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Modest Young Men.
iTherc is no object so beautiful to gaze
fn, as a modest, unassuming young man.
betrays wisdom and knowledge by his
y life and demeanor. You do not
see him first speak in a public assembly,
notiformost in any important underta
king. Although ho is not backward in
the discharge of his duty, he knows just
n£cre he belongs, he is never seen in
highways giving out his opinions to a lit
tle circle, canvassing the course of pub
lic men, and predicting the destiny of
q|(r country. He seldom obtrudes his
ijvice unasked, and when he gives his
ofinion, it is with caution and delibera
tion. He is not ambitious to be consid
ered a great man, a man of talents, or a
ttfofound scholar. He will hesitate to
Mve his name appear in print as a writer
lecturer, and nothing pains him more
than fulsome adulation. Such a man,
whatever may be his business or profes
sion, seldom thinks he is competent to
discharge his duties, unless he is thor
lugh in whatever he undertakes. If he
study law, he will not think himself a
■rodigy after a few months of reading
Blackstone or Kent, and feel prepared to
give counsel on important cases. If he
tenter college, hist.first step will not be to
dictate to the President, or reprimand the
Professor; nor in the debating clubs and
Societies will he strive for the highest hon
fprs, and intimate that he is the best ca
pable to address them on their anniver
sary or to,deliver the poem. If he study
divinity, he will not consider himself a
profound theologian, because he has read
Scott or Henry, and feel himself compe
tent to discharge the duties of the pasto-
Iral office. If he *»go to a trade, in a
twelve month he will not feel capable of
Betting pp for himself and running down
his master. If he be a clerk, he will not
jiictate to his purchasers what to buy, and
feel competent to decide for them which
is the best piece of goods, which the most
profitable to carry into a family, and by
his airs and impertinences drive away
lustorners from the shop. If he be a
(pilor, he will not be anxious for a cap.
Ain’s berth before he has been a single
foyage before the mast or learned a sea
man’s duty. In fine, whatever, he under
takes it will be with modesty and self-dis
frust, until he is fully competent to dis
charge his duties to the satisfaction of his
femployers or friends. We regret that
modest young men are scarce in our day
r —and we much more regret that impu
dence, and self-importance, and self-suffi
ciency, are so popular that the majority
of mankind will select one of the latter
for any kind of business in preference to
the former. They believe that virtue and
talent consists in noise and bluster, and
the big swelling I, and therefore, most of
our important offices are held by men
not of intrinsic virtue, modest worth,
pnd real capabilities, but with those who
talk the loudest, prate the most, and de
|cant upon their own worth and the
fttighty objects which have been achieved
through t jj e j r i ns t umen tality. It is a
shame that these things are so, that real
merit blushes in retirement unseen, while
unblushing impudence basks amid the
populace, and rides majestically over the
heads of the multitude. So it will al
ways be till mankind are estimated not
bv outward appearances, but by virtue of
(he heart.
An “ Attachment.”
I We have just now heard a good story,
of which an Alabama sheriff is the hero!
Court was in session, and, amid the mul
tiplicity of business which crowded upon
him at term time, he stopped at the door
of a beautiful widow, on the sunny side :
of 30, who, by the way, had often be-
Jtowed melting glances upon the Sheriff
AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1844.
aforesaid. He was admitted, and soon'
the widow appeared; the confusion and
delight which the arrival jof her visitor
occasioned, set off to greater advantage
. than usual the captivating charms of the i
• widow M. Her cheeks bore the beauti
ful blended tints of the apple blossom—
her lips resembled rosebuds upon which (
’ the morning dew .yet lingered, and her 1
. eyes were like thelquivers of Cupid, the '
i glances ofloveqpd tenderness with which i
they were filled, resembling arrows that i
’ only awaited a beau, (pardon the pun)
>to do full execution. After a few coin- I
monplace remarks: '
' “ Madam,” said the matter-of-fact :
Sheriff, “I have an attachment for you.” i
A deeper blush than usual mantled the
; cheeks of the fair fidow —with downcast ;
eyes, whose glances were centered upon
m her beautiful foot, jvhich half concealed
by her flowing drapery, gently patted the
, floor, she with equal candor, replied :
“Sir, the attachment is reciprocal.”
‘ For some time the Sheriff maintained
t an astonished silendc, at last he said :
“ Madam will yon proceed to Court ?”
’ “ Proceed to Coifrt ?” replied the lady
with a merry laugp, then shaking her
, beautiful head, she ; .rlded:
“iYo, sir! thoug i this is leap year , I
will not take advaitage of the license
therein granted to ny sex, and therefore
j. greatly prefer that should “ proceed
( to court.”
( “ But, Madam, the Justice is waiting.”
“Let him wait, I im not disposed to
hurry matters in sich an unbecoming
manner, and besides, Sir, when the cere
| mony is performed, 1 wish you to under
stand that I prefer a m inistek to a Justice
of the Peace.”
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A light dawned upon the Sheriff’s brain.
’ “ Madam,” said bi, rising from his
’ chair with solemn d gnity, ‘ there is a
’ great mistake here, my language has been
’ misunderstood, the attachment of which
I speak was issued from the office of
| ’Squire C., and commands me to bring
| you instantly before hi|n to answer a con
' tempt of Court, in disobeying a subpoena ;
’ in the case of Smith vs. Jones!!’
• We drop the curtain !—Port Gibson
j Herald.
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The Deceiver. i
There is, perhaps, no one feature about I
Rum, more strange and powerful than
its deceitfuiness. An individual may {
1 drink, until the fair glow of health is gone,
I and in every feature he bears the deep
■ stamped mark of the destroyer. His
■ once bright complexion now changed to I
‘ colors of every hue, —and his regular 1
f lineaments swollen and disfigured ; and *
1 yet will he never so much as think he is
’ changed. We are strongly reminded of
I this by seeing an individual in Broadway,
1 whose history we do not know—neither 1
his residence or name, and yet we believe 1
we could write a true history of the last !
eight years ofhis life. About eight years
1 ago we were engaged in bjUftnee in the
• lower part of the city, andftiis person, 1
then a merchant, passed the fffiie two or
■ three times daily. A year passid on, and !
we could plainly see in the face of the !
merchant, that he “ tarried long at the 1
wine cup.” Years rolled on, and every
1 time he passed us that changqgrew great
er, —and when we met him in Broadway
last week, the proud merchant was gone,
1 and in his place the bloated (ace, bleared
eye, worn out clothes of the drunkard.
We can imagine the crushed hopes of a
wife and friends—the bitter, burning tears 1
| shed for him. Oh, when will heaven in 1
its wisdom stretch forth a hand to save
and protect those we love and respect, 1
from the wiles of the deceiver, that at 1
last “ biteth like a serpent, and stingeth
like an adder”? But why should we
complain ? The temperance pledge is 1
working wonders—and it is our sincere 1
and most earnest wish, that all such be- '
ings as the one whose history we have re- 1
lated may be made the subjects of its j
healing influence. —Crystal Fount. 1
Effects of Leached Ashes. j
Twelve years ago, sometime in the i
month of June, I turned over a quarter s
of an acre of green sward, for the pur- 1
pose of raising a crop of rutabagas. My 1
manure had been so nearly “ used up” <
for other crops that by close scraping, I I
was able to get but one cart load; to this
I added one load of leached ashes;
(probably about thirty bushels, at any I
rate I remember they were hauled from 1
the potash at one load, with one pair of
oxen,)this formed a dressing for the piece, *
scanty as it was, and it produced a fair ]
crop of turnips. The next year the land 1
adjoining was broken up, and the whole ’
[planted in corn. This piece of ground
has been treated ever since exactly in the
same manner as that on each side of it,
and in every crop, except the corn crop,
there has been a perceptible difference in
favor of the piece in which the ashes
were put; and the last season, a greater
difference than ever before. The field
had been mowed so long as to be what
we term “ bound out,” that is, produced
nothing but spear grass, except upon this
quarter of an acre, which had twelve
years before received ihe die sing of
leached ashes; on this, there was a crop
of red and white clover, very thick, but
short; the clover was in the blossom, the
contrast with the adjoining parts of the
field was so great as to be distinctly seen
at the distance of half a mile. It was
the opinion of the man who assisted me
in haying, that this quarter of an acre
produced three times as much hay, as an
equal piece on either side of it, and in
his opinion I fully concur.— Maine Cul.
How to pay our Authors.
We make an extract from one of the
late New Mirrors, to expose the misera
ble policy which our Government pursues
towards our authors. YVere a
fair international copy-right in force, we
should never have occasion to read para
graphs so humiliating as the following:
Original literature in the lump is sadly
at a discount in this country. Miss Sedg.
wick, in the plenitude of her intellectual
power, has taken to school-keeping.—
Another authoress, very superior to Miss
Sedgwick in the qualities necessary to
saleable writing, (Mrs. Mary Clavers.) is
employed in the same ill-suited drudgery.
Cooper, I understand, makes nothing by
his American editions, and thinks of pub
lishing only in England and importing a
few copies at English prices. American
literature has nearly ceased, or it is scat
tered in such small rills of periodical
writing that it will make no mark upon
the time. Prescott is an exception, it is
true, but Prescott is a man of fortune,
and writes for fame, not bread and but
ter. Why should not a subscription be
raised by the patriotic to give fair play
and studious leisure to the original and
poetic genius of Mrs. Child, wasted now
on ephemera for newspapers? Money
left for such uses, or given by the living,
would betfer embalm the memory of the
giver than many a common charity.
The Petrified Forest in Cairo, in E?ypt.
This was the subject of an interesting
paper (which we hope to sec published)
read by Dr. A. Chalonor at the late Sci
entific Convention at Washington.
It was discovered by the celebrated M.
Linant, chief engineer to Mohammed
Ali, who has resided in Egyptsince 1818,
and has visited every part of that coun
try, and in 1826, when returning to Cai.
ro, and at a distance of about three
leagues, he discovered the “petrified
forest.” These trees are found on the
syrface of the sand, both broken and en
tire. The trunks of some are still stand
ing, some are carbonized, but petrified;
some resemble “ wood newly hewn
others look like “ fire-brands,” f*ome
fragments are converted it to yellow jas
per and agitized. Dr. Chaloner gave a
minute account of the geological forma
tion of the country, and informed the
audience that specimens from the “petri
fied forest,” and suite of specimens illus
trating the geological formation of the
country, were in the Academy of Natur
al Sciences of Philadelphia. ; Some of
these petrified trees are dates, palm, fir,
fig, oak, sycamore, and bamboos of two
feet in diameter.
A Hint. —lt is not the money earned
that makes a man wealthy so much as
what he saves from his earnings. - A good
and prudent husband makes a deposit of
the fruits ofhis labor with ‘his best friend:
and if that friend be not true to him, what
has he to hope ? If he dare not place
confidence in the companion ofhis bo
som, where is he to place it ? A wife
acts not for herself only, but she is the
agent for many she loves, and she is
bound to act for their good, and not for
her own gratification. Her hu&and’s
good is the end to which she should aim :
his approbation and love is her reward.
A man said to another— ■* Which is the
heaviest, a quart of rum or a quart of
water V
‘ Rum most assuredly, said the other,
‘for I saw a man that weighed: 210
pounds staggering under a quart of !rum,
when he could have carried a gallon of
water with ease.’
1 The Blackbird. I
j The blackbird is one of the species
, against which the efforts not only of idle
, boys, but our farmers, are directed on ac- i
i count of its habit of attacking the Indian |
; corn at the time of its sprouting from the
■ ground. It is somewhat vexatious, to be <
| sure, to have this injury done to our corn |
l crops ; but before the farmer engages in
| the warfare againstrthese birds he should ;
j take into consideration the fact, that they
i save ten times the amount of corn they |
* destroy. They pick up thousands of in- i
i sects that would do far greater damage.
There are only two short periods while ,
. the blackbirds remains with us that they
. eat vegetable food : in the spring, when ■
i the corn is sprouting from the ground, (
; and intiutumn, when it is mature. The ,
> remainder of their summer’s adjourn is
spent in rendering us the most essential 1
i aid. On opening the stomachs of these ,
i and many others, worms, bugs, small rep
, tiles, sometimes as many as fifty or sixty
of these, may be discovered in the stom
achs of one individual.
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Bernadott’s Early Life.
Monsieur Mermilliod, deputy from
9 Havre, lately visited Corsica, and has
1 printed a series of interesting letters on
3 the Island. He relates that at the
' springs near Bastia, the water was
brought to his lodgings by an old peasant
' woman, “horribly decrepid,” named
‘ Francesca, the same with whom Berna
dottc fell in love, and whom he would
’ have married in 1777, when she was
9 young and handsome. Charles Jean,
1 was then a common soldier in the regi
ment of the Royal marine, and employed
‘ with the other privates in working on the
road leading from Bastia to St. Florent.
Francesca jilted the penniless soldier.
1 Soon after he reached the rank of Corpor
-1 al, and then became enamored, at
' Bastia, of the daughter of a register of
the Council of State, who paid him a
1 small stipend for copying archives in his
5 intervals ofleisure. Both at Bastia and
’ Ajaccio, a number of his transcripts, in
' a neat hand, are carefully preserved.
3 The register peremptorily refused his
' daughter to the amorous corporal—des
tined to be one of the ablest military
' commanders and wisest monarchsof Eu
-1 rope. —Paris Cor.
\ The Brother and Sister. —Mrs. Child
relates the following pleasant anecdote,
in one of her New York letters to the
. Boston Courier— ‘ I found the Battery
r unoccupied, save by children, whom the
) weather made as merry as birds. Eve
. ry thing seemed moving to the tune of
“ Brignal banks are fresh and fair,
And Greta woods are green.”
j To one who was chasing her hoop I
said smiling, ‘You are a nice little girl.’
’ She stopped, looked up in my face so ro
' sy and happy, and laying her hand on
her brother’s shoulder, exclaimed earn
, estly, * And he is a nice little boy too!’
_ It was a simple childish act, but it brought
' a warm gush into my heart. Blessings
on all selfishness. On all that leads us
’in love to prefer one another. Here lies
’, the secret of universal harmony; this di
apason which would bring us all into
' tune. Only by losing ourselves can we
’ find ourselves.’
1 .
Master Printers in the time of Charles
: I. —Archbishop Laud procured a decree
. to he passed in the Star Chamber, July 1,
- 1637, “to regulate,” says Heylyu, “the
2 trade of printing, and prevent all abuses
-of that excellent art to the disturbance of
f the church.” By this decree it was or
, dered, “That the master printers from
) thenceforth should be reduced to a cer
tain number; that if any other should
secretly or openly pursue that trade he ,
1 should be set in the pillory, or whipped
> through the streets, and suffer such other
! punishment as that court might think fit ■
f to inflict upon the offender.
Husbands Finding Fault. —Some men ■
’ make their wives very miserable by a
thoughtless habit of finding fault with .
, every thing which comes in their way. ,
, The man who heedlessly finds fault on i
. every occasion, only lays the foundation j
. for his own sorrow, for he takes away an
, important motive which actuates the wife
.to faithfulness and pains-taking; and she I
must be more than a common woman, (
who, in the face of repeated fault-finding, <
. can find a heart long to exert herself, on
■ ly to receive again the same reward.
Fated to Death. —An Englishman and i
, a Yankee fought a duel in a dark room
I lately. The Yankee, not wishing to
, have blood on his hands, fired his pistol s
' up the chimney, and, to his horror, down r
came the Englishman. t
[One Dollar a Year.
Battle of Bennington. —An oid farm
er in the neighborhood had five son - in
the battle. He was told the next day
that one of them had come to a misera
ble end.
“What, cried the grey-headed patriot,
“did he leave his post, did he run from
the enemy ?”
“Oh, no, sir, w r orae than that—hr- fell
among the slain lighting like a hero.”
“ Then I am satisfied,” said the old
man, “bring him in; let me look on ray
noble boy.”
The corpse was brought in : he wept
over it. He then called for a howl ot
water and a napkin, washed the blood
away with a trembling hands and thank
ed God that his son had died for his
country.
Gardners. —The question “ why is a
gardner the most extraordinary of men ?”
has thus been answered in a letter to a
lady:
‘ Because no man has more business
upon earth , and he always chooses good
grounds for what he does. He com
mands his thyme , he is a master of the
mint, and fingers penny roual; he raises
his celery every year, and it is a bad year
indeed that does not bring him a plum.
He meets with more bows than a minister'
of state, he makes more beds than a
chambermaid; and has in them more
painted ladies and genuine roses and lilies
than are to be found in an assembly room,
he makes raking his business more than
his diversion and many other gentlemen
do, but makes it an advantage to health
and fortune, which few others do. His
wife, notwithstanding, has enough of lad's
love and heart's ease, and never wishes
for weeds. He can boast of more bleed
ing hearts than your ladyship, and more
laurels than the Duke of Marlborough ;
but his greatest pride, and the world’s
greatest envy is, that he can have yew
when he pleases.
Novel Hot Beds. —lt is stated in. tho
report of the Midland Mining Commis
sion, that near Dudley, in Staffordshire,
early potatoes are raised for the London
mnrket in ground heated by the steam
and gasses emitted from an old colliery
which has been on fire for many years.
This is a much more direct and economi
cal application of internal heat than that
proposed by our Parisian neighbors, who
are at present laboring to procure natur
ally heated water from a depth of 3000
feet, wherewith to warm the green hou
ses and menageries of the Garden of
Plants—presuming that water from that
depth will he raised to 100 or 104 deg.
Fahrenheit, by the central or internal
heat of the earth.
Simple mode of Purifying Water. —lt
is not so generally known as it ought to
be, that pounded alum possesses the pro
perty of purifying water. A table spoon
full of pulverised alum sprinkled into a
hogshead of water, (the water stirred
i round at the time,) will after the lapse of
a few' hours, by precipitating to the bot
, tom the impure particles, so purify that it
i will bo found to possess nearly all the
freshness and clearness of the finest
spring water. A pail full, containing
four gallons, may be purified by a single
tea spoon full.
Indelible Ink. —An Exchange paper
. says: —The milk which exudes from the
branches of sumach, is the best indelible
ink that can be used. Break off one of
the stems that support the leaves, and
write what may be wanted with it. Ina
short time it becomes a beautiful jet black,
and can never be washed out.— Selected.
Croup. —Two or three spoonsful of
strong ley, made of oak ashes, and mixed
with molasses, are recommended as a
positive cure for croup.
Ring Worm may be, in most cases,
simply cured by scratching around the
outer surface with the point of a sharp
needle. The disease will not pass the
line, if the skin is thus cut.
It may be useful to some timid railway
travellers to state that the furious puffing
of the engine shows the safety valve is
open, and explosion impossible.
The newly elected Mayor of N. York,
Mr. Harper, is said to be a regular built
Washingtonian tee-totalier.
There are now in the United States
about 100,000 drunkards, and 300,000
moderate drinkers, only half as many of
the tw'o classes as there was in 1838.