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VOL. 3.
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ALBANY, GEORGIA.
April 26, 1855, n2l—ly.
LAW & tOJIXELLI,
Attorneys at Law,
Albany, On.
Will practice in the South-Western Circuit,
and in the Counties of Macon, Dooly and Worth
of the Macon Circuit.
UEMtY I*. LAW WILLIAM C. CONNELLY
January 18, 1855 ts
Law Notice,
THE undersigned will give prompt attention
to all business entrusted to his care in the
counties of Sumter, Clay, Randolph, Early, De
catur, B.ker, Calhoun, Dougherty and l.ee, in
this Circuit. JOHN LYON,
Solicitor General, S. VV. C.
Newton, March 18,1854 ly
It. XV. PKAKMAN &. G. KIMBROUGH.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
STARKVILLE GEORGIA.
EWttnnr.il a. J 854, 1 j~ -
IIENRY C. ALEXANDER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia.
WILL give prompt attention to all business
entrusted to his care.
Office up stairs, over J. C. Davis’ Store.
Albany, January 28, 1854 ly
STKOZIER & SLAUG BITER
Attorneys at Law,
ALBANY, GEORGIA.
WI LL practice in the South-Western Cir
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ny and Newton, they may be consulted at the
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June 17, 1853. ly_
K. J. YVARREN,
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Starkville, Georgia.
July 1, 1853 ly
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ALBANY, GEORGIA.
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Office up stairs in the old Franklin Hall, next
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June 17, 1854 ts
THOMAS C. SPICER,
Attorney at Law,
ALBANY, GEORGIA.
Jaly 25, 1854 ly
WILLIAM E. SMITH,
Attorney at Law,
ALBANY,GEORGIA.
WILL attend to professional business in the
Superior Courts of Sumter, Lee, Randolph,
Baker, Early, Decatur and Lowndes; and in the
Inferior Courts of Baker and Lee counties.
ALSO, in the several Courts of Ordinary of
Baker county.
Office, up stairs, one door West of J. C. Davis’
Store. Oct 8, 1854 ts
THOR AS J. DUNN
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Jasper, Calhoun county, Ga.
“YI/"IEE attend to professional business in the
* Superior Courts of Sumter, Randolph, Ear
ly, Clay, Decatur, Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty
and Lee counties.—May 6, 1854 ly.
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Healing Art, to the citizens of ALBANY,
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Albany, Jan. 25, 1855.
Sljc ©corjilx (Courier*
For the Georgia Courier.
D AY-DREAMS.
BY MARY.
I sit where paley sunbeams
Around me softly fall,
Yet gentle, holy visions,
My spirit gently thrall.
Bright dreams of home, of heaven,
Os dear ones passed away,
Come softly, gently o’er tne,
With strange, bewitching sway.
Soft voices gently murmur
Low love notes in my ear—
My heart deep thrills with gladness,
My spirit-1 jves are near;
They lightly hover o’er me
With gently-wooing wing,
And deep within my ‘-heart of hearts,”
A newer joy still bring.
An angel form is near me,
The loved of long ago;
Again I see those tresses
Os golden, wavy flow.
The soft, while arms around me
Are meekly thrown once more,
As they were wont to bless me
In joyous days of yore.
The glorious sun is tinging
With gorgeous hue yon cloud—
But now ’twas faintly gleaming,
Pure, pale as funeral shroud.
An elfin sunbeam kissed it,
And with this pure caress,
Came all those circean glories
Mine eager eyes to bless.
Methinks beneath yon drap’ry
Os crimson tipped with gold,
Bright angel forms are shadowed
Within each mystic fold,
And kindly bend upon us
Their meek and loving eyes,
As they would fondly win us ,
To homes beyond the skies.
*****
Again T lonely wander
Beside our mountain stream;
As now,of -yore, ’twas glancing
With soft and siiv’ry gleam.
The deep blue sky is mirrored
As sweetly ’neatli its wave,
As when my childish fancies
A heavenly beauty gave.
Gay, gentle, happy visions !
Ye quickly pass away,
As do the siiv’ry riplets
With which the south winds play.
Like them, in witching bcaiilv,
Ye charm the saddened heart,
And -wake its warmest blessing
Ere ye again depart.
Tlie Eight t*f My Heart is Gone !
The flower that I loved is w ithered,
Its leaves and its fragrance shod, ,
The de-tr-voi fr.va rj-j.u 5
Mary is dead !
In my ear her loved voice never
Shall breathe in its silver tone,
Its music is hushed forever,
The light ol my heart is gone!
Like the Spring-time’s charming beauties,
As bright, and as quickly fled,
Were my dreams lor the hidden future
Mary is dead!
My fair-haired bride hath left me
Deserted and alone—
Death hath of hope bereft me,
The light of my heart is gone !
Yet she smiles through the troubled dreamings
That come to my widow’d bed,
And I weep, for it soothes my sorrow—
Mary is dead!
I weep when the morning wakes me,
With the light of the golden sun,
For mine is a life of darkness;
The light of my heart is gone !
Inebriety.
When this vice has taken fast hold of a man,
farewell industry—farewell emulation—farewell
attention worthy of attention—farewell decency
of manners—and farewell to even an attention
to person. Everything is sunk by this predom
inant and brutal appetite. In how many instan
ces do we see men who began life with the
brightest prospects before them, and who have
closed it without any ray of comfort and con
solation ? Young men with good fortunes, good
tempers, good hearts, good constitutions, only
being drawn into the vortex of the drunkard,
have become by degrees, the most loathsome and
despicable of mankind. In the house of the
drunkard there is no happiness forany one. All
is uncertainty and anxiety. He is not the same
man forany one day at a time. No one knows
ol his outgoings or his incomings. When he
will rise or when he will lie down to rest, is
wholly a matter of chance. That which he
swallows for what he calls pleasure, brings
mourning. Poverty and misery are in the train.
To avoid these results, we are called upon to
make no sacrifice. Abstinence requires no aid
to accomplish it. Our own will is all that is re
quisite ; and if we have not the will to avoid
contempt, disgrace and misery, we deserve
neither relief nor compassion.
Seeing the Elephant. —Passengers who
travel by the New York and New Haven cars
have a grand chance of ‘seeing the elephant.’
Going from New York, the cars pass tiie farm of
P. T. Barnum, a mile or so before reaching
Bridgeport, Ct. On that farm, and in plain view
from the railroad,an elephant may be seen every
pleasant day attached to a large plow, and doing
up the‘sub-soiling’in first rate style, at the rate
of about three distinct double horse teams. The
animal is perfectly tractable. His attendant
rides him, while a colored man guides the plow.
The elephant is also used for carting large loads
of gravel in a cart arranged purposely for him,
and in drawing stone on a boat or drag, in piling
up wood, timber, &c., and in making himself
■
ALBANY, DOUGHERTY COUNT f, GEORGIA, MAY 3, 1855.
A. m
From the Louisville Journal •
Arc tlie Know Nothings Aboli
tionists?
The standing charge, (he daily charge, made
by the Southern anti-Know-Nothiug organs
against the Know Nothing party of tlie North, is
that it isan abolition orFreesoil party. Through
out the whole South there is not a single anti-
Know Nothing organ that does not press this
charge upon all possible occasions, in season and
out of season. It is the main charge, indeed the
one charge, upon which the Southern anti-Know
Nothing leaders rely for success. away
from them, and they have little left. And it
should be taken away from them. It is as false
and calumnious a charge as the very genius of
mendacity and malice could invent. Whatever
sins the mass of the Know Nothing party of the
North may have to answer for here or hereafter,
abolitionism is not one of them. Undoubtedly
there are abolitionists among them, and undoubt
edly in some few localities the abolitionists pre
dominate among them, but, take the whole of the
Know Nothing party of the North together, and
it is sounder at heart, sounder in principle, and
sounder in action upon the great slavery issues
than any other party in that section has ever been
known to be. Its strong eflbrts to nationalize
itself by sinking the slavery agitation so as to be
able to harmonize with the Know Nothings of the
South have been and still continue to he very
great, and the degree of its success is cheering
to the entire patriotism of the nation. If the
slavery agitation is destined ever to he allayed,
that mighty work is certainly to be accomplished
by what is called the American party, which, if
we are correctly informed, now requires of all its
members a solemn obligation to adhere to the
Constitution and tlie Union in any and every em
ergency that may arise.
If the Northern Know Nothings were Abolition
ists or Freesoilors, they would not, as they are
accused of doing, seek to discourage the immi
gration of foreign hordes into this country. They
know, as every body else does, that nine-tenths
of the immigrants who land in armies on our
shores are Abolitionists, and, if they themselves
were Abolitionists, and were lookingaround them
for the most effectual means of promoting Abo
litionism, they would hail with joy the coming of
these foreign allies and promote it to the extent
of their power. If they were Abolitionists, they
would throw no conceivable impediment in the
way of the rushing stream by which tlie loul lake
of abolitionism in this country lias received and
is receiving its chief supply. They would stretch
forth their arms to the people of foreign lands, all
of whom are Abolitionists, to come over and aid
in lliq destruction o( slavery. To say; tl- ‘ .
Am0r...:,-- party ,V an party, ouo dmt it
is struggling at the same time to shut out the
tremendous tide ol foreign Abolitionists setting
upon our shores, is nothing less than a monstrous
absurdity.
We have repeatedly stated the fact, a fact
which defies contradiction, that all of the regu
lar Freesoil organs, which surely ought to know
who their own friends are, and nineteen-twenti
eths of all the Freesoil leaders of the North, who
certainly know who their co-workers are, de
nounced the Know Nothing party of tlie North
as a pro-slavery party even more vehemently and
vindictively if possible than its Southern enemies
denounce it as a Freesoil party. Take up the
violent, hitter, and influential Freesoil organs of
the country, take up the Washington National
Era, the New York Tribune, tlie New York Eve
ning Post, the Albany Evening Journal, the Buf
falo Express, the Cleveland Leader, the Cleveland
Plaindealer, &c., from alpha to omega,
take up the speeches and letters of the Abolition
orators and demagogues, take up those of Seward
and Wade and and Chase and Sumner,
and you will find that all these Freesoil newspa
per organs and all these Freesoil orators and let
ter-writers are fierce in their denunciations of
the Know Nothing party of the North not only as
an ally of slavery and a foe of Freesoilism but as
the direst and most dangerous foe that Northern
Freesoilism has ever been called on to encounter.
We have before us extracts from tlie declarations
of these Northern Freesoil newspapers and lead
ers to prove all and more lhan all that we have
here said, but we could not publish them without
making this article much too long to be general
ly read.
The overwhelming mass, then, of Northern
Abolitionism is deadly in its hostility to tlie Know
Nothing or American party. And we say with
the distinguished editor ol the Richmond (Va )
Whig, that we are at a loss to conceive how any
honest Southern man, with this fact staring him
broadly in the face, can unite with the Northern
enemies of the South in denouncing for Abolition
ism a party which those enemies describe as
tending to repress agitation, to put clown fanati
cism, and blast the hopes Os the Abolition parly.
This ground they all take, frAm Seward down to
the pettiest of Seward’s flunkeys; and urge it
upon the Northern people with all the zeal and
fury characteristic of Abolition madmen. We
have in former numbers quoted from Seward,
from Greeley, from Adams, from Weed, and a
host ol others known to be determined and invet
erate enemies of the South and Southern Institu
tions, and they all, as we have said, without a
solitary exception, concur in denouncing the
Know Nothing movement as inimical to Abolition
ism and favorable to the South, and agree in the
policy of opposing it at all hazards and to the last
extremity. Is this a policy importing notliingon
the part of the Abolitionists at the North ? Has
it indeed no important significance ? No motive 7
No object ? Is it reasonable to suppose that these
Abolition fanatics would be willing to throw cold
water on a great popular movement which prom
ised to innre to the benefit’of them or their cause 7
■lave they ever been guilty of such folly before ?
Bucli downright stupidity ? Such lack of com
mon sense ami common sagacity? Why, who
Btubts tlie shrewdness, the penetration, the poi ,
litit I foresight of William H. Seward 7 Who, I
in j tlie South, takes Greeley to be a fool 7
Wj considers Weed wanting in cunning?—
W regards either silly enough not to perceive 1
wh ) a movement or a party is calculated to pro- |
mo the progress of Abolitionism 7 And who !
Irai ever known cither of them not to catch ea- ,
ge yat any and everything which could be used ,
to ivance their schemes, and inflict injury upon j
tin S->uth ? This being so, why have they not ,
ca ;ht convulsively at Know Nothingism, if. as |
ail Iged, the Know Nothing movement isan Ab- J
oli on movement 7 Is not their conduct in this j
res pet totally and utterly incomprehensible ?
Ca it be accounted for upon any hypothesis
wl ,(ever,consistent with the stale and far-fetch
ed iHegation ot the Democratic press at the
There may he errors, and important ones, in
thecreed of the Know Nothing or American par
ty, but we again say that a party of sounder na
tionality does not exist. Soineofthe Democratic
organs and leaders in Kentucky denounce it as
amabgiition party, but this is always the one
great weapon of their warfare against any and
every man or party that they think proper to op
pose. They denounced Gen. Harrison as an ab
olitioijist in 1840, they denounced Mr. Clay as
an abolitionist in 1844, they denounced Gen. Tay
lor as an abolitionist in 1848, they denounced
Gen. [icott as an abolitionist in 1852, tboy de
nomiqed the whole Whig party as a mass of ab
olitionists in each and all of those years and have
been Ulus denouncing it until within the last few
weeks,i and they would denounce Christianity
itself a4 abolitionism ifjliey believed that they
could thereby fix their dutches upon the political
spoils of (he nation.
Direct Trade Movement at tlie
South.
We stated several days ago that a committee
appointed by the Commercial Convention, held
at New Orleans, in January last, were about to
send a special agent to Europe to obtain certain
information in regard to the cotton interests.—
The subject of this movement) which has been
under discussion at the South for several years,
is to divert the cotton of tlie several States into
new channels, by which to reach tlie spinners on
the continent of Europe and destroy the present
apparent monopoly of JAverpool. The move
ment also embraces the cotton-yarn interests of
tbe South, it being supposed that Georgia can
supply Germany cheaper than the mills of Eng
land, and some of the manufacturers of yarns in
the South having been invited to send samples
of their goods for exhibition in the continental
V .C. G. Baylor, who lias charge of these ne
gotiations in Europe, sailed from Boston yester
day, in tlie steamer Asia, with the intention of
visiting Havre, Antwerp, Rotterdam. Amsterdam.
Hamburg, and Bremin, to ascertain what can he
accomplished towards establishing a direct trade
between those cities and the Southern ports of
this country. The information obtained is to be
laid before a special meeting of cotton planters
to be held on the 4th of July, at Cooper’s YVe)!,
in Mississippi.
We are gratified to observe that an enlcrprize
in which tlie South has so deep an interest has
1 been so conducted as not to betray a sectional
spirit. This is as it should be. 11 true to her
self, the South will nut be found deficient in tlie
elements of commercial equality, and in endeav
oring to avail herself of them she will, no doubt
■ receive words of cheer and encouragement from
her Northern Brethren.—[lntelligencer.
From the Cedar Town ((.’a.) lUpuhtican Union.
A Nut to Crack.
If the Know-Nothings elected Trtrtlbull to the
United States Senate, how did it happen that tiie
same Legislature that elected him, on the day
after his election) passed two resolutions con
demning him in the severest manner ?
If tlie order of tlie Know-Nothings is aboli
tionism, how does it happen that the order or par
ty is hostile to foreigners, all of whom, with few
exceptions, being rank abolitionists?
If the principles of the American party are
anti-republican because of their opposition to
foreigners, and their elevation to office, and un
democratic for the same causes, how does it hap
pen that Thomas Jefferson, the great examplar
of republicanism, and the great apostle of democ
racy, should oppose the appointment of foreigners
to office ?
How does it happen that office-seekers are so
hostileio the American party?
If the whig and democratic parties North have
abolitionists and foreigners in their ranks, whv
don’t these office hunters—these mere pigmies,
rail out against these parties?
How is it that tlie democratic party denounce
the Know Nothings for their.piomciion of free
soilers in the North, and yet applaud President
Pierce, who lias appointed five hundred freesoil
ersand abolitionists to office in New Yoi!;7
If Know-Nothingism is abolitionism, how is it
that they are denounced in the most bitter terms
by and abolitionists for being in favor
of slavery 7
“Zeke,” Eaid a ('armor to a country chap as I
he called to see if Maria was at home ; “do you
think you will ever go to Heaven.”
“Wall, I don’t know,” said Zeke ; “I'spose
I'll go where Maria goes.”
‘ But Maria says if she marries you, she will
goto the and 1.”
“Wall,” drawled out Zeke,“it will be the first
angel I ever heard going to the and 1.”
The next night, Connubial Illiss took tea with {
the old farmer’s daughter, and she took good
pains to get up a “beautiful blow out.”
A Dutchman being called upon for a toast,’
said: “Here ish to tc heroes who fit, [deed and
tied mit te pattle of I’unker Hill——of whom lam
one.” Drank standing.
Locality of the Infernal Kegioiss.
Discoveries in science create but liltls sensa
tion in an age
“When every year and month brings forth anew one ;** i
but a revelation in polemics has recently been
made from the pulpit, which, if ‘it can be veriried’
will prove a source of holy consolation to ail
good Christians. Father Walworth, a son of
the late Chancellor of this State, anew convert
to Romanism, who, for his zeal, has lately been
promoted from the ranks to the priesthood claims
to leave discovered the locality and the |?mpera
ture of Hell! He has favored ns witljthe par
ticulars of its topography, hydrography, Ind geol
ogical structure, and, strangely enough, has ia
ken certain truths in natural science as llie basis
of his supernatural theory. These, he Ins curi
ously dovetailed with Scripture quotation# an#
an alleged Roman Catholic miracle or two, and
from this heterogeneous evidence, lie infers the
existence of a place of physical and mental tor
ment, considerably more horrible than the “bot
tomless pit” of any Protes’ant sect. At the risk
of throwing our readers into convulsions, we
deem it our duty to inform them that the frontier
of this region of over blazing lire and bubbling
sulphur, is only i(ventyone miles from the soles
of their feet, and that the temperature about the
edges, where : t is cool and pleasant, in compari
son jvitli the heat oi the interior, is, two thou
sand DEGREES OF FAHRENHEIT.
This inttresting .announcement, so very im
portant, if irue, was made by Father Walworth,
in the “Cliirch of the Annunciation of our most
Ulessed Lady,” in Manhattanvil!e,on the evening
of Sunday the 24tli of March. This exemplary
Embassador of a God of Love and Mercy, com
menced his sermon by promising to show that
Hell was io imaginary scene of tortuie, “but
fixed, actua,, near at hand, beneath our very feet,
in the’centei of this earth on which.we tread.”
The idea entertained by some superficial persons,
that Topliet in'glit be located in one of the plan
ets or fixed stirs, was, he assured iiis audience,
unscriptura! and absurd. Down —not up, nor
sideways, nor dantendicnlar—was the word uni
formly used in the Scriptures to indicate the di
rection in which the souls of sinners are pro
pelled.
Having estah'islied this point, and fixed the
latitude and longitude of Pandemonium, to his
own entire content, if not to the satisfaction of
hearers, the holy man proceeded to describe tlie
nature and physical condition cf the infernal an
tipodes. lie mildly insisted that as Hell was a
place of material punishment, it was a necessary
deduction from the premises, that theisoDTEs and
limbs of sinners, and especially the more sensi
tive parts thereof, would be subjected eternally
j lt> tJ**y tormcicila, u.rtM flfUife (llrtll (hfl titON
imagination cobid conceive, while the slings of
conscience and the agonies of remorse would
simultaneously rend and tear and Crucify the soul.
Having finished this enticing picture of the re
ception prepared for the wicked, and heightened
it with some extra touches, which we omit, the
Reverend Father condescended to give his data
for stating the distance between Topliet and New
York, and the surface of the earth generally, at
twenty-one miles. In boring Artesian wells, he
said, it had been found that one degree of heat
was gained for every fifty feet of progress ; con
sequently; at the same ratio of increase, a tem
perature capable of melting granite, would he ob
tained at the depth of twenty-one miles; and at
Itiis point the infernal territory commenced. Os
course, by a parity o! reasoning, the deeper a
sinner dived, the hotter lie must find it,- and in the
midst of a temperature, in which the most incom
bustible substance—say asbestoes and “ “’s
Champion Safes”—would melt instantaneously,
tlie flesh, bones, muscles, tendone, and fibres of
1 the condemned would roast everlastingly without
1 being consumed ! This was precisely tlie posi*
’ ! tion taken by the good Father, although we have
’ not used his exact words. It seems to be slight
ly at variance with reason and philosophy ; but
’ what have these to do with tlie fire and brimstone
‘ theory ?
The Artesian experiment was not the only fact
upon which the Father relied in guaging, tlier
mometrically,the fervency of infernal heat. lie
stated further, that on a certain occasion, a pious
Catholic was permitted to receive a visit from one
of Satan’sjsubjects, and that this overheated in~
dividual, by merely dipping his hand into a vase
of water, made it so very hot that it immediately
melted a bronze candlestick! This incombusti
bfe firebrand of a fellow, does not seem to have
cooled down more than a degree or two in per
forming the journey of twenty-one miles, from
Terra del Fuego to Terra Firma. Perhaps ihe
crust interposed between the two regions is some
what thinner Ilian the priest supposes—who
knows? We should be unwilling to descend
more than five miles for fear of accidents. Dead
reckonings are so often incorrect.
The Perfume of Flowers may be gathered,
according to the Scientific American in a very
simple manner and without apparatus. Gather
the flowers with as little stalk as possible, and
place them in a jar three parts full ol olive or
almond Oil. After being in the oil 23 hours, put
them into a coarse cloth, and squeeze the oil
from them. This process, with fresh flowers is
to be repeated, according to the strength of the
perfume desired. The oil being thus thoroughly
perfumed with the volatile principle of the flowers
is to be mixed with an equal quantity of pure
rectified spirit, and shaken every day for a fort
night, when it may he poured off ready for use.
A Blue Rose.—The horticulturists of Paris
succeeded by artificial crossing in obtaining a
natural rose of blue color, which is the fourth
color obtained by artificial means; that, and the
yellow or tea rose, the black or the purple rose,
and the striped rose, being all inventions, and
the result of skillful and scientific gardening.
Forecast is letter than laid wotk.
Woman’s Love—A Charming Story 1 *
*
One of the editors of tlie New Orleans Pica
yune, in a recent article on the moral culture of
tlie affections, relates tlie following pretty story i
In the course of onr peregrinations, we were
introduced to a family consisting of a widow lady
and two daughters. Tlie eldest was abouttwen*
ty, an exceedingly interesting girl, well educated
and posses-ed of considerable personal attractions.
In the general demeanor of the sisters there was
a striking contrast, the youngest one was all
gaiety, with a transparent candor on her features
that enabled you to read her very heart. Every
word, every move, evinced some predominant idea
—that she habitually ‘chewed the cud of bitter
melancholy.’ What that id a was, in a young
girl, of course every body might divine. After
a time a little intimacy having *p”ing up between
us and the widow, the cause of the melancholy in
her eldest daughter was explained to “us. They
had been brought up near a family where there
was a youth ot her own age, and a reciprocal af
fection was tlie result of intimacy between them.
Tlie mother only became aware of the state of hos
daughter’s feelings by tlie demand made for her
hand by tlie lover. The position of the young
couple was such, in regard to worldly affairs, as
to render tlieirmariiage imprudent in the extreme.
The widow therefore pointed out to her daugh
ter all the evil consequences which would entail
on her, and tlie latter like a sensible young wo
man, concurred in the justness of her mothers
views. It was then agreed between them to re
move from tlie scene of danger, and the family
accordingly established themselves at a spot forty
miles off, where we first saw them, the yoang
lady .promising to hold no correspondence with
the gentleman. Circumstances shortly called us
to another part of the country, and but about
nine months subsequently we were again thrown
into intercourse with the family at the said place.
Somewhat to our surprise, wo found tlie widow
with her youngest daughter only, the elder had
left her home forever. The explanation was
readily given us. It happened that notwithstand
ing every effirt on the part of the young lady,
the passion she had conceived for the companion
of her infancy could not be eradicated. Iler
gloom and despondency daily, hourly increased.
She uttered no complaint, but it was plain, that
memory,‘like a worm in the bud,’ preyed upon
her young heart. Riding one evening in a car
riage with her mother in the outskirts of the vill
age where they lived, while the latter was en
deavoring to arouse melancholy, by deeeanting
on the beauties of nature, she suddenly broke
out from her torpor ar.d exclaimed, “Look.jna, at
■ yonder oak in the middle of that plowed field 1
’ i would rather be Mormon’s wife and live upon
1 adorns heneatti that lire, than ho (he bride of a
f prince!” Struck almost speechless by her
* daughter’s Unaccustomed energy, the poor wid
• ow looked at her a moment, and hurst into tears.
“Do you really mean that, Hetty? Then aa
there is a living God you shall have him. I e.m
! too mticli of a woman not to understand you*
1 and I will no longer oppose your wishes.” The
two wore in an instant locked in s
arms, weeping tears of love and gratitude.—
’ They returned home instantly; a letter was
’ forthwith addressed to the lover, and the wedding
of the young couple Was duly solemnized with
in a month from that day.
Influence of Marriage#
Habit and long life together are more neces*
sary to happinessj and even to love, than is gen
erally imagined. No one is happy with the ob
ject ol his attachment, until he has passed many
days, and, above all, many days of misfortune
with her.
The married pair must know each other to the
Centre of their souls—the mysterious veil which
covered the two spouses in the primitive church,
must be raised in its inmost folds, how closely
soever it may be kept drawn to the rest of the
World.
What ! on account of a fit of caprice or burst
of passion, aiii I to be exposed to the soar of
losing my wife and my children, and to re
nounce the hope of passing my declining days
with them ? Let no one imagine that fear will
make me become abetter husband.
No : we do not attach ourselves io a possession
i of which we are not secure ;we do not love
property which wc are in danger of losing.
The soul oi a man, as well as his body, is in
complete without his wife ; he has strength, she
has beauty • be combats the enemy and labors
in the field, but he understands nothing of do
mestic life ; his companion is waiting to prepare
his repasts and sweeten his existence. He has
crosses, and the partner of his life is there to
soften them : his days may be sad and troubled,
but in the chaste arms of his wife ho finds com
j fort and repose.
j Without woman, man would be rude, gross,
! solitary. Woman spreads around him tho flow
ers of existence, as the creepers of the forest,
which decorate the trunks of sturdy oaks with
their perfumed garlands.
Finally, the Christian pairliveand die united;
together they rear the fruits of their union ; in
the dust they lay side by side, and they are reuni
ted beyond the tomb.
“Say, Pomp, where did you get that new coat
of yours ?”
“Down here at Pushes, Sarc.”
“How at Pushes, you black scoundrel ?”
“Why, it said Push over the door, and I pushed.
And when T got inside it said ‘pull,’ and I pulled
and down came this coat.”
“Peter, what are you doing to that boy ?” said
a schoolmaster. “He wants to know if you take
ten from seventeen, how many will remain ;so
I took ten of his apples to show him, and now lie
wants I should giv’em back.” “Well, why don’t
you do it ?” “Cos sir, he would forget how many 0
is left.”
NO. 22.