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VOLUME 1.
v roiNritY iio.ii
' uu< a home in ;ti ■ i'.nintiv wi.io.
And asi ,it hv tiu* tanner's 1 1 lir.'sM »,
Where the tiro barns bright.
On :i t'n»lv night.
Where t!ie jest mid the song. niul langh are tree,
oh! the fanner's horn- is the home tor me.
Oh! give me a homo in the country will >,
When liie earth I'lUllos ottt as a Idasldllg hride.
When her buds atii flowers,
in the inig’.il spring hours.
Her bridal song ringing litgn rtvsii-Uuvt.il trees,
AIU melodv Heats Oil tile |**i t iiinsl bl\V/.e:
la vniun.r, a s at in til siiady nook.
And close by the sid - vt a c miiug brook.
Where tlie violet grow*.
Or tile pale swamp rose.
Fs aiiug mid sn-k. 'neatli the suit's scorching beam.
Dips her petals in the ending stream.
Oh! give tne a homo in the country wide,
lu ti. • golden days of the fanner's pride,
When tlie burns are tilled
r'rum the held lie's tilled.
And he f.-e!s that bis yearly task is done,
Smiling at winter, he lieekotis him oil,
PiSCfllllllftHlS.
r*'lt TIIK INK I I XMm 1-UKSS.
[bo MM UN iti'A i l!l)'j
Mu. Editor;—V- vmi have huh ti
to siiositilt ti;il 1 * \o!tr charges against
Fetll.l! • (’• II !'•_<• a, ;iiV iill TCIICC is, t lint
you mad ■t h m vehou! just lvt'isotis
or (I t • co.i : ! ration. Ami ttllow me
to remark tut* “ ■> e.n rcisc ol chnstain
i -iniy i.a.s El it mo.-tly on mv
part —Tine • y-M virtually accused ltt •
<'i i11•:ii-_r til i) an
“ri 1 . ”
l iie aigiimonts of “your obedient
S' i vattt are threadbare and common
place. Ido not deem them worthy of
notice! especially since ho lias yielded
the whole ground by saying that the
College at. Macon was erected with a
g 'dpurpos '. All others in the State
were instituted with the same noble
intentions; tire conducted upon the
sum'* general plan, and are contrelied
hymen, whose desire to do good is
equally as ardent as tliosj connected
with the Macon College. While I re
gard that Institution as a blessing to
the oourdry, and esteem its officers as
men of eminent abilities, I can but
believe that your correspondent al
lowed liissectaritm prejudices to get the
better of bissirguntent, in his “ excep
tion of the College at Macon.'' With ail
bis “ practical good sense and wisdom;'
1 hazard the assertion, that ho would
lie one of the last men to educate his
daughter upon the plan you suggest—
he has no plan of hi* own, it seems.
Believing that our Female Colleges
are established upon too firm a basis
to be shaken by such unreasonable
find unjust accusations as have been
made against them, and which still re
main unproved, an 4 that they will
continue to elevate the standard of
Female education, I deem it unneces
sary to say any thing more in their
defence. A TKACH KR.
n:<)M I'OU-Son's AIiVEJITJSKIt.
Napoleon and Talejrand.
The grave has closed its impassable
grates npoii these extraordinary men, so
cntinlv different in their characters,
and vet each exercising, in his own way,
great influence in the world.-—-In ‘‘The
bandeau’s History’’ they are In-ought
together on an aeeasion calculated to ex
hibit their respective principles and feel
ings. O.i the return oQßonaparfo the
Oencral of.the R-pubiic, from his bril
liant victories in May, be was received
with ail the honor that the enthusiasm
of the people and the era! i tilde of the di
rectory could shower upon him. Af
ter giving an account of these proceed
ings, the historian goes on. “The
c riebration of the anniversary of the
«1.-ath of Louis 10th approach--d—the di
rectory discussed tin) question, whether
Bonaparte should take a part in it.—
They feared that the ceremony wou and i
be unpopular if he were not there, and
that if he was, he would be mon\ an
object of attention than tin* directory.
They decided that policy required the
presence of the Gen. ral, and Talley
rand was charged with the negotiation.
Bonaparte observed to him, that he
held no public functions; that he had
personally, nothing to do with this
fete; that without pretending to dismiss*
$ CClcrl;ln journal:—Drtiotrti to literature, politics, anil General |§istcll;utj).
whether the judgement upon Louis
was useful or injurious to mankind, it
was an unhappy occurrence ; that, we
celebrate nation;.l fetes for victories,
but weep over the victims that remain
on the held of battle. Talleyrand re
plied that this celebration was just, In -
: cans "it was j olitie; that it was politic,
| for that every country, and fill lepub
iios, have celebrated ns a triumph the
fa!! of a' solute pbW TANARUS, and the murder
of try ants: that in this way Athens
had e lefrated the death of Pisistrat s,
and Home tiiat ol tlie l) *cemvirs; that,
I)‘sid s. it was the law oft he country,
and th a’efore every one owed it sub
mission and obedience: that finally,
t!\ * iu!la *:i * * ofth ' (t *.i -r;il of Ita
ly was such, that he ought to appear
at this ceremonv, and that his absence
would hurt the interest of pubi : e affairs.
Alter much conversation. Bonaparte
refused to lake a conspicuous part in
the celebration, but consented to go
| with the institute as a member of that
j body.
Here we haw, in one sentence, the
whole moral and political creed of Tal
leyrand-- “It is just because it is poli
tic.” Acting on this principle or rule
of*conduct, this stone heart and politician
and hypocrite lent or sold his extraordi
nary talents, regardless ofthe restraints
l of integrity, sham-’ or consistence, to
what ever and whomsoever happened
to.be the dominant power of France,
whether revolution try, republican, im
]'k rial or royal. Let Imu hold the
reins, and be eared not whether they
wore recking with blood, >r studded
with diamonds. lie was r adv to
served or abandon and l> crav. as his
won 1 -rful sag.ie.it v p weeiv and ssticees or
defeat apj)r< laehing.
—»,*.
KItOM ill!. UCMPUItKy's FORKIGX TOUR.
Lord Brougham.
If there was any man in England
whom I wished to see and hear n ore
than any other, it was IL-nry Brough
am. I had heard so much of his
nervous anticks and anomalous physi
ognomy, that I expected to be rathei
amused by his personal appearance.—
You may \vo!i suppose, therefore, that
as l waited with the expectant thou
sand in Exeter Ilall, for his arrival, to
take the chair, at one of the great an
niversaries. mvcuriositv was wrought
up to the Slightest pitch. When at
length he came in. and advanced to
the front of the platform, amid the en
thusiastic greeting of the vast assem
bly. 1 confess \ was much disappoint
ed. lie wore a plain frock-coat, and
there was nothing in his dress or ad'
di’i'ss, to distinguish him from any
well-bred private gentleman. Lord
Brougham is not nine , if any, below
the middling staini\ —rather spare
than corpulent—carrying none of the
common marks of high living in his
face; and if he ever wore that angular,
huddled, and spasmodic visage, whkdi
has been ascribed to him, he must
have left it with the Lord Chancellor’s
wig in the Westminster wardrobe. 1
was near him on this and other occa
sions, for hours together, and cannot
be mistaken. He is not handsome,
but neither is he an ill-looking man.
His teatures arc very strong, but no 1
grotesque. He appears to be rather
under lifty years of age, than over.—
llis forehead is broadly furrowed, bis
eyes are small a id restless, and deeply
shaded in their retirement, under
1 arching and.shaggy brows. It is nose i rf
i rather short and blunt, than aquliu'..-
! There is a slight nervous twitching
j about the muscles of his face, even in
its repose ; and when, lie is highly ex*
j cited in debate, it becomes extremely
j active.
Jlis voice has neither very great
power nor compass; and yet, he speaks
with so much distinctness and deliber
ation, that all can hear hint in the
largest assemblies. Ordinarily when
he coin men ees, if you did not know
who he was, you would not, be particu
larly struck, either with what lie says,
or with his manner of saving it. Be
fore helms proceeded far, however, you
perceive that the tun rgies of a mighty
mind arc waking into action. His
sentences, as they fail, one 4fter anoth
er from his lips, are as perspicuous as
well turned, and as much condensed
as it he had writen them off for the
Kdimlurgh Quarterly, in his closet.—
The whole vocabulary seems to be en
tirely at his command ; and it is .ex
tremely interesting to follow him, step
by step, as he culls from the mexliaust-
I ible store-house the very words which
EATOjS’TQN, GA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 185 L
j most exactly and forcwilv express ms
I meaning.
\\ hen Lord Brougham is thorough
ly roust'd, (and 1 happened to hear him
on one such occasion,) his mind seems
more like an intensely heated and de
vouring luruace, than any thing else
to which 1 can com pa e it. Th 1 flaslu s
are so excessively bright, that, they al
most blind you; and wo be, even to
Nebuchadnezzar's mighty men, if they
venture too near to the mouth of it. —
I believe it is conceded on all hand's,
that noman equals him,'in the bitterness
ot his scorn, or the burning and over
whelming power of his invectives.—
“ His tone is that of prou 1 superiority
and command, and its general charac
ter may be described by the single
word, terrible. It is terrible in its irony,
terrible in its invective, and terrible in
its history and predictions." V, ryfew,
when his indignant spirit is seen to be
on fire, have the temerity to meet
him, with such weapons as they can
draw from the same armory, and of
those few, there is not one, probably,
but that secretly repents of his chival
ry, before the onset is over. In his
premeditated attacks, yon seethe little
eddy, which at first only raises the
leaves and dust, but which widens
and gathers strength every moment, as
it advances, till at length, it becomes a
perfect tornado, and wrings off the
sturdiest oaks in its progress. This, 1
admit, is not one of the most amiable
traits of character which a great man
can possess ; but then it ought to be
remembered, as some apology for him,
that hardly any man vvasevor so much
goaded and eluded by a powerful and
relentless press, as Lord Brougham
lias been, within the last six years.—
As the great champion of reform, both
in and out of Parlimeut, he has made
himself exceedingly obnoxious to the
high Tory party, particularly in the
upper House.
Many of Lord Brougham's friend
regret his elevation to the peerage, be
cause it has withdrawn him forever
from the Hons; of Commons, the fin
est field in the world for the exercise
of his powers; and it is believed, from
hints of his own, that he regrets it, as
much as any body. I heard him sav
myself, at the meeting, for the protection
of religious liberty, that lie could not
serve the people with half the efficien
cy now, as he .had once been able to do
in the popular branch of’the legislature.
In the Lords, lie is sure, on all great
questions of reform, to encounter a
uead majority, and to be voted down
in the end, however triumphant lie
may be in the argument. But even
there, bis power is felt and dreaded,
more than that of any other member
He is the last man in the world, to be
brow-beaten and silenced any where.
As an example of the style iu which
he sometimes comes out upon their lord
ships, l will give a short extract from
one of his speeches, at the last session,
on the Municipal ilefonn Bdi. Tiny
were determined to put him down, by
calling loudly for the qnestio 1, and by
other boisterous interruptions m the
midst of his inswor to a pretty severe
attack, from Lord Lyndhuret..
“ One or two of you cry question
when .1 attempt to meet the attack,
from a total ignorance of my nature,
and of my habits oflife- from a foolish
and ridiculous and absurd notion ,that
by crying question', you can put me
<1 jwii. Vv liy, I have stood lip against
half the If use ot Commons, when
they cried question! for three quarters
of an hour, and they could not put
me down. Cotidiiue yladios contcmpsi;
non tuos pertimescam. I know what it
is to stand against three hundred men,
preteudi ng to be representatives of the
people, who have attempted to drown
the voice of one man, who was their
real friend, and representative, and
they did not succeed ; and do you think
teat one of you ! —can put me down ?’’
I. hardly need io add, that they were
obliged to give it up ands t him finish
his speech at. his leisure.
Ltm-x SriT AgainstTin-;Ti:inrxk.
—Mr. Baker, the Know-Nothing cun
ditate for Mayor of New York, feeling
deeply aggrieved at softie articles
which appeared in the Tribune, impugn
ing liis character and motives, has
brought, suit against, that journal for
lib I, laving damages at 8‘20,000.5r-
The impression prevails that he will
be enfitlei.l to a verdict. The Tribune
tried to sneak out, but Mr. Baker is
inexorable and uncompromising.
■ ifiTiioi T rt;.nt, r.ii’(iit ou .ipfih tio.V’-
Extracis from a Speech
0/ Daniel S. Dickinson, ch.du'ireel in A.
Y. Cl!;/, on the 1.-g A an'., 1851.
TIIK SOFT SHELL PA!,TV.
“But then there is the third politi
cal party —the softs, or the administra
tion party. And I will not stop to dis
cuss 1 lie merits of the administration
now, for 1 have not time to meddl *
with small matters. (Laughter.) The
idmiuistration party of this State, dike
decaying substances generally, have
sought some mode of preservation., and
finding no other means availing they
have taken refuge in alcohol—(laugh
ter)— knowing that to be one, of the
best preservatives— the best for pre
serving decaying substances. They
seem to be according to all accounts,
in better spirits than they were.—
(Laughter.) Not because their spirits
bear the Custom House brand (contin
ued laughter) for I believe they have
taken the brand off the casks and put
it uj on the candidates. (Uproarious
laughter.) And their candidate for
Governor—the present Governor of
this State—has placed himself upon
this being-hole issue alone. Ilis decla
ration on the subject is equal to that of
his illustrious predecessor, Jack Cade,
who declared that in his reign the three
hooped pots should have ten hoops, and
dial he would make it felony to drink
small beer. (Laughter.) The present
Gov. n >r is the champion of ihat in
terest. Well. It those who want <o
know what kind of a champion he
was, go and ask the brewers, and tie
distillers, aril the liquor dealers of AI
bany, and they will tell you truly
that tit the time he was called upon to
veto or to sign Myron 11. Clark’s li
quor law bill, there never was a brew
ing of beer in Albany that underwent
so much fermentation as the Governor
underwent before lie signed the veto
(Laughter.) That veto was prepared,
ready tor his hand; and it was a long
time before he was prevailed upon to
sign it. Vet now becomes forward as
great a champion—of what? why of
the liquor interest of the State. He
seeks to gain a victory bv that interest
—i party victory; a victory for the
softs, or ad ministration party (laugh tel” :•
a v etery which would have to be es
timated by the gallon, and measured
by the quart. (1 ir< a‘ laughter.) 1
have already stated that, the democrat
ic party placed itself on no such issue :
and 1 repeat what T have said, that
such an issue is disgraceful to the State
of New Vork, or to any party which
places itself upon it. And this I sav—
knowing what I say, and in whose
hearing J say it —of the liquor
dealers themselves. And l will have
them to agree with me in a moment, if
they only listen to me. The democrat
ic party is adequate to the reformation
of all abuses in the government. Ii
is adequate to the protection of every
class, and every interest, and every
citizen. And no one interest and no
one c'a s is entitled to an exclusive pro
tection,''
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
‘•The democratic party seems to be
overthrown. We ail know the cause
of that. We are held responsible by
the people lbr a great error in our ru
lers —not our rulers ; but. our servants,
(applause) and the people have brought
us to judgment. The democracy, of
the national government has been held
to be a failure—the people have pass
ed judgment upon it, and they will not
consider that tnev have had satisfaction
by execution until it is overthrown in
every State in the Union. But it is no
time when the ship of State is over
thrown by the storm to abandon her.
u hen she is prospering upon the voy
age —when her pennant flutters joyous
ly in the breeze—when her every sail
is set, and all promises well, the faith
ful of her crew may well relax their en
ergies. But when the tempest over
whelms them—when many of the crew
become mutinous—it is then that those
who wish well, stand by her. Then
let no one abandon the ship of State,
because all is peril, (applause,) let them
stand by, and declare with the brave
Captain Luce, “the ship’s fate is mine.”
(Loud cheering.) Who would not
rather be one of that hapless crew of
the Arctic, to go down endeavoring
to save her, rather than one of that
coward gang that fled with the means
that should be used to pres rvc the
lives of others? Who would not rath
er be one of those who went down
than of those who took the lifeboat,
which was intended for the safety of
women and children, and cowardly
He'd? (Applause.) It is a time now
for every democrat to stand by his
principles—to stand frankly and faith
fully by them. Our duty is plain: —
Reject all isihS —all particular and ex
clusive interests, all cliques, and all
fusions which may operate against the
great body of the democratic party.—
“But we may be overthrown.” Sup
pose we are ; that is not the end of
all things; bit if it be, better to be
overthrown in a glorious cause than
fly like base cowards. (Applause.) —
We may be dispersed by hostile foes,
or deceived by false friends ; but we
will rally apgfV.r day to the charge,
and “wo to 1 kg Vidor that, tramples ns
down.” (Loud .applause.) The dem
ocratic party is simply disorganized ;
it is neither asleep, nor gone a jour
ney —it lias a power within itself to-
rally with a greater force than it ever
Inis exhibited. The democratic party
has fallen to pieces : because, after its
great and signal v ictory of 1852, it had
no other foe to exterminate; its heel
1 was on the neck of abolition fanaticism;
like Alexander of old, it had “nothing
more to conquer.” But its old foe has
risen up again. Who would not be
the first and foremost in that great ef
fort—in that, great battle of liberty ?
To preserve the constitution again si
the encroachments of fanaticism —to
conserve national virtue—to preserve
every interest, in our State policy, and
not only those domestic questions
which wo. have, but every other ques
tion, including all the social virtues—
charity, goodness, temperance, truth—
and preserving every interest, and cor
recting every abuse—that is the mis
sion of the democratic party —nothing
else. (Applause.) Its candidates have
been nominated, not as mere politicians,
bur as the representatives of those great
principles. They are placed there, not
as tlie representatives of an “ism” that
commenced in tlie last session of the
Legislature and is to end in the next,
hut they are placed there as the repre
sentatives of a principle which is des
tined to live forever, and which com
mends itself to ('very man. woman and
child in chrbt ndom. These princi
ples, my democraticMeThuv-oiiiz ns, we
ire all called upon to uphold and sus
ain. We belh ve that this good, of
which J have spoken, is to he acquired
by the sustaining of such principles.—
It is not the def at of Chirk or the suc
cess bt Green C. Bronson nor the drink
ing of liquor, or its prohibition, that
arc the considerations pressing upon
us at this juncture.''
BRONSON.
“ L-t us see for a moment who are
those candidates. Greene C. Bronson,
the advocate, the exponent, the uphol
der.
It is Greene C. Bronson that stands
forth with his associates, as the advo
cate n( the great principles to which .1
have adverted ; it is Myron 11. Clark
who stands forward as the champion
of his party —tile advocate of ;dl the
isms of the day—and Horatio Sev
inour stands in fore die democracy or
die State upon the liquor issue alone.
Now I call upon all honest men—
upon all men of sound morality— to
say what, principles we shall uphold,
what principles we shall inculale. —
If, having made your election, you
choose to uphold temperance, do so,
but do not attempt to uphold fanaticism
with it; rather let iis take a middf
ground—not an extrem.. —to preserve
and regulate, but not to destroy. It
you will support abolitionism, Maine
Liquor law-ism, "Woman's Rights-hsm,
and every other ism of the day, then
go and support Myron 11. Clark, and
you will have them all comprehended
in one dragnet. If you desire to place
yourself upon the liquor question
alone, arid have everything gauged,
like a cask, when you undertake to
make a stump speech ; and if you want
to have everything regulated by the
liquor question, well, then vote for
Horatio Seymore. But I trust, there
will be no such issue. I think that
the interests of the country, the inter
ests of the community, and the inter
ests of the liquor dealers even, are op
posed to the presentation of any
such issue. The liquor dealer un
doubtedly has his rights, but he hits
no more right to protection than the
representatives of other interests. It
may be said that the liquor interest
should be supported exclusively, “ be
cause it is assailed.” Let them assail;
their storm will howl for awhile;- they
must have some object-of attack : blit
after awhile they will let it alone.—
But all is within the control of good
men, if they will only come together
and act efficiently. Now mv fellow
(l mocrats, I invoke y> ti to act togeth
er upon this question. It, will be dis
graceful to see this,'the first, State in
the Union, go off—on what ? On the
question of liquor ! It might do very
well for Neal Dow to raise that ques
tion : but for the first State in the
Union to stand on that- issue, is asking
too much. Abandon the idea—turn it,
one side and turn back to the great po
litical issues of the day, and let them
.absorb your attention and considera
tion. (Applause.) Now that I have
given you my vk ws upon this ques
tion, 1 ref urn my thanks for the atten
tion you have shown me on this occa
sion, and in showingyou my high con
sideration of your attention I now bid
you good evening. (Immense eheer
ing.);
StnocxaH. —The List, line ever set
by M. Charlton, a Pittsburg printer,
whose death occurred recently, was
this—
“And even at last the solemn hour
shall come!”
Having done this. In? staggered from
hisca.se, under a sud In attack of di
sease, and in a ft w days died and was
buried. The solemn liour had come.
An experiment,has,lately been .suc
cessfully made in France, of employ
ing swallows- for carrying h.iters, as
pigeons were* used some years since.
John .Mitchell's Citzcn closes si no
tice of tlie article in the London Tina s
predicting that the time may come
when the European powers will regard
and treat the United States as a “pub
lic nuisance thus
Long ago Kossuth seriously warn
ed America that matters would come
to this, if the crowned heads of Eu
rope can succeed in quashing and cush
ioning this war in Europe,- (once so
promising and full of hope,) and so
keeping the .Republicans down—for
that-is the sole aim, and policy, and
prayer of the Western Powers—then
comes Aimriea’s turn. In that ease it
would turn out, and he cleat ly prov
ed, that the “ policy of non-interven
tion” was the surest way to involve
Inis continent at last in along and grie
vous war.
Not that this would be a very seri
ous evil to America. Steam can urge
ships eastward as well as in the course
of the sun. There are, at least, a hun
dred millions of people in Europe who
would hail-the American flag appear
ing among them as the Romans hail
ed the twin demi-gods at the Lake Keg
■ Piiis. Three ocean steamships once
m Irish waters carrying one thousand
men each, would be more than enough
to wrest Ireland from England—that
is to say, to dismember and destroy the
British Empire root and branch.
Candidly , we do Jin reni/y pray that
the “ Western Powers'' may find a sol
emn verdict against America—that she
is a public nuisance, —and proceed to ex
ecution accordingly. The world would
then, indeed, see a good time.
From the Southern Recorder.
A Task For Philosophers. Chem
ists, and OTHERS. —On the land of
Air. Joseph Smith of this county,
there is a large rock, of considerable
1 and breadth,' hat ex! nels across
the spring branch, and had 11 the ap
pearance of a solid rock. On tlie 2Utli
*iit. about 1 o'clock, th re was a noise
heard resembling tin- running ofhorses.
and in a short time a report was heard,
ind afterwards two more report-, and
on examination th-.: rock was found to
in- burated in several directions to a
considerable extent, and even where
it went under ground, the earth rent. —
Several large pieces were thrown to a
considerable distance. Many persons
have been to see it, and ev< ry ex.unr
nation has been made that thev could
to see it tie re could be, any discov tv
of sulphur, and nothing of the kind can
be detected. A negro woman that
was at the spring states, that during the
time of the explosion t here was a kind
of mist or smoke above the rock in the
air. The reports were heard at some
distance. If any body boubts the
truth of this, they will please call and
see. AVM. MOSELEY.
Henry Cos. Sept. 6, 1838.
Gen. Cass and the Richmond
Enquirer.— We woo greatly aston
ished at the attack of the above named
paper made upon that veteran and des
ervedly popular doinocrat-Geii. Cass —
for some remark of his in opposition to
slavery. llow hard and how very un
grateful is it for Southern men to
abuse those Northern patriots who
have sacrificed themselves as it were,
in maintaining the Constitutional
rights of the South. We assert boldly
that there is ho man in the American
Union whose personal exertion has
done so much to check die wild fanati
cism of abolitionism as Gen. Cass ; and
vet we find men of standing among us
who either through deplorable igno
rance or base ingratitude, abuse this
great man, to whom we owe so much.-
ilow can the South expect Northern
men to resist the abolition prejudices
at home, w en our own people join in
their a bps.; ? Nothing but an approv
ing conscience prompts them to sustain
the rights of the South. Condemned
at home for acting against the popu
lar impulse, and upbraided by the ve
ry people who receive the benefit of
his honesty and firmness, Gen. Cass
has done more than all others to put
down the Wilmot-Proviso, and estab
lish in it.; stead the true liepulican doc
trine of Non-Intervention. Wc all
kiiow this to be true, yet men in the
South find it in their hearts to abuse
him, simply because he does not be
lieve slavery is right and proper. If
such a course is persisted in, we can
not expect Northern support much
longer, for nature is the same in great
men that it is in less ones—continue to
abuse them, and they will, sooner or
later, act with those whose power gives
f hem a seat in our national councils,
forgetful of what they now think to be
their duty. Cbinmon sense, sound pol
icy and gratitude should dm el, a dd
'Herent yours. l —CWn 'He Standard.
Items, $2,00 a year
NUMBER 31.
't . papers of Saturday were tilled with
updoes of sermons on political subjects
to be preached yesterday in different
sections of the city in view of the elec
tion to be held to-morrow. The
‘■Church Journal,” (Episcopalian) com
menting upon this extraordinary fea
ture of the times, pertinently enquires :
u \\ hat is the reason of all this?—
Has the old fashioned Gospel—which
we have been accustomed to believe
was the EcurloAavj Gospel—been at
length exhausted and worn thread
bare? Is no text fresh enough now
for preachers and people except it be
taken from the Gospel according to
ihe Daily papers ? Is it that the minis
ters arc tired of the old topics of grace
and salvation, and no longer believe
that “Gospel” of which they pretend to
be the “preachers?” The point we
not’ wish to make, however, is that in
the country, where, as we had fondly
hoped Church and State—Religion and
Politics—were thoroughly and forever
divided, popular preachers are rapidly
rising to be the leaders of political par
ties, and pulpits are found to be—as
in times of old—the best recruiting
drums to boat up voters for political
I partisans. And a correspond ing change
lias taken place in politics too, as well
as in religion—both of them rising and
falling upon one Democratic pivot—
vox popnli, As the pulpit, therefore,
lias grown political the stump has wax
ed pious ; and if “Nebraska” rings out
lustily from the meeting house it is on
ly m sonorous unison with the “high
er law,” resounding from the Halls of
Congress.
The New York Tribune says that
Russia can still concentrate an army
of three hundred thousand men at a
given point, and adds :
“And there are people who believe
that Nicholas will sue for peace if Se
bastopol be taken! Why Russia has
not played one-third of her trumps yet,
and the momentary loss of Sebastopol
and of the fleet is hardly felt at all by
the giant to whom Sebastopol and the.
fleet were but a plaything. Russia
knows full well that her deceisive ac
tion does not he along the shores or in
reach of debarking troops; but on the
contrary, on the broad interior of the
Continent, where massive armies can
be brought to act concentrated on one
spot, without frittering away their for*
cos in a fruitless coast defence against
vancsccnt enemies. Russia may lose
the Crimea, the Caucasus, Finland, St.
Petersburg and all such appendages ;
but-as long as her body, with Moscow
Ibr its In‘art-, and fortified Poland for
its sword-arm, is untouched, she need
not give in an iota.
Anecdotes of Diogenes.—Alex
ander, passing through Corinth on one
occasion, had the curiosity to see Di
ogenes, who happeued to be there at
the time. He found him basking in
die sun in the grove Craneum, where
he was cementing his tub.
“I am,” said he to him, “the great
king Alexander.”
“And I,” replied the philosopher,
“am the dog Diogenes.”
“Are you not afraid of me ?” con
tinued Alexander. ~
“Are you good, or bod ?” returned
Diogenes.
‘T am good,” rejoined Alexander.
“And who would be afraid of one
who is good ?” replied Diogones.
As Diogenes was one day going to
Eginn, he was. taken by pirates who
hr ught him to Crete, and exposed
him to sale, lie did not appear to be
the least disconcerted, nor did he feel
the least uneasiness on account of his
misfortune. Seeing one Xeniades, cor
pulent and well dressed,
“1 must be sold to that person,”
said he, “for 1 perceive lie needs a mas*
ur. Come, child,” said he to Neui*
ades, as ho was coming up to purchase
him, “come, child, buy a man.”
Being asked what he could do, he
said lie had the talent of commanding
men.
“Crier,” said lie, “ call out in the
market, if any one wants a master, let
him come here and purchase one.”
The man who was selling him de
sired him -not to sit. p
“What matters it,” said Diogenes,
“people buy fishes in any posture ;
and it is very surprising, that though
one will not buy even a pot without
ringing it to know whether it be good
metal, he will buy a man upon simply
seeing him.”
When the price was fixed, he said
to Xeniades,
“Though I be at present your slave,
you must prepare'to obey my will;
for whether I serve you as physician
or steward, it matters not whether I
be a slave or a freeman, mv will must
be done.” | .
Xeniades charged him with the in
struction of his children, a task which
Diogenes performed with great, fidelity
A Virginian has beaten the \ ankees
at their own weapons. John J. of
Hollow, Fred ricksburg, A a.,'has invent
ed a machine which will husk and
shell corn at one operation. The ear
with the husk is thrown ill its mouth,
and in tile twinkling of an eye the horu
falls at one point, tliaeh'nn cob coming
out at the other end. Its? (Capacity is
about four hundred barrels per day.
