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w lima! ram, 4. A. TURNER, EDITOR. | VOLUME I. THE INDEPENDENT PRESS. Published every Tuesday Morning. TT JEs2 ■«. mw.m£9 "TWO DOLLARS per siwum'j—!* advance to all not residing in tbe County. -'Rates *f Advertising.— Legal advertisements ofrsOrte'l on the following terms: letters of Citation, $2 50 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 00 Application for leave to sell land or negroes, 100 .Sale of Personal Property, by Executors, Administrators or Guardians, 3 50 Sale of Lands or Negroes, by same, 5 00 Application for Letters of Dismission, 4 50 Yearly Advertisements —Professional and business cards, measuring twelve lines or less, will be inserted at Twelve Dollars. Other Advertisements will be charged SI 00 for every twelve lines or less, for first insertion, and .50 cts. tor every weekly continuance. Advertisements, not having the number of in sertions marked upon them, will bo published till forbid, and charged accordingly. Job Printing of every kind executed with neat ness and despatch on reasonable terms. OF THE INDEPENDENT PRESS. npilE INDEPENDENT PRESS is published L weekly in Eatonton, Ga., at the price of 82,00 per annum, invariably in advance ; except where the subscriber resides in the county. As its name indicates, it is designed to be entire ly independent, being governed alone by such rules as decency, gentlemanliness and good morals im pose upon every press. It hopes not, however, to mistake licentiousness for liberty, nor scurrillous ness for independence.. Its politics are Democratic—of the school of Jefferson, Madison and Jackson. It, however, is subject to no party discipline which would compel its Editor to sacrifice truth and honor in behalf of his political associates. lie will speak what he thinks. One distinctive feature of this press is that it allows and invites a discussion in its columns of all subjects whatever, proper to form reading mat te! for tlie popular mind. Communications from political opponents are admitted upon the same terms as communications from political friends.— It is required of both, that they make their artcil es brief to the point, and free from personality and all illiberal feeling. Religious questions, as well as political, and others, may be discussed. Much of the attention of this press is devoted to Literature and Miscellany. It is not entirely filled with political wrangling and party strife.— In addition to its literary and miscellaneous matter, it contains articles on Agriculture, &c. And as Georgians and Southern people generally are fond of field sports, this subject also aids in filling the • columns of this paper. Whatever can add to the prosperity of Georgia, and aid in developing her resources, moral, mental and physical, is considered peculiarly adapted to these columns. The cause of common school edu cation, especially, will be urged upon the people of Georgia with all the ability we can command. All communicat ions must be addressed, post-paid, to the Editor of The Independent Press, Eatonton, Georgia. April 18, 1854 J. A. TURNER. -protcssiamtl & Httsmcss Carte. J. A. TURNER, ♦! TTORJYE IMT EATONTON, GA. RICHARD T. DAVIS, asrenDißHati ait aAW 9 EATONTON, GA. OFFICE OVER VAN MATER’S STORE. mm sl wmmio. RESIDENT DENTIST. ' EATONTON, GA. May 16, 1854. S. W. BRYAN, BOTANIC PHYSICIAN, EATONTON, GA. OFFICE up stairs, adjoining the Printing Office, where he may be found during the dav, and at night at the residence of W. A. Duvih, unless pro fessionally absent. All calls for medicines or atten tion promptly attended to. Inference TRY IIIM. May 30th, 1854. 41y W. A. DAVIS, ualfiotcsdlc aiiir Detail Grocer: Sells Country Produce on Commission: East corner Jefferson St., Eatonton, Ga. April 18, 1854. C. L. CARTER, FANCY CONFECTIONER, No. 4,Carter & Harvey’s Range, April 23, 1854. Eatonton, Ga. S. S. DUSENBERRY, r.isiuo.wuti.M: tailor ~W 7”E warrant to please all who wish the latest V V style of dress. Shop up stairs, adjoining the Printing Office. April 18, 1854. HUDSON, FLEMING & CO., FACTORS A fiOMMiSSKM MERCHANTS, No. 94, Bay Street, Savannah, Ga. TENDER their services to Planters, Merchants, anddealers in the sale of Cotton and all other country produce. Being connected in business with Hopkins, Hudson & Cos., of Charleston, the establish ment of an office in this city will offord our friends choice of markets Strict attention will be given to business, and the usual facilities afforded customers, J. It. Hudson, ) j Lambeth llopkiks, AV. K. Fleming, > 1 Aifousta. Savannah. ) (J. J. CSfSBx, Charles«. S Mlcclili to fitatra, f olita, anil COURT CALENDAR FOR 1854. REVISED BY THE SOUTHERN RECORDER. 8 VPERI OH CO UR TS. JANUARY. 4th Monday, Richmond 2d Monday, Chatham Muscogee 4th Monday, Richmond AUGUST. FEBRUARY. 2d Monday, Clark Ist Monday, Clark 3d Monday, Campbell 3rd Monday, Campbell Walton W alton 4th Monday 4th Monday, Baldwin Monroe Jackson Taliaferro Monroo Marion Marion Baldwin Meriwether Jackson Sumter Meriwether Taliaferro Sumter. MARCH SEPTEMBER Ist Monday, Coweta Ist Monday, Paulding Chattooga Coweta Madison Madison Morgan Chattooga Paulding Morgan 2d Monday, Butts 2d Monday, Polk Cuss Cass Crawford Crawford Elbert Butts Greene Filbert Gwinnett Greene Harris Gwinnett Polk Harris 3d Monday, Cobb 3d Monday, Cobb Fayette Twiggs Hall Fayette Putnam Hall Twiggs Putnam Talbot Talbot Columbia Columbia Hart Hart 3d Thursday, Bulloch 4th Monday, Gordon Monday after, Effingham Newton 4th Monday. Gordon Macon Macon Washington Newton Wilkes Washington Clay Wilkes Last Thursday, Rabun Clay OCTOBER. APRIL Ist Monday, Cherokee Ist Monday, Cherokee Fulton Fulton Murray Randolph Randolph Murray Warren Pike Wilkinson Warren Taylor AVilkinson Tuesday after, Pike Camden 2d Monday, Forsyth Taylor | Whitfield Thursday after, Rabun 1 Dooly Friday after, Wayne *Habersham 2d Monday, Forsyth Hancock Whitfield Montgomery Dooly Laurens Glynn Thrs uday after, Tattnall Habersham 3d 3 ionday, Lumpkin Hancock Worth Montgomery Franklin Laurens Early Thursday after, Mclntosh Henry and Tattnall Stewart 3d Monday, Lumpkin Emanuel Worth a Jones Franklin 1 Oglethrope Stewart Pulaski Early 4th Monday, Union Henry Decatur Jones DeKalb Liberty Houston Oglethrope Jasper Pulaski Lincoln Emanuel Seriven Thursday after, Bryan Telfair 4th Monday, Union Catoosa Decatur T 1 irsday after, Irwin Dekalb Bulloch \ Houston M( nday after, Effingham Jasper NOVEMBER. Lincoln Is: Monday, Seriven Kinchafoonee Telfair Fannin Catoosa Heard Thursday after, Irwin Walker MAY Upson Ist Monday, Is Tuesday, Bulloch % Kinchafoonee 2c! Monday, Bibb Fannin Gilmer Heard Chattahoochee Walker , Baker Upson ! Jefferson 2d Monday, Bibb > Dade Gilmer 91 Monday, Spalding Chatahoochee Pickens Baker Burke Chatham Camden Dade Calhoun 3d Monday, Spalding Troup Pickens J iday after, Wayne Burke 4 h Monday, Glynn Calhoun I ; Thomas Troup Doughtery 4th Monday Thomas I Floyd * Dougherty ijlmrsday after, Floyd ' Mclntosh Monday after Lowndes, llonday after, Lowndes Monday af Lowndes, and Liberty Clinch Thursday after, Bryan Thursday after Clinch, llonday after Lowndes, AVare. Clinch. Monday after AVare, Thursday after Clinch, Appling. AVare. Wednesday after, llonday after Ware, Charlton. Appling Friday after, Thursday after Coffee. Charlton JUNE. Triday after, Coffee Ist Monday, Jefferson DECEMBER. 2d Monday, id Monday, Lee Lee Carroll Carroll 4li Monday, Muscoogee *On the Ist and 2d ilondays in October next (for one term only.) f Fall Term, 1854. \ After Fall Term 1854 Definition of n Gentleman. The late and lanented Judge Tal fourd, in the case if Wag vs. Kelson, tried at the Bristo, England, Assizes shortly before his sudden death, thus defined the character of a gentleman: The evidence pbved that the defen dant, while in the theatre, had said to the plaintiff, “Do not speak to me, I am a gentleman, Und you arc a trades man.” “Grentleijun,” said the learned judge, “is a tem| which does notap ply to any station but to the mind and the feelings in evfey station. The man of rank who demrtg himself with dig nity and candof, and the tradesman who discharges Ilis duties of life with honor and integrity, are alike entitled to it, nay, the kmblest artizan, who fulfills the obli ations cast upon him with virtue an| with honor, is more entitled to the mane of gentleman than the man who c Ddd indulge in offen sive and ribald gjrnarks, however big his station.” The most Dim-.ult Ascent—Getting ur ft subseripti’di. I EATONTON, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1854. Select f flttrii. GEORGIA. Blessings on thee, Land of Beauty! Sleeping in a sunny climo— Blessings on thy. hills and Tallies— I invoke them in my rhyme! Far and wide my steps may wander, Fairer scenes may meet my eyes, But my soul will cherish ever, Memories of thy glorious skies. Northward ’gainst the quiet Heavens, Thy blue mountain barriers rise, And above thy foaming torrents, Glow the Iris’ radiant dyes. There Tallulah dashes madly Through the sundered granite hills, And a sense of awful beauty • All the gazer’s being fills. And Toccoa, haunt of fairies, And Nacoociiee’s valley sweet, Where the shining Chattahoochee Stars and sunshine love to meet; And Mount Yonah, soaring proudly, Where the winds are pure and free, AVafts a greeting on their pinions, To his neighbor Cuhuaiiee. Thine the Mountain Rock of Granite, Rising mid thy fertile plains— Nature’s everlasting watchtower, Looking o’er thy wide domains; Looking northward to the mountains, Southward o’er savannas wide, Where, through dark lagoons and marshes, Flow the Altamaiia's ticlo. Thine the lovely Forest City, Bonayenture’s wealth of shade—. Classic Athens—seat of learning, And Augusta’s mart of trade; Macon’s thine and fair Columbus, And Atlanta’s busy streets, And the pride of Rome the western, Where Coosa’s tribute waters meet. But thy proudest treasures, Georgia, Are thy Sons, so brave and true, And thy gentle, bright-eyed Daughters, Who with love our souls imbue; Thine the valiant and the lovely— Manhood’s strength and woman’s charms, And thy homes adorned by beauty, Guarded are by valor’s arms. Pisttllitneous. FOR THE INDEPENDENT PRESS. MY UNCLE SIMON’S PLANTATION; OB SKETCHES 0E SOUTHERN LIFE, &C. BY ABRAHAM GOOSEQUILL, ESQ. MY UNCLE SIMON. “You are old, Father William, the young man cried The few locks which are left you are grey; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man.” — Southey. I will devote this number to a de scription of my Uncle Simon, who, as I intimated in my last, is an excellent old man. It is usual for an author to give an exaggerated account of his he ro, and so make him appear larger on paper than any where else. Now, Ido not flatter myself that I can make my worthy uncle appear half so well in the description I shall give of him, as he would, could you see him with your own eyes; and, should you ever have the pleasure of his acquaintance, you will be constrained to say, as Mrs. Sheba did to Mr. Solomon, “the half has not been told me.” He is a “hale old man,” and “the few locks which are left him are grey.”— His age is almost seventy, and although Time has bound such a heavy bundle of years upon his back, he pertina ciously refuses to bend under the load, but walks as erectly, and with as elas tic a step as he did nearly forty years ago, when he marched to the sound of the drum and fife to do battle against his country’s foes. He was then about thirty years of age, having married my aunt Parmela in his twenty-fifth year, by whom he had three children at the breaking out of tlie war. After its close, he settled down quietly upon his pres ent plantation; and although he has been several times called from his ru ral retreat to serve his State in her leg islative councils, yet most of his time has been devoted to improving his farm, so that, from small beginnings, he has by prudent economy, added to his possessions, until he is quite a weal thy man. Economical at first, from necessity, he continues so, from choice; and he is always giving wholesome advice up on the subject to those around him. I assure you, too, he is quite an adept in the science he professes to teach, and Adam Smith himself, would have lis tened with pleasure to my uncle’s con versation upon his practical notions of economy; and, as to Prof. Way land, my uncle’s elbow chair in the chimney corner, can give out more wisdom in a single hour about making and saving money, than Avould emanate from the aforesaid professor’s seat in a Aveek— e ven though that seat be illuminated with the wisdom of every political economist from Smith doAvnwards. - Numberless old horse-shoes, hung up on trees and pegs, and old rusty nails and buckles, Avith various such other things too tedious to mention, stoAved away in boxes and gourds, slioav that Uncle Simon learned his notions of economy in the school of “Poor Rich ard,” a copy of Avliose Almanac he in herited from his father, and Avliose dog eared, greasy leaves, show that it has been in use at least a century. “I pre fer,” says Uncle Simon, “The Way to Wealth ,” to any treatise I have ever seen upon the subject of economy.” Let it not be supposed that because the old gentleman is economical, he is parsimonious. “Parsimony and econ omy,” says he, “are two very different things.” Niggardliness is on one ex treme and prodigality on the other.— Economy is the golden mean. The mi. ser is just as far from economy as the spendthrift is. He refuses to lay out a penny Avhich will bring him in a pound, because there is one chance to a thousand that he may lose the penny. The parsimonious man gets gll he can and shuts it up in an iron grasp; Avhile the economical man gets all he can, but holds it in a liberal hand to let it go either to his own advantage, or that of others.” Speaking of a ‘liberal hand,’ reminds me of my relative’s liberality, and real benevolence. I never have seen a man more humane; one Avliose heart Avas more alive to the sufferings of others. This good will extends, not only to creatures of the human kind, but also to brute animals, and even to reptiles and insects. His neighbors upon Avhom fortune has not lavished so much as upon him, can testify to his deeds of charity. But do not imagine that he bestoAVS his charity upon umvorthy ob jects. The idle and profligate find no favor at his hands, and he only helps those who help themselves. It Avas but the other day a hale, hearty, stout young man, came to his domicil asking alms. After eA’-eing him for some time from head to foot, and scanning with much interest his sturdy limbs, he as sured him that his potato patch needed work just then, and if he would hoe it over, he Avould give him fifty cents per day, besides boarding him. The beggar vanished speedily; and this gave Uncle Simon an opportunity to indulge in a tirade against gentleman beggars in general, Avho, he says, very much abound in this day, and have re duced beggary to a science. Ilis negroes are all Avell clothed and fed, and you cannot offer him a great er insult than by treating one of them amiss. He regards certain of their rights as inviolate as his oavh liberty. I think I never saAV a man more vexed than he Avas last summer, when a par ty of school-boys violated the right of property inherent in his man Sampson, by breaking into his melon patch and bearing off a number of prizes. He Avent to the school-house, and made complaint to the teacher with all that testiness Avhich is wont to influence a Avhole-souled man, Avlien the weak have suffered a Avrong. The teacher Avould have flogged the offenders, but my benevolent uncle, seeing this, softened down, and being speedily metamor phosed from the prosecutor into the advocate, obtained the boys’ acquittal, upon the promise that the offence should not bo repeated. Thus it is, that his benevolence sometimes prevails over justice, and the vicious often in trude upon his good nature. This goodness of heart makes him very fond of seeing others enjoy them selves. It is a favorite custom of his, to have all his little negroes brought before his door under the shade of a venerable oak tree, Avith a large tray of food from his kitchen placed before them, so that lie may see them enjoy themselves eating. 1 have already said that his benevolence extends to brute animals, reptiles and insects; therefore all the horses, cattle, &e., on his plan tation, must be kept fat and sleek.— Their feeding is carried on under his OAvn immediate supervision, and lie" must see everything eat, or he Avill be quite incredulous as to Avhether it has been fed. Three times a day, morning, evening and at noon, he makes his man Sampson take a basket and go Avith him to the crib, and fill it Avith nice, large ears of corn to put in tlie horses’ troughs. Tiien, Avlien the cows, sheep, hogs, &c., are to be fed, he must lie present to devise Avays and means to prevent the stronger from imposing up on the Aveakcr. lie says that he is a Democrat in the true acceptation of the term, and does not believe in an aris tocracy of strength, any more than an aristocracy of Avealth. He can’t bear to see any object on his plantation lean. Every thing must be flit. To such an extent does he ear ly this notion, that even his rats must be kept in proper plight. These ani mals once became so troublesome, that he adopted the plan of building his cribs Avith the sills placed upon blocks formed in the shape of inverted cones, so that when the rats craAvled up these blocks, they could not get off into the cribs. This plan operated finely, and he rejoiced to have gotten rid of these soricine vermin, until one day, happen ing in one of his empty cribs built up on tlie old plan, liesaAV a score of ghost like rats, so lean that they more re sembled sliadoAVs than substances, cha sing eacli other up and doAvn the raft ers. They Avere so Aveak from a Avant of food, that they Avere often compel ed to stop and prop each other up, in order to keep themselves from falling. When they saAV my Uncle, they all stopped and gazed at him so steadfast ly, that the kind-hearted old man im agined that he read in their eyes a pray er to save themselves and helpless young from the horrors of famine.— The appeal was not to be resisted, for he remembered the golden rule, “do unto others as you Avould have others do unto you,” and, accordingly, he had the corn removed from one of his rat proof cribs, into the one where he had seen the famished vermin running up and doAvn the rafters. Old David, an ancient family slave, ventured to ex postulate with him at the suggestion of Cousin Aristides, Avho disliked very much to see so much corn devoured by the pestiferous gentry; but the old gentleman placed David in the situa tion of the rats, and asked him how he would like to be famished to death.— This appeal to the old negro’s heart, si lenced, if it did not convince him.— Since that time, all of my Uncle’s cribs have been built after the old order of architecture, so as to afford as much, aid and comfort as possible to the rats. The only means he noiv uses to destroy these animals, is to keep a larger num ber of cats than he did formerly—Avhich he keeps so flit, hoivever, as to coun teract much of their native hostility to their prey. Uncle Simon will not suffer the SAvalloAvs in the chimney to be disturb ed, and they build there Avithout any molestation, and keep up a continual chatter, much to the inconvenience and annoyance of my Aunt Parmela, avlio with all the help the screen and broom can afford her, can hardly keep the par lor floor clear of soot. The spiders build about in the corners of the room, and the house-maid has to pick an op portunity when my uncle is absent, to destroy these poisonous insects and their webs. There Avas one large old felloAV, Avho had spread his net in a conspicuous corner of the parlor, whom my relative regarded with a great deal of interest, and would not alloAV to be disturbed. He remained there for near ly a Aveek, my Uncle’s affection increas ing for him nearly all the time, until one morning, he saAV a poor fly entang led in his web, and devoured by the monster. From this time, there Avas a verv perceptible change in his feelings towards his former friend the spider, and one day at dinner, he discussed with Aunt Parmela, the propriety of a writ of ejectment against his spider ship. After the meal Avas over, Cous in Dorothy got up from table and Avent into the parlor to see after Harlequin. A shriek Avas heard, and Uncle Simon sprang from the table to see what could be the matter, and, on reaching the spot, he found his golden-winged but terfly, in the fangs of the spider.— With utter indignation, he seized the broom which the house-maid had snatched up as she folloAved him, and brushing the spider down, crushed him with his foot, much to the discomfit ure of Aunt Pamela’s floor, Avhich Avas somewhat soiled by the reptile’s entrails, For the balance of the day,, all Avas gloom—Aqnt Parmela sorrow ing over herparlor floor, Uncle Simon penitent for acting so rashly, and Cous in Dorothy, kind-hearted soul, weep ing over the untimely fate of the poor butterfly. The other day I Avent into the libra ry, and my attention Avas excited by the buzzing of a yellow-booted dirt-dau. ber. I examined to see where he Avas, and finally found him building his nest upon a splendidly bound volume of the “Life and Writings of Washington,” by Jared Sparks. Os course, I de spatched the insect mason, and razed his castle. About the time I had fin ished, in came Uncle Simon, and rated me soundly for my cruelty. “These dirt-daubers, Abraham,” said he, “are very troublesome, but I rank them as Ido doctors and lawyers; evils that can’t be remedied—at least Avithout causing a good deal of pain and suf fering.” Then he quoted to me the fol lowing lines of the sensitive Cowper— “l would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man AVlio needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls, at evening, in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.” I Avas in hopes he Avould go on Avith the quotation, and justify me in the sight of our squeamish poet. But not so. He Avas for inflicting summary punishment, and had no idea of pour ing into my bosom tlie oil of justifica tion of my deed. It Avas in vain that I Avent over in my mind a continuation of tlie quotation from Coivper— “The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight, And charged perhaps with venom, that intrudes A visitor unwelcome into scenes Sacred to neatness and repose, the alcove, The chamber, or refectory, may die.” I say it was in vain that I went over these lines to myself. I dared not re peat them aloud, for this, so far from changing my uncle’s Avill, Avould only have irritated him the more. So, to atone for my offence, and to avoid farther scolding, I preserved a proper silence under his reproof. In less time than I have been in Avriting this, he changed his tone, and asked my pardon for rebuking me; Avlien I, thinking that it Avas too trivial a circum stance to make “much ado about noth ing,” dexterously changed the subject. I mentioned uncle Simon’s fondness for seeing things eat, and also his super vision of the feeding of all the stock.— He sometimes seems disposed to exer cise the function of quarter-master in the poultry yard; and has had several disputes with aunt Parmela about the proper kind of food for the various species of infant foA\ds. One morning, very early, before aunt Parmela had gotten up, he made Sampson getja half bushel of shattered" corn, aiid pour it to the poultry promiscuously. Now, aunt Parmela had been in the habit of feeding the young fowls Avith dough and small hominy, contending that a Avhole kernel of corn Avould choke them. This happened several years ago, and every Spring since then, Avlien the old lady’s young chickens die of the gapes, or her goslings , are killed by the minks, she attributes their death to the corn which uncle Simon gave their progenitors years before, and accuses him of murdering foAvls by tlie whole sale. I have not told you a tenth part about my uncle, but I must bring this number to a close. I wanted to give you a formal introduction to him, by relating to you a few of the sumvxa capita, as Eneas said to Dido, of his character ; but of these more anon. *A term used on plantations for shelled corn. Uses of Cotton.—Mr. Wallis no tices, in the report of his visit to Ameri ca, at the time of the New York In dustrial Exhibition, that thenheapness of cotton in the United States, as a raw material, causes it to be used for many of the purposes for which flax and hemp are alone employed in Europe. There was cotton sail-cloth at our own great Exhibition in 1851, and in the Exhibition at New York there were very excellent specimens of the use of cotton in tiie manufacture of cordage and twine. Fishing nets of cotton twine, woven on a loom, at Baltimore, are stated to be quite equal in every respect, probably superior, to hand-made nets. Seamless grain bags are another novel and important ar ticle'of trade, and a company at Man chester, New Hampshire, have one hunched and twenty-gix looms employ- lumbumuto*. NUMBER 7. ed in producing them. The inventor of the seamless bag loom lias lately patented an adaptation of the invention to the Aveaving of cotton hose for fire engines; and Mr. Wallis states that there is no material escape of Avater when the hose is filled, as the fabric swells, and it is as perfect a duck as the ordinary leather hose, and there is no oiling required to preserve the elas ticity. A perfect imitation of morocco leather is produced by tlie application of a preparation of gutta perch a to the surface of plain Avoven or tAvilled cotton cloth. The surface is corrugated in imitation of morocco, and is colored and varnished so as to present all the external appearance of that kind of leather; the elasticity is perfect, and the cost less than one third that of mo rocco. Mr. Wallis describes it as com ing largely into use in tlie covering of articles of furniture, and for carriage linings. — London Times. Origin of I Words and Phrases. “ He’s cut a Dido.”—lt is told in his tory that Dido,'a queen of Tyre, about eight hundred and seventy years be fore Christ, fled from that place upon the murder of her husband, and with a colony settled upon the northern coast of Africa, where she built Carthage.— Being in want of land she bargained with the natives for as much as she could surround with a bull’s hide.— Having made the agreement, she cut a bull’s hide into thin strings, and ty ing them together, claimed as much land as slie could surround with the long line she had made. The natives al lowed the cunning queen to have her way but when anybody played off a trick, they said he had “cut a Dido” —and the phrase has come to our day. “He’s caught a Tartar.”—ln some battle between the Russians and the Tartars, who are a wild sort of a people in the north of Asia, a private soldier called out “ Captain, hold on there. I’ve caught a Tartar!” “Fetch him along, then !” said the captain. “Ay, but he won’t let me!’, said the man; and the fact was, the Tarter had caught him. So when a man thinks to take another in, and gets bit himself, they say — “He’s caught a Tartar!” “ Carrying the war into Africa.”— In one of the famous wars between Carthage and Rome, about two thou sand five hundred years ago, Hannibal, a Cathagenian leader, and one of the most wonderful men of antiquity, led his army into Italy, and for several years continued to threaten the city and lay waste to the surrounding coun try. Scipio, a Roman general, saw the neccessity of getting rid of Hannibal and his forces; so he determined to head an army into Africa, and threaten Carthage, and thus make it necessary for Hannibal to return home for its de fence. This scheme had its desired effect; and in all times this retaliating upon an enemy, by adopting his own tactics, is called “ carrying the war into Africa.” The term “Yankee” 's supposed to have originated with the Indians, who called the English Yongees, which came at length to be Yankees. “ Hoosiers.”—the people of Indiana are called Hoosiers, and it is said to be anabreviation of “Who’s here?”—a question which used to be shouted aloud by the traveller in that quarter, when, amid the tall grass of the prai ries he heard voices, or saw the smoke of a log cabin, but could see nobody. “Suckers” is the disignation of the people of Illinois, because, as it is said, the Galena miners used to appear in spring about the time the suckers, a large fish of the West, ascended the rivers. “ Wolverine ” is the title of a citizen of Michigan, because an animal of that ‘name resembling the raccoon, is com mon in that State. “ Buckeye ” is a tree resembling tin catalpa and it is common in Ohio ; so Ohio is called the Buckeye State, and* the citizens Buckeyes. “ Corn-crackers ” is the nickname or the Kentuckians,* as a compliment to the soil and climate, which furnish the people with abundances of corn/ and appetites to devour it. “John Bull” is the title given to England and Englishmen, because it is fancied that there is a surly, grum bling manner about the people of that country, which reminds one of a bull. population and wealth. Pennsylvania is called the “ Key Stone State,” because of ifs central position,