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Kk* PEN FIELD, GEORGIA.
*L. LINCOLN VEAZF.Y. .7 Editor.
qfr THURSDAY MUKMNG, JANUARY 7,1858.
At our Post once more. —We again salute you,
kind reader, from the Chair Editorial, and wish
you peace, health and a happy New Year. We
hope thus to meet you weekly for months to
come; yet, jwe are content to let our efforts
to speak for us, without fulsome promises which
Ky he brpken. We, however, cheerfully assure
i of doing the best we can.
Ve are aware that in taking charge of the Lit-
L rary columns of a paper, we have chosen no en-
task. In these days when there is “ Noth-
JJfe new under the sun.” the pen of the rarest
wit might fail to amuse, or the brightest genius
te instruct. There are few themes that have not
been worn thread-bare, and to ns it is only left
to say old things in an old manner,
~ But let it not be thought that we depreciate
our office. True, we no longer plead the cause of
temperance, which whilome engaged our atten
tion ; yet, we still have a wide field left, in which
to labor. We may condemn the multiform fol-
Htees of the day, hold up to view’ the deception,
and injustice that are riding through
B land, and in whatever way we may, subserve
■■l Interests of humanity and the cause of truth,
j {not our purpose to please the fancy or amuse
. imagination by the fictitious glare of a tinsel
lilflmturd. To depict a rainbow or a sunset in
thff gorgeous language of poetry may he beautiful;
but to portray in its hideousness a vice that is
corrodjng the vitals of society will he far more
useful. All such we shall consider legitimate sub
jects for our pen, and of them we shall endeavor
to speak the truth in soberness.
It is our aim, so far as in us lies, to make the
Crusader equal to any journal in the southern
country, in point of Literary merit.
For this purpose we desire a more hearty support
from those who have hitherto sustained it by
their patronage. Give us your aid, freely and
libsrally, friends, and we will give you a paper
worthy of you* support.
Another year is gone. The deeds and events
whick.it brought forth have sunk into the past
settled facts in the world’s history.
as we now do on the opening verge of
Bkyettr. it is almost impossible to realize the
We think and feel just as we
Hs have thought and felt at the beginning
BRmer years. Sa entirely artificial are the divis-
Eurns which man has made in the cycles of time,
H wt it is only by an artificial shite of feeling that
becomes conscious of their periodic returns.
To lament the rapid flight of time has become
so trite a sentiment as to lose all point; yet, when
we stand over the grave of a departed year and
call up, one by one, the fleeting forms of by-gone
days, it is impressed upon the mind with peculiar
solemnity. As we gaze on each, it seems but as
a narrow span that has separated us and them.
There was a joy which arose glistening and bright
upon the surface of life; but ere we had time to
say “lo! there it is,” it was gone. Then a sorrow
lay black and heavy on the heart, and seemed as
if it never would remove. But ere long peace
spread her silver mantle over the sky, and pinned
it witk the star of hope. Thus has it been with
disappointment, success an if all
good and evil that attends man’s way on
Time flies; and as day after day, week after
week„ t month after month, year after year, circle
away with unaccelerated, unimpeded velocity,
each pulsation of its rapid wings brings us nearer
Mhat grand consummation when time shall be no
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B@t,Tke ignorance of many—we may say the
majority of people, in relation to newspaper ma
king and publishing, is truly surprising, and of
ten annoying. It is the more so because not un
frequently exhibited by those who ought to he
better informed. “Why,” they will say, “an edi
tor has but little to do—nothing except to write
:a few paragraphs, and fill up the remainder of
their columns with extracts from other papers.”
Come, Sir or Madam, take our seat; look over
fifty or a hundred exchanges, and find two fingers
, lemjjthof matter which you are willing to place
Bkur readers; take up your pen, delve at
for an hour, and tlu-n-leave it only
Kq-oiu- notion. Rise up then, will
Hlhat an editor has nothing to do.
to be paid for what he does.
W ———
ovds of sympathy and love are like the
manna that descended from Heaven to feed the
famished wanderers in the deserts. Inspired by
\ kern, the feet are unwearied by plodding through
\jkl sand, the heart sinks not at disappointment,
jlid the arm is nerved for a contest with a ser.
Aost of enemies. Ho who has never heard
their soothing sounds or felt their kindly influ
ence, may well be lost to reason and to manly
thought.
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fgfWi throw our enlarged and improved sheet
-to the public this morning, with many (letterings
-of hope as to its reception. Various untoward
circumstances of too private a nature to be men
tion have prevented its being altogether what we.
L would desire. Without claiming this as an apol
■ ogy, however, we are willing to submit our pves
{ • ent issue, and every succeeding effort to the
* candid judgment of our readers, and let it stand
its merits.
■ky neutral and literary journals have
Ik in the South, that it has began to he
■ the dcathknell of a paper for it to be
to literature. Shall this he the case with
us? Shall it still continue to be a stain on the
fair eseniteiieon of Georgia that no periodical un-
to party can live within her bounds ?
fr - Jihave a response in a definite and tangible
Answer in a manner that will show not
By your love of State, and your regard for her
Blfnre and honor, but also a kindly appreciation
those who are striving to advance the cause of
truth and general intelligence.
, A handsomely printed Prospectus of the “ Daw
son Male and Female Institute,” located at White
Plains, has been laid on our table. It is under
the charge of Jas, I). Matthews, who has presided
. over it for the past years, and our old friend and
t class-mate, V. T. Sanford.
Both of these gentlemen have established envi
< able names for thorough scholarship and success
iful teaching. White Plains has long been noted
sobriety and refined intelligence
its quiet, retired situation
to no village in our State, as a
education.
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Harper’s Magazine makes its entrance into
Hfew Year with a brilliant number. It con
r tains an illustrated article on “ Idlewild,” from
Lthe pen of TANARUS„ Addison Richards, “ A- winter in the
fekHkh,” and Igvferal -others with inviting captions,
■firiptions mffihegin at any time. Price 53,00-
PERIODICAL LITERATURE.
Few terms in our language are more general in
their use. or more vague in signification than the
word Literature. With many it is employed to
designate any work of genius in which letters are
concerned, while others apply it more distinc
tively only to those productions which are not di
rected to any particular subject, as science, reli
gion or politics. For the present it will answer
our purpose to use it in its accustomed indefinite
ness to mean all manner of writing from the
gravest essay on moral science to the most flimsy
sheet that was ever issued from a worn out Hand
Press. We shall however speak more particular
ly of that species of Literature which assumes the
form of newspapers and periodicals.
We may distinguish two kinds of vital action
upon the human mind. One spreads itself through
the masses, arousing the passions to the fury of
revolution or the enthusiasm of a crusade. Its
organ is the pulpit, the pamphlet or newspaper;
its issues are tried in councils or synods. The
other is confined to the educated or reading clas
ses. Its organ is the book or the Professors chair.
It is speculative and concerns itself with thoughts
and words, not acts. The power of the first is
practical, and exhibits itself every day in the af
fairs of men; the influence of the latter is un
steady, unreal, undefined.
The influence of hooks for good or evil has been
far greater than it is now. When the art of print
ing was in its infancy, littlewasprinted but books,
and those who failed to read them, did not read
at all. Now there are thousands of persons, of
no small degree of intelligence who have never
read a half dozen volumes in their lives. The
ponderous tomes over which ambitious scholars
have wearily labored for “anxious years, had, so
far as they are concerned, as well not have been
written. The daily, weekly or monthly press
supplies them with mental aliment. The news
paper or pamphlet are the only media through
which they can he operated on, or their opinions
controlled.
Hence, it not unfrequently happens that the
conductor of a public Journal becomes as abso
lute as the Autocrat of the Russias in his power
of guiding and controlling public sentiment.
Every word scratched by his pen is deemed as
truthful as if impressed with the signet of infalli
bility. Blinded bv his subtle sophistry, they
readily adopt every dogma he may put forth,
however much at variance with every dictate of
reason and common sense. With prejudices ex
cited anil passions inflamed by his harangues,
they are ready to incur any danger or run any
risk which ho may command. It is thus that
fanatics are made and revolutions begun.
Perhaps the thoughts of no uninspired writer
were ever so universally known and so generally
quoted as those of the unimitated and unequaled
Shakspeare. He touched upon every passion by
which the human heart can be moved, described
almost every situation in which man can be placed,
and upon all these varied themes, his sayings are
as familiar as household words; yet, how small
is his influence compared with that which the
demagogue Greelv exerts. Week after week
hundreds of thousands of eager readers are wait
ing to see what may he his views in reference to
this or that matter of publie interest. They are
fully decided to endorse, support and defend any
opinion which he may set forth, whether it be
rational or absurd. His is a power over the pas
sions, prejudices, and sentiments of his followers;
a power, compared with which the majesty and
splendor of the highest civil office, sink into in
significance.
The periodical press is a most potent agent in
promoting social progress. No effort to reform
the manners and morals of a people, or. to ad
vance the aims of philanthropy can be carried on
successfully without tlio employment of this in
strumentality. To set on foot any enterprise of
benevolence without some paper to advocate its
claims would be simply absurd. It was the press,
not less than the pulpit which east the idols of
the heathens to the moles and bats, and planted
the gospel in the far-off Islands of the sea. To it,
we are indebted for much of the peace, harmony
and good will now existing among the different
nations of the earth.
The amount of benefit conferred on a commu
nity by a good paper in its midst cannot be prop
erly estimated. It disseminates intelligence so
generally, and at so cheap a rate, that even the
plough-boy may become acquaint oil with the af
fairs of the nation. It corrects ninny of the errors
and abuses of social life. With practical energy,
it goes to work to build up, change or destroy that
which the dreaming novelist would conceive it
his highest delight to describe. It jridicules fol
ly, censures vice, condemns injustice, and resists
tyranny in every form in which it makes its ap
pearance. It expedites the law’s delay, represses
the insolence of office, and makes the proud man
feel the connecting link between himself, and
the humblest of his race.
Nor do its advantages stop here. It gives to
every class of practical men, a large amount of
information in a more available form than they
could elsewhere acquire. With a rapidity truly
astonishing, it affords a knowledge of all the la
test discoveries in science and improvements irh
art. The lawyer may derive thence cases upon*,
which to expend his ingenuity, the minister hints
for the eloquent strains of his sermons, while the
housekeeper is posted up in all the minute par
ticulars of her craft. In a word, it would be im
possible to find a person from the tattered beggar
in the streets to the princely nabob in his stately
hall, who may not be benefitteil by a good news
paper.
In the current periodical literature is to be
found the true record of the times and the most
correct insight into the manners and customs of
a people. Books cannot picture forth the daily
life of society with half that faithfulness and ac
curacy exhibited by a press that pours before the
public its teeming columns every week. The con
stantly changing scene is there exhibited in a
vivid panorama. Each nice point and delicate
shade of coloring is clearly delineated. From no
other source can so accurate a view of the phases
of social life be obtained.
Literature, take what form it may, is the surest
means by which the glory of a nation may be pre
served and its greatness perpetuated. Impressed
in this, the achievements of a hero, or the deeds
of a statesman remain far more ineffaceable than
where the foot-prints of departed generations are
left deeply marked in the solid rocks. The war
rior may.perform feats of valor before which ar
mies quail, or the orator speak strains of eloquence
which stir the blood into fiery currents of enthu
siasm : yet, if they have no poet, their fame must
die with the breath that gave it birth, as evanes
cent as a bubble on the ocean’s surface. Tradi
tion may prolong the existence of a name, but
cannot give it immortality. Committed to so un
certain a medium, history soon becomes a collec
tion of mythical fables which few can understand,
and still fewer believe.
Some nations have sought to leave a record of
their existence on the earth, by building lofty
structures, and erecting monuments which would
withstand the ravages of time. Such were 4h
attempts of the Egyptians and Babylonians.
With incredible skill and industry, they erected
gigantic walls and pyramids which attracted the>
wonder of the world and the adrhiration of all
succeeding generations. But the towers and
hanging gardens of Babylon have crumbled to
dust, and the names of those who erected the
pyramids are forgotten. The story of* their great-’
ness and glory is forever lost despite the piles
that still lift their heads to heaven, seeming to
rival the majesty of Nature’s handiwork. While
these were employed in laying stone-and* mortar,
the wise men of Greece were striving to perpetu
ate their names by a far different instrumentality.
They rested their hopes of perpetuity on some
thing more enduring than marble. With a geni
us far transcending any of later day's, they began
and perfected a literature to which time lias only
given an increased lustre. Down through all the
cycles of succeeding ages, Greece will he re
nowned as the land of heroism and song, and
her sons regarded as the brightest stamps of na
tures mold.
This was not indeed a passing, periodical liter
ature, which seldom survives the week or month
of its birth. But it is from this form ofliterature
that the standard is produced. It is from the
newspapers of the present day that historians of
the coming generation will glean their store of
facts. Much the greater portion of the vital en
ergy of our permanent literature is owing to the
newspapers, magazines and pamphlets whence it
was originally’ derived.
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Arthur’s Home Magazine for January comes
fully up to his usual standard of excellence. The
charming Novellette, “The Young Governess”
still continued. Price $2,00 a year.
CLIPPED ITEMS.
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A Line may be remembered when a chapter is forgotten,
The Rev. Daniel Baker, an eminent Presbyte
rian Divine, died suddenly in Austin, Texas, on
the sth inst. He was a native of Georgia, and
graduated at Princeton College, N. J.
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On Christmas-eve, four persons, named Mark
ham, Baggett, Witcher anil Foster, broke from
the Atlanta jail, and made their escape. Witcher
is the young man who killed his lather at the
Fulton House sometime ago.
Brave actions are the substance of life, and
good sayings the ornaments of it. In the heart.
as in the ooean, the great tides ebb and How.
The Savannah Georgian. —The Editor of this
paper offers to sell a half interest in the Georgian
to a good business man. The Georgian is well
located to do a nourishing business, and lias at
present a very liberal support from the public.
Among the list of pitents recently grant
ed, we notice the following for persons in this
State:
Zina Doolittle, of Perry, Ga. for improved ma
chine for turning the hand portions of carriage
hubs.
Lorenzo D Law, of Henderson, Ga. for improve
ment in cotton seed planters.
A sensible wife looks for employment at home
—a silly one, abroad.
Increasing his Felicities.—Bringham Young
has increased his harem of seventy-five white
wives, by adding to it fifteen young’ and lovely
Indian squaws. .
A man without a predominant inclination is
not likely to be useful or happy. He who is
everything is nothing.
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A slight shock of an earthquake was felt in Sa
vannah and Augusta on the 24th inst.
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Dr. John W. Lewis, of Cass County, has been
appointed Superintendent of the Western & At
lantic R. R.
The Goods of Life. —Speaking of these, Sir
William Temple say's:
“The • greatest pleasure of life is love: the
greatest treasure is contentment; the greatest
possession is health ; the greatest ease is sleep;
and the greatest medicine is a true friend.”
No man is the exemplar of all greatness. Ach
illes wins the victory, and Homer immortalizes it
—we bestow the laurel crown on both.
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Medals to the Arctic Voyagers. —The medals
sent by Queen Victoria to be presented to the of
ficers and men of the United States Navy who
composed the expeditions in search of Sir John
Franklin, can be presented only by authority’ of
Congress, and a measure to this effect will be pro
posed on the reassembling of the two Houses.
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The revenue derived, from the tobacco monop
oly in France, during the first nine months of
1857, reaches the enormous sum of 127,523,000
francs.
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Fact, Fun and Fancy. —‘ You are from the
country, are you not, sir ? asked a city clerk of
a Quaker who hail just arrived, ‘Yes.’ ‘Well,
here is an essay on the rearing of calves.’ ‘ That,’
said Aminadab, as he turned to go, ‘ thee had
better present to thy mother.’
Matlame Lind Goldschmidt is, it is said, about
to give, with the assistance of her husband, a grand
concert, in aid of the funds for the erection of a
monument to Handell, in the town of Halle.
Postmaster and Lottery Circulars. —The Wash
ington Union announces that the Postmaster
General will not permit postmasters to make any
reductions in their commissions in mailing lottery
circulars. Six postmasters were reprimanded on
Thursday for violations of their duty in this res
pect, anil informed that a repetition of the offence
would be deemed sufficient cause for their remo
val.
young had, named Stewart, accidently
shot himself with a pistol, in Savannah, a few
day's since. Fortunately the wound did not prove
fatah
Affection, like spring fllowers, breaks through
the most frozen ground at last; anil the heart
which seeks for another heart to make it happy,
will not seek in vain.
Let us remove temptation from the path of
youth, as the frog said as he plunged into the wa
iter, when he saw a boy pick up a stone.
R. R. Cuyler, Esq., has been re-elected
President of the Central Rail Road.
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The number of emigrants arrived at the
port of New York during 1857 was 183,228 —an
increase of 40,886 as compared with 1856.
JKaT’ Rev. W. G. Brownlow is to lecture on Sla
very in Memphis to-morrow evening.
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|@*Bev. Kichard Hooker, for many years a
minister of the Gospel in Monticello and Macon
in this State, died in New Haven, Conn., on the
19th ult., where he lias resided since his return
North.
A fire occurred in Atlanta, on Monday,
destroying the stores of Messrs. Collier, Silvey',
Lvnes and Tanner.
B£|L> At a meeting of the Directors of the Main
Trunk Itoad, held in Miliedgeville on the 28th
ult., the following officers were elected: E. IT.
Heriott, Chief Engineer; W. W. Ward, Secretary
and Donald McDonald, Treasurer.
.igL,The Federal Union says: “We understand
that a difficulty took place at the store of N. B.
Allen, at Stevensville, Wilkinson county, in which
Gen. Jas. B. Bostwick was shot by Mr. Allen, and
died in a few minutes.”
JS-.Gov. Banks, of Mass., under the new com
pensation law, gets $2,500 for about three weeks
service at Washington.
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jfljg* Washington Irving, now seventy-five years
old, walks to Dr. Creighton's Church, in Tarry
town, (of which we believe he-is a vestryman,)
and back five miles, nearly every Sunday. —New
York Post.
t©* J. J. Fontane has been elected Mayor of
Key West, Florida.
CHOICE
The Yaixe of Time.—When the Roman Em
peror said, 1 have lost a day, he uttered a sadder
truth than if he had exclaimed, 1 ha ve lost a king
dom. Napoloan said that the reason yvfiy he
beat the Austrians was that they’ did not know i
the value of five minutes. At tho celebrated but- j
tie of Rivoli. the conflict seemed on the point of |
being decided against him. He saw >tlie critical !
state of affairs, and instantly took his resolution.
He dispatched a flag to the Austrian head-quar
ters, with proposals for an armistice. The unwa
ry’ Austrians fell into the snare—for a few min
utes the thunders of battle-were hushed. Napo
leon seized the precious moments, and while arou
sing the enemy with mock negotiations, re-ar
ranged his line of battle, changed his front and
in a few minutes was ready to renounce the farce
of discussion for the stern abiilament of arms,
The splendid victory of Rivoli was the result.
The great moral victories and defeats of the world
often turn on minutes, Crisis come, the not
seizing of which is ruin. Men may loiter, but
time flies on the wings of the wind, anil all the
great interests of life are spreading on with the
sure and silent tread of destiny'.
Head Work. —Literary labor is undervalued,
chiefly’ because the tools wherewith it is done are
invisible. If the brain made as much noise as
a mill, or if thought sowing followed hard after
a breaking up plough, the produce of the mind
would at once assert a place in the prices current.
If a writer could lie so equipped with wheels and
pinions as entirely to conceal the man within,
like the automation chess player, and sentences
were recorded by a woollen, instead of a living
hand, the expression of thought would he at a
premium, because the clock work would seem
to show that it cost something to make it.
Reverence for Sacred Places.— Tie. who ran j
enter a church, or a chapel, or any place dedica
ted to the worship of God, as he does his own
habitation, or that of his horses, which Is a com
mon ease, has, in my’ opinion, no proper not ion
of religious worship, and is never likely lo derive
much edification to his own soul from attendance
upon the ordinances of God.— Hr. A. Clarke.
g3f“Tt is very’ well, when a person dies in youth
or in the prime of life, to moralize on the short
ness anil uncertainty of human existence; hut
it would be much better if all would strive to as
certain the real cause of the “mysterious provi
dence,” and he careful and not invite death to
their firesides by disregarding the laws of health.
Singular Petrification in California. —A cor
respondent says: —“ lam located in a mining dis
trict, where the mining is mostly done by the
“beil-rock tunnels.” Many of them are from j
three to four thousand feet under the mountains,
and they have to he worked through the bed-rock
from ten to fifteen hundred feet before they get
through, when they come to anil work the chan
nels of an ancient river. 1 have been in them
three thousand feet under ground, in them I
saw any quantity of flooil-wood and some large
logs anil trees, many of them several feet in diam
eter; and a portion of them petrified and become
like stone. Some of the wood remains almost in
a perfect state of preservation. 1 found a petrified
lizard in one of them, some of the wood adhering
to him. Itis a splendid thing. It had become
like sulphuret of iron, a mineral resembling gold.
It is about six inches long, and a great’ curiosity.
Oratory. —ln looking over some old papers a
day or two since, we stumbled over a speech de
livered by Henry Olay before the student of the
New York State anil National Law School.
Speaking of the art of extemporaneous speaking,
he said: .
“ I owe my’ success in life to one single fact,
viz: .that, at the age of twenty-seven, T commenc
ed and continued for years the process of daily’
reading and speaking upon the contents of some
historical and scientific book. These off hand ef
forts were made sometimes in a cornfield, at oth
ers in the forest, anil not unfrequently in some
distant barn, with the horse and the ox. for my
auditors. It is to this early practice of the great
art of all arts that I am indebted for the prima
ry and leading impulses that stimulated me for
ward, and have shaped and moulded my entire
subsequent destiny. Improve, then, young gen
tlemen, the superior advantages you here enjoy.
Let not a day pass without exercising your pow
ers of speech. There is no power like that of or
atory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their
fears; •Cicero, by captivating their affections and
swaying their passions. The influence of the one
perished with its author; that of the other con
tinues to this day.”
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A Christian’s ReF lection on Death. —l would
not give one moment’s enjoyment of the calm se
renity which pervades my mind when thinking
of death for lives spent in gaiety and mirth.
Death! how soothing the thought as it gently
steals over me! Why should I wish to linger
here? Earth’s charms are few. Go hence my
spirit, and dwell in the bright peaceful land above.
Thy loved ones will ere long meet thee there.
Death may seize my feeble frame, but it will free
my sad spirit, and let it go to be with (Toil and the
Lamb forever. Ah! sweet and soothing thought,
that I will soon see my Saviour! Look up my
soul to heaven —no longer tarry—the angels are
calling thee away. Bend my knee once more ere
my spirit wings forever its homeward flight!
Hark! that angelic sound, whence comes it ? It
summons thee my soul, to tune thy golden lyre
to hymns of praise: The hour has come, and
now one long farewell till we meet in the courts
above.
A True Test,—The following from an exchange,
is respectfully submitted to those to whom it be
longs:
Newspaper subscribers are infallible indications
of man’s moral honesty. They will sooner or la
ter discover the man. If he is dishonest he will
cheat the printer in some way—sav lie is paid
when he has not—declare he has a receipt some
where—or sent the money and it was lost in the
mail—or will take the paper for years without
paying, and then move off and leave it coming to
the office he left. Thousands of professed Chris
tians are dishonest, anil the printer’s hook will
tell fearful tales in the final judgment.
Energy of Character. —I lately happened to
notice with some surprise, an ivy which, being
prevented from attaching itself to a rock beyond
a certain point, had shot off into a bold elastic
stem, with an air of as much independence as any
branch of oak in the vicinity. Mo a human be
ing thrown, whether by cruelty, justice, or acci
dent, from all social support and kindness, if fie
has any vigor of spirit, and is not in the bodily
debility of either childhood or age, will instantly
begin to act for himself, with a resolution which
will appear like anew faculty.
Every Man His Own Printer. —Mr. S. W.
Francis, of New York, has devised a machine
whereby every man may become his own prin
ter. By an ingenious arrangement, keys, like
those of a piano, by the pressure of a finger,
stamp on paper, at will, the letters of the alpha
bet, and thus seated at the instrument, the ope
rator has only to spell out the required words and
indicate them by touching the ivory letter, and
forthwith the language is-neatly transferred to
paper in duplicate.
Reading Versus Study.—Desultory reading is
indeed very mischievous, by fostering habits of
loose, discontinuous thought by turning the mem
ory into a common sower for rubbish of all sorts
to float through, and by relaxing the power ol at
tention, which of all our faculties most need care,
and is most improved by it. But a well regulated
course of study will no more weaken the minil,
than hard exercise will weaken the body; nor
will a strong understanding be weighed down by
\ts knowledge any more than oak by its leaves, or
than Sampson by.his locks. — Hare,
Grape Culture. —We are surprised that so lit
tle attention is devoted to the culture of the vine
at the South. Wherever proper attention is be
stowed upon .this delicious fruit, it is almost cer
tain to yield an annual returur-most generally
escaping the spring frosts. -These hints have
been called forth by some very handsome, pala
table grapes of the Warren ton species, which
were presented to us a few days since, from the
prolific at'bor of the Senior Editor, to whose flo
rienltural and horticultural skiff, we are often in
debted for choice specimens offlowOrs and fra its.
Macon Memnger. \
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* LADIES’S OLIO.
From the Baltimore Patriot.
nEMORV. ,
There is a gem in every heart,
However rough the casket be ;
A little spark t>eyond tliP art -
Os man to stain its brillancy.
However faint the torch may be
That lightens up the smouldering fire,
It answers'back like melody, •
From some forgotten hidden lyre- .
A step, a tone, a wayside flojver,
A long-forgotten, much loved song,
All bow beneath thy thrilling power—
We live the past in days to come.
We cannot disenthral thy sway-”
flow oft unbidden dost thou steal,
With flashing light and darkened ray,
A pleasure or a pang reveal.
’Thou art a store-house full oftreasuie,
For each thou has a bygone token. •
Perchance of tears —yea, without measure,
To others pleasant words are spoken,
■Often thou showestties unbroken.
Heart meeting heart in bonds of home,
Bring back the very words once spoken
Before the blight of life had come,
We go with thee to some lone grave,
The treasured dust again we see—
There’s naught we have thou dost not crave.
Insatiate, grasping Memory.
Thy power, alas ! we cannot quell,
Thou art a part of destiny ;
Yes, Memory, thou hast a spell
As lasting as eternity. 1., c. n.
KfAftOtV? .MV MY NIDE,
f As sung l>v Miss Maogik Mitchell, at Concert
j Ilall, with unbounded success.
The land of my home is Hitting,
Flitting from my view,
A gale in the sails is sitting,
Toils the merry crew ;
Here let my home be.
O’er the waters wide,
I roam with the proud heart,
Maggie’s by my side.
Hofei'S : —My own love, Maggie, dear,
, Sitting by my side,
Maggie, dear, my own love,
Sitting by my side.
The wind howling o’er the billow,
Kom the distant lea.
The storm raging round'my pillow,
Beings no care tome ;
Roll.an ye dark, waves.
O’er the troubled tide,
1 heed not your anger,
Maggie’s by my side.
My own love, Maggie, dear,
Storms can appal me never,
While her brow tWelear,
Fair weather lingers ever,
Where her smiles appear.
When sorrow’s breakers
’.Round my heart shall hide,
.Still may I find her,
.Sitting by my side.
My own lovp, Maggie, dear, Sec.
IDEAS or AVOWAN.
A l'POfTtl work, published at Brussels, contains,
i among; other interesting matter, a collection of
i aphorism* bv various authors, mostly French, of
which w.eappend a few. We give the names of
the author- mi italics :
t'hurufurt. — lu the choice of a lover a woman
considers more liow he appears in the eyes of
other women than in her own. Love is more
I pleasing than matrimony, just as romance is more
pleasing than history.
Jiour/acurl. —If we speak ill of the sex generally,
they will all rise against us ; if we do- the same of
any individual woman, they will all agree with
us.
Charles Lemcsle. —Most of their faults women
owe to us, whilst we are indebted to them for
most of out better qualities.
Daniel Sterne. —Most women are endowed with
sue! i naturally endearing charms that even their
very presence is generally beneficial.
Madame de Stad. —Love, in a woman’s life, is a
history ; in a man’s an episode.
Catalina. —Only he who has nothing to hope
from a woman is truly sincere in her praise.
Diderot. —There exists among women a secret
tie, like that among priests of the same faith.—
They hate each other, yet protect each other’s
interest.
Stahl. —No woman, even the most intellectual,
believes herself decidedly homely. This self-de
ception is natural, for there are somemost charm
ing women without a particle of beauty.
<k-tave Femllitt. —Providence has so ordained it
that only two women have a true interest in the
happiness of a man—his own mother and the
mother of his children. Besides these two legit
imate kinds of love, there is nothing between the
two creatures except vain excitement, painful
and idle delusion.
Alphonse Karx. —Say of a woman that she is
wicked, obstinate, frivolous, but add that she is
beautiful, and be assured that she will ever think
kindly of you. Saythat she is good, kind, virtu
ous, sensible, but—very homely, and she will
never forgive in her life.
Madame de Maintenon. —ln every thing that wo
men write there will he thousands of faults a
gainst grammar, but also to a certainty always a
charm never to be found in the letters of men.—
Dados. —Hr eat and rare heart offerings are found
almost exclusively among women ; nearly all the
happiness and most blessed moments in love are
of their creating, and so also in friendship, espe
cially when it follows love.
Madame Fee. —A woman frequently resists the
love she feels, but cannot resist the love she in
spires.
J. J. Rousseav. —Men can better philosophize on
the human heart, but women can read it better.
Michelet. —lt is a universal rule, which, as far as
l know, lias no exception, that great men always
resemble their mothers, who impress their men
tal and physical mark upon their sons.
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Why Ladies Should Read Newspapers.— lt is a
great mistake in female education to keep a
young lady’s time and attention devoted only to
the fashionable literature, of the day. If you
would qualify her for conversation, you must give
her something to talk about—give her education
with this actual world and its transpiring events.
Urge her to read newspapers and be familiar with
the present character and improvements of our
race. History is of some importance ; but the
past world is dead, and we have nothing to do
with it. Our thoughts and our concern should
be for the present world, to know what it is and
improve the condition of it. Let her have an in
telligent conversation concerning the mental,
moral, political and religious improvement of our
times. Let the gilded annuals and poems on the
centre table be kept a part of the time covered
with the weekly and daily journal. Let the
whole family, men, women and childred—read
the newspapers.
An End to Kissing. —A short time since the af
fectionate public were astonished by the story of
a young lady whose neck was dislocated in con
sequence of the ill-advised resistance which she
offered to the amicable salute of an admirer more
ardent than discreet. Our last exchanges from
Europe now match this tale with another of an
inquest held at Leeds on the body of a young
man of 21, who fell down stairs and killed him
self in an attempt?to snatch a kiss from the -un
willing lips of a girl of fifteen. Some of our co
temporaries deduce from the first of these occur
rences the wholesome moral that young ladies
should never oppose the advances of their admi
rers. In common fairness we are now bound to
infer from the second accident that no man should
ever attempt to take a kiss until it is offered to
him. Between the two lessons there is reason to
fear that, aft ancient and not altogether disagree
able custom may be summarily abolished.
Revolting Anecdote. —A wretch of a husband
coming home at one in the morning, found his
angel wife sitting up reading an old novel. With
a coarseness il most amounting to cruelty, he took
the book from her hand and placed before her a
pair of her child’s sodks, which happened to have
holes in them, disgustingly observing : “If you
mil fatigue yourself, my love, with any work at such
an hour, 1 would suggest it is never too late to mend.”
Crinoline. —At a grand ball in Paris, lately, a
fashionable lady, wlio.liad gone to the utmost in
the extent of cnnolme, w'as talking gaily to her
friend General ,-who so distinguished himself
‘in the war with Russia. As she played with one
of the folds of her enormous petticoat, she play
fully inquired of lier military friend what he
thought of her toilets for the evening ? “Ah, Ma
dame,” he said, With a sigh, “it is more than
beautiful to me.” “How ?” she asked, dropping
her eyes to conceal her pleasure at the expected
compliment. “It reminds me so, said the Gen-
encampments in the Crimea 1” This from a j
the analogy no farther.
FARMERS COLUMN.
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* Yittov. —There soonis to he a better u
day, but prices are the same. _ lhe
yesterday noon amount to 51
ten lay afternoon 275 ; lat yj, ti fttTf*
ly lit 7i. 00 at 8, 30 at 81 57 at BJ, 7 at B#, oat
Bs, 84 fancy at 8} cents.
Sales this morning, 260 bales: ~ at i
,:>X at 7 h . 49 at 7;-, 2at8,17 at Bj. 1
8f dents.
< ’ll A KLESTON, Jan.*.— Cotttm— Thesales tins
morning amounted to 1101 bales, at the following
particulars :53 at 7f, 181 at 8, 41 at Bi, , at B*,
336 at h 188 at Bf, 104 at Bs, 70 at 8, 58 atßf cts.
SA Y A NNAH. Jan 6.—Cot/en— Arrived since the
28th ult, 5679 bales Upland and 2G7 halos Sea is
land. The exports during the same period have
been 4643 bales Upland and 159balesSea Islam 3 J
leaving a stock on hand and on shipboard not
cleared yesterday of 27,193 bales Upland and
2876 bales Sea Island, against 44,964 bales upland
and 2,464 bales Sea Island at the same period
last year.
TREES ON EARNS.
Those parts of our country which were first set
tled, were originally covered with dense and no
ble forests- These had to be laid low with the
woodman’s axe and consumed in his log fires, in
order to reclaim the land for the plow and fit it
for receiving “the seed of the sower.” The vt *v
superabundance of timber rendered itof no value
but for building houses, making a few implements
and for burning as fuel. To clear the soil of tim
ber was the great object of the pioneer farmer,
anp trees were regarded by him as an incumber
ance. Before such a spirit, great forests have dis
appeared, without a thought having been exercis
ed, as to the natural uses of trees in the economy
of nature.
Trees, like mountain ranges, attract clouds and
promote rains, without which the most fertile
lands become barren wastes.
There are some parts of our country—especial
ly Western New York—that are now often visited
with long summer drouths, where fifty years ago
showers of refreshing rain were more frequent
and regular ; as a consequence the soil does not
now yield so abundantly. Some streams that
once rolled along in full swelling currents, driv
ing busy mills throughout the entire year, are
now almost dry water-worn courses during a num
ber of months, at least, and the mills on their
banks have fallen to decay. This has been caus
ed by the destruction of the forests. They acted
the part of reservoirs (by preventing evaporation)
to the streams, and as conductors to the rain
clouds.
In some parts of Asia and Africa, the ruins of
large ancient cities are found covered with flic
sands of the desert ; around them there cnee
bloomed fruitful fields. To those farmers who
reside in districts and on farms where the timber
has been almost annihilated, now is the season
to put in practice a useful lesson, viz ; to plant
belting of beautiful and useful trees around their
farms. Trees equalize to temperature of the cli
mate, by attracting clouds in hot weather, to cool
the atmosghere with showers ; and they shelter
houses and crops from, high and cold dry winds.
And this advice is not only useful for those resid
ing in regions denuded of their forests, but more
useful still for our farmers residing on the broad
rich prairies of our Western States.
And trees are not only useful as agents of re
freshing rains, but they promote health and
beautify the landscape. It is a settled question,
we believe, that they absorb miasma from the at
mosphere ; and certainly a treeless landscape is
as dull as a tenentless house. Many of our farm
ers have an eye to the beautiful in the selection
of trees for the ground around their houses, but
few of them seem to have paid proper atteht-ion
to the laying out of their farms. In directi* g
their attention to this subject at the present tim e ,
we hope that considerable good will he the result.
We do not mean to suggest what kinds of trees
they should plant, as these should be varied for
the locality, soil and climate, but we advise them
not to fail in planting some kinds.— Scientific A
mcrican.
Plastic Cotton. —J. M. Legare, of Aiken, South
Carolin, is said to be engaged in perfecting an in
vention by which cotton is to be adapted to a va
riety of novel uses. It is said that the basis of
this invention consists in the solidification of com
mon cotton fibre by the aid of certain chemical
ingredients. Plastic at first, so as to he readily
moulded, or worked by hand into auy required
shape, it becomes on drying, hard and tenacious,
with a somewhat metalic lustre.
A Hint to Dairy Maids. —A farmer in Akron,
Ohio, has been experimenting with milk in glass
pans. He says ; “I took the milk of the cow,
milked at the same time, and divided it equally,
putting half into a glass pan, and half into a tin
pan, and placed them side by side. In the first
twenty-four hours, there were thunder shower* ;
and at the end of that time the milk in the tin
pan was sour, that in the glass, sweet and good.
At the end of twelve hours more, that in the tin
pan was thick clabbar, and that in the glass be
gan to turn. From this, I believe that glass pans
will preserve milk one third longer than tin pans.
We believe that farmers are beginning to find
this out, as we heard of a number who were in
troducing glass instead of tin.
♦ ■
Shall Fruits. —There are few families in the
land, that may not have an abundance of the
small fruits. We cannot in this hot climate suc
ceed with the current, and but poorly with tho
goosebery. But we may have the raspberry and
strawberry in great perfection, and no garden is
perfect without them. The housewife that has a
few dozen raspberry canes, and even a small bed
of strawberries to resort to for a desert, may r*<
independent of pie crust tarts, jellies, or preserves.
This month is the time to begin planting. The
raspberry may do tolerably well in the shade of
trees, but it does better cultivated by itself. Fhe
strawberry should not he cultived near any kind
of tree. The plant is a great drinker, and can
not bear with impunity the encroachments of
trees, either in appropriating the moistuae of the
atmosphere thro’ their leaves, or of the earth
through their thousand feeding roots. We care
not how much exposed the raspberry and straw
berry beds are, so the ground is prepared deeply
the plants well set and matched before the hot
weather comes on. The fig is a another of the
small fruits which should be in general cultiva
tion. It is emphatically the poer man’s’ fruit, as
it will grow from cuttings or seed, and flourish
in every soil. In the colder parts of the south
it is better to plant it in a poor soil, as it is not
as liable to be winter killed, where it does not
make a luxuriant growth. ~
Get a Home.—Get a home, rich or poor, get a
home and learn to love that homg, and make it
happy to wife and children by your beaming pres
ence ; learn to love simple pleasures, flowers oi
God’s own planting, and music of his own ; the
bird, wind and waterfall# So shrll you help to
stem the tide of desolation poverty and despair
that comes upon so many through scorn of little
tilings, vn, the charm oi a> ktt.com
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[look to God for a grander one.