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:3T 2B A FACT ESTABLISHED and weU
known that the Arabians attained a height in
the knowledge of BMdMae which caused the
whole world to wonder and admire. Witt them
the science ef (lhMilrtTj had its birth, and it is,
therefore, not at all strange that a people
eminently -ueeessfal in the healing art, and
IMWWhg and daring ia character, should, by
actual and untiring experiment, discover rem
edies for surpassing in efficacy all others for
the core of those diseases incident to them from
their mod* of life. The greater
fare with the different tribes, they were subject
to the most violent attacks of rheumatism, par-
. neuralgic pains, and varioas injlamma-
“ as also the most horrid wounds,
, tumors, swellings, diseases of
etc. etc. Ah these they
wore sa wndforif tBdtrt is earing; that
with Wonder and sttri*
s of magic. EL G.
S ARABIAN LINIMENT ia a com
position of balsams and oik, from rare plants
peculiar t>> this country, and it was by the use
of the articles composing thegreat remedy that
not only their physicians, hut even the wild
Arabs of the desert were enabled to perfe
such miraculous cures. Tie Arab steed
vrorld-rvuotcucdfor hi* beautiful symmetry of
/>»■, his unsurpassed speed and agility, and
the incredible fatigue he is capable of enduri
Why is it? Because from the time of his bi
his limbs are carefully watched, and upon the
first appearance of disease the magic lotion is
and such things as confirmed sweeny,
scratches, spavin,
lameness, etc. etc., are unknown. The same
mdl wlll follow in all eases where H. G,F«r-
reils Genuine Arabian Liniment is used in time.
of it. for every dollar speutinU wuTraTejrou
twenty, and a great deal of suffering, if not
Toarliie*
-.—
Look out for Counterfeit* !
The public are cautioned against anothe
counterfeit which has lately made its appearr
auee, called W. B. Farrells Arabian Lmunent,
the most dangerous of all the counterfeits, be
cause his having the name of Farrell, many
will buy it in good faith, without the knowl
edge that a counterfeit exists, and they will per
haps only discover their error when the spuri
; and
..A T>
eeu x'eona.
The
H. G. Farrell, sole inventor
wholesale druggist, No. 17
Illinois, to whom all applii
most be addressed. Be sure you getit with
the letters H. G. before Farrell's, thus—H. G.
his signature on-the wrap-
v all others are counterfeits. *
by Kendrick & Pledger, Melville
G. B. F. Mattox, . Mt- Hickory
C. Brown. Coon P. O.
Branner k Moyers, Summerville
Robert Battey, Wholesale Agent, Borne
authorized agente throughout
Sold
^ > 25 and 50 cents, and $1 per bottle.
AGENTS WANTED in every town, village
a&d hamlet In the United States, in which one
ia not already established. Address H. G. Far
rell as above, accompanied with good reference
as to character, responsibility, Ac.
NEW PALL GOODS—FULL SUPPLIES.
WILLIAM SHEAR, AUGUSTA, GA., .
H AS received from New Torfe, his Full Sup
plies of Fancy *nd Staple DRY GOODS,
embracing a large and splendid assortment, sui
table for the Fall and Winter season, among
|3 which are
Rich fancy colored SILKS, in great variety of
Rich Paris printed DELAINES, and Fancy all
Wool PLAIDS :
' Lapin’s cord, white and black MERINOS, and
plain col’d DELAINES;
A very large supply of small figured all wool
printed DELAINES, for Children, of new and
beautiful styles;
English and American Fancy PRINTS, in a
great variety of styles;
Snuperior Scotch Fancy GINGAAM3, of new
and beautiful Winter styles :
Elegant Fresh EMBROIDERIES, embracing
Ladies COLLARS CII.C.MIZETT, UNDER—
SLEEVES and HANDKERCHIEFS, of new
and splendid styles;
Ladies' Bia'-k and Colored CLOTH CLOAKS
2nd TALMAS of the latest styles;
Ladles' Rich Embroidered and Plain Paris Silk
Velvet CLOAKS;
A large supply of Ladies’, Misses and Children’s
HOSIERY of the best make;
Ladies’ and Gentlemen's superior Gauntlet
Gloves;
Ladies and Misses Merino and Silk VESTS;
Gentlemen’s and Youth’s Silk and Merino
SHIRT.% and DRAWERS;
Superior Welsh, Saxony, Game, Silk Warp and
Heavy Shaker FLANNELS*
Superior English, Colored FLANNELS, for
Ladies Backs;
English and American Canton FLANNELS, of
extra quality:
A very large supply of MOURNING GOODS,
for Ladiec' use, of a superior quality;
Superior 12-4 LINEN SHEETINGS and Pil
low Case LINENS;
Superior 8-4 and 10 by 4 Table and Damask
DIAPERS, some of Extra quality:
Rich Damask T ABLE CL0XH3 and NAPKINS
some of extra size ;
Scotch and Bird’s Eye DIAPERS, extra fine,
for children’s wear:
Heavy Scotch DIAPERS and HUCKABACKS
for Toweling;
Superior Whitney and Merino BLANKETS, of
extra size and quality.
Superior CRIB BLANKETS,
Also a great variety of other seasonable arti
cles suitable fer Family and Plantation use.—
The public are respectfully invited to call and
examine the assortment.
W. S. especially solicits a call from hi* long
continued friends and patrons, and assures them
that no exertion on his part shall be wanting to
supply them with the latest and most desirable
stye Is of GOODS, at the lowest prices,
nor. 14,1854.
>f thymy blossom,
i of dewy flowers,
Moonbeams*
Over fields of
Over beds
Now upon the streamlet’s bosom,
Now within the whispering bowers
Soft and slow
The moonbeams go
Wandering on through midnight hows.
_ o’er the ores ted billow,;
ere the hearing waters ~
rd finds
her pillow,
Whero the sea-bird
There the
Soft and slow,
Soft and slow.
Ever wandering, toft and slow.
Queen of beauty 1 robed In splendor,
Finds thy silent footj»o rest f
Looks thy smile, so soft and tender,
Ne’er upon a kindred breast ?
Soft and slow,
Thy footsteps go,
la their silver sandals dress’d.
Queen of beauty! canst thou ever
Thru thy lonely task fhlfil,
Sister videos never, nerer,
Answering thee from bower or hill?
Soft and alow
As winter’s snow,
Fall thy footsteps odd and stiQ.
Silent moon! thy smiles of bounty
Fainting hope will oft renew:
Teach me then, thy holy duty,
Waste and wild to wander through,
Soft and slow,
Still to go,
Patient, meek, but lonely too.
COMMISSION BUSINESS.
T tie undersigned having taken charge of 31r.
Johnson's Ware House on Oostanaula St., will
be prepared to do a general Ware House and Com
mission Business in all its variousbranches. All
produce entrusted to hiecare will receive prompt
attention. Having been engaged in'thc business
several years he respectfully solicits a liberal
share of public patronage. J. M. PECK.
October 17 1854—3m.
Ruth Hall—By Fannie Fern.
Hoe la a remarkable book—a book to create
n profound sensation. We have read it through
—the volume of400 pages—In six consecutive
hours, and we uoeept its revelations as the veri
table “Life Sketch of Fannie Fem—a leaf from
her own life-tragedy. It is a romance without
fiction, and every character introduced is drawn
from life, not from imagination. The heroine,
“Bath Hall,” Is Fannie herself, and the disclo
sures made in her autobiography will astound
the world. The principal persona shown up in
the volume are the author’s nearest relatives,
not one of whom, with the exception of her
husband and children, inspires the reader with
any other feelings than unmitigated disgti
Her father (Nathaniel Willis, of Boston,) under
the name of “Mr. Ellet,” is represented as
cold, cruel, canting, miserly hypocrite, who
would occasionally and grudgingly toss his
famishing daughter a dollar, as he would toss a
ring dog a bone; and her brother, (N. P.
Willis, )Vho'figures largely as “Hyacinth Ellet,”
as qpde to play the part ofa heartless, coward
ly, mercenary fop—“a miserable time-server,
whose God is Fashion ; who recognizes only the
drawing-room*side of human nature, and who
can sympathize only with sorrow in satin.”—
Her fiUher-in-law is also exhibited as despica
ble specimen of Puritanical bigotry, craelty
and hypocrisy. The characters an all power
fully sketched but in this labor of vengeance
for forgone wrongs, we most admit that Fanny
evinces a pertinacity of inverted affection for
family, as unnatural as it is rarrtr^B is true the
brutal treatment she received from‘those who
were under bonds to naton to succor and assist
her in her heart-crushing afflictions, were
enough to call down the wrath of heaven on
their gnilty heads; but Fanny should have re
membered, In the midst of her great wrongs,
the words; “Vengeance is mine—I will recom-
■ pease, saith tho Lord.” '
That Fanny could not love such an unfath-
erly father—such an unbrotherly brother, we
can readily understand. There is no tie of con
sanguinity that can bind the outraged affections
of tho human heart. Bnt how a woman so foil
of the “inQk of human kindness” as Fanny
Fern, could deliberately poor out in print her
burning bate in such a lava-like against one
who was pillowed and nurtured on the same
bosom with herself panes explanation. It sur
prises ns even more than the fraternal cruelties
of winch she so bitterly complains; and wo
most clan it among'those feminine enigma*
whose solution'baffles our poor philosophy.
The piognaney of Fanny’s tragedy is briefly
this : She married young, and gave her ^hus
band her heart as well as her band. The only
drawback upon her connubial, bliss was the af
fliction of a devil of a mother-in-law—one of
those sour drops which an all wise Providence
frequently lets fall into the cup of matrimonial
honey, to prevent the beatific pair from dying
of exeen of sweetness. Her hnsband prospers
in bnsinen ; and Fanny now finds herself “liv
ing in clovfr,”and > a cottage one a few miles
from Boston, where little “Daisy,” -the first
flower of wedded love, “only blooms to die."—
Two little angels, Kate and Nettie, are sent af
ter Daisy to consol the mourning another; and
Jhen toe great bereavement comes. Fanny is
stricken, penniless with two orphan babes. Her
relatives who flocked around her in strawberry
time, and fed on her husband’s generosities,
now push her from them with their icy’shonl-
ders, and tell-her to “go to work for a living.”
So sadly true are the words of the poet:
“The friends within our sunshine live
When winter comes are flown.”
Then came the straggle, the humiliation, the
suffering. Fanny, with her two little ones, was
starving in a garret, in a wretched street, in the
munificent city of Boston, while her own father
was going ronnd “taking up contributions for
the distant heathens ?’ and her luxurious, Hya-
cinthine brother was squandering thonsonds on
trifles and making lachrymose appeals through
tho columns of bis jonrnal in behalf of poor ac
tresses and other fashionable candidates for
charity. Such is the difference botween seem
ing and doing good. Fanny tries to live by
sewing at a sixpence a day; and bin to get a
fitnation as a school teacher. Both efforts fail
her. Then, on seeing a carrier leave a news
paper at a house across the street, the thought
strikes her to fay her band at writing for the
papers. Her applications to the Boston editors
axe coldly received. Bnt she perseveres. Her
communications are accepted. They attract
attention; andare universally copied. A New
York editor finds out her secret, and outbids
the Boston publishers. She binds herself to
write exclusively for one year for the New
York Jbnnud. In the meantime she collects
her “Fern Leaves" (which she touchingly says
grow upon her^bnsbaiad’s grave) into a yolume.
The sale Is immense, and certificates for $10,000
in Bank is the result And now with the lau
rel on her brow, and plenty of friends in her
pocket, the Priftto and tho Lovites of her own
family, who passed her coldly by In tho winter
of her distress, she in turn chooses to disown
andexpose. ' - ' r
Such, in brief, is Fanny’s Book and Fanny’s,
history. The story is told with extraordinary
power and pathos. Thera ara passages in'
“Bath Hall" equal, in tragic description, to
anything in the works of Dickens. It is abook
that will make a sobbing among mothers and
widows, and cause a general sighing over the
sins of the rich, and the sufferings of the poor.
But, Fanny, both you and your readers hare'
abundant reason to kiss tho rod that has afflic
ted you. There is truth as well as pootiy in
the words of Longfellow ;
“Who hath not bread in sorrow eat,
Ho knows yon not, ye Heavenly powers."
Dreams-Sleep—Menial Decay.
The following passages are from a review, In
n London paper, of Sir Benjamin Brodle’s P*y-
chological tngmiriee t
Dreams aro next discussed, as also the prob
lem, “Whs t is sleep F* which our author de
clares Insoluble. Tho sente of weariness ap
pears confined to those function* over which the
will has power; all involuntary actions are con
tinued through our resting as well as waking
hours. Sleep “accumulates the nerroue force,
wUeh is graonnUy exhausted” during the day.
But these are words only; for who can define
or explain the “nervous force ?” Darwin's axi
om, “that tho essential part of sloop is the sus
pension of volition” still holds good, and is ac
cepted as satisfactory. Talking and moving in
sloop, though apparently phenomena irreconci
lable with this theory, aro not so in reality; for
there are degrees of deep, and these things on
ly sccnr where thoslnmber is imperfect. It may
be urged, again, that the mere abseence of voli
tion would not prodace that insensibility to
sight and sound which is the characteristic of
tho sleeper. Bnt fow persons aro aware how
mueh tho will is concerned in the reception of
impression on the senses. One who is absorbed
in reading or writing will not hear words ad
dressed to him in toe ordinary tone, though
their physical effect on the ear most be the same
as nsuaL
Dreams are inexplicable: Lord Brougham
suggested that they took placo only in tho mo
mentary state of transition from sleep to waking.
But frets contradict thig theory, since persons
will matter to themselves, and utter inarticulate
sounds, indicative of dreaming; at entervals of
several minutes. The common puzzle as to how
dreams, apparently long, can pass in a moment
of time, presents no difficulty to the psycholo
gist. Life is not measured by hours and days,
not by the number ofnew impressions received;
and the limit to these is in the world without os,
not in the constitution of our minds. To a child,
whoso imagination is constantly excited by new
objects, twelve months seem a much longer pe
riod than to a man. As wo advance in life,
time flies faster. The butterfly, living for a
single season, may really eqjoy a longer exis
tence than the tortoise, whoso years exceed
eentnry. Even between the busy and the idle
among human beings there exists a similar dif
ference, though less strongly marked.
It has been usually held that large heads are
more powerful and thinking machines than
small ones; and as a general rale, experience
jostifies the conclusion. But Newton, Byron,
and others, were exceptions to it; and is quite
certain, that a large brain may bo accompanied
with the most dense stupidity.
Many remarks scattered through this little
treatise are worth the recollection of all ages
and classes. “The failure of the mind in old
age,” says Sir Benjamin, “is often less the result
of natural decay than of disuse /’ Ambition has
ceased to operate ; contentment brings indolence
indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and
sometimes death. Men have been known to
die, literally speaking, of disease induced by in
tellectual vacancy. On the other hand, the
amount of possible mental labor is for less than
many persons imagine. If professional men
are enabled to work twelve or fifteen hours dai
ly, that Is because most of their business has be
come, from habit, mere matter routine. From
four to six hours, probably, the utmost daily
period for which real exertion of the mind can
i carried on.
npHEi
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DISSOLUTION.
!firm of Russell & Wadsworth was thi
day dissolved by mutual consent, all per
sons having claims, and those indebted to said
firm will please call on E. W. Russell, jr. for
settlement. E. W. RUSSELL, jr.,
W. S. WADSWORTH.
Nor. 14, ’54. 3m
The Sallt Jaxk Copper Mine.—Wo learn
from an oxchange that a large quantity of oar
of a superior quality has already been shipped
to Baltimore, from this Mine, and. a large quan
tity is lying in the Mine ready for shipment.
Forty-eightjmnds aro at work day and night
and arrangements are being made to increase
tho force.
Anecdote op Webster.—Daniel Webster
used to relate that in asuit ho received eighteen
dollars for a vast amount of labor, but after
wards was employed in an exactly similar cose,
and received a fee of five thousand dollars,
though he used the same brief that he bad pre
pared for the first case.
Fading Beauttof Americas Women—“A
lady asked mo this evening what I thought of
the beauty of the ladies of the English aristoc
racy. (She was a Scotch lady, by-the-by, so
the question was a fair one.) I replied, that
certainly report had not exaggerated their
charms. Then came a home question—how the
ladies of England compared with the ladies of
America. “Now for it, patriotism,” said I to
myself; and, invoking to my aid certain fair
saints of my own country, whose faces I dis
tinctly remembered, I assured ber that I bod
never seen more beautiful women than I had in
America: Grieved was I to be obliged to add,
“But your ladies keep their beauty much later
and longer,” This fbet stares one in the face
in every company; one meets ladies past fifty,
glowing, radiant and blooming, with a fresh
ness o&eomplexion and fullness of ontline re
freshing to contemplate. What can be the rea
son ? Tell ns, Moses and Graces, what can itbe ?
Is it the conservative power of the sea-fogs and
coal-smoko—the same cause that keeps toe turf
green, and makes toe holly and toe ivy flour
ish ? How comes it toot onr married ladies dwin
dle, fade, and grow thin—that their noses in
cline to sharpness, and their elbows to angnlar-
ity, just at the time of life when their island
sisters round out into a comfortable.and becom
ing amplitude and fullness? If it is the fog and
toe sea-coal, why, then, I am afraid we shall
never come up with them. Bnt perhaps there
may be other causes why a country which starts
some of the most beautiful girls in the world
produces so few beautiful women. Have not
onr dose-heated stove rooms somewhat to do
with it ? Have not the immense amount of hot
biscuits, hot corn-cakes, and other compounds
got np with toe acrid poison of saleratns, some
thing to do with it? Above all, has not onr cli
mate, with its alternate extremes of heat and
cold, a tendency to induce habits of in-door in
dolence ? Climate certainly bos a great deal to
do with it; oars is evidently more trying and
more exhausting, and because it is so, we should
not pileapon its back errors of dress and diet
which are avoided by onr neighbors: They keep
their beauty, because they keep their health.
It has Been as remarkable as anything to me,
since I have been here, that I do not constantly,
as at home, bear one and another spoken of as
in miserable health, as very delicate, ete. Health
seems-to he toe rale,’and not toe exception.—
For my part, I most say, the most favorable wo
men that I know of for female beauty in Ameri-
is toe multiplication of Water-Care Estab
lishments, where oar ladies, if they, get noth
ing else, do giun some ideas os to toe necessity
of fresh air, regular exercise, simple diet, and
toe laws of hygiene in general.”—Sunny Mem-
Christianity an Aggressive System.
Of all religions Christianity is that, and that
alone, which no vet will let the world slumber.
No form is so corrupt as not to havo internal
energy enough to sond forth itsemissariostotoo
ends of the earth; men who will endure all
privations and bear all perils to persuade the
nations to embrace it This, among many
othor peculiarities which discriminate Christi
anity from other religions, is one of too most
striking, and ought to exeito deep rjflection.
No other religious system manifests, oi«ever has
manifested, this remarkable, this uniform ten
dency. How would all Europe be astonished
at toe appearanoe of Mohamedan Moollahs, or
Hindoo Brahmins in London and Paris, sent to
persuade ns to embrace their religions! Not
only have heathen religions never done this,
but the religion which cradled Christianity it
self, rather restrained than extended its bene
fits. Judaism received, bnt hardly welcomed
proselytes. Christianity, on the other hand,
addresses all “kindreds, people, nations, and
tongues;” and has, in these our days, especially
lifted np its voice, in every clime, and is speak
ing toe dialect of nearly every tribe of man.
Nothing ia more certain than that man will
have some religion, and if none other makes
conquests, and as is too plain, Deism neithor
will nor can, it is tolerably certain that Chris
tianity, whether true or false, is likely to reign.
And let us not forget wbat Christianity is now
doing; it has (as just said) too power to do
what no othor religion does, and what no form
of’Deism ever attempts to do; v ithas too jtpwer
to render those who believe in it intensely anx
ious to make ittriiunph&nt; it sends its agents
to the uttermost parts oi too earth, and sup
ports them there. And, by doing so, it has re
claimed barbarous tribes to civilization, abol
ished their idolatry, fixed their language, and
givon them toe elements of all art, literature,
and civilization, in giving them toe Bible ; (or
in toe very process of giving toil, it gives them
all these also. Only toe other day, many of ns
saw, from the remotest isles of Polynesia, a
Samoan newspaper, printed entirely by a race
who, only a few years ago, were a set of naked
savages, addicted to cannibalism and infanti
cide, and without toe elements of a written Ians
gnage. The paper was printed in a style which
as on English printer traly said) would do no
All About Five Cents.
Time.
... . .... . -- , Time is flying, flying, flying,
railroad case is on trial before the Superior oh j bow swiftly by •
Court, ritting at Norwich. It has occupied sev- Like a waterfall that’s rushing.
ho
Important Railroad Case.—An Important I
8 Superior
iff at
cral days. Ths plaintiff is Crocker, a seafaring
there was a trespass from toe beginning, for, in
case there was not time, Coocker had a right to
go to Now London at too price tendered—name
ly, 50 cents. If he bad time then he was bound
it to an English printing office. Not *° P a 7 tho extra charge of five cents. The
v_. it —--— i— .1 Judge further charged that if toe company hod
only so, bnt the same Christianity has toe power
of immediately inspiring those who receive it
again to aid in its farther diflhsion, and to hand
on too bright torch which has kindled the hal
lowed fire on their own hearths and altars.
Only last year I observed that nearly a tenth
of toe large revenues of one of onr missionary
societies was derived from toe converts it had
made,—from New-Zealandors, and Tahitians,
and Hottentots, and Bechnanas, and other soci
eties wereaided from similar sources in-a simi
lar proportion! These simple'facts are worth a
thousand platform speeches. Let our Deistical
“ Magicians” do the like by their enchantments.
No, they can talk, and write (as Harrington
says) “book-revelation against book-revela
tion,” and dream their many-colored, ever-im-
practicable dreams of human regeneration, and
that is all. Till Deism does something more,
Christianity has not much to fear from it—Re
gisters Defence of Eclipse of Faith.
The Person of Jesus Christ.
Simplicity of Manners the Accompani
ment or True Genius.—That night I found
myself, about eleven o'clock, in a'pretty bed
room, abont foorteen feet by twelve. 1 Mach I
feared it might tarn oat the best room in toe
house ; and it illustrates toe hospitality of my
new friends to mention that it was. Early in
toe morning I was awaken by a little voice,- is
suing from a little cottage bed in an opposite
corner, soliloquizing in a low tone. I soon re
cognised the words, -“Suffered under Pontius
Pilate, was craeifled, dead and buried and
toe' voice I easily conjectured to he that of the
eldest among Wodsworth’s children, a son, and
at that time abont three years old. He was a
remarkably fine boy in strength and size, and
ftnisidg (what has, in fact, been ^realized) a
more powerfal person, physically, than that of
bis father. Miss Wordsworth I found making
brcakfiut in the little sitting-room. No urn was
there, no glittering breakfast service; a kettlo
boiled npontbo fire, and everything *os in har
mony with those unpretending arrangements.
I rarely bad seen so humble a menage; and,
contrasting too dignity of toe man with this
honorable-poverty, and this conrageons avowal
of It, his nttorabsonco of all offorts to disguise
the simple truth of tho case, I felt my admira
tion increased. This, thought I to myself, is,
indeed,in his own words—
“Plain living and high thinking."
This is, indeed, to reserve tho humility and tho
parsimonies of lifo for its bodily onjoymonts,
and to apply its lavishness and its luxury to its
onjoymonts or tho intellect. So might Milton
havo lived; So Marvel,—De Quincy.
Mobile and Girard Railroad.—Mnj. John
Hawara has been chosen President of this road
in placo of Hon. Alfred Iverson resigeod.
. r—* —
Indolenco and indecision of iqind, though not-,
n tberasolvorvicos, frequently prepare the way
to much exquisite miBcry.
A DESCRIPTION
Found in an ancient manuscript, which woe sent
ly Publius Lentulue, President of Judea, To
the Senate.of Rome.
There lives at this time in Judea a man of
singular character, whpse name is Jesus Christ
The barbarians esteem him a prophet, but his
followers adore him as the immediate offspring
of too Immortal God Ho is epdowed with
such unparalleled virtue ns to call hack toe
dead from their graves, and to heal every kind
of disease with a word or touch. His person is
tall and elegantly shaped; his aspect amiable
and reverend; his hair flows in beautiful shades,
which no united colors can match, falling; into
graceful curls below bis ears, agreeably couch
ing on his shoulders, and parting on the crown
of bis bead, like toe head dress of the sect of
the N&zarites. His forehead is smooth, and his
cheeks without a spot, save that of lovely red.
His nose and month are formed with exquisite
mmeby; his beard is thick, and suitable to
e hair of his head, reaching a little below his
chin, and parted in toe middle like a fork; and
his eyes are bright, clear, and serene. He
rebukes with majesty, counsels with mildness,
and invites with the most persuasive language.
His whole address, whether in word or deed)
being elegant, brave and strictly characteristic
of so exalted a being. No man has soon him
laugh, hut toe whole world has frequently seen
him weep; and so persuasive ore his tears, that
the multitude cannot withhold theirs from sym
pathy with him. He is very modest, temperate,
and wise. In short, whatever this, phenomenon
may be in the end, he seems at present a man
of excellent beauty and divine perfections; ev
ery way surpassing the children of men.
Making Brides.-—A Traveller in Germany
says : “The Germans, by too way, have a queer
way of making “brides,” and of doing some oth
er things in toe courting and marrying way
which may interest yon, perhaps. When a mai
den is betrothed, she is called “bride,” and so
continues till she' becomes “wife." All too
while she is engaged she is a “bride.” The Iot-
ers, immediately upon toe betrothal, exchange
plain-gold rings, which aro ever worn afterwards
till death parts them. The woman wears hers
on the third finger of her left hand, and when
she becomes “wife,” her ring is transferred to
toe third finger of hec-right hand, and there it
remains. The hnsband Always wears his ring
jnst as toe wife wears hers, soAhat if yon look
upon a man’s hand yon can tell whether he is
mortgaged or not. There is no cheating for
him-after— no coquetting with toe girls, m if
he were an unmarried man; forlo ! the whole'
story is told by his finger ring. A married Vi
ennese lady was much amnsed when I told her
that in onr country wo only “ring” the women,
bnt let toe hnsband ran at large unmarked! ’Oh,
that is dreadfnl!” said she, more than half
shocked. “Think, there is Frederick, my hus
band—only twenty-four—so young, so handsome
and all the 4irls would be taking him for an
unmarried man, and be making love to him!
Oh, is it not dreadful, is it not ? They would nev
er know he was married. How can yon do so
in yonr country ? I would not live there with
Frederick for too world !”
man, who was ejected from the'eara between New
London and Norwieh. The* defondant is too
New London and WlUiamantio and Palmer
Railroad Company. The foots are substan
tially that Crocker, in December last, wanted
to go from Norwich to New London. Upon the
arrival of toe freight train he went to the office
to prooaro a ticket, and found the door closed,
as is usual on the arrival of the freight train.
The fore is fifty cents when a ticket is bought;
without a ticket the charge is 55 cents.
When Crocker was called on by the conductor
ho stated that be had applied to toe ticket office
and found it olosed, and that he bad bnt fifty
cents with which to pay his fare. The eondne
tor told him that he mnst havo the additional
five cents or leave the oars. The superinten
dent, who was on toe train, was appealed to,
and confirmed too decision of toa conductor.
Four or five men, employed on toe train, were
then called upon, and assisted in thrusting
Crocker out His knee-pan was broken, but
whether by toe foil or by his efforts to get on
the train again after it was in motion does not
clearly appear. He managed, by crawling, to
reach a house three-quarters of a mile distant
The orgnmonts of connsel occnpied nearly' two
days, and toe court-room was thronged from
toe beginning to the end of toe trial.
The charge to the jury, which is reported at
length in the Norwieh Courier, was very clear
and very foir. The Judge maintained that a
rgilroad company was compelled to carry all
persons that applied for passage and offered to
pay toe required fare; that it could make no
Or a fountain ever gushing—
Hourly, daily, Weekly, yearly,
Rapid as toe lighting nearly,
they're passing;
r toe nours:
)o the moments fly.
Cateh toe seconds as
Walt not for l ,
Prise them as a golden treasure^-
Use them Hot in trifling pleasure—
Seconds, minntes-*-prizing, bolding,
As yon would those bods unfolding
Into choicest flowers.
Act for some important purpose,
Not with selfish zeal;
See, humanity is bleeding,
Aid, toy fellow man is needing,
Hundreds, thousands, millions-hcar them
Breathing out their woes, go, cheer them,
Seek their wouflds to boaL
Soon another year, all freighted
- - - "S®
With toe deeds of nail,
Will be borne to God the giver,
And recoiled by mortal never!
0 be wa’chfhl, watchful, ready,
Heart and hand to bless the needy—
Thus fill oat toy span.
Notes on Norway.—The chief discomfort
connected with Norwegian travel, (observes a
recent tourist,) arises from toe melting of the
snow at certain seasons. Not enough of it re
mains for sledges—too much for carrioles.—
The roads become snow-pits, notrbroad enough
for carriage wheels, and retaining pools of ice-
^ cold water. In places where toe snow is still
exceptions, though a passenger may so conduct I deep; it has become incapable of bearing toe
as to justify the company in patting him nut of weight of a horse, and toe animal sinks to too
toe ears. Crocker had offered to pay toe price girths or more, while the traveller, left to his
of a ticket; and no more; and he claimed that own resources, endeavors to' advance on foot,
hetaedall dilligence to obtain a ticket, but could aQ d plunges first one leg, and then another, in-
not, inasmuch as the office'was closed. I J® the hill abyss, and is only relieved by find-
The jury were to inquire "whether he badrea- I ing himself sitting astride upon a more compact
sonable time to obtain a ticket If he had not j piece of snow; his extremities dangling in a
a right to put Crocker out of toe' cars, it was for
toe jury to inquire whether only so much force
was used as was necessary to effect that object—
whether he was kicked, and whether his knee-
pan was broken when he was thrust from toe
cars or when he attempted to get on again.
If ho had a right to remain in he had a right
to get on again; and in that case it mattered
not in what way the injury was inflicted, toe
company would be responsible for damages.
If toe defendants acted, through their agents,
wantonly, and were reckless of doing injury to
th^plaintiff, then toe jury would give dama
ges not only sufficient to compensate toe plain
tiff for bis bodily injury, hut sufficient also to
protect the public from such acts of negligence
and wantonness hereafter.
[The Jury in toe above case, after several
hoars’ deliberation, returned a verdict in fovor
of toe plaintiff, riving him damages to the
amount of $8,200.]
Area of the States and Territories.—
According to too Census Report, toe area of
toe United States and Territories is 2,936;166
square miles. The National Intelligencer gives
too following table, takon from that document
It shows the area of each State and Territory:
Square miles,
Nebraska Territory
Utah * “
Texas
Now Mexico Territory
Oregon “
Minnesota “
California
Washington Territory
Kansas
Indian Territoiy (Kansas)
Missonri
Virginia
Florida
Georgia
Michigan
Dlinois
Wisconsin
Arkansas
Iowa
Alabama
North Carolina
Mississippi
New York
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Louisiana
Ohio
Kentucky -j
Indiana
Maine
South Carolina
Maryland
Vermont
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Delaware
Rhode Island
District of Columbia
Tho Intelligencer romirks
The Nebraska Territory is large enough to eat
np into seven States of the size of New York,
and have a surplus of territory large enough
for a State the size of Connecticut. Kansas
Territory has an area sufficient to make two
States the size of Ohio, and one of the size of
Indiana. Texas will make four States of toe
335,882
269,170
237,504
207,007
185,030
166,025
155,980
123,022
114,798
71,127
67,380
71,352
59,268
58,000
56,243
55,405
53,924
53,198
50,914
50,722
50,704
47,156.
47,000
46,000
45,600
41,355
39,954
37,680
33,809
31,766
29,385
11,124
10,212
9,280
9,310
7,800
4,674
5,120
1,306
60
too-refreshing stream of running water. The
end of April and beginning of May ore therefore
toe worst time to travel in Norway. *
The passes of toe Vaaretige, in the Dotto-
field, present some noble scenery, scarcely Al
pine, but comparable to toe finest parts of toe
Scottish Highlands. The snmmit-level is. soon
after gained, and toe onward jonraey is by des
cent to Drivstnen, a small hamlet basking on a
-sunny spot among productive meadows, over
hung on both sides by precipitous mountains,
and presenting fine views of theravine and lo
wer valley of toe Driva, adorned by the sweet
tracery of bitos woods and their silvery stems.
Here a large,collection of country people had
assambled for some object of loeal interest. .
“We had consequently a good opportunity of
observing toe characteristics of toe male inhab
itants of this district of Norway. The opinion
of a passing traveller, ignorant of the language,
is, perhaps, hardly worth stating; but having
some faith in physiognomy, I will venture to
record my impression at the time, that I had
never in any country seen so fine a peasantry,
in point both of general appearance and of ex-
presion, as on this journey, and more particu
larly on the north descent of the Dovre. The
younger men are tall and muscular, and their
deportment unites manliness with gentleness in
a remarkable degree. As the hair is worn long
at all ages, too appearance of the aged men is
venerable, and occasionally highly striking.—
The costnme is extremely becoming, being of
pala brown home-manufactured woollen cloth,
slightly embroidered in green, with a belt cur
iously joined with leather and brass, from
which hangs a knife (also made in the rural dis
tricts) with a carved handle, which is used in
eating. A hanging red woollen cap completes
toe dress. Some travellers declaim against toe
slowness and stupidity of toe Norwegians. Slow
they may be as regards toe deliberateness of
their actions, bnt, so far as tbe experience of
this journey extends, I should describe them
as in genera] more than commonly intelligent
and courteous.
“Georgians.”—This new work from the pen
of Ex-Governor Gilmer, of this State, ps well
spokon of by toe press, and is said to bo a wor
thy successor to the inimitable “ Scenes” of
Judgo Long8troct
Mr. Gough, the celebrated Temperance lec -
tiller, has received an. inyitation to. visit Aus
tralia; A large sum has been profnisod him by
'half of remuneration.
Woman—God has lias made her to be loved
She exercises a sovereign influence over the
sterner sex, when she keeps within her proper
spbqre. Her influence diminishes in proportion’
S3 she “j
A gentleman at a tea-party, overhearing one
lady say to another, “I have sovnothing for your
private ear,” iunqediately exclaimed. “I pro
test against that, fort here is law against private-.
e r * m gP f ■
~ Wb«
Loro lasts as lotfg’tis our Virtue. When we
are n'o longer good, we are no longer affection
ate. Ugliness comes in with the devil as na
turally as frosts come in with winter.
The-following Is the trite copy of a sien upon
an academy for learning in one of the Western
States : ''Freeman & Huggs, school-teachers.—<■'.
Freeman teaches the boys and Huggs thegirhj.”
•“Dear sir.” lisped a great lady, in a watered
sillc, at the World's Fair, “hare the goodness to,
inform'me if there are noblemen in the United
States ?” “Yes, ma'am,” answered a full fed
Jonathan, “lam one of them*”
“So you would not take me to be twenty,”
said a yonnglady to het partner, while danev
ing the polka, a few evenings ago. ‘What
would you take me for then? “For bettor of
for worse,’ tcplied he.
“Boy,” said a visitor to the house of a friend
to his little son, “step over toe way and see how'
old Mrs. Brown is.” The boy did tho errand/,
and on his return reported that Mrs. Brown did'
not know how old she was.-
An Irishman, on-one occasion, applying for
a license to sail whisky, was asked by the dis^
penserof authority if he possessed a good mor
al character.
“Faith, yerhonor/’ replied the applicant, “X
don’t see the necessity of a good moral charac
ter to sell rum.”
“X curse toe hour when we were married."
exclaimed an enraged husband for his bettor
half, who smilingly replied, “Don’t my dear
for that is the only happy hour we ever saw.”
The last instance of modestyisthat of a young
lady who refused to wear a watch in her bosom,
because it had hands on it.
A Shrewd Doctor.—The Philadelphia Son
day Mercury tells a good story, to toe effect
that a white man named Jennings undertook a
few nights since to give a colored physician
from St Domingo, named Dr. Charles De Bran,
residing ip that city, a severe drubbing for
malpractice. It seems that Jennings had been
troubled with dyspepsia, and had applied to
Dr. Le Bran for a core; bnt after taking toe
Doctor’s physio for a month he found himself
much worse, told the doctor so, and then a quar
rel and the assault just spoken of followed.
“Monsieur lo Mayor,” said Dr. L., “I no
pretend to be ze wizzard, hut I enre anybody
dat do vat I zay. Itelldis man he must take
two of my pills to-morrow, four ze nex day; and
if ho no core den,. I tell him he come to me I
will give him hack his money tout suite. Sare,
dat, is do borgan vat I make vid him, aad he
no do dat, so it no vnndore he git vorsO.
Jenning replied to this: “I took bis pills,
sir, according to directions, for five days, doub
ling every day as he told me, and found on toe
fifth day that the dose amounted to thirty-two
pills; and then I began to figure np wbat I
would come to in forty days, and found that I
should have, to take at least half a peck.
“Not matter if it was a bushel,” said Dr. Le
Bran; “ze pill it vegitabeel, jus same as von
torneep, and he might live on zem all ze time
and zey no hurt. Bat if he no give ze pill afair
trial, vot for I gives him back his money V*
It was plain enongh that Jennings did not go
according to contract, and so he had no pre
tence for hsking Dr.Le Bran to refund. The
doctor promised to say nothing about toe as
sault and battery if Jennings would persevere
size of Alabama and one of the size of Indiana; P u ™ hase oftha medicine^ but Jennings,
and California has a sufficient area to convert |
into sixteen States the size or New Hampshire,
and have a surplus to make one abont the size
of Massachusetts.
THE SNOW... .by celia u. burr.
’ Peacefully, dreamily, slowly
It comes through toe halls of toe air,
And falls to the earth like a spirit
That kneels in ifs beauty at prayer.
'Mid the sere leaves she layeth her forehead,
While too forests murmuring low,
And t iling toe beads she has bronghttoom
The bountiful spirit, the Bnow.
WINTER.
Dreary old Winter 1 weary old winter!
Snow-branched enrl, all dripping and ehill;
lee-chains have hound thee, winds whistle
round thee,
Heavily, gloomily, plodding on still.
Yet, when wo meet thoo, kindly wo greet tbee.
Sit by too hoarth-blnzo and melt all thy snow,
With tho wassail and gladness wo’ll charm all
thy sadness,
Mako thy eye brighten, toy icy blood glow,
Dreary old Winter 1 weary old Winter 1
Wo’ll make toy eyo brigliton, thy ioy blood glow.
Tho following linos (says tho Rochester Amer
ican) may bo seen on an old clock in Serantom’s
auction storo in that city. Tho clock was mado
by “Tobias nnd Co., Liverpool and London,”
(Hid 1* a hundred years old. It is still “going,”
'going,** liko too auctioneer, nnd ia llkoly to bo
'going” long after tho auctioncor has been
‘struck off,” nnd gone !” ■,
For Ihavo walked on Time for a hundred year* T
Many havo fallen sinco I begun,
Many will fall ere my course is run !
Ihavo hurled the world with Its hopes and fonr?,.
In my long, lo»e march of a hundred year*.”
Abolition Rebuked.—The Rev. Samnel H.
Cox, D. D., late of Brooklyn, New York, in
recent speech mode-in that city, at a meeting to [
promote the cause of Missions in tho Southern j
States, has told some homo truths of the mod-
ling clerical busy-bodies of the North, whioh
ore remarkably well timed. Dr. Cox is one of |
the moBt venerable, talented and pious divines
in the Presbyterian ministry. We wonder
what toe “3,000” will soy of him. Wo give the
following extracts:
“We onght to be superior to political influen
ces in all our religion—and Preach the Ootpel.
Instead of this, how many reverend, pottifog-
in this extreme case, preferred too operation of
law to that of physio, and was accordingly
bound over to answer for for the outrage he had
committed.
The dyspeptic individual, however, in say
ing that “when he began to figure np what it
would come to in forty days" bad he followed
toe sable physician’s prescription, and found
that he would have hod “to take at least half &
peck,” showed as great ignoranee of quantity
os of quality. Our “devil,” while waiting for
copy, “has figured it up,” and says that the soft
fering Jennings wonld hove only 1,070,404,427,-
760 pills to t&ko for his last dose, and bnt 2,
141,609,225, 430 altogether; and he promises to
reduce this to“dry measure” at his earliest lei
sure.
A Yankee in Iowa has jnst taught ducks to
swim in hot water, and with such raecesa that
they lay boiled eggs. Who says this is not an
ago of improvement ?
Aa exchange, describing a counterfeit bank
hill, says the vignette is" cattle and hogs, with a.
church in the distance A very good illustra
tion of this world's doings.
A poor miserable loafer, by the name of
Cain, being arraigned before the Recorder the
other day, was asked if he was the man that
slew his brother? “No, your honor,” said he,*
“I is the chap what got slewed.”
They have a queer liquor law or queer judges
in Texas, the latter having decided that the
penalty for tho violation of the former attaches
to the authority granting license to the seller,
and not to the seller himself.
The difference between a carriage wheel and
a carriage horse, is that one goes best when if
is tired, and the other don’t.
A Western editorthinks that Hiram Powers;
toe sculptor, is a swindler, because he chisele 1
an unfortunate Greek girt out of a block of
marble.
The last case of jealousy is that of a Tady who
discarded herlover, because, in speaking of hts
voyage, he “hugged the shore I”
‘?I can marry any girl I please,"said a youn g
follow, boastlngly. “Very true.” replied his
waggish companion, “for ypu can’t please any.”
“I say Jim. did you ever see me with more'
than I could carry ?” “No Bill; hut I’ve seen'
you when you had better have gone twice for
your load.” Bill didn’t prolong the conversa
tion.
If dress makes toe man, what does the tailor
make? From ten to twenty dollars profit, per.'
haps.
Snooks was advised to get his life insured.^—
“Won’t do it,” said he, “It would he my luck
to live forever, if I should.” * > ;
“Mr.Brown, I owo-you a grudge; remember'
that.” “I shall not be frightened then, for I nev
er knew you to pay anything tfiat yon oW-'
ed.”
A fellow in the jail wishes ho bad the small
pox, so he eould “break out.” He has tried evo-'
vything else, hut he can’t come out.
The Sandwich Island Ladies.—Thcro *r-
somo among thorn who, in point of physical per-
. 4 ,. . - - .-i fection, aro surpassed by nono throughout the
ging statesmen and psuedo divines are causing whole earth> £ he g!rl / are-women at fifteen
the sonlii of mon on the Lord s Day to eat raw- and gixteen> Their development isrnpid under
dust for bread, and ashes for salvation, while the w 8nn oftho tropi( f 8 . They £ a ve the
they, faithful watchmen, aro blowing the tram* Mal ^ an physiology and cast of countenance,
pets of anti-Nebraska, and making zealous de- with ^^ th ^ seem to nad tbe ^hoMeris
monstration about anything but the truth as it 1 - - - - - - - -
is in Jesus. Some of them always hollow, and
therefore sonorous, never scriptural to any par
ticular extent, with no thorough theology, or
knowledge of their vocation, find slavery a pro
lific) and very easy theme for declamation, and
quite a resource from scripture, as also a grand
specious relief from tho toil of thinking, and of
studying, and so ofprcaching the whole counsel
of God. This is a dear prostitution of their
offioo—blind leaders oftho blind!”
“Some ministers of the Gospel konwn to as,
have on their death beds mourned in agony,
when they saw thoirtime gone, and their
strength squandered, and no good done, and no
blessing rcalizod, or toe result of that great
hoax of the of tbo devil. Abolition, in
which they were criminally betrayed, and self,
allowed to bo led captive at bis will. More
thoughts, and hair as black and glossy as the
raven. I have seen many of them on whose ex
ternal beauty nature seems t have lavished all
her skill. From their maturity unto quite past
the meridian of life, the women appear to think,
feel, and act like school girfn It is not until
their beautiful tresses become mixed with gray
that they begin to feel toe coining on of lifo’s
winter. Then it is that they grow old rapidly,
and they fade like (lowers smitten by the chilly
breath of the north. It may safely bo asserted
that these women acquire mnoh of their physi
cal perfection by frequent aqnatio and equostri-
an exerci808.—Sandwich Island Notes.
An old farmer who feared neithor God nor
sn, had hired a devout negro, nnd to get
some Sunday work oat of him, he-would always
penances and attritions aregotting mature for I P lan a case “necessity" 0 ^ Saturday, and on
observation and for record.^. It is time for tho Sunday would put that point to tho mana oon-
wiso to retreat, whilo they may, and bo at bet-1 ! oiono °* ? n ® morning old Sambo proved re-
terbusincss. Sorao wiso observers have thought
and said, that abolitionism has done more to
uncliristianizo the pulpits and the churches of
Now England, than in the same time was over
effected by Soolnianism itself. If thus bo
truo, lot miiiiutors, especially 8omo of thorn,
tremble.”
fractory; ho would “workno more on Sundays,
Tho mas tor. then argued with him that it was a
“case of necessity; that the Scriptures allowed a
man to get out ofa pit on the Sabbath-day, a
boast that had fallen in.” “Yes, massa,” rejoin
ed tho black, “but not if ho spend' 1 Saturday in
[ digging do pit for do. very purpose.”
“Is that clean butter?” asked a grocer of s'
hoy who had brought a quantity to market.
“I should think it ought to be,” replied the boy,
“for marm and Sail were more than two hours
picking the hairs and motes out of it last night.-
A Hint—Tho following pretty broad hint is
from “Diogenes:” “What if there should ap-
poar in tho next European Family Receipt'
Book (revised in London and Paris) a direction*
how to ta&o Greece out of maps ?”
. Jenny Kissed He.
Jenny kissed me when wo met,
Jumping from tho chair she sat ini
Time, you thief, you lovo to get
Swoots into yonr list, put that hr !
Say Fin weary, say I’m sad.
Sav that health and wealth have missed me;
Say I’m growing old—hut add
Jenny kissed me 1 Leigh Hunt.
Why does a bow-leggod man remind you of*'
aholiday at the South -, 3
We give it up, as probably you do.
'■ Because (you seo) the knwgrews out.
Pretty good. Isn’t it?
The girl at school would like to have tweo
birth days overy year. Whon she grows up a’
woman she objocts'to having evert one.-
The industrious old lady who walked all over
London with a can in her hand to proenre s
pint of the “milk of human kindness,” has been
more successful in getting a little jam out of
the jar of a door. She. got the jam on her fin-
gars.
Lawyers.—The late Rev. Sidney Smith ob
served that a railway,whistle seemed to him tv
be something like the scream an attorney would
give when first the devil caught hold of
A confectioner at tho West End baa brought'
bis business to such perfection, that ire - is now 1 '
offering to the public his candied opinion J
An inveterate dram-drinker being told’
that tbo cholera with which Ive- was attnekedt
was incurable, and that he would speedily
removed to a world of pure spirits, replied:
“Well, that’s comfort, at all eveuts; for it’**
vory hard to get in this world.”
It..
To euro poverty, sit down
Mateg&Ma*
aboad
grow!
and
