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ATHENS, TEM., FED AY, If ARCH 25, 1853.
BY SAM. P. IVINS.
'VOL. V.-NO.- 235.
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THE POST.
Athens, Friday, March 25, 1853.
Compliment to Mr. Everett. The
Charleston Evening Now pays the follow
ing just compliment to tho Hon. Edwnrd
Everett, late Secretary of State:
"Mr. Everett's letter on the Fisheries will
add to his diplomatic reputation. Consider
ing the great number and complexity of tho
-questions which remained unadjusted, in tlio
State department, nt tlio demise of Mr. Web
ster, and the little time Mr. Everett has had
for preparation, his public letters exhibit a
fulness of research and power of analysis
which present him as one of the wont accom
plished of our statesmen. His career, as
Secretary of State, although short, has been
one of most unexampled brilliancy."
53?" An "Old Campaigner," writing in the
Nashville Banner, gives the following good
advice to the Whigs in relation to tho next
lection for members to the Legislature:
"Where there aro Senators and Floaters to
elect, be sure to get not only n pood man,
but let him be in the right place. Our friends
should think of this. There is much more
to be gained by fixing every thing right at
the start, than most men imagine. 1-et me
beg our friends who desire to be candidates
not to rush heedlessly into a campaign. Bo
quiet If you desire political popularity you
will never secure it by thrusting yourselves
forward in advance of public opinion. Vou
rnny make a few warm and devoted friends,
but the mass will be against vou, and al-
though may support you, it will be merely
' ' ftom policy uuti uotjfroin love -or choice. '
Such support v&jSsW any man eventually.
To our frionf 'every where in the State, I
would say be frank, candid and kind to all
nspirnnts. Dont be in a hurry in selecting
vcns 'dates, consult freely with one another,
Voont suffer any man to overreach you, nor
thwart your purposes. No man should de
sire to represent a people unless they want
him. Public offices were created for the bene
fit of the people, and not for the benefit of
individuals. Those offices belong to the
people, they have the right to bestow them
on whom they please; and no man should
seek to circumvent their wishes; nor should
they permit any man to do it."
W An Eastern divine in a late discourse
says, "the righteous shall not want bread,
even if he has to steal." If we aro not mis
taken, this is a new version.
How to make Hers Lav. Some per
sons recommend feeding hens on fat meat to
make them lay. There is another mode,
whick it is said has been tried with great
success. Tie a stout string round her body
and lay the bird upon its side upon a board,
and fasten tlio string underneath. You can
put a pillow under its head if you wish.-
Hens secured in this manner will lay for any
desired length of timo.
. 55?" Steamboats a substitute for war,
pestilence and famine, to prevent a too rapid
increase of population.
We notico a statement in ono of our
exchanges, that thore is, in one of the county
poor houses of Alabama, an old man of more
than ninety years of age, who was the ferry
man for Washington and his army when he
crossed the Delaware, just prior to achieving
the rictorled of Pnncetoifnind I ronton.
This should not be so,
Signals The lamps used on railroads in
England are of three colors red, to signify
danger, green to denote caution; and white
to indieato safety. Applied to trains in mo
tion white implies that full speed may be at
tained; greon, proceed sIowlyjred, stop
The Force of Habit. A businoss mnn
of our acquaintance is so scrupulously exact
In all his doing, that whenever he pays a vis
it he always will insist upon taking a receipt.
2?" The artesian well, which is being
unk at St Louis by tho Belcher brothers,
for their sugar refinery, has reached 1,500
foot, nearly one third of a milo. They have
got down Into the sulphur region, and the
' water, a wicked wag says, has a h 11 of a
smell.
Nashville Post Office. A telegraphic
despatch was recoived yesterday by Capt II.
L. Claiborne from Hon, J. II. Savage, an
nouncing the appointment of Col. S. R. An
derson to the office of Postmaster at this
placo. Col. Anderson is at present Cashier
of tho Bank of Tonnossoe, at Nashville. He
will rnako on efficient Postmaster.
POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN TEN
NESSEE. At the last session of tho General Assem
bly, a new apportionment law was passed,
both for Congress nnd the Legislature. .As
but very few of onr fellow citizens have the
opportunity of seeing the law, I have thought
it advisable to present the important parts of
it, so that every man who takes a newspaper
may know how the districts stand, and if he
will preserve the paper, ho can see how the
elections are going, as fast as the returns for
the different counties may be received.
There are ten Congressional Districts, com
posed as follows:
1st Dist Johnson, Carter, Sullivan, Wash
ington, Hawkins, Greene, Cocke, Jefferson,
Hancock and Sevier.
3d Dist Grainger, Claiborne, Campbell,
Scott Anderson, Knox, . Morgan, Feutress
and Overton. -.'
3d Dist Blouat, Monroe, Polk, Bradley,
McMinn, Meigs, Rhea, Bledsoe, Hamilton,
Marion, and Roane.
4th Dist. Jackson, Macon, Smith, DcKalb,
White, Warren, Coffee, Grundy, and Van
5th Dist. Sumner, Wilson, Rutherford,
Cannon and V illiamson.
6th Dist. Franklin, Bedford, Marshall, Lin-
coin, and Maurv.
7th Dist. Giles, Lawrence, vvayne, llardin,
McNairy, Perry, Decatur, Benton, Humphreys,
Hickman and Lewis.
8th Dist. Davidson, Robertson, Montgome
ry, Stewart and Dickson.
9th Dist Henry, Weakley, Dyer, Obion,
Lauderdale, Tipton, Gibson, Carroll and
Henderson.
10th Dist. Madison, Haywood, Hardeman,
Fayette and Shelby.
There aro twenty-five Senatorial Districts,
composed as follows, viz:
1. Johnson, Carter, Washington and Sulli
van.
2. Hawkins, Hancock and Jefferson.
3. Greene, Cocke, Sevier and Blount
4. Campbell, Anderson, Claiborne
and
Grainger.
5. Knox and Roane.
6. Meigs, McMinn, Polk and Monroe.
7. Overton, Fentress, Scott and Morgan.
8. Rhea, Bledsoe, Marion, Hamilton nnd
Bradley
9. Macon, Jackson nnd White.
10. Warren, Cannon, Van Burcn, Grundy
and Codec.
11. Sumner nnd Smith.
12. Wilson and DcKalb. j
13. Rutherford and Williamson.
14. Bedford nnd Marshall.
15. Lincoln and Franklin.
16. Stewart, Montgomery nnd Robertson.
17. Davidson.
18. Dickson, Hickman, Lewis and Maury.
19. Giles, Lawrence and Wayne.
90. Benton, Hff4eya, Porry, Decatur
and Henderson.
21. Henry, Weakley and Obion.
22. Carroll, Gibson and Dver.
23. Madison, Haywood, Lauderdale and
Tipton.
24. Hardin, McNairy nnd Hardeman.
25. Favette and Shelby.
Each district elects one Senator. Total 25.
The following counties elect, each, one
Representative, viz: Sullivan, Washington,
Greene, Hawkins, Cocke, Jefferson, Grainger,
Claiborne, Knox, Blount Monroe, Roane,
McMinn, Hradley,llainilton,aiarion,r rniiKiin,
Cannon, Warren, White, Overton, Jackson,
Smith, DcKalb, Sumner, Rutherford, Bedford,
Lincoln, Marshall, Williamson, Robertson,
Montgomery, Stewart Dickson, Hickman,
Maury, Giles, I.awrenco, Wayne, Hardin,
Henderson, Carroll, Henry, Weakley, Obion,
Gibson, Madison, McNairy, Hardeman, fay
ette. Harwood. makinir 51.
The following counties oleet, each, two
Representatives, viz: Wilson, Davidson and
Shelby, making 6.
The. following counties jointly clcet one
Representative, called floaters, viz : barter and
Johnson. 1. Greene, Hawkins, Hancock and
Jefferson. 1. Knox nnd Sevier, 1. Ander
son and Camnbcll. 1. Scott Morgan and
Frcntress,l. Polk, McMinn and Muigs, 1.
Rhea, Bledsoe nnd Hamilton, 1. Grundy,
Coffee and Van Buren, 1. Smith, Summit
and Macon, 1. Davidson, Robertson and
Montcromerv. 1. Rutherford and Bedford,
1. - Lincoln, Marshall and Giles, 1. -William,
son. Maurv nnd Lewis, 1.- Benton and Hum
phreys, I. Perry and Decatur, 1. Carroll,
Uibson, Madison and nenry, i.uvt uuu
Lauderdale. 1. Tinton. Shelby and Fayette,
1 mnkinir 18 Floaters whole number of
Representatives 75. Aashville Banner.
The President's House. Congress has
been liberal in giving President Pierce an
outfit The appropriations were as fol
lows: For repairing 'the President's Mansion, in
cluding cleaning, painting, whitwashing, ex
tending the cast wing of offices for carriage
house, &c., $7,300; and for heating, ventila
ting, painting the walls and ceiling of the
rooms on the first floor, nnd tho purchase of
books lor tho President's library, $29,500.
For refurnishing tho President's House, to
be expended under the direction of the
President in addition to tho proceeds of the
sale of such of the furniture and equipage of
the said house as may bo out or repair and
unfit for uso, $25,000.
Spiritual Rapping in ArkansXs. The
rappers are on their travels. They have as
cended hiirh up Red River on the Arkansas
sldo. Tho Washington (Ark.) Telegraph of
the 2d instant says:
Amonrr tho stranire thincrs that have oc-
curred recently in onr vicinity, we notice the
advent of spiritual rapping, which for the
last wock or two has been in -successful op
eration." All the small pino tables about
town hnvo been made to stand npon one leg
and cut ifp all sorts of ontics.
f3- It is estimated that there aro at least
forty thousand persons in tho United Statos
holding offico nt tho will of tho Prosidont
B-if The town of Nowton, Mass., has votod
gainst selling liquor for even medicinal pur
poses.
PREDICTIONS FOR 1853.
According to the Almnnac published in the
Uuiled States, the present year of our Lord,
1853, is to be an eventful one. We extract
from the same Almanac the following saga
cious predictions :
Through the whole course of the year,
whenever the moon wanes, the nights will be
dark.
On several occasions during the year, the
sun will be up before certain people discover
it and set before they have near finished theii
day's work.
If men work for nothing and board them
selves, they will find plenty of employment.
If bustles and hoops go out of fashion, a
church pew will hold more than three ladies.
If dandies wear their beards, there will be
les9 work for the barbar, and he that wears
moustaches, will have something to sneeze at
If the incumbent of a fat office should die
there will be at least one dozen pair of feet
ready to step into one pair of shoes.
Many people will drink more strong liquor,
than will be necessary to keep them sober;
and take more medicine than will be requisite
to the enjoyment of good health.
' Dinners and entertainment will bo given to
those who have enough at home; and the
poor will receive much advico gratis, legal
and medical excepted.
There will be a tremendous noise all over
the country when it thunders, and a tremen
dous dust kicked up occasionally by coaches
and horses.
Many young ladies, who hope for it but
littlo expect it will be married, and man who
anticipate that glorious consummation,' will
be compelled to wait another year.
Appointments. A Washingt on letter of
tho 10th says:
We hear of no new appointments except
those to fill vacancies which were made by
resignations. The administration will be
embarrassed by a premature resignation of
all tho whig offce holders.
I learn that the President does not intend
to bo bnrthened with applications for minor
offices. He will refer applicants and-their
papers to the secretaries who are, of course
to be trusted with tho selection of tho agents
through whom their own responsibilities are
to bo discharged.
This course will relievo the President
from much trouble. It has, in fact been the
practice of the Presidents, for the last twelve
years, to leave to the heads of departments
the selections of their subordinates.
Tho names of the prominent Candidates
for the missions to England, France and
Spain have already been mentioned.
The mission to Mexico is also of great im
portance, and it is now said it will be given
to a Californian,
Another letter says
The pushing for ofll
lent and ovcrwhelmin
inerssae rather tliuo dii
The U. S. Senate
day, tho following appointments, among
ers:H. Tonlmain, Post master at Mobile;
Genoral Joseph Lane, Governor of Oregon;
Thompson Campbell, of Illinois, George W.
Thompson' of Virginia, nnd Alphcus Felch,
of Michigan, as Commissioners to settlo Land
Titles in California; Robert B. Campbell, of
Texas, Commissioner on the Mexican Bound
ary question; Baldwin, collector at Key-West;
Fernando Morino, Marshal of Florida, and
Goorgo L. Hawkins, Collector nt Apnlachi
cola. A number of appointments to offices
in California, and to all the offices in Boston,
also, received confirmation. The nomina
tion of John C. Hays, ns Surveyor General
of California, will bo sent in to the Senate on
Thursday..
Financial Prospects. The commercial
editors of several of the New York journals
predict nn early and a terrible check to the
great apparent prosperity that now prevails.
They trace a largo proportion of the advance
which tlio prico of real estate has experienced
to an excess of speculation, and they profess
to discover other and not less marked indica
tions of the rash adventure nnd unsound en
terprise which have been the invariable pre
cursors of mercantile embarrassment It is
alleged that unless all analogy fail, a sweeping
series of disasters will at no distant date
overtako the country. We tako the subjoin
ed from the New York Times as an illustra
tion of tho gloomy nature of the predictions
to which we refer:
"The weather wise in such matters may be
at fault, but not so the stem and Hnmnuible
lessons of the past. This great country was
never pronounced so prosperous and 'happy'
as on the4th of March, 1837, when President
Jackson transferred the affairs of Government
to Mr. Van Burcn, and yet on that very day
asories of the most disastrous and widespread
mercantile bankruptcies commenced at New
Orleans nnd New York, which in two months
carried down nil tho banks in the country,
and after a vain struggle of four years in
volved the wealthiest States of the Union in
discredit and repudiation. None of these
were preceded by preliminary signs of revul
sion. They began in a sudden change In the
course of the money market not wholly un
like that which has boen witnessed in the city
for a few weeks past, nnd which affords un
mistaknblo tokens that unless some of the
sails of trado and bnnkingaro reefed, and that
speedily, a general shipwreck may ensue.
Tho fact is alluded to not to provoke alarm,
but, if possible, to induce caution."
tf The wife of the Hungarian who re
cently attempted the lifo of the Emperor of
Austria was flogged to death at Peath three
years ago. Tho husband hnd determined on
revenge at any hazard, and had waited for a
long time to find the Emperor unattended.
When he was taken to prison he criod "Vive
Kossuth,"
"ALL'S WELL!"
Twelve o'clock at might and "all's welll"
False prophet! Still and statue-like, at
yonder window, stands the wife. The clock
das told the small hours; yet her . face is
pressed clpsely against the "window pane,
striving irt vain, with straining eye, to pierce
the darkness. She sees nothing; she hears
nothing but the beating of her own heart.
Now she takes her seat; opens a small Bible,
and seeks from it what comfort she may,
while tears blister the pages. Then she clasps
her hand, and her lips are tremulous with
muU supplication; there la an unsteady step
in me nai; siiu mny a time ana
oft it had trod on ber very heart strings.,, She
glides down gently to meet the wanderer.
He falls Heavily against her, and, in maudlin
tones, prokiounocs a name he had long since
forgotten to honor.' Oh! all the enduring
power of woman's love I no reproach, no
upbrtg-the light arm passed around that
riwJ flfc-snfr (i4e ertset in "God's trtvn 1m
age.4. With, tender words of entreaty, which
he is powerless to resist if he would, she
leads him in. It is but a repetition of a thmi
sand such vigils! Iis the performance of a
vow with the heroism and patient endurance
too common, and every day to be chronicled
on earth: too holy ana heavenly to pass un
noticed by the registering angel above !"
, , "All's well!"
' False prophet! in yonder luxurious room
sits one whose curse it was to be ns fair as a
dream of Kdcn. Time was, when those clear
eyes looked lovingly into a mother's face
when a grey-haired father laid his trembling
hand, with a blessing, on that sunny head
when brothers' and sisters' voices blended
with her own, in heartmusic around tho hap
py hearth. Oh! wliere are they ixoic! Are
there none to say to the repenting Magdalen
'Neither do I condemn thee go, and sin no
more!' Must the gilded fetter continue to
bind the soul that loathes it, because man is
less merciful than Godl
.-"All's well'!"
False prophet' There lies the dead or
phan. In nil tho.length and breadth of the
green "earth there was found no sheltering
nest where that lonely dove could fold its
wing, when the parent birds had flown. The
brooding wing was gone, that covered it from
the cold winds of neglect and unkindness.
Lore was its life, and so it drooped !
'' "All's well!"
False prophet! Sin walks the earth in
purple and fine linen; honest poverty, with
tear-bedewed face, hungers ana shivers, and
thirsts, 'while the publican stands afar off!'
The widow pleads in vain to the ermined
judge for justice,' and, unpunished of Heaven,
me numan tiger-crouches in his lair anu
springs upon his helpless prey.
"All's well!" .
Ah, jes, all is well; for He who "secth the
end from the becrinninjr' holds evenly the
becomes more vio- Lcalef Justice. 'Dives shall yet begnf Lazaru.'
vj(.lf,f ivcrv human tear is roiintid ii'Wiaiih ill
UM ami
mrt'iiie
davHe'a
Wand
ins
grown tiihft', vCe sliall exultingty say-1-'father!
not as J will, but as Thou wilt!'
FANNY FERN.
TiieXlimax of Penury. We remember
an old lady who was so remarkably economi
cal that she had a pair of shoes made for her
little girl without, soles, for fear she would
woar them out This lady, however, was no
match for Mr. Watson, uncle to the late Mar
quis of Rockingham, a man of immenso for
tune, of who it is related that finding him
self dying, h 3 desired a friend to open for him
a draw, in which was an old shirt that he
mitfht put it. on. Being asked why he wished
to change his linen, and he so ill, he replied:
"Because I am told that the shirt that I die in
must be the nurse's perquisite, nnd that is
good enough for her !" This is as bad as the
woman who, with her last breath, blew out
an inch of candle, "because," said she "I can
see to die in tho dark."
A Circumstance. The New York Times
of a recent date contains a list of one hundred
and eleven democrats who are employed in
the tfew York Custom House, who receive,
in the aggregate, the sum of over one hun
dred and thirty thousand dollars per annum
Ort tills the Louisville Journal remarks:
; This fact shows that the charge of ruthless
nroecriptiveness brought against the Whigs
by the Locofocos is altogether groundless.
We wondor whether, nt the close of Mr.
Pierce's administration, over a hundred Whigs
will continue to hold office in the New lork
Custom House f , . ,
Chsaeb TiUjr Matches. .The editor on
the Albany Express, In the course or an ar
ticle upon "Freaks and Wonders of Electric
ity," writes ont the following "spiritual mani
festation:" Happening to be in tho parlor of a friend
tew eveninsrs since, he favored us wiin
the exhibition of a very pretty electri
cal experiment His daughter walked brisk
ly across the floor' once or twice, nnd then
rapidly approached an extinghished gas bur
ner, touched it with her fingers, nnd instant
ly the escaping fluid burst into flames. It
was au entirely new way of liehtinsr the tras,
and involved a great saving of mujtchcs. Any
person in tho room, if shoes and boots were
not wet could produce the snmo elfcct
The sparks of olectricrty emitted nt the in
sjant of the contact with the metal of tho
burner ignited the gas.
fJIt is hard to bo civil to an unthnnkful
persun it is like foeding nn ill-natured dog
that snarls while ho takes food from your
own hands.
If you wish to drive a cut nail into season
ed oak timber, and not have it break or bend,
just have a littlo oil near by, nnd dip tlio end
of the nail in it before driving, and it will
nt er fail to go.
"The World Owes Me a Lima." No
such thing, Mr.Fold-up-your-hands; the world
owes you not a single cent ! You have dom
nothing these twenty years bat consume thi
products earned by the sweat of other meu's
krews.
; "You have eat and drank, and slept: vast
' thent .
Why eat and drank, and slept agaia."
And this is the sum total of your life.
And the world "owes you a HvingT ' For
what! How comes it indebted to you to
that trifling amount! What have you done
foritt What family in distress have you
befriended? What products have you cre
ated! What miseries have you alleviated?
What acts have you perfected ! . The world
owes you a living! idle man ! Never was there
a more absurd" Meal You have We ln
a sponge upon the world ever since yon cime
into it It is your creditor in a vast amount.
Your liabilities are immense, your assets are
nothing, and yet you say the world is owing
you. Goto! The amount in which you
stand indebted to the world is greater than
you will ever havo the. power to liquidate !
You owe the world the labor of your two
strong arms, nnd all the skill in work they
might have gained; you owe the world the
labor of that brain of yours, tho sympathies
of that heart, tho energies of your being: you
owe the world the whole moral nnd intellec
tual capabilities of a man ! Awake, then,
from that dreamy do-nothing state of sloth
fulness in which you live, nnd let us no
longer hear the false assertion that the world
is owing you, until you have done something.
Resistance to Ridicule Leam from
the earliest days to inure your principles
against the peril of ridicule; you can no more
exercise your reason if you livo in the con
stant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy
your life if you are in the constant terror of
death. If you think it right to differ from
the times, and to make ff point of morals, do
it, however rustic, however antiquated, how
ever pedantic it may appear; do it not for
insolence, but seriously, and grandly ns a
man who wore a soul of his own in his bosom,
and did not wait till it was breathed into him
by the breath of fashion. Sydney Smith.
An Apt Reply. Dr. P who is nt
taclicd to the Parisian theatre in quality of a
physician, expressed his astonishment Unit
men and women were not created at thefcame
time, instead of the latter springing from
the rib of our first parent A young actress
standing by, remarkable for . the expression
of her ideas, immediately said, 'Was it not
natural, sir that tho flower should como uf-
.Mercury, commenting
. TU 1 ftn-rflin-.. nr t rir r r A " . . 7
President Pierce's Inaugtirnl-Addressfawjm ;
"We have little to say nbout that part $f
the address which treats of the great sec
tional question. General Pierce takes pre
cisely the position which has been consist
ently mnntaincd by Mr. Fillmore."
That is the cxtremo Southern Right's es
timate,nnd it tallies exactly with the view
expressed by . the central organ of the Ab
olitionists. . W? quote from, the National
Era's criticism of the Inaugural:
"No doctrine was uttered in regard to do
mestic affairs which Mr. Fillmore has not ut
rered in his annual "messages; no sentiment
was expressed in relation to foreign affairs
which has not been fully expressed by Mr.
Everett in his letter about Cuba.
Oyster Trade. Tho yearly sales of oys
ters in the city of New York, it is estimated,
exceed five million of dollars; the number of
persons employed in the business, directly or
indirectly, is said to bo nbout fifty thousand.
Of tho whole amount of oysters sold in our
markets, about two thirds come from Virginia,
which has a more extensive oyster-trade than
any other State in the Union..
35" The latest advices from Mexico state
that the people of the capital were so Ran
guine of the return nnd re-election of Santa
Anna to power, that they had already secured
and furnished a house for him. A Mexican
revenue cutter left Vera Cruz on the 21st
ultimo with a commissioner on board, to in
vite the return of the exiled chief. We seo
t however, stated that the brig RolUrsun,
Capt Crowell, which arrived at MobHe on
Tuesday, in seven days from Vera Cruz, re
ports that in leaving that harbor, she tnt Jin
English steamer going in, with Santa Anna
on board, and flying his colors at her fore
mast J3F",,A Maine Yankoo" announces through
tho Washington .National Intelligencer, the
invention of n form of road nnd improved lo.
comotive, which, he says, will safely transport
the mails and passengers nt the rate of one
hundred miles per honr ! The writer further
says he his been mndo acquainted with the
details of these improvements, "which mq so
palpably correct in theory, nnd feasible in
practice, that every civil engineer and Rail
Road man will, on examination, nt once re
cognize and admit, ns the desideratum, even
to the oxtcnt of safety and speed above indi
cated."
Fatal Accident at the Washington
Monument. The National Intelligencer of
the 6th inst says that a yoii"g man, nppai-
ently a Btranger, about Ihirty yenrs of ngc,
fell yesterday morning, from the top of tho
Washington National Monument and was
instantly killed. Tho mnn was dressed in a
black coat and pantaloons, nnd check shirt,
hnd light complexion, and sandy whiskers.
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Advantages or Advertising. In a busi
tess note to the editor of the Galveston News,
.Mr. James Burke, ngent for the publishers of
.he Eclectic Educational Series, says: "You
have doubtless noticed that I have advertised
extensively in the various newspapers of the
State, and as you may feel some interest in
knowing what effect this has had in extend
ing the circulation of onr scries of books, I
U.ive the pleasure of informing you that such
has been the demand tor our books, from tar
distant points in the interior, that I have not
been able to fill the orders as. fast as 7 they
arrived. - At no time within two months past-
have 1 been without . .unexecuted order
Some of these have come from several bun-
dred miles distant and from persons; who
could have no other, moans pF kqowiiigof
our ngencyTiut through the newspapers, j I
am entirely satisfied, from experience, that
advertising 'pays well,' so much so, tha,t I
intend to extend my business in that line, and
would advise others to do likewise." . ,
Distance to the Sun. Imagine a railway
from here to the sun. How muny miles is
the sun from usl Why, if we were to send
a baby in an express train, going incessantly
a hundred miles an hour, without making any
stoppages, the baby would grow to be boy
the boy would grow to bo a man the man
would grow old and die without seciugthe
sun; for it is distant more than a hundred
years from us. Hut what is this compared
to Neptune's distance? Had Adam and fivo
started by our rail way, to jjo from Neptune
to the Sun, at the rate of fit ty miles on hour,
they would not have got there yet: for Nep
tune is more than six thousand years from
the centre of our system. Household Words.
England and the United States. A
Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun, says:
The British Government, ns we rcnrn from
late proceedings in the New Foundland Leg
islature, are solemnly pledged to enforce their
extreme construction of the Convention of
1818, in regard to the fisheries, and we know
also thHt they will not abandon their occu
pancy of tho Bay Islands. War is therefore
inevitable within a year; nnd, perhaps, a state
of things may arise thut will demand an extra
session of Congress during the summer.
Important Trial.-We learn that Rob
erts and Copenhaven, two of the men con
cerned in the robbery of Mr. Jackson, of Piko
county, were sentenced to the Penitentiary
Inst week, at Coweta Superior Court. The
former, on two indictments, for 14 years, tho
latter for nineteen years. It was thought by
our informant that Roberts would bo sent
enced on another indictment 7 years more,
imakin!? in all 21 years. The
trial ot the
nentin!rWtPlitiF t nni "Jl" p"r
nti. f ed. lr
,Advi1
ten to me,
could't be yc
ry a young worn.
contrived to hnppeiMm4dYTViDiaJ
ives at least four or five times before break
fast. You 'should know how late she lies in
bed in the morning. You should take no
tice whether her complexion is the same' in
tho morning as it is in tho evening, or wheth
er the morning wash and the towel have rob
bed her evening bloom. You should take
care to surprise her, so that you may tee
ber in her morning dress, and observe how
her hair looks, when she is not expecting
you. If possible, you should be whero you
can hear the morning conversation between
her nnd her mother. If she is illnatured and
snnppisli. with her mother, so she will be to
you, depend upon it But if you find her up
and dressed neatly,-in tho morning, with the
same countenance, the same smiles, the same
neatly combed hair, and the snmo ready an
swers to fler mother which characterized her
appearance and depoj-tment in tho evening,
and particularly if she is lending a hand to
get the breakfast ready in good season, she is
n prize, John, and the sooner you secure her
to yourself the better.
The Truth in a Nutshell. There seems
to be actually very little more of a true spirit
of religious toleration now pervading the
world than there was five hundred years ago.
There is less legal persecution' for conscience
sake: but the bitter rancor, the whole-souled
hate of tho professors of ditlerent creeds for
each other, seem still to grow rank in the
heart of humanity. It is wrong to lay the
whole burden of the guilt of past persecution
for conscience wiko upon Emperors, Popes,
and Cardinals, and Inquisitions. The most
grievious of all religious persecutions, Pagan,
Roman Catholic, and Protestant have been
the daily persecutions of social life, or the
fruits of the exterminating hatred which they
had fostered." Cowr. Enq. , v ' , ,
il mi . tl t. ... . I.at Lann a4t1al
i fie qiUTSUUH HOB vuu rwns
that a Wind man cannot be7r?"n Jinble for
i.i. nC; -'..izr
tW Never flatt-yMr aw
wish horto remain faithfllkBrown says he
flattered his, till she got too proud to speak
to him.
57 An old preacher once took for his
text "Adam, where art thou?" and divided
his subject into three parts :
1st. All men are somowhore. 1
2d. Some men are somewhore tlioy ought
not to bo.
3d. Unless they take care, they will soon
find themselves whero they would rather
not be. ;j
2T "He who dallies, is a dastard; and hs
who doubts is in error!
Mr. Swipes, I've just kicked your Will
inm out of doors.' . ' '
Well, Mr. Swingle, it'sthorsf Billyou ve
footed this muny a day.,
It is an extraordinary fact that those-who
get to high words generally use low Ian-gunge.
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