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at a 9 .hi IP- 90 THE COUNTRYMAN. The Effect of Seizure. Who back would roll the sweeping tide of time, And hush the past’s relentless funeral chime; Who’d lengthen out the journey home to heaven, The priceless be on, by faith to mortals given. Ah ! selfish he who’d tear his friends away From where they bask in heaven’s cerulean ray; Who’d bring them back to glad his home on earth, And cheer the sorrows of his desolate hearth. The living suffer, but the dead pursu^ Unending pleasure, heaven’s empyrean through; Through stranger climes the living have to roam, The dead—the dead repose in peace at home". ’Tis time to go—the sun’s declining rays Immerse yon hill-tops in their golden blaze, While lengthening shadows cast their darkness here, And birds of night with dusky wing appear. The lonely whip-poor-will, in yonder wood, Pours forth her night-song to her fledgling brood; As twlight comes the day -flower shuts its bloom, The rat bit creeps beside the lonely tomb ; As Phoebus wheels away his car of light, The sombre goddess comes, desponding night. Oh ! once my home, dear sacred spot adieu, Where’er I turn my heart still true to you, Shall cherish with the la test breath that’s drawn, The joyful scenes of this delightful lawn. Its home no more my bosom here may claim, But dear to me, and cherished still the tame, Even when I find my lasting home in heaven, One half my love shall to this spot be given, And plumes celestial oft shall waft me o'er The vale my mortal eyes shall see no more. Ambition. “ Ambition makes the same mistake con cerning power that avarice makes con cerning wealth : she begins by ' accumula ting power, as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. Ambition is in fact the ava rice of power, and happiness herself is soon sacrificed to that very lust of dominion, which was first encouraged only as the best mode of obtaining it. Hyder, like Richard the Third, was observed by one of his most familiar companions, Gholaum Ali, to start frequently in his sleep. He once took the liberty to ask this despot ‘ of wliat be had been dreaming?’ ‘ My friend,’re plied Hyder, ‘ the state of a beggar is more delightful than my envied monarchy ; awake, they see no conspirators; asleep, they dream of no assassins.’ But ambition will indulge no other passions as her fa vorites, still less will she bear with them as rivals ; but as "her vassals, she can em ploy them, or dismiss them at her will ; she is cold, because with her all is calculation ; she is systematic, because she makes every thing centre in herself; and she regards policy too much, to have the slightest re spect to persons. Cruelty or compassion, hatred or love, revengo or forbearance, are, to her votaries, instruments rather than in fluences, and means rather than motives. These passions form indeed the disturbing forces of weaker minds, not unfrequently opposing their march and impeding their progress ; but ambition overrules these pas sions, and drawing them into the resistless sphere of her own attraction, she converts them into satellites, subservient to her ca reer, and augmentative of her splendor. Yet ambition has not so wide a horizon as some have supposed : It is a horizon that embraces probabilities always, but impossi bilities never. Cromwell followed little events before he ventured to govern great ones ; and Napo leon never sighed for the sceptre until he had gained the truncheon ; nor dreamt of the imperial diadem until he had first con quered a crown. None of those who gaze at the height of a successful usurper, are more astonished at his sudden elevation, than he himself who has attained it ; hut even he was led to it by degrees, since no man aspires to that which is entirely be yond his reach. Caligula was the only ty rant who was ever suspected of longing for the moon ; a proof of his maduess, not of his ambition ; and if little children are ob served to cry for the moon, it is because they fancy they can touch it. It is beyond their desire, the moment they have discov ered that it is beyond their reach. |Notk.—Sylla was an exception to this rule ; ambition in him was subordinate to revenge.”] Government’s New Function. The state of Georgia has assumed a new prerogative—that of robbing its own citi zens. It used to be thought that the ob ject of government was to protect people in their property. Now, its object seems to he to rob them of it. On account of robbery, the British crown lost its Aineri- colonies : on account of robbery, the American Union lost its Southern States : but neither Great Britain nor the U. S. government was ever guilty of a more high-handed robbery of its citizens than the one now going on in Georgia. “Our enemies, in their judgment of us, come nearer the truth than we do our selves.” “There are many cures for love, but not one of them is infallible.” “We are by no means aware how much we are influenced by our passions.” “Old age is a tyrant which forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death.” Let those who doubt the impropriety of government’s turning robber, refer to the effect of seizure upon the markets of the country. The Atlanta Confederacy of lltli, in its market report, says :—“ So far, the seizers have ha I tilings their own way, this week. They are killing the goose to get her gold en eg*rs. Salt cannot be had at any price, and merchants who had bought it in Vitgir.ia and elsewhere, to bring here, are changing its destination.” The Augusta Chronicle, in its market re- port, says :—“ The seizures made here by Gov. Brown, acting by authority of a res olution of the legislature, has pretty much put a stop to transactions in the class of ar ticles seized. Nothing subject to seizure can be found on sale in this maiket—con signments from abroad have been counter manded and Until the seizures cease, and give time to replenish the stock, we may expect the kind of goods in question to be very scarce and to bear a correspond ingly high prices. The reported seizure of corn in South-Western Georgia will also have the tendency to enhance the price of bread stuffs.” This is the price the people pay for al lowing demagogues to rule them. Was such high-handed outrage ever known as the robbery resolution of the Georgia legis lature ? PrestMice of Mind. “In the insurrection headed by WatTy- ler, Richard II. owed the preservation of his 1 ite to his intrepidity and presence of mind. In the meeting at Smithfield, when the insurgents saw their leader fall by the sword of the Lord Mayor, Walworth, they drew their bows to revenge his fall. Rich ard, then only 14 years of age, galloped up to the a'rchers and exclaimed, ‘What are you doing, my lieges ? Tyler was a trait or : come with me, and I will be your lead er.’ Wavering and disconcerted, they followed him into the fields at Islington, and, falling on their knees, begged for mer cy.— This monarch gave several other proofs of his courage at an early age.” You Own Nothing. Let no one, high or low, rich or poor, flatter himself that he now owns anything. It lie has a bushel corn in his crib, or a side of meat in his smoke-house, it is not his. The government robbers may come | along at any moment, and rob him of it. “Our pride is often increased by what I we retrench from our other faults.”