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LITERARY
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Ij. LINCOLN VEAZEY, Editor.
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* THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 24,1858.
Rev. D. G. Daniell, late of Thomasville, now of
Savannah, was in our village last week.
Hon. B. C. Yancy, of Atlanta, has been ap
pointed United States Minister to the Argentine
Republic. .
In the list of patents issued from the United
States Patent Office, for the week ending June 8,
1858—each bearing that date, we find the follow
ing : Joseph A Braden, of LaGrange, Ga., for im
proved lock.
We are pleased to learn from the Family Visi
tor that our friend, Whitson G. Johnson, Esq. of
Augusta, will deliver the Literary Address at the
Commencement of the Georgia Female College,
which takes place July 21st.
We notice in the last issue of the Wire Grass
Reporter, that its proprietors, Messrs. Love & Hall,
have dissolved co-partnership by mutual consent,
Hr. Hall having disposed of his interest to his as
sociate and co-partner, Hon. Peter E. Love.
The Macon Citizen of the 11th says: We yester
day received a full grown cotton boll, plucked
from the plantation of T. R. Denson, Esq., of
Lowndes co., Ga., near the Florida line, on the
7th inst. Mr. Denson was formerly of ’Twiggs co.,
and seems to be doing well in his new location.
We return our thanks to Hon. Joshua Hill for
a volume of Report Finances for 1856-’7, and
also to Hon. A. H. Stephens fjpr a copy of his
speech on the admission of Minnesota and Alien
Suffrage, delivered in the House of Representa
tives May the 11th, 1858.
Do not fail to read the article, “ Are we Just to
our Daughters?” by Mrs. L. Virginia French,
which will be found on our first page, under
Mrs. Bryan’s department. Mrs. French is one of
the most talented and accomplished writers of
which the South can boast.
The Savannah News, of the 15th inst., says:
“ The Supreme Gourt was in session yesterday.
Judges Lumpkin, McDonald andßenningpi*esid
ing. Among the members of the bar from abroad,
not mentioned in our issue of yesterday, we no
tice the Hon. Chas. J. Jenkins, Hon. Wm. T.
Gould, and Col. Jno. J. Shewmake, of Augusta.
We see published in the Savannah Republican, a
letter from Rev. J. F. O’Neill, enclosing to the
Hon. John P. King, President of the Georgia
Rail Road & Banking Company of Augusta, one
hundred dollars, which was received by tlie Rev.
gentleman in the confessional. The amount has
been duly received, and an acknowledgement for
warded.
Childhood is happy, because its sorrows are
evanescent. But he errs who thinks it without
dark spots. The tear that glistens on a child’s
eyelids is not less the offspring of a burdened
heart than the woful sigh that breaks from the ,
lips of the aged. The loss of a toy as truly wrings •
his soul with anguish as does in after years the ■
failure of his bank investments, or the wreck of ■
richly freighted argosies on the seas.
The Senior Class of Mercer University comple- .
ted the final examination on Wednesday last,
which, in common with other examinations, is
conducted on the written plan. The Ist Honor
was awarded to Mr. G. W. Wimberly, of Twiggs;
the 2d to Mr. A. S. Morgan, of Penfield, and the
3d to Messrs. J. W. Ellington, of Crawfordville,
and W. H. Patterson, of Dougherty. The class
numbers fourteen, and is considered one of very
fair promise.
Godey’s Lady’s Book for July is on hand. A fine
steel engraving, an elegantly colored fashion-plate,
many cuts illustrative of drawing, embroidery
and all kinds of fancy work, two pages of music,
and over eighty pages of miscellaneous reading
matter are the attract ions of this number. Godey
is unrivalled in his success in catering to female
tastes. Terms: 1 copy one year, $3.00 ; 2 copies,
$5.00; 3 copies, $6.00. Address L. A. Godey, 323
Chestnut St. Philadelphia, Pa.
Radford J. Crockett, the murderer of Landrum,
was executed in Atlanta on Friday last, the 18th
inst. He had made a full confession of his crime,
and of all the circumstances connected there
with, which has been before the public in a pam
phlet of forty pages for several months. Having,
as he trusted, made peace with his Maker, he
had been baptized, and met his awful fate with
quiet resignation. The Intelliycnccr, from which
we gain these facts, states that an immense
throng was present to witness the execution, esti
mated at 8 or 10.000 persons.
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We have been favored with a Catalogue of Wes
leyan Female College for 1857-’B. This Institution
was founded in 1839, and has the honor of hav
ing been the first College ever chartered for the
education of Females. It has graduated eigh
teen classes, making an aggregate of 310 Alumna?.
According to the catalogue before us, there are
now in attendance 180 undergraduates, of which
29 are Seniors, 37 Juniors, 40 Sophomores, 29 2d
Class, 34 Ist Class, 11 Irregulars. The Commence
ment takes place on the 13th and 14th of July,
at which time the Annual Address will be deliv
ered by Hon. Washington Poe, of Macon.
We all think truth a good thing for our neigh
bors, but seldom appreciate it so highly when
applied to ourselves. Wc have a keen relish for
sarcasms aimed at other men’s follies, but ignore
the fact that wo are equally vulnei*able to the
same weapons. We read a satire, and apply each
pointed sentence to some of our acquaintances.
We listen to a sermon, and hand over each ‘ear
nest appeal to the prayerful considetation of
those for whom they seem to be especially fitted.
We allot to every one his due portion of warn
ing, admonition and advice, but as for ourselves,
we respectfully decline any. It never
strikes us that such things are intended for our
benefit at all, unless, indeed, there are some re
marks made by way of commendation, and these
we readily appropriate.
The North British Review for May present s the
following varied and interesting table of cont ents:
Ist, The Philosophy of History; 2d, Prolessor
Owen’s Works; 3d, Gothic Architecture—Pres
ent and Future; 4th, The Scottish Universities—
Defects and Remedies ; sth, Lieutenant Ma ury’s
Geography of the Sea ; 6th, Parliamentary Gov
ernment and Representation ; t tli, The Colie cted
Works of Dugald Stewart ; Bth, Patristic Theol
ogy and its Apologists; 9th, Rifle Practice; 10th,
Poems by Coventry Patmore; 11th, Recent Pub
lications. L. Scott & Cos. furnish their publication
to American Readers for less than one-hralf the
price paid by British subscribers for the original
copies. Price of each of the Reviews f< >r one
j year, $3.00; one of them and Blackwood* $5.00j;
’ the four and Blackwood, SIO.OO.
L 1 OTTERIES have for a month or two past been
the subject of much attention, and have
| elicited much comment from the press. Some
l have candidly expressed their condemnation:
j move have pursued an equivocal policy, neither
approving or condemning, while a few have
openly given them countenance, aid and comfort.
Thus far We have said nothing; but we would be
untrue to our duty, as conductor of a public jour
nal, should we rfemain entirely silent in regard to
what we consider one of the greatest evils with
which our land is cursed.
No one who looks at the matter in a cool, dis
passionate manner could fail to come to the con
clusion that lotteries are swindling institutions of
the most approved pattern. There is no possi
bility of the managers losing anything, while the
holder of a ticket lias only one chance out ol a
large number, of recovering the sum which he
has expended in the purchase. Were the draw
ings honestly made, and the prizes promptly
paid, the case would be bad enough; but not
withstanding their promises, this is never done.
The drawings are made at some locality for ticket
holders scattered all over the land, who have no
one on the ground interested in seeing that jus
tice is awarded them; and consequently, any
amount of fraud may be perpetrated with impu
nity. It is a significant tact that, while every
few months it is announced that someone has
drawn a ten, twenty or fifty thousand dollar
prize, the name of the fortunate individual is never
made known. With this fact before him, it does
not imply that one is extremely suspicious if he
suspects that no such prize has ever been drawn.
The present excitement on this subject has
been caused by the prosecution of S. Swan & Cos.
by May6r Tiemann, of New York, which has re
sulted in a number of true bills found against them
by the Grand Jury of Richmond County. Many of
our State papers, and some of.other States, think a
New York official was transcending his powers,
when he attempted to suppress immorality and
imposition in Georgia. We are no advocate for
foreign interference, but we do not look upon
Mayor Tiemann’s conduct in this light. It seems
that one at least of this company, Benjamin
Wood, is a citizen of New York, and it is reason
able to infer that much of the evil which it pro
duces would be felt there. The Sparta Academy
Lottery could have been known there only by
having become a nuisance. Mayor Tiemann had,
then, as much l ight to take legal methods for the
suppression of this swindling establishment as
any man in our State would have (and such a
right he undoubtedly does have) to prosecute
that host of Yankee schemers who every year
rifle the pockets of verdant Southerners of thous
ands of dolbirs. Rut if lie was wrong, Swan &
Cos. was not right, and the press should have been
more careful while they condemed the one not
to applaud the other.
We have spoken of lotteries as being wrong,
and morally wrong we are most assured they are.
We are not sufficiently posted in regard to our
State law’s to speak with certainty of their ille
gality. Os one thing, however, we are certain :
that if they are not illegal they ought to be, and
we most sincerely hope that our next Legislature
will take measures, not’only to prevent them for
the future, but suppress those which are now r in
existence. To let these go unpunished, while so
many minor offences are visited by the punitive
arm of the law, is gross inconsistency.
For several weeks past, the papers of this State
have been teeming with paragraphs about S. Swan
& Cos. and many have filled their columns with
these advertisements, (we take it for granted
they are such,) to the exclusion of other reading
matter. Cards from the counsel which the Com
pany has employed have also been passing the
rounds. All this has been done to enlist public
sentiment in their favor, and indicates very
clearly that they are by no means satisfied with
the security of their position. That they will be
compelled to pay the penalty of their misdeeds at
the approaching trial, we have not the slightest
hope. The immense sums which they have made
by their swindling schemes, will enable them to
suborn the press, bribe Jurors and engage counsel
of the highest legal attainments; and that they
can and will do these things, none can doubt.
To bring a moneyed criminal to justice in this
day of intrigue and corruption, is next to an im
possibility.
mHE following, is an old paragraph which will
X admit of frequent repetition, for a good thing
cannot he repeated too often. It contains so
much practical wisdom, that it should be im
pressed on the mind of every one; yes,
PRINT IT IN LETTERS OF GOLD.
A father whose son was addicted t© some vi
cious propensities, bade the boy to drive a nail
into a certain post whenever he committed a cer
tain fault, and agreed that a nail should be drawn
out whenever he corrected an error. In the
course of time the post was completely filled with
nails.
The youth became alarmed at the extent of his
indiscretions, and set about reforming himself.
One by one the nails were drawn out; the de
lighted father commended his noble, self-denying
heroism in freeing himself from his faults.
“ They are all drawn out,” said the parent.
The boy looked sad, and there was a whole vol
ume of practical wisdom in his sadness. With a
heavy heart he replied:
“ True, father; but the scars are still there.”
Parents who would have their children grow
sound and healthy characters, must sow the seed
at the fireside. Charitable associations can reform
the man, and perhaps make a useful member of
society; but alas! the scars are there! The re
formed drunkard, gambler and thief, is only the
wreck of the man lie’ once was: he is covered
with scars—dishonorable scars —which will disfig
ure his character as long as he shall live.
An astronomical writer thus, describes some of
the wonders of the heavens, now visible:
“ That ruddy luminary now visible in the South
erly sec tion, of the heavens every fair evening—
that red cornelian of the sky—is the veritable
planet Atars. He knot far, in apparent position,
from the constellation Scorpio. His distance
from us, as he completes his circuit every twenty
two months, varies from about two hundred and
forty milion miles to fifty milions. This variation
in distanae occasions of course a diversity in his
apparent size. When nearest to us, ho appears
somewhat as at present—large, glowing, brilliant,
and some twenty-five times larger than when
farthest Irani us. At his remote extreme, he is
hardly noticeable as an ordinary star. His diam
eter is about four thousand two hundred miles,
Ho presents to the good telescopic eye, spots on
his full orbed suvface, Which have declared the
fact and the period of his axial rotation. His
obital speed is about fifty-five thousand miles an
hour. He was in opposition to the sun nearly
three weeks since. Mars is an object now worthy
of more than a mere cursory glance.
Give him an attentive look; and after having
satisfied your eyes with his rubric rays, turn to
wards the West, and view the silvery Venus, now
in her crescent phase. These two planets are
sometimes in conjunction; and perhaps, thence
arose th*e fable of antiquity respecting the rude
conduct of the fiery god Mars, and the beautiful
goddess Venus.
Mr. Elathan Haxton, of Beekmanville, Dutch
ess Cos., is fattening a steer, which now weighes
3,020 pounds, Its girth is 9 feet 8 inches, length
10 feet, height 6 feet. The steer, when fattened,
will probably outweigh any that precedes him.
A few days since a schoolmaster in Chicago, Illi
nois, sent a mischievous boy home to have his face
washed. The boy’s father came to the school,
with two men to assist him, and they all assaulted
5 the teacher, whom they beat so fearfully that he
is not expected to recover. *§
FK)D AND DRINK has been the subject of a
series of able scientific articles which have
been appearing in the columns of Blackwood’s
Magazine for several months past. The subject
is one which has hitherto been very little investi
gated, and even the study that has been devoted
to it has led most frequently toerroneous coriclu
sions. lienee, there are few things which so.con
stantly present themselves to our everyday ob
servation, in regard to which we are so ignorant.
There are, undoubtedly* many points connected
with what we eat and drink which wo never will
fully understand ; but thorough investigation by
those who are,fitted for tile task might throw
upon it much more light than we now possess.
The author of these papers has established few
facts, but he has removed many false impressions,
and presented some old truths in a clear, practi
cal manner. The last, which we suppose closes
the series, is devoted to the consideration of the
comparative value of different articles of human
diet. He overthrows with incontrovertible facts,
several popular errors, and combats, we think,
successfully, some deeply footed prejudices. He
thus sums up the arguments in favor of
HORSE FLESH AS AN ARTICLE OF HUMAN FOOD:
We are not going to press into the service
of our argument the immense mass of “evidence
collected by M. Isidore GeoftYoyfSt. Hilaire, res
pecting the tribes and nations which habituality
dine oft’ horses; nor will we lay much stress on
the fact, that in the Sardin des Plantes the carni
vora are habitually fed on horse flesh, which
keeps them healthy in spite of many unfavora
ble conditions. The sceptic might unreasonably
ask whether our digestive power be quite as good
as that of the lion; and he would remark that
the condor is known to devour, with relish, food
which Mr. Brown would sturdily refuse. Unhap
pily no dietetic rules for men can be deduced
from condors and lions! We must rely on the
experience of human stomachs. Nor is this ex
perience wanting. Without alluding to the ru
mours which attribute to the Paris restaurateurs
a liberal employment of horse-flesh among their
filets d.e bceuf, M. St. Hilaire collects an imposing
mass of evidence to show that horses have been
eaten in abundance, and without suspicion, as
without evil consequences. Huzard the cele
brated veterinary” surgeon, records, that during
the Revolution the population of Paris was fed
for six months on holse-flesh. It is true that
when the boef was known to be that of horses,
some complaints were made; but in spite of the
strong prejudices, and the terrors such a discov
ery raised, no single ease of illnes was attributa
ble to this food. Larrey, the great army surgeon,
declares that on very many occasions during the
campaigns, he administered horse-flesh to the sol
diers, and what is more, he administered it to the
sick in the hospitals. Instead of finding it inju
rious, he found it powerfully contributed to their
convalescence, and drove away a scorbutic epi
demic. Other testimony is cited, and M. St. Hi
laire feels himself abundantly authorised to de
clare that horse-flesh is as wholesome and nutri
tious as ox-flesh.
Is horse-flesh as palatable as it is wholesome?
Little will it avail to recount how there are tribes
of liippopliagists, or bow soldiers during a cam
paign, and citizens during a seige, have freely ea
ten of the filet de cheval: under such extremities
an old shoe has not been despised, which is nev
ertheless not generally considered a toothsome
morsel. Feeling the necessity of having this point
definitely settled, the advocates of horse-flesh
have given banquets, both in G ermany and France,
at which the comparative merits of horses, cows,
and oxen were appreciated. In 1822 the Prefect
of Police chose a commission of eminent men to
inquire into the quality of the flesh taken from
horses which had died, or had been “recently
killed, in Paris and its environs. These commis
sioners, all shared the general prejudice; yet in
their report they avowed that “we cannot but ad
mit this meat to be very good and very savoury;
several members of the commission have eaten it,
and could not detect any sensible difference be
tween it and beef.”
M. Renault, the director of the great veterinary
school at Alfort, had a horse brought to the es
tablishment with an incurable paralysis. It was
killed : and three days afterwards, on the Ist De
cember, 1855, eleven guests were invited to dine
off’it: they were physicians, journalists, veteri
nary surgeons, an of the Government.
Side by side were dishes prepared by the same
cook, in precisely similar manner, consisting of
similar parts of the meat from this horse, and
from an ox of good quality. The horse soup was
flanked by an ox soup, the bouillc of horse by a bou
ille of beet, the fillet of roust beef by a fillet of roast
horse. The guests unanimously pronounced in fa
vor of the horse soup; the bouille, on the contrary
they thought inferior to that of the ox, though
superior to ordinary beef, decidedly so to cow
beef. The toast fillet, again seemed to them very
decidedly in favor of the horse. Similar experi
ments have l?een subsequently repeated in Paris
and the provinces, under varying conditions: the
guests have sometimes been informed what they
were going to eat; sometimes they have been to
tally unsuspecting; and sometimes they have
been simply told that they were going to eat
something quite novel. Yet in every case the re
sult has been the same.
Passing from animal food, he proceeds to the
consideration of vegetables, and makes some
statements adverse to the generally reeeived no
tions in reference to
VEGETARIANISM:
On surveying the list of nations and tribes
whose food is principally, or entirely vegetable,
we are naturally led to ask what confidence is due
to that party in America and England which pro
claims Vegetarianism to be the proper creed for
civilised man and vegetable food the healthiest and
suitablest in every way. Many years ago I was
myself a convert to this doctrine, seduced by the
example and enthusiasm of Shelley, and, for the
six months in which I rigidly adhered to its pre
cepts, eould find no sensible difference except
that I was able to study immediately after din
ner. It soon became clear, however, that the ar
guments on which this doctrine rests for support
would not withstand physiological scrutiny. It
is unnecessary to allude to such fantastic argu
ments as that of Rousseau, who maintained veg
etables to be the proper food, because we have
two breasts like the.vegetable feeders; an argu
ment as worthless as the counter argument of
Helvotius, that flesh is the only proper food, be
cause- we have the blind intestine short, like_the
flesh feeders. The vegetarian theory is at vari
ance with the plain indications afforded by our
structure, and by the indications no less plain
afforded by our practice. The structure of our
teeth and intestinal canal points to a mixed diet
of flesh and vegetable; and although the prac
tice of millions may be to avoid flesh altogether,
it is equally the practice of milions to eat it. In
hot climates there seems little or no necessily for
animal food; in cold climates it is imperatively
demanded. In moderate climates, food is partly
animal and partly vegetable. Against instinct,
so manifested, it is in vain to argue; any theory
of food which should run counter to it stands
self-conclemned. Besides this massive evidence,
we have abundant examples in individual cases
to show Low necessary-animal food is for those
who have to employ much muscular exertion.
The French contractors and manufacturers who
were obliged to engage English navies arid work
men, because French workmen had not the req
uisite strength, at last resolved to try the effect
of a more liberal meat diet; and by giving the
Frenchman as ample a ration of meat as that ea
ten by the Englishman, the difference was soon
reduced to a mere nothing. It is worth noting
that the popular idea of one Englishman being
equal to three Frenchmen, was found by contrac
tors to be tolerably accurate, one Englishman re
ally doing the work of two and a half men; and
M. Payen remarks that the consumption of mut
ton in England is three times as much as that in
France, in proportion to the inhabitants.
James M. Smythe, Esq. has been re-appointed
Postmaster at Augusta, Ga.
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Gen. Wm. B. Wofford, late Treasurer of the
State Road, died at-his residence in Habersham
county, on the lOtli instant, of Chronic Diarrhoea.
Gen. Wofford was well known to the people of
Georgia, and was by them esteemed an honest
man. ■ . .
The Sumter Republican says: A. G. Conner,
who was sentenced to the Penitentiary at our last
Superior Court and who had been awaiting anew
trial granted him, escaped from jail on the night
of the 16th inst. He has not been heard from.
A reward of SSO is. offered, fpr his apprehension.
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WE have no manner of patience with that re
mark which we so often hear, that this or
that man is very talented, but never applies him
self. It is very often spoken of those who have
never during their lives done or said anything’
which could give them any claim to brilliance.
Even if it were true, such an expression would
have a bad effect; for it would, and does, cause
many to think that they enjoy the good opinion
of others without effort. But can'any one know
that it is true? We can only judge of a man’s
mind by the exhibition which he makes of its
powers. We cannot look into his brain and tell
what faculties lie there dormant, only awaiting
development to manifest themselves in majestic
strength. If, then, a man never does anything
indicative of mental endowments, how can we
safely assert that he is possessed of them?
It is true, that there are men, we have reason
to believe, who, if they possessed application
equal to their other faculties, would become
bright and shining lights in the world. But want
ing that, they are deficient in a quality to which
all their other mental powers are subordinate.
Clear powers of analysis, sound reason, good judg
ment, brilliance of imagination, correot taste,
would all be useless, if never employed. Appli
cation, with a mediocrity of talent, is admitted
by all to be preferable to genius. The latter
may, in a fit of momentary energy, accomplish
great feats with a rapidity that will awaken our
astonishment; but the former patiently plods on
and finally attains heights to which genius never
aspired.
One reason why application is unduly undei’-
rated, is the fact that many diligent boys become
drill, indolent men, and the inference is thence
drawn that it is the native talents, and not the
manner in which they are employed, which
makes the difference. But upon this point, per
sons are particularly liable to err. A child of
five or six is plied with every inducement which
can avail at that age, in order to incite him to
study. Books are placed in his hands, the con
tents of which he is utterly unable to compre
hend. ♦All this is done -to make him a prodigy.
Perhaps at ten or twelve he is a prodigy, filling
all who see or hear him with admiration.. . But
having attained that summit of glory, he begins
to descend, and by the time he reaches twenty
five, has become quite a common sort of person
age. Thus it is that we see-it recorded in history
that many men who attained distinction for
learning and talents, were dull school boys, while
those competitors who outstripped them by far in
the early part of the race sank into insignificancy.
They were not dull really, but only so in compar
ison with those hot-house intellects with which
they were contrasted.
Many young persons never apply thomselves at
all, depending on the force of their talents for
the accomplishment of whatever they have set
tled upon as an aim of life. A more fatally erro
neous idea could not bo conceived, and it is sad
to contemplate the waste of mind to which it lias
led. lie who sits with arms folded and waits for
some irresistible inspiration to stir his faculties
into energetic action, will wait in vain. No such
motive power ever lends its influence to the slug-
gard. Labor has been assigned toman as a duty,
an essential part of his destiny, and labor he
must, if he would be or do anything.
LOOK AT BOTH SIDES. A one-sided view
is almost sure to be wrong, and should never
be trusted. The matter may present itself in an
other aspect, giving an entirely different impres
sion from that which it at first conveyed. At any
rate, you will understand it more fully when you
have contemplated all its features and examined
all its bearings.
Look at both sides. Passion or prejudice may
have interrupted your first view and prevented
clearness of vision. Do not risk a conclusion on
so imperfect a glance, for a conclusion once
formed in the mind establishes itself in a strength
which is hard to be overcome. An old fable
tells us of two travellers who met on a highway
near some object, one side of which was painted
white and the other black. They immediately
began a dispute about its color, each contending
that it was of that color whieh he saw. From
words they fell to blows, and soon both lay w'oun
ded and fainting on the ground, when, upon
looking-at the object which had given rise to this
contention, they found that both were correct.
Had they looked at both sides at first, they might
have passed in peace.
Look at both sides. It will save you much
trouble and make you wiser and better. Delib
eration will give you wider and more noble views
than opinions formed from hasty, partial obser
vations can ever impart. There are two sides to
almost every object that greets your sense of vis
ion, and sometimes they are widely different in
appearance. The cloud that .hangs in heavy
gloom over the earth has a lining effulgent with
brightest sunbeams. The roses that bloom in
softest beauty conceal many a thorn that would
wound the hand that sought to pluck them. So
are there two sides to every question which can
present itself for the mind’s contemplation. You
who are sickened by a sense of injustice, and are
ready to visit all your race with the anathemas of
your hatred, consider well; this sudden view of
human kind is surely not the last. Everything is
not wrong which at first sight may appeal’ to be
so; you may be right; but are all who differ from
you utterly unreasonable ? Examine their posi
tion, as well as your own, and you will perhaps
find their arguments not so insignificant as you
at first supposed. Such a course will give you,
not less respect for yourself, but more confidence
in others.
How few* bow very few men do look at both
sides! The failure to do this has filled the world
with bigotry and intolerance. The fable says two
men maimed each other, because each persisted
in looking only at one side; but have not nations
deluged the earth in blood and incarnadined the
ocean from the same cause? -AJI those cruel
wars that have devastated the face of the globe,
upheaved empires, shattered thrones and wrought
untold sums of human misery, have all resulted
from nian’s obstinacy in seeing no interest but
his own. lie adopts certain opinions in regard
to politics, morals or religion, and condemns all
as wrong who differ from him, not considering
that they have an equal right to tlicir opinions,
and perhaps as much reason to support them.
Were all men possessed of that candor which
would freely confess their own failings and ac
knowledge the virtues of others, it would be a
far better world.
Tell us not that the man of business, the bust
ling tradesman, the toil-worn laborer, has little
or no time to attend to religion. As well tell us
that the pilot, amid the winds and storms, has no
lesiure to attend to navigation; or the general
on the field of battle to the art of war. Where
will he attend to it?— Caird. ‘
A liorticuiturlist advertised that he would sup
ply all sorts of trees and plants, especially “ pie
plants of all kinds.” A gentleman thereupon
sent him an order for “ one package of custard
pie seed, and a few dozen of mince pie plants.”
The gardener promptly filled the order by send
ing him four goose eggs and a small dog.
No man can go down into the dungeon of his
experience, and hold the torch of God’s word to
all its dark chambers, and hidden cavities, and
slimy recesses, and not come up with a shudder
and a chill, and an earnest cry to God for divine
mercy and cleansing.— Beecher.
The Postmaster General has changed the name
of Pataula P. 0., Randolph county, Gat, to TAn
a. S’ ■ Slfeit l .: J& :
‘My days are in the yellow leaf,
The flower and fruits oflove arc gone,
The worm, tfie canker, and the grief,
Arc mine alone.
. • ‘ , ...
‘The fire that in my bosom preys;
Is like to some volcanic isle, c.
No torch is kindled at its blaze,
$ ‘ A funeral pile.
‘The hope, the fear, the jealous care,
* Th’ exalted portion of the pain
And power or love, I cannot share,
Wk } But wear the chain.
The Bose Bush.
.BY W. \V. CALDWELL.
A child sleeps under a rosebush fair,
The buds swell out in the soft May air;
Sweetly it rests, and on dream-tyings flies
To play with the angels in Paradise,
And the years glide by.
A maiden stands by the rosebush fair,
The dewy blossoms perfume the air;
She presses her hand to her throbbing breast,
With love’s first wonderful rapture blest,
And the years glide by.
A mother kneels by the rosebush fair,
Soft sigh the leaves in the evening air.
Sorrowing thoughts of the past arise,
And tears of anguish bedim her eyes.
And the years glide by.
Naked and lone stands the rosebush fair,
Whirled are the leaves in the autumn air,
Withered and dead they fall to the ground,
And silently cover a new-made mound.
And the years glide by.
Ex-President Pierce is said to be engaged in
writing a history of the Mexican war.
Some Sisters of Charity are on their way from
France, to establish a school for young ladies in
Honolulu.
In the worst times there is still more cause to
complain of an evil heart, than of an evil and cor
rupt world.
Cream may be frozen by simply putting it into
a glass vessel, and then placing the whole in an
old bachelor’s bosom.
Allow a boy to run at large one year in indo
lence, and von have laid the foundation whereon
will be built his future ruin.
Should you be talking to a thin lady, of another
thin lady,you need not describe the party alluded
to as a “ scraggy old maid.”
Gen. Scott will attain his seventy second birth
day next Monday, Juno 14th. lie has been in
the army over half a century.
The King and Queen of Prussia have just sent
1000 florins to the subscription for erecting a
monument to Luther at Worms. ;•
A man who lighted his cigar with a ballad and
had a headaehe the next day, said he had a sing
ing in his head, and thought it must be the bal
lad. .
Tansy, planted about peach-trees, will effectu
ally banish the peach-tree box'er. So say those
who have, during the past year, tried the experi
ment.
The Knoxville Citizen reports a sale of JOO
shares of the stock of the East Tennessee and
Virginia Railroad (a share being §100) at S3O per
share.
Governor Harris of Tennessee, offers a reward
of SSOOO for the arrest of Dr. N. Burton, late Sec
retary of State, and a defaulter to the amount of
$30,000.
By anew law on literary property just promul
gated in Denmark, the copy-right of a work be
longs to an author for life, and for thirty years
after his death.
Dr. Hall, irvhis advice to consumptive patients,
says;
“If you want to get well, go in for beef and out
door air.”
The Methodist Episcopal Church lias com
menced the publication of a newspaper at Balti
more. It is Called the “Baltimore Christian Advo
cate,” and is edited by Thos E. Bond, M D.
Everybody likes polite children. Worthy per
sons will pay attention to such, speak well of their
good manners, and entertain a high opinion of
their parents. Children make a note of this.
There is no aristocracy in the world so preten
tions and exclusive as a. bran new aristocracy, one
which just had the plebeian mud washed from its
face, and sits above the salt for the first time.
Talking the other night of a mutual friend whose
love of beer had accelerated his death, Timarsh
said, “ Ah, Sir, he was a man ; take him for half
and-half, we shall not look upon his like again.’ 1
Avery large amount of corn is annually im
ported into Boston, mostly from the Southern
States. No less than 108,000 bushels arrived at
that port during the three first days of the past
week.
The Newburyport Herald says that Mr. C. H.
Hudson, the Register of Probate in that county,
lias been compelled, from the small income of
that office, as matter of economy, to substitute fe
male clerk-help for males.
By a recent act of Congress, it is said, land war
rants issued under act of 1855 will hereafter be
received on railroad lands and other lands open
for entry, at more than $1 25 per acre, the war
rants to be received at $1 25.
The tombstone of a sweet girl, blind from her
birth, bears the appropriate inscription—“ There
is no night here.” The tombstone of a child who died
-at the age of three years, has inscribed upon it the
befitting words—“ Went in the morning.”
He who always receives but never gives, acquires
as a matter of course, a narrow, contracted, selfish
character. His soul has no expansion, no benev
olent impulses, no elevation of aim. He learns
to feel, and think, and care only for himself. —
Hawes.
Amoroso.—A gentleman was one day ar
ranging music for a young lady to whom he was
paying his addresses. “Pray, Miss D.” what
time do you prefer ? “ Oh,” she replied, careless
ly, “ any time will do; but the quicker the bet
tor.”
Anew journal with peculiar recommendations,
is about to be established in Cireleville, Ohio.
The editor in his prospectus says:
“Our termsare two dollars a year. Gentlemen
who pay in advance, will receive a first rate obitu
ary notice in case of death.”
Ono way of reading the Bible witli advantage
is, to pay it great homage : so that, when we come
to any part which we cannot connect with other
passages, we must concludo that this arises from
our ignorance, but that the seeming contrarieties
are in themselves quite reconcilable.
Every sinful word and deed, and every secret
thought and purpose of the mind, reacts upon
the mind itself and leaves its own impression there
as4ipon an ineffaceable tablet. Aside from all
the inlluenee our sin may exert upon others, it
nuts imperishable impression upon our own minds.
—Uidok.
I have now disposed of all my property for my
family; there is one thing more 1 wish I could
give them, and that is the Christian religion. If
they had this, and I had not given them a shil
ling, they would be rich, and if they had not that,
and I had given them all the world they would
bc/poor —Patrick Henry's Wdl.
The clearest window that ever was fushioned, if
it is barred by spiders’ webs and hung over with
carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has for
gotten to find its way through, of what use can it
be ? Now, the Church is God’s window, and if it
is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness,
how great is that darkness I — Beecher.
Logic. —A dog coming open-mouthed at a ser
geant on the march, he ran the spear of his halbert
into his throat and killed him. The owner com
ing out, raved extremely that his dog was killed,
and asked the sergeant why he could not as weli
have struck at him with the blunt end of the hal
bert. “So I would,” said he, “If he had run at
me with his tail.”
The army that England dispatched to India is
perishing very fast in battle and by disease. It is
sensibly wasting away. The rebels can better af
ford to lose twenty lives than the English to lose
one. Sepoys are cheap in India, while the Brit
ish soldier is costly. Sir Collin Campbell requires
reinforcements. India is being reconquered at a
price that England can hardly afford.
What tho’ the casket of the deathless mind
Be not in costliest drapery enshrined ;
What tho’ the form be clad in plainest dress—
Would ye esteem the soul within it less?
Ye vainly judge, who only sight,
A heart impure or stainless, wrong or right;
Cease then by looks alone the soul to scan,
*■ But try the spirit by a nobler plan. — e. e. lay,
—:— i ‘
HOME.
BY CLARA ACSCSTA.
HOME! We love to repeat the word over, for
it has a sweet sound—Home!
The man or of a home, in the
fullest sense of that, beautiful worrl, need go no
further than its sacred hearth for happiness.
Within its walls there is enough, without going
forth after vain and idle pleasures. Around the
fireside of home cluster purer joys than wealth
can shower from her golden hands, or clarion
tongued Fame bring from the far-off recesses of
the world. ‘
The broad universe holds no nook or cornel*
so dear to the tme heart as home. ,
People may smile, and say it is an old subject;
very true, but it is one that will never wear out.
Like the grand notes of “ Old Hundred,” the sa
scred tones of “Montgomery,” or the inspiring
roll of “Coronation,” the subject of home grows
nearer and dearer to the heart with each repeti
tion. The truth of this all will acknowledge, so
long as each spirit finds at home its purest hap
piness, and folds its wings quietly there in the
sunshine of perfect peace.
Home! How the tired heart of the wanderer
leaps up at the word! The storm-beaten mari
ner nearing the shores of his native land, his first
thought, lightning-winged, is for home. Home,
where his wife waits with her fair-haired chil
dren, and keeps bright the light upon the hearth
stone—the light which is to guide his way over
the surf-washed beach, and the treacherous quick
sands, safely to his home. Maybe he looks for
ward to a re-union with liis aged parents, white
haired and hoary* standing upon the shadowy
confines of the Eternal Land ; the kind father
and tender mother who removed all thorns from
his infant pathway, and led his tender feet up to
the wide temple of manhood.
Tho brown-haired girl at school, looks out for
vacation with a world of blissful anticipation; you
ask her why this joy; you learn she is going home!
home to father, and mother, and blue-eyed
brother Charlie, and to the dear pets which, from
childhood up, she has gathered there.
The man of business, cooped up from sunrise
to sunset in liis dusty counting-room, closes the
ledger with a slam, whistles a merry tune, throws
on his wraps briskly, and with a rejuvenated air
steps into the street. Why is it? He is going
homo! home to his waiting wife, his warm dress
ing gown and slippers by the parlor fire, and the
evening of contentment and rest which he knows
is awaiting him there. What matters it how
loudly the storm beats, or the gusty wind raves ;
is he not at home, and with the objects of his
love? Isn’t he.happy? Ask him, and he will
tell you “yes,” with an earnestness that defies
disbelief.
Maybe, in all these happy homes there are va
cant places; empty seats at the fireside; unused
books; little shoes, and faded knots of ribbon
laid away in some hallowed drawer ; little play
things that once brought joy to little hearts which
lie cold and still beneath mounds carpeted with
the soft snow of winter! Very likely; every fam
ily lias its precious dead children ; but even the
remembrance of this is no cause of unhappiness,
when we remember that around, our Father’s-
Throne above there can come no dissatisfaction,
no trial, no shadow of wo! Grieving for this be
seems us ill, for the Saviour of the world stretched
forth liis hands, and declared “Os such is the
kingdom of Heaven.”
Friend, so long as a home is granted you, lowly
and humble though it may be, if Love and Peace
arp its watchfires, and Contentment its bright and
abiding star, never call yourself poor ! You are
rich l far richer than the hapless millionaire who,
with pockets lined with the glittering ore of Cal
ifornia, goes nightly to his splendid lodgings in a
hotel, and finds his home circle in the fast men
that share the place of his abode. You have a
treasure which moth will not corrupt, or rust cor
rode; for all perfect affection is Heaven-born,
and therefore imperishable.
We have much gratification in believing that
the love which has cemented hearts in holy
union here, shall continue its sacred office in tho
hereafter; for God is “Love,” and his kingdom
is one of good will toward men.
It is not gold and silver, neither heaps of pre
cious jewels, tha*. bless ineffably the lives which
are given us ; neither honor and the world’s praise
for death will sweep it all away ; but it is that
pure, earnest, sincere love of God and our fellow
men, which never fails, even in this world, of
bringing a sure and glorious reward.
Cherish a home! Never let discord and ill
nature enter there! Never allow the dark face
of distrust to cross its threshhold! Guard your
home as you would your life; nay, more, for hap
piness is more precious than life, and upon your
home that happiness depends.
Perfect confidence should abide there forever !
Let no dim secret intrude, to build up, as it were,
a wall of granite between its inhabitants. The
great corner-stone of Love is Confidence, and the
one cannot exist without the other. Between the
hearts of the dwellers in one family there should
be no veil of darkness, no shadow of mystery, for,
out of doubt, love and contentment can never
spring; and only in the broad sunshine of Truth
can the royal plant of Respect flourish and grow
strong.
Politeness and courtesy towards the members
of your family, will tend to establish kindly feei
ng ; and let the same deference which you would
show to a stranger, bo shown towards those who
love you best, and who have a legitimate right to
the best phase of your character.
It is singular, considering the many amiable
men and women one meets in society, that there
should be-so few happy homes; so few specimens
of coi\jugal ami fraternal happiness. Ah, it is
sad to speak it; but.it results from the fact that
too many people save their smiles from their own
families, to bestow them upon the eager crowd of
fashion and folly. It is true that we want not at
homo the formal politeness which society abroad
requires of us, but tho genuine upspringing of
kindness which comes direct from the heart, and
always gladdens the recipient, and makes tho
giver better and happier. Let.us, then, display
the best part of our lives at home. We have
those there whose claims are paramount to all
others; let us look to it that we respect those
claims, and yield freely the right.
We love well the voice of tho great cantatrice,
who stands in the wide-roofed hall and pours
forth her song for the gratification of the multi
tude; but we love bettor the sweet, soft voice
which sings to cheer a weary father, a sick brother
or a care-worn husband. There is soul in that
voice; there is beauty and pathos there; and
with that voiceit seems the very angels of Heaven
might love to mingle the seraphic chorus!
May the God of our fathers guard and protect
our homes L May He preserve them from the in
truding foot of Despotism and Wrong; and, at
last, gather all the dwellers therein safely into
the great home above, where there are “many
mansions prepared for those that love Him, and
keep His commandments.”—-Ladse? Home Maga
zine.