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LITERARY
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PENFIELD, GEOBGIA.
L. LINCOLN VEAZEY, . . Editoh.
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL _
We are indebted to Hon. Joshua Hill, Jr., for
several Congressional Speeches.
Hox. Edward Everett has telegraphed to Sa
vannah, that he will deliver his Washington
Speech in that city on the 7th, and in Augusta,
on the 9th of this month.
We regret, as no doubt many of our readers do,
that the present issue contains so little from Mrs.
Bryant. It was unavoidable, however, as her
packet did not arrive until the outside hajl been
struck off. We deem it a sufficient apology for
her to state that sickness in her father’s family
produced this delay. ‘
Last week we had three days of clouds, with
almost continual rain, a portion of the time very
heavy. It has cleared off warm and pleasant, and
spring will soon have opened upon us in all her
beauty.
Those touching lines on the death of Mr. S. L.
Peebles are from one who was whilom no stran
ger to our columns. Though “the mighty instru
ment of little men” has been professionally laid
aside, may we not expect an occasional dropping
from that pen that ever teaches morality in
beauty and the truth in love?
The influence of one man upon the world may
seem but as a pebble thrown into the ocean; yet,
who can tell where the last waving circle ends?
Many have lived whose influence for good or evil
shall extend through all the range of time, far
into the uncounted cycles of eternity.
Blackwood's Magazine commends itself to every
reader who relishes choice literature of a substan
tial kind. The March number contains, “ What
will he do with it?” “Zanzibar or two months in
East Africa,” “Our Convicts—Past and Present,”
“Stories from Ancient Sind,” “Fooodand Drink,”
“Sullivan on Cumberland,” “ Curiosities of Nat
ural History,” “A few more Words from Mr. John
Company to Mr. John Bull—published by L.
Soott & Cos. New York, at $3.00 per year.
Ax individual, living out West, and answering
to the übiquitous name of Smith, lately resorted
to flight as the most practicable method of ob
taining that boon for which our forefathers “ fit,
bled and died.” His amiable spouse (in a mo
ment of excitement, perhaps,) sends forth the fol
lowing message of love to reclaim the poor fugh
tivp:
“ Lost, Strayed qr Stolen. —An individual
whom I, in an unguarded moment of loneliness,
was thoughtless enough to adopt as my husband.
He is a good looking and feeble individual, know
ing enough, however, to go m when it rains, un
less some good looking girl offers her umbrella.
Answers to the name of Jim. Was last seen in
company with Julia Harris, walking with his arm
around her waist, up the plank road, looking
more like a fool (if possible,) than ever. Any
body who will catch the poor feliow and bring
him carefully back, so that I may chastise him
for running away, will be asked to stay to tea by
Henrietta A. Smith.”
(hr ITTLE DORRIT” would have gotten a slap
I J last week, in return for the fierce maledic
tions she has poured out upon our unoffending
head, had not the Editor of the other page, to
whom she committed her manuscript, been too
guarded in his trust. We devote t\vo or three
pick's of the present issue to her, and she may
tliaqk her star's that her bodily absence prevents
an application of the genuine baton de hois.
She has shot wide of the mark, \yhen she sup
poses us to have been engaged m the solution of
h that abstruse problem.” We have never yet
an affair de cwur, never framed a sonnet to a
lady’s eyebrows or breathed in her ear vows which
the recording angel bedewed with tears as he
registered them in the eternal archives. We
were once nigh unto forming the determination
of “taking a companion;” (if possible;) but we
fell to doubting; and though the prince of poets
assures us that “our doubts are traitors,” we are
not certain but that in this case they were mes
songers of mercy, kindly sent to guard us against
impending evils- >Yewill, however, giye the mat
ter another deliberate consideration after awhile,
and perhaps “ Jack may yet eat his supper.”
“Little Dorrit” speaks of the “freedom” of a
married Yuan as if she kncio something about it.
We do not believe she does. She is a romantic
school-girl, a spinster or a shrew; for certain we
are, that were she the wife of a “free” man, she
would be very far from writing for the papers,
unless it were’to procure bread for her “ teething
qhild.” Heaven', preserve- us : from ever being
linked, by ipatnipony’s chain, tp any individual
of womankind, bo she never sp charming, wllQ
lays claim to “freedom.” We should dream
every night of lying on the crater of Vesuvius.
Oh! what a bitter anathema! We had no idea
a woman could curse so hard. If this “Child of
the Marslialsea” can thus caudleize in the public
nrints, what might be expected when an uncon
. geniality qi temper was, exhibited privately?
Yeriiy, We should'prefer our lonely mansion, with
ifs grub-street dinginess, even though she corn:
roendg a band of furies to disturb our nightly
slumbers. But we cannot believe sho meant
what she said. Bhe merely wished to display her
talent foi’ rhyming. We are not as yet sufficiently
recovered from having “ the bark taken off us”
to mount our Pegasus; were it otherwise we
would inflict upon her three dozen Spenserian
stanzas that would frighten her out of making
any addition tQ. her btemplets poetical works”
fgir the frekt six months, j .\ r . • -
. But though-her close is thus bitter, she seems
in a paragraph a little higher up to lament our
fate as a poor caged bird tuning the throat to a
merriment which tlie heart cannot feel. Yes, we
V are thus joyous because tfrp bars which, restrain
uyr liberties are by our ken unseen. Gome, though,
kittle Dorrit, lift the latch, throw back the dpor.
efour prison-house on jt§ fringes and see lf w 6
will not—Hy out.
jggpOxE hundred and tvyelyo students have
just been suspended from the’ S'. Oarolina College,
says the Charleston Mercury of Monday last, and
there are about eighty-six left behind- Thirty
five Seniors, three Juniors, seventy Sophomores,
and three Freshmen have been sent off, the great
er part until next October, fhr* is the second
time within twelve months that this time-honored
College, capable of doing so much good, has un
de& different Presidents, been placed in this sor
ry condition.
The difficulty arose from the Faculty refusing
to give the students a respite On Thanksgiving
day. In revenge, a few of the students tarred
the benches of. the recitation, rooms and chapel.
The Mercury says that the course of President
longstreet will be sustained.
It is now said that Patrick Rronte (the father
of Charlotte Emily and- Anne,} in ; early:life was
himself a author, Two-volumes of poems from
his pen were published in I§ll and 1813. His
name may be found in Colburn’s Dictionary of
Authors in 1816.
A .ft “ * ft /A > , f ~
Inuary number of Blackwood appeared a
paper on “ Hunger and Thirst”—many para
graphs of which have passed the rounds. The
same writer pursues the subject in the March
number, in an article entitled, “'Food and
Drink” —several passages of which we have
marked for extraction. The first is the following,
about
CLAY-EATERS:
Humbolt, a man whose word justly carries with
it European authority, confirms the statement of
Gumilla, that the Otomacs of South America
during the periods of the floods, subsist entirely
on a fat and ferruginous clay, of which each man
eats daily a pound or more. Spix and Martius
declared that the Indians of the Amazon eat a
kind of loam, even when other food is abundant.
Molina says the Peruvians frequently eat a sweet
smelling clay; aftd Ehrenberg has analysed the
edible clay sold in the markets of Bolivia, which
he finds to be a mixture of talc and mica. The
inhabitants of Guiana mingle clay with their’
bread ; and the negroes in Jamaica are said to
eat. earth when other food is deficient. Accord
ing to Labillardiere, the inhabitants of New Cale
donia appease their hunger with a white friable
earth, said by Vanquelin to be composed of mag
nesia, silica, oxide of iron and chalk. The same
writer asserts that at Java a cake is made of fer
ruginous clay which is much sought for by women
in their pregnancy. To conclude this list, we
must- add Siam, Siberia and Kamtschatka as coun
tries of clay-eaters.
By a number of examples he thus demonstrates
the fact that
ONE MAN’S MEAT IS ANOTHER MAN’S POISON:
There are persons, even in Europe, to whom
a mutton-chop would be poisonous. The cele
brated case of the Abbe de Viliedieu is a rare,
but not unparalelled example of animal food be
ing poisonous ; from his earliest years his repug
nance to it was so decided, that neither the en
treaties of his parents nor the menaces of his tu
tors could induce him to overcome it. After
reaching the age of thirty, on a regimen of vege
table food, he was over-persuaded, and tried the
effect of meat soups, which led to his eating both
mutton and beef; but the change was fatal:
plethora and sleepiness intervened, and he died
of cerebral inflammation. In 1844, a French sol
dier was forced to quit the service because he
could not overcome his violent repugnance and
disgust towards animal food. Dr. Prout, whose
testimony will be more convincing to English
readers, knew a person on whom mutton acted
as a poison: “He could not eat mutton in any
form. The peculiarity was supposed to be owing
to caprice, but the mutton was repeatedly dis
guised and given to him unknown; but uniformly
with the same result of producing violent vomitr
ing and diarrhoea. And from the severity of the
effects, which were in fact those of a virulent poi
son, there can be little doubt that if the use of
mutton had been persisted in, it would soon have
destroyed the life of the individual.” Dr. Pereira,
who quotes this passage, adds: “I know a gen
tleman who has repeatedly had an attack of indi
gestion after the use of roast mutton.” Some
persons, it is known, cannot take coffee without
vomiting; others are thrown into a general in
flammation if they eat cherries or gooseberries.
Hahn relates of himself that seven or eight straw
berries would produce convulsions in him. Tissot
says he could never swallow sugar without vomit
ing. Many persons are unable to eat eggs; and
cakes or puddings having eggs in their composi
tion, produce serious disturbances in such per
sons: if they are induced to eat them under false
assurances of no eggs having been employed, they
are spon undeceived by the unmistakable effepts.
And in conclusion, he has the following on the
importance of
COMMON BALT AS AN ARTICLE OF FOOD:
Common Salt (chloride of sodium) is another
constant and universal substance which claims
rank as Food. It forms an essential part of all
the organic fluids and solids, except the enamel
of the teeth. Common salt is always found in the
blood, in quantities which vary within extremely
narrow limits, forming 0 421 per cent, of the en
tire mass, and as much as 75 per cent, of the
ashes. This quantity is wholly independent of
the surplus iiujbod; for the surplus is either not
absorbed or is carried away in the excretions and
perspiration; and this shows it to be an anato
mical constituent, not an accident. If too little
salt be taken in the food, instinct forces every
animal to supply the deficiency by eating it sep
arately.
” “The wild buffalo frequents the salt licks of
North-Western America; the wild animals in the
central parts of Southern Africa are a sure prey
to the hunter who conceals himself beside a salt
spring; ard our domestic cattle run peacefully
to the hand that offers them a taste of this luxury,
From time immemorial it has been known that
without salt man would miserably perish ; and
among horrible punishments, entailing certain
death, that of feeding culprits on saltless food is
said to have prevailed in barbarous times.”
When Cook and Foster landed in Otaheite they
astonished the natives who saw them eating white
powder with every morsel of meat; and every
one remembers Man Friday’s expressive repudi
ation of salt. But the savages who ate no “ white
powder,” ate fislv, and cOolced their flesh in sea
water, rich in salt. In several parts of Africa
fnen are sold for salt; and on the gold coast it is
the most precious of all commodities. On the
coast of Sierra Leoqe a iqan will sell his'sistpr, his
Wife, or his child for salt, not having learned the
art of distilling it from the sea.
The properties of salt are manifold. It forms
one of the essential conditions of vital processes.
It renders albumen soluble, and is necessary for
digestion, being decomposed in the stomach into
hydrochloric acid for the gastrieprocess, and soda
for the bile. It has also a most important pro
perty, namely: that of regulating the interchange
of fluids through the walls of the vessqis;, in ac
cordance vyhiefr that law o i, endpmosis, ett wfrich
so mArty vital'processes depend, but which we
cannot stop now to explain. So great are the ser
vices of salt that we may confidently endorse the
statement of Pr. Bence Jones, tfrat’it is M a sub
stance as essential to life as nitrogenous food, or
non-nitrogenous food and water,” and if so essen
tial, then assuredly Food.
In the essay on the curiosities of “ Natural His
tory,” we find a paragraph on
SNORING:
The variety of povyer in tliefiasa'l organ is great.
yos haVei the punhb shore;- commencing on a weak
kpy, and passing away into a thin whistle, which
we*have mistaken for the wind playing through
the keyhole oy some other dauny. Then there
Is the’ great sonorous snore, pealing awfully
through the house in the silenco of the night.
We once had a.visitor with such gifted nostrils
that we can depose, that although he did not
awaken any responsive concert in the pond, he
set our two terriers, at dead of night, into a fu
rious lit of barking. It was an ew terror to thoxq,
and we had the greatest piiiiouliy : explaining
to piliy and Pepper, That hd harm was meante
that no invasion of the premises was threatened
it was vox et prater ea nihil. The great snore
is often varied by wild unearthly cadences, har
monising with the howling winl without; and in
listening to such a performance, we are free to
confess that sometimes on our solitary pillow we
have felt a little eery. But the most characteris
tic and best denned sqQra.i&tbP sudden*.quick
convulsive snoje,'"properly described, .as a snort,
It is as like as may he to tUo snort of the WW
hoise, or to that Os the startling, struggling loco-
I motive f-*;. which it has been more than once
mistaken by a half-awake traveller, who had to
go by an early train. The h comotiye seem 8
clearly to haye copied from the human engine*
If apy one wishes'to study the subject, let him
fake liis station clurfng night in the lobby oftho
bedroom-fiat pf a large hotel, His opportunities
will be better if the hotel ia much frequented by
pqnmyerplal gentlemen- The stewed kidneys and
stout gin-toddy in. which they indulgo previous
to retiring, form a good basis for a full nocturnal
diapason-- t
“From their fullrpcks the gcn’rous steeds retire,
Dropping ambrosial foams and snorting fire.”
A full rack seems to be the approved method
Qf tunjng the instrument. It is a vulgar error so
3upp°gethp,t a large proboscis Is necessarily .an;
organ of. great, power. ..On tiro in the
huge cavern (the, air seonas to lose itself; and we
have seen an Insignificant snub that would. have
outsnored the most exaggerated Roman variety.
It is stated in telegraphic dispathe-. fvcuu lyew
Orleans, that a severe storm wai} ebepeVienced on
the Giilf a few days Ago. 1 > , Jp
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Mr. .Tolin Autrey, living about eighteen miles
from Anderson Court House, in South Carolina,
commited suicide by shooting himself at his resi
dence on-the 27th of March.
“There’s no discharge! thy scene of strife
Is (he last battle-field of life;
Thy banners never must be furied,
For thou must struggle with the world,
And with thyself! the war will cease,
Only when death shall whisper ‘ Peace.’ ”
thy ease” was the address of one of
JL old to his soul in a moment of bliss. Boun
tiful supplies of all which he imagined could con
duce to happiness had been laid up in store. His
enlarged garners were filled, his coffers were
heaped with richest treasures, and his mansion
was a scene of many delights. But amid tuisban
quetting of the carnal appetites his soul was de
manded of him. Though rich to superfluity in
all the world’s goods, he could not furnish to his
summoned soul a scrip and staff for this unknown
journey. Poor and wretched it had to enter the
high chancery court of Heaven, without the cov
ering for its nakedness which the Son of right
eousness alone can give.
What a sadly impressive commentary is this
upon the ends sought by human ambition! Some
toil through long years of ceaseless ansuisli for
glittering gold, whose gleam attracts but to de
ceive, and when obtained, is as ashes to the lips
of the famished; others follow the still more illu
sive glare of fame, and boldly mount the rugged
height, whence it shines to find it nought but an
empty vapor. Some eagerly pursue the lightly
tripping pleasures, while others think it the aim
of existence to repose on the downy couch of
ease. Lost wanderers, we need some light from
on high to point out the way of our higher dosti
ny and purer happiness.
In the whole range of human aspirations, there
is none so vain, as far as this life is concerned, as
that which many cherish for ease. It cannot be
found in all tlie moving, hurrying panorama of
the world. There is indolence, idleness, luxury,
bestial enjoyment and unnatural hilarity, but no
ease. You may point to the sluggard, who spends
day after day, month after month, year after
year, without earning the salt that seasons his
food; you may name the gay butterflies of fash
ion, who “toil npt, neither do they spin.” These
enjoy ease of the body. Their limbs labor not,
nor do the muscles and sinews ever feel tlie fa
tigue of exercise. But there is no ease of the
soul. It is harrassed by care, distracted alternate
ly by hope and fear, or sunk? in the dark gloom of
despair. _
“Wo unto him who is at ease in Zion,” is the
language pronounced by the voice of inspiration,
With equal truth, we may say his fate is sad who
is at ease anywhere. A benumbing of the facul
ties, a hardening of the heart, a deadening of its
sensibilities, a suspension of all the vital energies
would follow naturally as the results of such a
state of existence. Some think idleness ease, and
look forward with bright anticipations to some
period in the distant future, when they will have
nothing to do. This hope has solaced many a
poor over-worked laborer in his life struggle; but
when it is attained, he finds that “ freedom from
occupation is not rest.” He enters in a state
where lie is unhappy, because there is nothing to
desire, and miserable though ho has nought to
fear.
No ! the spirit cannot be at ease in this life; so
occupied is every moment with some anxiety,
trouble or vexation. ’Tisaboon which it is ever
craving, but which, while wedded to this mortal
frame, it can never gain.
“All is action—all is motion,
In this mighty world of ours!
Like the currents of the ocean,
Man is urged by unseen powers.”
Plod on tired soul; perform with patient dili
gence each day the task which duty shall allot:
cast your eyes aloft; there is rest ahead ; rest that
shall not be broken; where ten thousand charms
shall yield delight to every sense, and throughout
eternity thou cans’t take thy ease!
gentleman of Alabama haying beep con :
atituted a “Knightof Mt. Vernon,” tfie Tuscaloosa
Monitor wants to know what this is. Haying
asked the question it goes on after this style:
“ But a ‘ Knight qf Mount Vernon’ to be associ
ated in idea with the Republican simplicity of
the citizen George Washington, does sound so ludi
crously ridiculous that we can only he surprised
that Mr. Yancey, or any other sensible man in
this country, wouldaccept the foolish title. Wash
ington from liis very heart loathed these geyY.-g.aw
titles and nonsensical distinctions, of European re
galism and snoLoeracy and every true scion of
American freedom should detest them just as cor
dially.”
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[Written for the Georgia Teraperaneq OjusadftrJ
On the pegth of It sr. &. L, Peebles., a mm,ber. of the
’ Sdji/iomore ‘ Class, Mercer University.
Hark! ’tis the tolling bell!
What means yon strange array ?
Not thus the students meet
Upon their holiday
With pall, and hearse, and solemn tread;
No! thus bear they forth their dead.
One foot amid their ranks,
No more will tread the aisle •
One eye r.p i;toye riia'.l hash,
One'fip no more'shall ispille;
A bVight head .'mid them now is low—
'Death dame afid struck the'fatal blow.
The trues W gay with flowers,
‘ |t is the bright spring time;
fiut rosemary and asphodels
Are fittest here to twino
Above a brow, all pale and cold,
And lips which left life’s talc half told.
Strike! strike! oh sadly strike
The iuneral knell this morn!
No father follows ypn da<k bier,
>)o mothev weeps’ forlorn ; v.Y
It niattejrs no„t —bear forth his clay—
We’re mourners, all of ns, to-day.
The classic page unoonned,
The lamp unlit at evo,
Will make liis fellows pause,
And turn away to grieve,
Oft will they think in such sad hours,
Os him who perished ’mid spring flowers.
lie perished not ! the Soul
Still liveth on for aye!
Death cannot div.. its
he riittrs the 1 clay—
A sftident stfllheyond time’s flood
• He reads the page Christ wrote in blood.
General Haskell, for same time a patient in the
lunatic asylumn at Hopkinsville, is recovering
his mental and physical health.
John 11. Li\(shheld, the American Consul at
Boyt° Oab'feUo, ‘died lately of paralysis, after three
days’ illness.
The nomination of Col. Johnston, command
ing the army in Utah, as Brevet Brigadier Genep
al, was confirmed by the Senate on Gduesany.
Cowles, in his history of plants, thus laconi- .
cally notices t.ha virtfte. -of, hemp': “By this co.r
ftUge ships are guided, hells are rung, and TOgftea
ape kept in awe.”
Tho LaGrango J Reporter announoe3 the death
of Mrs. Haralson, widow of tho late Hon. H, A.
Harafton. She died of pneumonia on the 2dd
inst.
Charles Mackay, the English song writer, is in
Washington on a return from Ins recent lectur
ing tour through the Southwest. He is next
lecture in Baltimore,
Henry Heine, the German author gives the
foliowing. He says: “Take a word into the
mouth turn it around therein, and spit it out.
that’s English.”
Two young men named Tully, tried ftt ipntlac,
Mich, for the pf their •father, have been
copyfeted. • V.'iV.fttt • A ‘ “ ‘ ‘ *’
Tlie Methodists in Indiana have 1,069 churches
and 78,486 members ;> the Baptists 512 churches,
27,630 members..
The removal of tb° Bennsylvania capitol from
Harrisburg to Philadelphia, seems highly proba
ble. A resolution to that end has been kindly
received bv the nresent Leffialatnre.
CHOICE SELECTIONS.
Spring’s First
“Oh ! the flowers upward in every place,
In this beautiful world of ours;
And dear as the smile on an old friend’s face,
Is the emileof the bright, bright flowers.”
Spring has come again—the merry fairy-fooled
Spring. Her garlands of green buds are on the
trees—her soft breath steals over mountains and
hills, and nestles in the peaceful valley. What
glad strains of bird-music echo through the woods :
and the delicious trill t rembles, and ascends high
er, and higher, till the wholo air is quivering with
melody. Every face we meet seems to wear a
more cheerful aspect; earth smiles, the sky melts
into a bluer tint, and Aurorci’s blushes deepen to
radiant crimson dyes. And Spring’s first flowers
—what a song of joy they bring to our hearts!
We greet their return as a (tear long-absent friend;
and their delicate fragrant breath lightly touch
ing our cheek as we bend above them is sweet as
the soft kiss of affection.
When the first gale of Spring comes gently from
the South, how eagerly we watch for the tiny blos
soms peeping from the earth, and the unfolding
of their tinted petals. llow we fear the stern old
Frost-King will make a mal-apropos return, and
with his rude kisses, blight the beauties we so
tenderly cherish—while every ray of warm sun
shine, every balmy breeze and shower of pearly
dew are welcomed as so many benizons; and the
first fragrant flower we can pluck and twine in our
hair, or wreathe in a graceful bouquet, is sweeter,
dearer, and proudly borne as the poet’s laurels,
or the halos of glory, clustered about the hero’s
brow. The modest violet, hidden in tlie dark re
cesses of the wood, we search for almost as eager
ly as the alchemists of old did for the fabled
Philosopher’s Stone and the snow-drop’s purity,
the coral-lipped woodbine, the star-eyed daisy,
and the merry little crocus, each finds a place in
our hearts as we joyfully greet them—heralds of
Spring. And
“ There is
A daintiness about these early flowers,
That touches me like poetry.”
It breathes upon us as we inhale their delicious
fragrance and from their radiant loveliness, drink
deep inspirations of the good, the beautiful and
pure; while the low, silvery tinlile of fairy bells
seem to float on the perfumed breeze, mingled
with the rustling of gossamer wings.
Tradition has said that flowers sprung from the
footsteps of angels as they wandered sorrowfully
upon the earth, after the gates of Paradise were
closed upon our first parents ; while we admire
the exquisite poetic beauty of the legend, we are
inclined to admit its authenticity ; for with Heav
en and the Angels, we associate all that is beau
tiful, bright and glorious; and what is more
radiantly lovely than the world of beauty spread
out before qs in the homes of the fair bright
flowers? To train their graceful tendrils, to nur
ture their growth and watch the gradual devel
opment of their bright beauty, affords an exqusite
pleasure which none can know but those who
have cultivated a taste for an employment, so
full of interest and healthful recreation; and
which operates with a refining influence upon the
mind, and touches all that is good and beautiful
in our nature. Cold, indeed, must be the heart
that does not love them —that can look unmoved
upon their innocence and lovely simplicity. A
great many persons have a fancy for flowers, or ad
mire brilliant and variegated hues ; but they do
not love them—their hearts never rebound with
a gush of tenderness to the sweet welcome of their
smiling faces. They do not read lessons of meek
ness, purity and goodness in their bright eyes ;
they cannot talk to them as to some dear friend
and catch the soft strains of melody—the messa
ges of love and gentleness breathing from tli@ir
bright-tinted petals; they only admire their bril
liant hqos, as we do a beautiful but lifeless paint
ing.
Someone has beautifully and truly written,
that “ flowers are the poor man’s poetry and
birds the poor man’s music.” None are so pov
erty-stricken that they cannot cluster around I hern
at least a few of Flora’s sweet treasures; and (ht.
bird’s glad music is not poured upon, the lighted
halls of the fashionable concert room? but trills
freely for all, and trembles as sweetly around the
homes of the poor and unfortunate, as the places
of the rich. In the deep shadows of the forest,
by the dreamy, murmuring stream—in the fields
and meadow—on the rugged mountain, arid in
the quiet valley; the angels have loft their foot
prints, and bid the ftovyers smile alike on king or
peasant; and the gilded mansions of splendor
and wealth ’ can never present amid tftaij cold
grandeur, the fresh, the pure soul-to.uchmg beauty
that blooms in the gardens of nature—.the poor
man’s Bdau-h&me. And may our hearts be filled
\vith gratitude to our Heavenly Father who has
enriched our earth with so much lovoliness, and
given us here a type of that better land where
flowers bloom in spring-time beauty forever, and
ever!
Atlanta, Georgia. — Nat. A>)\siy RENA.
Be Ghnclemex at Home. —There are few fami
lies, we imagine, any where, in which love is not
abused as furnishing the license for impoliteness.
A husband, father, or brother, wijl harsh
words to those he loves b.q,s,v, ay,d tho,se vv-ho, love,
him best, rimplv, because, the. security of love and
family pride him ftoin getting his head bro
ken, It is a sliame thus that a man will speak
more impolitely, at times, to his wife or sister,
than he would to any other female, except a low,
a vicious one. It is that the honest affections of a
man’s nature prove to be a weaker protection to
a woman in the family circle than the restraints
of society, and that a woman usually is indebted
for the kindest politeness of life to those not be
longing to her own household. This plight not
so to be. The map vyho, hecausg, ft will not be
resented, inflicts his spleen and bad. temper upon
those orbis faestrth’ - stone, is a small cowapd and
a very mean man. Kind vyords are circulating
mediums between two gentlemen and ladies at
home., and po polish exhibited in society can
atone for the harsh language and disrespectful,
treatment too often indulged in between those
bound together by God’s own ties of blood, and the
still moresacred bonds of conjugal love.
Why we nAVE no TnuNDEU ix the Winter
Professor Espy, in his fourth Meteorological Re
port thi\s explains why v?e have. no. thunder in
the winter : •**
” “ If it’ is asked why \yo have no thunder in the
winter, though fops of the storm clouds rise even
Ip this seasonto a region where the air is at least con
siderably charged with electricity, perhaps the an
swer may be found in this—that the storm clouds
in the winter are of great extent, and of course the
tension of the electricity, being extended over a
very large surface, is very feeble; and the sub
stance of the cloud being itself framed but of
vapor much less dense than that off summer clouds
this tension may ’nbt be able to strike from one
p&rticlAol’ the Cloud to fcho next adjacent one, no
general discharge can take place. Besides, even
in the winter, during a very warm spell of weath
or, with a high dew point for the season, we some
times have a violent thunder storm from a cloud
of very limited horizontal extent, ae the thunder
clouds always ate in the svnin % et\ Shell a clor and is in
reality an pillar of hot air, mingled with
vapor, having just given out into the
air itself its latent caloric, causing the air at the
top of the cloud, in many cases, to be 00 degrees
warmer at its top than the air on the c,utside at
the same level.”
i *
TnE PewESi u’ Sweet Sounds! —Where is not’
jhe,iy might acknowledged? They ring not alone
in the “'dim and mighty ministers of old times,”
blit through all; of Nature’s realm: in winds that
stir the grass apd gleaming earn, that linger
roqnd the ylolet and “ about the sunset rose tree
deep in June in the birds, those sweet natur
al musicians that “ sing the song which Nature
taught,''’ in the pattering rain and dashing wa
tertall we trace the workings of the same, grand
spirit of Harmony. But we fancy by this time
our Editors have grown any thing but harmonics
over our dull pages, and beside silver Tongue in
the corner says it is time so ely*t s so withihe half
unsaid we leave oi\r chapter of spiritual Songs and
Hynpi& t ‘- --V’ •
Picture of Life. —ln youth we seem climbing
up a hill on whose top eternal sunshine appears
to rest. How eargerly we pant to gaiys its! sum
mit 1 But when we have gained it, now different
is the prospect on tho ‘other side! We sigh as we
, contemplate the scene before us; and look back
with'a wishful eye upon the flowery'path we liayu
passed, but may nOver more retrace. Life is like
a potentdus cloud fraught with thunder, storm
and rainr but religion, list those streaming rays
of sunshine, udllcloilib it with light as with a gar
ment,'and 1 fringe its shadowy skirts with gold,
“ Steel your heart,” said a oopsiderate father
to his son, “ for you are going now among sorao
fascinating girls.” “I had much rather steal
1 their’s,” said the promising young man.
LADIES’ OLIO.
Advice to Young Ladies. —I would speak ten
derly to you, for in many of your follies you are
encouraged by- the sterner sex. Yet there are
some which are your own. Let me speak of two
things —extravagance and monstrosity in dress. In
the days of your mothers, six or eight yards of silk
was enough for a dress, ;mw you must have six
teen. This enormity do is not beautify you; it
renders you hideous. There are some of your
fashions which are so disgusting as hardly to be
spoken ot—l mean all those devices which have
tor their object the swelling out of your forms, so
as , to fl‘ ve prominence to—what shall I say?
As if to imitate the peacock—the very emblem of
folly and vanity—you make your heads, the seat
of the intellect, as little and insignificant as possi
ble; while the hips are amplified into the dimen
sions of a balloon!
. This, my young ladies, is madness. In the first
place, it is very inconvenient; with your hoops
and crinoline you are troublesome and annoying,
especially in publie places; in the street, in the’
church, the theatre, the omnibus and the railroad
car. Your trains, disgusting as they sweep up
the mud and dust in the streets, and wipe the
filth upon youv pretty feet and ankles, are very
irritating to crowded places, for they will be trod
upon, and then voulook daggers.
Society at the South.
■ The society of the South, we regard as in some
respects superior to that of any part of the world.
The English are proverbial for their reservo and
stateliness—the French for their elegance and
vivacity, and we of the South are a kind interme
diate of the two, having tlx efortiter in re of the for- >
mer and the suavitcr in tnodo of the latter, boaufci- 1
fully and harmoniously blended together. This
we regard as the'seeret of the fascinating influ
ence that is exerted by Southern ladies and gen
tlemen at home and abroad. But with all°the
many advantages that society at the South en
joys, an observing eye will not fail to perceive a
want of sincerity pervading the intercourse of the
sexes, which can be found nowhei’O else. Even
under the easy familiarity of Northern society,
there exists greater confidence than with us.
The spirit of coquetry seems to prevail in our
midst- as a mania. It has infused itself into the
various relations of Southern Society, and has
become so common, that but little if any confi
dence now exists betweeix opposite sexes. This
disease of society is not confined to castes. The
high and the low, the educated and the unedu
cated, are alikesubject to it. Neither is it limited
to one sex to the exclusion of. the other, or even
to the unmarried, for some that have assumed the
holy vows of wedlock are voted decidedly fast.
The youth just entering the attractive saloons
of the gay and fashionable, soon becomes entan
gled in the artful meshes spread by a belle that
has sjient two or three summers at a waterin'*
place, or oixe that has enjoyed the advantages of
city life. He drinks in with delight the delicate
compliments bestowed by this seemingly most in
nocent and unsophisticated of all human creatures
—surpassing even the ingenuous manners of a
country school-girl. He listens to the soft, sweet
Bates of her. israfelian voice, as she sings some
beautiful and touching song of the affections, and
soon realizes m her his beau ideal of a lady. She
with that quickness of perception ao peculiar to
her sex, seeing her poison working successfully,
gracefully presents to him a bouquet of rare and
odoriferous flowers, and this after refusing to part
with them at the solicitation of her many admi
rers. This last master stroke fills him with a per
fect deliriuin of pleasure. He escorts her to her
carnage—she gently pre-noa his hand as he as
sists her in, and softly whispers in his ear, that
she will be pleased to see him soon at her home.
His destiny is fixed—she has sown the seed of his
eternal unhappiness; and she, a gay, brilliant, at
tractive and heartless coquette, yath-os to hel*
boudoir and sleeps calmly arid quietly-—the meas
ure of her vanity bein'! iu ’- i feo overflowing. Our
young hero follows, up in quick haste his seeming
good fortune and early declares his enthusiastic
iovo : ,. -Sira, true to her nat-ure, affects the utmost
surprise at this feeling revelation—she coldly looks
upon him, and with a haughty nod of the head,
rejects his proffered love; but assures him that
she will be pleased to consider liim as one of her
best friends. He, disgusted with society, turns wo
man-hater, and soaks pleasure in tho wine-cup
anfl £Vt thqgaming table, and is soon lost forever!
But, to reverse the picture, how often do we
see a thoughtless young man, by marked atten
tions apd co.urtly phrases, win the esteem of an
uVjpuisiv-e girl—-lead her to expect t-liat he will
som© day solicit her hand in honorable marriage ?
but ho abandons her and leaves her to repine
over misplaced and unrequited love. He thus
boldly and recklessly tampers with the most sa
cred thing of liic, the tend er feelings of an unex
perienoad girl, to.’gratify Ids unequalled self-love
for the. passing moment, ; nd this too regardless
of the fiW tlLttt lie is embittering the future hap
piness of a warm-hearted and gifted woman. He
can do all this, according to the present organiza
tion of society, an 1 still he is recognised by some
as a gentleman.
<( |iOT-e is of man’s life a thing apart,
‘T'is woman’s whole existence.”
We regard the practising of such arts by a lady
as qnite a fault, but with all their faults we can
but like them—-and will endeavor to overlook this
trait of their character, for the charming crea
tures can’t help it. But in a man it is feminine
and absolutely dishonorable, and as such we must
condemn it. It must be regarded as one of the
evils ox society, and is without doubt a great
drawback to the divine institution of marriage.
It has done more to diminish theincrease of pop
ulation than all the fallacious principles promul
gated by Mai thus and his deducted followers.
Wo have no remedy to suggest, and must close
by wishing that the God of Love may have mer
cy upon the souls of all that have sinned in this
particular. —Edgefield Advertiser ,-jj
<^o^oo*
The Broken Hearted.
“ I have seen the infant sinking down like a
stricken flower to the grave, the strong man
fiercely breathing out his soul upon an agonizing
death-bed, the miserable convict standing upon
the scaffold with a deep curse quivering upon his
lip. I have viewed death in all its forms of dark
ness, vengeance and terror, with a bold and fear
less eye, but 1 never could look upon woman,
lovely woman, fading away from earth in beauti
ful, uncomplaining melancholy, without feeling
the very fountains of life turned into tears and
dust. Death is always terrible, but when a form
of angel beauty is passing off to the silent land of
sleepers, the heart feels there is something lovely
ceasing from existence, and broods, with a sense
of utter desolation,, over the lonely thoughts that
come up like spectors from the grave, to haunt
us in our midnight dreams.”
“It cannot be that earth is man’s’ only abiding
place. It cannot be that our life is a bubble cast
upon the ocean of eternity to float a moment upon
its wave, and then to sink into darkness and
nothingness. Else why is it that the aspirations
which leap liks. angels from the temple of our
hearts are forever wandering about unsatisfied ?
Why is it that the cloud and the rainbow come
’ over us with a beauty thatis notof earth, and then
pass away, and leave us to muse upon their faded
loveliness? Why is it that the stars that hold
their nightly festivals avound the midnight throne
are placed above the reach of our limited facul
ties; forever mocking us with their uuapproach
. pblo glqry ? And finally, why is it that bright
forms of human beauty are presented to our view
and then taken from us, leaving the thousand
streams of our affeotions to flow back in Alpine
torrents upon our hearts ? Wo are born for a higher
r destiny than that of earth. There is a land where
the rainbow never fades, where the stars will bo
spread out before us like islands that slumber on
the ocean, and where the beautiful beings that
hero pass before us like visions, will remain in opr
presence forever!”
O- - --
One’s Mother. —lt has beau truly said that the
first being that rushes to the recollection of a soldier
or a sailor ip his direst difliculy, is his mother.
Sha clihgs to his memory and’ affection in the
’ midst of all the forgetfulness and hardihood in
duced by a roving life. The last message he
leaves is for her, liis last whisper breathes her
name. The mother, as she instills the lesson of
piety and filial obligation into t ho heart of her
infant son, should always feel that her labor is not
ip \.aip, ‘fih'o may drop into the grave; but she
has left behind her an influence that will work
for her. The bow is broken iihe arrow is sped
and will do its office.
.: A’ 4 —-
A Emblem of Heaven.-—0 what ohecr
• In ideas, * strength and pleasures did the primitive
Christians reap front the unity of their hearts, in
the way and Worship, of Goal Next to the c.o
light of immediate communion with God
thevo is none like that which rises from *
monious exercise of the graces, of t ...
their mutual duties apd communion an
other. How are their spirits de liglted and lie
freshed by it! What a S
heaven ! The courts of princes *ftoid no suou He
ights.—Flavel.
| FARMER’S COLUMN.
COMMERCIAL.
AUGUSTA, April 5, — CoUon.— Sales Saturday af-*
ternoon, 140 bales, at 11J cents.
Bales this morning, 77 bales: 45 at 10J, 2 at IQJ/- 30
at 11’ cents.
Our market is quiet; offerings are light; holdersfirm
at full prices, and buyers not disposed to operate.
CHARLESTON, April s.— Cotton. —There is a fair
demand to-day at firm and hardening prices. Sales 1000
bales at 11 to 112 c. .
SAVANNAH, April 3.— Cotton.*— The sulc-s for the
day reach 75(J bales, at 10! to|2J cents.
J : %
Prices Current.
WHOLESALE PRICES.
BACON.—Hams, ft lb 10 @ ICi
Canvassed llams, <jß lb 13 © ‘ 14
Shoulders. Jb 9 10
Western Sides, ft lb 10i @ 11
Clear Sides, Tenn., ‘P lb 11 © 114
Ribbed Sides, lb 11 @ 00
Hog Round, new, lb 10 © 104
t iff'Cß.—Country %% bbl 450 @6 00
1 ennessee / bbl 475 @ 560
Mills ft bbl 550 ©7 50
Etowah ft bb i 5 00 ©7 50
Denmeud s ft bbl 500 © 700
kxtra $ bbl 700 @7 50
Corn in sack bush 65 © 75
Wheat, white ft bush 1 05 @ 1 10
£ ed U lb 95 © 1 00
£ ats bush 45 @ 50
£> Te 18 bush 70 © 75
£ eas , Ift bush 75 © 85
TV C °™ 1 $ bush 70 @ 75
IK ON.—Swedes Ift lb 5* © 5i
Eiiglish, Common, lb 31 @
tapp Re ® ncd & 32 ©
LARD.— 3ft lb 10 ful 11
MOLASSES. — Cuba $ gal 26 © 28
St. Croix Ift gal 40
Sugar House Syrup Ift gal 42 © 45
Chinese Syrup tp gal 40 © 50
SUGARS.—ffe Orleans fib 7* © 9
Porto Rico s{ft lb © 9
Muscovado & lb 8 ‘ ‘ 84
Refined C 3ft lb 10 11
Refined B tp lb 10i @ 11
Refined A, ft lb 11 @ lli
Powdered ft lb 12 @ 13
„ A C ™ shed Ift Jb 12 © 13
‘<p sack 90 ©1 00
COFIEE.—Rio lb 12 © 13
V a S ulra 18 lb 134 © 14
Java ft m 18 © 2Q
Hints to Farmers.
Toads are the best protection of cabbage against
Plants, when drooping, are revived by a few
grains ol camphor.
I eats are generally improved by crafting on
the mountain ash.
Sulphar in preserving grapes, eie
from insects.
Lard never spoils in warm weather, if it is
cooked enough in frying eut.
Os feeding corn, sixty pounds ground go as far
as one hundred pounds in the kernel.
Corn meal should never bo ground very fine.
It injures the richness of it.
1 uni ins of small size have double the nutritious
matter that large ones have.
Rats and other vermin are kept away from
grain by a sprinkling of-garlic when packing the
sheaves.
Money expended in drying land, by draining
or otherwise, will be returned with, ample inter
est.
t ■ 0 cure scratches 011 a horse, wash their legs
with warm soap suds, and then with beef brine N
Two applications will cure the worst case.
timber, when cut in the spring, and exposed
to tl\e weather with the bark on, decays much
sooner than if cut in the fall.
Wild onions may be destroyed by cultivating
coni, plowing and leaving the corn in the plowed
state all winter.
Plantation Gardens.
The economy of a good gardener for the plant
ation negroes is no longer doubted. The garden
should always be planted for the number of hands
worked. It should always abound in collards,
kale, squashes, okra, onions, shallots, peppers,
snap beans, with many of the pot herbs, also
spring and tall turnips. If the planter is a good
manager, he will have something green from the*
garden, served up for his negroes each day in the
year, ihevo are varieties of the kale which may
be sowed every month, that make delicious
greens, and yield abundantly. The collard is a
standard plant, both nourishing and strengthen
ing. . the cabbage tribe contains more muscle
making nutriment than any other vegetable.
Okra is a plant of easy culture and very produc
tive. The bush squashes yield profusely; onions
shallots and peppers are indispensible. Onions
are not only a wholesome food, but are said to
check the spread of contagious diseases, and pep
pers will cure the disease after it is contracted,
it was observed that the plantations on the Mis
sissippi, that used pepper liberally with the ne
groes’ food, were exempt from cholera during the
vicissitude sos that scourge. And those who had
the cholera wese successfully treated with strong
infusions of red pepper. \ egetable soups duriug
the hot months of summer and fall, fed to the
hands, will save many a doctor’s bill and keep the
1 lands hale and hearty. —Planter A Soil.
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On. moot a New Source.— An important branch
CH manufacturing at Marseilles is tho production
ot cil from peanuts, and for making soap it is said
to bo preferable to other seed oils. The shell is
not removed, but is crushed with the kernel. In
the process of extracting the oil the nuts are sub
jected to several operations. They are first
passed through a series of crushing clyinders, and
then are crushed again under millstones. After
being thus treated, they are placed in wrappers,
made of hogs’ or goats’ hair, and then put into
hydraulic presses, which express the oil, and its
Rows off into a bucket. In the centre of the.
bucket rises a tube nearly to the height of the
rim, which tube passes through the bottom of
the bucket and fits as a socket upon a large tube
or pipe, from which the oil is constantly being
pumped into very large casks. The use of the
tube in the bucket is to cause the hevier parts of
the oil, together with all refuse matter, to sink
to the bottom, while none but the purer parts of
tho oil pass into tho large tube or pipe. There is
no process of clarification. The oil remains in
the casks from six to ten days without being
touched; at the end of which time it is found to
be clear. The nuts are orushed and pressed three
times, at each pressure the superior nut yielding
a different quality of oil, and it is only after the
third pressure that the cake is formed. The oil
resulting from the first pressure of the nut is used
for eating that from the second pressure for burn
ing, and that from the third for making soap.
Tomatoes. — A correspondent of the Gennessec
Farmer gives his mode of growing tomatoes. H©
forwards his plants in a hot-bed of green house,
and grows them in pot3 until they are a foot and
a hall high, turning them out about the second
week in May. He plants them three feet apart
in rows. When planted he drives down a few
stakes, six or eight feet apart, leaving them about,
four leet high the whole length of the rows, ami
nailing a strip ol wood all along the tops, and
tying one or two lower down the stakes, to make
a trellis. The ground should be dug deep and
made rich with manure, and a spoonful of guano
mixed with the soil around each root. We quote 5
“V\ hen they have grown sufficiently long to tie
to the trellis, I select two or three of the longest
shoots and tie them, loosely to the trellis, cutting:
away all other small laterals which may grow on
the main branches. I let these main branches;
grow until they come in flower and set the first
bunch of fruit; then I pinch out the top, one
joint above the fruit, leaving the leaf entire. 1
then allow it to go on again until it has flowered
and set another bui\eh of fruit, when the top is
pinched out one leaf above the bunch, the same
as tho first, and so on of all the rest, taking care
to cut all the laterals which may grow on the.
main branches down to the axels of the ea
as often as they are produced but leaving the
leaves entire, H any one will take
tra trouble, he will be amply repaid an.i l abso
aey
“nd three ,dys or a week earher.
When Ape they will hang longer on the vines
‘ havin'* The situation can hardly be
loo” W* -““ Jtam
best,”
A orentlman died recently in Baltimore leaving
to a nephew in Cincinnati!. Among the slaves
were three negro girls, 0110 a remarkably beauti
ful and intellectual mulatto. The nephew told
them that he intended tb take them to Cmcnv
natti and give them their freedom exibiting the
papers of liberation. He, however, took them to
Lexigton, Ky, and sold them for 1000 eaek I