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Newspaper Page Text— mm r . ... f , mBt* ■•*-C^r^-> ' ,' Tiff iBftft ;&%paaa g IM1I Y'; r i fe IIS ySyv. s 11111 PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY COBURN & DWINELL EDITORS. TERMS—£2 00 PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. VOLUME 10. V 1 "■ 1 m-g ROME, GA, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1855. NUMBER 1 rrrUSBED BYXRY TUESDAY rouxing. fSTwrnttL BY COBURN <fc DWINELL. --*■» gf,.,% niatMlTnw uSui ox ouOKnpaoa: ; rn JLKXtrv, -$2 00 six xoxm,........ $3 SO t END or YEAR, ...... IS 00 of AdvntUnf: Advertisements will lto inverted - Miscellaneous Advertise- 50.6. H, a. FAKEELT/S ARABIAN LINI MENT. triumphant over diseases. , Hie truly greatmedierae still goes on, eba- quering disease, and snatching many a poor powerless victim from the grave. Bp its pow erfully stimulating, peeotrating and .anodyne qoalitiea, it restores toe Raeoftimba which have boon palsied for years; and by its singular pow- «r by reproducing the synovial fluid, or joint water, it onrea all diseases of the joints with murprisiag rapidity. For rheumatism, and af fections of the spine and spleen, it has proved itself a ’and far affections of the lungs, it Is a most valuable and powerful auxiliary; also, for all disease* of the glands, sorofola. goitre or '■welled neck, etc., [ for alaost any disease an ex it required, this medicine Sprains, braises, cramps, chilblains, bams, etc., are speedily BratkffM.?dtrF«Mr^cM of tie oldest . ttOfas in Blinois. Itgiyasmepleasare toaddmy testimony to the virtue of your great medicine. One of my bboded bersea. had a awaiting over the cap of thoknee, about toe size of a hen's egg. Some said it was ■ strain, and some, that it was the joint water from the knee, and coaid not be twit I tried oil eedar on it, and aU the lini and they did no mor- i water. I then, by persuasion of me [ H. O. Farrell’s Arabian Linlmenty r to find it take effect after a few i finally eared the aoble animal en tie decidedly the greatest. liaiment * betaeX «* «el! as human flesh, I ever knew. Tremoat, TasseeU c. ft Afore* lflli, 1849, PALSY OR PARALYSIS, r Smith, of Mud Creek, TaxweTl conn i, says: “I had last' the use of mj r, by palsy or paralysis; the flesh had eatirely withered away, leaving —,— , — -- ^ - ifofodin I could I then com Arabian Liniment, THERE 18 LIGHT. IT ti B. C. There’s light beyond the mountains Then’s peace beyond the vale, Then’s hope beyond the breakers, ith w Which swelleth with a wall. Then’s love beneath the shadows Of that dark bearing breast, Then are swift eagels sealing The ley mountain’s crest. Then’s good wi thin tiie evil, • As the diamond in its crush' Then an flowers in the desert— Life springOth from the dust. Then’s beauty in the hovel, There are angels in disguise, ’Neatb the rags and the tatters, To sparkle In: the skies. ten’s everything to cheer us, And nothing to withdraw Our confidence in heaven And the “tyeat Spirit’s” law. Then we’ll rest in assurance That an end soon will come, To tifc’a cans and troubles In oar bright Spirit home— When the golden blase of glory Oh hosts of Angel forms, Shall beautify their graces And hrighten Angel charms. hut ms, and my as the other fleshy as the other r sprains and bruises: it is also the H. ho of Farrell, many rithoat the knowl ■, and they will per rwhms the spori i evil effects, i manafoctured osily by , sole iureuioraad proprietor, and iggisl, No. 17 Main street, Peoria, to whom all apptieatioas for Agencies ; he addressed. Be rare you got it with the letters H. O. before FarrelFs, thus—H. 6. FARRELL’S—and hia signature on the wrap per, all ethers an counterfeits. SblAhy Kendrick A Pledger, Melville Q. B. F. Mattox, Mt. Hickory C. Brown, Coosa P. O. Scanner k Moyers, Summerville Robert Battey, Wholesale Agent, Rome and by regularly authorized agents toron ’ AaTTmfad States. 150 cents, and $1 per bottle, i) in every tows, village United States, in which one r established. Address H. G. Far rell as above, accompanied with good reference as to character, responribnity, Ac. ft M. EDDLEMA.N <fc BRO. Atlanta, Georgia. hand and forssle, at ; of .LASTS, L CALF LINING and BINDING SKINS f HOE-MAKER’S TOOLS, Ac- Ac. 17: \m7. jTSFi TO indojr Signs, Na lurches and Street Opporifo Jacob Hi Llantu. Ga. Co. While Hall street 9. IS 55 ly. f: r *n, Cm e Painter Door Plates Public Houses R - ATLANTA,.GAi Jr ThHALBR in China, Crockery, and Glass U wires: Lamp* of aU kindspOils, Cam- phine, Fluid, and Alcohol by_tire bbL “ Cash in advantt Jan 9,1855 Terms iy JOS. R. SWIET, GENERAL AUCTION COMMISSION MERCHANT, FOOT OF WII1TB HALL STREET, ATLANTA GEORGIA. ■wthitnkt ft ndf, Atlanta, Georgia; / j. n wftu.aot ft Bros. “ “ r. weight, eso., “ “ -iuvrfa. Msvutx * co.,'Charleston, 8. 0, xiCHot. & P A CKj NashviUe, Tcrin. kovaud swaHr, esa. Savannah, Georgia. mtik. koce ft Pftwwijro; Augusta'“ w. h I'r.TKpa. New Orleans, Jan. 2,1805. 8m mmm- ATLANTA MACII INK WORKS. ft.ATE ATLANTA iron foundry.) IS new Company is now prepar-S ed to do work on short notice,of vy and light Castings from the latest improved [Mittems of Iron; raes A Moonlight View of a Battle-Field. We do not think that the pen of the roman- cist ever depicted a more heart-sickening scene than the following description, by an eye-wit ness, of a portion of the field of Inkermsn, as viewed by moonlight, on the evening after that bloody battle: “Passing up .the road to Sevas topol between heaps of Russian dead, yon come to the spot where the Guards had been compell ed to retire from the defenqe of the wall above Inherman Valley. Here our dead was . nearly as numerous as the enemy’s. Across the path, ride by side, lay five Gnardmen, who were kill ed by one round shot ks they advanced to charge the enemy. They lay o& their frees in the Fame attitude, with thoir muskets tightly gras ped in both hands, and all had the same grim, painful frown upon their features, like men who were struck down in the act of closing with theirfoes. Beyond this thrRussian Gardsmen and lhe tins regiments lay thick'as leaves, with dead and wounded horses. The' latter, with fraetnfed fiiqhs, were now and then rising, and. after staggeringa few steps, rolling overamong the corpses, snorting and plunging foarfullj.— Up to the right of tits'wall was tiie way to the Two-gun Battery. 'The path lay through'thick brushwood, but it was slippery with Mood, and the hrushwood was broken down and encum bered with the dead. The scene from the Bat tery was awfol—awfnl beyond description. I stood npon its parapet at aboht nine at the night and felt'my heart sink: as I gazed npon the scene of carnage aronnd. The moon was at its full, and showed every object as if by. the tight of day. Facing me, was the Valley of Inker- man. with the Tcheniaya like a band of silver flowing gracefully between the hills, which, for varied and picturesquebeauiy£might.vie with' any part of the world. Yet I shall never recall tire memory eflnkerman Valley with any bnt. feelings of loathing and horror; for round the spot from which I surveyed the scene lay up-, wards of 5,009 bodies. Many badly wounded also lay there; and their low, doll moans of mortal agony struck with terrible distinctness on the ear, or worse still, the hoarse gargling cry and vehement straggles of those who wen convulsed before they pasted away. Ronnd the hills small groups of men with Hospital stretchers were searching out for those who still survived ; and others again, with lanterns, bu sily turning over the dead looking for the .bod ies of officers who were known to be killed, bnt wbo had not been found. Here also were En glish women whose husbands bad not returned, harrying about with load lamentations, turning the flues of our dead to the moonlight, and ea gerly seeking for what they feared to find.— These latter were flu- more to be pitied than the inanimate forms of those who ley slaughtered aronnd. The aihhqlanees, as they came op, re ceived their load of sufferers, and even blankets were, employed to convey the wounded to the Tear. Outride the battery the Russians lay two and three deejC Inside, tire place was literally full with bodies of Russian Guardsmen, 55th and 20th. The one, tall forms of onr poor .fol lows coofd be distinguished at a glance, though tire grey great coats stained with blood render ed them alike externally. They lay as they fell, in heaps; sometimes onr men over three or four Russians, and sometimes Russians over tinree or fonr of oars. Some had passed away with asmile on ibeir feces, and seemed as if asleep - others were horribly contorted,' and -with distended pyes and swollen features ap- | (Politicians, by which term we now mean par ty politicians, are queor people. They treat every ipoto they find in lhe eyes of theirvoppo- nents as if-It were the biggost kind of beam, while they overlook-the hugbest boam that is Id their own eyes as the tiniest of motos. It is always the opposite party whose hull is goring their ox, whilo what tbeir hull does to tho op posite party’s ox u not taken at all into the ae- speared to-have: the last, and as though their mangled almost startling kneeling, a cart rid, extended in agony, but defying to as if prepared, for burial, "relatives had arranged while others again were in positions, half standing or g their weapons or drawing y lay with both their hands the sky, as if to avert a blow or utter a prayer, while others bad a malignant scowl of mingled fear and hatted as if indeed they died despairing. The moonlight imparted an aspect of unnatural paleness to their forms, and as the chid damp wind swept aronnd the hills and waved the boughs above their upturn ed faces, and the shadows gave a horrible ap pearance of vitality, and it seemed as if toe dead were laughing, and about to rise. This was not toe case on one spot, hut all OTcr thc Moody field/' The Moral Character of Pigs.—Some folks accuse pigs of being filthy in their habits and negligent in their personal appearance. But whether food is best eaten off toe ground, or from China plates, is, it seems to ns, merely amatter pf taste and convenience, about which pigs and men may bonestiydiffer. They ought, then, to be judged charitably. At any rate, pigs are not filthy* enough to chew tobacco, nor to poison drinking whiskey. As/to their personal appearance yon don’t catch a pig play ing toe dandy, nor picking their way op the muddy streets, in kid slippers; . „ to, in kid slippers. Pigs hafe some excellent traits of character. If one chances, to Wallow a littio deeper in some mire hole than his fellows, and so carries off and yomee in possession of more of toe earth tffrn his brethren, he never assumes an extra importance on that soconnt, neither are hie brethren stapid enough to worship him for it.— Tbeir only question seems to be, is be .still a bog? If be fs they treat bint as such. And when a beg has no merits at his own, he never puts on aristocratic sirs, nor claims any particular respect on account of his family con nection. They understand, full well, tho com mon sense maxim, "evCry tub most stand npon its own bottom.” ‘Dox’t Nobby/—This is toe first thing an liter should get by heart.- If Mr, Slocnm threatens to withdraw his patronage, because yon criticised Professor Drawl’s lecture on the onion question, don’t worry—hut tell him to go ahead.anddo Ik If Mr. Bullion writes you an * - * ■ • v - js v.t s vi vlilsl • — m a. tug to t orCdMomnl, al!of vhioh will be warran- 'editor -AotisTret bv heart, ted. Turning, Borings and Drilling done toi rafo order. Also, screw cutting of 10 feet or un der of any size and thread required. Heavy and light forging of wrought Iron or Steel •done in Bttjxifior style. PARTICULAR ATTENTION iscalled to their patterns for Mill Gearing,for Merchant and Custom Flouring, and Saw Mills, Gin Gearing of all' the usual sizes, and Baric Mills always kept on hand. Wo are also prepared to build Stationary Engines upon the latest improvements. All of which will be sold low for cash. Copper and Brass taken In exchange for work at cash prices JAMES L. DUNNING, john McDonough, WILLIAM RUSHT0N. P. 8. All of the above company are prac tical Mechanics, and give their individual Attention to the business. jan. 9, ’55. insulting letter, Saying If yon do not stop wri ting about the Diddle ton Rail, Road, he will ruin yon with a law suit—don't worry, bnt dare him to try it on. If Mr. Smith threatens ' to 'cave yotir bead in’because you montloned that ’his son, Bob/ was sent to the tombs for pelting a street lamp with brick bats—don’t worry, but tell him yon so lov - (aw >!>atyou dine on *Sal- lad mado of rod tapo and scaling wax. If Mr. Silk approaches, with ahorse pistol ‘tbatkicks/ trains out if you ever and offers to blow your brains out U you allude again to his visits to Mrs. Dornurcs, don’t worry about it, but tell him to pull its ‘what you call it/ and blazo away. Again we say, never worry. If you do, you are no more calculated for an editor than a Quaker is for marine horn pipes.—Athens Pott. poslte party' count. Just as in religion, so in party politics, orthodoxy is our own doxy, and hetrodoxy is •very body else’* doxy. It is the worst of crimes, in too estimation of snob, for their ops ponento so muoh as to look oyer the fence, while they themselves would think the snatch ing of a sheep or two by their own party a very venial offence. We might give a variety of frmiliar illustra tions of thif antithetical philosophy of the par tisans, had we the time, the spaoe and tho In clination. Wa will content ourselves with hut one. The American -party, or as they are callsd sometimes, toe Know Nothings, who are here ancKthere doing so mnoh to astonish the wisest and shrewdest political calculators now-a-days, are understood to bo bound together by a se cret organization, something like that of the Free Masons, the Odd Fellows, Ac. They are supposed to hold private meetings, and to have certain facilities for carrying out a concerted coarse of action for tho accomplisment of the ends they have in view. And this, (to say no thing of the character and objects of these ends, for with them wo do not propose to deal,) this secrecy of orgonization, this privately con certed action, is moat bitterly denounced by the partisans of all the other parties, as most awfully and outrageously antagonistical to the principles of good citizenship and of political morality. Such is the sore result of cherishing a pre judice. Such is the consequenoe of cultivating party spirit The beam here is made of the same wood as ths mote. The old parties who are opposed to the new party aro greatly shock ed at its persistency in keeping up a secret or ganisation, without remembering that there never was a party in this or any other country that did not even to the familiar commonness of a proverb, do precisely the same. Whence came the well known and well understood phrases, “behind the throne,” “wire-pulling” and “ wirepullers,” “back-stairs influence,” and the like? What are the private committees of wards, and districts, and conntios, and States? Regencies, caucnsses, Tammany Halls, kitchen cabinets, .and all the other arrangements for the organization. and the regulation of party movements? Whig or Democratic, Know Noth ing or Know Something, there is a good dieal more in the management of parties than meets the general eye; and neither one nor the other of them seems to think.it can.make much head way without such cu5 rota understandings among toe leaders. ' We have been led into this train of thought by. seeing in the columns of one of the Wash ington papers, and a strong party print at that, the flrank admission that “the people have had too little agency in the choice of candidates for C&oe. that political manage remand intriguers have had too much to do with it, and that, drill ed, disciplined and unscrupulous corps have ex erted too much influence over onr conventions.” Beyond doubt this is so, and toe admission, coining from toe quarter it does, should have toe effect of suggesting to toe members of the old parties whether, when they are denonn- cing the new party, it is not for .precisely toe same offence (if it be one) of which they have for years been guilty themselves. all this, of coarse, we speak not as parti sans,, bnt merely m “toe brief abstract and chronicles of the times” in whieh we lire.—AT. Orleans Picayune. ing'J from the Almanac of the London Punch for 1855. Truth for Teetotallers.—The porter that is stoat will carry the biggest man beyond the bonds of discretion. -Information for Innocents.—When anybody talks much about his trials, there is some rea son to believe him to be a thief. A Real Blessing to Mothers.—Couldn’t some body invent a soap which would enable mam mas to get their daughters off their hands ? Soft soaf has been found effectual in some instances, it won’t always do the clear thing. Memorandum for the Month of March.—To yonng ladies—Now make up your minds and choose your loves, considering that you may have too many chaps on yours hands. The position of the Eyes in Man.—A saga cious old gentleman remarks how fortnneatp it is that onr eyes do hot project like those of some animals, for if they did, what a number of boys we should see making faces at us behind our backs! * — A Married Lover.—A hen pecked husband declared that the longer he lived the more he -was smitten. Rule for Yonng HousTceepers.—Tho smallest poseible waste, without pinching. Hint to Householders.—Honesty may be the best policy; but'the next best is a policy of assurance. . Health and Beauty^—The yonng lady who is nnable to sport a riding habit should get’ into a walking habit. „ What’s vtt the Wind Now?—The- following paragraph appears in the last number of the Clarksville Jeffersonian: “We are gratified to find onr able cotempo raries of the Nashyillo Union and Chattanooga Advertiser standing shoulder to soulder with us ini toe advocacy of a State Convention. There never was a time when there was such imminent danger to toe Democratic cause or such pressing necessity for consultation among the experien ced men of ear party. We say then let the’ oonvention meet and let it be a full one.” Never a time w^en.there was such imminent danger to the Democratic cause, or such pressing necessity for consultation among the experien ced men of the party! What can the matter be? -What is the-imminent danger?” The democratic press of the State, we believe, has come out pretty generally in favor of Governor Johnson’s running again! If the masses and leaders concur 'with' the press in that respect, toe alleged “necessity for consultation among the experienced men of the party” cannot have reference to the selection of a standard-hearer in the next. Gubernatorial canvass. To what, then, can it have reference? Wo infer that there must be some under currrents of i which we and the public generally - Jenow nothing, hut which are of so deep and broad a character as to seriously menace the harmony and integrity of the party. When the Convention moets, we shall probably know all about it. In tho mean time, from certain information we have recently received, hat jrbicb wo do not feel at liberty to make public, wc shall be on the look out for “signs”of a particular nature, which toe shall know very well how to interpret - If those whom sneh “signs" especially concern, shall bo unable to read them aright, it will be their mis fortune, and n<v fault of ours. We do not feel it incumbent npon, ns to interfere one .tray or another with these democratic family affairs— except just so far as it suits oar notions of pro priety to. do so.—Nash. Banner. ' Surgical Operation—Wo wero present at - - - ~ an operation performed by Professor ugas, in r days agent, , /af.jfc has not been mnch used.' * The ’operation Was thatVf extirpating a largc tumor on the back; weighing about ton pounds. Tfye Professor, before operating, surrounded the base of the tumor vith tho freozing mixture for about four or five minutes, which so obtunded tho sensibility of the parts that tho operation was performed with eomparitively little pain. We learn that tbo Professor has boon making experiments for tfomo time, and has reason to ho ploasod with tho results,whether it is to supersede Chloriform it Is yet to bo determined.—Augusta Ohronielt. WRITTEN IN TEN MINUTES. CHPTBR I.—MY BIRTH. In 1765, March 12th, I came from darkness in to light. I was measured, weighed and bapti zed. I was born without knowing why, and my parents thanked Heaven without kuowlng why. CHAPTER II—MY EDUCATION. I was taught all sorts of things, and evory language. By being impudent and deceitful, I somotimes passed for a soholar. My head became a library of odd books, of which I have kopt tho koy. CHAPTER ni.—MY SUFFERINGS. I was' tormented by masters^by tailors, by whmen, by ambition, by self-loro, by rain ro- grets, by sovereigns and souvonofrs. CHAPTER IV.—MY PRIVATIONS. I have been deprived of three great enjoy ments of the human race: robbery, gluttony, and pride. CHAPTER'V.—MEMORABLE EPOCHS. At thirty years, renounced Aencing; at forty, tho feir sex; at fifty, public opinion; at sixty, thinking; and I am now a true philosopher, or egotist, whioh is synonymous. • ’ ^ CHAPTER YI—MORAL PORTRAIT. I was obstinate as a mule, capricious as a coquette, gay as a child, idle as a mole, active as Bonaparte, and everything at pleasure. CHAPTER VII.-IMPORTANT CIRCUM STANCES. Having never been aMo to control my coun tenance, I gave loose to my tongue, and con tracted the bad habit of thinking aloud. That procured me some joys and many enemis. CHAPTER VIIL—WHAT I WAS, AND WHAT I MIGHT HAVE BEEN. I was sensitive to friendship, to confidence, and had I lived in toe golden age, might have been, perhaps, in every respect, a good man. CHAPTER IX.—RESPECTABLE PRINCI PLES. , I have never been implicated\in any mar riage, nor in any gossippiug. I have never re commended a cook or a physician: consequent ly I have attempted nobody’s life: CHAPTER X.—MY TASTES. I love small parties—a walk in the woods. I had an involuntary veneration for the sun, and his setting often saddened me. I -prefer red blue, in colors; in eating, beef with horse- raddish: in drinking, fresh water; in plays, the comedy and farce; in men and women, open and expressive conntenanoes. The humpback ed of both sexes had a charm for me—why, I have never been able to understand. CHAPTER XI—MY AVERSIONS. I had an aversion to fools, to scoundrels, to intriguing women who made sport of virture; a disgust for affectation; pity for painted men' and women; an aversion to rats, liquors, met aphysics and rhubarb, and fear of justice and mad beasts. CHAPTER Xn.—ANALYSIS OFMYLlFE. I await death without apprehension as with out impatience. My life has been aJbusy melo- d ram a on a great stage, where I Have played the hero, the tyrant, the lover, the noble father,’ hut never th« valet. , - ^ CHAPTER Xni.—REWARDS OF HEAVEN. My great happiness is in being independent of the three individuals who govern Europe: as I am rich enoneb, have given up public busi ness, and am wholUy indifferent to music, I have consequently no sympathy with Roths child, MeJtternich, and Rossihni. CHAPTER XIV.—MY EPITAPH. Here lies in repose, with a worn-out mind, an exausted heart, and a used-up body, a wicked old deviL Ladies and gentlemen, pass on. CHAPTER XV.-DEDICATORY EPISTLE TO THE PUBLIC. Dog of a public! discordant organ of the passions! thou who raisest thyself to heaven, or plowest in the mud; who blamest and ca- lumniatest, thou knowest not why; thou ab surd tyrant escaped from Bedlam; thon extract of the most deadly venom and of tho mildest rheumatics; thou representative of the devil near the human race: thou farce, masked with Christian charity; thou, public 1 hat I feared In my youth, respected in mature years, and de spised in my old age—it is to tiiee^I dedicate my memoirs. Dear public! at last I am out of thy reach, for I am dead, dumb, and blind. Enjoy, if thou canst,, these advantages for thy own repose and that of the human raco.—H. Y. Leader. Address to a Jug of Ruin* Here, only by a cork controll’d - And slender wall of earthen mould, In all the pomp of death, repose, The seed of many a bloody noso; Tho stammering tongue, the horrid oath; The fist for fighting nothing loth; The passions which no word can tame, That burst like sulphur into flame; Tho nose carbnncled, glowing red; The broken eye, the broken head; The free that hears the deadly fruit Of murdering, maiming and dispute; Assault that innocence assails; The images of gloomy jails; Tho giddy thought, on mischief bent; The midnight hours in riot spent, All the»e within this jug appear, And Jack, the hangman in tho rear. . Georgia Citizen x A True Han. If I shall describe a living man, a. man that hath that life thatjdistinguishcs him from a fowl or a bird, that which gives him a capacity next to angels; we shall find that even a • good man lives not long, because it is not long before he is born to this life, and longer yet before he has aman’s growth. “He that can look npon death, and see its feco with the same countenance with which he hears its story; that can endure all the labors of his life with his soul support ing his body; that can equally despjse riches when he bath them, and when he hath them not ; that is not sadder if they lie in his neigh bor’s trunks, nor more brag if they shine round about his own wall; bo that is never moved with good fortuno coming to him/ nor going from him; that can look upon another man’s, lands, otonly and pleasantly as if they wero his own, nnd yet look upon his own and use them, too, just as if they wero another man’s; -that neithor, spends his goods prodigally, and like .a fool, nor yot keeps them avaraciously and like a wretch; that weighs not benefits by weight and number, but by the mind and circumstances of him that gives them; that never thinks -his charity expensive if a worthy person* be the receivor; he that does nothing for opinion’s sake, but everything for conscience, being as curious of his thoughts as of his actings in markets and theatres, and is as much in nwo of himself 119 of a whole assembly; he that knows God looks; an'd contrives his secret affairs as in the presence of.God qnd bis holy angels; that eats and drinks bccauso ho neods it, riot that ho may serve a lust or load his stomach; be that is bountiful and-cheerful to bis friends, and eharitable and apt to forgivo bis onomies; that loves bis eonntry and obeys his prinee, hing more than Conversation is the music Of the mind. Eloquence is tho language ofnature. Applause is the ebd and aim of weak minds. Rashness is the error of youth. An idle brain is the devil’s hrorkship. Among the^base, merit begets enmity among tho noble, emulation. A bad style is better than a lewd story, A truly great man borrows no lustra from splen did ancestry. A bad wound heals; a had name lulls. A knowledge of our duties is the most usfiful' part of philosophy. A had workman quarrels with his tools. A few hooks well chosen are of more use than a great library. A bitter jest is the poison affrienship. Avirce generally miscalculates, and as goner* ally deceives. A blithe heart makes a blooming visage. Abundance is a trouble, but competency brings delight. A burden which one chooses Is not felt. A man had better be poisoned in his blood than in hU principles. A careless watch invites a vigilant foe. A virtuous mind in a fair body is like a fine pictnre in a good light. Acquire ^honesty; seek humility; practice economy; love fidelity. A chaste'eye exiles licentious looks. Against fortune, oppose courage; against passion, reason. A clean glove often hides a dirty hand. A man that breaks his word; bids others be false to him. A cloar conscience fears no accusation. A good cause makes a stoutheart and astrong arm. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is down npon the Know Nothings, calling them many vile names. Cause why ? The Know Nothings have pnt an extinguisher npon Abolitionism,, of which Bee cher is the great expounder and apostle 1 Horace Greely, the Free Soil Editor of the New'York Tribune is fierce in his denunciations of the Know Nothings as the-“aUies of slave- ry.” v M Wendell Philips, and other notorious Aboli tionists Renounce? them as the “Allies of slave ry” ' Every Abolition and Free Soil Editor in New York denounces the Know Nothings as toe friends of the “peculiar institution/’ The late Democratic Free Soil Convention of Ohio denounced Slavery and the Know Noth ings in the same series of Resolutions. Harry Seward of N.-.Y. Is opposed to the Know Nothings, and they (except a small fac tion of seceders) are opposed to Harry Seward’s re-election as Senaton to the-U. S. Congress. And, lastly, Wm. Lloyd Garrison denounces toe Know Nothings, weekly/in his ^Liberator/ as tho “ Allies and friends of Slavery.” Now, pint too above and the following togeth er and Bee how closely some Democratic Editors in Georgia'affiliate with Beecher, Garrison, Phil ips, Greely, Ac. in their opposition to Know Notbingism. Tho . Georgia Telegraph is as'hostile to the “Know Nothings”qs a well ground meat axe! . -The Federal Union, Do. Do. Do. The.Atlanta Examiner, Do. Do. Do. The Albany- Patriot, Do. . Do. Do. - The Savannah Georgian, Do. Do. Do.- These are “hale fellows, well mef’—tho Sou thern Disunion}st and toe Northern' Abolilion- itt uniting all their energies to pnt down the -National American and Constitutional Party of toe Cohtrv!!! Ohl SHAME WHERE IS THY BLUSH! Geo. Citizen. Confidence in One’s Self,—When a crisis befalls yon and the emergency requires moral courage and noble manhood to meet it, be equal to the requirements of the moment and rise su perior to the obstacle in your path. The. uni versal testimony of men, whose experience ex>-' actly coincides with yonrs, furnishes the .con soling reflection that difficulties may be ended by opposition. There is no blessing equal to possession of a stoat heart, more than a greater effort than ever at y onr hands. If yon prove re creant in the hour of trial,jron are the worst of recreants, and deserve no compassion. Be not -dismayed nor unmanned, when yon should be hold and daring, unflinching and resolute. The cloud whose threatening mnrmnrs yon hear, with fear and dread,, is pregnant with blessings, and the frown.whose sternness now makes yon shudder and tremble will ere long he succeeded by a smile of bewitching sweetness and benig nity. Then he strong and manly, oppose eqn&l forces to open.difficulties; keep a stiff upper lip; and trust to Providence. Greatness can only be achieved by those who are tried.- The conditiop of that achievement is confidence in one’s self. —Richmond-Post.. .Where Cork comes From.--Cork is nothing more or less than the bark of evergreen oak, growing principally in Spain, and other conn- tries bordering the Mediterranean; in English gardens it is only a curiosity. When' the cork tree is about fifteen years old, the bark has ate tained a thickness and quality suitable for man ufacturing purposes; and after stripping, a fur ther growth of eight years produces a seed crop; and so on at intervals, for even ten or twelve crops. The bark is stripped from tho tree, in pices two inches in thickness of consid erable length, and of such width as to retain the curved Form of the trunk when it has been stripped. The bark peeler or cutter, makes a slit in the hark with a knife, perpendicular from the top of the trunk to tho bottom; he makes another incision parallel to it, and at some dis tance, from the former; and two shorterhorizon- tal cuts at the top and bottom. For stripping off the piece thus isolated, he uses a kind of knife with two handles and a curved blade.— Sometimes after the cats have been made, he leaves the troejto throw off the bark by the spon taneous notion of tho vegetation within the trunk. Tho detntched pieces are soaked in wa-- tor, and aro placed over a firo when nearly dry; they are, in fact, soorhed a little on both sides, and acquire a somewhat more compact texture by this scorching. In order to get rid of tho curvature, and bring them flat, they aro pres sed‘down with weights while yet hot. Thb Future.—What is mord simple and beautiful and true than this, from Ike Mar vel: -■ , .. Tho past belongs-to God, the present only is ours, and.short as it is, there is more in it than wo can well manage. He who can well measure it with his purpose is doing a man’s work; there are few who do it and many who do less. , The future is a great land.- A man cannot go around it in a day, he .cannot measure it with a bound, nor gather up its harvest in a single sheaf. It is broader than the vision, and bos no end. and desires and ondoavors notl that they may do honor to God;” this person may reckon his life to be tho lifeof a man, and compute bismontiis, not by tho course of thti ■an, bat by the zqdiac and circle pf his virtues; because these aro such things which fools and children, and birds, and beasts, cannot have. Tbeso arb therefore tho actions of life, beoauao tboy ore the seeds.of immortality. That day in which wo bare done soino excellent thing, we may qs truly reckon to be added to our life, as were the fifteen years to the days of Ilezokiab. [Bishop Taylor. The Know-Nothings carried the late' eleotibn in too city of Houston, Texas, by 0 large nla- Jority.' ' ' * Tnr. Spinrr Rapper.—A pbilospbic and self- possessed ship-captain was passed through a church-yard at midnight, when a sheeted ghost rose-np‘behind a tombstone, nnd approached him with monneing gestures. The aneient mariner coolly raised his stick, and gave him a crack over the head, asking him what he meant.by being out of his grave at so late an hoar. Shot.—Wo learn that a man named John W.- Moody, a carpenter, was shot last night, in a houso of ill-fame, by a man named Ramsom Gray, ft'painter. Woman, “fair »nd frail,” was the cause or.toe qnarrel ; Moody is yet alive; hut is not expected to recover. Gray was arrested and duly committed to await an examination-Montgomery Mail. eporte ’ from 1 np tho following doleful ditty from somewhere ; “POOR OLD MAIDS,” ‘ Three-score and ten of ns, ' Poor old maids! Three-score and teltefifas, Not a soul to give a bass. What will become.of as? Poor-bid maids! Long time we’ve tarried Poor old maids! Long time we’ve tar-ri-ed, Soon shall we be bn-ri-ed, Ob! that we were mar-ri- ed! Poor old maids! Dress’d jo yellow, pink'and bine Poor old maids! Dress’ed in yellow, pink and bine. With faces of a chalkon hue, Is then more that we can do? Poor old maids 1 Was General Washington in favor of the im migration of foreigners? Rend tho following letter taken from Sparlr's publication of the Washington Papers, and answer tire question: " PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 17, 1791. “Dear Sir: * * * My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful me chanics and somo particular description of men and. professions, there is no use of encourage, ment m ■ * » “I am, Ac., “G. WASHINGTON. “To John Adams, "Vico President of tho United States.” AU alone we go to bed; Poor old maids! All alone we go to bed,. Pat oar night caps on onr heads, Bat not a word to ns is sflid— ■ - Poor old maids! ►—4 Illness of the Hox. Walter Colquitt.— The Colnmhns Eeqnirar of last Wednesday con tains toe following paragraph: Tho Hon. A. 11. Colquitt, member of Con - grass from this District, arrived in this city yesterday, in campliance with r. tek-grasbic despatch relative to the extreme illness of his father, toe Hon. W- T. Colquitt. The latter is reported better, bat we regret to learn is yet exceedingly ill. Judge WorrUl. In passing sentence npon a criminal at the late terra of toe' Superior Court of Muscogee county, Judge Worrill is reported to have made the following remarks : ' “The object of toe law is not revenge, bnt to deter others from toe commission of crime.— Until the administration of my immediate pre decessor, tho practice of the court in this cir cuit has been to administer tho law, as far as practicable, in favor of tho gnUty. This prac- ice is ait an end. I am de(ermined that for toe next fonr years .toe law shall be a terror to evil doers. Hitherto life and property hare been insecure, it Is now time honest men should be protected in their rights.” , j. It strikes us, that the rale here laid down, is right, and the,best as weU for the criminal as for the'public. It is not toe severity of pun ishment so mnch as Its certainty, that deters men from the commission of crime. If itconld be known that murder in all cases would be pons ished by imprisonment in .toe penitentiary, we shonldhave fewer homicides-than we-now have under a law which, makes the penalty death,- bnt which, from * morbid sympathy for the cuL prit, and a mistaken leniency of public function aries, is but seldom enforced. Leniency to a crime is wrong to the public. Give him an impartial trial, and the.benefit of every reasonable doubt arising under toe evi dence; but if guilty, do not out of compassion for his “wife and. children,” or in consideration of his ropentenee and confessions, allow him to escape the penalty oi the law. The greater the facility for evading toe law, the greater will be toe number of crimes committed. A Judge diminishes toe personal security of toe citizen in proportion as he extends favor to the offen der. “He that’s merciful Unto the had, is crqel to toe just.” We think, therefore, that Judge Worrill .has adopted the right rnle, anti trust that other jndges in toe State, will nnitate his example. We cannot forbear making a remark here abont judge Worill. He is yet a yonng man, notwithstandinghe has been chosen Judge of the Chattahoochee Circuit. He was reared, in Elbert county, in this State, by parents in straightened circumstances, who, though not able to bestow upon him were sagaejous enough to give him what was of more value—a thor- rengh classical and legal education. Having /been admitted to practice law, he removed’ to Talbot county, where he has resided ever since; and from a friendless and penniless beginner, he* has grown to be one of the most popu lar and successful men in Western Georgia* In politics he is a Union Whig, and in private life a man of irreproachable character, and strict integrity; possessing witball a fine intellect and excellent judgement. . There is mnoh in' bis career to encourage the youthful aspirant, while hi&fatnre.is full of promise to himself and to his native State. Death of Two Clergymen.—A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C., says: The Rev. Cyrus Johnson, D. D., of this town, died very sud- dently of apoplexy this morning, in an omni bus, whilst going to toe Railroad depot. He was on bis way to Fort Mills, for the purpose of marrying'a gentleman and lady this evening. He was the second clergyman who had been engaged to perform the ceremony. The Rev. A. S. Watts, who. had been engaged for :he same purpose, died on toe-day appointed for the wedding. ^ . . , •/.. "A New Ocean Steamer for the Netv York and Harvs line, called the Arago. has been launch ed at New York. She cost $150,000, is 2250 tons register, 310 feet length of keel, 40 feet 6 inches breadt]i of beam, and 31 feet 6 inches depth of hold. j22*7'Tt is reported that tho Czar is “disposed to treat” We are glad to hear it Wonder what the allies will'"take”—besides Sevasto pol.—Boston Mail.. . ,i—Six hundred and eighty-two murders were committed in the United States in 354, and 1 tsixty-fonr executions took place. Punch says that “the cloak of religion” is to he known by toe fine nap it has during sermon time. - , : ' Mr. Grindstone says that pork is plen tiful ont West, that every third man you meet is a hog ! Steam is a servant that often blows np its master. . ' A Hint to Angols :-r-When yon go a fishing, he sure to take a bite before you go, as yon may not get one afterwards- _ ' ; *i, - There are-two reasons why von should not in terrupt an editor when he is writing. One is, it is apt to pnt him ont-; and the other is, yon might get put out yourself. “How was Adam got ont of Paradise ? ed a Sunday School teacher recently of a pupil Why he was snaked out. Edgar Poe used to drink strong tea to excite him to poetical inspiration. Tommy says it is no wonder that T should make Poe a Po- et. ' ' Narrow sonled people are like narrow necked bottles, the less they have in' them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. The man who has a “picture of despair.” has toeen set in a “serious frame of mind,"and hung —in toe back parlor. The man.who ran up acolumn of figures, turn hied down and was hurt very badly. Bridal of the Atlantic and Pacific. Invitations are out Tor. the most sublime and magnificent nuptials ever celebrated upon onr planet—the wedding of the rough Atlantic.to the fair Pacific Ocean. An iron neclaee bos been thrown across the Isthmus.; the bands are already published; and the bridal party will leave this city on Monday next, February 5th, .to perform toe angnst ceremony. Some seven millions of dollars have been spent in achieving this anion; bnt, as too fruits thereof will soon show, it has been money well inves ted. Across the bosom of the Isthmus, the gold en products of our Pacific., borders and the in calculable treasures of the distant .Orient, are derlined to flow in unremitting streams. The stupendous enterprise of uniting the ti/o Oceans which embrace the greater portions of the globe. We ale proud to say, was conceived and executed by onr own citizens in toe frown ing face of obstacles that none, but Americans could have overcome. The swamps, mountains and miasmas, oftoe Isthmns drove all toe en gineers of Europe home in despair who con templated the gigantic undertaking,-and the Herculean work was left to too hands and hearts of men in whose vocabulary “there'* is no such word as fail,” The Engineers of England and France pro nounced the project utterly impracticable. To toe late lamenfed John LT Stephens' and his' associates. Aspinwall, Chauncey, Coit, White- right and other, the world is indebted for the completioh/of this great bond—this eommercial linking of toe hemispheres. An enterprise so full of poetic sublimity,' and so fraught with interests co-extensive with the whole earth, maywell command the admiration of the world; and deserves to be fitfully inaugurated by such a bridal party as aro now preparing to embark as witnesses of the grand consummation. It is a theme-for such a» Epithalainiumas was never sung in Greece, and an occasion for a world ringing burst of eloquence that makes one de plore afresh that the tongue of Webster is mate in death. Onr “Foreign Relations” are in a good state: 5000 of them landed at New York on Sundav. “Oh, - dear! exclaimed an urchin, who was Chewing agreen apple, ^Pve swallowed a know nothing.” * ... .-j,-;: “A know-nothing?” “Yes he is givin’ me the grip ” The unfortunate yontb who was drowned a few days ago in a ’flood of tender recollections/ was slowly, recovering; but yesterday he fell from toe sublime to toe ridiculous, and was fa tally injured. - ■- - Definition^—Sidney Smith’s definition of toe Popish ritual: Posture and imposture, flec tions and genuflections,-bowing to the right, courteseying’to the left, and an immense amount of man-millinery. too Pat and the Yankee. A Pat—an old joker—and Yankee more'sly Once riding together, a gallows passed by : Said the Yankee to Pat, “If I don't make free, Give tho gallows its dne, where then would you be?” “Why honey ?”said Pat, “faith, that’s easily known. <* Yr ;;i I’d be riding to towfc—by myself all alone !” Counterfeits.—Girls with hollow cheeks and fall bosoms. Sneh kind of things never come together naturally. Make a note, and don’t mistake cotton for plumpness- _^EP- Our late distinguished Ambassador at* the Court of St. James, Hon. Abbott Lawrence, whose wealth is poured ont. for all benevolent purposes, in donations large as the son, can re call the time when he had a profession to ’se lect, and the first shilling of his splendid for tune to earn. He chose deliberately a calling; he pursued that occupation with integrity and endurance, through dark, trying seasons, and the result is! before' the world. .This cose af fords an apt illustration of the' proverb of the wiso mao, that a man “diligent in his business shall stand before lungs,-and not before .mean Seizor* of Lbttbrs.—A paokago of oyer fif teen hundred letters,' in charge of Adams A Co.’s Express, wore recently seized tn transitu from. San Francisco to New York, the tome boing conveyed contrary to low. The letters, wore given last Saturday into tho hands of tho Uni ted Stotes District Attorney, who transferred them immediately to Postmaster Fowler for deliver to their points- of destination.— York Times. ' Tho late John Jacob Aster, as he left hirna- tive Germany, paused beneath a lindenlree, not far from the line that separated-bis native land from another, and made . three resolutions which ho intended should guide him through life: 1, Ho would be honest. 2, He -would be industrious. 3, He would nover-gamblo. lie was on foot. His wealth was the araitil bundlo that swung from tho stick laid oh his shoulder. The world was before him* He wns.ablo to car ry them out. His success is the best comment on his endurance' ■ w . .- Stephen Girard, at the age oW years, was in quite moderate circumstances, being the cap tain of a small coasting vessel on the Delaware, and part ownonoQho same. No trait.of his character was more marked than his endurances, and this elomentgavc him a fortune.—Montgom ery Mail. A large cargo of Indians, captured in tho Poninsuln of Yucatan by Santa’s directions, have landed in Havana to be sold as slaves. At the very urgent remonstrance of the British Consul, Gen. UqncBR is about to inquire into tho legality of tho transaction. Santa Anna has already received $20,600^Tor his share of the business. " ' * ' . “Hans, what yon think of der know nud- dings?” f till “Isch not know.” - '- 4 "Tell, votdosh you tink ?” “I tink nutting.” “By darn; dat ish shust what I link.” A bashful printer refused a situation in a prin ting office where females were employed, say ing that he never “set np” with a girl in his iife. • ' mR GoodT.atnro, like the bee, collects sweetness from every herb. Hf nature,' like the spider,- sucks poison from honeyed flowers. ■ A Female writer says: “Notoingleoka worse oh a lady than darned stockings.” Allow us to observe that stockings which need darning look much worse than darned ones—darned if they don’t! . ‘ . - .v, .. Wanted.—A fiferAnd drummer to boat for the “oHfreh of intellect/’ a pair of s mi lb* rs for the “light of other daysa stone cutter who can drill deep. enough, to blast the ‘rock of ages;'” a ring to fiHhe “finger of -scorn;” nnd a uew- cushion for the "seat of govern men t.” Jf OS'A Hartford ympor tells of a now. stylo of eating oysters practised at the Irving House, New London. A man of rather suspicion? ap pearance oaHod for oysters, when the bnr-keep- er opened a very large one,, and set both sludls on the counter, whereupon the customer swal lowed the oyster in one half the shell; and’ mi ■pretence oftaking the “Broth,” drank &j’liquid of rather singular appoarance from the other half- ; j , • ■ ; w _ Tne Seller Sold.—-Ono of the foe best in- stahccs of turning thtftable? on one df those who consider themselves as particularly smart in th r - practice of selling, now so common, wpa as fol lows:’' . : ; V \ “Do you keep matches?” asked a wag of ? druggist. . i -.od ' “Oh yes, all kinds.” was the reply. “Well, then. I'll take a trotting match. Tho druggist immediately handed him a box of Brandreth’s pills. -.. - - ■ 'i- -<5. ...~ 1■ RiiHHHHi

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Rome courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1849-18??, February 13, 1855, Image 1