Rome courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1849-18??, February 13, 1851, Image 1

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0uf tea: VOLUME Gr ;f y HOME, OA.. THURSDAY THE ROME COURIER 18 VOOL1SHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING ; BY A. UI. EDDLEMAN, "'tghs7~ Two Dot,i,Aits per nnn'im, ll paid in advance l Two Dollars add Filly Cents If paid within sis months ; or Throe Dollars at the end of tho year. Ituten ot A«1 vortloltiff. Lkoal AdvkStiskmkmts will be Inserted with Jtrlet ntlentlon to the requirements or tho law, at the following ratesi ’! Four Months Notlco, - Notice to Debtors anil Creditors, Sale ol Personnl Property, by Exeou- ■ tors, Administrators, So. Gates of Land or Negroes, 60 days, per square, tUottorsof Citation, • Notlco for Letters of Dismission, Candidates nnnmmoing their names, Charged $6 00, whiolt will be required in advance. Husbands advertising their wives, will be charged $5 00, which mast always bo paid in advance. All other advertisements will bo inserted nt One Dollar per square, of twelve lines or loss, lor the flret, had Fifty Cunts, for each subsequent insor- ll °Liborhl deductions will bo mtido In favor of those who ndvertlso by tho year, B. YV. BOSS, DENTIST, Rome, Georgia Office over N. J. Omberg's Store. January 16,1851. #.| no 3 as ' u as | S 00 a 75 4 50 ill be FRANCIS M. ALLEN, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Dealer in Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS AND GROCDIUES. (jt^. Receives new goods every week. Rome, Ga., January 3, 1851. LIN & BRANTLY. WARE-HOUSE, COMMISSION'* PRODUCE MERCHANTS, Atlanta, Ga. {^Liberal advnnces made on any article in Store- Nov, 28,1850. ly .. A. I), KING A CO. COTTO \ T GlN MANUFACTURE IS Rome, Georgia. Mny 0. 1S50. ALr.XANOF.lt «V TRABIMEIilii attorneys at law, ROME, GA. Nov. 38, 1850. IF- HAMAS HARDEMAN. H OHABLRS V. HAMILTON HAMILTON At II AH OEM AN,' Factors & Commission Merchants, SA VANN AH, GEORGIA •get, j. 1S50, ______ 1 13m CMAM1.ES r HAMILTON. ^ i THOMAS IIABDEUaN 11A It DERI AN At HAMILTON, Warehouse & Commission Merchants, *» * MAC UN. GEORGIA. Oct -3, 1S50. 1 Urn. A . K. I* TTQN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, p* » Rome, Geoigia. ,WHjL Prncticc in all tho Counties of ti e Ch**ro' c Circuit. 48 Sept. 5, 1850 W . P . WIliKI N S . gA\TTO RN EY A T L A W, Rome, Georgia. pit* TO Hon. 0 F. PORTER, CHARLESTON, S. C , O AT CAVE SPRING, G«. Hon W. ll.UNDEUWOOD, HOME, QA. V- Hon. WILLIAM EZZARD, DECATUR, OA. July 18*1850. 41 ly f. TIIOS, t). 1IINDMA.\| JVN. ' l ’A T TO RNEY AT LA W, Ripley, Mississippi. Wjii attend tho Courts in tho Seventh Judicial rotiit of the Stalool Mississippi, All profession. i ni business Confided to his management shall re- ..'cfivu strict nttentlon. May 9, ls50 ;■ , N , J . O M II It It li , pRAPEIi AND TAILOR, Broad Streccl Rome, Ga, Jotober 10, ISS0. a. w. ii u a 1.1., ■MR A PER AND TAILOR, Broad Street Rome, Ga. or 10, 1850. ». DICKERSON, JRUGGIST-ROME. GEORGIA Wholesale Arm retail dealer in Hugs, medicines, paints, oils, dye STUFFS, PERFUMERY, ifcc. toberlO, 1850 Broad Street. WBI. 1‘VIIKS, 1&1LIQNABLE TAILOR Broad Street Rome, Georgia, surtgiini- mhos this method of Informing nhlends, anil the public gonornlly. that ho is MftS execute all work entrusted to hisoare. 1 h confident of his ability to please all who Ytvoni him with a call. He pledges himself agn'rmont shall leave his shop until the c Bali,tiled wlili the fit. The undersig nentiy moated in Rome, anil hopes to mer 1 share of flic public patronage, there be ..incurred on the part of tho patron, at litsiinl! leave my shop until satisfaction WILLIAM PURKS. HE’S HOTEL, ROME, GEORGIA. ,S. MARY CHOICE Dahl^uegn, 1ms tuken ohnrge of the ; nnd mitun extensive propu rut ions Clld'coiivehionce of those who intiy lioi/iil. From her long experience, to give entire satisfaction to Pcr'ufiinent Hoarders. m .is i*,», r, FEBBUABY 13, 1851. NUMBER 1S». ROME COURIER. A Mad Bridegroom- One morning, among my poor patients, there came to my house a respectable-look ing widow woman, who, with much shaking of the head and some teais, begged to know ifl could do any thing for her son. “He should have come here instead ofyou, madam,” said I. Ah! sir,” she replied, “he won’t come. He’d murder both you and me if he thought were nt all cousulling about him.” “Indeed,” said I ; “you are certainly very kind to draw me into so dangerous a piece of business. Your son must bemad.” “No, no,” said the poor woman, with a siglt; “lie’s only got n crotchet ” “A what, muduin r” “lit his head, sir.” “Something in his head ? No wonder e’s mud.” “You misunderstand me, sir. I mean, by crotchet, thnt lie is only a little cracked about one tiling—that’s what is called a crotchet.’’ “Really,” said 1, “you quite instruct me. YY’e medical men, in our conceit, call thnt disease monomania ; but crotchet, I dare say, will do quite as well-” “But you must know, doctor, that a lady thnt 1 know was cured by you—oh ! cured completely.” “From monomania,” said 1, “or a crotch- "No, not exactly, hut something very sim ilar.'’ “Indeed 1 YY'ho was the lady ?” “Mrs. Angerstein. Knowing what a deal of good you had done to her, I thought of coming to you, you see doctor.” “But, my good lady,” said 1 ; “Mrs. An- gerslein had no crochet, ns you call it.— Her disease was complaint on her lungs.” “Weil, ns 1 always say,” replied the wid- v,“n cotnplinl is a complaint, and a doc tor is a doctor.” Site looked at me quite triumphantly after this piece of logic, which certainly I had no cady means of controverting ! so 1 merely said — “Well, madam, I am not prepared to as sert that a doctor is not n doctor ; but as my lime is rather precious, will you lie so good us to tell me at once what your son,s ciotch- et happens to he f” “Why, sir, my son Tom is a Universal Bridegroom." “A what ?" “A Universal Bridegroom, sir. “Can you be u little more explanatory, madam V, “Certainly, sir ; for as I often says, who’s to understand a thing all at once r Seeing’s believing, says you, however." “Be quick as you conveniently can, mad am,” said I, fidgeting dreadfully. Then you shall hear, sir Jemima Jen kins ” Why, what’s Jemima ? Has she s crotch et, too ?" No, sir, but she's a hussy—that’s what she is ! Oh, if 1 had her here!” Madam,” said I, “I cannot waste any more time upon you. Good morning.” “I’ll tell you in a moment, doctor,” she cried. “Jemima Jenkins gave my Tom every encourngement.’’ Did she ?" said I; “then Jemima Jen kins ought to have known better.” “She flirted with him here— flirted with him tlieie—walked with him to so and so— talked with him ” 1 was fairly beaten by the woman’s perse verance, and sat down on my chair again with the grace of a martyr. “1 thought you’d be interested,” said the widow, with a complacent smile ; “well, as I was saying, Jemima Jenkins was quite set down to be my son Tom’s wife, you see doctor, and the day was fixed for the wed ding. You may guess what a cumjlustratian l was in ” “A what ?” “A cumflustrntion.” “Oh 1 very well. Pray, go on.” “Well, what do you think that hussy did ?” “Jemima Jenkins “Yes. to ho sure.” “How can I tell you, madam, what she did ?” “Can’t you guess r” “Certainly not,’.’ “Just try, now. I’m sure you won’t guess right.” “So am I, quite sure.” “But do try, now, doctor.’’ “Why, she married your son Tom.” “No, she didn't.” “She went mad—died—hung herself— ran away ?” “No, no, no.” ‘ Then I don’t know what sho did.” “I’ll tell you, then, and you’ll be quite ta ken by surprise*— she married the baker.’’ “Oh 1” said I- “What do you think of her now doctor ? “Why, really, I—I don’t know what to think. The circumstance is of that aston ishing and romantic character ” “You area sensible man, doctor,” said the widow, “Thank you, ma’am,” said l; “but when it’s quite convenient for you to go on with your story, 1 shall he materially obliged.” “Certainly, doctor. Well, my son, from that very day as Jemima Jenkins married the baker, took his crotchet. Ho went to the church they w ere going to he married at.— He dressed like a bridegroom.’’ ‘‘Indeed !” “Yes, he did ; white trowsers, ribbed silk stockings and yellow waistcoat—it’s enouj to break a hart o’ hard flint to think on it Blue coat—excuse my lenrs—brass buttons Think, doctor, of a mother’s feelings—no, ] moan the best double gilt, Qh, dear! oh dear!—a fancy cravat! Couldn't you giv- is ot water ? Fawn color, with ;s on it—oh, oh, oh, oh—straw enl- I shall faint, I am sure, I ahull Hi his hand, and—my bead swims round and round I” 1 had the greatest difficulty to suppress a roar of laughter at this descriptive speech ; but gravity is part of the physician’s trade— so I merely said, “Dear me, that was all very shocking in deed. What happened next i” “He—he went to the church, doctor,” continued the widow, blowing her nose with excess of feeling, “and in the middle of the ceromony he gives the baker a push, nnd says : ‘1 am tne bridegroom !’” “And what did the baker do ?" “Why, made bread, nnd cheese, and so on.” “But 1 mean what did he do when your son gave him the push ?" “Oh ! my son was too much for the baker, a low wretch ! But Jemima Jenkins, she fainted uway, nnd the beadle was called.” “YY'ell, then, wlmt then ?” “YY’hy, doctor, my Tom ho laid hold o’ the rails of the communion table, and nw«y they all came ; so that’s how they answered him, you see, sir.” “And the baker married Jemimn Jen kins ?” “Oh * the hussy, she did nmrry the lin ker, and ever since then my—my poor Tom goes to all the weddings in that very identi cal beautiful dress, and he always fancies it’s hfr own wedding, and when—when—when The widow seemed quite overcome by her feelings ; and 1 really pittied the poor, sim ple-hearted woman, nlthough there wns much of the ludicrous in her story. “When what i” I said. “If I can do any thing for your son you may depend it will give ine great pleasure.” “When the dear clergyman, white sleeves aud all; says, 1 Will you lake this man’ ?—oh, oh, oh I” “Compose y mrself,” said I. “My. Tom, he—he rj:hts fotvard, and he says with a scream, ‘i am the bridegroom !’ and he reully thinks he is.” “A decided case of monomania,” said I. “Then, doctor, the clergyman sometimes drops his book, nnd sometimes—oh, dear ! oh, dear!—he calls out murder ! and the bride always faints nway.” “I can imagine all that,”said I. “And the bridegroom always swears, ex cept one nervous genliemnn, nnd he rnn out of the church, calling fire !” “Upon my word,” said 1, “it’s quite dis tressing to you, 1 dare say.” “And it’s all owing to Jemima Jenkins ns was—Mrs. Luckyadiddle as is. Oh, oh, oh 1" “What an odd name ! Thai’s the baker’s singular cognomen, I suppose ?” “Yes, yes. There she is to he seen any morning with a blond cap—only imagine my feelings—and pink ribbons !—serving the first hatch of rolls, while my heart’s break ing—with black silk mittens I” “1 really feel for you.” The poor woman wrung tier hands, nnd became deeply affected. The tears coursed each other down her cheeks, and in spite of the ridiculousness of the whole afluir, 1 could not but commiserate with the feelings of the mother. “Let me advise you,” said I, “to npply to the parish authorities. They will take care of your son until this monomania is gone. I dare say it is curable ; hut it is quite out of my power to apply any immediate remedy. In thess cases medicine is of no nvuil what- ‘Balinnleo, county Longford, in ould Ire land, and may the divil burn the spalpeen’s thnt druv us from its grane sod.’ ‘Never mind, inndam ; I would willingly hear your grievances, hut my time is pre cious. 1 have but six months to completo my return. Now, your name next if you “My—my poor Tom sobbed the wid ow ; “oh, oh ! that Jemima Jenkins Here liie poor creature showed such une quivocal symptoms of hysterics, that 1 hasti ly quitted the room and ran up stairs to my hed-rooin, to get some camphorated ammo nia that 1 knew was there, to restor her. 1 was not gone above three or four min utes, but when 1 returned my widow was gone ! 1 rang the hell hastily, and when the foot man answered the summons, I said— “Has that widow womun left the house ?” “Yes, sir.” “When ?” “Just as you went up stairs, sir.” 1 cast my eyes on the table, and in one moment the whole truth flashed across my mind—my gold watch was gone ! I glanced to the sideboard—a silver cup, worth twen ty guineas, was likewise gone ! My servant ran out into the street after the widow, but she was fairly olf. I never was so taken in my life.— Spirit of the Times. Taking the Census BY OCEANUS. ‘Madam 1 have called to take the census.’ 'The senses, is it; and what like do ye call the same ?’ ‘1 wish to send a return to Washington of the number of your family.’ ‘Shure, now, it’s joking ye are. Is it Con gressmen you would mukc uv us ?’ ‘Oh, no, it’s only to find out how many souls there are in the Union ” ‘Well, thin, ax mee the questions, mid if they are dacent, it’s meself as will answer.’ ‘Begin with the eldest, and inform me their names and occupations.’ ‘First there is Teddy—nnd a fine broth uv a boy is he—he’s forty five years old, and is an elevator and discinder by trade.’ ‘A whnt, madnme ? I d(l not understand-’ ‘It’s Inglish I’m spaking, pure Malasian Inglish.’ ‘1 do not apprehend you.’ ‘Apprehend me, is it, ye dirty loon ^ It’s more nor likes uv you can do, that same.— For two pays I’d skin ye as 1 would a pra- tie,’ ‘Don't get into n passion; you misconceive me, I merely wished to say. I do not under stand your husbapds trade,” j ‘Why don’t ye spake Inglish, thin ? Tied dy carries tm bricks - for new houses, brings them gown fronraALoriead, D-r ' • ’ ‘Me name’s Biddy. Be the same token ns 1 was blest ho the praste he name of Bridget.’ ‘Now, your nge.’ ‘The devil roast ye, nnd is it a lady’s nge ye would be afthuruxin her to her own facer’ ‘Madam, it is not my intention to insult you; but these questions musCbo asked; and there is a heavy penalty incurred by those who refuse to answer, which enn he recov ered by law.’ Ms it the law ye would be after threaten ing me wid, and me son Pat one of the Po- lace, too ? Do ye think its his hlissid mur- thur he’d be saying in limbo, when it’s only u word he’d have to spake to the Mare lo git her out ?’ ‘Am 1 lo understand, then, you rolusc to give your age ?’ ‘Jist the same, mid 1 defy ye to find it out,’ ‘Jt’3 not so very material, so 1 shall put you down at fifty years.” ‘Murther! and a lie is it ye would he nf- ther Binding to tho Prisidan* ? when he can say I am only forly-two if he but tuk the trouble to examine the parish register in Roscommon, where—’ ‘Thank you, madam, and now we will pro ceed with the rest.’ ‘But ye havn’t axed all the questions about mysiif, yit.’ 'I have your umne, age, and place of birth.’ ‘Thruo for so yo have, ye cunning divil: and don’t ye want lo know my trader’ ‘Not at all; I have your husband’s.’ Rut it’s myself thnt thinks ye ought to put it down. I’m a char, and iv yerself or any uv yer frieds have any job in me lino, guing out to days work or the likes, ye can just spake a good wurd for n dacent body ?’ ‘1 shall certainly always remember you ! Now for tho next oldest.’ ‘That’s Pat, and he’s twenty-three, haring n few months.’ M think you said ho is n Policeman ?’ ‘Yes, shure, hut cant ye put him down a Public Funksliunary, ns he calls himself?— ll sounds more illegant, and should me friends in the ould country iver happen to say the book ye are writing, its proud they will be.’ ‘YY’ho comes next r’ ‘The next will be Dannie. He is twenty- one.’ ‘YVhnt is his occupation ?’ ‘Divil the thrade he’s got ? Isn’t he wait ing for a vakincy in some of tho departments nnd he wilt get it, to ), fur he has a mighty influence at the l’owls He runs wiih the Fire Ingins, when they will let him pull the rope; nnd when they won’t, why he jist hayves stones at thiin. Independent is Des ms—mighty Independent.’ ‘Who next ?’ Please give them to me in rotation.’ ‘Nixt comes Mnggay; she’s nineteen Thin Tim nnd Miles, they are siventeen next lady’s day.’ ‘Yis, sure, they were all tray uv them horn twins; nnd thin there’s Kate,she’s four teen; nnd Biddy, she’s twelve; nnd Don O’Connell, lie’s ten; thin comes Suckey, she’s eight; and Luke, lie’s four; thin Jim, lie’s two; and —that’s all at present!’ ‘YVhy, madam, you have a large family, und you are fortunate lo havo them all liv ing. for I presume you have had no denlh in your family circle.’ ‘And is it the grafPftv my heart ye would be now rakin’ up about my childer that is dead, waked nnd buried in ould licland ?— Havn’t 1 lost four as swate bnbes ns iver was born ?’ ‘Excuso me, hut in enumerating your family 1 forgot to ask you how many was born in this country ? ‘Jist none at all ! Didn’t we come over the deep say just a twelve month last Enys- ter ?’ ‘Indeed ! How came then thnt your son is n public officer ? ‘YVhy, didn’t he fight nnd vole at the powls the last election, and whnt Coor shoudn’t he be awarded for his patriotism ?’ ‘Are there any w ho cannot read and writer’ ‘And why should we do thnt snme whin the hlissid praste can do it for us ? No, divil a one barring Pat, nnd he has lenrntd to write his name jist to he able to sign the documents.’ ‘YVeli, madam, that is all. 1 believe you have no more in your family, you say ?’ ‘Not nt piesent; but there will be another before your six months are up, nnd I would like ye to put it into your hook, for it will lie a genuine native, and there’s no knowing what the country mny do for it hereafter.’ ‘I can’t do thnt; besides 1 don’t know what gender it will he.’ ‘Arrah, now, can,t ye jest have a place lo put it down in ? nnd ye can just call at the time ye finish, and be that time the hlissid crayture will say the light.’ ‘Well, madam, 1 will bear you in mind.— Good day.’ ‘Good day, and if you don’t coino nnd pul in the baby, then divil a question I’ll answer ye for the next ten yenrs ” wrong way, n brace of figures of 8, with I The Loir, or Home.—It is only shallow- ~indedI pretenders, who either make dis'/.n- lifined origin a matter of personal merit, or obsenre origin a mutter of personal reproach. Taunt and scoffing nt the humble condition of early life, affect nobody in this country but those who are foolish enough to indulge in them, and they are generally sufficiently punished by the rebuke. A man who is not ashamed of himself, need not be ashamed of his early condition. It did not happen to me to he horn in a log cnbbin, hut my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabhin, raised among the snow drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that when the smoke first rose from its rude chimneys, end curled over the frozen hill, there wus no similar evidence of a white man’s habitation between it and the settle ments on the rivers of Canada. Its re mains still exist—I make it an annual visit. 1 carry my children to it to leach them the hardships endured by the generations which have gone belore them, f love to dwell on tho lender recollections, the kindred ties, the early afleclions, and the narrations end inci dents, which mingle with all 1 know of this primitive fumily abode. I weep to think thnt none of those who inhabited it are now among tho living; and if ever 1 fail in affec tionate veneration for him who raised it, and defended it against savage violence and de- sliuction, cherished all domestic virtues be neath its roof, nnd through the fire and bluod of seven years’ revolutionary war, shrunk from no toil, no sacrifice, to serve his coun try, and to raise his children to a condition better than his own, may my name, and the name of my posterity, he blotted forever from the memory of mankind l—Daniel Webster. Medical use or Salt.—In ninny cnees of disordered stomach, n loaspoonlul of salt is it certain euro. In the violent internal pnin, termed cholic, a tcdspoonf jj of salt, dissslovcd in a pint of cold water, taken a* soon ns possible, with n short nap imme* dintely after, is one ot the moit efTecturl nnd speedv remedies known, Tho sn ,e will relieve n person who seems almost dead from receiving a heavy blow. In an epopUei'o fit.no lime should be lost in pour ing down suit water, il sufficient sensibility remains lo allow of swallowing; if not. the head must pe sponged with cold water until the sense returns, when the salt will completely restore the patient from the lethargy. In cate of severe bleeding at the lungs, nnd when other remedies farted. Dr. Rush found that two tcaspoonfuls of salt completely stayed the blood. “Henry,dost thou love mo,dearest ?■' “Ask the stare il they I jvo io twinkle, or the flowers tosmell. Love youl Aye. as the birds to warble, or the orerzo to flv why asks the flannel of my heart?" •• Because my soul is grieved. Core lias overcast the joy which once spread a sunshine o'er thy face; anguish sits on thv brow—nnd yet your Helena Ann know not the cause. Tell me, my aching heart why droops my soul—has mutton riz f* The Vy Lancuaqe.—Mucli has been said in tl.o papers of late about a nation, with a written language, recently discovered in Cen tral Africa, and, on Tuesday last, a morning paper faaored its readers with a specie of Y’y manuscript, in the shape of a fuc simile ol the autograph of YVoondu, onoofthc wool ly headed literati of that interesting tribe,— The hand-writing of YY’oondu is of a peculiar character, consisting chiefly of parts of hand saws, corkscrews, broken pairs of spectacles, Ijfe preservers, ohioken gizzards, and a vari ety of other curiosities of —“— ' , ’ L “ fitj end 0^ n saw. 9 mil’Ail some gizzards, part of the letter F, a boat hook, and the key of a Yankee clock, spell YY'oondu. Altogether, the chirogrophy of the Vys is graphic and unique. The Rever end Mr. Kuelle, nn English missionary at Sierra Leone, who Ims soen the Vy books, says that the alphabet consists of one hun dred letters, lie also communicates tho gratifying intelligence thnt there nre “dis tinct diameters for hah, boh, hoo, nnd Imng.” Mr. Koelle is now supposed to he on n tour of discovery in tho Vy ci untry, nnd if the people in thnt rogion do not permit their taste for roast missionary to gel the better of their natural politeness mid hospitality, we may chance to hear the result of his philolog ical researches ere long. YY’e trust that when Mr. K. has thoroughly overhauled the literature of the Vys, ho will look lifter the Vherefores, who must he loculed some where in the vicinity.—Noah's Times. The Administration.—An editorial in the New York Herald snys : “From our private advices from VVashington, we are as sured that the cabinet is a unite—thnt there wus never a mere harmonious cabinet, nnd the very best and most cordiul relations pre vailed between the President and Mr. YY'cb- ster, pnrticulurly. No mntter who may turn up as the Union candidate, or as the CLiiso. valivo national whig candidate, for the presidency, they lire both ready, not only to acquiesce, but to coalesce in the movement. This is good news. Standing fust upon tho slavery compromises, upon the Union Platform for the sake of the Union, and lib eral nnd conciliatory upon the general do mestic policy of the country, the administra tion has a fair field before it. It is now the admitted bulwark of the friends of the Un ion, nnd the rights of the States, under the constitution. It has the confidence of the country in its patriotism, the respect of for eign nations for its conceded ability, nnd the full support of the Union people in its con sistent, conservative, and honest footing up on the slavery question. YVhether ruled in or ruled out hv tho tricks of politicians if the President and the cabinet continue to carry out the “true principles of tho government, they will he abundantly rewarded in the ex panded happiness and gratitude of the coun try.” Import AN’S Case — YY'e understand that a case is pending in the Supreme Court of the United States, and will he reached in a few days on a writ of error, from the supreme court of the State of Texas, in which are in volved some very important questions, under the constitution of the United States, it seems ilint llie Into republic ol Texas consti tuted certain hoards of land commissioners to decide upon the claims of certain persons, generally emigrants during the Mexican do minion, to rights called * head-right certifi cates,” for about four thousand four hundred and fifty acres of land each; thnt some of these boards were alleged lo linve granted a large number of these certificates wrongfully; tliut the republic of Texus in 1840, and af terwards by the State constitution in 1845, declared these certificates to lie null and void, and of no force whatever; nnd now the holders ol thorn come forward nnd present them, and ask to have them confirmed and carried out as judicial decrees. In these times of nullification, agitation, and disturb ance, this caso presents some very essential and important questions, which uemny hope to see decided according to the great princi ples of constitutional law which have for several years past governed that high and en lightened tribunal. The main question aris ing is, whether laws, or Stale constitutional provisions like these, which nre alledged to violate that clause ol llio federal constitution which prohibits the enactment of laws im pairing the obligation of contracts, can be sustained. The decision of the Supreme Court will have a most salutary operation wo hope,on the legislation of the lespective Stale of the Union in which such acts have been passed or are meditated.— Wash. Un Encoubaqemsnt of Home Industry,- Is the “pillar ofcloud by day, and pillar ol fire by night,* 1 that must guiclo the snutli cm Slates of this Union safely through the bewildering nnd hazardous slrile for sec tionnl supremacy which ever and anon convulses urn! agitates the whole country. The lime lias come when the Southern people must act lor the developemunt of their boundless industrial resoureef.or pay the haled penalty of conscious inferiority and degradation in the scale ol empire.— The danger may lie icrnolc—it is ut the worst only contmgcnt~by this means only can it be certainly oveited. All history proves dial llie best security for vested right, sociul, political, or pecuniary, is llie power, as well as tho will arid determina- lion to protect them. How is this io be best done ? Gasconading resolutions and frothy dcclamutio.1 are as powerless lo re pel tliu Ihrontening tide ol Northern on croachment, ns tile idle command of ihe inflated monarch that the sea should “stay its proud waves." The sword niiglil de stroy Hie North—il could not build up the .South. Let us appeal Imm ils destructive agency to the arts of pence, and creative nidus.i v. Let us improve our navigable strenms—build up our own railroads, schools rnd Academies—lose and work otir own mineruls—spin and weave, ns well as grow, our own wool and coiton ; in a woiil, render the South independent of ilia Norili, nnd the Norih dependent in turn upon llie South ; and the Norih dependent and make ourselves numerically powerful in the halls of Congress, by giving profi- lilc employment to the largest population a saw, a mi 1 our prolific soil nnd genial climate can he made lo support.—-iVus/trif/e True Whig roops n “No, my Helena—thank the Gods, no ; but my credit’s fell. Cleaver,from this day lorth, sells meat for ensh 1“ Helena screeches, faints nnd falls into her husband's arms, who, in ihe anguish of the moment, se ze a knife, and stabs him- soil.—over the left shoulder, l’niNTEss in Luck—Tho half of the 812.000 prize, recently drawn in the Ha* vnna Lottery, wns drown by a couple of young men, who nre, nnd hnvc been for yenrs compositors in the Mobile Adverli• ser office. It mny be safelv predicted that lor these 86,000, thus finding their way into u printing office, there will be three times that amount find its wny out of prin ting offices generally, during the next twelve months, in the purchase ol Lottery tickets which will draw blanks. An instan ce of luck of that kind is certain to he ex tensively contagious, excepting in the re sult.—Charleston Sun. * Cali fornia and the YYestern States.- The aggregate number of persons com ing home from California cannot correctly he estimated solely by the number arriv ing at New York! in’the steamers from Chngres. Almost every St. Louis paper which comes to hand contains a list of pas- sengers who come home from tho “Par adise ol the Pacific,•• by the wnv of the Isthmus, New Orleans and the Mississippi. They nre chiefly young men, whose homes arc in die Western country. Large par- cels of California gold dusi’also very often find their way into the country through this channel. The steamer Iowa, which arrived nt St. Louis from New Orleans on llie 23d, brought 02 returning immigrants, wlio luid in nil nbimt 8100,000 in gold dust. “Look a lica Sam,”said a western negro to a field hand over ihe fence,“ look n-lrcn; dy’e see dm tall tree down dnr ?” "Yah, Jim, I does.” •’Wall, got up dnt trpe (odder night.*, “What you in dot tree artcr ?,' “Was arlcr a noon./ “You ketch him, Jim ?“ “Wait till 1 (ell de fax. Sambo.'* “YVell, succeed, Niggn.“ “l chase de coon out to todder end ob dal longest lim, and den I hear suffin drop, —YY’hnt you guess Ywns Sam H I ‘•l.)o coon ob course.* 1 , "No yon don t s'twns dis ere niggi lo broke his neck— been limpin'" ^ since,’’ The Police regulatimtjj| oppressive. N<* '