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Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1856-05-22
Could'st Thou not Watch One Hour I?

The night is dsrk-behold the shade was deeper
In the old garden of Gethsemane,
When that calm voice awoke the weary sleeper
Gould st thou not watch one hour alone with me
Oh, thou so weary of thy self-demials,
And so impatient of thy little cross,
Is it SO hard to bear thy daily trials,
To count all earthly things ganful LOST
What if thou Arrays suffer tribulation,
And if thy Christian warfare nsyer cease;
The gaining of the quiet habitation
Shall gather thee to everlasting peace
But here we all must suffer walking lonely
Inc path that Jesus once himself hath gone;
Watch thou in patience through this hour only,
This one dark hour before the eternal dawn
The captive's may pause upon the galley,
The soldier sleep beneath his plumed crest
And Peace may fold her wing o err hill and valley,
But thou, Oh Christian, must not take thy rest
Thou must walk en- however man upbrail thee,
With him who trod the wine-press all alone
Thou wilt not find one human hand to aid thee
One human soul to comprehend thine own
Heed not the images forever throneing
From out the foregonc life thou livcst no more
Fair hearted mariner still thou art longing
From the dim line of the rcceding shore
Wilt thou find rest of soul in thy returning
To that old path thou hast so vainly trods
Hast thou forgotten all thy weary warming
10 walk among the children OF thy God'
Faithful aud stedfast in their conservation
Living by that high faith to thee SO dim,
Declaring before God their dedication
So far from thee, because SO near to him.
Can st thou forget thy Christian representation
" Behold, we count them happy which endure -
What treasure would'st thou in the land EGYPTIAN.
Repalss the stormy water to secure!
And wilt thou yield thy sure and glorious promise
For the poor fieeting joys earth afford!
No hand can take away the treasure from us
That rests within the keeping of the Lord.
Poor wandering SOUL know that thou arc seeking
Some easier way, As all have sought before,
TO silence the reproachful inward speaking
Some landward path unto an island SHORE!
The cross is heavy in thy human measure,
1 he way too narrow for thy inward pride
Thou can st not lay thine intellectual treasure
AT the low footstoo of the Crucfed
U. that thy faithess SOUL one hour only
Would comprehend the Christian perfect life,
Despised with Jesus, sorrowful and lonely,
Yet calmly locking upward in its strife
For poverty and sclfrenunciaton.
Their Father yicldeth back a thousand fold.
In the calm stiffness of regeneration,
Com,th a joy they never knew OF old.
In meek obedience to the heavenly Teacher.
my weary soul can only find its peace,
seeking no aid from any human creature;
Looking to God alone for His release
And lie will come in his own time and mower
10 set his carncst-hearted children free
Watch only through this dark and painful hour
AND the bright morning yet will break for thee.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1856-05-22
Advertising.

From an article in the Boston Herald we
clip the following sensible remarks upon the
advantage of advertising
"Notoriety or publicity is an indispensable
element Of success of the merchant, mechanic
or manufacturer who would give speedy and
wide distribution to the commodities which he
seeks TO exchange for money He may have
capital, skill, convenient position, punctuality,
industry and honesty-every possible fitness
for his business-and all is nothing if be have
not sufficient notoriety, let it cost mere or less,
he must purchase or provide for as carefully as
he purchases or manufactures his stock of goods
And it must in extent bear a certain relation
to the business he would do. 1t must be both
positive and comparative. People must not on
ly know him and his business, because other
wise they will not 6ud him. but they must know
him, because otherwise they arM find and trade
with those who are better known. Customers,
like sheep, are gregarious, and flock where
they see others 60. If nobody else were en-
gagged in the same business, it would be impor-
tant to our dealers to advertise in the newspa-
pers, because people are tempted to buy what
they read of. It is like having salesman with
several thousand voices, speaking politely of
your wares to tens of thousands of people, per-
haps at the same moment, never offending,
never obtrusive. never tired. Such q salesman
might be worth one, two, three, or FIVE thou
sand dollars year to you-according to the
number of his voices-might be not But If
Others are engaged in the same business, even
II they do not advertise, it becomes the more
important for our dealer to do so and If they
do advertise, it becomes doubly important. It
becomes, in fact, q ruin not to be known as ex-
tensively as his rivals, as it is the food tide Of
fortune to be known more extensively
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The SISTER IN SICKNEss.-ln no situation,
and under no circumstances, does the female
character appear to such advantage as when
watching beside the bed of sickness. The
chamber of disease may, indeed, be said to be
woman's home. We there behold her in the
loveest, most attractive point of view-firm.
without being harsh TENDER yet not weak
active, yet quiet gentle patient uncomplain-
ing, vigilant. Every sympathetic feeling, that
so peculiarly graccs the feminine character. IN
there called forth while the native strength Of
mind, which has hitherto slumbered in inactiyi.
ty, is reused to its fullest energy. With noise.
less step she moves about the chamber of the
invalid-her listening ear ever ready to catch
the slightest murmur her quick, kind glance.
TO interpret the unuttered wish, and supply the
balf.formed want. She smoothes with careful
hand the uneasy pillow which supports the ach-
ing head, or with cool hand soothes the feyered
brow, Or proffcrs to the glazed and parched lin
the grateful draught. happy if she meets one
kind glace in payment of her labor of love-.
Hers, too, is the low-whispered voice. which
breathes of life and hope-of health In store
for happy days to come or tells of better and
of heavenly rest, where neither sorrow nor dis.
ease can comc-where the dark power Of death
no more shall have dominion over the frail. suf.
fcring, perishable clay. Through the dim, silent
watches Of the night, when all around ara
hushed in sleep, it is hers to keep lone yigils.
and to hold communion with her God and n.
lently lift up her heart in prayer, for the pro.
longnent Of a life for which she cheerfully would
sacrifice her own. And even when exhausted
nature sinks to brief repose, forgetfnlness d de-
MED. Even in sleep she seems awake TO thia
one great object Of her care She starts and
rises from her slumbers, raisesher dropping head.
watches with dreamy eyes the face she loves
then sinks again to rest, to start with every
chime Of clock or distant sound, which fcrmerlyv
had passed unheard, or only served as alullabv
to her sweet sleep. aIa.t afs 81 y.
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LOOK Asorr Yor-How many persons there
are who plod on their daily routine of life, never
varying either their mode of living, or changing
their residence from one years end to another
The fact is, however, if one would keep pace
with his fellows, he must look about him, and
step ont of the regular routine now and then to
pick up stray wild flower by the wayside,
noting some new beauty here, or some extraor-
binary phenomenon there We would not have
man sacrifice his home, relations, or his do
nestle character, but we would have him look
about him carefully and often. 1t enlarges the
mind to vary the scene now and then it is a
sort Of mental necessity to give the eyes peep
at some new phase Of life, some fresh scenery
and locality, once in while. Go into the
country, or on the sea-shore, We who breathe
the air only in passing from your counting
houses to your town residence, day after day,
week after week, through the same streets and
aleysl Yon win come with renewed vigor
and more cheerful heart to yonr work again,
and do that which is to b. done with better
zest and satisfaction. % & y
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1856-05-22

THE SKY.-1t is a strange thing how little
in general people know about the sky. It is
is the part of creation in which nature has done
more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the
sole and evident purpose of talking to him, and
teaching him, than in any other of her works,
and it is just the part in which we least attend
to her. There are not many of her other works
in which some more material or essential pur.
pose than the mere pleasing of man is not an.
swered by every part of their organization
but every essential purpose of the sky might,
SO far as we know, be answered, if once in three
days, or Whereabouts, a great ugly, black rain
cloud were brought up over the blue, and eve
rything well watered, and so all left blue again
till the next time, with perhaps film of morn
ing and evening mist for dew. And instead of
this there is not moment of any day Of our
lives when nature is not producing scene after
scene, picture after picture, glory after glory,
and working still upon such exquisite and con-
slant principles of the most perfect beauty, that
it is quite certain it is all done for us, and in.
tended for our perpetual pleasure. And every
man, wherever placed, however far from other
sources of interest or of beauty, has this doing
for him constantly. The noblest scenes of the
earth can be seen and known but by few it
is not intended that man should live always in
the midst Of them he ipjures them by his pre-
sence he. ceases to feel them if he be always
with them but the sky is for all bright IA
it is, it is not "too bright, nor good, for human
natures daily food y it is fitted in all its finc.
lions for the perpetual comfort and exalting Of
the heart, for soothing it, and purifying il from
its dross and dust.
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l~ To dread no eye, and to suspect no topvus
is the great prerogative Of innocence an s~,
emption granted only to invariable yirtne. Rnt
guilt has always its horrors and solicitndes, and
to make it still morvsshameful and detestibls.
it Is doomed to stand In awe Of Those II whom
nothing could give influence or weight but The
power Of betraying. ssss ! - "a =
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THE HuxaS vorcE-The sweetest music Is
not in the oratorio, bnt in the human voice,
when il speaks from its instant life tones Of ten
desness, truth, and courage.
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Scandal.


Ye high exalted, virtuous DANES,
Tied up in godly laces,
Before ye gle poor frailty names,
Suppose o change o places
dear-loved lad, convenience snug,
treacherous inclination
But let me whisper / your lug,
Perhaps ye re no temptation.
We are reminded of the above lines by the
following caustic hit by Sam Slick, and it will
generally be found that those ladies who are
the most relentless against their erring sisters.
are those who can rest secure in their virtue.
because, in the language of Burns. they're no
tempfation"- ..
Women and Poypoises Well, it's the nature
of porpcises, when she once gets wounded, that
all the other porpoises race right arter her, and
chase her to death. They show her no mercy;
human natur' is the same as fish ma tur' In this
particular, and is as scaly, too. When q wo-
man gets q wound from an arrow, shot out by
scandal, or envy, or malice, or falsehood, for
not keepn' her eye on the compass and shapin'
her course as she ought to, men, women, boys,
parsons and their tea-goin' gossippin' wives,
pous gals, and prim old maids, all start ont In
full cry, like pack of bloodhounds after her,
and tear her to pieces and if she earths, and
has the luck to get safe into hole ftist, they
howl and yell around it every Zine she shows
her nose, like so many imps of darkness. It's
the race of charity to see which long-legged,
bilious lookin' critter can be in at the death
fust. They turn up the whites of their eyes
like ducks in thunder, at fox hunt---it's so
wicked but gal hunt they love dcarly-it's
serving the Lord
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- He that knows useful things. and not
be that knows many things, IS the wise man.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-07


Mr.. Editor The American nomination for
President and Vice President having been
made and announced to the country, it is
time for the party in this District to take
some steps toward an organization, and to
select candidate for Elector. In casting
about, can think of no one more suitable
for the position than Tnos. N. FRAZIER, Of
Bledsoe county. MIR. Frazier possesses fine
powers Of debate, is deservedly popular and
If called to the work will bear tho American
standard triumphantly through the contest.
With your permission, / will take the liberty
of suggesting, through your columns, his
name to the party in the District, and to urge
that an early and thorough organization be
had. McMINy
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-07

TIE ONE TERM PRixcIPLE.-Whcther
the "onc term principle" shall DO part Of
the Democratic platform is now mootcd
question, in that party. The friends Of Gen.
Pierce, of course, are very nverse to the in
PRODUCTION Of any such plank. We observe,
however,t That the National Democratic Review
published in Washington, under the charge
Of Mr.. Bucl, very decidedly and uncompro.
misingly advocates the doctrine Of one term
only; and offers some potent reasons for its
position. We make an extract from m ed.
itora article on the subject:
"The President is hardly installed in Office
before he commences to move the cnrds OF
politics for reelection. There have been
exceptions in the history of the country, but
they are rare. Who does not know that ut
this time gigantic effort is on foot to Sc.
cure in the next National Convention y pres
idential succession! Every inter 81 must be
made subservent to this grent result, and
every press in the United States that dnres to
question the propriety of such move is to
be expelled by regular edict from the dem.
ocratic party. The great question for us to
consider is, whether the body Of the democ
racy shall nominate President, or whether
that nomination shall BE- made through the
influence of government patronage. All the
wires Of administrative power are now nctu.
ally operating in favor of succession; thou.
sands of officials are expected to devote con-
siderable share Of their attention to the mat.
ter; in various portions of the country NEE.
tings have already been called; designed to
prepare the democratic mind for a second edi.
ton of the volume of 1882 ...
The hardest things we hear against Gen.
eral Pierce now arc generally said by Demo.
Gratis. The above is but a specinlep. De.
mocracy never worsi,ips a setting sun, but
keeps its eyes turned and lis alteration raised
to that which is rising. ..e
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-07
~ Our democratic friends, who wcr

B Our democratic friends, who were
very exubernnt over the earlier dispatches
from the Philadelphia Convention, when
the prospect for m everlasting split up WINS
good, have sobered down, under the nomina
ton of Fillmore, TO q degree approaching
sadness. They had been unetifying them.
selves with the belief that nomination
could not be made; or, il made, some man,
like Law, without strength or character,
would be selected, to beat whom would be
very easy matter. How ungenerous in the
Convention 10 nominate National ticket
when the opposition had fixed up and made
all ready for very different result
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-07
NEpUcHEpNEzzAn ExHuMrpi-It /, .to,.,

NEBUcHEDSEzzAR ExHUMEp!-It 10 stated
that Col. Rawlinson, who is at present On.
gagged in prosecuting the discoveries com.
menced by layard and Bolts, and in exhum.
ing from The mounds Of the long.lost rival
cities Of Ninevah md Babylo the instructive
remains of this once gigantic power, has late.
ly discovered, in state of perfect preserya.
tion' what is believed to be the mummy Of
Nebuchednezznr. The face of the rebellious
monarch of Babylon, covered by one of those
gold masks usually found in Assyrian tombs,
is described ms very handsome-the forehead
high and commanding, the features marked
and regular. This interesting relic of remote
antiquity is for the present preserved in the
East India Company.
Look out, Barnum has just been declared n
Bankrupt.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-07
w- The N. Y. Herald. which n,nsr h

tw The N. Y. Herald, which paper has
been laboring zenlously for months, unsuc.
cessfully, to write George Law into promi.
hence, expresses the opinion That Mr.. Fill.
more will get but three States-Marylnnd,
Delaware, and Kentucky. It also says that
Law will be nominated by the boiling Know
Nothings in June; and that the Democrats
will sweep the country from Maine to Wis.
consin. The Herald is evidently chagrined.
Had Mr.. Law promised the editor the mission
to Paris!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-07

FILLMORE RATIFICATION MEErIss.-Alba.
ny Feb. 2s.-A meeting Of the members Of
the American party Of the Legislature was
held last night, which was attended by nearly
all the members and = majority Of the Slut.
officers.
Resolutions were passed declaring that
Fillmore was not their first choice, but TINT
they acqnicsced in the nomination. A call
fora mass ratification meeting WAS adopted
unanimously
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-07

@ At the Ulster (New York; Cireui.
last week, suit for breach of promise WIS
tried between Miss Jordan and q Dir. Jep.
kins, both residents of Gardner, in that coun-
ty. The contract Of marriage and its breach
were clearly shown, and the jury gave tho
plaintiff $4,000 damages. Both parties arc
said to be highly respectable, and the only
cause assigned for the failure Of Jenkins to
fulfil his engagement was tho opposition of
his mother. He is boy about thirty years
of age. u ~ =
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-07

CINCINNATI by the following from the
Cincinnati Gazette of Thursday, il will be
preceived that the Underground Railroad is
in full operation from that place:
We understand that forty seven fugiives
have been despatched to Canada by the I'm.
derground Railroad since the commence.
ment of the fugitive case now pending be.
fore Commissioner Pendcry. a friend in
Covington has told us of an extraordinary
fugitive case, which may have made one OF
the above number. The fugitive was an old
woman nearly seventy years of age, who had
been confined to her room with rheumatism
for some months, during which she had beer
waited upon and assidnously attended by heI
mistress. She had only been able TO &c
about for two or three weeks and chose the
very coolest weather we have Ind for tn,
flight. Tho enthusiasm among The slaves
must be Hight if it reaches persons Of hel
class.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-07

The PKEvILLE MAIL.-This route, to
which we have frequently referred in our
paper, is among the most important inter.
seciing at this place. 1t is intended to sup.
ply the countcs Of Meigs, Rhea, and Bled.
soc. including a large section of rish and
populous country. The service for several
years has been performed in such misera.
Bile manner, that the contract has been de-
clarGd forfeited by the Department, and new
bids made. We trust that some responsible
person, willing to do the work regularly, will
get the contract. The Department in con.
sidering bids, may be assured Of one thing,
that in order to secure n regular performance
of the service, a fair price ought to be paid.
and that when contract is bid off at less
than what il is really worth the work will
not be done. The enterprising citizens of
Meigs, Rhea, and Bledsos deserve better
mnil facilities than they have hitherto enjoy.
Al
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-07
T The Gsorgia Citizen declines 70, n

w The Georgia Citizen declines for the
present to 60 for the nominees Of the PhiIa.
delphia Convention. The editor says Fillmore
will do, but Donelson wont. Our philoso.
phic friend Of the Chattanooga Gazette says,
"if the head goes right, the tail must follow
The conclusion here indicated had not, per.
haps, presented itself to the mind of our
Georgia contemporary, who concludes his ar.
tice on the subject with the following:
awe must wait md see what will @turn
up" For the present we are likely to Ego
further and fare worse" than to take the
Ticket us il stands. We shall have to put up
with the fare set before us, with the bes,
grace we cnn muster. The Foreign Organs
need not, however, make light of the nomi.
nation, for they may have TO swallow Pierce
and Stephens, or somep other eqnalIy nau.
seous compound. Let them mot hailoo be.
fore they nre out OF the woods" "Nous
Verrons."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-07
R- In another column will be found

E In another column will be found q
communication suggesting Thos. N. Frazier
Esq, of Bledsoe county, as the candidate for
Elector in this, the Third Congressional
District We have also heard the names Of
Thos. J. Campbell, Esq, of Cleveland, Jas.
B. Cooke, ESQ.,, of this place, and Col. Reese
B. Brabson, of Hamilton county, spoken OF
in connection will, the position. 1t has also
been suggested that District Convention be
held at an early day.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-07

A SOUTHERN MovEmENr.-ln the Missis.
sipp Legislature, day or two since, Mr..
Stark called up his resolution touching the
Presidential elections of 1856. They declare
that II all The national conventions refuse to
nominate Presidential candidates who are
sound on the slavery question il is proper for
the people Of the State, irrespective of party, to
meet in primary assemblies and send dele.
gntes to State convention to nominate an
electoral ticket, pledged to vote for men
who recognize the constitutional rights Of
the South. They also invite other Southern
States to unite in similar movement. Aday
was fixed for thei. consideration,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-07

Zone moment the Pierce papers tell US
TINT Know No.hingism is n cunningly devils
ed sheme Of Aboltionsm; and, in almost the
same breath, they tell us that all the cities
and towns in New England are repudating
it. Admirable consistencyI