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COURT CALENDAR FOR-1854.
REVISED BY TIIE SOUTHERN RECORDER.
SI-. m RIO It COURTS.
JANUARY.
Mil Monday, Chatham
4th Monday. Richmond
FEBRUARY
Ist Monday, Clark
3rd Monday, Campbell
Floyd
Walton
4th Monday, Baldwin
("arrol
J ark son
Monroe
.Marion
Meriwether
Sumter
Taliafero
MARCH
Ist Monday. Coweta
< 'hatooga
Madison
Paulding
2<i Monday, Butts
Cass
< 'raw ford
Elbert
Green
t Iwinnott
Harris
Polk
f 3d Monday, Cobb
Fayette
Hall
Putuartf
Twiggs
Talbot
Golumbia
Hart
3d Thursday. Bulloch
Monday after Effingham
4th Monday, Gordon
Macon
Newton
AVhshmgton
Wilkes
Clav
APRIL
' Fulton
’’ftto.ndolnh
MurraY* ’**4
Pike ‘ '
Waren
Wilkinson
Camden
Taylor
Thursday after, Rabun
Friday after, Wayne
2d Monday, Forsyth
Whitfield
Dooly
i Ilynn
1 labereliam
Hancock
Montgomery
Laurens
Thursday after Mclntosh
and Tattnal
3d Monday, Lumpkin
Worth
Franklin
Stewart
Early
Henry
.Tones
Liberty
Oglethropc
Pulaski
Emanuel
Thursday after Bryan
4th Monday, Union
Decatur
Dekalb
Houston
Jasper
Lincoln
Seri veil
Telfair
'Thursday after. Irwin
’ MAY
] st Monday,
Kinohafoonco
, Fannin
Walker
Catoosa
Upson
2d Monday, Bibb
Gilmer
Chatahooeheu
Baker
Chatham
Troup
Dade
Ad Monday. Spaulding
Pickens
Burko
Calhoun
4th Monday Thomas
Monday after, Lowndes, j
Monday af Lowndes
Rluch
. Thursday after Clintfi,
Ware.
Monday after Ware, j
Applgig.
VVednesday after
Charlton.
Friday after
Coffee, |
JUNK.
Ist Monday, Jefferson I
2d Monday, Doughteri
«mL I
Carrol
*On the Ist an«i 2<s Mondays in October next,
(for one term only.) 4
f Kali Term, 18ft .
+ Alter Fall TermlSiA,
Encocttiion to the Seer of Halcyon
dale.
JiY TIIK CrriZESS OF MILbEDGKVII.I.K.
Oh! Mr. Cuvier W. Young,
Wo pray the© to pull out the bung
Gm--. .JlkLckStops the barrel of hereafter,
Awl let its stream Ti&Som©
U:>on its bosom of events,
That are to happen some time hence.
Pray, let us know what puny ranter.
Would move the State-house to Atlanta:—
Say, will the people bring about
The great event, though we may scout,
The thought of moving off the Capitol,
Or, will the voters, think you, drop it all ?
Tell us, kind sir, if Milledgevillc,
Shall shortly lay the under-sill
Os a capacious, large hotel,
And tell us who would keep it well.
And have a place where legislators
Would not complain of small potatoes.
Tell us will Mr. Billy Moselv,
Who now and then speaks quite verbosely,
Succeed in talking down the city
Os Milledgevillc, by being witty ?
Will ho be bought by golden canes,
To act as men who have no brains?
We pray thee tell us all about it—
The State-house—can we live without it ?
Can we survive if there's removal?
Think you ’twill meet the folks’ approval ?
We pray thee, Mr. Prophet, tell us.
And we will be most grateful fellows.
Pray, tell us, if we ought to build,
Or, if our prospects will be killed
By voters in the next election —
Wo want to act with circumspection.
Say, shall we go to laying bricks,
Or go to making *walking-sticks ?
*Tliis is supposed to be in allusion to the golden
i headed cane lately given Mr. Billy Moseley by some
I of the folks about Macon. Printer’s Devil.
| 4th Mom!ry, Richmond ■
Mu.4c.ogee
AUGUST.
-d Monday. Clark
•id Monday. Campbell
aValton
Itli Mon»y, Carroll
■ionroe
■’aliaferro
■larrion
Baldwin
■Jeriwether j
•"'■T KM HER
Ist MoHiy- Pauiding
Chattooga
Morgan
lay, Polk
Cass
Crawford
Butts
Elbert
Gwinnett
Harris
lav, Cobb
Twiggs
Fayette
Hall
Putnam
Talbot
Columbia
Hart
ft Monday, Gordon
! . Newton
Macon
Washington
Wilkes '
Clay
.ast Thursday, Rabun
OCTOBER.
‘.st Monday, Cherokee
Fulton
Murray
Randolph
W arreri
Wilkinson
Taylor
Tuesday after, Pike
2d Monday, Forsyth
Whitfield
Dooly
Hancock
Montgomery
Laurens
Thrsuday after, Tattnal
3d Monday’ Lumdkin
Worth
Franklin
Early
Henry
Stewart
Emanuel
Jones
Ogle tli rope
Pulaski
4th Monday, Union
Decatur
DeKalb
1 Houston
Jasper
Lincoln
Seriven
Telfair
Thursday after, Irwin
Bulloch f
Monday after, Effingham
NOVEMBER,
j Ist Monday,
Kinchafoonee
Fannin
Heard
Walker
Catoosa
Upson
j 1 st Tuesday, Bulloc f
f2d Monday, Bibb
Gilmer
Chattahoochee
Baker
Troup
Jefferson
Dado
fill Monday, Spalding
Pickins
Burke
Camden
Calhoun
Friday after, Wayne
4th Monday, Glynn
Thomas
Thursday after,
Mclntosh
Monday after, Lowndes
and Liberty
Thursday after, Bryan
Monday after, Lowgdes,
Clinch.
Thursday after, Clinch,
Ware.
Monday after, Ware,
Appling
Thursday after,
Charlton
Friday after, Coffee
‘DECEMBER.
2d Monday, Dougherty
Lee
Carroll
4th Monday, Muscoogee
I'OK THE INDEPENDENT PKESS.
A CHAPTER
On lie form , tfsosortiliim* &c.
Os all the high prerogatives assum- |
ed by puny man, none, perhaps, stand |
out so prominently unbecoming and
pitiable, as those of intolerance and big
otry. Notwithstanding the weakness
and wickedness of erring man, he al
ways has been, and still is, too ready to
exercise a censorship over his fellow
man, in matters of faith and opinion.—
It is a fact to be accounted for upon the
principles of a true mental philosophy
and the effect of habit and association,
that every age, nation and sect thinks
its own peculiar views and institutions
fixed upon a firm basis, and proof against
the changes of time. With such a con
fidence in the perfection of the present,
it is but natural that men should oppose
all innovation and reforms, however
truthful and ennobling, Thus has it
been ever since the days in which Noah
built the ark, and thus will it continue,
in a greater or less degree, throughout
all succeeding time.
When Christ appeared, and inculcat
ed precepts superior to those of the
| Jewish teachers, he was persecuted for
| blasphemy. What the Jews could not
| overthrow by the learning of their
| priests, they thought to subdue by the
power of the secular arm. The treach
erous sword of injustice was unsheath
ed ; Jesus was wrongfully accused, con
demned and crucified. His enemies
believed their system of worship per
manent and immutable, and persecuted
what was better as a heavon-daring in
: novation—a blasphemous imposture.
Abelard for maintaining the rights of
free inquiry, was condemned in solemn
council. Jluss, for questioning the spiri
tual omnipotence of Rome and inveigh
ing against her dissoluteness, was burn
ed at tli© stake. Rcuchlin, for daring
to rid the Scriptures of encumbrances
thrown around them by monkish ex
elusiveness, was fiercly assailed by the
j Dorriinicians.
Luther,. Melancthon, Tyndale and
Calvin, and a host of others, for lifting
up the standard of independence, reject
ing the infallibility of papacy, and con
demning the unmeaning ceremony and
legalized licentiousness of the church,
were hunted down by the mercenaries
of the pope, and menaced with the ter
rors of the V atican. It was wrong for
the human mind to assert its indepen
dence, and attempt to break loose from
the restraints which had held the church
and the world in darkness and degra
dation for centuries. To put down that
wrong, the trumpet note of gathering
armies echoed, the hierarchy thundered,
and the furious clamors of sanctified
monkery reverberated from the one
end of popedom to the other. Rome
thought her supremacy eternal, her
councils immutable and infallible, for
% Metlilij fmu'iiit!:—ilfirotdi to Yitoittra, politics, Itliiiiou anil {terms, «2,00 a year.
tOrioiiial.
lllisteHaiiois.
EATONTON, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1854.
! she held the keys of St. Peter. Iter
j authority was omnipotent, her rights
unquestionable, and she granted no mer
cy to the heretic.
Socrates taught the Athenians the ex
istence of a Supreme Being, the source
of all good, and the only true object of
adoration. For this he incurred the
vengeance of those who should have
rendered him gratitude, and teas con-
IteHTtTt'rt try tirmk the juice of the fatal.
Hemloek.
The teachings of Aristotle were held
for many ages to be as permanent as
the rock of truth itself. History in
forms us that Francis I. passed a decree
against Peter Ramus, interdicting him
" under pain of corporeal punishment,
from uttering any more slanderous in
j vectives against Aristotle and other an
cient authors received and approved.”
Still another century later than this,
the Medical Faculty at Paris became
alarmed for the safety of genuine medi
cal science, and the Royal Academy of
Medicine condemned innoculation as
“murderous, criminal and magical.”
Harvey, for discovering the circul
ation of the blood, and announcing the
heretical fact, was treated with scorn by
his medical bretkern—deprived of his
practice and driven into exile. It is a
fact containing an instructive moral, that
not one of liis contemporaries of the
age of 40 years, when Harvey made
known his discovery, ever conceded its
correctness. They were stable-minded
men, and disdained to be led astray like
Jjoys by the glare of novelties!
When Columbus made application to
the sovereign of Europe for assistance
in his project of Western discovery, lie
met with cold neglect and repeated re
pulse. The Earth was as flat as a board,
and how could he get to the East Indies
by sailing West? and as to finding land
that was only the day-dream of a vision
ary madman. All the philosophy of
the past was not to be capsized to suit
the fantasy of an adventurer.
When the persevering Fulton pro
posed to make steam a mighty agent in
the propulsion of vessels, far-seeing
countrymen laughed at him. Steam
never had propelled vessels, and, there
fore, never could! The conclusion was
as natural as to look to the past for all
wisdom, and Fulton was nonplussed,
ridiculed and neglected, and at last died
in indigence.
When Thomson, the greatest medical
philosopher and reformer of our own
day, had discovered and promulgated to
the world anew and more philosophic !
theory of disease, and a practice at once j
safe and certain, what treatment did he j
receive? He was arraigned befofe the !
laws of his country, charged with quack
ery, empiricism—submitted to a mock <
trial, and was finally cast into prison.—
This, reader, occurred, not in the dark
ages of the world, but in the year of
our Lord, 1809, and at the instigation
of the Medical Faculty, who profess to
be the sole proprietors of all the accum
ulating knowledge of the last four thous
and years. Although every metaphy
sician who had written, fancied that he
had unraveled the mysteries of mind,
and fixed his science on an impregna
ble basis, yet the world is fast awarding
the palm to the simple and comprehen
sive system of Dr. Gall. Phrenology
lias no enemies amongst those generous
minds whose prejudices have not pre
vented an impartial and thorough inves
tigation of the facts and principles upon
which it rests.
Medical science, although so perfect
and fully established, as to reject with
disdain the foolish caprices of such nov
ices as Jenner, Harvey and Thomson,
has already taken vaccination and the
circulation of the blood into confidence,
and is now fast yielding to the claims of
the beautiful and philosophic theory of
Thomson.
Thus we sec, that every now and then
a bold spirit has arisen, who has had
the honesty, intelligence and hardihood,
to question what time and authority
were wont to enforce as unchanging
facts. But the heretics, innovators and
infidels, have been almost in variably met
at the, threshold, and thrust out of the
temples of Religion and Philosophy.—
They have been looked upon with con
tempt, 'or hatred, or horror, by almost
all their contemporaries. They were
usually disgraced whilst living; and it
was not till a more considerate and /id
vanced posterity arose, and gave due at
tention to the innovation, that its worth
and correctness were generally ascer
tained and appreciated, and its author
rewarded according to his merits, and
crow ned for- immortality.
J ' sW B
FOR THE INDEPENDENT PFESS.
,1 Grave-yard Story.
It may be as well to remark as a pre
face to the following, that ficticious names
are used, instead of the originals, because
some of the principal characters that fig-,
ure in the following, are still living, and
would not perhaps like to have their
names exposed with their youthful fol
lies.
It was in the iviuteivof 1,8 that a free
; negro, in crossing Little Rif‘while i-t
--j was, from a recent freshet, considerably
i swolen, had bis bateau overturned near
the centre of the stream, by a log which
unfortunately struck it. The negro,
though a good swimmer, became alarm
ed, and was drowned. Immediate search
was made for the body, which was soon
found and carried to the house of Mr.
Biglow, who had been for some years
his guardian. Doctors and had
| been, for some time, wanting a subject, j
j and therefore looked upon this as a good j
| opportunity to procure one. According-1
lv, application was made to Mr. Biglow
for the body, who peremptorily refused
to harbor, for an instant, any thoughts
of a project at which his very soul re
volted.
The doctors finding that Mr: Biglow
would consent on no terms to the remo
val of the body, except to the grave-yard
for burial, determined to wait until it
was confided to its last resting place, and
then to remove it at night.
But hv some means Biglow “got j
wind” of their project and determined to
defeat it. Accordingly, with Mike Sim
ple and Bill Furlow, he repaired silently
to the grave-yard, and there prepared to
await patiently the arrival of the grave
robbers.
But the cold, and a drifting rain that
commenced to fall about ten o’clock,
drove them home foY shelter. They did
not intend to abandon the watch entire
ly, however, but to return hourly, and
see if the rest of the dead was still undis
turbed.
Scarcely ten minutes had they been
absent before the resurrectionists arriv
ed, and commenced the exhumation of
the body.
Rapidly was the recently loosened
earth thrown from the “last home of all
mortals.” Soon a hollow sound, caused
bv the spades striking against the coffin,
“ rung dolefully from below.” To tear
away the lid was the work of but a few
moments. Hastily—for distant voices
warned them of the approach of the
watchers —a wagon was driven to the
edge of the grave, and the corpse rough
ly bundled into it, and in a few moments
they were far away.
Mike and his comrades reached the
grave. Although it was pitchy dark, they
soon discovered that it had been dis
turbed. The dirt had been heaped up
on both sides of the grave. All within
was wrapped in a veil of impenetrable
darkness; so that it was (as they had no
light) impossible to tell, without descend
ing into the grave, whether the corpse
had been removed or not.
The doctors had, in their haste to' es
cape, knocked a dark lantern into the
grave, which, falling so that even with
the shade drawn, it would emit no light,
remained undiscovered by either party.
It being too far to return to the house for
a light, it was proposed that one of the
party should descend into the grave and
sec how matters stood. But then the
question was, who should it be ? After
a good deal of contention, it was decid
ed that lots should be drawn, and who
ever it should fall upon, should make
the necessary examination.
Accordingly the case was submitted
to chance, and it fell upon Mike to de
scend. He had too much pride to refuse,
and therefore prepared to enter by plac
ing his hands upon each side of the
grave, and. letting himself gently down.
No sooner had his feet found a resting
place, than with an ejaculation of terror,
he drew them up, and rolled himself to
where his comrades stood with their teeth
chattering with fear and apprehension.
He swore roundly that the body was
there, for he had felt with liis feet,, the
cold damp of death upon its face. Af
ter a good deal of persuasion, Mike was
prevailed upon to again descend, and see
if the body was really there. Accord
ingly it was with fear and trembling that
he proceeded to descend as before. His
companions were standing breathlessly
expecting, or father apprehending some
new catastrophe, when one side of the
grave on which his hand rested gave
way, and precipitated him headlong in
to the grave. A yell of horror burst
trom him which made the hair of all
stand on an end. But his misfortunes
were not yet ended, for in attempting to
scramble from the grave, he turned the
lamp over, so, that the light fell upon the
I shroud which had hung by some means
in a corner of the grave. There he saw,
as lie afterward affirmed, the negro
whose countenance was distorted with
all the,anguish of hell, his right hand
pointing, (as if in warning to him) to
hell’s glaring flames, which his imagina
tion conjured on all sides of him. This
was more than he could stand. He tried
to run, but his legs refused to perform
their functions. Prayer was then his
’-only resort. So up,“.Qur Fatli
er who art in heaven,” Ac., and was
praying most lustily, when his friends
returned, (for they had left him long
ago) with a light and helped him, more
dead than alive, from the grave. Mike
joined the Church soon afterward, got
married, and ever more followed the
commands of liis Creator—at least the
one, “Go thou and multiply,” for lie
raised a fine lot of children.
A GHOST.
*f leaf on the grave of the late
Judge Charlton.
Perhaps no one who ever lived pos
sessed in a more eminent degree a cul
tivated, refined and kindly heart than
the late lamented Charlton. So far as
we know, or have heard of him, lie
came, as near being the “perfect man
and upright,” as any one whose char
acter has ever come before us. We
never were personally acquainted with
him, having never had the good fortune
jto meet him. A brief correspondence
once took place between us however,
in which some of his most prominent
characteristics were markedly exhibited.
It brought to light his Christian meek
ness, an absence on his part of all know
ledge of the superiority to which his
station and acquirements entitled him,:
and showed not only his willingness,
but his anxiety to lend an encouraging
smile to the young beginner, when less
gifted minds seem to consider it witty
sneer, and a mark of superior intel
lect to be captious.
In 1848, when quite, young, wo ven
tured upon the hazardous enterprise of
endeavoring to establish a literary mag
azine in Georgia—a task which we
should never have undertaken under
the disadvantageous circumstances by
which we were surrounded. This by
the way. Among other persons ire
took the liberty of addressing a letter
to Judge Charlton, asking him to be
come a regular contributor to our pages.
His reply was altogether unlike that of
many others, the inferiors in everything
of this accomplished gentleman. It ran
as follows:
Savannah, Nov. 22, 1847.
J. A. Turner, Esq.,
Eatonton Ga.
Dear Sir:—l have received your fa
vor of the Bth inst. I am so much en
grossed in law business, that I have not
the time to think much of anything else.
I will try (that is all I can promise) to
give you an occasional article—and I
would be happy, if circumstances would
allow, to be a constant contributor—for
tlio’ 1 have lost all faith in the disposi
tion of the Southern people to sustain
their own periodicals, those who make
the effort to induce them to rally un
der their own banner, are at least entitl
ed to sympathy and support. Please
consider me as a subscriber.
I send you an unpublished peice for
your January number.
Yours, Respectfully,
Robert M. Charlton.
The poem which he sent and which
appeared in our January number reads
thus: —
Let others seek the joys that reign,
In Pleasure’s lamp-lit halls,
But give to me the blooming plain,
Where the golden sun-light lulls;
The orb of night
May bless the sight,
As it shines o’er wood and stream;
But dearer far,
Than moon or star,
Is the glorious sun-light’s glcairr!
Let others seek ambition’s throne,
The power it doth impart;
But give to me the lot to own,
The realm of one true heart;
Ambition’s reign,
Wifi quickly wane,
And its power soou pass away,
But Death alone,
Can Love dethrone,
From the heart whero he holdeth sway.
Savannah, Georgia.
In reply to another letter of ours,
Judge Charlton wrote to us as follows:
Savannah, Feb’y. 12, 1848.
J. A. Turner, Esq.,
Eatonton, Ga.
Dear Sir: —Your favor of 26 ult. was
duly received, Rut it reached me in term
time, when my mind is wholly occupi
ed and my time engaged in Court. To
day the Court is not in session, and I
embrace the opportunity to a brief
rcP l ?’ ■ % ... x-
You have my cordial wishes for your
success, and I. wish I could undertake
to be your constant correspondent. —
But 1 dare not promise this, for I could
not perform it. The professional mat
ters in which I am engaged wholly pre
clude, for three-fourths of the year, the
least attention to anything else. It is
only for a few weeks in Summer that I
ever take anything else except a law
book in my hand —of course, Ido not
include the Bible qr, religious works—
meddle with literature except during
that brief interval. But I will make i
an exertion to send you an occasional
piece, and do it as often as I can. I
notice that you have extracted my
“ Bingo” story from the Knickerbocker.
I will try and give you a prose piece in
the same vein if you like it. 1 forward
ed a few weeks ago to the Knickerbock
er another stray leaf of the same char
acter, which I would have cheerfully
sent to you if I had received your let-!
ter a little sooner. As soon as our ses- j
sion terminates 1 will write you again.
Yo nrs, Respectfially,
Robert M. Charlton.
Now note how much can be gleaned
of the habits and character of Judge
Charlton from this brief epistle.
1. Having no personal acquaintance
with the Judge, and being “unknown
to fame, ” we wore not entitled accord
ing to the world’s philosophy either on
the score of friendship, or on the score
of the comity which exists between
men of science or of letters, to expect
a reply unless it was perfectly conveni
ent- for hiniAvliom wc addressed to write
to us. Judge Charlton disregarded the
world’s philosophy, and seized the first
leisure moment, in obedience to a noble
impulse of the heart, to reply to our
communication.
2. He assured us that we had his
“cordial wishes for our success,” show
i ing both his willingness to encourage a
young man, and his desire to see litera
ture flourishing beneath the genial skies
of the “sunny South.”
8. His untiring devotion to his pro
fession is exhibited.
4. He “ dared not promise what he
could not perform.'' Does not this, ol
itself, speak volumes for Judge Charl
ton? Some of those whom we address
ed made very liberal promises and treat
ed them with as liberal disregard.—
Judge Charlton made but few promises,
but actually did more for us than he
promised.
5. Our wonder is excited that Judge
Charlton could have done so much in
the field of literature as lie did, when
he only entered that field a “few weeks
in summer.”
6. But however much lie was press
ed for time, he never forgot the “bible
or religious works.” He was not asham
ed of the gospel of Christ. And in
writing to a young man he took occasi
on, without officiously intruding religi
ous instruction upon him, to “cast his
bread upon the waters.” Even before
the expiration of very many days, it has
been “gathered unto him again.”
7. He was willing, in obedience to |
the dictates of generosity, to send his
communications to our obscure little
magazine to be read by few, instead of
the Knickerbocker to be blazoned be
fore the world. He was willing to “do
good by stealth,” and would have “blus
ed to find it fame.”
Shortly after the above letter, we re
ceived from Judge Charlton the beauti
ful poem, “My life is passing,” accom
panied by this brief and modest note: —
Savannah, Feb’y 22, 1848.
J. A. Turner, Esq.,
Eatonton, Ga.
Dear Sir:—l enclose you some verses,
which I hope will be acceptable to you.
Yours, Respectfully,
Robert M. Charlton.
Judge Charlton did not say either in
words or manner, “Sir—l do you the
extreme honor of condescending to send
you a first-rate poem for your little af
fair,” but modestly aud meekly said “I
enclose you some, verses , which I hope
will be acceptable to you.” Oh! if this
world were filled with Judge Charltons!
But he has gone to another world, where,
(we do not intend to be profane when
we say it,) he is an ornament to heaven.
We now,give the poem:
“MY LIFE IS PASSING.”
[after the manner of beuangkr.]
My life is passing—every day,
Some warning message Time doth bring,
I feel the steps of slow decay,
I bear Deaths angel’s rustling wing;
My weary lot no pleasure kuows,
No friendly hand dispels my gloom,
And soon around my heart will close,
The midnight darkness of the tomb!
NUMBER 3.
I But, all! to me no charm they bring,
To deck the Winter of my life:
Why should I heed the blooming rose.
Its blushing hue—its sweet perfume,
; When soon around my heart will close,
The midnight darkness of the tomb!
My life is passing—ah, to me,
Misfortune stalks with heavy tread.
All joys before his coining flee,
And Hope hangs down her humbled head;
My path’s beset with bitter foes,
Who point me to my dismal doom,
And soon around my heart will close,
The midnight darkness of the tomb!
passiiig—let it pass;
For now I see, as in a glass,
Th<3 dawning of a brighter day;
The grave from which my Saviour rose,.
1 lis love will still with hope illume,
Tho’ soon around my heart will close,
The midnight darkness of the tomb!
Robert M. Ciiahlton.
Savannah, Ga., Feb. 22d, 1848.
The midnight darkness cf tlxe tond>
lias closed around the heart of Judge-
Charlton, but that Saviour of whom lie
was not ashamed to sing,
His love did still with hope illume,”
and the Christian bard has gone to tune
bis golden harp with the Psalmist who
on earth “praised the Lord with harp ;
who sung to him with the psaltery and
! an instrument of ten strings.”
A\ r e hope it may not be taken amiss
I that we have published this small por
i tion of the private correspondence of
Judge Charlton. We would be glad to
see a complete edition of his works,
poems and correspondence. It would
add an ornament to English literature.
Had there only been at the South the
same number of papers and magazines
as at the Xorth, and the same dispo
sition to pulf our men of letters, .1 udgo
Charlton would now rank, as a poet with
Bryant and Longfellow.
Ho Southerners Write Hooks ?
, “ Southern men never write books.
I Why this is so, is a curious question
| which we have never been able to solve.
1 Calhoun on Government, Wirt’s British
| Spy, Longstreet’s G eorgia Scenes, Hoop-
I ers Simon Suggs, and the Miscellaneous
! Library of W. G ilmore Simms are the
I sum total of our literary productions.—
! We have besides a few Historical works
i but they arc collections rather than
i Histories. “My life is like the summer
j rose,” is a poetical gem, but Wilde was
not Southern born. Maj. Jones’s Court-
I ship is a humorous sketch scarcely in
! ferior to Longstreet’s inimiable “Scenes,"
I but Thompson we believe hails from the
| frozen North. Lieber is a German;
i Hentz is a Yankee. Wo, therefore, re
| peat that Southern men never write
Books.”
We cut the above paragraph from the
i Columbus (Ga.) Times. The editors
have’fallen into a very great error. Some
of the most prolific writers this country
lias ever produced are Southern born.
Not to mention Boot. Simms, who has
published more than any other writer
in America, we can name, merely from
memory, quite a respectable number of
Southerners who have writen books.—
Miss Maria J. Mclntosh, the authoress
of “To seem and to be,” “Evening at
Donaldson Manor,” and many other
works, is a Georgia lady. Edgar A.
Poe was a Virginian, Brantz Mayer and
John P. Kennedy are both Marylanders.
Hon. Hugh S. Legare, one of the most
polished American writers, was a South'
Carolinian. G eorge AY. Kendall of the
Picayune, and author of the “Santa Fe
Expedition,” is a Southerner. Gen.
Waddy Thompson, whose Book on Mex
ico is one of the very best ever written,
is a South Carolinian. B. M. Norman,
whose “ Rambles in Yucatan,” and other
books of travel are generally read, is a
native of New Orleans. Hon. Henry R.
Jackson, and the late Judge Charlton,
both of our own State, have each pub
lished volumes; of poems. One of the
most popular books published within
ten years—“ Busy Moments of an Idle
Woman” —is from the pen of a lady of
Charleston. Ourmemory w ill not serve
us further, but the list might be greatly
extended. Our friends of the Times
will, at least see that their list is incom
plete. —OassviUe Standard, 23 d inst.
“ A day or two since,” says an Amer
ican writer, —“ our blqod boils as we ;
write —several smacks were taken by a f
British Naval officer, iu Boston harbor;
and, what is worse than all, the smacks
were taken from a youn glady. Where’s
President Pierce?!’
A Washington letter to the N. Y. Lx
press, says that the United States govern -
French alliance that the Rufiaii oorts on