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SrUUTIUL I* POLITICS Sl tiELIGIOY-DETOTED TO ART, SCIENCE, EDUCATION. lORAEITV AND THE ADVANCEMENT OIF SACBED WLIJSIC* BF. WHITE, SUPERIXTEN RNT. ] L.Ai3l> OF CAAAAIV* HI-. Arranged by T. C- Rees, ■ sD:“ ir~rfr t it r•- tt ~~w- —rffi — t —g —fr- rti —rrJrr I •f’ ; < isß iz • _^~ir-t-- l -t-rt~r-"iy~iiTr-t:--r--y p ♦ plsta I i~t “'n ~Ti —t r~ tr “tan i dri^g-*tcrcdin: I |*/ I O Chti-tians we are jonj’ oi, O gory lialteliu ill, ? u ~, . r ... , ...... , r i®, J r ., ~ , } Sweet Canaan sweet Canaa i; lfappv happy laud lin hound for the land ofO&n&an. l o join ha Rloriuus blissful Uirotig, (5 ftlory HnllKlujaa, $ ’ ’ ’ V3 ’ IS —-h —i •>-i -p k T j [ a a v a ” ‘‘l® ~|® H #l® > Fa IF jmisscgHTattS?* 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