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Southern Field and Fireside. < VOL. 1. V [For the Sonthern field and Fireside.] 4 “NOTHING LOVES ME!” o' TiiZSia, a little hunchback, who was an orphan, and / dependent, was often heard to complain that “Nothing Y loved him.” Shortly before his death, he found a place / on that bosom where there is rest for the weary; and thenceforth he complained no more. K Sometimes It seems Kind voices fall, in slumber, on my ear— My cheek seems moist beneath some friendly tear— a 'Tis but in dreams 1 J For nothing loves me! / ti. "\ Sometimes I see * Glad groups of children at their joyous play; ‘ Igo not near, lest they should turn away, ¥ 1 And from me flee! A No! Nothing loves me! 9 in. I have heard say Jr That when I was a babe, a lady fair 4 Kissed my pale cheek, and fondly through my hair Hi . Let her hand stray; “ « Perhaps the loved me. i ' i. But she is gone o' To Heaven, they say; Mother! Is it thy tear 7 That wets my cheek—thy voice 1 seem to hear, Y At night, alone? J And did you love me ? $ v ~ AhJ who but thou V Could love the hunchback boy ? And thou dost come J. To comfort him, in dreams, from thy bright home! For thou dost know 9 That, here, none love me! J vi. ' ' But God, they say 1 Loveth the poor in spirit—them that mourn, r And, not complaining, have their burden borne. ■y I’ll go and pray, That God will lore me l \ * • jf LFor the Southern Field and Fireside.] < ARROWS f FROM A TOURIST’S QUIVER; Y 0E ’ Scenes and Incidents of a Tour 1 From New Orleans to New York. J BY ONE OP TUE PARTY. ARROW XVII. Cincinnati a “great city”—Nicholas Longworth, the JL millionaire wine maker and merchant—his residence "w • —his wine—his son—his Irish tenant—Cincinnati a o' bustling and thoroughly business townv-but hospitable 7 and fashionable, too—its fashionable standing commit 'll toe, an institution peculiar to the city—the literary I ana artistic glory of the city—on the wave now, su / pereeded by commerce—Mrs. Trollope—Cant Symmes >aud hollow theory of the earth —Capt 8. died of dis appointment—The ingredients of Cincinnati as res pects its population—Mr. Poyns does not think this \j an Abolition city—The opinion of a “distinguished politician as to how the several States of the Union A will separate and re-unite in case of dissolution—The « whole valley of the Mississippi must go with the o South, to form the “Empire Confederation"—'The 7 North will not unjte—its elements are too discordant V and antagonist—it will realize the prophecy of Cole r ridge—The South will be one and prosperous under ' the protection of Great Britain, witha mostglorious \ destiny before it K Cincinnati, Dec. 19, 1859. Tlio vastness of this great commercial metrop olis I had no conception of until traversing its 7 league-long avenues and countless interesting V streets on foot and in a carriage. / It is in every sense a “ great city,” character ised by the characteristic features of New York f and London. The elegance of the privili man . sions on the handsome aristocratic streets, the costliness and grandeur of tho churches and A other public edfices, show that opulence, taste, Jn and refinement have securely established them j selves here; and that the active merchant has y reached the top'round of tho ladder of commerce / and enthroned himself as 1 the millionaire ’ in the castle of his ambition. « The residence of the millionaire par excellence, K r Nicholas Longworth, Esq., is, however, unchang ed save by additions for thirty years. It is a fine old mansion, ‘ all of the olden time,’ situa ted in the centre of a spacious, enclosed luwn, 7 occupying half a square. It has the air of ‘ a y home,’ and contrasts singularly with the showy / modern houses which have arisen around it. — 'j Tho origin of the gentleman’s vast wealth dates * from the introduction by him on the hills about the city of the grape. His wines now have a Y world-wide celebrity, as the still and sparkling A “Catawbas.” His wine vaults here are repre ® seated as of immense extent, but we had not an 7 opportunity of visiting them. Their wines have y many imitations; and even here, under Mr. / Longworth’s very eyes, a fraudulent wine trade ~\ goes on, and thousands of bottles, bearing his ffl brand, are sold as his wines. The only certain- I JAIMES GARDNER, [ I Proprietor. f ty of having the pure brand is to order directly from hirf authorised agent. F6r invalids these wines are a great blessing, strengthening while they do not inebriate, “makinfl the heart glad ” without making the head heavy. Mr. Longworth is now quite an old man, short and active, with a very Scotch aspect and man mer. He reminds me of Grant Thorburn, the Octogenarian. He is a man, shrewd but benev olent, kind to his numerous poor tenants, secret ly relieving the poor and doing a great deal of good with his wealth. Like most rich old men he is quite indifferent to dress, and thinks a ser viceable coat and hat which did good duty last year will be as faithful servants this year; and so the tide of fashion plows past him unheeded. His only son, Joseph Longworth, Esq., who is, I understand, the chief manager of the immense business that appertains to }he wine market, is a gentleman of great swavity and popularity, and inherits his father’s unobtrusive benevo lence. I was told an amusing anecdote of tho old gentleman. One of his tenants, an Irishman when rent day came round had not wherewith al to pay the rent agent. The latter was about to enforce payment when the tenant begged an hour “to hunt up the ould jinlleman, and if he couldn’t find lrtto to get the ‘ rint ’ of a friend.” The agent granted the grace and said he would be back in two hours. The tenant made good use of the two hours; for he not only found ‘the ould jintleman,’ but so represented his case of sick wife and children, and of poverty and mis fortune in general to him, that Mr. Longworth said, — “"Well, well, go home and tell my agent to let yofi remain! I forgive you the debt. ’ “An’ will yer honor be after givin’ me a re saite for to show tu him?” The receipt in full for a quarter’s rent was given him, and he went on his way, rejoicing leaving a harvest of Hibernian blessings behind him. When the agent returned he showed the re ceipt, and with a sort of offended pride, said, — “ Didye think I’d be afther chating ye or the ould man! Now you see I can pay as well as anybody! Now this honse is mighty onconva nyent. I want to rint a better one!” The agent, as if glad to atone for his severity, at once rented him a nicer house, and when, at the close of the week, he reported to Mr. L. his week’s business, he spoke with particular unc tion that he had found a good paying tenant for no 346—just repaired. When Mr. L. saw the name, he smiled, with his peculiar twinkle of the eye; and when ho explained the his tenant the morti fied agent felt like dissolving into the air. What impresses a stranger here is the thor ough-going business-air of the city! The noble quay, with its crowds, its long line of steamers, the railroads leading in all directions from the city, binding it with the North, the West, and the East; the finely-built-up streets thronged with drays, ark-iike waggons, huge, freighted, country carts, enormous grain wains, and inter ested by car-roads, with busy, hurrying, bustling byers end sellers, all are parts of the great whole which renders this city the New York of the West. There is a pleasant custom of ancient usage in this city, which, to a stranger, is very agree able. During the season of “ party-going,” which we now happen upon, there are certain gentle men who are expected to bo au fait as to all arrivals at the hotels of any persons whom party givers would delight to honor. This committee is very select, private, and composed of but a few gentlemen, chiefly fashionable with indolent incomes, whom the haut ton ladies charge with 1 sweet commands’ to invite such persons of ‘credit’ as may happen to be de tained in the city, to any of the recherche par ties that may come at the time upon the tapis. This distinguished committee of knights have, literally, carte blanche for invitations, and whom they leave the cards for are received unques tioned into the saloons of the most aristocratic. For instance, one of these elegant committee men lounges into the Bennett House some pleasant morning of a joyous day, that is to be closed by a brilliant reception, and sees upon the books the names, especially from the South, to which section the Cincinnatians delight to show courtesies, of Senator Benjamin, Hon. Mr. Slidell, of La., Judge Meek, of Mobile, Madame Le Yert, Hon. Mr. Clemens, and persons of this rank, they would seek an interview, or leave in vitations for them! ' This pleasant custom obtained thirty years ago, and originated with those princes of social courtesies, Dr. Benj. Drake, Glen. Lytell, Gen. Cameill, the Longworths, Millers, and others. Thirty years ago, a friend informs me, who was then familiar with society here, this city was distinguished for its sociability, hospitality, and literary taste. There were then here, poets, painters, sculptors, and historians, in no mean number, or rank of genius. Here Brackett, the sculptor, a protege of Mr. Longworth, who was also the liberal patron of Powers and of others, first moulded in clay; here Frankenstein, the paintor, first caused the art to mock life on can vas; here, Gallagher, the graceful poet, and AUGUSTA, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1860. author of “Geraldine,” Thomas, tho author of “ East aud West,” and of “Clinton Bradshaw,” and of the “ Emigrant,” a noble poem, were all at one time cotemporaries. In 1835, society here was the most brilliant which any Western city could produce. Re-unions, on the plan of the charming - Wistar Parties in Philadelphia, were held every fortnight, at the residences of one or the other of the distinguished citizens. Two celebrities also dwelt here at the time,viz: Madame Trollope, aud John Cleaves Symmes.— The former undertook to revolutionize manners and customs, and to convert Cincinnati into a sort of Constantinople. She erected a huge monstrosity, all portico and dome—that is, what was not dome was portico, and what was not portico was dome—and called it a “ Bazaar,” and endeavored to teach the citizens that “it was the height of civilization,” to buy and sell only at her Bazaar! I heard some queer stories about her masculine ways, her going to markets riding, and brow-beating editors — the most timid people in the world when a woman enters their editorial cave! After flour ishing here two or three years, and in despair of revolutionizing the people, ske left in disgust, and wrote a terrible work on America in general and upon Cincinnati in particular. As for Captain Symmes, he died of a broken heart, videlicet: in men, disappointed ambition; in women, disappointed love. I recollect, wheta quite a boy, hearing him deftver & course of lectures, wherein he endeavored to prove that the world was like an empty cocoa-nut, and a slice taken off at each end; that is, a cocoanut with two shallow covers. “He illustrated his theory by models. He taught that the earth was like a cocoa-nut with the two ends thrown away; that it was not a sphere, but a qjjell, hollow, and without poles. The northern verge of the shell began to turn inward at about lat. 66°, and the southern, at the straits of Magel lan on one side, and qt the strait between Aus tralia aud Tan Diemen’s Land on the opposite side of the earth; that the opening at the North was about four thousand miles across, and at the South about five thousand. He said that vessels had sailed within it, without know ing it, and that the inner surface of the shell was land and water,’ green fields and forests, cities and hamlets, and thickly inhabited; and that a vessel could sail through (putting into twilight only in the middle), and come out safe and sound at the Southern opening! This novel theory was very popular and got many adherents at the time. The only scien tific support it had was founded on the position of the extraordinary triangular phenomena, called “the Magellan Clouds.” These mysteri ous objects could be accounted for on Symmes’ tlleory, and upon no other, (to this day,) and on this fact he mainly trusted for the verification thereof. But the man and his theory were swallowed up by some new wave of marvel, and ho died hero in great destitution. A broth er of Captain Symmes is now a resident of this city, once a lawyer, I believe, of eminence, and a virtuoso in all matters appertaining to natural science. But the' literary days of Cincinnati, when men of the first class of genius illustrated her social condition, are passed. Commerce has succeeded poetry, painting and science, and a new order of society reigns. The substratum of society here was at first Baltimorean. Then came iff the Pennsylvani ans; then Virginians; then the Yankees, the last occupying the whole State: and lastly the Ger mans, who have Germanized the whole city. One meets Anglicized, English-speaking Ger mans everywhere. They are thoroughly inter mixed with the original elements of society, and a fine class of people they are. The German being of kindred blood with the Anglo-Saxon, in one .generation acquires not only his speech perfectly , but his visage; and a German of the second generation would never be suspected of other than English or Yankee origin. As for poor Pat, it takes him half a dozen generations to lose the peculiar Milesian phiz; and it is questionable if he ever does./ The Irishman, like the Israelite, is an Oriental, (Phoenician,) and the features of Shem do not amalgamate with those of the sons of Japhet. But the Ger man becomes Americanized at once. Indeed, I have met with them who betrayed in face nor in speech no sign of transatlantic origin. I passed half a day in the German portion of the city, where the inhabitants are numbered by the twenty thousands. It was a German city. Their long lines'of streets, their markets, their “halls”, their churches, their “gardens”, their “ lager beer” saloons, were all carried -on with as much ignoring of “ American skies," if they were in “Faderland.” The result of my observations was, that Cincinnati consists of two independent cities, a German and an Anglo- Saxon one; the latter, however, more Virginian and Pennsylvanian than Yankee. > Ido not think this is an Abolitionist city; on the contrary, that it is friendly to the South ;—of course, there are exceptions. I heard a great friend to Ohio say yesterday, that, in the event of a separation of the Union, Cincinnati with all Southern Ohio would go with the South. That such' an issue may never be known in the land, I pray from the bottom of my heart; but if the opposing waves should meet and overthrow the palladium of the confederacy, “it strikes me," said a distinguished politician to me, “ that the quarterings on the shield of Dis union will be somewhat as follows: ** “ Ist. The whole slave-interest which com prises all the South, including the cotton, to bacco and sugar regions, will stand firmly to gether. They will be united by one interest, one feeling, one common bond of production and commerce. Their union will be legitimate and positive, based on the constitution of things. Pittsburg, with Western Pennsylvania; Cincin nati, with Southern Ohio, and Indiana and Illi nois, all closely allied by commerce with New Orleans, would go with the South; for their trade must cease, were the Mississippi closed to them by batteries, which would be the case, were there a dissolution of the Union. There would be a Northern Ohio looking to the Lakes, and a Southern Ohio dependent on the Gulf of Mex ico; a Western Pennsylvania looking to New Orleans and St. Louis, and an Eastern looking to the Atlantic as the outlet of her productions. Not only would Illinow* have but a fragment left on Lake Michigan, as her Western and Southern borders would conveniently belong to the Gulf of Mexico, but all the Northwestern States dependent on the Mississippi, and Missis sippi, in the hands of the South, would join the Southern Confederacy. Hence, in the event of a dissolution of the Union, the South would stand, as she now is, shoulder to shoulder on the ‘peculiar institution, - «vuid» -tr-ai o„<»r mnV® her one; and she will draw into her confederacy half of Pennsylvania, half of Indiana, two-thirds of Illinois; for commerce controls power, aud power goes in the direction of self-interest; and empire follows commerce. The power that con trols the Mississippi will control the Republic, dissevered though it be I The true state of em pire will therefore remain with the South, which absorbing the States on the Northern Ohio, in the Northwest, and Cuba and Mexico, will.be come, for all future time, the ‘True United States;’ the Empire of States that shall com mand the homage of the world. “And what will become of the ‘North,’ in case of such disSeverment of nationality? New York will never keep the peace with New Eng land on one side, nor Pennsylvania on the other. From the earliest dates of history, the Dutch' of New York and the Puritans of New England have been rivals. Boston and New York, at ' this day, are rivals in commerce, literature, and politics. There is no congeniality between the Knickerbockers and the Round-heads, between the Dutchman and the Yankee. Philadelphia, of the Quakers, is historically the rival of New Amsterdam, of the Lutherans. The hereditary feeling and rivalry is apparent at the present day, and constantly betrays itself. Tbe common bond of union (opposition to slavery) dissolved by the withdrawal of the South, the esprit dies out, and what is to keep the North together, now that there is no mere ‘abolitionism;’ no party cry? This Union is now negative, while that of the South is positive! The union of the North is in protesting; that of the South in de fending ! The union of tbe North exists only negatively in saying ‘no, no!’ and when there is no adherent ‘South’ to say *no’ at, they will then begin to cry ‘no’ at each other. The ad- heaiye power gone, they will break in pieces. New England will stand by herself, and New York give the cold shoulder to the ‘new Puritan Republic. - New York will put her foot down and become an empire of herselfl Pennsylva nia will stand alone! And the prophecy of Coleridge wilt be fulfilled, who, forty years ago, said: ‘ The United States of America are splen did masses, out of which will be constructed future kingdoms find empires.’ “In the meanwhile, the South will stand firmly together on her legitimate bapis, and strengthen herself in the Northwest and on the Ohio, by the interests of commerce; in the South and Southwest, if need be, by Cuba and Mexico, and entering into an alliance defensive with Great Britain,whose commercial interests will unite her with the cotton-growing South, the South will constitute the true ‘Republic,’ and bold the sceptre of empire and of power. The true ‘ United States,’ she will control the destinies of the continent from Florida to California, and command the homage, the commerce, and res pect of the nations of tbe earth.’’ Such was the programme laid down by the distinguished Senator to whom I allude. W ith out endorsing it, being no politician, I record it for the value which it may have in the eyes of those who are. We leave in the cars, in the morning at 10 o’clock, for Pittsburg. I meant here to have said something of our delightful trip up the Ohio from Louisville, and of the romantic scenery; but the lateness of the hour warns me to say— au revoir. __ A printing office and a lithographic estab lishment has recently been formed for the first time in Greenland, and a work published by it has just made its appearance. It is a collection of legends written and printed bjr natives in the Greenland language with a Danish translation f - -a | Two Dollars Per Anno*, I j Always In Advance. f EDUCATION OF CHILDREN. \ We commend the subjoined judicious remarks, from th,e London Quarterly Review, to the dis criminating attention and regard as well of pa- f rents as of teacher*. They contain an import ant principle in reference to the education of the 1 young, and one which cannot be too carefully heeded: 1 i “It is the vice of age to substitute learning < for wisdom—to educate the head and forget that there is a more important education neces sary for the heart. The reason is cultivated at j an age when nature does not furnish the ele ments necessary to a successful cultivation of it; and the child is solicited to reflect when he is only capable of sensation and emotion. In infancy, the attention and memory are only ex- c cited strongly by things which impress the senses , and move the heart, and the father shall in still more solid and available instruction in an hour spent in the fields, where wisdom and ' goodness are exemplified, seen and felt, than in a month spent in study, where they are expound- ' ed in stereotype aphorisms. | “No physician doubts that precocious child- f ren, in fifty cases for one, are much worse for the discipline they have undergone. The mind f seems to have been strained and the foundations for insanity are laid. When the studies for ma turer years are stuffed into the child's head, j people 4o pot reflect on the anatomical fact that the brviu < an infant is not the braiq of a j njnp—tfrflt tin. one is confirmed and can bear 1 exertion—the other is growing am* requires re- . pose; that to force the attention td abstract facts —to load the memory with chronological, i and historical, and scientific details —in short, to expect a child’s brain to bear with impunity 'the exertion of a man’s, is just as rational as it j would be to hazard the same experiment on its muscles. v “ The first eight or ten years of life should be devoted to the education of the heart —to the * , formation of principles rather than to what is usually termed knowledge. Nature herself J points out such a course; for the emotions are then the liveliest, and most easily moulded, be- \ ing as yet unalloyed by passion. It is from this I source tlmt the mass of men are hereafter to draw then' sum of happiness or misery; the ac- ) tions of the immense majority are, under all cir cumstances, determined much more by feeling /, than by reflection; in truth, life presents an in fluity of occasions where it is essential to happi- j ness that we should feel rightly; very few where it is all necessary that we should think profoundly. J “Up to the seventh year of life, very great changes are going on in the structure of the brain, and demand, therefore, the utmost atten tion not to interrupt them by improper or over excitement. Jqpt that degree of exercise should be given to the brain as is necessary to its health ; 1 and the best is oral instruction, exemplified by objects which strike the senses. - j “ It is perhaps unnecessary to add that at this period of life, special attention should be given, | both by parents and teachers, to the physical development of the child. Pure air and free ex ercise are indispensable, and wherever either of these are withheld,the consequences will be cer- taia to extend themselves over the whole future life. The seeds of protracted and hopeless suf ferings have in innumerable instances been , sown into the constitution of the child simply through ignorance of this great fundamental physical law; and the time has come when the united voices of these innocent victims shall as cend, trumpet-tongued, to the ears of every pa rent and every teacher in the land : * Give us free air and wholesome exercises; leave to de velope our expanding energies in accordance with the laws of oor being, and full scope for i the elastic and bounding impulses of our young blood.’”/ | i— »% > i^H OBIGIN OF*YNCH LAW. All of our readers have heard of Lynch Law, but all of them may not be acquainted with the origin of the terra. The following is taken from the “ Historical Collections of Tir- * j ginia,” by Henry Hone: “Col. Charles Lynch, a brother of the founder of Lynchburg, Va., was an officer of the American Bevolu tion. His residence was on the Staunton, in the south western part of this (Campbell) county, now the seat of his grandson, Charles Henry Lynch, tsq. At that time this country was very thinly settled, and infested by a lawless band of territorial desperadoes. The necessity of the case involved desperate measures, and Col. Lynch, then a leading Whig, apprehended and had them_pun ished without any superfluous legal ceremony. Hence the origin of the term ‘Lynch Law.’ This practice of lynching continued for years after the war, and was ap plied to many cases of mere suspicion of guilt, which could not be regularly proven. ‘ln 1792,’ says TJ irts Life of Henry, ‘ there were many suits on the south side of James for'inflicting" Lynch Law.’” At the battle of Guilford Court House, a reg iment of riflemen, raised in this part of the State, under the command of Col. Lynch, behaved with much gallantry. The Colonei died soon after the close of the war. Charles Lynch, a Governor of Mississippi, was his son. — hi The Prince of Wails'—•Jeremiah. , V a. NO. 50. \