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<£E*Daq t3&<OPaFg?£lai TUMfflflAlllßllSiMtt. PJ3NFIF.I/I>, (HiOUGIA. • Thursday Morning,, 2) iBSB. Mis, Bryan’s P' epartmcut Has been deficient in editorial mutter the last two weeks, owing to her abscucofroiu home. She is on a visit to Florida, but will be at hot post soon, when her numerous readers will hea# from her again. Dental Card. We take pleasure in callin^^ tent } on to the card of Drs. Morgan. & McGregor, ijgeon and mechanical dentists. Hr. McGregor b©c* Jineg anew resident of our village, and he brings fl 8 ’' ter i n g recommendations as to his dental abilities, yy e can recommend this firm. R. N. Ely, Esq. W 6 are pleased to see, in the Albany Patriot, some very complimentary notices of our old College class mate “Robert,” nominating him as a candidate for So licitor of the South-western District. He is a young man of fair abilities and would fill the office with hon or to the circuit. We hopetohearof his election in Jan uary next. Uncle Dabney. We clip the following paragraph from the notes of an itinerant in the Southern Christian Advocates I met at meeting, that staunch veteran of Tem perance, Rev. Dabney P. Jones'. His heart is still warm in the cause, and he mourns over the low state of the Temperance reform. He says almost the onlv hope now is in the strychnine that isfound in nearly all the liquor used in these days. It kills quickly—and some fear it. A Baby. The following is a very good definition, so faras our ejfrcrience goes: The judge, jury and sentence of every well regulated family. A thing that squeaks at midnight, and will not be comforted. A biped called by its mother “de ille ro sy. posy, pinkum, pink, bless its heart!” and very frequently “toted” to the tune of “Here we go up, up, up-e, and here were we go down, down down-e.” By bachelors called “brat”, and by Topper, the proverbial philosopher, delicately alluded to as “a well spring,” The Daily Dispatch. We ate pleased to learn that the Augusta Dispatch is stilljlourishing and steadily gaining patronage, both subscription and advertising. We can and do ‘most cheerfully recommend the Dispatefci as an excellent newspaper. The editor in speaking of the daily, says: The Dispatch circulates freely out of the city among merchanis who look to it for the latest telegraphic and commercial news. It is a cheap paper, and it is grati fying and encouraging to us to see its circulation stead ily increase. Its city circulation is equal to if not larger than any other paper published in Augusta. Merchants look for it with anxiety, and as for the Ladies (God bless them all,) they won't go without it. Hon. A. If. Stephen*. Our associate met Mr. S. a few days since and was informed by him that his recent pleasure tour out West was a most delightful one. He visited the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, and went to see the “Old Log Cab in,” but it had burned down ten days before his ar rival ; he passed through Ohio, Michigan and crossed over to Chicago in Illinois. In Olno he passed through a place containing some 3000 inhabitants, all of whom were engaged in manufacturing whiskey, and raising hogs upon the swill. The wretched effluvia which rose from the hog pens and distilleries, filling the atmos phere of the whole country, he represented as being intolerable. . Postage on Uommuni catffons. We would most urgently request “long winded” correspondents to stick enough stamps upon their pock ets, to render the prepayment of postage on them cer tain. We have recently found in our post office box envelopes “ stuffed chock full" —almost ready to burst, with only one stamp stuck on the corner, and right be side that the postmaster writes, “due” so much. Now this is very annoying; and particularly so when we take into account the fact that nine-tenths of such bun dles are thrown into the trash box, and many ol them lodge therein w ithout a perusal. We shall in future decline taking all such from tho post office. An Editor Tight.” We believe it is rare that editors indulge in a drop, but when they do, their readers arc sure to find them out. A Syracuse cotemporary w T as called upon to re cord a “melancholy event” at a time when his head was rather heavy, and did it up after the following man ner : “Yesterday morning, at -(o’clock P. M., a man with a heel in the hole of his stocking, committed arsenic by swallowing a dose of suicide. The inquest of the verdict returned a jury that the deceased came to the facts in accordance with his death. He leaves a wife and six small wives to lament the end ot his untimely loss. In death we are in the midst of life.” We are pleased to see that the editors of the Federal Union are getting afraid of old “red eyethey desire tohave him inspected, which ifdone, w'itl certainly reveal horrid deformities in his features, and w r e think the ed itors will be induced to cut his acquaintance when they learn his component parts. In the last issue of that paper we find the following editorial suggestion: Would it not be well tor our city authorities to make the appointment of an Inspector, and have the liquors that are sold in our city examined t We see it staled that the Inspector in Cincinnati found a large propoi lion of the whiskey and other liquors contained vitriol enough to oat holes in the stomach. It is not impossi ble but some of that liquor has been sent .South, and found its way into our market. No harm can lie done by the examination. Eiißlnnd and America. The Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce says there has never been a time since the peace of 1.783 when the relations between this country and Great Britain were so entirely cordial and satisfactory as at this moment, and this sentiment was expressed by the able, enlightened and veteran Secre tary of State, on the morning of the sth—just befifre the reception of Mr. Field’s dispatch announcing that the cable waslaid. Telegraphic inter-communication may, therefore, well be commenced without interchange of messages of peace and good will between the two ernments. The same correspondent states that the right of search and visit has been explieitely surrendered by the present head of the British government. Feeing waiters. Perhaps every one who has travelled has experienced the unjust taxation which this system imposes at nearly every public house. It has been allowed by Hotel proprietors until waiters expect it, and will not move without it. The system is an outrageous one and should be broken up. Some unkown traveller makes the following remarks upon the subject": This is a bad practice, and one that every hotel pro prietor should discourage. It gives rich men, who can afford to squander money, an undue advantage. It is presumed that in all first-class hotels the waiters are fairly paid by the proprietors for their services; and they ought to do alt in their power to promote the comfort of the guests without a douceur. It is a sort of bribery that debases the parly accepting it, and is a tax upon the guest which the servant has no right to impose. TANARUS ‘l'rue. The Tlecordtr of Chicago, 111., in charging the grand jury recently, said: . Dming thepast five years that I haveheld this court . n unpleasant duty to try and sentence to o ,!!i e i n !r several hundred persons; and I am WH , eif is an ea *y matter to find ju without BiK; y wtlbng to pnnish poor offenders Hia, iumrs e n’! “'/‘‘TS U is Wlth difficulty one had >0 f°. und w,l ° appreciate the fact that This fact is applicable not only to Chicago, but to every other portion of our country, in these peculiar y selfish tunes. Arraign a poor man before a jury ofh.s peers and they deal with him according to his deserts but a rich man seldom if ever receives justico at their hands, no matter how flngrant his crime. Who is not cognizant of the truth in this statement, and who is not ready to say that such a state of things ought not to exist. “The deacon of an Arkansas church, upon whom a new pastor had been settled, was praising his many good qualities to the deacon of a neighboring church, fie declared that their new minister had but one fault in the world, and that was a propensity to become a little quarrelsome when he vtas drunk.'’ 1 ■ W, )(. Hunter. \Vl> llaVc>- j(Jt j i;Hl ,|, t , pleasure of hearing again from . ‘ ..ildren’s friend,” and wc know the little boys “..,d girls among our readers will be glad to learn ilntt lie intends returning South early in October next, lo re sume his labors in behalf of the childicn. Wc perceive he has not been idle since leaving our State last spring: having lectured, as he informs us, in Charlotte, balls bury, High Point and Grtcncsboro’ , N. C.; Danville, Richmond, Bowling Green and Fredericksburg, Va.; Cherry Hill, Md.; Newark and Wilmington, Del.; Chester and Norristown, Pa.; Colchester, Conn, and when lie wrote us was about closing a series ot lectures in Rahway City, N. ,J. having held, in all, overone hun dred Sunday School and Temperance meetings since April last. Mr. Hunter went North for the purpose of resting from his labors during the summer months, but it would seem that the friends of the good cause will keep him on the move wherever he goes. He states, however, that he intends to take a little respite from this time un til the first of October next, and he desires us to say to the friends of the Sunday School and Temperance cause, that (hose who desire his services on his return South, may write him at Elizabeth, N. J. He would be pleased to hear from any of the superintendents or teachers of Sunday Schools where he has already lectured, giving any facts of interest in connection with their schools, and would also be glad to hear, by letter, trorn any of his dear little friends, the boys and girls who have heard him lecture. We have no doubt many of the children will embrace this opportunity of writing to their “friend,” and we know he will be delighted to hear from them. He has authorized us to say that he will answer their commu nications either through the press or by letter. Be sure to direct your letters to Elizabeth, N. J. A correspondent of the Tennessee Baptist makes this very sensible inquiry in regard to church members deal ing in spirituous liquors: “ Ought a Christian Church to hold fellowship with a member who will either make or sell intoxicating liquors ? This question ought to be discused and set tled. It is right, or it is awfully wrong. If a member goes to the races and bets, we have no scruples about excluding him. If he plays cards, or visits the theatre, or keeps a farro table, we whirl him out; but if he sells whiskey and makes a great deal of money, (like the no ted Baptist hotel-keeper in Richmond, and member of brother Burrow’s church. If there is not an unscripturality about this whiskey vending, there is certainly an immorality about it that should not be fellowshipped. What do you say l The editor makes the following remarks in reply, which we heartily commend. The inquiries of Dr. Wayland, which are here quoted, deserve the serious attention of every one engaged in the wretched traffic: “ We have very olten expressed our sentiments upon this or similar queries. We cannot better present the immorality of the traffic than in the following questions by Dr. Wayland, who is acknowledged to be one of the ablest moral philosophers of the age, and is, therefore, apart from his high moral and religious character, enti tled to the attention and respect of all. lie puts to the conscience of each one who continues, either by whole sale or retail, to be engaged in the traffic of intoxicating drinks, or who in any way furnishes the same for his fellow man, the following pointed questions. Let every such one read attentively, and then seriously ask him self, “Is it right ?” Jst. Can it be right for me to derive my living from that which is spreading disease and death through my neighborhood ? How would it be in any similar case ? Would it be right for me to derive my living from sell ing poison, or from propagating plague and leprosy around me ? 2d. Can it be right for me to derive my living from that which is debasing the minds and ruining the souls of my neighbors ? How would it bs in any other case ? Would it be right for me-to derive"niy living from the sale of a drug which produces misery or madness; which exalted the passions, or brutalized and ruined the souls of my fellow men ? 3d. Can it be right for me to derive my living from that which destroys forever the happiness of t he domes tic circle—which is filling the land with women and children far more deplorable than that of widows and orphans ? 4th. Can it be right for me to derive my living from, thttt which is known to be the cause of nine tenths ot all the crimes which are perpetrated against society ? sth. Can it be right for me to derive my living from that which accomplishes all of these at once, and which it does without ceasing ? 6th. Do you say that you do not know that the liquor you are selling will produce these results l Do you not know that nine hundred and ninety-nine gallons will produce these effects for one which is used innocently ? I ask you then, 7th. Would it he right for me to sell poison on the ground that there was one chance in a thousand that the purchaser would not die of it t Bth. Do you say that you are not responsible for the acts of your neighbors ? Is this clearly so ? If these tilings are so—and that they are who can dispute— f ask you, my respected fellow-citizens, what is to be done? Let me ask, is not this trade altogether v rong ? Why, then, should we not altogether abandon it ? If any man think otherwise and choose to continue it, I have but one word to say: My brother, when you order a cargo of intoxicating drinks, think how much misery you are importing into the community. As you store it up, think how many curses you are lieaping together against yourself. As you roll it out of your warehouse, think how many families each cask will ruin. Let your thoughts then revert to your own fireside, your wife, your little ones; look up to Him who judgeth right eously, and ask yourself, my brother, is it right ! Origin oC Brandy. Brandy began lo be distilled in France about the year 1312, but it was prepared only as a medicine, and was considered as possessing such marvelous strengthening and sanitary powers that the physicians named it “the water of life,” fl'eau de vie,) a name it still retains, though now rendered, by excessive potations, one of life’s most powerful and prevalent destroyers. Ray mond Lully, a disciple of Arnold de villa Nova, consid ered this admirable essence of wine to be an emanation from the Divinity, and that it was intended to re-ani mate and prolong the life of man. He even thought that this discovery indicated that the time had arrived for the consununationofall things—tliecnd of the world. Before the means of determining the true quantity of alcohol in spirits were known the dealers were in the habit of employing a rude method of forming a -notion of the strength. A given quantity of the spirits was poured upon a quantity of gunpowder in a disli and set oh fire. If at the end of the combustion the gunpowder continued dry enough, it exploded, but if it had been welled by the water in the spirits, the flameof thealco hol went out without setting the powder on fire. This was called the proof. .Spirits which kindled gunpow der were said to be above proof. From the origin of the term “proof,” it is obvious that its meaning must at first have been very indefi nite. It could serve only to point out those spirits which are too weak to kindle gunpowder, but could not give any information respecting the relative strength of those spirits which were above proof. Even the strength of the proof was not fixed, because it was in fluenced by the quantity of spirits employed—a small quantity of weaker spirits might he made to kindle : gunpowder, while a greater quantity of a stronger might fail. Clarke, in his hydrometer, which was invented about the year 1740, fixed the strength of proof spirits on the stem at the specific gravity of 0920 at the tem perature of GO degrees. This is the strength at which proof spirit is fixed in Great Britain by act of Parlia ment, and at this strength it is no more than a mix ture of 49 pounds of alcohol with 51 pounds of water. Brandy, rum, gin and whiskey contain nearly similar j proportions. ‘Flic Course of True I.ove. About tbirtv years ago', says the Louisville Journal, when Sir Edward Lytton Btilvver wasa bridegroom and the present Lady Bulwer his bride, that exquisite poe tess, “L EL.” (Letitia E Landon,) wrote and pub lished an account of their characters and personal ap pearance. They are both quite young and each ofthem in delicate health. The bridegroom was described as pale and fascinating, nnd the bride was painted as a fragile and fairy like creature, of surpassing loveliness. The tender tints of her cheek weresaid to be “like rose leaves counced on ivory.” The description was rend everywhere, and the public ndmirntion and the public sympathy was deeply excited for the young pair, who, it was thought, must soon pass away from a world too coarse and rude for such gentle and lovely natures as theirs. Ah, little dreamed the reader then, that after a very few yearn, the gentle bridegroom would strike the tender bride, that she would seek redress by publishing a series of coarse, fierce, and vituperative novels and pamphlets against him, and that, after a few more years, she, grown to he a sturdy, red meed and muscular woman, would pursue him to his canvass for parliament, take her stand upon the hustings in reply to his public speeches, call upon him to confront her, shout “coward” at him in his precipitate flight from her Cresence, and announce her determination to persecute im till he should cry for mercy, and humbly make her amends for all his villanies. When the fie.fe winds of ndversily blow over you and your life’s summer lies buried beneath frost and snotv, do not linger inactive, or sink cowardly down by tbo way, or turn aside from your course for momentary warmth and shelter, but, with stout heart and firm step, go forward in God’s strength to vanquish trouble and to bid defiance to disaster. If there is ever a time o cam uious, it is not when ambition is easy, but ®. r ’ * ‘e ht darknest, fight when you . own; die hard, and you won’t die at all. That moua man, whose bones are not even muscles and whose muscles are pulp-that man is a coward. The brandy, wine, cigars, and tobacco imported into the Failed States Inst year c ost ?l 1 .‘Vlt.HiiH, Indian whiskey—how it is made. One barrel of corn juice one hundred barrels ol water —burnt sugar, red pepper, plug tolnieeo ami strychnine, ad lib. At the late railroad accident ai the Sauqtloil bridge, the forward ear Went down; in the Erie railroad acci dent the rear ear went off the embankment; and at the accident on the Ildusatonie railroad, the middle carway entirely destroyed. Which car is the safest ? At a camp- meeting in Loudon j-ounty, Va. last week, the committee ’ seized upon one hundred and forty gallons ot whiskey, being vended in the vicinity, and poured it on the ground. This unexpected spiritual manifestation took the rumselleis so much by surprise that no resistance was offered to the proceeding. While the apple crop in this part of the country is generally considered a failure, it will be good news to learn, as we do from the Boston Transcript, ot the 9th instant, “that the apple trees in that part of New Eng land give promises of a great crop of excellent fruit. The early kinds will soon be in the market, and the best winter apples will be of large size and superior quality.” Says the Petersburg (Va.) Democrat : Two of our most eminent physicians have lately been engaged in a series of experiments, on the Canines, doomed by law to an execution, with a view’ to ascertain the effects, and; it possible, the remedies for various poisons. The result has been a discovery that, for strychnine, astrong dose of camphor administered before the spasm ensues, is a decided antidote, to the effects of that subtle poison. A correspondent of the Cleveland Review, writing from Chicago, says: “I should say that every real es tate man is mortgaged for five times what he can pay. Asa general item upon this point, I will state, upon the authority of a friend who saw the records, that the assessed valuation of the taxable property of Chicago last spring, was $36.000.000, while the amount recorded upon bond and mortgage, wltidh it was pledged to se cure, was over $109,000,000. Threatened Indian Invasion of Texas. The Galveston Civilian, ofthc 18th instant, says that a letter has been received from Mr. A. C. Love, a gentlc manentitledtothefullest credit, stating that the grand Camanche Council was in session a short time since above the great Salt Plains on the Arkansas ; that Paharu-ka was making a powerful effort to combine all the Ca manches against Texas, that seven tribles had met, about three weeks ago. Osages and Kioways had been invited to take part with them and share tie spoils equally, all of which was to avenge themselves for their defeat by Captain Ford. They will not bring their families near the frontier. An old lady residing not far from Exeter, was per haps one of the most brilliant examples of con jugal ten derness that the last century produced. Her husband had long been dying, and at length, on the clergyman of the parish making one of his daily visits, he iound him dead. The disconsolate widow, in giving an ac count of her spouse’s last moments, told him her “poor dear man kept groaning and groaning, but he could not die; at last,” said she, “I recollected that I had got a piece of new tape in the drawer, so 1 took some of that and tied it as tight as I could around his neck, and then I stopped his nose with my thumb and finger, and poor dear! he went offlike a lamb!” Horrible Affair. On Monday week, at a barbecue in Madison county, Kentucky, near Rockcastle, Mr. Moore, the constable, summoned Messrs. Roberts, Mullin, Jones and brother, to help him arrest two Haileys; the Haileys resisted, killed the constable and the brothers Jones, and woun ded Mullin, who is not expected to live, and Roberts slightly in the hand. One of the Joneses, after he had been cut across the stomach, told them he could not live, but one of them held him by the head while the other cut his head nearly off, leaving but a small particle holding the head and body together. The wea pons used were bowie knives. The murderers escaped, but one of them has since been arrested. Indian* Chastising-a White Man for Brutal Treatment of a Woman. The Hudson (Wis.) North Star, states that one Ham ilton, who lives by the side of Willow River, had shame fully and brutally abused his sister, who is partially in sane ; whereupon, a party of the Chippeways, who were encamped in the vicinity, repaired to Hamilton’s house sometime during the evening and found him in an altercation with his wife, threatening to whip her, &c. which further incited them to the deed of summary jus tice. Four of their number were stationed at the door, while the others made a noise which caused Hamilton speedily to appear minus his outer habiliments. The Chippeways then treated him to a ride upon a rail, after which they divested him of his hair and whiskers. All about a Woman—And a Married One at that. Says the Memphis Appeal, up at Portsmouth, Ohio, they have had an amusing lawsuit. Three ladies were passing a store before which several gentlemen were standing. The storekeeper said one ot the ladies, whose face he had not noticed, was not Mrs. 11. One of the party said it was; another said it wasn’t. The merchant said lie would give him a sack of coflee if he would go and see. He went, saw, returned and said the lady was Mrs. 11. of a verity. In the morning he claimed the sack of coffee, sending over a horse and cart, when a little sack, holding an ounce or two, pre pared for the purpose, was laid on the cart and deliv ered by the cartmen tot lie astonished Holmes. Holmes repaired to the store and claimed a regular sack of cof fee; it was refused. He brought suit; a jury was im pannelcd nnd rendered a judgement againt Hyatt, or dering him to deliver to Holmes a fifty pound sack of Java coffee, worth eighteen cents per pound. Fun in New York. A correspondent of the Boston Post, writing from a town in New York, has the following amusing ac count of a “fugitive slave excitement” there: There is a town in the interior of the .State, the name of which town tortures couldn’t drag from me, but the first two letters of its nickname are the Saline City. Now, the inhabitants of this city have a greatand abi ding horror of I lie fugitive slave law. They have a fu gitive slave bell, to l>e rung only upon dire emergency; they have fugitive slave vigilance committees, and are cocked and grimed generally for the United States Mar shals. Now, some wicked man, name unknown, once tele graphed from Buffalo that the slave catchers had seized a colored gentleman in that city, andtjiat thijyand their victim would be in the Saline City by the 12:50 train. Immediately the fugitive slave bell was rung—its ef fect was marvelous. It reminded one of Mrs. Heman’s “Bended Bow,” or Rhoderick Dim’s Fiery Cross. Every colored person who heard it dropped whatever he was doing and hastened to the square. Barber’s ap prentices left astonished, and irate old gentlemen half shaved, boot blacks left incensed exquisites with but one polished hoot, waiters caused late breakfasters to go hungry, and in the twinkling of an eye the square was filled with a dense mass of “thick darkness that could lie felt.” The crowd were told the cause of their being called together, and were admonished to be at the depot when the 12:50 train came in. When the 12:50 train came, the depot presented a strange spectacle. Not a white face was to be seen. An Englishman who was onboard the train made a note in his pocket book that a city in central New York was entirely populated by negroes. They cast suchagloom over everything that the lamps had to be lighted at mid-day. The moment the cars stopped, the lenders of the black-guards jumped on board nd rushed through in senrch of the poor captive. In the last car they found an unfortunate African whom they immediately laid hands upon and bore off in triumph. He, finding him self seized by a dozen excited men, was scared almost while and howled merrily. His cries xvere taken ns manifestations of fenr lest he should he re-captured, and consolations were heaped upon him. “Don’t be afeerd, ohilo! l)ey shant bobber git yog agin. Now, honey, you’s all right. Don’t be .cared at deni white trash, any more.” And lie was borne in triumph through the crowd nnd hurried into a conch, which was waiting outside. By this time he was petrified and speechless, saying his prayers inwardly, nnd making hurried preparations to die a violent death. His liberators, swelling with just pride, sat survey ring lum with the pleasing consciousness of having done a good action, hut the conch had not gone many yards bffijt'fl mu: of them began to rub his eyes and look savage. Then he broke out — “Look here, inn t dis Sam Johnsing, who libs up in’ Salt Alley, and mends boots dare?” “Yes, sail!” faltered Sam, who had been born In the city. “Den what do you mean by fooling us in disway oh? Get out of this immediately, and take that wid you!” That was the assistance of a Nofourteen, square toed, pegged boot, which sent Mr. Johnsing out of the conch flying-amt ended the great fugitive slave case. A Ml, l.ustis 1 110 Si. Louis, fiefui.biicon Ytxofdii the death of no old limn in that city, and furnishes the tolfowing in regard to his lifo : . i'. -vj Many years ago Baron Frederick Voti- Uerlol, wftosic family was one of ‘lie most independent .and aristrcicrat- j it in Saxony, fell in Jove with a poor fhrl, and deter- ’ mined to marry her. He thus incurred the displeasure ot his wealthy father, who, on learning of the proposed | allianer, at once disinherited the young nobleman and : turned him out of doors. This sudden reverse exasper- j tiled and maddened the lover, and bidding a silent fare* ; well to the home ol his childhood, and without inform ing tile object of his affection lie bent his course to this country. On arriving here he joined the U: K. Army, and served ten years as a soldier. It is said that his bravery and heroism on the plains of Mexico won the admiration ol all who had opportunitiestoobservetbem. A t tiic expiration of the ton years’service ho returned to Germany to ascertain how the estate of his family was managed, lie found that his parents werciu their ■ graves, and that ilie property was equally distributed I among his brothers and sisters, himself being wholly; overlooked and disregarded in the will. To add to his j dark fortunes he ascertained that the girl who was the j innocent cause ol his ruin had married and moved j away. Von Qcytcl’s mind had never fully recovered jroin the shock this intelligence had created. Wander* ing in reason, he returned to the United Stales, and came to St. Louis. Here he was prostrated by a violent attack ol sickness for some months. When he conval esced lie found himself entirely destitute of means. His pride was thoroughly broken down, and to obtain a livelihood the Baron actually took to the selling of “bretzels,” a kind ofpastry much in favor with tlie Germans. He continued in this paltry but honest busi ness for sixteen or eighteen years, and gained the ap pellation of “Bretzel Fritz.”’ Three years ago, having saved up the snug sum of S‘.)oo, and having met one of the opposite sex, in whom he thought ho could confide, and whom lie believed would make him a good and faithful wife, though she was several years his junior, Von Oertel was married. One day, a few months afterwards, on going home with his basket, he found that his wife had eloped with a se ducer, and not content with bringing her husband to disgrace, had taken his money and everything of any value about the house, leaving him in possession of a basket of bretzels and a dishonored heart. The old man, for he was now fifty-three years of age, (juietlv bore his new grief, and again, with perhaps an impre cation on tlie false one, addressed himself to tlte great one task of his file—forgetting. “Bretzel Frifz” has been well known in St. Louis— a wrinkled, slow-paced, stooping old man, with his bas ket on his arm, and rarely a smile on his face. In the last three years, he has laid away SIOO, the profits of his little business. Yesterday he was buried, having been sick three or four weeks. Before he expired he benev olently bequeathed his small possessions to the orphan children ot a poor man, well known to many of our cit izens, who died about a year ago. And so ended the eventful cureer ol Baron Frederick Von Oertel. A Tragedy iu New York™ltlurtler and Sui cide—Jfeu lousy tlie Cause. A bloody tragedy occurretf on Tuesday night, in the house No. 257 Houston-street, resulting in the death oi a German girl named Valentia Guigcr, and in that also of Philip Morganheimer, a printer, twenty-two years ot age. It appears that for upwards of a year Morgan heimer had been paying his addresses to Miss Guiger with a view of offering himself in marriage ; and re cently had become very jealous of the attentions of two young men who boarded in the same house with her. On Tuesday evening he invited the girl to walk out with him and see the fireworks that were to be dis played inthePark. Shedidso, and when thedisplay was over they returned to her boarding house. After being a short time in the bouse, and while in a backroom, Morganheimer drew a doubled barrelled pistol from his pocket, and deliberately shot the girl in the left breast. She fell to the floor and expired almost instantly. He then proceeded to his boarding house, No. 224 Sixth-street, where be shot himself over the left eye, carrying away most of his forehead and inflicting a mortal wound. In the meantime the Eleventh ward police had heard the report of the pistol at the girl’s boarding house, and Captain Squires, on reaching it found the girl dead. The Seventh ward police also heard the report of the shot fired at 224 Sixth-street, and Captain Hartt, with a posse of men entered the house, and found Morganheimer lying upon the floor in one corner ofhis room, his forehead shot away, and the pistol firmly grasped in his hand. A physician was sent for, and he was placed upon a bed where every ef fort was made to alleviate his sufferings. He made no statement in rcgi rd to the tragedy, nor any request ex cept for a drink of water, and died at eleven o’clock on Wednesday morning. Coroner Connery was notified, and held inquests upon the bodies of both of the de ceased. The evidence adduced showed the facts in the case to he as above stated. Morganheimer was of a very jealous disposition, and seems to have loved most ardently. Neat ly a year ago he became suspicious that the girl was intimate with one of the young men above referred to, and one evening watched them for several hours. He subsequently told the girl that had they not been very circumspect on that occasion he would have shot both. More recently he has threatened the girl’s life for acceptinginvitations to walk out with one of the young men but she seems not to have been incensed a gainst him on account of the threats The verdict of the Coroner’s Jury was as follows: In the case of Va lentia Guiger the jury say—“We find that deceased came to her death by a pistol shot wound in the left breast, said wound having been inflicted by Morganhei mer, under the excitement of jealousy.” The deceased was nineteen years ot age, and by occupation a dress-maker. Some gentlemen residing in her neigh borhood have contributed a handsome sum to defray the expenses of her burial, and she will be interred to day. The verdict in the case of Morganheimer was as follows : “We find that deceased came to his death by shooting himself through the frontal bone, thereby in flicting such injury to the brain as to cause death.” Deceased was also a German bv birth. “Another Hat-Full, Joel.” A short yarn was spun out to us last evening, of and concerning the experiments at milling of a couple of friends of ours, now or lately sojourning for health and pleasure at the,Talladega Springs. It is unnecessary to give the names of these gentlemen, but for conveni ence we will call them, respectively, John and Joel. They, it may be remarked, have great similarity of tastes, and among other penchants, are very fond of fishiug; and everybody knows that the vicinity ofTal adega Springs offers line opportunity to the skillful knight of the fly. Thus, John and Joel—there being no religious ser vices at the springs that day—went out, Sunday before last, to the mill of Mr. P , a mile or two down the creek, with a view to a dinner of small trout and bream. With them went their invited guest, Mr. Smith, and “Miles” “contrived” them down a bottle or two of wine. The party was snug : the wind was propitious; and the fish altogether amiable. A cosy, nice dinner of brown and crisp mountain fish was soon washed down wtih a few glasses of champagne; and then cigars were lit. As the smoke curled languidly about their no ses, Satan, (who was invisibly present, without an in vitation,) suggested to John, that that mill was a “slow coach,” and couldn’t cut much lumber; and John ex pressed the same opinion to Joel. Joel 1 bought differ ently, and so did Smith. “Let’s try her,” said John. “Agreed,” said Joel and Smith. It was short work ; a large pine log lay at right an gles across the carriage of the mill; and it was agreed to “let her rip” through this. Accordingly, the gate was raised and immediately the slillnes of “the grand old woods” was broken by the rapid, sharp strokes of the saw. In a minute the log was brought up and the saw went rapidly through. “Now stop her,” said Joel—and Smith and John es sayed to do so. But the mill wouldn’t be stopped, but went clatter ing away, as hard as ever! “Stop her, John, or by the Lord she’l split herself in two,” —shouted Joel. But all the fixtures were obsti nate and refused to yield to the exertions of John and Smith. On went the saw, while John and Joel per spired. Presently the carriage presented some metalic ob structions to the passage of thesaw, but “trueas steel,” it went against theobstruction —and away the teeth flew. [Some pieces of mill iron had been left upon the car riage way.] But yet it ceased not—up and down !up and down! the true steel to the dull cast iron, until suddenly a small fame broke out among the dust and splinters near the point of contact. “Great G-d, John,” said Joel; “the infernal machine is on fire. What shall we do?” “Run down to the creek and bring up your bat full of water,” said John. Joel looked affectionately at his handsome tile, which was always kept neatly brushed but submitting to the dire necessity, he straightway made it a fire bucket and commenced fighting the flames. John and Smith’s straws were unavailable; neverthe less, they did all those wild, inconsiderable things which most persons will do, in ease of fire, when there is no possibility ot doing any good. Still that toothless saw rippedon, singing a demon song as it scraped against the dull, cost iron. And the fire kept gaining a little. Joel labored faithfully, and every two minutes brought up his hat full of water and threw it upon the fire. John stood despairingly leaning against a post in the mill and hallooed to his friend, as he seemed to pause at the brink of the stream — “Another hat full, Joel, for God’s sake ! The infer nal thing will cost us at least SI2OO apiece, if it burns!” “HiHides mi/ hut,” said Jool; but he brought the wa ter and poured it on. On went the devlish saw, raking, rasping, and tear ing itself to pieces. At this juncture, Mr. P., the owner of the mill, hav ing seen the smoke, came down to the mill, and with great difficulty the saw was stopped and the fire put out. Joel won grievously “blown” oanyiug water in hl hat, and John was quite used up with excitement, while Smith was breathless from his exertions at some lever which he supposed might have some influence in quieting the demon saw. “Gentlemen,” said the proprietor, very politely, “it is easy enough to see why you couldn’t stop the saw al ter vou act it a going. This mill hs some new rangements which 1 onn easily explain—” “For Heaven’s sake, Mr. P.,” said John, “no expiations on that point! Its the first mill I ever set agoing and / shall never start another! Just send us your bill for the damages, and let’s say no more about it,” The “boys” paid S6O tor not knowing how to stop the saw, and that night John, in a feverish s|een, (he has that blessing, chills and fever.) shouted to his room mate — “One more hat-full, Jool!” 1 How much pain the evils have cost us which have never happened. . {•Written. for Hie Georgia Temperance Crusa'lcr.} lei pern me in Kanstas-TiuTc Hen once more in (lie field. Mr. Editor : I send you an extract front the Fort Scott (Kansas) Democrat, and an extract from a letter front Benjamin Brantly, which will tic interesting to his old friends its Georgia: For tlie Democrat. Mr Editor: Some of the friends of temperance, re siding in the neighborhood ol Mr. Helm, Southeast ol Fort Scott, have united together and lortned an associ ation, to be known as the “ Mount Vernon l enipcrance Society of Bourbon County.” 1 hey have field two meetings and adopted a Constitution. At their last meeting they resolved to hold another meeting at the SchoolHouse, on the road between Mr. Severs and Mr. Helm's, on Saturday next, at two o’clock m the afternoon. Tltcv also agreed to elect the officers ol the Society for the next year at that time. The persons who have hitherto niet together, are desirous that all the neighbors, friendly to the temperance cause, should unite with them. They wish that all the nienihers ol j tlu’ Society may have a voice in tlie election ot officers. 1 All who may attend on Saturday next, and unite with j the Society by signing the pledge will have the privi lege of voting. Mr. John S. Cattlkins and J. (. Simms, j Esq. are expected to address the Society on the oeea- ; siott. It is hoped the cause that this Society litis on- . gaged to support meets the approbation ol llto most, ii j not all tlie citizens of the neighborhood and vicinity, i All are cordially and most earnestly invited to attend tlie presence of the ladies is particularly desirable. The object of this short notice, Mr. Editor, is not to j advocate the temperance cause, but simply to notify the j people of the meeting. At the meeting the claims ot j the cause will be presented in a manner, it is trusted, j that will meet tlie approbation of all wlm attend. Aug. il, 1858. ONE OF THEM. Mr. Brantly writes: “On Saturday, by request, I at tended a small gathering of the friends of the temper ance reform, and assisted in forming a constitution and a society to be called the Mt. Vernon Temperance So ciety of Bourbon County, Iv. T. I had to make a talk to the people on the occasion. I came home an hour or ‘ two by sun, somewhat wearied and sunburnt, tolerably : well pleased with the event of the afternoon ; bur upon j the whole, with my “harps upon the willows,” as I ; have generally had them for several months, owing to events in this region. [Written for the Georgia Temperance Crusader:] Great It e viva I in Jackson—iTfcssrs. Cobb, j Overby and Jackson doing Goob Work. Messrs. Editors : During the last, month the writer | has been engaged in travelling in North-east Georgia; and although he has seen many stirring revivals of re- j ligion, both there and elsewhere, he has never seen any ! thing lo compare with the zeal and devotedness of the j churches in the religious meetings that are now going j on there. There is scarcely a church in any of the counties in which I have been that has not been visited by a blessed outpouring of God’s Spirit. All meet to gether—Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian—and en gage their whole souls in the work of their Master. And what is still more gratifying, especially to the min- j istrv is, that the lav members of the churches have gone ! to work. Many little prayer meetings, gotten up by two or three young men in a neighborhood, have result ed in the conversion of scores—many of w hom had lived till their heads were blossoming for the grave “in the tents of the wicked.” The first evening of tlie session of the Superior Court, which is now going on at Jefferson, some of the lawyers •ailed a meeting at the Methodist Church, and never, in my life, have 1 seen more zealous laborers in God’s moral vineyard. They have prayer meetings at eight o’clock in the morning, and preaching or exhortation at night, and will continue it during the entire sessions of the Court. And their if hors are not in vain, for their altars are always filled to overflowing. Almost the en tire bar take a deep interest in these meetings; butes pecially T. R. R. Cobb, Hon. James Jackson and 8.11. Overby. Who can, for a moment, doubt the reality of religion when such an array of talent as this is engaged in proclaiming its truth; when almost the whole bar of a Judicial Circuit forget_tlieir daily avocations, and go to the church to proclaim the rich blessings of the gos pel > Skeptic, weigh your poor doubts in onescale, and the firm convictions of such men as these in the other, and see which preponderates. Aug. 28th. [Written for the Georgia Temperance Crusader.] Sandhill Division, .s oi’ T. —Tlie Temperance Cause —A Word lo (lie Divisions. Yesterday, Saturday, August 21st, was a great day tor Sandhill Division and the temperance cause in this section ot Georgia. I had been teaching a singing school during the week, and it occurred to me and some ot the brethren, that I should deliver a temperance ad dress on Saturday, at 2 o’clock, V. M. Avery respec table crowd was on hand at the appointed hour; and al though I am no temperance orator, as is well known to those who have heard me, yet, 1 did the best I could, asking God’s blessing upon the effort, and accompany ing it with songs and music on the melodeon and violin by my son and daughter. At. the end of the address wc called for volunteers. A number of both sexes handed in their names in addition to some whose peti tions had been previously given; and on the assembling of the Division, immediately after the close of the pub lic meeting, fifteen ladies and ten gentlemen were ini tiated. This was the first time any ladies had ever been admitted into this Division; and the sight of fif teen such lovely female forms, whose noble characters would do honor to any country, nearly overcame me. Well, I felt happy all over—just as I always do when we have a great day at Baldwin Raiford Division, when Uncle Dabney’s clarion tones arc ringing on the air, and nerving us all to bolder and more persevering ef forts in this glorious cause. Uncle Dabney, you were in my mind when the noble W. P., Dr. Jas. M. Pal mer, was teaching the candidates the lessons of our order, and the music was rolling from our instruments. I saw your form and the glad (lash of your eye; how 1 burned to hear your voice, too, shouting ps to the charge! Sandhill Division is one of the “ fixed facts” of the order, because il is at a Methodist Church, Bay Spring, in the South-western corner of Washington co. and three miles South of No. 14, on the Central Rail road, in one of the best neighborhoods in Georgia, and contains men who “ Laugh at impossibilities, And cry, ‘lt shall be done!’” Among these brave, noble, persevering men, I may mention the venerable Metcalf Fisher, now apparently fully ripe for Heaven, his son-in-law, Jas. F. North ington, S. D. Bland and many others too tedious to mention, and last, but lacking everything of being the least, Dr. Jas. M. Palmer, the handsome, noble, pious, whole-souled W. P., who is also Deputy G. W. P. for this District. I opine that this office could not have found a lodgment in worthier hands, oven among so many men of the greatest moral worth, as is found here abouts. I am going on a full round of singing schools, and everywhere the victories of the temperance armies are apparent: grogshops are at the lowest point ofdegrada tion in the estimation of people everywhere, even those who have no temperance organization among them,and liquor-drinking has hid itself, bat-like, from the face of day. Thousands of girls and boys, below, and in their teens, are learning to be Christian ladies and gentle men, and are making every circle glad in which they join. Dry soul is glad continually as Igo from neigh borhood lo neighborhood and see how our once-bated cause has triumphed; and inwardly I exclaim, “What hath God wrought ? the parched ground hath become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water.” Dear, honored brethren, Sons of Temperance through out Georgia, a word to you. The brother appointed to write you the annual address having failed, front the pressure of his affairs to do so, our highly esteemed G. W. P., Thos. McGuire, Esq. has requested me to write it. I have not time now, nor shall I have before the meeting of our G. D. in Augusta, in October, to indict , anything worthy of the theme, or of your attention ; ■ but I take this occasion to shout to all our cohorts scat- ; terod “o’er mountain and valley, o’er hill-top and , plain,” gird on your armor and rush again upon the! foe! Two years ago we were beaten, but uot destroyed. A few brave men, heroes even in defeat, kept the field, while the lovely tri-colored flag of Love, Purity and Fi delity waved proudly o’er them, and the bright star of temperance glittered in the Heavens above. True, the black hosts of liquor laughed and chuckled and shouted over what their lying father, the Devil, persuaded them was the total annihilation of the temperance cause ; but God and angels and all good people have been on our side all the time. In His wise Providenoe the Almigh ty permits every good cause to meet with reverses, and so it has been with temperance, time and again; but now a glorious re-action has begun, and we arc stron ger and wiser from the things we have suffered. Let us rouse up, every man of us, and go forth more bravely than ever before, in this cause of religion, of humanity and of God, while the breath of Jehovah is unrolling our bannertotlie breeze,and thesoundofllisgoingbefore ■ us is heard in the “tops of the mulberry trees.” In a few weeks more our Grnnd Division will meet in Au gusta. Let every Division be ably and fully represen ted then, that, met in ihc name of the Lord of Hosts, we may bail each other as a band of brothers ; take sweet counsel together for the good of our race, and go j forth encouraged to work more earnestly in the. future than we have ever done in the past, Go to work, dear brethren, resuscitate old Divisions, and form new ones j everywhere; already our hosts are shouting to the final ! victory, and, preparing for our grand jubilee when the | world shall !><• freed from the bondage of irier s |„ I intemperance; then our iriumphaiii Imgle* ~.|| Ji* out otic’long, loud, glorious blast, bud (Gkl*. s j,,,| ‘ gels will join in it. Conte, Sons of Tei„|Vr,tt llT ‘ V afresh in the strife, that you may bo-ptini>i|, M; ' ri i victory, and join in our shouts! 1111,111 Yours, in L, I’. &, F. x. ol I . tor the State „f(; Jto,/ Spring. .!•. 22 d, 1X58: ‘ r|a ’ Written for tlie Georgia Tempcraucc t'rmadrr j Ck wvßi.iinvii.i.K, Ga. Aug. m Mtt. Editor: Dear .S7r—The Superior Court i K ,- in session here, 1 had thought the the general news, may not be r l ii • er eOjhp ol your readers -at least, those ol our iiei„|,| lor j |( county, Greene. The attendance of'the h-a| ti r ,,f •’ , i ii, ~,, is not so large as usual. Messrs. 1 Itomas, ( >l |;n„, and Pottle, of Warren, who hitherto have Im V p ra ,.,- ( lionets at this Court, have necessarily, by oig ;t „ c|(| , at home, been prevented from attending.* Amongst those present, I notice our U. X. Senator, lion. R 0 be r t 1 Toombs, and the Representative, oft lie BthCoii rcBB i 0 * al District, Hon. A. IL Stephens. It will be gratifyj n „ jt lo the numerous friends of these gentlemen, who have l not seen them since their ret urn from Congress, tolearn of their unusual good health and consequent good spirit Messrs. Linton Stephens, of Hancock, Barnett and Reese, of Wilkes, Bristow, of Taliaferro, .Vhtts, 0 f Warren, and John C. Burch, of Elbert, arc also here The last named is a candidate for the Solicitor (lencral. ship of the Western Circuit, and too much cannot he said of him, as regards his capacity for the ofticc he de sires. Mr. T. M. Daniel, the present incumbent, dc. clitics a re-election, which declination is much regretted I by the people of this Judicial Circuit. Commission merchants from Augusta, in search of cotton, arc here as usual, wearing a smile for evety man who, in their opinion, will make cveifc%bale, and seeming very solicitous of the good health of all their families (cotton-growers). There have not come up as vet before the Court any eases that have excited much interest, save a case of debt, the plaintiff in which, I learn, resides in your county. The plaintiff, Newsom, sued Abraham Irby on a plain note ol’ hand at the .Spring Term of the Court and defendant swore off. Xuit, as I understand, wa9 rc-instituted, and defendant, after an examination of plaintifTs principal witness, confessed judgment. “()(,; consistency thou art a jewel!” The case of Richard L. Cook, for a high misdemeanor, and who was sent to your county for safe lodgement in jail, is now in pro. gress, and will doubtless terminate m bis guilt. trial of a free negro, for the murder ofhis brother some j time since, will come off, it is thought, prior to the ad i journment of this term of the Court. The crops, in this vicinity, arc good, and the general indications of die increase of morality in this place, are better than the writer has previously noticed. This i may be ascribable to the good influence which the late i revival in the Baptist Church, under the care of Prot | Williams, of Penfield, has effected. 1 find the number j of groceries greatly diminished since my Inst visit, and j think this augurs well for theftiture welfareofthctown. I Expecting to see you soon at the term of the .Supreme j Court of.voitr county, I will not post you farther. Yours, truly, j BALDWIN. WHAT A H Hirn ill'D VVOMA.YSAID t T AIF.. All the broad East was laced with tender rings Os widening light; the Daybreak shone it far; Deep in the hollow, ’twixt her fiery wings, *• Fluttered the morning star. A cloud, that through the time of darkness went With wanton wings, now heavy-hearted came And fell upon the sunshine, penitent, And burning up with shame. The grass was wet with dew ; the sheep Tar Lapping together far as eye could see ; And the great harvest hung the golden way Os Nature’s charity. My house was full of comfort; I was propped - With life’s delights, ail sweet as they could he, When al my door a wretched woman stopped, And, weeping said to me— “lts rose-root in youth’s seasonable hours Love in thy bosom set, so blest were thou : Hence all the pretty red-mouthed flowers That climb and kiss thee now! *, “1 loved, but I must stifle nature’s cries With old dry blood, else perish, I was toldf,-’ Hence thy young light shrunk up within *uv Wes, And left them blank and bold. “I take my deeds, all, bad as they hare been, ‘ The way was dark, the awful pitfall bare; In my weak hands, up through the fires of silt. I hold them for my prayer.” rite thick, tough husk of evil grows about Y* 14 -’' 1 s° l, l that lives,” I mused, “but doth it kit! ( When the tree rots, ilie imprisoned wedge falls our, Rusted, but iron still. Shall He who to the daisy has access, f Reaching it down its little lamp of dew To light it up through earth, do any less, . Last and best work, lor you?” The last number of the Central Georgian, sax.s: We are reliably informed that, at a meeting of Sandhill Di- Tkun— T ANARUS” T Sau,rda y ,asf > 25 -me initiated. I lus Division numbers now, wc arc Informed, about three hundred members. till HIIHIII; KNICiHTS of JERICIIO. The Grand Lodge of Georgia will meet in the citjrou Macon on the Kith day of September, at lOo’clook, A. M. Each Lodge is entitled to two representatives, (Bethany Degree J\leiubers y ) who should be elected at the first re gitlar meeting in September, (if possible,) to serve 12‘ months. The Recorder will give the representatives elected his certificate of their election. Atlanta, Aug. 23. W. G. FORSY'I H, G. W. R* jMI H IS MORGAN & McGREf|)R- Surgeon and Mechanical Dentists. Penfield, Ga. would inform the citizens of. Greene and adjoining counties, that they are prepared, to perform any operation pertaining to their professioni. with neatness and despatch. They will insert from one to an entire set of which, for beauty, durability, comfort and masd.r6.ting, will compare with any either in this conntrv Eu rope. It is their intention lo please, ami w{use perfect satisfaction is not given, they will mako wo charge. Any call from the country that may be tendered them will meet with their prompt attention. . W. MORGAN, , L- W. McGregor. I bey relcr to Dr. John R. Mutfphev. of Rome, Ga. Dr. C. B. Lombard, Athene, “ Sept 2, 1858. BROOM & NORRELL, . AI Ol STA, GEORGIA, A RE now purchasing oho of the. largest and • most elegawf stocks of Fall and Winter DRY GOODS, that will be brought to this market this season, which will be bought under circumstances that will guarantee i the purchase upon the very best terras, and will there- I fore enable us to sell them at such Unprecedentedly Low Prices ! that they cannot be undersold, and will | DEFY ALL QUALITY. STYLE AND PRICE. ! And as our rule of business is, I AND NO i osk: UFA I AVION,- I no one will pay over market price, as the rule/om* the seller to ask the lowest market price, and protects the htryer. | Therefore, i If vou wish goods at low prices, Go to BROOME & NORRELL’S. If you like fair and open dealing, Go to BROOM E & NORRELL’S. 1 If you dislike a dozen prices for the same article, and. prefer “ one price,” Go to BROOM K&NORRELL'S. If vop don’t like to be “hailed” one article, and pay doubly on another, “4 Go to BROOME <fc NORRELL’S. In fact, if you wish to buy cheap goods, get good value ■ for your money, and trade where you like todeal, atul bc pleased to see your friends, (Jo to BROOME & NORRELL’S * ONE PRICE STORE! August 2, 1858 t TWO months after date application will be made to the Court of Ordinary of Greene county for leave to sell a portion of the negroes belonging ta the estate of Sarah W. Rowland, late of said county, deceased, for the benefit of the creditors of said deceased GOODWIN T. MYRICK,) „ , Sept 2 WILLIAM jS. DAVIS. j Ex rs -