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Newspaper Page TextTHE II ll be published every SATURDAY Afternoon, /„ the Tico-Story Wooden Building, at the Corner of Walnut and Ftfth Street , IN THE CITY or MACON, GA. By WM. U. IIAKRISOK. TERMS: f or the Paper, in advance, per annum, $2. jf not paid in advance, $3 00, per annum. Advertisements will be inserted at the usual , lel —and when the number of insertions dc ilfed is not specified, they will be continued un id forbid and charged accordingly, by the Year will be contracted r jtii upon the most favorable terms. j/S.iles of Land by Administrators,Executors irGuardians, are required by Law, to be held on j e tint Tuesday in the month, between the hours iten o'clock in the Forenoon and three in the ttternoon, at the Court House of the county in rluch the Property is situate. Notice of these ifes must be given in a public gazette Sixty Days previous to the day of sale. p*Sales of Negroes by Administators, Execu or Guardians, must be at Public Auction, on ihe first Tuesday in the month, between the legal hours of sale, before the Court House of thecounty *here the LettersTestamentary.or Administration a r Guardianship may have been granted, first giv if notice thereoffor Sixty Days, ki one of the iiiblic gazettes of this State, and at the door of he C >urt House where such sales are to be held. p’Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in like manner Forty Days pre iioiis to the day of sale. to the Debtors and Creditors ol an es ltJ must be published for Forty Days. v»\'otice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne ,roes must be published in a public gazette in the <iite for Four Months, before any order absolute can he given by the Court. for Letters of Administration on in Estate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must published Thirty Days for Letters of Disinis iion from the administration ofan Estate,monthly far Six Mmtks —for Dismission from Guardian ship Forty Days. jMtulos for the foreclosure of a Mortgage, must be published monthly for Four Months— lor establishing lost Papers, for the full space of Uru Months —for compelling Titles from Ex ecutors, Administrators or others, where a bond has been given by tbe deceased, the full space ot Three Months. 15, All Business of this kind shall receive iroinpt attentionat the SOUTHER. V TRIBI JVE tlfice, and strict care will be taken that all legal Urertisemcnts are published according to Law. l3* \ll Letters directed to this Office or the Editor on business, must be fost-paid, to in ure attention. HcKtftal. From the Augusta Constitutionalist. MEETINGS IN CIIEKOKEE. Alec tint; at Koine. The following are among the Resolu tions passed at a mec ing of the citizens of l'luyj county, held at Rome on the oth inst. at which Hon. John 11. Lumpkin pre sided : Resolved, That \vc regard the Nashville Convention as on'y ‘‘intending to enable the people of the Smith to take council t eutliei us to the best and most effectual mentis of resisting the aggressions ot tbe North,enforcing a compliance on their part with their constitutional obligations, and thereby preserving the union of these States’ ami we believe that its deliberation should be restricted to these objects, and these alone. 11'salved, That our loyalty to the Union fanned by tbe wisdom and cemented by the blood of our ancestry, is unshaken and h urconfidence in its advantages and per Ipctuity midiminislied. Resolved, That while wo believe Con gress has no power to prohibit tlio intro dueiou of slavery into any of the newly [irrimreil tpn i'ory. M'C are willing in this spirit nf concession and compromise, that the territory shall lie divided between North and South by tbe extension of tbe parallel nf3G° 30' to the Pacific, of to refer tbe question of right to the constituted tribu nals of the country. Risulvcd, That Congress has the power to admit new States into the Confederacy restricted only by tbe constitutional guar antee of a Republican form of Govern merit; but we believe that Southern Rep reientativosshould steadily oppose the ad mission of California until a full and a fair adjustment of all the points in the contro versy shall be obtained. Resolved, That a law to secure the de livery of fugitive slaves can form no por tion of any compromise between the North end South in relation to slavery; that it is a right secured to us by tbe Constitution,and must bo insisted on and maintained inde pendently of and distinct from all other ‘juestions. meeting at Adnirsville. At a meeting ofllie citizens of tlie loth District, Cass county, on the Bth inst., David Morrow was called to the Chair, and W. M. King appointed Secretory.— The following Resolutions were adopted. * * * * * * * * Resolved, That as a small portion only ofllie county was roptesented, we disap prove of the" meeting held at Cassville on tho oth inst. Resolved, That we highly approve of the Southern Convention proposed to be held at Nashville. lleso'ccd, That wo consider the Mis souri Compromise a nullity ; Ist. Because 11 has been repudiated by the Northern people in their vote for the Wilmot Pro- Vls °. Secondly, because they refuse to extend a line according to the Comprom ise to the Pacific Ocean. Meeting at Van Wert. •At a meeting at Van Wert, Paulding [' °'i'Hy on the sth inst., the following a other Resolutions was unanimously Copied : [ Resolved, That we cordially approve of j |' e preamble and Resolutions passed at I t l'° 'tst session of the Legislature of the [ , in relation to Rending Delegates ’ l Nashville Coiivuiiliuit. THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE. NEW SERIES— VOLUME 11. meeting at Cnrlersville. A public meeting was held in Carters ville, Cass county, on tbe 9th inst., at which Jesse Dickerson and Nathan Nicholson were Chairmen and W. H. Maltbie and R. H. Cannon, Secretaries. Tbe follow ing Preamble and Resolutions were adop ted. Whereas, a number of individuals, j variously estimated at from 50 to 100, as sembled at Cassville on Tuesday last, tbe sth instant, without lire knowledge of u vast majority of the independent voters and fr eemen of Cass county ; and then and there assumed to speak and act, upon the most important questions, seriously affecting their principles, their honor, their rights, attd their interests as Southern men and Ameri an citizens—not for themselves alone, but in tbe name and on the behalf oft he entire “people of Cass County,” without distinstionofparty;—And, where as the assemblage aforesaid, while declar ing their opposition to the Southern Con vention. and even intimating their suspi cious that the objects at e treasonable, yet proceeded to appoint delegates to a dis trict Convention they propose to hold at Cassville, in order to select delegates to represent them in that suspected assem blage of Southern Whigs and Southern Democrat:—And, whereas, they have not only appointed a full delegation for tbe whole people of Cass in tbe nommina ting Convention of the District, but have unwarrantably assumed towards that body a dictatorial altitude by declaring ss they do, “in advance,” that they will not sustain its nominees unless they concur with them in their condemnation of the Southern Con vention and unfounded suspicious of its motives and objects:—And, whereas, we, a portion of the freemen of the county of Cass, Whigs and Democrats here assem bled, heartily concur with a vast majority of our Southern brethren of both parties from Maryland to Texas, in the propriety and necessity of the proposed Convention, and hold no unworthy suspicious of their patriotism, or of that of those distinguished and long-tried public servants selected by the Legislature to represent tbe State of Georgia in said Convention, and have en tile confidence in the capacity of our fel low-citizens in the several Congressional Districts to selec f , as their representatives in Convention, men honest, capable, and faithful to the Constitution: And, for as much as we consider the Constitution of the United States as the great origina’ compromise, embodying the only princi ples and terms upon which the Union was formed between the sovereign Slates of the confederacy, or can be preserved.— Now, therefore be it, by this meeting, firmly Is*. Resolved, That the meeting at Cass ville bad no authority to speak or act for us, or, in our opinion, for any considera ble number of the people of this county; and that we repudiate and condemn the action of that assemblage in several im portant particulars. 3d. Resolved, That we warmly approve the Southern Convention, and indignantly repel the insinuation against its projectors and advocates as unfounded. 3d. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meeting that those who are op posed to a Southern Convention, and sus picious of the patriotism, or objects of its projo tors, advocates and members, ought not to desire to be represented therein, hut should organize separately to resist the treason they seem to apprehend. 4th. Resolved, That by declaring in advance they will not support the nomi nees of the District Convention, unless those nominees concur with them in their views, they strike at, and subvert,the only rational object of all sucli bodies, since all who go into tbem must be bound by tlieir action or none ; and as they arc not to suppose that others will make conces sions to them, while they arrogantly re fuse to make any, they connot consistently or properly participate in tlieir delibera tions or actions. The following letter from Ex-Governor C. J. McDonald, in answer to an invita talion to attend the meeting, was read and ordered to be published. Kf.nksaw Hall, March S, 1850. My Dear Sir : I have just received your letter of to-day’s dale, and regret extremely that indispensible business en gagements prevent my attending yom meeting to-morrow. lam glad to see that a portion of Cass are determined not to rest under the imputations which the resolutions adopted at Cassville on Tues day last cannot fail to bring upon them. I do not know which to deplore most, the blindness that cannot perceive the palpable invasions of the constitutional rights of the South, or the indifference to constitutional freedom, which induce men to cliing to the Union when every right under it, is in danger of annihilation. The fanatics of the North have pursued the South “ with a step steady as time, and an appetite as keen as death,” and the final consummation ol their wicked purpose is almost at hand. Are we to sit quietly and not resist it ? I, for one, will insist on the constitution and its compromises. With them the South will be satisfied ; with nothing short of them. The North has been frequent ly told, that with respect to tho public Territory, the Smith would be satisfied with the Missouri compromise parallel of MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 23, ISSO. latitude extended to the Pacific. This done, and provisions made for the delivery of fugitive slaves and the question is set tled in a day, harmony restored, and the Union preserved. The Southern Convention will meet, and deliberate on measures of safety ; of safety to the South, of safety to the Union. This they will do unless the matter is satis factorily settled in Congress before tbe day fixed for its meeting. Their motto, I hope, will be. The Union, with the Con stitution ; no Union, without it. Respectfully vnurs, Charles j.'McDonald. Convention<*f tlie Fourth District. Ihe Delegates from the Fourth Con gressional District, representing Troup, Meriwether, Coweta, Fayette, Henry and Campbell counties, have met and selected tbe Hon. E.Y. Hill and Obadiuh Warner, Esq. as their candidates to the Nashville Convention, at tbe election on the 2d day of April, 1850. From the Southern Sentinel. Air. Caliioiiu. Public attention has, from a variety of considerations, been unusually directed to the position,which would be assumed by the great Carolinian in the contest now so warm ly waged at Washington. As much as Mr. Calhoun may have been maligned by party, there is no other living man who so entirely possesses the confidence of the Southern people, on this question, as he does. This great man has been the sub ject of almost eve ay charge known to the political code, but a want of devotion to the South, has never been one of them.— He lias been called ambitious; it may he that he is, but the want of ambition such as bis, is sure always to mark tbe traitor to bis country. He has been called vi sionary ; be may be, but dreams like bis, ate only known to tbe statesman, who is profound enough to look into the arcana of political philosophy, and wise enough, to discern amid the secrets of tbe future, tbe results of causes which he now sees in operation, lie has been charged with in onsistency; the charge may be true, but such inconsistency fails alone to dis tinguish the history of that man, who is weak enough to persist in ascertained er ror, through fear of being thought a chan geling. Gut as we said before, indiffer- ence to Southern honor and Southern rights, lias never been classed among the [lolitical sins of Mr. Calhoun. So furfmm it, bis uniform and unfaltering devotion j to the South, has been made tbe basis of an accusa ion more foul and more false than all the other devices of bis enemies. He has been denounced as a Disunionist ; as an enemy to bis country ! We appre hend that his recent manifesto will not have the effect of removing this impres sii n, though to our mind, it furnishes in dubitable evidences of that deep seated devotion to the Union, which every act cf his life lias demonstrated, has always been second only, to his devotion to honor and to justice. Why should Mr. Calhoun be thought to he a disunionist ! Is it because lie takes extreme ground in defence of the Soutn ! But what if it should be made to appeal that it is thus alone that tbe U nion can be preserved ! Such is exactly the view which Mr. Calhoun takes of this question and we concicve that the reason ing of his speech fully sustains him in this conclusion. What are we to understand by preserving the Union 1 Is it meant merely that such an adjustment of the is sues irnmediatly before the country, as will serve to allay for tbe present, tho fe verish sectional excitement by which tbe Union is dis racted, is to secure the integ rity of the Union ! When we arc told that the Union must be preserved, are we to understand that danger is merely to be postponed by a temporary settlement of the immediate causes of discord, or is it meant that this glorious confederacy of States is to be se cured in that, stability, so sincerely invok ed by those who framed it ! In short, is the Union to be preserved for a day, or for all time. If tbe former, then the tem porizing policy of compromise and con cession may bo sufficient ; but if the lat ter, then we confess our only hope f r the future, is in the adoption of Mr.Calhoun’s suggestion. Whit is it that endangers this Union ? Is it the question of the Wil mot Proviso merely, or is it the admis sion of California merely ? If it were so, then indeed vve might laugh at the idle croakings of those who would anticipate the disseverance of the bonds of Union, fra cause so trifling; so easily accom moda'ed. These are, however, but tbe accidentia! manifestations of a cause, long anterior in its operation to and far behind, tbe particular measures in discussion.— What then is the disturbing element in the political union of these States! It is, the solemn and fixed determination of the Northern States, to extirpa'c slavery from the confines of the American Union. Who can read the history of the slavery agita tion, without being forced to this convic tion ? How else can vve rationally ac count for the constant pertinacity, and the increasing presumption of those by whom this agitation has been conducted. Each particular measure which has, at different times, seemed to cousitu'c the end of tlicii exertions, lias, as soon as it has been su nned, been converted into a stepping stone to still farther aggiessmns upon our i-ights. Stu bis unquestionably the design in the agitation now so feat fully waged in the Halls of Congress. Is the Wilmot Proviso, or tbe admission of California, prosecuted with such unprecedented as siduity because those measures embrace the ultima thule of their design, or is it not because, in the accomplishment of these, the agitators will have secured a more advantageous position, from which to recommence their exertions! If we are conect in attributing this crisis to the cause suggested, then the momentous question presented to the South, aye, and to the North likewise,is, how is the Union to be rescued from its tendencies ? Elo quent appeals to the Uniop will not do it; soul s'irring recurrences to the circum stances attending its formation, will not do it; resolutions will not do it; legislation will not do it. What will ! We answer, nothing can, but a constitutional guar anty of the rights, the equality and the honor of the South. But Southern men tell us that such a guaranty is already af forded by tbe constitution. This vve be lieve to be true, but on this point even the entire South is not agreed, while the al most unanimous sentiment of the North is | against us. Os what avail, then, are our present constitutional guaianties, when a tyranical majority is able, by a system of fake constiuction, to deprive us of all their benefits! While we admit, therefore, that by a fair construction of the constitution, vve are already secured, the North interprets it differently ; we demand, therefore, the incorporation of a provision into that in strument, which shall require no interpre tation ; which is so plain that even our en emies may understand it; and vve ask also that this security may he placed beyond the altering power of any numerical majority, by requiring the unanimous voice of all the States before it can be changed. But it it said that such a plan is impracticable; that the North will never agree to it. We answer, if tbe Ninth intends to recognize the South as equals; if her object is not to deprive us of our rights, she will not hesitate in giving her consent to a mea sure which proposes merely to secure that equality and those rights. On the other hand, if the North designs to degrade us into infe iority, and to disregard, nay, to outrage our l ights, then of course she will not consent to the proposition, nor will we consent longer to a Union, preserved on such terms. Who is thecraven that would desire to continue a Union, in which he was degraded to the condition of an inferi or, and in which Iris rights were not re spected ! Then if this plan proposes no thing more than a security against such a disgrace, why not make its adoption a test for continuing the Union! For one, vve ate prepared to instruct oui delegates to the Southern convention, to stand upon this proposition. If it is accepted, let them return to tlieir constituents, honor ed and blessed as the instruments by which the Union has been perpetuated ; if it is rejected, let them come back to aid us in forming another Union, or to assist us in the vindication of our reserved RIGHKS. There ismie view of tliisquestiou which vve must not pass over, although vve have already protracted this article much he ; vend the limits vve intended for ir. It is this : I Vc are b tter able to settle this ques tion now, than ice ever will be hereafter. | If we evet intend to make a stand, thete fore let us do it while we have the ability Ito make ourselves beard. If vve are to 1 rely upon argument in the settlement of I this issue, let it be made before vve have, j by continued submission, precluded our -1 selves ft om the use of all the strong points in our case ; or if it is to he arbitrated by the sicord, let the appeal be made wdiile 1 there is reason to hope that it will be suc | cessful. hi either event, now is the aus -1 picioustime. Datigersdoublcby delay. Interesting Discovery. —lt has been claimed for North Carolina that she was the first to throw oft' British allegiance by the Declaration of Independence of Meck lenburg County, but the authenticity of “the Mecklenburg Declaration of Indepen dence” has ever been a subject of contro versy among literary men. Mr. Jefferson regarded the document as spurious, and characterized the pretence ofthe existence of such a paper as ‘ a very unjustifiable quiz.” But the researches of Mr. Bancroft, in the State Payer Office of the British government, have thrown new light on this interesting subject, and will, we think, have the effect to establish the claim of the old North State, of having been the first to move in flic cause of colonial indepen dence. He has discovered a copy of the resolves of the Committee of Mecklenburg sent over to England by Sir James Wright, then Governor of Georgia, which show that Independence was first proclaimed in North Carolina in May, 1775. Ihe letter of Sir James Wright, referred to by Mr. Bancroft, closes as follows : “By the enclosed paper your Lordship will see the extraordinary resolves of the people of Charlotte Town,in Mecklenburg County : and 1 should not he surprised if the same should be done everywhere else. The prediction was really verified by the result. O’ The"number of persons that arrived in the United States from Foreign Countries during ,he year ending IS4T was 599,610; as follows ; Maine, 4775, New Hampshire, 142 ; Massachu setts, 29,7rt(> ; Rhode Island, 110; New York, 213,736 ; Pennsylvania 15,511, .Maryland,Bo72; Virginia, 372 , South Carolinia, 2->,209 ; fan jjia, 209 ; Alabama, 472 ; Louisiana, ~ >,209; Florida, 7.i, and 1 exits, 13 * NUMBER 11. From the Alabama Planter. Varieties of Cotton. Messrs. Editors : The vast importance of cotton as the great leading staple of Southern product, has created an interest in the difierent varieties of the plant and some considerable pains has been taken to produce new kinds or introduce into notice and use those that have been discov ered, and among these efforts some little humbug has no doubt crept in also. From what has occured, vve may safely consider the middle and southern portions of Ala bama and the corresponding latitudes of this continent along the Atlantic and the Gulf, at a sfnall distance from and parallel to them, as the true land of the short sta ple cotton in its varieties of gieen seed, Mexican, Petit Gulf, Mastadon, and their cognate varieties, yet from causes I'think not at all difficult, at least in part, to ex plain all are satisfied, who have not no ticed the subject, that instead of improve ment there is a manifest tendency to de terioration in tbe article, both in product and quality. I I propose to suggest a few of tbe reasons and some of tbe remedies, and among them, perhaps, stands first the use of de fective seed. We rarely succeed even in picking a lot of superior early cotton sep arately into one house, and even if vve do it, it has all the small defective lower bolls of inferior quality, both as to size and sta ple, in it. But when we come to ginning, tbe evil is still further increased by the ginning together in one heap, most com monly, early and late, good and had, and then from this mixture of all sorts our seed is promiscuously taken up by a negro who neither knows or cares any thing about the subject, and were he ever so capable, it would be impossible for him to make any judicious selection. To this is added the fact that very frequently, especially in early planted cotton tbe most full and perfect seeds that vegetate soonest and send up the most eaily and vigorous plants are, by frost, cold, wet and insects, des troyed, and to get a stand vve must fain content ourselves with any poor sickly lute plants vve can get. Thus, from year to year, vve propagate a still more sickly and a si ill more weak and degenerate race of plants, until it is a wonder that it docs not run out entirely. True it is, that some few planters do take a little pains to keep separate some particular lot of cotton plan ting seed, and litis plan, vvitli all its de fects, is amply rewarded, but it is a very defective plan still, as is evinced by its results. But this is not all. It is not sufficient that we pay no attention to where the seed we plant is grown, what its quality, wheth er immature or perfect, degenerated or improved. \Y r e add to the absurdities and errors on this subject, still another gross one. From year to year we plant cotton on the same land, regaidless ofthe well known fact that in time the qualities in any soil adapted to the best develope ment of any plant, are so exhausted that tiiey can no longer he procured by it in sufficient quantity for that purpose and the plant must degenerate; the soil being, by the lessened quantity of the necessary in gredients, unfit for the perfection of that plant, ii census i<> ihnvc upon it. 1 his is familiarly illustrated by the appearance at times upon the commons and open places of certain weeds that for a time cast all others out and usurp the domain exclusiv ly, and to appearance have fixed theft abode permanently upon it to the exclu sion of all others. In a year or two, from the highest luxuriance, we see them dwin dle and soon disappear, giving place to one tequiriug other substances for its nour ishment. Probably it is much weaker than its predecessor, but the characteristics of the soil favor it and it roots out the stron ger, and occupies the place of it for its al lotted time, when it must give way to an other. Again ; Destroy a forest of old and long standing trees, and it is sure to be, if left to the course of nature, succeeded by one of a quite a different character and requiring a kind or different proportions of materials for its production. Yet from year to year we plant Cotton on the same field, alternated, it is true, once in a while, with corn and peas, and thus robbing it gradually of all power to produce either, of at best weak and degenerated speci mens of them. From these causes arise the constant tendency in all the improved new and boas ted varieties of cotton to degenerate. It is true that some peculiar soils and locali ties are better adapted to cotton, as well as oilier plants, than others are, yet no one at all conversant with the subject can have failed to notice the fact. In the one case nature herself so clearly points to a greater variety afief rotation of crops, ass remedy, that no observant en quirer can mistake her teachings, ! hey are clear, unequivocal and uniform. The proper choice of seed, however, makes another condition to the successful devel opments of plants. Experience has pro ved beyond question that to this end the choice of and perfect seed, well selected, is absolutely requisite. This in cotton is perhaps more difficult than in almost any thing else, and I suggest for your readeis what appears to mo would he the best plan that has occured to me for attaining the end. Let the owner, overseer, or some trusty experienced hand of good judgement and selected fur the purpose before the gener al picking, go into the liest and most fully BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, Will be executed in the most approved style and on the best ter ms,at the Office of the SCTTZSPi.it tpjbtxts, —Bt— W!if. B. HARRISON. developed fields or spots of cotton in thfc plantation, and then from the select stalks pick the select hulls, going on in this way at least until lie has picked enough to plant so much as will make seed the next year, and so annually proceed. Doubtless it would be better to pPck of these “select bolls” from “select stalks” sufficient for the whole planting every year, but 1 can hardly expect to induce the go ahead cot ton planters of Georgia, Alabama anti Mississippi to take so much pains as all that, though I think they would be well paid for the trouble. But perhaps some may adopt the modified plan proposed, thfe experience of which may induce them to carry out the whole. It is true that in the first curse pronoun ced upon our race and on the earth, on ac count of the race, that the necessary ten dency to deterioration of valuable products was probably included as vvefl as the spon taneous or natural growth of useless or noxious ones ; yet experience has proved that by hibor and care the toil of man cart at least ameliorate this tertdeficy Very much in other products and vVhy not irt cotton, especially in this clime and locality, by nature the most favorable to it that is known. 1 believe that if this plan were judicious ly and perseveringly carried out the sale of cotton seed by quart, pint, gill or 100 seeds, vVould 6Vid, and with it the many losses, disappointments arid vfcxatic ns Con nected with it. There would be a limit to humbug as well as to unnecessary ex pense for that which is really valuable, but which the purchaser could as well have produced himself, and whieli must degenerate in his hands if he does not be stow to some extent ffial care which pro duced the original'. To perfect the sys tem of impr. vement, 6r at least preserva tion, it is absolutely requisite that a judi cious change or rotation of crops be pur sued. We may with some degree 6f im punity again and again tax rhe energies of a virgin soil' to produce in succession the same crop, but they will give way, and defeat must be the lesultofsuch ill direc ted efforts if long continued. Wc are now sorely experiencing this evil already in Alabama and Mississippi, and wisdom bids us seek a remedy. If any thing is better than proper rotations of cTops and judicious manuring, I know not what is, and until better remedies for the deteriora tion and decrease of cotton crops are giv en, I would reconirnertd care in the Selec tion of seed, proper changes of cfops and good manuring as remedies Worth trying. Sumter. Maternal Influence.— The mental fountain rs unsealed to the eye of a mother, ere it has chosen a channel, or breathed a murmur. She may tinge With svVCetneaa or bitterness the whole stream of future life. Other teachers have to Contend 1 with unhappy combinations of ideas. She rules (lie simple and plastic elements. Os her we may say, she ‘hath ontered into tlie magazine of snow, and seen the treasure of the hail.’ In the moral field she is a priv ileged laborer. Ere the dews of morning begin to exhale, site is there. She breaks up the soil which the root of error and the thorns of prejudice have not preoccupied. She plan's fruit for eternity. White she feels that she is required to educate, not a member of society, but a Christain, art an - gel, a servant of the Most High, hrtvv does so holy a charge quicken pic’y, by teaching the heart its own insufficiency ! The soul of her inl'artt is uncovered before her. She knows that the images which she enshrines in that unoccupied sanctuary must rise before her at the bar of doom. Trembling at such tremendous responsibiliy, she tCaChCs the lfttle beirtg, whose life is her dearest care, ofllie God who made him ; and who can measure the extent of a mother's lessons of piety, un less his hand might remove the veil which divides terrestial things? * When I was a little child,’ said a good man, ‘my Another used to bids me kneel beside and place her hand upon my head while she prayed. Ere I was old enough to know her worth, she died, and I was left too much to my own guidance. Like others, I was inclin ed to evil passions, but often 1 felt myself checked, and as it were, draNvrt back, by a soft hand upon my head. When a young man, I traveled ir. foreign lartds, and was exposed to many temptations. But when 1 would have yielded, that same hand was upon my head, sndl was saved. I seemed to feel its pressure as in days of happy in fancy, and sometimes theic came with it u voice, to my heart a voice that must bo obeyed “O, do not this wickedness, my son, nor sin against thy God.”— Mrs. Si gourney. Immortality or Man—Why in it that tho rainbow and the cloud came over ua witli * beauty tlint is not of the earth, and then pass away, and'leave us to muse on their faded love liness? Why is it that the stars which hold their festivals around - the midnight throne, are set above th'e grasp of our limited faculties, fof cver mocking us with unapproachable glory ? And why is it that tlib bright forms of human beauty arc presented to our view and then taken from us, leaving ihc thousand streams of our affections to flow back in an Alplilno torrent up on our heart ? Wo are born for a higher denU. nv tht* that of the earth. There is a realm where the rainbow never fades, and where the stars «iH bespread out before u* like islands that slumber on the ocean—and when the tifnl beings that now pass Imfore ns like v tsioua will slay in our presence forever.