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ar almoct erorj conceivable difficulty, w# had auc
in printing about half of the last issue of our paper,
whan the large Balance Wheel of our Press, under a full
head of steam, flew off, bursting in pieces some of the
principal cog wheels, and very narrowly missing some
of the in the office (the wheel weighs some 500 or
* pounds.) We were of course obliged to sus
pend operations until we could have another wheel cast
at the Iren Foundry, to which we sent the pieces imme
diately i but to continue our bad luck, the operatives in
the foundry failed in the first attempt to cast all the cogs,
which threw us a week or ten days still farther behind.
We trust our friends will sympathise with us in our
difficulties, and pardon the delay in issuing the paper.
They can form no idea of the uneasiness, trouble and
perplexity which we have endured for the last three
weeks.
Oar Mail-Book System.
For the information of our friends who take the Cru
sader we state that our mail-books are never kept in
alphabetical order; and consequently, when we wish to
find a subscriber’s name, we have to know at which of
fice he gets his paper, or we cannot find it without look
ing over the entire list of names and offices.
We beg our patrons to remember this fact—particu
larly when they give any orders concerning their paper.
are happy to acknowledge the receipt of the
Journal of the Am. Temp. Union and Prohibitionist.
The Prohibitioniet and the Journal of New York, have
consolidated and formed a monthly Temperance Journal
of the highest order of merit. It is the best temperance
periodical in the Union. Subscription price $1 a-year.
fgp'We deeply regret to learn of the death of Augus
tus S. Wingfield of Madison, who died on Tuesday last.
Me was a jolly, warm-hearted fellow, and possessed of
native genius.
VonrlMe Times In this Section.
If money matters in this community don’t soon get
better than they are at present, the Lord only knows
what’ll become of us. Everybody seems to be crazy on’
the subject. Old accounts, which you haven’t heard of
in years, are raked up and brought in to your “ imme
diate notice.” We have hardly passed a man in a week
who did not thrust an account in our face. They way
lay you on the corners of the streets, and take you as you
some. We punctually ram our hands way down into
our deep breeches-leg pocket in quest of dimes, but she
invariably comes up as she went down—with] “narry
red.”
Communications.
We are in receipt of several very acceptable contribu
tions, which will appear soon.
License in Athens.
The Southern Banner in speaking of the election of
town officers, for Athens, says:
“ Party politics had little or nothing to do with this
election, and consequently, the result cannot be con
sidered as any index of the political statue of the town.
The only issue that we know of, was purely a local one
—license, or no license; and the verdict in favor of the
former, was pretty decisive. A majority of the board,
and the Intendant, are favorable to a reasonable license
for retailing, and also tor billiard tables, and as may be
readily imagined, the friends and supporters of the
“wet ticket,” are highly delighted thereat.”
fSt* The same paper states that their “ Female High
School” will be completed about the first of June next.
Beautiful Weather.
We are enjoying at this time the most delightful wea
ther imaginable for the season of the year. The deli
cate hyacinth and flowering quince, remind us forcibly
of Spring.
ffi&The Savannah Georgian states that Mr. Miller
of Milledgeville was robbed, on the night of the 18th
inat. of money, watches, jewelry, &c. to the amount of
sixteen thousand dollars. No clue had been found to
the thieves.
Wuat the United States are Worth. —The nation
al wealth of the United States, as an estate, may be
thus stated:
▼slue of farms and cultivated soil, $5,000,000,000
“ horses, cattle, sheep, &c., 1,500,000,000
“ agricultural implements, 500,000,000
“ mines, 4,500,000,000
“ dwelling houses, 3,500,000,000
“ railways and canals, 1,100,000,000
“ factories, mills, and machine shops, 400,000,000
“ commercial marine, 200,000,000
“ agricultural produce, domestic man
ufactures, and foreign goods on hand, 1,000,000,000
“ gold and silver coin and bullion, 300,000,000
“ public lands, ships of war, forti
fications, navy - yards, public
buildings, &c., 4,000,000,000
$22,000,000,000
JWOur streets were thronged on New Year’s day
with carriages filled with young men paying calls, a
custom which now seems to be firmly established. To
wards the close of the day, from fatigue and a constant
straining of the eyes, (nothing else!) some of them be
came weak in the knees, and their vision somewhat im
paired. Nothing serious happened from these exertions,
but all seemed to enjoy a happy day.
The unitiated are not prepared to appreciate the deli
cate elbow-AtmcA, in the above paragraph. It is very
evident that the fashionable young gentry of Savannah
paid the most of their calls to “John Barley Corn;”
hence, their “weakness in the knees.” They became
very much fatigued from “ touting ” (as all imbibers do)
yrwt their vision became impaired by “constant strain
ing”—to see through the bottoms of glass tumblers.
A highly esteemed friend from Forsyth speaks thus
encouragingly to us:
“I am much pleased with the improvements-made in
the Crusader, and trust and believe you will succeed in
reference to money matters. You say hold on awhile,
that suits me, for two reasons ; first, to collect, secondly,
that I may procure some new subscribers.”
A friend from Walker county says :
“The new Crusader is pronunced by those who have
seen it, to be the best paper in Georgia, and I shall send
you one hundred subscribers if I possibly can.”
We can make it the “best paper in Georgia.” and we
intend to do it. We have met with such bad luck in
getting started, that we hav’nt as yet had a showing—
hence the paper is not what we hope soon to make it.—
is none of the Yankee in what we say, for
we intend to do it.
A couple of our patrons from Steam Factory Post of
fice, order their Crusaders to be stopped, but take par
ticular pains to state that they are still temperance men.
We hate very much to see temperance men withdraw
their patronage from temperance papers, for we are o
bliged to have such Journals and they depend upon tem
perance men for support.
Another subscriber from Quito says:
“Money matters are so tight I can hardly get it to
buy meat w. th,but send on the paper, for I like it, and
you shall be paid.”
J&'We are requested to state that Mr. W. R. Hun
ter, who has been laboring in Georgia the past year in
behalf of the Sunday School and Temperance Cause,
will be absent from the State for a few weeks. On his
return, he expects to canvass the lower counties, com
mencing his labors in Burke. Correspondents will ad
dress him at Berzelia, Ga. during his absence.
- Speaker Orr has announced his determination
to enforce strictly the rule prohibiting the custom of
bringing liquors into that part of the Capitol under his
especial charge. This, if strictly followed out, is a
species of reform very much needed, and cannot but be
productive of good effects. It is unfortunate, however
that he cannot extend the operation of the rules so as
to prevent certain notorious members from surrepti.
ouely; bringing the article into the building in their
Gov. Brown offers SIOO reward for the arrest of the
murderer of Mike Hickry, which took place near Ma
con on the night of 84th Dec. Friends of the deceased
also efler SIOO for the samp object.
vote in the last election for State officers was*
F#e State, 6,238; Democrat, 6,530.
Executive Atfointments. — We find the following
appointments by Governor Brown, in the Savannah
Georgian :
Dr. John W. Lewis, of Cherokee, Superintendent of
the State Road. ~
George Kellogg, of Forsyth,-Treasurer.
Eli McConnell, of Cherokee, Keeper of the Penitenti
ary.
Lemuel Aland, of Cherokee, Messenger.
John C. Waters, Esq. of Cherokee, Secretary of the
Executive Department, in place of Moj. John H. Steel,
resigned.
Mr. Wellbourne, ofUnion, Librarian.
Mr. Broibs, of Carroll, Compiler of the Laws.
Mr. Camden, of Cherokee, Agent of the Western &
Atlantic Road at Chattanooga.
The following punch at the late Legislature was got
ten off by someone in a New Year's Address lorthe Car
riers of the Sav. Morning News :
“ We’ve seen the Georgia Legislators meet
And do themselves great honor by adjourning.
Their glory would have been august—complete—
Blow sad that men must be always learning !]
ad they adjourned the first day of the session—
They’d have left a very difl’rent impression.”
On the 29th ult. John Miller, of Effingham county,
and his horse, were drowned in the Satilla river, six
miles from Waresboro’. He was intoxicated when he
attempted to cross the river. His body was found and
taken out by the citizens on the 30th. So says the
Brunswick Herald, sth inst.— Savannah Republican,
Jan. 9.
Boston, Jan. 7.—Gov. Bank’s Message recommends
the suppression of bank notes under five dollars, and
after three to five years, under ten dollars. He refers
the naturalization question to the legislature, and says
that nothing but the direct intervention of the Federal
influence can force the Lecompton Constitution upon
Kansas, and if this be exerted it will be the greatest
blow ever given against free government.
We find the subjoined report in the Charleston Mer
cury, of the 9th inst, of auction sales of negroes and bank
stock, which took place in that city on the Bth inst. It
seems that negro property is not selling so high in Car
olina as in Georgia.
At auction yesterday, Mr. J. Drayton Ford sold.
10 Shares Bank of South Carolina at s4o£.
34 Shares Farmers & Exchange Bank at S24J to f.
Messrs. Thos. Ryan and Son sold a very likely fellow,
a. good plantation carpenter, twenty-five years of age,
for $1,110; and a boy, eleven years of age, for S7OO.
Mr. W. W. Wilbur sold an hostler and carriage driver,
thirty years of age, for $755; and a farm and dairy
woman, thirty-five years of age, for $330.
Senator Douglas. —lt seems that the “ Little Gi
ant” of world-renowned Kansas reputation is getting in
quite bad odor With those who were his very enthusias
tic admirers, during the last Presidential canvass. The
democratic press, generally, we believe, are on the verge
of denouncing him in very strong terms. The following
paragraphs conclude a lengthy article from the Adgusta
Constitutionalist, condemning his present position :
“ We repeat, in the face of the facts and his past
course, the present position! of Judge Douglas is both
novel and extraordinary. Everywhere throughout the
country it has excited general surprise, but most espe
cially at the South. In the ranks of the Southern De
mocracy he has found his warmest and most enthusias
tic admirers. And now, to find him in opposition, when
they had most reason to expect his able and hearty con
currence, is to them a source of bitter regret and disap
pointment.
“ We are not of those who are prepared already to de
nounce him as an apostate to our cause, but the course
which he has seen fit to pursue since the opening of the
present Congress, will induce us to watch his future con
duct with anxiety. We trust that instead of abandoning
the support of those great principles to the successful
establishment of which he has hitherto devoted the best
energies of his life, we may soon have the pleasure of re
cording that he is again in close embrace with those pol
itical bretheren by whose side he has battled for so many
years, and once more consecrating his splendid talents
to the advancement of that cause, in defence of which he
has won his present brilliant reputation.”
The Macon Press also says : “ The recent course of
Senator Douglas on the Kansas question, admits of no
justification. It is well calculated to surprise us that
the author and advocate of the Kansas Nebraska Bill
should, at this crisis, take direct issue with the adminis
tration and with those Senators who are striving to car
ry out the principles of that identical act. It is also a
source of regret that one of his distinguished position
should, in view of the approaching Senatorial election in
his State, basely pander to the abolition sentiment, thus
sacrificing party lor place, and principle for personal in
terest. — Macon Press.
Senator Toombs. —The Washington correspondent
of the Tribune says :
“ The wrath of Archilles was nothing compared to
the wrath of the fire-eaters at the news ol the arrest of
Gen. Walker. Messrs. Toombs of Georgia, and Brown
of Mississippi, are especially furious in denouncing the
Administration.
“ There are conflicting rumors about Toombs and
Douglas. One account states that they have had an
amicable interview; another that Toombs is bitterly
opposed to the course of Douglas.”
Copy of a handbill found nailed against a tree in an
Irish Chappel yard, in 1743: “ Michael Flanagan, trav
ellingdancing master, will give lessons for the next
fortnight at Davy Dogherty’s barn, at the low rate of
two skilleens and a tester the week, to be concluded by
a ball, tickets, including a tumbler of punch tenpence —
Gentlemen taking a ticket allowed to trate a lady.
Hidden Fountains. —ln order to discover fountains
under ground, before digging for them, people were for
merly accustomed to go out at sunrise, and ascend some
hill, or high place, and there lie down on their stomachs,
with their chin touching the ground. If, from any spot
in the landscape, a mist or exhalation were seen to rise
they made sure that by digging there, they should find
a spring of water.
Appointments bv the Governor. — Officers of the Pen
itentiary.—Capt. John Jones of Muscogee Cos. Assistant
Keeper. Wm. A. Williams of Baldwin Cos. Book
Keeper. Doctor G. D. Case of Baldwin Cos. Physician.
Rev. R. C. Smith of Baldwin Cos. Chaplain.
- Trustees of the Lunatic Assylum, 1858 — Doctors Tom
linson Fort, E. L. Strohecker and Barradell P. Stubbs.
State Librarian. —Mr. Wellborne ofUnion Cos.
Commissioners for the Deaf and Dumb Assylum. — lion;
John H. Lumpkin of Floyd Cos. John W. H. Underwood
of Floyd Cos. Geo. W. Thomas, F. H. Shropshire, H.
Fielder, A. J. King, W. R. Webster, Samuel Mobley,
P. W. McDaniel, F. H. Stroker.
Captainof the State House Guard. — Benjamin F. Cook.
Board of Visitors Georgia Military Institute for the
year 1858.—Gen. G. P. Harrison of Chatham Cos. Col. R.
L. Mott of Muscogee Cos. Capt. Thos. Hardeman of Bibb
Cos. Gen. A. J. Hansell of Cobb Cos. Hon. E. W. Chas
tain of Fannin Cos. Col. A. A. F. Hill of Clark Cos. Col.
W. S. Rockwell of Baldwin Cos. Maj. Goode Bryan of
Richmond Cos. Col. Hardy Strickland of Forsyth Cos.
Hon. David J. Bailey of Butts Cos. — So. Recorder.
Socrates, when asked what was the best mode of
gaining a high reputation, replied—to be what you ap
pear to be.
Gen. Walker estimates his losses, by the seizures of
Davis and Paulding, at one hundred and forty thousand
dollars. It is also stated that the fillibusters on board
the Saratoga, at Norfolk, positively refuse to go ashore,
unless they can be put off by force. They say they
are penniless and helpless, and have no where to go if
ashore, and demand to be returned to Nicaragua, the
home of their adoption.
Gen. Walker has written an eloquent letter of self
justification to President Buchanan, and recounts wrongs,
injuries and insult 9, which he speaks of as having re
ceived from Com. Paulding, and calls upon the Presi
dent, “ in the name of the oath which he,has taken, to
punish the offender, and to right the wrong.” He closes
his letter with the following eloquent paragraphs :
I presume not to direct your wisdom in the course it
shall pursue; but in the name of the men whose rights
your officers have infringed, and whose honor has been
most harshly and heedlessly trampled in the dust, I call
for the justice it is your high prerogative to bestow.
• But permit me to conclude by adding that in all events,
and under all circumstances, there are duties and res
ponsibilities from which I and the officers and men I
represent will not, dare not, shrink. No extreme of ille
gal interferance —no amount of hard words and unjust
epithets, can deter us from following the path which is ;
before us. The functionaries of the government may
exhaust upon me the expletives of the language—they
may insult the public conscience and degrade their own
characters by applying to us all the epithets their morbid
imaginations suggest; but, conscious ot the right and
justme of our cause, we shall not relax our efforts nor be
driven into a violation of the law.
As long as there is a Central American exiled from his
native land and deprived of his property and civil rights,
for the services he rendered us, in evil as well as good
report, so long shall our time and our energies be devoted
to the work of their restoration. As long as the bones of
coir companions m arms, murdered under a barbarous
decree of the Costa Rican government, lie bleaching and
unburied on the hill-sides of Nicaragua, so long shall
our brains contrive and our hands labor for the justice
which one day we will surely obtain.
Permit your officers, if you can, to trample under foot
•1i C ? nstltut i°n an d the laws; pass unnoticed, if you
wdl, the most violent invasions of individual rights and
public duties; treat with scorn and contempt, if you
choose, the demands for justice which we humbly and
Alf. rentl y P* ac , e l at your feet—we will not be cast
blarneyed. We fight for the rights of our race,
j. j een denied us by an ungrateful and degra
vice Btr^e t 0 retain unsullied the de
“ LnJV, ° Ur an ® eßtora have borne on many a field—
aaourf-ltK s^ ?U iH and wi *h impunity.” And so long
God of nnr filth lß * 11 en d u .res good—our confidence in the
2ln emamß unshaken—so long shall we
™Sus“e.w r iru , r w reg,ta wh “ hMbeen
Are there any Temperance Men?
At a time when there is so much indifference
manifested upon the subject of a Temperance
Reformation, the question which we ask above is
not without force. In the issue preceding this,
we pictured as graphically as we could, the “tri
umph of intemperance.” But we did not wish to
create the impression that there were no temper
ance men in Georgia, and wo live in the hope of
hearing our entire article upon the triumphs of
the enemy pronounced as false by an enraged
temperance multitude. It will do us good to swal
low’ our statements, and we will join in the accu
sation ourself with stentorian voice, and ring
the charge of falsehood to the ends of the conti
nent. We know there are temperance men, and
a host of them in this State, and our desire is to
arouse them, from their apathy; and we appeal
to them in the name of bleeding and besotted
man, w ho is hourly nearing the drunkard’s doom,
to lay aside their chilling indifference. The
mother, as she hugs her little one to her bosom
and dreams of its maturity, asks with feeling em
phasis. if there are no temperance men w'ho shall
protect him from the vices of strong drink, wdien
he shall go out into the world’s conflicts. The
trembling adult to whose startled vision the ter
rors of the drunkard’s hell have been revealed,
in deep agony of soul inquires if there are no
temperance men to remote the accursed potion
from out the reach of his craving stomach.
Let the reader of these lines, if lie he a friend
to the cause of a Tempovancp Reformation; a
friend to the oppressed; a friend to the hungry
orphans—the houseless, homeless and naked
children of our land, stop and think if he does
not owe it to himself and his Maker, to make an
honest effort to relieve the distress of those around
him.
fSay-We further request, especially, that every
one w T ho considers himself a Temperance Man,
will sit down and send us his name, that w T e may
put it on file in our office. We are very anxious
to get a full and complete list of all the temper
ance men in this State; and if they will forward
us their names, we will keep a correct list of them
for future reference. We should rejoice loudly
if we could make out a list of ten thousand men,
all of whom were iron-nerved and fixed in their
determination to contest every inch of ground
with the arch-enemy.
Masculine Women.
Our esteemed cotemporary, Life Illustrated gets off
the subjoined furious defence of strong minded
woman, unmercifully rebuking all w T ho speak or
write against them. The Life says :
We are not believers in the doctrine of the
transmutation or transmigration of sexes. Man
or woman may he wise, cultivated, or intelligent,
or foolish, ignorant, and depraved. But it is man
or woman still. The elevation of woman does
not render her manly, nor does the degradation
of man render him womanly. We are tired of
and disgusted with the senseless clatter of public
lecturers, and the stupid scrihhlings of magazine
writers about masculine women.
Rosa Bonheur paints a picture so wonderfully
truthful and lifelike that it becomes the admira
tion of all men ; and men pronounce the work
“eminently masculine.” Margaret Fuller-writes
criticisms, essays, and books evincive of close ob
servation and profound thought, and she is said
to he “strong minded,” to have a very masculine
mind. Miss Hosmer, the “Yankee sculptress,”
executes a “Cenoi,” and other works which stand
in the foremost rank of marble statuary, and lo !
she possesses a “strong, independent, and mascu
line mind, ” and so on to the end of the chapter.
Woman can do nothing in the sphere of art or
science, she can produae nothing which gives in
dividual character or reputat ion, she cannot stamp
her own mind and thoughts or anything in God’s
universe, but man will lav claim to it. She can
not immortalize herself exept at the expense of
her womanhood. The moment she excels ordi
nary men in the spheres of action usually allotted
to or monopolized by them, she is unsexed ; she
becomes masculine. Need anybody wonder that
frivolous fashions and trashy novels become the
resource and the refuge of woman when thus treat
ed?
But man is not only in the practice of appropri
ating to himself all the virtues of womanhood, but
he would rob her of her very vices. lie is so mean
ly selfish that he claims for masculinity all the
credit of good act ions and great t alents, and also
the privilege of committing all the vices and
crimes.
If Lola Montes smokes a cigar, or Mdle. A.
gives her gallant a caning in the streets, or Mad
ame B. gets drunk, all these females are masctdine
too. All virtues and all vices belong to manhood.
Woman must be a nothingarian, a ninny, a nega
tion, a myth, a mere “rib,”-a twenty-fourth part
of a very small portion of masculine humanity.—
She must have no positive character or qualities ;
she must claim no ‘distinet personality ; she must
be our appendage, our convenience, our property.
Her sphere and her thoughts and her aspirations
must be limited to the home-circle, whether she
have any place she can call her own or not; to
rocking the cradle, though there may be nothing
in it, and to cooking her husband’s dinner, wheth
er he be in the habit of coming home or dining
out.
In contrast with these masculine notions we
give below
A Woman’s Idea of a Strong-minded Woman.
Mrs. M. P. Legare, editress of the New Orleans
Southern Mirror, says: “Women is,by appointment
supreme in the social and domestic, circle; it is
much more important that she have the finer fac
ulties of her nature in a high state of cultivation
than the stronger and more masculine qualities of
mind. She had better be a philanthropist than a
philosopher. One Florence Nightingale is worth
more toman than all the Lucretio Motts and Fan
ny L. Townsends that ever cursed the world ;
while in the domestic circle one good intelligent,
amiable wife orsister, who with such mental train
ing as serves to develope its beauties, and thus to
invite the sterner sex to woo its refined pleasures
and humanizing influences shines brighter than
a whole ‘woman’s rights convention’ in solemn
conclave, resolving to don the habiliments and
usurp tlie realm of the other sex. Woman’ ele
ment is love ; her weakness is her strength. I
battle against innovation, female suffrage, lady
physicians, and Bloomer dresses.”
The word Selali.
Everyone who lias read the Bible, lias frequent
ly come across this seemingly unmeaning word
standing at the end of a verse, apparently discon
nected from everything which has preceded it.—
The following information in regard to its mean
ing, from the Bibliotheca Sacra, will be very accepta
ble and of much importance to many of our read
ers.
The translators of the Bible have left the Hebrew
Selah, which often occurs in the Psalms, as they
found it, and the English reader often asks his
minister or learned friend, what it means. And
the minister or learned friend liasmostoften been
obliged to confess ignorance, because it is a matter
in regard to which the most learned have by no
means been of one mind. The Targums, and
most of the Jewish commentators, give to the word
the meaning of eternally forever. Rabbi Kimchi
regards it as a sign to elevate the voice. The au
thors of the Septuagint translation appear to have
regarded it as a musical or rythmical note. Hen
der regarded it as indicating a change of note;
Mathew son as a musical note, equivalent perhaps,
to the word repeat. According to Luther and
others, it means silence ! Gesenius explains it to
mean, “Let the instruments play and the singers
stop.” Wocher regards it as equivalent- to sursum
coma —up, my soul! Sommer, after examining all
the seventy-four passages in which the word oc
curs, recognizes in every case “an actual appeal
or summons to Jehovah. They are calls for aid
and prayers to be heard, expressed either with
entire directness, or if not in the imperative,
“Hear, Jehovah !” or, Awake, Jehovah ! and the
like still earnest addresses to God that- he would
remember and hear, etc. The word itself he re
gards as indicating a blast of the trumpets by t-lio
priest. Selah, itself, he thinks an ex
pression, used for lliggaionSelah—Iliggaion indi
cating the sound of the stringed instruments, and
Selah ‘a vigorous blast of trumpets.— Bibliotheca
Sacra.
The first vote in Kansas stood : For the “ Con
stitution with slavery,” 6,663, and for the “ Constitu
tion without slavery,” 5,706.
The Green Coat of Molmmtued.
The superstitions of all benighted nations, and
the strange inanimate objects w hich they vest
with attributes of Deity, are themes for endless
contemplation. Among the most nonsensical of
all superstitions is that of the Mohammedans in
regard to the Green Coat of Mohammed, which
they style the “ Sacred banner of Islam.” One of our
New York exchanges says, “that the Rev. Dr.
Schauffler, lor the last twenty-five years mission
ary at Constantinople, in the course of an address
delivered on Sunday evening at Mr. Hogarth’s
church in Brooklyn, illustrating the general be
lief which prevails among the Turks that their
religion has closed its mission, stated the fact
that the Green Coat of Mohammed, which is the
saert and banner of Mohammedanism, had disap
peared from Constantinople. This article is be
.ieved by every true Mohammedan to have been
woven in heaven, and brought to Mohammed by
the angel Gabriel; and it is also an article of be
lief, that when the cause of Islamism is to termi
nate, the angel will again descend and re-take it
to heaveh. It has ever been regarded as the great
sacred emblem, around which cluster all the
prayers of the faithful, and without which all
prayers would be unavailing. For centuries it
lias been guarded with the greatest care in a par
ticular mosque at Cos istantinople. When it was
first reported, last spring, that it had suddenly
disappeared, the missionaries did not give the
story much credit; but all doubt has since been
dispelled. The hypothesis of the missionaries is,
that the relic has been taken away by some of
the more bigoted ecclesiastics, w 7 ho are convinced
that Constantinople is about to lose its character
as a sacred city, and become Christianised; and
that they will probably, in due time, again bring
the relic to light in some Mohammedan locality
less exposed to Christian influence. Yet, the gen
eral belief of the Mohammedans of Turkey is, that
the disappearance is supernatural, and ‘that it is
another proof that their religion will boon come
to an end. Their interpretation of their sacred
books, it is well known, has long pointed to the
present period as that which is to witness that
extraordinary event. One thing is certain—that
the sentiments of the great bulk of the Turkish
Moliammedans toward the Christian religion, as
well as toward the Turkish Government itself,
have undergone a most marvelous change within
the last few years.
Another one of their heathenish practices, is
their
Annual Pilgrimages to Mecca.
Arabia is famous for three cities, called Mecca,
Medina and Mocha. Mocha sends very fine cof
fee to Europe and America. Medina contains
the tomb of the prophet Mahomet; yet, it is not
so much thought of as Mecca, where he was born.
On this account Mecca is thought to be a very
holy city, and Mahommedans come from every
part of the world to worship in the great temple
there. Sometimes Mecca is as full of people as a
hive is full of bees.
Caravans of pilgrims visit Mecca every year.—
An American gentleman was at Cairo and saw one
start. There were thirty thousand pilgrims from
Europe, Asia and Africa. They met at Cairo as
a central point, to prepare for a fifty day’s journey
over the dreary sands. What a scene it was!
Camels and dromedaries mixed up with men, wo
men and children, eating, cooking, smoking,
swearing and praying, and some hurrying forward
to join the long, moving train, \yhich already
stretched far into the desert. One of the gayest
sights was the camel which conveyed the presents
to the tomb of the prophet. lie was dressed
richly, with banners waiving, and was tended with
pious care. When the journey is ended, no
meaner load is ever allowed to touch his back.
He has filled the measure of camel honor, and
henceforth lives and dies respected by all good
Mahommedans.
What do the pilgrims do after they reach the
holy city? They worship a great black stone
which they say the angel Gabriel brought down
from heaven as a foundation for Mahomet’s house.
They kiss it sometimes, and after each kiss they
walk around it.
Then they bathe in a well, which they say is the
well the angel showed Ilagar in .the desert, and
they think the waters of this well can wash away
tlieir sins. Alas! they know not the blood which
alone can cleanse fi u all sin.
Another Perpetual Motion.
The following description is clipped from the
Weekly Journal of Commerce, one of the best papers
in the Union. The Editors (usually very cauti
ous in their opinions) have certainly seen the ma
chine move, and have some confidence in the
claims of the inventor. We confess to belong to
the class of “malcontent philosophers,” until the
thing has received a more thorough investigation.
“Still it Goes. —Some of our readers will re
member a humorous description of a “perpetual
motion” machine which was published in our
columns nearly four years since, and went the
rounds of the papers. The machine was invented
by Mr. James G. Hendrickson, of Freehold, Mon
mouth County, New Jersey. The power was
vei’y slight, being obtained by the use of arms
and halls attached to a cylinder, and so contrived
as to keep the extra weight always one side, and
give the cylinder a constant inclination to turn
round. Mr. Hendrickson was a very plain coun
tryman, who had whittled away for 40 years at
this machine, amid the jeers and scoffs of neigh
bors and acquaintances, and who w r as of course
not a little ptoud of his success. Ours was the first
public notice of his invention, but it soon attracted
the attention of’ the curious, and ho was invited
to exhibit at Raritan, N. J. The occasion, if wo
remember right, was a large gathering of people
during the progress of an Agricultural Fair. The
incredulity of his own countrymen, however, Was
more than a match for him. He was surrounded
by a set of people who contended that the motion
be claimed, was an impossibility, and that lie was
an imposter. Poor Hendrickson was no oratr*,
and his assailants were clamorous and loud spo
ken, but lie, pointed silently to Ids machine,
which was enclosed in glass, and when the phil
osophers said that his claim was ridiculous, and
that a machine could not “go of itself,” he could
only reply, “ But it does go !” One would have
supposed that the fact should have been sufficient
to upset the old theory, but the Jersey Blues
were as stubborn as the noted disputant whose
speech upon such an occasion, “so much the
worse for the facts,” is now famous in history,
and they clung to tlieir theory, in the face of the
demonstration. They went farther, and in a
spirit of persecution as bitter as that which moved
the Jesuits against Galileo, arrested Mr. Hen
drickson for trickery and juggling, under the
Act for suppressing vice and immorality, charg
ing him with moving his machine by a concealed
spring! He wa3 accordingly tried for this offence
before Justice Bodle, of Keyport. Mechanics,
engineers, shipwrights, and all the experts and
malcontent philosophers of that part of Jersey,
gave testimony as to the impossibility of such an
invention as he claimed, and their belief that a
hidden spring, or some piece of ingenious roguery
was contained in the cylinder. At last the axe
w is applied, and the machino split in pieces,
when lo! there was no concealed spring—no
roguery—and the machine, dispite the philoso
phers, 7<<Z “gone of itself.” The men of science
gulped down their disappointment, and disap
peared from the court-room, and poor Hendrick
son and the fragments of his machine were kindly
discharged, with the verdict “no cause of action.”
The scene, when he returned to his home that
night with the broken relics of his discovery in
his hands, and sat gazing upon them in sad dis
appointment, must have been worthy of the can
vas of a master painter.
Since that trial we had lost sight of him; but,
two or three days ago, ho came into the office
with the same patient, thoughtful face, and hold
ing in his hand the old invention in anew dress,
lie has made it this time of brass ribs, so that
there is nothing concealed and no place for con
cealment ; and injspite of the Jersey persecutors,
it will go! He has attached to it a simple clock,
and this machine furnishes the motive power.
How far this power can be extended, it is not for
us to say ; but we must believe our eyes, and we
once more assert that the machine will “go of
itself.”
For the Georgia Temperance Crusader.
January 20th, 1858.
Messrs. Editors:
Appreciating, as you doubtless do, my in
tense feeling on the subject of Temperance, you
at least can excuse me for essaying to lift my fee
ble but uneming voice, in behalf of ,4rtue and
humanity. I might have longer remained silent,
but for the alarming truth, that the signs of the
times are ominous of evil to the cause of Temper
ance, and especially towards your new and laud
able enterprise. It is manifest that the zeal of
many, who were once clamorous and hearty in
this cause, have abated, and can look on with
perfect indifference at the march of the destroy
ing angel. Hearts that once beat responsive to
the sound of Temperance, now callous and dead,
regardless of the responsibility upon them, and
the tremendous interests involved, with no heart
or hand to aid in rolling back the fiery tide of
death and degradation ; and yet they say, that
they are philanthropists—they love theirchildren
—they love their country ! What a delusion ! W il
ling, it would seem for the wheels of science, lit
erature, and morality to be turned back a halt
century. Whilst writing it just occurs tome that
it was my good fortune to be among the first who
drew the sword in behalf of Temperance —our
wives and children. Many who fought shoulder
to shoulder with me, noble souls,* both male and
female now sleep the long sleep and hear of our
turmoils no more : but in this holy cause, the
Clod of Gideon fought for its, and victory was seen
to perch on our spotless banner. It was but a lit
tle while, and thegreat men of the earth, and the
mighty men, came bv scores and hundreds. The
Bishops, the Presidents of Colleges, the Supreme
Judges, and the Circuit Judges, the P. Elders, the
Lawyers, the Doctors, the Clergy, almost rn masse,
completed the victory-—gathered the Laurels,
wreathed their brow with glory, then became,
non cst or enswumptum, and where are they now ?
Let echo say, where! many of them are doubtless
true still ; but not a word do I hoar from them.
Perhaps not dead, but sleepeth. Who will, who
can abandon this good cause ? Put the question
t-o yourself that the beloved disciples, once put
to their master “Lord is it I ? Lord is it I?”
But Messrs. Editors, the thing that mainly in
fluenced me to write at this time was the startling
enunciation by you, that many of your subscribers
would drop off and abandon your cause ; the very
thought gives mo pain. Is it so—can it be possi
ble ! abandon you and your cause, after your
successful effort and heavy expense in furnishing
a paper, improved in size, type, tone, moral prin
ciples and every way worthy your theme and
your cause ; after having procured the services of
competent editors ; aye, and an accomplished
editress—-just the idea—the thing that has been
wanting all the time—moral power; yes, Mrs. Mary
E. Brian comes to the rescue; may kind Heaven
bless her in her labor of love, and may her name
and fame live when Babel’s tow or, and Egyptian
pyramids shall have mingled in common dust.
Friends, take courage; don’t surrender the
ship. Women never fail, they wield a moral
power. Did mother Eve fail? Let the briars
and thorns that luxuriate in Eden’s bowers an
swer no. Did she fail? Let the groans and ago
nies of earth answer no. Could our gallant fore
fathers fail whilst cheered and animated by the
Mrs. Rutledges, Pinckneys, Jenkinses and Mrs.
Willie Jones? No, never; never can Goth and
Vandal desecrate the sacred place where sleeps
the father of his country; not whilst American
matrons live; put it down as a fixed fact, that
women don’t fail. But some may say that you
have raised the price of your paper to §2 —what
of that? It is better worth §2 than the old Cru
sader was worth §1 —far better. Others may say
that the times are hard, true my brother ; but
can’t we economize? 20 drinks of strychnine at a
dogery cost just $2, and 10 just SL; so take 10
less of the strychnine and save your sl, and you
will have §2 to pay for the Crusader. I beg you
my friends to ponder well before you take the
step —look at the consequences; will you perish
out the Crusader, the only paper that dare advo
cate the cause of temperance in Georgia? Will
you unchain the lion—turn loose the fiery flood?
Look at the consequences to the church—your
country—your sons and daughters. Conic my
friend, the $2 is nothing, lie that won’t pay,
pray and tight for the cause of temperance, is un
worthy to be called its friend. Let us double our
diligence—swell the subscription list, and roll on
the temperance ball, until the last doggery and
drunkard is driven from the land, and earth pro
claims the jubilee, is the prayer of your unworthy
brother and friend, ]I,
Corporal of the Life Guard of Temperance
For the Crusader.
Friend Seals :
Having a little leisure to-dav, a rare tiling
with me, I improve it in giving you an inkling
of my peregrinations and labors as you have re
quested. Since my last communication of the
7th of November, I have had the pleasure of
talking to the “ little folks,” and childi en of a
larger growth, on the subject of sunday-schools
and temperance, forty-five times in all. I have
visited White Plains, Crawfordsville, Warrenton,
Washington, Wrightsboro, Thompson, Berzelia,
Augusta and Savannah, and in most of these
places had very pleasant meetings. At White
Plains 1 found a Union School in successful ope
ration. Crawfordsville, no school at all. At War
renton I found many warm friends of the cause;
and had pleasant meetings. At Washington I
met a hearty greeting from all, and found the
children so well posted that in answer to ques
tions put to them, for which I promised each one
a book, I got so many responses that I came near
having to do as the banks have done—“ sus
pend.” I visited Wrightsboro, but found no
scjiool in operation; but 1 hope when spring
opens they will re-organize. Thompson, no
school; but we’ll let that place pass. I next vis
ited Berzelia, and it was like passing from an ice
berg into the Tropics!
Ah ! when some have spent their frowns and wrath,
And insults —sorely pressing,
’Tis sweet, to turn from our roving path,
And find a fireside blessing.
What is I he worth of the diamond’s ray,
To the glance that flashes pleasure,
When the words of welcome, kind, betray,
We’ve won the heart’s chief treasure ?
Thus thought. I when 1 was so warmly greeted by
kind friends at Berzelia, whom I found keenly
alive to the Sabbath School interest, i shall al
ways remember my visit there with emotions of .
pleasure. j
From Berzelia I passed on to Savannah where I
lectured eight times and then returned to Au
gusta, where I was greeted with one of the most
delightful gatherings of the little ones that I have
met in Georgia.. Surely it was enough to thaw
the icy heart of the crustiest old bachelor in
Christendom to see so many bright eyes and smil
ing faces as that meeting exhibited. Ah! there
was a picture daguerreotyped on my heart than
which old time will find it hard to erase; and
while standing before that shrine of innocence, I
was ready to exclaim,
Little children ! howi love them,
With their winning artless ways,
Soothing many hours of sadness,
Charming many weary days%
Little children ! gifts of Heaven —
Flowers still bright from God's own hand;
Dearest blessings to man given ;
Wanderers from an angcl-lanjl.
Little children ! joyous creatures !
Cheer with love and smiles their way ;
Gently speak and kindly troat them—
Childhood's hours soon dee away!
“ The Children’s Friend.”
FOREIGN NEWS.
We condense, weekly, in this column, from the t.<*.
graphic dispatches ot our exchanges, all the Foreign
News of any consequence. roreign
” ‘ . P —-r-:
L,ate from Nicaragua,
New Orleans, Jan. 11.-The steamship Empire
City, from Havana, has arrived.
The Star of the West has gone forward to New York
with one million five hundred thousand dollars in specie
Col. Frank Anderson surrendered Fort Castillo and
. the river steamers to the frigate Susquehanna
It was reported, at San Francisco, that one hundred
and eighty of Col. Johnson’s command had been killed*
by the Mormons, and the Colonel had been compelle r
to retire.
Washing-ion IVews.
Washington, Jan 12.—The Hon. N. Clifford wasm
dny confirmed, by the Senate, us one of the Judges of
the Supreme Court.
Nothing important doing in Congress to-day
By the correspondence transmitted to Congress hi.
day, it appears that Yrrisaris has been, from fim t 0
last, urging the United States government to defeat
Walker’s movements in Nicaragua.
Free Stale Ticket in Khuna*.
Sr. Louts, Jan. Yi. —Tin* Democrat has intelligence
from Kansas that the free State tickerhas succeeded by
an average majority of one hundred and eighty-five
votes.
Further by the Africa.
Ne 4 ’ v d Yo ?i K ’ Jan - —Tile London Times, in speak
ing ol 1 resident Buchanan’s Kansas sentiments in the
Message, says that, there is a cautions balance and anx
ious delermimifion so right himself on the question, and
fie succeeds not amiss, but the propping up is too trans
parent.
Financial Intelligence.— Financial accounts from
all quarters are encouraging. No failures of consequence
had occurred anywhere. T. H. Coddington & Cos. iron
merchants in the American trade, had resumed.
The bullion in the Bank of England shows ten mil
lions seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds, and a
reduction of the rate of interest to six per cent was antic
ipated within a fortnight.
The latest telegraphic advices from Hamburg were
cheering, money being abundant at easier rates. Q
The Bank of Prussia had reduced the discount on bills
of exchange to 61 per cent, and on loans to 7£.
The London Railway share market was steady ; Liv
erpool ditto and advancing.
Cotton closed buoyant, with an upward tendency.
Trade at Manchester was more active, but without ini
provement in prices. It was believed, however, that the
reduction in the rate of interest would have an early and
favorable effect on all branches of business. The re
duction was not generally known until the business of
the week had closed. At London the reduction had
been acted upon in advance, and consols closed without
variation. The joint stock banks had reduced the in
terests on deposits to six per cent.
The board of trade returns for the eleven months, end
ing with November, show an increase in exports, as
compared with the same time last year, of fourteen mil
lion pounds.
From India. —The advices from India are important.
Lucknow was captured by the British forces on the 17th.
The fighting commenced on the 13th, when two guns
were captured and part of Jellabad destroyed. On the
15th, after a contest of two hours, Sir Collin Campbell
succeeded in occupying Dclkosah and Mortiniere. The
enemy attempted to recover the position a few hours sub
sequently, but were repulsed with heavy loss. On the
16th, the commander in chief advanced across the canal
and took Secunduh Bngh, after an obstinate struggle.
The heavy artilery then opened on Sanuich for three
hours, and the position was carried after an obstinate
fight. Early on the 17th communications were opened
with the barracks. A long canonade commenced, atd’
the “ mess house” was carried by assault at 3 o’clock,
and the troops pushed on and occupied the Montremahal
before dark.
The British loss in the several engagements is said
to have been only four officers killed and forty wounded.
The loss of the rebels is not stated. Sir Collin Camp
bell’s attacking force numbered twelve thousand. The
sick and wounded woman and children were sent from
Lucknow to Compore under escort.
Reinforcements were daily arriving, and all alarm for
the garrison and outposts had subsided.
Tiif. Failures in Great Britain. —A week ago an
estimate was made in Parliament that the liabilities of
the houses which have failed during the recent crisis
make an aggregate of £-14,000,000 sterling—this being
at least double the total reached in 1847.
Arrest of General Walker. —President Buchanan
has transmitted a message to Congress in regard to the
arrest of the fillibusters, in which he denounces in se
vere terms such expeditions. The following are its
opening paragraphs:
In submitting to the Senate the papers for which they
have called, I deem it proper to make a few observa
tions. *
In capturing General Walker and his command, after
they hud landed on the soil of Nicaragua, Commodore
Paulding has, in my opinion, committed a grave error.
It is quite evident, however, from the communications
herewith transmitted, that this was done from pure and
patriotic motives, and in the sincere conviction tfiat he
was promoting the interests and vindicating the
of his country. In regard to Nicaragua, she has sus
tained no injury by the act of Commodore Paulding.
This has enured to her benefit, and relieved her from
a dreaded invasion. She alone would have any right
to complain of the violation of her territory; and it is
quite certain she will never exercise this light. It un
questionably does not lie in the mouth of her invaders to
complain in her name that she has been rescued by Com
modore Paulding from their assaults. The error of this
gallant officer consists in exceeding his instructions,,
and landing his sailors and marines in Nicaragua, whe
ther with or without her consent, for the purpose of
making war upon any military force whatever which he
might find in the country, no matter from whence they
came. This power certainly did not belong to him.
Obedience to law and conformity to instructions are the
best and safest guides for all officers, civil and military,
and when they transcend these limits and act upon their
own personal responsibility, evil consequences inevita
bly follow.
Dancing. —The Alabama Methodist Protestant An
nual Conferance has adopted the following resolution :
“ That any parents or guardians belonging to our
Church, who shall patronize that school of sin, the dan- ■„
cing school, by sending their children or wards, shall he
subject to trial and reproof, suspension or expulsion, as
the case may demand.
Committee Ways and Means.— The Hon. Martin J.
Crawford, of this State, has been appointed to the place
on the Committee of Ways and Means in the House,
vacated by Governor Banks, of Massachusetts. The
Black Republicans express great indignation over the
result, as it leaves but one ot their number on that im
portant committee.
William Brown, Esq. brother of the Postmaster Gen
eral, was shot on Saturday week at his residence in
Giles county, Miss, but by whom is unknown. Mr.
Brown, though wounded in the face and head, is not fa
tally injured, notwithstanding the assassin took two
shots at him.
readier—'William, cun you tell me why
the sun rises in the East ?” Pupil, looking de
mure—“ Don’t know sir, ’cept it be that ’east makes
everything rise.” Teacher fainted.
At an examination of the College ofSur
geons, a candidate was asked by Abernethy, “What
would you do, if a man was blown up with pow
der ?” “Wait until he came down,” he coolly re
plied. “ i’rue,” replied Abernethy, “and suppose I
should kick you for such an impertinent reply,
what muscles would I put in motion ?’”
“The flexors and extensors of my arm, for I
would knock you down immediately.”
I l e received a diploma.
One of Jake’s best.— .l ake was traveling
in a stage coach, in company with a young ladvt
and a gentleman who appeared to he a hosier.—
The moon just then rising. Jake not wishing to
express himself in common language, said to the
young lady, “Miss Lizzie, the silver queen of night
stops forth majestically upon the battlements of
heaven.” Presently a cloud obscures the rising
moon ; and this seeming lioosier, remarked to
Jake, “Thar Mr. that queen of yours done fell
down off them thar battlements.”
WEDLOCK.
“ The bloom or blight of all men’s happine is.”
On the 31st of December, 1857, bv the Rev W T
Slack, Prof. W. S. H. SCOTT of Mt. Leebanon, La’ to
LAURA COLEMAN of Pontetoc, Miss.
On Tuesday, 22d Dec. at the house of Mr VV B
Johnson. R ® v - T - D - Martin, Mr. LEONIDAS R.
JOHNSON, of Troup county, Ga. and Miss MARY
A. READEN, of Penficld, Ga.
By the same, at the house of Mr. J. Mullins near Pen
field, on the sth inst. Mr. W. A. ALFORD and Miss
G. J. MULLINS.
Penfield Female Seminary.-
THE Exercises of this INSTITUTION will com
mence on the FIRST MONDAY IN FEBRU
ARY NEXT. The Board of Trustees take pleasure in
announcing that they have procured the services of Miss
C. W. BARBER as principal.
Miss Barbels success in teaching hitherto, has estab *
ashed for her the reputation of a thorough and impres
sive teacher.
Rates of tuition as heretofore.
at, , m R> J - MASSEY, Sec. Board.
By order Board Trustees.
Jan, 21,1858. ,f