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HOME AND WOMEN. , W ever ihere has been a more touching ati'l eloquent eulogimn upon (he charms °l borne and its dearest treasure, women, titan is contained in tlte fotlowidg extract from the Christum Inquirer ; it lias mil been our good fortune to meet it; •Our homes—-what is their ebnicr slone but virtue of women ? And on ! what does social well-being rest hut on our homes ? Must we not trace all other j blessings of civilized life to the door of j our private dwellings! Are not our heart-stones, guarded by the holy forms of conjugal, filial, and parental love, the corner-stones of Church and State— more sacred than either—more necessary than both ? Eet our temples crumble and our academics decay—let every public edifi ee, our halls of justice, and our cajii- j tols of State, he leveled with the dust — but spare our homes. Man did not in vent and he cannot improve or abrogate them. A private shellef to cover in two hearts dearer to each other than all the world—high walls to seclude the profane eyes of every human being—seclusion enough for children to feel that mother is a peculiar name—this is home; and here is the birthplace of every virtuous im pulse—of every sacred thought. Here the Church and the State mu?t come for their origin and support. (), spare our home! The love we experience there gives us our faith in an intimate goods ness: lhe purity and disinterested tender ness of home is our foretaste and our ear nest of a better world. In the relations there established and fostere.d do we find through life the chief solace and joy of existence. What friends deserve the naniß compared with ‘.host* whom a birth right gives us? One mother is worth a thousand friends——one sister dearer am! truer than twenty intimate companions. We who have played on the same hearth, under the light of smiles—who date back Jo the same season of innocence and hope, veins runs the same blood—do we pot find that years only more sacred flndyjnportant the tie that binds us ? ■Coldness may spring op, distance may seper&te, different spberesMuny divide; btu those who can love anything, “who con tinue to love at all, must find that the beings whom God himself gave, are whol ly 11 nlik■> any we can choose for otirsplves, end that the yearning for thesp is tlte stron gest spark in our expiring affection.’ JOHN BUNYAN. The writings of Bunvan have providential ly been handed down to us, as a mighty wit npss to the truth so forcibly insisted on the Holy Scriptures, that the wisdom of the world is foolishness with ; and that * he hath chosen the foolish and week things of die world to confound the things which arc wise and mighty ’ Bunyan says of himself, ‘ I never went to school to Aristotle or Plato, but was brought up.in my father’s house in n very mean condition, among a company of plain countrymen.* AmJ vet this is the man on whose almost divine literary productions such men as Johnson and Southey, Scott and Byron, Coleridge and Macaulay, Franklin and Mackintosh, pass the most unqualified commendations! The preaching of John Bunyan was char acterized by the same energy and success as his writings. He commenced preaching a very short time after that remarkable change in his life which lie so gtaphically describes in his * Grace Aboundingand even, as he tells us, 4 while tho terrors of the law, and guilt for his transgressions, lay heavily on his conscience.’ * I preached,’ he says, * what 1 felt, what I smartly did feel, even that under which my poor soul did groan, end tremble io astonishment. Thus I went on for the space of two vears, which the Lord came ill upon my own soul with same sure peace and comfort through Christ.’ The almost sudden transition, from the bold blaspliomcr to the earnest preacher of the Gospel, tilled the good people of Bed ford with surprise, and the whole town turn ed out to hear him. There occurred a lapse of only six years from the time of Bunyan first joining Mr. Gifford’s church at Bedford to hi* imprisonment—the former took place in 1654, and the latter in 166l>—and when this is viewed in connection with tlte fact (hut lie wrote several treatizes, and labored abundantly and successfully for some years prior to iiis incarceration, as pastor of the church which he had so lately became a member of, (Mr, Gifford having gone to his eternal rest) the're seems but little room for the fanciful assertion that he went through a •diligent course of study’ before exercising the ministry. Does it not rather appear that the glowing affections and athletic intel lect of Bueyan’s soul were brought out by an unseen impulse, and in some sense, com pelled to tlie exerfise of that vigorous logic that fertile imagination, those bold oratorical strokes, which told so powerfully upon his hearers, and produced such happy residts? From the very period that Divine light first dawned upon Bunvan’s mind, the language of the Apostle of the Gentiles may have been adapted by him with equal truthfulness, •Woe is me if I preach not tho Gospel!— necessity it laid upon me.’ Some would speak of Bunyan as a self made divine—this is wrong. , Assuredly, he was no college-made preacher. What then was he? A God-taught, and Heaven-sent messenger of the Gospel; and as such, a beautiful exemplar of every faithful minister of Christ, whether skilled in classical and mathematical learning or. not. The great Dr Owen, who was a frequent hearer of Ban yan's was once asked by Charles the Second how n learned man like him could sit down to hear a tinker prate? He replied, 4 May it please your Majesty, could I possess the lin ker's abilities fur preaching, I would gladly relinquish all my learning !’- Newark Daily A NOBLE EXAMPLE. About the year 177 C, a circumstance oc curred which deserves to be written on ada mant. in the war of New England with the , aborigines, the Moiiegan tribes of Indians early became Friends of tho English. Their I favorite ground was on the banks of the riv ! or, (now the Thames,) between New London and Norwich. \ small remnant the Mo.. i liegans still exist, nnd they arc scarcely pro- I tecuH in i|n> possession and enjoyment of : their favorite domain on the banks of the j Thames. The government of this liihe had j become hereditary in the family of the eele j lira led thief Uncus. During the time of my j mercantile prosperity he had em j ployed several Indians of this tribe in hunt ing animals, whose skins where valuable for their fur. Among these Winters was ono named Zachary, of the royal ra.ee, an excel lent Winter, but as drunken and worthless an lml fad a ever lived. When lie had some what passed (lie age of SO,several members of the royal faintly who stood between Zach ary and the throne of his tribe, died, and he found himself with only one life between him and the empire. In (his moment his better genius resumed its sway, and ho reflected seriously. 4 How can such a drunken wretch as I am aspire to he the chief of this honorable race? What will my people say? and how will the shades of my noble ancestors look down indignant upon sucii a base successor? Can I succeed to the great Urn-as ? 1 will drink no more !’ He solemnly resolved never again to taste any drink but water, and kept bis resolution. I had heard this story, and did not entire ly believe it; for young as l was, I already partook of the prevailing contempt for In dians. In the beginning of May, the annual election of the principal officers of the (then) colony was held at Hartford tlte capital.— My father attended officially, and it was cus tomary for the chief of Mohegans also to at tend. Ztcbary hail succeeded to the rule of ids tribe. My lather’s house was situated a bout midway on the road between Mohegan and Hartford, and the old chief was in the habit of coining a few days before the elec tion, and dining with bis brother Governot. One dav the mischievous thought struck me to try the old mail’s temperance. The fam ily were seated at dinner, and there was ex cellent home brewed beer on tho table. I addressed the old chief: * Z irliary, this beer is excellent—will you lastejt?’ The_ohJ . ; mttn dropped his knife and fork j —leaned forward with a stern intensity of expression—his black eye spqjkling with in dignation, was fixed on me. -Mht (John,* said ho, 4 you do not know what yon are doing. Tt on art?serving the devil, boy! Do you not know that lam an In dian ? I tell you that I am, and that, if I should but taste your beer, l coald not stop until 1 got to rum, and became again the drunken, rontempible wretch your father re members me to have been. John, while you live, never tempt any man to break a good resolution.’ Socrates nevei uttered a more valuable precept. Demosthenes could not have giv en it in more solemn tones of eloquence. 1 was thunderstruck. Mv parents were deeply affected ; hey looked at each other, at me, and at the venerable Indian, with deep feel ings of awe and respect. They afterwards frequently reminded me of the scene, and charged me never trt forget. Zachary lived to pass tho age of 80, and sacredly kept his resolution, lie lies buried in the royal lul lin’ place of his tribe near the beautiful falls of the Yautic, the western branch of th# Thames, in Norwich, on land now owned by mv friend Calvin Goddard, Esq. I visited the grave of the old chief lately, and repeat ed to mvseif his inestimable lesson. Colonel Trumbulls Autobiography. THE PRESIDENT IN A LUNA TIC ASYLUM. A most affecting scene was witnessed at the Lunatic Asylum at Utica. Un entering ilit Chapel where some two hun dred of these unfortunates were quietly seated, tlte overseer, introduced the Pres ident of the United Stales, when all rose, respectfully bowed, and resumed their seats. Each member of the party was then introduced by name, when tlie same ceremony was profoundly repeated. Dr. Maltlty, a wise Lunatic, then arose and welcomed the President in a strain of graceful and touching eloquence that drew tears to every eye. Me is a tall, thin, pale man, with penetrating eyes, a fine voice, and gestures belonging to tlte polite oratory of 4 a gentleman of tlie old school.’ The President’s reply was also very happy and affecting. So or derly and so well behaved a company surely lias not greeted him in till itis trav els. In one of the female wards the whole party was individually introdu ced to an elegantly dressed, and most ac complished ladv tile daughter of one of the most distinguished lawyers New-York has ever produced. She had die right word ready for every one who addressed Iter, and presented die President with a sweet little boquet of her own arranging, in the most tasteful and graceful manner. We saw the same 4 net of presentation’ performed a hundred times but in no isi statice witli such exquisite simplicity and grace, as marked tlie offering of this ac complished lady. She is about forty vears of age, and in mentioning (he names of some of die distinguished men she had entertained at her father's house, added, —‘but for the last seven years 1 have been—very much out of the world.’ There was a young girl in the Asy lum, who attracted •nut'll attention I’iy her beauty of person and elegance of dress. She did not appear to beover sevenyenrs of age, and there was not the slightest in dication of lunacy, or even of 4 irregttlgif itv’ about her. Site stood in the (loornf her room which was gdnitpu with flow ers, gracefully ncfuiowlVrlging the bows of the visitors, no one ptesnftied to speak to heps . ‘She wore a beautiful wreath and cherry blossoms in her dark hair; the only ornaments appropriate to her rare and touching beauty. Tliink iutr, of the 4 /air Ophelia’ and the heart broken 4 Bride of Lanmier.noor,’ and all the delicate feminine harpsuing that; were ever broken by sorrow or sin, we left the beautiful Lunatic and for four hours afterwards, every sound seemed a moan, every breexe a sigh and even the 4 drops of the morning” which glistened in the flowers looked more like tears of sadnes than gems of joy.— N. Y. Mirror. Singular Bible Prophecy, Bearing upon Mormnnism. The seventeenth chapter of Jeremiah, fifth and sixth verses, reads as lollows; — ‘Tims s.iith the Lord, cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketlt flesh his arm and whose heart departed! from the Lord. ,For lie shall be like the beast in the desert and shall not see when good rometb, but shall inhabit, the parch'd place in the wilderness , in a SALT LAKE, and not inhabited .’ The above verses have a remarkable bearing, to say the least of them, upon the ureat settlement of Mornionism at the ‘Salt Lake.’ That country has always been a* wilderness, in a salt land, and not inhabited,* until the followers of Joe Smith whom ‘trusted in a man, and made flesh their arm of support,’ settled there from anew start. Hence we concluded, with their wanderings. The country* for a great distance arround the present abode of these people, is encrusted will pore salt, of thickness to hear the weight of a man; and the lake where bv they abide is world-renowned for its saline qualities. The declaration of the Old Testament prophet is literally verified in the locality towards which Vlormonism, both of the Old and New World, is now rapidly con verging.— Camden Democrat. Toast by a Schoolmaster. —The fair daughters of America—may ihey add virtue to bendy, substract envy from friendship, md dply amiable accomplishments by sweetness of temper, divide lime by sociability and c cononty, and reduce scandal to its lowest de nomination. See then Who’ll be Invited. —lt is the custome, as we learn from an esteemed friend ill all parts of Scotland, tn send invitations, when a death occurs in a family, to all neigh bors to attenJ the funeral. On one occasion a neigliboi vvn omitted by the bereaved fam ily, in the usual invitation, a f'ued having a risen between them. On the assembling, the slighted “atild wife” stood in her door and watched the gathering. At length, un able to keep up tinder her bereavement any longer, she exclaimed— ‘Aweel! awed! we'll ha’e a corpse o’ our ain in our ain house some day, see then who’ll be invited.* There are two Peonies in the garden at the President’s Housr, which, together, con tain at this time three hundre.il and forty fiec flowers. Some of them measure twenty one inc 5 es in circumference. The bunches are very large and grew from seed sown twelve yeats ago Bare Epigram •— The history of a cer tain Wm. Smith, who lived at Penrliyn, is thus pithily summed up on the tomb stone in the church \ ard tit that place: “Here lies one Wm. Smith, and what is Somewhat tarisii, He was born, bred and hanged in This here parish.” Valentines, as a general tiling are not rematkalile for any tiling beyond a ‘‘soft sentimentality.” Here is one, however, which is not only felicitous in itself lint beautifully illustrates a moral and reli gious thought: The flowers that sweetest odor fling On tlie genial air of budding spring; Birds that sing with sweetest melody. Are emblems true of my love for thee. The clearest water that ever flows, From mountain rocks or melting snows; The deepest rivers that seek the sea, Are emblems true of my love for thee. The brightest star that gems the sky. The purest thought tliar ascends on high; The spiiit of Prayer itself may be An emblem true of nty love for thee. J. B. B. Danger. — A person named danger kept a public house, on the Huntingdon road, near Cntnebridge,’England. On being compelled to quit tlie house, which was not hi* own, he built an inn on tlie opposite side of the road, and caused to he pninled beneath his sign, * Danger from over the way.’ His successor in the old house retorted by inscribing over his door, ‘There is no Danger here now.’ Mr’ Cobb’s Accptance. The Athens Banner says that the reason Mr. cobb’s letter of acceptance has not yet been published is, that lie lias . not recieved the official announcement of his nomination from the Committee. Tt c letter was written and forwarded, and its failure to arrive is doubtless owing to some irregularity in the mails - THE SOUTH-WEST GEORGIAN. OGLEIIIORPE, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1851. FOR GOVERNOR, HON. HOWELL COBB, OP CLARKE COUNTY. Agents for the South-West Georgian Spencer Calowf.ll, Fori Gaines, Ga Jeter A. Hogue, near Americus, do. J. P. Gaui.den, Ilainbridge, do. Col. Wm. T. Perkins, Cuthbe.it, do. (}. Carituf.rs, Esq. ‘luthbert, do. Gilbert M. Stokes, Slade, Lee co. do. Dr. Wm. M. Stokes, Dooly co. do. M. L. Holman, Brooksnille, Ste.w'rt do. A. A. Blakely, Griffin, Pike co. do. John W. Griffin, Grffin, do. J. TANARUS, May, Francisville, do. A. J. Williams. Agent for Sumter co. ff/“We learn that the Rail-road is cotij-’ plpted within five miles of this place. JfFhe cars will arrive here on the 4tli of July. J’ Till) Revival There has been a protracted Meeting go ing on in this place for upwards of two weeks, and much good lias heap accomplished. Sixtv odd members liav&*bean added to the church. The meetinglhas been discontinued, not because it had diminished in interest, but brcausjybte ministers wore completely ex.* haustrd. There will be preaching to-night and also on Sunday. editor of the- Democrat., in his last issue has made several foul charges against the political character of Ilowel Cobb. Now we should like to know, neighbor, if Mr- Cobb was guilty of all the terrible political crimes that you have alleged against him, win was it that you and yojr party rejoiced so greatly over his election as Speaker and heralded it forth to the world as a Demo-’ cratic. triumph. But you have no doubt, forgot all about this, and so long as Cobb maintains bis present devotion to the Union and is not willing to aid in the downfall of Ids coun try by battling for the cause of Disunion, it will be difficult to jog your memory in this ■natter. A Slander. Our cotemporary of the Southern Demo crat has seen fit, in his last issue to charge us with having once ‘edited a fire eating paper at Fort Gaines. This statement is incur-, red and was no doubt made by our con science-void neighbor for no other purpose than to do us a persona! injury, by exciting the prejudices of the people against us. For tunately for us however, the readers of die ‘Enterprise,’ which ve published at Fort Gaines, can give testimony to the fact that that paper was entirely neutral in politics. It is useless for our dis-unioii neighbor to at tempt to force us to claim relationship with him for we have ever been an ardent friend to the Union and no man can truthfully bring aught to the contrary. Toward the close of the first volume of the 4 Enterprise,’ when W. T. Colquitt was traversing the Stale, with his coffin on his back, preaching disunion, we partially dis carded our neutrality, hut not for tlte purpose of advocating Ids doctrines, far from it, but as we were surrounded, as our cotemporary says, by the most rabid Disunionists, and as we really believed that the Union was in dan ger, we were constrained to endpavor to arrest them to some extent by urging them to try non-intercourse or any thing else before a dissolution of the Union. Well we suppose our neighbor would consider that sufficient evidence that we were once a disunionisi, but whenever any man charges us with ever hav ing been a Disunionist, he will most assured ly be guilty of a palpable falsehood. We shall say more of this in our next. Giflfiu Correspondence of the South IVest Georgian. Griffin, luve 16, 1851. That the 44 Rochester knockings' 1 is a great humbug, all sensible individuals will concede; yet I find some in these “ parts” who are not at all sceptical, and really surmise that tlieie is some supernatural endowment in the sev eral mediums. The 44 Knockers” have com menced the publication, I learn, of a Jour nal to advocate its authenticity ; but I have not yet seen it. However, this is not to be wondered at, for there is a class of people who will believe any tiling, even-if it were af firmed that the moon was made of Green Cheese ! Will von be surprised when l tell you that the 4 New Female Costume* made its appear ance in Griffin on last Thursday ? Such I , learn is tho fact although I did not see her! 1 I see that it is spreading like wildfire from Boston to New Orleans and especially in the former City. If I was not afraid, I would say I was opposed in toto to dm new cos tume; but I will wait and see how it progress es before I express an opinion. However, I will say, that l think the ‘trowsers* part of (lie new costume would suit some ladies of my acquaintance to a nicity; for indeed, so far as household power is concerned, they wear them now! And furthermore there are many advantages to be derived from the new costume (and perhaps vice verce) in some respects, as you perceive the use of a man tau maker will be dispensed with; and in fact Milener stores generally will suffer at least during the ‘flowery seasons’—summer and spring. If this costume preponderates the opposition to it, we shall soon see, 1 tnink, sansculottes! So look to your interest gills, j before you go too far! I will say moretxLji this in my next. jS The State Temperance Conventiapwili convene here the 25th; though Ipuppose you are aware of that. We anticipate quite j a crowd andgeneia) represejp|tibn. j My friend Muj. Cline, ofjhe Jeffersonian, i gave me quite a 44 bltm Mp” in his paper soon after tn you, because I said n 44 biHJff injunction was filed against That a bill was filed, I think can be established, but this mere state ment does not go to prove that I intended to do or say injustice or in any way hem the progress of the Road—for indeed its com pletion to this City is considered quite a de. sideratum by nearly every citizen of the place. And it is already completed to this j citv from Flint River—some 15 miles and , ready for travel. The Secession candidate for Governor passed down the road on Friday on a “drum ming expedition,” perhaps. His letter of j acceptance made its appearance lure on Sat- ; unlay ! I cant say that it is a9 replete with objections as 1 looked for. But why, in the name of reason and justice, dont he come out and reaffirm his secession doctrines of last fall, if he expects the suffrages of that party in Georgia? He admits the right of seces sion ; but the right of secession has not a 41 wliit” to do with the present canvass. The issue is, if there is any issue, 44 shall the State of Georgia coalesce in secession witli South Carolina and in the formation of a Southern Confederacy, because Congress passed the 44 Clay Compromise” at the first session of the last Congress?” Gov. Mc- Donald was in favor of this last year, and openly advocated the same! Will he deny it?—can lie deny it? was it not at the so licitation of him that the Champion of di.-un ionist of South Carolina, R. Barnwell Rliett, visited tlte City of Macon last July and made his fulsome and disunion speech? Was not Ciias. J. McDonald there to cheer the emmissary and laud to the skies his produc lions? And in the face of this we see him ask ing the votes of 93,000 freemen—ss,ooo of whom, I verily believe are Union men to (lie core ! Oh, consistency, thou art a jew el! More anon. R. W. McCane is the Secession candidate for Senator in this district, (32d.) He is an old Whig, and yet a large majority in litis county that will support him, are continual, ly hallooing, 44 democracy rally !” To your tents, oh Isreal,” &c. **,? Vegetation looks well considering the want of ruin. Wheal crops fine. A. A. B. WHERE ARE WE—WHERE ARE THEY? After all that has been written, and felt, and done ih Georgia, in reference to the sub ject of agitation, and the points of difference between the patties which now divide the State, it would seem to be an utter impossi bility that tlte least shadow of doubt should rest upon the matter, or that there could be the least difficulty in every man not only choosing his side, but knowing exactly where he stood, when he had chose it. But such have been the efforts to mystify the issue, that what would seem to be very easy of attainment, is just the very reverse. Our opponents had themselves chosen to a.. lign parties, according to their own designa- | tion, under the flags of resistance and of sub- ; mission. When asked to define their rosis- j tance, it was resistance to action of the go- \ vernnient, upon the compromise—and sub- 1 mission, was acquiesce in that measure. But how stands the matter now? While there is us violent opposition as ever on the part of a j large portion of our party opponents to tlte! compromise, others, and if we understand | his letter, Gov. McDonald among them, yield : to this measure, according to the will of the majority, and have become submissionists too. Strange tlien that Governor McDonald i and the submission portion of bis party, should consider it necessary to wage war with their associates of the submission party and not turn their arms against the Resistance branch of their own family, with whom alone can there be any continued strife. But it is not our purpose to enter at large into the sj stem of tactics, that has distinguish- ; ed our opponents, and tended (o the present mystification of the matter of contest between the parties. It is rather to disembarrass (lie subject, and keep before our readers, the real question before them and the coun try. his the policy of minorities to mys tify an unpopular position, and while still holding to that position as the only real mat- I ter of interest; to fight the campaign on any other than it, from the certainty of defeat whenever they are imprudent enough to risk the better. Now for ourselves there are no collateral issues to be fought. These may be ri"ht or wrong, as held by the one parly or die other, and still so far as regards the present issue before the country, we hold them to wholly immaterial. We will join issue on such question as whether a state has or has not ihe right to secede. The ques tion with us and now before the country, is not whether Georgia has the right to secede, hut whether for present r.nnses she shall secede. The country is not now agitated by abstractions, but by re* alities; and it is childish to whitle at the one, when we are actually forced to grap ple with the other. Shall Georgia decide the question that she will secede from the Federal Union, either with South Carolina alonf, or as seems the more popular the indication of the •MashyillfiaConventioii. and unite in forming a Southern confed : eracy ? This is the real question before j the people, and this is the real question, front which it behooves them as they vaU *ue all that is dear to them, to suffer no ( false issue to divest their attention. And upon this view of the issue, are ! the Candidates for Governor by each par- I ty, presented to the people. No matter j what amount of mystification may be im. I posed on the country so far as discussion ’ merely is concerned, no matter how dif* ferent and various may be the phases of the matter in contest as presented by our opponents, there is actuality, so far as the candidates are concerned. Mr. Cobh is the nominee of the one party, as every body knows, because of his known Union principles and feelings—for his opposi j tion to Stale secession, for present causes, I either alone or with South Carolina, or j by means of a Southern Confederacy, to be effected by a Southern Congress, ac cording to the purpose of the Nashville Convention. Governor McDonald on the other hand, has been chosen and pre i sented to the people by our opponents, as their candidate for the Executive Chair, with at lea>t his principles as fully known of opposition and resistance to the Compromise, and his hearty participation in the purposes and recommendations of the Nashville Convention, in relation to that compromise—its call of a Southern Congress, and'every thing els’, promis j ing form nr substance in its resistace to the settlement made by Congress. The question then before the people is, wheth er they “ ill have the power and influence of the State government of Georgia, to be wielded in favor of the compromise and the pence of the country —or whether thev will yield that influence to be wield* ed against it.—whether they will bring the influence of their Slate government, in tlte subservience of the decision of iltdr own State Convention, or gives its influence to the purposes and object* of the Nashville Convention. In short Ihe decision of Georgia in this election must lie, either that of an honest and hearty effort to restore the peace am! harmony of the country on the basis i.f the Compromise and the resolutions of our own Convention, on tlje one hand—orr.f yielding the influence of the State go vernment in oppoisition to the Compro mise; and to continued agitation in rela tion to the union of the confederacy, /t is for the people in view of what tlirni selves know lull well with regard to both candidates on this great issue, to maLe their selection.— Recorder. To the Union Party of Macon GoflU/. [ There will be a meeting of the Party at Lanier on the First Tuesday in July, to appoint delegates to the Congressional Nomination Convention at Americas, and to the Senatorial District Convention, which is to he held at some place then to be design iteil. A full attendance of the Party is desired, as other business of im portance will be done on that day. AMERICAN TELEGRAPH IN SWEDEN. Mr. Vr’uf."in sfln,_ of this country, is about to erect itjSweden and Norway a number iflineofMagnetic * Telegraph. He has been granted (lie : privilege for the enterprise, which is to i endure for fifty years; and a company, j including several heavy capitals in this 1 city and Stockholm, has been formed tin. j (ler auspices. A charter for a similar I undertaking will, it is expected, be ob j la b ,e d from the Government of Denmark, and it is therefore probable that one of I 0(lr countrymen will be the agent in es ! tablishing within the States named at ! least 3,000 miles of telegraph. marriage custome of the as SAMESE. The marriage custome of the Assamese, a people of middle Asia, have many curious points of similaiitv to those of the patriarchs i described in the Pentrtuch. Jacob served Laban as a servant or bondman many years to obtain in marriage Lealiand Rachel, who were sisters; and he was not allowed to mar ry the younger before the elder. So in Asan. a man may marry two sisters, but ho must not marry the elder before the younger. It is not uncommon, whenra<Hft,ajjn(>r, to i en R a S e 10 live for several years as alifcrtfr with the father of his intended wife. He if then called a Chapunea, a kind of bondsman, and is entitled to food and clothing, but no [ wages; and at the end ot his servitude, if the I P ,rl bkes him, the marriage takes place.— j Tho man is looked on in the family as 8 son I inlaw, and is treated kindly. If a girls fath- I er be wealthy, and without' SO ns,he will some j times select, from some equally respectable ! family, a husband for his dauther, and bring him up in his own house. The youth so se lected is likewise called a Chagunea, and in herits the whole of his father-in-law's pro* perty. If a woman’s husband dies, though she may be only eighteen or twenty year of elm-can never ih** again, j.