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LITERARY
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PENFIELD, GEORGIA.
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Samuel IT. Smith, Ksq., has retired ’J(rthe
Editorial management of the Cavtersville Kcpress.
?>r. Wiliam P. Goldsmith succeeds him in the
future management of the paper.
Benjamin F. Chew, an old and respected citizen
of Augusta, died in that city on the 10th instant.
Mr Chew was a native of Savannah, but had re
sided in Augusta for over thirty years. lie was
’\i> years old.
The Board of Trustees of LaGrange Female
College have elected to the Presidency of that
Institution, Rev. W. J'. Sasnett, I>. IX late Pro
fessor of English Literature in Emory College,
which appointment he has accepted.
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Arthur's Home Magazine for October contains a
beautiful engraving, many elegant fashion-plates
and much choice reading. This monthly has
rapidly progressed in popular favor for several
years past. Price, S2 a-year; 4 copies, $-3.
The illustrations of the miracles in the October
number of Ghdetfs Lady's Booh are very line, and
embellished pattern for patch-work elegant, j
aspires to surpass all the monthlies in the 1
favor of the ladies; and, from what we can learn,
he does not fall much short of his ambition.
Price, $3 a-year.
It is said that when earth is flung to the sur
face in digging a well, plants will spring up which
are not found in the surrounding country; seeds
have quickened in light and air which had lain
buried during unknown ages—no unapt illustra
tion of the way in which forgotten things are
brought up from-the bottom of one’s memory.
The following contains much practical wisdom,
as do all Arabian anecdotes:
“One evening, we are told, after a weary march
through the desert, Mahomet was camping with
his followers, and overheard one of them saying,
‘1 will loose my camel, and commit it to God;’ on
which Mahomet took him. ‘Friend, tie thy
camel, and commit it to Godthat is, do what
ever is thine to do, and then leave the issue with
God.”
When a man has anything to speak or write,
it done in a plain, simple manner. If or
nament be desired, let it be of such a character
as to conflict neither with symmetry or sense.
Long, unnatural, artistically formed sentences
can never produce conviction or awaken admira
tion?* A thought must be plainly and directly
expressed, if it would be forcible. With some,
obscurity answers for depth; but with all whose
opinions are valuable, it is quite the reverse.
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The editor of the Fredericksburg News, writing
oneofhis lively letters from the Green brier White
Sulphur, draws it as follow's:
“Here we are, a community of seventeen hun*
dred, nobody working, all well dressed with
nothing to do but to enjoy themselves —all rich
apparently, and by reputation! Would you be
lieve that a man came here to find a poor girl for
a wife and couldn’t find one ? They are all weal
thy aristocrats. One lady was here for two weeks
who wore three different dresses every day and
left because her other trunk had not arrived and
she would have to wear a dress a second time.
To see five thousand dollars worth of diamonds,
lace, sc„ on one lady at a ball, is not considered
remarkable.”
Some persons are so intensely egotistical, that
they seem utterly unconscious that there is any
body in the world but themselves. What others
feel is to them a matter of total indiffer
ence or supreme contempt. They are too self
important to be vain. They are satisfied with the
conception Os their own greatness, and conse
quently crave neither flattery or admiration. If
they are polite, it is a mere accident of manner—
not the result of intention ; if rude, it never es
capes them that they have been guilty of an im
propriety. When a man has attained this point
of self-estimation, he is prepared to walk through
a raging noonday heat and declare there is no
sun.
There are now- two, some say three, comets to
be seen nightly in our hemisphere. One of these
can be seen in the north-western part of the
heavens, about ten degrees above the horizon, in
a line with the two stars called the Pointers, and
forming nearly a right angle betw’een these and
Arcturus. It is now’ best seen at four o’clock in
the morning. The Albany Atlas says:
“It is now only one hundred and forty millions
of miles distant, and is vevy rapidly approaching
the earth, and already shows through a common
opera glass aw'ell defined tail. We are told that,
during the first week in October, the comet will
be of the most striking brightness, possibly the
largest of the century, ajid at that time will be
seen near Arcturus.”
Another is to be seen in the sun about four or j
five o’clock in the morning, a few degrees above |
the horizon. We have seen no conjecture as to
what comets these are, or whether or not they
are recognised at all by astronomers.
Says the Augusta Dispatch : “The Superior j
Courts of the various counties are now in progress 1
from week to week, and from what we have been
able to learn, the prospect is that there will be a
pretty strong delegation sent to Milledgeville.
In Gwinnett county, last week, three persons
were convicted,as follows: John Roper, for negro
stealing, six years in the Penitentiary ; Nelson
Hobbs, for stealing a bunch of factory thread,
sent for two years; Wm. Garner, for larceny from
the person, sent for three years.
At Morgan Superior Court, Geo. M. Griffin, of
Savannah, was convicted of conspiracy to rob and
burn the store of C. W. Richter and sentenced to
the Penitentiary for one year. This was a case of
a novel :ftid interesting character. Mr. Griffin
had occupied ahigh position in society, and had an
interesting family. The case had been in pro
gress for two years, and strong hopes were enter
tained by his friends that the testimony of the
principal witness w’ould be impeached ; but after
the witness hau been examined for nearly a whole
day, we are informed that the friends of Mr. Grif
fin considered the case hopeless, and he took the
cars for home. He was apprehended on the
train by Messrs. Ballard and Peacock, the indefa
tigable Marshal and Deputy Sheriff, and brought
back on the next train.
The plot was chiefly carried on by means of
correspondence; the party whose testimony con
, victed him. receiving the letters'and answering
them through a committee. The witness was to
break open and rob the store—by means of a
false key sent by the prisoner in a box of fruit —set
fire to it, and meet Griffin at Millcn and divide
the spoita The correspondence occupied a num
ber of weeks, and resulted in his indictment, and
after considerable deiay in his trial and convic
| tion as above.
1 lie United States District Court will continue
j in session a portion of the present week. The
saihoad Anson Langs <t Cos , is on trial,
f. R. R. Cobb spoke for plaintiffs fifteen hours,
making one of his masterly efforts. Judge Law
bad commenced his argument in reply when in
formant left.”
BWISUWJf OF CHARACTER.
is a clever man,” we frequently hear said
.1 1 of a person when he. is the subject of e<m
i versation. It is. so common that we usually pass
jt by unnoticed, considering it merely an oxpres
| sion of individual opinion. We all, however, owe
it to ourselves to form a proper estimate of those
: with whom we arc thrown, and it is therefore a
matter of much practical importance to find a
rule by which character may be judged—the
weights and scales by which their worth may be
: weighed and their value determined. Each one
. should do this for himself, untrammeled by pre.
s judice, and unshackled by the opinions of others.
There are only two sure tests bv which a man’s
character may be judged : what he says and what
lie does. Were those never discrepant, the task
of estimating men would be light; for all speak
and act enough to make themselves fully known.
■ Unfortunately, however, there are no two things
so often irreconcilable. There are many who arc
not dishonest or designedly hypocritical, who
yet allow wide discrepancies to obtain between
the principles which they avow and those which
; they exemplify. Under these circumstances, the
best, indeed the only course which can be pur- j
sued, is to adopt the time-honored maxim, that j
“actions speak louder than words,” and leaving j
out of notice what men promise, consider only •
what they perform.
In estimating men, we must not erect some
high standard of excellence, and visit all who do
not attain it with condemnation. Nor should we
expect to find men ordinarily equal to the noblest j
examples of human excellence which the world’s ;
history has afforded. By looking for too much, j
i men lose sight of that which is really good, and |
become cynics or infidels. Deeply marked by ;
the corruptions of sin is every element of our na
! lure. Mortality can assume no garb on which its
stainings arc not found. He who searches earth
to see some parag m of virtue, perfect and pure
in every part, will search in vain. Delivering
ourselves from the impression of any ideal, we
should take human beings as they occur—full of
faults—and if they have virtues, those virtues only
subversive, and not eradicative of their vices.
Consistency is a quality which we value highly,
and place among the essentials to a perfect char
acter. Yet, it is not, in itself, a virtue, and may j
exist in a person from whom every trace of good- !
ness has disappeared. Pirates and highwaymen \
may be, and very often are, pre-eminently con- j
sistent; that is, there is no contradiction between !
their principles and their practice. On the other
hand, we very often find individuals very incon
sistent, who are far from being wicked. Under
the influence of their feelings and the force of
circumstances, they perform much good that can
not be adjusted together with that exact symme
try which one would impress upon Ins work who
planned its detail before begun. That there are
phases in a man’s life which are irreconcilable, is
not proof conclusive of dishonesty. Examine
their nature first, and when one, or both, has been
found to be evil, it will be time for condemna
tion.
A man’s talents must be considered in estima
ting his worth, but we should be careful not to
attribute to them more than a proper value. The
manner in which they are employed, and the
ends which they propose to accomplish, will ren
der them the cause of condemnation or ground
of praise. The talents of Hannah More, com
bined with her piety, made her the ornament of
the age in which she lived, and the glory of her
sex throughout all coming time. Voltaire, with
far more genius, exerted a much greater influence:
but that influence was mischievous, and he left
behind a name synonymous with all that is de
testable in human nature. The one threw in her
contribution to the cause of truth and humanity,
unmindful if she were forgotten, did it but ac
complish good. The other found nothing too
holy to be immolated at the shrine of his ambi
tion —nothing too pure to be devoted to his un
righteous purposes. Making his own heart the
test by which he judged the universe, he acknowl
edged no good in Heaven, nor found none in
earth. Posterity has made to both her award.
She has sat in judgment over the philosophy of
the daring atheist and rejected it, and now his
unparaleled wickedness only saves him from ob
livion. The history of mankind affords numer
ous examples where high, ennobling mental pow
ers and vicious, degrading principles are found in
the same person. In all such cases, we should
prefer the morally good to the intellectually
great.
We cannot always decide on the merits of an
action, even when we know its whole bearing.
Some men do ignorantly what they do highly.
They bring about great results without being con
scious of their own agency. Frequently, the ef
forts which they make appear so well calculated
to accomplish a certain end, that we are in doubt
whether they are directed by their reason, or are
mere passive instruments in the hands of Provi
dence. Thus Henry the Vlllth, in the blind
fury of his passions, dissolved allegiance of
England to the See of Rome, and established the
Reformation in his dominions. Assuredly vve
would not assign this the same degree of merit
as if it had been done by intelligent design. A
good deed performed unintentionally does not
differ from an accident, and possesses no moral
character at all.
Closely allied to this are those cases in which men
j do good from selfish or otherwise impure motives.
Instances of this kind are so numerous as to be
past our numbering, and if enumerated, would,
we fear, comprise most of the good deeds which i
men perform. In eases like these, where we !
must approve the deed while we condemn the
doer, it is no easy task to mete oi\t exact justice,
and it is rendered still more difficult by that class
of casuists who contend that a man is not amen
able to his fellow men for his motives. This po
sition is entirely erroneous, and is never practi
cally adopted. We are really as much responsi
ble to society for our motives as for our actions,
and the only difference is, that one can, and the
other cannot, be concealed. We cannot con
demn a man to the pillory for flattering and
cringing to the enemy whom ho despises, in or
der to gain some advantage ; but we can, and do,
express our disapprobation of bis course, and our
contempt for his character. The conspirator
who, for a given price, would betray his accom
plices, might save a city or a kingdom from ruin;
but what honest man could respect him or seek
his companionship?
The contemporaries of a man are not always
the best judges of his worth. With them, per
sonal, party or sectional prejudices may affect
the justness of their decisions. While man is in
life’s field of action, every other struggler consi
ders him, in some respects, an adversary. The
faults, the blunders, the direlections and omis
sions are detected and censured with no merci
ful leniency. But when the heart has grown still
at the touch of death, and the clod lies on the
ice-cold head, animosities die too, and justice is
awarded. His character is viewed from a differ
ent point, his merits and demerits compared, and
apparent discrepancies reconciled. Frequently
posterity reverses the decision of contemporaries,
and sometimes falls into the opposite extreme.
Almost every year our land rings with laudations
for someone of the departed great, upon whom,
while living, was poured all the bitter vitupera
i tion which prejudiced malice could inspire, Oc
-1 casionally the partisan warfare is continued after
his death, and he becomes alternately the sub
j ject of panegyric and calumny.
Success is an index of merit, but notone which
l can be accepted as infallible. Some of the no
- | blest men who have ever lived, have been unsuc
- | We might point to a host of such, whose names
s the historic muse proudly records upon her pages.
; Others, who have pursued their schemes of selfish
l ambition in open violation of every principle of
I right, have accomplished .all their aims. Too of-
! ten, afiiid the dazzling glory of greatness, wc lose
! sight of the means by which it has been acquired.
\\ e hear not the shrieks of the wounded and the
groans of the dying when shouts of victory make
the welkin ring. Success in wickedness only
raises a man to a bad eminence, and does not
render him worthy of our respect or imitation.
YY e must form our ideas of men’s achievements
by their moral complexion, and not by their suc
cess. And in all cases, if', in writing history, we
would nothing extenuate nor aught set down in
malice, we must look at the shadow as well as the
j sunshine. If we would rightly estimate those
; around us, we must consider their vices as well as
; their virtues. Doing so will not make ns misan
thropes. It will rather give us a more elevated
| opinion of our kind $ for if, on this unprejudiced
; survey, we find none whom we can adore as
! saints, we will at least learn not to despise all as
hypocrites.
“LIFE AUIONti THE LOWLY” IN N. FORK.
The New York Tr iune tells the following story,
and, as it will be observed, declares on its own
I knowledge that “such facts are plenty:”
“What! make shirts for nine shilling a dozen.”
j “Yes sir; Indeed I can get nothing else to do!”
“Nine shillings a dozen! nine cents apiece ; but
how many can you make in a day ?”
“One, sir, if I have my time ; but I have my
little boy, two years old, and lie’s quite fretful
this warm weather, so I do not always finish it,
unless I can work at night.”
“ And do you work at night sewing on these?”
“I would sir, and do, so long as I can afford to;
but, indeed, sir, what with feeding my four little
ones, I cannot afford to buy candles.”
“Four children ! Poor woman ; I fear you have
a hard task to pay the landlord ! What rent do
you pay?”
“Four dollars a month sir.”
“And you earn fifty four cents a week. How
long have you lived here ?”
! “My husband died in March last. lie was a
! manufacturer of daguerreotype colors. We lived
jup town then. But his long sickness consumed
| what little money we had; and when he died,
I I was obliged to sell most that we had in the house
and come down here with my four little ones.”
I “Your oldest boy is nine years ; you can scarce
ly e irn more than will pay your rent. How do
you furnish food for yourselves?”
“This young woman pays three shilling a week
for a part of the room. We had a silver plated
teapot, sugar bowl and such like, and some
spoons. For these I got nearly their value. I
have sold everything I had beside. I have no
more to sell.”
The tears came into her eyes. Poor thing she
could not help it.
“Indeed sir. I would not have sent for you if the
sight of my children in rags and hunger did not
compel me to do so.”
“Your rent is paid for this month ?” I knew
it was, or she should notba tenint of that land
lord. “Your children began to come to the
school at the House of Industry last Monday, I
believe, did they ?”
“Yes sir; and I am very thankful for your
kindness to them.”
“Send them every day. They shall he fed and
clothed, and wl;en rent day homes near, let us
know.”
“God bless you sir.” A heavy load of care
withdrew from the mind, and a cloud from her
face.
Nine shillings per dozen for making with
plaited bosoms, linen wristbands, and to be well
made, for if a fl.iw can be picked in the workman
ship, all the seamstress’ work goes for nothing.
Do you believe it? It is a fact! We saw the
shirts tr-day. We saw the care-worn and work
worn mother and her children. We have heard
that such facts were plenty. We know they are!
Would some charitable ladies like to see the
the same ? Let them go the House of Industry
any day, for one hour, andjif they do not return to
their homes with the heart ache, we are not true
prophet.
IIOIV TO TEACH THE ALPHABET.
At a recent school meeting in Boston, Professor
Emerson (not Ralph Waldo Arma) has something
to sav of that which ho had seen of teachings in
Europe during his travels:
lie spoke of what lie saw in Dresden. He
spoke of teaching the alphabet—of its usually be
ing regarded as a drudgery, which he called a
sad mistake. He cited an example of forty boys,
seven years old, coming to learn their alphabet.
It was taught by a man competent for a College
President. He commenced by drawing a fish on
the blackboard, and inquiring of the boys, “What
is that?” One answer was “A fish ;” another, “ It
is the picture of a fish ;” and another “It is the
drawing of a fish.” “Right,” said the teacher to
the last. They were then required to make a
nice sentence about the fish. This being done,
he then placed before them the letters that make
the word. They were then required to put the
letters together so as to spell the word. This was
dene; also the making of the letters on their
slates, forming the word. They were next re
quired to draw the picture of the fish. This was
the method of teaching the alphabet, by no nov
ice, but by a most learned German scholar. This
method of thoroughness was everywhere practiced
in teaching—a little at a time, and constant repe
tition. “The effect of this method,” said he, “was
surprising.” How unlike is this method to that
pursued in our primary schools. The teachers
use no books in teaching. Consequently their
minds were wholly on the matter ot teaching—
watching the effect of their teaching upon the
children. When their interest tired, their atten
tion was directed to anew subject, and thus the
happiest results are produced.
T II ERE seems to be a convention mania abroad
in our land. We hear of nothing but con-
I ventions—religious, political, agricultural, com
! mercial, railroad and consultation conventions,
! in all of which much gas is expended and rotli
ing accomplished. But the latest novelty now
extant is a musical convention. An assembly of
this name convened at Long Cane, Troup Cos. on
Wednesday, the 12th inst. A reporter says:
“The counties of Spalding, Pike, Meriwether.
Harris, Muscogee, Troup, Heard, Coweta, Fay
ette, Henry, Talbot and Upson were represented
in the Convention by competent and skillful
teachers of vocal music. From the various coun
ties composing the Convention, there were about
75 members in attendance. The Sacred Harp is
the text book of the Convention. The object
of the Convention is, we understand, to be the
promotion of a more uniform system of Music
among the Churches, as well as the cultivation of
social and friendly intercourse among the breth
ren—a noble and praiseworthy calling.
On Saturday, the Rev. James E. Evans, of La-
Grange, preached ope of his soul-stiring sermons
before the Convention, giving his views in full
upon the importance of cultivating a greater
fondness for the principles and science of Sacred
Music. He did great credit to himself, as well as
the subject under consideration.
Next annual meeeting of the Convention will
convene at Bethel, Meriwether Cos. Wednesday
before the 2d Sabbath in Sept. next.
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A Singing Mouse.— One of these little animals
inhabits our office. For several years past he
has made his home in it. He has become very
familiar with all hands, and in broad daylight he
can be seen playing around the feet of the com
positors, or dancing about the cases, seemingly as
little apprehensive of danger as if snugly away in
his nest. The paste-cup is his delight, but he
never objects to a bit of cake, or fruit with whieh
his admirers occasionaly supply him. He is a
most remarkable little animal. A piece of cake
puts him in high glee, and when he has devoured
it, he gets in a corner and sings like a canary
bird, his note being as weet and melodious. Some
times he will sing for an hour without intermis
sion. He is a general favorite—does what he
pleases with impunity—and is regarded as a sort
of fixture in the office. Even while we are writ
ing he is playing on the table, and is so tame
he suffers himself to be handled without any show
of fear.— Cumberland Telegraph,
t j A STATELY ship was launched upon the wa
• J\ ters. I'roudly her white sails spread when
- filled with wind, and her prow scornfully dashed
. aside the foam as slid plowed the billows. The
s waves that met her sturdy sides rolled away bro
ken. Many a heart swelled with pride ns she
t weighed anchor, unloosed her canvass to the
f breeze and floated majestically from iort. She
• ; seemed destined for many a long voyage, fitted
> to ride out many an angry gale. Onward she
. j sailed, until no eye could discern her diminished
• j outline on the distant horizon. Onward for liun
! j dreds of leagues over the billowy main she still
“ walked the waters like a thing of life.” But
the needle that guided her track was wrong.
She hold on her course for hours and days in un
| suspecting confidence: but in the watches of the
j night, when darkness lmng upon the deep, she
\ struck tqion a rock, and the gallant bark was
! scattered into fragments—a wreck.
A tender babe lay within a mother’s arms, j
Upon it she lavished alt the warm, , gushing love
of her matenial heart, and for it she nightly lif
ted up the tear-diunned eye to Heaven. Her fin
ger was to trace the first lines on that mind’s
blank page ; her guidance must direct those lit- |
tie feet in their earliest steps. Ah ! mother, i
tremble and take heed, lest those lines be crooked
and erroneous. Years roll on, and that child has j
become a man—a young man, upon whose cheek j
the flush of health glows, and the light of intel
lect beams forth in his gaze. The voice of ambi
tion has summoned him to life’s battle field, and
with a mother’s fervent blessing and tearful fare
well still lingering on his eur, he departs. The
sky above and around him is bright, all radiant
with hope. Success seems almost within his
grasp, while honor and fame and rest are just |
ahead. But there stands the enchantress, Pleas-1
ure, offering in her kand a sparkling wine cup,
which, in her syren tones, she bids him drink and
let his heart be glad. He he tastes, and
is forever wrecked.
Another babe is at her breast, and on its face
lie lines of beauty', soft and delicate as those that
touch the petals of a fresh blown rose. It grows
and becomes the merry, light-hearted girl, and
then the graceful and lovely woman. Modesty
clothes her around as a rich drapery that height
ens every charm, while her heart is the abode of
all those retiring virtues which seek retreat from
public gaze. Admi.-ed by all for the beauty of her
person, and beloved for the amiability of her
temper, her path seems strewn with roses from
which every thorn has been removed. Richest
tributes of praise are daily paid her, and compli
ments have fallen on her ear until they have lost
their power to please. But there comes one upon
whose tongue deceit is clad in language of stirring
eloquence, and flattery falls in accents of meas
ured sweetness, which she holds her breath to
hear. She listens; she is swayed by his influ
ence; she yields to liis power, and her happiness,
her fortune and her fame are wrecked.
Ah! there are wrecks in the moral, as there are
in the physical world; wrecks which, in their
consequences, as far exceed those which sunk
Armadas as time i9 surpassed by eternity. Not
until revealed by the light of another world will j
we know, in all their terrors, the fate of wrecks
that have sunk beneath the waves without a bub
ble or groan.
The Baltimore Republican concludes an essay
upon the relative wealth of the North and South
with these remarks:
“The free whites of the South are individually
more wealthy than their brethren in the North,
though the wealth is undoubtedly in fewer hands,
or is not so generally diffused iis at the North.
But so much of the wealth of the South being in
lands, many of them worthless, and in negroes,
the people have less money and appearance of
thrift and less luxuries than Northerners. They j
do not live as fast, and are more content, like :
Northern farmers, to have the comforts of life and
are not heaping on themselves luxuries upon lux
uries, like large numbers in the North. The
wealth of the Southern States has increased rap
idly within a few of the last years, as they have
had large crops of cotton, for which they have re
ceived a great yield. As they control the cotton
market of the world* there is reason to believe
that their wealth will increase in years to come.
Then the South has an immense amount of un
developed wealth in the mines of Virginia and
Missouri, and other States; in numerous water
falls’, in commercial advantages through the great
rivers and smaller ones ; through them and the
ocean; in vast regions of land that can be restored
to lertility, andjjin immense tracts of virgin soil, I
that has thus far remained untillcd, so that, if I
she was compelled to become an independent re- j
public, we know of no equal portion of the world j
that would be ablo to become so really indepen- j
dent of the rest of mankind.”
THE DOORS OF THE HEART.
Every person’s feelings have a front door and \
a side door by which they may be entered. The j
front door is on the street. Some keep it always j
open;, some keep it latched, some locked, some |
bolted with a chain that will let you peep in ; and
some nail it up, so that nothing can pass its
tlireshhold. Tlie front door leads into a passage
which opens an ante-room, and this into the in
terior apartments. The side door opens at once
into the sacred chambers.
There is always at least ono key to this side
door. This is carried for years hidden in a mo
ther’s bo-: ore. Fatheis, brothers, sisteis and
friends, often, bu 1 by no means universally, have
duplicates of it. The wedding ring conveys a
right to one; alas! if none is given with it.
If nature or accident has put one of these keys
into the hands of a person who has the torturing
instinct, lean only solemnly pronounce the words
that Justice utters over its doomed victim: “Lord
have mercy on your soul!” You will probably
go mad within a reasonable time, or if you are a
man, run oft’ and die with your head on a curb
stone in Melbourne or San Francisco; or if you
are a woman, quarrel and break your heart or
turn into a pale, jointed peti’ifaetion that moves
about as if it were alive—or play some real life
tragedy or other.
Be very careful to whom you trust one of those
keys to the side door. The fact of possessing one
renders .oven those who are dear to you very ter
rible at times. You can keep the world out from
your front door, or receive visitors only when you
are ready for them; but those of your own flesh
and blood, or certain grades of intimacy, can come
in at the side door if they will, at any hour and
in any mood. Some of them have a Scale of your
whole nervous system, and can play at the gamut
of your sensibilities in semitones—touching the
naked nerve pulps as a pianist strikes the keys of
his instrument. lam satisfied that there are as
great masters of this nerve play ing as Vieuxtemps
or Thalberg in the line of performance.
Married life is the school in which the most
accomplished artises in which the department
are found. A delicate woman is the be9t itstru
ment, she has such ft magnificent compass of sent
sibihties! from the deep inward moan which
follows pressure on the great nerve of right to the
sharp cry as the filaments of taste are struck with
a crushing sweep, is a range which no other in
strument possesses. A few exercises daily
on it at home fit a man wonderfully'for his ha
bitual labors, and refresh him immensely as he
returns from them. No stranger can get a great
many notes of tortue of a human soul; it takes
one that knows it well—parent, child, brother,
sister, inmate. Be very careful to whom you give
a side door key; too many have them already.—
I he. A niocrat of the Breakfast Table.
Grace and Elegance. — Grace is, in a great
measure, a natural gift; elegance implies cultiva
tion, or something of more artificial character.
A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful; but
an elegant woman must be accomplished and
well trained. It is the same with things as with
persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an ele
gant house or other building. Animals may be
graceful, but they can not be elegant. The move
ments of a kitten or a young fawn are full of
grace; but to call them elegant animals would be j
absurd Lastly, “elegant may be applied to
mental qualifications, which “graceful” never can,
Elegance must always imply something that w
made or invented by mam The general rule is,
that elegance is the character of art; and grace,
!
Ei>l C'A'i KI) I- A HMRRS arc said to be a want
of our country : but notwithstanding the gen
eral dissemination of knowledge, we see no pros
pect of this desideratum being supplied. There
arc many young men who are receiving high edu
. cational advantages, who can succeed but poorly
by their wits. They have not the ready shrewd
ness, the keen, searching powers of analysis, and
the bold eloquei:ce that will fit them for the bar:
not the accurate scho'arship and .skill in discip
line which fit for the school-room, nor the aptness
to teach and sanctity of life which is requisite for
the pulpit. Yet, without qualifications suited for
the learned professions, they have good sense,
would make excellent farmers, and, in that ca
pacity, would make useful citizens. Hut, instead j
of entering upon vocations to which their capaci
ties arc adapted, they prefer being third or fourth
rates in professions at which they can scarce make j
their bread.
j Many young men who have attended colleges :
i or high schools think it humiliating to attend to
| all the details of farming in person. They would j
be glad to have well stocked farms, furnished ;
with all the appliances for making money, but !
they would want them on scales large enough to
authorize the employment of managers. If one :
j c * l hcm has the meails, he buys a farm, furnishes
j it, employs an overseer and then goes with his
! fal >ly to the nearest village for the sake of so
ciety. 1 here, though nominally a member of a
profession, he is, in nine cases out of ten, a mere
lounger about town, and is fortunate if he escapes j
tho foulest contaminations. Eve.n those who live j
j on their farms aro at but little pains to become i
| fully acquainted with the details of their business, I
j and still fewer are studious to introduce improve- j
| ments. They never think of analyzing the soil
: and trying different systems of agriculture. Those
wko have an ambition to accumulate wealth, em
ploy what are termed rushing overseers, who are
instructed to make largo crops at any risk. This,
in a few years, reduces their land to the red clay,
and they are compelled to move to the West,
there to renew their destructive process. While
this is the history of thousands, some are content
to move on more slowly, but less surely ; for what
of their ignorance and negligence they scarce
make a support and keep their inherited prop
erty together.
Agriculture is not a business for which mind is
so entirely non-essential as some suppose. The
day when a man could turn the fruitful glebe, 1
plant, loosely cultivate and gather, has passed in
all the older States. Anybody could# farm then,
even though he were but a remove or two from
idiocy. This is the case no longer. Now, he
must bring to his aid a science far from easy of
comprehension, if he would pursue this vocation
with success and profit. Those who follow the
extreme anti-look system of cultivating the soil of
our worn out hills, may expect to change their
condition oxdy by becoming poorer. We need
educated farmers to renovate our wasted lands,
and restore them to pristine fertility. Hut so
long as every man of intelligence and informa
tion crowds into some profession to the total neg
lect of farming, so long will the agricultural ad
vancement of our country be retarded.
IRON.
Francis ILorner once observed, after inspecting
a steel manufactory, that ‘lron is not only the
soul of every other manufacture, but the main
spring perhaps of civilized society.’ John Locke
even went so far as to aver that notwithstanding
man’s extraordinary advancement in knowledge,
we should in a few “ages, ‘were the use of iron lost
among us, be unavoidably reduced to the wants
and ignorance of the ancient savage Americans:
so that he who first made known the use of that
contemptible mineral, may be truly styled the
father of arts and author of plenty. Nor will this
viexv be deemed extravagant, if we reflect that
| but for iron, man would be virtually witlmit tools,
: since it is almost the only metal capable of tak
ing a sharp edge and keeping it. Os the various
I definitions of man by philosophers, not the least
j forcible is that of ‘tool-making animal,’ for with
| tools he tills the ground, builds dwellings, makes
j clothes, prints books, constructs roads, manufac
! tures steam engines, and carries on the whole
! material business of civilization, on which its very
highest developments in a great measure de
pend. j
The superiority of this metal over all others !
consists in the vast number ot purposes to which
it can be advantageously aj plied, and the vari
ous modifications of which it is susceptible in the
process of manufacture. There is no other metal
which could be so worked up as to serve equally
i well for a needle and as shot for a ninety-eight j
I pounder gun; as a surgeon’s lancet and a five ton ;
| Nasmyth tilt hammer; as a spring of a watch the j
size of a shilling, and the hull of a Leviathan j
! steamship; and which is alike indispensable in
i the construction of a pair of scissors and an elec- j
! trie telegraph, a steel pen and a railroad, a mari- j
| ner’s compass and a tubular bridge. The iron j
machines of our manufacturers are driven by the
iron steam-engines of Watt, and their products |
are distributed over iron railroads by the iron ;
locomotive of Stephenson. Intelligence is tele-!
graphed to and from the ends of the earth by |
means of the iron wire. Our Crystal Palaces are j
built of glass framed in iron. We have iron ;
roofs, iron houses, iron churches, iron bedsteads, i
iron lighthouses, iron ships, iron palaces, and iron
bridges.
>*•••►
Influence of Female Society.—lt is better for
you to pass an evening once or twice in a lady’s
drawing-room, even though the conversation is
slow, and you know the girl’s song by heart, than
in a club, tavern, or the pit of a theatre. All
amusements of youth to which virtuous women
are not admitted, rely on it, aro deleterious in
their nature. All men who avoid female society
have dull perceptions, and are stupid, or have
gross tastes, and revolt against what is pure.
Your club swaggerers, who are sucking the butts
of billiard cues all night, call female society in
sipid. Poetry is insipid to a yokel; beauty has
no charms for a blind man; music does not
please a .poor beast who does not know’ one tune
from another; and as a true epicure is hardly
ever tired of water sanchy and brown bread and
butter, I protest I can sit for a whole night talk
ing to a well regulated, kindly woman, about her
girl coming out, or her boy at Eton, and like the
evening’s entertainment. One of the great ben
efits a man may derive from women’s society is,
that he is bound to be respectful to them. The
habit is of great good to your moral man, depend
upon it. Our education makes us the most emi
nently selfish men in the world. We fight for
ourselves, we push ourselves, we yawn for our
selves, we light our pipes, and say we won’t go
out; we prefer ourselves, and our ease ; and ti e
greatest good that comes to a man from a woman’s
society is, that he has to think of somebody to
whom he is bound to be constantly attentive and
respectful.— Thackeray.
SHARP SHOOTING.
“Father, what does a printer live on ?”
“Live on? like other folks ; why do you ask ?
“Because you’sakl you hadn’t paid anything tor
pour paper,” aiid the printer still sends it to
yOU.”
“Wife, spank that boy.” i
“I shan’t do it.” <
“Why ?” ~ i
“Because there is no reason. . l
“No reason? yes there is; spank mm, l ten (
you.” , • ~
“I won’t do any such thing.
“He’s too smart.” 1
“That comes of marrying me. i
“How so? What do you mean; 1
“I mean just this—the boy is smarter than his ,
father, ancl you can’t denyJt.” v
“That’s queer talk, and 1 wish—
“l don’t care what you wish. The boy knows
enough to see that a man, printer or no printer,
can’t live on nothing; 1 should think you’d be
ashamed to cheat the poor printer and then—”
Banggoes the door and out goes the fatlierand
husband, grumbling like a bear with a sore head.
——: ii
The Detroit Free Press says : “it is an actual
fact, which cannot be contradicted with any truth
that wo have a wilderness, uninhabited by hu
man beings, and occupied hy the wild beasts of
of the aboriginal forests, within five or six miles ‘
of Detroit, a ojty. of seventy thousand inhabi-,
1 tants. 1
: THE EXILE TO HIS SISTER.
BY GEORGE r. MORIUS.
As streams at morn, from seas that glide
Rejoicing on their sparkling way,
Will turn again at eventide,
To mingle wih their kindred spray —
E’en so the currents of the soul,
Dear sister, wheresoe’er we rove,
Will backward to our country roll,
The boundless ocean of our love.
You northern star, now burning bright,
The guide which the wave-tossed steer,
Beams not with a more cons'ant light
Than docs thy love, my sister dear.
From stars above the streams below
Receive the glory they impart;
sister, do thy virtues glow
Within the mirror of my heart.
*****
The grand jury of Coweta county recommended
the total abolition of the Supreme Court of Geor-
I g'a
! The head quarters of the United States Army
i have been removed from West Point to New York
; city.
A great step is gained when a child has learned
; that there is no necessary connection between
! liking and doing it.
j
Robert J. Cowart, of Georgia, has been ap
: pointed by the President Indian agent for an
agency in New Mexico.
H. 11. AVI itcomb, Secretary of the National
Typographical Union, died in New Orleans of yel
low fever on the 3d inst.
A marble bust of the late Thomas Crawford
I (sculptor.) has been made by Signor Gagliardi,
| and exhibited in Boston.
When you bear the phrase, “I may say without
vanity,” you may be sure some characteristic van
! ity will follow in the same breath.
The late Rev. Dudley A. Tynghad insured his
life in a London office for SSOOO. That amount
has just been paid over to his family.
What do you propose to Like for your cold ? said a
lady to a sneezing gentleman. “Oh, I’ll sell very
cheap; I won’t higgle about the price at all.’”
Philip J. Fontaine, the Mayor of Key West, as
well as United States naval storekeeper and act
ing consul, died at Key West on the 28th Au
gust.
The new powder mill at Hazard’s works, in
Enfield, Conn., exploded on the .afternoon of the
13th inst. Three workmen and a foreman were
killed.
“You need a little air,” said a physician to a
i maiden patient. “If I do,’’ was the curt renlv,
i I’ll wait till I’m married.” Bolus looked
thoughtful.
The New Testament is about to be published
in the Couit dialect- of China, in one octavo vol
ume, of about 150 leaves, at a cost of twelve or fif
teen cents a copy.
The Paris Academy of Sciences has again ad
vertised its prize, amounting to about twenty
thousand dollars, for the discovery of the cause
and the effectual cure of cholera.
The Salisbury (North Carolina) Watchman says
that a gold mine has been discovered in that vi
cinity, which, woi ked by four hands, yielded
twcnty-fice pounds of pure yoU in ten /.lays.
Byron F. Cook, Esq., a young lawyer in New
Orleans, and the vice President ol the young
Men’s Christian Association, died in that city, of
the prevailing epidemic, on the 13tli inst.
Col. James S. Wallace, formerly of the Phila
delphia Sun, but recently a theatrical manager,
is now associated with George D. Prentice, in the
editorial charge of the Louisville (Ky.) Journal.
A machine for breaking stone for macademizing,
streets, was tried in Chicago last week. It was run
by a ten horse engine and broke three cords of
stone into “egg” size, and less, in sixty minutes.
The son of a fond father, when going to war,
promised to bring home the head of one of the
enemy. His parent replied, “I should be glad to
see you come without a head, provided you come
safe.”
Patrick Conney, of Boston, having failed to ful
fil his engagement of marriage with Mary Done
lev the young lady armed herself with a pistol,
waylaid Patrick, arid shot him onWednesday eve
ening.
“Am I not a little pale ?” inquired a lady who
was short and corpulent, of a crusty old bache
lor.
“You look more like a big tub,” was tlie blunt
I reply.
Work on the ClayTSlonument, at Lexington,
Ky., is to be suspended after the 30th of the pres
ent month, in consequence of the non-payment
of subscriptions. The amount due is said to be
SIO,OOO.
j Among the receipts of the American Cotonizal
j tion society for the past month was SO,OOO from
I the estate of the late Gen. McKay, of North Car
olina, for the emigration of the people sent under
j liis will to Libera.
Mrs. Lc Vert’s book of travels is so successful
j that a second edition is called for. That lady in-
I tends going to the Holy Land next season, and
i will probably there collect matter for another of
! her graceful volumes.
It is customary to speak of the State Executive
jas “Governor by the Grace of God,” etc. A Cali
; forma paper, however, reverses the order of things
| by calling “Colonel Weller, by the wrath of God,
j Governor of California.”
It is stated that by the recent death of Mrs.
Mary Coggsweli Jarvis, widow of the late Leonard
Jarvis, of Baltimore, a legacy amounting to about
$20,000 becomes available to Harvard University,
according to the will of her husband.
Hon. A. B. Meek, of Mobile, is engaged in writ
ing a history of Alabama. lie is well versed in
the traditionary and historical records of our
State—its discovery, conquest and settlement —
and possesses fine literary taste and cultivation.
The most desperate piece of coolness we Lave
heard of was that- of a young gentleman in Wis
consin, whose leg was recently amputated. IV bile
the leg was being taken off, he coolly asked for a
chew of tobacco, and inquired the price ol a cork
leg.
Mr. Murdoch of Meriden, Connecticut, not
many nights since, thinking he heard burglars
about, stepped out the door and fired a gun at a
dark looking object before him. lie found tna
he had killed one of his neighbor's cows worth
SIOO.
The Chattanooga Gazette says there is an abun
dant mast crop this season. The oak. the beech,
and the chestnut are all well filled with then-val
uable fruit, Stock hogs will fair sumptuously this
fall, and at a considerable saving to theowners of
corn-cribs.
The doctor’s fee in New Orleans, for a yellow
fever case, is one hundred dollars, more or less,
kill or cure. If taken in season, the doctor’s at
tention is not required after the fourth day. One,
two and three thousand dollars a week is no com
mon amount of fees for a good yellow fever phy
sician.
lion. E. Ellis, wto has been forty years a mem
ber of the British Parliament, is on a tour through
the United States. Mr. Ellis isseventy-eiglityeara
of age, hale, and hearty, and worth upwards of a
million of dollars. lie travelled through the
United States fifty years ago, this being his sec- .
ond visit.
The project has been started of giving a dinner
to Mrs. Le Vert and Mrs. Anna Cora Ritchie, now
in New York. Two hundred tickets are to be is
sued—one hundred for ladies, and the remainder
admitting gentleman. The price of entrance will
be ten dollars, and the proceeds are to be devoted
to the Washington enterprise. The novelty of >e
the plan anti the great social popularity of tho
two ladies, would ensuve it a brilliant success.
The Church. —We see in a jeweler’s shop, that
as there are peirls, and diamonds, and other pre
cious stones, there are files, cutting instruments,
and many sharp tools for their polishing; and
while they are in the work house, they are con
tinual neighbors to them, and come often under
them. The Church is God’s jewel; his work
house, where his jewels are polishing for his pal
ace and house; and those he especially esteems,
, and means to make most resplendent, hath often-
I cat his tools upon.—.Lexobton,