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5S-= TEHMS-S2 00 PER AKNTTJfi PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. ?'*£%■ • fjgupwafi ■■■• ~, ,r . ' . —- ■ ■ k?; ■ .; *-:*= A k J *,v PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY COBURN & DWINELL EDITORS. VOLUME 10. • -y PUBLISHED SVKRY TUESDAY HOUNINC, ROME, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23, 1855. $. s. coburs.] [h. dwixell. BY COBURN * DWINELL. Terns of Subscription; Is advance. ram. annum, ........ $3 00 Paid sirms six months, ........ $3 50 PAID AT TKK END or YEAR WOO .... I , .,.<■»» -.—.. Terms of Advertising: SOS' Legal Advertisements will be inserted utuu r ie usual rates. Miscellaneous Adrertise- iis at $1 per square of 12 lines or less, for tie first and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. No. $. :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 X da 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