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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 .-. : : | 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. || 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. - >- 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. &-