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she was determined in the depths of her loving, yet ambitious heart, to make herself worthy of her future husband. Charles Leonard, carrying letters of introduc tion to persons of some consideration, and having good credit at his bankers, soon found himself ad mitted into circles of the elite in England, France and Italy, but every where did he carry about with him, his vivid remembrance of Edith, the youngand the loving. Unlike most others, he met with no stirring adventures —no accidents by “ flood or field,” no titled dames won by his hand some face, sued him to love them. He traversed England, noting its cities, its lions, its gems. — Dwelt long enough in Paris to speak intelligible French ; sailed down the broad Rhine ; crossed the Simplon, and after spending some months at Florence, Naples, Venice, at last settled down in Rome To spend the second winter of his probation in Europe. And constant had he been all this time; thinking on Edith by day, dreaming of her by night, and repeatedly sending his missives of love o’er the broad Atlantic, laden with sighs, suf ficient to waft the bark of itself, had not steam deigned to assist him. It was in the month of March, when Charles Leonard fell ill at Rome. Alone, recluse, and dreamy still in his habits, he had made but few friends, and would, I am afraid, have fared but badly had it not been for the attentions of an American family, like himst If, sojourning in the “Imperial City.” Mr. Ashton, wife and daughter, were unremit ting in their kindness to the invalid. The former watching him with a parent’s care through his tedious and dangerous illness ; and the daughter cheering, and amusing him during the listless and languid weeks of his slow convalescence. Isabel, or rather Bel Ashton, was not strikingly beautiful, but there was a nameless charm about her that was sometimes more powerful than mere beauty. She had passed much of her time in France, and otb?r parts of the continent, and possessed, as ev ry one who saw her said, that “Grace of motion and of look, the smooth And swimming majesty of step and tread, The symmetry of form, which set The soul alloat, even like delicious airs Os flute and harp.’’ How swiftly and agreeably speeded on his days. Every morning saw Charles in the parlour of the suite of rooms occupied by the Ashtons. — When he gained strength, their escort in their rides and promenades. Yet, though he admired Bel Ashton, his betrothed Edith was not forgot ten, but be often caught himselfcontrasting them; wondering had she changed from her spiritnclle , radiant, girlish beauiy, into anything of more earthly mould. With a pang, would sometimes come the recollection that Edith’s mother had a resemblance to herself, though she was now grown “ fat ,” and then a haunting vision would cross his now fastidious mind, of his worshipped Edith be coming like her mother, a Turkish beauty as to size. Bel with her tact, her undulating, graceful motion, her mannerism, would come in compari son to this bug-bear, we may almost call it, of his imagination, and though when he remembered Edith as standing by the moonlit spring, with her graceful, girlish embarrassment, her rare, and dazzling beauty, her pure young love, Bel would yield instant precedence to her; yet was he con stantly tormented by these ever recurring compar risons, until he began to feel his chain, and almost, the ingrate ! to sigh for freedom. “1 am now strong enough,” said Charles one day, “to think of my preperations for my return to America. ’Tis now May, and I wish to reach Virginia sometime in June or July. When do you think of returning Mr. Ashton ? ” “ I too have been debating the question with my wife, and we have come to the same conclu sion that we have been absent from home too long Wh at say you my two Bels to our becoming com panion's du voyage to our good friend Leonard ? ” “ With all my heart,” said Mrs. Ashton, whilst Bel seated herself at the piano, ran over with her jewelled fingers a brilliant symphony, and joined to it, in her rich, mellow voice, the words, “ There is no home like my own.” And so ’twas decided; and Charles Lennard carried his unconscious tempter from his alle giance along with him. The intimacy, the effect always of being “ alone on the wide, wide sea,” did much to render him still more satisfied with bis engagement, and though he erred not in the word , yet I am afraid the spirit suffered in his vows of fealty to our darling Edith. Alas, for man’s love ! it is in truth “ Os man’s life, a thing apart ! ” And yet, one would not have it otherwise for it would Mew be most unnatural. Man has a thous and and one things to call his thoughts to events passing around, glowing and changing as rapidly as the hues of the dying dolphin, tinging his thoughts, his feelings, chameleon-like, with the tints and variety of change, and calling forth his utmost energies and thoughts to battle with the rough necessities of life. All this calls him from his dream of love, and weakens, necessarily, the first passionate ardor which he feels when under the influence of the smile’s bright-glances, and loving, devoted words. Yes, as Miss Landon beautitully observes, “he may turn sometimes to the flowers, on the way-side ; but the great busi ness of life is still before him. The heart which a woman could utterly fill were unworthy to be her shrine. His power over her is despotic and un modified, but her power over him must be shared with a thousand other influences.” Whilst on the other hand woman goes steadily on —I mean true woman —with their domestic, mo notonous duties, till they call for no exertion of thought, becoming purely mechanical, and the imagination, having no drain upon it, runs riot in its indulgence of day dreams. Aye, many and many the maiden who sits sewing so industriously, with the bright smile wreathing unconsciously her lip, ask her the subject of her thoughts? her bl ush will tell you, plainer than words. Yes she feeds upon her imagination till her love, by con stant thought, constant association, with her daily routine of duties and pleasures, becomes part and parcelof her very existence. They have all landed in New York, the home of the Ashtons ; and still Charles Lennard lingers. Day after day finds him among the groups who crowd Mrs. Ashton’s drawing rooms, to welcome their return. At length Bel Ashton and her pa rents, decide to spend the summer at Old Point Comfort; and Charles finds it essentially neces sary for his health also to enjoy the sea air and bathing, that he may recover his strength. So he must needs answer Edith’s last letter, received in Europe, and announce his arrival in America, and excuse himself- —forsooth ! for not flying at once to her presence. [To be concluded in our ncxt.~\ In Favor of Marriage. —Powers, the sculptor, writing to a friend on what people call the folly of marrying without the means to support a fam ily, expresses frankly his own fears when lie found himself in this very position. “To tell the truth however, family and poverty have done more to support me than I have to support them. They have compelled me to make exertions that I hardly thought myself capable of; and often, when on the eve of despairing, they have forced me, like a coward in the corner, to fight like a hero, not for myself, but for my wife and little ones. I have now as much work to do as 1 can execute, unless lean find some more assistance in lb e. marble, and l have a prospect of further commissions.” The truth, as expressed above by the gifted sculptor, is like a similar remark we heard not long since, by a gentleman from Boston, who tried matrimony in the same way, and found after wards that the loose change in his pocket, which lie had before squandered in “ foolish notions” — young men’s whims as he called them—was enough to support a prudent wife, who, by well regulated economy, has proved a fortune in her- O ’ l _ /'•i self, and h is saved a snug sum of money for her once careless husband. “ A wife, to direct a man towards a proper ambition, and to a general econ omy,” be said, “ was like timely succor at sea, to save him from destruction on a perilous voyage.” How to get a Wife. —Those gentlemen who have difficulty in procuring wives, and have recourse to the advertising columns of the daily papers to make their wants known, had better follow the ex ample of the Frenchman who came from the West to procure some person to go with him to take charge of his household work. Instead ol advertising for a ivifc, he, (iike a sensible man,) went to the office of the Commissioners of Emi gration, where there are at all times a number of good looking girls awaiting employment, and se lected one to whom he made proposals ol mar riage. She did not refuse, and a messenger was dispatched after someone who bad authority to “ make the twain one flesh.” During the absence of the messenger, Justice James M. T. Bleakly happened in, who united the two in the bonds ot marriage, when the gallant Frenchman, and his happy bride left, rejoicing at the success of their impromptu wedding. — Sunday Dispatch . “ Oh, Doctor dear,” sighed Mrs. Partington, as she suspended her troublesome cough for a few moments, while musing over her physician’s new prescription, “I am afraid you are going to give me a lively—(ugh, ugh) —a very lively time of it; and I am quite too old and dilapidated to show my agility now, even if I. had not so bad a cold as Eve got.” “ What do you mean, ma’am ? ” asked the doc tor with something of alarm. “ Why, doctor dear, haven’t you given me here the tincture of squirrels and the syrup of ram cats, 1 should like to know ? ” The good old lady had mistaken squills for squirrels, and the abbreviated term for the tech nical name of buckthorn rhammus catharticus, (rhatn. eath.,) for ram-cats ! So the kind old soul escaped an exhibition of her agility that time. Franklin's Birth-Day. —The Printer’s Banquet for 1850, will be given in celebration of Franklin’s Birth-Day, at Niblo’s Saloon, on Thursday even ing, the 17th of January next. The success of the celebration last year is a guarantee that this festival will bean elegant affair. The prominent members of the profession throughout the coun try will be invited guests ol the Typographical Society. In aseason of great drought in Persia, a school master, at the head of his pupils, marched out of Schiraz in procession to pray for rain. A stran ger asked whither they were going. The Tutor told him, and added, “He doubted not but God would listen to the prayers of innocent children.” “ My honest friend,” said the traveler, “ If that were the case, I fear there would be no school master left alive.” THINGS IN NEW YORK I. O. of O. F. —Anew Lodge of Odd Fellows was instituted in New York on the 7th instant, at Military Hall, Bowery, by the Grand Officers of Southern New York. It is to be known as Worth LocKe —we suppose in honor of the late General Worth. At the last session of the Grand Lodge of Southern New York a charter was granted for Lawrence Lodge, No. 399, to be located at Ros endale, Ulster Cos. At the next meeting of the Grand Lodge, application will be made to it for a charter for a Lodge in Williamsburgh, L. 1., to lx? called “Paumanock,” the original name of Long Island. Huguenot Lodge, No. 395, under theju risdiction ot the Southern Grand Lodge, was in stalled at Fort Richmond, on Saturday evening, Nov. 24. The richest humbug of the age is embraced in the custom of awarding set praises to captains ol steamboats who do not blow their passengers into another world, and* to policemen tor sagacity in making arrests. A couple ol policemen receive a warrant from the ptoper authorities and serve it. Forthwith the papers teem with compliment arv allusions to the aforesaid policemen, and give them any undue quantity ot praise for “ immense sagacity,” “wonderful foresight,” and “ remark able talent.” It is all nonsense. A policeman’s talent, as a general thing, is no greater than any body else’s. Arresting small thieves and great murderers, amounts to the simple serving ot a warrant, —nothing more, —exactly as the written pull of a performance, never seen by the writer, reaches the acme of correct laudation. TV, H Bestowed Charity. —Mary Ann Huffy, a poor woman with two children, sought lodging at the Sixth Ward Station House, and one of the chil dren having died during the night, it was buried by the policemen, who contributed $34 tor the re lief of the mother, and placed her in charge ol the matron ot the City Prison. Phe proper state. — A chaplain at one of oui State Prisons was asked by a friend how his par ishioners were. “All under conviction ! ” was the answer. Genius like the sun upon the dial, gives to the human heart both its tight and shade. Virtue is the sweetest charm ot woman. More Railroads. — We perceive that our neigh bors in Kings County are discussing the propriety and practicability of constructing railroads from Fulton Ferry to Fort Hamilton and Flushing—for the purpose, we suppose, ot drawing our citizens in that direction. They’ll succeed in doing it, too, unless our Common Council grant the Hud son River Railroad the privilege of running city trains. A F RIE ND OF Til EF A MIL Y. SAVANNAH, SATURDAY. DKC. 22. 1849. SSP We commence the publication of a beautiful Christmas story, by the gifted Miss Stuart; it would have afforded us much pleasure to have given it entire, but its length precluded our so doing. The Cracker Planter’s celebration of the 4th of July, 1808, is racy. The Letter of onr Macon correspondent will be found in teresting t > all friends of the cause of Temperance. We wish all our subscribers a merry Christmas, even those who have read our paper for the past ten months with out paying for it ; but if they wish us to have a merry one ourselves, let them call round and settle. AMUSEMENTS. Wyman is here, everybody knows Wyman, all the little folks know Wyman and will go to see him. Iler Downey proposes to take a walk across the Savannah river on Christmas day on a tight wire. As the charge is what each may please to give, every body will go to see that ho don’t tumble into the river. Mr. C. Guilmette proposes giving a concert on Thursday evening at Armory Hall; will everybody be there? “aye, there’s the rub.” Come good folks turn out and gladden his heart with a real Christmas bumper. !GP The keels of the two new steamships to take the places of the Cherokee and Tennessee, have been laid in New York, and their construction will be pushed forward with avidity.— One it is expected will be ready on the first of June, the other on the first of July. WHELER’S MAGAZINE For December is received. Its contents are : The Winter Hearth, Twilight Songs, The Tide of Time, &c. <3cc. If any of our subscribers wish it, they can have Wheler’s Magazine and the Friend of the Family for 1850, at $2 50 for the two, if paid in advance. TRIAL TRIP OF THE OREGON. In company with a number of gentlemen we had the pleas ure of witnessing the trial of this excellent boat, and we are pleased to state that it was entirely satisfactory, not only to ourselves, but to her builders and owners. The Oregon was built in Savannah, by Messrs. Jones and Paport, (except the engine which was built in Kentucky,) for the Union Steam boat Company, and is intended to ply between this city and Augusta. Her length is 135 feet, breadth of beam 26 feet, depth of hold 5£ feet, and draws but 20 inches of water.— She is the lightest draught boat on the river. Her cabin is large and comfortable and neatly fitted up, has four state rooms and twenty eight berths in her cabins and La dies’ Saloon. Her running was at the rate of 12 miles the hour, and when it is taken into consideration that her machinery is stiff from want of use, it is but reasonable to suppose that she will attain a much greater speed after a few trips. It is computed that she will make the run up the river in 24 hours. We wish her success. TEMPERANCE. Macon, December 18th, 1849 Dear Family . —Our Grand Scribe having kind ly given me access to his general corresp f deuce, I thought the readers of your valuabl’ journal might he interested in learning from tiri> e to time the progress of our cause, and the p r , K perity of the order. 1 shall therefore comim r . cate with you, if agreeable, such items as maybe calculated to keep your readers advised on \\ . subject, At the annual meeting of the G. D. (25th Oct there were 183 Divisions working under charter* and 61 working under dispensations issued bv C G. W. P., since the April meeting, making total of subordinate Divisions in the State, 051 all of which had been instituted except No. 235 At the annual session charters were granted fur 12 new Divisions, and the G. W. P. has issueij since that time Dispensations for 9 more, making the present number 272. The most cheering accounts reach us every thy ofthe increasing importance of the Order andibe vast good wrought in families and communities, Opposition is giving way before the power of truth Men of all creeds both in religion and polity meet, and harmoniously work in accordance with the general regulations of the Order., to forward the great moral reformation of the day, tbe key stone of the arch of our beautiful temple, total abstinence from all that can intoxicate. Gratifying indeed must be the feelings of those who lirst planted the glorious banner of “ Love, Purity and Fidelity ” on Georgia soil. Prouder than the generals of a thousand battles is their position. This little hand of eight has, in four short years, increased to over 15,000. Go od brethren in the good cause, conquering and tocon quer, until the snow white Banner of Temperance shall wave triumphantly from the sites now occu pied by the Demon King. Bowling Green Bis. No. 263, Bowling Green , Oglethorpe county, was instituted on the 24th Nov, bv D . G. TV. P. Shackelford, C. J. Landrum, TV. P. Sylvanous Bell, RS. Brother S. writes, “ This Division is located in a very interesting portion of our county, and from the character of the members composing it I have no fear but our glorious cause will prosper, though their places one where the Old Princehaslong reigned whhout a rival.” Mclntosh Blv . 265, Indian Springs , Butts county , Instituted Dec. Gih by P. G. IV. P., M. Ciendon, C. F. Newton, TV. P. W. J. Lewis, R. S. Paulfer Div. 265, California , Floyd county, Insti tuted Dec. 6th by D. G. TV. P. Dickinson. B. G. TV. P. Rockwell, writes from Lowndes county, “ our cause is prospering in this section of the country.” Brother Nabers of Jefferson, Jackson county, writes, “our cause is fast gaining ground intta county ” Brother Hawes of Danbury, Wilkes county, writes, “our Division is in a healthy and thrifty condition at present, and tbe cause onward.” The Divisions in this section ofthe State are in a healthy and prosperous condition, and the tem perance feeling is better in this city than it has ever been. I fear I am trespassing on your patience. I will endeavor to he more brief in future. Whal are you doing in Savannah for the cause of tem perance'? I fear not much. Yours fraternally, TRIANGLE. A friend has kindly furnished us with the following ancient and unique celebration of the Fourth of July, by 0 planter of Liberty county, which he says has never been pub lished, and we think it entirely too good to be lost. He as sures us that he was personally acquainted with its author, and vouches lor its troth. JULY FOURTH, 1808. This great and glorious day was celebrated’ By me atflf plantation, in a comfortable style ; being solus, I chose irtysf President, and will venture to assert that a more perfect un ’ of sentiment and harmony of disposition never prevail since the existence of our National Independence. lowing appropriate toasts were drank, accompanied withso&a 5 ’ after which I retired with decency and decorum— -Is- The glorious day I now celebrate, Purchased by heroes at so dear a rate, May every rascal have a broken pater, And his base name become obliterate, Who would attempt through malice to create Political dissensions in this State At such a crisis. Song—Firm, united let us he, dec. 2d. The sacred memory of great Washington, His virtues shine resplendant as the sun, The day 1 now enjoy his valor won, I pray thee death, dost think it was well dose To take him from us ? Song—Faithful below he did his duty, &c. 3d- The Philosophic friend of Thomas Paine, A lack of firmness, not a lack of brain, But want of nerves may make a man insane, Our crops are very much in want of rain, But these embargo times I’ll not complaint Because ’tis nonsense. Song—Poor Tom’s cold, Long Metre •