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arßifa TEMPER CRUS A DER. (jROKGIA. 21, 1858^ FOB SALE* A POWER PRESS AND ENGINE. As we contemplate purchasing now 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. jgre-We will sell either the Press or Engine sepa rately. ‘ Tlie Grand Division ‘ Meets in Augusta on Wednesday the 27th inst. Bear it in mind. jS*Wc find the following pointed sentiments in one of our exchange papers, and as they are adapted to all climates, we give them a hearty indorsement, and a prominent place in our columns: The time is now come for earnest and continued Temperance meetings. The people have become in dignant at the noxious spread of lager beer and whisky saloons in the city, the stench from which fumes up rankly and offensively at almost every step taken in any business street. The people have become indignant, also, at the presumptuous and riotous attempt of a num ber of beer venders to interfere with the right of free speech, and to drive from the stand, while he was speak ing, the faithful temperance apostle, Gen. Riley. When lager beer attempts to carry as high a hand as that, it is time for all good citizens to take speedy and decided steps to put a stop to so baneful and beastly an influ ence, as prompted the act alluded to. The people, at least the more thoughtful, are earnest now in their desires and efforts to blot out the black spot of intemperance which rc3ts like a curse upon the city. Boys are forming the most vicious and ruinous habits under its influence, and are making drunkards of themselves, as sure as effect follows cause. Young men are blasting their brightest promises under the curse, and are acquiring as fast as possible, enervated intellects, sickly bodies and disreputable characters. Employers arc being robbed night after night, to an ex tent which many of them little dream of by the excesses of their clerks and employees, which are only paid for out of the money drawer ol the establishment. And men in middle and advanced years, who wero a few years ago shining lights in society, arc falling one by one, at least a half dozen within the past year in our own city, into a drunkard’s dismal and hopeless gravo. Under this state of things, this moral and mortal de vastation, men who profess temperance have no right to absent themselves from tempcranco meetings. If they do, they are not true temperance men, and deserve to be kicked out of the camp. Neither has the pulpit any right to keep dumb on the subject. Christianity re quires them to make their best efforts to save the drunkard, as well as every other class of sinners. Shame on that pulpit that fears to denounce liquor selling, liq uor drinking, liquor keeping in the house, and every species of contact with liquor, for fear of offending some of its admirers or parishioners! How can ministers look upon liquor as otherwise than unholy, in all its associa tions, when it is eating out the very vitals of eopiptf, as it does in this city, occasioning sorrow, cjj.Hfc, or death, in almost every family in the comnnnllty. Pri vate individuals, too, can carry their temperance about town with them, to their business, and to the ballot box, and vote for no man who has anything to do with liq uor. This is practical temperance. Harvest Drinks. In a letter to the Mark Lane Express, Mr. Henry J. Wilson, of Sherwood Hall, Mansfield, says: “lam al ready in possession of a large number of letters from persons in all parts of the country, to whom I had ad dressed inquiries. I find in them a unanimous testi mony to the fact that when no intoxicating drinks are used, more work can be done, and done in a better manner; and the men perform their labor with greater ease to themselves, especially in hot weather, suffer less from thirst and fatigue, enjoy more refreshing sleep at night, and have a better appetite for their food. The last point is very noticeable and important, as no one will deny that solid food is the best foundation for real strength. It has often been observed that coffee-drink ers have been enjoying a good breakfast before their work, while beer-drinkers have been lounging about with empty bottles, unable to eat anything, and only wishing a renewed supply of the stimulant. In addi tion to all this, there may be noticed, among the men, a great increase of good temper, kindliness and cheer fulness, and a great decrease of anger, quarrelling, and especially of bad language, to say nothing of the avoid ance of accidents. Now, to any of your readers who may be inclined to question the correctness of these facts, permit me to say, that my informants are persons in all stations in life: from the landed proprietor down to the small cottage farmer, and even the laborer him self; and I submit that they are competent judges, in asmuch as they have tried both ways, and therefore have an evident advantage over those who cling, with blind perseverance, to the old fashioned practises ofour grandfathers. The substitutes I find recommended are various: tea, coffee, milk, ginger-beer, milk-and-water, oatmeal and water, and cocoa; the last in the soluble form is particularly convenient in some cases. Pure cold water is highly recommended by some ; but the general feeling is against it.” Mr. Gough on Edinburgh Drinking The Liverpool Mercury reports an oration delivered by Mr Gough in the Concert Hall there on Monday night to a crowded audience—Mr. Lawrence Hayworth M. P. in the chair. He was in Edinburgh, and he went with a gentleman on an exploring expedition. They stood in front of a dram-shop from a quarter after eight to nine o’clock, and saw sights, he could assure them. Men and women and children went in there. One wretched little creature, her clothes clinging to her al most with wet, went with a black bottle and got it filled; others came with tin pans, bottles and jugs—a steady stream of men and women, horrible looking creatures. A man went in with a boy who would not be over eight years of age, and he tipped a glass of whisxey down the throat of the boy, who swallowed it almost without winking. A little wretched creature, a girl perhaps twelve years old, came up to him, and said, “Gi’e us a dram.” “Do you want a dram?” “Yes, sir.” “How old are you ?” “I’m not so old as my mither.” “You are impudent.” “Gi’e us a dram.” “Where will you get it?” “In there.” “That manwon’tgive you a dram of whiskey.” “Yes, he will, if you will pay for it.” Turning to his compan ion, he asked, “Is that a fact?” “Yes.” “Well I’ll goon; I’ve seen enough.” “Stop, I want to show you the proprietor. That man in the corner, with his coat off, that’s the proprietor; the man’s an elder and a trustee of one of the most respectable churches in this city.” Now, I will tell you, said Mr. Gough, before you gel a prohibitory law to be honored in Great Bri tain, the church of the living God must throw out of her bosom every man and woman who makes money by drink. (Loud applause.) Adulteration of Wine in France. A question of some interest to the wine trade was two days ago, submitted to the Imperial Courtof Lyons’ It is the custom in the south of France to prepare cer tain wines for consumption by means of what is called “plastering”—that is, mixing in them a certain quan tity of plaster, which has the effect of facilitating fer mentation, removing the earthy taste which they some times have, and of giving them a better color. In 1856 a wine dealer, named Cliassery, of St. Martin d’Es breaux, (Loire) ordered of M. Roux, a large dealer of Nismes, a considerable quantity of wine, and he sold it by retail to the laborers who had collected in the village to execute some railway works. Before long, a consid erable number of the men fell ill, and the wine was seized. On being analyzed by a provincial chemißt, it was found to contain five or six grammes of alum per litre; but other chemists, who afterwards analyzed it, declared that it contained “plastering,” and not alum. To set the matter at rest, M.Chevallier, the well known professor of the School of Pharmacy at Paris, was called on to analyze the wine, and be reported that it con tained a certain quantity of alum, (about 8 percent) which might have come from the “plastering” to which it had been subjected, but which, in any case, was dan gerous to health. On this, Chassery brought an action against Roux before the Civil Tribunal of Roanne, to obtain 30,000f. damages. Roux copteifted that he had done nothing more to the wine than was usual; but the tr *bunal decided that he had “plastered” it in excess, and that he had been Buihy of fraud in not informing Chaßaery of what he had done. It accordingly ordered him to pay 10,OOOf. damages. He appealed to the Court fj* Lyons against this decision, and labored to show that #* a legitimate operation. But the court laid down that the custom can only be toler ated when exercised m a mst measure—that his wine was bad for the health. It therefore said that he had been properly condemned to pay damages, but that nevertheless, under the circumstances, they should h reduced to 5,0 00f.-Galignani. 1 jear-The boy, Thornton, is to be executed on Friday next. y& frWn take pleasure in calling attention to the ad vertisement in this paper, of A. G. Bailio Se Bro. and James G. Bailie, of Augusta. Mr. and Mrs. Hartwell, Missionaries, says the Chris tian Index, of Wednesday last, left Macon on Monday night, via Richmond and New York, en route for Chi na. Senior Exhibition. The public Declamation of half the Senior class of M. U. came off on Friday last, and was quite an in teresting occasion. A number of the speeches were very interesting, and we thought the young men far surpassed their late commencement efforts. All the ladies of the village should turn out to these exhibitions to encourage the speakers. Error in Minutes Grand Lodge. The Grand Worthy Recorder, Knights of Jericho, calls our attention to a small error which occurred in the published proceedings of the Grand Lodge, in regard te the per centagepaid the Grand Lodge by Subordinate Lodges. Instead of as published it should read thus: The G-and Lodge changed the constitution in relation to the per centage paid the Grand Lodge by subordinate Lodges, from 5 per cent, on its entire receipts, to 20 cents for each male member per annum, to be sent up with their returns semi-annually, viz : Ist January and July. non. Thomas'W. T omas. This gentleman, (says the Athens Banner,) as our readers have doubtless seen, is announced as a candi date for Judge of the Superior courts of the Northern Circuit. Thus far he has no opposition, and we pre sume will have none. The voters of the Northern Cir cuit, not alone, but all who are interested in seeing able men upon the bench, will, we doubt not, hail Judge T’s election with groat pleasure. His distinguished ability as a jurist, and determined energy, are suro guaran tees that his administration of the law will not only re flect additional lustre upon himself, but be proinotivc of the best interests of his constituents and the country. Intcmpe ancc among Soldiers in .India. It must be c n nfesscd, (says the Homeward Mail, an English paper,) that no endeavors on the part of Gov ernment, or of the medical officors, for the health of European soldiers in India can be successful without temporanco on his own part. The curse of the En glishman is drink ; Sir C. Napier has said it; and it is the truest word ever spoken, that t’ao mortality among troops is mainly caused by drink. It is false delicacy to disguiso the fact. Alcohol is the poison of the En glishman. It is a positive certainty that total absti nence would save ninety out of every hundred men who now fall victims to the Indian climate. See what Sir F. Head says of a beef and water diet—what labor, what exposure, the European can undergo on such a diet! But the listlessness and ennui, engendered by a tropical climato increases a thousand times the natural disposition of the European soldier to intemperance. To cure this, then, is the groat problem for our medical men—for on r philanthropists. Everyman can help by his example; and if educated men take the lead, we may hopefully trust tho uneducated will follow. Au Item for tlie Ladies-Substitute for IKoops. We submit tho following new idea to the considera tion of our female readers, from the Vicksburg Whig : A lady who has “tried everything,” steel, whalebone, crinoline and numerous other materials oi “extension” makes known her experience to) the effect that deci dedly the best process to give the desirable amplitude of fullness and extent of circumference to the dresses, is a starched muslin skirt, madewith three flounces, to be worn over a well-starched corded .‘skirt. There is no other style of skirt which will produce the effect demanded by the present fashion, and, at the same time, that will prove so unobjectionable in other respects. It is at once light, graceful, and easy, with no obtruding bones and offending angles, and also possesses the ad vantage that it can be easily washed. Steel and whale bone are inconvenient in many ways, and crinoline— that is, the hair-cloth skirts—soon grow soiled ; but the above method will be found to give the enviable de gree of expansion, and, in the long run, to ensure the most satisfactory results in all other respects. The Drunkard Saved. At the Fulton Street Prayer Meeting, frequent are the requests for prayer for intemperate husbands and sons, and some of a most touching character; and oc casionally a miserable slave of the bottle is seen com ing, that his chains may be broken and he go free. The following has been in the weekly reports. It is another case showing that this is a world of wonderful redemp tion, and is worthy of being put on record: A few weeks ago, a man was seen walking back and forth on the sidewalk, in front of the Dutch church, while the prayer-meeting was going on. He was dressed in the very plainest attire, with a pea-jacket hanging on his arm. His countenance bore the very legible characteristics of a “hard case.” After walking for some time, he paused; and coming up the steps to the middle lecture-room, said, to a person at the door: “Will you let such a miserable looking object as I am have a seat in your prayer-meeting ?” “Certainly we will,” was the reply, “and we are very glad to have you come.” He went in. Daily, for several weeks, he attended the meeting, fie had been a man of very intemperate habits. He left off the use of intoxicating drinks at once. He became interested in the subject of religion; and the more he came the more interested he appeared. After four weeks of total abstinence, he signed the tem perance pledge, and kept it. He grew neater in his dress ; his clothing was washed clean, though no man would have given fifty cents for all he had on. He of ten was without food, having no employment. But Providence seemed to make special provision that he should not suffer for hunger. In several instances, he found small packages of meat and broad wrapped in pa per as he was walking the streets. In other cases, small sums of money were given him, though never at the prayer-meeting. His conviction became deeper and more pungent. He had a very sad expression on his face. He was often conversed with —often urged to repentance—often invt ted to come to Christ. But still he held back. One evening he went to Washington Market to lodge. He had been, that evening, to the prayer-meeting at the Globe Hotel, where he had been spoken to on the duty of immediate submission to the law of Christ. His dis tress kept all the time increasing. At two o’clock in the morning he betook himself to the streets to see if he could not feel better by walking. His sins lay like a heavy burden on his soul. He could not find the Sa viour. He walked and walked, and no relief came. At length, he stopped at a lamp-post, and reaching out his hands, grasped it. He bowed his head upon his arm, and poured out his heart to the Saviour of sinners, and Christ revealed Himself to this poor, miserable man. The burden of sin was removed, and tears of penitence and joy flowed apace. How long he remained in this position at the lamp post he does not know. He walked the streets during the remainder of the night, his whole soul filled with joy. As the day dawned, he longed to meet someone to whom he could tell his new experience. He went to various places, but could find no person whom he knew. Early in the morning, he went to the Battery and sat down on the grass. He took a small testament from his pocket ana began to read. He was reading the Sa viour’s own words, and as he read shed tears which he could not restrain. At length, a gentleman, who had stood silently observing him, said: “My friend, what little book are you reading ?” “I am reading the New Testament.” “Where did you get it 7” “It was givon me at the Fulton Streot prayer-meet ing.” “Do you attend the Fulton Street prayer-meetings 7” “I do; I attend them every day.” “Do they do you any good?” “Well, I hope they have done megreatgood. I hope I have found the Saviour.” ’> n u and d ’ thcn ’ “>!• Perfectly artless and simple man* u’w®H l M ral ?j t , he ,? tol 7 of the preceding night. Fnhnn tbe betene . r > “I have heard much of the r’RSTSI \cn ioy ° th l y ar r edoing At ten O’clock I warn to*my Street. Th\f Und , njmbor j . n Broad next morning, he was at the store* th ® There he found anew suit of clothes throughout which had been provided for him, and a plnce where m have constant employment at fair wages “ and lie still regularly attends all the evening meeting He is a native of the city of New York— ht!T^ 6lin 5 8 ’ ter by trade. He was fourteen years at sea, andUfo"! ty-six years of age. A few months ago, his case wle almost hopeless ; he was in the most abject and forlorn condition, and seemed to be sunk past all redemption Now, he gives abundant evidence that he is anew ores’ ture in Christ Jesus. “Old things have past away • all things have become new.” Kansas Sweets.— They are making torgham lucre in Kansas. A letter from Leavenworth says : I was in the Quaker settlement some twelve miles from Leavenworth and saw them making the Chinese sugar cane and molasses. The gentleman boiling the molasses told me that the juice only needed reducing two-thirda to make thick molasses, full as thick as New Orleans or sugar-house. He said he could make nine gallons of molasses from seven rods of ground! One man near Lecdmpton, I understand, would make a thousanand gallon. It is engaged at that price. 1 In a Boston meeting said one: “I am as a brand plucked out of the burning when I was all on firo and almost consumed. lam thirty-six years old, and was for 30 years a miserable drunkard. Learned to drink by going after strong drink for my father, when 1 was only six years old. I have been a drunkard since, till about eight months ago. I was picked up in the streets, hall intoxicated at (lie time, and brought into this very meoting. Hero, I signed the temperance pledge. 1 continued to come from day to day, and hero I was awakened, convinced and converted. Here, I had a now song put into my mouth, even praise to our God, and I hope to sing the everlasting song in Heaven. Oh! what a blessed change there is in me, in iny circum stances, in my enjoyments, in my hopes, in my objects in life, in my family, in everything. I was poor, mi serable, degraded; my family the same; when I was converted, my family had nothing to eat in the house. Before I went home I found a secret place to pray, and I kneeled down and prayed fervently that God would supply us with bread somehow, or open up some way by which I could get it. When I went home I found a barrel of flour standing on my door-steps. My wife said to me, “The carman who brought this flour said it is for you.” “Oh, no!” said 1, “it is not for me; it is a mistake; it is for someone else.” “Yes; it is for you; he was very positive I should tell you so.” I had never dreamed of praying for a barrel of flour; I did not dare to ask for so much; I could not remem ber when I had a barrel of flour in my house. I have inquired of all my acquaintances and all my friends that I met, about that barrel of flour, and I never could find out where it came from, nor the carman who brought it. Now, what a happy man I am. The desire lor strong drink is gone. I have all I can do, and I am happy all the day long. I stand up for Jesus every where ; I am not tongue-tied, but I speak of the love of Christ in all these streets. lam so happy; I never expected to see such a day as this; I recommend my Saviour to all I can ; I never fail. ‘1 his speaker spoke very rapidly, and with great en ergy and deep emotion. Nick*!Haino§. It frequently happens that certain States and cities, instead of being referred to by their proper names, are indicated in some other way. Thus we have: Virginia, the “Old Dominion.” Massachusetts, the “Bay State.” Maine, tho “Border State.” Rhode Island, the “Little Rhody.” New York, the “Empire State.” New Hampshire, the “Granite State.” Vermont, the “Green Mountain State.” Connecticut, the “Land of Steady Habits.” Pennsylvania, the “Keystone State.” North Carolina, the “Old North State.” South Carolina, the “Palmetto State.” Georgia, the “Empire State of the South.” Ohio, the “Buck-eye State.” Michigan, tho “Molverine State.” Missouri, the “Puke State.” Indiana, the “Hoosier State.” Illinois, the “Sucker State.” lowa, the “Hawk-eye State.” Florida, the “Peninsula State.” Texas, the “Lone Star State.” California, tho “Golden State.” So, also we have: New York city, the “Metropolis of America,” the “Commercial Emporium,” “Gotham.” Boston, the “Modern Athens,” “Literary Empo rium.” % Bainbridgo, the most thriving “City of the South.” Philadelphia, the “City of Brotherly Love,” the “City ojPenn,” the “Quaker City.” Baltimore, tho “Monumental City.” Cincinnati, the “Queen City,” the “Queen of the West/’ “Porkopolis.” New Orleans, the “Crescent City.” Washington, the “City of Magnificent Distances.” Chicago, the “Garden City,” the “City of Skunks.” Detroit, the “City of the Straits.” Cleveland, the “Forest City,” the “Lake City.” New Haven, the “City of Elms.” Richmond, Indiana, the “Quaker City of the West.” Lafayette, the “Star City.” Indianapolis, the “Rail Road City.” St. Louis, the “Mound City.” Keokuk, the “Gate City.” Memphis, the “ Bluff City.” Louisville, the ‘ Falls City.” Nashville, the “City of Rocks.” Augusta, Ga. the “Healthiest City in the Union.” Savannah, the “City of Oglethorpe.” ‘flic Reward sos Gallantry. There comes to our sanctum the following account of a rather exciting incident. True,’’tjs a little “fishy,” but still, highly probable, being one of the genuine at titudes of a man who takes too much of “something’ ” into his stomach. Rather indiscreet “gallantry,” but here it is: “Thereare people who never undertake todoa“good natured act” without being, in some manner, suffer ers therefrom. Paul Pry, tor instance, was one of those much injured individuals, and notwithstanding his oft repeated declarations that he would “never do a good natured action again,” he would invariably go right off and try to put someone else under obligations to him for what he deemed his disinterested kindness. We were a witness a day or two ago to a case in point. A decently dressed individual rigged out in white linen from chin to boots, and, withal, very drunk, was walk ing, or rather dancing, the corkscrew po ka, along the sidewalk of Government street, when he brought him self to a lean against the fence in order to get a more steady view of a lamp-post, which, despite his ap peals to desist, would dance about, threatening every in stant to fall on himself or some passer by. In vain did he raise his hands (in each of which was a string of fish) to wipe away the haze which obstructed his vision. The lamp-post would dance. Presently a flashily capari soned female, all beflounced and becrinolined, came sailing along, and had nearly reached a point between our ‘gallant,’ young man and the terpsichorean lamp post, when he, wishing to keep her from being mashed by its fall, made a rush to catch and hold it till she could pass by. But, in his course, making no allowance for the excit ment of the moment, one string of his fish struck her on the side of the face, totally demolished a dear little duck of a bonnet, and the concussion being great, bruised her dear little face considerably—if not more. The thong by which the fish were held, was broken, and two of the finny “produce” found a resting place upon the fair bosom of the—muslin dress. But he had secured the post! He had rescued her from the ter rible fate of being mashed by a dancing lamp-post. There was a proper amount of feminine squealing and the due exhibition of a desire to faint, but as there was no third person to support her, she man fully controlled her feelings, and didn’t faint. The disordered features and demolished bonnet were fixed up as well as circum stances would permit, and the frightened fair sailed on her course, leaving the gallant inebriate lovingly em bracing the post. At length, when he had somewhat overcome its dancing propensity, lie slowly relinquished his hold, and discovered, oh, horror! that the post had been freshly coated with coal tar, and that there was a wide black streak upon his whites from the point where he generally tied his cravat, down his front and upon both sections of his trowsers, even upon where the same ended at the boots. This was dear pay for his gallantry ; but this was not the worst. The fair lady, whose face and bonnet he had so unintentionally bat tered, lodged a complaint against him, and he was put in the calaboose. The next morning be was brought before the Mayor on a charge of disorderly conduct, and we are sorry to say, we had to write down against him the Mayor’s sentence—slo or 10 days. So much for gallantry.” The Beer Halls of Chicago* One would suppose that the advocates of the doc. trine, that “beer is conducive to health,” would be per. fectly satisfied to forego its use, were they to take the tour of the beer halls of our city for even a single night The amount of lager, of drugged and poisonous beei consumed, would, of itself, satisfy the most sceptica that even were their doctrine true, it were better tc forego the good which is gained, and trust to more rea sonable means for the promotion of health. But this idea of poisoning drinks being anything bul injurious, is a most erroneous and fatal one. Poison, as such, can never act as a promoter of health. It is worse than nonsense to talk such doctrine; it is suicide to practise it. If it were true, where is the limit be yond which man shall not pass in such indulgence i There can be none. The scones of the halls, the bloated faces of the gugglcrs, tho ever increasing appetite of the patrons of such institutions, all tell a tale not to be rea soned away by fogy chemists and physiologists. But the accompaniments of tho halls, or rather hells, are what should put the Christian parent and citizen to the blush. It is true that the programme of a “free concert” appears all right to the visitor ofanoarly hour, or as viewed by beer-shot eyes, but it is nevertheless true that these cells are the great corrupting pools of our city, the stepping stones to infamy and prostitution for our young men, and arc corrupting to all classes. ’Tis not the beer, or the song, or the danco, or the lewd and obscene thoughts and words there indulged, not either of these alono that poisons the body fatally; but it is tho combination of all, each feeding and being fed by its kindred fellow, that inflicts the fatal sting. Do our well-disposed and moral citizens know ol what wo write ? If not, let them see and hear for themselves. So long as the pernicious doctrine is taught by our moral and scientific men, that artificial stimulants arc necessary to the health and well being of man, so long will these damnable results of dissipation follow. The appetite is implanted in early childhood, nourished through all the years of youth; and the lager beer ma tla with all its prostituting accompaniments is but the „l r . e ,f t re ® u f l °f this false and body-destroying doctrine th<. m^| 00 a 'u ll “ e . ed , B a lager earthquako to arouse tne moral world, and it has c6me in its fury. But will not the lesson be a dear bought one ?—Home Journal. f? D Temperance— Six or seven months ago, Jewett City, Ct. was full of rumshops; but a con gregational pastor urged, in his discourses, the bless ngs of temperanco. The effect is, that the moral face ot things has totally changed, and the people are as ear nest, now, for God and temperance, as they were, be fore, for whisky and hell. ! I.asfcr Beer. The Grand Division of the Sons of New York at its last session passed this resolution respecting tin* well known beverage lager beer: Resolved, Inasmuch as the question of the intoxicating or non-intoxicating propetties of the beverage commonly known as larger beer lias been mooted in certain quarters, we take this occasion to express the firm conviction of our judgment, based on the clearest and most conclusive evidence, that said beverage is intoxicating, and otherwise pernicious in its effects, and that no one professing the principles of Temperance should for a moment think of indulging in its use. Maine. We once more congratulate our friend, Mr. Dow, nnd his brethren, on a most perfect triumph at the polls. The elections turned entirely on the Prohibitory Law. This was made the great issue by the democracy oi the State. They hoped to regain their power far more by their opposition to this, than by any clamor in be half of the wisdom of national policies at Washington; and, as the result, they are deprived of almost every office, State and National. Surely it is encouraging to see such a result of a long controversy on a great moral question. The people have, given the opposing party a full trial of a license system, and two-thirds of the vo ters of the State are satisfied with it, and wish no more of it. We do not say there will not be another political revolution there, which will reverse the present law. Nothing is so fickle and uncertain ns political move ments.—Journal <s• Prohibition, N. l r . Intern pcranco. We take the following pithy little extract from the ed itorial columns of the Eccentric, a spirited little monthly published in Augusta, Ga. Beware, beware young man of that incarnate fiend, that Prince of Dark and Desperate Deeds, which swal lows up so much of hope and happiness, Intemperance. Would you ask for evidence ? Surely you cannot; for you behold them every day in every community ; you behold hundreds of men, yea and women, suffering pov erty, disgrace and ruin, all through this demoralizing agent, “Alcohol” and still many of our young men, even in the plain evidence of its degrading influence around them, heed it not, but rush madly on pouring this fiery poison down their throats, of which every drop brings them nearer to a premature grave. We can well say in the words of the immortal Shakspeare— “Oh, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains !” And let me say in conclusion—Beware of it young man, for every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the in gredient a devil. Position of the Rock River Conference on Temperance. The following report of the committee on temperance was adopted by the Rock River Conference of the M. E. Church, at its rcecnt session in Waukegan, Illinois: The committee on temperance beg leave to present the following as their report: r l he cause of temperance is now generally understood to be a prohibition of making, buying, selling or using intoxicating liquors as a beverage. Thus understood, your committee believe it to be the cause of God, and as such, we, as ministers, ought to sustain and promote it by our influence and efforts. We nro under obliga tions to do so, as a denomination of Christian ministers, by the broad, general principle of “doing no harm”—of having no fellowship with the “works of darkness.” oi neither “eating meat,” nor “drinking wine,” nor any thing else whereby our brother is offended or made to stumble, and this obligation is forced upon us by the consideration that our venerable founder, under God, gave to his societies, near one hundred years ago, as one of the rules for their observance, a prohibition of buy ing, or selling, or drinking spirituous liquors, unless in case of extreme necessity. The habits and customs of society warn us that this is not the time to relax our ef forts, but to arouse ourselves to more energetic action on the subject; to bring into the cause more of piety and Divine influence; to see the results of these habits, not only in their wretched and destructive influence on all the relations and institutions of life, whether they be political, social, civil, domestic or religious ; but its eternal consequences in the ruin of both soul and body. Forestalling’ tle Law*“An Exciting Occur - During the session of the ounty Court on Monday, says the Farmville Journal, an incident occurred which produced the most intense excitement. It will be re collected that we noticed the arraignment at August court of a negro boy belonging to Mr. Robert V. Davis, charged with an attempted outrage upon the person of a Mrs. Gregory, residing near Prospect Depot, and the continuance of the case uutii September term. When the court met on Monday, the case came up,when, ow ing to the absence of one of the prisoner’s counsel, the court decided to continue it again, and had just an nounced its decision, when Gregory, the husband ofthe woman upon whom the outrage, was attempted, sprung at the negro with knife in hand, and made a desperate effort to cut his throat. The knife, however, missed his throat, but inflicted a frightful gash on his check, . reaching from the mouth to the point of the jawbone near the ear. The negro attempted to run, but made only a step or two when he fell upon the floor of the courthouse, bleeding profusely. The scene at this|timc r we are informed by an eye .vitness, was the most ex citing he ever beheld. The court room was densely crowded, and for a few moments the authority of the court was powerless. As soon as something like order could be restored, the negro was carried into the yard,, where medical assistance was promptly rendered him and his wound dressed, after which he was taken to jail, accompanied by a strong guard, the court deeming: such an escort necessary to protect him from further violence. Gregory was arrested and was permitted to give bail in SI,OOO for his appearance next term. What Is now Doing’ ? Says an exchange, While we write, these things are j happening : In a grog-shop there is an old toper raising another glass of liquor in a trembling hand to his fe verish lips. At his side stands a young man taking his grog and cursing everything, while the dealer rat tles the coin in his box. At another grog-shop there is a fight now in high progress among a set of drunken •! rowdies and before we make the period at the end of this sentence it will be over—One poor fellow stabbed to- f the heart—his last gasp made, and his soul before its S God, even while we were writing from the last period j to this. Away somewhere under the shadow of a hill j stands a cheerless home, and a wife and mother in it, weeping as if her heart would break. Up the pathway comes a mars singing, shouting and cursing by turns ! and entering that cheerless home, the terrified and half famished chilc'ron Uy fioin his presence, while that wife raises her hands to ward off the blows she knows is coming. Heavily—sorely the cruel blows arc notv falling upon some poor wife from the hands of a drunken, brutal husband. Up on a hillside somewhere a gravis is yawning. They come—they come! the corpse anti the mourners. It is a young man, and the sexton is now telling a stranger story as they lean on the grave yard gate: He was in a hard-drinking spree, and the night before last he blew his brains out with a pistol.” They are letting him down in the grave now, and tho elods are rumbling on the coffin boards, though wc hear them not, an old mother’s heart is breaking over a ; grave, though wc feel it not. The tragedies of rum arc going on every minute; these tilings have just trans pired somewhere in the land cursed of rum ; aye more terrible than these have happened even as we have writ- ‘ ten from ono porid to this last. have been young and now am old, andT as I stand before God to-night, I declare that hothing Thave ovor given in charity is regretted. O no! It is: tho riches we keep that perish ; that wc give away, a bides with us forever; it impresses itself on our chara ‘•tere and tells on our eternal destiny; for the habit of cha hty formed in this life will accompany us to the next. ‘The bud which begins to open here will blossom in full ex pansion hereafter to delight tho eye of angels and beau- 1 tify the Paradise of God. Lotus, then, now, and on every occasion hereafter, practice that liberality which i in death wo shall approve, and reprobate the parsimony 1 we shall then condemn.” — llev. Dr. Nott. i j A Gay JLotliario. They have under arrost in New York one Samuel Morris, who has obtained a livelihood for some time by ‘ “boarding round,” and marrying some female boarder 1 in the house he happened to bo patronizing, and. after co- * f habiting with her a few woek3, disappearing with such • a articles as happened to be lying around loose. 0 He is un- { der arrest for bigamy, as well as for snapping up un- J considered trifles. „ j I Mourning in New York.— The Newark Mercury is y responsible for the following illustration of the manner in which the dignitaries of Gotham pay tho last tribute j 1 of respect to a worthy associate : n Tho city’s bill for the funeral expenses of Alderman tl Murray, in New York, amounted t 05772. Os this $1,30 t< was for drink, &.c., on the road to cemetery. , y Answer to a poem published in the Temperance Cru sader, from the Type of the Times: To Kate, of Clicrokee. ItY WILL. Your poem which I lately read, With happy thoughts has filled my head, And I am one, as you may find, That admires an intellectual mind; If this you have, as you express, You’ll find mine not a whit the less; Os common sense 1 have a share, Affection, too, I may declare. My heart is kind and free from guile, And for the oppressed I have a smile; My face is darker than my hands, Tinged by the sun in stranger lands; My hair is black, my eyes are ditto, But of moustache I’ve not a whit, oh ! The medium height I am above, And gen’rous actions much I love; 1 have no house, nor store, nor lands, But work with honest, willing hands; 1 am a widower, kind and true, And hope to be approved by you; Your reason for the preference seems As plain to me as pleasant dreams; My age is near to five and twenty, But of life’s cares I’ve met with plenty. But more of joys and happy hours, Life’s smiles and sunshine, love of flowers; My name is Will, by early rites; I board in Brooklyn near the Heights; I am not diffident or shy, As you will know by this reply ; And trust that long I may not wait To hear again from Saucy Kate; And from the place you call Rose Bower, I should much like to have a flower; A bloom or two would, perhaps, be better, Which you might send me in a letter. No gift I would more highly prize. Thau a blossom born ’neath Southern skies, And make this difficulty less By also sending your address To box 121, written by thy hand, Post office, Brooklyn, on Long Island. Hotter to Marry than to Burn. The editor of the Eufaula Native, a cotemporary over in the State of Alabama, gives, verbatim, the following account, as furnished by an eye-witness, of the cere mony of the sable minister who officiated: “ I now inquire and charge of you both, that you bo aware of that great day of the Judgment, wherewith you both shall give an account for the things which you are about to answer for at the present. I now proceed to the marriage. Prince, will’st thou take this woman, honor her throughsickuess and through health,forsaking all other women for her alone, living after the ordinan ces of God so long as you both shall live, keeping of her as under the apple of your eye ? Answer me, ‘JT will.’. As you have jilted your voices before God and this con gregation, also jinc your hands, and as you have con sented in holy wedlock and witnessed the same by the jining of your hands, I also pronounce you man and wife, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen. For we believe on the law of Moses, that, it is better for a man to marry than to burn, yet it is better to abide as I myself.” See the balance in either Ist or 2d Corinthians, 7th chapter. Always Singing. While talking with a neighbor, I heard a sweet, plain tive voice singing that beautiful hymn: “Jesus, lover of my soul!” The child was up stairs; I knew it wasa child’svoico from its silvery softness; I listened awhile, and then said: “ That child has a sweet voice.” “Yes, she has,” said my friend; “she is always singing.” Always singing! Sweet, happy child! Bird of angel ■wings! Who would not envy thee, that gushing flood of happiness within thy soul ? A soul strong to will and to do; a soul lighted with the smiles of Jesus, and anchored on the surest hope; a soul that, with more than a child’s strength, shall part the dark waves as it goes down the surging tide of death. Always singing! I passed that way again. Summer was here in her fullness, strewing the earth with flow ers, and the sky with stars. The same sweet voice was thrilling on the air: “Oh ! had I the wings of a dove!” This tints, the little singer was in the yard. I gazed upon the spiritual softness of her features —the sweet eyes like “ brown birds flying to the light,” the fine, expressive lips, the dark, silken curls; I felt that she would soon have Iter wish answered, and “find a refuge in Heaven.” Always singing! Autumn came; the wild swan was turning towards the South; the leaves were dropping [ front the trees, and spears of frost glittered among the * grass. A strip of crepe fluttered front the shutter ofthe house where my little singer lived. Her voice was clothed in death, and trembling hands had bound those truant tresses around her white brow. By the great | white throne—by the river of eternal gladness, she was i striking her golden harp, and singing, in the gushing j fullness, of imperishable glory l—Slauffer. (wOOtl. The Editors of the American Presbyterian, Philadel phia, with whom are associated Rev. Albert Barnes, Rev. Thos. Brainard, Rev George Duflield and others, thus express themselves on the subject of Temperance in that great city. We are glad to hear such expres sions from such able and influential gentlemen : “Temperance. —Are we going to awake or slumber over drunkenness this fall and winter ? The questions about moral suasion and legal methods are settled by the understanding that we are to try both; make the utmost private effort we can, and the best laws we can, and try to execute them. But the question we are just now concerned with is, Are the ministry and the temper ance men going to do something effective this season or no ? Are we to have lively, active, energetic temper ance meetings, or is the cause to be considered dead ? There is an aspect of it which ought to be made to ring through the heads and hearts of the entire com munity. Men are not drinking pure wine, brandy and whiskey now. The thing they drink at tavern bars, is drugged ; drugged in the making of it; drugged because it is cheaper to put in poisonous stuff’ than to make pure liquor. Men cannot drink and tipple every day tor twenty, thirty or forty years as some used to do. They kill themselves soon, going off into successive at tacks of mania-a-potu and similar horrible diseases in a third or a quarter of the time. Drinking is becoming a quick instead of a slow suicide. One ofthe marvels of this remarkable country is that men bear this. If a man wilfully murders his fellow, the country resounds with it. But if the drainings of a distillery kill but a drove of hogs, or a wagon load of fish, nobody notices it, although the liquor impregnated with such ingredients, is drawn offinto barrels to be drank at tav ern bars by thousands of human beings! This is as serted. Can it be contradicted ? If it can, for the sake ’ of our country, of humanity, we hope it will be. [ The friends of temperance need to awake. It is all I a mistake that it does no good to lecture upon temper ance. It does great good. It sets men thinking. It cadis their attention to a fearful danger. It saves many a young man from ruin. It disgusts women with drunkenness. It is hardly respectable in America fora woman to drink spirits at all. Drinking customs keep their‘place with considerable difficulty and conscience hardly goes with them. We know there has been ex travagance and reaction. No wonder. The evil has been enough to make any man extravagant, and there is always enough love of unhallowed excitement to make a “reaction.” We do not give up the Gospel, because there are multitudes of unconverted men, and because an immense mass of wickedness is unreached. So let oar temperance friends not give up; let them hold meetings ; let them obtain good speakers and lec turers ; let them invite the ministry to preach and to speak on this subject. Let there be temperance ser mons in the churches; grand temperance meetings in the Musical Fund and Concert Hall and National Hall. Let there be ward meetings and district meetings; meetings in Court houses and School houses, and let us do our utmost to drivo out the foul fiend! Results of Rum. How keenly have these terrible truths been felt, du ring the past year, in this Province. If all monumen tal records were written true, how many a wretched tale of blood would glare upon the sepulchral tablets! Young men amongst them, once the proudest and tho best—bright targets and shining marks lor the heart less trade ! Walk through your streets and you cannot fail Jto note their absence. They were the patient work ■ofthe great God; the noblest specimens of tho.ir race , thehuiptiy offsprings of nature’s prodigality and educa tion's achievements. They are gone; professions, trades, aud the “place where the merchants ott do con gyeguite”” ‘fat.l the void and mourn the cause, ino leart ofthe Ciurcli and the State bieeds nnd blen s tribute of regret with the sireams of sorrow that well up with gushing agony from the hearts o 1 reaved. Widows mourning the son-stay of the r de dining years; wives bemoaning h ^ a, £’ n K r e i Ixireft of the darling pledges of Heaven comforted. AV-oping for her children and refusing • turo so „!l bus! r .ur„ att.>t and inadequate, and ask “ q{ AUwige nav be found, save th many an d manifold mi- Jod, that shall campre Trade—tho dreadful , ioriet t engendered by this Drink ■esult sos rum f — N. B. Peleg p . „„ Vuumont —I was born away down in i Dour, las on Vul .. . n a va Hey in Vermont, with ’ 1? ankeo Hind I- n( j nic . I love the old green t he high mounts .. *• Vermont, where I was bom, nountaim’and y childhood. I went up to < ‘d 1 y Urs ago, for the first time in c usit them & When I got there they treated me 1 wenty odd y in^itc j mc to the commencement of their n y ’ Ime on the seats with their distinguished “ 0 e £?’nnd co nlerred upon me the degree of LL D. in Tnjhflsam e as they did old Hickory at Cambridge “” d 1 r, w - rJ und , l,on ? J I • nderßiooil jußt\ M much of the Laun as ho did. r Vhcn they got thi ougli wintering the honorary degree, S iey called upon m for a speech, and I got up with my s ea'rt full and swelling with gratitude for their kind- c ess, and I said to them: “My friends, Vermont is r le most glorious spot on the face of the globe for a man ibe born in, provided ( he emigrates when he is very oung.” CANVASSING HIV DISTRICT. BY S. OLDCOCK, ESQ. . X “Lives of old cocks all remind us We can make sur lives sublime, And when chawed up leave behind ns Bird tracks on the sands of time.” - Inspired by ihc beautiful poem, the “Sam of Lift;’’ from which (lie above appropriate verse is extracted I set out from my cockloft to canvass my district. I was well provided with snufl', peanuts and sugar plums for the women and children, hut was ip doubt what to do for ihc voters. Being a temperance and Maine law man I was opposed ty treating on principle, although of course I have no objection to take a little of the pure oranded article myself, if somebody else will pay for it. My first attempt was on a democrat ; I desired to see if I could convert one of the enemy themselves. Mr. Schmitt was the nun, and he had imbibed certain cr roneous notions of government. He thought that laws were for the benefit of the people, instead of the makers of the laws. And he also had an idea that a white man was as good as a black man, if not better, and that people of Kansas had a right to tnkc care of their own affairs without consulting the legislatures ot New Eng. land. Another strange idea ho had was that liquors are properly, as much as wheat, tobacco, or anything else. I combatted these ignorant notions to the best of my ability. 1 told him if he could only enforce the Maine law and my hen law we should root out crime, destroy sin. and put the devil out of employment; we shopp'd find the millennium, and make everybody rich and happv. I told hint that all criminals drink, and, conse quently, if we fakp away their rum there would be no crime. He replied that they eat as welt as drink and wanted to know if it would not he better to take away their food. Thereupon I retired in disgust. Schmitt, I am sorry to say, has the same ideas that all the dem hcrats have, ana I have, therefore, them all opposed to me. But it is not so with the republicans, they are all with me ; so I am sure of an election; then won’t the feathers fly ? T went to see mv friend Black ; lie is a republican to the backbone, and’ goes for the rights oi women and negroes, so I felt sure of him. He objected, however, that my hen law was unconstitutional. “Ah! my dear Black,” I replied, “you don’t know us legislators. We don’t trouble ourselves about the constitution. I’ll show you how we shall fix that. We have turned out Judge Loring ; that establishes a precedent for the de pendence of the judiciary. So if the supreme court don’t decide as wo wish them to, we shall turn them all out. What a splendid chance that w-ill be to dispose of there maining citizens of Waltham who have no office! How would you like to see your friend Oldcockon the bench? Worse appointments than that have been made. Eh? Mr. Burnham —beg pardon, Black, I would say.” Black was so well pleased with this idea that he brought out a little old Bourbon, stamped of course, with which wc drank the Governor’s health, drinking health is, of course, a medicinal purpose. Subsequently, at a late hour Tdo not recollect exactly when, we adjourned. I find, however, that all the. republicans in my district arc tor me. Hurrah! down with rum and Shanghais, and up with negroes and monopolies ! A Little Giiil lluxo. —A frightful accident occurred on Wednesday last, noar the village of Friendship, Al legany county, on the New York and Erie Railroad. A woman named Gulford started with a little girl about nine yoars of age, after locking up the houss, to visit one of her neighbors. After proceeding a short distanco the mother remembered something which she had left behind her ill the house, and sent the little girl back after it, while she walked on. Arrived at her place of destination, she waited a long time, but the girl did not appear and she returned home. On reaching home she found the body of her daughter hanging from the window outside, and dead. It appeared that the little girl, unable to effect an entrance by tho door, had raised the window, and while endeavoring to crawl in it had fallen upon her neck and held her fast until life was extinct. Which was Drcnk —the Woman or theP reached— clergyman was lately depicting, before a deeply inter ested audience, the alarming increase of intemperance, when he astonished his hearers by exclaiming: “A young woman in my neighborhood died very suddenly last fciabbath, while I was preaching the Gospel in a beastly state of intoxication . When coldness wraps this suffering clay, Ah ! whither strays the immortal mind ! It cannot die—it cannot stay, But leaves its darkened dust behind.” [Communicated.] Died, in Grcenesboro, on Tuesday, the sth inst. Mrs Matilda L. Foster, consort of Dr. James F. Foster. . As wife, mother, mistress, friend, she well iulfilled all of life’s duties, shedding upon them the richest offer ings of the tetiderest and most affectionate solicitude. Mrs. Foster was a lady of excellent sense and judgment; home was her chosen sphere, and were it proper to en ter its sacred precincts, abundant testimony could be furnished of the fidelity with which she discharged every* duty, leaving a legacy of precious memories to her chil dren and friends. She was truly the modest, conscien tious and unaffected lady. With great calmness, she awaited the grim messenger, arid her meek spirit passed to the God who gave it. “Green be the turfabove thee.” Greencsboro, Oct. 16th, 1858. A. IB Millil: BC. D offers himself to the voters • of Greene county for the office of Tax Collector, at the election in January next. For £ale on the First of December. Two Hundred and Twenty-five Acres of Land, m&re or less, within a halt mile of the corpo rate limits ol the town of Penfield. On the premises are fifty acres of No. 1 creek bottom land, and a suffi cient quantity of wood to keep up the place for farming purposes. I will divide the place into convenient lots to suit purchasers. Also, about two hundred barrels of corn, fodder, shucks, cows, horses, pork and stock hogs, farming utensils, household and kitchen furniture, &c. &c. If not disposed of privately, the above property will. be offered to the highest bidder, on the first dav of De- “ cember next. ROBERT J. MASSEY. Oct 21, 1858 230 LOTS OF LAND, SITUATED in upper and lower Georgia, for sale or exchange for real estate in the city of Atlanta, by i MARCUS A. BELL. Oct 21, ’SB Atlanta, Ga. NEW CARPET STORE! A. G. BAILIE 4- BEO. 205 Broad st. Augusta, Ga. AND JAMFS G. BAILIE, 234 King st. Charleston, S. C. Importers, Jobbers and Dealers IN ALL KINDS OF CARPETING, &C. Medalion Carpets, Tapestry Royal Velvet Carpeting, Carpet- Brussels Carpeting, ing, Imperial and three-ply carpeting, Super and superfine carpeting, Cotton, chain and wool filling carpeting, English Venetians, for church aisles, entries and stairs, Stair carpets and stair rods, Floor Oil Cloths, 3 to 24 feet, wide, thoroughly seasoned for rooms and entries, Hearth Rugs, Door Mats, &c. 6-4, 12-4 and 16-4 Druggets, White and red Check Mattings, Felt Druggets and Crumb Cloths. —ALSO— A full supply of WINDOW SHADES and TRIMMINGS. WE beg to inform our friends and the public generally, that wc have opened a CARPET STORE in Augusta, Ga. in connection with our Charleston House, where we will keep a full and fresh * stock of all the above goods, and which we will sell as low as the same grade of gotds can be purchased in New York or elsewhere. purchasers wishing cirpets made ud, fitted and put down, or oil cloths and mattings laid, can have them properly attended to, as we keep in our employ thorough and experienced carpet upholsterers. 1 New Carpet Store, Oct 21, 1858. GEORG IA, GREEN E COUNT Y.—W hereas James W. Jackson applies for the guardianshiD of the persons and property of William G. Champion Henrietta L. Champion, Amaritta C. Champion, Rich ard Champion and I alula T Champion, orphans, (un- Ssc°d CCn yCarß ° f agC,) ° f JCBSC W ’ de- Thesc are therefore to cite and admonish all persons ntcrcsted, to be and appear at the Court of Ordinary to >e held in and lor said county on the first Monday in ?ot be gmmed l ! ° W C * UBe Why Sttid letteis ehoM ~ U . n /^ r my hand at office in Greencsboro, Octo leMbth, 1808. EUGENICS L. KING, I Ordinary ADMINISTRATOR’ B SALEL-Will be sold in TX Mcl {onough, Henry county, on the first Tuesday n December next, within the usual hours of sale, the vest half of lot of land No. 210, containing one hundred * nd one and a quarter acres, more or less, in tho 12th ‘ istrict of Henry county. Sold under the incumbrance fa dower, and under an order of the Court of Ordinary f Greene county, as property of the estate of Thomas - tell, deceased. SHELLY DOWNS, Adm’r f Oct 21, 1858 ’ mr * A DMINISTRATOR’S SALE.-Will behold beJ^ -A fore the Court-house door in Atlanta, Fulton co riginally Henry, on the first Tutgtday in December ext, two hundred and two and a half acres of land No 99, adjoining the lands ofW. C. Alsabrook and others • aid land sold as part of the estate of Martin Woodall’ eceased, and sold under an order of the Court of Ordi’ ary of Taliaferro county. Terms on the day of sale JOHNSON WOODALL,) A \ , SINGLETON HARRIS, J Adm “*• Oct. 14—40d