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A Psalm of Life. A TARODY. What the Heart of the Young Woman said to the Old I Maid. BY HENRY W. SHORTFELLOW. Tel! me not iu idle jingle, “Marriage in an empty dream I” for the girl is dead that’s single. And girls are now what they seam. Life is real! Life is earnest! Single blessedness a fib ! ® j “.Man thou art, to man retnrnesl,” ■ ‘ Has been spoken of the rib. Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or way : ®V But to act that each to-morrow Find us nearer marriage day. * Life is long, and youth is fleeting. And our hearts though light and gay, Still like pleasant drums are beating Wedding inarches all the day l In the world’s broad field of battle, In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! But a heroine—a wile f Trust no future, howe’er pleasant. Let the dead Past bury its dead 1 Act—act in the living Present! Heart within, and hope ahead I Lives of married folks remind us We can live our lives as well, And departing, leave behind ua Some example as shall *‘lell f-ueh example, that another, Wasting time in idle sport, A forlorn, unmarried hrother, Seeing shull take heart and court. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart on triumph set; Still contriving, still pursuing, And each one a husband get 1 Advance. God bade the Sun with golden step sublime Advance 1 He whispered in the listening ear of Time, Advance 1 He bade the guiding Spirit of the Stars, With lightning speed, in silver shining cats, Along the bright floor of his azure hall. Advance! Suu, Stain and Time, obey the voice, and all Advance! The river at its bubbling fountain cries, Advance 1 The clouds proclaim, like heralds thro’ the skies, Advance ! Throughout the world the mighty Master's law s Allow not one brief moment's idle pause ; The earth is full of life, the swelling seeds Advance! And summer hours, like flowery harnessed steeds, Advance ! [from the New York Organ ) Hums ot k t'nhappy Marriages. BY HRS. UVFII! SOREST, “Marriage is a matter of more worth, Than to he dealt in mere attorneyship.’’ Shukspeare. But a single glance among one’s married friends, would serve to show that there is some unfortunate circumstances that generally pre vent the attainment of that degree of happiness, which either was, or should have been expected. What can this be if From long study of the subject, I have come to the conclusion that the grand difficulty—or that which lies at the basis of all others, is a want of true and sincere love. Nor need this appear very wonderful when we look even for a moment, at the facts. Take the pattern marriage delineated in last week’s Or gan as a model, and in the first place see iu how tew instances, with all due allowance for hu man infirmity, do we find anything like this ex emplified. Misunderstandings and mistakes may happen between the truest lovers—married or single—but they are not likely to occur where there is a deep and earnest love on both sides. Certainly the sacred writer knew much of this relation when he said, “Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith ” Consider for a moment how insen sibly love lightens all our cares, and soothes all our sorrows. How truly the severest labor be comes pleasant, when Love is the inspire!- of the task. By a truly loving heart, sacrifices, sufferings, toil, danger—everything—is endured, dared, suffered—even coveted—so that the be loved one may be more blest, Let ns look at the marriages as they occur. Young people meet together, and naturally fall into a particular partiality lor some of their companions over others. But no very distinct idea of the duties or requirements of such a cost dition of marriage is, or can be developed—and for this chief reason ; Asa general thing, all the idea of marriage which children and youth obtain from parents and teachers, from popular literature or convenience, which by some means or other,is to established. With woman this is most especially ti ne ; for woman bei- g the pas sive party, has been led to suppose—and truly enough—that her choice cannot often be con sulted ; and, therefore, site must accept such conditions as present themselves. This is a heresy, let me say in passing, which no woman of a right mind and true heart would for a mo ment sanction. And thus, with a levity which the lady would t throw aside for so much business, as the choice of anew hat or feathers, or the gentleman for the consideration of put ting himself into the hands of anew tailor, the parties assume the most solemn responsibilities, and rush into a state wMch, if unhappy, can only he retrieved by death, or by the public dis grace of one or both. How could they have any conception of that sublime ideal of tine af fection, where “ Each is to each a diaier self, Supremely happy in the awakened power Os giving joy.” What wonder, then-that so many tire ready to exclaim: ‘ Oh Ifora curse upon the cunning pin-st. Who conjured us together im a yoke That galls uie now.” How to Treat a Wien.—First get a wife secondly, be patiently. You may have great trials and perplexities in your business with the world; hut do not therelore, carry to your home a cloudy or contracted brow. Your wife may have many trials, which though of less mauitude may have been as hard to hear. A kind, con ciliating word, a tender look, will do wonders in chasing from her brow all clouds of gloom.— Aon encounter your difficulties in open air, fan ned by heaven’s cool breezes ; but your w ile is often shut in from these healthful influences, and her health fails, and her spirits lose their elasti city. But oh ! hear with her; she has trials and sorrows to which you area stranger; but your tenderness can deprive of all their anguish Notice kindly her efforts to promote your cum foit. Do not take them all as a matter of course and pass them by at the same time being verv snro to observe any omission of what von may consider duty to yon. Do not treat her with indifference, if you w ould not sear and palsy her heart, which, watered by kindness, would, to the latest day of your existence, throb with sincere and constant affection. Sometimes yield your wishes to hers. Shelias preferences as strong as you, and it may be just as trying to yield her choice, as to you. Do you find it hard to yield sometimes ? Think you it is not difficult for her to give up tihesiysl If vou never yield to her wishes, there is danger that she will think yon are selfish, and care only for yourself; and with such feelings she cannot love as she might. Again, show yourself man ly so that your wife may look up to you, and feel that you will act nobly, and that she can confide in your judgment. Fanuy Fern on Widows. Fanny is going it on a high figure this morn- ; ing—she’s down on the widows: I hate widows. They are the very d—. I’ve j heard the heathen called benighted: they have j sense enough to burn widows when their ntis bands die, and that’s a step further in civiliza tion than we have taken. There’s nothing like ‘em. If they make up their minds to marry a man it's done. I know one that was terribly afraid of lightning, and every time a storm earne up she would run into Mr. Smith’s house (he was a widower) and clap her little hands; and fly round till the man was half distracted for fear she would get killed; the consequence was, she was Mrs. John Smith before three thunder storms had rattled over her head. j Wasn’t that diplomatic ? Then there’s that little blue-eyed W idow W'il- | kins, didn’t she drop her prayer book coming j out of church, for my handsome husband to ; pick up And didn’t I see him squeeze her hand j when he handed it back to her ? And when 1 ] told him a long rigmarole of a story going j home to divert his mind from the little tninx, | didn’t he answer “yes” and “no” in the wrong j place ? And didn’t he the next morning put ! | salt in his coffee and sugar on his beefsteak]? j And won’t she he Mrs. Samuel Jones No. 2!- j Answer me that! I should like to cut her up j ’ into inch pieces with a dull jack knife. ! But it’s no use to struggle against fate. 1 ! shall have to put my pride in my pocket and tell Samuel it is my request he should marry ; her when I am gone, and that will “pull wool” over the eyes of the people and save his credit, | ! for he’ll have her if an earthquake should be the j j consequence. | It’s astonishing widows should be so indeli j cate as to doff their weeds. It’s nothing more | nor less than a walking-advertisement for anoth ier husband. Mrs. Lee was spending a short | time at the sea shore in her new regimentals, j when otto of the ladies at the tea table, i struck j with a sudden thought, said very in nocently—“By the way, Mrs. Lee, where is your j husband ?” 1 should have been sorry to have j told where I thought he was, for the way he us ! ed to swear when he talked was awful to men ; tion ! | Now, wdiat a glorious example I'd be to the | sex if Providence should see fit to make me a j widow! I wonder ifSamue’U pop off! 1 should i hate to put my curls behind my ears, but I’d do ; it, and I w ouldn't so much as look at a man, I unless it was Tom King! Wonder if he'd mar jry me! Well!—there now! I’ve spoken in (meeting! It can’t be helped now, as Deacon I Smith said when his daughter surprised him by | kissing Widow Moore. “It’s natur, Sally; it's j natur.” Jacksou and his Comrades in Arms. The following characteristic anecdote is re lated irt a country paper— we believe the Bayou Sara Ledger : “We heard an anecdote the other day. which we think is good enough to publish. It is astinl lows: ~ After the battle of New Orleans, La j cost* a warm friend of General Jackson, desired ; nil introduction to Commodore Barron, and for , that reason he went to General Jackson to get ; a letter of recommendation or introduction, i which the old General cheerfully gave him, in j his usually frank manner. Lacoste, however, ! did not present the letter, and one of his friends, j who happened to know of the circumstance, j asked him what he did with it. He replied that ihe had it in his pocket, ’and by gar,’ says he ‘1 j would not give the recommendation of old Jack j son to see forty commodores !’ “The letter was a very flattering one, and to this day is in the possession of the Lacoste family.” Avery similar, hut even better story is related of Major Devezac, so long the eloquent orator of the Democracy in tins city, and our late ! Charge to Holland. The incident is literally 1 true and authentic. When Mr, Polk was elec j ted President, and had gone to Washington, I Gen. Jackson, who was in feeble health, took a j warm interest in the appointment of his old Aid, i Major Devezac, to the ofiicc which he alter | wardsobtained.Gcn. Armstrong,Generri Jack- I son's intimate friend, we believe it was, being | on a visit to Washington, was charged particu larly by Gen. Jackson to remind Mr. Polk of I the claims ofMaj. D.,and of the warm friendship ! and interest he entertained for him. General ! Armstrong met the Major at the Capitol, and j w as immediately accosted by him with an earn ! est inquiry after the health of his old commami leiI ei - ’ “He is tolerably well,” was the reply of Gen. Armstrong, “and his last words to me, before j parting, were—‘Tell Colonel Polk not to forget my old friend. Major Devezac.” “Did he say that?” eargerly inquired the gal j lant veteran; with a flush of pride and a gather : ing tear of emotion in his bright eye. “Yes he did,” responded General A. “Then,” exclaimed the onthuisastic Creole, ; “the office may go to the Devil. I would’nt I give the pleasure of being so spoken of hv such ! a man for all the offices in the gift ofthe Presi j dent of the people, or all the wealth of the j world.—A. <>. Delta. OCT’ The Governorship of New Mexico up. pears to be a not very attractive office. It was offered to Capt. Reynolds, Quartermaster, and Major Cunningham, Paymaster, both of | whom weievery recently stationed in that quar j ter but they refused the gift. It is now offered j to Gen. Mirabeau B. Lamar, of Texas, and it j is supposed that he w ill accept it. The Small Pox .not in Marion.—The C’o ! lumbus Times and Sentinel, of the g’Jd ult, in j making some suggestions to the “City Fathers” ; about preventing the Small Pox reaching that : place, says that the disease is in Marion county, i Such, wo are happy to sav, is not the fact j There has as yet been no case of the Small j Pox in this county, and we hope the Times i and Sentinel will correct the report which it | has been the means of circulating.— Buena ; Vista Vadc Mecum, ”./. I Fire and Loss of Life.—The Central j Georgian, of the sth inst., says : We regret to j learn that on Saturday last, while the family i were at church, the house of Mr. John Brant j ley, who lives on the Ohoopie, in Washington { county, was entirely consumed by fire, and a | young girl about 13 years of age, who was left | in charge of the premises, was consumed with j it. Only a small portion of her remains were ’ found. The girl, we are informed, was nearly I an idiot, and probably perished in her abortive j attempts to stop the fire. j 05” John Mcßae, Esq., Postmaster of Fay , etteville, N. has declined a re-appointment, j He has been connected with the office for the j long period of fifty-two years, seventeen years as a clerk under his father, the late Duncan ! Mcßae, and thirty-five years as Postmaster. Baltimore, Aprils. ■ Lopez Prisoners Pardoned.—The Wash i ingtou National Intelligencer states that infor | illation had been received to the effect that the American Minister at Madrid had obtained the pardon of eight Hungarians, a portion of the Lopez prisoners, who were working in the mine of Arragon. 05” Queen Isabella, of Spain, has conferred upon the Empress Eugenie, of France, the royal t order of the Noble Ladies of Marie Louise. Thrilling Incident.—X correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, writing from Jefferson Barracks relates the following wonderful feßt of a soldier on the 21st ultimo: “ The old flagstaff at the barracks bad been shaking and toppling all winter, and the day being calm the general had a party detailed to take it down. “A soldier, Michael McAnally, of Col. Bragg’s battery, accordingly mounted to the crosstrees and unshipped the topmast; from some cause it became unmanageable, and glid ed through the platform to the ground. Tito man at the masthead kept his post composedly, j and gave timely warning to the party below j ‘to stand from under.’ Nine out ofthe ten men, j with a spar fifty feet long shooting and rasping i like an arrow through their hands, with an in- ; secure footing at a dizzy height, would have j ‘left the yard’ ami tumbled from the platform. | “While the party below were removing the topmast, to the dismay and consternation of the bystanders, the mainmast, with the soldier still poised at the masthead, now swayed over, broke short off at its base, and plunged with a tremendous crash to the ground. “The soldier in the meantime was seen to change his position as the mast went over, and circling high through the*air with frightful ve locity, he with perfect self possession adjusted himself to clear framework of the crosstrees and as the mast neared the ground he evidently w ith a well measured leap, alighted with safety amidst- his comrades All were startled into i amazement, as much by the intrepidity displayed as by the imminent peril it averted. “The mainmast was forty-eight feet high; the soldier landed at fifty from its base.” <£iii us aw) Sentinel. _ COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1853. TELEGRAPHIC, New Orleans, April S. The excels in the receipts of cotton t New Orleans up to Jate, as compared with last year, is two hundred and ninety thousand hales ; and at all the ports up to ! latest dates, is three hundred ami sixty thousand bales. Middlings are selling at 9 5-S cents. “Place”—The New Inloti Party. We have more than once given utterance t the cou* tempt we feel for the motives of the political hucksters, who are now compassing heaven and earth, to make proselytes to the new Union Party. We now propose to unveil the hypocrisy of the movement, and to ex pose to derision the groveling motives which are held out to old Uiiion Democrats to enlist under the ban ner of this mongrel organization, j So far as the sooth is concerned, the compromise is a , “fixed fuel,” which no one proposes to disturb. Even ‘he Troup and Quitman convention turned away from the disgraceful past, and proposed only (b provide safeguards against future aggressions. It is, therefore, j sheer hypocrisy for any man to pretend, that the Union |is in danger. It stood as firm as a rock amid the w ild | tempests of ISOU—U*I, and will hardly ho jostled from ! its firm base by the gentle zephyrs which now fan the i political sky. It is as impregnable ns St. Helena. This | the whig leaders know, and exult in it—this we know, j and lament over it—they exult because they prefer the j Union to their rights—we lament because we prefer oar ; rights to the Union, and (car that if they arc ever ; brought in collision, the south will be sacrificed to the j Union. When, therefore, Uuion democrats arc called ; on to abuudou the cherished principles of the democratic party—to turu traitors to the glorious memories ofthe past—to exchange Jefferson for Hamilton, Calhoun for | Webster, as political leaders, and the conservative prim : cipks of the democracy for the wild vagaries of v. biggerv, i because the Union is in danger —an insult is designed* | Iv offered to their understandings, and contempt east upon their fidelity mid patriotism. The Union is in danger, and these demagogues know it, and their foolish cry is only designed to gull the ignorant, or servo as an excuse fr the abandonment of principle on the part of base politicians who meditate treason. Another specious pretence fora new Union Party, is, that the Southern Rights Party has not abandoned it secession opinions, and is only awaiting a fitting occasion to assert them again. And this from a Union man who stands upon the Georgia Platform ! Arc you not pledged to “disrupt the Union,in case- the Fugitive slave law is repealed ? tho international slave trade ) abolished ? or the rights of the Southern People in slave j property interfered with in the States ? Our cherished | accession opinions are your professed doctrines. Is it a j crime in us to stand upon your platform? The Union ! men erected it—arc they determined to pull it down now j that they have mounted upon it into office ? For shame, i gentlemen, abandon this false pretence, or confess that J you perjured yourselves, and betray* and the people by professing to-stand upon the Georgia Platform ; and that j you cherish no principle but that of submission, no mat ! ter how aggravated the outrage, or ruinous tho iinpoei j tion. j Unfortunately for the south, she is iu far greater i danger from the spirit of submission than that of sceee !si on. In every contest with the north, she backed to j the wall and submitted to indignity rather than disturb j the public peace. This is known at the north—north* jcm politicians presume upon it—aye, even boost that the south cannot be kicked out of the Union. Seces sion doctrines are. therefore, a bugbear which even children and old women laugh at—dry boms* which excite terror only when they are rattled in the dark. No wonder that the brave men of the Journal Mes senger have proudly scorned to engage in the silly amusement, and that those who arc busy in i% arc the butt of ridicule even of the Georgia Citizen. Hut the appeals which are made to Uni m Democrats to join the new Uogm Party are rendered utterly con temptible by the groveling motives which arc called into requisition. The leaders of this new movement seoin to suppose that every man's political principles are ‘ five loaves and two fishes and the burthen of their ap | peal to Union Democrats is, that tho “greedy seces* j sionists” will monopolize all the offices! That certainly is a knockdown argument; a lick in tho bread basket which no honest man certainly can resist ! How art the mighty fallen ! Deep, indeed, must bo the depravity of that man who supposes that principles are assumed and laid down as a man's chances for office nee or fall in his party; or sovereign must be his contempt for the integrity of the me n to-whom he addresses such an ar* gument. Wc are proud to believe that the Union demo crats will receive such insults to their intelligence and character wth the disdain they deserve, and wo will not stop to comment further upon them. Hut the charge is as false as it is contempt.ble. Un ion Democrats have received mere than au equitable share *>f governmental pa iron age from Gen. Pierce, and every loading Southern Rights paper in Georgia hns expressed a willingness to support a Union Democrat for Governor. It is true that Brown was defeated for judge in the democratic convention by southern rights whig supporters of Pierce and King ; but Brown> quaff - • fications for the office were not eminent, his [principles I entirely too clastic, and his popularity by no meant* eor ! Lain. Ho was defeated by a very large majority before j the people; has embraced the conservative doctrines of • the whig parly, and may the Lord have mercy on his j soul! But Jackson, Warner, Wellborn, and a host of oilier Union Democrats have regained, if they ever U-t, the confidence of the party, and now stand prominently before the public its* democratic leaders, and we hardly imagine that they will desert their standard if some other man is preferred before them in the ootrffog dec* ■ tiooe. I Franklin College. We have received the catalogue of tho officers and j students of this Institution for 1852—'53. j There were 182 students in attendance during tho term. This number is respectable, as we believe there are but two Southern Colleges w hich have a greater number, but nothing like what it ought to be. If the truant son* of the South now r.t the North, were brought home and entered ae students in the academ ic groves of onr own Institutions, her numbers would bo doubled, and anew impotas bo given to edaoation at } the South. General Summary and Review. We are pleased to learn from onr exchange*, that j small pox is disappearing in Russel county Alabama, | and in the city of Oglethorpe, Gt*<., and congratulate , our own community upon our entire [escape from this most loathsome disease. A man cun bear its ravages and still retain a share of manly beauty —but woe is the woman who has been scarred by the monster-—-especi ally if she ho unmarried. We are much pleased to record the breach between Colonel Benton and his quondam friends, Phelps and Lamb, snd hope his influence will eoutioue to wane like Adams’ until his age alone will save him from contempt. Wo were much surprised to learn from tho / ribune , that our old friend and fellow-soldier, Blanton Me. Al vin, of California, had reached Washington citv. We are surprised however to find him ho popular with that i vile print, and hope a residence in the gold regions has i not destroyed his allegiance to the South. The release and embarkation of the Madiai family is j a signal proof of the humanizing influence of steam. If j they had been immured in an Italian jail 50 years ago j for heresy, no power ou earth could have effected their • release; they would have rotted in their chains. The death of Mrs, Cass so soon after that of Mrs. ! Fillmore, is an impressive commentary upon the j vanity of all human pursuits, and will be a Fad affliction to { her aged and beloved husband. The buoyancy of youth j sinks under such an affliction : and w# fear it w ill be ; too much for an old man like Cams, and that he will | soon follow his wife to the tomb. Tho New York papers are full of apoohryphal specu* ; lalions os to the quo mo do of the New York appointments, j They regard tho defeat of Schell, aud the appoint- j incut of Dickinson to the Coilectorship of the Port of j New York, as indicative of the waning influence of Makcy, aud predict that he will very soon resign his Secretaryship, and he succeeded by Cushing, whom they affect to regard jw aw unscrupulous scoundrel, who will push forward his own interests, no matter who is crushed by his success. We have learnt however to | pay very little regard to Washington rumors —they arc ah often false as true. If it be true that the United States ship Gynne has seized upou San Juan, we may soon look out for squalls. We he pe it is no, us we especially de sire to see the Monroe doctrine put to the test If its enforcement is delayed much longer, there will be no use- in attempting it. Great Britain will very soon occupy the Peninsula, and once her foot is planted there, it will be no easy task to shove her off; she has but recently annexed Pegu, tho southern aud most im portant part of tho Burmese Empire ; and her whole history gives assurance that her grasping avarice knows j no limit hut incapacity. Second Congressional District. We invite tho attention of our readers to tho com* i nuiuication of our esteemed correspondent, “Alpha/’ iu j reference to tho candidate of the party for the next | congressional election. W c freely endorse his estimate I of the character and services of Col. Lawton, without, however, expressing any preference for him over other distinguished members ofthe party who have hereto fore borne aloft its standard and led our hosts to battle and not unfreqttently to victory. Col. Benning, of this city, has deservedly won a warm place in tho affections of his fellow citizens, and if he would eonaent to the use *of his name in this connection, the party would cher fully unite in his support. Not less worthy of confidence is Col. Clarks, of Albany, whose long and devoted e. r* vices to the party are properly appreciated. There is a host of other gentlemen iu the District, whose talents and services commend thorn to the favorable conside ration of the party, and among these, M. J. Wellborn of this city and John A. Tuckkk of Stewart, are par ticularly worthy of notice. Doubtless all these gentle men have tlioir friends, aud their claims will bu pressed by them upon the party. It must not be forgot ten, however, that unanimity in the party in of greater im portance than the triumph of either ono of them over the others. No man, no matter how commanding his talents, no matter how eminent his services, has any claims upon the party as a matter of right; if he is available, the party has a right to command his services, and it is his duty to sacrifice his own interest to promote that of his country. We propose, therefore, that a con vention of all the bona fide supporters of Pierce and King, meet in convention at Albany, at an early day in June, and select a suitable candidate for congressional honors. This course will reconcile all conflicting claims, and guarantee a splendid victory at tho October election. It cannot be disguised that with the success of Pierce aud King, the principles of the Democratic party have been approved by the great mam of tho American people; and if the South is true to herself and wfll stand shoulder to shoulder around the Administration and give if a cordial and zealous support, we may rea ! sooably hope that, the whip of state w ill bo kept upon the Republican tack, and all our great interests will bo protected under the broad .Kgis of the cocutitotion. We are much gratified to learn that Robert Toombs and others of the leaders of the old Whig party in Georeia have pronounced the highest eulogiums uj>on President Pierce’s Inaugural, and have given strong assurances of support to his administration. We may therefore look forward with hope to u brighter future. The union of the South in support of a strictly Republi can party in the nation will inflict a deadly wound upon all the hateful isms which have so long disturbed our j peace and threatened the integrity of the Union. We therefore urge our friends to hold primary meetings in every county in the district, for the purpose of selecting delegates to the Albany Convention ; auH to hold themselves in readiness to give a zealous and unanimous support to the nominee; and confidently predict an overwhelming victory to our cherished opin ions iu the coming election. Death ok Mrs. Fillmore. —The decease of the i wife of the Ex-President i a painful surprise to her • many friends. In tho prime of life, and just released from a position necessarily full of exacting cares ntidfanx ietiea, she must have looked forward with fond anticipa tion to those quiet joys of home and tire>ide which few were better fitted to heighten or appreciate. Mrs. Fiiimore was cot fitted by nature to dazzle in a ball-room nor to win admiration from casual observers ; nor did she find delight in crowds or ostentatious display. Few. however, can have known her without being im pressed with the blending in her character of good sense with high principle, of refined womanly feeling with ac tive beneficence. Asa wife and mother, none could he more exemplary ; as a Christian, few have more happily combined earnest piety with unaffected humility. Her dea h leaves a void in the better society of Buffalo which wit! not soon be filled—not to speak of the narrower circle to which it is irreparable.—A*. Y. Tribune. We do not often quote from the Tribune ; hut the above extract contains bo discriminating a view of the j higher excellencies of the female character that we emi i nut deny ourselves the pleasure of copying and eoin ! mending it to the consideration of our readers, “(rood ; souse and high principle,” “refined womanly feeling ’ and act!', e benevolence.” They endear the gentle being, ! on whoee brow they are set like a crown, to the <4nar ; row er circle” which is her world, and fid! like gentle 1 dews upon hearts 100 often parched by the hot paa : hods engendered in the strife of life. They do not ; “dazzle in a ball room, nor win admiration from cas ual observers but they constitute the- charm which hallows the talisrpanic name of “mother,’’ and makes “home” the “Mecca” of the affections. Wo know that tho taste* of the age are antagonistic to these views and that more time and attention are devoted to the culture of dazzling accomplishments than to the development of the ger.fftr virtues, and that po sition, wealth and fame are held up before the eye* of our youth of both sexes, as more desirable objects ofam* | bjtiou than love, truth, fidelity and a happy home, j An entirely different lesson, however, is taught by the 1 vicissitudes of life. | A dazzling exterior and showy accomplishments will j excite the passing admiration of “casual observers,” but ; hearts are won, by and home made happy ouly by “good sense and high prmeple, refined womanly feeling aud active benevolence. ” The Knight of -Jericho.—This is the title of a uew paper, just started at Atlanta, Ga., devoted to the cause of Temperance. It is edited by C. 1L C. Willingham. We cheerfully commend it to the order of “Knights” as worthy of their patronage. Rev. I)r. Way laud, President of Brown University, has been examining the table tipping experiments, usual ly attributed to electricity or spirits. He deckles that it is not electricity, but thinks it Is governed by some heretofore undpowered of nature. An UngTacenii Surrender. CAfT. ABERCROMBIE TRIUMPHANT. We have been much amused by an Editorial in the Alabama Journal of the 31 et ult., headed “Cap/. Aber crombie—His Position.” It affords the fiovst illus tration we have seen of a man who has the “malevo lence to strike, but not a faug to wound.” The Journal save—-“We regret that Capt. Aber crombie should have determined upon the step which he has taken, as it i contrary to all the precedents ol the Party, aud in direct opposition to its usages.” W e are nut certain that our recollection is correct, but we think Capt. Abercrombie can find a precedent in the conduct of his illuFtrioue predecessor. Ouec on a time Henry W. Hilliard voted for the repeal of the Whig Tariff of 1842, and iu favor of the Democratic Tariff’of 18 10. This raised a storm of opposition in the Whig ranks, and if our recollection is not at fault, a Whig meeting was held iu Tuskegee, iu which his conduct was deuouuced. There was uu convention, however, held that year, if wc are not mistaken, though one was loudly called fi>r in some quarters, and Mr. Hilliard was sustained by the almost unanimous vote of tho Demo cratic Partv. Arid this, with the instance now on hand, suggests to os the reflection that the whig party of the 2d congressional district is nevvr dissatisfied with its representative until he takes southern ground. Mr. Hilliard in part forfeited its confidence by votiny against a northern tariff, and Capt. Abercrombie ha* incurred the displeasure of some of its leaders by voting against the Candida eof the north for the Presidency. Com- / meat is unnecessary. But this is not all the Journal shvs in reference to j Capt. Abercrombie. The followiug sentence is equally j pointed : “We must, however, be permitted to express the i opinion that a free consultation with his party friends j * * would at least have been treating them with i that courtesy and respect which it secius to ns they j j were entitled to at hi* hands.” I The ooncluding sentences contain a double entendre: j j wc leave it to our readers to put their ou a construction ! upon it. Uere it is : j “It may be, however, that they are so highly grati | 6ed at the course which our late representative has pur | sued, that they will run no candidate in opposition to ! him. Well, be it so ; we Khali then have an easy time j of it, and will be able to congratulate the democracy \ upon the fact that they hare b/en so easily satisfied.” The Journal says it “has no idea that the whig par | ty in the district will put another candidate in the field” and “sees very little ucceesity for a convention” “if it is Capt. A/s intention to run any how.” The Journal regrets “that any thing should have transpired to throw confusion into our ranks at this particular juncture of j affairs” and consoles itself and its readers “by the philoso phic reflection that what can’; be cured must be en dured.” All of which taken together ineaus, we pre sume. this—“we are opposed to Capt. Abercrombie, ho forfeited our confidence, distracted our councils, un dermined our policy and threw distrust upon our pat* I riot is in by voting against General Scott: wo would beat I him if we could; the only way, however, to do this, is ‘ to get him into a whig convention ; this ho sees and j knows—he will run any how—“what can’t be cured ‘ must be endured,” and therefore—’ "let him rw t ”nnd j may be, uu%* of us can get the succession.” The Future ol Mexico. ! The arrival of Santa Anna in Mexico has turned 111 j eyes io that direction. Great events are foreshadowed !by this occurrence. The General is unquestionably j the Great Mexican , and is yet destined to play an im j portant part in the history of this continent. lie cher ! ishc-e an utuhing hostility to our Republic—and his j Mexican ism is a furious passion. This hostility com mvnc* and at San Jacinto, when and where his vaulting ambition met with a fatal overthrow, and was confirmed by tho long succession of defeats which followed him from Buena Vista to the city of Mexico. Nor need it be disguised that Santa Auna’s private property was waatefully and maliciously destroyed in many instances during the occupancy of Mexico by our troops. He has, therefore, private griefs to gratify as well as national injuries to avenge. lie has but recently given vent to his fierce antipathy against the United States through his agent Escobar; and we may, therefore, reasonably expect that tho whole policy of hi* adminis tration will be inimical to the United States, and that • he will leave no opportunity unimproved to inflict injury | upou uh. Whether tho remembrance of past defeats 1 will deter him from open war with us we cannot say. I He may well regard the last war as an unsatisfactory j test of Mexican chivalry. He was called to participate | in it unexpectedly and was forced to enter Into battle ! with such munitions aud troops hs ho could pick up on au emergency. It is uot unreasonable for him, there fore, to hope that with an army raised, equipped, and drilled under his own eye, he to retrieve the misfortune* of the past, and plant the Mexican standard on a field wrested from the hated “barbarians of the north.” We would not, therefore, be surprised if, under the influence of wounded pride, furious hatred, | and the hope of victory, this boasted Napoleon of the ! West should plunge his miserable people into another ! war with the United Staten. Tho result of such a con- I test cannot bo doubtful. The mongrel raeee of Central ! America are no match for the stalwart men ofthe } north, and will be overcome iu every contest where j uumberK arc at all tutxal. Another war with Mexico • will, therefore, result hs tho last, in the defeat of the : Mexican arroe in every battle, the subjugation of the whole country and its annexation to tho United States. Our citizens ruwhvd to the Jaat war with a shout, and the brilliant success which has attended the heroes who boro aloft the flag of the country in that contest, will stimulate every young man of ambition to emulate their career—Rnd the United States will poor her armed le i gions through the gorges of her mountains like a con* humiog flood. It may be, however, that the remembrance of Buena Vista w ill curb the ambition of Santa Anna and turn his attention from foreign war to the iiitermd maladies which affiieet his distracted country. Such a course, wisdom and patriotism will both approve. The admin istration of Mexican affairs is corrupt, property and life are insecure, the roads are infested with robbers, and the great mass us the lower classes are buried in igno rance and vice. To cure these evils is a herculean la bor beyond the strength of one man ; but they can bo mitigated, if the despot will, resolutely set about the work iu good faith and pvrKeveie to the end. We fear he has not the Roman courage required for the undertaking—it requires more than will enable him to load an army to victory—but the civilized world will hail him as more than victor, if he shall have the virtue to attempt it. What does he mean ? ! We find a very singular jwsragraph in tho last Ala. 1 Journal. We give i; below. It is generally under stood in this neighborhood, that Capt. Abercrombie foots < ail bills made ia his support. If the Editors of the Journal have lost, they oertainly are un exception. Aud we imagine if a “clean Hhucking” were made ou both sides, that the public would be surprised, at the re sult. We would like to see oil the cocunoents. The Journal says; | “The Journal has never, at any time, mixed in the I contests among political friends for nominations, but j when the nominations have been made, it lias endeavor ed to do its duty. Is profit and loss account for many ! years, aud particularly during the last content for the j late iucumbent of the district, will show whether it was | chary of its means and resources for the cause. No , more at present ou that head, though we may take j occasiou to make some showing and exposure of divers j matters in relVienceto the operations of last session, i aud make a “clean shucking” at that—there are some i documents ou file.*’ The Southern Eclectic. This work, as the name imports, is made up of ec i lee tion 8 from other works of tho choicest and most read j able articles. While we disapprove of this system of ! poaching upon the inteNoctual domains of other persons, we readily confess that such works, if conducted with j tact, are by far more readable than original periodicals. , They confine themiwlvea to no particular manor, but | range over the whole republic of letters and pick their i game. The Southern Eoleotic is published monthly at Au ; gusta, Georgia, and is conducted by J. 11. Fitten, n gentleman, wo learn, of extensive reading nnd cultivated Utatee, at S3 per annum. We believe it is the first enterprise of the eort ever started io Georgia. The table of contents of the April number, which nov lla . on our table, i> full, varied and interesting. Washington News. Col. Gorman, of Indiana, is appointed Governor oi j Minnesota, in place of Gov. Ramsey, Mosmu. Dickinson and O’Connor acce pt their New York appointments. Ex-Gov. Bright, of Indiana, is nominated for Register of the Treasury. A resolution declaring that the President may legally and constitutionally remove U. S. Judges of Territorial Courts w ill pans the Senate. Judge J/Ogrande, Chief Justice of Maryland, has been offered the Comptroller*hip of iho Treasury. It is believed ho will accept. Washington dispatches, of the 27th, to tho New York papers, say that “Col. Jones Withers, or Bur well Boykin will be Collector of Mobile.” Arrest ol Stnins. We are informed that M illiam S Lai us, who killed Col. Spivey's son some few weeks since in this city, was recently arrested near Salem, AU., by Mr. Burch, nnd has been safely lodged in jail to await his trial lor mur der. Tor Congress. —Co!, L. M. Keitt and Col. \\ jm. A. j Owens, have been nominated for Cougress to succeed Wm. K. Col cock, Esq., Collector of Charleston. Our democratic friends will remember that a con vention to nominate a candidate lor Representative in Congress for the Fourth District, has been called, to be held on tho first Thursday in June, at Newman. I)r. Lopez has been appointed Surge-on U. S. Marine Hospital at Mobile, in place of Dr. LeYert, removed. Mrs. Mary Ami, wife of Jno. C. Rive*, of the Globe , died in Washington city on the 31st ult. Baltimore. —P. F. Thomas has been appointed col | lector; J. G. Davis, Postmaster ; Jno. Kettleweli, Na val Officer; J. 11. Brisco, Navy Agent : James Polk, | Surveyor. Louisiana. —Thomas Slidell has been elected Chief Justice of La., and all the Associate Judges of the State are democrat*. Mexico.——Advices have been received from Mexico to the lyth ult. ; from which we learn that Santa Anna has been elected President of the Republic. Baltjmork, April 5. Appointments. —The contract for the conveyance of I the mails between New Orleans aud Key West, has j been awarded to Samuel Green. The service wi 1 eom j meuce immediately. I The Senate have confirmed Ex-Senator Sturgeon as i Treasurer of the Mint at Philadelphia, and Ldmuud | Wright as Collector at Edenton, North Carolina, Washington, April 2. ! The Union ol this morning, speaks of Commander ! Hollins’conduct, in the seizure of San Juan, Nicaragua, j a*, characterized by commendable promptness, energy, | a ijd prudence. i Savannah, April 6.—The steamers Gordon and Stone I have returned. They succeeded in getting the Saranao off at about six o'clock last evening. Sheia but slightly j injured, and has arrived at Savannah, and will go into | the dry dock for repairs, John P. Hale will remove to New York city this i month, and there resume the practice of the law. | The lion. FI. A. Eilmuudson has been nominated for i Congress by tbo Democrats of tho 12. h District of Yif* ; ginia. j The Gaston and Weldon Rail Road, it ia said, will j be completed by the middle of this month, when Nor i folk will be placed in daily communication with Raleigh, ! the capital of North Carolina. | John F. Snodgrass, Ksq., has been nominated for ! Congress by the democrats of the 11th District of Vir j gn- j A good lady at Watertown, N. Y., recently refused to | It-t her daughter dance with n young Cambridge man, j because she understood he was a bachelor of arts. | Gov. Clifford, of Massachusetts, appointed the j Hon* Pliny Merrick, af Worcester, a Judge of the Su ! preme Court, in the vacatny caused by the resignation | of Gen. Caleb Cushing. Honorary. —l>r. Valentine Mott, of New York,and j Dr. Warren, of Boston, have been named aggrega | ted members of the Grand Academy of Medicine of Part*. Mr. Carson Warren, of lulgrfWU, S. C., has been found guilty of manslaughter, and sentencod to pay a fine of $1,500, and to be imprisoned for two years. Dr. Guyton, of Laurens county, is proposed by a correspondent of the Savannah Republican as a candi date for the next Congress in the first. District, Firs in Augusta. —Avgusta, April -i At 3 o’clock this morning a fire broke out between Broad and Rey nolds streets. Vive houses, occupied as boarding hous es, were burned. John O’Neal’s house and furniture were nearly all consumed, both covered by insurance. Two men were seriously injured by leaping from the second story window. Loss annul $4,000. O iT We learn from the Raleigh (N- C.) Jlcg ister, that the Fayetteville and Western Rail Road Company was duly organized ou the 26th ult. Duncan (!. Mcßae, Esq., of Fayetteville, was elected President of the Company, nnd John M. Rose, Esq., Secretary and Treasurer. Messrs. Smith and Colby, of tho Now York firm, who subscribed the $406,d00, and seven Fayetteville gentlemen were elected directors. roll THE TtMES AND SENTINEL. Mr. Editor.—As one ofthe aignsof the times, allow me to say, th&i i attended ■ lecture on Temperance deliv ered by the Rev. J. li. Evans, in the Court House at Thomaston, ou Monday night the 2*th ult. lie confined himself to an explanation of the action of tho Atlanta Convention, and the reasons for suuh action. At the close of tho lecture the chairman of the meeting put the ques tion to the crowd, for the court house was full of all classes of the community, “AH that are in favor of leaving the question of the Liquor Tiafiic to the people, as desired bv the convention, say I —,ou that are opposed, A'O. Thl- Pe were very strong and full, but not a siDgie No was heard. It was found afterwards, however, that there were a few of them present, but they were completely paralyzed ; by the overwhelming voice ofthe meeting—anil I repeat 1 this was a promiscuous meeting, and not called for special i purposes. t Dr. Rogers then introduced several resolutions which j were unanimously adopted. J These resolutions approved of the action of theconven tion, provided for organization in the county, and in very ’ strong terms deprecated any counterion of the temperance j movement with party politics, and pledging the meeting j to the uee of all proper means to prevent it. | lam glad to see that the friends of the temperance i cause have thus set themselves to pass the question upon j its own merits, and keep it out of politics. S. L. s. roR mi. times and sentinel. Col. W. J, Lawton, of Raker. As the time approaches for the nomination and election of a Congressman for our district, the inquiry naturally arises who shall be the man. Without in the least designing to disparage the claims of the hundreds j of worthy gentlemen, who arc deservedly prominent, and i many of whom, would make the Southern Rights Lbinioc racy a good Representative, suffer me through your pa- j |H.-r to suggest a name, cherished by every Southern Right* I man iu the State. The author of the Bill, tor the call ! jof the Convention of the people of Georgia. The worthy \ j champion both in the State Senate and (loose of Repre- i j seotarives of State Rights and strict conservative Doc- I trines. He has been one of the tew [worniueiit men of ; this State who has never receded one inch, for policy or , preferment. And when overwhelmed by numbers in ‘ the convention of 1850. spread upon its journals (as a, monument of his devotion to tho South) a set of Resolu tions which have become the talisman for thirty five ‘ thousand freeman who rallied under the patriotic banner ; ot thatold veteran, Hon. Ciurlss<T.McDonald in 1851. ! Col. Lawton has sought retirement since 1850, a* was i evinced by his declining a nomination tor Congress in the i Ist District, and last year declining a nomination for i elector of president and Vico President in this district 1 when tendered to him by the Delegates, but to show his identity w ith the Southern Democracy, he became an al ternate elector. Aud whether he will now consent to embark upon the rough waters of polities again, 1 am uninformed. But this Ido know, that one of his enlarg ed and sound views ot'public policy, unblemished character nnd vigorous manhood, would be of essential service to his ’ country il engaged in its oouitoiU. ALPHA, i ron IPS. TIMES AND SETTWEL. Jlacvtn nnd Western Rail Road. JF.WaRE OF rICB-rOCKKTS. Travellers are notified to be cautious on the Macon nr.d Western Railroad, particularly between GriTrn and Ma con. Ou Tuesday night, 20th ult., a’ Griffin, I took a two dollar bid out of my pocket book anJ bought a ticket to Macon, and tied the string round tire book as bw-.r. and pot it in my pocket; and at Macon found my pocket book i-x.Viieied of it* contents (apparently without being disturbed) end in the same position I left it when at G:if fiu. Tbo pocket book contained one fifty dollar bill, the ba’anee in twenties, tens and firm, all, I think, on r ■ Georgia Banks; also two or three two dollar and two <: three one dollar bills on the Georgia Railroad Batik. 1 attribute this misfortune, first, to the stringent rule of the road; compelling pa? . : .and i -‘rom Atlanta to Macon to go through without lying over on the way, even for tho ru st train, no matter hew urgent one’s business The* fore through is three dollars ; the fare from Jones* boro to Macon is also three dollars, but from .Jonesboro to Griffin is 75 cts., aud two dollars from Griffin to Macon, and you lose seventy five cents going from Atlanta by stopping at Jonesboro; and you make twenty five cents of it back by buying a ticket from ,’oneaboro to Griffin, and from Griffin to Macon. But I lost two hundred and fortv six dollars by the operation; secondly, I blame the conductor for his reinisauesa ; that night 1 observed the lamp iu the rear burning bright and brilliantly all the time, at least,while 1 was awake, while the lamp in front wan dark and diin, in fact entirely out; this, with our napping, was s favorable time, and the villain made good use of it. RICHARD BYRNE, Covington, Ga. The Contest Ruded—Gen. fierce Victorious. SPLENDID SCHEDULE OF NEW YORK NOMINA TION V, Tbo struggle is over. The President has been too strong for the Premier. General Pierce ia President. Let the New York democracy re joice—hard shells and soft shells—hunkers and barnburners—not omitting the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, for they are all included in the following masterly schedule of New Y ork ap pointments, which, according to our telegraphic advices, were sent into the Senate yesterday : OmtK. Appointments. Sort of Skill. Collector Daniel S. Dickinson Hard Sub Treasurer John A. Dix Son DistricllAttorney.. ..Charles O’Connor Hard. Marshal Abraham T. Hillver Hard. iiava! Officer Heman J. Rcdfield Soft. Navy Agent Conrad Swaekbamer Hard. Surveyor John Cochrane Soft. Boat Master Isaac V. Fowler Soil. The fight between Secretary Marcy and the hard shells was on the Collectorship, and al though ho succeeded in excluding zVugustus Schell, the appointment of Daniel S. Dickinson, wo should suppose, would be still more unpala table to the Secretary of State. The difference is, that, instead of a subordinate officer, the com mander in-chief of the hard shells, (who, more than any other man, is responsible for the defeat of the movement for the nomination of Governor Marcy at lialtimore,) is made the Collector of this port. We presume that Mr. Dickinson wiil accept. He will make a faithful and capable officer, or his past distinguished public services go for nothing. But the skeptical in Marcy’s generous dispo sition to compromise this difficulty think that j his consenting to the nomination of Dickinson 1 rnaybebuta trick at last. The Collectorship I may interfere with Dickinson’s aspirations for 1850. He may, therefore, decline it. Perhaps Marcy feels pretty certain that he will; and, in j that event, having made the utmost concession j to the hard shells, he may yet secure the ap ! pointment of a soft shell. Augustus Schell : seems to have some misgiving of this sort; for i we understand that he has telegraphed his friend j Dickinson to accept the Collectorship, at all ! hazards. What says Mr. Dickinson ! Shall we | have the fight over again, or not ? Mr. Schell, it seems, failing in the Collector i ship, declined anything else in our city list, and j is, therefore, left out entirely. Perhaps he may j be offered something else , or he may be satis | tied with the triumph which he has achieved for j the hard shells, notwithstanding he gets no share j of the spoils. Something ought to bo done for j Mr. Schell. j Mr. Charles O’Connor, as District Attorney, is (lie next most prominent and satisfactory i nomination for the hard shells. We trust it will meet the approval even of Prince John Van Bu ten. The sons of the Emerald Isle will cer tainly appreciate the compliment. Abraham T. Hillyer, for Marshal, will do; but we have not yet been informed whether Captain Rynders consents to this branch of the compromise or not. John A. Dix—next to Marcy and the Van Burens the most conspicuous ofthe barnburner soft shells—no man will question as a first rate practical appointment for Sub-Treasurer. But lor bis free soil aberrations and proclivities, for which, it is said, he has repented, he might have occupied to-day one of the very highest posi tions under the government at VVashington. As an offset to Daniel S. Dickinson, Mr. Marcy i will doubtless console himself that Gen. Dix is a Rowland for an Oliver. We have already given a full account of Mr. Heman J. Redfield—a makeweight to the soft shells, and the Premier particularly, for the loss of the Collectorship. He has, too, the authenti cated certificate ofan old fogy, which is better than all. Mr. Conrad Swackhamer, for Navy Agent, is not so widely known. We have asked for infor mation concerning Mr. Swackhamer- Can Mon. Emanuel B. Hart furnish us with his life | and public services? Swackhamer is a strong | name, any how. John Cochrane, for Surveyor, has been an ac j tivo politician, around the edges, and has the - reputation of being a pretty strong soft shell. | Isaac V. Fowler, for Postmaster, is a respect ! able appointment. We hope he will prove him j self a worthy successor of Mr. Brady, and hurrv | up tho mails. And thus the work is done at last. It was a i great issue, that of dividing the spoils of this Em pire City. The fate of the democratic party in | this State—the fata of the cabinet, and of the ] yartv throughout the Union, hung upon the di i vision of these spoils. Their distribution was a • task of nice and difficult responsibility. And when we find that the chiefs of tho hard shells ; and soft shells had to be brought into the res i cue, we can appreciate the magnitude of tho 1 occasion in the cabinet. The entire schedule is ! another striking illustration of the fact and sav • ing discretion of General Pierce. Now, let the seven or eight hundred whigs in | office here turn their attention to the sweets of ; private life. Or, il they have a taste for adven j ture, let them look at the number of ships that | are up ior California and Australia, and the re ■ cent intelligence of the astonishing quantities of gold daily turned up in those outside countries, j And let the hungry democracy be civil, and keep i cool, in their scratnple for the plunder which the ! poor whigs must disgorge. Finally, if Gov. Marcy should conclude to go to England, we shall yet have a reorganiza tion of the cabinet, resulting from the contest on the New York Collectorship.— X. Y. Herald. Appointments. Washington, ;April3.— \w Orleans.—Maun sel White, Collector; TANARUS, L,Carman. P ostmaster M. Mareguy, Superintendent of the Mint; W Robinson; Attorney : Mr. Derive, Navy Agent and t.’liarlen Uienvenne, Surveyor. D iniel Kw if-, Consul to Glasgow. Elwooii has been appointed Postmaster at Natch ez and Pryor l Vicksburg. Janies G. Dell, Collector at St. Johns, Flori da. Elias Blackburn, Marshal for the Northern Dis trict of Florida. The Senate, also, after spirited opposition, con firmed the appointment of Mr. Dix as Sub Treasur er at New York. J<(':bon\Miss. —C. R, Dickinson, Posinnster ; Na thaniel Price, U. S, District. Attorney. Home Ga. —Thomas Perry, Postmaster. Philosophers say that shutting the eyes makes the sense of hearing more acute. A wag sug gests that that accounts for the many closed eyes that are seen iu our churches every .Bou tlay caoruiog.