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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. TEKKIS: Two Dollars per year, in advance. JOHN H. SEALS, Sole Pkopbiktoh. LIONEL L. VEAZEY, Editor Luebuit Department. MKB M. E. HKYAN, Edithew. JOHN A. REYNOLDS, I’cßLisnrs. Clues of Ten Names, bv sending the Cash, will receive the paper at .... $1 50]jl copy. Clubs of Five Names, at 10 “ Any person sending us Five new subscribers, inclo sing the money, shall receive an extra copy one vear free of cost. m 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 oo Standing Advertisements: Advertisements not marked with the number of Insertions, will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. Druggists and others, may contract for advertising by the year on reasonable terms. Legal Advertisements: Bale of Land or Negroes, by Administrators, Ex ecutors and Guardians, per square, 5 00 Sale of Personal Property, by Administrators, Ex 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 -7 - 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 EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, 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.