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LUCIUS C. BRYAH, Editor 4c Proprietor.
VOL. V.
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i;\aiifiriiiig Bottoms ofWelltt.
It is riot generally known, we think,
how easy a matter it is to examine the
bottom ‘of a well, cistern, or pond of’
water, 1 by the <Ufe of a common mir
ror., The New Hampshire Journal of
Agriculture, “ays z .
When the sun is shining brightly,
hold a mirror so that the reflected rays
of light will fail into the water. A
bright spot will be seen at.the bottom
t’o light as to show the smallest object
very plainly. . By this means we have
examined the bottoms of wells fifty
feet deep, when half full of water. —
The smallest straw or other small ob
ject can be perfectly seen from the
surface. In the same N way one can
examine the bottom of ponds and riv
ers,, if the water be soipewhat clear,
and not agitated by winds or rapid
motion. If a well or cistern be under
cover or shaded by buildings, so that
*.the sunlight 1 will not fall near the ope*
-mug, it is only necessary to employ
two mirrors, using one to reflect the
opening, and another to send it down
perpendicularly into the water. Light
may be thrown fifty or a hundred
yards to the precise spot desired, and
then reflected downward We have
used the mirrors with success to reflect
the light around a field to g shaded
spot, and also to carry it frepu a south
window through tw r o rooms, and then
into a cistern under the north side of
the house. Half a dozen reflections
of the light may be made, though
each mirror diminishes the brilliancy
of the light. Let any gne not familiar
with this method try it, and he will
find it not only useful, but a pleasant
experiment. It will perhaps reveal a
mass of sediment at the bottom of a
well which has been little thought of,
but which may have *been a fruitful
source of disease by its decay in the
water.
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Specimens of Western oratory are
rather stale ; but here is a bit, related
by a trustworthy authority as authentic,
which has, not been in print before :
.'‘Where is Europe, compared
America ‘( Nouwbar ! Where is Eng
;land l Nowhar ! They call England
the mistress of the sea; but what
makes the sea ? The Mississippi riv
er makes it. And all we’ve got to do
•is to turn the Mississippi into the
Mammoth Cave, and the English na
>vy will be floundering,in the inua.”
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 18(15.
‘BLIND HOY’S SOLILOQUY.’
Delivered, hut not composed, hy Master F.
M. Hod pres, before the Members of the Leg
islatnre. in Mill* dtpcville, Ga., December
30,185?, • . ‘ ‘ •
The bird (hat never ♦ l ied Ins-wing,
Can blitjiely bop and sweetly sing, a
I'lio’ prisoned in a narrow cage,
Till his bright feathers droop*with age.
So I, while never blessed with sight,
Shut out from Heaven's surrounding light,
Life’s hours aud and years enjoy,
Tho’ blind , a merry.hcarted boy.
The captive bird jimy never float, ■
Tiiio’ Ifcaven or pour his thrilling, note
Mid shady groves, by pleasant streams,
That sparkle in the soft moo;i -beams.
But he may gaily flutter round, ,
Within his prison’s scanty bound,
And give his soul to song, for he
Ne’er longs to taste sweet liberty.
Oh ! may I not as happy dwells ,
Within my unillumiued cell ?
May I not leap and sing and play,
And turn my constant night to day ?
I never saw the sky, the sea,
The earth was never green to me ;
•Then why, oh ! why should I repine,
For blessings that were never mine ?
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Think not that blindness tne sad ;
My tho’ts like yours are often glad.
•Parents I have who love me
Their different voices I can telj..
Tho’ far and absent I can hear,
In dreams, their nwisic meet toy ear,
Is there a star so dear above.
As the low voice of one. you love.
I never saw my father’s face,
Yet on his forehead, when I place
My hand and feel the wrinkles fliers,
Left less by time than anxious care ,
I fear the world has sights of woe,
To knit the brow of manhood sq. ‘
I sit upon my fathers knee.
He’d love me less if I could see.
I never saw my mother smile,
Her gentle tones my heart, beguile,
They fall like distant melody ;
HJhey.fire mild and sweet to me.
Bhe murmurs not my mother dear,
Tho’ sometimes I’ve kissed a tear
From her soft cheek, —to tell the joy
One smiling,word would give her boy. •
Right merry was I every day,
Fearless to run about and play,
With sisters, brothers, friends aud all,
To answer to their sudden call.
To join the ring, to speed the chase.
To find each playmate’s hiding place,
To pass my hand across his brow, —
To tell him I could do it. new.
Yet. tho’ delightful flew the hours.
So passed in childhood’s peaceful brwers,
When all were gone to school, but I,
I used to sit at home and sigh;
And tho’ I never longed to view”
The earth so green, the sky so blue,
I tho’t I’d give the world to look,
Along the pages of a. book.
Now, since Phave learned to read and write
My heart is filled with new delight.
And music too, —can there be found,
A sight so beautiful as sound ?
Tell me kind friends, in one short word,
Am 1 not. like that captive bird ?
I live in song and peace and joy,
Tho’ blind, a merry-hearted boy.
Praise Yoiur Wife.
Praise your wife, man; for pity’s
sake, give her a little encouragement;
it won't hurt her. She has made your
house comfortable, your hearth bright
and shining, your food agreeable ; for
pity's sake, tell her you thank her, if
nothing more She don’t expect it;
it will make her eyes open wider than
they have for these ten years; but it
will do her good, all that, and you
too.
There are many women to>dav
thirsting for the word of praise, thd
language ot encouragement. Throigh
summer’s heat and winter’s toil they
have drudged uncomplainingly, and so
accustomed have their fathers, broth,
ers, and hesbands, become to their
monotonous labors, that they look for
and upon them as they do the daily
rising of the sun, and its daily going
down. Homely, every day life may
be beautified by an appreciation of its
very homeliness. You know that if
you can take from your drawer a clean
shirt whenever you want it, some
body’s fingers have ached in the toil
of making it so fresh and agreeable, so
smooth and lustrous. Y r ou know that
if the floor is clean, manual labor has
been performed tp make it so. Eve*
rything that plegses the- eye and the’
sense, has been prouuced by constant
work, much thought, great care, and
untiring efforts, bodily and mentally.
it is not that many men do not ap*
preciate these things, and feel a glow
of gratitude for the numberless atten
tions bestowed upon them in sickness
and in health, but they are so selfish
in that feeling. They dont’t come
out with a hearty, “Why, how pleas-*
ant you make things look, wife.!” or
“I am obliged to you for taking so
much pains/’ They thank every
body and everything out of doors, be
cause it is the custom, and then come
home, tip their chairs back and their
heels up, pull out the newspaper,
grumbje if wife asks them to take, ba ■
by, scold it the fire has got down; or,
if everything is just right, shut th.cir
mouth.
I tell you what, men, young
old, if you did but show an
civility towards those common articles
of housekeeping, your wives; if you
gavh the one hundred and sixtieth
part of the compliments you almost
choked them with before they were
married; if you would cease speak
of their faults, however banteringly,
before others, fewer women would
seek for other sources of happiness
than your cold, so-so-ish’ affection
Praise your wife, then, for all the good
qualities she has, and yen zv.\\ -vs’ ‘ g
suived that.her dcfi.'ieneics are hilly :
counterbalanced by vour own.
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What sad mistakes the world ii eiv* i
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on to making about'tins thing of hu- j
man happiness t Riche's, .greatness, j
honors, in the prevalent philosophy,
are the elements of true enjoyment.- —
Let the rich, the great and the honor
able, testify to the point. This tho’t
has been ‘suggested by a short para_
graph from the pen of one who has
long been threading the avenues of
life. It \z simnie, but touching and’
beautiful in its’ truth. Our venerable
friend of the Columbus Corner Stone
is the man, and here is the sentiment:
“We had a friend once who said
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that a man’s age’ought not .to be meas
ured by the number of years lie had
passed, but by the amount of enjoys
ment that life lied afforded him.—
Measured by that standard, we count
ourself a very old man. We have
never had much of this world’s goods
or its honors, but we have found life
full of enjoyment of a higher charac*
ter than those they could afford us,
perhaps higner than those they afford
others. This world has been and is
still a beautiful, and a glorious world
to us. We have found in it a great
many good and beautilul things and a
great many good people. Dark shad
ows have sometimes fallen across our
pathway, but for the most par it has
been marked by sunshine and gladi.
ness, and we have no sympathy with
tho§e who find in this world nothing
but a “vale of tears and low grounds
of sorrow.’ ’ A man must be a very
bad man,.or very resolutely bent on
being miserable, who cannot find con
stantly something from which he can
extract pleasure and happiness—some
thing over which to be glad and ,to
rejoice.”
The Aril, of Pleasing.
A modest and virtuous young man,
on first going into sosciety, is apt to
be sorely perplexed upon the quess
tion, how to make himself agreeable
to ladies. -He need not be ashamed
of his perplexity. Washington Ir
ving, in one of his early sketches, can*
fesses that a well dressed lady was an
object perfectly “ awful ’’,to his yoi\ng
imagination.
We were once acquainted with a
gentleman of distinction in public life,
the father of several accomplished
daughters, who could not, even to his
fiftieth year, enter a drawing-room
when ladies were present, without
painful embarrassment. It is certain
ly a good sign in a young man to stand
in some awe of the beautiful sex. ‘ A
person of coarse and vulgar mind, who
thinks more of himself than his best
friends think of him, and who knows
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little of the. worth of a good woman's
heart, rushes fearlessly in where an
Irving or an Addison v/ould fear to
tread. . ’* . :
How well we remember an incident
of our early days, which helped us to
overcome our bashful; dread of the so
eiety of ladies ! Seated by the pidc of
a beautiful girl of seventeen and over,
whelmed with a conciousuess of our
inability to say anything to her which
she would care to hear, we chanced to
observe that she, too,. . was trembling
with embarrassment. We felt as a
coward feels when lie finds that his.
enemy is more completely
stricken than himsslf. Addressing
ourselves to the task ot diverting our
fair acquaintance, we soon forgot our
own fears in sympathy with hers. —
Bear this in mind, yoiing gentleman
who blush and stammer in company
with ladies : . The girls are as mgeh
afraid of your as you arc of them *
You are awkward in your manners
you think. If you think so, it is like
ly that your fair friend thinks other,
wise; for the f( ally ill bred fellows
that we have known have never sus
pected their ill-breeding. And, after
oil, what is good breeding but habits
■■• ad good, nature ? Th,e simple fact
j di it yon ,wish to please Is a proof that
| you possess, or will soou acquire, ti.ic
| power t<? do sc. The good heart and
f well informed mind will soon give
grace to tjbe demeanor, or will so
abundantly atone for the want of it,
that its absence will never be noticed.
Besides, the girfs—at least the most
of them—like a man who is simple ip
his manners, provided they see that
there is substance and worth ip him- •
Graceful manners spd ready wit aye
good so far as they go. But be sure
of this, Q'h ! bashful, blushihg youth,
that both in the society of ladies and
of men, you will pass for what you aye
worth—no more—no less. The art
of pleasing, therefore, is nothing more
than the art of becoming an honest,
kind, intelligent and highminded man.
Such a man, be he graceful as Chcs*
terfield or awkward as Caliban, all
worthy women trust and love.
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“ Tlie World Owes me a Liv
ing!”
For what young man ? Because
you have spent your time in
and squandered your property in diss
sipation. Is the debt the world owes
you “for value received or are you
a poor beneficiary that mankind in
general has adopted to educate aud
support ? How have you used gnd
applied the one, two, or five talepts
that nature entrusted you with at the
start ? How came the world in your
debt ? What benefit have you con.
ferred upon society ? “What deeds of
charity have you done for your fellow
creatures ? What benefit conferred
upon your race ? How is the ‘world
the better for your having lived in it,
or how have you brought it in debt?
Have you accepted,.or endorsed drafts
lor its benefits payable in eternity ?
or stood security for its welfare
after ? If none of these, upon wjiat
ground is it indebted to you? Bring
suit for your claim in the high court
of conscience, and see what judgment
will be rendered. The world in your
debt —never. Were it to push its de
mands against you, you would be a
psor miserable bankrupt. Go to .work.
By the sweat of yopr ,brow, mpst yop
earn your bread. The world owes
you nothing. — Spirit of the South.
Birds and .fniinal* in I*ara~
ay.
With birds and animals it is redum*
dantly stocked. Bourdain has des
cribed, upwards of 300 new species of
the feathered tribe, as inhabiting the
gorgeous woods apd dense coppices of
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TERMS $4,00 A Year, in Advance.
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Paraguay. Game of every. kind is
most abundant. The large partridge,
the royal and common duck widgeon
and teal ; the snipe, the jack snipe,
the water hen, the diver, the wild
swan, wild goose, wild turkey, grey
and golden plover, the hawk, (an ?ene
my of* all these.) the vulture with his
curved beak and talon, lording it over
the hatyk ; and the eagle, witji his im
perial gjance carrying fbay to tjie heart
of the vulture. Disputing supremacy
even with the eagle, comes the king
of vultures, the stately cream colored
bird, with crimsoned, yet up feathered
neck, ample and outstretched wings,
with p beak jet blacjf. Very great is
the prerogative of tnjs etnpeior of all
the tribes of the air, great almost as
was Fpmcia’s; and you shall hear how
the king of vultures exercises his sway
with him, as with all tyrants, gorging
on bloo t d. When the vulture king
smells ft parcass from afar, or when he
poipiccs with his death like talons ups
on a living animal, the imperial bird,
nurtured to savage ferocity by such re
pasts, fill hjs craving maw with flesh,
and slakes |iis insatiable thirst with
blood. All his so fy subjects stand
apart at a respectful distance, whetting
their appetites and regaling their
trils, but never dreaming of* an ap’
proach to the carcass, till their master
has sung into a state of repletion.—
When the royal bird, falling on his
s do, closing his eyes, and stretching
on the ground his unclenched talons,
gives notice to his surrounding and
expectant subjects tjhafc tbeir master
has gqpe to rest, uud they hop in buns
drfcds to the carcass. But the most
remarkable of all the feathered tribe
in Paraguay, is the parrot, inelipjipg
all the varieties of the family, from
the cockatoo an,d gpacamays, down tq
the little pcrroqup.t, not more than
threp inches in length. Though
and yellow are the most prominent
colors in tbeir plumage, yet the In*
dians, with various dyes, so tinge their
wiDgs, pulling out the old feathers,
and annointing the new shoots with
imperishable colors, that you see par
rots in Paraguay of all shades of plus
mage. So accpte are these .birds, so
exquisite their ear, so sagacious the it
perception* and so strong their ifniU*
tive powers, that they .will listen atteq
tively for a few minutes when a per
son is speaking, and then give both
the words and tone of the Speaker.—
They will imitate the cry of a child the
squeal of a pig, the bark of ft dog,
and the rpew of a cat, ad so admira..
bly that it is impossible not to class
them as ventriloquists of the first or*
der. In regard to animals, insects and
reptiles, the soil of Paraguay is pro
lific. There are the jaguar, the lion,
the ounce, the wild boar, ‘tjhe tiger,
the monkey, the ferret, the stag, the
antelope, any abundance of horned
cattle, horses, asses* and mples. The
boa constrictor abqunds in the woods
of Villa Real, which are also filled
with lizards, rattlesnakes, locusts,
binchucas, beetles, musquitoes, and
tavonos, with many others of other
tribes too numerous to mention.— AT.
Y. Commercial Advertiser.
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A Uarvest of'Gold.
The following is the official .report
of all the American gold received in
the United States mint and its branch
es, from our first gold discoveries down
to June 30,1864 :
California $556,718,873
Colorado - 9,783,071
North Carolina 9,121,397
Georgia 6,909,375
Oregon 6,142,433
Idaho 2,308,385
Virginia 1,558,874
South .Carolina ..1,352,969
Alabama . “198,330
Tennessee ,81,406
Utah •••••MM •••••••• 78,509
(Nevada 66,208’
New Mexicp 63,023
Arizona •••••••• •••,••• ••••••••• 29 650
Vermont ..... MUTf ...... *•• 7 298
Rakotah.,.. ••••••••> ... 7,85fc
Other sources 202,778
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Total $597,187,734
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