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CJB.CSCC-iX'tS'UTI TBM PE BANC B. CRJIS ADE R. ! PENHEW UEOBgIA. j FOR SALE, A POWER PRESS AND ENGINE. At 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 9ery -reasonable terms ; and any member of the craft needing such apparatus, can get a bargain by an early application. jBF*We will sell either the p re ss or Engine sepa The Ga. Temperance Crusader for 1859! REMOVAL TO THEfITYOF ATLANTA! CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED! CIRCULATION 10.000! Tog OROSADER being a State Journal rather than a country paper, should, unquestionably, be published at the most central accessible locality; and since Atlanta offers advantages, in these two particulars, far superior to any other place, we have de termined, through the influence of numberless friends and leading citfceoa of the State, to remove our office to that city; hence, the first number of the new series for 1859, will be issued from that point early in January nest, much enlarged, together with other Improvements. Thh Literary Departments will continue under the control of our popular Bditor and Editress, Mr. L. L. Veasey and Mrs. Mary B. Bryan, both of whom will reside in Atlanta Rev. Jno. A. Reynolds, (M. E.) one of the most accomplished printers in the South, will continue as our Publisher. With the advantages of a city location so central, and of such (rowing importance as Atlanta, we hope to publish a paper which Bhall be adequate to the great demands of the temperance cause, and at the same time supply the want of a prominent Literary Journal in the South. Many friends of the Crusader predict that its subscription list Will be doubled during the ensuing year: if so, it will then visit weekly nearly tbn thousand homes. To fully realize all this, will require but a slight effort on the part of our friends. Will that ef fort be made promptly—earnestly? Subscription price $2. Our address, after the first of November, will be Atlanta, Ga. All communications should be addressed to JNO. H. SEALS, Proprietor. Fenfield, October 21,1858. Augusta Agent. Mr. Wm. G. Whidby will receive subscriptions and advertisements for the Crusader and give valid receipts for the same. Posting our Books. Book-keeping and correspondence so monopolize our time just now as to forbid us giving but little attention to the editorial chair. Wo are Needy ! ! Otlr debtors will aid us very materially just at this time by remitting their dues. We are standing in need of money. The following excellent article is from the Washing ton Dispatch : Intemperance. Ours, it is true, is not a “Temperance Journal,” but at tho same time it is designed to be, in its proper place, a social renovator. This will account for the above caption, and theappearaceof this article. We consider the vice of intemperance as one of the most ruinous, and yet more general, than any one evil of the many with which our country is cursed. Many a promising youth, the hope of aged and devoted pa rents’ declining years, have been caught in its meshes. Blinded by its magic spell, they have gone onin “dram drinking.” until their genius has been palsied, sensi bilities blunted, and their moral appetites debased, have dragged out a lingering and wretched existence, if apared for a while, no account to themselves or any body else, until, finally, they have dica bankrupts in charac ter and means, their sun having set in a blackened storm-cloud of despair, without a solitary ray of hope to shed its light and beauty o’er their eternal waste! Young men, we say to you there is poison in the bowl. “Touch not, taste not,” the unclean thing. You may now be far from being a drunkard, and not for a moment even realize the bare idea of ever becoming one. Alas! this is one of the many deceptions of inebriacy. Many who, once like you, stood erect in the pride of conscious security, have fallen and are lost! As with them, so it will be with yoL. Better never have reached that point, where, feeling the necessity of stopping, you find too late that you can’t do it. Engage once in the habit oi drinking, and it will steal upon you unawares, until having “grown with vour growth,” and increasing pow erfully in its strength, you will find yourself—Samp son-like shorn of your locks, and lost forever ! It is related of the Boa Constrictor, that when about to destroy its victim, it first deals a stunning blow, and while in an unconscious state, it throws its coil around it, and then crushes it to death. So drunkenness will do with you. Ere it strikes its final blow, it will first stun by its fascination, and rob you of consciousness, and then destroy! Young man, we say to you with emphatic earnest ness, stop before its too late—before you are ruined finally and forever. If now you are reading these lines, , resolve never to let one drop of the “liquid fire” go down your throat. You will then enjoy all the pleasures of sobriety, and when you go down to your grave you will enjoy the inspiring consciousness that you are not one to be added to the many millions already destroyed by the monster intemperance, and whose destiny is an eter nal horror and despair. The path of success and use fulness is before you. “ Temperance, Fortitude and Virtue.” If you do so, it shall be “well with thee,” find the decline of thy life shall bring to thee the bright and glowing tints of a joyous and eternal future ! The records of the “grave yard” will exemplify these views On either side. Choose which shall be thine! Woman’s Influence. Long has this been the orator’s theme, the poet’s song and “everybody’s” subject. People have so ac customed themselves to extoling the virtuesof Woman, and praising her character and influence, that they en tirely overlook practicality, and soar away into the fields, of theory. Now, it is all nice enough for “young men,*’ and also those who have “tied themselves to the apron string,” to flatter woman’s vanity by these aph orisms, but I, being an old bachelor and unprejudiced, can speak plainly and tell the truth. .Inprimo, I will admit with everybody else, that wo man lias great influence. She holds in her hand a power, and wields a destiny for which, 1 tear, she does not feel her responsibility. Gently gliding along life’s path way, drawn aside to play with every glittering toy and gaudy bubble, much of her life is thrown away upon worthless objects and persons. Fair ladies, is not this true f The standard by which you judge young men is not sufficiently high and pure. Young men. and old ones, too, “have marked out a “line of conduct” to you, from which, if you deviate, you fortcit their respect and lose their esteem. Their mandate is, you mu*t be “pure, virtuouß and sustain an unblemished character,” or fall from your high and honored position. Where is your code for us? Where is the point be yond wfyich, if we go, we meet your decided contempt ? W-e can curse and swear and use the name of God in vsin almost every, way, and still you will smile upon us s though we never polluted our longue with profane language. We can drink the flowing wine until our heads are tipsy ; yet, your voice is just as sweet, and ypur face as bright and beaming for us. We can pass tne night in revelry and drunkenness, and other most Oebasing sms, and next day when we call, you receive to n Iff' 10 ,’ WUh , a mo6t gracious smile, extending tures h welcome due to earth’s most innocent crea- ou ld tve tolerate such conduct in i nr. 1 , love those lips from which flow oaths minted whh Z fumes of rum 1 Never. You, yourselves ifone S he sisters should do this thing, would shrinkfiom disgust. Then I ask you, fair lad* es ‘ judge high moral standard. You have the powe?— nr ,„ y , it, and raise the moral tone of our young men until\h e will ceaaato swear, leave ofFßum andSTvc Jur‘ noble lives.— Spirit Are. pureand Normalton, N. C. BACH. A Beautiful Paragraph. The following lines are taken from Sir Humphrey Davies’ Salmonia: *1 envy no quality of the mind and intellect in others •-•belt genius, power, wit or fancy—but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe moet useful to me. I should prefer a firm religious he lief to any other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness; breathes new hopes, varnishes and throws over decay and destruction of existence the most gor geous of all lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up to beauty and di vinity; makes an instrument of torture and shame the ladder of ascent to Paradise ; and far above all combi nations of earthly hopes calls up the most delightful vis ions, psalms and amaranths, the garden of the blest Wd security ot everlasting joys, where the sensualist “ skeptic view only decay, annihilation and despair. News Items. After recent very severe and prolonged fighting, the j Indians of Oregon are suing for pcaco, and it is sup ! posed the war is about over. Passports are now required of persons landing in Ni ■ caragua. Caase —Gen. Walker. Gen. Lamdr has obtained suitable acknowledgements from the Costa Ricans, in relation to pending vexed questions. John E. Ward, of Savannah, will probably be ten dered tbe mission to China. Dr. Palmer and family, formerly of South Carolina, now Now Orleans, are now pronounced from effects ot an attack of yellow fever. Cotton, at tho latest date, was commanding lljj @ lli. The Art of Thinking:. Upon the art of thinking, so very generally neglected, Sidney Smith offers these capital thoughts. Says he: “ One of the best ways of improving the art of thinking, is to think on some subject before you read upon it, and to observe after what manner it has occurred to the mind of some great master; you will then observe whether you have been too rash or too timid, wha. you have omitted, and in what you have exceeded ; and in this manner you will insensibly catch a great manner of viewing a question. It is right in study not only to think when any extraordinary incident provokes you to think, but from time to time to review what has passed; to dwell upon it, and to see what trains of thought vol untarily present themselves to your mind, xt is a most superior habit for some minds to refer all the particular truths which strike them to other truths more general; so that their knowledge is beautifully methodized and the general truth at matiy times suggests all the par ticular exemplifications, or any particular exemplifica tion, at once leads to the general truth. This kind of understanding has an immense and decided superiority over those confused heads in’ which one fact is piled upon another, without the least attempt at classification and arrangement. Some men always read with a pen in their hand, and commit to paper any new thought which strikes them ; others trust to chance for‘its re appearance. Which of these is the best method in the conduct of understanding, must, I suppose, depend a great deal upon the particu ar understanding in ques tion. Some men can do nothing without preparation ; others little with it; some are fountains ; some reser voirs.” • Lut the majority of mankind never think at all, judg ing them by their conduct. It has ever been the great object of the Ministry to induce mento reflect—tothink; where this has been accomplished in individuals, it has been no difficult matter to direct their thoughts to high and holy things—to leave off grovelling and aspire to lives of purity. If this or any other writer could be as successful in stirring up thought as in directing it, he would receive praise above all others. In an humble way, vc have for years been endeavoring to awaken ‘ v lhe public mind to the evil of drunkenness,- but with | what success ! And the chief difficulty, we are persua | ded, is where the prophet found it—“My people will not ! consider” —think. If the novitiates in the habit of drink kjng could be induced to reflect upon the consequences : of this habit once confirmed, they could be induced to ! abandon it while the oflort required would be slight. ! If they would only consider that the confirmed drunkard is their own picture farther advanced ; that the history ; of the thousands of earth’s gifted ones whose lights j have been extinguished by continued and excessive po | tations, and whose dying companions were shame, re morse and want, is their future histoiy, then, shaped by : these rules of Sidney Smith, might he re-produced the j long list ot worthies adorning the page of history ; yea ! better —the re-productions would receive the admiration ! of future generations as well for their eminence in virtue | and temperance, as in rare genius for thought-making j and noble daring. Those who are as yet uninitiated into connubial fe licity are totally unqualified for appreciating the senti ments of the following facetious letter, which a friend sends us with the statement that it is the original copy of a letter received by himself: Dear Jackson: I have got a baby!! The first, the best looking and the most promising of all the “young ones” in these diggins. He stands at the head of ba bydom from the very commencement of his career, and is destined, from all the prognostics, to win for himself a more enviable rcpu.ation than did the far-famed baby of Major Jones’ notoriety. Talk about achievements in war, politics and learning; talk about great battles and benefactors; he that gets a model for his kind, or produces a pattern for all future sires to lollow, or sets an example worthy of imitation of his race, does more for the human family than your Cae.sar, or your Cicero, or your Chatham. Beginning his course with a might of character to the tune of‘Jibs, he has, in the lapse ofone week, reached the respectable amount of 10V. What this “youngster’ ’ is destined to become at this rate, his Pappy is not able to say. But such is the impression he has already made among his acquaintances and the dames ot the community, that he has had presented to him books, wagori9 and the like, in testimony of their respectful consideration. Like the great revolutionary sires of whom history lolls, knowing his rights, he dares main tain them, and in no particular does he exhibit this manly trait more than in the uncompromising demands he some'imes makes for titty, even at the expense of the family’s peace. Nothing can deter him from ahold and fearless vindication of this inalienable right but the soporific effects of 4or 5 drops ofparegoricelixir. Such was Washington, such was Napoleon and such, no doubt, was the w orld-renowned Alexander, in their in fancy. Baby, though lie now is, in the common accep tation of the term, the day is not far distant when he will be older and stronger, in the strictest sense of the words, and then will he make a debut among the squir rels, the young oxen and the school boys, that will as tonish the natives, to the admiration of his parents, and the surprise of his friends. Such-is his importance in our estimation, that we have even written Ins name in the Bible, subject to the reference ol those who, in future, may inquire his age to know. Its orthography turns out to be Marcus Eden; but this not being commensurate with the sev eral traits of his physical character, we call him man, boy, monkey, toad-pig, old chap, nig, whang doodle, old fel, &c. according to the feeling and fancy. But I must close, not having half exhausted the sub ject. My boy would send his respects to you with mine, if you were a Congressman or, otherwise, “more punk ins” than you are. Your friend, Is this True ? There is a proverb that a “father can more easily maintain six children, than six children one father.” Is this true ? Has the ingratitudeof children passed iiro a proverb ? Luther relates this story: There was once a father who gave up everything to his children, his house, his goods, and for this he ex pected that his children would support liim. Bui after he had been some time with his sons, the latter grew tired of him, and said to him. “Father, I have had a son born to me to-night and there where your arm-chair stands, the cradle must come ; will you not perhaps, go toiny biother, who has a larger room?” After he had been some time with the second son, he also grew tired of him, and said, “Father, you like a warm room, and that hurts my head. Won’t you go to my brother’s the baker?” The father went, and after he had been some time with the third son, he also found him bur densome, and said to him, “Father, the people run in and out here all day, as if it were a pigeon house, and you cannot have your noon day sleep ; would you not be better off at my sister Kate’s, near the town hall?” The old man remarked how the wind blew, and said to himself, “Yes, I will do so; I will go and try it with tny daughter. Women have softer hearts.” But af ter he had spent sonic time with his daughter, she grew weary of him and said she was always so fearful when her father went to church or anywhere else, and was obliged to descend the steep stairs ; and ; at her sister Elizabeth’s there wore no stairs to descend, U3she lived on the ground floor. For the sake of peace, tho old man assented and went to his other daughter. But. af ter some time, she too was tired of him, and told him by a third person that her house near the water was too dartip for a man who suffered with the gout, and her sister, the grave digger’s wife, at St. John’s had much drier odgings. The old man himself thought she went out side the gate to her daughter Helen. But after ho had JZIcZ th !f® days with, her her little son said to his l j 1 | Cr ’ Mother said yesterday to cousin Eiiza such II ! 7i 8 n ° bCUCr chamber for you than such a one as father digs” These words broke the old man . hear,, .0 that ho ml. back in hi. eh.tr .nd The otd chap overhauled his arithmetic, and found in the table of apothecaries weight that eight drachms make an ounce. “ M j. ne ® a j d , the dutehman, “data de tompe ranee tor me. I didn't get but six drams before, and now I gets eight.” Another merchant Fallen—A Lawyer corn 9 mits Suicide— “Mania a Potn.” “X. Y Z.” writing to the Wisconsin Chief, gives. the following sad particulars : MiLwavkl, Sept. i: r 18.58. Dear Chief: It were Vain for me, to attempt to keep your readers “posted” in reference to all of rum’s do iDgs in the city of bricßfi. To do so, would require that tho nib should bo constantly at tho sickoning task. Five short years ago Mr. H. N. Conant was a pros perous and dashing merchant, occupying a spacious store on East Water street, and driving a fine span of horses and carriage—probably littlo thinking that ho was so soon to fall a proy to a depraved appetite, and suffer the horrors of a worso than death— mania a polu! But, from tho fashionable glass of wine, proffered by the hand of beauty in the gay drawing-room—where the frail bark of many a’ noble youth has foundered— poor Conant was led on, step by step,” in a career of vice and drunkenness, until he-is on tho very brink of sell-destruction.. For a year or so, Iliad failed to recognize upon our streets the once familiar countenance of Conant—lie had passed from my memory, and not until a brief para graph in the evening papers, announcing the fall and. the arrest of the wretched Conant, did his name come to me. Iliad noticed for a few weeks past, that pnee fa miliar face upon our streets again, and had pointed him out to a friend, and to yourself, dear “Chief,” as being a person who had seen better days. But, oh! how changed! His once ma'hly form was bent as with the weight of years; his eye was down-cast and sad, and every lineament of his features bore evidence of a dread ful wretch within. He stood upon the coiners of the streets, an emblem of man’sinhumanity to man—a mon ument ot the rum-seller’s skill in debasing man to the level of a brute—a living, walking sign of the rum-sel ler’s own handiwork. As I had passed him, he often attempted to speak, but as I failed to recognise him,his eye would drop and I would pass on. Saturday after noon as I passed him, he nodded his head and I spoke to him, but could not call to mind his name and passed again. On Saturday night, about 11 o’clock, poor Conant was discovered by a policeman, with his coat and vest off, and just ready to plunge into the river, to get away from the fiends who he imagined were in close; pursuit of him. He is brough - to the Station-House, and there pleads with the officers to keep off the fiends, lie is fined $25 for vagrancy. People here are licensed to make drunkards—an army of six hundred licensed drunkard makers—and when one of their own wares is so far completed as to desire self-destruction, rather than remain longer in the hands of these skillful drunkard-moulders, he is snatched up before the Court and finods2s for submitting himself to these licensed workmen! YV hat a shame in this nine teenth century, that an army of six hundred .men should be licensed to mako drunkards of our merchants, our lawyers, our judges and our young men! Before the pen dries, anothor case of mania apotu,re -ulting in suicide reaches us from Bangor, Maine, whither one of our talented lawyers had fled, doubtless for the purpose of keeping up a laisoti which had been for a long time carried on in this city, and which came near resulting so disastrously a few weeks since. Martin B. Coombs came here from Cincinnati about three years ago, and with a good reputation and fair prospects, entered into the practice oflaw. Soon, how ever, he evinced signs of drink. His partner cut loose from him, and his course downward has been rapid, un til finally, broodirfs over his disgrace, he pursues a phan tom, which failing to possess, he commits suicide in a fit of maria a pofu ! How sad the fate of poor, degraded Coombs ! Many a young man as he lifts the goblet to his lips, will think of him, but will say to himself, “There is sio danger! I shall never die a drunkard!” As sure as the sun will rise to-morrow, those cronies of his will die drunkards unless they stop note ! Early Rising. Health and long life are almost universally associated with early rising; and we are pointt dto countless old people, in evidence of its good effects on the general system. Can any of our readers, on the spur of the mo ment, give a good and conclusive reason why health should be attributed to this habit ? We know that old people get up early ; but it is simply because they can’t sleep. Moderate old age does not require much sleep; hence, in the aged, early rising is a necessity, or a con venience, and is not a cause of health in itself. There is a large class of early risers, who may be truly said not to have a day’s health in a year—the thirsty folk, for example, who drink liquor until midnight, and rise early to get more ! one of our earliest recollections is, that of “old soakers” making their “devious way” to the grog-shop or the tavern bar-room, before sunrise, for their morning grog. Early rising, to be beneficial, must havetwo concomitants: to retire early, and on rising, to be properly employed. One of the most emi nent divines in this country rose by daylight for many years, and at the end of that time became an invalid— has traveled the world over for health, and has never regained it, nor ever will. It is rather an early retiring that does the good, by keeping people out of those mis chievous practices which darkness favors, and which need not here be more particularly referred to. Another important advantage of retiring early is, that the intense stillness of midnight and the early morning hours favor that unbroken repose which is the all powerful renovator of the tired system. Without then the accompaniment of retiring early, “early ris ing” is worse than useless, and is positively mischiev ous. Every person should be allowed to “have his sleep out,” otherwise the duties of the day cannot be properly performed, will be necessarily slighted, even by the most conscientious To all young persons, to students, -to the sedentary, and to invalids, the fullest sleep that the system will take, without artificial means, is the balm of life—with out it can be no restoration to health and activity again. Never wake up the sick or infirm, or young children of a morning—it is a barbarity ; let them wake of them selves; let the care rather be to estab’ish an hour for retiring, so early that their fullest sleep may be out be fore sunrise. Another item ol very great importance is : Do not hurry up the young and the weakly. It is no advan tage to pull them out of bed as soon as their eyes arc open, nor is it be3t for the s'udious, or even tor the well> who have passed an unusually fatiguing day, to jump out of bed the moment thoy wake up; let them remain, without going to sleep again, until the sense of weari ness passes from the limbs. Nature abhors two things violence and a vacuum. The sun does not break out at once into the glare of the meridiati The diurnal (lowers unfold themselves by slow degrees; nor fleetest beast, nor sprightliest bird, leaps at once from its rest ing-place. By all of-jvhich wc mean to say, that as no physiological truth is more demonstrable, than that the brain, and with it the whole nervous system, is recupe rated by sleep, it is of ‘he first importance, as to the well-being of the human system, that it have its-fullest measure of it; and to that end the habit of retiring early should be made imperative on all children, and. no or-r dinary event should be allowed to interfere with it. Its moral healthfulness is not less important than itsphys ical. Many a young man. many a young woman, Iras made the first step towards degradation, and crime, and disease, after ten o’clock at night; at which hour, the year round, the old, the middle-aged, and the young, should be in bed ; and then the early rising will take cure of itself, with the incalculable accompaniment of a fully-rested body and renovated brain. Wo repeat it, there is neither wisdom, not safety, nor health, in early rising itself; but there is all of them in the persistent practice of retiring to bed at an early hour, winter and summer. — Hall's Journal of Health. A knitting machine that will knit a perfect pair of stockings in less than five minutes, has been invented by a New Yorker. Never Retract. A distinguished editor was in his study. A long, thin, ghostly-visaged individual waaannounced. With an asthmatic voice, but in a tone of stupid civility, for otherwise the editor would have assuredly transfixed him with a fiery paragraph the next morning—the stranger said: “Sir, your journal of yesterday contained false infor mation.” , „ , “Impossible, sir; but what do yoU allude to?” “You said that Mr. M had been tried.” “True.” “Condemned.” “Very true.” “Hung.” “Yes. ’ “Now, sir, I am that gentleman.” “Impossible.” “I assure you it is a fact, and now I hope you will contradict what you have alleged.” “By no means.” You are deranged.” ..t * Je ’ B ‘. r ’ hut I will not take it back.” * w,u c °mplain to a magistrate.” do EJSffr’ but 1 ne y er detract. The most I can “ . to an ounco that the rope broke, and that f never refract! hea th- Ih *ve my principles; It chccre our heart, says the Sandersvillo Georgian, j to see so many of the young men of our* town and coun ty uniting with the Knights of Jericho. Five were ini tiated on last Saturday night. Scarcely a meeting passes without several initiations. We do hope that nono will bring reproach upon the cause by turning to their cups. Friends, our advice to (hose of yoq who have been given to intemperance is, keep out of the way of temptation.* lftho old men—influential citizens —-would but put their shoulders to the wheel, wo might hope to see community rid of liquor shops very soon. What a glorious tim6 that will be? Who does not wish to see it ? Age of the World. • That tearnod and accurate chronologer, Mr. Clinton, (author of the Fasti Ilellenici, Romani, &c.) continued firmly to the last to believe that “in 1851, our world's age was approximately within fifteen or sixteon years of its six thousandth year from the creation of man}” in other words, that in the year 1866 the world would be 6000 years old. Mr. Clinton never attempted to adjust mattters with the extremo nicety of Archbishop Usher, who begins his famous “Annalcs” with the’ statement that the creation of the world and the march of time bo gaii “early in the evening which prececded the 23d of October, in the year of the Julian Period 610, and B. C. 4004.” -Archbishop Usher was, undoubtedly, a great chronological genius, and a man of vast and -profound ’ erudition, but how he reached the nice calculation that time began on the evening of the day which (if it had ever existed,) would have been the 23d of October, fivo thousand eight hundred and sixty-two years ago this coming autumn, would puzzle us to say, since he has not explained the process. Archbishop Usher and Mr. Clinton, it will bo seen, (both of whom based their opin ioi s on independent and very careful observations) dif fered in their estimate of the world’s age only to the ex tent of 130 years—the former making it 5862, tire latter 5992 years old the present year—a surprising approx imation to unanimity, especially when we recollect that for nearly the first half of the time men were without written records, and that tin. art of adjusting and pre serving dates was only slowly and at quite a recent pe riod brought to perfection. So short has been the duration of-human history'! For it is of course of the earth as the abode of man that w e-are now speaking. And even from that short pe riod nearlyono-third must bo deducted as belongingto the history of human progress and development. The Flood is computed to have occurred in tho year of the world 1656. Almost all previous rosults of human thought and labor must have boon buried forever by that tremendous calamity. Some traditions might have been preserved; and what strictly belonged to tho moral de velopment of humanity was undoubtedly kept alive. But art, science, ptiilosophy, ail the enterprises and works of man, when a lifetime reached almost a decade of centuries, nuist have uttorly perished. Humanity must needs take anew start. The web of history must bo woven anew from the naked warp. The complicated problem must be re-comincnecd from its simple factors. And then the first battle must be with the elements; the firs’ tug to satisfy the stern exigencies of more life. It would be a good while before men would have that security and leisure, which is in dispensable to thought and higher culture, to the recollection and preservation of the old and the invention of tlie new. And yet there is a curious fact to show how r soon men were about it. When Alexander the Great took Babylon, (about the year of the world. 3674) Callisthenes, one of the scien tific corps, attendant on the exhibition, found in the tower of Belus calculations of eclipses for 1903 years preceding. This takes us back to within little more than a century after the Deluge—so soon did the aspi ration after knewledge overpower the wants and appe tites of animal nature. So soon did men pass from watching and attending their flocks to watching and grouping the stars; and, for want of other books, to ! reading the starry volume, of which every night turned over anew page—an occupation, it must be allowed, to which nomadic life under the transparent atmosphere and cloudless skies of the Asiatic steppes, is not unfa vorable; and this, doubtless suggests the true reason why astronomy got the start of the other sciences, and made more rapid progress among the simple post-dilu vian shepherds than it is likely to make at the Dudley Observatory. Little more than forty centuries, then, can he allowed to makeup the “solidus dies,” the real working-day of the world. Look at “the earth and man,” in history and in their actual state, and you must allow that not much time has been lost. Within that period, man has explored the earth from theeasternmost verge of Asia to the westernmost of America. He has penetrated al most to either pole. Scarcely an inlet of the sea which has been left unvisited and unpeopled. lie has turned the mighty element which covers two-thirds of the globe into the means of abridging his labors, multiply ing his comforts and transporting him over ocean and continent. He has caught from the clouds the most terrific force of nature, and taught us to flash his thoughts over continents and under oceans with a speed only inferior to that of thought itself, and with a precis ion, like that of intelligence. lie has formed some two thousand languages, and dialects lie has sounded the depths of the sea, on the verge of which he once trem bled, and the yet profoundcr depths of his own mind. He has —but we must rehearse Universal history to re call to our minds the arts, discoveries, sciences, insti tutions, monuments which perpetuate the memory of man’s toils and sufferings on earth in these forty centu ries--a period scarcely exceeding four successive antedc luvian lives ! How vast his faculties ! How restless liis activity! How powerful the virtue of that primal bless ing of the Father of men, “be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it and have dominion !” And as the last fifty years have witnessed a far more rapid development than any earlier period, who can fore cast the future of Humanity. [Written for the Georgia Temperance Crusader.] The Traffic. Os all the woes that any unfortunate world was ever heir to, that of making and selling ardent spirits con stitutes the premium crime, and the boasted instrument of Hell to uproot good order, despoil society and un hinge life’s most endearing ties, sends its poor, deluded victim to meet the dread storm of God’s wrath. It does appear that our race is on the hunt of damnation; great pains-taking to make themselves and their fellows mi serable forever. Surely Hell could be bought at a less price; surely those brass-faced miscreants, who fur nish this hell-wrought instrument, can never have the temerity to lay any claims of friendship to our race, or any-love of anything good, since they prove, by their “actions, their utter disregard for any interest of earth, save money, for they would sell every interest of soci ety, every hope of future bliss for themselves, or any one that is fool enough to patronize them. For money they would (of course) barter every trace of good, political or religious. IIo! says one, you call me “tory ?” No! no! we have no name; we would drag Webster from his grave for his negligence in this particular ; he has given names to all beasts and birds, principles of mean, low outcasts of society, while the whisky-maker strolls through our land, an enemy to all good men, a heart less, nameless, soulless, Christless wretch; for if all the ugly, base, rough, shabby terms were concentrated in one name it would not be hateful enough, or foul mouthed enough, for a standing name, for this child of the Devil. .For all this we sometimes see his ugly carcass dragged into respectable society, at once the pest and disgrace of our race; yet, his father furnishes him with impu dence to face up and claim intercourse with decent per sons ; but I, for one, regard such characters a nui sance to any refined society ; and the idea of his being in female company, is too ridiculous to think of; and although some of them lay strong claims to respectable notice, it is my solemn conviction that they should be ruled out of decent society, and the foul stamp of infa my and degradation fixed full in their foreheads; for when it is considered that all good men, of every age and name, has strained every nerve of their best talent, various forms of temperance associations, supported by what little religion earth could furnish, wc can but weep at the result. Satan has always sustained an agency in every section, in every assembly of Legisla tors, and even among some churches—or branches of churches. Scare-crows, of every conceivable shapo and hellish mould, have been held out to frighten the phi lanthropist from his purpose and venal hypocrites sounded their tocsin. Oh! church of the living purify yourself from theso sanctimonious renegades; then, and not until then, will radical reform commence, for just so long us this hydra of despair is in our ranks, will the Philistines prevail. Earth’s eternal interests arc at stake, and we must net —hoist our tri-colored flng and fling it to the breeze, and swear by the Eternal, we will never yield; and when life’s last lingering ray flickers in its socket, and we nearing the confines of earth, if wo can see our flag still flying victorious, the old hell-scarrcd serpent van quished, then we can shout the language of the dying Wolfe, at the rock of Quebec. J. M. D. Monty Creek, Ga. o<g. 17, 1858. [Special Correspondence.] Men nt Matter* at Jlepxilsalt Baptist j Association. Tho Ilepzibah Baptist Association convened at Old Uiyou Church, Columbia county, on the 21st instant. ■ A largo assemblage of delegates woro presont, and j among them were several whom I design to give a brief notice of. Prof. Wm. Williams, of your town, by his mild and unassuming manner, won the admiration and esteem of allpresent. lie has decidedly iho most intellectual looking oy of any man I have ever had tho good for tune to observe. Rev. Joseph Walker, editor of tho Christian Index, was very successful in obtaining subscribers to that paper—although he is too modest to face tho ladies — and was in excellent humor. Rev. J. H. T. Kilpatrick and Rov. J. Huff, were pre sent, sanclifying tho Association with their venerable appoaranco. It was apparent to all, that the days ot their pilgrimage would soon bo over, and their immor tal spirits quit this vale of tears, soaring to their ever lasting home, whero “They shall rest and resting always, gaze On things eternal, full of grace and love, And form a band of holy priests, to raise, With golden harps, one glorious song of praiso To Him who fills the throne with God above.” Rev. W. H. Clarke, the retired missionary, was ear nest in his appeal for the benighted sons of Africa, and delivered an excellent discourse upon their condition, etc. Frank Jones, of Midville, Ga.—“ Jolly Frank”—any one could see from the geniality of his countenance that he had “a babe in his house,” was present, casting sunshine into every place he went with his glad and handsome face. George W. Evans, Esq. won golden opinions for him self from all the delegates by the urbanity and kind ness of his manner, and by that flow of good humor so characteristic of himself. Rev. L. M. Carter, a youthful minister of much pro mise and great ability, whose mild and pleasant face causes him to be a universal favorite—especially among the ladies—was prosent, and was a very active mom ber of the Association. Rov. J. E. Ryerson is too extensively known to re quire description. His missionary sermon on Thurs day, from 2d Corinthians: sth chap. 13th, 14th, 15th versos, was a masterly effort. Groat not only from the truthfulness of its positions, but from the power and forvor of its delivery. There is no standard which I can form in my mind, suitable to test it by. There have boon groator sermons than this—greater for phi losophicalrango—greater for metaphysical abstractions —greater for erudition, and all that; but this, for sim ple beauty, ejoganco of diction, fervent fluency of enun ciation, purity of style, biblical thought and expression, and thrilliof’ pathos, yields supremacy to none, and cannot bo measured by a common standard. It breathed the spirit of tho cross, and teemed with the love of the . Saviour. Rev. R. R. Carswell, though modest and retiring in his maimer, boars the impress of intellectual strength and beauty upon his brow. Tho meetings were very well attended. Crinoline, in all its expansions, was there, and black eyes and blue sparkled throughout the house, like the stars in the ethereal expanse. I was sorry to discover that the young ladies had very defective memories, for while they could inform me what the color of the ribbons on Miss Spindle’s bonnet was, or what was the color of Miss Soapsud’s g—rs —l mean gloves—they could not inform me what and where the minister’s text was. I learned this sad fact in this wise: I approached a youny lady, exceedingly fair to look upon, resembling the moss-rose in delicate purity and loveliness, and “ Around her shone The light of love—the purity of grace— The mind—the music breathing from her sac The heart, whose softness harmonized the whole; And Oh ! her eye was, in itself, a soul, vainly imagining that she could give me the desired in formation ; but alas! her memory was very defective. The Association closed in peace, harmony having prevailed during its entire session, and all the members feeling that they had been greatly benefitted. May Heaven’s choicest blessings rest upon all who were there. “Oh! blow, gentle breezes, on your pinions so light! And waft them a blessing and prayer. May God protect, guide and preserve them, And bring them to Heaven, His home.” WILLIE. [Written for the-Georgia Temperance Crusader.] Bro. Seals: Let me relate a circumstance that oc curred the other day. As I was travelling, an old man, on foot, going my road, I gave him a seat iu my carriage, which I con sidered a treat to me, as I was well acquainted with his son, who I knew to be a gentleman and a Christian. The old man—being very loquacious—let me know he was a distiller by trade, and appealing to Scripture to prove the propriety of hist course, said: Christ made ar dent spirits; and further said, that temperance societies had done more to injure religion than anything the De vil ever invented, and called temperance reformers by all the hard names he was able to do; and in reply to a few words I was able to wedge in, that a man could not love God and serve the Devil, and that he done both every day of his life. Now, here is the great principle involved in this: the traffic, and making, hardens a man’s heart to that de gree, that the Devil holds him in this state of delirium, and will thereby more easily secure his damnation. This old man was a member of a respectable denomi nation of Christians, and a loud professor. Let the friends go to work, while we find enemies of the good cause in our church. Yours, in haste, J. M. DORSEY. White CO. Ga. Oct. 2\U>, 1858. Slices Rich. “You ought not to speajk so about her; she’s rich !” “You must be mistaken —she always dresses so plainly. She would certainly make more show if she were really rich. How do you know?” “I have been intimately acquainted with her family from infancy.” “Well! Who would ever take her to be rich? She goes to church in plain merino, and neither wears jew elry nor crinoline! Do you know how much she is worth ?” “No, not exactly, Thomas, but she is worth enough to be a prize to any of you young fortune hunters, if you were worthy of her!” “Do you suppose she is worth twenty thousand?” “Mote.” “Fifty thousand?” “More than that; yes, more than a million —there is no estimating her worth.” “Are you in earnest, Uncle John ?” . “Surely I am.” “Uncle John, will you forgive me for speaking so slightly of her. I really begin to think she is beautiful. She must be mine ! Will yon assist ?” “Stop! stop! She will never bo yours.” “Why, uncle, is she engaged? I’ll fight for her?” “Don t take on so. She is not engaged that I know of; but she would not marry you, if you hadmillions.” “Why, Uncle ?” “To be plain with you, Thomas, she has too much sense. She knows you intesnd to marry a fortune, and she knows you are in the habit of speaking lightly, if no; contemptuously, of.virtife and religion.” ‘But I'll amend and join the church. ’ “No, no; save yourself tlhe trouble, if you have no higher motive. You would not succeed. Lest I may slightly deceive you, Thonsas, I will tell you partly in what her wealth consists.’* “Do, Uncle; I aui curioits to know, if she can’t be mine.” “Well, then, in the first place she has health. That of itself were a fortune, in thiq age of grunting, pale, anuffi dipping wives. You makca fun at ruddy cheeks; you’ll know better by and by. “In the second place, she is ingenious, industrious and frugal. Here is anotfr.er fortune for any worthy young man, richorpoor. She knows all about kitchen and househ ild matters, and is not too proud to work. You are after a fortune, w ith a money spending ma chine attached. She is the fortune and its ornament. “In the third place, she is intelligent and refined— well educated in the best rudiments of our literature', eschews novels and all th Frenchy trash of the day, reads her Bible, attends Sunday School as a teacher and pupil. Is that enouf h ? Will you not give it up that she is rich indeed?” , “Yes, but I thought sha was rich in money, or some thing estimated by dollars and cents!” “Well estimate her wort h in dollars and cents, if you please, and tell me the stent.” “I don’t know that I cai.i.” “No, I see your ardor is quite abated, since there is no money in her patrimony. But I have not told you all yet, nor the most mat avia I item in this young lady’s fortune. She is amiable and sweet tempered. This, many a poor man in the land would think another great fortune, if he only had a morsel of bread with it.” “Well, uncle, that is the extent of this strange for tune which” “No. the most material itejn, one which gives a spe cini value and beauty toall Ijer possessions, is the pearl ofgrcat price. That is a guaranty of the genuineness and safety of everything else. That will cast its lustre up on her own pathway, and t!*at of those.around her, as long as she lives.” The Austria.— The oftucial list of the Austiia’s pas sengers, brought by the Huropa, shows a total loss of life by the disaster, of 4(6. ,Pnblic School Me* tin*. Thursday, October 21st, 1858. Agreeably to public notice, a portion'of thc’friends of a general system of Public Education being present m this city during the Fair, hold a preliminary meeting on the Fair Ground this morning, when, on motion, Dr. David A Reese, of Jasper county, was called to tho Chair, and J. 8. Peterson of Atlanta, and I>r. Janes of Greene county, were appointed Secretaries. On motion ol Gc®en 8.. Haygood, Esq. of Atlanta, a Committee of Fifteen was appointed to report business for an adjourned meeting, to be held st this place to morrow, at 10 o’clock, A. M. _ . U XX V- Whereupon G. B. Haygood of Pulton, John H. New ton of Clarke, D. E. Butler of Morgan,-D. W. Lewis of Hancock, C. Fccplcs of Monroe, Rev. C. 1 . B. Martin of Honry Dr. R. Collins of Bibb, John Cunningham of Greene W W. Clayton of Cass, A. M. Boston of Thom as, B. H. Bighamof Troup, &. A... Atkinson of Rich mond, W. C. Cook of Early, Gen. G. P. Harrison, of Chatham, andßobt. Mcrtsisdnof Burke, woreTippointed said Committee—when the meeting adjourned;-. D. A. REESE, Chairman. J. S Peterson, \ ptcocetariep, T. P. Janes, J Friday, October 22. 1858. Gen. Geo. P. Harrison of Chatham was called, to the C *The Committee appointed at a preliminary meeting yesterday morning, to prepare and report business for the consideration of this meeting, ask leave to report: 1. That it is the sense of this meoting that it is the duty of the State to provide for the elementary Educa tion of all the children of the State. 2. That the Poor School system now in operation in this State*, is wholly inadequate to meet the wants of the people, and ought to be abandoned. ■ . 3. That a system of Public Education ought to be in itialed by the approaching Legislature, having for its object tho securing to all the people of ih” State, an op portunity of giving to their children a Pree Klementary English Education. . . 4 That for the purpose of judiciously organizing such a system as the wants of the State require, it is necessary to collect, arrange and digest, all the statistics within our reach, connected directly or remotely with the sub ject, and lay tho same before the Legislature of the S, s. to That as tho most leasible means of accomplishing this object, wo recommend that a Department of Public Education be organized by tho next Legislature, with a responsible head and adequate compensation; whose duty it shall be to colloct the necessary information, and prepare an annual Roport to the Governor, to bo laid by him before the Legislature, embracing the most practicable plan for carrying into effect tho groat ob ject contemplated by this meoting. 6. That the most ample provision possible be mado •to sustain such a system ; and to this end wo recom mend that the Western & Atlantic Railroad, or tho an nual proceeds thereof, not already pledged, bo perma nently set apart for educational purposes, and that the larger proportion thereof, together with all the presont fund sot apart as a Poor School fund, be pledged to this object. . . , . _ , „ . 7. That the several counties in this State and all in corporated cities, towns and villages, bo authorised bv law to organize and carry into practical operation such a system of Public Education as, in their judgment, shall be beet adapted to their respective localities. 8. That the several counties, towns and cities in this State, be requested at as early a day as practicable, to hold public meetings, and express their approval 6r dis approval of these recommendations and make kpown the result of their deliberations to the next Legislature. 9. That a committee of five be appointed by tho Chairman of this meeting, to prepare and present a Me morial to tho Legislature at its approaching Session, setting forth the claims of a general system of Public Schools, as affording the only ever securing the great object in view, the Education of all the children in the State. f 10. That all the newspapers in this State, be requested to notice, or publish, these proceedings. Thos. R. It. Cobbol Clarke. L. Cohen of Chatham, D. E. Butler of Morgan, A. H. Chappell of Bibb and G. B. Haygood of Fulton, were appointed the Commit tee under tho 9th Resolution. After which the meeting adjourned. GEO. P. HARRISON, Ch’n. J. S. Peterson, ) T. P. Janes, / ecretaries - The Struggle and the Victory. “Johnny,” said a farmer to his little boy, “it is time for you to go to the pasture and drive home the cat tle.” Johnny was playing ball, and the pasture way off; but he was accustomed to obey, so off he started without a word, as fast as his legs could carry him. Being in a great hurry to get back to play he only half let down the bars, and then hurried the cattle through, and a fine cow, in trying to crowd over, stum bled and fell with her leg broken. Johnny stood by the suffering creature, and thought to himself, “Now what shall Ido? That was the finest cow father had, and it will have, to be Killed, and it will be a great loss to father. What shall I tell him ?” “Tell him,” whispered the tempter, the same tempter who puts wicked thoughts into all onr hearts, “tell him you found the bars halt down, and the creature lying here.” “No, I can’t say that,” said Johnny, “for that would be a lie.” “Tell him,” whispered the tempter again, “that while you were driving the cows, that big boy of far mer Brown’s threw a stone and hurried that cow so that she fell.” “No no,” said Johnny; “I never told a lie, and I won’t begin now. I’ll tell father the truth. It was all my fault. I was in a hurry, and I frightened the poor creature, and she fell and broke her leg.” So having taken this right and brave resolve Johnny i ran home as if he was afraid the tempter would catch him, and he went straight to his father and told him the whole truth. And what did his father do? He laid ! his hand on Johnny’s head andsaid, “my son, my dear > son, I would rather lose every cow I own, than that my . boy should tell mean untruth.” And Johnny, though very sorry for the mischief he * done, was much happier than if he had lied to screen ■ himself, even if lie had not been found out. I i Seniors Rest lt or AuowiNg Cows to go at [ Large. —Yesterday afternoon as Airs. Ellen Dawson t was passing through Broughton near Houston street, 1 she was attacked and gored by a wild cow, the proper ty, we believe, of a man named Hngerty. Her stomach i was literally torn open, and her situation rendered ex tremely critical.— Savannah Eepublican. “Thebloom or blight of ail meat* happiness.” On the 14th of October, by the Rev. Dr. R. H. Lov ett, Mr. 11. S. Snow, of Walton cr unty, and Miss Mar ivakf.t J. Hall, of Oglethorpe county. On the 31st of October, by ’Squire J. M. Brightwell, Mr. James Rad ex and Miss Caroline Campbell, ail of Oglethorpe. A New Article es Clothing! mmmmmmMMmna For sale by B. F. GREENE. Greenosboro, November 4, 1858 6t gAna amiss BURCH ~&T ROBERT, (AT THE OLD STAND OF J. W. BCRCH,) Manufacturers and Wholesale & Retail Dealers in BOOTS AND SHOES, Trunks, Carpet Batts, School Sachets, Ac. Ac, Opposite Adams’ Express Cos. Augusta,Ga. A general and well selected assortment of Goods jn the above line constantly on hand. Their SHOES are made especially for the retail trade, and wiil be sold upon reasonable terms. offer our goods at NEW YORK PRICES, Augusta, Nov 4,1858 [3mos] [freight added. QTRAYED from tho subscriber, near Washing ton, Wtlkcs county, on the 27th of October, a dark chestnut sorrel horse, with rather bushy mane and tail, blaze lnced and Iclt hind foot white. Any information of said horse will be thankfully received. Should any one take him up and keep him till I can get him, they will bo liberally -ewarded fer their trouble. Address THOMAS E. SMITH, November 4, 1858—It Washington, Ga. Georgia, greene county.—whore as William W. Moore applies for the guardianship of the persons and property of liavilah Howell and Wil liam J. Howell, orphans, (under fourteen years of age,) of John J. Howell, deceased : These are therefore to cite and admonish all persons interested, to be and appear at the Court of Ordinary to be held in and for said county on tho first Monday in December next, to show cause why said letters should not then be granted. Given under my hand at office in Greenesboro. No vember Ist, 1858. EUGENIUS L. KING, Nov 4 Ordinary. EXECUTOR’S SALE.—WiII be sold, on theßth -■-a December next, at the late residence of James Carlton, deceased, the household and kitchen furniture, c ?, r P’. oats, horses, hogs, cows, &,c. and stock of all kinds. 1 erms on the day of sale Nov 4 R. G. CARLTON, ExT. “^OTICE. —All persons indebted to the estate ot Janies Carlton, late of Greene County, deceaa ed, are requested to come forward and settle ; and those having demands will present them in terms of the law. Nov 4 R. G. CARLTON. Ex’r. A DVERTISING, honestly, freely *nd system atically, ia now recognised as ope of the aurs means of aucceaa, especially if the Chusaukr does it.