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“jpv x UNiyEIPsSITy OF GEORGIA LIBRARY .. ‘ v ,x ■• ■ (fUjc flfeonjtii ppt|&r JOHN H. SEALS, NEW SERIES, VOLUME 111. CJje Cempcrance Cntsfe Published every Thursday in the year, except two* TEttIUS: Two Dollars per year* la advance. c&a<3aO£> 0&3aa<330 Clubs of Ten Names, by sending the Cash, will receive the paper at .... copy. Clubs of Five Names, at 180 “ Any person sending us Five new subscribers, inclo sing the money, shall receive an extra copy one year tree of cost. ADVERTISING DIRECTORY: Kates of Advertising : 1 square, (twelve lines or less,) first insertion, $1 00 “ Each continuance, 50 Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding six lines, per year, 5 Announcing Candidates for Office, 3 00 Standing Advertisements: Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions, will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. Druggists and others, may contract , for advertising by the year on reasonable terms. Legal Advertisements: Sale of Land or Negroes, by Administrators, Ex ecutors and Guardians, per square, J 00 Sale of Personal Property, by Administrators, Ex ecutors and Guardians, per square, 3 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 25 Notice for Leave to Sell, 4 00 Citation for Letters of Administration, 2 ,o Citation for Letters of Dismission from Adm’n, 500 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guard p, 325 j Legal Beqnirements: Sales of Land and Negroes by Administrators, Exec utors or Guardians, arc required, by law, to be held on the First Tuesday in the month, between the hours ot ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house door of the county in which the property is situate. Notices of these sales must be given in a pub lic Gazette, forty dui/s previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of Personal Property must be given at least ten days previous to the day of sale. Notices to Debtors and Creditors of an estate, must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court oi Ordinary, for leave to sell Laud or Negroes, must be pub lished weekly for two months. Citations for Letters of Administration, must be pub lished thirty days —for Dismission from Administration monthly, six months —tor Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly, for four months —for compelling titles from Ex ecutors or Administrators, where a bond has been issued by the deceased, Ike full space of three months. Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or 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 | First District. —Composed of the East ern and Middle j Judicial Circuits, at Savannah, on the second Mondays j in January’and June hi each j'eaf. Second District. —Composed of the Macon, South I Western and Chattahoochee ® Judicial Circuits at Ma- 1 con, on the 4th Monday in January and 3d Monday in j June in each year. Third District. —Composed of the Flint, Coweta, Blue ‘Ridge and Cherokee Judicial Circuits, at Atlanta, on the ith Monday in March and 2d Monday in August in each year. Fourth District. —Composed of the Western and Nor thern Judicial Circuits, at Athens, on the Uh Mondays of May and November of each year. Fifth District. —Composed of the Ocmnlgee and Sou 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. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL, PUBLISHED AT AUGUSTA, GA. IS THE LARGEST AND BEST LARGEST AND BEST LARGEST AND BEST LARGEST AND BEST PAPER IN THE STATE. C PAPER IN THE STATE. PAPER IN THE STATE. PAPER IN THE STATE. IN EVERY NUMBER IN EVERY NUMBER IN EVERY NUMBER IN EVERY NUMBER i WE GIVE THE READER WE GIVE THE READER WE GIVE THE READER WE GIVE THE READER THESE TO FIVE TIMES As much Reading Matter as is contained in the ordinary Weekly Papers ot the South, consisting of INTERESTING STORIES AND TALES, INTERESTING STORIES AND TALES, INTERESTING STORIES AND TALES, INTERESTING STORIES AND TALES, MARKET REPORTS, MARKET REPORTS, MARKET REPORTS, MARKET REPORTS, LATEST NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD, LATEST NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD, LATEST NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD, LATEST NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD, Ac. Ac. Ac. The Weekly Chronicle &. Sentinel, devoted to 1 POLITICS. NEWS AND MISCELLANEOUS IN TELLIGENCE, is issued everv Wednesday morning, j contains the LATEST NEWS received by Mail and ! Telegraph up to Twelve O’clock Tuesday Night, • and is mailed to subscribers by the earliest trains from 1 this city, at TWO DOLLARS A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. TRI-WEEKLY PAPER, $4.00, DAILY PAPER, $7.00. Letters should be addressed to W. S. JONES, Augusta, Ga. copies sent free when desired. 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. THE BEST, CHEAPEST AND MOST SUCCESS FUL FAMILY PAPER IN THE UNION. HARPER’SWEEKLY. Price, Five Cents a Number; $2.50 Per Year. I\TE would nofc so often call attention to Hor- T T per's Weekly if we were not well satisfied that it is the best family paper published, in the United States, and for that reason, and that alone, we desire to see it undermine and root out a certain kind of literature too prevalent, which blunts the morals of its readers, vit ia ates their taste for sensible reading, and is altogether bad in its effects. —New London Advertiser. 1 As Harper’s Magazine has done much to drive out the yellow-covered literature, so wc should be glad to i see. This new Weekly take the place of ihosc papers which depend for excitement on poor, trashy novels.— : New York Evangelist. Harper’s Weekly abounds iu original matter, spicy, piquant, instructive and entertaining. It has, and de- j servedly, a very large and increasing circulation. It is a tip-top family paper. —Boston Journal. It (Harper’s Weekly) is the proper size for binding, j and an excellent opportunity is afforded for any one who : wishes to • preserve the history of the country, as it is made,to do so by filing Harper’s Weekly.— Pontiac (Mich.) Jacksonian. Iti^ fresh leaves, its clear type, its entertaining vari ety, its severe but just criticisms upon the lollies of the times, its elegantly written and instructive articles, and its able correspondence, all combine to make it the.mo del newspaper of our country, and one that every fam ily must prize. Its condensed weekly summary ot'For \ eign and Domestic. Intelligence, is altogether superior to that contained in any other journal. Being published, ; too, in a form for preservation and binding, iftaken care | of as it deserves to be, it will be found in future years, ; as welcome a companion for the family and fireside as | the day which it was first perused.— M'CounelUcillc | (O.) Inquirer. ; Its illustrations are far ahead of any- journal of tin* kind in the country. Its pen portraits of distinguished t living men are, ot themselves, worth the price of the volume.— -N. Y. Christum Advocate and Journal. Fresh, sparkling and vivacious, its circulation is probably the greatest success ever achieved by any pub lication at such an early period ol its existence.—Brook lyn Eagle, The hast family paper we ever suw. Its pages embrace a great variety of reading matter, and its articles on the 1 leading topics of the day are* written with an ability ; which would do credit to the “Thunderer” of the Bri tish Press—the. London “Times.” In point of illustra tions, it is ahead ol any of bur pictorial slfocta.— New London Advertiser. “ Harper’s Weekly ” gains readers and popularity with every issue, because it aims at and hits that aver age requirement tor family reading which this enterpri sing house so well comprehend. Its articles are brief, timely and devoid of partisanship; it is a3 versatile in subjects as it is oven in (One, besides being mttrvehnisly cheap.— ‘Boston Transcript. Back Numbers of HARPER’S WEEKLY, as well as Covers for Binding thfe Volume just completed, can be furnished by the Publishers. TERMS: One Copy for Twenty Weeks, SI.OO * One Copy for One Year, 2.50 One Copy lor Two Years, 4.00 Five Copies for One Year, 9.00 Twelve Copies for One Year, ■ 20.00 j Twenty-five Copies for One Year, 40.00 An Extra Copy will be allowed for every Club of Twelve or Twenty-five Subscribers: j Yob 1., for the year 1857, WEEKLY. ’ handsomely bound in Cloth, extra, p rice, $3.50, is now ; ready. \ 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. JOHN C. CARMICHAEL. Greenesboro, Ga. Ma” 6, 1858 4t. Porter’s Spirit FREE GIFTMBTRIBCTIOS. THE Proprietors of PORTER’S SPIRIT OF THE i TIMES, will, in July next, makea free distribution of j 81,000 among their Yearly Subscribers vvhose yearly ! subscription shall have three or more months to run, | after the date of distribution will be governed by the • result of the great race that is to be run in England on ; the 28th of July next, known as the race for Tlie Goodwood Cup. ! This contest is under the special patronage of the ! Duke of Richmond, and is one of the most princely of I the English racing year. It was the"meeting selected j jast year for the memorable defiat of the American horses i in the English Turf; and it is more titan probable that Prioress and other American horses will, on tlie ap i proaching occasion, appear in it again, i As there will, probably, be thirty or forty horses en i tered, and some fourteen or fifteen to start; we propose !to distribute the sl,oooas follows: ; First, wc will confer a Free Gift of SSOO in a *h j on the Subscriber who, in the distribution, shall obtain ! the name of the winning horse. j The subscriber holding the name of the second horse, a j F**ee Gift of ? and to the Subscriber who holds the name of the third horse, a Free Gift of SIOO. Among those who hold the names of the remaining* j horses which started, other than the first three, wc will i distribute a Free Gift of SIOO i in equal parts; and among those who hold the names of horses which entered, and did not start, wc will I distribute in like manner, the remaining Free Gift of SIOO ! ! so that there will bc.jin all, SI,OOO divided among about j thirty gilts, in cash. I The distribution of the names of tire horses among | our Subscribers will be effected by putting them into a ; glass ballot-box, and taking them thenceforth simulta neously with the number of the receipt of each Yearly ; Subscriber as found upon our books. The horse thus ; drawn will, of course, become the chosen competitor lor 1 the victory to the Yearly Subscribes whose number is | drawn with it. In this way, the whole thirty-five or | forty horses will be distributed among our regular ! Yearly Subscribers; and each subscriber will know if he has drawn a horse, by the duplicate number of his rc- J ceipts, which wc will forward him in advance from our j books. | The distribution of the horses’ names will take place ; on the evening of Saturday, the 24th of July, at our i Office. 348 Broadway, New York, on which occasion j we will also distribute the names of the same horses in i another, out entirely separate Free Gift to Agents of SSOO ; among those of our Retail Agents who shall have been j in the habit of selling ten or more copies of our paper | regularly, lor eight weeks previous to such distribution; j and for every extra ten copies each Retail Agent or j Newsman may sell, lie shall have an additional share in • the Agents Distribution. ; We take this mode of rewarding our Subscribers and \ Aids, in preference to employing Traveling Agents— ; choosing rather thus to give, what we would pay away in such expenses and commissions, to the Subscriber himself. By this means, the Subscriber receives, for the usual subscription price, not only his paper for the year, but a large sum in cash, in the shape ofa very novel and interesting sagacity. The subscription price of Porter’s Spirit is $3.00 a year. Postmasters and others who furnish ten Yearly Seribers, will, hi addition to theijr premium, be entitled to one share of the Agents’ Gift. It is our present intention to continue this system oi Free Gifts, and make to our Subscribers and Agents two Free Distributions during tlie following and each succeeding year ; the first to be decided by Tlie Fpsont Derby of 1836, to be run in England in the early Spring (and for which two American horses arc already entered,) and the others by Tlie Doncaster St. Lcgcr, (he annual great, meeting of England for the Fall. As in both these last named meetings there are always about two hundred high-mettled racers entered, the interest that will attend the distribution of the names of the competitors among the readers of our paper may easily be conceived. For the present year, in consequence of the close ap proach of the Derby, we have chosen, for convenience, the grand race for Tlie Goodwood Cup. P‘ S.—The distribution will take place publicly, un der the superintendence ofa Committee of Subscribers and News-Agents. GEO. WILKES & CO. Proprietors. 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,