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itlisccllancous.
Bhakspeaie as a Man.
It is a nobler tiling to know that
such a man its Shakspeare was created,
than to be familiar with the shelves of
jwhole libraries of dusty tomes. The ad
vent of a soul so richly gifted, of a na
ture so intensely ideal and so richly pas
sionate is an era in tlie history of man.—
No poet ever readied a height so lofty,
so gtandfy. speculated so dar-
I igly, or felt so deeply ; and none ever
seemed so little conscious of an effect
His grandest thoughts flow so naturally,
that it is easy to see that they are famil
iar and accustomed to his mind ; and his
gaiety and inirtli are equally char
acteristic of himself. Hamlet and Mer
cutio. Mabeth utid Romeo, Prospero and
Benedict, arc till Hiak-peare in his didef
eat moods ; and the wit the ideulis', sol
dier and sage, eaelt and all bear the im
press of having origiuated from the same
mind.
There is probably less known of Slink
•peare, personally, than of any man of
mark in English history. He lived in an
age of heroes, and he was a foremost man
amongst them His contemporaries bow
ed before his master spirit, and the most
colossal minds of all Europe have ac
knowledged his sovereignty. And yet
we have a better knowledge of men who
died a thousand years ago, before print
ing perpetuated tradition, when ebroui
ciders were few, than of this woudrous
man. There is not, we have reason to
think, a single letter of h s writing pre
served, aud scarcely a contemporary an
ecdote. There are portraits, not one of
which can be proved to be authentic ; a
bust which seems genuine, but cannot be
warranted, l itis man the real spiritual
j*ing of England, is, iu his individuality,
as much a myth as Homer. But this we
do know, a man there lived whose intel
lectual and moral nature was a macro
cosm which embraced die ideal of hu
manity, and that he left behind a hun
dred representatives of his own mind,
none like each other, but all like himself,
of whom every passing speculation or
reasoning is best illustrated, and in whom
every emotion finds its noblest aud most
genuine utterance.
O A mess of boys were talking about
scarecrows. ‘Scarcecrows.? he! he!’says
one of the party—an overgrown, slab sid
ed, spoouy-looki ng youth— lie ! says he,
evidently in reply to some remarks that
had preceded his. ‘You don’t know any
thing about scarcecrows. If you'd seen
one that Uncle Ben made, I guess you’d
think so too. Why Uncle Ben made one
and set it up in daddy’s cornfield that
jearly frightened the feathers off of every
crow that looked at it ; and, by golly !
one crow that had been pecking around
the field for two or three days, after he
had seen it, actually flew away and bro’t
tack all the corn he had stolen in taut
time—fact, by golly !’ •
Oct itidi.
In times long gone, children wore told
to be upright,honest, truthful, just; now
they are instructed to get rich, for riches,
they say, bring friends, consideration,
happiness. The fruits of the new sys
tem are maturing fast, and “ respecta
ble” is becoming only another name—a
convertible phrase for rogue, Scarcely
a journal reaches us from adjacent States
or abroad from foreign countries, wherev
er trade and commerce flourish, but is
burdened uow-a-days with long details of
defalcations, embezzlements forgeries,-
and violations of most sacred trusts, by
men who for many years had borne them
selves reputably, were regarded as most
exemplary members of society, and in
the walks of piety and fashion occupied
ostensibly the very first places. Aud is
this all we are to derive from the mad
pursuit of gain ; are these the only fruits
from an education which inculcates the
accumulation or possession of money as
the great end of all our exertions, from
“fortunate” marriages, successful specu
lation years of cringing sycophancy aud
baseness to obtaiu a rich man’s favor,
ending with a broken constitution and a
blackened heart ? It would seem that
the new era produces nothing moreen
nobl.ng than a knowledge of the worth
lessness of everything which does not
conduce to tiie great aim of all to be rich.
V\ ell dress, well to do, upper-ten” peo
ple, as they delight to designate them
selves, can do almost anything iu these
times without loss of caste, if they can
only keep tip the reputation of being
rich ; it is the imputation of poverty only
which blights the plant in’ the conservato
ry of fashion. Accordingly, we find per
sons with honest means barely sufficient
to keep up decent appearances, inlying
the ir box at the opera, their liveried lac
queys, their dashing turn outs, their un
main -gonble daughters, and their eie
gaut worthless sons and when the day
of reckoning finally comes, and that a
bankruptcy, a forgery, a hideous breach
of trust, or a suicide ends the account we
all, are astounded and in stupid wonder,
and with looks of most innocent situ <lici
ty ex iaini, “Who w0..1d have thought
such a thing possible !’
Why, there can be no other end to
such a career, and there are bund e -
such bes-ire the eyfis of the people of eve
rv city in tins and every other cummer
e.al co. u:ry on the earth. Read English,
French, German or Northern papers ; in
each you would suppose the profligacy of
one place only served to develop more ins
famous species in another, and that pub
lie companies aud private e tnblislimeuts
are only so many lmt-i ou-es or the giae
ration of a race of swindle, s, deceivers
and cheats. Is tins all we are to derive
iroui our eutei'i l'i-e, our commercial ami
industrial developments, our freedom and
our civiliizafiOn l Is it fur this, and this
o by, that la miles tort re themselves to
keep up appearances, men toil, and thou
sands sin , to live iu riot, false splendor,
and deceitful fashion ?
As in our country, wealth is the only
distinction —intelligence intellect, probi
ty and independence counting for little in
the estimate oi social values—its attain
ment will, of course, be always the aim
of the ambitious, and therefore we need
no longer be surprised that the primitive
habits of this people before and some
years subsequent to the revolution, are
as little like these of the present day as
are those of the gambling fraternity of
the court of Louis Napoleon to the men
of the era of Louis the Fourteenth
Whether with the change of manners and
of morals we have grown more content
ed, more happy and more wise, it is for
the advocates of the new ideas to show ;
the proofs at our disposal would lead to
other and very different conclusions.
It is useless, we fear, to moralize on
our text, when the universal injunction to
“ get rich” meets us at every step ; still
we do think, if there be any sober sense
yet remaining among us, it would be bets <
ter to endeavor to awake it to a eon- 1
sciousuess of the necessity of attempting i
.a reformation, than hypocritically whin-!
ing over exposed depravities, which we
mast know iuour hearts widely exist, aud
which must soon become universal, unless
public opinion can be brought to over
turn the unnatural system iu which they
originate.
“ I want to see some of your gim
lets,’’ said a green horn one day, as he
entered a hardware store.
The dealer took down several parcels,
neither of which suited.
“Well, then, what kind do you want ?
here is almost every variety.”
“Why, darn it, 1 want them what bores
square holes.”
‘ ‘Eliza, my child,” said a very pru
dish oid maid to her pretty little niece,
who would curl her hair in beautiful ring
lets, ‘ if the Lord had intended your hair
to be curled, he would have doue it him
self”
‘‘So lie did, Aifnty, when I was a baby
but he thinks 1 am big enough now to
curl it mvself.”
CUTISES LIST, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY IS, 1857.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
HOOPS.
BY A. C.
Hoops on barrels, kegs ami pails,
Hoops on boxes, tubs and bales,
Aie articles indispensable—
But hoops as they put out woman's dress,
Making the woman seem so much loss,
Are things most indefensible.
Hoops, when their sturdy clasp confines
In brown old casks the richest wines,
Are objects of admiration
But hoops as part of woman's baggage,
Aro like ihe whoops of a painted savago,
A vile abomiuatiuu.
Hoops make useful, pretty toys,
For active little girls and boys,
But hoops on women gentle
Are things to sneer at and to scoff,
And like ihe whoop of a whooping-cough,
Neither useful nor ornamental.
For while dear woman bones her skirls,
And tviih a skeleton flaunts and flirts,
>Slie has so much to carry
Man finds U hard with her to talk,
Aud harder still to sit or walk,
But hardest of all to marry.
For when a smitten wretch has seen
Among the lust in crinoline,
The one his heart holds dearer,
‘•h i what a chill to ardent passion,
l’o feel that thro’ this hollow fashion,
lie never cau be nearer!
That instead of drawing near
And pouring into the thrilling ear
The flood of his soul’s devotion,
He must stand and bellow iu thunder tones,
Across a half acre of skirts and bones,
As if hailing a ship on the ocean!
\nd if by chance the maid of bis choice
Shall family hear her lover’s voice,
And smile her corniest ensioti
Why. hecaptuiesa mas-of hoops and rings,
-keietiius, bones, and other things,
Tuo horrible to mention.
Thus lovely woman hoops to folly-,
And drives poor man to melancholy
By her great frigid zones :
Thou let tier hear a warning voice.
Between Iter hopes ami hoops make choice,
Aud give the dogs her bones,
The Newspaper.
fn promotion of this desirable object—
tiie union of the intellectual with the use
fl the newspaper is an auxiliary,-it
is more. It is typical of the community
in which it is encouraged and circulates
ft tells its character, as well us its condi
tion ; its tales us well as its necessities :
the m real as well a-: the physical stamina
of the population mid soil. It is the map
whereon are traced otir tendencies and
destinies. The chart to direct the travel
ler and the be tier, to divert them from
the shoals and quicksands of .social de
gradation. A home, it brings to our fire
sides, it imparts to our household, it in
culcates to our children its sentiments of
propriety, or its tone of contamination. —
Abroad, it is regarded as our oracle, and
speaks volumes for or against ns. In its
business features may be discerned tiie
indications of our prosperity iu a worldly
sense, or otherwise ; but in its general
complexion will be discovered ditr moral
and spiritual healthfuiness or disease. {t
is the portrait of our imperfections, as
wdli as the chronicle of our advancement.
Wheeling Intel.
A Man Whipped to Life. —An in
temperate man named Stanley attempt
ed to commit suicide at Newark, N. J.,
ott Sunday, by taking a large dose of
laudanum, which rendered him insensible.
The Newark Advertiser says :
A physician was called, who decided
that the only means of restoring anima
tion was to give the subject a severe beat
ing, which was done by two men with
heavy switches for a quarter of an hour
when signs of a returning animation were
shown, and the patient sat up. A glass
of brandy was then given him, when he
fell to sleep, aud the heating process was
resumed until he was fully restored to
consciousness. He is now comparative
ly well, except some sufferings from the
extraordinary “course of sprouts” to
which he was subjected. This is the first
case we ever heard of where a matt was
whipped to life from a state bordering to
death. Cases of whipping to death oc
casionally occur, but cases of whipping
to life seldom or .never.
The Wreck of the Arctic. — The
schooner Mentor, Capt. Conley, of New
York, lately came to anchor in forty-five
fathoms water, iu latitude 47 11, longi
tude not remembered, on tiie western
edge of the Grand Bank, about forty
miles from laud, and found that he had
dropped his anchor on a wreck. On
heaving over the fish lines, they became
entangled in wreck matter at about four
or five fathoms from the bottom, aud the
particles found adhering to the hooks ap
peared to be portions of rigging. It
will lie remembered that the steamship
Arctic sank in September, 1855, within a
very short distance of the anchorage cho
sen by the Mentor, and there can be little
doubt that the wreck discovered wits that
cf the ill-fated steamship. Charleston
Courier.
NO PROSCRIPTION FOR OPINIONS’ SAKE
A Graphic Picture of Napoleon.
‘llte personal appearance of Napoleon,
in the last days of his power, is tints de
scribed by Lamartimo : “The empire
had made him old before his time Grat
ified ambition, satiated pride, tiie delights
of a palace, a luxurious table, a voluptu
ous couch, bug vigils, sleepless nights, di
vided between labor and festive pleasure;
the habit of riding, which made him cor
pulcnt—ail tended to deaden his limbs
and enervate his faculties. An early ob
esity overloaded him with flesh. His
checks, formerly streaked with muscles
and hollowed by the working of genius,
were broad, full, and overhanging, like
those of Otho in the Roman medals of
the empire. An excess of bile mingling
with the blood, gave u yellow tint to the
skin, which, at a distance, looked like a
varnish of pale gold on his countenance-
His lips still preserved their Grecian out
line and steady grace, passing easily from
a smile to a menace, llis solid, bony chin
formed an appropriate base for his fea
tures. llis nose was but a line, thin and
transparent. The paleness of his cheeks
gave greater brilliancy 10 the blue of his
eyes, llis look was searching, unsteady
as a wavering flame—an emblem of in
quietude. llis forehead seemed to have
widened, from the scantiness of Ids thin
black hair, which was falling from the
moisture of continual thought. It might
be said that his head, naturally small, had
increased in size, to give ample scope be
tween his temples for the machinery and
combinations of a mind, every thought of
which was an empire. ‘Tiie map of the
world seemed to have been encrusted on
the orb of that reflective head. But it
was beginning to yield ; and he inclined
it often on his breast, while crossing his
arms like Frederick the Great—an atti
tude and gesture which lie appeared to
affect. Unable any longer to seduce Ids
courtiers and Ids soldiers Ity the charm of
youth, it was evident he wished to fasci
liate them by the rough, pensive, and dis
dainful character of bin self—of his model
in liis Litter days, lie moulded himself,
as it were, into the statue of reflection,
before Ids troops, who gave him the nick
name of Father Thoughtful. He assumed
the jiose of destiny. Something rough,
rude, and savage in his movements re
vealed Ids southern and insular origin,—
The man of tiie .Mediteirnean broke out
e instantly through the Frenchman. lLs
nature, 100 street and too powerful for the
I art he had to play, overflowed on all oe
cusions. lie bore no resemblance to any
of tiie men around Idm Superior and al
together different, lie was an offspring of
the sun, ol the sen, and of the battle-field
out of his element even in his own pa
lace, aud a stranger even in his own em
pire. feueli was at this period the profile,
the bust, and the external phy-ioguomy
of Napoleon.”
A Good Hit.
A Methodist divine of this city, (says
the Olii<f*Rt;itesman,) on Sunday, admin
istered a most severe rebuke to a com
mon custom in these days, of reading ad
vertisements from the pulpit. A paper
was handed to Him, giving notice that the
introductory lecture of the annual course
would be delivered on Monday night, &c.,
at a certain medical institution in this ci
ty The preacher said lie had conscien
tious scruples against cheating the prin
ter, by m.iking such announcements from
the pulpit ; that lie never heard such ad
vertisements read in church, without re
minding him of the old deacon in Alex
andria, who, on a certain occasion, exhor
ted iu most earnest and vehement lan
guage tiie sinners iu his congregation to
repent, or they would all go to hell just
as sure as there was flour for sale at Al
exandria, and hewas-sure there was flour
there, for lie had received just the- day
before a fine assortment, which lie would
sell as cheap As any man in tiie city.
Power of Females, — Aristotle may
sav of ail animals the males are stronger
and wiser than the females, but St. Paul
writes that weak tilings have been chosen
to confound the strong. Adam was sub
limely endowed, but woman humbled him;
Samson w'as strong, but woman made him
captive ; Lot was chaste, but woman se
duced him ; David was religious, but wo
man disturbed his piety ; Solomon was
wise, but woman deceived him ; Job was
patient, and was robbed by the devil of
fortune and family ; ulcerated, grieved
and oppressed, nothing provoked him to
anger, till woman did it ; therein proving
herself stronger than the devil.
Children ask seme curious ques
tions We have a little boy in ‘our house’
who came home from Sabbath school one
day, and meeting his mother the following
dialogue took place :
‘Alania !’
-‘Well, my dear.’
‘Mama, the teacher says people are
made of dust.’
‘Yes, my dear, so the Bible says.’
‘Well, mama, are white people made of
dust ?’
‘Yes.’
‘Hell, then, I spose colored people are
made of coal dust, ain’t they V
WSsist Extntvaiiaiice i* doing, mml
vvliat Economy might do.
The following extract is not too long to
be read before breakfast. There is a
great deal of truth, good, sound, whole
some truth, in it. We copy from the
Boston Traveller :
After all, it may lie that tiie prosperity
of tiie country is really mostly endangered
by the extravagance winch pervades too
generally all ranks of society in propor
tion to their means. Luxury and profu
sion have been the downfall of as many
nations as the civil strife. In numberless
instances, the fruits of our untiring iiuln ‘-J
try and indomitable enterprise are squan
dered with a wasteful hand. Notwith
standing the vast amount of products
which we export, tiie balance of trade is
always against us, and we arc continually
in debt, as a nation, The people of Eu
rope look with astonishment at the ex
travngant expenditure of the mtm and
women from the United States, who make
the tom’ of that continent. We are the
most profitable customers of tl e fabrieants
of costly articles of luxury all over the
world. The venders of such goods come
to our shores and make their fortunes out
of us, in the same manner that needy pur
veyors gather around the heirs of a rich
estate. Our market is the principal one
for all costly and showy, but fragile aud
unsubstantial merchandise, upon which
the largest profits aro realized by the
manufacturers. In the furnishing of our
houses, and in female attire, we go far he
yond tiie most wealthy classes of Europe.
If our staples of export are at any time in
great demand, and.bring high prices, we
perceive the effect immediately in an in
flux of silks and high cost dress'goods to
an enormous amount, and our imports
rise suddenly, and always beyond the val
ue, however large it may be, of our ex
ports.
•In the families of many of tiie nobility
and gentry of England, possessing an an
nual income which of itself would be an
ample fortune, there is greater economy
of dress and more simpicity in the furn
ishing of the dwellings, than there is in
many of tiie houses of our citizens who
are barely able to supply the daily wants
of their families by the closest attention
to their business. A friend of ours, who
.sojourned not long since several montlis
in tiie vicinity of some of tiie landed aris
tocracy of England whose ample rent
rolls would have warranted a high style
of fashion, was surprised at the simplicity
of maimers practiced. Servants were
much mure numerous than with us, but
the ladies made more account of one silk
dress than would be thought here of a
dozen. They were generally clothed in
good substantial woolen stuffs, and a dh
lHuy of fine clothing and jewelry was re
served for great occasions. The furniture
of tiie mansions, instead,of being turned
out of doors ev- ry few years for new and
more fashionable styles, was the same
which the ancestors of the families for se
veral generations lmd possessed, substan
tial and in excellent preservation, but
plain and without any pretention to ele
gance. Even.the carpets on many suits
of parlors had been on the floor for fifty
years, and were expected to do service
for another half century. With us how
and fferent is tiie state of thing;. We are
wasting an amount of wealth in this
country on sho w and fashion, which, right
ly applied, would renovate the condition
of tiie whole population of the world, and
christianize, civilize, and educate all man
kind.
A Delicou3 Temperance Test.
Who wouldn’t live in almost any place
where die young ladies ate addicted to
the delicious custom, which is set forth
by an exchange, as follows:
Quaker y oung ladies in the Maine law
Stales, it is said, stiil continue to kiss the
lips of the young temperance men, to
see if they have been tampering with liq
or. Just imagine a beautiful young girl
approaching you, young temperance man,
with ail ttie dignity of an executive ctli
cer, and the innocence of a dove, with
the charge —Air. Ike l*., the ladies be
lieve you are in tiie habit of tampering
with liquor, and they have appointed me
to examine you according to our estab
lished rules—are you willing? You must
acquiesce. She steps gently up to you :
lays her soft u bite arms around yout neck
dashes back her raven curls, raises her
svlph-like form upon her tip toe, and
with her angelic features lit up with a
smile as sweet as heaven, places her itch
rosy, pouty, sweet, sugar, molasses,
strawberry, honeysuckle, sunflower, rose
bud nectar lips against yours, and (Oh,
Jerusalem! hold buss you, by
ciackey ! ! Hurah ! for the gals and the
Alaine law, and death to ail opposition !
Father Mathew Bead. —The steam
ship Canada brings intelligence of the
death of Father Mathew, tiie world re
nowned advocate of temperance. He
died at Cork, Ireland, on the Dili inst.
MB’* Paint will harden better and last
twice as long by being applied lute in the
autumn, than during the hot season.
liYRD & VVSIIIE, Publishers
NUMBER 21.
Kissing a Uaclielor.
A correspondent relates the following
incident : ‘We have a friend—a bach
lor friend—very tond of the society of
fire ladies, hut extremely modest and
uiffident withal. A few evenings since
he went to make a call upon an acquain
tance who had recently taken to himself
a wife, young aud beautiful, and, as a
matter of cotiise, ovei flowing with affec
tion for husband. Now this lovely wile
of a week, like all other wives, couhi
scarcely survive the brie! absence of her
husband for ihe discharge <>l his business
ami always upon his return met him up
on lire threshold, and smothered him
with kisses. It so happened, when our
friend called, that tiie husband was ab
sent, but was momentarily expected by
the fond and anxious wife. Sue heard
his footfall upon the step, and, supposing
it to be her husband, rushed forth to meet
him ; and he find scarcely laid his baud
upon the bell-pull before tire door flew
open, and his neck was encircled by a
pair of white arms, and burning kisses
tell thick and fast upon his lips and
cheeks—while a full and throbbing breast
was strained to bis 1 Here va; a trying
situation for a diffident man, and cur
friend came near faulting on lire spot;
bul, fortunately, the lady discovered
heciwmstake in season to prevent such a
metlqi holy event, and he escaped horn
Ihe house more dead than olive. The
last we saw of him, he was leaning
against a tree fanning himself with Ins
sombrero, in order to recover strength to
regain his lodgings
Pulpit Illustrations,
In one of the battles Philip, Kingof Mi
cedon, nn arrow stiuck his eye and pul it
out. He picked it up and found it in
sciibed with tire words— ‘To Philip’s
Eye.” An archer whose aim was so
sure that he could mark his arrows wi'li
their destination, with a certainty that
they would reach it, bad aimed at the
eye ol lire king, and his arrow had reach
ed its point. Such should be the certain
aim of the minister of Christ. There
are arrows in the quiver of the Almighty
for every class of our race. The minister
of lire Gospel should select and send
them to their destination, with the pre
cision of tiie archer to the king’s eye.—
When tire hold blasphemer enters the
house of God, a pointed arrow should
reach him, dipped in the spirit of rebuke
from tire Almighty. So, when the hum
pie penitent enters the sanctuary, seeking
peace, an arrow should be ready prepar
ed, by God’s mercy, and dipped in the
b ood ol CLiis*.
Pleasant Thoughts of Flowers.
In every age ol the world, flowers
have been revered ; but the more en
lightened and refined a people are, the
more atten'ion they will pay to the cul
tivation of them. Tlrey are welcome
everywhere; they benefit every time
and place ; they send forth their perfume
to cheer the plesant cottage, and they add
a charm to tiie palace ; they adorn the
brow of the joyous bride —they are twin
ed in the hair of the dead ; they are plan
ted upon the grave of the loved, and
and speak ol the undying affection ; the
lover chooses them to convey the deep
and refined feelings of his soul to the
maid Ire loves ; the maiden culls the
sweetest flowers which breathe her love
in every petal. Evil thoughts will find
but little space in that heart which loves
tiie gentle flowers.
Improvement in the Manufacture
of Sugar —The Mescharebe, published
in French, in tire Parish of St. John Bap
tis’, states that a sug .r planter of th it par
ish, whose initials only it gives, has alter
many trials and much study, invented *
mode of manufactuiing sugar from tho
juice of tire cane which lie thinks will
create a “complete revolution in the ac
tual mode of fabrication ’’ The to a chine
was to be subjected to practical lest in
presence ol a large number of planter*
during the present week. Tiie M esc lu
be enumerates four advantages claimed
for tiie new invention, viz: superiority in
tiie manner ol clarifying the cane juice,
obtaining ten per cent, more sugar from
tiie same quantity of juice than by tho
present method, less labor, and burning
tlie bagasse in a furnace of one tenth Ihe
usual cost. If all these resu ts can be
obtained it will indeed be ol great practi
cal utility.
(jfy A lady who superintended a school
in the South, having occasion one Sunday
to interrogate oue of her pupils as to tho
cause of her father’s non-attendauce at
church, received the following innocent
reply, prefaced, of course, by a sweet lit
tie drop of a curtesy : ‘ Please, mem,
my father says he isn’t coming to chum ii
any more, tiie parson hollers out so lie
cau’t get a bit of sleep.”
A celebrated physician, boasting
at dinner that he cured his own bams,
one of his guests observed: ‘Docto., f
would sooner be your ham than your Ca
licut.’
