relics of heautv and of pride were there.
Statues, the f.-uit < f study and af toil,
All crushed and blackened—they were name /•fa r
For the relentless touch of time to spoil.
Pictures, which, glowing in their new-born lutes.
Had seemed to breath’ beneath the painter’* eve.
Now torn and moulded by the damp of detvs.
From out their ruined frames hung in ntr fully.
Fragments of crystal, urns and vases set
With gorgeous jewels, were all scattered there.
And I could/avcy that there lingered yet
A scent of‘dying flowers upon the air;
But lizards crawled upon the marble floor.
And the wild shriek of an ill-omened bird
Smote upon my ear, where oft in days of yore.
Voluptuous strains of music had been heard.
Minors, that seemed but formed to multiply
The matchless fora of beauty, and beguile •
The speaking glances of a soul-lit eye.
To gaze enraptured on its own bright smile,
AW from the walls in broken beauty gleamed;
And as the moonbeams ]>ulc and oddly bright
Upon each shattered surface shone, they seemed
Reflected with a strange and ghas lv light.
And fear was stealing on me as I stood
Within the ruined palace all l •/*-,
When a*deep souud as of a ru*hing flood
Was heard, and then a low ami wailing -one
Os dirge-like music woke the slumbering air.
Asa tall spectral shape came sweeping by:
It was old Father Tun*, and he was there
To see another of his children die.
And with him came a bent and withered form.
Whose hoary locks were whier than the veil
• Os s}>otless snow that clothes the winter storm ;
His eye was ixe . h.s fur owid check w us y l .
“’Tis well,” said T> tew, “that thou hast waudered here
To fill thy doom, and mingle with the past,
’Mid fallen splendor. Oh! departing year,
’Tis meet that thou should*: come to bn-athe t \y list,
“And tell me, in thy journey o’er the eirth.
Have jovs or sorrows in thy path wav sprung*
lias thy short pilgrimage beeu cheered w.th mirth.
Or mournful wailing iu thiue ear been rung 7
Unroll the secrets of iny breast before
Thy mighty heart is pulseless, and the breath
Which is thy spring of life, shall come /*• mare —
Stopped bv the suffocating chill of death. ’’
And the Old Year replied, “My life has been
Varied and changing as the shapeless air—
More misery than bliss ou earth Ive seen.
Woes born before me are still there.
I’ve lookeu on pleasures, but to see them live.
As gaudv insects, born amid the light,
Toglitter fora moment, and then give
Tueir brief existence to be queached iu uight.
“I’ve watched the peasant toil in thankful new,
More happy and contented on his wav
Than those vi ho in rich robe- <>f puqJe dress,
Still fare most sumptuously every day.
I h ave seen sorrow in its A-ft* ness,
Yet cheered by hopes, look up, and smile again,
And poverty and want and wretchedness
Live on, to know that hoping was in vain.
“I’ve looked on lore, constant, elected love.
Relic of Eden’s first and par r bliss,
Bullied by earth, but stolen from above,
The brightest talisman ot happiness.
Power may fall and fortune pass away.
Beauty may fade and weepiug dim the eye,
•Y t ou life's desert love still sheds its ray,
One mortal spark of immortality!
‘Tve seen the tyrant, wi’h an iron will,
His vigil o’er a nolle people keep,*
Crushed, but unconju* red, f have left them, still
Too brave to tremble, and too pr.ni l to weep.
I’ve watched the spirit of a Union reuse
From struggling, and the angel smile above
To see Columbia's bosom rest in j-eace.
Wanned by the beams of fellowship and lore.
“I leave a nation writhing in the throes
Os anarchy, where striving fac’ions start
The fire of hate, and call up petty \rrs
To burn and rankle in her mighty heart.
Oh would the dauntless spirit that has fled
Coaid quit the tomb once more iu might to reign.
Weep, France—the glory which Napoleon shed
Around ’by greatness, ne’er will beam again!”
He paused, and from the hoary wing of Time,
Lo! as 1 looked, a drooping pinion fell.
When on the midnight air a distant chime
Tolled mournfully the Old Year's funeral knell!
There was a rushing sound, a plaintive cry;
To the dim vault of ages it had past,
A speck, on atom in eternity,
9f manv a mortal’s rears iu life, the l-*t.
*••**** *
Mv vision changed, and I scorned borne away
To a mysterious palace in the air,
From whence to earth the rosy hours stray,
And thev were welcoming the New Year there.
Tears for the dying had been quenched in mirth.
And strains of fairy music rose ou high ;
Another child of Time had sprung to birth.
And loud rejoicings rent the morning sky.
A soft, delicious breath of incense crept
From jeweled censers through the sparkling air.
As if o’er heavenly flowers some bie-zc had swept.
To waft the treasures of their fragrance there;
And round each pirit-fonn a veil was thrown,
Woven of diamond-rays, as I beheld them throng
Where on the wings of sleep my soul hail flown
To steep itself in beauty and in song.
And from those airy halls of golden light,
I saw the new-born year float gcntlv down;
The morning hours drew his chariot bright,
His brow was circled by a starrv crown.
M v voice had mingled with the jubilee,
When I awoke, Aurora's early beam
Broke the soft spell; but left to memory
The music and the brightness of my dream.
Canton Place, La. Rosa.
*The Magv ur.
The Ohio Negro Law.
We mentioned lately that a law had be**n introduced
into the Ohio Legislature to protect the rights of jht
sons claimed as fugitive slaves. We now learn from
the Ohio papers that another bill has been introduced,
the antagonist of this, and fully as ultra on the other
side. Mr. Cushing (whig- has brought forward iu the
Senate a bill to prevent the further settlement of bla<A
and mulatto persons in the State. The first section
provides that after the first of January, 18.54, no black
or mulatto person not already a resident, shall settle or
reside in the State. Sec. 2 provides that all black and
mulatto persons shall record their names in the Re
corder's office previous to January 1,18-54. Sec. 3, that
the names of all black children born thereafter shall Ife
recorded. Sec. 4th, that dl blacks found in the State
after January, 1654, whose names are not registered,
shall be held to be non-residents, oth, that alter that
time no non-resident black can hold real property, but
it shall become forfeited to the State. 6th, makes it
the duty of the Prosecuting Attorney to recover prott
-3y *> forfeited. 7th, any black violating any of the
r visions, is guilty of an offence, and to be punished
imprisonment not less than six month* nor more
than twelve—that a residence of every ten dayaafter
exptration of impt is<mient is anew oflenee. bth, Di
‘Assessors to return to the Recorder, name* of all
, *‘~>. Recorder to compare the list returned
with that in his office, and report to the Prosecuting At
torney, such as returned ana not found in hi* office, to
ha prosecuted for the offence. Knh. anv oflscer foiling
to discharge the duties required, to paV not less than
$5--, and be incapable of holding office ever thereafter.
Important Verdict is as Auvurtuixc. Case.— The
proprietor of the New York Courier and Enquirer has
..-covered a verdict of* > in the Sum erne Court of that
State, against Henry J. Ibbotaon, for advertising. It
appears the advertisement, not beiug marked for ad*
1 articular number of insertions, wes permitted to renia n
in the paper lftu davs, at #2 a dav. The defence sei up
was chiefly that Mr. lbbotson’s order* in respect to the
advertisement were not carried out. However, betook
the Courier and Enquirer dailv, and, as was presumed
I*t the court, saw the advertisement in question, and
should have notified the editor to alter or discontinue it.
The court ruled that he should bare given thia notice,
*tpdnot hav* expected to enjoy the benefit of the edver
nni.ert without paying for it.
Alison 011 the United States.
Some ten years ago Mr. Archibald Alison, a Lawyer
of Edinburgh, wrote a History of Europe, which was
reprinted in this country, and, notwithstanding its nu
! tnerous untruths about America, was sold in immense
quantifies. Mr. Alison was a writer in Blackwood, and,
of corns;, a sturdv Tory. In tune he ca >ie qu to fa
mous at home, and was knighted by her Majesty. S nee
the addition of this title to his name, Sir Archibald lias
taken up the theme of historv at the period where lie
dropped it, and has published a volume or two by way
of contiuua ion.
We have not seen the entire production, but, from ex
tracts taken from the “preliminary chapter,” we may
gather some notions of the style and trinli with which
this Tory advocate presumes to perpetuate the image 01
his age, 4o far as it is stamped iu the features ol our
country.
It was a wise critic who said that “ the beginning of
knowledge is the end of rhetoric.” Sir Archibald i
should recollect this. There is a turgid piling of/pi
tlieticnl agony in this chapter which is wOnhy of / du.-
ner-table speech from “ Micawber” iu Australia. Nor
should Sir Archibald forget that, although Walpole long
ago said “ history is a lie,” there are uow-a-day* so ma
ny more opportunities for detecting and exposing false
hood thau m Walpole’s time, that n man who delibe
rately or ignorantly villifies a great nation stands a
chance of becoming a very contemptible }>ersou even
during his life.
We offer the following sentences from this prelimina
ry chapter to show our readers a specimen of the A ri -
1 y which they will doubtless soon be called ou by some
enterprising publisher to purchase. It is quite fair to
judge of the reliable value of the whole woik by this
specimen. If the au hor is *r uninformed or so maii
-10 ts tu tegard o the events tha passed under our own
eves, it is > cry proper to conclude that he is equally
ignorant or base iu relation to the concerns o: other na
tions with which we ate not so familiar. Let the reader
determine: —X t>on. I Int U gencer.
“The priitc ;>al B'ait-s of the Union,’’ says Sir Archi
bald, “have, by common consent, repudiated tlicir State
deb.s as soon os the votin of adversity blew ; uud they
have in some instances resumed the payment of their it>
teicst only when the sale of hinds they had wrt-Ved from
the Indians afforded them the means of doing so with
out recurring to the diea-led hotrorsof direct taxation.
The me; sure* of Congress have beeu so generally di
rected by self-interest di.it they have, in more than one
n-*tAlice, brought the confederacy to the verge of di->
o u'ion ; and -he threatened separation ot South Caroli
na was only prevented from breaking it up by the qu.e*
concession ot ihe Central Legi-lo lire. Subsequen lv,
i■ h selfish cue rof 1 bridled Democracy l.ai beeu stiil
I more clearly evinced.”
j *‘ Without the vestige of a title they have seized on
j Texas and annexed it 10 their vest dominions ; by con
! cealing their title, which negatived their claims, they
■ have obtained ftxan Great Britain the half of Maine;
• hey have done their utmost to revolutionize Canada ;
: they have only been proven‘ed by a melancholy tragedy
i from rev.>hi;ionizing Cuba ; and when the Mexicans
| -ook up arms to avenge the spoliation of their territory,
• her invaded 1 heir dominions and wrested from them
j the half of all that remniued to them, including the gol
len-!aden mountains of California. During the last ten
veara thev have, though attacked by no one, mode them
selves master, by fraud and violence of I,BO*V>W addi
tional Miuare miles of territory, being nine times ihe
area of France; already the molt s utile ltd ra has be
come so popular Among them tin t tie very e’illren n
j'l ixirfs J th< > ‘nion pay at .• I lit /s. Denim ri.t c px—
si.ins have f >uit i their usual and natural vent in foreign
i iggression*. au 1 America has added another to the tna
! ,iy proofs which history affords that republican, so far
! from being the most pacific, are the most dangerous and
I warlike of all states
’ “If the present annual migration of above two hun
dred thousand from Ireland should continue a few years
longer, and there is any truth in the assertions now gen
.•raflv made that there are two millions of native-born
‘rish in the United States, and four millions of Irish
Int ent, the Celtic rate way acquit 1 such a preponderance
ihe e as may n ‘t mutely r -./< r the nut nt* nance <J repr -
‘e,l tat ire ir at tntionu iftt le in C'lif Thirls of the
l ikWl.”
Why Air. Dnnbrotvii con'd uot get into his
own House.
“Past twelve o’clock, and—oh! shiune to the ripe !
j manhood of fifty-—Jcnanv Dunbrowu, his senses nmf- j
i fled in strong drink, ronghthi* home. le?t the lnitli he 1
j -aid, though the shame fall upon Jeremy. Ihiubrowti |
i was drunk; yes, so drunk, that unassis'ed he had uot j
1 that night approached his household gods, at the hour 1
j we write of, last asleep : for Jeremy, having the street- j
! door key in his pock*-;, kept not the Utres sitting up.— j
; Duubrown was a bachelor; hence, it was his peculiar \
: boost at the club, that he kept nobody waiting for him
save the flt-as. We have inferred that Jeremy wound
□ot hi- way down Bishopsgate alone. No; great is the
beneficence of Bacchus who numbers iu his train thou
sands of little l ie 11 n-ys, to sober eyes invisible, whose
duty it is lo lead the votaries of their purple master safe
ly liome. The wot r-drinker couid not -see the jolly lit-
I lie satyr with its small kid bool's clattering along the
j stones of Bishopsgate, keeping Jeremy Dunbrow u from
! posts and gutters -now steadying his right leg, now
i the left—now flinging a vine or hop-plant over him,
i pulling him back lest befall upon his nose—Jeremy ail
| ’.he while smiling, and uttering halfwords from thecor
) ner of his aioutli. in acknowledgement of the benevo
| lence. These bncchoual fairies, thousands though there
I be—for we;e there not. how would frail mortals find the
i door 7 —arc not distingu shable by the profane sober; ]
nor are thev to be seen by the small drinker, by the j>e’- j
tv rascnl who siinjers 01 era gill and thinks himself j
jidemis. No, no; a man must labor iu many vintage* !
to be worthy of such a body-guard. Now w<- can assure j
the wo: Id that Jeremy Duubrown was hat m;it>. Jew- I
mv, aided bv his good genius, shuttled dovvu the empty
street, the wind blowiug, and the rain failing.
At lengtl Je emy reached the inn rail flat -kited
his ancieut home. ‘All's right,’said Jeremy ; and, as
he spoke, the vinous fairy quilted its charge leaving it
|in order to see safely to Viis door the Reverend Doctor
; Magnum, at that moment much debili ated by a receut
! argument at Alderman Bung's on Hebrew roots. ’ —
| * Ail's right,’ repeated Jeremy, mid he laid his flattened
. palm against that consecrated piece of wood, his own
(muse-Joor. ‘All’s right,’ and Jereim, with a smile
| sent from his very heart, a smile flickering iu his sad
j dened face, drew from his right-hand breeches pocket
j the street-door key.
I Ten minutes more, and Jereniy Dunbiovvn would be
j stretched between his household sheets. Jeremy, with
i the kev in his hand, sought to turn ihe lock : it was very
j odd—verv strange —rather annoying, but Jereniy could
| not find the key-hole. J -i c.i y sm ied, growled with fix
ed teeth, scia;che.l with the key all over the door, still—
i where was the key-hole? Th n Jeremy stood as uj r.glit
•as circumstances would permit—coughed—and, gras
ping the key anew, made a reckless dash at die dour, as
if, trusting to the guidance of his good genius, he ho
ped to find the aper;nre; when the key, struck bv the
violence from his hand, rang up the door-step, and Jer
etny, muttering objectionable oaths, dropped upon his
knees and groped about the wet mud for the lost trea
sure. * It’s all right,’ said Jeremy, when, having search
ed for ten minu’es, he again rose upon his legs with the ;
recovered key, which—so great was his presence of j
mind—he carefully cleaned wish the tail of his coat. —
* Mud mav clog the wards,’ said Jeremy, with, all things
considered, superhuman sagacity. * Now then—very
droll—verv odd,’ and Jeremy continued td scrape the
kev as he’ thought, over every inch of the door—‘ex- 1
ceeding odd—never knew such thing in bom days—re
markable —strange to a degree-—ha ! ha’ capi ul joke—
capi:- -d u the key! ’
Such was the broken soliloquy of Dunbrown, as he
stood perspiring at his own door. Again he paused
from his toil—looked up the street, down it, and again
resolved bv one vigorous effort to turn the lock. Again
in silence did he run the key over the door; hreaduoss
ily he Marched for the desired opening; then his hand
; fen to his side, and on a sudden he stood convinced for
! ouee and for ever.
| ‘ I see it.’ cried Jeremy Dunbrown, —‘ I see it—the
! dishonesty of the times! —some and and thief lias stolen
I :he key-hole’’” —V lee and Ale, by DiujUis J rrvld.
A Visit to O'Connell’s Estate.— Miss Martinenu,
in an account cf a visit she lately paid to the tomb op
the celebrated Darnel O'Connell, says:
The most implacable eucniy of O’Connell could not
but be touched and sot ened by a visit to Derrynanc Ab
• bev at this day. There can hardly be a more affecting
*• ectaclc than tliai house wli.re so much of the politics
<>f our country has been conceived and discussed. The
situation of that old seat of the O’Connells is liner than
description can give au idea of. Seen from above, in
its green cove, embossed in woods, guarded by moun
tains, whose grey locks are gaudy with gorsc and heath
er, and facing a sea sprinkled with islets, it looks like a
paradisical mtreat. The first glimpse of it from the
Cahiricveen road—the toad b\ which O’Connell passed
from one mass of his large pro; ertv to another- shows
his vacht tiding in a lO.iud in trout of his grounds; and
tfiat sea view suggests the remembrance ot the old days
when the O'Cotioeils ol both families —Dan’s uncle and
father—were understood to do ns others did who lived in
’ situations : o la>. o aide lo ■ those > o tin er. nil e.itei pri*< s
i which are ouuduc.ed by uight. In the wild times of the
’ as; century, when ditimce of law was rathe a virtue
j.hm otherwise, and commuoic; t on v i li Ftai c; was un
j Irish privil. g•, gei tic in n who had 1 o iscs among the
j biivs and sounds ot the west coast, were under every
’ inducement to make their fortunes by smuggling. The
i wild rum of the house w here Daniel was iKirn stands iu
an admirable situation lor smuggling ; and so dues the
Abbey ; and legend run* that the ability was abundant
ly used.
Smuggling is quite over now, as the coast guard tell
with a stgh. And agitation is over too. So the one
| house stands a ruin and the other is rotting away in damp
and neglect. It is inhabited; it is ever tilled with cun;-
CUV at times; it is to be so tomorrow. But not the
m forlorn Is its appearance when seen ftcni a nearer
point than the mountain roads, choked bv its own woods,
which grow almost up to the windows, stained with
damp, out of joint, unrepaired, un renowned -it i* a tru
ly melancholy spectacle. Melancholy to all eyes, it is
most so to the minds of those who can go tuck a qua;-
ter of a century and hear again the slum s w hich hailed
i the advent of the Liberator, and see again the reverent
1 enthusiasm which watched him from alar when he res
ted at Derrvnaue from hi* toils, and went forth to hunt
I among his hills, or croise about his hava. Now, there
iis his empty yacht in the sound, and his chair in the
chapel covered with black cloth. All else that he en
joyed there in his vast wealth of money, feme and pop
ular love, arrant to be dropping away to destruction.-
When we were there, the bay whose lull waters must
: give lift* and music to the whole scene, was a forlorti
1 stretch of impassable sand—neither land nor water.
The tide w-as out. It was too like the destinv ot him
whom it neighbored so nearly. Hisglorv swelled high ;
and grand at one time w - as its dash aud roar; hut the
tide is out. And it can never return—could never have
returned, if he had lived ; for there is going on, we trust,
a gradual upheaviug of the land, giving some promise of
that reclamation which he never would allow.
ISf M. Gaillardet, in the Courier d-e Etsits Unis,
gives currency to the report that the Pope has deci
ded to come to Paris at the end of May next, to crown
their majesties, the Emperor and Empress of the French,
and that he will afterward bestow the same consecra
|tkn upon the Emperor of Austria, at Vienna or Milan.
Letter of John Randolph.
The Rev. Septimus T.i*tia has communicated to the
Washington Utint the followin'* hitherto unpublished
letter from the eccentric but highly intellectual orator
of Virginia, the Hon. John Randolph of Roanoke. It
was written to his iiall-brother, the Hon. Heurv St.
John Tucker:
Trf:: LETTER.
May He who lias the power, and always the will,
when earnestly, huiublv and devoutly entreated, sup
j>oi t and comfort you, mv brother! i shall not point to
. r ”U the treasures tua; remain to you in your surviving
children, and Mieir mother, dearer than all these pu. to
gether. No; I h ive fell too deeply how litilo jH.wer
havt words tha* play round the head to reach the hem*,
when it is sorely wounded. The common places 1
consolation are ai the tongue's end of all the seii-coin
pl see nt and satisfied, from the j*edaut priest to ihe
washe- woman. iThcy who don’t feel ein talk.y 1 ub-
I jure them ad. The tinker of Lord Russell, when con
doled with according to form, by the book, said *1 would,
not give my dead soil for any other man’s living.’ May
this thought come home to your bosom, too; but noi
on the sours occasion. May the spirit of God, which,
is m> the chimera of hea’cd brains, nor a device o !
artful men to frighteu and cajole the credulous, but is
a* much an existence that can be felt and understood
as the whisperings of you* own heart, or the love you
here lo him that you have lost—may ;he Spirit, which
is ihe comforter, shod His in Queue? upon your soul,,
and incline your Ueait and understanding to the only;
right way, which is that of life eternal! Did you ever
read B.siiop Butler’s Analogy f If not I will send it
io you. Dave you read the Book ? What I say upon
tins subject, l not only believe, hut I know to be true —
tii.it 1 lie li :l , studied with an humble and contrite
ni.irt, never yet fu.lel to do its work, even wilh those
who Iroin iiiiosyncracy or disordered minds have con
ceived that they were cut off from its promise* of a life
to come. --
“Ask an lye shall receive; seek and ye shall find;
knock and it shall be opened unto you.” This was my
ouly support aud stay during years of misery and dark
ness ; and just as I hail almost begun to despair, af.ei*
more than Un years of penitence and praver, it pleased
God to enable me to sec thetru h, to which until then
mv eyes had been sealed. To this vouchsafement I
have made the most ungrateful re*urns. But I would
not give up my slender portion of the price paid for our
redempt 0:1 —yes my brother, our redemption—(he
ransom of sinners—of all wiio do not hug their chain*
and refuse to come out from the house of bondage —il
say that 1 would not exchange my little portion in th t
Sou of David for the power and glory ot the Parthian
or Roman empires, as described by Milton in the temp
tation of our Lord and Savior, not for all with which
the enemy tempted the Savior of man.
This is the secret of the change of my spirits, which all
who know me must have observed within a few years
past. Alter years spent in humble and contrite en
treaty that the tremendous sacrifice on Mount Cal vary
might not have been made in vain for me, the chafes!
ct sinners, it pleased God to speak his peace into my
heart—ihut peace of God which passetli all understand
ing to them that know it not, and even to Ili.Mil tha*
do. And al hough 1 have now, as then, 1o reproach
myself with time misspent and (acuities misemployed ;
although mv condition has on more than one occasion
resembled that of him, who, having one evil spirit ea->t
out, was taken possession of by seven other spirits more
wicked than the first, and the fii*t also; yet 1 trust
that they, too, bv the power and mercy of God, may be,
if they are not vanquished.
But where lam running to? On this subject more
hereafter. Meanwhile, assure yourself of what is < ‘
small value compared with that of those who are 1*
piece of yourself—of the unchanged regard and sym
pathy of your mother’* son. Ah! my God! I rc
memberto h tve seen die —to have followed her to the
grave—to have wondered that the sun continued to
rise and set, and the order of nature to go on. Ignorant
of true rel.gion, but not yet an a'hcis*. I remember
with horror mv impious expostulations with God upon
this bereavement—“but not yet an atheist.” The ex
istence of atheism lets been denied ; hut I was an hon
est one; Httiue began and Hobbs finished me. I read
.Spinoza and all the tribe. Surely I fell by no ignoble
hand. And the very man ) who give me
Hume s “ Essay iijkhi lluni ui Nature” to road, admin
istered “ Beattie upon Truth” w tii ; antidote—Venice
treacle against arsenic and the essential oil of bitter al
monds—a bread and milk poultice for tue bite of the
cobra capello.
Had 1 remained a s iceessful political leader i might
never have been a Chris: ian. But it pleased God that
mv pride should ho mortified ; that by detilt and de
sertion I should lose my triends ; that except in the
veins of a maniac, and he. too, possessed “of a child
by a deal and dumb spirit,” there should no? run one
drop of mv father’s blood in any living creature be
s.des myself. The death of Tudor finished my humili
aiion. I had tried all tilings but the refuge to Christ,
aud to that, with parental stripes, was I driven. Os en
did i cry out with the father of that wretched boy,
“ Lord! I believe—help thou mine unbelief;” ar*d the;
gracious mercy of our Lord to this wavering taithy
staggering under the force of the hard heart of uiihuJ
liet 1 humbly hoped would, in his good time, be eip”
teuded to 111 c also. —St. Mark, vii, 17 —*'9.
Throw Revela’ion aside, and I can drive any man by
irre-istible induction to atheism. John Marsiiul could
uot resist me. When 1 say man, I mean a man capa
ble of logical and consequential reasoning, lteism is
the refuge of those that startle at atheism, mid can’t be
lieve Revelation : and my , t niay (leal have forgiv
en us both, 1 and myself used, with Diderot k Cos., to
laugh at the deistical biguts who must have milk, not
Iming able to digest meat. All theism is derived from
Revelation—that of the laws confessedly. Our own is
from the same source—so rathe false Revelation of M.i
homet ; and 1 can’t much blame the Turks for consid
crin* ihe Franks and Greeks to be idolaters. Every
other idea of nne cf and that floats in the world is derived
from the tradition of the son* of Noah handed down to
their posterity.
But enough—and more than enough—l can scarcely
guide my pcu. I will, however, add .hat no lukewarm
seeker ever became a real Christian ; for “from the
days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of
heaven su.fereth violence, and the violent take it by
force”—a text which I read five hundred time* before
I hud the slightest conception of its true application.
Your brother, J. R., of Roanoke.
To 11. St. G. Tucker, esq.
Mbs or ot a Time — o W. Holmes, the getlcmau
that “ never dares to write as finny as he can,” is for
ty-three. William Howitt is fifty-seven ; he published
verses at the age of thirteen. Humboldt is eighty- liree.
Fifx Greene Hulleckis hfiy-seven Leigh hunt is 6*.
Washington Irving, son of an eminent N. York mer
chant, is 69 years of age ; in his nine eenth year, he be
gun to contribute to his brother’s paper, the Morning
Chronicle. Douglas Jerro!d,47 years of age, is ihe son of
the manager of the Sheenies* theatre; the sea was
his first love, and fora short timo he served as mid
shipman on boai and of a man of war.
( I’. R James is about fif.y years old ; it was Wash
ing 011 Irving who tiret recommended him to u ca
reer of auihorship. Sheridan Knowles, sixty-eight
years old, is the son of a famous Irish school-master,
who was a cousin of Richard Brinsley Sheridan Mr.
i Knowles wrote his first play in his twenty-first year;
his plays ate thirteen m number; he now enjoys a gov
ernment pension of two hundred pounds a year. Lam
artine is sixty-two; his lather was a major in the
French cavalry under Louis AVI Abbott Lawrence, iu
his sixtieth year Henry W. Longfellow, forty-five
years of age, is the son of Hon Stephen Longfellow
I fori land, Maine, is the birth-place of the poet ; he was
appoin;ed Professor in Cambridge in his twenty-eighth
year
Macauly is the son of a wealthy African merchant,
is titty-two year* of age ; his essay on Milton was writ
ten in his twenty-sixth year, for the Edinburg Review.
Macready is lif y-nine; his father was a iheairical man
ager Herman Melville is the son of an importing
merchant of this city; he is twenty-nine years of age ;
I his grandfather was one of the Boston Tea l’arty; he
began his wanderings in his eighteenth year, as a sail
or before the mast; he is the author of seven popular
works. Mettcrnicb is seventy-nine. Ik Marvel, thir
ty years of age, is a native of Norwich, Connecticut, a
graduate of Vale, nnd resident of New York. J K.
Paulding, whose collected words till seventy -live vol
umes, is sei elit e- luce years old, he is a native of Dutch
es county in this State.
PreuUce is a Yankee, bom at Preston, Connecticut,
forty-eight yeais old. He ha.* been editor of the Louis
ville Journal since 1631 Prescott, the historian, is in
his fifty-sixth year. Powers, the sculptor, is fifty-seven ;
his parents • were plain country people, who culti\ ate
a small firin’ in Vermont Seward is 50 years old. T:tl
ford, fifty-seven Tennyson, son of a clergyman is
forty-two Ticknor, sixty-one. 11. T Tuckcrmun,
thiny-ninc Victoria is thirty-three years of age.—
“ She has.” savs our author, “a largo and rapidly in
creasing family which seems the distinguishing mark
of the Hanoverian dynasty.”— Hon* Journal.
Belwer AliectUtiny end Gossip. —This sketch of a
principal literaly celebrity of the age, (and from the
-Age, London, is so perrinent and well stated, that we
think our loaders will be pleased lo see if at length :
“ Bulwer Lvtton’s great effort is to unite in himself
the gentleman of fashion and high bleeding with the
author of firs:-rate literary reputation ; and, like most
other extravagant attempts, it would appear ridiculous
were his literary triumphs less complete. Upon the
wit, poet, writer ot plays and novels, and orator, he
would inoculate the owner of Knehworth Park, dispen
sing county hospitalities, uud the man of fashion 111
London, receiving only wits at his table. He has striv
en through life t> effect this combination, and in a great
measure he has succeeded. The sumptuous fellow
cuiiiiiioaer of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, contrived tu
make driving his own horses, mid similar eccentricities,
compatible with winning the university prize for the
best English poem. The gentry of Herefordshire were j
not long ago invited to our Miecena’s country seat, and !
the entertainineut included a heatrical representation j
of |)i s own play, just as it was also acted, bv his utn i- |
tear literary friends before the Queen, at Devonshire i
House. Feeling a sincere sympathy for the trials of j
artistic life, he would express it like a feudal chieftain,
aud so he appropriates from his domain a site for an j
hospital for decaycd men of letters and art.
“ When he lias a few friends to dme with him in
London, the party* might consist of Taltburd, Macready,
Dickens. D’Orsay, (but that he is dead,) and perhaps a
young American author, who has been introduced, and
is there upon trial. As he i* essentially refined and
fastidious, von will probably find that he nas furnished
the rooms of his bouse iu accordance with Ihe tastes ot
the Tudor, the Louis Qua’orzc, and other historical
eras ; and being fully indulgent to his imagination in j
the effort of composition, he ha* been said to write in 1
appropriate costume, and even through the fuuic* ot |
opiate. In the country house of his acquaintance you
mav possibly be shown some sacred apartment, in j
which the confession of “Aubrey.’ in ‘ Devereux,’ was
written at midnight, in a cowl, with a skull on the ta
ble; or the black-bugled bed-curtains, within which ,
the author of ‘ Richilieu’ rested his inspired brow. j
•• In estimating both the intellectual character and j
writings of Bulwer Lvttou, it is inijoissible to avoid u
comparison betwixt him and Byron. Even the circum
stances of their private lives are strikingly similar.-
Their aristocratic lineage; their great dependence m
early years upon a mother ; their unfortunate matn*
.nionial connection ; attachment to a daughter, iu both
leases, though from different causes, frustrated; their
I personal vanity, warm temper, aud egotism, even their
nonentity in Parliament; also, sundry high and gen
erous qualities and feelings which have undoubtedly
distinguished them bo:li. And these peculiarities of
life and disposition have tinctured the prose of the one
; and the poetry cf the other. Each has shown a mor
! bid desire to put 011 dress, and he the hero of poem 01
j tale. ‘Child** Harold,’ ‘the Corsair,’ Ac., were vehicles
I for the personal confessions of their author ; ‘ Pelham,
| * iie Student,’ Ac., are self-likenesses of their artist. —
J This habit is incompatible wilh attaining the last high
es: s'ep which genius is entitled to roocn. It is attribu
table. no doubt. 111 these two eases to that self-exagge
rifiou which the hereditary privileges of weal hand
station are apt to engender, and which only experience
and self-examination can allay. Byron was cut off be
fore he became wise ; but. as Johnson said of Gold
smith, with reference to a different subject, we predict
that Bulwer Lytton *is coming right.’ The later pro
| due: ions of his pen have been more free from the peuan
j try inseparable from drawing inspiration too much
l from within. The scholarly cut-throat and elegaut
: adultress, we mav hope, are henceforth abandoned to
! the canaille of literature ; and liis works seem to be ac
quiring that breadth and depth which can make them
worthy of coming from a great master of the English
tongue.”
MACON, GEORGIA:
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1858.
The Tennesseeans
Will give their second Vocal Concert in this city, this
evening, at Concert Hull.
Elections*
At an Election for Magistrates and Constables, in
ibis city on Saturday last, E. E. Brown and E. C. Gran
l niss, were elected Justices, and W. \V. Wagnon and
J. W. Crump, Constables for the 716th District, to 1
the 564th District, David Reid and Amos Benton w ere
elecied Magistrates, and D. A. Ralston, and Benjamin
Harrison, Constables.
On Monday last, the following county officers were
elected:
Justices Inferior Court.— Elisha Davis, Henry Wood,
M. M. Mason, Kcelin Cook and Wm. Lundy.
Tax Collector.- —Richard A. Cain.
/i\ ceiui’r.— Benjamin Russell.
Fires.
On Sunday morning, the Warehouse on the corner of
Second and Cherry streets, occupied by W. F. Harris A
Cos . was discovered to be on fire. The fire, however,
was at rested before any material damage was done On
Monday night, about 12 o’clock, our citizen* were star
tled by another alarm of lire, which was found to have
i>i igiiiati-J in ilie office of I)r. E. L Strohecker, Mayor of
ihe City, situated contiguous to the dwelling occupied by
him on Walnut street, and owned by Mrs Wood. The
office, dwelling and out-houses were entirely consumed.
We understand that there was insurance upon the huild
| ings sufficient to cover their loss.
These fires, with others which have occurred recently
■ in our city, arc believed to be the work of incendiaries,
j and should put our citizens upon their guard. We
; should use every precaution against fires, as we have no
j Fire Department, and no means whatever to arrest
! them when once fairly under wav.
*
—
The Lanier House.
Messrs S Lanier A Sox, favorably known to Hie
’ travelling public, as the proprietors of the Lanier
j Hot sf., in this city, have withdrawn from that estab
lisament, with the view, we understand, of taking the
control of a large hotel in a northern city, and have
been succeeded by Messrs. Scott A Dibble. The new
Proprietors possess all the necessary requisites of taste,
energy and industry, to preserve the reputation which
the Lanier House has hillur o sustained, and we have
no doubt that it will continue to be, as heretofore one
of the best conducted Hotels in the Southern States
The installation of the new Proprietors, on the Ist inst,
was signalized by a Collation, served up bv them to a
large crowd of invited friends, which, in all its appoint
ments, was unexceptionable We wish them success
I in the new business in which they have embarked.
of Judge Taylor and Major lirookin.
Ave learn, with deep regret, that the Hon. William
:Tai lor, Judge of the Superior Courts of the South
Western Circuit, died on the 24th ult., at the residence
| of his brother-in-law, Maj. L. S. Brook in, about sixteen
: miles West of Newton, in Baker county, and that Maj.
: Brook in died on the following day. Judge Taylor was
| taken ill whilst presiding in an important criminal case,
| and had started home with his brother-in-law. His
siekotss and death, with that of Major Brook in, is at-
I tributes! to diseased Oysters, of which they boih partook
at Newton. Judge Taylor had created a very favorable
j impression with the people and the bar of his Circuit,
by his courteous demear.or upon the bench, a id by his
able and impartial administration of the law, and his
death will lie deeply regretted by a numerous circle of
friends who knew and appreciated his many amiable
qualities.
Editorial Changes.
The new year has brought with it important changes
in the editorial corps of our State. The Savannah R -
publican, of the Ist inst., contains the valedictory of
J L. Locke, its Senior editor, and the Columbus
Times, of the same date, announces the retirement of
its editor, John Forsyth. The Republican will lierea!-
ter be conducted by P. W. Alexander, Esq., for seve
ral years past, connected with it as associate editor;
and the T./nes will be united with the Sent.'ml, under
the editorial conduct of the present editor of the Seuti
nd, Col Teuneut Lomax. Whilst we sincerely regret
the retirement of Messrs Locke and Forsyth we as
sincerely congratulate them, upon their release from
the labors, and cares, and vexations of their editorial
career. They have both been long and favorably
known to the people of Georgia, as able and prominent
leaders in Ihe political organizations to which they re
spectively belong. We have differed tato cdo, with
Mr Forsyth, but have always admired the ability and
candor and fearlessness of this Hotspur of the Geor
gia Press. With Mr. Locke, we have sympathized en
tirely in political opinion, and with both of them we
part with pleasant impressions, and with kind wishes
for their future success and happiness.
We would direct the attention of our Georgia con
temporaries to the following paragraphs of the vale
dictory address of the editor of the Tittles, and to the
suggestion which it contains. For ourselves we hearti
lv endorse every of word it, and are ready to join with
our brethren of the Press in this .State, to carry it out
iu practice :
I cannot too strongly urge upon my successors the
importance of one radical change in the newspaper sys
tem. I give it as the deliberate result of fourteen years
of newspaper experience, that the credit system to sub
scribers is the greatest of business follies and blunders.
I have not space to dwell on the reasons which have
brought my mind to this conviction. J have sorely felt
their effects, and now, no longer interested in the ques
tion, I declare it as my opinion that, low prices and cash
invariably in advance tor country subscriptions, is a
svstem infinitely better for both reader and printer, and
a system indispensable to newspapers success. 1 trust
mv* s licensors may have the courage to adopt it, and I
know if they do, that in twelve month* thev will see
and acknowledge the wisdom of the policy.’’
*_4*t~ The message of the President disclosed the fact,
that a proposition had been made by England and France
to this Government, to enter into a treaty, by which the
three contracting powers would guarantee the posses
sion of the Island of Cuba to the crown of Spain ; and
the additional fact lliat, this proposition had been
promptly and decidedly declined. In the Senate, on
the 23d ult , Mr Mason, of Virginia, introduced a reso
lution, calling upon th<> President to eomuiunicaiaito
Congress the correspondence between our Government
and France and England, upon the proposed treaty in
relation to Cuba, which gave to the mover ot the resa |
lotion, to Mr. Cass and other Senators, au opportunity
lo define their positions upon many questions of inter
est connected with our foreign relations. The speech
of Mr Cas* was able and elaborate, and at the same
-1.11 •, bolder, more distinct and unequivocal, than the
efforts of that gentleman usually are; which we ac
!count for upon the supposition that General Cass has
I despaired of the Presidency, and speaks now from his
| own convictions, rather than from the exigencies of the
| position of a Presidential aspirant. The tone ot his
speech is eminently conservative, and we can only re
gret that he has delavc 1 so long the declaration which
it contains, of disapproval of the policy of the progres
sive democracy, and of entire aud cordial approval of
the course pursued by the administration in relation lo
Cuba. AVe regret ‘.his, because we are oblige! to re
member that its policy in relation to Cuba has been the
| chief point of attack against the Admitiisiratiou, and
j that General Cass has withheld his endorsement of that
; policy until after a Presidential election—the result of
i which ha-, been claimed as a popular verdict of disair
proval of that policy and because we remember, that
; before the Democratic nomination, upon the question of
j Cuba, uni upon every other question upon which an is
sue was made between the conservative and radical ele
ments in this country, General Cass exhibited rio firm
ness whatever, but followed Douglass in the race of pro •
gro t*, with as much zeal and as much alacrity as years
and corpulence would permit, and aided to build up .
and strengthen and developethe policy of that portion
of his part. - which arrogates to itself the tide of p o- ■
gressivc, against which he has now arrayed himself. !
So firm and so decided a disavowal of all sympathy
with the views and the designs of that lawless and un
scrupulous faction of the Democracy, if made eat her,
by this veteran leader of the party, might have cheeked
the progress of the opinions which it inculca'es and
given a safer direction and a healthier tone to pub: c
sentimeut upon subjects connected without - foreign re
lations.
The fact that France and England have formally pro
posed to enter into a treaty with the United Spates, by
wliich Spain shall be guarantied the possession ot Cu
ba, evidences the deep interest which they feel in the
fate of that Island and, at the same time, their fear that
it may become, by conquest or by purchase, the property
of the United States The attempts which have been
made by lawless adventurers from this country to revo
lutionize the Island, the open discussion of the question
of its annexation to the United States—the state of pub
lic opinion in Cuba, and the impotence of Spain to pro
tect it from this country, or the influences at work with
in its own borders, justify this fear, which has caused
them to attempt, Ly the trammels of a treaty of lieu
trality and protection, to prevent the United States from
actin” upon the strong suggestion of circumstances in
the position ol Cuba and the United States, which seem
to point to its incorporation in the Union as its manifest
destiny. The Government of the United States de
clined to enter into the proposed treaty, and the only
consequence resulting from the correspondence thus
far, has been to forewarn us of the views of England
and France, and of the obstinacy with which they will
together resist any scheme for the appropriation by the
United States of the Island of Cuba.
The introduction of the resolution of Mr. Mason, in
relation to the proposed Tripartite Treaty, and the re
marks of Mr. Cass and others, seem to have been pre
concerted and designed to form public opinion upon a
question which is destined to be an important issue in
the administration of General Pierce. The discussion
has significance and importance on this account, as it
indicates the position which will lie assumed upon the
question of territorial acquisitions by the more conserv
ative portion of the Democratic party. Upon this ques
tion, as upon every other, the party is divided, as will
appear in the further progress of this debate. We give
below that portion of the speech of the Senator from
Michigan, which relates to Cuban affairs and to the sub
ject of annexation.
In this connection sir, I desire to submit a few brief
remarks concerning Cuba, as that island presents one
of the most ditlicult questions perhaps the most diffi
cult, in our foreign policy. Five years ago in some ob
servations I submitted to the Senate on the subject ot
the application of the Yucatese people for tbeaid of this
government against the overwhelming force of the
Indians, l had occasion to explain nty views, in relation
to Cuba, and 1 have since seen no cause to change them.
1 then said, “self-defence is as necessary to communities
as to individuals, and provident forecast requires us to
watch any dangerous projects of domination, and to
provide for them as we can. I repeat, that a nation un
der these circumstances must judge for itself. Proximi
ty of its situation, the nature of the intercourse resulting
from its commanding positions to do injury, and other
considerations, are all elements to be taken into view. In
mv opinion, we owe it to ourselves to avow distinctly
to the world that ihe attempt to procure the transfer of
Cuba from Spain to any other nation, whether peaceably,
or forcibly would be resisted by the whole power of this
country. To others, it may be a question of territorial
aggrandisement or of mercantile cupidity ; but to us it
is a question of necessity, I had almost said, of politi
cal life or death. It would become the gate to close the
great river of our country. The waters of that country,
therefore as heretofore, would reach the Gulf, but its
commerce would never reach the ocean. “So long as
Cuba and Yucatan arc held bv their present possessors,
neither we, nor the commercial world have anything to
tear from English projects, whatever these may be."—
“I trust, that the intrigues of no nation will ever com
pel us to take forcible possession of Cuba.” Such were
my sentiments then, and such are my sentiments now.
So long as Spain retains Cuba, or should the Island
become Independent —truly and honorably so—we have
no right to interfere with it. And, for myself, I should
be willing—desirous, indeed—at any time to purchase
Spam, and at a liberal, even at an extravagant
pncK —but no transfer to another power, either by peace
or war, and the resistance of such an attempt by all the
means which God has given us. And I have never ut
tered a sentiment, here, or elsewhere, inconsistent with
these views, though 1 have often been charged with
what is called JiUtmster nj projects, and that, too, by
resj>ectable journals, during the Presidential contest —
by the h‘i/rut U ■ of this citv, amongst others, and quite
recently by the Journal of Commerce, of New York.—
No man, editor or reader, has the right to prefer such
a charge against me. 1 believe in public, as w'ell as in
personal morality, and I value the honor of my country
at too high a price to barter it for any scheme of ag
grandisement. \nd I embrace this opportunity to bear
tit', testimony of approbation to the recent conduct of
the administration in relation to Cuba. I reprobate
(hose repeated efforts to interfere in the concerns of
auother nation, and I have no charity for the motives
of the leaders engaged in them. If tlie people of Cuba j
desire to free themselves from the government of Spain j
—and a worse one is hardlv to be found on the face of ]
the earth—their effort will have all my sympathies, and :
all mvgood wishes, us I am sure, it will have those of j
the American people. And I cannot doubt but that 1
their independence would be cheerfully recognized by ;
the government the moment it could properly be done.
But tiiis work is their own, and not ours ; and so long
as they acknowledge allegiance to Spain it is our duty
to respect that relation. And, sir, there are circum
stances in the condition, both of that country and of
ours, which may well demand some forbearance on our
part. Spain is weak, and remote from this, almost the
last of her immense American possessions. We are
powerful and near. And, besides, the condition of the
island has been critical and uncertain. There are ques
tions of internal policy there which possess paramount
importance, and they are precisely questions which j
would awaken the vigilance of any people on earth. — j
And Cuba has been in a state of quasi-revolution—the !
government fearing external collisionsas well as internal
explosions. And there isn’t a nation which would nt j
adopt very strong measures for its security under such i
circumstances. We should, and persist in them too, at
all hazards. This is precisely u state of things when
extreme points of right should not be unnecessarily
pushed by a foreign power ; and I saw - , with regret, that j
an effort w - as making to bring matters to a crisis, by in- ;
sisting upon the introduction of a person supposed by
the government of the island—wrongly, indeed, as tt
subsequently appeared—to he dangerous there; and I
commend the course of our administration in this affair.
One of our citizens, however, seemed to think it his
duty to interfere, and whether voluntarily or involun
tarily, almost to provoke a collision. I consider his
conduct equally presumptuous and unpatriotic. It
could have been to him a comparatively unimportant
point whether A or B was the purser of his shins,
certainly not a point worth the consequences possible
and even probable. And as to the principle of exclu- j
sion—that was a question for the government, and I
think the government was right in the view it took of
it. The honor of the country, thank God, was not in
the keeping of Mr. Law; it was in better hands.
Now, sir, 1 desire the possession of Cuba principally
as a military position, with a view to its vast importance
as the true key to the Mississippi. But as a mere ques
tion of acquisition, the subject presents no terrors to me.
I obseved the President views it differently and foresees
strong objections to the measure—to the general prin
ciple, indeed, of the extension of our territory, and there
is a striking coincidence between some of his sugges
tions and some of the reasons urged against the purchase
of Louisiana, when that question was before Congress.
Time and experience have come to put the seal of appro
bation upon that great measure, and to refute the an
ticipations of evil so confidently indulged and expressed.
The inhabitants of French birth or descent are as truly
attached to the Union as any other citizens of our coun
try, and they have given proofs of true patriotism, un
der circumstances of trial, to which few sections of the
republic have been exposed; and such, in my opinion,
would be the result in Cuba, as well as in any other re
gion, which it is at all probable w ill ever make part of
our confederation. At first, indeed, there might be
doubts and difficulties ; but time and information would
soon remove them. And the sen-.,: of freedom, and of a
condition beyond the reach of change, together wiih a
rise in the value of property, which is sure to attend an j
incorporation with us, and the increased activity of bu
siness, would, ere long, do their work, and convert the
population into zealous and patriotic Americans.
As to the general subject of annexation, I have no
new views to disclose. It is pretty well known that 1
have a capacious swallow fin- territory, though I ant free
to confess tlifit 1 can wait a white patiently* if necessary,
and spend the time in digesting our last acquisitions.—-
They sit lightly upon ihe stomach, and promise to pro
mote the health of the body politic to u degree surpass
ing the sanguine expectations ot those who expected most
from the measure. And we cannot employ this inter
val of waiting better than by tbe adoption of wise and
efficient means to hind our recent acquisitions to the rest
of the confederacy by the ties of interest as well as of
affection. And it is my decided conviction that one of
the most important measures—the most important, in
deed, for this government —is the construction, so far as
our constitutional authority permits, of a railroad front
some point upon the Mississippi to the Pacific Oceau.—
I say some point upon ihe Mississippi, for it is perfect
ly indifferent to me where it is, and I trust the friends
of this great object will not fritter away their strength by
mere local questions of direction and termination. Let
those matters be settled by commissioners, or in some
other practical manner, but let us bend our undivided
force to the great work itself. When completed, as it is
sure to be, it will bind this great republic together lite
rally by bonds of iron, and ov the still stronger bonds
of confidence and interest, and San Francisco will be
practically nearer the seat of government than Savan
nah was at the adoption of the constitution.
\Ve are often asked by the timid and the cautious, j
where is annexation to stop? That question will not
be answered in my day, and I leave its solution to those
upon whom may devolve the duty and the responsibili
ty of deciding it. A general government to conduct
the external relation with foreign powers, and to regu
late the interior relations of the members of the Union,
anti State governments to provide for the great objects
of freedom aud security, and for the various political
w ants of ihe community, this American scheme of po
litical organization opens a wide field for its operation—
indeed, an utmost boundless one. It is certainly far ea
sier to preserve amicublc relations between neighboring
States, acknowledging a federal bead, with the necessa-
Jrv prov'sion for the peaceable adjustment of difficulties,
than it w'ottld be to preserve peace amongst them ts n
- when fotce and not reason must be the arb -
[ ter of <heir db putes.
Stations of .Tlinisters for the Georgia Metho
dist Conference tor 1833.
Au vt.'a District —Jons W. Gllen, P. E.
SaMi :nail. —Trinity.—William M. Cmtnlv ; Andrew
Chapel to be supplied.
Chut ham, and illy an, and Isle of Hope—W. B. Mc-
Han.
Springfield —I). ,1. Mirick.
Scrn eu—Alexander A\ erett.
Waynesboro Dante! Kelsey.
Burke Mission —A. B. Smith.
Fairhaven Mission. —Alex. Gordon.
Richmond —K. A. Conner.
Louisvillle—Theophilus L. Harwell.
Augusta—-Jackson I*. Turner.
Colored Charge— James M. Austiu.
Colurub a—Euw in White.
I.imo nton —John Dunn. _
Washington —Caleb W. Key.
Wilkes —VY. A. Arnold.
Warrenton —F. \Y . Reynolds.
Sparta —Josiah Lewis.
Hancock Mission—To be supplied.
Athei.t District —YV. J. Parks, P. E.
Athens—A. T. Mann.
Coloted Charge—John 11. Grogan.
Lexington and Colored Charge—Albert .Gray, W.
Baker.
Watkinsville—W. J. Cotter, Jesse li.Littlejohn.
Factory Mission—W\ 11. C. Cone.
Klbeiton —M. H. Hubbard.
Broad River Mission—A. 11. Devours.
Caruesville—H. I’. Parks, J. 11. Harris.
Greensboro—J. W. Yarborough.
Madison Station—Joseph S. Key.
Morgan—J. B. W’ardlaw.
Kingston—ll. Craw ford.
Covington and Oxford—\V. A. Florence, J. S. Ford.
Monroe—David Crenshaw.
Emory College—G. F. Pierce, Alex. Means, W. J.
Sasuet.
Gainesville Did.'-let —George Bright, P. E.
Gainesville —J. It. Owen.
Lawreueeville—W. H. Thomas.
Canton—ll. P. Pitchford.
Dahlonega—David Blalock, W. P. Claunfs.
Clarkesville —John H. Mashburn.
Clayton Mission—To be supplied.
Murphy do —Edward 1.. Stephens.
Blairsville do —Jesse W Carroll.
Elijav do —Windsor Graham.
State Line do —William Lively.
Marietta District- —James B. Pavxe, P. E.
Marietta —C. A. Fulwood.
Marietta Circuit —Alfred Dorman Schavc.
Cassville—M. A. Clautz.
Rome Station—D. I). Cox.
Rome Circuit —A. Nice, W\ P. Pleasure.
Calhoun—John Strickland.
Spring Place—Josiah H. Clarke.
Dade Mission —J. W\ Brady.
Lafayette—A. C. Bruner.
Summerville —S. C. Qnillian.
Dallas Mission—W. J. Wardlaw.
Dalton—To be supplied.
Subligna—L. B. Payne.
Iji Grange. District. —J. C Simmons, P. E.
La Grange—W. R. Foote.
Franklin—lsaac N. Craven.
Troup—J. W. Talley.
Greeneville —W. D. Matthews.
Fayetteville—M. Bellah.
Zeoulon—Noah Smith.
Griffin—J. B. Jackson.
McDonough—J. M. Smith, J. I’. Payne.
Atlanta—YY’. 11. Evans.
Decatur—L. J. Davies, N. M. Watts,
Newnan—G. C. Clarke, John Simmons.
Carrolton Mission—C. Tnissell, J. Wordly.
J f con District —Samuel Anthony, P. E.
Macon and Vineville—E. W. Spear, T. 11. Jourdon.
Colored Charge—J. M. Bright.
Milledgeville and Bethel —C. R. Jewett.
Bethel Mission—F. S. Brantley.
Eatonton J. W. Knight.
Putnam Mission —To be supplied.
Clinton—J. L. Pierce.
Monticello—Richard Lane.
Forsyth—J. Fainter.
Culloden —R. B. Leister.
Fort Valley—James Jones.
“ “ Mission— C. L Hays.
Perry—E. P. Burch.
Wesleyan Female College—E. W. Myers, S. 11.
Smith, J. W. Bunnell.
Madison Female College—J. 11. Echols.
Cotumlms District- —James E. Evans, P. E.
Columbus—W. G. Conner; Walton R. Branham,
supernumerary.
Colored Charge—To be supplied.
Factory Mission —YY’vatt R. Brooks.
| Talbotton —J. YY’. Hinton.
“ Circuit—T. H. YY r hitty.
Thomaston—J. P. Dickerson.
Hamilton—J. P. Duncan, W r . M. Arnold.
Buena Y'ista—J. itlaktdv Smith.
Lanier—J. M. Marshall.’
Oglethorpe—J. Bradford Smith.
LumyL'n District —YY'alter Knox, P. E.
Lumpkin—C. YV. Thomas.
Florence—J. T. Turner.
Lonnahassec J. O. Varner,
j Americus—D. C. Williamson.
! Clarkesville—Y. T. Tigner.
| Cuthbert Station—J. U. Caldwell.
Fort Gaines—T. R. Stewart, John McGehee.
j Chattahoochee Mission—J. B. Adatns.
j Dooly Mission—Dennis Odriscol
\ Jefferson District —YV G. Parks, P. E.
• Jeffersonville—J T. Smith,
j Sandersville —M. C. Smith.
Irwin ton—YY’ F. Conley.
■ Vienna and Flint River—YY’ T. Norman.
Dublin —James M. Dickey.
Mclntosh and Darien—A J. Reynolds.
Telfair—S. H. Cooper.
Emanuel Mission—To be supplied.
Reidsville—J. E. Centre.
Hinesville —J. YY’. Trawick.
Agent for the American Bible Society—G. J. Pearce-
Agent for the Sunday School Society—Dr. L. Pierce.
Transferred to the Pacific Conference—Dr. Boring,
] A YV. YY’inn, W. A. Simmons, J. C. Simmons, Jr., R
j YY’ Bighani.
Samuel J. Bellah, YVtn. D Bussy, Thos C. Coleman,
Churcltwell A Cromwell, and James Harris left with
out appointment on account of ill-health or severe fain
lily affliction
Thomas C Stanley, Chaplain U. S. Navy.
Next Conference at Macon, Dec. 14th, 1-SA3.
Just before adjournment of Conference they passed
a resolution of thunks to the citizens of Athens, tor the
I kindness thev manifested towards the members of that
body —Athens Ur,:ld.
From the G irman of Richter.
The New Year’s Night.
Au old man stood at his window at twelve o’clock of
the night which ushered in the New Year, aid gazed
with a look of long despair up into the fixed, starlit hea
vens, and down upon the still, clean, white earth, where
on now there was no one so joyless and sleepless as he
For his grave stood close by him, only concealed by the
snow of age, not by the gre nos youth; and he brought
with him out of a whole rich life nothing but errors,
sins, and weakness, a body in ruins, a desolate soul, a
breast full of poison, and an old age full ol remorse
His beautiful youthful days returned to him now as
spectres, and brought him back again to that fair morn
ing on which his father placed him at the diverging point
in life’s road, which to the right leads upon the sun-patli
of virtue into a wide and quiet laud full of light, full of
harvests, full of angels; and which to the left leads
down into the mole-tracks of vice, into a dark cavern
full of dripping poison, full of serpents ready to dart on
their prey, and full of dismal, close exhalations.
Alas! the serpents hung around his breast, aud drops
of poison w ere upon his tongue, and he knew now where
he was!
Madly and with unspeakable grief he called out to
Heaven, “ Give me my youth again ! Place me again at
the diverging point, that 1 may make a different choice! ’
But his lather and his youth were past long ago. He
saw will-10-the-wisps dance upon the marshes and be
come extinct over the burying ground, and he said,
“ They are my Radish days.” He saw a star shooting
from heaven, glimmering in its fall, and vanishing as it
reached the earth. “That ami!” said his bleeding
heart-, and remorse sunk its serpent thugs deeper into
his bosom.
Ilis disordered imagination pointed out to him spec
tres w alking upon the roofs, and the wind-null raised
j i;s threatening arms to crush him, aud a mask which
had been left in the empty charnel-house gradually as
sumed his own features.
In the tnidst of the conflict, the music for the New
Year suddenly flowed down front the tower as a church
hymn heard in the distance. Ilis mind became calmer,
he looked around the horizon, and over the wide earth,
and he thought of the friends of his youth, who now ,
happier and better than he, were the teacher* ot the earth,
fathers of happy children, men w hom the world called
blessed, and he said, “0 ! 1 could also have slept this
first night of the year with dry eyes, as you do, if I had
only willed it Alas, 1 could have been happy, dear
parents, had I fulfilkd your New Year’s wish and teach
ings.”
Amid these feverish reminiscence* of his youth, it tu -
{terred to him as if tiie mask which had assumed his fea
tures in the charnel-house stood up, and through that
superstition which on New Year's eve see‘B ghosts and
future events, it was at last changed into a living youth.
He could see no more; he covered his eyes; a thou
sand hot tears streamed forth, disappearing itt the snow
all comfortless and despairing, he sighed gently, “Come
again, 0 my youth, come again !”
And it came aga n ! For that f ariul experience was
o .ly a dr,no- if the New YcsuV. night, lie was still a
youth, his errors had been only a dream But he thank
ed God that he, still young, could turn aside front the
filthy courses of vice, aud enter upon the sunny path
which leuds into the bright land ot harvest
Turn with him. voting reader, it thou standesf upon
the error road. Tins litgbiful dreaui will one day be
come tbv judge, but it tnou shouldst once, full ot an
guish, call uiti “ Come again, beuuiilul youth, remem
ber it will not come again.
Hon. Tristram Burgess, of Rhode Island, dis
tinguished for eloquence and ability in Congress, esj •
ciallv in his rencontre with John Randolph, is still alive
und heartv, though now in his Sfid year. He retains h 8
mind, and his pen is busy in prose and poetry. Very
few men in our country have produced such speeches
and address sea as be delivered when a member of Con
gress.
Talbotton, December
M. sre. Rid rv;-Wc feel it a duty we owe to our
town and the travelling public, to correct a report dow
b-ing circulated through the aJjoimng counties, rela
t ve to Small Pox in our town.
There has never yet been a case in Talbotton since
the first house was buiif, and from the steps taken I
our Court in placing guards around the plantation ts
Major John Smith, deceased, we have every iva- !„
hope it will not reach beyond the family t„ wL : eh it
confined. Some three weeks rinee, Mr. SirritL died
w ; h Small Pox, eleven miles from Talbotton.
his death, three of the servants that attended him d u
ring his illness, have broke out ; they are some mile'or
more from the balance of the family. It has been f,„ lr
weeks since any of our citizens have be-n exposed to
the disease, and then it had not broken out. The c
are the facts as connected with the Small p< )X m our
county, and we pledge ourselves as honorable men to
inform the pulic when ever a case shall have made its
appearance in our community.
J. YV. FASTENS, THOM \S A. BROWN
GEO. N. FORBES, DR. H. N. WELLS ’
E. C. MAYER, M. D. JESSE CARTER. ’
Cuthbert, Randolph Cos., Dec. iff, p N -,o_
According to previous appointment, and in response
to a previous call, the Trustees and friends of the Fe
mufe College of this place, and the citizens general] v
nset to-night in the Presbyterian Church, for the pur
pose of taking into consideration the subject of educa
tion, and more especially, that subject, as connected
with the “Baptist Female College of South-Western
Georgia.”
The meeting was organized by calling Col. Davui
Kiddoo to the Chair, and appointing M. Douglass
Esq., Secretary.
After the meeting was opened and its object made
known, the Rev. Otis Smith, of Brownwood, Ga., was
called ujßin to address the people, in behalf of educa
tion and the “College;” and in a speech of about one
hour’s length, the Reverend gentleman did full justice
to himself aud the subject. Whilst he pleased his hear
ers with fancy and wit, he was equally successful in
convincing their judgments by plain and solid reason
ing. The liberality ol spirit displayed in the address,
seemingly in opposition to his own interests, will doubt
less win him may friends and patrons. After the close
of bis speech, the Rev. E. YV. W arren arose, and offered
the resolutioL* appended to this report. In support of
which resolutions, Col. YV. C. Perkins being called upon,
entertained the meeting with an able, sensible and ar
gumentative speech, showing conclusively that it was
high time the people of this section should retain the
treasures beretotbre poured into the lap of middle and
upper Georgia, and rear up institutions in their own
midst of equal advantages and reputation w itii those
at an inconvenient distance. He was followed bv Mr.
Malcolm Janes in a few pithy remarks, and bv the Rev.
J. S. Dennard of Alabama, who made a stirring and
heart-felt appeal.
YY hen the speaking had closed, the resolutions were
again read, and the Chairman having put them to vote,
they were accepted with a hearty enthusiasm. The
meeting cannot tail of effecting much good, not onlv for
Cuthbert, but for all the surrounding country.
The following are the resolutions adopted aud refer
red to in the report:
1. Res,lced, That we regard tlie subject of female
education of the highest importance, and considered in
connection with the “Baptist Female College of South-
YY estern Georgia,” we believe the said institution
commends itself for that purpose, to the support and
patronage of every philamhiopist and Christian in this
part ot the State, aud iu the adjacent counties of Flori
da aud Alabama.
2. Resulted, That as its friends, we pledge ourselves
to use ail laudable means to advance its interest.
RsolreJ, That we believe the “Baptist Female
College of South-Western Georgia,” is what this por
tion ot the State has long needed, and that it is, and
will be, all that its inos* ardent friends can desire.
4. Resolve 1, That under the Providence of God, this
institution shall never fail.
DAY ID KIDDOO, Chairman.
M. Douglass, Secretary.
The YY’ebster Annuity.
AY’e have the pleasure, says theN. Y. Journal of Qnn
vune, of laying before our readers to-day. tlie interest
ing cot respondence between the late Hou. Daniel Web
ster and Hon. David Sears, of Boston, on the subject
of the annuity presented to Mr. Webster by his Boston
friends. This annuity has been the occasion of much
remark and of some censure on Mr. Webster during his
lifetime, the injustice of which ihe correspondence
shows; but Mr. YY*. was too piouda spirit to vindicate
himself, and preferred to leave it to posterity to do him
justice. YY hile he chose to remain silent, parties inte
rested did not feel authorized to speak out. But the
time has now come to clear his fame of all aspersions,
and hold up to mankind for their cinulat ion, the nob's
ness of his character in all its brightness. Something
also is due to the contributors to the fund as well as to
Mr. YY’ebster, and their motives are entitled to be vin
dicated as well as his ; for to this day they have rested
under the opprobrium of having bribed the greatest
statesman of their country. Yet their hearts were
conscious of the purity of their gift, and the honest,
straightforward purpose they had in view; and they
rested satisfied with the frankness and good feeling
with which it was received by their honored friend,
who, through good report and evil report, had faithfnl
ly labored for his whole country, knowing neither East
or YY’est, North or South.
Boston, March 21, 1546.
Dear Sir:—l have the honor to inform you that
there is now deposited in the Massachusetts Hospital
Life Insurance Company, on special contract, the sum
of thirty-s een thousand ilollars.
Your friends, w hose names are enclosed, have placed
this sum there tor your benefit, to constitute a fund, un
der the supervision of Messrs. William Aniorv, Igna
tius Sargent, and David Sears, Jr. The income will
be subject to your order semi-annually, aud when not
called for will be added to the principal to increase the
income appropriated to your use.
The fund has been created freely and cheerfully by
your friends, in evidence of their grateful sense of’ the
\ aluable services vou have rendered to your whole coun
try. They have done it without your sanction or know
ledge, and’ with some reason to imagine that their pur
poses might not be entirely acceptable to you.
But they have been moved in this matter by no com
mon feeling.
Government grants nothing beyond the salary of of
fice lor service rendered ; and the consequence is, that
ablest statesmen, on their retirement from tlie highest
positions, are frequently obliged to return to the labors
off their early life; and our venerable judges, even of
the .Supreme Court of the nation, after years of toil, are
left in their old age poor and unprovided lor. Y oar
friends in Boston, desirous iu your particular case tf *
ward of these evils, and furnish you with a supply l< ■’
your future wants, have determined to show on the*
part, at least, a decided preference tor a pt-rniancut pro
vision, and to otter you in this way a prop to sustain
you hereafter.
They are now numerous and strong, and, w .:h a few
exceptions, the same who for live and twenty years ral
lied mound you with minds firm and active, und with
hearts warm and grateful. But Time will do its woik
on all of us, and wheu increasing ago shall have ren
dered labor irksome to you, and growing infirmities
call for repose, w here may then be jour friends? Most
of them probably in their giaves, and the tew that re
main without the influence, and perhaps without the
ability to serve you. These considerations have been
conclusive with the gentlemen who act w ith me. Ail
agreed that it was best to do now what they might not
be able to do hereafter.
In then* behalf, therefore, I have the honor respect
fully to offer you the above annuity of thirty-seven
thousand dollars; hoping that, if it be not desirable at
present, it may hereafter tend to the comfort ol j our ad
vancing years, and serv e to jecall to you: mind this last
united effort of your friends, whose hear,s were with
vou, and who were anxious, while they had the power,
liouorablv and truly to assist and serve you.
YY’ it ti great respect and consideration, your obedient
servant und iriend, DaY ID SL.AI.B.
lion. Daniel Webster, Marshfield, Mass.
YY’ashington, March 2C, 184 f
ill on. David Sears—Nr; 1 had the honor to re
ceive yesterday y our letter of the zi st inst:
The kindness manifested by the transaction, informa
tion of which you communicate, is of too important and
grave a character to be acknowledged in the forms m
w hich a sense of ordinaly obligations is usual.y ex
pressed. 1 cannot but feel how unworthy my pubhc
-ci vices have been ot so unusual aud munificent a me
morial.
It is true l have been in public life many years, to
the no small neglect of my profession and prejudice
nty private affairs. 1 bojfe that on some occasions
have dune good, and that oil o’.hets 1 mai have averted
evil. Bui tor ail 1 have done, and tor much more, it *
could have accomplished more, I have found and sfioin
have found abundant reward in ihe evidences ot ,e *
pecs, confidence and kindness, already recanted tiuu
political and private friends.
YY hen I have returned home, after long and con i
tied exhausting labors, 1 have forgotten, atou-- 1 ’
dial greetings oi those w hom J feus; respeo ; f 1 ’
all the inconveniences, tuiis and losses, conncc.C’
public life. , ..,
The contribution which you uow make knowu w t
must be placed entirely to the account ol the * r ‘ c , ‘
and the generosity ot voutsell and the otbet Iff 11 * -
Expressions of thank’s, however warm andjanette,
would in a case like this be feeble. I mu.-t ie ’ *
fore, in the persuaaiou who hast* hoj f ,
in this transaction will believe that it lias deep }
profoundly impressed me with the sentnnei s
- justlv belonging to the occasion. ;
lam, dear sir, with the greatest F rsonal reguro,
your obedient set van., N J£L W EBSTEF-