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For the Southern Home.
mm-: ' ...
Ei a. . . L i tin's
Own,"
or The Midnight Cross.
mnrrbr tha Trenches. Done-las -UnieVmrw
1 Tradition has it that King Bfuce in dving
thquf ted Douglas to t arry his heart 'hi a
- - mS ' vmi v M MM CI
Jerusalem 'and lay. it' on
'( Iirist's shrine. :
mi
' i 18 ''
Tlinviffh Paynim lands to Palest i
me- !
t KoV so ins trot !i was plightU
v. J To lay that j?old on Christ his sli
khrinf
Let fall what peril might. ! I ...
auu, uu uie vaiiantiHpears
omiucu 4iom uisisiae, if i
And night by night the bitter tears
Bewailed the Brave that died.
-. '; i r ' A- ''
Till heree and black aroihid
He saw the combat ehie
lis trackl)
And, counted but the single word
Against the countless foes i ;
ll He drew the casket front hi j
Jtireast,
;i He drooped his solemn b mw '
?- -K Tht'e00' "f1' Do"ghs,-hdt.aa of old.-i-
I I L
i In. his last Joumeying,f I 1 ' '
P.alHVrt at his heart, in heavy 'gold, '
ipf Tlie heart of . Bruce, his KiniL: ' ?
i'-lip Bv mght ana day, a weary wav : 1
I'x irll 'Of vigil ahd of fight, !
RSfe AVh'ere never rescue came by day
'Tv Xor ever rest hy night! , . ' h
?"ffP Oh ! Kinglieat ! to Chkist, jM Rest,
jifl : ,4hrst in battle'; now ! If .
Where leads my Lord of Bruce, the sword
yvi ougias snail not stay!! ;
Thy. heart and mine in Palestine
.snail meet the Christ
to-day! HI;
The casket flashed : the Jconib clashed
And dead above the heart of Love
The heartof valor lay ! I s!
Loval! the mould is worn and old! V
; .Its antique grace has growin i-i
A Star! where Freedom's jieart "lies cold,
- Clasped to her Cleburne's 44 n ! !
f Torch Hill.
f F. 0TlCKNpR
notltural Jfessaw.
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For the. Southci llofn. -
1:11
The Farming' System cf the
is ;l
Golden SAge.
I) on aid G. Mitchell., most
tharmirtfif of
;; rural authors, says.y esiooVja currently
!onjrjre a tarm system.
jsuc let us see
i lif We cannot conjure j a?
farm-system out
jof thG;.poetieal warblins of
the dear old
IMfiGreeK, It" may reouire a sdod dehl of
. II I II I 1 II ' . lllll, MM jlH . i si
he oldest of
ifarm writers, and as hie couiitrvmeriven
derated him so hiorhlr
9 to Irequire their
reckoped one of the oldest of farm writers,
f .jtiiit there is not enough in) his homely
jj)oein; Works and Days,! outj bf whifch to
;f. children to commit al
ol his poems to
irimemory, it is at least woiith the effort.
igil ITesiod sings
.a
an age df goljjf
f; ; Like gods they lived, wit
caliii, untroubled
: r-; 5 mfnu,
J Free froin the toil and anguish?
f our kind :
mis-jshaped
their
Iranje,
3 . i
foils sti
1 the
same.
Pleased with earth's un
feasts, all ills
ifctl-althy in flocks and of be bjest beloved. -
All nature's common Messiugs were! their
fhe life-bestowine tilth its fi-uitage Lore,
it
j A lull, spontaneous and ungruidging store
1 They, i with abundant goods I midst f qiiiet
la nils.
f l All Willing
lij. hands.
bared the i gatherings of thejr
!
1
i'S'i The gods then formed; a seconjtl race oit;men
ijI 'lJegeiierate far and silyer years begah!
lTilikethe mortals of ii oldeiilkiiid, j
J d tnlike 111 Irame ot limbsaud timuld ot nnnd
jljp "Yet still a hundred yearbehe' d the boy
: Eeiteath his mother' ropf hejf Infant joy,
?tfr Alftender and unfo'rm?ed. I Hi ,
S Nor scathe, nor famine on the ghteoti prey,
$ Feast'stre.w.h. by earth' erhplo.V their eydayi,
f The oak a on their hills!; thStopmosti tree I
1
i
ci: 4Jtuia HIT 111 II II ,'illlll UH Ilium I
1... . -t .,1,1
le bee;
th fleece their paiitinc; flocks. V
: A iarmer is a'. food - rod aji
l'3V farinUyslem of any! age eohsequen
fi!i . -1 .VI fi
r the
ly de-
pends ciitirely ujioaii tne kinds of food de
manded by.the public. In the palmy day
ot Jtome. snails and mussels were in ae
mand . and conseaUenily the cochlear iurn
made a nil rt of the i i'anh-svstem. In
V England, mutton is in !reai demaiid. and
'ivi ' -nni(wiiiPiit U' Iipi- oil irriw fertile under
uiu vnncning.ireaa, oijsneep. ana ine eoit
given grass covers her hills
0 . . " . ... - i'
and
vales
with a mantle ot beauty.
r 'uAnkle-tleep in Jiglis
Js a line which " cbn4eSs
I gfassj 'j! j
a multitude ot
If :H r lovely ideas, and this' En
rHul,
grass, is
mnliilr nwhnr tiVJhhii K11 Fs aimet te for
mutton. In AhienWi thelublicdemand
is for nork ami' iwefcan 6nlv prav that
our 'beautiful'' land ibelome Inot tine' vast!
pig-stye, interspersed with patches of
corn to support the Tugs
Ln
France, the people demand wine, jetn.il oil,
and coiisequehtly ioliye-yards and vine
ii vards trladden the eve. ot the tarmer, as
rj welKas that of therpoet and
poet and paintfer,
But. in llesiod's a?e of Irold, Avheu the
stalks of wheat and parley bearihg their
Tiard, little, tasteless (inins3 scattered over
a J' il !- ,. . .Ii . .i '' " .
, , J5 .
J t- u.v.-c T - -
me can n, were regarded s insignincanc
weeds, what was theiupplfe whicS flowed
in ; to meet the nuhli Lm r The
y ' acorn of the South o" Europe and! Asia is
It, a rich, sweet ahd dehciqlis nuttikbound-
V. ... S- ; I ! , . .
tilth-" was given t0 crops pt oaks and
YdiPHtniits and those fruits which still
glow upon the, page of Ihe classic-poet,
iir the garden of thefEIespirides were the
? 7 -. i . .
feasts strewn bu ehrtV W the trunks
'Vwa.o nola trprfl hiWkrno Boubt artificial
ly lormed) in wmcn ine fapiarin biuicu
Ms"
r!f i 1-iA fflrm-svstein
Tr - i mi - lj Jnf mnOnn ttas
iiaiuiv v
IieSlOU J; Ue lieeCCjUIJU lfc mi iwu,
viHAntlv t.hft ohie-t forwhich thev tenaeu
heep for furtherlonl we fihd thathe men
of (he degenerate -Drazeij age .were ui
which we inter that nima,i ioou va .aim
.erto linl'nnwn. .1
The farm System lof the Golden Age
IheiVembraced sheepf-husbkndry,orchard-ling,
: or tree-culture,! and fboe-keeping,
We will. endeavor to (consider tbis system
in it 8 BTeveral apecta. " . ;S - '
1. -A'ri.rhen f wbrds,,: come
down to us .from before the tithe of the
Confusion of Tongues, 'cist6ms, babits
a ud- ideas m ay do so likewise. It is prob
able that the European 1 m6do of ; weaving
ing ..- niuuiuciinw uesH-prouucer, anu should preaoininaie in uur lunmuiu,
this was the staplj ' commodity of the complementary one being reserved for
golden-tige farmers.1 "The, lifetystbwinq our raiinent. which, in point of fact. plaT
VOL. 1.
tba iiMi w-i n i 3 ' ,
"vv-uivv! w Binuv came nown in na fmm
1fni.wni.iak: - "&r-. J1,Dltau
H . " v,uur, uunrvrr,
eslOd ! larmer Virnhahlxr oiiQol.l 4l...,
larmei nrohahiv fiiiBnoi-iiai iw.,
V?1? t h trunks of his oaks. Bees always
hrive best in an orchard and pasture
. i 'Vi v, u"ui'vuucu
iounuyv like-that of the Golden Age,
X hey do not like a tilled soil on the one
,.iiui 'Wiiu iorestS Oh the Other. 1 or
reason they are called the pioneers
.uuu jwi tun, u v iiie WIIOIO eiVlllZea AVOl-lflx
7UCJ Biaiizes into sugar by the sm-
fT .- - v f. -. : ...
Pi Wcm ji cApusmg u ioine sun. ne
iu auunuance wicn wnicn it, is Tro-
wuvu j uiup huuwii in me u. o. Agripui-
rlnnnrl lA it U L J.. 1 TT C4 1
tural Report of 1863 : "A single hajf aere
ix trruunu iurnisnes. annnnanr. sTfifA tni-
. -
tj - - -w w
luvatiyii vi uu apiary UI IWO HUnureU
colonies , wmcn, unaer proper cultivation,
. , , . vera,e -ocaiity, can be made to
yield from three to four tons of honey
v , n,. jfluuiiiuun wi- wuil-u is
spontaneous, equirinc: "no iDlourhincr or
toil of man, ijor does it exhaust the fertil-
lty of the soil. In fact, it is simply savina
OI ClVlllZatlOn nlWaT-Q KAl'n.fmno
' i i - " uvlus woi jjiuiiuu i ii ii us uio uioou iricKiing
and productive in a newly Opened country, in a vey sticky and disag
oeio, e t ne iana becomes denuded of trees. So, man,; who tears the grass I
man saesire tor "sweets" in food has been surfacerof the earth, finds the
""y u vvriter as . 'neither hunger into hifj tace, and down into hia lungs, in
nor thirst, yet an instinct almost as strong a verylliisagreeable and dangerous manner
" v...v.. uuKar i uemanueu in its ne stcmes. which KnsKin
jium wutic .tuui w iiii-u xaiure proviaes in tne . mythological teachings ot the an- the homes of the farmers of the Golden
most lavish abundance, by bringing into cients. Docs the. connection! between Age, may have been blessed witK a puri-
f.A1 J. 1 X 1. V TT a I :
t-xpci use me int-aiis pioviueu ior us
wucuiiuu auu ijicservaiioil. XXOIie 'as
mucn superior 10 tne usual sugars ior all
1 r .1 i ' ,.
kinds lot . conteetionery much purer and
OTSVn.r. w.UI. I L 1 " i i I.'
:uuic ui-aiiuiui. xees nave most uene-
nciai enect upon truit trees, conveying:
the Iructitying pollen from flower to flow-
ier, ana tnus securing irnit crops which
-.11 m . .-'. . :
Vwn viii-ci Jftll, -
2. Sheep-Husbandry. -There is a Span-
ish proverb, "The sheep's foot turns e very-
thing into gold,' which means, that under
the sheep's foot the land always becomes
rich. -arid consequently produces i?old-
bringing crops. They always clear the
grass ot: weeds ana make, it as short, sott
and luxuriant as a highly dressed lawn,
There is nothing repulsive or offensive to
the eye in the keeping ot sheep. A cattle
yard, on the contrary, is not a Pleasant
nlace. A shenherfl mav n a iiopt, ora
nhilosnnhpi hnf. pnwhprn nprpr
Around sheeplolds and flocks, poetical
associations cluster thiCKly ; the holy
page of Inspiration abounds with them.
bheep and lambs are as dear to the pamter
as to the poet. Wool seems to be man s
natural clothing ; it is open and porous,
allowing the air to pass freely through it.
The skin is a respiratory organ, just as
the lungs are, arid wool is the only.sub
stance exactly suited to its needs. Soft,
warm, light, well-ventilated and easily
cleansed, it-was certainly made expressly
for human raiment. As to the bolden-
Age manufacture of wool, let us say a auiimi body can only be repaired . by al
word or two. The costliest and most bum iiJous materials." (North British Re-
thoroughly finished looms of France,
and America have never pro-
duced such exquisitely beautiful woven
fabrics as .those sent forth from the rude
distaffs arid looms of the Hindoos. The"
Golden-Age people, who lived from five
to nine hundred years, (vide Vie Penta-
tench.) ho doubt manufactured clothing,
bedding and carpets far superior to anj"
thinir which our short lived and diseased
eyes have ever rested upon.
o. -Tree-Culture. All of the present j
crops which the world depends upon most
largely for food are annual herbs, such as
wheat, barley, rice, maize, &c. Without!
constant manuring, the soil becomes ex-
ju
austed under them in a few 'ears. f Un
dej tree crops, the case is reversed, be-
comiiiir richer, with steady progression,
from year to year. .Thus all the immense
labor of manuring is avoided. Herb crops
have to be planted once a year ; tree crops
once a century- -nee crops require no
m . :
plowing -or tillage of any kind, growing
best with a coating of gr
roots, as. Thomas Meehan very clearly
shows. Therefore, the earth was clothed
with tren both overhead and undertoot
Th a bnpfifial effects of the hffht reflected
I J ' .
fr0m this" mass of greenfh upon man's
health was nrobab v one ot the causes ot
his irreat loriirevity. "If plants are ex
posed to green illumination only, it would
be tantamount to then oeing m me
dark. But this kind ot light, which
the vegetable kingdom refuses to absorb,
is vrectselu that which is coveted v
hj the
ntary
animal one. iteu, tne couipieiue
- 1 Tt ' J' A. . ... J
t-olor of green, is that which, owi
r-.
the blood, tinges the skin of, the healthy
human suhiect. iust as the greens color
.i i ,. , . .4 ' T -x . ' iL . j
I . . l J "N . -
, ........... , -V.' o
ot leaves is the complement oi ine one
they absorb. From this principle, so fully
Mtfthlished hv experiment. M. Dubrunfaut
I a - .
passes To its pr
mestic life. He i
actical application -to do
says that the color green
thA nnrt of screens. In the same way he
ina A$i1uhriou influence
I - i. ciiuo uiiuv v : 1 i
woods and forests is a luminous, and not
a chemical effect." , : !
of Trees and j?rass purify the air by ab
- Uorhinir nil imnnVitipa and thrivinL' luxu
riousir on tnose aerial poisons, vvmi-u
inhale Tilled Uoil intermnts this Purify
I IS uloeaee auu Olieiilliuca ucam iu man
Oflinrr nroeess hv nrf-sentim. at certain sea
.7 r ni
Lnn, tkii vam vafit maedPB nf '((ymnfilpoM"
ouuo Wl,lv . , . uo ...uv v. . ..v.K
and thereiore -greeniess grounu. xrees
attracCthe moisture from the raicJoud
- na preyeDiurout... j .
- tne ngorw wunw
cooling therid blasts of the Tropics.
Trees should not be auoweaio grow ioo
is as necessary
u. - - .iit - . - - .i -
is to the human frame. Nor
or we lose a portion of their
i
benefits
tllA HOi i; air. temperature and to the com
i flnriat of Ilesiod's farm er. ! T he fruit
of trees being suspended above the reach
of depredating animals, lences were un
CB;4RL0TTE, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1870.
. i.
utvvoo iw tuc vjuiueu-oige ; larmiDg
""IV imuuj uviu uiou tit nj o eci;ui;cu
WPVPP 1 Tkll ! o n5 1 oKnnrlonf nro(ai ,. T,UA
yLeui: x ms system aiso a iwaj'S secured
pure ait 1
l:n.i
1 u"i:i i . . . .
dry' up-t'h
trees tr&n
inifu ;?u w iuuuuyr uieir streams,11 anu
eir springs. When grassiand
;i. i
gew upon hills and dales, the land
wasanifxquisitelycleanland-itWsc
with a T'leanness of which wej witl
cleah,
i K
dustv Soil and air : pan scnrpelV form
concepfon. tA man who has cut his finder
over nis cioines
reeable manner.
from the
dust flying
RaVfl Were triVen
I 11 IAreWhitAnHira niinvsaa uliunra
I : t"t'v'?v'"
quire ff-hjud color in tilled fields ; but what
a variety oi son, Deantitui tints they- pre-
eenX w-ien lonnrt unon the leatv carnet ot
I ,1 " .
the ioaiest. or
resting upon the nower-
gemmal turf o
the prairie.- j.
'i h tmit
w ; v- m v a v
trees. -acorns, i chestnuts. 1 1
i , ?i i ? 7- ;
T)eCailSJWainUtS. aimOIiaS. niDertS. aDDlCS.
pears Reaches, plums, fags, oranges, pine-
applet?, ect., ad infinitum, require no cook-
ma. iThe abolition of ; cookins would
j emancipate inqusanas oj our s race, wno
are now slaves to that fierv. remorseless
god, tl4 cooking-stove (range; or fire.)
Thinlj vou that there was no wisdom in
I . 1 1 - . 1
1 rrGnit'iiieus anu Pandora s box ot evils
COUVe . DO valuable instruction lO OUr
. , 'v . . i . . .
darkqr,td minds isetore cooking, (one
of the nany evils in Pandora's box) was
I !T 1
invento.
A hhdred vpain hpheld th Iwiv.
BeiieHth his mother's roof, her infant joy;
AVid i z i, . i
I ?. i
I i 1 lrVi"Vrriiij fhotr Iixna'l -ifi no mif rnlilml
?wind, '.;
. refMrom the toil ana anguish ot our Kijiia.
-LiTpg on unnatural rood, (i. e. tood
whichithe best naturalists say was never
intended for us. in artificially heated
roomk? and breathing artificially corrupt
air. shortens our lives to a span, nesiod
mourxfully describes the downward path,
and ads: - ' ;
4F6 scarcely spring they to the light of
da'.
rt4
uiitimely, strews their temples
I ei'i'
Ana,-
" when the flower
Of utanhood
hour,
Their frantic
bloomed, it withered in an
follies wrought them pain
ahjtl woe,
Norlmutual outrage would their hands
forego."
Th4fruit of trees seems to have been
exacts suited to man's physiological
needsMas proved by the researches of
modern chetnists. I
' Tl-ie experience of mankind; as well as
8Cienoj?,
.0 i . . .- . .
makes it quite certain, that the
riuVec: 180(3.) Brain, bone, and mus-
cle aiv formed and built up with albumin-
ous naterials.i Albumen abounds in nuts
'and imal meats, but in the latter it is
minnl with blood the most nntreseihle of
all stiWances and fats the mostindigesti-
ble.' r Our cereal foods, wheaU barley, rice
ahd rcHize are composed chiefly of starch,a
substUhce which enters into the composi-
tion -S not a $iglc tissue ot the human
boa v.-ana wmcn is never aiiresiea as
c r : ? -
stares ibut must first be converted intogum
and fciijrar by the action of the saliva.
tl js a pleasant thing, and starch is
tastcHs and insipid, and theretore Ave
shoiHlnreler that its conversion into su-
irar kiould take place before we swallow it.
Vt ' 1 ! 1 1 I I.
JNutarc also rich in on anu sugar wnicn
both'i'ank as heat-producers pi the chemi
cal tKtaloijrue. i
Ttfe albuminous foods are the flesh-
formers the suar. starch and oil. are the
heatilroducers. and all are found in the
irreav-t nuritv ana periection in xree
croik1 !
f i .
,$ now come :the larm-honses ot .the
Ciolaen-Ae-e and here we must leave
tlegfpd, ana oetaKe-ourseives 10 me ojun-
.1 1 1 ' A- . I -..--
Montana aiscoveries oi mouern nutans
Wknow cei-tainly that in those dim and
ri;iKu cres iHlrine was the mater al used
f- t! ' ----- . .
in aUhitecturejand the hammers, chisels
and iw edges w
th which it was worked,
wen? prooaoiy oi stone aiso. i uu. uuuu-
mahas recently collected a Variety of an-
. . ; ...i -i:
f.v."' m r i -- ii.
M
cieiM-slone implements, wnne examining
w . . r. i n ., . " S.
theviirquoise mines ot the promontory ot
Siiiili; the .most, interest ing being speci-
ot tne promontory pi
- .i't . . iT a-
worked by the Egyptians oi
nA !h;-oh..inat.xr Af Ma.
I. i .
1 a . r.r
ccordinir to the testimony of the
. YV v
hieglyphies inscriptions engraven upon
theocks. The instruments j used in tra-'
. VI. i " : i;. -xf.L -i J:n e .,1
cmeUhOse inscriptions are sun jouiiu in
.i .iioA ;nir0rnl,y fl;nl Ai,
-it i.i J .-.Jki. AaZa
UiKlhe effect of stone hammers. The
coiiitiue CAaenv wim mo
: ..i.. . -.i. .I.,
UiiMtva muue muv uv, v,'& Vfl:
U.. ,.,.1 nrViila Win.r
of caSStcd
kxra ,-;,lnn(l,-KOJn hliinta
bysuch operatiops-j Nothing indicates
thuse of fmetals of any jkind in , these
- 1 wptks. This discovery is highly impor
- taf. inasmuch as it solves the question
il i-u's ,uo" . j
iu, uBj imoiiD ....r
- syenite ornaments. I J he same means
- weie doubtless used elsewhere, ana a pan
1 . . .... . 1
hit,i4pii!!t ot the delicate and marvelous
I - '- - '11 1 1
ww huic? r r -.'
proof
ex curea oy n u.Bu u.,.,
.1" ."IS. J-'! nrf
"'." ; j. .. .W j. t.r:i..i
insuch work. The beautiful sculptures
auciciiK vivaf, j-v
-t:n an i-noiixr
nf detail
r
- . ' hh;i.ixr t hA nninion advanced
r 'iK-st nrrT: : " j7' .Tn.rfnnl
to u. xaucuiu. yrr.w "r-",.'
Abril 2d. 1870.) fco here ? we leani uiaureasuuiug ncio
exquisitely beautiful stone carvings can
bftnade with stone instruments, and as
tltj men of the Golden-Age could not
'4
nave ueen miners anu Bmeiiers, anu ijrinu
cio ui aiimcb, DUiaauin, piilJCS, :-CVtT., Or
I (linn .
era oi knives, scissors, planes, or
i. n t . t . . '
an inese employments pemg extremely
,ninkAiAA .. .-.l.i iL.:
unwholesome.) we conclude that their
stone mansions were wrought anU carved
with flint instruments. And that, wrought
l4 t nAV x7aid -nri4 K hao If hi? K onila onn hanl
ftlthvminds t.hev watppi avpti mrn-P hpsinVifiil
than the modern 'carved and fretted ca-!
i vueurais, wmcn vummings cans "sueni
I poems which, seem as if the very 'stories
1 of the earth bursting into blossom sent
j tragrant incense to the skies.'
They had no glass with which to shut
out the pure air of heaven from their
I hnnino hnf hn'tr nvAho I Jt- MaA a.,Io no .
I , rt . J J l: i . . .
io uuic uuu ucnuaie launca as to one
which the Hindoos call "woven air.
"evening , dew" and "running water'
TK;. oat. Uaa nnA l.i
were probably made of the most artistic
ally woven osiers : their mattresses, nil
v n,u wiim uxue3 cn-uuvu rv 1 1 u wi, - x
hAflt flnhftlnnnA iaa h a rnv thia nnrnnfiA
Living on nuts and fruits, thev needed no.
table ware but daintily made baskets ; or
for their lnscioiis honev-comh and fvnit.
confections, large and gorgeously tinted
Bo.BV,Alla Ta' tr.hr.a i,wi QQa
could also have been manufactured out of
a mriptr nf Kot;fni Rtnnp Sr that
ty, a grace, a culture, and a beauty. supe-
irior to anx-thiniT whieh Wfimnf Prnj pti nv
1 j o ...
Hear what a projzressive American of
this red-hot nineteenth century says, on
I ...... . r "
hia en h Aft
Refined homes are the end of civiliza.
tion.' A ll t he work of the world rail
rri1hio- rmvirtina- dwrmo- dlJno-
tr e b&"o r
I m fl nil.TQf-tn VI tl CT 1 TlVAllt 1 n IT tPnf-ninor TVri-
ting, fighting, are done, first of all, to se-
curfe each family in the quiet possession of
hits own hearth: and secondly, to surround
as many hearths as possible with grace,
culture and beauty. The work of all
races, for five thousand 3Tears, is repre
sentea m tne ainerence between a wig
warn and a lady's parlor. It has no better
result to show." The Nation.) Now,
what i wish to . prove is, that we may
surround oiir hearths with grace, cul-
ture and beauty, and fill our tables
with luxurious abundance, without pay
ing so dear a price as human life for it.
Look, lady, at that costly mirror over
your mantle-piece. The reflecting power
ot its broad surface was given it by the
poisonous quicksilver which carries dis-
ease and probably death into the system
of the manufacturer. The delicate little
scissors, with which you clip the threads
of your embroidery, threw off a powder
in acquiring their polish, which even now
rests in the lungs of the poor grinder, be
he dead or alive. The glowing coals of
1 n I. x . 1 ; . i 1 : :j
your ueioie wmcn your suj.pereu
ieei resi wun sucn unwnoiesome comiori,
were broutcnt from, the bowels ot the
earth1 by the miners, who are shut out
from the light of heaven and from every
healthy physical, and ottentimes moral
influence. -
Refinement, grace and culture does not
depend on fashion, andyet iashion reigns
with iron, and almost Ificndish power in
these ladies' parlors, tha,n which, the
Nation tells us. civilization has
nothing
better to show
The .Golden-Aire, if w.e mav believe
Hesiod. was infinitely belter. "But how
4. y a
about books ?" asks some radical utilila
rian, triumphantly. "Your Golden-Age
people had no books.
To this we reply that none but the lame
need crutches none but the blinds need
to be led. The schools of Greece were
Drobablv copied from their traditions of
the Golden-Age. Their books were living
minds-theiriprintihg press the power of
sneech. The greater portion ot their
time was spent in imparting and acquir
ing knowledge. Their greatest tear was
that their aged men Bho'uld de betore they
had imparted. all their knowledge to their
successors lest "knowledge .should aie
with them
The ronly difference between man and
the brute is, that one has a soul and the
. . : 1 ,1 At,- n 1 1
orner nae not , out u mau Bpcm0 ur vi.ulc
time in providing for his animal wants,
e put Diramuu ainu UIUIC-
i it 'ilit. t : a.
i ii ot i riH iri'PMii'r iiiii'iiiiii in 11111 i m z dj
. i mi x . j i-i u t i
occupied. They are busied like the birds,
in miHinor thpirnpsts. and:in nrocurinsr
- " & 7,
I tkatr frrA a nrt TiTftfl 11 n (T TOV t hei 1 VOU 1U".
Vv., i' .-& v P7
l""u
Jd th!
ke .the philosophers of Greece.
P1a hnnrht. that, honks onerated on the
. , -r---- -
human mind "as the use of go-carts in
learning 10 wm, wui '",'".'"-6
tn . . -d f onerate on the human
1
Pod7i 11 a 5:??
1 indisnensahlft which made vifiroronsexer-
------ ... 0
i tion nxst unnecessary anu men nupossiuic
to those who used it. Ihe powers ot
the intellect, Plato thought, would have
hfienmore iu v aevoioueu wimout mio
ji..u
UeillBIVe IU. ,JU, JJc v...-
, ' . . . A. A A nnA
PeilCU lO CXeiCISe IUC UllUCICSlrtllUlUg u
meditation make truth thoroughly their
own. Now, on the contrary, much
knowledp-e is traced on Paper, but little
is engraven on the soul. A man is cer
0. . .
tain that he can find information at a
moment's notice, when he wants it. He
therefore suffers it to fade from his mind.
Snch a man cannot, in strictness, be said
1 tn
know anvthincr. He ha9 the show
without the reality of wisdom."-3iicai
r'But how abont the.knowledge oDtain
ic. "asam asks our raaicai menu.
i "X ne uyiueii-iiec
-. .rni 'ii' - -1 1
bad no inetais
i .... " uJA; v...U Um
-l an". inereiuru cuuiu uut luujvy. cut".
, i . . ... i : 1
These instruments are like dooks oniy
helns to the human mind. Let the mind
be strong and acute, and a mortal lite o
In : thousand vears be enioved; and its own
- - n t
will make discoveries,
of which ordinary short lived men? with
microscopes and telescopes, ; and every
with
otner aprmauuo ui
nqver
it
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NO. 22.
dream. Enoch was doubtless a far better
astronomer than Herschel ; Jared a better
naturalist than Darwin, and Methuselah
an infinitely better farmer and planter
than' David Dickson. : - 1
! Kadical ism j resorted to the pistol in
Houston tos stop. free speech,; and at the
same time that it goes to great, length. in
abuse in this, city, it threatens Democrats
for the .expression of opinion. Witness
what it has done and is doing at Austin.
It snatches up. the cudgel and wants to
strike down mll;; who talk . against -its
crimes. Democratic . words are called
treason. , and we are covertly threatened
with Davis militia and police when he
gets themand no doubt jjart ot .their
wdrjc will be to close Democratic mouths.
This is the pure and upright partj that
is eternallyM bleating about freedom of
speech. They mean that they must have
the right not.;only to say but do as they
see fit, and . we . must silenth' listen and
obey. The old Texans of '36, the faithful
Coji federates,; and the true southern men,
will be sure to do this thing !
. Houston Times.
' i il'h. ", "v. ' .':
At Arlington. A Washington corres
pondent4of r the Baltimore Gazette, under
date of the 31st of May, writes : , '
"Yesterdaj; morning it was noticed b
tne early i visitors to Arlington that a
bouquet was' laid upon each of the one
hundred and i i fifty Confederate graves in
the'eentre of the cemetery. Later in the
day the flowers disappeared. Who robbed
the 'rebel' dead ? The man who could
commit sneh an act deserves to' have his
name go down in history . beside that of
Butler. It was doubtless some Small sub
committee man, who had served during
the war in a Home Guard.
Mr. Stephens and Joseph Brown. -Mr.
Stephens, in the last volume of his great
work, endeavors to mitigate the just and
popular opprobrium in which Jos. Brown
is held by the people of Georgia. Mr. S.
says, Joseph joined Republicanism from
fear and not. from choice. A sufficient
answer is, that Joseph dipped into the
flesh pots set before him, and no matter
what caused his desertion of the people
who had trusted and honored him, it was
a base, selfish and cowardly act,- that all
the sophistry of casuists cannot justify or
mitigate. , ' y
Mr. S. says the Radicals did not take
Joseph to the top of a high mountain, but
thej' shook him mercilessly over the bot
tomless pit.- Be it so. the man who fears
to go to the bottom in behalf of his prin
ciples and his people, has but little love
for either, j;and does not deserve the re
spect and confidence of the latter.
If Joseph has recovered from his scare,
let him disrobe himself, fling back: that
five thousand of blood money, go into the
ranks, and - work out his redemption.
The people desire to see a little sack cloth
on the loins of Joseph and a sprinkling of
ashes on bis head.
When Joe goes to confessional again,
will Mr. Stephens tell him this? ,
Hi Columbus Sun.
A Boston Dinner. Last week the
Bostonians gave a banquet in honor of
Gardner Wetherbce. proprietor of the
Revere House, one of their best "taverns,"
and the following description conveys
some idea of the products of the cuisine :
"On the president s table, was a minia
ure duck pond, about five feet long and
two and 4i half .feet wide, filled with run
ning water, i and bordered with moss, in
which trout were swimming. At the
brink stpjdN two wild ducks, apparently
stuffed, but', really cooked and ready for
eating, bytsimply removing the feathers.
Upon the table at the right was a pigeon
liouse of park, a rustic a flair about the
- i . ' ' i t 1 II--'
same size snaaeq by a snian wuiow.
Upon it were perched pigeons, en plume,
for exhibition or eating, being cooked like
the ducks ' Upon the table at the left was
another miniature pond, bordered with
wild grass, lilies and moss. and containing
trout.; At its brink were snipe, having a
ife like appearance, but in reality cooked.
Upon the centre of the centre table was
an enormous goose, with feathers on, and
as large, asl life, but alsO ready for eating.
These designs, with a multitude ot others
to gratify; the senses, gave the tables a
charm and; an attractiveness such as must
be seen to be properly appreciated."
Kkmests at the Hub. Senator Revels,
of Mississippi, lectured at Boston a few
nights ago on ."The tendency of the age."
The Mississippi Senator is not eminent in
the world of letters. He is.not one ot those
resplendent stars of the first magnitude
that the cultivated and spectacled eye ot
Boston is accustomed to look at. He is
not a teacher, a prophet, a philosopher, a
vegetarian, a teetotaller, nor a great trav;
eler. He Ss hot a devotee of the positive
ohilosoohv that is at present exciting the
Boston mind, and is as far from being
able to tell what protoplasm is and where
it came trom as anyDoay eise. Doi ne is
a curiosity, and that's why Boston, has
- a - i : t
sent for him. He is a living, moving and
speaking mementooftheugreat rebellion"
which Boston is trying to convince itself
and, the world that it did so inncli to sup
press, i He is the impersonificatidn of Ne
mesis. He sits in Jeff. Davis' seat in the
IT. S. Senate, and that spectacle is a per
petua) wonder and delight to the Hub,
for it reminda the hud ot the un approach
able military prowess which: illustrated
itself at Big Bethel, Bermuda Hundreds
and in the lied Hiver promenade. When
Charleston fell before the shock of -Sher
man's army marching in its rear, a Bos
ton lieutenant from the array, tfcat had
uhsuccessfiy attacked it for three years
' J. ll.ii A...Jl 11' - 1 .m4,.i1 n n n lii
in ironx;::t.uieieu u. uuu. uapvuitu uu uu
; osal ccentndlics. :
resisting slave auction block, and sent it
by the first vesscrnorth to the authorities
of his native city, to be, kept as an ever
lasting jproof that Massachusetts troop?
were the first to' capture the city where ,v
the slaveholders' " rebellion began!
Senator Revels iKiforQaBoston ljyc ehrii
is another phase7 of the name inspiring
recollection. y . j i
; Boston has listened to some three hun
dred lectures the past scasiin j! they wero
lectures on all conceivable subjects' but
one the condition of Boston sewing wo
men, w ho make shirts for 25 eents apiece,
and as 'a legislative " report informs us, .
Honietinies support themselves1 ,on five
cents worth of stale bread a day This
vulgar subject did not obtrude; itself, into
the iyceura It did hot, thrust its grisly
visage into Fanueil hall or. Tremont tern-.
pie, and no illustrious lecturer at home or
abroad was invited to discourse it before
enraptured ahditdries. : As Boston is ad
uiciea to new; things, anu . as tins is alto
gether new as a- lecture i theme, mw6? sug
gest that a course on it be allowed to fol
low the I Mississippi Nemesis': lect ure on
the ? tendency of the vyp ''-Missouri Republican-.
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PunchedIs it not funnv to read this
paragraph from the New York Tribune s '.
report of the late election : .
'4tOneio4wocolore4 politicians euspecu
ed of aiding the Democrats, .were watched
with H nx-eyed sharpness, and the uh-'
Iiicky fellow,'. who allowed . himself to be
humbugged ihtbf depositihgajDemocrHtie
ballot, was punched in the head for bis
stupidity!" f . w : j r
' . What a comment'upon the itiestima
ble privilege ? of free eleciiori Y " The do
mestic slave of I860 was wept over be:'
cause he occasionally got a lashing. The
political slave of 1870, is punched by A he .
mourners jluqustd Constitutional isL
-7 '
Strange Story.A n E Oregon pa jcr
notices the strange conduct of : pair of
animals a pig, and a cow who exhibit
the greatest affection for each 'fit her. The
c.6w.. furnishes food for her porcinq friend
to the damage of her confiding owners.
The pig is too small to reach the teat
when on its four feet, so he stands up'bn
two-and reaches uii with his fore feet on
the cow's leg. There seems to , be the
most perfect good feeling between them,
the porker testifying his pleasure with
the usual grunting, and his foster mother
responding by licking him as other cows
do their calves We have heard of such
occurrences before, but they
?y ' are very
rare.
How naturally .these Badicat pigs take
to suck "and how quietly the old cow lies
down to be milked by-them !
; i ' ; - ,-
Wo agree with the Hon.. Charles A,
Eldridge, of Wisconsin, that the wrord
'Toyaf is a word to be despised and bated.
In a speech pi Congress he declared that
it always reminded hint of a definition
given of it by an army contractor during
the war. when asked what he meant by.
saying that he felt "loyal."' "I meant."
said the contractor, 'That 1 felt like steal
ing something." Air, Eldridge continued,
thatrfor himself, he was patriotic, hot
loyal. The word did not belong to his
country ; it only "belonged to Massachu
setts. Courier-Journal. ' . x s
Violation of the Fifteenth Amenp-
Ment. In the decoration of the graves,
of the Union soldiers at Arlington, the '
colored soldiers appear to have hevii
wholly ignored by t he Grand Armof the
liepublic. The negro dead occupied a i
cemetery some distance apartjfrom that
devoted to the white Uniaoidiers,; and:
no preparations had been made to include,
it in the operations of the programme,1
and so ('ufty, for once, went unnoticed.-1
George T- Downing, (the colored restau
rateur of4 the capitol, is highly incensed
at this slight to his race, and proposes to
to memorialize Congress to have the
bodies of the colored soldiers' taken up
and buried in the same cemetery with
the whites, ''that no distinction may
be JftaJe on account of color. "-t? Vicksburg
J0ald - V .
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New Uses for Whitewash. Rev
J. Williams, lontj a missionary on the
South Sea Islands, gives this comical ac- -i
count of the behavior of the natives
after he had taught tliem how to make 1
ime from the coral of their shores : !
Aftei-having laughed at the process
f -burnfftgf which'-. the' believed to bo j
o cook the coral for food, what was j
their astonishment, when,' in the morning,
they found his. cottage glittering in the
rising sun, white as snow 7 w
They danced, they sung, they' shouted
and screamed with joy. . : !.
The whole island was soon in commotion
given up to wonder and to curiosity. and
he laughable scenes. which ensued alter
hey got possession .of the brush and
w,hite wash, baffle-description. The bon
ton immediately voted it a cosmetic and
kalydor, and superlatively hapmT did i
many a swartny coquette consiaernerseii,
could she but enhance her charms bjr a .
dab of the white brush; And now party
spirit ran high, as u win m civuizeu
countries, as to who was or who wa not ..
best entitled to preference Une party ;
urtred their superior rank and riches a
second had got the brush, and were de- ;
termined at all events to ceep it ; and a
third tried to overturn the whole that
they might obtain some of the sweepings.
But soon a new lime was: prepared, and ,
in a week not a hut. a domestic utensil, a '
war club, or a erarment. but was as white
w . i
as snow- not an inhabitant but had his i
akin painted, with thejjnost gorgeous , and!
grotesque1 1 fijmrespot pig but was j
similarly ' wuuciicu -auu even uiuiuwo!
miht be seen in every direction caper- ;
i ng with extravagant gestures, and yell--
t' ' J Lt! TL . -a. JilTl lAnnlr!
of their whitewashed infants. ! ;
. ' - t . Missouri Herald:
The Quincy (Florida) -afonifor publish
es the following note from one of the l
State teachers set up by : th Radicals in
that county : Mr. and b amily bir
your company is birlisited to attend a
School tabloo and Selebration at My
school House on Monday 'Night May the
2th at 8 O'clock, i . ; ; ;;!;.
I - yours wifh Respects, i . ;
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1 A rattlesnake was killed, recently In
Campbell county, 'i Tenn., carryh-i? (9rt;
three rattles. ' '. T r' - ' ' . !
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