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Carpenter, how do you get on with your happy
family V We hope that some members of the
happy family will come to grief, with the next
administration.”
Samuel Adams.—“In the biography of this
signer of the Declaration of Independence, in
1776, we find the following, from the debates of
congress, at that time. Let all the croakers
read it. He then said :
‘Gentlemen, your spirits appear to be heavi-
tly oppressed with our calamities ; I hope you
do not despair of our final success ?’ It was
answered that the chance was desperate. Mr.
Adams replied : ‘If this be our language, it is
so indeed; if we wear long faces, they will be
come fashionable ; if the people take their tone
from ours, and if we despair, can it be expec
ted that they will continue their efforts in what
we conceive to be a hopeless causey Let us
banish such feelings,and show a spirit' that will
keep alive the confidence of the people, rather
itban damp their courage. Better tidings will
soon arrive, our cause is just and righteous,
and we shall never be abandoned by Heaven,
while we show ourselves worthy of its aid, aud
protection.’ ”
“The latest novelty, in London and Paris, is
the photograph letter signature. Note, and
letter sheets, are now gotten up with miniature
oval photographs of the person usiDg them, af
fixed to the right hand lower corner ol the last
page, after the words, ‘Very truly, yours,’
which are printed in the usual place. They
are getting to be quite as fashionable as the
■ cartes de visite.”
“A clergyman lately preached a sermon from
the text—‘Thou art weighed in the balance*
and found wanting.’ After the congregation
had listened about an hour, some began to get
weary, and went out, others scon followed,
greatly to the annoyance ot the minister. An
other person started, whereupon the parson
stopped in his sermon,and said—‘That is-right,
gentlemen ; as fast as you are weighed, pass
out!’ He continued,his sermon, at some length ,
after that, but no ope disturbed him by leav
ing.” _
Another Wonderful Egg.
We have seen an account, in the papers, of
an egg with a tail to it. We saw an egg, on
Wednesday, which was left at Messrs. Grieve
.& Clark’s, by Frank Brown,'son ol the Gover
nor, which was truly a curiosity. The yellow
and white were in separate sacks, and connect
ted by a section ol the sack as small as the waist
of a wasp. There was a tail attached, two in
ches in length. We contend that Frank’s egg
has the longest tail, out.—Confederate Uniou.
The interpretation whereof is a lesson to Gov.
Brown. He is exhorted to remember that as it
takes a yellow and a white to make one com
plete egg, so it takes a confederate as well as a
state government, to make one complete gov
ernment for our people. As between the yel
low and white of an egg, so there should be
complete accord between the state and confed
erate governments. Separate, and make op
posing governments of them, and there will
exist as complete anomaly as in the case of Gov.
Brown’s son Frank’s hen’s egg 1 and the tail,
t wo inches long, appended to that egg, shows
what the state government will become, if our
governor’s policy of eternally hampering the
confederate government is carried out to its
legitimate results. The end will be that the
state, as well as the confederate government,
will whittle out to the little end of nothing.
Will Gov. Brown heed this lesson taught him
by his son Frank’s hen’s egg,or not?
Dr. Pierec on Instrumental Music.
What will many of our Methodist friends
say to the following from one whom they re
spect so highly { By the way, there is much
to be said on the subject of church music, and
the writer of this paragrapn wishes, soon, to
give his views, in writing—which said views,
perhaps, will not be exactly those generally at
tributed to him.
“I do not announce myself as an active agent
—engaged in getting either melodeons or or
gans into our churches. I' am well satisfied
without either—if good congregational singing
can be had. But if this delightful part of pub
lic worship cannot be brought up to a point of
pleasant respectability, without it—and if in
strumental music will bring it there, I am de
cidedly an instrumental music man. I have
visited a few places where singing had run
down, in a large church membership, until
there was not a male member in all the church
I who would raise a tune , and, to have singing
done at all, female3 were obliged to be called
into service ; and, to make it easy and comely
for females to lead and control the music, the
melodeon has been introduced. And in every
place, the singing has improved, to say
nothing of the more comely order of things.
“I am a man by myself, in this regard. I
was raised up in a region where no musical in
strument was ever known except, the fiddle, as
it was used at the rude country dances of the
times. My early indoctrination must have
been against instrumental music in the church
of God: as my recollection is, that all our
country people, at least, were opposed to it.
Still, with all this notional prejudice against
it, after I had attained to a respectability high
enough to call me into pulpits,in other churches*
where the organ was used, from the first sound
of it,.in the praise of God, it fell upon my mel
low heart, with soothing, sacred effect. It
seemed to me, to be, upon my nervous economy,
a sacred inspiration. In this relation to it, as
an individual, 1 have stood, in mute accord
ance for fifty years.’’—Lovick Pierce (in Chris
tian Advocate.)
Prentice Still in the Bing.—Despite
the ravages of Cincinnati ‘ Bust-head ’ and
Kentucky Bourbon, old Prentice is not
yet quite 4 burned out,’ as will be seen by
the lollowing fitful flashes, which we find
in the Louisville Journal of the Ytb :
The editor ot the New Orleans True
Delta, say s he cannot see, from any intel
ligence he has, that ‘the status of Gen.
Banks is affected in the slightest degree.’
We think that his ‘ status ’ was very con
siderably affected by the disgraceful whip
ping Le got from Dick Taylor. If it
wasn’t, it is a very hard status to af
fect.
General Grant now occupies the cele
brated 4 White House,’ a few miles out of
Richmond, as his headquarters. We wish
that the still more celebrated White lie use
at Washington were a thousandth part as
well occupied.
The radicals say, with a singular disre
gard ef truth, that they are uncondition *
ally for iohat union ? Any that the peo
ple of this country ever saw ■?
Last Saturday, one of the pedagogues
who have flogged Presklent Lincoln, paid
him a visit at the White House,—Ex-
change.
We could almost hope that he did his
old work over again.
The Lincoln editors indulge in no opin
ion that he has not prepared for their use.
They are like the Otaheitans, who think
no food fit to eat, until the cook has
chewed it for them.
Mr. Lincoln is a very lean man, to have
the disposal of so many fat offLes.
An abolition editor asks if we acknowl
edge that negroes have souls to be saved.
We acknowledge that he has one to be
damned.”
Gen. Wheeler’s Congratulatory Ad
dress to his Soldiers.—Headquarters,
Wheeler’s Cavalry Corps, near Atlanta,
Ga., Aug. 5, ’64.—Soldiers : The Major*
General, commanding, thanks his corns
inand for the energy, and determined gal
lantry, displayed in their recent opera
tions. The foiling of a most stupendous
effort, on the part of the enemy, to de
stroy our country, is due to your valor,
and patriotism.
During the campaign, you have captur
ed, and killed, a number of the enemy
equalling your own strength. You have
defeated him in every action in which you
have engaged, capturing his cannon, col
ors, and arms. Your great commander,
Gen. Hood, fully appreciates y >u- servi
ces. Stand together, my bro .oldiers/
continue your good conduct, ar \ the last
ing gratitude of your country will be
your reward. Jos. r > er,
Major-General.
Mysterious Sky Rockets.—It is related
to us as a grave truth, by several citzens,
that on friday night last, they saw six sky
rockets thrown up in the back part of the
city. They supposed at the time, that
they were thrown up by order of our own
Generals, and thought nothing of it. But
it is known that no such signals were giv
en by us, and the conclusion, therefore, is,
that they were fired off by yankee spies,
who had crept into the city, and wore sig
naling Stoneman on the other side of the
river.— Confederate.
Watermelons.—This delicious
fruit is not likely to meet many purch
asers—notwithstanding the number
daily brought into the city—by reason
of the enormous price charged for
them. Our last quotations are, for
small ones, five dollars ; middling, ten;
larger, fifteen—and in ‘new issue.
Macon Telegi aph, 19th.
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44 Wealth gotten by vanity shall
be diminished : but he that gathereth
by labor, shall increase.”