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its own—with two other ladies; Atouia,
an Arab, not much inferior to her rival in j
personal appearance; and Ferrah, origi
nally a Yezidi slave, who had no preten
sions to beauty. Amsha, however, always
maintained her sw T ay, and the olhfrs could
not sit, without her leave, in her presence.
To her alone were confided the keys of
the larder —supposing Sofuk to have had
either keys or larder —and there was no
appeal from her authority on all subjects
of domestic economy. — LayarJ's Nineveh
and its Remains.
ARAB WOMEN AND ARAB WORK
MEN.
M'hen F first employed the Arabs, the
women were sorely ill-treated, and sub
jected to great hardships. I endeavored to
introduce some reform into their domestic
arrangements, and punished severely those
who inflicted corporal punishment on their
wives. In a short time, the number of do
mestic quarrels was greatly reduced, and
the women, who were at first afraid to
complnin of their husbands, now boldly
appealed to me for protection. They had,
however, some misgivings as to the future,
which were thus expressed hy a deputa
tion: “0, Bey! we are your sacrifice.—
May God reward you. Have we not eat
en wheat bread, and even meat and butter,
since we have been under your shadow ?
Is tlieie one of us that has not now a col
ored handkerchief for her head, bracelets
and ankle-rings, and a striped cloak ? But
what shall we do when you leave us?—
which God forbid you should do. Our
husbands will then have their turn, and
there will he nobody to help us.” These
poor creatures, like all Arab women, were
exposed to constant hardships. They were
obliged to look after the children, to make
the bread, to fetch water, and to cut wood,
which they brought home from afar on
their heads. Moreover, they were entrust
ed with all the domestic duties, wove their
woo! and goafs hair into clothes, carpets,
and tent canvass; and were left to strike
and raise the tents, and to load and unload
the beasts of burden, when they change
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possessed sheep or cows, they had to drive
them to the pastures, and to milk them at
night. When moving, they carried their
children at their backs during the march,
and were even troubled with this burden
when employed in their domestic occupa
tions, if the children were too young to be
left alone. The men sat indolently by,
smoking their pipes', or listening to a tri-
fling story from some stray Arab of the
desert, who was always there to collect a
group around him. At first, the women,
whose husbands encamped on the mound,
brought water from the river; but I re
leased them from this labor, by employing
horses and donkeys in the work. The
weight of a large sheep or goat’s skin fill
ed with water is not inconsiderable. This
is hung on the back by cords strapped over
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frequently seated the child, who could not
be left in the tent, or was unable to follow
its mother on foot. The bundles of fire
wood, brought from a considerable dis
tance, were enormous, completely conceal
ing the head and shoulders of those who
tottered beneath them. And yet the wo
men worked cheerfully, and it was seldom
that their husbands had to complain of
their idleness. Some were more active
than others. There was a young girl
named Iladla, who particularly distin
guished herself, and was consequently
sought in marriage by all the men. Her
features were handsome, and her form
erect and exceedingly graceful. She car
ried the largest burdens, was never unem
ployed, and was accustomed, when she
had finished the work imposed upon her
hv her mother, to assist her neiehhr>=
completing their’s.— lbid.
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CURIOSITIES OF ADVERTISING I
LITERATURE.
Gems in this department of letters con- 1
tinne from time to time appearing in the
pnblic prints, and among the last we have
an announcement of “a very delightful res
idence to let, making up ten beds, within
the Regent’s Park.” We presume that the \
beds in question, being within the Park, are
either flower-beds, asparagus-beds, or
strawberry-beds, but any of these would,
we imagine, be rejected by any but a thor
ough Bedlamite. The same day’s paper
contains the particulars of a place in Dor
setshire, which “combines the advantage
of fishing, with a particularly dry situa
tion but we presume there must be some
patent process for hooking the finny tribe,
since it seems rather difficult to fish in a
situation whose dryness is remarkable. We
imagine that the sport is intended to be
limited to that unhappy class of the Ani
mal Kingdom known as “fish out of wa
ter,” who would fall an easy prey to the
designs of the angler. Another advertise
ment commences with the startling words,
“ Scotland—To be let furnished, for any
period tliat may be required,” and a little
further on we find an intimation that there
is “Bath—To be let with immediate pos
session.”
A GROWING EVIL.
We are quite astonished at the number
of moustaches there are about town. The
face of the metropolis is quite overrun with
moustaches. You meet with one at every
turn. This continental appendage is threat
ening to invade the English physiognomy,
and the British upper lip will soon lose its
distinctive cleanliness. Where all the
moustaches have suddenly sprung from we
cannot tell, as we are not particular ama
teurs in hair skins, but it is very clear that
the course at Epsom was covered, this Der
by, with four times its usual average. We
begin to suspect that the cheap excursions
to France have done it all, for it is very
strange that an Englishman cannot go lo
Boulogne without being immediately seized
with a violent moustache. We propose
that government barbers be appointed at
Folkestone, and that they be invested with
peremptory orders to take everybody by
the nose who lands, and give the batch all
around an easy shave for a penny. If some
such Order in Council be not immediately
issued to meet this growing evil, England
will Be so much put upon by France, that
she will soon have not a feature left on her
face that she will be able to call her own.
These cheap excursions must be stopped,
or else there must be a bye-law instantly
passed that any’ one who comes back with
a moustache, forfeits his return ticket
JENNY LIND.
“ We hearthat Mademoiselle Jenny Find
remains in Paris for the present, and that
her marriage is broken off.”— Vide Morn
ing Chronicle, May 21 st.
Dear Jenny Lind has changed her mind,
And run away to Paris:
So Betsey Prigfc was right we find—
There is no Mrs. Harris !
The Blessed English Weather.—As
Whitsuntide never has a syllable of sun in
it, but is invariably rainy, we suggest that,
in all the future almanacks, Whit-Monday
be known by the more appropriate name of
Wet Monday.
Again, as it is very clear that the Clerk
of the Weather never knows his mind for
two days together, but is always changing,
we suggest that from henceforth he be
known by the name of “The Charwoman”
—or “The Scullery Maid”—or“TheCook
of the Weather;” for it is quite preposter
ous to suppose that, with the proverbial
fickleness and incessant variability of the
English weather, the person who has the
management of it can be a man.
The Great Sea Serpent.—This Salt
Unknown has, depose certain folks—ap
peared between the Cape and St. Helena ;
whilst—according to the South Africa —
others avow the snake to be
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ter in single file, and, in peculiar states of
the atmosphere, mistaken for one unbroken
creature of enormous size.”
Thus the bird sends us back to Profes
sor Owen’s implied calculation—“ How
many gulls are required to make a sea ser
pent ?”
The Prince of Bricklayers.—We
have great pleasure inobserving that Prince
Albert, on Saturday last, laid the first stone
of the Ladies’ wing about to be added to
the Licensed Victuallers’ Asylum. Ilis
Royal Highness is now always laying the
foundation of some charitable institution or
other, and we congratulate him on employ
ing his time so creditably as in this very
praiseworthy occupation of dabbling in
bricks and mortar. The services of Her
C’nrwmt nng;li* tn Vo rlnly uupai
ted, and Punch, in order to reward him in
kind, hereby spreads the mortar of appro
bation, with the trowel of sincerity, upon a
Prince who really appears to be coming out
like a regular brick.
■gglß A aims A EL
TXrtftBTANOF. OF WELL DIRECT
ED LABOR.
A single stroke of an axe is of little
consequence ; yet with the continual appli
cation of that small power,properly directed,
what amazing effects are produced! The
sturdy oak and lofty pine not only own its
power, but whole forests fall before it. and
the wilderness becomes a garden.
Industry, well directed, will give a man
a competency in a few years. The great
est industry misapplied is useless.
As an example, there is my neighbor,
Seth Steady, the blacksmith, who is not
only an industrious man, but his industry
is applied to one object, llis hammer is
heard at dawn of day, ami the fire Mazes
in his shop during the evenings, from the
20th of September to the 20th of March.
Go to his shop at any lime of the day for
any kind of work, you are sure to be wait
ed upon. The consequence is, his purse is
filled with dollars, and his cellar well ill 1-
j ed with provisions, and that is what I call
| quite comfortable. Although suitably lib
eral, and enjoying the good things of this
| life as he goes on ; ten years of good health
| will enable him to purchase a good farm.
Asa contrast, there is my friend, Nat
: Notional, the busiest and most industrious
i mortal in existence; as the old saying is,
j “he has too many irons in the lire,” and
; with all his industry he goes behindhand. I
lie has a fine farm, but, instead of pursu
mg the cultivation of it, lie flies anil seizes
jon every new project that occurs. A few
j years ago he concluded to give up the dai- j
ry business, in consequence of the low
price of butter and cheese; sold his cows
at a low figure, and purchased sheep at a
high rate, for wool then commanded a high
price. By the time he got fairly into the I
raising of wool, down went the price of
wool and up went the price of butter and
cheese. He then sold his sheep and’ pur
chased cows again, for cheese was up,
and wool was down. And finally, he
changed his business so often, because he
was not contented to thrive by little, as
Seth Steady did, that be got completely !
used up, and is now only fit for California
or some other wool-gathering project.
So you see that well-directed labor is
sure to meet its reward, while he who 1
ia©iaii© ©&2it?s?i§ a
keeps a dozen irons in the fire, and none
lof them hot, will as sure meet with the
fate of poor Nat Notional.
3£ j ill TJi’ JS *
A NEW MOTIVE POWER.
The Ijonefon Mining Journal contains
a communication from Adolph Count de
Wetdinski, in which he describes anew
motive power for the repulsion of carriages
on rails and common roads, without en
gines, steam, air, magnetism, or animal
power.
The subject of the patent has the advan
tage of possessing greater expansive power
than steam, and being at the same time
more controllable and requiring less ma
chinery. It is of the nature of gun-cotton,
and is used by dipping any kind of veget
able fibre for eleven or fifteen minutes into
nitric acid, strengthened by an admixture
of an’ equal quantity of sulphuric acid,
then well washed with pure water, and
dried about two hours. By this process
the vegetable fibres become highly explo
sive. The gasses evolved consist chiefly
of carbonic acid and carbonic oxide, both
permanently elastic, so that passing
through cold air or water, they do not col
lapse, but will follow up the piston to the
utmost limit of its work.
In using this material neither fire nor
water is required, and it creates neither
smoke nor any offensive effluvia, and with
the exception of a slight moisture or pure
vapor, it leaves no resideum behind.
Among these gasses there is none that
will corrode metals.
The explosive qualities of the fibres
treated in this way was first noticed by
Professor Otto, of Brunswick, about four
teen years ago, and again by Pelonzc, of
Paris, in 1838, and finally fully published
in the English press about the early part
of the year 1845, under the name of gun
cotton, as it was called, by Professor
Schonbein : or xylnidine, by M. Pelonze.
A great feature of this new compound is
its complete tractibility. By compressing
if tho pYLtlfiinn is rptanlpd or BnilTCiy pi*C
vented. A slip of cotton or fibre prepared
can be exploded in any required part with
out affecting the other.
By greater or less compression a slip
has been made to explode with greater or
less violence. Several small pellets of xy
loidine were placed on a table, and each of
them compressed in the middle with the
back of a knife. A match was then ap
plied to the projecting ends, and they ex
ploded. The knife w’as then raised, and
the parts covered were found to be unex
ploded and sound as ever. These experi
ments hint an easy mode of preventing ac
cidents.
The explosive qualities of this ingredi
ent are so great that very small apparatus
are required. For an engine of two-horse
power a thread not larger In size than la
dies’ sewing cotton is sufficient. A thread
of this size, passed through either end of a
piston, and divided by compression, and
these parts exploded by electricity, will
furnish the power. Air. Isaac Mickle, of
Camden, New Jersey, has built one of this
size. The working machinary occupies
no more space than a man’s hat. Its apli
cability to every thing that requires mo
tive power is apparent at once, and its
freedom from smoke, steam, and heavy
machinery will extend its applicability
vastly beyond any other power, if it should
prove at all practible.— New York Post.
Aurora Borealis. —The Secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution has recently
issued a series of instructions in connexion
with the observatory at Toronto, Canada,
for the observations of the Aurora Borealis ,
the substance of which has been published
for the benefit of all interested in scientific
matters. Though the Aurora hasrecevied
attention during a considerable portion of
the last two centuries, definite information
is still wanting on several points which
may serve as the basis of a sound induc
tion as to its cause; and it is with a view
of obtaining information on the subject
: that an investigation is now instituted.
The Smithsonian Institution has also pub
lished a map of the stars near the North
Pole for observations of the Aurora, and
any person who may desire to possess a
! copy of the map can obtain one by addres
sing the Secretary of the Institution.
Manufacture of Gold. —The Ltver-
I pool Albion says :—“ We have read that
i Boyle once very nearly succeeded in ma
i king gold ; that he showed the experiment
;to Sir Isaac Newton, when both became
frightened and threw away the ingredients.
| A gentleman communicates to the editor of
the Mining Journal, that having experi
mented some ten years ago on the stratifi
cation of the earth, and the formation of
mineral deposites he believes with truthful
j results, he turned up one of his old e.xper
j intents a few days ago, when he found run
j ning in a kind of spiral string through one
part a small quantity of gold. No gold
was used in the experiment, and the con-,
j elusion arrived at is that it has been form
ed from some of the other substances. This,
however, is nothing to what is asserted by
an iron founder of this town. He declares
that he has found out a process by which
, he car. change any quantity of iron into
[gold. Before three months are over he
says we shall hear more of this marvel.
He promises to produce gold in tons, in
short in any quantity.”
Pressure of the Sea. —ls a piece of
wood which floats on the water, be forced
down to a great depth in the sea, the pres
sure of the surrounding liquid will force it
iitto the pores of the wood and so increase ‘
its weight that it will no longer be capable |
of floating or rising to the surface. Hence
the timber of ships which have foundered
in the deep part of the ocean, never rises
again to the surface like those which have
sunk near to the shore. A diver may,with
impunity, plunge to a certain depth of sea;
but there is a limit beyond which he can
not live under the pressure to whidh he is
subject. From the same reason it is prob
able that there is a depth beyond which
fishes cannot live. They, according to Jos
lin, have been caught in a depth at which
they must have sustained a pressure of
eighty tons to each square foot of the sur
face of their bodies.
Magnetism.—The remarkable discovery
has been made that all substances whatev
er are magnetic or dia magnetic ; and tftat
some, such as gold, silver, point East and
West. Even the gases, and the flames of
burning bodies, are subject to magnetic in
fluence, and what, in a scientific point of
view, is still more interesting, a relation
has been found to exist between magnetism
and light. The magnetic needle has also
been discovered to be subject to violent ag
itations and disturbances, and that these
disturbances, occur at the same instant of
time, on every side of the globe—at Toron
to in Canada, at the Cape of Good Hope,
at Sidney in New Holland, and in Europe
and Asia.
A Petrified Oil-Paint.—We find the
following interesting item in the New Yotk
Farmer and Mechanic : —Messrs. Quarter
man & Son, 114 John Street, New York,
have made a singular discovery of a petri
fied oil-paint, which must prove valuable
for a variety of purposes, such as roofs,
mill races, cisterns, stucco work, &c., &c.
We have before us a block of wood on
which is a layer of this paint, and which
has so much the hardness of stone, that a
knife or a hatchet can be sharpened upon
it. It can be made to be used either with
a brush or trowel, and applied as a mortar
to brick, ic. It is thought to be proof
against fire. It is cheaper than while or
any other paint now in use. It can be
mixed so as to imitate any color. Mr.
Quarterman has consented to give the re
cipe of the mixture, which is as follows;
1 lb. Quarterman’s drier; 1 do. white lead;
2 1-2 do. clean sand, mixed with boiled lin
seed oil.
M) PETTIER
THE LAUNCH,
BY MKS. HOW ITT.
A sound through old Trimountuin went,
A voice to great and small,
That told of feast and merriment
And welcome kind to all;
And there was gathering in the hall,
And gathering on the strand—
And many a heart beat anxiously
That morning, on the sand;
For *tis the morn when ocean tide,
An hundred tongues record,
Shall wed the daughter of the oak—
The mighty forest lord.
They dressed the bride, in streamers gay,
iiv, urnnij v ciuiaiictr—
And o’er her hung Columbia’s stars,
And the tri-fold flag of France.
They decked her prow with rare device,
With wealth of carving good,
And they girt her with a golden zone—
The maiden of the wood.
The g&y tones of the artisan
Fell lightly on the ear,
And sound of vigorous hammer-stroke
Rang loudly out and clear ;
And stout arms swayed the pondrous sledge,
While a shout the hills awoke,
As forth to meet the bridegroom flood,
Swept the daughter of the oak.
And bending to the jewelled spray
That rose her steps to greet,
She dashed aside the yesty waves
That gathered round her feet —
And down the path right gracefully,
The queenly maiden pressed,
Till the royal ocean clasped her form
To his broad and heaving breast.
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Sunday Readings....for June 30 lb.
BEING IN THE GARDEN WITH
CHRIST.
“ Did not I see thee in the garden with him 1”
John xviii. 2fi.
These words were addressed to Peter on
a most affecting occasion; when, denying
his Lord and Master, he was recognized by
one of the servants of the high priest.
There are many senses in which we shall
find it both pleasant and profitable to be in
the garden with Christ.
In the exercise of sacred meditations. Oh!
what have we to contemplate here ! What
a scene of suffering, when, being in an ag
ony, he prayed more earnestly, and his
sweat was, as it were, great drops of blood
falling down to the ground ! Let the gold
en thread of prayer run through the web
of meditations.
With the eye of unfeigned Faith. Be
hold the Man ! Do you not see Divinity
enshrined in that agonized body ? the like
ness of the Son of God in that countenance
that is more marred than any man’s I Do
you not perceive some rays of glory ema
nating from his grief worn human form ?
The Sun of Righteousness is about to set
in darkness; can you not discern beamsof
brightness gilding the clouds that are soon
to shut his glories m ?
With the tear of genuine repentance. —
By meditation, we walk in the garden;
faith sees the Saviour, and believes in the
efficacy of his atonement; repentance
stands weeping behind him, and cries, Oh
the exceeding sinfulnessof sin ! It wassaid
of Mary, u She goeth unto the grave to
weep there.” Let this be said of you in
reference to the garden of Gethsemane.
With the expression of grateful acknowl
edgement. While we should mourn for sin
as ihe cause, we should rejoice in salva
tion as the glorious resuit, of the Saviour's
sufferings. Through death he has spoiled
principalities and powers, finished trans
gression, and wrought out righteousness;
so that now, to the believer, sin has lo.giits
dominion —the law its condemning power—
death its sting—the grave its victory—and
hell its terror.
With a desire after close communion. In
proportion to the nearness of our inter
course with him will be our disrelish for
the world’s pleasures, and desire after spir
itual enjoyment : and when the inquiry is
made with respect to us, “Did I not see
thee in the garden with him?” we shall re
joice to acknowledge the fact.
With a resolution of entire devotedness.
Our whole life in this world should be the
continual presentation of a living sacrifice
to him. Such an exercise will ennoble the
mind, exalt the feelings, and rejoice the
spirit. Amid the beauty, richness, and fra
grance of the flowers of the garden, let me
see him in the rose, the lily, the apple tree,
and the trees of the wood ; and long for the
time when I shall be in the garden of the
heavenly paradise with him. — Christian's
Daily Treasurey.
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TIIK VALUE OF COLD WATER.
The Louisville Courier says.—“ We are
much gratified to be able to state that Judge
Me Kinly, the distinguished jurist of the
Supreme Court of the United States, after
having his vision so seriously impaired for
fifty-two years that he could not see with
out glasses, has recovered his sight so per
fectly, that he is now able to read without
glasses. For half a century this faculty
was so seriously impaired that without
glasses he was almost blind. It is the re
covery of his constitutional health, by
which the sight has been reinvigorated—
Judge Me Kinly very properly ascribes it
to the daily use of cold water on the head
and surface of the body. Os the importance
of the use of cold water in maintaining and
restoring health, no one who hasever tried
it can entertain a doubt. And we refer to
Judge Me Kinly’s gratifying success in the
restoration of his vision from its long sleep,
for the purpose of encouraging other inva
lids to resort to this cheap and powerful
mode of medication.”— Scientific Ameri
can.
CURE FOR THE CHOLERA.
Lord Ponsonby, in a letter published in
the British journals, says, that to his own
knowledge, dissolved camphor has proved
a certain cure for Cholera, both in Paris
and Germany, and if taken in time, the
cure is generally effected before it is possi
ble to procure a physician. The following
> fhn KU>i|w\ •
Recipe. —One and a half ounce of spirits
of wine; one-quarter ounce of camphordis
solved in the wine. Get a small vial of
spirits of hartshorn.
Directions. —First give a teaspoonful of
hartshorn in a wine glass of water. Begin
immediately and give five drops of spirits
of wine, (camphor,) filling the tea spoon
with cold water, and a little sugar. Re
peat this every five minutes, until you have
given three doses. Then wait fifteen min
utes, and commence again as before, and
continue half an hour, unless there is re
turning heat. Should this be the case, give
one dose more, and the cure is effected. Let
patients perspire freely, as on this life de
pends; but add no additional clothing.
HYDROPATHY.
Last summer says the New York Even
ing Post , a girl on Long Island, attacked
with fever and ague after being two or three
times cured, <is it was called, by quinine,
impatient at the obstinate recurrence of the
disorder, ran in the height of the fever and
jumped into a mill pond with her clothes
or>, she came out cured; the disorder never
returned. An Ohio practitioner of the name
of Cook, adopts a similar practice—our
readers are aware that with the learned it
is called hydropathy. The editor of the
La Fayette Daily Journal thus descibes the
method in his own case:
“He literally dragged me from my bed,
forced me under a shower hath, while the
chill was full on me, my lips, nose, and fin
gers purple ; my teeth chattering, and my
whole convulsed body giving terrible evi
dence of the severe nature of the malady.
There he held me, changing my positions
under the drip, for more than a minute—
and the chill was gone. It was the second,
and of congestive type, that 1 had had in
the space of five hours. Next, he put me
under warm blankets. I slept for over an
hour. Finding the fever to be consuming
me, he again pulled me out of I ed, and
forced me a second time under the bath. In
less than five minutes, all traces of the fe
ver had disappeared ; and the bath, from
having at first been horrible beyond des
cription, became delightfull; and 1 could
have stood under it to* hours, wooing the
droppings of its congenial waters. I came
out a restored man.”
Love or Water. —Some persons shrink
from bathing, but when they once get used
to it, it is indispensable. A medical wri
ter says:
“Let a child wash himself all over every
morning for sixteen years, and he will as
soon go without his breakfast as his bath.”
If the pillar of salt into which
Lot’s wife was turned, is now (as Lieuten
ant Lynch asserts,) upwards of forty feet
high, after being wasted by the storms of
4000 years, more or less, how tall was
Lot's wife when she met with her sud
den change I We ask for information.
What is better than Presence of Mind in
a Railway accident? Absence of Body.
grata.
There is a’ gloom in deep love, as
in deep water: there is a silence in it
which suspends the foot: and the folded
arms and dejected head are the images it
reflects. No voice shakes its surface : the
M uses themselves approach it With a tat
dy and timid step, and with a low and
tremulous and melancholy song.— W. S.
Landor.
How many fond mothers and fru
gal housewives keep their pretty daughters
and their preserves for some extra occa
sion—some “big bug” or other, till both
turn sour. This seems to us marvellously
poor economy.
Castor oil beans are found to make
excellent candles, equal to sperm in every
respect.
We tremble when the thunder
cloud bursts in fury above our heads; the
poet seizes on the terrors of the storm to
add to the interest of his verse. Fancy
paints a storm-king, and the genius of ro
mance clothes his demons in lightnings,
and they are heralded by thunders. These
wild imaginings have been ‘the delight of
mankind—there is subject for wonder in
them. But is there anything less wonder
ful in the well-authenticated fact, that the
dew-drop which glistens on the flower—
that the tear which trembles on the eyelid
—holds locked, in its transparent cells, an
amount of electric fire equal to that which
is discharged during a storm from a thun
der cloud I—Hunt's 1 — Hunt's poetry of Science.
Alas! how little do we appreciate
a mother's tenderness while living. How
heedless we are in youth of all her anxie
ty and kindness. But when she is dead
and gone—when the cares and coldness of
the world come withering to our hearts—
when we find how hard it is to find true
sympathy—how few will befriend us in
our misfortunes—then it is that we think
of the mother we have lost.
In the “Vestiges of Creation,” pub
lished several years ago, is the following
passage:
“The United States might be expected
to make no great way in civilization till
they be fully peopled to the Pacific; and it
might not be unreasonable to expect that,
when the event occurred, the greatest civ
ilization of the vast territory will be found
in the Peninsula of California, and the nar
row strip of country beyond the Rocky
Mountains.
EDITOR’S DEPARTMENT.
WM. C. RICHARDS, EDITOR.
Sltfjcus, Ccorfita:
H
Saturday Morning,..June 30, 1549.
SKETCHES ON THE BY-WAYS.
A Sabbath at Jonesboro'—A Glimpse at the
Place—lts Aristocracy—A Picture for
Hogarth—An Odd Sign—“. Mine Host
of the Inn"—The A'ightmare—Friends
abroad—Schools in Coiceta—A fine Li
brary—A new Railroad—A Break Down
—Mechanical Surgery—Repose—Comp
be/lton—i remarkable dinner—Railroads
— Finis.
AVe love, occasionally, to go into the by
ways of the country, afar from the sight of
telegraph posts and the sound of the steam
whistle, that we may obtain a few glimpses
lof the old-fashioned world. For a few days
i past, it has been our lot to realize this fan
j cy, and we have a mind to let our renders
; see a leaf or two from our diary, careless
] and unrevised as they appear in the orig
■ inal.
j June 17 th. A Sabbath at Jonesboro’ is
j certainly far less endurable than it would
be in the remotest depths of the wilderness
—for here, with the iron track of steam and
“ the high-way of thought” both in full
view, there is not one token of the refine
ment which such contiguity might suggest.
They are but a mocking, and the eye turns
j from them to rest upon a group of log huts
; ami cabbage gardens, with an occasional
glimpse of a small party, or a single horse
man, wending to some church in the neigh
borhood. Twice a day, it is true, the iron
horse rushes by with his heavy train of
cars, but he deigns only to stop for a mo
ment, and seems to disdain so insignificant
a place!
And yet Jonesboro’ has its grades of so
ciety ; its aristocracy and its canaille. We
were the guest of the village doctor, who
was in the habit of “ taking in” travellers,
| and in the afternoon numerous visiters drop
| ped in, so that the chairs and the trunks and
| even the beds of the doctor's parlor, were
i all put in requisition as seats. The chief
visiters were a Indy and her daughters,
from an adjacent cabin! In the course of
conversation between our hostess and her j
visiter, the suhject of tlicir neighbors very I
naturally came up, when the bitter remark
ed, with an admirable air of condescension, j
that “ there was but one family in the 1
town (!) that she hated. As to that family,
she had no use for any of them. She could
get nlong with all the others ; to be sure,
there were several whom she never visited,
who nevertheless frequently called at her ,
house—and of course she treated them ‘civ- j
illy’!” So, thought we, even this little!
hamlet of a twelve-month’s growth has its j
upper anil its lower tens ! the offspring of
that unquenchable pride which is nourish
ed in the human breast.
June 18 th. What would the gay denizen
of some far-famed metropolis think, if he j
could be suddenly transported from the’
midst of splendid streets and magnificent j
palaces, and set down in the “ square” of a
back-woods county town like this where w#
are now writing—the village of Fayette
ville. Would that we had the pencil of a
Hogarth, to draw a picture for his delecta
tion and astonishment. Let film imagine
himself seated in the piazza of an old and
semi-dilapidatcd barn, which we will call
the hotel de Fayette. Immediately across
the street is a sign which the inimitable
painter aforesaid would have rendered im
mortal could lie have caught but u glimpse
of it. The post is the trunk of an old tree,-
from which, at the height of eight feet, ex
tends a long branch horizontally for six
feet, when it takes an upward course. The
trunk, and the branch sawed off to a level,
constitute the standards for a sign, which
would probably have puzzled Champolliotf
more than the hieroglyphics of F.gypt. It
reads as follows:
A PICAYUNE BUSSNES&
NO nOGRY.
Perhaps readers better versed in Georgia
village shops than tlio renowned antiqua
rian, will detect the meaning of the sign-
To their sagacity, at all events, we com
mend it.
“ Mine host” of the Hotel de Fayette, or)
as ho calls it, the Eagle Hotel, is not one of
the S. of TANARUS., for we observed shat he was’
fond of doing “ a picayune business” ; and
wc could scarcely thunk him for his polite
attentions to us at the dinner-table, since
they brought his head into too close prox
imity with our nasal organ ! We could not
help asking the old gentleman if the S. of
T. were numerous in Fayette, and if they
had done much good—questions to which he
gave us affirmative, though, we fancied,-
grudging answers.
Inferior Court is in session at this County
site, and we are told that an unusual num
ber of Writs of Ca. Sa. have been issued.
The Court House is a very substantial and
well-built edifice, and the business at pres
ent in progress is conducted with more de
corum and dignity than is common at many
County Courts.
Next to having the nightmare yourself, is
the delight of being suddenly awakened by
the horrid groans of some poor victim of its
attack, whom you fancy is being murdered
in tlie anjoining room. Wc were in the lat
ter category last night, and were just about
to fly to the rescue, when the linn ied sound
of feet and voices approaching the chamber,
induced us to lie still. We don’t know pos
itively, but we fancy that the sufferer was
one whom wc saw, on the previous evening,
earnestly regarding the curious sign alrea
dy described, which he more than once ap
proached, perhaps for a minute inspection.
We have made some pleasant acquaint
ances in the village, and experienced some
courtesies that will make our memories of
it agreeable.
June 21 st. There is a great difference
between visiting a place where you have
some esteemed friends, and one where you
are an absolute stranger. We have felt the
truth of this during our sojourn in Newnan.
which, though in reality the longest star
we have yet made, nppears the briefest, and
is about to be terminated with regret on our
part.
Newnan is the centre of a large and fer
tile County, having a population whose in
telligence is evinced by the very handsome
support extended to two or three extensive
Schools, to one of which, the “Longstreet
Institute,” under the direction of Mr. Smith,
we made a flying visit. Another, the “ Rock
Spring Academy,” is also in excellent re
pute. The society of the village is attrac
tive, ami affords evidence of refinement anil
good taste. We find here the best private
library, both of law and miscellaneous
works, that we have met With in all this
region. It is the property of Mr. Ray—to
whose family we are debtors for kindness
rendered to a stranger.
The good people of Newnan are looking
forward to the great improvemcrit of their
village, wt : t shall become a depot of the
Atlanta iij . tVest Point Rail Road, now un
der contract. We cord'ally wish them all
possible prosperity, as we now bid them,
and our friends especially,- adieu.
June 24 th. Thanks to bad roads, We have
had a genuine ndventurc, which must cer
tainly find a brief chronicle in our day
book. Half-way from Newnan to Campbell
ton, which is called 20 miles, but which we
shall certainly put down at 40 if ever we
make a Map or Gazetteer of Georgia! while
1 picking our way along at the rate of two
\ miles an hour, we were suddenly brought
i to, all-standing, by a monstrous stump, and
almost before the warning Was uttered—
“ Take care, Rob"! or we shall break down,”
snap, snap, went both the shafts of our car
riage, and we looked in blank amazementat
the wreck! One of them was what the sur
geon would call a transverse fracture —the
other was as clear a case of the pipe-stem
break as one would wish to see. After a
few forlorn agitations of our puzzled heads,
we set about repairs, and being in the woods
sans axe, sans even a stout knife, the pros
pect was not a flattering one. Collecting
j all the spare straps about the vehicle, ami
all the.odd pieces of cord we could muster,
we proceeded to set the broken limbs and
to bind them up secundum artem. Our
success was so tolerable, that we did not
come to another halt until we had reached
a cabin two or three miles nlong the road.
Here we obtained an axe and a “ slat” out
of which we made sundry splinters, and
again exerted our best surgical skill, h
was nearly sun-set when we got once more
in motion, and tlie village to which we were
bound was still six miles beyond us. Short
ly afterwards, we found our progress bar
red by a huge pine tree, at least ten feel
in circumference, lying in the road, and
stretching fifty or sixty feet into the woods
on either side. Not a vestige of a path
around it could wc discover, and without an
axe to clear a way, the chance seemed fa
vorable for “ a night in the woods ” B ,lt
“ where there’s a will there's a way,” it 19
said, and we had the will and found the
way around tlie tree. Wo “ headed” it, a
la Potts, though we trembled at every jump
of our carriage over the saplings, for fi ,c
integrity of our straps and strings! A mih
forward we emerged into a gloomy swamp
and proceeded on foot to explore the road.
A dozen different routes presented them
selves, all obscure and scarcely passable by
reason of stumps, holes, dilapidated cause
ways, and similar accompaniments to a
marshy road. When we were fairly throng!’