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present size of our paper is the same as last year. We
request them to get a copy of each and ’compare then,
and they will see that there is a vast difference.
The Little Negro Pianist Coming.
We have been officially authorized to notify our Vil
lage, that the little blind musical prodigy will be in
Penfield on next Wednesday evening, the 3d of Febru
ary. From all accounts he is certainly a prodigy. He
was born blind —is not yet nine years of age—only one
degree removed from idiocy, and can play nearly 400
pieces on the Piano Forte. Due notice will be given of
the Concert by hand-bills. Admission 25 cts.
Johnson’s New Map.
Mr. J- H. Carpenter is canvassing Greene county
with Johnson’s new Map of North America; and ha
ving had an opportunity of examining it, we think it the
best work which has ever yet been presented to our ci
tizens. It shows the whole country, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific Ocean, and from the 50th parallel of north
latitude to within 7 degrees of the equator—giving all
the counties in each State, the principal towns, rail
roads, new Territories, &c. x
The agent will canvass the entire county. He is sel
ling his Maps at sip a-piece.
Mrs. Bryan’s Salutatory.
The editorial debut of our associate editress appears
on the first side of this issue, under the head—“ Editress’
Department.” She will take that department entirely
under her control, and cater for the literary appetites of
our numerous female readers. Our esteemed cotempo-’
rary, the Bainbridge Argus, in speaking of Mrs. B. as
an editress, and of her connection with the Crusader,
says:
“Asa resident of her section of the State, we feel
proud of Mrs. Bryan ; and in welcoming her to the fra
ternity editorial, heartily wish that her career as a wri
ter may be as bright and beautiful as the dream ot an an
gel.
The proprietor of this excellent Literary Journal has
been fortunate in procuring the services of one so well
qualified for the position she has assumed, and will
doubtless find that she will not only contribute to the
literary worth of his paper, but add largely to his sub
scription list the right sort of names.”
Why did we raise to Two Dollars ?
This question is repeatedly put to us by our friends,
notwithstanding the lengthy reasons which we gave in our
first paper. But, with a great deal of pleasure, we an
swer it again; and our reply is, we are not pecuniarily
able to publish the paper at a lower price. Our readers
know nothing of the expense of publishing a newspaper;
and it is generally believed by the uninitiated masses,
that editors coin money more rapidly and with less la
bor than any other class of men ; but nothing is farther
from the truth; and if one of these individuals who think
so, were placed in the Editor’s Chair for a month and
made to foot his bills of actual cost, by the time he set
tled his paper bill, for four or five type-setters at
from $8 50 to sl2 per week—for assistant editors, ink,
envelope paper, negro hire, wood and oil to run a steam
press, glue and molasses, purchased new type and
fixtures, and paid for et cetera —and suffered all
the perplexity and anxiety attending the business, and
was compelled to get off something original from his pen
each week, and have the printer hourly “ ding donging”
at him for it, before he has had time to think about it,
we'strongly incline to the opinion that said individual
who thinks the editor has such an easy, money-making
life, by the time he filled the above programme for one
month, would “ change his tune’ ’ a little sorter.
item of cost in this office, is one hundred and
thirty dollars per month for paper, which has to be paid
cash invariably.
Add to the aforenamed difficulties the hard matter to
collect your little dues, whether the subscription price
be one or two dollars, and you then know something of
an Editor’s life.
The People’s Property for Sale.
If the times do not get easier, we are afraid the She
riffs will have fat offices this year. If one neighbor be
gins to push another for money, it will start property in
wagon loads to the Sheriff’s hammer, and there is no
telling when it will stop. We have no encouragement
for those whom debt strips of their earthly goods, only
that they have a large number of illustrious companions.
Homer was a beggar; Platus turned a mill; Terence
was a slave; Boetius died in jail; Cervantes died of
hunger; Cameons ended his days in the almshouse;
Spencer died in want; Otway perished of hunger ; Lee
died in the streets ; Butler died in penury and \4tnt.
The lives of many British authors prove that poverty
has been the ally of genius. Bacon lived a life of mean
ness and distress ; Sir Walter Raleigh died on the scaf
fold ; Milton sold his copywright of “ Paradise Lost” for
£ls and died in obscurity ; Dryden lived in poverty ;
Steele was in perpetual war with the bailiffs; Gold
smith’s “Vicar of Wakefield” was soldfor a trifle, to
save him from the grasp of the law; Richard Savage
died in Bristol for a debt ot eight pounds; Chatterton,
the child of genius and misfortune, destroyed himself.
Georgia Monet in Memphis, Tenn. —The bills of the
banks in Savannah and Augusta, as also the bills of the
Bank of Fulton, are quoted at par in Memphis, Tenn.
One of our whole-souled, most reliable and highly
esteemed friends, now a citizen of Atlanta, thus writes
to us in his usual, familiar and endearing style :
Atlanta, Jan. 20th, 1858.
Dear John: It is the greatest delight to me to receive
and peruse the Temperance Crusader, that is so richly
filled with truth and sense. I take a dozen others, but
none in my estimation can compare with yours. Suc
cess to you my friend John. If lam allowed to judge
from what I have seen during the last week, Atlanta is
certainly the most temperate and moral city I have ever
seen; and unless King Alcohol can get up anew re
cruit, the day is not far distant when the Crusader will’
be able to announce his funeral, at least in this flourish
ing and beautiful city. Much of this, is the result of the
indefatigable labors of father Gresham, uncle Dabney,
Haygood Hanleiter and the great Overby, and a few
others, whose names have shed undying lustre upon the
pages of our State’s history. Hard to realize but fath
er Gresham is gone to reap his reward in the realms
above; but thank God Haygood Hanleiter and uncle
Dabney and Overby, are still living, and are as strong
as ever in the principles of temperance.
Let this my friend John inspire you with new hopes.
Continue to sound the tocsin of alcoholic alarm and
tyranny, though opposers rage, the true friends of tem
perance will maintain their post.
A professor of Latin in the University of Edin
?n “tL™° re ’ havin ? de . aired the students to give
in a list of their names in Latin, was greatly surprised
at seeing written on a slip of paper the name of “Joan
nes Ovum Novum.” After in vain seeking for a trans
lation of this, he at last became convinced that it was
either one of those dark Latin passages to
which, even the skill of Bentley woulf have
that it was a hoax He therefore, next in the class
t i e n nd reC n ark 7°L rd8 ’ and deai^ the writer of
*? Btand -„ one . of his pupils immediately rose
What are you ?” said the Professor. “ A poor schol’
ar, sir,” was the answer. “Avery poor Scholarin
ded, sir, or you would never have written such stuff as
‘Joannes Ovum Novum.’ That can’t be your name
sir \, fi j d l ° n „ t Se T’ • Bald tlle Btudent > “where you
could find better Latin: my name is John Agnew
( T g i p N ° f VUm ’’ f ° rn . ew : S™* No
vum Eggnew. The Professor, seeing that he had
rather the worst of it, immediately laid his finger upon
his own forehead, and looking at his hopeful pupil who
was standing somewhat in the attitude of a drill ser
jeant, exclaimed, (in alpitiful voice, “Alas’ alas’
something wrong here, I doubt.” “ May be so,” shout
ed ‘ Ovum Novum,’ “ something may be wrong there •
but (striking his hand upon his forehead), there is noth’
ing wrong here!”
The following whimsical epitaph appears upon a white
marble slab, in a very conspicuous part of the church of
St. Mary, at Bury St. Edmund’s :-Near this place are
deposited the remains of Peter Gedge, printer, who es
tabhshed the first newspaper that has ever been pub
lished in this town. Like a worn-out type, he returned
to the founder in the hope of being re-cast in a better
and more perfect mould.” ■ .
An independent man, says a cotemporary, is one
who blacks his own boots and shoes, who can live with
out whiskey and tobacco, and shave himself with his own
soap and cold water, without a mirror.
An exchange paper says, the following remarks of
the Louisville Journal are fast becoming the sentiment
of the country:
Money is now just afenuch an article of trade ‘and
fipnjjperbe as catfta or flour. The fluctuaticgjß in its*
market price, accordinjfeto the commercial laws ofide
mand and supply, furupk the most delicate and relia
ble |ests of the of trade and credit. Ip pub
lie sentiment end public action, the usury lawi nave
been for a long time inoperative, because they are in
direct opposition to the essential laws of trade, and to
the healthy action of commercial principles. Usury
laws, therefore, effects. They fur
nish occasion to a few country capitalist to exact a high
er premium upon their loans, by way of compensation
for their risk of violating the law; but their principal
effect is to aid in demoralization of the whole commu
nity to the constant and habitual'violation of law.
* The ground upon which usury laws were formerly de
fended, that money is an extraordinary'power monopo
lized by a few, is no longer tenable, on account of the
condition of civilized communities. Money capital in
all commercial States, is so enlarged and so diffused
that it would be much easier to monopilize cotton, flour,
or any of tbe great staples of trade, than to eflect£a
monopoly of this universal medium. A monopoly of
some es these staples has been often attempted by reck
less speculators, but no such attempt has been made or
would bethought of in regard to money. On the con
trary, as we have seen, this article is so completely the
subject of the legitimate laws’of trade, is so delicately
sensitive to its minutest flunctuations, that the daily
market price of money is the veTy. best and moßt relia
ble test by which to ascertain the'true condition of the
commercial world.
Such being the known facts of'the'case,’ we “earnest
ly hope that our legislators will not adjourn without res
cuing this Commonwealth from the reproach of keeping
upon the Statute book, a code of laws, the reason of
which has long since passed away—a code tjfcat is at
war with the principles and interests of modern society,
and utterly subversive of that salutary reverence for law
which is the sanction and* support of all our institu
tions.
Holy Life.— The beauty of holy life constitutes the
most eloquent and effective persuasive to religion which
one human being can address to another. We have
many ways of doing good to our fellow men but none so
efficacious as leading a virtuous, upright and well or
dered life. There is an energy of moral suasion in a
good man’s life, passing the highest efforts of the ora
tor’s genius. The seen, but silent beauty of holiness
speaks more eloquently of God, and duty, than the
tongue of men and angels. Let parents remember this.
The best inheritance parents can bequeath to a child, is
a virtuous example, a legacy of hallowed remembrances
and associations. The beauty of holiness beaming
through the life of a loved relative or friend, is more
effectual to strengthen such as do stand in virtue’s way
and raise up those that are bowed, than precept, com
mand, entreaty and warning.
Human Elevation. —“ I know,” says Channing,
“ but one elevation of the human being, and that is the
elevation of the Soul. Without this, it matters nothing
where a man stands or what he possesses ; and with it
he towers —he is one of God’s nobility, no matter what
place he holds in the socialscale. There are not different
kinds of dignity for different orders of men, but one,
and the same to all. The only elevation of the human
being, consists in the exercise, growth and energy of
the higher principles and powers of his soul. A bird
may be shot upwards to the skies by a foreign force,
but it rises in the true sense of the word only when it
spreads its own wings, and soars by its own living pow
er. So a man may be-thrust upwards to a conspicuous
place by outward accidents, but he riseß only so far as
he exerts himself, and expands his best faculties, and he
ascends up by a free effort, to a noble region of thought
and action.”
An Anecdote of Whitfield. —Upon the death of
his wife, he preached her tuneral sermon. The text
was, “ And we know that all things work together for
the good of them that love God, to them who are the
called, according to his purpose.” Romans, viii: 28.
In noticing her character, he mentioned her fortitude,
and suddenly exclaimed: “Do you remember my
preaching in those fields, by the old stump of the tree ?
The multitude was great, and many were disposed to
be riotous, At first I addressed them firmly, but'when
a desperate gang of banditti drew near, with the most
horrid imprecations and menances, my courage began <
to fail. My wife was then standing behind me, as I
stood on the table. I think I hear her now. She pulled
my gown (he then put his hand behind him and touched
his gown;) and looking up, said, “ George, play the
part of a man for your God.” My confidence returned.
I then spoke to the multitude with boldness and affec
tion; they became still,and many were deeply affected.
Autobiography of Rev. Wm. Jay.
Husband Seekino.— Jane Eyre says, “ I know that
if women wish to escape the stigma of husband-seek
they must act, or look like marble or clay—cold,
expressionless, boldless; for every appearance of feeling
of joy, sorrow, friendliness, antipathy, admiration, dis
gust, are alike construed by the world into the attempt
to hook a husband. Never mind ! well- meaning wo
men have their own consciences to comfort them, after
all. Do not, therefore, be to much afraid of showing
yourself as you are, affectior ate and good-hearted; do
not too harshly repress sentiments and feelings excel
lent in themselves, because you fear that some puppy
may fancy that you are letting them out to fascinate
him; do not condemn yourself to live only by halves,
because if you showed too much imitation, some phrag
matical thing in breeches, might take it into his pate
to imagine that you designed to dedicate your life to his
inanity.”
, Remarkable Coincidence. —lt is worthy of notice,
that the three longest reigns in English history, have
been those of three kings, each the third of their re
spective names:
Henry 111. reigned 57 years.
Edward 111. “ 51 “
George 111. “ 60 “
K-IVLnl 0 ,^ arkabl ® th *t the second of their names
h w!r TT ly beCn V”£ ortunate in their fives °r deaths.
Tyrrel m WaS klUed accideiMall y b y Sir Walter
Henry 11. after a life of misfortune, died of grief, on
being obliged to subscribe to the terms proposed to him
by the king of France, after a victory.
Edward 11. was cruelly murdered by the contrivance
of the Queen, and her favorite, the Earl of March, af
ter his deposition.
Richard 11. after being dethroned, was inhumanly
murdered in prison.
Charles 11. remained in exile for eleven years after
tbe ,? lU lj rder , o f bls father, before he obtained possession
of his kingdom.
James 11. was obliged to abdicate the throne and died
in exile.
The origin of the attorneys are thus given : In the
time of the Saxons, the free men in every shire met
a year, under the presidency of the Shire Reeve,
or Sheriff, and the meeting was called the Sheriff’s Torn.
1 he freemen declining after a time, to attend personally.
the freemen who attended carried with them the prox
ie* 011 . j® 8e wh ° did not appear. The person who went,
was said to go At the Ton , and hence came the word At y
torney, which signified one that went to the Tom for
Others, with the power to act or vote for those who em
ployed him.
Babylon.—The Honorable Captain Kepple, in the
•narrative of his visit to this ancient spot, says that the
Tower of Babel, the brick-work of which, in many
parts is completely rotten, resembles what the scriptures
prophecied it should become, a “ burnt mountain.”
From the summit of the tower, Captain Kepple had a
distinct view of the vast heaps which constitute all that
now remains of Babylon; a more complete picture of
desolation could not well be imagined. The eye wan
dered over a barren desert, in which the ruins were the
only indication that it had ever been inhabited. “It
was impossible,” adds the enterprising traveller, “to
behold this scene, and not be reminded now exactly the
predictions of Isaiah and Jeremiah have been fulfilled,
even in the appearance of Babylon was doomed to pre
sent, that she should never be inhabited; that she
should be a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness!”
Intereitlng Statistics.
The United States are composed of thirty-one States
and five Territories. They contain a population of 27,-
000,000, of whom, 23,000,000 are white. The extent of
sea-coast is 12,550 miles. The length of the ten prin
cipal rivers, is 20,000 miles. The surface of the five
great lakes, is 90,000,000 square miles. The number of
miles of railroad in operation, is 20,000, which cost
178,000,000. The length of canals, is 5,000 miles. It
contams the longest railroad on the globe-the Illinois
Central which is 784 miles. The annual value of its
agricultural productions, is $200,000,000. Its most val
-40 ow P dw ofT L 8 n ’ which yieldß annuall y
40,000,000 of bushels. The amount of legistered and
B * e ’.. i6 The amount of capital
invested in manufactures, is $600,000,000. The annual
LZT,. Jtxz” Zsgrjg’ “ f ft
itock, i. *500,000, 0ca It, min., of gold, „p“?, uft
and iron, are among the richest in the world. The val
ue of gold produced, is $100,000,000. The surfa Jof
us coal fields, is 138,131 square acres. Within her bor-
nil Y* 00 ? “ Ch °° la ’ 3 ’ ooo academies, 234 colleges,
and 2,811 churches.
„ b * M rSf&L* seaßon is the following •
Why was Pharaoh s daughter Hke a broker ? Becatme
she got a little prophet from the rushes on the bank,”
Illustrious Victims of Intemperance.
Drunkenness, with all its paraphernalia of evils,
is not circumscribed within the circles of the
poor and degraded classes of our population, but
exists in all ranks of society, from the highest to
tjßlowjrtMnd Ms wept finy illjistrious be
ings from the stage of action into untimely and
*#!shonered graves. It has walked within the
very walls of our Capitol, and left the stain of its
polluting touch upon our national glory. It rev
els alike upon the spoils of the palace and cot
tage, and no family is so fortunate as never to
have wept over some of its members who fell by
the hand of the destroyer. The great,. the noble
and good have fallen from their high estates,
“like bright exhalations in the -evening,” and
died ignominiously by this evil demon. ~
Alexander, the great General, and scholar of
Aristotle, conquered the world-,- tfnddied in a
drunken debauch. The downfall of the Roman
Empire was precipitated by the drunkenness of
its Emperors. Six of the ten sovereigns who have
reigned in Russia, since the accession of Peter the
Great, were beastly drunkards. The present King
of Prussia, whom Neighbur instructed, and praised
and thanked God upon his knees that Prussia
had been blessed with such a noble Prince, is a
notorious sot, and the scoff of all Europe. Sene
tor Hannegan, when sent abroad as minister plen
ipotentiary of the U. S., disgraced liis country
by his incessant debaucheries. Edgar Poe, the
embodiement of poetical genius, was an abandon
ed drunkard. The amiable, tender-hearted and
affectionate Charles Lamb, who could undergo
any sacrifice for his sister, could not overcome his
passion for strong drink. The immortal and hon
ored Hartly Coleridge was a scholar, a gentleman,
a poet and a drunkard. Byron,
Steele and Sheridan may be added to the long
catalogue of illustrious beings, whose immortal
spirits and brilliant intellects sank ingloriodsly
into the dark tide of dissipation. Hear, again, of
the rum-blasted intellect of one of Tennessee’s
gifted sons, General Wm. T. Haskell—a raving
madman:
“Haskell in the Lunatic Assylum! One of the
brightest geniuses that have dawned upon this
age, a melancholy wreck and ruin 1 The most
gifted and eloquent tongue in America, giving
utterance to the unmeaning gibberings of the
raving maniac! A man whom nature has fitted
to associate with the greatest intellects of the
world, and to adorn the most brilliant • circles of
society, an inmate of the madman’s cell, with the
most lost and wretched of the sons of humanity
for liis companions!
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It was his residence at Washington j that con
firmed upon him those unfortunate habits from
which he never recovered, and which have finally
blasted his exalted intellect. True, he at one
time broke the fiery serpent from his hands, and
dashed it to the earth. To make his own refor
mation complete, and aid in lifting up others
who had fallen, like himself, lie went through
the State lecturing on temperance. The tour
was an eminently successful and brilliant one,
his lectures being equal to those of Gough, whose
unearthly eloquence has electrified thousands in
this country and in England. But his old habits
gained the mastery of him again, and his subse
quent life has been but a fearful struggle between
his appetites and his ambition—a struggle in
which, it must be confessed, liisappetites hqve gen
erally triumphed. So great, indeed, was his crav
ing for artificial stimulants, that even while de
livering his temperance lectures, he made use of
drugs, sufficient in quantity and potency to burn
out the vitals of an ordinary man.
Right here is found the true cause of liis fall—
the rock on which his intellect has gone to week—
a love of excitement, amounting to an irresistible
passion, coupled with a constant tendency to
melancholy and depression, thus inducing a need
of artificial stimulants to buoy up his drooping
spirits, and lift him into that world of thoughtless
and giddy recklessness, in which alone he seemed
able to live.
* * * * * * * **
Our readers will remember well how brilliant
was his reception in this city. A long procession
of military and citizens escorted him through
the streets, and thousands flocked round’ his car
riage eager to shake him by the hand or catch a
glimpse at his noble face and form. It was a
spontaneous outpouring of homage to exalted
geuins and a more hearty tribute of admiration
and love was never accorded toman. His speech
on that day will be forever embalnied in the
memory of those who heard it.
But this lofty genius is overthrown. The mind
that dived into those profound depths of philo
sophic reasoning, and that soared to those sub
lime heights of poetic eloquence aud ; beauty, is
shrouded in the gloom and darkness .of a hope
less insanity. The tongue that drew tears like
water from strong men's eyes and wrought up to
phrens whole multitudes at once ; that held en
raptured thousands in breathless suspense upon its
lightes tone, and brought an entire State bowing
in homage at the shrine of its eloquence, is now
hushed in silence, or can utter naught but the
unmeaning and incoherent sounds of the disor
dered and unreasoning lunatic. “
What a fearful commentary is this strange his
tory upon the danger of heeding the seductive
voice of the tempter—how impressive a lesson to
aspiring genius. This noble vessel, that has
gone down in full sail amid the waves, may here
after serve to warn others away from the whirl
pool in which it is wrecked.
Hewlit and White—both Fallen.
The names of these men are familiar in all parts
of Georgia, and in several other Southern States,
as eloquent temperance lecturers. They were re
ceived wherever they went, with the warmest
manifestations of friendship; and every one look
ed upon them as noble philanthropists—battling
for the rights of injured man. They spoke with
eloquence and penetrating arguments, and under
their appeals many were convicted of the sin of
drunkenness, and enlisted themselves among the
friends of reformation. Temperance men point
ed with pride to Hewlit and White, as the cham
pions of their cause. But alias! alas! they have
both “ returned like the dog to his vomit, and
the sow to her wallowing in the mire.” Many a
bosom is filled with sorrow and regret, at the un
welcome statement that Samuel M. Hewlit and
Phillip S. White are both drunkards again. The
evil influence of such misfortunes upon the mor
al improvement of society, and their effect in re
tarding the progress of the temperance reforma
tion, is certainly very great. But we must re
member that it is only additional evidence of the
base corruption of peddling temperance lecturers.
We have never known but one who came through
this State, that was not an imposter. They never
had the interest of the cause which they pretended
to advocate, at heart. It was money that they
were after; and they never closed an address
without setting that part of the discourse prom
inently before their audiences. But, there is one
whose name we mention with pride, and whose
eloquence has never been surpassed—we refer to
Gen. C. F. Carey, of Cincinnati, Ohio. There was
no tincture of the imposter in his character, nor
the slightest alloy in his temperance principles.—
He labored purely and solely for the ameliora
tion o.f his race; and has expended a fortune in
the prosecution of the work. If the temperance
cause possessed only a few such champions as Gen.
Carey, we might look forward to the time as not
far distant, when it would overcome its great en
emy.
But such men are seldom found; and in view of
their scarcity, how sad the tale of Phillip S.
White’s fall! .
The Goldsboro ’ Tribune , of N. (J. thus speaks of
his fall: , ,
“We deeply regret tojsee it announced in the
papers and the report confirmed by the Spirit of
of the Age, that the eloquent White—Phillip S.
White, the renowned Temperance lecturer, has
yielded to the seductive influence of strong drink.
We deeply regret thisj for the sake of poor White.
He was a noble specimen of humanity and ah
honest man. No “Iscariot” was poor White, but
a genuine philanthropist, who had felt the ruin
ous influence of the intoxicating cup, and labor
* : \t , . M-S -J iifW
ed hard to rescue others from ite blighting allure
ments. If “Judas betrayed his Lord/’ Peter de
nied Him and Thomas doubted His word. “ Let
him who thinketh he standeth take heed, lest
hfrfMfe a> # * ,Jr
Another exchange paper thus commiserates
over his misfortune, and gives a few worthy and
sound ideas upon the habit of drinking strong
drink. We commend them to the attention of
our readers:
There is a paragraph going the rounds of the pa
pers that Phillip S. White who had acquired a
large reputation as a temperance lecturer, has re
lapsed—“fallen from his high estate"—and is
now groveling in the lower deep of dissipation.
We hope there is some mistake about the state
ment, but if true, let us not be hasty to condemn.
The appetite for intoxicating stimulants, when
once contracted, while it may be restrained and
controlled by unceasing watchfulness and the ex
ercise of a moral energy, which all men do not
possess, can never be wholly eradicated; and who
shall measure what the fallen man endured be
fore he surrendered his integrity. If the report
about Mr. White be true, his fall appeals in stron
ger language than any his dips ever uttered, to
those who have never plunged the fearful deep of
intemperance, to Beware! Its victim, notwith
standing he may retrace his steps and walk up
right, carries in his bosom a foe, which, with
barbed tongue and poisonous fang, is ever on the
watch to strike. Poets and bacchanalians sing of
the “ flowing bowl, with flowers of soul,” but he
who dallies with the cup, though its brim may
sparkle and flash with gems as bright as those
that gleam upon the brow o. beauty, will find,
sooner or later, that he has been sipping of the
dark vintage ot Sodom, and gathering fruits as
hollow and bitter as the purple clusters which
grew in the gardens of Gomorrah.”
The fruits of Tempernace Societies.
Whether temperance organizations are accom
plishing much good at this time or not, they have
in times past been the mediums through which
rich and innumerable blessings have been trans
mitted to the present generation. And w hen we
contemplate the good which they have done, and
might yet do, and think of their scarcity and lan
guishing condition at present in this State, our
heart sickens with regret. The Christian Manual
thus beautifully epitomizes the blessings of which
they have bequeathed to the human family.
They have bravely thrown themselves into the
breach, and done all they could to arrest the pro
press of the mighty invader. And though his
forces are more numerous, and more widely spread
than at any previous time, yet they are neither so
numerous, so widely spread, nor so powerful as
they would have been, but for these reformatory
efforts. These efforts have been made in the
proper direction, and have been by no means pow
er less. They have shown that the reformation
of the drunkard is not in all cases hopeless. They
have taken the feet of many a victim out of the
mire and clay of drunkenness, and placed them
on the rock of sobriety ; clothed him in clean
garments and put a song of rejoicing in his mouth.
They have poured the sunlight of joy and affec
tion into many a desolate and grief-stricken heart,
in which despair had long held her sullen sway.
They have mantled the cheek of many a palid
and toil-worn wife with the rosy hue of returning
health, and hope, and happiness, and brought the
tear of joy into eyes long accustomed to pour
forth the scalding drops of heart-sickening grief.
They have wreathed the faces of innocent chil
dren in happy smiles, and caused their little
hearts to bound with joy at the toming of him
who has been tranrformed from the unfeeling ty
rant to the affectionate father. They have warn
ed the young and unsuspectiug of the deadly
dangers that lie along the path of occasional t ip
pling, and pointed out to them the only roSd that
leads to virtue, honor and renown. Such are
some of the fruits of temperrnce societies. And
surely these are works not to be lightly esteemed.
They are bright laurels in the crowns of those
pure-hearted philanthropists who have labored
so nobly in the cause of a world's redemption from
one of the most blighting curses that has ever fal
len upon it.
Portrait of a miser.
Os all the despisable beings in existence, the
lean, hungry, starving miser is the most contemp
tible. We find in an old time volume the follow
ing praphic picture of just such a subject t\
The miser was a skeleton, a mere shotten her
ring, or like a slender cane with a little head cut
upon it, and red-haired, so that no more need be
said to such as know the proverb, “that neither
cat nor dog of that colour is good his eyes al
most sunk into his head, as if he looked through
a perspective glass, or the deep window in a linen
draper’s shop ; his nose turning upand somewhat
flat, or the bridge was carried away by an inun
dation of cold rheum, for he never afforded him
self a more costly malady. His beard had lost
its colour, for fear of his mouth, which, being so
near, seemed threatening to devour it from mere
Hunger. His teeth had, many ofthem, forsaken
him for want of emyloyment, or were banished
as idlers. His neck was as long as a crane’s with
the gullet stricken out, as if it had been compell
ed to come abroad in search of sustenance ; liis
arms withered ; his hands like a bundle of twigs;
each of them when pointing downward looking
like a fork or a pair of compasses. He had long
slender legs. He walked leisurely ; and if ever
he chanced to move any faster, his bones rattled
like a pair of snappers. His voice was weak and
hollow ; his beard bushy and long ; for, to save
charges, he never trimmed it, pretendsng that it
was so odious to him to feel the barber’s hand all
over his face, that he wonld rather die than en
dure it. One of the boys cut his hair. In fair
weather he wore a threadbare cap.
His cassock, some said, was miraculous, for no
man could tell his colour; some, seeing no hair
upon it, concluded it was made of frog’s skin;
others said it was a mere shadow, or a phantom;
near at hand it looked somewhat black, and at a
distance bluish. He wore no girdle, cuffs, nor
band; so that his long hair and scanty short cas
sock made him look like the messenger of death.
Each shoe might have served for an ordinary coffin.
As for his chamber there was not so much as a
cobweb in it, the spiders all starved to death, tie
put spells upon the mice, for fear that they should
gnaw some scraps of bread he kept. Ilis bed
was on the floor, and he always laid upon one side
for fear of wearing out the sheats. In short, he
was the supurlative degree of avarice, and the
very ne plus ultra of want. Into this prodigy’s hands
I fell.
For the Crusader.
Friend Seals:
As you have* expressed the wish that I
would give you, now and then, some incidents
connected with my temperance labors in Georgia,
I will commence the series of sketches by stating
that I have held forty-tioo temperance meetings
since the 13th of November, 1856, lecturing each
time from one to two hours in behalf of the cause
—have distributed several thousand pages of tem
perance tracts—visited quite a number of Divi
sions of the “Sons “and Lodges of the “Knights,”
and have had the unspeakable pleasure of per
suading some engaged in the liquor traffic, to
quit the business, and a few who were addicted to
intemperance to abandon the use of the soul-de
stroying poison. I have been kindly received by
the, temperance community every where; and
judging from the kindness, courtesy and dona
tions I have received, even from those engaged in
the liquor traffic, l am led to believe that my re
marks, when discussing the temperance question,
have been (as intended) received as aimed, at the
traffic and habit of intemperance, and not at the
mm engaged in the one, or addicted to the other.
This is the nH>re gratifying to me, because, as
you are well aware, it is not my custom to adopt
a “ trimming” course in giving publicity to my
sentiments on the liquor question; which fact has
led some to remark, that I seemed to hate intem
perance with an unconquerable hatred.
“Tell me I hate the.bowl!
Hate is a feeble word;
I LOATHE—ABHOR—my very soul,
With strong disgust is sirr’d,
When’er I see, or hfcar, or tell,
Oftlie dark BEVERAUEof HELLf’’/
In corroboration of the statement that my re
marks have been received as kindly as they, were
meant, I cannot forbear giving two incidents, out
of many that I could give, which may be interest
ing to your temperance readers. In Preston,
Webster County, after my second Sunday School
lecture, in which I toolc occasion to make soma
remarks on the habit of intemperance,
nection with the degradation of the father of a
little girl by whose narrative I was endeavoring
to interest the children, I received the follow
ing manly letter, from one who had but recently
gone into the liquor business. The letter will ex
plain itself:
Preston’, May 22d, 1857.
Mr. Hunter —lt is with unfeigned pleasure that
I inclose to you the second dollar, and would to
God I was able to make a more free donation in
furtherance of the noble cause in which you are
engaged.
I must own to you that I am a dram-seller;
but ashamed am I of the occupation ; and so soon
as I can close out without sustaining too much
loss, I intend tq bid adieu to the old Devil, Alco
hol, and the traffic therein. Allow me dear sir,
to subscribe myself your best wisher in the pro
gress of the great cause in which you are engaged.
Yours, .
I have since learned by letter from another
friend in P., that this noble-hearted young man
made good his promise; and when I heard of him
last, it was rumored that he was about to lead to
the a’tar one of Eve’s fair daughters, and thus
entei upon the joys of wedded life. May God
bless him “in basket and store.”
The other incident occurred at my last lecture
on temperance, at the close of which a poor crea
ture came up to me, with the tears streaming
down his face, to beg a private interview, which
I readily granted. He.then proceeded to unfold
a tale df woe and suffering to himself, his wife and
children, which would have harrowed up the
soul of the most obdurate; and then with con
vulsive sobs, as though his very heart-strings gave
way, he added, “ and ’ liquor — yes, liquor, has caused it
all; but thank God, you have said there was hope—hope
even for the poor drunkard, and may God blessyou for it;
for lam a poem drunkard; but I'll try; yes, FU try
once more to break the fetters caul be a man ; pray forme
—pray far my poor family; ] deserted them, and God
only knows what has becennc of them.” Here his ut
terance failed him. Ah ! metliinks if those who,
for filthy lucre, minister to the degrading appe
tite which thus emshes out the very life-blood of his
felfoiv Wain, could have witnessed that scene, sure
ly they would have felt something of that liell
which will rends the bosom of the drunkard-ma
ker when he meets his victim at the portals of
the prison-house of the damned!
1 need not assure you that 1 did all I could to
strengthen the-good resolution of this wretched
victim of the bottle; and when 1 parted with him,
it was with a heart nerved with a stronger deter
mination than ever to wage an uncompromising
war with the monster curse of our land, intem
perance ; for poor as l am, 1 would rather be the
means of saving one such unfortunate fellow-be
ing from a drunkard’s grave, than to be possessed
of all the blood-stained dollars that have ever
been coined from the crushed hearts of suffering
hu<nanity by alcohol, since the dawn of that day
when demons in hell kept jubilee over the first
discovery of this distilled curse of a sin-stricken
world.
“ What! trade in poisons for sordid gold—
Coil serpents round my neighbor’s heart
Or touch the adder’s sinous mid,
That he might hurl his venomed dart—
And still declare no crime in this
Thus to destroy man’s hope of Bliss (
Justice, stern Justice, would she sleep
While 1 the tirery billows roll—
See fathers die—and widows weep
And let me sell the burning howl ?
Could conscience powerless expire,
While I dealt out the liquid fire ?
Could I resist the wife’s appeal
Who’d pray me sell her husband none —
Or could I turn a heart of steel
On her who mourns a tippling son l
Then I could burst a toonib for gain,
And rob a corpse of golden chain !
Could I make paupers by the score—
With branded culprits fill the jail—-
Make helpless orphans crowd our shore,
And frantic mothers weep and wail—
And yet unmoved sell on the dram —
For gold immortal spirits damn ?”
No!
For qll the wealth of Crcesus told —
For all the fame that earth can sum—
For mighty Kingdoms bought and sold,
I would not live by selling r'um.
, ’ 77s tolling on a deathless knell
’Tis adding flames to (ires of HELL !
W. R. 11.
HUMOROUS,
She would Ride. —The Wheeling Intelligencer re
lates the following amusing story : A conductor
upon one of the railroads terminating here met
with a hard customer a few days since, and his ex
perience verified the lines—
“ When a woman wills she wont,
And when she wont she don’t.”
A fierce looking woman got on the train about
ton miles out the road to come to this city. The
affable conductor saw nothing remarkable in this
for fierce looking females frequently “get on
trains,” but both women and men, whether tierce
looking or not, are expected to pay their fare.—
The woman in question flatly refused to comply
witli the usual demand, while she expressed her
ability to buy the conductor and all the money
he had stolen from the company, within the past
year.” The conductor thought this was saying a
good deal, but with as few words as possible (con
ductors are men of few words) he demanded, for
the third time, “your faro,” and then pulled the
bell-rope to put the would-be dead head off. The
train stopped, and the woman was conducted out
upon the platform, and from thence down the
steps, out upon the track. When the train essay
ed to proceed on its way the woman got aboard.
Not wishing to put her off while the train was in
motion, the conductor pulled the rope again, and
again she was deposited on terra firma. When the
train started she got on board as before, and again
the train was stopped and the tenacious woman
banded gently down. This time a brakeman re
mained outside to detain her, thinking he could
gain the train under way in advance of the deter
mined passeitger. But he was mistaken. - The
woman made the rear car almost as soon as the
brakeman, and clinging to the railing about (he
platform, managed to climb up and was a passen
ger still, in spite of their efforts. The train had
now lost considerable time, and rather than lay
himself liable to the charge of brutally treating a
woman the conductor permitted this remarkable
passenger to gain her point and retain her seat to
the end of herjourney, when strange to say, she
paid her fare and marched off. We doubt wheth
er a parallel to this instance of determination in a
woman was ever recorded.
A voter deficient in personal beauty said to Sher
idan, “I mean to withdraw my countenance from
you.” “Many thanks for the favor, sir,’’ replied
the candidate, “for it is theugliestmug 1 ever saw.”
An Alabama Political Joke. — They tell a good
many political jokes of our neighbors now occupy
ing the lands of the ancient Alabama, among
them the following :
An out and out party man, a landlord, who had
“accommodated political friends for twenty years,
happened to go into a nominating convention
just as they had finished their business, and heard
little delegate move that “this convention ad
journ sine die.”
“Sine die !” said Mr. G—, to a person standing
near, “where’s that?’’
“Why, that’s way in the northern part of the
country,” said his neighbor.
“Hold on if you please, Mr. Cheerman,” said
the landlord, with great emphasis and earnestness
“hold oil, sir, I’d like to be heard on that ques
tion. I have kept a public house now for Tiore’n
twenty years. I’m a poor man. I’ve always be
longed to the party, and never split in my life.
This is the most central location in the county
and its where we’ve allers met. I’ve never had
nor asked an office, and have worked night and
day for the party, and now I think, sir, it is con
temptible to go to adjourning this convention wau
up to Sine Die.” * y
Poeta nascitur non ft: “Nasty Poetry not fit for
anything.”
FOREIGN NEWS. !
We condense, weekly, in this column
graphic dispatches of our exchanges, VjE F* **•
News of any consequence. lne
- “*r ‘
Later from Europe.
Halifax, Jan. 24.—The steamship Eurona r
John Leitch, has arrived at this port whh n’, Capt ’
dates to the 9th inst. v - 11 * 1 Utvet^ool
... - _ general news.
Advices from India state that Gen Havelock j
ot dysentery. Wyndhara’s division had beeSdefe
and Marsh.! Radetzsky, Red.chid JSSSffißft.
The launch of the Leviathan was nt-now-t
rate oi ten feet per day. There were si/ty frS® “ ,he
overcome. * leet In ore to
Financial affairs were improving but the™ l j ,
several failures at Liverpool, among which ea
of W. &J. Wallace, with UabiH^jX he h *"-
The Europa arrived at Liv*ft n t fo’T* , u
Anglo-Saxon on the 7th of
COMMERCIAL +
Havre.— Tres Ordinaire was quoted at 981’
.i.llv lost. The sales \ ,!,. wiTji'SSbE
of which speculators took 5,000, and exporters Til’.
bales, leaving 39,500 bales of all descriptions m’d°
trade, fair Orleans was quoted at 64fd.; Middling Or
leans at bid.; hair Mobiles, at 6 11-lbd • Yr;.£n-
Mobile at 6 7-16d.; Fair Uplands at 6|d IB lb tJl 8
market for the week dosed with a declining tended
The sales on fnday were 5,000. The stock on
was 390,000 bales, of which 190,000 was American *
State of 7Vndc.—Manchester advices were unfavora
ble. Trade was dull.
Liverpool Breadstuff* Market.— Breadstuffs were aim.
—Hour closed very dull, with a declining tendency -
Wheat w r as irregular and dull. Corn was dull ■„
decline of (id. 480 lbs. ’ ,and
Liverpool Provision Market. —Provisions were n U i P ,
Liverpool General Market. —Sugar was buoyant at an
advance of the fortnight of from 2s. @ 3s. ewt
was firm at an advance of bd @ Is. Tea had improved
London Money Market. —Money was abundant and
slightly easier. The bullion in the Bank of England
had increased near £4,250,000. The bank rate of in
terest had been reduced to b percent. Consols for nion
ey were quoted at 94i @ 95.
j Jan. 23.—1n the Senate, the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations (of which Senator Mason 0 f
Virginia, is Chairman) have agreed upon a Report? sus
taining the President’s views in relation to Central
America, and recommended that the neutrality laws be
so amended as to provide for the holding as prisoners ot
those persons captured in ffrosecution of plans against
nations with which we are at peace.
•
Appointments bp the President.
The Senate has confirmed the following appointments
by the President :
John Appleton, ol Maine, Assistant Secretary of
State. 1
Richard K. Meade, of Virginia, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to China.
John Bigler, of California, Envoy Extraordinary, and
Minister Plenipotentiary to Chili.
Henry C. Murphy, of New York, Minister Resident
to the Netherlands.
Benjamin F. Angel, of New York, Minister Resident
to Sweden.
James Williams, of Tennessee, Minister Resident at
Constantinople.
William R. Calhoun, of South Carolina, Secretary oi
Legation at Paris. ’
Gen. Walker is said to he seeking a trial in New Or
leans, with a view of introducing testimony showing
that the President personally encouraged him in his
Nicaraguan enterprise. The New York Times’ Wash
ington correspondent says:
It is rumored also, that certain intercepted letters are
in possession of a party in this city, establishing rhe
complicity of the Administration formerly, ancTthat
these may be exposed in Congress before the current de
bate closes.
Additional by the Europa.
New York, Jan. 25. —The following additional in
telligence has been received by the Europa:
It is stated that Spain refuses satisfaction to the Unit
ed States for the El Dorado affair.
Nothing has been heard of the Ariel.
The restoration of the King of Prussia’s health is
hopeless.
The Gwalior insurgents cut up Windham’s Afision.
Washington, Jan. 25.—Advices received in this city
state that the Mormons intend a guerilla warfare. Eve
ry man is ordered under arms next spring. It is be
lieved that the Mormons have spies in Johnston’s camp.
Mobile, Jan. 25.—Gen. Walker arrived in this city
yesterday. He was welcomed by a national salute and
tendered the hospitalities of the city. He was arrested
to-day by an order from New Orleans, but released un
der a writ ot heabeas corpus. The proceedings against
lorn were quashed by Judge Gale, of the United .Stales y
Court. ,
ff&P We subjoin below a continuation of the list of
Acts passed by the last General Assembly, the first pur
lion of which appeared in our last issue;
99. To authorize the Justices of the Inferior CourtSoi
the counties of Calhoun and Baker to appoint Com
missioners to run out and define the line between said
counties.
100. To endow the Atlanta Mpdical Colleges. *
101. For the better preservation of the “interests o'i
certain classes of the citizens of this State, by adopting
and making valid certain records, and for other purpo
ses.
102. Additional to other acts relating to Glynn coun
ty Academy.
To provide compensation for the services ot
Richard L. Hunter for making a survey ofthe Okefeno
kee Swamp.
104. To charter what is commonly known as the Hi
wassee Railroad.
, 195. lor the relief of Reuben S. Williams of Baker
county.
100. For the relief of Sarah Groover ofthe county ot
Bryan.
107. To regulate the retail of spirituous liquors in
Hancock county.
108. For the reliel ol Peter H. Coffee, Administra
tor of the estate oi Mark Wilcox, and other administra
tors therein named.
109. For the reliel and protection of certain persons
therein named.
110. To exempt Tlios. H. Kilgo from all Road, Pat
rol and Military duties and for other purposes.
111. To alter and amend the several acts heretofore
passed for the establishment ofthe State Lunatic Assy
luni, designating individuals subject to be committed,
forms ol commitment, &.C., and to appropriate money’
to complete the improvement on the Assylum. ■
112. To authorize the Ordinary of Meriwether to
pay arrearages due to teachers of poor children in said
county.
113. For the relief of Alex. W. Morgan, of the coun
ty *-*1 Calhoun, and to legalize hi'i ,'itcTtnarriage with
Amanda Smith.
114. To point out the mode and nu -ner ofabtainng
judgments on declarations in cases of autvchment in the
Superior and Inferior Courts of this State, and to give
said judgment lien as in cases of common k w.
115. To simplify proceedings in bail casts and for
other purposes.
llti. To repeal an act to compel owners of slaves ora
plantations and farms in Effingham county to keea
March’ Plantations and farms; approved
H 7. To authorize attachments to issue in cases
sounding in damages.
ti,; ll ®, , re P ea l an act to amend the patrol laws of
this State, approved February 20, 1854, so far as re
lates to the counties of Walton, Montgomery and Brv
e„-o, To ,nakp the sale of the Bainbridge Acad
n3Ju’n T °- * e £ n Jize certain judgments of the Courts of
rdinary in t his State, and to provide for the probate of
wills in certain cases. r
Si!mo„rorE, C r lv l o„',l y <! * < ' te * M **“*r Jh “
Aiifwicne corom™' 6 ***
123 To change the times'of holding the Inferior
C °io r i £ the counlies of Taylor and Stewart.
4 A 10 exe ipt certain members of the Mechanic
° f *•—. *-
125. To submit the question of the removal of
553 ™ u,,,y ° f I *-; ™t
01 ‘• attachment
70~ o’ Stat , e ’ assen ed to March 4, 1856 A
amend the r ift?h n L a r aCt ? P P rov L ed M March, 1856, to
ta. n ,V,!d e fcsrc^i e chM,er of,hc d * “ lA '-
i Si. <J !^sksas2
the same ’ and ch “ rgC nnd collect the ÜBUal ieea 1,,r
fc Y he protection offorest'trees in the
and to * nißhofren
emniovT 0 /.!^!* 1 ° Ct “PP r °ved March 4th, 1856, to
toil toachc,^Sg ,yr i°ll %r° iine ‘ 1,1
wm@o& \
“ The 61oom or Wight of all meh’ happinesi.” *
PrU a H ie H °m ,h , e mnin F of the 2 7th inst. by Rev.
.. r ?n,, ‘r’ ‘ 1 Mr - A. DENNARD of Sumter
g>unty, Ga. and Miss EMMA H. MACON, of Penfield,
THE EXERCISES OF
MERCER UNIVERSITY
WILL RESUME ON MONDAY, FEB. 1.
Jan 28-2 t U. W. WISE, Sec. Fa