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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
c.Mim
ronwAKDiMi t cox mission mcam,
Central Wharf, Charleston, S. C.
ac S 21 *55 ly
Biviu s. ruimp, „ ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
1855.30,
Friendship, Love and Truth.
Friendship it foondiiThonest heart*,
Where lore may be unknown ;
Truo loVet* found in purer hearts,
Where virtu* Yatgns alone.
Friendship is joined with truth and 1ot«—
Friendship it pure and true:
Bloated with a radiance from above,
It boon in heavenly bat.
Par* love, the angels’ bleat delight
Pure and unsullied, too;
If honor makes the feature bright,
Such love la puto and'true.
But love it oft su empty sound,
The haughty -frit. one’s pride,
TV liV U *'WO W» j,
Troth loads to Heaven, to God alone,
When angel* join in praise
whoMttotfc on the throne,
him who si
Which
LtW PtRTHSRHlP.
t CHILLKS D. SHACKELFORD andJONA-
A THAN D. PHILLIPS wiU practice joint
er. under the stria of Bhnokelferd A Philip*.
"Office at Calhoun, Gordou county, Go.
Jan 2. I<55 lj
AND
CIVIL
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OFFICE.
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And Blind and
ETGE.TE LeHJRDY.
TOPOGRAPHICAL
NEtR,
AND ARCHITECT,
ROME, GEORGIA,
C. WORD.—RESIDENT
pbtsicuxs
thankful Tor pass favors,
the practice of Medieine
solicit a continuance of pat-
epWly
h & Wooten
associated themselves «a*he
m
Dr. Smith is prepared
be Eye and Ear. Office
door below H. A. Smith’s
* ftn 33 ’55, py
CO. ROME* 6A
torts,
Ware, Cutlery, Plated
aannia Ware, China,
s'ruraents, Walking-
Articles. Aa, 5a, 5a
NEATLY EXECUTED.
*5iy
1. WHIR SHAW,
Ornamental Paint**, TendersLis
’die w fcts Hue of business,
that lie will give fall
employ him.—
JhovIo
CIBI5ET SHOP ’
Sash Factory!!
STANDISH Sc. BLAKE MAN
Soecaaeoct ofJaa. M. Sumter, eon tin-
tneto tntnnTactan all kiadtof-FUft
X1T1P.E and SASH aad BLINDS on the
attest reasonable tetms, at the old stand on
J.r *■) Street. JIarch27.—ly
SEICHilT-S 60LDEI BELL
PERFUMERY AND SOAPS
ABZ TBB BEST EASE
567 BROADWAY,
CORNER OF PRINCE STREET, X. T.
ASK FOR THEM WHEN SHOPPING.
Cothran. Penteeost & eo.,
Factors. Ccaunisaloa Herchanfs,
AND FORWARDING Ad E T 8.
DEALERS IX
Grain, Flour and other lands of Coun
try Produce.
Agents for Etowah Iron Works and
- J - . *n<i Agents for Coosa River
W S Cothran,
FT Pentecost,
JM Elliott.
OFFICE,
SEAR BAIL
ROAD DEPOT
Rome, Ga.
October® ly
RICHARD A. JONES
cum is
FOREIGS 1.YD DOMESTIC MARBLE,
NEAR THE DEPOT,
‘ Jfsd(ton, Go.
MONUMENTS. TOMBS AND HEADSTONES
AI writ y* «n ha rut.
WILCOX, H.4XD USD AXSLEY,
LESALE GROCERS,
iBgada, Ga.
attention to the above card we would
that Mr. Hand will remain in New York,
be will give bis exclusive attention to
goods ; this will enable us to ofTer
vantages than were possessed by our
eallirg
mm
wares:
■
SL;.sJ
p’ : - ■
lection given to consignment of
id orders for goods- ang211y
it. It I P L. Ji TC*r'~
ATLANTA, OAi- '
LEK in China, Cr<-kcry, and Glass
Lamps of all kinds; Oils, Cam*
luid, and AIcofef by the bbL Terms
1 advance. > Jan 9.1855 ly ■
TomlInsoS
it Coach, Passenger Curs
land Decorative Painter
er of Gilt Glass Door Plates
lumbers for Public Houses
•Churches and Street Numbers.
OpfMMiu Jacob Haas A Co. White Ilali Street
Atlanta. Ga. Jan 9.1855 ly.
FULTON HOUSE,"
Atlanta, Georgia. 0
rsigned take this method of
nformingtbe pubiic.that they are the Pro
prietor* of the Fulton House which is now be-
* ing fitted up with new Furniture, on which, with
other appi adages, they feel prepared to make
their gue/ts comfortable. They pledge their
effort* to give satisfaction to their guests. Trav
elling custom is respectfully solicited.
Franco. M. Allen, Book Keeper.
JOHN X. BEEVES, A. E. REEVES,
of Augusta, Ga. of Rome, Ga.
Atlanta, Feb. 20, '55. ly
WE&TEBX A ATLANTIC HOTEL.
DALTOX GA.
BY MRS it ARTHA W- FIELD.
THIS new and elegant Hotel.
fronting Hamilton Street and the Bui!
Depot of the Western A Atlantic Railroad, is
now open for the reception of travellers and
visitors. No pains will be spared to make it
eqnaitoacy House on the road, and to render
comfortable, such as may call. The rooms are
'large, and well ventilated. Persons visiting
ihe Copper Mines, and the mountains in Murray
Gilmer, find no difficulty in procuring hor-
yehjclejs t£> convey them to either of
lj-
bo pearly gem,
monarch's crown,
.^asssrasa^fe;
v M(F * - \ + ‘ ■ *
Wow Friendship, Love and Truth combtetrd,
Twonld make a heaven ante,
With immorality entwined,
Mount upward to the skies.
Communicated to the Augusta Constitutionalist.
The Penitentiary.
The necessity of a removal of the Penitentia
ry, from it* present location, is urged by his
Excellency, Gov. Johnson, as indispensible;
and as this subject will doubtless be brought
before the present Legislature, and the state
ments in the Governor’s message, in regard to
the advantages whieh would accrue to the
State more by its location at a point accessible
to material, and where the convicts might be
pteRAiy employed, and at the same time, dis
pense with that unjust competition so often
offered to the industrious and honest mechan
ics of our States by deprived beings, who de
graded and unskilled, set themselves up in com
petition to the worirty and honest mechanic; a
thing ruinous Und detrimental to the advance
ment of the mechanic arts.
We have scarcely a town or village among
us, that has not felt the evils of the present
Penitentiarysytftttn. Gov. Johnson very for
cibly recommends the Importance of its remov
al, to a part where the convicts Plight be em
ployed in operations of iron and stone. I be
lieve ills universally acknowledged, that should
a removal of the Penitentiary be found advi
sable, there is not a mote xaftaMe location for
ittban Stone Mountain. - There is nt this point
an inexhaustible quantity of material, (fine
granite) suffieient to -furnish employment for
the inmates for all time. The increasing de
mand for this material, has already made it an
object of very considerable profit and impor
tance. The demand would doofetiess be us
great as the labor of the convicts would be able
to supply. In several of the States, this sys
tern of-Penitentiary labor, bus been adopted ;
theconvictsare exclusively «aployed In the
granite business, which has not only proved
table than the policy pursued by our
, l.ui 1.0. ala» avoided t!io competition
i*, perhaps, no employ-
ment in whieh a convict would sooner become
skilled, than in that of dressing granite. A
few months only would be required to enable
their labor to bo worth from two to three dol
lars per day.
The Georgia Railroad depot, tit. 'Si
into safe Quarter*.
story apptkrt in a late
Baglish paper:
••A most extraor-Unary Instance of fox pre
servation lately Occurred iH OomUgan Cattle.—
Reynard returned thoro aftc
ring, but finding bie earth etoeed,
for the dining room window. A visitor who
was watchiag the bant found the turret, and
Was puttied to bear one or two of the hounds
bay up to the Window) whllo the whole of the
field was digging fariouVly at a drain outside
of the garden, descended into that room and
found Mrs. Philips knitting before the fire
Ofi tolling her oddly tho fox hhd been lost, she
wtdetiy Voce, *ttd, op*ning the door or a cup
board, showed him the animal lying curled up
on one . of the shelvae. It seems thkthe had
dashed through tho glass, and 'sued for com
passion. Mrs. Phillips rang for her maid,
While the latter kept gu
at the window she found a refuge for the
She kept him there all night and fed him. The
WOnatng animal toon became fstniHev with the
domestics, and allowed them to pat his head
before he was let out next morning into his
native woodland wild."
Retaliatory Legislation.,
The Psltimpre American, a journal always
distinguished for fts dfcTm and dispassionate
coDslaeration of all questions presented for dls-
Did Not Kxow ran Ropes.—An officer in
the eastern section of the city was called upon
by a father to arrest a party and rescue a
dsWghtcr from (bin. The arrest was duty made
The parties are Germans* and the Slory is thns
told. For some time past the youthful swain
has been paying attentions to his youtbfnl love,
and they Anally determined to become mar
ried. The former is aged abont twenty and
the latter between fifteen and sixteen years.—
As necessary in tbe first place, he obtained the
legal license for the consummation of the nnp-
tials, and showing it to a friend was told it was
all right. Tnis being the navo. be thought
there was nothing further to be done, and an
elopement and going to housekeeping followed.
They knew nothing of the services of a minis
ter being necessary, and in all innoeense be
lieved they were man and wife, and noted ac
cordingly. After being together two*or three
days the unwelcome separation took place.—
How the matter will finally end yet remains to
bo seen.—Raft. sib.
A Costlt Pauper Establishment.—The
people of Newnaryport, Massachusetts, are
rather indignant at the great increase of their
city expenditures, and facts have lately come
to light tending to show how the money goes.
It appears that the city has sixty four panpers
to support, and that at tha commencement of
the year $7,800 was appropriated, as amply
suffieient for that purpose. The addition^
sum of $5,00 had to be appropriated a few days
ago, when the city council called for the items
of expenditures. These have been given, and
have created considerable Astonishment. Vel
vet collared coats at from $8 to $12, and silk
handkerchielb at $1 50 each, and the liky, for
inmates of a poor house, are rather ont of place
insneb a schedule. Indeed the paupers are
said to be better dressed than many of the citi
zens. The costliness of the affair may be
judged of from the fact that the people of New-
buryport would have actually made a saving if
they had boarded oat their panpers at the test
hotel lathe city, of the rate nffolfr dollars each
pet 'week.
- • Tub TCwannnc==We'iira flBW pusslug
one of those unpleasant seasons which gene
rally occur fn the month of December. For
the last three or fonr days the sun has with-
drawn the light of his countenance. The air
ie as damp and raw as that of England, at the
uameoeaseu; und penetrates to the Inmost re
cesses of onr houses. I* *•, emphatically,“ a
Georgia Railroad depot, tit 'Sl®n*l sarehor.” as our old friend Sague would say,
i, is located within a few hundraa and loudly calls for closed-doors, and generous
.. . —*“■-“— fires. It is hard weather for the poor, as we
*know by experience—for we were poor onee
ourself—and the rich cititett* ^>f-Washington
should not forget that they have a doty to per
form in this respect to the numerous friendless
and forlornpefsons by whom they are surroun
ded.
We knew aLrdy once, and many of out rea
ders know her too, for she has been a reigning
belle In Washington, as well as in the city of
hbr birth,‘torho devoted S huge portion of her
pocket-money to the cense nf charity. But
then she'was always plainly dressed, except on
yards if -this ^nnxbsusti&e granite
affording easy ttd'bfaoap fariKaes fur stApphig
Ac. All things eon^md, we think Stone
Mountain the most suitable location in the
State for the Penitentiary. D.
- —
Sermon os Nothing.—Frederick the Great
being informed of thw death of one of bis chap-
plains, a*man otconsiderable learning and pie
ty, determined that bia successor should not
be behind him In these qualifieatiooe, took the
following method of ascertaining thfe 'merits of
one of the numerous candidates for the ap
pointment:—He told the applicant that be
would himself furnish him with a text the fol
lowing Sunday, when be was to preach at the
royal chapel, from which be was to make an
externpoiy sermon. The clergyman accepted
the proposition. The newsuf each n probation
ary discourse was spread abroad widely, and
at an early hour the royal chapel was crowded
to excess. The king arrived at the end of the
prayers, aad on the candidate’s assending the
pulpit, one of his majesty’* aides-de-camp pro-
sauted him with a sealed paper. The preach
er opened it, aad found nothing therein. He
did not, bow«ver, loose hit presence of mind ;
bat torning the paper on both sides, be said:
“My brethren, here is nothing, and there is
nothing; out of nothing God created all things
and proceeded to deliver a most admirable
discourse epon the wonders of Creation*
A Blsaxing to the Country.
Alsdynowona visit to Paris, Tenn., has
Written a friend here some particulars of a re-
exemplary matron of that
Ticinity, which particulars bare been coffiAtfaf-
cated to us aa worthy of a place in our columns.
The matron in question is a Mrs. D , now
eighty-seven years old. She bad 23 living
children, and prayed to the good Lord to give
her one more, to make the round and goodly
number of two dozen. Besides these she has
raised fourteen orphan children. She has ed
ucated thirty children—her own and a portion
of the orphans—and for many years sent nine
teen to school in Paris, and their dinn
them. She s»;
reared and
tbemeelvi
ind are rielb
one of herorphan proteges has been in Con
gress, several others in the State Legislature j
there are sundry colonels, Ac., among them,
and all are highly respectable.—Indianapolie
Journal.
Privileges or th« Sabbath.—The Sab
bath Is that day when yon may sit down to the
Bible without fear of disturbance. It is the
day when, with our sinless progenitors, you
may take tbe tour of Paradise, and listen to
the anthems of a newly created world; itie the
day when, alongside of Enoch, yon may fod
tbe flame of devotion, and try to divine tbe
wonderand Imbibe tbe ardor of a walk with
God. It is tbe'day, when according to yonr
various moods, you may monrn with Abraham
at Macbpfaelab, or mediate with Isaac in tbe
fields of Harare, or go down to Egypt to view
Joseph in all bis glory. It is tbe day when
you may bid Jacob’s star twinkle anew, and
Zot hariah’s fountain flow again. It is tbe day
when you may fill yonr ear with droughts of
melody from David’s sounding lyre, or 1st your
spirit rise aloft on Ezekiel’s flying wheels. It
is a day when yon may take a pleasant walk to
Bethany ot Emtnaae, or as a fourth disciple,
ascend Tabor with Peter, Jsmes and John. It
is the day when with Mary, yon rosy clasp that
cross which quivers no longer, and look up to
those pate and painless lips, which need never
repeat, “It i* finished,” and gaze on that coun
tenance, in death so divine, and beneath its
thorny crown no blissful and benign, till iteays
to you : “ Be of good cheer, thy sins aro forgiv
en.” It is the day when, in tbe upper cham
ber, you may listen to.tbe sermon of Pan!, or a
pilgrim to Palmas, along with tbe.beloved dis
ciple, Jesus again,
A Victim of Coxfidexcb.—A fellow on the
race course was staggering about with more
liquor than he .could carry. “Halloo! what’s
tho matter now ?’’ said a chap whom the ino-
brittted individual had just run against. “Why
—hie—why, the fact is, u lot of toy friends
have been betting liquor on the race to-day,
and they £Ot me to bold tho stakes.” *
festiveDCcastone, and wove wo fifty dollar bon
nets nor fire hundred HoTlft shawls, although
her lather was a man of fortune, and lived at a
“ bountiful old rate.” How many young ladies
of this city imitate her example; or, rather.-
how few?
'"The Greeks are at yonr door,madam,” »*{d
John Randolph, when urged by a lady of Wash
ington to subscribe for the canse of the Greek
Revolution. So are they now. They swarm
in alleys, in garrets, in the suburbs, ift every
section. Many of theta have seen better days,
aad many are sick nt'heart with hopfi deferred.
Think of these things, ye who.-too elotbed
with high piled velvet, and wjiosa feet rest
after tbe frivolities of the day' are over upon
carpets of Aubusson otBUnn& before a glow
ing gate, and shielded fjfo m the slimiest
draught by curtains of damask or brocatelle.
. Washington Paper.
Ftkntxo Cattle.i_xhe feeding of roots to
S? »’ done properly, is of great advantage.
Bnt if the former make it a point to pitch out
into the lane op-yard, turnips, ft,::, Without cut
ting, and aftteixed with some kind of meal,
precious Ultle good is accomplished. There
is a way of doing just right in everything; and
in feeding stock, tbe right way Is tbe most
profiuole. Farmers should give their cattle
myCattention; and we are determined those
*no reati onr paper shall not lack in instruction
fis to bow they should keep their stoek. In
feeding roots, they should be cut Very fine &nd
mixed with chaffed hay or straw mixed with
meal, (says a cotemporary,) so that the dry food
will be moisteaed by the juice of the roots.
About a bushel or a bushel and a half to a large
fottening bullock, three times a day, is about
tbe quantity to be fed; to smaller cattle in pro
portion. Roots should be fed to all cattle in
winter quarters on dry food.— Western Agrt
culturist, Nor. 28.
Evbby Day Facts is 8c»bnce.—If a tallow
candle be placed in a gun, and shot at a door,
it will go through without sustaining any inju
ry; and if a musket ball be fired into water, it
will not only rebound, but be flattened, as if
firad against a hard substance. A musket ball
may be fired through a pane of glass, making
tbe bole tha size of the ball, without crooking
tbe glass, if the glass be suspended by a
thread, it will tnak* no difference, and tbe
thread will not even vibrato. In tbe Arctic
regions, when tbe thermometer is below zero,
persons'can converse more than a mils distant.
Dr. Jamieson asserts that be heard every word
of a sermon at tbe distance of t«o miles.
- — .m m ■-
Tbs following paragraph, whieh we eut from
an exchange, is local in its application:
“Among all tbe accomplishments which our
young ladies are expected to acquire, it is to be
regretted that the art of conversation is m t in
cluded. No grace of person or manners can
compensate for a lack of this. In yonth tbe
conversation of onr women is opt to b~e trifling
and stupid, and in middle ngc is too often con
fined to complaints of health and tho scandol
and elevating topics, is but little promised, but
whenever it is found, ft gives a charm to tho
society of females which nothing else can. . It
triumphs over deformities nnd old age, and
makes ugliness itsolf ngrcenblo. Curran, spen-
kingof Mttdamo de Stool, who was by no moans
handsome, but a splendid conversationalist,
sold that she “had tho power of talking herself
into a beauty.” Ladies ,houhl tbink of this.—
Beauty lies in other things than fine features
and cosmetics.”
i presen
onaaioo, notices the bill recently inti
r Legislature, p
i/agtritfrt those)
law is not ekbb'ul
to l
questions.
introduced in
tory Lcgis
in 'which tbe fugit tve
and appends the fol-
, whieh we oommond
reader:
We have alWay# regarded the retaliatory
laws, which, under a presstTFe’Mf • feeling of
iigustiee, are mooted from timegto time in tho
8oulhern States as tho very lunaoyof
excitement,, and the Georgia proposition
to have touched the wtimax of thht lunacy.
Independent of all objections to tbe legality
of such • law, and It conld scarcely stand tbo
_ test of on appeal to the Federal Court* to which
Phillips rang lor nor maid, and tho first attempt at on'forco'ment'woald subject
kept guard against the hofinda It, the condition* ^ its own taopnetbrabtiity
be found a refuge for the fox.— *ro a part and parcel of every section*—Its effi-
~“ oiency is only snpposablo on the ground that
the fmople of Georgia would find credit with
those or othor States into wbiph her slaves
might escape, and the first influence of the
not would be to destroy the existence of that
credit. Put this ta«r upon the statute book of
Gcorgio^ahd then let her merchants make tbe
effort to obtain credit in any of the States likely
to be effected by its provisions, and they would
soon be convinced that in attempting to punish
others they bad injured only themselves. The
^confidence oh Which CVedft exists wouM he
destroyed becanse payment-had been made to
depend upon a contingency not properly within
the scope of those risks that are common to
mercantile transactions. The northern manu
facturer would say to his Georgia ‘customer,
you have passed a law which in effect outlaws
my debt and prevents its recovery in the Coarts
of your State, which makes me responsible for
the WtCoVety of your property in the abduction
or detainiog of wbioh I have had no part; we
therefore cannot bargain upon the ordinary ba
sis of trade) your disposition and ability to
honestly pay me may be WUdrfred nugatory by
tbe nnjust laws of -yoWr State, and yon must
either p&y cash fotr whht ^ou bay or give me a
guarantee against Ion. The law therefore,
even admitting its practicability and legality
in other respects, would become inoperative
becanse there wonli Vtoh be no debts upon
whieh the law of garnishment cotrtd OpeTCtC,
and the citisen of Georgia,'without securing
any additional guarantee for t ! e recovery of
fugitive slaves, would go into tbe markets of
the free States subject to disabilities and sus
picions from which others would be free.
The objections to all retaliatory laws, we
think, are insuperable. It may be doubted
whether any ran be formed sufficiently stringent
to seoure tbe objects for which they are pro.
posed, that would not be a clear violation of
the equality of rights between citizens of the
different States established by the Constitution.
All measures of retaliation most partake of
the nature of embargoes, and embargoes be
tween States bound together in a federative
compact and subject to the decisions of a judi
ciary to which tbe citizens of each hare a com
mon right of appeal, are neither practicable nor
expedient The foct that one State has viola
ted the constitutional compact cannot be
brought into legal view as a justification ot
another State in doing a like iqjustico. Tbe
simple-question in tryi- g such an issue would
*Mr->’-Xs-ibalaw constitutional? Has one State
tbo right to pass a law to exclude the shipping
of another State from its harbors; or prevent
the collection of debts due to citizens of other
States by those within its borders?” Sectional
irritation conld not enter into the decision
of th«ra qncationa of right and Wrong, bgd
even in the Courts of the Southern States sWeh
laws would be declared unconstitutional. But
the affirmation of the legal right to pass and
enforce such laws would not relieve niem from
their impracticability and injustice. Even in
their operation they would be partial and unjust,
foiling upon Jhe innocent with n heavier weight
of injury than upon tbe guilty. Retaliation
.would beget retaliation, the ties of commerce,
of intercourse, and t)f interest broken; there
would b« no cheek against tbe evil disposed,
and sectional antagonism from a fault would,
grow into a merit.—Retaliation would thns
have a reflex influence more powerful than its
direef consequences, nnd those who appealed to
it at a remedy would find that 4bey had brought
upon themselves evils seven-fold worse than
tltoso they now complain of.
A Trout Fish Living in a Well Twenty-
FivxYeab8.—Mr. F. Hoyt, a correspondent
of the country gentleman, writing from Sonth
East, N. Y., November lfith, says:
"Can any one tell how long a trout fish Will
live? Twenty five years the past summer I
came on the farm where I now am. Almost
the first work that I did after getting in my
spring Wops, was to drain a bog swamp, the
outlet of which leads into the. Croton river.
I bad no old Scotchman to do the ditching.
One dhy be brought up a trout fish about the
size of a man’s little finger, in bis whisky jvg,
(by tiie by we used a little on tbe form then,
and net since then,) I put it in the Well near
the honse, and it is there now, grown to a good
ly size—say about a foot long, and large in pro
portion.. It has been .fed but very little; once
in u while some one. tbows in a grasshopper or
cricket, to see him catch it. The well is thirty
feet deep, and water hard, and s&ttlc* dnWh
nearly to the bottom, and then again rise* to
near the top. He has been taken out a Tew
times to clean the well, but not for the last five
years. -
“ Friday last I got a grasbopper, tbe last sue
I expeat to see this fall, and gave it to him.
The water is now twenty-five feet deep, but it
hardly-touched tbe surface before he had it. If
any one has a fish older than mine I would like
to know it”
a ■«— —
Meeting- of Congress.
Washington, Deo. 1.
Tho Democratic caucus has nominated Rich‘
ardson for Speaker; Banks of Va., for Clerk;
and Cornelius Wendell for printer. They also
resolved against fusion with any party-
Dec. 3.—Congress orsombled to-day. The
Senate was organized os usual. .The House
went into the election of .Speaker but made no
choice. On the third ballot, Richardson, of
Hlinois, (the Democratic candidate,) received
74 votes; Campbell, of Ohio, (Fusionist,) 56;'
Banks, of Massachusetts, (American,) 22;
Matshall, of Kentucky, (American,) 30. The
House then adjourned, with no prospect of ef
fecting an organisation at present.
Millcdgoville Correspondence.
X%!LL
To be entitled an aet to provide for tbe Educa
tion of the youth of Georgia in tha rudiments
of an English Education.
Section 1st Be it enacted, Ac., That at the
next general eleetion for county officers, there
>haTl ob elcctod iq d&h flffid ovory county in
this State, by tbe legal voters, two 8uperinten-|
dents of Education, who shall hold their offices
for four years, nntil their successors are elected
and qualified, who, together with the Ordinary
of tbo county, shall be, and are hereby consti
tuted a body corporate and politic for the 1
'cburagoni'-Qr of education, in
tho State, wkh power to sue and
and to hold all rout and. per-
h mny bo given, granted, or
em and their successors in of-
of education. .- ■■
further enacted, As., That
of said Boards of Education
nday in January of each
Court IIouso of their
r tbo purpose of examin
them for a
be sued, to
aooal estnte
bequeathed
flee, for the
Sec. 2nd,-
it Shall be the
on the ,
year to assemble
respective counties,-
tog fcH rtth persons ns may apply to i
license to teach sehool in thofr 'bo'fftrtitf?) It
shall be the duty of said Bo3hi tb^$|)ao ficcn-
sos to all such, and those only, whom they shall
find, after strict examination, to be competent
to teach Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English
Grammar and Geography: -sold Board..shall
keep a docket containing the hkdtCfe of all per-
K ns whom they may license to teaob, and the
tot of their licenses; for each liconso gran
ted they may charge.
See. 3rd. Be it further enacted, ftfe.. That it
shall be the duty of all licensed tesebors in ev
ery county in the State, on or before the
day of of each and ev
err.year, to make return, on oath, to said Boards
of Education, tbe names. Wild places of residence
of all their popils, and theft parents or guardi
ans, who are taught the hVdncbcs of English
edufcfttfo'n, Enumerated in the second section of
this act, in their schools and in those bnrtrtmes
only; the length of time taught bfidthe amount
of tuition foestftsfor the edueatipn of said pu
pils. It shall be tbe duty of said Board of Ed
ucation to meet at tbe Court House of their res
pective counties on (ho day of
each and every year, to audit said ac
counts ; if doubts shall arise as to the accuracy
and justness of said accounts they shall hare
power to iufoffion and examine witnesses; if
they shall find them correct, they shall approve
them and draw an order for their payment npon
the Tax Collectors of th'eir respective connties
in fovqrt-df-eatd teachers or their WHeY j if they
Shall disapprove of them, they shall reject them.
Sec. 4th. Be it farther enacted, Ac., That if
any licensed teacher shall charge and collect
tuition fees from the citizens of this State for
teaching the branches of English education
enumerated in the second section of this act, be
or they shall forfeit his or their licenses, and
bo subject to an indictment for misdemeanor,
and on conviction shall be fined ia « ram wot
less than one hundred Hof foofe than five hun
dred dollars.
Sec. 5th. Be it further enacted, Ac., That it
shall be tbe duty of said Board of Education,
on or before tbe day of
of each and every year, to transmit to the Ex
ecutive office a certified list of all the pupils in
their respective counties who havo been retur
ned as provided for in tbe third section of this
act. Upon receipt of said lists, it shall be the
duty of the Governor for the time being to con
solidate said lists, and, npon ascertaining the
amount due to the licensed teachers for tuition
fees as aforesaid, to assess a tax upon tbe State
tax of each county in the State of sufficient
•mount to pay ifaa tuition fees due the licensed
teachers in said county os aforesaid, provided
tbe same does not exceed one hundred per cent,
upon tbo State tax; and if said assessment
shall mrt raise a sufficient amonnt of money
to pay tbe tuition fees of all the licensed
teachers in the State, the Governor shall
make a further assessment npon the general
State tax of sufficient amonnt to pay tbe same
in full, without references to counties; provided,
moreover, that no county in the State shall be
taxed more than one hundred per cent, on tbe
State tax. The tax assessors and collectors of
each and every connty in the State shall assess
and collect, and account for the same as for
other State taxes.
See. 6th. Be it forthcr enacted, Ac., -That
when tho taxeseollccted in any county in the
State for edaeationn! purposes Ore insufficient tc
pay orders of the Board of Education, in their
respective counties, for tuition fees as aforesaid,
said orders shall be presented and paid at the
Treasury of the State.
Sect 7th. Be it ftirther enacted. Ac., That tbo
orders of the Boards of Education paid fey Tax 1
CoUtffctcrs kbatt fee teeeivwd as cash from the
Tax Collectors ofthe different counties of tbe
State in the settlement of their accounts with
tbe State Treasury and shall be accounted for
as cash.
Seo. 8th. Be it further CUiictec!, Ac., That the
present Poor School system is hereby abolished,
and the Poor SeLoel Fonda of the State are
hereby merged in the UOtnoftott fond ofthe State
and may bej>sed*in tbe payment of the ordinary
expenses of the Government.
Sec. 8th. Be it further enacted, Ac., That this
system of common school education shall take
effect from and after the first day of January,
185 .
Sec. 10th. Be it ftirther enacted, Ac., That
nil laws and parts of laws militating against the
provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
Aiding ret Escape or Slaves.—In the Vir
ginia House of delegates on Tuesday, on mo-
tion of Mr. Mallory, tbe fi/Howtog -joint resolu
tion was adopted: . _
Resolved, by the General Assembly, That a
joint committee of seven members ofthe Senate
and thirteen ofthe House of Delegates be ap
pointed, with a view to tbe adoption of morS ef
fectual means to prevent tbe escape of-'fclaves
from this commonwealth to tbe northern States,
and to provide for Vh% fruternary punishment of
persons detected in aiding or abetting the
lame j tted fo tfpquire ft(6 ‘the expediency of
measures of retaliation and self-defence
against such of tbe ‘northern States as are
engaged to a war npon’our institutions.
Pending tirfsiWfcifftftioatottb ccfoVtfrsation Oc
curred, and the sentence enquiring into tbe
expediency of retaliatory measures was sugges
ted by Mr. Garnet
Mr. Mallory stated that the system of enticing
off the slaves was carried to sacb an extent 1 h
bia district, that without sopife remedy by tbe
mg
Aa not Happy whenl Smile.
I am not happy when I smile,
Or when my voice is gay;
Fqr. -ip my heart a sadness reigns,
Which steals my life away.
Tbe gayest song yon hear me sing,
Is bat a dirge to me,
Apd when I smile I hide distreess,
Which “none ’but'Ood can see.
-A tftrfle ‘ifi.Vy'gtfihe’tFrtfes wreaehe a lip
When joy is for away;
And flowers bloom on a sepulchre,
Above some wasting ciny.
A rose, all withered and decayed,
Some ordor will impart,
And smiles will linger long around
A crashed and broken heart
tetfe they
The slaves of owners who we,re driven from
home by the plague had visited and seduced
away by dozens Lefore their master’s return, by
the' abolitionists, niffl 'YriftCot 'sfel&e temedy
their wtfhld 'b&’fcOiiVattriiOted.
Tub Law or Marbiaob in Ireland.—The
Irish Court of Qaeen’s Bench has decided that
a clergyman may marry himself. Tbe question
arose as to tbe legitimacy of the children of a
marriage taut perfonffML The Rer, 8.8. Bea
mish was duly ordained a clergyman of the
United Churches of England ’and Ireland, and
it appeared that on tbe 27th of November, 1831,
being then in holy orders, be went to the honse
of Anne Lyons, in the bity of Cork, and there
performed a ceremony of marriage between
feimself and Isabella Fraser. Tbe special ver
dict described tbe manner in which the cere-
y took place, and tbe general form of sol
emnizing wastfeat set out ii
mon Prayer
and Ireland, Mr. Beamish then declaring^ that
he took the said Isabella Fraser to be his wed
ded wife, she taking bite to fee her '(redded
husband. The wedding ring was then ploeed
upon her finger, and the blessing was pronoun
ced. Judge Crompton delivered judgment in
favor of the validity of tbe marriage.
Some, idea of a London log may be obtained
frdte fod* following paragraph in Rn Rngfeh
Paper* . .
Several accidents attended with Joss of lift,
took place in London and its snbnrbs, owing to
the dense fog yesterday week. A great many
robberies were eommkted daring the fog. Men,
women and ebildren were waylaid by tbeives
and robbed with impunity,^t being impossible
for any police otitceSy even If stationed within
ted or twelve yjjJdSUF foett, to see what was
going eu.
Shocking.-
that he had
asJhat set out io tbe Book pPCom
■ of foe United ttfetfftfees of England
bio editor, in RtthOtttt(fog
oomtr, says : “She looked
remarkably well at far as he could see /” The
impudence .of some ofthe editorial fraternity is
past comprehension! *
In the New York Fair there was a knitting
machine whieh knits a fall grown stocking in
throe qoarteraofan honr. The elderly ladies
ere lost in admiration of it.
‘Why, Jlons, you bavo the most feminine cost
of countenance I havo over seen.’
‘Oh, yah, I know the rearion for that, mine
iooder ran a vomau.’
Marriage and Genius.—Somobody says
all women, no matter how schooled, or what
•heir attainments, have a yearning desire to
love and to. be loved again. Tho head can
never be educated at tbe expense of the heart,
consequently if they cannot obtain suoh as
they could most venerate and respect, they
unite themselves to those who tonder them the
love they have tbo need of: they dream hap
piness and awake to dissppointroant.—They
find themselves unappreciated, tbelr tnsts shook
their sensibilities deridod, and drag out lives
of misery and wretebednsss. Not alone are
women of genins thus unhappy. Men too,
are made miserable by uncongenial minds.
Who can doubt that tbe life of Byron would
havo been a batter and happier ono had his
wife bcon ono who could have sympathised
with and understood him. Milton’s doinektio
affliction sat heavily on bis heart. Shelly’s
first marriage was fraught with cpnsequeqces
terrible to himself and others. Burns’ verses
met with no response from those gatbored
around his hearth stono s and many others
equally great havo bud reason to curso in their
heart an ill assorted marriago.
*— -*r
A Hint to thk Talkative,—It Is a secret
known to few, (soya Addison,) yet of no small
use in the conduct of life, that when you fall
into o man’s conversation, tho first thing you
should consider is, whether ho bos ft greater
inclination to hear you, or that you should hear
biu>. „
There is a disposition observable in some to
view unfavorably everything that falls under
notice. Th’oy seek to gain confidence fey their
always differing from others in judgment, and to
deprecate what they allow to be worthy in itself,
by hinting at some mistake or imperfection in
UhC performance. Yon are too lofty or too low
in your manners ; yon are too frugal or too pro
fuse in yonr expenditure ; you lire too taciturn
or too free in your speech ; and so of the rest.
Now, guard against this tendency. Nothing will
more Conduce to your ttueomfortablencss than
living in tbe neighborhood of ill-nature and
being familiar with discontent. The disposi
tion grows with indulgence, and is low and base
in itself; and if any should be ready to pride
themselves on skill and facilitv in the sciences,
let them remember that the acquisition is cheap
and easy; a child cAD deface and destroy;
dullness and stupidity, which seldom lack in
clination or means, can cavil and find fault;
and everything can furnish ignorsuoe, preju
dice and envy, with a handle of reproach.
Rev. Wm. Jat.
pS*Daniel O’Connd describes religions big
otry in tbe following nervous language:
“She bss no bead, and. cannot tbink, no
heart, and cannot font) Wh^h sfec mover it Is
In Wrath; whtffi She pAUSes.ft'iSlfthiSruin; her
communion is death; her vengeance is eternity;
her decalogne is written in the blood of ber
victims, and if she stops for a tftol&ent ft her
infernal flight, it is upon A kindred rock, to
whet her rnltore fate for a more sanguinary
desolation.”
——, A- 4
Fugitive S4,aVe Labor.—A write* in’ ‘the
London Tiiftts firsts ’fbo eiUployment of the
Fugitive Slaves in Canada on eotton planta
tions in Jamaica, as a partial remedy for the
dependence of England on American cotton.
If this is only hope of England for securing
bet independence, pf American cotton, it is a
slim support; Fugitives ifroih Ififedr In tho tJ.
States will not be easily induced to work in any
country. The fugitive slave population in Can
ada, are about the laziest set of rascals in tbe
wortd, and prefer begging and stealing to ern-
Ing an 'honest livelihood by their own industry.
The prtetffc&l working of emancipation in Ja
maica, which bos been *
by-the ur
ted p'opu
Britain that cotton cannot be cultivated by free
negroes. The African only works upon com
pulsion. His idea of liberty is liberty from
work.—Richmond Dispatch.
What Leer 'Said.—In a late sprCCch, Lucy
StoOe said, “We know there 'is cotton in tbe
ears of men. Let ns look for hope in the bosom
of women.”
She probably meant to say, “better look for
hope in the eyes of men, for we know there is
ootton in tho bosoms of women.”
-From the Richmond Enquirer.
The Other Side.
The New York Evening -Post is Surprised a*k
rftrr theory ‘the rc^hlfiV action of free so-
’clety tt. tofeegefc’deffriency in food -fad Ultimate
famine.” We might rest tbe proof of our theo
ry oo tbe facts of history. Famine has been
the'normal state of Western Europe, was occa
sioned by famine, or fey scarcity almost amount-
rag to famine. New England does not raise
‘Whebt enough to feed her population a monftr,
and not enough Indian corn to feed her lh*e
stock. Everywhere in onr free states agricul
ture is rapidly declining. Even in the Nortb-
’west it is shunned and avoided, and dOevKot
■ keep pace with the increase of the population-.
Free society teaches every roan to engage in that
kind‘of labor Which is most profitable. Agri'-
'caftdhti labor is the simplest and worst remu
nerated of any other; hence all who can, avoid
it Men confound rent, or the profits of the tur
ner of the farm with the wages of the farm la
borer. All farm hands pay rent, because the
owner of toe form deducts it from their wages.
Farm labor in free society cannot be obtain eft
in sufficient quantify, because other occupations
are befter paid. If fhl3 theo'iy does not satisfy
the Post, let it make one for itself. Free socie
ty is starving and has been starring for seventy
years. Slave society in all ages, and in all
coantries, has bad a plenty to cat and to wear,
and plenty of fnel and honse room. Poorhou-
ses and jails are almost unnecessary where
slaves are abundant. Wo would like jo see
the Post's tbeoiy accounting for the poverty,
crime, infidelity, anarchy and licentiousness of
free soeie'<y, : lfodTor Tfoe plenty, morality, con-
Sefrvatisin, good order and universal Christian
faith of slave society*
•
Coal.
Up to the 1st instant, foero were 4,621,9$7
tons of antbraeite coal received at Philadelphia
from the coal regions of Pennsylvania. It is
only, we think some twenty-fire or thirty years
since this coal came into vogue. The trade it
growing constantly, and presently, unless other-
coal fields of the United States compete with it,
it will be tbe chief sources of the wealth .of the
state.
It ^ems to ns foe nse jfrd progress'Of this
business in Pennsylvania ought to furnish =ales
son to Alabama. We have almost inexhausti-;
bfe coal mines, which nnder tbe infnence of
skill and capital, may be made to supply a large
portion of the wants of this section—to say uo-
ef&ei
'thing'i
steamers of the Gulf.
, which has been impoverished and rained
uReemqireraWe reptignanee of ittlifetiro-
pulation to labor, onght to satisfy Groat
The Novelties on Utah.—A private lettor
from Provo city, Utah county, Utah Territory,
(5“ miles from Great Salt,) oon tains the follow,
ing items of intelligence :
“tfe lire to sight of snotr the year round.—
We otto, as it Wofo. blek flowers with one hand
and gather snow with the other. It ie Warm
tbe valley, healthy, pleasant and fruitful,, with
seldom any rain; but we have plenty of moun
tain atreatns to irrigate our fielda and gardens;
so that the latter do not suffer for want of mois
ture. Wo hove no fever and aguot there ia
alwaye a mountain breeze, whieh affords us a
very pnre atmosphere. We have been Very
busily engaged in making sugar, which Is man*
ufoeturedfrom a sort of honey dew or sugar
eoating which folia on the leaves of the cotton
wood trees, and resembles the frosting on cake.
There have been several thousand pounds of
sugar made from this substance within a few
days, and it sells readity at 40 oents per lb.
nesday that a woman recently arrived atChica-
S o from Kansas, with the dead body of her
unhand, which she was taking east for a burial;
and on the route ahe fell in with a young mon,
and’on the arrival ofthe core ot JChifingo.they
went off together, leaving tbe dead body ofber
husband in tbo depot. But it aeeme that the
latter part of tbo statement was erroneous, for
the woman forwarded the dead body on, and-it
arrived In this city on Saturday, und sho arrived
with her now husband on Monday, nnd tbe fa-
noral of the deceusod husband was hold at Wa
terford on Tuesday last—Troy Traveller.
Pttttrift.— The '(editor) man who fob
following probably got a sniff to the article which
eo exercises hie wrath:
The lovers of pleasure got up a ball Jknd eve
ning’s entertainment at the Roekhill House oh
Friday night last, and we aro informed that
some mean, contemptible, soulless, God-forsa
ken, deVil-poseessed wretch, scattered cayenne
pepper over the ball-room floor.
ittn
We have heard of a man “up the country,”
who, in lees than one boar, on Monday, threw
eight constables, sixteen somersets, and two
deputy sheriffs. He feeds on the celebrated
“Heave powders,” which we read of, and is re
lated to “Heave Dave” the stage.driver.
The Real Issue;—Americans wilt not lose
eight of the real issue. ''Their eyes still rest
upon the hordes of foreigners Who besiege onr
navy yards, with offers of a dollar ft daj, stim
ulating the publie agents to sacrifice the Amer
ican laborer to their importunities. They offer
their votes, fraudulent and pefjured, in ex
change for employment, and invoke government
to prostitute its high proposes by a wholesale
proscription of tho Atnerioan laborer.
MiRTHFUBNBBB.-'-MirthfuUless has a great
power over the excited feelings and the angry
irritation of men ; it makes them more gene
rous and more just It is more powerful, even
with good mea, than reason or conscience.
When an assembly of men hare become Ckelted
and irritable, they are nnjust, implacable, in
tolerant, and intolerable. But let a jest fall
like a bomb in their midst, exploding in shoots
of laughter, and the clouds lift, the tumult
oeases. Mirthfulnese is said to be the devil’s
weapoo; but it has exorcised the devil s hun
dred times, where he has made use of it onoo.
II. W. Beecher.
-a 4—* —-——
-Owv Country—Its Agriculture, Ac.—As
Americans, we will foster and defend all the
great interests of our country—Its agriculture,
its commerce, its tnedtmnles and fine arts, man
ufactures, navigation, mtnifig and science, and
literature, against the world. We urge the
promotion and fostering of all means of moral
and intellectual culture, by permanenent pro-
iElectioA of the State Printer.
'Weifi'e ibfoS-med by ourMilledgerllle correr-
pondent that, by a joint agreement between the
two Houses "fertile General Assembly, the elec
tion of Printer came off on Friday last, and re
sulted in the choice of Col. Tennent Lomax, of
tbe Times A Sentinel, over his competitor, Cob
RwM. Uribe, tof the Southern Recorder. The
former received 143 vote3 at the first concarrent
balloting, and the latter 77—scattering 8.
The following old saw fully expresses the do
mestic nature of onr ancestors:
“Yhe "Sift that expects to have a good
Is always at Home as if she were lame,
And ye ifaytl that is honest,
Her chiefest Delite,
Is still to bee doing from Mornings to
Night.”
A<Jt?!S>eNYT>n the Central Ohio Rail Road-.
At Glencoe, nine mile from Belair, says the
Wheeling Intelligencer, tho engine of the ex
press train running over a cow, on the 29th nit;
was precipitated down an embankment and
completely demolished. The mail car was par-
U&ny thrown from the track, and the passen
ger car immediately behind it was considera
ble smashed. Fortunately, none of the passen
gers were seriously injured, but the engineer
was very badly cut and brused.
-A Treaty Extraordinary.—The New York
papers havo an announcement of the arrival
there in the late steamer from .Central America
of anew Minister to the United States from Ni
caragua, to supercede the present one, wi'ks
treaty negotiated by our Minister, Mr Wheeler,
With President Walker. A very few days. wC
presume, will show what degree of troth there
ie in tho statement—Rational InUl!ufe»ctr.
A genins in getting up n railroad car out of
wtobght iron and guttapercha. Such a car can
be jammed, but not broken. It may “mash yod
ii‘p,” but it can make no spliuters to tear your
trousers and and lacerate your limbs. The
idea is a good one, and, we hope, wiU realise
his expectations.
What is that dog barking at? asked a fop
whoso boots where more polis lied than his ideas;
‘Why, said a bystander, ‘he sees another puppy
in yonr boots,’
A stove has been invented ftif the comfort of
travelers. It is piit under the feet, and a mus
tard plaster upon - tbo head, which draws the
beat through the whole system.
Do not loose yonr faith in human excellency;
Because your confidence has been sometimes
betrayed, nor believe that friendship is only s
delusion, lovo a bright phantom Whieh glides a-
way from yonr grasp.
*_-*
A writty gentleman, speaking Of a friend
who was prostrated by illness, remarked, tha't
“he conld hardly recover, since his constitution
was all gone,” said a bystander, “I do not sec
how he lives at all.” “Oh,” responded the wag,
“he lives on by-law 1”
If yon Want your neighbors to*“know who yod
are,” give a party and don’t invite the f Iks
who “Jive noxt door.”
A—4
The following may be termed a self-evident
proposition:
“Sampson was strongs in Body and Bone,
—-But he coulde not pay Money WhTen h’e bad
none.”
That Elopement Case—Wo stated on Wed- visions for general education! believing the in-
telligenee of tbe poople to bd necessary
telligenee of the poople to be neeessary to the
right use and tbe permanence of our liberties,
civil and religions.
. !■■■■ »' ' # "
Tho modest womratwho-giive tbe “withering
look” to oaptain Johnathan, becanse he talked
of his vessel hugging the shore, has again had
her sensibilities shocked by tbe naked condi-
tion of tbe trees. While they were being strip-
podshe retired t» her room for a season of med
iation. She will make her nppenrnnco on
Christians evo if the ohildred won’t^, say any
thing to stockings!
Quaint and Beautiful Proverb.—
He that in the world would rise.
Most read toe news and adrertifed.
“Keep yonr dog away from me,” said a dan
dy to a butcher boy (
‘•Darn the dog, he's always Aftcl pVlpptds, WtiA
the boy. ' _ . ,
Soys the lovely Julia to the bewitching Fah-
ny, “Why is ttHeW baby like a cow’s tail?”—
Fanny blushed ns she answeYed, Because it
■TiMk'hovev seen before."
Unpopular Personage.—A fat man ft Sit
omnibus, a tall umn in a crowd, and a shortmaA
on parade.
A Stone has bcetr invented for the comfort
of travelers. It is put under the feet and a
mustard plaster upon the head, which draws
the heat through the whole system;
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