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A. Weekly Journal—"’Bevoted to Home Literature, Agriculture, Foreign and Bomestie News, Wit, Humor, &e.
MI 8 GEL LA S E 0 U 8
In (be Meadows.
BY BAYARD TAYLOR.
I lie in the summer meadows,
In the meadows all alone,
With the infinite sky above me,
And the sun on Ins mid-day throne.
The smell oi the flowering grntscs
Is sweeter than any rose.
And a million of happy insects
Sing in the warm repose.
The mother lark that is brooding
Feels the sun on her wings,
And the deeps on the’ noon-day glitter
With the swarms of fairy things.
From the billowy green beneath me
To the fathomless blue above,
The creatures of God arc happy
In the warmth of their stunner love.
The infinite Miss of Nature,
I fee.l in every vein ;
The life and tire light of summer
Blossom in heart and brain.
But darker than any shadow,
Than thunder—(loads unfurled,
The awful truth arises,
That death is in the world.
And the sky may beam as ever,
And never a cloud be curled,
And the air be living odors.
But death is in tho wprld.
Out of the deep of sunshine,
The invisible host is hurled.
There’s life in the summer meadows,
But death is in the world!
REWARDS.
BY MARY A. DENISON.
I protest against it !
In trty own name and that of the rising
generation, I protest, against it.
What? Why just this, that in senti
mental stories, sketch- s, and poems, those
who do about right tilwaj s come out with
flying colors in the ot d.or in other words
! get their nay in substantial blessings for
the, good they do in this world. I liavn’t
found it s', noithei do I suppose I ever
shall; although I have had “large expcc
tatioi s.” lin-v have proved, however,
only expectations, or else I’ve seen the
•voilcl crosswise. 1 have seen the very
I est men carrying about a pressure of suf
fering that seemed too gieat for human
shoulders to bear. 1 have witnessed gen- j
tie, pure-minded, self-sacrificing women j
bowed to tli earth under the most (Spirit |
rending grief—utterly bicker. hearted. I
have likewise seen the snuley, selfish,
. ialt scamp, who ground dowu Ins neighbor,
i-dd bouses to houses, and Land to land
while his children flourished like olive
plants around his table. 1 have seen the
profligate whose tongue was the outlet to
filthy sewers—the velvet fingered, careful,
polished epicurean rioter on every virtue,
and contemner of every social morality,
grow sleek and vigorous and rich and (of
course) respited by even those who knew
him best (outwardly.) 1 have known
ati honest child to return a bank note of
value that he found and receive a penny
for it. I have known people who have
given a home to the destitute have not
where to lay their heads. I have myself
been “snapped up'’ more than once for
conferring on somebody aftvor.
To be sure I have bad a reward in iny J
heart in the consciousness of well doing.—
There was a comfortable feclit g in that
region that sent forth a vibration of light
and warmth and cheer, when I have heard
the widow’s “God Hess you.” But be
cause 1 have made my woodpile less I do
not look to se the vacancy’ miraculously
supplied, or if I did I might look in vain.
Neither because lamina strait do I be
lieve that some good providence will whisk
me right out of it. 1 used to, hut someway
I have come to see that if my miscalcu
lations end iu trouble I must work mv I
way alone and not expect Elijah’s raven j
or the widow's cruise of oil.
1 used to be very credulous. It came i
of reading about precocious children who
died young, because (as 1 war led to be- j
lievt) they were too good to live. Some i
way’ tbey always had just what they wan-1
ted. and were rewarded plumb-1 ishion for ‘
everything they did And then those |
stories of stumbling on secret springs just J
at the neck of time, when that horrid old •
curmudgeon oi a landlord was waiting to
turn out the poor widow anti her humble
furniture for a debt of rent. How beauti
fully—never dreaming of such a thing—
her band happens to bit that concealed
spriug ! and. how, whi* 1 came forth the
little box with—mark ii—just the sum
that was needed to pay off that miserable
accountant.
I believe sometimes—once in a great,
great, many'years wonderful coincidences
do happen ; I’ve seen them myself— but it
is only once in a groat while. Oue-half of
these providential interpositions that we
r< ad of nje pure fabrications—l am sure of
it.
Don’t teach the children to believe that
every good deed has its material rewaid.
It is not so. Our good is too often evil
spoken of. lugratitude meets uaat every
| turn. Rare hearts of true gold are they
’ who pernembrr lift I* fawn* ami have ittful
GREENESBORO’, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15', 1860.
them up for reference. Truly does the
Scripture say “all things shall work togeth
er for good, to them that l ive God.”—
But it does not fix the limit of our mercies
—it may be that the good will not meet
us till after the judgment.
Large folks and little ones, hear ye!
Learn to do good, because it is good to do
good. In other words, do it for the good’s
sake and not for your own. Think not of
the reward—“hut Oh ! this is sweet, sim
ply to do mercy, to walk humbly—to think
uo evil of my neighbor.”
Work— pray—hope—have faith, and
look to God for wages.— Olive Branch.
Honors to the Dead,
From the first pages of the world’s his
tory we learn that veneration for the mein
cry of the dead was early manifested by
both enlightened and barbarous nations.
Man lias never ceased to shed the tear of
sorrow, to rear the costly cenotaph, or to
herald to the world the merits of one fal
len iu the life-march. This custom, im
planted, as it were by Natuie, is a tacit
argument in favor of the existence of an
“immortal past,” and of its future reunion
with the material; for the sacred dust is
deposited with a care which bespeaks an
expectation that the soul will, one day,
claim again its tabernacle.
The variety of manner in which this in
nate reverence for the dcpaited has man
ifested itself in both ancient aud modem
times, presents a gravely pleasant field for
thought. The pyramids, which rear their
heads with a gloomy grandeur toward
Egyptian skies, speak plainly of the vast
amount of human energy,—nay, human
life, expended in procuring a depository
for royal as Iks. The mummies found in
oriental tombs cannot but remind one ot
the tender cares hesto.ved iu embalming
those frail tenements, that they might be
preserved through future ages.
llow imposing must have been the fu
neral solemnities of those ancient days
One is thrilled with a feeling of awe while
gazing at the picture, so vividly p'ortray
ed by the sacred artist, of the vast cor
tege which bore to burial the-remains of
Jacob. The train, of “chariots and horse
men, and all the elders of the land, —a
very gieat company,”—wends its way
over the plains ’ ol Egypt, to Canaan,
where, in the cave of Machpelah they lay
the Patriarch to rest. More grand though
less impressive, was the array which at-
Jendcd the Conqueror of the World to the
tomb,—yes, to the tomb, for, though lie
seized the sceptre of nations, he was him
self a subject in a realm whose monarch
is relentless Death. Borne in a chariot
which glittered with the wealth of the
East, his golden coffin hung with a purple
pall, the gilt embroidery ot which flashed
in the sunlight, and followed by an im
mouse concomse of people, lie found repose
beneath the shadow of a temple wherein
he received divine honors; fur the vener
ation of the ancients, as regards the mem
ory of their heroes, extended beyond the
magnificence of funeral pomp, taking the
form of woiship.
The traveller of the present day pauses
to read from richly-carved pillars the
epitaphs of the illustrious dead, borne
hither in all the pageantry of wealth, with ‘■
little sincere grief,—or. perhaps, by a sim
ple, sober train, while the hearts of a na
tion mourned. The deep sorrow of Joseph
who “fell spoil his father’s face, and wept,
and kissed him,” was afar richer tribute
to the memory of Jacob, tlmn the hosts of
Egypt'coe.ld have bestowed. The grief
of Alexander’s soldiers at the death ofa
prince whom the” loved, was a mere envia
ble memento than the splendid proces.eion
which followed him to the tomb. Ever
the simple tear of earnest sorrow for the
dead is more desirable than the glitter of
parade, and wbo would not prize more
highly a monument in even one Imina#
heart, whereon were ineffacebly inscribed
the virtues of the deceased, than a lifeless
marble shaft, though it pierced the heavens
and the world might read its empty in
scirption /
Oyeliha aid Oxford Railroad. —
\Yo learn from the Chambers (Ala.)
Tribune, that Messrs. Viscbeer and
I Leckett, the contractors on the Opelika
| and Oxford Railroad, have, arrived w’itli
; their hands and commenced work. In a
j short time they will have upwards of two
i hundred hands on the road, and the work
! will be prosecuted with energy until the
; grading is completed.
A Civil Word. — It a civil word or two
will render a man happy,” said a French
king, “he must be a wretch indeed who
will not give it. It is like lighting anoth
er man’s candle by your own, which loses
none of its brilliancy by what the other
gains.” If all men acted upon this princi
ple, the world would be much happier than
j it is.
We learn from llic Abbeville (Ala.)
United South, that a revival of great inter
est is progressing at Blakely, Early county
Ga. Twenty-five have been baptized.
Effect* of Street llnilroatl* upon City |
Improvement*.—X Cincinnati paper re
cently iu noticing the favorable effects of
rreet railroad building! says that $700,000
has been expended in city improvements
there, a great portion of which is owing to
the facilities afforded fr travel by the
ci*tiM*hm if the ditVrvu# street igsilrtnide.
A Genuine Chinese Wedding,
The upper tendom of (Jhinadom bad
been agitated not a little during the last
forty-eight hours, the occasion being the
celebration of the nuptial ceremonies of
jAh Yok and Ah Say. It is often that the
wedding rites amongst the natives of the
flowery Kingdom have been performed by
Christian Clergymen, but a regular pagan
eeremony is lately witnessed here. At 11
o’clock last evening, the villainous sounds
of gongs, reeds and cymbals drew us-in
one of the large basement apartments of a
Chinese house on Jackson street, between
Kearny and Dupont. On descending into
the subterranean chamber we encountered
at least a hundred Celestials of Both sexes,
who were mostly seated around tables and
engaged in screeching, smoking, and some
few listening to the dulcet notes of the
-baiid.
At the farther end of the main room a
curtained canopy had been erected, and
seated within, the groom, Ah Yok. This
candidate for matrimony was neatly attir
ed in the costume of his countrymen, but
wore upon his head a gilded ornament re
sembling a comb, and around l.is neck a
pink-colored scarf, lie is a mere youth,
and, as his father, to whom we were for
merly presented, announced to us, hut
“nineteen years old.”
Immediately in front of the canopy, on
a table, was spread an entertainment for
their guests consisting of dates and con
fectionery, the table being ornamented
with ware and sundry other articles of
Chinese manufacture. Hieroglyphics on
the ihii.tz ctirta-n of the canopy Repre
sented the name ot the groom. At inter
vals damsels entered bearing tiny cups of
ten, which were passed amongst their fe
male companions, which they supped with
infinite gusto.
The head-dress of the women was most
elaborately gotten up, tin ir jet black hair
being bound over glittering combs of ex
quisite workmanship. The bride was not
present, but at home, in an adjoining
street, receiving her friends with the same
ostentatious paiado as was her husband
here. These ceremonies were, in reality,
ante nuptial, inasmuch as the two were not
to he joined finally in holy wedlock until
five o’clock this morning, at which honr
they were duly escorted to the matrimo
nial couch. The fan-dango commenced
early day before yesterday, and was con
tinued without interruption, during that
and la ,t night.
The bride presented throughout the en
tire festivities a mournful-picture, sighing
and sobbing at intervals, as if she would
not have enough of sorrow after taking
“John” to her bosom. The Bride and
groom are hofli Cantonese, and have been
in the country about five years. The hus
band together with his “Governor.” keep
a restaurant iu the classic precincts of
Washington Alley, and the young wife
will be able lo “set up house keeping, with
out being compelled to lake in washing.
[Alta Californian.
Suggestions to ‘Planters*
New that the cotton season is over, and
the growing crop will be maturing in a few
weeks, 1 deem it proper to offer the fol
lowing suggestions for the benefit of plan
ters:
Ist. Let your cotton, when it opens, he
picked with proper care, being clear of dirt
and as free as possible from trash. Both
these things arc great drawbacks in effec
ting sales. Factors find great difficulty in
selling dirty and trashy cotton, and they
arc frequently compelled to effect sales at
very low prices, while the 6ame cotton, il
clear* wail 1 command ready fairs at fair j
prices, and thus pay (he owners well for
the ex’v i labor required.
2d. Take proper pains in ginning and
packing. Avoid as far as possible, the
too common evil of “napping” with the
gin. And also of “wet packing” it with
screw. Let enough bagging be put on
to cover up the cotton entirely, then cows
will not eat into the hales ; and they will
be in much better condition for shipping.
Bagging will generally pay for itself in sel
ling the cotton, heceetbc greater propri
ety of using a Jittlo more to put the bales |
in better condition. When cotton is well
covered, it suffers less from exposure to
fire and other damages; anti rogues have
not the same opportunity todraw Lmndfulls
out to replenish their own stock. Iu gin- 1
ning, two qualities of cotton should not be
mixed together. Neither should two dif
ferent qualities ever be put into the same
bale. These mixtures are sure to cause
annoyance to cotton dealers and factois,
j and they subject planters tbemslves to
trouble and loss. Witeu planters have
remnauts of cotton, tbey should gin and
pack each kind to itself ; and if the bales
are too light for shipping, they can bo
sold to the cotton factories.
3d. When the cotton is to be sent by
Railroad, the planter’s name should lie
distinctly maiked with good ink upon the
heads of the bales. This is proper at all
times, but more especially when shipped (
by railroad. Cotton brands arc generally ,
furnished gratis by warehouses, and every
planter can get them with but little cost
and trouble. When the name is properly
put upon the bales, but little trouble is nec
essary to identify them ; but when the
bales are not sufficiently marked, inore or
less Ison hie may he ejected, and it is
almost sure to come.
By giving attention to these little mat
ters, planters will save themselves much
trouble and expense.
A Warehouse Man.
| in Columbus Times.
Tire Trials ol'tire Seducer.
The seducer ! Playing upon the most
sacred affection?, be betrays innocence.—
How 1 By its noblest faculty, by its trust
by its unsuspecting faith, by its tender love
by its honor. The victim often and often
is not the accomplice so much as the suffer
er, betrayed by an exorcism which ue
witclied her noblest affections to become
the the suicide of her virtue ! The be
trayer, for the most intense selfishness,
without one noble motive, without one pre
tense of honor, by lie?, by a devilish jug
glery of fraud, by blinding the eye, con
fusing the conscience, misleading the
judgment, and instilling the dew of sorce
ry upon every flower of sweet affection,
deliberately—heartlessly damns the c< li
dding victim ! Is there one shade of good
intention—one glimmering trace of light !
No, not one! There was net the most
shadowy, tremulous intention of honor.—
It was a sheer, premeditated, wholesale
ruin, from beginning to end. The occurs- 1
ed sorcerer opens the door of the World
to push her forth. She looks out all shud- 1
dering, for there is shame, and sharp-tooth
ed hatred, and chattering slander, and 1
chattering slander, aud malignant envy,
and triumphant jealousy, and old revenge
—these are seen rising before her, clouds
full of fire that burns, but will not kill.—
And there is for Iter want, and poverty,
and gaunt famine ! There is the world
spread out; sire fees father and mother
heartlessly abandoning her, a brother’s
shame and a sister’s anguish. It is a vis
ion of desolation, a plundered home, an
altar wh re boner and purity and peace
have been insidiously sacrificed to the foul
Moloch. All is cheerless to the eye, and
the ear catches the sounds of sighing and
mourning, wails and laments, and far down
at the horizon of the vision, the mgrky
cloud for a moment lifts, and she sees the
very bottom of infamy, the ghastliness of
death, the last spasm of horrible departure
the awful thunder of a final doom. Ail
this tho trembling, betrayed creature sees
through the open door of the future, and
with a voice that might move the dead,
she turns and clasps his knees, in awful
agony : “Leave mo not! Oh Jsparo me!
save me ! east me not away !” Poortliing!
she is dealing with a demon t Spare her!
rave her ! The polished scoundrel be
trayed her .to abandon her, and walks the
streets to boast his hellish deed! It be
corni's him as a reputation l Surely socie
ty will crush him. They will smite the
wolf, and seek out the bleeding lamb. Oh,
my soul! believe it not ! What sight is
that l The drooping victim is worse used
than the infernal destroyer ! Ife i3 fon
dled, courted, passed from honor to honor,
and she is crushed and mangled under the
infuriate tramp of public indignation! On
her mangled corpse they stand to put the
laurels on her murderer’s brow’! I see
such things ats these, I thank God that
there is a judgment, and that there is a
hell!
The Vai.uk of Accuracy.— lt is the
result of every day's experience, that stea
dy attention to matters of detail, lies at
the bottom of human progress ; and that
diligence, above all, is the mother of good
luck. Accuracy is also ot much impor
tance, and an invariable mark < fgcod train
ing in a man. Accuracy in observation,
accuracy in speech, accuracy in the trans
action of affairs. What is done in business
must ho well done ,- for it is better to ac
complish perfectly a small amount of work
than to half-do ten times as much. A wise i
man used to say, “Stay a little, that we
may make an end the sooner.” Too little
attention, howevei, is paid to this liighlv
important quality of accuracy. Asa man
eminent in practical science latel}’observ
ed tc us, “It is astonishing how few people
I have met in the course of my experience
frho can define a fact accurately.” Yet,
in business affairs, itisthe mannrria which
| even small matters are transacted, that of
ten decides men for or against you. With
virtue, capacity, and good conduct in other
respects, tho-person who is habitually in
| actuate cannot he trusted ; his work has to
be gone ovei again ; and lie thus causes
endless annoyance, vexatio*, and trouble.
The Wife. —It is astouisbing to see how
well man may live on a small income, who
Las a bandy and industrious wife, dome
men live and make a far better appear
ance on six or eight dollars a week, than
others do on fifteen or eighteen dollars.
The man does his part well, but bis wile
good for nothing. She will even upbraid
her husband for uot living in as good style
as his neighbor, while the fault is entirely
her own. His neighbor has a neat, capa
ble, and industrious wife, and that makes
i tbe difference. His wife, on the other I
i hand, is a whirlpool, into which a great j
j many silver cups might be thrown, and .
j tin-, appearance of the water would remain
j unchanged. No Nicholas, the diver, is !
| there to restore the wasted treasure It is 1
I only an insult tor such a woman to talk to j
j Her husLand obotjt her love and devo
’ ti ns. 1
Tcrius-‘-$1,50 Always in Advance.
Wnsliingtou and Garibaldi.
AMERICA AND ITALY.
Can tyrants, but by tyrants, conquered be, 1
And Freedom find no champion and no child,
Such as Columbia saw arise, when she
Sprang forth a Pallas, arm’d and undefiled?
Or must such minds be nourished in the wild,
Deep in the upruned forest, ‘midst the roar
Os cataracts, where nursing Nature smiled
On infant W ashington ? Hus earth no more
Such seeds within her breast, or Europe no such
shore? I Childe Harold , Canto IV.
TO OARIUALDI.
The Earth still holds such seeds within so r
breast.
Europe still boasts of a Sicilian shore:
Thou, Garibaldi! bidd’st thy land be blessed,
And raise her drooping head high once more.
Me, who thy country s bondage deep deplore,
Dili Heaven’s best benedictions on thee wait,
On our great drama, thou art acting B'er:
The World forever, whatso’er thv late,
‘Shall thy heroic* mane embnlja ainongits great,
Hoxbury, July 4,1860. ” c . r? .
Tire Eud oFercaf Men.
Happening to cast my eyes upon a print
ed page of miniature portraits I perceived
that the four person-ages who occupied tho
same conspicuous places, were Alexander,
Hannibal, Caesar, and Bonaparte. I have
seen the same unnumbered times before*
but never did the same sensation arise in
my bosom, as tny mind hastily glanced
over their several histories.
Alexander, after having climbed the
dizzy bights of his ambition, and with hie
temples hound with chaplets dipped iu the
blood of countless nations, looked down
upon a conquered World and wept that
there was not iftother W’orld for hint to
conquer, set a city on tire, and died in a
scene of debauch.
Hannibal, after having, to the nsfonihh
ment and consternation of Rome, passed
the Alps, after having put to flight tho ar
mies of this‘’mistress of the world,” and
stripped “three bushels of gold rings front:
the fingers of her slaughtered knights,
and made her very foundation qttnke—fled
from his country, being hated by those
whe oxultingly united Ins name’ to that of
their god and called him IJaiini Biiol—and
died at last by poison administered by his
hands, unlamented and unwept in a for
eign land-
Caesar, after having conquered eight
hundred cities, and dyed his garments iu
the blood of one million of his foes; after
having ptrvsued to death the only rival he
had on earth, was miserably assassinated
by those he considered as his neartst
friends, and in that very place, the attain
ment of which had been his greatest am
bition.
Bonaparte, whose mandate kings ancl
popes obeyed, having filled the earth
writh the terror of his name; after having
deluged Europe with tears and blood, and
clothed the world in sackcloth; closed his
days in lonely banishment, almost literally
exiled from the world, yet where he could
sometimes see his country’s banner wav
ing over the deep, but wliish would not or
could not give him aid !
Thus, theso toua men, who. from the
peculiar situation of their portraits,, seemed
to stand as the i vpreseutatives of all- those
whom the world calls great—those four,
who each in turn made the earth tremble
to its very center by their simple tread
severally died, one by intoxication, or, as
some suppose, by poison mingled in his
wine ; one a suicide; one murdered by bis
friends, and one a lonely exile! “Jlow
art tbe mighty fallen !”
A Bbaltiful Picture.—A mother
teaching her child Lo pray, is an object at
once the most sublime and tender that the
imagination can conceive. Elevated above
earthly things, slat seems like one of those
i guardian angels, the eornpanion of our
earthly pilgrimage, through whose mims
irations we are inclined to good and ios
trained from evil. The image of th
mother becomes associated in his mind
with the invocation she taught him to his
“Father who i.-> In heaven.” When the
seductions of the world assail his yctilhful
mind, that well remembered prayer to bis
“Father who is in heaven,” will strength
en him to resist evil. When in riper years
he mingles with mankind, and encounters
fraud under the mask of honesty, when he
se.es confiding goodness befrayed, generos
ity ridiculed as weakness, unbridled hatred
i and the coolness of interested friendship,
lie may indeed be tempted to despise Lis
fellow men, hut he will remember his
“Father who is in heaven.”
Should he, on the contrary, abandon
bin.self to tlia world, and allow these.ci of
self-love to spring up and flourish in bis
heart, lie will, nutwltustandiug. sometimes
bear a warning voice in the depths of his
soul, severely tender as those maternal Ups
which instructed him to his “Father who
is in heaven.” Hut when ‘.he trials of life
arc over, and he may bo extended on the
bed of death, with no other consolation
but the praise of an approving conscience,
be will recail tho scenes of bis infancy, the
image of bis mother, and with tranquil
i confidence will resign his soul to Him who
i died that lie might live—the Redeemer of
| the wojd.
rrilofl. Samuel Carut hers died at Capa
Girarjefu, Missouri, on the SfOth lest. He
wm formerly a Whig member of C'ou-
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