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WWW— ■ miM— ■ni’lT ■
For the CrosH-ic-r.
To My Sister.
.SI MARY F.. BKTA.W
In our u’d home, embosomed in the wood*, i
.Still and secluded, with no jarring tone
To break on its sweet household voices, save
The moan of taseled Pines, th?t ceaseless sigh, \
So like the heaving of Old Ocean’s breast,
In that green nest of Love, usy own sweet bird
Thy voice first waked its music, and thy smile
Brightened the shadow that ray coming cast;
For thou and I were o:di/ sisters then,
But how unlikel Thou wm the fragrant rose,
Decking our roof-tree with its loveliness,
I, the dark Willow, with its branches d* s>p*d
With a prophetic sorrow ; yet we loved
As sisters seldom love; thy sunny face
Reflected light to mine, and thy small hand
Was clasped in mine, in cur long wanderings
Through the green summer Wood lands where we j
went,
Thou, to find Violets on the mossy bank,
And TANARUS, to w atch the leaf tinged stream that flowed
In checkered light and shade, with fallen leave?,
Borne on its tide, or eDe to sit and dream
On some w ild nursery legend, ’til I seemed
To bear the dip of Fairy’s pearly oar
In the light stream ; and through the laurels dirk,
Caught the dim glitter of the shell canoe
Freighted with merry give?, and moving Blow
To fleetest music, fr. the rich warm clouds,
Boiled rour and the •citing Bun, thy fancy traeod
Bands of w inged angels and fair palace*
Os living rose* built; I, only saw
Das k blood-stained troops, standing in martial line,
Or frowning cashes, or funeral bands.
To on loved’*>t the smiling morning, when she come.
Gliding in misty veil along the plain,
Waking the birds, and opening w ith light touch
The golden hearts of roses to the sun:
I ioTcd the solemn night, with its deep hush,
Its ever watching stars, its holy moon,
When one lone bird awakes its plantivc song,
And Lillies fold their white bauds as in prayer.
Ar.d thus time passed, moving w ith muffled tread
To the glad music of young beating hearts,
And still across thy flowery path watcfhrow a
The incense of affection, the warm love.
Won by thy gentle face and artless mien,
While my strange absent air and dreamy smile
Repelled, when I would fain have craved for love.
And while the sylvan scetves, toy chosen haunts.
Gave their fresh stainless beauty to thy face,
And nature's volume was unclasped to thee,
My check grew pale with bending o\r old times,
Wandering amid the msz- • of romance,
And through the enchanted land of Poc-sy,
Following, with beating heart and kindling eye,
The comet thoughts of bold erratic minds,
And from them learning—all too soon for
The hidden mysteries of the human heart,
Uueoncioua that the hurrying stream of life
Was leaving the bright meadow-lands of youth,
Till, starting with surprise, the lillied wroath
1 found forever fallen from my brow.
Than firi jtae, to nw •wwy tipa,
%r|e-C -Zm •’ *• -v • J**’ * • ■
1 If. thy side, sweet sister of my heart,
i l -ii tti* e bt t it child, I c>f*ie to find
A ; o fu; viu upon lh- threshold of
V- u ■ won.*!.'. ;-o and. T.'.v cl -ar and ringing Uugb i
M- Fo-v.d to wiltr ru*v\ and thy eyt**
D eper am? far <• handful in their light,
but the young heart, thy frenh unwritten heart,
t hat was unt>Her(d, tbst wm* foldedttliil
in Spotless purity, like the white leave*
f*f the sweat Piiaris rfw. and love bftd'ne’r .#
Traced there his Laming name, nor sorrow tbete
Had h it the withering in press of her tear.
May it bo tt er thus, coma m r love
I>e like an AC.,:-, throw n around tfcy form.
No hand of £t ivf should blight thy life’is young
Lopes
Thomasville, Ga.
TmuMcATmc
for th Orueadwr.
The Beggar and the Flowers.
fit MISS C. W. SAHBER.
‘•Flower* are Ga<V*
Susie Green was tired of the stereotyped sheet
panomna, and yet there ww nothing tdee to V*
seen from the little si. ;p window by which she Bat.
from early morning until late nt night, plying she
needle, for the .support of o pale fond mother at
h'-mo, sod two ir.ie checked children who
called her “sister.*
Susie got very bred of the carts, sad cubs, om
niouse.-, and of the grim looking gentlemen with
‘*itl shirt coilftrs wiio hurried with carpel
bigin baud, and of the solemn faced Louaekeep
era who went regularly to market with their bn
k'-ts, (looking for all the world, as if they were
everlastingly engaged in the computation of six
pences) and of tinrsickiy little children, with their
gingham sun-b unets, and white aprons. Then
here was tire old street beggar who eat over the
way with a green shade over hie eyes, and hi*
horny hand ex’euded for the mite* of charity.-
Susie felt sure that he whs rich —rich a a Jew
for she had seen, nobody knows, how many five
csiit peiees dropped into his hand. She didn't
belUve that he wa* blind cither, for she had seen
him peep up many a time, when he thought hirir
sed unobserved, and peer about with a knowing
i'iok—yee, she felt morally certait: that she had
seen him gazing at her pretty face through that
htlle low window.
But that was none < f hr business. Slie had
to deal with Madam Bit ter. and so Madam Bitter
was pleased—why that was enough.
Poor, weary, little Susie! she almost envied that
old beggar. She knew that if ahe w in hi*
place, ad wa* not blind, Aio would go. rm that
Spring day, far aw--ay into the country,
where she could seeGtel’- iky over head, ali glo
‘""“Js!y blue: She would ;-ee once more the little
fiowvr* which grew *o gayiv and beautifully on
oe green ve.vt*i banks, near by where the silvery
rivulet rippled over the shioiag white rock* at the
bottom—#:;c would hear tne birds sing, ai.d watch
the ?!m* twinkle *t right in tlicir etheiv depths.
She wouldn't niw*yi any cooped up there ahe
knew, bko an owl : r> a dark corner.
But Madam Bitter’s exaction# were severe, and
Susie did not often hare time to think shorn the
country —much less to visit, it. Even cow the
mail re*-? nt bond, and !n: her, ic an Impera
uve ’one, lay d'oen her v; ok and take a drees to
M's. Kush, a (viiiiiu wiouw who lived in Crow
Lane,
Susie was glad of a haif ImurV respite* from her [
needle. She tied on her bonnet, and taking the j
basket from Madam Hitter’s table, tripped hghtly j
away towards Crow Lane.
Now it happened, that Susie’s path Iht directly !
by the corner where the K-ggar sat, and *he tie- j
•ermined to ascertain if possible, if he wa* rwily !
blind. |
Yes! as blind as a bat. Both eyes were fast i
shut under th* green sha<ie. He never turned his
head to !<k4c at her. Su-ie felt ashamed cf her
seh lor having judged film so harshlv, Bhe wish*
ed she was rich — she would have laid a five dol
lar gold peice right in the centre of the man’s
horny palm. But oh ! she was nobody but. Mad
hiti BiiterN sewing girl, and everybody, who knew
I anything about it, knew the situation wa* far
i from being the most agreeable in the world, bhe
I was dunking about this, as *fif> crossed over into
i Market Square.
| iil >' ou pK-ase to buy a Wquet f’ said a emai!
feeble voice at her side. Sh looked down, and
.here ktoo*! little girl, with naked feet, and mb
anclrolj eyes. She bad a parcel of boquets,
many of which were ma le of wild fiower*. ‘ Ideas.*
bpy,”sh continued in a plaintive voice when she
saw that site had arrested Susio’s attention.— I
‘Mother is a ck, and brother Johnny has sprained
| bis.auk e, so be cannot work. W have not had
a mouthful to eat to-day. n -
Susie had one solitary dime in hw pooke\ Sh*
took it out and held it up before the child’s e*ts.
“It is all the money l have got in ths world,”
she sard. It is uot enough to buy a but
you may have it to buy a loaf of bread with..
The child t.Kk it eagerly, but ;4d)...ieleetf V
pretty little c’uster of wild flowers, and instated
upon busies meivipg it ia fatwaT A\ tnt §wri
PEMSLD. CJA.. THURSDAY,, APRIL 10, 1857. m
I refused, but finally she \p.wwb.fdo \ ttiaf A-.-
take it, and drop ij into tlWgga*s ban I be iV.r
retnrn.
, 81; e did s*o, ft'vd plvicUMfd to s< e a grat.lb
ita;k tipsir, the old man n Go*-. ■.* ah** was ht*r*|fint:
by. The flowers seemed to i> him • muofi g* -d
as money could have done.
One day three weeks aftefwanls, S:i*e f tr and so
her surprise that the c*M beggar wa? not ii hi*
usual place. Rhe watcber for his appearance
morning after mining, but still he did not pome,
and she finally cor.c!l that ha wont h ire min
ed to some oilier part of ihf* eitv.
• * o w
A gentleman came one day to ihe frr.nr door
and rang the bell loudly—so loodlv fW it re
sounded throughout the whose of M .dam UiltVi’r
establishment, and startled that wofihy dignitary
herself from a brown reverie into which site had
fallen, relative t the price of labor, and the au
dacity of sewing girls generally Hiie p*epH out
of the window, and vaw, stanJing upon tl • pn\>--~
ment ft large, fine looking umn, with u inmdix of
papers in hi* hand. Bhe felt sun* ‘rom ‘
quental air and manners, that he must be a. iis
yer, and she hoped—yes, she couldn’t keep from
hoping, that somebody had left her a legacy,—
Animated by this idea, .?L put ot* her U.*-:.. cap
and went b arse if to the dwr m reeviv* tin*
stranger.
“Have you a you; g girl in your establishment
inad itB —a young Udy by tun name of Miss Bu
*ao Green, who** nother reelde* swute>v foe re i
near Parker’s MitU ai il*A weet end of ti.% ci'vt i
If you have I should like so re h r.”
Madam Bitter coughed and hemmed. Wha* !
on earth did that strange looking w.aiit with. |
Susie Green i She couldn't for th* id. <>f hvi j
make out. But after a whii eshe asked the gen
leman into the parlor, and went toßutnmon Ssi? *•.
The sewing girl wn* an full of wonder as Mul u.
Bitter, she ft*!t morally certain that it was 6ome
other Susan Green the lawyer was inquest of;
however, he put down h-r work at'.d went iut, j
bis preseaoe. . .
Miss Green, 1 presume, said the f r auger bowing i
with a bland professional smile, as the girl cur i
tesied and bludivd in his presence-: Misri Gt.evu, |
a sewing girl in Madam Bitter’s establishment I
on Eighth Row. 1
v’ . 1
’lea, 8tr —Uinta my uni ne.” |
“Your mother iivos near Parkers Mills ftLiid I
west end, and you bare two little bipiheispPn-U.iy \
and WilUe, for whose support you woik ?'*
Site again nodded absent. She wondere?] ho***. !
on earth the stranger knew anything ale*if Freddr ‘■
and W illie and her pale faced mother?
Well, Mias Green, I have the U’ in* -
forming you. that John Williams,/Song'koowit!
in tui> part of the city i> a blind beggar, but •
who wa* in reality a* strong eyed fc n |
has recently di#d, and in !; v j
presses it, of your virtue, amiability and indu* |
try, ha* left you a very j*r*-ur tor uiiw* —|
thousand dollars—no more ‘and mi iwl*. Hel
**yfe ho lit? no reLftives in vhv world sod that r*nt j
once gtvr him boqwet of flowers, for h*<d. ;r !
felt certain yon must have exptuobsd your. a#t
shilling. This fortune ho. hn* V> you I
in gratitude fur that iittie invfnim-tui. F*-w Vr end |
a shilling its wed.”
Susie was tbundmlrack, and .when, the I
, commenced reading th legal doctnue. t*, wbicb!
| he had brought with him, *h<# did.rt coiipreh*n-j •
| a word that be eaiti. But it was h> > tru—i
was tha possessor of thousand*, and all ;n return ]
for a yift cf fairer r. And Madam Biucj? W>, ? u |
kt-esme of Madan; bitter? Why, she had ’he
mortification of seeing her much abtWbl ewin;
girl, take sfjciai position far nbrv hr. and in
consequence thereof. b* became more acrimone
ous in feiT:per than ever.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Kissing a Baohelor.
A corresyxmdent relate* the following incident:
“We have a friend—a bachelor TWeoft— very fond
of the society of the indies, but extremely modest
and diffident witbak A few evemufif? wine© Ite
went to make a call upon an acquaintance, who
had recently taken to himself a wife, ypuug. Mid
beautiful, and as a matter cf course, oyt‘ifWin*r
with affection for her.husband. Now iuve.lv
wife, of a week, like nit other w ive?, scarcely
survive the brief ©buenoe i*f her ,husband for the
discharge of his bueine**, ftr;d always anon his re
turn met him upon the threshold.* and •tnt-tbf-n and
him with ki*u*. It so happened when ohr friend
called,’ that the husband wrA tfh-fhc, hut wr.* rno*
mentarijy expected by the fond* and anxious wife.
She beard hi* foot fall upon the step*, nod *up
posiug it to be her hto.h ua'i, tuxlnd forth to meet
j him ; and by had scarcely laid Li* .hand often the
| txJbpull before the door hew operq-and h's heck
j wag encircled by a pair <jf white arms, and burning
ki**ee fell thitVand fast upon.ids sips and ch,e<dji*
wblfe u full throbing breast rtrained,to ffls I—r
iter© wa* ft trying situation fvr h.dTlfijypt: man,
and our friend c*n>6 near fainting upon the *pot
Co* tunatelv, the larly dib>rtt*rf and her mistake inaea
son to prevent ©uch a event and be
escaped from the house more dead than rihv.e.—
The ia*t we < of .b}n:,he wftA leaTiing’~rtjgajrn>i a
tree fanning himself with his sombrero, in ordvr
to recover strength to tegsia hi*
Railroads in Georgia,
The !*t Weekly Cohimbu* Times is .Sentinel
coniains the following lw :J R-dlroade hi this
State, their length cost, eHti.ings and’ expeuses for
tU iftst cfiicial year, Rt.d.their dividend? *
BYxte.-w <b Atlantic or Suite Mwd, from M
lants, Georgia, to Chattanooga, Teiinmre, 188
miles long. Toth! cos? of §5,600,235.
Gross eanifeg for lest • jem *fiO,o3B; —
Net enrnings -^490,607.
Georgia /load, from Augusta to rXllanta. bran.-b
to .Athens included, kGVrnihs Capital paid in
*4,156.000. DeKt t!52G0,P5)1. Grose earnings j
for the fo** i.fOdah year *>1,006.202; Net earn
lega Dividend 7-i per cent. Branch
to WHshingion 22 m le* iohg, hrach to Wnnen
ton 4 ini'es long. Total ieigih of Road 2-37
mi].-s.
On>fral Road, from Savannah to Mac n. 101
Capital paid in §3,833,140. JM>t, none,
fotai cost of Road and equipments 83,833,140.
Grots earnings for last offic al year £1,280,570
Net earning* #645.774. Dividend 0 per cent.
Macon dc Western Hoad, from Macon to Atlan
ta. 102 milt s long. , Capita) paid in $1,230,500
Debt £1(1T 7 UK. Total cost of Road and equip
f:trnt> #1,047,045. Gross earnings for last official
ynr #350.802. Net eaiiiii.s $96,193. Dividend
ce t. Price of sherras 90 cents.*
iSonfh- Tffysfipfn ‘Moody, from Macon toAmei ious.
branch from Fort Valley to Bader 92 miles long.
Capital paid in #1,007,496. Debt #365 920. —
lotal cost of Road and •qurprner.ts #1,624 920.
Grose earning© for last official year #253,306. Net
earnings $141,168. Dividends 8 per cent.f
Atlanta <{: La Grange flood, from Atlanta to
West Point, 87 miles long. Capital paid in 1719,-
842. DC-t $225 000, Totai cost t f Road and
| - qnipmen'.s #1,092 222. Gross earning!, for !sst
[■• ffn'tial year #251.076, Net eemings #171,193
j Dividend 7 per cent.
| Jhfuscogce Road, from C>*|uH*bn t-> Butler, 50
j miles long. Capital paid in #669,351. Debt
| 8249,00. 7'otai cost of Road and equipments
{ # 81.351. (ffoss earnii g- foj last official veat
88.000. Net enreinga #88,739. Dividernb
S j>er cent.
Augusta dc Savannah Road, from Augusta to
Vli len 53 miles h-ng Capital stock paid in
§731.600. Debt #368 500. cost of Road
and equipment* #1.030.100. Gross earnings for
i d-e last official vear SIIO,OOO. Net earning- •
j #63,000.
j j ‘runs trick d’ Florida Rood, 29 miles long.—
j Capital stock paid io #500,000. Debt #320.0#0.
j Road not completed.
! Millfdf/eri/le cf- Gordon Rond, from Gordon
! i<> M'l'wlgeyille 17 miles long. Ospital stock paid
|iu .#176.000. Debt none. Di videos
Jfalpnton Branch Road, from Mitledgeville to
i Pnlouton 22 miles long, Capital stock paid in
j? 1 75,000. Debt 832,000. Dividena 7 percent,
i Rome dr Kingston Road, from Rome to King*
; ton 17 miles long. Capital stock paid in #IBO.
i 000. Grose earnings 835 00 per annum. Net
| Humm! r refofl #17.00. D-vidend 8 per cent,
Suda.nnah Albany <f Gulf Road, 54 miles
j finished. CapitaJ stock paid in #731.649. Debt
! CIO 200.
4 •
Kasl 2'efl7HS*et Road, from Daltoa to the Ten
: ne?*te line, is 19 miles long.
\ Assuming that the foregoing data are correct,
jf- re are 11IS miles of Railroad, which cost over
I #26.000.000, ’ .
i
j *This Road whs ©old for debt t a great saenfiee,
i and by the present Company. Ita prime
j c.jdt wfiF iuf-h greater than the arm. tint above.
tSincv the report was made from which the fore
| S'dntr data were taken, this Company have finished
I if mike more of Road, from AuieHcn*? to Sumpter
i ?, iiy. Total length of Road ini* milts. Besides, a
1 Horid from Americas to Albany is being rapidly
j const- acted; and sufficient money has been sub*
i scribt-d to ensure the extension of this Road from
j Anitiicns to RuTiila anc! fort Gaines, on theCimtta
| hooc!*t- rive.
Historical Evidence of the Authenticity
of the Sible Record.
; The iVrio correspondent of the Journal of
! Conwowe thus alludes to the discovery maue by
•■Sirßeitrv Rawlieson in Assyria, ‘xnfirroafory of
I ;he trutii of the liiWe Record:
Among ih-recent public lectures in London,
i you may be struck with that of Sir Henry Raw
j liosen, on (,b itn'ial discoveries in relation to ;he
I Bible:. I’ occupies nearly an hoar ana * half.—
Sir Henry expatiat'd on some of the meet import
ant results of hoi discoveries in Assyria, constitut-
verification of scripture history ; heillustrat
rd his topi’- W numerous drawings and models
taken from the scu'pture* now in the British Mu
seum. lie coubbedadP, bv abundant coincidence 1
the rtnJlmmicity of the Holy Writ. The earliest
period lovvhieU.ilie inscriptions he had found re
ferred, was about two thousand years, before Christ.
. The who!- country of Assyria hnd been eseavat
: ed iu the course of his researches.; a multitude of
inscriptions had. been deciphered, and in many in*
.. ..stances, they confirmed, in the. minutest details,
, yhe page* of scripture, and explained passages
si which had hitherto been obscure. The instances
I I which he cited !<em with instruction arid force;
Hhe-interpretation <r derivation of names in par
1 lienfai. The crt’MMst connection of the Chaldees
tiro] I/idia-tjouud Lho Babylonian mythology, the
: ethnology {iiid geography of the Assyrians, the
. historical record, hH arc illustrated; in every case,
there is an ♦ rifue agreement with the Bible. —
, The lecturer inferred from his ittudie* that the
* JJook of 4obfe belonged to a time about seven
‘‘hfmdrfed years before (Jhrfst. In the thousand
jeafs without mention of Jbdea, but during that
, j pen<*d; there whs no inducement for intercom** i
j between th * A ?m rians and Jews. Tire visit of
, I the Queen of bheba to Solomon was verified. So
; j th wr> le! ween Sennao *rih and Heaefeiab.—*-
i There were lout distinct captivities of the Jews.—
> nine inseri ftions referred to the time of Nobu
• chirdneMar; other* threw light on the existence
i and actions of Bdshaxzar, Who was joint king with
■ h father Miuus, Hn<i wtw .hill biiowif up hi
Riwak, ,
Demand for Cotton,
n v Er,g ; jh of ihr N*tMjd lu
t*ihjg*ue*r iu * inie utier, write* wi follows:
London, March 0, 1837.
E gle.od is *•_• decidedly h rantiufaeiuring coun>
\ty UiHt no .has a daw -v5 mvrcjq-pot •
t*nt bearing.upon the pvq>t|.i < jf :J.
propk- (hull the m taint}- of > regular and f\db
‘Upi'ij vs the raw material* oeceMrry for the un
mtrhju-d pr<Arcuti-rfi of iter manufacture*, the
eonstayt emy!u\ went of the cnphai which it? cji
reefed to that o}>i* ei, and the large prup<-riioo o 1
iter [op\uH:ion who earn their daily bread as
manufacturing artisan?. Among the raw materi
al po employed, and for which Ergland must be
indebted io other countries, cotton is the most im
p> mint lhe failure for a single year of the cotton
oh p w* uld I* the greatest e -mrm-K-iaJ and social
misfortune which-could tuf.dl ihisc. untry. There
is, prefer.t, a great deal of attention being paid
to this subject, and the daily journal? furnish many
statistics representing it.
The Daily NeWs quotes the New Orleans Dell;
asautbiriiy for tde following siau merits : Th>
production of cotton in the United States iu
creased nine per cent, per annum from 1845 l<
1856, while the increase of demand was eix’een
percent. If itiit ratio continues through another
ten years there will be an annua! deftet of nearly
500,000 bales. The United States produces more
than three-fourths of the whole quantity obtaina
ble in the world. There are 400.000,000 acre*-
of cotton land* ’n lie United States, of which
only 28,000,000 are now under cultivation.—
Atioui 550,000 slaves are employed in cotton cut
dviition. Should the demand for cotton coruii.m
t increase the questions will arise. How is the
amount of available labor to be increased so as t<
supply the demand ? By what mean? can tin
Uidled States continue to keep the lead of th<
world in the production of cotton? These are
the questions u> which we do not presume to uiv
an answer.
ft-*#*****
This is not a question which concerns England
(done. It is one of world wide importance fur w<
and“ not kuow one civilized or even semi-civilized
country on the earths surface which would not b<
mated ally effected by any event which would cut
•ts .he regular operation of cotton manufactures.
Next to a constant supply o: breads!tiffs, there is
nothing of ro much consequence to the well being
of a large majority of the human race as the
steady production of cotton. The subject branch
es ont into so many direction*, and all of them
presenting so many imjnrtant aspect?, that a large
irealise would scarcely suffice for it? full discus
slot). Your own census returns abundantly tea
tify, not only the surprising rapidity with which
the production of the raw materia! has increased,
but also the consumption of-it in your ow n do
mestic manufactures. This latter has Keen so
great that well grounded expectations are formed
of the rapid approach of the time when you will
need the whole of your raw material for the sup
port of this braDch of your uational industry.—
Your increasing population, and your increasing
manufactures, will probably quite keep pace with,
and it may be, outrun your increased production.
The English papers ay:
‘‘The wisest citizens of the United State* ere
as uneasy at dependence yn their cot
ton fields as English people ettn be.’’ * * *
The Americans are exploring Africa much more
diligently than we are, and they are always b >p
iog to hear tiiat we are proceeding with our ax
perimect* in India,
To Parents.
“vYe copy the following wholesome advUv, for
cibiy expressed in the last Recorder.
The Scriptures tells us that “those who ww to
the wind shall map the whirlwind,*” find or, this
authority we think that many parent* in this town
are sure to be visited with a desolating huricane
of sorrow in the future lives of their children.—
No sensible being can deny that permitting young
and impressible boys to roam at bight about the
rtre-.-'R of h town, with every temptation to vice
and di-s pation, i-> but fad way to give a right
character to a child. But we would adrist* some
parents, who apparently doubt this by giving
their youthful pons liberty to war,dor about aflet
ds:k, to vt-it. the post ofScrj dwring the opening of
the mail, and hear the elaborate cursing and
swearing, and foul and shocking obscenity which
is poured, with a wonderful readiness and alarm
ing prujjcieney from the lips of their sons. There
is ever something dreadful to hear such effusions
from even turn endued ?o profanity. and steeped in
profligacy: bflt there is too painful want of a na
ture, corrupt and bad m it i, in such a disgusting
demonstration on tbo part, of a child s fresh from
the creative hand of Go!. Parents who connive
at these exhibitions, by allotting their children to
go out at night, are not only responsible for the
violated decency of community, but will be held
answerable to higher power, wV.oso puoi-hmeflt
will I e inflicted in the future worthleaatjesa and
degradation of their sons.
Suck to Yocr Bra inks* —Young rnan, atick
to your busbies?. It may be you have mistaken
vour culling. If so find it out as quick as possi
ble, and change it.; but don’t h-t any unruay de
sire to get along Gst, or a dislike ol ynir honest
calling, lead you to.abandon it. Have some hon
est calling, and thru stick t> it; if you nre stick
ing type, stick away at them ; if you are a<tljog
oysters, keep on soling them; it you am at law
hold fast to tiiat probation; pursue the busing
you have chosen persistently, iudustriouslv and
hopefully : and if them i anything of you it wHI
appear and turn to account in that a well or k>et-
I tt; thac in any other calling; only if you M 4 a
ton ter, forsake J,hni iiu* ul life a* quick *-poit>ie;
for the lofiger you stick to it the w*>rse it wiH
“ait k” to you,— Hum's Merchant's Magazine.
A green’lln, who had never seen steamboat,
fell through the hatchway d*>w >nt<* the bold of
the Wihfield Soott, and being unhurt, loudly ex
pressed hi* surprise: •'Will daroed toiog
aiat |> 7
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VOL. XXII 1.-fi u’MBER 10.
Freedom of Speech—The Independence of
tie Presa.
The froe and. untramtlcd right to utter and
print our own thoaghts and upinious, has ever
i/v-vvi r. gsrded in this country, ns ne of the moat
iovalunlre righi* of the citk.n, ms well as qne of
ohe im.-h poweifgl- safe guards of national liberty.
\n> attempt 1o abridgeor stifle this right is justly
iisblfi to censure; it is an attack upon that, class of
rights which we hold as inalienable. So well and
thoroughly has this been understood and recog
uiw, that the framrrM of our hVleral and State
constituMons, placed it side by side in importance,
viih the rights of habeas corpus and trial by jury.”
Like all our rights of every dereription, it i liable
u abuse, tut ihis does not make it any the- h-sa
sacred. Among those subjects in reference -to
which tnis riglo is especially aral expr.-Ksiy guar
anteed, is that of the investigation of the conduct
of public officials. The reasons for this care and
jealousy in the preservation of the freedom of
speech and of the press, are so patent that it is
v arct ly necessary io innk>- it a subject for dispute
or argument. As much as it ooncers each pereoo
iii Ine community individually, it concerns him in
finitely more that it should ‘be preserved, when
onsuleteo in his relations to society and govern*
nent. If the tune shall ever come in the history
of ibis Republic, when the finger of an official
shli be placed upou the month of the citizen, and
* free press Bhail be silenced at the nod of the po
tentate, it will have lost its character as a free
country and will take its place among the abso
lute despotisms. Much harm may be done by a
venal and unprincipled press—such is the case,
rfv.u, at this moment iii some parrs of the country
—but it must be met and counteracted by a press
equally free, and devoted to truth and the general
interests of mankind.
These remarks have been elicited by a recent
uvtirrence in our si-ter city of Memphis. A few
days since a communication appeared in the col
mius of trie Kagle & Enquirer, of that city sign
ed, we believe, “A Citizen.” The article refered
‘o the fact of the numerous scenes of blood which
have been enacted in that place, within a few
iionths past, and to the facility wish which the
guilty parlies eluded punishment. Tnere were no
direct imputations cast upon any of the judicial
functionaries, uor upon any other persons. It
-imply deprecated the state of thinpa which un
fortunately existed. For this the judge of the
•Jnmitml Court of Memphis, ordered the grand
iutv to reiurn a bill of indictment against the ed
itors of the Eigle <fc Enquirer, for libel. If this be
the law of the land or the Jaw of libel, we confess
v 5 have w holy mistaken’ the purport of the phrase
•‘Freedom of tbo press.” And if it be true, the
conductors of the press here and elsewhere, had
is well prepare to wind up their affairs, for their
‘occupation’* goued It is to be hoped that the
press will never submit to a deprivation of its
!ca-**si rights—that while it maintains its iudo
i£r'*b rice, it will also sustain its dignity—always
ready to defend the right, and thus attain one of
ihe greatest ends of its existence. —Xoshrills
Patriot. - -
The Model Young Man,
There are uo longer any boys. All are young
rrun from the time they get pockets in their trou
sers until they come home regularly drunk, ac
companied by policemen. They, are, now either
sons of honest wen-—men who constantly add to
the general wealth and prosperity—the men who
ar ti e eujieretructuie and bulwarks of national
drength and progress, or they are the offspring
of brvfci-rs, n:e shavers, money-lenders, pawn
brokers or hankers. In the former case, the mod
el young man is utterly ashamed of his father and
mother, and entirely ignores the “old man” and.
“old woman” on every occasion. On the contrary
the latter proclaims h "governor* sind “bis lady”
loud-mouthed to the world, and he is known by
young ladies as the son of the wealthy banker
who keeps them gilt balls hanging over his door
for ornament, and who ie a delightful young man,
drinking and gambling regularly, and an only
scq. The model young man finishes his educa
tion when ho can manages g’ase of brandy with
out winking, and when he can tell at once, with a
-muck of his lips, whether that liquor has been
“doctored.” His conversation is mainly in regard
o hia ow n varied hair and his expectations. His
tmbitiou is confined to making a “carom” at bil
liards, by “taking” kix cushions, and to being con
nected with subscription parties, which are entire
ly select, and at which all the model young men
consider it necessary to get drunk, ae a mark of
rannhooi. The model young man lies abed io
the morning, and has contraband bottles of Con
gress water in his apartment, mingled with bot
tles of whiskey—the ‘‘rale mountain dew ” He
gets his breakfast at the restaurant, where he has
a large bill, and bogs money of his mother to sat
isfy his creditors. He spends his time pretending
huainesM, through the day. He is acquainted
personally with the degraded women of the town,
and goes to parties in the evening steaming with
“coffee loyal” and debauchery. He lives on ex
pectantly, daily creat’ng debts to lie settled at the
“old man’s” death; and finally, should the “old
man” prove rather healthy and rugged, he com
plains of the tediousnese of time, and of the
meanness of the “old man,” who tenaciously
clings to life for the purpose of keeping a modal
young man in trouble and debt. He is general
ly nt the billiard room when the old man is at nia
last gasp, and arrives in time to attend the fun
eral in black kids and crocodile tears, and with
mu Inward feeling of joy and exultation awaits the
reading of the last will and testament. He *
the “old woman” die without a pang, and add*
the “old wo.. mo’s” dower to hie own portido, with
satisfaction. He live* a martyr to
fast horses and a ruiued constitution ; to
which be is powerless to satisfy, and dies where
hie ancestors first commenced business with a bag
aud ho-.k —*’ the gaiter.—Buffalo Republic.
—l*-: -a# • 4 • . *>
jpar A Quaker l*ein/**kVd his opinion of phre
nology, replied jpndign uidy, “Friends, there can be
no good iu a mwm* that stripe Is Q|| (q U^M
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