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may least Deceive.
BY ELIZA COOK.
■■■ is frank, my vows are few,
HHwoo with courtly smile;
i s warmly true,
J 19 91 promise bears no guile.
false tones of love,
f.^>^ en tle hearts too oft believe;
|J||Ke, Mary, and thou ’lt prove
words may least deceive.
BmSBLe some shadow in our lot,
Jj||Jj9vedded faith shall crown our days,
HHH clear each thorny spot,
care can smootbe Life’s ways.
B|Hshall meet a voice still kind,
Hi o’er all that bids thee grieve,
■■■old Age shall only find
9£9ainest words may least deceive.
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BHomance in Real Life.
■Seen years ago, says one of our
two young people of
fortune entered society in
SmHas their families were on visit-
B§9they were thrown frequently
SThey fell in love and the young
asked the hand of the young
||||H’as refused, her family had in
■■mother destination tor her. —
man’s family were made very
BHis refusal, and interrupted all
|B9ith the other family, and mar
y|l9) an heiress. The young lady
and lived a great deal in
Ipijl Her father and mother died
X 9 ago. The young man was not
marriage ; for,‘a tew years af
19nion, his wife fell violently in
109 a strolling pianist and formed a
: numerous harem. The young
\Bfast approaching her thirtieth
her friends engaged her to timr-
Kie might have a home, for these
■resolutions are always bolstered
i ■ plausible word, and she was
:} Hid on the eve of going to church,
dispatch was placed in
B It ran—‘l am free. If Lam in
B' ! marry yet.’ It was from her
rB- He had heard that his first
mt was going to be married, and
Paris, that be might not
mud her husband. He was in
jß’hen he received a dispatch an-
I the sudden death of his wife, and
this news reached him, his
;<B was 1° send the dispatch yon have
CBis old sweet heart had scarcely
■t, when her affianced lover was
|9d. She gave him the dispatch.—
l9i of honor and sense, he engaged
§9enk his marriage and consult her
oßd last week, St. Thomas do Aqui
■Bdelity rewarded.
mm <<■>
■an do their own Kissing.
■thousand miles from this village
jßrv exacting landholder. He makes
■its “come to time” on the very
jß’ent comes due, and will only re-
Hcni decrees when a pretty woman
■stion. Not long since, he called
■entofa very worthy mechanic,
3 the way, rejoices in the posses
-9 very pretty little wife. The hus
-9s not at home when Shylock cali
9lio was enchanted with the pretty
9fo of tlie tenant. She could not
■ the amount due: hut the land
omiug really enamoured, told her
:i given receipt in full for just one
Sir,” said she, boiling with indig
‘myselfand husband are very poor;
we cannot pay our rent; but I tell
, we’re not so poor but that we can
>wn kissing!”
that a glorious consolation tor poor
The hardened creditor may rake
• property, but he can’t deprive j
the privilege of kissing. —Elmira
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The Faithful Wife.
e and beautiful tribute to Woman
ic-1 Webster: —May it please your
there is nothing Upon this earth
l compare with the faithful attach
a wife ; no creature who for n!>-
ler love is so indomitable, so per
g, so ready to suffer and to die.—
the most depressing circumstances,
! a weakness becomes mighty power,
idity becomes tearless courage, all
inking and sinking passes away,
• spirit acquires the firmness of mar
lamantine firmness—when circutfi
drive her to put forth nil her ener
der the inspiration of her affection.
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Roses in Former Times.
ng the ancients, to enjoy the scent
sat meals, an abundance; of rose
were shaken upon the table, so that
lies were completely surrounded.—
ingenious contrivance roses during
descended on the guests from above”
abalus, in his foliy,. caused violets
jes to be showered down upon the
in such quantities that a number of
:>eing unable to extricate themselves,
allocated in flowers. During meal
icy reclined upou cushions stuffed
>se leaves, or made a conch of the
themselves. The floor, too, was
and with roses, and in this custom great
was displayed. Cleopatra, at an
ous expense, procured roses for a
which she gave to Anthony, had
aid two cubits thick on the floor of
or of the banquet room, and then
nets to be spread over the flowers
er to render the footing elastic. He
us caused not only the banquet
but also the colonades that led to
to be covered with roses, interspers
h lilies, violets and narcissi.
~ A lady’s leg was recently seized
urible ! most horrible 1) —by a depu
the Sheriff of New Orleans! It up
that a lady of the Crescent City had
id ami received an artificial leg from
anufucturer costing $250, and after
declined paying for the same. The
had a writ issued, requiring the
fto take the leg into his possession,
rentlemnn gave his Deputy the disa
ble job, and the latter functionary,
iome trouble, obtained the litigated
and is now in the Sheriff’s office.
Let as Alone and mind your own Business.
In reply to this exhortation of liquoi
dealers, Dr. Burns, of England, says :
I cannot let the traffic alone. I have
never sold, bought, given, tasted, or re
commended, or sanctioned it in one form
or another. And yet, sir, this traffic won t
let me alone. It attacks my pocket. —
Who pays the increased tax of drunken
ness ? The sober and the virtuous. And
it is a shame that the whole community
should be taxed for one class. I know some
persons have said, “why don’t you let
our traffic alone ? We don’t interfere w'th
you —you may go on with your teetotal
speeches, only don’t come out in this pro
hibition law manner.” I might say in re
ply, “if you let me alone, 1 might be
tempted to let you alone ; but unfortunate
ly you won’t.” And where is a man in
the country who has his ej r es to see and
ears to hear, and a heart to feel, and bow
els to yearn, and sympathise with moral
wretchedness, that must not be disturbed
beyond utterance every day at the calami
ties produced by the strong drink traffic?
It moves me in every power of ray mind.
It distresses every emotion of my soul. —
Am Ia man, and can I see the manhood
of my fellow’ creatures annihilated out of
them ? Am Ia Christian, and can I see
the mouth of hell gorged with drunken
victims ? Is not every man in the com
munity iny brother? is not the drunkard
my brother? (Loud cheers.) That degra
ded wife of bis is my sister; those orphans
have a claim upon my sympathies; and I
do not deserve the name of a man —I
should be put down as a monster —if I were
not shocked, and distressed, and grieved,
and pained and martyred by this traffic. —
Therefore, though I am a teetotaller, and
have no connection with the drinking hab
its of the country, I suffer in body, pock
et mind and conscience, and all the powers
of my soul, by this evil and destructive
thing.
Stick to One Thing.
“I have found a gold mine,” said an old
man to his sons, a gold mine richer than
California. “Where is it?” they asked,
eag rly. “It is in these four words,” lie
answered; “stick to one thing.”
The old man was right. More persons
are mined by despairing too soon in busi
ness, and changing to something else, than
by almost any other error in life. One of
the first essentials for success in any pur
suit, is to have a perfect understanding of
it. Every year, nay, every day, adds to
one’s capacity in this respect, so that, all
things else being equal, he who has been
longest of a business is sure to have the
advantage over his rivals. A good carpen
ter would make but a sorry mechanist, and
a first-rate farmer hut an indifferent me
chanic, The difference between the old
merchant and the young beginner is less
in intellectual capacity than in any supe
rior experience. The grey-headed lawyer
excells the new-fledged student in many
things, it is true, hut principally in the
store of well digested cases at his com
mand. Wellington won Waterloo in a
great measure, because he bad served an
apprenticeship in fighting the French, for
seven years, in the Peninsula. To be chang
ing one’s calling frequently is always to
be learning anew alphabet. Keep r<> one
language. Stick to one thing.
If there is such an affair as luck, perse
verance is sure to win at last, for the chan
ces cannot forever run against a man. —
Backgammon players know that it is im
possible to throw double aces all the time.
Fortune tires of persecuting those who
bear up bravely against her assaults.—
Washington, when he discovered the su
perior discipline of the royal troops, deter
mined to carry on the war with the spade
that is, to act entirely on the defensive
until his soldiers could be traine i to man
oeuvre in face of the enemy without falling
into disorder ; and to this resolution—to
which be adhered for years, in spit** of the
clamors of the factious, and even of the
advice of Congress—we probably owe our
independence. He choses the Fabian line
of policy as best suited to his condition,
and by steadily following it, triumphed at.
last. Like him, select your line of policy
and keep to it. Stick to one tiling.
In all ages and countries the idle weav
er has been considered a traitor or a fool.
That one ‘cannot carry water on both shoul
ders’ has passed into a proverb. Needless
ly to change friends, party or religion is
to lose the confidence of one’s follow men.
“Be sure you are right,” as Crockett said,
“then go ahead.” Or, as we have phrased
it—“stick to one thing.”
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Sours or Acids.
The sourness of the juices of a lemon
ami the acidity of vinegar are so well
known, that the mere mention of them is
sufficient to convey a knowledge of the
chiet qualities of sours or acids in their nat
ural state. There are so many acids that
two or three pages of an index to a chem
ical book are taken up to enumerate them.
Every fruit contains an acid; nearly all the
metals are capable of forming acids.—
When coal, wood, paper, rags, charcoal,
brimstone, phosphorus, and many other
substances are burned acids are produced.
A Hint stone is an acid. There is an acid
in our window glass, and in many of the
most costly precious stones. Tlu; air we
breathe contains an acid. We create an
acid in the lungs by the act ot breathing.—
By a very slight change sugar can be eon
veited into oxalic, acid, which is a strong
poison. Sugar, by another change is con
verted into vinegar. These two illustra
tions show that a sweet can he converted
into a som, but when sour fruit
sweet it proves almost to demonstration
that a sour can become a sweet acid.
The most powerful acid is that derived
from burning sulphur. It is called sulphu
ric acid, and is one of the most important
articles of manufacture. Its acidity is so
great that a tea-spoonful is sufficient to
make a pailful of water quite sour. Nitric
acid, obtained from nitre or saltpetree, is
of the next importance in the arts, it is so
corrosive that it has been distinguish
ed by the name of aqua jortis, that is strong
water —strong, sure enough, for a nrdle
of iron, lead, or silver, in it like
sugar placed in water. From The number
of acids which we find in nature, and the
tendency of many artificial substances to
become sour it is evident that acids Bnd
sours are essential to our well being.—
Acids assume all forms and colors; some
are liquids, some gaseous, others solid. —
The acids of fruits when separated from
the grosser particles that accompany them
are very beautiful and ehrystalizable sub
stances. By the ingenuity of the chemist,
the sour of unripe apples, grapes, tama
rinds, lemons, tfec., may be chryetalized
into beautiful snow white bodies, which;
however, when touched by the tongue, at
once indicate their origin by their flavor. —
Septimus Pi esse.
C|e Cemptnmtt Cntsakr.
PENFIELD, GbEOROIA.
Saturday Morning, September 13, 1856.
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We learn from the Cassville “Standard”
that Rev. Mr. Mell has accepted the Presidency of
the College at that place.
[Ton. A. H. Stephens will please accept our
thanks for a copy of his Speech, delivered in Con
gress on the 31st of July last.
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W e return our thanks to Mrs. B. M. Sanders
for a charmingly beautiful boquet of flowers. They
were none the less acceptable that they could only
be smelled or looked at, not eaten.
Public Opinion.
“The voice of the people is the voice of God,” is
au old sentence, the pointed brevity of which has
struck, and its sophistry deluded many generations.
That the people cannot err is as false an idea as the
transatlantic doctrine that ‘ the king can do no wrong.’
It is right enough that a mere shadow of royalty,
the possessor of the semblance without the substance
of power, should be free from responsibility as he is
incapable of influence. But this notion of the infal
libility of public opinion dethrones Deity himself,
and clothes that nondescript character, the populace,
in robes of immaculate purity. If the erroneousness
of such an idea required an exposition, we have a
practical demonstration of it continually before us.
How many antagonistic systems are there now in
the world, all of which are supported by public
opinion, and are consequently emanations of the
Divine Mind?
That nations are less subject than individuals to
mistakes and misapprehensions, is a proposition
which we readily admit. That they frequently
cling to errors with a fanatical bigotiy unknown to
individuals, is a fact which no one at all conversant
with history will deny. The history of the past is a
history of nations, not of individuals If here and
therq a personage rises high above the common mass,
it is only because he has so far made his impress
upon the age, as to be considered the impersonation
of popular sentiment. And what does this history
present but a dark record of vice, crime, wickedness,
error, bigotiy, and fanaticism. One generation rises
up to condemn the faults of the preceding, yet be
comes itself no more holy than the condemned.—
Men frequently, with all confidence, leave the merits
of their actions and characters to be decided by the
voice of public opinion. This may be known to day;
to-morrow, it may be not only something very dif
ferent, but perhaps entirely antagonistic. It is as
variable and unaccountable in its phase as the dic
tates of fashion; or, rather, fashion is only a tangi
ble illustration of what public opinion is in every
instance.
Like every thing else controled by caprice, public
opinion is exacting and oppressive in its rule. So
ciety lays a claim to inflallibility, which, however
much at variance with reason, is one which it never
resigns. Before this idol, every man is required to
bow down, and he who dares to disobey has to pass
an ordeal more dreadful than the sevenfold heated
furnace of Babel’s king. The racks and fires, and
all the infernal machinery of the Spanish Inquisition
are trifling when compared with the tortures of this
fell tyrant. They are aimed at, and injure only the
body—the mind they cannot harm. The mind has
gone undisturbed through the fires of Smithfield,
and ascended with calm serenity to the deadly guil
lotine. But when man contends with public opin
ion, it is a moral conflict, and every stroke aims di
rectly at his mental peace and happiness. There is
a fate more piteous than that of the Siberian exile,
a tyranny more oppressive than that of Russia or
Turkey, a slavery more degrading than that seen in
the darkest regions of Africa. It is when every sen
timent of the heart, every principle of the man, is
locked in by the triple hands of public opinion, and
the poor soul dares not, if it could be free.
“Follow not the multitude to do evil,” is the rule
of action prescribed by the Highest of Law-givers;
yet how few there be who yield this an unreserved
obedience. Tlow many might adopt the language of
the ancient “I know the right, and 1 approve it too,
condemn the wrong, and yet that wrong pursue.
That high-toned moral courage which prompts a
man to follow the dictates of his conscience, in open
defiance of public opinion, is a quality very rarely
found. Rather than this, men will freq ently pur
sue a course, winch they are aware will bring them
to ruin and death. They yiold to men in every
point their inferiors, and fall from positions which
they have taken in the calmness of their judgments,
without one adverse reason having been brought to
bear upon them. It is thus that some of the most
brilliant intellects which the world has ever seen,
have been stri; t of their powers, and lost in the
darkness of an endless night.
If you wish for a happiness of intrinsic worth, a
peace of mind which the world cannot give or
take away, you must think, decide, and act for your
self. Bow not in servile reverence to the dictates of
public opinion. In this way you may hope to form
the stamina of an independent character, to arrive
at the stature of a perfect man. But there is a high
er reason even than this. When you come before
“the Judge of all the earth,” you must stand or fall
upon your individual merits, and your simple apol
ogy, “I did it because others did,” will be no pallia
tion of your guilt. *
Interesting and Instructive.
If yon wish to acquire enlarged and comprehen
sive views on all subjects, take your seat before the
door of a Village grocer}', with the crowd of idlers
who daily assemble there, for the purpose of social
enjoyment. The meeting is not one of castes; so
you need have no fears on that point. You will find
there lawyers, doctors, merchants, farmers, and va
rious other classes whose vocations are either sine
cure, or they expedite their business so much as al
ways to have an abundance of leisure. Yon need en
tertain no doubt that you will bd instructed and
benefited. Each one professes to know everything,
and it would be a great insult were you to hesitate in
believing it. Should one of them express his own
ignorance upon any point, it would be considered a
fault for which nothing but drinking half a gallon a
day could ever expiate. Being thus introduced to
this council of sages, prepare yours If to learn valu
able lessons of wisdom.
The topic under consideration as you enter is the
all-engrossing one of politics. They seem quite ani
mated, several talking at a time, and you readily sup
pose they are engaged in a discussion. But you mis
take. You soon find that each excited combatant
is making furious strokes at the air, under the delu
sion that he is dealing deadly blows upon his antag
onist. You are fully convinced however, that were
such an intimate knowledge of public aflfeirs to be
found among governmental officers, there would exist
quite a different state of things. You almost regret
for the moment, that these worthy wights are not
Congressmen, forgetting that they are but hmnble
types of three-fourths of that august body, when
reeking with the hellish fumes of the Washington
Liquor Saloons.
The topic changes, and they enter upon a subject
entirely different, with which they seem equally con
versant. Religion now becomes the theme of their
discourse, though treated as would seem to a stran
ger, fn a rather irreligious manner. They condemn
bigotry and fanaticism in all their forms, and very
modestly confess themselves far more pure in heart
and upright in intention, than the hollow-priest
craft which holds its reign in the temples of the
Most High. The tenets and doctrines of all sects
pass under their notice, receiving the due amount of
stricture or condemnation. Their spirit of belief
wanders forth, but like the Dove that was sent from
j the Ark, it finds no spot on which it may rest its
weary wings. Their liquor or their good sense, (we
will not say which) has delivered them from all sec
tarian illiberality, and they may go untrammeled
through the broad field of speculative enquiry.
Is it not an advantage which cannot be too highly
prized, to sit with such a sage council, and imbibe
sentiments of unadulterated purity ? Is it not one
for which any one might willingly sacrifice his bus
iness, and allow his affairs to go to wreck and ruin ?
Surely, no one would retire from such a place, with
the reflection that “a fool is wiser in his own con
ceit than seven men who can render a reason.” *
Ambition in Little Things.
Small acts in children, display principles which
produce great deeds in grown men. The branches
and leaves of the forest monarch are delicately sha
ped in the narrowed circumference of the small acorn.
So those high passions which incite the man to deeds
of noble daring, lie in taint embryo in the breast
of the boy. It is here perhaps, more than all else
besides that “coming events cast their shadows be
fore.” With feelings of deep interest, we behold all
that is noble or commendable in children, and hail
it as an indication of what will be in manhood.—
But it is only as signs that such things give us pleas
ure. We never fail of being disgusted when we see
a boy affecting the airs and manners of a man.—
The sensation is not less painful, when we behold a
man feeling and acting like a child. To see a boy
engage in any game with a keen anxiety for success,
is judged an indication that he will strive to excel
in whatever be may engage. For a grown person
to indulge in the amusement, with the same feel
ings would be thought unworthy the dignity of
manhood.
There are some persons, who though they may
acquire the physical stature of men, remain forever
in a state of mental ohildhood. Their thoughts,
motives and ambition are all childlike. They are en
tirely subjected to their own whims, and the dic
tates of sound reason are unheard, perhaps un
known. The trifles of life engross their attention
and are the objects for the attainment of which they
exert all their energies. To these, they subject ev
erything, however important it may be. To grati
fy their feelings in a private pique, the? would bring
ruin and misery upon a whole community. Nor is
this class composed wholly of the weak minded and
simple. They frequently possess talents in other re
spects which entitle them to positions of honor and
trust. In these cases this ambition in little things
becomes more contemptible, and far more dangerous.
We may now see an exhibition of this spirit upon a
largo scale in our country. Fanatics, with a bigot
ed zeal to gain certain trivial ends, are entirely ob
livious of the highest interest or mmihmo, uua •-
dy to plunge into the miseries of anarchy and war
fare. *
Do Something.
Yes, do something. Never indulge in the degra
ding, body-ruining, soul-destroying practice of do
ing nothing. Let not idleness fix its foul curse upon
you. Tt is the prolific source of vice and crime, *f
moral and physical death. Honesty, dignity and
honor, are incompatible with a life of idleness; hap
piness can never be attained by it; the mind stag
nates, and is a worthless talent to its possessor, and
the whole system of the man becomes a complete
wreck under its influence. An idle man is an im
pediment to progress, a clog in the machinery of the
worlds action, a living reflection upon his Makers
wisdom. He is a public nuisance; for like the death
dealing Upas, he sends out his fatal influence upon
all around him.
Do something. What though fortune may have
released you from the absolute necessity of actual
labor. Does that render the claims which nature
makes upon you for exertion less imperative, or does
it diminish the pleasure of menial cultivation. There
is still a task before you, which your duty to your
self and to your fellow men command you to peform.
The world which has yielded you sustenance, socie
ty which has granted you privileges and immuni
ties demands from you some service in return. You
have a mind whose capacities you should enlarge
and improve, and fit for the enjoyment of that bliss
to which a life of virtue will entitle you.
Do something. There are many things necessary
to be done. Despair not, though you see hundreds
ami thousands idly waiting for some propitious an
gel to stir the waters of success. The day of mira
cles has long since passed, and that mysterious vis
itant will never appear. If you would aim high, you
must work vigorous’y, and boldly strive to wring
success from an unwilling world. Shrink not be
cause you find every profession crowded ; when you
see a pedagogue enthroned in every wayside school
house, whose pile of “teachers assistants” scarce
enables him to conceal his ignorance; when you see
excellent plow-boys converted into wretched Doc
tors, or good hod-carriers into blundering “Attor
neys at Law,” you need not fear. Your contest will
not be with them, They have mistaken their cal
ling, they are at war with nature, reason, and com
mon sense, and success in this struggle is hopeless.
They are madly striving to make themselves some
thing for which they were never designed. Go not
to work in this manner. God has given you talents
of a certain order, and for a certain purpose, and
for this alone you can exercise them successfully.—
Choose your business not with a reference to which
is most pleasant, or most lucrative; hut consider
carefully, prayerfully what you are fitted for, and
when you have ascertained, go to work diligently,
faithfully, patiently. Then, and only then may it he
said that “there is no such word as fail.”
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Admitted.
The following young gentlemen were admitted to
the practice of the Law on Wednesday last, during
the session of the Superior Court, in this county ;
•T. J. Mcßee, 11. T. Perkins, and Nathaniel Drake.
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Acceptable, Very.
We have been favored with an acceptable treat
in the form of a basket of fine Peaches, from the or
chard of our esteemed fellow citizen, L. L. Andrews,
for which we return our warmest thanks.—
Those who have never enjoyed such a luxury, are
perhaps not aware that our clime can produce fruits
as luscious as the Oranges and fianauas of the Trop
ics. We have seldom experienced a greater pleas
ure than in discussing the merits of this handsome
present, and we felt no slight regret as we saw it
growing “beautifully less.” Mr. Andrews is very
careful in his selection of fruit trees, and has been
eminently successful in their culture, having, as we
learn one of the finest orchards in the county. *
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Knights of Jericho.
The Rising Star Lodge, have elected and installed
the following corps of Officers for the present term.
The Lodge is now in a Yery flourishing condition,
havi. g initiated one at their last meeting, and re
ceived several petitions.
I. A. WILSON, W. C.
W. L. Mc’ELMURRAY, V. 0.
A. W. STOKES, P. W. C.
J. W. WRIGHT, M.
S. A. BURNEY, 11.
A. D. CANDLER, It.
A. M. MARSHALL, Chap.
B. M. S. GRIFFIN, S.
R. D. SEALS, G.
R. J. MASSEY, T.
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Georgia News Condensed
Col. Michael Young, a prominent citizen of Thomas
ville, died on the 24th ult. of congestive fever.
The next Fair will commence at Atlanta, on the
20th, and close on the 25th of October.
Mr. Ransom Nichols, an old and worthy citizen of
Clark county, died on the 28th ult.
The Rice crop, about Savannah, was very slightly
injured by the late storm.
Col. Hamilton Bonner, late of San Francisco, and
a native of Hancock county, died of apoplexy, at Ca
lao, Peru, on the 16th of June last.
The dwelling of the editor of the Georgia Citizen,
at Macon, was destroyed by fire, last Wednesday
morning.
Prof. A. Reinhart, of the Wesleyan Female Col
lege of Macon, died on the 20th ult. Ho was a na
tive of Switzerland.
Mr. James D. McEleen, a native of the county
Mayo, Ireland, was recently accidentally drowned
in the Savannah river lock of the Ogeechee canal.
The Savannah papers state that Habersham’s Rice
Mills were destroyed by fire early on Saturday morn
ing. Over 20,000 bushels of Rice were either burnt
up or injured.
Three prisoners, L. R. Parker, Edward Wallage,
and Joseph Dodson, recently made their escape from
the Columbus jail. They were confined for burgla
ry and negro stealing.
The second term of the Atlanta Medical College,
closed recently with the delivery of diplomas in
oiv degrees of M. D.
ad eundem , and one honorary degree.
Col. Thomas 0. Howard has withdrawn from the
editorial chair of the Atlanta Intelligencer. The pa
per, for the present, will be conducted by Mr. Rug
gles, its former editor and proprietor.
James M. Spullock, of Floyd county, has been ap
pointed by the Governor to be Superintendent of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, vice James F. Coop
er, resigned.
A. A. Gaulding, of Griffin, has also been appoint
ed Auditor of the State Road.
A fire occurred in Columbus on the night of the
29th ult. One house and contents consumed, which
was partiady covered by insurance. Several arrests
have been made, as it is believed to be the work of
incendiaries.
Extraordinary Developments,-Extensive
Medical Forgeries.
We learn from the Philadelphia papers that the
exnnination of Pelham D. Hollis, of that city, on a
charge of counterfeiting the labels of Holloway’s cel
ebrated Pills, has resulted in the committal of the
prisoner to take his trial for that offence. The tes
tirnony disclosed some facts. It appeared that Hol
lis had closely imitated the original wood Cuts and
lithographic plates used in Professor Holloway’s bu
siness; that his nefarious preparations had been on
a gigantic scale, and that the immense popularity of
theMcdicine justified him expecting vast returns in
case of success. Fortunately the active and ener
getic agents of Professor Holloway, (who may be
said to constitute a special police for the protection
of his interests in all parts of the world,) soon dis
covered the fraud and procurred the aiTest of the
perpetrator. The Central Office in New York, act
ing under instructions from the parent establishment
in London, next proceeded to trace out the where
abouts of the counterfeits, and it is believed that
they have all been discovered snid destroyed.
Frauds of this n dim- arc atrocious. They imperil
health and life, by substituting for a genuine cura
tive something that is either ineffective or positively
noxious. To counterfeit a- bank bill is merely t-o
cheat the pocket, hut to counterfeit, a great medicine
is to rob the sick not only of their money but of the
chance of cure.
It would seem that the boundless success of Pro
fessor Holloway’s remedies in this country has arous
ed to an unwonted extent the cupidity o! that class
of harpies who watch the progress of a grand discov
ery for the sole purpose of robbing the discoverer
and deceiving the public. The author of “Lacon”
says “ITvpocrisy is the homage which Vice pays to
Virtue,” and it may with equal truth be affirmed
that the counterfeiting of a world-renowned medicine
is the unconscious tribute which villainy pays to
skill, Hcieucc and success.
We rejoice that, the villainy basin this case been
promptly unmasked, and that there is every proba
bility of justice being dealt out to the offender.
We would suggest fhnt Ibe trade, warned by the
detection of this scheme of fraud and robbery, should
exercise the utmost vigilance in guarding against
theiike impositions licreafter. —‘Boston Tut(Jligewer.
The Court of Death,
King Dealh held a court unfo which did resort,
AH diseases that ravage below,
In order that he acquainted might he
Why of late had been “slow.”
There was Gout with his crutch and his terrible
touch,
Sick headache and Jaundice the yellow,
With Dyspepsia who'd laid many folks ’neath the
spade
Os the sexton, that grave-digging follow.
But ’twere vain to describe each one of the tribe
That before Old Death made their appearance,
Said he, “how is this? there is s metbing amiss,
You’ve not made of late, much of a clearance;
Just toil me, 1 pray, the cause of delay,
You diseases are getti.ig quite lazy,
Do speak up friend Gout, and tell me what you’re
about,
Or slack business will drive me quite crazy!”
Said Gout, “the fact’s this—dor.ot take, it amiss,
For myself and my friends no one cares,
For our business below has received a sad blow,
From a cursed Pill Cathartic called Ayer’s!
That Pill when folks try, makes each one of us fly,
Eor it drives us clean out of the system,
Thus it saves people’s breath, so you see my friend
Death,
That’s the way that of late you have missed ’em.”
Sad End of Dr. Ramsey.
We learn from undoubted authority, (says the
Savannah Republican,) that this unfortunate man,
whose name has become quite notorious in Georgia,
and who, our readers will recollect, was arraigned
recently before the U. S. Commissioners in this city,
for forgery upon the Pension Office, ami made his
escape, committed suicide in the jail of Sparta, Co
necuh county, Alabama, on Wednesday, the 27th
ult. The facts, as obtained by us from Deputy U.
S. Marshal, Laroche, are as follows:—Ramsey was
arrested some weeks ago in the neighborhood of
Spuria, on a charge or charges of forgery, and com
mitted to jail. His friends in Georgia, preferring to
have him stand his trial here on the charge upon
which he was arrested some months ago, obtained a
warrant from the U. S. District Court, and proceed
ed to Alabama, in company with the Deputy Marshal,
for the purpose of demanding him from the authori
ties of the latter State. They refused to deliver him,
and it is said Ramsey himself was very much disap
pointed, being anxious to return and stand his trial
Finding it impossible to carry out his wishes, and
doubtless tired of a life that had become a disgrace
and dishonor to himself and the source of the keen
est anguish to his family, the unfortunate man re
solved on self-destruction. He had procured, by
some means, several pods of the Jamestown weed,
that grew in abundance around the jail, and about
noon of the 27th, asked for a cup of coffee, which,
after the jailer retired, he drank, having first poison
ed it with the seed. Ho was discovered, some two
hours after taking the draught, lying on the floor in
an insensible condition. Medical aid was brought,
but he had passed beyond its reach. He lingered
through the night and died ht 7 o’clock on the morn
ing of the 28th. Mr. Laroche and the father of the
unfortunate man were present at his death, and wit
nessed his burial in the afternoon of the same dav.
An appropriate end to a reckless and abandoned life.
Verily, “the way nf the transgressor is hard.” We
sincerely sympathise with the parents and family of
the deceased, who are‘clever, respectable people,” re
siding in the upper portion of the State.
Juvenile Murderesses.
In the Vienna (Austria) Prose appears the follow
ing terrible relation:
Two girls, nine and ten years old, were begging
in the village of Drahetitz, in Bohemia, on the 2Sth
ult., when they met another little girl, Johanna W.,
She “as prettily dressed!
the world. The vagrant children coveted tier hand
some clothes, and enticed her by the promise of a
new doll, to the edge of a pond, into which, after
having shipped the poor little thing, they pushed
her in, and she was drowned. They look her gar
ments and went on, but were taken into custody
by the Gendarmes that same day for mendicancy,
and were sent bark to the town of Sehlnn, whence
they had come. A handkerchief which had belong
ed to toe murdered child was worn by one of them ;
and when accused of the crime they confessed it.
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English Manufactures.
The London Times of August sth, states that the
value of English exports during the first six mouths
of 1854, was £49,000,000; during the same period
in 1855, they sunk to £43,000,000, while in the pre
sent year they have risen to £54,000,000. These
exports are, with trifling exceptions, entirely of arti
cles manufactured and in part produced by Great
Britain. In one species alone of English cotton
manufacture, the exportation is said to be annually
growing at the immense rate of one million pounds
a year, while the export of woolen and of worsted
yarns has increased in two years from £500,000 to
£1,200,000. Ihe Times, however, seeuis to enter
tain some solicitude as to the finale of this monstrous
accumulation, and to bo almost tremblingly aware of
the law that in every country there should be a just
harmony of the three great interests of manufactures*
agriculture and commerce.