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iHlje v (i empmuicc JOHN 11. SEALS, NEW SERIES, VOLUME 111. OTHE GEORGIA'O TEMPERANCE CRUSADER. Published every Thursday in the year, except two. TERMS: Two Dollars per year, in advance. JOHN 11. SEALS, Sole Proprietor. LIONEL, L. VKAZEY, Editor Literary Department. MRS M. E. HR VAN, Editress. JOHN A. RHVNOLDS, Pcbushbr. CSauaUD 023A3caa3 Clubs op Ten Names, by sending the Cash, will receive the paper at .... $1 50 copy. Clubs op Five Names, at 180 “ Any person sending us Five new subscribers, inclo sing the money, shall receive an extra copy one year free of cost. ADVERTISING DIRECTORY: Bates of Advertising; 1 square, (twelve lines or less,) first insertion, $1 00 “ Each continuance, 50 Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding six lines, per year, 5 00 Announcing Candidates for Office, 3 00 Standing Advertisements; ggg- Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions, will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. jsg-Merchants. Druggists and others, may contract for advertising by the year on reasonable terms. Legal Advertisements: Sale of Land or Negroes, by Administrators, Ex ecutors and Guardians, per square, 5 00 Sale of’Personal Property, by Administrators, Ex ecutors and Guardians, per square, 3 25 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 25 Notice for Leave to Sell, 4 00 Citation for Letters of Administration, 2 75 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Adm’n, 500 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guard’p, 3 25 Legal Beqoirements; Sales of Land and Negroes by Administrators, Exec utorsor Guardians, are required, by law, to be held on the First Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house door of the county in which the property is situate. Notices of these sales must be given in a pub lic Gazette, forty days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale ol'Personal Property must be given at least ten days previous to the day of sale. Notices to Debtors and Creditors of an estate, must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court oi Ordinary, forleave to sell Land or Negroes, must be pub lished weekly for two months. Citations for Letters of Administration, must be pub lished thirty days —for Dismission from Administration monthly, six months —for Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly, for four months —lor compelling titles from Ex ecutors or Administrators, where a bond has been issued by the deceased, the full space of three months. ptiS* Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or dered. <3/4e &&£oiney 4 ‘SAtuctc iy, KINO A I.EWIS, Attorneys at Law, Greenes boro, Ga. The undersigned, having associated themselves together in the practice of law, will attend . to all business intrusted to their care, with that prompt ness and efficiency which long experience, united with industry, can secure. Offices at Greenesboro and five ’ miles west of White Plains, Greene county, Ga. v. t. kino. July 1, 1858. m. w. lewis. “\T7'HIT O. JOHNSON, Attorney at Law, intr.usted to his professional management in Richmond and the adjoining counties. Office on Mclntosh street, j three doors below Constitutionalist office. Reference —Thos. R. R. Cobb, Athens, Ga. s June 14 ly ROGER L. WIIIGIIAJVI, Louisville, Jef ferson county, Georgia, will give prompt attention to any business intrusted to his care, in the following counties : Jefferson, Burke, Richmond, Columbia, War reh, Washington, Emanuel, Montgomery, Tatnall and Scriven. April 26, 1856 ts LEONARD T. DOYAL, Attorney at Law, 1 McDonough, Henry county, Ga. will practice Law in the following counties: Henry, Spaulding, Butts, i Newton, Fayette, Fulton, DeKalb, Pike and Monroe. Fob 2-4 i DII. SANDERS, Attorney at Law, Albany, i • Ga. will practise in the counties of Dougherty, < Sumter, Lee, Randolph, Calhoun, Early, Baker, Deca- 1 tur and Worth. Jan 1 ly < j HT. PERKINS, Attorney at Law, Greenes * boro, Ga. will practice in the counties of Greene, Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Hancock, Wilkes and Warren. Feb ly PHILLIP B- ROBINSON, Attorney at Law, Greenesboro, Ga. will practice in the coun lies of Greene. Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliafer ro, Hancock, Wilkes and Warren. July 5, ’56-lv JAMIES BROWN, Attorney at Law, Fancy Hill, Murray Cos. Ga. April 30, 1857. ail i THE Arm of J. S. BAIINWELL &CO will be dissolved on the First of Next Month, mutual •consent —at which time those having demand jgainst said firm, will please present them, and those indebted ■are respectfully notified that the books will be open lor settlement by note or cash. The undersigned will give 9iis attention to the settlement of all claims. Mr. Barnwell will continue in the business of HAR NESS MAKING and REPAIRING, whom I take great pleasure in recommending as a faithful and com petent workman. [June 24—2m] R. J. MASSEY. PENFIELD AND GREENESBORO utsrm, LTACKS or any desired accommo- F-L dation, waiting the arrival of each train. Passengers for Penfield, Scull Shoals, Dr. Dur ham’s, Watkinsville, Watson’s Springs or any other point, will be carried thither safely and promptly. Passengers from any of these points desiring to meet any of the trains, can find like accommodation. Prices moderate. Good horses and conveyances, with or without dri ver. CASH will be required. I have Horses and Buggies for hire at my stable in Penfield. H. NEESON, Jr. July 15, 1858 MRM*. COE!9 SURGEON k MECHANICAL DENTIST, inform his friends that he TfijfljHjijgL • ‘ will be back in November and attend to his engagements at White Plains, Mt. Zion, Oxford and Penfield. May 13,1858-tfjan SIBLEY TBOOST —'WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN— Choice Family Groceries, Cigars, fcc. 876 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia. Feb 18, 1858 lon tl flap on c rpHE firm of COE & LATIMER is this day dis -I- solved by mutual consent. 11. A. COE, Greenesboro, May Ist, 1858 J. S. LATIMER. The practice will be continued by who will visit Oxford, Penfield, White Plains, Mount Zion, Warrenton, Elbertea, Danielsville Fort Lamar, of which due Betice will be given intheCV** r ■ “ j Gazette. Permanent office in J. CUNNINGHAj-TS BLOCK, GREENESBORO. . May 13, 1858 B anl ULANKSI BLANKS! OF EVERY DESCRIP- D ‘I ION, furnished upon the shortest notice. Officers and are requested to send in their orders. ’ • An Earnest Appeal. NECESSITY compels me to make an earnest 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 in vain ? July 8 ‘ W. B. SEALS. —2 LOVERS OF GOOD THINGS, FRESH AND PURE, JUST give ‘Old Mac’ a call— lie’s always ready to supply the wants of those who may favor him witli their patronage. What’ll you have? A saucer of Cream, A Lemonade, Oranges & Bananas, Peacans & Peanuts, Candies and Cakes, Stews, Fries, Bakes, CoUradoA. Ch’roots, ’Backer & Havanas, In sun or shade, ‘Old Mac’s’ th’ team that can furnish just what y6u may love! at short notice. Call, examine and eat. He may still be found at his old place. Greenesboro, June 10, 1858 D. McDONALD. CURES GUARANTEE I)! CANCERS AND SCROFCI.A CURED. ONHjHUNDRED AND THIRTEEN CASES CURED LAST YEAR, 1557. PAMPHLETS containing testimonials <, the highest character, as to his success, will be forward ded to any that may wish them. Those wishing to test the efficacy of DR. CLOFTON’S WONDERFUL REMEDIES, must give a correct description of the disease, its appearance in its incipient stage, progress, present condition, location, &c. A three cent postage stamp must accompany all com munications. Address J. A. CLOPTON, M. D. July 15, 1858 ly Hunts\ Ale, Ala. i Bowdon Collegiate institution, BOWDON, CARROLL COUNTY, GA. THE Fall Term will open on Second Wednes day of August, 1858. Thorough instruction given in the various English branches, in Latin, Greek and French. Particular at tention paid to Pure Mathematics, to Surveying and Civil Engineering. A Military Company will he organ ized as soon as the term opens. chas. a. McDaniel, a. m. Professor An. Languages, Nat. Phil. Ac. JOHN M. RICHARDSON, B. S. Military Instructor, Prof. Mathematics, Ac. July 22-6 t mo ip® ss/m , sr&Mb 9 Warehouse & Commission Merchant, AUGUSTA, GA. 8* /CONTINUES the business in all its gt, O , branches, in his large and commodi ous Fire-Proof Warehouse, on Jackson gtreet - near t h e Globe Hotel. Orders for Goods, Ac. promptly and carefully filled. The usual casli facilities afforded customers. July 22 6m* bemud & swm'ZL Warehouse & Commission Merchants, AUGUSTA, aA. If sSfTLTAVING entered into a co-part- HUue r ‘"HI ship for the purpose of carrying on the Storage and Commission Business in all of its branches, respectfully solicit con signments of Cotton and other produce; also orders for Bagging, Rope and family supplies. Their strict, per sonal attention will be given to the business. All the facilities due from factors to patrons shall be granted with a libera! hand. ISAAC T. HEARD, WM. C. DERRY. July 22d, 1858. MALE AND FEMALE ACADEMY. r pilK Trustees of this Institution announce that the next Term will commence on Monday, the 9th inst. under the superintendence of HENRYC. WARE, Esq. as heretofore. They take this occasion again to recommend this School to the notice of parents and guardians, gild challenge a comparison with any school in the State, in the thoroughness of instruction, suc cessful discipline, healthfulness of location, moral in fluences, and the absence of all inducements to vice and dissipation. Board can be obtained in the neighborhood at $7 or $8 per month, or in the family of the principal, at $lO per month. J. R. YOUNG, WM. O. CHENEY, C. D. KINNEBREW, WM. EDMONDSON, Aug s—lit JAS. F. GEER. Selling Off at Cost! The subscriber, with a view to closing his busi ness, is now offering his entire stock of mer chandise at cost. Any one in want of a bargain, ei ther in Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Ready-made Cloth 'ng, Hats, C aps,Boots,Shoes, Drugs, Medicines, Crock ery, Hollow and Willow Wares, Ae., Ac., will do well to call and examine my Stock, before purchasing. Penfield, Aug. 5 WM. B. SEALS. 130-000 BRICKS WANTED. I3ROPOSALS will be received until Ist September, iU by the undersigned, for the delivery to them, in Penheld, of 130,000 bricks, on or before the loth ofNo vember next. Good clay can be had within a quarter ol a mile ot the place of delivery. 11. 11. TUCKER, J- E. WILLET, „ r „ VV. B. SEALS, Penfield, Green Cos. Ga. N. M. CRAWFORD. Aug. 12, 1858 RICH liillllllieißU have just received a very large assortment French Worked Collars, SWISS AND JACONET BANDS SWISS A JACONET TRIMMINGS, SWISS & JACONET FLOUNCINGS PL’fl A EMBR’D LINEN COLLARS, Large as'iment pl'n & emb. L. C. Hdkfs Rich Ch’ly LACE VEILS,new styles. -also— Rich Silk and Lace Mantillas, , LINEN DUSTERS ; rich Organdie Muslins, Low priced LAWNS; white BRILLIANTS’ Plain and checked NAINSOOKS, “ “ JACONETS, “ CAMBRICS, “ “ MULLS. These goods having been recently bought at a great the market price, will be sold correspond ingly low ; and a portion of them having been bought of the manufacturer about 50 per cent, less than they could have been bought at any auction sale, they will be sold lower than the same quality of goods have ever been offered at in this city. Our stock is otherwise well assorted, and offers rare inducements in the wav of LOW PRICES. All of which wc will l e pleased to ; exhibit at our.ONE PRICE STORE. Aug 12 BROOM A NORRELL. WILL continue the WAREHOUSE and COM MISSION BUSINESS at their old stand on Jackson street. Will devote their personal attention to i the Storage and sale of Cotton, Bacon, Grain, Ac. j Liberal cash advances made when required ; and all i orders for Family Supplies, Bagging, Rope, Ac. filled i at the lowest market price. j JOHN C. REES. [Aug 12] SAM*!, D. LINTON. j . ■i jKitur ■ ■■ ■ ‘ Dr. W. L. M. HARRIS, RATEFUL to the good citizeus of Pen field and vieinity, for the liberal confidence and encouragement given him, respectfully contin ues a tender of his professional services to them. Dr. R. J. Massey, his former partner in the practice, will, with pleasure, attend any call, at any time, that may be made while Dr. H. is professionally engaged and cannot be obtained. . March 11,1858 A FINE lot of Extra BACON HAMS on con signment. JOHN 6. IIOLTZCLAW, • Penfield, May 97. the adopted organ of add the temperance organizations in the state. PENFIELD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 9, 1 8 58. (Lb e p k lit ifme wt; 3) BY MRS. M. E, BRYAN. P 0 M P E I I, BY MARY E. BRYAN. Two thousand years entombed Within thy mighty sepulchre of stone ; Ages above thy buried heart have flown, And dew-born flowers have bloomed, And circling summers bade the wild grass wave” Above the stately tomb which thy Destroyer gave. And buried Pompeii, On history’s page, and with the nations dead, Had been a name of warning and of dread - A thing of mystery— And when Vesuvius’ burning breath flamed high, Its mutterings spoke of fated Pompeii. Within thee were inurned The costly relics of a glorious Past— The tokens of a nation great and vast — Seat of the ancient learned. But to thy tomb God’s hand a stone had rolled, And ages o’er thee heaped the verdant mould. In silence, night and gloom, Lo ! thou had’st lain, old city of the past, Waiting the dread Arch-angel’s trumpet blast To rend thy lava tomb ; But our bold age has dared to break the seal, And to the light thy skcletoirreveal. Once more the garish sun Smiles on thee as in mockery, and the breeze, Fresh from the kisses of the western seas, Blows thy cold brow upon. Man calls thee forth, pale city of the dead ! And but thy ghost obeys—thy life has fled. As from its catatomb, Is dragged the mummy of the Egyptain king, For vulgar herds to call a curious thing!;) So, daughter of proud Rome, Are all thy mysteries, time so long concealed To the profaning eye of man revealed. There lingers still a breath Os human life amid thy sanes and halls, Despite the silence that around thee falls, Like to the shade of death, As lingers still the sound of some lone tread Within the vaulted chambers of the dead. Still, on thy frescoed walls Rare pictures glow, and in thy temples stand The breathing marbles from the artisßs hand ; While in the banquet halls The dust of fruit still stains the silver vase, And in the streets the chariots track we trace. The burnished mirror stands Where, ages back, it glowed with the rare charms Os maids, like her who roused the world to arms, And for their lily hands Still wait the casket, with its gents and gold, And jeweled zones the flexile waist t’ enfold. We half expectant turn, The noble inmates of these halls to greet, The young, the fair; but turn, alas! to meet Pale skeletons and learn, While gazing on their bony, gem-clasped arms— What havoc death can make with human charms. Still stand the ruins vast Os the theatre, where beasts fought with man, And streams ot gore along the arena ran ; And where assembled last, On that eventful day, all Pompeii stood, When o’er the city swept the burning flood. Such are thy mysteries, City of skeletons—museum entombed, And by the present’s daring hand exhumed, And bared to curious eyes! The chisel’s clang upon thy prison deep Has roused thee from thy score ol centuries’ sleep. City, whose walls were reared Os lava by the Theban son of Jove, Who through thy streets bade his procession move, When conquering he appeared With Geryon’s triple head to crown his fame, And from his triumph, gave thee thy proud name. City who sank to sleep, When mighty Rome upon her seven-hilled throne Bade the whole world her haughty sceptre own, Wake from thy slumbers deep ! Is that the cymbal’s clash that breaks the spell, And does the sound of Ctesar’s coming tell ? Look up ; the smoke wreaths bind The brow of thy Destroyer as of old, • And at his feet, beneath the sunset’s gold, Campania’s streamlets wind. But where the voices that thy forum thrilled, And where the pomp that once thy temples filled ? Again that rush and roar! Sure it is Ctesar on his homeward march. Go bring ye flowers ; rear the triumphal arch ; Your wildest music pour! Peace-dreaming fool! that is no trumpet’s cry, The iron horse of steam goes thundering by.* Go, dream again poor ghost; Low in the dust lies Rome’s discrowned head; Sallust and Tully slumber with the dead, Italia’s glory’s lost. Look on her beggar slaves that round thee crowd, And shudder at the change—Pompeii the proud. Thomasville. *The railroad from Naples passes by Pompeii, and thus, while beholding the city reclaimed from the past, after an entombment of more than sixteen hundred years, the traveller hears at the same time the thunder of the most wonderful invention of the pres ent—the steam engine. JESSIE OF JESSAMINE LODGE. BY MARY E. BRYAN. . I THINK that every male individual in all Ma pleton, not blessed with a earn sposa of his own, from the pimple-nosed bachelor, who sold drugs at the corner of Clay and Bragg street, to spindle shanked little Timothy Titmouse, just emerged from the age of round-a-bouts and sugar plums, was more or less*in love with pretty Jessie Mor rison, daughter of the queer old Scoth naturalist, who, with his sister, Miss Margaret Morrison, (aunt Meg,) occupied a little cottage just out of town, and employed his time in chasing and cap turing butterflies and reptiles, poking with the end ot his silver-headed cane into ant’s nests and salamander holes, and dissecting, drying, or stuf fing his specimens througlj the 1 assistance of his inseparable green spectacles with tortoise shell rims. Miss Meg Morrison, despite her diminutive figure, was an amazon at heart. She was an ex cellent example of perpetual . motion, since tongue, hands and feet were never allowed one moment’s rest during the day. She was one of those notable housekeepers, who claim bustle and confusion as their rightful prerogative. Ac cordingly, it was scrub, scrub, dust and scour from morning until night, accompanied by the endless click of her never-resting knitting needles, and a rtnning comment on the vices and shortcom ings of the little maid of all work. But Miss Meg was not at heart an unamiable personage, and Jenny, the Scotch servant girl, declared that her mistress’ “hark war a wheen waur than her bite.” Miss Meg Morrison had attained the respecta ble age of forty without “exchanging her maiden gladness for a name and for a ring.” The malicious declared that it was because she had never had an opportunity, but a huge, square letter in the spinster’s chest of “ odds and ends” proved the fallacy of this by the languishing Cu pid on the seal, and Miss Meg herself convinced her neice that it was owing to her having too much good sense to think of taking care of a masculine creature,—mending his clothes, super intending his dinner and getting no thanks for her trouble. But commiseratingly, as she had en larged upon the evils of married life, she feared lest the adoring looks bestowed upon Jessie, as she sat in hes pew at St. James, might prove pow- ei'ful arguments against her advice. However, she had no reason to suspect that J essie’s brown eyes ever wandered from her prayer book to steal a glance through her curls at the opposite side ol the church, though she must certainly have had a faint suspicion that the presents oi game and fruit, which the worthy Doctor so compla cently received as compliments to his scientific attainments, were, in fact, intended for herself. Miss Meg was shrewd enough to guess the truth, and so she stood guard at the door of the castle, received and entertained all the visitors herself, while Jessie made custards in the kitchen, or sticlicd away at her needle work in the back_sit ting-room, never fancying (though she had seen her seventeenth birth-day) that she was not, as her aunt persisted in calling her, still a child, but building, nevertheless, very suspicious castles for the future; for, as Jean Paul says, “ love may slumber in a maiden’s heart, but he always dreams.” • But Jessie, although she took a natural and innocent delight—she hardly knew why—in look ing at her charming face in the old-fashioned mirror, was yet perfectly unconscious of the ad miration she excited. How should she know it? A glance of aunt Meg’s eye was sufficient to de ter the boldest of her votaries fi;om telling her of it, and she was invariably under the cltapronagc of that exemplary lady. Even the letter-box first underwent her supervision, and more than one delicately-enveloped epistle, superscribed to .Jes sie, was consigned to the same fate to which the author of Lacoti advises essayists to commit two thirds of their manuscripts. Indeed, on last Val entine's day, the devotion of Jessie’s adorers had furnished -Jenny with material enough to burn out every chimney in the house, including the kitchen, while the cause of all these wasted ef fusions remained in blissful unconsciousness of it all. “TIoot!” cried Miss Meg, who, with the curi osity of her sex, had opened and inspected these sentimental missives. “Did ever a body see the like ? A carving-knife stuck through a pair of hearts, and a deal o’ nonsense about love and such like a’ ‘around it. The silly callants —to write such foolishness to a wee bairn like .Jessie! I’ll warrant ye they wad na’ ha’ the manners to tip their hats to a l>ody o’ decent age.” Meantime, the Doctor’s fair daughter pursued her every-day occupations, serene as a May morn ing, and happy as though there was nosucli spirit of mischief as Love walking abroad through the world.” She kept time with the birds, as site sat with her sewing in the grape arbor that joined the house; she prepared tea for her father, arranged his books and butterflies, read to him from his dry, scientific journals, and bore aunt Meg’s ani madversions with a composure that proved she entertained Jenny’s opinion concerning the spinster’s “ bark and bite.” The young gentlemen of Mapleton were in dis pair. True to their masculine nature, the very difficulty of attaining the object enhanced its value. Young ladies were by no means a rarity in the village. There were any number of flounced muslins and straw flats in the streets from four ’til seven in the afternoon, and these pretty dam sels were certainly not chary of their smiles. They were quite ready to exhibit their dimpled arms and shoulders for the benefit of Mr. I’ug gins, the bachelor apothecary, or spend half an hour matching a shade of ribbon for the sake of coquetting With the handsome clerks; but all this would not satisfy my young gallants of Ma pleton, who must needs disdain the fruit offered to their hands, and covet the golden apple of Hesperides. Alas! that it was guarded by a dra gon. The instant Jessie MorrisOn in her white dress and blue ribbons glided along the street, with Miss Meg’s black silk and prim quaker bonnet beside her, Timothy Titmouse ceased to remem ber whether Miss Scruggs had said berege or os naburgs, and handed her blue ribbon instead— looking at those that, mingling with Jessie’s bright curls, danced over her white shoulders. But it was all in vain that Timothy sighed, laid his hand upon his heart and looked unutterable things; for Jessie quietly made her few purchases, and, counting out the change with her white fingers, that he would have given his year’s salary to kiss, made her graceful little curtsey and was gone. As I said, her admirers were in despair ; but there was among them a young collegiate—just returned from his second term—of bolder spirit than the rest, who avowed liis determination to make love to Jessie Morrison, in spite of female dragons and Argus-eyed guardians in green spec tacles. He first contrived to make acquaintance of the worthy Doctor, whom lie found pursuing his re searches in natural science, at a neighboring frog # pond, and had the satisfaction of conciliating him by the capture of a remarkably large tadpole, and still farther, by the next day presenting him with what the old naturalist believed to be a wonder ful specimen of the lacertus; in reality, an over grown lizard, whose tail the ingenius young gen tleman had slit in two so dexterously as to escape the detection of the green spectacles. But al though he prolonged his visit to an unreasonable length, listened with reverent attention to the Doctor’s prosing, and drank two glasses of sour current wine of Miss Meg’s manufacture, in order to ingratiate himself in that lady’s good graces; yet, not one glimpse of Jessie’s bright face re warded him, and he was forced to return to his companions, confess himself baffled and join in the laugli at his expense. Not disheartened by his illfsuccess, he suggested, at length, that they should storm the citadel of Jessamine Lodge by a grand serenade. A serenade! Timothy Titmouse stared at Harry Racket in silent amazement. Nothing of the kind had been attempted in Mapleton since the marriage of the village belle, nearly ten years be fore, on which occasion two of her rejected sui tors, feeling very sentimental, had, notwithstand ing the coldness of the night, by dint of seeking frequent inspiration from a flask of aqua vitae, suc ceeded in singing, “Go and forget that we have met,” and “ They have given thee to another,” under her chamber window, to the- accompani ment of a banjo and an aecordeon, and had had their romance considerably cooled by a pitcher of ice-water emptied upon their heads by the indig nant bridegroom, who, not understanding such affairs, had construed it into an insult to his newly acquired dignity. But the serenade was finally agreed upon, a cradied violin and a guitar were procured to ac company the flute of the young collegiate, and as it chanced to be moonlight, the band thus fur nished played “ Dark-eyed one, dark-eyed one, I languish foi- thee,” that very night, under Mis? Meg's window by mistake. Whereupon, the geod lady’s vanity was so highly flattered, that she determined on rewarding them for their pains, by giving them a taste of her highl\*prized current wine, and rousing up Jenny, she dis patched her to the cupboard for a bottle, while she filled a dish with cake to .accompany it. Young Harry Racket winked triumphantly tit Timothy, not doubting that the refreshments were sent by Jessie, and filling the glasses all around from the queer-looking, large-mouthed bottle, he proposed that they should drink to fair Jessie of “Jessamine Lodge,” with the wish that the most deserving among them might soon have the privilege of changing the sweet name into JessieUnc\ The toast was received and drank unanimously, and then a silence ensued. Each of the party looked at the other without speaking for a moment, and then they relieved their minds by sundry ejaculations not proper to print, and by the utterance of those sounds which you have perchance heard at a dinner party, when the hostess, in a fit of abstraction, has sea soned the apple dumpling with sauce made of salt petre instead of sugar. “ Jty jove !’’ exclaimed Harry Racket, “did any mortal Christian such execrable stuff before ?” and Timothy answered with a, groan. Over-hearing these remarks so derogatory to her wine, Miss Meg (who had been by no means pleased with the toast) now unable to restrain her wrath, thrust her night-capped head out of the window and denounced the nocturnal musi cians as a set of neer-do-wells, intimating in no very gentle terms that the sooner they made their adieux, the pleasanter it would ho to the house hold. Aroused by the meter, the old Doctor himself came hobbling downstairs with his silver-headed cane, but no sooner did lie learn the cause of Miss Meg’s indignation and catch the words “ bot tle” and “currant wine,” than, snatching a can dle, ho darted for the store-room and soon re turned in a state of distraction. “I knew it! 1 knew it!” he shrieked franti cally as lie strode up and down the room in his robe dt unit and red flannel night-cap. “1 am ruined, forever ruined. Instead of your trum pery wine, its my best cogniac brandy, where J had preserved my horned frog and my double tailed lacertus, besides the g*een tadpole and a couple of young scorpions I intended sending to the cabinet of natural curiosities. lam ruined, all through the foolishness of an old woman and a silly jade that never did the world an atom of good in their lives. Go, you stupid callant,” lie continued, turning to the trembling Jenny, “and see what you and those guzzling screech owls have left me. I’ll warrant ye they’ve swallowed the'scorpions at least,” and the Doctor tore his night-cap off in his fury, and consigned the un lucky screnadors to a place too hot even to think of this warm weather, while Jenny went to see the extent of the mischief. The romantic visi tants had vanished before she reached the place, hut not until they .had ever-heard the old gentle man’s complimentary expressions and learned the nature of the beverage they had drunken. Harry Racket left town early next morning. Timothy Titmouse was in bed for a week. The story came to the ears of the neglected damsels of Mapleton, and they had ample revenge on their delinquent gallants. The Doctor was so fortunate as to re possess himself of the horned frog and the scorpions, but the “/<()■/•” and the green tadpole could no where be found. It is the general belief, that Harry Racket swallowed his own specimen. He is at Oxford now, and, notwithstanding his wild ness, bids fair to graduate with honor. Mr. Fug gins’jaroboscis is as rubicund as ever, and if you wish to poison yourself, you can at any time buy a box of vegetable pills at his shop—corner of Clay and Bragg streets. Miss Meg is still in maiden meditation, though it is rumored that the minis ter, a widower by the fourth bereavement, is fa vorably impressed with her housekeeping capaci ties, and her talent for the manufacture of sau sages and cream-cakes. The Doctor, as I have been credibly informed, has searched the whole neighborhood for another specimen of the dou ble-tailed lacertus, but in vain. Timothy Ti tmousc recovered from the effects of his involuntary emetic, and succeeded, by the aid of “ Sheldon’s whiskerando,” in raising a thin crop of sandy hair upon his upper lip, in consequence of which he was enabled to play sad havoc with the affec tions of the Mapleton. young ladies ; but who won the peerless .Jessie for a bride, this record sayeth not. (From the Aug. Constitutionalist.) TALASSUS PURSUING HIS INQUIRY, COMMENTS UPON FEMALE EDUCATION. It sometimes happens that great evils grow tip j in the midst of a people without opposition. Qui etly, and it would seem, unobserved, they obtain groat strength, they ramify in every direction,’ they reach every man, hut still tkcre is silence. | Then comes some man. holder or less pat ient than the others, arid cries out against the evil; and straightway every voice is on his side, shouting “down with it,” and men wonder that they have endured it so long. Such an evil wc honestly ‘be lieve the Georgia institution of “ Female Colleges to bo, and now is the time to cry out against them. Are you, fathers and mothers, satisfied with these institutions; with the training your daughters re ceive there? Do you ever reflect upon tlie his tory of these Colleges, arid reason upon the prin- ! ciples on which they ace bused? Read, here, the story of one of them. A railroad has pen.ctra, l ed some portion of the ; State, and at one of its sta Lions has arisen a litt.e village, whoso shortsighted inhabitants imagine i they will live in history 's the founders of a j great city, ft takes lmt a sihort time to explode ; these hopes, and the fond settlers find their wretched town at a stand still, and their capital invested in vacant town lots, w’t dcR threaten to j remain so to all time. Somethin S must be done to prop the decaying fortunes Joncsville. Erect a factory of some sort. No, . there is not a watercourse. Employ steam powe. “• There not enough capital, perhaps a lack of enterprise. What, then, is to be done ? Why, we build a Female College. We can procure sohh ‘ sOl a faculty cheap. This section has a repub Ytion for health, and is ycry accessible. There art plenty of “ parents and guardians” who simpli r Y ie matter of their daughter’s and ward’s eduft by sending them anywhere for anybody to U ‘ Our families will board the young ladies, pm bly to ourselves; tradesmen to supply their wat will be attracted to our town, and we’ll find a steady sale for ouv vacant lots. And then then ‘ will be an annual commencement, when out hotel keepers will reap a perfect harvest. In word, new vitality will be infused into our dying: settlement. So reason the worthy but hitherto [ disappointed founders of axui a Female i College is determined upon. ’have not mis- i EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. VOL. XXI V. NUMBER 82 calculated in reference to parerts. Scores of young ladies attend the first term of the College, all things else go on as predicted, and convales’ cent Jonesville bids fair to attain a good old age. r,|,t lt is aII your expense, young ladies-yes ’ all at your expense; and we arc prepared to prove tho charge against the good people of Jonesville, and all others whom it may concern. •So much for the history of our typo college; let us now .examine the principles on which it rests. W e suppose that those of its patrons who have any opinion about it at all, are advocates for giv ing to joung ladies a vigorous, manly education, they are no believers in old world notions of fe male education, in the cultivation of elegant lit erature, ol graceful thoughts. Their daughters must 13 taught algebra, geometry, practical chem istry; bo thoroughly grounded in mechanics; and, if possible, become logicians; be educated “practicallyin other words, like young men. Where can this ho best done? Why at college; young men are educated at college, and so must young women be. Young men are, indeed, sent to college, and it is all right that they should be. It is true, that there they become rough and rude ; they lose the restraints of home, and they are apt to lote much in good manners; they become boisterous, uncouth and generally disagreeable; they become reckless of the feelings of others, and of many proprieties ; they lose in refinement, for home is the place for its cultivation. But all this must be endured for tho sake of greater good. The male animal has to rough it all through life. With him, it is contention with this man or that, a fight against one or another evif.from beginning to end. Stern he must be, and he must go through a process of hardening, a course of train ing. He must have competitors, that he may learn to contend; lie must encounter rude men, for with them ho will have to do as long as he lives ; he must have his retiring disposition em boldened by public exhibitions, for his most use ful acts in after life must be in public. He must have his principles proved and his strength con firmed by the “ rough and tumble” of college life. Better for the cause of learning, and far better for the unsullied purity of his soul, if the scene of his training could be his father’s house ; if, amid the retirement and meditation of a study he could appropriate the discoveries of learned men and drink at the fountains of ancient wis dom. But, alas ! it is a necessltas consequent <* that he prove his strength in another and ruder pala.- estu. But not so with young women. In the midst of a peaceful home, without transcending the limits protected by the benignant Penates, she can contemplate the whole scope of her duties, and prepare herself for them. She wanders through the well ordered parlors and chambers of her father’s house; she examines his modest library ; she steps out upon the balcony —at her feet is spread a lovely garden ; over the fields she can see the neighboring town, the houses of her friends, the hovels cf the poor, the churches of her faith. Happy girl! she has surveyed the whole field of her labors. Would she know more definitely what she is to do? Let her observe her mother tending with house-wifelv zeal to all the caves of her household; see her comfort and cheer her husband, delight him with her gentle discourse, entertain him with her womanly ac complishments ; sec her directing the education of her young children ; watch her as she makes her way to the dwellings of the poor; see her once more in the house of God, worshipping him with spirit undisturbed by worldly vanities. And if she ask where are the diversions of this sort of life, let her remember her father’s library; let her look at the lovely flowers at her feet, re quiring gentle hands to tend them; let her raise her eyes once more to the homes of her friends, and think of the quiet mornings, the happy even ings, spent with them in social re-union. We hate to leave this quiet spot and this prom ising girl; hut lest we appear too exclusive in our attentions, let us join this joarty on their way to enter a female college. They are a quiet, pleasant .set of girls, now, and wo will gladly ac company them to the college—not into it. Please excuse us, young ladies, we have, in our time, spent three years within the walls of a eollege, and we know that there human nature does'nt present its most enticing aspect. We shall come to commencement when you graduate, and, with your permission, renew our acquaintance. And sure enough, here we arc at commence ment. and there sit our old acquaintances, but considerably changed since we last met. They sit facing a large and staring crowd, but what is the peculiar object of College training but to pre pare for public occasions ? Ho not suppose that that young lady has so little improved her advan tages as to he blushing. It is only her rouge. Ponging is a part of the course at Female Col leges. They are beginning to answer the ques tions, on which they have been drilled for week*. Some answer, some do not, none exhibit any dif fidence or embarrassment. Now is the hour for the musical exhibition. They play and sing, very well, too, we must say; ; but wouhl’nl we admire the performer more, it, in view of the crowd, there were a little unsteadi | ness, a little tremor of the voice ? But wc forget I that it is a College, and one of the advantages of ’ a College. 11 is the lastlay of commencement— ! the day on which compositions are read. Good Heavens! no woman, who has’nt spent years on the stage, will be able to stand the trial. We soon discover that our sympathy is needlessly ex cited. < Allege training has been most successful with these voting ladies. They advance boldly, though the’crowd do stare; there is no tremor in their voices as they read —this is one, who has & I smattering ol’ Astronomy, about the “lost star,” or she startle her auditors by the magnitude of solar distances; another, who has an | eye to something popular and “taking,” reads a “ fast” production of fortune hunters; while an j other, who is simply commonplace, drones away ! with an immensely patriotic effusion on tlie | “Sunny South.” ! From the examination, wo went to the ball. ; “Surely there,” someone says, “they were charming, sprightly, quick. ’ - Yes, quick to the degree of being extremely “fast.” “ Well, did’nt I they talk well?” Wo can't say this either: it ! was so near to nothing that it defies description, i We think, however, that it was something about j “flirts,” “beaux,” “ handsome young men,” Co toosa, twaddle and nonsense. When the ball waj over, and wo handed one of the young ladies ! back to her father, we wanted to ask the old gen tleman how he was satisfied ; and in our indigna tion that he had so far forgotten his duty, we had half a mind to tell him that we were not at all so. But then we reflected that it was probablj not all his fault: that he was a good, honest man who had been deceived by some flaming pros pectus of a Female College, to which, by way o giving it currency, had been affixed a seetariai appellation—as Methodist or Baptist—a word sa cred and attractive to him; so wo wasted n< wrath upon him, but let him go quietly home , without inquiring the way thither. After tha day’s experience, we had no desire to “ wive it ’ with an “alumna,” deeming that if we did so, w • certainly would not “ wive it happily. 1 ” “And, what difference does it make if such tn , the sentiments of Talassus ?” None, whatevei sister graduate, as far as concerns the bad mass ’ menial prospects of Talassus individually; or i mow that he is ..the representative of a larg o j. >£s, who do not particularly fancy female^ 0 “ans, and consider that their acquirement* Lt?.