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The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-01-05
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ms influence acts not only on the kindred 81
ons. bit "a tie Greeks TIE insurection il
Epirns and Albania vas stirred up and supported
from Greece The excitement At last accounts
vas atil prevailing Il Chat kingdom, at The Court
IS well as among III classes Of tie population,
notw Outstanding tie occupation Of Athens and Of
the Pians by the French secret or open Of.
position experienced BY he Allies from The Greeks
At BaIakiava As wen as Varna and GaIIipoIi-
finally, the rejoicing 81 The Greek merchants on
the London exchange oecaaioned BY the news Of
partial success of tie Russians o. The heights Of
Sci opol- an this affords striking insight into
tie aud synpathiss Of tie Eastern Chris
tians bows how easy i win be for Russia to
avail be- these feelings Above eli. shows
thas i she make a. appeal 70 the slagonic
tribes 81 Iut the Danube with
powerful arm ria. Bulgaria ana
Greece hecoua undoubtedly e
tena g tie Austrian would not be d
oluEionary. but religion Qnal s.
Which no one can os the hin
how seems 80. aud that
fears q aToke saeh and kind
which he long az not snge
bo m les Hoped
over as
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take care Of the honor Of the republic because
they do not show proper Difference to his at
torneyship Ofcourse, he believes that all "the
honor Of the republic is embodied IN himself
Cannot some institute Of learning create a char
of etiquette, and confer the professorshlp on
Mr.. Noise?
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-06-27

Mr.. Brown was elected, at the special cleo
ton held on Saturday, trustee for the first ward
to I'll the vacancy in the town council, occa-
stoned by the death Of captain Collins
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-06-27

We are requested ostabe that public meet
ing will be held at the mhyor's office, this ev
ening, for The purpose Of making arrangements
to celebrate in becoming: manner the anniver-
sary of American independence.
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The African institution of Paris, an associa-
ton for the diffusion of civilization and christian
light In Africa, has recently issued circular
which shows that the number of blacks held in
slavery in different countries is seven and half
mll1ons-ot whom $685. 600 are in the United
States; 5,250,oOo in Brazil; soc, 900 in the
Spanish colonies; $4,000 in Dutch colonies.
lac, 600 in the republics of Central America
and go 600 in European establishments Afr.
ca The report does not state the number Of
whites "held in slavery in different countries !,
The members of the institution do not annes,
to have much sympathy for their eountrrmen.
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The Union, president Pierce's official organ,
has shifted its ground it relation to the conduct
Of governor Reeder in Kansas, and now comes
out in opposition to him and his policy. A few
days ago it was vehementin its defences of the
governor, and declared that, mot for single
moment has he been diverted from the plain
straightforward path Of duty!' The Union
must possess an extremel elastic conscience,
for it can say, and then turn about and unsay,
arg thing, without even blushing. We recon-
mend it to adorn its head with weathercock,
as an emblem of its own principles and those of
the administration.
THE PIcArUNE.-Mr. S. F. Wilson, who has
during the last eight years edited this popular
and sterling journal, has been taken into CO.
partnership by Messrs. Lumsden, Kendall ,Hol-
brook and Bullitt Mr.. Wilson is one of the
most fluent writers at the south He for MANY
years, IN connexion with colonel Sanford. edit
ed the Mobile Register, the leading democratic
journal in Alabama; and was democratic
member of the Louisiana legislature, during its 1
late session, from the third representative dis
trlct, New Orleans. There are not many ma
pers published, which can boast of having such
an array OF talented and high minded gentle
men for propretors as the Picayune No won
der It is 50 universally popular
The Baton Rouge papers announce the death
BY apoplexy Of Mrs. Mary Marks, consort of
colonel Samuel F. Marks, (auditor of the state,
and aunt to our fellow citizen, Leon D. Marks,
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The Hermitage-tbe hospitable home and
asst resting place Of Andrew Jackson is adyer-
Used for sale
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The Memphis Eagle and Enquirer is out in
favor of building railroad from ST. Louis to
Memphis, and gives the following plan, which
has been ably discussed through its columns
by col. J. T. Swayne, and which our cotempo-
rary thinks entirely feasible, even in these very
hard times
''Ihe plan,. as we understand it, is this: it is
proposed that the owners of the lands along
the line of the route in Arkansas organize
themselves into company; that each member
OF this company put in his land as so much
stock; that a portion Of these lands be mort
gagged for a sufficient amount together with
what the city Of Memphis may subscribe, to
commence the road. 1t is proposed to invest
part of the funds raised on the land mort
gagged in three OF four hundred slaves, who will
grade and do all the earthworl from Memphis
to the Missouri line, (61 miles, where the peo-
pie of St. Louis and Missouri are to meet US
with a road from St. Louis via Iron mountain
and the Pilot knob. AS the work progresses,
the lands of the company will of course come
into market, and another portion of them will
be sold to iron and equip the road ready for
the active operations Of trade and travel
This is, IN effect. the plan upon which the
Illinois central road was built. That road is
about ITO miles long, and was built by the iu-
dlclous management of a congressional dona-
ton OF 100000 acres of wild Iands.''
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gY~OUR JOB OFFICE We have added to
our establishment one OF HOES PATENT ROTARY
Presses, capable of printing from 1000 to
1900 cards, circulars, etc., per hour, and an
additional hand press suitable for pamphlets
and large jobs, togethertwlth tine assortment
Of ornamental type, paper, and blank cards,
which enables us to fiji orders for every des-
cription Of printing to fny extent IN superior
style, with great despatch and at unusually
low nricas .-e -
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The president has removed from office Mr..
VIM. +. Pope, postmaster at Little Rock The
Gazette and Democrat ofthat place, in mention
lpg the fact, says, "out of the $500 citizens of
Little Rock, not twenty, we are certain, could
be found to favor Mr.. Pope's removal from the
office which he has so long, and so faithfully
and efficiently filed" We suppose Mr. Pope
was removed because he was too faithful and
honest to meet the views of the administration.
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Several philosophical philanthropists have
undertaken to establish in the city of New York
an asylum for the cure of inebriates in which
drunkenness will be treated as disease, and
the drunkard as insane. A charter has been
granted by the Legislature authorizing the de-
tention of the patient for three or even six
months, should bis reformation require it. The
Mirror says that numerous melancholy exam
Piles rise up before us, the living ghosts of be-
sotted men, who might have been forced or
frightened into sobriety by the discipline we
hear suggested
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The new school presbyterian assembly, in its
late sitting at St. Louis, reaffirmed the annual
resolution declaring the sinfulness of slave
holding. The discussions, however, are mark
ca oy great temperatures of expression and
bearing The assembly, at the same time, de-
nounced the ferocty of the ultra abotionists.
len young girls have been introduced into
the press-room of the Washington Union, in
lhe place OF the same number of boys, who were
discharged on account of their know notbino
procilv1tles. The editors of the Union know
mat the girls, when they grow up, cannot de-
post antl-Pierce votes in the balot-box
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On the subject Of the recent DROUGHT the
rankin Banner says, very old and respec-
ABLE lady, who has resided in this neighborhood
1early all her life. and whose yeracty NAV be
ully relied on, witnessed in the year 1909 a
everer drought than that of this year. She states
hat IN the neg borhood of Franklin, for miles
around-perhaps throughout the entire parish.
10 rain whatever had fallen from the month of
october 1902, until towards the end of the fol-
owing June Vegetation of all kinds was then
completely withered, most Of the early planted
orn did not even vegetate, and after the rain
lad commenced, the planters went to work in
sood earnest ploughed up the land they had
.lready planted, again threw their grain into
be soil, and an abundant harvest blcst their
abors,
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The know nothlngs Of New Orleans have
made the following nominations for parish of.
fcers: for sheriff, Joseph. Hnfty: for coroner
Charles Oliver; for clerks!of the district courts
John ". Andrews, Julian Neville, Walter Pc
sers, P. S Wilt, 4. Trepagnier, and P Flier-
shiere: for assessors, Frank Turner and John
A. Watkins.
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tries we can best show by quotation from the
London Economist. That paper, which may
be considered as the moutb-piece of the British
Newfoundland manufacturers, says:
LET any great social Or physical CONFUSION
VISIT the United States, and England would
leei the shock from Land end to John O. Groats
lhe lives of nearly two millions of our Eng
llsh) countrymen are dependent upon the cot
ton crops of America; their DESTINY NAV be said
without any kind of hyperbole, to hangupon a
thread: Should any dire calamity befall the
land OF cotton,a thousand merchant ships would
rot ldI IN docks; ten thousand mills must stop
thelf pussy looms; over two hundred thousand
mouths would starye for bread to feed them.'
Ihe above IS not an overweight picture
In every word the Economist expresses an alb
solute, ndlsputable fact, and one cannot but
wonder that there are to be found both in Eng
land and the United States thousands of fana-
'lcs who, IN their zeal for the abolition of slave
ry' would bring about the awful calamity above
spoken OF. Nor can we do otherwise than smile
at the suppositon of the Virginia gentleman,
that the cotton king can be dethroned, and "a
balance OF powerin this cotton governed world"
be established, by the '.elevation of the free
negro Speaking Of the cultivation of cotton
IN the United States, Blackwood's Magazine, a
few months ago, said:
"" 18th its increased growth has sprung up
that mercantile navy which now waves its stars
ana stripes over every sea, and that American
influence which has placed the internal peace
we may say the subsistence of millions in eve
~ manufacturing country in Europe-within
the power Of an oligarchy of planters
True again. And whenever these planters
earn the wisdom Of growing all the grain and
Dreadstufs they use, raise their own pork, and
erect cotton mills at home, the southern States
will be the most prosperous and independent
portion Of the globe, and the cotton growers the
,ulers of the commercial world
We have received the first number of the
galcasieu Press, neat little sheet published at
lake Charles, La, BY Mr.. John A. Spence
\ is devoted to the PRONUNCIATION Of democratic
doctrines, and displays much ability,
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Returns from all the counties il Viroinia
except Wyoming, have bean received and Give
Wise majority Of lo,l84. Wyoming usually
gives a small wing majority
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-21

BEAUTIruL--It cannot be that earth is
mans abiding place. it cannot be that oar
life is cast up by the ocean Of eternity to
o"s ol.oa % 40 "-..~- s..>a sink into nothing
ration. which leap Ike atrssts -assi-
pie of our hearts are forever wandering
about unsatisiiedl WHY sit that the rain
bow and clouds come over with a beauty
that is not of earth. and pass of to leave US
to muse ON their faded lovelinessl Why is
It that the stars who hold festival around the
midnight throne are set above the grasp Of
our limited faculties. forever mocking US
with their unapproachable glory! And f.
nalIy why is it that the bright forms Of hu-
man beauty are presented to our view and
then taken from US, leaving the thousand
streams OF our affections TO flow back into
Anime torrentsl We are born for higher
destiny than that OF earth. There is .
realm where rainbows never fade, where the
star. will be out before us like islets that
slumber on the ocean, and where the beings
that pass before us like shadows will stay in
our possession forever.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-21

efecting great changes, in domestic and
social life, have been by slow and impercep-
tible degrees that it requires time and in
cessaut labor to bring about revolutions in
manners and habits. 1t is a part of the
machinery of Providence for the emancipa-
tion of the world. Sudden changes produce
shocks, that bend, but do not reform.
Your committee, therefore, think that this
effort, invoking the aid Of the law to prevent
(he traffic liquors, is mistaken zeal reckless
results. A species Of fanaticism, which
has its parallel only in the insane desire Of
those, who would deprive, at one fell blow,
every planter Of bis slaves, and turn loose
lHI,51n I,o1Sne tbe land, with moments notice, mil
'Ouo Va "es.s-.- -~e--ss ~ ~ t1ssA
In conclusion, your committes denys-,ls
right, justice, or policy of passing prohibi-
tory law now or hereafter and more especial
ly SO at this time, when less than one fifteenth
of the voting population demand it. And
having fully reported, your committee beg
leave to be discharged from the further con-
sideration Of the subject.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JESSE A. WAUGH. Chmn.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-21

MAGNIFY YOUR OFFICE. The business
o. farmer is every where coming into favor
as the 6rst and noblest employment of man.
In the Southern States new interest has been
awakened, and the best talent Of the coun-
try is engaged TO illustrate the subject. Late
" in North Carolina the Hon. Abraham w.
Venable delivered an address before the
Cumberland County Agricultural Society
On being called upon for . copy Of his ad-
dress, Mr.. Venable declines stating that it
was an unwriiien production, hastily prepar-
ed. In the conclusion Of his letter he makes
the following excellent suggestions.
Nat. IntelligeneT.
To every cultivator Of the earth would
say, MAGNIFY YOUR OFFICE The aPprs-
ciation of this noble employment, can never
be high whilst those who are occupied in 1t
consent to hold it as an obscure and humble
calling. The farmers Of the State ought to
rule its de.tinies and control its counsels /;
and farming education is the first step to
that great result. Speed the plongh should
be our banner cry, and the fields OF our be-
loved State will respond BY beauty and pro-
duction.'
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-21

The MOTHER A ScULProR.-The world
worships with breathless admiration before
the beautiful statue which art has created from
the inanimate block or marble but who pays
the merted tribute to the mothers labors
The mother is sculptor. She daily sends
forth from her hands specimens of higher,
nobler art than the most gifted sons of genius
ever conceived. 1t is hers, not to initiate in
lifeless stone natures most perfect produc-
tions, but TO mould human character after the
purest models of truth and nobleness. The
artist disengages the enchanted limb, andforms
from the rude block the mother awakeBs the
sIumbering intellect, WHITES and properly di-
rects the uncultured affections, and developes
and strengthens the dawning moral sentiments.
The artist dismisses the productions Of his
chisel to enchant the world the mother sends
out the workmanship of her hands to control
human destiny.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-21
"Congenial, Convivial, &C."

A Correspondent from Tennessee sends us
the accompanying communication, with the
following note attacked, to wit-"lf you con-
slider these hasty and uDconnected remarks
worth publishing, please do So" Had he
stopped here, we should have had no trouble
about disposing of the article; but he con-
tinues-" Give us something congenia, con-
vivial, Sc" Now as we are at loss to
know what would be more "congenial to
our friend than his own production, we have
concluded to treat him to the conviviality
of communing with himself. Our Cores
pondent will find that he deals in the high
faluting, with unsparing hand. Let all 'con-
genial, convivial" spirits imbibe the nectar
prepared for them
FAYErTE Co, TENN, Jan. %.
Love, Hope, Philanthropy and Religion
have from time immemorable been the tails
man around which the human heart hath
clung-the progenitor Of virtue, wisdom
and truth.
!, Love, the motive power of more than a
thousand thoughts, the handspring of action
in every breast, in all the trying scenes Of life,
in the midst of "squallid poverty and splendid
r wealth,"-in the clsmorous din Of mighty
7 battle, or around the festive board Of pleas
3 ure-goyerns the one and guides the other.
8 The misanthropist is led captive by her sof
n and honied voice-no longer able to resistit
}. magic influence, yields to her heavenly whis
d pers. 1t makes the dispondent mourner re
'f joice. The gloomy miasm, that noxious va
r pour of distempered minds, is dispelled b
Of its glorious beams-it is the sun Of our exii
d tence, the center solar system in the micro
e cosm of man, shedding her calorick ray
e, throughout bis coRstiu lioRal existence, an
es like the sunbeams in the natural world, gi
ID ing vitality and energy to every object it en-
IN braces. How happy its infuence-bow e.
re hilarating! The parents guide, the patriot
friend, the laborer's reward, and the goo
er mans portion. IT'S never worn by use n
tie diminished by care is blessing to posse
ar sor, jewel to the possessed. 1t buoys
Is the fainting heart as one after another d
be rude shocks of adversely burst over o
sn, heads, and the whirlwind Of bigotry, supt
do stition and persecution sweep to the marty
he home-and the turbulent waves Of opprt
ish sion and despotism burst with foami
has phrenzy Ger the hopes of man. leaving hi
lch bankrupt in all-but not in love! G
use rious gift from God to mani A prineiI
an that upbolds the strongest power on earth
unites inanimate to animate-tbe universe
re- man and man to God-the strongest passi
to on earth and rules in Heaven-begets pea
ons and pleasure, natures richest greatest trs
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-21

WoMAN's MIssroN.-Woman. permit me
to say, is the mystery as we'll as the master.
piece of Gods creation! When she isa true
woman she is charming under all circumstances
But her sphere is endurance rather than action:
and accordingly nature mas gifted her with
tortitude far surprising ours. She best an
swers the ordinary purposes of her creation,
as well as best serves her own happiness, by
making herself as agreeable as possible to our
rougher sex. This can only be efferted by
means of the softer graces and accomplishments !;
for, take it, there is no object more unnatu-
raj, and, therefore, more revolving to a true
man, than masculine woman. My idea GER
tainiy is to give her such an education as will
best develope the peculiar charms and charac-
teristics of her sex. / should treat young
girl with great tenderness. Give her such
physical training as is Necessary for her health.
| like to see the delicate bloom of tine rose
upon their cheeks, but not too rude glow
But be gentle with them. my dear madam, b.
qenlls.-Extract from Eastford.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-21

FANNY Fem DAGUERREoTYPED.-Shei 10
full forty, is Fanny. Sports curls like a girl
seventeen. They are auburn-poetically so.
- 49,, 6-shins- aEa--,Nose between
Grecian and Roman, rather thin and ra;her
good looking. Cheeks with good deal
quite too much-coloring. Comes of rouge.
Bad taste, but no business of ours. Lips
we'll turned, and indicative Of firmness rather
than of-sugar. Chin handsomely chiseled.
Whole countenance betokens woman of
spirit and high nature generally. Form fine.
Chest model. Not surpassed. Carriage
graceful and stately. Rather tall, and en-
phatically genteel. Pretty foot Ankle to
match. Hand small. Likes to show it. Dres-
ses in the cut and dash school. Fond of rib
bons. laces. millinery, &C., generally. Talks
rapidly. Is witty ano. brilliant-sutting and
lashful Proud as Lucifer. Fond Of fun
Hates most of her relations. Treats her
father and Nat almost brutefully. Has three
as pretty girls as ever wore curls. Is proud
of them and justly. Is heartless Is a firt.
Lives in Glover. Is worth $4,000 Got by
pen and ink. When passing the street takes
eight eyes out of ten ; on the whole, wonderful
woman is Fanny.-Boston Dispatch.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-21

Among the victims of intemperance who
were in the Cincinnati watchhouse on Sat-
urday night. was a man of rare intellect and
legal attainment, who at one time occupied
high position AS a county officer IN Ken
lucky. lie came to that city few days
since, broken down in health and reputation,
but with determination TO reform, and once
more be man. He joined the Sons Of
Temperance. anG was kindly and cordially
received into the society of few friends
which he gathered around him. On Satur-
day morning. he obtained fee in the Police
Court, in a case which he conducted with
such ability as to win the admiration of all
present. At night be was in The watch
house, a dwelling, maudlin sot. Some po.
licemen had Sound him lying on the side
walk and brought him there to keep him
from freezing with cold.
Cincinnati Gazette.
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O. 0 olltnlnnitat1ons m m MS.
FOR THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
Random Essays.-Br TYRo.


I" 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest cloud,
So honor peereth in the meanest habit"
Shakespeare, in all that he ever wrote or
said, never uttered a more deservedly great
truth than when he penned the above lines.
He had right to know, for it was has
mind that made ham rich-that rendered
him an especial favorite with crowned mon
archs, queens and princesses of the royal
blood placed him upon an equal footing
with the proudest peer of the realm, and
gained him admittance into the lordly court
and 9orgeously furnished palace.
We should not Judge mans character by
his external appearance, BY the nice 6t of his
coat, the cut of his hair. nor color Of his eyes
but we should in the first place enquire, has
he MIND? II he has not, all the gold OF
Ophir will not supply the deficiency; but
if he is man ofintelIigence, possessed Of a
mind, it matters not whether he be arrayed
in purple and fine linen, or attired in the
tattered garb of pennury, it will still shine
forth, and point him out as 6t object for
the admiration of the world. That man
VINO IS ue'olu oI ullhu may dCCuihuIdio d
fortune and roll in all the luxury attendant
on wealth, and yet not be even SO much as
dTHr e TBS psRc bGpnd d the limits Of his
of intelligence bis name is heralded forth
from one end Of the world to the other
engraven on the temple of Fame and i:
pointed out as a fit object of emulation to al
succeeding ages.
The mind to US is an invaluable real es
tate, and only needs cultivation to make j
productive. Let US therefore improve il
remembering that
: = The clouds may drop down titles and estates,
1 Wealth may seek us-but tcisdom must be sought.