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GOME TO HE ITV DREAM*. IIV OEOROfc P. TXSKTKX. Comem beautiful dream*, love. Oh ! come to me oft, When the light wings of sleep On my bosom lie eoft: i I Oh! come when the aea In the moon’s gentle light, Heats low on the ear Like the pulse of the night— When the sky nnd the ware Wear their loveliest blue, When the dew's on tbo flower And the star’s on the dew. Come in beautiful dream 4, love, Oh! conte and we’ll stray, Where the whole year is crowned With the blossoms of May,— Where each sound is as sweet As the eoo of the dove, And the gales are a soft j As the breathings of love : Where the beams kiss the waves, And the waves kiss the beach. And our warm lips may catch The sweet lessons they teach. Come in beautiful dreams, love, Oh! come and we’ll fly Like two wingod spirits Os love through the sky; With hand “clasped in hand On dream-wings we’ll go, Where the starlight and moonlight Are blending their glow ; And on bright clouds we’ll linger Through long dreamy hours. Till love’s angels envy That heaven of ours. A LETTER FROM A LADY. FOR THE TIMES & SENTINEL. To the Ladies of the South. BY A LADY OF COLUMBUS. I appeal to you, sisters and daughters of the j South, to raise your voices in defence of our I beautiful land, and the institutions under which you were born, from tho malicious denuncia* j tions of northern and foreign fanaticism. It j was with silent indignation, we first behold the • gauntlet thrown in our midst, by one of our sex, J whoso Mauchausendike tales, wo deemed too j absurd to gain credence with any save tho ig- j norant and vulgar, although its cutting sar- j casin seemed sharper than a Damascus blade; 1 yet this self-styled Christian, with superior tact > and genius, tells her tale, so false, and yet “so ! well, tho very truth seems falsehood to it.” If! it be true that virtues and vices are inherited,: anci descend from generation to generation, then j our fair antagonist, Mrs. Stowe, may justly claim to be a lineal descendant of the illustrious Ananias arid Sapphira. Perhaps it was in consideration of her acknowledged right to the honor and titles of this distinguished old family, that aristocratic England has received her with so many manifestations of love and respect.— Let proud Briton then erect to the memory of this apparent philanthropist, a suitable monu ment : we would suggest a gathering together of some half million ofskeletons from poorfamished Ireland, or from a more convenient distance, (a sufficient quantity may be obtained from her own native home) with the following inscrip tion : Hod I been here , you would not have died. She might it is true have drawn there her uncle j Toms from life without coloring them from I her imagination ; and the proceeds of her j work might have gone to buy bread for the 1 poor dying creatures. But believe it not, de- ‘ luded people, the false deceiver would have S grasped the gold with a miser’s clutch, and hurried away to some foreign clime, as she did j from her native land, to revel in ill-gotten wealth. She was indeed no stranger to the piercing cry of hunger, it was heard in her north-: ern home, around horovvn door, but she heeded ! it not, and sought to still the voice of con science bv writing base exaggerations of our sun- } ny South; and pretending to discover a beam in her neighbor’s eye, before casting out the j mote in her own. The cunning falsehood has gone forth to tho world, and produced a golden harvest, but has that feeble cry ceased, or has it grown beautifully less? Oh no, her work is! finished, it is done, and she still closes her ear to tho piteous tale of privation and misery, as j she continues to fill her coffers with the gold 1 she has wrung from her too-credulous country men, by her pathetic appeals in behalf of our j colored population, and the swift-sailing packet; conveys her far away from her home, where ] the heart piercing wail has become a noxious sound, to display her false laurels, and dishon est wealth, in luxurious England. Gifted au thoress, we would recommend a home mission to you, since your pretended object is to amelio rate the condition of suffering humanity. Chari ty should begin at home Go then to your Northern cities, where squalid misery and ab- j ject poverty, in its most hideous forms, may be • seen, where starvation or crime is the only al- ! ternative, and amid filth and vermin, human be- j ings live in hopeless degradation. Let her corn- I pare their foul sickly faces with the sleek ebony visages of the laughter-loving negroes, who till! the broad fields of the beautiful South. See their dark forms amid the waving corn, as with a | giant strength they wield the glittering hoe, listen ; to tho clatter of tongues which is ocea- j sionalty drowned by loud peals of merry laugh- ■ ter. Discontent sits lightly on their brows, • no care or sorrow is there, for a comfortable cabin, and a plenty of good cheer awaits them, and fit the loud bugle’s clamorous call, they : hasten to partake of their sumptuous meal. To the fair dames of aristocratic England, i whose appeal to ns we read with a feeling of; pity and disgust, we would advise the same j course ; their total insensibility to the destitute and degraded of their own land, shows a dead- j ness to shame which is positively appalling, j Not even for poor suffering Ireland, can their j sympathies be awakened. Yet they point their; jeweled fingers in derision at the bright land of warm nnd generous hearts, to whom an appeal of distress was never made in vain. For you, fair vow- es 0 f mammon and fashion, we sup press ourn*Agnation and leave you to your! own conscience an <j mav prayers boos- j sored to heaven * this your great national shame. But uuther obos* odi- ! —i-i—--j ■ - • um we deplore though we fear it not. It is the high-minded Fredrika Bremer, whose heart thrilling romances have been a welcome visi tant at even* Southern fireside, and gladdened every heart with their pure and gentle inlluences. But alas! from her long stay among our Nor thern fanatics she has imbibed their prejudices ; against our institutions and we are to have in her “Homes in the new world” a tirade of abuse instead of the pure and gentle effusions which seemed to emanate from a heart both j good and groat. Kind lady, had you come to us with unprejudiced feelings and looked upon our happy and contented negroes, warm hearts, ; and open arms, would have welcomed you. and then perhaps you might have thought your pity misapplied, for they want it not; could tears J dispel your strange delusions we would shed them for the wrong you have done us, but it is too late to shed them now, the poison has been thrown indiscriminately to the world and must run its course, and we, the slave holders and j 1 benefactors, we who have cared for them, cloth ed and fed them, prayed for them, nursed them j in sickness, and shed teara over their inanimate forms, we are your victims. Yet you would tell our humble friends that we are tyrants, and use them with cruel barbarity, and teach them to • turn like the adder and sting their generous bene-1 | factors, who would shield them from every dan- j ger and vice. But farewell, dear deluded lady, j | thy work of fiction will no longer gladden ! ; Southern hearts, and the gold that would have ; filled thy purse, we will send to feed the hun- i j gry and clothe the naked of your own continent, for the Southern negroes out of their abundance ! can spare this, and more, for poor suffering i humanity . | * Ladiesofthe South, where is the iofty spirit j ■ that instigated our fathers and mothers oft the | revolution ? they could brook no interference with | their rights and privileges, and shall we, their j | children, suffer this great indignity from the : north or from a nation that has already been j made to quail before a southern slave holder,; the great, the immortal Washington ? We i | would have you seize the pen,and bring forth your ; latent talents, that have so long lain dormant, i I in defence of your country and her institutions, j | The South can boast of intellect that will sue-; j cessfully contend with Mrs. Stowe and Miss i ; Bremer, and only the time and inclination has ; j been wanting to prove it. The time has come, i j nnd to keep silent long*# would cease to be a i virtue. In conclusion we would say to the of i ficious ladies who with unblushing effrontery ! I dared to thrust their advice upon us, that “your ! own lands are filled with slaves, slaves to igno ! ranee, slaves to penury, and slaves to vice.” ! Your dutv is to ameliorate their condition and i to suppl v them out of your abundance with the ! common necessaries of life. mmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaßmmmmtmm, ; mtfr Sentinel OOUAIIiUS, OEOIUiIA. ~ SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1853, Maiame Rost wick. We me pleased to learn that Madame Bostwick and troupe arrived in our city on Saturday evening last, i after a most fatiguing trip from Montgomery, and will certainly give her first and only grand concert in this city on Monday night next at Temperance Hall. Our citizens have anticipated her arrival with much anxiety and we promise her an overflowing house. Messrs. Editors : The Small Pox exists in Columbus, : Ga., and the adjacent county. Would it not be wise for our City Council to secure the viccination of all our citizens —white and black—a.** a matter of Prevention? Montgomery Journal March 25th. This report is entirely unfounded. There is not and has not been a case of Small Pox in this city or ! county for years past. We hope the Journal will con tradict the report upon the authority of the Editors of ; this paper. The disease is prevalent ill particular lo calities in Russell county, Ala. W ill the Editors in form the public who “Prevention’’ is? we would like to mark him. Henry K. Jackson. i Siueo writing our article on the Gubernatorial Elec | tion in Georgia, we have been asked whether Judge ! Jackson recognises the right of the States to resist un | constitutional legislation on the part of the Federal Gov i eminent. We are sorry we cannot answer the question !by the record. We presume he does, and on that sup l position expressed our willingness to support him for i Governor. If he denies this fundamental doctrine of I the Democratic Party, an impassable gulf separates us i from him : and notwithstanding our high appreciation ; of his character as a man, and a soldier, and our adraira* | tion of his talents, we would deeply regret to see him nominated for any office nhovo that 02 a constable. We received on Wednesday last, .and published in i our Friday’s issue, an elaborate article from tho Con itituiionalist Republic on this subject. We eon j ©nr in the main with the views therein set forth. The ; Editor lays more stress, however, upon the fact of co j operation in the re-organization of the Democratic Party i than wo do. We look first to the principles of men, 1 rather than their practice. A wily politician may co \ operate with the party, because no other avenue is open -1 ed for the advancement of his interests *, and when he is elevated to high office, ho may use the first opportu nity to betray his country and his party. In this era of q-ood feeling, wo are in danger of taking men on trust. We hope the southern people will keep an eye to this matter, and neither nominate nor elect any man to office whoso principles ore at ah questionable. William E. Gouge, the well known and able writer on banks and paper money, has been appointed a clerk in the Treasury Department. — Phil. Ledger. Tho Gouge family hare been in the Treasury De partment for a long time.— — Sav. Journal, The following additional nominations were sent to the Senate on Wednesday by the President: Theodore S. Fay, Minister to Switzerland. John Randolph Clay, Minister to Peru. Gen. Joseph Lane, Governor of Oregon. Dr. Samuel D. Heap, IT. S. Consul at Tunis. Adair, Collector at Astoria. It is currently believed that Nathaniel Hawthorne, tho novelist, will be Consul to Liverpool ; that Auguste Belmont will be Charge to Naples or Sardinia: and that Governor Seymour, of Connecticut, will b* Minister to Female Physicians, We well remember our astonishment when it was announced some years ago in the public prints that the degree of Ms D. had been conferred upon Miss Eliza beth Blackwell by one of the first Medical Colleges in the United States, and have eagarly awaited the j developments of the future in respect to her character. Tho step taken by her was novel and unprecedented, and indicated cither an uncommon toughness or total want of character- It did not necessarily imply ‘hat | she was a Virago or a Bloomer, tor every person at all familiar with the vicissitudes and necessities oi fe male life, must long ago have felt the need ofati educated nurse, especially at that interesting period when she perils her own existence to give life to another. Our sympathies were therefore warmly enlisted in Miss ] Blackweli/s favor, and we cordially wished her suc cess- We have not been able to ascertain particularly what her social position is. nor what reception she lias met with her in profession. We presume however that both are favorable, as we find on our table a neat little j work called 1 jaws of Life, of which she is the author, | and published by Putnam. The subjects treated of in this hook are ol immense importance to wives and mothers, and the object of this article is to bring it to their notice and urge upon them the propriety of reading it. Perhaps they might find tho subjects discussed, more ably handled in stan i dard medical works, but they would be repelled from > | the perusal by the jargon of technicalities which learn- j ,ed men ore too prone to use- The style of this little j ! book in a purling stream of fiowerv sweets; and is so i ! simple and perspicuous that tho most unlearned can i I readily apprehend the meaning of tho writer. Besides | ; the accomplished authoress goes into the sick cham- : | ber, the nursery, where the little olive plants arc being i j trained, and cosily sits sometimes besides the blazing j ! hearth, and reveals secrets to her fair readers connee- j i ted with themselves, their children and society, which < most of them would give tho world to have known af ter the sad effects of their ignorance have developed t j themselves in tho ruin of their own health and the ir- : reparable injury of their children; | The book is for sale at J. W, Pease’s Book store j I in this city, at a very moderate price. } John A. Cammell, of Mobile has been appointed ; ! Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. Shade Trees. Every storm prostrates some of our choicest shade i ! trees, and the late hurricane cumbered our streets with j their trunks and branches. In a sandy soil like ours, ! a tree which does not send roots perpendicularly into ! the earth, ought never to be planted. Tho China and the Mulberry are of quick growth and highly ornamen i tal, but their lateral roots will not sustain their*wide ; spreading branches and bushy tops. Wo hope, there fore, to see them entirely superseded in our streets by the Elm and Live-Oak. The latter are of slow growth, but planted ultimately with the elm, they would add much to the beauty of our city, without detracting from the shade, and in ton years we would have permanent I shade trees which nothing could uproot but a hurricane. There is some difficulty in procuring elm trees, but tho following extract from the Charleston Mercury pro vides a remedy. Wo hope Mr. Peabody or some other enterprising citizen will adopt tho suggestions contained i in it: There is one obstacle in the way, and that is tho diffi culty ot procuring a supply of Elms, the most beautiful j nad .darable for street shades. They have now become i scarce, and are taken from the forests, in some instances ! I twenty miles from'the city. —■ But that is a difficulty which may easily be obviated by j ; nursery culture. The object of this communication is to j lay before the public a few suggestions on that subject. The Elm produces and ripens the seed in the spring j before the leaves put out, which are frequently destroyed j by frost. There is now an abundant crop on the trees, I which will be ripe in a few days, and will be drifting about ; the street pavements where they may be gathered by the ! bushel. To make u nursery, the ground should be well pulver- j ized and made rich, and the seeds sown in drills three leet ! apart. With very little culture, a quarter of an acre thus I prepared and owsed, will produce in one season twenty ! thousand plants from two to three feet high, for they will : come up as thick as wheat, and grow thriftily nearly as | close as they can staud together. 1 speak now’ from oxpe- j i l ienee, for 1 planted a nursery last spring, in a village more i i than a hundred miles from Charleston, and have now j many thousands of young trees, now ready to transplant, I ! to be cultivated and reared into trees, When one year old the scions should be taken up and ; planted in a field six feet apart every way, and plowed as j corn. The first year after transplanting they will not ina- j terially interfere with the growth of vegetables on the I same ground. An acre planted six foot apart: will contain 1,225 trees. | The first year after transplanting they will be from S to 10 | feet high ; the second year many will be large enough to I ! plant in the streets ; the third year nearly if not all will ! be ready for sale. A tree thus grown by cultivation will ! be worth as much as three or four taken in a wild state i ; from the forests. The cultivation by the plow cuts off’ the j lateral roots, by which means the tree is made to produce ! a boll of thickly matted fibrous roots, &can be taken up j replanted without manuring it, as is usually when a tree ■ ;is taken from the forest. If such trees could at all times j | be procured in the vicinity of Charleston, it would greatly j I accelerate tbs now growing taste for shade trees, and our j i city would be an annual customer for thousands for many j j years to come, at 50 cents, a rich harvest to the grower ; j I at 25 cents a better crop than any thing now planted. COM Mr R ATIONS. K>R THE TIMES &, SENTINED. Liquor Traffic. Messrs. Editors : —Allow me the use of your columns j to make a few remarks on the movements now being ! made for tho “restriction of the liquor trallied’ The j friends of this movement greatly desire two things. Ist. To be understood and not misrepresented either ignorant ly or of design, ’id. That those opposed, in ail fairness, meet the issues made ; and do not seek to force issues I which the convention 3t Atlanta did not make, nor could have been induced to make. The convention did not direct that the Legislature j bo petitioned “to pas® a law authorizing a majority of j the people of auy county to determine whether ■ spirits shall bo retailed in that oounly, with this advantage infavor of the restriction, if the ma jority of the county should be opposed to the li cense, then there eau bo none granted in the county, but if the majority of the county should be j in favor of the license, then a majority of any district may prohibit it in that district.’’ As there are seve- j ral errors in the quotation above, winch l find, are be- j ing entertained in various places, allow me to correct i them. The difference is not uotieed between license and retail, which the convention observed. It is the retail , j and not the question of license at all, that is submitted j to the county vote. The convention prays that the whole traffic be restricted by a license, that no ene be .allow ed to seil in 3uy quantity without license; such license only to be granted upon evidence that a majority of the legal voters in the district, where it is to be sold, de sire it sold in that district. Thus the qeestioa of license or mo liaenae is with the district—that **, pnlv or m> sals of it at all, in that district. As the sale in any way is governed by license, so the extent oi the license to whole sale down to a quart, or to retail by the half pint, will bo governed by the county vote—if the coun- j ty votes for retail, then all the licenses granted in that j county will give- authority to sell by retail as well as j wholesale. If the county votes no retail, then the li- j censes granted in that county will give authority only; to ell by what is now known as the wholesale traffic, j which comes down to it quart. The county then shall j determine whether liquor shall be sold by retail or not | within its bounds ; the district shall determine whether ] it be sold at all or not in its bounds—all license granted i by districts to be coutroled by the county vote for or j against retail, 1 hope lam understood, and the eonven- j tion also. Some of our kind opponents are very much concern- i ed that we did not ask for a prohibitory law throughout l the State protecting the rights of ail alike, and also, j that we did not determine to make the issue in the elec | tion of the members to the Legislature. It always ; I looks suspicious when an enemy seeks to direct your j movements and tell you when, where and how to fight, i We ask the liberty to take our own positions, and our opponents must excuse us if we refuse their voluntary councils. Wo have taken our ground and mean to maintain it, no feint of the enemy shall divert us, we do not intend to stack arms till the victory is complete, j No doubt it is believed that the “little feeble looking” bantling of the convention, will be found harder “to be j killed” than if we had taken the advice alluded to, and I this is the reason why it is given. It is found very ciif j fioult I presume to hit the “little creature” with the ar i tillery of the demagogue, “ the rights of the dear peo j pie.'’ They are preparing the battery, but doubt pre | sides over the match. 1 think 1 hear them say, “this | feature of leaving it to the people, how shall we ever | make the people believe that their rights are taken from them, when the law askeu for will leave the whole ! matter in their hands ? Would that the convention had i asked for the Maine liquor law and put up the candi . dates upon it, then wo would have given them grape to j their hearts’ content; but this poor little feeble looking creature, “I am afraid we shall miss it every pop.” i Well, my friends, fire away, and you will findj“the poor j little creature” is not only hard to hit but can only be > killed when the people conclude that they cannot trust ! themselves with those matters which are so intimately : connected with their temporal, social and religious ; welfare as the doggery system is—then they may apply ! for guardians at your hands. Ortfi OF THE PEOPLE. I FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL- Our Postal System. ! Messrs. Editors: Permit mo to call attention, through your deservedly popular journal, to a subject in , which very many of your readers are deeply interested, | and which, through them, is of no mean importance to | you. I allude to the present dilatory system of trans ! mitting the mails through our section of the country. If I understand the object of establishing offices, ap ! pointing Postmasters, and farming out mail routes, it is I to accommodate the people, aud to increase their facili i ties for intercommunication. Many of the offices, I know, ; are not lucrative. They scarcely pay for the time they consume. Yet, they are sought after with avidi i ty, as sinecures to give a semblance of employment to | lazy governmental appendages, or on account of t’no at traction which they possess for frequenters of cross-road j doggeries, or country stores. It matters not what be ! the occasion for seeking these posts, every incumbent 1 j should j eminent as the highest dignitary that assists in the ad ■ ministration of its affairs. And in this view, he ought i to feel himself as sacredly bound to discharge its duties, i be they onerous or trivial, as if the very salvation, of the j commonwealth depended upon his punctual and undevi i ating performance of them. That the most culpable negligence prevails in reference to these duties, I am i firmly persuaded. The facts lam willing to submit.— | Take a single instance—between Tuskegeein Alabama, j and Marianna in Florida,"there plies a regular tri-weekly Hack Line. These coaches purport to carry the malls, i The time nebessarily consumed in the transmission of ; mails by the direct route, cannot, by any possibilities, ; aside from shameful negligence, occupy mojc than five i days. It should take but four. Now, I have in my ; and, a letter mailed in one of these places, and received at the other ] 1 days afterwards. How can this be ae* j counted for if the officers do their duty ? Did the let- i | ter come by Columbus ? Then it should take only four j | days. Did it go round by Montgomery to get to Tus- j ; kegee? Five days ought to suffice for this unnecessarily j j cireuitus route. Where did it loiter during the nine or ■ i ten leisure days ? Whose fault is it ? I confess I can ! ; put but one construction upon the facts. Thi?re is a j j blameablc want of punctuality or of attention to duty j j somewhere. I would say nothing if this were a sin gle instance. Hut it is the constant rule, and not the j | exception. Post Offices and Mail Routes managed in 1 this way are but publie tantalizers, sharpening the appe tite but to disappoint it. It is a grievance and ought j to bo stopped. People pay for these offices, and pay \ all that is demanded of them. How then are we to j submit to such carelessness and indifference ? ft is ot ! be hoped that some antidote to the evil may bo sugges- j ted, and that the incoming administration will do some what to aid the good work. Yours, Ac., X, Judicial and Congressional Districts* P. M. Comption, Esq., the Surveyor General of the State, has furnished the Griffin Union the following statement of the Judicial and Con gressional districts of Georgia, as arranged by the last Legislature : JUDICIAL DISTRICTS. Eastern Circuit. —Wayne Camaden, Glynn, Mclntosh, Bryan, Liberty, Bulloch, Effing ham. Middie Ciriu'u. —Columbia. Washington, Montgomery, Tattnall, Emanuel, Sc riven, Burke, Jefferson and Richmond. Northern Circuit. —Madison, Elbert, Ogle thorpe, Lincoln, Hancock. Warren, Wilkes, and Taliaferro. Western Circuit. —Franklin, Rabun, Gwinnett, Jackson, Clark. Habersham, Hall and Walton* Ocmulgee Circuit, —Wilkinson, Jones, Jas per, Baldwin, Green, Morgan and Putnam. Southern Circuit. —Lowndes, Thomas, Tel fair, Irwin, Laurens Pulaski, Appling, Ware, and Clinch. Flint Circuit. — Butts, Upson, Pike, Monroe, ! Newton, Henry and Spalding. Cherokee Circuit —Cass, Chattooga, Murray Walker, Floyd, Dade, Gordon and Whitfield, Coweta Circuit, —Fayette, Meriwether, Troup, Coweta, DeKal’n arrd Heard. South’ Western Circuit . —Randolph, Early, Lee, Decatur, Sumter and Baker. Chattahoochc Circuit.-- -Stewart, Marion, Muscogee, Tabot, Harris and Taylor. Macon Circuit. —Twiggs, Bibb, Houston, j Crawford, Dooly and Macon, | Blue Ridge Circuit*— Paulding, Cherokee, ! Forsyth, Lumpkin, Union, Gilmer, Carroll, I Campbell, Cobb and Polk, CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. I First. —Chatham, Effingham, Bryan, Liberty, i Mclntosh, Tattnal, Bulloch, Emanuel, Mont- I gomery, Lowndes, Telfair, Appling, Glynn, j Camden, Wayne, Ware, Laurens, Clinch, Thom. ; as and Irwin. Second. —Muscogee, Stewart, Randolph, i Early, Decatur, Baker, Lee, Dooly, Sumter, I Macon, Pulaski and Marion. Third. —Harris, Talbot, Upson, Pike, Butts, ! Monroe, Bibb, Houston, Crawford and Spald j ing. Fourth. —Troup, Meriwether, Coweta, Heard, j Campbell, Fayette, Henry, Dekalb and Cobb. Fifth. —Dade, Walker, Murray, Gilmer, Chat tooga, Floyd, Gordon, Cass, Cherokee, Pauld ing, Carroll and Polk. Sixth.— Union, Lumpkin, Rabun, Habersham, Hall, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Walton, Clark, Jack son, Madison, and Franklin. Seventh. —Newton, Morgan, Green, Jasper, Putnam, Jones, Baldwin, Hancock. Washington, i Wilkinson and Twiggs. \ Eighth. — Elbert, Oglethorpe, Lincoln, W ilkes Taliaferro, Warren, Columbia, Richmond, Bur ke, Jefferson and Scriven. From the New York Times. Kunaway Marriages. The Legislature of our State every winter at tempts some tinkering of our laws respecting Marriage, but generally succeeds in doing little mischief. We urge no action at all on the subject; but, whenever any change shall hereafter be made in these laws, we ask that a provision be inserted for the discouragement arid repression of Runaway 7 Marriages. The popular notions on this subject, fomented by the yellow-covered literature of the day are exceedingly lax and mistaken. The young Miss who elopes from the parental roof te marry some adventurer who was probably unknown to her last year, is often represented as a girl of rare spirit, who does a remarkably clever and admirable thing. We hold, on the contrary, that in a great majority of cases, her elopements is unwise, giddy, ungrateful, immodest, and evinces a las civious appetite and reckless disposition. Why should she desert and distress those who have loved, nurtured and cherished her through all her past years, to throw herself into the arms of a comparative stranger, who has done noth ing for her, and whose protestations of affection have yet to undergo the first trial ? It is every way unworthy of pure and gentle maidenhood to do so. We can imagine hut one excuse for her el opement —namely, the efforts of parents or guardians to coerce her into marrying some one she does not love. To avoid such a fate, she is justified in running away ; for no parent toOOkS* r'UrK ht to constra i n a daughter / will. But where the pa o . _ i i irtk 0 Mgpj&hter should consent to choree is ‘assen ted to or she attains iur legal majority. Then if she chooses to marry in opposition to her pa rents’ wishes, let their quit her home openly, frankly, in broad daylight, and in such manner as shall kindly but utterly preclude any pretence that her act is clandestine or ill-considered.— No one should be persuaded or coerced to mar ry where she does not love ; but to wait a year or two for the assent of those who have all her life done what they could for her welfare, no daughter should esteem a hardship. There is some truth to he told about the ‘com- mon run* of masculine prowlers by night about ! garden walls and under bed-room windows, in | quest of opportunities to pour seducing flatteries ; into the ears of simple misses ; hut we have not j time to tell it now. Asa general rule, they are I licentious, good-for-nothing adventurers, who would much rather marry a living than work i for it, and who speculate on the chances of ; ‘bringing the old folks round* after a year or I two. A true man would not advise, much less uge, the woman he loved to take a step which must inevitably lessen the respect felt for her, ; and violate the trust reposed in her by those who had loved and cherished her all her days. The marriage of girls of fourteen to seventeen years is a very prevalent cause of personal and | transmitted evil and suffering. Prematurely . taxed with the care and nourishment of children their constitutions give way, and at thirty they are already on the downhill of life. Eighteen is the youngest age at which any one should mar ry , twenty to twenty-three in much better. Candidates and “Liquor Law.”—Candi dates for the Legislature are already out iri Chambers and Macon counties, and we discov er that the “liquor question” has been introdqead jas the most prominent issue. We also learn i that the “liquor question” is likely to enter into , the elections in other sections of the State, and we think there is an inkling on the part of some to raise the same issue in Coosa.— Stale Guard. We have had frequent rains for several days past. The river is in good boating order. The steamer Henry Henry is now making regular trips from Albany to Apalachicola and back every five days. We have had a light frost this week. The bridge across the Kinchafoonee. two miles north of Albany, is completed. The March term of Baker Inferior Court was not held. Albany and the surrounding country is healthy.— Albany Patriot, 1 Qtkinsl. The Savannah Journal, noticing the intention 1 of a portion of the citizens of Baker and Early I to petition the next Legislature for anew county, says : “Name it ‘Pierce’ if you get it.” Good — we second that motion.— lb. Randolph Court.—The regular term ot Randolph court, which was toj have been held this week, was not held, owing to the fact that Judge Perkins had not been properly commis sioned according to thojbEv *>i the last Legisla ture, under which he was elected, Judge Brown was present, but declined holding the Com ? a hs had been superseded by an election - Jo