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JOHN H. SEALS, EDITOR AND PROFR.
Friday Morning, Maroh 11, 1859.
TERMS—SB 00 PER TEAR, IE ARVAKOE.
Adtkrtuing—One Dollar per Square, for the first Insertion, and
Fifty Cents for each subsequent insertion.
YtiaLT CoirrnacTS made upon liberal terms. Legal Noticw
published at established ra es. .
Job-Work, neatly executed, with dispatch, and at a fair price.
S9REr, DABNEY P. JONES is General Agent, and ha* the
authority to appoint Sub-Agents. _ „ „ ..
<, , Dabsbt.*—J. B Coi.ij.ns, O. S. Montt
eello.Fla. neT. D. J. Mtbick, Summervillo, Ga. Rer. Isaac B.
CnaTKN, Atlanta, Ga.
aa-Rer,. MILTON SMITH and A J. ORB, efThomas county, are
•uxAgent* for Southern Georgia and Florida.
J9>Dft. WM. HAUSER of Jefferson oounty, is General A gen..
City Agency.
ARCUS A. BELL & DANIEL PITTMAN, are our Agents
for this City, duly authorized to receive Subscriptions and receipt
tor the same. Persons who may find it more convenient to patronize
u> through them, as agents, will call at their “ Land and Intelligence
Office"in “Conoert Hall BnUding,” opposite the Ga. E E Bank
Agency.
We return Barnes & Cos. many thanks for a
box of No. 1 self-sealing envelopes. They prove
to be a good article, and the same are retailed at
5 cts. per pack.
We have on file for insertion in the paper, two
very acceptable communications, one written by
“Rusticus,” and the other by “Saucy Kate.”
They are too lengthy, and will have to lie over
until we find space lor them.
* NOTICE TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS.
Our City circulation is quite large, and being
very much scattered on account of the extensive
area of the place, we have been at a loss to know
what eourse we had best adopt in regard to the
delivery of the papers. It is altogether incon
venient for us to deliver them to a great many
who live out on the edges of the city, and hence
we are arranging a list of those who reside near
er the office, and will have the paper delivered
to them, and those who live too far will receive
their copies at the Post Office. We would be
happy to have those residing near enough, but
whose names we may (ail to put on the list, be
cause of not knowing where they reside, call
and report their names and the places at which
they wish the paper left.
The Pantomime of Robert Maccaire, by the
Ravels, on last evening, was a decided success.
We only regretted that they should have omitted
or cut out so much of the original Play.
The evolutions on the tight rope, by Blondin,
were inimitable—surpassed anything we have
seen for years, and everybody should witness his
daring feats.
The Ballette was nonpareil. The activity and
suppleness of those brilliant little “stars” was
truly wonderful.
The Comic Pantomime of a “Night’s Adven
ture” was a real side-splitter, and largely bene
fitted the digestive organs of each spectator.
This excellent troupe brings us something new,
and they are worthy ot a large hearing. Those
who wish to enjoy something unique, should
turn out this evening, (Thursday,) to their per
formance. We learn their bill for to-night is
capital. Sorry the want of space forbids our
enlarging upon the merits of this company; but
all our matter being ready for the press, we must
torbear.
Notice to our Greene County Friends.
Judge James Godkin, of Greenesboro’, has
kindly consented to collect the accounts which
are due the Crusader in Greene, for advertising.
It will be inconvenient for us to visit the county
during court week, as we had anticipated, but
our accounts will be forwarded to Judge Godkin,
who will represent us, and all who may wish to
pay off their bills will please call on him.
We received a visit, a few days since, from our
intelligent friend, Dr. Win, S. Meicre, who, in
connection with C. B. Barrow, Esq. is making
the old Madison Family Visitor a very interesting
sheet.
Someone in remitting us $2 from Dirt Town,
Ga., under date of Feb’y 25th, failed to give any
name to the letter. To whom shall we credit the
money ?
Presentation—Correspondence.
Mr. Seals :
Dear Sir: We have read with the greatest
pleasure, your editorial comments upon the fu
ture prospects of Atlanta, and the recent unpleas
ant difficulties which have occurred among the
other members of the Press. The article was
appropriate, happily conceived, admirable in
tone, and we believe it will do good, and can
assure you that it received the universal approba
tion of the better portion of our citizens.
But while we disapprove of the course which
has recently been pursued by the other Presses, we
do not wish to reflect in the least upon the high
toned character of our Editors, for we know them
well, and regard them all as meritorious gentle
men, and are sufficiently charitable to attribute
their frequent difficulties to th efaet of their being
high-toned honorable men.
We however deem those unpleasant difficulties
calculated to create new prejudices against our
prosperous city abroad, and with that conviction,
and on account of our great respect for each and
all our gentlemanly and able Editors personally,
deeply regret their occurrence, and on the other
hand warmly approve of your excellent editorial
comments, and most, if not all, the right thinking
citizens of Atlanta will likewise approve of them
in the highest terms.
Asa feeble testimonial of our high esteem for
you personally, and for your fidelity totheinter
estof our city, also as an evidence of our great
- appreciation of your editorial writings in general,
allow us to present you with this gold pen and
pencil.
With great respect, we subscribe ourselves,
MANY CITIZENS.
Gentlemen : I have the honor to acknowledge
the reception of your very handsome and appro
priate present through the hands of my esteemed
friend, Dr. . The list of accompanying
names, I discover, is composed of a portion of
our most worthy and distinguished citizens, on
which account I hold the present invaluable, and
the highly complimentary language in which it
was tendered, is written upon my heart as with a
pen of steel upon brazen tablets, and cannot be
effaced. The very encouraging manner in which
you are pleased to speak of my unpretending ef
forts, is truly gratifying to an humble laborer in
behalf of the interests, moral and social, of his
fellow citizens, and shall be faithfully treasured
away in the archives of memory and be referred
to with feelings of pride as one of my most pleasant
reminiscences. The “editorial comments” to
which you refer, solicited no remuneration, for
they were the outgushing sentiments of a sincere
and faithful heart. My skiff is permanently an
chored in your delightful and flourishing city, and
as a sentinel upon its walls we shall “cry aloud
and spare not,” and diligently labor to discharge
our duty both as a public and private citizen.
Our interests are in common with those of onr
citizens, and whenever we detect out-breaking
errors, social, religious or political, which can
but injure our reputation abroad, and paralyse
our progress at home, we shall employ no “oily
words” to mitigate the crime, but shall fearless
ly denounce it in the most uncompromising terms
of condemnation. If our course shall then meet
the approbation of our citizens, we will be proud
and happy to know that our labors have been ap
preciated.
In regard to the difficulties to which you refer,
as having recently occurred among my brethren
of the Atlanta press, I can only say I am happy
to know that they have all been amicably settled,
satisfactorily to the parties involved, and to the
general satisfaction of the citizens; but we warm
ly and fully endorse the well-deserved compli
ments which you pay our editors in pronouncing
them “high-toned, meritorious gentlemen,” and
we feel honored to take them by the hand and
call them brethren.
In conclusion, gentlemen, allow me to return
you my most grateful acknowledgements for the
unmistakable evidences you have given me of
your high esteem, and with expressions of the
highest regard for each of you personally, and
with many re-assurances of my sincere fidelity’
to the interests of our growing and promising
yotmc dty. ‘ ‘j;
I am your ob’t ser’t,
JOHN H. BEADS.
THE GREAT LEVER
“ Twm the voice of the Freae on the startled ear breaking,
In afant-tx>m prowess, liko Pallas of old t
■Twas the fiath of intelligence glorionsl* waking,
A glow on tbe cheek of the noble and bold:
And tyranny's minions o’erewed and affrighted,
Sought a lasting retreat in the cloister and cottl,
And the chains which bound nations in ages benighted.
Were cast to the hauntsof the bat and the owL”
The discovery of the “Art of Printing” broke
upon the midnight darkness of the fifteenth cen
tury like the brilliant “day-god” from a clouded
sky. It was the dawning of the brightest era
that ever opened upon the world. When, in its
infancy, it was the Herculean agent that gave
efficiency to the struggles of Luther against the
lowering elements of Popery, which otherwise
would even now be hanging over us asa “mighty
pall.” It drove its mniions within the walls of
Rome, and hurled defiance at them as they cowered
beneath the Vatican.
Its introduction was no less the fruit of genius
than of necessity. When the contemned, derided
and blasphemed Messiah “yielded to death” and
bore the “sin avenging stroke,” he left his spirit
to save and reform. Then Prophets declared hia
name. The Parthian hung his bow—the sacred
fires went out on Persian hills —and Greeks that
trod the classic shades and reared high-altars
adored the unknown God. The Pantheon, where
enthroned demons led the soul to death, was for
gotten, and fabled Gods mourned their worship
ers in neglected shrines. But Truth, in its pu
rity, was assailed by black falsehood, and crim
soned error had woven her deluding dreams over
the world; Superstition had counterfeited Faith,
and dimmed revelation ; the exigencies required
something more powerful than the human voice
or scribbled parchment, when the immortal Faust
revealed the Press. At its birth, the world awoke
from its Rip-Van-Winkle dreams, and seemed
refreshed; and falsehood,error and superstition,
the emissaries of the “Powers ot Darkness,”
were aghast. This mighty engine, baptized at
the fountain of T. uth, gave to the world as its
first labor, the “Holy Bible” —the “Book of
Books.” Since its introduction it has been the
most powerful instrument for disseminating
knowledge, both good and. we hate to say evil,
that has ever been invented. Though Smith
field fires consumed the printed page, and fierce
anathemas were madly hurled, yet its course was
onward, destined, like the sun, to radiate the
world. Its influence overleaping the giant hills,
and crossing the billowy seas, spoke to millions
dead, and awoke the cry of freedom. Tyranny’s
chains fell off in rusty links, and the mind, libe
rated from its shackles, began its course. Inqui
ry stripped tradition of its mask —learning stooped
to teach the neglected child, and science, explor
ing, led the mind from sphere to sphere, to where
“systems circle round the Eternal Throne,” or
in abysmal search, brought wonders from the cav
erns of earth.
Where does its influence ecase f Its omnipo
tence is felt to where Dion trod his bleeding foes
to dust on ancient hills —on the muddy banks of
tho Tiber, to where the lazarones bask out their
days, and famed Geneva reflects the stars. It is
the great Lever that is to move the world —it
shall yet be heard upon the balmy plain whete
Brahma leads tho Hindoo to his shrine, to where
China’s millions bow at their altars, and Japan’s
children tread the Christian cross under foot.
Mystic hieroglyphs that hide the lore of Egypt’s
brightest age shall reveal the hidden thoughts,
and mossy monoliths that deck Palmyra’s waste
shall be subdued. The whole Universe of God
shall acknowledge its power, and the reign of
civilization grow brighter and brighter, until it
merges into the perfect day. Let every human
being contribute of their substance to nourish this
machine of intelligence, this residuary safeguard
of our liberties.
OUR CITY.
How refreshing to pass up Whitehall and see
the grand display of new spring goods! We are
having delightful spring weather just atthistime,
and our merchants nre receiving heavy stocks of
merchandize—the prettiest, most tasty and at
tractive we have ever seen. The styles for dress
goods this season, are decidedly handsome, and
the prints superlatively beautiful; it is absolutely
imprudent for a poor man to take his wife into
one of our first clasß stores just now, and we
would not, by any means, advise him to do so.
Messrs. Beach &, Root have by far the largest
stock in the city, and they have the grandest dis
play of handsome and iancy goods we have had
the pleasure of seeing. Mr. Beach has certainly
surpassed himself in their purchase. People at a
distance, who design visiting this city to do their
shopping, would find the present a most favora
ble time for laying in supplies preparatory for
spring. We would say to them, come along;
Atlanta is, without any doubt, the cheapest mar
ket for dry goods, groceries or anything of tho
kind, in the State, and all who do their trading
here will bear me out in the statement.
Our city is full of life, business brisk, and
everybody seems cheeriul and in the best humor
imaginable. New buildings are being reared
with the same activity which has characterised
the internal improvements of the place during the
last two or three years. George W. Collier,
Esq. has nearly completed one of the most tasty
and handsome brick buildings in the south
ern country. It is a real ornament to the city.
Our thorough-going friend, J. R. Norcross.is tear
ing down the old wooden, eye-sore structure,
which has, for a quarter of a century, more or
less, disfigured hiß corner on Marietta street, pre
paratory to erecting a large three-story brick
building on its site. It will be a magnificent
structure, and a great improvement to that part
of the city. Mr. Johnson and Messrs. Ormand
Sc McNnught wealthy merchants from Florida,
have in process of completion the most extensive,
massive buildings in the city. They are very
large, three-stories high, in a solid block, and ex
hibit excellent taste in their general plan, and the
architecture and masonry is of the most superior
kind.
Messrs. Jackson Sc Bro. are making large ad*
ditions to their brick store on Mitchell street, to
which they design removing from their present
stand on Hunter street, for the purpose of estab
lishing an extensive family grocery. Who ean
witness the rapid improvements which are going
on in Atlanta, and foretell what is to be her fu
ture destiny or grandeur?
THE CAHTOH MINES.
The mineral wealth of Georgia is incalculable,
and could the State be Geologically surveyed, there
is no telling what exhaustless beds of gold, silver
copper, lead and other metals might be brought
to light. Many wealthy mines have been disco
vered in her bosom by accident, and from some
of them untold sums of money have been realized.
Among the largest, and without doubt, the rich
est mine within her borders, and perhaps in any
of the Southern States, is the “Canton Mine,” in
Cherokee County. The President of the Compa
ny has fayored us with a box of rich specimens oi
ore and metal, and while examining them we
came to the resistless conclusion that there must
be immense treasures imbedded in the earth from
which they were taken. Most of the specimens
received are argentiferous Galena; some contain
yellow sulphuret of Copper; and among the rest
was a specimen of the “Harrisite,” anew com
bination of Copper which is found nowhere but
in this mine; it contains 80 per cent, copper, and
20 per cent. Sulphur. We also received in the
box a small bar apparently of pure lead, bearing
the proportion of 100 ounces of silver to every
Ton of lead. The Company have already
sunk a shaft to the depth of 250 feet, at which
point the vein is 15 feet in width. They are now
sinking anew shaft 500 feet, at which depth the
vein will be opened and they will then commence
preparing the ore or metal for market. They
have already gone down 200 feet in the new abaft
and are rapidly sinking it, progressing at the rate
.of 50 feet a month. One ol the most encouraging
features connected with this grand enterprise is,
it is decidedly a Silver Mine, and so pronounced,
we are informed, by the most scientific men on
the Continent. The Silver mine in Connecticut
and one in North Carolina, are the only ones, be
sides this, in the United States, and the former
has been discontinued, leaving only two in our
country. This metal first appeared in the Can
ton Mine, at the depth of 140 feet, and it promises
to yield largely of Silver. It is our candid opinion,
from all we can gather concerning theae mines
that they, contain incalculable stores of mineral
wsalth, and the time will soon corns when a
THE GEORGIA TEMPERANCE CETJSADER.
thousand-fold yield will largely reward the pro
prietors, for their labors, lime and anxiety, and
for the capital which they have invested. There
are three other rich parallel veins belonging to
the Company which have not ns yet been touch
ed, so when the time comes for gain, there will
be no exhaustion of the mineral store, and we
earnestly wish the time may very soon come, for
we should rejoice to hear it. It is a Georgia en
terprise throughout, being owned and worked
entirely by Georgians. We return the kind and
gentlemanly President many thanks for the spec
imens and can assure him that though we are no
chemist, Geologist, nor anything of the kind, we
nevertheless take a deep interest in the internal
developments of our beloved State, and apprecia
ted the favor most highly.
Is it not unique—the style of “Barnes Sc Co's”
advertisement in another column ? Fact is, no
thing but their great cleverness could have in
duced us to indulge such fancy “capers” in our
types. An intimate acquaintance with these gen
tlemen, fully warrants us in recommending them
even to seventhly, lstly. They have anything
that may be wanted. 2dly. It they haven’t it,
they can have it. 3dly. Theym7?iiaveit. 4thly.
It will be just what you want. sthly. At the
very lowest price. 6thly. Os the best quality ;
and 7thly, They take the purest delight in ac
commodating. Barnes Sc Cos. are an “institu
tion,” fully endowed, and prepared to negative
that old fashioned doctrine, “Everybody mind his
own business;” for they are constantly attend
ing to “ everybody's ” business, and “everybody”
not only submits to it, but is anxious to pay for
it. Still greater success, gentlemen, to vour
“Model Auction House.”
“From our youth up,” them big-topped bottles,
full of blue, “yaller” and red, have been a source
of no little admiration. By the way, these
“Drug-store” men have a perfect faculty for ma
king and selling fancy things. Guess a drug
store a “powerful” healthy place for a
body to “smell round” in. And this is fully pro
ven in the case of “Smith Sc Ezzard,” just under
“Concert Hall.” It may be, and we have no
doubt is, in their case at least, owing to the purity
of their drugs and medicines. Well,now, haven’t
they a sight o’ glass. Just look over in our ad
vertising column. We have been wanting to say
something clever of these gentlemen ever since
we’ve been here, and are now glad of the oppor
tunity. Send on your orders, we underwrite for
them. Their’s is an old and most reliable house.
We thank our friend for the following :
Yopjges, Ala., Feb’y 28th, 1859.
Mr. Editor :
Enclosed you will find four dollars for the
last and present subscription.) lam a poor man,
and am hard run to make a decent living, have
thought seriously of curtailing expenses as an
incumbent duty, but have at jlength come to the
conclusion that I cannot do so by cutting off the
Crusader as a weekly visitor. I have taken it
some six years, and its improvement in the last
two years has been such that I have pretty much
come to the conclusion that I will continue it for
life. ’Tis true I have not been as prompt in pay
ing as I should have been, nor have I been as ac
tive in adding to its subscription list as I might.
I hope, however, to do better in the future.
Yours, OPELIKA.
Dr. Charles Jewett, the distinguished temper
ance Lecturer, writing to the Editor of the Boston
Visitor, gets of! the following pointed good hu
mor !
With the various devices adopted by rumsellers
to increase the sale of their vile poisons, you are
doubtless acquainted. In the course of my ride
from Frederickton, the capitol of New Bruns
wick, to Woodstock, my attention was directed
by a fellow-passenger to a sign placed over the
door of a liquor shop, which was doubtless inten
ded to render the establishment famous, and se
cure to its bar additional patronage. Let me
solicit for the establishment the favor ot a brief
advertisement in your columns. A rude paint
ing of a beehive occupies a portion of the sign,
and the following verse the remainder:
“Within this hive we’re all alive,
Good liquor makes us funny;
As you pass by, step in and try
The flavor of our honey.”
For the benefit of some future aspiraat to fame
and wealth, I add a variation of the foregoing. If
not so good poetry, it will, I think, be; found to
indicate more nearly the tendencies and results
of the business. A representation of a plucked
pigeon, or a muskrat skinned, would be a suita
ble device to occupy a portion ofthe sign ; the
following stanzas might fill the remainder, and
will be found to have preserved a part of the very
pretty rhyme of the original, only exchanging
“honey” for “money,” which is not a bad ex
change if a man is fond of sweets :
“We’ve liquors here of every kind.
And sell them cheap, as you shall find,
They’ll make you feel quite fanny:
Perhaps they’ll sprawl you on the floor,
If so, we’U kick you out the door,
After we’ve got your money.”
If short metre is desired, and a little rough
ness of diction can be allowed for the sake of
truthfulness, the following might do:
“Within this hut
We keep rot-gut,
And very cheap we sell; *
Don’t stop to think,
Gome in and drink,
And speed your way to hell.”
Elegance is out of the question, of course. No
one would think of currying a hedge-hog with a
fine tooth comb, opening oysters with a razor, or
sweeping the streets with a parlor duster.
“ The Sabbath Committee in New York, have
just issued a document concerning the Sunday
liquor traffic. It appears that there are seven
thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine places
where liquors are sold, and more than five thou
sand of the number continue their business on
Sunday. The larger establishments in the Bow
ery have bands of music, and most of them have
theatrical performances, singing and dancing,
Sunday afternoon and evening. Os the whole
number only 72 are regularly licensed.”
The Almighty will surely visit upon that mo
dern Sodom showers of fire and brimstone.
Four huudfed and thirty-six of the negroes of
Pierce Butler, says the Sav. News of the 4th inst.,
were sold at public sale on Wednesday and yes
terday, for the sum of three hundred thousand
two hundred and five dollars, being an average of
a little over seven hundied and sixteen dollars a
head. The balance of the lot, seventeen in
number, were disposed of at private sale, at pri
ces not reported. Os the four hundred and thirty
six negroes, one hundred and twenty-six were
under ten years of age, one hundred and eighty
two were over ten, and under thirty-one, eighty,
eight, over thirty and under fifty, and forty over
fifty years of age. Among them are a number of
infants, and several cripples and supperannuated.
The young negroes are of the best class planta
tion hands.
The sale was largely attended by gentlemen
from different portions of our own state and lrom
South Carolina.
A young man named Irwin has been arrested
on suspicion of being the person who murdered
the cashier of the Union Bank, Jackson, Tenn.,
and robbed the bank recently. A large amount
of gold and Union Bank notes were found on his
pen.
The Northern Bank of Alabama, at Huntsville,
declared a dividend of 5 per cent on its Capitol
Stock on the Ist inat., out of its earnings for the
last six months.
We learn, says the Wilmington, (N. C.) Jour
nal, that Mrs. Mary McKethan, wife of Andrew
McKethan, residing in the lower part of town,
was burned to death, yesterday, at her residence.
It would appear that the deceased had been drink
ing, and, as is supposed, had had a fit, during
whieh she fell across the fire on the hearth,
where she was found dead by her husband when
he came home to dinner, her breast and face be
ing horribly burned.
The minutes of the Georgia Conference of the
Methodist Church give the following statement
of the progress of the Church : “The net increase
in church members reported, was four thousand
five hundred whites, and two thousand blacks ;
total, six thousand five hundred. There was
raised for Sunday schools about three thousand
dollars, for the Tract Society about three thous
and five hundred dollars, and for the Missionary
Society, including the anniversary collection,
about twenty-three thousand dollars.”
The anniversary of the birth of Robers Barns,
the Scotch poet, was celebrated by a large party
es gentlemen in Mobile last Tuesday.
CURRENT NEWS.
*
The swindler wh<x was in Atlanta a short time
since representing himself as agent for the South
ern Citizen, has been arrested in Savannah. He
was, for some reason not explained, sent to Ma
con, and while on the road threw away his sub
scription book to prevent its becoming evidence
against him. He represents himself as an Irish
man only three weeks in this country ; if so he is
an apt scholar in knavery.
Pleasant B. Mask, who has been confined four
years in jail at Holly Springs, Miss., for the mur
der of a young lady, was to be hanged on the 4th
of March.
A planter from the interior of Texas, informs
the editor of the New Orleans Crescent, that the
cotton crop of Texas, for 1858, will reach two
hundred and fifty thousand bales.
The Rahway (N. J.) Republican, announces,
as “wondersthe world,” the following exhib
ition in that city: A young lady, weighing only
seven hundred and fifty pounds, and Major Rowe,
of Michigan, weighing the whole of thirty-seven
and a half pounds, are now on exhibition at Crow
ell’s Hotel.
A proposition for removing the State Capitol
to New Orleans, is under discussion in the Lou
isiana Legislature.
At Marksville, La., says an exchange, twenty
of the imporied Africans, by the Wanderer, were
recently sold at twelve thousand dollars.
From the Cartersville Express we learn of the
death of Mrs. L. E. Tumlin, wife of Col. Lewis
Tumlin, daughter of Maj. Turner Goldsmith,
and sister of the editor of that paper. She died
at the residence of Col. Tumlin, two milessouth
west of this place, on Tuesday last at four o’clock
P. M., after several’ weeks illness. She was
loved and esteemed by all around her; blessed
with an abundance of this world’s good, she was
kind and benevolent in ministering to the wants
of the needy. She had been an orderly and pi
ous member of the Baptist Church for many
years, and evinced to the world, in her exempla
ry holy life, the genuineness of the religion she
professed to enjoy. She leaves an affectionate
husband, loving and obedient children, father,
mother, brothers and sisters, and a large circle of
relatives and friends, to mourn her departure.
An exchange gives the following as a specimen
of husband huntingin Brittany: The young girls
go to fetes and parties to pick up a husband, and
every one wears a row of buttons on her jacket
for every hun !red francs’ worth of property she
possesses. Some of them are rich, and they take
good care that the rest shall know it.
According to the minutes of tlje Alabama Con
ference, recently held at Macon, there are now
in connection with the Methodist Conference, of
that State, as members and probationers, two
hundred and fifteen ministers and preachers.
The census of St. Louis, just completed, gives
a total of one hundred and thirty-five thousand,
of which only fifty-seven thousand six hundred
apd fifty-seven are Americans. The Germans
number forty-three thousand eight hundred and
seventy-four, the Irish twenty-two thousand and
thiiteen, the English three thousand four hun
dred and fifty-one, and the French one thousand
three hundred and.* thirty-seven, tree blacks, one
thousand six hundred and seventy-two, slaves,
one thousand four hundred and eighty-four. Os
the latter, one thousand and thirty-three are fe
males.
On Monday morning last, says the Bainbridgc
Argus, the Rev. Thomas Colbert was found ly
ing near the Albany road, a few miles north of
Bainbridge, in a state of insensibility, with his
left arm broken just below the shoulder, and his
body otherwise badly bruised. The cause of the
accident was the running away of his horse,
throwing him from his buggy upon a pile of logs
by the road side. Up to the time of our going to
press, on yesterday noon, he had shown no signs
of consciousness, and his recovery is extremely
doubtful.
Mr. Colbert is at present a resident of Wakul
la county, Florida, but was formerly a citizen of
Coweta county, Georgia, where he is well known.
He is about sixty years of age.
A Louisville dispatch, of the 2nd inst., says
that while Cicero Maxwell, prosecuting attorney,
was addressing the Court at Hawesville to-day,
he was grossly insulted by language from Tho
mas S. Low, between whom an old feud existed.
Maxwell and friends fired at Low, wounding him
in several places and killing John Aldridge, a
friend of Low, and. wounding Mr. Miller. Low
was committed to jail for protection.
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY—THREE MEN POISONED.
On Thursday, 24th February, our quiet com
munity was startled with flying reports that sev
eral persons had been poisoned on strychnine
whiskey, at a grocery and confectionery, opened
here not long since by John C, Terrel, a young
man of respectable connection in this Dis
trict.
Among other articles on hand in this shop, it
was pretty well understood in the village, thaj,
intoxicating liquors were kept for the accommo
dation of thirsty customers.
Between eleven and twelve o’clock it seems
Mr. Ananias Graham, an aged and very respec
table citizen of our District, and his son, Mr.
John W. Graham—the grandfather and uncle of
Terrel—happened at the shop together, and a
young man by the name of John B. McCollum,
who spent most of his time there, was also pres
ent. .
After the alarm was given, and the neighbors
rushed in, the Grahams were found down, with
dreadful spasms, McCollum just beginning to ex
perience tho effects of the poisonous liquor, and
Terrel himself, it was said, had also draqk with
the others.
Some four or five physicians happened to be
near by and were promptly called in—probably
in less than ten minutes after the liquor was
drank, but in spite of every effort thus instantly
made to save them, the Messrs. Grahams died in
some twenty or thirty minutes, and Mr. McCol
lum, after suflering the most excruciating agony
ol some twelve hours, died about midnight.
Terrell was, soon after the occurrence, remov
ed to his father’s residence in the village, where
it was reported he too was suffering severe
ly-
Os course such an occurrence, on the corner of
our public square, at mid-day, was calculated to
startle our quiet village, and to produce the most
intense excitement.
Crowds flocked in to witness the extraordinary
spectacle—two highly respectable citizens, who
had been greeting their friends in good health but
a few moment before, now lay dead, the father
and son, in a few feet of each other —and young
McCollum, evidently dying near by, all from
drinking a single glass of whiskey.
Immediately succeeding the event, nobody ap
peared to suspect foul play, but all wondered how
so much deadly poison could have been imbibed
from so small a quantity of what is now generally
termed “strychnine whiskey.”
The question was discussed variously and ear
nestly, in numerous excited squads about the
Public Square, for several hours, when as a mat
ter of course, a formal investigation of the facts
and circumstances, by a coroner’s inquest, was
suggested. Some deemed such an investigation
unnecessary, and satisfied that the whole affair
was purely accidental, were willing to disperse
with the usual formalities observed when death
occurs thus suddenly. Others insisted upon the
propriety and necessity of an inquest, aad the cor
oner was sent for.
Just before sunset, a full and very intelligent
jury was summoned, and boing duly sworn, pro
ceeded with the investigation, in view of the dead
bodies of the Messrs. Grahams.
Iris not our purpose to report the testimony
taken during the searching examination that fol
lowed, for, although it is now on file in the clerk’s
office, open, we suppose, to the inspection of the
public, it is not usual in our State, to publish such
evidence immediately preceding the trial which
will follow this investigation, in the Court of Ses
sions, as a matter of course, from the verdict ren
dered.
It is, perhaps, however, not improper to say,
that the inquest collected from various sources,
facts and circumstances that led them to unite in
a verdict that the Coroner forthwith to
isaue a warrant for the arrest of John C. Terrel,
about 11 o'clock that night, and the Sheriffimme
diataly committed him to the jail, to await his
trial for murder at the ensuing term of our court,
which is to sit here week after next.
The following day, in consequence of McCol
lum’s death, which occurred about an hour after
the first inquest ended, another Jury, duly sum
moned by the Coroner, assembled, and in view
of the dead body fnade still further investigations
and agreed upon a similar verdict to that ren
dered the night before.
However natural it is for us to desire, and the
public expect ua to write a long article on the oc
currence of such a frightful tragedy, in the midat
of this proverbially aober, moral and highly in
telligent community, we forbear for the present,
for reasons that all must approve.— Bennetts tille
Son of Temperance.
While we talk of Maiue Laws, Prohibitory
Laws, Temperanee Organizations, and Temper
ance Leagues, we must not forget, as an effective
preventive of drunkenness and crime, the rightful
training of the young. In large cities, especially,
where exists so much poverty, so much degrada
tion and crime, it is necessary thdi some means
should be devised for saving the innocent chil
dren from present want and prospective ruin. An
ounce of prevention is always better than a pound
of cure. A few dollars now expended in teach
ing some poor lad a useful trade, or in instilling
into his mind the love for reading and study, may
not only save him from a life ot crime and misery,
but may also prevent great bills of cost to the
county, and a life-time support in the Peniten
tiary.
He that places himself neither higher nor lower
than he ought to do, exercises the truest humani
ty-
[For the Crusader.]
MOUNTAINS OF SWITZERLAND.
Sometimes immense rocks hang over your
head. Sometimes high and flustering cascades
inundate you with their thick fog. Sometimes
an eternal torrent opens at your side an abyss of
which the eyes dare not sound the depth. At
times you lose yourselves in the darkness of a
bushy forest; at other times in coming out of a
pit, an agreeable meadow rejaicesyour looks. An
astonishing mixture of savage nature, and of na
ture cultivated shows everywhere the hand of
men, where one would think they had never
penetrated.
By the side of a cavern, we would find houses,
and see vines planted where we would look for
briars only. It is not the labor of men alone,
which renders these strange countries to fantas
tically contrasted ; nature seems to take pleas
ure to put herself in opposition with nature, so
much we find her different in the same place
under diverse aspects. Toward the sun rise, the
flowers of spring, toward the South the fruits of
autumn, and towards the North the ice of win
ter. She unites all the seasons in one instant, all
the climates in the same place, and forms an
agreement unknown elsewhere, in the productions
ofthe fields, and those of the Alpes.
A Swiss Lady.
For the Crusader.
THE HISTORY OF A RING;
OR,
Hope for the Drunkard.
The entire reformation of a confirmed drunk
ard is an event of rare occurrence. It so seldom
takes place, that when it does the means em
ployed should be proclaimed to the world, that
the drunkard, who knows his danger, may be
cheered in his despondency, be stimulated to put
forth the efforts required for his redemption, and
that his friends, and the friends of temperance,
may not desppir, but be persuaded to adopt any
and every expedient that affords the least promise
of rescuing a fellow-being from the horrors and
degradation of a drunkard’s grave, and an im
mortal soul from the pains of a:i eternal death.
Twenty-four years ago, in August last, as the
executor ot his father’s will, it became my duty
to visit a relative residing in another and distant
State. That relative I had known in the days of
my youth—for he is several years my senior—as
an industrious, frugal and sensible man—an hum
ble, devoted, exemplary Christian, prosperous
and successful in business, surrounded by all the
necessaries and many of the luxuries of lile, en
joying the confidence, respect and esteeem of all
around him, happy in his domestic relations, and
the father of a largo, growing and interesting
family of children. Often, in childhood, had I
bowed around his family altar, himself minister
ing and leading its devotions, and I thought this
surely is a family blessed of Heaven, its head
walking in all the ordinances of the Lord blame
less. Such was the character and such the career
of this interesting family for several successive
years. But ere one halfof man’s allotted course
on earth had passed o’er the head of my relative,
a sad and eventful change had taken place, and
its sad results were visible in himself, his family,
hts business, his present condition and future
prospects. According to the custom of that day,
from his earliest youth, he had taken an occasion
al glass, and then he became a moderate drinker.
His appetite increased, and habit, confirmed and
strengthened by every day’s indulgence, though
not without much remorse of conscience, and
many solemn vows repeatedly violated, urged on
by slow, stealthy and steady steps, he soon found
himself on that inclined plane which has landed
its thousands and tens of thousands in a drunk
ard’s grave. He was anxious to retrace his steps ;
his self-respect, his conscience, the claims of his
family urged him to this course; but he had not,
in himself, the moral power. The monitor with
in him, which he had cherished and fed, was
uncompromising, and he had so often yielded to
its claims, that the power of his will to resist
them was inefficient. When I made my visit to
him twenty-four years ago, intemperance had
claimed him for its own—had fixed his hand upon
his physical frame, paralysed his intellectual
energies and blasted all his moral susceptibilities.
He was the perfect wreck, physically, intellectu
ally and morally, of his former noble self. His
business, neglected or mismanaged, if not insol
vent, he was on the eve of bankruptcy. The do
mestic altar had long since been broken down.
Conscious of the wrong he had done his family,
he had ceased to exercise over them a father’s
control. In that household the joyousness of for
mer days had departed, and all was gloom. The
present was enveloped in darkness, and fearful
was the forebodings of the future. With the con
sciousness of his ability to sustain his family,
and of his duty in that regard, he would occa
sionally put forth a spasmodic effort, and for a
few days keep his enemy at bay, and then would
compromise and finally yield unresistingly to his
embrace. He would resolve and re-resolve, hold
on awhile to his integrity, and then fall—attain
a lower depth than any he had reached before.
His will was good, but the cravings of his appe
tite would overpower it. To its dominion, con
science, duty, family, all his hopes for time and
for eternity would submit. To all human ap
pearance his was a hopeless case.
It was in this extemity I met him. As the ex
ecutor of his father’s estate, I held in my hand a
sum of money, not large, which that father, for
obvious prudential reasons, had bequeathed, not
to his son, but to his son’s children. That mon
ey my relative had confidently believed I would
pay over to him as the natural guardian of his
children, and had relied upon it so surely, that he
had procured a friend to endorse his note in bank,
on the assurance that from this friend it would
be met. Great was his disappointment when I
told him that not one cent of that fund would be
placed in his hands ; that it was the property of
his children, and to them, and them only, should
it be applied, and that, too, without passing
through his hands. He asked why I wasso punc
tilious. I replied that such was his father’s will,
and the good of himself and his family demanded
its rigid execution ; that the money in his hands
would be a curse both to himself and them. He
found me determined. He begged and entreated
that I would at least save his endorser, a friend
who had never deserted him. I told him no.
To his renewed and earnest entreaties I was in
exorable. A few days afterward he again broached
the subject, when I had a long, private, but deep
ly-affecting interview with him. In sorrow, not
in anger, with great plainness, and all the kind
ness of manner I could command, I told him why
the pittance given by his father to his children
had not been entrusted to him. I pointed him
to his wife, his children, his violated obligations,
the tears they had shed, the mortification they
had on his account endured, and the hopes he had
blasted. I contrasted the past, its joyousness
and hopes, with the present, its gloom and de
spondence, and depicted the probable future— for
his family a dismal and dreary pilgrimage through
life; for himself a certain, early and degraded
grave, and an undone eternity,
I found that I had reached a chord that was re
sponsive to my touch; that I had opened a spring
whose waters were not wholly dried up. He as
sented to the fidelity of the picture, and in the
frankness and fullness of a heart surcharged with
its own hitterness, bewailed his condition. He
said he would retrace his steps, but he could not;
that he had tried and tried again, but failed ; that
he had yielded to his craving appetite till it had
become his master, and had parylised the ener
gies of his will; and then in language, and with
an intensity of feeling indescribable, attempted to
portray the horrors of that appetite, whose yearn-
ings were felt at his vitals, and would not “down
at his bidding.” Others, he said, may think it
easy to reform, but he only who has experienced
it knows the power of the enemy to be subdued.
The picture he drew of the power of temptation,
and the utter helplessness of its victim, was vivid
to the extreme. He felt that he was lost lost
forever, and that none but an Almight arm could
relieve him. I told him not to despair—that that
Almighty arm would be extended, if he would
put forth a manly, decided and determined effort
for his own relief. After a pause I added: “I
have addressed you plainly ; I have discharged a
solemn and imperative duty, and it may not be
too much to say, that on the decision of this
hour are suspended your destiny for time and
for eternity ; that pursuing your present course,
soon—very soon it must terminate; that at best
his brief existence would be a life of pain, remorse
and shame; that an attempt at reformation could
bring with it no greater torture than that he now
endured; that if death ensued it was only a change
of the mode ol its approach—a change that in
spired some hope of the future.”
“What,” he asked, with energy, “can I do?”
“Give me,” I replied, “your word—yonr solemn
promise here, with none but God to witness it,
that from this day, henceforth and forever, that
not a drop of anything that can intoxicate shall
touch your lips. Ido not ask you to join a temper
ance society, for I know you have done that and
violated your engagement; but give me your sol
emn pledge. I have confidence in you, that you
will not deceive me.”
He was staggered, and knew not what to do.
His will was strong, but he knew that his flesh
was weak. Ultimately he said: “You have
talked to me with great plainness, %ut, unlike
others, with great kindness. You seem to have
some confidence in me; others have none. I will
ponder over the matter, and to-morrow give you
r.n answer.”
The next day, in the same temper of mind, he
came to me and said he had seriously considered
my proposition, but knowing the power of temp
tation, feared if he made the pledge lie should
break it, and suggested, as a compromise, that
he should be permitted to use porter, ale or cider,
but only in cases of extremity. I answered, ne
ver ! never! that these would only skotch, not
kill, the monster —feed, not destroy him; that he
must be exterminated, and that could be effected
only by starvation. He was undecided. 1 re
peated, in substance, the appeal of the preceding
day. Finally, in an agony of feeling, and his
whole frame in a tremor, he extended his hand,
saying: “God helping me, I give you the pledge
and will adhere to it, though it kill me, but pray
God to give me strength.”
A few days after this deeply interesting inter
view, I told him that relying on his pledge, I
would advance to him the amount required to
meet his endorsement, and at the expiration of a
year, if he held on to his integrity, I would con
stitute him the trustee of the fund in my hands,
for the benefit of his children.
He still wanted confidence in himself, and feared
that when I was gone and far away, he should be
overcome by the tempter’s power. He therefor®
begged me to leave with him some memento that
he eould carty with him to remind him of the
scenes that had passed between us, and that
might operate as a talisman to sustain him. I
regarded the suggestion ns a singular whim ; but
to gratify him, procured and placed on his finger
a plain gold ring, as the seal of the covenant be
tween us. Afterwards, I communicated in pri
vate to his wife and elder daughter what had ta
ken place, and urged them to tend him with more
than usual kindness—to anticipate his wants,
and to relax no effort to cheer, encourage and
sustain him. To my great regret, their confi
dence in the dawning of a brighter day did not
correspond with mine. They promised, how
ever, though they thought it hoping against hope,
to co-operate with me. Faithfully did they com
ply with their engagement, and amply have they
been rewarded. At the expiration of a year I
heard from him, and all was well. Joy and glad
ness had returned to that household, gratitude
had cast the mantle of oblivion over the past, and
hope gilded the future.
About this time, or shortly after, the Wash
ingtonian movement was inaugurated. The sub
ject of this sketch was made President of one of
their societies in the city of his residence, and
often, as a delegate, visited kindred associations
in his own and other States, and though not a
public speaker, rehearsed the story of his own
reform, demonstrating, by his own experience,
the truth, that total abstinence is the only hope
of the inebriate.
In August last, twenty-four years after my first
visit, as above stated, I again visited this distant
relative. The frosts of seventy winters had ga
thered upon his brow, but I found him, as he had
been for the last twenty-four years, “clothed and
in his right mind,” enfeebled with age and its
infirmities, and with a confident hope of a glori
ous immortality, waiting patiently and with res
ignation till the appointed time ofhis change shall
come, like a shock of wheat fully ripe lor the gar
ner. He had been prosperous in business, and
with an ample competency had retired from its
cares and vexations. Restored years ago to the
church from which he had wandered, and enjoy
ing its confidence, respected and esteemed by the
community in which he lives, and beloved by his
family, one of which any parent may be proud,
the aged patriarch loves to recall the scenes ol
the past; to speak of the pit from whence he was
emancipated, and especially to advocate the great
cause of temperance reform. In parting from
him, with much emotion, he took from his finger
a ring, and asked me if I remembered it. Said
he, “I have no further use for it. With me it has
been a talisman —has done its mission. Take it
and wear it—not only as a memento of me, but
of the duty you owe to others. Tell its history
to others, trs I have done. Tell them thero is
hope for the drunkard, and that his only hope is
in total abstinence.” On the inside of the ring
he had engraved “Aug. 1834.”
It is in compliance with the spirit of this in
junction so feelingly laid upon me, that I have
hastily perused this history of a ring. Should it
meet the eye of any one—a father, brother, son
or other relative or friend who has one near and
dear to him, engulphed in the abyss of intem
perance, let him not despond. By kindness, by
fidelity, by perseverance, with the blessing of
Heaven, he may be reclaimed. Let it not, how
ever, be forgotten, that if the drunkard would
achieve a victory over himself, there must be no
compromises with his enemy. That delusion is
the fatal rock on which the hopes of thousands
have been shipwrecked. Moderate indulgence,
tapering off, partial reform, are vain and worse
than useless expedients; they stimulate to re
newed energy, but do not destroy the monster.
Total abstinence is the on'y hope of the drunk
ard - FRATER.
Georgia, Jan . 1859.
marriages.
In rlm^n th lnS J‘ a ‘ the w re ‘<Jence of the bride’* father,
L” ®t mpb . el i I COU 2, t^ G „ a - by Rev - 8. P. Steed, Mr. Thos. l!
Skkin and Mrs. E. F. Rrdune.
__ OBITUARIES.
Died, on the 6th inst- at her father’* residence, in Atlan-
’ S*/ M’® 8 JuuiT M -. daughter of Mr. A. W. and Mrs. M.
A. Mitchell, aged 16 year*, 9 month* and 19 day*.
The mudew of death blighted the rose ere it was Ailiy
blown. Tnat which would have blessed parents and friend*
on earth, ha* been transplanted to the world above, to
bloom in perpetual youth around the heavenly throne.
Though her afflictions were gore and protracted, she en
duted them with christain fortitude and humility. The
spirit is now free from the body, to embrace the “sweet lit
tle boy,’ and obey the “ calls” of a sister in heaven, with
whom ihe seemed to have converse here.
The empty phrases of panygeric would be out of place
in this short notice. It Is sufficient to say, those who knew
her best loved her moat, and most heartily lament her un
timely exit. D. T. W.
“No farther seek her merits to disclose.
Nor draw her frailties from the dread abode.
There they alike in trembling hope repose.
In the bosom of her Fathor and her God.'*
Died, at the residence of MaJ. Emanuel B. Martin’s, near
Carrollton, Carroll county, Ga. Mr. Uriah B. Roberts, eld
est child of Mr. Killis 11. and Mrs. Francis Roberts, of
Harris county, Ga. He departed this life on the night of
the 81st of January, 1869, aged 92 years, 4 months and 21
days. So sleeps the promising young man in the morning
of his existence, and returns to the labors of the day no
more. The tears and groans of his mourning relatives and
friends call him back from the grave, but he heeds them
not. Onward, far onward, through the mysterious future,
he is making his journey. Having every evidence of intel
lectual and moral worth, he had been seeking a home
where he might make himself useful to his fellow-man.
Returning to his father’s bouse, he was stopped in the way
by a messenger from God. “ The Lord gave and the Lord
taketh away.” Let us be willing to give back to God what j
he has given to us, for “God loveth a cheerful giver.
(Index please oopy-J A Faisap. j
ATLANTA MARKET.
Atlanta, March 10, 1859
Groceries.
Coffee—Rio, 12c @ 13c—large stock on hand
Java, 17c (5j to 18c—scarce.
Sugar—New crop, N 0.. fair, 74 @ 7| c
Fully lair, 84 (§> 84c
Prime, 8i @ 9c
Starr 10, and 4 @ 4c 3a
lb higher by the bbl
Clarified, A, )24c
“ B, 114 c *
“ C llfc
Syrup—Choice new crop, 45c
Molasses—Sugar house, 45- common, 38 (cb
Cuba, 33 © 35c ’
Large stock new crop to arrive in a few davs
Salt—sl 30 @1 50 per sack
Tobacco— l 24 @ 50c slbas to quality .
Candles —
Adamantine, Sta* and Hydraulic, 23 @ 25c
Lime— Rogers’, Howard’s and Alabama, in 5
bush bbls $2 00 bbl
Plaster of Paris, per bbl 4 25
Cement,
Cheese —State and Goshen, 104 @ llfT
English Dairy, 124
Crackers —Butter, 8c slb by the bbl— l 24 retail
Soda, 84 “ “ “ “ *<
Poston, 84“ “ “ “ *1
Candy, 17c box
Cooking Stoves range in price from §8 to S3B
Nails —44c $ lb by the keg 1
Axes —Collins’, $1 a-piece
Shot —8c lb, $2 tgi sack t
Tin Plate— sll per box ,
Lumber —$1 25 tp 100 ft
Mill Saws —Rowland’s, 90c per foot
Crosscut Saws, 65c “ “
Rope —Cotton, 20c—Hemp, 124 —bale, 9 @ 10c
Eggs —loc
Factory Yarn — per bunch, 90 @ 95c r
Osnabrgs —heavy article, 10 @ 104 c
“ light *• 94 @ 10c
Soda —in kegs, 62 @ 7c
“ boxes, 74 @ 74c
Provision Market.
Bacon, hog round, is in good supply at 104 @ 11
as to quantity and quality.
Clear sides, 12 @ 124 c
Hams, 11 @ 124 c
Shoulders, 94c
Lard —Barrels, 124 —kegs and cans, 13c
Flour— Ex family, $3 25 @ 3 50 per sack ; Sup $3
Scarce, with an advancing tendency
Wheat —from wagons, $1 @ $1 10
Grain —Corn, 75c from store ; Peas, 90c
Corn Meal, 80 @ 90c
Potatoes —lrish, country, $1 <p bush ; Northern,
$4 4 50bbl; Sweet,Span.Yanis,
&.c 60 @ 80c from wagons
Chickens —ls @ 20c each
Butter —2oc lb w
Dried Fruit —Peeled apples, $1 25; unpeeled
peaches, 2 25 @ 2 35; peeted
peaches, 4 @ 4 50
For the major portion of the above, we are in
debted to Messrs. Seago &, Abbott, Grocers and
Commission Merchants.
USTew Business:
053“ All the New Advertisement? of each week, will appear r n the
inside, under the above general heading.
John A. Reynolds, Publisher Crusader.
TL. THOIIAS, Justice of the reace and Col
• lecting Agent, Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga.
March 11,1859 12m
“KTOTICE to Debtors and Creditors.—All
il persons indebted to the estate of Edwin Plaster, late
of Fulton county, deceased, are required to make payment
immediately, and those having claims against said estate
will present them properly authenticated, in terms of Hie
Jaw, to EDWIN MAYS, ) . , ,
March 11,1859* B. F. PLASTER, j r 9,
MITH & EZZARD, Druggists.
We have just received 500 Boxes of French and
American Window Glass, of all sizes smi
think we can do better in this line than any house in this
city, as we keep more Glass than every house in town.
We have also 25 barrels of Plaster of Paris cal
cined. ’
Also, 10(4 barrels of Oil, comprising Lard, Tallow
Sperm, Whale, Eiephant, Neatsfoot, Machinery Tanner’s’
Linseed and other Oils. ’’
We keep, at all times, a large stock of Drugs, Med
icines, Chemicals, Surgical and Dental Instru
ments, India Rubber Goods, Combs, Brushes, Soaps and
Perfumery of all kinds, and every thing usual to a first
class Drug Store.
\Ve arc the Oldest Drug: Firm in the
City, and know the wants of this section, and trv to meet
them.
Merchants and Physicians are invited to call and exam
ine our stock, as we think we can suit them, both as to
quality and price.
To the public we invite, and hope to merit, a part of their
patronage, heretofore so liberally bestowed on us.
We do not intend to be beat in Quality or Price.
March 11,1859 ts SMITH & EZZARD.
LARGE lot of Shoes, all kind3 and sizes, for sale by
March 11,1859. CHAPMAN & BRO.
remveance
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GRAND LODGE
%nigljte irf Stritjifl,
STATE OF GEORGIA.
Principles. —To God we owe Obedience, Love and
Worship; to the world Justice; to our Brethren, Forgive
ness and Fraternity; to ourselves, sustenance and protec
tion.
Pledge.—We will not make, buy, sell or use as a bev
erage, any spirituous or malt liquors, wine or cider, or any
other intoxicating drinks, whether enumerated or not, and
will use all honorable means to prevent their manufacture
or use, and the traffic therein.
Govcrnmeut.-lst. Subordinate Lodges, to which
any white male person, over fifteen years of age, possess
ing a good moral character, may be admitted to member
ship ; and any lady, of fifteen years, and upwards, to hon
orary membership.
2d. Grand Lodges, composed of delegates from the Sub
ordinate Lodges.
Form oi Application for Subordinate
Lodge Charters.
To the Grand Lodge Knights of Jericho, State of Georgia :
The undersigned citizens, of proper age, believing the
Order of Knights of Jericho to be well calculated to advance
the cause of Humanity, Temperance and Cuajutv, most re
spectfully petition your honorable body to grant them a
Charter, to open a Lodge of the Order to be located at
hailed as Lodge, No. .Knights of Jericho, of
the State of . If granted, we pledge ourselves, in
dividually and collectively, to be governed by the Consti
tution, Rules and Usages of the Grand Lodge, and of the
Order at large. Enclosed is the fee for Charter, Ritual
Ac., Ten Dollars. [The above must be signed by at least
ten personi but fifteen is best—of proper age, sound health
and good moral character, residents of the community in
which the Lodge is to be located, and sent to the Grand
Worthy Recorder.]
The Grand Lodge of Georgia will charter Subordinate
Lodges out of the present territory of jurisdiction, upon
application in due form, in the same manner as it does
now to Subordinate Lodges in this State, and will hold the
Bame, thus chartered, under its jurisdiction, giving them
the same rights and privileges, under the Constitution and
By-laws of the Grand Lodge, as are allowed to Subordinate
Lodges in this State, until such time as any five Lodges in
any State or Territory shall deem it proper to form them
selves into a Grand Lodge, having a Constitution and Code
of Laws, and a Ritual Conformable to those of this Grand
Lodge, when its jurisdiction over said Lodges shall cease.
All petitions to the Grand Lodge, Knights of Jericho,
State of Georgia, for Charters to open new Subordinate
Lodges of the Order, or communications seeking informa
tion iu relation to the Order, should be addressed to
MM. G. FORSYTH, G. W. R. Knights of J.
SPECIAL, NOTICE!
All Grand and Subordinate Lodges, Knights of Jericho,
located in any State, Territory or Province, (Georgia ex
cepted,) are most respectfully and earnestly requested to
notify the Grand Lodge of Georgia, tkrougli the under
signed, at Atlanta, of their name, number and post-oflice
address, together with the names and title of their prinei- ,
officers. (Lodges complying with the above request,
will find it much to their advantage.)
March 11, 1859 ly WM. G. FORSYTH, G. W. R.
WM. H. BARNES & CO.
Successors to Barnes A Campbell, Auctioneers
and Commission Merchants. MODEL AUCTION
HOUSE, next door to Ga. R. Bank, Atlanta, Ga. Agents for
the purchase and sale of Produce iUercltuudize?.
Real Kk title, Dry Cootls>, Ac. Ac.
A LARGE LOT OF
Fancy Fancy
Fancy Fancy
Fancy Model Fancy
Fancy AUC'IION Fancy
Staple ITOUiSIiL Staple
Staple Atluntu, Georgia. Staple
Dry Goods Dry Goods
Dry Goods Dry Goods
Dry Goods Dry Goods
Dry Uoods, Dry Goods,
Always on hand,
For sale by the yard, bolt or case.
STATIONERY,
in any quantity and quality.
A few samples of Ciold Jewelry,’ guaranteed to
be such, or no sale.
Agents for the celebrated “ CALIFORNIA DIA
MONDS,” any style of setting ordered.
A few SELF-COCKING COLT’S REPEATERS.
Stencil Marking delates, for merchants and others, cut
to order.
Country Merchants and others will find it to their ad
vantage to lay in their stocks through us, as we have es
tablished agencies in New York and Boston, and can ob
tain goods at much less than trade prices. Try os.
Parties at a distance wishing to sell goods, will find we
obtain fair prices. Our motto is, cumli hales,
Prompt Returns.”
Consignments solicited. We can sell any kind of goods ;
aud as for buyers, there are plenty in this region of
country.
Call at the u Model Auction House,
If you want to buy,
If you want to sell,
If you want Dry Goods,
If you want Fancy Goods,
* If you want a good Piano,
If you want to hear good music,.
If you have a leisure moment,
Call, call, call, at
WM. H. BARNES A CO’S Model Auction House.
Retail sales during the day by Thos. Dover Wright, our
Popular Salesman, who will be happy to attend to the.
LADIES.
Auction every night, rain or shine, by the well
known firm of jk
W. H. BARNES & O
March U, 1869