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JOHN 11. SEALS,
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Executors, and per square,— 525
•jtice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 25
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t don for Letters of Dismission from Guardi
anship, 3 25
LEGAL REQUIREMENTS :
Sales of Land and Negrqies, by Administrators,
or Guardians, are required by law to be
(and on the first Tuesday in the month, between the
irs of ten in the forenoon and three in the after-
Kfa, at the Court House in the County in which the
■jperty is situate. Notices of these sales must be
fen in a public gazette forty days previous to the
,y of sale.
Notices for the sale of Personal Property must be
ven at least ten days previous to the day of sale.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must
t published forty days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court
f Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must
e published weekly for two months.
Citations for Letters of Administration must be
üblished thirty days —for Dismision from Admin
itration, monthly , six months —for Dismission from
ruar” ,ftship,/orG/ days.
Kules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub
sb for four months— foi compelling titles
‘oni Executors or Administrators, where a bond has
ecn given by the deceased, the fvBLl space of three
ion the.
cations will always bo (continued accord
ig to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise
rdered.
OFFICERS GRAND LODGE KNIGHTS OF JERICHO.
At a regular meeting of the Grand Lodge Knights
if Jericho, State of Georgia, held in the City of At
anta, on the 9th inst., the following were elected
ts officers for the ensuing year:
W. D. Williams, of Oxford, G. W. C,
Thos DotroHERTY, of Macon, G. W. T. C.
I Wit. G. of Atlanta, G. W. Kei-or-L i.
Wm. F. Ross, so Macon, G. W. M.
Lee Strickland, of Griffin, G. W. S.
11. C. Carter, of Calhoun, • G. W. ULap.
* of Sparta., ‘ G. W. P. C.
Court of Ordinary.
LeOBGIA, Greene County.
WHEREAS, Mrs. Nancy T. Sweet Admin
istratrix, on the estate of James F. Sweet,
Ute of said County Deceased, petitions the Court of
Ordinary of Said County for Letters of Dismission
from said estate.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all per
sons concerned, to show cause, (i any they have)
why said Administratrix should rot be discharged,
at the Court of Ordinary , to be Held in and for said
County on the secound Monday iq January 1858.
Given under my hand at Office in Greenesboro’,
July 6th, 1857. * EUGENfUS L. KING,
July 9th. 1857. Ordinary.
GEORGIA. Greene County.
WHEREAS, John McMicheal Administrator,
with the Will annexed,on the estate of Mrs.
Mafgaret Armor, deceased, petitions the Court of
Ordinary of said county for Letters Disruissory from
said estate.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all per
sons concerned to show cause, ff any they have)
why said Administrator, should not be discharged
at the court on the Ist monday in July 1858.
Given under my hand, at Office in Greenesboro’,
Dec., 18th, 1857. EUGENIUS L. KING,
December 24th, 1857. Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Greene County.
WHEREAS, Thomas Cuningham Adminis
trator on the estate of Mrs. Francis Scott I
(Deceased, petitions the Court of Ordinary of said ;
County for Letters of Dismission from said estate.
These are therefore to cite and admonish ell per
sons concerned, to show cause, (if any they have)
why sa ! d Administrator should not be discharged, at’ j
the Court of Ordinary, to be held in and for said j
County on the second Monday in January 1858.
Given unde” my hand at Office in Greenesboro’,
July 6th 1857. UGENIUS L. KING,
July 9th, 1857. Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Greene County.
WHEREAS, the estate of J.u Cartwright,
late of said county deceased, is unrepresent
ed, no Executor being named, in the last Will and
Testament of said deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admonish, all and
singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased,
to be and appear at the Com t of Ordinary, to be
held for said county on the first Monday in February
next, to show cause, (if any they have,) why the Ad
ministration of said estate, with the Will annexed,
seould no* be vested in some fit arid proper person
in terms of the law.
Given under my hand at Office in Greenesboro’,
Dee., 18th, 1857. EITGENTHS L. KING,
December 24th, 1857. Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Greene County.
WHEREAS, Jasper N. Copelan, applies for Let
ters of Guardianship of Frances Ahrcna C.
Aldridge, John O. Aldridge and Thomas David F.
Aldridge, minor children of Samuel P. Aldridge ol
the State of Texas.
These are therefore to cite and admonish, all per
sons concerned, to be and appear at the court of
Ordinary, to be held in and for said county, on the
second monday in January next, to show cause, (if
any they have) why said Letters should not be gran
ted. 4
Given under my hand at. office in Greenesboro’,
November 18th, 1857. EUGENICS L. KING,
Nov., 26th, 1857—48. Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Greene County.
COURT OF ODDINARY.
WHEREAS William Edmondson Guardian of
William H. Crenshaw, and Mary C. Crenshaw
minor children of William L. Crenshaw deceased,
applies to this Court for letters Dism issory bom
said Guardianship.
It is therefore ordered, that all persons concern
ed appear at the next January Term of this Court,
to be held in and for said county, on the second
Monday in January 1858, to show cause, why said
Guardian, shou’d not be diminished from said Guar
dianship.
Given- under my hand at office in Greenesboro’
November 20th, 1857. EUGENIUS L, KING, ‘
Nov. 20th, 1857—49. Ordinrry
GEORGIA, Greene County.
WHEREAS, James T. Findley Administrator
upon the estate of Isaac Kindly deceased pe
titions the Court of Ordinary of said county, for
Letters of Dismission from said esiato.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all per
sons concerned, to show cause, (if any they have)
why said Administrator should not be discharge I
at the (Joint of ordinary, to be Iteid in and tor sari
county, on the first Monday in June USB.
Given under my hams at office in Greenesboro’,
November, 16th ISSB . EUGENIUS L, KING.
November 26th, 185) -48. Ordinary.
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Notices,
NOTICE. —Two months after date application
will be made to the court of Ordinary of G etne
county for leave to sell a tract of laud containing
one hundred and sixty acres, more or less, lying he
| tween the lands of Dr. T. P. Janes, Lite widow
Wright and James T. Kindly, belonging to the es
tate of James L. El Ison, of Greene county Dec.
1 Dec. 24th, 1*157, >ll. J. ELDSON, Exr.
NOTICE,— Two months after d.'ito application wi Ibe made
to the Court of Ordinary of Greene County for leave to sell
a negro woman by the name of Queen belonging
to the estate of Unmet L. Grimes deceased.
I. A. WILLIAMS, A im’r.
December 7 th, 1857.
Executors’ and Admi Jslrator’s Sales,
Administrator’s Sale.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in February
next, before the Court ll> ise door in Greenesboro’
between the legal hours of sale, two negroes, viz :
Jack about 17 years old and Greene about 13 years
old. Sold as the property of Mary Ann H. Findley
dec’d, under an order of the Court* of ordinary of
Greene county. Terms cash.
F. M. FINDLEY, Adm’r.
Greenesboro Ga, December 7th. 1857.
Executors’ Sale,
BY virtue of.the last will and testament of Dan
iel Perduo, late oi G 1 jnc county deceased,
will be sold in the Town of Gumming in Forsyth
county, on the first Tuesday in February 1858, in
frout of the court-hou ;r : door, between the legal
hours of sale, lot of Land No. 131, Ist Section and
3d District, of originally Cherokee, now Forsyth
county. JOHN T. PERDUE, Exr.
Greenesboro’, December 14th 1857.
Greene Sheriff Sales,
Greens Slieriff’s Sale.
WILL b„ sold before the Court House door in
the city of Greenesboro’, on the Ist Tues
day in Febuary next, within “the usual hours of salt
the following property to-wit:—Tho interests of
Jas. Armstrong, J. M. Lankford, Wm. Morgan, R.
M. Foster, A. S. Williams, Richard S. Williams,
Joseph M. Newby, Christopher 0. Taliafero and
Wm. PI. Goodrich in the Gold Mine in the 140th
District G. M. Levied on to satisfy a Justices
Court fi fa, issued from the 138th Dis. G. M. in fa
vor of Jas L. Tar water. Levy made and returned
to me by L. B. Callaway. Constable.
T. F. FOSTER, D. Sheriff.
Greenesboro’, l)sA st, ,ISST.
Greens Sheriffs Sale.
WILL be sold before the court-house door in
♦he City of Greenesboro’, on the first Tues
day in February next within the legal hours of sale
the following property to-wit : —One negro woman
by the mine of Letha, as the property of Jesse J.
Finch, to satisfy a Justice Court fi fa, in favor of E.
C. Shackelford. Levied on bv James Brooks Con
stable. T. F. FOSTER, D. Sheriff.
Greenesboro’, Dec. 10th 1867.
Greene Sheriffs Bale,
WILL be sold before the Court House door in the
City of Greenesboro on the first Tuesday in Janu
ary next, within the legal hours of sale, the fol
lowing property to-wit. The plantation on
which \Y. ik Dolvi i now lives containing two
hundred and fifty-five acres, more or less, acljoin
•ug lands of E. O. Bowden, Isaac Jackson and
ol Iters ; Levied on us the property of W.B. Dol
vin to satisfy a fi fa from Greene Superrior Court
in favor of J Cunningham & Cos. vs. John T.
Dolvin W. B. Doivin and James 11. Dolvin.
Properly pointed out bv W. B. Dolvin.
O. C. NORTON, D. Sheriff
Nov. 30th, 1857.
Greene SlierifT’s Sale.
he sold at the residence of William A.
V v Beasly near Public Square in Greene Coun
ty by consent of parties on the 19th day of Decem
ber next the following property to-wit; One sorrel
horse about 10 years old ;40 bbls. corn more or
less, 500’bs seed cotton, six cows and one caif, 8
head of hogs, 2 sows and 12 pigs : 29001 bs fodder,
stack of oats , qpe bwo homy wagon ; i plows and
gear; two axes, six weeding hoe< ; two grubbing
hoes ; one set wagon britchirig ; levied on as the
property of William Beasly to satisfy sundry fi fas
in the Superior and Inferior Courts of Greene coun
ty, in favor ol Chamberl-ini Milter & co. Williams &
Lankford, Robertson ,v Hudson, and other li fas a
gainst said Beasly. T. F. FOSTER, D. Sheriff.
Nov. 27th, 1857.
Greene Sheriff’s Ssiic.
\\f llslli be sold in the City of Greenesboro’ on
T T the first Tuesday in January next, between the.
usual.hours of sale, the fofipwing property to-wit:
One negro Woman •■named-Patsy about 40 years
old, of copper color, and tier son Oliver about 5
years old, levied on as the property of John T. Dol
vin to satisfy one fi fa from Greene Inferior Court,
0. A. Davis vs. John T. Dolvin and one fi fa from
the Superior Court, Wm. J. Neary vs. Dorsterand
Dolvin, property pointed out by W. J. Neary.
O. O'. NORTON, D. Sheriff
Nov. 14th, 1857> — ’
Greene Sheriffs Bale.
WILL be sold before the Court House door in
the city of Greenesboro’ on the first Tuesday
in January next, within tiro usual hours of sale the
following property to-wit. A House and lot in the
I own ol Penheid, whereon, Mrs. L. A. Macon now
lives, levied on as the property.of Mrs. L. A Macon
to satisty a fi fa from Gremm. Superior Court in fa
vor of McLaughlin & V. -gftsh vs. Mrs. L. A. Macon
property pointed ou„ bv’S. 1). English plaintiff
T. F. FOSTER, D. Sheriff.
Nov. 27th 1857.
Greene Mortgage Ssaies.
WMIjL, be sold in the City of Greenesboro’ on
the first Tuesday in February next, between
the usual hours of sale, the Interest of Joseph N.
Radenin the Livery Stable of Lankford, Wiison and
Raden. It being of said firm, the fol
lowing property to-wit : Two old grey Horses
known as the Ellington horses, two black Horses
known as the Williams horses, two black Mules.
T. F. FOSTER, D. Sheriff.
Greenesboro’ Nov. 14t’n, 1857.
Notice*— Th e co-partnership heretofore ex
isting between Drs. Jaxfs & Durham has been
mutually dissolved—Dr. Janes having retired from
the practice. Dr. Durham still offers his profession
al services to the citizes of Pen field and vicinity.—
Thankful for the patronage received the past year,
and hopes a continuation of the same.
Office at the old stand of Janes & Durham, where*
he may be found at all times when not elsewhere
professionally engaged. 3 ly. Jan. 15.
ggtf2 f)RS MASSEY & HARRIS, thankful for
YW the patronage enjoyed the past year, respect
4J& fully announce that, they continue to give undivi
ded attention to their practice. OFFICE—Main Street,
Penfield, Jan. 7. 1/
THE ADOPTED ORGAN OP ALL THE TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATE.
PENFIELD, GA., THURSDAY. JANUARY 7, 1858.
Greene Mortgage Sheriffs Sales.
Wii.t. be sold before the Court house door in
the city of Greenesboro, on the Ist Tuesday in
MARCH next, between tlie legal heurs of sale, the fol
lowing property, to-wit:
‘.The household lot On which'Hiinn Rouzee now
lives, situated in the city of Greenesboro. known in the
plan of said eitv as part of lot No. .'.2. adjoitym l ''the lot
formerly occupied by Mrs. Baugh mi the north, the lot
of Mrs. Park on the east, on the south by South-street
and J. A,'.Miller’s blacksmith shop lot. and on the wpnr
jby West-street: to satisfy a mortgage fi. ft. is sued front
Greene Superior Court, in favor of Davis, Wood &
Johnson, against said Rouzee.
ALSO. AT THE SAME TIMF. AND PLACE,
Two black hacks and harness, one green hack
and harness, one red stage coach and harness, 8 buggies
and harness. 2 old gray horres. 1 young gray horse, 2
match sorrell horses, 1 se>rrol horse, pot-gut, two black
mules, 1 bay horse, (limping bay.) ~ black match horses,
1 Lay horse. Durham, one two-horse wagon and harness:
alt levied on as the property ol Douglas Vv . M item l ., to
1 satisfy n mortgage fi.fuC in iavorof James M. Lobe lord.
; issued fros t Greene interior < ourt. against said U >lson.
Dec. 31 —tds. C. f. NORTON. D/Sh’ff.
Ureeiie Sheriffs Sale,
| TILL be sold before the Court-house door in
| T ! the eitv of Greenesboro, on the lvi Tuesday in
| February next, between the legal hours oi sale, tlie tol
lj lowing property, to-wit:
Tho house and lot on which Wm. T. Dos ter
I now lives, situated in the city or Greenesboro, on the
north side of Broad-street, and on the west sided East
street, adjoining the lot of John J. Doherty on the north,
and land of said Doherty on the west: le vied on to sat
isfy sundry //, fas. in my hand, issued from Greene Su
perior Court, O. P. Daniel vs Dos ter & Dolvin, Augus
tin F. Greene, adm’r, vs Doster & Dolvin, John T.
Perdue, ex’r, as Doster & Dolvin, and other fi. fas.
I Prooertv pointed out bv John T. Dolvin.
Dec. 29—tds. ‘ T. K. FOSTER, D. Sh’ff
’Btqbb Making.
j rm LpTIE subscriber would respectfully inform
I J- tlie LADIES of Greenesboro, and tlie public
| -generally, that she has been taking instructions
from Mrs. Margraf in the art of CUTTING AND FIT
TING I, A DIES’ AND MISSES’ DRESSES of every
description, and that she is now prepared to execute any
kind.of work, in tlie latest and most fashionable styles,
and hi the best manner.
She will receive, monthly, the latest tflhd most ap
j proved Fashions from Neyv York City; and from a
i practical knowledge of several years in the business, com
i billed with the advantages above, she flatters herself that
siie will be able to give entire satisfaction to all who
may favor her with-their patronage.
She may be found AT HER RESIDENCE in Greens
boro, Ga.” E. M. WALKER.
Jan. 1, 1853. lm.
FAYETTEVILLE SEMINARY.
S rpilE exercises of this In
-B- stitution will be resumed
on tlie 11/A of January next, un
dor t he charge of the subscribers.
The Scholastic year will be di
yided into TWO SESSIONS
’ prices of tuition, per year, range
from 16 to 36 Dollars. Board
for the year will nor. exceed S9O,
washing included.
Our system of teaching is analytical, thorough and
impressive ; our moral training unsurpassed ain't effec
tive ; oar village healthy, retired and pleasant; and last
| but not least, society is as good here as anywhere. —
i Enough said.
MORGAN 11. LOONEY, \ Associate
j GEORGE C. LOONEY, j Principals,
i Fayetteville, Ga. Jan. 7th, 1858. 4t.
1 COMFORTABLE HOUSE AND LOT IN
-Ci. Penfield, situated in the eastern part of town. It
contains four good Rooms—g!l the outbuildings are in
good repair, and a small family will lindit to be a pleas
ant residence.
Mr. Henry English occupied it during the past. year.
Apply to J. M. LANKFORD. Penfield, Ga.
Jan. 7, 1,858. if.
HUHE undersigned having purchased tho House
-L formerly occupied by Mrs. Stow, will say to olie
public that he has opened his house for entertainment,
and respectfully solicits a liberal share of patronage.
Penfield, Jan. 7, 1858. L. B. CALLAWAY.
| ;
Permeld Property for Sale.
THE subscriber offers for sale all his TOWN
PROPERTY, consisting of a comfortable resi
| dence with eight good rooms, Household and Kitchen
| Furniture, Cabinet Shop, Warehouse, New Furniture,
etc. A good Cabinet Maker would find every conveni
; enee here for establishing a shop. J offer all the above
| at private sale until the 22d inst. at which time, if not
| sold, i will sell to the highest biddder.
Sale to take place in Penfield, on Friday the 22d.
Penfield, Jan. 7,1858. A. M. LANSDELL.
Greenesboro Female College,
TILE Board of Trustees take pleasure in an
nouncing that the exercises of this institution will
! be resumed on the FIRST MONDAY IN JANUARY,
j 18.58.
Rev. HOMER IJENDEE, A. M. President and Pro
| fessor.
Miss MARGARET R. MILLER, first Instructress
: in Literary Department.
! Mr. CHARLES HINTZ, first ‘Professor-of Vocal n#d
I Instrumental Music and Teacher of French and Gor
! man. y
Miss M. L. WRIGHT, first Instructress in Vocal and
Instrumental Music and ’ltem.her of Drawing, Painting
and French.
We arc now in correspondence for the Professorship
of Natural and Experimental Sciences, and intend that
this and all other departments shall be amply supplied.
By order of tlie Board.
D. HOWELL,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Greenesboro, Ga. Jan. 7, 185$. -ft.
NOTICE.
eOfA TE OF GEORG I A, 00 LET! IORPE COUNT Y.
: Cj All persons having demands against Neel F. Goeh
| ran, late of said county, deceased, are hereby notified to
| present them to us, properly attested, wjthid the time
prescribed by law, or they will not be settled ; and all
persons indebted to said deceased, are hereby required
to make immediate payment.
.MARTHA 11. COCARAN,) Adm’x.
WILLIAM T. COCHRAN,) Adm’r.
Jan. 7, 1858. <;t.
The Mixessota Fur Trade.—Furs to the amount
of one hundred and eighty thousand dollars have
been exported from Minessota during the past
year, being an increase of three thousand dollars
I over the export of 1850. Tire fur trade is an item
i of considerable importance to the Territory, and
I is constantly increasing.
Losses ox tiie Lakes.—The Chicago Press states
the value of property lost on the lakes during the
lakes during the year 1857, to he $1,920,315.
This is partly insured* Two hundred and twenty
otto lives have been lost.
Bachelor’s Buttons.—The latest invention we
have seen is a button for bachelors’ pants, and
things which can be fastened upon garments, se
curely and neatly, without solving, in a quarter of
a minute. —Boston Herald.
Were we to take as much pains to be what we
ought, as we do to disguise what we are, we might
appear like ourselves without being at the trou
ble of any disguise at all.
♦*<•*-
word debt is composed of tlie iuitr ‘.
of “Dun everybody, twice.” Credit is formed r.£
the initial letters of “ Call Regularly Every Era
I’ll Trust,”
A Legal Inferance.—A Western lady who has’
been studying law lias made out the following
brief: “ Lotteries are illegal and marriage is the
greatest lottery in lifeergo—all marriages are
k illegal.
m ■.
Ex-President Pierce.— Ex-President Pierce and
wife will become the guests of the Consul at Mti
deria, John Howard Marsh, who is-ff"native ‘of
New Hampshire. The commander of tho Pow
hattan, Captain Pearson, is a New Hampshire
gentleman, as is also the chaplain, Rev. Mr. Wood.
FEATURES OF NEW YORK LIFE,
THE FIVE POINTS —rAP.T I.
pages have still to depict dark scenes and
<l!Wr localities; for crimes and poverty are rarn
■pant in the great Metropolis of America. Yet
though we shall conduct our readers into the
gloomy Tartarean regions of the city, where want,
suffering, vice and murder mingled and blend in
horid association, there will not be all that is
dreadfuls—not all darkness; for even in these
fearful precincts some choice sacrificing spirits,
animated by a love for the Giver of all good, and
charity for their neighbor, are endeavoring to do
tlie work of regeneration ; trying to diffuse the
lights of knowledge and the practice of virtue,
lending a moral radiance to the murky scenes in
which they labor.
Go two squares directly east of the “Toombs,”
and you will find yourself in the very centre of
the Five Points, that noted locality where the
demon of wickedness appears to exercise in such
full power his dominion. There are grocery
Mores; i. lot lung stores, bakeries, milk-stands—yet
so wr.it- lied in aspect, that they correspond pari
passu to the poverty and filthiness which surround
them.
In the evening the visitor is surprised at the
crowded appearance of the place. The streets are
almost impassable. You are jammed and jostled
on all sides, and every groggery seems to be full,
and doing a swimming business. Poverty and
crime appear to level all, for there is no caste, no
classes, but all are on an equality, and carouse,
drink and swear together, without fear of being
affected morally or mentally by low associations.
Nor is this all. Even color ceases to exert its
privileges, for white and black—long hair and
woolly head are on familiar terms.
in speaking to a police officer of the immense
throngs rushing to and fro in these streets, he in
formed me that almost every room contained a
family, and nine-tenths of the whole population
were thieves and prostitutes.
On every side are indications of abandoned hu
manity. Ragged children reeking with filth are
playing neglected in the streets, using the most
profane language, committing petty thefts, and
doing other things significant of the penitentiary,
or tlie gallows in maturer years; poor, forlorn,
degraded prostitutes, festering with disease and
broken by dissipation, stand at tlie doorway to
invite the curiousTraveller to enter their misera
ble domicil. On some of the corners are congre
gated four or five youths, from fifteen to twenty
years of age, with so much peculation in their coun
tenances, that tlie passer-by instinctively claps
his hand on his pocket, and breathes freer as he
leaves them in the distance. All eyes appear
evil eyes, and the whole locality smells of corrup
tion—even the meat on the butcher’s stall looks
black, suspicious.and diseased. An effluvia per
vades the whole atmosphere, and though people
live in that sink of corruption, there is no indica
tion of healthfulness in their countenances, which
are sallow, wan and downcast.
About eleven o’clock the revelry at the Five
Points commences, and is in full blast at twelve.
The dance-houses are numerous, each furnished
with a bar where liquor is sold at three cents per
glass, collects the little money possessed by the
thieves, prostitutes and murderers, and supplying
them continually with poisenedfluid in the shape
of drink, increase in a ten-fold degree their de
based animal instincts. One of these, a subterra
nean place of revelry, once kept by the notorious
negro Pete Williams, is thus described by the
Rev. L. M. Pease, Superintendent of the Five
Points House of Industry, in his monthly record
of tho Institution, from the proof-sheets of which
o are p a rnitted to make this extract.
“ The toll was paid and pocketed, the door
opened, when, passing down four steps more, we
stood aghast in the assembly-room of the far
famed Pete Williams, familiarly called * Unde
Pete.’
“Doctors, lawyers, ministers, statesmen, offi
cials, high and low, and even foreign dignitaries,
have all paid their tribute to this mysterious per
sonage.
“In his presence the distinctions of wealth, po
sition and character die as by enchantment. The
white-gloved aristocrat, the buckram pimp of
fashionable life, so far loses his drawing-room
tastes, as to join harmonious hands with the greasy
fingered negroes. In his presence, too, all social
and political antagonisms are forgotten, and Nor
thern and Southern demagogues in ‘glorious
union,’ forsooth, take the floor, with Five Point
wenches (superior to themselves, as sinning from
necessity—they from choice,) leaning on their
arms.
“The room was some twenty-four feet square,
and ten feet from floor to ceiling. When 1 had
regained my self-possession, I commenced look
ing about me. At my left stood a score of beings
of both sexes, some well and some ill-dressed, and
some scarcely dressed at all, grouped together be
side a counter on which stood a basket of cigars,
tumblers, and a number of half-emptied decan
ters, which were in a ftuv moments thoroughly
drained, and replaced by others.
“On the same side, midway the room, and ele
vated some three feet, sat two colored men, one
with a violin, the other with a tambourine, while
around the sides was a mongrel row of lolling,
smoking, jesting, laughing men and women.
“Among them sat a sharp-featured, dark-whis
kered, black-eyed, and gentlemanly dressed Sax
on with his arm clasping tlie waist of a low-neck
ed, short-sleeved, flat-nosed, wide-nostriled, thick
lipped, slouched Ethiopian, while just above them
hung a picture of our country’s father. Shall that
arm ever again clasp mother, sister, daughter, or
wife 't
“A blow from the fist of tlie presiding genius
on the low desk before him was the signal for an
other “breakdown.” A dozen couples were on
the floor in its many seconds, and the dance com
menced. “Up, down, backward, forward, right,
left, cross,” in quick succession was heard, fol
lowed, by many and as rapid evolutions. The
spirit of the dance is fully aroused; on flies the
fiddle-bow, faster and faster; on jingles tambou- >
rine ’gainst head and heels, knee and elbow, and
on smash the dancers. The excitement becomes
general. Every foot, leg, arm, head, lip, body,
all are in motion. Sweat, swear, fiddle, dance
shout and stamp, underground in smoke, and
dust, and putrid air! (O thou Christ! in thine
image didst thou make man, and for such as
these didst thou die!”)
Such is the graphic description of a dance
house, given by this intelligent and self-sacrifi
cing divine, and even this picture thus masterly
drawn, is not dark enough for the dark original;
for the midnight orgies of the most depraved of
both sexes seldom end without bloody noses,J
black-eyes, and swollen lips, and often murder.
It is to such haunts that thieves who have lived
the expiration of their sentence to Blackwell's
Island, or the State Prison return, to run the
same career of crime, and meet the same penalty
when detected. The Five Points are fatal to all
good; and as well might the mariner of yore at
tempt to steer through Charybdis and Scylla, asa
resident of that locality escape being swallowed
up in the vortex of corruption. A criminal can
not there reform; there is not a small saving
plank—he must wreck again.
Tt is in this pandemonium that parents, forget
ting tlie strongest instinct of the human bosom,
parental affection, which is the last divine attri
bute which leaves them, train their sons in all
the wily ways of the adept thief, and the young
daughter, just flowering and blossoming into wo
manhood, to forget the promptings of innocence,
and tread the paths of shame and prostitution.
How horrible, it is to reflect on such depravity—
and how dreadful is the punishment visited even
l>y nature herself on the victims of transgression!
The young girls who commence a dissolute life
never ripen into wonuyiliood. Directly they
commence to sin, like flowers with the 44 worm in
the Imdp’ they commence to fade, and in a few
short years, poor, wan, and blasted things, “un
annealed” and unpitied, they are gathered like
rubbish and thrown int<) Potters field.
—
- An old fellow Iteing /visited by his pastor, he
.assured him that lie eoi/ild not be a good Christian
unless he took up his daily cross, whereat he
eatught up his wife ttjhd began lugging her about
the room. I
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY
THE BEGGAR.
* A TRUE TALK AND NO TICTTO.V.
One cold, windy morning, the last Sunday m
December, 1847, a half-naked man knocked tim
idly at the basement door of a fine, substantial
mansion in the city of Brooklyn. Though the
weather was bitter even for the season, the young
man had no clothing but a pair of ragged cloth
pants and the remains of a flannel shirt, in many
large rents, and which exposed his mascular
chest. But, inspite of his tattered apparel and
evident fatigue, as he leaned heavily upon the
l ading of the basement stairs, a oritical observer
could not fail to notice a conscious air of dignity,
and the marked traces of cultivation and refine
ment in his pale and haggard countenance.
The door was speedily opened, and disclosed a
comfortably furnished room with its glowing grate
of anthracite, before which was placed a luxuri
ously futnished breakfast table. A fashionably
attired young man, in a brocade dressing gown
anti velvet slippers, was reclining in a soft f:ni
ton il busily reading tlie morning papers. The
beautiful young wife had lingered at the table,
giving to the servant in waiting her orders for the
household matters of the day, when the timid rap
at the door attracted her attention. She com
manded it to be opened; but the young master of
the mansion replied that it was quite useless—be
ing no one but some thievish beggar. But the
door was-already opened, and the sympathies of
Mrs. Maywood enlisted at once.
“Come in to the fire,” cried the young wife,
impulsively, “before you perish!”
The mendicant, without exhibiting any surprise
at such unusual treatment of a street beggar,
slowly entered tlie room, manifesting a painful
weakness at every step. On his entrance, Mr.
Maywood, with a displeased air, gathered up his
papers and left the apartment. The compassion
ate lady unwisely placed the half frozen man near
tho fire, while she prepared a howl of fragrant
coffee, which, with abundant food, was placed be
fore him. But noticing the abrupt departure of
her husband, Mrs. Maywood with a clouded coun
tenance, left the room, whispering to the servant
to remain until the stranger should leave.
She then ran hastily up the richly mounted
stair-case, and paused before the entrance of a
small laboratory and medical library, and occu
pied solely by her husband, who was a physician
and a practical chemist. She opened the door
and entered the room. Mr. Maywood was sitting
at a small table with his head resting on his hands,
apparently in deep thought.
“ Edward,” said the young wife, gently touch
ing his arm, “I''fear I have displeased you; hut
the man looked so wretched I could not hear to
drive him away,” and her sweet voice trembled
as she added—“ You know I take the sacrament
to-day.”
“Dear Mary,” replied the really fond husband,
“I appreciate your motives. I know it is pure
goodness of heart which leads you to disobey me,
but still 1 must insist upon my former commands
that no beggar shall ever be permitted to enter
the house. It is for your safety that I insist upon
it. How deeply you might be imposed upon in
my frequent absences from home, 1 shudder to
think. The man who is below may be a burglar
in disguise, and already in your absence taking
impressions in wax of the different kev-holes in
the room, so as to enter some night at his
Your limited experience of city life, makes ft
difficult for you to credit so mu®# depravity. It
is no charity to give to street beggars; it only en
courages vice, dearest.”
“It may be so,” responded Mrs. Maywood,
“but it seems wicked not to relieve suffering and
want, even if tlie person has behaved badly, and
we know it. But I promise you not to ask an
other beggar into the house.”
At this moment the servant rapped violently at
the door, crying out that the beggar was dying.
“Come, Edward, your skill can save him, I
know,” said his wife, hastening from the room.
The doctor did not refuse this appeal to his
professional vanity, for he immediately followed
her flying footsteps as she descended to the base
ment. They found the mendicant lying pale
and unconscious upon the carpet, where he had
slipped in his weakness from the chair where
Mrs. Maywood had seated him.
“He is a handsome fellow,” muttered the doc
tor, as he bent over to ascertain tlie state of his
pulse.
And well lie might say so. The glossy looks oi
raven hair had fallen away from a broad, white
forehead; his closed eyelids were bordered by
long raven lashes, which lay like a silken fridge
upon his'pale, bronzed cheeks, while a delicate
aquiline nosu, and a square massive chin, dis
played a model of manly beauty.
“Is lie dead?” asked the young wife, anxious
ly.
“< >h. no; it is only a fainting fit induced by the
sudden change of temperature, and, perhaps, the
first stage of starvation,” replied the doctor, sym
patliizingly. He had forgotten for the moment
his cold maxims of prudence, and added, “he
must be carried to a warm room, without a fire,
and placed in a comfortable bed.”
The coachman was called to assist in lifting the
athletic stranger, who was soon carried to a room
in tlie chambers, where the doctor administered
with his own hands, port wine sangaree. The
young man soon became partly conscious, ‘but all
conversation was forbadediim, and he sank quiet
ly to sleep.
“He is doing well; let him rest, as long as he
can; should Ire awake in our absence, give him
beef-tea and toast ad libitum,” said the doctor pro
fessionably, as he left the room.
In less than an hour afterwards, Dr. Maywood
and his lovely wife entered the gorgeous church
of the Most Holy Trinity.
Amid the hundreds of fair dames that entered
its broad portals,pressed ‘with all the taste and
magnificence that abundant wealth could procure,
not one rivaled in grace and beauty the orphan
bride of the rich physician. Her tall, graceful
figure was robed in a velvet silk, that only
heightened by contrastdier large azure eyes, bright
with the lustre of youthful* happiness ; yet there
was a touch of tender pity in their drooping lids
that won the confidence of every beholder. The
snowy ermine mantilla which protected her from
the piercing wind, rivaled, but could not surpass
the delicate purity of her complexion.
Many admiring eyes followed the faultless fig
ure of Mrs. Maywood, as she moved with uncon
scious grace up the central isle of the church, but
none with more heartfelt devotion than the young,
wayward, but generous man, who had recently
wed her in spite of her poverty and tho sneers of his
aristocratic acquaintance;
The stately organ had pealed its last rich notes
whih were still faintly echoing in the distant
arches, when a stranger of venerable aspect, who
had previously taken part in the services of the
altar, rose and announced for his text the oft
quoted, but seldom applied words of tho Apos
tle,—
“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for
thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
l)r.. May wood felt his forehead flush painfully ;
it appeared to him for the * moment that the
preacher must have known his want of charity
toward strangers, and wished to give him a pub
lic lesson ; but he soon saw from the tenor of his
remarks, that his own guilty conscience had alone
made the application in this particular case. I
have not space, nor the power to give any synop
sis of the sermon ; but that it, combined with
the in blent of the morning, effected a happy
revolution in the mind of at least one of its hear
ers, —so mH-h so, that on the return of Dr. May
wood from • church, he repaired at once to tin 1
room of the mendicant, to offer such attentions
as he might stand in need of. But the young
man seemed to be much refreshed by rest and
nutritious food, and commenced gratefully thank
ing the host for the kind attentions he had re
ceived, which, without doubt, had saved his life.
“I am not tlie beggar that I seem,” said he. “I
was shiprecked on Friday night, in the Ocean
Wave, on my return from India. My .name was
doubtless, among the list of the lost—for I escaped
from the waves by a miracle. 1 attempted to
lrfake my way to New York, where I have ample
funds in bank now awaiting my orders ; but I
must have perished from cold and hunger had it
not been for your and your wife’s provident char-
EDITOR & PROPRIETOR.
VOL. nim.-NUMBER 1
ity. I was repulsed froiiTevery door as a®
ter. and could get neither food nor rest; To b
an exile from one’s native land ten years, ana
then, after escaping from the perils of the ocean,
to die of hunger in the streets of a Christa Mi G fty>
I felt was truly a bitter fate. My name is Arthur
Willet,” added the stranger. M ‘A i
“Why, that is is my wife’s name ; she will/ L®
pleased at her agency in your recovery.”
“Os what State is she a native'?” asked Arthur
Willet, eagerly.
“I married her in the town Os R —, where
she was born.”
At this moment Mrs. Maywood entered the
room, surprised at the long absence of ihflr hus
band. *
Arthur Willet gazed at her with a look of wild
surprise murmuring— i
“It cannot be—it cannot be— l am delirious to
think so.”
Mrs. Maywood gazed with little less astonish
ment.
“What painful mist cry is this ?” cried Dr. May.
wood, excitedly, addressing his wife, who then
became conscious of the singularity of her con
duct. .
“Oh, ho mystery,” she replied, sighing deeply,”
“only this stranger is the very image of my long
lost brother Arthur.” And Mrs. Maywood, over
come with emotion, turned to leave the room.
“Stay one moment,” pleaded the stranger,
drawing a small mourning ring from his finger,
and holding it up, asked if she recognized that
relic ?
“She shrieked aloud, “Merciful heaven ! It i
my father’s gray hair ! and you are—
“ His son, Arthur Willet, and your long lost
brother!”
Mary Willet Maywood fell upon the mendi
cant’s breast, shedding tears of sweetest joy and
thanksgiving.
Dr. Maywood joined in cordial congratula
tion and sympathy, and retiring from the room,
left sister and brother alone in that sacred hour
of reunion, saying to himself—
“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for
thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
— K. Y. Spir. Telegraph. ,
(selected for the crusader.)
A JOYFUL SURPRISE,
On the morning of the first day of the late elec
tion, an interesting sight might have been wit
nessed in a low, dilapidated dwelling somewhere
in this goodly city. At the place and time men
tioned, there might have been seen, sitting at a
scantily furnished breakfast table, a man with
good phrenological developments, a prepossessing
physical structure, but with a countenance moody
and irritable.
On his right hand sat a woman, his wife, little,
if any, past the meridian of life, but exhibiting
traces of a premature fading of a face and figure,
still midlv beautiful. At his left sat his daughter,
a yet unblighted copy of her patient but sorrow
stricken mother, in all/the healthfulness of inci
pient woman-liood. _J[n this young woman’s eye
tears weregathering, and as she turned her timid
face- ta\vards her moody father, they might have
glistening like the pearly drops of a
summer as the first beams of the sun
glance on their chrystal surface.
Iler heart was full, and her voice tremulous, ns
she at length gained courage sufficiently to ejacu
late, “Father!” The moody man started, ns
though the sounds of long forgotten melody
echoed in his ears.
Ife bent his gaze enquiringly on his trembling
child, and in accents unusually soft for him, said:
“ Well, Bell, what would you?” “Bell” felt em
boldened, and dressing her face inasweet, plead
ing smile, said: “ I would, fatlied-, that you would
not go to the election to-day.” The frown re-ap
peared ; it was stern and bitter, as he asked
sharply, “ Why not ?” Bell could not answer.
She seemed anxious to escape the angry gaze of
a father, whom, but a moment before, she hoped
to conciliate. She was about to withdraw, when
a voici’ of startling fierceness said to her, “Girl,
look on your father! You, but a child, presume
to counsel him as to what he should do, and
in this you doubtless act as tlie of your
mother ? 1 could have borne to have been called
a drunkard —aye, a drunkard! and a shiver pass
ed over him; but, continued lie. “to have it in
sinuated by a child, is too much. I shall go to
the election; so, bring me my hat.” No word of
remonstrance was heard, and the miserable man
rushed from his dwelling. That day bitter tears
were shed around the hearth-stone of Powell T.
Noon came, but so did not the father of the
grief-stricken Isabel. Night, too, with its dark
some loneliness, drew its curtains round; but no
signs ot the return of the infatuated, the fallen
father and husband. Tediously wore the hours
of the night away. Often did the mother and
daughter instinctively cling to each other, as
some casual noise induced the belief that the
object of their solicitude had indeed come; but
how did they dread to encounter the frowns, may
hap the inebriated curses of him who was the
cause of tlieir vigils ! At length the hour of mid
night sounded, and, as its echoes died away, the
footsteps of the expected one were heard. How
wildly did the heart of the mother and daughter
heat as Powell P. entered the door so long and
eagerly watched! lie was there, before them,
but not noisy, not harsh, for he was sober, calm
and collected. So great was the joy of the wife
and daughter, that neither could give utterance
to the wild emotions that played around their
hearts; but they would not have spoken then for
worlds, lest the echo of a voice should have dis
pelled what seemed a pleasing illusion.
“Isabel! Isabel!” were the first words that
greeted their ears, and in a moment both were
crying for joy on his bosom. We need not detail
tlie affecting conversation which followed, nor
the joyful surprise with which the mother ami
daughter heard his resolves and hopes. It yrill
be sufficiently understood from a single expres
sion of Powell P , as his daughter was about
to retire to vest. They were the sweetest words
her ears had heard for many a long, long dav.
They were, “Good night, my child, and may God
bless you ; you have saved your father.”
The father had been to the election; he had
gone pre-determined to drink—to get drunk ; but
as lie was about to raise the first dram to hia
mouth, the pleading countenance of his daughter
seemed to rise before him. His good geniuß pre
vailed ; the glass was replaced, untasted, on the
counter; he left the place, and with a highmowd
purpose, hastened to enrol himself among the
advocates of temperanee. The pledge has been
religiously kept, and the visage of his mild and am
iable wife is fast losing its care-worn expression.
“ Bell” has become the joyous, hoping being she
was designed to be, while Powell P is ftust re
gaining all liis former vigor and nobleness. Often
do these contented beings talk over past scenes,”
while the amiable 44 Mabel” fails not to designate
the night of which we have spoken as that of “ the
joyous surprise.” £. J, M.
(hiring fa Greene Cos.
Benevolence of disposition and decision of char
acter united, make a man a blessing to the circle
in wliicli liq moves. *-