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ise£l!i(>&n SOPS THE PRINTER. A Printer is the most curious being living. He may have a bank and coins, and not be worth a penny— have small caps , and have neither wife nor children. Others may run fast, but he gets along best by setting last. He may be making impres sions without eloquence, may use the lye without offending, and be telling the truth while others cannot stand when they sit, he can set standing, and even do both at the same time—use furniture , and yet have no dwelling—may make and put away pi, and never see a pie, much less eat it, du ring his life, —be a human being, and a rat at the same time—may press a great deal and not ask a favor—may handle a shooting iron, and know noth ing about a cannon, gun, or pistol ; he may move the lever that moves the world, and yet be as far from moving the globe, as a hog with his nose un der a mole hill—spreads sheets without being a housewife ; he may lay his form upon a bed , and vet be obliged to sleep on the floor ; he may use the t without shedding any blood ; and from the earth he may handle the *** ; he may be of a rolling disposition, and yet never desire to travel; he may have a sheep's foot and not be deformed, never be without a case , and know nothing of law or physic; be always correcting his errors, and growing worse everyday; have with out ever having the arms of a lass around him ; have his form locked up, and at the same time be from jail, watch-house, or any other confinement. Honesty. —What is honesty? “To pay one’s debts.” Exactly so. No definition could be nearer correctness. Always minding, however, that there are other ledgers than the trader's— that a man’s debts are not to be calculated in pounds, shillings and pence. It is not honest for a man to deteriorate his own nature, to blight his own heart, to enfeeble his own mind, or even to neglect his own physical culture. It is not honest in a woman to swear to love a man, when she loves only his house and equipage; nor any hon ester for a man to purchase a woman as he would a beast. For every thing has its certain value ; and to pay that which is fairly due, is the pre rogative of honesty. It is not honest to make an excise officer, any more than it is to steal a legis lator’s robes and throw it over the shoulders of a fool. It is not honest to impoverish one man to enrich another—for honesty has the utmost re spect for the rights of all. It is not honest to say one thing and mean another. Alas for our daily custom! Do we not continually, bribed by the hopes of some paltry gain, or fearful of giving offence, put on a pleasant smile, and grasp with friendly zeal the hand we despise? This is not honest. Do we not lie daily for the snlrp of hnlf pence, and so pick men’s pockets; and do we not look lies for the sake of empty smiles and compliments? This is not honest. Do not some oi us go with cold, sneering lips, as if they were of custom’s frost-work, when our hearts are burn ing within us; making conventional grimaces, and repeating formal catechism, when our inner most thoughts are struggling for utterance? But we should displease this friend, and give advan tage to that foe ; be laughed at by some fool, be deemed rude by the world, if we were truly hon est and so will our heart for the reward of world liness, and live, not like true men made in God’s image, but rather like automatons manufactured by custom’s patent. In the town of Stonington, during the last war, resided a widow with an only daughter. When the attack on the place was made by a British naval force,-(an attack which is memorable in the an nals ot war,) this widow was dying. All the other inhabitants, gathering their household goods, tied into the country. Only one house was occu pied by the dying woman and her faithful daugh ter, who refused to leave her. Repeatedly balls passed through the house. Shells exploded all around them. The thunder of the cannon shook the foundations of the land. But the thunder of the cannon might not prevail to repel the sleep of death, which stole as calmly over lip and eye, and fell as gently on the old woman’s heart, as if it had been a sunny spring morningon the glorious ocean shore. Fiercer and louder grew the sounds of battle without, contrasting fearfully with that calm scene within, where the devoted child sat by her dying mother’s side, and held her hand, and heard her murmur as the shot flew by, of long forgotten battle fields in olden times. Death came at length, that “calm, safe refuge” from all bat thngs. Undisturbed by the sound of wet rings, she iell asleep and heard the sound of the battle no lon ger. Rising trom her long and holy watch the daughter called soldiers from the fort to aid her in burying her dead. They wrapped the body in the blankets on which it lay, and carried it in sol emn procession to the burial ground in whose en closure slept the fathers of the village. There was something sublime in that procession. Men bore their kindred dust along deserted streets,heed less of the missiles of death that darkened the air, and entered the place of rest with their load of clay. Even as they entered, a shell fell before them, and exploding threw up the earth, and in the trench thus opened thevlaid the body and cov ered it out of the reach of war. TRen, and not before t the daughter left her mother alone, and sough: safety for herself. Men of Genius . —In reading the memories of a man of genius, we reprobate the domestic perse cutions of those opposed to his inclinations. N° poet but is moved with indignation at the recol lection of the tutor at the Fort Royal, thrice burn ing the romance which Racine at length got by heart; no geometrician but bitterly inveighs against the father of Pascal for not suffering him to study Euclid, which he at length understood without studying. The father of Petrarch cast to the flames the poeticrl library of his son amidst the shrieks, the groans •and tears of the youth. Yet this burnt offering neither converted Petrarch into a sober lawyer, nor deprived him of the Roman laurel. The uncle of Alfieri lor tnoie than twenty y r ears suppressed the poetical char acter of this noble bard ; he was a poet without knowing how to write a verse, and Nature, like a hard creditor, exacted, with redoubled interest all the genius which the uncle had so long kept from her. These are the men whose inherent impulse no human opposition can deter from proving great men. — ITlsraelii. England as it Will Be. —lt is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts, the want ot which would be intolerable to a moderate footman; when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loavos, the very sight oi which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse; and when men died fast er in the purest country air than they die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns —than they now die on the coast of Guinea. We, too, in turn, shall be out-stripped, and in our turn envied. It may well be in the twentieth century, that the peasant of Dorcetshire may think himself miser ably paid with 15s a week; that the carpenter of Greenwich 10s a day; that the laboring men may be as little used to dine without meat as they now are to eat rye bread; that sanity police and medical discoveries may have added several more years to the average length of human life; that numerous comforts and luxuries which are now unknown, or confined to a few, may be within the reach of every diligent and thrifty working man.— Macaulay's History of England . The Domestic Altar. —It is pleasing to find in private houses an altar raised to God. Nothing rivets family attachments wholly, so securely, as meeting every morning to pray for each other, when every misunderstanding forgotten before the sun goes down. What can be more pleasing, also, than for the absent to know at what hour they are remembered with the supplications and blessings of an affectionate family circle, while those who remain together can enjoy no greater solace than in following them with prayers, and uniting, on their account, in every expression or every anxiety, or pleasure, or sorrow, which each shares in common with the others. There is, in deed, no pleasure more to be prized than that of raising a family altar, where those shall daily as semble on earth, who hope hereafter to reassem sernble in heaven, and not a wanderer lost! The practice of the small proprieties of life to a congenial spirit soon ceases to be a study ; it rapidly becomes a mere habit, or an untroubled and unerring instinct. Indestructibility of the Mind. —Man, at the age of twenty, retains not a particle of matter in which his mind was invested when he was born. Nev ertheless at the age of eighty years he is con scious of being the same individual he was so far back as his memory can go —that is to say, to the period when he was four or five years old.— Whatever it be, therefore, in which this con scious nessof fidelity resides, it cannot consist of a ma terial substance, since, had it been material, it must have been repeatedly changed; and the source of identity must have been destroyed. It is, consequently, an etherial spirit, and as it re mains the same, throughout all the alterations that can take place in the body, it is not dependent on the body for its existence ; and is thus calculated to survive the ever changing frame by which it is encircled. The frame becomes stiff', cold, and motionless, when the circulation of the blood cases it is consigned to the earth, and is separa ted by insects into a thousand other forms of mat ter ; but the mind undergoes no such transforma tion, it is unassailable by the worms. If matter, subject as it is to perpetual changes, do not, and cannot, possibly perish, how can the mind perish, which knows of no mutation ? There is no ma chinery prepared, by which such object could be accomplished ; nor could machinery be prepared for such a purpose, without an entire subversion of the laws of nature. Butas these laws emana ted from the wisdom of the Creator, they could not be altered, much less subverted, without in volving the inconsistency, into which it is impossi ble for Divine wisdom to fall. A Soft Head . — We copy the following from a late French paper: —“A female infant was born some months ago at Vendon, in the Department of Meuse, with the germs of the disease called hydrocephalus, or water in the brain, which has become so enlarged that it measures three feet in circumference. The bones forming the vault of the head have yielded thus far to the expan sion of the brain. The space between the two bones is sensible to the touch, and the whole head is so soft that it changes its form according to the position in which the child is laid. A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY. SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1849. AGENTS. Mr. J. M. Boardman is our Agent for Macon. Mr. S. S. Box for Rome. Mr. Robt. E. Seyle for the State of South Carolina. James O’Conner, Travelling Agent. NATIONAL FAST. President Taylor recommends the observance of the First Monday in August as a day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, on accouut of the Cholera. GEORGIA ENTERPRISE. A Northern editor some years since jeeringly asked, in case of a dissolution of the Union, “who would make our shoes? ” We are prepared to reply to the query, that Mr. J. T. Humpheys, of Atlanta, does make as strong, and neat, and as cheap a negro brogan as comes from the North. The stock used is better, inasmuch as it is oak tan, in lieu of hem lock, being more pliant. He has gone extensively into the business of Tanning and manufacturing, and will be able to supply our market in a short time, he received an order from one House in this city for 1000 pairs. KILLED. James M, Jones, formerly of Burke County, engaged in making bricks near this city, was found .dead on Sat urday morning near the bank of the canal. There were three buckshot wounds on the head and one on the neck, which the Jury of Inquest believed caused his death. It is sup posed that the deceased was killed Friday afternoon, as he left Mr. Belcher’s (about one mile and a half from town,) at 4 o’clock, with the intention of coming to the city. Soon after Mr. B. heard the report of a gun in the direction of the canal. It is possible that he was accidentally shot by someone hunt ing on the canal, but more probable that he was murdered. A watch and about S2OO, we understand, were found upon his person. It is a mysterious affair. PROBLEM. Required the solidity of a square hole of two feet in the side, cut out of the middle of a globe of ten feet diameter. N. B. To make this problem clearly understood, and free of ambiguity, observe that the axis of the globe is also the axis of the proposed solid, which solid consists of a paraliepipedon, with two distinct segments of spheres, one at each end, hav ing four small parts out of encli segment, by the four planes. Whoever will send to the editor of “ A Friend of the Fam ily ” within one month from date, a true solution of this ques tion shall be entitled to a copy for six months. A GEM—A NOBLE CHILD. At one of the anniversaries of a Sabbath School in London, two little girls presented themselves to receive a prize, one of whom had recited one verse more than the other, both having learned several thousand verses of Scripture. The gentleman who presided inquired, “ And couldn’t you have learned one verse more, and thus have kept up with Martha ? ” “ Yes, sir,” the blushing child replied, “but I loved Martha, and kept back on purpose “ And was there any one of all the verses you have learn ed,” again inquired the President, “ that taught you this les son ?” “ There, was, sir,” she answered blushing still more deeply —“ In honor preferring one another.” STATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION. This body met at Marietta, on the 27th ult., according to appointment. Judge Lumpkin, President, was present, and enlivened the vast assembly with addresses in his happiest manner. About one thousand delegates were in attendance from the various Societies and Divisions of the State. After the transaction of much important business the Convention ad journed to meet at the call of the President, who gave notice that a called meeting would be held at Augusta, to receive Father Matthew, should he visit Georgia. The following offi cers were elected for the ensuing year : Hon. Joseph Henry Lumpkin, President. Wm. King, Esq., Ist Vice President. Rev. L. Pierce, 2d “ “ Rev. S. G. Bragg, 3d “ “ Hon. J. J. Floyd, 4th “ “ Geo. W. W. Ezzard,sth “ “ Rev. W. J. Parks, 6th “ “ Vincent Sandford, 7th “ “ L. D. Lallerstadt, Bth “ * E. G. Cabiness, Corresponding Secretary. John W. Bnrke, Recording Secretary. A . P. Oaskill, Assistant Recording Secretary. Benj. Brantley, Treasurer. Executive Committee. —Wm. Dibble, M.E.Rylander, J. H. Ellis, T. A. Brew r er, and A. B. Freeman, of Macon, Georgia. The next annual meeting of the Convention will be held at Athens, on the 3d Wednesday of August, 1850. — Cassville Standard . EXTRACT FROM A SPEECH OF HON. EDWARD EVERETT ON EDUCATION. But to the objection that School education is the interest of many, and College education the interest of the few, my main answ r er is, that it is founded in a great fallacy. The man who makes that objection has not formed even a distant conception of the grounds of the duty which devolves upon an enlightened State to educate its children. He is thinking of individuals. He forgets that it is the public, as such, the State, that great complex. Social Being, which w T e call Massachusetts, the genial mother of us all, that it is her interest in the matter which creates the duty, and which gives all its importance to education, as an affair of public concern ment, whether elementary or academical. It is not to teach one man’s boy his ABC, or another man’s boy a little Latin or Greek, for any advantage or emolument of his own, that the pilgrim fathers founded the College or required the towns to support each its School. As far as individusls, many or few are concerned, 1 have just as much natural right to call on the State to pay the bill of the tailor who clothes or the builder who shelters my children, as of the schoolmaster or school mistress, the tutor or professor who instructs them. The du ty of educating the people rests on great public groundi, 0a moral and political foundations. It is deduced from the intj. mate connexion which experience has shown to exist, so. tween the public welfare and all the elements of nitiojn] prosperity on the one hand, and the enlightenment of the pop. ulation on the other. In this point of view, I say it confidently good College educat'on, for those w T ho need it and want it, j, just as much the interest of the many as good School educ. tion. They are both the interest of all; that is, the whol community. It is. of human things, the highest interest 0 f the State to put the means of obtaining a good School educ*. tion and a good College education within the reach of the largest number of her children. ******* If we will not be taught anything else, let us learn of his. tory. It was not Mexico and Peru ; nor (what it import! us more to bear in mind) Portugal nor Spain, which reaped the silver and golden harvests of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was the industrious, enlightened, cultivated states of the north and west of Europe. It was little Hoi. land ; hardly able to keep her head above the waters of tl lo superincumbent ocean, but with five universities dotting her limited surface. It was England with her foundation schools, her indomitable public opinion, her representative system, her twin universities ; it was to these free and enlightened countries that the gold and silver (lowed; not merely adding to the material wealth of the community, but quickening the energy of the industrious classes, breaking down feudalism, furnishing the sinews of war to the champions of Protestant liberty, and thus cheering them on to the great struggle, to whose successful issue it is owing, in itsremote effects, under Providence that you, Sir, sit in safety beneath the canopy that overhangs this hall. What the love of liberty, the care of education, and a large and enlightened regard ior intellectual and moral interests did for the parent state, they will do for us. They will give ui temporal prosperity ; and with it what is infinitely better— not only a name and a praise with the contemporary nationi who form with us the great procession of humanity, but i name and a praise among enlightened states to tho end of time.” JOH N MILTON AS A SUBJECT AND HOUSEKEEPER. In the case of an inferior and a less pure mind than Milton’i the sincerity of his republican opinions might perhaps boplei ded in excuse for the unfairness and violence of some of his attacks upon the monarchic institutions of his country; and the universal coarseness and brutality of tho tone then prevn lent in the style of controversy, may be held ns palliating the unchristian nnd inhuman malignity which characterizes much of his polemic writings, particularly in his celebrated coutro versy with Salmasius ; but surely no such excuse will serve to diminish our reprobation for Milton's slanderous attacks on the personal character of Charles I, who appears, as a man, to have been worthy of respect, and even o( venerution ; who was, besides an unfortunate and innocent prince, and lind paid with his blood for the errors of an administration which, how ever erroneous, was at least well-intentioned. Nor can any one hope, but by sophistry, to excuse or justify tho various acts of submission to arbitrary and usurped power which form ■so strong a contrast to Milton’s perpetual and rather obtrusiv# assertions of independence —his accepting office, for instancei under the government of Cromwell, his adulation of that wily despot; and, above all, the melancholy weakness (if indeed we ought rather to use a much severer term) which allowed him to profit by the plunder of the unfortunate nnd martyred sovereign, and to decorate his studious retirement with the pilfered trappings of royal magnificence; for alas! we still posse ss the parliamentory order permitting ‘Mr.John Milton,’ Latin Secretary to the House of Commons, to ‘choose and take away such hangings as he thinks fit,’ from the dismantled palaces of Whitehall. Such facts as these are priinful and humiliating, but salutary also: they powerfully demonstrate that the greatest geniui and the sublimest virtues can never guard from folly nnd front error the man who once losses sight of those plain nnd simple rules of human conduct— ‘Fear God, and honor the king.’ (Shaiv's English Literalurt. ANECDOTE OF GEN.JACKSON. When the award of the King of the Netherlands came to this country, deciding the controversy relative to the North eastern Boundary, General Jackson was disposed at once to issue his proclamation declaring that award to be a final adjust ment of the question. It was however, (the award) received with universal disfavor in Maine. The general was bewt with representations that it would be the ruin of his party i sl that State, thus to issue his proclamation ; and he was persua ded to refer the award to the Senate, as an arrangement which needed their ratification. Thus was laid the foundation of another iliad of controversy, negotiation, and all but war. I was told, says Mr. Everett, by the late Mr. Forsyth, while Secretary of State of the United States, that General Jackson was accustomed to say, in movements of perplexity weariness at the unsatisfactory progress of the renewed ne gotiation, that this was the only important occasion in his life, in which he had allowed himself to be over persuaded by hil friends, and it was precisely the occasion, when subsequent events had shown that his own view of the matter was the correct one. • UNITED STATES TREASURY. The amount at the several depositories, on the 25th of Jo* was $4,053,332, of which $507. G 43 was in Boston, $1,331,2& in New York, $279,816, at Philadelphia, and $170,708 Washington. COLLECTION OF PETER S PENCE. It is estimated that S6OOO was collected on Sunday July I ,! ’ in New York, and $60,000 will be realized in the United States, for the relief of Pope Pius IX. DROWN ED. Benjamin Morris of the bark Bonadea, fell into the ri T * r ’ from a boat at Messrs A. Low 6c Co’s, wharf yesterdsy 19 the Cherokee was preparing to leave, and was drowned- EiP’The Steamship Cherokee left at 12 M. yesterday* 114 cabin and 5 steerage passengers, principally from ar.d the West. . •