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Bowdox, ( nrrriJl] ccun'y Ga.,
, r 4th IdoT.
Mr. Editor:—A few items wi h regard to the
prospects >A Ttmpei'ance in tits q art or niav lfoi
be uoatoep a bas pews, and 1 propane to,giv>
you the facts in the case of a reform *t ry move
merit which h.-ts 1.-.t-1/ taken place in our wddf’.
But,ju the p-ici from wStgfi f write, lib .do?,
rosy not be mM kuowa t y-a au ! y >ur reader
allow me to mike a lev reniuks w regard to <u
locale. ‘
Bvjvrdon is one of these numerous Htt’e ftffr’fi®
in Geofgi.i which have .sprung up in a tLy, bVt
theciaz?ns are endewvr ng to t .ke such sh-p
that its existence may be far from ephtwi'raj.—
Prominent among tbs objects upon which the
seem to have set tlnur hearts are the fo’fewwg
two, 1. The r rgii. Ziition an i |Kru.; r.fsit C'iab
liahnent of a Hiyh Uchool ; 2. The suppreis’ =:,
of all liquor traffic wi.hiu a certain distance, oi the
School.
With regard to the first of ihese o’j ‘c's, it m
be sai 1 thauthey have succeeded ; aud t *ey i.ovv
rej ice iu beiug ab eto educate thair uh idre;i
home, and to off rto other co mn .in ties such ra
du.emen.s iu the shape of thorough instruction;
clie-qi board and-gout heal h ,jis to, d/aw'’ ipuc
patronage from abroad t * CAleymit iu;
stitution, Permit a rmnlc cr two here with
regard to this In>t?t<Jtion. bom-* person*-<>pi*osed
to its prosperity and to that of Dow dpi-, h:c and,
witli uo ii.tie zed, in ins trio isly circulate 1 jvpor s
injurious to its stab lity. Bi.t. I have au.huii y
for saying, that the te opor.nry embarrassment un
der which it has laborc i, has btna entirety re
moved by the ge serous l.b/r.t ity of a few of the
citizens, and that it is. now iolabishei upon a
fixed and pennanteiitso iu
the advantages’ a'rea ly ee.mwrste ! and of a l ug.-
ani well assortel Pliiibs&fhkot and Ckfonicil
Apparatus, t &drv*yUj aud. iny Inifru
menU } it b.ds lair to boa source of iig.?t ,aud
kaoeiecige to lUU sectiou Os tqcorgia ami to, the
adjoining uouudoa of Aubaiua, *oo mole hi.-.”
But-what ot this, and wloti has tl t> do wok a
‘•Temperance ttecieaU” Evir.y .thiug,. iu cc
izeus of Ddwdou, and the bieunly ge .erady a? ;
and have been lor some dike past, CtfmTg'terkpeE
anew men ; and .they have associated'. LiemseiVtA
togoUitr for the,j>urpooe, ohc/f iy ug ouc m v ro
ficientiy their ide.vs uu. tUu Li re.ta-.
iug the richuol, upon .winch bk their hopes lor u
protptrity of the plate rest-, horn too ..v,ut ..u
ing miiucuce wielied by tiro rettii of spirituous
iiquoib iu its immediate Ltighborhoott. due Cohi
munity hits bech anxious- to the inifiaovt
slepia ikis mutter lor souie iiae pastainl whi.si
iu ibis happy stale of iufdd, Ciiclc i? ibaey,” ia<
great, Apostte, cf ieiuperaaye, paid us'a” vic.ti—
lie tdCiUre.d, auU proposed to oi.g uuzc a Lbvi./o.•
ot Ike £>oito Oi .lsmpei auCsi. v fih, pl'uposi.l .'U ‘was
hailed hk pteasore and a iiou.uui..g liv>eioti i-i
sixty three membvts, teeu in ou.
midst.
but thecit z ns have gone a skp faithey. A
citizen’s meed g was caiied to’ take iut j cousaieai
tion the dcieter.ous indakuko txcitevi upon ti:
niatertai j rdqsef.ty of thd p ack iy ‘tii# leUi.'oi
sp.rttouUa hquors ; aud it v> as lesoive i to- Uiclair
ali/rs the UexL LcgLialUie uk the ou.j cu aiso pra
lor tue supp.eoSiou ui lue.i <iu-.r .r.tuic ivtuisa o.
tain ti.iu.s, ike set, i> paooek, vv.. iliv.
retail oi hqaors in ad.str.e. A cjuntry A one in k
tod a qiulter north au 1 tou.h, by io auu a ii ;i
mdes e-at and west. Wi 1 u-t the fidftds v
Tempbr.vkc ~ 010 aii y and and He i o ion wh -aid
io Ike fivXl L. gisialu- c,. assist iu til sefuQ pi i.>e I
. j . 1 oUia Oi:,
m . . j. U. ii.
For tl*
M Lifctle AddiE Tap JruAkard s CAiid
: * - fc , V'. • * *•••„-% - .. E A . “
Mr. a-td Mis. iiiu.-fc,'cf go>
W—— —and ut le Add t, ■* bo.tu tiX:\tiiid osiou j
or site vearjj, mas b ueews go.w.tk vii^m.
Mr.— -■*—was ui.e ol th -C'E ud .f men ol v;hqi;
It is aaid,- They never tad’ to go. drunk wkc.i tue
Cau get any tii.ug to get drunk on,” and li.t e
Adda. WeU knew t pr p u ; y.
■- lhe prior day on which -t’u \
were to go wW i
the parlor her and a>.d ■ t.,i y w.
talking of their e.vpjcted tup to <.h tit
morrow.’ Near by saW^— ly uu
observed by the. her and iugiitef, wiie*
li tie Adda ask<d p *Jda, yihu’d
“Wby, pq” r. plied hef/rii. ¥# im+tUu*ui
tie Adda sit motioriless, .as if in Thought:
during which time Vfirfcjtts einoJoua mMo thoi:
signs on he courttcUatica. oVi.tbough,- *u-KLi.jC
f raising bead an#-looking wLuinAy In tht
face of her ms,’ she said, b.-ieechingFy : ’dir n* v
*ma; don’t let pa drive—*you drive. JeH
druuk, tod do so nd/ghty autEb.id, uia :—0 i m.* !
Ohma! I waut you to drive.” “vYu iAs tht..
miss f M interrupted the father. ‘'Shut up yom
ou*h, you little IruiP but his bear: checke r
Km—h eompunc.ioks won Ui go to
farther. Ido not know w qret
or what he dreamed of that nLh?j bu*i tfie uex
day, when they had accotnpl.shed the obj-ict ot
tWr*M Wmu m strua bSkt*
< i,; h: ; /; i* VV-j-W—'ll
1 r nv
lAnt is the place we hyt^impjl
my .doar;” the mother “It is mat 1
didn’t latpw it. I thdbg. f t'tey had dram ihe:e:
s ii* Adda.- ‘• Wril they have;” returned the
inoMu. “They .Lavel” exeiH'tnei -Add;, with
muc.!-u-p*Ee in her tone, at the-eame lime cast-
itr cfjicjrpa, vbo
w is comp’e'viy conf>uhdectT>y hi r queries, thongU.
quite soberyanA die now got, added-no
iiule to “Why, • oentinued
the litue iri; ‘-pa is not drunk 1” Then .clasp
• jL y. p Uf r ..Air i^c 11e sat
Ja die Lot ofithe buggy—excia'ipdl/dTecdeu
a eiy. “Oh my pa! pa-!^■,JVly.good pa
has been td AV —arid, nerfc got drank*
Id ; not preform to snv thald have reiate.i this
■ exactly as it wok pbic ■; but, as nearly as possible,
i lie substance ipthe same.
I d.> not know that Mr.-r -has reformed
but I cannot iielpjboiieyjng thst lie i- convinced
rif k>’iy and wiekedSieiS of ‘dFankenoess.—
It the, p .’rsu isive eloquence of his own ieaocent
added t) the pious ex?imp'e of bis Wife,
hs f A ;-d to convince him, what can? Is auy
argument left, siro#gec, or more. c;c.bL, that can
be u ; ged t> rescue hi in \ I answer in the nega
tiv-rt—j-uotliiitg’ cao. 11/would hot &3 convinced
though one siiould rise frum the dead. But’ ae
Isad, I be ieve be is eoavitped. How could ho
ii-’p it? But, alas 1 tie miy d*i as many dv*;
• far,’ beydad doubt, miny are convinced who do
ii t /urn. Many, ftiu wou-d never touch the
pq.awiious cup ags ii; Lit they are too weak to
resist the tempi aion. It see ns more than tiioy
c tnbfo, to tmtangfe taeir set from the net in
wi.icq tli'.-y bpisn c u*gh t. Courage and
sh..me have bqt‘,l been urown-d in the'dejgradiag
ierayua, tis i.iofy t iecravingi of a np
ei v, tit-v drink the dreg* .of a dead y vwwui.—
Sup by .-lep/tfwy are ie 1 t > the lowest slate of
■Jt gro.iaii ;u —? heneifs oi poverty, fbAease, remorse,
tn tli m-y and death—an.i u a-,! umy I not ackl.
uie irn.-t'oh —cloftuatim / (at le'Wt uiis is to be
•o.ticd ;) ‘and th-dr fi ni i?s <1 •oraeri to drink the
uit-ei. cyp of sorrow aud mSery and wear the
‘a.teied gnraiei.it.of poverty.*
-Sufeh in ?n {■) vtieed the and their
iwmiliis the prouctidn/tlie law alone can ntford.
I> ar reader:'—press’ you a hear: fur fympa
tuy, a i.eait to pit. ?. Then, does not the ti eol
(>;,i an Lirupy burn, and die .qiirit of true puriot
i-m, urge you to fciiet'geiic a.tioa iu the temper
aace’ c.ushg to bAioi 1 the drunkeoness of our
country and the giganto sum of misery aud woe
b costs, besides liie enormoui expense ii, is to the
Stae.
L ,ok at the hagard face of the drunkard, and
the wre.ched h um; of his family, and do them a
ch tii y. lli xh to the teui[>f ranee ear. Ue your
ahoA influence kirThegoid of the cause; and il
you are a vote for prohibition ecery chance.
La g og vend ug demons raise the cry, of -‘.crA
iberb.es; - ’ bat let--te.-operanoe men enite to strike
h.rVke .r>er|y, he3 Hess of ill .ir cry—to
ho propyf. iaw from uod.r i!iy hell is a monopoly
that, baghts our c .-uniry s hope.
God send spee iits Lucd <y, whec all ehrriten
ioai'Mi ,ii deny th s bftrtering in the happiness,
nivs an i soil's of i.ntni; when the church, hi rayed
utiier rpo iess lobe, siirtll frown upon it, and en
s:..unp on it die stiai of h_<r auatiitnua. Tueu wilt
tne eart i io ceieura.e iter jub.ic*. d’lieii
a iil tt.e IhuA of dep-ri6'.l saint?, ivj ucicg, slug the
y.n.is of their thauiis gi ring as they bow abound
t.ie thione oifiyU; aun the va t hcidsof he •veil
p.ug wall the tcho.oi angeuc A mens.
the ibi. 1867; I’.
Putnam Etds 8 visit to Areensboi o’.
M\t. EfuiOji:—Tin) dull monotony of our city ,
was coiisioei'a.-ly eiil.veued n tew days siuca, by
a viai. bfoiii :ho l'a.uam ifid.s. For several days
).r b.reci* presented quite air try .qipd/r tnc/
du> sound of the drum and “soul stirring life,”
uuuos u.a.i uir to us in days “laeg syue’’ once
uoi'e greeted yur. Oars most picnsaiiily aud agreea
■ i y.
T.iis'v >1 m-ejr corps is tru.y an honor ..to -our
-g ~c ( .V.. Ui . UCi o<V :CJ li i.l / u )VSI: 3,) IS CO il -
u tiida.i ay w qi., on frxttu f ii, a q ni <i
jers ajo i. for y rank and file, at least this was
YWdt tie iu nocr who viatei u*. this be.utii'ul
co up.t iy with ;t if i u o'i oig•/igd w >g jus number*
.ug s Mile ten o: it dxjjpi .u .fdudi hi.o our ci y,
>. vV d/jo.dvy eyc i.dg to tho q*s triers n-.-
; ig ; cd them by the comuituej of ,rru igc.ueats,-
.ni pi.c'i :*i t Mir.o us on . o jiuuui. pat of ground
tear to j/*ie ig ibli. i>pr-n'g of w.*tfer. Tue day af
•ef uicn- am. u. (iAur.-d yt a p.ihad recep ioh took
y.aO jat :.jo UuUi jit >u>j y u,r.i (V. 4% grtcj.i by
do ouJtif a i td a. >u at oar city, tha y room
. ti-ga ,iJ s./ofid'j, was ■'deunJLj crojyl A. P. i> ‘
.i/jius j.i, esq. ; m the pa.t of tue cdy authoritids
u l c.uzjus a a ttiJt-4 a .1 .c i u 5 aJ thuder
• i to ui-Ji .ue io* u i.w ,oy r .if)Ur.u ; ;
‘e ij oi'a too i m.oiuhF du.iuj tao.r so
, <i uWiJi u•; 0 i A ) ~v ii. aHia i a m a foou .g hiju
i-qu.-ut niduucr rauinel hi* ack.fowiedgeiueuU
or 1 i<j- tu-ior 1 iUa cx.tijij jto Uio.u. Fi-w<JUvu*m
t-i ihgiw ?*>>3’3-jjl hj w ti truly tiojaent ocyecud,^
lieu lie b.'ofttjT'it; to tin leJoHeifUou otiii£> audtto
youiixs'iod:uiii'f fjfftiur sco ici >$ oonneo.ei with
Hit ivvo.u IIj was rijituroaiiv
pwud and ur >ugiiout.
:V! 11-3 c >.i sj -u loi tile ‘.ere no lias at the court
..‘use, aa i iarrng iti jir suy id o.ur c dy t.Lie com*
p.uiy ’ j ‘-j-ucaii i a v'i: i£fr/ o. evuta .ion fut a lam
tua. f^ii<iy - teio:i,ta .ut tiii itfjfafftt ‘fetiti, evi
teacny to u tu it togy ini o<s.jj tkoroujhly
jt m ?tii ta it J.; tiw of ar v
i. a.iV-h a- pio-iiare to .-it te -that tiiotr
jriitt t> j-iinvu oar fillthr. their g-iuiemiu y do
jortuiuui, ud ioiiior ilkj bjuiog Won tor taein
He nprobatoa at lim e.ttire Ou
lit ly a o )tnp;iidbatary dinner wwgivou them •.
\v Llotei to wiii j 1 - HfH jl© j cisttce was done
>y a.* waoparioujk'. * * ‘ fr#, mm M j 24fcft
“‘■ MM£ ou.tcr, uoorgo O. Dwaton Esq in h
l>< : r'-itionUiHDUor ■ tuauej tlie company foi
liJ }j e.t .are the r visit hii aif>rd<Ki iw, wihiog
>csie ie.,uri to.ileiflj >ities. lbe Hide* uieu took up
‘she Hue 01' uisreb lor Putnam, escorted out ot'The
J y by A number of our citizen* h®ttl#3 by CoI.
Wi**.9m. w, i*,.* Mu**. w
cd that (.’ pa?tei .*si.h tltem “more in
jnun'na that vH&shull nuet
: ~ y *” ‘ -’* - ‘7 v. .
ayuoi—so mete tU.
tTy 08EENE,
Oct mh mi;
iJf J- ,[oOJfiMrNICATEO.|
Lock cut .Candidates.
Mr. Editor :hTn'resumtfi^the of the panto
indite dbe eventful history of the pad week, we feel
almost like our lsd did when shes
Icon, 71 only a little more so. Great gracious good ness!
your get ifig married aint bd whar in scraps oi a
stolry like the one us has on hand. It is now use
for our boy A tgfe .pjafce jpeeches U Uunckham
Its guiiue to be told, if I dyes in ‘iT,‘ beka?e I never
rides without pay. Mrs. Curiosity Would venter
to say, ’ ‘‘ If Throve a spike team, and ufideriu.k
to go down'Tiiil was jus as sure to git throwel ae
staters
ground fence I caucbt this /aaf—“ iaters made
leer ” —and raie'ng iny head suddenly, fuucd
very amiable an 1 veritable creature, who uncon
sciously continued, ”Is that you, Mr, ——f
Good morniug. I never sead such folks as you
candidates; its fust one and then toilier komea by
my house. On the America or Democrat.tick t T
“ Not on either,” Ir.pi el, and suggesting that
she might be m'stakea, remarked, * lam no can
didate.” “ Oh, sur,” said she, “you mout some,
but you kar.t fool me. I knows you—shew —
shsw—that ar tame hawk-sn. w —thcw-I and j de
ciar—if I ever did—shew—shew—see such folks !
My chickens this year is every one worth—good
gracious! Billy keep the dogs off the churn —fif-
teen cents. “Oi eof three candidates and noth
ing short for the Legislature.”
MRS. OVID,
From the Boetoa Advertise*’.
Extract From Mr. Oration.
The Ocean Teleyraph and the Poem # of Homer.
The oration delivered by lion. Edward Everett, a-
St. Leo is, on t h j occasion ot tbeioiugur-iri jci of the
Was!j > Hig’.o!i Univeraiiy of the Siate of Missouri ol
wh ch the m tteri .1 parts were repeated at Oam*
Ini bgyirt the address before ths Alum ii Associa
ion of ll itv ird O .diege, is uow in the press o?
Mea-rs. Litile, Brown dc Cos. VVe ara graiitied to
be able to lay before our readers this morning iu
•advance ot its publ ettiou, an extract ma<le tri m
.he proof sheets, and have select and for this pur
pose, as possesring a peculiar intere-t at the pres
cut moment the beautiful passage, in wmcti ih
wonders of the ocean reiegrapi are ocupared with
the wonders ot language, a* iiitts ratjd by the
jres rvation of the pjetns of Homer uucmg thirty
centuries.
Extract from the Oration.
Sgglijs language, die representative off bought.
Dwell upon it, I jr.y you, a moment longer; it
is a great mystcy of our being. By the use of a
tew written or punted lines on ja|>er, so like each
other, that, iu laiiguages wi.h which we ar<; ut.fa
n.iiiar,—wiaiess a Mxlay or a Jap inss man user p
—Uiei'c seems sc.*ruj auy difference b-twe*n them;
this unseen, intangible, my-teii..us mental entee .ce
compared with wht h a perfum j, sound, a lunar
m gross aid mttend, expresses itseif to
toe eye ; by the gmtle impaLe, tlie soft vibr i
liuns, whidi the bps impart t the elastic air it ex
presses i:se fto the ear. To give the spoken word
duration. I translate it into written character:—
:o give the written sign a vital emphasis, I tr*ns
ate it i.t vo/d spcstii. By oio dvi n art, hj
dead Later c purged w th a liv ug in janiu/, souu ;
Uirough echoing hails, and wiua or storms is
way to sy.np hearts ; by ano her, the lieet
ing vv iVeie.s of the air are c.ystaliiz and into a most
iaaiveious permauenee, and become imperi-ha -le
getns of .bought, wiit>e lus're no lapse of trine
can obscure ; wai’o, by the union of both, this in
co.nprcheasib'e b)iog, die uuind, gen.ly woosd from
he veauii chambers f our inmost nature, comes
lorik (ike a bride ad rtied for hf lordly r-pouse.
the w<ord ; cUd in ihe rich of coiirersa
iioii, or argmo ait, ofyl-jq'ie ic *, of pie ry. of so i*;
to walk wi h hi u the busy or the secluded pa h.>
of. life; to instruct auJ del g'lt the living genera
im ; ethei-eil essnues as til-y are. to ou.iive col
omas of bra sand pyrami is of grmite ; an 1 to
(iesceud iu eternal youth the unending highways
of tiie ages.
Does it seam much that the skdl of men has. in
these safter and iys, contrived the mea ts ol commu
moating in.e.l'gia*:e abn >st wiih tie rapi li-y of
tiioughi, across tiie expanse of contiueati an 1 bj
*ie:iti tbe depth of ocenns by the electric wire \
Fn tt a message desp itched from Boston at m a
nd wi.! so tar outtr.vei the sun to re<*ch St Louis
an oour fojfore lu a r.ves a: the meridian ? It is
‘oiuch, and we contemplate with just airuzemen
the woiidorful apparatus which, when laid down
as sooner or iafcer it perhaps will be, so a* to coa
rroct the three c -nti items, ra ty, by poss bilrty, send
the beginrtiag of su m a roir.eacj as Ia a now
pronouncing arou ul ths terraq leous g übo a?id re
:urn it to the iips of the speaker, b, fjre he had
completed its iterance. But th s amiz ng appi*
ratus is but an .tiler form 'Language ;it transmit
•ute licence only as i. ira ismics words. It is nke
speech, l.ke the p n, like ths p?e>s, an uher piece
of in ichitiery iy which language .s cotiv* ,> ed fiom
place to piace.- The ready womierfai thing is lan
guage itself, by which thong it is made seudb e
tad communicated boui uii.id tomi id, not ooiy
in the great living cmgrega io of the civi 15-
ed world for the taae being, but through the v*
gcneiai ?tsscmbly of die by which we are a*
0, > at this m uot uciy to listen to all the
gie-t mteraoces wbieh the thoughts and
of the preoeai d*y ilm.u ut the worid
Ut t'Hwar w.tii Ail t •) to the green iietis of i* :r
----t l.se ia the morning of crea ioti, to do ceo 1 with
ld.mtd to the de.ptiia of panat woe; to listen :o the
LUUiiders of Tuiiy and Djiuostho ies, a id, by th;
golUt-w chain ot etymo-ogy, trace the alfi uit) and
JCBCeut of uations b*ck, tar mgh. the l
the past, ab to the c.ad eof the race.
1 ho:U in nuy ban 1 a porno 1 of the identic tl e
•ectricai cb;e g veu me by my friend, Mr. i\a
body, wtiic.i is i.ow* in progress of manufacture,
to comie-et A nerica wiih Europe, i read upon it
the following, word?. “A par„ of the subm uius
jkc.riu telegraph catde, uiauufac ured by Messrs.
Glass Sc Go., in London, lor die Atlantic telegraph
Gompaiiy, to connect Sc. Julius, Newi'oun iiand,
with valemi 4, Ireland, a distance of sixteen hun
dred aud forty nautical, or nineteen hundred stat
•ne miles.” T>oes it seem all but iuc/edible to you
that. mteili| ; ence should tiavel for two.ihousaud
miles, along riioae s.eu ler copper wires, tar d>wn
m the all but fathomless Atlantic, never before
penetrated by aught pertaining to humanity, save
when aome foundering vessel has plunged with
her hapless company to the eternal sileuce an i
4arkrteiß of the afova* ? Dots it scan, Is .y, ail but
a miracle art, that the thoug ita ot l.viog man,—
the thoughts that we tiiink up here on the earth’s
HirfacA 10 the cheerful light of day,— about the
rinatkcL and and the seasons, and th**
elections; tod the treaties, and the wars, and all
the’ foiidilfWtfcmgir ‘of daily life should clothe
: hemselve* with element 1 iptrhs, and shoot with
tmm4 twW^iw4#
■y% from hemisphere to hemisphere for dowm *%<
tnong the u'jccuui moastcrs tiit'.t fallow in tue
miw s**, &;oiig P. i7 *L* u3r T^F',
:Hsi iiA-ldgenveof the wifostt dancing tas
sel will in a tew months be coquetting with the
#eet wind an these boundless pra : rea should g°
Sashing along the shiny decks of old sunken g:;l
----eon's which have rotted for ages ; that messages
of friendship acd love fro”- warm lying bosoms
should burn over the cold green bones of men and
women, whose hearts once as warm as ours, burst
as the eternal gulf closed and roared over them,
centuries ago I Behold another phenomenon of a
■‘•orety act less surprising;—-an ic teiiectuai elect ric
te egrapfa,-—if I may so cail it- rot lesa marvel
obi. The little volume which f hold in my hand
contains the immortal poems of Homer, those
world-renowned strains wh ch on 9 of the imperial
minds of our race, not far from thirty centuries h
go, poured forth in the deiglted ears of heroic
Greece, while the softest down ol youth was upon
the cheek of its young nationality,—those glowing
golden legends,—that sovereign wrath of Achillas
which
shall burn unquenchably.
Until the eternal doom snail be,—
the parting of Hector an 1 An Iromacho-s scene of
which the sad experience of three thousand year.-*
eould not add one image of teaderasss and sor
row ; the threats of Ju r iier to the awe-*fruck gods,
while every peak of Olympus was ablaze with bis
leaping thunders ; the piteous supplications of *•
gel i'liamkissing the haul and bulling with bi
tears the fe t of the cruel chief aiu, who had Ur ig
ged the torn bo ‘p of hia noble son three time.’
round the Bian walls ; the weary and sorrowful
warnings of U yses, w Licit every subsequent -••g-’ ot
mankind has retrtc*<l with iL-ligii,these all
ike Use cunningly imprisoned a.rs of a musical
box, breathe to us in one perennial strain (4 me!
ody trout within the covers of this small volume.
By the simple agency of tweuty four 1 ttle mark*
stamped on Uie written or the primed page, ib
ou mortal legend has flashe 1 down to us through
the vicdtad*.Bof empr*B and erasacross the
vast expanse of eoiig >tened an i b*nig’ited periods
of history ; from region to reghm, from his own
rocky islet to shxes unknown, urdreun
elof by him ; —beneath the overwhelming bil
lows f thr~e Uioustnd years, where p *ple whole
have sunk ; and now it b uds ingtibw. by the
golden wires <*f in f ellct and ta>te, the minds of
Europe ud America ; at ths merdi tn (4 tbefo
r fi leme it wiih the mind of every intervening age
fli erary culture back to the cradle nfiefoni
Gr-ece. And while, ut our pi sees of educ -tit >n we
diligeo ly investigate the wonderful proper,ies ot
matter developed iu the I*henomina of Um physi
cal world, shall wa not, ray frnn is, deem por
tion (for time and attention wed bestowed up
<>n the miracles if the world, written and ap'ke-i,
the pben anena if language, which lie at the fou",-
iation of all our intellectual improvttnen’ v, of all
oui literature and sei nee ; in a word, of all ra
(ions) comuiuaicatioe between man aud man.
* April 22, 1827.
WHO BUILT BALBKC ?
Lamartine hs he fallowing speculation io re
ply to tins qnesti*n :—lt is alleged that not for
from Balbec. in a val *-y of the Autiiibanus, hu
man boi-es of immerse magnitude have ben
found. Oriental tradi j< us, and tie monuuuut
erected on what is call'd the Tomb of Noah, i. a*-k
this -p■ t as die dwelling p ! ace of the patriarch.—
Toe iiist genera* ion of his deceodauts probably
lug retai te t the gg.otic stature and streng L
assigned to man. be ore the total or partial
mersion of th* gl ;be. These monuments may be
their work. Even supposing that the human race
had never exceeded its present proportions, it i>
possible that the properties of human ioteliig -nces
may have untforg >ne a change. Who can say
lui taat primitive intelligence might have moved
masses which an army of oue hundred thousand
men could fc ireely shake ? Be this as it my,
it is certain that some of the stones at Ba bee
which ars : xty feet long, twenty broad, and fif
teen feet thick, are the most prodigious masse*
which hive ever been moved by butuvu i>ower. —
The forge stones in the pyami is of Egypt do
not exceed eighteen feet; and these are only ex
cep;tonal bl. cks, placed for the sake of peculiar
.‘oddity in some paits of the edifice.— Tmb's Cu
riosities of History.
A Regular Jack Shkpi’xrd. —A robbery was
perpe uaUd at the Jarre it. House, Bt. Anthony, o i
1 hursd iy night, whi.h in boldness eclipses any
similar enterprise of modern times. CU. H.
VVilt*e, hearing so nebody knocking around in
he hsli ner his room at an unreasonable hou .
old suspecting it in ght be some vidian who mean’
to rob him, ros-* from his bed, fixed the door of
i.is rtvim open, got his brace of pi.-tol* and pre
pared them for an ••emergency,” and then sat
down on the b id towa t for the anticipated scamp
io pre-e t him elf. Iu thi- (KMi.ion he fei. asie<-p !
and while enjoying a perpendicular dream (pr,b
ab’y of a robxr wmhing with a bullet in his thor
x) the ungraeful and me msid ra e vagabond
toresaid w dked ii to the room through the ope;i
door, help ed nimsdf ta new dress (x>at, two pair
of pan;a ! oons, and a vest, and pocketed six d-JUr-.
and sis y cents in money, deliberately became an
a c omplied of pria rastiuatiou, (he .bbf of ! ime,)
by s eai.ng a valuable gold wa,ch, to A the gold
studs out of the shirt of the slumberer, acd r !u -
t uitly departed I Mr. W. woke just m time to
fi and his victim vam><stai, and minus pr p
rty to tlte auaouu; of three or four hun ired.doi
lar.s. In fact aimoet everything in thy room had
•gone oft,” except his faithful pistols, wh ch were
firmly g aaped iu eittnr hand ready capped and
cocked ! The tu; ny gentlamau with the dark
anteru hia not boe.i • euor beard of since.
i,. —* mm
Unfortunate Affair. —It bee mea oar duty t
chronicle a sad *tfa r, which occurred ia our tow*.
uteri ay. A difficulty took pUte in one of th
bar-rooms in this p •, totwten three men, nameo
Am. Goodman, of Ciay oounty, J. Leo, and t n
whose name we di I not learn, in which Lee re
ceived ihreo stabs at the haqda of Goodman. —
VVi.i e o-aidnciing Goodma i to the Council Cham
ber, he disengaged himself from the officers and
stepped up to Mr. Love t Blown, who wh* stand
ing ;n the crowd, with a pocket knife in Lis hand
wiiitlmg. Goodman asked Brown his name.—
Brown replied that it was i.one of bis business,
whereupon Goodman gave Biown i*low in the
breast. Brown threw up hi* ielt hand in which
whs Ins knife, ad Goodman received a wound it
he neck, severing the carotid artery ,'from which he
died iu a short time. The Coroner’s jury returned
a verdict that Goodman came to his death Iron.’
the effects of a wouud indicted by a sharp pointed
inssrumeut, in the ha ids ot L. Brown. Brown
wvs in custody, twit has siuce made bis escape. —
Goodman was in hquor at the t'oae. Brown has
ilways borne an excellent character in our com
uiunity.—Cut h fort (ffa.) Reporter, Sep. 20.
BccswnßAT.--Th€ Columbia (Pa ) Democrat says
is a very large crop of this excellent grain in
the country this year, and, what ia better, that it is
a full yield, and ill be in great abundance.
r— m*~
gy Since the monetary ptoc commenced, with
the failure of the Ohio Life and Tniat Company,
there hive bien the hundred and two bust*!** fi.
’ urea, auapendema, (a HewVav|t iid (Wy
C|c Ccmjrenmff (LntsaDcr.
~.. u■ T-t.
PENFIEr OECmOIA.
Thursday aiiraiaj, Ojta’jjr 22, 1857.
The Annual Session of the Grand
Division of the Sons ot Temperance,
far the year will be held at
Bethanny Camp Ground. Jefferson
County, commencing on the fourth
Wednesday in October next. The
Camp-Ground is wtthm three-fourths
of a mile of the Centrai Rail Road,
the place for getting of!*, is at Griffins,
the 197 mile post, where Delegates
may expect to find conveyance for
their accommodation.
Baldwin Raifbrd Division held at
that place have made ample arrange
ments tor the accommodation ot all
Delegates who may attend. The
meeting is looked forward to with
much interest, and it is hoped that no
Division in the State will fail to be
represented, the officers ot the Grand
Division art; all expected to be pres
enk
-
How do you expact a mar. who h-isj'iat raim wt
,i wife io write editorials f>r s new-ptpv? f
ilur p*r. pere(pt*>rii> r refuses to scraUh as- 1 ■ b!e,
save ibe musical u&iue of our “riveotly a.mlicg.’
God baa writtoo on the tiovers th%t s veeten the
n’r —u}>on the bn? zs that rcka th fi v.vtra up
tho btera —upon the ra ti drops that refreshen the
-jwiiig of iHOti.3 that lifid itri head in the desert —up >i;
tts deep chucbera —up or. every {>ei;ciied tha’-
sleep* iu the caversi of the drop, co less than upoi
the might? sun that warms and cheer a millions 1
creatures whteh life w hg A —upo >ad t-ia works
ne haa wriiton, *• None Uvx-tb tii neU. M
Don’t fret and worry b‘cause you are not as ri-b
as your neighbor. Tne richest uan aiive only gel>.
nis victails and clothes as a recompense lor ail
tiie c*re jind troubio he ins wit-i ins riches, it.’
member | Dives died; and so w.b the. isimot wealth
tivday, Go Jo fiia giMVu fifty years hence, and, in
all probabifi'y, you will ft 4 curly unled pvs
rooting up the grieh t*o-t beneath wfiigb 4ia dumb
ling dust hea fo>'gollen.
EJF* An Eistern editor heads his list of bi tbs,
Marriages and Deaths, thus; •'Hatched, “Matched
ami patched.” Ihe rascal’s lace deserves io be
•‘iwwatched.'’
• •***■
David Wiiiwrn toM ***** i# Grayson county
VV, for the murder of bis daughter, ek-‘>e£ yoais |
of ag.‘, bv burning his c*u house iu wbi 1 h thepnild
was
or THR Panic.— A despatch frota Bos
ton *ny# fiamuei A. Kiiot, ot that city,
bvc< ul& * taktu to the Im-aot
Hosod-l Mi hatuiftai, W oi iue K-ss o.
the whole b;a caiat© t>> t V *a*‘4*V ** Jiia ‘ b
it t. o.
JVr VVI .am C* wh*.ius o’ M.u.c-.* Oonn .
who hwr jl ay me U- - l - r ” r ’*
,KRi', u.io cjuuitfi! u a oaxu -* * -> i -* oi
to >er -i
lur. U ;\e Hev-sm'S ok ¥ Haste. —franco,
the Mondeur Vtuicalo, .%.uUuis I,V-'fi,•>**> (tec
if vj.iov*f'da. Alhw’itijt U the present vuOage as
av**r:tgy oi bafr.ls ot wide jer hectare. e taVt <■
tota’-iii 4'd,tvo,UA> barrels, or akoot to barirls li
earn ioliaous r. At *0 tr*.* - i** oariet tm e nine
.rniiid b worth S, Ud,2tH>,oVd xaneeS,
yfiho thunder of ridi and i.a not & lways
beteken * great tho ghi, * !j (’ hi any grand salute is
tired with a biauk eaftridge.
gjy*.Shaiin of po r > -rty <& ai(>*oa>. sa bad as prid.
of vveiiiih.
23t?° A gentleman, who recent./ out up at a Ibo
tavern in iViscousm, was awtikc-ned oy a young iuat>
who commenced a gruadJ tans;
Ott, SaiUe Rice,
i% oxi cd jou twice.
And yet you tfo and snore!
i pray you wake,
Aud sea ytur Jake;
Aud open to h iu tun uuor <v
window, I d'P.'t care which, for-
U makes bur. .itUe u Udrence
io cither you or i
Big pig, hide p £,
Jtux>t nog, or die.
- A Brace of CvMpontiu ‘i*. —A distinguished
Georgia lawyer ?a)o that in id- younger days he
aught a b y’s school, and requiting tno pup is to
wruj compos.lions, he soiuetinies leceiVea sume
ot a very peculiar sort, oi wtiefi the foiL-wiug ia a
suecinieii;
On Industry — lt is bad or air, sn to bu idol
iudustt y is me best tiling a uian c.ia have, and a
wife iiLiio ilex’, and kings have uer
ed it long, asu died without tuv >ttn, ain
Eud. *
Hrtu ia another:
On the Reasons. —Tht*ro arc four seasons——
-priiig, summer, au.umti aud w.i.ter. 1 ucy aie
ah pi auiiil. ty-jiue like sprmg ins t; but as to*
me, give me li"ei ty or give me death. Ibe Bad.
Tas Lessons o? Lirs. —A cheerful old gentleman,
oeitww*u e g .it> a.ni i.ioety years “Id, was in uu.
tiice tiie oiiicr d*y, add in the course ut toe coat wt
uakid aiai w bat was tne principal practical lemons,
it- uacicuiritvi in Jiirf pruli actao life? ~aici he :
••ifte essence of w mat i nave iearn* and use ties me
1,0 Uugft 'wi.cn i car, HU cry w ben s tauot. I Uavt
.earned also to !*care of iticiers>uig. i y man w„o
uvttuwu vndorsmg u * u.-ned tens oi t‘iuunanua m
maineaa men. Aty principal luwmjs were caused by
iticmpimg to ttcip uiuwt. (1 a.;y
uuiueatd you tor aid, the true court* is to bit nun
iu tail til St, if !au Ue ius, you wiu U.; ip nan
after bis lauure, and riot fcefo.e.
•‘iln# course lor an vutbarrassed man is to stop
payment prom tty. if y*u attempt to i.cp a man
* will hate y ou. Men always bate thea- to whom
aiey are uiiuerobligatioa. Li you expect gtatituue
ou deserve iugratitune, uccordiug to las practical
•ti.iiking ol tutors.'’ .
ims was the experience of an old man, who said
wise, “.me ot Uie principal tilings 1 nave karueJ i ,
nut things in. Ver turu cut so ba l as we Uarud, or so
ood as wo expected. 1 nave ieaiUed to Utwe very
*kww>ly whatever comes aioug ihe wor.tl Keeps
uotig abv/Ut ttiesame, no ms.ter wtik happens. 1 ’
\\ t t tiiougut of ivhut old Grant iuorburu, who is
now iu his mgbty-htta year, alya. Aie says that
.Uv’U hie fools who &r ooutuivuily grumbling over a
‘miserable world.”
“1 have seen as many summers as most men see
m t is world, (this day 1 eutw my eighty -atm year,)
yet i am not tired oi Cue woriu ; suu 1 so will U. ; *-
. en, would live my i.lo over ..gam, w itn ult its joys
.inti sorrows.
“i unnk that Jacob erred when he told Pharoah
.hat ‘lew a.;d evil had been da- aOf his udgruu
•
ige.
‘ i is sixty-three years and six months sinee I
.list saw Now York, coming from the hills of Scot*
and, where 1 was buip In all tha. period, I have
ihiy byen too days confined to my house by ffioanep,
I km shared j the fcwto of kto and the vtotod*
trade, W her. & draft from
U’.ek protested, I rejoiced that itwcusnot a thousand.
If I bru'Sid ruy arm, I thanked G and it waft ,:oc >.
my neck. Iu bmef} of trouble, if w© look cioui.d
We Will see tuiliifibs In a worse cbhdiuon tiaim p%*
ae-vis. Therefore we ought to be thankful.
‘ I new felt a rhf umatic pain. I walked without
a sia'T. I sleep without ro king, and eat my food
without the fce s p of brandy or bitters.’ Mine
tail, bur. this detect is gre tly. mitigated by borrow
ing the voting eyes of my partner for lit-.*. She ia
an excellent reader; is ever ■ y my .side, soothing
aiy path to the banks of Jordan—tae noise of whose
wtob.rs are sounding in m? car.”
-b —-
A Aovantagks.—A woman may
what she likes to you without the rias of getting
knocked down for it
bLe can take & sneeze after dinner, wiu’e her
husband has to go to work. 0
tho can dress herself in neat and tidyalieo<s for
a doilar, which ner husband has to earn aud fora over.
She can go forth into the streets witnout
invited to treat at every coffee house. ,
She can paint hei face if she is too pale, anl Hour
it if t >o red.
She can stay at ho an in time of war and wed a
gain if her husband s bilfod. She can wear corset*
if too thick, other tixins if too thin.
She can eat drink, and be n.c; ry without its coe*- *
ir.g her a cent.
She tan get divorced from ber husband whenever
.slji sees any one .vile tikt?s better.
And she can run into debt all over, until ho warns,
the public by advertisement, not to trust her on
ais account any longer.
Bi>i>
Oratoiiy.—in iookiug over sorno old papers a
day or two since, wo stumbled over tne loHowing
extract Iroin a speech delivered b Henry Clay be
t-re tho students the New Yojk State and Nation
al Law school.
Speaking of the art of extemporaneous speaking
ne said :
*1 owe ray success in life to one iact, viz : that at
ooi ageot 27, ii omuien< ed ad contini.tdfor years
the process of daily reaiiog and apes king upon the
fhnt* nts of some historio.il aid scientific hook
i fuse otf hand efforts were” made sometimes in a
corofie and, at others iu the fort at, and not unlfeqnent*
i) ia seine di-itapt barn, with tlie horse an A ox for
my auditors. It is to tfeia early practice of the great
art of ail arts that 1 aw indebted for tne priuiary
and eaiiing impulses that stimulated iuu forward,
tiid have shapeti and moulded my entire subs, quest
ieauny. Improve, then, young genfiemei), the -su
perior advantage*; you here enjoy. Let nut a day
pass without exercising your powers of speech.—•
t here wno power like that ot orato.y. Ctesar con
< rolled m-thby eg citing the:r fears ; Cicero, by cap
uvaiii gt-.eir afit’ ettous aud swaying tueir paasions.
<he tuU-ience f the one pensiied with ifo itythor j
t.’.ai of the other continued to tuis day.’
♦*— ■ ——
JiiHCSALEH.— l he Jeiu alttu correspomleßt of tho
iioHon Cost, graphically desoabes the ium and des
o.ate cundipon of tue floty City, fie pays :
•‘lhe women, elothtfi from head to ioot iu vvhite
sheet*, With t eir { ices conceded uy fil-tck veils, re
semolmg so many ghoul? jdst i.gjn t o.u ifieir syij.
terranean abodes ; more especially as .hey fuvo 4
gloat fancy for cemeteries, where they daily congre
gate to howl. No sound of youth —the.e aro no
ooys ia the .streets; no sounds of wh&e’s—there art
no carriages; the and igs, mx igy and wultidi, snaii
and snap wf/eu you disturb them in their <A>my w ork
as scavengers, and make the livemug tog it n.djjus
with their contentions; tUo ypry birds uo not niug,
but cry to each other unift $ bh|rp, or
coiupiain w.tu a haish murtuur.
“mom tho horrors of the city, if we pass to the
nvi roils, w e fiud naught but b<re rocks mo 1 id -
stoli.'S and dust betieatu—thy brigfi. bU;i
iroin every obj.ct, bums mio the gra.su,
no trees, ndgrpeq —fne pro.u hades art c me
lA-rieS*— wpitty sepyic. fes. iiue have
oeen b rvd whole gohcratiyps oiciews; hefp pto (iip
ooncsotthe Assyrian, the Esypfi4<b Ltier Oanfo*aa ;
the i'eibiaii, the Greek, the Sy nan, toe .-ornau, ii.
aaraceu, llm C’lUsaaor, the iuus. iu tine, Jeiusa
.sm is naught but a ‘heap’ ol saiou.doriaj bouts
and nooses. r!
vr*~ aii
Led .c iloiutt, toAliiXi, asp Gthsss tj be Teans*
roKTto, — the couit ol Ass t s(Pau.?,; after uue u
---vcMigadOO, have come to this Conclusion l
Ti oui ad Urn cu cumaUuces Um C >urt declared
that a rvsOiutiou had been ag.eed on aud couc< rted
0.-tweeli Mazziui, Lodi u iiouiu, Camp iueilj, jj.a si
r<uti, itbaiui, ifai io.ctli and uriili, 10 attempt to mU
iUO Luiperor, whic . reaoiutioti hai been lohowtxi i>y -
,u act caicUiateU 10 prepare its ex.Cution : w hereby
.he eismo o; iormmg apioi. (cri.ne Uc c-j.n, lot ) j.ua
<sntd uy i\iL tij oi me Ccu.,l C-od; itai oecu coin
iuittvd. iupwicforecondeunieu ilazz.ni, LeUiu Koi
iui, ami an four aoseni, to
ruidi*GruuHiit
Much count hasbtea experienced wti.ther Leon*
Hoinu was concerned m ius attempt at asa.'iua
-1,401 say the voun :
it appealed tuat Leu u iloiliu, who, in IboJ had
oauseu oOoi, to be given t j a man 11 nn, i Ko
aiscu.wuo lal-utMl kavvng formed at mat c me
.a- p.ijcct ol attempting io ant the r.mpiuor, was
pieseut at Ji.-.zz Ui a v>U;U iiai'loiotti lor lUo first
vioio wan laaeu tin re ; ue trok pai t in the diS-uiss on
inch ensued as to the t'Uis at wdica tile LiupciOr
was accustomed tu gj out; I.ls presence at a coa
'utuivc, eosedhany secret, icvcaicd me motive wn.cn
100 k. nun there, and ills pa.ucipa iou ui tuo ;
auu, lastly , he snppu u A><l. tokoili with luuds Ir
vusti jou.u<j lieu- Loudv.n to raris.
Clioicy LXttaoU.
W eli would it be for ra.t.i, if 011 e irtli die inofal
hiwa ol God reqa.rmj; cdr tv, purity aud hoilneo;,
were uoiuhdij obeyed as ilio p iinis
which mtr duco teed time ami baivvs . Li vine
mercy in me kingdom ofgiaer, is so <b r„c e i
oj mm s apatny and indolence, ill 1 , though
iiit -Sun ot Ki o hieuu-nes has arisen upon mo
world, aa i the dews t f .ru h iusUiled u*rvu it, (bo
ue .rt of man remains a desert,
\\ hen 1 am assd.td vtuii heavy tribu -tt ous. I
lush ou among my p.gs rather tna-.i remain alone
•y myself. Iho huiuau heart is Ike rniii-tuhe
a .* u.i 1 ; wi.oa j\a put when under i , it .iur.3
.nd biU’'e.i the whoa to (lour; if yo.j jut to
witeal la 11, li. Still gr.nds Ou, bi; theu it i ii^cU
i g'iuds,aud wears away.— Lather,
•'Many, s-:ys Lfr. G.never,‘'arc very v i’iinii to
hear .thou-, Cnii't cruc lio I fr C‘io Q, wo
•iii nut baton for a moment to t'm propose!
oaicitixion ul their idas t >r him, espeei.-.l),
ami that have the sanction mi 1 protection of hu
man i*w.”
MisrAKK inCuarity.—Shall we repine at a jit*
i. e misplaced eii-.ri y ; w w.m c. uki no wiy
air a.o he eti rci ; wutj i an ali-ku wiug hil-i- i->o
Bei .g shower*, down every day hi be., iits on the
uu hank ul and uudtikrviug { — Atturbarg.
tlca g tteii by and gMtu wi;h m tio, an i exor
cise, is more n itura', an lutiys longer b. on • tiieQ
-v Lat is gotten ail at once by coming to the lire. —
Goutks acquired by industry pruve commonly
more ta-t ng thau ItUvL by descent.— Fuller.
I have known some ue i possessed of good qnal
cies which wore very service tble to others hut,
useless to thsmsvlvet, l.ks h s.iu-d a! on tin front
us a home, to inform the neighbors and pissea
-ora, but the owner wp-kiti.
’ —■ ♦ r -*■
There are m n who w ould hesitate to conttoeH a
bank note or forge the signature of friend to an or
dinary bill, yet have < o hesitation about imposing
upon the public a spurious article m medi :iue, It
stands to reason that man, or any set of men, who
would be guilty of such impcwkio i have not moral
honesty enough — admitting they had die ability— to
compound even a moderately decent prepara
fhey are consequently knowing’y triflinj; with the
Ives of the commmuuity and should be branded
with aoiQfcthmg worse than mere counterfeiters
VVe do not think the word murderers too if ong.-sr-
We are fed to tnese remarks by the apr>e<rnct- of a
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