The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-08-05
A SPREAD EAGLE TOAST.

#8 SPREAD EAGLE TOAST.
At Prentiss Centre, Me-. Oh the 9Th
the following was the second regular sen
timent:
Our NATIoN-Begotten amidst the
storms OF the sixteenth century, its infan.
tilemoyements were dimly and indis.
tlnctly seen on board the May Flower,
on the rock of Plymouth, at Jamestown,
on, the plains Of Monongahela and on the
heights of Abraham; the "capricious
squalls" of its infancy were heard in the
tea party of Bos>en, in Faneuil Hall, on
the plains of Concord, Lexington and
Bunker Hill; in his boyhood he ran bare
footed and bareheaded over the fields of
Saratoga, Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth
and Yorktown; whipping his mother and
turned her out of doors; in his youth he
strobe over the prairies Of the boundless
vest, and called them his own, paid tri-
butte to the despots of Barbary in powder
and ball, spit in his fathers face from be-
hind cotton bales at New Orleans, whip
ped the mistress of the ocean, reveled in
the halls OF Montezuma, straddled the
Rocky Mountains, and with one foot upon
golden sand and the other upon Goldfish
and lumber, defed the world; in his man.
hood, clothed in purple and fine linen, he
rides over continent in cushioned ears,
rides over the ocean in palace steamers,
sends his thoughts on wings of lightning
to the world around, thunders at the door
of-the Celestial Empire and at the por-
tails OF distant Japan, slaps his poor old
fdecrepit father in the face, and tells him
to be careful how he peeps into any of
his pickaroons, and threatens to make
sheep pasture Of all the land that Joins
him. What he will do in his old age,
God only knows. May he live ten thou
sand years, land his shadow never be
Less
4Nosc as the Time" Not vet" said |
little boy; as he was busy with his trap
and ball = hen.I grow older, l will
think about my SOUL"
The little boy grew to be a Young
man J; when ! see my business prosper,
then shall have more time than now.''
Business did prosper.
mot yet" said the man of business
my children must have my care; when
they are settled in life, / shall be better
able to attend to religion"
lie lived to be grey headed old man.
/" Not yet" still he cried; AZ shall
soon retire from trade, and then | shall
have nothing else to do but to read and
pray"
And so he died; he put off to another
time what should have been done when
a child. He lived without God, and died .
without hope
Georgia Wild Cats.-The Augusta
Chronicle, noticing the receipt of letter
from the Cashier of the Griffin, Ga, Ex-
change Bank, (postmarked Nashville,
Tenn announcing the stoppage Of that
institution, gives the following list of !
:. wild CATS in Georgia as totally unwor-
thy of confidence or credit:
Merchants Bank of Macon.
Interior Bank, Griffin.
LaGrange Bank, LaGrange. I
Southern Bank, cambridge. I
Cherokee Insurance and Banking Com Y
,any, Dalton. =
Planters and Mechanics Bank, Dal- ia
on. at
Northwestern Bank, Ringold, Ga. :
Bank of Greensboro, Greensboro.
observation-disclosures and Mechan- g
IS Bank, Columbus. Exchange Bank,
riffin. ,
Col. iSteptoe's Defeat.-The War De- Da
lrtmeDt has received official dispatches a,
pm Col. Steptoe, announcing his defeat co
: the Indians in Oregon. lie was at on
cked on the 18th of May by a large
dy Of Indians, eighty miles north of RI
axe River. The Colonels force was L
! men. The battle lasted all day, the
en- he retreated, with killed and IL
unded. j.