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5 6. ___ ROME, G-A., THURSDAY KOJiNING. APRIL J. 1851.
THE ROME COURIER
S PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING
B¥ A. M. EDDLEMAN.
TERMS.
Two DoLlahs per annum, H paid in advanet s
Two Dollars and Fifty Cents ir paid within six
months ; or Three Dollars at. the end of the year.
Rales of Advortlelnf.
Lion. ADVBRTisnMESTs will bo Inserted wjth
atrlot attention to the requirements or tho law, at
the following rates i
Four Months Notice,
Notloo to Debtors and Creditors,
■Sale ol Personal Property,*by Exeeu.
■tors, Administrators, dto,
.1 HanMM
$4 00
0 23
3 25
5 00
'Sales of Land or Negroes, 00 days
per square,
.Letters of Citation, ... 2 75
lNotlee for Letters of Dismission, ■ 4 30
' 'Candidates announcing their nnmos, will be
Charged S3 00, whtoh will bo required In advance.
Husbands advertising tliolr wIvos, will be charged
•*0 00, which mutt always bo paid in advuneo.
All othor advertisements will be Inserted at One
Dollar per square, of twelvo lines or less, Ibr the
'flrst, and fifty Cents, Ibr cnoh subsequent inter-
'tion»
Liborat dodnctlons will bo made In favor oflhose
who advertlso by the year.
B. W. BOSS,
DENTIST.
Rome, Georgia .OfficeoverN.J. Omberg's
Clothing Store.
January 16,1861.
RANCIS M. ALIEN,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Dealer in Staple and Fancy
DRY GOODS AND GROCDRIES.
Qrj» Receives new goods every week. «€$
Rome, Ga., January 9, 1851.
LIN & BRANTLY.
WARE-HOUSE, COMMISSION'* PRODUCE
MERCHANTS,
Atlanta, Ga.
(^Liberal advances made on any article
in Store.
Nov. 28,1850. ly
ROME COURIER.
portrs.
The Washington Union.—The Wash
ington ' Union of Saturday contains a card
from Major A. J. Donclson, ' in which
he announces to his readers, that he has pur
chased the Union cstablisnment, and will
take possession of it on the 16th of April,
and that Gen. Ro. Armstrong of Tennessee
will be Associated with him.
The Miniature..
By Gxorqi P. Moanis.
Bishop Huoiies a Cardinal.—A report
has been received by the Asia, that Arch
bishop Hughes has been made a Cardinal.-
Our foreign papers do not mention ihe fact,
but it is very probably true.
United States.—A statement ufthe num
ber of muskets, Ac- belonging to the United
States, has been communicated to Congress
by the Executive—Whole number of mus
kets fit for service, of every description, 611,-
239 ; number unserviceable, 8,818. Whole
number of rifles of every kind, 61,891 ; num
ber unserviceable, 8,160. Whole number
of pistols, 26.374 j number unserviceable
1,915. The materials on hand will serve to
complete 26,300 muskets and 4,200 rifles.
William wnsTioldlng in his hand
The likeness of his wife—
Fresh, as.lt touened by fairyland,
With beauty, grace and Ufa.
He almost thought it epoko—he gazed
Upon tlie treasure still i .
Absorbed, delighted otfQ amused,
. *He viewed the ertlEt's skill. V'k
"This picture.la yourself, dear Juno |
*Tls drawn to nalute truoi-
I’ve kissed it o’er und'o’or again,
It is so much like you.”
“And Ims it kissed voubeek, my doarl"
“Why—no—my lovo." said Ha,
“Then, William, Itisveryolonr,
’Tis n .t nl nil like rite 1“
$Wf«crUnncou8.
From tho Bonston Traveler.
The Angel Over the Right Shoulder;
Or the Beginning of a New Year
The Minnesota Chronicle of the 10th tilt,
states that sad accounts have been received
therefrom the upper Indian country. The
Indians above Crow Wing were sulfering ex
tremely, and many had literally starved to
death. It is estimated, adds the Chronicle,
that within a short time past, from five to so-
ven hundred of them have died In conse
quence of privations.
A. ». KINO Ac CO.
COTTO VGIN MANUFACTURERS
Rome, Georgia.
May 0. 1850.
ALEXANDER A TRAMMELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
„ ROME, GA.
Nov. 28, 1850. ly-
NOMAS HARDEMAN. f { CllASLES F. HAMILTON.
HAMILTON Si HADBMAN.
Factors & Commission Merchants,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
Oct. 3, 1830, 1
CHARLES » HAHILTON. }• { THOMAS 1IAR
HARDEMAN A HAMILTON,
Warehouse & Commission Merchants,
MACON, GEORGIA.
Oot. 3, 1650. 1
. hi:
A.K. PATTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Rome, Georgia.
WILL Frac-loe in ell the Counties of the Chero
kee Circuit. 48 Sept. 5, 1830.
W.P. WILKINS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
T; . Rome, Georgia.
Rsfss to
Hon. n F. roitTEn, charleston, s. o., or
AT CAVRSPMINO, On.
lion w. II. UNDERWOOD, llOSIE. OA.
4. Hon. WILLIAM EZZAUD, DECATUR, OA.
July IS, 1S30. 41 ty
First Caroo direct from San Francis-
.—The brig Gen. Pinckney, Cnpl, Cooke,
arrived nt Baltimore on Saturday, direct
from San Fruncisco, 121 days. She brings
a full cargo of hides, horns and merchandize
This is aaid to be the first cargo direct from
that port to nny Atlantic port since Califor
nia has been attached to the United States
The Gen. P. sailed from Baltimore for Sac
ramento City on the 25th March, and has
therefore been abseht ten days less than one
year.
"A woman’s work is never done,” said
Mrs. James, “I am sure I thought 1 should
get through by sundown, and liere is this
amp, now, on which I must go and spend
half an hour before it will burn.’’
“ Don’t you wish you had never been mar
ried said Mr. James, with a good-natur
ed laugh
11 Yes” rose to Mrs. James’s lips, but a
glance at her husband and two little urchins,
who, with sparkling eyes and glowing cheeks
were tumbling over him, checked that re-
ply.
“I should like the good with the evil, if 1
could have it,” she said.
“ 1 am sure you have no great evil to en-
duro,’’replied her husband
* 4 Thnt in inat nil vnn
That is just all you gentlemen know
ubout it. How should you like it if you
could not get an uninterrupted half hour to
yoursolf from morning to night ? What
would become of your favorite studies ?”
“I do not think there is any need of that.
I know your work could be arranged so sys
tematically its to give you somo time to call
yoUrown.”
“Well, all I wish is,” was the reply, “that
you could follow me around lor one any, and
see what 1 have to do.”
When the lamp was trimmed the conver
sation was resumed. Mr. James had been
The Benefit of Rail-Roads.—The
Wheeling Timt-s says that the “land along
the Baltimore and Ohio Hailroad in Virginia,
has increased on the average 300 per cent
and the amount of land now being prepared
for cultivation is greater than ever cultivated
before.” The city of Baltimore feels the
impetus given by an immense increase of
trade direct towards her port,, and all pro
ceeding from the opening of tho trade of a
back country, with immense though hitherto
undevelupid resources.
giving tho subject some thought.
“Wife,” said he, “1 have n plan to
pro-
C . W. HEAL I.,
DRAPER AND TAILOR,
Broad Street Rome, Ga.
October 10, 1850.
J. D. niCKBKSON,
DRUGGIST—ROME, GEORGIA.
WHOLESALE-AND RETAIL DEALER IN
DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, DYE
STUFFS, PERFUMERY, See.
: October to, 1850, .
Broad Strict.
COULTER & COLLIER.
. ATTOliN liYiS AT LAW,
Rome, Georgia.
Feb. 13,1851.
Georgia and East Tennessee Railroad
—We lear-i from our friend Dr. Ramsay
who was in this city yesterday on business of
the above railroad, thas ays Sav. Republican
of Thursday, that twelve miles of it ure now
in full operation—the track being oue of the
best in the Unitid Stales. The U. S. mail
now goes over the road,of which forty miles
will be finished to the Hiwnssee by the 1st
June at farthest. By the 1st October next
the rend will reach Athens ; sixty miles from
Dalton. The twelve miles now finished
sustain themselves by the trade and travel
pussing over it The farmers near the Hi-
wassee fully appreciate the importance of the
work, and many of them have already made
the comparison between the long time for
merly required to get to a market, and the
present easy access through the new aven
ues opened up in this State and Tennessee,
ICE’S HOTEL,
ROME, GEORGIA.
MRS. MARY CHOICE
. Formerly of Dahlonega, has taken charge of the
ffEW HOTEL, nml made extensive preparations
for-the comfort and convenience of those who may
Juvor hsj£ with a call. From her long experience,
,.#ho confidently hopes to give rnitire satisfaction to
: transient Visitors and Permanent Boarders.
; September 5,1850.- 49 12m
Persons will be carried to and from
Depot to the Hotel, free of charge.
c EXCHANGE HOTEL,
j;•/?*. Rome, G o o ry I a ,
By JAMES S. GRIFFIN,
: formerly of auousta.
fAVING sold out my entire interest in the EX-
L .CHANGE HOTEL in this piece to Mr. James
, Gbiffih*, I take pleasure in lecommending the fur-
patrons and the travelling public generally, to
tinue their patronage, as 1 feel confident that the
i in the Hands of Mr.- Griffin will be well kept
Tarttnot.nrpassedbyuny House in the Cily.
A. E. REEVES.
.Dee. 26,1850.
JHDBRU00D& J. W. II. UNDERWOOD.
WILL PRACTICE LAW
i Counties of the Cherokee Circuit, (ex
‘e). They will both personally ntcend sli
J. W;H. UNDERWOOD will attend
of Jackson anji Hsbetshnm counties of the
'iienlt. Both will attend tho sessions ol'tbp
[COURT al C08.ville and Gainesville
• entrusted to them will be promptly and
—nded to.
tdoor to Hooper Sc Mitchell, “Buena
1 ne, Ga., at which place one or both
t absent on professional
Exportation of Sficie—The high rales
of foreign exchvnge are compelling the con
tinued exportation of spicie. The Pacific,
which bus just sailed from New York for
Liverpool, took out $317,940 and the Havre
packet carried off $212,040. Here, snyslthe
Baltimore American, is an aggregate of more
than half a million of dollars which goes to
Europe to meet the demands of a foreign in
debtedness which has accumulated, and
which is still accumulating agnirst us. and
wo cannot meet by exports of our own pro
duels. To such a course of trade as this,
persisted in, there can be but one result in
the end—and that a disastrous one.
pose, and I with you to promise me that you
will accede to it. It is an experiment, and
1 wish you to give its trial to please me.”
After hesitating awhile, os she bad great
reason to suppose it would be quite imprac
ticable, she at length promised.
“This is my plan. I want you to take
two hours out of every day for your own
private use. Make a point of going up into
your room and locking yourself in and let the
work go undone if it must. Spend this time
in the way most profitable to yourself. Now
1 shall-bind you down to yarn- promise for
one month ; at the endol that time, if it has
proved a total failure, we will try some other
way,”
“When shall 1 begin ?”
“To morrow.”
To-morrow came Mrs. James had se
lected two hours before dinner ns the most
convenient for her ; nnd as the family dined
at one o’clock, she was to havo finished her
morning work, be dressed and in her room
at elevan. Hearty ns her efforts were to ac
complish this, the appointed hour found her
work but half done : yet true to her promise,
she relired to her room and turned the key
in the door.
After spending herhaps half on hour in
forming her plans fojr study, she drew up a
inble, placed her books before her, prepared
pen and paper, and commmenced with much
enthusiasm. Scarcely was the pen dipped
in the ink, when thete was a trampling of
little feet along the hall, and a loud pound
ing on the chamber door;
“Mamma, mamma, I cannot find my mit
tens, and Frank is going out with me to
slide !'*
“Go to Amy, daughter ; mamma is busy
now.”
“Amy is busy, too, and says she -nn’t
leave the baby.”
Upon this tho child began to cry. The
easiest way for Mrs. Janies to settle the dif
ficulty, nnd indeed the only way vt ns to go and
hunt up the missing articles. Then a par
ley must be held with Frank to induce him
to wait for his sister, nnd the little girl’s
(ji^-The institution of the blind in New
Yoik, hare made their fifteenth annual re
port. Nearly twenty yearo have elapsed
since its establishment, and during which
time three hundred nnd sixty pupils have
been eduented within its walls, many
whom maintain themselves in a state
comparitive independence, by working at
trades which they were taught in the inslilu
tion. There are at the present time in the
building one hundred and torty-fnur blind
persons, thirty three of whom are empolyed
in the manufacturing department, where the
men are employed in basket making, carpet
•reading, and like occupations, and the wo-
Wen plqin [awing, i'am.y work and paper
box?making. P(tp (l(!B.dred and fi"e of the
above number »re Pdf'll SPfiH? s£whom are
under the instruction ‘of blind t«qchpf§, w ^°
tears must he, dried, and little hearts must
he set right before ihe children were sent
out to play, and n little lecture given, too,
on the necessity of putting things where they
belonged. Time slipped away, and Mrs.
James returned to her study ; her watch
told her that one hour was gone. She qui
etly resumed her task, nnd was getting well
under way again, when a heavier step was
heard, and her door was once more tried.—
Now Mr. James must be admitted.
“Mary,’’said he, “do come and put on a
string for mo. There is not a bosom in my
drawer in order. 1 am in a hurrj. I ought
to have been down town an hour ago.”
Mrs. James went for her work basket and
followed hint The tape was sewed on,
then a button needed fastening, then iTfip in
his glove must be mended.
Mrs. James tqok his glove and stitched
away at it with a smile lurking in the cor
ners of her mouth.
“What are you laghing at ?” inquired her
husband. ,
“To think how famously your plat) works,’, 1
replied she.
“I declare,” exclaimed he, “was this your
study hour ? 1 am sorry, but what can a man
do ? he cannot go down town without a
shirtbesom!"
“Certqiply not,” replied his wife,quietly.
When her liege lord, yyas fairl; J
Mr*.
About half an hour remained to her, of which
she was determined to mnko the most.—
Once more was her place found, and her pen
dipped in the ink, when there was another
disturbance in the entry. Amy had return
ed with the baby from his walk. She took
him into the nursery to get him asleep. Now
the only room in the house where Mrs.
James could havo a firo to herself was the
room adjoining the nursery. The ordinary
noise ol the children did not disturb her, hut
the very extraordinary one which Master
Charley felt called upon to make, when ho
was fairly upon his back in the cradle, was
rather more than could be borne by most
mothers without seriously disturbing the
train of their thoughts. Mrs. James closed
her hook until the storm should be overpast.
Soon after quiet was restored, the children
came in from sliding, crying with cold fin-
f ers. Just as the dinner bell rung, Mrs.
nines closed her book in despair.
“How did you succeed with your studios
this morning ?" inquiried Mr. James. “I
am sure I did not liiudor you long ”
“No j yours was only one of n dozen in
terruptions.”
“Oh, well; you must not get discouraged 1
You cannot expect to succeed the first timo.
Persist in it until ilie family learn, that if
they want anything of you, they must come
at some other •inie.’’
The second duy of trial happened to be n
stormy one; and ns the morning was very
dark, Bridget over slopl herself, and break
fast wss an hour late. This last hour Mrs
James could not recover Eleven o’clock
came, and her morning work was hut half
done. Witji n mind disturbed nnd depress
ed, she left things in the suds as they were,
and retired punctually to her study. Site
found, however, that it was impossible to fix
her attention upon anything which required
thought. Neglected duties hnunted her ns
ghosts do the guilty conscience. Finding
she was really doing nothing with her books,
and wishing not to lose the morning wholly,
she commenced a letter. Bridget caine to
her door before she had written nnlf n page’
“What shall we have for dinner, ma’am?
There aint no marketing come, nnd you did
not tell me what to get.”
“Have some steaks.”
“We hau’t got any.”
“Well, 1 will send out for some.,’
Now there was no one to send but Amy,
and Mrs. James knew it. With a sigh she
put away her letter and went into the nurse
ry.
“Amy, Mr. James has forgotten the mar
keting. 1 wish you would run over to the
f revision store nnd order some beefsteaks,
will stny with baby.”
Amy was none too well pleased to bo sent
on this errand.-Bhejemarked “that she must
first change her dress.”
“Bn os quick as poss : bie, then,” said Mrs.
James, “for I am particularly engaged this
morning.”
Amy neither obeyed nor disobeyed, but
managed to take her own time in reality,
thougn without any direct determination to
do so. Mrs. James thinking she might get
along a sentence or two in tho nursery, took
the German book in ; but to this arrange
ment Charley would by no menns consent.—
Mnmnm must show him the kittens in the
book ; whether there or not it was all one
to him—but amused he must be. Halt her
second day's time of trial was gone, when
Amy came in ; and with a sigh Mrs. James
returned to her room. Before 1 o’clock she
had been culled down into the kitchen twice
on some important business relating to the
dinner, and for this day, not-one entire page
of a letter I ad been written.
On the third morning she rose early, mude
every provision for dinner and for the comfort
of the fumily, which she deemed necessary,
and elated by success in good spirits and
with good courage she entered her study
precisely at elevan o’clock. Now she wns
to have a fine time of it. Her books were
opened and a hard lesson summoned to -the
conflict. Scarcely had she read a line when
she heard the door bell ring
“Somebody wishes to see you in tho par
lor, Mrs. James,”
“Tell them 1 am engaged, Bridget.”
“I told them you were to home, ma’am,
and they gave me their names, but I did not
exactly understand.”
Mrs. James wns obliged to go. To smilo
when she felt sober, to be social when her
thoughts were elsewhere. Her friends,
however, seemed to find her agreeable, for
they made a long call; and when they rose
to go others enme. So in the most unsatis
factory chit-chat, all this morning went.
On the next day Mr. James invited com
pany to tea, and Mrs. James was obliged to
give up the morning to preparing for it, and
aid not enter her study. On the day follow
ing she was obliged to keep her bed with
sick head ache ; nnd on Saturday, Amy hav
ing extra work to do, the charge of the baby
devolved upon her. Thus passed the first
week.
Truo to her promise, Mrs. James patiently
persevered for a month, in her efforts to se
cure to litrself this fragment of hor broken
time, with what success the week’s h'slory
can tell With its close, closed the month
of December. Being particularly occupied
on the lust day of the old year, in getting
ready for the morrow’s festival, it was pear
the last hour of the day when she made her
good night’s cnll in the nursery. She went
to the crib to.look nt baby; there lie lay fast
asleep in bin innocence nnd beauty. She
kinsod his rosy check gently, and stroked
softly his golden hair, nnd pressing his little
dimple hands within hers, she drew the
warm covering more closely around him.
carefully tucking it in, then stealing one more
kiss she left him to his slumbers, and set
down on her daughter’s bed. She was also
sweetly asleep, with her dolly hugged close
to her. Her 'mother smiled, hut soon it
seemed as if graver and sadder thoughts fill
ed her mind, as indeed they did. She was
thinking of her disappointed plana. To her,
not only the past.montf- “ * L - --- 1
seemed to,’
encroached upon nnd distracted. She had
accomplished nothing that she could sue, but
keep her house nnd family; und. to her sad
dened thoughts, oven this seemed to have
been but indifferently done. Yearnings for
something better than this she wns conscious
of.
What did she need, then ? To see some
of the results of hor life-work ? To be con
scious of some unity of purpose, suniewcuv-
ing together of these life-threads, now so
broken nnd single ?
She felt, she was quite sure,. no desire to
shrink from duty, however humble; hut sho
sighed for some comforting assurance of what
was duty. Her pursuits, conflicting os they
did with her tastes, seemed (o her frittolous
She felt thero was some bettor way of living,
which she had failed of discovering. As
she leaned over her child, her tears now fell
fast upon thatyyaung brow.
How earnestly wished that mother Hint
she could shield her child .from the disap
pointments, nnd self-reproaches, and mis
takes from which she was then suffering;
tliat the little one might take.up life where
she could give it to her, mended hy all her'
own experience. It would have been a
great comiurt could she havo felt that she
could have fought the battle for both. Vet
she knew that it could not so. bo; that we
must nil learn for ourselves what ate'those
things which make for our peace. Wiili
tears still in her eyes, she gnvo the good
night to the child, and with soft step entered
the adjoining room, nnd there fairly kissed
out the old year on another chubby cheek,
which nestled among the pillows; tlien she
sought her own rest.
Soon she found herselt in n singulnr place
She was traversing n vast plan, no troe
were risible save those which , skirted the
distant horizon;—oti their tops rested a
wronth of golden clouds. Before her, trav
eling tow urds that distant light, wns a female
Little children were about her, sometimes in
her arms, sometime* nt hot aide. As she
journeyed on, she busied hersolf caring for
them. Now she soothed them when wenry
t—now she taught them how to travel, and
ngnin she warned them of the pitfalls and
stumbling blocks in the way. She helped
them over the ono and taught them to bo
wary of the othor. She tnlked to them of
that golden light which she kept constantly
in view, nnd towards which she seemed to he
hastening with her little flock. Bat what
whs most remarkable was, that, all uhknown
to her, two golden clouds floated above her,
on which reposed two angels. Before each
was a golden book and n pen of gold. One
angel, with mild and loving eyes, peerced
constantly over tho right ahouldnr, and the
oilier the left; they followed her.from tlie
rising fo the setting of the sun. They
watched every word nnd look, and deed, no
matter how trivial. When it was good, the
angel over, the right shoulder, with a glad
smile, wrote it down in his golden book:
when evil however trivial, the angel over the
loft shoulder wrote it down in nis book.—
Then he kept his sorrowful eyes on, her, un
til he found penitence tor the evil; upon
which he dropped n tear upon his record and
blotted it out. and both angels rejoiced. To
the lookers-on it seemed ns if the traveler
did little which was worthy such careful re
cord.
Sometimes she did but bathe the weary
feet of her children, and the nngei over the
right shoulder wrole it down.. Sometimes
she did hut wait patiently to lure back some
little truant who had taken a step in the
wrong direction, and the angel over the
right shoulder wrote it down.
Sometimes, with her eyes fixed upon the
golden horizon, she became so intent upon
her own progress as to let the little pilgrims
at her tide languish or stray; then it was the
angel over tlie left shoulder who lifted the
golden pen and made the entry, followed her
with sorrowing eyes, seeking to blot it out.
If wishing to hasten on her journey, she loft
tho little ones behind, it wns tho sorrowing
angel recorded her progross. Now tho ob
server felt, as she looked on, that this was
a faithful record, and was to-be kept to that
journey’s ond. Those strong clasps of gold
on'those golden books, also impressed her
with the belief that they. were to be sealed
for the future opetrng Her syinpaih!e<
were warmly excited for the traveler, and
with a boating heart sho'quickened her steps
that she iright overtake her, and tell her
what she had seen, and entreat her to he
watchful, and faithful, and patient to the end
in her life’s work, for she liad herself seen
that its results would all be known when
those golden books should be unclasped.—
That sho must not think any duly which it
fell in her was lo do, trivian, for surely there
was an angel over her right shoulder or one
over her left who would record it all,
Eager lo warn her of this, she gently
touched her. The traveler turned, and she
reconized, or seemed tr recognize, herself—
Startled and alarmed, she awoke and found
herself in tears. The grey light of morning
struggled through the hnlfopen shuttor, the
door was ajar, and merry'fuces were peep
ing in.
“Wish you n Happy New Year, mamma.
Wislt you a happy New Year!”
She returned the merry greeting—hearti
ly. She seemed to have entered on a new
existence, she had found her way through
the mazes where she had been entangled,
and light was now about her path. Tho an
gel over the right shoulder, whom she had
seen in her dream, had nssuted her that her
life-woik was bound up in that golden hook,
and its final results would be known—hud
assured her what was duly—now she saw
plainly enough, what she had not seen be
fore, that while it was right and important
for her to cultivate, as far as she could, iier
own-mind and heart, it was equnlly right
and equally important for l-.er to perlorm
faithfully all those little household duties
and cares, or which the comfort .or virtue o:
her family depended.
They had acquired a new dignity from' the
records .of that golden pou— and they could
11 eglectod without danger.
oughts and misgivings, nnd u
n flight wTlh tU Old'YeaVj^ra it wns with
now resolution, nnd-a cheerful hope,and hap
py heart, that ahe welooritod tho Ne.vYear.
From tho Columbus Soil of tlie South.
To tho PHiiitor* ul (lio Mouth.
Our last new lands m o gone; we have no
longer, the forest for our border; wc have now,
no new county to‘ .wliich -ve cun ropair
by ihe journey of a few days. Less than 1
fifty years have elapsed Since the white set
tlements of Georgia were hounded on the
West by the Oconee river, ur.dt .o Ceerokees
held full possession of nil the Northern pnit
■>f the Slate; Florida, then, was the land of
flowers, tho home of tho Seminole Indian
and the.beasts of the forest Alabama, too,
was nearly all in its native wilds, ond Mis
sissippi, regnrded as in the far ofl South-west
few whites were to be found in nil her bor
ders, to contest the empire of .tho savage,
the wolf mid the bear. What now do we
see 7 The Indian title and possession nil ex
tinguished. The White man is now lord of
all, tho forests have fuilon before his energy
nnd skill, largo cities and towns havo been
built up, schools and churches planted, rail
roads and factories are beginning to cover
the land, wealth and refinement have flowed
in, but we nro reaching the crisis, whero the
basis upon wliich, all this great and glorious
structure rests, is about to. perish. The soil
of the boutlt, is the great feeder of them all,
and that is being rapidly -impoverished. It
is in no spirit of . bonsting or egotistic glniy,
that wesny, Southern soil has a double hur-
then laid upon it, n burthen peculiar to our
otyn sunny climate, it has not only, to feed
its population, but to clothe the world..—
When our country wns in its youth, when
we could tuin from the tired and exhausted
field, to the forest, and got new lands for. the
clearing, and w hen our population tv us sparse,
our country has proven itself abundantly ad
equate, and often more than adequate to this
double task. But things havo changed,.and -
are constantly changing, our own population
is increasing rapidly - increasing, our hom*.
wants are greater, our old lands a; e worn
out, our new ones are going. Gullies nnd
rod hills, and pines and broom sedge, tell
now, where once was many n fertile plain;—
Old cabins nnd rottori fences, speak of energy
and skill departed;*-the West, the West, has
caught' our enterprising farmers, until we
hnve no longer n West to which [ they c<m
retreat. We nro here; this now is to he otir
home, and the homo of our children; and of.
our children's children. Fate has at last set
tled for us a question, which it would perhaps
have keen well for us if we had.settled long
since for ourselves; we Have not, however,'
so judged or acted. But it is with that fate
03 a reality, that wo now. hitvo to deel, and;
with our change of cTrcutnstjuiccs, w* mu**
contrive a change of habits and of policy,
which shall still enable us to live, and if pos
sible, prosper. It is time that we hold a
council on those grave questions. We may
not call a Convention of our wise men to
devise the mode and measure.of redress, but
we do call for Ihe embodiment of the
thoughts nnd opinions of the wise nnd think
ing man of the land. Wo propose to open
hero, upon «ho dividing line between the gulf
and Atlantic States, a store house of thought,
where shall be treasured up in these years of
plenty, menns which may be distributed be
fore ever tho years.of leanness come. We
want nt this convenient point of reception
and distribution, to hold coverse : with the
Sugar planter of the Southern portion, the
Cotton grower of the middle belt, and the
producer of grain and Minerals of the
Northern' portions of those States. The
time has come, when wo can appreciate him
os a beiufictor indeed, who will teach us “to
make two spears of grass grow, where there
was but one before.” We would not vainly
assume ourselves to tench that, but ns the
orgau of other men’s tboughls, think it blit a
reasonable expectation to sny, we may, by
putting our ideas together,, learn someth!ill
Wo usually gain slrength by association. It
is perhaps not more true in. any oter business,
than Agriculture. We have unfortunately
imbibed a prejudice against whut is called,
hook-farming This Inis resulted' mainly
from tho fact, that theory and practice have-
not been properly united; men who hare-
written books, have been mere theorists,
while those who hnve been wholy practical,
however well many of them have succeeded
by dint of euergy and perseverance, have
nevertheless, lost much-for’.want of more
theory and science. But we hope- tho days
of prejudices, nnd the cause for them, tire
passing away. A nd in tlie establishment' of
an Agricultural journal, we propose hot so
much to teach the scionce of Agriculture,
os to afford a medium ot thought, open nnd
accessible to all, where we limy record nlike
our successes nnd ftiilures, nnd ns far as pos
sible, understand the reasons. We therefore
invite all to.cqme up wi.h your offerings, and
let us see if wo may not avert the evils
which stare us in the face, and under out old'
system, will be so soon upon us.
The Good Wife.—The power of n wife
for good or evil is irresistible. Home must
ho the scat of happiness, or it must bn for
ever unknown. A good wife is to .a man
wi.doin ar.d courage, and strength and en
durance. A had one is confusion, w eakness,
discoiiifilurs and despair. No..condition'is
hipeless when the wife possesses firmness,'
decision and economy. There is no outward
prosperity which can coun eract indolci.ee,
extravagance and folly at home. No spirit
can long endure bad domestic influonce. Man
is strong, hut his heart is r.ot adamant. He
delights in enterprise and action; but to sus
tain him he "ii'eods a trr.nqutl mind nnd a
whole heart. He expeuds his whole moral
forco in the conflicts of tiie 'wor’.d. T
cover his equuniiuity and composure,
must be to him n place of repose; uf
cheerfulness, of comfort, and his —
its strength.tqain and goes' IV -1 '
vigor to encounter the labor
the world,' But if al In
aiid is there mot w
or gloom,or
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