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‘SPOao* TEMPMRAM'H CBDSAPER. pen FI E El>, (xEOHOjA- fi,c.per...;,jsfss3K‘ “” “'“” your The September term of court so, .hi. county com- TC"S ”“““■*■ “ Old standing demands which we have against them, for advertising, subscription and job work. New Phi Delta Hall. The Phi Delta Society having received subscriptions sufficient to authorize the building committee to com mence operations, they are promptly proceeding with the work by way ofnegotiating with contractors. Their idea is, to have the new Hall complete by ihe next com mencement, if possible. Horse Thief Arrested. Tuggle, who has been pursued back and forth through this community several times during the last week, upon the charge of having stolen a horse and buggy up the country, was arrested on Saturday last within a few miles ot Watkinsville. He was brought through this place on Saturday evening e.n route for the Rome jail. Tlte General Appearance of the Boys. A stranger in our village a day or two since passed a very high compliment upon -the students, by saying that “as a body they were the finest looking set of young men he had ever seen.” Wo think the boys deserved it all, and it affords us great pleasure to endorse tne compliment. Female Education. ... Wo publish the communication on this subject, through respect for our worthy and interesting bpecal Correspondent.” It is impossible to advance anythin,, now upon that hackneyed theme; and hence, all that can be said has become stale; and consequently, can not be productive of much interest or benefit to the masses. tijlam a Temperance Paper.” Avery foul-mouthed nincompoop returns his paper w ith the above wickedness scribbled on the wrapper. We can but feel sorry for any one whom whiskey lias eo effectually damned and ruined, and we would kindly suggest that he rinse his mouth with aquafortis, take a good dose of lobelia and then go to, church and listen to preaching. An Editor in Decided Luck. Elder Henderson of the South Western Baptist, has recently been presented with a fine horse and buggy, the two together valued at five hundred dollars. Ifthat isn’t luck, then, we are no judge. The editor will now give us some “2:40” editorials, vari-colored with des criptions of country scenery. Its a single harness bug gy. and of course not large enough for more than “owe wife (?) Elder Josepli AValkcr. We are pleased to learn from the Index that its Editor has returned to his post with spirits greatly re vived, health much improved, and eyesight restored. Mr. Landrum conducted the paper with marked success during his absence, and we would be happy to number him permanently among the craft Were it not that his eminent abilities in the ministry are too serviceable to be abandoned or neglected. A Fact. *:Liquordrinkinghasdone more'to demoralize and bar barize the human family than all other sources of evil combined. Liquor selling is an “agreement with death and a covenant with hell.” None but the mind of God can calculate the amount of wretchedness, woe, starvation and deep degra dation which liquor lias caused. Could the long cata-- logue of malignant crimes which it has perpetrated be spread out to view, finite minds would sicken and grow dumb in contemplating the horrible picture. Mercer Enivcrsity--“3Vew Students. The fall term of this Institution has opened with the most flattering and encouraging auspices. Up to this time thirty new students have been matriculated into Col lege proper, and ny>re applicants arc reported as com ing. We think the omens augur a degree of prosperi ty and popularity for the University lar surpassing that of any period which has yet been known in its history. All the chairs are filled with efficient Professors, which, together with the abilities of its very popular President, cannot fail to.render the college eminently worthy the patronage of the entire Baptist denomination. Academy and Female Seminary. The preparatory school under the direction of friend A. 3. Morgan, and the Seminary under the charge of our worthy and talented fair friend, Miss Barber, are both small as yet, but promising. September Election. Elections are to be held next month in Maine, Ver mont and California —the first on the 13th, and other two on the 7th of the month. In Maine, a Governor, six members of Congress, and members of the legisla ture are to be chosen. Bombast. Thereis a plain and simple manner of expressing an idea, and then there is a roundabout, hifalutin and bombasti cal way. For instance: **Put a Beggar on Horseback and hr will ride to the Devil:” Establish a mcndicani on the uppermost section of a charger, and he will transport himself to Apollyon. “ The least Said the Soonest Mended The minimum of an offensive remark is cobbled, with the greatest promptitude. “ Don't Count your Chickens before they are Hatched Enumerate not your adolescent pullets ere they cease to be oviform. The Hancock Fair. We have been favored with the premium list for the annual exhibition of the Planter’s Club of Hancock county, which takes place the 27tli, 28th, 29th and 30th of October next. The interest which the planters of that good old county take in furthering agricultural science, instead of abating, is very materially on the increase, as is apparent from the premium list before us, which is by far the most spirited and inviting of any they have ever issued ; and we learn that they are ma king preparations to have the greatest, grandest and most pleasant time they have as yet had on any similar occasion. Success to them. We hope to be present. The Crusader a Medium for Despairing- Co vers. If the extent to which a paper is read be prima facie evidence of its popularity, we are certainly publishing a very acceptable sheet. To give an instance, we pub lished, some time since, a poetical blast by Saucy Kate of Cherokee to the widowers, and ever since, our office has been flooded with echoes, coming from Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and various portions of Georgia; and a few d'uys since a second private reply from one of her conquests in Mississippi passed through our hands to Kute, which leads us to suspect that a match is on the tapis, and will soon be consummated ; if so, we ap prehend it will bring our paper in endless demand as a medium for bachelors, old inaids, widows and widow ers, to advertise for partners. But no matter —‘let ’em come,’ if we can be instrumental in marrying up all such stock, we are in for it* A Waltzing Hon. The Petersburg Express says : “We were informed by a gentleman residing on High-street, of quite a sin gular fancy suddenly taken by an old hen in his posses sion, for engaging in the fashionable amusement of the season. After contributing her usual bonus to the egg basket, the rejuvenated old friend stepped gaily into the yard, and gracefully describing the circle, commenced threading the mazes of a mazourka, which she prolonged, to an extent which excited considerable apprehension as to her sanity. To restore her to the wonted staid and matronal mental equilibrium, various infallibles were administered, and among others that great cathol ieon for chicken lunacy, dousing under the pump ; but no sooner was she released than the passion for genu flexions broke out afresh. She walked around the yard, struck out, and galloped’ over and over again the veritable waltz, keeping time to a music peculiar to herself, which was nothing less than an'imperturoable cackle. She was still going it yesterday evening, and gave no indications of ever giving out. This will be at tested to by highly respectable citizens.” That Poor Fellow with the Colic. A few evenyigs since, a dirty, miserable looking wretch clambered over the palings into the back yard of our boarding house, and grunting lustily, with both j hand? upon his stomach, begged for a drink ot brandy | to cure the colic —he was dying with it. The humane j lady of the house could not refuse ; and in pouring out the dose, she inquired of someone standing by how much would be a drink, when the suffering man in siantly spoke up and said, “you needn’t, be afraid of pouring out too much.” He dashed it down greedily and bis colic was healed, until he reached the next house. We learn that he carried that same case of colic into some half dozen private residences on the road, and begged for brandy. Was ever humanity degraded so low! A servile slave to an insatiable appetite for strong drink! What spectacle can excite our commiseration to so great an extent ? Atlanta Medical College. A correspondent gives us a notice of the closing ex ercises of this worthy and promising Institution. A personal acquaintance with some of its I rofessors, qual ifies us to indorse fully the handsome compliments which he pays them. A few moments in the company of Dr. Logan satisfies even the stranger as to his pre eminent claim to all the elements of a perfect gentle man. He conducts the editorial management ot the Atlanta Medical Journal with spirit and energy, filling with ability and success a regular chair u) the .ollege wt kncw Prof. T. S. Powell in old Hancock, where as a physician and gentleman none stood higher in the estimation of the people. We are more than gratified to know that he occupies equally as enviable a position in Atlanta. His popular medical lectures, flattering suc cess in professional practice and active public spirit as a citizen, have assigned to him a very prominent posi tion in his new home. We believe ho is considered one of the leading 1 dignitaries’ of the city, which will he pleasant information to his numerous friends abroad. We are happy to publish the complimentary remarks ofour intelligent correspondent in regard to his closing lecture; lie deserves all the praise bestowed upon him. Tuskegcc anti Temperance. A correspondent of the South Western Baptist writes the following communication to that paper, which we trust will receive the attention it merits. Wc have never heard aught but the most flattering compliments expressed ill relation to Tuskegee as a beautiful city, whose citizens are intelligent, moral and high-toned ; and if we remember correctly, no grogshops curse the place; but our friends there must not through luke warmness and indifference, suffer their interest upon the subject of temperance to languish and die. Remember, that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” and res urrect your once flourishing division from its ashes. “I have been thinking for sonic time of the great change that is taking place in our beautiful town, where but a few years ago stood old and dilapidated buildings (which as all say for the good of the town,) has been swept away by the destroying flames, and rebuilt with beautiful brick buildings, which enable our merchants to enlarge and carry on business almost equal to any of our neighboring cities. “ And when I look over our thriving and beautiful village, and see the magnificent college buildings which are an honor, not only to Tuskegee, but to .the State; and when I see the general improvements of the town, amongst which is the rising walls of the new Baptist church, my heart beats with joy, and I uin almost, ready to say we arc a great people. But just then lam star tled by a carousing whoop, that is not in keeping with so beautiful a place. My heart, is made to feel sad when I see in that company one reeling with intoxica tion, with whpm I have so often met in that elegant Temperance Hall that was carried away by the same flames, that removed the squatty buildings from the square. I wonder if our zeal for the Temperance Cause was burned with the charter and working tools of the order. y “Well do I remember the many soul-stirring appeals that were made in the Hall for the cause of Temperance, and the solemn vows made to Almighty God by the poor inebriate, at the sacred altar dedicated to Temperance, which I fear will stand the conflagration of the last day, and will there be read out by the Great Patriarch above, to their utter condemnation. And right here I would call upon the church to look well to her duty, for I fear the churches of all denominations are too much asleep upon the subject ot Temperance; for.even ift our midst the .sons of pious parents can be seen with bloodshot eyes carousing about our streets in idleness.. Agfa Nueva.” Orain Trade at Chicago. During one fortnight, there was received, at Chicago, 111. 6,141 bbls of flour, 135,568 bushels wheat, 410,137 bushels of corn and 25,800 bushels of oats, making 602,- 220 bushels of grain. The total receipts of the season are now 263,626 bbls flour, 6,056,786 bushels wheat, 4,653,765 bushels corn, and 1,701,987. bushels oats, ma king a total of over thirteen millions of bushels of grain, viz : 13,727,628 bushels. The receipts at this time last year, were 145,000 bbls flour, 2,200,000 bushels wheat, 5.300,000 bushels of corn and 600,000 bushels oats, making a total of 8,825,000 bushels of grain, and showing an increase in the receipts of this year of 4,902,628 bushels. Poor man! rejoice. The Lord, by these, Ilis un bounded mercies,, would show his changeless love, and add to the incentives to love and gratitude on the part of the recipient. What heart is not Fully pervaded by that noblest,principle—gratitude! Now, indeed, may the speculator in the “ staff of life” lift: up his.voice and lament —Othello’s occupation’s gone!” And we are glad of it. We do wonder if any body can have it even in their teeth —it can’t be in their beast—to shake their head and declare that ‘‘the crops are not so good as might be supposed ?” Surely pot—the bursting gran ary —i lie overflowing depot—the ten thousand struggling teams hieing to market —the groaning trains and puf fing steamboats —and soon, as the eorn-shucker’s song is heard in valley and on hilltop, with their thousands, and many giore thousands of voices—all rising, swelling and pronouncing the overwhelmingly joyful words, “ there is enough and to spare,” all forbid it. But with all tliis profusion, not one grain of it was intended for, and should not he converted into, whiskey —that were worse than for it to rot; ’twould be converting the best friend into the worst enemy. We trust that the resolve may he—“thousands for the hungry, but not one grain for whiskey.” In addition to the facts furnished above, the most re liable information assures us that the present crop of corn, throughout Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Ten nessee, will be the largest ever grown. Bread ought to be cheap. . Difference in Time. The success of the Atlantic cable lias called atten tion to the difference of t ime in various cities in differ ent partsoftlie world. A table prepared some time since by Mr. John R. Burnet, gives the'following interesting information. When it is twelve o’clock lygh noon at- New York, the. time is as follows at the stated places: a. :<i. ; r. >j. Newark, N. J., 1.1 5921 j London, Eng., 455 42 New Brunswick, 11 58 08; Montreal, 12 01 44 Morristown, 11 58 00 Sebastopol, 7 10 28 Patterson, 11 59 38; St. Petersburg, 6 57 20 Plainfield, 11 58 12 Turin, 5 26 52 Princeton, Jl 57 lflj Jerusalem, 7 17 24 Trenton, 11 57 00; Hamburg, 5 35 48 Burlington, 11 56 32; Geneva, 5 20 42 Easton. Pa., 11 55 00: Edinburg, 4 42 16. Alton, 111., 10 12 28j Constantinople, 6 51 44 Buffalo, 11 56 32; Calcutta, 10 49 58 Charleston, 11 36 40j Madrid, 4 40 32 Cincinnati, 11 16 18j Bremen, 5 31 20 Dubuque, 10 53 00; Athens, 6 31 08 Harrisburg, 11 48 4 ij Rome, 5 4603 Macon, Ga., 11 21 16 St. Helfcna, 4 33 48 Key West, Fla., 11 28 52l Stockholm, 608 20 New Orleans, 10 55 40; Liverpool, 4 44 30 Philadelphia, 11 55 22; Dublin', 4 30 56 Salt Lake City, 927 40; Florence, 5 4126 Oregon City, 846 40| Albany, N, Y., 12 01 04 Honolulu, S. 1., 6 21 081 Lubec, Me., 12 28 00 The difference of time between,the extreme Es.st and West points of the United. States is three hours and fifty minutes. When it is Monday noon at New York, it is six o’clock fifty-eight minutes A. M., Tuesday, at Tahiti, and between twelve and one A. M., of Tuesday at China. In the China sea, between Singapore and China, it is midnight when it is noon at New York. The time at St. John’s, Newfoundland, is one o’clock twenty-six minutes eight seconds P. M., and the differ ence in time between Trinity Bay and Valencia Bay is about two hours and forty-eight minutes. t The Metropolis of Crime. The official report ofthe New York Police Department, pJ2°ZT r cndine ,ulv - however, 7 .rreer, for murder"s“r VPI.Z? glary in the fist degree, 118 for ordinary burglnrV 65 : for assault with intent to kill, 28 for feloninna ’ i : ‘,* torta, . house of prostitution, fsfoTLffiH etc Os the whole number of prisoners, 10?477 werJi ? natives or Ireland, and only 2670 were born in the Uni ted States. Ihe pi ls.mers included rogues ot nil na- I tions, from Patagonia, near the south pole, to Russia near the north pole. VI Scraps from the Chief. The hardest drinkers, are the ones who shed the most j tears over the ruin done the temperance cause. [ Many of those who are the noisest about the sanctity ;of property, destroy the most of it—in whisky. The wealth and greatness of a State, consists in the mind, morals and muscles of the citizens. The rutu traffic wars successfully against them all. The dealers in rum claim that they have a right to do as they choose with their own. And would not the gambler and the counfeiter have as good an argument for the right to use their implements? A host of people deprecate the injuries of the liquor traffic, and eulogize the temperance cause. When will they ever carry their professions into practice ? It is a little strange that those who are the first and most bitter in their denunciations of temperance men and measures, have never taken the first step towards showing the better way. the Baltimore Patriot, this beautiful poetic effusion was read before the Normal School, at its last meeting before vacation: Tlie Mother’s Dream. BY MISS A. S. G. Twas night; a hush like that of death lay on he world, and stilled the wild, tumultuous Throbbings of its mighty heart. . On a low couch, Within a dimly lighted upper chamber, An infant boy tossed and moaned restlessly In fevered sleep. The cool night wind, laden With perfumes from the garden, stole thiough the Open casement to kiss his cheek, and linger In soft dalliance with the golden curls, But brought no cooling for the fever rnging In his veins. Beside the little bed, With clasped Hands, and face all pale with agony, the Mother knelt and prayed with earnest voice and Quivering lips, “God spare my child!” The night Waned slowly; bells tolled the hour of twelve. Happier mothers slept in peace with their Dear jewels near, but still she knelt, and still Her bleeding heart sent up that anguished prayer, “God spare my child!” But now the angel sleep, Soft touched her with his magic wand, and she, too. Slept and dreamed, and lo ! the Heavens were ope’d. She beheld the glory, and heard the deep, Grand harmony that angels make Before tlie throne. Entranced she stood without the white-walled City and gazed, awe-struck, through the wide open Gate, when lo! upon its threshhold bright appeared Her child. Beautiful! Oh, most beautiful! Clad in his infant purity, as in A garment, and crowned with radiant glory. Looking back, he smiled upon her, and beckoned With his baby hand, and then, as ’twere, a White cloud came between, and wrapt him from her gaze. Fair broke the morn; that mother woke and looked Upon her sleeping babe! Sleeping? Ah! yes, In Jesus ! One golden ray of light streamed • Through the muslin curtain, resting like A halo, on the fair, placid brow, while the Pale, cold lips still wore the angelic smile The spirit left at parting. But the mother’s Heart was comforted; for well she knew her Spirit, journeying by a different path, Had met her infant's at the gate of Heaven. Dr. Raphal, a distinguished Jew of Birmingham, thus states the opinion which the Jews have of Christ: “ While I and the Jews of the present day protest against being identified with the zealots who were con cerned in the proceedings against Jesus of Nnzereth, we are far from reviling his character or deriding his precepts which are, indeed, for the most part, the pre cepts of Moses and the prophets. You have heard me style him ‘the great Teacher ofNazereth;’ for that des ignation I and the Jews take to be his due.” Cure for Cough or Hoarseness. A correspondent of the Charleston Courier gives the following: Chip up fat light wood and put a handful of the ejjips into a pint of common spirits. A teaspocfnful in a wine glass of water, on going to bed, will cure a hoarseness, and, if taken three times a day, or whenever a cough is troublesome, it will effect a speedy cure. A few chips thrown into a hot shovel, and the odor breathed, will be found serviceable in lung complaints, and is calculated to relieve asthma. This is much cheaper than “ Cherry Pectorals,” and equally efficacious. No Miss Nancies Wanted. We find in the Gosport (Maine) Banner the following advertisement: “I am desirous of securing the services of two male teachers“to teach school the coming winter. I take this method, therefore, of making known the fact. If this notice meets the eye of anv man (I mean physical as well as mental,) who is willing to leach as well as keep school, I should be happy to see him. “N. B. No person who wears a shawl, spectacles, or vmlhs with a cane, need apply, as sufficient instruction from that class has already been had. “H. B. Maynarb, Agent. “Kendall’s Mills, July 10th, 1868.” Infant’s Food. At this season,'when ordinarily the largest number ot cases which swell the bills of mortally, especially in our cities, are those of infants, and as doubtless many arise from improper food, we shall do no little service in giving prominence to"a paragraph on this point from the undoubted authority of Hall’s Journal of Health : When it is necessary to feed infants artificially, and cow’s milk is used, it should be first boiled, then skim med, then sweetened a little with sugar, and next a little salt added, not enough to give it a saltish taste. Milk thus prepared not only prevents indigestion and consequent asciditar, flatulence, colic diarrhoe, &c., from which sucking children suffer so much, hut will actually cure them. An Item for Drinkers. We copy 1 lie following for the benefit of that, class of drinkers who make a practise of imbibing to excess, and “lying around loose.” May they profit by the warning: At Cincinnati, the other night, a man named John Butts, while going home intoxicated, fell in the street, and rolling over into the mouth of a sewer, came near being eaten by rats. It seems that as officer Lewis was going his rounds about twelve o’clock at night, he discovered a pair oflegs sticking out from the well-hole of the sewer. He forthwith repaired to the spot, and failing to arouse tlie owner of the legs, caught him by the heels and drew hint out, when it appeared that one of his ears was eaten off - by rats. The vermin had just commenced their repast, and would doubtless leave fin ished him by morning. Tlie African* at Charleston. The Savannah Republican, in noticing tlie arrival at Charleston of the captured Africans, says: This, we believe, is the first instance of the capture of a cargo of slaves by an American cruiser, and our readers may he curious to know what disposition is to be made of the ship, slaves, &c. The act of 1840 pro vides that the officers and crew of the captured vessel shall be turned over to the U. S. District Court, to be prosecuted under the laws of Congress. The ship and her properties of every description tobe sold, and the proceeds lo be divided : half to the United Stales, and tlie other half to the officers and men who seized and brought the vessel into port, under the laws, regulating prizes. The slaves are to bedelivored to the United States Marshal ot the District where landed, and the President to make such regulations and arrange ments as lie may deem expedient for “their safe-keep-- ing, support or removal,” and he is authorized to ap point an officer on tlie coast of Africa to receive them. Spiritual Rapping*. Up in Urbana, Ohio, a town generally so still and quiet that the popping of a ginger beer bottle will draw all heads to the windows and doors, they have been en tertained with a strong-mindedwoman’s dram- a ! Mrs. Nash has a drunken husband, and Jimmy Shallon, the proprietor of a grocery, feeds Mr. Nash with bad whis key when lie is hungry, and treats Mr. Nash to light ning whiskey whcti lie’s dry. Then Mr. Nash goes home and works the whiskey off by beating Mrs. Nash, &c. On Monday last, in company with her daughters, Mrs. Nash paid Jimmy a social visit; but was told at the door that her company was not desired to render the inside party happy; but in she and her daughters went, and out came the proprietor and two or three of liis “suckers,”, and behind them a full barrel of new red j eye. She would have mounted the men, but a crowd ! got around—so it wan useless. She then mounted the j barrel, and, with a potent implement, alter knocking awhile, she aaed the spirits of the interior tocome forth and forth they came. Two others were visiled in the. same way with like results, filling the gutters with the treacherous distillment. Mrs. Nash, with loud cheers from the crowd, then repaired to her homo, Nashing her teeth at all the balance of the whiskey-bhops in the ! town. “My son, would you suppose that the Lord’s Prayer 1 could be engraved in a space no larger than the area of a half dime!” “Well, yes, father, if a half dime is as large inevery body’s eyes as it is in yours, I think there would be no difficulty in putting it on about four tnnea.” ®h Pledge me not with Wine! *Y JOSIE E. HIM. pledge me not with wine, dear love! 1 shrink from its ruddy glow; And white and cold a deathly fear Jirops into my heart like snow. °fe I P ,od ? ” ,e 1101 with wine, dear love! 1 lirough its mist of rosy loam I eour.t the beats of a broken heart — 1 see a desolate home. <>h, pledge me not with wine, dear love! 1 slaver with icy dread ; drop to me is a tear of blood 1 hat sorrowful eyes have shed. I have a picture laid away Under the dust of years— Come look on it, and your heart will break, Cuke a summer cloud, in tears. Night, and a storm of autumn sleet— A hearth without fire or light— A an angry man—a door 1 hat opens into the night— Hot hands that cling to the crazy latch, Lips rigid and white with pain— A curse a blow—and a wailing babe Horne out in the wind and ram — A woman dead, with her long, loose hair Soaked wet in the weeping storm, And her pallid arms half fallen back from a baby’s waxen form ; A woman dead in the pitiless rain, And, sparkling on the sand, Hear God! a golden marriage ring, Dropped loose from her wasted hand. A white moon striving through broken clouds — A horrified man at prayer — The cry of a passionate heart’s remorse, And a passionate heart’s despair. This is the picture laid away Under the dust of years ; For this does the red wine look to me The flowing of bloody tears. Oh, pledge me not, though the wine is bright As the rarest light that flows Through the sunset’s cloudy gates of fire, Or the morning’s vein of rose. Put down the cup! It is brimmed wilh blood. Crushed, throbbing from hearts like mine! For hope, for peace and for love’s dear sake, Oh, pledge me not with wine! All men are not born free and equal, but with a juro pensity to grumble, and a right to gratify that inherent property of their nature. Each individual fancies his own fate the hardest. Moore complained and whim- i pered in this way : J “I never had a dear gazelle To glad me with its soft black eye, But, when it learned to know me well, And loved me, it was sure to die.” To which another miserable mortal adds his own ex perience in this lugubrious bleart:—(was it Charles Lamb ?) “I never had a piece of toast, Particularly large and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered side ! A melancholy and despairing swain after appropria ting to his own case the last stanza, passionately en larges thereon, and then melts into a tub of blubber — videlicet : “And so with everything in life ; When’er it comes my turn to draw, In casting lots for fortune’s gifts, I always get the shortest straw. And every gal turns up her nose If I but take a squint at she ; So that, in luck, in love, and toast, There’s never nothing for poor me.” Trulli. Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. Men have different spheres. It is for some to evolve great moral truths, as the heavens evolve stars, to guide the sailor on the sea and the traveler on the desert; and it is for some, like the sailor and the traveler, sim ply to be guided. Wherever I find truth, I will appropriate it, for it is an estray from God’s word, and belongs to ineand to all. Eminent masters, parties and sects claim truths as theirs, because they have most fully expounded them ; hut men never make truths, they only recognize the value of that which other parlies have drawn. Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests and food. The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. Men are called fools in one age, for not knowing what they were called fools for averring in the age before. We should live and labor in our time, that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom ; and that wluit came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress. Nothing which conics into the world in the way of Divine truth is lost. You may open your and let your singing-bird fly out, and he may wander away, and the song he sang you may never hear again ; but when God opens the door of heaven, and lets some sing ing truth, angel-winged, fly down to earth, it is never lost, blit one catches the strain here, and another re peats it there, till at length it becomes choral. The truth may change its form—it may be hid for years and generations; but, as the old wheat seeds, wrapped in the mummies of Egypt, now, after ages, sought out by prying travellers, and planted, are found not to have lost their germ, but to have kept it through the sleep of three thousand years, so God’s truths, hid in dead forms and institutions, slumbering in the grave old books and libraries, or banished from polite soci ety, to live in the rags of the vulgar, do at length come forth with unimpaired germ, losing 110 more by burial than did Christ, their master. Like him,they carry an unquenched heart through the grave. They bring forth light from its darkness, and in spile of brute force and watchful authority, they stand again upon the earth, and look abroad with eyes of immortality.— Beecher's Life Thoughts Young’ Men. Our young men are a painful study. As they lounge about the street with hold, leering faces, poisoning the air with oaths, or whirl madly along behind lashed horses, or loom up dimly amid the smoky glare of haunts of folly, sin and shame, it is sickening to think that with them rests the future of the country, and in them lies its hope. It. is no wonder that the hearts of fathers, mothers and sisters are tilled with dread and grief. No wonder that the perpetual and earnest ad vice to the young man is to go into “Ladies’ company.” The advice is good. There is positive, safety for him in the company of the vain, giggling, trifling girl. The most empty-headed and empty-hearted of coquettes is a more harmless companion for him than a cursing tip pling fellow who thinks all manner of silliness and sin manly, and will travel fast, although hell dawns at the end of the road. Y r es your young man’s salvation is in the sweet smile and voice, the beautiful graces and ac complishments of some fair creature, attractive a/jke in mind and body. But a young man dare not go and see a young woman he fancies, and make a friend and companion of her. Will not all the Mrs. Grundies think and say that it means something and immediately and vigorously set to work to whisper their suspicions loud enough for the world —including the respective families of the young persons—to hear them. Is not your man a flirt, a des perate fellow in whom there isdanger, if he is known to go to see half a dozen girls at the same time? Has not this propriety which pervades our fine modern. life, somethingto do with the terrible outlawryand vicious ncss of the young men ? Has not rigid, ghastly etiquette driven them from the parlor to the rum shop ? In the days when some of us were boys and girls, it was no proof that two young people were engaged to be married that they were often together, happy in the interchange of interests and sympathy and all kindly feeling. And somehow there were better hoys then, than now. And. better girls too, for that matter. — Philadelphia Jour nal. No Night there. Who has not passed nights of watching and weari ness ? Oh! how joyfully does the light of day beam upon us alter a night of tossing toand troupon a bed of pain! A night of affliction isfull ofanxiety and care. Though it is the time to sleep, yet how often we are kept wak ing! And then, many, very many of our days are dark and sombre. How our spirits are affected even by the state of the skies and the weather! Sicknese and pain are not visitants of darkness only; they continue their ravages by day. But in that abode of glory ahd bless edness—the home of the ransomed of God—there will be no night. For “the Lamb of God will be the light thereof.” Glorious day! Bright, peaceful,eternal; not darkened with clouds and tempests as nre our days on earth. The light of thut day is like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper-stone, clear as crystal. “ There will be no ni/ffit there.” No seasons of weep ing—of watching—of death. All will bo peace, eternal peace. The conflict will he ended—the battle fought— the victory won; und the everlasting portion of the soul, will be a dwelling-place in the New Jerusalem, whore the glory of God lightens it, and the lamb is the light thereof. My soul, gird thyself anew for the race. Bless God 1 • that this earth with its intermingled lights and shadows is not thy abiding place. Endure meekly all the ills of mortal life, rejoicing in confident expectation of the glo ry to be revealed. Let thy faith gain new strength 11* the devout and adoring contemplation o< that glory which shall be thy light forever. Thdauthor of the following should be watched 01 he might back out: • A destructiv durk I’ll bi, I’ll bid pharewell to every pliear, Then wipe my weeping I A,nd kut my throot pnrom ear to ear. ‘ [Special Correspondence.] Female Education. “ Tlit’ most attractive beauty of the person results from the graces of the mind. Delicacy, sweetness, sense and sensibility, shining in the eyesj, will compen- J sate an irregularity of features, and will sooner excite j love in a feeling heart than the best formed face, and the finest complexional hue without expression. ‘I hits wrote Knox three quarters of a century ago, and the sentiment is as truthful now as when written. Ihe importance of Female Education cannot be too highly esteemed. The mode and manner in \vhich that edu cation may be imparted, should be weighed carefully in all its bearings. A sysiem may creep into existence, whose results will prove disastrous to the design of ed ucation. An imperfect system may pervert the. verv purposes of education. The brightest gem that glitters in the sparkling tiara ol Georgia’s greatness, is that of being one of the first of the States of this Confederacy in the promotion of Female Education. After years of experience we should begin to inquire, “ What has been the practical results of Female Collegiate Education in Georgia?” Wc should pursue the investigation with candor, truth and zeal. Have the colleges and seminaries of Georgia elevated the standard of female worth and excellence? Have they imparted more strength of mind, or more enno bling traits of character? These are questions that naturally suggest themselves to every reflecting mind. Can they be answered in the affirmative? lam fearful that they cannot be with propriety. There are radical errors and defects in the present system that need correction. Investigation will point them out, and the earlier that investigation is com menced, the better for the ensuing generation. It is not my purpose to conduct this investigation, but simply call attention to its necessity, and submit a few crude remarks concerning the present state of the female world. Females, ot the present day, are only partially educated. They are sent to college for the pixrpose of obtaining a smattering of vain and useless knowledge to show off in the fashionable world. They are educa ted and conformed to the idle fashions of the day, and are rendered its abject slaves. The desire of display is the grand motive which inspires and actuates. Forin stance, trace the history of one: The fond and doting parents are anxious to tiring their lovely Emma Au gusta “ out on the carpet.” Their income is too limi ted ; but as their rich neighbor, ’Squire Muggins, sends his Claudia Araminta Josephine to the Bangtown Fe male College, they must not be behind bint in display and importance. Straining every energy—like the fable of the toad and the ox—they send Emma Augusta off to college. The young ladies at Bangtou n Female f College wear costly dresses; Emma Augusta, being i ambitious, must vie with them. She devotes more of ] her time to “Dickens’ last,” or the “New York Led ger,” than she does to her text books, and delights more in a flirtation than a recitation. She imitates the faults and foibles of her associates to a nicety. Com ! mencement arrives. After weeks of careful preparation 1 by her teacher, she is able to indict a composition that it would be complimentary to call mediocre, but which flattering friends pronounce excellent, and banishing “Modesty, that low sweet root, From which all Heavenly vi.tuesshoot,” mounts the rostrum, and meeting the sea of human faces, with firm and undaunted gaze, delivers her favor ite production, and retires amid the plaudits of the as semblage, deeply impressed with the conviction that she is a star of the first magnitude in the literary firma ment, possessing histrionic powers that M?§. Siddons, in her palmiest days, could never excel. Flattered and cajoled, with one bound she leaps into the matrimonial ring, but with as clear a conception of the duties and responsibilities of a wile, as a mud-turtle has of astron omy. Her ideas of life are concentrated in love of dis play. Her match-making mother is anxious that she should wed for wealth, and launches her out into the boisterous sea of fashionable life, hoping that she may entrap old Beeswax with his forty thousand a-year. Emma Augusta finally marries some moustached dan dy, who weds her for her imaginary wealth, and it turns out to be “ One of the very best matches: Both are well mated in life; She’s got a fool fora husband, And he’s got a fool for a wife.” Home education is entirely neglected at the present day. That education is only partial where the heart and hand is neglected. The woman is not complete unless her head has been filled from wisdom’s fount, her heart educated by the purest emotions, and her hands instructed by industry. The delicate, wasp wasted, consumptive-looking specimens of female hu manity that abound in such “rich profusion,” arc only abortive imitations of the woman. What is the design of education? To prepare and bring into action those powers that will fit them to discharge the functions as signed them by an Allwise Providence. Did God de sign tliaLthe purple stream of life should be stayed in its progress ? Did He design that the very vitality of the human economy should be waisted l Did He desigu that they should be viragos and strong-minded women? I very much doubt it. Who are naturally the most suitable to educate, morally and physically, the daugh ters than their mothers ? Who should be their mentors ? God has implanted maternal love in the human breast for a wise and beneficent purpose. “There is not a grand inspiring thought; There is not a truth by wisdom taught; There is not a feeling pure and high, That may not bo read in a mother’s eye.” The fashionable mother consigns her daughter to the nursery until she is large enough to send to school. Passion's rank weeds grow unchecked. Whatdoesthe fashionable mother know of her daughter’s training? The Divine injunction, “ Train up a child in the way he should go,” is sadly neglected. What Georgia more urgently requires for her safety and perpetuity, is mothers —mothers who understand their duties, and will perform them. The following contains a world ot truth: ‘An Oj.d Fashioned Mother. —Ah, how much meaning is comprised in that simple expression, The Old Fashioned Mother! It carries our thoughts back to those women whose home influence was pure and el evating; who taught their daughters to render them selves blessings to society, by their goodness, their dil igence and their useful knowledge. We think of the lofty heroism—the brave endurance—the thousand vir tues they inculcated, and sigh at the contrast between the past and the present. How few modern mothers understand or perform their duty in training their chil dren. A smattering of this, that and the other is con sidered quite sufficient education, and to show off to ad vantage is made the great business of life.” This system of collegiate education has caused n mushroom, cod-fish, uristrocratie snobocracy to spring into existence. Display is the guiding star. Folly reigns supreme, while “ Luxury’s potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy.” Sickly sentimental and ruinously romantic are two thirds of the young ladies of modern times. With no depth of soil to flourish in, ideas of any greater magni tude than those of dress or nonsensical folly, never pen etrate the murky recesses where a mind should dwell. With no conception oi their duties, they are totally un fit for wives, and must ever remain as almost noneni ties in a world of action; mere beings of sensibility and pleasure occupied with trifling things. Females re quire a moral and physical as well as a mental educa tion for the sphere of action designed for them by the laws of God and nature. Unless arrested, the deterio ration of the present will be fearfully increased in the future. We need mothers that will produce daughters with clear heads, pure hearts and industrious habits. ] am not of the class who imagine that females are such angelic creatures as to require ambrosial food and hda ven-distilled nectar, for I know that they oft descend from “sweets to the sweet” to pickles, and can make an alarming inroad into “ pork and beans.” Daughters should be educated ns material beings, under the gui dance of a mother’s love, in the ways of truth and wis dom. Then, as “ The fond graces form her easy mien, And heaven’s soft azure in her eye is seen, The crimson glow of modesty will overspread Her cheek, and give new lustre to her charms.” With clear conceptions of her sacred duty, she enga ges heartily in its performance, “ Missing foul discontent’s dark shallow wave, And Passion’s whirling eddies. Our dnugh ers should be educated, not as domestic drudges or as slaves of pleasure, but as the futurew.ves and mothers of our country, to whom w.ll be committed ’ responsible trusts- If we would “ Raise the virtues, animate the bliss And sweeten all the toils of human life, we must properly, physically, morally, mentally and thoroughly educate our daughters. W . Augusta, Oa. “ If a dogge’s tail is kut awf entirely, will it not inter fere with his lowcomowshun ?’” “Not egzactly; it | might not affect his carriage, but ‘’twould entirely stop his waggin,’ ” [Written for the Georgia Temperance Cruwder.] Mr. Seals: The Atlanta Medical College cloaed its session last Saturday; the closing scenes were very in teresting and impressive. Dr. Joseph P. Logau delivered his last lecture 011 Fri day. It was a calm, dignified, able effort, in whicli the speaker seemed to be deeply sensible of the responsibil ity of the chair he fills—Physiology—and regretted that he had not done more ample justice lo his branch in the four months that had just past. Dr. Logan is a very scientific man, and especially learned in Physiology. He ornaments the social walks of life, is valuable to alLg good enterprises in community, and fills the measure so wdll that “ all the world might stand up and say this is a man”—which he is, as a physician, as an editor, and, above all, as a gentleman. The closing lecture of Dr. John W. Jones was filled with pathos, and evinced that the speaker’s heart was heaving with emotions of regret at parting with tho class; but it was filled with bold and manly thoughts, pointing to a lofty mark for the young and ambitious; to sec that noble form that has weathered through so much of life’s trials; that has not yielded to toil and care and disappointment, standing up in the vigor of manhood, and urging the young to high and honorable deeds, was, itself, suggestive of much that is pleasing and encouraging. Dr. Thomas S. Powell’s valedictory, at 11 o’clock, was a masterly effort. Viewed as a literary production it possessed a high degree of merit. It exhibited thoughts noble, high and startling, and was alive with the inspiration of touching sentiments. I)r. Powell is a man where thought finds an eternity in action. His private life is, in itself, eloquent with noble deeds. If he portrayed, in his valedictory, “The Character of a True Gentleman,” lie exemplifies that character every day. I understand that there are about forty applicants for graduation. There were 140 matriculates. On next Thursday is Commencement. Yours, J. Atlanta, Aug. 30. [Written for the Georgia Temperance Crusader.] To Miss C— of Jefferson. A happy, blissful pilgrimage, With life’s bright things to cheer; A joyous heart, a peaceful mind, Be your’s from year to year. May thine dear lady, be the smooth, Arid not life’s rugged way; But like a glorious May-day morn, Cheered by the sun’s bright ray, May friends, enshrined within thy heart, Their earthful homage prove, And be the halo round thy life, An atmosphere of love. Oh! may thy days glide sweetly on As gentle streamlets flow ; A stranger to thy bosom be The slightest touch of woe. Oil! may the tear of sorrow be Alt alien to thine eye; But should the pearly gems descend, Like dew-drops from the sky,. May they but spring from rapture’s source— From bliss which seeks relief; Or flow from pity’s gentle tone, And shed for other’s grief. And now, while on file’s troubled sea Your bark glides o’er, Your friend breathes hishcari’s wish: God bless thee ever more. Spier's Turn Out, August, 1858 “Mr. Showman, what is that ?” “That, my dear, .is the rhynocery. He is cousin German, or Dutch rela tion, to the unicorn. He was born in the desert ofSary Ann, and fed on bamboo and missionaries. He is very courageous, and never leaves home unless he moves, in which case he goes somewhere else, unless he is overtaken by the dark. He was brought to this coun try much against his will, which accounts for his low spirits when lie’s melancholy or rejected. He is now somewhat aged, lmt lie has seen the day when he was; the youngest specimen of animated nature in the world.. Pass on, my little dear, and allow the ladies to survey the wonders of creation as displayed in the ring-tailed! monkey, a hanimal that can stand hanging like a fel low-critter, only it’s reversed.” Snoring. A Western statesman, in one of his tours in the far West, stopped all night at a house where he was put in the same room with twenty strangers. He was Very much annoyed by the snoring of two persons. The black boy of the hotel entered the room, when our nar rator said to him : “ Ben, I will give you five dollars if you will kill that man next to me, who snores so dread fully.” “ Can’t kill him for five dollars, but if massa will advance on the price, I’ll try what I can do.” By this time the stranger had ceased his nasal fury. The other was now to he quieted. So stepping to him he awoke him and said : “My friend—he knew who he was —you’re talking in your sleep, and exposing all the secrets ot the Brandon Bank—he was a director—you had better be careful.” He was carcfu!, for he did not go to sleep again that night. Murder—A Wonianaiid lier Lover Killed. . On Friday night week a double murder was commit ted at the house ot Charles Reeves, in Hamptonburg, Orange County, N. Y. Mr. Reeves and his family were absent from home, leaving their house in the care oftheir three servants, William Saunders, Peter Sho rech and Margaret Sliealy. It seems that Peter and Margaret were to be married this week, and they had been passing the evening together, in the room of the latter: At about 8 o’clock, just as he was leaving Margaret’s room, Peter was met at the door by William, who, without a word passing between them, shot him through the right breast; Peter, turning back, opened the door through which he had just passed, and fell dead across the threshhold. The murderer, rushing into the room over the dead body of his first victim, shot Margaret also through the breast, the ball passing out behind, just below the shoulder blade. Bite turned and jumped out ot the open window to the ground, some twenty feet; managed to crawl through thegarden and orchard, nearly a quarter of a mile, to the house of Mr. .Case, who immediately gave the alarm. The murderer had not been arrested at last accounts, but the whole coun try were aroused and searching for him. The woman was still alive, but it was thought could survive but a few hours. Looking on the Bright Side. Here is a letter from a wife in to her husband in California. She don’t intend going through the world with the blues: “My Dear Husband: As it is some time since yon left for California, I suppose you would be glad to hear how we are getting along in yourabsence. lam happy to say that we are all enjoying very good health on the whole. Just at present, two ol the boys have got the smallpox; Amanda Jane has got the typhus fever; Betsy is down with 1 lie measles; Samuel got hooked by a cow the oilier day, and little Peter has jast chopped oil three of his fingers with the hatchet. It is a mercy lie didn't chop them all off. With these trifling excep tions, wc are all well and getting along nicely. You , needn’t be at all anxious about us. 1 almost forgot to say that Sarah Matilda eloped, last week, with a tiu peddler. roorgirl! she’s been wailing for the last ten years for a chance, and I’m gltul she’s got married at last. She needn’t have taken the trouble to elope, though, for I’ m sure I was glad to have her go. She was a great eater, and I find baked beans don’t go off near so I tust as they did when site was here. The way that girl would dip into pork and beans was a caution totherest ot the family. The cow took it into her head yester day to run away, which was very fortunate, I’m sure, ’ for the barn caught fire last night and was consumed. I was in hopes the house would go, too, for its very in > convenient; but the wind was the wrong way, so it didn’t receive much injury. Some boys broke into the 5 orchard the other day, and stripped all the fruit trees. I lam very glad of it, for if they hadn’t, I presume the , children would have made themselves sick by eating too much fruit. Hoping you enjoy yourself in Califor nia us well ns we do at home, I remain your affection -1 ate wife.” * A friend of ours thus eulogises his musical attain ments —“I know two tunes. The one is ‘Auld Lang Syne,’ and tlio other isn’t. I always sing the latter. M mill: ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. — Under an order of the Coum of Ordinary of Greene county, will be sold before the court-house door in the town of Elli jay, Gilmer county, on the First Tuesday in November next, all the interest of ?lary Ann H. Findley, deceased, it being one-fifth, in lot of land No. 321, in the 12th district and 2d section of Gilmer county. Sold for the benefit of the heirs and ireditora. Terms cash. Sept 9-tds S. M. FINDLEY, Atlm’r. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.— WiII be sold be fore the Court House door in Crawford ville, on the first Tuesday in November next, one tract of land lying in Taliaferro county, adjoining lands of W. P.Johnson, Mrs. Mary Mapp, and estate of McKenney Howell, and containing one hundred acres, more or leas; one half in woods. Sold under an order of the Court of Or dinary of Greend county, as belonging to the estate of J. J. Howell, deceased, Sept. I—tds. J, M, HOWELL, Adm’r.