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LITERARY
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PENPIELD, GEORGIA*
L. LINCOLN VEAZEY, Editor.
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 1,1858. -
THE AIMS OF LIFE.
‘‘Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy Country’s,
Thy God’s and Truth’s; then, if thou fallest,
Thou fallest a blessed martyr.”
nTTTHAT are you going to do?” is an inquiry
V f we often hear propounded to young men
who are just about making their entrance on the
scenes of real life. The question is of momen
tous importance ; one which should be long and
carefully considered before a reply is hazarded.
The individual should give free scope to his vis
ion, and take an accurate, impartial survey of his
powers and prospects. In making his choice, he
should not allow his love of ease or his desire for
present gratification to exercise any influence.
Let him ascertain, in the first place, what he can
do; for, in all the vast range of vocations pre
sented to his view, there is but one for which his
abilities are exactly fitted. Having decided this
point, let him fix the mark which he wishes to
reach, and then throw all the energies of his na
ture into one long continued effort for its attain
ment. When all this has been done, if he fails,
ho may well say the fault is in his stars.
It is unfortunately the case that many young
persons enter life without any settled aim. The
educational regimen under which they spend
their earlier years, gives them few practical no
tions in regard to the future, and really does lit-;
tie in fitting them for its realities. If blessed (or j
, cursed) with inherited wealth, they are happy, in j
the consciousness that the demon want will never j
approach their thresh holds; if not, any occupa
tion which will give them bread for the present,
and eventually place them in the way of accumu
lating property, will satisfy their ambition. Thus
purposeless they drift on, becoming just what cir
cumstances make them, while they indulge the
belief that a Divinity is shaping their ends.
But it is still more unfortunate that most of
those who form a settled purpose, choose some
thing unworthy of themselves, and worse than
useless to the world if accomplished. 3 hey lose
sight of the fact that there are other things to be
striven for besides the gratification of their per
sonal ambition and a realization of the hopes
which it begets. That nobler ambition which,
would make each desire not to live for himself
’ alone, they never feel. One seeks to win popu
larity, that he may have the enjoyment of repu
tation while living, while another disregards the
opinions of bis contemporaries, if be can feel as
sured of gaining posthumous fame. Some con
’ secrate their every faculty at the shrine of mam
mon, bend all their energies to heap up the glit
tering dust of earth, and live paupers that they
may die millionaires. The pilgrim of learning
plods on his weary way with toil and labor until,
having attained the lofty height of knowledge,
he looks down with pride on the ignorant masses
he has loft below, himself as wretched as when
his course began. All these propose ends which
they suppose will lead to happiness; but think
ing, acting and feeling for themselves alone, they
find the fair fruit which their hopes presented to
their view ashes and bitterness on the lips.
Happiness in some form is the object for which
men universally strive, however diversified the
means they employ. As if to prove how little
our energies can subserve such an end when mis-
applied, some have been allowed to attain all
that, in their wildest flights of fancy, they ever
hoped; yet, misery, and not happiness, ha3 been
the result. All have heard of the ancient king
who, having purposed the winning of universal i
empire, approached so near his aim as to weep
that there were no more worlds to conqueu. But 1
though crowns innumerable were laid at his feet, 1
and nations, whose names were till then unknown,
acknowledged his sway, his days were passed in
anxious turmoil, and his last hours spent in
drunken debauch. Not less known is he vdio,
possessed of wealth till then deemed fabulous,
was consumed by fears lest liis avaricious neigh
bors would be attracted by his treasures and at- j
tempt his overthrow. Zealous ecclesiastics have j
vowed, in what they thought a holy ambition, to
win the triple coronet; but when they occupied
the throne of the Caesars, and dealt out the thun
ders of the Vatican, they found themselves less
happy than when they led the devotions of a
band of humble peasants in some obscure church.
The sword of Damocles, torturing with the pres
ence of ever-impending clanger; a grim skeleton
’lurking in each recess and horifying the soul with
its ghastliness; the serpent showing its deadly
poison in each cup that rises to the lips, are the
inevitable concomitants of greatness gained by
violence and supported by tyranny.
* During the first half of the present century,
there lived in England a man upon whom for- j
tune had showered almost every gift she could
bestow. Wealth and rank were his from birth,
with all the advantages of education and society
which it brings. What books he wished to read,
he read; what sights to see, he saw. in the up
per classes among whom ho moved, he was “the
glass of fashion and the mold of form.” When j
he appeared in public, all observers were filled
with admiration at the manly beauty of his per
son, the refined elegance of his manners and the
tasteful splendor ot his dress. For these quali
ties, the world rang with his praises, and this
conßtituded the sole aim of bi3 ambition. He
lived a dandy and died a rake; yet, left the
world pleased with himself for having been the
greatest dandy mankind had ever known.
Many years before, the same country claimed
one as her son who was bom in poverty and :
reared in humbleness. In early life he became j
imbued with the spirit of love, and consecrated j
himself, with all the energies and talents he pos
sessed, to the service of Heaven. Obedient to the
voice of conscience, he connected himself with
an obscure sect, who, unable to give him either
emolument or importance, only drew upon him
the wrath of those in power. Persecution leveled
*t him her deadliest shafts, but lie swerved not
from duty. Thrown into tile deep damps of a
dungeon, his faith never faltered, his zeal never
grew cold. From that gloomy prison home he
sent forth a strain so sweet, so beautiful, so true,
that it touched the world’s great heart, and sent
back one universal throb ot feeling. Lar nobler
is his fame than that of those whom ‘ Storied uin
and animated bust” proclaim the great of earth.
The life and character of such truly great men
point out to us what should be the end and aim
of every man’s existence: to be and to do good; to
say, write or perform something which shall leave
the world better from his having lived. Let no
one suppose that to do good he must do some
thing great. A writer has very truly said that,
he 4*ho makes two spires of grass to grow whore
only one had previously grown, should be consid
ered a public benefactor. The fields of action
which duty assigns are widely different. Upon
one she imposes the tillage of the soil, and the
production of food-for man and beast; and to
another she intrusts the helm of government, and
the control of his country’s destiny. Some she
calls to go out upon the sea in ships, and make a
course upon the trackless waste of waters, while
other# are urged to lift the banner of the cros& in
the dark jungeis of heathen lands. To all these
diverse pathways the end is the same. There is
that serene and calm delight arising from con
ferring a blessing which makes it mow blessed to
give than to receive; a happiness which th&self
ish never knew. There is a reciprocal influence ;
a mutual exchange of benefits; for the world
does not suffer those who generously labor for its
welfare to go unrewarded. Beside this, there is
“a peace above all earthly dignities; a still and
quiet conscience,” which speaks as God’s vicege
rent of his approving smiles.
But there is an aim of life higher than these.
We are here on probation, and upon the manner
in which we use our gifts depends our eternal fate,
whether we shall be elevated to higher dignity
or sunk in degradation. While every faculty
should be so cultivated as to expand its capaci
ties, the moral nature should be so disciplined
that all its energies will be directed to some no
ble purpose. Thoughts should be cherished that
will purify the mind, sanctify its emotions, fill it
with tender affections and lift its hopes to Heaven.
Whoever does thus will not have # lived in vain,
though no eulogy on the historic page shall tell
posterity of his greatness. There is an entry to
his name in the record on High that shall invest
him with glory when the gorgeous pageants of
earthly grandeur shall have faded.
That is no idle question, “What are you going
to do?” Ponder it well, young man, before you
return an answer, to yourself; consider it still
more deeply before you announce that reply to
others. The world lies before you. In it power
may be gained, knowledge acquired, fame achiev
ed and fortune won. Aspire to any or all of
these if you will, for in themselves they are wor
thy of your ambition. But while you seek
these, aim at something higher, purer, nobler.
Strive so to live that,
“ When thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan that moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His ehamber in the silent balls of death,”
there will not alone be a chair left vacant and a
voice hushed, but a spirit of goodness will have
passed from earth, whose loss will be deeply felt
and long lamented. Such are the remembrances
which goodness leaves behind; such the monu
ment, “More enduring than brass,” which the
generous and true can build up while living, and
1 dying, perpetuate.
Levi S. Heart, Esq., has been appointed by His
Excellency Governor Brown Military Store Keep
er at Savannah, vice Sami. B. Ilaupt, deceased.
We are indebted to Hon. S. A. Douglas for
copies of his speech on the Appropriation Bill,
and hie remarks on the State of Parties in Illi
nois.
Thompson, who was found guilty of the mur
der of young Calhoun by the Superior Court of
Muscogee county, is to be hanged at Columbus,
on Frida y, the 2d of July.
Green Martin, who was convicted of murder
at the last term of the Superior Court of Wash
ington County, and sentenced to be hung, has
been allowed anew trial by the Supreme Court.
The Dalton Times, of Juno 23d, says wheat will
yield about half a crop : oats almost a total fail
ure ; corn generally looks well, though it is re
ported by some to be slightly affected with the
rust.
We call attention to the advertisement of W.
B. Seals, from which it will be seen that he will
again open his house fer the reception of visitors
at the approaching Commencement of Meroer
University.
The Senitkcm Cultivator for July is on our table.
Apart fi’om its inestimable value to every farmer
as an Agricultural Journal, no small portion of
its contents will be found of interest to the gen
eral reader. Published by W. S. Jones, Augusta,
Ga. at One Dollar a-year, in advance.
The Proprietor of the Southerner published at
Rome, Georgia, offers it for sale, as he has more
busines 3on hand than ho can well attend to,
and isAlesirous of turning his attention to|the job
department . He says the Southerner has over 1,000
bona fide subscribers, and is doing an iwusually
good business.
The Court HJouse in Troupviile, Lowndes Cos
was entirely destroyed by fire on the morning of
the 23d inst. and all the record# lost. It will of
course be charged upon an incendiary, but as it
occurred during the session of the Court, it may
very reasonably be supposed to have been the re
sult of carelessness.
Harper's Magazine for July is one of the moi>t
interesting numbers of that always-interesting
monthly which we have seen this year. It con
tains a fine article on Gen. Francis Marion from
the able pen of B. J. Lossing, with a number of
! elegant illustrations. There are two other illus
trated papers; “A journey through the land of
the Aztecs” and “Caraccas, ’ besides Thackeray’s
“Virginians.” These, with the “Drawer” and
“Table” and Easy *“Chair,” afford an unusually
rich literary treat.
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Gen. Coffee, a pro oninent Democrat, and most
1 estimable man (saj s the the Athens Bcmn&r) died
at his residence ii i Rabun county, on the 30th
ult., of dropsy of tb e chest, in the sixty-fifth year
of his age.
He was a native of South Carolina, but moved
to Georgia soon a£ ter arriving at manhood, and
for near thirty yettrs represented Rabun county,
in one or the otbr branch of the Legislature.
He held the oifiae of State Senator from that
county at the time of his death.
Wj have hear and the remark madebymen that the
| world owed the toi ft living, and truly some live
as if they belie; *ed it a practical truth. Without
speaking of the ee who by theft and burglary pro
cure what they do not earn, there are thousands
who are too laz y to do either of these; yet, with
equal meanness; draw a parasitic existence from
society. They assume to themselves the right of
being support* sd by other men’s labors, without
any exertion <if their own. It is a false notion,
that the world 1 owes any man ft living, which, if
adopted, will 1 eea<l to crime. The world owes no
man anything j, and the only method by which
it can be plac ied under any obligations, is vigor
ous and conti ued labor.
The fondri isss of some men for the dog tribe,
is to us am] /rafcfery. That one who makes hunting
a part of his* “business, and thinks a dog as neces
sary a por’ don of his equipment as a gun or shot
bag, shoul id love the faithful animal that follows
him in hi $ excursions, is not strange at all. But
we see n o reason why those who never have any
use for a .dog more than once in six months, should
keep a- iialf score of mean looking curs, and all
the d< testable varieties of “mongrel, puppy,
whelp xmd hound” lying in their yards doing
notki ng but bark at and annoy every passer-by.
frogs , when kept in such numbers, are a nuisance,
a gr eat nuisance, and ought to be heavily taxed.
For a good dop —if such a thing there be—a man
mig ht afford to pay a tax; for he would become
rau ch better b v being delivered from the influ
ence of the multitude of mean dogs that would
be h piled as soo* i as a law to tax them was enacted.
Vj’EXT Sunday will be the anniversary of our
i-V national birth. On that day we will have
completed the eighty-second year of our exis
tence as an independent power, Every heart,
from Maine to. California, should, at the sunrise
of that holy day, send up a fervent strain of
thanksgiving to the ear of Jehovah for the un
numbered mercies which have crowned us as a
people during that period. The lines have fallen
to us in pleasant places. Though our national
character is marred by many imperfections, and
many defects exist in our system of government,
we are perhaps the best, and certainly the most
prosperous nation on the globe.
years! It may seem a short period,
when compared with the twelve centuries which
Rome claimed as the duration of her temporal
power. But it is longer than any one of her
governments existed without suffering the corrup
tion of its original purity. The fair plant of Gre
cian Liberty began to show here and there a yel
low leaf before it had flourished for eight decades.
What nation of modern Europe has moved on
quietly and peaceably for three-fourths of a cen
tury, without violating the letter or spirit of a
written constitution, or departing in the slightest
particular from an established policy? France
and England are the same nations to-day that
they were a hundred years ago, but are very far
from having the same governments. Their power
has not been lessened, or their dignity impaired;
but it has been owing to the fact that the charac
ter of the people possessed an influence to reju
venate govermental systems which were contin
ually tending to decay. Thus far in our history,
we have flourished under a constitution that, tri
umphing over all the angry bickerings of party
spirit, has remained inviolate, becoming more
sacred in popular estimation as age renders it
venerable. Shall it continue so ? Have we deeply
engrafted in our nationality the elements of per
petuity, or are we slowly but surely approaching
dissolution? Solemn queries are these, demand
ing the-serious consideration of every true patriot.
Ocr opinions of men and things are very largely
influenced by the state of our feelings; much
more so, really, than we are willing to admit.
To-day, in an exhilirating ecstasy of joy, all the
world looks bright and beautiful; to-morrow,
cast down in the depths of despondency, nothing
but darkness and gloom meets the eye. Charge
not a man, then, with instability, if at one time
he expresses an opiuion which he soon invalidates
by a contrary expression. Our feelings are col
ored media, from which all our conceptions take
their hues, and as one changes, so must the other.
♦
[Written for the Georgia Temperance Crusader.]
THE WIFE.
BT CLARA CLIFTON.
“ The rose-buds of kindness that blossom in life,
Are nourished with love by the hand of the wife.
Listen, wife; do you know what they are—rose
buds of kindness ?—not the bright buds that blos
som in your flower-vases —true, these are to beau
tify home, and to gladden the husbands eyes
but the rose-buds of kindness, that blossom in
life, are of a different nature; they differ from
the others in that one affects the senses and cre
ates pleasant emotions, while the other, touching
the heart, converts the pleasing emotion into a
passion attended with desire to reward the au
thor of the action.
It is not enough that home is surrounded by
beauty and comforts; that elegance and refine
ment preside over the household: there must
be kind words, kind looks and kind deeds.
Does your husband’s coming in with a dark and
cloudod*brow bring a shadow upon yours? Do
you become discouraged and begin to despond
and murmer? If so, love’s flowers will begin to
wither; they should be “nourished with love by
the hand of the wife.” Murmuring, desponding
wife, try this plan when your husband comes in
again with a troubled look: Let him see, with
out any display on your part, how, during his ab
sence, you have studied his pleasure. Does he
love the eaay-chair, with dressing-gown and slip
pers, in which to rest after the day’s toil is over?
Then give them to him; let them be ready for
him; put aside your work or book and assist
him. Is lie affectionate and loving ? Then take
his hands and warm them in yours; lay one hand
tenderly on liis forehead, brush back the liaii
gently, soothingly; whisper words of kindness,
but leT'no murmur escape the lips; no account
of domestic cares that have been worrying you
through the day should grate on his tired senses.
There are very many wives who will answer to
these suggestions, “Never; such tenderness would
ruin any man, and cause him to make a slave of
his wife.” Ah! you liave’nt tried the experi
ment, or, if you have and it has failed, I fear you
made a bad choice in selecting a husband; you
either accepted a crabbed old bachelor or a selfish,
self-conceited man that cannot appreciate woman;
one that never loved his mother and sisters, and
that don’t deserve a wife ; but even such an one
•aught be reformed, were the right influences ex
erted. Few persons are constituted so cold
hearted as to resist the winning iascinations ol
woman's kindness and love. Don’t beafiaidto
pet him; if lie is worthy a woman’s love, it will,
instead of spoiling him, increase and elevate his
love for you, and, in return for your kindness, he
will say, with as much fervor as did Adam to Eve,
“ My fairest, my espoused, my latest found ;
Heaven’s last, best gift—my ever new delight.
Woman is so constituted as to exert over man
a winning power; her dependence and weakness
make her an object of love and solicitude, and
awaken emotions of love that an independent,
tyrannical spirit could never awaken in the heart
of man. Woman’s province is the affections;
there alone should she rule; in those alone should
she desire to excel. Man himself has acknowl
edged his indebtedness to woman for what is
chaste and refined in his character; and may not
this refining influence be attributed to the tender
nourishing of the rose-buds of kindness by the
hand of love ?
The wife’s responsibilities are not a few: upon
her depends the happiness of her husband; her
devotion and kindness lighten his cares and
elicit liis love in return, as her unkindness and
peevishness sour his temper and cool the ardor of
his affection. It is so natural for man to look to
woman for kindness, that he must ever be disap
pointed when iis not found. Kindness from a
woman and a wife receives a charm no other
hand could give it. Although ’tis woman’s duty
to minister to the wants and pleasures of her hus
band, the fulfilment of these duties must not be
lier only pleasure; she, too, must he a loved and
cherished object, else she would be dwelling only
in the suburbs of the marriage state, while it is her
right, her peculiar privilege, to share equally all
the joys. These, a good wife will have; for good
wives piake good husbands, hike Osbornc, I pity
from my heart the unhappy man who has a bad
wife. “She is shackles on his feet; a palsy to his
hands; a burden on his shoulder; smoke to his
eyes; vinegar to his teeth ; a thorn in his side; a
dagger to his heart.”
Woman was created to be the helpmeet of man
in every relation of life; to share alike his joys
and sorrows. If she would increase her own hap
piness, let her daily strew, with the fresh flowers
of affection and kindness, the narrow and rugged
pathway of life. , f
June 4, 1858.
■ ‘ Vi
i {T)LACE a beggar on horseback, and be will
JL ride- extensively;” is an adage too of
ten exemplified to need any further proof. We
.sometimes see a man who has been reared in in
digence suddenly placed in the possession of a
fortune, and he “goes it” with a rapidity that
outstrips all the ideas of Young America, and
competes in fleetness with a streak of lightning.
All those maxims of prudence and frugality which
poverty taught him are instantly forgotten.
He sees one end of his wealth; and is excited by
a great curiosity to see the other. Everything
which a vulgar taste prompts him to want is
bought, and -not paid for, but carelessly or
dered to be “charged,” and soon he is repeating,
in very lachrymose style, the old complaint, that
“riches take unto themselves wings and fly
away.”
Suddenly acquired weath, whether inherited
from a foolish, though well-meaning, father, or
obtained by drawing a “capital prize” in a lot
tery, is seldom a blessing. A thousand honestly
made by the sweat of the brow brings more true
happiness than a million thus acquired. The first
will always be so employed as to do good; the
other will be either squandered in useless extrava
gance, or, if used as the means of amassing more,
it confines the heart with bands of steel and re
presses every generous emotion. “ Put money in
thy purse,” but first learn its value and the uses
to which it can be rightfully applied.
We have received a Catalogue of Hodge’s Male
Institute. It is located in the pleasant little vil
lage cf Greenwood, Abbeville Dist. S. C. and is
under the rectorship of our friend and quondam
college class-mate, William P. MeKellar. We are
glad to learn from its pages that the institute is
in a very flourishing condition, and hope its gen
tlemanly Principal will continue to meet that
success which he so eminently deserves.
The Magnetic Telegraph.— As is well known,
the English claim the invention of the magnetic
telegraph for one of themselves, a Mr. Wheat
stone. The trans-Atlantic telegraphic enterprise
has caused this matter to be much talked of in
Europe, and the Paris Moniteur, the official paper
of France, settles it thus:
No doubt the discovery of the principle upon
which the electric telegraph system is founded
does not belong to Mr. Morse, but he was the
first to transfer that discovery from the region of
speculative science into that of practical applica
tion. It is owing to his labors and his investiga
tions, the honor of which is incontestibly due to
him, that electrical communication, which before
his time was but a mere fact asserted by science,
has become a reality, and one of the most useful
acquisitions which our age lias made and has to
bequeath to posterity.
Louise Chandler Moulton, sends to the Home
Journal the following very charming little ballad,
entitled “ My Love :”
I heard the wind blow over the elm-trees,
By your side, love, long ago,
And your cheek was as bright as the blossoms, :
And your heart was as white as the snow.
Now, the wind blows over the elm-trees,
But I hark alone to its flow
For your cheek is as white as your heart was,
And the blossoms over you grow.
Sidney Webster, Esq., of Boston, who was pri
vate Secretary to President Pierce, has been ap
pointed to be a Commissioner of the United
States, in place of Judge Loring, selected to fill
the vacancy in the Court of Claims, occasioned
by the death of Judge Gilchrist.
FARMERS’ DAUGHTERS.
BY L. VIRGINIA FRENCH.
A young girl who happens to be the daughter
of a real, genuine farmer, should consider herself
particularly fortunate. Her position is one which
contains all the elements which go to make up a
lofty character; it is calculated to bring out all
the energies, to developeall the natural gifts, and
in time, with proper guides, to make her one of
the greatest women in the world. If there be in
life one situation above all others, where the
daughters may grow up healthful, beautiful,
useful, graceful, intelligent and pure, that situa-
I believe to be as one of the household band, in
the home of the honest and independent farmer
or planter. I would say to young girls whose
lines have fallen in such “pleasant plaoes,” do
not undervalue your peculiar advantages. You
are the “ highly favored among women.” The
circumstances in which you are placed, are such
as are best ealculted to develope your powers in
a threefold form : physically, mentally and mo
rally. I would have you value your advantages,
improve every one of them to the utmost, and
place a proper estimate ujx>n yourselves. You have
every opportunity to make yourselves noble, beau
tiful, intellectual and useful women ; do this then
and each in her own person “assert the dignity
of labor.” Consult your parents, and form for
yourself a purpose in life. They place oefore your
brother some aim, some standard, some goal which
his exertions are to reach, why not then give you
“something to live for” also? Why should you
be the only cipher in the family ? When you
have “ finished” school don’t, for one moment,
believe that you are “ educated.’! Don’t “ dress
up” in your six flounces* etc. and sit down on the
the parlor sofa, waiting for that young clerk at
“ Ketchum & Clieatem’s” to “ call round.” No;
let him show off his laces, embroideries, etc., etc,
and wear them too, for all that you care about it.
Remember, that “ let others do as they will, as
for you,” you have something else to do than to
sit down, fold your white hands, and wait to be
married. You have an influence in society to
wield—duty as a daughter, and perhaps a sister
to perform —and then you must not forget your
self—for you have a mind to be cultivated, health
to be guarded, a heart to be educated, and an im
mortal soul to be saved. Is not this a great deal
of work ? Yes, trust me, if you only set about.it
“ with a will” you will find every moment em
ployed, and every day too short for the accom
plishment of all your duties. You know hew
much you can assist Mamma in all her varied de
partments of domestic economy—the dairy, the
poultry-yard, the store-room, the sewing-basket,
the garden, the shrubbery, and twenty other
things over which her watchful eye presides; but
while doing all you can for her, please don’t neg
lect Papa. No a', I see you smile incredulously,
saying to your nice little self, “ Why what in the
world could Ido for Papa ?” Oh 1 a great deal,
if you will only assume the responsibility. Be
sides preparing him some refreshing delicacy when
he comes in, as he expresses it “hungry as a
hawk,” or singing him a sweet song when his
mind is over-tasked; you can talk with him, and
learn of him about his fields, his stock, or his
buildings—you can read to him his agricultural
books and papers, (for there is a great deal of
“head work” in fariming,) and thus improve your
own mind, while adding also to his knowledge.
Suppose, then, that some day he is called off on
important business; though it is in the hurry of
“harvesting;” he quietly takes his seat in the
cars, and “goes on his way rejoicing.” “Ah!
Squire, glad to sec you, but how in the world did
you get to town—this is your busiest season, is it
not?” The old man smiles, a deep light flashes
in his “blue-gray eye”—is it pride or love ?%as
he quietly replies, Yes sir, it is—but my Mary will
attend to all that.” Oh! wouldn’t you “glory”
in that? I would.
I can see no necessity in the world for your
troubling yourself about marriage, but if Ilarry
Thornton, that intelligent, handsome, and suc
cessful young planter, will keep on coming to con
sult your Papa about this or that—always contriv
ing by the way, to terminate his consultation with
a walk, a ride, or a tctc-a-tcte with Papa’s “ Mary,
—why then, you needn't be surprised, on some
fine evening, to hear yourself “ respectfully elic
ited” to become Mrs. Harry Thornton. Then l
wish you remember that, marriage is only a ques
tion of will with you—not a necessity-—J °ur good
parents are not at all anxious to get rid of such
a sweet, sensible, brave and beautiful child ; and
you, if you don’t think you have “ a call to be
oome a wife, have been too well educated to tear
the name of “ old maid.” But if you love Harry,
and your will is won, (which for his sake, poor
fellow, I trust is the case,) then like an honest,
dear little girl as you are—having far too much
love for your lover and too much respect for
yourself to “flirt,”—say “yes,” immediately—and
Heaven bless you both !—Southern Homestead*
“Can yon return my love, dearest Julia?”
“ Certainly, Sir :• 1 don’t want it, I'm sure.”
Wm. 11. Russell, the army correspondent of
the London 37 ho*, gets SIO,OOO per annum, and
all expenses paid.
Politicians make fools of themselves; pettifog
gers make fools of othei-s; and pretty girls mate
fools of both.
EnoclTßoone, nephew of Col. Daniel Boone,
and the first white man born in Kentucky, is still
living in that State.
This is too grave a matter to make light of,” as
the whale said to the man who was dipping the
the oil out of his head.
Fox had a great respect for the genius of his
rival, Pitt. He used to say, “ I neverwant a word
but he never wants the. word.”
There areeloven newspapers in Missouri advocat-.
ing the fame of negro emancipation. Four of
them are in the city of St. Louis.
Member's of Congress will be elected during the
present year in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, Missouri and Arkansas. .
A lively Hibernian exclaimed, at a party where
Theodore Hook shone as the evening star, “Och,
Master Theodore, but you’re the hooh that nobody
i can hate.”
Wheat is selling in Knoxville at GO and 65 cents
per bushel; bacon, hog round at 71 cents per
pound; corn at 28 and 40 cents per bushel, and
oats at 20 cents.
The latest news from the seat of fashion, Paris,
is to the effect, that “ long skirts and sweeping
trains are to be replaced by short dresses and
shorter petticoats.”
The richest man in England is tho Marquis of
Westminister. His wealth is estimated at £21,-
000,000 sterling, or $105,000,000, and his annual
income at $3,500,000.
A quack sent a puff to an editor offering twen
ty shillings for its publication as an editorial.
The Editor replied, “ I cannot insert a forty shil
ling lie for twenty shillings.”
There are at'least two thousand people, of both
sexes, from the other States sojourning in Indiana
and Illinois, for the express purpose of getting
rid of their wives and husbands.
In the United States Circuit Court at Portland,
on Saturday, Judge Clifford sentenced George W.
Young of Augusta. (Me.) the mail robber, to fif
teen years in the State prison.
The amount of the appropriations made at the
late session of Congress, is six,ty eight million dol
lars- or twelve millions less than it was reported
immediately after the adjournment.
An umbrella has been manufactured in Con
necticut, called the “ lending umbrella.” It is
made of brown paper and willow twigs, intended
exclusively to accommodate a friend.
The Selma ( X\s) Sent'mcl mentions a rattlesnake
caught on a plantation near that city. It had
nine rattles, was four feet in length, about twen
ty-five inches in girth and weighed forty pounds.
At Iberville, La., at a public sale recently, af.
m. c. became the purchaser of a sugar plantation
in that parish, at the price of $240,000, making
him the owner altogether of 4.500 acres of land
and 200 negroes.
j The Kingston, Jamaica, correspondent of the
New York Herald, states that Col. Harrison, U.
S, consul at that port, died there on the 24th ult.
His death was deeply regretted by all the inhabi
tants of the island.
It has been remarked that ladies have generally
a great fear of lightning, and this lias been super
ficially ascribed to their natural timidity; but
the truth is, that it arises from their conscious
ness of being attractive.
Life is but a walk over a moor, and the wild
flowers that grow upon our path are too few not
to gather them when they come within sight,
even though it may cost us a step or two aside—
it’s all day’s journey, and get home at last.
The amount of sugar destroyed by the inunda
tion in Louisiana is estimated at 59,000 hogsheads
—worth $3,000,000. The cotton destroyed by the
overflow on the banks of the Mississippi, it is said,
will be 100,000 bales, whose value would probably
be $4,000,000.
Mr. Allen, son-in-law of Mr. Vanderbilt, ac
companied by Mr. Webster, whose name has ap
peared so often in connection with transit mat
ters, has proceeded to Nicaragua to watch the
turn which events may take in relation to the
Cass-Yrassi treaty.
The French Gazette, Medical, states that char
coal has been accidentally discovered to be a cure
for burns. By laying a piece of charcoal on the
burn, the pain subsides at once By leaving it on
for an hour, the wound will be healed. It is cer
tainly worth a trial.
A certain sharp attorney was said to be in bad
circumstances. A friend of the unfortunate law
yer met Jor fold, and said, “ Have you heard about
poor It—■ — ; ? His business is going to the
devil.” Jerrold—“ That’s all right; then ho is
sure to get it back again.”
Jerrold was in France, and with a Frenchman
who w r as enthusiastic on the subject of the Anglo-
French alliance. He said that he was proud to
.see the English and French such good friends at
last. Jerrold—“ Tut! the best thing I know be
tween France and England is—tire sea.”
The city of Cairo, at tho junction of tho Missis
sippi and Ohio rivers, now under water, is princi
pally owned by a company represented by stock
to tho amount of $4,000,000, of which George Pea
body owns $70,000, having purchased the same
during his visit to this country last year.
A man named Wm. Simcock, of Washington
county, Pa., recently lost his wife in the morning
—was arrested by the constable at eleven o’clock
—married his second wife before night—and fol
lowed the remains of his first wife, in company
with the second, to the grave the day after.
Ascertain how much land you can afford to
keep from weeds. Remember, we ought not to
judge a man’s gardening qualities by the amount
of land he tills, but how well he cultivates; bet
ter quarter of an acre full of fiaiit and flowers,
than half, where every other plant is a weed.
The General Assembly of Presbyterians, recent
ly in session in Chicago, has decided by a vote of
160 to 52 that divorces cannot be granted unless
adultery be clearly shown, and that any one mar
rying a person divorced for any other cause, is
himself guilty of adultery in a moral view of the
case.
The following is a passage from tho prayer of
the clergyman who officiated in the House of
Representatives on the last day of the session ;
“Be with them in their weakness, strengthen
them with thy strength, scan with thy searching
eye all their legislative acts, and we pray thee,
0 lord, that Thou will overrule all their doingsT’
A man died, a few days since, aged ninety-four
years, in Cambridge, Mass., who had lived very
poorly, and was not supposed to own any proper
ty, except the house and lot in which he lived.
His heirs, however, on searching the premises,
discovered specie of various countries and denom
inations, to the amount of fifty thousand dollars.
A fast Irishman, in a time of revival, joined the
church, but was found sinning greviously, not long
afterward.
“ Didn’t you join the Methodists?” inquired a
pio.usly inclined person.
“Faixan’ I did—l jined for six months, and
behaved so well that they let me off with three.”
“ There was a wag at college with me who used
to amuse the class by the odd answers he would
give to the questions of the Professor. It used to
be the custom—and a very necessary one it was—
to spend Saturday morning in drilling the class in
English grammar. On one of these occasions the
following passage occurred between Jones and the
Professor:
“Professor. •‘Well, Mr. Jones, what do you un
derstand by masadine V i §|||
“Jones. * That means the mend
“Professor. ‘ And feminine f
■ “ J ones. ‘ That means the women,’
“ Professor. ‘ And neuter V
‘ “ Jones. * Ahem! that must mean the children !’
, “Professor. ‘Ah! Mr. Jones; where did you
. get that information V
• “Jones. ‘Well, Sir, lam not certain; but I
l think you will find it in some at Paul's miscellaneous
writings/”
The Wife's Appeal.
Come near me—Jennie lay my hand
Once more upon thy brow,
And let me whisper in thine ear *
Uove s last and fondest vow.
The bps that breathe these trembling ward*
Will soon be cold in death, *
And thy dear cheek can feel ho mor*
f *• * “ ejr warm and loving breath.
I go front thee; God only knows
How I have longed to stay
How I have shuddered thus to tread
The lone and shadowy way.
Faith tpl!s me that I soon may knew
The joy the blessed find,
And yet I falter when I cast
A lingering look behind.
I see ihee bowed before me lie re,
In bitterness and tears,
But I can leave something still *£?■-
To light thy weary years.
Young, tender forms wifi cling to the# —
Perhaps will miss my tone,
And though they may not share tby grief,
Thou wilt not feel alone.
Fold them still closer to thy breast,
And soothe their childish woe,
And cheer the many lonely hours
The motherless must know.
The world with all its hopes and joys,
AVill sometimes make t lice glad,
But they must linger round a hearth
All desolate and sad.
And O ! when time shall calm thy grief,
Perchance the hour may come,
When thou wilt win another form
To share thy hetrt and home.
When thou wilt welcome to thy board
A younger, fairer faco,
And bid thy children smile on her
Who takes their mother’s place.
But think not, could I speak to thee,
That I would frown or blame,
Though they c-lioald love the stranger as#,
And call her by her name;
For they will speak to thee of me—
My memory is their trust,—
A word, a smile, a ,look like mine,
Will call me from the dust.
Yet make ray grave no place of tears,
But let the dear ones bring,
To cheer their mother’s lonely home,
The blossoms of the spring.
And even there, thou too, may’st kneel,
And softly press the earth
That covers her whose face once gave,
A brightness to thy hearth.
Then will the forms of early years
Steal softly to thy side,
And for an hour thoucan’st forget
” Thou hast another bride.
She may be all thy heart can ask,
So dear, so true to thee,
But O ! the spring-time of thy love,
Its freshness was for me.
May she be blest who comforts thee,
And with a gentle hand.
Still guide the little trembling ones
Who make our household band;
She cannot know the tenderness
That fills their mother’s breast,
But she can love them for thy sake
And make them more than blest.
Yet keep one place, one little place,
From all the rest apart;
One spot which I will call “a home,”
Within their faithful heart;
And in the holy hour of dreams,
When spirits fill the air, >.
With tender eye and folded wing
I’ll softly rest me. there.
May God forgive this erring love
That is to mortals given;
It almost woos my spirit back
From happiness and heaven.
And yet I feel I will not die
When this frail life is o’er,
But. watch till all my loved ones come
Where we shall meet to part no more.
During the session of Congress just closed, ao
less than five personal altercations have taken place
between members, viz: Grow and Keitt, Clay
and Cullum, Hughes and Harris, Davis and Ben
jamin, andGwin and Wilson. It is pleasant to be
able to state that nobody was hurt, though it is
raro to see so much smoke without fire. Expla
nations have proved more efficacious than bullets.
“ We shall have to give the name of this broth
er, and also of another one, in order to disclose
the point of another pun of which he was guilty
not long since. Ilisname is Story; and, in acom
pany of ministers, a widower named Smart was
rallying him on remaining so long a bachelor.
‘ W hat’s the reason,’ said he, ‘ that you don’t
attach another Story to your house ?’ His imme
diate reply was ‘ I would, if I was Smart.”
Lose wood, and the Tomb of Napoleon.— The St.
Helena Herald of tho 4th of March contains an
ordiance of the governor, granting to the Emper
or of the French, and his heirs in perpetuity, th#
lands forming the sites of Longwood and the
tomb of Napoleon's Yale, where the tomb is situ
ated, comprise about 23 acres, while those of
Longwood comprise about 3. They recently be
longed to private owners, and have been pur
chased by the Crown for the purpose of the pres
ent transfer, at a cost of £I,OOO for the tomb, and
£3,500 for the house.
—
Owners of the London Times. —Mr. John Wal
ter, M. P. for the borough of Nottingham, i
principal proprietor of the Times newspaper, hold
ing nineteen shares out of the twenty-four into
which that publication is divided. The pub
lisher, who is responsible for all libels, &c.,
has one share. Mr. John Delane, the editor, has
one share; and Mrs. Carden, mother of Sir Rob
ert Carden, the present Lord Mayor of London,
has three shares. It is estimated that each pro
prietary share is worth over SIO,OOO a year, ma
king the agreeable sum of $240,000 to S2bO,OOQ
per annum out of all the shares. Mr. Walter’s
individual ‘receipts from this source may be aver
aged at some $200,000 a year.
From a splendid volume recently published,
but which shall be unhonored with a name in the
Drawer, we take the following extract, furnished
by a reader who thinks it matches any “ highfa
lutin’ ” writing he has seen in many a day:
“If Time disaggregates’material, it does not’d©-
ny a compensatory medium to the association of
the past with the future; nor can it, for if even re
cords fail,memory, invigorated by age and strength
ened by exercise, comes to the rescue, lights up
the past, and rejuvenates among the ruins, or
their shades, of the wisdom of our early fathers!”
And again:
“To all appearance, he passed Time’s ordeal
without the care of much wealth, or the risk or
fear of bankruptcy; and shed Ids mortality under
Oriented tints of an unclouded sunset.”
The Daughter of Aaron Burr. —The Carolina
Spartan supplies anew incident in the life of
Aaron Burr, regarding the death of his daughter.
It professes to derive its information from an old
and distinguished citizen of Charleston, now dead;
“ Burr, in his many intrigues, compassed the
ruin of the wife of the captain of a coaster between
New York and Charleston. To remove the cap
tain, Burr corrupted his sailors to mutiny and de
stroy him. On the outward voyage no opportuni
ty offered, and the execution of the plan was de
ferred till the return trip. Unfortunately on this
very vessel Mrs. Alston took passage. Her fate
was an awful retribution ujx>n her abandoned fa
ther. lie never looked up alter, and|doubtless from
the conviction that the sins of the father were
visited upon the child. Our informant went to
New York to look up the wife of this captain.
Hearing that Burr knew her, he sought an inter
view. ‘flic mention of the name was the signal
for silence ; nor would Burr keep a further ap
pointment, or impart any information on the
topic.”
The Clerk and Plow-boy.—The young man who
leaves the farm-field for the merchant’s desk, or
the lawyer’s or the doctor’s, thinking to dignify
or ©noble his toil, makes sad mistake. He pas
ses by that step from independence to vassalage.
He barters a natural for an artificial pursuit; and
he must be the slave of the caprice of customers,
and the chance of trade, either to support him
self or to acquire fortune. The more artificial &
man’s pursuit, the more, debasing is it, morally
and physically. To te3t It, oontrast the mer
chant’s clerk with the plow-boy. The former
may have the most exterior polish, but the latter,
under his rough outside, possesses the true stami
na. He is the freer, franker, happier and nobler
man. Would that young men might judge of
the dignity of labor by its usefulness, rather than
by the superficial glosses it wears. Therefor#
we never see a man’s nobility in his kid gloves
and toilet adornments, but in that sinewy arm,
whose outlines, browned by the sun, betoken %
hardy, honest toil, under whose farmer’s or me*
< hanic’s vest a kingliest heart City
Merchants Mayame,