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JOHN 11. SEALS, m SERIES, VOL. 3. tyt Cemptancc €nmkx, Published every Thursday in the year, except two. _ KRW*: Two Oollar-s per year, in advance. r / RATES OF ADVERTISING: ,'qnarc (twelve lines or less) first insertion,. .$1 00 Each continuan* o, ;M ’ ufessiooal or Business Cards, not exceeumg six lines, fer year, 6 00 Candidates for Office, - o 00 STANDING ADVERTISEMENTS : qunre, three months, 5 00 uare, six months, 7 00 !uare, twelve months,—..... uares, “ 44 .-.....----*------18 00 uarcs, “ “ 21 00 nxes, 41 44 ...... netmiaNd i!.c\.iambur insertions, will he continued until forbid) and ■,rgCd accordingly. Druggists, and others, may con t by the year, on reasonable terms. It-flTLand or Negroes, by Administrators, LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS: Executors, and Guardians, per square,... 5 00 ](of Personal Property, bt Administrators, Executors, and per square,— 525 •jtice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 25 Mice for Leave to Sell, t ion for Letters of Administration, 2 75 ife ion for Letters of Dismission from Adra’n. 5 00 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. r .1 r.-r-Tar.nrar.T * rr—tt. rrr—”- —r 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. *-