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’ 1 ~ . 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 — 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. Subscription Receipts for Crusader. January, 1859. June, I{ss9. Rev J Q West', 2 (X) James Calhoun, 1 50 •J V Collier, -5.90 H M Collins, 500 Rev I L Brooks, G T Carrie, 300 (S C) 2 00T J Smith, 4 00 Dr E T McGehee, 300 Miss J Lipseombe, (I L Kilpatrick. 200 Miss. 200 -i E B Loyless, 1 00 B & A M Thrasher, J Cramer, 2 00 Ala. 2 00 Mrs. S E Daniel, 500 M B Swanson, Ala. 200 II Cogburn, 3 00 J M Jones, 150 J W Strother, 300 Miss R W Rogers, 150 Capt. L Turner, 3 00 B F Maulden, 2 00 Rev. E Lumpkin, 200 IJ Lindsey, N C 200 E A Lindsey, 200 Miss M E Jones, 300 0 P Fillinghost, 200 J M Nuckolls, Ala. 200 John Goodman, 3 00 John Rogers, 0 00 WII Buffington, 300 L B Daniel, 500 L Edwards, 2 00 J H Waters, 2 00 D W Shifie, 2 00 Miscellaneous. Col. J B Walker, 500 Mrs. M F Collins, 100 J II Lowe, Sen. 2 00 Mrs. M E Wilkinson 2 00 V Sanford, 3 00 E C Granniss, 2 00 Mrs. A E Hunter, 200 L G Anderson, 100 Rev. W D Cowdry,; 5 00 J S Weaver, 1 00 Wm. II Pope, 5 00 T F Thrasher, I 00 W P West, I 00 G W Moore Nov ’SB 1 00 A A Davis, 3 00 Jno Smith Sept ’59 2 00 W F Powell, 200 F M Taylor Oct ’59 300 J A Whiteside, 2 00 J S Pool, 2 00 Rev. H Phinazee, 200 J Palmer, Aug ’SB 100 j Ruber, 1 00 B B Wilkerson, 3 00 Mrs. A J Porter, 200 J H Maxey, 200 Mrs. C II Wise, 2 00 J B Shields, 2 00 W II Abbett, 3 00 T B Lawson, 5 00 S Eckley, 5 00 J M Huey, 1 00 Prof. W G Woodfin, 2 00 John Collins, 2 00 John D Gay, 200 Rev. W R Foote, 100 W J Parker, (Ala.) 500 Dr. AII Jackson, 200 LQCChapman, (Ala) 2 00 T S Bagly, 1 00 H P R A Nash, Nov’s 9 300 February, 1859. F J Green, Oct ’SB 100 W H Stokes, 2 00 B C Hughes, Jan ’6O 5 00 Mrs A Brady, 2 00 M Kendrick, 1 00 G. Simmons, 3 001 B Huff, 100 Miss S E Grass, 2 00 P V Perry, 2 00 Amos Ross, (Fla) 200 G W Porter, 300 E T Kirksev, 3 00 H D Porter, 3 00 Dr. M S James, 300 L B Gaines, _ 200 ( P Stovall, 3 00 AG Bass Oct ’59 (Ala)6 00 Wm. Armstrong, 300 J B Cartright, 200 RS Baker, ‘ 200 P S Pitner, Nov >59 400 J T Berry, 2 00 M Mitchell, 2 00 S Griffin, 2 00 Mrs A C Hewett, W Edmondson, 2 00 Oct ’SB, 1 00 , Miss A J Ridley, 300 J M Foy, 200 II T McDaniel, 300A I D Wren, *(La) \OO J R Clapp, 1 00 March, 1859. Rev T U Wilkes, 200 J Wilcoxen, 4 00 W Florence, 1 00 R T Asbury, 2 00 Prof S P Sandford W N Allen, 2 00 Oct ’SB, 2 00 Miss E W Gatewood, 2 00 Z H Clarke, 2 00 D II Jackson, 3 00 Rev J Whitely, 2 00 Hon. W P Chilton, 3 00 ,J J Griffin, 1 00 W J Craddock, (Ala) 4 00 H W Bond, 4 50 W T Malone, 3 00 Miss A Winn, I 00 G C Williams, 300 Wm A McGehee, R G Carlton, 2 00 Sept ’SB, 2 00 T G Ellington, 2 00jD S Mabry, 1 00 W B Word, 2 OOj P T Pitts, Oct ’59, 300 R M Word. 3 00 W Smith, (office not given,) 5 00 • - May, 1859. J C Waite, (Ala)Sept Mrs E Akins, 3 00 ’59, 2 00 Rev. B Thornton, 500 J Holden, 100 JP Hubert, 400 Z C Gritleth, 100 * C Hungerford, 200 A Shaw, Sept ’59, 300 W A Partee, 6 00 D Bigelow, 1 00 Miss M C Johnston, 4 00 Wm T Massey, (Ala) J J Bearfield, 4 00 Nov ‘59, 5 00 W W Merrell, 3 00 Mrs S E Hines, Feb L G Attaway, 2 00| ’6O 4 00 > J F Northington, 2 00|FBHascall, Sept’s 9, 300 W F Darden, 2 00 R H Stephens, 1 50 W N Haudrup, 3 GO A B King, 66 TE Brown, 300 T W Dupree, > 2 00 Rev. L W Stephens, 3 00 Miss Ann H Dodson, J W Evans, -2 00 (Ala) 4 00 April, 1859. Maj W L Crawford, 1 00 B F Rudisill, 2 001 Weaver, Aug ’SB, 100 Mrs M E Penning- Miss M C Street, 75 ton, 400 Rev J Rainwater, Jno. L Paschal, 4 00 Nov 59, 3 00 G J Kendrick, 2 00,F Jackson, Oct ’59, 500 WT Farrar, 5 00 Miss M E Shields, M II Loonev, 4 00 Aug ’SB, 1 00 J Burgess, ‘ 200 J A& J W Freeman, 2 00 W B Townsend, 200 J S McCollough, (no C H Remington, 6 00 office,) 3 00 E W Thrasher, 3 00 J S Gillespie, 2 00 T J Smith, 400 G W Moore, June W L Wootten, 4 00 ’SB, 100 Miss A Perry, 200 A B Mallorv, Nov Dr. O’Keeffe (Tcnn) 300 ’SB, 2 (XI ‘ B C Lee, 3 00 Wm E Goff, 1 00 J Oliver, 2 00 Richard Peters, Nov A B .Johnson, 3 00 ’SB, 2 00 T J McElmurray, 2 00J M Holbrook, 100 July, 1859. J Glendenning, Dec E W Mayfield, 400 ’SB, 100 a R Reddick, 1 50.1 J Floersk, 3 00 W R Hart, 1 50 E Hale, Aug ’SB, * 300 Miller Lodge, Kof iB JI Crawford, Mar J, 4 cop. 6 00 ’SB, 300 Rev Jno J Little, 3 00GWDouglas,Jan’58, 100 . J N Wood, (Ala) 200 DCRenfroe, Feb’ 58, 100 J Catcliings, 300 AD Brown, Jan ’SB 100 Force, Wood&Mitch- J Chapman, Feb ’SB, 50 ell, (SC)> 300 W Drummond, May H A Scott, 4 00 ! ’SB, 2 00 Dr. SI Harvey, 3 00 Mrs Mary Davidson, 4 00 W J Heard, 5 00 ; T W Bolton, 200 Mrs. S O Park (Ala) 2 00 H M Wisdom, Sept •J T M’Ginty, 2 00 58, 4 00 W K Banks, 2 00 S Stephens, 2 00 C H Anderson, 2 OOJohnJ) Charlton, (no B T Harris, 3 00, office given,) 300 H R Harrison, 3 00iT G Glaze, Oct ’59, 500 lion. L Warren, 6 00|W L Bostwick, (Fla) August, 1859. June ’SB, 2 00 W T Fisher, 3 00 Miss A J Cook, 2 00 A Perkins, 200 NT Elder, 2 00 v S L Daniel, 3 00 A Jones, Jr. 2 00 Pres. W A Rogers, 400 W T Thornton, Nov Col F Hardman, 2 00 ’59, 3 00 <) E Spinks, (Ala) 300 MrsTDonalson, Nov W J Overton, 3 00 ’59. 4 00 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. *i♦ > 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^