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TIE WIEEGIUSB REPORTER.
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DTOw films amt not overlook Sot
Lmnfood’i Im* ea ow first pege.
We an andet|ob)if alien* to Hoo‘* Joshua
Hffl nod Jemee L. Seward tor Congressional
Mr. Seward boa been extremely kind to
•a, aad be bee forwarded w documents to
wbteb ft wSt be pleasant to refer to coming
It to somewhat singular, that b oar large
Rat of exehangea we do not find any of n re-
Rgiem ebaracter. We are informed that
they rnmmnnrti frequently to exchange
with the Reporter, bwt the editor geea off
enaaewham and gets n good drinking atory,
el wrltea something about *• Granny Hailin’
the Spent,” and after Out, notiting in seen
es ear sUrical frieoda.
MAIL AREAS GEXERTS
Tt appears to ea us if there is some great
bolt either in the mail camera or postmas
ter* of the country, from the complaints fro
lave made to as- ©Sir Boston Subscribers
aay that they never get their papers, end
that they bed rather eonse to town for them |
then hove them sent to that office. About
eat half oar Glasgow subscriber* complain
Ant they only occasionally get their papers.
The Bab bridge Argus complains that our
paper la four or five day* in reaching them.
We knew we do oar duty. JWe mark our
poekagea correctly, with the name of each
sofaseriber on his paper, and we have every
aaasom to bedew that net a particle of the
•lame rests with our postmaster. Where the
fooH lies we cannot toll. /
MMBAR tt. awn snsnsti tiinax
hr.
It to with pleesare that we annoanee the
fcel that Messrs. G. W. Merrill dk 0,. have
perfected an arrangement with P. O. Depart
ment at Washington* which, ir of importance
to oar cecttoe.
They am- now running a line of four horse
poet goodies from this place to the termini
es both the Main Trank and the Brunswick
fit Florida Railroads. The agent informs
m that so soon as the stock all arrives (and
the horses ere b Savannah) and they get
their arrangements perfected, that they will
carry passengers from this place through to
Savannah in thirty fonr hours, at a less ex
panse than on the route via Macon.
We wilt say for the benefit of our up-coun
try friends that this line passes through the
counties of Thomas, Lowndes, Clinch, Ware
and Pierce..
By this la* es stage* they can reach the
county sites es each of the above named
Wfaea the line gets in complete operation,
which will be in ten days, there will not be
the beat detention.
Utay have fine coaches, good horses, and
eapertonoad teamsters.
We knew Mr. Merrill, and we have every
season to believe that he will do every thing
fit bis gewes to expedite the travelling public.
(ftor up-country friends had better note
this decided improvement in our mail and
passenger facilities.
_ mncisi.
u From a letter received by Thomas J. Me*
Bain, Eeq., of tbit town,we learn that James
Meßain was murdered by a roan darned
William A. Jifcrd i*> Jasper,Hamilton coun
ty, Florida, on the 10th inst. The circum
stances as detailed by the correspondent are
as fellows, James Mcßaia was in a store
NoMe somewhat intoxicated, and proposed to
tbsow eat of the house a piece of iron, the
owner objecting, the proprietor of the- store
sent after Afford whoa it ppears was the mar
shal o f the town. He same down and arres
ted Meßain, Mcßaia streak, him with’ bis
Ist, whereupon, Alford drew is Bowieknife
and with one stroke cut his heart batfm two..
The correspondent states that the people
of the town justify the act, but that the peo
ple of the country condemn it
* Whilst Upon the subject without passing
the merits of the case, we cannot refrain
Bern expressing onr unqualified condemna
tion of the recklessness in which human
life is now taken in almost every commnni- j
ty la ear country.
Men in oold blodd take the meet precious
haem given, to man by bin creator, and if the
murderer is rich he can fey paying out of
maoey go anwbiped of Justice. If the par
tie* aae-poor. the murderer generally speak
ing has eanagk Mends to relieve him from
the fear walls of bis prison—makes his es
cape, and the affair pass as away without
fa ripple of diaaouteut in the commu
nity.. If good aitiaepa permit each a state to
be in the handk and power of aay amlieiens
i - - -
Most amn employ their first year* to as to
aaka thaic last miserable. j
•von tmx nz twaui wimu rni-
Witboat going into s reply to the stric
tures of the Enterprise of lest week on oar
Wnsbiogtoa letter, end as he doe# not know
whether or not they ought to be condemned,
we will give hies tbeopbiooaof the Florida
Sentinel, tie organ of the American party
b florid*, and the Orescent, the organ of
foe American party in New Orleans. They
think they ought to be condemned, but the
Enterprise does not know exactly. With a
grant fioariah ho told his readers about twen
ty-two Northern Democrats voting with the
Black Republicans—he coLdemns them—
so do wo. They have proved themselves
traitors to the constitutional rights of the
Booth, and for the same act Lacins does
not know whether bis six Southern Ameri
cana ought to be condemned or not.
Bat we ask our readers to look over the
article of the Enterprise and see if he told
yon the first time that -there waa thirty-two
Northern Democrats in the House who, de
spite the opposition and threats from every
quitter, voted with us on ‘this principle, in
volved m the bill so vital to the rights of the
South. Ho never said n word about that,
but abused Northern Democrats who have
no interest in the question, save one of right
and principle, and doea not know jrhether
the six Southern Americans ought to be con
demned—men representing siaveholding con
stituencies :
South*™ Opposition to tko ASwlooloe of Kaaooo.
We have already expressed bur regret at
the opposition of Mosers Crittenden and Bell,
to the admission of Kansas.
If the members of the American party in
the House, who have had, during this Kansas
imbroglio, such a fine opportunity for signal
izing their devotion to the Constitution and
the just rights of the South do do better
than their distinguished colleagues of the
Senate, it is time to let the party “ slide.”—
We can neither sympathise politically, nor
affiliate with any man or set of men, who
unite with apostate and Freesoil Democrats
and Black Republicans, to make war upon
a measure vital to the peace of the country
and the rignt of the South.
We clip the following fiom the Washing
ton correspondence of the New Orleans Cre
scent, an American paper, and endorse it as
our own. Read it.— Florida Sentinel
•• I must speak boldly and say, that the
result of the breach must prove mpst disas
trous, if not foul, to the future existence of
the American party. The question of sla
very is so vital at the South, that no equivo
cal position with regard to it will be for a mo
ment tolerated. Making every allowance
for tbs honest difference of opinions in re
gard to the Kansas issue, it will never do for
a Southerner to bo found voting with the
Black Republicans. It matters not how
pure the motives may be which induce men
to handle pitch, defilement inevitably follows.
If the six gentlemen whoso names have
beep mentioned, continue to vote as they
have done during the past two days, the fall
of the American party at the South—it has
no existence elsewhere—is sealed. The dis
grace of their association will be inevasably
impressed upon the whole party; its pres
tige will be lost, and its very existence blot
ted out.” “
stock or fmt hoit j. r. benjamin—tmb-
UTK TO CHI XT JUSTICE TANKT.
Throngh the kindness of oar friend, the
lion. James L. Seward, we have received
the speech of this distinguished gentleman
upon the subject of slavery.
Mr. Benjamin treats the question in a
masterly style, and his arguments in support
of his position seems to us unanswerable,
and in thinking thus Ire are sustained by Mr.
Fessenden, one of the Black Republican
Senators from Maine, who admits that Mr.
Benjamin is right, but that Lord Mansfield
decided the law as contended for by Mr.
Benjamin uuwillingly.
But it matters not whether Lord Mansfield
decided unwillingly os not, sneb was the law
that slavery was protected by statute in Eng
land, and as such became the common law
of the colonies of North America before our
independence, in support of which we give
tlie following extracts of his speech :
” Finally, in 1775 —mark the date—-1775
—after the Revolutionary struggle had com
menced,- whilst the (Jontinental Congress was
in session, after armies had been levied, after
Crown Point and Tioonderoga had been taken
possession of by the insurgent colonists, and
alter the first blood abed M the Revolution
bad radaened the spring sod upon the green
at Lexington, this same Earl at Dartmouth,
in answer to a remonstrance from the agent
of the colonies, replied:
‘ We cannot allow the colonies to check
or discourage in any degree a traffic so ben
eficial to the nation.’
I say, then, that down to the very moment
when our independence was won, slavery,
established by the statute law of England,
hod become The common law of the old thir
teen colonies.'’
” A short time prior to the year 1713, a
contract hud been formed betwren Spain
and a certain company, called the Royal
Ouinea Company, that bed been established
in France. This contract was technically
called iu those days m aesiento. By the
treaty of Utrectof the 11th of April, 1813,
Great Britain, through her diplomatists, ob
tained a transfer of that contract. She yiel
ded considerations for it. The obtaining of
that contract was greeted in England with
about* of joy. It was considered a triumph
of diplomacy. It was followed,in the month
of May, 1713, by anew contract in form.br
wbicb the British Government undertook,
for the term of thirty years then next to
come, to trarsport, annually, 4.800 slaves to
tbe Spanish American colonies, at a fixed
price. Almost immediately after this new
contreet, a question arose in the English
Conned as to the true legad character of the
slaves thus to be exported to the Spanish
‘Aaaerican colonies; and, according to the
forms of tbe British Constitution, the ques
tion was submitted by tbe Crown in Council
to the twelve judges of Eenglaad. I have
their answer here ; it is in these words:
* In pursuance of bis Majesty’s order in
Council, hereunto annexed, we do humbly
certify oar opinion to be that negroes ate
AUTfilflllrftffif *
Signed by* Lord Chief Justice Holt, Judge
Pollexfon, and eight ether judges of Eng
land.”
But oar principal object in calling atten
tion to the speech Ts the beautiful and eloquent
tribute paid to Chief Justice Taney, who bae
brought down upon his venerable bead tbe
curses of the Black republican press on ac
account of his decision in the Dred Scott
CAM. < ‘•* >•- *
“New Mr. President, I .come to another
point in my argument,which I approach with
extreme pain, with unfeigned regret. From
my earliest childhood I have been taught to
revere the judges of the highest court in the
land, as men selected to render justice be
tween litigants, not more by reason of tbeir
eminent legal acquirements than because of
a spotless parity of character, an nndimmed
lustre of reputation, which removed them
far, far beyond even a doubt of their integ
rity. The long line of eminent judicial wor
thies, which seemed to have culminated in a
Marshall; has been continned in the person
of one npoo whom the highest enlogium
that can be pronbenoed it to say that he was
eminently worthy of being the successor of
that illustrious judge. I know not, Mr. Pres
ident, whether yon, as 1. have bad the giod
fortune to see that magistrate in the admin
istration of justioe in bis own circuit, or in
tbe court sitting below ns, of which he is the
honored chief. I know not, sir, whether it
bss been your good fortune, as it has been
mine, to bear the expressions bf affectionate
reverence with which he ia spoken of by the
people amongst whom he has passed his
pure, his simple, and bis spotless life. I
know not, sir, whether you have listened, as
1 have, with interest to tbe expressions of
respect and admiration that come from the
members of his bar in their familiar inter
course with each other—spontaneous tributes
worth a thousand labored eulogies, to his em
inent sagacity, to his vast legal learning, to
the mild and serene dignity of his judicial
deportment—above all, sir, above all, to Hie
conscientious, earnest, almost painful sense
of responsibility with which he holds the
scale of justice in even an impartial band
between the litigants whose rights depend
upon his j udgment.
Mr. President, he is old, very old. The
infirmities of sge have bowed his venerable
form. Earth has no turtber object of ambi
tion for him, and when he shall sink into his
grave, after a long career of high office in
our country, I trust that I do not rudely or
properly invade the sanctity of private life
in saying that he will leave behind him, in
the scanty heritage that shall be left for his
family, the noblest evidence that he died as
he bad lived, a being honorable to tbe earth
from which he sprang, and worthy of the
heaven to which he aspired.”
LITEEABY NOTICES.
■Thk Brxch and th* Bab or GroßcrA:
in two vola: By Stephen F. Miller. For
sale by Evans & Davis, Thomasville, Ga.
We are pleased and at the same tiino
proud of this production of one of Georgia's
sons. It gives to ns, who have no knowledge
only that which is traditionary, an insight
into the character of some of Georgia’s most
distinguished sons, whose bones now lie slum
bering bencatli her soil. At the same time,
whilst portraying those characters, it gives us
a good idea of “ Troup and the Treaty,”
“ the case oi the Missionaries,” and other
portions of State history, of which we could
have had, no accurate idea, save throngh the
labors of Maj. Miller. It supplies a desidera
tum in our State history that might not to be
lightly appreciated. We commend the book
to every Georgian. Iu those two volumes
you will find specimens *of the ornate style
of a Berrien—the firey and moving eloquence
of a Colquitt—the gifted poesy of a Wilde—
the overshadowing genius of a Forsyth, and
last, but not least, the wit of a Dooly. All
honor to Maj. Miller, for having placed char
acters so dear to Georgia in such a form that
ail may become acquainted that desire. We
like the book, both as regards its contents
and typographical appearance. We like
the author, for he has performed bis work in
a manner free from partisan prejudice, or
feeling. We admire his energy in the pros
ecution of his labors, for this work has been
written during the worst of health.
We cannot refrain from giving our readers
some of the good things in this work, which,
if improper we beg the author’s pardon, and
what character more appropriate to draw
good things from than tbe lamented, humor
ous, and witty Dooly r
When I first came to tbe -bar, Wilkes
court sat three weeks in July. One even
ing, a lawyer of this place, during the July
ennrt, asked tbe judge and several other gen
tlemen, among whom was myself, to his of
fice to eat watermelons. The judge had
complained all the week of my being unu
sually slow in conducting my business. Af
ter we had eaten all the melons before us, I
proposed to go with another friend a few
steps off to a cellar for more.
“No, no, Andrews : don’t you go,” says
Dooly : “ they will get too ripe before you
return.”
He was of feeble health,and more peevish
when unwell than at any other times, though
always irritable. He also had great con
tempt for anything like foppery. Being sick
at Milledgeville. he was confined in the sec
ond story of tbe hotel. His friends had ad
vised him to have a young doctor to prescribe
for him who was rather foppish, and wore
dreary brass-heeled boots, just as they were’
coming in fashion. After be had visited Doo
ly once or twice, he became disgusted at his
manners, and thought the doctor took unu
sual pains to let it be known that he was
shod after tbe latest fashion. He could hear
the brass heels ring at every step up-stairs
and to his door. When the doctor arrived
at the door on the third visit, Dooly called
out,
“ Ride in doctor t”
On one occasion, at Hancock, he was try
ing a prisoner for murder; and the Cose turn
ed on tbe noint whether he was justifiable in
shooting the deceased. Tbe jury retarded
a verdict “ That the prisoner had the right
to shoot.” So soon as tho verdict was read (
out, Dooly called, ia great apparent alarm, ;
“ Take care, Mr. Sheriff 1 take care that
he don’t shoot this wayT’
On one occasion he was most happy in
giving a bint to a landlord in one of tbe up
per counties, who bad honored him .by: pre
senting the judge every day for dinner, du
ring the court, with a half-grown hog in the
shape of a stuffed baked pig. Tbe clever,
punctual gentleman bad attended njpon the
table every day without injury : no fork bad
pierced mm, no knife bad cut him. When first
asked to take some of the pig, the judge re
plied that be certainly was a Well grown pig,
—that be was moch larger and in better or
der than any of his fattened hogs. At the
close of the term, on finishing the dinner of
the last day, be called tbe sheriff to him and
ordered him to discharge the pig upon his
own recoguizance, so be and appear at the
next term of the court, with the thanks of
the court for bis prompt and fathful atten
dance.
The ladies at a certain dining-party were
all speaking very*highly of a new-married
lady who told just cpme among them as a
young bride, saying that she waa a lady of
such fine, even temper, they knew the judge
would be pleased to form her acquaintance;
when he replied that under different circum
stances he should be highly gratified, but as
she wr* a lady of a fine, uniform temper, he
must bog to be excused, for he never knew
but one lady of that character, which was
old George C.’s wife. He had known her
intimately for forty years, during tho whole
of which time she bad been of a uniform
temper ; that she had been mad one day with
another — uniformly mad, without the least
variation—ever since he first knew her, and
he prayed God that he might never know
another! ‘ ■
One cold morning, during the Spring term
of Hancock Court, he seemed to be quite
husky in his voice and laboring under a cold,
when a member of the bar inquired of him
after his health. He replied that he bad a
severe attack of the quintg, —for, as cold as
tfie wind blew, there was a man who came
and stood all the morning at the court-house
door with only his morning-gown on and
without any cravat; that the sight of tho
man had affected his throat so much it was
quite tore, and tlwat he should have to resort
to his hoarhound before night if he did not
get
A certain lawyer in Lincoln county was a
candidate before the people for a seat in the
Legislature. When asked by the judge as
to his prospects in the coming election, he
replied that he was apprehensive lie should
be defeated,as the people in that county had
a strong prejudice against voting far a law
yer.
” Oh,” replied the judge, 14 if that is all, I
will aid you,for you can get a certificate from
me at any time that you are no lawyer.”
Written lor tbe Wire-Grass Reporter,
Mr. Editor.-—Tbe subjoined document;
wss picked up a few days ago, and it is de
sired that you publish the same.
Yours, B.
|We publish with a protest.— Ed.J
SLOES BULKIN'S SABJXENT.
” Deacon Sniggius have the time for
preaebin arriv 1”
■ “Yes Passon, accordin’ to my judgment it
have arriv and elaps.”
“ Then my breetliing we will go on with
the garment without kingin’ er prar. The
tex which I take this mornin’, breetbing is in
the following words : Am thy servant a dog
whereof to do this thing. Now my breed
ing you ex pecks me to tell you whar you
can find tbis tex, but you’re Just as much
mistaken as es you’d a burnt yer shirt. The
bible sez sarch tbe scripter, and whar would
be the use for you to sarch es I was to tell
you every thing, efyou want to find this tex
I tell you to sarch, for am thy servunt a dog
whereof) to do this thing. The sack is bree
thingyou expeckstoo much from your pass
on—yon expecks him to find good texes and
preach sarments from ‘em, and then tell you
* * • < •-7 ‘ *
whar they ar—yea my breetbing and some
on ye cxpecks to git to heaven by bangin’
on to my coat-tail—but you can’t do it, —no
my breetbing not by no means at all—you
cant rescape in this way—no, no, no, you
mought jest as well try to sale acrost tbe
Persific Ocean on a broomstraw—you might
jest as well try to drain the Mickysnkie Jake
with a teaspoon-ah—you mought jest as well
try to dive down to tbe onfathonibble depths
of this yeth through a gofer-hole-ah. For
am thy servant a dog whereof to do tbis
thing. {
Yon see my breetbing that my tex leads
mo to speak consumin’ of dogs, Now they
is menny kinds of dogs—thar’s the cur ‘ dog,
the ball dog, the pinter dog, tbe bown dog,
and a heep of other sorts of dogs and dogs
in the manger, bnt tne meanest dog of all is
the hown dog. Let me tell you a circum
stance. Afore I moved to this country I
lived in the good old State of North Keli
ner and 1 had a neighbor thar named Jones,
and Jones he had a doe, a hown dog name
towser-ah. Well my breething I was amity
pore man, and had to plow with raw-hide
traccs-ah. One nite ater I was done plowin
1 put my geer down and the nex mornin’
my trace was gone-ab. WeBI didn’t ondor
stand it at all, but I made anew par and
plowed on-ah. And when nite come I left
them in the same place and when mornin’
come they was gone too ah. Well I made
another par and plowed on-ah and that night
I tbort I’d watch-ah. Well my breething
afer sapper I took a light and went to my
plow, ahd I jest got thar time annf to see
the last trace disappear down Towser's throat
ah. ‘ Yes my breetbing that is a sack, bat it
ii not the most Boundin’ part of the circam-.
Hance. 1 fold yon my breething that 1 was
a pore man, yes breething amity pore man
ah, but I bad a little money that I was a sa
vin’ to buy a barrel of whiskey agin tbe nex
sosatioti. But I took some of this money
and want.to tbe store and I bought a par of
riglar into trace chains, and thinks ses I,now
Towser I’ve got ye-ah. Well my breet king
I went home, and bitehed op my mar and
went to work agin. That nite I left my geer
ia the same place,ancl I gl*d * n m y
to think how had disappointed Towse would
be-ah. Towse went thar shore enuf ray
i breething, and what do you think he done ?
{Why help yer souls my breething he got
I holt of one of my trace chsjns and eel up
thirteen Unite afore he found but hie mittakt .”
Brother Sniggtn*close the.meetin’.
a sent.
A Landlord not a thousand miles from
our place at which a four horse stage stops
and who is always on the quivive for pas
sengers and their half dollars,not long since
since was sitting down entertaining his guests.
The time was near at hand for the coming
of the stage —it being night. About this
time there was heard a clattering out of doors
as if the stage had arrived, and the remark
was made “the stage has come.” Out rnsh
ed our Landlord without hat or spectacles,
exclaiming as he went-out to —as he suppos
ed—the stage, “get out gentlemen —walk
in—Any ladies aboard, driver? —bring out
the lights so that the ladies can get out.”
When the lights came out, there stood one
of the sable sons of earth perfectly horror
stricken with mouth thrown open, nostrils
distended, and eyes looking like a couple of
pewter plates holding a tcheelbarrow.
S.MBB*.
Written for the W iro-Gra** Reporter.
Mr. Editob -Upon different occasions,
I have visited the farm of my neighbor Mr.
C. B. Magruder, and am highly delighted to
see the advantages and facility with which
work may be dispatched.
has over thirty acres.per baud in cultivation
(on land second to none in tbe State perhaps
for the production of grass) and but few
would excel it for corn and cotton, (as you
arc apprised) and I have no doubt he will cul
tivate it with a much ease as most planters
do their twenty. In the preparation of his
lands, he attaches two mules to iiis double
plow,making <Jbe hand do the work of two,
thereby saving half tho number of his plow
hands for other purposes. In planting corn,
be covers with double scooters, making one
hand and one horse do the work of two, I
was really taken when I saw the machine
used by him for planting cotton, (the inven
tion of Coi. Jessee Haves of Perry, Houston
county, Geo.,) which''saves the labor of two
hands and one horse doing the work wall A
: and giving the great advantage of knocking
i off the top of the ridge just iu time to kill
the first coat of grass and le avo the land all
fresh and nice for the young cotton. Mr. M.
is now plowing out corn with the double
! plow, running a two inch scooter upon his
iron foot in advance, and a four inch scooter
obliquely in tho rear, which does admirable
work, and the great beauty is one horse and 1
j hand docs the work of two. Mr. M. lias al
so m use the celebrated Yost plow and scra
per which is certainly a good plow for cotton,
but be gives preference to the double sweep
for tlie culture of both corn and cotton on
.account of the privilege of using straight
wings or turning sweeps.
Iu short, Mr. Editor, the Col. seems to be
doing almost every thing in a sort of geomet
rical progression style which, to be well un
derstood and properly appreciated, must be
seen.
And I suggest that you make a visit to the;
variety farm, and examine his ingenious far
ming implements and wituess their opera
tions for yourself.
Mr. M. delights in walking over his farm
and among his fine blooded stock, and is al
ways on hand for a trampoose.
I. G. J.
Written for the Wire-Gras* Reporter.
Mr. Editor: —l wish to speak a few
words to the people at largo. A cure for
Hard Times. It is so general a topic of con
versation, and has been so frequently bap
died in the newspapers and in pamphlets
that I think it will not be atbiss to introduce
it in this place.
Our legislature has had the subject under
consideration; they have talked of a loan
office, of stop laws, of a law for great inter
nal improvements, and a great variety of
projects have been agitated by them—all to
obviate these hard times. But these projects
are ail visionary, none of them calculated to
do tbe smallest good to the community.—
Congress too has been engaged on this sub
ject ; they have thought Rome g rest change
in the tariff or some important measure for
the encouragement of domestic manufacto
ries would help uS out of the difficulty, but
all of this is’ perfectly idle, these projects do
not strike at the root g£&the matter. I may
be singular in my views, but really I have
thought so much on the subject that I cannot
avoid expressing my sentiments, whatever
you may think of them. I have no objec
tion to great improvements, J’ sm by no
means unfriendly to our own manufactories,
but then I think that in order to cure the
evil we must all act individually. Let tho
work of reformation begin at home, and I
confidently believe we shall ooon rid our
selves of the Hard Times that we hear so
much complaint of. To be calling out for
legislative aid while wo ourselves are idle, is
acting like the man in the fable who when
his waggon wheel was fast in the ditch cried
for Hercules to help him, instead of patting
his own shoulder to the wheel We must
help ourselves, and if that will not answer, i
why then w may call for Hercules to help
,a*. Wekrejwo fond of making a show in
our families, in this way oer expenses for n .
ceed onr Income, ear daughters must be
dressed off in tbeir silk and crapes in stead
of their Imeeywooisey. Our young folks am
too, proud le be seen In a coarse dress, and
their extravagance ia bringing ruin on oar
families. When we can induce our sons to ‘
prefer young women for their reel worth
rather than for their show—when you e ,„
get them to ehoose a wife wlioeaa malm *
good loaf of bread, and a good pound of bet, \
ter, in preference to a girl who does nothing
bat dance abont in her snk and her late,
then we way expect to see a change for the
better. We must get back to the simplicity
of the former times if we expect to see mors
prosperous days. Tbe time was, even with
in my memory, when a timplr note was good
for any amount of money,hot now bonds and
mortgages are thought almost no security,
and this is owing to a general want of coafi
dence. And wbat has ennsed Ibis want f
confidence ? Why it ia occasioned by tbd ex
travagant manner of living by our families ~L,
—going in debt beyond onr ability to pay.
Examine this matter and you will find this Mi
be the real cause. Teach your sons to ht
too proud to ride a donkey which their fath
er cannot pay for, let them ba above being
seen sporting a gigg or carriage which (heir
father is in debt for, let them have this sell
of independent pride, I venture to say that
you will soon perceive a reformation. But
until the chage commences in this way ia
our families —until we begin the work our
selves, it is vain to expect better times, lu.
Yours truly, D. C.
Moultrie, Colquitt Cos., Ga.
ALARM*G RATE OF AFFAIRS a FRAME.
All the accounts, recently received, goto
show that affairs in France are in * very un
satisfactory condition, and that there is
great probability of a grand clash in no dis
tant day. The financial system is dworded,
commerce stagnant, manufactures are ate
low ebb, and discontent is wide spread and
increasing. The Paris correspondent of thtf
Liverpool Journal, in noticing tbe sensation
among the Bonaparlista caused by the defeat
of the Palmerston Ministry in the House oi
Commons, remarks:
Weil may the Bonapartists be alarmed
leat the alliance with England shoo Id be dis
turbed ! Nerer—not even the days of Rob
espierre-—were the elements of terror and
distrust more widely disseminated than at
this moment; never waa the throne ao pow
erless and so isolated from the people. Be--
lieve not one word of the boast and bluster
ing of the news papers; the soul of this
once mighty kingdom is, at this hour, faint
ing with dismay at tbe sight of the danger
and humiliation which have been heaped
upon it duringtlie few pasted years. Be
lieve not. when they spe'<k of the financial
prosperity of the country, and declare, a*
proof, the escape from the hitter crisis throng h
which other countries have, just passed.—
It is the absence of ail activity, the stagna
tion of all commerce, which has caused that
very firmness of which they boast—moon
shine and falsehood like all the rest.
Had jlhe- great markets of French enter
prise been ns actively engaged as during for
mer years, they too would have suffered with
the others. Instead of sharing tlie crisis
with London, Liverpool, Hamburg and Ncw-
York, they stood secure, with Baden, (Jarls
rulic, Nice and Gunava.and other places of im
portance in tbe commercial annals of Europe.
Believe not their vain-glorious boasting con
cerning the increase of their mnratirae rela
tions—moonshine, all moonshine likewise!—
Why, at this very moment, there ate lying
at Marseilles vessels of the latest construc
tion and ot the highest repute, unemployed
for months, even at the lb west rate of freight.
A friend writes to me this very day that, in
that place last week, having said partly in
jest and partlv in earnest, that he bad some
idea of buying a ship to carry the ore from
tlie mine he it working near Nice, to Leghorn,
lie had innumerable offers during the day of
the finest craft for the purpose, upon such
terms as induced him to execute in reality
the project which had presented itsself to
his mind but as a phantom impossible to real
ize.
Among other vessels offered for purchase
was the Precttrseur steamship, with bran new
boilers and machinery all complete, sails and
rigging, all first rate—for the sum of fifteen
■thousand francs. This vessel is known to
have cost more than a hundred thousand
francs, something about two years and a half
ago. The machinery alone cost sixty thou
sand. The Precnrseur has been lying at the
Port St. Nicholas for seven months, without
even tho offer of freight, and the owner, in
disgust, has put'her up for sale for anything
site will fetch,and yet finds no bidder! 8o
much for tile mar*time prosperity which tka
Emperor puffs off with such complacency.—
and to the account of which France listen*
witli the same degree of mingled doubt and
satisfaction which fills the bosom of the oM
coquette while listening to the complimeoti
of her admirers—charmed to hear the praise#
of her bloom, hsir and teeth, yet miserable oil
the whilb.leaL tho secret of their falsehood
should be betrayed.
“KISS HIH BIDDINGS! KISS KIN GIWHNUS!!”
No one who heard the speech of Mr. Gil
mer, of North Garoliua, (not yet published.)
delivered on the day before yepterdav, was
surprised on finding him yesterday doing tb#
work tlie Republican party managers so nerv- ,
ously desired him to do. Os the tenor of
that speech, it is sufficient to say that it in
stantly drew a rush of congratulating Repub
lican members—Abolitionist—around uita.
at its conclusion. As the venerable Joshua,
who was at their head, and with outstretched
hands and countenance beaming with delight*
blessed him for the effort, as it were Mg
George 8. Houston of Ala., moved doubtless
by the pregnant pointa of the passing scene,
fixed the attention of all present upon it, by
exclaiming, in a voice beard by all—“Xise
bhn, Giddinga! Kiss him, Giddings! !”
This exclamation, under tbe circumstances,
fold, perhaps, with more force upon the UU*4
es the House and the spectatora tu tbe galle
ries than any hoar’a speech of lira session.—
Washington Star. v
Qcriy. —W£eo sorrow has left Its ‘traces,*
what has become of the balauce of the
‘harness I’