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J. A. TONER, EDITOR. 'VOLUME 1. INDEPENDENT PKE& Published every Tuesday morning* TEEMS. TWO DOLLARS per annum iu advance to ,lf * it sifliiur in the County. Rates of Advertising.— advert# !meas inserted on the following terms: Vletters of Citation, 50 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 00 Application for leave to toll laud or negroes, j 1 00 .Nile «4' J *>.-rsmtal.llruiyrtq b\' Kxet'iutors. ViiinuiistnitCH's SrTtuardiatTl. " Jl ~ Sale of Lands or Negroes, by same, B/ 00 Application for Letters of Dismission, P 4 50 Yearly Advertisements-—lWessionW l “ and business cards, measuring twelve lines or less f|l be inserted at Twelve Dollars. * Other Advertisements will lie charged f° r ‘■very twelve lines or less, for tirst insertion, * All ' l a ** >■!.' for every weekly .continuance. Advertisemeuts, not having the number «inser tions marked upon them, will be published tU*forbid business €arb. J. A. TURNER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Eatonton, lie. RICHARD T. DAVtf, ATfi iI.NKi AT LAW, Eatonton, ifc- Office over \ an Meters store. y* S. DUSF.NISERRY, Tailor, Eatonton, Ga. • S:.op up stairs adjoining the Fruiting OlSee. We warrant to please, all who nviy wish a late and fashionable style of dress. April, is, IS')4. -It. 1V r A. DAVIS, Wholesale and Retail Grocer: > \ a Sells heavy goods and produce on Commis sion. E..>t corner Jefferson St., Eatonton, Ga. April IS. lssl. ts. 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