giant despair that he might the more tenaciously grasp the standard of victory, at last hide all under a jest, and leave a transient joy the grave mark of his cares. Not only in the higher walks of life does wit crown exalted power; but also in the humbler occupations of men, where one might suppose that nothing is heard but the "Song of the Shirt," sport speaks in a voice that is not altogether unheeded. The dull noddle of a Yorkshireman is sometimes keenly alive to a practical joke, and the story of the dog and the turbot can never fail to draw a hearty laugh. When black-eyed Susan had been performed for more than three hundred consecutive nights, and Mr. Ellitson, the manager, had cleared an immense fortune from the profits, he said to Douglass Jerrold, the author of the play, who had received the miserable pittance of seventy pounds for his work: "My dear boy, why don't you get some of your friends to give you a piece of plate?" As the humor of which we spoke before was the perfection of the noblest emotions, so this manager's smartness is the very climax of all that is mean and niggardly. Jogrum Brown was the keeper of a stable in Sheerness. When the stable was changed to a theatre, Jogrum Brown still held his position, but his title was doorkeeper; and finally, when the theatre became a church, Jogrum Brown was there as sexton; and as he formerly showed the spectators to their seats, he now conducted them to their graves. Here, also, we see a grim wit, that claims origin from the most humble walks of life. An emotion, then, which is so universal, and in some instances national and even provincial, admits of various degrees of cultivation; but in every instance proves itself the near kinsman of perfection, whether the perfection of the high, the low, or the intermediate. A French writer has divided mankind into two classes, those who have more appetites than dinners, and those who have more dinners than appetites. In the former, we may place that lean and hungry Cassius race of men, who always wear a sardonic grin, but yet enjoy what they can get, and think with pleasure of what is to come. In: the latter class, we may arrange those unfortunate individuals, who, though they are pampered with all the delicacies the intellectual' market can afford, suffer the tortures of indigestion, and are afflicted with that most terrible of diseases, mental dyspepsia. When we reflect on the great intellects of the world, we shall find that, at the pinnacle of their power, they all loved wit. Shakespeare and Ben Jonson cracked many good jokes over their ale; and Aubrey says of the former," He was a handsome, well-shaped man, verie good company, and of a verie ready and smooth wit." The race of great men who flourished during the reign of Charles the Second, and after the Revolution of '88, were men whose highest happiness it was to laugh and make others do so. After them comes Dr. Johnson, whose wit, though somewhat clumsy, was always pervaded with a delicacy of affection that charmed even those who were the objects of his attacks. With him are associated the greatest men of Britain, whether in the legislative halls or in the literary world. They were all men of humor, and all history may be searched; Cæsar, Alexander, Descartes, and Lord Bacon were witty men; Cicero, Demosthenes, Boileau, Pope, Dryden, Cowley, Solon, and Socrates, they were all men of pleasantry and mirth. They may have perverted the original good feeling of wit and soured it into sarcasms and ridicule. But theirs is the blame. But theirs is the blame. And virtue must not suffer when crimes are done in her name. But when wit is leavened with kindness, and rigorously checked by conscience; when it is the power of a man who is not only great in intellect, but great in honor and and justice, in morality and religion; wit is then the most delightful part of our nature. Says Sydney Smith, "There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects of wit; than to observe it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness; teaching age and care and pain to smile, extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from melancholy, and charming even the pangs of grief. Genuine and innocent wit is surely the flavor of the mind. Man could direct his ways by plain reason and tasteless food; but God has given us wit and flavor and brightness and laughter and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage and to charm his pained steps over the burning waste. ADVICE TO THE TEMPERANCE SENSATIONALISTS. GIVE up the nasal tone; give up the pious distortion of eyes; give up sanctimoniousness; give up affectation; cease to look upon this world as on a valley of tears; allow us to have our legitimate share in the joys of this world, which God grants us so plentifully, and we shall be better prepared for the world to come than by abstemious self-delusion or self-torture. In one word, try not to bend the straight line of nature; it is an elastic steel band that finally will rebound and strike you in your face, if you curve it violently.-From a recent lecture on Temperance by Rev. Dr. Jastrow. HYMN FOR PENTECOST. AGAIN we now before Thee stand, The covenant renew with Thee. And when religion's victory Will all the earth have sanctified, The heav'nly rule of charity The hearts of mankind purified :- And into ONE great brotherhood That call the human race will turn; To know Thee, to be just and good, And love each other, they will learn. The patient lamb and quiet sheep, With wolves and lions strong will play; And heav'nly peace, serene and deep, Will shed on earth its blissful ray. And all will worship Thee alone, On earth enlightened by Thy word. With one accord will then exclaim: "The Lord is ONE in heav'n above, And ONE on earth His glorious Name!" M. M. GEORGIA COTTON MILLS. A VISITOR to the South should always make it a point to visit Georgia, for she is certainly the Empire State of the Scuth, and is far distancing her sister States in her onward march. In nothing has Georgia so progressed as in cotton manufacturing. Columbus, situated on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River, has more money invested in this branch of manufacturing than any other city in the State. This place is beautifully located, and Nature has been most lavish in making her par excellence a manufacturing centre. The river affords ample power, and the falls extend from this point up the river for over twenty miles. So easily controlled is this immense power that there have been actually no repairs to the dams and walls in four years. The Eagle and Phenix Mills, situated directly in the city, are the largest mills in the South. The company owning these mills have left the old worn rut so long followed by Southern Manufacturing companies and are a progressive concern, making a great variety of cotton and woolen goods of beautiful styles and designs. As these mills make almost altogether colored goods, they have an immense dye-house attached, something unusual in Southern mills, which generally confine themselves to brown or unbleached, undyed goods. These mills are splendid exponents of the vim and energy of their founder, Wm. H. Young, a man of rare energy and sagacity, and whose acumen and labor have been rewarded by great success. It was with much pleasure we made a careful survey of this whole property, and give below some of our observations and conclusions. When it is remembered that the South possesses the grandest climate in the known world for manufacturing; a climate genial and pleasant, which forever forbids the great difficulties of frosts and extreme cold; when we consider that the transportation on the raw material, the middle-men's charges, and re-shipment of the goods themselves, are all saved, some idea can be formed of the advantages of manufacturing in the South. Labor is fast becoming plentiful and skilled, and nothing is needed to give wonderful impetus to the great industry but capital, and this the Southern people are saving and creating. The Eagle and Phenix Co. are running at present three mills, and are this year enlarging their operations, at the same time reserving a portion of their yearly profits to erect still another larger mill. They have now in constant employ twenty-two thousand spindles and six |