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JOHN H. SEALS,
NEW SERIES, VOLUME 111,
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, President U. States
John C. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, Vice. “
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Howell Cobb, of Georgia, Secretary of the Treasury
Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, Secretary Interior
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Aaron V. Brown, of Tennessee, Postmaster-General
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Judiciary—Supreme Court.
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appointed in 1829 —Salary $4 500
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appointed 1839 —Salary $4 500
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tice, appointed 1837—Salary $4 500
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tice, appointed 1841 —Salary $4 500
Samuel Nelson, Coopcrstown, New York, Associote
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Nathan Clifford, Portland, Muine, Associate Justice,
appointed 1857 —Salary §4 500
Robert C. Grier, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Associate
Justice, appointed 1846 —Salary $4 500
Benjamin C. Howard, Baltimore, Maryland, Reporter,
appointed 1843 —Salary $1 300
The Supreme Court is held in the City of Washington,
and has one session annually, commencing on the fust
Monday in December.
STATE OF GEORGIA.
J. E. Brown, Governor
J. A. Steele, Secretary Executive Department
John B. Campbelle, “ “
M. W. McComb,
E. P. Watkins, Secretary of State
John B. Trippe, Treasurer
Peterson Thweatt, Comptroller General
James A. Green, Surveyor General
John F. Condon, State Librarian
’ John E. Ward, President of the Senate
W. B. Terhune, Secretary of the Senate
J.W.H.Underwood,Speaker House Representatives
Alex. M. Speer, Clerk House of Representatives
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Benjah S. Carswell, Assistant “ “
H. J. G. Williams, Inspector of Penitentiary
Wm. A. Williams, Book-Keeper “
Dr. Tomlinson Fort,Physician “
Dr. T. Fort, B. P. Stubbs and Dr. L. Strohecker,
Trustees Lunatic Asylum.
Supreme Court for Correction Errors.
Joseph H. Lumpkin, Judge. Term expiree 1868
Charles J. McDonald, Judge. “ “ 1861
Henry L. Benning, Judge. “ “ 185
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*Note. —The Pataula Circuit is attached to the 2d
Supreme Court District; Brunswick to the Ist; Talla
poosa to the 3d.
The firm of j. m. bowles & co. is this
day dissolved by mutual consent, Wm. B. Seals
retiring. Ths business will be continued by J, M.
Bowles at the same stand, where he will keep, at all
times, a full supply of Family Groceries, and will be
ready and willing to serve his friends at very Short Frq-
Jits for the CASH. .1. M. BOWLES,
Feb 25 WM. B. SEALS.
LOST OR STOLEN.
A IX persons arc forewarned against trading for
XjL the following notes: A note on Wm F Luckie for
Seventeen Dollars and Forty Cents, dated in April or
May last, and due the twenty fifth December ihereaf
ter ; one on Wm Moore for Twelve Dollars and Twen
ty-five Cents, dated in May or June last, and due the
<wenty-fifth December thereafter; one oil David Phelps
df Hancock county for Twenty Dollars, dated in March
Uet and due from date ; and one on John Mitchell of
Mount Zion for Seventeen Dollars Twelve and a-hnlf
cents, dated in April last, and due the twenty-fifth of
CtecembA thereafter. ‘ “
The above notes were made payable to the subscriber
guardian of free boys Jerry and Ben ; and the ma
kers of the same arc requested to make payment to no
person except myself or my order.
THOMAS D. SANFORD.
Greenesboro’, March 4, 1858.
Fresh cranberries and currants.
March 25 J. M. BOWLES!
ORANGES AND LEMONS.
Marcus J. M. BOWLES.
|F you Want bright and sharp Knives, buy a BATH
X BRIC-’ ol [April 22] J. M. BOWLES.
’ A NICE lo) of CROWDER PEAS lor sale by
April 32 J. M. BOWLES.
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April 15, 1858
Dr. W. L. M. HARRIS,
ATKFITI. to the good citizens of Pen-
Ytf field and vicinity, for the liberal confidence
Z3& and encouragement given him, respectfully contin
ues a lender of his professional services to them.
Dr. R. J. Massey, his former partner in the practice,
will, with pleasure; attend any call, at any time, that
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and Cannot be obtained. March 11,1858
HTHE SUBSCRIBER IS NOW OPENING
A a nice stock of
Spring and Summer Goods,
to which the attention of the citizens of Penfield and
vicinity is respectfully invited. The styles of the sea
son are unusually handsome and prices very reasonable.
An early call will he highly appreciated.
Penfield, March 25th ‘ Wm. B. SEALS.
JUST RECEIVED!
A Large Stock of Family Groceries!
CONSISTING OF
All Grades Sugar and Coffee ;
Fine Syrups and Molasses ;
Good Apple Vinegar; Rice ;
Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Mackerel;
A large lot of Hydraulic Candles, which can he
bought exceedingly low;
A variety of Pickles ; Maccaroni; Sago;
Currants ; Raisins and Candies ;
Table Salt; Soda; Pepper and Spices ;
Chewing and Smoking Tobacco ;
Pipes ; Any quality of a Cigar ;
Large lot of Jar Snuff;
All qualities of Soap;
Drugs and Patent Medicines ;
Perfumery—a choice lot.
By way of remark, I would say to the citizens and vi
cinity of Penfield, that I am giving this business my un
divided attention ; and if they will give me a liberal pa- j
tronage, I will save them the TROUBLE and EX |
PENSE of going farther.
Penfield, Ga. March 9, 1857. J. M. BOWLES.
DRS. COE &. LATIMER would inform their friends
and patients that one of the firm will constantly
remain in Greenesboro', and that the other will befound
in the following places at the times specified below:
White Plains, from March Ist to March 141 h.
Mount Zion, “ “ 15th to “/ 28th.
Oxford, “ April 12th to April 25th.
Penfield, “ “ 26th to May 9th.
As this time table will be strictly adhered to, those
who call early will be most likely to receive attention.
Feb 25th, 185S
A GOOD lot of SALT in new sacks.
March 18, 1858 J. M. BOWLES.
ALL persons arc forewarned against trading for a
note of $53 00, held by Franklin Moore against
myself. The considerations for which the note was
given having failed, I decline paving it.
April 8, 1858 IF. TF. DURHAM.
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PINE APPLES! PINE APPLES! at the Gro
cery of [May 6] J. M. BOWLES.
THE ADOPTED ORGAN OF ATT. THE TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATE.
TO WHEAT GROWERS.
THE undersigned being provided with a first
rate THRASHER, FAN and McCOR D’S
SPLENDID HORSE POWER, will send them, under
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Iff 111:
DISSOLUTION.
TfTE firm of COE & LATIMER is this day dis
solved by mutual consent. 11. A. COE,
! Greenesboro, May Ist, 1858 J. S. LATIMER.’
The practice, will be continued by J. S. & C. S. LA-
I TIMER, who will visit Oxford, Penfield. White Plains
; and Mount Zion, of which due notice will be given in
! the Crusader and Gazette. Permanent office in
: Greenesboro. May 13, 1858-tfjan.
Georgia, greene county.—whereas
Samuel A. Howell applies for Letters of Admin
istration de bonis non, with the will annexed, upon the
estate of McKinney Howell, dcecnsed :
These are theretore”to cite and admonish all and sin
gular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be
and appear at the Court of Ordinary to he held in and
| for said county on the first Monday in June next, to
; show cause (if any they have) why said letters should
I not be granted.
Given under my band, at office in Greenesboro, May
1 3, 1858. EUGENIUS L. KING, O r d.
; May 6, 1858. 30d
Georgia, greene county.—whereas
William English, administrator upon the estate of
; Ann E. English, deceased, petitions tbe'Court of Ordi
| nary of said county lor letters dismissory from said cs
i tatc:
These are therefore to cite and admonish all persons
| concerned to be and appear at the Court of Ordinary to
: b held in and for said county on the first Monday in
j December next, to show capsc (if any they have) why
! said administrator should not then be discharged.
1 Given under mv hand at office in Greenesboro, Mav
I 10th, 1858. EU GENIUS L. KING, Ord.
| (GEORGIA, GKEENE COUNTY.—Wirereas
i W Thomas R. Thornton and William A. Overton,
administrators upon the estate of Vincent R. Thornton’
deceased, pciition the Court of-Ordinary es said Bounty
1 lor letters ol Dismission from said estate; }
These are therefore to cite and admonish all.persons
| concerned, to show cause (if any they have) why said
: administrators should not be discharged at the Court of
I Ordinary to he held in and for said county, on ihe fii-o
| Monday in December next . “
Given under my hand at office in Greenesboro M-.v
! 10th, 1858. EUGENIUS L. KING, Ord.
1 H EORGJ4 GREENE COUNTY^WhT^
i ‘-J Phjlip 11. Robinson, administrator upon the estate
o? George P. Nickelson, .deceased, petitions the Court
of Ordinary for said county for letters Dismissory from
said estate;
These arc therefore to cite and admonish all persons
concerned, to show cause (if any they ha,ve) why said
administrator should not be discharged at the Court of
Ordinary to be held in and for said county; on the fu st
Monday in December next.
Given under my band at office in, Greenesboro Mav
FOth, 1858 - EUGENI US L. KING, Ord’
uii* tjejj-c.r
SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST,
iBP'UUk W°ULl> inform his friends that he
/MNlb ™ Will be buck in November and attend
J ~U-LULrto his engagements at White Plains Mt
Zion, Oxford and Penfield. May 13, 1838- tfjan
PENT I ELD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 185 8 .
BY MRS. HI. E. BRYAN.
m wtst mih
BY MART E. BRYAN.
CHAPTER IV.
I found Dashwood looking wretched and ling
gard enough, but with a reckless expression on
his countenance that I had never seen there be
fore. I handed him Claire’s package and he
opened it in silence. His face changed as he saw
the Bible, and, turning to the blank leaf, he read
her name and, with a sudden impulse, pressed
his lips to the characters her hand had traced.
Then, as if ashamed of betraying so much
weakness, he tossed the book-carelessly aside and
opened the letter. He read it through, and I
knew by the quivering of his lip that those words
of gentle firmness, of tender, sorrowing love,
wrung from the heart of my cousin had no( failed
to reach his own. He crushed the letter in his
hand and sat for a while in silence.
“ The end of a dream,” he said, at length, “ ami
with it perishes hope and truth and conscience
all the brightness of my existence, and all the
joys of household, human life, forever and ever.”
“Is there, then, no hope, Frank?” I asked, mv
own heart aching for my friend.
“None! none! Did I not toll you that the
moment I forgot my manhood and broke my
pledge to her, the die would be cast forever ? My
foot is on the descending ladder that leads down
—down to death and perdition. Fool that I was
to struggle with my destiny—to deem that fate
Had anything in store for me! Paul, do you re
member the curse of Harold ?
* While there is bliss in revelry,
Forgetfulness in wine,
No woman’s smile may rest on thee,
No woman’s heart be thine.’
Talk of moral courage! Paul, one may strug
gle successfully against the whirlpool when lie
first feels himself within its influence, but when
lie has yielded to its power and is drawn within
its voitex, there is no hope ; lie must go down
But,”- lie continued, springing to his feel, his
tone changing to one of wild gayety, “at least I
will sell my life dearly. I will taste all the in
toxicating pleasures wine can bestow. It shall be
my Lethe, as well as my Helicon. We will have
a glorious orgy to-night. Would your demure
reverence honor us by looking in and heholding
what delights, unknown to you plodding mortals,
1 Lie in the bowl—the gleaming bowl,
Wiiose draught has power lo lire the soul ?’ ”
And lie threw his Spanish cloak lightly around
Him, and stood regarding me with a smile of care
less defiance.
“Oh, Frank!” I exclaimed, my eyes filling with
tears as I looked upon him, so young, so gifted
and so fallen! His assumed gayety was gono in
a moment, • %
“Paul,” he said, “I am not worthy to he your
friend ; lam not fit for your associate even; I
am a reckless, desperate man, hut I am not un
grateful; 1 shall never forget your kindness to
one so littlq deserving. God bless you, Paul Les
lie ! you have been a true friend to me.” He
turned away abruptly.
“And Claire,” I whispered. Tears rushed to
his eyes.
“Tell your cousin,” he said, “that I shall al
ways remember her as the noblest woman I ever
knew. Tell her I thank her from my soul for
the brief gleam of sunshine that has brightened
my life, and that the memory of the wrong I have
done to her gentle heart will be the bitterest por
tion in the cup which 1 have prepared for my
self, and which I must drink to the dregs. Bid
her lorget me, or remember me only as one lost
to love and hope, unworthy of a sigh or prayer;
and yet, not that,” he added, “I would not have her
think of me someiimefe in her prayers. It would
be sweet to know that she murmured my.name
in her pure orisons. It is all that I dare hope for
now.”
lie wrung my hand, looked at me with an ex
pression of hopeless anguish that I can never for
get and was gone. His last words had sounded
like a farewell, as indeed they were. I heard
next day that he had left the city—gone, no one
knew whither. Two days after, Claire returned
to her Southern home. - - *
j ime passed ; I did not go to Europe as I had
purposed, for Claire’s words had shaken the in
ertness of years and awakened that latent desire
for active, stirring life which exists in some de
gree in all men, even the confirmed loafer, or
the habitual dreamer like myself. Years before,
I had been admitted to the bar, and as my con
nections were numerous and influential, and I
had already gained the reputation of a man who
could be “depended upon,” 1 readily obtained
as much practice as I desired. I went again into
fashionable life, was courted by maneuvering
mamas and calculating daughters, and bore the
afflictions of commonplace with commendable for
titude. But all this time my heart was very
lonely—alone in the midst of a great city, with
the tide of life rushing and roaring around me.
I felt that strong yearning for affection and sym
pathy which comes to all—the sweet pleadings of
nature that- will not be silenced. Had life noth
ing for me but the memory of a single grave?
Should the dove-like spirit of love ever roam with
weary wing over the ocean of life, finding not
even the olive branch of hope?
Ihe sweet, serene, domestic life had been the
Utopia of my dreams, since death darkened the
Elysium which youthful fancy had painted; but
should this, too, he denied me? And in these
reveries and troubled looking. 1 * into the future,
when the business of the day was over, the face
of my cousin rose ever beforo me—type of the
quiet, deep-felt excellencoof woman, and I longed
for her sweet, earnest voice to break the dreary
solitude of my heart.
At length, I went South, determining to visit
lier. I stopped at Etonton, and procuring a horse,
rode slowly along the shaded, picturesque road
that led to “ Stanly Farm.” I reached a belt of
park-like woods, inclosed by a fence white with
the snowy blossoms of the Cherokee Rose, bheop
were feeding on the margin of a stream that
wound through the woods, and the sunset was
gilding the tops of the pines. I saw a white dress
glancing through the underwood, and thought l
recognized the form of Olaive. dismounting, I
-loft my horse and approached her. Sho wa#lean.
ing against a tree, busily engaged in sketching. ,
The thick grass deadened my footsteps, and
she was not aware of my proximity until I was by
her side. When ouv greetings were over, with ray
arm still around her, I put her back from me and
.looked upon her face-. It was changed certainly:
you could tell that sorrow had passed there; but
the leatures wore a look more elevated—an ex
pression of serene power; the power that has con
quered suffering; that lias triumphed over weak
ness ; vet, there was still a subdued sadness in her
eyes, and in the tone of her voice.
“ I am so glad you have come to us, Paul, at
this season of the year,” she said as we walked
| slowly home through the deepening twilight.
’ “ You will find that nature has made amends for
i the absence%f r.rfvln the decoration of ‘Stanly
I Farm.’ Mrs. Belton, too, my excellent house
| keeper, will be rejoiced to see you. She has heard
me speak of you often. I hope you have come
for a long visit, cousin.”
“On the contrary—a very brief one. I should
like to remain longer, but I have engagements
that will prevent it. Through your influence, my
sweet cousin, 1 have become what you wished me
to be—no longer the dreamer, but the active man
of business; and yet, it has not brought the hap.
pi ness I hoped for. lam unsatisfied still. I want
to recover the half of my life that I have lost; I
want the love of a heart that has learned sympa
thy with sorrow; a true, strong heart to strength
en, to encourage; I need the sweet influences of
home and woman ; I need you, Claire; and I have
come to tell you this—to ask you if you would fill
this void in my heart; if you would be the angel
of my home. \ou know all my past; you know
that I cannot offer you the fervor of a first pas
sion, but you are dearer to mo than all the world
beside. Claire, will you accept a heart no longer
in the bloom of its youth, and braid my life’s bro
ken hopes into something like brightness again?”
She was silent for a moment, and then looking
up, she frankly placed her hand in mine.
“ Paul,” she said with her clear, candid eyes
fixed upon mo, “you, too, know all my past; you
know that this calm you see reflected upon my
face, is but tho quiet that succeeds a storm; yet,
I love you, Paul—dear Paul, and if I may be of
use to you in your future career; if I may assist
you in bearing the burden of life, the hand you
hold is yours forever. And it is not wholly ihe
ruins of a heart I give you. As 3-011 foretold, the
dews of time have fallen with holy healing ujion
the arid waste, and fresh flowers have sprung
from the ashes of desolation.”
And this was our plighting; and two months
after I brought a bride to my lonely home, and
my unquiet spirit settled down into calm peace,
the weary dove folded its wings upon the house
hold hearth. We were tranquilly happy. Both
had suffered. Old memories still had power to
invoke ghosts from tho past, but they could not
now mar the serenity of our wedded life. Beat
rice was in Heaven, and Frank Dashwood—Ah !
1 must speak of him.
We were in Florence—beautiful Florence! and
the soft golden atmosphere of Italy; the music
of Italian voices, and tire gloiw of Italian skies
were around us.
Wo were loitering away the morning in the art
gallery, and I had just paused before a picture of
Raphaels, and called Claire to my side. The ven
erable paclrc who had accompanied us, started at
hearing the name.
“Signor,” he said, “T have just left the bed
side of one of your countrymen who is dying of
fever in Florence. In his delirium, he constant
ly repeats the name you called. Would you like
to see him? It might do him good to hear his na
tive tongue, and see faces that remind him of his
home.”
I answered Claire’s beseeching look by telling
the padre, that if he would accompany us we
would go immediately.
We went, and there in obscure lodgings I re
cognised in the wasted figuro extended on the
low couch the friend of m3’ boyhood. His thin
cheek was flushed with fever and delirium gave
its unnatural brightness to his eyes.
He was raving incoherently and did not recog
nise us when we entered.
“ The serpent!” he cried ; “it is coiling around
my heart. It is crushing out all the strength of
my life. I cannot unwind its folds. Ha demon!
do not come nearer with your glaring eyes and
poisoned breath. I defy you ; you shall torment
me no longer. Ah! you smile; now I remember
lam 3 r ours, soul and body. I cannot escape your
dread fascinations. Oh! Claire, save me! save
me! Why did.you leave me?. Why have yon
forsaken me? “ Look !” ho continued, changing
his tone and pointing with his wasted hand; “do
you not see that path winding through the shad
ow-land of the. past? It is strewn with dead
hopes; the blackness of desolation is there ;” and
then he would call for Claire, with a wail in his
voice that thrilled my heart with its concentrated
anguish.
Claire’s tears fell fast upon his face.
“Dear Frank,” she kept repeating, “ I am here.
Do you not know me?”
There came a lucid interval; he looked up into
the lace that bent over him with a deep joy in his
bright, dying eyes.
“Claire,” he murmured, smiling faintly and
feebly, stretching out his arms, “ you have come
at last; I knew you ivould; I shall die happy
now. You will not leave me, darling ?”
“No! no!” sobbed. Claire, kneeling by the bed
and covering his thin hand with kisses. He
smiled a glad, grateful smile, lake a pleased child’s,
and closed his eyes. He seamed not to notice
me, but lay as though in a happy dream, with
his hand still in Claire’s.
When the rays of the setting sun streamed
through the low windows, they fell upon the white
face of the dead. We severed from his temple a
fair tress of Carting hair, and turning down the
coverlid to place in it is lingers the white rose
brought In* a little flow or girl, who luid known
and loved him, >ve Found lying clasped to his
bosom Claire’s last gift—her own, tear-marked
Bible. I led my wife away; no unworthy thought
of jealousy entered my heart, I would not thus
have wronged Clairo/s noble nature. Bven thus,
had it been Beatrice dying among straugers in a
foreign land, would I have soothed liet last
hours with m3- love.
Two leagues from Florence, whom tho blue
waters of tho Arno glide through a land fair as
enchantment, there arc two graves on the green
hank, and the ill-fated child of Genius sleeps by
the side of Beatrice Franz ini, and the summer
winds scatter the white blossoms of tjie myrtle
above them both.
’Phmfwr&viUe, Ga.
Rochefoucauld says: “We always lo*ve those
who admire us, but we do not always lowe those
whom we admire.” To winch latter clause, such
a case as that of Northcotie's may be put an as an
exception, for se(/’-loveJs the source of ie^Aadmi
ration, Moreover thiij is the safest of all loves,
for you and I, readqr, rtray indulge in it without
feat- of 41 rival.
EDITOR AID PROPRIETOR.
MOXG OF THE SEWINOIttACHIAE.
BY GEORUE P. MOTtSIS.
I’m the Iron Needle-Woman!
Wrought of sterner stuff, than clay; •
1 And, unlike the drudges human, , *
Never weary night nor day;
Never shedding tears of sorrow,
Never mourning friends untrue,
Never caring for the morrow,
Never begging work to do. /
Poverty brings no disaster!
Merrily I glide along, - -
For no thankless, sordid master,
Ever seeks to do me wrong:
No extortioners oppress me,
No insulting words I dread—
I’ve no children lo distress me
’With unceasing cries for bread.
I’m ofhardy.form and feature,
For endurance Framed aright;
I’m mot pale misfortune’s creature,
Doom’d life’s battle here to fight:
Mine’s a song of cheerful measure,
And no tinder-currents flow
Todestroy tlie throb of pleasure
Which the poor so seldom know.
111 the hall I hold my station,
With the weallhy ones of earth,
Who commend me to the nation
For economy and word:
While unpaid the female labor,
In the attic-chamber loriG,
Where the smile of friend or neighbor
N.evcr for. a moment shone.
My creation is a blessing
To the indigent secured,
Banishing the cares distressing
Which so many have endured:
Mine are sinews superhuman, /
Ribs of oak and nerves of steel—
I’m the Iron Needle-Woman
Born to toil and not to feel.
Splendid.
If words were permitted to speak for them
selves, wluvt a complaint would bo heard from
them, of banishment from their proper place,
and misuse by well-disposed persons. No one
has more cause for complaining than the word
Splendid.
In ancient times, this word was derived from
the Latin, an ancient and honorable source.
From the same family came glorious, sublime,
excellent, delectable, superfine, delicious; all,
once, honored and respected words,, but now,
like modern Spanish grandees, deprived of every
thing except their empty titles.
Splendid is applied to dress, to men, to a
house, a tree, a story, to roads; to the weather,
to horses, to all sorts of animals possessing beauty
of grace, to household furniture of all kinds, car
pets arid marble tables, to,anything beautiful,
pretty, good, rich, nice, excellent, graceful, use
ful, superior, appropriate, bright, sparkling, witty,
ingenious, superb, pleasing, pleasant, charming.
It is, briefly, a universal adjective, which may bo
used as freely as the common-place remarks on
the state of tho weather, and generally with no
move effect than they, while it is not atall neces
sary, as they may be, to help in filling up a bare
page’ of note paper, or to enrich the conversation
ofa dull company.
We forbear giving'examples, as better than we
can adduce may be obtained by any who listen
to the small talk in the parlor or in the dining
room . Perhaps someone may be as much shocked
as we were, to hear a ‘ finished’ young lady speak,
at the dinner-table, of ‘a splendid— : — potato.’
— 7i. f. Schoolmaster. , ’
The Chinese.—ln a country where the roses
have no fragrance, and the women no petticoats;
whore the laborer lias no Sabbath, and the mag
istrate no sense of honor; where the roads bear
no vchiclos, and the ships no keels; where old
men fly kites; wligrc. the needle points to the
south, and the sign of being puzzled is to
scratch the antipodes of the head; where the
place of honor is on the left’ hand, and the seat
of intellect is in the stomach; where to take offyour
hat is an insolent gesture, and to wear white gar
ments is to put 3-ourself in mourning—we ought
not to bo astonished to find a literature without
an alphabet and a language without a grammar.
If we add that for countless centuries the Govern
ment lias been in the hands of State philosophers,
and the vernacular dialects have been aban
doned to the laboring classes, (I am about in the
next few words to call forth the execration of
every Sinologue in Europe and Asia) we must not
be startled to find that this Chinese language is
the most intricate, cumbrous, and unwieldly ve
hicle of thought that ever obtained among any
people.
There are 18 distinct languages in China, be
sides the Court dialect; and although, by a beau
tiful invention deserving of all imitation, the
written language is so contrived as to denote by
the same character the sounds of each of the 19
different words, all of which it equally represents,
this is of no great use among the multitude who
cannot read. .
There is not a man among our Chinese scholars
who can speak three of these languages with flu
ency, and there is not one who can safely either
write or interpret an important State paper
wit hout the assistance of a “ teacher?’ —Hong Kong
Corrcspondriit London Tones.
Kirwan, in “ The Happy Home,” speaks perti
hiontly of the hot bed education which is so ruin
ous to the mental as well as physical constitution
of children in America.
“They are sent to school when they should be
in the open air. or in the fields; they are learn
ing to read before they have well learned to run;
and instead of permitting the mind freety to drink
in all the knowledge it can through the senses
or by imitation, it is bowed down to study before
it can comprehend what it is taught as a parrot,
and before the body or mind are sufficiently
strong to resist tlie evil influence of confinement.
And all these are aggravated by sending them to
cheap and incompetent teachers, w-ho have never
studied the laws of mind, and know nothing of
the art of developing it, and who often manipu
late tlie mind on the principle that the fruits of
autumn should precede the buds of spring and
the blossoms of May and, June. Compelled to sit
quietly and to breathe a confined air, and with
tlie fear of the rod and of the despot that wields
it always before them, their bodily powers are
soon exhausted ? the3” become diseased and nerv
ous ;. their brain is liable to inflammation, and a
premature death often ensues! Indeed wany ot
our ablest physicians trace the insanity which is
filling our asylums to the neglect of the pliy-sical
training of children, and to the foolish, if not sin
ful; anxiety of parents for their rapid education.”
Tike Live like a nTx.-Takeit just as though
it was a g it is—ail earnest, vital essential a£air,
T ike it just as though you personally were bom
to the task of performing a merry part in it—as
though the world had waited for your coming.
Take it as though it was a grand opportunity to
do and to achieve, to carry forward great and
good schemes; to help and cheefr a suffering,
weaiy, it may be heart-broken, brother. The
fact is, life is undervalued by a great majority of
mankind. It is not made half as much of as
should be the ease. Where is the man or woman
who accomplishes one tithe of what might De
done ? Who can look back upon oppotunities
lost, plans unachieved thoughts crushed aspiration
unfit filled and all caused from tlie|lack of the nec
essary and possible effort! If we knew better
how to take and make the most of life, it would
be far greater than it is. Now and then a man
stands aside from the crowd, labors earnestly,
steadfastly, confidently, and straightway becomes
famous for wisdom, intellect, skill, greatness of
some sort. Tho world wonders, admires, idolizes ;
and yet it only illustrates what each may do ifhe
takes hold of life with a purpose; If a man but
say ho toiU and follows it up, there is nothing in
reason lie may not expect to accomplish. There
is no magic, namibcle, no secret to him who is
brave in heart and determined, in spiritV—Har
per's Weekly. ,
“ Sorrows grow less and less every tim§ they M©
I told, just like the age of a woman.”
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