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TERMS—$2 00 PER ANHUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Americans Shall Rule America." EDITORS ROME, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER, 25, 1855. VOLUME 11 in their own Cljc Home (Courier muSISD BTt&T miUT vouuo. ». btoiu.] (a. c. rnruir. BY DXVINELL «fc FINLEY. Terms of Subscription: ADVASCB, PF.R ANNUM, ........ $2 00 Brim is six months, . . . . v . . . #S 50 ... . $.> 00 VAIP AT TISK of ntjat. Terms of Advertising: xf* Legal Advertisements will be inserted \t the osnnl rates. Miscellaneous Advertise- •menu at pet of it lines or less, for the *if#t and jO cent? for each subsequent insertion. 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 VEYOR OFFICE. OST R. OME. Georgia, continue •rouace. S m i 00D Br Fancy es. RE PA III IMG S'.yv 1 OX the tiltllT-i to all 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; iaiaHHHlHHi HHHbhHHhEI