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LITERARY IJempimntc %ttsa%. PENFIELD, GEOEGIAo (J/fiuuetay Orffominy, &6uyu4 ip, 4 sss. The observance of the sabbath is at this time attracting much attention, and is a subject upon which a great diversity of opin ions are entertained. Some, with evident pro clivities toward atheism, contend that it is ot hu man origin, and should therefore be abolished; others deny that it was set apart by Divine ap pointment, but defend it on the ground of expe diency, while the larger and more reasonable class claim it to have been sacredlv instituted, according to the literal statements of Revelation. The two former can maintain their positions only by spec ulative reasonings which begin and end in scepti cism ; the latter, sustained by a “ Thus saitli the Lord,” stand in no need of logical sophisms. fine of the most striking proofs of the wisdom of the decalogue is the fact that its laws form the very ground-work of society, and no community | can exist happily without their operation. Those , who deny that the prophet received them from ! Heaven, freshly impressed by the finger of Deity, j admit that they contain the best code of ethics f which mankind have ever known. Surpassing j anything which human wisdom could devise, j they are essential to the very existence of the j race. Os none of the commandments is this more | true than that which has set apart the Sabbath j as a holy day. So perfectly the law accord j with reason, that he who advocates its observance because it shows a principle of obedience to God, may do so, likewise, because it is a source of ben efit to man. j That men do need, and must have, periodic seasons of rest and recreation, is a proposition j which no one can successfully deny. Nothing ! but that deep-seated hatred which some men have for the Bible and all that it contains, could cause any one to entertain for a moment a con trary opinion. But in this matter we are not gui ded by abstract reasoning alone. All nations, whatever might have been their state of civiliza tion or religious faith, have felt the necessity for periods of relaxation from labor, and have so di vided their time as to make these regular in their returns. When French Atheism swept away the throne and the altar, it also abolished the Sab bath. But the movement was an unfortunate one, and soon proved itself a failure. The work ing classes who had been accustomed to one rest i day in seven, soon found their energies to tire j down and wear out when they had no cessation from toil. The decimal division of time was adopted, but then the amount of rest was too small, in proportion to the amount of labor. This impious experimenting of the French peo ple show's conclusively that, as the Sabbath was established by a power higher than man, he can not abolish it at his pleasure. He may say by statutes, “Thou shalt not be;” but there is a ne cessity for it in his ow r n nature which, however much he may deprecate, he cannot overcome. : The utility of the Sabbath being established, •and its divine origin admitted, the question next ! arises as to the manner of its observance. In ref erence to this, there is a diversity of opinion, and much difference in practice. Some hold that it should be made a day of amusement and rejoic ing, while others contend for all that sanctity with which it was invested by the ancient Jews, j What the Xew T Testament explicitly teaches is a t just mean between these extremes. “ The Sab bath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;” hence, though it is not a time for j labor or festivity, works of mercy and necessity are no desecrations of its purity. Yet, there is great danger of permitting the idea of necessity to include too much. Thousands who believe ( the Sabbath to be a holy day, and are actuated j by a desire to do what is right, are guilty of its violation at its every return from this very cause. They convert it into a day for visiting or receiv ing visits, and then induce themselves to believe that the preparations which they are compelled to make are works of necessity. In rural dis tricts where population is sparse, this is to a great extent unavoidable, and this apparent disregard of the day is less indicative of immorality than would seem. But in our cities and larger towns, the open and habitual desecrations of the Sabbath are unpardonable, and afford an infallible indica tion of a low state of morals. We agree, in general, with the maxim that j men cannot be legislated into morality; but we | contend that immorality can be restrained, and j positive vice prevented, by law. In accordance ] with this view, we think more stringent methods 1 should be adopted to enforce, at least, a respect ful observance of the Sabbath in our large cities, j In Paris it is not distinguished from any other j day save by the increased liveliness of the streets ! and the more busied activity about the shops of tradesmen. In New York, the state of things is almost as bad. Not more than one-tenth of the denizens of that metropolis ever attend church at all. Liquor shops and dry good stores may be found in any number as boldly open and as thickly thronged .vith customers as on Monday or Wednesday. This ought not so to be. Men, in this country, cannot be compelled to go to church and listen to the preaching of the Gospel, | or to stay at home and read their Bibles; but J they can and ought to be compelled to close their ; doors, desist from their vocations and pay a show ! of respect to this day which tlie Supreme Ruler of the universe hath appointed. But we degrade the Sabbath when we consider it merely a day of rest—a pause in which body and spirit may gather new energies. It is some : thing nobler than this. Commemorative of the greatest event which the universe has ever wit nessed, it possesses a positive, active, evangelizing influence. The labor for filthy lucre and the toil which ambition imposes, cease, and the man can hold communion with his own soul, and contem plate its higher destiny. He reads himself, and finds his need of a stronger support and a fuller source of comfort than the world can give. This sacred day, if it be rightly employed, and the heart be opened to all the holy influences it can exert, will bring the purest joys which, while mor tal, he can know. Let every man thank God for the Sabbath, nor murmur at the requirement of its strict observance. It Will render him better and happier on earth, and prepare him for Heaven. Wife-Pinching.— The Hartford Free Press gives the following synopsis of a case which occurred at Bristol, Connecticut: A man—call him Smith—went to the bed and wanted the bedroom door left open. His wife thought the weather cool enough to shut it. She went to bed an hour after, but before the dispute ( was settled he pinched her. They both went to sleep, and the next day she went home to her fa ther. She complained to the grand juror, and Smith was fined $6 and costs. Smith appealed >to the Superior Court. His defense was that she threw her leg that way and hit a boil from which he was suffering, and that he merely struck out to save himself. Two lawyers on each side were engaged. ‘Hie Earl of Carlisle has been employing his time, since he resigned the lord-lieutenancy of Ireland, in the consideration of theological sub jects, and the result has been the production of a work, entitled “The Second Vision of Daniel.” j file people of Lee county, have deter mined, by vote, to keep ’heir court house at Starkesville. | A man by the name of Claiborne Vaughn was i recently killed in a row at the Wildcat court j ground in Forsyth county. Dr. Wm. Rav, of Pulaski county, was drowned j 01 * Hie Oth insfc., while bathing in a mill pond ; with some of his young friends. The Degree of L. L. D. was conferred on Wm. B. | Hodgson Esq., of Savannah, by his Alma Mater , Princeton College, at the late commencement The LaGrange Reporter , of the loth inst., an nounces the death of Maj. George Hard, an old and respected citizen of Troup county, in the 73d ; year of his age. - Peterson's Magazine for September is at hand, with all its varied attractions—pictures, fasbion i plates, music and patterns. Published by C. J. Peterson, Philadelphia, at S2 a-vear. We learn from the Macon papers that a grand ball will be given at the Indian Springs, on the 15th inst. The Telegraph says it is expected to be j a grand affair, the like of which has not been j seen it that region for many a day. <<■ —- Godey's Lady's Book for September is punctually jon our table. The illustrations of this number i are not so elegant as this magazine ordinarily I presents. Godey maintains an unrivalled popu larity in every part of the country. Trice, So a year. Club rates, liberal. Ladies’ Home Magazine, edited by T. S. Arthur and Miss V. F. Townsend, is especially designed for the home circle and the nursery, for which it is admirably suited. The present (September) number contain a sketch of the editress by Louis C. Moulton. Price, §2 a-year; 4 copies, $5. A. A. Gaulding, Esq., for a number of years ed itor of the Empire State, published at Griffin, has retired from the Chair Editorial, as he has pur chased an interest in the Atlanta Intelligencer. Maj. J. 11. Steele, formerly the editor of the In- \ telligenecr succeeds him. We wish them both sue- | cess. The Athens Banner says: At a meeting of the Trustees of Franklin College, at commencement, the resignation of Messrs. Jas. 11. Couper, of Glynn county, and A. L. Alexander, of Wilkes county, were received. Messrs. Wm. Dougherty, of this place, and John Barnes, of Liberty county, were elected to fill their places. We are placed under obligations to some un known friend for a neatly-printed catalogue of the officers and students of Bowdon Collegiate Insti tution. This school, located at Bowdon, Carroll Cos. Ga. though young, lias already won an envia ble reputation, and commands quite a wide range of patronage. It is under the charge of C. A. McDaniel, A. M. and J. M. Richardson, B. S. as joint proprietors, who have proved themselves eminently worthy of public confidence as teach- i i ers. We wish them the best success. The . 1 tlanta Medical <(• Surgical Journal comes to ! us with well-filled pages—by far, the larger por tion being original matter. It is the organ of the Medical College located in Atlanta, and we judge, by appearances, that both the college and the journal are rapidly gaining in public favor. The latter, especially, should be supported by the I members of the profession : for we know of no j i more handsome scientific periodical in the South- i ern country. Price, S3 a-year, in advance. People do not love to hear the truth about themselves, whatever professions they may make • to the contrary. Were a book written which de- j scribed human nature just as it is, and called things by their right names, the sovereign masses would not be long in calling for bell, book and i candle for its condemnation.. Justin proportion as a man approaches this open candor, does lie become unpopular. It is the whining, smooth tongued sycophant who will fawn for a smile of public favor that is hazzaed with shouts of ap plause, and floated on the waves of popularity. ‘Westminster Review. The July number of this excellent quarterly has come to us with an unu- [ sually attractive table of contents. There are • seven papers, among which we would particularly notice “Calvin at Geneva,” “Cardinal Wiseman’s Recollections” and “Women Artists,” besides some fifteen or twenty pages devoted to contem -1 porary literature. Re-publislied from the British j advance sheets by L. Scott & Cos. New York, at iS3 a-year. Either of the Reviews and Blackwbod, |So ; Blackwood and the four Reviews, $lO. This number begins anew volume. “ Labor-Saving Contrivances,” is the latest phrase ; adopted as descriptive of lotteries by some ardent ! admirer of the institution. No one ever doubted that they were “ labor-saving contrivances. ” But to | whom do they save labor? Not to the poor, mis guided wretches who deprive themselves of bread in order that they may fling their last hard-earned dollars into the coffers of those who fatten, grow rich—aye, and save labor by their swindling schemes. This excessive desire to save labor too often leads to crime, and unfortunately this is not the only instance in which people are duped j to tlieir ruin by high-sounding names. ! It is sad to see a man of sense mounted on a i hobby; but when a fool ascends one, it is a sight j which neither angels can pity or men endure. Yet, this class are the most inveterate hobby riders. They will take up some notion the most absurd imaginable and become so enthusiastically rapt as to lose sight of all reason and common sense. Always prepared to talk, but never ready to render a reason they scoff at opposing facts, browbeat the doubting with hold, unsus tained assertions, and heap scurrilous abuse on all who deny their pretensions. Their extrava gances soon render them notorious, and mistaking this for reputation, they become inordinately puffed up witli vanity. The more they are no ticed, the worse the malady becomes, until the most desperate remedies give no relief. If there were originality, even a small stock of common sense, the disease may run its course and the pa tient recover ; but where this is wanting, the asy lum or the mad-house are the only alternatives. The New York Evening Post, in referring to the annual exercises of the literary institutions, and the number of graduates thrown upon the coun try, gives the following illustration of the magical effect which the bestowal of titles sometimes pro duces : This is the season, too, for sowing the annual I crop of doctorates. In the morning many persons ; will arise men and in the evening will go to bed Doctors of Divinity or Doctors of Civil and Canon Law. There are some cases when the conferring of the doctor of divinity does great good It sometimes puts a sudden end to the complaints of a too f ault-fmdiug congregation.aThestory is told of a clergymen in a New England village, who had been in the same pastorate for many year s, and who found his influence at length sensibly diminishing. His people desired a change— they wanted a smart er man. Some of his friends, however, signed a petition, carried to a New England college, and nnalJ.y the doctorate was conferred on tho aged remaining years were passed in peace among his people, and they followed him lovinly to his bu rial. “ Ye clouds that are the ornament of Heaven ; Who give to it its gayest shadowings And its most awful glories ; who roll hi the dark tempest, or at d<nvy evening flow low in tenaerest beauty; ye are to us A volume full of wisdom.” TO the lover of natural beauty, no object which is presented to his cvery-day observation is fraught with a more attractive interest than clouds. Ever floating above us, they never grow old or common ; for they continually charm the eye with a never-ending variety in size, form and color. Now we behold the white rack floating loosety in the fields of ether, like the pinion of j some pure spirit hovering, with guardian care, ! over its charge below. Then we see them clus tering, like folds of gorgeous tapestry, tinted with ten thousand dyes, forming a canopy around the j day-god’s couch. There are purple dottings that dapple the sky before the morning sun, and the mountain-like peaks which presage the storm. Constantly changing, they afford the eye contin ual delictit, when the deep emeral of earth fa tigues the sight and the sky’s deep azure grows ‘ dull. Clouds are spoken of in writing in connection r with darkness and gloom ; are used as figures in j speaking of grief, misfortune or crime. Yet, clouds in nature seldom produce impressions like j i these upon the mind. Few things contain more : elements of the sublime than a rain cloud of j I spring or early summer. The sun has passed the j meridian. All the ranks of vegetation—grass, i flowers, trees, lie scorching in the rays of an un- i clouded sun. Not a breeze is stirring, and “ all the air a solemn stillness holds.” But. there comes a sound low, indistinct, distant, and we half doubt the sense which gave the intimation, j It breaks in once more, and looking i the direc tion whence it proceeded, we see a dark mass of cloud skirting the horizon. It comes on rapidly, heavy thunders the meanwhile rolling in its bosom and lightnings playing brilliantly over its surface. Then falls the first large crystal drop, and then another and another until the whole ground is bathed in the gentle moisture. They cease; the clouds roll off; the thunders groan in long, loud farewell peals, while an arch of colors far brighter than ever were on the painter’s palette spans the eastern sky. What a change has come over the ; scene in those few minutes. The flowers have ! raised their lately drooping heads, the birds are | chirping forth merrily their lays in each tree, and ; all the landscape seems radiant with gladness. All this change that cloud hath wrought. There are dark clouds which vail the sun’s 1 brightness, and possess neither gracefulness of form or beauty of color. The wintry cloud hangs heavy in damp chilliness, and weighs down all cheerfulness. But these come so rarely that | they only serve to show us how lovel/ is the sky when unobserved; how passingly beautiful is the ten thousand other forms of clouds that float over j its surface. ■ 0m ii ATONE but the brave deserve the fair,” was _L\ an adage when bravery was held to be the highest and noblest of virtues. It was the motto of the Crusader, which sustained him amidst suf fering, and urged him on to deeds of valor, i I When in a foreign clime beneath the fervor of a torrid sun, he thought of his lady love and the sweet smile of welcome with which slie would j greet his return, he could dare any danger and meet any foe. Her presence at the tournament always heralded the performance of heroic ex ploits. Her approving glance to her chosen knight imparted strength to his arm, and in spired him with a dauntless energy which physi cal force alone could not overcome. When these i ; rough warriors met in the festive hall and the i cup went freely round, woman was the theme of i their songs, and they breathed her name with all the reverence due idolized beings. Yet were they who won the homage of these/ ; steel-clad knights no race of Amazons. They i j were brought up with tender care, like delicate ; plants upon whose leaves no wintry wind is al- : lowed to blow. Though her love ruled the camp j j and court, it was only in the social quiet of the ; drawing-room, or the seclusion of the grove, that . she was known. There her hands plied the nee- die and wrought the plain, though elegant, fab- rics with which she adorned he. 1 person. Now | ( and then, for her father, brother or lover, she ] warbled some melody, while her white fingers would wander gracefully through the cords of her i lute in easy accompaniment. Whenever she ap- \ \ ! peared in public—which she seldom did —it was • ’ With a shrinking mo lesty that won the heart of j , every beholder. The unpolished soldier, rough among his comrades as Ilyrcanian bears, when he came into her presence, felt the magic of her in fluence and became a gentle man. Such was woman during the age of chivalry— soft, pure, innocent and modest. Being such, she was worthy of that half-idolatrous adoration which was paid at her shrine. Perhaps they erred. She was then man’s dream —his mythic , deity, and not that helpmate which her Creator 1 < designed she should be. But since then has her ; 1 course been one of advancement or degeneracy ?; ; ! Have all the vaunted schemes for her ameliora tion succeeded in bringing her any nearer her < true position than she was then? May we not, in this day of “ female influence” and “female education,” look back at the days of chivalry and , sigh foi the good old times that are gone ? The following little Scotcli lines, which we pick , up while floating around, have all the sweetness and delicate pathos of Burns. Are they not beau- i tiful. THE BABIE. Nae shoon to hide her liny tae, Nae stocking on her feet, Her supple ankle white as snaw, Or earthly blossoms sweet. Her simple dress of sprinkled pink, Her double, dimpled chin, Her puckered lip and baumy mou, With na one tooth uetween. Her een, sae like her mither’s ccn, Twa gentle liquid things ; Her face is like an angel’s face We’re glad she has na wings. She is the budding o’ our love, A giftie God gi’ed us; We munna love the gift ow er weet, Twad be nae blessing to us. HUSBANDS’ MISTAKES. We make a great mistake in our treatment ol our wives ; as lovers we are worshipful; as hus bands we are too often bearish to them. \ e run into extremes each way. But why, after paying a woman the highest compliment we can, we are, when she has accepted it, to consider her ex empt from the attention due to familiarity’ breeds contempt.” In that case she aso should lose her'former exalted opinion of us. I oliteness, by its silken fetters, restrains an evil feeling: it is a bad plan to throw them off entirely. We need not be as ceremonious as if with utter stian gers, but we had better keep up our good manners; it pleases the wife, and does us no harm. Last year we would not have sworn at her playing on the piano, nor told her, “ she did not know what she was talking about:” why should wedo it now? At least let us “school ourselves before folks; there is no occasion'to mortify her foolishly; wo men will better bear downright ill-usage than this kind of lowering treatment. Let a man re spect a wife, treat her like a lady, and she will most commonly act up to his standard . The wo man who is constantly put down, becomes inca pable of acting for herself on an emergency ; she has no confidence in lier own judgement ; she distracts you by her irresolution, or occasionally adheres to some ill-advised line of conduct,. be cause your continual opinionative contradictions have ceased to have any weight witn her. Once she learns to say, “Oh, when I propose anything my husband will go to tlfe contrary way,” there is an end to your domestic comfort. — New Monthly. ! do you think of Thackeray’s Virgin ! tV ians? ’ asks a correspondent of us in a pri ,j vate letter. As this is an interrogatory every day passed between the tens of thousands of readers nf Harfteds Monthly, it. may not be inappropriate to give our querist a public reply, and make it the subject of a few short paragraphs. Some months ago we penned an article on this same subject, in which we set forth the author’s injustice to the character of one whom every American delights to honor. Since then, his hero | has been carried from our shores, and introduced | into the scenery and society of the mother coun try. Here he is more at home. Thackeray has evidently studied with much care the literature of the last century, and thoroughly acquainted j himself with the manners and customs of that period in which his story is laid. Life, as it was at that time, both in this country an 1 in England, is portrayed by a pen which does not hesitate to write the name of a vice because it happens to be found in a titled personage, lie represents men . just as they are to be found, and if there is more j | of shadow than light in the picture’ it is the fault ; of human nature, and not that he was too cyni- j i cal to recognise and pay homage to virtue, i It is not the plot of the “ Virginians” which] ; renders it an interesting novel. Few authors ! ; could have so little machinery and let that move ] ] so slowly, without becoming intolerably tiresome. ! i Thus far in thirty-six chapters he has not ad vanced the story more than the writer of a liun ! dred-paged yellow cover would do in as many paragraphs. Yet, the attention of the reader never flags for a moment in the perusal. The ■ delineations are so accurate, the salient points of 1 character so clearly presented, the light sand j shades so skillfully shifted, that the interest is constantly maintained. He who reads works of fiction for the sake of striking incidents and start ling adventures, will be disappointed. Those who expect to find fn every novel, coarse wit that will convulse the frame with side-splitting laughter, will vote this a bore. But all who love those del icate touches of humor which diffuse a quiet pleasure and become more agreeable the oftener they are read; who delight in representations of human nature neither over-drawn or two highly colored; who like truth stated with candor, with out ill-nature, will find the Virginians a most en tertaining and instructive book. Such are the general merits of the work ; but ; we do not withdraw our charge that he has been i unjust to the character of Washington. He may ! with impunity represent Chesterfield as devoted to the card table, and the clerical dignities of that age as given to every species of gaming. We ‘ have no doubt but all this is true. But the life i and character of the father of his country is too 1 familiar even to the most ignorant citizen of our : land, to admit of any coloring from the pencil of i | imagination. He has committed a great mistake ] in selecting a historical personage so well known to play a part in a work of fiction. Here, a single sentence that touches the quick of American pride will blot out, or very much obscure, his unnum bered excellences. Os the period of time over which he designs his j story to extend, we cannot form the slightest guess. We feel assured, however, that he cannot come down to the revolution, describe its scenes, incidents and characters without wounding the patriotic pride of our people. If he does this, his whole book, so far as this country is concerned, will be a failure. Be it senseless bigotry or un reasonable prejudice, there are names in our his tory which no American can hear lightly men tioned without being moved. We think it an impossibility for any true Briton to write of Frank lin, Adams, Jefferson and the long list of worthies : whom the Revolution made heroes, as we I have been accustomed to think, write and speak of them. He would be more than mortal if he could do so. We hope, therefore, for Thackeray’s sake; for the sake of his widely extended repu tation, that he will close his story before this trou blous period, and not attempt to walk over the ashes of a volcanoe, beneath which the embers are still burning. With the exception mentioned, we like the Virginians; but whenever he would des ecrate a statue in our historic temple, his many excellences cannot screen him from condemna tion. WILLIAM I. OF PRUSSIA’S “BEAUTIES.” During his father’s lifetime, he had commenced the formation of a regimentof tall recruits, which lie had been obliged to keep seduously concealed from the paternal eye, exercising them privately at Mittenwalde, and giving orders that, should the king pay one of his infrequent visits to that place, they should conceal themselves and re main perdus till his departure. On Fedrick Wil liam’s accession, he had left deeply grieved and astonished that the citizens of Berlin should re fuse to receive his pet giants into quarters among them. The great elector had built a house and laid out gardens in the Dutch style at Potsdam ; these gardens his grandson turned into parade grounds, and there he established his “blue chil dren,” as they were called, on account of the col or of their uniform. Bielefeld gives a description of thisregiment of colossi. “ Naturelie says, “who has been so lavish to them in one respect, lias, been but a niggardly step-dame in others. They had either ugly faces, or crooked legs, or some other defect.” However, Fredrick William lav ished enormous sums upon them ; some of the pe culiar giants had as much as two florins pay per day, and were allowed a trade besides. No sum was considered, by the usually parsimonious king, too largee to be paid for a huge grenadier; and footing with the king of Prussia, had nothing to do but to search the dominions for the tallest specimens of humanity contained in them. A present of a recruit of six feet might be counted on to secure Frederick William’s friendship; of six feet two, his warmest alliance; and so on in pro portion. The tallest and finest of these grena diers was an Irishman, by name James Kirkland whose procural and transmission from his native bogs to the parade-ground at Potsdam, had cost Frederick William upwards of twelve hundred pounds sterling. But no one whose stature had obtained a more than ordinary growth was safe from the hands of his Majesty’s rocruiters. At one time a young man by name Schindorf, who had been diligently prosecuting the study of law for five years, at Halle, disappeared suddenly; he was a very tail man ; the dreaded recruiting Wagen had been seen in the neighborhood ; the combination was easy, the deduction certain. The college sent up a remonstrance, March 10, 1731, upon this misappropriation of mind to the mere purposes of matter. The king’s answer was very quickly given in his usual concise style, “Shall not reason. That is my subject.” His passion for tall soldiers led him to wish to raise a race of large people, so as to be able to recruit his great regiment without trouble. One day meet ing a very tall and well-made village girl in the neighborhood of Potsdam, he asked her to take a note, which he wrote on the spot, to the captain of his regiment. Either suspecting something, or being in a hurry, the girl gave the note to a little old woman whom she fell in with, and charged her to deliver it as directed. This note con tained an order to the captain to have the bearer instantly married to the tallest man in the regi ment, whose name was specified. On being ac quainted with his fate, and introduced to his bride, the poor young fellow was in despair. He begged and entreated, fell on his knees and wept, but all to no purpose; the king’s will was law, and the matrimonial noose was tied. However, the king, on hearing of the exchange of brides that had been made, allowed the marriage to be dissolved. —Memoirs of the Queens of Prussia. —_— The Washington Union says the equestrian statue of Washington is now nearly Completed, and its distinguished artist, Clark Mills, an nounces that it will be inaugurated on the 22d of Februrary next. The location for the statue is not yet decided upon. The Vicksburg Whin Recommends to duellists that hereafter all difficulties should be brought before a court of honor; the court deciding in fa vor of a fight, the parties to be compelled to fire until one is killed, and then the other to be ar rested and hung for murder. “fr—mi nmyiii ■ bum in ‘'irinii nrtntiimnw • : Two agents of the underground fail road have . been arrested in New Orleans’’endeavoring to en ■ tide a slave away to Canada. ; Geo. Wilkes, editor of “PofCrs's, Spirit"’ is-suing i ; Bennett, of the Herald , for 825,000 damages for i classing his paper, with several obscene sheets. r l lie New York Herald says that the cost of \ O’ansmiting one ccdlumn of news from England, | >y the telegraph cable, will be two thousand dol ; lars. I Mr. Singlestick mystified a tea-party by remark | iag that, women are facts. When pressed to ex j plain his meaning, he said “Facts arc stubborn i things. j Ex-President Pierce and wife arrived at Gibral | 011 of July, and were there on the 1 tth waiting for a steamer to take passage up the ; Mediterranean. ■ I j “ People,” says a modern philosopher, “go ac -1 cording to their brains: if these lie in their heads, | they study : if in their belly, they eat and drink': . if in their heels, they dance.” ; At the commencement of Bowdon College in j Brunswick: Maine, the honorary degree of L. J,. j IX was conferred on the lion. Wm. Pitt Fessen j den, and the Hon. Jefferson Davis. Bill riietXord and Bob Station, two celebrated j English thieves, have been arrested in X. York, j charged with stealing 810,000, in Virginia bank 1 notes, from Enoch Pratt & Cos., of Baltimore. Professor Robert W. -Barnwell, of So. Ca. f'ol | le §?> declines accepting the Presidency of Wi liam and Mary College, Va. He will not relinquish wiiat lie regards his post of duty to his own State. It is estimated that from the Ist of January 18-h, to the Ist of January, 1858, more than 51 - oOOjOOO of the world’s population went down to the grav e in various parts of the known earth. The Memphis Bulletin of the 10th inst, states that Mr. W. 11. Chrisp, the manager of the 6a i iet .V } heat re in Memphis, has recovered his sight and is now able to superintend his business per sonally. 1 It is said that several American counts have been made in It-ally in tliis way; The Pope not being able to finish a certain railway for lack of t money, offered the title of count to every foreign er to subscribe 85,000 to the road. 1 An entire Chinese regiment has been sentenced to wear women’s clothes for five years, for aban doning an untenable fort during the recent attack upon Canton by the French and English forces. Most cruel punishment we imagine . ; The 30,000 plates which form the hull of the Great Eastern are hound together by 3,000,000 rivets. These hold together the frame-works of a 1 structure which would carry 10,000 troops to In : dia, with 18,000 tons of coai and cargo, i The getters up of a bear hunt in Min esota invite 1 the ladies to participate iii the sport. But the la i dies had better not do it, especially if they dress’ 1 fashionably. Each of them might chance to be : shot from appearing to be “<< little hair.” 1 < hie of the subjects of Parisiah gossip just now i is a rare case, lately brouhgtto light, of a man one 1 hundred and twenty years old. Four years ago j he married a wife was his junior by just a hundred years, and by whom he had three children! i The Russian Mission now at Pekin has in a re | cent report, made known the result of the last ! census taken by order of the Emperor of China. | The present papulation is said by this document ■to amount to 455,000,000; that of Pekin being | 1,048,814. It is certain a great part of what we call good or ill fortune, rises out of right or wrong measures and schemes of life. When I hear a man com p-lain of his being unfortunate in all liis undertak ings, I shrewdly suspect him for a very weak man in liis affairs. A man with an enormous large mouth called on a dentist to get a tooth drawn. After the den tist had prepared his instrument, and was about to commence operations, the man began to strain and stretch his mouth till liegot ittoamostfright ! ful extent. “Stay, sir,” said the dentist, ‘don’t trouble yourself to stretch your mouth any wider, for I intend to stand on the outside.” A monument is to be erected to the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth; cost from 8300,000 to 841)0,- 000. It will be built of granite, 153 feet high, 80 at the base, with sitting figures from 38 to 70 feet high. It is to be completed in twelve years from August, been subscribed, principally in Massachu setts. The society for building the monument have purchased all the estates immediately around the venerable rock, and also a site for the monu ment embracing ten acres of land, commanding a fine view of the harbor and the locality of the rock. A World to Bovs. —Boys, did you ever think that this great world, with all its wealth and woe—with all its mines and mountains—oceans, seas and rivers—with all its shipping, Steamboats, railroads, and magnetic telegraphs—with all its millions of darkly grouping men, and all sciences and progress of ages will soon he given over to the boys of the present age—boys like you, assembled in schoolrooms, or playing without them on both sides of the Atlantic ! Believe it, and look abroad upon your inheritance, and get ready to enter upon possession. The Kings, Presidents, Govern ors, Statesmen, Pilosopliers, Ministers, Teachers, men of the future, are all boys, whose feet, like yours cannot reach the floor, when seated upon the benches upon which t hey are learning to mas ter the monysyllables of their respective language. —The Learned Blacksmith. A Thought. —“lt is not all of life to live, nor all of death to die.” These few words contain volumes of thought, and are of a solemnity which j deserves tlieir being engraven upon every ‘heart; their importance is as vast, as immensity, anil [their influence as enduring as eternity. Brutes die and are no more; men die, and they just begin to [live. Earth is a place of probation, where we pass through the fiery ordeal of trial; when old age, care or sorrow, ushers us into the presence of man’s universal friend—death—we are placed in the scales of equity, held by the hand of Omnipotence and are weighed. We have, artist-like, painted our lives upon the firmament of heaven, and it appears before us, the workmanship of our own hands ; and then, if never before, we feel the im pressiveness of the fact—‘lt is not all of life to live nor all of death to die.’— Anon. A False Marriage. —Perhaps the serverest form of human sorrow—that which most nearly approaclies the slow gnawing agony of him fixed hopeless on the immovable rock—arises from mar riage in’ which there was never any friendship, but the original bond was earthly passion, arro gating to itself, with the impudent lie of a harlot, the heavenly name of love. It is only base na tures that are beguiled by the vulgar glare of gold, natures incapable of lofty joy or acute sor row. But passion is a syren of more willing song —of more fatally charming lure; the impulsive, the noble, fall a victim to her, and, after a short, I delirious dream, awake to a life of hopeless mise ry. Friendship and love must unite in every married union where -happiness can reasonably oe expected or truly deserved ; and from friend ship we mean an affection arising from pure sym pathy of spirit, independent of aught else. Let none look for happiness in marriage who are una ble deliberately and firmly to declare that it would, be a happiness to live together for life, though they were of the same sox. W e state this with some breadth, and do so with consideration ; we point a hidden rock round which the ocean seems to smile in sunny calm, but on whioli many a noble bark has perished. Ostriches. —The garden of the Mamma, at Al giers, possessed two years ago four ostrich es, which were the object of considerable attraction on ac count of the ravenous manner in which they de voured the cakes and o ther articles of food offered them. The number has since then increased to fourteen. In 1857 a first attempt at hatching pro duced only one young one. The second at tempt produced nine, from twelve eggs laid. Another is now sitting, and the result is looked for with considerable interest. The result obtained, which is due to the perservering efforts of the director of the establishment, lead to the almost certainty that this gigantic bird may, at no distant period, become a regular inhabitant of the poultry-yard. The profits which might arise from the breeding of ostriches are not to be despised. In the first placejja single female will give thirty kilogrammes of eggs; next, the feathers are every day becom ing more and more scarce in the market; and, lastly, the flesh, by the bird being brought into a domestic state, would become good food. As to the keep of the ostrich, it is not very expensive, its food being composed of fresh grass veget ables, and corn.— Galignam’s Messenger, “THEOLDLOVE.” We find the following floating about the news papers. It lias more than the average merit of such fugitive poems: I met her; she was thin anrl old ; . She stooped, and trod with tottering feet; The hair was grey that once was gold, The voice was harsh that once was sweet. Her hands were withered, and her eyes, Robbed of the garish light of joy, Were dim ; 1 felt a sad surprise That I Lad loved her when a boy. Hut yet a something in her air, Restored 111 c to the vanished time. My heart grew young and seemed to wear The brightness of my youthful prime. 1 look her withered hand in mine— Its touch recalled a ghost of joy;— I kissed it with a reverend sigh, For 1 had loved her when a boy. THE LIGHT AT HOME. The light at home! how bright its beams, W hen evening shades around us fall, And from the lattice far it gleams, To love, and rest, and comfort all; When wearied with the toils of day. And strife for glory, gold or fame, - How sweet to seek the quiet way, Where loving lips will lisp bur name, Around the light at home! When through the dark and stormy night, ‘1 he wayward wanderer horneward flies, Mow cheering is that twinkling lights AY hieh through the forest gloom he spies 1 It is the light of home. He feels ‘1 hat loving hcaiis will greet him there, And softly through his bosom steals The joy and love that banish care Around the light at home. The light at home! how still and sweet It peeps from yonder cottage poor— The weary laborer to greet— When the toils of day are o’er! Sad is tlie soul that does not know r The blessings that the beams imparl, The cheerful hopes and joys that flow, And lighten up the heaviest heart Around the light at home. FIRST ADVANCES TO MATRIMONY. Among civilized nations, it is almost the uni versal rule that all advances towards matrimony are to be made solely by the male. It would bo thought a violation of modesty for the lady in any case—unless, perhaps, she were a royal person— age—to manifest any evidence of partiality to wards a gentleman who had not first given de cided tokens oi his admiration. There is no very philosophical ground for this rigid rule, that we are aware of, either in nature or reason; and we aie not justified in contemning those who choose to break through it—it being a custom perfectly conventional, and really of no moral importance whatever. Among the natives of Paraguay, such a one-sided reciprocity is utterly unknown’ There both male and female are at liberty to declare their preference for one another, without either of them incurring the slightest obloquy. All a natu ral modesty requires is the occasional intervention of a third party, who shall act for the lady the part which the gentleman is supposed to he coura geous enough to enact for himself. When a lass of Paraguay is smitten with the charms of a young Indian warrior, she apj.lies to an elder of her tribe, or to tiie missionary of the station, to pro cure on her behalf liis consent to the match. If the proposition is accepted, all is well, and the pair are married. If. on the other hand, it is de clined, it becomes the office of the unsuccessful meditator to reconcile her to the disappointment, which is accomplished generally with no great difficulty, there having been 110 pining in secret, no wire drawing, dallying circumlocutions, no painful suspense in the transaction of the busi ness. if among ourselves, ladies are sometimes known to take the initiative, we see no great reason for prudish exclamations, or any severe judgment upon theircondiict. The proof of a pudding, they say, is in the eating, and the proof of the wisdom or propriety of any step is to be looked for in the results. Owing- to the rigid adherence, in this country, to the custom above alluded to, we never personally knew but one instance of a matri monial match proposed by the lady partner; but that one turned out well. It happened as fol lows : A young artist who pain ted tolerable landscapes at which lie wrought dismally hard for the benefit of the dealers, lodged on the second floor Os a tradesman’s house, in the neighborhood of Oxford street. He had a hard struggle to maintain a re spectable appearance, and to save enoughtto ena ble him to make the annual summer sketching trip, which was indispensable to furnish him with subjects for the easel. His landlord, who had a thriving business, diank himself into delirium tre mens, and died at the age of thirty-five, leaving a young widow without incumbrances, in possession of the concern. From causes we need not specify, the artist, a year after, fell into difficulties and debt, and of course into arrears with liis rent. Hopeless at length of extricating himself; and resolving to retrench, 110 sent for his landlady, and laid frankly before her the sad ease qf liis exchequer, ottering either to quit or to remove to less expensive quar ters in the attic above, and concluded by asking her advice. The advice she gave him then and there was, that he should takeher to church, and wipe out the debt at the altar. We know nothing of the precise terms in which the advice was con veyed. but that was the sense of it, and in another moment the astonished artist was in his mind. ‘l’lie result has been already suggested. The wed ding came off in a month. The business ft as ad vantageously sold; and with the means at com mand of procuring valuable instruction, and to complete his studies by travel, the artist, in a few years, took high rank in liis profession, and has since realised both independence and reputation. A MAN HUNG HIMSELF IN FUN. Avery sad affair transpired at Princeton, near our city, on Thursday last. Mr. Daniel Elliott, who lives in Princeton, butchering beeves and selling them in the neighborhood, hung himself in liis slaughter house. He was in an exceedingly good humor during the day and evening, and naturally of a playful disposition, gave vent to it by many playful things. He had bought some cattle, had extended his business, was doing well and felt lively and encouraged, lie so expressed himself to his wife and friends. Going from the house to his stable, lie fed liis horse, and taking liis little girl and a neighbor’s little boy, some thirteen years old, he went on about twenty-five yards from his house to the slaughter house. Here was a machine for raising dead cattle—a rope, with a large hook in it, run over a large reel and attached to a windlass wjth a rachet. Adjusting the rope in a noose round his neck, he playfully bid the little girl go tell her mother “somebody was hanging out there who looked like Dan Elliott.” Then showing the boy exactly how many notches, he bid him, still laughing, to draw him up. The boy did so, and drew him off his feet. Once up, he could not, because of the ratchet, get him down, and when, in answer to the little gi’l’s anxiety. Mrs. E. came out, her husband hung dead, his feet touching the floor, and the hook pressing hard against his jugular. Froth all the circumstances, it is not doubted that the act was done accidentally in a burst of playfulness. —Hamilton (Ohm) Intelligencer, 24th. An Indian Lover.— Miss Bishop, the writer of the “Floral Home,” who went to Minnesota, as a teacher, received an offer of marriage from an Indian. lie came to her dwelling decked in his finery—scarlet flannel, rings, feathers, newly scoured brass ornaments amt bears’ claws, and through an interpreter, announced to her thatsho must be his wife. It was urged that he had one wife. He replied “Ail the band have as many as they can keep, and 1 have but or.c.” As an “ex tra inducement, he promised that she should have the best corner of the lodge, hunt by his side, and eat with him, while the dark squaw was to hush the papoose, cook the food, carry the game, plant and hoe the corn, and provide wood and water. Miss Bishop, a little in fear of the “green-eyed monster,” even if the claimant did hold an inferior position, declined the distinction. The Indian begged a dollar to buy a shirt, and left with a haughty air. Next day he was drunk. But Miss Bishop’s associate almost fared worse. She had been only a few weeks in the country, and was ignorant of Indian customs. A young warrier smitten with her, called often. Hoping to get rid of him, she gave him a ring. He in terpreted it as a token of partiality and returned to take her to his lodge. The next day he re turned with six braves to compel her to go with him. Explanation and interference saved her. The Texas penitentiary seems to be doing good business. From October, 1857, to June, 1858, the value of the cotton manufactured at the peniten tiary was seventy-one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three dollars, and that of woolen was thirty-three thousand one hundred and forty-eight i dollars.