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% <®lctkl]t Journal:—Clrholeti to fitcnitm, politics. Religion into
COURT CALENDAR FOR 1854.
REVISED BY THE SOUTHERN RECORDER.
Simmon courts.
JANUARY. 4th Monday, Richmond
2d Monday, Chatham Muscogee
4tii Monday, Richmond AUGUST.
FEBRUARY. 2d Monday. Clark
Ist Monday. Clark 3d Monday, Campbell
3rd Monday, Campbell Walton
Walton 4th Monday,
4th Monday, Baldwin Monroe
Jackson Taliaferro
Monroe 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
Cass Cass
Crawford Crawford
Elbert Butts
Greene Elbert
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
4tii 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
Wilkinson Tuesday after, Pike
Camden 2d Monday, Forsyth
Taylor Whitfield
Thursday alter, Rabun Dooly
Friday after, Wayne
2d Monday, Forsyth Hancock
Whitfield Montgomery
Dooly Laurens
Glynn Thrsuday after, Tattnall
Habersham 3d Monday, Lumpkin
Hancock Worth
Montgomery Franklin
Laurens Early
Thursday after, Mclntosh Henry
and Tattnall Stewart
3d Monday, Lumpkin Emanuel
Worth Jones
Franklin Oglethrope
Stewart Pulaski
Early 4th Monday, Union
Henry Decatur
.Jones jPP DeKalb
Liberty Houston
Oglethrope Jasper
Pulaski Lincoln
Emanuel Scriven
Thursday after, Bryan Telfair
4th Monday, Union Catoosa
Decatur Thursday after, Irwin
Dekalb " Bulloch f
Houston Monday after. Effingham
Jasper NOVEMBER.
Lincoln Ist Monday,
Scriven Kinehafoonee
Telfair Fannin
Catoosa Heard
Thursday after, Irwin Walker
MAY Upson
Ist Monday, Ist Tuesday, Bulloch j:
Kinchafooneo 2d Monday, Bibb
Fannin Gilmer
Heard Chattahoochee
W alker Baker
Upson Jefferson
2d Monday, Bibb Hade
Gilmer 9h Monday, Spalding
Chatahoocheo Pickens
Baker Burke
Chatham Camden
Hade Calhoun
3d Monday. Spalding Troup
Pickens Friday after, Wayne
Burke 4tl Monday, Glynn
Calhoun Thomas
Troup Doughtery
4th Monday Thomas Floyd
Dougherty Tlursday after,
Floyd Mclntosh
Monday after Lowndes, Monday after, Lowndes
Monday af Lowndes, and Liberty
Clinch Tl ursday after, Bryan
Thursday after Clinch, Monday after Lowndes,
NV are. Clinch.
Monday after Ware, Tl ursday after Clinch,
Appling. Ware.
Wednesday after, Minday after Ware,
Charlton. Appling
Friday after, Tlursday after •
Coffee. Charlton
JUNE. FT (lay after, Coffee
Ist Monday, Jefferson DECEMBER.
2d Monday, 2d Monday, Lee
Lee Carroll
Carroll 4tl Monday, Museoogee
*On the Ist and 2d Moi days in October next
(for one term only.)
f F’all Term, 1854.
\ After Fall Term 1854.
How to get Plump*
A correspondent <fr the Home Jour
nal, recommends 1 dies desirous of
looking plump and resit, in the first
place to rise with t.e sun, eat a slice
or two of bread and oast, drink a cup
of tea or coffee, thei ride six miles,
(either trot or canter) At 11 o'clock,
take a spoonful of col liver oil, follow
ed by a couple of h;,rd crackers, then
walk heartily for at hour—drink a.t
dinner a half pint o - the best English
or Scotch ale, to be increased to a pint
as soon as she can stand it. Drink
tea in the evening anl coffee at break
fast. On retiring/ between ten and
eleven, take a spoonful of cod liver oil
and two crackers. These prescriptions
faithfully follower 1 will impart fresh
ness, plumpness, md a glorious appe
tite.
A delightful rtgimen that! -The
Cod Liver Oil indices the plumpness
we suppose.
——
Lather Mathew /is still administer,
ing the in Ireland.
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“WITHOUT FE.IH, F.SFOR OH AFFECTION.”
EATONTON, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1854.
ftoefej).
Song to Kate.
Wo find the following, says the R. Weekly Post,
in the Burlington (Vti) Sentinel, and feel' pretty
well assured that we do not err in attributing the
authorship to John G. Saxe, the witty editor of that
paper,
My eyes! how I love you,
You sweet little dove you—
There’s no one above you,
Most beautiful Kitty;
So glossy your hair is—
Like a sylph’s or a fairy’s,
And your neck I declare is
Exquisitely pretty!
Quito Grecian your nose is,
And yonr cheeks are like roses—
So delicious—O, Moses!
Surpassingly sweet!
Not the beauty of tulips,
Nor tiie taste of mint julips,
Can compare with your two lips!
Most beautiful Kate!
Not the black eye of Juno,
Nor Minerva’s of blue, no
Nor Venus’s you know,
Can equal your own!
Ah! how my heart prances,
And frolics and dances,
When its radiant- glances,
Upon me arc thrown 1
And now, dearest Kitty,
It’s not very pretty—
Indeed ’tis a pity,
To keep me in sorrow!
So, if you’ll but chime in,
NVe’ll have clone with our rhymin’:
Swap Cupid for Hymen,
And be married to-morrow.
Hfeallinieoits.
roil THE INDEPENDENT PRESS
jProgress, , S*e.
"We live in an age which is at once
important, eventful, and progressive;
one which constitutes a great epoch in
the cvele in which time is now advanc
ing. It casts its brightening glories be
fore,and most significantly revealsto the
ken of thinking man, the exalted des
tiny which will be his. It is the soil
in which is planted the millenial tree,
whose roots are striking deep, and
whose branches arc rising and expand
ing to shelter universal man.
There is one great principle which
characterizes o"r times more decidedly,
than any period of the past. Mind is
fast advancing in all that can promise
glory and happiness. It is soaring high
into the realms of the material uni
verse, and unfolding its God-announc
ing wonders; it is piercing deep into
the dark recesses of our little world,
and reading power, and wisdom, and
goodness in the hand-writing traced by
the finger of God, upon the tablets of
bis own workmanship; it is dissever
ing matter, and displaying the magical
properties of its component parts; it is
subduing the long established tyranny
of the old elements, and compelling
them to yield their power subservient
to the good of man; mind is in short,
obtaining a glimpse of the true God
through the media of his word and his
works, and unravelling the mysteries
of the nature of man; evolving the
transcendent powers with which he is
endowed; unfolding the laws to which
he is subject, physically, intellectually,
and spiritually ; and more than all, if
anything can be more, is abandoning
error —av, breaking the thraldom ol
sin, and becoming free to take a high
stand in the moral grades of the uni
verse. Thus progress is onward.—
Heaven says “come up higher,” and
man would obey.
There are two species of progress es
pecially prominent incur times. These
relate, first, to the achievement of
mind—and secondly, to liberal senti
ment.
M mtality is rising, it is employed up
on the noblest subjects which can en
gage the attention of man. Mind is
coming in contact with mind, and new
channels of thought are being struck
out. Fact after fact, phenomenon after
phenomenon, are being collected and
generalized, principle upon principle
educed, and truth accumulated. From
the contact of mind proceeds harmony.
Thought is falling in with thought,
truth with truth, and the stream has
begun to move, and is gathering force,
and volume, and purity, as it proceeds.
Thus the portals of light are opened,
and those who open their eyes may see.
Mind obtains the touchstones whereby
opinions may be tried. Error and
truth are thus assayed; conscience re
jects the former, and takes the latter
into its embrace. Hence the man of
mind and principle abandons “old po
sitions,” and assumes new ones. "YVhat-
ever lie finds wrong he rejects, howev
ortliodox it may have heretofore been
considered. Whatever reason and con
science tell him is right, he receives,
however heterodox he and others may
have regarded it. Thus the honest,
thinking man attains to freedom, bursts
the bonds of ignorance and bigotry,
and becomes liberalized.
The liberal sentiment of our times
traces its genealogy back to the days of
Luther. The orthodox of that day
were made to feel there is a time, when
corruption must contend for every par
ticle of dominion it is permitted to re
tain.
Liberalism is gaining ground daily.
The ratio of its increase seems to be in
geometrical progression. Where but a
few years since there was nothing heard
of but regular orthodoxy, we now hear
of new ideas. Where the puritanical
spirit formerly reigned, we now find a
whole host of free-thinkers, and there
a,re men who even dare breathe the spir
it of Progress and Reform. Indepen
dent journals and news-papers are start
ing into existence at the voice of reason,
and have Liberalism and Reform stamp
ed upon every column.
Every act done in the great work of
human progress will he as long as the
race survives. Every act which tends
to the annihilation of error is a little
rock started from the mountain top,
which gathers force on its way down
ward, and starts others at every bound,
which in turn augments the number,
until, before the rushing mass reaches
the base, it bears down all before it,—
Let me then start a little pebble, if
nothing more. Every act which tends
to the establishment of the reign of
truth amongst men, is a germ set in the
soil, which in time will become a
mighty tree. Let me then plant a lit
tle acorn, that it may shoot up, and,
by the richness of its foliage and the
stateliness of its form, add to the beau
ty and grandeur of the millenial plains.
PATTERSON.
The Southern Mian.
T\ e copy from a late number of the
N. V . Times, the following beautiful,
eloquent and affectionate, and in the
main, just and discriminating notice of
the “Southern Man,” by the Key. W.
H. Milburn. The truly patriotic, pa
ternal. catholic and Christian spirit of
the Reverend lecturer, were it general
ly to pervade the Northern mind and
heart, would indeed weld our union in
dissolubly together, and render it per
petual :
Lecture by Rev. Win. 11. Milburn.—
“Jiie Southern Man."—This Rever
end gentleman last evening, delivered
a hignly interesting lecture on the sub
ject of the “Southern Man,” at Hope
Chapel, in the presence of a large and
respectable audience. He believed that
the rich and luxuriant climate of the
South had a great effect in moulding
the moral, intellectual, and physical
character of the “Southern Man.” He
was a line and noble specimen of the
physical man, from being constantly
engaged in the sports of the field. Yet,
notwithstanding this, there was an ap
pearance of lassitude and languor,
which rather imparted to him a grace
ful negligence, rarely possessed by the
inhabitants of Northern climes. The
“Southern Man” was manly, stalwart
and graceful, and remarkable for his
self-reliance, acquired by the conscious
ness of power which came to him al
most as an hereditary birth-right. In
his literary tastes the “Southern Man”
addressed himself to the old thinkers.
Shakespeare was his constant friend,
never thrown aside for any other, and
the light of Milton wasnever obscured
by any new star that arose in the po
litical firmanent. He loved newspapers
too, for, from his earliest infancy, he
had been probably associated with
some John C. Calhoun, and thus ac
quired a taste and aptitude for political
life —and that this was the case, was
particularly apparent from the fact of
the ascendency of the Southern party
in the halls of Congress. The “South
ern Man” reads little or none, [here
we dissent from the lecturer—the
“Southern Man”'reads more than he
supposes, and by no means confines
himself to Shakespeare, Milton, and
the newspapers.— Eds. Courier. ] but he
took it all out in talking. The thought
of the South exhaled itself m the per
fume of conversation, and there was a
grace, a beauty, and an aroma about
it, which was rarely to be met with in
other latitudes. The South looked up
on the book-making propensities of the
North as fraught with the most peril
ous consequences to society, and con
gratulated themselves that they had
nothing to do with it. The Reverend
gentleman then reierred to the vices
of the South —their extravagance in
speech and action, intemperance, [in
spite of the Maine Liquor Law, the
South would not shun a comparison
North, even in this particular. The
lecturer forgot, too, that the Father
Mathew of the Temperance cause in
the United States, hails from the South.
Eds. Courier ,] and idleness. But, said
he in conclusion, he is not a stranger
and an alien from the other side of the
deep, with no common origin, or com
mon association, with no hallowed as
sociation of the old times, but this man
is your brother, surrounded by other
circumstances, and other scenes, than
those which' surround you. In our
veins flows a blood of the same old
father’s that bedewed the soil of our
country —the blood that flowed in the
veins of Henry, and Jefferson, and Han
cock, and that seemed to rise to its ve
ry sublimest essence and purity in the
character of one whom neither the
North nor South can claim as its own
special privilege of raising—that man
whose name is a beacon of Hope to the
oppressed and down-trodden —George
Washington. The Southern and the
Northern man kneel round one altar,
and one communiontable together, and
they have a common father in Heaven
to whom they pray. The same book
lies upon the pulpit cushion, and the
same word of hope is uttered by the
bedside of the dying man. The same
benediction is pronounced at the altar
when two plight their faith together for
life or death. Shall we not then look
on one another in the spirit of love and
friendship, and amity and concord, and
feel that we are brethren ? Shall we
not drop the party cries and watch
words of bigotry, be willing to ac
knowledge each other’s excellence, and
assist one another in remedying wrong
and perfecting right? The province of
our national life is to be reconciled to
each other, and in the unity of Demo
cratic Government to harmonize all ap
parent discords. “ ’Tis a consummation
devoutly to be wished.” It can be done.
[Loud cheers.] —Charleston Courier.
AfincnltuniL
English Estimate of Guano.
Admiral Morseby lias forwarded to
the Admiralty the best information he
could obtain respecting the amount of
guano now remaining on the Chincha
Islands; he is of the opinion that at the
present average rate of exportation
the Islands will be exhausted of the
guano that would pay freight or be
saleable in the English market, in eight
or nine years. He says that from the
northern or principal island more than
a third of the guano has been removed,
but there remains about 3,500,000 tons
of that termed “ English guano,” as
formerly alone selected for English
market; about 1,500,000 tons of that
exported uv ships to America and
elsewhere, and about 500,000 of inferi
or guano reserved for the coast trade.
On the centre island, he says there
may be about 800,000 tons of the first
quality, and 700,000 of the second. —
The southern and smallest island has
not yet been worked, but from its
windward position the guano is inferior,
and has no great depth. Our repre
sentative at Lima writes that the com
mission sent by the Peruvian Govern
ment lately to survey the Chincha Is
lands have not yet published their re
port, but he has reason to believe that
the amount is calculated at 7,000,000
tons, and that at the actual rate of ex
portation, it will take 14 years to ex
haust the islands. He adds that there
is plenty of guano to be found in the
Lobos Islands and other parts of Peru
but that the guano of the Chincha Is
lands is considered superior, oil account
of the great quantity of ammonia in it.
He has been instructed to obtain infor
mation respecting the deposits of ni
trate of soda on the surface of Pampa
of Samarugal, which stretches along
the coast of Peru.
It ’s believed that there are large
beds of nitrate of Soda in Mexico, and
our consul at Vera Cruz has been re
quested to make inquiries upon the
subject, In a letter to the Earl of
Clarendon dated the first ult., he states
that there is no doubt of the existence
of this salt in many parts of the tabic
land of Mexico, but that the difficulty
of communication with the coast pre
vents the hope of its being brought to
the Gulf for shipment at any thing like
a reasonable cost until railroad are
established, of which the prospect is
very distant, lie reports at the same
time that it has recently come to his
knowledge that guano has been discov
ered on several islands' in the Gulf of
Mexico, particularly on those known
as the Triangles, not very far distant
from the coast of Yucatan. He states
that two American vessels were load
ing there very lately, and one of them
with upwards of 200 tons guano on
board stranded in a storm on one of
the cluster of islands called Arenas
near the Triangles, and so the matter
is brought to light. But he learns
that the Mexican Government has
granted for ten years a. monopoly of
all the guano to be found either on the
Atlantic or Pacific side of Mexico to
an association at the head of which is
Mr. Joseph O. Forms of Mexico ; the
only inlands excepted from this grant
are the three Islands known under
the name of the Marias in the Pacific.
[London Times, March, 5.
Eclipus.
j Preaching for the Times.
We with pleasure, copy the follow
ing extract from a letter written by a
gentleman at Bullard’s Bar to the edi
tors of the Sierra (Cal.) Citizen. It
contains sentiments, which, though in
tended for the Pacific section of the
Union, are applicable to every quarter.
Whether or not the city of Washing
ton should be included within the
scope of the remarks, we respectfully
defer to the judgment of the reader:
“But California wants preachers —
preachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
preachers whose hearts are big and
brave, full of the warmth of Christ’s
love for men, who are willing to work,
and preach, and pray out of a genuine
Christian zeal. Arc there any such ?
California wants preachers who can
take hold of men’s hearts here, and fill
them with early memories, and kindle
the hopes of goodness, well nigh dead,
and renew the longings of by-gone
times, when the heavens seemed full of
good spirits, wooing them to purity—
preachers who can not only reprove, in
a loving spirit, the sins which all ac
knowledge, but give a chance to us
poor devils to grow better. We don’t
want, when now and then we get in
to a church, to be made to feel that we
are utter devils—fairly shocking to the
tender sensibilities of the amiable min
ister, who thinks his best plan of draw
ing us to a better life is by painting,
in the highest coloring, the iniquities
for which we arc already sorry, and
perhaps, ashamed.
“I know that lam a great sinner; 1
never go to church to learn that. Put
when lam edified by half an hours
painting of all my worst faults, and
many which are neither mine nor any
body’s else, it would be pleasant to
have something said which would ap
peal to what little good there may be
crowded down into the bottom of a
soul, by the weary burden which has
somehow gathered over it during a
hard life. How often a man is forced
to wonder at the ignorance of very
smart preachers ! How little they
know about men ! Is it because their
religion separates them so far from us ?
May it not be that they entrench them
selves so closely within professional
walls, that they know nothing beyond
them? Do we not (I put it to sinners
like myself,) unconsciously treat the
few preachers we meet, as if, as a mat
ter of course , they knew nothing of the
world ? Are we not utterly surprised,
and inexpressibly pleased when we
happen upon a man who can be talked
to just like other men, although he is
a preacher ? How eagerly we listen
to such a man ; how gratefully we
listen to his counsel, though, alas, we
may not follow it; how our hearts
warm towards his goodness; how we
wish we were Christians, like him;
and how we tell our ungodly cronies
about him-—always remembering to
say, ‘he has got common sensei ”
j TERMS, $2,00 A YEAR.
NUMBER 8.
Consecration of the SSishops.
A Columbus correspondent gives
us the following account of the cere
mony of consecration, which took place
in that city on Thursday last:
“One of the most impressive ceremo
nies in the present Conference, toek
place on Thursday last (25th inst.) af
ternoon, at 4 o’clock, yy bich yqnsLted
of the ordination of the newly elected
Bishops. The ceremony had been
given out for Sabbath, but Bishop An
drew had been called home by family
affliction, and the ceremony came off
to-day. The exercises were short and
devoutly performed ; first by prayer
and the reading of a chapter from the
Acts of the Apostles, both by Bishop
Andrew: then another selection or two
from the New Testament, by the ven
erable Bishop Capers. And his read
ing was decidedly more fervent, more
spiritual'(if I may use the word) than
on any occasion when I have listened
to him. His recitation of “ Simon Pe
ter, son of Jonas, lovest thou me ;
and the answer of the Saviour, “Lord
Thou knowest all things; Thou lenowest
that I love Thee were the imper
sonifieations of both voices ol the two
speakers themselves.
Then followed the calling up of the
candidates to the alter —each one being
accompanied by his friend, Mr. Pierce
by his aged and venerated father. It
was singular to see the son created a
spiritual father over the natural parent,
but the voice of his compeers had so
decided. A series of questions were
propounded to the oandidates by Bish
op Soule —and Prayer offered by Bish
op Payne, to which responses were
made by all the Conference.
Then Bishop Soule laying both his
hands, (and each of the remaining
Bishops one of theirs) on the heads of
the kneeling Candida, tee, ft solemn in
junction to prove themselves worthy
disciples of their Lord and Master, v» as
uttered, and the benedictions of the
Almighty invoked on each. Prayer
followed by Bishop Capers; tne com
missions regularly signed by each o*>
the officiating prelates and the new
Bishops were declared to be July oi
dained to the sacred offices to which
they were chosen.
Conference will probably adjourn
about Saturday of next week.'’
[Georgia Citizen.
« Who is Mrs- Partington ? ,r
The inquiry is frequently made,
“Who is Mrs. Partington ?” We first
read of the old lady in a speech of
Sidney Smith—the wittiest and proba
bly the wisest man of his day—at
Taunton, England, in 1831, on the
subject of parliamentary reform, by
which Great Britain was then much
agitated. lie was insisting that the
possibility of the House of Lords de
feating the reform movement was the
most absurd notion that ever entered
into human imagination. And to il
lustrate the futility of resisting popular
demand, he said : ‘I do not mean to
: be disrespectful, but the attempt of the
Lords to stop the progress of reform
reminds me very forcibly of the great
storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct
of the excellent Mrs. Partington on
that occasion : In the winter 1324 there
set in a great flood upon the town;
the tide arose to an incredible height,
the waves rushed in upon the houses,
and everything was threatened with
destruction. In the midst of this sub
lime and terrific storm, Dame Parting
ton, who lived on the beach, was seen
at the door of her house with mop and
pattens, tumbling her mop, squeezing
out the seawater, and vigorously push
ing away the Atlantic Ocean. The At
lantic was aroused. Mrs. Partingtou’s
spirit was up; but I need not tell you
that the contest was unequal. The
Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington.
She was excellent, at a slop or puddle ;
but she should not have meddled with
Ia tempest. —Buffalo Com. Advertise)'.
Tobacco Ciiewers, Beware.—Be
sides the poison contained in the weed
itself, many of our tobacco chewers
arc absorbing into their system an ox
yde of lead—the same which kills so
many painters and paralizes others. ~
Lead foil is cheaper than tin foil, and
some of those who put tip tobacco for
ceewing, use the latter instead of the
former. The counterfeit may be known
by its dark blue or blueish color, where
as tin foil is nearly white.