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ROME, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 24, 1851.
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THE ROME COURIER
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Mie following retosi
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.•Sale ol Personal Property, by Exoca
tors, Administrators, 4ca.
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•Candidates announcing their names, will he
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s$S 00, wliioh must always bo paid in advance.
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Hirst, and Fifty Conts, for caoh subsequent Insor-
tl ©Ibeml deductions will be made In favor ofthoso
Who ativoWlso Iry tho year.
ROME COURIER.
B. W. ROSS,
DENTIST.
Rome, Georgia Office over N. J. OmbcrgU
Clothing Store.
January 16,1851.
FANOIS M. ALLEN,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Dealer in Staple and Fancy
DRY GOODS AND G ROC DRIES.
Receives new goods every week. *©j)
Rome, Ge., January 3, 1851.
LIN & BRANTLY.
WARE-HOUSE, COMMISSION'S PRODUCE
MERCHANTS,
Atlanta, Ga.
{^Liberal advances made on any nrticle
in Store. ,
Nov. 38,1850. O
A. D. K3.1G A CO.
C OTTO VGtN MANUFACTURE VS
i _Rauw '' 1
Abl XINDEB A TRAMMELL.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Nov. 28, 1850.
ROME, OA. f
ly.
IIOMAS HAS OSMAN. H ClUSI.M 9. IIAUILToN.
Samiltii.ka iiadkman,
"FiictoiM & IJoiii.niddiu.'i Mercliants,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
OcL 3, 1550, I 12m
tCIlARIKK W HAMILTON THOMAS aIAUDKII N
H41IDK5UN & llAMILTO.Xi
Warehouse & Commission Merchants,
MA CON, GEORGIA.
Oct 0, l»50. ' 1 I *m.
PATTONt PATTON,
TTO RN Et S AT LAW.
Rome, Gem nut.
WILL Practice in all the Counties of tl.e Chero
3 Circuit 48 Sept. 6, 1850.
k. X. tJkTTON. J.T. PATTON.
W. P. WILKINS.
ATTOR.NEY AT LA W,
Rome, Georgia.
I Km It TO
Hon. n f. ponTEn, cifAitLESTON, a. o., or
AT OAVK SPHINPt oa.
Hon W.H.t)NnRRWOOI>, UOMK. OA.
Hull. WILLIAM B'lZAItD, DECATUR, OA.
I July IS, 1850. 41 ty
O. W. It K ALL,
DRAPER AND TAILOR,
Broad Slreel Rome, Ga.
October 10, 1850.
' J. II. DK KEIISOIV,
DRUGGIST—ROME. GEORGIA.
WUOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALK11 IN
"DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, DYE
STUFFS, PERFUMERY, &o.
October 10, 1850. Broad Stmt.
. COULTER & COLLIER^
ATTORN EYS AT LAW,
Rome, Georgia.
‘eb. 13,1651.
CHOICE’S HOTEL,
ROME, GEORGIA.
MRS. MARY CHOICE
IFormorly of Dnhloncgn, has when charge of tho
pdW HOTEL, nnd mndo extensive preparations
E -Athe comfort and convenience of those who may
her with a call. From her long experience,
Hifldantly hopes to give entire satisfaction to
ontVisitors and Permanent Boarders,
itember 5, 1860. 4S lv>m
►. Persons will be carried to and from
|)epot to the Hotel, free of charge.
EXCHANGE HOTEL,
Rome, Georgia,
ty JAMES S. GRIFFIN,
FORMERLY OF AUGUSTA.
AVING sold out my entire interest hi ihc EX
CHANGE HOTEL in this place to Mr. James
[irriN.Itake pleasure in lecomniending the Cor
ns and trie travelling public generally, to
m their patronage, ns 1 feel confident lhat the
If the Hands of Mr. Griflill will be well kept
ort,not turpessedby any House in the City.
A. E. REEVES.
*c. 26,1850.
BWIiOiU J.W.lj. UNDERWOOD.
WILL PRACT ICE LAW
Counties of the Cherokee Circuit, (cx
#)- They will both peraonelly attend all
% H. UNDERWOOD \vill attend
and Habersham counties of the
, ,'r'h will attend tho sessions ol'lhe
blrueted to tben. Co?lvl | Iu , ln j Gainesville—
„ will he promptly ond
Hooper ifc•«;
eft 1 Ploew Itchell, "Buena
fBfcnij - *• ynt on pro„ c one or l,olh
1 • -ofessionsl
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Freshets.—On Monday night of last
week, and fora day or two previously, very
heavy rains fell In this vicinity and through
out the State. The water courses have been
very, high, and cons'daritble damage have
been done to the fences and the cultivated
fields in the river low grounds. There has
also been considerable Iobs of stock, groat
destruction of mill-dams, bridge), &c. In
this city considerable damage was done in
the brick yards, and in one of them a ne
gro was drowned in attempting to secure
some lumber. A few miles above this city
a young man by the name of VVimbisVand a
negro were drowned, by the upsetting of a
bateau on the river. The Ocmulgee has not
been so high since the celebrated “ Harrison
freshet”of 1840, nnd wanted two feet only
of being equal to that, and five feet of a fresh
et in 1827, according to the “high-water
marks” of the “oldest inhabitant.”—Macon
Jour. & Mess.
Secession of South Carolina.—The
Washington correspondent of the Journnl of
Commerce says, should South Carolina sn-
cede to-morrow, the movement would be in
no way noticed by the U. S'ntes Govern
ment, except the withdrawal of the Uni
ted States military force from Fort Moultrie,
and harbors of Charleston, Beaufort, and St.
Helena, to collect the revenue. The State
of things will then be this:—The United
States Mail will he taken from Wilmington,
N. C., to Savannah. The Banks of South
Carolina will suspend, because tho creditors
cannot pay them. The cotton crops will he
sent at great expense to Savannah. Houses
in Charleston will become of little value—
lor her trade will cease The slaves wjfl
liecome
them; (he very state of things that John
Randolph predicted Taxes were double
fur 1851; hut for the next yeur, they must
become destructive of all business and prop
erty; and the State can neithei borrow nor
pay. The South Carolina revolution cannot
tie sustained beyond one crop.
Business in California.—A correspon
dent of the Journal of Commerce, writing
from San Frnncisco under dnte of March 4th,
says:
“Business lieie is growing more nnd mo:e
slack, and the quantity of goods duily arriv
ing and forced at auction is truly immense.—
On Monday last, at Jno. Middleton’s public
sale of boots, clothing, &c. the company,
whicli was large, assembled at 10 o’clock in
the morning, and did not adjourn till dark
Some five hundred lots of goods were sold,
which, on the nvernge, did not realize freight
and charges, although the quality and con
dition of tho goods were unexceptionable.—
I notice to-day in the papers that in one ves
sel, from Baltimore, the ship “A. M. Law
rence,” the agent advertises 2,267 packages
to ten different consignees, to be sold to pay
freight and charges, and this is n sample of
almost every ship load lhat arrives.' 1
From Mexico-
The Mexican Congress was still in session
on the 10th of March. At that time it is
reported to have been the general impression
in the city of Mexico lhat the Senator would
not approve the Tehuantepec treaty, as they
feared it might prove another 'loxns. Gen
Arista and his Ministers, however, were
highly in favor of it.
There are but slight hopes thnt Congress
would make nny reduction in the tnrifi, or re
move the prohibition on coarse cotton fa
brics.
The Boston Journnl, speaking of the
chnngo of public sentiment in Boston, says :
“There are 1 thousands in the community
‘ who were dissatisfied with the speech and
‘ position of Mr. Webster in March last,
1 who now recognise to the fullest extent the
‘ wisdom of his course. Tho film of preju-
‘ dice and passon has been removed, and
1 they now recur with a shudder to the dan-
‘ geis.’iom which t'.e country has been already
‘ delivered.”
M. Lamartine hns presented to tho Na
tional Assembly of France a petition from
Wm Tell Poussin, formerly Minister of the
Republic in the United States, praying the
Government to grant a block of granite taken
fiom the quarries of Cherbourg for the mon-
itmcnt to Gen. Washington, now in the
course of construction in this city.
Robbery and Murder.—The Paulding
f Miss.J Clarion gives the following facts.
Recently a planter of Greene county (Miss.,)
went to Florida—seduced the wife of a res
pectable planter, and persuaded her to elope
with him, carrying offanegio, gun, carriage,
horses, etc, Three friends of the injured party
followed him to his home aud arrested him
after a desperate resistance. One of the
captors alone sought to carry him back,
but hp wqs subsequently found murdered,
the seducer, {» man named Hardy,
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SHfsctUotuouo.
A Skater Chased by a Wolf.
A fearful incident in Amorican country life
is vividly sketched in “Evenings at Donald
son’s Manor.”
In the winter of 1844, the relator sallied
forth one evening, to skate on the Kenneboe,
Maine, by moonlight, and having nscended
that river nearly two miles, turned into a
little stream to explore its course.
Fir and hemlock of a century’s growth
(he says) met overhead, and formed an arch
way radiant witli frostwork. All wns dark
within; but 1 was young nnd fearless, nnd, as
I peered into an unbtuken forest, that reared
itself on the borders 6f the stream, I laughed
with very joyousness; my wild hurrah rang
through the silent woods, end I stood listen
ing to the echo thnt reverberated again nnd
again, until ail wns hushed. Suddenly a
sound arose it seemed to- me to come from
beneath the ice; it sounded low and tremu
lous at first, until it ended in one wild yell.
I was appalled. Never before hod such a
sound met my ears. I thought it more than
mortal; so fierce, and amidst such an unbro
ken solitude, it seemed as though a fiend had
blown a blast from an infernal trumpet.
Presently I heard the twigs on shore crack
as though from the tread of some brute ani
mal, ana the blood rushed hack to my fore
head with a bound that made my skin burn,
and I felt relieved that I had to contend with
things earthly, and not of spiritual nature—
my energies returned, and I looked around
me for some means of escape. As I turned
my head to the shore, I could see two dark
objects dashing through the underhush at a
pace nearly doable in speed to my own. By
this rapidity, and the short yells which they
occasionally gave, I knew et once that there
were the much dreaded grey wolf.
I had never met with thoso animals, hut,
from the description given of them, 1 had
very little pleasure in making their acquain
tance. Their untamable fierceness, ana the
unerring strength, which seem part of their
nature , render them objects of dread
-Shtedtrafc, head, and dashed mad
ly 'lorward. Nature turned me towards
home. The light flakes of snow spun from
the iron of my skates, and 1 wns some dis
tance from my pursuers when their fierce
howl told me I was still their fugitive. 1
did not look back; I did not feel afraid, or
sorry, or glad; one thought of home, of the
bright faces awaiting my return, of their tears
if they never should see me again, and then
every energy of body and mind was exerted
for escape, i was pefectly at home on the
ice. Many were the days that I had spent
on my good skates, never th ! nking that, at
one time, they would be my only means of
snfety. Every half minute, an alternate
yelp from my ferocious followers made me
only too certain that they were in close pur
suit. Nearer and nearer they came; I heard
their feet nattering on the ice nearer still,
until I could feel their breath and henr their
sniffling scent. Every nerve and u.uscle in
my frame was stretched tu the utmost exien-
sion. The trees alnrg the shore seemed to
dance in the uncertain light, and my brain
turned with iny own breathless speed, yet
still they seemed to hiss forth their breath
with a sound tru y horrible, when an invol
untary motion on my part turned me out ot
my course The wolves, close behind, una
ble to stop, and as unable to turn on the ice,
slipped nnd fell, still going far ahead; their
tongues lolling out, their white tusks glaring
from their bloody month, their dark, shaggy
brensts were fleeced with foam, and, as they
passed me, their eyes glared, nnd they howl
ed with fury. The 'nought flashed on my
mind that hy this means I could avoid them,
viz: by turning aside whenever they came
too near; for they, hy tho formation of their
feet, are unable to run on ice except in a
straight line.
At one time, by delaying my turning too
long, my sanguinary antagonist came so near
that they threw the white foam over my
dress as they sprang to seize me, nnd their
teeth clashed together like the spring of a
fox-trnp. Had my skates failed for one
instant, had 1 tripped on a slick, or caught
my foot in a fissure in the ice, the story that
I am now telling would never have been told.
1 thought all the chances over; 1 knew
where they would first take hold of me if I
fell; 1 thought how long it would be before I
died, and then there would be a search for
the body thut would alrendy have its tomb;
for, oh! how fast ma i’s mind traces out all
thu dread colors of death’s picture, only
'.hose who have been the giim original can
tell.
But I soon came opposi'e the house, nnd
my hounds—1 knew their deep voices—rous
ed hy the noise, bayed furiously trom the'r
kennels. I heard their chains rattle, how 1
wished they would break them I and then I
should have protectors that would he. peers
to the fiercest denizens of the forest. The
wolves, taking the hint conveyed by the
dogs, stopped in their mad career, and, after
a moment’s consideration, turned and fled.
1 watched them until their dusky forms dis
appeared over a neighboring hill. Then,
taking ofl my skates, wended my way to the
house, with feelings which may be better
imagined than discrihed. But even yet I
never see a broad shoe! of ice in the moon
shine without thinking of that snuffling breath,
nnd those fearful things thnt followed me so
closely down the frozen Kennebee.
As an appropriate appendix to the above,
we will quote the subjoined perilous inci
dents in the life of the late Bishop Bascom,
which occurred when, in early life, his “cir
cuit” embraced the wild and unsettled fron
tiers of Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio:—
He was once followed several miles by a
large panther, which threatened at every
bound to spring upon him, and from which
he was rescued hy reaching the cabin of a
settler. At another time, he had gone some'
distance from the house of a friend, where
he was stopping, into the forest, where he
was lying quietly perusing q hook, apd un
conscious of all danger, under 'the! broad
spreading branches of a tree, wbenj£heard
it— ! —“ m ™* aii —
till he fired. Quickly glancing his eye in the
direction whence tho voice proceeded, he
saw his friend, with his rifle elovated, and
S ointing towards thebranches of tho tree un-
er v htch he was lying. Perfectly familiar
with backwoods life, Dr. Bascom knew that
some dreadful danger was hovering over him,
and with the least preceptible motion oi the
body, he instantly turned hie gaze upward,
when he saw on a-!imb of the tree, not more
thnn twenty feet above him, a majestic pan
ther, whisking his tail, and just ready to
leap upon him. Thia was a fearful moment!
What nerve it required to retain his self-po-
sission, nnd thus save his life! for the leust
motion on the part of Dr. Bascom, would
have hastened the spring of the panther, and
sealed his fate forever I And in that fearful
moment, when death seemed inevitable!
with a self control and courage truly won
derful, he lay perfectly quiet, till the keen
crack of the rifle was henrd, and the fero
cious beast pierced by the unerring aim ot the
back-woodsman, fell lifeless hy his side.
[From the Yankee Blade,]
A Phrenologist Exposed.
BV LEONADE.
A few years since, when the science of
phrenology was all the talk, one of these
bumpological adventurers, blessed with a tol
erable sprinklin’ of phrenological information
and tho bump ofpresumption “mounted high.”
perambulated the country, making fools ofthe
people. (I don’t wish any one to infer
from what I am going to say, that I befieve
there is nothing in (he science, by no means.,)
Some, however, were uol to be duped so
easy, and as ho was going to hold forth in a
small village in a certain county of the old
Keystone Stato, they determined <0 find out
whether he did judge from appearances more
than anything else,
The evening came, and a motley crowd of
belles and Benedicts had assembled in a
room with boxes, skulls, &c., scattered
around, for the purpose of being edified by
4h»:“—«"i“nna «.hat great discover
ies lie would mako by examining mult hnada,
which lie generally did after the lecture was
over, gratis.
Whether he possessed the power of a
mngneliser or not, 1 can’t say, but the fact
is, by the time he was done lecturing, some
were nodding, somo snoring, some with their
bends back nnd mouths wide open, and
others inking a “lean” on the hacks of the
benches. But when the examination came
on, “all hands and the cook,” weie wide
awnke.
The first subject wns a little boy, and the
phrenologist wont through e whole rigmarole
of ’nesses corresponding to the boy’s appear
ance.
“Now,” said the learned phrenologist, “I
want an older person, as the organs of those
young people ore hardly prominent enough
to tell correctly." After a few minutes, an
oldish looking Quaker, with a broad brim,
shad-belled coat; and tights, with buckles on
his shoes, stepped up and took his seat.—'
To all appearances he was as harmless an old
Quaker as ever said “thee.”
The phrenologist took off his hat and
commenced fumbling abnut his head:
“The organ of prrceptiveneai,” said lie,
“is small. The reflective organ is large.—
This man likes to have a place for every thing
and everything in its place. Is it not so ?”
“Yes,” replied a hearer.
“Yes,” said another, “1 thought so "when
I came across his farm this morning and saw
the harrow laying out in the field where it
has been all winter.”
“Thee is right, friend Baker, I wns just
thinking of that myself,” said the subject.
“Well,” said the lecturer, “he undoubt
edly likes to see things in their places.”
“A small adhesivenest -firmness strongly
developed. He likes to sue things as they
should be, and will stick to anything he
thinks he is correct in. Adquisiliveness is
large, he likes to make money nnd can hold
on to it.”
“How is hein regard to the fair sex said
one.
“Oh, he’s 0. K. on that score.”
“His combativeness, how is that ?” ask
ed another.
“Combativeness is quite small—quite.—
Ho is n pence man ; he wouldn’t harm a dog,
and—”
“Wouldn’t nye,”cried the Quaker, in a
stentorian voice, as he jumped up before the
frightened phrenologist and squared himself
and doubled his fists into all sorts of pugilis
tic slinpos. “I do like to see things in their
right places, thou lying dog. and if thee don’t
make tracls pretty soon I’ll make such n
bump on thy head os the has not defined late
ly.”
The phrenologist stood it for a few seconds
with his hair on ond, but when the Quaker’s
fist came too near his nose he sled for the
door with the Quaker’s foot in full chose.
The Quaker gentleman turned out to be
no Quaker, but ns great a dare-devil nnd
spendthrift as there was in the land, nnd his
quniilies were not to he put into juxtaposi
tion with the character the phienologisl gave
hirn.
A Scene at the Altar.—The Cleave-
land True Democrat of the 8th ult, relates
the following singular occurrence ns having
taken place recently, in Huron, in that Stale;
—“It appears that relations of intimate
friendship had existed between Dr. R
and Miss B , for some two years
which resulted in their presenting themselves
at the Episcopal Church for the purpose of
marriage. The first portion of the service,
embracing the vows of the'bridegroom, were
promptly responded to by him! The cove
nant of the bride was then read by the cler
gyman, to which she promptly answered
'No!’ The minister asked her if sho was in
earnest in wha< she said, ‘Yes, sir,’ said
she, ‘he has perjured himself—trifled with tho
affections of another—nnd I have but done
him jqstipp ” An4 turning round she took
a gentlpmap's ap" »cd left ths ‘ * ‘
■"'-’tor saya ha don’t"""’——
A Picture of Drunkenness.—We take
the following touching oxtract from “A Plea
for Drunknrds, and against Drunkenness,”
by the Rev. Dr Guthire.
“Give that mother back her son, os he
was on the day when he returned from his
father’s grave, and, in all the affection of his
uncorrupted boyhood, walkod to the house
of God with a weeping mother leaning on
his arm. Give thnt grieved man back his
bother, ns innocent and happy ns in those
days when the boys, IwinneS.n each other’s
arms, returned from school bent over the
snmo Bible, slept in tho same bed, nnd never
thought that the day would coino when
brother should blush for brother. Give this
weeping wife, who sits before us wringing her
hands in agony, the tears driping through her
jeweled fingers, and tho lines, ofsorrow pre
maturely drawn on her heautitul brow—give
her back the man she loved, such os he was
when her young heart was won, when the
stood side hy side on the nuptial .day, n 1
received her from a fond Liner's hnnds,
promised his love to one whose heart he has
broken, and whose once graceful form bends
witli sorrow to the ground. Givo me back,
as a man the frionds of inv youthful days,
whose wrecks now lie thick on the wreck-
strewn shore. Give me back 11 minister, the
brethren I have seen dragged from the pulpits
which they adorned, and driven from the
sweet manses, where we hare elosed in the
happy evening with praise and prayer, to
stand pale, haggarded at the public bar,—
Give me back as a pastor, the lambs which
1 hnvo lost—give me lior who, in tho days of
her unsullied innocence, waited on our min
istry to bo told of the way to heaven, nnd
warned from that to hell,ond whose unblush
ing forehead we now shrink to see us she
prowls through the streets for her prey.—
Give back the life of this youth who died a
drunkard’s death—and dread Ins doom—nnd
who now, while his mother by the body,
rocks on her chair in speechless agony, lies
laid out in a chamber where we care not to
speak of comfort, but are left to weep with
those that weep, ‘dumb, opening not the
mouth.’ Relieve us of tho tears that lie
-heay.v_oD.our hearts lor the character and the
souls ot some who hold parley with the dovil
by his forbidden tree, and are floating on the
edge of that grant Gulf Stream which sweeps
its victims onward to meet tho most wotul
ruin.”
The Sea.—The mean depths of tho sea
is, according to La Place, from three to five
miles. If the oxisting waters were increas
ed by one-fourth, it would drown the earth,
with the exception of some high mountains.
If the volume of the ocean were augmented
by only one-eighth, considerable portions of
the present continents would he changed all
over the globe. Evaporation would be so
much extended, that rains would continuully
destroy the harvest, and fruits and flowers',
aud subvert the whole economy of nature.
There is, perhaps, nothing more beautiful in
our whole system than the process by which
our fields are irrigated from the skies, the
rivers fed irom the mountains, ond the oceun
restrained within bounds, which it never can
exceed so long ns that process continues on
the present scale. : The vapor raised by the
sun from the sea floats wherover it is lighter
than the atmosphere; condensed, it falls up
on the water; or attracted to the mountains,
dissolves, and replenishes the couduits with
which, externally or internally, they are all
furnished. By these conduits tho fluid is
conveyed to the rivers which flow to the sur
face of the earth, nnd to the springs which
lie deep in its bosom, destined to supply man
with a pure clement. If we suppose the sea
then to he considerably diminished, the Am
azon nnd the Mississippi, thr.se inland seas
of the western world, would become incon
siderable brooks; the brooks would wholly
disappear, the atmosphere would he deprived
of its due proportion of humidity ; all nature
would assume the garb of desnlutipn ; the
birds would droop on the wing, the lower ani
mal would perish on the barren soil and man
himself would wither away like the sickly
grass at his feet.
An Interesting Story.—Shon, mine
shon,” said a worthy German father to his
hopeful heir, of ten years, whom he had
overheard using profane language “Shon mine
shon I come here, and 1 fill teli you a little
stories. Now, mine shon, shall it be a drue
shtory or a makes-believe
“Oh, a true story, of course !” answered
John.
“Ferry fell den. Tero vas vonce a gnot
nice nldt shentleman, (shoost like mej andl
he hnn a tirty (idle boy (sho'-st like you.J—
Andt von day he heard him shweariug,like a
young fiilain os he was. So he vent to (hr
winkle (cornerj and dook out n r cowhides,
slioost ns I am tiling now, and he daud ter
lirty little piackguard by the collar (dis way
you seelj and votloped he shoost soI And
den, mine tear Shon, he bull his ears dis vay,
and shmnek his face dat way, and dell sim
to go mitout supper, shoost as you will to
dis efening.
Diamond Dust.—There arc truths which
some men despise, because they have not
examined, and which they will not examine,
because they despise.
The same objects appear pleasing or dis
pleasing; as thq circumstances in which we
see them are comfortable or uncomfortable.
Hurry and cunning are the two apprenti
ces of dispatch and skill, but neither of them
ever learn their master’s trade.
Life’s smallest miseries are perhaps its
worst: great sufferings have great strength to
tear them ,
Praise makes a wise man modest, a fool
arrogant.
To a generous spirit it is as hard to beg, as
it is harsh to be denied.
He who comes from the kitchen smells of
its smoke. .
If none were to reprove the vicious, ex
cepting those who sincerely hate vice, .there
would be much less censoriousness in the
world. »
‘ t a certain age, if our henm contains no
ran, it will probably bp full of follies and
, - L --~ tie at the misfortune ot be-
mg robbed, wins something from the thief.
It is alwnys safe to learn, ever from our
enemios—seldom safe to venture to instruct
even onr friends.
Lot your inclination bo to those who ad
vise, rather than to thoso who praise your
conduct. ,,
Things which men cn|l the causes ol their
melancholy are often the elleets of it.
IV0 often s.eo characters in the world
which we shaulil call ridiculously extravagant
in n hook.
_ R* wo would travel by u side road to hap
piness, we must he content to pay the turn-
Vico is the whetstone which sharpens
I line’s scythe,
CounTiNa.—Hero is n specimen of the
;ood old fashion mode of courting, ns it was
lone in Conneclicut. Deacon Marvin, n
irge land holder, nnd most exemplary man,
accomplished his in this business-like way ;
“Havihg one dny mounted his horse, with
a sheep skin for a saddle, he rode in front of
the house where Betty Lee lived, and with
out dismounting, requested Betty to come to
him ; on coming, ho told her thnt the Lord
lind sent him to marry liar. Bettv replied,
“Tho Lord’s will be done.’ ” •
Col. Putnam’s Story.— Sunday, 1763.—
Dined at Dr. Putnam’s, with Col. Putnnm
and lady, and two young gentlemen, nephews
of the Doctor, and Col. , nnd a Mrs.
8colly. Putnam told a story of an Indian,
upon Connecticut River, who catted at a
tavern in the fall of the >oar, for a dram.—
The landlord asked him two coppers for it.
The next spring, happening at the same house,
he called for toother, and had three coppers
to pay for it.
“How is this; landlord f” snys he ; last
fall you asked but two coppers for a glass of
rum, now you ask three.’’
“Oh I” says the landlord, “it costs a good
deal to keep rum over winter. It is as ex
pensive to keep a hogshead of rum over win
ter as a horse.”
“Ah!” soys the Indian,“I enn’t see
through that : lie won’t eat so much hay 5
may be he drink as much water.”
This was sheer, wit, pure satire, and true
humor. Humor, wit and satire in one very
short sentence. John Adams.
Don Cheap.—While looking out of our
sanctum window last evening, at the busy
throng crowding about the “Carding Sass,”
as the yankees say, and old joke that a
Frenchman once tola us, forced itself upon
our memoiy.
“Ah Mousieur,”said he,“de Yankee is a
curious man. Ven I come to dis countrie,
ma foi. I take my basket nnd 1 go to the
marquet I see some fine potnme do (erre
Veil how you sell dis ?”
“Twenty cents a pack—clog sheep,” say
de old woman.
Don I see some of de vat you call Grass-
sparrow. “Veil, how you sell dis;”
“Three cento bunch—dog sheep,”
And so mon ami, every sing was dog sheep.
At last I went to ze butchaire, vere I see
beautiful sausage. “Ho, my friend,” said I,
“is dis dog—dog—dog—” but before 1 could
rocollect ze sheep, de buthchaire charged on
me vis beef shin, and I was vara glnd to
make my escape vis a whole head I Bcgar
since den I buy nosing dnt is dog sheep.
Exchange Paper.
Beautiful Extract.—There is on even
tide in human life, a season when tho cyo
becomes dim, and strength decays, when the
winter of age begins to shed upon the limhnn
head its prophetic snows. * 'it is the season
of life to which the autumn is most analo
gous, and which it becomes, and much it
would profit you my elder brethren, to mark
the instruction wiiice the season brings.—
The spring and summer of your days are
gone, and with them not only joys they
know, but many of the friends who' ga<’e
them. You have entered upon the autumn
of your being, and whatever may have been
the profusion of your spring or tho wqrm
temperature of your summer, there is a sea
son of stillness or solitude which the benefi
cence of heaven affords you, in which you
may meditate upon the past and future and
prepare yourself for the mighty change which
you may soon undergo. It is now lhat you
may understand the magnificent langunge of
heuven—it mingles its voice with that of re
lation, it summons you to those hours when
the leaves shall fall, and the winter gather
ing, to thnt evening study which the mercy
of heaven has provided in the book of salvn
tion. And while the shadowy valley opens
which leads to the abode of death, it speaks
of that love which can comfort and save, and
which conducts to those green pastures, and
thoso still waters where there is an eternal
spring for the children of God.
The Boston Slave Case.—We do not
see any new feature in this case, which de
serves special notice. Mr. Rantoul, in his
unconstitutional argument before the Supreme
Court, went over nearly the same ground
that was taken here by the counsel for Long, 1
to which the Court appears to have listened
patiently. Chief Justice Shaw delivered
the unanimous opinion of the Court that the
case was not one justifying the issue of a
writ of habeas corpus. T‘he opponents of
tho law hnve resorted to every available
mode of defeating its purpose—such as ar
resting the agent of Sims’s owner apd one of
the witnesses on a charge of kidnapping, &c.,
but all to no avail. All the boasted courage
and purposes of appeal to force, on the part
ofthe abolitionists, seem to have ditd away
even more ludicrously than we anticipated.—
New York Commercial Advertiser.
(jrgs Common garden touch me not roots, ^
the ten of which is a certain antidote
bite of the rattlesnake, or any 0
tlMAoultice of the same for thej
der^ir'the sting of anyth'
