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Year: 1859

SLANDER-Let no one suppose that
by acting. good part through life he
will escape SANDER There will be those
even who hate them for the very quail
ties that ought to procure esteem There
are some folks in the world who are not
willing that others should be better than
themselves.
Year: 1859

KEEP IouG Eye oN YoUE NEIcn-
uoRs.-Take care Of them. Don't let
them stir without watching. They may
d. something wrong If you 10. To be
sure you never knew them 20 do anything
ve-y bad, but it may be on your account
they have not Perhaps, If It had not
been for your kind care, they might have
disgraced themselves and families, long
time ago. Therefore don't relax any eff
forts to keep them where they ought to
he never mind your own business that
will takc care Of itself There is n man
passing Il long-he is looking over the
ience-be suspicious of him, perhaps he
coniemplates stealing something some OF
these dark nights; there's no knowing what
queer fancics may have got into his
head. If YOU see any symptoms Of any
one passing out OF the path Of duty, tell
every one else that YOU can see, and be
particular you see n great many 1t Is a
good way to circulate such things, and
though it may no; benefit yourself or any
one else particularly, 1t will be something
important about some one else. Do keep
something guiug-silence is a dreadful
thing; though it is said there was silence
in heaven for the space of half an hour
don't let such thing occur on earth II
would be too much heaven for the inhabi.
tauts of this mundane sphere Ii, after
all your watchful care, you can't see any
thing out of the way with any one you
may be sure it is not because they have
not done anything bad perhaps, in an
ungarded moment, you lost sight Of them


-throw-Out hints they are no better than
they should be-that you should not won
der if people found out what they were
after a while, and they may not carry
their heads so high Keep it going. and
some one will take the hint aud beglr
to help you after a while-then there wil
be music, and everything viii work to
charm.
Year: 1859

A FIsu SroRY.-The. editor of the
Manchester Democrat tells Of man who
had large nose, and who, in crossing
corner Of lake Winnipissiogee to reach
the woods where he was chopping, cat
Hole through the ice for the purpose of
quenching his thirst. A large trout, mis-
taking for some more tempting prize the
nose Of the chopper which was protruding
below the fragments Of ice which covered
the surface, nabbed it with all his might.
The man upon the ice, alarmed BY this
unexpected assault, made hasty retreat,
and not only took his nose out Of the wa
ter. but with it good sized trout, weigh
ins about nine pounds:
Year: 1859

H NIGHT HAVE BEEN.
WIN heavy head bent on her yielding hand,
anu halfhushed cheek, bathed in feverec


light


Wild restless lips, and most unquiet eyes,
A maiden sits and looks out on the night.
Ihe darkness presses close against the pane,
And silence lieth on the elm. tree old.
through whose wide branches steals the white.


faced moon


In htfuI CLEANS, us though 'twere over bold.
one hears the wind upon the pavement fall,
ana hits her head, as if to listen there;
Then wearily she taps against the pane,
or folds more close the ripples of her hair;
She sings unto herself an idle strain
And through its music all her thoughts are


seen:
For all the burden of the song she sings
Is, "Oh, my God it might have been %
AlaS that words like these should have the power
10 crush the roses of her early youth
That on her altar of remembrance sleeps
Some hope dismantled of its love and truth
mat mid the shadows of her memory lies
Some grave, moss-covered, where she loves to


lean,
ana sadly sing unto the form therein,
ut might have b'en-Oh, God it might have


been!"
We all have in our hearts some hidden place
Some secret chamber where cold corpse lies
The drapery of whose couch we dress anew.
Each day beneath the pale glare of its eyes:
We go from its still presence to the sun,
To seek the pathways where it once was seen,
And strive to still the throbbing of our hearts
With this wild cry, 'Oh, God it might have


been !"
We mourn in secret Ger some buried love
In the far Past, whence love does not return.
And strive to find among its ashes gray
Some lingering sparks that yet may live and


burn
And when we see the vanness of our task.
We flee away far from the hopeless scene.
And folding close our garments Ger our hearts,
Cry to the winds, "0h, God it might have


been!"
Where'er we 60, in sunlight or in shade,
We mourn some jewel which the heart has


missed
Some brow we touched in days long since gone by
Some lip whose freshness and first dew we


kissed;
We shut out from our eyes the happy light
Of sunbeams dancing on the hillside green.
And, like the maiden ope them on the night,
And cry, like her, sob, God it might have


been"
Year: 1859

OPEN THE SLAVE TRADE-DeBow's Re,
view has an article entitled African Slavery
adapted to the North and Northwest" The
following is an extract from it:


If the Union be desirable, land with a
rigid regard of mutual rights by the North
and South, no one will deny its inestimable
value, it is earnestly considered that the
most effectual means of giving it perpetuity
will be realized in the opening of the slave
trade, and the introduction of our peculiar
institution into the Western States and
Territories. By this we will construct a
homogeneous system of labor, and through
this bond of sympathy will be re.establshed
shat community Of sentiment, and the old
entente cordiale, without which the Constitu
ton is rope of sand, and The Union shall,
low mockery."
Year: 1859

The PHRASE "LoG RoLL1NG."- The
phrase is drawn from the clearing Of forest
Land IN new country. The settler could
himself cut down the trees, and cut them
into lengths OF logs. The Lext step was to
roll them into heaps for burning, and that he
could not do without help; so be called his
neighbors to help him roll, ard when they
had rolling lie helped them. This was
aptIy applied to legislative action tor the
passage of laws for local measures. Vote
for my bill and will vote for yours. This
phrase was probably western; it is certainly
more than forty years old
Year: 1859

A GooD MovE IN NoRT1 CAROLINA =
"A bill to prohibit the emancipation of slaves


by will and testament" has been introduced
into the North Carolina Legislature, and the
prospect looks fair for its becoming a law.
Mr.. Ashe, who introduced it, thus explained
the cause of its introduction A man had
died and left number of slaves to be free
when they had earned money enough to
carry them out of the State. They had
been hired out to raise this money ; and,
while SO hired out, they had, by declaring
themselves free, corrupted the negroes with
whom they were associated. Mf. Cherry
conceded with Mr.. Ashe. The evil referred
to had been very severely felt in his county
He had very little faith in any man who
would work slaves all his life, and get all the
benefit from them he could and then lbe.
rate them at his death. Other Senators
spoke on the bill, and some difference of
opinion existed in regard to details, but all
feeling and acknowledging the evil effects of
the course against which the bill is intended
to guard
Year: 1859

ELopED.-A man and women from Pas,
sale, N, j., recently eloped to parts unknown.
The woman is married, and is twelve wears
Older than her paramour. The husband il
deeply afflicted at the loss of his wife. but
especially indignant that the man who has
got her should have taken all of his shirts
while his wife baked large batch of bread
and took it with her, The happy pair will
doubtless have blissful time Of It while the
staff of life holds out;
Year: 1859

We give away nothing so generously, and
receive nothing so Reluctantly as advice.
And why! Because it is cheap--it costs tls
nothing This will always be the case; 50
long as money is the standard Of talus md
the only God wOrshipped.
Year: 1859

The New York Times says A distinguished
member Of TIE Bar in this city happened some
time since to be dining with p. Barton Kew, ESQ,
who had just ended his career Mt Washington.
After dinner the conversation turned upon the
constancy of woman, and Mr.. Key expressed and
defended with great warmth the opinion that
women were naturally inconstant, and could
always be induced to transfer their affections to
the last man who would address them with the
requisite batteries and appliances lie parted
rom his friend by pleasantly hoping that he
might never practically realize the unsoundness
OF his own opinions, and by saying that he would
send to him little poem he had translated from
the Spanish, which embodied his own sentiments
on the subject The next day he sent him the
following:


One eve of beauty, when the sun


Was on the stream of Guadaiquiver,


10 gold converting, one by sne,


The ripples Of that mighty river


Beside me on the bank was seated


A Seville girl with auburn hair,


And eyes that might the world have cheated


a bright wild, wicked, diamond pair.
She stopped and wrote upon the sand,


Just as the lovely sun was going,


With such small, white, shining hand,


You would have sworn twas silver flowing.
Her words were three, and not one more;


What could Diana's motto be


The syren wrote upon the shore:


"Death, not Inconsistency"


And then she turned her languid eyes


So full on mine that, devil take me
set the air on fire with sighs


And was the fool she chose to make me.
st. Francis might have been deceived


With such an eye and such hand
Yet one week more and l believed


As much the woman as the sand.
Year: 1859

VICTIMS OF rug PgEss.-The London Athc-
n;cum. in the course of an obituary notice
of the late Bayle St John. a Young writer of
great promise, makes the following o5scrva-
tons on his connection with the London lai-
ly press:


in his thirty-seventh year, after executing
many volumes of sound and lasting works,
which showed, however. still more Of hope
for the future than Of actual service done iur
the past. mis- health broke down; chiefly, il is
feared, from overwork of brain, and from the
unwhole'ome midnight writing Of a London
daily paper: and he is gone to his rest fol
lowed by the sorrowful regrets of all who
knew his genius and his worth. Few Of
those who toss the morning journal from
hard to hand over the eggs and toast, who
eagerly bite at its latest news and expect to
find in the editorial columns comments on
news only born from the lightning an hour be-
fore, have any conception of the constant care,
the promptitude Of hand. the fulness of intor
nation, the rapidity of wit. and wear of
brain, required from those who do them this
anonymous and invisible service.


If the Press be the protector of civiliza-
ton, rs of course We all know and preach up
day by day, it is often most cold, cruel and
ungrateful tyrant to its own ministers. Like
the Revolution, the press devours its chil
dren ,and with u greedy ferocity proportioned
to the earnestness and success with which it
works for the benefit of the outer world.
Year by year we tell of its victims. As We
look back through the dim light of few
years the forms OF the men who have dropt
away from this contest gather almost into
crowd Some of them were persons who
might under other forms of literary activity
have raised for themselves great regulations,
and all Of them were gentlemen of excellent
culture and good natural sense. They took
the task that lay before them. In the end,
even the strong hand and strong brain sue
cumbed.
Year: 1859

"MY WORK IS Such was the ex-
clamation of an old man. near eighty years
Of age seated in his house Mt sunset, with
his hands placed upon his head, after having
performed his accustomed daily labor in the
field His work was done; for he soon after
breathed his last. How suggestive the words:
My work is doncw We all have work to
accomplish destiny to fulfil; and with what
n calmness of conscience must he meet death
who departs not till ample time has been
given him to perform each and oil the impor
tant duties fife, and can then proudly say,
NV work is done,'
Year: 1859

On recent visit to Marietta, while
standing at.the door Of the Hotel we OBJ
served on the platform of the Depot OPP
posite, a quantity of bales of Hay--curi-
osity lead us to go over and examine it.
1t was found to be good Timothy Hay,
and on enquiry we ascertained that it was
Northern Hay, shipped to Savannah, from
thence, brought by Railroad to Marietta
At the end of its Journey, it must have
cost the purchaser pretty dear, as q friend
last year sent some hay from Cass county
to Savannah and the freight was precisely
the amount that the same quantity of
Northern hay would have cost him in
Savannah. Leaving the depot we walked
direct TO the public square-a few hun
dred yards distant, and there We beheld n
beautiful piece of upland grass, composed
of orchard, blue grass, clover and lucerne.
This grass would have been considered
fine i'm any other country. We Thought
of the Northern hay over tlreway at the
depot, and then looked Mt the beautiful
green carpet of verdure, on which our
feet stood, and then-it is not necessary
to say what we thought of Cobb county
farmers, who can grow such grass, on one
of the poorest spots in the county, and
yet suffer the money of their neighbors
to go to the North to pay for Northern
Hay. On our return, we asked our Host
of the Fletcher House, whether, if he
owned an acre of grass, such as that in
the public square, and was offered 500
for it, he would take it? No! was his re-
ply, nor 5000, for the acre would pay me
more than the interest ON $500" While
hay sells at the present price, or near it, it
would be sound economy, if it cost fifty
dollars per acre, to put land in the same
condition with that to which we have re
ferred. Doesany onedoubt this? Let him
take a pencil and paper and estimate the
yield of good acre of hay--the cost of
saving it and of manure, and seeds, and
then the price at which hay sells every
year, and the figures will remove his
doubts. The curators of the Atlanta Park
will have to take lesson from their
neighbors who have taught the artificial
grasses to take such good root in Marietta.
--.South Counhymaa.
Year: 1859

MURDER BahiD'ore, May 22.--Lucia
O'Bfyan, who bore notorious reputation
as a pickpocket and burglar, and was
generally understood to be the Baltimore
correspondent of the New York Police
Gazette, was assaulted last night in the
vicinity of French and Front streets, by a
gang of men, and so severely beaten that
he died this morning. He was to be
tried in few days on charge of being
implicated in a burglarious operation.
Year: 1859

DR.. DuscoMBE.-The Assembly has again re-
fused to admit this gentleman to a seat as a
member from Sacramento. If DR.. D. was not a
citizen of the State until after he was ousted
from the Assembly some weeks ago. he is GER
tainiy not entitled to seat in the Assembly
now, for the reason that the Constitution de-
clares that no person shall be a member of the
Senate or Assembly, who has not been citizen
and inhabitant of the State one year" His re-
cent naturalization would certainly not obyiate
this constitutional objection
Year: 1859

An INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH WAR ON THE IA
BYLEs.-Walmsey, in his "Algeria," states that,
in one of the French onsaughts, q Zouave
dashed an earthen jar to pieces with the butt
end of his musket, thinking that it contained
food, and a child rolled out. He fastened it on
his back with his terban, and dashed on in
search of more plunder with his comrades At
the end of the day he was found lying on the
ground dead. A bullet had passed through his
head, but the poor baby was unharmed and fast
asleep
Year: 1859

Little tube of mighty power,
Charmer of an idle hour,
Object of my warm desire,
Lip of wax, and eye of fire;
And thy snowy, taper waist,
With my gentle finger braced;
And thy pretty swelling crest.
With my little stopper prest;
And the sweetest bliss of blisses
Breathing from thy balmy kisses.
Happy thrice, and thrice again,
Happiest be of happy men,
Who, when again the night returns,
When again the taper burns,
When again the crickets gay
(Little cricket, full of play
Can afford his tube to feed
With the fragrant Indian weed;
Pleasure for nose divine,
Incense of the god of wine;
Happy thrice, and thrice again,
Happiest be of happy men.
Year: 1859

UNHAPPY MArcHEs.-A year and a nalf ago,
four young ladies in Cincinnati were married at
the same hour. Two have since separated from
their husbands, and the other two are trying to
get Separaied
Year: 1859




The New York Tribune of January 18th, con-
tains letter from Townsend Harris, ii which
the latter speaks thus OF Chinese jugglery:


The jugglers are very clever. One of them
made two butterflies ofcommon thin paper. He
first raised one of them up in the air by the wind
of his fan, made it futter about his head alight
on his finger, his arm, and his face he next set
the pair in motion, and it was really wonderful
to see how natural the action was. They chased
each other through the air in circles, sometimes
horizontal and sometimes vertical; they hoyercd
over the water that was in China bowl, and
at last alighted on the rim of the bowl. Tho
=" -spinners" would produce sensation in
New York.


The exhibitor having spun top, placed it on
board, where it revolved with great rapidity
and steadiness; he then took it up and laid it
ON it side, where it remained without motion
he then talked to the top, and at the top; and
after making sundry flourishes with his fan, he
again placed it upright on the board, and 10
it spun away merrily as ever Another top,
when lifted up by the spindle, made noise ex-
actly like your locust when held in the hand,-
top was declared to be a female, and having
let it spin while, he took it up, shook it, and
down fell seven distinct tops all ofwhich whirl-
ed merrily round. Another suddenly changed
into lantern, and, after whirling sometime the
| lamp in the lantern was spontaneously lighted.
piece of sewing thread, about five yards long,
was extended by two persons the exhibitor put
a top on this thread and it from one end to
| the other, always upright, and constantly re-
volving. The same feat was performed ON tho
edge of sword the top ran from the hilt to
the point, and back again to the hilt Will on
ly describe one more feat. In the court yard,
where the exhibition took place, pole, some
| thirty feet high, was planted in the ground
from a cross-bar at the top of the pole small
house was suspended Qike your martin boxes).
and from the door fthe house piece of twine
hung down to the ground the exhibitor placed
spinning top on the palm of his left hand, and
seized the twine with his right; then, tossing
the top up in the air, he dexterously cast turn
of the twine around the lower spindle, and the
top instantly began to ascend the twine, reached
the door, which it forced open, entered the
house, and then quietly laid down to restl In
all this exhibition there was neither trick nol
deception it was plain exhibition of skill.
Year: 1859

from which mankind suffer over large part of
the globe, is the consequence of diseased action
in the system, induced by the poisonous miasm of
vegetable decay. This exhalation il evolved by
the action Of solar heat wet SOIL and rises with
the watcFy vapor from It. While the sun In below
the horizon this vapor fingers near the earths sur
face, and the virus is taken with it through the
lungs into the blood There II acts as an irritating
poison on the internal yscera and excretng organs
Of the body. The liver becomes torpid and fails to
seerete not only this virus but also the bile from
the blood Both the virus and the bile accumulate
IN the circulation, and produce violent constitu-
fional disorder. The spleen. the kidneys, and the
stomach sympathize with the liver, and become
disordcred also Finally, the instinct OF our or
ganism, as If IN an attempt to expel the noxious
Infusion. concentrates the whole blood Of the body
in the internal excretories to force them to cast Il
ont. The blood leaves the surface. and rushes to
the central organs with congestve violence. This
Is the Chill But in this effort it fails Then the
FEVER follows, In which the blood leaves the CEN
tra organs and rushes to the surface, as if In
another effort to expe the irritating poison through
that other great excretory - the skin. In this
also it fails, and the system abandons the attempt
exhausted, and waits for the recovery Of strength
to repeat the hopeless effort another day. These
are the fits paroxysms of FEVER AND AGuR.
Such constitutional disorder will Of course under
mine tho health il it is not removed.


We have labored to find, and have found, an
Year: 1859

has won for itself such n renown for the cure of
every variety of Throat and Lung Complaint that
1t Is entirely unnecessary for us to recount the
evidence of its virtues wherever it has been en-
ployed. As it has long been in constant use
throughout this section, we need not do more than
assure the people its quality kept up to the best
It ever has been, and that il may be relied on to
do for their relief all il has ever been found 10 do
Year: 1859

would not hurt living thing,


However weak or small;
The beasts that gaze, the birds that sing,
Our father made them all,
without whose notice We have read
sparrow cannot flll.
Twas but the other day


met thoughtiess boy
Bearing pretty nest away


1t seemed to give him joy;
But oh! / told him it was wrong
To rob the little feathered tbrong.
I passed another by;


II seemed saddening thing
To see him seize butterfly


And tear away its wing.
As if devoid Of feeling quite;
Pm sure that his could not be right.
The patient horse and dog,


So faithful, fond and true,
And e'en the little leapiug frog,


Are oft abused too;
BY thoughtless men and boys, who seem
o! Others comfort not to dream.
Yet surely in our breast


A kindlier soul should dwell,
For twas our blessed LoRD's request


To use His creatures well
And in His holy book we find
A blessing given to the kind.
Year: 1859

TIE GROWING Use OF SLANG" IN
DECENT FAMILIEs.--How imperceptiblg
we acquire bad habits is to be seen by
the aptncss with which some adopt slang
phrases. 1t is not uncommon to hear
young lady IN her mothers parlor, sur
rounded by all the appliances of wealth
and elegance, reply to friendly inter-
rogatory by the expressive phrase, you
bet" If you ask her to accompany YOU
to a concert, she may refuse by that Ia
comic expression, lover the left - or
should she choose to accept your invita-
ton, she will signify her intention by say
ing, " OBJ course | will, sir" Should ths
way prove rough and uneven, she will in
form you that Jordon am a hard road to
travel" Should she wish to advance any
of her friends in your good opinion, she
will tell you that he is "a perfect brick"
The mother tells her babe "to dry up
and her boys to "goit while they re young"
and even the children catch the taint, and
defy parental authority by saying, you
can't come it," Like deluge of unclean
water, slang phrases are sweeping over the
land, debasing and degrading that pow
erwhich distinguishes man from brute
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