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Newspaper Page TextMsm ■ - -V-- .;-: f £'35K • • •. -. f :•' : : 4 .'»-« '• V- - ■>.j’" -,- * fc ,f 5jj. ' ."7* f??*t'' - "' (? Vi* - ■*• • PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY COBURN & DWINELL EDITORS. ( » >.—i !. i; vt ’ • - - >1 1 ti- - - TERMS—S2 00 PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. yolume io. . ■/. .fiS, ROME, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1855. NUMBER 12. Kb ole world toi > of * .not at all ^ Local Advertisement* wiU bo at the OTuad rides, menu at $1 far square of 12 line* or 1 . first and 50 cents for «w —..I - IT IS A F ACT ESTABLISHED and veU kamlM ft»,4raWw attained. a height in the * wonder’aad admire. With them chemistry Lad its birth, audit it, strange that a people so tin Hie healing art, and so j sind daring in character, should, by l untiring experiment, discover rem- r for surpassing in efficacy all others, Ibr wi sff- thaw dtssasaa incident to them from their mode of life. The greater part of their time being spent in hazardous and bloody war fare with the differenttribes, they were subject J the most violent attacks of rheumatism, par- 1 —“ *gie pains, and vartoos inflainma ns also the most horrid wounds, . tumors, swellings, diseases of An these diseases th>y the joints, etc. etc. were so surprisingly efficient in curing, Hud the uninitiated looked with wonder and attri buted theirskUl to the powers of magic. H. G. F ABELL'S .ARABIAN LINIMENT is a com position of balsams and o3s,- from rare plants peculiar to this country, and it was by the use oS. %he articles composing the great remedy that only their physicians, but even the wild were enabled to perform ires. f)« AroA steed u ib iant^W led speed and agifity,' fatigue he is capable of endi from the time of his . watched, and upon the of disease the magic lotion is things as confirmed/sweeny, ringbone, scratches, spavin, unknown. The same eases where H. G,Far T.mimi^nj fa nptdi" *■"»» _ ng a good snpplj dollar spent in it will save yen deal of suffering, ifnot /««*» lit? of it. •carefully -in all< . a great s lately made its • £. Farrell's Arabian Liniment, s of all the counterfeits, be- , and $1 per Bottle. ; WANTED in every town, village tin the United State?, in winch one is not already established. Address H. G. Far rell as above, accompanied with good reference, as to character, responsibility, Ac. HEW FALL GOODS-FULL SUPPLIES. WILLIAM SHEA R, AUGUSTA, GA, TTAS received from New Yotk,his'Fnll Sup- 11 plies of Fancy and Staple DRY GOODS, tpfiMM alun sndsplradid niortawt sni- tabie for the Fail -and Winter season, among which are v Rich fancy colored SILKS, in great variety of RiXp^KKfife and Fancy all - wooipialMf — iow in earth tbyfimn Is bring. With Hie damp sod on thy breast; Requiems the winds are sighing O’er thy deep and dreamless rest. Gone art thou to othor country, And I drop Hie heart-wrung tear To thiy memory, who trusted, Lov’d and trusted wildly here. Ah! ye cruel one who ehid her, Trouble not her spirit morel Here‘below her Til* was clouded, ' ■ And her soul a sorrow wore: Wow a sorrow which no morrow Ever came and lifted up, And there was hut little swaatnesi In the hitter of her cup. . .... At thy stove, 0, loved and lost on*! i ^ Bend I noir my stuhbnm knee; I would, in Hie lonely night-time, Hold eommunionship with thee. Come to me in robes seraphic, Come to me with love-lit eyes, Come to me with gentle whispers, Soft as were thine earthly sighs ! . With a lyre made offire, Conscience ever chants "divorce;” And a raven beak was graven In my haunted heart “remorse !” , Come and lift the awful shadow From the sunshine of my soul! v Lot me hear that I'm forgiven. With Christ’s soldiers me enroll! Let mo know .again the gladness , Which for years I have hot known ; From the sepulchre of Laughter, • Roll away the dosing stone! -—*- ■§' ' ' 1 From J?e& Geo. White* Hiitorieal Collection* of Georgia. , : * Flayd Ceonfy. In the fork of the EtoWah and Oostananla rivers, near Rome, human bones have been found. In September, 1793, an engagement took place here between the whites and Indians, the parttenlars of which are thus given by Breazeale: Battue with the Indians.—In September, 1?93, the Cherokee Indians, amounting, it is believed, to aboat ope thousand, made an ins cannon into the settlements of Tennessee, and attacked and took CaviFs Station, eight miles below Knoxville, murdering the whole family, thirteen in number. After the massacre of the inmates offhe fort, they made a precipitate re treat, turning across the country towards the CKnchRiver, which they crossed in afowhours afterwards. It was supposed at the time that Indians intended to attach the town of Knox ville, and were only prevented by daylight breaking npon them sooner than they expected. General Sevier was then at John Ish's, oh ;tbe south side of Holston, having arrived a few days before with four hundred men. He imme diately raised additional troops, and marched into the Cherokee country, hoping to overtake the party who had murdered Cavil's family.— His force consisted of about seven or eight hun dred men. They crossed Tennessee at the Coyetee ford, BGwassce, atihe mouth of Oconee, and marched directly to a town called Oosta- naula. At this placed he remained three days, on account of sickness among his troops. The first night after Sevier's soldiers crossed Coosawattee, the Indians fired upon them, and man. The second night, Sevier caused a breast-work of logs and brush to be erected. On the next morning, John Lowry (now Colonel John Lowry) and others went to the river to water their horses, and were fixed on by the Indians, and Lowry received a shot in his arm. On the third day alter the army crossed the Coosawattee, General Sevier ordered Colonel Kelly to match with his army up the river to tbe Coosawattee village, and de stroy it, which be accordingly did, and return ed to Sevier's encampment tho 'same evening. On the next monring, General Sevier marched tbemrmy doWntberrrer. When he eame with in half a mile of the junction of the Oostananla andEtowah, tbe paths forked, one leading -to the Hightower towns,, and toe.otoer to the Oos- tanaula, and leading down it, on the northern or eastern side ; and.here be divided his army, and placed one detachment nndertoe command of Colonel Kelly, and took command of the oth er himself He order?# Colonel Kelly to cross Hie Etowah, and’proceed down on tho southern side, and destroy all toe Indian towns as he marched; while he (General Sevier) would march down on the other side of toe river, and bgr waste toe country then. Carey and Findles- ton had been employed as pilots, firell acquaint ed with toe country. Upon arriving at the ford of the Etowah, it was discovered that toe In dians had fortified themselves on toe ford on toe opposite side. / : . . «-.# They had dug holes in,the river and hank in whieh to secret themselves, and had cut sap lings, andfelitbemdown the bank, -where toe path went ont'of the river. Upon making this disooveiy, Colonel Kelly concerted a plan with Mqjor Evans to draw, the Indians out of toeir strongholds, and compel them to fight on- open ground, and he succeeded most admirably. He marched toe army down top river,a few. hun dred yards below toe ford, to a conoc-landing, where toe water was deep enough' for swim- plnnged in, Md swam across. Major Evans instantly ordered toe detachment to halt, and, seeing the Indians running down on toe other side of the river to meet Kelly andhiscoqtnidfis, he faced toeimen about, all being horsemen, and dashed up to too ford in’ toll gallop, and crossed the river at half speed. The Indians, seeing toe main party crossing at toe ford, ran back, leaving Colonel Kelly and his. friends,to. escape, from toe water in safety^ A hot and fb- riotis battle ensued, which lasted about twenty minutes? . When the front of toe detachment had cross ed the river and reached the hank, they were obliged to alight, and cat the saplings and brash with their hatchets, and remove them out of toeir way, before they eonld ascend tbobank; and while thin was doing, toe Indians fired upon them, and killed one man ; bat toe little army succeeded in ascending very quickly, and re turned the fire,-of the Indians with so ntnch alacrity, that they soon retreated, carrying with them all topir killed and wounded, except one, which they could not get away. They were seen by tho whites dragging toeir billed and wounded overlogs and into too canc-brcak.— Judge Hugh L. White was' in this engagement, then a very young man, and was among the first that aseended the bank of tho river, under toe fire of the enemy. Evans bad two men killed, Wear *nd Prewitt. John Wallace, who was wounded, died the next night after toe bai- General Sevier, hearing the firing, wheeled his detachment about, and poshed with all pos sible speed to too assistance of Evans, and camo upjast os too Indians bad retreated.. Tho two men, Woarand Prowiit, that were killed, wero taken down the river to an Indian village, buri ed in a coller in an Indian cabin, and tbo cabin bnmt'over them, to prevent the Indians from finding and mangling toeir bodies as was their custom. General' Sevier then marched the whole army back across the Etowah, crossed the Coosawattee, and moved down too river, destroying all the towns as he went. Floyd County wa; originally settled by per sons from tho older parts , of Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennesseo. Cavo Spring is situated on Little Cedar Crook, in Vann’s Valley. This spring issues from a mountain east of the valley. The force of too water is sufficient to turn an overshot mill.—- There is a cavo fifty yards from the spring. You descend into it at an angle of ninety dci grees. Beautiful stalaeties are in the different apartments of the cave. The crock formed by VllQ ipiiUK lUlia vu 11 UH B UMIMVrBp HIIUVDI as swift as the mountain strain, until It enters Into Big Cedar. There are several other springs in this vicinity, the water of which is just ns good as that of the Cavo Spring. About a mile andahalfnortheastofRome.noarMr. Mitchell plantation; is Nix’s Cave. The interior is filled with stalactites. Mr. Nix resides near this Cave, and is always ready to guide visitors through Its numerous apartments. On Mr. Mitchell's plantation is Woodward's Cave, for marly notorious as a depository for stolen goods. Tho entrance is trough a large rock, which is nearly one hundred feet perpendicular. Thero are a great many email eaves in various parts of the county. A BsAtmfecb Stonr.—Tho most beautiful and affecting incident we know, associated with shipwreck, is the following: The Grosvenor, and East Indirman, home ward bound, goes ashore on the coast of Caflira- ria. It is resolved that toe officers, passengers, and crew in number one hundred and thirty-five souls, shall endeavor to penetrate on foot, across trackless deserts invested by wild beasts and cruel savages, to too Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. With this forlorn object before them they finally separate into two par ties, never more to meet on earth. " There is a solitary child among the passen gers, a little boy of seven years old, who has no relation there; and when the first, party is mov ing away he cries after some, member of it who has been very kind to him. The crying of a child might bo supposed to bea littlo thing to men in such great extremity; but it touches them, and ho isimmoctiatoly taken into that de tachment; firom whence time forth this child is sublimely made a sacred charge. He is push' ed on a little raft across broad rivers by toe swimming sailors; they carry him by turns through the deep samLabd long grass, he pa tiently walking at all other times; they share with him such putrid fish as they find to oat; they lie down and waitior him when the rough carpenter, who becomes his especial friend, lags behind. Beset by Hons arid . tigers, by thirst and hangar, by death in a crowd of ghastly shapes, they never—(oh, Father of all mankind, toy name be tyessed for it) 1—forgot this child. The captain stops exhausted, and his faithful coxswain goes back and is seen to set down by his side, and neither of the two shall be any more beheld untiltoe groat last day, but as they go on for their lives, they take toe child with toem. The carpenter dies of poisonous berries eaten in starvation ; and the steward, succeed ing to the command of the party, succeeds to the sacred guardianship of the child. God knows all he does for the baby. He cheer fully carries him in his arms when ho himself is weak and ill; how he feeds him when he him self is griped with want; how he holds his rag ged jacket around him, lays his little warm face with a woman's tenderness upon his sunburnt breast, soothes him in his sufferings, sings to him as he limps Along unmindful of his own parched and bleeding feet. Divided for a few days from toe rest, they dig a grave in toe sand and bury toeir good friend too cooper—these two companions atone in the wildemeas-and toe time comes whan they are both ill, and beg toeir wretched partners in despair, reduced and few in number now, to wait by them one day. They wait by them one day; they wait by them two days. On too morning of the third they move very softly about iu making their prepar ations for the resumption of toeir journey, for the child is sleeping by the fire* and it is agreed with-one consent that be shall not be disturbed until too last moment. The moment comes, the fire is dying and toe child is dead. His faithful friend, too steward lingers hut a little while behind him. His grief is great!— Hestaggers on for a few days, down in toe wil derness, and dies. But he shall be reunited in his immortal spirit—who can donbt it?—with toe child, where he and the poor carpenter shall be raised up with toe words “Insomuch as ye bave done it unto the least of those, ye have done it unto me?’ Ax Indigestible Meal.—An immense ana conda recently arrived in this city from the neighborhood of toe Congo River in Africa. It' is said that Bis length is between’ twenty and twenty-five feet, with a girth of thirty inches in the largest part of toe body. There are a few- eurious circumstances connected with this grant reptile stranger, since his arrival; which are worth chronicling. Jnst before leaving hik native land be took a hearty-meal of a dog, and no other food was eaten by him for seven, months after. About toe first of October, this king of snakes arrived in Boston, and was lod ged in a large case witovery strong glass walls, and a doable English milled blanket, folded in ter four thicknesses, furnished for his bed.' On the 20to of November; Mr. Sears, the proprie tor, thought it was fulltime to tempt his appe tite; and therefore introduced a rabbit into his den jnst at evening. On viewing too interior on the following morning, the blanket was mis sing, while the rabit was still alive ! On Wed nesday, seven days after, the blanket was dis- chared, whole and unimpared, after a circuitous journey through an intestinal tube of nearly one hundred and fifty feet. It may now be seen in the apartment—being six feet wide by seven in length. Since that period, he has ex hibited excellent health, and has devoured a fowL Every few days he drinks-about three quart* of water—sticking it all up at once.— When ah animal hi given for food to one of his family of serpents, it is eyed intently for an stant, and then toe poor trembling creature is suddenly crushed in the huge folds of the ter rible monster—the . cracking of the bones being distinctly heard at qoito.a distance. Thus pre pared for swallowing, the body is still held in a coil, which ^ equivalent to a hand, and kept steady, while it is gradually sacked down the tkrefet of toe animal, into tbo stomach; where it is slowly digested. It is the opinion of Mr. Sears, tbatr When toe anaconda sprang at the rabbit, mentioned above, by some mistake in calculation the latter escaped and toe edge of toe blanket was seized, by the tooth. When these are once engaged,' being for holders. and nbt for mastication, it is quite impossible to disengage toem ; and hence, whatever is .once drawn into the month must necossarily go down too throat. Even the muscles of deglutition seem to act independently of volition, and urge the morsel along by strong, convulsive peristal tic contractions.—Boston Surgical and Medical Journal. Spirit Rapping in Olden Times.—The fol lowing is an extract, from “The Chronicle of Florence of Worcester," a now book recently pnblshcd in England. It affords another proof that “there is nothing new nnder the sun A.*D 1273. An evil spirit caused grcatalarm at a.ville cplled Troutville, in too district of Rouen, by audibly rapping with hammers on toe walls and doors, lie spoke with, a human voice, although he wits novor visiblo, and his name, he said, was, William Ardent Ho fre quented tho house of a certain worthy man, to whom be did much miaebhf, as well as to his wJfo'and.family; and toe sign of. the cress and the sprinkling of holy water failed to drive him away. Moreover, when toe priests conjured him in ihe hurno of toe Lord, to quit too place, he answered: “I shall not depart; nay,.more, if I please, I shall kill you alL Tho cross I know wellenough, and as for your holy water,! have no fear of that” This spirit haunted the man or and mansion of the persons jujt mentioned,, from toe feast of All Saints (1st November) un til alter tho Pacification (2d Feburaiy) uttering many lascivions and scoffing speeches." . At ost be went away at Septuagesima, saying ho hpnld return again at Easter, which he never Tm: Zouavks.—Who and wbat are the Zou aves? The Zouaves, arc natives of the Fronch Provinces of Algiers, disciplined and. exercised by Fronch-officers, and now forming part of the French contingent employed in tho Crimea and the seigo of Sevastopol. Thoy hold exactly tho same relation to tho French army' as tbo. Se poys In India to too regular British troops. “Thank you, don’t care if I do, said a fast young man, with a largo pressed brick in .his hat, as he surged up to toe Indian that stands in front of Van Cott's tobacco store, with bunch of east iron segars in his hand. “ I’ll take ono—smoke sometimes," and he reaehed out to take tbo proffered wood, but the Indian wouldn’t give It up. He hung on to the segars like grim death. “Look hero old copporhoad,' said the fast young man, “none of that, no tricks upon travellers or thero’il be a muss, you and I'll fall out, some body'll get a punch in the head." * The Indian said never a word, but bold on to toe east iron segars. He was calm, dignified, nnmoved, as an Indian should be, looking his assailant straight in the face, and no muscle moving a single hair. “Yes—yes! Look at me old fentherheod—I’m ono of ’em, I’m round, I’m full weight, potatoe measure, heaped up," and he placed himself in a position, threw back his coat, and sqared off for a fight. All the time tho Indian said never a word, looked Without the least alarm unwinking straight into toe face of tho fast young man, still holding out the segars in a mighty friendly sort of way.—The young man was plucky and just in a condition to resent any sort of insult, or no sort of insult at all. Ho was ready to “go in," but too calmness and impertaobility of toe Indian rather cowed him, and-he was dis posed to reason tho matter. “ I’ll take one,” ■aid he, “certainly; I said so before. I freeze to a good segar—I’m ono of the smokers. My father was one of the smokers, he was; one of the old sort, and Fm edition number two revised and corrected, with notes, author’s handwriting on the title page, and copyright secured.—Yes, jW take one. All right, old red skin, fll take one.” But tho Indian said not a word, nil toe time looking straight into the face of toe fast young man, and holding on to the segars.—"Look here, old gimblet eye, Fm get ting riled—my back’s coming np, and you and FU have a turn—smell of that, old copperhead/' and he thrust his fist under toe nose of tho cast iron Indian, who said not a word, moved not a muscle, hut kept right on, looking straight into the face of the fast young man, as if not caring a fig for his threats, or taking in at all the order of his fist “Very well,” said the fast young man, “Tm agreeable, Fm all round, look to your ugly mng, old pumpkin head,” and he let go a right-hander square against tho nose of the cast iron Indian, whomever moved an inch, nor stirred a muscle, looking with calm unchanged dignity as before, in the face of his enemy. “ Halloo!” cried the fast young man, in utter bewilderment, as he reeled hack half way across toe side-walk, with too blood dropping from his skinned knuckles; “Hallo! here’s a go, here’s an eye opener, here’s a thing to hupt round a corner, I’m satisfied old Iron face, I am.—E- nongh said between gentlemen."—Just then he caught sight of toe tomahawk and scalping knife in the belt of toe savage, and his hair began to rise.—The Indian seemed to be ma king np his mind to use them. “Hold on!" cries’the fast young man, as he dodged behind toe awning post “Hold on, none of that, I’ll apologise, I squat, I knock under. Hold on, I .y," he continued, as toe Indian seethed to scowl with peculiar fierceness. “Hold on. Very well, I'm off, Fvo business down the street, people at home waiting for me, can’t stay,” and. he bolted like a quarter horse down Broadway, and his cry of “hold on," died away as he van ished beyond toe lamplights up Columbia street. , Song to Kate. My eyes! how I love you! Ton sweet little dove, you— There’s no one above yon, Most beautiful Kitty! . So glossy your hair is— Like a sylph’s or a faiiy’s, And your neck I declare is - Exquisitely pretty! Quite Grecian your nose is, And your cheeks are like roses— So delicious—0, Moses! Surpassingly sweet! Not the beauty of tulips, - Nor tho taste of mint julips, • Can compare with your two lips, . Most beautiful Kate! Not the black eyes of Juno, Nor Minerva’s of blue, ho, Nor Venus’s, you know, Can equal your own. Ah! how. my heart prances, And frolics and dances, When its radiant glances Upon me are thrown! And now, dearest Kitty, It’s not.very pretty— Indeed, 'tis a pity To keep me in sorrow! So, if you’ll but chime in r< We’ll have done with our rhymin', Swap Cupid for Hymen, And bo married, to-morrow! :—_—»_• ■ ' Important Dispatches.—The American Or gan kindly furnishes the Washington Union with toe following important dispatches, which even at this late day, we trust .may afford some com fort to toe Great Defeated: Indianapolis, , 1854. Dear Union—The election in this State has gone for somebody, not known who. No Demo crats went to the polls : •Columbus, Ohio, , 1854. Dear Union: Eighty thousand majority a- gainst the administration, don’t know what party wins. No Democrats went to toe polls. Hahribburg, Pa.,———, 1854. Dear Union: .Pollock is elected. Nobody knows' wbat be is, except he is Governor elect Our folks elected nobody but Mott, and toe ras cally Know Nothings did that, very few Demo crats wont to toe polls. Aidant, N, Y., —-—, 1854. Dear Union: Seymour is e’enamott elected. If all qur party had voted, and there had been a few moro rum drinkers, be would certainly have boat Clark and Ullman. Few Democrats went to tbo polls. MilwAUKIE Wis., —, 1854. Dear Union: We are done brown in Wiscon sin. ' Our friends didn’t go to too polls. TrentoN, N, J., ———, 1854. Dear Union: Bad day—very wet. Demo crats did’nt turn out* Afraid of too woather* Detroit, Mioh.,: 1854. Dear Union: Great mistake nrado by our party. TheythOught the election was next yoar did’nt go the polls. Beaton; of course, but tuo election will bo contested! WILMING T0X)tD ol.,- ,’l854. Dear Union : Sorry to say wo are nowhero this time—better luck next timo, if tbo Demo crats will only turnout. Fow Democrats went to the polls. - Boston, Mass.,—:—, 1854. Election pqssod of qulotly; retuns so far not reliable but supposod a Wobstor Whig » elected Govornor. Thero aro no Know Noth ings in Massachusetts, and tho administration party have gone to Kansas and Nebraska! which ore being constructed in England, for battering the walls of Sebastopol and Cron- stadt, it seems, are of American origin. About Uiirty years ago, Robert L. Stephens, of Ho boken, uado some experiments, which proves conclusively that shot could be effectually ar rested by a toiekess of wrought iron proportion ed to too,diameter of the ball.—Some -time in the year 1840- 42, Mr. Stevens proposed to build & Floating Steam Battery of Iron, as a protec tion, in too event of a war, to tho horbor of Now York. By order of the Government ex periments wore made to test the correctness of this theory, trader tho supervision of a Board of Navy and Army officers. Tho result preyed fonr-and-o-half inches in thickness of wrought iron to be a perfect defence against a sixty-four pound solid shot, fired at ten yards' distance from toe target. ~ Upon their .report of thds? foists, Congress directed the Secretary of the Navy to enter into a contract with Robert L. Stevens for building a Steam Battery upon his plan, for the defence of toe harbor of Now York.—After the execution of this agreement, Mr. Stevens, constructed a dry dock capable of containing a vessel of thp size required by. tho contract, together with shops, steam engines, furnaces, tools. Ac., necessary to too construction of such a vessel. ^ About two.years ago at tho earnest solicita tion of Com. Stockton, then a member of- toe U. S. Senate, Congress again directed the Seereta. ry of the Navy to proceed with the vessels fin der tho contract. This iron battery is now, with the exception of a few ribs, completely in frame, and ahont Dne-toird planked np with heavy iron plates. ’ From the difficulty of pro curing funds during toe severe pressure in the money market, he was reluctantly compelled, two weeks ago, to discharge, ont of toe four hundred and seventy men engaged in her con struction, one hundred and forty of those work ing by the day in toe yard at Hoboken. The appropriation for this iron steam battery, whose sides are to be six or more inches iQ thickness, and whose length on the water line is now 400 feet, was $250,000. —Scientific Amer ican. A Bath in Gbnesabeth.—We untwisted onr turbans, kicked off our baggy trowsors, and speedily released ourselves from the barbarous restraints of dress, dipped into toe tepid sea and floated lazily out until we could feel tos exs quisite coldness of the living springs which sent up their jets from the bottom. I was lying on my back, moving my fins jnst sufficiently to keep afloat, and gazing dreamily, through, half-closed eyes, on'the forlorn palms of Tiberi as, when a shrill'voice hailed me with: “O Howadji, get out of our way !” There, at too old stone gateway below -our tent, stood two Galilean damsels,-with heavy earthen jars upon toeir heads. “Go away yourselves, O maidens!" I answered, “if you want ns to como ont of toe water.” “But we must fill our pitchers," one of them replied. “Then fill them at once, and be not afraid ; or leave them and we will fill toem for you." Thereupon, they put toe pitch ers down but remained watching us very com placently while we sank the vessels to the hot- tom of the lake, and let toem fill from the colder and purer tide of toe springs. In bringing them back through toe water to the gate, toe one I popelled before me happened to strike against a stone, and its fair owner, on receiv ing it, immediately pointed to a crack ^in toe side, which she declared I had made, and went- off lamenting. After we had resumed onr gar-: ments, and were enjoying toe pipe of indolence and tho coffee of contentment, she retained and made such an ontcry that I was fain to pur chase peace by the price of a r.ew pitcher. I passed the first hours of toe night in looking out of my tent-door, os I lay; on the stars spark ling in that bosom of Galileo, like toe sheen of Assyrian spears, and glare of toe great fires kindlod on the opposite shore. [Bayard Taylor. Echoes. Hark! through Nature's vast cathedral, Blending echoes ever rise; Swelling in the mighty anthem, To its over arching skies. Every bird that sings in summer, Evciy bouey ladtaed bee, Every squirrel in toe forest, Every cricket on toe tree. Every music-dropping fountain, Every softly murmuring rill, Every dark and foaming torrent, Every water-guided mill; „ Every rain-drop on'tbe honso top, Every beetle's noisy drono, Every footfall on the pavement. Wakes an echo of its own.' Sobs of woo, and songs of gladness, . Each responsive echoes find: Words of love And words of anger, Leave their echoes far behind. Every groat and noble action Is re-echoed o’er and o’er: Life itself is bat an echo, Of the lives that were before. Col. Benton- and- Ester tob Hermit.— Colonol Benton has reached Washington, from bis recentvisit to New England, in fino Spirits. He talks in this wiso: “I have the Pacifle Railroad in my trank, sir! my trunk. The so* lid men of Boston have taken it/in hand sir !— Abbott Lawrence, sir! Abbott. Lawrenoq—a man of groat wealth, sir—a man of groat wealth •has authorized me to uso bis namo, sir/.— Lawronco may bavo more money than knowl edge, sir! but ho has the cash, the cash sir! I am like Potor the tbo hermit, sir! Potor the hermit! JIo preached tho crusades, sir—I too Pacific Railroad in'mortion, sir!”—Walk: Cor. Jhulon i>oit. - s The World to . Come.—Tho following were the meditations of the celebrated John. Foster on tog. death of his wife. They will seem to jnany as a transcript of their own thoughts un der similar bereavements :— Can it be—how is it—what is it—that we are not inhabitants of the same world—that each has to think of tho other as in. a perfectly dif ferent economy of existence? Whither is she gone—in what manner does she consciously re alize to herself the astonishing change—how does she look at herself .as po longer inhabiting a mortal tabernacle—in what manner does she recollect her state as only a iew weeks since re what manner does she think, and feel, and act, and communicate with other spiritual be ings—wbat manner of vision has she of God and the Saviour of tbo world—how does she review and estimate too .course of principle through which sho.had been prepared for toe happy state where she finds herself—in what manner does she look back on death, which she has so recently passed through—and docs she plainly understand the nature of a phenome nons© awfully mysterious to the view of mortals? How does she remember and feel respecting ns, respecting me? Is she associated with the. spirits' of her departed son and our two children who died in infancy? Does she indulge with delight a confident ‘anticipation that we shall, after a while, be addod to her society? If she should think of it as (with respect to some of us) many years, possibly, before such-an event, does that appear a long time in prospect, or has she began to account of duration according to tbo great laws of eternity? Earnest imagin ings and ‘questionings like these arise without ond; and still, still there is no answer, no reve lation. The mind comes again and again up close to the thick black veil but there is no per- forn(ioV, no glimpse. She that loved me, and I trust loves me still, will not, cannot, must not answer me. I. can only imaging her to say, “Como and see; servo our God so that you shall come and share at no distant time.” Warning to the U. States.—The following pieco ot precious bluster, uttered by the Brit ish prints immediately after too presumed fall of Sebastopol, are worthy of being kept in the mind of too American people. They are only spocimons of tho general tone adopted about that time. Thoy have, however, been learned a lesson by the Czar of' Russia which will doubt less cool their audacity and correct toeir judg ment. From the North British Review. Our foes bavo had a warning with what sort of people they will have to deal: and our trans atlantic cousins will become a trifio less insolent and overbearing, when they learn that the fleet which summers in the Baltic, can without cost or effort winter in the Gulf of Mexico. From Blackwood’s Magazine. England and France together are strong enough to bind nearly all tho world over to keep the ponce. When Russia is settled, Franco may abate her army and England her navy: but wo must not disarm. We must still be able to say “No" to our lively young brother across the Atlantic, if he wants Cuba, or tokos any other littlo vagary into his head. What sort of Lucifers doer a man use to make light of his troubles? No professional man lives so much from hand to mouth as a dentist. A yoireg lady who took the eye of everybody, has beon ; arrested for stealing. The way to make a tall man “short," is to ask him to loud you a thousand dollars. It is chiefly young ladies of’narrow under standing who wear shoes too small for them. How extraordinary it is that the Czar should bo in want of money after all tho cheeks hohar received. Labor is a school of benevolence as well as justioe. Next unto virtue, let ohildren be train ed to industry. Tho Worcester Transcript,knows a man so mean, that ho won’t draw his breath for fear that ho will lose tho interst. Wendell PniLLits—This person, now nnder indictment in Boston, asan aider and abetlor of the murders and riots that occurred in connec tion with the Burns case there, hasbeen signal izing himself by delivering an abolitionist lec ture beiore some association in that city, and, says the reporter of the Evening Post, of New York, “he. was at times very caustic, and bis action, when he expressed a desire for a glass of water, that he might rinse his mouth after hav ing mebtioned toe Lorings and- toe Curtises, was altogether indescribable." The idea of Wendell Phillips not being able to mention toe names of Commissioner Loring and Judge Curtis without riosing bis mouth, is indeed ludicrous. While he has Been vaporing and gesticnlatingat a safe distance, for toe par- pose of exciting a mob to deeds of outrage upon the laws of toe land, they have been pursuing the line'of their official dnty in maintaining their dignity and vindicating their suprem acy, and carrying them, into successful* opera tion. - How such a fanatical assailant of toe institu tions or their country eonld be listened to with toleration, much more with any degree of appro bation, by the law and order loving people of Massachusetts, transcends onr comprolien- ■ion.—Exchange.. Facts fob Americans.—The last nnmbsr of toe Edinbnrg Review contains alarge and pains taking article, relating in part to toe disposition which is to be made of toe hordes of convicts, annually let loose upon toe expiration of their terms of punishment, from toe prisons and hulks of- England. Tho writer considers ithe topic of toe reformation of criminals as one not yet receiving toe attention due, and regrets that apathy and mistaken economy on toe past of government lead to this. incalculable wrong done to society by toe emancipation of thous* ands of reprobates, whoreturn to their old bannts and. vice with unabated activity and craft- The advantage of getting rid of such o class is ob vious. But whore send-them ? Tho colonies of Breat Britian absolutely refuse, for tho most part to bo swamped, by such inundation, and no wonder. Thereupon tho reviewer, full of liberating his own State and its dependencies from toe curse, hits upon an idea resembling that of a citizen embarrassed with a dead cat whioh he drops down a neighbor’s well. He says send them to New York and say nothing about it; pay tbeir passage, set Qiem ashore, and soe the last of them ?—Exchange. Wo:nan f s Love. A SCENE FROM REAL LIFE, There is many a life scene more toueJiin*. more worthy of immortality than too deeds of conquerors or too heroes of history. Tho fol lowing, from the St. Louis Republican, is onoT We saw last evening an apt illustration of toe affec.ion of a woman. A poor inebriated wretch had been takon to tho calaboose. Hi* conduclin thostreetand after he had been ta- kerrto tbo cell was of such a violent character that it became necessary to hanheuff him. The demon rum had possession of his soul, and lie gave vent to his ravings in curse? ?o profane as to shock even tho ears of his fellow-prisoners, ono of whom, in too same cell, at his own sv r Imitation, was placed in a separate apartment. A woman appeared at tho grating, and in her hand she had arude tray, upon which were some slices of bread, fresh from the hearts tone, and other little delicatcs for her erring husband. She stood.at tho bar, gazing intently into the thick gloom where her manacled companion wildly raVed. Her voice was low and soft, and as she called bis namo its utterance was as plaintive as. the melody of a fond and crushed spirit. The tears.streamed from her eyes, and there in toe dark house, the abode of the most wretched'and depraved, the tones of her voico found their way into that wicked man’s heart, and he knelt in 'sorrow and in silence before bis young injured wife,"while his Heart found re lief in tears, snch only a3 a man can weep.—. Though too iron still bound hi? wrist, bp placed bis bands, with toeir heavy insignia of degra dation, confidingly, and affectionately upon tho brow of his fair companion, and exclaim ed: “Katy, I will try and he a hotter man P There/upon a rude seat, she* iia l spread the humble meal, which she had. prepared with h£r own hands, and after he hr:d finished she rose to depart, bidding him be calm and re signed for her sake, with tho assurance that she would bring a friend to go as his bond, and tba,t sbe would return and take him home. And she left bim, a strong man, with his head drop ping upon his breast, a very coward, humiliated before toe weak and tender being whoso pres ence and.affection had stilled the angry passions of his soul. True to the instincts of her love and promise, she did return with one who went on bis bond for his appearance the next morning. With his hand claspetLin that of his' loving wife, she led him to their home a sadder and we trust a better man. There were those who laughed ns that pals, meek woman bore off her erring husband: but she heeded them not, and her self-sacrificing heartknew-or cared for nothing in its holy and heaven-born instinct, but to preserve him whom she loved with all the devotion of a wifo and wo- Attacjc on Liquor Shops bt Women.—The Kalamazoo (Mich) Telegraph furnishes toe par ticulars of a descent made on the groggeries of Otsego, by toe women of toat. place, in conse quence of an insult offered by a dealer to a fe male whose drunken husband visited his house. The Telegraph says : The Women of toe village, to toe number of 38, armed with axes and.hatchets, formed a pro cession and marehed npon toe destroyers *of their domestic peace. Proceeding to toe*hotel, /they commenced a general demolition of decan ters, jags, tamblors and barrels, when the pro prietor, beseeching them to desist, cam&4otorms, and gave bonds not to sell any more liqnor for six months, after which they quietly withdrew. They then proceeded to several groceries where liquors were sold. One of the keepers, after a portion of his stopk bad been destroyed, signed the required bond. Another refused, when they ponred out hia stock of liquors, amidst toe. greatest excitement. During the operation the proprietor rudely grasped one of tho females and hurled her back, whereupon he was seized and most thoroughly drenched in his own liquor. He received several .very severe’injuries In the melee: After having accomplished' this, the women, quietly dispersed. Gems of Thought.- Nothing like water for qn honest thirst. He censures God who quarrels with the im perfections of man. What men want of reason for toeir opinions, they usually supply and make up in rage. Manners make the man' hut smartness the money. To despond at difficulty, ^discovers want of stability; to despair at danger want of cour- ago. ' A want of confidence has kept many a man silent A want of sense has made many aper- son talkative. Truth is the oiily real lasting foundation for friendship. In all bat troth there is & principle of decay and dissimulation. Adversity overcome, is the brightest gloiy; and willingly undergone toe greatest virtue.— Sufferings are but the trial of valiant spirits. The stability and permanency of onr govern ment depends on the integrity and morality of tho people. A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this—that when toe in- jury began on his. part, the kindnoss should be gin on ours. Many are ambitious of saying grand things; that is, of being grandiloquent. - Eloquence is speaking out-r-a quality few esteem and fewor aim at. _ On® can no moro judge oflho true value of a man by toe impression he makes on the public, than wo can tell whether the seal was gold or brass by which tho stamp was m&do. . When a man dies, people generally inquire, “What property has be left behind him ?” The angels will ask “What good deeds has he sent before him ?’*—Arthur’s Home Magazine. v Criticising a Drop-Scene.—“Doestieks,” the queer correspondent of the Detroit Daily Advertiser,having been to see a “ modern clas- ic drama" in New York, remarked some of the incongruities of too drop-scene of the theatre,, which have puzzled many other people before him, and in his peculiar’style, gives his ideas upon the “magnificent work of art.” as follows : Admired the easy and graceful drapery pain ted on the “ drop,” which looks as if it was whittled out ef a cross-grained pine shingle— took a perplexed view of the assorted land scape depicted thereon—ondeavored to recon cile the Turkish rains with the Swiss mountains, or the gothic castle which the Arab slaves — wanted to harmonize the camels and other tro pical quadrupeds on the rfget with the frozen mill pond on the left—couldn't understand why the man on the othor side of the same, away among the distant mountains, should be so much larger than the individual close to the shore, who is supposed to be nearer by sever! miles—tried to make out what the man in a tur ban is doing with his legs crossed under him, oh a raft, hut gave it up—admired exceedingly the two rows of private boxes, which look like windows in a martin-house, but could not per ceive the propriety of having them supported by plaster-paris ladies, without any arms, and the irbodies covered up in patent metallic burial- cases, (! was informed that tho artist calls them Carayttdes,)—was impressed with the admira ble proportions of the stage: a hundred and eleven feet wide, by four feet teh inches deep— reminding me forcibly,, of an empty Seicllitz- powder box, turned up edgeways—censured the indelicacy of the managers in permitting the immodest little cupids, to tacitly perform on the impassible flutes and fiddles, to upper before so refined at audience, “all in tbeir bare”.— —was much chagrined on one of the prosceni um’flats, which I mistook for a Kentucky hack- woods girl, with ahowie-knife in one hand and a glass of corn-whiskey in e other; but I was told that it represents the tragic muse, with the dagger and poison-howl—resolved not to be do- .. eoived about the match picture on the other side, and after an attentive scrutiny, I determ ined that it is either a female rag-picker, with a scoop-shovel, or a Yirguiia wench with a hoe- cake in her hand; and I made np my raind that any one disposed to heathenism might safely worship-toe same, and transgress no- scriptural command, for it certainly is a likeness of "noth ing in the Heavens above, the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth.”- No Good Deed Lost.—Philosbphers tell us that sinco tho creation of the world not ono singlo particle has ever been lost. It may have passed into new shapes—-it maj have floated in smoko or vapor—bnt it is .riot lset It will come back again in tho dowdrow or the rain—It will spring npin tho fibre of the plant, or paint itself on the rose leaf. Through allots formations, Providence watohes and directs it still. Even qo it is with every lioly thought or Jioavenly desire, or humble aspiration, or gen erous and self-denying effort. It may escape oiir observation—we may bo unable to fallow it, but it is an olbmoht of the moral world, and it is not lost—Exchange. The Rov. Theodore Parkor, in his discourse yesterday, said that he had received many hon ors during bis life time, but his arraignment in the U. S. Court, on Wednesday, was the high est one he had yet reoeivedfrom his fellow mou. N. Y. Timet. He may yet receive a higher ono from a jury selected “from his fellow men,” before he secs his fanatical oaroor dear through.—Picay une. , Lord Elgin takes fob a Confidence Man. —The following good story is told by tho New York Express: ' • - “An' amusing circumstance connected with Lord Elgin's’ visit transpired on Wednesday.— His lordship was in want of funds to settle hi3 hotel bills, and so forth, and presented at tho Bank of Commerce a draft from the Bank of Montreal ordering tho first named institution to pay, to th® order of the Right Hon. the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine the sum of £250, «fcc., Ac. The teller of the Bank of Commerce assured his lordship that he could not pay the draft— eonld not say whether he was the person natn-_ ed - in it or not. The Earl replied, ‘Why I am the person.—I will endorse it,' and forthwith wrote ‘ Elgin and Kincardine’, on tho hack of toe document. The teller was still tanredulous- That sort of thing had been done by several confidence mou before,-ahd tbo Bank.of Com merce-could not pay this money until the clai mant of ithad proved Iiis identity.by some per son known, to tho bank officer-. Hero ho was in a fix. Lord Elgin looked about in vain for some person who could testify that he was real ly himself. ’Ho was finally obliged to depart without the money,-tbero not being sufficient time previous to the sailing of the steamer to al- • low him to send for a friend to identify him.— Lord Elgin was ocoomponied to the steamer by a large number of distinguished citizens. Human Life.—Ah ! this- beautiful world.— Indeed, I know not wbat to think of it. Some times it is all gladness aud sunshine, and heav en is not far off ; and then it changes suddenly, and it is dark and sorrowful, -and the clouds shat hut thosky. In the lives of the saddest of ns, there are bright days like this, when we feel BS if we could take this great world in our arms. Tbyn come the,gloomy hours, when'the fire will hoifhor burn id onr hearts oron our hearths, anil all within is dismal; cold and dark. Believe, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not;'and oftentimes we call a man cold when ho is only sad .—Longfellow. ^©•“Breathes there a inan with soul so dead —who never to himself hath said—I will my district-paper tako—for my own aud families’ sake. If such there bo, Jet him vopent—and have ihe paper fo him gent—and if he’d pass a happy winter—he in advance should pay the printer. ; • •••••"_/_ ; f — The day after twenty rogues had escaped from jail out west, an editor had an eloquent article on the morals of the place—‘‘Not a pris oner within tho walls of the jail.” * -■ — « Wants a Husband.—A young Widow with $80,000 in New York, advertises for husband ■ not five feet ten inches in height. 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Georgia Historic Newspapers

Rome courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1849-18??, January 16, 1855, Image 1