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From ltie New York 'Journal of Commerce.
OKI SPEAK NOT HARSHLY.
To youthjaot harshlyI since tho wound .
Upon the sappllng groonl
: Still scars tho nnolont- oalc whloh hath
Hafour-scoro winters soon.
tOli I soon—full soon doth sorrow oitlll-
Full soon 'tho dark oloinls lower;
Why should’st thou tepr thus ruthlessly
Tho potois of tho flower! a
Tq ago not harshly I—ngo hath had
A weary weight to boar ;
Troubles that, might well pale tho cheek,
brow
AntVihnrk the brow wUh-carc,
■pot harshly. !—She Is hearing now
. t, Bwcet household tones, again ; , , .
. Why should’st thou rudoly break upon
That dear, familiar, strain 1
Why should’st thou wako lior to tho thought
That lovo and joy are fled 1
Why should’st thou make her long to share
The qulot;of hordeud 1
Not harshly! Ho hath orrod Indeed,
And yet thou dost not know
Tho warring strlfb—the tempter’s power—
The blttomOss of woo.
And whop ho toll—4hou wast not there
To mark his agony;
Thou could'st not licav the frenzied prayor—
Tho wild, romorscfhl cry.
Oh, speak not harshly l-rThe dark clouds
Have but just rolled away
And let a gleam of sunlight down
To gild her changing day,
Why sternly check hor passing mirth—
When ore to-morrow mom.
Tho goldon ray will fado away
Llko tlioso of April bom 1
Not harshly ! tlion art mortal, too, .
As thoso thou dost condemn ;
And would’st thou Ooil would deal
As thou dost deni with them 1
Then speak not harshly!—since a time
May bo In store Ibr thee,
When thou fbr some kind word would’st give,
Treasures of land and sen.
ivltli thee
Remarks of Dr. Powell.
Wo copy tho following very practical senti
ments delivered at tho lato Cotton Planter’
Convention at Macon, Dr, Powell is a veter
an in tho cause of Southern Agriculture, and
has practised successfully wluit he so forcibly
teaches. Wo had the pleasure of listening to
tho Doctor’s interesting remarks nt Macon
aud now transfer them from tho columns of
1 tho Soil of the South to our own for tho bene
fit of tho farmers of Chcrokco Georgia.—
Ed. Coo.
Mn. Pncntnr.NT It has long been my ar
dent doslre to sco tho cotton growers of tho
South assembled in Convention, to commune
together as ii great brethorhood, who havo
' comihon interest in tills adoption of a more Ju
dlelal and rational system of agriculture. My
tieart fools gratiflml at what I now behold—
delegates from all the cot ton growing Slates of
tho South; the Interest thus awakened, in
spires tho hope, that a concert of aetlou may
bo producod, by which the lights of the grow-
-or of tho groat Southern staple may be secur
ed an .l protcctol. My sanguine temperament
induces mo to believe that many of the errors
* ftmi abuses which .sjftraitnVl tin* cotton gr<
- ‘Ing Interest may be removed, and that by the
•adoption of a correct policy, the Southern peo
ple may soon become the most Indopondei
■^ana prop<»rom in thy Untoji.
<-i am Mf- IV-j iMunt. of tliodifilcul
ty of ovcrcQnii'sg ^.tnGlishcd habits and c
TOmsVhA'YcVnr’ttWird flicy may bo. yet
should not despond for wo live in an ago
^w^i'ders, and have seen enterprises and bril
• lumt schemes aecomplMiecl, that were do
jounced a* being \1-.ion iry an l impracticable
jfo are admonished every day by those less
^erpdulous than ourselves, that our schemes are
Impracticable—that the cotton planters ave
.guttered ovor a vast extent of territory, and
jpover can be brought to act in concei t in re
gion to any system of operations, however
^feasible. I entertain dllferont impressions,
^ajid believe that there is as much InteHigeuc*.*
. -among the cotton planters of the South, as
.there is among any other body,of men and be
lieve that when they are brought to ponder
^ho.subject and consider their interests pro*
4»grly. that they will arrive ut the conclusion
|Lh qs practicable for them to coutrol
^ ; produets of their labor, as the Mechanics
njefehants and tho speculators. Tho ne-
jgrowho manufactures collars and foot mats
^claims tho right of fixing tholr prices; so the
shoemaker and hatter know what they ave to
irealizc for tholr labor, for they have their es
tablished prices, Hot so, with the cotton j>lan-
ho has no hand in regulating the price of
-his labor. Standing alone, ho has to encoun
ter tho combinations of the acute and sordid
•peculators. Tho mechanics, by concert of
tiopf/fix and regulate their prices ; tho tncr-
intspby tho same process, graduate and de-
-tamiino tlio scale-of profits upon their com
modities; the speculators and dealors in cotton
tut their pleasure raise or put down its price,
eApd why Is It, Mr. President, that the cotton
^planter hits no mode by which Ills interests can
.ho protooted 1 Tlio reason Is obvious, sir:
thore Is nn conoort of notion among them;
. thoy fall into tlio bands of tho mercenary dea
ler iii-tile products of their toil, and havo no
redress. This large and onligbtencd assem
blage Indicates to my mind, that this state of
-things cannot long exist, and presages a brigli-
•tor'dawn upon tho cotton plnntcrs’ prospects.
Having devoted much consideration to this
it subject, many plausible schemes of re-
liaro suggested tliemsclvos to my mliid.
it since my arrival at tills plncc, on conipnr-
lotcs with distinguished gentlemen from
icr sections of the country, who have pro
jects better matured, I slinll not urge any Ih-
eorito sebemo, but will allude to a practical
•jrstcmof my own, about which there is no
•for an experience of some thirty
i, frilly demonstrates its correctness. It
is to bo our misfortune, that Providence
too. bountiful; wo make too much
greatly augmented by which the markets
are glutted nml the price thereby depressed,
whilo the comforts and substantiate of lifb aro
neglected. By pursuing ttits ruinous policy,
tho country is in great destitution. Many of
tho wealthy planters of Alabama, have not a
middling of bacon nn their plantations of their
own raising and somo have been forced to sell
their cotton at six und a quarter cents to pay
for bacon at flfteeh cents and cortiiit otiedfil'-
lar per bushel. And tills state of things ex
ists in ns good a corn country as enn bo (bund
tho.Unlted States for much of our slough
land In Alabama,will produce Dorn 40 to 80
bushols por aero, and stack can bo raised as
successfully ns any where olso. The smallest
ohnngo in our system of agriculture would
bring About tho happiest results and make us
Independent.
Supposo. Mr. President, tho Southom plan
ters would resolve to live at home; or in other
words, to make, their own suppllos. to ralso
their meat, tlielr mules tlioirliorses. hjtd man
ufacture to some extent, tholr own clothing.
What would bo the result! To do this, tho
cotton crop would necessarily ho curtailed ono
third, whloh would bring It under two mil
lions of halos; and ensure a remunerating prico
to tho groWot, and prevent those ruinous flup-
tuations, when tho cry of ti three million crop
Is set on (hot, os at the prdwnt' time. If tho
planters,v instead of appropriating two-thirds
bf their best ’ land to cotton, wonld adopt a
more rational nnd judicious policy, and plant
two-thirds of tholr land in grtln, they soon
would flml tlielr situntlonl||featly ameliorated.
Their cribs would bo fujfsSlii-y would s-on
linve fat stock in abnndi
lng buyers, they would 1« sillers. Tlio cor
rectness of this systorf? ’Is fhllydomomtmted
by my own oxporlenco. anil I'enn assure ray
planting brothers, It Is tlio true policy, nnd
none will (hll who ndopt It.
As Southern patriots, our hearts should be
rejoiced at wlmt our eyos havo seen at this
great Agricultural Fair; such developments of
our resources, indicate our future greatness 6s
a nation of freoraon. Our bsioms should bo
filled with gratitude at tho contemplation of
thebountlus and blessings of a kind Provi
dence, for uurs Is a blessed inheritance Indeed,
nnd tlio lines have emphatically fallen to us
In pleasant placos. We have all the elements
nfa grootpooplo, nnd a All) development'of
our resources will consummate onr glory and
prosperity. Wo require no special legislation,
no tariffs of protection. All that wo ask is,
that protection guarantied fo’us by tho ‘groat
charter of our rights,'that Constitution drained
by tlio collective wisdom of onr patriotic fa
thers. Georgia Is called t|io Empire State of
the South, and what is the secret cf her great
ness, but.lior glgantje 'system of Iiltornnl im
provements 1 In the enterprise and genius of
lior fieoplo consists her wealth and’ greatness.
took
Debate in the Oonneotlout Legislature on
the destruction of Small Birds.
The following bill having boon introduced,
adz:
‘ That any porson who shall shoot, Or In any
other manner kill, destroy, entrap, ensnare, or
otherwise capture upon lands not owned or
occupied by -himsolf 'any of tlfP following
birds via r robin blue bird swallow, mortify
ewlt. night or musqultblinivk, whip-poor-will,
cuckoo, king bird, wake up or high-hole,
wood-pecker, cat-bird, long-tailed thrush or
brown thrasher mourning dove, meadowlark
or marsh-quail, flro-blrd or summer red bird,
spider-bird, or wax-bird, ground-robbln or
choivlioat bobolink or rice-bird, sparrow, yol-
low-bird or phobo, shall bo punished by a flue
not exceeding tire dollars.
On its second reading, there appreared to
i the sports o.- past time of my friends
our country towns, I ask them confident
ly, sir, to- aid us in tho passago of such laws
as will enablo largo towns, so fortunate as to
havo parks, or private Individuals residing In
them so muck blessed as to liavo ground? at
tached to their residences, that tho .little song
sters that frequent Ilium may bo protected
from the r. thlcss I t
thus be preserved,«
From the Knoxville Plcbcan
Rail Road from Cincinnati to the South At
lantic Seaboard.
Tlio Stato.of Ohio, though comparatively
now, is already -Anther advanced in wealth
and commercial greatness than any state in
tlio Union, Ilcrpcoploaro energetic, Indus-'
trlous; and dnterpflsingr and her soli; flcli ahd
of the destroyer,~and Rsrtllo, yields yearly Us frill measure of
of tho dearest aud most strength to add to tho wealth and independ
ents to our earthly res- enco oflior thrlAy sons. And In comparison
to tho trndo of tills great Slate, that of tlio
othor Slates oftlio West and North-west hartl-
ly approaches rlwilship. At presenttho Soutli-
loasterncities got not,a dollar's worth of it.—
.To socuro it, would bo a triumph they might
well bo proud of. That It cau.-bo secured,
ennobling accomi—.—
Idoneo, that God has given us.
Mr. Burr, bf Klllingsworsli, moved to oraso
tho long-tailed thrush, os ho was nii arrant
com thief. • J ■
Mr. Boardmak.—I hopo not sir, Tho
tlimsh is tho sweetest of our singorstho prl-'
raa dpnna of our troupo. When ho sings with
a frill heart, tho wholo air Is filled to Intoxlcn-
was demonstrated many years ngo. Despair
ing of a direct connection with tho Soutli-at-
bo In somo quarters a disposition. to rldlculo tlou with his gushing melody. Ho Is greatly, lantlo senboard, tboyhavc.lt Is true, pushed
superior to tho nightingale of Englnnd, and forward tlielr connection by railroad with the
oven tho Swodlsh.NiglitengaJo herself has lls- v »* *>"<' PMtadalnhla. but tho
toned to him with jj&bW ndinlratlou and des
pair. Could I have every thrush In tho State
on my own grounds, most cheerfully would 1
feed them for a titho of the melody that they
Atrnlsb the gentleman of KnilngsWortli oveiy
day. Mr. Burr rcplfed that ho was well aware
that the thrush was-ono of tho sweetest song
sters In nature’s grand; clrolr, yol it was noverr
thcless true, that lie was a great nnnoyanco
to tho farmer; and ho was therefore reluctant-
I lovo Georgia, V for when a stranger sho too
tna in ;* sho* non risked nml cliorislicd 'nic.-
I lovo her pcoplo and glory in her prosi>crity.
When living npon hor soil, I labored in her
cause, nnd she conferred upon mo honors more
than commensurate with any merit of mine.
Whonln.hcr councils, I hnd tho honor to re
port ns chairman of tho committee on Inter
nal Improvement on tho partol the Senate,
tho hill for tho construetlon of tin* great Wes-
tom nnd Atlantic Rail Rond. This schetno
was denounced hy many distinguished states
men and polltlclus, as boing wild and visiona
ry, and met with violent opposition and not a
few of tho friends of the measure were evict
ed from office for its advocacy; for they regar
ded it ns utterly impracticable to construct a
Rail Road through the mountains of Georgia.
I thank thc.Fntherof mercies, that my spun
of life has been lengthened out, and that I
have been permitted to realize, to the fullest
extent, my anticipations; for I have seen the
air scale the Altoona heights. I have witnes
sed tho proud triumph of art over the obstruc
tions of nature, and tho^team-horso now daily
courses tlm track from the Atlantic bonier to
tho Tennessee valley—not only crossing tfl-
mountain bht possing under Taylor’s Ridge,
nnd will soon wind round the bn«o ofthe Look
out. to meet the Nashville and Charleston road
now in rapid progress of completion.
Lctnfj my .cotton planting brothers, who
have been delegated to attend this Conven
tion fi'om the younger sisterhood of this con
federacy of States, go homo and toll our con
stituents what marvellous things these Georgia
pooplu are doing, nnd urge upon them to fol
low her noble example, and Imitate hor pub
lic-spirited sons.8Uchnstl)e Joxksf.8 pp.Tr.ns-
bs, and others, who contributed so largely by
their rare and superior animals of various
kinds to render her agricultural jubilee the
grandest exhibition of the kind evor witnessed
In the South. Yea it is truly a great Agricul
tural Olympaid. -Tho Statu which I have tin*
honor in part to represent bore, is waking up.
Tho example of Georgia is exerting a salutary
influe co upon hpr. Her Cotton Factories
are springing up every where, nnd having a
plenty of raw •ateriul, they arc prosperous,
none, none working short time, to starve and
oppress the operatives. Sho, too, is ongaged
in splendid Rail Rond project*, and will soon
bring in close proximity, her cities on the Gulf
with the rich valley ofthe Mississippi, nnd par
ticipate in that great commercial interest.—
Shelias contributed her mite to this grand ag
ricultural jUbilee, and her sons may justly feel
proud oftlio specimons she 1ms offered. Her
steam-engine noeds no commcndntiou; its
splendid workmanship speaks its own pmiso :
and but for the distance, sho top would havo
entered competition in tho way of lino stock ;
for, lam proud to say, wo have afow jiatriotic
men, who liavo turned their attention to stock
raising, aud a proper system of husbandry.—
One of hor delegates delights, not only in fine
Dovon cattle and Berkshire hogs, but in his
park are over two hundred deer.
I thauk you, Mr. President, and tho mem
bers Qf.thc Convention for their patient atten
tion, and will not trespass farther on your
time,
Umate is genial, our soil prolific, apd not
B,1< > uld ’. cot,on
Swearing.
Schoolcraft infonqs 11s that tho Indians of
this Continent liavo i\o ivords in their language
which call ho converted Into nutlet 1’oaslbly
this is tho reason ivby many' persons take up
tho idea that It is genteel not. savaxc to swear
|Sof Store and Dwelling houses
xamine snmplesof Miner-
Ark,si
♦Died of Consumption in tho Island of Ja
maica, Dee, 7,-1860, Fbamk Goss, aged 16
(ho bill, as scarcely worthy tho attention of so
dignified a body, and the whole, mutter was .
spoken of, na . Ismail , gaiiio," ,0u tho third'
rending Mr. Andrews of Now Britain, endea
vored to glvo a difll-rent turn to the debate,
nnd tlio Ibollng of members on the subjoct.
Mr. Andrews said ho roso for tho purposo
of moving to add to tlio list of bints.to be
protected by this bill, tho names ofsavcral
others which bad been omitted. Jle spoke
of the great value and Interest of tho race of
.birds, not only on account of tboic beautiful
pluniago and doligbtfrii melody, but as form
ing a most Important link In that chain by
which the whole vlslblo creation was united,
and tlio comparative numbers of tho various
mecs of animals duly regulated. They are
S?Irtslcntl of bei to act a most Important part in tho
*• — economy of nature* by holding Itich6ck (ho
tendency of tho insect speoies to increase to
mjTlads, and, llko tlio locusts of tlio East* to
sweep from the earth, overy vestige of. the
vegetable creation. That such a tendency to
increaso on tho jkirt of tho insect ‘txibes np-
tually existed, and that without the requisite
checks,4Jiq. whole earth would bo laid waste
by them, was sutfieloutly apparofft to all who
had deeply reflected on tho subject. But
among tho checks to tills Increase* uone were
probably raoro important or cfllcocious than
tho feathered songsters of ttyor? fluids and
groves, Ever 4n motion, with keen cyo aiul
eager appetite they were overy momont seiz
ing upon their prey as It lurked beneath Hie
bark of tho trees, or crept over leaf or flower,
and thus kept in check tho most destructive
enemy with which tlm farmer or florist was
called to contend. But while thus engaged
as the farmer’s most efficient" co-udjutor and
Mend, it was his misfortune almost every
where to be treated liko an enemy, and even
to bo persecuted for tho acts which redounded
most Jo tho benefit of man. Mr, A. remarked
that several years sinco, while travelling In
western Carolina aud Virginia , he passed
through a forest where tho timber on somo
hundreds of here's was all dead and decaying^
Inquiry was made of a countryman respecting
tho cause of this devastation. Ho replied
that the trees hod been killed by wood^peckets,
which had been increasing in that neighbor
hood for somo years, and though they had
killed os many of them as possible, It was all
to little purposo; that they wore continually
pecking tho trees, until tho wholo forest, fhr
and wide, was destroyed. This was a good
exemplification of what our formers and their
sons were constantly doing. Those woodpeck
ers had doubtless been drawn toguthor by the
myriads of wood-worms, tho grub of tho Bu-
prestes, and other insects bred beneath tho
bark of tho forest trees, and which were nt
that time engaged in devouring tho fresh
wood doj>oi»u*id under tho bark of thoso trees.
Tlio real enemy wus concealed IVyin sight, nnd
the fijniid who ■was searching out and destroy
ing this enemy, whurevor his keen ear detect
ed their stealthy gnawiugs, was taken liko
tlm poor and faithful dog of Llewellyn ns tho
destructive foo, and liko 'him consigned to
swift destruction. So it was now . with tho
Black-bird, which v.as ever ready to follow
through the furrowed field and to seize upou
the worm whose secret mischief was disturb
ed by tlio unexpected inroad of the plough
share. Through every day of tlm long sum
mer he plied his useful iahor. but alas for his
safety I it was said that sometimes in tho ear
ly spring, whilo searching for tho grubs, whloh
would soon, if not detected, destroy tho buri
ed corn, ho meets with a fbw—a very few—
kernels of that corn, which his efforts ate
teuding to protect, and incontinently devours
them. Mr. A wished that, notwithstanding
this sin of ignorance on tho part of this use-
fal bird, ho could sec in the Homo a disposi
tion to protect his life from tho wanton attacks
everywhere mode upon it; but lm foared to
propose it, lest It should bring the other little
songsters into danger fYom being found asso
ciated in tho same bill with a bird that bud
suffered so much in his good name. Ho
would, however, venture to propose to add
the wood-peckcr and a few other confessedly
harmless tenants of our fields and forests.
Mn. Boardm\n of Nkw Haven.—It was
somo eminent genius, I think Goethe, who
said, ‘Tho works of nature are ever to me a
freshly-uttered word of God.” I sympathizo
earnestly in that sentiment. We are every
where overwhelmed with tho proofs of tlm
power and goodness of that God who has mado
all nature beautj to the eye and music to the
ear. Our brilliant sun, our pure, clear air,
which even Italy cannot surpass; our gorgeous
sunsets; tho dark luxuriance of our forests;
tho rich and varied products of our teeming
soil, are ever objects of grateful contemplation,
in the morning dawn or evening twilight. At
such moments nothing so tills tho heart with
gratitude, and oftcu tlm eyes witli tears, as the
free, joyous singing oftlio birds in tho garden,
It stirs the purest, gentlest, sweetest sympa
thies of our nature. It civilizes and refines
the henvt—and if I were desirous of educat
ing a youth for happiness and usefulness, I
would begin and never cense teaching him to
admire and love tho beautiful and wonderful
works of Qod.
Mr. Ilowe, of Hartford, said—if there is
one propensity which J woqld eradicate from
tlm* breasts of my children, it is thijt wjljok
leads them to destroy tho feathered warblers
which frequent our fields and parks, or our
tliat ho ought to recctnr, -a „ nroosonubb .
the Valedictory, that honor was not conferred |
ly compelled to movc^to strike out his name.
Mr. Amlrows of,Now Britain, said that
though ho was a farmer, and tho 'son of a
formor, ho had never, heard anything said un
til this morning, against tho character ofthe
thrush. .Inhis part oftho'Stato thisheautiftil
Liril boiunn excellent reputation, and If In any
other ecetion, ho hadjapsed into dishonest
habits, -It must havo been because In those
sections ho jjftd fallen Into bail company. lie
sorry.to soo him stricken from
cities, of Now York and Philadelphia, hut tho
greatsuporiorltyrof the routhorn marts for
tlio saloof tholr produots, will readily present
Itaolf to them, and the old will bo abandoned
for llio now, when the means of reaching tho
latter arc mado os succession as thoso alrca-
dy.posscssod for reaching tho former. Prom
Glpeinnatl, thorn arc railroads either in opera-
(iou or, In progress, branching out In every dl-
rlction over tlio State, These already draw
avast deal of tho products of the State Into
.that ylty, whonco It finds Its way to Now Or
leans, or. by, circuitous and expcnslvo routes,
should ho
tho hill;
Mr. NoAnDHAfjta-Ono word more, Mr.
Speaker. A grca(%ivorslty of oplulon exists
among formers cbficomhig tho depredations
committed upon the!? crops by birds. , A law
waaonco enacted in Virginia ottering a bounty
for the destruction id
tlielr corn. A war <
li'ntl the oxtermin:
i crows that destroyed
extermination followod,
lof tho com also; for In
many districts the ravages of tho worms woro
such, after tho removal of tho crows, that
. d back their
tnonoy. If thoy could havo established tho dy
nasty oftlio crows again.
Mr. Burr again lnsltitod that tho thrush was
the cause of ipucli mischief in the former’s
com fields, and appealed to tho farmers pres
ent to sustain his position.
Mr. Benton Oullfon) said he was one of tho
formers appealed to, and ho desired to say lio
had never heard tho thrush evil spoken of
to mosf of tho Southora States. Thus to
cure thin trade, Cincinnati presents Itself ns
tho natural terminus ofthe railroad artery
through whltili,it must conrso Its way directly
ty the south-east, toulsvlllo Is too low down
over to lio the permanent turmlnus of this
great channel of trade. A glance at tho route
of this lino of .railway will substantiate onr
declaration. Thus, taking Dalton, Georgia,
as tlio starting point south, it Is forty miles to
Chattanooga; ono hundred and forty miles
from Chattanooga, to Noshvlllo ; ono hun
dred and soventy rallea from Noshvlllo to
LoulsvlUo, thenco to Cincinnati ono hundred
and thirty miles; In all, four hundred nud
eighty mllco from Dalton, via Chattanooga,
Nashville, and Louisville, to Cincinnati. Wa
havo put down thodlstanco from point to point
very low, but wo wish to he on safo grounds.
Now, starting at tho somo point, wo find tlio
distance from Dalton to Cincinnati, through
Eastern Tanncssce and Kentucky, to be but
threo hundred and aixty miles, as follows;
from Dalton to Knbxvlllo, ono hundred nnd
toil miles; Knoxville to Lexington, Ky., ono
hundred and seventy miles: Lexington to
Cincinnati, eighty mllba; gMng a dlfierenco
to fovor of tho latter tonic of from ono hun
dred and-twenty to ono hundred and forty
Another Letter from Major Downing,
Downinoville, down East in the State or
Maine, Novemdeh 21, 18S1.
Tho Downtogvillo Platform.
Mr, Gales & Seaton ; Blnco my loiter to
you two or threo weeks ngo, I've had another
long talk with Undo Joshua about tlio ricke
ty cohsani of our politics all over tho country,
anil about contrlrin n now platform to stand
on. Undo Joshua takes 'hold ofthe business
like an old apostle of liberty. Ho says some
thing must be dono, or wo are a gnne-gooso
people ; wo can’t novor got along in' this way,
spilt up Into twenty parties, and every ono
lighten agin hit tho rest. When wo didn’t
uso to have but two parties, ho says, ono or
t'other most always stood a clmiico to beat,
and they that wasn’t heat could toko' com
mand or tlio ship, nnd trim tho sails U thoy
thought best, nnd man tho helm, nnd keep
her moving on tho voyage. But now It’s ono
ngln nineteen every where all over tlm coun
try, nnd if ilie good old ship don’t got ashore
to tho squabble, or run on the rocks some
where, It must bo a miracle that'll savo bor.
“YoSCO,Major," says Uuclo Joshua, “wo
must ranlgamato llicso twenty parties Into two
partlos ngln, somohow or other. I can't ex
actly sco yet how to do 1 'it; but tho thing must
bo dono, or I say It’s gon-gooso with us. All
partlos always tun out alter awhilo and liavo
to hoglnanow. It can’t bo holpt; It’s tlio
nator of tho tiling. All crops will run out
Ifyoukoop’em too long in tho same field;
nnd when-you find tho fond don’t boar hardly
nothin but woods, it’s best way to change tho
crop at onco. It was so With tho first two old
partlos, tho Fedorall>tS'and-Ropubltcans;thoy
lind something to fight about aud keep ’em
allvo Ibr some years. Ono was afraid tho
Federal Government wasn't strong enough
to get along . Well, and t'other was afraid It
was too strong. And so they fit that battle out
year allor year, till at last thoy got used to r
Government, and found It didn't want any
tinkerin olthcr way. And so thoy left off
flghtln, oxoopt a little onco In a while for tlio
Aw of It; and the two partlos hogun to boso-
olablo like, and to talk togethor across from
ono rank to t’othor, and wan’t afraid to como
up so near as to roach a chow of tobacco
across to ono anothor on tlio pint oftlio boga-
nut. Atlostthoygot klndofmlxcdup like,
and somo went ono side and some t'otlior, and
forgot which side they belonged to. And so
wllon Mr, Monroo come In and looked round to
din of Ihcso-tvciit* young fprontln par
to sco which shall get the most ashes ont at
the two old slumps to spread round (heir rotoa
tomako ’em grow and overtop the resit
" Now, suppose somo folks,” says bo, "think-
in tho Whig and Democrat parties was alhrs
yet, should go ahead and call the- national
convent Ions ns they used to, and should; M
nobody hi but Jest tlm two old parttea, and
nominate tholr Brcsidcnls on tho two old Whig
and Democrat platforms. Each party wonld
then have jest about nineteen parties llghtla
agin ’em, awl nobody would stand any clianee
to cliooso a Drcsident. There would lie the
Union Whigs, and tho Abolition Whigs, and
tho Union Democrats, and tile Abolition De
mocrats, and tlio Silver-gray Whigs, and’ the
,Woolly-hood Wlllgs, and tho Hunker Demo
crats, rrtitldim Barnburner Democrats, and: the
Seward party, and the Union Safety Commit
tee party, nnd tlio old Abolition party, and
tho r 'gulnr Freo-silo party, and tile regular
Vote-YourscIf-a-Firm parly, and the old Se
cession party, nnd the Co-operation Secession*
Isis, and tho Out-and-out unqualified'gofotona-
Secessionists, all in the field and every one
llghtin on tlielr own hook. If any body can
tell where a ship is likely to go to when the
crew Is in rnuliny and' nobody at the helm,
thoy can guess whore wo shall lie likely to go
to If things go on in this way."
"Well," says I, "Undo Joshua, nccordtn
to your account, I think wo are in a pleklo."
“ That'a wlmt wo bo'," says lie ; “ nnd
there’s nothin will getus out of it hut to go
hack to tho old fiisldon of two parties agin.—
Tlieso twenty parties must ho malgamated,
down Into two parties, awl wc must begin
lllicir, gri mi (o a nen jilutftji nr, Mint gtr ■Itrnd,
But how It’s to bo dono puzzles me and wor
ries mo a good deal.- I wish, Major, yon
would sot your wits to work and sec if ; you
can’t contrlvo some plan.”'
"Well, Undo Joshua," says I, "I never
got so Air Into tlio woods yet hut what I found
tho way ont ngln ; nnd’I don’t sco nny diffl-
culty here. It seems to mo- tlio -roail out la
Jost as platans tho road to mill."
At that Uncle Joshua gill: mn a slap on the
shouldor that o’en aniost fetched *mo over,
and says lie, “ Major, that makes me feel aa
If a flash of lightening wont throngh me. : If
any body olso had snid It, I should say ’twas
all hnmbugt but If you say Itl'heliovo It.—
Now In . the name of Old Hickory, dti go to
work and'show ns tlio way out of tho woods.”
“ Woll,” says I, " undo, I don’t think we
can malgamale tlio twenty parties down into
two, hut I think wo can sift 'em out Into two
parties and make olenn sqiiarq worlfc of It.—
In the first placo, wo must got a principle to
fight about, for you’ve Jost proved that, that’s
tlio wholo lift) of parties; and tlio. groatcr tho
principle Is, tho stralghtcr will tho parties
draw tho lines anil tho harder thoy’ll jflghl—
Now, let us go right to work and how out »
now platform that shall 1 reach dear from
Malno to t’other end of Texas, and:from Now
YorktoCallfomy, and run up our flag oh. it,
with letters forgo enough for all to read—
The Union and tub Constitution,’no>v.a>io
ronEvEn.
Mr. Trumbull of Btonington remarked that
this law did not restrain pcoplo from killing
birds on tholr own fon&i, hut was designed to
curtail the liberties of those lawless intruders,
who are fired with Insatiable ambition to do-
dcstroy harmless birds on other’s promises.
Amendment lost,
Mr. Osgood, of Pomfrot, moved to Insert
the black-,bird.
Mr. Boarcman saldtliat although lie believ
ed tho black-bird to bo ono of tho former's
best friends, still Ills bod reputation, If the
amendment was adopted, might tend to do-
font tho hill.
Amendment ndopted.
Mr. Osgood moved to amend further liy in
serting the Quail. HO was for putting nn cud
to tlio poaching projiensltles of certain pro-
frsstonal hunters, who go strolling over other
people’s premises; hanging away at every tiling,
and thus endnngcring^ho lives of tho people
in tlio rural districts.
Somo one thought’the'Quail already pro
tected by tho laws n
not It ought by all
tho hill. V
Amendment adopted.
Mr. Godfrey of Fairfield moved.to Insert tho
humming-bird. '■
Adopted.
An amendment in li»vor of *ho wren was
adopted. ’/
Mr. Burr moved ty Insert tlio crow. Ho
knew that by many jio was regarded As an un
mitigated scoundrel, but ho thought ho had
done more good thaij is generally supposod,
and ho should be protected.
Amendment lost.
Mr. Boardman said at the suggestion of ail
omineut naturalist, ho wished to add tlio roso
breasted Grosbeak—It was a beautifril bird,
which bad recently made Its appearance in (lie
gardens in tills vicinity.
Amendment adopted;
ed passed.
The Blind.
miles; thus;
Dalton to Chattanooga,
Chattanooga to Noshvlllo,
- Nashville to Louisville,
40
140
170
Louisville to Cincinnati,
180
Dalton to knoxville,
Knoxvlilo to Lexington,
Lexington to Cincinnati.
480
110
170
80
Bistauco via Noshvlllo,
" “ Knoxville,
800
480
800
In flivor oflast route, 120
At Loxlngton thore are threo rends branc' -
Ing out, two of them ore now completed and
tho other In rapid progress. Each of these is
about eighty milcn in longlli—ono striking tho
Ohio at Covington, opposite Cincinnati, in
; game—if It was
i he Inserted In
; and tho bill as nmend-
An oxcoodlngly interesting exhibition was
made In tho State House, on Monday night,
of tlio snccossfnl oflbrts recently mado in this
State at instructing the blind. At nothing
need wo bo more amazed, and in fow things
should wc more rejolco, than - in tho marvel
lous facility with which, under tho improved
modes of Instruction, tho perpetual night of
these sightless creatures is turned into day.
Their progress in several departments of knowl
edge lias been more rapid than Is common
with children who cqjoy tho blessings of sight;
and tlio joy that thoy manifest nt the acquisi
tion of knowledge is wonderfully great.
An academy for tholr instruction, wo arc
happy to learn, has been opened in Macon,
and Mr. Fortesquiou, a well educated and ex
cellent young man, also blind, is ongaged as
teacher. A bill is before tlio Legislature for
tlio permanent endowment of this institution.;
which wo sincerely hope will meet with fovor
on tho part of the Legislature. It Is suppos
ed that there are over 800 blind persons In
tho State, .and surely it cannot bo that tlio phi
lanthropy of tho right enjoying citizens has
not dimensions broad enough to reach, and
ralso, and illuminnto those minds otherwise
consigned to hopeless darknoss.-S). Presby
terian.
t2jr At the lato meeting of tbe Board of
Trustees ofthe Furman University, Greenville,
8.0. Judge Q’Neal was elected President of
course of construction ; another running to
LoulsvlUo, and another to Maysvillo, tho last
two completed, we bcllove. Thus it will be
seen, that by the route proposed, (twill bo bht
ten miles further If indeed any, even to Louis-
vlllo, than by tho route now dopendodnpon.
Again, while there ta, but otto hundred and
soventy miles wanting to complete too route
as herein laid down by us, and form an un
broken chain of railway from Cincinnati
through pastern Tennessee, to too seaboard,
there is wanting on tho other side three or
four hundred milos, boing all that portion of
the line bo tweon Nashville and Louisville and
Louisville and Cincinnati, and tho better half
of that between Chattanooga and Nashville.
Thore are a hundred. advantages- presented
In this route of railroad ovor all others , that
aro or can bo dovisod, whloh will Suggest
themselves to tlio minds of tho bnslncss men
of the cities more directly interested. We
have thrown together a few facts which all
may understand. The pooplo of Augusta,
Savannah and Charleston and of Cincinnati,
ought to glvo this important subjoct their ear
ly attention. Tho stock in this connecting
link wiU be equal to, if not mere valuable,
wc venture to say, than that of any road In
tho country. It will bo a vast tube, through
which will (low the immense produce and the
live-stock of Ohio and Indiana, Georgia, South
Carolina and Florida. No rival road can ovor
spring up to dispute tbe commcrco of this
vast section of country. Ohio would bo drain
ed ofits vast surplus products, which con
centrating at her great commercial emporium,
Cincinnati, wonld flow through the channel to
its almost undisputed monopoly oftlio south
eastern markets; and in return Charleston
and Savannah would soon bocomo extensive
Importing cities, and Instead of tho presont
ycarjydrain upon our currency for stock and
produce from Kentucky arid tho west, the
phase of things would bo materially changed
and a great share of that now taken back and
carried to Philadelphia and Now York, would
goto Savannah and Charleston, nml lio ex
changed for merchandize that the people of
Cincinnati, Charleston and Savannah arc most
directly interested, and upon them to a con
siderable extent devolves its construction.-
Wo hope tho public journals of too rcspcctivo
cities will, at nn early dn.y, present the sub
ject to tlielr readers for tholr consideration —
Wcfccltliat tlio connection is so important
and so plainly practicable os to need very little
argument to commend it to tho favorablo
consideration of tbo business men of these
cities.
... institution.
EBS-VSKI) ugl-sm.--
upon him, b«t, upon one whoso, napto has I rare treat to take a 4*,
sinco i '• ' ' '
. 55T Ho who refliscs forgiveness breaks tho
see how tlio ranks stood, his first words was,
'Why, fact, what Jollbrson onco said, tee are
all Federalists ,• we arc all Republicans, has
como to pass.’ And bore the first two old
parties died out, nnd now ones sprouted up
and took their places."
Hero Undo Joshua got up and wont to tho
fire and knockod tho ashes out of Ills plpo and
put In a littlo more tobacco, and sot down
“gin-
" Well, now, Major," says ho, “ It’s boon Jest
so with tho last two great parties, tho Whigs
and Democrats. As long as they had any
thing to fight about they could keep tholr
ranks straight and toll who was who, and
they did do It for a good many years. Ono
wanted a great Nntlonal Bank, and t’other
didn’t; ono wanted a very high tariff, and
t’other wanted a vory low tariff; ono wanted
to drlvo ahead, like all possess'd with making
roads and chnnalsand the liko, and t’other
didn't want to go a step that way. And so
tliey drew the lines and fit it out. How long
and how liurd they fit I needn't tell you, Ma
jor, for you and Gonoral Jackson had a hand
in it and know all about It. Well, arter n
wlillo both parties found out thoy could do as
woll without a great national bank os thoy
could with one. So thoy dropped that quarrel.
Then some of them that wanted a vory high
tariff begun to think they had pitched It rath
er too high, aud were willing to taka ono con
siderable lower. And somo of them that
wanted a.vcry low tnrlfl'bogun to think, and
to feel too, that they had pitched It too low,
and begged for one considerable higher. So
tho jig was up about any raoro party flghtln
on that score. Woll, us for roads nml canals,
overy body found out at last that them sort of
things ivpuld go ahead nny how, |>arty or no
party, and it wns no sort of rue to fight ngln
'em. So hero was the end on’t, Tho old par
ties have had tholr day; mid I toll yon, Mq|or,
they are both as dead ns horrlns; they’ve
died a lmtoral death."
11 Why, Uncle Joshua," says I, 11 it seems to
mo you are getting wild, Do you say tho old
parties aro dead 1 Why, ain't Whigs and
Democrats in every body's mouth from mornlii
till night 1 Haven’t wo got Whig papers and
Democrat papers from ono end of tho country
to t'other 1 Don’t we evory day hear of Whig
meetings and Democrat meetings In all tho
States 1 navn’t Mr, Donaldson and Green got
things all out and dried for a Democrat Baltl-
more Convention to nominate a President 1
And ain't tho Whig papers all tho timo talk
ing about a national convention to nominute
a President on their side 1 Then how can
you say tho Whig and Democrat parties aro
dead 1
-Horo Undo Joshua fold hiajiipo down, nml
I sco lie wns in earnest; and Auut Kuzlah
laid her nlttln work down, for slio see ho was
in arnust too. And Undo Joshua turned
round to mo, nnd says ho, “Major, Hell you
Iho old Whig and Democrat parties arc as
dead as Mo obi stumps. Their names may ho
alive yet, and somo folks may think for a good
whilo to come that tliey are flghtln agin the
Whig party or oglh'tho Democrat party, jest
as Mr. Illtehlo thought lie was fightih’ agin
tho old Federal party for more tlurn twenty
years nrtcr thoy was all dend. But what sig
nifies iho names wlion tho life is gono ! ■ Tho
two parties'can’t never be ’ straightened out
into a line agin and fight each othor as they
used to. Folks may keep mumbling- tho
names over, hut tho Whig and Democrat par
ties aro dead and gono and dried up, and
about twenty partlos bnvo sprouted up to
toko their places. This is tho reason why
some Whig States now days chooso Demo
crats for Governors, and somo Democrat
States choose Whigs for Governors, and why
some Whig papers tako sides with Democrats,
Then we’U call' out to tho twenty parlies and-
RAV ! ' linn*. Ihnk tin fhnrn • Omt'u vmir
Hero, took up llloro; that’s your flag
and them’s our sentiments.. Now, all' of ye
that ain’t got tired of thorn things, ni«l don't
want to soo ’em nil upsotond smashed to pie
ces, and sunk to tho bottom- of tile sea, Jest
come out of your twonty quarrelling parties, "
nnd got up onto this platform and - fight for
tho Union and tho Constitution.’
“I tollyoUiWlint 'tis,'Uncle .Toshus, there’s
always a majority In every ship Hurt had rathr
or get safo through' the voyage than to bo up.
sot and go to tho bottom. Audi ain’t a. bit
afraid luit wlmt thore would soon bo a party
ofcomn-outora on that platform that would
bo big cnotigli to tako care of the ship. It
might not bo big enough to go over to Europe
and whip all Russlti, but I’ll wager my head
It would bo big enough to keep .Russia from
coming ovor here and whipping us. Now,
what do you think of my plan, Undo Joshua 1
Don't you think It'll work 1" -
"Well, I don’t doubt but that' would* be - a*
way to get up one party,” says Uncle Jbsbua;
“ but I don’t sec how that would get us out of
tho difficulty nltor all; for there- would*still
ho as many parties loft os there-U now. . It
would still liavo to he ono ngln nineteen ; and
I’m afraid yourcomo-ontor party would: havys
hnrd work to gota President If thoy had to
fightagintho nineteen or twenty quarrellhig
parlies. I can’t see much chance to do any
thing unless wb can come down to two-parties,
as ire used to." "
Wall, that Is jost what i'vodonc," sayjf;
" I have oomo down to two parties.”
“ How do you make that out 1"' says Uncio
Joshua, opening his oyes about half an Inch
wtdor. “ When you hnd got sonn out ofl all
the twenty parlies to make up your como-
outer party, wouldn’t there still bo twonty
parties left 1" ' '
'• No," says I, ’• Uuclo Joshua, there woulilnjt
bliliul one party loll.”
“ now do you make that' out 1" says . lie ;
“ I’vo cyphered as frir ns the rule' of-' three,
bnt that sum heats mo. You- say, silhstraot,
one from twenty, and one remains. Now, Mo
way I always used to do it was, one from
twenty burrs nineteen."
“ No," says I, " Uiiclb Jbsiimt- (fiat ain't
right. Ono from, twenty loaves one. There
wouldn't bo but ono parly left;”
“ Well, what party would that to 1” .says
Undo Joshua, with his eves and mouth both
pretty woll open.
" Well," says I," Uncle Joshtia, it would lio
tho regular Fillibuslcr parly; for' when all
that are willing to stand up for tho Union and
tho Constitution had como out from tho twenty
parties, you may dopfchd on’t thatall that was
left would bo FUlibustcrs. Then It would ho.-
the 'National Como-outors’ on ono stdo, anil.
the ‘Filllbnsters’ on t’other; and ifono ort'othen-
wouldn't got licked I’m mistaken."
At that Unolo Joshua hopped up liko a boy,-,
and kotclicd hold of my hand, nnd says lie;
“ Major, yoil’vo hit it; that’s tho road-; go-at-
head. 1 s'eo now there’s n" good chance- to*
havo two parties agin nnd a fair KcrateU-tor
i’resident; nud, old as 1 be, I'm In foranotiier.-
enmpaigu."
Ilore Sargent Joel, Wild llad been settinguii
the room all tho tinio, and hadn’t said a word,'
straightened himself np and smlt Ills fob to
gether, and says lib, " Ilobrahfor GincralJaak-
80111” " * ■ I
“Well,now," says UnctoJoshnw, “setright
down, Major, ami write to Mr- Gales* Hea
ton, and to Mr. ltitulilc lu. a nr! ask them what
thcytltinkof It. If they f ll set ita going down
South wri’U set ita going away down]
and have tho jilatfornt right up.”
So, hoping tolicar from you si
you'r old friend, .. -->j
MAJOR JACK DOB
bridge over which ho must pass, for all -need n nd some Democrat papors tako sides with
forgiveness. I Whj^s, It’s all nothin else but jest the trow-
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