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% ' 4 + s " SB&BQVXB Bonrnr. | ^ r >??mm*+.*0*++, I- - ? ?? " - - ? ~ wi XIm Ftpplmt Place ii F<m^ Br BKT. SIDNEY DYER. Thpugh other* may seek far and wide $j: To gain but a moment of blise, Disappointments hei? footsteps abide. Io a world full of phantoms as tbis. But with lured ones the blessings to share, Ab, who would be longing to roan), < When taught by the joy tastod there, That the happiest of places is home I 1 'ijjit . -- *. . linjc-ir-rii '*+- -.wrirr ? * r* < " The world tnay seem brighter without, *- With the glitter and tinsel of art; And its friendships appear more devout, With the semblance of truth to the heart, But so sweet are the pleasures I share, My heart feels no yearning to roam, , Since nothing on earth can compare With the happiest of places, my home! If sorrow o'er darkens ray way, Till the heart wear a burden of grief, And the friends I have trusted betray, In the hour when most needing relief; I From the anguish which tortures the mind. To my own little heaveu I'll come, In the smiles of my loved ones to find, That the happiest of places is home. "AintGot no Nails t" We invite the lovers of fun to in tie in the hearty laugh we are just now having over the story, told by one of our Northern contemporaries, of a tall, gawky looking countryman, who, during the height of the business sea- i son last fall, walked into one of the largest wholesale dry good houses on Broadway, and entirely disregarding i the invitation of the numerous salesmen to inspect the latest patterns, strode into the counting-room, where the heads of the establishment were sitting in close conversation. After taking a cursory glance of the room, and surveying attentively the faces of the occupants he asked with an unctious Yankee nasal twang: "Say, yeou?got any nails?" "Nails, sir, nails!" repeated the most dignified Dombcy of the firm. "No, sir, what should we do with nails ?" "Wal, I dunno?though may be you mought. llaint you got no nails, eh?" "No, sir," replied Dombey again, wity an emphasis, motioning to the door. The individual in search of nails f A."\ Ir lita f ??vt a Jf r*?-% d 1-. A twa mo nine uuuut it, unu tuuii IVlt the counting-room In tarn, he asked every clerk the same question, and received the information from all, that "nails" formed no part of the stock of the establishment. "Well" 6aid he, going towards the door, "don't keep nailslier, no how !" The principal salesman, whose dignity was hurt by the idea that any one should suppose that an establishment where lie had a prominent place, should keep nails, headed the countryman off as lie was proceeding towards the entrance, and asked him abruptly what he wanted. "Want" said the countryman as cool as a cucumber, "I want to know if you've got any nails ?" "Nails, no sir. You have been told again and again, that we've got no nails? so you'd better go." "Ain't got any nails, eli? Well, then, just Took a here, mister, if yon Ain't got no nails, what an awful fix von'd be in if vou'd happen to have the itch!" A footman, proud of his grammar, ushered into the drawing room a Mr. 1 I 1.5- i J 1 - -.1 -t ,/ xwwu nuu 11 its iwo aaugniers, wuu tins introcnction. "Mr. Foot and the two Misses Feet." "That's a pretty bird, Grandma," said a little boy. "Yes," replied the dame, "and he never cries." "That's because he's never washed," rejoined the youngster. The best capital for a young man to start with in lite, is industry, good sense, courage and the fear of God.? It is better than all the credit that was ever raised. "\V Mil "^imiliA u-Knf Vfv" ? - >" ? ? J VX'J n ?iuv J VII aw 1IVW day ft T "Oh, I'se n carpenter and jincr." "Hi! I gtie?a yer is? What department do yer perform '-Sambo ?" "What department ? I does de circular work." "What's dat?" "Why, I turns do grindstone." Tlie New York I >utchmau says that: whoever wishes to get along in this | world has only to take a few lessons j of a hen chasing a grasshopper.? With a long neck und sharp eye, take a few .hurried steps, stop, i>pep over, peep under,-now to the left, jjow to the right, to flutter and a rush, and 'then y<ro have ,tim, That's tlie vray it's done. . Vi? . / 4 f"}Passing an Altered &ill.?"Look '?ro,' said a tipsy individual, who was hanging by * Jump-post, "look 'ere 1 did'nt yon know that yon had no i right to go by me in tfaM way VI c "Why not, my friend?" asked the c person addressed, who recognized in f the 'tight an" an old acquaintance. 1 "Because (hie) it's again the law." s "Again what law 1" a "Why you used to know Bill Nel- i son, when he was a (hie) highly dif- 1 ferent fellow to what he is now?and 1 there's a big law agin passing an ( altered BUI. 1 The 8tokt is familiar of the man who ] took passage in a flat-boat from Pittsburgh bound for New Orleans. He ' passed many dreary, listless days on : his way down the Ohio and Mississippi and seemed to be desponding for 'want of excitement." Superficially, he was quiet and inoffensive; practically, he was perfectly good natui^l and kindly disposed. In the course of time, the crait. upon which ho was a passenger put into Napoleon, in the State of Arkansas, "for groceries."?! At the moment there was a general light all along "the front of the town," which at that time consisted of a single j house. The unliannv imssenrrer. after ficht ? - ?r? * iv r;?", o? * *;?~ ~~?? , ing about, and jerking his leet up and down, as if bo were walking on hot ] bricks, turned to a used up "spectator, 1 and observed: "Stranger, is this a free fight ?" The reply was prompt and to the point: 5 "It ar, and it you wish to go in, don't ^ stand on cereinonv." : The wayfarer (fid "go in," and in j less time than wo can relate the cir- ?j cunistances, he was literally chawed ^ up. Groping his way down to the j flat, his hair gone, his eyes closed, his lips swollen, and his lace generally "mapped out," he eat himselt down on ] a chicken coop and soliloquized thus: , "So this is Na-po-le-on, is it??upon my word it's a lively place, and the only one at which I have had any fun , since I left home! ( A good old dame was playing her distan, and listening devoutly to her daughter reading iu the Bible at her side. She was reading in the book of Genesis, and being not vet perfect in the art, she would now and then mis call a word. So it chanced that she read stamineringly these words : "JNow tnese eight did Mi.call bore" "What! what's that?'1 uaiil the old lady, "read that again." The good daughter complied, and, looking more carefully, road "did Milcah bear." "Ah, that will do," said the old mother, "they might milk a bear, but to milk a boar, daughter, it is impossible." Fikst class in Geography, stand up. | "Which is the greatest ttate in the Union ?" ( "Jersey." "What are its principal produc tions 1" "Salt hay, mosquitoes, sore-eyed babies, 1#and constables." "Are the inhabitants lively?" "Only when any cheating is on hand, i then particularly so." IIow are theV off for charitable in- \ stitutions?" "First rate; they opeti a new poor house, every time a couple marries. "Ah ! indeed; and for what purpose ?" "WllV to hold 11 ?r> r?aii lta x-on fiu\l " -J J J "" ."V... Scene closes with two feet of rattan executing a staccato movement on the urchin's posteriors.?Dutchman. ? ? "now do you like the character of St. Paul 9" asked a parson of his landlady one day, during a conversation about the old saints and the apostles.? "Ah, he was a good, clever old soul, 1 know, for he once said, you know, that we must cat what is set beforo us, and ask no questions for conscience sake. I always thought I should like him for a boarder." The Celebrated portrait painter Stuart, once met a ladv in the streets in Bos'on, who saluted him with? "Ah, Mr. Stuart, I have just seen your miniature, and kissed it, bccaus it was so much liko vou." "And did it kiss yon in return ?" "Why no." "Then," said Stuart, "It was not like mc." "Jack, your wife is not so pensive as she used to be." "No, she has left that off and turned ex-pensive." The fool will lull in love with a pretty fuOt- fl Wflfln urolel a? ?- 1 -? ? j ..*^>|/ **??AUb^ ut n iavcu upruil# A terrific tight occurred in Roosevelt Dt. yesterday, between a bull terrier from Crosby street and a "yaller" , setter from Fulton Market. At its < terminatiorlftltere was nothing left of i the combatants bat two brass collars and half a peck of assorted hair.? Home fighters, these city dogs?tccll I they are.?Dutch man* 1 " - -'ifl ' Ht8???JMfcAN18?W8. . ~ ?V > TlIK MAN WHO WOCLD STEAl? ft pin, eould be perform the same operation, >n a crowbar were it as easy of conical men t. Tlie man that steals not or the fear of the tnill far outstrips the lighwayman; for the latter lias a cood quality the former lacks*?conrige. There are no gradations in rogicry?all who overstep the charmed ine of honestly bear the stamp.? BEonesty is the half-way house to piety ; md 'tis there the fatigue wayfairer, on lis journey of competition, taker rest Bind refreshment. Honesty may be ragged for a season, but the sound heart that beats 'neath the tatters feels a comtempt lor well dressed roguery as he passes, and a confidence in the patn Deiore aim. llic man that makes not a sacrifice iu the cause of honesty is but a bubble on the dirty water of roguery, that sooner or later burst, and forms a part of the filth. No iiouse. says Henry Ward Beecher is complete without two pieces of furniture?the cradle and the old arm chair. No 4iouse i9 full that hath not in it a babe aud a grandfather or grandmother. Life becomes more radiant and perfect when its two extremes keep along with it. Tho two loves which watch the cradle and serve tho parent aro one. But how different in all their openings and actions. To the child the heart turns with more xmderness of love to the aged parent, ove is home upon a service of rever;nce. Through the child you look or ward?through the parent you look >ackward. In the child you see hope, ov8 to come, and a life yet to be drawn ortli in all its many sided experiences, rhrough the silver haired j > > r. u >? vjeholu the past, its sccnsc enacted, its listories registered. People arc becoming so terrified now-a-days, that after awhile they won't daro to drink anything. Temperance folks say that brandy is nothing but damnation in a fluid state, while ale is only another name for cocculus indicus "and tobacco steirfs.? ine cnemists aro equally certain that tea is not better then melted coppers, that coffee is a mixture of cliiCKory and logwood; while the very best well water is so nnpregnanted with lime that it ultimately converts one's intestines into a marble quarry. In the name of all that iR liquid what shall we drink that won't "pizen" us ? For the other half of a courting match there is nothing like an inter esting widow. Tere's as much difference between courting a damsel and an attractive widow as there is between cyphering in addition and don hie rule of three. Courting a girl is like eating fruit, all very nice as far as it extends; but doing the amiable to a blue-eyed bereaved one in black crape, comes under the head of preserves?rich pungent, syrupy. For rlelicious courting, we repeat, givs us n live "widow." Electiig chaplains in Congress is now made a purely partisan affair.? In the House, a writer describing the iccne, sa\s : "I heard no one, in urging reasons for the reception of his candidate, ask favors for him on account of his piety, his learning, or his eloquence; the only reasons urged were political." It is also said that in the event of the election of any minister, whose talents, learning, piety and respectability entitle him to claim on tho place, he will indignantly decline the profferod "honor." Good hands,are commanding unprecedentedly high prices in Richmond, Va, at this time. The sales' book of one house in the past month show that as high as $1,650 have been paid in some instances. There arc numerous other instances where common field hands brought over $1,850, and very few (warranted perfectly healthy) below $950. Girls in one or two cases brought $1,350, and a large number $1,200. Pkokkssob Smiles, of Little Red IIIook, has jmt written a new drama tisentitlod "The, Petrified Pill: or, the Demon's Diarrhea," It will shortly bo played by tho students of the medical college. Popular Applaosb.?At a public meeting in Marlboro', Boston, a week or two ago, while a dull speaker was addressing the meeting, frequent applause was heard to proceed from the seat where sat the kind Hearted Ur. , and though somewhat against their grain, the andence joined in, thereby encouraging him to continue talk* ing at a most tedious rate, until, out of patience, a friend of the physician went to hi in, and good naturedly remonstrated with him. The doctor assured him that it was not hira, and on investigation, it proved to he a dog scratching (Ail fleas ! The ooustant rapping of his paw had led the applause throughout the evening. The world is full of poetry ; the earth ie living with its spirit, and the waves dance to the music of its melody. Book and Job Printing nAvnra a fine selection of WE AU PREPARED TO DO WORK us L ?OTr&a. CIRCULARS, CATAL09UE8, HAND-BILLS, WAYBILLS, BALL TICKTE3, PROGRAMMES, AC. PRINTED WITU DESPATCH. CHINA, SATIN ENAMEL, SATXN 8VRTACE AND PLAIN AND COLORED CAKDS, iipop the Iffost Esbolrsbie jelrh)#. owa us A oasji., Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, &c. A. GREENFIELD HAVING purchased the entire Stock of Dry Goods of Wm. S. Turner, late Crittenden & Turner, opposite the Mansion House, And re moved his Stock of Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Liquors, <te?, from his late store opposite the Patriot Office, is prepared to offer great Barrr.iin* in tlip nltov<> Art.ipfpi Ho will Ironn dah? stantly on band n well assorted stock of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hats and OAFS, Boots & Shoes, .ddPfef HARDWARE, CROCKERY, NAILS, AC. tyConiitry produce taken in exchnnge for Goods. lie will keep on hand BACON, MEAL, FLOUR, and other article* for home consumption at as chonp rates as can be had in tbo place. He returns his thanks for the very liberal patronage heretofore received, and hopes by attention to business and a desire to meet the wants of the people, to receive a continuation of their favors. Jan. 81. 88-tf ~ AN ORDINANCE For the government of Slave* and Free Person* of color in the Town of Greenville. T>E IT ORDAINED, That the market bell shall M .J W mig i aa'j' ^ autumnal equinox at a quarter before ten o'clock, I?. in., and at a quarter before nine o'clock, p. m., or the remainder of the year, which shall be a signal for all slaves to repair to their homes; aud any slave found outside of his or her owner or employer's enclosure after the hour of ten o'clock, p. m., from the vernal to the autumnal equinox, or after the hour of nine o'clock, p. m., during the remainder of the year, shall be carried to the ! Guard House, and detained until the next morning, when he shall he whipped not exceeding twenty lashes, or the owner shall pay a tine of I one dollar, ul the discretion of the presiding ofi fiecr. i Sw. 2. Be it further ordained, That hereafter : no slave or slaves shall occupy or reside in any ! house 01* other building or enclosure within the 1 town of Greenville, other tliau hisor her owni er'a, without the written conseut of such owner, 1 wherein shall be expressly described the place ] where such slave or slaves lire allowed to reside, and specifying the time for which suiji permission i? intended to be given, which shall not exceed one month atony onetime without renewal; and any slave offending herein shall he whipped not I exceeding twenty laslics, unless the owner or ein! plover ofsuch slave shall pay a fine of five dollars for cneh slave so offending, together will all cost and charges. Sw. 3. Be it further orda'meti, That no person shall let or hire to any slave any lot, house, room or building within the town of Greenville; and any person offending herein, shall be siibject to a | penalty of tivc dollars per month during the time such slave shall occupy any audi lot, room, I house or building so rented as aforesaid. Sw. -4. Be it further ordained. That slaves or other persons of color, more than five in number, i shall nothc permitted (except at funerals, and et< other occasions hereinafter provided for) to na1 semble or meet together witliin tho limits of the ' town of Greenville, unless it ho for the purpose of labor, under the charge and supervision of ! some white person, being the otvner, employer or overseer of such slaves or free persons of col or; and it shall he lawful for any ollioer of the town, or any white person, to apprehend any negroes or free persous of oolor, so assembled without the presence of sumo white person as above provided; and for that purpose, authority is hereby given to enter into nuy lot, house, or other building or cuclosure within tho town of Greeuville, wherein any negroes or other persons of color may bo assembled contrary to the provisions of this ordinance ; and every negro or j>erson of color so apprehended in the day time, shall immediately be carried before tho Iutendant ; ur any one of the wardens, who is hereby authorized uud required to order such corporal punishmeat, not exceeding one hundred lashes, as such Iutendant or wardens may in his die eretion deem proper; aud if such negro or other person of color be apprehended at night, lie or she shall be ooufined in tho Guard Iiouse until the next morning, and then carried before the Inteudant or any one of the wardens, and dealt with as above provided. Sw. 5. Be it further ordained That no ossein> bly of negroes or other persons of color, for the purpose of dancing or other merriment, shall be | permitted within tho limits of the town of GreenI ville, without the written permission of the In tendant, or in hie absence of one oftho warden*; and no suoh assembly shall be allowed to continue later than one o'clock atnight, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each ana every offence, payable by the owner or oecnpant of the premises where such offence ia committed. And the Intendant or any one of the wardens or marshals, or other officer of the town, or rfby other white |x>rsoii finding negroes or other persona of color so assembled without permission from the lutendantorone of the warders a* aforesaid, or after , the hour above specified, is hereby authorised and reqnired to carry such negroes or persous of ' color immediately to the Guard House, to be there eonflned ana proceeded against, m is provided for negroes found outside of their owner's o employer's enclosure after the hourspreecribed.ia the first section of this ordinance. And any owner or oecnpant of any house or enclosure within the town, who shall deny admittance or make resistance to any of the aforesaid persona coming upon or into their promises for the purpose of arresting negroes or other persons of color, so unlawfully assembled as aforoaaid,shall, for each and every offence, forfeit and pay a fine of not lesa than twen ty nor more than fifty dollars. Sac. fi. Be it farther ordained,, That no owner or otbar i>srson having the charge and government of any slave, shall permit such slave to carry on any mechanic or handicraft trade, in any shop or other plaee within the town, in ths >>* on the nccouut of suoh slave, under a penalty of firs dollars fur every day such slave shall curry on sneh trade as afurceaid Asa 7. Dt it further orjuiued, That no slave or free pet-eon of ook>r shall be permitted to keep a shop or stand within the limits of the town of Greenville, except at the market, for the tale of any articles or commodities whatsoever, either on hia or Iter owa account, or on account of hie or her owner or guardian, or any other person, without a written license or permission front the ChnndT, under a penalty of fifty lashes for each and every offence; nor shall any such slav# or free person of color be allowed to sell, witliiu the . oorporate limit# of the town of Greenville, any article or commodity Whatever, without the written permission of his or her owner, employer or guardian, except cord en vegetable#, fruits, milk, < toe cream, fish and oyster#; and any day# or #w person of oolor offonding herein, shall be punished not exceeding fifty lashes, M the Council may ' direct Sao, 8. 1U it further ordained. That it shall not ' be lawfal for any slave or. free, person of color, within the oorporatc limits of the towo of Orecavilli*, to purchaso any poultry, butter, eggs, yen- 1 iaon, wild fowl, or any other article or eomroodi- i ty, whatever, with a view to send the same to any other market or place to be sold on profit or expectation of profit; and any slave or free person of eolor who shall offend herein, shall forfeit all the articles or commodities so purchased, and shall also be whipped not exceeding fifty lashes on the bare back. Sao. 9. Be it further ordained, That no merchant or shop keeper within the town of Greenville^ shall permit any slave or free person of oolor to act as Ills or her clerk or agent in the sale of any goods, ware# or merchandise, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each and every offence, Sac. 10. Bt it further ordained That any slave or free person of eolor who shall bo found drunk, or shall otherwise misbehave, by acting in a noisy r boisterous manner, or by singing an indecent song or hallooing within sue limits of the said town, shall for each and every offenoe receive not Mvn.tAilinrr nn? linnilriwl luhiw* and anv slsre or free person of oolor who all nil smoke a st-gar in any street or in any open ami public place In the town, or shall walk with a eano, club or stick, (except the lame, infirm, or blind,) shall for each and cveryoffcucc receive not exceeding twenty lashes. Saa II. Be it further ordained, That any per* son who shall hire or loan to any slave or sle>e? any horse or horsey or any carrage, buggy, sulky or other vehicle, without the written consent of the owner, employer or other person having the charge and government of snch slavs or slaves, shall be subject to a penalty not oxceediog tea dollars for each and every offence. Sao. 12. Be itfurther ordained, That any person ' who shall hire any slave from any non-resident owner, to be employed within the corporate limits of the town of Greenville, and who snail not dnlv rej>ort such slave to the Town Clerk to be taxed, shall be subject to aponalty of ten dollars for each 1 and every slave so hired by him,which ho shall fall or neglect to return as aforesaid, one-half of which said penalty shall be paid to the informer, fixe. 18. Be it further ordained. That it shall not be lawful for any slave to keep a boarding bouse in the town of Greenville, or board or lodge any wnne person, slave or free person of color,nor shall it be lawful for any white person, slave or free person of color to board or lodge with any slave, nor shall any slave be allowed to board or lodge in nny part of a house occupied by any white person or free negro, unless bona fide hired or bound to sucli white person or free negro, or unless such house lie upon the premises of the owner, or other person having the charge and government of such slave, and with the consent of such owner or other person having charge of such slave ; and any white person who shall violate this section of the ordinance, shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars and any slave or free person of color for a like offcnoesnall receive not exceeding fifty lashes foi each and every offence. fciaa 14. Be it further onla'ned. That slaves and free persons of color shall be allowed to assemble at any of the Churches of the town for the purpose of religious worship three times in each weokand >i..?i..u <v it Jj > n...? .ii uub viQcnncix ui viicuwi . a fwiucu. i uiu ill. an such meetings soino respectable white citir.cn of | the town he aud remain present durii^ said | meeting*. Sec. 15. Be it further ordained, Tlmt every * ticket, giving permission to any person or persons of color, to he absent from the premises of his or her owner or employer, or front his, her or ' their premises, shall designate and express, by the < name of the owner or oecnpauts of the premises, ; the place from which sneli person or persons of color has or have permission to go, and also express and designate, iu tlio sunia manner, the ' place or places to which, he, site or they is or are going. Done and ratified under the corporate teal of the ru ? i said Town of Greenville, on the seventeenth I I day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eiqht hundred andfifty-six. 1 II. LiflS TkltUSTON, luteudani. \ W. P. Pun k. Clerk of Council, I A GEORGIA BOOK. The Three Golden Links, OK I'uUs of Odd Fellotothij). ] UV MISS C. W. BAUDER. Link thk First.?Friendship, or the Mysterious G over nest. 1 Link ths Second.?Love, or the Adventures of an American Student. jjink tiik iiiird.? j rum, or Crazy Atadr/t and her Child. IN the present work Miss Barber has , succeeded, most happily, in illustrating ? the three cardinal, principles of Odd Fellow- | ship?FriexuUhip, Love and Truth. The stores are well written and, while they will particularly interest the Odd Fellow, are of such ?character as to recommend them to 1 readers of every class. The Authoress stands deservedly high in literary circles at the South, and we feel sure that this book will enhance her reputation. 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