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MISS’ SOPHY JOHNSTONE. I scarce think that any system of education .-could have made Miss Sophy Johnstone, one of the fair sex. Nature seemed to have enterecimto the jest, and hesitated whether to make her a boy or a girl. Her taste led her to hunt with her broth ers, to wrestle with the stable-boys, and to saw wood with the carpenter. She worked well in iron, could shoe ahorse quicker than the smith, made excellent trunks, played well on the fiddle, sung a man’s song ki a bass voice, and was by many people suspected of being one. She learnt to write of the Butlers at her own request, and had a taste for reading, which she greatly improved. She was a droll, ingenious fellow ; her talents for mimicry made her enemies ; and the violence of her attachments to those she called her favorites, secured her a few warm friends. She came to spend a few months with my mother soon after marriage, and at the time 1 am speaking of, had been with her thirteen years, making Balcarres her head quarters, devoting herself to the youngest child, whichever it was, deserting him when he got into breeches, and regularly constant to no one but me. Sometime afterwards we have the following details respecting her :- • My own good friend Miss Sophy Johnstone, hav ing constantly declared that her attachment to us was such that she would never leave our family, although she was tormented beyond measure to share her time with others, and that she daily .ex pected a letter from her first cousin, old General Granville, who had been appointed Governor of Gibraltar, inviting her to go there with his wife, who was a dull, formal woman of whom he was tired, and whom she had never seen, we had been constantly expecting the arrival of this letter, but as it never came Margaret observed that it was a sad pity that ?liss Johnstone could not have this letter and the pleasure of sacrificing this invita tion to her love for us. The idea lighted the gas of my brains, and the letter was written in a mo ment with a good pen on a fine sheet of paper, and I returned myself member of parliament on the occasion. A formal unexceptionable invita tion was sent to Miss Johnston by Mrs. Cranvilie, to accompany her and the General to Gibraltar — with an assurance that a little forge should be fit ted up for her in the garrison. We supposed that she would send her refusal in a day or two, and meant to take measures to prevent her letter from being sent, as the village was close at hand. We proposed to thank hereafter wards and tell her the truth. The post arrived, and the letter was car ried up to her room. We dined together —not a word was said, but there seemed to be many cheerful hints passing to and fro amongst the seniors of the family. Margaret and I were leav ing the room when the cloth was withdrawn, but Miss Johnstone in an encouruging tone bade us to stay. She said that we had sense and discretion above our years, and that she was not ashamed to call us into the council which she had been hold ing with her friends hereon a letter which she had received from her good friend Mrs. Granville — putting my own letter into my hand. I trembled hom head to foot. “Well,” said I, when I had read it, “ and you will answerthis by saying that you will never leave 11s ? ” “Mv dear child,” said she, “ I should wish to give that answer; but, 1 not. Though I am old—for lam now almost fifty—they are older, and very rich. lam poor,” —(poor ! Oh, what a ppi guard was in that word !) “ I stm sensible of the a 1 vantages it might be to me to be with them, and, however painful tome, I am not only resolved to accept their iuvitation, but I havejalready sent 6fT ray let ter doing so. Confounded by this, and afraid to speak, I laid down the letter, and Margaret and 1 disappeared, letting it be supposed thst we were very sorry to lose her, but really in despair ‘at* what we had done. Nothing remained for it out instant confession. We threw ourselves on our knees before her and told her all. Never did 1 see an} r body more cruelly disappointed, but her strong, manly miad took it as a hero would the loss of his army.” — Lord Lindsay. THE FOSTER MOTHER. Upon the farm of Mr. F , in New Hamp shire, a chicken, which, through the depredations of a fox, has been deprived of its mother when but just out of the shell, was brought up.in the house, and as the weather had become cold, was allowed to remain an inhabitant of the kitchen, in the corner of which a small box, with some straw in it, was placed for a nest, till it was half grown. At that time a second hen became a prey to the fox, leaving a nest of Eggs, upon which she had been sitting during nearly the usual period of in cubation. As is usual in such cases, the eggs were placed in a basket of wool, near the kitchen stove, and in a few days eight lively chickens were produced from them. Poor little motherless things they were, like those hatched out in an ec colobeon ; but the maternal instinct given by the Creator to so large a portion of the female world, rendered the fate of the feeble little creature less forlorn than might have been anticipated ; for it wrought so strongly in the breast of the elder chicken, that unmindful of her own youth and small size, even as we sometimes see an elder sis ter,youthful herself, take the smaller children un der her care, when death or sickness has deprived them of a mother’s oversight, so did she take up on herself the charge of those weak nestlings.— A pleasing, an amusing, even an effecting thm 0 it was, to witness the solicitude of the adopting mother, as she searched around for food lor her hungry little ones; to hear the anxious tone ot the imperfect click , with which she strove to re call them when they had strayed out ot sight ; and to see the fond air with which from time to time, she stretched out her own small, wings, and strove to warm them, whilst they nestled beneath the imperfect shelter. Night after night did tlie patient bird assemble her little companions m the box which had been appropriated for her own lodging ; and, standing in the midst ot them, brooded them beneath her feathers whilst they slept. One could not but be sup prised that the power of love should have imparted not only t will, but the strength, to perform the task belong ing to a full grown bird. What an admirable lesson of love and duty may be drawn from the conduct of this little ere at dre, belonging to a race almost proverbial for its stupidity ! Where did she, whose whole life has been one ol isolation from her kind, learn the care that was necessary for the newly hatched chicks ? Not from example, for she had no ex perience of the care which a hen takes of her off spring : it was the carrying out into practice the lesson of love imprinted upon her heart by the great Creator. Surely, “ the fowls of the air” do “ praise the Lord.” And shall the children of the common Father of the human race be less ready to extend the blessing of sympathy and charity to the bereaved of their own species, than are the irrational animals? Surely not. Where ever God is known he must be loved, and true love to God will always produce, as its necessa ry result, “ good will towards men.” —The Or phan's Advocate. THE PHILOSOPHY OF KINDNESS. Only a few days since, an aged citizen of Phil adelphia was waited upon by a stranger, who asked to have a few moments conversation with him in private. The opportunity was afforded with great cheerfulness. The western merchant —for such, in fact, he was—was ushered into the parlor of the Philadelphian, when something like the following conversation took place : “You seem to have forgotten me, Mr. H. ?” “I have an indistinct recollection of having seen you before, and the tone of your voice is not unfamiliar; and yet beyond this my memory fails.” “My name is Charles B . and twenty years ago 1 was an inmate ot a Philadelphia prison, of which you were a frequent —a benevolent —a kind-hearted visitor.” “ I remember —I remember, said the other— brightening, smiling, and grasping the hand of the stranger —you look so well, have improved so greatly, that I hope, nay I feel satisfied that all has gone right with you.” A tear trembled in the eve of the other at so cordial and kind a recognition; his voice failed for a moment —but then rallying again, he pro ceeded to tell his story. At the age of fifteen he was a neglected orphan, and with fine natural talents, a cheerful disposition, and a good heart, he was thrown into the society of the vile and the dissolute, in one of the wretched sections of Phil adelphia county. There, in connection with sev eral other lads, equally deserted or misled, he’ committed, was arrested for, tried and convicted of petty theft. While in prison he was visited again and again by the Philadelphia philanthro pist, who succeeded, not only in eradiating tlie vicious views he had imbibed, but in showing him the foliy of vice, and the certainty of its punish ment—-and inspiring him with a determination to act correctly, the moment he should be released. The visitor was satisfied of his sincerity, and gradually took a deep interest in his case. At the expiration of his sentence, he provided him with means, and having stated all the facts in a confidential manner to a friend in the West, ob tained him a situation in a flourishing city of that section of the Union. The youth was over whelmed with gratitude. He had found a friend for the first time in his brief, career. His course from that moment was onward. He speedily won the confidence of his employer, on whose death, ten years therefrom, he succeeded to a large share in his business. “ I am now,” he said, “ an equal partner in the reputable and prosperous firm of &Cos., of St. Louis, and I have visited Philadelphia, not only on business, but with the object of seeking out and returning my heart-warm acknowledge ments to my early, my ever cherished—my often remembered benefactor.” The old merchant wept with joy at such a re form, and acknowledged that this single incident had fully repaid him for the hours, and days, and weeks, he had devoted, always prayerfully and hopefully, to the blessed cause of kindness and prison reform . —Philadcljthia Enquirer. A Willing Debtor.-^ “-Sir Walter Scott, on one occasion, was desirous of rewarding the wit and importunity of an Irish beggar by the present of a sixpense, but found he bad .not so small a coin in his purse. “Here, my good fellow,” said the baronet, “ here’s a shilling, but mind, you owe me sixpense.” “God bless } r our honor,” ex claimed Pat, “may your honor live till I pay you! “ The author of Ivanhoe was highly tickled at the naive reply. WEARING THIRTEEN SHIRTS. Mr. R. Hanna, one of the defeated candidates in Shelby county, Tenn., issued an address a few days after the election —a sort of posthumous letter of defence —in reply to the electioneering attacks of his successful opponent. The follow ing is a passage in which he vindicates himself against the reproach of having worn too many soiled shirts when he was in college:— “ Now fellow-citizens, I understand the gentle man speaks of me personally, and not politically He says that he and myself were college-mates together, and goes back into particulars. He says, as I understand, that when at college, I never changed my shirts, but as one became unclean, instead of taking it off I placed a clean one over it; and also that bis recollection furnishes him with the following facts, viz : That when 1 re turned home from college, on one occasion, mother ordered me to unshirt myself, when, to her astonishment, I dolled, at one shucking, thir teen shirts, the one on over the other. This cal umny I deny, and challenge the gentleman to the proof. His statement is false in fact and in in ference ; in fact, because he over-rates the num ber, and in inference, because, fellow-citizens, X never, in my palmiest da} r s, cherished such aris tocratic notions as these. But Twill here inform the gentleman, that I never had on, at any one time more than seven shirts —and I adopted it as an economical way of wearing my shirts in my youthful days, to save the expense of washing, whilst I was off from home at college ; and also I will say to the gentleman who was my honor able competitor, that at the time of which he speaks, I know of my own certain knowledge, that he himself was quite scarce of shjrts, arid I adopted the plan to preserve my own shirts from the use of other people. “So vou see, fellow-citizens to what low and cunning devices these political gentlemen stoop, for political effect, and for party purposes. Now, I trust I have succeeded in nailing this foul cal urnny to the counter, and that it’s author will meet with a just rebuke at vour hands, for uttering such a barefaced slander, without even the semblance of truth in it. “Fellow-citizens, just take the matter home to yourselves. Did any of vou ever have on at any one time, as many as thirteen shirts. The idea is preposterous —for I do not think that any natu ral born citizen of this country has as many as thirteen shirts to his name. The gentlemen has done me great injustice in supposing such an ab surdity.” Economy and Comfort . —The necessary wants of man are easily supplied even moderate comforts and rational pleasures demaud no great outlay of money. A man ma v enjoy all the real pleas ures of life without overstepping the bounds of prudence or economy ; because those pleasures are determined by the habits and income of the individual. There is no such thing as positive pleasure. All pleasure is relative to the person; and he who commands a moderate income may enjoy as much happiness as the rich and great. — The amount of happiness to be enjoyed depends upon himself, and not upon any abstract or definite idea. One glass of small may be as full as one of large dimensions, sa} 7 s one of our moralists. The wants of man may be lew or many, accord ing to the individual; and as they are regulated, so shall be his happiness. He who has fewest wants, says an ancient sage, comes nearest to the gods.— Boole of Symbols. . A young gentleman who had for some time pestered a young lady by protestations of love, and annoyed her wherever she went, remarked to a friend one day, that he thought the only way to win her would be to become her tiger, and woo her in that disguise. “Yes,” remarked his friend, “and the change would not be so great, fin* it is well known that at present you are her bore.” •\-.. * „ - v ± One of the most comical sights to superior beings must be to see two human creatures, with elaborate speech and gestures, making each other exquisitely uncomfortable from civility: the one pressing what he is most anxious that the other should not accept, and the other accepting only from fear of giving offence bv refusal. O O J Tails. —A little girl, who said in company that she was very fond of a tail, was told afterwards by her sensitive mother, that she must substitute the word “ narrative.” The next day the child assured a gentleman visitor of the family that she suw “such a funny dog in the street —such a funny fellow. He had red hair and short ears —and bandy legs—and somebody had cut his narrative clean off.” A Fable. —“l have something more to ask you,” said a young eagle to a learned, melancholy owl; “men say there is a bird, named Merops, who, when he rises in the air, flies with his tail up wards, and his head towards the ground ; is that true?” “Certainly not!” answered the owl,” “it’s only a foolish tradition of man ; he is him self a Merops, for he would fly to heaven without a moment losing sight of earth.” The Help of Animals.—An a country like Eng land, animals increase the laboring and produc tive powers of man to four and a halftimes what man could perform alone. •** * • v* Dentistry. DR. P ANCOST has removed to Bryan street, East sid e x f ument square,.near the State bank, where he may be r 55 | at all hours, night or day, fully prepared to wait upon hisfri e T I the public generally. | N. B. Artificial teeth inserted from one to a whole set, ari(l sured to give satisfaction to the wearer. ’ I N. B. Charges greatly reduced. Gmo . , ---T 4 ‘ 9 Staves. PERSONS in the country desirous of engaging in gettma Staves, are informed that the preparation required for tor. export is as follows : v To be made either out of White Oak or Water Oak Trees Length, from 42 to 44 inches. Breadth, not less than 4 or more than 7 inches. Thickness, not less than 1 or more than inches on the th part of the thinest edge. In^ The back and edge of the Stave should be dressed down f 0 I same thickness—should have a clear clett or split, and be tree 1 knots, crooks, and worm-holes. Staves prepared in conformity with this specification willb I ceived-at the full market price during the ensuing autumnal winter. Present value, thirty-five dollars per one thousand iV I Aug 2 ANDREW LOW L Ca | TiairpeKitifiie. | aA BARRELS City Distilled, for sale by JL ij Aug 2 J. G. FALLIGAN’T SiftiatßOßa Wanted. BY A YOUNG MAN, as Clerk or Book keep?- good references can be given to anyr person needin- I services. Apply at this office. mnv of . fLOiTfiM. piERSON & HE IDT offer for sale Clothii: P Wholesale and Retail, at New York prices. No. Whit nk er-street. a p r o (; To the Public. TJTE Subscriber, having entered extensively into the making of BRICK of a superior quality to unr manufactured in this city, is prepared to fill orders at the short, est notice, and as low as any establishment of the kind in near Savannah. “ WM. 11. LLOVB June 21 JTI. \V flohesa. (Late of the firm of S. Solomons Sf Cos.) MISSION A\D FORWARDING Wm\\l SAVANNAH, GA. Agent for steam packets H. L. Cook and Ivanhoo. may 10 MARSH & WEBSTER, ATTOIIAEYS AT LAW, 175 Bay-Street —Up-Stairs. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. Mulford Marsh. Andrew M. Webster ROBERT N. ADAMS, CABINET-MAKER AND UNDERTAKER, No. 93 Broughton St., Savannah, Ga., IS prepared to execute all orders in his line at the lowest prices, with dispatch. Orders from the country promptly attended to. Ready-made coffins always on hand, and made to order at short notice. june 28 3mn To th3 planters and Farmers of South t’arolka, Georgia., Alabama, Tenn essee and Florida, T AM THE AUTHORIZED AGENT for the A sale and purchase of the CAMELINA SATIVA ur GOLD OF PLEASURE SEED, a native of Siberia. 1 am how ready to fill all orders for the seed, and being au thorized by thfe Company to purchase the same, I will pay th highest market price for all that may be shipped to me i Savannah. \VM. HUMPHREYS, Jr., ipay 31 * Agent for the Company of New York. OARR* I'HE undersigned having re-opened, with an . entire New Stock of DRUGS, CHEMICALS and FANCY ARTICLES, at No. 139 (South side) Broughton street, (formerly Walkers Marble Yard,) is now ready to furnish any thing in his line, at the shortest notice. SODA W ATER, made in his own peculiar way, sent to any part of the city, and always to be had at the store, in the highest state of perfection. Prescriptions put up with care and despatch. The subscriber having served the public long and faithfully, respectfully solicits a share of their patronage. npr 26 THOS. RYERSON- Summer Retreat obi the Sails. A T MONTG OMEII Y, TWELVE MILES FROM SAVANNAH. ABONAL D respectfully informs his Friends • and the public generally, that from the 21st inst., lie will be prepared to accommodate guests, to whom he promise good attendance on accommodating terms, having good and intelligent servants. Pdrsdns may 7 ’ be accommodated for board per week, month or day, at the following rates, viz: Board and Lodging, per week, $o 00 Do. do. t per day 1 50 Horses well fed and attended to for 50 cents per day- N. B. During the season there is an abundance el Vvuk on the place: and the table will also be prowled with all kinds ol fish that the river will afford. ‘ apr BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, Os all kiuds, executed at (hit* Office, viih iiraluea despatch. HAVING lately put our Office in complete order and made large additions to it, we have now the most ex tensive Job Printing Office in the City and are prepared to execute all kinds of PLAIN AND FANCY PRINTING, with neatness* and despatch, and on the most accomodating terms. Office 102 Biyan-street, entrance on Bay Lane. Savannah, March 22d, 1849. EDWARD J.* PURSE- A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY, A WEEKLY SOUTHERN NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, BY EDWARD J. PURSE. T E R M S:—T WO DOLLARS A YEA K- Three Copies for one year, - or one copy three years, $5 Seven Copies, - - - - . - lO^ Twelve Copies, - - - - - - 15 11 *** Advertisements to a limited extent, will be inserts at the rate of 50 e rnts for a square of nine lines or less, k' r the first insertion, and 30 cents for each subsequent inserts Business cards inserted for a year at Five Dollars. LF 3 A liberal discount will be made to Post Masters “‘ ll} will do us the favor to act as Agents. 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