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43 THE COUNTRYMAN. son the rich should not. Well, if anyone is so selfish as this, 1 have no appeal to make to him. I cannot reach him. He is incor rigible. I do not address myselfto heathens. But to Christian men and women—(not church members exclusively)—but to all who profess to be goveined by the cardinal tenets of Christ’s code, I do address myself. I appeal to those who “ feel another’s wo,” as they feel their own. I appeal to those who, with the feeling of brotherhood in their bosoms for the whole, human race, profess to be governed by the golden rule ; and to these I say, even if you are wealthy enough to buy mourning apparel, you should not do it, because your less favored neighbor is not able to do it. You, wealthy mother, have lost your child, and sorrow smites your heart: but yon poor mother has lost hers too, and her heart is no less lacerated than yours : and now by all a mother’s sad sonow and broken-hearted wo, I charge you that as you would have your own grief respected, so do you respect the silent sor row of your poorer sister of humanity, whose anguish is no less keen than yours. Don’t go and flaunt your fashionable attire in her face, and add to her sorrow the mortifying reflection that she is too poor to wear black for her son who poured out his heart’s blood as well as yours, in defence of our common country. I tell you it is wrong. She feels that if there is any honor to the dead m wearing black for a deceased son, the same homage is due to hers that there is to yours: nay, she has made a greater sacrifice than you : foi while you have your wealth to maintain and sustain you, the staff' of her declining years has dropped down in the narrow charnel-house, to be her staff and her comfort no more : and her heart will rebel, if it does not murmur, if not against Providence, at least against her country, for having required the life of her only son. And so you will see that not only religion and humanity require you not to wear black, particularly during this war, but the wisest dictates ot patriotism require it. For if your son, ye wealthy parents, have all homage rendered him, and none is render^ ed the sons of the poor who-die in the stfme cause, these are not going to give up their sons willingly, and the government which forces them away, cannot retain their affec tions. But respect the grief cf the poor ; respect their silent sorrow ; respect their poverty that cannot buy mourning apparel, and share their deprivations with them, and they will still give up their sons, with an guish, but with alacrity and patriotism, to fight your battles and mine. 1 wish I could impress the importance of this view of the case upon my countrymen and country women. I have never yet heard any argument ad vanced in favor of wearing black. I have never yet heard anyone attempt to defend it. 1 have never heard anyone give area- son for it. But as it is a custom stolidly fol lowed by the devotees of fashion, so it is one whose abandonment is loudly called forty reason, justice, patriotism, humani ty, and religion. “My Grand-Father’s Chair.” See another column.—This will prove an attractive feature of The Countryman. It is quite an acquisition. The gentleman who has been installed Chairman has made a reputation as a writer bound only by the limits of both the Confederacy and the United,States. The attractionsof this jour nal will be more than doubled by the dis cussion of such questions as may be sub mitted to The Chair. Some such assis tance was absolutely necssary to The Countryman, whose other avocations have prevented him from bestowing upon this journal his undivided attention. While I shall not relax, my own efforts, and while niv pen will be as busy as ever, I now move forward with less of a burden upon my shoulders, and with the assistance of my associate, shall inarch on with greater confidence in reaching the point upon which the eye of of this journal has been fixed from the beginning : To be excelled by none in the world. — •+- t— Judge Nisbet. The Georgia legislature will have to elect a senator at its next session. The newspapers are saying a great deal in con nection with this election, about intellect, ability, character, patriotism, moral worth, and all the other qualifications of a senator. Who can so well fill the bill as Judge Nis- bet ? Georgia has reason to. be proud of her distinguished son, whope name heads this article. Of Judge N’s. solid and sterling character as a moral man and Christian, it j is unnecessary to speak. These, in con nection with other qualifications, give him great weight of character, and his country should be glad ot an opportunity to avail \ herself of bis ripe experience and accom plishments in every department of gowern- ment. Not only is Judge Nisbet a man of great moral worth—of superior intellect—of en larged statesmanship—and an accomplish ed jurist, but be is what so few of our statesmen are—a ripe scholar and man of letters. Judge N’s. reputation as a schol ar, man of letters, and a writer, is second to Edward Everett’s, not because of any in feriority in any respect, but simply because he has been placed upon a different arena; and has not bad the same journals anil the same opportunities, owing to the habits and character of our people, to herald bis fame, and to lead him to exertions in the same line which lias been pursued by Everett. And who can forget Judge Nisbet’s great services in the Georgia Convention of Se cession 1 Who can forget the marked in fluence which he exerted in bringing the solid men of the land into line, and giving character to the revolution ? Where can the legislature do better than send Judge Nisbet to honor Georgia in the senate cham ber of the Confederate States 1 By Order of Gen. Beauregard. It is announced in the papers that By Order of Gen. Beauregard, . The abolitionists attacked in force, Poco- taligo and Coosawhatchio. Now I wish to know why Gen. Beaure gard gave the abolitionists any such order. Was it that they might be whipped as they wero'? t J. P. K. I have received your communication cov ering your Dougherty County Treasurer’s “ Certificate of Deposite” (<N.) Being un current up here, I have put it in a sealed envelope, addressed to you, and dropped it in the P. 0. in Eatoiiton. By sending the P. M. 10c to pay postage, no doubt he will send you your shinplaster. Even were your money current up here, I have no leisure to hunt up change for you, to get the 50c which you designed leaving with me. Ed itors have no time to run about and get money changed for Mt. Zion school boys. I have complied with your request to “ reply instantly.” “California. In a lqte number of the Columbus En quirer, it is announced that the yankees, “ in force, were landing at 2'points on tlie California coast.” Is not this like the Dutch taking Hol land ? “ Titania,” You are right, brother Wilkes, in saying that 1 kindly reproved your correspondent “ Titania.” Certainly sho evinces ex cellent taste and disciimihation, for one “just in her teens,” and I would encourage her to write. I read her articles and selec tions in the Journal, with much pleasure.