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I S'emjierance PENPIEIiB, GEORGIA. —; -:. ■■ ■ ■:— — . ■ ‘I ■ Ifo ■ ‘ ’ THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25,1858, CLUBS. Clubs of Ton. Subscribers, by sending the cask, can get ths Crusader at *1 50 per copy. Glubs of Five at $1 80 per copy. Any person sending fve new subscribers, will receive antra copy of the paper one year, free of cast. A Word to Post Masters* When a subscriber refuses to take his paper from the office, if you prefer sending the paper back to the Editor, do, for the sake of “ common sense,” write the office on the paper returned. We would much prefer that Post masters, instead of returning the paper, would write us a line, informing us of papers to be discontinued, for when they are sent back, they get so abused in the mail bags, that they are unfitted for any further service. Just here we would also add A Word to Subscribers. It is very unbecoming and ungenerous in any subscri ber to refuse to take his paper from the office. If he wishes it discontinued, it is unquestionably his preroga tive to stop it whenever he chooses to do so; but the proper way to do it, is to drop a line to the proprietor, informing him of the fact, and inquiring the amount of his duesitothe paper, which every honest man will settle before discontinuing his patronage. Getting the Paper Irregularly. Several subscribers have discontinued their subscrip tions to this paper recently, and urge as the reason for so doing that the “paper comes irregularly”—“they miss half the numbers,” &c. We are wholly at a loss to account for the irregularities, and cannot think the difficulty lies in the printing office, for we hope and be lieve that those whose business it is to address the pa pers, are faithful, and direct a paper to each subscriber regularly. take pleasure in calling the attention of our numerous readers to the advertisements in this paper of the Monroe Female University and the Georgia Educa tional Journal. Rev. P. H. OTell. We are pleased to announce that the Rev, Prof. Mell preached for us on last Sabbath evening. He was, un expectedly to himself, called upon by the Pastor of the church; yet, he gave us a very fine sermon. His voice sounded familiarly, and it looked like old times ta see him in the pulpit of the Penfield church. Smith Jones murdered by a Negro. Mr. Jones was overseeing for Mr. Hart of Union Point, in this county, and in riding through the planta tion, he came upon a boy, a run-away, the property of Reuben Bennett, Esq. but hired by Mr. Hart. The boy pretended to surrender himself; but as Mr. Jones was getting from his horse to take him, he struck him a blow on the head with a stick and continued beating him un til he mangled his head horribly, leaving no breath in him. The boy, on being asked why he killed Mr. Jones, replied that another negro had promised to give him six or seven dollars if he would do it. Both of them are con fined in jail. Several others, we believe, are implicated. Jones is known by a good many as Jesse Jones. He was an excellent man, highly respected by everybody, and was an easy and lenient overseer. Profane Swearing in Witticism*. Nothing is more common in these wicked times than to find almost every anecdote which is perpetrated inter larded with profane swearing and obscene allusions ; indeed, the habit is so common that the narrator imag ines that his version will not take nor be funny unless he introduces this bad English into its narration. But it is a serious error, and editors commit grave wrongs by publishing such language ; for the influence which it exerts upon the minds and morals of the young, is exceedingly injurious. We are as guilty as any one, of the sin which we are condemning, and a very intelligent and highly respected gentleman, and minister, gives us the following elbowing, yet very wholesome suggestions upon the subject, in a private communication. His re marks are decidedly to the point, and eminently worthy of consideration ; and we trust he will pardon us for the liberty we take in laying them before the craft gener ally: “ My children are eager for the Crusader, and when ever it comes, the strife (a very friendly one) is, who 6hall read it first; and this is often settled by one’s agreeing to read it for the rest. Barring some few al lusions and d—ds copied into it occasionally, they are pleased with the paper ; and I add with pleasure, I think they derive profit from its perusal. As this is intended for your own eye alone, please pardon the liberty I take in the last sentence, and allow me to suggest, that if an anecdote or witticism cannot be sufficiently animated without quoting all the indelicate or profane expressions of the original, it would be far better for the morals of the young especially, to reject it altogether. I know the idea generally prevails, that when we vary the terms of an anecdote, &c. by omission or substitution, we de stroy its raciness. But I know, again, from long obser vation of the young, that when their elders seem to be pleased with the vulgar or profane in language or man ners, they do not often discriminate between such inde cencies and the wit that is associated with them; and thus, they are in danger of losing their horror of such things, and concluding that there is no great harm in them after all. Now when we are called upon to decide between mere temporary qualification and the safety of the moral principle, the question, I think, ought to be a very easy one. I mention this with the best feeling, and trust you will receive it as meant, in kindness, as a suggestion —not as a dictation. , ' > An Engliih view of tlie Negro. TheXiiverpool Post says there are twenty times as many “niggers” in Africa as in all the West India Is lands and on the American continent, and five hundred fold worse. They are the most miserable of hu man beings—the most degraded of men. They have always been so ; the sun for six thousand years at least, has looked down upon them and found them not only “ black and curly,” but the most debased of slaves. It was not the white man who did this—the black man was tyrant. A transfer to the white man was bliss; bondage remained—but how different from chains im posed on them on their native soil, and original dwell ing-place. The Post again asks, “is there any hope for the future ?” which it answers, “m t if things are allowed to remain as they are. The aptitude of the negro fcr civilization presents only individual examples; the mass have been savage. They are now savages in Africa. There is no use questioning the sact —it is true. Brought within the control and influence of the white man, it might be different—would be different, but or dinary means will never overcome obstacles to the ex ercise of that influence. Released from the presence of civilization, the negro will relapse into the barbarism of his race.” The North American Temperance Conventicn, which inet at Chicago the latter part of last year, was com posed of Old Line Teetotalers, Sons, Templars, Cler gymen and laymen, and all classes of temperance men and they adopted the following as a National Platform. t v i* w of the facts which the temperance reforma tion has developed, and especially in view of the pres ent crisis, we deem it important that there should be a declaration of principles and plans, in which all tempe rance men and organizations can agree: Therefore, For ourselves, in the North American 1 emperance Convention assembled, and as our earnest recommendation to our fellow-laborers as individuals the following f VCra organizationB > we adopt and declare abstlnence fr °m all indicating liquors as a 2. license in any form or under any circumstan ces for the sake of such liquors to be use/as such 4. The absolute prohibition of the manufacture and saie of intoxicating liquor* for such purposes-prohibi tion by the will of the people expressed in due forms of law, with the penalties deserved for a crime of such enormity. 4. The creation of a healthy public opinion upon this subject by the active dissemination of the truth in all the modes known to an enlightened philanthropy. 5. The election of good, honest men to administer the laws. • ” 6. Persistence in efforts to save individuals from so direful a scourge, against all forms of opposition and difficulty, until our success is complete and universal. Nothin’ sets up a woman’s spunk like callin’ her ug ly—she gets her back'right up, like a cat when a strange dog comes near her; she’s all eyes, claws and bristles. . A sailor, looking serious in a Boston chapel, was asked if he felt any change ? -“Not a cent” said Jack. The following morceaii was evidently penned by some love-sick swain who was “sold:” •* : j While in the dark on thy soft hand I hung, , And heard the tempting Byreh in thy tongue, What flames, what darts, what anguish I-endured! But when the candle entered—l was cured f Get as Tkleatlasl This thing of marrying, O how/at it does make the girlaldro* a.follow! The season when lovers express The* tender passions to eaeh other, came around with its attendant joyoueness to young hearts} the boys and girls were sending and receiving nice little love-tricks “ and sick like,** to and from thei t “ sweetly amilings,” and enjoying themselves vastly, but we received nothing of the kind. No, indeed; nothing !. In days past, when the time for Valentines came, we never failed to get a hat-full, and they continued to come for a week or more after the time; and before the law requiring postage pre-paid, we used to get two hats-full, and it most ru ined us to pay the postage ; but on the last 14th, we re ceived nary one —not 15th either; no, indeed, not one—not one ! Old sweethearts, where are ye \ But our very consoling consolation was, we had, and still have, one mighty nice girl in the same neglected predicament with ourself—one whose every smile is equivalent to a car-load of pseudonymous love-billets. Yes, when a fellow gets married the girls chop him right square off. He immediately becomes very homely find uninterest ing ; has no personal attractions; is very extravagant and immoral; nothing he can say is keen nor smart; he is invited to no symposiums; the girl he married did very poor business—and so on. This is the charaeter of every fellow after marriage. Now see here girls: Men sometimes marry twice, and some widowers are as clever and as acceptable to the girls as young men who have never married ; and if we are to judge from the ease and readiness with which widowers generally seem to marry, we would say they were more acceptable to the girls than the young men. At any rate, a widower can get married much sooner than a widow ; you know that, and ye ought to think of these things, oughten ys ? Now we hope and pray that ice may never be a widower, but we throw out these hints as food for your leisure contemplation. A decided Hit. A friend writing from Sandersville, in this State, gives us the following humorous argument, in our raising to two dollars. It is the best thing yet, and we cannot desist from publishing it: “ Sandersville, Feb. 15th, 1858. T suppose it is time to send on money for the Crusader again, and you gay send two dollars. Being an old eit izen of Greene and a strong cold-water man, we must have the Crusader anyhow. We always thought the Crusader very cheap at one dollar, and if a bachelor has one dollar, we expect an addition to the family to make it two; however, some of the boys down here are un easy, for fear every addition to tne family will add an other dollar; but I tell them I think not. If it is your intention to do so, though may you be a Washington in every respect, and may your fame be handed down only in the same way as his. The inclosed two dollars place to my account/’ We think there is considerable truth and poetry both, in the addition- &l idea of our friend. He is liberal in his views, and hence, is the right kind of a man. In merchandise, as a man’s liabilities increase, he must also increase his assets. Why, then, may we not aug ment our income to enable us to “ meat ’’ additional respon sibilities f But the “ boys” need not fear, as our terms are about as high as we shall aspire, unless our respon sibilities increase too rapidly. W hen Does Morning End V In these fashionable days, it wilfpussle a great ma ny to answer the above question; and if it be regulated by the dining hour, it will have a great many different answers. But a friend has answered it very satisfacto rily for the Life Illustrated as follows: “ We used to suppose that there was some fixed point where morning ended and evening commenced, say, at 12 o’clock, M. v But we find when we speak according to that idea, we are constantly being misunderstood, or are misunderstanding others. We see morning Concerts announced to commence at 2P. M.; morning calls be ing made until we consider it near supper time, and morning meetftigs only a little while before sundown.— Persons meet in the street: one says, ‘ good morning,’ the other ‘ good evening.’ To enable ourselves to un derstand this seemingly parabolical use of the word morning,we appealed to an old friend who is supposed to know everything in relation to Manners and Customs. ‘ Why, my good friend,’ said he, ‘ morning means till after dinner.’ Fashionable people dine at 6P. M., and consequently all who desire to be thought fashionable, never say even until that time, no matter whether they are able to have any dinner or not.’ We stood informed and also convinced that should fashionable people de termine to call day night and night day, so it must be, for here fashion rules supreme.” Anecdote of Alexander Hamilton. -The follow ing anecdote of this great Statesman is taken from a collection of English newspaper cuttings in the posses sion of the New Yor%Historial Society : “ General Hamilton, the American, when a youth of seventeen, was chief clerk to an eminent merchant in St. Eustatia, who being absent, the business of the counting-house, of course, devolved on young Hamil ton. He had presented to him a letter directed to his master, when, supposing it related to the mercantile concerns, he opened it; but his surprise was great when he found that it contained a challenge to his master, whose proxy he was. The young hero answered the challenge in the name of his master, and the time and place were mentioned.in the reply. Hamilton appeared to the antagonist of his master on the field, and, to use his own words, * did his business in his absence,’ and would not agree to any compro mise, except on the express condition that the challen ger should acknowledge in writing, that he had received suitable satisfaction from Mr. , that he was a gentleman of honor, Ac., and further, that he, (Hamil ton) should never be known in the business—which terms the challenger was obliged to accede to, or fight young Hamilton ; he chose the former, and the parties separated. In a lew months, however, it came to his master’s ear, who was so struck with the magnanimity of such conduct, that he gave him liberty to go to the continent, choose what profession he pleased, and draw on him to any amount. Perhaps to this anecdote, Amer ica is indebted for the service and abilities of a man, who has not his superior as a soldier, a financier and a state sman.” Young Man* I love to look upon a young man. There is a hidden potency concealed within his breast which charms and pains me. I silently ask, what will that youth accom plish in after life f Will he take rank with the bene factors or scourgers of his race ? Will he exhibit; the patriotic virtues of Hampden and Washington, or the selfish craftiness of Benedict Arnold ? If he has gen ius will he consecrate it, like Milton and Montgomery, to humanity and religion, or, like Moore and Milton, to the polluted altars of passion ? If he have mercantile skill, will he employ it like Astor, to gratify his lust of wealth, or to elevate and bless humanity, like some of our merchant princes ? If the gift of eloquence be hid den in his undeveloped soul, will he use it, like Sum merfield in favor of religion, or like Patrick Henry, in battling for human rights ? Or will he, for mammon’s sake, prostitute that gift to the use of tyranny and infi delity ? Will that immortal soul, which beams with intelligence and power in his countenance,ally itself with its Creator, and thus rise in the sublime height of desti ny ? or will it wage war with truth and duty and thus sink to degradation and death ? As I raise these great queries, I at once do reverence to the potentiality of his nature, and tremble for his fate. —Daniel Wise. On one occasion, during Burr’s old age, when his kind but low-spirited landlady, had met with an afflic tion, she said to him : “ Oh! Colonel, how shall 1 get through this?” “Live through it, my dear!” was his emphatic re ply. Still complaining, she said, “ This will kill me, Co lonel, I know I cannot survive this.” “Well,” said he, “die then, Madame. We must all die; but bless me, die game.’* The story suggests the ruling characteristic of the great conspirator. He committed, it is true, grave sins, but he never whined over the penalty. He faced the consequences without flinching, and disdained to apol ogise or express a contrition which he did not feel.— Even during his four years of pitiable exile in Europe, his only regret in contemplating his poverty, arises from His inability to see his daughter and her little child, and to purchase the beautiful gifts which he desired to lavish upon them on his return. In a word, Burr livad and died as he advised his only landlady to live and die —game. r A . W rL DECISIO *-~ Judge Closer, of the Probate Court of Windsor, Vermont, nas decided that a good tZL n 7T Per , i8 ° ne ° f the neceßflftr y articles for the duri e “>• ■.■•lement of .0 ow„ ~oUo„ of ,Z “ ““ ke h * r Parson Green of Hemnstfn#i t t • erable clergyman in the UnitAri’ft* \’’ if moat ven* ty-nine years old WheSu t 68 ’ being now nine was a soldier he Pnch , Bowl is to be placed, by the Kish Mu^n e m Mr A HaS S’ a !"°£ g t „ he treasures of he antish Museum. A water m the Alliance thinks that thie, w;th all drinking cups, would be most fittimrlv dn posited ih Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors There they might suggest a moral and unfold™ tale which would do the world good service. Our old friend, P. H. B. of Canton, Cherokee, gives us the following pointed and very acceptable rhyme, taking off preacher and dinner, nicely: For the Georgia Temperance Crusader. I peeped into a dngert. I peeped into a doggery To see what I could aee; And learn by chance, if possible, Who in that place could be : I saw a Baptist deacon, And a Methodist close by, And a einner —altogether, Communing lovingly! When pretty well befuddled, The trio staggered out j The two to let their light shine Upon the ether's rout! I did not care to watch them, Tho’ the scene no doubt was rich, When darkness came upon them, And found them in the ditch! 1 met the pious deacon, Avery few days after ; And he was solemncoly, While I was full of laughter. He said it pained him sorely, To see the hearts of men, So fully set within them To walk the paths of sin! I also met the Methodist, Who said that he had never Seen vice prevail so greatly, And his face was long as ever ! I met the thoughtless sinner, When I had seen the others, Who said his chance for heaven Was equal to the brothers ! P. H. B. SuTiLLEE Ga., Feb. 18th 1858. Alcohol was invented, 950 years ago, by the son of & strange woman, Hager, in Arabia. Ladies used it with powder to paint themselves, that they might appear more beautiful. During the reign of William and Ma ry an act was passed encouraging the manufacture of spirits. Soon after intemperance and profligacy pre vailed to such an extent that the retailers in intoxicating drinks put up signs in public places informing the peo ple that they might get drunk for a shilling, and have some straw to get sober on again. An Orchestra Composed of Females. —The Jour nal da Conatantinoplc states, that an orchestra of fe males is now being formed in the palace, and that 86 instruments are being constructed specially for it, but with the modifications called for by the inferior strength of the fair musicians. Among the instruments are flutes, flagiolets, cornets, ophclides, trumpets and trom bones. Drums, cymbals and Turkish bells are rather numerous; the drums are painted green and red, and are profusely decorated with gold and sliver. “ Is a man and his wife both one ?” asked the wife of a certain g entleman, in a state of stupefaction, as she was holding his aching head in both hands. “ Yes, I suppose so,” was the reply. “ Well, then,” said she; “I come home drunk last night, and ought to be ashamed of myser.” Murder. —On Saturday morniug last, Mr. Jenkins, overseer of Mr. Benjamin Gates, of Meriwether county, was murdered by a negro woman while attempting to punish her for some misdemeanor. Having struck her three oy four licks with a switch, she drew a knife from her pocket, and, having but one arm, opened it with her teeth, stabbed him in the neck, severing the jugular vein, causing his death in fifteen or twenty minutes. — She is now in Greenville jail awaiting her trial.—New nan Blade. Gen. Haskell again Insane.- —The follow ing paragraph is from the Louisville Courier of the 9th inst., from which it will appear that Gen. Wm. T. Haskell is again insane and confined in the Lunatic Asylum at Hopkinsville, Ky. : “Our attentive correspondent, “Broomstix,” tele graphs us from Hopkinsville, under date of yesterday, mat Gen. W. T. Haskell, of Tennessee, has again be come deranged, and is now confined in the Lunatic asy lum at Hopkinsville.” “ It will be reoollected that Gen. H. was recently dis missed from the Asylum at Lexington, cured. His re cent letters and poetical contributions to the papers certainly indicated an unsound mind.” Homicide. —The Dahlonega Mountain Signal says : that on Tuesday morning last, a Coroner’s inquest was held over the body of Sophia Phillips, of that place, who was found dead in the bed. The verdict of the Jury was that the deceased came to her death from a blow on the head with a piece of iron, inflicted by her hus band, George Phillips. Phillips is now confined in jail to await hisjtrial. Both were drunk. What a pity he did not then butt his own brains out. The country should he rid ot all such brutish couples. Stampede in a Court Room. —The New York papers say that, on Monday last, in the Police Court at Brook lyn, an Iyshman was brought in for sentence for some offence of which he had been convicted. As he stood there among other prisoners r waiting sentence, it was noticed that the small pox was breaking out on him with great virulence. Immediately a great stampede took place, the clerk turned ghastly pale and leaped out of .the window ; the judge, thinking the building was about to tumble about his ears, tumbled out the window after .the clerk, while the deputy sheriff and some other offi cers got out the way of infection by climbing among the. rafters. The Irishman was got out of doors and wag told to send and never return. The extra judicial sen tence, “Pat” availed himself of, with due alacrity.— The court stood adjourned that day, no one venturing back into the room. The Toothache.— “My dear friend,” saidH., “I can cure your tooth in ten minutes.” “How? how?” inquiredL. “Do it in pity.” “ Instantly,” said he. “ Have you any alum ?” “Yes.” “Bring it and some eommon salt.” They were produced. My friend pulverized them, mixed them in equal quantities, then wet a small piece of cotton, causing the mixed powder to adhere, and placed it in my hollow tooth. “ There,” said he, “if that does not cure you, I .will forfeit my head. You may tell this to everybody and publish it everywhere ; the remedy isinfalliable.” It was as he predicted. On the introduction of the mixed alum and salt, I experienced a sensation of cold ness which, gradually subsided, and with it—the alum and the salt—l cured the torment of the toothache.— Maidenville Reader. Confidential Letter from an Itinerant Poli tician to the Hon. Stephan A. Douglas. Way Down East, Ist, 1858. My. Dear Stephin: I sea By the papurs that they are makin a grate fus about yeou. and that them Dim oerat hounds are arter yeou with Hot pokers. So I thot may be yeou wood be a leetle given to melancholy misanthrophy, and all them kind o’ bad feelins, or as we used tu say when we went tu Schule together kind o’ deoun the mouth. And so I thot that maybe tWould kind ’o cheer yeou up a leetle to heer from your old -friend Nicholas. As near as i can find out by the pa purs, but the papurs down this way will lie so like the d—-1, yeou cant tali much by um. Butasnearasl can find eout they are makin all the noise and abusin yeou so like the Mischief, jist case yeou wont swaller Cancers, border ruifina and all; now i tell yeou Stephin dont yeou du it. Yeou never would injoy good health arterwards and it mite kill yeou rite off—thim Dimocrat fellers will try every way that they can think on to make you swaller Caneers constituehun, but dont yeou du it, as yeou regard the advice of ycour old Friend Nicholas, it wouldnt agree with yeour constitushun no how ; tell them in the language of the Immortal hannibal,changed jist enough to suit the Occashun, thut “’tis not that yeou love Cances less, but that you love little Stephin a. duglas more” if they insist on your takm it, tell um in the words of Jeremiar, “ That selfperservashun is the fust law Os natur.*'—if they turn yeou out ot the Dimoerat party, And yeou cant find no whar els to go, come and gine the Publican party, want some smart man jist like yeou—the Dimocrats call our party the black Publicans, but dont be timorous about that Ste phin, wc aint so black as there niggars, thothey du say that some of the niggars are most as white as we ar— neow Stephin, the Dimocrats have got so kinder o down on yeou, it looks like yeou hadnt much chance to git eny more offis from that party, sohadent yeou better make a strata thing of it and come rite over at once and gine the publican party, i think We mite du something for yeou. to Tell the truth Stephin we hant got many smart men and wc must look out for somebody to run for Precident in 1860. Thar is Sumner he has kind o gin eout since Colonel Brooks whaled him. it seems like he is asham ed to go ahead eny more —he wont and than Bill Seward and Jack hale, but they are old broken down hacks, it wontdutu runem, they wood get distanced the fust Quarter. Banks wants the nominashun bad anuff, an he is lookin eout arter it rite sharp tu, but sense the banks have all caved in, it seems like every body is afeared to trust banks. I have cum tu the conclushun that banks is a failure, i wiil du all in my power tu git yeou nominated, and then if yeou get elected yeou will remember yeour old fiiend Nicholus, of course. i shall be travellin round for the present, sellin my patent nutmeg maysheen and i will rite to yeou often and let yeou know how politercal matters stand round in different parts of the World, as i shall rite in the most confidenshall manner i want yeou to be mity keer ful and not let any of them newspapur Porturs git hold of my lettura, unless yeeu think it would vanee yeour interests to have them printed, from your Psrlitercal friend. ’ . (For ..the Crusader.) A ■ his Head In a Barrel. MR- Editor : As I was standing, early one morning some months since, at the door of a village hotel where I had spent the previous night, I saw a young bullock a little way off ih the public square with his head in u barrel, apparently trying to reach something at the bot tom. I soon found that he was fast; for though he tossed his head up and down, and from side to side with no little energy, he could not shake off the barrel. He had, no doubt, thrust in his muzzle in search of salt or straw, (for it was a dry barrel); but his chin and two horns formed a triangle whose points could not all find outlet at once, the tip of one horn hanging at every ef fort. He was quite a spectacle for pity or for sport, ac cording to the temper of the spectator, especially as sev eral young men attempted to help him off with his in convenient head-drese, some holding to the animal while others pulled lustily at the barrel; and before he could be relieved, it was found necessary to smash the barrel. The occurrence suggested to my mind a much graver scene that has often been witnessed among men. Yes, sir, we have seen many a one of our own kind, in the bloom and vigor of life, with his head in a barrel ! At first intending merely to see whai was there and how it tasted, or yielding to the earnest solicitations of a com • panion just for one time, rather than be teased or taunted for squeamishness, and scorning the very thought of ev er being found again in such a predicament, multi tudes have thrust in the muzzle, and found themselves at length fast in a barrel. O, how vexed with themselves at first for having condescended to search in such a place for gratification, or disgraced themselves in their own eyes, rather than bear a little opposition ! How confident of treeing themselves of the hateful thing at the very first toss of the head, and that toss, how ex pressive of'self reproach for the first stoop, and yet, of self reliance for the future ! But a relish conceived for the good creature, like the chin of the bullock, or pride insulted at reproof, lik§ one of his horns, has served in most instances to foil the effort to throw off; so that few men once initiated have met with the deliverance experienced by their quadruped likeness —most of them alas ! have lived and died with their heads in a barrel! See the thousands at the present day, in our own land alone, thus embarreled, many of them talented and cultivated, qualified to serve their country in her highest councils, and otherwise favored with the means of diffusing happiness around them with honor and wealth, in hand and in prospect ! What shall be done to extricate them ? Many agencies have been long employed tor this truly noble purpose, such as the tender and earnest expostulations ofrelatives and friends, combined with the efforts of temperance organizations, wielding all the force of example and moral suasion— but with what success? We feel grateful that some such have been saved to themselves, their families and their country ; but if we have hearts to feel for human woe, we must mourn that a greater number promise nothing but death in a barrel ; while many influences are at work to lessen the horror and enhance the dan ger of such a result to millions more ! The avowed friendsof temperance have in many places waxed few er and feebler,while the depraved appetite of the votary of drink, the cupidity of the retailer, the enticements of the fashionable saloon, and worse than all, the fascinations of the festive board, where witching woman presents the wine cup, are strengthning in a fearful ratio., What & spectacle ! what a prospect! Shall we feel in sight of the one, shudder at the thought of the other, and still not act ? The advocates of temperance may pull at the barrel, while the friends of the deluded tippler pull at him ; but his head is in the barrel, and there it will re main, unless someone shall smash that barrel. Speak out, friends of humanity, who’ll arm, and when ? Early Cos. Ga., Jan. 31. W. D. Cowdrey, (For the Crusader.) Thanksgiving. Who, who among us as a people, render thanks unto God, for his mercies towards us ? We are objects of his especial care. While we have gone in forbidden paths, his protecting arm has surrounded us; while we have forgotten him, he has remembered us in affection; while we have sinned, yea, against Heaven and earth, he has ever been ready and willing to forgive. Ought we not to feel thankful tosuch a being? Yes, methinks our hearts should be filled with gratitude, love and ho liness towards the Lord. Asa nation, we are violating the holy laws of God continually. See how His holy Sabbath is desecrated ! Behold the mighty iron horse on the Sabbath, coming forthwith speed, as though some great earthquake had befallen the earth and he was go ing abroad to forewarn the inhabitants. But, alas! alas ! it is for the people to travel to and fro over the earth, violating the Sabbath. The Lord has said, it should be a day of rest, dedicated especially to Him.— Look along the railroad—here, the wood must be cut to feed the iron steed, that he may have strength ; there, the water must be pumped to quench his thirst, that he may have power to go forth in his might; here, food must be cooked, that the travellers may be fed ; there, bed-rooms put in order, that they may sleep; all, all on the Sabbath day. Again, as a nation, we have erred in giving to our neighbor strong drink, yea, setting up places all over the country, to entice our fellow-mortals into them, measuring the liquid fluid to them as long as they can partake, and then turn them out in the streets to suffer cold, hunger and pain, or be picked up by an officer, to receive his doom. Sad, indeed, is the picture! still more is it so, look upon our country as a land of intelligence, refinement, knowledge, liberty, and above all, Christianity. Yet, with all this pollution, crime, wickednes, sinning with a high hand, God has been merciful. He has dealt kindly, filling our barns with plenty. Ungrateful creatures are we, unless we praise and adore his name. Christians, let our praises arise unto Heaven, as holy incense, that the country around may feel its influenced Let the wicked rejoice that the Lord has a tew people yet on the earth, for they are the salt thereof; whenever they are caught up from earth, the wicked will be banished into eternal punishment. Sinner, seek the Lord while he may be found. Let us all praise God continually. Atlanta, Deo. 31. Femme. lor the Georgia Temperance Crusader. Be Employed. The improvement of time is a subject that should in terest us all. Life, at best, is extremely brief, and we scarcely be gin its labors ere we are summoned away. No man who has duly appreciated his mission and has led an active, useful life, has found existence wearisome or complained that time was lagging in its flight; life is all too short lor such a man. But an aimless, useless and unreflecting class has been in existence almost ever since the days of Noah, and we have good reasons for believing that its members are numerous at the present day. They seem to think riches useful only because they bring leisure, and to deem life, not a loan for which they must render an account, but something which was forced upon them against their wills, and which they are justified in squandering. Nor does this class include, alone, throe who are ever loitering about public places, having no business but the dissipation of patrimonies; but even numbers of intelli gent ladies and members of the various Christian denom inations, who seem to forget that “ six days thou shali labor and do all thy work ” is equally obligatory upon them with “ but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work,” &c He who made us (and not in vain) commands dili gence in business, and nothing is more evident than that the idler violates the express mandates of his Maker. Again: We are responsible for our influence, and eternity alone shall reveal the extent of that responsibil ity. When wealth induces men and women to subsist, like drones, upon the sweets that have been gathered to gether by others, and, eschewing useful employments to lead lives unprofitable to themselves and others, it is a curse and not a blessing. Affluence gives influence and position in society ; but the power does not, necessarily, lie in the possessor. It men of means refuse to labor they establish a caste whose claims to respectability are based upon the ab sence of a necessity for laboring, the tendency of which is to degrade honest industry. It is difficult to find any thing more dangerous to the true interests of society than the establishment of such a basis, and the dark catalogues of crime, if examined with regard to this feature, would reveal its pernicious effects, wherever it exists. Nor is this truth confined, in its application, to indi viduals and communities, but nations have felt its blighting influence. A single instance will suffice. Spain, oiicc a prosperous and powerful nation, beconiing rich in the precious metals from the mines of the new world, ceased to depend upon labor. Useful employ ment was degraded ; aristocracy flourished; dissipa tion and every species of vice engendered by idleness crept in, and now Spain, once live admiration and fear of the world, is bankrupt and despised. Even that mis erable specimen of a republic, on the western coast off our continent, the offspring of Spain and the inheritor ot all her weakness, hjr bigotry and instability, insults her with impunity. No mail is useful unlesshc is adding something to the I real wealth of a community by mental, moral or physical effort in the right direction; or, by so distributing the stores that have been intrusted to his care as to increase the usefulness and mitigate the woes ofhumanity. Labor is useful, healthful, elevating, noble: idleness }s unhealthy, useless, debasing and dangerous. , If lathers desire their sons to become sober, honest and respectable citizens, of whom they will not be ashamed in later years, and who will not bring down their gray haira to the grave, let them give their off spring useful trades or professions ; or, better yet, let their sons be producing from the earth those staples which constitute true wealth. J. S. LATIMER. HUMOROUS, At a fourth of July celebration in Delhi N, Y. where General Root presided, a militia colonel, who was sitting next to him, was called upon for a toast. Not having prepared himself before hand, he was a little puzzled what to give. He thought a moment and then concluded that it should be something of a military nature; but precisely what, be had not fully determined, when he rose and thundered forth : “The Military of our country—may they never want”—here lie hesitated—“ may they never want”—here he boggled—“may they never want—”and here he came to a full stop, and looking imploringly at the president, whis pered, “what the devil shall I say next?” “ And never be wanted,” whispered back the General. “And never he wanted,” roared out the Colo nel. Thus they made between them a capital toast, which neither of them and perhaps nobody else would originally have thought of—reading, when put together as follows : “ The Military of our country—May they never want, and never be wanted.” “Might your name be Smith?” said a lout to that oddest of odd fellows, I , after a rap at his door loud enough to disturb the occupants of a church yard. “Yes, it might, hut it aint by a long chalk.” “Timothy,” said a certain grocer to his clerk, “ I've joined the Temperance Society, and it won’t look well to sell liquor, in future, before folks. So if any person call for any, you must take them into the back room.” A person who knew a scrap of French, and was excessively vain of his accomplishment, accosted a gentleman in the street, with Quelle heure est il ? i. e. What is it o’clock ? The gentleman re plied in Latin Nescio, i. e. I know not. God bless me, said the other, I did not know it was so late, and ran off as if on some very important business. ♦ • • During the administration of the elder Adams, the following was given by a gentleman more noted for ignorance than for information : “ Our President, John Adams: May the mantil-piece of George Washington fall upon his head. He meant Mantle. Some humane persons has affixed printed handbills to the pumps, cautioning those who are heated against drinking water. “ Bothera tion” said an Irishman, “ only look at that—one says, don’t drink any of the crater, my for it will he the death on ye; anither says, don’t drink any water, honey, orjyou will be kilt out right. By the powers, I’ll mix the whiskey and the water in equal parts, and chate both of ’em.” It is known to all who are acquainted with the early history of Kentucky, that the first emi grants settled in small squads, like the first set tlement in all other frontier countries, for mutu al defence. The order was, whenever an alarm was given all were to run to that place. Early one morning the shouts and cries of a female were heard—all ran to the spot. When they ar riAed they saw a bear and a man engaged in com bat. They had it hip and thigh, up and down, over and under, and the man’s wife standing by and hallooing “ fair play! fair play!” The com pany ran up and insisted on parting them. The woman said, “ No—no—let them fight! for it is the first fight I ever saw that I did not care which whipped.” Mr. Hurd, the celebrated teacher of Grammar, once on a time (at Hopkinton, Mass.) set his class to parsing the following lines of Pope: Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate— All.but the.page prescribed, &,c. The word all, in the second line had been parsed —when coming to the word but, and directing his eye to the next pupil, the master said, “ But! the next.” No sooner was the word said, than— plump went the head of the pupil into the bread basket of his neighbor. “Boo! hoo! hoo!” roared the latter most lusti ly- “ What are you about there?” said the master to the former. “lam hutting the next, sir, as you told me to,” replied the lad. The custom of judging whether a man has a soul or no soul, by his disposition in regard to money matters, is not badly illustrated in an article from the Vermont Free Press, of which the fol lowing is an extract: A stuttering man, in great wrath, was rating a neighbor, who had over reached his wife in the sale of a rennet-bag. “ I know you, you sti-i-ngy dog you and your fa-a-ther before you—when you was bo-o-rn your fa-a-ther found a so-o-oul would cast a shi-i-illing, and he could get a gi-i-zzard for nine pence, and so he be-o-ought a-a-a gizzard. The following from the N. Y. Prohibitionist in regard to the indifference manifested towards tem perance lectures and sermons, now-adays, is to the point, and may serve as valuable information to all classes of men: Triumph and Apathy. The question is often asked, Why are temper ance lectures and temperance speeches now heard with so little interest, when, at one period, noth ing excited more attention. Because, we reply, of their conquest and triumphs. They have very much done their work with their audiences, and they have little or nothing to feed upon ; no ob jections to meet; no foes to fight; no obstacles to encounter. In the early stages of the reform, two-thirds, or three-fourths, if not the entire au dience, were in fault. They were moderate drink ers, or connected in some way with distilleries or breweries, or upholding the licensed traffic. The lecturer met them, as his foes, face to face. He attacked their habits and their business; appeal ed to their consciences; and if he was a Hewitt or a Beecher, he produced a terrible commotion among them. Families went home to debate their guilt. Church members examined their conduct. Ministers asked, where they were stand ing. Pious distillers and venders said, we cannot go on. The whole of society was put in a ferment. The speaker had an object. He did not speak to the air, but to living hostile men. And the hearer was not an indifferent hearer. He had to to fortify himself as every point was attacked.— But now, how different! Let a minister go into a pulpit and preach the boldest temperance ser mon, or a lecturer deliver the most eloquent tem perance essay, who cares about it ? All, or nearly alk,, agree with him. Ho can say nothing which has not been aoceded to. He has no foes to fight, no opposition to encounter, no converts to make. The most he can do is to recount the vic tories of the past, and give thanks for what has been accomplished. But all this excites ,m lit tle interest. Indeed, the people will not go to hear it. They say, we shall hear nothing new; we are all temperance men now. The very tri umphs of the oause, therefore, are the occasion of indifference to the subject ; so that this indif ference, instead of being evidence that the cause is languishing or dead, is the highest proof of its being in a most flourishing state. At a colored ball the following notice wasjposted on the door-post: “ Tickets, fifty cents. No gemman ad mitted unless he comes himself.” “ Fresh air and plenty of exercise makes a man eat well, think well, sleep well.” . Some musical publisher or teacher, once wrote or said “that the art of playing on the violin required the nicest perception, and the most delicate sensibility of any part of the known world.” Some country editor in com menting on it, says, “The art of publishing a country newspaper and making it pay, beats the art of fiddling higher than a kite.”. We condense, this column, from the tela- By |fe Baltic. W * • j THREE DAYS LATER FROM “EUROPE. ft New York, Feb. 19. — The ateamship Baltic haß ar rived with Liverpool dates to Wednesday, February 3d. News.—The steamship Africa arrived out on the 30th of January. The Leviathan steamship ia safely afloat The Empress Eugenia has been declared the Regent in case any calamity should befal Napoleon. [The Par is Momteur, in the latter part of January, referred to a Senators’ consultation which would shortly be promul gated, nominating the personages who are to compose a Council of Regency, in case of the death of the Empe ror before the Prince Imperial attains the political ma jority-] No later authentic intelligence had been received from the East. The Atlantic Submarine Telegraph company will re quire additional capital, to pay for seven hundred mile* of cable. The Directors are very hopeful of the suc cess of this great enterprise, W. Field, Esq., has been appointed the general manager of the company. The Americans in Paris have delivered and published a congratulatory address to the Emperor, on the occa sion of his recent escape from the explosion of the “ in fernal machine.” It is said that the Pope of Rome, and Kings of Sar dinia and Naples, were to have been assassinated at the same time that the life of Napoleon was attempted. Unfavorable news was current about the condition of affairs in the Punjaub. John M. Botts has returned to this country on board the Baltic. Mehmed Pasha, the Vice Admiral of the Turkish Navy, did not come in the Baltic, as was expected. This gentleman, we believe, has contemplated a visit to the United States to examine minutely the construc tion of our vessels of war, for the purpose of making improvements in the naval architecture of Turkey. The Brazil mail steamer, with Rio Janeiro aavices, had arrived at London. Site reported the coffee mar ket dull and prices nominal, with large stocks. By ttae Africa. THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. New York, Feb. 21.—The British and North Amer ican royal mail steamship Africa, Capt. N. Shannon, has arrived, with Liverpool dates to Saturday afternoon, Feb. 6th. % General Intelligence. —News from the continent is unimportant. The English Parliament assembled on the 4th Feb ruary. Lord Palmerston gave notice of hie intention to bring forward a bill in regard to conspiracies, and to meet the refugee question. He stated that he had received a dispatch from the French government, calling his attention to the refugee question, but that he had not responded to it. Roebuck spoke in bitter terms of the Emperor Napo leon and French officials generally, but was promptly re buked by Lord Palmerston. French Consuls are not hereafter to grant passport* to British subjects. Jerome Bonaparte has been invested with a right to * seat in the French Council of State, and will preside in the absence of the Emperor. The proposed change in the government of India seems to be attracting general attention. Lord ston has given notice of a bill to take the control of In dia out of the hands of the East India Directors. Spain has granted amnesties to all her colonial sub jects, in consequence of the birth of a Prince. Commercial Intelligence. —Liverpool Cotton Mar ket, Feb. 6. —The sales of cotton for the week reach 54,* 000 bales, of which speculators took 5,500 and exporters 3000 bales, leaving for the trade 45,500 bales. All qual ities of cotton slightly advanced during the early por tion of the week, but the advance was subsequently lost on new Uplands, which were l-16d. lower at the closer The market for the week ending the 4th closed steady. The quotations are as follows: Fair Orleans, N . 7i Middling Orl’s., 6 15-16 Fair Mobiles, 7* “ Mobiles, 6f Fair Uplands, 7 “ Uplands, 61 The stock on hand was 330,000 bales, of which 175,- 000 were Anfterican. Latest — Liverpool Saturday noon. —The sales of cot ton to-day were 15,000 bales, and the market closed firm. Manchester Trade. —Business in the manufacturing districts was improving, and prices on all qualities of goods slightly advanced. Havre Cotton Market. — Orleans Tres Ordinaire was quoted at 98 francs. London Money Market. —The Bank of Jttgland had reduced its rates of discount to 31 per cent. VThe bul lion in the Bank had increased £395,000. was somewhat easier. Consols quoted at 961 to 96J for ac count. Latest from London—Saturday noon, by telegraph. — Consols closed at 95£ a96 for money, and 96 a 961 for account. Liverpool General Market. —The circulars report the breadstuffs market very dull. Flour declining and un saleable, and quotations nominal. WFeat was steady and closed somewhat firmer—Southern Red 7s a7s 2<f, and White 7s a7s 6d. Corn was dull, and all qualities had slightly declined. Provisions were dull. Sugar was buoyant and all qualities had somewhat advanced. Rice was steady and active, and Carolina had improved, and was quoted from 18s 6d to 20s 9d. Rosin was firm and common, quoted at 4s 3d, and fine qualities kad ad vanced. Turpentine was steady at 36s a 375. Fire and Probable Loss oe Life. — St. Louis, Feb. 21.—The Pacific Hotel in this city was burnt early this morning. About one hundred persons were known to have been in their rooms, and between forty and fifty were missing. Affairs of Honor on the Tafis.— Washington Feb. 21. The city is full of rumors as to affairs of honor pending between gentlemen. One is, that the Hon. J. B. Clay and Gen. Cullom are to adjust differences at ten paces—another that Gen. Harney and Col. Sumner will probably meet in hostile array, but the War De partment will likelv interfere in this case—another dif ficulty is spoken of between Ex-Lieutenant A.C. Rhind and Commander Edwaad B. Boutwell, of the sloop John Adams. Mormon Affairs.— St. Louis, Feb. 20.—The mail from Salt Lake, Utah Territory, has arrived. The In dians on the route were quiet. Col. Johnson appeared to be fully posted in regard to the movements of the Mormons, who were preparing for resistance. The troops were in good spirits. Delay of the Star of the West .—New York, Feb. 20.—The Aspinwall steamer, Star of the West, did not leave to-day, in consequence of the prevailing storm. New York, Feb. 20.—The Cotton market firm to day with sales of 1,800 bales. Flour firm, with sales of 10,500 barrels. Wheat dull, sales 3,500 bushels, south ern red, $1,15 to $1,25. Corn quiet, white 69 a 70, and yellow 68 a7O cents. Turpentine firm at 49 cents. Ro sin firm. Rice buoyant at 31 a 4 cents. Rev. P. N. Lynch, D. D., has been elected Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Charleston,which has re mained vacant for the last three years since the death of Bishop Reynolds. The Boston and Worcester railroad has been mulcted in $7,000, for injuries received on the 14th July last, by Miss Susan A Pratt, by a collision near the depot. To get rid of the smell of oil paint, put a handful of hay into a pail of water, and let it stand in a room new ly painted. The number of postage stamps used in the United States during the year 1857, was 168,494,540, the value of which was $4,649,975 25. Married, on Thursday last, January 14th, by the Rev W. T. Sutton, M. Dillie De Marquis Gilbert Motier Le La Fayette O’Bryan and Miss Annie Ardelia Aman da Almelia Rosanna Melvina Jane Fitz-Ellen Newbelie —both of Bath county, Va. How eloquent is the old homely word, fall! The flowers fall in the garden, the fruits fall in the orchards, the nuts fall in the woods, the stars fall from the skies, the rain falls from the clouds, the mercurv falls in the tubes, the leaves fall everywhere, and man falls into eter nity ! I IRev. Dr. McFarland has been appointed Roman Cathplic Bishop of Hartford, Ct. Jonrsboro’, Feb. -JO, ‘SB. Died, at the residence of her father in Jonesboro’ Fay ette Go. Ga. on 17th inst. Miss JLAVONIA SMITH, eldest daughter of Dr. C. W. Smith and hts deceased wife, Mrs. Lucinda A. Smith. Scarcely has a year elapsed since sorrow summoned her numerous mourners to stand round the death couch of the noble Christian I mother and receive her last blessing, ere her spirit left its frail casket to dwell in its nativeskies. And when we gave up this ornament of our village, this pious mother, kind friend and devoted wife, our affections naturally entwined themselves around the eldest child, the gentle Lavonia, hoping that some day she would partially fill up the vacancy made in the home circle and in our hearts But the ways of the Sovereign Rnler are above our ways, and He has otherwise ordered it. She too is gone. Friends and relatives are again called upon to mourn another loss and to lay a father’s fond and cher ished hope in the cold prison house of death. Her health has been gradually failing for some months • but as long as she was able, she attended school. Young gifted and lovely, she stood high among her compan ions, and was regarded by her teachers, and as a tal ented and beloved student, equal in ability and appli cahon to the most promising. She attached herself to the Baptist church m her thirteenth year. For three years has she honored the profession she had chosen, with a meek and Christian purity. She had culled the roses of suttee* summers, and ere the seventeenth ush eied in, her spirit had gene to its long home. “ G L e ? n *]? e turf above thee, Friend of winning ways, None knew thee but to love-thee, None named thee but to praise!” D A IjOTl jOT 0F YELLOW IRISH POTA TOES, for planting. Call on Feb 25 J. M. BOWLES. ‘THE FI RM OF J. M. BOWLES & CO. IS THIS day dissolved by mutual consent, Win. B. Seale retiring. The business will be continued by J. M. Bowles at the same stand, where he will keep, af all times, a full supply of Family Groceries , and will be * ready and willing to serve his friends at very Short Pro- C AS H - L M. BOWLES, Feb 25 WM. B. SEALS.