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AU-!- . 11 “
illisicllancous.
Inlemperaitce and Ipecac:-
A writer itt the London “Lancet,'’ says:
“I would recommend ipecacuanha as
|u& remedy for druukness, taken in hull
■•drachm doses as ait emetic Ipccatmttlta
F has the extraordinary of stinm
■bating the whole system, equalizing the
■ circulation, promoting the various secre
tions, and iudeed assisting each organ of
the body to perform fts function, and re
st store it to its normal state. Ipecacuanha
Kean be taken with perfect safety as an
jferaetie. I believe the administration of
| half a drachm of ipecacuanha, and emetic
I to |>e a cure for periodical druukness.—
lilt is observed, that in the intervals be
tween ihe periods of these attacks, the
| person is quite sober, and ofteu remains
jso for two, three or four months, or for a
1 onger time. When the mania comes on,
( the’intense desire for alchoholic stimulus
■is so strong as to render the sufferer sub
ject to no control, and front the sensation |
of depression and sinking, lie can look ,
upon alcoholic stimulants as his only ream
dy. When a person is in this state, it
will always be found that his stomach is
at fault, and the unnatural appetite arises j
from that cause alone ; if half a drachm
of the powder of ipecacuanha can beta' 1
I ken so as to produce full vomiting, the j
for intoxicating stimulus is imme
diately removed
U *'*Frdta the experience I have had of
jrtljk effects of ipecacuanha, I am of opini
’ on, if a patient can be persuaded to fol
( low up the emetic plan for a few times,
.fhen the periodical attack comes on,
that he will be perfectly cured, and the ,
habit (for such I look upon it) will be
broken.”
•- — yrr— —-- , j
A quaint old gentleman, of an ac
tive, stirring disposition, had a man at
work in his garden who was quite the re
i verse. ‘ Jones,” said he, “did you ever
* see a snail TANARUS” “Certainly,” said Jones.
“Then,” said the old man, “yon must
I have met him, for you could never over
r take him!”
I Severe. — A woman quarreling with
I Jer husband, told him she believed if she
Liras to die be would marry the devil's
K.*gghter. “The law does not allow a
Btan to marry two sisters,” replied the
raffler husband.
|| To disperse a mob, monut a lamp
;/post and commeuce reading a chapter
r from the Bible.
■
CETHBERT REPORTER.
AIT ARKANSAS COWARD.
FOUNDED ON FACT.
The beautiful little town of Van Bo
ren, on the Arkansas river, near the Cher
okee line, during its early history, was
famous for the number and ferocity of its
desperadoes, being the principal focus of
rendezvous f>r Indian traders and all sorts
of adventurers, who had found it necessa
! ry to change their domicils from a land
! governed hy the administration of a rigid
criminal code. The half-breed braves
,of the Cherokee nation also Hocked to
the saute site to drink carouse, take a
j hand at cards, and exhibit their powers
iin singular ‘‘set to’s ” with pistols and
knives. Such a state of society can be
imagined—it cannot be described Mot
Ia sun performed its circuit that did not
witness some dreadful single combat, with
or without murderous weapons, while now
• and then dnzeiis at a time, and bv mufti
iul agreement marched from the rum shop
into a public square and engaged ill iuor
ta! strife. ”
At this period Thomas B Myers end
grated to Arkansas, and opened-a large
grocery store in Van Lnreu, acting him
self as keeper and retailer. SnMt an oc
cupation at tha time, required a man of
the most determined courage, as the store
always hnd’a back room attached espe
cially appropriated to gambling both by
day and night,, and where players weie
supplied with choicest liquors ol the bar,
and would bo sure to bully the grocer out
his reusonab.o charges, unless Restrained
by fear.
i For awhile, however, Myers succeeded
admirably. Tlte half breeds, loafers, and
charactered fig liters, as they called them
selves, held a caucus ami voted mtuuis
lHOusly that, the new arrival was a dan
gerons subject, and had better be left
! alone. The decision was altogether ow
ing to Myers’ personal appearance, as
might well be conceived, t all and m4t -
ly, and s\metrical in shape, with great,
oinflowmcuts both in sfiYugth and agility,
lie would have had bat few equals in arms
of naked.nature. But the cunning inven
tions of art —iron, steel and lead —the
thunder and lightning of gunpowder are
made to light for the feeblest bosoms,
and thus the dwarf and giant, provided
both alike, and the heirs of true courage,
mow stand on the same level. It was be
lieved, also, that, Myers possessed the re
solution to handle those horrid engines of
destruction, where life and death hung
upon the touch of a trigger. His coun
tenance betokened the perfection of brave
ry. His face wore generally a stern ex
pression, and when that molted into a
smile seemed still more stern. His eyes
were exceedingly black, wild, penetra
ting and restless, and had that cold,
gleaming,, ipetolic look, which may be re
garded as the sure signs of desperation
| Besides, he carried an appaling supply of
pistols, and a bowie-knife fourteen indies
in the blade. Hence, everybody was
t obliging and respectful to the ostensible
. hero of a period of several weeks, during
which au unusual calm reigned through
-1 out town.
At length a terrible affray occurred at
Myers’ grocery. Half a dozen firearms
exploded in quick succession, and the
deafening roar so frightened the keeper
that he took to his heels and fled from
his own establishment. The fact settled
public opiuion as to his character,
f “ What a chicken-hearted coward, to
I run from his own castle,’’ exclaimed Gen.
! Cole, the Napoleon of frontier duelists
and gamblers.
j. “ Why, he hasn’t the spunk of a dead
possoui,” lipsed Bill Green, the dandy
loafer, combing his soup locks with his
long rosy nails.
1 ‘ LetaS drink his liquor and smoke his
’ cigars, and • not pay for them, cau-e as
j how he’sa-coward,” said Jack Warhawk,
1 a huge hfilf-hred, and began to fill glass
es and hand out cigars, crying :
“ Toast to the brave, my boys ; we’ll
never want while the world has chickeus
0 f the white feathers.”
| The firing in the grocery having ceas
! ed for more than an hour, being replaced
by a diu of the most boisterous -mirth,
Myers, by great effort, mustered the spi
lt to return. He fouud the customers
CUTIKHUtT, GA,, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1557.
helping themselves with a vengeance, am.,
thought to overcome them with the as
sumption of heroic nirs. lie snatched
liis revolver from his pocket, and pointing
it at War hawk's breast, sternly ordered
him to leave the house
“ If that’s what yon are nrter,’’ sliont
’ cd Jack, unsheathing his big bowie knife
and springing over the counter, “ here’s
what'll give you a ladle full:”’
Myers still kept the revolver presented,
but his baud shook like a leaf in a tem
pest, and his feet involuntarily retreated
backwards by short quick steps The
two feelings, physical fear ami courage,
were struggling for the mastery. He
was endeavoring to act bravely, but his
nerves refused their concurrence, and he
remained, so to speak, in his equipose—
totally incapable of acting at all. He
was impotent to tight, and as powerless
to fly.
There was no such hesitation on the
part of Warhawk. Brandishing his knife
in his right hand, he seized the flowing
locks of Myers in his left, and roaied at
the top of his lungs—
“ Down, cowardly hound, on your
‘marrow bones, or by blazes I’ll cut your
throat !” .
Inn edible as it may seem, Myers, still
holding his deadly revolver loaded with
dx rounds, cowered to the flom - like a
beaten hound, anti begged most piteous] r
tor his life—a prayer which the mocking
half-breed granted, on condition that, he
would treat the whole crowd lor a week.
From this time the unfortunate Myers
was subjected to every species of insult
ami outrage. The loafers would pull his
nose for mere amusement, the half breeds
would spit in his flare just to make him
treat, and Geti. Cole, when intoxicated
)
would strike him with his cane, to cure
him of his cowardice, as ho said. The
. miserable grocery keeper brooked all
; these gross indignities with the patience
. of a martyr, and would sometime. 1 / meekly
remonstrate —
“ Gentlemen, it is ungenerous to abuse
; nm thus, for 1 Confess 1 have no courage.
I cannot fight ”
This continued for a whole year, when
. a change occurred that caused the instil t
ers to rue their ignoble persecutions. He
hud a beautiful wife, whom he loved with
the lenderest passion. One day, when
the husband was absent, the hideous half
breed, Warhawk, instigated to the damu
■ ing deed hy Geo Cole, went to the gro
cery keeper’s private residence and ma!-
. treated his wife in the most shocking
manner.
Myers returned home to find his wile
dtowned in tears. He heard the httrrpw
; ing tale without external manifestation of
, anger or emotion. His face, it is true,
became somewhat pale— this lip quivered
an instant, and Settled to an expression
rigid as a mouth of iron, and his wild
f eye, it may be, shot forth a few more
; beams of penetrating fire, but he did not
, mutter curses. He uttered not a whisper
. or menace—he did not even condole or
r sympathise with his wife. He only arm
. ed himself with a bowie-knife, fourteen
inches in the blade, from hilt to point,
. and started for the village,
i He came in sight of his enemy prome
! nailing the public square, boasting of his
villainous achievement. At this vision
Myers’ lips curled into abort id smile, ami
his dark eye melted into a stream of tears.
Hes stepped to the half breed, and then
i said in a hurried whisper—
“ Wretch, be quick ; draw ! for by St.
> Paul, one of us must die !”
And he waited until the other should
be ready for strife on equal terms. He
did not have to wait long, for Jack un
derstanding that cold, glittering, snaky
smile, and those hot, gushing tears, as
. the certain tokens of murderous madness,
immediately unsheathed at the same mo
: went with his adversary, and then began
the dreadful combat, which was soon de
cided-
Myers parried three furious blows of
- the hateful half-breed, and then grasping
| his foe’s clothing with his left hand, with
the other plunged the knife into his heart.
The Cherokee expired without a groan.
And now the inward and terrible pas
sions of Myers found vent in appaling ex
plosions. His etu'i*es were 1 earful—
NO PROSCRIPTION FOR OPINIONS’ SAKE.’
spurned his enemy with his loot, and wish
ed he had a hundred lives, so that he
could enjoy the pleasure of killing him a
hundred times over. His wrath then
changed for his other insuiters. He sprang
at Bill Green and tore out soap locks by
handsful. lie sprang upon Gen. Cole,
and pulled his nose until it was flattened
between his thumb and lingers—all the
while that gory knife dripping with warm
blood.
His enemies were so taken with sur
prise-terror stricken, stupilied, that for
a space they seemed utterly incapable of
voluntary motion.
The coward had suddenly become the
bravest of the brave. The equipoise of
opposite feeling was destroyed forever ;
the sheer power of pure will had con
quered physical fear.
On the evening of the same day Gen.
Cole called a special council of Lis friends
to consult on the course he should pursue-
The: e was but one opinion that he had
been insulted by a gvoss public indignity,
and must cull his foe to the field ol hon
or. . t
Accordingly upon the following day a
challenge was dispatched, which Mr My
ers very promptly accepted, and fixed the
time at noon of the same day—the wea
pons to be double barrelled shot g’tnis- —
the distance ten paces,
‘Tlie parties met on the sand beach, un
der the bank of the river, above the town
andhundteds assembled to witness the is;
sue. The mortal beligerants were placed
by their seconds, ami the death dealing
guns enormous double-barrel—rested
with dark, yawning muzzles on the sand,
in their hands. The spectators were
much astonished by the strange contrast
exhibited in their appearance. Gen.
, Cole was an old experienced duelist, who
, had shot his man before he was eighteen,
and had often been engaged in affairs of
the kind.
On the contrary Myers was unacquain
ted with lire arms, ami hud hitherto been
doomed an unmitigated poltroon And
yet, singular to record, the duelist was
nervous, agitated, almost trembling, while
the reputed coward was calm, firm, stea
dy as a rock, with that horrid smile on
his curling lip, and a few scattered teat
drops gleaming in the sun ott his check.
Gen. Cole’s second gave the word. —
Fire—one—two—three ! He need not,
however, lo have counted so many, for
with the echo of the word fire, Myers cl
vated his piece as quick as thought, and
• touched the trigger. There was a tre
mendous roar, and Gen. Cole fell dead. —
: His head was pierced with twenty buck
■ shot.
; No man ever again called Myers a
, coward in Arkansas ; no one ever thought
1 of such a term, as his shadow gleamed in
i the sunlight. He had taken his degree
l in the college of desperation, and his dt
: ploma was written in blood I
- He became a politician of great notori
’ ety in that part of the State ; was re
peatedly elected to the Legislature, where
’ he acquired distinction by his talents, but
1 more by bis fearless daring, and be is said
i to be in progress of ascension, having re
j cently obtained the commission of Major
■ General of the militia. Before many
; mouths we may see his name in the roll
i of members of Congress.
I Nature made him a coward ; love for
his insulted wife made him brave, and
1 bravery conferred honor.
*
Less Noise.
Wesfern judges have queer ideas, if we
may believe all we hear of ‘‘court ml
, ings.” Fur instance, herd is a yarn con
cerning one Judge Bates, who formerly
dealt out the law and the “pints thereof ’
somewhere out in Ohio. He very often
i gave utterance to sentiments of a charac
ter so unusual with the judiciary, that
they are said to be eat/ra-judicial. Ol
that class was a reproof which lie admin
• istered one morning to certain noisy suit
ors and lawyers who attended at the
Judge’s special levee. The old gentle
-man, amidst the din and confusion, rais
ed his specs, and looked around his court
room with an awful frown After strik
ing the table with his gavel and proeut
. ing silence, his auditory were electrified to
hear him say, “ Gentlemen 1 gentlemen !
I you must keep less noise In-re’ you must !
Fve sent half a dozen people to the I'eni
• | teutiary, and haven't heard a word of.the,
- evidence The thiag tnust be stopped
Uoiiiml to Muirs Somebody.
A young couple from Southern Illinois,
or Egypt, came to the city the other day
j for the avowed purpose of getting hitched
together in the traces of matrimony.—
The bride was a full-grown red-cheeked,
sandy-haired maiden, with a well devel
oped bust, and a foot like the Cincinnat
ti platform—broad enough to cover the
whole country. Ih-r gallant wits six feet
nnd an inch, with a fist like a sledge ham
mer, and a shock of hair like the remains
of a small hurricane. He was rather
verdant to be so far from home ; but as
love ,can transmogrify an oyster into a
swordfish, it Was working wonders in
the enamored Sucker. He “ put up”
with his intended at a boarding house up
town, and immediately started to get a
shave, and a justice of the pence. Tl.e
barber took off his wiry beard in short
order, and gently hinted that he wanted
shampoonihg.
“ Sham vvliat r” said the Illinoisan—
newer having heard the term used before.
On being told what shampoouing meant,
lie consented to undergo the operation
His head was thoroughly scoured and
scrubbed, lathered and rubbed, washed
and squeezed, and he felt l.ku anew man,
but the shampoouing had so bewildered
his brain that when lie left the barber’s
lie was perfectly oblivious as. to the
course lie should steer, to return to fils
bride. He wandered about tlte city lit
perfect bewilderment, and has not been
fteen since.
The lady, in the meantime, had await
ed in great anxiety for the return of her
swain, and finding lie did not come, con
cluded lie had incontinently absquatula
ted Elm declared, however, that she
would never go to Egypt without a “fel
ler” of some sort, and hinted that sho
wasn’t over particular vvliat name she
. went by hereafter. A good-looking young
boatman, who was stopping at the house,
hearing of the young lady’s distresses,
concluded to “buck up” himself. lie
was not long in making known his inten
tions, mid his advances were received in
about the same spirit that a pet eat sub
mits to the caresses of a soft hand. When
the boatman put the important question,
the girl replied :
“ Well, I don’t care cf I do. I was
foeht over here to git. married, and I’m
bound to marry somebody afore I go back.
‘I he gals in the bottom would never git
done laughing at me es I went home with
out a feller.”
The couple were accordingly united in
due form, and when last heard from were
the happiest pair this side of Salt Lake
[*S7. Louis Herald.
A Loving Blunder.
Two young gentlemen met, a few eve
nings ago, at the house of an acquaint
ance, some young ladies, for one of whom
each gentleman entertained tender feel
ings. In a spirit of frolic, otto of the
young ladies blew out the lamp, and our
two friends, thinking it a favorable mo
ment to make known the state of their
feelings to the fair object of their regard,
moved seats at the same instant, and
, placed themselves, as they supposed, by
i the lady’s side ; but she had also moved,
and the geiitlemein were, in reality, next
to each other. As our friends could not
whisper without betraying their where
abouts, they both gently took, as they
i thought, the soft little hand of the char
mer ; and when, after awhile, they ven
tured to give a tender pressure, each was
enraptured to find it returned with an
i unmistokable pressure, It may be well
imagined that the moments flew rapidly
in this silent interchange of mutual affec
tion. But the ladies wondering at the
unusual silence of the gentlemen, one of
them noiselessly slipped out ami suddenly
returned with a light. There, sat our
friends, most lovingly squeezing .each oth
er’s bands, and supreme delight, beaming
in tlieir eyes. Their consternation, and
the eestacy of the ladies may be imagin
ed, but not described. Both gentlemen
boiled;-and one was heard
say that he “thought all the while Miss
’s hand felt rather hard.”
Beauti.'ul Extract.
God haswiitlm on the flower* that
-weeteu the air—on the breeze that rocks
live flower npou the stem-—upon the rajn
drop that xelreshes the jqnig of moss that
qtt? its head ip the desert—upon itsdlecff
chambers—upon eveiy penciled sheet
sleeps in the caverns of the deep, no Less,
than upon the mighty sun that VWiif
and mTrtbcfts of creature® which
~ live in light upon all his wotks lie fra#
’ ‘\wrttcn-y“ N’oneiiveth foi hima?U.”
BYRD Sc WHITE, Publishers
NUMBER 25.
I Wish lie would make lip bis
Mind.
I wish ho would make up his mind, mu,
For I ilon’l care much longer to Wait;
1 ’in sure I have hinted quite strongly
That I tliouaht about changing my state;
For a sweetheart lie’s really >n backward,
1 I can’t brim; him on, though I try;
I own that lie’s very good tempered,
Bur then he’s so dreadfully shy.
When I speak about love and a collage,
lie gives me a glance of surprise,
And if I hill hint alMit morriage.
lie Mushes quite up to his < yes ’
I can’t make linn jealous—-I've tried it.
And tis iiu use my being unkind.
For that's not the way, I'm epi tain.
To get him to make up his miud. v
I’ve sung him Invo sonnets by dozens
I've worked him both slippers anil hose.
And wove walked out hy moonlight together
Yet he never attempts to propose.
You really must ask his intentions*
Or some other beau i must find ;
For. indeed, I won’t tarry much longer.
For one who can make up bis uiind.
O* Tlte following facts in relation to
Washington, are not stated by either
Marshall, Irving, Sparks, or Mrs. Kirk
land. Though new facts, they may be
relied upon as correct :
“Although for the time in which he
lived, a very distinguished man, the igno
rance of Washington in some things is
perfectly incredible. He never travelled
on a steamboat, never saw a rgdroad, or
locomotive engine ; was perfectly igno
rant of the principle of the maghctic tele
graph ; never lmd a daguerreotype, Colt’s
pistol, S'harp-’s rifle, or used a friction
match. He eat Tils meals with an iron
fork, never used postage stamp on his
letters and knew nothing of the applica
tion of chloroform to alleviate suffering,
or the use of gas for illumination. Such
a man as this could hardly be elected
President of the United States in these
times, although it must be confessed, we
occasionally have a candidate who proves
not much better informed about matters
in general.”
A Scared Negro.
The Nashville Gazette tell the follow
ing story of the recent negro excitement
in that vicinity;
A few weeks ago, during the oxistenco
of patrol regulations, ah old negro man
was found secreted in a piece of woods, a
few miles from town, evidently laboring
under great fear and trepidation. Ou
being asked why he was there, lie said ho
was affraid to stay at the house where he
belonged, and which was close by.—
‘•Wliat are you affraid of,” was asked.—
“Why,” he said. “Old Mistress had gone
to bed with a pistol on one side of her,
and a great big knife on the other, and
he was affraid she’d rise!’
A Surplus of Doctors.
According to a coirespondent ol the
Medical World, physicians have multi
plied so rapidly in this,country that new
ly fledged M- D.’s are puzzled to find a
community which require their services.
They are exceedingly, numerous in the
Eastern cities, while the West is actually
overrun with the sons of Esculapius.—
The writer says he has recently made an
t-Xtensive exploration to and over the far
ffif West, and finds the condition ol things
as above staled. In nit the thriving
towns and villages in Minnesota, Kansas
and Nebraska, there are more medical
men than patients. One or two invaria-*
bly monopolize all the business wor<h
having, but even the mod celebrated are
poorly compensated, while the prospect
is not betleiing. The writer veiy wi.-ely
counsels his young brethren to become
farmers. ‘
Poetry Improved.
The following, from one of the old Bri
tish poets, is exquisite. It i§ the very
essence of fancy. It was addressed to a
lady, upon whose bosom a flake of snow
fell and melted : -.
“The envious snow came down in haste,
To prove lliu breast less fair,
But grieved to son itself surpassed.
And melts into a tear.”
Pshaw! says an exchange; we can beat
that any time. Look here—
“ Down her wliin- bosom refti-d the tear,
(We know i; hadn't onghter,)
lin’d ut last—ut lasl—oh deir 1
Her surRT was wet as water
Here is a venerable marriage no
tice of the “olden time,” taken from the
New York Weekly Museum, June 9 1792.
Adjectives in fhese days were cheap aud
plenty |
Married—On Monday evening last, by
the Re>. Mr. Beach, John Buchanan,
Esq , lo ihe atfiiable, adorable, incompar
’ nble, inflexible, and nonpareil of her sex,
i Nancy lAtcy ‘turner, both of this city. .
*n z;,
i gs-s- Vonee, a long vile ago, I vent out
> lin inv apple orchard and climbed a pear
tree to get s. me peaches to .make mine
; vtow a plum puddin mit ; and veil Igor,
i jtq the toppermost branch, 1 toll from the
limb down mit one leg on both
Itsidcs of the fence, and like to stove my
outsides in.
