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LITERARY §empcranec djwsaJqrj f'i ■%’ . PENFIELD, GEORGIA. rsr ■ r -r . a ——■■——.■■■’ „ ■ Ij. LINCOLN VEAZEY, Editor. --A.- . ‘ * 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. m ipi > 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. - f~ 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. i*r- •** ’ .*•. - “ vv* -Ig 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.