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PETTFIEI.D, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 11,1858. ■ it -■*— * - 1 CLUBS. , Clubs of Ten Subscribers, by sending the cask, can get the Crusader at $1 50 per copy. Clubs of Five at $1 80 per copy. Any person sending five new subscribers, will receive an extra copy of the paper one year, free of cost . Everett In Savannah. We learn from the Augusta papers this morning, that Mr. Everett is to henor Savannah with his address on Washington, between the 20th and 25th inst. We are more than pleased to learn from the card of Dr. Harris, to be foune in this issue, that our esteemed friend and popular physician, Dr. Massey, has not en tirely deserted us. It will be seen that he is at the ser vice of this community whenever Dr. Harris is profes sionally engaged. Dr. Massey, as a physician, has the confidence of the people in this community, and we would be happy to bear of a re-consideration of his retirement. One Dollar Newspapers. The Editor of the Cartersvillc Express, $ new paper recently started in that town, sayss “ We were induced to put down the Express at One Dollar per annum, in order to give it circulation in quick time. And money matters being very stringent, we thought that the extreme low terms of the Express would also induce the citizens of Cass County to sub scribe. We are convinced that no newspaper can be sustained upon such terms, and we now notify all per sons concerned, that on and after the Ist day of April next, no paper will be sent to any one unless 6ne Dollar and Fifty Cents is paid in advance.” The Editor is certainly correct in his views upon this subject, and every Editor who undertakes to publish a weekly paper at $1 a year will find it an up-hill busi ness to keep his head above water. $2.00 is cheap enough for any paper which possesses even a small de gree of merit. Disgraceful Affair. The Bainbridge Argus of the 4th instant, says : “ On Monday evening last, in this place, Mansico Cloud, a Justice of the Peace, discharged a double bar rel gun at J. J. Hayden, lodging, we are informed, about fifty shot in his back, and wounding him, it is supposed, mortally. They were both under the influence of that beverage that makes fools of the wise, and beasts of all who indulge in its use. Cloud has been held to bail in the sum of two thousand dollars for his appearance at our next Superiort Court. Encouragement from a Good Quarter. A gentleman whose name is familiar in Georgia and in all the Southern States, from the literary position he occupies, makes the following remarks in a private letter concerning our paper and the raising of the price. We take the liberty of extracting the paragraph from his letter, to let our friends know the views of one whose sentiments upon any subject are entitled to great res pect : “ When, several weeks after the Ist of January had elapsed, without any Crusader appearing, we all began to debate the question: What has become of the Crusa der—has it suspended, or has the editor cut us off? At length, the missing.came up, and we decided from the first sight of the new head-piece, that since his mar riage, John had improved in taste. There are other im provements, and the temperance men in Georgia may now truthfully maintain that their Organ is one of the best and most readable papers in the country. If they don’t sustain it, they deserve to be worse beat than they were in the Overby campaign. The children are all anxious to get it. But my purpose in writing was to say a word about raising the price. You have done just right. The paper could not live even at a “ poor dying rate” at 10 dives a year. I believe lam 2 or 3 years in advance, under the old schedule, but look at my ac count and make the credit at $2 a-year.” South Carolina Money. The Banks of Augusta have agreed to take the bills of the non-specie paying banks of South Carolina at half per cent, discount. The bills of the Bank of Ham burg, and those of the specie paying banks of South Carolina, will be taken at par. The banks in Augusta are checking on New York at half per cent., and the banks in Charleston at one per cent, premium. Burning: of the Blackwell’s Island Hospital. LOSS ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. At half past three o’clock on Sunday morning, 18th instant, a fire broke out in the large stone building on Blackwell’s Island, New York, used and known as the Island Hospital. The fire was first discovered in the kitchen of the middle house, and had made great pro gress; and, in consequence of the difficulty experienced in obtaining water, before the flames could be exting uished the building and furniture were totally destroyed. There were six hundred patients in the building at the breaking out of the fire, all of whom were got out safely. The wife of the resident physician, Dr. Sanger, narrow ly escaped with her life. She was rescued from a win dow in the third story by means of a ladder. A Woman Killed by a Quack Doctor. We hear of a sad case of death in Frankfort, which happened yesterday, by using a quack medicine bought of a pedlar. A middle aged lady had been complaining of rheumatism in her back. A few days since a pedlar called at the lady’s house with medicines for sale. Amongst them he had a specific for the disease of which the lady complained. It being cheap, and the sufferer thinking it would do no harm, bought a bottle of the pretended remedy and applied a portion of it to her back, the medicine being very powerful, drove the rheu matism inwardly to the heart. Spasms occurred imme diately, and the woman was prostrated. An eminent physician was called, and everything was done to relieve the patient, but it was of no avail. She lingered along until yesterday, when she died. When will people learn to let these nostrums alone ? time and time again have we warned our readers against them, but still some folks will persist in buying and using them. This is another sad death and warning should be taken from it. The medicine used, we understand, was oil ofc dar.—Rochester Union. 1 Speech of Gol. B. B. Floyd. We copy below from the South the very happy speech delivered by Col. B. R. Floyd, Senator from Wythe, at the inauguration dinner of the 22d of February : The Chairman gave — “ The President and his Cabinet : Animated by pat riotism, they will guard the Constitution, respect the rights of the States, and preserve the Union.” Mr. Floyd being loudly called for, spoke as follows : “ Mr. President: I cannot but respond to the re . pcated complimentary calls that have been made upon me. I have always regretted, and now I deplore, my want of eloquence, which would commend itself to your attention. I, therefore, regret exceedingly, the absence of one, whose province it would better become to re spond to the sentiment just uttered. 1 am not Wise enough to be a Hunter after the gems of rhetoric—or if I was, I am not Mason, enough to join them fitly together. Yet, Mr- President, I cannot refrain from calling atten tion to one of the great fundamental, all-controling, all engrossing principles urged, and again and again insist ed upon by the great Original whose memory we this day convene to celebrate, and which has not yet been alluded to by the eloquent gentlemen who have prec ceeded me, I mean peace —peace as a cardinal princi ple of national policy. When he completed his work he commended the policy to all that should succeed him— no’ collisions with others, no jealousies or dissensions among ourselves. For myself, I confess I have no fears of either. The Union will be preserved so long as the Keystone State remains fixed m the arch. That she will do so forever, is unmistakable, now that her favor ite son has declared “ obedience to the Constitution and laws,they must and will be enforced by all the power of the government.” We will be free from ‘entangling alli ances,’ whilst our national rights will be .vigilantly guarded. We will fulfil all our obligations to others, and to ourselves. We will submit to no wrong—demand nothing but the right. 1 cannot but remember how beautifully this was illustrated in the fact that whilst our victorious generals were reveling in the halls of Montezumas, our stalwart and great-hearted farmers were dispensing their well-earned bread to the starving children of the “ Emerald Isle.” When I hear the sentiment uttered by the high dignitaries-of our sister States, here present from tne ice-bound regions of the , ‘ ort h—when I look abroad to the beautiful and bound ess West, and see the daughters of Virginia, side by side, brighter than the Orient pearls, I know she will never feel How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is io have a thankless chilcf” boleth, passed along the green vales lb ‘ text •sparable!” Urii ° n ’ now one and in the Union will be preserved.” “ W ns nnmovwl seat 1 ’ Fl ° yd “ M enthuei * sticall y cheered on ticking his fortune Up and Down. The Boston Ledger, of a late date, publishes . In'fr&l, a youth then residing iff Maine, owped a jack knife which he, being somewhat of a trading and mff ney making disposition, sold for a gallon of West India rum. This he retailed, and with the proceeds he pur chased two gallons; and eventually, a barrel, which was followed in due time by a large stock. In a word, he got rich and became the ’Squire of the district through the possession and sale of the iack knife, and indomita ble trading industry. He died worth property, in real estate ana money, valued at eighty thousand dollars. This was divided, by testament, among four children— three boys and a girl. Luck, which seemed to have been the guardian angel of the father, deserted the children ; for every folly and extravagance they could engage in, seemed to occupy their exclusive attention and cultiva tion. The daughter married unfortunately, and her pat rimony was soon thrown away by her spendthrift of a husband. The sons were no mote fortunate, and two of th4m died of dissipation, and almost poverty. The daughter also died. The last of the family, for many years past, has lived on the kindness of those who knew him in his days of prosperity, as pride would not allow him to go to the poor farm. A few days ago be died, suddenly and unattended, in a barn where he had laid himself down to take a drunken sleep. On his pockets being examined, all that was found in them was a small piece of string and a Jack-knife.’ So, the for tune( th&f began with an implement of that kind, l*ft but its simple duplicate. We leave the moral to drawn, in whatever fashion it may suggest itself to the reader— simply stating that the story is a true one, and all the facts well known to many whom this relation will doubt less reach. The founder of the fortune made and lost in this case, is but one among thousands throughout the length and breadth of our land, who Owe their success to traffick ing in ardent spiritß. And if the gains of such but smelt of that which brought them, many a “ fair ladye” ; of the “ first families” would find that Jules Haul’s ra rest and most highly flavored extracts, would not suffice to remove the scent of the “ first great stepping-stone” to their high positions and splendid luxuries. We wish no one such misfortune as befell this miserable family— miserable, most likely, in the midst of their prosperity in this world—certainly so in their fall, and —beyond the grave. Oh, if one could but lift the curtain, how many would be discovered with the foundations of their fortunes in West India Rum ! Is there meaning to the word dis grace T Then that man disgracefully disgraces his posterity, who thus stains, corrodes and scents the for tune he leaves them. Yankee shrewdness, with a jack-knife fora capital, accumulated $80,000! And Yankee children spent it and died in want and disgrace—how often the end of the liquor seller’s offspring ! The cunning of the Yankee is admitted and referred to the world over. With no desire of offense to any one, we venture the assertion, that if this cute class were di vested of that peculiarity of nature rarely found in a true Southerner, which ever acts upon the motto, “any means to accomplish a given end,” the greater part of their “ almighty cuteness” would disappear - with it.— Sampson with his locks shorn, was not more effectually robbed of his strength. It were hard to reckon how many more souls have been ruined by New England Rum, than have been saved by their Bibles —for be it remembered, they are very devout Christians ; yea, even Furitans — Witch-burners ! It may be this very Rum which inspires their notions of extravagance, (when indulged by their neighbors,) when they would strike the “chains” from three mil lion slaves, representing over a billion dollars! Pcrad venture, to the same cause, may be traced their reck lessness, as exhibited in the bills and resolutions offered in their Legislatures and popular meetings, seeking the dissolution of the Union ! Great liberality and destruc tiveness are usually predominant traits in the character of those who “ imbibe.” Is there a parent, whose eyes may perchance rest upon these lines, that is building his future fortune with its foundation in rum barrels l We pray you commence anew and build upon a better foundation. Should you persist, our prayer is—the prayer of every Christian is —that your foundation may rot and your building fall about your own head. Temperance in Augusta. The following communication from an “abstainer, ” recently appeared in the Augusta papers, under the head— “An Effort to Diminish an Evil the Cause of much Suffer!ns.” “Many persons who are familiar with the proceedings of police and criminal courts, and who observe, as they must, that most cases originate in the use, or rather in the abuse of intoxicating liquors, are disposed hastily to conclude that the evil, great as it is acknowledged to be, cannot be remedied, and must be endured, at least for the present. They know that the peace of communities and families is often disturbed from this cause, but they seem to believe that most persons will not abandon the prac tice of what is called themoderate use of such liquors a9 a beverage, the only effectual remedy, under present circumstances, for the evil, which all good citizens de plore. They hear reports of many of, the quarrels, fights and outrages to which that unfortunate class who are addicted to intemperance are parties, while the peacea ble and unobtrusive, who are total abstainers, so rarely attract their notice, that they seem not to be aware of their existence. There are, nevertheless, more persons in this city and its vicinity who have for years abstained from all intoxicating'liquors as a beverage, than generally sup posed. Only a portion of them nave united with that excellent Order, the Sons of Temperance, whose per. severing efforts for the promotion of a good cause, not withstanding many discouragements, is worthy of the highest praise. If these, with such others as desire to adopt their practice and unite with them, will form a Temperance Society, simply on the principle of total abstinence, as a beverage from all that can intoxicate, there isgood reason to believe that much may be done to lessen at least one of the monster evils of the land we live in.” We are pleased to learn that the beautiful and popu lar City of Augusta is not so deficient in temperance men as we might reasonably suppose ; yet they are not undeserving of censure for the small degree of interest which they have ever manifested upon the subject. “The tree is known by its fruit.” But we hope the times betoken a more general co-operation on the part of the people of Augusta with the temperance people, and we trust the day is not far distant when that city and all the rest of our Southern cities will wheel into ranks and help us in our exterminating crusade against the accursed Babylon of rum. If we can ever rout the enemy from their city fortresses, which are their strong bolds, we may then prophesy with certainty a glorious triumph for our cause. ! A Good Time Coming:. The New York Saratogian, under the above heading, gives a notice of the Half-Century celebration of the “ Moreau and Northumberland Temperance Society,” which is to take place on the 13th of April next. It says this society was formed fifty yoars ago, and has the reputation of having been the first Total Abstinence Organization in the world. Its first meeting was held at a licensed tavern in Moreau, on the 13th of April, 1808, at which time twenty-three persons affixed their name3 to the proceedings. The second meeting was held at the same place, on the 20th of the same month, at which time a preamble and by-laws were adopted, to which 65 persons appended their signatures. Os this band of philanthropists, only four now survive : Hon. Gardiner Stow, of Troy; Rev. Lebbeus Armstrong, of Clifton Park; and Dr. Billy J. Clark and James Mott, •f Moreau—four of nature’s noblemen, rich in all the virtues which dignify and ennoble human nature! These gentlemen, unless sickness or death prevent, will all be present at the forthcoming Celebration— Mr. Stow as principal Orator of the occasion. Fifty years of philanthropic effort in a glorious cause ! What thrilling recollections will throng the memories of these sires of Temperance, on this Anniversary of the Society of their early hopes and exertions! Pity Ike Drunkard. I pray you do not hate the drunkard ; he hates him self. Do not despise him; O, he cannot sink so low in your opinion as he is sunk in his own. Your hatred and contempt may rivet, but will never rend hie chains. Jjend a kind hand to pluck him from the mire. With a strong hand shatter that bowl—remove the temptation which, while he hates, he cannot resist. Hate, abhor, tremble at his sin. And for pity’s sake, for God’s sake, for Christ’s sake, for humanity’s sake, rouse yourself for the question, What can be done! Without heeding others—whether they follow or whether they stay — rushing down to the beach, throw yourself ititb the boat, push away and bend on the oar, like a man to the wreck. Say, I will not stand bjand see my fellow creatures perish. They are perishing. To save them I will do anything. What luxury will I not give up? What indulgences will I not abstain from 1 What cus toms, what shackles of old habits will I not break that these hands may be freer the drowningfrom the deep? God my help; His word my law; the love of His Son, my ruling motive ; I shall never baUnce a poor personal indulgence against the good of ray coun try and the welfare of mankind. Brethren, such resolu tions, such holy and high, and sigained and self-de nying efforts, the height of this evil, defnand.— Dr. tihtthrie. History is full of interesting incidents which demon strate with great force, the influence which children ex raculous workings of the Saviour, who ever chooses the weaker agencies to confound the strong. Many stony hearts nave been broken and the waters *of penitence have gushed irom them freely, when touched by the artless eloquence of a child. Below is an instance of a reformation wrought by a Child** Prayer tor itm Drunken Father. “A drunkard who had run through his prosily,” says Dr. Sehpaby, “returned one night to his unfinished home. He entered his empty hall; anguish was gnawing at his heartstrings, ana language was inadequate to ex press his agony as he entered his wife’s apartments, and there beheld the victims of his appetite, nis lovely wife and darling child. Morose and sullen, he seated him self without a word; he could not speak, he could not look uDon them. The mother said to the little angel by her side, ’ Come, my child, it is time to go to bed p and that little babe, as was her want, knelt by her mother's lap, and gating wistiully into the face of her suffering parent, like a piece of chiselled Btatuary, repeated her nightly orison; and when she had finished, the child I (but four years of age) said to her mother, ‘ Dear ma, may I not offer up one more prayer ?’ * Yes, yes, my sweet pet, prayand she lifted tier tiny hands, closed her eyes and prayed, *Oh God ! spare. Oh spare my deer papa!’ That prayer was wafted with electric rapidity to the throne of God. It was heard on high— ’twas heard on earth. The responsive ‘amen’ burst from that father's lips, and his heart of atone became a heart ol flesh. Wife and child were both clasped to his bosom, and in penitence, He said,‘You have saved your father from the grave of a drunkard. I’ll sign the pledge!’” Below is another instance of childish eloquence, eim pie in itself, yet, one of the most beautiful and touching . eulogiums ever passed upon any one, old or young; and it only occupies a line. It almost makes the tears start j from our eyas to read it. We commend it to our young \ readers: A Touch lug Incident. A little boy had died. Hjs body was laid out in a ! dark and retired room, waiting to be laid*away in the { lone and cold crave. His afflicted mother and bereaved liftle sister went in to look at the sweet face of the precious sleeper, for he was beautiful even in death. As they stood gazing upon the form of one so cherished-and beloved, the girl asked to take his hand. The mother at first did not think it best, but her child repeated the request, and seemed very anxious about it, so she took the cold, bloodless hand of her sleeping boy, and placed it in the hands of his weeping sister. The dear child looked at it a moment, caressed it fondly, and then looking up to her mother through the tears of affection and love, and said: “Mother, this little hand never struck me!” What could have been more touching and lovely ! Young reader, have you been so gentle to your bro thers ana sisters, that such a tribute could be paid to your memory, were you to die ? Could a brother or sister take your hand and say— “ This hand never struck me ?” Very True. Non-paying patrons of newspapers, are thus spoken of by an exchange. Every word of it is true. We have felt the effects of “call again,” “ Can’t do any thing for you this morning,” &c. Well we live in hope of a better time coming. The exchange says : “Waggons cannot run without wheels —boats with out steam ! bull-frogs without legs, or newspapers be carried on everlastingly without money; no more than a dog can wag his tail when he has none. Our subscri bers are all good, but what good does a man’s goodness do when it don’t do any good. We have no doubt that every one thinks that all nave paid except him, and as we are a clever fellow, and his is a little matter, it will make no difference.” Deo. Stovall Sentenced to be Hung. George Stovall, who sometime since plead guilty, at New Orleans, ofthe murder of Mary Durand, was brought out for sentence on Saturday last. The prisoner, who, at one time, was a clergyman, is a man about fifty years of age, and of respectable and intelligent appearance, above the medium height and, it is stated, appeared to be in excellent health. He was carefully dressed. His black coat, white vest and white handkerchief were rather observable under the circumstances. When asked if he had anything to say, he handed the court a letter, the substance of which we find in the Picayune. —JSc. He (the writer) denied that his reputation in Missis sippi was bad, and asserted that he had successfully con ducted several educational institutions in that State.— After arriving in this city he remained but a short time, and at length went to Texas, where he was for awhile at the head of a male and female acadeaiy, in the town of Huntsville. In 1818, he returned to New Orleans, and in 1856 got married. But his hopes of domestic bliss proved deceptive, and in a short time he and his wife separated and he fell into habits of intemperance. He then went to Nicaragua, where he became a com missary under the command of Lockridge, and after his return to New Orleans he became more reckless and in temperate than ever. Finally he fell in with Mary Ray Durand, and for a time they “lived and loved together,” both being comparatively nappy. But she soon became as intemperate as himself, and one night she informed him that she intended to leave him and enter on a life of public prostitution. The idea of such a fate for her he could not brook and to save her from a “ lower deep” of shame he slew her, and he asked of the court all the mercy which could be extended to him under the circumstances. The court then with a solemnity due the occasion, proceeded to pass on the prisoner the sentence of death which sentence is to be put into execution at such time as the Executive of the State may appoint. What Would Ensue Should the Union he Dissolved. It may, certainly, we think, be taken for granted that when a Dissolution of the Union shall take place, be the causa what it may, neither the Southern nor North ern Confederacy which may follow, will be any more of a compact, solid and permanent structure than the subverted one. Each will in the course of its limited ex istence experience lika deterioration under the opera tion of like causes, and each will tumble to pieces in its turn. Thus, the work of disintegration once begun, will go on with increased rapidity until the States which are now bound together in union, with a common Consti tution and a common head, will be separated, and form so many distinot and petty republics. Nor will the fa tal retrogression stop here. Even the little republic it self will be, in the course of & few years, torn with in ternal dissensions, and the counties and cities will imi tate the pernicious example set by the first disunionists, and organize themselves after the medievcl Italian fashion, into republics—and thus, in a century or two, perhaps, that portion of the American Continent now covered by the grandest Confederacy of free and equal commonwealths that the sun ever shone upon, knit to- gether by political ties and mutual obligations that would seem to be irrefragable by a sane people—would be cut up into hundreds of miniature, contemptible sov ereignties, which would be just so many disordancies in that shape. Either this would be the course and the consummation of things after a dissolution of the pres ent Union, or there would be in the progress of sub-di vision such a temptation, from intestine distractions and consequent enfeeblemcnt, to military chieftains to'seise upon the ricketty government and trample upon the un protected rights of the people, that either one vast tyr anny or a score of petty ones would wind up the drama. We express the opinion honestly and boldly, that if the people cannot live in peace together under our ex isting institutions, they will never live more peacefully together under any change, organize their government as they may—for it cannot be denied that these institu tions are as near perfection as any that man’s wisdom can devise, and if the ends ofa representative and free government cannot be wrought out by them, it is only because the people, in the aggregate, are incapable of self-rule. The Union, with its constitutien, was de signed to be an experiment to test the long controverted and still unsettled question on the practicability of pop ular government, ns contradistinguished from all other forme; and if it shall be dissolved, the failure of the experiment will be total and fatal. All further efforts to maintain the affirmative of the disputed question will be vain, and popular institutions will be laughed to scorn by their enemies, who will point in triumph to the explosion of the great American republic as an all-suf ficient evidence of the superiority of Kingly and Im perial dynasties and prerogatives, to|republican,jelective Presidents and written Constitutions. —Petersburg Int. Everett on Kit, Washington. Edward Everett thus describes a view of Mount Washington, the loftiest peak of the White Mountains, in New Hampshire: “ I have been something of a traveller in our own country, though far less than I could wish. And in Europe have seen all that is most attractive, from the Highland of Scotland to the Golden Horn of Constan tinople—from the summit of the Gartz Mountain to the fountain of Vaucluse—but my eye has yet to rest on a lovelier scene than that which is discovered from Mount Washington, when, on some dear, cool summer’s morn ing, at sun rise, the cloud-curtein is drawn ujp from nature’s grand proscenium and all that chaos of wild ness and oeauty starts into life—the bare, tha gigantic top# of the surrounding heights—the_ precipitous gor ges a thousand fathoms deep, which foot of man or ray of light never entered—the sombre matted forest—the moss-clad rocky wall, gushing with chrystal springs winding glittering lakes and peaceful villages below—and in the dim, misty distance, beyond the lower hills, faint glimpse of the sacred bosom of the eternal deep, ever heaving up with the consciousness of its own immensity—all mingled in one indescribable panorama by the hand of the Divine Artist.” The I-Miriu* •* a Liquor Seller. A retail dealer replying to a temperance communica tion which appeared in the South Carolina’ £dg ‘field Advertiser, uea this language: “Do you think sir, that we are such fools as not;to j know the influence of liquor-drinking t You reason that it will “ injure health.” Do you think liquor dealers are such asses as not to know it ? You talk of , “ weeping widows,” “ragged orphans,” and so on, as! if you were lecturing a scnool-girl to make her cry. f Now sir, let me tell you, my calling is made of “ sterner stufF;” I know all the namby-pamby talk about wasted | health, and wealth, and mind, and morals, and the pu- ! rity of society ; I know it is all true, every word ot it, I and mere too. But let me tell you, sir, that we sell li- : quor that we may make money. We would all like the i business better, if these evils did not follow ; but we i take the money, and let those who patronise u 9 take I the evils. ~ I will let you know, sir, we have a strong hold on the i community. Don’t the ladies drink syllabub ? Don’t] matrons have their cooking with liquor ? Don’t bhurch j folks drink drams? Didn’t some of them tote the] j “Wet?” Don’t even some of your great temperance} ! men argue for our side now? Don’t all this help us?” j What a dainty fry some fellows will make, when the ; devil rolls them upon the gridiron in his brimstone ] kitehen ! For a man to be thus knowingly plodding his ] way down to the regions of despair, and sending thou- ] sands on ahead of him, istoo intolerable to contemplate, j It is very true, as he says, liquor dealers have a strong ! hold on the community, but that incontrovertible truth | only increases the amount of crime f<?r which they are i to be held accountable at the judgment bar. The love , < of money has peopled hell with a million lost souls, and ’ , it will add to that number yet a million more. A Bit of Romance. j A correspondent of the Augusta Dispatch, writing ! ! from Covington, communicates to that excellent little paper the subjoined novel narrative: “Quite a romantic incident occurred here a day or two 1 ago. A delicate looking lad appeared at the door of one j j sto-ur citizens, and asked shelter for the night, saying j that he had lost his pocket-book, and wanted to look for ! it in the morning. Os course such a request was 1 granted, and the young wanderer was an object of : generous care and solicitude. He appeared rather coy, i and was disposed to avoid the members-of the family. In the morning, one of the boarders coming down stairs, observed the mysterious individual, and slipped out at the back door and has not since been heard of. Soon after, two or three gentlemen rode up, and recognized the timid looking youth, in male attire, as a young lady named Vincent, who has lived near the line of Jasper county, and is of reputable character and family. The young man who made each a sudden disappear ance formerly lived in her neighborhood, and it is sup posed that the young lady had conceived an attachment tor him, and adopted this means of obtaining an inter view. The gentlemen in search of the fair wanderer represent her as deranged ; forgetting no doubt that ‘ All true lovers are Unstaid and skittish in all motions else J Save, in the constant image of the creature That is beloved.’ The affair created considerable excitement in our quiet burg.” Mr. Everett’s “ Washington” Oration. The following opinion of Mr. Everett’s great oration, recently repeated at the New York Academy of Music, is extracted from a private letter written by a distin guished elocutionist, an Englishman by birth, but an American by adoption: “I did hear Mr. Everett—and a richer intellectual banquet I never remember to have enjoyed. He kept me transfixed for two hours, in common with an immense audience, by his finished classical oratory, and his even more finished and chiseled language. His language seems to me to be the most perfect specimen of Ciceronian eloquence I ever listened to —and I have heard Canning, Brougham, Webster, Clay, Bascombe, Hawks and Chapin—each and all of whom are ranked among the Titans of Oratory. I cannot conceive any thing more approaching to perfection, than some of the sentences in that oration—so brilliant and yet so chaste, so patriotic and yet not fulsome, so pointed ard yet never verging on coarseness. It was a treat long to be treasured by me. How I wished to have the privilege of knowing him that night — to have expressed my feel ings of delight. He almost made me regret that I could not say, “I am an American” —“I am a countryman of Washington!” and I could only console mysell that Washington was born a countryman of mine, and inherited all those sterling qualities which were once conceded to be proverbially the characteristics of an En glishman. A Letter from “Mis* Georgle Geonriaua.” of Georgia. A New York correspondent of the Sav. Georgian, with the above address, thus commences a communica tion to that paper : Hail ! O King of papers ! Pray gently listen while I cut some’capers—a lady craves the boon and asks, good graciouß ! space to tell some doings in this town audacious. This great Gothamite Babylon, where from early dawn till setting sun, a hurry-flurry and high-skelter run, confounding confusion ala Robert le Diable , or else Brougham’s pie ces—tuned as follows: “Sound the tangrang and the hibang Let the cow bell ding dong; Blow the rip rack and the gripsack, And the soft hotel gong ! j Shout away it matter what you say, To! de dol de diddle day ! ” j Another Argument against Shaving-. If history could furnish a few more instances of such ‘stupendous calamities’ resulting from shaving and cat ting the hair, we rather think it would influence people to believe it was “wrong to shave In the anecdotes of fashion, it is recorded that when Louis VII., in obedience to the injunctions of his bish ops, cropped hishair and shaved nis beard, Eleanor, his consort, found him, with this unusual appearance, very ridiculous, and soon very contemptible. She revenged herself as she thought proper, and the poor shaved king obtained a divorce. She then married Count of Anjou, afterwards our Henry 11. She had for her marriage dower the rich provinces of Poiton and Guienne ; and thi9 was the origin of those wars which for three hun dred years ravaged France, and cost the French three millions of men. All which, probably, had never oc curred had Louis VII. not been so rash as to crop his head and shave his beard, by which he became so dis gustful in the eyes of our spirited and vindictive Queen Eleanor.— The Barber's Shop. Fatal Accident. On Saturday evening last a most singular and fatal accident occurred at the Eagle Factory Boarding-liou6e in this city. A little girl some twelve years old, by the name of Georgianna Rowell, the daughter of a poor widow, in a playful mood was running from a sister, when she tripped and fell, and having in her hand an old case knife which had been worn to a point, it en tered her neck, severing the jugular vein, causing her death almost instantaneously. — Columbus Sun. Bad Liquor. We need not go so far as California to find liquor which creates delirium tremens and suicide, but the fol lowing shows that the “ liquor” which is imbibed in the golden State must be pretty rough : “ The police lately seized a quantity of liquor kept for sale at several drinking saloons. The brandy was col ored with burnt sugar, and contained one-sixteenth of a grain of sulphate of morphine to every ounce of liquor. The gin was composed of forty-seven parts of spirits and fifty-three of water, with a dash of sulphuric acid. The whiskey contained strychnine and creosote. The pale brandy contained, among other poisons, prusic acid. Novel Lawsuit. During a revival, in the Second Methodist Church of Lancaster, Pa. lust week, the Rev. Mr. Walters, pastor, peremptorily ordered “ those persons who did not wish to comply with his request (to kneel during prayer) to leave.” Mr. Henry Miller, of that city, refused to do either; whereupon, Mr. Walters instituted a suit against Mr. Miller, before a Magistrate. A clergynmu of the same church appeared as a witness, testily ing that it was not compulsory with every one to kneel but sim ply customary, when judgment was given in favor of delendant. r* Ole Ball at Home. A private letter to a musical gentlemen in New York, states that Ole Bull had been received with great en thusiasm, not only at Bergen, the city of his birth, but in Christiana, and every city or village through which he passed. “ From the theatre he was followed home by thousands of persons, accompanied by a band of music, and, even after he had entered his hotel, the en thusiastic multitude continued for some time to pour forth their joyous acclamations at his safe return to his father-land.” ‘ , . . ‘ w-.* ■ m fSt The Savannah Morning Newt, of March 4th, says: “At the election for Mayor and Councilmen, which took place in Brunswick, on the Ist instant, C. W. Styles, for Mayor, received seventy-eight votes, and the opposing candidate, James Houston, seventy-six. The contest between the Councilmen was nearly as close. All but two of,the Styles, pr, “ Conservative,” ticket wdire elected, the” highest fofifiag lus opponent only six votes.” COMMUNICATIONS. [Cawnumcated.) f—? ——— “ Woman now retaliates evil— By the Devil once tempted, tlfey now tempt the Devil. : Mr. Editor : Visiting the pleasant town of AVarren ton a few days since, I was induced to go and witness the performance of “ the South American Magician. The beauty, elegance and wit of the town were there ; but the “ observed of all observers’ ’ was the handsome Miss , (bearing the name that a celebrated poet once bore.) Her features were of the finest mould ; her form exquisitely graceful; her eyes flashed with intelligence; ! the waving ringlets of her hair formed a beautiful dra- j pery for her alabaster white shoulders. But oh! the , transporting, rapturous scene that meets the view ! the hidden beauties revealed by a low-necked dress in win ter. Ye gods, what a temptation ! A sight calculated to cause the warm blood to rise in the veins of sober age, as well as impulsivo youth. “ Feats of dexterity were forgotten, and she became the centre ol attraction, j However flattering the attention and gaze of the public j may have appeared to her, it was the result more ot cu- i riosity and astonishment than of delight and approba tion, The remarks of the public regarding this “sight’ i j were not calculated to impress a stranger with an ex- ; alted opinion of this young lady’s modesty or prudence. I would humbly advise her as a friend, (though a stran- s ger to her,) ind’uture to beware how she wears extreme ■ r low-necked dresses in public assemblies. \V hat was no doubt the result of thoughtlessness, on repetition, may be attributed to design. Without attempting flattery, 1 would suggest that Miss - has beauty enough with [ out any further display of her charms. Willie, j friendship's Retreat, Ga. Moral Suasion. For the Georgia Temperance Crusader. ! As some profess to believe “ Moral Suasion” the j | only proper remedy for the evils of the liquor shops, I , : propose to examine its claims to our confidence. AVhat i ! is “ Moral .Suasion ?” It is simply advice and persua- i ston to do or not to do a particular thing ; yet, some in- \ sist on its being the best means to promote virtue, sup press vice, support good government, encourage good morals, and to protect the weak and helpless from the snares and oppressions of the artful and unprincipled destroyers of every good ; and nil this, without rule, law or authority. What a marvellous discovery is this! But who believes in this sort of suasion, or rather, as it is practiced, it may be called, this two-faced suasion?j They who profess to believe in this new art of gov- j | ernment, applying it to the temperance cause, are I prompted by various influences. Some have adopted it under the influence of others without due reflection. Many of these are honest, though mistaken in their views. But there are others, who, desiring office, adopt it for the purpose of placing themselves with both par- ! ties ; by means of this, they profess to the temperance : men great interest in the success of their cause, and to j the liquor-sellers and their friends, they give assuran- | ces that they are opposed to every thing stronger than | Moral Suasion. The liquor sellers know that while they and their business are licensed and protected by law, they can kink their nose at Moral Suasion, and carry on their business with safety. This places the Suasionists with both parties to this reform, and some professed temperance men have as sured the liquor sellers and their friends, that they would oppose any interference, by law, with the liquor trade, either by a repeal of the license law or otherwise. How ever much it may be said these men love temperance, it is manifest that they love the doggery keepers and their business much better than ihey do other tempe rance men and their cause. This class of Suasionists stand the pledged friends and protectors of the liquor men and their business, though blood-shed and murder, broken-hearted wives and mothers, starving children and every other form of misery may fill the land ! The professions of these men in favor of the dram-sellers and their business, seems to be sincere and reliable —for, if we ask them to vote with U 9 for a candidate who wishes to repeal the license law, they are displeased and refuse, though they are mighty friends of temperance. It is to be deeply deplored that many of these men belong to churches, and profess the religion of Christ! God has not employed moral suasion for the govern ment of any of His creatures. He declares His laws, and then advises and exhorts men to obey them, on pain of terrible punishments for disobedience. He does not seem to have any use for moral suasion, except as advice not to incur the penalties of His laws. If such a rule of government as moral suasion was proposed to our honest and wise law-maker, he would hear it with disrespect. How is it that these Suasionists, in their devotion to the protection of the liquor shops from the government of law, have found out a wiser and better policy for the government of men, than had ever been thought of by the wisest and best of their predecessors, or even by the Almighty Himself? Moses, the prophets, apostles, evangelists, great kings and all wise men were all igno rant of it! Its wisdom is not from above, for we do not see that God ever had any use for it, except as before stated. Where then is it from i All know that the dram-shops cause more blood-shed and murder, more degraded and ruined families, fills more graves with untimely victims, and causes more bad morals in Church and State, and produces more sin, misery and human wo, than all other vices put together. Notwithstanding all this, these Suasionists will allow ot no remedy for these evils, but to go to the liquor sellers and advise and entreat them to cease from their merciless work of sin and death! though they them selves, are far from practicing their moral suasion upon the dram-sellers ; but on the contrary, many of them protect the doggery men and their business, even at the very ballot box, no matter how much evil they may cause and do. AVhen these liquor sellers tempt and en tice a man to get drunk, who, in his derangement mur ders someone, the Suasionists see him hung for it, and j still they will vote for no man to be governor or law i maker, who is in favor of repealing the license law ! ! Arguments used to justify the voting for men to con tinue the liquor shops, stated and answered. It is said, that neither they who continue the license law, nor they who vote for candidates to support that continuance, compel men into the liquor shops or any of their evils. Admiting this, vve reply : nor did Satan compel our first parents into transgression. He only presented the temptation, and for that sin he was more severely punished than they were, because there was a remedy provided for them, but tor him we know of none being afforded. This was as it should be, for in all cases, he. who knowingly provides or assists in providing temptations to entice and ensnare men into ruin, are much worse men than the majority are, whose ruin they thus cause. Some say that freemen should be allowed to do as they please with their own. This is a senseless argu ment, which no good man ever used, if he understood what he talked about. The dyes, stamps, paper and metal used by counterfeiters, are all their own property. So, too, the gambler’s money, cards and skill are his own. Shall these classes of men be allowed to carry on their business, because they choose to do so with things that are their own ? Again. If a man’s siek ox, hog or sheep dies, shall he be allowed to sell his meat because it is his own, and he pleases to do it ? Counterfeiters and gamblers and sellers of unsound provision, may do much harm, yet, a few liquor sellers cause more destruction of good morals, property, health and life, than all the counterfeiters, gamblers and sell ers of unsound provisions in many States; yet, these liquor sellers are encouraged by law, whilst the others are punished. The sort of moral suasion we are ob jecting to, sanctions and approves of all this. Oh, ‘Moral Suasion,’ how beautifully does religion and the love of humanity and good morals shine in thy pious i countenance! R Sandhill Div. No. $57, S. of T. Feb’y 17 ’SB Whereas, it has pleased the Supreme Architect of the Universe to remove, from our midst our friend and brother, John C. Corbit; and while we humbly bow to the decree of our Heavenly Father, it is becoming and right that this Division should express its feelings in the losb we have sustained in his death— That Sandhill Division, in the death of i brother Corbit, has been deprived of a good man an ud ‘ right citizen and a true Son of Temperance ’ i Resolved, That we duly sympathise with his bereaved ‘ relations and Inends, and as a testimonial af our appro, ciation of his worth, will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days; that a blank page in the min c, rdit JKEf&JIS h,S nnm \ an , d g. and the Re cording Scribe forward a copy of these resolutions to his immediate family, and tho Central Georgian and Crusader be requested to publish the same * &Ha M. T. FISHER, ‘ A .s A d.bilnd MER, } c< “”- J— j-~l X~J.II 1!— 1 . 1 J! 1 . 1 .J “ • In Morgan county, Ga. at the residence of Thomas Harm, Esq. on the 2d mst. by Rev A T Snauldino ‘ jfr.JAMKS M BONDER luMife SoZueT : FOPI^SEWS. Feb, 20.—Thcsales of Cotton for the week ending Thujfeday evening,; Feb. 18th, were 68,600 bales • iof which speculators took 12,500, and exporters 5 500 1 bales leaving to the trade 50,600 bales. The Market ’op. I c.ned unsetted and excited at an advance of l-4d and closed quiet but firm. The following are the quotations : Fair Orleans, ‘ id. Mid. Orleans 7*(i Fair Mobile, 7fd. Mid. Mobile 78d Fair Uplands, 74d. Mid. Uplands 6{d - The stock on band in Liverpool is 230,000 bales | which 116,000 is American. Liverpool General Market.—F lour is reported very dull, and quotations barely maintained. Wheat quiet ! Corn dull, and white declined Is. to 2s. per quarter I Sugar quiet. Rice steady. Rosin firm at 4s 3d. to 4* I 4d. Manchester Trade.— The business in the manufactur ing districts was favorable. London Money Market.— Money was easy. Consols had advanced, and were quoted at 971-2 a 97 5-8 General News. The steamship Europa reached Liverpool on the 15th ; February,'and the Kangaroo on the 17th. The British ministry were defeated in their efforts to * pass the conspiracy bill. Later news had been received from India, and it ! regarded as favorable. ‘ v< * The Banks of France had reduced its rates of dig- I ! count. [lt may be interesting to some of our commercial mea to compare the quotations by the last, with the present ! steamer. Tho following are the quotations brought by i the American, which left Liverpool on the 13th of Feb. ! ruary. , Fair Orleans ?*d. Mid. Orleans 7sd. Fair Mobile 72d. Mid. 74^ Fair Uplands 7 5-lfid. Mid. Uplands 7 1-lwli ; The stock of cotton in Liverpool at the end of the commercial week, Thursday, Feb. 11th, was 285,Cha) hales, of which 148,000 wjere American.] Wallcott, the Recusant Witness. Washington, March 6. —The grand jury to-day found a true bill agrinst Walcott, the recusant before the in vestigating committee of the House. SECOND DISPATCH. : New York, March 7. —The Europa brings no later j intelligence from China than what was r-eeived by the America, with this exception, that the details of the * 1 official intelligence show that Canton is virtually in pos ; session of the British forces. .Sir James Outrain bad defeated the rebels on two oc casious in attacks on his entrenchment at Alumbogh. The required capital for the construction of about seven hundred miles of cable for the Atlantic subraa->, rine Telepraph has been authorized by the Board of Di rectors in London. Mahommed Pacha, of the Turkish Navy, came passen ger in the Europa. HUMOROUS. Ot.n Marblehead, on the Eastern shore, sends its contribution to the drawer, and very fittingly, it has a smack of the sea. “It was on a fishing-smack oft- the coast: the I vessel had been recently refitted, painted, and i cleaned, and ajolly crew were out on a pleasure cruise. In the midst of the chowder-eating and | the grog bruising a storm was brewing, and pres i ently one of the old salts, as he took a swig by | ‘word of Mouth’ from the jug, passed it to the next man, and remarked it thunders.’ ‘Yes” says the other as he took the jug, ‘and it lightens too,’ as lie tipped it nearly bottom upward before he could get a drop.”— Harper. Still another sentinel story comes to the Drawer: “The village of Flatbush, Long Island,was an noyed some time ago with frequent visits from the rogues of New York and Brooklyn, who would- ’ come in the night and steal horses or any thing else they could lay their hands on. The citizens formed a night patrol, and to prevent the danger of harming one another they agreed privately that any one approaching the guard should speak thrice, and if he tailed to do so, he would be known as a thief, and liable to be arrested. One of the men on duty, having taken a little too much bad liquor, descried someone coming in the dark, and roared out, three times, or I’ll shoot you once! ’ On came the silent figure—the guard blazed away, and fortunately missed an advancing cow.”— Harper, From Tennessee, comes a letter from a friend, who will always find the Drawer open when be comes with any thing half as good as this: “General Falsdale was an officer in the Florida AVar, celebrated for his rigid adhesion to military discipline, and the scatching lectures he gave the soldiers caught neglecting their duty. Among- 1 those who had received severe tongue-lashing from the General was Tom Hicks, a wild, rattle brained fellow, popular in the camp, and up to all manner, of practical jokes. Proud withal, he was so unfortunate as to be found asleep while on bis post as guard. He now had to take a wither ing reproof, and in his bitterness he took a big oatli to be revenged on the General, if ever an opportunity offered. “One cold night, when the rain was pouring in torrents, Tom was on sentinel duty; but he had > hardly settled his head in the collar of his coat for a nap or to shield his face from the storm, before lie heard someone coming along splashing through the mud. Looking around and peering into the thick of the night, he soon discovered that it was the General himself. Now was the time! Leveling his musket at the advancing fig ure, he demanded, VWho goes there?’ “.‘Your officer,’ replied the General, with great decision and dignity. “ “Advance and give the countersign!’ roared Tom. “But the General just remembered that he did not recollect to get it before he set out on this exploring expedition, and so stated to the tenacious sentinel, who declined to receive an planation. ‘“Mark time!’ demanded Tom, as he clicked his musket and stepped forward, ready to fire into the heart of the trembling General in an other instant, who now thought he would try the power of coaxing. ‘"‘AA hy, Hick, you know it’s nobody but me 1“ ‘“Can’t help that—must obey orders; strict I military discipline. Mark time, or I’ll shoot you i in a second!’ “The general saw that he was fairly caught, and for two mortal long hours Hicks kept him stand ing there ‘marking time,’ up to his knees in mud and water, the rain pouring down in torrents. At last the relief-guard came, and Tom was able to dismiss his prisoner. The general crept back to his quarters, drenched to the skin, tired to death and heartily satisfied with camp-dutv. Tom was never subjected to any dressings-down after that.” Dr. W. L. M. HARRIS, to the good citizens of Pen- IV field and vicinity, for the liberal confidence ] and encouragement given him, respectfully contin ues a tender of his professional services to them, i Dr. R. J. Massey, his former partner in the practice, ‘ Will, with pleasure, attend any call, at any time, that ! may be made while Dr. 11. is professionally engaged j and cannot be obtained. March 11,1858 JUST RECEIVED! A Large Stock of Family Groceries! (CONSISTING OF— * All Grades Sugar and Coffee; fine Syrups and Molasses ; ] Good Apple Vinegar; Rice; Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Mackerel; A ! arge lot of Hydraulic Candles, which can be 1 bought exceedingly low; A variety of Pickles ; Maccaroni j fiago; *§ Currants ; Raisins and Candies ; Table Salt; Soda; Pepper and Spices; Chewing and Smoking Tobacco ; Pipes ; Any quality of a Cigar ; j Large lot of Jar Snuff; All qualities of Soap; Drugs and Patent Medicines ; Perfumery—a choice lot. B way of remark, I would sav to the citizens and vt ci.nity of Penficld, that I am giving this business iny tin divided attention ; and if they will give me a liberally tronage; I will save them the TROUBLE and EA PENSE of going farther. __ Pcnfield, Ga. March 9, 1857. J. M. BOWLES.^ Greene Sheriff’s Sales. j WILL be sold before the court-house door in \ ’ ‘ the city of Greenesboro’, on the first Tuesday m j APRIL next, within the legal hours of sale, the ioi* j lowing property to-wit: V One house and lot in the village of AVhite Plains, de taining one acre, more or less, adjoining lands ot R. • Jacks and others: levied on as the property of John A- Floyd, a free man of color, to satisfy an fa trom the In ferior Court of Greene county, in favor of Thos. Hwn tower, survivor, vs. Elisha P. Jarrell, guardian for Jdn“ K. Floyd. Property pointed out by plaintiff ’s attorney. Also, at the same time and place, one negro girl named ’ Missouri, about sixteen years old, of daTk complex ; Levied qn as of Ulysses .Kmg, to satWy fi. fas. in my hands t> U B.Kuig. Property Pointed out by defendant. I. MORRISON, Sh ff. Greenesboro’, 6th March, 1856.