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THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADER. PENFIEL,I>r GEORGIA. _ Thursday Morning,... Jnne 17 > 1868 ‘ _ Wm. Houser, of Jefferson county author ised to net as Agent for Se will re- Georgia, or in any of the adjoining S —ivc subscriptions and give valid receipts. Stand br you* Color*. Let the swelling tide of ruin bear on; let its dark Wmrse widen and expand, until its foul floods shall sweep over every beautiful retreat and moral garden spot in our land; let its withering curse, ten thousand times worse than the hot Simoom of the desert, or the plagues of Egypt, destroy all that is redeeming in reli gion, beautiful in holiness and admirable in morality; but let the champions and lovers of the reformation which we have espoused still wear their spotless livery. The tide will ebb again, when we shall advance nearer its margin and build eternal barriers to chafe its foaming billows. Cities, towns, hamlets and villages may mark, like old Sodom and Gomorrah, the desolating path of the besom ; the debris of shattered intellects, immortal minds, and once stalwart, manly frames, shall tell of its eternal blight, but its mad career shall be checked. Stand by your Colors. The religion of Jesus Christ excepted, our cause is the most holy and God-like, the world has ever known since the star of Bethlehem shone upon the plains of Judea. It has been a little more than a quarter of a century since its first note struck in with the ribald songs of bacchanalian revelry, and who can now pumber its triumphs ? When it first hoisted the ▼eil that shrouded the rankling corruptions of psrance, and exposed the demon in all his horrid deform ity, the scales fell from the eyes of men, and they lifted their hands to Heaven with holy horror, crying for de liverance. The dry bones of the valley were moved— bone went to its bone ; sinews waxed strong as steel, and the convicted and converted stood up an exceeding great army. Wine-vats, breweries and distilleries were dried up, liquor-shops perished for custom, the waste places blossomed like the rose, and streams of mercy and universal gladness flowed fast by the Oracle of God. It was regarded as the most glorious victory of virtue over vice man had ever seen, and had its friends re mained true to their obligations, blessings as mighty as the rivers and exhaustless as the soil, would have flowed down in ever-growing richness to all future generations. But like every other revolutionary struggle in which man has ever engaged, our cause has been cursed by re ereant and apostate sons. Thousands once reclaimed, returned to worship the false god of the wine-cap, and to swell the hosts of our enemy; and by superior force we were beaten back. “Hercules himself must yield to odds.” But an ever glorious consolation cheers our sparse numbers, for though we be few we have a strong ally, “And many strokes, tho’ with a small axe, Hew down aad fell the hardest timbered oak.” Stand by your Colors. And as you see this hell-born monster exulting, with fiendish malevolence, over his triumphal march, breaking father’s hearts, blighting parental hope, making wives widows, children orphans, paupers and beggars—filling the land with idleness, dis ease and crime—crowding jails, penitentiaries, poor houseßand asylums—defaming benevolence, scorning love, hating virtue, and slandering innocence—inciting the father to butcher his offspring, the husband to mas sacre his wife, and the child to grind the paricidal axe; in short, as you look upon him blasting the whole earth, burning up man, consuming woman, cursing God and despising Heaven, let your hearts burn with pious in dignation, and your hands clutch tighter round the hilt of your faithful sword preparatory to a fierce and end less conflict. Stand by your Colors. The refluent tide shall soon begin its course. Men, women and children will soon raise new cries for deliverance from the overpowering flood. In the language of our western namesake, the land smokes with blood. There is a crimson glare by nearth and saloon. The cry of murder rings out on the night air, and the clots of its slaughter are thick upon the morning altar. The active hells of our country are belching violence and death. Midnight assassination strikes hands with noonday butchery, and together lift boldly their smoking hands to the public gaze. Half chilled corpses are by the desolate hearth, and inno cence wailing and sobbing upon lips which are cold for ever. The enginery of the pit, driven by the power of the people, rolls on in infernal grandeur, and grinds to ruin the maddened hosts. The greenest, holiest sanc tuaries ol earth are wasting hour by hour by public sanction, and hopes of earth and heaven buried forever under the blasting scoria of the lava flow. The land is filled with wo, rottenness and death. And yet the peo ple have not suffered enough! The annual conscription of the accursed traffic must be met. Pauperism and crime must have Iresh hosts. There are hungry graves to gorge, worms to fatten and hell to surfeit. “On with the slaughter,” shout the legislators and dema gogues, and the people respond amen. There are still homes to be desolated, nopes to blast, and souls to kill. There are tragedies yet to freeze the blood, and sor rows to pall the earth with wo. Whisky must be made, sold and paid for. “Drinkand be mad, then—’tis yourcouhtry bids P’ Intemperance in Augusta. The two following short articles were communicated to the Augusta papers of last week, and we transfer them to our columns to let it be known that there are at least a few citizens of that beautiful city, who are op posed to the filthy groggeries which curse the place. .The statements contained in the article of “ Sentinel” are humiliating truths concerning the present moral Character of Augusta. Low, filthy little five-cent re tail-shops have sprung into existence upon every cor ner, outraging the senses of decent people with their Sickening stench. When the citizens of Augusta have snuffed in the polluting miasmas from these lick-log sinks until they become disgusted and shall sweep them from their streets, alleys and corners, then we will all unite trith them in pronouncing Augusta the model city o. the State. The result of the trials this week, discloses the as tounding fact, that for the trifling sum imposed on the liquor dealers, as fines, varying from $lO to SSO, (scarcely in any case equal to the profits of one week of their ihi (juitous traffic,) they are at liberty to ruin our negroes in health, by selling them dregged liquors, to incite them to rob their owners, to lead them into quarrels, mur ders, insurrections, and everything that is abominable under the sun. The fault is not in the Court, but in the law! The people should call upon their Representatives to enact laws, making it a Penitentiary offense to sell liquor to, or trade with negroes, and on the second of fense, let it be death by the hangman. If such laws were enacted, it would put an end to all this trouble and we would have a sober, well-disposed set of ser vants. Let the severity of the penalty be known and none of these dealers would run the risk of the sale, but now they know that conviction imposes a fine which they can easily pay out of their first barrel. These are the ,WWBpfa Sufferer. Mr. Editor: The recent detection ot so large a num ber of persons engaged in selling liquor to slaves, is well calcuted to awaken attention to the baneful use of in toxicating beverages, not only by negroes, but also by oUr ,T hl ] e .E° pulatlon - i l . iß by those who have watched the progress of mtemperence, that there never was a tune when it was more rife in this city than al present. Groggeries have sprung up at almost everv corner, and in every street and the prosperity of their proprietors abundantly testifies to their liberal patron age. Drunken men daily stroll about our streets and every cause of excitement, however trivial. multiX* tbei f nu . mb - r - the cry of fire nealand minstrel exhibitions, fishing D arti, pic-mcs, are too often made occasion! for the indal* 6,1 of excesses injurious to the peace of fomilies and.hf order of society. Many who make „ f . 8 an “‘begood during the day, are more orlesssatur-fed ***&?<* holies every night. saturated with alco- Is there no remedy for this drendA.i r , • Where is our good old TemDersnJ| tat . e things? our devoted Sons of Temperance ? WiU°?h ty ? VVhore to the rescue, and strive tVbrine abm.t . the ? n , ot , Colfie in the holy cause? The time has reached a point when everv £3 •?• ’ tor „ tbe evil necessity of measures of reformation ClUze ” fee,s tbe toENXINEI, Temperance Question in Maine. t> ? ORTL *™> Me., Monday, June 7 # lftfifl ’ The Prohibitory Liquor Law naooj i. , 1868, tslature was ratified by the u by our , last Li very few being cast fi the oZshfon ® f° ple t0 r d^’ ,h “ iSEfiirs S3SssiS^s^ifir m - “ one - Numerous other towns’ heard I f enße ’i_ none ‘ same complexion.—JV. Y. Examined Bb ° W rbout tl>c A n 0,10 HUndred Ago. Rmakta T’ and ofabottt inches f 0 length S smoking. They are preferred by the Spanish Dons to ,? se Y ho m , a y wish to enjoy such a luxury will pleas* eall and try,them.” j y a luxury, Commencement at LaGrange. Attention is directed to the programme of commence ment exercises for the La Grange Female College, under * New Business,’ in this paper. > Ah ! those Apricots t A box full of Caroline or Italian, sweet, juicy, glori ous Apricots, the choice fruit of the vegetable kingdom, a rich treat from our generous frierd and most worthy fellow-citizen, Col. Y. P. King, of Greenesboro, As Wash Langum said about the plumbs, they were the most “ maliciousituil we ever seed.” Wetip our beaver most graciously to our friend King and ‘drink’ to his health, along life, and a plenty of apricots for himself and friends. State Temperance Convention. We have been laboring under the erroneous idea, that the time for our Annual Convention was the last of July; but on examining the minutes of last meeting, we find that the time which was then fixed upon, is the fourth Wednesday of this inst. We regret our negli gence in the matter, and plead the custom heretofore of holding the Convention in July, as the cause of our de ception. But what say our friends to holding a Convention sometime in July or August f We suggest that the matter had betteHoe discussed through the papers. Letter from a Lady. The following sensible and beautifully expressed ideas are extracted, without authority, fiom a private letter written by one of our warm female friends. We hope she will not censure us for putting them in print: “ For a number of years, we have subscribed for this paper, and have in all time past stood firm, as we still do, on the platform of Total Abstinence, believing in the doctrine advanced in your address of Mayday, that though temperance has not yet saved all the people, yet, like the Christian Religion, it is held out like the ser pent which was lifted up in the wilderness, and that its influence is only good, and that continually. lam proud to see so much talent enlisted in behalf of the tempo v ance cause of late, and have long been pained and as tonished that a few ol the great, the wise and benevolent (? j ol our land have made this paper a vehicle of their views and principles, when the tide of opposition has been so varied and so insidious in form, as well as so wide-spreading in its influence for evil upon our young people, the hope (or should be, the hope and strength) ol our country. Alas ! for that quality, moral courage, so much admired and talked of; yet, how little of it we see and feel! In years past, there was a chaste, promising writer in the up-country of Georgia, (I think his name was M. H. Looney,) where has he hid his harp ? Is he the proprietor of that promising school in one of the upper counties ? I thought it might be the same whose pen used to touch gracefully the Banner of bygone years. I never saw his face, but the impression on my memory is pleasant and indelible. I would like to hear of him again ; for it his good genius still attends him, it must require a greater effort to keep silence than it would to “ sing that song again,” &c. And Mrs. M. E. Bryan, sweet minstrel of our sunny south ; she has come in to fill the place made vacant by the death of Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz. And so young! too young to have written so much, and to have ma tured so fast; for I tremble as I contemplate so preco cious a development of the mind, because the machinery must soon wear out from over exertion. lam presu ming too far, perhaps, to express so freely and gratui tously, my opinions on a subject in which I am but re motely interested ; yet, it is the sincere expression of a real sentiment. There has been very little of real talent exhibited by the authors of southern literature—not because we lack talent as a people, but on the whole, we have not been a reading people; and what we do read, for the most part, has been of an evanescent cha ■ racter —such as afforded no real food for thought or reflection, and left the reader all the poorer; and the reading few have looked forth in disgust, and if per chance their souls were stirred by some pure aspiration which might have enriched our home literature and delighted a kindred spirit, the thought ot casting pearls before swine has discouraged and driven modest worth back into retirement, where they shut in their ‘gems oi purest ray serene,’ and only a discriminating friend could be able to discover that worth or talent was the e. i I hope Mrs. Bryan will become the Hannah Moore or ( Mrs. Sigourney of the South —of these she reminds me —also of Mrs. Norton. She has talent, strength, purity • and variety—all I fear is, that she will write too much t and perish in her prime. I would like to know, person . ally, one whose gifts are so rich and rare. May she , rightly use them, is the prayer of H. A. S. A Henpecked Husband in the Woman’s ! Rights Convention. 1 One poor fellow who seems to have found the mar -1 riage pillows anything but a bed of roses, ventured to raise his voice for the rights of husbands in the Wo man’s Rights Convention in New York. The follow ing were his melancholy remarks, as reported in the New York Post : * At this stage of the proceedings Lucy Stone arose to speak; but a man at one side of the hall, who had made : several frantic attempts to get the floor, succeeded in r arresting the attention of the President. He was a tall, s lank man, with deep lines upon his countenance, and the peculiar workingofthe muscles of his face gave him a singular appearance. The President reminded him i that Lucy Stone had the floor. [Cries of “Stone,” [ “ Stone,” and applause.] The individual in question during this confusion came forward, muttering half audibly that he must dissent from what Mrs. Farnham had said. [Cries of “ Stone,” hisses and applause.] Lucy Stone said she would yield the floor if the man would not speak so long as to prevent her saying what she wanted to. [Applause.] The individual having got the floor, gave his name as Senor Maraque, and said he must dissent from what Mrs Farnham had said. She claimed that woman was superior to man, but when she claimed to be his superior she asked too much, and dampened the hopes of all the rising generation. [Laughter, applause, hisses, and cries of “Who has claimed it?”] Woman, said he, can be the savior, but not the god of man. And one ot the greatest evils that can happen is to have a woman claimed to be ahead of the man. I know what this is from bitter experience. [Uproarious laughter and ap plause.] lam very glad, gentleman, for your applause, No man has suffered more than I from the tyrannical usur pation of a woman. [Renewed laughter, stamping ot feet, clapping of hands and cries of “ Give us your ex [ perience.”] There is nothing'so good as experimental knowledge, and I tell you, gentlemen, I know what it is. When Women comes to lord it over men, the earth will be a scene of riot, bloodshed, confusion, wretched • ness and suffering, if I am a judge; and who knows, it , not those who have experienced the tyranny of a wo man ? [Great laughter and applause, the President re * minding the audience that they were wasting time, and i requesting order.] I want women to be helpmates on . the same plan as man; but when they claim to go ahead of us, they ask too much. Oh! that will be the sad day for this earth when the power goes into the hands ot women. I know it, I tell you; for I know it from sad experience. [The speaker here drew adeep sigh, which | brought down a perfect storm of laughter.] ) Mrs. Farnham said the convention had just had an example of what is rare, to wit: a case of the martyr dom of a man to the tyranny of a woman. The mar -1 tyrdom was generally on the other side. If a few more 1 such confessions could be brought out, it might convince the women of their errors. | A man with a long red beard protested that Senor ! Maraque had not been allowed a fair chance and that the 1 President had shown an anxiety to choke him off. Lucy Stone next took the floor, and was speaking when our reporter left. A Lady’s Opinion of a Lady’s Man. Mrs, Stephens, in her excellent monthly magazine, thus “pitches in” against a class of men which is be coming far too numerous in this metropolis, says the Washington Star. Hear what she says : “Our own private opinion of the Lady’s Man is, that he is thoroughly contemptible—a sort of specimen hardly worth thinking about —a nutshell with the ker nel withered up—a handful of foam drifting over the wine of life, something not altogether unpleasant to the fancy, but of no earthly use. A woman of sense would as soon put to sea in a man-of-war made of shingles, or take up her residence in a card house, as dream ot at taching herself to a lady-killer. “ Women worth the name are se’dom deceived into thinking our iady’s man the choicest specimen of his sex. Whatever their ignorance may be, womanly in* i tuition must tell them that the men who live for great objects, and whose spirits are so firmly knit that they are able to encounter the storms of life—men whose depth and worth of feeling resemble the powerful cur rent of a mighty river, and not the bubbles on its sur face, who, if they love, are never smitten by mere beauty of form or leatures —that these men are far more wor thy even of occupying their thoughts in idle moments than the fops ana men about town with whose atten tions they amuse themselves. If we were to tell him [ this he would only laugh; he has no pride about him, although full of vanity; and it matters not to him what we may broadly affirm or quietly insinuate. “ Soft and delicate though he be, he is as impervi -1 ous to ridicule as a hod-carrier, and as regardless of hon est contempt as a city alderman. Were you to hand hitn this article, he would take it to some social party, and read it aloud in the most mellifluous voice as an homage to his own attractions.”— Washington Star. An Affectionate Husband. Harlan Hjrde of Greenville, Conn., lost his third wife one year ago. About a week since lie wont to the cem etery, dug open the grave, opened the coffin and took out—what ? a set of false teeth, for the sake of the gold plate! Hyde confesses and justifies himself. He is about fifty years of age, a house carpenter by trade, in comfortable circumstances as to property, and a member of a Christian church. He tried to get the teeth out as she lay dead in his house before the funeral, but the rigid muscles would not relax. The women of Greenville wish to tar and feather him. There is a grocer up town, who is said to be so mean that he was seen to catch a fly off his counter hold him up by his hind legs and look into the cracks of his feet to see nhe hadn t been stealing some of his sugar. ’ ‘.s*’ - - V submit the following contribution to our rea ders, without any expression of our own views. The writer has certainly chosen the most attractive among subjects—‘ fair woman*—and so far as her pfaise is spo ken, we fully indorse ; An Earnest Word to Females. More than four-sevenths of the marriages in Massa chusetts are among the foreign born. Why is it? For the most simple of reasons—the foreign born can afford to get married, and the native born cannot; and this must be, so long as our extravagant modes of Ufa con tinue. In social life, there never was a people tending to deeper and more destructive social corruption—and that is most evident from the records oi all the courts, and the columns of all the newspapers—than Araeri cans. Our fathers used to tell of the profligacy ofPar is; their children tell of the mysteries of New York, a city not far behind any in Europe. And making pro per allowances for size, how is New York ahead of other cities and towns ? Once was the time when a wife was a “help meetnow, in a thousand cases, you can change the “meet” to “eat,” and make it read more truthfully. This is the first paragraph of a painfully interesting article upon the subject of which it treats. If the truth stated applies peculiarly to the North, (and we believe that to be true,) it by no means loses application as it travels tarther South. If we were not so familiar with the temperance ques tion, as well in its successes as its evils, we might, for a moment, be lost in wonder at that persistence in er ror manifested by so large a class of females, as it bears upon the subject in the quotation above. But error, when the product of appetite, fondness for display or ease, is the hardest of things to combat; it is a Gibral tar which nothing less than time, patience, treasure, tears and blood will force to yield. Indeed, the evils with which society is infested, if looked at in all their enormity and inveteracy, and the only hope of their cure poor, feeble man, were enough at once to fill the struggling victim and fainting mother with despair, and drive from the field every self-sacrificing and noble soul, who, filled with highest philanthropy, is this day bat tling against the “powers of darkness.” For after all, man is only the victim of these evils, and not the origi nator or real perpetuator. We can never yield assent to the belief that man could ever have concocted or put in motion the multiform curses which so weigh down and debase him—which rob him of his otherwise boun teous store of earthly pleasures. ’Tis passing strange that victims of any evil should remain so utterly blind to their condition, or manifest so little real concern to rid themselves of a thraldom apparent to others, and after all is the source of their woe! Infatuation! word of horrid meaning; release thy hapless victims—burst the chains ofthine own forging— return to thine own pit, nor wander hence again, de ceiving and to deceive—clasping in thy cold and cruel arms those who once occupied a giddy height on the mount of innocence, but who have fallen— -fallen, so low! for whom a God bathed himself in blood—over whom angelß, perchance, have shed many a tear —and at the good fortune of whom they certainly rejoice. Pray, be gone, nor essay to hold him again in such strange and cruel bondage. If, upon the subject of “ strong drink,” thousands of our own sex give the best evidence of madness, what are we authorized to say with reference to the extrava gances and errors of women in their sphere ! In their contemplation the heart sickens. Their evil conse quences may not be estimated. Mothers of American freeman ! noble matrons, the few of you who remain, possessing the spirit and worthy the days of’76, while the “silver chord” is being loosed, and the “golden bowl’’broken, pray, in humanity’s name—for Heav en’s own sake, let your mantles fall upon some of the thousands you leave behind. In contrast with the retiring generation of mothers, what is the comparative worth of those incoming ? With every desire for the fullest justice to the sex un der consideration, (God bless them—no one shall excel us in kindness of feeling for or action toward them) re spect for the majesty of truth demands that we should at least say this much: Many of us, now at manhood’s estate, can proudly boast of mothers, who either have successfully served their day and generation, or are do ing so; but, judging by the shadows already cast be fore, there will be but few tnothers of the next genera tion. Human beings will still live, and move, and have their existence; will labor and bring forth in sorrow, an offspring, diseased in physical conformation, weak in intellect, and shorn of that energy and endurance which characterised the founders and defenders of* American liberties and America’s generous soil; these will be “ wet-nursed ” and fashioned, as far assuch ma terial can be, by those who may train them to sleep over and count as a worthless boon the very liberties we this day enjoy. Young ladies of America—old ones, too—look well at the picture—ponder long over a review of your own characters, and answer your up-braiding conscience and your Maker, in the light of immortality and the bear ing upon that immortality of your country’s future des tiny, and see what points of resemblance can be traced; Are there any ? Are the two in perfect keeping ? So it is in thousands of cases, or else these lines would not have been written. Is there one who can be induced to reflect —reflect seriously upon this subject ? Then suf fer a word of earnest exhortation. As has been truthfully declared, “life is realeach have their part to act—yea, verily, the delicate Miss who shrinks from toil as the pure mind does from vice, has to work, with system and diligence, letting “pa tience have her perfect work,” if she fills the place which the great Disposer of all has assigned her. The greatest aid to all this is to be found in the cultivation of a serious and earnest nature, and in abstaining from an excess of levity which is growing into a peculiarity in the American female character. It would be injustice to ourself to suffer the impres sion to live, that our mind is filled with despair; on the contrary, the capabilities, purity and benevolence of the reflecting female character, gilds the future with the brightest hopes ; and therein lies our trust for that fu ture. That most worthy of female writers, Mrs. Sigourney, in the following language, though she does not take in our whole ground, talks so much to the point, that we cannot refrain adding her words just here, as a most suitable conclusion to thi3 article: HEALTH OF OUR DAUGHTERS. Mothers, is there anything we can do to acquire for our daughters a good constitution ? Is there truth in the sentiment sometimes repeated, that our sex is becoming more effeminate ? Are we as capable of enduring hard ships as our grandmothers? Have our daughters as much stamina of constitution —as much aptitude as we ourselves possess ? These questions are not interesting to us simply as individuals. They affect the welfare of the community; for the ability or inability of woman to discharge what the Almighty has committed to her, touches the equilibrium of society, and the hidden springs of existence. Tenderly interested as we are for the health of our offspring, let us devote peculiar attention to that of our daughters. Their delicate frames require more care in order to become vigorous, and are in more danger through the prevalence of fashion. Frequent and thor ough ablutions, a simple and nutritious diet, we should secure for a[l our children. But I plead for the little girl, that she may have air and exercise, as well as her brother; that she may not be too much blamed, if, in her earnest play, she hap pens to tear and soil her apron; I plead that she may not be punished as a romp, if she keenly enjoys those active sports which city gentility proscribes; I plead that the ambition to make her accomplished do not chain her to a piano till the spinal column, which should consolidate the frame, starts aside like a broken reed; nor bow her over the book till the vital energy, which ought to pervade the whole system, mopnts into her brain and kindles the death fever.— Mrs. Sigourney. Jo A. R. Methodist Church Officials. Among the proceedings of the Gen’l Conference ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was the election of officers, with the following result: J. B. McFerrin, Gen’l Book Agent. R. Abbey, Financial Secretary of Publishing House. T. 0. Summers, Book Editor. L. D. Huston, Editor of Home Circle. H. N. McTyeire, Editor Nashville Christian Advocate E. H. Myers, Editor Southern Christian Advocate. L. Rosser, Editor Richmond Christian Advocate. D. R. McAnally, Editor St. Louis Christian Advd cate. S. Watson, Editor Memphis Christian Advocate. C. C. Galespie, Editor New Orleans Christian Advo .cate. J. E. Carnes, Editor Texas Christian Advocate. P. Mcelling, Editor Evangelical Apologist. O. P. Fitzgerald, Editor Pacific Methodist. S. T. Heflin, Editor Northern Christian Advocate. E. W. Sehon, Secretary ofMissionary Society. A man very much intoxicated was sent to durance vile. “ Why didn’t you bail him out?” inquired a by stander of a friend. “ Bail him out,” exclaimed the other, “you couldn’t pumpliim out.” An itemizer, at a late evening sewing-party, reports that one lady made use of the exclamation, “ I thought I should have died!” one hundred and twenty-eight times, and put the inquiry “ did you ever f” one hun dred and thirty-seven times. #®*The following highly appreciated letter from Uncle Dabney was laid over a weeklonger than it should have been, by our negligence. Under a pressure of bu siness, we carried it in our pocket sometime without being conscious of it ‘ > 1 Temperance Grove, Ga. 1858. Dear Seals : As stated in a former letter, I visited Lumpkin, Stewart County, arriving there on Monday, 10th inst. I had sent an appointment for Tuesday, but found an appointment awaited me for Monday night. It rained until near night; consequently, the crowd was not large. I consented to lecture again on Tuesday night and did so to a good audience. If any good was done beyond strengthening the brethren in the faith, it must be apparent hereafter, when “the sober second thought comes o’er them. Lumpkin is decidedly one of the most beautiful towns in Georgia. The public square is laid out with a great deal of taste, ornamented with beautiful shade trees. 1 he private residences are beautiful* flowers and ever greens, in the sweet month of May, meeting the eye and regaling the olfactories withtheir odors. Here are two fine institutions of learning, male and female; the latter a Masonic College, at the head of which I found iny fiiend, Rev. Mr. King, one of nature’s noble men, of fine physical form, noble, open, generous and intelli gent face, added to deep-toned piety and devotion to the Temperance cause. He, (Mr. King,) I learn, was aided by a gentleman, whose name I forget, of fine learning, a popular, pious and eloquent Minister. Two churches, a Baptist and Methodist, (there may be a Presbyterian Church; if so, I did not see it,) ornament the town. But while I say all this in regard to Lumpkin, yet, even here I learn the destroyer has a seat; yes, the dram-shop has its seat in this otherwise lovely town; and suffer me to say, while in Lumpkin, a truth to which I have long subscribed was made more apparent to my mind than ever ; i. e. the responsibility of pro fessors of religion, in regard to the Temperance Refor mation. I hold it is not alone that such be temperate themselves, but that they should cast their names and influence into any and every organization, the aim, the end and consequence of which is, to banidh intemper ance and all its direct and comcomitant evils from the land. They have a small Division of the Sons here; they are “few but true,” what’s of them. And who compose the division ? If I was informed*rightly, most of the working members, with a few honorable excep tions, are retormed drunkards. Whereas, if all the Moralists and Religionists were to put on the regalia, Heaven and earth would witness the most happy re sults. Now, brethren of the church at Lumpkin, let me just cite you to two men, names beginning with S, and ask yourselves, in the name of delirium tremens, woman’s tears, hapless children, how can you stay out of a divis ion ? O cast your names, your presence, your prayers in the Division Room ! I know there are thousands in Georgia more pious than myself who do not take the same view I do, in regard to the above sentiments. Leaving my friends in Lumpkin after dinner, lam conveyed by my friend Martin sixteen miles to Col. A. W. Redding’s, a man all Georgia knows, as an hon est, high-minded, well informed, Christian gentleman, proving himself a practical man in every sphere in which he moves. I judge the Col. to be a practical farmer, too, from what I saw during my agreeable sojourn at his house. Ah l too, he is a theoretical and all over practical Temperance man. I learn the Col. ran for the Legislature in his county and was beat, because he would not buy, sell, drink, give or use, during the can vass, any of the beverage of death. O ! for about such a fall as Redding’s in every county in Georgia. O! for Christian patriots in every county, willing to be immo lated on the altar of Temperance and patriotism. Then the light would break at last; “ Truth crushed to earth would rise again.” Thursday, 13th morning, leave my friend Redding’s, where I was treated so kindly by the Col. and his ex cellent family, and arrive in Columbus, where I stay Thursday night. I did not lecture in Columbus, as al most all the usual hours were taken up in Religious meetings. Friday, 14th, leave Columbus on cars at 10 o’clock, A. M. en route for home, via. Opelika, West Point. The Sledge House at Opelika is certainly a good din ner house. Here we met a fresh cargo ot passengers from Montgomery, who were returning from the S. C. Convention. Among them I recognised Hon. M. H. Cooper. Others were aboard; M. Deßow, of Deßow’s * Review, the Governor of Alabama, son-in-law and ■ daughter, Mr. Warren of the Camden Journal, whose acquaintance I made, a fine specimen of South Carolina gentlemen, and, I may add, Christian and Temperance bearing. Also, Willingham of the LaGrange Reporter, whose temperance habits, I found, had suffered none since last we met. Now, dear John, I have given a long “un.” I shall not, perhaps, inflict upon you and your readersa similar “bore” soon. Truly, &c. D. P. JONES. Judge Cone on the Lottery Question. Swan & Cos. have circulated a card through nearly all the papers in this State trying to prevent the public mind from being disabused as to their swindling schemes. It will however most certainly prove a failure, and we trust that the prosecutions which are now hanging over the establishment in Richmond Superior Court, will bring it up entire. Judge Cone, in whose legal knowl edge we have unbounded confidence, says in a letter to Attorney Gen. McLaws: Dear Sir: This will be handed you by Mr. Birney, i of New York, who is visiting your State for the pur pose of suppressing the sale ot lottery tickets, under a [iretended authority from the State of Georgia. He has etters from the Mayor of New York to the Governor upon that subject, and both the Governor and myself think that it will be best to have prosecutions instituted against Swan & Cos., in.your county. If you look at the ! act of 1853, on the subject of lotteries, you will see what > other proceedings it may be proper to institute. The i lottery that is annoying them most'is the Sparta Acad emy Lottery. I have no doubt that all the proceedings of Swan & Cos. are illegal, and that all the persons in your city who are engaged in this business are liable un der the provisions of that statute. You will find the section in relation to the Sparta Academy Lottery among the acts of 1826; I think the good citizens will give all their influence and aid to suppress this swindle. You. will find Mr. Birney a gentleman and worthy man, and I shall consider any attention paid to him as a respect to myself. Your triend, FRANCIS H. CONE. American Students in Paris and tlie French Police. In consequence of his constant fear of assassination the French Emperor, it is said, keeps himself always surrounded by an army of watchmen, who are detailed at all points and corners of the Tuilleries, and guard every passage, day and night: . the garden of the Tuilleries, these watchmen are in citizens’ dress, patroling up and down the alley dur mg the day. Lately, two American students were ar rested by these vigilants, without any justifiable cause. While walking in the Garden, one of the students was explaining to the other, (who only a short time ago had arrived in Paris) the construction of the building, when they observed a gentleman approach, as if to overhear their conversation. This individual subsequently, by a signal, called a second person, who followed the students and finally demanded their passports. Neither having that important document on hand, the students were arrested and imprisoned until agents visited their houses to ascertain whether their statements were correct. In the course of some hours after they were set at liberty, with the superfluous advice “ never to be without their passports,” and “not again to gesticulate with their hands in the vicinity of the French Emperor’s Palace.” Secret Societiesjn France. The Paris correspondent of the New Orleans Pica yune, in a recent letter, says: The Emperor never goes out that he is not dogged by the police of the societies—a police infinitely more zeal ous, indefatigable and astute, (they work for love, and not for pay,) than the police of the Government. They lounge near the Tuilleries, in the Champs Elysees, in the Boisde Boulogne—everywhere watching the favora ble moment for their revolution to be made. Ido not mean they observe him to assassinate him, although the assassins do derive all the information they desire through these secret policemeinen of political societies, but they are constantly on the watch to take advantage of the death of the Emperor to overturn the Govern ment before the Council of the Regency can meet. Such is the conditionof France. Secret societies cover every inch of its territory from the Channel to the Mediterra nean ; and they are now so well organized that the po lice’cannot discover their organization, nor above five members of any society at the same time. V’ A constable pursued a thief, who took refuge on a stump in a swamp, and pulled the rail after him on which he went in. The Constable made the following return i “ Sight-able—conversable—non est come-at-able—in swampum—up stumpum—raile. It is astonishing how “toddy” promotes indepen dence. A Philadelphia old “brick,” who was lying a day or two since in a very spiritual manner, waeadvised m a friendly.way to economize, as “flour was gains , SR;. , Let fl u g T p ’’ ’ Baid ? ,d b ? ttle nose - “ 1 kin git as high as flour kin—any day. B * - [Special Correspondence.] POLIOK DEPARTMENT MQUOR OASES-BOYNTON’S LEC TURE-BIBLEAND OEOLOGY-HOMICIDE-SmCniE , .. ‘ Augusta, June 9th, 1858. The Police Department of this city, in efficiency, will compare ffivorabfy with that of any other city, North or South. -I hey are, in general, a kingly looking set of fellows, and are guided and directed by a Christian. They are vigilant, active and energetic in the discharge of their duty. A week or so ago, they succeeded in re porting some 40 violations oflaw, viz: furnishing slaves with liquor. With one or two exceptions, the offen ders were cither of the Hans von “Lager beer” or Pat rick and Pop Skull class. They were promptly re turned by His Honor, Recorder Green, to the city court. Some tew were tried and found guilty; one was ac quitted and the rest plead guilty. During the trial of one of the cases, a witness was closely interrogated as to what whisky was made of?” The witness having a practical knowledge of its taste and qualities, answered some whiskey is made from wheat, some from rye, some from corn, and some from strychnine.” While speaking of the police department, I must not omit to give all honor to our present worthy and efficient May or. His financial ability is unequalled, and his admin istration ranks as the best we havo ever experienced. The clerk of council is a polite, affable auri generous gentleman—l might add, too generous for the good of his pocket. His heart, however, is in the right place, and not crumpled in the least. Dr. Boynton delivered a course of lectures here, du ring the latter part of the past month, upon Geology and the history of creation. The subject, though to the masses apparently a dry one, yet, seemed to possess at traction enough to fill the house nightly. His closing lecture on the 2d instant, was an able effort, but I can only give a brief outline of it. His design was to show that Geology was a natural proof of Moses’ history of creation, contained in the book ot Genesis. The world was created long before man was called into existence. Various classes and types of animals from the masto don down, now extinct, and whose fossil remains had been exhumed by Geology, lived prior to man’s advent. All these animals, in the color of hair, skin and eyes, were fixed, and were untameable. Fruits and trees ex isted before man, but were not calculated to nourish and sustain him. Animals, fruits and trees prior to man, though extinct, yet, have their representative type in those subsequent in their formation or co-eval with man. During the tertiary age of the world, as the crust of the earth hardened, mountains were elevated and valleys depressed, forming new lakes and rivers, and changing climates and temperature. “In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the earth.” In the be ginning—long before the formation of man—God created the Heaven and the earth, that is, caused them to be. Animals and plants were formed in exact harmony with this the incipient stage of the world’s history. “In the beginning God created,” is but Geology condensed. The. popular idea that God created the Heaven and the earth in six days, was a fallacious one. The bible war rants no such assumption. He made, built, re-mod elled, finished them in six days. He was preparing the world for the entrance of man, and fitting it for his dwelling-place. When man, therefore, came into the world, he found animals that he could subdue; fruits that would nourish and sustain him, and everything adapted to his wants. “On the seventh day God ended His work which He had made, and He rested on the sev enth day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.” Genesis, 2d chap. 2d and3d verses. In these verses, we perceived that created and made are the terms used. Create signifies begotten—to cause to exist—to produce, while to make signifies to form of materials—to mould —establish—to accomplish and com plete. Here, there is a wide margin between the sig nification of the terms employed. Created relates to the formation of the earth from chaos; made relates to the finishing of what He had created. When God made man in His own image and likeness,He restedfromHis labor. And why ? because, having endowed man with an infinite capacity of mind, He could not create any other work superior to man. And then God finished His creative works, and since that period no new order of beings have been created. It remains the same as it did on the day when God rested from His labor. To no order of animal creation was given the privilege of a creative faculty that is inventive, but to man. God ceased from His labor because He had completed it. Man was the apex of all His created works. Woman, though formed after man, was not distinct from him, but a part of his being. Woman was the highest and noblest work of God’s creative energies, and her ele mental composition was far higher and purer than mans. And the result of this investigation and survey of crea tion and its history, would lead the mind to see in it no thing else but the embodiment ol a thought—a plan, and this plan suggests a planner, and this planner can not be more or less than God. There is a perfect agree ment between nature, and what the Creator has re vealed concerning it, between Geology and the Bible. On Saturday night, sth instant, John Johnson shot Wilson Rawlins in the abdomen, producing a serious wound. Johnson was inebriated. Rawlins is in avery critical situation, and but little hope is entertained of his recovery. Johnson has been arrested and lodged in jail. On the morning of the Bth instant, a female, name un known, committed suicide by walking into the river and drowning herself. A negro man near by, but una ble to swim, offered her a pole to save herself with, but she declined. Her body has not been recovered. Vari ous conjectures have been raised as to who the unfortu nate one was. One whom it was confidently supposed to have been, arrived on the evening of that day from Charleston. The most plausible conjecture appears to be that it was a young lady, amiable, intelligent and re fined, who had “loved not wisely but too well,” and who had placed too much confidence in man. If there is a place in the regions of despair where the punishment is greater and more intense than any other, it is where the base, vile seducer is. The worm of remorse should eat deeper in his vitals than in any other hardened vil lain. Woman’s lqve, alas! “Lise ivy, it is found to cling Too often round a worthless thing.” W. STATE OF THE MARKET. Lead, dull. Candor, scarce. Iron, heavy. Honesty, none in market. Steel, bright. Morality, * diluted. Feathers, light. Virtue, downward ten’ey. Copper, scarce. Religion, declining. Gold, glittering. Matrimony, sup. ex. dem. Cotton, soft. Love of money, active. Brass, active. Honor, no demand. Crinoline, expanded. Sobriety, small supply. Whiskey, circulating. Egotism, upward ten’ey. Printers’ dues, unsettled. Printers’ debts, settled. The above is the present state of the market. The New York State temperance convention at its recent session passed the following Resolution: “ Resolved, That the New-York State Temperance Society, will, at its next quarterly meeting, take into consideration the propriety of a Slate Convention being held for the purpose of placing in nomination suitable and proper candidates to be voted for by the Temperance men of this State to fill the several State offices, and also will take into consideration the propriety of advis ing the Temperance men of this state to organize them selves in their several localities for the selection of suit able candidates to be voted for by the Temperance men for local officers. “And it is further resolved, That the next Quarterly Meetingofthe Society be-heM at Utica, to commence the 11th day of August next, at 12 ofolock, M. The excitement of the public in regard to the lowa gold diggins is spreading over that entire State, and in the greater portion of local discoveries serve to increase excitement. The Des Moines papers speak somewhat confidently of the value of the discoveries in that vicin ity. The liquor dealers in Boston have had some meetings lately, in order to unit e their forces for the protec tion ol their business interests. The wealthy while sale dealers, however, don’t like to be on a par with those who sell only by the glass. One Perrffi who spoke at th e m e e t , n „ turned up his aristocratic* nose It have®said* tha r t°“ if hi qU ° r BeUerß ’ . H L e sported to there had got .to be somTradieaf He'wanled keeper, filled with fidUer.” Thoee m„°,” If a womin h nfii and l nd - u Qt ths hußbai d their wives, msr of ® d W u lh a man ‘ she sends the drum ntaWhfa* k P j* in a handkerchief to his cap with a she used to fasten her hair. The man is the/ l ° marry ls he CBn P a y her price to her fa- NEWS-HOME AND FOREIGN. General News. Later news has been received from India, but it was of an unimportant nature. Tha Paris conference had held a preliminary meeting on the subject of the Principalities. The dispatches from Madrid state that on the return of the Queen of Spain to the capital, all pending ques tions will be settled. It is reported that Concha, the Captain-General of Cuba, asks to be relieved from his position, in conse quence of his continued ill health. The victory of the Montenegrins over the Turks has been announced, and said to have been effected by treach ery. This success has excited in the Greek subjects of the Sultan a hope of their emancipation from Ottoman rule. The London Times says that affairs in the East are Cle aring considerable, anxiety. The city of Gleta, in Naples, has been placed in an impregnable condition, in anticipation of a difficulty with England. Another ministerial crisis is anticipated at Madrid. The news from Induyinnounces that the rebels have been driven from As(®?hun, after sustaining heavy loss. Presidency of Harvard College. —The Hon. S. A. Elliot. Rev. Dr. Bellows of New York. Hon. Robert C. Winthrop of Massachusetts, and Prof. Felton, are named as candidates for the Presidency of Harvard College, shortly to be vacated by Rev. Dr. Walker. Dyspepsia Investigated. The following is from Dr. John G. Bunting, who has been experimenting with Alexis St. Martin, the man with a hole in his stomach, made by a bullet, through which the different articles of food must pass in the act of digestion: “ Hot bread never digests. Bear this in mind, rea der, if you are accustomed to eat the light and tempting biscuit at tea, or the warm loaf which looks so apeti zing upon your dinner-table. Hot bread never digests at all; after a long series of tumbling and working about in the stomach as an unwelcome tenant of that delicate organ, never digesting—never becomes assimi lated to or absorbed by the organs that appropriate nu trition to the body, it is expelled. It is a first rate dys pepsia producer. The above is truth, as it has been re peatedly proved from actual observation through the side of Alexis St. Martin.” The follow ing is the advice of an examining judge to a young lawyer on admission: “Sir, it would be idle to trouble you further. You are perfect; and I will dis miss you with a few words of advice, which you will do very well to follow. You will find it laid down as a maxim of civil law, never to kiss the maid when you can kiss the mistress. Carry out the principle, sir, and you are safe. Never say boo to a goose when she has the power to lay golden eggs. Let your face be long your bills longer.. Never put your hand into your own pocket when anybody else’s is handy. Keep your con science for your own private use, and don’t trouble it with other men,s matters. Plaster the judge, and butter the jury. Look as wise as an owl, and be as oracular as a town clock. But, above all, get money—honestly it you can, my dear sir; but get money. I welcome you to the bar.” * “ Lewis, what have you done with your new trow sers ?” asked an anxious papa. “I’ve swapped them off.” “For what?” “ A slung-shot, ‘Hoyle’s Games’ and ‘The Pirate's Own Book.” “Dad, if I wa9 to see a duck on the wing, and was to shoot it, would you lick me ?” “Oh, no, my son; it shows you are a good marksman, and I would feel proud’of you!” “Well then, dad, I plummed our old drake as he was flying over the fence to-day, and it would have done you good to see him drop.” What is the difference ’twixt little Queen Vie, and the shaggy dog’s tail that is moving so quick? The difference is this—l say without braggin: The Queen keeps a coach and the tail keeps a waggin. If you would be happy, take the papers. We never knew a man out of humor, cash or piety, who had the latest news on his shoulders. Newspapers and happL ness are brothers and sisters. Oak Bowei’s Problem Solved. We have received some half-dozen solutions froardi’t ferent sources, to the problem which appeared ia a re cent number of this paper, over the signature. “-Oak Bower.” Three from Macon; one signed “ Dead head,” which we publish; the others were signed by Joshua Tinley and M. B. Thomas. One from. Augus ta, and another from Fayetteville, which we also* pub lish. We would publish all the solutions, were it at* that we are deficient in mathematical characters or Hype. Macon, June 4th, 1858. Dear John : “ Oak Bower” wishes for an “arithmet ical” solution of a problem proposed in your paper of this week. As I have been trying to beat “ quadratics’ ’ into one or two chaps recently, the problem struck me in the right humor and I solved it. Since there were two times as many sheep as cows, there were 10 sheep for 1 cow; hence,’lotimes 10being 100, is the number of sheep; this, divided by 10, gives 10, the number cows; this divided by 2, gives 5, the number of horses. Then, as the price of . ach horse is equal to the number of sheep, 1 horse cost $100,5, $500; 1 cow, $lO, 10, $100; 1 sheep, $5, 100, SSOO, making $llOO. “Oak Bower” might have had the problem solved very quickly and satisfactorily, by applying to Prof. S Sanford, the former and loved preceptor of Deadhead,. Fitst, assume 1 horse, 2 cows and 20 sheen : 1 at S2O gets S2O; 2 cows at $2, getas4; 20 sher p at i) Sets S2O. These numbers added together, are slf hviding 1100 by 44 gives 25—the square root tis 25 is r > 1 hen, multiplying this 5 on to-the assumed* numbers’ gives 5 horses, 10 cows and 100 sheep, wh\,fs. is the an swer. The problem is not in double For an exposition of the principle by which * is solved, see {j£?” ey 8 S> uthe rn Arithmetic, pag*. 2c/3, problem 54. Death of Master James Thomas Hunter. The melancholy death ofthis interesting youth, which took place an Saturday the Ist inst., has caused a deei. sensation in the public mind. It was so sudden and unexpected that it fell like a clap of thunder from a cloudless sky In the morning ol that day. all buoyant with life and health, he left home for the purpose of hauling some sand, (more as a past time than anythin? else,) accompanied by two negro boys about his own age. Having loaded the wagon they were returning, and in coming down a slight descent in the road the pace of the horse increased, and the plank across the wagon upon which he was sitting suddenly tilled . throwing him out, the wheels running over his body., causing death in about twenty minutes. Thus passed’ awa y , m the twinkling of an eye, a lovely and interest g youth, the only son of a widowed mother, around whom all the rich wealth of a mother’s affections haul • clustered; that boy was the world to her, and never was *?,•*? \ h °y wll ° seemed better calculated to call for\h nß.ff. pStoresof J a . mother,a lo ve, Ho was tender and affectionate, and in nil things of life was one of sweet promise. Ah', who. could tell what sun set 6 ffis bnT 8 ,hc r° n ,'vf*l‘ l Ming ? Before the death ’ni mirn dy k W nl- )rO - ie^ l homc pale and stiff in in our steefT” L ha hIS laugh be heard “ Villnve 9rhrw?l 0 > Wl ke join in the sports of the been’ ’ Hvse,at m the Sabbath School lias bv Rev T T p evof ’ His funeral sermon was preached attentive twi B °' yeU I he Ba P tist Church, to a large, lowed tn tKA enona dience. His remains were fol- Kolll g i aVC by the PP'ls of all the Sabbath “ who temnt, ? t rge c ? n f ou rse of citizens. May He ud and ie . ‘ Vln d to the shorn lamb,” bind friends 68 116 hearts of bereaved relatives and ,nendsu A FRIEND. hrm!s d ’;n n Hwttville, Tenn. on the 7th inst. after twelve ter nfnrn e Wl, j o c . ram P’ Ji’UA Macon, infant daugh ter of Dr, D. C. and Sarah O’Keeffe. in?i!!! d iuwu ar t- Enterprise, Texas, on the 21st March, i C 5 0th year of his age, Woodford Wallace, for .u r y i. 0: *. ,of® ne co nty, Ga. Deceased removed, in *i,„ 01 t™*** to Arkansas, and from thence, early in tt„ P rese nt. year, to Texas. He leaves four childrer.. - ) vaa strictly a moral man—bore his illness with for- his last in great calmness. itr mint Greenesboro Female College. npHE Exercises of this Institution, Ist Term of Scholastic year, will be resumed on the Ist Mon day in JULY next, under the care of Rev. Homer Hen dee, President, with an able faculty and every depart ment amply filled. By order of the Board of Trustees. „ D. HOWELL, Greenesboro, June 17—4 t Sec. and Treas. LaG range Female College. THE Annnal Examination of the Students of this Institution, will begin Monday, the sth of July, and continue through the week. Sunday, the Utb —Commencement Sermon by L. D. Huston, D.D. of Tennessee. Monday, the 12th—Meeting of the Board of Trustees. - 1 Evening of the same day, Sacred Concert, • Tuesday, the 13thr-Celebration of the Literary So cieties—before which the Annual Address will be deli vered by John H. Seals, Esq. of Penfield, Ga. Evening i of the same day, General Concert by the Music Class. Wednesday, the I4th—Commencement Day. dresß by C. C. Wilson, Esq. of Savannah. J. W. AKERS, Seo’y of Faculty. July 17,1858 v tde