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SrUUTIUL I* POLITICS Sl tiELIGIOY-DETOTED TO ART, SCIENCE, EDUCATION. lORAEITV AND THE ADVANCEMENT OIF SACBED WLIJSIC*
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Till'. DKVII..
Stait not. most timid reader at the
n ’me o( this thine old acqoaiotanee- (or
•whv shonld’st thou he fiiirhlened at the
name of so fau.il• at and popular , a chat’
arter? Thou hist known him from thv
youth up —a good tonkins and courteous
personage, who.could tell thee and thine,
many a <otgotten teminiseence of thee and
‘thine, and who is. withal one of tlv*
‘blandest andonost affible creatures in the
w or Id.
He moves in the best soeletv, i-- rig d!y
of iris outward appearance,
and prides himselt no little on his kit owl
pdtre of ‘he human heart Pohte to a
fault, with a voice of the /richest tone, and
an eye ol the brightest glance, bewit< h
ing by his smile, and entrancing by his
<?h quence with a mind lad. n with knowl
edge and overflowing with light he has
ever ben one of the most popular and
■influential chara; t is ot ‘h • day. Full
often has he taken thc hv the hand, and
‘led thee into green pastu es and by the
side of still waters, wbjlsi thou, poor de
luded soul imagined thyself in the socie
ty of one of • Heaven’s elect.’
And vet thou trenrahlest at the men
tion of his name —atul the very idea of
contact with him blanche-th\ warn cheek
and fills thee with terror Mistaken soul!
On the pages of the primer, and on the
tablet of thy mind this gentlemanly
accomplished Devil is painted p< r
haps, as a poor fleshless bodv gaunt and
grim, having eyes of fire and feet that are
cloven; with horns growing from his
head and barbed an'ows from his mouth;
with a long tail of many folds behind, and
a iong arm with many claws before; in
short, —
‘a monster of such frightful mein,
As to he hand lire s but <• he S’mn.
1n il thee reader -urh a picture is
gross slander on ‘lie pe.-nnat appearance
of Dai U Pi.nee. He I- ‘black hm
comely, Oye daughteis ol Jeiusal m as
tents ol K dar, oi the curtains of Solo
mon.’
Herein, h mid s! thou know, is the
secret ol his power—the chaim of his life.
Deformity has ,no attractions. Men are
not drawn into any snare by repulsive
and sickening leaders. They will not —
unl.esssbarbarians indeed—worship at the
shtine ol any monster. No Me who
would lead them captive must array
himselt in pnri le and fine linen So at
least thinks the peisbn'age in question,
and he acts accordingly.
1 H conies in tin* gilded haibili
meats of pleasure. Wi'h smiling facie
and lightsome step he trips along, follow
ed, bv a gay arid thoughtless host, who
sing and dance along the road to ruin,
unconcious of their danger, and careful
only of immediate and palpable enjoy
orient.
Luied on step by step from innocent
recreation to unlawful indulgence, from
unlawful indulgence to gross licentious
nes, from gross licentiou-oess, to loss of
self respect and uttei recle sness: with
besotted mind and broken heart and
withered body; their polite and hicmating
conductor leaves them at ttie jo taos
th< grave, where a progs ol other bu- n s
>biiges him to bid then a pollte and .fTec
t ion ale good by- promising—the <mi\
promise the dec ittui wretch keeps to
me. t them f n the other side ot the
grave; .
2 He comes in the flowing dishabille
ol the Idler. -With a j “inly air, a mji.d
at peace with all the world and enviable
indiffi fence to all tin stoims and calms
of life, an unwrinkled brow and a spot
less hand—he allures many sons and
daughters of industry from their toil and
soon teaches them to look upon work a
a burden, and industry as a di-gr-n e.
Cunning and natty art thou, indeed, oh
Devil, with thy oily tongue and b'ar.d
address, and thou dost truly erect thy
busiest woik shop in the brain of the id.e
man. .
3. The Devil comes also in the ‘sober
Til® ORGAN.
black’ of hypocrisy. Gentlemanly, in
! deed, is be in his fivorite character
In cowl and gown, with smooth faces
and smoother speech he walks cautiously
b* lore ill p. oj)le, and gathers mio tiis
dark told many a wandering -beep.—
Syu patiuzitig with all sorrow subduing
■s i passion, regular in • attendance upon
church, loudest in player, lie soon wins
upon th- j heart of he credul >us an I in
grifiaies fnm into ttie black ail. The
name of his I llowcrs is I gion. It needs
-not oh, readers that we describe them
ito tine, tor thou know-e-t them too well
; already. Neither is it necessary that we
| should show up the too fascinating Devil
: m any otin r suit from his many color
ed wardrobe. •
In ‘conclusion, see to it, oh ye people,
that ye look not for his Majesty a horn
;ed and bloated monster, but rather a
i blooming and accomplished courtesan
; Not in rags, nos in deformity, but in pur
| pie and fine linen, woiks he about ail thv
! paths and lurks he about all thy , hearts.
H. Clapp.
A BUSINESS LIKE COURTSHIP.
Thi re is a -lory • xtant about a five
minutes courtship be' W.een a thriving and
busy trercharif at a w a eiing-place in Ivi.
eland and a ladv. for v hoin in coijunc
tion v\ith a deceased friend, he uus a
trust-e She called at tils counting house
a> and said that her business whs to consult
linn on the propriety or otherwise of her
accepting a.n offer of marriage which
bad received. jSiow. tor the first time,
occurred to the Bristol meichant the idea
of this holy estate in his own case.
* Marriage,” said he, listlessly turning
over some West India correspondence,
‘ well, 1 suppose every body ought, such
a thing never occurred to me before,—
Have you given this gentleman an affirm
alive answer.
* -No’
Are your fee ings particularly en
gaged-in'the matter?’’
Not particularly.’
Well then madam,’ said he, turning
around his office stool, if that be the case
and if you could dispense with courtship
lor which I have no time, and think you
could be comfortable with me, I am
yours to command.* There were peo
ple who thought (he lady had a purpose
in coming there, but if so. she prudent
ly disgui-ed it. She said she would con
sider the matter. The Bristol merchant
saw her out with some coolnes- as if she ;
was merely one of his correspondents-,.j
and when she was gone five minutes, [
was once more immersed in hi<r ledgers i
and .belters. A day or two after he had !
a communication from the lady, accept-j
big his offer, very considerably excusing |
- him from an elaborate courtship, and ]
leir.iiig him to name the most conven
ient day ” They w ere married
SOMETHING TO LOVE
There is a famous passage in the writ
tings of R usseau which is as true to hu-,
man uatuie, as it is beautiful in expres
sion
• t\eie I in a desert, I could find !
out wherewith to- all loith my afF- i tion.
Ii I rou'd do no better. 1 would fasten
them upon some sweet inyrUe, pA find!
so :,r melancholy cypress to connect my|
seUto. 1 would write my name upon them:
and declare that ihev were the sweetest
through ut all the desert If their leaves j
j withered, would teach myself to mourn. !
I and when they r-joic , rejoice w ‘h them.}
j Such is he ais lute n cessiiy which
exists in the human heart of liavinu- some- 1
! Ihinir to love. (Jn'ess the afFeetions
have an object, life itself t)pc<>me-joyless
ly and insipid. The affections have this
peculiarity, that they are not so much the
means of happiness, ns their happiness
it-elf. And not only so if they have no
object the happiness derived from our oth
er powers is cut off. Action and enter
prise flag, if there be no object dear to
the heart, to which these actions can be
directed.
If you are destitute of sentiment,
SI a mil ton 9 Ga. Wednesday* December 20,
principle, genius and msbmction, yon
may be supposed unfit for science and
for virtue ; but, if without uenitis you
pretend to excel $ if wi'iiiotu sentiment
you affect to think yourself superior to
established principle $ know that you
are ns much between fool and knave
as you are between right ?md left.
Pot the Os gait.
WHAT IS LOVE?
BT A- W. IV.
What 1 ! is Love enduring ever ?
Hopeful maidens answer, yea !
UJaiinot aliseuce Love dissever ?
Lightsome hearts re-egho. oay!
Is Love more than a silver stream,
Os one short day the gladsome flow ?
is Love aught but a fatal dream ?
A thousand broken hearts throb, No !
Is Love more than a summer cloud,
Gilded by die sunbeam's glow ?
Is Love enclosed in pleasure’s shroud?
My own sad lieait ptdsateth, No !
Is Love unlike the sunbeam’s glance—
That falls upon ihe i-ascade’s spray ?
Is Love aught but the child of chance?
Trampled spirits whisper—Nay!
’ i ‘ , ■
Is Love as fickle as the breeze ?
i ! Asfleeiing as the starbeam’s play ?
i ! Is Love like shadows o’er the leas ?
Echo faintly answers—Yea !
Doth Love pretend lo sweeten life !
Deceiving when he stems to bless ?
Art) alt his words with fediVbood -rife?
1 -o* *’ ulh ' s stGrn pencil, wii itcth—Yes !
> Shall Love e’er get me in Stjschool—
Or cast his fatal spell o* .one ?
Shall Love e’er make ine ; such a fool!
I answer boldly—No Slirree.
TIIE SUMMER IS ENDED.
In Commenting upon the eventful sum
mer from w hich we have just emerged,
the N. Y Mirror says that “it has been a
hard and hot one. Fires, failures, dis
ease and death, have brought losses and
mourning to thousands—the calamity of
shoit crons high prices makes the
poor .nan look anxiously to the coming
winter. Many who began the season in
the fulness of health and beauty, have
perished with the early Sows* s', and hun
dieds who went abroad decked in the gay
colors of joy and hop? are now rabed in
J t.bp sombre attire of grief and mourning.
I Autumn has come to many hearts, even
| in theipfing-time of life, and the earth
has become to thousands of its pilgrims
heterally ‘the valley of the. shadow of
dealh. 1 They who have passed through
‘.bis trying season unscathed- by sickness I
and misfortune—whom the death Angle
has not evt-n brushed with Ins wings
should mtikt- their livfs a hymn of thanks
giving to the Infinite God who dealt with
them so gently and so graciously! In
stead ol looking on the dark side” of the
1 future i lie % should look up in gialelul
I confidence to the Reaper whose sickle
i has left ihem to flourish a little longer in
i the field of time, while thousands, as full
of healih and promise as they have been
cut down and withered in an hour.
I Read the Paper ~ We find the
following in the- I ennessee.Gazette;
A young man of our acquaintance.
, who, bv the; way. had traveled, but
j whose stock of information “ as only as
i he picked up on the wa>, he having but
little intercours with the papers called
not long since to act the agreeable for a
young lady who had just-finished her
education,’ and whose lambskin’ was
by no means a libel on her attainments.
Having us youngsters frequently do.
talked himself pretty well out of soap,
he ventured to few of the
novelties he hadseen, such as rare flow
ers, delicious fruits, &c. Finally think- 1
ing to appear remarkably learned in the
delicacies of life, with an air of con
scious importance he inquired, Miss
• Lizzie, did you ever eat any Guano?, i
Miss Lizzie, somewhat abashed, very
modestly replied in the negative.
“i here are very few in this country
that have, 1 added he very emphatically,
•but I assure you Miss, it is very delic
ious fruit V
We needn't sav what become ol
Miss L zzie. As to our friend, he soon
traveled.’ again wondering what harm
lie had done.
Humorous Incident. —Yesterday a
man, just graduated from a down-town
bar-room, was wending bis way out
ward bound, while *a brick in his hat’
was clearly perceptible, even to a man
with one eve (saving his presence.) Al
ter frequently tacking and bringing to,
as a ship under’ head wind> he
made land on the otherside ol the riv**
er, where he stopped and indulged in a
commendatory rhapsody upon the
‘bridge that carried him over safe.”—
Just us he concluded his exordium to a
a speech yet unpublished, an egg, of no
very pleasant odour* was projected
! from an unseen hand and smashed
plump on liis figure head. W iping the
degenerate incubation from his front,
he looked anxiously around him for the
power that did ‘the giftie gie him;’ but
discovering no person near* he resum
ed his voyage with three sheets in the
wind,’ exclaiming —“ Well J you may
; all say what you please—but that's a
bad egg • ’—Rome Courier.
SANDWICH ISLANDS*
Honolula and San Francisco papers
publish a strange speech made to the
King, at his palace in Honolula, at a
private audience, at which the Council
were present, by General Miller, the
British Consul General in Hawaii. Its
.topic is the proposal to annex the Island
to the United States, and he referred to a
i rumored treaty for that end* articles pub
lished in the American press, “ studied
reserve and want of frankness on the part
of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.” Mr.
Wvlie, whom he, in a subsequent part of
the speech, abused in a most violent
style, to the countenance and support of
the project by high officials at Honollu,
to the treaty between England afld
France guaranteeing the independence
of the kingdom, in which connexion he
said *
“ I beg, therefore, to acquaint yOur
i Majesty, in the name of my government,
that any attempt to annex the Sandwich
| Islands to the United States, would be in
; contradiction of an existing treaty, and
could not be looked upon with iridiffer
i enee by the British government. I would
1 further observe that no monaich whatev
er has a right to alienate his kingdom or
eater into a negotiation with that view,
without the concurrence of his people.
“ I cannot believe that your Majesty
would for one moment entertain such a
scheme, without an official notification to
the British government ol a desiie to
alienate your sovereignty and that of the
kingdom. And I feel bound to protest
against the project, gotten up by Ameri
can merchants, landed proprietors and
Other citizens ol the United Slates, and
not being sanctioned by the Hawaiian
Constitution and tieaty stipulations.”
He then proceeded to argue at length,
that if the King wished to transfer the
sovereignty of his islands he should pre
fer Great Biitain to the United States, al
leging that the latter would make slaves
ot the Hawaiiaos, degrade the King and
his nobles horn their rank, refuse them
the rights of freemen, etc., while England
would pseserve their position and privi
leges intact. There was a great deal
more in the speech in reply to the Fourth
of July oration of Mr. Gregg, the U. S.
Consul, in which that gentleman had
made an attack on English laws and the
colonial system. This speech occupied
an hour and a quarter in delivery. The
King wanted a copy of it in writing, but
General Miller refused.
[ voi* 3-r-rsO. 44-
The PftESibENT’s Message.—Thi*
floctimenl will, we think, be received with
more than ‘Common approbation by the
whole country. It isxingularly ‘free from
afl appeals to prejudice or passion, and in
the large range of its topics, never once
loses its tone of moderation, ‘fairdealrtig,
and good sense. In regard to our foreign
relations, this tone has a great significance
and Cannot fail to meet the approval Os
all right minded people, in the present
distracted condition of the European
States. We are particularly gratified at
the position which the President takes oft
the question of privateering. It is the on
ly one admissible.
In looking over his recommendation!
in respect to internal affairs, we do nOt
find a single one who does not meet out
cordial approval, and they are all made
on motives so ‘strong and obvious, that
we can scarcely believe they will, any of
them be slighted by Congress.
fin the whole, this Message of Presi*
dent Pierce is one of the most acceptable
public documents we have ever perused.
It is conservative, calm, firm, and states*
manlike. It compromises no duty or in
terest of the country, and patronizes nb
lawless theory ol republican propoganism.
Char. Mercury.
Eighteen Vsars a Captive aiAong
, InPianis.—The Macoupin (Illinois) StiUer
rtmn gives an account of a man named
Moseph Barney, who made his escape in
May last from the Flat Head Indians, in
Oiegon, after being in captivity for eigfl*
teen years. A man named John Robert*
son Was taken captive at the same
The account thus narrates what occurred
after they were taken to the camp of thft
1 Indians:
“ They were unbound and confined id
a hut, where they were fed and not al
lowed to escape. The chief offered them
, his two daughters if they would marrjf
and remain with the tribe. Finding es*
cape utterly impossible for the time beingi
; the terms were accepted and the marriage
, took place. The fruits of this marriage
, were two children, both of whom are stilt
, living, a daughter 16, and a son 14, both
of whom he left with the tribe. Twa
f Robevtseivattempted to escape)
ut was retaken, VeatpeflT’and burned
alive, leaving three children with the
! tribe. Seven ago Barney attempt*
ed to escape, but was recaptured, and
would have been put to death but for the
interposition of his wife, who was the
daughter of the chief.”
” You are Pardoned !”-“-filisha Ited*
dricks was sent last spring to the Penitent
tiary, Irom Coweta county, charged with
the crime of aiding the escape ot prison*
ers from the jail in that county. There
were doubts in regard to his guilt, in the
minds of some, aud a successful applies*
tion was made to the Executive for hit
pardon. We happened, in company with
some friends, to be present when the fact_
was announced.to him. He was
time engaged in his
couscious ol the good f wtry l " r ‘/waited’
him—thinking, perhap
dred and friends and krbresj wor#* 1 ® hard
and disgraceful door and a^iugihedw oll him
by the Prince of Ad
we approached, hd lifted hiJlfewJd head,
and when the gljad tidings ftf hist pardoo
and release were communicate to him
with some appropriate admomlAons from
Col. Turk, the K£bper, his breast heaved
with emotiona and his eyes wlere filled
with tears, whilst the radiance /of a grate*
ful heart illumined his countenance as he
exclaimed, with choked utterance—
“ Thank God! Thank God !” and hasten*
ed to communicate the good news to some
of his unfortunate, but sympathising com*
rades. Brushing away an unbidden tear,
we left the grateful scene, pondering in
our mind, the power of three short words
upon human happiness.— Southern Recor.
Gen. Cass, in his recent speech at De
troit, in reply to the attack made on him
by the Richmond Enquirer, thus alludes
to Mr. Clay :
“I hold the name of Mr. Clay In the
greatest reverence, and rank him with
the wisest and purest patriots whose ser.
vices are written upon the history of our
country, and whose memory is indeilibly
impressed upon the hearts of our country*
men. Such men as Mr. Clay may unite,
they never conspire. In the stormy pe*
riod of 1850, it was my pride to co-oper>
ate with him and to add my feeble con*
tribulion to his gigantic efforts in behalf of
the integrity and perpetuity of the Con*
stitution.”
Ground once well plowed if bette#
than thrice poorly* ‘ i