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Experiences
BY MAJOR PATTON, V. S. A.
>ut the world I’ve jonrneyed much,
’ve travelled far and near,
IJmy experience is such
Is you shall shortly hear.
i seen the worst— l’ve seen the best
)f (so called) human kind
ere all are busily in quest
if what they never find.
i known a man who robbed the poor,
tnd yet was i ich himself,
io drove the beggar from his door
Vith silver *n the shelf.
3 seen a judge who justice sold,
lave heard a gamster pray,
1 know a wife who did not scold
‘Upon a washing day.”
ass I’ve seen just turned fifteen,
A blossom partly blown)
io really did not cure 1 ween
To be a “woman grown.’’
K Again, I’ve met a seedy maid
■ (“Oh! Godfrey, be it sung!’’)
V Who did not seem the hast afraid
I At being reconed young.
I I’ve known a lawyer plead a cause
f Who never sent his bill,
I And knew a doctor (not of laws)
■ Takeshis prescription pill.
K I've known a tradesman speak the truth,
Hg I've beard a parson swear,
HAnd knew a hackman once in sooth,
Who charged but lawful fare.
fflß’ve known a parson play at whist
■ Who would not play at loo;
Hknd knew an abolitionist
f Who did a slavp pursue;
KTo lavish on his offspring wild
[ A miser hoard his gold;
HAnd seen a mother leave her child
■ For stranger hands to Isold.
seen a maiden who had slid
B Who had a modest air,
■ And seen a belle who (seeming) did
Not know that she was fair.
| Once on a railroad ’iwas my lot
B To get a “passage free,”
f- And on a steamer once I got
A decent cup of tea.
And I have seen once in my life
A husband, be it knowni
Who did not treat his neighbor's wife
Some better than' his own;
And also see—l’ll be (don’t wink!)
As gentle as 1 can—
Some time ago, it was—l think—
I saw an * .
wiby—not any of yotlr
squalling specimens; but
limpled thing, full of fun
ng over with glee, and of
5, unsuspecting disposi
luse to any body. What
resiling in this busy, tire
an an occasional romp
k letting down as it were,
of the cord |f mind until it vibrates in
union, and jhen holding a confidential
chat in real jaby vernacular. Then to
have a couple of white chubby arms
thrown around your neck, and a pair of
rosy lips, fresh as rose buds, ere the dew
has left thein,tpresented fora kiss! The
wan who cankhink of it without a soften
ing of the hezrt, and a watering of the
mouth, is no better than the swine before
which the pearl is cast, and we hope he
may never be blessed with a baby—or if
be is, let it be a kicking, puglislic baby,
one skilled in (he art of gouging, who
r takes deliget in running his thumb into
your eye, and always trying to obtain a
lock of bair by a more summary pro
cess than clipping.
P[TTW —In the long Secession
speech lately delivered by Mr. Rhett, of
South Carolina we find this undoubted truth
which is as a grain of wheat In a bushel of
chaff:‘lt a ill be far easier, indeed, in my
opinion, to get out of the Union than to keep
out of it.’ So saith Mr. Rhett and we are
inclined to think. When South Carolina
once tastes the luxury of lb® decline of her
own commercial parts, the emigrajions of
her citizens, and ht avy taxes for an inde
pendent Government, she will be ns fierce
to come into the Union as she if now to go
out of h.-amßichmuud Whig'ff”
The Yiualjeer Counsel,
A Tale‘ff3gj|jUn Taylor.
We copy the foffilHfcr from the New
York Sunday of it,
John Taylor,wa*licensed, wlilbayputh
of twenty-one, to practice at the%arj<itf
this city. He was poor, but
ed, and possessed extraordinary genius.*]”
The graces of his person combined with
the superiority ofhis intellect, enabled him
to win the hand of a fashionable beauty.
Twelve months afterwards the husband
was employed by a wealthy firm of tbe
city, to go on a mission as land agent to
the West. Asa heavy salary was offer
ed, Taylor bade farewell to his wife and
infant son. He wrote back every week,
but received not a line in answer. Six
months elapsed, when the husband re
ceived a letter from his employers that
explained all. Shortly after his depar
ture to the West, the wife and her father
removed to Mississippi. There she im
mediately obtained a divorce by act of the
Legislature, married again forthwith ;
and, to complete the climax of cruelty and
wrong, had the name of Taylor’s son
changed to Marks—that of her second
matrimonial partner! This perfidy near*
fy drove Taylor insane. His career, from
that period, became eccentric in the last
degree : sometimes he preached, some
times he pleaded at the bar; until, at
length a fever carried him off at a com
paratively early age.—Philadelphia Bul
letin.
At an early hour on the 9th of April
1820, the Court House in Clarksville,
Texas, was crowded to overflowing.—
Save in the war limes past, there had nev
er been witnessed such a gathering in Red
River county, while the strong feeling,
apparent on every flushed face through
out the assembly, betokened some great
occasion. A concise narrative of facts
will sufficiently explain the matter.
About the close of 1839, George Hop
kins, one of the wealthiest planters and
most influential men of Northern Texas
offered a gross insult to Mary Elliston,
the young and beautiful wife ofhis chief
overseer. The husband threatened to
chastise him for the outrage, whereupon
Hopkins loaded his guo, went to Ellis
ton’s house and shot him in his own door.
The murderrer was arrested, and bailed,
to answer the charge. This occurrence
produced intense excitement, and Hop
kins, in order to turn the tide of popular
opinion, at least to mitigate the general
wrath,—which at first was violent against
him, circulated reports infamously preju
dicial to the character of the woman who
had already suffered such a cruel wrong
at his hands. She brought her suit for
slander. And thus two causes, one crim
inal and the other civil, and both out of
the same tragedy, were pending iii the
April Circuit Court, for 1840.
The interest naturally felt by the com
munity as to the issues, became far deep
er, when it was kuown that Ashley and
Pike, of Arkansas, and the celebrated S.
S. Prentice, of New Orleans, each with
enormous fees, had been retained by Hop
kins for the defence.
The trial, on the indictment for mur
der, ended on the Bth of April, with the
acquittal of Hopkins. Sucha result might
well have been foreseen by comparing
the talents of the counsel on the other side.
The Texan lawyers were utterly over
whelmed by the argument and eloquence
of their opponents, it was a fight of
dwarfs against giants.
The slander suit was set for the 9th, and
tbe throng of spectators grew in numbers
as well as excitement; and what may
seem strange, the current of public senti
ment now ran decidedly for Hopkins.—
His money had procured pointed witness
es, who served most efficiently his pow
erful advocates, indeed, so triumphant
had been the success of the previous day,
that when the slander case was called,
Mary Elliston was left without an attor
ney—they had all withdrawn. Tbe pig
my pettifoggers dared pot brave again
the sharp wit of a Pike and the scathing
thunder of a Prentiss.
‘Have you no counsel?’ inquired
Judge Mills, looking kindly at the plain
tiff.
* No* **r; they have all deserted me,
and 1 am too poor to employ any more,’
replied the beautiful Mary, bursting into
tears.
‘in such a case, will not some chival
rous member of the profession volunteer ;’
—asked the Judge, glancing around the
bar.
Tbe thirty lawyers were silent as |
death. j
OGIiETHORPE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1851.
‘ i will, your honor,’ said a voice from
the thickest part of the crowd, situated
behind the bar.
At the tones of that voice many started
from their seats and perhaps there was not
a heart in the immense throng, which did
|u)t beat something quicker—it was so un-
Bktlilv sweet, clear ringing and mourn-
situation, however, was chan
ged waggeneral laughter, when a tall,
figure, that nobody pre
sent rehiaHtered ever to have seen, el
bowed hii'Mfc,, through the crowd, and
placed himseliiMlhin the bar. His ap
pearance was a Hpoblem to puzzle even
the phinx herself. ‘ His high pale brow,
and small. nervouslMyuirhing face, seem
ed alive with the concentrated essence and
cream of genius, but ibemkfcinfiniine blue
eyes, hardly visible beneath lUkhtmassive
arches, looked dim, dreamy, mmostjun
consrious; and his clothing was so ex
ceedingly shabby, that the court hesitat
ed to let the case proceed under his man
agement.
‘ Has your name been entered on the
rolls of the State?’ demanded the Judge
suspiciously.
’ h is immaterial about my name,B be
ing on your rolls,’ answered the stran
ger, his thin, bloodless lips curling up in
to a fiendish sneer. ‘ 1 may be allowed
to appear once, by the courtesy of the
Court and Bar. Here is my license from
the highest tribunal in America!’ and he
handed Judge Mills a broad parchment.
The trial immediately went on.
In the examination of witnesses, the
stranger evinced but little ingenuity, as
was commonly thought. He suffered
each one to tell his own story without in
terruption, though he contrived to make
each one of them tell it over two
times. He put lew cross-questions, which
with keen witnesses, only serve to correct
mistakes ; and he made no notes, which,
in mighty memories, always tend to em
barrass. The examination being ended,
as counsel for the plaintiff he had a right
to the opening speech, as well as the close;
but to the astonjshment of every one, he
declined the lynuer, and allowed the de
fence tq lead off. Then a shadow
might have been observed to flit across
die fine features of Pike, and to darken
even the bright eyes of Prentiss. They
saw that they had caught a Tartar: but
who it was, or how it happened, it was
impossible to guess.
Colonel Ashley spoke first. He dealt
the jury a dish of that close, dry logic,
which, years afterwards rendered him fa
mous in the Senate of the United States.
The poet, Albert Pike followed, with
a rich vein of wit, and u hail-torrent of
caustic ridicule, in which you may be
sure neither the plaintiff nor the plaintifi's
ragged attorney was * either forgotten or
spared.
The great Prentiss concluded for the
defendant, with a glow of gorgeous words
brilliant as showers of falling stars, and
with a final burst of oratory that brought
the house down in cheers, in which the
sworn jury themselves joined, notwith
standing the stern order of the bench.—
Thus wonderfully susceptible are the
Southwestern people of the charms of im
passioned eloquence.
It was then the stranger’s turn. He
had remained apparently abstracted dur
ing all the previous speeches. Still and
straight, and motionless, in his seat, his
pale smooth forhead, shooting up high
like a mountain cone of snow ; but for
that eternal twitch, that came and went
perpetually in the shallow cheeks, you
would have taken him for a mere man of
marble, or a human form carved in ite.
Even his dim, dreamy eyes were invisible
beneath those gray, shaggy eyebrows.
But now at last lie rises—before the bar
railing, not behind it—and so near to the
wondering jury that lie might touch the
foreman with his long, bony finger.—
With eyes stifl half shut, and standing
rigid as a pillar of iron, his thin lips curl
as if in measureless scorn, slightly part,
and a voice comes forth. At first, it was
low and sweet, insinuating itself through
the brain, as an artless tune, winding its
way into the deepest hearts, like the mel
ody ol a magic incantation—while the
speaker proceeds, without a gesture or
the least sign of excitement, to tear in pie
ces the argument of Ashley, which melts
away at his touch as Irost before the sun.-
beam. Every one looked surprised.—
His logic was at once so brief, and so 1u..!
minously clear, that the rudest peasant
1 could comprehend it without effort.
I Anon, he came to the dazzling wit of
P OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD IS OURS.
the poet-lawyer, Pike. Then the curl of
his lips grew sharper-his sallow face kin
dled up—and his eyes began to open,
dim and dreamy no longer, but vivid as
lightning, red as fire-globes, and glaring
like twin meteors. The whole soul was
in the eye—the full heart streamed out on
the face. In five minutes Pike’s wit seem
ed the foam of folly and his finest satire
horrible profanity, when compared with
the inimitable sallies and exterminat
ing sarcastnus of the stranger, interspers
ed with a jest and anecdote, that filled the
forum with roars of laughter.
Then without so much as bestowing an
allusion on Prentiss, he turned short on
the perjured witnesses of Hopkins, tore
their testimony into atoms, and hurled in
their faces such terrible invective that all
trembled as with an ague, ar.d two of them
actually fled dismayed from the Court
House.
UFhe excitement of the crowd was be..
Imping tremendous. Their united life
arid souraj'peared to hang on the burn
ing tongue f the stranger. He inspired
them with the powers of his own passions.
He saturated them with the poison of his
own malicious feelings,—seemed to have
stolen nature’s long hidden secret of at
traction. He was the sun to the sea of all
thought and emotion, which rose and fell
and boiled in billows as he arose. But
his greatest triumph was to come.
His eye began to glare furtively at the
assassin, Hopkins, as his lean, taper fin
gers slowly assumed the same direction.
He hemmed the wretch around with acir
cumvallation of strong evidence and im
pregnable argument,-cutting off all hope
of escape. He piled the huge bastions of
insurmountable facts. He dug beneath
the murderer and slanderer’s feet ditches
of and 11emum, such as no bo
overlenj), and no stretch of ingenuity e-J
vadc,.and having thus, as one might say,
impounded the victim, and girt him about
like a scorpion in a circle offiret he strip
ped i.imself to the work of massacre!
Oh, then, but it was a vision both glo
rious and dreadful to behold the orator.
His action, before graceful ns the wave of
a golden willow in the breeze, grew im
petuous as the motion of an oak in the
hurricane. His voice became a trumpet,
filled with wild whirlwinds, deafening the
ear with crashes of power, and yet inter
mingled all the while with a sweet under
song of the softest cadenre. His face was
red as a drunkard s—his forehead glow
ed like a heated furnace—his countenance
looked haggard like (hut of a maniac and
ever and anon he flung his long, bony
arms on high, as if grasping after thun
der-bolts ! He drew a picture of mur
der in such appalling colors, that in com
parison hell itself might be considered
beautiful. He painted the slanderer so
black that the sun seemed dark at noon
day, when shining on such an accursed
monster— and then he fixed both portraits
on the shrinking brow of Hopkins and
lie nailed them there forever, The agt*
tation of the audience amounted nearly
to madness.
All at once the speaker descended from
his perilous height. His voice wailedout
for the murdered dead, and described the
sorrows of the widowed living—the beau
tiful Mary, more beautiful every moment,
as her tears flowed faster—till men wept
and lovely women sobbed like children.
He closed by a strange exhortation to
the jury, and through them to the bystan
ders. He entreated the panel, after they
should bring in their verdict (or the plain
tiff, not to offer violence to defendant how
ever richly he might deserve it ; in oth
er words, * not to lynch the villain, Hop
kins, but leave his punishment to God.’
This was the most artful trick of all and
the best calculated to ensure vengeance.
The jury returned a verdict for fifty
thousand dollars; and the night a for
wards Hopkins was taken out of bis bed
by lynchers, and beaten almost to death.
As the court adjourned, the stranger
made known his name, and called the at
tention of the people with’ the announce
ment —’ John Taylor will preach here
this evening at early candle Ugh'.’
The crowd, of course, all turned out,
and Taylor’s sermon equalled if it did not
surpass the splendor of his forensic effort
This is no exaggeration. I have listen
ed to Clay, Webster and Calhoun—to
Dewey, Tying and Bascom, but have
never heard anything in the form of sub
lime words even remotely approximating
the eloquence of John Taylor—massive
as a mountain, and wildly rushiug as a
cateract of fire. And this the opinion of
all who eyer heard the marvelous (nan. I
First Discovery of California by
Drake, the Circumnavigator.
On the 15th of November, in the year
1577, Cotton Francis Drake sailed from
Plymouth with five ships, carrying 164
men and officers, professedly on a voy
age to Alexandria, in Egypt, but really
with the intention of sailing into the Pa
cific ocean, where the English flag had
never been seen before. After passing
the Cape de Verde Islands, he sailed du
ring fifty-four days without the sight of
land, and then entered the river Platte.
After supplying his vessels with water
from the great river, Drake sailed south*
wards, and passing through the straits
named after the only circumnavigator of
the globe who had preceded—the straits
of Magellan he entered the Pacific acean
on the 16th of September. He arrived
off Valparaiso on the 20th of November.
He plundered the town of Sz. Jago, where
he took a booty ol 25,000 pieces of very
pure and fine gold. Proceeding tbence
to a port named Tarapac, he landed, and
found a Spaniard sleeping by the sea
side, with thirteen bars of silver lying by
him, of the value of4oo ducats. He took
the silver and left the owner to finish his
nap. Not far from thence, going inland
for water, his men met a Spaniard and an
Indian boy driving eight lamas, or sheep
of Peru, which are as big as asses, every
one of which had on his back two bags
of leather, each bag containing 50 lb.
weght of fine silver. Bringing the lamasg
and their burdens to the ships,
in all 3 cwt. Thence to
Africa, where they plundered a vessel
; tifty-seven wedges of silver,
each
February, they arrived at Lima, where
j they plundered all the ships in the harbor,
in one they found a chest full of rials of
silver, and a good store of silks and lin
en cloth. Here they heard of a rich trea
sure ship named the Cacafuego, which
had sailed to Paita. They immediately
gave chase, but on arriving at Paita,
found that the Cacafuego bad sailed for
Paoama. They at once renewed the
chase, and in the course of it they picked
up a vessel which containing 80 lbs
weght of gold, and a crucifix of the same
metal, with goodly great emeralds set in
it, continuing the pursuit, they at last
came up with the Cacafuego, which well
repaid them fur the trouble it had given
them. Besides precious stones they found
thirteen chests of rials silver, bO lbs.
weight of gold, and twenty-six tons of
uncoined silver. This rich capture was
made off Cape St. Francisco, about 150
leagues from Panama. From this point
they proceeded to Cuatulco, and thence
to Ceno, where they careened their ships.
On leaving the island of Ceno, ‘ which
is in eight degress north latitude,’ Drake
resumed his cruise, and took another rich
ship ; and being now satisfied with his
booty, be determined to return borne by
the islands of the Malucos, and ( thence
to sail by the course of the Portugals, by
the Cape of Bona Esperanca.’ For this
purpose he ran nolliward for 800 leagues
to get favorable wiud, and on the sth day
of June, ( being in 42 degress towards
the arctic pole, having speedily come out
of extreme heat,’ Drake, found the air so
cold that his men being pinched with the
same, complained of the extremity there
of ; and the further they went the more
the cold increased upon them. Where
upon they thought it best to seek the land,
which they found to be not moutainous,
but low, plain land. We drew bark a
gain (says historian of the voyage) with*
out landing, till we came within 38 de
grees towards the line ; in which height it
pleased God to send us into a fair and
good bay, with a good wind to enter the
same. This country was no doubt the
conntry which lately become so famous
under the name of California, and this
bay was probably the great bay of Fran
cisco.
The inhabitants came down to the
shore, gave Drake a very friendly recep
tion, and the king offered him the gov.,
ernment of the country s • Wherefore, in
the name and for the use of her majesty,
(qneen Elizabeth,) he look the sceptre,
crown, and dignity of the said country in
his hands, wisliiug that riches and treas
ures thereof might be so easily transpor
ted to the enriching of her kingdom, as it
aboundeth in the same. There is no part
of the earth here to be taken up, wherein
there is not some special likelihood of
gold or silver. At his departure from
the country, Drake set up, as a monument
of his having been there, as also of her
TERMS: $3 in Advance.
majesty’s right and title to the same, ‘ a
plate, nailed upon a fair great post, where*
upon was engraved her majesty’s name
the day and year of our arrival there, with
the free giving up of the province into
her Majesty’s hands, together with her
highness’s picture and arms, and a piece
of sixpence of current English money;
under the plate was also written the name
of Drake. ‘lt seemeth, says the histori-*
an of the voyage, that the Spaniards had
never been in this part of the country ;
neither did they discover the land by many
degrees southward of this place.* Such
was the account of this land of gold, pub*
lished in England in the reign of queen
Elisabeth, it certainly is one of the cu
riotities of history that the first land ever
taken possession es by the English on the
continent of America should have now
been the famous California ; and that it
should have been occupied some years
before the first attempt was made to col*
onize the provinces which have
grown to be the United States of Amer
ica.—Baine’s History of Liverpool.
Beautinsl Extract.
It it seldom we meet with so sweet a
sentiment, illustrated in so appropriates
figure, and expressed In such beautiful
language as the following:
Clarify.—Night had kissed theyounjx
rose, and it’bent softly to sleep. SlapP*’
shone, and pure dew-drops hung upl|
its blushing bosom, and watched its swlnk.,
est slumbers. Mtltfiing came, witMpjr
the young rose, and it awoke joyous and
smiling. Lightly it danced to and fro in
all the loveliness of health and youthful
innocence. Then came the ardent sun.
god sweeping from the east, and he smote
the young rose with his scorching rays,
and it fainted. Deserted and almost
heart broken, it dropped to the dust in
loneliness and despair. Now the gentle
breeze, which had been gamboling over
the sea, pushing on the home bound bark,
sweeping over the hill and dale, by the
neat cottage and still brook, turning the
old mill, fanning the brow of disease,
and frisking the curls of innocent child
hood, came tripping along on her errand
of mercy and love; and when she saw the
young rose she hastened to kiss it, and
fondly bathed its. forehead in cool; re
freshing showers; and the young rose re
vived, looked up, and smiled in gratitude
to the kind breeze; but she hurried quick
ly away; her generous task was perform*
ed, yet not without reward—for she soon
perceived that a delicious fragrance had
been poured on her wings by the grateful
rose; and the kind breeze was glad in heart
and went away singing through the trees.
Thus real, true charity, like the breeze,
gathers fragrance from the drooping
flowers it refreshes, and unconsciously
reaps a reward in the performances of its
offices of kindness, which steals upon the
heart, like rich perfume to bless and
cheer.
Exaoebation.—The exagerated style of
conversation indulged in by certain geniuses,
is sometimes rather amusing. We knew one
chap whose statements were generally teciev
ed by his acquaintances with several grains of
allowances. A person who has “ summered
and wintered” with him gives us specimens
ofhis stories adapted to both seasons.
He was coming down from Vermont to the
Southern border of Massachusetts once, in
March—so be says—and the snow was very
deep until he reached the Northern boundary
of the latter State, when lie found the earth
suddenly bare, and the borders of the snowy
region were so distinctly defined that when
he came down from the snow upon the bare
ground, it was just like coming down a flight
of stairs upon tbe floor!
The other story is this. He was making
hay one summer, and a cloud rote one after
noon very suddenly, threatening a heavy
shower. He managed to pitch his bay upon
the cart, and drove rapidly to his barn—the
shower following close at his heels. He put
whip to his brave oxen and rushed onward
the cloud gathering blackness and the stnrm
roaring behind him. He redoubled his efforts
and finally had the satisfaction of driveing
hit team into the barn before a single drop of
wet had falln upon the load of hay, although
he was so hotly pursudd by the rain that
little dog came in swimming about tit fo’
behind the cart!— Yankee Blade. .
Matbimont.—When bent o t wv
look more than skin deeirtf^.* f **
further than the P°cket^ fe ._ Virtue ,
the most p’
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