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A NEW Work BY .iENRl ROGERS,
IA author OF the Eclipse Of FAITH entitled a
Leirnc- Of the Eclipse OF Faith, by its author, be-
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and, in order TO give The American public The
whole matter al glance, there is included in the
same volume The Reply 10 The Eclipse OF Faith,
by +. w. Newman, with his chapter on the ''Moral
Perfection of Christ
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HNKIAL OF MATT. /. WAkD.-Full and
i authentic Report, with the Speeches delivered
on the occasion, ard the Reply of Alfred Allen.
Esq, Attorney for the Commonwealth.
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Norway.
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HAKPER,s MAGAZINE for June, at
Ii SHILLINGTON'S Bookstore
Fanny Ferns new book, second series of her
Leaves.
Reginald Lyle, by Miss ParJoe.
Rival Beauties, Or Love and Diplomacy
Knickerhocker Magazine, for June.
Behind The Scenes, by Lady Bulwer
Dickrns's Household Words, for June.
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EANNY FERNS NEW BoOK.-secon,

4
Il series of Fern Leaves, composed of entirely
new matter. This second offering Of her Leaves
Is decidedly superior 10 anything which has -.
ISSUED from her spirited pen,
Lady Bulwers new book. Behind the Scene.
This work is very brilliant and wonderful ability is
disnlayed in almost every page.
The Dodd Family, one of Levers funniest speci-
mems OF ininitable humor and satire.
Graham's Magazines for June
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IN LlNGTON'S bookstore
The Dodd Family, by Charles Lever author Of
Charles O'Malley
Behind the Scenes, by Lady Bulwer Ly,ton.
The Lamplghler, one of the most fascinating
books ever written.
Everything in the Book, Newspaper, and Sta
tionery hne for sale at
JOE SIIILLINGTON'S
bookstore, Cdeon Building, corner AZ
May 23-ot street and Pa. avenue.
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after Monday, May s, 1854, The trains will run as
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INVIGORATING CORDIAL,
A Phenomenon IN MediciDe.-Health Re-
stored and Life Lengthened, by DR.. M0rse's
Invigoratmg Elixir or Cordial.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-16
For "Loudon Free Press.
HIWASSEE COLLEGE.

HIwAssEE, the seat Of learning and TASTE
Thou art with beauties Of nature so sraced,
Thy scenes are so lovely and gay that choose,
Thy walls shall become the home Of the muse.
Around thee the girls eternally reign,
Like angels to Eden their visits they deign;
Hiwassee thy glory e'er brighter still beams,
0'er Bat creek valley-its mountain and streams
Not old famed Emory and Henry would be,
To us so enchanting as Hiwassee,
Surrounded by dales and beautiful farms,
Where the fair ones possess omnipotent charms.
Thy students are strong, high cultured and free,
Taught science and Latin to any degree.
They come to be taught science. and all burn.
What is noble and good in sience to learn.
o who eer hath.walked thy sedge grown field,
But has felt the charms that the fair ones WELD
Or led the fair by thy waters that flow,
In murmurs so soft as by Bunyans they go.
When the sun was defending low in the west,-
When caroled the birds returning to rest,
And felt not as he went tripping along,
some thing more magic than music or song.
Grin spring time has soughtthy green clad bowers
When fair ones did pluck their garland Of flowers
So give with the accent "This is for thee"
And blessed in his soul old Hiwassee.
Hiwassee the place of learning and worth,
In rural delights equal on earth,
Resolve we as students never to write,
Thy name but in golden letters Of light.
High, high On the scroll of worth and of fame,
Not lower than Emory and IIenry's great name;
And the names of Duncan, Bruner and Doak,
VIII make more lasting than Jupiters oak;
Will write it in letters ever to be,
ana Alma Mater" our dear IIiwassee.
+ Iwrite this though College boy,
As shed the stars their cunning rays,
I feel that learning is no toy,
But that she guides to wisdom's ways.
My blessing on this College be,
Here science sheds her blissful light,
The friend of youth is Hiwassee,
So says my muse, good night. good night.
JEFFERSON.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-16

Natrimony 1.-THE virgin sends prayers to
God but carries but one soul to him: but the
state of marriage fills up the numbers of the
elect, and hath in it the labor Of love, and the
delcacieS of friendship, the blessings ofsociety,
and the union of hands and hearts; it hath in it
less of beauty, but more Of safety, than the sin
gle life: it hath more care but less danger; it is
more merry, and more sad; is fuller of joys; it
lies under more burdens, but is supported by all
the strength of love and charity, and those bur
dens are delightful. Marriage is the mother of
the world, and preserves kingdoms, fills cities
and churches, and heaven itself. Celibacy like
a fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a per-
petual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined
and dies in singularity: but marriage, like the
useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweet
ness from every flower, and unites into societies
and republics, and sends out colonies, and feeds
the world with delieacies, and o5eys their king,
and exercises many virtues, and promotes the
interest of mankind, and is that state of good
things, to which God hath designed the present
constitution of the world. Jeremy Taylor.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-16

Tie Presiden-The last number of the New
York Herald speaks in these just terms of Gen
era Pierce and his administration:
Gen. Pierce has held the control of the ad-
mnistration at Washington for little over a
year, and he cannot be blind to the consequences
of the misguided andsuicidal policy which he has
pursued. The elections since March, 1853, in
New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecti-
cut, and Rhode Island, have shown the late
overwhelming Democratic party to be utterly
demoralized and paralyzed in the North. The
failure of the Nebraska bill in the House, and
of the Gadsden treaty in the Senate, show the
administration to be powerless upon any great
test question in either branch of Congress. In
fact, every step taken by General Pierce to
strengthen himself has tended to weaken him,
and disorganze and break down his administra-
ion and his party.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-16

And then, as regards the other qualifications,
without intelligence of the right kinda knowl-
edge Of what ought to be done, and how to do
ia man with the physical powers of horse
is but little better than horse. He must be
acquainted with those laws of vegetable and
animal life which are eternal in their nature;
and uniform in their operation-with chemistry
to the extent ofits applicability to his profession
and, in word, with whatever departments
and branches of science and art are known to
stand related to his chosen calling. Superaded
to these are the ordinary accomplishments of
gentleman, and those agreeable habits and
manners which so essentially contribute to the
comfort and happiness-of the domestic circle =
As the humble, yet earnest friend of the farni-
er and as the advocate of his essential interests
we protest against the no ton thatihe eultiyator
of the soil must repudiate refinement, or do less
than aspire to the highest social position.
But how are those qualifications TO be obtain
ed? This is a question more easily asked than
answered There is way-a course to be pur-
sued. which will hereafter be suggested. To
realize their Importance, is the first step to-
wards securing their attainment. More, anon.
10hic Farmer.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-16

Decision IN the Methodist Church Case
The opinion of the United States Supreme Court
in the case involving partition of the Metdod-
ist Book Concern interests in Cincinnati, between
the Methodist Episcopal Church North and the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, was given
on Tuesday upon all the points in favor of the
Church South, thus reversing the decision of
the Circuit Court of Ohio. The National Intel
igencer says that this decision not only estab-
fishes the right of the Church South to pro-
portionate share of the common funds and
property, but also declares a division Of the
Church to be a valid act, and that the two divis-
ions, South and North, are equally legitimate
Judge Mclean did not sit in this case.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-16

aud canoes; the gum which exudes from it,
serves as pitch for their vessels, and from the
fberS of the inner bark cloth is made to COW
er their persons.
THE UPAS TREE.
From some ages it was believed that tree
existed in the East Ludies which shed pois-
onous, blighting, and deadly influence upon all
animals that reposed under its branches; and
that SO fatal where its effects, that birds at.
tempting to fly it, fell to the ground and
persisted. For several years past, there being no
reliable authority that such tree really existed,
it has generally been supposed among the
intelligent to be fabulous, and hence termed
the ''Fabled Upas Tree"
But a few years since tree has been d;s-
covered in peculiar locality in the East In
dies, which, tits believed, gave rise to the won
delful accounts of the Upas tree. In the To-
cation where this modern Upas tree was dis
covered, there is a constant and dense collec-
tion Of earbonic acid gas; consequently, all
animals that come near it die, by breathing
this poisonous gas. The cause of such an abun.
dance of gas being collected in the locality Of
those trees is unknown.
A few months since a tree was discovered
on the Isthmus of Darien, which appears to have
a similar influence on animal life. The Pan
anna Star says:-"A man, named James Linn,
being tired, lay down under tree to sleep,
and on waking, found his limbs and body swol-
len, and death soon followed. Cattle avoid
eating or ruminating under this tree"
THE TALLow TREE.
This tree is found in China. 1t is called the
Tallow tree, because substance is obtained
from it resembling tallow, and which is used
for the same purposes. 1t grows from twenty
70 forty feet in height.
THE LACE-BARK TREE.
Ih the West Indies is found tree, the inner
bark of which resembles lace, or network
This Bark is very beautiful, consisting of lay
ers which may be pulled out into fine white
web, three or four feet wide. 1t is sometimes
used for ladies' dresses Elk.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-16

"Who made youY" inquired lady teacher of
lubberly boy, who had lately joined her class.
81 don't know" said be.
Don't knowl you ought to be ashamed of
yourself-a boy fourteenyea old Why there's
Dickey Filton-he is only three-he can tell, I
dare say. Come here, Dickey; who made YOUR
"Dod," lisped the infant prodigy.
"There," said the the teacher triumpantly, II
knew he would remember"
.sWell, he oughter," said the stupid boy,
ataint but a little while ago since he was
madei
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-16

Nerer Despair.--Ten years ago Professor
Morse was ust erecting the first experimental
line of Telegraphs, between Washington and
Baltimore. Professor Morse, like all scien-
tifc benefactors, had exhausted his MEANS and
had become as poor as Lazarus, and as lean
and hungry-lOoking as any veritable Calvin Ed
son you ever saw. One day while eating a
good dinner of bread and molassess under the
shade of a tree, about two miles from Washing
ton, Amos Kendall approached him with such a
lean and hungry look, that he at once divided his
dinner with him, and before it was concluded,
he gave the dilapidated Postmaster General an
interest in his Telegraph patent, viii ch has
since made these tEo shadows of a shade corp
uent with wealth. They now shave lands and
beeves," like master Robert Shallow, Esquire.
There are now Al 1892 miles of telegraphic wires
in this country, with capital stock of $6,67l,-
500. Professor Shafner is about perfecting a
system of union and concert of the various lines
in this country, with prospect of an ocean
line soon to be laid, connecting US with the
Transatlantic Telegraph; SO that the close
neighborhood of nations may be considered as
settled Tribune Correspondence.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-16

CoVugal Epithets.-Lady Bulwer has writ
ten another novels that her husband called "Be-
hind the Scenes" in which the man who owns
her, figures as Mr.. Ferras, and is described as
"a solid block of vice, gnarled with villainy, We
neered with virtue and highly vanished with
hYnrocrisY.'
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-16

The Dublin Nation says that over Mr. Smith
O'Brien's chimney piece, in Richmond prison.
there used to hang these lines from Wordsworth,
copied by his own hand:
"One adequate support
For the calamites of mortal life
Exists-and only; an assured belief
That the progression Of our fate, however
Sad or disturbed, is ordered by Being
OF infinite benevolence and power
Whose everlasting purposes embrace
All accidents, converting them to goodl'
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-16

The Book of fPoUerbs.-What a book it is
that of the Proverbsl Forget that we were
ever obliged to repeat them mechanically in
our childhood, read them as they stand In all
their breadth and richness of their meaning,
with our better experience of life, and nothing
short of utter astonishment and admiration VIII
be our feeling. Such gems OF, wisdom in such
golden settings, from one who lived and died
before the name of wisdom was known among
the nations from whom the worlds sages have
since sprungl What shrewed perception OF
human character under all condition and
moods-what comprehensive exhibition OF life
in its whole compass. and of Divine Providence
in its moral aims and sure rewards and pun
ishments--what counsels to frugality, industry,
moderation, prudence, benevolence, peace!-
What varied illustrations from man and BEAST
nature and art How terse and polished The
style! How condensed the thought To think
ofreading the little book though in day would
be folly, although its lines may be run over in
an hour. Each line is sermon, and gives
food for new reflection every time we recur to
;t.-Rev. Samuel Osgood's "God with Men,"
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-16

Destruction Of Birds.-The New York Tri-
bune states that the extraordinary snow-storm
which commenced on Friday evening last and
continued at intervals till Tuesday of this week,
has proved most fatal to the robins through all
that region. One farmer in Westchester coun-
ty says he could have picked up busheI of
them (dead) on his farm.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-16

The Ward TTaL-Louisville, April 20
Nathaniel Wolfe, one of the counsel employed
to defend the Wards having said at the trial
that the citizens of Louisville were set of
bloodhounds, and impeached the veracity of
sixteen of Buffers scholars, witnesses at the
trial, the boys foolishly proceeded to his resi-
lence last night, aad literally covered it with
eggs. A meeting of the citizens has been
called at the courthouse tonight to express
Indignation against Wolfe. Great excitement
exists in regard to his speech.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-16

South CarOliaa-The Hon. David Wallace,
of South Carolina, has published an elaborate
letter in favor of taking the election of Presi-
DENTAL electors in that State from the Legisla-
ture and giving it to the people. We have no
idea that his plan will be adopted. The same
thing was proposed few years ago and rejected
unceremoniously.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-16

Old POint.-The Secretary of War, it is said,
has revoked the privilege granted by Mr.. Con-
rad to the proprietors of the Hygeia Hotel, at
Old Point, Va, of enlarging the building. Da-
Wis urges the reason that. the proposed building
would mask the guns of the fort.