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®kt Sonth-tocst SotSjfiJiLOOl) & ALLEN, Proprietors. VOL. L bed every Thursday Morning, in the new Town of ethorite, Macon County,Ga., IARLES B. YOUNGBLOOD, Publisher. IT W. ALI.EN, TRAVELING AaENT. ___ - 4 JIS-SS Per Tear in advance RATES OF ADVERTISING. >o\!ar per square (of 12 line* or lees) for the fin* i, and Fiflv Cent* for each insertion thereafter. :ral deduction will be made to those who adver ho year. rtisements not specified as to time, will be pub -11 ordered out and charged accordingly. etters en business must be addressed to the Publish raid, in order to secure attention. 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’ ikejp^ NO. 8