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‘ ‘ ; cs&aaaoEPgr&aa. teimram crusader. • PKNfIETiU, GEORGIA. “Thursday Morning) September 30, 1858. FOR SALE, TA POWER PRESS AND ENGINE. As we contemplate purchasing new machinery, we offer for sale our Press, and Steam Engine of 3 horse power, both in good order und doing good work. They can be purchased upon very reasonable terms ; and any member of the craft needing such apparatus, can get a bargain by an early application. will sell cither the Press or Engine sepa The Old Enemy. The idea that the grape culture and home manufac ture of wines is to be the only cure for drunkenness in this country, is obtaining wide currency among all classes, and especially among the more intelligent portion of the people. But we have serious doubts as to the wisdom of such a policy, and can but fear that the experiment will reveal the humiliating fact that the remedy is as bad as the disease. The appetite for stimulating liq uors grows by degrees, and a habitual indulgence in weaker stimulants creates a thirst and prepares the system for those which Wine produces no effect upon the drooping spirits and trembling nerves of the drunkard, and it soon loses its savor to the palate of the habitual imbiber, when something more concentrated and exhilerating must be adminis tered. Whatever stimulates or excites the spirits when taken as a beverage, should be shunned like the rattle snake’s charm, or the alluring songs of the fabled Sy ren. The drunken Shades of Byron, Charles Lamb, Hartly Coleridge, and the youthful Shelly, tell of the fearful consequences which lurk in the wine cup. The fascinating daughter of Perseis is therein concealed, with her magic and venomous herbs, ready to mesme rize the brain of the unsuspecting devotee ; and ere he knows it, he is a victim to her influence. “ Touch not, taste not, handle not, the unclean thing,” should be the motto of every man, and especially those who are now temper ate ; would that we could write it upon their hearts with a pen of steel as upon brazen tablets, for it is a danger ous thing to tamper with the intoxicating serpent. One false step may blast forever the future prospects of the man, and one glass may loose anchoredthe barque from its moorings and set it drifting upon the uncertain sea of life. The intemperate man who thinks he, at least, will never die a drunkard, whatever his neighbor may do, only wakes to find himself drifting down the cataract, and all hope gone. The sensualist, who lives merely for his own gratification, drifts into an emasculated old age, to be tortured with passions he cannot gratify, and per ish by merciless, agonizing diseases. The undisci plined, who have never learned to control themselves— who are spendthrifts, or passionate, or indolent, or vi sionary soon make shipwreck of themselves, and drift about the sea of life, the prey of every wind and current, vainly shrieking for help, till at last they drift away into darkness and death. “Take care that you are not drifting. See that you - have fast hold of the helm. The breakers of life for ever roll under the lee, and adverse gales continually blow on the shore. Are you watching how she heads ? Do you keep a firm grip of the wheel ? If you give way but for one moment, you may drift helplessly into the boiling vortex. Young men take care! It rests with yourself alone, under God, whether you reach port tri umphantly, or drift to ruin.” The Boston Temperance Visitor, in speaking of the importation of pure wines into this country, advances many good thoughts upon wine drinking. We take from its editolial columns the following : “This trade once opened and energetically purused, cannot fail to be one of marked importance.” So says the New. York Times, in announcing that “Mr. A. Swarzer, of Vienna, has undertaken the im portation into this country ~f Hungarian wines, in their pure state, and without any admixtureof alcohol.” He has already, it is said, sent over about 15.000 gallons, and intends to introduce a much larger quantity imme diately. Yes, “this trade cannot fail to be one of marked im portance.” It may put money into the pocket, ot Mr. Swarzer—it cannot fail to put misery into the hearts of fond parents and confiding wives, who have now lit tle apprehension of the enemy that lurks by their door. Young men, who have been taught to dread the adulte rated compounds with which our market is glutted, will be restrained by no such wholesome fear from imbibing these “pure Hungarian wines.” They will forget the examples of others who have tasted, and fallen beyond the hope of redemption. They will forget the wo, the contentions, the babblings, the wounds without cause, the redness of eyes, of those who tarry long at the wine. They will forget that it is a mocker, which, at the last, biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. Grad ually they will lose the power ofself-control, their pride of character, the esteem of their fellow-men, honor, reputation, manhood, all —all —that is worthjretaining , and stoop to the debasement and shame and ruin of the drunkard. This is a dark picture, but it is the epito mised history of hundreds who began a career of de bauchery by sipping the purest and costliest wines ; and it needs not the kenjof a prophet to predict that that his tory will be repeated in hundreds of instances, by the dupes of Mr. A. Swarzer of Vienna,” through the influ ence of his “Hungarian Wines.” They may be pure, ” thatjis, free from drugs, but they are wot free from poison. In addition to the alcohol generated by fermentation, (enough in itself to render them intoxicating) they must of necessity receive a large per centage of spirit to prepare them for importation, and are thus made doubly ready for their mission of drunkard-making, when they reach our shores. “Without any admixture of alcohol,” is a lying phrase, as applied to these or to any other imported wines. There is fraud in the an nouncement. In some respects, these wines are worse than the adulterated—worse, because their alleged pu rity disarms suspicion, and men who would not touch the drugged compounds of our fashionable drinking sa loons and take their first lesson in drunkenness by swallowing these imported beverages, under the de lusion that they are “without any admixture of alco hol ” There is no safety in tampering with these drunkard making drinks. The serpent lies coiled at the bottom of the goblet, and watches for his prey. There are hates and shames and agonies, there are crimes and curses and ruin, in every cask. All of these are for somebody, and none who drink are authorized to say— “ They are [not for me.” Let the accursed stuff alone. He who scrupulously abstains from the first cup, is safe. Others may be but ten thousand despairing voices from desolate homes, and damp prison cells, and reek ing dens of debauchery, cry out the terrible addendum— “And they may not /” Teem of Life.— The English people exercise ade gree of care and vigilance in the collection of statistical facts, touching life, health and disease that gives them and the World very important and striking conclusions. To the calculations of longevity made in the usual man ner of insurance companies, they add the fact of intem perance, and then show the difference in figures thus: Three hundred and fifty-seven intemperate persons die for every one hundred and ten of temperate habits At twenty years of age an intemperate man mav ex pect to live fifteen and a half years longer, while a tem perate man ot the same age may expect to live forty four years longer. At thirty an intemperate man will probably live fourteen years longer; a temperate man thirty years longer. At forty an intemperate man will ordinarily live twelve years longer, while a temperate man will live twenty-nine years longer. Temperance Facts. It is a faet that nine-tenths of the inmates of our poor-housee were brought there directly or indirectly by the use of ardent spirits. It is a fact that three-fourths of all the convicts in prison were hard drinkers previous to the commission of the crimes for which they are imprisoned. It is a fact that the greatest sufferers from disease, and those whose maladies are the most difficult to cure, are those who are addicted to the use of ardent spirits. It is afact that of all who commit suicide in this eountry 99-iOOtha are the immediate or remote victims of ardent spirits. It i* afact that in all families where children are dir ty* “ a lf naked and ill fed; the rooms filthy and in dis or ™! *he husband cross, discontented and peevish, and the wives slattern, ill-tempered and quarrelsome, one, it not both the parents, are drinkers of ardent spirits. worship of God in the sanctuary, most of those who, by tnetr oaths, blasphemies and horrible execrations, shock he ears of modest people are bpirit-druikers. r at 108 e are moßt e ßily led to rid icute and prolane sacred things, and to join in every Jtmd ol dissipation and profligacy, are spirit-drinkers. Pl „'* a f a ct that of all that have died of the cholera in and 1 r j ni ?j Ic JV “veil-tenths were spirit-drinkers, ww one half decidedly intemperate. The Faithful Centurion, Is the title of a small work from the able pen of Dr. N. M. Crawford, the beloved President of Mercer Uni versity, showing that the proper meaning of the Greek word doulos is slave, and should be so translated; also, that the Centurion whom Christ so highly commended, was a slaveholder. The author adduces the testimony of all the most learned and distinguished lexicographers, critics and commentators, from which it will be scon that they all dbneur in tho idea that doulos means a slavo and not a hired servant. The evidence hero brought forward is sufficient to satisfy every abolitionist and doubting Thomas upon that point, and wc most especially commend the volume to the careful reading of our northern brethren. A perusal of it will repay any one, for it is complete and unanswerable. Wc make here a couple of extracts: “ McKnight says: ‘Though the word doulos prop erly signifies a slave, our English translators, in all places where the duties of slaves are inculcated, have justly translated it servant: because anciently’ [note the reason, good reader,] * the Greeks and Romans had scarce any servants but slaves, and because tho duties of the hired servant, during the time of his service, are the same with those of the slave. So that what the apostle said to the slave was, in effect, said to the hired servant. Upon these principles, in translations of the Scriptures designed for countries where slavery is abol ished, and servants are freemen, tho word doulos may, with truth, be translated a servant ‘Oh! most lame and impotent conclusion!’ Are we, then, to have two translations: one for a slave-holding people, the other for a people ofhired servants ? Is the word of God to be changed because the political institutions of a country are changed? Mu9t we translate Ist Pet. 2: 17, ‘ Honor the President’ because we have abolished monarchy ? Or can the abolition of slavery vary the immutable precopts of the Holy Spirit? McKnight’s authority, nevertheless, is strong, that a translation de signed to be used where there are slaves, ought to ren der the word property. I usk, in all kindness and long suffering, if we, who hold slaves, have not long enough suffered in the opinion of our biethrenof the free States, because tho word of God has not been ‘ properly’ trans lated?” * ® * * * e e o The following arc tho concluding ideas and summary of the book: “More numerous quotations might haveFeen made, but it is feared that even these are too tedious. My object, however, has been to have full proof. In the first part of this article, the unvarying testimony of learned men was exhibited; and in the latter part, ail appeal has been made to the use of the Greek language itself. From the quotations here given, all may under stand the meaning of the words under consideration. It has been shown that they arc used as implying— -Ist. A conditien opposed to that of freedom. 2d. A service opposed to that of a hireling. 3d. A condition in which the individuals specified were bought and sold, and held in subjection forever, like any other property. 4th. A condition in which the individuals specified were considered and called things, tools, possessions, inheritances; and at the death of the proprietors, be came, in like manner, the property of their children. sth. A condition involving all the circumstances of tho most absolute slavery. If there is meaning in words, is it not clear that the doulos of tho Centurion was his slave, and that the man of whom Jesus said, “I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel,” was a slaveholder? Can stronger proof be adduced to show that Jesus died upon the cross ? There is also another Centurion who was a slavehol der, Cornelius, the just man, who feared God, in whose behalf two miraculous visions appeared, and upon whom the Holy Spirit fell —the just Cornelius, also, was a slaveholder. He sent two of his slaves, oiketas, to Peter, Acts x. 7. It is no part of my design to discuss the slavery ques tion in any of its bearings. I therefore stop here and refrain from making any reflections on the facts pre sented in these cases, or from commenting on other passages in the Word of God. Here is the higher law before which we bow. Christ commended the “so great fait hit of a slaveholder. The Holy Spirit blessed the faith of a slaveholder. The apostles of Jesus ac-> knowledged fellowship with a slaveholder. In spite of all this, our Northern brethren denounce thousands of Christians who walk by faith and exhibit the graces of the Spirit, bringing against them no other charge than that, like the Centurion, they own slaves who also are “dear unto” them, and for whom, when they are “ sick and ready to die,” they exercise the tenderest care. Ought these things so to be?” Death off Hawkins the Temperance Lecturer. The New Haven Palladium, speaking of John H. W. Hawkins, whose death we have in a previous issue no ticed, and whose name stands in such prominent con nection with the “Washingtonian” Temperance move movement, says: “The man whose death is thus an nounced, will he remembered by thousands in the United States for the most affecting story which he told of the sufferings of himself and family from his habits cf intemperance. His daughter “Hannah” was his guar dian angel, and her name will always be associated with that of him, because, indeed, she was his guardian angel, and was made so prominent in his thrilling story. — Hawkins probably did more for the cause of temperance than any other man, living or dead : because of his peculiar experience—his advocacy of the principles of moral suasion and his doctrine of total abstinence, and beciuse of the peculiar pathos and artless eloquence with which he detailed his sufferings and those of his daugh ter Hannah. His power of speech was almost irresis tible, and yet he was not a cultivated man; on the contrary, he was, in some respects, illiterate, though possessing a good mind, and having much experience with the world in most of its varying phases. For the time in which he appeared before the public, probably he was the most eloquent and efficient advocate then on the stage, or that has since appeared on it, not even ex cepting Mr. Gough.” To which the Patriot, of Baltimore, adds: “It is with feelings of no ordinary sadness that we chronicle the death of John H. W. Hawkins. Born and reared to man’s estate in the Monumentol City—a number of his relatives and friends still residing ’here—we feci con strained to pay this tribute of respect, and to join with his numerous friends in adding our testimony to his worth as a man, a Christian and a friend to humanity. His father, long since gone to his reward, was one of tlie early and leading members of the Methodist Epis copal Church in this city ; and his son, though for many years the unfortunate slave of intemperance, yet, since the organanization of the Washingtonian temperance movement, he, as one of the original members, was steadfast to the faith, and instrumental in inducing hundreds, if not thousands, of his fellow-beings to for sake the intoxicating bowl.” A Long Concealed Murder Revealed. A dog recently brought a skull to his master in the woods, near Detroit, Mich, and on investigation the body of a railroad conductor, named John Hickey, for merly of Georgia, was discovered. He must have been killed nearly a year ago. An Irishman, named Kenne dy, is suspected of the murder, but he has escaped- The Detroit Free Press says: Wc have here a case which does not often occur. A man is murdered, robbed and left in the woods in the midst of a swamp. The murder remains a secret for nearly a year, and is finally revealed by a dog which brings the skull of the murdered man to his master, having gnawed it for his supper. The letters found re veal the name of the murdered man and the murderer, after the silence of months had rested upon the terrible deed. The murderer is tracked from one extremity of the Union to the other, three times escapes as if by the in terposition of a supernatural aid, and still remains at liberty. The proofs that can be brought against him are overwhelming, and would result in his conviction if he could be found. The facts, until now, have been confined to those first cognizant of them, but so long a time having elapsed, t lie propriety of making them pub lic is no longer doubtful. The murderer is thought to be somewhere in the North, probably in Illinois or some other Western State. A Noble Wife.— Mr. Walsh, in his Paris letter of August 28, to the New York Journal of Commerce, writes as follows: In 1819, a benevolent gentleman, M. DcMnntyon, be queathed an annual sum of len thousand francs, as a p emium at the disposal of the Academy, for the poor ar?lv. nd ’! ld “ alB who had in the year performed the ln VirtU °V 8 0r morall y creditable. It was ad- DeDaftil W n fv t 0 f peas . ant i M'me Durand, of the Her huahonH auc l use > for his exemplary conduct, raiened at A„^ 8 ? C u CUBed of a capital crime and ar anf by a small Wa r , BC( Jpittcd with difficulty, taine/himdevotetfv'thro?/!) 16 •'“i! 7 ’ ■ l .’ he wife BU8 ~ on his innocence- nroughout the trial, and insisted orcu?priT; C the%± v r e^ lv^ t ° h "“ d rhe real culprit years ; she discovered them and arCh , f ° r B , eve ” justice. Their conviction filled hc hem was to re-establish the character of 7 h, {! h true amende for an honest man usbnnd — the be passing rich with ten thousand WOman wIH Female Admission by Measurement— According to the Courner de Charleroi the lessees of dancing sa loons in Belgium complain bitterly of the falling o ft in their receipts, occasioned by the extra space now occu pied by crinolines. An instrument, called the“Crino limetre,” has consequently been adopted by some of them, and persons whose crinoline surpass a fixed de velopment are charged an extra admission fee. At a ball given at Montigny, in Belgium, one female was measured and charged an extra 75 centimes; another person, of an economic disposition, preferred reducing her crinoline by taking out two hoops. have my rights,” is the cry of thousands. Such are the very first to disregard their neighbors’ rights, and run an account with the prison or gallows “Saucy Kate of Cherokee” has enclosed to us a pri vato note for “Eureka Vein ” We Lave forgotten his address but if he will drop us a line wo will transmit it to him. Pine G.ore Academy. oare authorized by the Trustees of this school to state that they have secured the services of a Teacher or the ensuing year. They make this statement for the benefit of those who have applied, and for others who may do so. r \j^ri ansa ?’.' vdlcn a f e H° w desires to sav that ho would like a drink, he declares that if he had a glass ot whisky lie would throw himself outside of it mighty quick. But whisky doesn’t always stay on the inside; and sometimes it takes the “in turn” on a feller, and the first thing lie knows a yawning gutter, gully or cala boose throws itself outside of him. Red and White Wheat. The following curious and interesting revelation is taken from the Chambersburg (Penn.) Spirit. The question is asked by a cotemporary, whether Virginia and North Carolina farmers have noticed anything of the sort in their wheat fields ; and if they have to com municate the fact to the public. The paragraph is as follows : “From what we hear from our country friends, and see iu our.exchange papers, it appears that the weevil confines his destructive operations exclusively to white wheat. In some instances, where part of the field was in white wheat and the remainder in red, the white was destroyed whilst the red sustained no injury whatever. In Lancaster county, many of the farmers intend to raise red wheat altogether till the weevil disappears, and it might be well for our Frankling county farmers to do so too. In some parts of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania the wheat crop was almost entirely des troyed for several years in succession by the weevil. If its ravages can be stopped by cultivating red wheat only, our farmers will certainly do well to give the the white wheat the good by till the weevil disappears.” Speaking out in Dreams. A correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch —a re markably good paper for its size, by the way —tells the following in a letter from one of the Springs: An amusing incident occurred on the cars of the Vir ginia and Tennessee road, which must be preserved in .print. It is too good to be lost. As the train entered the Big Tunnel, near this place, in accordance with the usual custom a lamp was lit. A servant girl accom panying her mistress, had sank into a profound slum ber, but just as the lamp was lit she awoke, and, half asleep, imagined herself in the infernal regions. Fran tic with fright, she implored her Maker to have mercy on her, remarking, at the same time, “the devil lias got me at last.” Her mistress, sitting on the scat in front of the terrified negro, was deeply mortified, and called upon her—“ Mollie, don’t make such a noise ;itisl, be not afraid.” Thopoor African immediately exclaimed, “Oh, missus, dat you ; jest what I ’spccted ; I always thought ifeber I got to de bad place 1 would see you dar.” These remarks were uttered with so much vehe mence that not a word was lost, and the whole coach became convulsed with laughter. The lady seemed to regret she had spoken at all, if the crimson blush which suffused her cheek be any evidence of confusion. Arrest of a Female Murderer. On Saturday week, at Cheshire, Ct. a woman named Stevens, wife of Gilbert Stevens, was strangled to death by a woman named Tobin. The case is a very singu lar one. The disclosures at present rest principally on the statements of Mrs. Stevens’ mother, an old woman of 97 years, who also received injuries which it is sup posed will cause her death. It seems that the woman Tobin, who is a vagrant, has been in the habit of visit ing Stevens, against which the females of the family naturally remonstrated. On Thursday she visited Ste vens, and in the night or morning the neighbors heard a noise and disturbance in the house. On going there, Mrs. Stevens was found dead in bed, with her husband in a drunken sleep by her side. Old Mrs. Stevens was also suffering severely from the effects of a beating she received. She said that the woman, Tobin, had beaten Mrs. Stevens to death, and had also choked her. She said that she heard her son request the Tobin woman to kill his wife, as she had lived long enough, and he wanted to get rid of her. Tobin had left the house and had been seen on the road to New Haven. A search was made, and early on Saturday morning she was ar rested and sent to Chesire on Saturday night for an ex amination. The physicians say that Mrs. Stevens died of strangulation, and that it is probable that the old woman will die of her wounds. Execution ill Wheeling-—A Horrible Confes sion. On Friday, John Burns was executed at Wheeling, Va., for the murder of Mary Ann Montony, an aban doned woman, on the night of the 15th of May. Ac cording to the confession of the murderer, the deed was one of the most brutal on record. The parties were out on a hill near Wheeling, with other degraded per sons. The deceased had formerly been a mistress of Burns. How he got rid of her, the following extract from his confession tells : They were all sitting around one place and another. It had rained some. I went off some distance with Ma ry Montony. She came back first, I believe. When we came back, several ot us were lying down around the fire. I was not standing up when I stabbed her with the knife, as was testified. I suppose I stabbed her about thirty times. I carried my pocket-knife. It was a large sized one. She didn’t move or say a word as I stabbed her. It did’nt appear to hurt her. She didn’t try to get away. Last time I hit her against her rib. It made my blood run cold. She had a sack on, and sometimes the knife sort of caught in that. I was mad about her being out with Rodenbaugh. She ap peared to like him, and pay more attention than to me. I was sober when I hit her. Hadn’t taken any liquor then for a good while. I hit her with the handy billy,” as was testified. Myers and I went to the mill to dry ourselves. We talked the matter over there. Myers said that we would get into a scrape, and we had better go back and kill her. He proposed that we should lake a shovel along. This last I refused to do. About 8 o’clock, he (Myers) and I started up the hill. Wefound her standing up beside the fire—she seemed to be trying to dry her clothes. I commenced talking with her. She said that she was in misery, and wished that she could get down to the river, so that she might drown herself. I asked her if she would like to be rid of her misery. She said she would. Says I, if I had a pistol, I would put her out. When I was talking with her, Myers was sitting down. He spoke up and said that I was a damned foolfortalkingtoher. Said he, “kill her right at once, and let’s go down.” I still kept on talk ing to her —say about 15 minutes. Myers kept on urg ing me. Said it would be too late, and that somebody would come along. I then picked up a stone and hit her. She saw me pick up the stone, and put up her hands around her head. I wanted to stun her so that I could kill her at one blow. She fell at the fourth throw. She held up her hands and legs to keep me from hitting her. I threw at her three times. Broughtblood every time. I then took up a heavy, sharp pointed stone. Hit her twice with this. Didn’t say a word while I was killing her. Myers was setting back laugh ing, and telling me to hurry. After the first three throws, Myers got up and hit her with a small sharp stone. He hit her and back. He seemed scared l stayed behind and kept on hitting her. I did not think she was dead until I saw her brains come out. There were nearly 10,00(£pcrsons present at the exe cution, of whom one third were women. The Wheel ing Times says: At about 10 o’clock the prisoner’s irons were taken off, and shortly after he was dressed in a pair of white pantaloons, a white shirt, and lead-colored linen frock coat, and a pair of patent-leather slippers. The rope was then placed around his neck, and his arms pinioned at the elbows. Over the whole was placed a very neat shroud, which was pinned up close under his chin, to conceal the rope. He spoke a few moments to tho Sheriff, during which time he seemed much affected. Mr. Perkins spoke to him and he shortly regained his composure, after which he was removed from the jail to the omnibus. In the omnibus, and while passing up Maine street, he observed among the crowd one of his former acquain tances, and said to Mr. Perkins, mentioning the name of the boy, “Os all my.companions that is the only one I can see in this crowd. He was always a good boy and minded what his parents told him.” He also asked Mr. P. to say to hislSunday school scholars that if they would mind what their parents and teachers told them, they would have no difficulty in getting along, and above all to keep off the streets at night, as it is at night that all the mischief is done. At 11 o’clock the prisoner was placed in a large four horse omnibus, accompanied by those who were to be with him on the scaffold, and immediately proceeded down Monroe and up Main street to the scene of execu tion, the Virginia State Fencibles, thirty-five inen, Major Loring in command, acted as guard. Arrived at the ground, the prisoner walked up the slight ascent to the scaffold and on it, supported by the Sheriff and jailor Smith. He walked with firmness, looking around and nodding familiarly to those he knew in the crowd. He took a seat on the scaffold, and being asked by Mr- Smith ii he wanted anything, replied that he would like to hour Cohagen, the tenor drummer of the Fencibles band, piny a lively tune. Mr. Perkins spoke feelingly to the unfortunate man, reminding him of the eminent peril in which not only his body but his soul was placed. He bid farewell to all present. The Sheriff then adjusted the rope upon his neck and attached it to the cress beam. Mr. Smith placed the cap over his head—there was a moment of profound silence—tho spring was touched and John Burns was in eternity. , . . , It was intended to, give him a fall of about three feet, but in consequence ofa slight slip in the rope on the cross beam, the fall was increased to near five feet. Af ter hanging about ten minutes, the physicians proceeded to make an examination of the body, during which the noose upon the neck slipped and he fell. He was pro nounced dead by the attendant physicians, and thus John Burns, in the prime of youth and strength, passed from life to the dark valley of the shadow of death. Suicide Caused by an Incurable Cancer. The Concord (N. H.) Patriot reports that Mr. Jus tus Blake, a well to do farmer, about seventy years old, hung himself in the shed attached to his house, in I Northumberland, on tho 13th tilt. He was afllicted I with an incurable cancer which had destroyed his nose and nearly one side of his face and one eye. He seems to’have taken advantage of the accidental absence ofcv ery member of his family to end his misery with his life. A Modest Monarch. Milchelet's Scvcntec.th Century gives us this item : The attack was upon the king, whom it was considered necessary to engage in a love affair,and in this instance to allies were the queen and the beautiful M’lle dc Hau tofort. One day, smiling, M’lle dc Hautcfort showed her a little letter in her hand. Behold, the king ar rives! He wished to know what it contained. Still, in jest, she retreated—the king following her, still more piqued. He begged her to allow him to read the letter stretching out his hand to take it. She thrusts it into the bosom of her dress. Louis stopped short suddenly, and knew not what to do; but the queen was present and saw all the little charade. She did a daring thing, which might have resulted in the most important con sequences. She seized the young girl’s hands, and held them, so that the king might take the letter. But Louis the Thirteenth was in a still worse perplexity. He had recourse to an expedient, ridiculous, but admi rable; and, taking up a little pair of silver pinchers which were at hand, removed the letter chastely, and without the slightest rudeness, from its delicate hiding place. Amusing Speech. An Eastern paper gives the following as the recent speech of an involuntary candidate for Congress. We suppress the name of the speaker and of the theatre of his eloquence: “Gentlemen, I have a very bad cold, and my lungs are affected. I have been to New York on business, and when I returned I was indignant at seeing my name posted with others to speak. Yes, 1 was almost indig nant. lam no public speaker. The nomination was thrust upon me. You are a good looking set of men. 1 was pleased when walking down this road to see your houses. They are a good deal better than the huts in the South. the speaker brolfe down, and turned round to Elder I eck in dismay. The Elder gave him a nudge, and though evidently scared, ho went on.] “I have seen a black woman on a plantation in the South, holding a plough when it rained.” [Here he made an uneasy motion, as if his coat hurt him awfuliy under the arms, when the Elder gave him a wicked look, and he plucked up courage and made one more effort.'] “There is Kansas ought to be taken care of. I know you to be tired alter listening to my friends, and therefore I give away.” [And be did give away.] Itobert Barns. 1 lie house in which Robert Burns was born has be come a licensed grogshop. Shame onScotland. Well, says the Glasgow Commonwealth: “We do not put heroes into bung-holes, knowing them to be heroes, and bung-holes to be holes for bungs. Other bungs do as well, or, in fact, better, and heroes may have other and better uses. Scotland, however, is a convicted criminal in this respect, and she requires an improvement in her taste. She has her national idol—a Moloch that devours her children, and to this said Moloch she devotes the memory of her wise men and prophets, her hero warrior and her bards. If she can found no other monument, she can found a “spirit shop,” and pour libations of liquid fire down the thirsty throats of the living, out of honor to the illustrious dead. “In this house,” says an inscription on a little cottage not far from Ayr, “ Robert Burns, the Ayrshire poet, was born and on the same cottage, at the other side of the open door, is inscribed the announcement in similar, though larger, letters, that the said cottage is “licensed to sell spirits, porter and ale.” What Goths or Vandals, we should like to know, licensed the birth place of the poet for such a purpose? No wonder that strangers, from other lands, come to Scotland and brand her as the most drunken country in Europe, which unfortunately is not true, when we present, to their amazement, the Wallace Tower public house, and the cottage where Burns was born, converted into a lit tle mean, contemptible, road-side drinking-shop.” Meeting’ a Sermon. Archdeacon Leighton, returning home one morning, was asked by his s’stcr, “Have you been hearing a ser mon ?” “I have met a sermon,” was the answer. The sermon he had met was a corpse on its way to the grave; the preacher was Death. Greatest of street preach ers! No laws nor penalties can silence him. No tramp of horses, nor rattling of carriages, nor a rush and din of crowded streets, can drown his voice. InHeathcn, Papal and Protestant countries, in monarchies and free states, in town and country, the solemn pomp of his discourses is ever going on. In some countries a man is imprisoned for ever dropping a tract. But what prison will hold this awful preacher? What chains will bind him? He lifts up his voice in the very presence of ty rants, and laughs at their threats. Fie walks unob structed through the midst of their guards and delivers those messages which trouble their security and em bitter their pleasures. If we do not meet his sermons, still we cannot escape them. He comes to our abodes and taking the dearest objects of our love as his text, what terrible sermons does he deliver to us ! O what weeping audiences sometimes has this silent preacher! Yet there is a secret doctrine, an occult meaning, run ning through his discources, which is often not appre hended. Few “lay it to heait.” His oft repeated ser mons still enforce the same doctrine, press upon us the same exhortation. “Surely, every man walketh in a vain show. Surely they are disquieted in vain. Here there is no continuing city. Why are you laboring for that I will presently take from you and give to anoth er ? Take no thought for the morrow. Prepare to meet thy God.” - Fearful Death of an Insane Man—Suicide on the Steamboat, Hero. On the passage up the river (says the Albany States man) of the steamboat, Hero, Tuesday night, a most fearful tragedy was enacted. Soon after the boat had left her dock, it was discovered that a German, among the passengers, was insane. Flis conduct became so wild that it was found necessary to restrain him, and so he was tied down to some bales on which to sleep. About one o’clock in the morning, when all but the watch had retired, he managed to disengage himself, and commenced prowling about the boat. The gang way doors being locked, he was prevented from getting outside or even up stairs. Becoming enraged in conse quence, he commenced smashing the glass in the win dows of the ladks’ cabin and captain’s office with his hands. In so doing they were most severely lacerated, and he thrust his hands through the thick glass. Ashe centinued his work of destruction the frenzy seemed to grow upon him, and finding himself baffled, he made a spring and plunged head first through one of the win dows on the side of the main cabin, taking sash and all with him. With such force did he go, that lie came in collision with the upper guard works ol the boat. A watchman being attracted by the noise made by the German, opened the gangway door, but not in time to save the man’s life, for picking himself up, after strik ing his head against the guards, lie sprang overboad with a wild and terriffic scream. The boat was under great headway at the time, and it was deemed unneces sary to attempt to save the man’s life, as he must have inevitably drowned before a small boat could have got to his assistance. And, indeed, he had cut himself so repeatedly that, judging from the amount of blood on the deck, he must have bled very profusely. At a social meeting of his fellow-church members, among other things each member was relating causes for joy and sorrow, when, Mr. said : “In my family ot children I have much to cause joy, and also much to distress me. There is my sou, , a good, reve rent and dutiful boy; but there is my son Bill; lie is an audacious scamp. He left his poor grey-headed father many a day ago, and it has been a long time since I , have heart! from him ; and w hen I Inst heard from him he waß way up the Galener’s a raftin’ saw-logs, playin’ 1 seven up and hoss-racing; but thank the Lord, he is i making money by the trip. Jlin’t he, sister ?“ “Yes he 1 is, and no mistake!” Lovers.— There is not, in all nature, anything sout terly ridiculous as a man so much in love as not to be able to conceal it from the rest of the company. Not only is he ridiculous, but, in time, he cels to be a regu lar nuisance, and is as impertinent anu tiresome us he was at first laughable. He is always either extremely happy or wonderlully wretched, without any apparent cause. This class of lovers who would give their for tune for a curl of their sweetheart’s hair, or a piece of her shoe-string, generally make the worst husbands in the world. A little dog had followed his mistress to church, and wandering a bout the house had become excited by the tone ot the preacher, and commenced barking in response. Pr e ' lche - to °k no notice ol him but raised his voice still higher, and delivered himself with groater onorgy. , brethren tried to put thedogout.butthe dog Wouldn’t go; the more they chased him the more lie barked, and when the confusion was at its height the minister cried out t ‘‘Never mind, never mind, brother; I can out preach adog!” And so he did. The dog got tired of the strife, and g*v in to the pulpit. [Written far the Georgia Temperance Crusader.] To my Cousin W ,of Griffin, G. BY IDA. “We’ve met, dear cousin, but to part; I feel it must be so, For duty calls me from this place— Heaven wills that I must go vj* ialta^ooc^cc,s rus hing tide, Mid rocks and mountains free, Into my dear old forest home, In the wilds of Cherokee. Alas! alas! how soon to part; Oh ! that it were not so— How sad—how sorrowful I feel, To think that I must go; But duty s path’s a holy one, And must be trod by me; Lut, cousin deal, when I atn gone, Oh ! sometimes think of me. And when I’ve reached that distant home — Where loved ones wait for me, In the lonely hours of solitude I will remember thee— Tray that religion’s peaceful light May to thy heart be given, To cheer thy way while here below’, And guide thee up to Heaven. F or sure that far-off better land. Beyond this vale of tears. Is worth a life of toil and care, r Through time’s fast fleeting years ; Then let’s so live that when w’e’ve passed From off this stage of w r oe, We’ll meet again in that fair clime, Where endless pleasures flow. That blessed home—that place of joy, Where sorrow’s all are o’er, And all the righteous dead shall meet, In peace to part no more. Who would not seek this home ol rest, Where God and angels dwell! Cousin dear, my parting word Is, seek thy God—Farewell! Home of the Roses, Sept. 1 6th, 1858. [Special Correspondence.] The following very beautiful production was found among the papers of a school-girl, residing in the North ern part of this State; and although emanating from one of tender years, w’ould not have been discreditable to one of more mature intellect. The idea suggested by it is a beautiful one, and demonstrates the purity of the innate tendencies of the female mind. “A woman’s heart contains empires of feeling;” and when it is guided and directed by the Heavenly influence ofehris tianity, it tends to the promotion of every good object. Religion has been scoffed at as only fit todclude“ weak minded women;” from the fact that they arc more ea sily impressed by religious truths than man; but this I hail as a great evidence of the natural purity of her heart. Take away from woman tho mild influences and restraints of Christianity ; pervert the natural pu rity oflier heart, and turn her loose upon the madden ing billows of fashion or of vice, and to what depths will she not descend? Christianity has done much for woman; it has elevated her in the scale of being; and while it has removed the obstacles in her pathway, has imparted additional charms to her person, and graces to her heart. Woman’s influence, directed by the teach - ings of Christianity, is the great “leaven that will leaven the whole lump” of humanity. Mrs. Heman’s made use of the following felicitous expression, when refer ring to Mary Magdalene bearing from tlie Saviour’s sepulchre the tidings of his resurrection : ‘‘Christ has arisen!” Thou, thou, the sin enthralled, Earth’s outcast —Heaven’s own ransomed one wert called In human hearts to give that rapture birth; Oh! raised from shame to brightness! there doth lie The tenderest meaning of His ministry, Whose undespairing love still owned the spirit’s worth.” THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY UPON THE CONDITION OF WOMAN. The history of the world, for six thousand years, shows that, in the exercise of unlimited power, man be comes a despot. Kingly annals confirm its truth, and domestic records proclaim it with a thundering tongue. Here must be a restraining influence upon human pas sions, or its turbulent waves will swell higher and higher, and sweep over the landmarks of reason, honor and love. The mighty voice of God alone possesses power to curb its raging billows, and speak the fiat to its troubled waves, “peace, be still.” But our subject will not permit us to dwell upon the influence of Christianity at large, but only upon its influence upon the condition of woman. To our subject, then, we turn with quick ened, grateful feelings, ft has often been scoffingly and deridingly remarked, that the Bible was made for wo man. We receive and welcome it not in the spirit in which it is thus offered, but, with joyful and thankful hearts, as Heaven’s choicest gift and richest boon ; as woman's holiest, best, most precious legacy. But in order that we inav truly and justly estimate herpresent privileges, which arc drawn from tho just and holy Laws of God, let us for a moment, consider what was wo man's condition in the barbarous age of the world, and what, alsa! is still her condition in those countries where the ameliorating influences of the Bible are un known and unacknowledged. Moulded in woman’s lighter and more delicate form, while beauty decked herbrow, with all the innate sensi bilities of womanhood; yet, she was condemned to the vilest servitude, both public and private; a servitude which opinion, legislation, and custom stamped with its triple seal, as her proper destiny ; as the mere pup pet and slave of man, her lord and master, she was constrained to render the most abject and degraded obedience to his slightest command, receiving no other reward for her sufferings and obedience but harsh lan guage and cruel treament. Sold, starved, or punished with death for the most trivial cause; and even in a more enlightened age, among the Greeks and Romans, where the arts and sciences flourished, where education was in its dawn, regarded as the mere object of the pas sions—her charms and youth the only ties that bound man to her; and to this day, in Mahomedan countries, and in China, the Celestial Empire, she is the veriest slave that breathes; with no relaxation or privileges save that of weeping over the sorrows of her unhappy destiny. Although, on her wedding day, she is clad in splendid robes of silk, and decked with jewels of gold and silver, and her hair ornamented with flowers and precious stones, she is but an unwilling victim adorned for the sacrifice, and as a lamb led to the slaughter, for now, in truth, her martyrdom is only begun. The state of perpetual humiliation and wretchedness to which she is subjected, sometimes drives her to the most frightful extremeties. Suicides, and the most horrible deaths, are of daily occurrence, and the judicial annals are full of tragical events arising from this cause. Now, I would ask what has made us to differ from these, our unhappy sisters ? To what great cause or causes do we owe our privileges ? Made in the same image, possessed of like passions and subject to like emotions; yet, oh, how widely are we separated ! As high as the Fleavens arc above the earth, so far arc wc removed from them; yet, not so far but that we can weep for their-sad fate. Is it not Christianity that has raised us from that low, miserable state of degradation, and enabled us to lift up our heads among the sons of men as their companions and equals ? Is it not to the precepts of the Bible that we owe all our advantages and enjoyments ? Woman never has risen so high in the scale of being as under the soft sunlight of the sphere that God and Nature designed for her happiness. The Christian husband, of this age, is bound to hiswife by those feelings of tender sympathy and companion ship which hallow the domestic hearth, and sweeten the social board. By sharing them with her, his sor rows are divided, and his joys doubled. Her kind min istrations and thoughtful care anticipates all his wants, and alleviate all his distresses. It is fho mild, loving truths of the religion of Jesus that influences men’s minds to regard woman’s happiness as paramount to their own. Let woman, then, with the Book ofSalva tion open before her, learn her high and precious privi leges, drawn from its sacred truth, and which tend so much to her happiness here on earth, and holds out to her the hope of a glorious immortality hereafter, in the world beyond the grave: “ Let man, with impious spirit, daie The sacred word of God to scorn, And scoffing hopes and comforts here, From all its blessed precepts turn. But ne’er should woman, weak and frail, Dare cast her guiding chart aside ; When earthly hopes so often fail, Where can she look on earth beside ?” Oil, woman, never upbraid or speak slightingly of Him who, in His dying moments, regarded her with Divine compnssion; she, who was the last object of His solicitude and tender eare amid the unspeakable ago nies of the cross; who was His first cho en herald when risen again from the dead; and who will, if true and faithful, like the watchful and loving Mary at His tomb, be welcomed, by Him, into the Heavenly Eden above. W. When coldness wraps this suffering clay, - Ah ! whither strays the immortal mind ! It cannot die—it cannot stay, But leaves its darkened dust behind.” —r—-rr In Henry county, Ga. at the residence of his son-in law, Eli W. Mays, John W. Puckett, on the day of July last, aged 78 years. Mr. Puckett was born in Halifax county, Vu. cajjic io Georgia in early life, where he lived up to the timo of his death, a quiet and pcaccablo citizen, beloved by all of his acquaintances. But all! he has gone to meet his first bosom companion, who died long since, in Elbert county, Ga. He leaves behind his second wife, !) chil dren and many friends and relations to mourn after one so long the family conscllor. He gave his soul to (Tod and died in peace. W.rD. B. Vickory's Creek, Ga. Aug. 1, 1858. nn limit PENFIELD STEAM MILL STOCK WILL BE SOLD before tho. court house door in Grecncsboro, on the first Tuesday in Novem ber, 3(5 shares of Penfield Steam Milt Stock. Sold for tho purpose of division among the legatees of B.'TII. Sanders, late of Greene co. deceased. Terms made known on the day of sale. CYNTHIA SANDERS, Ex x. Penfield, Ga. Sept. 30th, 1858. NEW GOODS! dJf Qki £□ ‘2 ® a a cel gg CHEAP! Greenesboro, Sept. 1858. B. F. GREENE. GREENE COUNTY LEGAL NOTICES. TWO MONTHS after date, application will be made to the Court of Ordinary of Greene cduntv, for leave to sell a portion of the real estate of James F. Billingslea, deceased. ’ Sep 30, 1858 C. J. BILLINGSLEA, Adm’x. Georgia, greene county.—whereas James Watson, administrator upon the estate of Mrs. Martha Watson, deceased, petitions the Court oi Ordinary of said county for Letters Dismissory from said estate: These are therefore to cite and admonish all persons concerned to show cause (if any they have) why said administrator should not be discharged at the Court of Ordinary to be held in and for said county on the first Monday in April, 1859. Given under my hand at office in Greenesboro, Sep tember 22d. 1858. EUGENIUS L. KING, Sept 30, 1858 Ordinary. Georgia, greene county.—whereas James Watson, administrator dc bonis non, with the will annexed, upon the estate of William Watson, deceased, petitions the Court of Ordinary for Lettc*s Dismissory from said estate: These arc therefore to cite and admonish all persons interested to show cause (if any they have) why said administrator should not be discharged at the Court of Ordinary to be held in and for said county on the first Monday in April, 1859. Given under mv hand at office in Greenesboro, Sen tern ber 22d. 1858. EUGENICS L. KING, Sept 30, 1858 Ordinary. I GREENE SHERIFF’S SALES. WILL be sold before the cr.urt-house door in the city ofGreenes boro, on the FIRST TUESDAY in NOVEMBER next, within the legal hours of sale, the following property, to-wit: One house and lot in the village of Penfield, whereon B. E. Spencer now lives ; also, a negro woman named Mary, about forty years old ; also, one pair counter scales : Levied on as the property of B. E. Spencer, to satisfy a ffa from the Superior Court, in favor of C. C. Norton vs B. E. Spe/iccr and Joseph H. English. Also, at the same time and place, 6 cane bottom chairs, 6 Windsor chairs, 1 bureau, 4 chests, 2 beds, bedstead and furniture, 1 wardrobe, I carpet and 1 clock: Levied on as the property of B. E. Spencer, to satisfy a fifa from Greene Superior Court, in favor of Scranton, Seymour & Cos. vs B. E. Spencer and Henrv English. Property pointed out by Henry English. Also, at the same time and place, one negro boy named Jim, about 22 years old: Levied on as the prop erty of Henry English, to satisfy two f fas from rior Court of said county, one in favor of Scranton, Sey mour & Cos. vs B. E. Spencer and Henry English, and one in favor of Scranton, Kolb &, Cos. vs said Spencer and English. I. MORRISON, Sheriff: Sept 30, IS’>B ALSO, AT THE SAME TIME Alf PLACE, Two hundred acres of land, more or less, whereon R. A. Newsom now lives, adjoining Dr. B. F. Carlton, P. W. Printup and others ; also, two negroes, one a man named Ned, about 55 years old, dark complexion, and a negro woman named Martha, about forty-five years old, of dark complexion: Levied on as the property of Richard A. Newsom, to satisfy sundry Ji. fas from Greene Su- ‘ perior and Inferior Courts, in favor of James VV. As bury, and other ft fas in my hands vs Richard A. New som- C. C. NORTON, D. S. Sept 30, 1858 CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE. riARRLI L’ A\ OOPIIAM offers himself to the . voters of Greene county, lor the office of Tax Re ceiver, at the election in January'next. JOHN H. SXELLIXGS offers himself to the vo * * ers ®f Greene county, rs a candidate for the office of J ax Collector, at the election in January next. M. .TONES offers himself to the voters of ’ * Greene county, as a candidate for the office of’ - I ax Collector, at the election in January next. TJENRA WEAVER offers himself to the voters -*• of Greene county, as a candidate for the office of Tax Receiver, at the election in January next. arc authorized to announce the name of JOEL C. BARNETT, Esq. ofMadison, Ga. as candidate for Solicitor General of the Ocmulgce Circuit, the first Monday in January next. HpiIOSE INDEBTED to the firm of McWhorter & Armstrong, are hereby notifiedthattheirnotesand accounts ML ST be settled by the first of December. Longer delay will subject all such to the mortification ot a visit, from the proper officer. Bear in mind, friends*- we are compelled to have the money. Sept 16—2 m McW. &A. PLANTATION FOR SALE. r I ‘'HE subscriber offers for sale Eleven Hundred acres ol land lying on the waters of Little River, adjoining lands ol the estate of A. Jones, deceased, and , C . barrow. I here are between three and four hun dred acres in the woods, and upwards of one hundred acres river and branch land. There is on the plantation a pretty good dwelling house, with gin house and other outhouses. Any person wishing to sec the land can have an op-- w*"*!-* 11 by calling on the subscriber at Woodstock or W. D. Pntajd of Oglethorpe county, Ga. II said land is not sold privately, it will be offered at * public sale in Grecnesboro, on the first Tuesday of No vember next. JOHN W. REID. Philomath, Aug 26 BROOM & NORRELL,, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, A RE now purchasing one of the largest and! most elegant stocks of Fill and Winter DRY G 0 Od)S that will be brought to this market this season, which will be bought under circumstances that will guarantee the purchase upon the very best terms, and will there fore enable us to sell them at such Unprecedentedly Low Prices that they cannot be undersold, and will DEFY ALL COMPETITION, , AS TO QUALITY, STYLE AND PRICE.'. And as our rule of business is, AXV XO’ m*mrw±: DEVIATION,. no one will pay over market price, as the rule forces the seller to ask the lowest market price, and protects the buyer Therefore, If you wish goods at low prices, Go to BROOME & NORRELL’S. If you like fair and open dealing, Go to BROOME & NORRELL’S. If you dislike a dozen prices for the same article, and prefer “ one price,” Go to BROOME & NORRELL’S. If vou don’t like to bo *’ bailed ” one article, and pay doubly on another, Go to BROOME & NORRELL’S. In fact, if you wish to buy cheap goods, get good _ for your money, and trade where you like to deal, and be plcaacd to see your friends, Go to BROOME & NORRELL’S ONE PRICE STORE! August 2, 1858