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Newspaper Page Text/ c ► liOlGUTOX A KISBET E L> I T O R S . BOUGHTON. N1SBET AND BARNES, PKUPRIETOKS AXl' PUBLISHERS. TEB.tlS. <C !j r .ff rnrrn 1 Onion Is published weekly, in (he Darien Bank li uldina .it 1’lVO DJLI.XR-S per Ann mil. pay able in advance, TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CE.\ rs 1/ not paid within thru months, and Three Dollars if mil paid before I he end of lie year. \, t in scription will be received for less than n vif. nor will auv paper Oe discontinued until alt am u rages are. paid. l’h« paper will not be sentto any person onto! the ■'tale, until tbe subscription money is paid in a Iv.inee. or s.msfactoiy reference given. invmtrisKMK'iTs conspicuously inserted at (fee U'U il rates. Those sent without a specification of the nu nber of insertions, will be published until ordered out, and charged accordingly. •Sales ol land and negroes, bv Administrators, Executors, or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the First Tuesday in the month between the hours of ten iu the forenoon and three in the afernnou. :it the L'oiirt-f lou-e in the County in which the property i- situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette eoktv days previous to the day of sale. Notices for ■ he sale of personal property must be given in like manner, forte days previous to the day of sale. Notices to the debtors and creditors of anestate most also be published fortv days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published for tiro months. Citations for letters of Administration, must be published thirty uais—for disnii-sion fiom Ad ministration, monthly six months—for disniissioi.from G lardiauship, forty days. Rules for foreclosure of mortgage must be pub lished monthly for four months—for establishing lost papers, for the full space of three mouths—for com pelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where bond h is been given by the deceased, the 1/H space of thru months. Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. All business of this kind will receive prompt at tinlion at the Federal Union Office. Letters on business must be post PAin to en title them to attention. moit VOL. XXIII.] AIILLEnGEY'tLEE GEORGIA, OCTOBER 19, 18-19. No. 19. PULTON WALKER, FACTORS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS No. 71. Bay Slreel. SAVANNAH. Ga. Testier their services to their friends and the pub lie generally . in ihe „f COTTON and other Pro duce. and in titling Ordtrefrr Rauamo, Ropr and oth er supplies TIii’Y will give their Strict Personal Attestion to all BUSINESS that may be commit ted to their rare—and no pains will be sp ired to give geueral satisfaction. R L. Fulton. J H. Walker. Savannah. Oct. 4.1852. 18—tf BUSINESS CARDS. "FRANCIS P. STUBBS, Attorney and I'o nnsellor at Law. MONROE, LA. lone 15. 1852. 2—Iv Secure the Shadow ere the Substance Fades! SNOW Sc McCLUUE RESPECTFULLY inform the citizens of Miltedge- tille and vicinity.that with their DAGUERR1AN CAR, thev w ill h- prepared to take beautiful - VS ^ N , to the satisfaction ofall who oiay honor them with their patronage. The CAR will be in Milledgeville on or about the 1 Ith of October. Prisons are invited to call and examine specimens, and the Car. S & M. October 5, 1852, IS—tf A E \V TAILOItllG ESTABLISHMENT! GROCEKIES. 1 have now in STORE, and will well on the mos 1 favorable terms, a well elected Stock of FAMILY GROCERIES, CONSISTING IN PART. OF 10.009 Lb«. of Bacon Hams, Sides ami Mi >m triers —Lard— Sugar-Cof fee—Rice—Sperm, Adamantine and 'I'allow Candle*, Niew Orleans and Cuba Molasses. FLO UR. IOO Bbls. of NEW GF.ORGI\ FLOUR at $6 per Bnl c. 11. WKIGirr. August 16. 1852. 11—tf Bagging! Bagging!! J U8T received It5 Bales of heavy GUNNY BAGGING, which I will sell at Prices that shall give satisfaction. Those in want, will find it to their interest to give tne a call before purchasing el«ewh"re. C. H. WRIGHT. August 5, 1852. II—tf MISCEL LANEOUS. It A It I A A W II I T £ II E A D, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, SA VANN A H. GEORGIA. rTAF.NDF.R theirservicesto the patrons and friends I of the late firm of Rabun. Fulton & Co . in the sale of Cotton and other produce. Orders for Bag ging. Rope and other family supplies will he prompt ly filled at the lowest prices. Th ♦»ir Ion*; expert in business* induces them to hno p for a continuance of the liberal patronage ex tended to the laie firm. Savannah, June 1, 1852. 52—6m chasTgl Campbell," AUovncj a\, Law, MILLEDGEVILLE, GEO. Office in (he Danrn door to (he Federal L uton of/te 43—tf THE Subscriber would respectfully give notice to the citizens of .Milledgeville and vicinity, that he has I opened a SHOP, one door I from ( Herty’s old Corner.) I where he intends carrying | on the Tailoring Business, and solicits a liberal share of public patronage. JUST received, a splen did assortment of Brand flotllS, 4 ;issi- lll«*res nud Ve-liiii:-., ol new and Fashiou- i able styles He has good Materials, which he will | makeup to order, and WARRANT to fit. ! CUTTING. RENOVATING and REPAIRING | done at short notice. DCF 1 Please call and give me a trial. J. C. SPERLING. Milledgeville, Sept. 14, 1b52. 15—tf Bank Budding door to the Federal Union office. March -2-1 h, 1852. next PUN r ERS’ WAREHOUSE. G. WALKER *V SON, Warehouse A Commission Merchants, JACKSON STREET. AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. At the Large New Fire Proof Warehouse formerly occupied by Walker, Bryson Sp Co. September 23. 185!. 16—ly W. 1>. ETHERIDGE sV Co. FACTORS A N I> COM MISS IO N A1E R CIIA NTS, t SAVANNAH. Ga. S.F. Gove. W. D. Ethridge. Savannah. April 15. 1851. 45 W\\o\esa\c CVol\\m£ House, No. i43. East Bay Sheet Corner of Queen, C II X K LESTON. S. C. MERCHANTS wishing to purcltase Full and Winter Clothing! are invited to Call and look through the assortment offW«d by this OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE, they will find an extensive and desirable Stock to select from at LOW' PRICKS. WM. MATTH1 ESSEN. Charleston, August 19, 1852. 12 5t FLOYD HOUSE . A. GOODWIN, Pro PRIETOH. j A. B- HARTWELL, Superintendent. ' This well known ami popular Hotel has been j thoroughly repaired, and is now open, and superbly furnished for the reception of Boarders and the Travelling Community. The Proprietor and his | As-istants will spare no pains to make this House ( one of the best Hotels in the Slate. ! A. B HARTWELL, II C. CUNNINGHAM, \ and S. LANIER will be happy to receive and wel come their old friends and acquaintances, and will I use their utmost efforts to make them comfortable ; during tiieir stay. j Macon, August 24. 1852. 121f WASH BURN, WILDER &CO. FACTORS CQMMISSION MERCHANTS, SAVANNAH, GA. Jos Washburn. ) J So K. W It.HER, > Fras (>. Dana. ) I Will continue the above business at 114 Bay I Street, ea-t of the Exchange Orders for Banning. Hope, and other Supplies, filled promptly at lowest Cash prices. Refer to Major V tn. Sanford, Gen S P Myrick, M Dennis. S 1! Marshall. Me-sr- Carter &. Harvey A Mi Allnm, I>a Peck. Messrs Black & Cobh, •• Sloan & Hawkins, Major John S. Rowland, August. 1852. Baldwin Co. Putnam Co. Twiggs Co. Romp. Cass Co. 10—6m EXCELSIOR BUILDING HARDWARE AND tool store exclusively. The Largest and only Establishment oj the kind in Ihe United States, WM. YI YI CLI RE A BRO., No. 2S7 Mn let Street above 1th, PHILADELPHIA. M ANUFACTURERS’ Depot for LOCKS ol the same stand, in the city of Augusta) will be con all kinds, warranted ejuality; premium procelian i tj nae j t>y the undersigned, and he tenders hi« ser KNOBS, over 60 patterns; silver pla'ed HINGES, , vices to the customers of the old firm anil the public LAYIBETII HOPKINS, HMKE-lf* USE AND COMMISSION MERCIIANT, AUGUSTA. GA |3Tr|HF, undersigned begs leave to return thanks to the patrons ol the late firm of Adams. Hopkins & Co . for their liberal sup port hi past years. The firm of Adams ., Hopkins A: Co . having been dissolved byfg£$£] luii'lation on the 1st Ju'v ia-t the WARE- HOUSE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS, (at &c . with the mist complete assortment of ail the Modern Patents in this line. BUILDERS*. DEALERS are invited to call and examine our Stock. Catalogues sent by Mail if directed. Hot Air REGISTERS and VENTILATORS, at FACTORY PRICES. Philadelphia March 16, 1852. 42—ly Sa\e of CiVy Lots in Dalton ! RARE CH ANCE FOR MECHANICS AND CAPITALISTS ! A niimbpr of valuable ciiy lois will be offered for sale. Hi public auction in Dalton, on the second Tues day in October next. TKrt.MS ten percent cash, the balance in six years, payable iu et|uni annual instalments with interest. A LSO. for sale, or lea e. a large and valuable, gfflEAM SAW-MIILI*. _ of 65 horse-power, with room to connect therewith a Flour or lirist mill. ALSO, an excellent farm known as “Cox’s Fa in.” 610 acres, with about 80 acres cleared, and verv rich land, on Mill Creek, with a large spring of excellent water, niid, an extensive orchard This farm adjoins the citv of Dalton, with the \V & A. R. U. running through it. Meantime. Purchases can he made, at private sale, on favorable terms, by applying to Ben. F. lireen. bsq . a* Dalton, until the first of August, or affer that tini*-. at Washington City, until the first of October; also, by applying to (iiistaviis Sleerlein. at Dalton, who will show the property. The ci»y of Dalton is advantageously located at the interaction of the Cast Tennessee and (teorgia Kail Road wnh tDW e-tern and Atl iutic Rail Road, or 4, S*ate Koad, and from its position most rapidly improve . BEN. K. GREEN, Washington. D. C., or Dalton, Georgia. Jtilv H. 1-52 6—tds Notice. rtlHE undersigned would respectfully announce to L the citizens of Baldwin and ad|-ceut counties, that he »s now Incited in MiUcdgecUic, where he will be happv to r**c*ove .dl orders for lIOt’SE PAINTING AID -PLASTERING. U. BRYANT. MilMgeville, April 13. 1852. 45—11 His persntml attention will be given to business c<>n fide,! to bis rare. Particular attention paid to the storage and sale of Cotton, and all other Produce, receiving and for warding Goods, ami purchase of Planters’ supplies. HCfl.cisli Adcanccs marie on prod ice in store wlie.1 required. LAMBETH HOPKINS. Aug 21 1852. 12—4m. r -? FIRE PROOF WARE-HOUSE- ■ I THE undersigued h iving associated Mr. iH 4^ OvidG. 8palks with him tit business— | j I coiitiuties to transact the Warehonse and Commission Business. | ! Lender the name and style of HARDEMAN * | SPARKS Their undivided attention will be given \ to all business committed to their charge. The long j ■ experience of the undersigned a-a Colton seller, ad- j ! ded to his desire to please as well as to faithfully serve | ' those who tnav Patronize th - new firm gives to him 1 the hope that the liberal patronage heretofore given to j ' Hardeman & Hamilton, will he continued to Halt- \ deman & Sparks. Thev will risk nothing, either in , purchasing or by advancing on I otlon. as they have j determined to confine themselves to business with j ' Planters, and to them liberal advances will he made | oil Colton in store. Family Supplies with Bagging • and Rope, will he furnished mirtnends at the lowest j ; Macon prices TII03. HARDEMAN. | August 17. 1652, II—ly. 3, i&SI/'WSCS ESSE\UE or Jl.UAICA oatfCER Tl»w I.ssppcp is it prppar;«tinn nf nniHiial excel lence In oriiinarv mripieui cholern. ill •hurt, in »‘I nf prostmiion of the '' r ’p«nvp furc- tiofiK, i» »•* «f uifsIiiiihIiIc value D ring ih»* preva lence uf epidemic cholera and rnmplaiuffi of children, it is peculiarly efficacious; no family or in dividual ofcntrld be wilhmit it. (’ MTT.ON. — Be sure to iref the genuine F.*«ence, «ame for the SOCvE 1 lCl.Z3r.. JOHN M. REINHART, RESPECTFULLY tenders his acknowl edgements to the Gkrtlemen of this city and vicinity, for tiieir klieral patronage, and solicits a continuation of the same. He has now on hand a supply of excellent .Mate rial. and can accommodate Customers at the shortest notice. His BOOTS are Manufactured after the latest and most approved style, and <d the very hest niaterials. Repairing executed with neatness and despatch. Ttie public are soltci'erl tngive him a rail. Terms blieval (Shop nexi door to C. It. If’right's Grocery Store ) M tU.dgeville August 10. 1852. 10—tf LOOK HER El! LOTS of Laud No. 3u4. 16 Dial. 468. 7 3 13 346. U) 328. 7 89. 8 all in the county of Wilkinson originally, nowin vaiious counties. Are offered for sale by the sub scriber. who has in his bands all ihe original bile pa lters for ttie same, and a power of Attrrney lo sell the owners—titles are good, beyond the winch is prepared only bv P. BROLVN. a' hit* Drug rad Chemical Ntore. N E Corner of Fifth nud Chn4- nat Streets. Pneiadrlphia. and for sate tn all the res- portable \ anther tries in the United Sla t s. And in Mdlcdgetille, by E. J. WHITE. September. 14, 1852. Jo—3tn Itadow of a doubt. I prefer selling the whole in a Uu. .ttTeiilimi of Lind Jobbers and Others uie es pecially invited. T« tn« Ca*h- Apply to. or ad dress WM. B. \V. DENT. Newnan, Coweta county. Ga. October 5,1852. 18—6t NEW AND FASHIONABLE CLOTHING STORE, (At Hcrly's Corner.) “Eeonomy is W*eal/Jk/” S AVE YOUR MONEY, By purchasing where von can procure the best article for the smallest stun The Subscriber has just returned from some of the b‘-st northern markets with a complete assortment of Clothing, tn-wit : GENTLEMEN’S COATS. B! tea. olive, bro.vn and blue Cloth Dress and Frock Coals. Black, brown, blue and olive Cloth Sacks. Biack Doeskin Polka Sacks. Fancy colored do Drat) Casitinere, black, green and brown Tweed Sacks and Polka Sacks. Silk and Wool Sacks and Polka Sacks; At prices from 4 lo $J5. L23 22 s£3 33 3 Biack and fancy colored Labrador, Politician, and Beaver Overcoats Gold mixed and drab Palmetto Overcoats. Drab and blue Pilot do Blue, drab and brown Blanket Over Sacks. Gold-mixed and dove colored do At p'ioes from 3 to $20. Black Doe Skin Pants. Plain Blue Cassimere Pants. Fancy Colored and Plain and Ribbed Pants. Black and Colored Satinet, “ Prir ce Albert Riding Cold, “ California Bear Hunter, At prices from 1 to $6. TIiSTgo Rlack Satin Single and Double Breasted Vests, Fancy Satin and Silk, do do Embossed Fancy Silk, do do Black and Fancy Barathea and Embroider ed C asimere. do Whiteand Fancy Satin and Party do Plain Black Silver and Velvet, single and double breasted. Fancy Cut. and Fancy Castaiere Vests. At prices from i to $7. Furnishing Goods. Linen and Linen Bosom shirts. Silk Lamb’s Wool and Merino Shirts and Drawers, Linen Jeans, and Canton Flannel, do Silk. Merinoand Cotton Half Hose. Linen Collars, two and three ply. GLOVES. Black, white and colored Kid Gloves, Cloth. Cashmere and Lined Berlin, do Biack. White and Fancy Silk, do CrJIVStt*—Superfine Black Silk and Fancy Cravats, great variety White Silk and Satin Party Cravats. Black and Fancy Silk and Satin Scarfs, and * Ipera Ties. Linen Cambric. China Cord and Pottgree Pocket Ha ndkerchiefs H ns and Caps, Trunks, Vallices. Carpet Bags, Boys’Clothing, a large and fine stock, at very low pnr,s And a numerous supply of everything, necessary for winter comfort. Our clothing is made up in the MY FATHER. " VVe are unable to say who is the author oflhe an nexed lines They are full of feeling and redolent of poesy If they reflect the feelings usually cheri-h- «d ov offspring for parents, they would be still more int* resting. There is a petind in life wh»n youth in dulges in the fullness of filial affection; hilt it soon! pis«es away, a- d he who has toiled andtmgged year \ after year, to educate and establish his off.pring in life is forgotten It was even then when he had just escaped from parental tutelage. And thus it ever will be. We forget our fathers and our children will soon forget ns VVe would not utter things if we could; if we would, we could not. The world and humanity will ever be the same from age to age.— Prentice. | The lines thus so highly and justly complimented, are from the pen of Judge H. R. Jackson of this city. —Sav. Con ] MY FATHER. As die the etnberson the hearth. And o'er the floor the shadow falls, And creeps the chirping cricket forth. And ticks 'he death watch iu the wall, I see a form m yonder chair Thai grows beneath the waning light:— There are the sad features—there The pallid brow and locks of white. Mv father! whan they lat^l thee down. And heaped the clay upon thy breast, And left thee sleeping all alone Upon thy narrow couch of rest. I know not why I could not weep— The soothing drops refused to roll. And old that grief is wide and deep, Which settles tearless on the soul. But when I saw the vacant chair, Thine hat upon the wall. The hook—the penciled passage where. Thine eye had rested last of all— The t ee beneath whose fripndly shade Thy trembling feel had wanderpd forth The very prints those feet had made When last they feebly trod the earth; And though while countless ages fled Thy vacant feet would vacant stand— Unworn thy hat—thy bonk unread— Effaced thv footsteps from the sand— And widowed in l' is cheerless world The hearts that gave its love to thee— Torn like the vine whose tpndrilscurled More closely round the fa/ltng tree;— Ob' Fat'ipr! then, for her and thee, Gushed madly forth the scalding tears; And oft. and long, and bitterly Those tears have gushed in later years, For a« the Werld grows cold around. And things take on their real hue, Tis sad to learn that love is found Alone, above the stars, with you! jL&issl .2!, A ward fa Eaiintryincn ! Gentlemen from'he country who are disposed to give us a call, shall have Clothing, as cheap as they can purchase it in any market in this vicinity. A SUPPLY OF FIXE CIGAKS. J. GAINS. Sept 28, 1352. J7—if X ew IiDimIs fov the People! THE Subscriber is JUST NOW receiving and opening, at bis NEW STORE IN IRWINTON, his large and splendid Stock of Stnd Fancy FALL and WINTER DRY GOODS. Direct from New Yo k. Boston and Philadelphia. CONSISTING OF: CLOTHS. Cashmeres. Tweeds. Ky, Jeans, Satti- lietts Irish Linens, Flannels. Handkerchiefs ALPACAS. M mis De Laities, Ginghams, Cali coes from 4 els. up. Kinseys. All kinds of Ladies Dress Goods! Blk amt Brown Domestics, from 4 r.ts. up; Ozna- burgs. Bed Ticking. Shawls ofall sorts. CRAVATS, HOSIERY AND GLOVES. Booksind Swiss Muslins. Blankets, and Goods of all sorts, for Negro Clothing. With a splendid assortment of READY MADE CLOTHING. MEN AND BOYS’ HATS AND CAPS OF DIFFERENT STYLES. BOOTS. SHOES Ac. CARRIAGES nf every description can be HAD TO ORDER In addition to the above, he has all other articles usually kept in a DRY GOODS STORE, in the Country or Cities; and having selected the Stock with special reference to the wants of the market, fl itters himself, that he can offer inducements, which will ensure satisfaction toenstomers.as he is determin ed to sell cheap—call and see—Ladies in particular. Country produce taken in exchange fur goods. LEWIS GARDNER. Irwinton. Sept 20. Ir*52. 17tf Kj* Central Georgian copy. NOTI cli^ TITHE Copartnership heretofore existing under 1 the Firm ol Beecher & Horne, is by mutual consent, this dav dissolved. The notes and accounts of 'he concern can be found at S. T Beecher’s, their Old Stand, where a!! those indebted are respectfully invited to call and settle. Either member is author ized to use the name of the firm in settlement. S T. BEECHER, J U- HORNE. Milledgeville, Aug. 27,1862. 13—tf THE Subscriber having purchased the interest of Mr J U Horne in the late firm of Beecher * liorne, will continue the Grocery and Hard-Ware Business on his own account, and respectfully gnlits a contin uance of the patronage extended to the old firm. S. T. BEECHER. Milledgeville. August 27, 1852. 13—tf FOR SALE. in TH F, undersigned has on hand a large LOT of LIKELY YOUNG N EGKOK3. comprising Field hands, of every description: House Servants. Cooks, Washers and Ironers. Seamstresses, Carriage drivers, also several Mechanics. Persons desiring to purchasiog Negro property— will fiod it to their interest lo give the subscriber a call—ibev will find a good assortment during the Fall and Winter. Terms accommodating. N.C. TROWBRIDGE. Angn«ta, Oct 5. 1852. 18—2m [O’ Journal «V Messenger, Macon, copy. Blurk<i3tii(li's Tools. J\ NV1LS Sledge and band Hammers. Vices, 'ir A Plates. Bellows, Files and Rasps, for sale low by S. T. BEECHER' Milledgeville Sept. 37,1852. 17—if. THE MECHANIC’S WIFE. OP. THE RESl’LT OF PERSEVERANCE. •Well, Augustus,’ said Marienne, as the forme' entered a little room, without carpet curtain, or otnament of any kind, which served as kitchen, sitting room and nursery ‘we are really settled down at house keep ing. Don’t it seem comfortable after so many privations]’ ‘Yes,’ answered the husband, trying to smile, as he glanced at his handsome wife, and then at the little neat pinesupper table and then at the table where slept a little charming boy of six months, ‘but mine is such a life of toil that I have not time to enjoy anything—not even to play with Fred.’ ‘But it seems to me.’ replied the wife,very ihoughtfully, ‘that it need not be just so.— We are not in debr, we both have health, and 1 am willing t" be very economical, in order that we may have time for enjoyment and improvement, too. Say shall we try the i experiment?’ She handed him a cup of tea as she spoke and lo ked up i.ito his face with a sweet and hopeful smile but iiis face was deadly pale, and an unbidden tear stood in his eye as he answered moodily: ‘I don’t know how that can be. Every moment taken from my labor,is so much ta- en from my scanty income. We cannot afford to attend places of public amusement — in our present low style of living, we cannot mingle in the first society, and I will never consent to enter any other than good society, if we have to live alone; and as for improvement, my education was so neglec ted in my childhood, that I have little taste for reading—besides we have nothing to read.’ ‘O, yes.' said his wife, ‘we have enough to begin with. Here is our beautiful new gilt Bible which we must read every morning and evening; and here is our New York pa per, with impioving matter sufficient to last 1 one or two evenings in ihe week, and you can easily have a share in a public library to fill up the rest.’ ‘But how shall I find time, tny good plan ning wife?’ •Thank you for the compliment, and now I will plan on. We will rise early and work diligently all day. Then, if you think you need lo work longer.you can bring your work into my room,or I will take Fred into the shop, and one of us will read and tend the babe, while the other wotks. Won’t that be a good plan?’ ‘I rather think it will,’ said the husband, beginning to show a little more interest, 'but I am thinking also, that my hesitating and f lundering manner of reading wiil not be v-*ry edifying to you. I shall make but sorry wotk of it.’ ‘Well suppose you do, I have a Web ster’s dictionary, and we shall have that open before us, and look out every word of winch we dont understand the meaning. I f our progress is slow at first, we shall have nobody to laugh at us, and shall soon find i ourselves improving rapidly.’ Augustus smiled incredulously, but ap peared disposed to encourage his wife to go on. ‘You arc- indeed a noble planner; and what shall we do on the fjabbaih ] I sup pose you expect to advance much in the march of mind, when we have a whole day to ourselves.’ ’Yes,’ said Marianne, ‘I think we may— though our arrangements must be somewhat modified. You know we have a seal in Dr. D.’s Chutch. You must join the young men’s Bible Class, and prepare the lesson in the morning, while I attend meet ing, Then 1 will stay in the afternoon and let you go to the afternoon service and the Bible Clas9. In the evening we wiil read,’ •I've no objection to thatjbut as a compen sation for my Bible class, you must become a member of the ladies sewing circle, and I will take care of Fred one afternoon in the week and let you go. ‘Thank you dear husband, 1 will gladly accept your offer, if you will let me temain home one evening in the week, while you attend ourexcellent Lyceum Lectures. And now let us begin this very evening. I feel that every moment is lost until we do. We have much encouragement. Only think of the many young men who ha\o educated themselves, and risen to respectability and to usefulness, wholly through their exertions even after they were somewhat advanced in life. Roger Sherman, for instance. also Elihu Burrett, and a host of oth ers,’ The young wife became quite enthusias tic as she proceeded; and would have spent the whole evening in her disquisition on self education, had not Feddy awakened from his nap. Augustus took up his bihle and read a good chapter; and declared that he had nev er before read such a chapter. The plan was fairly begun. Augustus was a pale, spare young man of nine and twenty, Dis education ns.he said had been sadly neglected in his early life. He had been bound apprentice to a rou^h shoe maker in the country, and had unhapi- ly settled the question in bis mind that his was doomed to ignorance, and continued labor for life. He had imagined also that his relations wcie willing to lose sight of him, and his sensitive nature was stung to the quick' A fret a few years of vexation and toil; he wandered far away from home and friends, arid familial associations; and a wonder it was that he was not huriied a- way by the awlul whirlpool of ei ror and vice and dashed upon the rocks of utter des truction. He had however been favored with the instructions and prayers of a Chtislian moth er, and seen examples in his own family of high purpose, and of noble and successful effort. He had therefore sustained an un sullied reputation, acquired a little property and married an intelligent, cheerful and healthy girl of twouiy summers, had remov ed to ‘a city of shoe makers, where his oc cupation was honorable, and where his as pirations after independence and respecta bility might hope to be realised. But on the afternoon preceding his con versation, he had been exceedingly annoyed He had suffered some embarrassment in getting settled in his humble tenement; had sustained some losses, and heard a bitter, sarcastic remaik from an aristocrat of that place, which ci imsoned his pale cheeks, and sent him home through a cold rain storm, wearied in body, depressed, vexed, in spir it, and almost deteimioed never to make an other effort. He was, and supposed he must ever be a poor shoe maker of L. Twenty years had elapsed, ana a family group were assembled round a marble cen tre table, in the parlor of a magnificent house in L . A gentleman of some fifty years had just divested himself of his outer garments, and dressed in a rich velvet gown, and embroidered slippers, sat reading the journals of the day. A lady some years younger, sat by his side, her face beaming with intelligence, benevolence, and gratified pride, as she gazed on her dignified, beloved and honored husband, and then at the lovely group of children around the table. One was a noble youth, just returned to spend his college vacation at home; another was a tall, graceful girl of sixteen, who had finished a long recitation to her brother, and was preparing to cheer the circle with her evei welcome music on the piano. A blight boy of twelve was performing a pro- bi em in mathematics, and a little cherry cheek girl was drawing pictures on a slate, and teasing every body to teach her. Presently the door bell announced a visitor. A person entered and presented a subscription for religious charity. ‘Put me down a hundred dollars,’ said the good man, and the collector departed, blessing the giver. When he had gone, the gentleman said •My dear, did you think to send the coal and Hour to the poor women on the cor* ner!’ ‘Yes, and Frederick and Mary have been to see that siuk family, and carried the ciothes and medicines.' ‘Yes. papa,’ said Kate, looking up from the house she was drawing, ‘they carried away my new stockings.’ ‘Shall I send and get them back again I’ asked the father. ‘Oh, no, indeed,’ said the child, ‘1 sent them. Poor little Charley’s feet were cold and bleeding.’ The father remaiked that it was time for family worship. In a moment ail was silent —btioks, slates, papers, and work were laid aside. A neat gilt bible, beating the maiks of constant usage, was then brought. The son read an interesting portion. The whole family joined in an familiar hymn, and the father led in prayer and worshipped the Father of mercies in spirit and in truth, from the fullness of a grateful heart. After an interval of silence,the son looked up, as if from a reverie and said— ‘Father, 1 think I have heard you say that your youth was neglected, that you were once poor, illiterate, almost an infidel; and entirely discouraged. It would be ex tremely interesting to us to learn by what means the Mayor of this good city, the hon ored Trustee of our College, the Superin tendent of our Sabbath School, and the Deacon of our Church, has risen from such unpromising beginnings to his present sta tion.’ The eyes of the good man filled with tears, his lips quivered, he covered his face with his haukerchief, and for sometime not a whisper was heard from the astonished audience around him. He was thinking of the poverty and ig norance of his eatly days—of the religious errors which had well nigh caused his des truction—ofthe way in which a kind Provi dence had led his thoughtless steps, amid all the dangers around him—of the bless ings he had received in his lovely, admira ble wife—of the days of toil and nights of hard study, in which she had shared, and cheered him on like an angel of light and love—and lastly, of the numerous blessings and honors which now surrounded him. At length he uncovered his face, and amid stifled sobs, said to his wife : ‘Tell the children, dear, the conversation we l ad together just twenty years ago to night, around our little pine table.’ He was the shoe maker of L . AVE MARIA. BY THE HOWADJ1 IN 8YRTA. As we entered the hills of Galilee, low, and bare, and stony, the mighty romance of the morning ended, and our minds were fill ed with a very humble story. We wound among the hills in silence, stumbling up one of the wmst pattis in Palestine, and at length, quite in their heart descended under trees upon a secluded and lovely valley. It was dotted with olive groves, and oaks, and promegranates, with groups of Arabs, and camels, and horses, and occasional flocks. The same low stony hills, like swelling, bare uplands, en closed it, and in the depths of the valley, leaning against the mountains and holding up to welcome us, a minaret, a few cypress and a palm, lay little, gray, flat-roofed Naz areth. The valley was tranquil as a pastoral picture, and the rocky, steep hills were grim and melancholy. All the greener, therefore, were the trees, all the more gracious and significant the smooth pas ture upon which the animals quietly grazed. We descended into the valley with ex treme satisfaction, for it is one of the places which satisfy imagination. Its seclusion and domesticity of aspeet harmonize with the sentiment <>f the material instincts, and they are strong in your sympathy the day you come to Nazareth, for it is a day con secrated to the Madonna. Over these hills she walked, the Virgin Nazarine, from the gray Hide village lean ing upon the mou .tains. And asshe paus ed by this fountain, filling her vase with water, even as yonder Nazarene girl is fill- iug hers this afternoon—or. as fascinated by the thoughtful twilight, she strayed quite away from the little village, still she medi- tated the promise to some daughter of (s- ! rael, and returning at evening with thoughts stranger and blighter than the stars, won- i dered and wondered again, **Can any good come out of Nazareth?”' As, descending into the plain, the words or upon that, it is the landscape be saw for thirty years. A quiet workman, doubtless, with his father, strolling among the melan- cholly hills of Galilee, looking down into the lake-liko vastness of Esdraelon, where the great Captains of hit nation had fuiight —hearing the wild winds blow from the sea —watching the stars, and remembering the three days of his childhood, when be sat in the temple at Jerusalem. Walking in the dying day over the same solitary hills, you will see in the sunset but ono figure moving along the horizon—a grave, manly form, outlined npon ihe West. Here was the true struggle of his life— the resolve to devote himself to the work, These are the exceeding high mountains upon which he was lifted in temptation ; here in the fulness of his youth and hope, Satan walked with him, seductive. For every sin smiles in the first address, says Jeremy Taylor, and carries light in the face and honey in the lip. Green, snd flowery as Esdraelon, lay the valleys of ease and reputation at his feet; but sternly precipi tous, as the heights of Galilee, the cliffs of Duty above him buried’ their heads in heaven. Here, too, was transfigured, and in the light of thought he floats between Moses and Elias, between Faith and Duty, and the splendor of his devotion a» overflows history with glory, that men call him God. THE SABBATH. The Sabbath is the vital organ in our Chris- trn existences, and, therefore, is our true national life. It is essential to the health of the state, the well being of the body po litical and social, as the lungs are essential to the life and health of the physical frame. ThejSabbath is for the vemillation of the social state, what the lungs-are for respi ration; we breathe through the Sabbath ; thought and feeling, purpose and resolve, pure, high, and holy, comes and goes. As in passing through the lungs, the blood takes coin: ing and life from ethereal ele ments of the air, so in passing through the Sabbath, our individual, social, and nation al existence is purified energised, and vivi fied from heaven. Our mental and moral life receives its sacredness, its worth its vigorous health, its permanence there, its power to endure labor, its secu ity against corruption, its ability to resist desease. Hence we affirm, every injury to the Sabbath is an injury to life. Ybu may make y<>ur attack upon many points in this mortal frame, and yet the object of your injuries may recover; you may do him no rose to my mind, the music of the convent ■ mortal, but only a transitory barm. But bell came ringing down the valley. Sweet as you approch the lungs you come to the A learned Irish Judge,among other pe culiarities. had a habitof begging pardon on every occasion, Once his favorite ex pression was employed in rather a singu lar manner. At the close of the assizes, as he was about to leave the bench, the of ficers of the court reminded him that he had not passed sentence of death on one of the criminals as he had intended. “Dear me,” said his lordship, “J beg your pardon —bring him in.” and strange was that music in the pensive silence of Palestine. It sang my thoughts to meditation, and my heart sang hymns, and preached of remembered days and j places,—June Sundays in country churches, to which we walked along the edges of j fields, and under branching elms hushed in Sunday repose,—the long village road, with the open wagons and chaises, in which the red-handed farmer in holy-day suits drove the red-cheeked family to the church door, I —the bare wooden church, full of daylight, j with the square hole in the ceiling, through which the Sexton looked to see if the Par son were in the pulpit,—the gray haired minister, in his winter woolen gown or | summer silk one, and always- with black gloves slit in the middle finger that he might turn the leaves,—the reading of the Bible in a cheerful, sing song tens, to which itschiocest sentences always sing themselves ! now,—the setting the tune with nasal psal- ; mody, and the growing bass-viol, as if a hidden artist were playing upon a lazy lion.—the long sermon, of which I faith- ; fully remembered the text, and forgot the drift, and in which the names of Galilee, and Mary, and Nazareth were sweet sounds only, filling my mind with vague imagery, ’ whose outline has long since faded,—the flowers and sunny hay-fields breathing sweetly in at the open window, and all the sweeter when the Pastor read, “Yet I 9ay unto you, Solomon in all his glory was not citadel of life, and injury there is the near appruach of death. So it is with the ef fect of the profanation of the Sabbath on our moral social and civil welfare; when that profanation is permitted and becomes prevalent, there is no more hope. There is mortal disease and weakness through the whole frame, and our very social system hastens to its dissolution, or to a chaos of permitted licentiousness and sin, which is worse than even it! absolute destruction. A social slate without the Christain Sabbath may go far to realize the conception of a hell on earth. Tne secret of our own prosperity thus far, our unparalled, unexampled progress, power and happiness as a nation* is just here, in this gift from God to us of the Christain Sabbath, observed and sustained for so long a time in a sacredness, faithful ness, purity, and power, so like the bright est glory of its pristine life. Near two hundred years did please God to keep us under this discipline, almost everything in our economical and political, as well as so cial and moral existence, taking a coloring and character from the strict observance of the Sabbath. Thus did we live and breathe, and have our being, and hence, (recuiring to the analogy of the lungs,) results still our vigor a9 a nation, our freshness and elastic- ity of growth and life, which, as compared with the nations of Europe, is like the health of the mountaineer, who has cheerily la- arrayedjiike one of these,’’—the people in bored in the pure open air beneath the heavens, in the vatied and salutary activity of a farmer’s occupation, in comparison with the sallow,pallid, shrivelled faces, and meager, attenuated forms of men shut up in city garrets or confined in stooping pos tures amidst peslificatious gases, at manu facturing looms. To tie life and health giving power of the Christain Sabbath over us and in us, we owe our whole superiority, for the in fluence acted from the outset, and acted in every direction. It sets our whole exi-tem-e, as a plant is set in its growth and raised into maturity. It was as omnipresent as the atmosphere, and as direct as a steam of electricity; there was nothing bid from the heat theieof. It was the only example of a Sabbath-born Sabbath-educated nation in tho whole history of the world. Our Pil grim Fathers came to this- continent that they might be free to keep the Christian Sabbath in its purity, and to educate their children and their children’s children be neath its power. It is this same benefit and blessing which God has committed us in trust for another generation. [ Independent. the pews, all whose faces have vanished now, save hers, so many years my elder, yet still radiant with youth, queenly in beauty and in bearing, who came, when all were seat ed. following the old grandfather with pow dered hair and gold headed- cane, and who sat serene during the service, while I. an eight years’ child, felt a vague sadness over shadow the sweet day, and quite forgot the sermon. This was the music of tho convent bell of Nazareth, iu that calm Syrian after noon. Memory, a pensive Ruth, went gleaning the silent fields of childhood, ana found the sea 1 tered grain still golden, the morning sunlight yet fresh and fair. Troops of girls passed us as we came to the town. Their arms and hands were touched with kohl, they wore strings of pewter coins for necklaces, and their heads were girt with brilliant handkerchiefs. They did not veil their faces, and at times, from out the throng, great eyes rose be- wilderingly upon our gaze. I saw many an eye in the Nazareth girls whose light woulJ have illuminated an artist’9 fame for ever, could he have fixed it within the pic- tuted face of his Madonna. The traditions which clustei around Naz-; arelh are so tender and domestic, that you ; willingly believe, or at least you will listen | to the improbable stories of the friars, as a ; father to the enthusiastic exaggerations of his child. FEVERISH CONDI! ION OF CUBA. Ion of the Baltimore Sen says: The advicea from Cuba are ot serious im port, They show that the population, both the slave population and the Creole popula- With Jerusalem and its vicinity, 1 tiou. is iu a feverish condition, and that a the gravity of the doctrine is too intimately | servile or civil war—or both—might at any associated to allow the mind to heed the moment bieak out. The Cuban authorities quarrels and theories about the localities. It is the grandeur of the thought which commands you. But in Nazaieth, it is the personality of the Teacher whieh interests you. All the tenderness of the story centers here. The youth of the Madonna and the unrecorded years of the child, belong to Nazareth.— Therefore imagination unbends to the sweet associations of domestic life. The have very foolishly and presumptuously brought tbeir port regulations into conflict with the commercial and navigatory inter ests of the United States. These regulations create personal iiritation. and also may pinch hard upon our commercial interests. These are the points, where as it was supposed long ago, a collision might ultimately be brought about between the Spanish authorities and the United little picture in the Uflizi recurs again, and [ States: in the delicate sketches nf Overbeck, illus- The travel by the way of the Isthmus and trating the life of Christ, in which, as a the immense amount of American oaviga- blooming hoy in his father’s shop, he saws tioa and commerce that passed into and a hit of wood into the form of a cross,) from the Gulf;^are all exposed to annoyance looking up smilingly to the thoughtful Jo seph and the yearning Mary, as when he brings her the passion flower in the pleas ant room. The tranquil afternoon streams op the valley, and your heart is aoftened as if by that tender smde of Mary; and yielding to the soliciting friars, you go quietly and see where Joseph's house stood, and where the Angel Gabriel saluted Mary; and the chim ney of tbe hearth upon which she warmed food for her young child and baked cakes for Joseph when became borne from work, and the rock whence the Jews wished to cast Jesus, and another rock upon which he eat with his disciples. You listen quietly to these stories, and look at the sights. The childish efforts to give plausible form to tbe necessary facts of the history ofthe place, is too natural to Invective and personality prove nothing offend. When the pretence is too transpa- on either side, but a lamentable want of I rent, you smile, but do not scold. For, good taste and good argument ! whether be lived upon this aide of the way of tbe Cuban government, should it be hos tile lo the United States. Thousands of our citizens must touch at Havana in pass* ing every month; and it baa long been fear ed that from this source some difficulty might arise. Tbe government of Cuba can* not, perhaps, keep in subjection, and treat with tbeii usual severeity. their own popu lation. without annoying our citizens, whom commerce and travel may bring to her porta But the worst job that Captain General Caoedo ever did was to fix quarrel upon Geo Law, and exclude his ships from the port of Havana. George Law, as I have heretofore shown you, does not need tbe aid of this govern ment to fight his battles, nor will be conde scend to ask it. He will take satisfaction at proper time, when be can make something by it. A letter from Havana appears in tbe New York Journal of Commerce of yester- terday, which call upon George Law to ‘put the Island of Cabs into his breeches pocLet/’

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The federal union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1830-1861, October 12, 1852, Image 1