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Newspaper Page Textr* PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY COBURN & DWINELL EDITORS. TERMS-$2 00 PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. VOLUME 10. ROME, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 17, 1855. NUMBER 25 €i)c Home Conner s. m. cwm.] [*. dwinrll. BY COBURN <fc DWINELL. . $2 00 . $2 40 . $2 00 i of Subscription: X> AD VAKCK, BBS Aim, Paid wnrmx six sostss, ha at ns in «r teas, ... Tnm of Admttaiav: Letal Advertisements will be Inserted tt the usual rates. Miscellaneous Advertise ments at $1 per square of 12 line* or less, for the first and SO mete ter each subeequent insertion. r-W M.L B. G, FARRELL’S AB ASIAN UNI- MENT. This celebrated medicine, rkillfnlly compos ed as ilia of the moatbeatin£belsams and pen*, tnthg oils can nem fail to ears almost every affliction that coaid be alleviated by an astern al remedy. Its superiority over all other Lini ment* is proven by the miraculous cores it per form?. and by the great and constantly increas ing demand. There baa been sold within the past year more than THREE MILLIONS OF BOTTLES, and there can be bat few persons i who do not bestow upon it the highest > for the rare virtues it possesses. Noth , perhaps, since the creation of the world, Aaabeea eosaceeerfal as an external remedy fer all aarra— diseases, as this wonderful ca rs tiva. When applied, it instantaneously dif fuses itself through the whole system , soothing the irritated nerves, allaying the most intense pains, and creating a most dcHghtfal sensation. ~ 1 the following remarkable core, which can ad to by hundreds who were folly i with the whole circumstance, drome flhya»t of the Toneile. My daughter, when six months old, was to ken with asweOing in the tonsils, which, grew larger and larger, rill when six yean old she bad great difficulty in swallowing her food.— Every night watch waa kept, fearing she would suffocate. The beat doctors attended her Tmt eeold give no rriieC I took her to the most emi- rntdoctanintbeEast; they said there was ikelp for her bat to outgrow it. 'With a sad not I ntarned bone with her, when she be came so much worse that the doctors had to be called in again: they deciden that tho tonsils mast be oat offgas the only means of giving re- *ReC My wife would not consent to this, and sha determined to try your Liniment, which gave relief the very first application, and by a continued nee she entirely recovered. She is new ten yecn old and fie -by and healthy as could be dented. Tear Liniment is also the best hi ase for sprains, bruises, euts, barns, head ache. etc., and it will remove the most severe pain in a few minutes. It also cored caked ud der In my cow inn few days. * GEORGE FORD. Peoria, March 20,1849 Loot omtfor Counterfeit! ! ilic are cautioned against an othe . which has lately made its appeair Hf.B. Farrell’s Arabian Liniment, tost dangerous of all the counterfeits, be. i kfe JgHring the name of FarreD, many / .will buy it in good faith, without the knowl edge that a counterfeit exists, and they will per * bsp« only discover their error when the spun •as mixture baa wrought its evil effects. The genuine article is manufactured only by •jf H. CL Farrell, sole inventor and proprietor, and ' nh idr sain druggist. No. 17 Main, street. Peoria, Illinois, to whom all applications for Agencies mat be addressed. Be sure yon get it with the letters H. 6. before Farrell’s, thus—H. G. FARRELL’S—and his signature on the wrap per. all others are counterfeits. Said fcy Kendrick A Pledger, Melville G. B. F. Mattox, ML Hickory CL Brown, Coosa F. O. Braaner k Moyers, Summerville Robert Battey, Wholesale Agent Rome and by regnlariy authorized agents thronghoat the United State*. fAr-Priee 25 and 58 cents, and $1 per bottle. ' AGENTS WANTED in every town, village and hamlet in theffrinited States, in which one it not already established. Address H. G. Far rell as above. accompanied with good reference as to character, responsibility, ' F. M. EDDLEMAN & BRO. Atlanta, Georgia. Keep constantly on hand and for sale, at the lowest cash prices, a large assortment of BOOTS, SHOES. LEATHER. LASTS. PEGS. CALF LINING and BINDING SKINS SHOE-MAKER'S TOOLS, Ac. Ac. Jan 9, 1855, *7 J. M. TOMLINSON, inLADf, Haase Sign, Coach, Passenger Cara JL Fresco, Ornamental and Decorative Painter Also manufacturer of GHt Glass Door Plates Window Signs, Numbers for Public Houses '^torches and Street Numbers. Opposite Jacob Haas A Co. White Hall Street Jan 9.1855 ly. T. R. BIPLET, ATLASTA, GA. _ In China, Crockery, and Glass ; Lamps of all kinds; Oils, Cam* FlukL and Alcohol by the bbL Terms ' - Jan 9,1855 ly f.v-1 ATLANT A MACHINE WORKS. (LATE ATLAIITA IB Off rOUKDRT.) fTlHIS new Company fenow prepar-r I ed to do work on short notice,of X heavr and light Castings from the latest improved patterns of Iron, Brass or Composition, all of which will be warran ted. Turning, Borings and Drilling done to -order. Also, screw cutting of 10 feet or un der of any size and thread required. Heavy and light forging of wrought Iron or Steel done in superior style. PARTICULAR ATTENTION is called to tbeir pattem^for Mill Gearir^, for Merchant Gearing of all the usual sizes, and ’Bark Mills always kept on band. We are also 1 to bnild stationary Engines upon t improvements. All or which will be sold low for cash. Copper end Brass » for work at cash prices JAMES L. DUNNING, john McDonough, WILLIAM RUSHTON. Tax Montsn.—A writer baantlfbUy remarks that a man’s mother is tho representative of hit Maker. Misfortune, and oven crime, sot up no barrios between her and her son. While his mother lives ba has one friend on earth who will not listen when bo is slandered, who will not deoerthim when hs suffers, who will soothe him in bis sorrows, and speak to him of hope when bo is ready to despair. Har affections kuow no ebbing ride. They flow on from a pore foun tain, and speak happiness through this vale of tears, and oease only at the ocean of eternity. Newspapers.—Judge Longs tree t, whose views on all subjects are practical, and worth treasuring up, thus seta .forth the value of a newspaper: "Small is the sum that It required to patron ise a newspaper, and most amply remunerated is the patron. I care not how hamMe and un pretending the gnsetto which he takes, it is next to impossible to fill it fifty-two times a year without potting into it something that is worth tho subscription price. Every parent whose son is off from him at school should sup ply him with a paper. * I well remember whata differenc e there was between those of my school mates who had, and those who bad not access to newspapers. Other things being equal, the first were decidedly superior to the last in de bate and composition at leasL Tho reason Is plain, they had command of more facts! Youth will persoe a newspaper with delight, when they will rend nothing else." In tho Interior ofNoefolk, England, It a bed of Oyster shells, nine miles long and 18 feet thick. Other shells and bones also abound 108 feet above the level. Alder and haul bush es are found 20 foot below the surface level.— Remains of ex tensive forests an traced beyond tho month of tho wash, with bones of Elephants, Oxen and Dear. The same forests an found on tho opposite coast of Flanders, and it is the opinion of scientific men that they once joined. James Montgomery, the post, who died last year, left an estate which has just been sworn under $9,888. Times have changed since John son exclaimed on hearing that Goldsmith died £3,888 in debt, "Was ever poet so trusted be, fore !” Southley died worth;£7,000, and Words- worth as much, while Rogers is a milllonare. The Hindoos—A Hit.—There are three pa pen in this State which are particularly down on the "d d furriners” : the Albany State Register, Rochester American, and Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, and yet strange to say, tiie leading men of these papers are of foreign extraction. Lacy, one of the proprietors of foe Register, was bora in Scotland, and until he was 14 years old, peddled itch ointment round Edinburgh. Parmelee of the Buffalo Commer cial, the nan of the "twenty-five dollar charac ter," waa an English soldier, and left the army one day under the escort of one drummer and two rope ends. These are the men who arc now “rallying around the constitution," and who insist that foreign influence will yet under mine the liberties of the nation. Queer people those Hindoos. That is so.—Alb. Kniek. Fat Babies.—Who does not love a fat baby? —one of the real ehnbby kind—so fat that it can hardly see ont of its syes? We have fre quently watched one of these human dompUngs fer hours, and been pleased to mark how good naturedly they always take things. If they roll over or fell down, it is all the same. If the nurse steals tbeir taffy, or the large boy hooks the doll, little fotty rolls up its eyos. looks eurious, fbnny, and generally laughs. It ean’t cry! The nearest approach to it is a suppress ed whimper, which starts the tears and tho grease at the same timo; and when lamenta tions produce perspiration, the labor is too seri ons to be long continned. How docile is the Iktbaby!—Obesity is never obstreporous. If there be anydoobt on this point we ask trium phantly—"Was Daniel Lambert ever accused of pugilistio propensities ?—or was a fat baby ever known to hit its mother over the head with a poker?" We are a decided advocate of fat baoies, and would lika to see all the little sin ners as obese as coons in corn time. There is one down in Forida, it is said, weighs forty-five K nnds, and it Is not ten months old! What & scions lump it must bo!—Sunday Timet. A committee of eight gentlemen had been appointed to meet at 12 o’clock. Seven of them were punctual; hot the eighth came bustling in with apologies for being a quarter of an hour behind the time. "The time," said he, “ passed away without my being aware of it. I had no idea of it beng so late.” A Quaker present said, "Friend, I am not rare that we should admit thy apology. It were a matter of regret that thou shonldst have wasted thine own quar ter of ao hour, but there are seven besides thy self whose time thoo hast also consumed; amounting, in the whole, to two hoars; one eighth of whieh only was thine own property." [From the Georgia Citizen.] BEAUTY AND MUSIC. There's beauty in the rising sun And in departing day; Thera's music in the brooks that ran Along their pebbly way, There’s beauty in the op’ning spring, And in the budding flower; There’s nunc in the birds that sing Beneath the shady bower. There’s bean ty in tho boundless sea, As its waves roll o'er and o’er; There’s music in its langhfnl glee, And in its moaning roar. There’s besnty in the twinkling star, And in the dappled sky ; There’s music in the sweet guitar As days shout to die. There’s beauty in a woman’s eye, And in her winning smile; There’s mnsic in the deep-drawn sigh Of love in modern style. Americas, Jan. 28. The Qneen Dowager of Holland is the late Czar’s sister. Her Majesty wished that the new 8 should be kept secret bnt in the first burst of her grief she involuntarily communicated the loss she bad sustained to the persons about her, and at once it spread like wild fire—the live thunder leaped along the wires to Berlin, Paris and London, and ere those eyes, before which sixty millions of serfs were wont to quail, were fixed in their sockets, Lords Clarendon and Palmerston were gommunicating the news to the Houses of Lords and Commons, two or three thousand miles distance. Paddy McSbane was annoyed exceedingly by a strange dog. On aeold winter night, the wind catting like a knife, after the dog had bean turned out of doors no less than three times, Pat was awakened by a rather extensive frac ture ofthe glass. The dog was in the house again. Paddy waited opon him ont, and both were absent some fifteen minutes, so that his old woman becoming alarmed at such prolonged absence, rose and went to the window. "What are yees doing out there, Paddy, aeusbta,” said she. There was such a chattering of teeth that the answer for some time was somewhat unintelli gible; at lost it came— “I am thzying to fraze the divilish baste to death.” Knme or tub Heirs or JobxLawbexce. —A meeting ofthe heirs of John Lawrence, of Watertown, Mass., was held at Boston on Fri day, abont three hundred persons being pres ent It was stated that the English court of chancery haddeseided that]the nice little fortune of one hundred and twenty-fire millions of dol- ara wss awaiting the elahnjof the heirs of Mr. Jno Lawrence and his wife. As agent is to go ont In the next steamer. The Asvaxtaob or a Hioh C bo weed Hat. —An idle crowd were listening to the hair breadth escapes of an Irish soldier just returned from the field of Man, when suddenly, snatch ing off his bat and proudly exhibiting to bis gaping auditors a couple of ballet holes In 'it, he exclaimed In a load voice, "Now only look at thim there boles, will von ? 'Yon see,' eon* tinned Paddy, "thatif it had been a low crowned hat I should bare been killed outright!’’ A Truly UxroBTSEATE Mae-—The Boston Journal tayti "Tbs Eriesson experiment is at an end. The invention is conceded to be A failure, and poor Eriesson is a rained man. He has spent all his fortune in building his ealorio ship, and In the experiments be has made on the ve»seL He has done more—be has spent all bis wife’s fortune, wbleh was great, and she, too, Is beggared. Bnt the worst of all is, that it has led to snob recrimination and alienation that they have separated, never to be uni ted again, perhaps. Had he been successful, his name wonld nave been enrolled with that of Colnmbns, Newton, Fulton, and other men of illustrious renown* But he has failed; he as lost his all; bo has introduced ruin into a bnce loving and happy home; and the world qldlj looks or him, tad says, ‘I told joa so.’" ‘ The iron steamer Mohawk was lying in St Clair river, a few days since, surrounded by ice and immoveable. It occurred to her cap tain *hat he conld resene the craft from her icy chains by blowing np the frozen mass with gun powder. Accordingly, he prepared his torpedo by filling a bottle with gunpowder, attacking a long piece of water-proof fuse, and sinking the contrivance through a hole in the ice. All be ing prepared, the gallant engineer fired his train and retired a proper distance to awaittbe result Now. everybody who has seen the .safety-fuse nsed, knows that it horns slowly under water, though as qnick as powder in the open air.— The explosion not following immediately upon the captain’s application of his 'cigar, he be came anxious, stepped forward and applied his nose to the whole in the ice. and “look ye what befeL” There was a rambling explosion ; ice, water, captain, spray ascended in a halo of glory towards the zenith. The caption having “got np like a rocket" followed ont the metaphor and “came down like the stick," fortunately floating like it, and struck out for shore. When it was discovered that be was not injured, the crowd who bad witnessed his pyrotechnics gave three cheers for the captain and his petard, whieh the former gracefully acknowledged. [Detroit paper. A Free Lunch.—“What a quiet man yonr husband is, Mrs. Smith." “ Quiet, a mail it an exp real train to Mm. If the top of this house shold blow off. he’d just sit still, and spread his umbrella! He’s a regular pussy cat! Comes in at the front door as though the entry was paved with eggs, and sits down in bis chair as if there was a nest of kittens under the cushion. He’ll be the death of me yet! I read him all the horrid accidents, dreadful collisions, murders, and ex plosions, and he takes it jnst as easy as if I was saying the Ten Commandments. He’s nev er astonished or startled, or delighted. If a cannon ball should come through that window, he’d not move an eye-lash. If I should mnk6 the voyage of the world, and return some fine day, he’d take off bis spectacles, put them in the case, fold np the newspaper, and settle dicky, before he’d be ready to say, ‘Good morning, Mrs. Smith.’ If he’d been born of a poppy he conldn’t be more soporific. I wonder if all the Smiths are like him? When Adam got tired of naming his nnmerons descendants, be said let all the rest be called Smith! Well, I don’t care for that bathe ought to have known better than to call my husband Abel Smith! Do yon suppose if I were a man, I’d let a wo man rapport me T Where do yon think Abel’s coats and cravats, and canes, and cigars, come from? Out of my brain! "Quiet!' its pers fectly refreshing to me to hear of a comet, or to see a locomotive, or to look at a streak of chain lightning! I tell yon he’s the expretted ettence of chloroform I”—Fanny Fern. When a woman talks about her virtue, or a man about his courage, it is easy to guess that the existence of thou qualities is somewhat donbtfnl. To-morrow: the day when the misers give, when idlers work, and when sinners reform. If a truth he established, objections are noth ing. The one is founded on our knowledge, the other in ignorance. Little things should not be despised—many threads will blind an elephant Natnre loves troth so well that it hardly ever admits of flourishing. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beanty—it is not only needless, but impairs what it wonld improve. If yon wonld gain the contempt of the multi tude, jnst make the attempt to “please every body”—yon are bound to lose your indepen dence, and then you’re sneered at If yon wonld gain tne applause of the multi tude, mind yonr own business and treat peoplo with politeness. Tnrx is to precious that there is never bnt one moment in the world at once, and that is always taken away before another is given. It is no part of wisdom to make ourselves mis erable to-day, because there Is a possibility of our being so to-morrow. The man who dare do right under all circum stances, is truly a brave man. If yon wonld be miserable, live for yourself; if happy, endeavor’to seek the good of mankind, Wealth is desirable, if honestly acquired, and is hlesudby contentment A man of philosophio temperament resembles a enenmber; for even when completely cut up, he is still cool. At the gate which suspicion enters, love goes ont Neither wealth nor birth, bnt mind only, should be the aristoeraoy of a free people. “Women," says some homeless old bachelor, "are created half devil and half angel, and tho angel part soars to heaven from the marriage alter.” A Formidable Undertaking,—A contem porary puts tho tobacoo question into the follow ing shape; " Suppose a tobacco chewer is ad dicted to the habits of chowing tobacco-fifty years of bis life, and that eaoh day of that timo ho consumes two inches of solid plug, it amounts to six thousand four hundred and se venty-five feet, making nearly ono milo and a quarter in length of solid tobacco, half an inch thick and two inches broad.—Now wlmt would the young beginner think if he had tho whole amount stretched out before him, and were told that to chew it would be one of the exercises of his life, and also that it would tax his income to the amount of two thousand and nine ty-four dollars ?”—Life Illuitrated. Epitaphs. In an old English churchyard, there lies bu ried, an old maid, who not leaving her property to her relations thereby gave offence; by wny of showing marked disapprobation, one of them caused to be engraved on hor tomb-stone:— "Beneath this silent stone is laid A noisy antiqnated maid; Who from her cradle talked till death, And ne’er before was out of breath.” The Wife of a good old Connecticut deacon who departed this life seventy-eight yenrs ago, had placed over her mortal remains the follow ing couplet which had been read, we dare say, by thousands:— "Here lies, cut down, like nnripe fruit, The wife of Deacon Amos Shute; She died from thunder sent from Heaven, In seventeen hundred and seventy-seven.’ But in the way of pathetics, mi will back the good old State of New Jersey, (‘for Camden and Amboy,’ whichever the name may be) against anything we wot oh The following choice production can he found in one of her churchyards, and has, never as yet been excell ed in originality:— “Weep stranger, for a father spilled From a stage-coach and thereby killed Hisnamewas John Sykes, a maker of sassengers Slain with three other outside passengers." If any of our cotemporaries can take down that lost distich, we will send on our best hat and welcome, with the compliments of the sea son. Who speaks first? Anybody? Bill Smith, a brother to Joe, the prophet writes to tho Springfield Journal that the "system of polygamy got np by Young and other evils which grow ont of it, are a libel and slander upon the character of the prophet, whose bones now lie mouldering In a martyr’s grove: and were Jo seph Smith to eome from his lowly bed, and view the condition of things in tho Salt Lake eonn* try, ho would spurn from bis presence Brigham Yonng, and denonnee his loathsome and dam- j sable doctrines" ‘ The Bor and the Bricks.—A boy, hearing his father say, “ It was a poor rule that would not work both ways,” said,, “ if father applies this rale about his work, I will test it in my play" So, setting np a row of bricks, three or four inches apart, he tipped over the first, which, striking the second, caused it fall on the third, which overturned the fourth, and so op through the whole course, until all the bricks lay pros trate. “Well,’ said the hoy, “each brick has knock ed down his neighbor whieh stood next to him, although I tipped only one. Now I will raite one, and see if he will raise his neighbor. I will see if raising one will raise all the rest” He looked in vain to see them rise. “ Hero father,” said he, “ is a poor rale 5 'twill not work both ways. They knocked each other down, but will not raise each other up.’ “My son,” said the father, “bricks and man kind are alike; made of clay, active in knock ing each other down, but not disposed to help each other up. When men fall, they love com pany, but when they rise, they lovo to stand alone, like yonder brick, and to see others pros trate and below them. If men did but know what felicity dwells in the cottage of a virtuous poor mnn—how sound he sleeps, how qniet bis breast, how com posed his mind, bow free from care, how easy his provision, bow healthy his morning, how sober his night, bow moist his month, how joyful his heart—they would never admire the noise, the diseases, the throng of passions, and tho violence of unnatural appetites, that fill tho house of the luxurious and the hearts of tho ambitious. A traveler was recountng with an air of truth some incredible thing, when a Vermonter present exclaimed— “Deu tell! Well, it aint mnch, arterall! Why, a suchemstancc happin’d np therein aour villiage that takes itdaown all holler!” “What was it, Seth?” asked one cf the com pany. “Aour organ,” replied Seth, with a face so unusually sober that everybody knew something rich was coming, “ the organ of onr mectin’ haouse; it imitated thunder so nat’ral ono day, that it curdled all the milk for five miles round.” Benton and Webster.—Tho "Life TUuitra- ted” runs through this parallel between Webster and Benton : Mr. Benton is a placid speaker. He has a re markably clear and ringing voice, and was eas ily heard by all except those who sat in the out skirts of the audience whore other noises pros dominated. He gesticulates, stands, and speaks very much in the manner of Daniel Webster though his delivery is quite free from Mr. Web ster’s accent and pronunciations, and his man ner generally, strange to say, is more polished and metropolitan than tbnt of tho late Secretary of State. Daniel Webster, to the last, was far mer-like in his ways and words. Mr. Benton has more the air of the Cabinet Webster was athinker. Benton was a student Webster gave his auditors ideas. Benton gives them facts.— Webster was a grand man. Benton is an accu rate one. Webster’s enthusiasm was slow in kindling and never reached tho point of uncon trollable eruption ; but it conld warm a contin ent. Benton can blaze but his firo enlightens more than it warms. Webster wo used to fancy, frequently spoke for effect Our impression of Mr. Benton was, that ho expressed no more than he believed and folt. Poisoned bt a Rat.—A few days ngo, a yonng lady at a boarding schol in Flushing, had her hand bitten by a rat, whilo she was in bed, asleep. It soon commenced swolling, and a physician was called in who pronounced it to be badly poisoned, and expressed tho opinion that it might bare to be amputated.—Tho young lady bos b en compelled to leave sohool, and is now at her home in Brooklyn. She soys that she was awakened in the night by a nibbling at her hand, when she grnspod the rat and threw it from the bed. Her parents nro grently oxas- i iorated to think their daughter should bo put nto a room infested with rats. Rats often attack persons sleeping, especially on shipboard, where they aro always numerous, and it is difficult to exclude thorn from the cab ins. Wo heard of a recent instance on one of the Panama steamers; which was attended with no result, however, beyond the momentary inconvenience. The sufferor was awoke by a rat nibbling at his too. The rat hod entered the state room from the Dining Saloon, through the door, whioh had boon left open during a worm night to seeuro greater ventilation. The safer plan at sea is to keep yonr door shut, if it opens into the Dining Cabin, where rats are apt to swarm in tho stillness of the night, attracted by the smell of food.—Jf. Y. "Journal Com- Rev. Dr. Beecher.—Tho Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, some years since, wae going home ono night with a volumo of aq encyclopedia under his arm, when he saw a small animal standing in his path. The doctor knew that it was a skunk, but very imprudently hurled the book at him. The skunk os might be expected, opened his battery with a return of fire so well directed, that the divine was glad to retreat When ho arrived at home, his friends could scarcoly come near him, and his clothes were so infected tbnt he was obliged to bury them. Some time after this, some one published a pamphlet, speaking very abusively of the wor thy doctor, who was asked “ Why don't you publish a book, and put him down at once ?” His reply was prompt and wise: Sir, I bare learned better. Some years ago I issued a whole quarter volume against a skunk, and I got the worst of it I never mean to try the experiment again.” Tnn Water Cure.—An Indiana correspon dent of the Water Cure Journal writes that the water cure is excellent for sick pigs. He says: “ A few miles from this place, on a farm own ed by a mnn well known here, one of the pigs of a litter was observed to be ailing, and while the others thrived, this little fellow pined away, and was in consequence put into a yard apart from the rest—as they thought, to die. It so happened that there was. on a bill-side in this yard, an overflowing spring of sparkling water, the water from which flowed in its course over a log. forming a ‘young cataract,’ under which, led by instinct, this little animal stood for some half a day or more. Well, Mr. Editor, what think you was the consequence ? Why, the little fellow began to thrive immediately, and when I last saw it was as brisk and large as the rest of the litter.” Florida.—A letter from St Augustine, dated '27th nit, in the Philadelphia Ledger, says: Our orange trees are now in blossom, and I have a fair chance of testing the mueh-vaunted fragrance of the orange groves, and it is not overrated. The perfume is wonderful; and dis poses one to believe the stories told ofthe town when under Spanish rale, before the sweet or ange was destroyed, and, as is alleged, the whole town and its snburhs were one Tast orange grove. At this time it is said that with the wind blow* ing offshore, the perfome ofthe flower was per ceptible at the distance of from ten to fifteen miles from. land. This is a big story, I own, bnt one is disposod to think it might he true. A Duelling Anecdote.—Two Spanish offi cers met to fight a duel outside the gate of Bilboa, after the seconds had failed to recon cile the Belligerents. “We wish to fight—to fight to death,” they replied to the representations of their compan ions. At this moment a poor fellow, looking like the £host of Romeo’s apothecary, approached the seconds, and in a lamentable voice, said: “Gentlemen, I am a poor artisan, with a large family, and wonld—” “ My good man, don’t trouble us now,” cried ono of the offiers, “don’t yon see that my friends are going to split each other? We are not in a Christian humor.” “ It is not alms that I ask for,” sad the man; “I am a poor carpenter with eight children; and my wife is sick; and having heard that those two gentlemen were about to kill each other, I thought of asking you to let me make the coffins.” At these words the individuals about to com mence the combat, burst into a loud fit of laugh ter, and simultaneously throwing'down their swords, shook hands with each other, and walk ed away. ^^-Preparations op War.—The public may put in their pipe and smoko the current ru' mors of orders from the Navy Department to fit out an additional squadron to go to Cuba. Though there is no telling how soon Spain may force this Government into a forcible vindica tion of American rights in that quarter, we have no reason to believe that as yet any steps what ever have been taken by the authorities in Washington to that effect—Wathinyton Star. Lifts to Law Students. Question. What is the difference between a fine and a recovery ? Answer. A fine is for getting drank; a re covery is the feeling you come to experience when yon find yourself in a station house. Q What animals come under the description of “Game ?” A. Timid witnesses, and female defendants. Q. When is it necessary to commence a fresh suit? A. When the other has become too ventila ting or seedy. Q, What is a release ? A. To exchango the society of your ugly aunt for that of your beautiful cousin. Q. What is a clerical error ? Preaching a three hours’ sermon. What is the settlement of a conveyance ? When an omnibus smashes a small carri- A. Q. A. age. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. What are breeches of trust ? Trowsers procured on tick. What are incumbrances ? Poor relations. What is a mortgage in possession ? An uncle. Mention some of tho principal law books which you have studied ? A. Hoyle’s law of Whists, Cribbngo Ac., Ac. Q- A. Q. What are original writs ? Pot hooks and bnngors. What steps would you take to dissolve an injunction ? A. I should put it into some very hot water, and let it remain there until it was melted. Q. What is an original Bill ? A. Don’t know, but think Shakspeare is the most original Bill on record. That will do this lesson. Alexander Dumas.—nis celebrity is thus described by a correspondent of the N. O. Pic ayune. writing from Paris, February 1st: “ I had not seen Dumas before for four yenrs, and I was surprised to observe tho ravages time had made sinco then. Age begins to show it self; and he looks moro mulatto-like than I ever saw him. He is a tall man, being not less than six fept in height, rather disposed to be fat, especially nbout tho face, whose hanging cheoks and double chin, attest sound slumber and good dinners. He is tho very reverse of the picture of an intellectual mnn. If you were to see him in Cnmp or Canal street, you would set him down a mulatto barber. His forehead—0. phrenologists!—is less high than your little finger is thick; he may be said to havo no forehead, nis lips are thick and sen. sual. and now deep lines aro ploughed on both sides of his nose. In the street he does not look so dark as he seems to be in the house, and his bat concealing the want of a forehead, gives his face more mind than it nppears to havo when it is not soreened. Ho was dressed in popper and salt pantaloons and paletot; the palotot was trimmed with green silk, stitched.” Going it Strong.—A factions gentleman, travelling in tho interrior of this State, on ar riving at his lodging place in the evening, he was met by the ostior whom he thus addressed : “Boy, extricate that quadruped from the ve- hecle, stabulate him, donate him an adequate supply of ^nutritious aliment—and when the Aurora of morn shall again illumine the orient al horizon. I will award yon a pecuniary com pensation for your hospitality." The boy not understanding A WO rd, ran In the house, saying:— “Master, here’s a Dautcbman wants to see you,” i Language or Lawyers*—If a man, accord- An important suit under the present liquor ing to law, would give another an orange, in- i wn * decided in Terre Haute on Tuesday. -I .h.t -Mch 1 one would think would be wbat is called in le gal phraseology, “an absolute conveyance of all right and title therein,” the phrase would run thus :—“I give you all and singular my estate and interest, right, title and claim, and advan tage of and in that orange, with ail its rind, skih, juice, pulp, and pips, and all right and advan tage therein, with full power to bite, cut, rack, or otherwise eat the same, or give the same away as fully, and effectually as I, the said A B am now entitled to bite, cut, suck, otherwise eat the same orange, or give the same away, with or without its rind, skin, juice, pulp, and pips* anything heretofore or hereafter, or lo ony oth er deed or deeds, instrament or fnislraments of what nature or kind soever to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding;’’ with mnch to the same effect. From the Dandridge Herald. NATURE'S HARP. BT HISS L. JANE RAMSEY. When nature’s harp is swept By the band of the Tempest King There cometb a monrnfol tone From Every quivering string, There cometh a shriek and roar From the woodland’s branches torn. And a whisper shrill from the naked bough Of their rustling foliage shorn. The thunder’s roar is echoed hack From every beetling rock. As though a spirit linger’d there Its solemn tone to mock, And the lightning’s ghastly glow Seems to give it an unearthly tone, And the spirit lists in awe To tho harp’s sepulchral mdan. The serpent-like hissof the prairie gross And the ocean's sullen roar Mingle in unison wild and deep Ob the craggy rock-bound shore, And a whispering spirit seems to say, 'Tis a type of the human heart, When the passions that slumber there With demon-like fnry start, And the heart and soul is unstrung By the wild and stormy blast And a wreck of hopes and lore Are left, when the storm is past. Richard Burke being found in reverie shortly after an extraordinary display of powers in Par liament by his brother Edmnnd Burke, and be ing questioned by a friend as to the cause, re plied, “I have been wondering how Ned has contrived to monopolize all the talents of the family; hut than again I remember, when we were at play, he was always at work." The force of this anecdote is increased by the feet that Richard Burke was considered not inferior, in natural talents, to his brother. Yet the one rose to greatness, while the other died compar atively obscure. Don’t trait to your geni us, young men, if you would rise; work! work! Why the Romans Went to Bed Early.—In one of the late London papers -we find the fol lowing reason why, by DeQuincy: "They went to bed early in those ages, simply, because their worthy mother earth could not afford them can dles. She, good old lady or good yonng lady, (for geologists know not whether she is in that stage of her progress which corresponds to gray hairs, or to infancy, or to a ‘certain age,”) she, good lady, would hare shuddered to hear any of her nations enquiring for candles. “Candles, in deed!” she wonld have said, “who ever heard of snch a thing ? and with so mnch excellent day-ligbt running to waste, as I have provided gratis! What will the wretches want next ?” The Romans, therefore, who saw no joke in sit ting round a table in the dark, went off to-bed as the darkness began. Everybody did so. Old Nnma Pomphilins himself was obliged to trun dle off in the dusk. Tarqninins may have been a very superb fellow but I donbt whether he ev er saw farthing rash light. And though it may he thought that plots and conspirators would flourish in such a city of darkness, it is to be considered that the conspirators themselves had no more candles than honest men, both parties were in the dark.” canal, causing congestion, from tVfaicb he died. The jury awarded the plaiotff, (widow of the deceased) damages to the amoutoffive hundred dollars.—[Indianapolis Sentinel. Election in Lynchburg.—Lynchburg, April ■2.—The municipal elections came off here to day, and were attended with much excite ment James G. Royal), the anti-Know Nothing, candidate for the High Constable’s office, wa* defeated bj nine votes. Thomas H. Dillard, candidate for Commissi oner of the Rerenne, was defeated by 83 rotes. A portion of the anti-Know Nothing Coun6il was elected in the lower ward. Anapolis Municipal Election.—Washing ton. April 3. The Municipal election at Anna* polis yesterday resulted in the election ofthe Know Nothing ticket by an average majority of 90. . Election in Vermont.—Boston, April 1. The election in Vermont for State eensors, was held to-day. The returns received here indicate the success of the Know Nothing ticket by 1700 majority. The vote was small: A Railroad Torn up by the Gale.—-A most violent gale of wind prevailed at Easton, Pa., on the 30th, lasted two days doing considerable dr mage. The rails on the Central Railroad were blown from the top of a high stone bridge at Clifton, New Jersey, preventing the passage of the trains. Important from Oregon.—The government have information that the legislature of Oregon have passed an act to change their seat of Gov* eminent to Corvallis, a flourishing town about thirty-five miles south of Salem, the present seat of their territorial government. As the government has already expended some $40,- 000, on public buildings, at Salem, wo take it for granted that Congress will be likely to put its vote on the proposed removal.—[Star. ^aff*A “Snug little fortune” of $100,000 can be obtained by the legal heirs, whenever they may call for it, at least so they are informed by Daniel Stout, of Rock River, Ill. It appears it was left by John Stont, of South Carotins, pre vious to the war of the revolution, to his broth* er, St. Legor Stout, and his sister Na- cy Stout, then ofNewJersy, but cubsequently of Virginia somewhere in the neighborhood of Tygart’* Valley, waere the resided for many years, her lifetime married a man named Hars, and St. Legera female named Barklow. As these pas ties never made a demand for the money, it it said to be now awaiting the order of their heirs, who can addsess Daniel Stout, Rock River, Ill. on the subbject. A gentlemnn at a late fnsbionablp assembly, being asked which ofthe ladies of the compa ny ho thought the most beautiful, replied— “Why, madam, they are all beautiful; but that lady,* I think ’’—pointing to Miss Bunce, who was dressed in the extreme of fashion—“out strips them all.” “My love,” says Mrs Foozie to her husband oblige me with a fire pound note to-day to purchase a now dress.” Shan't do any such thing, Agnes; you called me a bear yesterday.” “Lor, love, that was nothing; I meant by i that you were fond of hugging.” “You little , I havo no five but here’s a ten.” Jeremy Tailor’s idea of a. Fbiexd.—A friend shares my sorrow, and makes it but a moiety; but he swells my joy, and makes it dou ble. For so two channels divide the river and lessen it Into rivulets, and make it fordable and apt to be drank by the first revels of the Syrian star ; bnt two torches do not divide, bnt increase the flame; and though my tears are the sootier dried np when they ran upon mj friend’s cheek in the farrows of compassion, yet when my flame hath kindled his lamp we nnite the glories, and make them radiant like the golden candlesticks, that born before the throne of God, because they 8- ine by numbers, by unions, and confederation of bight and harmony. One friend meeting another, after a long sop* station, exclaimed, “How’s this, Tom ? I cer tainly thought I saw yonr death in the paper, the other day !’’ “Oh no,” responds Tom, meek ly, “it was my marriage.” “Well,” rejoins Jack, (the cynic,) “that’s the next thing to it, at al events.” Geologically speaking, says Hood, the rock upon whieh hard drinkers spilt, is quartz. *—4 “The English and Americans,” saysa French writer, “educate their children in the fear of God and the lore of money “My German friend, how long bare yon baen married?” “VeU, dis a ting dat I seldom don’t tike to talk apoat, bat ven I does, it seems so long at it never vas.” A Gentleman with a sqnint eye was abont to exercise the right of suffrage, when he was ac costed by a political opponent with, “I say Mister what are you doing here? You can’t vote you’re not nataral-eyes’d." At a social party one evening, the question was put “What is religion ?” “Religion," re plied one of the party, “religion is an insurance against fires in the next worM,’for which honesty is the best policy.” “Ah !” said a mischievous wag to a lady ac quaintance of an aristocratic taste, "I perceive yon have.been learning a trade.” “Learning a trade !” indignantly replied the lady, “you are very much mistaken." “Oh, I thought by the looks of yonr cheeks, you had turned painter.” Influence or Women.—Senator Houston was onco asked, at a large party, why he did not attend the usual places of public amuse ment, as he had been accustomed to do. He rcnlied, “ I make it a point, never to Tisit a place where my wife, if she were with me, would be unwilling to go. I know it would givo her pain, as a Christian, to attend such places, and I would not go myself where I could not take ray wife, and addod that there was a mutual understanding between him and her, that they should each follow the bent of tbeir own inclinations in such matters. “ That may do you,” responded Mr. Houston, “but with me it is different from what it is with many men.—My wifo has been the making of me. She took me when I was a victim of slavish appetites; she has red emed and regenerated me, and I will not do that’in her absence whieh I know would give her pain if she were present.” Mr. Houston is now a member of the Baptist Churoh, and is a native of Virginia. Truly has Holmes said of them—the orgaa grinders: “You’d think they are crusaders sent From some infernal clime To pluck the eyes of sentiment And dock the tail of rhyme— To crack the voice of melody And break the legs of time.” Jones stepped np to a gentleman who was en gaged in conversation with about a dozen oth ers, and said: - “It seems to me I have seen yonr physiogno* my somewhere before, but I cannot imagine where.” “Very likely,” he replied, “I have been the keeper of a prison for twenty years." _^aff“One single vote sent Oliver Cromwell to the Long Parliament, Charles Stuart to the scaffold, revolutionized England, and made Great Britain free. Four votes, in the city of New York, made Thos. Jefferson President of the United States; ono Vote gave us the Tariff of 1842; and ono vote made the Tariff of 1847. One vote gave ua Texas, made war with Mexico, slew thousands of our people, and purchased California, turned thither the tide of emigration, and will change the destiny of the world.—A'i* York Bay Book. —An editor ont in Iowa, says they don't brag of the size of their babies, but they are a most uncommon snre crop. —A maiden of twenty-three was lately thro wing ont some affected sneers at matrimony, when a grave friend in company observed,— “that marriages were made in heaven*” “Can you tell me, sir.” rejoined the sly nymph, “why they are so alow in coming dotem*'* Joking on serious subjects is tbs author ofthe following lines, we fear. What shall be done with the perpetrator? Notes “on tho falling dew of eve,’’ Are pleasant sounds in poet’s songs j But notes on eve of falling due To those to whom the cash belongs, (And who, not getting it. will sue,) Are like tho noiso of harshest gongs i The Boston Atlas has great faith in Mr Dodge, our new minister to Spain. It says* “We have great faith in Dodge. Augustas will settle all these matters. He will make a long speech to the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs. That respected Castilian will writhe in agony. Dodge will remorselessly continue, until, in a frenzy of anguish, the tortured Don will exclaim: ‘Take Cuba! take alt our mo - ey! but spare, O, spare us your speeches!” A good story is told of a Yankee who won for the first time to a bowling alley, and ke | firing away at the pins, to the imminent peril of the boy, who, so fer from having anything to do in “setting up” the pins, was actively at work in endeavoring to avoid the balls of tho player, weich rattled on all sides of the pins without touching thorn. At length the fellow seeing tho predicament the boy was in, yelled out, as he l«t drive another ball, “Hand in among the pint tfycr don't want to get hitl"

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Rome courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1849-18??, April 17, 1855, Image 1