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JOHN H. SEALS,
NEW SERIES, VOLUME 111.
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Legal Beqnirements:
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utors or Guardians, arc required, by law, to be held on
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by the deceased, Ike full space of three months.
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dered. JOHN A. REYNOLDS, Publisher.
STATE AND FEDERAL AFFAIRS.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, President U. States
John C. Breckenhidge, of Kentucky, Vice “
Lewis Cass, of Michigan, Secretary of State
Howell Cobb, of Georgia, Secretary of the Treasury
Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, Secretary Interior
John B. Floyd, of Virginia “ War
Isaac Toucey, of Connecticut “ Navy
Aaron V. Brown, of Tennessee, Postmaster-General
Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, Attorney General
Judiciary—Supreme Court.
Roger B. Taney, Baltimore, Md. Chief Justice, ap
pointed 1856—Salary $5 000
John McLean, Cincinnati, Ohio, Associate Justice,
appointed in 1829—Salary 4*4 500
James M. Wayne, Savannah, Ga. Associate Justice,-
appointed 1839 —Salary $4 500
John A. Campbell, Mr bile, Ala. Associate Justice,
appointed 1853—Salary £4 500
John Catron, Nashville, Tennessee, Associate Jus
tice, appointed 1837 —Salary $4 500
Peter V. Daniel, Richmond, Virginia, Associate Jus
tice, appointed 1841—Salary $4 500
Samuel Nelson, Cooperstown, New York, Associote
Justice, appointed in 1845—Salary $4 500
Nathan Clifford, Portland, Maine, 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 first
Monday in December.
STATE OF GEORGIA.
J. E. Brown, Governor
.1. 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
Janies 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
SVilliam Turk, Principal Keeper Penitentiary
llenjah S. Carswell, Assistant “ “
11. j. G. Williams, Inspector of Penitentiary
Win. A. Williams, Book-Keeper “
Dr. Tomlinson Fort,Physician “
Dr. T. Fort, B. P. Stubbs and Dr. L. Strohceker,
Trustees Lunatic Asylum.
Supreme Court for Correction Errors.
Joseph H. Lumpkin, Judge. Term expires 1868 j
Charles J. McDonald, Judge. “ “ 1861 1
Henry L. Benning, Judge. “ “ 185
H. Y. Martin, Reporter
R. E. Martin, Clerk
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Judicial Circuits, at Savannah, on the second Mondays j
in January’and June hi each j'eaf.
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Western and Chattahoochee ® Judicial Circuits at Ma- 1
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June in each year.
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thern. Judicial Circuits, at Milledgevillc, on the 2d Mon
days of May and November of each year.
**'Note.—The Patai.la Circuit is attached to the 2d
Supreme Court District; Brunswick to the Ist; Talla
poosa to the 3d.
The firm of j. m. bowles &00. is this
day dissolved by mutual consent, Win. B. Seals
retiring. The business will be continued by J. M.
Bowles at tlie same stand, where he will keep, at all
times, a full supply of Family Groceries , and will bo
ready and willing to serve hi* friends at eery Short Pro
fits for the CASH, J. VI. BOWLES,
Feb 25 . WM. B. SEALS.
LOST OR STOLEN,
ALL persons are forewarned agiiinst trading for
the following notes : A.note on Wm F LtiCkie for
Seventeen Dollars and Forty Cents, dated in April or
May last, and due the twenty filth December I hereaf
ter ; one on Wm Mopre for Twelve Dollars and Twen
ty-five Cents, dated in May or June last, and due the
twenty-fifth December thereafter; one on David-Phelps
of Hancock county for Twenty Dollars, dated in March
last and due from date ; and one on John Mitchell of
Mount Zion for Seventeen Dollars Twelve and a-halt
cents, dated in April last, and due the twenty-fifth of
December thereafter.
The above notes were made payable tor the subscriber
as guardian of free boys Jerry and Ben ; and the ma
kers ol the same are requested to make payment to no
person except myself er mv order ■
„ , , AI THOMAS D. SANFORD.
Greenesboro’, March 4, 1858. •
p R^ H CRANBERRIES ANIT CURRANTS.
, x March 25 J.JVI. BOWLES.
ORANGES AND LEMONS.
March 25 J. M. BOWLES.
VI F you want bright and sharp Knives, buy a BATH
A BRIC- ol [April 22] J. M. BOWLES.
A NICE lot'of CROWDER PEAS for sale by
. _ 4 April 22 J. M. BiWLIS.
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April 15, 1858 j
Dr. W. L. M. HARRIS,
-J-RATEFUL to the good citizens of Pen- j
vW ‘ * field and vicinity, for tlie liberal confidence
OL and encouragement given him, respectfully contin
ues a tender of his professional services to them.
Dr. R. J. Massey, his former partner in the practice,
will, with pleasure, attend any call, at any tinfc, that
may be made while Dr. H. is professiopally engaged
and cannot be obtained. March 11,1858
rpHE SUBSCRIBER IS NOW OPENING j
A a nice stock of
Spring and Summer Goods, •
to which the attention of the citizens of Penfield and j
vicinity is respectfully invited. The styles of the sea- j
son are unusually handsome and prices very reasonable.
An early call will be highly appreciated.
Penfield, March 25th W.m. B. SEALS, j
JUST RECEIVED!
A Large Stock of Family Groceries!
CONSISTING OF
All Grades Sugar and Coflee ;
Fine Syrups and Molasses ;
Good Apple Vinegar; Rice; j
Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Mackerel;
A large lot of Hydraulic Candles, which can be
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 Jnr Snuff;
All qualities of Soap ;
Drugs and Patent Medicines;
Perfumery—a choice lot.
By wav of remark, I would say to the citizens and vi
cinity of Penfield, that I am giving this business my un
divided attention ; and if they will give me a liberal pa
tronage, I will save them the TROUBLE and EX
PENSE of going farther.
Penfield, Ga. March 9, 1857. J. M. BOWLES.
hw'sm, imsi (
DRS. COE &. LATIMER would inform their friends
and patients that one of the firm will constantly
remain in Greenesboro’, and that the other will be found
in the following places at the times specified below:
White Plains, from March Ist to Marcli 14th.
MounfeaZion, “ “ 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, 1858
A GOOD lot of SALT in new sacks.
IV March 18, 1858 J. M. BOWLES.
ALL persons are forewarned agalnsf 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 paying it.
April 8, 1858 IF. W. DURHAM.
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\ PINE APPLES 1 PINE APPLES! at. the Gro
> eery off May 6] J. M. BDWLS*.
THE ADOPTED ORGAN OF AlJ'i TIIK TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATK.
TO WHEAT GROWERS.
THE undersigned being provided with a first
rate THRASH UR . FAN and McCORD’S
SPLENDID HORSE POWER, will send them, under
the charge of a competent man, to the different planta
tions in this and the adjoining counties, to Thrash and
Fan Wheat, on as accommodating terras as can be af
forded. Applications made to me, in person or by letter,
will meet with attention.
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Greenesboro, Ga. Ma” 6, 1858 4t.
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DISSOLUTION. *
THE firm of COE & LATIMER is this day dis
solved by mutual consent. 11. A. COH! •
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 bp given in
the Crusader an and Gazette. Permanent office in
Greenesboro. May 13, 1858-tfjan.
POWDER and SHOT ! .T. M. BOWLES.
April 22
A BPLENDID article of No. 1 MACKEREL.
Feb 11 J. M. BOWLES & CO.
BACON! BACON! A fine lot of Tennessee
cured Bacon, lor sale bv J. M. BOWLES.
March 18, 1858
; \TAILS'! NAILS! Any size, for sale by
: 1* April 32 J. M. BOWLES.
j SURGEON &ME ANICAL DENTIST,
’ * will > e back in November and attend
I his engagements at White Plains, Mt.
Zion, Oxford and Penfield. May 13, 1858-tfjan
Tlie Trance off I.ovc.
rnOM THE ITALIAN. . }
1 Love in a drowsy mood one day
Reclined with all l]is nymphs around him.
j His feathered darts neglected lay,
! And faded were tlie flowers that crowned him.
Young Hope, with eye of light, in vain
Led smiling Beauty to implore hint,
I While Genius poured his sweetest strain.
And Pleasure shook his roses o’er him. ,
j At length a stranger sougnt thegr&ve,
And fiery Vengeance seemed to guide him,
He rudely tore the wreaths of Love,
And broke the darts tin t lay beside him.
The little god now wake jl grew,
And angry'at the bold endeavor,
He rose, and wove his wreaths aneyv,
; , And strung his bow more linn than dver.
| Whciilo! the invader cried, “ Farewell!
My skill, bright nyinyha, this lesson teaches—
While Love is sprightly, bind him well
With smiles and songs and heuteyed speeches;
| But should dull languor seize the god,
Recall nte on iffy friendly mission;
For know when Love begins to noil,
His surest spur is opposition.”
What is Wit!
Leigh Hunt devotes forty pages of one of his
j hooks—and fails to elucidate the mystery at last.
i Johnson defines wit as “the faculty of associating
dissimilar images in an unusual manner.” Sydney
i Smith in his*“Lectures on Moral Philosophy,”
shows the fallacy of this definition, gives a better,
i and broaches the startling doctrine that wit, so
. far from being necessarily a natural gift, might be
studied as successfully as mathematics. It is a
question if Sheridan was witty when, staggering
along, half tipsy, he was eyed by a policeman, and
exclaimed confidentially, “My name is Wilber
force—l am a religious man—don’t expose me.”
But he was certainly funny.
Talleyrand, when asked by a lady famous for
her beauty and stupidity how qjte should rid her
self of some of her troublesome admirers replied,
} “ You liaveonly toopen your mouth. Madame.”
| This, if witty, was alo ill-natured.
PENFIELD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1858.
f v olE>c^jp^n^iTmrt(^mf> a JJ
BY MBS. M. E. BRYAN.
EVENINGS FROM HOME.
BY MAHV E. BRYAX.
EVENING again: twilight deepening the
bronze clouds of the sunset, the sea-breeze
dying away in the cedars and the two lambs that
have frolicked so long on the green sward in front
of my window, returning slowly home. Evening
again: but this time not at home. It is two
weeks since I clasped Johnny to my heart, or sat I
in my old seat by the round table. We, Helen i
and I, are at Newport—a village of “ magnificent j
distanojwp! and yet truly picturesque, with its
w reet s; its smooth shaven green with
May-pole still standing in the cen
tre : ii tJfctty cotages, all so alike with their lat
ticed piazzas over-run with woodbine and honey
suckle in full bloom, their yards gay with white
and crimson roses; and then the strange, deep
river of St. Mark’s, gliding noiselessly as a dream
through the town; its margin (for here it has no
banks) fringed with cedars and feathery cypress.
It is an hour of surpassing beauty'; and this
i scene, so mellowed by the rich sunset, would do
mand the genius of a Claude to do it justice.
Only his pencil could portray the shadowy out
line of yonder distant forest and the dissolving
gold of the evening sky, against which the blue
and white flags and the delicate spars of the |
‘ graceful vessels are strongly defined. The sound !
of sweet laughter and gay voices comes, borne to |
me on the breeze, from the group of young girls j
returning from the mineral springs with their j
straw hats filled with wild flowers swinging oh j
their arms, and their hair, wet and curling from j
their bath, floating loose upon their shoulders. |
Darting about, now behind, now in front, like so !
many bright birds at play, are the children, (of I
whom there are a complement,) their stocking- i
less feet thrust hastily into their tiny slippers j
and their fresh faces rosy with exercise and the
recent scrubbing.
The ladies here are very like Spanish Senoras, !
not only in personal appearance, but in their j
dress. I have seen only one or two of those stiff,
ungraceful compounds of lace and flowers, called
fashionable bonnets, during my visit. In their
stead, the ladies wear long berege veils, flowing
to their waists, and with these thrown scarf-like
over their heads, they come out in the evening
and pay each other unceremonious calls, drawing
after them the wicker carriages containing their
own rosy babies. Very pretty r they look in these
picturesque veils, white dresses and braided hair;
and what though
“ The sun with ardent frown
Has lightly tinged their cheeks with brown,”
their fresh color and sparkling eyes make amends’ |
for that.
Fashion, indeed, seems to have cut off Newport |
from her extended kingdom, where she reigns a |
queen
“ Who sits on no precarious throne,
Nor borrows leave to be ;”
for although so near, and connected by rail road
with aristocratic Tallahassee, whose streets in win
ter ‘are gay with silk robes, and in summer almost
deserted for New York, Saratoga and Cape May,
ypt, Newport seems to have escaped the infection
of extravagant dress. Robes a quiUe volatile sel
dom display their rainbow colors in its streets,
and even hoops are far from being in general use.
and when worn are of very moderate dimensions.
In fact, a little girl, installed for the first time in
all the dignity of ratan and whale bone, was
heard to remark the other day, looking down
with complacency at. her own expanded skirts,
that she and her Ma “ both thought hoops would
he all the fashion by next Christmas day.”
Think of that, ah! ye enthusiastic followers of
Napoleon’s pretty Empress! Ye who have
passed through all the phases of crinoline until
you have emerged in the full-moon glory, the ne
plus ultra, of fashion, think of a Miss of thirteen
in this enlightened age conjecturing that by Christ
mas hoops would be quite a vogue!
But if the ladies of this sea-coast village have
not learned the art of sweeping dirty side-walks ;
with their skirts behind, while in front they are
raised for a gratifying display of graceful ankles,
they have other and more useful accomplish
ments. They are capital swimmers, and a New
port girl in a skiff with a good oar, a grass line
and Limerick hook, is as much at home on the j
river as a city Miss at Levy’s or Miss Wharton’s. ■
“What are you doing to amuse yourself?” ask
my correspondents—-whose letters, by the way, ;
are very welcome, although I have been quite re- j
miss in answering them. I have read little arid
written less, for I came here for a few weeks rest
—rest, not for the body, but the mind. Willis j
tells us that it is well for the mind to “stand still” j
at times and “ settle like a fountain.” So this is j
the first time 1 have touched pen to paper since •
“WMiriVnl here. As to the query, “ bow I cm- i
| pfyds fry selfone day will serve as a sample ot ;
| Y esterday, after an early walk to the j
| bridge, I spent the remainder of the morning in j
I reading and talking to Mr. Marvin, an intelli
! gent and venerable gentleman of the old school, j
| pleasant, sensible, polite, even chivalrous in his ;
! protective regard for women. Although he is :
eighty years old, were it not for the crown of sil-.
ver hair, you would never think of him as being
aged; so smooth the broad, white brow, so calm
the eyes, so serene his whole expression, while
i his mental faculties seem clear and unimpaired.
j Probably lie retains in his heart the true ‘ milk j
j of roses”—sympathy with the young and with the ,
J eternal youth of nature. His sight is detective, j
j and I road to him for the pleasure of listening to :
his comments and criticisms.
In the aftemqpn tfie children and girls call
around for es and >vo go to the sulphur springs,
situated a lit tlo distance from the town in a beau
tiful grove of cedars, tall cabbago palmetto and
magnolias in full bloom. Orie of these splendid
trees with its starry flowers over-hangs the bath
house, and ovory evening there are 1 resit buds
ijewly burst from their silver-lined calyces and
hanging tantalus like just above our reach.
Half un hour in the cool, buoyant mineral w ater
sends us out with the blood bounding in our
veins and a relish for the walk that concludes
the evening’s programme. But first comes the
shooting exercise, and Helen and 1 practice for
a while with pistols, having a mark, or a magnolia
blossom for a target. Yesterday I boi’e off the
palm and my little cousin Oscar’s joyful cry of
“plum center!” rang through my dreams all
night. The exercise over, we leave the shooting
apparatus in Oscar’s charge and stroll away
through the green woods. Cousin Mattie, who
is like ourselves, a visitor here, is an enthusiastic
botanist and carries her “Darby” with her wher
ever she goes, for these beautiful, lawn-like mea
dows are now all aglow with the lovliest blossoms
of this fair “ land of flowers.” The rich lobelia,
the glowing helianthemum and rare and splen
did specimens of the orchis tribe are everywhere
to be found, while “strange, sweet flowers to me
all new,” hang their white plumes around every
j wavside brook and j>ool.
Helen and cousin Mattie explore all the out
of-the-way nooks and ditches with untiring assid
uity, and to keep them company, or rather to
burlesque their enthusiasm, 1 pretend to he
equally devoted to the science of Entomology,
; and give chase to all long-legged grasshoppers,
| dip tadpoles from the ponds and go into ecstacies
j over lady-bugs and katy-dids. Rare fun we have
I in our desultory wanderings, refreshing ourselves
when wearied with ripe dewberries and half an
hour's rest on the grass in the shade of the wil
lows that over-liang the brook. Sister and cousin
M. examine their floral treasures, and Mattie
marks down her new discoveries iiqher common
place book.
j “Pogonia Divaricata,” she writes—“class 18—
order I—a splendid specimen of the orchis order
—very rare, and found only in low, warm situa
tions.”
And then, imitating her zeal, I open un/ box
of “specimens” and descant on the superior or
ganization of a “ splendid” “Daddy-longlegs.”
Occasionally wo vary the evening’s amuse
ments by a fishing excursion, a walk to the river,
to the iron foundry or the turpentine distillery.
This evening, by special invitation from the Cap
. tain, we went on board his vessel, a very neat,
i trim brig lying in port, and wero shown all the
i ship’s curiosities by the obliging Captain—the
! nautical instruments, quadrants, compasses, tel
| escopes, etc.: the medicine chest, a little apotlr
’ eeary’s shop in itself, and his own room with its
| bachelor arrangements. In the cabin stood a
I round table with two vases on it, one containing
i a magnolia and wild flowers, the other a superb
| bouquet, received, he told us, that morning, in a !
j very singular and romantic manner. I think j
’ Helen’s blushes betrayed her to the Captain
and solved the mystery ol‘ the flowers.
This morning a young physician from the !
j country—a Virginian—called upon us and amused j
us greatly by a description of his backwood’s ex- ;
periences. Some of his anecdotes, if written in j
the inimitable style in which they were told, are
worthy of a place in Harper’s editorial “ Drawer.”
On one occasion he stopped with a friend at
pineywood’s cabin and was received by a damsel
in copperas homespun, with a fever-and-ague
complexion, who handed them the only two
chairs the house afforded and begged them to be
seated out of doors in the slw.de of Ihc house. This
done, she leaned back against the door frame
1 with folded hands, a self-satisfied expression and
i a communicative smile as though she were quite
! ready to converse. Seeing that she waited for
i him to begin, the doctor looked around for some
| thing to suggest a topic of conversation, but noth
| ing presented itself. At last, espying at a little
| distance a “ patch” of vegetables, conspicuous
j among which was an abundance of long-shanked
| “ eollards;” he hailed it as a capital opening, and
turned to the girl.
“ Miss,” said he, with his bland smile, “do you
raise many vegetables here?”
She stared at him with a blank expression for
a moment, but soon recovered her self-eompla
'cency.
•a. Wall noj ” 3 he said, “we haint raised chick
ens nor no other kind of fowls this year. 1 hey
was so bad on the truck patch, pap cotclied um
and sont um all to Newport.”
So much, as Miss Hannah Gould would say, for
talking above your hearers. The girl had mis
taken vegetables lor a newfangled name for poul
-1 try. He should have said “garden stuff. ’
Newport can boast of only a single paper the
“ Wakulla Times,” I belivo it is called. I have
had no opportunity of judging of its merits, but
if it be as interesting as the Editor s two daugh
ters, it will compare favorably with any in the
State.
The people of Newport, Tallahassee and the
surrounding country were all on tip-toe to obtain
a glimpse of Billy Bowlegs and his exiled band,
i on their way from their beloved Everglades to
the “ far West.” They were expected to-day,
but it seems the Government vessel has given the
people the slip, for the pilots report that this
morning a strange steamer passed just outside
| the Indians, stern and stoical though
! they are, shrink from being exhibited as a curi
j ous spectacle to their conquering foes. Consid
! erable sympathy is felt for them, even here in
the State that lias been the scene of their liostili
tics, and pity and admiration are universally ex
pressed for Sam Jones, the aged chieftain who
I Jias begged permission to remain and die among
1 the graves of his fathers.
i But I can write no longer. Twilight lays her
’ dusky hand upon the page, and 1 raise my eyes
to see the pale stars glittering like white lilies
: in the northern blue, while in the little cabin
I opposite me, there is a elieery fire, precursor of
I C offeo and supper. Through the open window I
see a sailor in the picturesque red jacket of the
! seaman, and clustered around him is a group of
flaxenqd-haired children. Now he has removed
1 his pipe and began a song; I listen and catch the
1 words,
“ ‘Twus post meridian, half-past live.
By signal 1 from Nancy pawed.”
.V"7 k>rt. Fla.
! LABOR AN!) LITERATURE.
! A W ill LE back in the history of men, scliol
i lx aft#, sages and poets looked down with some-
I thing of contempt upon those who earned their
bread by mere manual toil—by the labor of their
own strong hands. The artist, indeed, regarded
with delight the bold, athletic frames and sin
ews, strengthened and developed by exercise,
but the student and the poet, whose brow was
‘ ‘ siekliod o’er by the pale cast of thought,” claimed
little brotherhood with the children of toil. Pas
torals, indeed, were written to delight the court
profligates by the contrast of their artificial life,
with “ sweet simplicity,” green fields and singing
shepherds, enjoying the dolce far niente in the
shade of summer trees; but this was no encour
agement to the laboring ; in such Arcadian fan
cies no hand of sympathy was stretched forth to
the toiling brother. #
Poets, indeed, who, like Bums, sprang .them
selves from the working class, glorified labor by
their genius, and the great “ Corn Law Rhymer”
threw out in his fiery stanzas, strong, earnest and
manly as his own brave heart, amid the whirl of
machinery, the blaze of the forgo and the ring of
the anvil; but it was reserved for the present age
EDITOR ASD PROPRIETOR.
VOL. XXIV. NUMBER 2q
to give the honest, laboring classes—the true no
blemen ol’ nature—their deserved place in the
literature of their country.
The superstition, mythological and fanciful,
that distinguished the old school of poetry, and
the metaphysical spirit that tinctured the one
succeeding, have given place to a vein Os senti
ment, strong, healthful and elevated. * Poets
and authors have emerged from the dreams
of the past and the cloud-lands of fancy, and
opened their eyes to the real, working world
around them. Their hearts are beating with sym*
pathy for their fellow-men, and looking around
them they find in the examples of patient endu
rance, of industry, courage, ingenuity and earnest
zeal, themes sublimer than those which inspired
the songs of earlier days.
The essence of luxurious indolence that lap
ped the poet’s soul in a dreamy elysium, has van-,
ished before the vigorous, stirring spirit of our ac
tive age. Labor has been exalted, ennobled by
literature and Toil and Poesy walk hand in hand.
Longfellow, in his thrilling stanzas that rouse the
heart like the blast of a trumpet, bids us,
“ Then be up and doing
With a heart for any fate,
Still achieving, still pursuing.
Learn to labor and to wait.”
And Mrs. Osgood, the tenderest and sweetest
of our female poets, says that “labor is life, is
health, is worship,” and tells us to
“ Work for some good, be it ever so slowly, .
Cherish some dower, be it ever so lowly ;
Labor; all labor is noble and holy.”
While Lowell declares that,
“ Among the toil-worn poor, his soul is seeking
For one to bring the Maker’s name to light,”
and affirms that
“ Be who would be the tongue of this wide land,
Must string his harp with chords of sturdy iron
And strike it with a toil-embrowned hand.”
M. B.
[Written for the Georgia Temperance Crusader.]
TO EVERY. ONE IN GENERAL, AND THE
WIDOWERS IN PARTICULAR.
BY KATE OF CHEROKEE.
A lady who believes she can
A blessing be to any man,
Now tired of a single life,
Is much disposed to be a wife.
To any who this notice read,
And should a wife at present need,
And more of me should wish to know,
On them the kindness I’ll bestow,
Os myself, just here to give
A brief description, I believe.
A truthful one you need not doubt,
As all will know who find me out.
In features I am somewhat small,
In figure neither short nor tall;
My tiair is of the blackest dye,
My eyes the color of the sky ;
Complexion dark, but pure and clear,
flight rose tints on my cheeks appear ;
I’m rather tasty in my dress,
But little beauty doth possess ;
Am modest, gentle and refined,
With lofty intellectual mind;
ln manners frank, sincere and true,
And some inclined io be a blue;
And as self-praise is now at par,
I’ll say I’m quite a leading star,
And ’mid the wilds of Cherokee,
I teach the children A, B, C,
The pretty Miss to read and write
Grammatically and be polite.
I speak in accents soft and mild,
And am confiding as a child;
Although within this vale of tear*,
I’ve sojourned more than thirty years.
Ah! do not faint, ye fopling youth,
That I have dared to speak the truth,
Nor take a fit, ye heart less cold,
That one has owned she is so old ;
Is single still, and still alive,
And passed the age of twenty-five ;
But listen while I tell you true.
These lines were never meant for you —
I wisli it fully understood, ,
They’re only for the wise and good ;
No other need to me apply,
And you may guess the reason why.
And that by some I inay’nt be vexed.
I’ll try to give you here annexed,
Dear patient reader, if I can,
A slight description of the man
Whose image on my mind’s impressed—
The one l think would suit me best;
And let me now at oneecommence:
What first 1 ask is common sense,
A pious soul, a virtuous mind,
A heart affectionate and kind.
.So it is pure, I do not care
Whether he be dark or fair;
tfis eyes, they may be lilaek or blue,
Cheeks roseate or a palid hue;
llis hair, it may be black or light,
His hands be brown or smooth and white;
And if he thinks it is no sin,
May wear a moustache on his chin.
I do not think it would be wise
To quarrel much about his size,
Bet think that one that’s large and tall
Is liner looking than the small]
In manners 1 should like that he
Was always dignified and free;
He may be rich, he may be poor,
1 shall be easy on that score,
For mammon can’t my acts control,
Nor poverty weigh down my soul;
A bachelor most ladies choose,
A good one I might-not refuse.
But e’er have thought 1 would prefer
Marrying some kind widower.
The fastidious fair have cried,
I’ll never be the second bride;
No, give me—let me have, forsooth,
No love but the first love of youth.
My lady friends, a moment hold,
While 1 niv thoughts to you unfold :
No bachelor, my gentle dear,
That’s more than two and twenty years—
Yes, take it as a general rule,
Unless he is a dunce or fool,
But what has felt within his heart
The rankling of sly Cupid’s dart,
And knelt at lovely woman’s shrine,
And called her by all names divine,
And been rejected, we may guess,
A half-a-Mozen times or less;
And curses now his luckless fate,
And does the sex in gcneral'hate.
Or still loves on without offence.
For want of spirit or of sense.
In either case Mis very plain,
That first love you cannot obtain,
Unless you wed the stripling boy—
No such shall o’er my peace annoy—
-1 do’nt condemn the young —oh ! no,
But they can’t interest me now;
A widower is the man for me,
’Twixt thirty- five and forty-three.
Female society has refined
His manners and improved his mind,
And childish innocence doth win
Alike from worklliness and sin;
And he who’s lmd a gentle wife
To share with him the joys ot hie.
And loved her fondly till the day
Her gentle spirit passed away;
Then bowed submissive to the cross
\nd meekly strove to bear his loss,
And felt, though severed eaithly ties,
That God is good, and just, and wise;
As sorrow’s waves around him press,
His heart grows better by distress;
And though the one that’s passed atvay
Will ever in remembrance stay;
And he may sigh for joy that’s gono
Awhile, ana feel most end and lone,
Old time—the healer of the heart—
Will huppicr hours e’er long impart.
Do’nt turn aside in scorn, dear Mise,
That I should prize a heart like this,
Nor think that he can love no more
As fondly as he loved before;
His heart has grown more soft and pure,
And his the love that will endure.
And who’d not seek that heart to win,
y 0 nearly freed from every sin ?
And who’d not seek some magic power,
To cheer the good man’s lonely hour f
Del this bo mine—such pleasing task !
?ff richer earthly boon 1 ask.
If any such these lines peruse,
I hope you will my warmth excuse;
If any such I chance to suit,
I fondly trust you’ll not be mute,
But write to me without delay,
Thrbugh the same medium, I pray,
And let me know, tome confide,
Your name, the place where you reside;
And the like favor I’ll bestow
On you, if you desire to know.
Pray do’nt be diffident or shy.
But do, dear sir, at once reply.
Your answer I shall now await—
Good-bye—direct to Saucy Kate,
Jfeas Sower, (?. May Ist, 18M,