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. . * UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY
iHlje lllearaia llmpmtitce fllrtts6er.
’ JOHN H. SEALS,
NEW SERIES, VOLUME 111.
OTHE GEOIIGIAO
TEMPERANGE CMSADER.
Published every Thursday in the year, except two.
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MKB M. E. HKYAN, Edithew.
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m
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accordingly.
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for advertising by the year on reasonable terms.
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ecutors and Guardians, per square, 5 00
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editors 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, 325
Legal :
Sales of Land and Negroes by Administrators, Exec
utors or 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 tlie
Court-house door of the county in which the property is
situate. Notices of these sales must be given in a pub
liff Gazette, forty days previous to the day of sale.
Notices for the sale ofPersonal 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 he made to the Court oi
Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be pub
itviied weekly for two months.
Citations for Letters of Administration, must be pub
lished thirty days —tor Dismission from Administration
monthly, six months —for Dismission from Guardianship,
’ forty days.
Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be published
monthly, for four months —for compelling titles from Ex
ecutors or Administrators, where a bond has been issued
by tlie deceased, the full space of three months.
Publications -will always be continued according
to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or
dered.
&€uotncy o QUifctcsy,
KINO A LEWIS, Attorney •s at Lane, Greenes
boko, Ga. Tlie 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 While Plains, Greene county, Ga.
V. r. KING. July 1, 1858. M. NV. LEWIS.
WHIT O. JOIINSOAf, Attorney at Law,
Augusta, Ga. will promptly attend to all business ]
intrusted to his professional management in Richmond
and the adjoining counties. Office on Mclntosh street,
three doors below Constitutionalist office.
Ileference —Thos. R. R, Cobb, Athens, Ga.
,June 14 ly
ROGER JL. WHIGHAM, Louisville, Jef
ferson county, Georgia, will give prompt attention
to any business intrusted to his care, in tlie following
counties : Jefferson, Burke, Richmond, Columbia, War
„rsn, Washington, Emanuel, Montgomery, Tatnall and
Scriven. April 26, 1856 ts
T EONARD T. DOYAL, Attorney at Law,
-LJ McDonough, Henry county, Ga. will practice Law
in the following counties: Henry, Spaulding, Butts,
Newton, Fayette, Fulton, DeKalb, Pike and Monroe.
Feb 2-4
DU. SANDERS, Attorney at Law, Albany,
• Ga. will practise in the counties of Dougherty,
Sumter, Lee, Randolph, Calhoun, Early, Baker, Deca
tur and Worth. Jan 1 ly
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 R KOIIIYSOV, Attorney at
Law, Greenesboro, Ga. will practice in the conn
tie* of Greene Morgan, Putnam, Oglethorpe, Taliafer
ro, Hancock. Wilkes and Warren. July 5, ’56-lv
J A IVIES BROWN, Attorney at Law, Fancy
Hill, Murray Cos. Ga. April 30, 1857.
gl - LEY & BOG(J g--
—WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN—
Choice Family Groceries, Cigars, &c,
276 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia.
Feb 18, 1858 tt
SHo U?o
Warehouse & Commission Merchant,
AUGUSTA, GA.
IS /CONTINUES the business in all its
K branches, in his large and commodi
ous Fire-Proof Warehouse, on Jackson
street, near the Globe Hotel.
Orders for Goods, &c. promptly and carefully filled.
Tlie usual cash facilities afforded customers.
July 22 6m“
Warehouse & Commission Merchants,
AUGUSTA, GA.
qg — b3s#TTAVING entered into a co-part
jp ❖ A J- ship for the purpose of carry ing on
the Storage and Commission Business in
all of its branches, respectfully solicit con
tignments of Cotton and other produce; also orders for
Bagging, Rope and family supplies. Their strict, per
sonal attention will be given to tlie business.
All the facilities due from factors to patrons shall be
granted with a liberal hand.
* ISAAC T. HEARD,
W.M. C. DERRY.
July 22d, 1858.
TAT ILL continue the WAREHOUSE and COM
Jackson street. Will devote their personal attention to
the Storage and sale of Cotton, Bacon. Grain, &,c.
Liberal cash advances made when required ; ami all
orders for Family Supplies, Bagging, Rope, &c. filled
at the lowest market price.
JOHN C. SEES. [Aug 12] SAm’l D. LINTON.
“POULLAIN, JENNINGS b CO. i
GROCERS AND COTTON FACTORS,
Opposite the Glebe Hotel, Augusta, Georgia.
/CONTINUE, as heretofore, in connection with
f their Grocery Business, to attend to the sale ot
COTTON and other produce.
They will be prepared in the Brick Fireproof Ware
house, now in process of erection in- the front of their
store, at the intersection of Jackson and Reynold streets,
to receive on storage all consignments made them.
Liberal Cash advances made on Produce in store,
when requested, .ANTOINE POULLAIN,
J a TOOMAB J. JENNINGS,
Aug H>—6tu ISAIAH PURSE.
<DN <o®
> WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
TIJIE undersigned, thankful for the liberal pa-
Xtronsge extended to him for a scries of years, would
inform his friends and the public that he will continue
ut his same well known Brick Warehouse on Campbell
street, near Bones, Brown &, Co’s. Hardware House,
where, by strict personal attention to all business en
trusted to his care, he hopes he will receive a share of
the public patronage.
Cash Advances,Baggiug, Rope and Family Supplies,
will be forwarded to cuetomers a? heretofore, when de
sired. [Augusta, Ga. Aug 19-§m
An Earnest Appeal.
EC ESS IT Y compels mo to make an earnest
I’ appeal io those who are indebted to me for 1856
i and ’57. for help. J need money to carry on my busi
i ness, and a email sum from each one whose account ie
past, due, would make mo cnev. Shall I appeal in vain !
j July 8 ‘ \V. If. SEALS.
;
j LOVERS OF GOOD THINGS, FRESH AND PURE,
JUST give ‘Old Mac’ a call— lie’s always ready
to supply (lie wants of those who may favor him
! with their patronage. What’ll you havo?
| A saucer of Cream,
A Lemonade,
Oranges Sc Bananas,
Poacans &. Peanuts,
Candies and Cakes,
Stews, Fries, Bakes,
Col’rado&. Ch’roots,
’Backer &. Havanas,
In sun or shade,
‘Old Mac’s’ th’ team
that can furnish just what you may love!
at short notice. Calß examine and eat.
He may still be found at his old place.
Greenesboro, June 10, 1858 D. McDONALD.
CURES GUARANTEED!
CANCERS AND SCROFCEA Cl RED.
ONE.IIUNDRED AND THIRTEEN CASES CURED I.ABT YEAR, 1537.
T)AMPHLETSS containing testimonials a the
J- highest character, as ,o his success, will be forwar
ded to any that may wish them. Those wishing to test
the efficacy of Dll. CLOPTON'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 nl! coin.
munications. Address J. A. CLOPTON; M. D.
July 15, 1858 ly Huntsx-lie, Ala.
Bowdou Collegiate Institution,
no itdoet, car roll 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 be organ
ized as soon as the term opens. I
.CHAS. A. McDANIEL, A. M.
Professor An. Languages, Nat. Phil. See. 1
JOHN M. RICHARDSON, B. S. i
Military Instructor, Prof. Mathematics, &e. !
July 22-61
.cs-'vff rgr*
; ALU AND FEMALE ACADEMY. I
Trustees of this Institution annomicethat
A- the next Term will commence on Monday, the 9th
inst. under the superintendence of HENRY C. WARE,
Esq. as heretofore. They take this occasion again to
recommend this Hchool to the notice of parents and
guardians, and 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 or ?8 per month, or in tlie family ot the principal,
at $lO per month. J. R. YOUNG,
WM. O. CHENEY,
C. D. KINNEBREW,
WM. EDMOND.SON. I
_Aug 3—3 t JAS. F. GEER.
Selling Off at Cost!
The subscriber, with a view to closing his busi- j
ness, is now ottering bis entire stock of mer- |
chandise at cost. Anv one in want ot a bargain, ci- *
ther in Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Ready-made Cloth-;
i ing, Hats C aps, Boots, Shoes, Drugs, Medicines, Crock- !
cry, Hollow and Willow Wares, Sec., See., will do well :
to call and examine my Flock, before purchasin'',
l’enficld, Aug. 5 WM. B. SEALS, j
130-000 BRICKS I
PROPOSALS will be received until Ist September, j
by the undersigned, tor the delivery to them, in I
Pen fluid, of 130,000 bricks, on or before the 15th of No- ‘
veniber next. Good clay can be had within u quarter ,
of a mile of the place of delivery.
11. H. TUCKER, |
J. E. WILLET,
W. B. SEALS,
Pcnfield, Green Cos. Ga. N. M. CRAWFORD. I
Aug. 12, 1858 j
‘yy r L have just received a very large assortment
French Worked Collars,
SWISS AND JACONET BANDS,
SWISS A JACONET TRIMMINGS,
SWISS & JACONET FLOUNCINGS,
PL’N A EMBR’D LINEN COLLARS,
Large, as taunt pVn if; cmb. L. C. Ifdkfs,
Rich Ch’ly LACE VEILS,new styles.
• —also— i
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
reduction on the market price, will be sold correspond
ingly low ; and a portion of them having been bought
of the manufacturer about 50 per cun. 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 we will Le pleased to
exhibit at our O N E P R 1 C E STORE.
Aug 12 BROOM & NORRELL.
Dr. W. L. M. HARMS,
to the good citizens of Pen-
YgfUJ field and vicinity, 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. 11. is professionally engaged
anil cannot be obtained. March 11,1858
PENFIELD AND GREENESBORO
[JACKS or any desired accommo-
J J dation, waiting the arrival of each
train. Passengers for Penfield, Scull Shoals, Dr. Dur
ham’s, Walkinsville, 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 die truins, can find like accommodation. Prices
1 moderate.
Good horses and conveyances, with or without dri
| vcr. CABII will bo required.
I have Horses and Buggies for hire at my stable in
Penfield. H. NEESON, Jr.
! July 15, 1858
rPIIE firm of COE & LATIMER is this day dis-
J solved by mutual consent. H. A- COE,
Greenesboro, May Ist, 1858 J. S. LATIMER.
The practice will be continued by
who will visit
i Oxford.
Penfield,
White Plains,
Mount 2Jion,
i Wamnton,
Elberton,
Dauielsville
Fort Lamar,
jot whieh due notice will bo given intbe Crusader an and
Gazette. Permanent offiee mJ. CUNNINGHAMS
BLOCK, GBEBNESBORO.
| May 13, 1858 tjanl
THE ADOPTED ORGAN OF AXL THE TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATE.
.PENFIELD, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2G, 18 51).
SJifMIMCNV
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BY .\fRB. M. E. BRYAN.
( LOUD 8.
BY MAKY L. BRYAN.
; Onward they sail—those golden barques of Heaven—
Freighted with angels, dial on earth look down
And drop down softly on the brow of even
A halo fitted for her regal crown.
Why gaz’et thou on them with a look so yearning—
With such deep earnestness in thy clear eyes ?
! What mysteries strange is thy rapt spirit learning
! From iliose blight visitants that haunt, the skies?
I
j Dost thou hear the hymning of the choir etherial,
i As their bright barques the upper ocean cleave i
; Or watchest thou where, on her throne imperial,
Gemming her crown with stars, sits stately eve.
j Or listenest thou to the sweet syren stories
j The sea-breeze whispers to thy dreaming ear,
t Telling of ocean caves and inland glories,
j Where fadeless summer crowns each circling year !
! Back from thy brow is rolled the tresses gleaming,
And mystery sits upon thy lip and cheek,
Halt-Pythoness inspired, half-angel seeming,
I look on tltec and muse, but may not speak.
i The clouds are passing—see, the shadows darkle
Around the summit of yon distant hill,
j And in the stream the quivering star-gems sparkle
; And zephyrs coase the oak’s green heart to thrill.
; Yes, they are passing, and their glow is fading
I As fades the aoul-light front thy gazing eyes;
; And well I guess, ihe thoughts thy spirit shading,
j Ad thy sad glance dear chest the evening skies.
; “These clouds,” thou musest, “type my own life story:
■ Even thus the sunlit years were wont to glide,
: White Hope, and Kailti, and Love —angels of glory—
j Threw their bright halos o’er Time’s passing tide.
Aye, but they darkened—like yon clouds they darkened:
Dim grew the sea, where sunshine danced before,
i Vainly, for Hope’s sweet voice, my spirit hearkened,
; And yearning, looked for the calm, hither shore.”
I
I read thy heart hy mine, my life’s owti darling :
Mv sou! can hear thy spirit’s wailing song;
But bid it hush—the poor, tired, wounded starling,
And cease thy dreaming, sister—oh !be strong.
Look up! where yonder clouds were whilom gliding.
Now gleam in beauty the bright, steadfast stars —
Not changeful like the clouds, but firm, abiding—
| God’s burning eyes, piercing the cloudy bars.
| Even thus, my sister, when thy youthful pleasures,
i Borne hy the brenth of Time, go darkening by,
; Serene and high shall purer, brighter treasures
Come forth, like stars, to cheer thy evening sky.
THE DELIBERATE ASSASSIN.
BY A SOUTHERN MAN.
Say wliat its apologists may to tlic contrary, du
elli ng is a most wicked and altogether indefensi
ble practice. The man who perishes on the field
of honor, i killed with deliberation, with malice
and with premeditation, the three essential ingre
dients which constitute the crime of murder, and
the slayer is, consequently, a murderer within
the strict technical definition of the municipal
law.
The provocation upon which a duel is fought,
whether great or small, considered as a justifica
tion, is not entitled to the least regard. Men
enter into society for various purposes, a chief
one being, as writers on elementary jurisprudence
assert, to secure the benefit of a peaceful settle
ment of their personal feuds and controversies.
No, the implied, if not tho express, stipulation
of the Social compact is, that the parties shall sub
mit to the arbitrament of the law in all eases in
which it may rightfully claim jurisdiction over
their actions. To take into their own hands tho
redrees of wrongs which are remediable by process
of law, is not only to violate the conditions nom
inated in the social bond, but tends, by necessary i
consequence, to subvert the fabric of government j
itself. Jju all cases, therefore, in which the law i
affords a remedy, the duellist who withdraws his j
grievance from its cognizance and submits it to I
the decision of the code of honor, violates a pub- j
lie obligation in the vindication of a private in
jury. Ho is, practically, an anavchist-df a type,
all the more malignant, because his infidelity to
his social and political relations is marked under j
the name of honor, and is commended to the ap- j
prov’al and imitation of others, by the patronage
which it enjoys of all the chivalric impulses of the i
unsanctified heart.
Aside, then, from religion and morality, which j
unite to condemn the practice, and judging it
merely by the secular morality of the municipal
code, duelling is totally indefensible. It is prac
tical rebellion against the supremacy of the law,
in the class of cases which I am now considering,
and amounts to moral treason against the holiest
sanctities of the social organism.
But, say its apologists, there is another class of
cases, in which the law affords no redress to the
injured party. This class embraces wrongs potent
enough to diminish the respectability or to im
pair the happiness in life of those upon wliom
they are inflicted, but which are excluded, by
their nature or the character of the evidence
which proves their existence, from the jurisdic
tion of the legal tribunals; stains upon the honor, I
too minute to*be seen by the dull optics of the j
law, but mountainous in dimension when viewed
by the keen vision of that high-toned chivalry, !
which is at once the evidence of a lofty soul and \
tho safeguard of a spotless honor; blows to the
sensibilities, keen as polished shafts to the deli- ;
cate fibre of the moral nerve, but too blunt, in
tho estimation of the civil code, to merit its penal
animadversions ; in fine, couutless, almost name
less grievances to the spirit, which true honor
foels, but no human law punishes. In this wide
field, overlooked by accident or excluded by de
sign from the jurisdiction of the municipal law,
the code of honor, say its abettors, erects its tri
bunal and exercises an authority which, however
it may he under the ban of morality and the out
lawry of a too refined reason, is, in reality, and
ought not to he, in fact, obnoxious to the ceusu
rers of either.
. But pray, let us ask these apologists of the
duel, to what, in the eye of reason and roligion,
does this argument, with its elaborate specifica
tions, really auiouut ? It is undeniable that tho
municipal law of most civilized countries, and es
pecially of our own, does give adequate redress
in almost, if not quite, every case in which men
are really entitled to claim it. But if tbore really
be omitted cases, how easy would it bo by appli
cation to the law-making power, to havo them
included in the list of prohibited acts and thus
made remediable wrongs when committed. And
do not reason and religion proclaim, with united
voice, that it is better for the individual and far
better for society too, that the wrong, in these
omitted cases, should be patiently borne until re
dress come in the right way by the fiat of a legal
enactment, which, in a government like ours, is
never long withheld in a proper case, rather than
punished without law, or rather against all law,
both human and divine?
The fact is, and tho statistics of duelling prove
tho remark <0 bo true, the large majority of these
single combats originate in causes so frivolous
and slight, that tho duellist himself would be the
first to condemn their admission into tho list of
wrongs prohibited by the municipal code. Run
tin! oyo over tho catalogue of fatal and of harm
less duels, in quite into tho causes which led the
combatants to tho field, and, in ninety-nine out
of every hundred cases, it will be seen that really
no injury at all, in word or deed, had been inflic
ted on either side. And even when there was
the semblance or tho reality of an injury, it will
j be found to have been, both in magnitude and
j character, of such nature as to have admitted of
! easy explanation between the parties, or of ready
j expiation, by concession or apology, which a
! really brave and honorable man will never refuse
| to make ivheu convinced that lie is in the wrong.
rut it on the ground of honor itself, tho favor
ite plea with these apologists, and the practice
stands condemned quite as strongly by their own
creed as by that of tho moralist. Is not the duel
list, in honor, bound to obey tbe law of the land in
which he lives? Is it the penalty alone which
magnifies and makes it honorable in his eyes ?
Does he feel that there is no sanctity attached to
it, as the most majestic product of the reason of
his nation, as the guardian of the collective weal
and the promoter of the highest welfare of the j
individual? Is it to be obeyed simply because it
is armed with power to extort obedience even
from the reluctant, rather than because that, as
the protector of the good and the punisher of the j
evil, it is entitled to the willing obedience of I
every heart loyal to duty and the right?
Surely these apologists cannot be so blinded by ;
the glare of the bloody code as to assume these j
monstrous and indefensible negations in its de-!
fence? They must admit, then, that the duellist, j
like all other members of society, owes a fealty i
to the law which is to be enforced, not solely j
by its penalty, but also by the honor, as well as !
the reason and conscience of the citizen. This j
admitted, is it not almost too clear for argument, i
that the duellist, when he goes to the field of j
single combat, goes in violation of an obligation !
which he is bound, by honor, to respect ? For, :
if successful in mutilating or killing his opponent,
is lie not guilty in fact, and if unsuccessful in bis
shot, is he not guilty, at least in intent, of mur
der or of an assault to murder, in the eye of the
law ? And does not that same law prohibit both
the fact and the intent also- when manifesting
itself in the attempt ? And was not the. duellist
bound, in honor, to obey tho law—bound, too,
by an obligation existing antecedent to his quar
rel and from which nothing growing out of that
quarrel could release him ? Does he not violate j
that obligation, and, by consequence, his honor |
pledged for its fulfilment, by taking or attempt
ing to take the life ot another on the field of sin
gle combat. The conclusion that he does, would
seem to be inevitable.
And if, as is unquestionable, the honorable ob
ligation vises in force and incumbency, with the
importance of the civil duty placed under its pro
tection as with an ally with the penalty of the
law, it would seem to be also true, that iu at
tempting to redress his honor in one point, the
duellist forfeits it in another of much higher mo
ment. Tie loses real honor, therefore, in attemp
ting to uphold what, in a large majority of cases,
is a false sense of it and comes out dishonored from
every duel in which he engages, whether he be
the victor or the vanquished party.
The practise ought, therefore, to be condemned
as really dishonorable, as well as unchristian and im
moral.
But it is less by abstract reasonings of this sort
that the absurdity of duelling is to be exposed,
than by practical illustrations-of its criminality
and folly, drawn from the records of the code of
honor. One of these, and for this very purpose, i
I am about to relate.
Many years ago, there lived in St. Louis, Mis- !
souri, a young man whom delicacy for the feel- 1
ings of others requires that I should designate by
pseudonym, which shall hi"! Raymond. His pa
rents were wealthy, respectable and ambitious
fjr the success of tlieir son in life. They accor
gave him every facility which the educational
institutions of the West afl'orded at that day for
intellectual improvement. His mental apti
tudes being favorable, he came forth from
college an accomplished scholar, with a range
of culture and attainment quite unusual for
one of liis age. He was originally destined
for the bar, but the fragility of bis health, early
developed, rendering the labors of that profession
too laborious, and tbe wealth of his parents, of
whom he was the only child, making them un
necessary for his support, ho gave up all idea of
professional employment, and had devoted him
self, since his return from college, to tho care and
improvement of his health.
In the circle of his friends he was both beloved
and admired. To the sprightly intellect and ele
gant scholarship, of which I have spoken, he ad
ded those amenities of manner and pleasantries
of disposition which secure popularity in any
walk of life. Tliq leading peculiarity of his emo
tional organization was a high-toned chivalry of
spirit, which neither permitted him to give cause
less offence to others nor to brook it when given
to himself. lie was, in a word, the youthful
Chevalier Bayard of the western metropolis in
which he lived, and was, as I have said, respected
and beloved by all for his accomplishments of
manner and his graces of both mind and heart.
In the same city with him lived another per
son, his opposite in most respects, whom I must
also indicate, by one only of his three initials, as
B. This personage had emigrated from Tennes
see, where ho was known chiefly as a pot-house
brawler and overbearing bully, and settled in St.
Louis to practice law. A residence of several
years, some ingenuity of mind and great audacity
of manner had given him a positiou, social and
professional, which hovered in the doubtful twi
light betweon respectability and contempt. He
was passionately fond ot drunken revels, and hia
great delight was to collect a crowd of congenial
characters and make night hideous with their
bacchanal orgios of which, by virtue of his sten
torian voice uod larger potations, ho w’as undis
puted leader aud chief.
1 or several nights, owing to some unexplained
delinquency ot the city police, the street on which
Mr. Raymond lived had been unusually disturbed
by the carousals ot these nocturnal revellots.
Mrs.- R. being an invalid, the uproar was very
annoying to her husband and son.
One morning there appeared in one of tho city
papers anonymous communication animad
verting, in terms of deserved severity, upon the
conduct of the bacchanal crowd, and invoking a
more vigilant interposition of the eity police to
suppress such disorderly conduet in future. The
communication gave deadly offence to B. and his
associates. It was decided, at once, to demand
the name of the author of the piece, and to hold
him to personal responsibility. B. as the leader
to the revel, claimed tbe post of avenger of the
insulted honor of himself and bis associates. The
| name was demanded and given. A challenge
; passed, and, as 15. was not excluded from the pale
j ofgentlemanlv reeoknition, it was at once accep
] ted.
The day and the place for the hostile meeting
I were fixed. The preparations and the departure
j for the field of combat were conducted with so
, much secrecy and dispatch, that neither the po
j lice nor tbe parents of Raymond knew anything
j at all ot the matter, until the tidings of the duel
itselt were brought to the city.
Iho place -selected for the fight was upon the
| declivity of a small undulation, facing the west,
at the base ot which, and only a few feet from
the spot whore the combatants . were to stand,
flowed a small stream of water. The prelimina
ries being arranged, the parties were placed in
their respective positions—the grim and scowling
bacchanal confronting the pale invalid, scarcely
half his equal in age, but almost immeasurably
his; superior in all the noble endowments of man
hood.
At this moment, when the pistols were about
to be placed in the hands of the principals by
j their seconds, B. earnestly requested, and, al
thugh somewhat irregular according to the laws
of the duello for him to do so, ol>tained permis
sion to vacate his position for the alleged pur
j pose of getting a drink of water from tho adjacent
j branch. He had hia object in making the re
; quest, and proceeded, with deliberation, to ac
j complish it. Casting a fierce and contemptuous
j look upon the unabashed countenance of the in
i trepid young man, whom he was planning to mur
| der, he deliberately rolled up the sleeves of his
! coat, walked slowly to the rivulet, and proceeded
| to make an ablution of his face and hands, dart
| ing, all the time, maglignant scowls at his oppo-
I nent.
i The stratagem succeeded. Young Raymond,
I though brave a a lion, was completely unnerved,
I not by fear, but by the inevitable relaxation su
pervening upon a delicate and excitable organi
zation, wrought up to severe and painful tension
hv the valorous spirit of the man. B. saw his ad
vantage and returned at once to his position.
The pistols exploded simultaneously. That of
Raymond, obeying the nervous tremor of the
hand, bore wide, and his ball struck the ground,
several feet short of the position of B. whose aim.
deliberate and steady, more through the convic
tion that he had, in effect, disarmed his oppo
| nent by his stratagem, than from persona! cour
i age, in which lie was even then believed, and
| afterwards proved, to be deficient, delivered his
load with fatal effect. The ball pierced tho body
of Raymond, who fell, apparently lifeless, upon
the ground. In a few moments he revived
enough to enable the surgeon to examine the
wound. Te at once pronounced it inevitably
and speed,i> mortal. Tho young man received
the announcement with perfect composure, llis
sole remaining desire was to see lii.s parents, re
ceive their forgiveness for the act which had lost
him his Life, and then to die.
By the assistance of his friends, lie was lifted
into his carriage and borne, bleeding and dying,
to the residence of his father. Tho results, ini
, . I
after years, told liow erushingly the blow came
upon them. The sole heir and prop of their for
tunes and house died in their arms from the shot
of a deliberate assassin, and thej r were left child
less and desolate in the world. The mother, al
ready failing in health, sank under the weight
and unexpectedness of the blow, and became the
inmate of a lunatic asylum, where she died many
years afterwards, and is still remembered for her I
- incessant and piteous calls upon the name of her ;
| murdered son. The father lived a heart-broken j
| man, sorrowing with a double grief—for tho son j
; he bad lost, and for the wife wrecked in mind !
| and more than lost to him by the blow.
Reader, if ever impelled by hatred, or misled
by tbe opinions of others, you feel inclined to give
or to accept a challenge, remember this truthful
admonition: dishonor, resulting from violated
civil obligation and regret, go with the duellist
to the field of combat: remorse and guilt return
with him whether successful or vanquished m the
fight. He goes forth a trespasser, he returns a
felon indeed or a homicide in intent.
—Home Journal. J. W, ‘l'.
A STRANGE COURTSHIP.
Gideon ltobin was afarm laborer in a West coun
try town of small note, where the labors of the in
habitants were divided between the cultivation
of the land and the weaving of a particular kind
of cloth for the London market. Gideon could
either plow a field, reap a crop of corn, shear a
sheap or weave cloth at the loom ; and besides all
this, bore an excellent character for industry and
sobriety. He was a man of fewest words in the
whole parish, and indeed opened his mouth so
seldom, that had all his utterances been reported
eerbafint by a penny-a-liner, and paid for at the
established rate, it is very certain they would not
have provided that worthy with shoe-leather.
The man was not merely modest-, but bashful be
yond all recorded precedent—shrinking from the
sound of his own voice as though it were some
thing oppressively terrible.
Dumb Gideon, however, he was called, was
not proof against the shafts of Cupid, and as fate
would have it, fell in love with the only daughter
of Tom Bpinner. The girl was a plump, well-fa
vored lass, who wrought in her father’s fields and
dairy by day, and wove at the loom in the even
ings, and, like Gideon himself, had a talent,
though by no means so striking a one for tacitur
nity. Gideon betrayed his first rising regard for
the damsel by silently, but suddenly, seizing her
pail of milk as it stood frothing with Brindlo s
creamy treasure, and lugging it off, together with
the milking .stool, to her father’s cottage. As this
freedom was not resented, he redoubled his atten
tions, and was ever at baud when his strong atm
could be of service to the maiden.
Dame Spinner having a respect for the young
man’s character, invited him on one occasion in o
tho house, and from that time forth Gideon spent
his evenings iu tlio cottage, and took his seat m
tho inglo nook, where ho remained tor hours, as
dumb and almost- as motionless as tbe flitch oi
bacon that dangled above his head, rarely finding
courage to speak ten words, and sometimes not
speaking at all during the whole evening. He
ttt feasting his eyes upon Polly as she pliod the
shuttle, and his part was to attend to tho wants
of the fire as it crackled on tho hearth in front of
him. On Sundays aiid holidays he was seen at
the side of Ins beloved, exhibiting at all times
evidence of tlio.trucst devotion. Still, he never
spoke a word, either to her or her parents, on the
subject nearest his heart. This silent homage j
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VOL. XXIV. NUMBER 38
‘vent on for two years. In the estimation of all
tlie neighborhood, the pair were booked for man
and wife ; amj as there was no impediment to
their union, people wondered why it had BO
off* long ago.
“Whether any kind and considerate soul gave
nc colJ A to take courago and speak up, we
< annot pieteml to say; but it is certain that at
length he found resolution to pop the question.
I he grand event took place in the following way,
and as we uere indebted for the account of it
from the mother of tho bride, wo cannot be mis
taken on tho subject.:
Gideon camo into the cottage on Christmas ova,
a little flustered, from his master’s house, by a
merry Christmas from tho whole family. Dame
Spinner saw an unusually manful expression on
his countenance, and half expected what was go
ing to happen. Father, mother and daughter
were assembled around the fire, having laid aside
their work to enjoy a few hours’ holiday over a
cup of elder wine. Gideon took his seat in the
chimney corner, and sat quiet for a few minute#
with a significant smile upon his countenance ;
then ho rose suddenly to his full height, and with
his head half way up the chimney, little more
than his corduroy continuations being visible to
the company, delivered himself deliberately of
the following mysterious declaration :
If somebody loved somebody as well as some
body loves somebody, somebody would have some*
body.” It is most probable that a declaration of
love was never made in such a form before. Gid
eon remained as mute as a statue, his head con*
cealcnl in tlie chimney for some ininuto-s after th©
prodigious effort ho had made. When, at length,
in complianco with the request of tho damsel’s
mother, bo brought his broad face into tho light,
it was tho color of a live coal, and was turned in
any direction but towards her who was tho cause
of his confusion. But tho ioo was broken ; th>
necessary preliminaries were soon after settled;
and on the ensuing Easter Sunday tho mflrriftgft
knot was tied which made Gideon Robin and
Polly Spinner one flesh. Neither of them, as far
as we have heard, ever regretted the step; and it
is our firm conviction that if Gidoon eould L©
prevailed upon to utter so many words, which is
rot likely, he would declare it was tho best job
he ever did in his life.
ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS,
A SCHOOL COMPOSITION BY MISS B. 11. BPRXCF.B, QJ?
OXFORD, TENS’.
Tt is a quality of that precious metal that men
worship to glitter: but it does not therefore “fol
low, that everything possessed of a shining exte
rior is to be taken as gold. So far is this from
being true, that we often see tho basest metal
equally luminous with the nmt precious, and so
frequent is the case, that a counterfeit, may often
be detected by its very lustre! There is a signifi
cant moral in this, and copious illustrations of
its cutting truth may bo found in almost every
community. Look at om* own village, town, or
neighborhood ; look at our own gentleman of the
nice tort. See that fellow with enorous moustache
and bloated self-importance. He carries a gilded
cane, and smokes cigars : ho speaks groat swell
ing words of vanity, and domineers before res
pectable men like a Goliath of Gath, lie is ft blus
tering idiot—a noisy braggart.
: In short, he has all the ‘fuss and feathers” —all
tho glare and “glitter’’ of superabundant gen
tility. lie may be a merchant, a doctor or
splendid loafer; but he is, nevertheless—in the
eyes of all sober people—a pitiful fool, a misera
ble leatherliead, a mere animal in cloth ! These
gilded specimens of tho “genus homo” —these per
fumed dandies, and we must say, beautiful fools,
arc as plenty in the world as tho toads were in
Egypt, and like Pharao’s vermin they often come
into our houses. Wo said they glitter, and ao
they do. Just look at their finger rings, their
watch chains, &c. And so showy are they, that
they often show more than they bargain for—they
show their ignorance, and all else that is abomi
nable.
The old adage is very appropriate hero:
“ A beautiful fool, dressed in fine clothes,
Is like un old hog, with a ring in his nose.”
They sometimes go to church, walk in and tak©
their seats and behave with forced dignity, look
ing cunning like so many foxes ; but spit rivers
of ambier on the floor, and curse the preacher
when they leave. ’Tis amusing to notice their
excessive vanity among the ladies; the way they
“ Fling sheeps eyes” at the fair sex and count
tlie number of their sweetheart© on their soft fin
gers. Os course when we speak of beaux and
gallants, they hre the acknowledged “ Lions” of
the day. The most presumptuous one is gener
ally the biggest fool; nevertheless, he leads tho
balance wherever lie goes, and thus the whole
herd of these contemptible simpletons are a
to female community.
“All is not gold that glitters.’’ Nothing is
plainer than this declaration: yet, how many
are they who mistake a mere pretender for a gen
tleman. When I was a child I thought every
man who had a brown cloth coat and a pair of
boots was a finished gentleman; but now I have
done with childish things; I find that, not with
standing nil the glare and glitter of men and
things, there is little that is real and that “ isah
not gold that glitters.”
How to Wed a Woman.— Women have real! J
more taste in matrimonial affairs than we are apt
to give them credit for. Next, to the suitors
monev, the lady has undoubtedly an eye to his
person, and admires a manly stature and o hand
some limb none the loss because she happened to
marry a mannikin instead of a man. A story is
told of a Roman suitor who obviously understood
human nature—or rather woman nature—far bet
ter than our modern beaux. Going to woo a fait*
lady, he took with him a bag of gold and a barof
iron ; the former he throw at her feet, the latter
ho bent in her presence. Spine and “spelter’*
did the business.
Dr. L.ivinostonb’s Travels.—ln England, Dp.
Livingstone’s volume of travels is now in its thir
tieth thousand, and sells at a guinea. Hurray tho
publisher, undertook to give him two thousand
pounds out of the proceeds of the first edition of
twolve thousand copies. When the second edi
tion was called for, the publisher wrote to the au
thor that he should have a third of the profits. A
third and fourth impression was demanded, and
this princely publisher informed the traveller that
he should haver half of the profits of all the edi
tions together, first, second, third and fourth.
Moreover Murray paid up the money at once, and
Livingrtoire had it in his pocket before he
Scotland.
The Leadngton wad Rg-ftagdy (ty-)
[ is to be sold tor debt.