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THE COUNTRYMAN. - j n 'J ■■■ ■ — —— 1 ■ . ■ '■ - -- ■ :r==: 1 BY J. A. TURNER. “independent in everything—neutral in n^thino” $5 FOR 4 MONTHS. VOL. XIX. TURNWOLD (NEAR EATONTON) GA. ( TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1864. NO. 18. Napoleon and M’lle Lenorm/. nd. —During the earlier part of the Em pire, there lived in the city of Paris a lady named Lenormand—a witch, or fortune-teller. And she was a witch indeed, for she bewitched alike the young and old, the rich and poor,'the high and low, the wise and ignorant. Day after day the street before her residence was obstructed by carriages, and her sumptuous apartments were thronged by all grades of society. Being acquainted with nearly all Pa ris, and possessing great powers of mind, she could , easily surprise and astonish the credulous, and very often fortell things without the chance of a failure. Those who came to consult her were conducted alone into a cham ber, and seated within a movable cir cle, representing the zodiac. The walls were hung in black, and all day light was carefully excluded. The paraphernalia of the trade—skulls and bones,snakes., lizards, crocodiles,drag ons, aud many other objects of bizarre shapes—were arranged all about the room. Incense ami strong perfumes filled the air, and artificial fireworks— colored to suit the occasion—threw a mysterious light on all these fantastic objects. All this would inflame the imagination, even of those who were unprejudiced and determined not to be duped. Add to this that M’lle Lenormand was grace personified, and one of the most beautiful of wo men, that she was gifted with extra ordinary powers of conversation, and who can wonder at the fascination which she exercised over all who came within the range of her magic influ ence? The wisest statesmen and greatest warriors, lay at her feet, but, not content with this, she wished to sec the great Napoleon among her worshippers. But he, ever callous to the influence of all women, save one, aud revolving in his mind, just at this time, the gigantic project of conquer ing Russia, heeded not her oracles, and treated all her invitations with contempt. Incensed at this, she fore told his downfall in the event of an invasion, and tried to turn everybody who camo to see her, from the Empe ror. This was too much for the lion to bear, and M'lle Lenormand shared the fate of Madame de 8>tael, who, like M’llo, had presumed to lay her taper fingers on his affaiis. She retired to Mayence, on the Rhine, where she had the satisfaction of seeing the fulfill ment of her ardent wish. The disas trous battle of Leipsic followed upon the disastrous campaign of Russia, and after the battle of Hauna.on the Main, where the last forlorn hope of Napo leon was shattered, he returned, weary and dejected, by way of Mayence. And here he was seen, at the dead of night, attended by Bourrienne and Savary, to enter a small postern gate in the Baugassee, leading to the apart ments of the renowned fortune teller, and to remain for a long time closet ed with her, thus, forming a striking parallel to that King of the Israelites who, in the .days of Ins prosperity, bad cast out all the fortune-tellers and nec romancers, but when adversity over took him, the great King, of whom we are told that ‘he was of a comely countenance and of a tall body, but his mind and his understanding was preferable to what was visible in biin,’ lost his wits, and stooped to visit the Witch of Endor, in order to have her lift the veil from the Future, which God in his wisdom has concealed from all mortal eyes.—Faust.— Telegraph. The Private Soldier.— The hero of this war is the private soldiei—not the officer whose dress is embroidered with lace, and whose name garnishes the gazette—but the humble and hon est patriot of the South, in his dirt- stained and sweat-stained clothes, who toils through pain, aud hunger, and peril*, who has no reward but in the satisfaction of good deeds; who throws his poor, unknown life away at the cannon’s mouth, and dies in that sin gle flash of glory 1 How many of these heroes have been laid in un marked ground—the nameless graves of self devotion! But the ground where they rest is in the sight of Heaven. Nothing kisses their graves but the sunlight ; nothing adorns tlieir dust but the sobbing wind ; nothing disturbs their dust but the wild flowers that have grown on the blood-crust of the battie field. But not a Southern soldier has fallen in this war without the account of Heaven, and death makes its registry of the pure and the brave on the silver pages of immortal life.—Pollard's ‘ Two Nations,’ Big Words.—“Big words are great favoiites with people of small ideas and weak conceptions. They are of ten employed by men of mind when they wish to use language that may best conceal their thoughts. With few exceptions, however, illiterate aud half educated persons use more big words than people of thorough educa-> tion. It is a very common, but very egregious mistake, to suppose the long words aie more genteel than short ones—just as the same figures improve the style o# dress. They are the kind of folks who don't begin, but are always commencing. They don’t live, but reside. They don’t go to bed, but mysteriously ret ire. They are never sick, bnt extremely indisposed. And instead of dying, at last, they decease. The strength of the English language is in the short words—chiefly mono syllables of Saxon derivation—and people who are in earnest seldom use any other. Love, hate, anger, giief and joy, express themselves in short words and direct sentences; while cunning, falsehood, and affectation de light in what Horace calls verba set- quipedalia—words a foot and a half long." Rules f. r Study.—“Prof. Davies, the eminent mathematician, in con- versing with a young friend of bis up on the importance of system in study ing, as well as in everything else, took a piece of paper, and wrote off for him the following important rules : 1. Learn one thing at a time. 2. Learn that thing well. * 3. Learn its connections, as far as possible, with all other things. 4. Believe that to know everything of something, i« better than to know something of everything.” Letter from Hon. H. S. Footb, —“Hon. H. S. Foote has written a letter to the Richmond Whig in rela tion to the rumor published in the Rebel, that he, Foote, had gone over to the yankees. In the letter, he says : ‘ The villainous rumor which has been given publicity in the columns of the Rebel makes its appearance in Richmond at a time when I am labor ing night and day in the service of my loved aud honored eoustitueuts, and in support of a canse far more dear to my heart than life itself. I have writ ten to the editor of the Rebel, de manding the author of this false and dastardly calumny, and if I can fled ! him out, it is my firm intention to in- I flict upon him the promptest and most 1 signal disgrace.’ ” / 3o5o4-5