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gcmpfrancc fifntsadiir. - PEU’EJEI.D, GEORGIA. __ “tHUKSCAYMORNING, MAM 18,1858. CLUBS, Chibs of Ton Subscribers, by sending the cash, can get tfc Crusader at 11 50 per copy. Clubs of Five at $1 80 I*person sending five new subscribers, will receive an extra copy of the paper one year, free of cost. ■rt-The proprietor of this paper has been confined . i is u e( i by severe illness during the past week, which misfortune he hopes will satisfactorily explain and atone fnr the negligence his correspondence and editorial la bor, suffered. Hi. friends will hear from him so soon,as he is able to resume the duties of his office. Court Week in Greeneaboro\ Last week the Superior Court of this county, held its regular session. The amount of business dispatched was large; yet, at the adjournment on Saturday eve nin<*, they had not gotten through with more than half. The criminal docket was, we believe, unprecedented in this county, at least for many years past. Monday and Tuesday were occupied in various civil cases, some ofwhich attracted considerable interest. On Wednes day morning the criminal docket was taken up. The principal items under this head, wer<? the trials of the negroes, John and Thornton, the former as principal, and the latter as accessory in the late murder of Jesse S Jones. The trial of John occupied but a short time, he having confessed his crime, with a full detail of all the circumstances under which it was committed. A greater effort was made to save Thornton. The charge against him rested chiefly on the testimony of John, though sustained by many corroborating circumstances. The trial occupied a day and a half, Judge Cone making an able speech for the prisoner, and Mr. Reese, of Mad ison, one equally able for the State. Both the negroes •were found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged on the 30th of April next. A negro woman who had been confined in jail for BOme time on the charge of killing her infant child, was •released, the Grand Jury failing, in the absence of all testimony, to find a true bill against her. Quite a number of the gaming gentry were brought to an account for their misdeeds, and some of them dealt with pretty heavily.. B. F. Ray, against whom several true bills were found, one for gambling with negroes, was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment, and fined $350. Curtius Lankford was sentenced to 2 months im prisonment, and fined SSO. A squad of gamesters from a neighboring county were invited to contribute to the county treasury, in a manner which rendered a com pliance most prudent. We think, however, that our laws against gambling can never become sufficiently terrible to offenders, until the rates of fining be raised. The court will convene again on the 29th of this month, and, from what we can learn, the unfinished business will occupy another week or more. Information has been received from’ Aspinwall, by the Moses Taylor, that the commanders of her Bri tanic Majesty’s vessels of war on the West India sta tion have received orders from the British Government to capture and treat as pirates General Walker and all or any other fillibusters, wherever they may find them. j&'A company was formed last year, in New York, which agreed with the underwriters aud shippers to keep New York harbor open during the winter. The pay stipulated was S2OO a-day. There has not been ice enough for a mint julep all winter, yet the company’s boat has lain at the wharf, earning its S2OO per diem, in the most comfortable manner. Faults of Memory. Almost every recurrence of the anniversary of the birth of the immortal Washington brings out something never before heard of in the history of that great man. Within the last few days we have observed an article going the rounds of the press, stating that “ Washing ton died the last hour of the last day of the last year of the last century.” Now, if the author will turn to “ Benton’s Abridgement of the Debates of Congress,” voL 2, page 434, he will find the following correspon dence : “ Gentlemen of the Senate and gentlemen of the House of Representatives: The letter herewith trans mitted, will inform you that it has pleased Divine Pro vidence to remove from this life our excellent fellow citizen, George Washington, by the purity of his char-, acter. and a long series of services to his country, ren dered illustrious through the world. It remains for an affectionate and grateful people, in whose hearts he can never die, to pay suitable honor to his me mory. United States, Dec. 19, 1799.” John Adams. Painful Retribution* if True. The Newport Spectator says there is a young man in a town of Vermont, who cannot speak to his father. Previous to his birth some difference arose between his mother and her husband, and for a considerable time she refused to speak to him. The difficulty was subse quently healed —the child was born and in due time be gan to talk—but when sitting with his father was inva riably silent. It continued so until it was live years old, when the father, having exhausted his powers of persuasion, threatened it with punishment for its stub bornness. When the punishment was inflicted, it elic ited nothing but sighs and groans, which told but too plainly that the little sufferer was vainly endeavoring to speak. All jvho were present united in the opinion that it was impossible for the child to speak to his father —and time proved their opinion to be correct. At a maturer age, its efforts to converse with its parent” could only produce bitter sighs and groans. Georgia Rail Road.—From a statement handed to the Augusta Constitutionalist, the following appears to be the receipts of cotton, flour and grain, at the depot in Augusta by the Georgia Rail Road for the month of February last: Cotton, 34, 053 bales, i Flour, 6,666 barrels. Grain, 45,146 bushels. Convicted. —Thomas Golden was tried at the Supe rior Court of Marion county, last week, for the murder of Nicholas Jordan some time last winter and con victed. Sudden Death at Brunswick.—The Herald of the 10th instant, says:—“On Friday last, Mr. Henry Dale, a young man of excellent character and appa rently in robust health, fell dead while walking the street.^ Fatal Accident.—Two boys, some fifteen or sixteen years of age, says the Cartersville Express, were on a hunting excursion, near Allatoona, in this County, on the4tb inst., when one of them by the name of Hannie, accidently shot the other one, by the name of Waldroup, through the head, killing him instantaneously. Han nie was tried on the sth inst., and acquitted. Tije Southern Commercial Convention,— -P. D. Page, Secretary for the State of Alabama, of the last Southern Commercial Convention, publishes a card, in which he states that the convention is to assem ble at Montgomery on the second, instead of the first Monday in May next. The Most Interesting Sight. One day the Rev. Henry Venn, author of the “ New Whole Duty of Man,” told his children that in the ev ening he would take them to sec one of the most inter* csting sights in the world. They were anxious to know what it was, but he defered gratifying their curiosity till he had brought’ them to the scene itself. He led them to a miserable hovel, whose ruinous walls and broken windows bespoke an extreme degree of poverty and want. “Now,” said he, “my dear children, can any one that lives in such a wretched habitation as this be happy? Yet this is notaal a poor young man lies upon a miserable straw bed within it, dying of disease, at the age of only nineteen, consumed with constant fever, and afflicted with nine painful ul cers.” “How wretched a situation!” they all ex .claimed. He then led them into the cottage, and, ad dressing the poor young man, said, “Abraham Mid wood, i have brought my children here to show them that it is possible to be happy in a state of disease and poverty and want; and now tell them if it is not so.” The dying youth, with a sweet smile of benevolence and piety, immediately replied, “Oh, yes sir ! I would not exchange my state with that of the richest person upon earth, who was destitute of those views whicn I possess, messed be God ! I have a good hope through Christ “t being admitted into those blessed regions where Laz* aru| now dwells, having long forgotten all his sorrows * miseries. Sir, there is nothing to bear, whilst the °* God cheers my soul, and whilst I can have nc ,, , o him by constant prayer, through faith in Jesus. In* am truly happy,and 1 trust to be happv and whSlk eternity ; and I every hour thank'God, rnnrvpfm,o r U ?! U ( rom a state of darkness into his marvelous light, and has given me to enjoy, the un riches of his grace! ” The iftipression made y this discourse upon his young hearers was never es- Senator Douolas. —The Richmond Dispatch of Mon day says :—“We have heard a report that Senator Douglas of Illinois intends to resign his seat in the Uni ted States Senate, and spend some years on the conti nent of Europe.” We hav#ho doubt the trip would be beneficial to the Senator, as well as to the country just now. The Cars eor Egypt.—Watson & Cos., of Spring field. Massachusetts, will ship this week ten passenger cars which they have contracted with the Pasha of Egypt to build for the Alex andria and Cairo Railroad. The cars are packed in boxes, and two workmen go out in the same ship. The remaining thirty cars are to be built and forwarded before the Ist of July. A splendid drawing of the cars is sent to the Pasha, and will doubt less please the old fellow very much. China, Japan, and Siam. —The Chinese official cen sus of 1852, stated the population of that immense em pire at 367,632,905. That of Japan is variously estima ted at from 25,000,000 to 50,000,000. The three tnay be estimated in round numbers at something like 400,- 000,000. The superficial extent of these nations is from li to 2 millions of square miles. Hon. James L. Orr, of S. C., declines, pointedly and positively, to be a candidate for re-ele<?tion to Congress. Tiios. Thomas, the murderer, who recently escaped from the jail of Lee co., and for whom a reward of sl,- 000 was offered, has been captured. Jl&t~ Mr. Jacob Symer was recently crushed to death by becoming entangled in the gearing of his mill in Floyd county. An unusual religious awakening seems to pre vail throughout the country the present winter. The N. iY. Examiner has been gathering statistics, and states that the number of conversions reported by its exchanges correspondents during the last, two weeks, in the several orthodox denominations of the United States, is 7,300. The aggregate number repor ted for the last fire weeks, is over 20,000 besides. llorril>le } it True. A horrible case of spontaneous combustion is reported as having recently occurred in Cairo. 111. A man named Faxon, suffering under delirium tremens, entered a sa loon and called for a glass of brandy. Immediately af ter drinking it, his breath came in contact with a lighted match in the hand of a bystander, and instantly took fire and burnt for nearly two minutes, when death en ded his tortures. Great Pistol Match—Novel Wager. Mr. Jno. Travis, who has established & pistol gallery in Louisville, Ky. has just closed the most extraordinary wager we have ever heard of. It iB no less than a bet of one thousand dollars that he will hit an orange placed on the head of a boy at ten paces; also shoot one in each hand of the boy. The wager is with Samuel A. Suydam, of New York, and the match takes place in Louisville on the 14th of June. The following are the terms of the match: Travis bets Suydam SI,OOO that he will find a boy who will stand at the distance of ten paces and place an orange, not to exceed two and a-half inches in diameter, in each hand, and one upon his head, which Travis will shoot from their respective localities, no object to intervene between the boy and the oranges. If Travis fails to find the boy who will stand, or fails to hit the oranges in the three shots, or any shot touches the boy, he loses the bet. Intoxication. —An old law in Spain decreed that if a gentleman was convicted of even a capital offence, he should be pardoned on his pleading his having been in toxicated at the time he committed it, it being supposed that any one who bore the character of gentility, would more readily suffer death than confess himself capabla of such a vice. Advertising’. An Article of some length in Appleton's New Cyclo pedia, gives some interesting facts relative to the his tory of the “ art” of advertising. The earliest patrons of the newspapers, as a medium of advertising, wers the booksellers, good luck to them. The earliest ad vertisement appeared in 1652, in the Mercurius Politi cus, and announced a book eulogizing Oliver Crom well. Next to the booksellers followed the public offi cers, advertising runaways, ect. The tradesmen wh# first discovered the advantage of advertising were the China merchants, who announce the. “China drink, called by the Chinese Tcha ” (tea.) In 1688, the Lon don Gazette was the only paper printed in that city, and became, and still continues to be, the, Court Journal. In the reign of Charles 11, advertisements of theatrical and other public amusements first appeared. The great plague in London brought out announcements of anti dotes and remedies. From 1701, advertisements may he considered as declaring the wants, the losses, the amusements, the literature, the money-making eager ness, the fashions, the foibles, the charities, the occa sional eccentricities and the political tendencies of the people. We had in a number of the Tattler, in 1710, a review f the current advertisements of the times. In 1745 the General Advertiser was commenced in London, the first successful attempt to depend wholly for support on ad vertisements. Twenty years later English journalism was fully established in the provinces as well as in the Capital; and at the commencement of the present cen tury, advertising had become a system, reflecting the very form and pressure of the times. In speaking of advertising to-day, the London Times is usually referred to on account of the great number of its advertisements. On the 24th of May, 1855, it had 2,575 new advertisements. It is estimated that its daily readers number 420,000. During the railroad mania of 1845, in the month of October, it received from adver tisements £25,000 sterling. Its regular weekly receipts from that source are £5,000. The Printer’s Story. We Ice saw a young man gazing at the “ry heaven, with a f in 1 ana a —*—■> of pistols in the other. We Ndeavorea 2 attract his atlOtion by .ing 2 a in a paper we held in our relating 2 a young man in that § of the country who had left home in a stß of Drangement. He dropped the sand pistols from his with the !, it is lof whom U read. I left home B 4my friends knew of my Dsign. Iso the of a girl who refused 2 lislO 2 me, but smiled upon an other. I ed from the house, uttering a wild ! to the God oflove, and without replying to the ? ? of my friends, came here with this of pistols 2 put a. to my XislOce. My case has no |j in this f. Texas. Accounts from the interior indicate a general activity among planters in ploughing and putting in their spring crops. In Eastern and Northern Texas the ground is still too wet to admit of much progress, but the weather we aro now having will soon put it in good order. Western Texas ana the coast counties were never in a more promising condition at this season of the year than at present, and large crops of every description are now confidently anticipated. A larger breadth of land will be devoted to, corn and wheat than ever before, and we think the same may be said of the cultivation of cot ton, especially the Sea Island variety, for which the coast lands are believed to be peculiarly adapted. In a word, if a merciful providence will preserve us from late frosts and ravenous insects, we shall be able to obtain more from our rich and generous soil this year than ever before.— Galveston News. Tbc Press in France. The following paragraph from the Paris correspon dent of the New* York Commercial, shows how complete and despotic is the censorship of the prc*£ maintained by Louis Napoleon; “ A friend, who is cnnloycd in the Monitcur office to make the translations from the American journals, as sures me that not a single liac appears in that, paper that has not passed through the office of the Minister of State, and been marked bona iirer. Murders, chap ters from Lieut. Maury’s navigation papers, many ot which have been published .lately, &c. arc read over carefully with the rest. And the proof which he offers that they aro carefully read, is this: that frequently his translations have a sentence struck out, or are con demned entirely, because of a supposed allusion to .pol ities. Not only does the minister or his chief know the contents of each day’s issue, but M. Pancoucke, the publisher, and the two principal editors, inspect the mat ter before it goes to the Minister’s bureau.” TUe Verdict of History. History, besides its#>ad men, is filled with dcbateabl# men. Historic doubts arise to disturb the verdict of ages: judgments are wholly reversed; black men be come white; white black. A shade falls upon the great name of Sidney. Wat Tyler and Jack Cade arc rising in public estimation. Queen Mary finds a patron in one party .in the Church. Crook-backed Richard has his apologists. Judas Iscariot himself has recently been pronouncod by learned, and even Episcopal critics, to have been probably not so black as for eighteen cen turies he has been believed to be. After all, whose opinions are to govern ? What history is to be fol lowed ? Arc wo to have the Duke of Marlborough? an angel of light, says Lord Stanhope—a fallen angel, says Lord Macaulay—a traitor, a murderer.— London Athen rum. Look not itpow the Wine. There was a respectable family somewhere in the good old North State, whose name I need not give; but they ranked high in society, were born in the higher walks of life, and seemed to have all the comforts needed to make them happy. Wealth, friends, birth, honor, a smiling father, an intelligent mother, loving brothers and sisters—all that earth could afford pleasure, seemed to be combined ta make them happy. But there was a serpent coiled in the bosom of that family; there was a poisonous monster bent for the stroke, not at the heel but at the heart of some of the bright eyed youths of that happy family. Yet they dandled it, and kept it as their nearest bosom friend. They had not been taught to 44 look not upon the wine when it giveth its color in the cup,” but rather, “ do as your ancestors have done before you.” There was a gay youth among them ; he had a powerful intellect, a refined education; and was probably looked upon as one of the future standards of his country. He chose a bride from the circle in which he moved, equally refined in education, with a considerable portion of wealth. Many friends wished A a lovely and happy life with his sweet bride. All seemed to promise future hap piness. * • * * * It was one cold evening in the month of February, the snow, which was tolerably deep, had not yet began to melt, when a man came reeling forth out of a village. Having gone some distance, his strength gave way, he reeled and fell, in the mud, water and snow, where it is quite probable he would have frozen, had he not been discovered. This was A ! The serpent had made himself known; it had stricken its blow, and though A yet lives and might reform, yet it is almost an impossibility. He has, as it were, made a league with the fell monster, and will not recognize him as his ene my. Such is the influence of Alcohol. Yes, man, who is alone capable of attaining to such a state of holiness as to have sweet, constant union and communion with the Holy Trinity, can thus sink himself beneath the brute creation ! O Temperance! thou glorious, heav enly messenger, hasten the time when thou shalfwave thy banner victoriously over the sons of men. O ye citizens of North Carolina, you who love to talk of your liberties, and of the brave'ry of your fathers, come, let us cast off a yoke that is more severe than that of Great Biitain. “Who will come to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty?” Let it resound from every Christian heart: “ Look not upon the wine when it giveth its color in the cup; for it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.”— Spirit of the Age. SIGMA. It uin Murders. We are to see that the public mind is roused up to the multiplication of murders under the rum excite ment, so common in the State. The press should speak out on the subject, and leave the evil where it belongs, at the feet of the traeffi. The Ovid Bee has the follow ing timely remark: “ The occurrences of the last six months alone would abundantly justify the extremest efforts ever made for a prohibitory liquor law. From all directions the pa pers teem with accounts of men killed by drinking, and of horrible butcheries perpetrated by drunken men. Our county has had its full share of these heart-rending calamities. B*t terrible as they are, these murders have been perpetrated by authority; they ore the legit imate work of our numerous licensed drunkeries, TEese dens of death which tho law has cdmniissioned on purpose to kill men, are in full, unchecked operation; the murders which we witness almost daily have not lessened the patronage of these hell holes; they are in as good repute as ever. Blood is upon our grog deal ers from first to last; the sober second thought of the community fixes upon them the gilt of murder. They stand up ns men who have conspired against the lives of their fellow men. As evidence of this, we take a par agraph from one of our exchanges, not apt to be in ad vance of such questions: ‘A fanner residing in Tyre, in this county, named Robert Bennett, was placed in jail in Waterloo, for drunkenness, on Friday the Ist inst. and died on the Sabbath morning following.’ ‘ Deaths from intemperance arc becoming alarmingly frequent. Within three weeks three deaths have oc curred within our immediate vicinity, says the Geneva Courier. It seems time that some more stringent meas ures were used te prevent drunkenness, and to punish those who traffic in rum. Those who sold liquor to Mr. Bennett are his murderers, and should be dealt with in that light.’ ” A large numlx'r of temperance sermons are being con stantly preached in England and Scotland. The pul pit comes well to the help. Respectable Drunkards. t ; In the prosecution of the temperance enterprise we arc continually met with the assertion, that “if we only educate thfc people, drunkenness will cease,” and con sequently that such very extreme measures as total ab stinence or prohibition are alike superfluous and unde sirable. That education, of itself, unaided or supple mented by a more complete or adapted remedy, would never meet the fearful and gigantic evil we seek to cure, frequent evidence is afforded. In the English papers for the last week in October wc find the following cases re ported : At the Southwark Police Court the Rev. Mr. Pretty man was fined ss. for being drunk, and Mr. Unwin, ‘a manufacturer of Sheffield, ’ was fined the drunkard’s fine, for having troubled the police to remove him ‘ inca pable’ from the streets. Two officers were lined each a similar amount for being intoxicated. At the Surrey Sessions two persons were convicted for seven years penal servitude for robbing Daniel Phillips, ‘ a respecta ble linen-draper in Bridgewater,’ who being in London Streets ‘under the influence of liquor’ was pushed down, and then in a scullle which ensued lie was robbed of his watch by the prisoners, whose practice it was to watch for drunken men and then rob them. Two cases were also reported just at this time of ‘respectable female drunkards.’ Is education a safeguard from drunken ness ? We answer NO ! Drink may blight the fairest. Drink blasts the strongest. Its characteristic is to weaken every motive to do right, and to strengthen every motive to do wrong, and it produces entirely the same results upon the educated as upon the illiterate. It is no respecter of persons, of rank or of sex. Conse quently, the wisest, safest and simplest remedy is to ab stain entirely from its use ; neither to touch, taste nor handle a beverage so dangerous in its tendency, and so prolific of evil. How to tlo it. “ I at once sat dowi* and reasoned the point, and rea soned niysclf into being a staunch Prohibitionist. Hav ing done this, my duty became plain before me. Ido not fear the consequences!” Such was the noble utterance of the devoted Narra way, privately made a few days ago. What a lesson; what an epitome of the obligations of Man; what an analysis of the duty of the Christian Minister! Agrcat question arises. It involves great and weighty considerations and consequences. The woiHd is divi ded upon it. Party clamors around it. Prejudice and passion frown at it, and personal interest and an inor dinate appetite arc involved in its solution. What is to be done ? Shall the neighbor be enquired of? Shall 1 consult the politician ? Shall I get an excathedra opin ion from my Bishop ? Shall I question my own purse and prospects ? Shall I consult the fickle passions of a clamorous populace? No! I leave the struggles of party, I forget the excitement oi the times ; and in the quiet seclusion of my own studio, I ask the Divine direc tion, and under it, I reason myself into being a Prohi bitionist —having done whigh I enter at once fearlessly upon my course, remembering that: Duty is mine, con sequences belong to God. Oh if every Christian man, whether he be a layman or a clergyman, would go and do likewise, how soon the Gospel heralds would come out and help us in our en deavors to overturn the giant iniquity of intemperance. —Life of Narraway. Bishop Bayley, Catholic bishop of New Jersey, has issued an official manifesto against the vice of drunken ness, and against those dealers in alcoholic beverages who minister thereto. He suggests to his parochial clergy that each shall keep a list of the drunkards and also of th<s liquor dealers connected with his church, and adds: “ I am determined to make use of ihe most severe measures against all who are addicted to this scanda lous and destructive vice; and if they continue in the practice of it, they must do it ns outcasts from the Cath olic church, who have no right to the name of Catholic while they live, nor to Christian burial when they die.” Wc hope the bishop will go farther, and propose at least a homily against moderate drinking, which is the parent of all drunkenness. Let the bishop and his cler gy set an example in this matter, and who can Oil the result !— Journal of the A. T.TJ. The Drink in High Places. In Washington two distinguished members of Con gress, participated with several others in the same social glass in the bar-room of Brown’s Hotel. From pleasant conversation, they passed to that which was irritating, when one violently struck the other. Preparations for a duel succeeded. How shameful! yet it is the natnral operation of the hotel bar. When shall it conic to an end ? Queen Elizabeth’s Vanity. In hor own Court, Queen Elizabeth was not satisfied to preside. She could ns ill endure a competitor in ce lebrity of charms as in power. Sho arrogated to herself all the incense around ner; aud, in point ol adulation, •he was like tho daughter of tfic horse leech, whose cry was—“ Give! give!” Ilcr insatiate vanity would have been ludicrous, if it had not produced such atrocious consequences. This was the predominant weakness of her character, which neutralized her talents, mid was pampered, till in its excess it became a madness and a vice. This precipitated the fate of her lovely rival, Mary Queen of Scots. This elevated the profligate Leicester to the pinnacle of favor, and kept him there, sullied as he was by every baseness and every crime ; this hurried Essex to the block, banished Southampton, and sent Raleigh and Elizabeth Throckmorton to the Tower. Did one of her Attendants, more beautiful than the rest, attract the notice or homage of any of the gay cavaliers nround her—was an attachment whispered, a marriage projected—it was enough to throw the whole Court int* consternation. “ Her Majesty, tho Queen, was in passionand then—-Heaven help the offenders! h was the spirit of Harry VTTI. let loose again .—Jen nings. Letter of a Dying Wife to her Husband [The following most teaching fragment of a letter from a dying wife to fie* husband, was found by him some months after her death between the leaves of a religious volume which she was very fond of perusing. The letter, which was literally dim with tear marks, was written long before her husband.was aware that the grasp of fatal disease had fastened upon the lovely fofrm of his wife, who died at the early age of nineteen ;] “ When this shall reach your eye, dear George, some day when you are turning over the relics of the past, I shall have past away torever, and the cold, white stone will be keeping its lonely watch over the lips you have so often pressed, and the sod will be growing green that shall hide forever from your sight the dust of one who has often nestled close to your warm heart. For many long and sleepless nights, when all besides my thoughts were at rest, I have wrestled with the consciousness of approaching death, until at last it has formed itselt wpon my mind; and although to you, to others it might bow seem but the nervous imagining of a girl, yet, dear George, it is so! Many weary nights have I passed in the endeavor to reconcile myself to leaving you, whom I love so well, and this bright world of sunshine and beauty ; and hard indeed it is to struggle on silently and alone with the sure conviction that I am about to leave all forever and go down into the dark valley!’ “ But I know in whom I have believed,” and leaning on his arm, “ I fear no evil.” Do not blame me for keeping even all this from you. How could I subject you, ol all others, to such sorrow as I feel at parting, when time will soon make it apparent to you ! I could have wished to live if only to be at your sidfc when your time shall come, and pillowin'* your head upon my breast, wipe the death damps from your brow, and usher your departing spirit into its Maker’s presence, embalmed in woman’s holiest prayer. But it is not to be —and I submit. Yours is the privilege of watching, through long and dreary nights, for the spirit’s final flight, and of transferring my sinking head from your breast to my Savior’s bosom. And you shall share my last thought, and the last faint pressure of the hand, and the last feeble kiss shall be yours, and even when flesh and heart shall have failed me, my eyes shall rest on yours until glazed by death ; and our spirits shall hold one last communion until gently fading from my view —the last of earth—yon shall mingle with the first bright glimpses of the unfading glories of the better world, where partings arc unknown. Well do I know the spot, my dear George, where you wilHav me ; of ten we stood by the place, and as we watched the mel low sun-set as it glanced in quivering flashes through the leaves, and burnished the grassy mounds around us with stripes of burnished gold, each, perhaps, has thought that some day one of us would come alone, and which ever it might be, your name would be on the stone. But we loved the spot, and I know you will love it none the less when you see the same quiet sun-light linger and play among the grass that grows over your Mary’s grave. I know you will go there, and my spirit will be wish you then, and whisper among the waving branches—“lam not lost, hut gone bcforeT” Mind tvhat you say before Children. A gentleman was in the habit of calling at a neighbor’s house, and the lady had always expressed much pleas ure in seeing him. One day, just after she had re marked to him her happiness from his visit, the little boy entered the room. The gentleman took him on his knee, and asked hint: “ Are you glad to see me, George ?” “No, sir,” replied the boy. “ Why not, my little man ?” “Because mother don’t want you to conic,” said George. Here the mother looked daggers at her little son. and her face became crimson. But he saw nothing. “ Indeed; how do you know that “ Because she said yesterday she wished that old bore would not call again.” The gentleman’s hat was soon in requigion, and he left with the impression that “ great is the truth, it will prevail.” Another child looked sharply in the face of a visitor, and being asked what he meant by it, replied : “I wanted to see if you had a drop in your eye; I have heard mother say that you have, frequently.” A boy once asked of his father who it was that lived next door to him, and when ho heard the name, inquired if he was a fool. “No, my little friend, he is not a fool, hut, a very sen sible man. But why did you ask the question ?” “ Because,” replied the boy, “ mother said the other day that you were next door to a fool, and I wanted to know who lived next, door to you.”— Globe. The Zodiacal Tight. The business of an editor is generally regarded its be ing essentially of a terrestial character, “of the earth, earthy.” For our own part, we love sometimes togaze beyond the low scene where men struggle up mole-hills to gratify their ambition, and scramble for hits of shin ing dirt with which to satiate their avarice. And what a scene is that beyond ! While around ns is heard the evanescent, hum of passing life, beyond arc burning orbs and radiant nebulosities that have endured for countless cycles of ages, The bright points and faint streams of light wo gaze upon have been watched by sages, prophets and poets. The proud domes from whence Chaldean seers gazed upon those glorious bod ies arc mouldering wrecks, or at most give up a few sculptured stones to the modern searcher. The Egyp tian hierophant, who questioned those stars for the de crees of fate, lie in their mummy sleep of centuries.— The scene where Syrian patriarchs ador'ed tlic fixed and watched the wandering fires, is now a land of detola lion ; a locality ofextinct or of triumphant faiths ; of dim and mystic, yet. grand and impressive historic memo ries. But those quenchless stars remain. The milky light still flows along the sky. The pensive moon still sheds refulgent light and floods the earth with beauty, We may not have opportunity to wander by Egypt's pyramids, or by Tadmor’s pillared waste ; to gaze on Jordan’s flood, or contemplate Jerusalem’s crumbling towers, but we can behold those yet more ancient orbs— we can watch the courses of Orion, respire the sweet influences of the plciadcs and hail the dawn of Arctu rus. The stars rarely excite our curiosity, unless we make them special objects of study, because “they are so common,” and it is few learn how uncommon common objects arc. There is, however, one visitor of the skies whose advent may tempt attention. This visitor comes each fall and spring : it has not, therefore, the rarity of the comet with his trail of flame. Yet, it is rare, hut only because it is seldom observed though commonly seen. This visitor is called the .Zodiacal Light. This light is to be seen at the present time each evening, af ter “ twilight grey has with her sober livery all things clad!” As our intention in writing this article is to instruct tlie reader where to look for this object, in or der that it may interest when found, we will pause a mo ment to explain what the Zodiacal Light is, to do which we must take a little peep into the history and mystery of world making. There are several theories to account for this peculiar ‘ light.” We give the one generally entertained by modern astronomers. The matter of which our solar system i3 formed chaotic, literally “with • out form and void,” being in the condition of gas, ex isting in space as an extended nebulous mass. In course of time, some of the atoms of this mass came into closer contact than others. With increased density came in creased gravity, and each nucleus attracted to itself the atoms surrounding it. The consequence of the flow of these gaseous atoms towards a centre, was the genera tion of circular motion; just as we see water whirl round when running through a hole in the bottom of a tub or other vessel. There was thus an aggregation 01- coming together of atoms, which aggregation, being the result ot circular motion, was a globe, and in'this way our globe has its origin. The rings of Saturn, the sat elites of Jupiter, and our own moon, were also results of this circular motion, but in what manner it is not now our object to investigate. Confining now our attention to our own globe, when the separation of sun, planets, and satellites was com plete, and our earth was pursuing its diurnal and annual revolutions, there remained a portion of this gnseous, highly attenuated matter near, but not absolutely at tached to the earth; following it as the smoke appears to follow the chimney of the steamboat; being, in fact, to the earth precisely what the tail is to the comet, only shorter and Ipss dense. This gaseous matter is thecanse of the Zodiacal light, for, when it is so situated as to reflect to us the rays of the sun, wo see atrip of sunlight illuminating myriads ofdancing motes, that would oth erwise remain invisible. Now that the reader under stands what the Zodial light is, wc will proceed to in form him whero it is, and how ttffind it. On any night during the present month, after it be comes dark, and the moon is absent, on looking to the West a pyramid ©flight will be sccn.tho base resting upon the horizon, the npexj-eaching nearly to the planet Jupi ter, winch is shining higher in the sky, in the constclla tion Taurus. At first, it will probably be suspected J that this pyramidal-radiance is the track ©flight linger- ; ing in the West, after the departed sun. A continued j watching will show thafsuoh is not the case. Thc.hours | steal on deep into night, and yet that soft refulgence, j closely resembling the light of the “milky way,” will he j seen retaining its place among tha-host of heaven. It j should not be glanced at casually, but watched car- j ncslly : then it will be found to he ofgreater proportions than was apparent at first sight, as-tho apex and outlines melt into a faint gauze-like haze. The beauty of the object will repay the slight attention required in looking for it. The observer has only to remember the spot where the sun went down, und in that direction the Zo diacal light will be seen. —Memphis Daily Appeal. Carious It evolutionary Verssi. The following ingenious composition appeared in. a Philadelphia newspaper many years ago. Who the an tnor was, lam unable to-ascertain. Its peculiarity con sists in the manner in which it may be read, viz: in three different ways. Ist. Let the whole be read in the order in which it is written, 2nd. Then the lines downward on the left of each comma in every line and 3rd, in the same manner on the right of each com ma. By the first reading you will observe that the Revohtlionary cause is deprecated, and lauded by the others: Hark! hark! the trumpet sounds, the din of war’s alarms O’er sens and solid grounds, doth call us all to arms ; Who for King George doth stand, their honors soon will shine Their ruin is at hand, who with the Congress join: The acts of Parliament, in them I much delight, I hate their cursed intent, who for the Congress fight, The Tories of the day, they are my daily toast, They soon will sneak away, who Independence boast; Who non-resistance hold, they have my hand and heart. May they for slaves be sold, who act a Whiggish part ; On Mansfield, North and Bute, may daily blessings pour, Confusion and dispute, on Congress evermore ; To North that British lord, may honors still be done, I wish a block or cord, to General Washington. —Historical Magazine. A venerable maiden lady speaking of marriage, says it’s like any other disease—while there is life, there is hope. COMMUNICATIONS. [Ca?nmvnicated.] Churches and Moderate Drinking. The moderate use of intoxicating poisons, is the orig inating necessity for building up prisons, poor-houses, penitentiaries, orphan and insane asylums. The mod erate use of these poisons, as a certain and legitimate consequence, fills these structures to overflowing with victims. How eloquent the appeals from ministers of the Gos pel for aid to sustain establishments made necessary by the liquor traffic, and the moderale and immoderate drinking habits of the community; but how little elo quence do we hear from the sacred desk, especially in our large cities, in denouncing the moderate use of in toxicating poisons as a beverage—such moderate use being the parent of drunkenness, and a large proportion of the crime and poverty under which the world groans. Mr. Editor, in the church to which I belong, I hear constant appeals for charity, frequently to aid the miser able victims of the intoxicating cup; hut not a word huve I ever heard that would, in the remotest degree, dis turb a hearer in the use of that cup that “ hiteth like a ser pent, and stingelh like an adder.” No, notone. To my mind, Mr. Editor, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. When the minister of any church uses the “Mocker,” not caring for the pernicious example he is setting, let the laymen of that church do their duty. If the priest says by his example, or by his si lence, “ Let them he pence and quietness betweecn my peo ple,” the “ mocker” and myself, then let the people speak out with a voice of thunder 10 this wine bibbing priest thus: “No peace with that instrument of the devil, whose mission is to destroy the bodies and souls of men. Let there be war, war, war against the great destroyer, that Christians may be redeemed ; that our sons may not be ruined, and our daughters be saved from the arms of a sot, a worse fate to them a thousand times than death itself.” At a late clerical dinner, the clergyman who gave if, asked one of his guests, a member of his church, to take a glass of intoxicating liquor with him; lie modestly declined; he was pressed for his • reasons : “Why,” said the member, “ one reason is, 1 wish to set a proper example to the church.” Let nil men without fear be thus faithful, and wine and beer drinking ministers as well as laymen, will be induced to reflect, and, perhaps, abandon their pernicious examples; HUMOROUS, A Soft Place. “ I was down to see the widow yesterday,” said Tim’s uncle, “and .she gave me backbones for din ner. I wont down rather early in the morning : we talked and laughed, ancl chattered and run on, she going out and in occcasionally to see to things till dinner was ready, when she helped me gra ciously to backbones. Now I took it ass symp tom of personal approbation, because everybody knows i love backbones, and I flattered myself she had cooked them on purpose for me. So I grew particularly cheerful and I thought I could see it in her too. So after dinner, while sitting close beside the widow, I fancied we both felt sorter comfit able like—l know I did. I felt that I had fallen over head and ears and heart in love with her, and I imagined, from the way she looked, she had fallen teeth and toe-nails in love with me. She appeared just for all the world like she thought it was a coming, that I was a going to court her. Presently I couldn’t help it, I laid my hand softly on her beautiful shoulder, and I remarked, when I had placed it there, in my blandest tone, Tim, for I tried to throw my whole soul in the expression, I remarked then with my eyes pouring love, truth and fidelity right into her, “Widow, this is the nicest, softest place I ever had my hand in all my life.” Looking benevolently at me, and at the same time flushing up a little, she said in melting and wining tones: “ Doctor, give me your hand, and I’ll put it on a much softer place.” “In a moment of rapture I consented, and taking my hand, she gent ly, very gently, Tim, and quietly laid it on my head—and burst into a laugh that’s ringing in my ears yet. “Now, Tim, I hav’nt told this to a living soul but you, and by jinks! you musn’t; but I couldn’t hold it any longer, so I tell you ; but mind, it musn’t go any further.”—i\ r . I r . Spirit of the Times. *■ Waggery.—Some time ago, on the Sabbath dry, we wended our way to one of our churches, ancl instead of a sermon heard an address upon some missionary or other oenevolent subject. After the address was concluded, two brethren were sent round with the basket for contributions. Parson L , who was one of the basket bearers, taking the side upon which we sat. Immediately in our front, and upon the next seat, negligently reclined our friend Bill II , a gentleman of infinite hu mor and full of dry jokes. Parson L ex tended the basket and Bill slowly shook his head. “Come, William, givo us something,” said the Parson. “ Can’t <jo it,” replied Bill. “ Why not? Is not the cause a good one?” “Yes; but I am not able to give any thing.” “Peh! Poll! I know better, you must give n better reason than that.” “ Well, t owe too much money—l must bo just before I am generous, you know.” “But, William, you owe God a larger debt than you owe any one else.” “ That’s true parson, but then he aint pushing me life the balance of my creditors.’’ The parson’s face got into rather a curious con dition ancl he passed on. — THir Grass Reporter. “Abe” Lincoln, an ex-member of Congress from Illinois, and tho Repulican of that State, who is anxious for the shoes of the Little Giant, tells a story, as we learn from the Illinois papers, j that illustrates in the best anecdotal style, his ; appreciation of the late fight in Congress. It re- ! minds “Abe” of testimony given concerning a fight, one of tho belligerents being liis client: ! Among the witnessess for the plaintiff was a re-; markably talkative old fellow who was disposed j to magnify the importance of the affair to my ! client’s disadvantage. 1t came mv turn to ques-1 tion him. “ Witness,” said I, “ you say you saw j fight.” “ Yes, stranger, I reckon I did.” * “ Was it much of a tight ?” said I. “ I'll bo darned if it Wasn’t, stranger, a right smart fight.” * | “ Ilowmucli'grouhddid the combatants cover?” ! “ About an acre, stranger.” “ About an acre,” I repeated, musingly. “ Well now witness, just tell me, vasal that just about the ; smallest crop of a fight of’ of an acre of ground that ever ! you heard of?’* ” T.lia t ’s so stronger ; I'll hr gol darned if it wasn't.” 1 ■ A person in passing by a conceited fellow, hap pened to strike liis foot with a cane. “ You had i better knock my. brains out, and finish me,” said the dandy. “ I was trying to do it,” was the quiet rejoinder. — qq if, . ‘■IV I know what a filibuster is.” “Well, Jpliny, what is a filibuster?” “ It’s green clover.” “Green what'?” •ii clover. Cause, when Undo Jack’s j filly foundered herself, he said a little more o’ j that green clover would a’ busted her:—and, if I it had, wouldn’t it b a filly buster ?” FOREIGN _ NEWS. The. territorial committee .of [the'Scnate have agreed j to report a bill to organize the territory of Arixonia, with tLr Il °U aa i 80l V h boundary, and a provision offered by 1 u,, u g , , becomi g a state, her constitution shall be submitted to a vote of the whole people of the territory. Mr. Green, of Mo., submitted an additional provision that the some principles should apply to New Mexico. The Committe on Territories in the U. S. Senate will report in favor of calling the new territory to be carved out of the western halt of Utah, Nevada, instead of “Carson.” Late From St. Domingo. i New York, March 11.—Late intelligence from St v I Domingo announces that Baez still holds his own in his : contest with Santana. Late from Mexico. j N£W Orleans, March 11.—The steamship Tennessee ! from Vera Cruz, which port she left on the 7th inst., i has arrived. She brings dates from the capital of Mex ; \c<t to the 6rh inst. Civil war was prevailing throughout Mexico. The ?;overnment troops, near Celaya, were awaiting rein breements. Other parties, six ihousund strong had j fortified Celaya. • Alvarez was in the field with three thousand cavalry, , oppposing the new government. The downfall of Zuloaga was considered certain. ‘tVashingtou News. Washington,‘March 12.—1n the Senate to-day, the Lecompton Constitution was discussed. In the House, the Diplomatic Consular Bill was passed. Mr Harris, of Illinois, withdrew his appeal lrom the decision of the chair on the question of privilege. Mormon Affairs. | St. Locis, March 12. —Advices from Salt Lake City to the24th January have been received. It is announced that the Mormons are manufacturing cannon, revolvers, powder, and the usual materials for war. A skirmish had taken place with a party ofMormons and the picket guard of the army, in w hich two Mormons and tour sol diers were killed. Bombev, Jan.‘2l.—The capture of Furruchabad and | Fottyghur by Campbell is confirmed. After subjuga ; ting Roheland, Campbell marches on Lucknow. Out ram was twice defeated by the Rebels at Alum | bagh. Nothing later had been heard from China, but the de | tails of the last intelligence show that Canton is virtu j ally in possession of the British. | The accounts from India state that Gen. Outram ; had twice defeated the natives at Alumbay. The trial of the conspirators in France had taken place, and resulted in their conviction. Orsini, Rudis, and Pierri have been senteneed to suffer death, and Go mez to penal servitude for life. The Danish Ministry has resigned. How Cannibals F.ai tlieir Enemies. i The following account of this semi-barbarous custom is taken from the Honolulu (S. I.) Advertiser: j “ Hanave ve Valley, which lies opposite the Bay, doe# | not resemble our Hawaian valley. It is not a gentle I slope between two hills, but a ravine with steep sides, apparently split out from the mountains. It is, how ever, one of the largest, most beautiful and productive of , the many glens of Fatuhiva. This valley has recently ; been the scone of a protracted vvai between the neigh boring tribes. • One of these contests lasted nine days, | at the close of which the bodies of the captured dead | were eaten. This cannibal custom prevails throughout j the group. They do not have a great feast over these human | bodies, as is generally supposed to be the case, but the | body is cut to pieces on the battle field, and each warrior takes liis piece—an arm, a joint, a rib, according to his merit—raises it on his gun over his shoulder and marches home. There he balls his relations together, and they devour the flesh—some cooking it in slices like pork, but most eat it raw. The motive which induces them | to cat the bodies of their enemies is revenge ; they feel that their revenge is not satisfied until they have tasted of their blood and flesh. When their hatred, anger and revenge are at the highest point, and their enemy lies dead before them, then it calumniates in the fiendish act of eating human flesh, and we may easily imagine i that the quivering heart that cringes and grates between their bloody teeth, is thcswcctcst morsel that a heathen warrior can taste. This cannibalism is confined mostly to the older natives. The younger people appear to be ashamed of the practice, and it is probable that beiore many years it will be extinct among the Maraneas. The Popular Notion of an Author. The English papers have anew anecdote of Macau lay. A Yorkshircman, on a railway platform, had Ba ton Macaulay pointed out to liis notice, and upon its being explained to him that the Baron was an author, who was formerly known as Mr. Macaulay, he thus gives vent to liis astonishment: “ That’s McastcrMa cowlv, the owtlicr, is it now? We’cl, I alwa’s thowt they look’d pael and seedy loike, and ow’t a’t elbow, Vcnoa; but that chap’s gout a hat, and lie’s so we’e dress’d, too—dang it, 1 shud neer a ta’en him for an owther. learn that on Monday last in Springfield j | Tennessee, George Thomas killed David Porter. i Thomas was arrested and imprisoned. DIED, in Grccncsboro. on the 2d inst. of pleuro ] broncho-pneumonia, Mr. WM. EDGAR WALKER, in j the 39th year of his age. The deceased was born in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, ’ but for the last few years resided in Greenesboro, where j lie won the respect and esteem ot its good citizens by i his stern integrity and upright deportment. Those who know best, testily that he was a devoted husband, a kind father and an affectionate brother. His last illness of three week’s duration, was marked by great suffer ing, which he endured with patience and uncomplaining fortitude; for jie was supported and comforted bv the Christian Religion. Although at first he shrunk from the approach of death, he soon became, not only recon ciled, but anxious to depart and be with Christ. His steady reliance on the faithfulness of a covenant-keep ing Saviour was comforting in the highest degree, and gave token that his “light shined brighter and brighter unto the perfect da}’,” when his ransoned spirit gladly took its flight to a mansion prepared for its reception. He was a professor of religion for 22 years—most of the. time a member of the Presbyterian Church. It is told to his credit, in which it W’ould be well for the church and world, il he had any imitators, that he early estab lished a family altar in his own house, so that his family received daily religious instruction from him, both by precept and example. He has left an afflicted wife and five small children to mourn his early departure. May the God of the widows and fatherless be their portion in time and for eternity’. We may confidently say that he has not lived in vain; that at God’s bidding he has repaired to his rest and eternal home, and that “ his works have followed him there.” “Let medic the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.” R. A. 11. GREEN SUPERIOR COURT,] March Term, 1858. j rpiIERE will be an ADJOURNED TERM of the Superior Court for the County of Greene, com mencing on the FIFTH MONDAY IN MARCH ins?, (the 29th) of which all parties concerned arc hereby no tified. By order of His Honor, ROBERT V. HARDEMAN, Judge. \ ixcext Sanford, Clerk. March IS A GOOD lot of SALT in new sacks. V March 18, 1858 J. M. BOWLES. BACON ! BACON! A fine lot of Tennessee cured Bacon, for sale bv J. M. BOWLES. March 18, 1858 ! — — -■ ■ ■ - ■ .—— . . i , .ii.wh... . , GREENE COUNTY.—W her ea s . Horace Nceson, sr. guardian of 11, Neeson, jr. tie tit Kills this Court for Letters Dismissorv from said guar uianship: ‘ w It is therefore ordered that all persons concerned be and appear at the next May term of this Court, to show cause why said guardian should not be discharged. And it is inrther ordered, that this rule be published for ■orty days in terms of tho law. I A true extract from the minutes of said Court, March ! 9t v lß; 'f- EUGENIUS L. KING, Ordinary. March 18 .jod 1 rjEOHGIA, GREENE COUNTY.—Whereas i A. 11. Randle, guardian of Eugenius A. Whitaker, petitions this Court for Letters Dis>nissory from said guardianship: It is therefore ordered that all persons concerned, bo and appear at the Court of Ordinary; lo be held in and ■ for said count)’, on the first Monday in May next, to : s how'cause, (if any they have) why said guardian should ; not then lie discharged. ■ Ordered, further, lhaf a copy of this rule be published ior forty days, in terms of the law. A true extract from the minutes of said Court, March 3d, 1858. EUGENIUS L. KING, Ord’y. A March 18, 1858 40d Georgia* greexe county.—whereas John M. Howell applies for Letters of Administru-> ; tion upon the estate of John J. Howell, late of said I county, deceased: • These are therefore to cite and admonish all and sin gular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to HT and appear at the Court of Ordinary to be held in anti for said county on tho first Monday in May next, to show cause (if any they have) why said letters should not then be granted. Given under my hand at office iu Greenoeboro, March 9th, 1858 EUGENIUS L. KING, Ordinary. March 18 30d