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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 'ila