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JOHN H. SEALS,
NEW SERIES, VOLUME 111.
C/niE GEOHUIAO
TEMPERANCE CRUSADER.
Published every Thursday in the year, except two.
TERMS : Two Dollars per year* in advance*
JOHN H. SEALS, Sole Proprietor.
LIONEL L. VEAZEY, Editor Literary Department.
MRS M. E. BRYAN, Editress.
JOHN A. REYNOLDS, Publisher.
Clubs op Ten Names, by sending the Cash,
will receive the paper at - - - - slso%[copy.
Clubs op Five Names, at 180“
Any person sending us Five new subscribers, inclo
sing the money, shall receive an extra copy one year
tree of cost.
ADVERTISING DIRECTORY:
Bates of Advertising:
1 square, (twelve lines or less,) first insertion, $1 00
“ Each continuance, 50
Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding six
lines, per year, 5 00
Announcing Candidates for Office, 3 00
Standing Advertisements:
not marked with the number of
insertions, will be continued until forbid, aitd charged
accordingly.
Druggists and others, may contract
for advertising by the year on reasonable terms.
Legal Advertisements:
Sale of Land or Negroes, by Administrators, Ex
ecutors and Guardians, per square, 5 00
Sale of Personal Property, by Administrators, Ex
ecutors and Guardians, per square, 3 25
Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 25
Notice for Leave to Sell, 4 00
Citation for Letters of Administration, 2 75
Citation for Letters of Dismission front Adm’n, 500
Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guard’p, 325
Legal Requirements: #
Sales ol Land and Negroes by Administrators, Exec
utors or Guardians, are required, by law, to be held on
the First Tuesday in the month, between the hours ei
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 of 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, for leave to sell Land or Negroes, niu[ be pub
lished weekly for two months.
Citations tor 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
vs+nthly, for four months — lor compelling titles from Ex
ecutors or Administrators, where a bona has been issued
by the deceased, thefull space of three months.
Publications will always be continued according
to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or
dered.
<* QfJt-iec/cty,
KING Ot LEWIS, Attorneys at Law, Greenes
bobo, 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 live
miles west of White Plains, Greene county, Ga.
y. p. kino. July 1, 1858. M. w. lewis.
WHIT G. JOHNSON, Attorney at Law,
Augusta, Ga. will promptly attend to all business
intrusted to his professional management in Richmond
and the adjoining counties. Office on Mclntosh street,
three doors below Constitutionalist office.
Reference —Thos. R. R. Cobb, Athens, Ga.
June 14 ly
ROGER L. WHIGHAH, 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
ren, Washington, Emanuel, Montgomery, Tatnall and
Scriven. April 26, 1856 ts
LEONARD T. DOYAL, Attorney at Law,
McDonough, Henry county, Ga. will practice Law
in the following counties: Henry, Spaulding, Butts,
Newton, Fayette, Fulton, DeKalb, Pike and Monroe.
Feb 2-4
DII. SANDERS, Attorney at Law, Albany,
• Ga. will practise in the counties of Dougherty,
Sumter, Lee, Randolph, Calhoun, Early, Baker, Deca
tur and Worth. Jan 1 ly
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
PHIIIEL.IP B- ROBINSON, Attorney at
Law, Greenesboro, Ga. will practice in the coun
ties of Greene Morgan. Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliafer
ro, Hancock, Wilkes and Warren. July 5, ’56-lv
JAMES BROWN, Attorney at Law, Fancy
Hill, Murray Cos. Ga. April 30, 1857.
SIBLEY, BOGGS & CO.
—WHOLESAI.E AND RET All. DEALERS IN—
Choice Family Groceries, Cigars, &c.
276 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia.
Feb 18,1858 tl
M£o 2Po
Warehouse & Commission Merchant,
AUGUSTA, GA.
k •tHI branches, in his large and commodi
ous Fire-Proof Warehouse, on Jackson
street,'near the Globe Hotel.
Orders for Goods, &,c. promptly and carefully tilled.
The usual cash facilities afforded customers.
July 22 6m*
w&Aim &
Warehouse & Commission Merchants)
AUGUSTA, GA.
% TJAVING entered into a co-part
m |l| JnLship for the purpose of carrying on
the Storage and Commission Business in
“sHi a jj of its branches, respectfully solicit con
signments of Cotton and other produce; also orders for
gagging, 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 wi.h . liberal hand.
WM. C. DERRY.
July 22d, 1858.
mwM & iwii
WILL continue the W A REHOUSE and COM
MISSION BUSINESS at their old stand on
Jackson street. Will devote.their personal attention to
the Storage and sale of Cotton, Bacon, Grain, &c.
Liberal cash advances made when required ; and all
orders for Faitiily Supplies, Bagging, Rope, &c, filled
at the lowest market price.
JOHN C. REES. [Aug 12] SAM 1 !, D. LINTON.
POULLAIN.I JENNINGS & CO. ‘
GROCERS AND COTTON FACTORS,
Opposite tle Globe Hotel, Augusta, Georgia.
fTONTLNUE, as heretofore, in connection with
their Grocery Business, to attend to the Bate of
COTTON and other produce.
They will be prepared in the Brick Fireproof Ware
house, now in process of erection in the front 1 of their,
store, at the intersection of Jackson and Reynold streets,’
receive on storage all consignments made them.
Liberal cash- advances made on Produce ih store,
when requested. ANTOINE POIJLLATN,
THOMAS J. JENNINGS,
...Aug 19—Cm ISAIAH PURSE,
.WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
rpHE undersigned, thankful for the liberal pa
at his same wettknbwn Brick Warehouse on Campbell
street near Bones, Brown & Co ? s. Hardware House,
where’ by strict personal attention to all business en
trusted to his care, he hopes he will receive a share of
[Augusta, Ga. Aug 19-6 m
CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE.
GARRETT WOODHAM offers himself to the
voters of Greene county, for the office of Tax Re
ceiver, at the election in January next.
iOHN JI. SNELLINGS offers himself to the vo
* * ters of Greene county, cs a candidate for the office
of Tax Collector, at the election in January next.
NM. JONES offers himself to the voters of
• Greene county, as a candidate for the office of
Tax Collector, at the election in January next.
HENRY WEAVER offers himself to the voters
of Greene county, as a candidate for the office of
Tax Receiver, at the election in January next.
WE are authorized to announce the name of
JOEL C. BARNETT, Esq. of Madison, Ga. as
candidate for Solicitor General of the Ocmulgee Circuit,
r "\ the first Monday in January next.
BC. ALFRIEND offers himself to tire voters
• of Greene county for the office of Tax Collector,
at the election in January next.
VAU STOOE. 2
AB£•
BURCH&T ROBERT,
(AT TIIE OLD STAND OF J. W. BURCII,)
Manufacturers and Wholesale & Retail Dealers in
BOOTS ANI) SHOES,
Trunks, Carpet Hags, ScJiool Saclicls, Ac. Ac.
Opposite Adams’ Express Cos. Augusta,Ga.
A general and well selected assortment of Goods in the
above line constantly on hand.
Their SHOES arc made especially for the retail trade,
and will be sold upon reasonable terms.
offer our goods at NEW YORK PRICES,
Augusta, Nov 4,1858 [3rnos] [freight added.
A Good Opening!!
T OFFER FOR SALE MY STORE-HOUSE,
A- situated on the corner of Main and Mill streets.
The house is a brick one, 26 oy 50 feet, and two stories
high, with an excellent cellar.
The purchaser would be expected to take a small stock
of well selected and saleable goods, consisting of a gen
eral variety of such articles as are usually kept in an
up-country store.
Any one with a small capital and wishing to engage
in the mercantile business, will find this an excellent
stand. Penfield is a healthy and pleasant village, with
only two stores, and the amount of trade done here will
always guarantee a good business to both. My terms
will be very accommodating, and possession given at
any time desired. Early applications are invited from
those who may wish to purchase.
Penfield, Oct 28, 1858 W. B. SEALS.
a.S3 &Dao c O > Aaouca
- TO
I RATING and drinking being about half aman’s
-J living, Barnwell & Neeson are determined on doing
all they can to prevent suffering. To this end they
have purchased and are now receiving quite a variety
of “good things” at Tnrwater’s old stand in the Post
Office building, where they invite “all hands” to call
and see them. FRESH FAMILY GROCERIES and
CONFECTIONARIES, including the usual variety of
“notions” and “knick-nacks,” will constantly be found
on sale. For a small advance on first cost, they would
be much pleased to furnish the families of Penfield and
vicinity with their supplies of Groceries.
will be kept during the season.
And as they have no special fancy for book-keeping
or talent for collecting, the CASH will be invariably
required. [Oct 28, 1858]
Bowdon Collegiate Institution,
BOWDON, CARROLL CO. GA.
ciias. a. McDaniel, a. m.
Prof. Ancient Languages, Moral Science and Elocution.
JNO. M. RICHARDSON, B. S.
Military Instructor, Prof. Mathematics, Engineering,Ac.
—
rpHE SPRING TERM OF 1859, will open on 2d
1 Wednesday in January, and close on YVednesdav
after Ist Sunday in July.
The course of this Institution is thorough, including
the various English branches, the Latin, Greek and
French languages, pure and mixed Mathematics.
Particular attention is called to the Mathematical and
Engineering Department. Ample facilities are offered
in the way of Surveying and Engineering Instruments
and Philosophical Apparatus.
In order to cultivate the physical man, as well as the
moral and intellectual, a Military Department has been
organized. The State has furnished the Institution
with arms, and the company is drilled from three to five
times per week.
Bowdon is remarkable for its good health, pure air
and excellent water. A healthy, moral tone pervades
the entire community. No temptations to extravagance
are found. Eight dollars per month is the usual price
for board, room rent, washing and fuel. Students of
industry, application and good moral habits, are the only
ones desired in this school. No others can remain.
For any other information address either of the above.
Students from a distance will take the rail road to
Ncwnan, thence by private conveyance, or stage, to
Bowdon. Oct 28, 1858 —4m
FURNITURE AND CARPET
THE OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE OF
0. A. PLATT & COMT,
No. 214 Broad st. Augusta, Ga,
\\7"E beg to inform our friends and the public
’ ’ generally, that we arc now in receipt of
A lull and complete Assortment of
every article in our line.
IN THE FURNITURE DEPARTMENT
YVe have the largest and most fashionable stock
to be found in the Southern Country.
A great many of our Goods are made
expressly for our oxvn Sales, and we war*
rant Hi m to give satisfaction.
-OUR STOCK CONSISTS. IN PART, 0F-
Rosewood, Parlor and Chamber Furniture, in Brocatelle,
DeLnine and Hair Cloth. Mahogany, Black
Walnut and Imitation Furniture. Enam
elled, Chamber and Cottage Setts.
Tctc a Tetee, Sofas, Ward
robes, Bureaus, Wash
Stands, Hat Stands,
Side Boards, Cottage and French
Bedsteads.
A LARGE STOCK OF
Pier and Mantle Looking Glasses.
Crossley’sbest Medallion Velvet,
“ “ English “
“ “ Brussels, “
THREE PLY.
English and American Tapestry Ingrain,
Super and superfine ingrain,
Venetian Stair Carpets, of all widths,
Stair Rods.
As we have imported the largest portion of the above
stock, can offer them at greatly reduced prices. Wc
only aik a full examination before purchasing elsewhere,
as we Will guaranty to sell CHEAPER ana BETTER
GOODS than have ever been sold in this city.
Curtain Materials
Os the latest and rngst approved styles. We have just
received a direct importation, which We can warrant as
represented, and will have them made up to order in
any stylo required.
Damask, Lace and Mupjin Curtains,
Crimson Turkey Cloth, an entirely new article,
j Cornices, Pins and Bands,
Centre Tassels, Loops ana Cords.
OIL CLOTHS,
Os all jwidths, which will be cut to fit any size room or
entry in one piece. ■>” ! •• >* .
Purchasers are invited to examine our varied and
extensive Stock, as we are enabled to offer inducements
unequalled by any other establishment. ?
Carpets and Oil Cloth Cut to Fit,
i .EXTRA pBAJEMJfcB, • ...
OeP2B ~ i ’ 3ni
THE ADOPTED ORGAN OF ALL THE TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATE.
PENFIELD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1858,
UMMIEMT S’
BY MRS. M. E. BRYAN.
NIGHT WATCHING,
BY MAKY B. BRYAN.
The night is palo with mystery,
And wierd with silence strange and deep;
The faint winds in the acacias die ;
The dew-bowed liazlcs mutely weep;
The waning moon’s pale fingers part
The cloudy veil that round her wreaths,
And earth, with hushed and awc-filfed heart,
Jiists the strange melodies site breathes;
While all the thousand eyes of Heaven
Are gazing in my soul to-night,
As though the Sybil power were given
To them to read ils depths aright.
Yc arc no strangers unto me,
Bright, starry wanderers through space.
Long years ago I watched with yc,
And dear ns a familiar face
Is that fair star which leads your train—
The loveliest of the radiant host—
A goddess half her glorious reign.
The rest, a proud arch-angel lost;
And thou, sweet Pleads, sister stars,
Mounting the zenith, hand in hand,
And Sirius fierce and fiery Mars,
The blood-red warrior of the band.
Oft, when the midnight goblin wept
Upon its lone, deserted grave,
And dreaming winds, scarce breathing, slept
Upon the softly rocking wave—
Alone with God and night and thee,
I’ve Watched the solemn hours go by,
While your pale beams of mystery
Wrote truths sublime, and strange and high,
Upon the daring soul, that yearned
To pierce the mystic things of Heaven,
Though vain the spirit, clay-inurned,
Against its prison bars had striven.
But other, earthlier feelings sweep
A grief-stained current through my soul
To-night; the thoughts that banish sleep
Have no such high and heavenly goal;
For your soft fingers, silent stars,
Strike the low chords of memory’s lute;
The cell of prisoned dreams unbars,
And sends them wandering, sad and mute,
Treading the silence of my soul,
Like ghosts on sad All hallows night;
While memory bells, all mournful, toll,
And rises love's sepulchral light
From the cold grave of buried Hope,
And on the pale procession gleams.
Ah! dark was cast my horoscope—
Ye know it by these mournful dreams.
Forgive me, holy stars of Heaven,
That my weak, struggling human heart,
To-night, its thoughts to earth has given ;
Nor bid this haunting past depart,
For I would dream it once again—
Even now, beneath your watching eyes ;
And chide me not —the syren reign
Is over ere the mid-night dies.
Bu.t, to the bird with wounded breast,
That flutters still in upper air,
’Tis sweet to find its olden nest,
And crouch and bleed one moment there.
Thomasville.
THE HISTORY OF A GENTLE HEART.
WHO that has read the thrilling story of the
“Collegians”—a romance whose masterly
finish and dramatic power are worthy of Shak
speare himself; where there is nothing superflu
ous or overdrawn; where the characters and de
scriptions are clearly cut as crystal, and where
the usual moonlight halo of mystery and false
sentiment, which authors are wont to throw over
their works, gives place to the pure, healthful
sunshine of truth and nature ; who that has
warmed over the beautiful, heart-full pictures of
domestic life and love, which glow with chastened
radiance in the pages of this story, and imagined
himself in the pleasant home of the Daly’s, amid
the wind-rippled wheat-fields on the river Shan
non, with Kyre Daly, the manly, truthful, affec
tionate boy, whose after life so richly fulfilled the
promise of his youth, and whose love for his home
and his father, ar.d tender, gallant devotion to his
mother, are so touching and so true to nature;
who that has wondered at the power of delinea
tion, shown in the character of Jlardress Cregan
—Kyrle’s antipodes—whose passionate, impetu
ous nature was all the more fearful from the dash
of Genius that illumined it, as the lightning does
the blackness of-the cloud; or of Ely O’Connor,
beautiful Ely O’Connor! as she is first presented
to us—a sweet, simple-hearted, trusting Irish
girl, in her blue cloak and maiden snoocl, and
with her dainty, innocent ways; and then the
companion picture—the forborn, forsaken wife,
her loving heart broken, her devotion scorned
and her anguish, on that dreary night when she
goes forth with the dwarf, terrible to coniemplate:
who, we repeat, that has read this masterly story
of the “ Collegians,” or has thrilled over the au
thor’s songs and poems; (musical as Moore’s, hut
with more of honest pathos and sincere feeling in
them than that voluptuous lyrist was ever capa
ble of;) who that has read these transcripts of a
true heart, has not shadowed forth for himself
the probable lifo of the writer; the life of one so
sensitive, yet so firm, in liis convictions; so brave,
yet withal so gentle; so timid in his affections,
yet so clingingly tenacious of friendship ; so deli
cately and finely organized, and so peculiarly sus
ceptible to outward influences? It would take
no Sybil to arrange these elements of character
into a probable destiny. What could it be but a
series of outward disappointments, which were
trivial to the inward struggles? Such a nature
could never he understood save by the lew capa
ble of appreciating its worth. Such a nature was
not formed for rough jostlings with the world; for
contact with vice and with coarse, discordant
spirits. It was made for the sweet fields and open
skies, find the companionship of a chosen few.
And yet, perhaps after all, the hard life in cruel
London, with its toil, its privations, its lonely
struggles with poverty, its patient endurance and
stern experiences, was the best discipline for the
young spirit, and the surest awakener of dormant
energy and latent strength. And then, all the
dust and taint of evil London could not sully the
pure heart molded in the seclusion of a far coun
try home by the hand of the gentlest, noblest
mother that ever poet boy was blessed with. The
atmosphere of that sweet, far-off home still perva
ded his moral nature, and his motl er’s farewell
kiss upon his brow, her tear-stained bible gift and
the letters that came from her American home
were the talisman that preserved her absent boy
from evil, and strengthened him in the high pur
pose to which ho had consecrated liis talents.
Gerald Griffin’s was the usual fate of the gifted
(for, let cold-blooded philosophers, who dissect
and analyze everything to its original elements,
deny it if they will,) we cannot help believing
that there is a fate in it. Men of genius have al
ways Tbeen, and will be unfortunate; but whether
this be referable to their peculiar mental consti
tution, or to the envy and malice with which they
are called to contend, or to both of these, we are
not now prepared to decide.
Be this as it may, Gerald Griffin only added
another to the'long list of tlio world’s masters
who, after hard struggling, have woi laurels only
that they might shade a weary, smileless brow-
Conscious of possessing talents, he had all the
galling mortification of finding them unapprecia
ted, and his exquisite sensitiveness was wounded
by neglect, while he chafed beneath the coarse,
unfeeling comments of the ignorant publishers
to whom he submitted the result of his lonely
nights of toil. And yet, his faith in liis ultimate
success, and the buoyant, hopeful spirit lie had
brought with him into this hard battle with the
world, did not desert him.
Severe trials they were to the young heart, so
accustomed to the affectionate encouragement of
the dear ones in the sweet home on the banks of
the Shannon, which he had left to come to Lon
don, that great stage where the tragedies of so
many lives, written afterwards in the hook of
fame, have begun and ended. *
He came to fulfill the destiny of which he was
.conscious, to execute his design of consecrating
himself to literature, and, in liis pure faith in hu
man sympathy and kindness, he believed that liis
noble aspirations would meet with ready response
and encouragement. It is a mournful lesson to
watch the gradual clouding of that simple trust,
to see the first half incredulous surprise, followed
by the chilling doubt and rapidly succeeded by
the loss of that sweet, early confidence in human
ity, and the shrinking of the sensitive spirit back
upon itself.
Gerald Griffin was no parasite. lie could not
cater for popularity; he could not defy criticism
and challenge attention with the audacity of By
ron, or sing lascivious songs with Moore, or play
the toady with Pope.
His native independence, liis high sense of
truth and hatred of hypocrisy forbade it. And
so, like the child-hearted Goldsmith, he found
himself deserted by the fickle goddess of popular
favor, who must be courted or commanded to
make her your obedient slave. But Gerald Grif
fin's was a heart of oak. Strong and sturdy in its
gentleness, it might bow to the shock, but it was
too steadfastly rooted in its own firm purpose, and
too upright in its conscious integrity to be easily
broken. He did not despair, but hided his time,
though his morbidly sensitive nature suffered
many a pang, and he endured privations, rebuffs,
grinding poverty and discouragement—endur
ed them silently, for he was too proud and gen
erous to let his real situation be known to liis
friends at home, who would willingly have exten
ded to him the hand of help. But he preferred
to battle alone, and in his allusions to this trial
time, we see that, though his high spirit was
wrung by the sense of injustice, the “ stately oak
was still unbent.” “ You have no idea,” he
writes, “ what a heart-breaking life is that of a
young author beating about and endeavoring to
make his way in London.”
And then, after a portraiture which has many
paralels in our American cities, he conludes with,
“ and yet, at no time whatever, could I have been
prevailed upon to quit London altogether. That
horrid word—failure! No, death first!”
But ah, the heart! how it turned from these
troublous scenes to dear reminiscences of the
olden home of “ Fairy Lawn,”'and how the mem
ory bells ring out mournful peals to the cherished
“Old times-!”
“Old times! old times ! the gay old times!
When I was young and free,
And heard the merry Easter chimes
Under the sally tree.
My Sunday palm beside me placed,
My cross upon my hand,
A heart at rest within my breast,
And sunshine on the land.”
Old times! old limes! But after long waiting
and much soul-strife and weariness, the reward
came. The world found that the gem it had.
trampled under its reckless feet was a pearl of
purest water. Money, friends, fame, poured in
upon the author in his lowly garret near St. Paul’s.
The wealth and fashion of London crowded to
witness the performance of his brilliant play of
“ Gissupu3,” and the press was loud in its encom
iums. Gerald Griffin’s struggles were over, hut
the reward came too late. The sick soul liad lost
its freshness, the zest of acquisition was passed,
the gold of youth had rubbed off, and he received
these plaudits with the weary, half-contemptuous
smile of one who had found, by bitter experience,
how little such things are worth. The chief grat
ification brought by this late influx of the tide of
fortune was the thought of the pride and joy the
echoes of his lame would bring to the loving
hearts of his kindred in the far home to which
they had emigrated beyond the sea.
The poet’s heart was world-weary, longing for
rest, turning more frequently than ever to the
cress of Christ for peace and consolation. The
religious feeling that bad been a part of his na
ture, now grew in strength an l influence, and
made him almost ascetic in his strictness. lie
burned whole volumes of elaborately written man
uscript, lest they might contain some impure
thought; some line
“ Which, dying, he might wish to blot.”
This longing for solitary communion with his
own soul; for utter consecration of himself to
God, grew upon him ; so that at length, turning
from all the world’s allurements, Gerald Griffin,
the brilliant and admired, secluded himself in
the monastery of “ Christian Brothers.” The ob
ject of this society, was the education of the poor,
and thus the conscientious recluse had still a wide
field of usefulness, in which his talents were faith
fully employed. Here he spent the last years of
his eventful existence, and here, while still in the
meridian of life, his heart, that had “ grown old
long before his brow,” found the rest it covetod
in the passionless sleep of the grave.
Such was Gerald Griffin’s life and death —a life
showing how vain are the gifts of earth to satisfy
the cravings of the immortal soul—a death prov
ing that no arms of love, of wealth or glory form
so peaceful a pillow for the dying head as those
of true Religion. M. E. B.
A FAULT OF THE AGE.
DISCONTENT is frequently the stimulator of
genius, the parent of invention, the promoter
of success. Acting upon the redundant energy
and capacity of the age, it has wrought marvels
and been the primal cause of our rapid pi ogress
in art and science. But, where this restless spirit
has no material to act upon; where it exists with
out either energy or capability, the result is far
different. It too often destroys the healthy bal
ance of the mind, and wastes its powers in useless
repinings and despondency. The active, leading
spirits of the age are perpetually seeking to ad
vance the interests of society, by crying out against
mediocrity and exhorting men to aspire to higher
things. They would have us believe that all are
born to be heroes, and that ipmikind have noth
ing to do but believe in their destiny, despise the
low path in which they are plodding, arid press
forward for & more exalted station. 11 is the day
of great things, of mighty enterprises, superb
‘huiribugA, stupendous speculations and magnifi
cen t 1 allures; and consequently, the small things,
which are so essential to the harmony of general
existence, are overlooked and despised. These
are the teachings of enthusiasts, not of philoso
phers; but they influence the popular mind,
which they govern by the right of the strongest
spirit. The clarion voice of Genius wakes a thrill
in the hearts of the mass, stirs vague longings
and restless hopes, and disturbs the sweet calm
ness of content: hut. they have neither the
strength nor the courage to obey the summons
and join the front ranks in the great battle of
tile. 1 lie press, to which the commonality looks
up with so much reverence, caricatures the weak
ness of society, ridicules its foibles and errors,
points out its deticiences and imperfections, hut
reveals no way of amelioration ; unveils the hid
den plague spots, hut proclaims no remedy; stirs
the fetid pool of social life, hut opens no channel
lor outflowing usefulness.
All this is very fatal to the establishment of
harmony, of tranquility and faithful integrity in
a nation. Its effects are shown in the dissatisfied
spirit, the fretful repinings at fate, the half-defined
longings, the troubled aspirations, (that, too weak
to rise, only flutter their unfledged wings about
the heart,) which are the characteristics of the
age. Even the youth of our day have a cloud
upon their brows, an unnatural anxiety about
their future, an impatient chafing at the restraint
of circumstances, and a vague desire to be, or to
do something brilliant and great, combined, un
fortunately, with imbecile powers, and a want of
moral courage and mental energy. The tendency
of the age is, to lose sight of that golden maxim
of the poet philosopher—“ Act well your part:
there all the honor lies,” and aspire to more than
their capacity will warrant. They neglect the
flowers at their feet, and pine for the unattaina
ble stars in the sky.
Thus it is that misanthrophy, listless disgust,
useless castle-building, neglect of plain duties and
troubled lookings into the future, have taken the
place of the simple content and patient trust
that alone can bring happiness.
All are not formed to fill elevated positions.
Society is an edifice, whose magnificent whole is
produced by the union of many component parts,
some inferior in size and beauty, but not the less
important and essential to the support and de
coration of the structure.
This discontended spirit of the age tinges the
pure current of literature, and is the black thread
on which are strung many crystal beads of thought.
The poetry of the present, instead of being the
sparkling kaleidoscope, ever producing and re
producing new forms and combinations of beauty,
is only a mirror, which constantly reflects this
mental idiosyncrasy of the age. Such disgust and
scorn of the world, such reckless beatings against
the prison bars of necessity, such loathing of com
mon duties, such helpless repinings,such undefined
hopes and vague desires as the literatureof our
day exhibits ! No pleasant pictures of domestic
love and happiness, no bird-like outgushings. of
the heart in song, no painting of the rainbow
spanning the cloud—nothing but the unmitiga
ted cloucl itself, driven about by purposeless
winds, and having no aim save to shut out the
fair sunshine of Heaven.
Such dissatisfaction is not the healthy and leg
itimate discontent which is only the restless ac
tivity of a mind conscious of its own powers, and
eager to exercise them. In such minds, discon
tent is indeed the parent of great things. It urges
forward the lagging feet of genius; it is the
power that sets in motion the mighty engine of
progress; but where there is a deficiency of parts
or a weakness in the mental mechanism, this
restless spirit of discontent only serves to wear
out the machinery, to set false lights on high pla
ces and bewilder plodding mortals, causing them
to turn aside from the beacon of their path.
Those zealous reformers, who are so ready with
their outcry against the commonplace and the
mediocre, and so enthusiastic in shouting tlieir
watchword of “aspire! aspire!” are unaware of
the amount of evil they do to the society they
profess to ameliorate, ‘i hey invoke the spirit of
discontent where there is no work for him to do,
and like the enchanter of aid, they are powerless
to command the giant or to hid him depart.
Were they to advocate patient performance of
duty, without any reference to earthly reward or
any repinings at fate, together with earnest cour
age and perseverance, and quiet trust in Him
who holds our destinies in the hollow of His
hand, then their teachings, if less eloquent, would
be more beneficial to their fellow-men, and if
there really were those who possessed the ele
ments of greatness, they would not remain dor
mant. Such qualities cannot well be restrained,
but will carve out tlieir own path of success.
M. E. B.
H 0 31 E .
IT is one of the dear old Saxon words that sur
vived the Norman conquest, and run like
threads of silver through the mingled woof of the
English language.
The advent of the princely Norman gave to the
olden tongue many a stately phrase descriptive
of power and pride, of rank and royalty and
wealth ; but the clinging of the conquered Saxon
to the dear, domestic words of home and hearth
and board, and the sweet names of father, mother,
husband, wife, son, daughter, proves how closely
household love and gentle affections were woven
into their national life.
Home! The very woul has a ring of music in
it. The kindly voices of love, the soft fall of
kisses, the prattle of children sound in its ca
dence. No other language has a word correspon
ding with our home, and none but the English
and the offshoots from that noble race feel the
true meaning of home. Paris is France, and the
Parisians are a nation of boarders. The houses
of the wealthy class are “ hotels.” Their life is
all public; the ball-room and the paw are, with
them, in place of our quiet sitting-rootns and
pleasant hearths, while the middle and lower
classes are born in boarding-houses, marry in
boarding-houses and die without a.*“late resi
dence” from which to date their obituaries —die
without ever having known one of life’s purest
pleasures—the happiness of feeling that they pos
sess a home.
The wandering Arabic races know nothing of
the dear associations that cluster around a home,
while to other nations it means only a place to
stay at until they tire ot it, and they attach no
tender reverence, no holy and hallowing affection
to the spot they call their home. They do not
seek to adorn and beautify it as they would the
form of one beloved, making its name synony
mous with comfort and taste.
Tt is, (o be regretted that 1 the’ French innova
tions which have crept into our American cities aneb
left their serpent trail even upon morals, uotcon
tent with establishing their sway in the ball-room,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
and the haunts of fashion have stealthily iuvaded
the sanctity of home. Those magnificent palatial
residences, which the city journals describe with
such a flourish of words; those Fifth Avenue
mansions, with their marble columns, their car
pets ot woven roses, tlieir gold* _dairpiskod ~curt
ains, tlieir ivory statuettes, their costly pictures,
tneir glittering plate—all the splendor of their
regal appurtenances, are they homes? Can the
genial household gods preside in mansions, cold
and stately as the ice palace of the Russian Em
press? Tlieir chambers are all bomliors, their
drawing-rooms, salon#, their parlors halls, and
through the vast apartments and spacious corri
dors, the most familiar footstep echoes with strange
sepulchral sound. Little children lind .no cosy
[ibices to play hide and seek, there is no wide
hearth on which to roast win ter apples and chest
nuts, the velvettoo dainty, for com
iort, and the fawn-colored damask of the sofas too
rich for home ease and after-supper Poungings.
Such a home i. iglit gratify the sense of beauty,
hut one could, never think of it as a nest of love
and peace, an asylum of quiet, an altar of piety
and the abode of content and happiness.
But there are very many homes in town and
village, and best of all, in the blessed and beauti
ful country, which Parisian innovation have not
despoiled.. There are bird’s nest cottages hid
away in lilacs and sweet syringer, with moss-spot
ted roofs and lioneysuckle-hung piazzas, and
there the true home feeling pervades the place
like the odor ot violets, and the domestic deities
pt Love and Peace preside around the hearth, and
childhood’s laugh rings in music, and the wife
and mother sings old-time ballads and cheerful
hymns as she plies her needle, or flits about, beau
tifying her happy home. M. E. B.
We notice, in one of our exchanges, the adver
tisement of a certain school committee, for a
teacher, who, after enumerating the various qual
ifications requisite in the gentleman who desires
the situation, state, that no one need apply, who
either wears rings or wears a shawl. We are not
j surprised at the prohibition in regard to rings.
I We never see a. gentleman with rings on his fin*
gers, without being reminded of the words Fene
lon puts into the mouth of Mentor, “A young
man who loves to deck himself vainly like a woman
is unworthy of wisdom and glory?” W% can
readily understand why the majority of mankind
regard rings on a man’s hand as a very strong in
dication that there is a soft spot somewhere about
Ins head, and hence we can approve the decision
of the school committee, not to confide to such a
one the responsible duty of instructing their
children. But we cannot perceive equally cogent
reasons for their unwillingness that their teacher
should wear a shawl. A shawl is a very comfort
able and a very convenient article of apparel,
either for man or woman, and we can see no good
reason why gentlemen should not avail them
selves of tlieir use, since they can do so without
any interference with “Woman’s Rights.” We
say. let gentlemen wear shawls, to their heart’s
content, and tlieir bodies’ comfort;’ but when
they appropriate to themselves our foolish and
useless ornaments, we do feel that our rights are
invaded, and that we ought to resist the encroach
ment, and maintain the exclusive privilege of
making ourselves ridiculous in the way of dress,
by awarding a meed cf contempt to all those of
the other sex, who presume to infringe on our
prerogative in this respect.— Aurora. .
THE FAITH OF CHILDHOOD.
What a lesson of truth does the following inci
dent convey —what a sermon against deceiving
tho “little ones” with idle tales:
“A touching case,” says the New Orleans Delta,
“ was presented lately to the consideration and
charity of one of the Good Samaritans who now
lake care of the sick, relieve the destitute and
feed the starving. A boy was discovered in the
morning lying in the grass of Clairbome street,
evidently bright, intelligent, but sick. A man
who has the feelings of kindness strongly devel
oped, went to him, took Him by the shoulder and
asked him what he was doing there, ‘ Waiting
i'or God to come to me,’ said he. ‘ What do you
mean?’ said the gentleman, touched by the pa
thetic tone of tin answer and the condition of
the boy, in whose eye and flushed face he saw the
evidences of the fever. ‘God sent for father and
mother and little brother,’ he replied, • and took
them away to his home up in the sky, and mother
told me when she was sick that God would take
care of me. I have no home, nobody to givo
me anything, and so I came out for God to come
and take care of me, as mother said he would.
He will come, won’t lie? Mother lTfcver told me
a lie.’ ‘Yes, my lad,’ said the man, overcome
with emotion, ‘He has sent me to take care of
you - ’ You should have seen his eyes flash and
the smile of triumph break over his face, as he
said, ‘ Mother never told me a lie, sir, hut you’ve
been so long on the way.’” “Mother never told
me a lie,” and when she promised her lone child
the protecting care of the Father of Mercies, how
fervent his zeal—how great liis reliance. Oh, for
more of the faith of little children 1
EDUCATION OF THE FEELINGS.
Bad temper is more frequently tho result of un
happy circumstances than of any unhappy organ
ization ; it frequently, however, lias a physical
cause, and a peevish child often needs dieting
more than correcting. Some children are more
prone to show temper than others, and sometimes
on account of qualities which are valuable in
themselves. For instance, a child of active tem
perament, sensitive feeling and of eager purpose,
is more likely to meet with constant jars and rubs
than a dull, passive child, and, if lie is of an open
nature, his inward irritation is immediately shown
in bursts of passion. If you repress these ebulli
tions by scolding and punishment, you only in
crease the evil by changing passion into sulkiness.
A cheerful, good-tempered tone of your own, a
sympathy with his trouble, whenever the trouble
has arisen from no had conduct on his part, are
the best antidotes; hut it would be better still to
prevent beforehand all sources of annoyance*
Never fear spoiling children by making them too
happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which
all “ood affections grow—the wholesome warmth
necessary to make the heart, hrbod circulate
healthily and freely; imhippinessis the chilling
pressure which produces here an inflammation,
there an excrcscenbe, amt, worst of all, “the
mind’s green ajfd yellow sickness—ill-temper.”
“Were-you ever in Cork, sir?” Foote Was asked
, . Ime day, , .
And the actor replied in his humorous way,
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