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VOL. VI. COMMUTE MONUMENT. To th3 People of Georgia and the South. Office of the * Confedffate Monumental Association of Georgia, it ugusta, Ga., June, 1872. WE diem it propel to appeal directly to out fellow-citiEeus for their substan tial aid innonoring our fallen Confederates, and benefiting those who were dependent up on them ftr maintenance and piotectiou. No one, we fad assured, will deem it intrusive in us to do sti The cause commends itself to the patriotic tentinient of all onr citizens. It brings freshly to our miude the sad but chival ric story ol our noble sons lighting for man’s most sacral rights—country, honor, liberty and borne. We caniot, as far as we can see, siied the light of our work upon the impenetrable gloom of lie grave. The spirits of our losi Confederates may see us or not; hut our in stincts male us weep and grieve when death ■teals sileniy into our households and takes our loved odes away. We bonorthemin their graves, anl inscribe their virtues upon Mon aments. Our spirits and senses becotne im bued withthe solemnities of death and our irreparahleloss. Thus wefeel when they fade and die of or- dinary cauies. Shall we feel the less when taking no teed of danger, courting it indeed hi full healli ana manhood—they meet the eu •mies of tteir country and die in the effort to save their people from the oppressor's wtong We still due with the sun, pursue our call ings, enjoylife, and are blessed by a merciful Providence They are in the gloom of their graves, hafing do’ne for us ail they could in this lower Vorld. Are they not entitled to onr pity, oty love, and all the care we can take ol theil fame ? Will it not he something to exhibit tlis to the world ? Will we not respect, and ionor ourselves in doing it ? Is it not necessay to present this evidence of re spect ami Kntitiiae to the eyes and thoughts of the young? What will the world say it we shall fail to do it? Some will not contribute —tlieir motives are their owi; all cannot, but our prosper ous Merchuits, Lawyers, Physicians, Plan ters, and tho|sands ofothets who are well-to do in worldl; affairs, will feel better when they shall ill . have aided fn this work of love and graitude. All the followers of the Arabian Profliet cannot visit his tomb, but the green tulbaned Pilgrims who can, are held iu higheresteem when they return from Mecca. Audtvill uot those be honored who shall aid iu the tribute to those who fell in our service anl our cause ? Who is there that would nit he pleased to have his name inscribed upol the list that will he on perpet ual record in he archives of the Confederate Monumental Association ? Will it not be emphatically i Poll of Honor ? All of us wil soon sleep without a dream. Who can bearthe thought that no one will care for or resject his memory when he is gone ? The fame of [he gallant Confederate dead is in the care andkeeping of all our people.— What woubl bi thought of him who would say : “ Let than sleep uncared for. ‘uuhon ored and unsuig ' ” tj'ale. Southern and persoual pride vould abhor the sentiment. As mortals, mr brave Confederates have perished; as oir tlefehders, honor, gratitude and duty call ipon us to protect their fame and cherish titer memories forever. We have revived but few contributions. Our neople iu pass prefer to take chances in the Distnbutidi- Whole Tickets, $5; Frac tional Tickets sl, $2, $3 and ft. Orders promptly attended to. in nil places where there are Ageifs, Tickets can he obtained ol them. L. At A. II McLAWS, General Agents. JAMIS.M. SMYTHE, State Agent. The Distribution OF Confederate Monumental Setae WILL Positively Take Place ON TIIE First Wednesday in December Next (1872), at Augusta, Ga. SHOULD all ti« Tickets not he sold, the amount received will be distributed iu the proportions naniel in the Cifcuiars, between THE MONUMitN f, the Piizrs, aud the nec eesary expenses. The portion to le distributed will lie appro priated first to tin Motley Frizes ; then to the Keal Estate, and ustly to the Shares iu Cot ton. ANALYSISOF THE SCHEME. SIOO,OO0 —20 per <tnt. allowed Agents. 50.00O —10 “ ' *• btate Agents. 50,000 —10 per ent. allowed for contingent ex pens s. 99,000 —Owners price of 7 Real Estate Frizes, 131,000 —The 1,75" Prizes in Currency, 20,000 —The 24^,Prises in Cotton. $450,000 , SSOOOO profits to he devoted to theMonuuient. The price in Curency will be substituted for the Keal Estat.'Prize, withdrawn on ae •count of injury tothe Property, or for other •uanses. Agents west of te Mississippi stop their HBales on the 15th ol November. East of tbai diver on the 20th o November. Stale Agents arerequired to be present ei ’ther in persou or Ip legally appointed Alter neysat the Distrihition. #2oD,ooo‘! IN Currency, Retl Estate & Cotton, "O BE DISTRIBUTED! 4°— The Most Spflid Mncements Ever Offeree to the Public I —Lo In addition to tlis, the enterprise to Honor the Caifederate Dead, Appeals directly to the patriotism of every citizen of Georgia aid the South. isr All can now jnntribute to this work of Honor, Gratitude aid Beneficence. The following nan*d gentlemen are the COMMISSIONERS: Generals L McLatjs, A.R. Wright, M. A. Stovall. W. M. Gardner, Goode Bryan, Colo nels C. Snead, Win P Crawford, Majors Joseph B. Cummini, George T. Jackson, Joseph Gauahl, I. PjGirardey, Hon. R. H. May, Messrs Adam Jjhnston, Jonathan Mil ler. W. H. Goodriii J. D Butt, Henry Moore, Dr. W. E. Dtiring. L.ti H M cLAWS, GeneraliAgeuts. Augusta, Ga. T. S-POWELL, jystf V-bllt, Cuthbert, Ga. 1 ■—- FOR kENT. I offer for rent, ft r tie present year, one of the jnost desiiabltfeune rooms in the C tv of Cuthbert. Possession given immediately, 1 Apply to E. MCDONALD. jan!2-tf j CUTHBERT Ili APPEAL Just Received. JTAYNE’S Pills, “ Alterative, “ Hair Tonic, “ Counter Irritant, “ Balsam Carminative, “ Vermifuae, “ Ague Mixture, “ Expectorant, BRINOLIS Lemon Sugar, LIPMAN’S Sarsaparilla with Rodide Po tassium. Radwav’s Sarsaparilian Resolvent. R. R. Relief. Radway’s Pills. Ayer's Sarsa parilla ana Cberrv Pectoral, Harter’s Iron Tonic, Harter’s Lung Balsam, Barter’s Pills, Wilhofts' Antiperiodic, Cholagogue, Farm er’s, Holtou’s, Gallighau’s, Desbler’s, Shah lenger’g, and Harter’s Fever and Ague Pills. Parker’s Nerve and Bone, Mustang, Arabian, and McLean's Volcanic Oil Liuiments. WALKER’S Vinegar, Hostetter’s, Plantation, Tutt’s, Brady's, Hoofland’s German, Curacoa, and English Female Bitters. PAPER, « PENS, INK. BLANK Books, PENCILS, Etc. Perfumery of all Kinds. Toilet and SUNDRY SOAPS. HAVE ON HAND, PURE Medicine, PAINTS, VARNISHES, LIQUORS, OILS, TOBACCO and CIGARS. Come, you shall not leave dissatis fied as to prices or articles. 3€§- Prescriptions carefully com pounded, at the Drug Store of j. j McDonald. PRESERVE YOUR SIGHT! THE CELEBRATED SCHAFFHAUSEN SPECTACLE AND EYE GLASSES, Manufactured at SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland. The superiority of these Great Eye Pre servers consists iu the careful Mathematical Accuracy iu the construction of the Lenses, being manufactured of the Best White Flint Glass, the exact Shape of the Eye. thus obvi ating all Glimmering and Wavering of the Sight. Dizziness, and all the other Train of Evils produced by the use of inferior specta cles. Every one whose sight is failing under stands its value. By buying imperfect spec tacles you help to destroy It. RUY THE BEST! Buy the Schaffhausen Spectacles and preserve the Byes which are priceless. Imported only by COOPER & BRO. Philadelphia. For sale by T. S. POWELL, Trustee, Druggist, Bookseller and Stationer, Cuihbert, Ga. These Spectacles are never sold by Peddlers. QLEAR AND Harmless as Water. IV ATTAN CRYSTAL DISCOVERY 0! THE Hair. A perfectly clear preparation in one bottle, as easily applied as water, for restoring to gray hair its natural color aud youthful ap pearance, to eradicate and prevent dandruff, to promote the growth of the hair and stop its falling owt. It is entirely harmless, aud perfectly free from any poisonous substance, and wili therefore take the place of all the ditty and unpleasant preparations nowin use. Numerous testimonials have been sent ns from many of our most promiuent citizens.— In everything in which the articles now in use are objectionable, CRYSTAL DISCOV ERY, is perfect. It is warranted to contain neither Sugar of Lead, Sulphur or Nitrate •of silver, it does not soil the clothes or scalp, is atrrecably perfumed, and makes one of the best dressings for the Hair iu use It restores the color of the Hair *' more perfect aud uni formly than any other preparation,” and al ways does so in from three to ten days, vir tually feeding the roots of the Hair with ail the nourishing qualities accessory to its growth and healthy condition ; it restores the decayed aud induce anew growth ot the Ilair more positively than anything else.— The application of this wonderful discovery also produces a pleasant and cooling effect on the scalp and gives the Hair a pleasing and elegant appearance. Call at your druggist for it and take no oth er It lie has not gor it let him order it. Price $1 per bottle. ARTHUR NATTANB, Inventor and Pioprieto Washington, D. C. JOHNSTON, HOLLOWAY, & CO-, General Agents, Philadelphia JOHN F. HENRY and F. C WELLS Sc CO., New York, and to he had of wholesale di uggists. everywhere. WAREHOUSE NOTICE. WE respectfully "ffVr our names to our numerous Plan iag friends aud Cotton Dealers of Middle and Southwest Georgia as COTTON FACTORS —AND— COMISSION MERCHANTS. In entering upon this business as successors of Jonathan Coitus & Sn. we do so with the firm determination of doing our whole duty, and flatter ou. selves that we are fully com petent for .the successful presecution of this important trust, and hope by strict attention huriness. and c< urteßy to our patrons, to merit their • onfideuce and support. COLLINS. FLANDERS & CO., sep6-3m Cotton Factors, Macon, Ga. ABE YOU ABOUT TO I'AI\T i IF SO. BUY MAXWELL & CLARKE’S FASHION PUKE LEAD Unequalled for durability, whiteness, body and fineness. « For sale by our ag' tit. j. j. McDonald Cuthbert Ga. aug23-8w Bagging and. Ties, FOR SALE BY FORT & QUARTERMAN. 5£ Sisk. Jr * This unrivalled Medicine is warranted not to contain a single particle of Mercury, or any injurious mineral substance, but is PURELY VEGETABLE, For FORTY YEARS it has proved its great value in all diseases of the Liver, Bow els and Kidneys. Thousands of the good and great in all parts of the country vouch for its wonderful and peculiar power in puri fying the Blood, stimulating the torpid Liver and Bowells, and imparting new Life and Vigor to the whole system. SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR is acknowledged to have no equal as a LIVER MEDICINE, It contains f >ur medical elements, never united in the same happv proportion in any other preparation, viz : a gentle Cathartic, a wonderful Tonic, an unexceptionable Altera tive and a certain Corrective of all impurities of the body. Such signal success has attend ed it is uow regarded as the GREAT UNFAILING SPECIFIC, I Liver Complaint and the paiuful offspring thereof, to-wit: DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPA TION, Jaundice, Bilious attacks Sick Head ache, Colic, Depression of Spirits, Sour Stom ach, Heart Burn, etc., etc- Regulate the Liver and prevent CHILLS AND FEVER. SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR la manufactured only by J. 11. ZEILIIV & CO., MACON, GA., and PHILADELPHIA. Price sl.Oh per package ; sent, by mail, post age paid $1.25. Prepared ready for use in bottles, $1.50 SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. I3F” Beware of all Conterfcits and linmita tious. july26-ly WM. H. TISON. j WM- W. GORDON, TISON & GORDON, COTTON FACTORS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 112 Bay Street, Savannah, GS. Bagging and Ties advanced on Crops. Liberal CASH ADVANCES made on Con signments of Cotton. COTTON SOLD ON ARRIVAL. AND PROCEEDS RETURNED BY EXPRESS WHEN OWNER SO INSTRUCTS. Prompt and careful attention guaranteed to all business. septl3-6m Wants Supplied! IF YOU WANT A Sack of ine F lour, go t GILLESPIE’S. IF YOU WANT A Kit of Mackerel, Go to Gillespie’s, IF lOU WANT CANDIES, NUTS, JELLIES, Etc., GO TO GILLESPIE’S. IF YOU WANT Coffee, Sugar, Rice or Syrup GO TO GILLESPIE’S. IF YOUR BOY WANTS A Top, Drum, Gun or Horse, SEND HIM TO GILLESPIE S. If your Daughter Wants A DOLL, WORK BOX, TEA SETT, BRING HER TO GILLESPIE’S. If you or your friend wants A Fine Cigar or a ‘‘Little Tapering,” COME TO GILLESPIE’S. FINALLY, If you wish to save money and be happy, don’t fail to call on A. W. GILLESPIE, And examine his Stock of Goods and prices. feb23-ly FORT & QUARTERMAN, At the new Rock Store, N. E. Cor ner Public Square, Offer for sale a fresh and choice lot of Groceries and Family Supplies, Hardware, Cutlery, Hollow Ware, Wooden and Widow Ware, Crockery, Fancy Goods, Dry Goods, etc., etc. Candies, Jellies, Figs, Dates, Prunes, Raisins, Oysters. Lobsters, Saiaines, Crackers, of all kinds Cheese, Eggs Best Goshen and Country Butter, Also a choice lot of the best Chewing and Smoking Tobacco and Cigars. Bacon, Flour and Lard, We also call your attention to ready-made STEEL PLOWS and Plow Implements. Also just on hand, anew lot of Scovil Hoes and the best Axes. Call and see for yourselves. jaDl9 ly Beeswax Bought by T. S. POWELL, Trustee, Druggist, Bookseller and Stationer. Drs. McLESTER & BURKE, HAVE THIS DAY Dissolved Partner ship by mutual Consent. All persons indebted to them for professional seruices, will please come forward and settle, that the hooks may be closed Cuthbert, Ga., Oct. Ist, 1882. octl-lm CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1872. THE APPEAL. PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY, By J. P. SAWTELL. Terms of Subscription : Ose Year $2 00 | Six Months....sl 25 INVARIABLT IN ADVANCE. SSBT No attention paid to orders for the pa per un’ess accompanied by the Cash. Rates of Advertising. 12 Months 6 Months. if Months. 1 Month. 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Job Work, such as Pamphletß, Circulars, Cards, Blanks, Handbills,etc., will he execu ted in good 6tyle and at reasonable rates. All letters addressed to the Proprietor will be promptly attended to. The Drunkard’s Child. BY MRS. PARIUIURST. You ask me why so oft, father, The tears roll down my cheek, And think it strange that I should owu A grief I dare not speak ; But oh, my soul is very sad, My brain is almost wild; It breaks my heart to think that I Am called a drunkard’s child. My playmates shuu me now, father, Or pass me by with scorn, Because my dress is ragged, and My shoes are old and torn : And it 1 heed them not, ‘‘there goi The drunkard’s girl,” they cry, Oh, then, how much I wish that God Would only let me die. You used to love me once, father, And we had bread to eat; Mamma and I were warmly clad, Add life seemed very sweet. You never spoke unkindly tden, Or dealt the angry blow ; Oh, father dear, ’tis sad to think That mm hath changed you so. Do not be angry now father, Because I tell you this, Bat let me leel upon my brow Once mor#thy loving kiss; And promise me, those lips no more With drunk shall be defiled, That from a life of want and woe Thou’lt save thy weening. A Word for tub Wife.— There is much good sense and truth in the remark of a modern author, that no maD ever prospered in this world without the co-operation of his wife. If she unites in mutual endeavors, or rewards his labor, with what con fidence will he repair to his mer chandise, or his farm ; fly over land sail over seas, meet difficulty, en counter dangers, if he only knows that he is not spending his strength in vain, but that his labor will be re warded by the sweets of home. Solittfde and disappointment enter the history of every man’s life ; and he is but half provided for his voy age who finds but an associate for his happy hours, while for moments of darkness no sympathizing partner is prepared. » Bea Gentleman at Home. —lt is cruel and cowardly in any man to speak to the woman under his own roof in a manner that would for ever disgrace him if heard under any other. And yet how many do it, alas, and even go their way after it selfishly, forgetting the tears and the bitterness they have caused, and selfishly expecting, if they remember it at all, that on their return the domestic sky will be without a cloud. More the pity when it is. Then in deed is the danger; for then too often comes deceit, and hypocrisy, and indifference. Nothing is easier than for a young woman whose parents are wealthy to obtain the reputation of a belle. She may not be in the least pretty ; she may have a poor figure,.bad manners, little taste in dress and be entirely devoid sos conversational power. But if she have a good many clothes ;if her father keeps a carriage and she rides in the park; and if some of her underbred and injudicious friends will send paragraphic Jenkraisms to the Home Journal and the ‘Soci ety” columns of the evening papers, she will soon be set down as a belle such a once as a sensible man would like to ring—not her finger, but her her neck.— New York. Correspon dence Chicago Tribune / Knouting a Woman. The Kind of Government Which Americans Honored on the Occa sion of the Visit of Alexis. At a gathering of Poles in the lit tle village of Kernst, on the South ern Niemen, on the 29th of July last, when all thought themselves secure from the intrusion of any of the numerous spies who keep the Russian officials informed of the malcontents among them, Alexan dria Kossowitz, a young lady whose father, the younger son of a former noble Polish family, was killed in the recent troubles in War saw expressed her sympathy with the unfortunates whom Russian se verity had murdered or sent into exile. The meeting was a purely social one, and none dreamed that anything said there would reach the ears of spies, for all present were known to be Poles and firm haters of the harsh rule under which they then lived. Still, as the young girl in her passionate remeraberances of a father’s love deplored his death expressed her sympathy with rebel lion and her detestation of her op pressors, she was cautioned lest her loud tone should enable people at the window to hear her. With hasty glance, as thoughjto read in the faces of those about her who should betray her, the young lady ceased her execrations and relasped into silence. When 10 o’clock ar rived, the latest’hour of Polish gath erings, the company separated, and Alexandria Kossowitz, accompa nied by her affianced, Julian Tetn ensky, went to her home. If, in passing from the house of the gatherings, she had beeD more observant, Alexandria would have seen the maliciously triumphant glance cast at her by Catherine Merdoff, a woman of about 35 years, a Pole by birth and a sympathizer with her unhappy countrymen when ever her own passion was not con cerned, and, from the subsequent proceedings, it seems that in this case she had been superseded in the affections of the voting Dr. Tem ensky by the more beautiful and younger Alexandria Kossow itz. On the following day, shortly after rising, Alexandria was seized in hei own home, a shart distance from Kernst, by two Cossacks of the guard at the garrison, and ta ken before the petty judge. The young lady of nineteen, hand some and trembling, produced no feeling of pity. . Having first denied the accusation she was cohfronted with Catherine Merdoff, and then acknowledged her offense. In pass ing sentance the petty judge said that her seditious utterances might have warranted him in sending her before a higher tribunal, where the penalty would be death; but, in view of her youth and contrition, he should merely order her to re ceive thirty-lashes of the knout. Almost benumbed with shame and terror, the girl was led away to be prepared for punishment, for in Rus sia all sentences, save that of death, are carried out immediately after they have been pronounced. Word having been sent to the officer commanding the troops, a guard of 200 men was ordered into the garrison square, and the execu tioner of the troop was called upon to be ready to carry out the duties of his office. In half an hour after the sentence had been given the troops had been formed in a hollow square, in the center of which had been placed a scaffold, standing on four lges, the top of which was an inclined plane. Beside this stood the exe cutioner, havingin bis muscular hand the knout. This weapon consists of a stick, or a handle two feet long, with a lash four feet long of soft leather, to the end of which is attached by a loop a piece of rawhide, two inches wide and two feet long. In the hands of an expericed man the piece of rawhide can be made to cut like a knife. As the executioner stood facing the scafold, Alexandrina Kossowitz was brought to him by her guard, and in a moment her clothing was removed to her waist, despite her almost mute appeals to be spared the shame. As she pleaded she was bent on the plane, her hands strapped to the two upper corners and her ankles secured at the foot of the structure. One of the exe-* cutioner’s assistants held her hand, and the petty judge gave tbe order for whipping to commence. Twirl ing the long lash in the air the ex ecutioner stepped suddenly back ward, and with a sharp crack the thong fell on the back of the sob bing girl, cutting a livid streak from her right shoulder to her waist. A terrible tremor passed over her, and a quick, low cry escaped her lips, but it was the only sound she ut tered, and were it not for the blood which soon commenced to flow it might have seemed that the whip ping was being done on the naked back of a corpse. When the last lash had been given, the young la dy was unfastened and with her clothing rudely thrown over her she was taken to prison, and there, after thanking the judge for his mercy according to the necessary formula she was delivered over to her friends. Five days afterwards the Gazette of Wilne contained this announce ment : “The Polish criminal, Alex andria Kossowitz, daughter of the rebel Peter Kossowitz, who was knouted for seditious utterances ou the 29th ot July at Kernst, while submitting her lacerations to med ical treatment, in the house of the physician, stole a vial of prussie acid, with which she ended her days,” The Israelites in Palestine. The Jewish Times bears impor tant testimony as to the manner in which the Hebrew people now re gard the land of Palestine. There has been a loosening of old ties, a discarding of old beliefs among them, and they no longer stand ready at any moment to go as pil grims iuto that land. The hope of an ultimate restoration has died out- The time was when all their prop erty was portable—such as, at short warning, could be sold. At present there is no hesitation among them in investing in real estate. Three prominent Isi relites—Professor Grata and Messrs. Levy Potzin and Gottschalk have just roturned from the Holy Laud, and, says the -Times, their report is “an additional argument against the folly of encour aging the emigration of the Jews to a country which has no other claim than that of a valuable mon ument of the past.” There are now about sixtoen thousand Israelites living in Palestine, and “ their aver age state of culture is much below that of tlieir fellow-religionists liv ing in Europe, They have no visi ble means of support, and spend tlieir time iu idleness praying, and Talmud reading.” The report furi ther suggests “ the general elimina tion from all Jewish prayer-books of the portions referring to the hopes of Israel in the restitution of the Holy Land to the possession of Is rael and the re-building of the tem ple by the Divine Providence.” On the other hand, four hundred rabbis have rendered a decision that the omission of the prayer for the ad vent ot the Messiah and the resto ration of the sacrifices would be equivalent to a denial of the faith. Woman’s Fortitude.— I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverse of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness, and de pendance, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the path of life suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and sup porter of her husband under mis fortune, and abiding, with unshrink ing firmness, the bitterest blast of adversity.— Washington Itving, Gunpowder.— A little charcoal and a little nitre, joined together, and we have that wonderful mix ture which rules, for good or for evil the destinies of men. "When gunpowder is ignited the solid is almost instantly converted into gas, which were it fired under water, and the gas cooled down to the or dinary temperature of the air would be round lo ocoupy 900 times the space of the solid powder. Gases archow ever, known to expand with an immense force when heated and as the gases of gunpowder are or dinarily projected a red heat, they are consequently greatly expanded amounting it is estimated, to more than 2,500 times the volume of the powder burned and it is here we see whence springs the power of pro jection of firearms. Great as are the evils of the wars the use of gunpowder has shortened their du ration from years to days. Miss Lottie Grafnt, who weighs 482 pounds, is on exhibition at a western fair, and a crazy paragraph ist says that she doesn’t hold office hut her situation is a fat one. Depend Upon Yourself. The success of individuals in life is greatly owing to their fearuing eatly to depend upon their own re sources. Money, or the expectation of it by inheritance, has ruined more men than the want of it ever did. Teach the young men to rely on their own efforts, to be frugal and industrious, and you have furnished them with a productive capital which others cannot wrest from them, and which they themselves will be disposed to retain. This is peculiarly the case in this country, where every man must be the arti ficer of his own fortune—where the road to wealth and honor is open to all—and where those who win must labor for the prize. Everett has well said, that “the times, as well as universal experi ence abundantly admonish, that how ever the children of wealth may in dulge in indolence and dissipation— while their means last—the great mass of America must and ought to depend upon their labor for their fortunes and their usefulness. For tune is at beet precarious—-patiimo , nial independence is uncertain—and. relience upon the friendship or char ity of the world, or upon office is frail and debasing. Self independ ence is the only sure stay. We are ever willing to help those who help themselves. Productive labor is the legitimate source of wealth individual or na tional—rand labor is profitable to the individual and to the natiou, in pro portion to the measure of intelli gence and scientific knowledge which guides and directs its opperations.— Hence it is of primary importance that our youth should be effectually taught to labor, and that our minds sboulpUje early imbued with that kind oFknowledge which will in struct them In the principles of their business, render it honorable, and make them independent in their minds and in fortune.” Things ol’True Value. The mechanical impulses of the age of which most of us are so proud, are a mere passing fever, half-speculative, half childish. Peo ple will discover at last that royal roads to anything can no more be laid in iron than they can in dust; that there are, in fact, no royal roads ‘to any where worth going to; that if there were, it would that instant cease to he worth go ing to —I mean so far as things to be obtained are in any way estima ble in terras of price. For there are two classes of precious things in the world ; those that God gives us for nothing—sun, air and life, (both mortal and immortal life,) and the secondarily precious things which he gives us for a price; these secondarily things, worldly wine and milk, can only be bought for definite money; they never can be cheapened. No cheating or bar gaining will ever get a single thing out of nature’s establishment at hajf price. Do we want to be strong ? we must work. To be hungry ?we must starve. To be happy? we must be kind. To be wise? We must look and think. No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour, nor making of stuffs a thousand 3 T ard» a minute, will make us one whit stronger, happier or wiser. There was always more in the jvorld than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. And they will at last, and soon, too, find out that their grand inventions for conquering (as they think) space and time, do* iu reality, conquer nothing; for space and time are, in their own essence, unconquerable, and, besides, did not want any sort of conquering; they wanted using. A fool always wants to shorten time; a wise man, first to gain them, then to animate them. Your Tail road, when you come to understand it, is only a device for making the world smaller; and as to being able to talk from place to place, that is indeed, well and convenient; but suppose you have, originally, noth ing to say. We should long ago have known that the really precious things are thought and sight, not space. It does a bullet no good to go fast, and a man no harm to go slow ; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being. “A Correct likeness ot yourself . sent, and your fortune told.” Young Greene, in answer to the above ad vertisement,- receives a looking glass, and is informed be can tell his Own fortune by counting Ms money. “A woman is at the bottom of all mischief,” said Joe. “ Yes,” said Frank, “ and when I used to be in mischief, my mother was at the bottom of me.” NO 43' H anging in Olden Tines. A correspondent gives the fol lowing incidents: “While John Hancock was Governor of the Com al onwealth, Rachel Whall was hung in Boston for highway robbery. Her offense consisted in twitching froth the hand of another female a bonnet worth perhaps, seventy-five cents, and running off \rith it. The’ taiost earnest applications for her pardon were unsuccessful. I men* tion this not to the disparagement of the Governor. He doubtless not* ed upou a sense of duty, thinking it best for the community that thtf laws of the land—however fright, fully severe—while they Were laws, should be executed. A lad 18 years of age was hung ij Salem for arson during the administration of Governor Strong. Similar appeals in his favor being considered and overruled. Yet the intelligence and the humanity, alike of the Execu tive and of the Council, notwith' Standing the result arrived at in both these instances, vers tiohab’ei “Within the same period, a gen tleman ol this city saw a girl seven teen years of agd hung in London, for stealing a silver cream pitcher.' Edward Yale Brown was hung in Boston for burglary committed in the house of Captain (Mas Good- Win in Charter street, aud stealing therefrom sundry articles. I one© owned a set of the Old Bailey Tri als (1775, 1825), embraced in a se ries of perhaps fifty-eight quarto volumes. The earliest of, these': volumes contain the details of the unfortunate # Dr. Dodd, whose touching appeals for mercy, here recorded, were fruitlessly enforced by the splendid eloquence of John son. In a later volume long after the commencement of thj present century, eight separate capital convinctions are recorded as one day’s job of a single tribunal, the culprits being all boys and girls be tween the ages of ton and fifteen aud their offenses petty thefts. “One case I remember of pecu liar j udicial atrocity. A young girl in her eighteenth year was indicted for stealing a roll of ribbon worth three shillings. Tho prosecutor’s testimony was to this effect: ‘The prisoner came into my shop and bought some ribbon. I saw her secret this piece also. I personally knew her and was on the most friendly terms with her. When she left I accompanied her and offered her my arm, which she accepted. We chatted together. As w© reached the corner of a street lead ing to the Bow-street office, I turned toward it. She said she was going in another direction, and bade me good morning. I said to lisr, No l you are going with me! I saw you steal a piece of ribbon. She imedi ately implored to me the article. I said to her that I had lost many things in this way, and fvas deter mined to hate hes life.* And he goi it. I can never forget how my blood boiled as I read the testimony of this cold-hearted Wretch. I* view of the judgement df a merci ful Gi>d, far rather, it seems to rad would I have been in the place ot that poor/ frail/ erring girl, even on thd scaffold, than in the place of htr heartless accuser. “I rose from the peisual of these volumes horror struck with the con* tinuous record of inconceivable le gal cruelty; It appears to me that the seventy thousand hangings inf the reign of Henry YIII. w^r e matched by ah equally long list of persons commended to be hong io the reign of George 111. Since th# time much has been done in 4 by Homily, Brougham Mclntosh sod Sydney Smith and te tttach, per haps more kindred on this side of the Atlantic. “ 4 A poor young man remarks that the only advice he gets Irony capitalists is to u live within his in come/’ whereas the difficulty he ex* periences is to live without an in come. ■—tS— — An English writer advises young ladies to look favorably upon those engaged in agricultural pur suits, giving as a reason that their' mother Eve married a gardener. He forgot to add, however, that his gardener lost his situation im consequence of the match. i p» —An indulgent Kansas parent sold his cooking stove for #ll in #r der to take his thirteen children to the circus. He says a circus only comes two or three times a jeary and, besides, he had’nt much to cook on the stove, anyhow. Bafnum’s great show will exhibit in all the principal towns of tb* South during the coming wijtf. ter.-