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‘‘Noble young creature!’ - thought I;
“her artless and warm heart is superior to
the bonds of custom ! - ’
I reached within a stone s throw of her.
She suddenly halted and turned her face
towards me. My heart swelled to burst
ing, 1 reached the spot where she stood.
She began to speak, and I took off my hat
as if doing reverance to an angel.
“ Arc you a pedler V’
“No. my dear girl, that is not my occu
pation.”
” Well 1 don’t know,” continued she.
not very bashfully, and eying me quite
stem!} . ‘•
“ I thought when I saw you in the meet
ing house, that you looked like the pedler
who passed offa pewter half dollar-three, ‘
weeks ago, and so I was determined to
keep an eye upon you. dlrother John has
got home now, and he says if he catches
the fellow lie'll wring his neck for him; and
I ain't sure but you're the good-for-nothing
rascal after all!”
Reader, diJ you ever take a shower
lath ?
For Iticliardb* Weekly Gazette.
LETTER FROM CHARLESTON.
Charleston, 30th June, 1819.
The “glorious Fourth” is at hand, and
we are all busy making preparations for
the usual commemorations. Steamboat
excursions, Fire-works, Orations, Proces
sions and Pleasure Parties, form, of course,
the topics of all conversation for the pre
sent. The Rail Road Companies are issu
ing tic kets at two dollars a head, going and
returning, to enable every body, all along
the lines of road, to pay the Metropolis a
visit on that occasion.
Our Military arrangements arc as usual,
though several of our largest Uniform Com
panies are to visit Savannah on that occa
sion. A National Salute will be fired at
sunrise, by a detachment from the Regi
ment of Artillery; ami, after the Brigade
Review, a feu de joie by the Infantry.
Orations before the Societies. Harbor Ex
cursions, Boat Races and Fire-works, will
then divide the multitude in various direc
tions throughout the remainder of the day.
Jhc Anniversary of the Battle of Fort
Moultrie was cclcbiated at Sullivan’s Isl
and, on Thursday, 28th, by a Procession, |
Oration and Public Dinner, at the Fort.
A grand Temperance Jubilee is to take I
place at Columbia, on the 4th. On the j
same day, the State Temperance Society :
holds its semi-annual Convention. Flis
Honor. Judge O'Neall, the President of the I
Society, and the great Apostle of the cause
in this State, will conduct its deliberations.
The cause is still onward in this State, and
there will be a large gathering at the Capi
toi.
The rage for summer travel increases.
Crowds of Steamers go out well freighted
with living commodities. Our Rail Roads,
and those of Georgia, are disposed to be
accommodating; and vast crowds will be
attracted, this season, to the Limestone
and Sulphur Springs of South Carolina and
Georgia, who never contemplated traveling
further than the neighboring Islands for
recreation. I have no doubt that “Row
land's Springs,” “Indian Springs,” “White
Sulphur Springs,” and “Stone Mountain,”
of your State, will be very popular resorts.
In our own State, we have the Spartan
burg, Limestone, Chick’s and Bradford
Springs, all within easy access of the low
country, and possessing valuable medicin
al virtues.
Last week, there were seventeen deaths
in the city, an unusually large number.
Os these, however, six, or more than one
third of the whole number, died of old age,
three bet\ven 90 and 100, two between
80 anil 90, and one between 70 and 80
year* of age. This leaves a balance of 11,
two .of which were cases of long-standing
consumption, and three or four others dis
eases Incident to infancy. No sign, what
ever, of Cholera yet!
All vessels arriving from Ports, where
the Cholera is known to prevail, are re
quired to beat Quarantine, until the Port
Physician grants permission for them to
approach the city.
We have no fires nor murders, now, to
break in upon the monotony of the dull
season. The Courts have all dispatched
their business, and people are getting more
civilized.
Thursday last, 28th, was observed by
the Presbyterian Chunehes in the city as a
uav of humiliation and prayer.
On the same evening, the New Hall of
the Sons of Temperance, at the corner of
King and Wentworth streets, was publicly
dedicated. The Address of Dedication was
delivered before a respectable audience, by
P. G. W. P. James Tupper, of the Grand
Division of South Carolina.
Periodical Literature slightly revives.
The last number of the Southern Quarterly-
Review, now under the editorial conduct
of Wm. Gilmore Simms, LL. D., is a high
encomium upon the talent and enterprise of
this part of the world. Deßow’s Commer
cial Review, (the July number,) will be
out in a day or two, with fresh evidences
of the continued zeal and ability of its ac
complished Editor, who is a native of this
city, and a graduate of the College of
Charleston. I observe that anew South
ern Magazine has recently been started at
your flourishing young town, which has
become, of late years, quite a seat of re
finement, education and good society. C.
L. Wheler, Esq., formerly of the Madison
Family Visitor, is Editor and Proprietor,
and he intends publishing simultaneously
jn Athens and Charleston.
The City Council has published anew
Directory for the City, which contains
much useful local and other information.
It is from the press of Mr. A J Burke,
formerly of the firm of Walker & Burke,
Agents of several Northern Manufactories
in their line of business.
We have our share of the hot weather,
now so universally prevalent. While we
are straining every nerve to rival tire Yan
kees, in every thing else, we give in, with
out a murmur, on this head. 100 and 135
degrees Farenheit, is too far ahead of us.
’ We can't “go” more than 90, even to save
ihe reputation of the “sunny South. 1 ”
11.
For Rickard*’ Weekly Gazette.
LIFE-INSURANCE—-WHAT IS IT?
It is a contract, in which there are three
I parties interested—the Company insuring,
the person whose life is insured, and a
third party, who is to receive the benefit of
the insurance. A husband may take out a
policy for his wife, a father for his chil
dren, and a debtor for his creditor. The
person insured pays over to the Company
a certain fixed premium, and promises to
continue that payment every year, while
his insurance lasts ; and, in return for this,
the Company promise to pay to the Execu
tors, Administrators, or Assigns of the in
sured, within sixty’ days after his death,
the amount that may be agreed upon. A
young man, for example, at the age of 25,
who has a wife dependent on his industry,
pays ten or eleven dollars every year for
ten years, if he shall live so long, and the
Company agrees to pay over to his widow
a thousand dollars, if he should die within
the period for which he is insured. A
man of 35, who wishes to make a comfor
table provision for his family, pays annu
ally $75 00, and the Company agree to
pay $5,000 on his death. He may insure
for one year, for ten years, or for life—the
rates charged by the Company differing, in
every case, according to the time the poli
cy has to run, the age of the party, and the
amount insured.
If one insures his dwelling, the amount
I is payable when the property is consumed
jby fire. In Life Insurance, it is payable
|on the death of the party insured. In both
cases, an annual premium is paid to the
J Company, and in both a policy is issued,
containing a promise lo pay a certain
amount of money. In the case of loss by
I fire, the amount is payable to the owner of
I the property destroyed; but, in Life Insu
| ranee, the money is payable to the heirs of
j the party insured, or to some other person,
j to whom the policy may have been as-
I signed. A person may insure his life, and
i then make over his policy to any person
I he may wish—to a trustee for his wife and
| children—to a friend—to a creditor—or to
| any person whatever.
When property is insured, the Company
J always limit the policy to the value of the
I property. In no case will they go beyond
this. However much is insured in one or
in several Companies, no one can recover
more than the actual loss. When life is
insured, there is no limit to the amount that
may be taken. A man may have a policy
in one Company for $5,000, in another for
SIO,OOO, and in a third for $20,000, and
each Company will be bound lor the whole
amount of their contract. There can be
no inquiry into the amount of loss—the
carelessness of the party insured—the in
crease of risk from new and unforeseen
exposure None of these circumstances,
which often create trouble in Fire or Ma
rine Insurance, can possibly become sub
jects of investigation in Life Insurance.
A Life Insurance Company may be re
garded as a Savings Bank, in which the
insured is annually depositing a small sum,
to be repaid to his family, on his death.
Should he die soon, he will receive his de
posits, with extraordinary interest; should
he live to the probable period, to which
one of his age may expect to reach, he will
receive hack all he has paid, with interest;
and, if he should live to old age, his family
would still receive a handsome sum, to re
imburse him for his long-continued pay
ments. In every case, the investment is a
good one, and characterized by this impor
tant feature—that the benefit to be derived
is greater as the wants of the insured are
greater. Prudence, humanity and natural
affection, all invite and encourage such an
investment. Let every one, whose circum
stances are such that lie needs such a pro
vision for his family, inquire into the na
ture and character of these Companies, and
he will hardly hesitate to avail himself of
their advantages. A.
For Richards’ Weekly Gazette.
LINES
Written for the Album of a Female Friend.
Fart and far the tide is sweeping.
On whose noiseless, Stygein wave,
Millions float, with conscience sleeping,
To a gloomy, godless grave.
Who shall stay the flood careering
O'er engulph’d and thoughtless throngs 1
Who shall shield the guilty, fearing
Vengeance for unpardon’d wrongs ?
No response! 0! God of Zion,
Thou alone oanst rescue rend:
Let not Judah's rampant Lion
From his mountain rush, and rend.
O ! reveal the light of Heaven,
To the humb e suppliant’s eye—
Pour the bli*s of sins forgiven—
Guide him to his home on high.
There shall ransom'd hosts adore Thee,
Far from guilt, and gloom, and grave;
And hosannas peal before thee,
To the “ God who died to save.”
A. M.
THE FLOATING STRAW.
BY CHAS MACKAY.
The wild waves are m.v nightly pillows.
Beneath in? roll the Atlantic billows ;
And as I rest on my couch of brine
I w&t h the eternal planets shine
Ever ride
Oa a harmless tide.
Fearing naught— enjoying all things
Undisturbed by great or small things,
Alas! for the lordly vessel
That sails so gallantly ;
iaiiaiDt® sisaw ©aiiitiu
*
The winch may dash it.
The storfua may wash it,
The lightnings rend its tall masts three ;
< But neither the wind, nor the rain nor the a* a,
! Can injure me —can injure a;:!
The lightuings cannot strike me down,
j Whirlwinds wreck, or whirlpool** crown;
, And the bli p to be lost ere the break of morn,
May pass o’er iny head in saucy scorn;
1 And whe i the night unveils iti face,
i 1 float unharmed, in my usual place,
And the ship may show to the pitying stars
No remnant but her broken spars.
Among the shells
In the ocean dells.
The ships, the crews, and the captains lie,
13ut the floating straw looks up to the sky,
1 And the humble and contented man,
Unknown to fortune escapes her ban,
; And rides secure when breakers leap,
j And mighty ships go down to the deep.
May pleasant breezes waft them home
That plough with their keels the driving foam,
Heaven be their hope, and Truth their law;
There needs no prayer for the floating straw,
m ol ll aetst*
FOREIGN WORDS AND PHRASES.
The use of foreign words always seems
to imply one or two things: that the wri
ter wishes to display his knowledge of the
language from which lie borrows, or that
he is ignorant of the corresponding words
in the English language: in the former
case, it is pedantry, in the latter, ignorance,
and in both cases is a departure from true
simplicity and elegance. A few examples
will illustrate our meaning, and show the
folly and the danger of the barbarous
practice.
An excellent periodical, in a critical no
tice of Whittier's Poems says, “ The phy
sique of the book is charming.” To the
mere American this conveys the idea, that
as a medicine the book is agreeable. The
reviewer probably means that the mechan
ical execution of the book is charming, but
it may be doubted whether this is a correct
use of the French word.
Examples of this useless intrusion of
foreign words abound most in novels, and
the light literature of the day. A novel
before us has such expressions as these :
“They have just escaped from Paris,
where they had been for some years among
the detenus .” (detained.)
“If it is religion that does all for her, it
is a religion of which I can form no idea ;
cela me passe.” Here the French is a mere
paraphrase of the English words that are
italicized, and how will the foreign words
help the reader to anything new, —but the
vanity of the writer!
“ She had surrounded herself with vas
es of flowers; to give her apartment un air
de fete.” (a festive appearance.)
In such books, a medley or mixture is a
melange —a fray is nothing short of a me
lee, and the select are not chosen but the e
litc. Disputants do not differ entirely, but
toto coclo, and they do not begin again but
de novo, or as some gosling ‘ prefer to say,
obovo. It’s all stuff.
And yet these are called English sen
tences ! We hesitate not to say that no
teacher ought for a moment to countenance
such works by reading them, and any one
who would stoop to imitate them, is un
faithful to his trust. If he already can
write pure English he needs no such orna
ments; and if he cannot write English cor
rectly, nothing will more effectually pre
vent his doing so than the use of foreign
words or foreign idioms.
But our newspapers have caught the
disease, and some editors who know too
little of English and nothing of any other
language, allow themselves to use foreign
expressions, and oftentimes commit egre
gious blunders, without the salutary pain
of knowing it. Perhaps no foreign word
is so frequently spelled wrong as naivete, a
word of three syllables, meaning artless
ness, ingeniousness. The common error is
to spell it naivette. Then the pretty word
posy has been superceded almost entirely
by the French word bouquet, or as nine
tenths of our editors spell it, bo-quet. As
this spelling misleads the speaker, we re
commend the pedants to spell the word
bou-quet, before it is too late.
The most common items of news are in
terlarded with such barbarisms. Thus
the President is never going to Washing
ton, but he is <t route for that city. No
remark can be made by the way, or in pas
sing, but it must be en passant. A rising
of the people is no longer a mob or a re
bellion, but an emeute. Our ancestors did
without ennui for many centuries, but
their sons pretend that no English word
expresses the full idea, and even Worces
ter has been compelled to give the word a
place in his great dictionary. The diffi
culty of pronouncing the word more than
balances any shade of meaning that it
possesses over listlessness, tediousness, irk
somness, &c., which the best dictionaries
have always given as completely synon
ymous with ennui.
Some years ago a venerable Boston edi
tor discovered that nous verrons was a more
expressive phrase than we shall see ; and
now every village editor, after giving his
view of national affairs, gathers himself up
in his arm-chair and utters the doubtful
prophecy, “ nous verrons.”
Now all this is exceedingly silly, if not
positively injurious to both writers and
readers. Our intercourse with thousands
of teachers has satisfied us that, if they are
more defective in one thing than in another,
it is in ability to write pure, easy, expres
sive English, and this they can never ac
quire while they allow themselves to read
! inferior authors, or to expect that the use
of a few foreign expressions will atone
for want of sense, or neglect of style.—
Common School Journal.
MACBETH.
How performed by John Kemble — Mrs. Sid
dons as Lady Macbeth—Fanny Kemble
Mutter's readings.
Whilst Fanny Kemble Butler was giv
ing her leadings of Sbakspeare in Boston,
the following communication appeared in
the Advertiser of that city. We copy it
i for its literary merits, and for the reminis
ences it brings up:
Johnson says somewhere, I looked for
; the saying, but my eyes did not reach it.
He says, that lie who for the first time
reads Macbeth, should do it at a heat—he
should read it through—he should not
quit it till it is done. Let him not stop
for questions. It is a life, many lives.—
Its persons will die to you unless you are
willing to breathe with them, or rather see
and hear them breathe and speak. It is
action—motion. It cannot stop any more
than can the living city stop in its full and
multitudinous life and movement. In it
things are to be done, and the machinary
never for a moment stops. The lady may
go “to bed, to bed, to bed;” but you see
she does not stay in it. She is up abroad, ,
candle in hand; and come; forward the
“great quell,” with her great eyes wide j
open, “ but their sense is shut.” And as
for poor Macbeth, he “ sleeps no more.” ;
I Was not Johnson right when he told us
, how to read Macbeth ! Was he not right
when lie said of it, that in its action, its in
tense life, it exceeded all other human
work, and in this has its great power !
I have spoken of the first reading of this ,
play, and of the self-abandonment which
its true reading demands. When we have
done this, then give to it night and day. j
and heart and mind. Gather up into one j
whole its terrible contrasts. See how
Macbeth can change the “ milk of human
kindness” into cold murder, and kill his
generous king, his guest his kinsman, —
one whose life was such that for it angels
would plead “trumpet tongued.” And
look upon her who for an oath of direct
guilt could kill her nursing babe. A man
and a woman, too, who reads Macbeth. :
must sound the “ depths and shoals” of;
his own nature, if either would read it a
right. He may find there the key—yes,
note and all the terrible diapason— .
which would keep in harmony and in rule, |
so awful a tragedy.
AN ORIGINAL TRICK.
The Paris correspondent of the N. O.
Picayune, relates the following good sto
ry:—“A new method of raising the wind
was resorted to a few days since, by a
couple of precious scamps, which should
have succeed if ingenuity of this kind were
entitled to any reward. The sharpest Yan
kee would not be ashamed of the trick hit
upon by these Parisian gamins. About
10 o’clock in the morning, and a tolerably
chilly morning it was, the passers along
the Quay au Marche aux Fleurs noticed a
young man, with a very melancholy and
suicidal look, standing near one of the
bridges alone. Suddenly he cast his eyes
upward, as if to take a last view of the
skies, muttered apparently as if in prayer
for a moment, and then plunged headlong
into the river. While all stood paralyzed
at this rash attempt, a young man came up,
and with great simplicity inquired what
was the matter. The individual who was
floundering in the turbid current of the
Setn, and who had just risen to the sur
face, was pointed out to him, when at
once stripping off his blouse, and ejacula
ting that he would save the unfortunate
man or perish in the attempt, he plunged
in after him. The bystanders watched,
with breathless anxiety, as the heroic
youth dove, come up to the surface, and
again went under in his endeavors to save
I the wretch who had attempted his own de
struction ; and finally, when nearly all
hope was lost, the crowd were rejoiced on
seeing the suicide brought to 6hore with
life still in him. Close by was a house or
station where halt drowned persons are re
stored, and where those who rescue them
receive the municipal reward of twenty
five francs. Thither the rescued and the
rescuer were borne by the crowd, the lat
ter overwhelmed with the admiration and
praise which his gallantry called forth on
all sides; but fortunately just as the de
mand was about to be given him, and
while a subscription for an additional sum
was being raised, a policeman stepped up
who knew them both. They were broth
ers, were two of the best swimmers in Pa
ris, and make it their business to go about
saving each other's lives for a living.”
AN EXPENSIVE NAME.
Mr. Prince, a respectable citizen of Bos
ton, was recently journeying on the conti
nent of Europe. Before visiting Germany,
he provided himself with a passport, in
which his name and residence was duly in
scribed, James Prince of Boston, and set
out in plain unpretending style, in compa
ny with another American gentleman. At
the first town where the travellers s'opped,
they were received in a stately form by a
guard of honor and a grand salute, for
which they were presented with a bill of
an hundred florins. At a second and a
third town they were received in the same
costly magnificence. The two Americans
finding that at the rate things were going
on, their cash would be exhausted before
they had arrived at the centre of the first
circle, inquired of the host if private gen
tleman like themselves could not pass
through the German towns without so
much ostentation and expense. The host
informed them that they could, if they
pleased, travel incog, “but then,” said he,
bowing obsequiously to Mr. Prince, “it
will be necessary for his highness to take
his title out of the passport.” That at once
explained the whole matter, and Mr. Prince,
having caused the proper coirection to be
made, went through the remainder of his
tour without being annoyed with further
regal honors.”
AUGURIES.
Frequent mention is made in ancient his
tory of oracles, auguries and divinations.
Among the Egyptian, Assyrian, Grecian
and Roman nations, no war was made, or
colony settled, nothing of importance, ei
ther public or private, was undertaken,
without consulting the gods either by ora
cles or auguries.
They made the most important affairs of
state depend upon a bird's happening to
sing on the right or left hand ; upon the
greediness of chickens in pecking their
grain ; the inspection of the entrails of a
beast, the livers being entire and in good
condition, which, according to them, some
times entirely disappeared, without leaving
any trace of its ever having existed !
Plutarch in his works tells us he abstain
ed for a long time from eating eggs from
a dream which he had. He does not make
us acquainted with the dream that we may
judge of its authority.
The wisest of the Pagans knew well the
power of these divinations, and among
themselves would speak of them with con
tempt. The grave censor Cato was of
opinion that one soothsayer could not look
at another without laughing.
Upon one occasion Hannibal advised
Prusias to give battle. But upon exami
ning the entrails of a beast, Prusias declared
it inexpedient. With the utmost amaze
ment at hissimplicity, Hannibal exclaimed,
“What have you more confidence in the
liver of a beast than in so old and experi
anced a captain as 1 am.”
Marcellus, who had been five times con
sul, and was an augur, said that he had dis
covered a method of not being put to a stand
by the sinister flight of birds, which was to
keep himself closely shut up in his litter.
—Boston Rambler.
A PILE OF SERPENTS.
In the Savannahs of Izacubo, in Guinna,
South America, I saw the most wonder
ful, the most terrific spectacle that can be
seen ; and although it be not uncommon to
the inhabitants, no travellor has ever men
tioned it. We were ten men on horseback,
two of whom took the lead, in order to
sound the passages : whilst I preferred to
skirt the great forest. One of the blacks
who formed the vanguard, returned full
gallop, and called to me, 1 Here sir, come
and see serpents in a pile.’ He pointed
out to me something elevated in the middle
of the Savannah or swamp, which appear
ed like a bundle of arms. One of my com
pany then said, ‘This is certainly one of
the aoeemblegeo of eerpents, which heap
themselves on each other, after a violent
tempest; I have heard of these, but have
never seen any; let us proceed cautiously,
and not goto near.’ When we were with
in twenty paces of it, the terror of our
horses prevented our near approach, to
which, however, none of us were inclin
ed.
On a sudden, the pyramid mass became
agitated ; horrible hissings issued from it,
thousands of serpents rolled spirally on
each other, shot forth out of the circle their
hideous heads, presenting their envenomed
darts and fiery eyes to us. 1 own I was
one of the first to draw back; hut when I
saw this formidable phalanx remained at
its post, and appeared to be more disposed
to defend itself than to attack us, I rode
round it in order to view its order of battle,
which faced the enemy on every side. I
then sought to find what could be the de
sign of this numerous assemblage; arid I
concluded that this species of serpents
dreaded some colossean enemy, which
might be the great serpent, or the caynean,
and that they unite themselves, after hav
ing seen this powerful enemy, in order to
attack or resist him en mass.
THE WAY TOJjET MARRIED.
It is easy to get married, but not to get
married happily. The very means adopt
ed by too many young ladies, are destruc
tive of solid happiness. Fordyce has is
sued some remarkable instructions on this
point. He says, “When a young woman
behaves to her parents in a manner par
ticularly tender and respectful, from prin
ciple as well as nature, there is nothing
good and gentle that may not be expected
from her in whatever condition she is placed.
Were I to advise any friend as tohischoice
of a wife, my first counsel would be, “look
out for one distinguished by her attention
and sweetness to her parents.” The fund
of worth and affection indicated by such a
behavior, joined to the habits of duty and
consideration thereby contracted, being
transferred to the married state, will not
fail to render her a mild and obliging
companion.”
The largest Flowerandthe largest
Bird.— ln 1818, Dr. Arnold discovered in
the island of Sumatra a flower which he
named the Ruffisia Arnoldi; and which an
author has called with much justice “the
magnificent Titan of the vegetable kingdom.
The human mind, indeed, had never con
ceived such a flower; its circumference
when expanded is nine feet: its nectarium
is calculated to hold nine pints; the pistils
are as large as Cow’s horns, and the-eotire
weight of the blossom computed to be 15
pounds. Temple, in his recent travels in
Peru, states that he shot a Condor, and
from notes taken on the spot, gives the
following dimensions of its size : When
the wings are spread, they measure 40
feet in extent from point to point; the fea
thers twenty feet in length, and the quill
part 8 inches in circumference- This al-
most realizes the fabled rock of Sinbad in
the Arabian Night ; but its dimensions, as
here given rest on good and very recent
authority.
A Good Wife.—O, it is beautiful, says
Mary Howitt, to live blameless under the
poisoned glance of the world; poisoned,
whether it be praise or blame ; beautiful
not to be polluted by its observation, but
more beautiful to be intimately known to
one—to nossea one gentle and honest friend,
and that one a wife. Beautiful to be able
to read her soul as in a mirror, and to be
aware, therefore, of every blot of one'sown
soul, and be able to purify it against the
day of the great trial.
±dzi l jYm&.
ffey* On a sailor’s grave-stone, in the
Brooklyn navy yard, are the following
words to be seen :—“Nobly he did his du
ty below, and now he has gone aloft.”
Fowler, the phrenologist, has been
feeling the “bumps” of Rev. H. W. Beech
er, and predicts a most brilliant destiny for
him. He says that in ten years he will
stand out as the strong ir.an of the age,
and be for a long while the master spirit of
his day and generation.
S&F I could never divide myself from
any man upon the difference of an opinion,
or be angry with his judgement for not
agreeing with me in that from which, per
haps, within a few days I should dissent
myself.
A quarrelsome officer lately tra
versing one of the Boulevards at Paris, ob
served a person turn towards him and laugh.
Indignant, he asked, “Why do you laugh,
sir, as I pass ?” To which the other quick
ly rejoined, “Why do you pass, sir, when
I laugh t”
Stay To-morrow those that are now- gay
may be sad—those now walking the ave
nue of pleasure may be the subjects of sor
row —those on the mountain summit may
be in the valley—that rosy cheek may
have the lilly’s hue—the strong may falter
—death may have come.
/bay* Home can never be transferred, nev
er repeated in the experience of an individ
ual. The place consecrated by’ parental
love by the innocence and sports of child
hood, is the only home of the human
heart.
It should be a fixed principle nev
er to suffer the soil to deteriorate ; for, as
it costs as much to cultivate a soil produ
cing only half a crop as a full one, it is
perfectly clear that it is the interest of the
cultivator to keep his land always in good
heart.— Beatty.
fttiT’ Increase your compost heaps.—
Economise, carefully, every substance
which, by any process or possibility can
be converted into ailment for plants. Let
nothing be lost.
Many readers judge of the power
of a book by the shock it gives their feel
ings,—as some savage tribes determine the
power of muskets by their recoil; that be
ing considered best which fairly prostrates
the purchaser.— Longfellow's “ Kava
nagh.”
lEßihaafliDse-.
Sunday Readings....for July Ith
THE DAY OF ETERNITY.
“ The day is at band ” —Rom ..\iii. 12.
The revolutions of time shall soon be
’ lost in the ages of eternity ; the dark veil
‘ which now shrouds futurity shall soon be
j drawn aside ; Jordan's streams shall soon
’ be crossed, and the believer shall be sur
! rounded by purity and never-ending peace ;
j “ the night is far spent, the day is at hand.”
\ Consider
The brilliancy and grandeur of the day.
If this world to the Christian is night, hea
ven shall be to him a day. Let us notice
: several things respecting it.
It is a day of rest and peace. Peace
| marks eveiy object there. If there is an o
cean there, it is never disturbed by the ruf
fle of a wave. If there is a firmament
there, it is never darkened by the appear
-1 ance of a cloud, and knows not the de
struction of a storm. If there are harps
there, all are tuned to Jehovah’s praise,
and there is not a jarring sound to spoil
the harmony. If there is a sun there, it
never goes down. There every inhabitant
is animated by the same spirit, a subject
of the 6ame emotions, consecrated to the
same object, employed in the same con
templations, and swelling the same song.
It is a day of enjoyment and triumph.-
What is heaven ? It is the realization of
i this hope: “As for me, I will behold thy
I face in righteousness.” There is the full,
free, and uninterrupted enjoyment of com
munion with God, and fellowship with an
gels and the spirits of the redeemed.
It is an eternal day. Its brilliancy shall
never be diminished, its employments shall
never close. There is an assembly which
no devastation can dissolve, and enjoy
ments which ever-rolling ages shall only
enhance. Consider the approach of this
day. It is “at hand”—the tale of life
will soon be told. Death will soon visit
us, and the grave wil’ t on receive us.
Already, Christian, we may imagine the
beams of the morning stretching forth, and
the shadows of the night declining. Even
now we are on the borders of the unseen
world, standing on the threshold of eterni
ty, and some of us may be near the brink
of that river into which we must soon
launch. How many tremble like the last
leaves of autumn, only waiting for the
gentle breeze to blow them away, and
cause them to disappear! The righteous
are ready whenever the summons comes;
but the ungodly stand as upon a shelf, un
dermined by every wave borne in upon it
by the tide of time; and if the last shock
be given, before they are reconciled to God.
they will be engulphed in ruin.
EDITOR’S DEPARTMENT.
WM. C. RICHARDS, EDITOR.
Slants, (Scorflia:
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Saturday Morning,....July 7, 1819,
TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.
The annual meeting of the friends of Tem
perance in Georgia, is an occasion of more’
than common interest, and claims, at our
hands, more than a passing notice. As it
was our happiness to participate in the
great festival at. Marietta, it will now be’
our pleasing duty to lay before the numer
ous readers of the Gazette such an account
of it as our memory and hasty notes will al
low!
The Convention was probably the largest
and most enthusiastic that ever assembled
in the State of Georgia, for the promotion
of a cause so noble and dignified as that of
Temperance. By Wednesday morning, when
tile Convention was organized for business,
every nook and corner of the village was
thronged with visitors—and “ still they
come,” was the cry on every lip. The suc
cessive arrivals of Rail-road trains, from
the North and the South, brought large ac
cessions to the great cold-water host, that
was marshalling for battle, in the cause of
humanity; and the query arose in many
minds—“ Where shall we find bread to feed
all this multitude }” In this connection, it
may not be amiss to remark that the most
cordial co-operation of all the citizens of a
town, so small as Marietta, might yet rea
sonably fail to furnish so many thousands
of gucsis with comfortable lodgings, as was
doubtless the case in hundreds of instances.
At the Hotels, every possible and impossi
ble accommodation for sleeping was put into
requisition, and happy was he who, at the
eleventh hour, succeeded in obtaining a
place on the parlor-carpet, with his coat up
on the back of a chair for his pillow ! If
this record should meet the eye of one who,
to his own amusement, perhaps, but cer
tainly to the almost insufferable annoyance
of a score of victims, who were trying to
sleep, continued to talk, and occasionally to
sing snatches like the following :
“ There was an old nigger, and his name was Un
cle Ned!”
for three mortal hours, we hope he will rest
assured that nothing but the excessive good
nature of the sufferers prevented him from
a summary process of ejectment; and, had
they only known each other's mind as well
that night as they did the next morning, we
fancy he would have been subjected to a
bath of night-air, fresh from the summit of
the Kcnnesaw !
Here, too, let us express our obligation
for protracted aid in beguiling night’s te
dious hours, while tossing upon a blanket,
stretched upon the floor, to a band of village
screnaders, whom wc must call the Chero
kee Cowbellogians, in distinction from their
prototypes, the illustrious “Swiss Bell
Ringers.” With a most commendable zeal
and perseverance did they continue
“ Parading round, and round, and round”
the public square, ringing their musical
bells, (!) and occasionally firing a salute of
pistols ! It is greatly to be regretted that
those who had the benefit of their music
were not apprized of the source of it, that
their acknowledgments might be publicly
made.
But we are digressing at the outset, and
wc will return. The esteemed and distin
guished President of the Convention, Hon.
Joseph 11. Lumpkin, arrived just in time
to open its session, which he did, after a
fervent prayer by the Chaplain, in a brief
but eloquent address of congratulation to
the delegates. His words kindled a gener
ous enthusiasm in every heart, and called
forth the loud acclaim of the throng. As
the regular proceedings of the Convention
will be reported in the accredited organ of
the body, The Temperance Banner, we
shall pass them by with only a general no
tice.
The delegations were very large and in
discriminate—a fact which encumbered, and
impeded the action of the Convention tc
such an extent, that out of the necessity of
the case arose a measure for regulating the
representative system of the Convention.
With a very remarkable degree of unanimi
ty, a resolution was passed restricting the
representation, and prescribing the number
of delegates to which all constituent bodies
shall be hereafter entitled. Most cordially
do we approve this action of the Convention,
nor do we think that there is the slightest
ground for the apprehension of a few, that
it will diminish the attendance of the mass
es at the Annual Jubilee, especially a3 they
are expressly invited, by a resolution of the
Convention, to “ come one, come all.” It
will certainly insure to the great cause a
deliberative assemblage of chosen men, who
will devise those measures, and adopt those
plans, best adapted to advance the mighty
Reform.
The Convention resolved to purchase and
distribute throughout Georgia, gratuitous
ly, if necessary, a thousand copies of that
excellent little work, “ The Temperance
Manual.” It affords us pleasure to add that
the “resolution” became at once an “act,
and the work was procured and placed in
the hands of colporteurs for immediate dis
tribution.. It will, inevitably, accomplisl l
much good.
On Thursday, the Convention met at an
early hour, but adjourned almost immedi
ately, to join in the public ceremonies ap
pointed for that day. At nine o’clock, the
village square was thronged by dense crowd*
of people, who were speedily thrown into*
procession, and commenced a march towards
“the stand,” that had been.erected in th e
adjacent woods.
Vie took our position at the summit of t^
hill overlooking the town, and contiguous tc