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THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADER
PENFIELD, GEORGIA.
Thursday Morning, .June 24, 1858.
OS~Dr. Win. Houser, of Jefferson county, is author
ized to act as Agent for the Crusader in all portions oi
Georgia, or in any of the adjoining States. He will re
ceive subscriptions and give valid receipts.
The Immorality of the I.iquor Traffic.
What constitutes the immorality of sin ? It is its evil
influence upon individuals and communities, and the
displeasure of God towards it. Does the liquor traffic
injure individuals and communities ? Get the answer
from its works. Get it from the long catalogue of dark
and maglignant crimes which it has perpetrated, ts,
deleterious influences are felt throughout the material
universe; its corrupting tendencies are infused into all
the moral, political and social organizations ol man.
Not content with rioting in the haunts o ignorance an
vice, it has passed through our consecrated groves and
most sacred inclosures. It has stalked within the very
walls of our capitol, and there left the stain of its pollu
ting touch upon our national glory. It has leaped over
the pale of the church, and even reached up its sacri
legious arm to the pulpit and dragged down some of its
richest ornaments. It has revelled equally on the spoils
of the palace and the cottage, and has seized its vic-
tims, with an unsparing grasp, from every class of soci
ety. Men of genius and of letters have fallen before it;
lofty intellects have been shattered and laid in ruins by
its power; and many a warm and philanthropic heart
has been chilled by its icy touch. It enters the empirp
of the mind, coils its impenetrable net about the immor
tal man, and breathes its damning fumes around the
brain until the intellect is stupefied and reason dethroned,
when man falls back into his primeval state of barbar
ism, and like the raving “ Maniac of the Tombs,” hurls
foul imprecations against nature, and shrieks out, there
is no God. Hell enkindled within him, scathes a once
sanguine and athletic frame into a gaunt spectre, and
he stands a ghastly and thunder-stricken ruin. Think
you it injures the individal ? Does it injure the commu
nity ? The answer comes from every part of the world,
like the roar of old ocean, declaring it the source of all
drunkennes, one-half of the diseases, three-fourths of
the rowdyism, three-fourths ofthe idleness, three-fourths
ot the pauperism, three-fourths ofthe crime, and three
fourths of the taxes —which bear down in oppressive
tyranny upon our land. . ‘
A business is immoral to the degree in whieh it is
inconsistent with the homage due to God. Does not
the traffic beM this inconsistency? No one will deny it.
Does it dishonor God? Yes! and how? by blunting
the intellect, the conscience and morals of ‘men—by
sending human beings unprepared into the presence of
their Maker—by dissolving the bonds ot brotherly
love, which should unite the human race into one great
social family, and by entailing misery and degradation
upon the innocent and good. Under its prevalence
crime has trod upon crime, and blood touched blood.
Within the last fifty years, according to a low calcula
tion, one million jive hundred thousand persons have sunk
into drunkard’s graves, five thousand million dollars
been uselessly expended, ten thousand murders, with
shipwrecks and conflagrations unnumbered, have been
caused, and procession after procession has gone to the
poor house, the jail, the asylums, the penitentiaries and
the orphan’s home. In Great Britain, it appears from
statistics published by the British Parliament, that
while the annual expense for bread, was one hundred
and thirty millions of dollars the immediate expense for
liquor, was two hundred and fifty millions, producing
an amount of vice, poverty and profligacy, of which,
none but the mind of God can have adequate concep
tions, and in a land of the brightest gospel light, send
ing sixty thousand human beings to the drunkard’s
grave and the drunkard’s eternity. Is this dishonoring
God ? If not, then no wickedness ever perpetrated upon
earth casts any reflection upon his pure and holy exis
tence.
Is the traffic violative of the will and command of
God? He has said, “ thou shalt not murder.” If to
murder means to kill, the rumseller’s remedy is as mor
tal as if he were to plunge the two-edged sword into his
brother’s heart. “ Woe unto himthatgiveth hisneigh
bor drink! That puttest thy bottle to him, and makest
him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their na
kedness.”
Considering the evils of which the liquor traffic is the
direct or incidental cause, there is no intelligent man
who will not declare it the most demoralizing-business
pursued on earth. The injury it inflicts is immeasura
ble and incalculable; the earth groans under it; man
cries to man, and to Heaven, for deliverance from it,
and Hell itself shudders toengulph its innumerable vic
tims. Any business producing such effects, is the
greatest crime man can commit against man, and through
man against God.
Dr. N. M. Crawford
Arrived here on Saturday morning last, his excellent
lady preceding him a few days. On Saturday night
the students en masse, and a number of citizens, both
male and female, assembled before his residence to give
him a serenade and a welcome back to the Presidency
of the University. The students having formed a very
large semi-circle in front of his door, called for him,
when he appeared in the verandah and addressed them
in a few chaste and appropiiate remarks, which were
well said and happily received by his auditory.
he concluded, Allen D. Candler, Esq. being called out,
responded in a happy manner, and gave him, in behalf
of his fellow-students,’ a warm and hearty welcome back
to the Presidential Chair of their loved Institution.
The Doctor has returned among his old friends, and he
finds them still as true and numerous as in days past.
Commencement.
See advertisement, in this issue, of the Commence
ment exercises of Mercer University.
Negro Suicide.
. We learn that a negro woman belonging to John P.
Scott, of this county, committed suicide a few days
since, by drinking laudanum.
Practice of Medicine.
We have received from Dr. J. W. Price, of Wash
ington, Wilkes County, a printed copy of an Essay by
himself, upon the above theme, which, so far as we
are qualified to judge, is a sound document. Hie ideas
are correct and handsomely expressed, and exhibit,
on his part, a thorough and extensive acquaintance with
medical authors.
jass-Dn- E. M. Pendleton, the Sparta editor of the
Central Georgian, announces his dissolution with that
paper, in a laconic and chaste valedictory. He makes
his bow “ with the best possible feelings to all con
cerned, his warmest thanks to those who have appre
ciated his efforts, and his free pardon to any who may
have sought to injure him fropi misguided motive.”
.Southern Arithmetic.
Morgan H. Looney, principal of the flourishing semi
nary at Fayetteville, in this State, has gotten out an
arithmetic which is an honor to the State. It is entire
ly southern in its origin and completion. Its author is
a Georgian; the paper on which it is published was
manufactured in Georgia; it was printed in Newnan,
and bound in Atlanta. We have had the time to
examine,it only partially, but from our knowledge of its
author, we may safely recommend it.
An Alabama Specimen.
Our paper has a large circulation in Alabama, and
we believe our patrons in that State are the most punct
ual and prompt paying subscribers that we have any
where. We can safely say they pay the mosk cheer
fully, and the following will answer as a specimen:
Nolasulga, Ala. June 1,22A, 1838.
J. H. Seals— Bear Sir: Inclosed you will find two
dollars, the subscription price of the Crusader. 1 am
glad you moved it up to that price, as I always thought
it too cheap at one dollar, I shall always pay it promptly
and cheerfully ; but should you fail to receive it in time,
dont stop the paper, but send over your account to the
widow, as you may know by its not being paid in ad
vance that lam dead. I shall make among my last
arrangements, that of securing to my family the Cru
sader, and having it paid for in advance Long may
you live, and blessed be the efforts you are making in
the good cause of Temperance.
very respectfully, J—_ N. w ; .
JoumaL ha?pn^AiF r f T v, t lce ’ ! * ie e ditor of the Louisville
£2” “•
the round, is fruly encouraging 0 ” Tren? find g ° ing
acquisition to our ranks, SL of wi ° lB * Vallmble
be proud. He is one of the ablest “T™ 11
comphshed poets in America and hi! and uc ’
throughout the Union. Wo wel > * c-™ 6 18 famili:ir
fraternity, and „„„ a ZiJ ‘n hm
.0 the furtherance of
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Tempenuice.
A large portion of the citizens of Monroe county held
an enthusiastic temperaheff meeting in Forsyth, on the
14th instant, to hear from the committee appointed at a
previous meeting, to report upon the best course to be
pursued to rid the county of the retail traffic in spiritu
ous liquors. The Rev. 11. Phinazee, an untiring cham
pion and noble soldier of the cause, was chairman of
the meeting, and Dr. G. T. Wilburn, editor of the Ed.
Journal, was secretary. The committee made a pru
dent, sensible and practicable report. They “ only ask
that a retail system which has led to the dissipation and
untimely ruin of our sons, and the insubordination and
corruption of our slave population, shall be abolished,
providedjt majority of the legal voters of Che counjy
think it best.”
We are encouraged and proud to see such men as
Rev. A. Wright, John T. Stevens, Thomas Gabiness,
Dr. G. T. Wilburn, F. T. Polhill, J. R. Banks and A.
D- Hammond, leaders in the warfare against this enemy
of our race. The committee reported the following re
solutions, which were supported by plausible views, in
a lengthy preamble:
Resolved , Ist. That it is inexpedient, at this time, to
organize a temperance society of any kind ; and in lieu
thereof, we advise the submission of the following pro
position to the citizens of the county, viz.:
That we, the citizens of Monroe county, agree to use
all prudent means to procure the passage of an act in
the next Legislature, to abolish the existing law granting
license for the sale of ardent spirits, anv that the ques
tion be left to the Inferior Court, so far as Monroe
county is concerned, with discretionary power to grant
license and fix the price.
2d. That a central committee of thirteen be appointed
in and near Forsyth, who shall have full authority as
an executive committee, and perform all acts necessary
in furtherance of our object as above designated. Said
committee shall also have authority to appoint one or
more in each district of the county, to circulate among
the people and obtain signatures to a petition to be
presented to the next Legislature, in accordance with
the above preamble.
The editor of the journal, in a stirring appeal to the
citizens of the county for their co-operation, says : “We
sincerely trust that the movement thus made has re
ceived the sanction of Heaven ; and we earnestly solicit
the co-operation of every lover of sobriety and good
order in this noble work to ameliorate the condition of
our fellow-citizens, and to elevate the moral standard
of our much loved county. If you love the name of
Monroe, and would revere the character of him whose
memory it perpetuates, then come to the rescue and
redeem our county from a crying evil.
We suggest that other counties in the State make a
similar movement !o rid the land of grog-shops.”
A private letter from Augusta informs us that there
is a glorious revival of the cause in that city. The Di
vision Room, which a short time since was thinly at
tended, is now crowded every meeting, and new additions
are being made constantly. A great re-action in favor
ot the principles which we love and cherish and advo
cate, will soon take plaoe in all parts of our State.
“ Weary not in well doing, for we shall reap in due
season if we faint not.”
A friend writing from the lower part of the State,
says : “ The temperance cause is doing some good in
S. W. Georgia. The Independent Order of United
Friends, at Merry-Oaks, Ga. is flourishing. Theobject
of the institution is, the prohibition of the use of all
intoxicating beverage, and also that of tobacco in the
diflferent modes practised. The Grand Cabin of the
I. O. U. F. will be in session next month at Merry -
Oakes. 18 or 20 ladies and gentlemen have recently
been initiated into the mysteries of the order.”
Canton Division has a celebration on the 4th of July
next. We hope they may have a good time, and that
anew impetus will be given to the cause in that section.
They have many sturdy souls and noble warriors in
that community, and they will come out in their moral
grandeur on the 4th of next month.
The Expenses of our Government.
The New York Courier 4* Enquirer has an article
scolding very severely the present Administration, in
which it says:
| |Mr. Buchanan has been in power but little more than
a year, and yet has pushed the cost of Government from
fifty-eight millions—which had been complainedof, and
justly to, as an excessive figure— to over eighty-three
millions. He found when he went into power seven
enteen millions in the Treasury; he quickly got rid of
that—collected during the year forty-four millions ot
revenues; got rid of that—borrowed twenty millions by
I reasttry notes; got rid ol that—and is now besieging
Congress to let him raise fifteen millions more on loan,
with a moral certainty that new loans will be required of
Congress at the beginning of its next session to meet
actual deficiencies. While the unprecedented sum of
eighty-three millions—unprecedented even in time of
war—is spent during the present fiscal year, the sum re
quired for the next fiscal year foots up to the enormous
aggregate of ninety-three millions.
A Joke of the First Water.
In Hamilton, a lew days since, a crazy woman was
to be taken to the Ipswich Asylum. She was furious
and violent, and it required the combined strength of
four men to handle her and get her into the vehicle,
which was finally accomplished in spite of her strug
gles. She was taken to Ipswich. When arrived there,
her demeanor suddenly and entirely changed. She be
came quiet and docile, and surrendered herself into the
arms of her four custodians with an air of satisfied su
periority, for, said she, “I feel more honored and ex
alted than was Jesus when he entered Jerusalem, for
he rode upon one ass only, and lam riding upon Jour /”
The lour humiliated custodians felt that they were
used up by this bright intellectual sally, and walked
off with their burden, reflecting upon the sentiment ex
pressed in a familiar couplet:
“ Great wit and madness sure are near allied,
And narrow bounds their realms divide.”
[Salem Observer.
Mr. Russel, the correspondent in India of the
London Times, thus gives the finishing stroke to the
Jessie Brown romance:
I regret to be obliged to destroy the foundation for
such pretty poetry and pretty pictures as the story of
Jessie, the Highland lassie, and the bagpipes of the
Highlanders has afforded at home; but, on inquiry, I
find that there were no bagpipes played within many
miles of Lucknow, and that the voices of slogan and
pibroch were silent; not a warlike squeal announced
that “ the Campbells were coming,” but, more or less
than all, there were no lassie at all in the garrison who
by any possibility could have been the heorine or prima
donna of the drama, and every one knew, long before the
loudest skirl of all the bagpipes in Scotland could have
proclaimed it, that Havelock was coming to the assis
tance of the garrison. The Alumbagh is at least seven
miles from the residency..
Quaint and Curious.
Some plodding genius has discovered, while spending
his own time, that the word Time itself when artificial
ly transposed or metagramatized will form the follow
ing words: meti, emit, item. And, if the aforenamed
and its anagrams be placed in the following quadratic
position, they will form what may be termed an ana
gramatical palindrome:
TIME
ITEM
METI
EMIT
This word Time, is the only word in the English
language which can be thus arranged, and the different
transpositions thereof are all at the same time latin
words. These words in English, as well as in latin,
may be read either upward or downward.
The English words, time, item, meti and emit, (to send
forth,) arc mentioned above; and of the Latin ones, (1)
Time signifies—fear thou ; (2) Item—likewise; (3)
Meti—to be measured; (4) Emit—he buys.
Bequests of Anson G. Plielps.
The late Anson G. Phelps, of New York, after am
plylproviding for his relatives, has made the following
public legacies:
To the American and Foreign Christian Union
(to satisfy mortgage on their premises) $ 12,600
The Union Theo. Seminary, 30,000
American Bible Society, 10,000
Ant. Board of Commissioners, 15,000
Am. Home Missionary Society, 10,000
New York State Colonization Society, 10,000
Southern Aid Society, 5,000
Am. Tract Society. 5,000
Cen. Am. Ed. Society, 5,000
Institution for the Blind, 1,000
Total, $103,600
His father, who died three or four years since, left
ssme $400,000, out of an estate ot $2,000,000, to the above
and other benevolent organizations.
Barnum.
Barnurn is himself again. He is on his legs more up
rightly and firmly than ever. No amount of pressure
could keep down the caoutchouc spirit of P. T. B.
With a magnificent flourish of trumpets, Plnneas tum
bles into the ring.
Under the auspices of the greatest of showmen, (says
the New York Express, Lumley, the operatic king of
London, is coming over to this country pretty soon,
with a steamer load of singers und dancers. Piccolo
mini, the pretty woman who has tu.ned the heads oi
the cockneys; Titicns, who has just flashed into the
musicol heavens, and dimmed the lustre of all other lu
minaries ; Ginglini, a ravishing tenor, with a perfect
colony of vocalists and light fantastic toes ure to conic.
P. T. B. hqs settled it that the American public shall
shall pay the trifling sum of five dollars for the privilege
of hearing andseeing this monstrous combinatioa. We
may expect another financial crisis at the close of his
Season.
j following is a portion of an able’ lecture by
Dr. Dugas, Prof, in the Augusta Medical College, dc
livered-to his class over the body of an unfortunate fe
male who had destroyed herself by dissipation and
prostitution. He indulged in these sound, practical
views upon intemperance:
A Clinical Lecture
Upon some of the Effects of Temperance. Delivered at
the Augusta City Hospital, by L, A. Dcoas, M 1).,
and written out by special request.
’1 here are two forms of intemperance—the ono peri
odical and the other continued. Those addicted to the
former will drink profusely for days or weeks, until the
stomach rebels and rejects the potations, and they can
not take any more. They will then sufler greatly, men
tally and physically, a few days, and gradually get over
their “spree,” to resume it again after the lapse of
weeks, months or even years. This is the most invet
erate, the most incurable form of intemperance. In
deed, I may say that I look upon such castes as utterly
hopeless, for I have never known a single instance of
permanent reformation, in those addicted to periodical
intemperance. The victims of this form are jnore vio
lent and uncontrolable; more disagreeable and danger
ous to society; more subject to delirium tremens, and
more liable to permanent insanity, than habitual inebri
ates.
The continued form of intemperance is that in which
the individual habitually takes too much; some will at
tend to their business during the day more or less effi
ciently, and yet, be surfeited every night; others are so
ber enough to attend to business only in the forenoon,
and finally, there are many who can scarcely ever be
found entirely sober. I recollect a case in the court in
which a will was set aside upon the testimony of the
neighbors Jhat the maker had not been sober enough in
ten years to know what he was about! The will had
been executed six or seven years before hisdeath. And
yet, this man lived seventy-five years, and had beeq in
temperate all his life! I believe it to be a general rule,
that the habitually intemperate live longer than those
who are only periodically so. But the habitual inebri
ate is more liable to liver disease, to dropsy and to rheu
matism—neither of which affections have I ever known
cured undersuchcircumstances. The periodical drunk
ard is more apt to be carried off by an attack of mania
a-potu, or of some other acute disease. While, with
most persons intemperance induces more or less of ple
thora and corpulency, there are some in whom it pro
duces an opposite effect, and we find these pale or sallow
and thin. When it terminates in dropsy, this seems to
be in consequence of hypertrophy of the cellular tissue
of the liver, by which the portal veins are compressed to
such a degree as to impede the tree passage of blood, and
to cause its undue accumulation in the intestinal canal
and its investing membrane. In such cases, the \essels
may relieve themselves by an abundant secretion from
the mucous surface, constituting diarrhoea, or by an ex
halation into the peritoneal cavity, so as to produce
dropsy. Either of these symtoms may be, in general,
regarded as the precursor of early dissolution.
Intemperance deeply affects the nervous system of all
animal life, as is evinced by the uncertain gait, the
tremulous hand, convulsions and various painful dis
eases. Bnt the brain, the great seat of intellect and ol
the moral perceptions, reveals its baneful influence un
der the form of mania-a-potu, perverted reason and mo
ral depravity. Who has not seen instances in which
the noblest intellects and the most refined sense of pro
priety have been thus changed into stupid vagaries and
knavish as well as brutal propensities? With reason de
throned and the moral perceptions blunted, the victim
drags out a miserable existence himself, and embitters
that of all who loved and esteemed him.
Let us now look at some of the effects of intemper
ance upon the offspring and upon the race. I think it
susceptible of easy demonstration, that the children of
an habitual inebriate will have but little stamina, that is
to say, that their powers of resistance .to morbid influ
ences will be more or less impaired, and that they will
therefore be more liable to disease than they would
otherwise have been; that they will often be scrofulous,
and occasionally insane or idiotic. These effects, more
over, become more and more apparent the longer the
parent has been a drunkard ; so that if he have a large
family during his intemperance, the deterioration of his
children will be progressive, and the last may be so
puny as hever to reach maturity, although the first may
be comparatively healthy. Nay, there are some drunk
ards, whose own constitution being poor, will rearafew
children, and then lose in infancy or childhood all those
they may subsequently have. Just reflect a little upon
the condition of the families in your respective neigh
borhoods, antH think that each one of you will recall
to mind some.illuStration ofthe correctness of these pro
positions.
Well, gentlemen, what is true with regard to the in
fluence of intemperance upon the offspring of the first
drunken parent, becomes most painfully so if the off
spring himself follow the example of his father and be
come also a drunken parent. The issue of this second
gorcration of drunkards will, in all probability, be few
in number, and their stamina will be so much impaired,
that it will be with the utmost difficulty that any of
them can reach maturity. Let us follow this third gen
eration, and if it, perchance; also take to the bottle, it
will be the last of that family, for I do not hesitate to
proclaim it as a law of almost universal applicability,
that three successive generations of drunkards leave no
issue! The third generation may have children, but
none of these will be reared to manhood. This may
appear to you a startling announcement; but I believe
that you will find it based upon truth. As I have long
since entertained these views ofthe effects of intemper
ance upon families, I would like to adduce some of the
evidence I have collected from personal observation,
were it not manifestly improper to lift the veil front the
private history of families who have passed away. But
we can, without the least impropriety, study the histo
ry of families, in connection with that of the race to
which they belong; and if you will bear with me a few
moments metre, I will endeavor to illustrate my proposi
tion by a reference to the sad history of our aboriginal
savages.
1 need not repeat what you all know—that tribe after
tribe of the children of the forest have vanished from
tribe of the children of tlie forest have vanished from
before the sun—and"still continue to do so with awful
rapidity. Why is this so? Is there anything in their
physical organization that incapacitates them for the per
petuation of their species or race, if you prefer the
term ? Certainly not. Then, I again ask the question,
why is it so ? In order to answer this, let us examine
the influences that have been brought to bear upon this
race in the different portions of our continent, and let
us sec if they have suffered equally in these several re
gions.
America has bfccn colonized by two classes of people;
in the one we find the Spaniards, the Portuguese, and
the ; in the other the British and their Ameri
can descendants. Now how have the Indians fared un
der the dominion of these two classes? Under the for
mer they have increased and multiplied—whereas, un
der the latter they have been
ish, the Portuguese, and the French, are temperate peo
ple, and the British and Anglo-Americans intemperate
—and while the former have propitiated the good-will
of the savages, have fraternised with them, have civil
ized and Christianised them, probably as far as their
nature'will permit; the latter have done neither, but
have, on the contrary, introduced among them their
own vices and intemperance, and driven them from their
hunting grounds to perish like outcasts. Contrast the
history of the Indian in Mexico, with that of the same
race in the United States—or even in Georgia. Towards
the close of the last century the population of Mexico
was about four millions, of which the pure Indian ele
ment constituted about two millions. The population
of that Republic is now about seven millions, of whom
at least four millions, are pure Indians, two millions
mixed races, and one million pure Castillians. Sixty
years ago, one half of the State of Georgia was peopled
with savages—and where are they now ? With the ex
ception of a small remnant of|Cherokees and Creeks,
who have been driven across the Mississippi, these
mighty tribes have ceased to exist! In South America,
it is highly probable that the Indian population is fully
as great as it ever was, if not greater. Under the French
dominion, the Canada Indians prospered as they do in
South America, but they have been deteriorating and
dwindling away rapidly ever since the British have ac
quired those provinces.
Look at the influence of the boasted civilization in
troduced by the drinking races among the Sandwich
islanders! The third generation of drunkards is. now
living there, and it is estimated that in fifteen or twenty
years more there will not be left a solitary representa
tive of that people. The sailor with his bottle has
doubtless had more followers than the missionary with
his Bible in that unhappy land. Look at the dissolute
and drunken habits of our frontier Indians, and you
cannot be long in discovering the true reason of their
extinction. The same baneful influence operates upon
the free blacks who seek refuge in the large cities at
the North. The climate, may, it is true, account in
some degree, for the great mortality among them ; but
intemperance is unquestionably their greatest enemy.
The philanthropist will look in vain for a solution of
these stubborn faets, unless he attribute them to intem
perance, the most potent destroyer of mankind.
I hope, gentlemen, that you will pardon the length of
the digression into which I have been insensibly led
from the case under ourspecialconsideration. I did not
intend to make you a temperance address: but I never
see a victim of this awful propensity, without feeiing
that something ought to be done to put a stop to it. I
have therefore endeavored to direct your attention in as
forcible a manner as I could under the inspiration of the
moment, to some of its pernicious effects. You are
destined, I trust, to exert some influence upon the com
munities in which you may fix your abode. No mem
ber of society has it more in his power to do good than
the intelligent and moral physician. The subject before
us affords a noble field for the exercise of enlightened
benevolence. Unite your efforts to extirpate this, as
you will do to stay the ravages of other diseases. Let
us look upon intemperance as a disease, and treat it as
such. Must it not indeed be a veritable mental de
rangement, that would lead a man irresistably, as it
were, to the destruction of self, of family and of race ?
Let us but call it a species of insanity, and tire remedy
will suggest itself immediately.
That intemperance is a disease, will, I think, be very
generally conceded by enlightened phvsicians. Like
other morbid conditions, it majr bo inherited, or ac
quired. When derived by inheritance, the patient may
not be so much to blame as when it is acquired by im
proper indulgence. It nevertheless, in all cases, reveals
a morbid condition of the brain, not unlike that which
constitutes other iorms of monamania. The patient is
as irresistibly impelled to drink, as some mono-maniacs
are to thieve, notwithstanding all the influences of edu
cation and of other incentives to good conduct. Some
will say that it is only a depraved appetite, or a want of
proper self-control —but this does not change the matter.
This depraved appetite, or this inability to control one’s
propensities, is a morbid state —often ns much deplored
by the patient himself, as by his friends. I have fre*
uuently heard these patients, in their lucid intervals,
declare most solemnly that they would cheerfully give
all they possessed to get rid of this dreadful propensity.
And I believe that they were sincere.
But how shall we treat such cases? Place them in an
asylum as you do those affected with other forms of in
sanity ; and let them undergo such treatment as may be
deetfied best adapted to the restoration of the brain and
nervous system to their proper and normal functions.
I am aware Him, upder existing circumstances, this
cannot be done. - \Y earned legislation upon the subject,
before we can carry out our views; and 1 can see no
good reason why some?men should be sent to the luna
tic asylttm, and uicirproperty be piaced in the hands of
trusfccsj until they bo relieved of certain forms of insan
ity, while others equally injurious to society, and una
ble to manage their affairs, in consequence ofintemper
ance—another species of insanity—are allowed to run
at huge squandering their estate, embittering the lives
ot their famines, annoying whole communities, and com
mitting every variety of crime. I verily believe that a
majority of the inmates ol lunatic asylums would be
found less dangerous and less annoying to the commu
nities from which they were sent than an equal number
of drunkards.
rlbink that the legislature of New York has taken
the initiative in chartering a voluntary asylum for ine
briatts. 11ns in the right direction, and may
of itself be productive of much good. But inebriates
ought to be put upon the same footing as other lunatics.
Let a writ of lunacy bring them befqre a jury—and upon
conviction, let them be ordered to the asylum, and their
estate be placed in the custody of trustees until their
recovery and J. firmly believe that permanent cures
may in very many instances be the result.
The sufferers from intemperance are entitled to our
sympathy, and we should come to their relief, however
loathsome they may be in the sight of the non-profes
sional members of society. Let us not apply to them
degrading epithets and treat them like brutes; but on
the coil 1 rury, ex tend to them the hand of kindness and
the offices ol Christian charity. It is thus alone that we
may obtain their confidence and become useful to them.
file fact being once established by the legislation of
the country, that intemperance is a disease, and that it
can only be treated successfully in an institution hu
manely and properly devised for this special purpose,
much of the odium that now attaches to this condition
and which might otherwise result from the confinement
will be removed. I believe that such a system would do
more good than all our temperance societies. The com
bined influence of both, however, would in all proba
bility erase from our national escutcheon one of its
foulest blots. If you agree with me, let us unite our
endeavors to bring about in our respective communities
such a state of public opinion as may result in the le
gal establishment, in every State, of Asylums tor the
Inebriate.
A Governor Flowed.
The Missouri Telegraph (so says an exchange) says
that Gov. Stewart, of that State, while pretty drunk,
got into ft quarrel with a Mr. Vandivere, about the par
don of the St. Louis murderer, O’Blennis, which ended
in a fight, the Governor getting a very satisfactory
thrashing. Stewart’s friends say it was not fair, as he
was too drunk to fight.
If he was “too drunk to fight,” or if he was in the
least intoxicated, he was too much so to be called a
Governor, and justice should have scourged him from
office and whipped him into obscurity.
A Shout For Maine.
The New York Examiner says: “ Temperance men,
everywhere, ought to send up a shout of triumph over
the fall of Rum in Maine. Full returns of the recent
election have not yet been received ; but enough are at
hand to indicate, unmistakeably, that gallant little
Maine has stood true to the glorious, man-elevating,
God-honoring principle of Prohibition. The vote, so
far as received by us, stands thus: For prohibition,
10,841 ; for license, 1,878. There are twenty towns in
which no votes at all were cast against prohibition.
Does this look as though prohibition were dead in
Maine ? The Maine Temperance Journal says :
‘ In looking the whole matter over, we feel to con
gratulate the friends ot Prohibition, both at home and
abroad, on the result. Although only about one-third
of the vote of the State has been thrown for Prohibition,
the course of the Democracy, which is essentially the
rum party of Maine, shows that they dared not go into
a free fight on this single issue, and that they were wise
in this; for it is now most manifest, that had they done
so, they would have been most disastrously beaten.’”
A Strong-Armed Wife.
At one of the sessions of the late Women’s Rights
Convention, in New York, the strong-minded ladies
who had assembled to declaim against the tyranny of
man, were much disconcerted by a strange gentleman,
with a foreign accent, rising and narrating the wrongs
and the oppression which he had endured from his wife.
A still stronger instance of the frequent harshness of
female rule is related in a recent French paper. It is as
follows :
The Court of Assizes of the Cotes-du-Nord, has just
tried a woman of Legue, for the manslaughter of her
husband. For nearly 40 years thoy lived most unhap
pily together, owing to Her drunken and brutal charac
ter, and she was in the constant habit of beating him,
keeping a thick stick for the purpose, and even some--
times taking it into bed with her to belabor him in the
night. In the evening ot the 27th March last; he re-,
turned from his work, and sat quietly down to supper ;
when all at once his wife, who was lying on the bed in
a state of intoxication, jumped up and snatched his food
away from him. This led to a quarrel, and after awhile
the man was heard to exclaim—“ All! you have got
the stick!” “ Yes,” said she, “I have,” and at the
same moment she struck him a tremendous blow on
the head, which felled him totheground. After awhile
lie got up, and managed to get to a neighbor’s, but two
days after he had to take to his bed, and died. The
jury declared the woman guilty, and the court sen
tenced her to 12 years’ hard labor.
Had the husband killed the wife, he would have been
convicted of murder.
A member of a Western Debating Club, wishing to
display liis proficiency inthe “languages,” when moving
for an indefinite adjournment of the club, said, “Mr.
President, I move wc adjourn e plu ribus unum.
The Gospel no Illusion.— lt is in vain, saidßogers,
to tell men the Gospel is an illusion. If it be an illu
sion, every variety of experience proves it to be invete
rate. At the feet of Christ, guilty humanity, ofdiverse
races and nations, for eighteen hundred years, has come
to pour forth in faith and love its sorrows, and finds
there, “that peace which the world can neither givenor
take away.” Myriads of aching heads and aching
hearts have found, and will find repose there, and have
invested Him with veneration, love and gratitude,
which will never be paid to any other name than His.
A grave Affair.
A rich manufacturer named Oppelt, died about fifteen
years since ai Reichenberg, in Austria, and a vault was
built by his widow and children in the cemetery for the
reception of the body. The widow died about a month ago
and was taken to the same tomb; but when it was
opened for the purpose the coffin of her ‘husband was
found open and empty, and the skeleton of the deceased
discovered in a corner of the vault in a sitting posture.
A commission was appointed by the authorities to ex
amine into the affair, when they gave their opin
ion that M. Oppelt was only in a trance when buried,
and that on coming to life he had forced open the coffin.
Tije Upas Tree.—The story that the Upas tree of
.Java exhales a poisonous aroma, the breathing of which
causes death, is now known to be false. The tree it
self secretes a juice which is a deadly poison, but its
aroma or odor is harmless. Strychnine is made from
the seed of a species of Upas tree. The story that there
is a poisoned valley is true. Such is the name of a dis
trict, the atmosphere of which produces death. This
effect is not occasioned by the Upas tree, but by an ex
tinct volcano near Batar, called Guava Upas. From the
old crater and the adjoining valley exhales carbonic gas,
such as often extinguishes life in this country in old
wells and other foul places. This deadly atmosphere
kills every created thing which comes within its range
—birds, beasts, and even men; and the valley is cov
ered with skeletons. By a confusion of names, thepoi
sonous effects of this deadly valley have been ascribed
to the Upas tree, the juice of which is poisonous; and
hence, the fable in regard to the deadly Bohun Upas
tree.
“You sit down and rest, and I’ll set the table.”
The words were like the sweet music upon the ear,
and our regard for the estimable housewife, was greatly
deepened. There was a volume in the brief utterance.
The words were .impulsively spoken, and read us the
glorious truth of a heart full of kindness and sympathy.
The hired girl had washed all day, and had just fin
ished mopping off the fioor, as the hour for suppertime
came. .
We have been often pained and surprised; often indig
nant, at what we havd witnessed in many of the house
holds we have had occasion to visit. We are sorry to
say that very many of the good people, asahe world’ un
derstands them abroad, arc unfeeling and oppres
sive at home. There is a despotism in our households,
which enslaves the white girl instead of the black, Ihe
harsh and abusive mood may boas the stinging of the
lash. Good housewives who attend church, are devout
and zealous in the evening prayer circle, arc cold, ex
■ tilting, and ever complaining tyrants at home. I hough
manifesting a great interest in looking after the inter
ests of their own souls, they seem to forget that those
in their service have souls also. The task is extended
to the utmost, and that embittered by constant com
plainings, or open abuse. Many who think themselves
patterns of goodness, constantly worry with a fault
finding, which, like the single drops, wears deeply into
: the bound and chafing spirits of the toilers. A look,
even, may do more towards outraging the dependent
and forbearing, than the open blow. Iho children are
often allowed to add to all this, by saucy word and deed.
And though heart and muscle ache with weariness, this
and that is hunted out and added to the long dajf of toil,
never dreaming how a kind word —a simple exhibition
of human sympathy— — will sweeten the hardest task,
and cast a ray of sunshine into a path which is, God
knows, sufficiently hard to walk in, without having
thorns thrust into the flesh. When hard-hearted mas
ters and mistresses have but a glimmering knowledge
of human nature, and use the toiling dependents as
men and women) who have souls to feel injuries, and
bodies to feel fatigue, they will learn a simple lesson:
Then never make, anything by ill-treating or driving
them. We have but loathing of that social and reli
gious position, which has a background of ill-nature,
taunting words of abuse, slow-killing oppression or open
cruelty. If in the mutations of time, Providence should
reverse some of the relations now existing, the oppres
sors of the household, would, perhaps, find some bitter
ingredients in their cup.
Let the weary girl rest, now and then!— Wt. Chief,
Dear Eliza: I again embrace the exquisite pleasure
of penning a few lines to you. “Love’s own breath,
like the sweet South upon the Eolian lyre, sweeps o cr
my heart-strings.” It is a subject that I love to think
of—to write about, and dwell upon. Love is indeed a
light from Heaven —a spark of immortal fire ; love is
the great, connecting link bet ween Heaven and earth
the “ electric chain that unites the worlds of transport
and of pain;” love is the bond of union—the cement
ing influence that binds mind with mind and spirit with
spirit; love is the first sensation experienced by youth,
when his eyes open to the beauty of earth, and the last
feeling that departs from age when leaving the transi
tory illusions of a sin-scarred world. It is an element
of our being—an integral part —a settled principle ofour
nature. . Love may be of some men’slives, a thing apart,
but it is “ woman’s whole existence.” Man, moviug
and mingling amidst the stirring and exciting scenes of
life, may pervert this principle ot his being, and destroy
and mar its beauty and vitality. Woman’s
and character and qualities are concentrated in the
beautiful, expressive word—Love. It is no idle thing to
love! It is not a mere matter of caprice, dependent upon
the volition of the.mind!
There is a mutual sympathy—a mystical attraction
between those who love firmer and stronger than bars
of silver or ingots of gold could ever rivet or unite!
Wluit is it to love ? It is to turn the energies of our af
fections in one direction —the mighty channel of our
feelings and desires towards one object; it is to build
with human thoughts a temple wherein we can en
shrine the object of our affection, and where, with all
the ardor and fervor ol our nature, we can worship and
combine all our desires and tastes and pleasures—hopes
and aspirations, into one vast dedication service. Love
grows not as the forest tree, exposed to the surging
blast, or fanned by the gentle zephyr; it is by
solitude, and flourishes in the secret chambers of the
heart. Love has wings like lightning—swift—and
springs, like the wild flower, where least expected. It
comes not as the bright aurora of the morning, sending
forth his milder beams to prepare us for his brighter ef
fulgence ; but as the forkedflightning unannouced, until
we feel its scathing influence. There must be a mo
tive actuating the breast of each, when love is encour
aged by them, and its bright spark is fanned into a
brighter flame. In the vocabulary of love, wealth, hon
or and beauty has no place, foundation or meaning.
Base and perverted imaginations have dared to immolate
love upon the altar of mercenary desire, ambitions, as
pirations and sensual appetite, for “Love is a thing of
Heavenly birth and dies on touching earth.” As its
origin is higher, so is its foundation. It reigns not in
the tents of vice and dissipation, nor dwells in the Upas
poisoned plain; it dwells on the mountain-top, amid
the purest air, and beneal h the clearest sky. Love, from
its very source, is destined to be eternal. Wealth may
dazzle—honor allure—and pleasure invite; but it is
only for a season. At the portals of death, wealtli will
have to be consigned to other hands, honors thrown
aside, and pleasures forgotten. Is not this a practical
demonstration of the fact, that in the nature and essence
of love, wealth, beauty and honor form no integral part ?
Does it not prove that if these constitute the elements
of man’s love, that he must be miserable when they are
destroyed? If man only lived for time, then these ele
ments might constitute the acme and height of his am
bition ; or, if he was certain that he would retain their
enjoyment through life, he might be pardoned for stoop
ing to obtain them. But is it not sheer folly for man to
act as if he believed them to be the sum and substance
of life, when in a moment he may be reduced from af
fluence to poverty; when his honors may be turned
into galling servitude, and his pleasures changed to mi
sery. Man was formed to live and love—to love and
live. Love is not one of the grosser metals; it is a
pearl of purest hue, whose fountain-bed is purity ; love
is the offspring of pure and gentle affection. The mu
tual reciprocation of mind and mind, is as two vines,
whose tendrils have become so interwoven with each
other, that yqu cannot separate them without tearing
them all bleeding from the parent stem. The mind
should form the basis of communication between the
sexes. ’Tis “ the mind that stamps with such a seal,
as gives to beauties that might be too sensual else, and
unrefined, the impress of divinity.” Under the genial
influence of love,
“ Hearts open like the season’s rose,
The flow’ret of a hundred leaves,
Expanding while the dew-fall flows,
And every leaf its balm receives.”
In love, their should be—nay, must be, reciprocity, mu
tuality, equal intensity and purity of purpose.
Marriage is the sacred altar where unholy passion
is immolated; where domestic love is the high priest,
and affection and happiness the burning and fragrant
incense that is daily offered up. Those who approach
the sacred temple of Hymen, should approach it as
Moses did the burning bush: casting aside every im
pure emotion and unholy aspiration, for it is holy
ground. They arcncaringfhe Rubicon, passing—whose
farther bank will either bring them into paths of sun
shine or of shade—into happiness or woe. The Rubi
con passed there is no retreat but with dishonor. The
solemn obligations assumed at the altar, and registered
in the archives of Heaven, cannot be rudely snapped
asunder by the feeble breath of man. It is a vow of.fi
delity and affection/or life. To violate these obliga
tions, is to destroy honor. If marriage was a human
institution, then could man make any mar at hi3 plea
sure. But it is of Divine origin. The first grand nup
tial scene transpired in rosy Eden’s blissful bowers.
Truth and duty were the groomsmen; innocence and
purity the bridesmaids. Marriage, sanctified by the
Divine command, becomes a law of our nature. Like
all other laws of nature when violated, the transgressor
must receive the punishment due his temerity. Na
ture’s laws cannot be violated with impunity. The
marred and scarred and blasted state of morality is but
the result of the violation of nature’s laws. Passion and
vice are never unfruitful. Engendered by the parent,
they are produced and re-produced inthe children. Na
ture writes in glaring capitals upon the children, the
sins of the parent.
Thus we perceive the sacredness of marriage, and the
importance of right views and motives in its consumma
tion. Marriage was designed to contribute to the hap
piness of man ; but by his impudence and folly, he has
made it his curse. In entering into this state, there
should be a perfect communication between mind and
mind, spirit and spirit. Not a single emotion of the
one but should find a responsive echo in the breast of
the other. No wonder man is disgusted with life when
deifying woman as an angel; he finds it a “ vain, delu
sive dream.” It will do in theory, but never in prac
tice, to consider woman as wholly angelic. It is for man
to exhalt her to that sphere; it is for him to plume her
wings for her upward flight. How ? By developing all
those high and noble qualities that constitute the trea
sury of her affections; by those delicate attentions evi
dencing a desire to render her happy; by making hie
plans, his hopes and his desires give way to promote
her plans, her hopes and her desires. But they are no
longer separate and distinct individuals; “they twain
are one flesh.” It should be our plans, our hopes and
our desires. They are two, linked in one Heavenly tie,
with one heart never changing, and harmony itself at
tuning all their passions into love. It is only where
thought meeting thought and will preventing will, with
boundless confidence, and love re-echoes love, that
bliss is found. Marriago should be the meeting of“con
genial souls, whose currents flow in one.” But where
these currents come in direct contact with each other,
love quits the unhallowed scene and seeks a more ge
nial clime. In this state, each must recollect the gol
den rule: “bear and forbear.” Each must try to culti
vate the greatest spirit of forbearance, and endeavor to
correct the rough asperities of their nature. There
must be a full interchange of feeling; no secrets hid
from the other. The sympathies of the one arc elicited
by the grief and misfortunes of the other.
Marriage is the great fountain-head from which issues
forth two streams. One whose crystal waters gently
meanders through a fertile land, where, through the
dense foliage of the variegated forests that adorn its
banks, resounds the merry carol of its congregated den
izens. Every leaf and flower bears the impress of hap
piness. Nature appears but a magnificent panorama of
beauty and joy. The other’s dark and turbid waters
madly roll through a dreary expanse of barrenness. No
luxuriant forest looms up on its desolate banks. Here
and there stands a withered shrub—a monument of woe;
bore no merry carol is heard. The plaintive mourning
of distress is the only note. Nature stands dressed in
the habiliments of misery.
Marriage should be the result of pure love—the union
of two kindred spirits into one. Then will their hap
piness be completed, and their peace flow like a river;
then husbands will not seek to cast off their wives, nor
wives depart from their husbands; then jealousy will
expire at the shrine of mutual love and fidelity, the sy-’
nonim of married life; then discord will be supplanted
by peace, and gladness reign triumphant; then every
voyage upon the great sea of life, upon nearing the
haven of rest, will not wear the emblems of a life passed
amid the breakers of despair; but every ripple of the
wave will be but an anthem of welcome home, increas
ing his joy and pleasure. * * ♦ * * WILLIE.
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II A Hall, (Ala) 4 00 Mrs N Neel, Oct ’59, 3 00
Wm. Montfort, 3 00 W TI Patterson, Sept t
E Quarterman, 0 00 ’59, 4 00
Hon. L Stephens, 500 Rev Wm Edwards,
J O Thrasher, 4 00 Fla (Nov) ’SB, 1 00
Mrs. E J Smith, 3 00
“ The bloom or blight of all men’s happiness.”
By Rev. E. T. McGehee, on the lOih instant, Mr
John Marshall to Miss Ann H. Laidler, all of Hous
ton county, Ga.
Jll lISIUSS:
MERCEK UNIVERSITY.
Commencement Exercises, 1858.
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T l l L J - r> - Commencement Sermon, bv Prof. A
J • Battle, of the University of Alabama.
July 25. At night, Sermon before the Young Men’s
Missionary Society, by Rev. B. F. Tharne,
oi Houston. 1
“ 26. Sophomore Prize Declamation. *
27. Junior Exhibition, rnd delivery of ilie Sopho
more Prizes, by Governor Brown V
‘ ‘ Afternoon A T dd {ess before the. Alumni Aeso
„ on c,atlon > b y J - E>. Mathews, Efsq. of Greene.
~8. Commencement Exercises, and Annual Ad
kT Stard! JfTeS SoCiC,ie8 ’ Col
-21-3 t U. W, WISE, Sec’y Fac’y.
DAWSON INSTITUTE.
npHE Annual Examination of the pupils of this
J- Institution, will commence on the Ist, and close on
the evening of the 2d of July.
George R. Black, Esq. of Scriven, and Dell Mann,
Esq. of White Plains, have been invited to deliver ad
dresses on the occasion.
The public are respectfully invited to attend.
Term will commence on the first Monday
in August. J
June 24—It
Georgia, Greene County:
Court of Ordinary,
Whereas James Dolvin, guardian of Rebecca
A. Wagnon, now Rebecca A. Moore, petitions
this Court for Letters Dismissory from said guardian
ship: &
It is therefore ordered, that all persons concerned be
and appear at the Court of Ordinal v, to be held in and
for said county, on the first Monday in August next to
show cause (if any they have) why said guardian should*
not then be disenarged. Ordeied, further, that a copy
of this rule be published for forty days in terms of the
Law. A true extract from the minutes.
t ioro EUGENIUS L. KING,-Ordinary.* -
June 20, 1858, 4^