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LEGAL REQUIREMENTS.
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jn.il month, between the
often in. the “.leaoou aid three in the after
’ Aunty in which the
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given .a a public gazette forty days previous to the
day of sale. ’ . .1 . . <;
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giv. uat least l< days previous to the day of sale.
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be published forty days.
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•>f Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must
c published weekly for two months.
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ihi;sued thirty days —for Dismission from Admin-,
monthly, six, months —for Dismission from
Guardianship, forty days.
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lished monthly for four months —for compelling titles
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DIKECTORY.
Drs. Massey i lt Harris, thankful for the
patronage enjoyed by them the past year, respect
fully announce that they continue to give their un
divided attention to the practice of Medicine in its
various branches. Office—Main-street, Penfield, Ga.
Jan. 12 ly 1
Never Failing Amb retypes.—The sub
scriber is prepared to take Ambrotypes which will
compare with any in the country. lie is now in
Penfield, and will remain until the 15th of February.
Notice will be given whenever a change of place is
made. R. M. FOSTER.
Jan. 15 4:6
W. KINO & SOWS,
Fac tors A Commission ITiercliants. and For
warding Agents.
SA VANN AH, GEORGIA.
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I>. 11. SANDERS,
A TT OR N E Y A T L A W ,
ALBANY, GEORGIA,
Wili praciice in the counties of Dougherty, Sumter,
Lee, Randolph, Calhoun, Early, Baker,
Decatur and Worth.
Jan. 1 ly 1
WHIT G. JOHNSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Augusta, Ga.
WILL promptly attend to all business entrusted
to hi - professional management in Richmond and the
adjoining counties. Office on Mclntosh Street, three
doors below Constitutionalist office.
Reference- —Thos. R. R. Cobb, Athens, Ga.
June 14—fy*
JAMES BROWN.
.1 TTO a OVJE V .1 T Jj Jl u\
FANCY Him,, MURKY CO., GA.
April 30th, 1807.
ItOGIHI L. WIIIOHAM,
ATT 0 RNE Y AT L A W,
Louisville t Jefferson co., Ga.
WILL give prompt intention to any business en
trusted to his care, in the following counties:
Jefferson, Burke, Richmond, Columbia,
W arren, Washington, Emanuel,
Montgomery, Tatnall and
Scriven.
April 26, 1856.-tl
LEONARD T. DOYAL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, henry go ., ga.
Will practice Law n the follow ing counties, to-wit:
Henry, Spaulding, Brr.fr. Newton, Fayette, Fulton,
DeKaib, Pike and Monroe. Feb 2—4
11, T. PERKINS,
ATT O RYE Y AT LA TT,
GREEN'ESBORO’, GEORGIA^
Will practice in the counties of Greene, Morgan,
Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Hancock,
Wilkes and Warren.
Feb. 15 . ly 7
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POETRY.
For the Crusader.
TO A FAI.SE ONE,
BY G. A. N.
Go false one! leave me here alone
To mourn o’er nature’s guile,
To think of her I call’d mine own;
But now has changed her smile
I would not hold one sacred claim,
To heart as false as thine ;
For all the treasures kings obtain,
For all the miser’s mine.
I would not bend to love thee now —
Since thy faith is belied;
Though wealth and kingdoms, I might know,
And ten thous’nd worlds beside.
I would not dare with thee to live,
For all that worlds could keep,
For all the gifts that Heav’n could give,
And all its joys to reap.
Aye, once to me thou’st falsely proved,
But can’t never again
Betray this heart, that once hath loved,
Alas! but loved in vain.
Then go! I ask not mem’ry’s boon,
Yet, still one thought I’d crave
“To think of thee”—alas, too soon,
Thou’st curs’d the vow you gave.
Athens, Ga., Oct- 12th 1857.
Rev. Mr, Brownlow’s Lecturing Pro
gramme.
To the Editor of the National Anti. Slavery
Standard :
It is ray purpose, Mr. Editor, to visit most of
our cities in the South this winter, and lecture up
on the subject of Slavery, and with the opening
of spring, I will go North, and repeat my lectures
in the New England States. In that event, I
would be pi ased to divide time with any of your
Theodore Parkers or Henry Ward Beechers, af
ter the fashion of Tennessee stump speakers. I
wili, therefore, request of you the publication of
this epistle, as a means of giving notice, to all
, Aboiitiondom of my intended visit. Should you
select a man to debate with me, I prefer some of
your pious rascals, some vagabond philanthropist,
who have been engaged in soliciting contribu
tions of Sharpe's Rises and Holy Bibles, to aid
the uncircumcised Philistines in Kansas, in mak
ing that a Free State. And that “your man buck
ram,” whoever he may be, may be prepared to
meet the issue I intend to submit, I will state
them distinctly.
First —The history of our race developes the
important fact that the world when first peopled
by God bshiself, was not a world of freemen but of
slaves —the Declaration of American Independence
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Secondly —lnvoluntary servitude, reduced to a
science, existed in ancient Assyria and Babylon—
ancient Phoenicia and Carthage were literally o
verrun with Slavery, the slave population outnum
bering the free and the owners of Slaves—while
the whole Grecian and Roman world had more
slaves than free men.
Thirdly —Slavery was really established and
sanctioned by Divine authority, among even
God’s favored people—the children of Israel
Abraham the founder of this interesting nation,
and the chosen servant of the Most High, was
the owner of more slaves than any cotton -planter
in one of our Southern States, or sugar planter in
Lousiana.
Fourthly —ln the days of civilization and Chris
tian light, which revolutionized governments, la
boring serfs and abject slaves were distributed
throughout Africa, Eastern Europe and Western
Asia—proof, conclusive, that Slavery existed
throughout these endless regions.
Fifthly— Looking to the whole world, both
Pagan and Christian, in the middle of this the
nineteenth century, Slavery in its. most revolting
forms, subdues by far the largest portion of the
human race.
Sixthly —Christ and the Apostle found Slavery
in its worst forms, all around them, established by
law, when they came to organize the Christian
Church, and regarded it as an ivevitable and nec
essary consequence , growing out of the condition
of human society, they sustained the institution—
admitting both masters and slaves into fellow
ship in the same Christian congregations.
Seventhly —St. Paul actually apprehended a
“fugitive slave,” and sent him back to his lawful
owner and earthly master. And the ‘ Angel of
the Lord,” on one occasion, positively served in
the capacity of a United States Marshal, assisted
in arresting a “fugitive slave,” Hagar, whe had
escaped from her “ mistress Saria,” and returned
her to he lawful owner !
Eighthly —There is not a single passage in the
New Testament, nor a single act in the records of
the Church, during her early history, for even cen
turies, containing any direct, professed, or intend
ed denunciation of Slavery. The Apostles found
the institution existing under (he authority and
sanction of law ; and in their labors among the
people, masters and slaves bowed at the same al
tar, communded together at the same table, and
were taken inlo Church together, often as the
fruits of the same revival ; while they exhorted
the one to treat the other as became the Gospel,
and the other to obedience and honesty, that
tbeir religious professions might not be evil spo
ken of 1
Ninthly —The Christian Church, in the Apos
tolic age, not only admitted the existence ofSlav
ery, but in various ways, by her teachings and
discipline, expressed her unqualified approbation
of it, enforcing the observance of the “Fugitive
Slave laws,” that had been enacted by the State.
And, in the various acts of the Church, from the
days of the active labors of the; Apostles, down
ward through several centuries, she enacted laws
and adopted regulations touching the duties of
masters and slaves , as such, which, in ray humble
judgment, amounts to a justification of the insti
tution of slavery
PENFIELD, GA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1857.
Tenthly —The scriptures of both the Old and
New Testaments teach, certainly and conclusively
that God instituted the practice of selling men/
women and children into bondage, and intended
tbe relation of master and slaves to exist through
out the habitable world. Hence, when God in bis
providence opened the way for the organization of
the Church, the Apostles and first teachers of
Christianity found Slavery incorporated into every
department of society ; and in the adoption of
rules for the government of the members of the
Church, they wisely and justly provided for the
lights of owners, and the wants of the slave !
Eleventh —Slavery, in the age of the Apostles
had so penetrated society, and was so intimately
interwoven with it, just as it is in these Southern
States, that a religion preaching freedom to the
slave would have arrayed against itself the whole
power of the State, and destroyed the usefulnes of
its preachers. St. Paul knew this, and did not as
sail the institution of Slavery—justified the exist
ence and, labored to get both masters and slaves to
Heaven, as all well informed and true hearted
ministers are now doing !
Twelfth —Slavery having existed ever since the
first organization ofspeiety, and of the church,
the Scriptures clearly teach that it will exist to the
end of time. Revelations vi. 12-17, points to
“The Day of Judgment”—“The Last Day”—“The
Great Day,” and the condition of the human race
at that time, as well as the classes of persons to
be judged, rewarded and punished. A portion of
this significant text reads “and the kings of the
earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and
the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every
bondman, and every freeman,” will be there;
evidently teaching that Slavery will exist, and
that the relations of master and slave will be rec
ognized to the end of time !
Thirteenth —Neither the politicians nor divines
at the North are entitled to confidence who are
engaged in this villainous agitation of the slavery
question. They are exciting the whole counttry
and fuming society into a livid consuming flame,
while they have no sympathies for the black man,
and care nothing for his comfort. President Pierce
had thirty-five New England parsons after him at
one time, “in the name of Almighty God.”—
President Buchanan had forty Gonnecticvt par
sons after him, the old Bashan number, agreeing
to the forty bulls of Bashan, threatening him with
“terrible majesty,” if he shall fail to make Kansas
free.
“Oh for a forty-Parson power,
To sing thy praise, hypocricy!”
Fourteenth —I know from personal observation
among the free negroes at the North, that they
are more miserable and destitute, as a whole, than
the slave population of the South. Their freedom
is only an empty name—and even the pleasures
of life are denied the free negroes at the North,
by our hollow-heart and hypocritical citizens, full
of sympathy for the down-trodden African !
Fifteenth —African slaves were first imported
into America, in 1620, fora century after their in
troduction into the West Indies. The second car
go landed in Boston, and for years the pious
New Englanders kept up the traffic. They kept
but few slaves among themselves, because it was
not profitable to use negro labor in those cold
and sterile regions. The people of New England
were never, to a great extent, slave holding ; their
virtuous and pious minds were cheifly exercised in
slave stealing and slave selling. They stole the
African from* his native land, and sold him into
bondage for the sake of gain. To New England
the South is indebted for her first slave; ar and
when the New England States abolished Slavery
they brpught their negroes to the South and sold
them before their laws could go into effect.—
And what few ships are in the slave-trade own,
at the peril of piracy, are Few England ships!
Sixteenth —The cities and towns of the New
England States, now open a wider and more in
viting field for faithful missionary labors, than Hin
doostan, Siam, Ceylon or the Western Coast of
Africa. New England is the nursery of all the
dangerous and disorganizing doctrines, moral, so
cial and political, which now threaten the over
throw of virtue and truth in the Union. Asa
people, they have forsaken the true God, and gone
after “strange Gods.” There is Foreignism with
its train of leveling precepts and degrading pur
poses ; next cou es Free love-ism , that moral leper,
striking at the very foundation of domestic virtue
next in order is Mormonism , which originated in
your own State of New York, the cap-sheaf of
modern debasement, striking at the very founda
tion of domestic peace and social happiness ? then
comes Spiritualism, the newly discovered link be
twen lost spirits in Hell and all deluded fanatics
on ear th; and the stack is topped out with Abo
litionism, the great Moloch cf political and reli
gious fanaticism, which swarms of speculators,
stock jobbers, and villainous intriguers, with their
debased, and cunning agents, eager for public
plunder, are seeking with persevering eagerness
and envenomed rapacity, to establish as the reli
gion of the land!
Mr. Editor—these sixteen points I propose to
discuss throughout the NewJEngland States, and
as I must average thirty minutes on each, you
will perceive that I require eight hours at every
point; if, then, one of your Reverend Freedom
Shriekers should conclude to meet me, as I hope
will be the case, we will require a week in each
city. Duty, principle and expediency, impera
tively demand that the South should send among
you a full corps of competent missionaries, at
least by the opening of Spring. lam willing to
lead the way, and would like tp open the cam
paign on “Boston Common.” The natural pitch
of my voice will enable me to speak to a ten-acre
field of live Yankees without inconvenience to
myself; and if you have any of your pestiferous
clergymen, who has the lungs of an .riss, trothim
out, and I will make the track of his moral slime
visible,Jike that of “snaky reptiles amidst yielding
.flowers.” True, in this “ work of faith and labor
of life,” I shall not expect ray path to be strewn
with flowers. Like Paul, I shall expect to encoun
ter “beasts at Ephesus,” and a variety of “wick
ed spirits” in the “high places” of the ungodly
North. Rut may I not exclaim, in the sublime
Rppiage t * . s ’ ’
“Shall I be carried to the skies,
On flowery beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize,
And sailed through bloody seas ?”
I expect to be “in perils of waters,” (in journey
ing often !) in perils of robbers, in perils by the
heathen, (the jYankees”) in perils among false
brethren ; in weariness and fearfulness, in watch
ing often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often,
in cold and nakedness !” But if successful, as I
expect to be to some extent, my reward will be,
the winning of souls from worse
to the knowledge and love of Christ, and to the
Institution of Slavery, which he and his apostles
favored and vindicated.
W. G. BROWNLOW.
Editor of the Knoxville Whig.
Charmed by a Rattlesnake.
BY W. GILMORE SIMMS.
A writer in a recent number of the United
States Magazine pronounces the following des
cription of a young girl, charmed by a rattle snake
one of the most remarkable and beautiful descrip
tions ever penned:—
“Before the maiden rose a little clump of bush
es—bright tangled leaves flaunting wide in glos
siest green, with vines trailing over them thickly
decked with blue and crimsoned flowers. Her eye
communed vacantly with these ; fastened by a
star-like shining glance, a subtle ray that shot out
from the circle of the green leaves, seeming to be
their very eye, and sending out a fluid lustre
that seemed to stream over the space between
and find its way into her own eyes : very pierc
ing and beautiful was that subtle brightness, of
the sweetest, strongest power. And now the
leaves quivered and seemed to float away only to
return, and the vines waved and swung away in
fantasjjc mazes, unfolding ever charming varieties
of form and color to her gaze ; bnt the star-like
eye was ever steadfast, bright and gorgeous, in
their midst, and still fastened with strange fond
ness upon her own. How beautiful, with won
drous intensity, did it gleam and dilate, growing
larger and more lustrous with every beam it sent
forth. And her own glance became intense, fix
ed, also; but with a dreaming sense which con
curred upjthe wildest fancies, terribly beautiful,
that took her soul away from her and wrapt it a
bout as with a spell. She would have fled, she
would have fiown, but she had no power to move.
The will was wanting to her flight. She felt that
she could have bent forward to pluck the gem
like thing from the bosom of the leaf in which it
seemed to grow, and which irradiated with its
bright white gleam ; but ever, as she stretched
forth her hand, and bent forward, she heard a rush
of wings and a shrill scream from the tree above
her—such a scream as the mocking bird makes,
when angrily it raises its dusky chest and flaps
its wings furiously against its slender sides. Such
a scream seemed like a warning, and though yet
unawakened to a full conciousness, it startled and
forbade ber effort.
“More than once in her survey of this strange
object had she heard that shrill note of warning,
and to her mind the same vague consciousness of
an evil presence. But the star-like eye was still
upon her own—a small, bright eye, quick like
that of a bird ; now steady in its place, and ob
servant seemingly only of hers ; now darting for
ward with all the clustering leaves about it, and
shooting toward her, as if wooing her to seize it.
At another moment revited to the vine which laya
round it, it whirl’d round and round, dazzling bright
and beautiful, even as a torch, waving hurriedly
by night in the lands of some playful boy : but in
all this time tbe glance was never taken from her
own—there it grew fixed—a very principle of light
—and with a bright, subtle, burning, piercing,
fascinating gleam, such as gathefs in vapors above
the old grave, and binds us as we look—shooting
darting directly into her eye, dazzling her gaze, de
feating its sense of discrimination, and confusing
strangely its sense of perfection. She felt dizzy,
for as she looked, a cloud of colors—bright, gay,
various colors—floated and hung like so much
drapery around the single object that had so se
cured her attention, and spell-hound her feet.—
Her limbs felt momently more and more insecure,
her blood grew cold, and she seemed to feel the
gradual freeze of vein by vein, throughout her
person. At that moment a rustling was heard in
the branches of the tree beside her, and the bird
which had repeatedly uttered a single cry above
her, as it were of warning, flew away from his sta
tion with a scream more piercing than ever. This
movement had the effect for which it seemed in
tended, of bringing back to her a portion of that
conciousness she had been nearly deprived of be
fore. She strove to move from the beautiful pres
ence, but for a while she strove in vain. The
rich, star like glance still rivited her own, and the
subtle fascination kept her bound. The mental
energies, however in the moment of their greatest
trial, now gathered suddenly to her aid, and with a
desperate effort, but with a feeling of most annoy
ing uncertainty and dread, she succeeded partial
ly in tbe attempt, and threw her arms backwards
her hands grasping the neighboring tree, feeble,
tottering, and depending upon it for that support
which her own limbs almost entitely denied her.
With her movement came, however, the full de
velopment of the powerful spell and dreadful
mystery before her.
“As her feet receded, though but a single pace
from the tree upon which she now rested the au
dibly articulated ring, like that of the watch
when wound up with the verge broken announc
ed the nature of the splendid yet dagerous
presence, in the form of a monster rattlesnake,
now but a few feet before her lying coiled at the
bottom of a beautiful shrub, with which, to her
dreaming eye, many of its own glorious hues had
been associated. She was at length conscious e
nough to perceive and feel her danger ; but ter
ror had deprived her of the strength necessary
to fly from her dreadful enemy. There still glar
ed the eye, beautiful bright and piercing, fixed up
on her own ; and, seemingly in the spirit of sport
the insiduous reptile slowly unwound himself from
his coil, but only to wind himself up again into
his muscular rings— his great fat head rising in
the midst, and slowly nodding, as it were, toward
her , the eye still peering into her own, the rattle
slightly ringing at intervals, and giving forth
that paralyzing sound, which Once heard is re
membered forever. The reptile all this while seem
ing conscious of, and to sport with, while seeking
to excite her terrors. Now, with its flat head,
distended mouth, and curving neck, would it dart
forth its long form to warn her—its fatal teeth un
folding on either side of its upper jaws, seeming to
threaten her with instantaneous death, while its
powerful eye shot forth glances of that fatal fasci
nation, malignantly bright, which, by paralyzing
with a moved form of terror and of beauty, may
readily account for the spell which it possesses of
binding the feet of the timid, and denying even to
fear the privilege of flight. Could she have fled ?
She felt the necessity, but the power of her limbs
was gone ; and there still it lay, coiling and un
coiling its arched neck glittering like a ring of
bronzed copper, bright and lurid, and the dread
ful beauty of its eye still fastened, eagerly contem
plating the victim, whiie the pendulous rattle still
rung the death-note, as if to prepare the concious
mind for the rate which is momently approaching
the blow. Meanwhile, the stillness became death
like with all surrounding objects. The bird had
gone with its scream and rush. The breeze was
silent. The vines ceased to w r ave, The leaves
faintly quivered on their stems. The serpent
once more lay still, but the eye was never turned
away from the victim. Its corded muscles are all
in a coil. They have but to uuclasp suddenly, and
the dreadful foils will be upon her in full length,
and the fatal teeth will strike, and the deadly ven
om which they secrete will mingle with the life
bio in Ivor v.fi n .
“The terrified damsel, her full conciousness re
stored, but not her strength, feels all her danger.
She sees that the sport of tbe terrible reptile is at
an end. She cannot now mistake the horrid ex
pression of his eye. She tries to scream, but her
voice dies away to a feeble gurling in the throat.
Her tongue is paralysed—her lips sealed; once
more she strives for flight, but her limbs refuse their
has nothibg left of life but its fearful
It is in her despair that, as a last
erVMHHpPrcceeds to scream ; with a single
wild from her by this accumulated ag
ony, she sinks down upon the grass before her en
emy—her eyes, however, still open, and still look
ing upon those which directs their gaze forever up
on them. She sees him approach, now advanc
ing, now receding, now swelling in every part with
something like anger, while his neck arched
beautifully, like that of a wild horse under the
curb, until at length, tired, as it were, of play,
like the cat with her victim, she sees the neck
growing larger, and becoming completely bowed
as if to strike—the huge jaws unclosing almost di
rectly above her; the long, tribulated fang, charg
ed with venom, protruding from the cavernous
mouth —and she sees no more ! Insensibility
came to ber aid, and she lay almost lifeless under
the folds of the very monster.”
Nothing in ancient or modern literature is more
strikingly conceived, or vividly described, than
this scene. At this moment, when we feel that
the summer air is unchanged with this evil pres
ence, and nature aghast in her solitudes under
these human pangs, the arrow of a voung savage
transfixes the neck of the reptile, and thus turns
aside the deadly fang. Tbe accessories are all in
keeping—the snake like vine, the golden and crim
son blooms, tbe shadow of the old woods, the cry
of the bird, all enhance the s6nse of the beautiful
and remote ; the touches which we have italicised
heighten the effect, till we feel the glittering eye
of the beast, and its terrible undulations rise im
age-like to the mind, and we see how all the be
nignities of nature are at war with the spirit o
the reptile.
From the Ladies’ Newspaper.
Silver and Golden Wedding.
Little more than a century and a half ago, a
certain august lady knelt humbly down at the feet
of her sovereign lord, master and husband, before
an assemblage of the notabilities of Konigsburg.
When she rose up again she was Queene of Pru
sia.
The Elector of Brandenburg thought fit to
crown himself, and having done so, it was his roy
al pleasure to place the regal circlet on the brow
of his wife with his own hands. In the lowly and
submissive attitude of the eastern slave she re
ceived the insignia of sovereign state, and was in
stalled by Frederick the first, King of Prussia, as
the partner of his throne, his rank, his state, his
pomp, his rule his title.
Such was the commencement of royalty in Prus
sia. That coronation of its first Queen was less a
religious ceremony than an act of arbytrary pow
er in him who could both will and do.
And now, since the last impression of our jour
nal, the act has been ratified which, in all human
expectation, is to give to Prussia another Queen
in the person of the Princess Royal of England.
Human nature may be the same in. all ages,
but certainly the proceesses of civilization soften
its asperities as the tide of time flows on. The
sovereigns of Prussia have been men of somewhat
arbirtrary dispositions; but it might be that the
exigencies of their day demand the spirit which it
engendered. We trust that the daughter of the
Queen of England will reign in the heart of her
husband and bis people, a free wife and a free
Queen ovei a free people.
At all events she will receive inauguration into
her new greatness, or rather pass in transition from
one high sphere into another, without the initiato
ry humility so typical of the after-life of her first
predecessor on the throne of Prussia. Times
have changed since those days, both for women
and for nations. There have always been brilliant
women rising out of the masses to enlighten the
world with their genius; but now the whole sex is
elevated by acquirements and developement of
mind, which places women on a far different van
tage ground than she ever occupied in the days
which are gone. The advantage of the brighter
light which rules our day is nowhere more felt than
in the palace of our sovereign, The personal
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cruelty of political marriages is almost disappear
ing—at least from the English court.
Enforced alliances for national aggrandizement
or national security, are giving place to the influ
ence of those natural affections which have here
tofore been denied to those of royal lineage.
In olden times the prince might well envy the
peasant the freedom of his desire, and count his
gilded state too dearly purchased at the price of
the surrender of all his heart held dear. Happy
are the ehaDges of more enlightened times. Queen
Victoria was wooed and won. Hers was a union
of affection and not of bartering. The same hap
py privilege descends to her daughter. The
Prince of Prussia has had the opportunity allowed
him of winning a heart instead of buying a hand.
We trust that his acceptance is the proof of his
success.
In Germany they cherish a few customs which
go to the heart, because they seem to have ema
nated from the heart. In England, courtship is
no more than the assured right of trifling with
the best, the purest, the most vital feeling of our
natnre. If these are betrayed, the woman has
but the shame heaped upon her sorrow and her
injury of—what ?An action for breach of prom ■
ise of marriage, and the pointing of the slow mov
ing finger of scorn. In thousands of cases the
courtship is clandestine, and the gentleman shrinks
out of his unratified engagement with self-con
gratulation on his own clever treachery. In Ger
many, betrothal is a ceremony public to the whole
world. Its responsibilities may be thrown off, but
not easily on caprice, or any light pretence. The
withdrawal must be accounted for to relatives and
friends, Justification must be established, or con
demnation must follow.
Thus, after the sacred obligation has been once
assumed, every year that passes is supposed to
strengthen its happiness. Each anniversary is
celebrated with a home festival—it may be mod
est but joyous. Possible, during the first few lus
tres of married life, its cares, its troubles, its res
ponsibilities, press heavily on those who have
agreed to tread life’s thorny road together; still
the solid satisfaction triumphs, and the glad cele
brations are held, at which, surrounded by their
children and their relatives, the married pair re
ceive the congratulations of their friends.
Following the stream of time, when the two
who are one have counted their five and twenty
years together, or the anniversary of the day which
made them so, another more joyous, more marked
more notable, celebration takes place, and this is
called the “Silver Wedding.” What a happy
significance there is in the expression. This long
term of life thus spent together has but made af
fection stronger, purer, more precious. Industry,
it may be, has brought opulence ; the children
who in their cradles brought with them greater
need of toils, now strengthen and gladden the do
mestic circle, the mother may again be courted in
her girls, the father may go wooing in his boys.
The dear relationships of life are multiplied.—
Everywhere around loving hearts speak out of lov
ing eyes. The sweet music of merry voices peals
cheerily in mirthful laughs, waking up living
echoes. The father and the mother are surround
ed with an atmosphere of love. All these bonds
unite them more closely to each other. Does not
this happy anniversary deserve its name of the
“Silver Wedding-”
Again Life goes on, and in some few rare cases
—comparitively rare, we mean—the fiftieth year of
union is completed ; and, now comes “the Golden
Wedding.” It may be that the home circle is nar
rowed; now, even if its principals have been spared
—death may have smitten down some of the
loved ones, changes may have scattered them
hither and thither, home may have been removed
in other lands, friends may have been gathered
into the earth’s bosom, but the stream that is
narrowing grows the stronger, and they who have
walked side by side for half a century, rejoicing
together in their common joys, lamenting togeth
er in their common griefs, may well love each oth
er with that love which has now become a part of
their very being. Do we not often see in the proof
of this that the stroke that is mortal to one is com
monly fatal to the other, and that when one dies
it seems as if it were only to show the other the
way to their last united resting place ? Surely
the anniversary of the plighting of such faith and
truth, may well be called the “Golden Wed
ding.”
Wor&s of Consolacion to the Bereaved . —Dr.
Judson thus Wrote to a friend in the hour of tri
al;—So the light of your dwellig has gone out, my
poor brother, and it is all darkness there, only as
you draw down by faith some faint gleams of the
light of heaven, and coldness has gathered round
your hearthstone ; your home is probably desolate
your children scattered, and you a homeless Wan
derer over the face of the land. We thave both
tasted of those bitter cups oDce and again; we
have found them bitter, and We have found
them sweet too. Every cup stirred by the finger
of God becomes sweet to the humble believer.
Do you remember how our late wives and others
used to cluster round the well-curb in the mission
premises at the close of the day ? I can almost
see them sitting there with their, smiling faces as I
look out of the window at which I am now writting
Where are ours now ? Clustering around the well
curb of the fountain of living water, to witch the
Lamb of heaven shows them the way; reposing
in the arms of infinite Love who wipes away all
their tears with his own hand. Let us travel on
and look up. We shall soon be there. As sure as
I write and as you read these lines we shall soon
be thfer*. Many a weary step we may yet have to
take, but we shall get there at last. And the
longer and the more tedious the way, the swee
ter will pe our repose
Tommy, my son, what are you going to do with
that Club! Send it to the editor of course. But what
are you gomg to send it to the editor forj Cause,
he says if anybody will send him a club, he will
send them a copy of hk paper.
Seapking without thinking, is like shooting
without aim ‘