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PENPIBLD, GEORGIA.
THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18,1858.
CLUBS.
Clubs of Ten Sabtcribtrt, by tending the cash,, can get
tkt Crusader at ll 50 per copy. Clubt of Five at $1 80
per eopy.
Any person tending Jive new subscribers, will receive
extra eopy of the paper one year, free of cost.
Dr. Cor.
We are •pleased tw meet ff is excellent Surgical and
Mechanical Dentist again in oar town, equipped to plug
decayed teeth, and to drag out those past redemption.
The Doctor hastaken rooms at Mr. Foster’s.
Another New Head.
Messrs. L, Johnson & Cos. of Philadelphia, who are
an accommodating and most excellent firm of gentle
men, have sent us another Heading tor the Crusader;
we use it on this issue. It is the same letter as the
other, more thinly spaced, with the article ‘ the’ pre
fixed, which makes a much prettier head. We think
the Editorial fraternity must now confess that our paper
has the most handsome heading of any in the State.
We enthusiastically commend the Foundry of Messrs.
Johnson & Cos. to the craft throughout the southern
States. They are Very nice men, and their Foundry is
the largest, moat tasty and the best of any in Pennsylva
nia, or, we might say in the United States.
Magnolia Division.
We are pleased to learn that a Division of the Sons
ofTemperan.ee has been organized at Blakely, Georgia,
under thq above title. A friend gives us the following
information concerning it :
Blakely, fla. Feb. 10, 1858.
Mk. Editor r
On Monday night, the 2fth of January last, there
was a Division organized in this place, ana it is called
Magnolia I)ivision,*No. 198, S. ot T. ot the State oi
Georgia. The follwing officers were elected and duly
installed4-W. J, Cheshire, W. P., J. if. Powers, W.
A., W. M. Potter, R. S., S. A. Howe!!, A. R. S., R. H.
Roberts, F. S., T. J. Cheshire, TANARUS., D. K. McCaskill, C.,
W. H. Barnard, A. C., S. M. W. Rollin, I. S., Henry
Harp, 0. _S, The following members were initiated the
same evening: R. 11. Brooks, J. Cheshire.
We have received as members nine since we were or
ganized. Our motto is Temperance forever ; let all
others leave us, we will stick to Temperance and be ene
mies to liquor shops of any sort or shape.
Washington Star, of the loth inst., after
giving its opinion that the defeat of the Lecompton
Constitution in Congress, would be followed by disun
ion measures on the part of the legislature of every
Southern State, tints refers to the position and probable
influence of the Governor of Virginia :
• “The individual opposition ot Governor Wise to the
acceptance of the Lecompton Constitution would be no
barrier whatever to the'action of the Virginia Legisla
ture in the premises; or if the legal existence ot that
body be the’n terminated, of another that would he at
once chosen by the people to act in the premises. There
is not a single member of the present legislature of Vir
ginia, of either parly, who sympathises with the posi
tion of Gov. Wise—not one ; nor is there a member of
any other State legislature South of the Potomac who
stands'With him-—Gov. Wise. He is entirely isolated
. and alone in the South, as those at the North who have
property, the value of which, will be destroyed in the
destruction of the confederacy, may find out to their
sorrow., when too late.”
Defrauding Uncle Sam. —In accordance with the
recent instructions from Washington, the Postmasters
throughout the country are looking tip the frauds which
are every day committed to avoid lawful postage. The
extent of these frauds will be best understood by our
enumerating the contents of twenty-eight papers open
ed by Col. Rogers, postmaster of Charleston, within
three days—ll were written upon, three contained dress
patterns, 3, three skeins silk each, 3 contained letters,
2 had pieces of black silk. 1 contained a landscape draw
ing, 1 a letter and a#3 hank bill, 1 a chiids apron, la
roll of ribbon, 1 a ladies’ work collar, and 1 a china
baby. The amount of postage paid for these 28 papers
w’as but 28 cents, while the amount which should have
been paid was $7 17. — Boston Herald.
Stage Attacked by Wolves. — The Bangor Union
of the sth inst. says that the bears, having monopolized
much attention lately, the wolves claim notice. On
Wednesday night last, as Mr. Mitchell was driving a
mail wagon on the back Calais route, from Feddington
to the next stopping place, twenty miles from that city,
being wihout passengers, ltts teeni was beset by a pack
of wolves. They were about s doien in number, and
came on fierce and noisy. Mitchell, however, drove up
Stuart, which he had no difficulty in doing,.as the horses
were quite as much frightened as himself. As they
pressed hard upon him, and glared their eyeballs and
gnashed their teeth about hint, he let. go the contents of
a rifle whieh laid out one of the hungry crew, and for
a time checked their pursuit. This was providentially
near the stopping place, upon arriving at which, the dri
ver is said to he pretty well overcome with cxciffement j
and fright. Wolves and bears are very plenty on the J
back route, and very audacious.
A Kentucky Anecdote.—A Southern gentleman
owned a slave, a very intelligent, follow, who tvasa Uni
versalis!. On one occasion he illustrated the intellect
ual character of his religion in the following manner:—
“ A certain slave had obtained license of a Baptist to
preach. He was holding forth in the presence of ma
ny of his colored brethren at one time, when he under
took to describe the process of Adam’s creation. Said
he, ‘when God make Adam, he stoop down, scrape up
a little dirt, wet it a little, warm it a little in he hands,
squeeze it in de right shape, and don lean it up agindc
fence to dry .”
•‘Top derc!” said our Uuivcrsalist darkey. “You
say dat are de fustest man eber made ?”
“ Sarten !” said the preacher.
“Den,” said the other, “jes tell.* feller whar dnt a r
fence come frem !”
“Hush!” said the preacher, “two more questions
like dat would spile allde feology in de world.”
Ex-President Fillmoie, according to the N. I r .
Observer, says of his personal habits :
“ I owe my uninterrupted bodily vigor to an originally
strong constitution, to an education on a farm, and to
lift-lortg habits of regularity and temperance. Through
oHt ail my public life I maintained the same regular und
systematic habits of living to which I had previously
bsn accustomed. I never allowed my usual hours for
sleep to be interrupted. The Sabbath I always kept as
a day of re9t. Besides being a religious duty, it was
essential to health. On commencing my Presidential
career, I found that the Sabbath had frequently been
employed by visitors for private interviews with the
Pfteaic lent. I determined to put an end to this custom,
and ordered my door-keeper to meet all Sunday visitors
with an indiscriminating refusal. While Chairman of
the Committee of Wavs and Means in Congress, and
doing my entire Presidential term, my labors woreal
wavs onorous, and often excessive, but I never suffered
arnumr’s sickness through them all.
Some years since, a fellow from the city was travers
ing through Vermont, exhibiting a large collection of
wax figures, among the monstrosities of which were
Queen Caroline, Bergami, Lieut. William H, Allen,
(killed by pirates,) Aaron Burr shooting Hamilton.
. ‘***?<■ .Joremost man went round the hall explaining the
various Agues,and on coming to this, exclaimed: “ This,
ladies and gentlemen, is Aaron Burr, Vice President of
th United States, in mortal combat with the immortal
Hamilton ; and, then, lifting to the ceiling an eye, teem
ing with the inspiration of Bards of the Olden Time, he
broke forth in the inimitable style of Orator Pop Em
mons, with :
Oh, Burr!-Burr! what hast thou done ? i
* Thou hast ehooted dead great Hamilton ! !
You got right behind a bunch of thistles,
And sbooted him dead with a pair of hos’s pistols!
.When Andrew Dunlap. Mayor ot the good old city
of t>yndec died, his executors resolved to appropriate
ts> their own pcculiar bciiofit, the provision contained in
%4'odiciL which bequeathed to the framer of an epitaph
Which sltottld be endorsed upon hie tomb-stone, the good
Maod sura of thirty pounds Scotch. The executors
wisely concluded that to entitle them to an equal diris*
ion of “ the spoils,” the epitaph should be the joiut
product of their united inspiration; aud consequently
4fceyv(tlEre trere three of them) voted, that an epitaph
>Mpbr, should consist in a well arranged triplet; and,
under the peculiarities of the case, it was
quite proper that each executor should contribute a line.
ex tempore. Under this equitable arrangement, they
commenced their poetical operations. The first eked
•ut his line thus: j
“ Andrew |)unlap, Mayor of, Dundee,”
Th* second under solemn sens- of the recent af
•flwlinqdi speneatmu of Providence, whtuSttpsl depriv
ed Dundee of a civil head, continued :
“ Andrew Dunlap died, did he;” ‘ #T
And the third in pious agony, capped the mournful eli- !
max with:
“ Hallelujah! Hallelujee!”
SCBNDB OF THBCAitCIFHION.
The moon was gaining yet. The Orient’s brow,
Set with the morning star, was not yet dim ;
1 Arid the deep silence which subdues the breath
Like a strong feeling, hung upon the,world
As sleep upon the pulses of a child.
‘Twas the last M atch of night. Get haematic,
With its bathed leaves of silver, seem’d dissolv’d
In visible stillness, and as Jesus’ voice,
With its bewildering sweetness, met the ear
Os his disciples, it vibrated
Like the first whisper in a silent M'orld.
They came on slowly. Heaviness oppressed
The Saviour’s heart—and when the kindnesses
Os his deep love were poured, he felt the need
Os near communion—for his gift of strength
Was wasted by the spirit’s weariness.
He left them there and went a little on—
And in the depth of that hush’d silentness,
Alone with God, he fell upon his face, •
And as his heart was broken with the rush
Os his surprising agony, and death
Wrung to him from a dying universe,
Were mightier than the Son of Man could bear
He gave his sorrows way, and in the deep
Prostration of his soul, breathed out the prayer,
“ Father, if it be possible with thee,
Let this cup pass from me.” 0. how a word.
Like the forced drop before the fountain breaks,
Stilleth the press ot human agony !
The Saviour felt its quiet in his soul;
And tho’ his strength M as M eakness, and the light
Which led him on till now, was nearly dim,
He breathed anew submission—“ Not my will,
But thine be done, O, Father !” As he spoke,
Voices were heard in Heaven, and music stole
Out from the chambers of the vaulted sky,
As if the stars were swept like instruments.
No cloud Mas visible, but radiant wings
Were coining with silvery rush to the earth—
And as the Saviour rose, a glorious one,
With an illumined forehead, and the light
Whose fountain is the mystery of God,
Encalmed with his eye, bowed down to him
And nerved him as a minister of strength.
It was enough, and with godlike brow
Re-written of his Father’s messenger,
With meekness, whose divinity is more
Than power and the glory, he returned again
To his disciples, and aM’aked their sleep,
For “ he that should betray him was at hand.”
The Resurrection of Christ.
Tu-ice had the sun gone down upon the earth, and all
was as yet quiet as the sepulchre—death held his scep
tre over the Son of God ; still and silent the hours passed
on—the guards stood by their post —the rays of the
midnight moon gleamed on their helmets and on their
spears—the enemies of Christ exulted in their success—
the hearts of his friends were sunk in despondency and
in sorrow —the spirits of glory waited in anxious sus
pense to behold the event, and wonder at the ways of
God. At length the morning star arising in the east
announced the approach of light—the third day began to
dawn upon the w'orld, when on a sudden the earth trem
bled to its centre —an angel of God descended—the
guards shrunk back from the terror of his presence, and
fell prostrate on the ground—his countenance was like
lightning, and his raiment was w r hite as snow—he rolled
aw r ay the stone from the door of the sepulchre and sat
upon it. But who is He that cometh forth from the
tomb, with dyed garments from the bed of death ? He
that is glorious in His appearance, Malking in the great
ness of His strength! It is thy Prince, O Zion ! Chris
tian it is your Lord ! He hath trodden the wine press
alone —He hath stained His garments with blood—but
now, as the first-born from the womb of nature, He
; meets the morning of his resurrection—He rises a con
; qneror from the grave—He returns with blessings from
! the M orld of spirits—He brings salvation to the souls of
’ men. Never did the returning sun usher in a day so
i glorious ! It was the jubilee of the universe. The
I morning stars sung together, and all the sons of God
i shouted aloud for joy—the Father of mercies looked
j down from His throne in the heavens with complacency.
’ He beheld His Morld restored —He saw His work that
: it was good. Then did the desert rejoice—the face of
| nature was gladdened before him, M’hen the blessings of
J the Eternal descended, as the dew of heaven for the r-
I Ireshing of the nations. * * *
Bacchus, the God of Wine, etc. —This jovial deity
is said to he the son of Jupiter and Semele. He w'as
the Osiris of the Egyptians, from M'hom the fables re
specting him were taken by the Greeks. He is gener
ally represented crowned with vine and ivy leaves, with
a thyrsus in his hand. His figure is that of an effem
inate young man, to note the joy, which commonly pre
vails at feasts ; and sometimes that of an old man, to
teach us that wine taken immoderately, will enervate
us, consume our health, render us loquacious and child
ish like an old man, and unable to keep secrets. Bac
chus is sometimes represented as an infant holding thyr
sus and a cluster of grapes with a horn. He often ap-*
pears naked, and riding upon the shoulders of Pan, or
in the arms of Silenus, who was his foster father. He
also site upon a celestial globe, bespangled with stars,
and is then'the same as the Sun or Osiris ot Egypt.—
He is sometimes draM’n in a chariot by a lion and a ti
ger. His beauty is compared to that of Apollo; and,
like him, lie is represented with fine hair loosely flow
ing down his shoulders. He has been called,
“ God of the cheering vine, who holds in awe
The spotted lynxes which his chariot draw.
“The dimpled son
Os Semele, that crown’d upon his tun,
Sits with his grapy chaplets.”
Striking and True Story. —Two young German
noblemen having finished their College Session, resolv
ed on making together an excursiou of pleasure in the
Hart/, mountains. Having been occupied one day in a
wild part of that wild district in gathering specimens of
minerals, they were overtaken by a storm and benigh
ed. Having lost their way, they wandered about for
some hoars, when, wet and bold, they came to the ru
ins of an old castle, where they entered to try and find
shelter for the night. In a low-vaulted room they were
surprised and alarmed to find the embers of a fire still
burning. Fearing robbers, they agreed that one should
watch white the other slept ; and, loading a pistol which
they happened to have with them, they heeped wood on
the fire, and one of them wrapping himself in his cloak,
lay down to take his turn of sleep. His companion,
placing the pistol beside him, was passing the time in
tracing resemblances of faces in the embers of the fire ;
when, all at once, a secret door seemed to open in the
wall opposite to him, disclosing several armed men
sitting round a table. One of these advancing, order
ed him to follow him, saying that resistance was in
vain. The young man, starting up, seized und fired
the pistol; the man fell, when, horror to relate, he found
that he had awoke from a dream, and shot his friend
through ths heart. — Greenock Intelligencer.
I E.
“We really cannot comprehend,” says an exchange,
“ why that respectable English letter Y should be dis
carded from the termination of Christian names, and the
two letters I E substituted ! It does not save time, and
it is positive thati e, as an ending is not a whit more re
fined or elegant looking than a noble y, with its
tail winding off into a graceful flourish.” We have be
fore us a catalogue of the young ladies of a “ Female
College,” located less than a thousand miles distant,
and find the good old v quite knocked out of sight. At
present, it is Bettie and Pollie, Sallie and Mollie ; Fan
nie and Mattie. Peggie andPattie; Marie and Kittie,
and Addie and Mittie ; Jennie and Nettie, and Josie and
Hattie, and many others too numerous to mention. But
the grand finale of this I E, versus Y mania, is that the
male sex arc adopting it substantially, Billy Moody hav
ing recently efleminized himsclfinto BilbVMoodiV, Esq.
*— Exchange.
Rachel’s Last Hours.— Parting with Her Jewels.—
In the early stages of Rachel’s final illness, her fond
ness for gold und jewelry did not desert her. She fre
quently had her jewels and rich garments brought to her
bed, and beguiled the weary hours in looking them over,
and on one occasion, after taking one long, lingering i
look at them, she exclaimed with a sigh of heartfelt dis- i
tress, “ H font done quitter tout!” (“Must I then j
[abandon all !”) Her death struggle was long and sc- j
vere, argil her last hours are described as agonizing. !
Cannes, the town in which Rachel breathed her last J
is* as a French journalist assures us, “ a paradisacal j
resort in the south of France, the honor of whose dis- j
eovory belongs to Lord Brougham, who has for years
had his country sent in it, and recommended it to his
countrymen sis a winter residence.” This winter,Lian
nes h,as been overflowing with visitors. Since the oc
cupation of Nice, by the Russians, such of the Eng
lish as formerly wintered there have resorted to Cannes.
The recent reports of the improving health of Rachel
—for up to s few days previous to her death, hopes
were entertained of her recovery—attracted crowds of
consumptives to the charmed spot.
Preslmt to Mr. Everett. — The Richmond Dis
patch says, that on the ol February the walking
cane of General Washington, it is expected, will be pre
sented on behalf of the ladies of the Mount Vernon
Association, to the Hon. Edward Everett, of Massa
chusetts, and his spy-glass also, on iheir behalf to the
Hon. W. L. \ urtcey, of Alabama, who enlisted in the
same cause with Mr. Everett, has delivered eloquent
lectures in several Southern cities, on the character of
Washington. i
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The Human Heart.—Lovers talk of their hearts
beating; it beats with tolerable rapidity in those who
neither “love nor are beloved.” In qne hour the heart
beats tjtree thousand six hundred times, and discharges
seven ‘Thousand two hundred ounces of blood, and the
whole mass ol blood in the body is conveyed through it
nearly five times. In a day, the whold blood of the body
is conveyed through the heart nearly six hundred times.
music, ..
‘‘ls there a heart that muslo eanaot matt ?
S**Alas! how is that rugged heart.forlorn ?
there who ne’er those mystic transports felt
oi latitude and melancholy born ? f;
He needs not woo the musie; he is her scorn ;
The sophist’s rope of cobwebs he shall twine ;
Mope o’er the schoolman’s peevish page ; or monrn,
.And for life in mammon’s dirty mine i
Sneak with the scoundrel fox or grunt with glutton swine.”
As wo sit here far removed from city privileges
and listen in imagination to the music of Thal
berg, and Vieuxstempe, visiting. our Southern
cities, and recall the flute-like notes of Ole Bull’s
violin, which will never die away from our ear,
our own musical nature effervesces to such an ex
tent that it must have expression though it be in
feeble words.
We will not stop to inquire as to the origin of
music, whether the first ideas of it were suggested
by the vibrating tendons in the dry shell of the
dead Tortoise, when accidentally struck by the
foot of the sea-beach wanderer, or by the breath
ings of the wind among the rustling water-rushes
of the Nile ; or as others think, by the warbling
of birds in “ the groves, God’s first temple : ” but
we shall consider it as lieaven-born, and believe
the universe has been filled with it, ever since the
Omnipotent Creator called this beautiful world
out of chaos when the morning stars, tuned by
the finger of God, sang together over the birth
of the new creation. The author of all our bless
ings has bestowed upon man the art of making,
and the ear to appreciate a “ concord of sweet
sounds ” as sources of the greatest pleasure and
enjoyment to man on earth ; and it is a source of
rejoicing to know that this, the greatest of all sci
ences, has been carried to such perfection in this
and other countries ; and we hope it will contin
ue to be perfected, until, through our own elo
quent groves and over our own waves, shall float
music as soft and melodious as ever charmed the
shadowy retreats of Arcadia, or died away upon
the slumbering waters of the JEgea.
There is no power which can move the heart
and stir-up the fountains of the soul, like a famil
iar strain of sweet music. It carries the mind way
back amid the scenes and incidents of other days
and calls up fond memories which had long beten
in oblivion. It purifies and elevates the heart
and lifts the aspirations above the contemptible
and perishing things of earth.
“That strain again ; it had a dying fall:
0, it came o’er my ear like the sweet south,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour.”
Touch within the hearing of the expatriated son
of Erin, but the key-note cf his native song, and
he will love tlife shamrock and his own green isle.
Sing one of the “ Hanz des vaclies ” in the hearing
of a Swiss and the moody melancholy which
it produces upon his mind is so deep that it can
not be removed until he again stands amid his
own mountain home. “ Rule Britannia,” when
heard by an Englishman or the Marseilles hymn
when heard by a Frenchman, and even our own
National air, homely in itself, but beautiful in
its associations, when heard by an American
quickens the soul as though it was touched by the
electric spark. The penitential tear has trickled
down many a care-worn cheek, as one of Zion’#
songs filled the house of God with “ sweetest mu
sic,” calling in the thoughts from their unholy
wanderings and elevating the soul to a devotional
frame.
Blair has said that man is by nature a musi
cian, and the remark is true. It is an inborn
element, and<no race nor generation has ever ex
isted without it. Even in the days of Adam the
primogenitor of“. Tubal the father of
all such as played on the harp and organ,” carried
cn his profession. The bards and musicians of
every pountry have figured more conspicuously
than any other class of men. And in the rude
ages of antiquity their music was the only power
used to refine the manners and influence the
character of the people ; and if the accounts of
the ancients be true, Orpheus, Apollo and Amphi
on were the tamers of mankind, the authors of
civil jurisprudence and domestic order. Minos
sang the laws which he gave to Crete, upon his
lyre, and Thales with his strains prepared the
Spartan mind for the inflexible laws of Lycurgus.
The Arcadians far excelled their neighbors, the Cy
'naetheans in refinement, because they paid more
attention to music. They taught their infants the
science of sweet sound. It was thought to be the
influence of the music of the Troubadours and
bards of the Albigenses upon the mind of
Raymond, which made him throw around them
the arm of his protection when all France had
risen to crush them. Scott thus beautifully alludes
to the influence of the Troubadours, the only cul
tivators of music during that gloomy period pre
ceding the reformation: “As the lute of the Egyp
tian Meranon hailed the advent of the natural
morning, so when the morning of science dawned
upon a lengthened age, the shells of the Trou
badours sounded to the impulse of its first
rays ; and by the delicate touches of their songs
they harmonized the feelings of the rude and il
literate age ; soothed the austere features of chiv
alry ; and by increasing the veneration for beau
ty, brightened the devotion and chastity of love.”
What conquests hath music not won upon the bat
tle-field ! The greatest Generals and Conquerers
have been duly alive to its influence upon the mili
tary spirit of their armies and have invoked its pow
er at the most propitious moments. Napoleon pro
hibited certain tunes at certain times, reserving
them for the final charge ; and it is said that in
making the famous passage of the Alps when
difficulties met his troops, and caused them to
halt, he ordered the bugles to sound their livliest
notes, to peal forth the charge to battle and it never
failed to bear them over the most formidable ob
stacles. When William of Normandy invaded
England, the army was headed by a Minstrel, who
inspired them with his strains, and when the
fight commenced he poured forth the war song of
Roland their former leader, and under its infuri
ating influence they crushed the enemy and won
the memorable field of Hastings.
O, the power of music upon the human mind !
It is untold, and the English language, with all
its wealth of word;?, fails to supply human tongue
with adequate expressions to tell it. It was the
j war song of the (did that carried the victorious
■ standard of Castile and Arragon upon the tide of
| battle; this that reared the blood-red cross, where
! the crescent had floated in sullen triumph for
| more than six hundred years : it was music that
! rolled the hymn of praise along the wild Sierras
i and mountain cliffs, where naught had been heard
but the cry of Allah and his Prophets. It was
the music of Amphion’s lyre that raised into
beauty and strength the walls of Thebes. A note
of the harp of Orpheus before the gates of Hell
caused the wheel of Ixion to stop, the rock of
Sisyphus to stand still, Tantalus to forget his thirst,
the Furies to relent, and I’andemc ilium to yield up
his beloved Kurydice. Musichas dispelled the
gloom from the death-chambor, and the triumphant
song of the Martyr at the stake has parted 1 the curl
ing smoke which rose round him from the crackling
faggots. It makes the soul of the Christian re
echo the songs of Heaven’s choir, whose perfect
melody floats along the River of Life, which flows
fast by tire Oracle of God. •
Bancroft, the historian, heads a call-for a meeting of
“citizens of Now York, who arc opposed to forcing up
on the people of Kansas, a Constitution which they have
rejected, and who desire to..save the National Demo
cratic party from complicity in the frauds of which the
Lecompton Constitution is sustained.'’
The Legislature of Alabama has passed an act to
prevent the adulteration of liquor.
We indorse the following sentiments of the
Nrw York Temperance Journttfe and take great en
couragj&jthefrt frona; it. Th<§ temperlnee cause,
though is not dead, and we can but
believe that it will soon revive in the hearts of
Georgians with renewodwtrengtli. GiocTspeed the
day:
At no time have we commenced a year with
higher and nobler views of our great enterprise ;
with more confidence in its strong hold on the
public mind; or with more assurance of its con
tinued success than at present; at the same time,
we have seldom been more deeply pained at the
ravages of intemperance, or more affected at the
apathy of friends, or distressed at what inevita
bly must be—unless all are aroused to new and
greater effort—the afflictive scenes of the. future.
Could we have kept the generation that began
this work upon tho stage, we might easily and
readily have perfected it. But alas ! they have fal
len into the sere and yellow leaf, or have passed
to their great reward; while anew generation
has come up, amid a degree of prosperity, luxury
and extravagance almost without parallel. Our
young men have felt, as did the Spaniards who
came to America in its first discovery, that
they had come to a world of gold and diamonds
and rubies, and that there was to be found even
indulgence that hear: and soul could wish : no
self-denial to be practised ; no austerities to be
endured; all was to be splendor, luxury and
joy ; and they have rushed into wild, reckless dis
sipation as no young men before have done, to
be arrested only by the severe discipline of a kind
Providence which may even now, or at some
future time, mercifully reach them. More drink
ing is complained of among young men through
out thocountry, than has been known for years.
Young women, of course, participate; and, know
ing how to please, prepare the glass and the bowl,
and in saloons, social parties, balls and musical soi
rees the jolly god has once more mounted his cruel
throne, and is boasting oi’ his victories. Where
the restraints of law are felt, and the foul demon
is bound with a chain that he cannot go forth and
deceive, as he is, in some of our sister States, a
degree of protection is realized which calls forth
devout thanksgivings : but here, where all law
has been prostrated, and Government is really in
in no sense a protector of the people, the traffiek
is free to do the evil it can inflict; our ears are
daily saluted with the cries of murder and violence,
and our prisons and almshouses are filled with
men lost to humanity or perishing in want. For
these things we say, as we enter on anew yea* of
labor, witli a prophet of old, “ Mine eve, mine eye
runneth down with teal’s, for the slain of the
daughter of my people.” And yet we are not
without encouragement and hope.” If the old war
riors in the cause are passing away, the children
and youth are being instructed in our principles;
the ministry and the churches, the farmers, the
bone and sinew’ of the country, the manufactu
ring and shipping interests are with us; from the
east and the west, the north and the south,
comes up the cry for Prohibition as the only true
principle of legislation, and all the manufacturers
of the ville compounds, which are now’ thrown
into the market as a suitable drink for men, are
viewed with detestation and abhorence as poison
ers general, and as murderers of their race.
The mission of our esteemed countryman Mr.
Dow to England, in the past year, lias caused a
great advance, both there, and at home, of cor
rect principles; and if those who have been en
couraged and strengthened by his presence are
faithful to their trust the year 1858 may see the
curse of Britain fast rolling into tho sea, in spite
of all who may fear that she is not prepared for
so great a deliverance. If the world is not
converted in a day to temperance, so neither is
it to Christianity. Why should we be surprised
that men, who flout at all the claims of our holy
religion, who are profane and vile, should have
no regard to the humble claims of temperance?
If they call the master of the house Beelzebub,
much more they of liis household. We ask only
the support of those who imbibe the spirit of the
Gospel (and we thank God, through selfishness
and a wise care of themselves, for time, we have
more), and in a due season, we shall assuredly
conquer. A wider circulation of good temper
ance publications is demanded; more laborers
commanding the respect of the community must
be brought into the field; the pulpit and the
press must come to our aid ; men of wealth must
assist us by their contributions, and the people
must go up by thousands to the halls of legisla
tion, and demand a prohibition of that trafliic
which is the scourge of the land. If men are in
an organization, let them work. If there is no
organization, let them work. Sometimes men
can work better without organization than with.
It is no time for sluggishness or inaction. Too
much lias been accomplished to bo abandoned.
The prospects are too bright, to be disregarded
and lost.
With these few thoughts, wo enter on the man
hood, the twenty-second year, of our Journal:
commending our patrons and friends to him who
careth for us, and wishing them a year of activi
ty and zeal in well-doing knowing that thus they
shall assuredly have a year of blessedness, and an
end of peace.
Here follows something we don't, so fully in
do rse:
Eighteen Mouths without Food.
The Sandy Hill Herald gives the follow account
of the case of Mrs. Hays, of Day, Warren County,
N. Y , who was recently reported as having un
dergone a post-mortem examination which dis
closed the existence of a snake, some five feet
long in the stomach.
Mrs. Hayes is notdead, but remains in the same
condition in which she has been for many months
past.
Incredulous as it may seem, there is little, if
any doubt, hut that t his woman has lived for more
than eighteen months without eating or drinking
We have not alluded to the case before for the
reason of its .apparent incredibility ; but the sci
entific gentlemen, together with hundreds of oth
ers, after the closest scrutiny, have become con
vinced that there is no deception practised, and
that the woman actually subsists without
water. In order to test the matter, a gentleman
took the woman to his residence, and parties
watched her day and night for one month, who
say that she neither ate or drank during that time
and that on food being introduced into the room,
concealed in the pockets of disinterested persons,
the woman would immediately go into horrible
convulsions. The same effect was produced by \
persons taking tobacco, or any kind ol‘ ardent j
spirits where she was.
The wbman is reduced to a perfect skeleton, so
much so that by placing the hand upon the abdo
men the back-bone can be distinctly felt.
We are aware that there are instances on rec
ord something akin to this, which turned out to
be frauds; but if this is a deception, it has been
so adroitly practised that every one who has ex
amined it lias deen duped. Besides, there is no
motive for the deception ; and it is quite incred
ible that any person would suffer to the extent
that this woman has, for the sole purpose of
playing upon the credulity of the public.
Viewed in any light, the subject is worthy the
attention of the scientific and the curious.
Liquor Shops Nuisances. —In one of the towns
of Wisconsin (Richland Centre,) they have a board
of bei Ith. The law of State makes it the duty
of such officers to abate nuisances, which in their
judgment are unfavorable to the public health
and safety. The Board interpreted this law as
applying to the grog-shops, and they acted accord
ingly, public opinion bearing them out in it. In
this view of the matter, every State has a rigid
prohibitory law, more summary and more strict
than even the Maine Jaw.
In our territory, we have a law which provides
heavy penalties for the offence of selling umvliol
some or poisonous articles as food or drink, a law
which really forbids the vending of intoxicating
beverages us itdoes the vending of tainted meat
Indeed, if the public, good, the safety of the peo
ple, is the object of these police and sanitary rules
there is no dodging the Wisconsin application.
There is “ law enough ” in every civilized com
munity to root out the liquor traffic, if the judges
were honest enough to apply it, arid if the people
were emancipated from their silly notions about
the liquor-sellers’ right to live at public expense.
A Good Reason.—“ I say. printer, do you tako Man
hattan money V ’ “No.” “What’s the reason—ain’t
it good?” “Yes.” “Why don’t you take itthent”
“ Can’t get it.”
Mercy. —The mercy of God is a fountain oplm
to all. It branches out into many streams : there
is a fullness in it to meet all our wants.:, there is
mercy to pardon our sins ; mercy to subdue our
iniquities, to heal our backslhlings, to bear with
our infirmities, to restore us to dignity, to meet
us at the grave, to support and comfort us while
passing through the dark valley, and to conduct
us safo into the presence of God ; where tire effects
of that mercy will terminate in “fulness of joy
forever.”
Can a Woman keep a Secret ?
somo or o|hett he pinion that wo
men cannot kecqj secret.', ha- • >bia iik-d aI m< ><t ui ii
lSgecl against them by some crusty, -musty old
bachelor, or originated from the habits of the
I ladies telling secrets, we cannot say ; but if the
j following narrative be true it would go to decide
! the question in she negative :
| ‘‘Dorothy,” said Ichabod, pale and trembling,
| toil is wife, “Dorothy, T have a secret, and if 1
I thought you would keep it inviolable I would
J not hesitate to reveal it to von : but, O Dorothy,
woman.”
| “Why, Ichabod, it must certainly he a secret
j ot great importance, for you*are in a woful agita
j tion. You know, husband, you can place implicit
j confidence in your wife. Have 1 ever given you
i occasion to doubt my fidelity ?”
I “Never, never, Dorothy, but the secret I have
to communicate is one that l-equires move than
ordinary faithfulness and prudence, to prevent
you from divulging it. Oh, dear ! I shudder when
I think on it!”
“V> liy, husband, do you know how your lips
tremble, and your eyes roll ? What is the mat
ter ? Ichabod ! you surely cannot mistrust the
confidence of one who vowed at the altar to be
faithiul to you. Come unbosom yourself V”
I “May i rely on your fidelity ?”’
“ Ichabod. you know you may.”
“Well then, we are both ruined ! undone! I
have committed murder ! ”
“ Murder ! ”
“ es, murder ! and I have buried him at the
foot of a tree in the orchard !”
“<>h. awful! Ichabod. Committed murder !
then, indeed, we are ruined and our children with
us.”
Ichabod left the room, and Dorothy hurried oil’
to a neighbor’s. Mrs. Prattle observed a great
change in Dorthy’s countenance, and in her gen
eral appearance ; so great as to cause her to in
quire into the cause of it.
“Oh, Mrs. Prattle,” said Dorothy, “I am the
! most miserable of women! I am ruined forever.”
i “Mercy, Dorothy, how gloomy you look 1 What
has turned up to make you look so dejected?
Why how you siglr! woman. Toll me the cause.”
“I wish I might, Mrs. Prattle, but the occasion
of my unhappiness is a secret which I am now not
permitted to divulge.”
“O ! you may tell me, Dorothy. I shall never
speak of it again.”
“W ill you promise never to reveal it to any per
son living ?”
“You know, Dorothy, I never tell secrets.”
“ Well, Mbs. Prattle—l scarcely dare say it—
my husband lias committed murder, and buried
him at the foot of a tree in the orchard ! lie told
me ot it himself! For heaven’s sake don’t name it
to any one.”
“Murder ; your husband committed murder !
indeed, Dorothy, you have reason to think your
self ruined ! Poor thing! I pity you from the bot
tom of my heart !”
Dorothy went home weeping, and, leaving her
dough half kneaded and her infant crying in the
cradle, hastened to hold a tete-a-tete with a Mrs.
Tellall. Soon after the confab ended, the report
of Ichabod’s having committed murder became
general and the disclosure of the fact was traced
to his wife Dorothy. Process was immediately
issued against him by a magistrate, before whom,
and in the presence of a multitude of anxious
spectators, lie gave the following explanation.
“My object,/said ichabod, “in the courso I
have pursued, was to test the capability of my wife
Ito keep a secret. I have committed murder, in
asmuch as i killed a toad and buried it at the
loot of a tree in my own orchard. How far my
vvife is capable of keeping a secret has been suffi
ciently proved ; and, with respect to the murder,
those who feel an interest in it are at liberty to
inspect the body.”
HUMOROUS.
i
The Fair Sex.
When Eve brought wo to all mankind,
Old Adam call’d her wo-man;
Bur when she woo'd with love so kind.
He then pronounced her woo-man.
But now with folly, and with pride,
Their husband’s keenly trimming,
The ladies are so full of whims,
The people call them whim- men.
A Searching Operation.-— “ Billy, my dear, where
have you been, at this time of night, to get your shirt
turned wrong side afore?” “Been, mother l— been to
an auction, where a man lost his pocket book; and they
shut the doors, and searched us all from head to foot;
that’s how I got my shirt turned—glad to clear out any
how—staid two hours, and they had’nt half stript when
I left ’em.”
Anecdote. —The crooked streets of Boston arc pro
verbial. Not many years since, says the New Bedford
Gazette, the town of sent anew Representative to
the General Court who had never been in that city of
tortuosities. He started at the usual time, for the capi
ta!, to watch over the interests of Ins constituents, who
were not a little surprised at seeing him hack in less
than a fortnight after he set out. On being asked the
cause of his return, he replied, that he “ staid in the ci
ty ten days—wore out his boots—cat up all his bread
and cheese —could’nt find the State House; and so he
thought it was best to return and report progress !”
Reverie of a Drunkard. — l think liquor’s injuring
me. It’s a spoiling my temperament. Sometimes I
get mad when lam drunk, and abuse Betty and the
Brats—it use to be Lizzie and the children—that’s some
time ago though. I used to come home, then she used to
put her arms around my neck, and kiss me, and call me
dear William.
When I come home now she takes her pipe out of her
mouth, and puts her hair out of her eyes, and looks at
me, and says something like ihis:
“Bill, you drunken brute, shut the door after you;
we are cold enough, having no fire, without let tin? the
snow blow in that way.”
Yes, she’s Betty and I’m Bill now—l ain’t good hill
nutliar—’spoctl’m counterfeit; won’t pass—a tavern
without going in and getting a drink. Don’t know what
hank I’m on; last Sunday I was on the river bank
drunk;
I stay out pretty late now, sometimes I’m out all
night—fact is, I’m out pretty much all over—out of
friends, out of pockets, out at t he elbows and knees, and
always outrageously dirty, so Betty says—but thenshe’s
never clean herself.
There’s one good quality I’ve got—l won’t get in
debt, I never could do it. There now, one of my coat
tails is gone, got tore oll'l ’spect when I fell down ’ere.
I’ll have to get anew suit soon. A fellow told me the
other day I’d make a good sign fora paper mill; if he
was’nt so big I’d lick him. I’ve had this shirt on for
ninety days, and I’m afraid it won’t come off without
tearing. People ought to respect me more than they
do, for lam in holy orders. I ain’t no dandy, though
my clothes is nearly all gresian style. I guess I tore
this hole in my pants behind, the other night when I
sat down on a nail in the carpenter’s shop. I’ve got to
get it mended up, or I’ll catch cold. Lend me three
cents, w ill you ? I feel au awful goneness clea*- away
down in No. lb
Not so Bad. —Miss Drummond, the famous preacher
among the Quakers, being asked by a gentleman if the
spirit had never inspired her with the thoughts of mar
riage. “ No, friend,’’ said she, “ but the tfesh hath of
ten done so.”
Plain English for UxnecessArt Latin. —*• Did the
defendants approach the plaintiff's seriatim ?” inquired
an attorney in a case of assault and battery the other
day. “No sir-rcc,” was the reply, •’lie went at 'em
with a poker!”
Nothing checks the play of the imagination more ef
fectually than empty pockets. •
Sentimental. — A poor jilted blade says :
Woman’slove is like Scotch snoff,
You get one pinch, and that’s enough.
Whereupon a darkey of more sense, ns well as soul, re
sponds :
Woman’s Inii’s like injv rubber,
It stretch de more, do more you lub her.
A man whose appearance indicated that lie w’as stag
gering from the excessive weight of a brick in his hat,
being asked if he was a son ot temperance, replied:
“ Hie-no-no--relation—not even his acquaintance.”
Tle Fight iw the House.
Mr. Keitt, of fciouth Carolina, on Monday ufteuwou,
immediately altqr the passage of Harris resolution
in the House, made an explanation in reference to the
affair between fiimisejfand Mr. throw, of Pennsylvania,
which is reported as follows in tire Ctlofie of the same
evening:
Mr. Keitt, by unanimous consent ot the House, made
a personal explanation. He assumed all responsibility
for the violation of the dignity and decorum of the House
on Saturday morning. He, he said, was the aggressor,
and he alone. He expressed his profound regret tor the
occurrence. , . . , . ,
Personal collisions, especially m a legislative body,
were reprehensible, if possibly avoidable. He could not
say whether or not a blow was directed at him. He!
was not conscious of having received one. He. wished j
to make to4he House whatever reparation he could, by !
this expression of his regret for what had occurred. |
Mr. Grow said that he had boon taaght in his youth;
that fights among men were disgraceful. Yet the right
o self-defence was dearto him.
On Saturday morning, for the first time in his life, he
was engaged in a personal encounter; He expressed;
his regret at its occurrence, and tendered his apologies
to the House.
The House then (at twenty minutes before three) ad- i
journed. * > ..
Oapt. Henry Bond died: at-his residence in Te Hahns- ;
see, Fla., on the evening of the sth instant.
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I foreign Sews.
?We condense, weekly, in tbis column, from the i4p
graphic dispatches of our exchaitges, all the Foreign
j News consequence. f| m ? ° a
URT.tF.u-, :Feb. 14. The
, steamship Niagara, his arrived with Overpool datePf
•Saturday, January 30.
! News.— A week’s later intelligence had been
. received from India. Gen. Outrain had defeated the in
; surgents in India and raptured four of their guns at.
■ Alambagh.
Letters received from China state,that the American
i Commissioner, Mr. Reed, had sought an interview with
j * an d met. with a sarcastic rebuff Lord Elgin’s de-
I niand had also been rejected in the same strain. A
; speedy attack on Canton was anticipated.
The mammoth iron steamship, the Leviatltin, was
expected to be afloat on the day (he Niagara left.
1 here was a growing ease in the money market, and
j a further redaction in the rate*of the Bank of England
I was anticipated.
! . A decree has been issued to divide the French army
j into five divisions under Marshals Cus’telfaine, Bosquet,
j Pellissier and Vaillant!
The congratulatory addresses by the army to the Ein
: peror, are growing offensive to the English.
Lablnche, the great Italian basso, is dead.
| A conspiracy ugainet the King of Naples, had been
j discovered.
Commercial Intelligence—Liverpool Cotton Market. —
i The sales of cotton for the week ending Thursday, Jan
i uary 28th, were 115,000 bales; of which speculators took
J 11,500, and exporters 2,5.00 oales, leaving to the trade
j 51.000 bales. The advance during the week was Id.,
j caused principally by the favorable news from the Uni
j ted Stales brought by the steamship Baltic, which left
‘ New York on the 16th of January. . The business of the
; week closed buoyant. The following are the author
, izeii quotations:
Fair Orleans, 7}d. Midling Orl’ns., 6 16-15d.
Mobile, ?id. “ Mobile, 6gd.
“ Uplands, 7d. “ Upl’ds., 613-16d.
On Friday the sales reached 7,000 bales, of which
4,000 were taken by speculators and exporters, and the
market dosed steady.
The stock of cotton in Liverpool was 360,000bales,in
cluding 196,000 American.
Liverpool General Market. —Flour was very dull and
almost unsaleable. Wheat was quite inactive and had
declined 2d.'since Tuesday. Sugar dull at 6d. decline.
Coflee quiet. Rice dull, and quotations barely main
tained. Rosin steady at 4s. a 4s. 3d. Turpentine firm
at 375. on the spot, and at 355. a 375. to arrive.
London Trade. —The Tea trade in London was steady.
Breadstflus were dull and declining, and Corn steady.
Manchester Trade. —Advices from the manufacturing
districts continucdavorable, as there are more buyers
than sellers.
London Money Market. —Money continues easier.—
The Bank of England has reduced its rate of discount
to four per cent. Consols for money and account 95£.
ADDITIONAI. NEWS JSY THE NIAGARA.
Halifax, Feb. 15.—The Directors of the Fast India
Company have presented their protest against the
Queen’s government assuming control in India.
Parliament has been summoned to meat on the 4th of
February.
Commissioner Reed asked for an interview with Yeh,
who replied that he would meet the United States Com-’
missioner at the outside of the city, but uo barbarian
could be allowed to enter Canton.
The, house of the Rolhschitds is reported to be nego
tiating a loan for the Pope of Rome.
Naples is afflicted with divers conspirators.
There is a prospect of Great Britain's purchasing the
Island ot Perem, situated in the Gulf of Cambay, Hiu
dostqn, and commanding the entrance to the Red Sea,
without asking the mediation of other powers.
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Unit Drinking Poisonous Liquor*.
The following ridiculous rigmarole of Lacour’s Oils,
was clipped from among the conspicuous advertisements
of a Western paper. We publish it for the benefit of our
drinking friends, to let them see how much pure Whis
key they drink. The most redieulons idea connected
with this advertisement is, it is headed with the injunc
tion, “ Quit Drinking Poisonous Liquors." —[Ed. Crus.]
Patent Improved Process for making all kinds of Liquors
and Vinegar Instantly, by the use of Lacour’s Es
sent ini Oils.
These Oils are obtained by Distillation of the Chem
ical Laboratory, Parish of Jefferson, by Pierre Lacour,
author of Lacour’s Chemical Analysis, Lacour’s Chem
ical Manipulations, Lacour on the manufacture of Li
qours. &c.
Purchasers are particularly requested to return the
flasks and obtain the money, if the Oil does not give
perfect satisfaction.
LACOUR’S OIL OF COGNAC, converts neutral
spirits to a superior imitation of Imported Brandies,
viz : Otnrd, Sazerao, Maretz, Cognac, Poultncy, Seig
nette, United Vineyard Proprietors, Castillion and Lon
don Dock Brandies. These liquors will have a fruity
full flavor, and a beautiful sparkling color. Common
Rectified Whiskey, will be changed by the use of the
Oil ol Cognac, to New York Brandy, Pine Apple Bran
dy. common Cognac Brandy, &c.
LACOUR’S OIL OF RYE changes Rectified Whis
key to Monongaheia, Rye Whiskey, Old Virginia Mall
Whiskey, Bourbon Whiskey, &c.
OIL OFGEDRAT changes common Rectified Whis
key, to Old Irish Malt Whiskey, and a superior article
of Scotch Whiskey.
.DID OF PEACH changes common Whiskey to Vir
ginia Peach Brandy, &<:. Oil of Peach and Oii of Cog
nac will convert common Whiskey to Apple Brandy.
OIL OF GIN converts the poorest Whiskey to Hol
land Gin, Shcidam Schnapps, Rose Gin, Swan Gin,
English Gin, &c.
LACOUR’S CONCENTRATED ACID will, in five
hotirs alter being mixed, change live gallons of good
Vinegar and twenty-five gallons of water to thirty gal
lons ot the most acid Vinegar that can be found in the
market. Bv the use of Lacour’s Concentrat&l Acid,
\ inegar can be made for one dollar and fifty cents per
barrel.
FOR MAKING LIQUORS, Lacour’s Oils require
no Preparation—only pour the oil into whiskey and
shake well. The liquors thus made, will have a fine
natural aroma, a lull, rich, oily taste; beautiful trail -
spa rent color and a line bead. Lacour’soils exert three
distinct qualities, in converting common whiskey to
brandy, gin, &c. The first property combines with,
and subsides in the form of Hoculont particles the
whole ot the grain oil (Antylic Alcohol). The whiskey
is thus deprived of that peculiar irritating and burning
taste, and becomes a neutral spirit, the second proper
ty consists in an oily mucillaginous taste imparted to
the liquor, which renders it mellow, and imparts an ap
pearance of great ago; the third property is exhibited
in the rich vinous nutty odor that is imparted in the li
quor, which renders distinction from the genuine brands
impossible.
! hese oils are put up in quart flasks; each flask con
tain oil enough for making three hundred gallons of li
quor. I nil and comprehensive directions accompany
the bottles. Price $2 per bottle.
for sale at the corner ol St. Charles and Poydras
streets. New Orleans, La.
.One bottle of these Oils, five in number, will be se
curely packed and shipped, with hill of lading, to any
part ot the country, upon the receipt of *lO to the ad
dj£fsof P. LACOUR.
Purchasers are requested, as a guarantee of good
laith, to furnish us the name of any house in New Or
leans, and we will ship them a package of the Oils. If
they do not periorm all that is claimed for them, they
will cost nothing.
The Worldling’* BeatH Bed.
‘‘How shocking must thy summons be, O Death !
I o him that is at ease in his possessions—
\\ ho, conn ting on long years of pleasure here.
Is quite unfurnished for the world to come.
In that dread moment, how the frantic soul
Raves round the walls ot her clay tenement,
Runs to each avenue and shriekes for help,
But shrieks in vain. How wishfully she looks
Un all she s leaving—now no longer her’s
A little longer, yet a little longer !
* j she stay to wash away her stains,
And fit her for her passage ! Mournful sight !
Her \eiv eyes weep blood, and every groan
yhe heaves, is big with horror ! But the foe,
Like a staunch murderer, steady to his purpose
Pursues her close through every lane of life™
Nor misses once the track, but “presses on,
Till forced at last to the tremendous verge,
At once she shrinks to everlasting ruin.”
Anonymous Slander.
Nothing is more superlatively cowardly than slander
which shelters itself behind an anonymous
Where a man assumes the responsibility of his actions
and his words, he exhibits courage at least, however lie
may fail in justice, courtesy and good sense. It is the
craven alone who stabs in the dark, who insults and
abuses under a fictitious name, and who shrinks in the
liar of discovery of the person. As in the natural world
the smallest insects are the most venomous, and the.
smallest puppies the most snarling and ill-natured, so in
the intellectual world ; the smallest souls the most en
venomed. To attempt amendment, were useless and
unprofitable ; nature has given such minds correspond
ing hearts, and sent them npoti earth to heighten by
contrast the worth of the magnanimous, the generous
and the great.
TRIBUTES OF RESPECT^
j The following resolutions were passed by Atlanta
Lodge, No. 1 Knights of Jericho, at a regnlnr nicotine
| held oil the 13th February, 1858:
It has pleased “Him who doeth all things well,” to
] remove from earth and from our circle, our esteemed
; and beloved sister. Mrs. Louisa C. Martin, who died
i on the Bth inst., in the 53d year of her age.
j For the last three years, Sister Martin has been a
i worthy and valued member of this Lodge, and for
j twenty-five years'll consistent and humble memberof
! the MethodistJ Episcopal Church, deporting herself at
I all times, as became one sustaining these
j relations.
I In view of our loss, and the many virtues of our de
j parted Sister, be it
Resolved, I hat we deeply deplore the loss our
Lodge has sustained, in the demise of our Sister. Mrs.
Louisa tk the same by
wearing tin usual badge of moufmngtoinl OpPI
Resolved, That we tender our condolence to the
family of out deceased Sister, for the affliction cauteecl
by this great bereavement; and that a copy of these pro
ceedings be forwarded tothefamily, and also to-the Ed*
itor of the 7 emperanve Crusaderfor Publication.
A true copy from the minutes.
William R HVNLEtTEit, R. &-