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LITERARY
PENFIELD, GEORGIA.
L. LINCOLN YEAZEY, Editor.
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 15, 1858. ~
Our thanks are due Hon. Joshua Hill for a
copy of Senator Kennedy’s speech on the admis
sion of Kansas.
The Atlanta Medical & Surgical Journal takes
rank, we think, among the very best publications
of this class in our country. It is edited by Drs.
Logan and Westmoreland, both of whom are
jfrofessors in the Medical College located in that
place. Price, $3.00 a year in advance.
The Southern Commercial Convention will
hold its meeting this year in the City of Mont
gomery, Ala. We see Gov. Brown has appointed
delegates from each congressional district to rep*
resent this State.
THERE is no emotion of our natures more
strange in its workings than that of sympa
thy. So strong in its energy as to be the con
necting link that binds together a large portion
of the human family, it is yet mysteriously sub
tle in its operations. It is capable of kindling
into fury the wildest passions; yet, it is in itself
the most placid of feelings. With a secret mag
‘netism, it pervades all hearts and draws them to
gether by some unseen and incomprehensible
power. That enthusiasms which is sometimes
seen to pervade a whole assembly, with the
rapidity of an electric spark, is the product of
this agency. Gentle and wooing in the ordinary
intercourse of friendship, it is capable of inciting
to deeds of daring or the fury of revolution. It
is one of the kindest solaces of life on earth, and
will be one of the purest sources of enjoyment in
Heaven.
THE GIFT BOOK ENTERPRISE is one of the
latest forms of swindling that has originated
in New York, Philadelphia and other northern
cities. Their plan is so remarkably generous in
appearance, that it would at once beget a suspi
cion btt some fraud. They propose to sell at the
very lowest publishers’ prices books of every style
and variety, and to give with each book a prize
in jewelry ranging in value from 25 cents to fifty
dollars. Illured by such tempting offers, many
persons in different portions of the country send
to them for books; and we do not suppose we
place our figures too high, when we say that one
such establishment in New Yerk has received be
tween one hundred and fifty and two hundred
dollars from this place.
Now if they act as they profess to do, where, in
the name of common sense, can they make a
profit ? If they sell their books at the publisher’s
price, it cannot be made on these; and how can
they afford to sell books at cost and give each pur
chaser a valuable present? The idea that the
whole affair is other than a fraudulent scheme to
cheat all who trust it, is preposterous. We know
that some have sent money and received what
they considered a fair equivalent in books; but
these are exceptions designedly made, in order
to render the bait more attractive. We are sur
prised that honest, order-loving persons can gain
their own consent to bestow patronage or favor
on a concern evidently gotten up for the purpose
of deceiving and swindling.
?
NEVER, at any time in the memory of man, has
religious awakenings been so general and
wide-spread as at present. From North, East
and West we have accounts of stirring revivals
and out-pourings of divine grace. So far from
ebbing, the feeling of interest seems deepening,
widening and progressing in every direction. The
secular press, which, as a general thing, ignores
such matters, bestows upon this a large share of
attention, and we not unfrequently find an ac
count of a prayer-meeting by the side of a politi
cal tirade.
That some good will follow from these awaken
ings, no one who believes in the truth of revela
tion can doubt. We have never thought, howj
ever, that such great excitements were the best
methods of propagating religious faith. This is
a subject, the nature and importance of which
alike demand a calm, deliberate consideration,
with the mind free from everything that could
interrupt a free exercise of its powers. Amid the
excitement naturally attendant on a religious
.revival, this cannot be done, and persons the
most honest and sincere become the victims of
self-deception. With the feelings that the occa
sion begets, they make professions which they
have not the moral strength to sustain by tl}eir
lives. The consequences of all this, though lam
*entable, are too plainly seen to be denied. The
Church is brought into disrepute by a multitude
of unworthy members, notwithstanding the fact
that for the six or twelve months immediately
succeeding every large revival, every conference
lessens the number by frequent expulsions.
THE MOUNT VERNON ASSOCIATION has
thus far met with success almost commen
surate with its zeal. Near half the amount of
the proposed subscription has been raised, and,
from all we can learn, the prospects for procuring
the remainder are in every way flattering. The
ladies who have undertaken this noble work, and
the men who have come to their aid, are worthy
of all commendation. There is, however, one
party in this proposed trade upon whom the same
meed of praise can not be bestowed. The pro-
Ijgpf™. of Mt. Vervon seems actuated by a mer
cenary spirit unworthy of the great name which
he bears.
Some years ago, when first consulted in refer
ence to this matter, he agreed to dispose of the
©state at one hundred thousand dollars. That
this amount would ever be raised for such an
object, seemed at that time very improbable.
When, however, a subscription list was begun,
and rapidly swelled by liberal contributions from
all quarters, Mr. Washington retracted his pro
posal and doubled his price. This seems to us
ungenerous, and to manifest a disposition to take
advantage of the high-toned patriotism of South
ern matrons.
He has, we learn, been for some years expect
ing a proposal of purchase from the General Gov
ernment or the State of Virginia. From either
of these, he would have been in some degree ex
cusable in demanding so enormous a price for a
piece of property that is valuable only from its
associations. But when his country-women are
the negotiators, the spirit of gallantry and a feel
ing of respect for their motives should prompt
him’ to be generous.
. But the property is his, and he has the right
to affix to it any price which his Cupidity may
suggest. This may boa great moral failing, but
it. is one for which society can inflict no punish
ment, save an expression of its condemnation.
We are pleased to know that the ladies of the
Soj*th have not had their resolution shaken by
the greatness of the price or the difficulty of rais
ing so large an amount. Being now properly organ
ized as a corporate body in the forms of law, and
much of the money already raised, we look
forward confidently to a speedy consummation of
their labors.
IT is a rare thing for a wealthy criminal to be
“brought to justice. Liberal fees will, in nine
cases out of ten, clear a man from the most hein
ous offences that ever stained a court docket.
So long as there is a prospect of reward, the as
siduous limbs of the law will ply him with en
couragement and advice, in the meantime leaving
no effort untried, and many leaving no means
unemployed, to procure his deliverance. As his
funds decrease, their zeal abates and many a poor
wretch, after feeing away all his substance to save
his neck from the hangman, has been cooly in
formed that his case is hopeless; that they can
do no more, and piously recommend him to be
resigned to his fate. Such is the mercenary con
duct of a large portion of one of the “learned”
professions. Their kindness is measured by dol
lars and cents, their generosity is called into ac
tion by the click of gold, and their tender mer
cies are often the most refined cruelty.
A fearful proportion of the wickedness which
disgraces our country will hang on the skirts of
the legal fraternity when brought to the Bar of
Eternal Justice. They give an unequivocal en
couragement to crime when they strive to screen
those whom they honestly believe guilty from
deserved punishment. Yet, there are thousands
who do this in their practice without a scruple.
“ If you will pay me enough I will defend you,” is
the first, perhaps the only condition, when the
question of guilt or innocence ought to be the
prime object of consideration. They will advo
cate the cause of the unblushing murderer, while
his hands are scarce cleared of the crimson stains
of his crime. The highwayman, whose name
awakens a thrill of horror throughout a commu
nity, can purchase their eloquence and learning
with the very gold which he has rifled from the
pockets of some welteriftg victim. The midnight
assassin, the dark infuser of deadly drugs, the
pirate who scours the seas and the base despoiler
of female virtue need not fear the threatenings of
the law so long as their purses are well filled.
Why all this venality in a class of men whose
qualifications otherwise fit them eminently to be
guardians of the public weal? What plea can
they offer for thus prostituting their conscientious
Bense of justice to a sordid love of money ? “We
must live,” say they, and “we cannot live by de
fending only the innocent.” Ah! that decep
tive fallacy, “We must live!” To how many
hearts does it lay its flattering unction, when
harrassed by the criminal nature of their business!
This is the excuse which the grocer gives for
labelling his foul mixture of poisons for “ French
Brandy ;” and the merchant renders the same for
selling his goods for three prices, while he solemnly
affirms that he is scarce making a living per cent.
It is one of the most mischievous lies that the
enemy of all good ever put into the mouths of
men.
Many have read Dickens’ exposure of the Court
of Chancery with a feeling of grief that such a
piece of mechanism for the production of human
misery should ever have been invented. The
lingering torture of those who were drawn within
the circle of its influence was worse than death.
Until the secrets of all hearts are revealed, no
one can know the sumless amount of human mis
ery which it has produced. What is true of this
is true, to a greater or less extent, of every Court
everywhere and at all times. He who, tempted
by the illuring promises which they hold out, en
ters their precincts, may expect a constant com
panionship with unhappiness, be his cause just or
unjust.
But it is not in law alone that “ faults that are
rich are fair.” There, this opinion takes a prac
tical form, and is enforced in a manner that makes
it peculiarly odious to every unbiassed mind. The
press, too, puts on mittens of silken softness, when
touching the crimes of those whom money
has made respectable. How often do we see a
paragraph floating around concerning some dark
dyed villany, which informs us in conclusion, that
owing to the respectability of the family the real
names are suppressed. Is not conduct like this
characterized by the most flagrant injustice to all
parties? By thus plastering over a sin with the
name of respectability, it commends it to the
admiration and practice of the rising generation,
and thus spreads throughout the ranks of society
a taint of moral corruption. It shields from dis
grace, and often from punishment, the wretch
whose crimes have placed him beyond the pale
of respect. This is done, not because a hoary
headed sire, venerable for years and virtue, would
be brought with sorrow to the grave by an une
quivocal verdict of public opinion; not because
his condemnation would bow with anguish and
sorrow one who cherishes for him the deep fulness
of a mother’s love; but because he has relatives
whom richly filled coffers have dubbed “respect
able.”
Was there a time when wealth was not honored
and worshiped as a healing for every frailty—a
covering for every crime ? When Euripides, in
one of his plays, made a character say that
“wealth was the greatest of blessings, deserving
the highest admiration of the gods and men,”
his actor was hissed from the stages. This was
in the palmiest days of Greece, when her heroes
did feats of noblest valor, and her bards dealt in
the high sublimities of song, ere the bane of
riches had corrupted her virtue and enervated
her energies. How differently would the sentence
now be received, were each man to speak his real
sentiments ! It would be encored with loud
thunders of applause by an audience with whom
honor, virtue, intelligence, morality and respect
ability are all combined in that one word—
WEALTH.
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A PURE literature seems to be an impossibility
in the northern portion of our confederacy,
and must remain so until the present generation
of false philanthropists shall have passed away.
Scarce a book now ever proceeds from that source
that is not polluted by some of the errors that
have their birth in the hot-bed of isms. Their
moral essays, designed for the instruction of the
young, contain some erroneous doctrine concealed
in a cloud of sophistical reasoning. Many of the
tales which are professedly intended only to please
and entertain, are really devoted to the advocacy
of some corrupting system of falsehood. It is
difficult to find a daily, weekly or monthly journal
that is not blackened by some form of fanaticism.
Here and there one is found dovoted to the pro
pagation of a pure, wholesome literature; but
they are few and far between, and growing every
day more rare.
If the press be a fair exponent of the charac
ter of the people, this is a gloomy picture to con
template. That there is much sound, conserva
tive feeling at the North, we have no doubt: but
the people are much too ready to listen to and
adopt new-fangled notions. From this cause,
they are wafted about by every wind of doctrine,
without any settled ground of belief. This enar
bles designing demagogues to lead on men of
good hearts and correct moral principles until
they become furious, reckless fanatics.
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Peterson's Magazine, always the earliest of our
monthlies in making its appearance, came a few
days since with a fresh May look. It is filled
with light, readable sketches, and its illustrations
aro admirable. Price, $2.00 a year.
Serious apprehensions are entertained for the
recovery of Col. Benton, who has been suffering
for some time past with cancer in the stomach, but
who still prosecutes his labor of love—the work
with which his fame will be so much identified
in times to come—though prostrated and con
fined to the bed.
[communicated.]
LITTLE DORRITI I did not think it of you!
Fie! what can the matter be? Don’t show
your temper so, my dear! What if Mr. Veazey
does grumble a little ? Do let him grumble in
peace. Poor little dear! you spread your net with
coy fingers; and yet, the bird flew away from its
tangled meshes! You toiled arduously and caught
—nothing! Don't be in a passion about it!
Don’t show your disappointment so plainly to the
world ! It places you in an awkward position;
and I’m sure you do not like that, my dear.
You and I, Little Dorrit, were once teething,
squalling babies ourselves—you know w r e were;
and very disagreeable babies, too, I dare say.
Reflect a moment. We don’t love the noisy little
brats, do we? Then why pour out such anathe
mas on the poor Editor’s devoted head ? You
and I, Little dear, are not mere chicks! We are
on the “shady side of thirty,” and we know that
many of our Editor’s remarks are true. Have we
not seen them verified ?
Then, forsooth, when our bachelor friend
“makes merry over other men’s woes,” why make
you “such ado” about it? Verily, friend, I fear
thou wert defeated when thou did’st storm his
heart; and thou thyself had’st better “solve the
abstruse problem,” “ why Jack couldn’t eat his
supper.”
Dost speak from experience, friend, when thou
callest his heart a “charnel house of joys?” Is
thine own heart filled with the “ashes of buried
hopes ?” Hast thou quaffed of “ Marali’s waters”
till thou thinkest bitterly of all mankind ? Thou
should’st rather have lent a helping hand, and
rejoiced with him in his freedom.
I am not a good equestrian, as you are, my dear
Little Dorrit; therefore I had-better not mount
Pegasus, for fear I should be flung. Neither am
Ia remarkable pedestrian. So I’ll not attempt
to climb Parnassus regardless of feel, lest I should
grow foot-sore and aweary, and at best accom
plish only a dozen lines of spinsterian verse.
Leave our Editor in peace. Some great souls can
not be mated. DAME DURDEN.
CLIPPED ITEMS.
A line may be remembered when a chapter is forgotten
A little stealing is a dangerous part, but steal
ing largely is a noble art: ’tis mean to rob a hen
roost of a hen, but stealing millions makes us
gentlemen.
A man from the country, whose wife had eloped
and carried off’the feather bed, was in Louisville
in search of them, not that he cared anything
about the wife-“But the feathers,” saidhe “them’s
worth 48 cents a pound.”
Ex-Governor Peters,* of Connecticut, died at
Hebron, on the 30th of March.
Prof. E. A. Andrews, LLD., widely known for
his numerous and valuable text books, died at
New Britain, Conn.
The key to a mother’s heart is a baby. Keep
that well oiled with praise, and you can unlock
every pantry in the house.
The coinage of the United States mint in Phil
adelphia, for the month of March was $250,725,50
in gold, principally in double eagles, $375,000 in
silver wholly in half and quarter dollar pieces,
and SIB,OOO in cents.
Mr. McMicken, who died in Cincinnatti, a few
days ago, bequeathed three hundred thousand
dollars to fovnd a first class University in that
city, and ten thousand dollars for the benefit of
the Farmer’s College of Hamilton county, Ohio.
During the past month thirty-three vessels were
lost at sea. They were valued, with their car
goes, at $813,500. The total number lost since
the Ist of January is 81, valued at $2,439,300.
In the same time last year 26 vessels were lost,
and their value was $6,514,800.
One hundred and fifty-four newspapers and
one hundred and fourteen magazines are pub
lished in New York city. 133 periodicals of va
rious kinds are now published in Boston.
The government has made a contract with a
citizen of Texas to purchase twenty-five thou
sand dollars jyortli of camels for the use of the
army.
Twenty-five companies of volunteers have been
offered in Kentucky for the Utah regiment.
Cincinnatti owes a debt of three million eight
hundred and sixty-nine thousand dollars, and
owns property valued at about six million five
hundred thousand dollars.
Mr. Samuel Wright, a farmer, who resides in
Washington county, Pa., has eighteen children,
one hundred and eleven grand children, and
one hundred and seventy-four great grand chil
dren. His wife, too, is still living.
Among the numerous difficulties which beset a
young man’s path on his entrance into life, and
sometimes attend the whole of his subsequent
career, is the tyranny of opinion. The approval
or disapproval of society becomes, either from the
constitution of his own nature, or the influence
of those around him, a predominant motive of
action. He is deterred from duty or compelled
to folly by a threatened danger to his social posi
tion.
The preparation for a second attempt to lay
the Atlantic telegraph cable are progressing in
England, four hundred additional miles of the ca
ble having just been completed and three hun
dred more for casualties have been ordered,
making in all about three thousand miles of ca
ble.
It is stated that Louis Napoleon lias exiled
thirty-two thousand men. Os these, thirty thou
sand have been pardoned. The recent arrests
are said to have been made almost entirely from
among the pardoned. The prisons of Paris are
crowded with political offenders.
John, a negro man belonging to the Rev. G.
W. Carmichael, near Huntsville, Ala., has been
committed to jail, charged with poisoning the
family of Mr. Charles Yarborough. Three of the
family have died recently, and John’s wife
says she poisoned them at his instance.
A Western editor thus sums up the peculiar
ities of a cotemporary: “He is too lazy to earn a
meal and too mean to eat one. He never was
generous but once, and that was when he gave
the itch to an apprentice boy.”
Human nature is noble when it fulfils its des
tiny ; it is ignoble when it shrinks from it. It is
grand and glorious when it recognizes its origin ;
it is degenerate and base when it betrays its
trust. One fact, however, is sufficient to establish
the inherent dignity of man—his origin and his
rightful development are both divine.
The Chicago Tribune says: During the last few
days we passed over a dozen or more counties of
this State (along the Illinois Central) besides the
counties of Davies, Knox and Pike, in Indiana,
and can speak from personal observation of the
favorable appearance of the growing wheat and
corn.
Among the bills passed by the legislature of
Massachusetts is one making two divisions in the
crime of murder, the first of which, where it is
premeditated, or life taken while in the commis
sion of a felony, is made punishable with death.
The second degree is punished by imprisonment
for life.
It is stated that Ex-Mayor Wood is about com
mencing a libel suit against the editors of the Tri
bune in which seven hundred and fifty libels will be
charged! Whew!
There are sixty seaports in Cuba, and last year
there were three thousand six hundred and eigh
ty coastwise arrivals, and three thousand six hun
dred and fifty clearances. This will give an idea
of the trade of this beautiful island, which is not
more than half cultivated under the present regi
me.
Santa Anna left the port of Carthagenia on the
last West India mail steamer for St. Thomas, en
route for Vera Cruz and prior to departue sold off
publicly all his game cocks, a circumstance of
ominous proof to Spaniards of ultimate designs on
Mexico.
The New York Day Book gives the total number
of Congregational churches in the country about
2,093 ; and the total membership is estimated to
be not less than 250,000. About four fifths of
the churches have been reported 'to the compil
ers of the Year Book, and there have been added
by profession, the past year, G,870.
CHOI SELECTIONS.
Cicero’s Villas.
The villas of Cp. ro, as he himself informs us,
were neither ‘so extensive nor costly as those
owned by the wealthier nobles of Rome, and yet
it strikes us that there was no deficiency in their
number or in their costliness. Notwithstanding
all that he may have said of the modesty of his
fortune and of his desires, we cannot regard that
fortune wdiich would enable a man to support
eighteen villas, and keep them up in the style he
did, as either very limited or humble. It was a
maxim with him that “ every citizen should illus
trate the dignity of his position by the splendor
of his life ;” and we must do him the justice to
say that he did not fail in carrying out to its ful
lest extent the maxim he had laid down for him
self. The biographers of Cicero have informed
us that he was too honest to be rich, ’and that
while former governors of Silicia had accumu
lated vast wealth by their extortion and oppres
sion, he had retired from that office without a
stain upon his character. He preferred justice
to extortion, and left his dignities and his offices
free from any reproach, and with a noble and
honorable reputation.
We will not enter upon any digression as to
the comparative value of money in liis days and
our own. The ideas of a Roman as to what con
stituted a fortune are incomprehensible to us, for
Crasus declared that “no man deserved to be
called rich who could not maintain an army.”
The wealth possessed by Cicero, he obtained from
legitimate sources. “It was derived from public
offices, provincial commands, present from kings
and foreign States, and legacies.” lie says in one
of bis letters that “he obtained from his dying
friends legacies to the amount of two hundred
thousand pounds!” The house belonging to Cic
ero upon the Palatine Ilill cost thirty thousand
pounds, and was one of the noblest houses in Rome.
“It was situated in a conspicuous position, over look
ing the forum and the rostrum, and was the more
splendid in being joined to a portico or colonnade
built by Catullus, on the proceeds of the Cim
bric spoils.”
The Villas of Cicero situated at various points
from Tusculum to the shores of Baite Pompeii,
were the favorite resorts of his leisure hours, and
these he visited according to the seasons and the
motives which induced him to seek for recreation
giving to one or the other such temporary prefer
ence as would enable him to accomplish the pur
pose he had in view at the time. The patrimo
nial estate at Arpinum, where he was born, was
one to which he often loved to resort. In the
height of summer, Arpinum and the litle island
adjoining with its groves and cascades, afforded
a pleasant retreat in hot weather, and here he of
ten refreshed himself, as he writes to his brother
“in the cool stream of his Tribenus.” For this
place he had a sincere fondness, for with it were
associated the innocent pleasures of his youth,
and around it centered the affection of his
childhood. It afforded him not only a resort
from the cares of state, but it had the power of
calling back to him tl ‘°e cherished associations
which were eve- dear to 1 is memory and his heart.
We may trace to Arpinum his peculiar fondness
for these rural situ:, dons which gave him a view
of the sea; always with him a necessary addition
to the charms of the scenery around him.
Many of his villas are represented to have been
noble and grand in their structure, and must
have required a large expenditure to keep them
in a style satisfactory to the taste of the great ora
tor. Index endent of his villas, he had a great
mimoetr of smaller houses on the road which led
from one villa to another, where he would fre
quently stay for a night’s rest; and even these,
his humbler resorts, or “ baiting places,” as they
were termed by himself, were adorned with groves
and gardens and contained ampl < H'< ommodations
for himself and his retinue of friends and servants.
His Tusculan house, about four leagues from
Rome, ivas situated on the top ofa hill, from which
he had fine views of the country around. This
spot, still familiar to travellers, must have pos
sessed rare cha-rms'in the time of Cicero. “The view
towards Rome, looking from Tusculan citadel,
embraces the Campagna—on the left is the sea,
and on the other side is the whole Alban valley with
beautiful undulations, and covered with a luxuri
ance of vendure that renders it a charming scene.”
Cicero had two villas at Formise, another on
the shores of Baite, between the Lake of Avern
us and Puteoli, a fourth on the hills of Cumae,
and another at Pompeii. We are told that “ his
Puteolan home was built after tlie manner of
ancients, and with a portico of marble, and sur
rounded by groves and walks.” At that period
the neighborhood was covered with noble build
ings, both puli lie and private— “A succession of
temples and palaces reaching from the hills to the
sea and must have presented to the way-farers upon
the sea a grand and imposing sight as his bark
approached the shores of the classic land.”
The furniture of the house of Cicero was suitable
to the elegance of his taste and magnificence of
his buildings. “ His galleries were adorned with
statues and paintings of the best Grecian masters,
and all his vessels were of the most beautiful and
costly materials. A cedar table belonging to Cic
ero—the first ever seen in Rome, and which cost
eighty pounds—w'as still in existence in the time
of Pliny.” Atticus, who then lived in Athens, pro
vided him with books and works of art. He sent
to him from the city several cargoes of statuary.
His Pentelican marble of the Mercury with the
brazen head was a work of art of which ho was
very proud. In a letter to Atticus, he writes,
“Send me as many as you can, with any other
statues and ornaments you think proper for the
place and in my taste, but above all, such as will
suit my gymnasium and portico, for I am grown
very fond of these things.” He sent plans of his
walls to Atticus, in order to bespeak pieces of
sculpture, or painting for the compartments.
When Cicero was in the country, his architect
was finishing some additional buildings for his
palatine residence, but Atticus found great fault
with the small windows. This objection Cicero
answered by saying that he had mentioned the
same thing to Cyrus, his architect, who told him
“ that the prospect of tlie fields did not appear
to so great advantage through larger lights.”
Stupendous Elements. —What stupendous ele
ments are time and space in the scheme of crea
tion ! Geology indicates some of Nat ure’s sublimest
operations, and shows us the grandeur of her
“large style” wffien compared with the Mosaic
and Platonic cosmogonies. One is divine, the
other is human. We have now a magnificent
perspective, where before was a dead wall. We
learn what “patient periods” round themselves
between one epoch and another of her formations.
There is an immeasurable distance between the
nebulae and Mercury, between the granite and
the trilobite, between the first rock and the first
oyster; and further yet from these is it to “Plato
and the preaching of the immortality of the soul.”
So, too, in the world of humanity, the epochs of
History are divided by vast interstices of time and
space. It is a long way from us to the first
Greeks; and thence to the primitive scenes
whence they derived their theogonies is longer
still. Divergent as these events seem, their de
velopments are controlled by one and the same
law. “ The whirling bubble on the surface of a
brook repeats the mechanics of the sky.” The
chemistry of organic and inorganic matter is re
newed in the mental operations of the simple
rustic or of a Spinoza. For all these not only one
law, but also one “ stuff” only is employed. “The
direction is forever onward,”’ but nothing is
abandoned or left behind; “ the artist still goes
back for materials.”
Young man, the enemy that you have to fear
is not the one who offers you a manly encounter,
is not the one who is determined to test to the
uttermost you claim to honor and advancement,
is not he even who, by slanderous insinuations,
would undermine your tower of strength; it is
that keener and more dexterous destroyer, who
in alliance with your own feebler and earthly na
ture, suggests to you that you cannot succeed;
that, however it may be with the great and gif
ted, your Maker has failed to furnish you with
powers adequate to the issue he has demanded of
you. Believe it not. In the manly exercise of
your own natural endowments you will find an
unchallenged entrance into a lordly domain; na
ture invites, and tho God of Nature commune s,
you to employ existence in truthful self-aeve oj. -
ment; but the appointment of your post is m 0
hands, and the fault and failure will
own, if through a mistaken estimate ot dign’ty
of duty, you are tempted to misdirect and mis
apply your powers.
sion a venerable Roman was taunted by another
with the remark that he had no need of the bar
bor for his head, as ho could trim his hair best
with a sponge.
LADIES’ OLIO.
Much has been written about woman’s love, but we
doubt if ever that “glorv of a woman” was ever so for
cibly expressed in few words as in the following stanzas,
which we take from an English paper:
Come from your long, long roving
On the seaso wild and rough;
Conte to me tender and loving,
And I shall be blessed enough.-
Where your sails have been unfurling,
What winds have blown on your brow,
I know not, and ask not, my darling,
So that you come tome now.
Sorrowful, sinful and lonely,
Poor and despised though you be,
All are nothing, if only
You turn from the tempter to me.
Os men though you be unforgiven,
# Though priest be unable to shrive,
I’ll pray till I weary all heaven,
If only you come back alive.
I I
The Proper Time to Marry.
“HAIL—WEDDED LOVE !”
We believe that some of the most distinguished
philosophers and closest observers of human na
ture, have recommended early marriages, as, in
the long run, calculated to prove most advanta
geous to both parties. There are two sides to this
delicate question, and we believe that the great
error in this country is in a disposition to marry
too young, or before the mind is fully developed
or the the judgement sufficiently ripe to make a
proper decision. There are, however, various ar
guments, both pro and con. We perceive by
some si atistics just published, that in the city of
Boston, during the last year, three males under
twenty-one years of age, chose partners whose
ages ranged from twenty-five to thirty years,
while four hundred and twenty-two, whose ages
varied from twenty-one to forty-five, sought part
ners for life under twenty. Os the males, more
than thirty-five per cent, married between the
ages of twenty-five and thirty, and over thirty
four per cent, between the ages of twenty-one
and twenty-five. Os the females, more than for
ty-five. The general rule seems to be, that males
marry between the ages of twenty and thirty,
while females enter into the silken bond between
the ages of twenty and twenty-five. There are,
of course, many exceptions.
Hasty and indiscreet marriages cannot be too
carefully guarded. They produce nothing but
disappointment and misery. That the wedded
life, generally speaking, is the condition inten
ded for both sexes, is beyond all question; nature
has so ordered, and those who with the means,
steadily shun matrimony, cannot be said to live
up to their duties and obligations. A distin
guished journalist of New York used to remark
playfully, yet forcibly, that “he seemed to
live in the life of every child that was born unto
him, while the companionship of his wife was a
constant source of calm, sweet and exquisite de
light. ” A happy marriage—one of affection, har
mony and tase—is indeed a blessing, while a dis
cordant union, if we may so speak, is a constant
anxiety and curse.
The many divorces which take place in the
United States show that there is a sad want of
forethought and reflection on the part of hun
dreds who unite themselves for better or for
worse. There are, doubtless, in most of sue h ca
ses, faults on both sides, and the man or the wo
man who expects to realize all the dreams of
youth, and who cannot practice the virtue ‘of foi*-
bearance, sadly mistakes poor human nature.
While, however, we would deprecate hasty or
premature marriages, we believe that in such
hallowed contracts, delays are dangerous, espe
cially if they be protracted beyond reasonable
limits. And yet in our humble judgment, it is
never too late to marry, unless the faculties he
exhausted, the frame he enfeebled, and age he
present with all its infirmities.
Dull times exercise a sad influenceupon matri
monial affairs. We'fear, too, that the extrava
gance of dress and of fashion, in which too ma
ny of the fair sex of this country indulge, deters
hundreds of active and enterprising young men
from encountering all the risks and responsibili
ties involved in the selection of a partnerfor life.
Far better to begin moderately and economically
and thus to save something from year to year,
than to enter the world with a dashing and reck
less spirit, with the chances of an early fall. Mu
tual forbearance is absolutely essential in the
marriage state. Nothing is perfect in this world,
and w r e should make allowance for the errors and
infirmities of each other. This is essential, in
deed, in all the relations of life. None are infal
lible, and this being the fact, we should not look
for infallibility even in those we love best and es
teem most.— Phil. Inq.
A Woman’s True Life.—To most women how
raiely occurs the opportunity of accomplishing
great things, and making great conquests, as the
on-looking world estimates greatness. But in ev
ery relation of life, and in almost every day’s
and hour’s experience, there are laid in her path
way little crosses to take up and bear, little lessons
to learn of patience and forbearance, little sacrifices
which may seem as nothing to the looker-on, but
which from peculiarity of temperament may in
rc ality be costly ones; little victories over nameless
developments of selfishness; the culture of many
a little hope and feeling and principle, the sup
pression of many desires, repinings or exactions,
which make the feeble woman sometimes greater
and stronger, in the eyes of Him who looks into
the soul’s innermost recesses, than the mighty
man who takes a city.
To most women, the great warfare of this pro
bationary life must be a warfare known best by
its results —the enemies they would vanquish
meet them in the little hidden nooks of every
day life, and the victories they gain in the war
fare are recorded not on the scroll of earthy fame,
but by watching angels in God’s book on high.
Then how greatly important is each day’s re
sult in this discipline of domestic life, if here it
is we are to achieve holy victories and then to re
ceive the plaudit, “Well done!” or at the last to
find inscribed upon our course, “ Defeat—failure
—irretrievable loss.”
Influence of Fortune-Telling.
Some young persons once applied to an old wo
man, who, among the vulgar and ignorant, had
gained much celebrity in the art; to each, of
course, she had something to say—but to one she
did “ a tale unfold,” so much to the purpose,
that it caused her very soon to leave this world
of trouble. After premising with a deal of non
sense, she said she never would be married, but
that she would be the mother of three children ;
that she would live in great splendor for a period,
but, after all, she was “ sorry to say,” she would
die poor and miserable. Miss 8., while with her
companions, showed very little signs of anxiety ;
but the moment she was left to her own reflec
tions, one may guess the effect of such an har
rangue on a virtuous but weak mind. Mark the
consequences 1 She was at the time on the point
of marriage with a very worthy and respectable
young gentleman ; but such was the hold which
the prediction of the fortune-teller had taken on
her imagination, that she could never, from that
time, receive him with her usual attention. Her
lover, quickly perceiving the change, endeavored
to learn the cause of it; but, finding his inquiries
ineffectual, as also any efforts of his to rouse her
to'an explanation of her behavior, which became
more and more distant, and, doubting the smcei
ity of her affection, he, in the course of a 1
time, discontinued his visits altoget er.
young lady, perceiving herself deserted by the
only man she’ could o4r love, and £h
as Uo fulfilled the prophecy ‘o far. the rMtJmght
also bo her an
weary existence, ,“j'” “JiriLive dishonor to her
fmfbyHmitSa “crime that could never
be repented of. One morning, at the usual horn
her Ely finding she did not appear, sent to in
jure £e cause, when she was found lying dead
on her bed, having the night before taken two
ounces of laudanum to effect her purpose. On
tho toilet was found a note, detailing the particu
lars and reasons for committing so shotting an act,
of which the preceeding is the outline. Thus
perished an innocent and lovely girl, in the flow
er of her youth, trheugh the baneful influence of
fortune-telling —but giving at the same time the
flattest contradictions to the prophecy against
her. — American Union.
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Kind words are looked upon like jewels in the
breast, never to be forgotten, and perhaps to
cheer, by their memory, a long, sad life; while
words of cruelty, or of carelessness, are like swords
in the bosom, wounding and leaving scars which
will be borne to the grave by their victim. Do
you think there is any bruised heart which bears
the mark of such a wound from you ? If there
is a living one which you have wounded, hasten
to heal it; for life is short—to morrow may bo
too late.
FARMER’S COLUMN.
COMMERCIAL.
Augusta, April 10, 3 P. M. — COTTON —In conse
quence of the firmness of holders, and the small stocks
offering, the sales were light. The only transactions we
heard were 14bales at 101, 11 at 104, 18 at 11,124 at lli,
53 at lli, 93 at 11§, and 30 at llj cents, and about 60
bales at 12 cents. The rrcei ts were quite light.
The market in Charlesto to-day was firm at full
prices.
Savannah, April 9,4 P. M.— COTTON —There has
been but little inquiry to-day, and the sales only 499
bales. The accounts per America are anxiously lookeu
for, and until their arrival our market will remain in its
present quiet state. Hoi - are offering so sparingly
that purchasers find it dini a to operate to any extent.
The particulars oftlieday’s s >.es, are asiollows: 6at 104,
63 at Hi, 59 at Ilf, 72 at lli, 254 at Hi, and 45 bales at
12i cents.
Augusta, Prices Current.
WHOLESALE PRICES.
BACON.—Hams, sft 10 @ 104
Canvassed Hams, lb 13 (a) 14
Shoulders, lb 9 @ 10
Western Sides, lb 10i @ 11
Clear Sides, Tenn. ft lb 11 @ 114
Ribbed Sides, sft 11 @ 00
Hog Round, new, ft lb 10 @ 104
FLOUR.—Country ffc bbl 450 @ 600
Tennessee ft bbl 475 @5 60
City Mills ft bbl 550 @7 50
Etowah ft bbl 500 @7 50
Denmead’s ft bbl 500 @ 700
Extra ft bbl 700 @ 750
GRAIN.—Corn in sack ft bush 65 ■ @ 75
Wheat, white ft bush 1 05 (a) 1 10
Red ft lb 95 @ 1 00
Oats ft bush 45 (a) 50
Rye ft bush 70 @ 75
Peas ft bush 75 @ 85
Corn Meal ft bush 70 @ 75
IRON.—Swedes fa lb 5i @ 5f
English, Common, ft lb 34 @
“ Refined, ft lb 3| @
LARD.— ft lb 10 @ 11
MOLASSES.—Cuba ft gal 26 @ 28
St. Croix ft gal 40
Sugar House Syrup ft gai 42 @ 45
Chinese Syrup ft gal 40 @ 50
SUGARS.—N. Orleans ft lb 7i @ 9
Porto Rico ft lb 84 @ 9
Muscovado ft lb 8 @ 84
Refined C ft lb 10 @ 11
Refined B ft lb 104 © 11
* Refined A ft lb H @ 114
Powdered ft lb 12 © 13
Crushed ft lb 12 @ 13
SALT.— ft sack 90 ©1 00
COFFEE.—Rio ft lb 12 @ 13
Laguira ft lb 134 @ 14
Java ft lb 18 @ 20
Loaf Cake. —Five pounds of flour, two of sugar,
three quarters of a pound of lard, and the same
quantity of butter, one pint of yeast, eight eggs,
one quart of milk—roll the sugar in the flour, add
the raisins and spice after the first rising.
Spring Wheat. —Having had some experience
in raising this valuable crop, I. will endeavor to
throw out a few hints which may be of some in
terest to wheat growers. As winter wheat has be
come a very uncertain crop in a great many sec
tions of our country, it seems to be more necessary
that we should give our attention to something
that will answer as a substitute. The success of
this crop, as well as all others, depends mostly
on the preparation of the ground, and the time
of sowing. The ground may De broken up m the
fall or spring ah ho’ the fall is preferable lor up
lands. It generally docs well on corn stubble, but
the surest way is to turn over a clover sod in the
fall, and harrow well before sowing time, which
should be about the first oi May. I have known
of some perfect failures this season by the midge,
which was caused by sowing too early. The aver
age yield per acre is about fifteen bushels. I am
aware that in the West spring wheat is one of the
great staple crops, but in Pennsylvania little at
tention comparatively has been bestowed upon L s
branch of agriculture.— Cor. Phi/a. Dollar News
paper.
Testing Seeds.—lt is a matter of great impor
tance to farmers not only to have me seeds for
his spring sowing, but to know that he has a gen
uine article. The season of sowing is with most
crops very short in our climate, and if the first
sowing be lost, the second yields but an imperfect
crop, or is altogether a failure. Thousands of dol
lars are lost through seeds which have lost their
vitality through age, or which never had any on
account of imperfect ripen i; .". The quality of
seeds is easily tested, even n w inter. If one lias
a hot bed, plant a sample in in usual%ay under
glass and if they are good tbey will germinate
in a few days. If there be no hot-bed, they may
be planted in a flower pot and set upon the sill
of the window in a warm room, fronting South.
A few days will show whether they can be trusted
in the field and garden. Three or four pots upon
the window-sills will test all the seeds the farmer
wishes to plant. If tin \ will not come up under
these favorable eircun lances, new seeds should
be procured at once. — L < Jon Planter and Soil.
Cure Shying.
If a lady’s horse be .addicted to shying, I will
give her a sure ancl simple cure for the same; one
which I have never known to fail. Let us, for
instance, suppose the existence of a large heap
of stones on the near side of the road. The horse
sees an indistinct gray object, and prepares to
shy at it. The moment he shows such symptoms,
let his fair rider turn both her eyes on exactly
the opposite side of the read, (i. e. the oft'side)
and look steadily away from the offending heap,
and I’ll engage that the horse will walk quietly
by.
For many years I have ridden horses of all tem
pers and dispositions, some of them much given
to shying and have never yet found this simple rem
edy to fail in its effect. Let those who scoff at me
trv it. The reason is this. The human eye has
doubtletss a great influence on all animals, and
there is a strong and secret sympathy between
the horse and rider; the horse sees an indis
tinct object and looks doubtfully at it; his rider
becomes alarmed, imagining that the animal is
going to commit some eccentricity; the fear is
communicated to the animal, and be starts in
terror from the object which has frightened him ;
whereas, if he finds that his rider sits unmoved
and unconcei’nedly, lie regains confidence and
goes on, “in the even tenor of his way.” I be
lieve that one-half of our horses are ruined for
life by being “hit over head” by grooms to cure
them of shying.
The Black Martin.
Through the columns of your wide-spread and
useful paper, allow me to communicate to its
readers an important fact in relation to the above
named little birds. It is generally known that
during their incubation they serve a valuable pur
pose in chasing away the hawks from the poultry
yard, but I have good reason to believe they are
abundantly more valuable m preserving bacon
from the skipper fly and all other winged insects
that infest our smoke houses during the spring
and summer months in this climate. Last year
for the amusement of my children, I prepared
and fixed upon a pole some gourds for the ac
commodation of these little songsters, for which in
a few hours they amply paid us with their cheer
ful concerts. By accident I placed the pole near
the smoke house, and for the want of suitable
boxes, I did not pack up my bacon to prevent
the flies from troubling it, as I had done before
for years. During the spring and summer I heard
no complaint about skippers, and hairy-worms,
and other pests of the bacon. My wife remarked
that she had not been troubled with any of these
things during the year, still we did not know
how to account for this singular exemption, but
in the fall the storm blew down the and
gourds, and revealed to me the secret, fcTin each
gourd there was from J to a pint of indigestible
fly-skins—the excrement of the young. So well
convinced am I of their great utility that I ne
ver expect to be without them.— Wire Grass lie
porter.
Peas with Potatoes. —The planting of peas
with potatoes, dropping a few in each hill, is be
coming a profitable practice in some part of the
country. They require no extra cultivation, are
hoed with the potatoes, without interfering with
the operation, and are easily pulled when ripe.
The seed is free from all impurities, and generally
much heavier and better matured than when
grown in the ordinary way. The large marrow
fat is probably the best for this method of cul
ture. It grows vigorously, and has an abundance
of pods. It is though tjthat, cultivated in this way,
the pea is much less liable to be injured by the
bug.
‘‘Why did you not pocket some of them pears ?”
said one boy to another; “nobodywas there to
see.” “ Yes, there was—l was there to see my
self, and I don’t ever want to see myself do a
mean thing.”