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... . n. naUSHED every FRIDAY horyhg, BY J. KNOWLES & Co ■ ^.... >,.. l r fln;i isheTL iit Two Dot- lars per anmiiri. ff paid In ndvnnboTwo Dol lars and Fifty Cents if paid wltldn si or Three Dollars at the end of the year. Legal Advertisements will bo Inserted with strict attention to tho requirements of the law, nt the usnnl mtos. ^ ^ ^ cd at Ono Dollar per squarfc of 12 linos or loss, for tho first, and Fitly Cents' for each subse quent Insertion.' * - “• " Liberal dedlmtlons will bo mado in fhvor of thoseMI-lihimU’ertlso liy tho year. 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- £37"Several hundred been raised io Henderson I \rmgo yield ? ; fields, or tl