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occasionally a good sensible mother edu
cates her daughters with a proper sense of
their true dignity and usefulness as women,
cultivating their hearts, filling them with
gentleness, and their minds with truth, and
by example impressing on their pure minds,
a consciousness of the noble duties of wives
and mothers, we should be constrained to
answer in the negative.
Did we not see and know that such mo
thers with such daughters did exist among
us, we would say to young men seek else
where for wives; let the devotees of fashion
alone in their folly, fur as wives they would
bring you sorrow, ruin, and perhaps to
crime. How different the picture of present
society fiom that of our fathers, for exam
ple, the views entertained at that time and
those of the present, of an “eligible match ”
In yeaisgone, by a young man aspiring to
the hand of a young woman was certain
of the approbation of the parents or guar
dians, provided he coulu satisfy them he
was an honorable, industrious and prudent
man, of respectable, family. Wealth was
not considered requisite, because it was re
garded that the above qualities would se
cure a competency for his family, and a
respectable standing in the community.
Heart* existed, and were consulted then.
The wife was expected to he an assistance
to the hubsand, and it was her pride to
prove herself such. They passed through
life smoothly, loving their chil r n and each
other, companions aud ornaments of com
munity.
What constitutes an “eligible match” in
the estimation of a fashionable lady of the
present day? It is un old mein v.it)i suf
ficient to support a “palatial mansion" in
Fifth avenue, cairiages, horses, liveried
servants, to pay all bills unquestioned, and
a willingness on his part that the lady
shall have perfect control of her time,
and the manner in which it is used, wheth
er spent at opera, shopping or masquerade,
regardless of family caies, nr duties either
sick child or husband. If the “oldcodger”
only has the good taste not to make himself
ridiculous by scrutinizing the cliaiacter of
the gallauts or guests that hover around
Madam, and to be oblivious to any “little
peculiarities” in the conduct of my lady,
and not intrude himself upon her in society
unless by her order, the acme of fashion
able felicity is attained.
This is not the worst feature in the case,
the fashionable woman is not fitted to be
the wife even of a rich man. Early dis
sipation, and the injurious method of ed
ucation, prematurely develops disease, and
she enters married life with a constitution
shattered, with the prospect ®f spending
the greater part of the remaining portion of
her life as an invalid, ller offspring will
be effeminate and diseased. Moreover,
early habits of tolly, dress and absurd
ity, have not prepared her for the sacred
duties of a mother, and when those duties
are forced upon her, she becomes restive,
and repines at tbeloss of the waltz, flirta
tion, champagne suppers, ‘et cetera,’ which
constituted the former dream of life.
If this represented an isolated case of ex
treme fashion, it would call for pity, but
when the baneful influence of fashion ex
tends to nearly all young women, who
receive what is called a good education, it
demands our censure, and hearty condem
nation. Reason, patriotism, morality and
leligion require that we should raise our
voice against the false, unhallowed and in
jurious view inculcated at fashionable
boarding schools, and by weak, silly
mothers. A young man with only moderate
means cannot venture to marry unless he ob
tains a large fortune with the young lady of
the modern type.
It is this unreasonable and unnatural state
of society that makes that most despicable
of all characters, “fortune hunters.” both
male and l'amale. To illustrate this, take
the young professional man, either the doc
tor, lawye r or clergyman, with nothing but
their profession to depend upon, their posi
tion as public men, the feelings and tastes
acquired through their professional studies
and associations, all prompt them to aim at
respectability and character, and to main
tain such position, should they marry a lady
without money, of equal position in socie
ty, it would cost them at least So,000 a
year to keep up, as married men, the same
degree of respectability they maintained as
bachelors on SI,000. It must in the very
nature of things be many years before
either of the professions can of themselves
produce So,000 a year; the result is they
must become “fortune hunters,” o not mar
ry—for if they marry otherwise, thev sink
into obscurity, to raise up a family in “gen
teel poverty.”
How is this unhappy state of soc : ety
brought about? Clearly by the frightful
extravagance of the female portion, who
are mainly resposnible for this ruinous state
of things—clearly by the mother and
through modern boarding schools. It is
not the fault of the young ladies. God
gave them generous hearts and warm affec
tions, with sentiments and feelings pure
and superior to man. Why, then, lias this
garden of flowers beome a waste, with
only here and there a solitary rosebud,
heautitul in its loveliness? Why has the
violet ot modesty been choked out by the
thistle of vanity? the lily of purity by the
briars of coquetry? the ivy of constancy by
that ivy which contains within its treacher
ous foliage the poison of deceit? It is be
cause the cultivation of that garden has
been left to the bands of a hireling by an
indolent and improvident master.
Society is fearfully punished in the vices
that have sprung from its extravagance and
folly. Honor and morality have lost much
of their binding force-—confidence in virtt e
is weakened, suspicion invades the domestic
circle—innocent pleasure has given place
to gross dissipation domestic happinessand
simplicit to gaudy and comfortless display
of palatial mansions and equipages—and
what is most unnatural and repulsive to all
the finer feelings, matrimony itself, from
being the most holy act of*life, the union
of two loving hearts, has become a matter
of barter and sale—of pecuniary calcula
tion—the young girl ot sixteen swears at
the altar of God to love an old man of
sixty!
How it makes the heart quake to think
of such palpable perjury, where we look
for innocence, purity and truth—here is
the key to much of that vice too vile to
name. It is the false education and want
of judicious advice from an affectionate,
sensible and religious mother, that we may
justly attribute elopements, and unfortun
ate marriages, and most of the misfortunes
of daughters that bring the gray hairs of
their parents in shame and sorrow to the
grave.
High Southern Ground.—~Gnptain J<
of the United States Army, a Virginia
stationed not long since at Bet
California, had with him a body sen
a slave, name Jue. One morning the l
tain vi as startled bj the news of Joe’s
ing shot another negro, andsternlv a'
him how he dared to do 60 . Joe" see
at first cast down, but rallying himseJf,
looking the captain full in thoface, rep
“De fact is massa, dat ar uigger was oi
demds’ew York free niggers. He si
rae, and I had to take Sudron ground
him.”
China.
We heartilv approve of the conn-’ of the Admin
I jt Crops, BreadsiulTs and l*rtvisions.
The New York Journal of Commerce has the (ol-
nf Franco and I lowing-on this interesting subject:
_ itoutrer: word of caution to our conntry
• ■n the part of the United States, in their meditated I friends, and it maybe that some in the city will pro-
hostility nenirst tho Empire of China. In'tep'-n-1 fit by standing within hearing distance. The news
di’iit of an v treaty obligations, the purpose ofFrance by the Asia is more favorable for breadstuff's, and
and England is clearly inconsistent with "hat iride- j there is now a fair prospect of a more active trade in
pendenee of nations which is the great guarantee of > wheat flour an 1 ind«an corn., in the principal Euro-
their peace. So lone- ns the war existed merely be-1 pean markets, for several weeks to come—perhaps
tween Fnp-land and China, whether for crood causes j to the time of the next ingathering, or if the har-
or not. it was a question of wrongs between two j vest be short, throughout the year. In anticipa-
nations. which each na‘ion had a ripht to determine tion of this, and in connection with the reported
for itself. Rnt when France, who was implicated ! damage to the growing crops here, the late season
tn no way in the course or incidents of the quarrel, for corn, and the estimates (nrped by many) of
determined to inin England in the war, it was for j a limited stock throughout the \\ estern country,
no purpose toredr°ss the wrorc*s of England. Encr- i there is quite a disposition to renew last season s
land is not a colon v or dependency of Franco. It excitement, and try another round of speculation,
was for another purpose—to promote the interests J Those who look calmly upon the prospects for the
of France. What are these interests* Why. to future see no inducements to such a course, but
fnrrp commercial intercourse with China. China j many well-meaning- persons stimulate the fever,
thinks pronor to carry her prohibitory policy just without a thought of the vexation and distress it is
about as fnr a«* our Northern States would jovfullv to cause. That prices migdit be greatly
carrv it, if they bad the power—that is, to exclude enhanced, both here and throughout the interior,
all foreign comretition with their labor or prodiic- * ^y a series of speculative operations, isi beyond a
tions* France and Ensrl^nd think that this is verv \ question. Ihe stock of flour and grain here al-
illiheral, unequal, not to he home anv longer—a ; -1 though larger than geneally supposed, is not so
though this is the policy, in more or le« excess of ! large that it cannot be easily controlled until the
two-thirds of the nations of Europe. They desire supply increases and the receipts are likely to be
that t' eir poonV should make money, and make j limited tor several weeks o come. ltli ju( icious
j money ont f;f the Chinese. So, as they are s*rnr<r j maneuvering, 1 h< r ^ U 1 . 0 r t . A i 10 J 1S :IY. 1
i and China is weak, thev determine to send fie
| and a mies, to
! until they shall assert
1 ♦hem, and open their trade to European competi-
| tb n
| This we snnpoce is a plain statement of the ma*-
I *en and how enrild a country like the United
I States. consistentV with their own saf *tv. sanction
I such a nrimunl 4 * of interferen^e with the Tights of
| an independent na* ; on? Their own institutions are
j pecTilifl»*. Withntjt question, the republican insti-
tn*ier>8 of »heU. States are fo- more obnoxious to the
! rulers of Europe, then Chinese exclusion. They
j ^ooV upon n« as n standing and dangerous nuisance
I in the world—producing continually, by our verv
i existence, resliossness and rebellion amongst their
! cuiects. U breaking down the exclusive po’icy of
! China Is right, hv the laws of nations, how much
more defensible would he a crusade against the
I tree institutions of the Ignited States? Our policy
j or ne»vt r abty between belligerent nations laid down
j hy Wasmvgtov. and ever since followed by the
| rulers of the United States, is not only the policy
which the independ nee of nations, hut the very
| existence of the United States with their repnhli-
j c m institutions, requires. Our offensive position
j differs from that of China in hut one respect: we
I are strong—they are weak. If we were as China,
I who *1 >ubN fhi f \ with the nresent forms ofgovern-
ment on the continent of Europe, its rulers would
j de< rn it one of the highest duties of state necessity
to c r u«h opt. hv force, the republican institutions of
the Uni’ed Stages?
Aud when we consider that the Chinese policy of
seclusion is ^hsobitely necessary to their prnsper-
itv or ?ndop«nd‘*nce. f he course of aggression hv
France and England i« still more offensive to right
prucinles in f he affairs ofnations. The Chinese
are a feeble race. Like the Hindoos, if brought
into immediate contact and competition with the
Circassian race, thev are destined not only to a
most gallmg subjection, but to a gradual hut cer
tain annihilation It seems to he a law of our
| nature, that the onlv wav an inferior race can
j thrive or live with a superior, is in a position of
j dependence aud subjection. Put them on an equal
ity—fn»-ce competition between them, and the.
inferior race w ; thers and dies. This will he the
! fa^e of China European civilization will he Chinese
I death. Gradually hut certainly, their seapnrf towns
! and cities will he filled hv Europeans. European
domination will expend and extend, until China.
(like TPndostnn. will fall beneath the social, polifi-
! cal. and physical, sway of the Enropean and final-
| lv, deponula*ion and waste will mark hi« domina-
l t : on. Onr Government is right in standing aloof
j from such a contest, and simply protecting the
! rights of American in conformity with our
treaty obligations.— Thr Mercury.
inflated, and consumers looking to this city for a
liev Mei^rmiiie hi m-ii-i iicuib i , j n " v i
senk nnJmnr.lPi thr Himpcr.,! supply be compelled to pay a dollar m-r barrel
t to a free intereonrse with above the rate at which the market would isolate
itself. Hut the supply throughout the mtcri-r be
gins to accumulate at the points of control or
keep it back. There is a large breadth of land sown
with wheat, and even ifa part of it is winter-killed,
aud still more is damaged by the backward spring
and other causes, there wili still be left a yield above
the average of past years
Any attempt therefore, to control prices or specu
late upon the present necessities of consumers, will
only cieate an excitement unhealthy to a regular
trade and will be likely to involve the movers in
embarrassment, if not in total ruin. We deem the
present a favorable opportunity to utter this
warning, as the foreign news is better and there
is more danger of speculation than of panic. The
Western dealers indulged last year in fancy oper
ations, both in bread-stuffs and lands and as a result
they tindit difficult now to pay their honest debts.
If they will allow their produce to be sold during
the coming season without any such attempts to give
it a fictitious value, they will save themselves from
difficulty and do much towards recovering their
lost position -
The Courier and Enquireron the same subject re
marks:
There are daily circulated on change, somewhat
extravagant and apparently! contradictory reports,
respecting the condition of the growing crop of
wheat; the quantity of wheat and corn now in
store and gransry, yet to come to market, aud the
quantity of flour now on the way and yet to come
forward - It is not too much to say that the
cause of these reports being made public, is a
desire to influence the market in one way or the
other—to depress or advance prices. We do
not wish to throw discredit upon any cl
them; for extravagant and contradictory as we have
characterized them, they are, to a certain extent
susceptible of explanation. In some parts of Vir
ginia the growing wheat is undoubtedly a good deal
injured—the same remark is true of Illinois, while
in other parts of both Illinois and 5 irginta, the
new crops never promised better. In Tennessee,
crops of cereals promise finely, and there is reason
to believe, so far as may be judged from present
prospects, that the coming wheat crop will be a
fair average one.
There are. however, other considerations of mo
ment, in this connection. The great and growing
emigration .o the far West, forms a market for
breadstuff's that must not be overlooked, in cal
culations as to the quantity to cotne eastern maikets.
The internal movement of produce in any direction
cannot unfortunately be ascertained with the de
gree of accuracy which is demanded by the inter
ests of trade, and must, in a great measure, be
left to personal observation to determine. All ac
counts agree, that for some months past the far
west lias drawn largely upon Chicago and Mitlwau-
kie, for breadstuff's and provisions. It is to be ap
prehended, also, that in the wild speculation which
prevails in that qnarer, agricultural pursui.s will
to some extent be neglected.
But that which commands consideration most
immediately, is the financial condition of the
West. It will not be denied, we think, that the
From the Washington Union.
Approaching Era of f.ood Feeling.
We say to He friends of social order and nation
al concord, be of good cheer! All the signs of the
times are propitious. “Truth is mighty and will
prevail;” aud new truths are bursting in from
every quarter on a benighted aud misguided
world. New and unexpected facts and circum
stances, and predictions, and anticipations,! quantity of wheat and flour now coming Eastward,
j disappointed and laisefied, must, slowly but: and soo'n to be put upon this or some ether Eastern
surely, produce a new aud different public opiu- j market, exceeds the general expectation of a
1 ion. j month or six weeks ago. This is undoubtedly
! A half century ago, and all Christendom believ- I owing to the financial necessities now pressing
j ed that we had only to liberate the negro in order ' upon Western operators for relief, and must not bo
j to elevate hie social, moral, and intellectual con-1 regarded as evidence that thesupply is larger than
ditiou; and, moreover, that when liberated, like ! was anticipated. Flour now rules at a fair medium
the liberated white serf of Europe, he would be- price, and in the view we have taken of the itiflu-
conie a cheaper,more efficient.aud moi£ industrious J enees affecting the market now or hereafter, at-
laborer. T hen all men, North and South, tempts to depress it cannot be snccesfnl to any
| were abolitionists, or quasi-aholitionists; for]serious extent, while m view of the depressed
were dazzled with the ! condirion of trade the absence ofa foreign demand
' and the vast extent of the interest in breadstuff's, a
speculative movement to force up prices to those
I the most couser.vativ
glorious exploits of Jacobinical France, and
I somewhat infected with her anarchical heresies.
j But now the experinn-nt of negro emancipation ! which ruled two years ago, must also fail
has been made, and rve are reaping its bitter fruits,
| which have proved everywhere sad, fatal and dis-
astei ous. The liberated in gro is fast becoming an J
Hot Springs of Arkansas.
A writer to the New Orleans Picayune gives a
idle vagabond or a Pagan savage, aud the white ^ graphic account of these Springs. He says they
laborers throughout Christendom are forced to do | are certainly both curious and interesting:
double work for half pay. Nay, worse! the mar- ! ‘‘Suppose a deep rocky glen, between almost
jkettortheir manulactuies lias been so narrowed ! perpendicular, thinly wooded mountains: a
| and restricted by the w holes le emancipation of! pretty brawling stream, tumbling and gurgling
I the West Indies, .Mexico, and South America that; along; considerable ofa village strewed on
I they are throw n out of employment to starve: and
Frenchmen have adopted fhe hoaible dirge,
Du cicre au trairallant, uu morir au cumbnttunt, as
ideofthe brook; one little mill busily at work,
another in ruins; a dense cloud of vapor aris-
from tlie base of the hill on the left, and you
tlieir watchw ord and rallay ing cry; and all West-1 have a tolerable idea of the Hot Springs. lor
j ern Europe, from her gairets and her cellars, from 1 my part I was pleasantly disappointed. It is
her fields and her factories, howls in unison, like a 1 said that as long ago as 1812, parties ot trench
and Spanish residents in Mississippi and Louis
iana visited these springs for the cure of rheumatism
and other diseases, camping in the then wilderness,
and ever since that time it has been, more or less,
a place of resort. Many wonderfully curse have
been effected, though some of course return un-
cured.
“The water is perfectly pure aud limpid, though
hot. I w as prepared to find it strongly impregna
ted with sulphur, &c. The main hut springs gush
pack of starving wolves just starting in quest of
(prey. And even iu America fifty thousand unem-
j ployed white laborers in New York, in the midst of
iuier more rigorous than that which felled the
i a
I hosts of Fiance mid the snows of Russia, repeat
j in solemn resolves the fact aud the sentiment, and
I send it re-echoing across the Atlantic. And Gar
rison and Greeley, Smith, Barker, Philips, and a
| host of others, the fabricators of the ruin—they,
j and those like them, who have made savages of .
the negroes aud paupers of the whites, who have ' out of the mountain at a height of perhaps Si) to
taken the fetter from the African aud impos- 100 f* - et above the base; and for a distance ot lhd
ed it on the limbs of the Caucasian—they, w ith yards or nearly they break out at about the same
hypocritical cant, pretend to be the especialj level. The entire body of hot water would fill a
friends of the poor, and incite them to social rebel- j PJP* ol I® or lynches in diameter, it all issuing
lion.
No political.nosocial change, will feed and clothe
the hungry and the naked ot Europe and America.
No such changes will supply the defiency of
cotton, of sugar of rice, of molasses, of coffee, and
of other slave products, which defiency abolition
has occasioned. The white laborer, because of
abolition, has to pay these prices for these articles,
w hilst the same causes that enhance the price of
living cut him off from a market for the products
of his industry, and throw him ont of employment,
to starve. But negroes returning to the savage
state, and white men starving by the million, are
but part of the horrible iniquities of h eeding phi
lanthropy—but part ot the newly-discovered facte
on w hich we rely to change public opinion on the
subject of abolition. Europe must have the slave
products of the South; and. to compensate for the
toss of Hayti, France seizes on Algiers, England
deluges Asia with blood, and finds or forces her
way into the Celestial Empire, whilst her citizens
and those of America, in defience oflaw and the
penalty of death, and in the face of three allii d
fleets, carry on the slave trade, with a cruelty
greatly aggravated by the vain attempts to suppress
it. Worse than ti ts; Abolition has made the de
mand lor slave labor so great, that a new traffic in
human flesh, transcending in its horrors the blood
iest tale of fiction, has been added to the regular
slave trade—wealiude to thecooly trade, and re
fer the reader, for proof of our assertion, to a
“Report of the Secretary of State to the Sen- i
ate, made and ordered to be printed August,
1856.”
The mere facts on which we rely to dispel the
abolition mania have but recently been admitted
and divulged; and even now France aud England
reluctantly, and but seldom, confess their philan
thropic blunders; and abolitionists in America
steadily deny the very facts of history. But ‘Truth
is mighty and w ill prevail.’ The people will learn
the true state of me case, give up all abolition opin
ions, and visit with reprobation the pretended phi:
lanthropists who have mislead, betrayed, and well-
nigh starved them:
As abolitionism disappears, the other isnts that
disturb society will depart; for they are all the out
growth and offspring of abolition, and are sustained
and kept alive by it. It is liistorrically true that
men w ho begin life as anti-slavery men soon be
come anti-marriage men, anti-church men, orinti-
del8, agrarians, and socialists of every hue. They
find tiie principle of subordination involved in every
instutioii and relation of society, and the objec
tions to those institutions and relations similar in
character to the objections to negro slavery. Peo
ple, once convinced that negro s avety is right, will
readily see that the dominion of the husband and
the parent, of the captain and tlie general, and that
dominion which property gives to its owner, are
| also right and expedient.
We are quite confident that all the [>esti!eii-
tial isms which now disturb and distract us will
ere long pass away, and usher iu a new era of good
feeling.
at one spot. The springs vary some what in
tempeiature—from 1 Ob to 153 ueg. of Fahrenheit.
At the foot of the mountain, and where there is
eveiy reason to believe the hot water at one time
poured out, dense clouds of hot vapor issue.
“The water, though apparently so pure to both
the eye and the paiate, deposit with some rapidity
a mixture of si'ex aud carbonic of lime, forming a
lava-like stone. The deposit has evidently closed
up the original outlets, forcing the water to find
its way through crevices in tlie rocks at a greater
height. If the opinions based upon the results if
boring artesian wells are to be relied upon, show ■
ing that the temperature increases about five de
grees with every additional hundred feet of depth,
these springs .are probably the outlets of a vast
natural artesian weii, coining from a great depth,
say, 4,00b feet. The San Antonio river and tboso
other, lovely streams of Western Texas which burst
from the earth iu a similar manner are of a like
character. The temperature of all of the springs
forming the sources of the San Antonio is nearly
the same—7b degrees. Tlie effort is now being
made in Paris to procure a supply of hot water for
the use of that city, by boring a greater depth than
ever before.
“Baths are arranged where the vapor issues
from the foot of the mountain, to which tlie water
is carried from the hot springs above; so that the
bather has the choice of water baths at any desired
temperature or of the most delightful vapor bath.
I tried both, and enjoyed them exceedingly
“Dr. Hammond claims for them great curative
.powers in rheumatism and diseases induced by the
improper or extio ne use of mercury. Three miles
from these Hot Springs are some very favorite
eha'ybeathe water, where is a hotel said to be ad
mirably kept; and at a distance of eight miles are
springs of strong sulphur water, of which Dr.
Hammond spoke favorably.
“Near by are quarries of the celebrated Arkan
sas or Washita, whetstone, from which Mr. Whit
tington procures his supplies of the rough material,
worked up in the most perfect manner by his littlo
water-mill at the Hot Springs, where he resides -
These whetstones he ships to all parts of the Union,
and finds the demand increasing upon him in such
adegreeasto induce the enlargement of his fac
tory.'
Dr.J C. Arf.r. the world renowned Chemist of
New England, is now stopping at the Burent
Louse in this city. He has been making a tour
ot the W '“stern States, with his scientific associates,
to investigate their remedial productions, or such
as he can make remedial. We notice he has been
received with marked distinction by our leading
citizens of the West and are rejoiced to find they
have shown a proper estimate of the man who
has perhaps done more for the relief of human ills
than any other American. Daily Journal Cincin
nati. O.
Welearn from tlie Goshen (Indiana) Demo
crat that tlie Goshen air-line, belonging to
the Michigan Southern and Northern In
diana Railroad Company, was completed
week before last, and that the through-
trains between Chicago and Toledo will
commence running this week,
U'hulesoU Bribery.—Under the above caption
the Chantbersburg (Penn ) Valley .Spirit has some
pointed and web-written remarks in relation to
the attempts of the opposition to obtain the ear
and voice of the people by large bids and delusive
promises. “When (says the Spirit) our appouents
find themselves ‘hard up’ tor principles upon which
to rally, it is not unusual for them to have recourse
to wholesale bribery. Sometimes they endeavor
to currupt the people; at others they essay to
bribe the States. At one time they bought the
votes of all the bankrupt individuals in the United
States by promLing tp clear them of their indebted
ness through the operation of bankrupt law; at
another they attempted to bribe all the States that-
were in debt by proposing to distribute the pro
ceeds of the sale of the public lands. The appeal
to tlie cupidity of dishonest debtors was successful
♦or a time, though a tremendous reaction iit public
sentiments soon prostrated our opponents and
again gave us the ascendency.”
The Valley Spirit thus sharply alludes to the
•'issue’’ which know-nothingisnt has now raised in
Virginia
“it shows the desperate strait to which our
opponents are driven in certain States of the
Union win n they are again compelled to resort to
wholesale bribery. They again acknowledge the
necessity of corrupting public sentiment before
it will sustain them! In Virginia they have taken
ground in favor of distributing the public lands
among the States. They argue, Virginia owes so
many millions; her share of the public lands would
amount to so much; overplus a billion or two,
which would pay the expenses of the State ‘forever
and a day.’ Such is the unworthy appeal our
opponents are new making to the people of Vir
ginia. We can imagine the lofty disdain with
which every true-born son of that glorious old
Commonwealth will listen to this proposal to pur
chase bis suffrage.”
(l()f Coaintrgman.
‘‘Give nte, indulgent gods! with mind serene,
And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene.”
Vol. I. Tuesday, June 2, 1857. No. 8.
I'p-Cenuirr Aud Low-Country.
The quiet listener aboard the cars, frequently
liears things calculated to amuse. Not long since,
while riding upon tlie rail, if we did not hear the
following conversation verbatim, we heard some
thing like it. Up-Country and Loir-Country had
picked up a sort of traveling acquaintanceship —
Ita lui/uitur—
Up-Country.—How have yon enjoyed your trip
to the up-country ?
Loir-L ountry.—Well, tolerably well. But the up-
country pimple and the low country people are
very different in their habits, and their cooking,
and their eating.
U. C.—Yes, and in every thing else. But don't
you think our earing better titan yours ?
L. C.—Better? No: I can tell you I am pretty
near starved since I came up here: I never was as
tired of any thing in my life as I am of eggs, and
ham, and chicken. I have'nt had any thing else to
eat since I left the sea-board.
U. C.—What do you have when you are at
home 1
L. C.—Oh! we have fish, and oysters, and wa
ter- fowl*, and
U. C.—And occasionally a sea-“turkle!”
L. C—Yes, we have every thing that’s good.
But d n these up-country eggs and chickens:
I have so many of them in me that I expect to lav
and crow both before I get home.
Up to this time Low-Country had the laugh
against his up-country antagonist. The latter,
rattier piqued by t Ire fowl allusion of his opponent,
concluded be must say something smart for the
honor of his section, and thus delivered himself:—
“See here! my friend: I once took a journey
down to your part of the country, and they made
me eat so many fish that I've got scales on my
back as big as a quarter-dollar: They f d me on
tad-poles so long that I am in hourly apprehension
of turning to a frog, and have been croaking about
it ever since: I devoured oysters, alligators and
sea-“turkles,’' until my shell got so hard that when
I reached home, they turned me out of the Soft-
Shell, and I got into the Hard-Shell, Baptist
Church without even telling t ty experience: And
they feasted me so much on gophers and salaman
ders, that it made tne see the devil, and he told nte
it would be no use in putting me in the fire, for I had
already got to be a salamander. ‘But as to these low-
country people,’ said he,‘although they have eaten
salamanders all their lives with a view to their fu
ture habitation, yet they’ve got the swell-head so
badly that it keeps their constitutions perfectly
raw, notwithstanding their devotedness to sala
manders.’ ”
There was a loud guffaw all over the car. Up-
Country had gotten the grin on his side, and the
disputants filed one to the right, and the other to
the left, eggs, chickens, salamanders aud alligators
soon sinking into a quiet snooze.
“White’ll Cnrileuiug For The South.”
“And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in
Eden, and there he put the man whom he had
formed,” says Divine Writ. Tending the garden,
in company with his heavenly spouse, was the bus
iness, and the happiness, of Adam, ere he ate
“the fruit-,
Of tiiat forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world,and all our wo.”
And though by earing of the forbidden fruit, the
pi ogenitor of us all, lost his position of gardener in
Paradise, and with it his bliss, still the sentence
passed upon Adam, does not forbid bis descend
ants to enjoy in an eminent degree the satisfaction
which attended man’s primeval occupation. And
the fair daughters of Eve are fortunately under no
decree that prevents their doing as did their unfor
tunate mother, ere her fall—that is to tend gardens
—to raise flowers—
“to breed them up with tender hand,
From the first opening bud, and give them names:
To rear their beauties to the sun, and rank
Their tribes, and water from th’ ambrosial fount.”
Gardening was first attended to by our first pa
rents in the sunny clime of the East, where the sun
first arose from the couch of his nativity, and there
is no more appropriate jflace for this pleasing rural
art than the Sunny South, where the sun loves to
to linger in his noon-day splendor.
\\ e have had many hooks to teach us how to
garden in England, in France, and in the Northern
States. But Mr. White has given its the first sys
tematic treatise on “Gardening for the South.” * It
is a good hook, printed on good, white paper, w ith
clear type, aud containing 4(12 pages, neatly bound
iu muslin. By forwarding $1.25 to Win. N. White,
Esq , Athens, Ga., who is the Southern publisher,
as well as the author, yon will receive the book,
free of postage. Messrs. C. M. Saxton & Co., 14(1
Fulton Street, New York, are the Northern pub-
lisheis, and the work may be had of them on the
same terms as of Mr. White. From either the au
thor, or the Northern publishers, book-sellers or
book-agents may obtain the work at wholesale, at
!i:!j percent, discount from the retail prices.
We are particular in making the above state
ments, because we wish every person to know
where he may obtain a very desirable book, and
because we wish both the author and the publish
ers to meet the success which they deserve in giv
ing us such a useful volume.
Gardening is not only a very entertaining, hut a
very useful occupation. Horticulture is superior
to agriculture as practiced. In the garden, the
first thing to do is the very first thing tvhich is
necessary to successful tilling of the soil—that is,
the seiection of a small, instead of a large, piece of
land. Let us see a man take a small selection of
earth’s surface, and we know, then, it will be culti
vated. Let him lay out a field with a large num
ber of acres, and then we have reasonable ground
to apprehend that lie will resign his sceptre to
grass, to weeds, and to gullies. In gardening,
man’s labors, energies and appliances tor improve
ment, are concentrated to a focus, with beneficial
results. In tilling his fields, these things are scat
tered over so large a surface that frequently no
beneficial result is experienced.
In gardening, the portion of soil under cultiva
tion is made to produce its utmost yield. Were
we the founder of a new system of morals or reli
gion, we would rank it as a cardinal virtue, to
make two blades of grass grow, where but one
grew before: while we would condemn as one of
the blackest crimes, the practice of destroying,
hopelessly annihilating, the fertility of the soil by
the system of agriculture which is too i’requently
pursued. As it is, this matter does form a part and
parcel of our individual morals and religion, upon
which we try to act. But it is strangely ignored
by many who are loud in their pretensions of su
perior piety and sanctity. How they can ignore
it, is a matter of astonishment to us, when the
happiness of millions living and unborn, are de
pendent upon tlie productiveness of the soil, and
wh?n the very good, as well as very wise, people
of whom we speak, profess that the happiness of
the human race, present as well as eternal, is the
basis of their ethics and religion.—But we must
leave this subject for the present, with the remark
that the bead and heart of man are both yet con
siderably below tlie standard of perfection.
We have said that we like gardening because
by this method of tillage the earth is made to pro
duce its utmost yield. Under tlie bead of “Profits
of Gardening,” Mr. White gives ns the follow
ing :—“The results of the above mode of procedure,
in the case of tlie garden of the Retreat For Tlie
Insane, at Utica, New York, were published by
Dr. Brigham. The land was good aud yearly
manured. The product was as follows, on one and
one-fourth acres of land :—1100 heads of lettuce,
large: 1400 heads of cabbage, large: 700 bunches
radishes: 250 bunches asparagus: 300 Lunches
rhubarb: 14 bushels pods marrow-fat peas: 40
bushels beans: sweet corn,3 plantings. 419 dozen:
summer squashes, 715 dozen: squash peppers. 45
dozen: cucumbers, 756 dozen: cucumber pickles,
7 barrels : beets, 147 bushels: carrots, 29 bushels:
parsnips, 2G bushels: onions, Jffu bushels: turnips,
80 bushels: early potatoes, 35 bushels: tomatoes,
40 bushels : winter squash, 7 wagon loads : celery,
500 heads:—all worth $021 in Utica market, but
supplied 130 persons with all they could consume.
Onlv one man was required to do all the uecessary
labor.”
At first blush the above seems almost incredi
ble. Nevertheless, we believe it true. Here, in
Putnam county, if we could get 500 lbs. of seed
cotton off of this 1 j acres of land, or 12 or 15
bushels of grain, we could think ourselves doing
pretty well. And if we got a support for .j or j
of a person, then we would be very well satisfied.
This would he by means of what we call agricul
ture, But take the same quantity of land and
submit it to gardening, and we have 910 bushels
of edibles, besides hundreds of “bunches,” “heads,”
and “dozens,” being about one half the product of
the land, and making a support for I3U persons.
By agriculture, we make $15 to $20, and by hor
ticulture we have $021. By horticulture the
above amount of products is made by the labor of
one inan. To do the same by agriculture, it would
take live.
Were the land in Putnam county made to yield
as much as l^te garden of Utica, seven of our 1 (lull-
acre farms would support the city of New York:
while about a score of them would give sustenance
to the population of London, nearly equal to that
of the Suites of South Carolina, Georgia and Ala
bama. As it is, if an average of 3d or 40 persons,
white and black, get a good living off of 1001)
acres of land, we make no great fuss about it.
What a barbarous system of tillage is that which
produces such meagre results! Let every one of
our population who owns an acre of "land, buy Mr.
White’s Gardening For The South, and begin to
learn something of agricultural and horticultural
civilization.
What la Slnveryf
PART II.
“Plato,” says Martin, “was descended from an
ancient and illustrious family, possessed of a con
siderable estate, and universally admired as the
profoundest scholar ot his age. But neither his
birth, fortune, wisdom, nor learning, could protect
him from the resentment of Dionysius, King of
Syracuse, for being too free with him.”—It seems
that Plato had said something unpleasant to the
tyrant of Syracuse about his despotism: and for
this the philosopher was taken and sold as a slave
for about front $350 to $527. Slaves tv ere very
plentiful in those days, and sold remarkable cheap,
I as will be readily perceived, when we consider that
I so accomplished a person, and one of so great in
trinsic value as Plato, brought so low a price.
Now tlie condition of Plato was that of a slave
indeed, unless his philosophy enabled him to adopt
the sentiment which the bard of Avon puts in the
month uf a Roman hero: —
“Therein ye gods, you make the weak most strong,
Therein ye gods, you tyrants do defeat:
Nor strong tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit.
And though philosophy might have done much to
mitigate the severities ot slavery to the Grecian
sage, still we may say he was a slave indeed : for
by the laws and customs of his times, his master
had unlimited power over him. even to take away
his life. 1 he treatment of the ancients to their
slaves was very cruel. But even had Plato's mas
ter possessed no more power, and treated him no
more rigorously than tlie Southern master does his
negro, still this would hai'e been to him the most
galling tyranny. For in becoming a slave, lie was
reduced from a position of birth, fortune, wisdom
and learning to one of degradation. It was very
much as if Webster, Clay and Calhoun had been
taken from the spheres in which they moved, and
assigned that of a plantation negro, the master
having his power, and authority, as well as dispo
sition to use them, increased ten-fold. This would
have been slavery to them, no doubt. And with
the humane treatment of a kind Southern master,
it would have been slavery still. Because they
were made by the God of Heaven to be freemen,
i and not bondmen. They, as well as Plato, had
tastes, and feelings, and desires, a restraint of
which, would have defeated and not secured, their
happiness, and which would have made slaves of
them, when it does not iu reality make slaves of
our Southern negroes.
The great difficulty with the Northern fanatics—
i the honest ones we mean—is that they attribute to
: the Southern negro refined and intellectual feel-
! ings, which would really make bondage very dis
agreeable to him. But so far from his having
these feelings, tlie truth is that the negro, unlike
Plato in his slavery, is raised from an inferior to a
superior condition by his master's guardianship.
He is raised from ajtosition of barbarism, and pa
ganism, to one of semi-civilization, and semi-chris-
tiar.ity.
Mankind may be divided into three classes—the
rich, those having nearly a competency, and actu
al paupers. To the latter class all negroes natu
rally belong. Poverty is their normal condition.
Slavery raised them from this condition, and gives
them the necessaries of life—food, raiment and
shelter. An inferior position for ihe negro is not
the work of mail, but of God. Their inferiority
is the order of nature, and the decree of Heaven.
May the statutes of the great God be repealed ? He
who attempts to make the negro the equal of the
white man, attempts to reverse the order of nature,
to run counter to Heaven’s decree, and arraigns
the wisdom and justice of Hint who gives us inti
mation in Divine Writ, that, like the potter, he
maketh one vessel to honor, and another to dishon
or. And even should the abolitionist be so blas
phemous as William Loyd Garrison, and call God’s
wisdom and justice in question, be should content
himself with a mere mental discussion of the ques
tion, and not attempt to base upon it action. For
the impotency of man to contend with Heaven,
should convince him of the propriety of this
course. He should ground the puny arms of his
rebellion, lest—
“Him the Almighty Power,
Hurl headlong flaming from th’ ethereal sky,
With hideous ruin and combustion, down
To bottomless perdition; thereto dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who durst defy th’ Omnipotent to arms.”
Take the Southern negro to-day,and against the
will ot heaven attempt to array him in the garb of
freedom,and in what uo you benefit hint? With
out his master's nourishing aud sustaining hand,
he is h pauper; and instead of making him free in
deed, by giving him nominal liberty, you merely
remand him to a state of worse bondage than that
in which he now moves. Y’on give him up to the
galling chains of helplessness, poverty and crime.
Knock off, now. what Northern fanatics are pleased
to call his shackles, and where will he go to get his
bread, his meat, aud shelter for his head ?
“No foot of land does he possess,
No cottage in the wilderness.”
But homeless, houseless, foodless and raimentless,
he becomes a wanderer and a vagabond on the face
ot the earth. Aud it in his helpless and forlorn
condition he dares to set foot upon the fiirnrl/y soil
of some free State, the harpies of the law seize
him and put him iu prison for crime, or sell him
for his tax to some one, who, looking upon him
merely as a iaboi saving machine, will make a
slave of him indeed.
Now, at the close of this article, we have a ques
tion to ask:—Which are really the more slaves,
those negroes who dwell on Southern plantations,
or the fugitives in the British Provinces, thus des
cribed by a writer in the Knickerbocker t
“You do not mean to say that those wretched
hovels are occupied hy living beings ?” said I to
my companion. “Oh, yes!” he replied with a
quiet smile, “those are your people—your fugi-
ticcs.” “But surely," said I, “they do not live iu
these airy nests during your intensely cold win
ters ?” “Yes,” replied my companion, “and they
have a pretty hard time of it. Between you and
I,” he continued, “they are a miserable set of de
vils; they won’t work, and they shiver it out here
as well as they can. During the most of the year
they are in a state of abject want, and then they
are very humble. But during the berry season
they make a little money, and while it lasts they
are tat and saucy enough. We can’t do anything
with them : they won’t work. There they are in
their cabins just as you see them—a poor woe-be-
gone set of vagabonds ; a burthen upon the com
munity; of no use to themselves, nor to any
body else.”— [Sparrotcgrass’ “Month with the Vlue-
Soses.”
The only objection we have to making the fore
going quotation, is the extremely bad grammar of
the phrase “between you and I,” which can be
excused only on the ground of the extremely good
sense of the paragraph.
And now take this picture of the “condition of
the London poor,” and toil ns who are the greater
slaves, they or our Southern negroes, even leaving
out of view the fact that the former are white, and
the latter black men.
Dr. Letheby, the Medical officer of Health for
the city of Loudon, lias presented a report in which
lie says he has visited 2208 rooms inhabited by the
city poor He says: “In 1989 of these rooms—
all, in fact, that are at present inhabited—there are
5791 inmates, belonging to 1570 families; and to
say nothing of the too frequent occurrence of
what may be regarded as a necessitous overcrowd
ing, when the husband, the wife, and young fami
ly of four or five children are cramped into a mis
erably small and ill-conditioned room, there are
numerous instances where adults of loth sexes,
belonging to different families, are lodging in the
same room, regardlessof all the common decencies
of life, and where from three to five adults, men
and women, besides a train or two of children,
are accustomed to herd together like brute beasts
or savages; where all the offices of nature are per
formed in the most public and offensive manner ;
and where every instinct of propriety and decency
is smothered. Like my predecessor, I have seen
grown persons of both sexes sleeping in common
with their parents; brothers and sisters and cou
sins, and even tlie casual acquaintance ofa day’s
tramp, occupying the same bed of filthy rags or
straw: a woman suffering in travail in the midst
of males and females of different families that ten
ant the same room; where birth and death go hand
in hand; where the child but newly born, the pa
tient cast down with fever, and the corpse waiting
for interment, have no separation from each other
or from the rest of the inmates.”
Thank God there is in the South no such slavery
as this. We do most heartily wish that such slave
ry could be abolished. But British philanthropists
are too busy with our negroes to alleviate the suf
ferings of their own slaves to poverty, simply, we
suppose, because they are so unfortunate as not to
have black skin.
T. II. W'alM.
Last Governor’s election, the Know Nothings
could talk about nothing but Zollikoffer's Speech,
and Clemens’ Letter. Now they have thrown
Zolly away, Jerry has performed the same favor
for hintself, and the Ignorami have picked up one
T. H. Watts out in Alabama, and employed him to
write a reply to Mr. Buchanan’s inaugural, which
is to become the law and glspel in ail the Know
Nothing churches throughout Capadocia. It won’t
be long before the high priests of the lodges and
councils will make their dupes believe that this
T. JI. Watts is the author of Watts’ Hymns, will
sef his rigmarole to music, and then we .«hall hear
one ever-lasting sing-songnpon a harp of a thous
and strings, until a greater piece of folly can be
picked up some where else, and a new song be
thus placed in tlie mouths of those who say “Ante-
ikins must rule Ameriky ”
t'ropx I:i I’u 113am fosinly.
The Sarannnh Republican wishes reports made
from various sections of country concerning the
growing crops.
1. “As to the amount planted in cotton this year
as compared with last,” there is fully as much, if
not more, cotton planted in this county this year
than there was last. Cotton has gone up in pri
ces, and when this is tlie case, our farmers are not
apt logo down in the quality of laud planted iu
our staple product.
2. The frosts have not materially injured our
stands of cotton, which are tolerably good.
3. There is little or uo demand for seed for the
purpose of replanting: and it is well there is’nt,
for our poor old cows have eaten up every surplus
seed.
4. Noland originally planted in cotton, that we
have heard of, has been replanted in corn. We
have at last succeeded in getting tolerable good
stands of corn, but this crop is very backward, as
is also the cotton crop. Wheat crops promising,
if not so late as to be taken with the rust. Oat
crops better titan for a number of years. Sweet
potatoes and yam plants scarce. Fruit nearly all
destroyed by the cold.
A Hull Among The Boars.
A New York naper gives an account of a hunt
in tlie woods of Maliguy (Y’onrte) in which were
killed four wild boars, two of which were sows.
lleury Ward Beecher’s Auction,!
BY PETER PICKLE.
Se ne—The Xorth Church in Xew Haren.
Sharpe’s rifles for sale, who'll try 'em ?
Sharpe's rifles for sale, who’ll buy ’em?
Y’ou’ll And them a wonderful thing
To aid you in pious devotions:
Who’ll bid now, and what'll they bring?
Come give me a bid for my notions.
Sharpe’s rifles for sale, come try ’em:
Sharpe’s rifles for sale, come buy ’em :
Ah ! thank you, sir, for the first bid:
At the tears of the orphan they're going:
All praise to the fellow who did
Give Henry Ward Beecher a showing.
Sharpe’s rifles for sale, who'll try one ?
Sharpe’s rifles for sale, who'll buy one 1
A widow with a broken heart.
Only a widow with a broken—
A broken heart: not the teuth part
Of the bid that should have been spoken.
Sharpe’s rifles for sale and agoing:
Who'll come up and give me a showing?
A murder is bidden, a murder •
Won’t any one run it up higher?
Was ever a bid made absurder?
That gentleman now may retire.
Sharpe's rifles for sale, Sharpe’s rifles:
They’re none of your fusilling trifles:
Now treason is bid for a wonder:
Only treason is bid, only treason;
You'd orler hear one of them thunder:
Why don't you bid ? What is the reason ?
Sharpe’s rifles for sale; for a wonder
You'll ortcr hear one of them thunder:
A petty rebellion I hear:
Who'll bid any more for my rifles?
A petty rebellion or tear:
What care I for such little trifles:
Sharpe’s rides for sale, and agoing :
Why you keep me continually blowing:
A blamed servile war with the niggers
Is most that so far has bidden :
That would'nt half pay for the triggers,
If of stock, lock, and barrel all ridden.
Sharpe’s rifles for sale: will you bid up?
Can't you come with your coffers the lid up ?
A civil war cruel and bloody:
Is that all you bid for a rifle ?
Your brain must be addled or muddy,
Or else with my feelings you trifle.
Sharpe’s rifles for sale: ho,v I hollows!
Sharpe’s rifles for stile: twenty dollars !
Now you’re talking good sense for a wonder:
Be careful, nty friend,you may break it:
In loading it, don't make a blunder:
Twenty dollars are bid:—you may take it.
May 15,1~50.
Slavery Vu Knglnnd.
“The air of England,” says an English tr.axim,
“is too pure for a slave to breathe in.”
We presume that the meaning of this maxim is
that the English privileged classes, believing
their atmosphere too pure for a slave to breathe,
would prevent the unhappy pauper slaves of that
country from contaminating it by’ their breath, if
in their power to do so. Why then don’t they tax
the consumption of the atmosphere, as they do that
of the light of heaven?
Balloting In democratic .Heeling*.
We see that the Times Sf Seutinci, and Federal
Union both, are down upon the practice of appoint
ing committees to transact the business of Demo
cratic mootings. They think that iu the appoint
ment of delegates to the Gubernatorial Conven
tions, &c., the selection should be made by ballot;
and so do we. We have sometimes joined in the
jugglings of the committee system, but our con
science has always condemned us for it. We do
now and hereby confess, and truly and heartily
repent of onr sin ; and from this time forward in
tend to so demean ourself as to obtain in Demo
cratic meetings an expression, by ballot, of the
voice of the whole meeting, and not of a commit
tee alone.
“Wliat’t In A IVnine
The Recorder, having had experience of the ill
effects of a name, is endeavoring to kill the Demo
cratic party hy piling cognomen “on to” it, as the
Yankees say. Hence it calls it “The Frieuds-of-
Mr.-Buchanan-Antiknownotliing-American-Nation-
al-Democratic Party.” Well, now, just pile on
friend, and pile on again, and keep on piling: for
it will take you some time, aud with a ladder at !
that, to put on us enough name to make it as “hard |
to tote” as Know Nothing.
I.ovc A mi Jealousy.
“The American Party of Upson, animated by
love of country, and a jealous regard for the rights
of the people,” have “adopted a declaration of
principles.”
We are glad to find that the Know Nothings
have so far improved as to get near enough to
principles even to adopt a declaration of them. It
is to be hoped that they may, after awhile, have
some regard for the principles themselves.
The Brunswick Resolutions.
The resolutions of the Stockholders of the
Brunswick & Florida Railroad Company, as here
tofore published, were written out from memory,
the original copy that passed the Convention hav
ing been misplaced. As it is a matter of some
importance to know the precise action of the Com
pany, we copy the official account from the
Brunswick Herald of Inst week, as follows:—Sac.
Republican.
RESOLUTION’S:
1st. That the Stockholders ot the Brunswick &
Florida Railroad Company now assembled, fully
appreciate the magnanimous liberality of the State
of Georgia, in subscribing one million of dollars to
aid in the construction of a great Main Trunk
Road through southern Georgia, thereby affording
an outlet for their produce to the ports of the xlt-
lantic.
2d. That in view of the great importance of;
this matter, we request the Board of Directors ;
to make a connection with said Main Trunk
Railroad at any point on or near the line of the
Brunswick & Florida Railroad east of Big Creek,
that will secure the aid of the State under the Act
incorporating the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad Com
pany.
3d. That if said connection should be made off
of the present Brunswick line, the Main Trunk \
Company shall pay to tlie Brunswick Company a j
fair equivalent for all work done by them west of
a proper point of divergence, so as to reach the
initial point that may be selected in the best prac
ticable way.
4th. The Brunswick & Florida Railroad
Company being committed to Contractors on
their line, it is understood that the Atlantic &
Gulf Railroad Company will make a fair and
equitable ariangemcnt with them for all future
work.
5th. That it be recommended that the Main
Trunk Road be put under contract for construction
j to Thomasville, within the least possible period
consistent with the means of said Company, not
departing exceeding seven miles from the Bruns
wick & Florida Railroad.
Oglethorpe University.—The commencement ex
ercises of this institution will take place the fourth
week of July and bid fair to be tlie most interest
ing in the history of the college. George A. Gor
don, Esq. of this city, has accepted au invitation
from the Thalian Society to deliver the annual ad
dress, on the 22nd of July.
We are gratified to learn through a friend that
the college is in a highly flourishing condition and
promises to rank with the very best institutions at
the South, tit an early day. The Senior Class,
which will graduate at the approaching commence
ment, numbers twenty-seven. The whole number
of students the present, session is one hundred and
fifteen, and a large increase is confidenty expected
upon the opening of the next term. We regret to
learn that a lack of dormitories for the accommoda
tion of students is a serious obstacle to any very
matt rial accession to the present number. This
should not be, and we hope tlie friends of the in
stitution will see to it and supply the defiency at
an early day. Such a complaint is a reflection
upon the large and wealthy Christian denomina
tion who have it in charge, and we have no doubt
the enlightened liberality that founded the school
and has prospered it thus far, will be found ready
to sustain it in its progressive requirements and
I usefulness.—Sar. Republican.
Western Progress.-The efforts now making to bring
, the great West—we mean west of the Mississippi
I —into closer and speedier communication with the
! northern Atlantic cities border on the marvellous.
i Tin' following announcement appears in last
Monday’s issue of the Cleveland v.Ohio) Plain
Dealer:
“Arrangements are now perfected with the
Cleveland, Bellafontaine. Indianapolis, Terre
Haute, and Alton railroads to take passengers from
Cleveland through to St. Louis in just one deiy and
fifteen minutes, Passengers leave here at 7, p. m.,
and the next day at 7.15, p. in., they are in St.
Louis Who would have thought it? This
beats all other routes to this great trading mart of
the West in time and directness. The route, too,
is well officered, and passengers can count on the
utmost care and attention, lion. John Brough,
president of the main Line, contemplates making
his residence in this city, will he assisted by Mr.
Brooks, the well-known local railroad agent.—
Major Field, a prince of a follow among railroad
kings, lives at St. Louis, and has a general super-
intendency of the travel over this grand Western
Appnin way.
“Cleveland and St, Louis are next door neigh
bors, but a day’s ride apart. Five years ago who
would have thought it? We can sup on a Lake
Erie white fish in Cleveland to-night and masticate
cat fish out of the muddy Missouri, in St. Louis,
to-morrow night. We say to our cotemporaries
there ‘please exchange.’
If you desire to enjoy life, avoid unpunctual
people. They impede business and poison pleas
ure. Make it your own rule not only to bo punc
tual but a little beforehand.
The Great Objects of Life.—Speaking of these,
Sir William Temple says: “The greatest pleasure
of life is Love; tlie greatest treasure is Content-.
ment; the greatest possession is Health: the great
est ease is Sleep; and the greatest medicine is a true
Friend "
fjUticts.
^ SEC REASONS WHY EVERYBODyT!^
LYOiVS K A THAI RON.
1st. It is the cheapest preparation for t\ ie t, a ; r
ever made.
2d. It is pronounced by all to be the Most Bgv
EFICIAL.
3d. It is the most Agreeable to ns.
4th. It is the Cleanest and most Carefully p re .
pared.
5th. It is the most Highly Perfumed.
6th. It is the only article that never fails to gi V9
Entire Satisfaction.
The immense sale of the KATHAIROX—nearly
1,000,000 bottles per year—attest its excellence and
universal popularity. Sold by all dealers, every,
where, for 25 cents per bottle.
HEATH, WYXKOOP sfc CO..
Proprietors and Perfumers.
50 It 63 Lihertv-st,, New York
Dr. Peery’s Vermifuge or “dead sh„,~
for WORMS,—Worms do not confine themselves
exclusively to the stomach and bowels, thev some
times work their way into others parts of the <vs
tern, producing the most dangerous consequence
evidenced in foul stomach, indigestion, and vsrioiis
other distressing symptoms.. The prnmiu and
energetic action of the “Dead Shot” in the extrica
tion and expulsion of Worms; has rendered it hio-lil v
popular. The genuine article never fails to cure'.
Prepared and sold by A. B. & D. Sands, Trim,
.gists 100 Fulton St., New York.
Sold also by E. J. White, Agent, Milledgeville.
Sold also by druggists generally. j t
No Family Should be Without Them — \v 8
speak ot M'Lane's Liver Pills, prepared bv Firm
ing Bros., Pittsburgh, Pa., which have become an
indispensable Family Medicine. The frightful
symptoms which arise from a diseased Liver man
ifest themselves, more or less, in every family;
dyspepsia, sick he.idach obstruction of the menses,
ague and fever, pains in the, side, with dry, hack
ing cough, are all the results of hepatic dernug.
meut—and for these Dr. M’Lane’s Pills are a
sovereign remedy. They have never been known
to fail, and they should be kept at all times by fami
lies.
Direction - .—Take two or three going to bed,
every second or third night. If they do not puree
two or three times by next morning, take one or
two more. A slight breakfast should invariably
follow their use,
The Liver Pills may also bo used where pttrffino-
is simply necessary. As an anti-bilious purgative,
they are interim to none. And deses of two n r
three, they give astonishing relief to siqk headache;
also in slight derangements of the stomach.
For sale by E. J. White & Bro., James Herty,
and F. G. Grieve, Milledgeville.
llfi' Purchasers will be careful to ask for Dr.
M'Lane's celebrated Liver Pills, manufactured hy
Fleming Bros, of Pittsburgh, Pa. There are other
Pills purporting to be Liver Pills, now before 'lie
public. M'Lane’s genuine Liver Pills, also his
celebrated Vermifuge, can now be had at all res
pectable drug stores. None genuine without the si".
Mature of FLEMIMG BROS. 1 It
Holloway.e Pills and Ointment.—Delicate
females who are harassed and debilitated by com
plaints peculiar to their organization, are uniform
ly relieved by Holloway’s Pills. For hysteria,
spasm, hot Hushes, sick headache, Jpains'in the
back and loins, they area safe and reliable reme
dy, while the healing and cooling effect of this bal
samic Ointment upon burns, scalds, sores, irrita
tions of the skin, scrofulous ulcers, salt-rheum,
erysipelas, and all external inflammation, is a
miracle in surgery. Purchasers, before using these
remedies, are cautioned to look for the Water-mark,
which appears in every leaf of the genuine book
of directions. If the words, “Holloway, Xew York
and London, are not visible in the paper, the medi
cines are counterfeits.
Dr. Cavanaugh’s Pile S.uae.—We cheerfully
refer the public to tlie advertisement of Dr. T. H.
Cavanaugh, satisfied, as we are, that he is no pre
tender, but a thorough physician, familiar with
materia medica, and most skillful in the application
of his knowledge. He has made many valuable
discoveries in the science of medicine, one of
which he offers to the public. His card bears the
names of many responsible men. who have given
to this medicine their warmest commendation, and
express the belief that, in no instance, will it fail
to accomplish an effectual cure of the peculiar dis
ease for which the Dr. has prepared it, if used
strictly according to directions.—Chicago Native
Citizen.
For sale in this city by E. J. White & Bro.,
F. G. Grieve and James Herty. 51 4t
R. R. R.—Taylorsville P. O., Smith co., Miss.—
Blackwell &, Floyd, merchants of the above place,
write under date of June 15, 1850—
“The R. R. Remedies are taking the lead of all
medicines; they have fully proved themselves to
be as good as they are recommended, and have
cured all diseases for which they have been taken.”
They are the best remedies we have in this section
of the country. Blackwell «£- Floyd.
In Mississippi there are many planters who have
no other medicine on their plantations but Rad-
way's. No doctors are needed where the R. R.
Remedies are understood, and that is the reason
why so many doctors of small talents are opposed
to them. In all cases of fever, whether Yellow,
Billions, Typhus, Scarlet, Remittent, or Intermit-
tant, Radvay’s Regulators and Relief will cure
and prevent.
In all cases of Dysentery, Cholera, Cholera Mor
bus, Cholic, Radwtty’s Relief will in a few min
utes cure the worst attacks.
In all cases of Headache, Toothach, Neuralgia,
Tic Doloreux, Radway’s Relief, Resolvent, and
Regulators, will afford Instant relief, and a quick
cure. Iu .all cases of Costiveness, Irregularities,
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Radway’s Regulators will
in a few days set all right.
None so irregular but Radway’s Regulators will
regulate: none so tortured with pains, but Rad
way’s Ready Relief will soothe and mitigate the
most terrible paroxysm ; none so tedneed hy dis
ease, so crippled with infirmities, so disfigured with
sores, ulcers, or afflicted with Scrofula, but Rad
way’s Resolvcut will renovate, and restore to life
and health.
Sold by druggists and merchants everywhere.
E. J. White, Ag’t, Milledgeville. Ga. 5‘2 - 2t.
Mr. Perky Davis:—1 feci it to be my duty to
bear my testimony to the efficacy of your Pain
Killer. I have used it for years for complaints of
the stomach and bowels. 1 had a very severe at
tack a few days ago of the ague, and such a pain
in my back for three days and nights that I could
get no rerf. I sent and got a 25 cent bottle of the
“Vegetable Pain Killer." I took a little inward
ly, aud bathed according to directions, and one ap
plication has removed all the pain, aud I ant able
to write to-day, though with a trembling hand.
The, application was tn.ada last night about !•
o'clock, and I had a sweet night’s rest. I have
recommended it for several years, as I have travel
led a good deal, and it has given universal satis
faction where it has been used according to direc
tions. Yours gratefully,
L. PERRY CHILDS,
Pastor of Baptist Church, Troy, Ohio.
Sold by F. G. Grieve, E. J. White, and James
Herty, Milledgeville. 52 2t
Another Remarkable Cure of Scrofila.
Sparta, Carolina eo., Ya.,March, 1854.
Messrs. Bennett At Bears, Richmond,
Gentlemen:—Your Carter’s Spanish Mixtur" has
performed a remarkable cur-' in the person ot a
servant man, afflicted w ith Scrofula in the very
worst form. So bad had he become, that bis eyes
were entirely closed, and had been so for more
than a year ! As a last resort, as everything els*
had failed, it was resolved to try tlie Mixture- '' u
administered it according to directions, amt won
derful to say, a perfect cure has been i ffeojed. I
am satisfied that no medicine equals “Carters
Spanish Mixture” as a purifier of tlie blood It 11
creating quite an excitement here, and sells very
rapidlv. Send another lot by Railroad.
Yours trulv, R. S. BBOADDl >. •
Sold by E. J. White. Milledgeville.
USS’ DYSPEPTIC REMEDY!
ice to tlie Dyspeptics, and Affliete*’-
■hose who have the misfortune to be
h Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, or where
al and mental powers are depressed, pah • ‘
' the heart, difficult breathing, ir r «» ,,# "
ttnach, or inflammatory bowels, will be P ■ ■
earn that a remedy can be found m .
EPTIC JIEMEDY! A few Packages e
ind, at the Drug Store of either F. G un ...
White & Bro , or Jas. Herty, Milledgevin ■
single Package $2; six packages $B“
at by mail, (post-paid,) to any part o
-, upon the reception of tlie price. 10
ibold’s Highly Concentrated Extract Rue u.
;d directly according to the rules ot 1 trj
Chemistry, and is the host and most ac
ition which can he made for the cure o
f the Bladder, Kidneys, Gravel, Weak"""
c. Read the advertisement in aaou
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