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From thoSouthorn Banner
PAHDEMOHIUK.
Rhett and his Nashville farces, thunder-stsuck at
the result of the Georgia election In November.
1SS0, after a space, recover from Ibctr confusion
—consult whether another buttle shall bo bnxard-
ed in Georgia, 10 oommit her to scoedo with
finatli Carolina, some advise—others dissuade) a
temporising proposal la offered by MuDonaljt and
aoeoptvd.
What tho’ the Held be lost 7
All'll not lost) the unconquerable will, -
And stmly or revenge, Immortal hate,
And eourago never to submit nr yield
To that government, ftrnmrd by Washington 7
That glory never shall the perpla's will
Extort from me
Since, through oxperlonoe of this great event
This disastrous campaign In Georgia,
In rftrns not wor«e, in foresight much advanced,
We may with tnoro successful hope resolve
To wage, by forco or guile, eternal war
Upon the cursed Union ofthese States.
Thus spake Rhett, exalted by merit
To that bad emlnenee, of being chief
Of all the Disunion forces South.
He oensedt and next to him Colfuitt, Muscogee
ohlef,
Stood up, tho strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought at Nashville, now fierco by despair i
My ientenee Is for open war, of wiles
More unexpert, I boast not) then le' those
Contrive who need, or when they need—not now.
No I let us rather ohooso
At the head of" the Coffin Regiment,"
Arm’d with open Secession's red bnnner,
O.cr Georgia's people force resistless Sway.
He ended Drowning,and ills look denounced i
Desperate revenge, nnd battle dangerous
To less than Gods
Dinning next rose, n itm ol plonsnnt mien.
And endor-ed ell ihe llWJfflllef had said.
The ftuioiiA llir:rl did die s'line.
Fartr/iht. n pqj-lor kr.iglit, i Iteil out Amen !
And Day an 1 Smi/lhe, (who erst was Mr. Smith,—
Bill eliap'ged hit li ni'e, ami good opinions.too.
Df Ju’oktwn's I’io.-I-in liion, -nil ForcoUill,
Slneo he left the fail, ounty of Monroe,)
I-i-J ' i ll . Lin k tin- wool) and Cline end Tift,
And “ Pun'h and Judg"—minor singers, they
Pm in their feeblo note., taswell the cry.
Fotiil remain," of politisiar.s.lbng
Sine" defunct, went there—qiieor old specimens,
Exhumed and brought to momentary view,
As trash is thrown upon tho surface, whon
Tho waters of parly o’urflow their banks.
(Fncticlous import elicit old things acquire
On suoh oecsslonsi at home they're ciphers—
“ Old Fogles’’—mnke-weights) hut abroad their
nnmos
Sound well enough, mid so they’re put to use |
One time more to see ilmir mimes In prim, Is
Good pay, for such "lie use ns lliey'ru put to.)
Stilee, with diplomatic smirk, look',I amiable,
And of Ihe stnr spangled bnnner spnke,
Whereon athousnnd nngrv liiste. rose,
As from the months of as ninny adders)
Patdonnra snot' /” the sweet mouth'd Austrian
If lor disunion you, then w ain I. [cried,
Gerdncr look’d on with dubious squint,
Still doubtful of what’s " Ms heel we can do,"
But, like all doubtful folks, went with the crowd.
Daugherty too, alas, poor Tmy I was there—
Suggestive quite ho was, of Jinn's boot
In Donna Julia’s room “ the tiling wa. neither
Rich nor rare, hut how the Devil came it there I”
Tho supernumerary throng wns ilior",
As.ln theatres, prompt any part to piny
That Is assigned,—a lackey or n king—
So there's not much to bo snlil or done,
Daffy, Stell, and (•• O ! e'erieon !”) Jack,on, too,
Model nfbcnnty, and fllinl piety I
A speech Iront him, or letter, has one theme—
But one, '• Jtfy venerable anreitor l"
HeruheU Vulcan, with Its shnilnw nod Its shade,
tOamphe'l and Torcn,) looms out ominojisly,
A more sinister bee lost not Hoavcni
He seemed
For dignity composed, nnd high exploit.
But nil was false and hollow, though his longue
Dropp’d manna, and would make the worse appear
Tho better reason. His opinion was—
The Wilkinson platform) ditto Shadow—
Ditto Shade. Wlint thought the Chief Engineer 7
He thought of—*' Greece, but living Greece no
more.”
Soltis wheols are greased its all right with him.
Skulking about the outsklits of the crowd,
Hesitating to join in or stay out, /
Was a haggard boing called Judge Berrien I
“ He Momed a stranger In this nether world,
An erring spirit from another harried.”
McDonald, ohrlstcned in honor of Fox,
Chariee Jamee—tu shrewd pan of his good sire,
Denoting a ounning rescmblnnce, of
His fttturo Excellency, to Reynard)
Thun whom
Rhett excepted, nonchlgher sat, w Ith grave
Aspect he rose, and In his rising seemed
A pillar ol State; deep on his ftont engraven
Deliberation snt, nnd public ears.
And princely counsel In his face yet shone,
Majestic tho’ in ruin.
Georgians I ho snld, or Ihishistitlo now
Must we renounce, nnd, changing stylo, bo called
Citizens of the “ Rhett Republic t"
Fire Eaten !"
For soPandomouium’s voico Inclines.
What can bo worse
Than hero to dwell driven out from offico,
In a hopeless minority to pine 1
I should bp much for open war, O, peers.
As not behind in huts, but for the thought
Ol our last year’s rashness We too soon disclosed
Our purpose of seers,ion, and our wish
To louud a Southern Confederacy,
With Rhett ibr Its President and head—
I, his Vice I’resldcnl and Ineecssor,
Inwltue.s whcraoij he rajs’’ Bugle" gave.
Hearken, 'vKiln I unfold my rtfits lo you
For this inmpa'gn'
A .w.i.Mii'it '.nil you at M.l'.-'ilpcvijii-,
And there lor i-uve'iior, i.n.ninale me)
For a platfoim of;, .in-q ics, he sure
And deal alone mgt'.i. rul tn'i,,
Bewat i! ahov- nil filings, adopt no name
For on. iM'ii.gi l arty We'll bo democrats
In countie, of that opinion) but where
Whjgs prcvitij, Southern Rights will be oar name.
[•’ is our watchword. Every county claim,
l JO, them all!
Of gains, ciroulato rumors evory wbero.
In memonts ol deupeat despondence, brag t
Twill keep your ipirits up, and (hear Ihe orowd,
There's nqtblng like it, so I've uflon found.
By suoh arts doubtful votes are oft confirmed,'
ifo have, ” Fire Eaten," what I advise.
He scarce had finished, when suoh murmurs fill’d
The assembly as when hallow rooks retain
The sound of blust'rlng winds, whloh all night long
H ul roused the rea. Such applause was heard
As McDonald ended. Hla words tiaiTpleas'd
The ” Fire Eaten." For auoh another field
They dreaded worse than death) so much the fear
Of thepcople's voice, and the hnllotbox,
Wrought still within them t and no less desire
To found Ihe Rhett Republic, which might rise
By policy and long process ol time.
To rival H'.isAIngton's R public.
Three loud eheera Ibr Rhett gr McDonald rose,
Three for seecuton shook the vaultod roof. . .
Tw&s like the sound of thunder heard remote.
Then follow’d soolTs ol Cobb and the Union.
Of their session ended, they then bid ery
With “ BugleV’ legal sound tho groat result—
The tree,,ion council thus dissolved) and lorth
In order came die grand firo-eatlng peers.
Then, more at case their minds, nnd somewhat
raised
By fulso, presumptuous hope, the motly orowd
Disbond) and, wsndcriua, each.his several way,
Pursues his Inclinatlon.orsad cholco.
MILTON TRAVESTY.
From Ihe Charleston Courier.
The wrong, of the South, greater than thoic
of Hungary or Poland—prophecies of ru
in unless toe secede, worthy oj belief.
Many persons in the northern Stales, as 1
have said, aie troubled with the demon ol
mischievoua intermeddling with our concerns,
nnd the question is what shall we do l By
what means shall we be able to prevent Ihe
possessed from raving in the streets and
highways lo our great discomfort and annoy
ance ?
A number of very worthy gentlemen in our
State think that we ahould secede irom the
Union, throw the continent of North Ameri
ca into a slate of anarchy, and the World
perhups into n general war. They havefall-
en into a passion with the monomaniacs,
and, consulting their anger and not their
judgment, have, strangoly enough, confound
ed the insanity of these parties with the pro
ceedings of tlie General Government. They
impute the petitions, meetings and haran
gues of Seward, Sumner, or Philips and
the anti-slavery socities, lo :he Federal au
thorities, and regard the Government as ty
rannical, corrupt, oppressive ond ruinous to
the Southern States, because there is a Free
soil faction in N, York, or a riotous breach
of ihn peace in Boston or elsewhere. They
represent it, nccordingly,' as a monster 6f
corruption—the adoption of it as a blunder—
and the Union itself as a curse. If we were
in the condition of Hungary, or Poland, or
Austrian Italy, or Sicily, with troops living
on us at free quarters, and contributions le
vied at the points of the bsoyneis,—if we
were subjected to drsgoonades, like those of
Louis XIV. on the Huguenots, or burning
and massacres like those inflicted on the
Highlanders by the Duke jf Cumberland, it
would be impossible to use more extrava
gant and uulimited phrases.
The orators of the seceders assure us that
we are a degraded people—that wo are no
lunger free—that we are in chains—that so
disgraceful a case of submission to oppres
sion, has nevoi before been known since the
beginning of the. world. Their sensibilities
are harrowed at the very thought of living
under the humiliation and contumely which
acquiescence in the laws of the country
would necessarily entail, and they break out
into exclamations of indignation, rage and
grief. If Mr. Van Buren makes a free soil
speech, or a meeting at Syracuse expresses
it* profound affection for the negro race, or
Giddinos utters a declamation intended for
the Connecticut reserve, or Arby Folsom
escapes from her keepers and joins Theo
dore Parker in some insane'rontings, forth
with, we are told, the Federal Government
is plotting Ihe distruclion of Southern rights
ana the annihilation of the property and lives
of the Southern people. If this imaginary
conspiracy is not resisted, immediately, at
the risk of "civil war, pestilence, and utter
extermination," oracular toasts, like sybyl-
line leaves, fly about the country, predicting
ruin to the whole South absolute and unes
capable.
Now I have great misgivings whether all
this may not be mere declamation, very
frothy, quite as unsubstantial as whipt syl
labub, without being at all as palatable. It
seems to me that the oppression, corruption
disgrace, and chains }f the secession orators
are midsuinmernight dreams, and nothing
more ; a sort of stereotyped form of expres
sion, unaccompanied with definite ideas ;
words merely, without any sort of meaning.
In the ardour of haranguiug, on the stump
or at a barbaeue, inflated phrases and mag
niloquent sentences make the veiy staple of
the argument. The higher the seasoning,
tho greater the sucooss. The revolutionary
declaimer never thinks to ask, like Phocoin,
when applauded by the people, whether he
has not said some very foolish things: quite
the reverse; it is his purpose to win the
hurrah of tho people, and he, naturally, se
lects the figures of speech that produce that
effect. 1 can understand, therefore, how,
under such circumstances, he may use them
himself with becoming gravity and earnest
ness; but, that he should oe able to hear his
colleagues use them without laughing in hi*
sleeve, is past all comprehension.
It has been said by the great Roman ora
tor that it was impossible for two augurs to
meet, after predicting future events from the
Bight of birds or the entrails of beasts, with
out laughing in each other’s faces. After a
S reat secession meeting and the usual over-
ow of fervid eloquence on the tyranny of
the governmentAhat sanctions such licence
of speech, it irt quite os impossible that the
speakers can retain their gravity when once
fairly out of sight of the people and met to
compare notes over a glass of wine.
The effect, howevmipf perpetually repeat
ing thft*gme tlpngt.i.iH,. jaatti ' ' ’ *
that may be, is not without its influence. If
a man, aay an acute obeerver, will pertina
ciously assert that he is superior to all the
world, no mattor in what department of life,
whether it be in compounding a quack medi
cine or in the conduct of State affairs, one-
half of the world will believe him and the
other ha)f will become tired of contradicting
lliin. . So is it with pur seceding friend*;they
have iterated and reiterated the story of
wrongs, and oppressions, degradation and
shame, slavery and chains, with such assi
duity, that many persons believe them and
Ihe rest are weary with opposing them.
They have but one lever for moving popular
opinion—tho wrongs and dangers of the
South—and they have toiled at it until the
people think there must be some sufficient
ciuso for the outcry. They have dwelt
with oracular Irenxy on tho coming t.uin of
the South, and converts and desciples bow
down before their ahrine.
It ia very natural that they should. When
Miller predicted that the world was com
ing lo an end many persons believed him;
when the prediction was falsified one year,
and he predicted again for the next, many
believed him stilll. Why should not the
seceders then have their followers when they
foretell, not the end of the world, but that
of the Southern States, if their advice is not
implicitly adopted ? The one prediction is
as credible as the other, and in either case
the vehemence of the soothsayer is sufficient
ly imposing. They have in an equal degree
the contortions and the ot rabidum of the
sybil, and may, with theBame justice, claim
her inspiration. It is possible, however,
that a doom the reverse of the ancient
Prophetess may await the inspirations of
BlutRon, Bull Swamp, and the Calamus
Pond. The vaticinations of Cassandra, were
disbelieved although they were true. Our
fourth of July'oracles, in the form of speech
or tout, are devoutly confided in, ana yet
they may prove as unsubstantial as the dis
turbed drooms that usually follow its celebra
tion. CUKT1US.
From the Charleston Courier
A Plain Argument, by which every objection
to Secession may be answered-
An orderly and industrious citizen, who
minds his own affairs nnd gives but little at
tention tothoso of tho public, concludes, ve
ry naturally, that there must be something in
tne eternal clamour about wrongs and oppres
sions, of which he is solemnly assured that
he is Ihe victim. He is entirely at a loss, to
be sure, lo understand how it is. No man
interferes with him in hlg> business. He
ploughs, and sows, and reaps, and sells his
crops as usual. He is conscious of no di
minution of his rights He feels no oppres
sion ; no federal loll is taken from his mill;
no tax gatherer, except (he State’s, calls at
his door , no increase of taxes, unless it be
the $300,000 of his own legislature, lessens
his income, but he is told with pertinacious
vehemence that he is a slave, oppressed,
ruined, wronged beyond aJ example or
bearing, and that to submit is the part of a
fool and a das'ard. It is certain that all
thia must have some effect—that he must be
brought by this everlasting inflammatory
stump rhetoric to believe himself a mon
strously injured man. He becomes the vic
tim of a perpetual political blister plaster, of
endless doses of secession patent qunck stimu
lative medicine. He is like the honest far
mer in Pennsylvania upon whose potatoes
some small trespass had beon committed by
his neighbor’s geese, and who had been per
suaded to bring an action against their own
er, although still thinking the affair a very
trifling matter. But wheu ho came into
Court and heard Ihe speech of his Philadel’
lawyer, and listened to his detail of foul wrong,
injustice and injury of which he was the vic
tim—the ruin, the utter annihilation of his
whole property and family to which he was
represented as being exposed by the nefari
ous doings and worse desigus of his atrocious
neigubor—he bunt into tears, declaring that
he had not before known or unde.*stood how
injured a man he was. It is just so with
many worthy men who form an opinion of
the wrongs done to the South by the Feder
al Government not lrom what they them
selves see and know, but from the declama
tion of some political debutant, in chase of
public honors, or some veteran politicise
whose imagination is no longer sound.
This revolutionary declamation taken
another step which is not without its influ
ence. The seceders not only dogmatize on
(be sufficiency of the causes for secession,
but they denounce all who presume to op->
pose them. Having proved to their own sat
isfaction the existence of oppressions never
before known in the world, they assert se-
of secession submit to the laws, and do not
aubmit to Ihe dictation of politicians, whoso
schemes are leading to revolution and anar
chy. This ia the most heinous ot all offences
in South Carolinia, and is therefore branded
with thia terrible poly-ay table, intended to
express something worse than base, corupt,
traitorous, foolish, ignorant, and degenerate.
There is something so admirably concise,
easy and conclusive in this mode of reasoning
—this laying down an extravigant or absurd
proposition, and damning all opposed to it—
that it haa been a favorite kind of logic, in
all times, with all persons troubled with an
arrogant or cholonc temper. It reminds us
irresistibly of the ‘ similar plain argument
used by Lord Peter, in the “Tale of a Tub.”
His Lordship is striving to impose upon his
recusant brethren a certain brown loaf, whiah
he insist* is mutton, of Ihe first quality, from
Leadenhall market. Jack and Marlin are
incredulous. They venture t6'suggest-, with
great deference, that, to their eyes, nose and
taste, it seems nothing more than anordinary
loaf of brown bread. Or, this, Peter falls in
to a terrible passion and swears horribly.—
"Look you," he says ; “lo convince you
whnt blind, ignorant, obstinate, conceited
puppies you ere, I will use but one plain ar
gument—by Jove it is excellent mutton, and
may you be consigned to everlasting torments
if you do not believe it.”
It is just so with theseceders. - Yon must
believe that secession will not produce civil
war—that il will compelother States, against
their will, to secede also—that we shall be
able to support an independent nary and
army without money or credit—that it is
good morale end policy to rest our financial
system on successful smuggling—that Sa
vannah and Wilmington will To charmed
with the project by which our free trade is to
monopolize their trade,—you must believe
all these things, end many more ae curious
and monstrous, or the seceders resort to
Lord Peters’s plain argument, and denounce
and anathematize you as dastards, submis-
sionists, idiots, knaves, or traitors, and de-
vot you to confiscation and banishment, the
yard-arm aod the lanthern-post.
It is in vain that you reptesent to these
very tolerant and liberal gentlemen, that
their denunciations apply to the Sonlhern
Slates as well as to their fellow-citizens of
the State—that no one of these States is
willing to secede—that they are as wise and
ns brave as we are—that the coarse epithets
bestowed by the South-Carolina patriots, on
all opposed tn them, is producing afeeling of
hostility to the State in the hearts of South
ern men, at what they consider insolence
and arrogance on our part. It is ail in vain.
There is the brown loaf of ugly, sour, indi
gestible secession bread, and you trust be
lieve It to be the glorious dash that the sece-
der affirms it to be —a divine food, like that
of the Lotophogi, producing an oblivion of ail
socail civil and political evils—or you are
anathemamarentha, and the bull of condem
nation, snorting and belching and hissing fire,
is fulminated against you.
CURT1US.
"Cwfg|nils In Ike Field.”
“We hail with pleasure the appearance of
this able Champion of Southern Rights up
on the field of discussion.”— Constitutional.
ist, July 23rd.
Hus he got his coffiin strapped to his rump
with bullets in one end and prover.der in the
other ? If so, send him along. Gov. Towns
says he played h—1 with every thing last
fall with his coffiin, and we guess it wont
<bo much better this time ! If he comes this
way, we shell eend for Murphy, and let him
twist the “Captain of the Coffin Regiment”
around that “Barbor’s Pole” again ! From
the number of‘Richmonds In the field’ be
low,we should guess that Mr. Cobb had
thrown in some hot shot upon the enemy.
Come, gentlemen, trot out your candidate
—the people want to hear from him. But
we forgot, he stilts himself upon his digni
ty, ana says to the people, “behold a greater
parate State action lo be the only remedy for
these assumed evils. Secede, they say, and
government will become what it hat never
been before, an unmixed good—the disad
vantages that may not attend our institutions
will cease to molest us—slaves will no lon
ger run away—Pennsylvania will be a re
treat for those that do no more than Canada,
where it is known they never go—the peo
ple of Fanueii Hall will be' os 'silent as Exe
ter Hall, which is so acquiescent on the
subject of our institutions—the Federal
Government will receive our departure with
a bow of deferential politeness—England and
France will permit us to modify the law of
nations by our police regulations—South-
Carolinia will become a glorious empire, to
which all surrounding States will send in
their adhesion, and will enjoy the blessings
of order and law, and peace and security,
without danger from abrotd or disturbance at
home. If you do not believe all this with a
faith as implicit as that'- claimed by the
vile prophet, you are denounced as traitors,
cowards, corrupted slaves of the Federal
Government, idiots, unable to understand
your rights, or dastards unfit to defend
them.
These denunciations are so continued that
the English language is unahle to furnish
epithets, and the secedera are obliged to coin
new words to express their contempt. One
of these, the term submissionist, is in con-
itf '-***' r,,r4 ''
D1SUNI
NASHVILLE, and its beneath my dignity
to discuss the political questions of the day,
“face to face,’’ with Howell Cobb before tne'
people.”
Be it so ! The People of Georgia will cou
aider it beneath their dignity • to elect him
Governor.—Griffin Union.
Beur to get Ikein.
Whenever you hear a politician prating
about Southern rights and southern Interests,
just tell him that a man who has not soul
enoui' ‘ |Bm|
people inevety part of the country, whether
north or south, is too narrow contracted and
soulless a politician for you to follow, and
never you get him.
If he still persists in bis cry of Southern
Rights, just tell him that the only sure way
to successfully defend Southern rights is to
sustain and defend the rights and interest of
all parts of the Union, and by all means to
defend the constitution and laws of the lrind
and preserve the Union, and you get him
again.
Bevalntlen Im Cuba.
It seems from what we can gather, that a
portion "of the inhabitants of Cuba, have
struck for Independence. They commenced
the rcolution in the interior, and h->ve whip
ped out the Government Troops. and taken
possession of two small towns, Puerto Prin
cipe and San Juan. They doubtless com
menced where they did, that they might
take shelter in the mountains, in case they
found the Government Soldiers toA hard for
them. If the people generally join the Re
volutionists, there can be no doubt but that,
in a short time, Cuba will be rid oithe Span
ish yoke 1
An attempt to hold a meeting to organize
in Havana waa antcipated and prevented by
tbe government authoritiee.
The Cubans will have a bard struggle of it,
but no people Can be kept in boundsge who
are determined to be free ; when their op'
essors live as far off as Spain is fir®
Deep Soil ano Hoots.—A. J. Downing
says, “I have seen Ihe root* of strawberries
extend five feet down into a rich deep eoil i
and lliosn plnnls bore a crop of fruit five time*
and twicn as handsome and goods* the rom-
j 101 * ,j lr0 ^ uc ^ °f the soil only one foot
’I hei average vertical depth lo which roots
acreuil into disintegrated soil, is thirty-four
inches, and their length, as. above staled fas
much greater; but Ihe horizontal travel ia oc
casionally very great and gradually deepen
ing to thirty-tour inches. If a hill of com
be raised upon an artificial knoll, formed of
well disintegrated soil, and, when ripe, the
top of the stnlk be fastened to a gallows
frame and Ihe earth be washed from its roots,
“ nut ‘o abrade them, they will be found
measure five and a half feet in length, and
many of them so fine as lo lie singly invisible
to the naked eye ; but like the ultimate fi
bres of silk when several are conjoined; am
easily observed.
With these facts before us who can doubt
the necessity of deep plounghing.— Work
ing Farmer.
MuRDEn.—We hnvo been inforinaff,
through a private letter from a friend of ours,
residing in Gordon county, that most at-
trocious murder was committed in that cosw-
‘y°» Saturday evening, the 36th instant, hoc
Boucher > U P°" »h» person of Sig
nal Wilkinson, by shooting him in tha head*
with a rifle, killing him instantly. Douehtr
lias left.—Dal limes.
The Jacksonville ("Florida,' Republican of
the 13th instant records the death ot Dolly,
a negress, aged one hundred and aixtean
years. She was the slave of H. D. HohneaA
of that place. She was remarkable for bar
tenacious memory of events connected with,
the American Revolution, having acted in’
the capacity of cook and servant with several
officers of the Southern army during tha war.
She retained her skill as cook almost to har
end, was venerablo and rather stately in ap
pearance, with a bright eye, fine teeth, ereeb
figure, and Imir perfectly white.
U. S. Mint,—The total coinage from Janu
ary to June inclusive, amounts lo twenty-
four million two hundred and sixty-nine thou
sand four hundred and sixty-five dollars, and
the precious metals deposited to twenty-four
millions four hundred nnd ninutv-three thou-
snnd three hundred dollars, of which Califor-
nia contributed nineteen millions nine hun-
dred and ninety-five thousand five hundred
dollars.
South Carolina Secession Flag.—A
mammouth flag was suspended from one of
the windows of the offiice of the Charleston'
Mercury, on the 4th instant, on which was a
bne stnr und n rattlesnake with its head erect
at the foot of a palmetto tree, as if about to
strike. A portion of the military drew up-
before the office, presented arms, and gave
nine cheers for the flag of South Garolina.
The difficulties between the Northern and'
Southern sections of the Methodist Episcopal
church, it seems, are not to be settled by ar- ■
bitration, a* was earnestly recommended by
the Court. The Christian Advocate and
Journal states that the South demands as a
prerequisite lo any adjustment, a full ac
knowledgement of the justice nf her claim—
which ol course the North cannot do, and to
the negotiation falls through. It will than
therefore, ab'de the decison of the Court,,
which is promised to be rendered in the Fall..
GOING UP.
We have never heard of so easy and yet so
laughable a method as that contained hi a
sketch from the Spirit of the Times which
gives an account of Joe Merriwether’s
ascent,as told in the following extract by his
brother. Now lace tight if you want to save
your sides.
‘You recollect Mis. Morrison,’ says he,
‘brother Joe oilers was a dressy kind of a
chap ; fnnd of brass button* on his coat and
Ihe flann’est kind of neckercher ; and this
time he had on a pair of buckskin breech
es with straps under his boots. Well when,
1 was talking to him of the prospect fur next
day, all of a sudden 1 thought the feller was
a gvowin’ uncommon tall ; til) 1 discovered
that the buckskins breeches that wur as wet
as a young rooster in a spring rain wur be
ginning to smoke and draw up kinder and
wur a tiften brother Joe off the ground.’
‘Brother Joe,’ sez I, ‘you’re going up.’
‘Brother Tom,’ sez he, ‘I aint doing any
thing else.’
And lie scrunched down mighty hard but
it warn’t ov no use fur afore long ho were a
matter of some fifteen feel in the air.
‘Merciful powers !’ interrupted the wid
ow.
‘Brother Joe,’sez I.
‘I’m here I’sez lie.
‘Catch hold ov the tup of that black jack,
sez I’.’
‘Tiilk I’ sez brother Joe and he sorter
leaned over and grappled the Baplin, like as
may be you’ve seen a squi’el in an elm
switch of a June inornin.’ Bui it wau’t of
no use fur old’oman ef you’ll believe me, it
gradually begun to give way at the root*,
and afore he had got five foot higher, it just
slipt oui’n the ground as easy as you’d pull
up a spring readish.
‘Brother Joe!’ sez I again.
‘I’m a list’nin’ sez he.
‘Cut your straps I’ sez I, fur I seed it was 1 '
his list chance.
‘Talk I’ sez brother Joe, though he look
ed sorter a reproachful at me, lur proachio
such a subject, but after appsarantly consid
erin’ awhile, he outs with his jack knife sod
leaning over sideways, made a rip at thasolr
of his left boot. There wns a considerab
deal of crackin for a second or two, th“ / '
crash sorter like a wagon load of
had brugdown and tha fust thing 11
tother leg shot up like, and steP^
the last thin^ I seed ov my
