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JOHN 11. SEALS,
NEW SERIES, VOLUME 111.
OTHE GEORGIA'O
TEMPERANCE CRUSADER.
Published every Thursday in the year, except two.
TERMS: Two Dollars per year, in advance.
JOHN 11. SEALS, Sole Proprietor.
LIONEL, L. VKAZEY, Editor Literary Department.
MRS M. E. HR VAN, Editress.
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ecutors and Guardians, per square, 5 00
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ecutors and Guardians, per square, 3 25
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Legal Beqoirements;
Sales of Land and Negroes by Administrators, Exec
utorsor Guardians, are required, by law, to be held on
the First Tuesday in the month, between the hours of
ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the
Court-house door of the county in which the property is
situate. Notices of these sales must be given in a pub
lic Gazette, forty days previous to the day of sale.
Notices for the sale ol'Personal Property must be given
at least ten days previous to the day of sale.
Notices to Debtors and Creditors of an estate, must
be published forty days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court oi
Ordinary, forleave to sell Land or Negroes, must be pub
lished weekly for two months.
Citations for Letters of Administration, must be pub
lished thirty days —for Dismission from Administration
monthly, six months —for Dismission from Guardianship,
forty days.
Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be published
monthly, for four months —lor compelling titles from Ex
ecutors or Administrators, where a bond has been issued
by the deceased, the full space of three months.
ptiS* Publications will always be continued according
to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or
dered.
<3/4e &&£oiney 4 ‘SAtuctc iy,
KINO A I.EWIS, Attorneys at Law, Greenes
boro, Ga. The undersigned, having associated
themselves together in the practice of law, will attend .
to all business intrusted to their care, with that prompt
ness and efficiency which long experience, united with
industry, can secure. Offices at Greenesboro and five ’
miles west of White Plains, Greene county, Ga.
v. t. kino. July 1, 1858. m. w. lewis.
“\T7'HIT O. JOHNSON, Attorney at Law,
intr.usted to his professional management in Richmond
and the adjoining counties. Office on Mclntosh street, j
three doors below Constitutionalist office.
Reference —Thos. R. R. Cobb, Athens, Ga. s
June 14 ly
ROGER L. WIIIGIIAJVI, Louisville, Jef
ferson county, Georgia, will give prompt attention
to any business intrusted to his care, in the following
counties : Jefferson, Burke, Richmond, Columbia, War
reh, Washington, Emanuel, Montgomery, Tatnall and
Scriven. April 26, 1856 ts
LEONARD T. DOYAL, Attorney at Law, 1
McDonough, Henry county, Ga. will practice Law
in the following counties: Henry, Spaulding, Butts, i
Newton, Fayette, Fulton, DeKalb, Pike and Monroe.
Fob 2-4 i
DII. SANDERS, Attorney at Law, Albany, i
• Ga. will practise in the counties of Dougherty, <
Sumter, Lee, Randolph, Calhoun, Early, Baker, Deca- 1
tur and Worth. Jan 1 ly <
j
HT. PERKINS, Attorney at Law, Greenes
* boro, Ga. will practice in the counties of Greene,
Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Hancock,
Wilkes and Warren. Feb ly
PHILLIP B- ROBINSON, Attorney at
Law, Greenesboro, Ga. will practice in the coun
lies of Greene. Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliafer
ro, Hancock, Wilkes and Warren. July 5, ’56-lv
JAMIES BROWN, Attorney at Law, Fancy
Hill, Murray Cos. Ga. April 30, 1857.
ail i
THE Arm of J. S. BAIINWELL &CO will be
dissolved on the First of Next Month, mutual
•consent —at which time those having demand jgainst
said firm, will please present them, and those indebted
■are respectfully notified that the books will be open lor
settlement by note or cash. The undersigned will give
9iis attention to the settlement of all claims.
Mr. Barnwell will continue in the business of HAR
NESS MAKING and REPAIRING, whom I take
great pleasure in recommending as a faithful and com
petent workman. [June 24—2m] R. J. MASSEY.
PENFIELD AND GREENESBORO
utsrm,
LTACKS or any desired accommo-
F-L dation, waiting the arrival of each
train. Passengers for Penfield, Scull Shoals, Dr. Dur
ham’s, Watkinsville, Watson’s Springs or any other
point, will be carried thither safely and promptly.
Passengers from any of these points desiring to meet
any of the trains, can find like accommodation. Prices
moderate.
Good horses and conveyances, with or without dri
ver. CASH will be required.
I have Horses and Buggies for hire at my stable in
Penfield. H. NEESON, Jr.
July 15, 1858
MRM*. COE!9
SURGEON k MECHANICAL DENTIST,
inform his friends that he
TfijfljHjijgL • ‘ will be back in November and attend
to his engagements at White Plains, Mt.
Zion, Oxford and Penfield. May 13,1858-tfjan
SIBLEY TBOOST
—'WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN—
Choice Family Groceries, Cigars, fcc.
876 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia.
Feb 18, 1858
lon tl flap on c
rpHE firm of COE & LATIMER is this day dis
-I- solved by mutual consent. 11. A. COE,
Greenesboro, May Ist, 1858 J. S. LATIMER.
The practice will be continued by
who will visit
Oxford,
Penfield,
White Plains,
Mount Zion,
Warrenton,
Elbertea,
Danielsville
Fort Lamar,
of which due Betice will be given intheCV** r ■ “ j
Gazette. Permanent office in J. CUNNINGHAj-TS
BLOCK, GREENESBORO. .
May 13, 1858 B anl
ULANKSI BLANKS! OF EVERY DESCRIP-
D ‘I ION, furnished upon the shortest notice.
Officers and are requested to
send in their orders. ’ •
An Earnest Appeal.
NECESSITY compels me to make an earnest
appeal to those who arc indebted to me for 1856
and ’57, for help. I need money to carry on my busi
ness, and a small sum from each one whose account is
past due, would make me easy. Shall I appeal in vain ?
July 8 ‘ W. B. SEALS.
—2
LOVERS OF GOOD THINGS, FRESH AND PURE,
JUST give ‘Old Mac’ a call— lie’s always ready
to supply the wants of those who may favor him
witli their patronage. What’ll you have?
A saucer of Cream,
A Lemonade,
Oranges & Bananas,
Peacans & Peanuts,
Candies and Cakes,
Stews, Fries, Bakes,
CoUradoA. Ch’roots,
’Backer & Havanas,
In sun or shade,
‘Old Mac’s’ th’ team
that can furnish just what y6u may love!
at short notice. Call, examine and eat.
He may still be found at his old place.
Greenesboro, June 10, 1858 D. McDONALD.
CURES GUARANTEE I)!
CANCERS AND SCROFCI.A CURED.
ONHjHUNDRED AND THIRTEEN CASES CURED LAST YEAR, 1557.
PAMPHLETS containing testimonials <, the
highest character, as to his success, will be forward
ded to any that may wish them. Those wishing to test
the efficacy of DR. CLOFTON’S WONDERFUL
REMEDIES, must give a correct description of the
disease, its appearance in its incipient stage, progress,
present condition, location, &c.
A three cent postage stamp must accompany all com
munications. Address J. A. CLOPTON, M. D.
July 15, 1858 ly Hunts\ Ale, Ala. i
Bowdon Collegiate institution,
BOWDON, CARROLL COUNTY, GA.
THE Fall Term will open on Second Wednes
day of August, 1858.
Thorough instruction given in the various English
branches, in Latin, Greek and French. Particular at
tention paid to Pure Mathematics, to Surveying and
Civil Engineering. A Military Company will he organ
ized as soon as the term opens.
chas. a. McDaniel, a. m.
Professor An. Languages, Nat. Phil. Ac.
JOHN M. RICHARDSON, B. S.
Military Instructor, Prof. Mathematics, Ac.
July 22-6 t
mo ip® ss/m , sr&Mb 9
Warehouse & Commission Merchant,
AUGUSTA, GA.
8* /CONTINUES the business in all its
gt, O , branches, in his large and commodi
ous Fire-Proof Warehouse, on Jackson
gtreet - near t h e Globe Hotel.
Orders for Goods, Ac. promptly and carefully filled.
The usual casli facilities afforded customers.
July 22 6m*
bemud & swm'ZL
Warehouse & Commission Merchants,
AUGUSTA, aA.
If sSfTLTAVING entered into a co-part-
HUue r ‘"HI ship for the purpose of carrying on
the Storage and Commission Business in
all of its branches, respectfully solicit con
signments of Cotton and other produce; also orders for
Bagging, Rope and family supplies. Their strict, per
sonal attention will be given to the business.
All the facilities due from factors to patrons shall be
granted with a libera! hand.
ISAAC T. HEARD,
WM. C. DERRY.
July 22d, 1858.
MALE AND FEMALE ACADEMY.
r pilK Trustees of this Institution announce that
the next Term will commence on Monday, the 9th
inst. under the superintendence of HENRYC. WARE,
Esq. as heretofore. They take this occasion again to
recommend this School to the notice of parents and
guardians, gild challenge a comparison with any school
in the State, in the thoroughness of instruction, suc
cessful discipline, healthfulness of location, moral in
fluences, and the absence of all inducements to vice and
dissipation. Board can be obtained in the neighborhood
at $7 or $8 per month, or in the family of the principal,
at $lO per month. J. R. YOUNG,
WM. O. CHENEY,
C. D. KINNEBREW,
WM. EDMONDSON,
Aug s—lit JAS. F. GEER.
Selling Off at Cost!
The subscriber, with a view to closing his busi
ness, is now offering his entire stock of mer
chandise at cost. Any one in want of a bargain, ei
ther in Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Ready-made Cloth
'ng, Hats, C aps,Boots,Shoes, Drugs, Medicines, Crock
ery, Hollow and Willow Wares, Ae., Ac., will do well
to call and examine my Stock, before purchasing.
Penfield, Aug. 5 WM. B. SEALS.
130-000 BRICKS WANTED.
I3ROPOSALS will be received until Ist September,
iU by the undersigned, for the delivery to them, in
Penheld, of 130,000 bricks, on or before the loth ofNo
vember next. Good clay can be had within a quarter
ol a mile ot the place of delivery.
11. 11. TUCKER,
J- E. WILLET,
„ r „ VV. B. SEALS,
Penfield, Green Cos. Ga. N. M. CRAWFORD.
Aug. 12, 1858
RICH liillllllieißU
have just received a very large assortment
French Worked Collars,
SWISS AND JACONET BANDS
SWISS A JACONET TRIMMINGS,
SWISS & JACONET FLOUNCINGS
PL’fl A EMBR’D LINEN COLLARS,
Large as'iment pl'n & emb. L. C. Hdkfs
Rich Ch’ly LACE VEILS,new styles.
-also—
Rich Silk and Lace Mantillas, ,
LINEN DUSTERS ; rich Organdie Muslins,
Low priced LAWNS; white BRILLIANTS’
Plain and checked NAINSOOKS,
“ “ JACONETS,
“ CAMBRICS,
“ “ MULLS.
These goods having been recently bought at a great
the market price, will be sold correspond
ingly low ; and a portion of them having been bought
of the manufacturer about 50 per cent, less than they
could have been bought at any auction sale, they will
be sold lower than the same quality of goods have ever
been offered at in this city. Our stock is otherwise well
assorted, and offers rare inducements in the wav of
LOW PRICES. All of which wc will l e pleased to
; exhibit at our.ONE PRICE STORE.
Aug 12 BROOM A NORRELL.
WILL continue the WAREHOUSE and COM
MISSION BUSINESS at their old stand on
Jackson street. Will devote their personal attention to
i the Storage and sale of Cotton, Bacon, Grain, Ac.
j Liberal cash advances made when required ; and all
i orders for Family Supplies, Bagging, Rope, Ac. filled
i at the lowest market price.
j JOHN C. REES. [Aug 12] SAM*!, D. LINTON.
j . ■i jKitur ■ ■■ ■ ‘
Dr. W. L. M. HARRIS,
RATEFUL to the good citizeus of Pen
field and vieinity, for the liberal confidence
and encouragement given him, respectfully contin
ues a tender of his professional services to them.
Dr. R. J. Massey, his former partner in the practice,
will, with pleasure, attend any call, at any time, that
may be made while Dr. H. is professionally engaged
and cannot be obtained. . March 11,1858
A FINE lot of Extra BACON HAMS on con
signment. JOHN 6. IIOLTZCLAW, •
Penfield, May 97.
the adopted organ of add the temperance organizations in the state.
PENFIELD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 9, 1 8 58.
(Lb e p k lit ifme wt; 3)
BY MRS. M. E, BRYAN.
P 0 M P E I I,
BY MARY E. BRYAN.
Two thousand years entombed
Within thy mighty sepulchre of stone ;
Ages above thy buried heart have flown,
And dew-born flowers have bloomed,
And circling summers bade the wild grass wave”
Above the stately tomb which thy Destroyer gave.
And buried Pompeii,
On history’s page, and with the nations dead,
Had been a name of warning and of dread -
A thing of mystery—
And when Vesuvius’ burning breath flamed high,
Its mutterings spoke of fated Pompeii.
Within thee were inurned
The costly relics of a glorious Past—
The tokens of a nation great and vast —
Seat of the ancient learned.
But to thy tomb God’s hand a stone had rolled,
And ages o’er thee heaped the verdant mould.
In silence, night and gloom,
Lo ! thou had’st lain, old city of the past,
Waiting the dread Arch-angel’s trumpet blast
To rend thy lava tomb ;
But our bold age has dared to break the seal,
And to the light thy skcletoirreveal.
Once more the garish sun
Smiles on thee as in mockery, and the breeze,
Fresh from the kisses of the western seas,
Blows thy cold brow upon.
Man calls thee forth, pale city of the dead !
And but thy ghost obeys—thy life has fled.
As from its catatomb,
Is dragged the mummy of the Egyptain king,
For vulgar herds to call a curious thing!;)
So, daughter of proud Rome,
Are all thy mysteries, time so long concealed
To the profaning eye of man revealed.
There lingers still a breath
Os human life amid thy sanes and halls,
Despite the silence that around thee falls,
Like to the shade of death,
As lingers still the sound of some lone tread
Within the vaulted chambers of the dead.
Still, on thy frescoed walls
Rare pictures glow, and in thy temples stand
The breathing marbles from the artisßs hand ;
While in the banquet halls
The dust of fruit still stains the silver vase,
And in the streets the chariots track we trace.
The burnished mirror stands
Where, ages back, it glowed with the rare charms
Os maids, like her who roused the world to arms,
And for their lily hands
Still wait the casket, with its gents and gold,
And jeweled zones the flexile waist t’ enfold.
We half expectant turn,
The noble inmates of these halls to greet,
The young, the fair; but turn, alas! to meet
Pale skeletons and learn,
While gazing on their bony, gem-clasped arms—
What havoc death can make with human charms.
Still stand the ruins vast
Os the theatre, where beasts fought with man,
And streams ot gore along the arena ran ;
And where assembled last,
On that eventful day, all Pompeii stood,
When o’er the city swept the burning flood.
Such are thy mysteries,
City of skeletons—museum entombed,
And by the present’s daring hand exhumed,
And bared to curious eyes!
The chisel’s clang upon thy prison deep
Has roused thee from thy score ol centuries’ sleep.
City, whose walls were reared
Os lava by the Theban son of Jove,
Who through thy streets bade his procession move,
When conquering he appeared
With Geryon’s triple head to crown his fame,
And from his triumph, gave thee thy proud name.
City who sank to sleep,
When mighty Rome upon her seven-hilled throne
Bade the whole world her haughty sceptre own,
Wake from thy slumbers deep !
Is that the cymbal’s clash that breaks the spell,
And does the sound of Ctesar’s coming tell ?
Look up ; the smoke wreaths bind
The brow of thy Destroyer as of old, •
And at his feet, beneath the sunset’s gold,
Campania’s streamlets wind.
But where the voices that thy forum thrilled,
And where the pomp that once thy temples filled ?
Again that rush and roar!
Sure it is Ctesar on his homeward march.
Go bring ye flowers ; rear the triumphal arch ;
Your wildest music pour!
Peace-dreaming fool! that is no trumpet’s cry,
The iron horse of steam goes thundering by.*
Go, dream again poor ghost;
Low in the dust lies Rome’s discrowned head;
Sallust and Tully slumber with the dead,
Italia’s glory’s lost.
Look on her beggar slaves that round thee crowd,
And shudder at the change—Pompeii the proud.
Thomasville.
*The railroad from Naples passes by Pompeii, and thus, while
beholding the city reclaimed from the past, after an entombment
of more than sixteen hundred years, the traveller hears at the
same time the thunder of the most wonderful invention of the pres
ent—the steam engine.
JESSIE OF JESSAMINE LODGE.
BY MARY E. BRYAN. .
I THINK that every male individual in all Ma
pleton, not blessed with a earn sposa of his own,
from the pimple-nosed bachelor, who sold drugs
at the corner of Clay and Bragg street, to spindle
shanked little Timothy Titmouse, just emerged
from the age of round-a-bouts and sugar plums,
was more or less*in love with pretty Jessie Mor
rison, daughter of the queer old Scoth naturalist,
who, with his sister, Miss Margaret Morrison,
(aunt Meg,) occupied a little cottage just out of
town, and employed his time in chasing and cap
turing butterflies and reptiles, poking with the
end ot his silver-headed cane into ant’s nests and
salamander holes, and dissecting, drying, or stuf
fing his specimens througlj the 1 assistance of his
inseparable green spectacles with tortoise shell
rims. Miss Meg Morrison, despite her diminutive
figure, was an amazon at heart. She was an ex
cellent example of perpetual . motion, since
tongue, hands and feet were never allowed one
moment’s rest during the day. She was one of
those notable housekeepers, who claim bustle
and confusion as their rightful prerogative. Ac
cordingly, it was scrub, scrub, dust and scour from
morning until night, accompanied by the endless
click of her never-resting knitting needles, and
a rtnning comment on the vices and shortcom
ings of the little maid of all work. But Miss Meg
was not at heart an unamiable personage, and
Jenny, the Scotch servant girl, declared that her
mistress’ “hark war a wheen waur than her bite.”
Miss Meg Morrison had attained the respecta
ble age of forty without “exchanging her maiden
gladness for a name and for a ring.”
The malicious declared that it was because she
had never had an opportunity, but a huge, square
letter in the spinster’s chest of “ odds and ends”
proved the fallacy of this by the languishing Cu
pid on the seal, and Miss Meg herself convinced
her neice that it was owing to her having too
much good sense to think of taking care of a
masculine creature,—mending his clothes, super
intending his dinner and getting no thanks for
her trouble. But commiseratingly, as she had en
larged upon the evils of married life, she feared
lest the adoring looks bestowed upon Jessie, as
she sat in hes pew at St. James, might prove pow-
ei'ful arguments against her advice. However,
she had no reason to suspect that J essie’s brown
eyes ever wandered from her prayer book to steal
a glance through her curls at the opposite side ol
the church, though she must certainly have had
a faint suspicion that the presents oi game
and fruit, which the worthy Doctor so compla
cently received as compliments to his scientific
attainments, were, in fact, intended for herself.
Miss Meg was shrewd enough to guess the truth,
and so she stood guard at the door of the castle,
received and entertained all the visitors herself,
while Jessie made custards in the kitchen, or
sticlicd away at her needle work in the back_sit
ting-room, never fancying (though she had seen
her seventeenth birth-day) that she was not, as
her aunt persisted in calling her, still a child, but
building, nevertheless, very suspicious castles for
the future; for, as Jean Paul says, “ love may
slumber in a maiden’s heart, but he always
dreams.”
• But Jessie, although she took a natural and
innocent delight—she hardly knew why—in look
ing at her charming face in the old-fashioned
mirror, was yet perfectly unconscious of the ad
miration she excited. How should she know it?
A glance of aunt Meg’s eye was sufficient to de
ter the boldest of her votaries fi;om telling her of
it, and she was invariably under the cltapronagc of
that exemplary lady. Even the letter-box first
underwent her supervision, and more than one
delicately-enveloped epistle, superscribed to .Jes
sie, was consigned to the same fate to which the
author of Lacoti advises essayists to commit two
thirds of their manuscripts. Indeed, on last Val
entine's day, the devotion of Jessie’s adorers had
furnished -Jenny with material enough to burn
out every chimney in the house, including the
kitchen, while the cause of all these wasted ef
fusions remained in blissful unconsciousness of it
all.
“TIoot!” cried Miss Meg, who, with the curi
osity of her sex, had opened and inspected these
sentimental missives. “Did ever a body see the
like ? A carving-knife stuck through a pair of
hearts, and a deal o’ nonsense about love and
such like a’ ‘around it. The silly callants —to
write such foolishness to a wee bairn like .Jessie!
I’ll warrant ye they wad na’ ha’ the manners to
tip their hats to a l>ody o’ decent age.”
Meantime, the Doctor’s fair daughter pursued
her every-day occupations, serene as a May morn
ing, and happy as though there was nosucli spirit
of mischief as Love walking abroad through the
world.”
She kept time with the birds, as site sat with
her sewing in the grape arbor that joined the
house; she prepared tea for her father, arranged
his books and butterflies, read to him from his
dry, scientific journals, and bore aunt Meg’s ani
madversions with a composure that proved she
entertained Jenny’s opinion concerning the
spinster’s “ bark and bite.”
The young gentlemen of Mapleton were in dis
pair. True to their masculine nature, the very
difficulty of attaining the object enhanced its
value. Young ladies were by no means a rarity
in the village. There were any number of flounced
muslins and straw flats in the streets from four
’til seven in the afternoon, and these pretty dam
sels were certainly not chary of their smiles.
They were quite ready to exhibit their dimpled
arms and shoulders for the benefit of Mr. I’ug
gins, the bachelor apothecary, or spend half an
hour matching a shade of ribbon for the sake of
coquetting With the handsome clerks; but all
this would not satisfy my young gallants of Ma
pleton, who must needs disdain the fruit offered
to their hands, and covet the golden apple of
Hesperides. Alas! that it was guarded by a dra
gon.
The instant Jessie MorrisOn in her white dress
and blue ribbons glided along the street, with
Miss Meg’s black silk and prim quaker bonnet
beside her, Timothy Titmouse ceased to remem
ber whether Miss Scruggs had said berege or os
naburgs, and handed her blue ribbon instead—
looking at those that, mingling with Jessie’s bright
curls, danced over her white shoulders. But it
was all in vain that Timothy sighed, laid his hand
upon his heart and looked unutterable things;
for Jessie quietly made her few purchases, and,
counting out the change with her white fingers,
that he would have given his year’s salary to kiss,
made her graceful little curtsey and was gone.
As I said, her admirers were in despair ; but
there was among them a young collegiate—just
returned from his second term—of bolder spirit
than the rest, who avowed liis determination to
make love to Jessie Morrison, in spite of female
dragons and Argus-eyed guardians in green spec
tacles.
He first contrived to make acquaintance of the
worthy Doctor, whom lie found pursuing his re
searches in natural science, at a neighboring frog
# pond, and had the satisfaction of conciliating him
by the capture of a remarkably large tadpole, and
still farther, by the next day presenting him with
what the old naturalist believed to be a wonder
ful specimen of the lacertus; in reality, an over
grown lizard, whose tail the ingenius young gen
tleman had slit in two so dexterously as to escape
the detection of the green spectacles. But al
though he prolonged his visit to an unreasonable
length, listened with reverent attention to the
Doctor’s prosing, and drank two glasses of sour
current wine of Miss Meg’s manufacture, in order
to ingratiate himself in that lady’s good graces;
yet, not one glimpse of Jessie’s bright face re
warded him, and he was forced to return to his
companions, confess himself baffled and join in
the laugli at his expense. Not disheartened by
his illfsuccess, he suggested, at length, that they
should storm the citadel of Jessamine Lodge by
a grand serenade.
A serenade! Timothy Titmouse stared at Harry
Racket in silent amazement. Nothing of the
kind had been attempted in Mapleton since the
marriage of the village belle, nearly ten years be
fore, on which occasion two of her rejected sui
tors, feeling very sentimental, had, notwithstand
ing the coldness of the night, by dint of seeking
frequent inspiration from a flask of aqua vitae, suc
ceeded in singing, “Go and forget that we have
met,” and “ They have given thee to another,”
under her chamber window, to the- accompani
ment of a banjo and an aecordeon, and had had
their romance considerably cooled by a pitcher of
ice-water emptied upon their heads by the indig
nant bridegroom, who, not understanding such
affairs, had construed it into an insult to his
newly acquired dignity.
But the serenade was finally agreed upon, a
cradied violin and a guitar were procured to ac
company the flute of the young collegiate, and as
it chanced to be moonlight, the band thus fur
nished played “ Dark-eyed one, dark-eyed one, I
languish foi- thee,” that very night, under Mis?
Meg's window by mistake. Whereupon, the
geod lady’s vanity was so highly flattered, that
she determined on rewarding them for their
pains, by giving them a taste of her highl\*prized
current wine, and rousing up Jenny, she dis
patched her to the cupboard for a bottle, while
she filled a dish with cake to .accompany it.
Young Harry Racket winked triumphantly tit
Timothy, not doubting that the refreshments
were sent by Jessie, and filling the glasses all
around from the queer-looking, large-mouthed
bottle, he proposed that they should drink to
fair Jessie of “Jessamine Lodge,” with the wish
that the most deserving among them might soon
have the privilege of changing the sweet name
into JessieUnc\ The toast was received and
drank unanimously, and then a silence ensued.
Each of the party looked at the other without
speaking for a moment, and then they relieved
their minds by sundry ejaculations not proper to
print, and by the utterance of those sounds which
you have perchance heard at a dinner party,
when the hostess, in a fit of abstraction, has sea
soned the apple dumpling with sauce made of
salt petre instead of sugar.
“ Jty jove !’’ exclaimed Harry Racket, “did any
mortal Christian such execrable stuff
before ?” and Timothy answered with a, groan.
Over-hearing these remarks so derogatory to
her wine, Miss Meg (who had been by no means
pleased with the toast) now unable to restrain
her wrath, thrust her night-capped head out of
the window and denounced the nocturnal musi
cians as a set of neer-do-wells, intimating in no
very gentle terms that the sooner they made their
adieux, the pleasanter it would ho to the house
hold.
Aroused by the meter, the old Doctor himself
came hobbling downstairs with his silver-headed
cane, but no sooner did lie learn the cause of
Miss Meg’s indignation and catch the words “ bot
tle” and “currant wine,” than, snatching a can
dle, ho darted for the store-room and soon re
turned in a state of distraction.
“I knew it! 1 knew it!” he shrieked franti
cally as lie strode up and down the room in his
robe dt unit and red flannel night-cap. “1 am
ruined, forever ruined. Instead of your trum
pery wine, its my best cogniac brandy, where J
had preserved my horned frog and my double
tailed lacertus, besides the g*een tadpole and a
couple of young scorpions I intended sending to
the cabinet of natural curiosities. lam ruined,
all through the foolishness of an old woman and
a silly jade that never did the world an atom of
good in their lives. Go, you stupid callant,” lie
continued, turning to the trembling Jenny, “and
see what you and those guzzling screech owls
have left me. I’ll warrant ye they’ve swallowed
the'scorpions at least,” and the Doctor tore his
night-cap off in his fury, and consigned the un
lucky screnadors to a place too hot even to think
of this warm weather, while Jenny went to see
the extent of the mischief. The romantic visi
tants had vanished before she reached the place,
hut not until they .had ever-heard the old gentle
man’s complimentary expressions and learned
the nature of the beverage they had drunken.
Harry Racket left town early next morning.
Timothy Titmouse was in bed for a week. The
story came to the ears of the neglected damsels
of Mapleton, and they had ample revenge on
their delinquent gallants.
The Doctor was so fortunate as to re possess
himself of the horned frog and the scorpions, but
the “/<()■/•” and the green tadpole could no
where be found. It is the general belief, that
Harry Racket swallowed his own specimen. He
is at Oxford now, and, notwithstanding his wild
ness, bids fair to graduate with honor. Mr. Fug
gins’jaroboscis is as rubicund as ever, and if you
wish to poison yourself, you can at any time buy
a box of vegetable pills at his shop—corner of Clay
and Bragg streets. Miss Meg is still in maiden
meditation, though it is rumored that the minis
ter, a widower by the fourth bereavement, is fa
vorably impressed with her housekeeping capaci
ties, and her talent for the manufacture of sau
sages and cream-cakes. The Doctor, as I have
been credibly informed, has searched the whole
neighborhood for another specimen of the dou
ble-tailed lacertus, but in vain. Timothy Ti tmousc
recovered from the effects of his involuntary
emetic, and succeeded, by the aid of “ Sheldon’s
whiskerando,” in raising a thin crop of sandy
hair upon his upper lip, in consequence of which
he was enabled to play sad havoc with the affec
tions of the Mapleton. young ladies ; but who won
the peerless .Jessie for a bride, this record sayeth
not.
(From the Aug. Constitutionalist.)
TALASSUS PURSUING HIS INQUIRY, COMMENTS UPON
FEMALE EDUCATION.
It sometimes happens that great evils grow tip j
in the midst of a people without opposition. Qui
etly, and it would seem, unobserved, they obtain
groat strength, they ramify in every direction,’
they reach every man, hut still tkcre is silence. |
Then comes some man. holder or less pat ient than
the others, arid cries out against the evil; and
straightway every voice is on his side, shouting
“down with it,” and men wonder that they have
endured it so long. Such an evil wc honestly ‘be
lieve the Georgia institution of “ Female Colleges
to bo, and now is the time to cry out against them.
Are you, fathers and mothers, satisfied with these
institutions; with the training your daughters re
ceive there? Do you ever reflect upon tlie his
tory of these Colleges, arid reason upon the prin- !
ciples on which they ace bused? Read, here, the
story of one of them.
A railroad has pen.ctra, l ed some portion of the ;
State, and at one of its sta Lions has arisen a litt.e
village, whoso shortsighted inhabitants imagine i
they will live in history 's the founders of a j
great city, ft takes lmt a sihort time to explode ;
these hopes, and the fond settlers find their
wretched town at a stand still, and their capital
invested in vacant town lots, w’t dcR threaten to j
remain so to all time. Somethin S must be done
to prop the decaying fortunes Joncsville.
Erect a factory of some sort. No, . there is not a
watercourse. Employ steam powe. “• There
not enough capital, perhaps a lack of enterprise.
What, then, is to be done ? Why, we build a
Female College. We can procure sohh ‘ sOl a
faculty cheap. This section has a repub Ytion for
health, and is ycry accessible. There art plenty
of “ parents and guardians” who simpli r Y ie
matter of their daughter’s and ward’s eduft
by sending them anywhere for anybody to U ‘
Our families will board the young ladies, pm
bly to ourselves; tradesmen to supply their wat
will be attracted to our town, and we’ll find a
steady sale for ouv vacant lots. And then then ‘
will be an annual commencement, when out
hotel keepers will reap a perfect harvest. In
word, new vitality will be infused into our dying:
settlement. So reason the worthy but hitherto [
disappointed founders of axui a Female i
College is determined upon. ’have not mis- i
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calculated in reference to parerts. Scores of
young ladies attend the first term of the College,
all things else go on as predicted, and convales’
cent Jonesville bids fair to attain a good old age.
r,|,t lt is aII your expense, young ladies-yes ’
all at your expense; and we arc prepared to
prove tho charge against the good people of
Jonesville, and all others whom it may concern.
•So much for the history of our typo college; let
us now .examine the principles on which it rests.
W e suppose that those of its patrons who have
any opinion about it at all, are advocates for giv
ing to joung ladies a vigorous, manly education,
they are no believers in old world notions of fe
male education, in the cultivation of elegant lit
erature, ol graceful thoughts. Their daughters
must 13 taught algebra, geometry, practical chem
istry; bo thoroughly grounded in mechanics;
and, if possible, become logicians; be educated
“practicallyin other words, like young men.
Where can this ho best done? Why at college;
young men are educated at college, and so must
young women be.
Young men are, indeed, sent to college, and it
is all right that they should be. It is true, that
there they become rough and rude ; they lose
the restraints of home, and they are apt to lote
much in good manners; they become boisterous,
uncouth and generally disagreeable; they become
reckless of the feelings of others, and of many
proprieties ; they lose in refinement, for home is
the place for its cultivation. But all this must
be endured for tho sake of greater good. The
male animal has to rough it all through life.
With him, it is contention with this man or that,
a fight against one or another evif.from beginning
to end. Stern he must be, and he must go
through a process of hardening, a course of train
ing. He must have competitors, that he may
learn to contend; lie must encounter rude men,
for with them ho will have to do as long as he
lives ; he must have his retiring disposition em
boldened by public exhibitions, for his most use
ful acts in after life must be in public. He must
have his principles proved and his strength con
firmed by the “ rough and tumble” of college
life. Better for the cause of learning, and far
better for the unsullied purity of his soul, if the
scene of his training could be his father’s house ;
if, amid the retirement and meditation of a study
he could appropriate the discoveries of learned
men and drink at the fountains of ancient wis
dom. But, alas ! it is a necessltas consequent <* that
he prove his strength in another and ruder pala.-
estu.
But not so with young women. In the midst
of a peaceful home, without transcending the
limits protected by the benignant Penates, she
can contemplate the whole scope of her duties,
and prepare herself for them. She wanders
through the well ordered parlors and chambers of
her father’s house; she examines his modest
library ; she steps out upon the balcony —at her
feet is spread a lovely garden ; over the fields she
can see the neighboring town, the houses of her
friends, the hovels cf the poor, the churches of
her faith. Happy girl! she has surveyed the
whole field of her labors. Would she know more
definitely what she is to do? Let her observe
her mother tending with house-wifelv zeal to all
the caves of her household; see her comfort and
cheer her husband, delight him with her gentle
discourse, entertain him with her womanly ac
complishments ; sec her directing the education
of her young children ; watch her as she makes
her way to the dwellings of the poor; see her
once more in the house of God, worshipping him
with spirit undisturbed by worldly vanities.
And if she ask where are the diversions of this
sort of life, let her remember her father’s library;
let her look at the lovely flowers at her feet, re
quiring gentle hands to tend them; let her raise
her eyes once more to the homes of her friends,
and think of the quiet mornings, the happy even
ings, spent with them in social re-union.
We hate to leave this quiet spot and this prom
ising girl; hut lest we appear too exclusive in
our attentions, let us join this joarty on their way
to enter a female college. They are a quiet,
pleasant .set of girls, now, and wo will gladly ac
company them to the college—not into it. Please
excuse us, young ladies, we have, in our time,
spent three years within the walls of a eollege,
and we know that there human nature does'nt
present its most enticing aspect. We shall come
to commencement when you graduate, and, with
your permission, renew our acquaintance.
And sure enough, here we arc at commence
ment. and there sit our old acquaintances, but
considerably changed since we last met. They
sit facing a large and staring crowd, but what is
the peculiar object of College training but to pre
pare for public occasions ? Ho not suppose that
that young lady has so little improved her advan
tages as to he blushing. It is only her rouge.
Ponging is a part of the course at Female Col
leges. They are beginning to answer the ques
tions, on which they have been drilled for week*.
Some answer, some do not, none exhibit any dif
fidence or embarrassment.
Now is the hour for the musical exhibition.
They play and sing, very well, too, we must say;
; but wouhl’nl we admire the performer more, it,
in view of the crowd, there were a little unsteadi
| ness, a little tremor of the voice ? But wc forget
I that it is a College, and one of the advantages of
’ a College. 11 is the lastlay of commencement—
! the day on which compositions are read. Good
Heavens! no woman, who has’nt spent years on
the stage, will be able to stand the trial. We
soon discover that our sympathy is needlessly ex
cited. < Allege training has been most successful
with these voting ladies. They advance boldly,
though the’crowd do stare; there is no tremor in
their voices as they read —this is one, who has &
I smattering ol’ Astronomy, about the “lost star,”
or she startle her auditors by the
magnitude of solar distances; another, who has an
| eye to something popular and “taking,” reads a
“ fast” production of fortune hunters; while an
j other, who is simply commonplace, drones away
! with an immensely patriotic effusion on tlie
| “Sunny South.”
! From the examination, wo went to the ball.
; “Surely there,” someone says, “they were
charming, sprightly, quick. ’ - Yes, quick to the
degree of being extremely “fast.” “ Well, did’nt
I they talk well?” Wo can't say this either: it
! was so near to nothing that it defies description,
i We think, however, that it was something about
j “flirts,” “beaux,” “ handsome young men,” Co
toosa, twaddle and nonsense. When the ball waj
over, and wo handed one of the young ladies
! back to her father, we wanted to ask the old gen
tleman how he was satisfied ; and in our indigna
tion that he had so far forgotten his duty, we had
half a mind to tell him that we were not at all
so. But then we reflected that it was probablj
not all his fault: that he was a good, honest man
who had been deceived by some flaming pros
pectus of a Female College, to which, by way o
giving it currency, had been affixed a seetariai
appellation—as Methodist or Baptist—a word sa
cred and attractive to him; so wo wasted n<
wrath upon him, but let him go quietly home
, without inquiring the way thither. After tha
day’s experience, we had no desire to “ wive it
’ with an “alumna,” deeming that if we did so, w
• certainly would not “ wive it happily. 1 ”
“And, what difference does it make if such tn
, the sentiments of Talassus ?” None, whatevei
sister graduate, as far as concerns the bad mass
’ menial prospects of Talassus individually; or
i mow that he is ..the representative of a larg
o j. >£s, who do not particularly fancy female^ 0
“ans, and consider that their acquirement*
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