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Upon fair terms to those who may
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CELEIIR Al’E I> SOUTIf EB N
LIKTIMBKTT,
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Achn, Bore Throat. Stitt Neek, Tootli-ftcb'e, Pain in
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.... „ ✓
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IS a certain cure for Ring-worms, Scratches In
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Manufactured by Dr. A. W. ALLEN, Columbus,
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THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1858.
From Longfellow's New Poem.
CHILDISH.
Come to me, O ye children,
For I bear you at your play,
And the questions that perplex me
Have vanished quite away. j.
Ye open the eastern windows,
That look towards the son,
Where thoughts are singing swallows
Aud the brooks of morning run.
In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine,
In your thoughts the brooklet* flow,
But in mine is the wind of autumn,
And the first fall of the snow.
Ah, wbat would the world be to us
If the children were no more ?
We should dread the desert behind us
Worse than the dark before.
Wbat the leaves are to the forest,
With light aud air for food,
Ere their aweet and tender juices
H*ve hardened into wood.
That to the world are children;
Through them it feels the glow
Os a brighter and sunnier climate
f n Thau reaches the trunks below.
Come to me, O ye children,
And whisper in my ear
What the birds aud winds are singing
In your sunny atmosphere.
For what are all our contriving*,
And the wisdom of our books,
When compared with your caresses,
Aud the gluduesa of your looks f
Ye hre better than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said ;
„For ye are living poems,
And all the rest are dead.
From Household, Words.
A Cornish Hug.
- Gfrptaiii Billy Tregear was bound on tho
visit dc rigner to London. Captain Billy
traveled by mail, not by wagon, outside, of
course.
Billy sat behind the coachman, jn compa
ny with three rather unusual coach passen
gers. But as any kind of coach or passen
gers would have beeu unusual to Billy, lie
perhaps saw no more singularity in them
than in the rest of his fellow travelers. They
were certainly not the kind of people one is
in the habit of meeting even in mixed socie
ty. One of them was an Italian showman.
His companions were a hear and monkey r
Captain Billy accepted their companion
ship cheerfully, as a perfectly natural and 1< -
gitimate incident in his aboveground experi
ences.
At the outset of my story I confess there
is a sort of Alpine or rubicon barrier of im
probability, which flic reader may perhaps
find some “difficulty in getting over. But he
is requested to make an effort, with the nssu
rance that his obstacle surmounted, he will
find the rest of our mutual journey compara
tively plain sailing, lie must make an ef
fort, then, to believe—ns implicitly, if possi
ble, ns I myself did when 1 first heard the
story —that Captain Billy Tregear, either
from a defective knowledge of mankind or
from an impaired vision, the result of having
had the sun too much in his eyes, whether
in the literal or the metaphorical sense, (both
cases being possible to a cornish miner just
come aboveground for a holiday,) mistook the
hear for a human being, outlandish perhaps
and taciturn, hut undcncably human.
Yon must bear continually in mind that
Captain Billy had risen from the ranks to his
present distinction in the depths of a tin
mine. What could he know about man and
beast iu the upper sun lit world ? I could
point out a score of gentlemen—-either of
whom, happening to be Billy’s traveling
companion on the occasion, might easily have
been mistaken by Billy for a bear. Is it
then a wonder that the simple, untutored
Comisliman should have mistaken a hear for
a gentleman 1
I fear, in order to make my story at all
probable (the difficulty enlarges as I ap
proach it,) I must fall hack upon and cling
to the hypothesis that Captain Billy had
mounted tho coach in a hazed and muzzy
condition; and had come aimed with a case
bottle after the manner of sagacious travel
ers; that he could not have been in a state
to judge by ocular demonstration of the out
lines of his fellow-passengers; that lie was
merely aware of a dark, huddled-up figure
of some kind fitting peaceably beside him,
whoso outer and tangible garment appeared
to he of a furry texture, and that Billy—as
a natural consequence of his assumed condi
tion—was disposed to be sociable aud com
municative.
We have hinted that the bear was taci
turn. There was every excuse for his 6b
serving this apparently churlish demeanor.—
In the first place he was naturally ignorant
of the English language. In the second, be
labored under the physical disadvantage of
be(ng muzzled. Billy, it may be fairly .sup
posed, not able to notice this physical incon
venience ; or it is probable that he would
have treated the bear with greater considera
tion than he did. ‘sfj
However, it took a long time ;to offend
Billy, lie wanted to talk. Having ex
hausted general topics—in which the stran
ger might bo naturally indisposed to take an
interest—the gallant, but perhaps (well, yes,
he must h|ve been, so let us consider the
matter settled) intoxicated captain proceed
ed to more personal questions. It struck
him that he would start a delicate compli
ment to his neighbor’s taste and judgment in
dress. Now, to withstand that kind of blan
dishment one must be a hear indeed.! .
“Famous top-coat that o’yoUru, sir,” said
Billy, admirably smoothing the bear’s left
shoulder “ Beautiful top-coat, to be sure.’
The hear may have thought so too; hut,
ns lias been shown, there were insurmounta
ble obstacles to his expressing an opinion up
on that or any other subject.
H Good sort of coat that for the pits,” pur
sued the undaunted Billy. “Water’d trickle
off it just the very thing like off a oont’s*
back. Wouldn’t it, pow 7”
The hear was obstinately silent, and here,
I think, be was to blame. He might have
grunted, at least.
Bill was not yet beaten. He pursued :
“ Excuse my freedom, sir, as a poor man
and a perfect stranger; but might I ask wbat
would be the cost of a top-coat like that, for
I should like to have oue, if witiuu means 7
Still the bear didn’t say a word.
Captain Billy was now fairly huffed. Hu
man blood is apt to get warm down in those
gaseous tin mines, and Billy felt thia was a
poor return for his persistent civility. He
opened and shut his hands, loosened hia bi
ceps muscles, and clutched at the bear at if
meditating vengeance, in a Cornish manner,
at the earliest opportunity. Having grasp
ed and thrown a few imaginary foes over the
back of the conch, and feeling himself in
training for any encounter, Billy deliberate
ly proceeded to provoke the hear by insult.
lie spoke at the unoffeuding personage iu
the third person.
“ Well! I ain’t a judge of breeding, per
haps, but it ain’t my idea of a gentleman!”
Billy was quite right. The bear was no
gentleman.
The showman hero interposed. .He fully
understood the state of the case, which lie
had watched from the commencement. —
Nursing his monkey affectionately in hia lap
(and winking at the coachman and passen
gers,) he said to Captain Billy—iu pretty
fair English—with a mischievous Italian
smile:
“ You must not be offended with him.—
He does not understand your language. He
is a Russian.”
“ Rooshan, eh 7” said Billy, rather exas
perated than pacified by the explanation.—
“ Brn-ave, ugly chap, sure lie is, too. Can
he wrussel 1”
“O, yes; the Russians arc very fine wres
tlers,” said the Italian.
“Well! there's wrusslcrs in Coruwall,
too.” The wrathful Captain agaiu clutched
the air as lie spoke.
” Y’ou had better uot try with him.” the
showman went on. “He hns one terrible
grip.”
“So they saiil of the Wesmorelaud man.
last winter, hut I throwed him over my head,
aud could have done it with my hat on.”
“Ah ! hut the Russians have one hug of
their own.”
“So’vewe; and its thought a good'un,”
said Billy, tartly.
And tlion I think Billy must have sought
solace iu the case-bottle, and fallen asleep,
murmuring contemptuous defiance agaiust
tho Rooshan nation collectively. w
History, at any rute, insists upon the fact,
that at the first halting place, (Japtaiu Billy
oil descending, staggering or tumbling from
the roof of the coach, knocked against his
late neighbor, the hear, lately assisted by his
master in descending to terra fuma, to the ad
miration of nuiiiefous bystanders, and became
indignant at what lie conceived to he a fresh
insult to the British Hag at the hands of per
fidious Muscovy; Billy rushed blindly at
his-iusulter, whom lie seized by the shoul
ders, after the manner of his country, pre
paring to initiate him into the mysteries of
the Cornish ling.
The hear, of course, didn’t like this, and
retaliated after the custom of his race anil
district. Equally, as a matter of course,
Captain Billy Tregear didn’t like that.
“ Here, I say,” Billy gasped, rapidly col
lapsing within the slowly closing hug of his
adversary, “this ain’t wrustling!”
The bear was impervious to arguments a*
on former occasions. To his horror, Billy
felt sharp fangs entering a fleshy portion of
his torso,_._lt~was a pitty he had not better
studied the Russian character.
“ Here, I say ! You’re a clan-ing me.—
This ain’t fair! Help! Murder!”
Billy's eyes rolled wildly iu search of prob
able rescue among the terror-stricken - spec
tators. There was no help in sight. In the
midst of his agony he looked upwards and
saw the monkey, who had not yet been lifted
trpm the seat on the coach to which his mas
ter had tied him. There was hope yet.^—
Victory had already decided agaiust Billy.
The British Hag was nowhere. Prompt ca
pitulation wag the only safety. With the
rcinnaut of breath left to him, he screamed
out imploringly to the monkey :
” I ay, young gentleman, speak to your
father in bis own language, and tell him if
he’ll loose go I’ll ax his pardon.”
Tho story always'finished here. At the
time of my first becoming acquainted with
it. Captain Billy Tregear was reported to be
still alive and prosperous. I never learnt
how he got out of Mr. Bear’s clutches, and
conjecture fails to suggest a probable means
of his extrication. But I never like to in
quire too closely into the.reality of (food sto
ries. They always come out fromthefire of
scrutiny) singed like Michaelmas’ geese, of
their feathery glories. I have not yet got
over the pain of discovering, a few months
ago, that Rob Roy wag not only a dirty
sheep-stealer, hut that lie sold a fight to the
English government in the great Scottish re
bellion. ./
• ’ *; 0
* An onnt, reader, in West-country dialect, means
a mule. . ,
THE HOAD TO WEALTH.
Printer’s ink has made more men rich in
this country than any other known agent,—
Y'ct how few southern merchants make use
of it to increase their business. There are
a few exceptions we admit. And we have
’noticed that those merchants who advertise
most liberally do the largest business and
are most successful. Stephen Girard spoke
the truth wlien lie said, “by keeping my
business Continually before the public” he
had been able to make many sales he would
not otherwise have made. Fifty or a hun
dred dollars a year, invested in advertising,
will not be lost by the merchant. It will
return to him an hundred fold. Try Prin
ters Ink; keep 3'our business continually
before the public.
i i
An honest farmer having a number of men
hoeing in his field went to see how his work
went on. Finding one of them sitting still,
he inquired the cause.
The man replied t *
“ I thirst for the spirit,” „ ...
“ Grog, you mean I suppose ; bat if the
bible teaches you to thirst sfter the spirit, it
also says, ‘Hoe I'*very oue that thimetb J"’
SCENE AT A GEHMAIf WATERING PLACE.
I.auiks GAMBMXu.-k-The St, Louis Dem
ocrat is favored with an occasional letter from
a European tourist, who is evidently a culti
vated person and a graceful Writer. His last
fr.ve a description or the fashionable water
log place of Weisbaden, from which We
make an extract which is worth resdiug:
I •left the Rhine a little below Msyence,
and made a short visit to Weisbaden, some
eight or ten miles east of the i+rer. This is
a beautiful place, and one of the Saratogas
of Germany. The principal spring hero
throws up water in large quantities, mingled
with gas, which produces a constant gargling
sound, somewhat like water running from a
jug. The water of this spring, though clear
as crystal, has a temperature of about one
hundred and thirty, anil of course, is too hot
to be swallowed without cooling. Its taste,
when cool, somewhat resembles that of the
Congress Springs at Saratoga, but when first
dipped up it tastes very much like hot chiek
eu broth, weii seasoned with salt and pep
per.
I took a stroll early one morning over the
beautiful grounds, aud around tho springa,
crowds of people, each with a tumbler in
hand, were wnlking up and down cooling off
the boiling draught before they could drink
it, a and this done, returning to tho spring for
another glass. The high aud the low seem
ed here to meet together, for mingling in the
erowd, I saw luces and rags, beauty and de
formity, wealth and poverty side by side, all
intent upon imbibing as much as possible of
the health giving waters. Invalids form but
a very small part of tho company here.—
Counts and princes, lords and ladies, as well
as belles and dandies, gnmhlcrs and black
legs, are alt mingled together with cripples
and crutches. In one part of the grounds
is a largo palnce-liko structure called the
Kursall, iu which are not only diningrooms,
reading rooms, concert rooms and dancing
rooms, but more conspicuous and more|fro
quented than all the others, arc the gambling
rooms.
I was amazed to see the eagerness with
which the infatuated crowds arouud these
tables watched the progress of the pity, and
often staked large sums upon the mero tarn
of a die. 1 had before seen gambling on the
Mississippi steamers, but compared with
Wiesbaden that was no gambling at all. At
these tables sat elegantly dressed ladies in
white kid gloves, and slovenly half drunken
hack-drivers, side by side, staking money of
ten upon the siiine figure. Even old men,
bowed down with the infirmities of age, were
there, reaching out the money with trembl
ing linnd, nnd laying it upon the hoard,while
tnnylnip at their side stood a youth of fifteen
with eyes kindled and cheeks glowing with
the fires of n newly-begotten passion. Some
timid ones, doubtless new beginners in the
nefarious business, laid down silver, bnt the
most part used only gold, and aomo staked
thousand Iranc notes. Poor, deluded fools.
They must know that not one in a hundred
of those who take money aroond those tables
ever wins as much as be loses.
MIGHT ALE.
During the month of September and Oc
tober, throughout the United States, wherev
er there are chills, and fever aud ague, inter
mitteuts, or tho more deadly form* of fever,
it is a pernicious, and even dangerous prac
tice, to sleep with rite outer doors or win
dows open, because miasma, marsh emana
tion, the product of decayiug vegetation—all
o t which are different terms, expressing the
same tiring—is made so light by heat, that it
ascends at once towards the upper portion of
atmospheric space, and is not breathed du
ring the heat ot the day, but the cool nights
of the fall of the year condense it, make it
heavy, And it settles ou tbeground, is breath
ed into thr lungs, incorporated into the blood,
and if iu its concentrated form, as in certain
localities uear Rome, it causes sickness and
death in afow hour*.
Tho plagues which devastated eastern
countries in earlier ages, were caused by the
concentrated cmauatiorj’ from marshy locali
ties, or districts of decayiug vegetation, aud
the commou observation of the higher class
of people was, that those who occupied the
upper ijtoicir not even coming down stairs for
market supplies, but drew them up by ropes
attached to baskets, had eutire immunity
from disease, for two reasons ; tho higher the
abode, the less compact is the deadly atmos
phere ; besides, the higher rooms in a bouse,
in summer, are tho warmer ones, and the mi
asma less concentrated. The lower rooms
are colder, making the sir more dense. Be,
by keeping all outer doors and windows
closed, especially the lower ones, the build
ing is less cool aud comfortable, but it ex
cludes the infectious air, while its warmth
sends what eutors through the crevices im
mediately to the coiling* of the rooms, where
it congregates, and is not breathed, hence it
is that men who entered the bar-room and
dining-saloons of the National Hotel, remain
ing but a few brief hours, were attacked with
the National Hotel disease ; while ladies who
occupied upper rooms, where constant fires
were burning, escaped attack, although re
maining in the house for weeks at a time. It
was for the same reason that Dr. Rush was
accustomed to advise families in summer time
not being able to leave the city, to cause
their younger children especially, to spend
their time above slairs. We have spent a
life-time ourselves in the \Vest and extreme
South, and known iu our own person, and as
to those who had firmness to follow our re
commendation, that whole families will es
cape all the forms of fail fevers, who will
have bright fires kindled at sunrise and sun
set in the family room. liut it is too plain
a prescription to secure observance in more
than one family iu ton thousand. After the
third frost, and until the fall of the next year,
it is an important means of health for per
sons to sleep with an outer door or window
partly open, hnviugtlie bed in sueh a position
as to be protected from k draught of air/We
advise that no person should goto wqrk or
take exercise in the morning on an empty
stomach ; but if it is stimulated to action by a
cup of coffee, or a crust of bread, er appls, or
VOLUME I—NUMBER 59.
orange, exercise can be taken, nt* only with
‘•npuwtjr, bet to high advantage, in all chill
*oa sere* localmea.— ZfHtelfk.
™ *AH3tOTH TMJta 1 ‘t
On the 23d and 84tb of Jane 1 railed the
celebrated Mammoth Tree Grove, i CW
rena county, aecemamued by brother J.
Blain and brother 11. Bland and lade W
reached the grove at four P, M„ oa the 83d
end put up at “the Mammoth Tree
House, the only public, indeed, the only
dwelling house at the grovo. The
dationa were satisfactory. A semi-weekly
KB . entitled the Big Tree Bulletin and
hy'a Advertiser,’ hi edited end fitetod
on the stump of what i* called tfea % tree,
though it u not by any means the hugest
tree in the grove. There are ninety-six of
those wonderful trees la a circuit of Mont one
mile. These trees do not stand alone, but In
a forest of large trees, generally pine and et
dass. They are truly wonderful, and like
our greet lakes, ono must see them fully to
appreciate their vast dimensions. Sugar
pines, eight feet in diameter, anti more than
two hundred feet high, standing in the ncir
neighborhood of these wonderful growth*,
seem mere saplings in comparison. “Tko
bather of the Forest,” lies in stately gran
deur oil the ground, having been blown
down nobody knows when, his huge form
measuring one hundred and Twelve fedt in
circumference, and ly estimate four hundred
and filly feet in length, 1 say by estimate,
lor the topis broken offthreo hundred feet
from the root. Bates the tree is eight feet
in diameter where it is broken, h is reasons -
bly supposed, judging from the general to
per, that one hundred and fifty foot must be
added to complete the length. “The 3£oth
er of the Forest” excites commiiweration.—
1 here she stands denuded of her bark, ona
bundled and twenty feet from the ground.*—
1 his was done about four years age, and yet
so tenacious is she of life, a few green tufts
still adorn her head. The framework of the
scaffolding ts sti!f standing, and the spiral
stairway, formed by large pins driven into
the tre. We did not ascend this stairway,
as the gentlemanly conductor thought the
pins might not be reliable. “The Big Tree”
was cut ar rather bored down some time Mot
The leveled stump foVm the floor of V
bor, in which, at stated above, is the editing
and printing office of the Big Tree Bulletin.
Iho but log, some thirty feet Jong, lies on
the ground, and is asceuded by a neat stair
way of twenty-six steps. Tho trees are per
haps oil named. Besides those above men
tioned, there aro “The Two Guards,” “lie
Three Graces,” “Tho Twins,” “Hercules,”
•‘The Hermit,” “The Beauty of the Foredt.”
doc. Borne tako the names of tho several
Btatos oud of our distinguished lueu. Wind
field Scott is a tree of most noble dimensions
and most grandly represents the nolle chief
tain whose name H bears. But enough about
the big trees. —Mu hop S'Mii't Letter*.
s . xuamoM aucsote.
The following story is told of a revolution
nry soldier who was running for Congress ;
It appears that onr hero was opposed by a
much younger man, who had never “been to
the wars,” and it was the wont of old Wo
lunonary” to tell the people of the hardship,
ho endured. Bays be 1 t
u UI H ** “hip the
British and the Indians. 1 hove slept upon
the field of botUo with no corerii.g lot ‘the
canopy of Heaven. I have walked over fro
zen ground till every footstep was r**rktil
with blood.”
Just about this time, one of the “sovere
igns,” who had become very much affected
by his tale of woe, walks up in front of tko
speaker, wiping the tears fisim bis eyes with
the extremity of his coat toil, and iuiemiat
ing him said : U ‘ , *
“Did you say you fought the British and
the Ingincs 1”
“Me*,” respoaded the old “revolutionary.”
“Did you say that you had slept on the
ground, while serving your country, without
any kiver I”
“Yds, sir, I did.”
“Did you say you had followed tho Vne
my of your country over frozen ground till
every footstep was marked with blood t‘
“r S L e l XQltio *ly replied the speaker.
“ m el], then,” says too tearful ‘sovereign/
ns bo gft ve a sigh of painful emotion
b dis 1 don't think you’ve done enough
for your eoeqtry, sed I’ft tote for the otdei
man.” ... * „ ~,•:
The origination of the term, t!i* “First
Family of Virginia,” it thus explained by oa
excliange: In the early settlement of that
State, it was found Impossible to colonize It
unless women went there. Accordingly a
ship load was sent out, bat no punter was 1-
iowed to marry ono of thorn until he had
first paid one hundred pounds of tobacco for
her passage. When the second ship load
came, no oue would pay more than sevoqty.
five pounds for tho matrimonial privilege,
except it were a very superior article. Con
sequently, the doscendaots of all those who
were sold for one hundred pounds of tobao
co wore racked as the first families, while
those who brought but seventy,five pounds
are now ranked as the second families j and
the reason why no one can ever find any of
the second families, is ‘ ocause you can’t get
a Virginian to admit that his mother only
brought seventy-five pounds jrf tobacco.
At a festival, a pretty miss waited upon an
editor with a pie plate of antique manufac
ture, in the centre of wlrish he espied the
following interesting couplet 1
. “OueeweetNee’
Is the pries of tWa” ‘,s‘4 1...
This excited his feelings, and aa soon as
an opportunity presented Itself, te qrotiotfod
the young lady to lls sido, and pointing his
knife to the line, said: “ Your pay is ready
whenever you present your bill.” H
It is a'remarkable fact that', however well
young ladies may be versed In grammar',
very few of them can dentine matrimony.
A fop Is like a cinnamon iroelL-th* qj
worth more than the body