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THOMAS A* BURKE, PROPRIETOR.
VOL. VII.
CASSVILLE STANDARD,
IS Published every Thursday.— L>sJ
Office, north-east corner of the OVj pm
bftblic square. —Terms, Two Dol- Eggr E3
fnrs a-vcar if paid in advance, two jfcig|*v|y
and a half after three months, lir wOr
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‘No paper discontinued until all arrearages are
mid except at the option of the publisher.
Miscellaneous advertisements inserted at SI
ner square (twelve lines, - ) for the first insertion,
and 50 cents for each weekly continuance. v
advertisements published at the usual
Advertisements not marked will be published
until forbid, and-charged accordingly.
betters on business must be pre-pa id, and ad
dressed to the Proprietor.
Busies Bfrecfolrj).
RWVFORD & CRAWFORD, Attorneys at
laic Cassville, Da.—As a firm under the
I above name John A. & M. J. Crawford will
nromptlv and faithfully attend to all business
intrusted to their care in any of the counties of
the Cherokee or Blue Ridge Circuits. M. J. Craw-
I ford will give particular attention to the collec
[ tine of all claims and debts, and will spare no
I mins to put clients in speedy possession of tbeir
j money. mh I~l>’ 1 ~ l >’
EW. CHASTAIN, Attorney at Law, Mor
, ganton, Ga.—Practices in all the coun-
I ties of the Cherokee circuit. Jan 5
T* ‘ MILNER, Attorney .at Law, Cass
ville, Geo. Practises in the counties of the
I Cherokee circuit. nili -4.
80. CRAWFORD, Attorney at Law, Cai
. homi. Geo.—Practice ill the counties of
I the Cherokee circuit. apr 24.
RH. TATUM. Attorney at Law, Trenton,
, Ga.—Business entrusted to his care in any
I of the counties of the Cherokee circuit, will meet
j with prompt attention. Nov. 21.
SWEIL, Attorney at Law, Canton, Geor
• gia. Business entrusted to his care in
! any ofthe counties of the Blue Ridge circuit, will
I meet with faithful attention.
Refers to Hon. David Irwin and Ex-Gov.
[ McDonald, Marietta; Col. Joseph E. Brown,
■ Canton; Capt. W. T. Woffojd, Cassville; Col.
I Gen. N. Lester, Cmmning.
Feb 16,1855 —ts
f>t J. FAIN, Attorns!/ at Law, Calhoun, Ga.
X. Will practice in‘all the counties ofthe
i Cherokee circuit. Particular attention will be
I paid to the collecting business. mh 9.
WT. WOFFORD, Attorney at Law, Cass
• ville, Ga.--Practices in all the counties
I ofthe CheroKee circuit, and will attend faitliful
| ly to all business entrusted to his care. Office
I east of the court house. aug IS—ts
TTOOPUR & RICE, Attorneys at Law, Cass
j 11 vilte, Geo.—Practice in the counties of
sass, Cobh, Chattooga, Catoosa* Cherokee, Dude
I Floyd, Gordon, Gilmer, Murray, Pickens, \V alt
er and Whitfield. Jons 11. Rice will, ashere
tif ire, continue to give his personal and almost
eiciusire attention’ to the collecting business.
I april 2 1 '*, 1854.
(4 L. BARBOUR, Attorney at Law, Atlan-
J% ti, Georgia.—Will practice in the differ-
I-nt Courts of Fulton and contiguous counties.
Particular attention given to the execution of
I Interrogatories, and draughting legal instru
ments. Chihns in the city of Atlanta will be
Kitlv attended to. Office in the Holland
;, up stairs.—Entrance first door above
Whitney k Hunt. Feb 18, ’oa—ly
WH [RLE & WIKLE, Dealers in Dry Goods,
Groceries, Ac. Ac. South west corner
I of Public Square, Cartersville, Ga.
Jan. 28, 1854.
F 1). CARPENTER, Dealer in fancy, staple
M • and domestic dry goods, sugar, coffee, mo
lasi;s, Ac.; hardware, cutlery, Ac., at Erwin’s
“Id stand, Cassville, Ga. Jan 1.
J W. HOOPER A CO., Dealers in Staple and
*) • Fancy Goods, Groceries, Iron, Hats, Caps,
Hoots and Shoes, Ac., Ac., at the Brick store,
■ Cassville, Ga. Feb 2, 1854.
nIRSCHBERG A DAVIDSON, Cassoille,
Ga. —Manufacturers of clothing, and deal
■'ft in Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Gentlemen’s
■ Famishing Goods, Fancy Goods, and Jewelry,
■ Wholesale and Retail, at Patton’s olb stand
■ Cassville, Ga. June 23 1854.
■ T OCKETT A SNELLINGS, Factors and
11 s General Commission. Merchants, will attend
I Hrictlv to Receiving and Forwarding aud
■ ‘'ielling everything sent to our address.
■ sept 9—Gni*
WM. M. PEEPLES, Dealer in Dry Goods.
Groceries, Iron, Hardware, Saddlery,,
! jboU, Shoes, Drugs, Medicines, Ac., Ac. Cal
“in, Ga.
May 5,1854.—1 y
C G. COURTENAY, A CO. No. 3, Fraud
O • Street, Charleston, South Carolina. Books,
Stationery, Fancy Articles, Magazines, and
• uvw.s|iapers.
I The most extensive stock of Novels, Roman
■tcs, he., in the Southern country.
H Near the Post Office. nih 16
■'■l. CO CUT ESA V. W. A. COURTK.VAY.
iATT McBURNEY A CO., Direct Im
wirters and Wholesale Dealers in Foreign
•mystic Dry Goods, No. 37 Hayne Street,
•ston, 8. C. Jan 12, 1855 —43— 1 y
ARD & BURCHARD, Augusta Ga.,
would inform their friends and the pub
lerally, that anticipating a change in their
:ss, the coming season, they are disposed
telarge concessions front their former low
•if prices, in order to reduce their stock to
•west possible point. The attention of
sale dealers as well as customers, is res
illy solicited,
justa, Dec 22
RR A McKENZIE. —Factors and Commis-
I ; sion Merchants, and Dealers in Groceries,
‘ ‘iiee and M jrch vndise generally, Atlanta,
I jWicular attention given to consignments of
ll ', Grain, Bacon, and all kinds of
I PA itK. k.
felL-ly. ‘ ‘ ’
tesilll'g IRON WORKS.—I lie subscri-
I Kir is now prepared to receive and cxe-
I ‘ jrt * er * for any kind of Castings, or Ma
tti,l an >d all persons favoring him with
LL* 11,a .v rely ttpon haVilfg them executed.ill
tg*! manner, Jihd ‘ witji despatch. Orders
it minds and ‘doofs proniptly attended to
I Com! ~ Establishment. Cash paid for old
*1 i WW, Brass dhd Iron Castings.
Atkni „ JOSEPH WINSHIP.
jJ an K <Ja., June 80, r 54.
A IN G.—ibe Subscriber
Tv® is'prepared to do all kinds of work
™,’ line, such as Ironing Carriages,
Htntj ,h ln R an ‘t repairing Farming imple
tr,4 niitf horse-shoeing, Ac. iu the best
Ifcetitai on t* l ® most reasonable terms.—
S “’ arra nted. A share of patronage is
tWi'n r- „ h- GRIFFIN,
Ga., Feb. 16,1855.—2—1 y.
STORE, A. ,J.
■k M , u ' ll assortment of Iron,* Nails, C.dt-
H‘4* r ?. Springs, Axles, Carriage Trim
. a ”d Parloi*S.tbves, ■ Meehuiiic’s’
■'> Tools, Ac,, wlufch Svill he sold as
■ Allan,, X® Knight in any market.
■ wa .U, Ga., Jnly H, im.
the wms swss.
SdbeHisiitneiiff
CARRIAGE and Buggy Making Estahlish
ment at Cartersville Cass county Georgia,
r WE would solicit a continuance of
the patronage heretofore enjoyed.—
We are doing good work, and at reasonable pri
ces. We keep on hand a. good selection of
Stock, and have employed a fine_assprtmcnt of
firstrate Mechanics, who know what they are
about. We warrant our work not to fail. Give
us a call before purchasing elsewhere. Our
motto is Honesty and Industry.
JONES A GREENWOOD.
Cartersville, Ga., July 8, 1854.
NEW Tailoring establishment, at Car tors v Pie
Georgia, Shop at S. 11. I atillo’s old stand.
tThe subscriber has lately opened in
the town of Cartersville a New Tai
loring Establishment, where he is pre
pared to do any work in his line in the ;
best and moat fashionable manner. lie guar
antees all vroifc turned out of his shop to. fit in
the most unexceptionable manner. Particular
ly attention paid to cutting and fitting jobs fur
ladies. He lewpectfully solicits a, fair trial, as
he is confident of success.
SILAS O’SHIELDS.
sept 9—ly
rpo FARMERS AND PLANTERS. A. A J.
X L. Hill, are now receiving a superior lot
of Negro Shoes, Negro Blankets and Kerseys,
Osnabnrgs, Shirtings, Trunks, Ac., for the fall
and winter trade, which they are offering Lou’
for Cash, or on short time. Farmers or others
wishing to purchase such articles will do well
to give us a call and examine prices, for we will
have them on hand and intend to sell. All that
we ask is that you will call and examine for
yourselves, east of the court house. •
Cassville, Oct 27
PS EORGE VOGT'S Piano and
v X slu sic Store. .Vo. 148 Arch
a Street, Philadelphia. Constantly
” ** U on hand Pianos, Melodcons, Musi
cal Merchandize of every description, Sheet Mu
sic, Ac. Ac.
Vogt’s Piaxos are pronounced superior to
all others in sweetness, power and beauty of
tone and unequalled workmanship. Persons
wishing a Piano of the first class and undoubt
ed excellence, at a very moderate price, will do
well to give them a trial. sept I—l1 —1
-XTOTICE ToTaND OYfNEfiSI The under
.L x signed having removed from Albany to j
Tronnvifle, Lowndes county, Gn.
Will in addition to the-practice of Law examine
and report the value of land in the counties of
Thomas, Lowndes, Clinch, Ware, Appaling and |
Irwin. He will, when requested, examine?
Lands personally, and give full information as J
to -ihic, location and probability of immediate |
salo. Having no connection whatever with !
land speculation he will engage to act as agent,
in the sale or purchase of lands, in any of the i
aforesaid counties for a fee of ten per cent, up- |
oil lhe amount received or paid out, His char-.
ges for examining land will be five dollars per J
lot, for lands in the 12t}i district of Lowndes, in
all the other districts, be will charge ten dol
lars. Additional will be charged for an exami
nation of title upon record.
EPHRIAM 11. PLATT,
Attorney at Law.
Troupvitle, Lowndes Cos. Ga.
Nov 17 —ly
MUSIC, dr. dr.
.raj—j, THE undersigned is pre-
Rued to furnish Vogt’s
Pianos, at short notice,
H and on as good terms as
X they can be had anywhere
at the South. These in
struments arc warranted to be equal in point of
tone, durability and workmanship, to any man
ufactured in the world. Evert’ Piano warranted
for five years. Any instrument failing to meet
the expectations of the purchaser, may 1 e re*
turned at any time within six months, and an
other will be given in its stead. Having a
brother (a Professor of Music) in Philadelphia,
who selects every Piano sent out, purchasers
may rest, assured that none but perfect instru !
inents, in every respect, will be sold.
A large lot of Sheet Music, of the latest and
most fashionable issues, constantly on hand
and for sale at Publisher’s nrices.
WM. SCHERZER.
Professor of Music in Cassville
Dec. 8, 1854 —ly Female College.
v-; —s'T>UTNFZV A CLAYTON, WAue
fewsHw House axd Commission Mbr-
Augusta, Ga. —Continue the
bnsiness in all its branches, and will give i
their personal attention to the sale of COTTON
and other produce. Cash advances made when
required. Bagging, Rope, and family supplies
purchased at the lowest market rates. Com
mission for selling Cotton 25 cents per bale,
aug lß —>
npo OLD SOLDIERS.—By a recent Act of
1 Congress, all persons who have served in
any War since 1790, are entitled to 180 acres of
Land —and those who have received Warrants
for a less number, are entitled to a sufficient
number of acres to make that amount. The
undersigned will attend to the collection of
such claims. WM. T. WOFFORD.
Cassville, mh S —ts
Agency at Washington.—The -
dcrsigned-prosecutes all manner of claims
against the United States, before Congress, be- |
fore Commissioners, and before all the Public j
Departments, and especially claims for bounty
land under the act of Congress just passed, pen-1
sions, back-pay, half-pay, adjustmentofamounts j
of disbursing officers, settlement of post mas- j
ters and contractors accounts, and every other
business requiring the prompt and efficient ser
vices of an attorney or agent.
A residence of twenty years at the seat of the
Federal Government, with a thorough and fa
miliar acquaintance with all the routine of the
puhlic business at the different offices, added to
his free access to consul’ die ablest legal advi
sers, if needed, justifies the subscriber in pledg
ing the fullest satisfaction and utmost dispatch
to those who may entrust their business to his
care.
Being well known to the greater portion of
the citizens of" Washington, as well as to many
gentlemen who have been members of both
Houses of Congress in the last fifteen years, it
is deemed unnecessary to extend this notice by
special references. A full power of attorney
should accompany all cases. Communications
must be pro-paid in all eases. Pecs regulated
by nature and extent ol the business, but al
ways moderate.
3 H. C. SPALDING, Attorney.
Washington, D. 0. rph 15—
BOUNTY LANDS.—The undersigned hav
ing long been engaged in the prosecution
of Revolutionary Pension Claims, Invalid Pen
sion Claims, Bounty Land Claims Ac., against
the General Government, now tenders his ser
vices to all such claimants, especially to Bounty
Land Claimants for the procurements of their
Claims, as there are many such Claims under
the late law of Congress, which gives an addi
tional Bounty of Land to the soldier* of all the
wars in wbicn the United States has engaged
since 1790, who have not received as much as
160 acres. ELISHA KING.
Adairsville Ga. mh 22 —2m
SELLING off at Cost for Cash, As the under
signed is closing up the business of the firm
of Leake A Howard, he has determined to.
sell off at cost for cash.
j Come all that want good, bargains and, com#
’ nuu-k or you will miss thorn.
| Cprtersville, Dec I—ts W. W. LEAKE,
H’ EADY-MADE CLO,THING, Paijt.l. Stuff;
Chambrav, and a fine assortment of Jew
-1 elry, at ‘ LEVY’S” CASH STORE,
apr 26—ts
® IRtospqfiel—jkbofed so Tfi|iioiii)l DflO Sfufe politics, JafeUhtfe, the ILHreis, Eol-eigi) nod Softicsfic ftetos, &i.
CASSVILLE, GrJs THTTESDAY, JULY 5,1855.
Cjjairt |Wnj.
ft §oiig.
3Ij r song shall be, of one made up,
Os loveliness alone :
A woman of her gentle sex—
The seeming paragon;
To whom the better elements
And kindly stars have given,
A form so fair, still like the air,
’Tis less of earth than heaven.
Her every tone is music’s own,
Like- those of morning birds,
Andßbmething more than melody
Dwells ever in her words;
The coinage of her heart are they,
And from her lips each flows,
As one may see the burdened bee
F’orth issue from the rose.
Affections are as thoughts to her,
The measures of her hours;
Her feelings have the fragranev,
The freshness of young flowers ;
And lovely passions changing oft,
So fill her, she appears
The image of themselves by turns,
The idol of past years!
Os her bright face one glance will trace
A picture on the brain, *
And of her voice in echoing hearts
A sound must long remain ;
But memory such as mine of lier
So very much endears,
When death is nigh, my latest sigh
Will not be life’s but hcr’s.
My song shall be of one made up
Os loveliness alone
A woman of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon—
Os her! and would on earth there stood
Some more of such a frame,
That life might be all poetry
And weariness a name.
iMiriwl f*krtrjj.
W[t ITT EX FOR THE CASSVILI.E STANDARD.
The Literature and Manners of the
Ancient Scandinavians—No. 3.
The poetic Edda is mostly devoted
i !o the description of the deeds of S’can
| dinavian heroes of the time of Ouin. A
! few of the poems were doubtless written
| bv Salmond himself; but the majority
j of them bear internal evidence that en
| titles them to the claim of much higher
j antiquity than the eleventh century. —
I One of these poems is translated into
\ modern Damish verse by Prof. Finn Mng
nussen, in his Elder Edda, published in
Copenhagen, in the year 1822.
The poem consists of two hundred and
sixty six lines and is entitled “ Thryms—
koala edr Hammar Sheimetf’ (Thryrne’s
song, or the mallet regained.) The sto
ry it relates is as follows : The god Thor’s
mallet has been*conquered by the giant
Tlirym, who has burred it beneath the
| icy rocks of the Earth. Loki is sent
by Thor, to negotiate with the giant fur
the recovery of the formidable weapon;
but Thrytn vows that the mallet shall
[.not be restored unless Freja shall consent
to become bis bride. Loki returns to
Olympus; but the Goddess of Love, of
course, is horror stricken at the thought
of bestowing her charms upon the King
of the Frost Giants. Loki, therefore, in
I his character of the king of falsehood,
1 persuades Thor to dress himself in Fre
ja’s clothing, borrow her wings and then
to accompany him to the caverns of the
Earth, the Kingdom ofThiym. By the
advice of his artful counsellor, Loki,
Thor closely veils his countenance that
; the giant may not recognize him. Thrym
| invites bis bride to sup with him and is
astonished at her appetite, as she eats
for her supper eight large fish, a full
grown ox, and other delicacies, wash
ing down the whole with three hogs
heads of mead. lie questions Loki—
but the deceitful knave assures him that
the young lady has thought so much of
the approaching nuptials, that she had
eaten nothing for eight days. At length
the King of the Frost Giants has the cu
riosity to uplift the veil, which has thus
far concealed Thor’s countenance. He
starts back in fear, and demands why
I Freja’s eyes, glisten with such wild fire.
| “ For eight long nights’’ replies the cun
| ning Loki, “ she has not slept, so ardent
! ly has she longed to become your wife.”
| Satisfied the Frost Giant directs the rnal
■ let to be placed upon the “ fair damsels
| lap.” Now Thor casts aside his disguise,
J ami grasping his mallet slaughters Thrym
! and all his followers. “La kom ,” con
cludes the poet. Odins son after till
sin hammar , —and thus Odin’s son, he
regained his mallet. The exploits of
• Odin and his kindred Gods, occupying
j a large portion in the Poetic Edda. —
j This Edda also contains the code of
i laws religious and moral, as given by
Odin, some of which are said to have
been written by the great God himself,
in the Runic character. The Runic
character is a writing which the Scandi
navians supposed was invented by Odin,
But he undoubtedly brought his knowl
edge of their writing from Scythia, for
although much modified, still it slightly
resembled the Roman character. Up
wards of one thousand Runic inscrip
tions has been discovered iu Sweden,
and three or lour hundred in Denmark
and Norway.
The Prose or younger Edda is com
monly ascribed to the celebrated Snorri
Sturlason, who was born of a distinguish
ed Icelandic family in the year 1178,
and lifter leading a turburlent and ambi
tious life, and being twice the supreme
Magistrate of the Republic, was killed
A, X>> 1241. The Jhose Edda in its pre
sent form consists of the prologue. The
deception of Gylfij conversations,
and an.Ejiiiloguc.. The prologue and
mid V vcej;e. pyotyibly written,
by Snorri himself. They consist yf
a mass of ridiculous, syncretiau of llc-
“PRINCIPLES NOT MEN.”
brew, Greek, Roman and Scandinavian
myths and legends, in which Noah, Pri
am, Odin, Hector, Thor, JEneas, and oth
er personages of a like character, are
jumbled together in the form of a ro
mance,. much resembling those of the
middle ages. These .dissertations, how
ever, have nothing in common with the
so called Prose Edda. The Prose Edda
is principally derived from the Poetic
Edda, and as there is nothing new or
striking in it, we will now turn our at
tention to the Skaldic literature.
The most affecting and striking pas
sages in the ancient northern poetry,
were such as now would be considered
lhe most whimsical, unintelligible ridic
ulous, their modes of thinking were so
different from ours at the present time.
Another reason contributes to render
their poetry very obscure, and that is,
their language and metaphors are bor
rwwed from their mythology —a my
thology not so .familiar to us as
that of the Greeks and Romans. —
When they did not allude to their
own fables, they took metaphors from
other subjects, which were common
ly very far-fetched, and overdrawn. —
Thus a poet seldom expressed heaven by
any other term than ‘‘the Giant Amir's
Skull,” alluding to a fable in which that
giant figured most conspicuously. The
rainbow they called “ the bridge of the
Gods.” Gold was the tears of Frija the
Goddess of love. Poetry the drink of
Odin, and smiles of Brugi. The earth
was called either “ the wife of Odin ;
the jdaughter of the night, the mother of
Thor, the vessel which floats on ages or
the foundation of the air. Herbs and
plants were called, the fleece or hair of
the earth. A a combat was termed, a
bath of blood; hail from Odin or the
shock of shields. The sea was the field
of pirates, or the griddle of the earth.—
Ice, the firmest and largest of bridges, a
ship the horse of the waves, and the
tongue a sword of wonls. In short, they
studied these expersions until it became
necessary for the Skalds to com pile a glos
sary of their far fetched metaphors and
overwrought siinlies, that their readers
might be enabled to understand them
aright. Two of these dictionaries are
still extant; the one by Ragnoald, Earl
of the Orkuiegs; under the name of the
Poetical key, and the other is to be found
at the end of the Prose Edda, under the
title of Skaldi,” or the Art of Poetry.
Hettet 1o $ fiietoi'.
Who is Wiley Harbucket ? Hereto
fore unknownfame, lie becomes sud
denly “one of’em.” Preserved in the
amber of the Knickerbocker’s humor,
Wiley will go*down to immortality as
the Model Letter Writer of Alabama.—
We give Knick’s preface as well as the
epistle:
“ Wiley Harbucket's Letter from
Clarke county, Alabama, which ensues,
is a genuine document, save the name
and the ehirography, the latter of which
denies all transfer. It was addresssed to
a commission house in Mobile. “It dis
plays (writes the obliging friend at New
Orleans from whom we receive ii) the
characteristics of a class hitherto not des
cribed, the small planter of the South,
with whom there is a vein of genuine
practical piety and kind domestic feeling
which deserves to ‘be appreciated. I
have observed that you specially affect
anything that is thoroughly American /
and I am sure that you will see that this
letter is as well thoioughly Southern,
and giving moreover a phase of life in
the South not on record.” Our corres
pondent speaks of other letters of Mr.
Harbucket.” Let us have them by all
means:
Clark County, Ala, )
Nov. 16, 1854. (
“J/r. Brown Smith Johnson Mobile :
“ Dear Sia: After what is due to
friendship I rite you these sue lines to in
form you of the doth of my wife she de
parted this Life on wensday moruin the
foreteen of this present month in great
Peace of congetiv chills. llc funeral is
to he preeched Sunday weak at Salem
cliuVch brother Fog of fishiating which is
the okashin of my riting these sue lines
to order you to send me a soot of close
and 1 Bari whisky as I want to make a
respektilde apearana on that solim Oka
shin lam five foot 10 and way 155
pounds wait you must selekt me a good
article yourself close that fits your wav
er Mr. Jim Gooden will about fit if any
thing a leetle chunkier. I want Dexter’s
best at a far price for my niggers to keep
off the ehils which is prevalin in this
sexsbin of country make a strong -pot
of cofty well biled and strong put in
a handful of papers and 1 pint whisky
give every hand a cup ful in proportion
going to the field of a morn in* before the
Jews is off and give your niggers warm
close and wool sox nit and chils is no
whar lot them try this reaeet the likes
—my wife pateruized the Steenv Practic
and took their medU the reglar Fackil
ty inout have saved life, then agin they
moot not Got] He kno.se llis will be done.
Sarnh Jane Harbucket was 27 years nine
months and throe days old when she de
parted this life —a good wife and a pms
Christian woman likewise a consistent
member of the Baptist persvjaysbin let
us be likfcwitjje be prepared}.
Stic tyux gone to Abruband's breast
’ Thar to lay and. rest,
with angels in the sky
a lung eternity
tyid’ \ye are left t‘
and
leaving a diskonslat husband and three
small children afl boys —she was also a
i gradyouate of Marion Collidge and her (
Diploma sertyfying.the same, hangs be-j
fore me sad relick of the past and an ad
vantage young humble servant ‘never en-:
joyed bein raised hard and pore but I I
am thankful in the fear of the Lord so
you must excuse ritin and wharf
amiss—also excuse my feelings on this |
okasliin out of fullness of the heart the ;
mouth speaketh says the Book—but
gents bisiness is business, craps has not |
turned out what I expected and looked
for and allers expected they would uot
bavin no seezins to make truck grow my
crap is 19'Bags with nine grown hands
besides children that helps considerable
in pickin : however a far crap of corn
and no meet buy.
“Wiley harbueket my crap 19 Bails
Number 1 to 19—Daub Bunn his crap
11 Bails, John T. Shad rack his crap and
too bales he tuck in trade the 2 Bails
marked with a cross make them County
Sales to itself in all 15 Bags fur John
Shad rick, David Pipkins 9 Bags—my
nigger has one bag marked Wiley liar
bucket with boys below on the bed which
1 want the county sales seprat to itself
the proseeds sent to me in cnlicker and
things for the niggers according to the
bill inclosed —boy Joe has on sliar Bob
one sliar Elijah one shar Nancy one sliar
and a calicker dress to cost not morn a
dollar and half extra to be charged to
my county sales—and the balluns ofthe
niggers bag they wants sent in cotton
stocking for womin aud a peece of crape
not to cost too much for the funeral
which I am willin to gratify them es
pes! ally Nancy who is a faithful servant
and vvayted on mv dceeesed wife faith
ful—so you will jdease fill the bill in the
shars accorditi to the best of your judg
ment according to the bill in regarding
of the cotton shipped to your be. t care
aud attension the lint is extra niso all
put up needy at my gin and all Dean
seed cotton and anise article and needy
put up to averidge 450 to 500 pound
and the rise at my gin and the niggers
bail nigh on to six hundred pound not
bein euuff for another bail—now Gent
we ships all to your house and gives
your house our pateruidge and we want
the biggest dollar our cotton will fetch
which is much needed at these presents
money bein skase and a short crap and
expense heavy at this ritin and not to
sacrafise our prod use on the first offer,
and not to sackrifice our produse on the
first offer, and let no man way oyr cot
ton but Jim Gooden, which will be sat
isfactory to all consented and does us
justice in the waits—my trus
ted this bisness to me and ‘I leev all to
vour best judgment when to sell and
don’t set no limit but think prices will
go up when folks come to kuo how pore
a crap is made in this sexshun not half
craps and send every man his county
sales to him accordin to name at Motts
Post Oflis Clark county Alabama and
the country sales of the 2 Bails for John
T. Shftdrack seprat and the one Bag of
my nigger to me seprat to itself! I will
send in to the Peach tree for the close
and things ordered—by Friday evening
providence permit ten —I wanted to go
down myself but the Lord ordered it dif
ferent.
“ Your letter in* regard in the war and
the money market is reseeved also the
papers for which you have my best res
pecks—l have uot been abil to consider
the subjeck under all the deep waters
but the Lord be praised I anrsupported
under this afHixsliun an will rite you my
idees as requested in a short time the
Lord permittin
“no more at present from yours to
command.
WILEY JIAKBUCKET.”
ft )eecl).
Hooper of the Montgomery Mail, gives
the following report of the greatest speech
he ever heard:
A fellow was indicted lip in the old
Ninth, when Tom G 1 was Solicitor,
for gambling, to wit: Playing “ short
cards,” at a certain locality known as
Frog Level. Col. N defended him
and contended before the jury, that tho’
the State’s evidence “tended” to show
that his client, with a bottle of liquor in
his pocket, accompanied tho crowd who,
it was shown, did actually play, yet it
never did, with absolute certainty locate
him as one of the players. Said lie, by
way of peroration:
“Gentlemen of the Jury : the witness
have told you that Peter Wyatt was
thar, and a-playin ; for ho noticed his
hand, and it was a full on Queens!
“Harry SrtoW was tfiar, and Ae w & s
a-playin’; for he hilt two little par !
“ William Upson was thar, and fie
played, ’cause witness noticed, in par
ticular. that he had nothin’ but an ace !
“ Bill Connor war thar agd Ae played,
gentlemen, for he had tho bully hand—
four high heeled Jacks J
“ But, gentlemen, when I come to ask
him about Abraham Pitken—my client’s
hand, what did ho say gentlemen ?
Why, nothin’, gentlemen, except that if
Abo hilt any hand, ho disromembered
what was in it J Ami now gentlemen of
thejiury, because my client was seen goin‘
down to Frog Level, with a bottle of li
quor in his pocket, and the witness can’t,
roirwmbci; at> he tylt any hand at all*,
when bully hand's was out, and’ him the
TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR, IN ADVANCE*
best player in the crowd —is that—*V
j that —I say, gentlemen of the jury, in
that my client was guilty of the crime of
I Gambolling !”
It is almost needless to. say. A bat the
‘jury saw the non-sequitor ana acquitted
I the defendant.
j Lung Diseasses—Dr. Huilter.
I Our readers have, doubtless, all read the 1
series of interesting letters contributed to
i the Mirror, for sometime past, by Dr Robert
i Hunter, whose system of lnhalation iti the
treatment of Diseases of the Chest”—-thohgb
but for a short time introduced to the Amer
ican public ; has, by its uniform success,
even in cases pronounced inettt-ahie by oth- j
er modes of treatment, secured a favor with !
the public, aud the medical fraternity even. |
seldom vouchsafed to an inuoVatioh on me- j
dical usages.” Indeed, we doubt if any j
greater revolution in the treatment of a class >
of diseases, has ever occurred in this couu- i
try.
To diseases of the lungs and chest ; con
sumption, bronchitis, &c., —the American
people have a general ami, it would seem,
chronic inclination. Whether it results
most from carelessness in dress, or in diet,
or mainly from want of card in both, as well
as in habits of exercise, we cannot say —but
we know, from keeping an eye to the mortal- j
ity bills, that lung and chest diseases are the
ruling diseases of this country. And what is
more, they have, heretofore, mainly baffled
the skill of our medical faculty, laughing
tarwater, cod liver oil, and all that sort of
tilings to scorn. The accession of Dr. Hun
ter, therefore, to oUr medical raJiks, ivith a
system of practice that promises to reduce if
not obliterate the triumphant power of con
sumption and its cognates, is hailed with
more than satisfaction.
Dr. Hunter is a physician, who lias ven
tured into the field with no less modesty
than ability, making no pretensions that lie
has not justified by sound argument and suc
cessful practice. Right here, in our midst,
he has met the < incurables,” and restored
them t 6 pristine health. He has so multi
plied wituessses iu his behalf that he might
have rested on < testimonials,” and been
sure of practice to liis heart’s conteut. But
he has taken a broader aud nobler view in
relation to his duty, as the itostitutor of a
valuable new system in connection with the
healing art. lie has desired not only to
practic it himsalf, but to commend it to the
medical fraternity, certain that, when their
prejudices should be overcome, they, too,
would join with him in its practice. lie
wished to serve the public in the largest way
possible.
Os course we know nothing of the medica
ments used by Dr. Hunter, nor can we dis
course technically upon his mode of treat
ment ; we only know that by inhalation he
reaches disease as it has never before been
reached, and that, to the patient, it is not
only curative but the at same time the most
agreeable mode of treatment. Our reactors
have, however, beeu eulightened by Dr. H.’s
letters more than they would be by any
thing we could say. Avery able article, or
summury of his system, appears iu the
March number of the American Medical Ga
zette, edited by Dr. Meredith lleese. We
have not space here to copy this article, as
wc would like to do, but it is worthy of the
attention of every one. In introducing, the
letter to his readers, Dr Reese says ;
< We insert his (Dr. Hunter's) letter with
pleasure, addressed as it is to the profession,
who will know how to appreciate it It will
serve us, moreover, as an answer to many of
our distant subscribers who have writteu to
us for information on the subject. They
cannot fail to discriminate between Dr. Hun
ter’s scientific views in regard to diseases and
remedies, and the paltry charlatanism of
certain quacks, whose grandiloquent adver
tisements of lung vapor in packages,’ &c ,
merit only contempt, and whose employment
of luhalation is calculated to bring the prac
tice into disrepute.”
The llerald says, in copying the above
mentioned letter: /
< The article is clear, well written and
sensible, and is addressed by Dr. Hunter to
! his brethren of the profession at large, as
an explicit declaration of the principles on
which ho practices in a speciality, with ac
knowledged benefit to a large and widely ex
tending circle of patients, both from this
city and the surrounding districts. Ilis
avoidance of every indication of empiricism,
and liis rational diagnosis ot all affections ot
the throat and lungs, with his very success
ful application of remedial agents in the
shape of medicated vapor, have caused Dr
Hunter to bo already patronized by somo of
our leading physicians, and his bouse is dai-’
ly crowded with patients.”
But our purpose, in this article, is not
to introduce special testimony, or to argue
Di\ Hunter’s claims in any special Way
With thousands of others, we have boon in
terested id his system, more by the univer
sality of its success and the blessing it prom
ised, than on any and nil accounts. To the
real servitor of the publio-rtho friend of Uu
munity—-we have nevor been wanting in eu
logy. We regard Dr. Hunter as a distiu j
gftishod moinbor of his class.—A*. V, Even
ing Mirror ,
gyg- > Among all my boys, I never had
but one who took after his futhor, and that
was my Aaron; ho took after mo with a
Olub.”
“John, who wys (he wisest mim
“ Pont. know.sir.”
“ Yes you do know, tell me.”
“ Wall I guess it was uncle, for father
sea he was so cunning he got everybody
to trust him .and wasn't fool enough to
pay nobody,”
NO.
From the Presbyterian Critic.
The American Party.
/There is no demand whatever for a
great national movement against the
Catholic Church. The recent excite
ment in the country has been, in the
main, the result of a corrupt movement
of unprincipled politicians, to excite the
Protestant feeling of the people and to
‘ride into power upon the tide. They
have run foul of the great maxim, which
they have so conspicuously set forward
amoug their principles, as if for the pur- .
pose of exposing the profligacy of the
whole movement, by violation in prac
tice what they praise in theory. It is ab-
I surd to deny, that making tile mere re
j ligious sentiments of a man the reason
j for refusing to vote for him, isVi violation
j of the great principle of religious liberty,
j It is allowing a principle of discrimina
| ting the political aspect’of a vote to be
i sound and just; which would be wicked
and unprincipled, if embodied in a law.
If our neighbors make their dislike to our
Presbyterian sentiments the ground of
their refusing to vote for us, it is perfect
ly useless to disguise that we are un
der political responsibility for religious
opinions— that, quoad hoc, we are suffer
ing for them. The objectionable feature
in'this view of the case is, making relig
ious opinion unattended by any vicious*
ness of action growing out of it, a gronnd
foi an universal political’
affairs, affecting permanently large mas
ses of citizens. This is our first aud
great objcci ion to the American or Know
Nothing party; it is violating the very
principle of religious liberty which it pro
fesses to conserve; and has adopted a
construction of that principle which
strips it of all practical force leaving it
a dead letter in the statute book, and
abandoning its control over the political
action of the people.
We object again to a political move
ment against the Catholic Church, be
cause there is no necessity for It* provid
ed the people of this country will prop
erly employed the legitimate agencies of
opposition which are in their power.—
The simple and sufficient condition of
the preservation of the Republic from
the arts of Romanism, is the full efficient
support of the protestant CliUtch—the
complete and animated maintenance of
the domestic, missionary enterprises of
the various Protestant denominations.
This Is the great conservative element of
our political system —to sustain ahd viv
ify it with the vigorous energy Which it
ought to possess—and it need hot be
feared that any of the great social or po
litical interests that are conditioned up
on it will ever come to harm. It is the
only—not less than the only legitimate
power, which can be effectively employ
ed to restrain Popery arid maintain the
institutions of oUr Government. All
persecution, no matter how disguised in
form or limit in extent, will inure to the
benefit of the body enduring it. The
policy, then, of restraining Popery by
political disabilites inflicted upon the
individual Catholic, is suicidal in the ex
treme. It will concentrate and intensify
the attachment of its members, and ren
der them more unapproachable by Pro
testant instruction. It will create sym
pathy, and thus open Wide tile door to
proselytism, an as it will put the Church
in an attitude far more attractive as the
victim of an unjustifiable crUsttde than
it is at all entitled to assume from its in
trinsic charms. How long is the world
to be learning the lesson and never com
ing to the knowledge of the truth, that all
means but reason and love to affect the
opinions of men, only result in strength
ening attachment to their original con
victions ? The principle of opposition to
Popery is vicious, and the more com
pletely it is carried into effect, tile more
disastrous will be the result. The more
complete the political victory over Po
pery, the more it will be benefited.—
The only effective—iis it is the only law
ful, general and permanent agency of op
position to the Popish Church—is the
true Protestant Church of Christ under
its various forms. We have no right to
complain of the inefficient*)’ of a means
until we have employed it fuPy and
tested all its capacities. Let the people
of the United States double their support
of the great domestic inissofiarv work,
•and they may safely abandon all politi
cal agitations against the Catholic
Church.
We object again to the American par
ty, that it is condensing the Catholic and
Foreign element in our population into
a political body, distinct front the mass
of our dhizens, armed with all their pow
er to do mischief, and animated by all
that hostility which is natural to men
suffering under an ostracism of their re
ligion and birth, provoked by an at
tempt to diminish their full equality
’ with other citizens. Now what dues
Know Nothingism propose to do for the
remedy of this evil which it has created ?
It only proposes to render the’ Oath olio
and Foreign citizen ineligible to office.
It leaves them the power to. rote, and
the right of unlimited emigration iu the
future —tire two great means of mischief,
if they are pleased to ns© them. There
can be no remedy for the Pope’s control
over the Catholic tote, except in take
eing away the elective fnwhise altogeth**
er. Now il is, to say the least of it, the
most manly and honest policy, to pro
hibit tho entry of a Catholic and a Fois
eigner altogether, into the country, aud
to the lights ofcit : zenship, rather; t.hiU).