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TEMPERANCE CIUMDEH. PENFIELPf GEORGIA. Thursday Morning? J °ly B>lß6Bl 8 > 18681 4gg£) r . Wm. Houser, of Jefferson county, is author jyedto act as Agent for the Crusader in all portions 01 Georgia, or in any of the adjoining States. He will re ceive subscriptions and give valid receipts. We Glory in Our Cause. • Fully satisfied that we are right, that we advocate a just cause, and are doing battle in defense of the only elevating principles upon which rests the moral perpe tuity of every branch of our civil polity, we press for ward in the work, withnointimidation—with a courage that falters not—and shall adhere cherished faith with a tenacity that cannot be shaken, and with a suspi cion that no anodyne can lull. Unprincipled and .grov elling miscreants may speak lightly of our theme and blaspheme it; skulking boot-lickingpoliticians may de ride it, and endeavor to inflame the public mind against it; political presses pandering to party tyranny may ig nore it as an unpopular theme; but it possesses within itself elements of indestructibility, and is destined to be the ruling genius of our age. It shall spread as a man tle of glory over the whole nation, beneath which universal harmony shall reign with infinite joy, broth erly love unite the human family in one bright golden link, and the song of “ peace on earth and good will to man” shall go up from every tongue. All those im mortal attributes which assimilate man to his Creator, shall expand to proper development and glorify Him who hath so wonderfully made us. It will be the harbinger of millennial glory when Heaven’s commissioned Angel shall descend with chains in hand to bind old Satan a thousand years, and the Holy Jerusalem shall follow af ter, to dwell with man upon the earth. The great struggle between error and justice is to be fought upon American soil, and we have no apprehen sions as to the result; for victory is reserved for those who do battle in defense of the right, and we have for our Great Ally an Omnipotent God, upon whose strong arm and co-operative providences we rely with undis turbed security, for he will not suffer his own cause to languish and die. The consideration of this great event fills our bosoms with rapture. It will come, and it will be a victory more glorious than any ever recorded in the annals of any nation. It will be a theme of progressive inter est, upon which all coming generations shall delight to converse; hoary headed sires will love to meditate upon it and their lovely offspring will hang about their necks in breathless silence, and with palpitating hearts, as they tell of the toils and labors they endured in accom plishing the great achievement; and many a fond parent, now an enemy to the cause, will feel his cheek tingle and burn as his innocent children, seated upon his knees, shall inquire of him where he stood in that great strug gle. It needs no prophet-vision to see that the dawfl ing of a brighter day is yet to break upon our land. We thank Heaven that it has fallen to our lot to enact a part in this great warfare. We glory in it, and love it the more as ‘‘we grow older,” and though there are many who upbraid us for our devotion to such a cause, yet we have the happy assurance, that we are the re cipients of the approving smiles of all the high-toned, moral citizens of our country, and we had rathed receive the approbation of one of these, than of a hundred fawn ing sycophants, who bow in humble devotion at the shrine of Bacchus, and yield themselves as willing tools in the hands of Beelzebub for the Jaccomplishment ot his nefarious purposes upon the earth. We have the sympathies of the wise, the good, and the just —we ask nothing more Tragedy at Weston, Mo.—A Man Killed by a Wo men, in Defence of her Husband. —On Saturday night, between 11 and 12 o’clock, P. M. the City Marshal of Weston was aroused from his bed to go to a house on the northern extremity of Leavenworth Street, by the report that a man had been probably killed. He promptly repaired to the spot, attended by several of his friends. Here a horrible sight met their view. Sitting up in bed was a man by the name of Branham, his face bruised up; his shirt covered with blood, and his wife, a young and good looking woman, much dis tressed, and attending to his bruises. About twenty feet from the back door, in the garden, lay the dead body of Hugh Wilson, his features scarcely recogniza ble, his forehead smashed in, and the blood and brains oozing out profusely, a large and bloody club by his side with which the woman, wife of Branham, said she had done the deed in defence of her husband. The plain, simple story that the two told was, that Wilson (intoxicated) had forced the lock of the back door —had jerked Branham out of bed, and dragged him out into the garden. The wife flew to her husband’s assistance with a club, and by dint of well-directed blows, made of Wilson the most horrible corpse one could well con template. A watch was placed over the dead body by the City Marshal; ’Squire Colman was sent for—the husband and wife taken in custody, and a jury of in quest summoned. During the investigation, Mrs. Branham, who is an unmistakable heroine, made the following statement be fore the examining justices: On Saturday night last myself and husband had re tired to bed for the night, when about two hours after wards someone, whom in the darkness I could not re cognize, broke into our house through the back door, ana came to the bed before we could get up. The man seized my husband and dragged him forcibly out of the house into the back yard, striking at and beating him as he dragged him along.- I was so greatly frightened that I knew not what to do to save my husband from, as I supposed, almost immediate death. He called to me for help—said that the man was trying to wring off his neck. I hallooed “murder! murder! they are kill ing my husband! ” several times, and no one coming, I hunted for the axe to aid my husband in the unequal contest, but I could not get holdofthe axe nor anything else, except a piece of board, the same I believe now in court. With this board I ran up to my husband, and found him down with a large, strong man resting one knee on his breast, and sti iking him very severe blows. As I got in striking distance, the man was making an attempt to wring off the neck of my husband, who seemed to be almost helpless. I immediately struck him with the stick and did not cease until his hold upon my husband’s head and neck was relaxed. I struck him with nothing but the stick in court. My husband had been sick in bed for a week previous, and was al most as helpless as a child. I struck to save my hus band’s life, and believe he would have been killed in a few moments, if I had not struck. I did not think my blows would kill the man, although I did not stop to consider what the effect of these might be. The man proved, when a light was obtained, to be Hugh Wilson, With whom I never had heard of any difficulty on the part of my husband. The following is the decision of the Justices before whom the examination was held : “We, the undersigned Justices, agree unanimously that the homicide committed by Mary Branham on Hugh Wilson was justifiable, and she is discharged from custody.” The Opium Curse. A correspondent of the New York Examiner, writing from, Bangkok, Siam, gives the following fearful yet truthful account of ths desolation this narcotic is work ing in the nation. Yet what opium is doing for the Chinese, alcohol and tobacco are doing for the more en lightened nations. Should our country ever become as densely populated as China now is, the people will as surely sink into barbarism as alcoholic beverages and tobacco are among their luxuries. Will not our states men and philanthropists see this matter in its true light before it is too late ? Opium is scooping deeper furrows among these na tions, and filling them with a more blasting torrent than any that ever issued from Vesuvius or Etna. The lightning from heaven scathes not with a more unerring certainty, than does that faint and flickering blaze that hovers over the bowl of the opium-pipe. Did these “ Receiving Ships,” that carry on the merchandise of this baneful drug, but discharge hot shot or sixty-eight pounders into these maritime cities, instead of opium, they would inflict a small evil in comparison. The en terprise and elastic vigor which distinguish the race would, as soon as the storm had passed over, impel them to rally, and rebuild their mansions more durably than before. It is thusthey lose no time in repairing the damages caused by typhoons along their coast and inundations in their rivers. But when in silence, and oftentimes in the darkness of midnight, they discharge through their gangways their black shells of “Malwa” and “ Patna,” they are hurling broadsides, in compari son with which chainshot would be a mercy. Themost malicious hater of his race could not have compounded a more efficient missile of destruction than these East ‘bombs. All the ills that flesh is heir to, and some that humanity would otherwise never have known, are there inclosed. Poverty is there; disease is there, in all its wasting forms; emaciation is there; premature decay is there; shame is there; anguish and despair are there; falsehood, perjury qnd blasphemy, all have a place. There, too, is to be found treachery to confi d?“t8 ~‘ n gr a titude to'friends—neglect ofparents—abuse 011 amines. _ Theft, robbery, and arson are there. Mur der a„d Bttlclde are there. Temporal death is there, shells 6I1 ’ Worse t * ian death eternal is in these And when they burst, they hurl their blazing frag ments into every circle of society, from the lofty to the ™i y Vi rom . the °P^ ent t 0 { he famishing; from the ™ a ” °‘ t 0 ‘i 16 ““lettered coolie. They go to pXioZ hey Sy t ° deßtroy - They fiU the dark road to De [” was the name given in former days Be .P eß,1 ‘enc e that occasionally swept through Rome. - # MW r „,. Remit by Visitors. People from all parts of the country will be visiting Penfield during our approaching Commencement occa sion, and our friends abroad who may not come them selves will see many opportunities no doubt to send up their subscription dues. We would be pleased to have all avail themselves of these opportunities. Hotel Accommodations in Peniield. Deficiency in public houses of entertainment has heretofore been an unanswerable objection urged by people abroad against visiting our town on a commence ment occasion; but that difficulty, as will be seen from our advertising columns, is now entirely removed. We have public houses which will be open this summer for the reception of visitors, and none who may desire to come need fear anything on that score. The Poisoning Case in Augusta. v We clipped from the Constitutionalist of last week an interesting editorial account of a Mrs. O’Conner having died suddenly, as it was thought, from the ef fects of poison administered to her, and our compositor omitted to credit the editorial to that ably edited journal. The physicians had not rendered in a report on the case at that time, but we have since learned from the Au gusta papers that the post mortem examination verified the suspicions as to the manner of her death, and efforts are now being made to detect the murderer. A friend writing from Waynesboro says, “the peo ple of Burke county are wider awake upon the subject of temperance than I have ever known them before. I attribute it to our ministers of the different churches having taken the subject in their hands and we have from them temperance Sermons. This is the case with all the churches.” We are rejoiced to hear such news from old Burke, and the Ministers of every county in this State should profit by her example. It is their solemn duty to preach temperance. Annother friend writing from Maysville says “ there are some strong temperance friends in that community who do not bow the knee to Bacchus.” We are not in need of Jewelry. Scarcely a week passes in which we are not insulted by some trickstering advertiser sending a long humbug advertisement for our columns, and proposing to pay us with a “watch-chain,” or an “enamelled gold ring,” California “diamond,” “bracelets,” “mosaicbrooches,” “cameo ear drops,” et id omne genus. Now we would like very much to know what has induced our Northern friends to believe that we are either such admirers of jewelry, or are so much in need of it. And as their propositions are printed we presume others of our craft are plagued with the same brilliant offers. We have long since learned that “all is not gold that glitters,” and it is our settled conviction, that there is very little of the precious metal contained in the jewelry of these “gift” advertisers, ahd surely they have profitted but little from observation to suppose that an editor was de ficient in brass. Some may be, but we have never heard of them ; we, individually, are in no need what ever of that commodity; consequently, all propositions to advertise and pay in brass are nonsense. We would respectfully say to all such contractors that we never ad vertise without a better prospect for remuneration. June 17 1858 Mr John II Seals Sir I recevd a few lines con cerning that paper that father was a takin from your offace Sir he has left this cuntry if you want pay you will have to go to him I said I would pay the posted on it th post master Master said he would be glad to get red of it ourt of his way I am not a doin bisiness for father so you can stop your paper or send it to hell if you want a to Yours Truley W R H This wicked son says we must send the paper to his father, and in conclusion gives us instructions to send it to hell. We of course infer that his father will re ceive it there; but we fear he will not read it with much profit after he gets it, for he is too much under the in fluence of the devil down there, who is our arch-enemy. We do not fancy the idea of sending our paper to those nether regions, but prefer discontinuing it to that delin quent individual. Yet, as our correspondent seems to be familiar with that subterranean sphere, we would like to have him instruct his father to send up his dues to the Crusader. It would no doubt make his bed in pan demonium easier, to know that he had paid the printer. A Rnmseller’s Dream. Well, wife, this is too terrible! I cannot continue this business any longer.” “ Why, dear, what’s the matter now?” “O ! such a dream! Oh ! I cannot endure it! Oh !if I ever sell rum again!” “ My dear, you are frightened.” “ Yes, indeed, I am ; another such night 1 would not pass for worlds.” “ My dear, perhaps ” “Oh! don’t talk to me ! I am determined to have no more to do with rum, any how. Do you think, Tom Wilson came to me with his throat cut from ear to ear, and such a horrid gash, and it was so hard for him to speak, and so much blood, and said he, see here, Joe, the result of your rumselling. My blood chilled at the sight, and just then the house seemed to turn bottom up, the earth opened and a little imp took me by the hand, saying follow me. As I went, grim devils held out to me cups of liquid fire, saying, drink this. I dared not refuse. Every draught set me in a rage. Serpents hissed on each side, and from above reached down their heads and whispered mmseller ! On and on the imp led me through a narrow pass. All at once he paused and said, are you dry ( Yes, I replied/ Then he struck a trap-door with his foot, and down we went, legions 01 fiery serpents rushing after us, whispering, rumseller! At length we stopped again, and the imp asked rne as before, are you dry ? Yes, I replied. He then touched a spring—a door flew open. What a sight! there were thousands, aye millions, of old, worn-out rum drinkers, crying most piteously, rum, rum, give rum ! When they saw me, they stopped a moment to see who I was; then the imp cried out so as to make all shake again ! and hurling me in, shut the door. For a moment they fixed their ferocious eyes upon me, and then uttered a yell, which filled me with such terror I awoke. There, wife, dream or no dream, I will never sell another drop.” Maine——Glorious and True. The ensuing triumphant language is from the Wis consin Chief: “Beaten, but not conquered!” was the word which came to us from the Temperance hosts of Maine, when their Prohibitory Law went by the board, less than three years ago. The fierce assaults of an overshad owing traffic, swept away the bulwarks that kept pov erty, drunkenness, and crime from the homes of the commonwealth. Under the benign reign of Prohibition, the pulse beat of prosperity throbbed with new life. The sunlight of happiness reached the darkest of all homes ~—the drunkard’s. The triumph of right carried with it a great moral power, which shook the traffic all over the land. Other States were working for the glorious statute. And unless it could be overturned in Maine, there was little hope for the bloody scourge. There concentrated the wealth and strength of the rum forces. The battle was fought, and the Temperance army— “ Beaten but not conquered!” They camped on the field, and “ Called the battle-roll anew.” True to the call, their warriors filled the ranks—en listed for the strife. Ever since the struggle has been going on—the eyes of the world watching with intense interest. Rum has clung to the footholds with dying tenacity. Every device that could win power to their black flag has been used. But the firm, unyielding en ergy of the Temperance people has swept their decks. Prohibition floats in triumph in Maine! Her recent election seals the doom of rum. We can point to her as a light, and proudly “follow” where she “leads. ’ There is sunlight upon the waves, andevery leaf and tree reflects a crimson light. Let hope sink like an anchor into the hearj, and all work with more energy for the “ good time” when every State shall rest on the still waters of Temperance, and every ‘home be free from the curse of rum.— Wisconsin Chief Temperance in Kansas. A correspondent of the AT. W. Home Journal writes to that paper from Lawrence, Kansas, as follows: “ The Good Templars in this section are doing a good work in the cause of temperance, and in this city we have two lodges, one having about two hundred memuers, the other is but just started, a few weeks since. Most all the important men in this place have joined the Order, even the noted J. H. Lane and Judge Gonway. The meetings are well attended. On the night of election about ninety members were present. The Mayor, C. W. Babcock, is a Good Templar, and a majority of the Council belong to the order or sympa thise with the temperance community. It is hoped we shall soon be able to prohibit the sale of liquor in this place, There are a number of town companies in the territory which insert in their deeds of lots a proviso prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors; also prohibiting gambling houses.’’ *iV 88aid J hat Morsereujrnsto this country with SBO,OOO in his pocket, awarded him by ten continental powers who have adopteditis telegraph system. National Division S. of T- This body has just closed its annual session at Indian apolis, Ind. The following list ot officers were elected to serve for the next two years: M. W. P.—B. D. Townsend, % S. G. M. W. A.— E. W. Jackson, Maine. M. W. S.—F. A. Fickhardt, Penn. M. W. T.—ft. M. Foust, Penn. M. W. Chap.— John Leach, Ind. M. W. Con.— John Moffet, - M. W. Sen.—S. A. Duke,’ lowa. The next session of the National Division will be held in Philadelphia. Rum in Pbilaclelpkia. Says the Temperance Journal: “We learn from a gentleman just from Philadelphia, that the new license law passed at session of the Pennsylvania Le gislature. has just,gone into effect; it allows any man a license who can pay his three dollars therefor; and the effect is, the addition of three thousand grog-shops in that city. He informs us that the rum business seems to be the most brisk of any in the city. It has had the effect to wake up the friends of temperance to their duty. On Monday evening, the 14th instant, the Cadets of Temperance had a torch-light procession, and on Thursday a meeting was to be holden to take measures to complete the organization of a retreat for reformed drunkards—a very necessary thing, under the circum stances. Hurrah for the Ladies. Hurrah for the ladies at all times, and more especially the sixty who, according to the Galesburg (III.) Demo crat, made a descent upon the liquor shops of Towanda, McLean county, a few days since, and ‘cleaned them out’ entirely, not leaving a single cask with a whole head or a bottle with an unbroken neck. The whiskey sellers prosecuted them for the destruction of property; but the Justices deeming the selling of liquor a nuisance as well as the vessels in which it was contained, the lair defendants were discharged amid the shouts of the multitude. A New Temperance Movement. By a late number of the New York Examiner, we see that anew temperance movement has been instituted in Onondaga county—a “ Moral Mutual Protection Soci ety.” The members pledge themselves that they will not make, buy, sell or use as a beverage any intoxica ting liquor; and further, that they will not vote for any but temperance men for town, county and State offices, and only such temperance men as will give their perso nal and official influence in favor of the enacting and enforcing of wholesome laws for the suppression of the liquor traffic. This action is calculated to make a stir among the politicians of Onondaga county. It will have an influence upon “regular nominations.” Murder of a Georgian in S. Carolina. The Columbia Guardian, of the 2d instant, contains the following : “ A most atrocious murder was commit ted in this district yestesday by a man named Black well, on a Mr. Hughes from Georgia. The facts, as far as ascertained, arc as follows : Blackwell had sold Hughes a negro who belonged to the estate of L. Boy kin, and was recognised by a representative of the es tate; whereupon, Mr. linghes came on in pursuit of Blackwell, who sold him the negro. Having succeeded in finding Blackwell, a difficulty ensued, and Hughes received a ball from a weapon in the hands of Black well, which almost instantly caused his death. Black well has not yet been arrested. X. Importance of Nothing. •Nothing about ‘nothing’ has pleased us so well for a long time as the following on the ‘ Importance of Noth ing:’—Nothing is more important than to understand the subject about which we purpose to instruct others. Nothing is more acceptable to a hungry man than bread and meat. Nothing promotes happiness more than an even temper. Nothing is more likely to produce wealth than industry. Nothing will preserve wealth better than economy. Nothing adds greater charms to beauty than modesty and affability. Nothing better promotes health than temperance and exercise. Nothing adds more to the respectability of a man than a character for probity jn all his actions. Nothing is more becoming in youth than respect for their elders. Nothing is, therefore, more valuable than most things ; and noth ing, perhaps, would better fill a page, than this arti cle. Population of Large Cities. According to the latest census, taken on the dates specified below, the following is the population of the chief cities in Europe : London, 1853, 2,362,229; Paris, 1851,1,127,419; Vienna, 1851, 431,880; Munich, 1855, 132,112; Brussels, 1855, 166,807; Hanover, 40,000; Lubec, 26,098 ; Bremen, 1856,60,087; Hamburgh, 1855, 154,145 3 Copenhagan, 1855, 129,646 ; Turin, 1855, 136,- 849; Naples, 417,842; Rome, 1855, 177,461; Madrid, 1849, 360,000; Frankfort, 1845, 64,257; Liverpool, 1851, 315,656; Manchester, 1851,302,385; Athens,‘lßs6, 32,- 000; Berlin, 1853, 481,071; St. Petersburg, 532,241; Moscow, 393,500; Dresden, 1855, 108,712. The popu lation of the principal cities in the United States thus compares with the above: New York, 750,000; Phila delphia, 550,000; Baltimore.2so,ooo; Cincinnati, 180,- 000; Boston, 160,000; St. Louis, 125,000; Chicago, 120,000; Buffalo, 80,000. It will be seen that there are but two cities in Europe larger than New York—Lon don and Paris—and in twenty years the latter will be behind it. Philadelphia ranks with the second-class cities of Europe. Shocking and Brutal Affair. We learn, says the Constitutionalist, from passengers who reached the city yesterday, that it was currently reported at Whitesville, on the Wilmington and Man chester railroad, that a man, supposed to be insane, and whose name could not be remembered, committed sev eral brutal murders in Columbus county, N. C. (the county site is Whitesville,) on the morning of Tuesday last. It is stated that he went into his dwelling, and after beating his wife with a heavy bludgeon, took an axe and cut her head off—then slayed two of his chil dren and his aged and blind father, with the same bloody weapon. Such acts are so revolting to humanity, that we trust the report may be without foundation. We may hear further particulars of the affair in a few days, if the re port lias any truth in it. Homicide. From the Clayton (Ala.) Banner of July 1, we gather the following sad particulars : Seldom has our community been shocked by a more cruel and inhuman occurrence than took place on Sat urday the 26th ult. Wm. B. Bowden, a brother-in-law of Bennett Spear, stabbed the latter with a large knife in three different places oh his left side, some of the wounds from four to six inches in length, and deep, sev ering his entrails, from the effects of which death ensued in the aftornoon of Monday, the 28th ult. Bowden is now in jail in this place, and will be tried for commitment before Justices Lightner and Williams on to-morrow. The parties, were friendly up to the time of the cutting, as we learn, and all seem to be shocked and surprised at the occurrence. We forbear comment. Liquor ! We would add, however, that four white men and one negro are now confined in our jail for murders commit ted within the short space of twelve months in Barbour county ! Appalling is the fact; and under such a state of things, it behooves public justice and the vindication of personal security, that proper punishment should be meted out to the aggressors. We hope it may be spee dily done in every case. Something must be brought to bear to stop the progress of crime. Desperate Assault. On Friday night last, a man named Abram Munford left this city in a small boat to convey Isaac Moore, a white man, and John Pearson, F. M. C. together with a mulatto boy and two other persons, names unknown, to Bear Creek, to work. They arrived safely, and on Saturday night a difficulty occurred between one of the party and Munford, (about the latter’s wile) in which Munford was severely beaten by the party with the oars of the boat, breaking both his arms. They also struck him on the head with a hatchet, and otherwise severely bruised him about the upper extremities. The white man, Isaac Moore, then fired at him with a double- bar relled gun. Only one of the barrels went ofl’ but for tunately it did not take effect; with the other barrel, Moore busted three caps at him, but fortunately did not explode. They then placed him in his boat and sent him adrift in the creek. . He was discovered by some boys of this city on Sunday last, and brought to this city.— Sav. Republican. Welcome, Minnesota. The following is an extract from the inaugural ad dress of Gov. Sibley, of Minnesota : “Minnesota enters the Union as tho thirty-second State. She extends a friendly hand to ail her sisters, North and South, and gives them the assurance that she joins their ranks not to provoke sectional discord or to engender strife—not to enlist in n crusade against such of them as differ with her in the character of their domestic institutions—but to promote harmony and good will, and to lend her aid, on all occasions, in main taining the integrity of the Union.” What a happy Union this would be, if all the States acted in the manner that Minnesota promises to do! We hope that the performance will equal the promise. Minnesota, in that case, will set a noble example to some of her sister States.— N, O. Picayune. A Speech from Billy Bowlegs. Bowlegs has been making another speech at New Orleans. Here is the document: “ I stand up here) big chiet, brave warrior. I kill heap your people before, I can do him again easy; give Billy seven good men to follow on the war track, and he lick all the United States, scalp big father at Washington 1 Whoop!” Reported Death of the Emperor of China. Ihe New York Christian Advocate of'the 16th pub lishes the following intelligence from a gentleman whom we suppose to American Missionary in China: . (China,) March 22, 1855. mu t> current v reported that the Emperor is dead. 1 he Russian embassy received letters from Pekin, da tse on the Christmas day, stating that the Emperor then was very sick; that his lower limbs were entirely paralyzed and that he could not live much longer. The English embassy received news via Canton from Pekin, dated m February, 1858, to the effect that the Emperor is dead. The report, however, is not credited here. Ihe report of the Emperor’s dangerous illness seems to be well authenticated ; and it is highly ptobable liis death may soon add a fresh complication to the present negotiations, and furnish another link to the chain of great events by which God is opening up this mighty empire to the Gospel of his son. R. S. MACLAY. Tlie Value of Cuba. The Detroit Free Press advocates the rescue of Cuba as a Union measure with signal ability. There is no estimating the millions it will be worth to the shipping, bread-raising andmanufacturingStates, who even now, in her colonial bondage, buy and sell with her to such a vast and profitable extent. But the Free Press does not limit its views to the item of profits. It says, of its political importance: Cuba would undoubtedly be one of the strongest of the Union States—regarding the Confederacy in the light of eternal stability. Regarding it in the light of eternal strength, Cuba is the very key of the Gulf. We apprehend that the day is not distant when Cuba will be African or American. Spain has avowed that it shall be the first rather than the last. There is but one way for the United States to meet that avowal j. that is, by resolving that it never shall be African. We have one Africanized island among the West In dies, where the negroes are rapidly relapsing into bar barism, and waging a war of extermination,against the whites. The state of things there is a feeble picture of what Cuba would become if our Government should, in the course of events* permit it to be handed over to the black. Sensible Bridal. The Easton (Pa.) Times gives an account of the bri dal festivities attendant upon the marriage of a daugh ter of Gov. Reeder, in which the festivities continued for a number of days, in a series of entertainments given by the relations of the bride and her friends. Upon this departure from the too fashionable mode of getting married, and then leaving in the first fast train, the Times says: We like this old-fashioned, hearty, joyous mode of celebration, which makes such formidable war on “dull care” and melancholy, because it marks the happiest era of life with the highest enjoyment, and making for the anxious editor an interesting local item; and if we could, would utterly explode the fashionable, and to us ridiculous custom of rogsing up a sleepy, shivering par ty before daylight, to perform a hasty ceremony at the gray dawn, and swallow a dyspeptic breakfast, in order to drive out a nervous, frightened girl by the early train away from a father’s house, as if parents were glad to be rid of her, or the whole affair was one that all parties were ashamed of, and could not dispatch too soon before their neighbors were astir. BrntesLovc Men more tlxnn Women. A writer in the Atlantic Monthly puts it thus: Kate, the other day, was asserting a wife’s right to control her own property, and incidentally advocating the equality of the sexes, a touchy point with her. I put in: “ Tell me, then, Kate, w hy animals form stronger at tachments to men than women. Your dog, your par rot, and even your cat, already prefer me to you. How can you account for it, unless you allow there is more in me to respect and love?” “I account for it,” said she, w ith a most decided nod, “affinity. There is more affinity between you and the brutes.” Tlic Fecundity of Flies. The flies are beginning to become numerous and troublesome. The streets and the houses will soon be full of them. The ingenuity of man has not yet in vented agents that can destroy them as fast as they come. Nor is this to be wondered at, when it is known that from a single fly more than two millions of these pests are produced in one summer. The rapidity and the multiplicity with which they increase may be learned from the following table: A fly lays four times the summer, each time eighty eggs, which makes 320 Half of these are supposed to be females, so that each of the four broods produces forty: 1. First-eighth, or the forty females of the first brood, also lay four times in the course of the summer, which makes 13,800 The first eighth of these, or 1,600 females, three times 384,000 The second eighth twice 256,000 The third and fourth eighth at least one each 256,000 2. The second eighth, or the forty females of the second brood, lay three times, the pro duce of which is 8,600 One sixth of these, or, l.GOOfemales, three times 384,000 The second sixth, twice 256,000 The third, once 128,000 3. The third eighth, or the forty females of the third brood, lay twiee, and produce 6,400 One fourth of these, or 1,600 females lay twice more 256,000 4. The founh eighth, t or forty females of the fourth brood, once, ’ 3,200 Half these, or 1,600 females, at least once 120,000 Total produce of a single fly in one summer 2,080,320 We had all just returned from a picnic out in the country. My friend E , who is a little too fond of a toddy, had not omitted to take several on this occasion. On our return home, E was met by the witty and sprightly Miss H , who inquired how he had enjoyed the day. “Very much,” he answered; “but that he had been badly dusted in his buggy coming home, and he now felt like he had a turnpike in his throat , and that he did not like so great an encumberance without the usual dividends .” Miss H replied, that if he would only charge toll for all the drinks that went down the road, and all the nonsense that come over it, he would soon realize a fortune! The Toad at his Repast. Few of our readers, most probably, have ever ob served the toad at his repasrt. It is performed with elec tric rapidity, and with more than telegraphic precision. The tongue is doubled back upon itself, and is tipped with a glutinous secretion. The moment the beetle comes within range, the tongue is shot forth with un erring aim, and quick as lightning, the captive is with drawn. They are invaluable in a garden. Mr. Jessie, in his gleanings, complains of gardeners destroying them—of savagely cutting them in two with their spades. We hope not. Horticulturists, of such “gross ignorance,” ought, themselves, to be extirpated. The beauty and vigor of our flower-borders we have long as cribed, in a large measure, to a select family of toads, which we tenderly protect, and some of which have now reached a patriarchal age. Mr. Jesssie mentions that Mr. Knight, the eminent nurseryman, keeps a large number of toads in his stoves for the purpose of destroy ing the woodlice that infest his plants, and that they do not seem at all affected with the heat, even when it reaches 130 degrees. We are surprised at this latter statement, which does not agree with our observation. We have observed that the toad, in very hot weather, seeks shelter under foliage, or buries himself amongst the soft mould. In the evening he emerges from his concealment, and no doubt then employs his protunsile tongue. Mr. Buckland mentions a curious use of toads. They are employed as insect-traps. A brigade of ma rauding toads are conducted into the garden in the eve ning. They make a famous supper, but in the morning their entomological employer, by a gentle squeeze, compels them to disgorge their evening meal, “and in this way many curious and rare specimens of minute nocturnal insects have been obtained.” There is just now, says Mr. Buckland, “a plague of ants in m any of the London houses, defy extermination. Ist rongly recommend those who are troubled with these pi agues, to try whether a toad or two wont help them.” Most certainly. They clean melon frames of these injects and why should they not perform the same friendly of fice in the drawing-rooms of London citizens? but ignorant prejudice can prevent the adoption of the excellent suggestion. And yet, the prejudice exists, and they are loathed species. Toads, time immemo rial, have been persecuted by school-boys*and you can not wander Uirough a village on a summer day without seeing defunct and flattened specimens ofthe.se unoffen ding creatures. Innocent of literature, it would be tra cing the cruelty of the urchins to too high a source to ascribe it to the ugly and “venomous” toad of Shak speare, or the yet more odious imagery of Milton. And yet, from the erroneous natural history of tlie tv;o great national poets, the idea may have originated, and thus been handed down as a extraordinary odium from one race oi school-boys to another. While toads tire truly venomous, and lark the specific apparatus for procuring venom which really venomous reptiles are endowed with, there is an irritant secretion in the glands of their skin, which is more or less injurious. When m dog re ally seizes a toad, this glandular fluid is squirted out, and his tongue and lips are burned, as if with a strong acid. The metamorphosis which frogs and toads undergo, is complete and remarkable. Intheirtadpoleewnditiaii, the respiration is performed by means ot gills, anu is aquatic. In their adult state, their gills are c . on into true lungs, and can breath atmospheric Mr • The spawn of frogs and toads is very The spawn of the former is found distributed through out the whole mass of je ly, while <£**- <£|M. seen arranged in long strings, and generally an double rows. _ . Written for the Georgia Temperance Crusader.] The Song; of the “Kicked.” BY DR. LEWIS J. APf LEW HITE. Air— She skinned her shin with a scrubbing brush. You say you’ll not marry me —why what have I said ? I’ll be drot if ever love was so strangely misled. I’ll be eternally dihged to eternal dingnation If I dont blow my brains all over creation. Now dont you remember when before you I knelt, And told you all I so gloriously felt, And talked of taking “ arsenic” in accents so wild, So very like dying, you started and smiled ? Why will you not have me ? What have I done ? For your sake do I not all liquor shun ? . * And many opportunities to drink have I lost, And disappointment in love is left to pay the cost. Was I not ever ready to obey all your calls — To take’ you to parties as well as to balls ? I am almost distracted—my feelings, too, hurt — And Miss P. I believe to be nothing but a flirt. Rejected ! Refused ! Devastated and done ! ‘ No more “brandy slings!’ and “Juleps” shall I slum. To love the gals any more I know I cannot — If I do so I do—but if I do I’ll be drot. Waynesboro, Ga June 18?/i. 185S. [Written for the Georgia Temperance Crusader.] Greenesboro’, June 29th, 1858. Permit us to say a few words for our county and its schools, knowing you are temperate, educational and philanthropic. Let us introduce you to New Salem Academy, with Mr. John Gentry and his forty or fifty male and female pupils. We had an especial invite from our lady friends for this visit, and it is a settled policy with us always, to accept their tender requests. Our eldest, John Thomas and ourself of course crowded tamany to a full canvass to meet this engagement which came oil’on Thursday. We arrived in time, and found a large and intelligent assemblage to honor the occasion. We heard the different classes examined, and a few snieches before dinner, when a short recess was given and were invited to discuss the table comforts in the way of a choice barbecue. lam not an enthusiast or Drag, but I must say Greene county can furnish more material in the way of pretty women and good wives than any other county within our confederacy. Having placed a sufficiency of the cue under ourvest, we retired until about 2 o’clock, P. M. when we again gave our attention to the exercises, and never did girls and boys quit the field more honorably—all did well. The rhe toric, latin, hygenia and phisiology classes would have been ereditable to our best colleges. The little friend who read this sentence: Jacobus, habuit, duodecim, filios, brought up an incident that occurred when I was a boy, at an old field school examination. In giving the translation to the same, up rose a Falstaft whose name happened to be Jacob, exclaiming, “if it is Betsy and I what is talked about, you are mis taken, young hoss, us has thirteen chilun.” The exam ination of the classes having ended, another recess was given, anticipating the speaking and reading of compo sition. At the ringing of the bell, our seats were re sumed, and away went Young America in a speech never to be surpassed on land or sea. Our criticism is not ample enough to embrace him. as he soared far away upon “Lindon heights,” le'aving us with those notes from the fiddle with a hoop ta too, hoop ta too, &c. The speaking was of the finest order —never heard bet ter. We might have changed position and gesture, but their thrilling eloquence proved that Cicero and Othello was himself. The composition were chaste, classic, well written, and most beautifully read, and creditable both to teacher and pupil. The pic-nie was a fixed up institution for the old and young, with all the lemon ade, rich cake and appendages essential to such occa sions, creditably and tastefully arranged by the mat rons of the neighborhood, which all discussed in the most agreeable style. One word more for our lady friends. We never saw them look more handsome, with their beautiful rosettes and expansive crinolines. Our Charles Chatty-box capacity lias a broad field char ity and respect for such tasteful and agreeable appen dages. To lull our better feelings they are always ap preciative. Col. M. W. Lewis, our native countyman, concluded the programme, patting all hands in better humor with themselves, wives, children and friends, and mankind in general, than they have been for the last hundred years. He loved his own, his native land, its blue skies, fragrant flowers, pearly streams, babbling brooks, institutions, government and women, until he loomed far away amid blue ether, losing us in the dizzy heights far above the eagle’s pinions, to re turn to his friends, and say it was the best speech we ever heard from him either at the bar or from the hus tings. R. J. DAWSON. An Executioner’s Little Bil], In the year 1712, it was the custom in Amsterdam to make use oftlie services of an auctioner from the neigh boring town of Haarlem; and in order to avoid the ex pense of repeated journeys, the worthy magistrates contrived that the various sentences of the criminal law should be carried out as much as possible on the same day. The following is the little bill of the Haarlem Calcroft for the work ofa single day: Amsterdam, Dec. 11, 1712. TO ACCOUNT FOR BUSINESS DONE. Florins. To one beheaded 6 * Item for the use of the sword of Justice, 3 Item for the cloth, 3 Item for the coffin, 3 To one strangled, 6 Taken down and put in the coffin, 3 To one put on the wheel, with nine strokes, at 3 gul den the stroke, 27 Forthestrangling, 6 Taken down and carried out of the town, 8 To two hanged with a sword over their heads, 18 One taken down and carried out of the town, 9 One taken down, 3 To four hung on the gallows, at 6 gulden apiece, 24 One with a sword over the head, 3 Two with letters on their breast, 12 To four-and-twenty scourged, at 3 gulden apiece, 72 Three with tha sword over their heads, 9 One fettered and seßin the pillory, 6 One branded on the back, 6 Item wages, 12 Item road money, 12 Item for the use of the rope, 12 Item for the assistant, 12 Amount, 276. city of New York has eight thousand grog | shops. Gen. Cary says: “ There is no wisdom in the universe equal to the task -of perfecting a “police arrangement” which can afford protection to character, property or life, in a city with eight thousand drinking hells wide open. The machinery of civil government has never-been, and will never be adequate to such a work. As well attempt to turn back Niagara with a pitchfork as to expect a police force to prevent this mighty river of death from flowing onward, when eight thousand swollen and turbid trib utaries pour their everlasting streams into the same channel. Strong hopes have been entertained that the religious awakening, now so powerful in our cities, would result in arresting the tide of ruin. “ Eight thou sand” tetnples o( Bacchus crowded with worshippers absolutely forbid that “righteousness should flow down the streets like a river, and salvation like the waves of tire sea.” First Blood Shed for Liberty in the Revolu tion. The first blood shed in defense of liberty and in oppos ing English oppressions was in the South. The State ofNorth Carolina—the “old North 1 State,” and twin sister of South Carolina—is entitled to the honor. It was during the gubernatorial administration of the no torious Governor Tryon, the English Governor at the time, who built one ofthe most splendid palaces in North or South America,at Newbern,N. C.,with the proceeds of taxes imposed upon the people for the purpose, and to resist which taxation a portion oi them rebelled, just as did the men of Massachusetts afterwards. It took place in the year 1771, and is narrated by Mr. Wheeler in his history ofNorth Carolina. On the 16th ofMay, in that year, a battle was tought between the American and British forces, on the banka of the Alamance river, in what is known now as the county of that name, called the Battle of Alamance. The American forces were called the “regulators,” from their efforts in endeavor ing to bring about an equitable regulation of taxes and other oppressive matters. The American forces amount edtb two thousand, and were headed by three men named Husbands, Hunter and Butler; while the British forces, including militia called out by Tryon, amounted to upwards of eleven hundred, but had the advantage greatly in arms and discipline. As might have been expected, the Americans were defeated, after an action 4*f tiVO hours, with a loss of twenty dead and several wounded,while that ofthe royal forces, wounded and mis sing, was sixty-one. Mr. Wheeler says : “ Thus ended the -battle of Alamance. Thus and faerc was the first blood spilled in these United States, in resistance to exactions of English rulers and oppressions by the English government. Ihe great Wolt of feouth Carolina’ showed his blood-thirsty temper by acts of Avenge and cruelty, and barbarity. He hung Captain Tew the next day, without trial, on a tree. -It was in this case, as Byron truly says in one of lus • poems „ For PreeJom - a battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son Though sometimes lost is ever won.” Thus we see that it was at the battle of Alamance* and not at Bunker Hill, that the first American blood was’ shed in the cause of liberty. “ Honor to whom honoris due.” , ’.. • •'l.ffj.’ V „ _ <•. ‘ 1 To kill your enemies —Treat them to rot-gut whis key. Tire Flood—Cairo Destroyed. Tall of a Hotel—lmmense Loss of Property. A correspondent ot the Chicago Times gives the fol lowing account of the flood at Cairo: I arrived in this place at 10 o’clock, A. M. and found everything in the wildest contusion. It has rained al most incessantly for the past three months, swelling the rivers out ot their banks, carrying desolation in their pathway. Thousands upon thousands of acres of land, above and below, have been laid waste, and millions of dollars’worth of property lost. Yesterday morning a distinct shock of an earthquake was fen here, and at 6 o’clock In the evening the “cross-levee” broke, when the water, which was twelve or fifteen feet above’the le vel of the town outside, came dashing, foaming and seething inside. The break was so unexpected, that the inhabitants we;p taken by surprise, and many of them only had time to escape with their families to the levee, before the torrent swept away their homes. In many instances, boats and rafts had to be resorted to for the means of escape. To-day, every person is bu sily engaged in rescuing what property they* safely can from the floating houses. Breakfast was served to the guests of the Taylor House in the second story, knee deep in water, the cu linary department being carried to the third ! A few families, who resided in two story houses, remained in them until noon to-day. They now have to get out of their up-stairs windows into boats—the water being al most on a level with them, and rising at the rate offour inches an hour. The Ohio levee is the only place of refuge left, it be ing only some seventy-five feet, wide, and three-fourths ofa mile in leng’h; and here a “mixed” sight is pre sented to the beholder—every animate and inanimate thing s>ved from the destroying element is seen : “ the beggar in his rags;” crinolineand broadcloth; Dutch, Irish, negroes and the Anglo-Saxon; pigs, calves, mules and horses; turkeys, chickens and geese; boxes, barrels and bales ; bedding, cooking utensils and bag gage, together with many other articles not necessary to describe. At one o’clock, P. M. nearly one half of the new (tn finished) hotel on the levee fell with a deafening crash, preceded by a report equal to a six-pounder. The build ing was of brick, five stories high, with attic rooms, iron door and window frames —cost nearly SIOO,OOO. The remaining portion was considerably swayed. To tal loss. Gov. Matteson’s new bank building, five stories high, also on the levee, shows signs of falling. It is an un finished building, and cost about $75,000. The “Springfield block,” adjoining the bank, still stands firm, but will probably come down with a crash soon, as the water is softening the ground at the foun dation. Nine tenements are within this building, all occupied. The postoffice isinoneof them. Cost,3ome $300,000 or $400,000. Among a very few amusing incidents, was the ap pearance of Col. Hacker on a raft, floating around for fun. Also, Lieut. Faxon and Ed. Willett on another, bare-legged, poling around the wrecks of houses, and making an ineffectual attempt to sing the “Boatman’s Song.” A further rise of two or three feet will sweep silently over the site where Cairo once stood, but where it will never stand again, forever ! TJte Father of Waters. The vastness of the great Mississippi River is thus given by a correspondent of the News Letter, who writes from Maiden Rock, Wisconsin : While I look out upon the river, three miles wide at this point, my mind seems to take in at one grasp the magnitude of the stream. From the frozen regions of the North to the sunny south, it extends some 3,100 miles, and, with Missouri, is 4,500 miles in length. It would reach from New York across the Atlantic, and extend from France to Turkey, and to the “Caspian Sea. Its average depth from its source in Lake Itasca, in Minnessota, to its delta to the Gulf of Mexico, is 50 feet, and its width half a mile. The trapper on the upper Missistippi can take the furs of the animals that inhab it their sources, and exchange them for the tropical fruits that are gathered on the banks below. Slaves toil at one end of this great thoroughfare, while the free red men of the iorest roam at the other end. The floods are more than a month in traveling from its soarce to its delta. The total value of steamers afloat on this river and its tributaries is more than $6,000,000, and numbers as many as 1,500 —more than twics the entire steamboat tonnage of England, and equal to that of all other parts of the world. It drains an area of 1,- 200,000 square miles, which is justly styled the garden of the world. It receives a score of tributaries, the least of which are longer than the vaunted streams of mighty empires. It might furnish natural boundaries for all Europe, and yet leave for every country a river larger than the revenue of many petty kingdoms, and rolls a volume in whose depths the cathedral of St. Paul could be sunk out of sight. It discharges in one year more water than has issued from the Tiber injfive cen turies; it swallows up fifty rivers, which have lionanie, each of which are longer than the Thames. The addi tion of the waters-ol the Danube would not swell it half a fathom; In one single fesevoir (Pepin,) 2,500 miles irom sea, the navies might saiely ride at anchor. It washes the shores ol 12 powerful States, and between its arms lies space for 20 more. • The Empress Eugenie was born at Granada in 1827. Her father, the Count de Monijo, was a Spaniard, but embraced the French cause when the first Napoleon en tered Spain. Her mother was a Kirkpatrick, a family of great antiquity in Scotland. She was partly educated in the west of England, and resided in her youth alter nately at Madrid, London and Paris. At the latter place she first met Louis Napoleon, and a mutual at tachment was the result. On the eve ofhis coup <Petat ho revealed to her his plans, entreating her and her mother to leave Paris, fearing for their safety should he be unsuccessful. She consented, and her parting words were: “ Remember, if you fail, my hand and fortune await you at Madrid.” He did not fail, and soon alter his success he announced to the senate and legislative body the choice he had made. The marriage ceremo nies took place in 1853. The marriage seems to have been one of affection on both sides, and since she has occupied the French throne, the Emperor has contin ued to gain the respect and love of the people of the empire. Music by Lightning.— lt is said that electricity |is about to be applied to music. A performer, seated be fore a piano, constructed tor the purpose, in London, Moscow or St. Petersburg, will play a Morceau, every note of which, by means ol the electric wire, will'be re peated by another instrument in one of the concert rooms in Paris. We already have music by steam, now we have music by electricity. Lungs are there fore menaced with being ruled out of fashion by the lovers of music. 111,11,1 1 m 118111 “ The bloom or blight of all men’s happiness.” In Pen field, on the evening of the 20lh June, by Prof. 11. H. Tucker, Mr. Redmond V. Forrester, of Lee county, Ga. and Miss Martha F„ Holtzclaw, of tho former place. HD IIW; An Earnest Appeal. ‘VTECESSITY compels me to make an earnest L’ appeal to those who arc indebted to me for 1856 and ’57, for help. I need money to carry on my busi ness, and a small sum from each one whose account is past due, would make me easy. Shall I appeal iu vain ! July 8 W. B. SEALS. DERSONS visiting Penfield during the ap proaching Commencement, can find accommoda tions at the house of J. 11. ENGLISH- Penfield, July 8 A LL persons arc hereby warned against and L* forbid trading for a note of hand dated the third of March last, for one hundred and thirty dollars, payable ninety days after its date, given by me to McGee &. Cos. the consideration for which said note was given having failed. THOMAS W. S. LEWIS. July 8, 1858 4t fFWO months after date application will be made to A the Court of Ordinary of Greene county, for leave to sell all the lands belonging to the estate o 1 ’ J. J. How ell, late ol said county, deceased. J. M. HOWELL, adm’r de bonis non, .July 8, 1858 with the will annexed. TWO months after date application will be mads to the Court of Ordinary ol Greene county, for leave to sell all the lands belonging to the estate ot McKinney Howell of said county, deceased. S. A. HOWELL, adm’r de bonis non, July 8, 1858 with the will annexed. G|H|EOnGIA, GKEENE COUNTY: Whereas Co lumbus L. Burk, administrator upon the estate of I Charles J. Burk, deceased, petitions the Court of Ordi nary for Letters Dismissory from said estate : These are therefore to cite and admonish all persona concerned, to show cause (if any they have) why said administrator should not be discharged at the court of Ordinary to be held in and tor said county on the 2d Monday in January, 1859. Given under my hand at office In Greenesboro’ July 5, 1858. July 8-6 m ✓ EUGENIUS L. KING, Ord. (GEORGIA, GREENE COUNTY : _W h er ea s VJ Harrison H. Watts, guardian of William H. Dan iel, petitions this Court for Letters Dismissory from said guardianship: It is therefore ordered, that all persons concerned be and appear at the Cmirt of Ordinary to be held in and for said county on the first Monday in September next to show cause (if any they have> why said guardian should not then be discharged. Ordered, further, that of C the y Uw hlS rU 6 pu^* B hed f° r forty days, in tepna A true extract from the minutes. July 8-40d EUGENIUS L. KING, Or*.