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“tHUKSCAYMORNING, MAM 18,1858.
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Court Week in Greeneaboro\
Last week the Superior Court of this county, held its
regular session. The amount of business dispatched
was large; yet, at the adjournment on Saturday eve
nin<*, they had not gotten through with more than half.
The criminal docket was, we believe, unprecedented in
this county, at least for many years past. Monday
and Tuesday were occupied in various civil cases, some
ofwhich attracted considerable interest. On Wednes
day morning the criminal docket was taken up. The
principal items under this head, wer<? the trials of the
negroes, John and Thornton, the former as principal,
and the latter as accessory in the late murder of Jesse
S Jones. The trial of John occupied but a short time,
he having confessed his crime, with a full detail of all
the circumstances under which it was committed. A
greater effort was made to save Thornton. The charge
against him rested chiefly on the testimony of John,
though sustained by many corroborating circumstances.
The trial occupied a day and a half, Judge Cone making
an able speech for the prisoner, and Mr. Reese, of Mad
ison, one equally able for the State. Both the negroes
•were found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged on the
30th of April next.
A negro woman who had been confined in jail for
BOme time on the charge of killing her infant child, was
•released, the Grand Jury failing, in the absence of all
testimony, to find a true bill against her.
Quite a number of the gaming gentry were brought to
an account for their misdeeds, and some of them dealt
with pretty heavily.. B. F. Ray, against whom several
true bills were found, one for gambling with negroes,
was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment, and fined
$350. Curtius Lankford was sentenced to 2 months im
prisonment, and fined SSO. A squad of gamesters from
a neighboring county were invited to contribute to the
county treasury, in a manner which rendered a com
pliance most prudent. We think, however, that our
laws against gambling can never become sufficiently
terrible to offenders, until the rates of fining be raised.
The court will convene again on the 29th of this
month, and, from what we can learn, the unfinished
business will occupy another week or more.
Information has been received from’ Aspinwall,
by the Moses Taylor, that the commanders of her Bri
tanic Majesty’s vessels of war on the West India sta
tion have received orders from the British Government
to capture and treat as pirates General Walker and all
or any other fillibusters, wherever they may find them.
j&'A company was formed last year, in New York,
which agreed with the underwriters aud shippers to
keep New York harbor open during the winter. The pay
stipulated was S2OO a-day. There has not been ice
enough for a mint julep all winter, yet the company’s
boat has lain at the wharf, earning its S2OO per diem, in
the most comfortable manner.
Faults of Memory.
Almost every recurrence of the anniversary of the
birth of the immortal Washington brings out something
never before heard of in the history of that great man.
Within the last few days we have observed an article
going the rounds of the press, stating that “ Washing
ton died the last hour of the last day of the last year of
the last century.” Now, if the author will turn to
“ Benton’s Abridgement of the Debates of Congress,”
voL 2, page 434, he will find the following correspon
dence :
“ Gentlemen of the Senate and gentlemen of the
House of Representatives: The letter herewith trans
mitted, will inform you that it has pleased Divine Pro
vidence to remove from this life our excellent fellow
citizen, George Washington, by the purity of his char-,
acter. and a long series of services to his country, ren
dered illustrious through the world. It remains for an
affectionate and grateful people, in whose hearts he can
never die, to pay suitable honor to his me mory.
United States, Dec. 19, 1799.” John Adams.
Painful Retribution* if True.
The Newport Spectator says there is a young man in
a town of Vermont, who cannot speak to his father.
Previous to his birth some difference arose between his
mother and her husband, and for a considerable time she
refused to speak to him. The difficulty was subse
quently healed —the child was born and in due time be
gan to talk—but when sitting with his father was inva
riably silent. It continued so until it was live years
old, when the father, having exhausted his powers of
persuasion, threatened it with punishment for its stub
bornness. When the punishment was inflicted, it elic
ited nothing but sighs and groans, which told but too
plainly that the little sufferer was vainly endeavoring to
speak. All jvho were present united in the opinion that
it was impossible for the child to speak to his father —and
time proved their opinion to be correct. At a maturer
age, its efforts to converse with its parent” could only
produce bitter sighs and groans.
Georgia Rail Road.—From a statement handed to
the Augusta Constitutionalist, the following appears to
be the receipts of cotton, flour and grain, at the depot in
Augusta by the Georgia Rail Road for the month of
February last:
Cotton, 34, 053 bales,
i Flour, 6,666 barrels.
Grain, 45,146 bushels.
Convicted. —Thomas Golden was tried at the Supe
rior Court of Marion county, last week, for the murder
of Nicholas Jordan some time last winter and con
victed.
Sudden Death at Brunswick.—The Herald of the
10th instant, says:—“On Friday last, Mr. Henry
Dale, a young man of excellent character and appa
rently in robust health, fell dead while walking the
street.^
Fatal Accident.—Two boys, some fifteen or sixteen
years of age, says the Cartersville Express, were on a
hunting excursion, near Allatoona, in this County, on
the4tb inst., when one of them by the name of Hannie,
accidently shot the other one, by the name of Waldroup,
through the head, killing him instantaneously. Han
nie was tried on the sth inst., and acquitted.
Tije Southern Commercial Convention,— -P. D.
Page, Secretary for the State of Alabama, of the last
Southern Commercial Convention, publishes a card, in
which he states that the convention is to assem
ble at Montgomery on the second, instead of the first
Monday in May next.
The Most Interesting Sight.
One day the Rev. Henry Venn, author of the “ New
Whole Duty of Man,” told his children that in the ev
ening he would take them to sec one of the most inter*
csting sights in the world. They were anxious to know
what it was, but he defered gratifying their curiosity
till he had brought’ them to the scene itself. He led
them to a miserable hovel, whose ruinous walls and
broken windows bespoke an extreme degree of poverty
and want. “Now,” said he, “my dear children, can
any one that lives in such a wretched habitation
as this be happy? Yet this is notaal a poor
young man lies upon a miserable straw bed within it,
dying of disease, at the age of only nineteen, consumed
with constant fever, and afflicted with nine painful ul
cers.” “How wretched a situation!” they all ex
.claimed. He then led them into the cottage, and, ad
dressing the poor young man, said, “Abraham Mid
wood, i have brought my children here to show them
that it is possible to be happy in a state of disease and
poverty and want; and now tell them if it is not so.”
The dying youth, with a sweet smile of benevolence and
piety, immediately replied, “Oh, yes sir ! I would not
exchange my state with that of the richest person upon
earth, who was destitute of those views whicn I possess,
messed be God ! I have a good hope through Christ
“t being admitted into those blessed regions where Laz*
aru| now dwells, having long forgotten all his sorrows
* miseries. Sir, there is nothing to bear, whilst the
°* God cheers my soul, and whilst I can have nc
,, , o him by constant prayer, through faith in Jesus. In*
am truly happy,and 1 trust to be happv and
whSlk eternity ; and I every hour thank'God,
rnnrvpfm,o r U ?! U ( rom a state of darkness into his
marvelous light, and has given me to enjoy, the un
riches of his grace! ” The iftipression made
y this discourse upon his young hearers was never es-
Senator Douolas. —The Richmond Dispatch of Mon
day says :—“We have heard a report that Senator
Douglas of Illinois intends to resign his seat in the Uni
ted States Senate, and spend some years on the conti
nent of Europe.”
We hav#ho doubt the trip would be beneficial to the
Senator, as well as to the country just now.
The Cars eor Egypt.—Watson & Cos., of Spring
field. Massachusetts, will ship this week ten passenger
cars which they have contracted with the Pasha of
Egypt to build for the Alex andria and Cairo Railroad.
The cars are packed in boxes, and two workmen go out
in the same ship. The remaining thirty cars are to be
built and forwarded before the Ist of July. A splendid
drawing of the cars is sent to the Pasha, and will doubt
less please the old fellow very much.
China, Japan, and Siam. —The Chinese official cen
sus of 1852, stated the population of that immense em
pire at 367,632,905. That of Japan is variously estima
ted at from 25,000,000 to 50,000,000. The three tnay
be estimated in round numbers at something like 400,-
000,000. The superficial extent of these nations is
from li to 2 millions of square miles.
Hon. James L. Orr, of S. C., declines, pointedly and
positively, to be a candidate for re-ele<?tion to Congress.
Tiios. Thomas, the murderer, who recently escaped
from the jail of Lee co., and for whom a reward of sl,-
000 was offered, has been captured.
Jl&t~ Mr. Jacob Symer was recently crushed to death
by becoming entangled in the gearing of his mill in
Floyd county.
An unusual religious awakening seems to pre
vail throughout the country the present winter. The
N. iY. Examiner has been gathering statistics, and
states that the number of conversions reported by its
exchanges correspondents during the last, two
weeks, in the several orthodox denominations of the
United States, is 7,300. The aggregate number repor
ted for the last fire weeks, is over 20,000 besides.
llorril>le } it True.
A horrible case of spontaneous combustion is reported
as having recently occurred in Cairo. 111. A man named
Faxon, suffering under delirium tremens, entered a sa
loon and called for a glass of brandy. Immediately af
ter drinking it, his breath came in contact with a lighted
match in the hand of a bystander, and instantly took
fire and burnt for nearly two minutes, when death en
ded his tortures.
Great Pistol Match—Novel Wager.
Mr. Jno. Travis, who has established & pistol gallery
in Louisville, Ky. has just closed the most extraordinary
wager we have ever heard of. It iB no less than a bet
of one thousand dollars that he will hit an orange
placed on the head of a boy at ten paces; also shoot one
in each hand of the boy. The wager is with Samuel
A. Suydam, of New York, and the match takes place in
Louisville on the 14th of June. The following are the
terms of the match: Travis bets Suydam SI,OOO that
he will find a boy who will stand at the distance of ten
paces and place an orange, not to exceed two and a-half
inches in diameter, in each hand, and one upon his head,
which Travis will shoot from their respective localities,
no object to intervene between the boy and the oranges.
If Travis fails to find the boy who will stand, or fails to
hit the oranges in the three shots, or any shot touches
the boy, he loses the bet.
Intoxication. —An old law in Spain decreed that if
a gentleman was convicted of even a capital offence, he
should be pardoned on his pleading his having been in
toxicated at the time he committed it, it being supposed
that any one who bore the character of gentility, would
more readily suffer death than confess himself capabla
of such a vice.
Advertising’.
An Article of some length in Appleton's New Cyclo
pedia, gives some interesting facts relative to the his
tory of the “ art” of advertising. The earliest patrons
of the newspapers, as a medium of advertising, wers
the booksellers, good luck to them. The earliest ad
vertisement appeared in 1652, in the Mercurius Politi
cus, and announced a book eulogizing Oliver Crom
well. Next to the booksellers followed the public offi
cers, advertising runaways, ect. The tradesmen wh#
first discovered the advantage of advertising were the
China merchants, who announce the. “China drink,
called by the Chinese Tcha ” (tea.) In 1688, the Lon
don Gazette was the only paper printed in that city, and
became, and still continues to be, the, Court Journal. In
the reign of Charles 11, advertisements of theatrical
and other public amusements first appeared. The great
plague in London brought out announcements of anti
dotes and remedies. From 1701, advertisements may
he considered as declaring the wants, the losses, the
amusements, the literature, the money-making eager
ness, the fashions, the foibles, the charities, the occa
sional eccentricities and the political tendencies of the
people.
We had in a number of the Tattler, in 1710, a review
f the current advertisements of the times. In 1745 the
General Advertiser was commenced in London, the first
successful attempt to depend wholly for support on ad
vertisements. Twenty years later English journalism
was fully established in the provinces as well as in the
Capital; and at the commencement of the present cen
tury, advertising had become a system, reflecting the
very form and pressure of the times.
In speaking of advertising to-day, the London Times
is usually referred to on account of the great number of
its advertisements. On the 24th of May, 1855, it had
2,575 new advertisements. It is estimated that its daily
readers number 420,000. During the railroad mania of
1845, in the month of October, it received from adver
tisements £25,000 sterling. Its regular weekly receipts
from that source are £5,000.
The Printer’s Story.
We Ice saw a young man gazing at the “ry heaven,
with a f in 1 ana a —*—■> of pistols in the other.
We Ndeavorea 2 attract his atlOtion by .ing 2 a in a
paper we held in our relating 2 a young man in
that § of the country who had left home in a stß of
Drangement. He dropped the sand pistols from his
with the !, it is lof whom U read. I left
home B 4my friends knew of my Dsign. Iso the
of a girl who refused 2 lislO 2 me, but smiled upon an
other. I ed from the house, uttering a wild ! to
the God oflove, and without replying to the ? ? of my
friends, came here with this of pistols 2 put a. to
my XislOce. My case has no |j in this f.
Texas.
Accounts from the interior indicate a general activity
among planters in ploughing and putting in their spring
crops. In Eastern and Northern Texas the ground is
still too wet to admit of much progress, but the weather
we aro now having will soon put it in good order.
Western Texas ana the coast counties were never in a
more promising condition at this season of the year
than at present, and large crops of every description are
now confidently anticipated. A larger breadth of land
will be devoted to, corn and wheat than ever before, and
we think the same may be said of the cultivation of cot
ton, especially the Sea Island variety, for which the
coast lands are believed to be peculiarly adapted. In a
word, if a merciful providence will preserve us from late
frosts and ravenous insects, we shall be able to obtain
more from our rich and generous soil this year than ever
before.— Galveston News.
Tbc Press in France.
The following paragraph from the Paris correspon
dent of the New* York Commercial, shows how complete
and despotic is the censorship of the prc*£ maintained
by Louis Napoleon;
“ A friend, who is cnnloycd in the Monitcur office to
make the translations from the American journals, as
sures me that not a single liac appears in that, paper
that has not passed through the office of the Minister of
State, and been marked bona iirer. Murders, chap
ters from Lieut. Maury’s navigation papers, many ot
which have been published .lately, &c. arc read over
carefully with the rest. And the proof which he offers
that they aro carefully read, is this: that frequently his
translations have a sentence struck out, or are con
demned entirely, because of a supposed allusion to .pol
ities. Not only does the minister or his chief know the
contents of each day’s issue, but M. Pancoucke, the
publisher, and the two principal editors, inspect the mat
ter before it goes to the Minister’s bureau.”
TUe Verdict of History.
History, besides its#>ad men, is filled with dcbateabl#
men. Historic doubts arise to disturb the verdict of
ages: judgments are wholly reversed; black men be
come white; white black. A shade falls upon the great
name of Sidney. Wat Tyler and Jack Cade arc rising
in public estimation. Queen Mary finds a patron in
one party .in the Church. Crook-backed Richard has
his apologists. Judas Iscariot himself has recently
been pronouncod by learned, and even Episcopal critics,
to have been probably not so black as for eighteen cen
turies he has been believed to be. After all, whose
opinions are to govern ? What history is to be fol
lowed ? Arc wo to have the Duke of Marlborough? an
angel of light, says Lord Stanhope—a fallen angel, says
Lord Macaulay—a traitor, a murderer.— London Athen
rum.
Look not itpow the Wine.
There was a respectable family somewhere in the
good old North State, whose name I need not give; but
they ranked high in society, were born in the higher
walks of life, and seemed to have all the comforts needed
to make them happy. Wealth, friends, birth, honor,
a smiling father, an intelligent mother, loving brothers
and sisters—all that earth could afford pleasure, seemed
to be combined ta make them happy.
But there was a serpent coiled in the bosom of that
family; there was a poisonous monster bent for the
stroke, not at the heel but at the heart of some of the
bright eyed youths of that happy family. Yet they
dandled it, and kept it as their nearest bosom friend.
They had not been taught to 44 look not upon the wine
when it giveth its color in the cup,” but rather, “ do as
your ancestors have done before you.” There was a
gay youth among them ; he had a powerful intellect, a
refined education; and was probably looked upon as
one of the future standards of his country. He chose a
bride from the circle in which he moved, equally refined
in education, with a considerable portion of wealth.
Many friends wished A a lovely and happy life
with his sweet bride. All seemed to promise future hap
piness.
* • * * *
It was one cold evening in the month of February,
the snow, which was tolerably deep, had not yet began
to melt, when a man came reeling forth out of a village.
Having gone some distance, his strength gave way, he
reeled and fell, in the mud, water and snow, where it is
quite probable he would have frozen, had he not been
discovered. This was A ! The serpent had made
himself known; it had stricken its blow, and though
A yet lives and might reform, yet it is almost an
impossibility. He has, as it were, made a league with
the fell monster, and will not recognize him as his ene
my.
Such is the influence of Alcohol. Yes, man, who is
alone capable of attaining to such a state of holiness as
to have sweet, constant union and communion with
the Holy Trinity, can thus sink himself beneath the
brute creation ! O Temperance! thou glorious, heav
enly messenger, hasten the time when thou shalfwave
thy banner victoriously over the sons of men.
O ye citizens of North Carolina, you who love to talk
of your liberties, and of the brave'ry of your fathers,
come, let us cast off a yoke that is more severe than that
of Great Biitain. “Who will come to the help of the
Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty?”
Let it resound from every Christian heart: “ Look not
upon the wine when it giveth its color in the cup; for it
biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.”— Spirit
of the Age. SIGMA.
It uin Murders.
We are to see that the public mind is roused up
to the multiplication of murders under the rum excite
ment, so common in the State. The press should speak
out on the subject, and leave the evil where it belongs,
at the feet of the traeffi. The Ovid Bee has the follow
ing timely remark:
“ The occurrences of the last six months alone would
abundantly justify the extremest efforts ever made for
a prohibitory liquor law. From all directions the pa
pers teem with accounts of men killed by drinking, and
of horrible butcheries perpetrated by drunken men.
Our county has had its full share of these heart-rending
calamities. B*t terrible as they are, these murders
have been perpetrated by authority; they ore the legit
imate work of our numerous licensed drunkeries,
TEese dens of death which tho law has cdmniissioned on
purpose to kill men, are in full, unchecked operation;
the murders which we witness almost daily have not
lessened the patronage of these hell holes; they are in
as good repute as ever. Blood is upon our grog deal
ers from first to last; the sober second thought of the
community fixes upon them the gilt of murder. They
stand up ns men who have conspired against the lives
of their fellow men. As evidence of this, we take a par
agraph from one of our exchanges, not apt to be in ad
vance of such questions:
‘A fanner residing in Tyre, in this county, named
Robert Bennett, was placed in jail in Waterloo, for
drunkenness, on Friday the Ist inst. and died on the
Sabbath morning following.’
‘ Deaths from intemperance arc becoming alarmingly
frequent. Within three weeks three deaths have oc
curred within our immediate vicinity, says the Geneva
Courier. It seems time that some more stringent meas
ures were used te prevent drunkenness, and to punish
those who traffic in rum. Those who sold liquor to
Mr. Bennett are his murderers, and should be dealt with
in that light.’ ”
A large numlx'r of temperance sermons are being con
stantly preached in England and Scotland. The pul
pit comes well to the help.
Respectable Drunkards. t
; In the prosecution of the temperance enterprise we
arc continually met with the assertion, that “if we only
educate thfc people, drunkenness will cease,” and con
sequently that such very extreme measures as total ab
stinence or prohibition are alike superfluous and unde
sirable. That education, of itself, unaided or supple
mented by a more complete or adapted remedy, would
never meet the fearful and gigantic evil we seek to cure,
frequent evidence is afforded. In the English papers for
the last week in October wc find the following cases re
ported :
At the Southwark Police Court the Rev. Mr. Pretty
man was fined ss. for being drunk, and Mr. Unwin, ‘a
manufacturer of Sheffield, ’ was fined the drunkard’s
fine, for having troubled the police to remove him ‘ inca
pable’ from the streets. Two officers were lined each
a similar amount for being intoxicated. At the Surrey
Sessions two persons were convicted for seven years
penal servitude for robbing Daniel Phillips, ‘ a respecta
ble linen-draper in Bridgewater,’ who being in London
Streets ‘under the influence of liquor’ was pushed down,
and then in a scullle which ensued lie was robbed of his
watch by the prisoners, whose practice it was to watch
for drunken men and then rob them. Two cases were
also reported just at this time of ‘respectable female
drunkards.’ Is education a safeguard from drunken
ness ? We answer NO ! Drink may blight the fairest.
Drink blasts the strongest. Its characteristic is to
weaken every motive to do right, and to strengthen
every motive to do wrong, and it produces entirely the
same results upon the educated as upon the illiterate.
It is no respecter of persons, of rank or of sex. Conse
quently, the wisest, safest and simplest remedy is to ab
stain entirely from its use ; neither to touch, taste nor
handle a beverage so dangerous in its tendency, and so
prolific of evil.
How to tlo it.
“ I at once sat dowi* and reasoned the point, and rea
soned niysclf into being a staunch Prohibitionist. Hav
ing done this, my duty became plain before me. Ido
not fear the consequences!”
Such was the noble utterance of the devoted Narra
way, privately made a few days ago. What a lesson;
what an epitome of the obligations of Man; what an
analysis of the duty of the Christian Minister!
Agrcat question arises. It involves great and weighty
considerations and consequences. The woiHd is divi
ded upon it. Party clamors around it. Prejudice and
passion frown at it, and personal interest and an inor
dinate appetite arc involved in its solution. What is to
be done ? Shall the neighbor be enquired of? Shall 1
consult the politician ? Shall I get an excathedra opin
ion from my Bishop ? Shall I question my own purse
and prospects ? Shall I consult the fickle passions of a
clamorous populace? No! I leave the struggles of
party, I forget the excitement oi the times ; and in the
quiet seclusion of my own studio, I ask the Divine direc
tion, and under it, I reason myself into being a Prohi
bitionist —having done whigh I enter at once fearlessly
upon my course, remembering that: Duty is mine, con
sequences belong to God.
Oh if every Christian man, whether he be a layman
or a clergyman, would go and do likewise, how soon the
Gospel heralds would come out and help us in our en
deavors to overturn the giant iniquity of intemperance.
—Life of Narraway.
Bishop Bayley, Catholic bishop of New Jersey, has
issued an official manifesto against the vice of drunken
ness, and against those dealers in alcoholic beverages
who minister thereto. He suggests to his parochial
clergy that each shall keep a list of the drunkards and
also of th<s liquor dealers connected with his church,
and adds:
“ I am determined to make use of ihe most severe
measures against all who are addicted to this scanda
lous and destructive vice; and if they continue in the
practice of it, they must do it ns outcasts from the Cath
olic church, who have no right to the name of Catholic
while they live, nor to Christian burial when they die.”
Wc hope the bishop will go farther, and propose at
least a homily against moderate drinking, which is the
parent of all drunkenness. Let the bishop and his cler
gy set an example in this matter, and who can Oil the
result !— Journal of the A. T.TJ.
The Drink in High Places.
In Washington two distinguished members of Con
gress, participated with several others in the same social
glass in the bar-room of Brown’s Hotel. From pleasant
conversation, they passed to that which was irritating,
when one violently struck the other. Preparations for
a duel succeeded. How shameful! yet it is the natnral
operation of the hotel bar. When shall it conic to an
end ?
Queen Elizabeth’s Vanity.
In hor own Court, Queen Elizabeth was not satisfied
to preside. She could ns ill endure a competitor in ce
lebrity of charms as in power. Sho arrogated to herself
all the incense around ner; aud, in point ol adulation,
•he was like tho daughter of tfic horse leech, whose cry
was—“ Give! give!” Ilcr insatiate vanity would have
been ludicrous, if it had not produced such atrocious
consequences. This was the predominant weakness of
her character, which neutralized her talents, mid was
pampered, till in its excess it became a madness and a
vice. This precipitated the fate of her lovely rival,
Mary Queen of Scots. This elevated the profligate
Leicester to the pinnacle of favor, and kept him there,
sullied as he was by every baseness and every crime ;
this hurried Essex to the block, banished Southampton,
and sent Raleigh and Elizabeth Throckmorton to the
Tower. Did one of her Attendants, more beautiful than
the rest, attract the notice or homage of any of the gay
cavaliers nround her—was an attachment whispered, a
marriage projected—it was enough to throw the whole
Court int* consternation. “ Her Majesty, tho Queen,
was in passionand then—-Heaven help the offenders!
h was the spirit of Harry VTTI. let loose again .—Jen
nings.
Letter of a Dying Wife to her Husband
[The following most teaching fragment of a letter
from a dying wife to fie* husband, was found by him
some months after her death between the leaves of a
religious volume which she was very fond of perusing.
The letter, which was literally dim with tear marks,
was written long before her husband.was aware that
the grasp of fatal disease had fastened upon the lovely
fofrm of his wife, who died at the early age of nineteen ;]
“ When this shall reach your eye, dear George, some
day when you are turning over the relics of the past, I
shall have past away torever, and the cold, white stone
will be keeping its lonely watch over the lips you have
so often pressed, and the sod will be growing green that
shall hide forever from your sight the dust of one who
has often nestled close to your warm heart. For many
long and sleepless nights, when all besides my thoughts
were at rest, I have wrestled with the consciousness of
approaching death, until at last it has formed itselt
wpon my mind; and although to you, to others it might
bow seem but the nervous imagining of a girl, yet, dear
George, it is so! Many weary nights have I passed in
the endeavor to reconcile myself to leaving you, whom
I love so well, and this bright world of sunshine and
beauty ; and hard indeed it is to struggle on silently
and alone with the sure conviction that I am about to
leave all forever and go down into the dark valley!’
“ But I know in whom I have believed,” and leaning
on his arm, “ I fear no evil.” Do not blame me for
keeping even all this from you. How could I subject
you, ol all others, to such sorrow as I feel at parting,
when time will soon make it apparent to you ! I could
have wished to live if only to be at your sidfc when your
time shall come, and pillowin'* your head upon my
breast, wipe the death damps from your brow, and
usher your departing spirit into its Maker’s presence,
embalmed in woman’s holiest prayer. But it is not to
be —and I submit. Yours is the privilege of watching,
through long and dreary nights, for the spirit’s final
flight, and of transferring my sinking head from your
breast to my Savior’s bosom. And you shall share my
last thought, and the last faint pressure of the hand, and
the last feeble kiss shall be yours, and even when flesh
and heart shall have failed me, my eyes shall rest on
yours until glazed by death ; and our spirits shall hold
one last communion until gently fading from my view
—the last of earth—yon shall mingle with the first
bright glimpses of the unfading glories of the better
world, where partings arc unknown. Well do I know
the spot, my dear George, where you wilHav me ; of
ten we stood by the place, and as we watched the mel
low sun-set as it glanced in quivering flashes through
the leaves, and burnished the grassy mounds around
us with stripes of burnished gold, each, perhaps, has
thought that some day one of us would come alone, and
which ever it might be, your name would be on the
stone. But we loved the spot, and I know you will love
it none the less when you see the same quiet sun-light
linger and play among the grass that grows over your
Mary’s grave. I know you will go there, and my
spirit will be wish you then, and whisper among the
waving branches—“lam not lost, hut gone bcforeT”
Mind tvhat you say before Children.
A gentleman was in the habit of calling at a neighbor’s
house, and the lady had always expressed much pleas
ure in seeing him. One day, just after she had re
marked to him her happiness from his visit, the little
boy entered the room. The gentleman took him on his
knee, and asked hint:
“ Are you glad to see me, George ?”
“No, sir,” replied the boy.
“ Why not, my little man ?”
“Because mother don’t want you to conic,” said
George.
Here the mother looked daggers at her little son. and
her face became crimson. But he saw nothing.
“ Indeed; how do you know that
“ Because she said yesterday she wished that old bore
would not call again.”
The gentleman’s hat was soon in requigion, and he
left with the impression that “ great is the truth, it will
prevail.”
Another child looked sharply in the face of a visitor,
and being asked what he meant by it, replied :
“I wanted to see if you had a drop in your eye; I
have heard mother say that you have, frequently.”
A boy once asked of his father who it was that lived
next door to him, and when ho heard the name, inquired
if he was a fool.
“No, my little friend, he is not a fool, hut, a very sen
sible man. But why did you ask the question ?”
“ Because,” replied the boy, “ mother said the other
day that you were next door to a fool, and I wanted to
know who lived next, door to you.”— Globe.
The Zodiacal Tight.
The business of an editor is generally regarded its be
ing essentially of a terrestial character, “of the earth,
earthy.” For our own part, we love sometimes togaze
beyond the low scene where men struggle up mole-hills
to gratify their ambition, and scramble for hits of shin
ing dirt with which to satiate their avarice. And
what a scene is that beyond ! While around ns is heard
the evanescent, hum of passing life, beyond arc burning
orbs and radiant nebulosities that have endured for
countless cycles of ages, The bright points and faint
streams of light wo gaze upon have been watched by
sages, prophets and poets. The proud domes from
whence Chaldean seers gazed upon those glorious bod
ies arc mouldering wrecks, or at most give up a few
sculptured stones to the modern searcher. The Egyp
tian hierophant, who questioned those stars for the de
crees of fate, lie in their mummy sleep of centuries.—
The scene where Syrian patriarchs ador'ed tlic fixed and
watched the wandering fires, is now a land of detola
lion ; a locality ofextinct or of triumphant faiths ; of dim
and mystic, yet. grand and impressive historic memo
ries. But those quenchless stars remain. The milky
light still flows along the sky. The pensive moon still
sheds refulgent light and floods the earth with beauty,
We may not have opportunity to wander by Egypt's
pyramids, or by Tadmor’s pillared waste ; to gaze on
Jordan’s flood, or contemplate Jerusalem’s crumbling
towers, but we can behold those yet more ancient orbs—
we can watch the courses of Orion, respire the sweet
influences of the plciadcs and hail the dawn of Arctu
rus.
The stars rarely excite our curiosity, unless we make
them special objects of study, because “they are so
common,” and it is few learn how uncommon common
objects arc. There is, however, one visitor of the skies
whose advent may tempt attention. This visitor comes
each fall and spring : it has not, therefore, the rarity of
the comet with his trail of flame. Yet, it is rare, hut
only because it is seldom observed though commonly
seen. This visitor is called the .Zodiacal Light. This
light is to be seen at the present time each evening, af
ter “ twilight grey has with her sober livery all things
clad!” As our intention in writing this article is to
instruct tlie reader where to look for this object, in or
der that it may interest when found, we will pause a mo
ment to explain what the Zodiacal Light is, to do which
we must take a little peep into the history and mystery
of world making.
There are several theories to account for this peculiar
‘ light.” We give the one generally entertained by
modern astronomers. The matter of which our solar
system i3 formed chaotic, literally “with •
out form and void,” being in the condition of gas, ex
isting in space as an extended nebulous mass. In course
of time, some of the atoms of this mass came into closer
contact than others. With increased density came in
creased gravity, and each nucleus attracted to itself the
atoms surrounding it. The consequence of the flow of
these gaseous atoms towards a centre, was the genera
tion of circular motion; just as we see water whirl
round when running through a hole in the bottom of a
tub or other vessel. There was thus an aggregation 01-
coming together of atoms, which aggregation, being the
result ot circular motion, was a globe, and in'this way
our globe has its origin. The rings of Saturn, the sat
elites of Jupiter, and our own moon, were also results
of this circular motion, but in what manner it is not
now our object to investigate.
Confining now our attention to our own globe, when
the separation of sun, planets, and satellites was com
plete, and our earth was pursuing its diurnal and annual
revolutions, there remained a portion of this gnseous,
highly attenuated matter near, but not absolutely at
tached to the earth; following it as the smoke appears
to follow the chimney of the steamboat; being, in fact,
to the earth precisely what the tail is to the comet, only
shorter and Ipss dense. This gaseous matter is thecanse
of the Zodiacal light, for, when it is so situated as to
reflect to us the rays of the sun, wo see atrip of sunlight
illuminating myriads ofdancing motes, that would oth
erwise remain invisible. Now that the reader under
stands what the Zodial light is, wc will proceed to in
form him whero it is, and how ttffind it.
On any night during the present month, after it be
comes dark, and the moon is absent, on looking to the
West a pyramid ©flight will be sccn.tho base resting upon
the horizon, the npexj-eaching nearly to the planet Jupi
ter, winch is shining higher in the sky, in the constclla
tion Taurus. At first, it will probably be suspected J
that this pyramidal-radiance is the track ©flight linger- ;
ing in the West, after the departed sun. A continued j
watching will show thafsuoh is not the case. Thc.hours |
steal on deep into night, and yet that soft refulgence, j
closely resembling the light of the “milky way,” will he j
seen retaining its place among tha-host of heaven. It j
should not be glanced at casually, but watched car- j
ncslly : then it will be found to he ofgreater proportions
than was apparent at first sight, as-tho apex and outlines
melt into a faint gauze-like haze. The beauty of the
object will repay the slight attention required in looking
for it. The observer has only to remember the spot
where the sun went down, und in that direction the Zo
diacal light will be seen. —Memphis Daily Appeal.
Carious It evolutionary Verssi.
The following ingenious composition appeared in. a
Philadelphia newspaper many years ago. Who the an
tnor was, lam unable to-ascertain. Its peculiarity con
sists in the manner in which it may be read, viz: in
three different ways. Ist. Let the whole be read in
the order in which it is written, 2nd. Then the lines
downward on the left of each comma in every line
and 3rd, in the same manner on the right of each com
ma. By the first reading you will observe that the
Revohtlionary cause is deprecated, and lauded by the
others:
Hark! hark! the trumpet sounds, the din of war’s
alarms
O’er sens and solid grounds, doth call us all to arms ;
Who for King George doth stand, their honors soon will
shine
Their ruin is at hand, who with the Congress join:
The acts of Parliament, in them I much delight,
I hate their cursed intent, who for the Congress fight,
The Tories of the day, they are my daily toast,
They soon will sneak away, who Independence boast;
Who non-resistance hold, they have my hand and
heart.
May they for slaves be sold, who act a Whiggish part ;
On Mansfield, North and Bute, may daily blessings
pour,
Confusion and dispute, on Congress evermore ;
To North that British lord, may honors still be done,
I wish a block or cord, to General Washington.
—Historical Magazine.
A venerable maiden lady speaking of marriage, says
it’s like any other disease—while there is life, there is
hope.
COMMUNICATIONS.
[Ca?nmvnicated.]
Churches and Moderate Drinking.
The moderate use of intoxicating poisons, is the orig
inating necessity for building up prisons, poor-houses,
penitentiaries, orphan and insane asylums. The mod
erate use of these poisons, as a certain and legitimate
consequence, fills these structures to overflowing with
victims.
How eloquent the appeals from ministers of the Gos
pel for aid to sustain establishments made necessary by
the liquor traffic, and the moderale and immoderate
drinking habits of the community; but how little elo
quence do we hear from the sacred desk, especially in
our large cities, in denouncing the moderate use of in
toxicating poisons as a beverage—such moderate use
being the parent of drunkenness, and a large proportion
of the crime and poverty under which the world groans.
Mr. Editor, in the church to which I belong, I hear
constant appeals for charity, frequently to aid the miser
able victims of the intoxicating cup; hut not a word
huve I ever heard that would, in the remotest degree, dis
turb a hearer in the use of that cup that “ hiteth like a ser
pent, and stingelh like an adder.” No, notone. To my
mind, Mr. Editor, an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure. When the minister of any church uses
the “Mocker,” not caring for the pernicious example
he is setting, let the laymen of that church do their
duty. If the priest says by his example, or by his si
lence, “ Let them he pence and quietness betweecn my peo
ple,” the “ mocker” and myself, then let the people
speak out with a voice of thunder 10 this wine bibbing
priest thus: “No peace with that instrument of the
devil, whose mission is to destroy the bodies and souls
of men. Let there be war, war, war against the great
destroyer, that Christians may be redeemed ; that our
sons may not be ruined, and our daughters be saved
from the arms of a sot, a worse fate to them a thousand
times than death itself.”
At a late clerical dinner, the clergyman who gave if,
asked one of his guests, a member of his church, to take
a glass of intoxicating liquor with him; lie modestly
declined; he was pressed for his • reasons : “Why,”
said the member, “ one reason is, 1 wish to set a proper
example to the church.” Let nil men without fear be
thus faithful, and wine and beer drinking ministers as
well as laymen, will be induced to reflect, and, perhaps,
abandon their pernicious examples;
HUMOROUS,
A Soft Place.
“ I was down to see the widow yesterday,” said
Tim’s uncle, “and .she gave me backbones for din
ner. I wont down rather early in the morning :
we talked and laughed, ancl chattered and run on,
she going out and in occcasionally to see to things
till dinner was ready, when she helped me gra
ciously to backbones. Now I took it ass symp
tom of personal approbation, because everybody
knows i love backbones, and I flattered myself
she had cooked them on purpose for me. So I
grew particularly cheerful and I thought I could
see it in her too. So after dinner, while sitting
close beside the widow, I fancied we both felt
sorter comfit able like—l know I did. I felt
that I had fallen over head and ears and heart in
love with her, and I imagined, from the way she
looked, she had fallen teeth and toe-nails in love
with me. She appeared just for all the world
like she thought it was a coming, that I was a
going to court her. Presently I couldn’t help it,
I laid my hand softly on her beautiful shoulder,
and I remarked, when I had placed it there, in
my blandest tone, Tim, for I tried to throw my
whole soul in the expression, I remarked then
with my eyes pouring love, truth and fidelity
right into her, “Widow, this is the nicest, softest
place I ever had my hand in all my life.”
Looking benevolently at me, and at the same
time flushing up a little, she said in melting and
wining tones:
“ Doctor, give me your hand, and I’ll put it on
a much softer place.”
“In a moment of rapture I consented, and
taking my hand, she gent ly, very gently, Tim, and
quietly laid it on my head—and burst into a laugh
that’s ringing in my ears yet.
“Now, Tim, I hav’nt told this to a living soul
but you, and by jinks! you musn’t; but I couldn’t
hold it any longer, so I tell you ; but mind, it
musn’t go any further.”—i\ r . I r . Spirit of the Times.
*■
Waggery.—Some time ago, on the Sabbath dry,
we wended our way to one of our churches, ancl
instead of a sermon heard an address upon some
missionary or other oenevolent subject. After the
address was concluded, two brethren were sent
round with the basket for contributions. Parson
L , who was one of the basket bearers, taking
the side upon which we sat. Immediately in our
front, and upon the next seat, negligently reclined
our friend Bill II , a gentleman of infinite hu
mor and full of dry jokes. Parson L ex
tended the basket and Bill slowly shook his
head.
“Come, William, givo us something,” said the
Parson.
“ Can’t <jo it,” replied Bill.
“ Why not? Is not the cause a good one?”
“Yes; but I am not able to give any thing.”
“Peh! Poll! I know better, you must give n
better reason than that.”
“ Well, t owe too much money—l must bo just
before I am generous, you know.”
“But, William, you owe God a larger debt
than you owe any one else.”
“ That’s true parson, but then he aint pushing me
life the balance of my creditors.’’
The parson’s face got into rather a curious con
dition ancl he passed on. — THir Grass Reporter.
“Abe” Lincoln, an ex-member of Congress
from Illinois, and tho Repulican of that State,
who is anxious for the shoes of the Little Giant,
tells a story, as we learn from the Illinois papers, j
that illustrates in the best anecdotal style, his ;
appreciation of the late fight in Congress. It re- !
minds “Abe” of testimony given concerning a
fight, one of tho belligerents being liis client: !
Among the witnessess for the plaintiff was a re-;
markably talkative old fellow who was disposed j
to magnify the importance of the affair to my !
client’s disadvantage. 1t came mv turn to ques-1
tion him. “ Witness,” said I, “ you say you saw j
fight.”
“ Yes, stranger, I reckon I did.”
* “ Was it much of a tight ?” said I.
“ I'll bo darned if it Wasn’t, stranger, a right
smart fight.” * |
“ Ilowmucli'grouhddid the combatants cover?” !
“ About an acre, stranger.”
“ About an acre,” I repeated, musingly. “ Well
now witness, just tell me, vasal that just about the ;
smallest crop of a fight of’ of an acre of ground that ever !
you heard of?’*
” T.lia t ’s so stronger ; I'll hr gol darned if it wasn't.” 1
■
A person in passing by a conceited fellow, hap
pened to strike liis foot with a cane. “ You had i
better knock my. brains out, and finish me,” said
the dandy. “ I was trying to do it,” was the
quiet rejoinder.
— qq if, .
‘■IV I know what a filibuster is.”
“Well, Jpliny, what is a filibuster?”
“ It’s green clover.”
“Green what'?”
•ii clover. Cause, when Undo Jack’s j
filly foundered herself, he said a little more o’ j
that green clover would a’ busted her:—and, if I
it had, wouldn’t it b a filly buster ?”
FOREIGN _ NEWS.
The. territorial committee .of [the'Scnate have agreed
j to report a bill to organize the territory of Arixonia, with
tLr Il °U aa i 80l V h boundary, and a provision offered by
1 u,, u g , , becomi g a state, her constitution
shall be submitted to a vote of the whole people of the
territory. Mr. Green, of Mo., submitted an additional
provision that the some principles should apply to New
Mexico.
The Committe on Territories in the U. S. Senate will
report in favor of calling the new territory to be carved
out of the western halt of Utah, Nevada, instead of
“Carson.”
Late From St. Domingo.
i New York, March 11.—Late intelligence from St v
I Domingo announces that Baez still holds his own in his
: contest with Santana.
Late from Mexico.
j N£W Orleans, March 11.—The steamship Tennessee
! from Vera Cruz, which port she left on the 7th inst.,
i has arrived. She brings dates from the capital of Mex
; \c<t to the 6rh inst.
Civil war was prevailing throughout Mexico. The
?;overnment troops, near Celaya, were awaiting rein
breements. Other parties, six ihousund strong had
j fortified Celaya.
• Alvarez was in the field with three thousand cavalry,
, oppposing the new government.
The downfall of Zuloaga was considered certain.
‘tVashingtou News.
Washington,‘March 12.—1n the Senate to-day, the
Lecompton Constitution was discussed. In the House,
the Diplomatic Consular Bill was passed. Mr Harris,
of Illinois, withdrew his appeal lrom the decision of the
chair on the question of privilege.
Mormon Affairs.
| St. Locis, March 12. —Advices from Salt Lake City
to the24th January have been received. It is announced
that the Mormons are manufacturing cannon, revolvers,
powder, and the usual materials for war. A skirmish
had taken place with a party ofMormons and the picket
guard of the army, in w hich two Mormons and tour sol
diers were killed.
Bombev, Jan.‘2l.—The capture of Furruchabad and
| Fottyghur by Campbell is confirmed. After subjuga
; ting Roheland, Campbell marches on Lucknow.
Out ram was twice defeated by the Rebels at Alum
| bagh.
Nothing later had been heard from China, but the de
| tails of the last intelligence show that Canton is virtu
j ally in possession of the British.
| The accounts from India state that Gen. Outram
; had twice defeated the natives at Alumbay.
The trial of the conspirators in France had taken
place, and resulted in their conviction. Orsini, Rudis,
and Pierri have been senteneed to suffer death, and Go
mez to penal servitude for life.
The Danish Ministry has resigned.
How Cannibals F.ai tlieir Enemies.
i The following account of this semi-barbarous custom
is taken from the Honolulu (S. I.) Advertiser:
j “ Hanave ve Valley, which lies opposite the Bay, doe#
| not resemble our Hawaian valley. It is not a gentle
I slope between two hills, but a ravine with steep sides,
apparently split out from the mountains. It is, how
ever, one of the largest, most beautiful and productive of
, the many glens of Fatuhiva. This valley has recently
; been the scone of a protracted vvai between the neigh
boring tribes. • One of these contests lasted nine days,
| at the close of which the bodies of the captured dead
| were eaten. This cannibal custom prevails throughout
j the group.
They do not have a great feast over these human
| bodies, as is generally supposed to be the case, but the
| body is cut to pieces on the battle field, and each warrior
takes liis piece—an arm, a joint, a rib, according to his
merit—raises it on his gun over his shoulder and marches
home. There he balls his relations together, and they
devour the flesh—some cooking it in slices like pork,
but most eat it raw. The motive which induces them
| to cat the bodies of their enemies is revenge ; they feel
that their revenge is not satisfied until they have tasted
of their blood and flesh. When their hatred, anger and
revenge are at the highest point, and their enemy lies
dead before them, then it calumniates in the fiendish
act of eating human flesh, and we may easily imagine
i that the quivering heart that cringes and grates between
their bloody teeth, is thcswcctcst morsel that a heathen
warrior can taste. This cannibalism is confined mostly
to the older natives. The younger people appear to be
ashamed of the practice, and it is probable that beiore
many years it will be extinct among the Maraneas.
The Popular Notion of an Author.
The English papers have anew anecdote of Macau
lay. A Yorkshircman, on a railway platform, had Ba
ton Macaulay pointed out to liis notice, and upon its
being explained to him that the Baron was an author,
who was formerly known as Mr. Macaulay, he thus
gives vent to liis astonishment: “ That’s McastcrMa
cowlv, the owtlicr, is it now? We’cl, I alwa’s thowt
they look’d pael and seedy loike, and ow’t a’t elbow,
Vcnoa; but that chap’s gout a hat, and lie’s so we’e
dress’d, too—dang it, 1 shud neer a ta’en him for an
owther.
learn that on Monday last in Springfield j
| Tennessee, George Thomas killed David Porter.
i Thomas was arrested and imprisoned.
DIED, in Grccncsboro. on the 2d inst. of pleuro
] broncho-pneumonia, Mr. WM. EDGAR WALKER, in
j the 39th year of his age.
The deceased was born in Flemingsburg, Kentucky,
’ but for the last few years resided in Greenesboro, where
j lie won the respect and esteem ot its good citizens by
i his stern integrity and upright deportment. Those who
know best, testily that he was a devoted husband, a
kind father and an affectionate brother. His last illness
of three week’s duration, was marked by great suffer
ing, which he endured with patience and uncomplaining
fortitude; for jie was supported and comforted bv the
Christian Religion. Although at first he shrunk from
the approach of death, he soon became, not only recon
ciled, but anxious to depart and be with Christ. His
steady reliance on the faithfulness of a covenant-keep
ing Saviour was comforting in the highest degree, and
gave token that his “light shined brighter and brighter
unto the perfect da}’,” when his ransoned spirit gladly
took its flight to a mansion prepared for its reception.
He was a professor of religion for 22 years—most of the.
time a member of the Presbyterian Church. It is told
to his credit, in which it W’ould be well for the church
and world, il he had any imitators, that he early estab
lished a family altar in his own house, so that his family
received daily religious instruction from him, both by
precept and example. He has left an afflicted wife and
five small children to mourn his early departure. May
the God of the widows and fatherless be their portion
in time and for eternity’. We may confidently say that
he has not lived in vain; that at God’s bidding he has
repaired to his rest and eternal home, and that “ his
works have followed him there.” “Let medic the
death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.”
R. A. 11.
GREEN SUPERIOR COURT,]
March Term, 1858. j
rpiIERE will be an ADJOURNED TERM of
the Superior Court for the County of Greene, com
mencing on the FIFTH MONDAY IN MARCH ins?,
(the 29th) of which all parties concerned arc hereby no
tified.
By order of His Honor,
ROBERT V. HARDEMAN, Judge.
\ ixcext Sanford, Clerk.
March IS
A GOOD lot of SALT in new sacks.
V March 18, 1858 J. M. BOWLES.
BACON ! BACON! A fine lot of Tennessee
cured Bacon, for sale bv J. M. BOWLES.
March 18, 1858
! — — -■ ■ ■ - ■ .—— . . i , .ii.wh... . ,
GREENE COUNTY.—W her ea s
. Horace Nceson, sr. guardian of 11, Neeson, jr. tie
tit Kills this Court for Letters Dismissorv from said guar
uianship: ‘ w
It is therefore ordered that all persons concerned be
and appear at the next May term of this Court, to
show cause why said guardian should not be discharged.
And it is inrther ordered, that this rule be published for
■orty days in terms of tho law.
I A true extract from the minutes of said Court, March
! 9t v lß; 'f- EUGENIUS L. KING, Ordinary.
March 18 .jod
1 rjEOHGIA, GREENE COUNTY.—Whereas
i A. 11. Randle, guardian of Eugenius A. Whitaker,
petitions this Court for Letters Dis>nissory from said
guardianship:
It is therefore ordered that all persons concerned, bo
and appear at the Court of Ordinary; lo be held in and
■ for said count)’, on the first Monday in May next, to
: s how'cause, (if any they have) why said guardian should
; not then lie discharged.
■ Ordered, further, lhaf a copy of this rule be published
ior forty days, in terms of the law.
A true extract from the minutes of said Court, March
3d, 1858. EUGENIUS L. KING, Ord’y. A
March 18, 1858 40d
Georgia* greexe county.—whereas
John M. Howell applies for Letters of Administru->
; tion upon the estate of John J. Howell, late of said
I county, deceased: •
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and sin
gular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to HT
and appear at the Court of Ordinary to be held in anti
for said county on tho first Monday in May next, to
show cause (if any they have) why said letters should
not then be granted.
Given under my hand at office iu Greenoeboro, March
9th, 1858 EUGENIUS L. KING, Ordinary.
March 18 30d