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g ~ JJTKI.'AIiV ■cmperiTuce (!lru!i;uler. 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 \ \ \ <• 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. *•#- 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. . 0 a&jigir # # 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. *♦•••- 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. <i •• m 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. —■*- • 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. >■! A slight shock of an earthquake was felt in Sa vannah and Augusta on the 24th inst. ci> 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. 4li> 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. <!■> 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. < 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. a 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. ■■- |@*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. ag m ♦ • 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.” ■*•••♦■ 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. \ ■i,'. v “v ‘ ..L ‘- , * 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. < 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. f, s OltE3tyi£RC'¥ A * 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 , ~ , a Tt. v l c n/i£vftr T ! V a ViITTYiV'iIa IY\ vAHft I) r\'T\\ A [look to God for a grander one.