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JOHN H. SEALS, NEW SERIES, VOLUME HI. £|e Cemptwt fasabcr. Published every Thursday in the year, except two. • —• •♦• “ / TERMS: Two Dollar* per year, in atlvaucr. o£U£lt&> £&3lO®BSa Clubs of Ten Names, by sending the Cash, will receive ihe paper at - - - - $1 50 copy. Clubs of Five Names, at 180 “ Any person sending us Five new subscribers, inclo sing the money, shall receive an extra copy one year tree of cost. ADVERTISING DIRECTORY: Rates of Advertising: 1 square, (twelve lines or less,) first insertion, $1 00 “ Each continuance, 50 Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding six lines, per year, 5 00 Announcing Candidates for Olfice, 3 00 Standing Advertisements: Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions, will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. Druggists and others, may contract for advertising by the year on reasonable terms. Legal Advertisements : Sale of Land or Negroes, by Administrators, Ex ecutors and Guardians, per Square, 5 00 Sale of Personal Property, by Administrators, F.x ecutors and Guardians, per square, 3 25 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 25 Notice for Leave to Sell, 4 00 Citation for Letters of Administration, _ 2 75 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Adm'n, 500 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guard'p, 325 Legal Requirements: Sales of Land and Negroes by Administrators, Exec utors or Guardians, are required, by law, to be held on the First Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house door of the county in which the property is situate. Notices of these sales must be given in a pub lic Gazette, forty days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the salo of Personal Property must be given at least ten days previous to the day of sale. Notices to Debtors and Creditors of an estate, must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court ot Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be pub lished weekly for two months. Citations for Letters of Administration, must be pub lished thirty days —for Dismission from Administration monthly, six months —for Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly, for four months —for compelling titles from Ex ecutors or Administrators, where a bond has been issued by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued according tq these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or- • qereil JOHN A. REYNOLDS,Publisher. Hiayv)> ■ I. “ 1 ‘ ■■■ r'-n.n.— ,.mmm wmm, wmm* DRS. COE & LATIMER would inform their friends and patients that one of the firm will constantly remain in Greenesboro’, and that the other will be found in the following places at the times specified below: White Plains, from March Ist to March 14ih. Mount Zion, “ “ 15th to “ 28th. Oxford, “ April 12th to April 25th. Penfield, “ “ 2Gth to May 9th. As this time table will be strictly adhered tq, those who call parly will be most likely to receive attention. Fpb 35t!t, ISqS The firm of j. m. bowles & co. is this day dissolved by mutual consent, Wm. 13. Seals retiring. The business will be continued by I. M. Bowles at the same stand, where he will keep, at all times, a full supply of Family Groceries, and will be ready and wjHipg tq serve his friends at very Short J’ro- JH* far the CASH, * J, M. BOWLES, Feb 25 WM. B. SEALS. JUST RECEIVED! A Large Stock of Family Groceries! CONSISTING OF All Grades Sugar and Coffee ; Fine Syrups and Molasses ; Good Apple Vinegar; Rice; Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Mackerel; A large lot of Hydraulic Candles, which can be • bought exceedingly low; A variety of Pic-ltles i Maocaroni; Sago ; Currants ; Raisins and Candies > TdMe'Salt; soda ; Pepper and Spices ; Chewing and Smoking Tobacco ; Pipes ; Any quality of a Cigar ; Large lot of Jar Snuff; AU qualities qf Soap; Drugs and Patent Medicines j choice lot. By wav of remark, I would say to the citizens and vi cinity of Penfield, that I am giving this business my un divided attention ; and if they will give me a liberal pa tronage, I will save them the TROUBLE and EX PENSE of going farther. Penfield, Ga. March 9, 1857. J. M. BOWLES. LOST OR STOLEN. ALT. persons are forewarned against trading for the following notes : A note; cn \\ in F Lubkte for aeyentteii pqflafg apt} Forty Cdnife, elated in April or May last, and due the twenty fifth December thereaf * ter ; one on Wm Moore for Twelve Dollars and Twen ty-five Cents, dated in May or June last, and due the twenty.fifth December thereafter; one on David Phelps of Hancock county for Twenty Dollars, dated iu March last and due from date ; and one on John Mitchell of Mount Zion for Seventeen Dollars Twelve and a-half cents, dated in April last, and due the twenty-fifth of December thereafter. The above notes were made payable to the subscriber as guardian of free boys Jerry and Ben ; and the rna -1 ers of the same arp requested to pmke payment to’no j hwrsoh eiiqepf myself or niy order! THOMAS D. SANFORD, j Greenesboro’, March 4, 1858. rpRUSTEE’S SALE.----In pursuance of an A order of the Honorable Rob’t V. Hardeman, Judge of the Oemulgee circuit, made at the March Term of Greene Superior Court, 1858, will be sold at public out cry, before the courthouse in Greene county, Georgia, on the first Tuesday in JUNE next, within the legal hours of public sales, a certain tract of land, containing one humlied and fifty acres, situated in said county, on tjie waters of Town Creek, and, adjoining lands of my- j LfttVestate of Maytin Tiller and others. Sold lor’ tile Benefit of the wife ahd children (if Samuel Patrick. Also,'at the saine time and place, and by virtue of a j similar order, wiH be sold, in like manner, a certain tract of land, situate in said county, containing one lmn- ! dred acres, more or less, and adjoining land of A. B. Sharp and others, whereon Samuel Pniriek now lives — said last named tract sold for the benefit of the wife and child of Leonard Peek. Terms on the day of sale. * S. T. PEEK, , Trustee for wife and children of Samuel Patrick. S. T. PEEK, Trustee for wife and child of Leonard Peck. April 1, 1858-tds > Medicul- College. rpHE Fourth Course of LECTURES in JL this Institution, will commuter, on the Ist Monthly in May next, and continue four months. Faculty: ]{. W. BK 0 WN.M D Professor of Anutomy ; JOHN W. JONES, AID Prof of Principles and Prac tice of Medicine; W. F. WESTMORELAND, MD Professor of Prin ciples and Practice of Surgery ; THOMAS S. PO WELL, MD Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children ; ALEX. MEANS, AID Professor-of Chemistry and . Pharmacea ; JOSEPH P. LOGAN, AID Professor.,of Physiology j aud General Pathology ; J. G. WESTMORELAND, M D Professor of Materia Medica and Medical Jurisprudence ; T. C. H. WILSON, AID Demonstrator of Anatomy. Fees; For the Course of Lectures • 1105 00 Matriculation 5 00 Dissecting Ticket (taken once) 00 i _ Graduation 25 00 •, The increased facilities in the departments of Anato- ; my, Surgery and Chemistry, afforded by amplcandwell | adapted rooms in the New College Building, make these branches of study much more entertaining than hereto’ fore. “The Dissectir|r Ro6'fn, situated in the upper story of the building, apd fiirrt'fshed with skylight, will he opened and supplied with sound and inoffensive subjects ‘fjdbd board can he had in the city at $3 to 4 per week. For further information address April l-st* J. G. WESTMORELAND, Peon. ■ i .'./'v !WASHING MACHINE. THE subscribers,having purchased from the inventor the right to manufacture and sell BROWN’S j ROTARY WASHING MACHINE in a number of ; counties in Georgia, desire to introduce it to the notice i of the public, and confidently claim for it the following i advantages: Ist. It will do more work in less time, than any other • machine in use. 2d. It will cleanse clothes and leave them entirely i free from dirt, ready for boiling and rinsing, in fiotn 10 I to 30 minutes. 3d. It will wash the finest or coarsest fabrics, from j muslins to blankets, equally well, and will not injure l the most delicate textures. 4th. It can be operated successfully by a 10 year old boy. sth. It is so simple in structure, that should it need repair, the most common workman can do it; and, fith. It will, with ordinary care, last 10 years, j It needs only a fi.ir trial to test its merits, and any one I using it will be satisfied that it economizes time, labor j ! and money. Orders tor these machines, addressed to : I the undersigned at While Plains, Greene county, Ga. j ! will meet with prompt attention; and they will be de j livered at any point the purchaser may choose. Respectfully. WM. T. ALFRIEND & CO. j i Madison, Ga Sept 1 6th, 1857. Messrs Hightower &, Alfriend: I have bee.t using j the washing machine of Brown’s patent, which I bought 1 of you about four months. It has fully come up to your recommendation, and far surpassed my expecta- : tions. • : v For •rdinary washing, it is certainly a great labor- j saving contrivance; but for washing heavy bed clothing, i carpets and other clothing so difficult to wash by liana, j it certainly will be an indispensable article in every fa- . mily where its merits have been fully tested. I thins, i however, that the most valuable recommendation of the j machine is, that it washes all kinds of fabrics with much less damage than can be done by the most careful hands i in the ordinary way, which, to any ordinary family, > would save the price of the machine in one year. I wish you success in introducing your machine, • which is certainly no humbug. Yours very respectfully, C. B. BARRON, j Sparta, Jan. 13, 1858. ! l)r. Alfriend: i Peak tint—Your Washing Machine that 1 pur- ; chased from you at our fair performs admirably well. My wash-woman, a free woman of color, says she would \ not take SIOO.OO for it, if she could not get another. For bedclothes, it surpasses anything I ever saw, and one- ! third of hard labor is saved. Yours, S. G. JOHNSTON, j Greenesboro’, March 25th, 1858. 1 Messrs. W. L. Alfriend (J- Cos : Gents—We have used one of Brown’s patent ! Washing Machines, and are satisfied that it is a sav- | ing of at least one-third of the time and labor, say noth ing of (he saving of the clothes. Yours, Respectfully, J. F. ZIMMERMAN, B. F. GREENE. White Plains, Ga. March 22d, 1858. We, the undersigned, do hereby certify that we have been using Brown’s Rotary Washing Machine tor the j last eight or ten months, and take pleasure in recoin mending it to the public as an instrument that will, in I a very short time, refund its cost in the saving of time, j luborand the clothes. WM. J. MAPP, I E. D. ALFRIEND, i A. B. TAPP AN, I 8. V. ALFRIEND, | MARION McDANIEL. ! C. E. GRANT, ‘ A. GRANT, JOHN H. ELEY, SAMUEL GENTRY, 1 . I. D. MOORE, ROUT. U. JACKSON. ! Oxford, Ga. Sept 28th, 1857. I most cheerfully state, that having used one of Brown’s Washing Machines,” now manufactured and sold by Hightower & Alfriend, White Plains, Ga. I am more than pleased with its performance. Mrs. Thomas would not, on any account, be deprived of it; and our servants, who are interested in the labor, are more de lighted than ourselves. Brown’s Washing Machine docs its work well, s.tves more than than half the lime, and the labor is so light that a small boy may work it without milch fatigue. I will add, that Professors Sasnett and Williams’ fa milies arc equally well pleased with these machines, both having used them, as we have done, for several months. We think them superior to any tiling o.f th. 9 sort that we have ever seen in cqteyalion. 1 ’ J. r: THOMAS, I hays bepn ysing, iu my family, “ Brown’s Patent Washing Machine,” for several months, and pan say, without exaggeration, that compared with the usual method of washing clothes hy hand, it saves three fourths the time and labor, and possesses the additional advantasto of not wearing out the clothes so much. MILES W. LEWIS. White Plains, Ga. August 29, 1857 The undersigned takes pleasure in stating that his family have had in use for some time, one ol‘ Brown’s Patent Washing Machines, and that it has given perfect satisfaction in all respects—especially in saving labor and time, washing thoroughly, and in not injuring the clothes at all. JOSEPH A. EVE. Augusta, Aug. 17. 1857. April 1, 1858’ 3m HHHE SUBSCRIBER IS rfQW QBEOHttii A a nice stock c£ Bpring and Summer Goods, to which the attention of the citizens of Penfield and vicinity is respectfully invited. The styles of the sea son are unusually handsome and prices very reasonable. An early call will be highly appreciated. Penfield, March 25th Wm. B. SEALS. Fresh cranberries and currants. March 25 J. M. BOWLES. ORANGES AND LEMONS. March 25 ~ 3. M. BOWLES. NOTICE. —The copartnership heretofore exist ing between THOMAS MILLER AND JAMES F. HAL Launder the style of MILLER &, HALL, by mutual consent, has been this day dissolved. The notes and accounts due the firm arc in the hands of F. C. Ful ler, Esq. for adjustment. Greenesboro’, March 20th, 1858. THOMAS MILLER. March 25-3 t. JAMES H. HALL. BACON! BACON! A fine lot of Tennessyg cured Bacon, for sale by J. M. BOWLES. March 18, 1858 TIPS KOHINOOR OUT-DONE. I Tliis celebrated diamond was for a long time : | supposed to be tlie largest known diamond in the I j world, but it has lately transpired that there is ; ! one in the possession of Mr. G. 1\ Matthews, of ■ Virginia, more than two-fifths larger and more j valuable —its weight being 144 carats, while that of the Kohinoor is only 100. The editor of the , Cincinnati Gazette to whom Mr. Matthews exhib ited this precious jewel, states that it was found by Mr. M’s father, in the gold mines in Bucking t ham county, Va. about seventy years since. It has remained in the rough state ever since, until a few weeks ago, (yften Mr, M. being satisfied by . every test that it was in reality a diamond, took it to New York and had it dressed. It is surpass j ingly brilliant, particularly when viewed by gas ; light. Its estimated value is two millions of dol lars. Mr. Matthews says that he lias been offered for it twenty-four thousand pounds. There have been several diamonds found in the gold regions of Virginia. Last year one found in i that, locality was sold at Richmond for $4.500. — : Norfork Herald. ELECTION OF*DOGES IN VENICE, t In a recent lecture, Dr. Baird gave the follow . mg descrintioH of the manner of electing the Doge of Venice, who was chosen for life: When ! a Doge died, the nobles who had a right to vote for a successor, assembled before the Doge’s pal ; ace, in the Piazza of St. Mark, and as many balls as there were voters were put in an urn. Among these balls there were thirty that were called “ the golden balls .” lively nobleman then went up to : the urn and took up a ball. Os course, thirty of ! them received the thirty golden balls. Then i, these thirty were reduced by lot to nine, and : these nine chose forty ; these forty were reduced ; by lot to twelve, and these twelve, choftC twenty -1 five : then these twenty-five were reduced again to nine, and these nine chose forty-five; then i these forty-five were reduced to eleven, and these ’ eleven chosp forty-one, and they ©looted the Doge. ; pop this purpose they were shut up in the palace ; and maffe to stay there till they had succeeded , in making a choice, in- doing which twenty-five ; votes out of forty-one were necessary. - “ t THE ADOPTED OHOAN OF ALE THE TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATE. CLAUDE PERCY. BY MARY eAbRYAX. He was a strange, proud boy; his youthful brow Wore all the haughty beauty of a Prince; The scorn of years was on his curling lip, ■ And a deep thoughtfulness beyond his age, Dreamed in his dark blue eyes. lie moved among His youthful comrades, heedless of their mirth, Caring but little for their boyish sports; j llis laugh chimed not with their’s in careless glee. ; He looked upon them with a cold disdain, j Or oftener with that listless, dreamy gaze ! Haunting the unfalhomed depths of his dark eyes; | Yet, I have seen him smile— and such a smile .’ : If you have watched, after long days of storm, j The sun burst forth in splendor from the clouds, i And light with sudden glory the dim sea j And rocky shores, then, you may fancy how i That radiant smile lighted with transient glow | The pale, dark beauty ofhis thouglpful brow. ; lie made no friends; no look of tenderness j Softened and humanized his cold, proud eyes; j He never sought for love or sympathy, ! Unless it were from nature ; he would cull | From the damp brook-side, the sweet meadow flowers, j And place them in his bosom ; he would lie t For hours beneath the shade of feathery pines, ; With the soft sunlight faintly falling through, ! And gaze up at the far, blue sky, or list * • With dreamy joy to the low warbled song : Os birds that sang themselves lo sleep ; but ne’er j Seemed he to wish lor human intercourse; : Yet, there was one—one only feeling that ! Could thrill his soul, and bid the burning blood Rush with a feverish throbbing to his heart. There was one spirit that wove her potent spells j,Of ’wildering beauty round his willing soul, “Whose hot breath seemed to fan his brow in sleep— j Coloring his midnight dreams, whose thrilling voice j Spoke in ihe tempest and the breath of spring. The haughty spirit who, amid her train j Os worshippers, has heroes, conquerors, bards; And on the “red-leaved volume of their hearts” ! Engraves her name in characters of fire, j This spirit of ambition fixed her seal ; Upon the high brow of that fiifted boy, . And nerved his young heart when he bent at night • Above tiie musty tomes of ancient lore, j Or fired his restless soul with burning thirst j For high and grand achievements, ’till he felt A strength almost omnipotent—a strength ; No bold and reckless, that he could have dared j To pluck God’s stars and purple clouds from Heaven, Aftd bind the lightnings with restraining hand. j And so lie grew to manhood; and I watched j His brilliant course as I had watched before ; A meteor’s blazing path athwart the Heavens, ! Knowing the end must come; and yet I loved The man, as 1 had loved the gifted boy, j Though well I knew no thought of tenderness i Might over stir the pulses of that heart Wrapt in ambition’s wild, bewildering dream; That the low mourning of the wooing dove Might never check the eagle’s soaring flight. “Those whom the god s love all die young,” and so My heart sank with a cold foreboding when I looked upon the slender form that shrined A spirit so strong—so dauntless and so bold ; ; And when into his cheek there stole a flush, ! Like the red glow that autumn paints tire leaves. Sure presage of decay—l knew my fears Would prove prophetic, that the fiery soul Would burn to ashes its clay tenement. Enough! he died in the first brilliant bloom Os early manhood, and men spoke of him Asa blight star swept darkly from tho skv, As it had risen above the horizon. Coldly their comments fell upon my ear,’ And life seemed vain, and music, sunlight, flowers, Lost their sweet charm forever, and I knew Mv heart was buried in that distant grave, Which FTnay never moisten with my tears. Thomasville. THE SONG OF STEAM. UV C'Al’T. C. W. COTTER. Harness me down with your iron bands, Be sure of your curb and rein, For I scorn the power of your busy handq As the tempest scorns a chain! llow 1 laughed, as I lay concealed from sight. For manv a countless pour, At. the childish boast oi human might, Ani> <3?,a prtii;e of human power. When k saw- an army upon the land, A navy upon the seas, Creeping along, a snail,like band, Qr waiting the wayward breeze— When I marked the peasant fairly reel With the toil he faintly bore, As he feebly turned the tardy \vheel, Or tugged at the weary oar— When 1 measured the panting courser’s speed, The flight of the courier dove, As they bore the law a king decreed, Or the lines of impatient love, I could not but think how the world would feel, As these were outstripped afar; When 1 should be bound to the rushing keel, Or chained to the Hying ear. 11a! ha ! ha! they found me at last; “ ‘ They invited forth at length ; And, I rushed to my throne with a thunder blast, 4 n d laughed in my iron strength! O ! then ye saw a wondrous change On the earth and ocean wide, Where now my fiery armies range, Nor wait for wind and tide. Hurrah! hurrah! the waters o’er, The mountains steep decline; Time—space—have yielded to my power ; The world—the world is mine ! The rivers, the sun hath’earliest blest, Orthos? where his beams decline ; The giant streams of the queenly West, And the orient floods divine. The ocean pales where e’er I sweep, To hear my strength rejoice ; And the monsters of the briny deep Cower, trembling at my voice. I carry the wealth and the lord of earth, The thoughts of his God-like mind; The wind lags after my flying forth— The lightning is left behind. In the darksome depths efthe fathomless mine I\ly fireless arm <\Qth play; Wheys the rook’s never saw the sun’s decline, Oir the dawn of the glorious day. I bring the earth’s glittering jewels up From the hidden caves below ; And I make the fountain’s granite cup With a crystal gusli o’erflow. I blow the bellows, I forge the steel, In all the shops of trade ; I hammer the ore, and turn the wheel Where my arms of strength are made. I manage the furnace, the mill, the mint, T carry, I spin, I weave; And all my doings I put into ptinj. On every Saturday eve. I’ve no muscles to weary, no. breast to decay, No bones Ui be “laid On the shelf;” 4nd socm I intend you may “ go and play,” While I manage this world myself. But harness me down with your iron hands, Be Sure of your curb and feign; For I scorn the strengt h of your puny hands, Asa tempest, scorns'a chain ! Tlic Flap; of our ITnion. * 33Y QEO. V. MORRIS. * “ A song lor our banner?”—The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her station: “United we stand —divided we fall! ” It made and preserves us a nation! The union of lakes —the union of lands— The union of states none ran sever— The union of hearts—the union of hands— And the Flag- of the Union forever And ever ? The Flag of our Union forever 1 What Godin his wisdom and mercy designed, And armed with his weapons of thunder, Not all the earth’s despots and factions combined. ; Have the power to conquer or sunder! The union of lakes—the union of lands — The union of states nope can sever— The union of hearts—tfie union of hands— And the Flag of the Union ferever Ana ever! The Flag of our Union forever! Qh keep that Hag flying!—The pride of the van To all other nations display it. The ladies for union are all top— mm L. But not to’thcman who’d betray it. Then the union of takes —the union oflamls— The union of states none can sever— The union of hearts—the union of handa— And the Flag of the Union forever And ever! The Flag of our Union forever! PENFIELD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 185 8. Florence Nightingale andElisha Kent H-tin*'. An Extract from a Lecture delivered at Ihe Lyceum, Burlington, “ On Woman as she Ought to be.” BY COL. JAMES W. WALT,. That quality in each sex, which is in some measure alien to it, should commonly be kept in subordination to that which is the natural inmate. The softness in the man ought to be latent, as the waters lay hid within Horeb’s rock, to issue only at some heavenly call. The courage of woman should sleep as the light sleeps in the pearl, only to Hash forth when the warm and generous feelings of the soul give the polish, and evoke the celes tial radiance. Paris compared with Hector sinks into merited con tempt; and Joan of Arc, with all her martial achieve ments and devoted patriotism, is less lovely in our eyes, and will be.,in the eyes of future generations, than that gentle maiden of our own time, bearing a name that is the synonym of all that is gracious and lovely—the name of Florence Nightingale. She who left a wealthy, hap py home, with all its genial associations, and all its luxurious comforts, closing the door against those social attractions her varied accomplishments enabled her so well lo appreciate—going to a country where everything spoke of. suffering, deprivation and death—filling, with the light of her beautiful presence, the dark wards of Scutari’s hospital—gliding, like a ministering angel, along the corridors of that asylum of suffering and pain, or holding up the head, and bathing the death damps from the brow of the agonising sufiercr, as the glancing steel of the tired surgeon lopped offlimb alter limb, or probed the deep and tender recesses of nerves and mus cles, where the vagrant bullet had buried itself out of sight. Surely, if there was bravery in dashing up the Alma, or breasting the wall of steel and fire against which that handful of brave English cavalry hurried itself at Bala klava —the fore casting heroism, the contempt for every peril, the self-sucriticing spirit and heavenly graces of this sweet lady, rank yet higher in all those qualities that adorn human nature, and almost “lift a mortal to the skies.” Florence Nightingale! a most charming name, linked to the holiest of natures, and the loveliest of women: “That name is synonym of truth and love ; As from the dark and frozen pole is given That wondrous light to arch the lace of heaven, Serene and brilliant o’er the Arctic snows Its modest radiance, blushing as it goes; So from Crimea’s woes, and war’s dark dime, A moral light has flashed to every clime— The gentle roseate rays of woman’s love Once more reflected from its source above.” Such is the picture ofbrave, heroic, but gentle woman. Shall I sketch for you a manly heart, that had all the gentle tenderness of woman’s holiest nature { Go with me to Where the frozen pole remains unbroken still, As when in earth’s first infancy ’twas frozen by His will, and stand by the side of that fearless youth, “Who bore ’mid snow and ice That banner with the heart’s device— Humanitas ’Tisin the dark midnight of an Arctic winter as he slunds by those icy mounds that cover the remains of some of those lie had left the comforts and endearments of home to rescue—that lie pours out his grief, as his manly heart runs over with its own fulness—a heart which was as a lion’s, brave, but solt and gentle as that which beats within the heaving bosom of the ten derest of women. He sought the living, and he found the dead; and, stricken with the fierce disease engendered by the ex posure and hardships he had encountered by his self denying humanity, he returns to die beneath the bright and glowing sky of the tropics, and hearing the solemn hymn of death as it was borne to him through an at mosphere fragrant with flowers, and watched over by a mother’s holiest love — “ Still grasping, in his hand of ice, The banner with the heart's device — Humanitas “There, in the twilight soft and gray, Lifeless but beautifully lie lay ; And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star — Humanitas Docs ticks gets Married. We’ve taken a partner for life, and I’ve got a wife. In my room a pair of brown gaiters occupy the corner where our boot-jack used to hang, and we flatter our selves that I’ve made a good bargain in the exchange. I now take a renewed interest in the piece of beef, and we bully our butcher with the air. of a respectable mar ried man. We buy my potatoes now myself, and we are not to be bamboozled out of my spare ehange by any body. But lam not a “malefactor,” and I did not go ■on a “ train.” We have finished all my “ trains,” and I henceforth claim for ourself the name of a correct and sober individual. Beer we will not take into my mouth, and our lips shall be sealed when the festive “cocktail” would tempt me to indulge, nor shall the social “cob bler,”or the genial “julep,” or the seductive “ smash” induce me to fracture our resolution. Ourself is the best judge of the proprieties of mv domestic life. Triangle, avaunt! Jones, get thee behind me! Mare weight, arint thee! Tying, my jolly joker, not even with thee will I take our accustomed “ nip.” “H. W. 8.,” we esteem thee as my friend and our jocose con tributor, but thou and I, Henry, have taken our last “ swig ” from your little private wicker bottle. Denia nico’s shall know us no more, and at Mataran’s shall I never again comfort ourself with my midday sherry which did so much refresh us. Depart from us, Arnold! tempt me not. We are now a Benedict, and I am determined to be come respectable, steady and serious. I have invented an anti-bachelor’s multiplication table, which we have learned by heart, and which I commend to the careful consideration of our readers : Twice two “smashes” buys a box of hair pins. Twice three “cobblers” buys a pair of earrings (cheap.) Twice four “lagers” buys a pair of gloves (female.) Twice five “juleps” buys a breast pin, (female.) Twice six “punches” buys a linen collar, (female.) Twice seven “ales” buys a pair of shoes, (female.) Twice eight “toddies” buys a calico dress, with cloth enough for a basque and pantalettes. Twice nine “bitters” buys a summer bonnet, (and leaves a trifle towards the vail and trimmings.) Twice ten “sangarees” buys a pair of stays, (ma chine-stitched, with patent eyelets and embroidered down the neck.) Twice eleven “slings” buys a collar and undersleeves; (and leaves a balance towards the fringe.) Twice twelve “brandy straights” are good fora hooped skirt, flight-houso size,) two pairs of long stock ings, anda silk parasol. And soon through, ending up with— Twelve limes twelve baskets of champagne pays house rent, for a year, and leaves a margin. It is astonishing how much I’ve learned of the mys ttqies) of feotanine apparel in ten days. I know that the dear creatures trim their bonnets with foundation mus lin; that it takes three breadths and a half to make a dress, and the lower edge of their white skirts is always hcin-s‘itched wi'h lace-work. Good-bye, Bachelordom. We are a married individ ual, though still, as ever, with a considerable reserva tion. Yours, Doesticks, P. B. The Wants of the Age. Tlte child of a year old wants little but food and sleep; and no sooner is he supplied with sui ficient allowance of either of those very excellent things, than lie begins whimpering or yelling it may be for the other. At three, the young urchin becomes enamored of sugar plums, apple pies and confectionery. At six his imagination runs on kites, marbles and tops and an abundance of play time. At ten, the boy wants to leave school, and have nothing to do hut go bird-nesting and black berry hunt ing. At fifteen, ho wants a beard and a watch, and a paiy of Wellington boots. At twenty, he wishes to cut a figure and ride horsesf some times his thirst for display breaks out in dandy ism, and sometimes in poetry; lie wants sadly, to be in love, takes it for granted that all the ladies aro dying for him. The young man ol twenty five wants a wife; and at thirty, ho longs to be single again. From thirty to forty, he wants to be rich, and thinks more of making money than spending it. About this time, also, he dabbles in politics and wants office. At fifty, be wants excellent dinners and capital wine, and considers a nap in the afternoon indispensable. Ihe re spectable old gentleman of sixty, wants to retire from business with a snug independence ot three or four thousand, to marry his daughters, set up his sons, and live in the country ; and then for the rest of his life he wants to be young again. i ■ - /teTThis is no longer a broken column,. A Startling Confession. Morcleica Paine, a saddler doing business in North Ninth street, was cal ed home from his work shop on Saturday morning, by a messenger who brought the melancholy intelligence that his wife, Earbary, had taken arsenic, for the purpose of committing suicide, and was then at the point of death, lie hastened to her bedside, and found her in more agony of mind than. body. She de clared that there was something on her mind which she wished to confess to him before her de parture, with the hope of obtaining his forgive ness. Mr. Paine, with great emotion, desired her to go on with the disclosure, adding that she might be sure of his forgiveness before she had made known her offense. “ Ah, Mordecai,”said she, “you remember our large white pitcher was broken some time ago ; I pretended to you that the cat broke it, but it was false for I myself did it.” “Oh, ray dear,” said Mr. Paine, “pon’tconcern yourself about such a trifle. I had forgotten the pitcher, and it matters not liow it was broken.” “There is another matter,” ssid Mrs. P\ after some hesitation. “ The six silver spoons which 1 made you believe were stolen by the Yankee clock mender, I pawned them to raise money to pay the milliner for doing up my pink satin bon net.” “Never mind it my love, ’’ said Mr. Paine, en couragingly. “ I hope heaven will forgive vou as freely as I do.” After a short pause Mrs. P. began again: “Your best razor which you missed last sum mer and made so much to do about, I swapped it away to a pedlar for a tortoise shell comb.” “The duee!—well, well,” said Mr. P.,recollect ing himself, “that is all done now, and can’t be mended. Think no more of it.” “ I could not leave the world with such a thing on my conscience,” replied the fair penitent. “Go on, go on,” cried Mr. Paine: “I told you that 1 should forgive everything at such a time as this.” Mrs. P. resumed: “ You remember our boarder, .Simeon Drake, who ran up a bill lor six weeks, and then went off in a hurry without paying a cent ? He and I had agreed to elope together; but he changed his mind at the last moment, and ran away with out me.” “Fire and fury! do you dare to tell me this?,’ cried Mordecai, in great excitement. “But, as you are dying, I won’t reproach you. I’ll leave you now to settle the affair with your own con science.” “Stay and hear one thing more,” cried the re pentent Barbara. “The dose I took this morning was intended for you. I put it into your coffee, but, in my hurry to get the thing done, I gave you the wrong cup and took the right one “my self.” “The devil fly away with you, you jade!” roared Mordecai, as he flung himself out of the room. In the entry he met the apothecary who had sold Mrs. P. the fatal powder. This medical man had heard of tho commotion at Paine’s house, and suspecting the cause of it, lie came to administer hope and comfort to the afflicted. “Don’t be alarmed, Mr. Paine,” said lie, “the drug I sold your wife was nothing but magnesia. Ijvdged that she wished to destroy herself, and I tricked her in this way to save her life.” “ You swindling rascal, shouted Paine, liow dare you cheat a customer in that shameful man ner, and obtain her money on false pretences? Begone!” And with this exclamation he violently ejected the astonished apothecary from his front door. The man of the physic, suspecting of course, that poor Mordecai was deranged, sent two officers to provide for his safe keeping. His relation of the proceeding dialogue, however, soon obtained his discharge. —l V< iladclphia J\ess. HORRIBLE WIFE MURDER. About two years ago Mr. Stafford, of Maine, ar rived at Mendota in Illinois, with liis daughter, a blooming gil lof sixteen. Geo. 11. Lamb, a res pectable hotel keeper of the place became ac quainted with her. The two formed an attach ment and were married in November, 1850. By Lamb’s request, however, she remained with her father until last December, when he desired her to accompany him on a trip South. She left her father’s house in his company. A few weeks af ter lie returned alone, in deep morning; he said his wife had sickened and died in this city, where he had buried her. Desiring to mark her grave with a tomb stone, Mr. Stafford obtained the name of the attending physician, and the street and number of the house where the death took place. These were readily given by Lamb, who named Dr. Johnson, on Jefferson street, near the Commercial Hotel, as the attending physician. That gentleman was written to, when he replied that he was not prac tising a general business, but was an aurist and occulist; also, that no such street, number or boarding house as those inquired for were to be found in Memphis, and that the mortuary records of the city showed that no such person as the one described, had died here at the time named. While this was proceeding, and two weeks af ter the reported death of the lady, Lamb had contracted a second marriage with Miss Sarah Shortleff, of Mcndota. Suspicion was now arous ed. It was next discovered that Lamb, in De cember last, offered a person a thousand dollars to poison a woman he was living with in St. Louis. He said the poison was only wanted to produce miscarriage, lor the woman was not his wife. This woman was Mr. Stafford’s daughter, and she was not enclcnte. Lamb was arrested and sent to St. Louis for trial. lie is a native of the State of New York, thirty-five years of age, of good character, and owns property to the amount of five thousand dollars. It now comes out that he married a woman in Lee county, Missouri, some years ago, and that she is still living. Since his arrest, Lamb has confessed that on the 17th of last December, he, in company with his wife and two men, whom he had paid for the purpose, went on the Mississippi in a skiff; when a short distance below St. Lewis, they held her over the side of the boat and Lamb forcibly held her head under the icater until she was dead. A heavy rock was then tied to the body, which was by that means sunk in the river. Lamb has desired to see a clergyman daily ; he says life is a burden and he is willing to submit to the sentence of the law. TREACHERY. “How did you learn all this?” asked one per son of another, who had been detailing a long his tory of a third individual’s imperfections. ‘•Oh! you kno'.y we two are intimate friends. She tells me all her affairs, and asks me to ad vise her on all occasions. It wouldn’t do to let her know what I’ve told you. You, of course, understand this : but you seemed to have such an exalted opinion of her, that I thought it would be only fair to let you know that she’s no nearer perfection than you and I are.” “1 believe you profess to be attached to her, don’t yon?” “Oh, yes ; why she believes that 1 love her bet ter than almost anybody in the world. She can’t keep any thing secret from me. “Why, don’t you think I got her to own up upon the whole ofthat affair just by a little extra show of affectionate interest in her. Edwards, whose - interest it wfis to have her in .his power, requested me to try and discover the truth of the matter, and I did so without the least difficulty.” “Then, in reality, you dislike Mrs. , do you?” “Why, bless you! no—not at all. Indeed, I ra ther like her. She is so unaffectedly kind and generous-hearted, and then she is so delightfully easy to manage. J should be quite lost without her.” “And yet you betrayed her into the hands of one who is at heart, as you well know, her enemy, and have just now been revealing many of her faults to me. May the Lord deliver he from such a friend.” / Who does not echo that wish ? What a detes table spirit is that which leads man or woman to worm into the secret heart of another, only to be tray the confidence of which they become pos sessed. t Yet, how many are the creatures in human shape who make it a constant practice thus to play Judas.— N. Y. Ledger . EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. VOL. XXIV. NUMBER* 13 A Spanish Beauty. —What a pretty picture “ the senorita,” our landlord’s daughter, made while she knelt near one of the great pillars, her hands clasped together, her large dark eyes almost closed as she looked demurely down with their long lashes sweeping her cheek—the cheek through whose clear, pale brow, there rushed a bright carmine, fluctuating with each changing emotion. And over her small shaped head, with its masses of glossy, dark hair fell the graceful folds of the mantlila made simply of black net, deeply bor dered with lace, and therefore transparent enough to show clearly the slightly aquiline nose and its proudly cut nostrils and the curves of her full, red lips, the upper one shaded—dare, we say it fair English maidens ?—with ju ,t the very least little black moustaches that ever grew on Span ish lips ! You may not think it sounds pretty or looks pretty on paper, but I assure you would if you had seen the reality.-— Bentley’s Mis. „ A judge in In diana threatened to tine a lawyer for contempt of court. I have expressed no contempt for the court, said the lawyer; ‘on the contrary, I have carefully concealed my feelings.’ M. and Madame Otto Gold schmidt (Jenny Lind) are expected in London during the approaching season, and intend it is said to reside permanently in England. The sto ries in the German papers about Madame Gold schmidt having lost a great part of her fortune by the commercial disasters at Hamburg, are with out foundation. As for liniments, the best I know of for horses or human beings, for sprains, swel lings, (slight, consequent on blows, &c.) in horses, and sore throats and rheumatism in horse-mas ters, is as follows: Equal parts of hartshorn (aqua ammonia), oil origanum, olive oil, gum-camphor, laudanum and spirits turpentine—all best quality —to which add three parts good soft soap. I have used this for several years.— (Country Gentleman. Ex travagance in dress at the French Court, is said to exceed anything of the kind ever known there. An income of $20,000 a year scarcely suffices to dress equal to the requirement of the court. An American lady whose husband was rich, deter mined to outshine the Empress at one of the re ceptions. She nearly ruined her husband, but she accomplished her object, and was called the best dressed woman of the party. It was stated at a recent meeting of the New York Historical So ciety, that eighty languages are used in business and social intercourses among the inhabitants of that city. The Trieste Gazette related the follow ing singular story : One of the noblest families of Verona has just learned that it has been the victim of an auda cious fraud. The heir to the property having many years ago been put out to nurse, fell and broke his arm. Soon after the mother ar rived to her infant. The nurse, afraid of reveal ing the truth, presented her own child instead of the little sufferer. The fraud succeeded, and the nurse allowed it to continue. The young peasant accordingly received the education of a noble, and the nobleman brought up to follow the plough. It was but a few days ago that the nurse on her death-bed, confessed her crime. The peasant, her, son, is now married to a noble lady, and it is not known how the interests engaged in the matter can he conciliated. A correspondent fur nishes us the following plan for shoeing the wildest horse, or milking the wildest cow: “ Put around the animal, just back of the four legs a strong rope or chain ; into this twist a stick, so that every turn the rope will be drawn tighter until the animal will submit to being handled at your pleasure. Thejnaost unmanageable animal can be subdued in a few minutes in this manner.” — Genessec Farmer. The literary estimate of Smollett corresponds with the estimate we haveof the man. Asa critic and political writer, he had many equals, and some superiors; as a poet, he had done barely enough to put his name on the list; as a comic dramatist, lie was neither a Foote or a Murphy; as a metrical satirist, he was not a Churchill; as a,historian, he was certainly not a Hume ; but when we add what he was in all t hese departments to what he was as a novelist, the to tal impression is very considerable. The young la dy who was “lost in thought” has been found, •She was “ hugging an idea”—it looked like a man. Old Mrs. Darn ly is a pat tern of house-hold econ omy. She says she has made a pair of socks last fifteen years by only knitting new feet to them every winter, and new legs to them every other winter. A lien-pecked husband says that instead of himself and wife being one, they are ten ; for she is 1 and he is 0. A learned doctor, referring to tight lacing avers that it is a public benefit, inas much as it kills off all the foolish'girls and leaves the wise ones to grow up to be women. Curiosities of Sleep. In Turkey, if a person falls asleep in the neigh borhood of a poppy field, and the wind blows towards him he becomes gradually narcotized, and would die if the country people, who are well acquainted with the circumstances, did not bring him to the next well or stream, and empty pitcher after pitcher of water on his face and body. Dr. Appenhcim during his residence in Turkey, owed his life to this simple and efficacious treatment. I>. Graves, from whom this anecdote is quoted, also reports the case of a gentleman thirty years of age, who, from long continued sleepiness, was reduced to a complete living skeleton, unahle to stand on his legs, * It was partly owing to disease but chiefly to the abuse of mercury and opium ; until at last, unable to pursue his business, he sank into abject poverty ami .woe. Dr. lieid men tions a friend of his, who, whenever anything oc curred to distress him, soon became drowsy and fell asleep. A fellow student also at Edinburgh, upon hearing suddenly the unexpected death of a near relative, threw himself on his bed and almost instantaneously, amid the glare of noon-day sunk into a profound slumber. Another person reading to one of his dearest friends stretched on his death bed, fell asleep, and with the oook still in his hand went on reading, utterly unconscious of what he was doing. A woman in Ilamadt slept seventeen or eighteen hours a day for fifteen years. Another is recorded to have slept once four days. Dr. Macnish mentions a woman who spent three fourths of her life in sleep, and Dr. Elliottson quotes a case of a young lady who slept for six weeks and recovered. The venerable St. Augus tine of Hippo prudently divided his hours into three parts, eight to be devoted to sleep, eight re creations, and eight to converse with the world. Maniacs are reported, particularly in the eastern hemisphere, to become cui'iously vigilant during the full of the moon, more especially when the deteriorating rays of the polarized lights are per mitted to fall into their apartment, hence the name lunatics. There certainly is greater prone ness to disease during sleep than in the waking state, for those who pass the night in Campagne do Roma inevitably become infected with its nox ious air, while travellers who go through without stopping escape the miasma. Intense cold pro duces sleep, and those who perish in the snow, sleep till they sleep the sleep of death. A Noble Boy.— A boy was once tempted by some of liis companions, to pluck ripe cherries from a tree which his father had forbidden him to touch. “You need not be afraid,” said one of his com panions, “ for if your father should find out that you had them, he is so kind that he would not hurt you.” “ That is the very reason,” replied the boy, “ why I would not touch them. It is true, my father would not hurt me ; yet my disobedience I know would hurt my father, and that would be worse to me than anything else.” A boy who grows up with such principles, would he a man in the best sense of the word Ithetraya a regard for rectitude that would render him trustworthy under every trial. If the reader is right sure he has carefully read this page, he may now over, and finish the •* old field school,” with other good things. ‘Pitch in.*