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ifrmpenma Ofntsadtr. PBNFIEI.P, GEORGIA. N iIDBSPAY MORNINQ,JAJf|UABY SMtcrl>tlii Price nOiea to two Dollars. CLUBS. Clubs of Ten Subscribers, by sending the cdsh, can get the Crusader at $1 50 per copy. Clubs of Five at $1 80 per copy. Any person sending five new subscribers, will receive an extraKopy of the paper one year, free of cost. advertisements. In future, all advertisements will be found on the first and fourth pages. New advertisements will appear un der the head of “ New Business .” The Crusader no Larger. Some of our near sighted friends have said that the 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! ********* 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