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' EDITED ASD PI BI ISIIFD WEEKLY, BY IIARItISOX A nVERS. A Home iu the Heart. Oh ! ask, ask not a home in the mansions of pride, Where rich marble shines out in the pillars and walls ; Though the roof he of gold, it is brilliantly robl, And pure joy is not found iu the torch-lighted halls. But, oh ! seek thee a bosom all honest and true, From which love, once awaken'd, will never depart ; Then turn, turn to that breast, like the dove to its nest— And you'll find there's no home like the home in the heart ! Secure thee a spirit that is warmly sincere, — That will heighten your pleasure, or solace your care— A pure soul you may trust, as the kind and the just; And he sure that the world holds no treasure so rare. Then the frowns of misfortune may shadow vour lot, The cheek-furrowing tear-drops of sorrow may start — But a star never dim sheds a halo for liitn Who can turn for repose to a home in the heart ! EPIGRAM. Great Jove, within a shower of gold, Once want, I've heard, a-wooing ; This fashion of the times of old, Succeeds in times ensuing ; If vou doubt my word, go try it, You’ll gain a heart, w hene’er you—buy it - -mxmnimiii- CELIBACY AND BUTTONS. “You heard us talking! Ay, sir, I lie old 1 story ; grievances, sir, ’twixt man and Woman',” said the hermit. “And what is tha’, sir TANARUS” wo asked. The hermit, shaking his head and groaning, cried, “Buttons! buttons!” “Huttons!” said we. The hermit drew himself closer to the table, Ami spreading his arms upon it, leaned for ward with the serious air of a man pre pared to discuss a grave thing. “ Hut tons,” he replied. Then, clearing his throat, he began : “In the course of your long, and as 1 hope well spent life, has ii never come with thunder-bolt conviction upon you, that all washerwomen, e'ear starehers, getters up of lino linen, or what ever name, Eve’s daughters—for as Eve brought upon us the stern necessity of a shirt, it is but just that her girls should wash it—under whatever name they cleanse and beautify flax and cotton, they are all under some compact, implied or solemnly entered upon among themselves and their non-washing, non-standing, non getting-up sisterhood, that by means sub tile, and almost morally certain, they shall worry or drive all bachelors and widow ers soever into the pond of irredeemable wedlock ?” “ Has this tremendous truth, sir, ne'er struck youl” How—by what means]” we asked. “Simply, by buttons,” an swered the hermit, bringing down his clenched fist upon the table. “ I will take a man who, on his outstart in life, sets his hat a cock at matrimony—a man who de fies Hymen and all his wicked wiles.— Nevertheless, sir, the man must wear a B hirt— the man must have a washerwoman. Think you that that shirt, returning from the tub, never wan’s one—two—three— buttons? Always, sir, always. Sir, tho’ I am now an anchorite, l have lived in your bustling world, and seen, ay, quite as much as any one, of its manifold wicked ness. Well, the man—the buttonless man at first calmly remonstrates with his laund ess. He pathetically wrings his wrist at her, and she promises amendment. The thing shall never happen again. The week revolves. Think you the next shirt Has its just and lawful number of buttons ! Not a bit.” Starting at tlic word we looked, we fear, reproachfully in the hermit’s face. “ Par don me ; let it be as if it bad never been said,” cried the anchorite —a deeper tint dawning in his face, and his eye looking suddenly moist'. “ Pardon me, but the heart has strange cords ; even buttons may sometimes shatter them.” We bowed, and begged the hermit to proceed. “ Well, sir,” said our host, after an effort, “ week af or week the poor man wrangles with liis washerwoman; from the gentleness of even maidenly complaint the fenton atrance rises to a hurricane of abuse ; and stlir the washerwoman, it would seem, is bound by oath to her unmarried sisterhood to bring home no shirt complete in its but tons. Man —the fiercest of his kind—can not always rage. He becomes tired ashamed of clamor. He sighs, and bears his buttonless fa'e. llis thoughts take a new turn. In his melancholy his heart opens ; he is softened, subdued, and in his hour of weektiess a demon voice whispers to him, 4 Fond foolish man, why trust thy buttons to an alien 1 Why helplessly de pend upon the needle and thread of one wbo loves thee not, hut thy shilling ? Take a wife; have a woman of thine own who sisal! take care for thy buttons.’ The tempter is strong. The man smiles dis- trustfully, but still he smiles. 44 Th3t very night—it so happens lie goes ti a house warming. He is a partner at cards with Miss Kitty. She never did look soattractivc. And then her voice—’twould coax a nail out of the heart of an oak.— The man thinks of hisjbuttons ; and before he-leaves the house Kitty has been brought to confess that she doesn’t know what she mav do—she may marry, and she may not.” 44 Is it possible V’ we cried, with a laugh. “Sir,” said the hermit, 44 ’tis not a thing to idly laugh at. Take fifty match es, ami be assured of it, if you sift ’em well, out of forty at least you will find buttons in some shape at iho bottom of ’em.” “It may be,” said we. “It is,” cried the her mit, with c motion. “ Asses arc led by their noses—men by their buttons.” — Douglas Jcrrold. Napoleon’s Prophecy now in coUrse or fulfilment. —‘ Before fifty years,’said Napoleon to Las Casas, one day, at .St. Helena, ‘ Europe will he Republican or Cossack.’ ‘ Then, if my son is alive, he will he called to the throne amidst the acclama tions of the people. If he is no more, France will become a repub ic again ; for no hand would dare t » grasp a sceptre which it could not wield. ‘ The B anch of Orleans, though agree able, is too weak, it clings too much to the other Bourbons, and it will have the same fate, if ii cb.es not prefer living as simple citizens, whatever changes arrive. ‘Once agaiu France will he a republic, and the other countries w ill foil >w its ex ample. Germans, Prussians, Po'es, Ital ians, Danes, Swedes, and Russians, will j in her in a crusade in favor of liberty. They will arm against their sovereigns, w ho will hasten to make them concessions in order to retain a part of their ancient authority; they will call themselves con stitutional kings possessing limited pow ers. Thus the feudal system will receive its death blow'; like the ocean mist, it will vanish before the first ray of the sun of liberty. ‘ But things will not rest there, the wheel of Revolution will not stop at that point; its impetuosity will increase five fold, and its rapidity in proportion. When a peo ple recovers part of its rights, it becomes enthusiastic from victory, and having tast ed the sweets of liberty, becomes more enterprising in order to obtain more. The .States of Europe will he, perhaps, for some years, in continual state of agitation, like iho ground a moment before an earth quake; but at last the lava breaks forth, and the explosion ends all. ‘ The Bankruptcy of England will he be lava which will shake the world, dc eour lings and aristocracies, hut cement by its outbreak the interests of democracy. Believe me. Las Casas, as the vines plant ed in the ashes which cover the feet of .Etna and Vesuvius, produce the most de licious wines, so the tree of liberty will be come immoveable when it has its roots in the ‘ revolutionary lava ’ w hich will over flow all the monarchies. May it flemish for ages ! These sentiments may appear strange tc you iu my mouth ; they are mine, however. ‘ I was born a republican ; but destiny and the opposition of Europe made me Emperor. I now await the future.’ Old Friendships. —The changes of time, place and circumstance all contribute most effectually and in a thousand ways to alter the relations we sustain to others. Incidental circumstances, new employ ments, new interests, new social relations often deprive friendships of the longest standing and the most intimate character of the attention which is essential to their very existence, leaving them to die a na tural death. Frotracled absence, distance of place and lapse of time, especially w hen epistolary commerce is"inconvenient, hard ly ever fail to quench the ardor of any at tachment, save that magic Love which knows neither distance nor lapse of time, overleaping the one and overlooking the other. But History records few instances «f friendship like this. The alterations and fluctuations of social life to i often be come the means of changing affection to d.shkc, and friendship to hatred. Yet the state of that man’s or that woman’s mind is littlo to be envied, who does not cherish a green spot in his hear: in memory of old friendships long ago lost, sundered, bro ken —who does not keep alive in his heart of hearts a single taper on the tomb of old loves and friendships, of the joys and sor rows and friends of by-gone days. 'They who would consign to deep oblivi on all the past, because it haunts them, who would break the last link that binds them to their former existence, should re member that thus they stake their whole happiness upon the present. Like a gam bler who lisks his whole fortune upon a single throw of ibe dice, if they lose they have nothing left. They are morally and socially bankrupt. “ If storms should break, unclieered they go, A dreary waste before thorn.” Yet does it not sometimes happen that we would give worlds, were they ours to give, to recall the memories, sincere and Complete, of one old love 1 Does it not sometimes happen that amid the revolu lions of the social world, we meet again an old friend as one meets with a lost trea sure ? And how difi'erentthe feelings with which vve gleet such a friend, if conscious that we have been true to him, from those where our conscience accuses us of hav iug been forgetful and treacherous 1 If it is good to be always patient in well do ing, it is good also to iememberalways all who have been once dear to us. The memory of such attachments, of the kind feelings and kind ollices which composed them, forms a most important part of our social being. And where from time to time, after longer or shorter intervals, we meet such friends, as ships meet on the wide ocean, how pleasant to 44 review the scenes of other years.” Hr. Johnson was of the opinion that we should keep our friendship in constant repair, by supply ing the places of those who are lost, very much perhaps as a committee or a club fills vacancies by re-election. But in our opinion they are undeserving of new friends who arc capable of forgetting the old. ° " M A C O A_. SATURDAY MORNING, JAN. 20,1*4!). Proceedings of Connell. The Proprietors ot the “Southern Museum” having been elected City Printers, the Prorecd ings of the City Council of Macon, will hereaf ter appear in this paper. The contract for keeping the Streets and Lanes of this city in good order for the ensuing year, will he let out on Monday evening next. See Proceedings in another column. Appointments for Macnn District. The Georgia Conference closed its annual session in Augusta on Thursday afternoon. The following arc the appointments for the Macon District : John \V. Glesx, P. E. Macon —Waller IS. Branham. Colored Charge. —John M. Marshall. Vinerille —Win. M. Crumley. Milledgerille. — Wiley G. Parks. Eatonton. —lsaac Boring. Clinton. —Francis W. Baggerly. Monticello —J. Blakely Smith. Forsyth. —John P. Duncan. Cullodm. — McCarrcll Pcurifoy. Ft. Valley. —James Dunwoody. Ft. Valley Mission. —Thomas C. Coleman. Perry. —George Bright. Ormulgee Mission —John M. Bright. Goofy's Lady’s Book.—The February num ber of this vaiuahle periodical lias come to hand. It is a magnificent number, so far as mechanical execution is concerned : the contents we have not examined, hut presume the articles are iu keeping with the known character of the work. O’We have received “Wright's Casket,” published monthly at Philadelphia, at 25 cents per annum. It contains a great variety of use ful and interesting matter, and is well worthy the patronage of the public. j Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.] • FROM WASHINGTON. In the Senate, on Tuesday, [lGth inst.,] Mr. Douglas offered an amendment to his California State bill, obviating the ob jections to that portion of it in favor of assignees of Military Land Warrants’ The amendments underwent discussion. The bill settling Land titles and fur ma king a survey in California and New Mexico was also discussed. Mr. Breese made a speech in reply to Mr. Benton. In the House, Mr. King, from the Com niiltee on Naval Affairs, introduced a bi'l providing for the construction of the Pa nama Railroad, ten thousand copies of which were ordered to be printed. The business done was unimportant. The Civil and Diplomatic bill, and the Mileage question came up, and were a gain debated. The Southern Meeting. The meeting of the Southern membets of Congress took place at Washington on Monday evening, [loth] organized as be fore, and remained five hours in session. Mr. Calhoun presented the report of the Sub-Committee, and it was discussed. Messrs. Clayton, Stephens, Toombs, and others, opposed the adoption of the report. It was advocated by Messrs. Calhoun, Westcott, Jefferson Davis, Martin and Bailey. The final result was the recommitment of the Report by a majority of two, to an adjourned meeting to be held on Monday next. Our correspondent remarks that the Whigs declined further co-operation, and that the report to be made on Monday next, will be adopted by the Democrats and a few Whigs. Messrs. Houston, Rusk and McKay, are also stated to be oppose to the Report. New Yorli JTiu-ltets. Cotton. —The advices from New York are up to 5 o’clock, on Tuesday afternoon. Cotton was rather inactive at a decline of fully one-eighth of a cent since the recep tion of the news by the steamer. Some buyers were demanding a further reduc tion. Rice had also declined. Sales of 200 tierces had been effected at 3g. Government Secutilies were firm at the last quotations. Several vessels were in quarantine at New York, having the Cholera on board (UpWe learn from the Washington correspon dence of the Charleston Courier, that the Report of the Southern Committee recommends nothing, but gives a historical view of the rise and pro gress of anti-slavery movements in this country. It leaves to the Southern States to determine upon the mode of redress. “Very little is said on the most irritating of all the topics relative to slavery—that is, the dis Acuities interposed by Northern legislation in the way of the apprehension and delivery of fu gitive slaves ; hut the sub/oct is alluded to as one of grievance in the report. Ido not think, nor is it the general impres sion that the House will, at this session, pass any hill respecting slavery in the District of Colum bia. They may pass a Territorial bill with the Wilmot Proviso, and it will, possibly, pass the Senate, since Illinois has instructed her Senators in the matter, and he arrested by the Executive veto.” (C/ - Hon. Thomas Metcalfs appointment by the Governor of Kentucky, as U. S. Senator, has been confirmed by the Kentucky loisla turc. COMPETITION WITH ENGLAND. I The remark made in our last paper, that in a few year* foreign markets will be supplied wish our fabrics, grains and meats, was not the fruit of idle speculation. No solid reason can be I urged why it may not be so. In the instance of cotton fabrics, at least, in the manufacture of which England is our great competitor, we have every advantage over her. First, we have the great advantage of produc ing the raw material in our midst. Then, as the difference between the cost of transportation Horn the plantation to a factory here and a factory at Manchester, so will be the difference in the cost of the raw material to the two manufactur ers. Were it not for this advantage, small as it may appear to he at the first hiusli, it would not long remain debatable whether we can suc cessfully compete with the pauper labor of that country—the impossibility of doing so would soon be made apparent. Secondly, if we work up enough of our cotton crops (which will certainly be the case, sooner or later, dependent upon the gradual or rapid in crease of factories in the cotton-growing States) to reduce the supply of England below her de mand, this will at once drive her from the field of competition, and increase the price of her cot ton fabrics at home. Thirdly, the result will be the same in all the manufacturing districts of Europe, and then wo shall have an open field. A portion of the capital daily accumulating among us will he invested in factories—these will multiply, and effect the great commercial change we have so iiastily and imperfectly sketched above. We have caught a faint glim mering of the idea, and will leave to those who are more deeply interested the demonstration of our theory. lii regard lo supplying foreign countries with our breadstuff's, there is not so much concern. Iu this branch of commerce competition will he between the Northern and Southern Slates. In this, the latter have the advantage, as the sub joined extract from an article in the Eulavv (Ala.) Whig, will shew : “It may be argued that a market cannot be found for wheat, if its culture is generally gone into. We would reply to this that wheat should only he a pait of the planter’s crop ; and if such is the case a market, either at home or abroad, can be found for all that will he produced. A good market can he found in our own section of country fur large quantities, and a vast market may be had, almost as convenient, in the West Inliis B fire Northern wheat is gathered, Southern planters can manufacture their wheat i ito flour and ship it to market; thereby sccur i ig to themselves the earliest and generally the best market. This position is susceptible of proof, from real occurrences, as connected with the Richmond (Va.) Mills.” The foregoing remarks, coupled with the fol lowing article, which shows the position wc oc cupy among the nations of the earth ns a pro ducing people, sustain us in the belief that our prediction, made in reference to Georgia, will be completely fulfilled : “ A writer in the English Agricultural Ga zette makes an interesting comparison of the products of the United States with those of France. The population of the Uuitid Stutcsis set down at twenty millions, and that of France at thirty-five millions. The proportion of the agricultural population in America is given as 80.4 per cent.; commercial 2.5 ; and manufac turing 17-1. The writer observes that the agri cul ural productions of the United States, com pared with its inhabitants, are enormous, viz : UNITED STATES. FRANCE. Horned Cattle, 14,071,583 !1,035,538 Sheep, 10,311,384 32,151,430 Horses and Mules, 4,335,660 3,192,337 Pigs, 27,301,203 4,040,721 He also contrasts the grain crops of the two countries, showing the comparative amounts produced of each kind, in hectolitres, as follows : L’WIT ED STATES. FRANCE. Wheat, 30,000,000 60,000,000 Barley, 1,500,000 16,000,000 Rye, 6,000,000 27,000,000 Oats, 44,000,000 48,000,000 Indian Corn, 135,000,000 7,000,000 Buckwheat, 2,500,000 8,000,000 14 The United Slates,” says the same writer, “ produce annually 70,000 tons of wool, 600 tons of hops, 300 tons of beeswax, 10,000,000 tons of I ay, 95,000 tons of hemp and flax, 100,000 tons of tobacco, 40,000 tons of rice, tons of cotton, 60,000 pounds of cocoons of silk worms, 77,000 tons of sugar, and 5,000 hectolitres wine. The produce of the farm-yard or cow-house, is estimated at £7,000,000 (.$35,000,000); that of the orchards, £1,5GO,000; forests, £2,720,000.” The total amount of agricultural produce a inounts to the enormous sum of £137,730,150 sterling, or $693,650,800. The manufactures of the United States, though yet in their infancy, are rapidly increasing, and the writer puts down the amount of capital embarked in manufacto ries of various kinds, at £56,757,912. Consid ered in all respects, therefore, lie concludes: “ America may be classed next to Great Britain, as the second agricultural and commercial coun try in the world.” Interesting Surgical Operation. —Dr. Paul F. Eve, says the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel of this city, performed the operotion of lithotomy last Saturday at the Hospital, and re moved from the bladder of Mr. O'Brannon one hundred and seventeen stones, the largest of which weighed two drachms, seventeen grains. Wc have seen the pebbles. They ar j tclrahe deous (four sided) and have all the sharp angles rounded oil'by friction one against another. Their aggregate weight is four ounces, three drachms, thirty-eight grains. They have been accumulating twenty years. Prof. Eve performed the operation with much skill, and without pain to ihe suhjuel, lie being under the anodyne influence of Chloroform. [UTTIie Cholera had abated at New Orleans on the 13th, and entirely disappeared at Mobile on the 15th inst. It was also disappearing up the Mississippi river at the latest dates. (TT The amount of Treasury notes outstand ing on the let inst was $10,532,089 31. THE CTTTOX INTEREST. Several remedies have been suggested for the cure of the present prices of cottons. A gene ral Convention of Planters has been advised, (a good suggestion, by the way, if it is possible to assemble a full body,) to deliberate and fix upon the best Than to reduce the crop. We merely mention the fact to shew that causes are at work which will have a tendency to lessen the next crop of cotton in the Southern States. That is to say, although it may be as large as the present one, yet many who would plant full crops if prices jus ified it, will turn their attention to other and more profitable productions Labor and caprsal will naturally flow to those channels in which they will be most profitable. And men are too intimately acquainted with their in terests, to he long in the discovery of what does not remunerate them for their labor and the use of their capital, or slow in applying the remedy. Hence, if it he a fact as we believe it is, that at the p event prices cotton will not pay the ex pense of growing it, w hen compared with the productiveness of labor and capital applied to other objects, then will it be true that the next crop of cotton will be less than the present one— and so on, until prices become better. In this state of things, we see the hud of greater pros perity to the South. Ilerinexliaustible resources will he more completely and rapidly developed —more diversified employments opened—and her l b >r, capital and products will be equalized. But to show the probable good resulting from a reduction of the cotton crop, and the invest ment of labor and capital in other objects, we append extracts from a highly interesting and valuable article in a lat “ number of the New Or leans Commercial Times : “A crop of 2,400,000 hales was assumed as a full average, at prices not materially varying from five cents. Let us compare the very short cr >p of 184 G, with the quantity of cotton raised in 1848, and trace the results; say 1,778,600 bales at ten cents, amounting to $80,000,000, against 2,400,000 hales at five cents, equal to $51,000,000 —presenting the singular fact of an increase of 621,400 bales, and adecline in value of $26,000,000 ! To what agency is this attri butable ? Has the consumption been so greatly diminished in two years as to bring prices down to one-half of their former level ; or has such a revulsion taken place in the money circles, that the crop cannot be brought and held to its usual destination ? Some cause is at work to produce this difficulty, and we shall offer a few plain thoughts on the subject, tending, as we conceive, to justify the position wc assumed iu the outset, in regard to over-production. * * * Our opinion is, that a standard of production and consumption, as nearly uniform as can be estab lished by the arrangement of labor, is the great security fur all who are, in any way, connected with the citton iptcreat, whether in the growth, manufacture or final disposition of the article. In the change of labor which wo recommend in relation to cotton, wc carefully avoid ex tremes at the beginning. Wc have seen very intelligent contemporaries, who agree with us on the necessity of some equilibrium, in our capacity for production and consumption ; who estimate our excess, already at 800,( 00 bales; and who are of opinion that the corresponding ratio of labor should be at once diverted into ot' er channels. On this predicate, the transi tion would be one-third from cotton, which, with all due deference, we think rather too vio. lent. It would probably excite fears, alike inju rious to agriculture and commerce, by disturb ing the laws of supply and demand, which are most beneficial when most secure from sudden and great interruption. We have selected the medium course as the most advisable—let us say that 400,000 bales ought to he omitted from the production, which would be one-sixth of a full average crop ; and the capital thus liberated would establish and work machinery to the value of $12,500,000. Let the proceeds he invested in additional cotton mills, and so on from year to year, until a thiid, or even one-half, the crop of the United States shall be manufactured at home. When this, or any approximate result shall he attained, then good prices for cotton will be per manent, with the upward slide in our favor from the very tendency of the change. “Our manufacturing establishments being on the increase, whilst the production of cotton is kept steadily at one point, say 2,000,000 bales- Europe will at once see the danger of a thin supply of the raw material; and, consequently, prices will assume an aspect calculated to decoy back to the cultivation of cotton much of the capital which had been withdrawn from it, and invested in other pursuits. So long as our de monstrations for manufacturing are solid and progressive, wc shall keep our friends on the other side of the Atlantic in a most obliging tem per; they will always he willing to pay us full prices for an article indispensable to their pros perity, and which they can obtain from no other source to an extent and of a quality to answer their purposes Instead of our being in a state of vassalage to them, as we have been hereto fore, in our cotton trade, relations will be entirely reversed, and we shall possess the ability, if not the will, to prescribe our own terms.” (TT’Tlie Charleston Courier of the 17th inst tates that the steamer Richland was burnt on the 14th inst. having blown up near Britton’s Ferry, about 30 or 40 miles above Georgetown. It is said eight or ten persons perished, amongst whom were Messrs. John McFarlan, Taylor, Davis and lady. The boat was on her way from Cberaw to Georgetown, and was owned ey Cap tain Brock, and was not insured. Georgia Stocks. —The Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel of the 3d inst. says : “Cluite a large sale of Bank stock took place at our market house this morning. The follow ing are the prices they brought ; 230 shanes Mechanics' Bank stock for $lO5 a 100 3-4 ; 60 shares Georgia Railroad & Banking Company stock for SB4 1-3 a 85 1-2; 14 shares Bank of Augusta for S6O ; 7 shares Augusta Insurance nun Banking Company stock for $107; and $759 in GcorgiaG per cent. Bonds for 00 cents.” A dentist of Durham has lately used gutta per chn, for the manufacture of sets of gums for arti ficial teeth. EDITO.’IS AND NEWSPAPERS. Those who have the pleasure of reading f rftm day to day, or week to week, the productions <,f the editor, rarely reflect upou the incessant toil trouble and vexation entering into tbe perforin’ ance of his duties. At one time there area huu dred subjects, more or less, irrelevant to each oth er, to be conned over or penned for the benefit or amuscincntofhis readers,—the next mail arrives and lo ! there is nothing of interest in his eu changes. Now he is thrown altogether upr> 0 his ingenuity; and various, as well as strange are the expedients resorted to by the poor fellow at such untoward times. The labors of an edi tor are well portrayed in the following par*, graph from a late speech delivered by the editor of the N Y. Courier &. Enquirer: “ Consider, again, how articles are written If a lawyer is to defend a horse thief, he takes a week to collect evidence, and sift and arrange it, and then he comes into court prepared to make the best of a bad case. But if the tele gjaph brings word at midnight that all Europe is involved in war, you gentlemen expect that we of the press should lay down the law of na tions in regard to it, on your behalf, in time for breakfast next morning ! And then scriyta manent— when once written down, the judg. ment must stand.*’ But, newspapers. Who can estimate the value of newspapers ? Probably their great number and cheapness prevent their necessity from being seen, and we desire to place them in their true position bpfore the eyes of the world. They give a healthy tone and direction to public opinion—they arc an important auxili-. ry to trade, commerce, agriculture, the fine arts and the deep sciences,—they correct vice el e . vate the standard of morals, and disseminate beautiful truth—and they scatter with liberal hand the diamond gems of knowledge among the masses. We have an interesting and remarka ble proof of the great truth of the last mentioned attribute of the press in the following narrative. It is an ‘o’er true tale,’ no doubt : “ Some years ago, a lady, noticing that a neighbor was not in her scat at church one Sab bath, on her return home stopped to inquire what should detain such a punctual attendant On entering the house she found the family busy at work. She was surprised when her friend addressed her: ‘ Why, la ! where have you been to-day, dressed up in your Sabbath clothes I o meeting. ‘\V by, what day is it ?’ ‘ Sun day.’ ‘Sal, stop washing in a minute t Sabbath day ! W.II, I did',,l know it; for my husband has got so plaguy stingy he won’t take the pa pers now, and wc know nothing ! Who preach ed ?’ ‘Mr. Ilodgskinsnivey.’ ‘ What did ho preach about?' ‘His sermon was on tbe de struction of tiie world, and the day of jwdgment.’ ‘ Mercy on us ! is the world destroyed ? Well, ■veil, it might be destroyed a dozen times, and we would know nothing about it ! It wont do —we must have the newspapers again ; for every thing goes wrong w ithout the paper. BilHias almost lost liis reading, and Polly has got quite mopish again, because she’s got no poetry sto ries to rend- Well, if we have to take a cart load of potatoes and turnips to market, I am dc termined to I'avc n newspaper.’ *’ Moral. —Every one should make a similar re solve. PATIENT CONTINUANCE. There are not a few young men who fritter away their lives in dreaming of what they will do to-morrow. Days, months, vears, mark their rapid flight upon the heads of such ; and still we find them dreaming of what they will do to mor row. No advice will he given to these—the task would he fruitless. But there is a class of young men, a few degrees removed from the former, upon whom advice may not he altogeth er lost—those who have industry, hut are defi cient in the faculty of patiently continuing in one pursuit. We see such at onetime applving themselves to a trade, then to the study of medi cine, or the law, and now to something else ; and the result is that several years arc thrown away—literally lost to them. The probability is, that if the time thus wasted had been employ, ed in view of a certain end, it would have been attained. They have industry, truly—but they exhaust themselves beating Ihe air—they labor to no purpose. Their faculties require direction to, and concentration upon,some specific object, and the most direct way of securing it. Then, if they w ish to attain such object, through some particular vocation, they must patiently continue in \\ hatever vocation they may have first select ed, or into which they may have been forced by circumstances. I.et him who chooses, or is forced by circumstances, to be a mechanic, or farmer, or merchant, or physician, or lawyer, in commencing bis career in life, abide the issue of such choice or compulsion. Let him call upon the energy of stern, inflexible will to move him in a straight line to an honorable end. Patient continuance in his calling, whatever the obsta cles to be surmounted, will certainly insure iiis success. Ohio Legislature.—This body have not yet satisfactorily arranged their difficulties. There was nothing but swearinfi, wrangling and quar reling. The Democrats claim that Weller is elected. tUr* Peter C. Brooks, the wealthiest land holder In New England, and father in-law of Edward Everett, died on the Ist inst. His for* tune is estimated at between 7,000,000 and 000 dollars. (O’Gen. Thomas Brown, Whig Governor elect of the State of Florida, was inaugurated before the Legislature on the 13th inst. on which day also that body closed its session. Submarine Telegraph. An electio telegraph is to bo constructed from Dublin to Holyhead, to communicate at the lat ter place with the English lines. Os course the telegraphic wires will repose on the bottom ot the channel, and will be submarine for the dis tance of about thirty miles, we suppose. Noth ing like this lias been jet attempted, wc believe; and wc are not sure but the ttme will come when it will be seriously proposed to stretch a line of w ires across the Atlantic. But we cannot see how it will be accomplished. We will not de ny the possibility of it though, seeing that many things pronounced to he impossible have come to pass within the last thirty years.— Globe.