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Feb 2—4 . r ji\ i'JEIUKIAiS, V ‘A’ V AT JAW, GitOKOIA, y in the counties’ of Greene, Morgan, .m, UyGthorpe, Taliaferro, Hancock, V,hikes and Warren. Feb. 112 ly 7 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY An important Consideration. ‘Hu rd i> undoubtedly au hoi>t diversity of o ir : >m itmoug uooj men, in relatioii to wlcat has : been technically called the wiae <jao>tk)Q, s-oino i -amp i.s'ng that the lliido s.uctii>ns the us< as a j beverage, of the pure juice of the grape, in a for* men ted or intoxicating stair., others, that its sane* I iion is ccnlined to its use in its un£ermenUid orin ! tc.xicated btate, both, how ever, agree that the use | of drugged or mixed wum, as a beverage has no I sanction in that authoritative book. Whatever j interest therefore may be felt in wine countries, i in relation to the lawfulness of using, as a beverage, 1 the pure juice of the grape, in its fermented, or in-, j toxicating state the decision of that great question, j however decided, can have very Utile practical bearing here, for however lawful the pure juice ! of the grape may, be in either state, it ia an unde ) niable fact that the pure juice of the grape is not ! generally iu use here, in either of these states, if j indeed it is in use at all, and it is also an undenia ble fact, that the wines of commerce are, in the sense the Bible uses the term, mixed wines, and because they are so, they axe condemned by the very authority repealed to, in vindication of theif use. For it is conceded that wines, the intoxica ting quality of which has been increased by the addition of other ingredients, are disallowed by the Bible, and yet such, are all, or nearly all the wines of commerce. To these wines, brandy is u niversally added to prevent the acetous fermenta tion on their passage across the Atlantic; and without such adulterations, if brought there at all, they must be brought in the form of vinegar, or in spissated, that is, boiled wine. But this is not all (though this were quite sufficient to prove ac cording to the interpretation contended for, by the advocates of pure fermented wine; that the wine here in use, is unauthorized and profane, therefore ! unfit for use, by either Christian or Jew.) But I this is not all, nor is it the worst, epurioU9 winea, that ig liquors falsely called wines, being fabrieat- ■ ed from ether articles than the juice of the grape and furnished expressly for the American market, at Madeira, at Oporto, at Cot to in France, and ev en at London iu England, to all which must be added, the spurious articles of domestic mano | facture, with which tho whole country is flooded. Among these fabrications are some, nay many of the vilest and most revolting character, and none, the use of which is healthtul, or even 6afe. This is not fancy, it is not exaggeration, as eve ry one knows, who is familiar with the facts of’ toe case, facts established under the solemnity of oaths iu courts of justice, spread out in parlia mentary reports, proclaimed by the publie press in every quarter of the world, and never yet con tradicted. Waving all remark therefore, on the use of pure fermeneed wme, and allowing what is called the “o'me question]’ proper to remain an open ques tion, we ea 1 on ali the friends of temperance, the lriencid of morals, and upon all weil-wishere of the human race, to abstain from the uae of an article not only not sanctioned by the Bible, but undeni able discountenanced by it, as well as by the voice of expeiience, and the claims of humauity, and to co-operate with us in banishing it from reputable society, as au article deleterious in its nature, and productive only of disease, of crime, of misery and doath, and therefore an article, unworthy a iike, of countenance, either by the friends of utili ty, of morals, cr of religion. Could we 60 change the usages of society, that these destructive poi sons falsely called wine, could be banished from the side-board, the dining-table, and the drawing room, we should remove a chief argument from | the beer drinker, and the rum drinker, as well *9] from the beer drunkard, and the mm drunkard] for t lie continuance of their destructive habit. Since the authority of the Bible is confessedly against the use of the eporious and deleterious ] wines of commerce ; aDd since the use of still ba-1 ser articles is defended among the laboring class es, by the use of the wines of commerce among the I classes who employ them, will not the wise and j the good among these classes, for their own eakes, 1 and for the snkes of those around and beneath f them form the high resolve of abandoning at once j and forever, the deleterious beverag*. Tho sac-j rifiee on their part, would be small, toe benefit COR- f ferred on others immense, which resolve, if form-1 ed aright, and carried out into action, would leave ! its impress on the earth, among generations to | come and meet its requital in heaven, where eve ry sacrifice made for God’s and for righteousness’ jsske, will be remembered and rewarded. Will the future and farther indulgence in thse adulterated wines, afford so pure a pleasure 00 j earth, or seenre so rich a rewanl in heaven, as Is j promised by their abandonment ® I Man of wealth—man of fashion — weigh the one j against the othe;, and having done so, in the j sight that eternity sheds upon the subject, decide ! the course of wisdom, and let your actions corres | pond to that decision, and be that derision such | as shall be approved, when the soul looks in ! an- after life, and from eternal heights upon the part she acted in the world that was, but is now no ! more. A Wife’s Prayer. If there is nny thing that comes nearer to the im pioration of Ruth and Naomi thau the subjoined, we have not seen it: “ Lord bless and preserve the dear person whom Thou has chosen lobe ray hus band ; let Im life l>e long and bleised, comfortable •ind holy ; and let me also boeome a great bles sing to him, a sharer in his sorrows, a meet help iii a!! the accidents and changes in the world ; make me amiable forever in his eyes and forever i make me dear to him. Unite hi 9 heart to me in j the dearest love and holiness, and mine to him in all its sweetness, charity and complaoency. Keep ine from all ungeritleness, all discon tented ness and unreasonableness of passion and humor, and make me humble and obedient, useful and observant, that we may delight in each other according to Thy blest word ; and both of us may rejoice in Thee, having for our portion the love and service of God forever.” SBiP The difference between a schoolmaster and an engine driver is, that one auoda the train, and he other trains the mind. PIRETELD. GA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1857. Liberty a B 1 easing, only to those capable of self-denial. A republic of raht extent, ia which the will of the people gave law, was a thing unknown to an tiquity. The elementary principle which led to the eatabliehment of such a republic on thiaride of the Atlantic, was first developed by the reformers of Church and State, when England awuka from her slumber of age?, Toward this republic the eyes of the nations have since been turned, in whose behalf, as well as in our own, we are working out the great prob lem whether man be or be not capable of self government The exercise of this high preroga ’ live leads only to the inflictions of wrong when they who exercise it are, either through ignorance or dep*nrity, incapable of exercising it for their own advantage. And each, alas, has too often been the casein times to come whenever and, wherever either intelligence or moral principle are wanting. Liberty was a grievous wTonga© exorcised by the licentious canaille of revolutionary France; and so it w-ould be now in the hands of the de praved mussulman of euany Hiudoatan, or the un educated serf of enowy Russia. Freedom, that neither guided by intelligence or by principle, like the Siroco cf the desert, carries only desolation in its course. Temperance in all things especially in the use of intoxicating poisons, is an essential prerequisite to freedom, Ireland is indeed escap ing from the incubus of drunkenness. But what to be hoped for Russia, or even England, for Russia, whose government derives a revenue of twenty five millions of dollars a year for rum.— For England, whose thousands of laborers con sume (heir five hundred millions ot gallons of beer annually, can snch men bo fit to govern others ? Men unable even to restrain, and unfit to govern themselves. They only, who are capable of eels denial, are capable of selfigovernment. Tbty need eall no man masler. The rights and duties of the rich and poor are reciprocal; the poor depend not ; more immediately upon the rich than the rich up on them. When the mass®* shall, through ex posure to temptation, become degraded and fero cious, though the rich may retain place and pow er for a season, their security will be of short duiatkm and followed by a fearful retribution, so that the rich have as deep an interest in the mor al elevation of the poor, as have the poor them selves ; and how can the poor be morally ele vated while addicted to the use as a beverage, of those poisons which paralyze and prostrate alike ; all that is pure and noble ia both natures ? And 1 what security will there be for either person or property, when the power of the ballot box shall be wielded by the inmates of the pot-house ? when freemen, reeling from the barrowra and grocery, ’shall east a majority of those votes which are to decide the character of those lavra on which hangs | the destiny of the nation. The amount of this reckless influence Is already frightful—it has already impoverished our labor ers, corrupted our youth and filled our poor bouses with poor and our prison houses with criminals, and is it just or prudent to continue to license dis pensaries and give the sanction of law to agents for dispensing these elements of pauperism, of crimei, of disease and death ? Shall we when call ed to decide the momentous question whether these nuisances shall be abated, shrink from the discharging of the trust committed to us as free men 9 Or shall we meet the occasion as the guar dians of liberty ought to meet it, and proclaim to the nations that in this great republic the elaims of virtue have been regarded, and the! doom of drunkenness sealed by the ballot. No Licejtse, The Appeal. From the bills of mortality which have been kept iu different places, it appears that in a sin gle year twenty deaths were occasioned in Ports mouth, N. by by the nee of intoxicating liq uors ; twenty-one in Salem, Maas ; thirty-one in New Haven, Conn.; thirty in New-Branswick, N. nod seven hundred in Philadelphia, Penn. By examinations mode it had been shown that of eight hundred and eighty maniacs in our asy lums, four hundred owe their kiss of reason to the uso of intoxicating liquors; that seventeen hundred our of nineteen hundred paupers in our poor-houses, owe their pauperism and their deg radation to the same oaase; that forty but of the forty-four murdere were committed under the in fluence of akobofte stimulus: that sixty-seven out of seventy-seven found dead, died of drunken ness; and that four hundred out of six hundred and ninety juvenile defiuqnents, either drank themselves, or belonged to fcundes that drank. •‘I have *bowa,”-*aye that indefatigable ‘Samuel Chipraan, Baq who visted the prisons and poor-houses of oar State T have shown be yond the power cf cmftradietfoo, that more than three-fourths of all the pauperism is occasioned by intemperance, and that more tlmn five-sixths of all those committed for crime, are themselves intemperate. In no poor-house that I have vis ited have l failed to find the wife, or the widow, or the children of the drunkard. In one out of one hundred and ninety persons relieved the preceding year, were nineteen wives of drunken and seventy-one children of drunken parents ; and in almost every jail were husbands confined for whipping thoir wives, or otherwise abasing their households. The annual destruction of human life in these United States, occasioned by the use of strong drink, ia said to be at least fifty thousand, Mr, Chipman found 70 per cent of the deaths of male adults in one large town which ho visited was occasioned by the use of intoxicating liq uors ; and the physicians of Annapolis have giv en it aft their opinion that one half of the men over eighteen years of age, in that city, were brought prematurely to their end in the tamo , manner. In view of these facts i& it worth while for the citizens of this free State to authorize by their votes the Hcenciug of these moral Golgothae, in its several towns and hamlets and neighborhoods l The avenues Cos death are sufficiently numerous, without opening, and legalizing new ones. From these licensed Aceldamas disease and death are not only sent abroad, but every other form of evil; there, all that ia nobio in the character of man is debased, all that is groveling and vile quickened infrrWa, and one generation of vagabond* after an other .trained op. not only to annoy and disgrace their families and friends, but to prey upon com munity. And it is for yon, electors, to say wheth er these rendezvous of crime and sources of raise ry shall coniinue, or whether they shall be closed, and community spared the expense and the dis grace of sustaining them. By one decisive act you can pronounce the doom of the corrupters of our youth, of tlie plunderers of our poor, and shut up the dene where they have been corrupted and plundered. Will you perform that act, and save your forailes and your country from impending min 9 No License. feted Doctrine, Considering the waste of life which intemper ance occasions, the disciples of Malthus may per haps be led to place intoxicating liquors in the category with war, and (amine and pestilence, and to consider them each and all as necessary evils, being expedients provided by Providence to prevent a redundant population on the earth.— Not to insist on the fact that the philosophy of Malthus is at variance with the mandate of Jeho vah, who bade our first parents multiply and re plenish and subdue the earth, it is snfficient for our present purporse to remark, that we are in no great danger at present of suffering inconvenience in this vicinity from a redundant population. — When vre consider how small a part of this terra queous globe is tenanted by human beings, and how axhaustless in resources these portions of the earth are, on which the foot of civilized man has -nevortrod, and when we further consider how much more abundantly the whole earth may be caused to produce by an improved system of cul tivation, there is little reason to fear that room will be wanting for some few thousand of years to come, for the accommodation of those human be fogs that It may please God to place upon this planet; so that at present there can be no valid reason for eocooragfog the sale of intoxicating poisons for the mere purpose of producing disease and death in order to kill off the present genet a tk>u to make room for another to be killed off’ for the same reason, and in the same manner. More men eao hve, and live better, the wiser and more virtuous the race of roan shall become. f Let the voters of the Btate., then, in place of en couraging, put a stop to the traffic in intoxicat ing liquors, which would in a great measure put a stop to the waste and worse than waste of mil lions of broad stuffs now converted into poisons, ad dispensed abroad for the mere purpose of de ranging the intellect, impairing the constitution, ana peopleing the poor-housu. the prison house and the grave yard ; which kroadstuffs but for this abuse would serve to sustain and invigorate an active healthful and virtuous population, to fell r our forests, to increase the products of our facto ries and workshops and harvest fields, and by in creasing these products to increase the comforts to be distributed among our people at home, or to be sent abroad to exchange for foreign com forts to be afterwards here distributed. Whatever may be the case some few thousand years hence, if the race shall continue to increase, lit would seem quite as befitting at present r that products of the earth should be applied to the sustenance of man as of birds and beasts and creeping things. To say nothing of the four foot led inhabitants of the forest, the wild fowl of this continent consumed by the inhabitants of these United States, Why, then 6bould we be at the g-atuitous ex pense end trouble of employing agents for dis pensing elements which tend uot only to short en life, but also to make life miserable while it lasts. The traffic ha intoxicating drinks is unjust to wards men, and offensive to God, because, Ist. It encourages fraud, by encouraging the practice of adulteration. 2d. It perpetuates intemperance. 9d. It promotes pauperism and crime. 4th. It diminishes the wealth of the State. Oth. It unnecessarily and unequally increases the public burthens. Gffh. It impairs the health of our population. 7th. It impairs the intellect. Bth. It corrupts the morals. 9th shortens life. 10th. It ruins souls, for no drunkard shall enter Heaven. Who, then, fears God or wishes well to man, will rote the continuance of the abhored traffic ? Who desires his name to go down to posterity os in favor of giving license for the sale of rum, and his children be obliged to admit that their father voted against. No License. Ths Yota of Life. It is a problem that many have sought iu vaiu to answer, why God has imposed upon man so heavy a yoke os the drudgery of toil to which the majority are subject, which, they say, tends to de grade Uie mind, to suppress loity aspiration, to deaden spiritual devefopemeot. One point must 1)0 emphasized—that the excessive, the oppressive demand labor makes upon man’s time aud strength is not of God’s appointment. Though the body is uncompromising in its demands, these demands are limited. Its necessaries are few and simple, and moderate labor will supply them. The ex travagant claims upon human energy, which would moke man a mere beast of burden, or a manufac turing machine, which wonld devote bis life from childhood to old age to mere toil, which would suck the very marrow from hia physical and spir itual constitution, and toes him a wretched, shrunk en thing into hia grave, is the result of factitious wants which man himself has created. A faithful attention to our physical wants is not inconsistent with a due regard to the demands of oar spiritual nature. BcSily toil does not inter fere rttoesflfcrily with spiritual actihn. The hands may bo engaged in digging a ditch, at the same timn that the mind i3 tilled ’with thought-? of the world to come. While John Pounds cobbled shoes, he taught hundreds of tho poor children of his neighborhood and saved them from moral destruction. Benjamin Franklin adjusted the type lor his brother’s paper, and at the same time re volved thoughts that have immortalized his name. Burns turned the furrow of the field while he com posed his never dying verse. The ravished slave labors in the rice swamps and sighs for the home and kindred from which he was so cruelly torn. Sp:ritual exercise lightens physical toil, produ cing a cheerfulness, an elasticity of spirits which re-acts upon tlie body. The plow-boy whistles in the exuberance of bis feelings and urges on his team. The mail at her spinning wheel listens to the whispers of love and the wheel flies more swift ly. The sailor thinks of his dear ones he is soon to clasp to his bosom, and with a firmer tread and a more steady hand, he mounts aloft and lays out upon the yards. Hence it becomes apparent that toil is not deg radation, and is in uowise ehargable with the in jury which follows its excess. As well revile the sun, that causes the grass to grow and ripens the earth, because its rays can burn, wither and des troy. Man is to reacli his maturity through an ex perience of toil. His mission is labor. It is the first step in his immortal race. It is the Divine appointment. Who can improve it ? Do away with the necessity of toil to-morrow, and to what would mankind devote themselves ? No 1 Labor! labor ! Thank God for it. The yoke of life is not too burdensome, unless of our own accord, we double its weight and fasten it irretrievably about our necks.— North Western Home Journal. Energy in Prosecuting the Work. Itv REV. \VM. A KNOT, OK GLASOOW. lam well aware that some of us are denounc ed as enthusiasts and fanatics on this subject. I do not know how it is with you, but I owd it is one of the hardest trials of my patience, to hear very commonplace men, and very cool philanthro pists speak of us patronizingly as “well meauinjg individuals.” Keenness on the question is justified aDd de manded both by reason and Scripture. “Hating even the garment spotted by the flesh what does that word meau ? A garment is uot guilty, and why should we hate it ? A loving heart feels its meaning without the aid of criticism. He* who has a true hatred of sin cannot look with callousness on any of its accessories. He who truly loved bis brother will shudder at the eight of the w r eapon that shed his blood. If human! sacrifices were still rife in our beloved land —if certain places were set aside as shambles, where victims by hundreds were laid on tlie gory altars of a cruel god, you would bate, would you not, with a perfect hatred, the bolted door and the grated windows of that horrid place. You are not human if your heart does not burn within you as you pass. Now I say it deliberately, after weighing my words, the dramshops of the country are such slaughter-houses—as displeasing to God, and as murderous to men. Hecatombs of human victims are sacrificed there ? Not offered in sacri fice to an idol you say ? No ;it would fee some palliation of the sin if they were. The blind heathen thought that thereby they did God ser vice; but these modern murderers have not su perstition ns an excuse. They are done for filthy lucre’s sake. Men, our own flesh and blood, are lured, drugged, and burned to death in these dens that other men may make money by the process. I sometimes stand on the pavement and look in at the open door. I see naked, haggard parents, men and women, standing at their counter. They stood there yesterday and the day before. ’They are frequenters of the place. They are known as customers. It is known that what they buy and drink there is esting out their body’s life and bringing wrath upon their bouls—is breaking the hearts of their parents, or casting children, diseas ed ignorant, aud profligate upon society. Inside the counter the dealer stands. He has stripped his coat and is working in shirt sleeves. He is dealing out the meaus and material of ruin to his brother, and taking his money in. I cannot be cool. My head burns and my heart throbs. That man, stripped, and laboring and sweating there, appears to be Moloch’s high priest, slaughtering the sacrifices. I confess it, I never pass the place with coolness. I hate—God is my witness, I hate the burnished counter, and glittering brass, and glaring light, and painted signboard, all the acces sories of the crime, the garments of the idol, I hate them for they are spoted with the blood of men. In comparison alike for the sell* r and the buyer, aiike for the publican and the drunkard, I plead that an arrestment may be laid, by the mighty hand of the nation, on this murderous process. In the law (Exod. xxi. 28,) the ox that killed a man w-as stoned, and the people were command ed not to eat his flesh. Why ? The flesh of that ox was as good for food as the flesh of any other ! yes ; but to preserve human life, God kindles and cherishes in men a sensitive, keen passionate aversion to everything connected with its destroyer. It is both natural and scriptural it is both humane and godly to be fervent in our hatred of the enemy who, in our day and in our land, is the greatest murderer of men. Delightful! —ln New-York, daring six days last week, two hundred and forty-four persons were arrested for iutoxication and disorderly con duct. Os this number one hundred and ten were women. Isn’t this a delightful state of affairs? — And did not these men and women get drunk “ac cording to law J” How cruel and inhumane must that man he who will consent, tor gold, to throw the shield of law around a traffic that sends women into the public streets bereft of reason, reel ing in delirium, the sport of idle, wicked boys* and a fit subject for the- policeman’s lock-up. A drunken man is a sad enough sight to behold; but a drunken woman —heavens! what a specta cle !—enough to make the very stones shed tears of sorrow. What do men mean that they do not rise up and destroy every vestige ot the Bum Fiend in the land ? God aud Angels would soaile union such a work. —The Examiner, N. T. L T KRAIS: 1 $l in advance; or, $S at fas end of the year* i JOHN^LSEALS V. PnOFBJLETOB. YOL. 11111.-NUIBEE 41. The London Post Offloe* An rn duscriptioa of the London Past Office is girwci m a recent number of Putnam’** Magazine* The exterior presents nothing but a plain, substantial stone buOding, about ISO feet by 400. But a Busier spot within may nok be found in the civilized world. There ore employed in the city no less than I,3d® letter camera, tor theac cDnarnodatioo of many of whom are provided room* in the Post-office building, where they arrange and sort their letters. There are 789 clerks, stampers, sorters and sab-eortara engaged in the reception, deiivary, and dispatch of the mails, which are ao arranged that all letters leave London, no matter in what dhectioo, at the same hours— uioe in the morning and nine in the evening.— Men on horsebacks and in carts are constantly en gaged during the day in opQeotmg letters from the various sulHriSees; and to induce publishers of newspapers to get their papers ready early in the day, mail-carts are sent to their booses at cer tain hours to transport their papers to the central office. Each letter goes through from tan to four teen processes, and the wonder is how 509 men can handle 2QQ/JOO with so little confusion and so few mistakes. A spectator is astonished at the rapidity with which the letter* are made ts paKf under tbs stamp. An active stamper will stamp and count from seven to eight thousand on boar. The process of sorting is earned on at large tables which are divided into apartments labelled, ‘Great Wes*era,’ ‘Eastern counties,’ ‘South Eastern/ ‘Scotch,* ‘Foreign,* ‘Blind,’ eek, Those marked ‘Blind’ are carried to a person called the “Blind Man,” who has more skill in deciphering bad wri ting than a Philadelphia lawyer. He will take a letter directed thus : “Broca Predevi,” and read at once, Sir Humphrey Davy; a letter superscribed ‘’joascueet no Weasel pin Tin, he immediately sees belongs to John Smith, Newcastle opon-Tyne. n In short, he is each so adapt at this business, that H is almost impossible to write or spell so as to be | unintelligible to him. The mail-bags an made l of sheep-akin, soft end pliable. They are sealed up whn wax apon the twine that is tied around the top. This is thought to be safer than locking, although hags that have tegs # great distance, i are secured with locks. The average weight dS the evening mail from London is about fourteen , tons. The number of newspapers sent from the , office yearly is estimated at 53,000,000. The av* i erage number of letters sent daily fe 291,521. — The average a amber received is 283,223. Politeness in Harried Life. “Will you V* asked a pleasant voice—And the husband answered, “Yea, my dear, with pleasure.” It was quietly but heartily said; the tone, the manner, the loot, were perfectly natural and vary affectionate. We thought, bow pleasant that courteous reply 1 how gratifying moot it be to the wife 1 Many husbands of ten year's experience are ready enough with courtesies of potiteaem to the young ladies of their acquaintances, while they speak with abruptness to the wife, and do many rude little things, without considering them wrath an apology. The stranger, whom they may have seen but yesterday, is listened to with deference and although the subject may not be of the pleas* antest nature, with a ready smile; with the poor wife, if sbe relate a domestic grievance, is snubbed ;or listened to with ill concealed impatience. O $ bow wrong this is—afl wrong. Does she urge j some request-—-“O don’t bother me P cries few gracicus lord and master. Does she ask for oeo essary funds for Betsy's shoes and hat*— ; “Seems to roe you’re always wanting money 1 * fe i the handsome retort. Is any little extra de manded by his masculine appetite—H is ordered not requested, “look here, I want you to do so and so; just eee that it*B done;* and off marches Mr. Boor, with a bow and-a smile of gentlemanly polish, and friendly sweetness for every casual ac quaintance he may chance to recognize. When we meet with such thoughtlessness and coarsncsfi, out thoughts revert to the kind voice and geutla manner of the friend who said, “Yea my dear, with pleasure. 0 °1 beg yooT pardon,* comes r readily to hfe fipa, when by any litttle awkward nero he has disconcerted, her as it would hi thw solitary churchyards among the hills, where the dust of tho martyrs lies, and tombs that rise over the ash® of the wise and good; nor are there wanting on even the monuments of the perished races, frequent hieroglyph** and symbols of high meaning, which darkly intimate to us that while their burial places contain but debris of the pas& we are to regard the others as charged wife the sown seeds <n the future, —‘Hugh MUler. A EfnuaUic Fwaetvi dartcgt.’—A funeral epr tege of unusual proportions passed through the streets oftoe second district one evening test week. The hearse was drawn by four white hones, and fifty carriages followed. By the hearse one fUUk walked with his hot in Us hand, whilst the re mainder of the followers were in toe carriages***- The peculiar ciruamstaocee of the ftmnersl wore these: About two months ago two German citi zens, well circumstanced in life, were on e drink ing frolic together. During their conviviality they discovered that they both were from a particular part of Germany. They therefore ratified • petual friendship, and under the enthusiasm ofthe occasion, went so for as to make a funeral com pact, the provisions of which were that the nnst one to die should be buried by the ©tosr, the sur vivor to pay all the expense* to hew drawn by four white horses abdfolWlbyfifty carriages, and to walk himself by the side oftha hearse as chief mourner. Onei of peued to die lost week^J the other fffifl^dhls com pact as above described.— Kcw Orfispm cent. “pgr Under the personal head, to* Washington Star ays that toe Bon. Senator Iverson, of Gs*fo again in Washington, at Ms dd quarter* 291 G. street. m §y The Mormon currency fe. on life principle of the wit in one of Douglas comedies. He says: “My notion of a wtftOf forty ik that A gin should rrt&cage her, like a rank ora, Wt tWa fWfcr ties!”