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150 tf Selection*. THE EXECUTION OF ANDRE. The following account of Andre’s execution is one 0 f the most minute and interesting that we have ever read. It was furnished to Mr. William G. Hassel ls,| l( of Rockland county, the history of which lie is engaged in writing. It was taken down from the lips of a soldier in Col. Jeduthan lialdwin’s regiment, a part of which was stationed a short distance from where poor Andre suffered : “One of our men, whose name was Armstrong, bc i,,„ one of the oldest and best workmen at his trade in the regiment, was selected to make his coffin, w hich ho did, and painted it black, as it was the cus tom at that period. “At this time Andre was confined in what was called the Old Dutch Church—a small stone build ing with only one door, and closely guarded by six sentinels. “When the hour appointed for his execution arri ved, which was at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, a guard of three hundred men were paraded at the place of his confine merit. A kind of procession was formed by placing the guard in a single file on each side of the road. In front weroa large nmnlicr of American officers of high rank on horseback. These were fol lowed by the wagon containing Andre’s coffin, (hen a large number of officers on foot with Andre in their midst. “The procession wound slowly up a moderately rising ground about a quarter of a mile to the west. (>n the top was a field without any enclosure, and on this was a very high gallows, made by setting up two poles or crotchets, and laying n pole on the top. “The wagon that contained the coffin was drawn directly under the gallows. In a short time Andre stepped into the hind end of the wagon, then on tiis coffin, took off liis hat, and laid it down, then placed his hand upon his Dips, and walked very uprightly back and forth as far as the length of the wagon would permit, at the same time casting his eyes up to the pole over his head and flic whole scenery by which he was surrounded. “lie was dressed in a complete British uniform, liis coat was of the brightest scarlet, faced and trim med with the most beautiful green, liis under clothes, vest and breeches, w ere of bright buff; la bad a long and beautiful head of hair, which, agreea bly to the fashion, was wound with a black ribbon and bung down his back. “Not many minutes after la* took bis stand upon the coffin, the executioner stepped into the wagon with a halter in his hand, on one end of which was what the soldiers called ‘a hangman’s knot,’ which lie attempted to put over the head and around the nock of Andre, but by a sudden movement of his hand, this was prevented. “Andre now took oft the handkerchief from liis neck, unpinned liis shirt collar, and deliberately took the cord of the halter, put it over his head, and pla ced the knot directly under liis right ear, and drew it very snugly to liis neck, lie then took from his coat-pocket a handkerchief, and tied it before bis c.ves. This done, the officer who commanded, spoke in rather a loud voice and said : “ ‘His arms must be tied.’ “Andre at once pulled down the handkerchief which he had just tied over his eyes, and drew from liis pocket a second one, which he gave to the execu '• inner, and then replaced his handkerchief. “liis arms at this time w ere tied just above the cl •ow, and behind the back. I lie lope was then made fast to the pole over lead. The wagon was very suddenly drawn from ‘"der the gallows, which, together w ith the length *1 the rope, gave him a most tremendous swing hack uul foith; but in a few moments ho hung entirely ■till. “Din ing the whole transaction he seemed as little taunted as John Rogers when ho was about to be “Wilt at the stake, although his countenance was ra her pale. “He remained hanging from twenty to thirty min ites, and during that time the chambers of death .ere never stiller than the multitude by whom be as surrounded. Orders w ere given to cut thcrope ml take him down without letting him fall. This as done, and his body carefully laid on the ground. “Shortly after the guard was withdrawn, andspec itors were permitted to come forward to view the a pse, but the crowd was so great that it was some me before 1 could get an opportunity. When 1 was Me to do tin's, his coat, vest, and breeches had hem iken oti, and his body lain in the coffin, covered by •me unde, clothes. The top of the coffin was not ut on. ‘I viewed the corpse more carefully than 1 had i Vl >lne that of any human being before. His head as very much on one side, in consequence of the an.ie.-ln w,,W * U ' had drawn upon his vh lbs taco appeared to 1* greatly swollen and ! b,a^’ rm ’ ,ul,,m R ahi k h degree of mortification. “ a ‘ “'"st shocking sight U> behold.” WONDERFUL jTuOIJNu. Wc extract the following flora an article in the tivon, descriptive of travels in Hritish India. The tic of the occurrence is laid in Madras ; ’ Hut the most wonderful performance that we saw ls “’"’ “’"s, “ as a h at ol pure juggling, of which 11 vc never been able to find any solution. t)ne of old men came forward upon the gravelled and ’ ,l ,rt ; d< , n avc ’””- fading with him a woman— Mnade her kma ! down, tied her arms behind her, blindfolded her eyes. Then bringing a gnr.i r °> Hn ‘"vsbes of rope, be put it f T ‘ und ‘d up the mouth, fastened it I ” ‘"Wwwin.ng corals in such a wav tl a ;:; U V Ml hcr to extricate herself h man then took a closcly-woven wicker tket that Narrowed toward * ~A i * tz *• [hough i, was not without th'e v “ r-W he could crow and her tluou^ ‘•w'h'frSZ ‘ n R . l “ tting her into • Wkot, •‘St cramped T’ T ”*“****7 S.. 1 ’ over ,1 ,C ~,lt llc CoTer ttpon it, NVlelv i u Jp strip of cotton cloth, hiding ■i. he drew ZT* U VX%C hW ‘ d nder W" and then uT Ci T tCPntM am,,,is ’ I k “ l,,n K- stiaight, sharp sprinkled iliedust upon the doth, and put some upon his forehead, then pulled of!'and threw aside the cov ering, and plunged the sword suddenly into the bas ket. Prepared as in some degree we were for this, and knowing that it was only a deception, it was yet impossible to see it without a cold creeping of hon or. The quiet and energy with which tie repeated his strokes, driving the sword through the basket, while the other jugglers looked on, apparently as much in terested as ourselves, were very dramatic and effec- tive. Stopping after he had riddled the basket, he again scattered dust upon its top, lifted the lid, took up the basket from the ground, showed it to us empty and then threw it away. At the same moment we saw the woman approaching us from a clump of trees at a distance of at least fifty or sixty feet. Throughout the whole of this inexplicable feat, the old man and the woman were quite removed from the rest of the party. The basket stood by itself on the hard earth, and so much beneath the verandah on which we were sitting, that we could easily see all around it. By what trick our watchful eyes were closed, or by what means the woman invisibly es caped, was an entire mystery, and remains unsolved. The feat is not a very uncommon one, but no one who had seen it ever gave me a clue to the manner in which it was performed. From the Prcnbyteriiin. THAT LAND. (FROM Till: (iKIOIAN OF l’ 111. ANI*. j There is a land where beauty will not fade, Nor sorrow dim the eye; \\ here true hearts will not shrink nor be dismayed, And love will never die. Tell me—l fain would go, For 1 am burthened with a heavy woe; The beautiful have left ine all alone; The true, the tender from my path have gone; And I am weak, and fainting with despair:— Where is it? Tell me where! Friend, thou must trust in Him who trod before The desolate paths of life; Must bear in meekness, as He meekly bore, Sorrow, and toil, and strife. Think how the Son or God Those thorny paths hath trod, Think how He longed to go, Yet tarried out foi thee, the appointed woe; Think of liis loneliness in places dim, When no man comforted nor cared for him; Think how he prayed unaided, and alone, In that dread agony, “Thy will he done!” Friend, do not thou despair; Christ, in liis heaven ol heavens, will bear thy prayer. WOMAN THE WOE-SHARER. Cruel indeed is the fate of those who must answer for other sins than their own: who must bear the burthen ot the grief which other bands have wrought. Woman hath done this for Man since the beauty of Eden dimmed. Through the stretch of unnum bered years lias her eye wept, and her heart pained, and her soul suffered for the being she bore in love and loved with woe. Denied the power, the scope, the freedom of her brother, she has enjoyed alone the fullest and the saddest privilege to mourn the ills of his commission; to reap the tares his guilt hath sown. Shackeled often from the large pursuit of peace and ameliora tion and happiness, the great sphere of wretchedness is ever open to her, to wander sorrowing where she may. l’oor \\ oinan, she yields man his existence in pain, and continues her own in kind; —her solitude and anxious watching and spirit-struggles and bosom agonies, for him, ceasing only in the quiet of the Kndless Quietude! Infancy, childhood, youth, man-state, age, all have their cares and sorrows for her; and O! too frequent, does he, she nurtured and cherished and worshiped almost, from the cradle, turn first the strength he owes to her, against her gentleness, and dash down from her burning lip the healthful draught of eon soling love! Ihe capacity of Woman to suffer endures as her capacity to love; and her heart never hardens with the chafing and pressure of outward Circumstance nor the direst of Disappointment’s ills. The pure stream of her Life may be always ruffled and darkened by heedless Man, who in wanton ness casts pebbles upon the clear mirro) 1 of its sur face and gazes with pleasure at the tiny waves of his creation. Purblind mortal, hedoes not look beneath the surface of that stream; nor knows he of the meek eyed Mowers growing frailly on its marge, that those waves wash off'from the little soil in which they grew. \\ oinan, unlike Man, waxes not cold and stern and callous as Experience unfolds the dark lore of its tearwotted leaves. Would she did, that Man might lose his power to harm her peace, and hind her destiny to bis; his the vice and hers the con science; his the crime and hers the remorse! He seems trained to wrong, and she to atone; he to load and she to bear. Sombre thoughts, memories, acts, lie thrusts out ot his mind into hers, and in silence and solitude she yields them new and painful life [■ ‘ v 'th her mental tears. I Man nowhere commits a crime, nowhere is guilty to himself or others, but Woman therefor suffers.— Kaoh departure of his from Good and Truth, evokes a tear from \\ Oman’s eye, though the World wit nessed! it not, nor he himself knoweth it ever. Man cannot injure himself alone: the dagger he places against his honest fame and honored self, I o r fore it enters his own breast, pierces poor Woman’s . through. Some Mother, Sister, Friend, or other Wo-! man-soul, feels ever most the blow which Man directs 1 himscll; and he who’d .lash the cow ard down : ‘ hst u P ,ift }lis impious hand to strike a daugh r , of ™ e K * rth ’ should pause to think how off he plays that coward’s part— Dollar Tin. HAi’VTtYrr. n , ~°“ r children w ill be as olive-branches arouud our ’’ table, said a husband to bis wife, when ti e family g group were enjoying their stated meal. “Ye* sid r a little bright. eyed branch, “and our mother will be s- as a fruitful vine, whose branches run over the wall.” P as there ever a happier response than this, or one THE TEMPERANCE BANNER. Cite Ccmpcnutcf fanner. PENFIELD, GEORGIA. Saturday Morning September 22, 1855. FOH GOVERNOR, B. H. OVERBY, OF FOLTON. HOW SHALL I VOTE ? Is a question that addresses itself to the minds of thinking men, in view of the approaching election. And it i.s, when properly considered, a serious ques tion, and upon the answer hang weighty responsibil ities. “How shall I vote?” Each vote that is cast may be the one vote that i.s to determine State and National policy—may place incompetent, unprinci pled men in office, and thus operate against the best interests of society. How important, then, that eve ry voter should free himself from the shackles of party, from the bias of prejudice, from the undue in fluence of party spirit, and consider this question in the fight of truth and reason. To all such voters—men who will take a calm and dispassionate view of the questions before the people of Georgia, and act according to the dictates of en lightened judgment, uninfluenced by prejudice and i party spirit, we have no hesitancy in submitting TilK CLAIMS OF IMIOIIIBITION. What will every voter aid in accomplishing, who casts his vote in favor of Prohibition and Temperance men ? He will, in the first place, accomplish all that he would accomplish by voting for Know Nothing ism and Know Nothing candidates, or for Democra cy and Democratic candidates. The object is to se lect worthy men. The principles of Temperance and Prohibition would not make a man less worthy, less capable, or less honest. A man is not a worse man because be is a sober man, nor is a legislator a worse law-maker because be is a sober legislator. For all the purposes of Legislation, then, Temperance men are as capable as those that are not. Prohibition men can be as good Democrats, or as good Know Noth ings, as any other class of men. We conclude, then, that Temperance principles are no objection to a man, and that you can accomplish the object of ob taining faithful, competent rulers, as well by voting for a Prohibitionist, as by voting for a Democrat or a Know Nothing. TAXATION DIMINISHED. But you can accomplish more. If you elect a Prohibitionist, and he acts consistently with his princi ples, he will be in favor of removing* vast amount of taxation that is now pressing upon the people, which no other set of men propose to remove. All that burden of taxation imposed upon the people by Li quor, lie is bound to remove—and parties have been organized on much less important inteiests, than this one item of taxation, brought upon the people by the license system. You will diminish the taxes impos ed upon ttie sober and industrious, to support the drunken and idle, by voting in favor of our cause. PROTECTION. By voting for a Prohibitionist you will he approv ing and advocating one of the first and most impor tant principles in all good government —the principle of Protection. You will advocate the protection of the public against the encroachments of private in terests —that the law ought to protect a community from a liquor seller, who, in opposition to the wishes j of a majority of the people, deals out poison to chil dren and negroes. You will, by your vote, say, that your property ought to he protected by law from the liquor dealer, who diminishes the value of your slave 1 by selling him whisky—that your fireside should be protected from the introduction of deadly poisons— that society should be protected from the nuisance of vulgar, profane, insulting, drunken men. By voting in favor of our cause, 3-011 will advocate the protec tion of the public, self-protection, the protection of your personal rights, the protection of your fireside, and the protection of 3*our property. EIU'CATION. By voting in favor of our cause, you will contrib ute to the education of the people. A vast majority, no doubt, of that ignorant horde of 40,000 adults that disgrace our State, were placed in this condition, either directly or indirectly, through the influence of Alcohol. Schoulhouses and grogshops cannot exist together. The heritage of a drunkard’s child is ig norance. The relation between Liquor and Igno rance is the relation of cause and effect. Remove the cause and the effect ceases. By voting in favor of our cause, you will vote to shut up the thousands of groceries in our State that are dai ly manufacturing drunkards, whose children are swelling continually the numbers of this igno rant, unlettered host of Georgians. You will thus cut off the most prolific source of ignorance, and aid in advancing the cause of Education among the peo ple. These are some of the objects (which all will admit come legitimately within the sphere of politics) that Prohibitionists propose to accomplish. We might mention many others ! Does not your reason, your judgment, your heart approve them? Docs any other set of men propose to accomplish them? Would it not promote the best interest of society, if they J could be accomplished ? Ought not every lover of his country to contribute his assistance towards the accomplishment of such humane objects? Will yon aid us by giving our cause your vote, or will you throw obstacles in our way? How will you vote? PREACHERS AND PROHIBITION. Preachers, perhaps, wield a more extensive influ ence over the minds of the people than any other class of men, anti in proportion to the weight of this influence is the responsibility that rests upon them. The great idea of Prohibition is before the people of Georgia. What ought to be the position of Preach ers in reference to this great movement” Ought they to throw their influence for or against it ? Ihey should wield their influence in favor of it as a moral movement, because it battles against theen ; emies of the Religion whirl, they preach. What has , opposed the progress of Christianity more than In temperance ? It breeds, nourishes and fosters al to contend, places the mind under Hie dominion nfa degiading, insatiable appetite, blunts the moral sen sibilities, destroys the reason, and totally’ unfits the tnind for the reception o( truth and the consideration of arguments. \\ hat effect will all the persuasion, all the entreaties, all the denunciations, all the argil merit, all the eloquence of the pulpit have upon the I poor besotted victim of an ungovernable, soul-en slaving appetite? None! He must first be made a sober man. Preachers should help to make him a sober man—preachers should favor any movement, which proposes to accomplish tin’s—preachers should favor Prohibition. Ruin and Religion are diametrically opposed— avowed enemies—the one a curse, the other a bless ing—and cannot exist together. What greater con trast can he thought of than meeting houses and grop shops! The one is the house of God, vocal with hymns ol praise, the very gate of heaven—the other a den of darkness, loathsome with every form of vice and sin, reeking with foul-mouthed blasphc n>3 the “antechambei of hell!” What sympathy’ can exist between the preacher and thegrogseller?— the messenger of peace and the fermenter of riots— the “herald of the cross” and the builder of the gal lows the “bearer ot good news” and the producer of woe and misery—the promoter of good order, and the distributer of fire-brands—the advocate of virtue, and the generator of vice—the minister of God and the agent of Satan—the servant of Heaven and “Hell's recruiting officer !” The disciples of Prince Alcohol never can be, at the same time, the disciples of the “Prince of Peace !” But notwithstanding this opposition, there are some preachers who oppose the cause of Prohibition and favor the cause of Liquor and the grog shops.— Revelation may thunderin their ears that “no drunk ard shall inherit the kingdon,” experience may teach them that Intemperance is opposed to the advance ment of Christianity and the best interests of society, their church book may exhibit page after page blot ted and blurred with the record of drunkenness among the members, and they will still stand aloof from the cause that strikes at the root of nine tenths of the vices that disgrace human nature—still give us the cold shoulder—still furnish aid and comfort to the enemy—still hold up and support the strongest pillar in the temple of Satan. How can they do it? How can they pray, “Thy kingdom come,” with clear consciences, while they are lending their influ ence to the support of the grogshop dynasty? We ought not to judge, but whenever we hear preachers opposing the cause of Prohibition, we cannot help thinking, that the secret of their opposition has been told by Byron, when he says, Jehovah’s vessels hold The godless heathen’s wine! * YELLOW FEVER IN PORTSMOUTH. The following letter was received last Wednesday, by one of our citizens, from the Pastor of the Baptist church in Portsmouth, Va.: PoKTSMomi, Sept. 10, 1855. Dear Brother —Yours, with enclosure, I received on the Bth. 1 thank you, in behalf of those suffer ing for this help. Had not the hearts of the people been thus moved with sympathy for us, inconceiva ble horrors would have aggravated our already wretched condition. 1 cannot perceive any abate ment of the ravages of the disease. I buried yester day some of our most valuable citizens—men who will be a loss to the whole country. I was the only Pastor on duty yesterday. God has been very merciful to me. Help me by your prayers. Truly yours in Christ, T. HUME. - PARTICULAR ATTENTION Is invited to the advertisement of Ward, Burchard it Cos., Augusta, Ga. Persons trading to Augusta, would do well to call and examine their fine stock of Goods. NORTH BRITISH REVIEW, This excellent Quarterly has been received. We have not had time to even glance at its contents.— Any information in reference to Scott’s Re-publica tions, can be obtained by noticing the advertisement in this paper. FOREIGN WINES AND BRANDIES. The New York Times says: “The fact is, nineteen twentieths of all the wines and brandies drank in this country, and ninety-nine thousandths of all the rare and costly wines over which our high livers smack their lips and roll their eyes and astonish their epicurean friends, are manufactured for the market —made up by a skillful compound of drugs, with infusions of flavoring matter and a basis of alcoholic or vinous material, so as to resemble any brand or any sort of liquor that may be desired.’’ < A NUT FOR THE “CORNER STONE” TO CRAfK. We clip the following text and comment from an exchange. ‘‘A car load of putrid beef, on its way to market, was seized in the streets of New York, one day last week.”— Exchange. “That was all right enough. Why, of course.— Nobody has any objections to seizing ‘putrid beef’! and destroying it. To sell it is contrary to law and ; contrary to common sense. Pounce on the man that will dare to do it! But see here. There is a talk of j making a law by which something that is sold to people to drink, which is quite as injurious to the ) public health, and infinitely more injurious to public morals, can be seized and destroyed in the same way. Any objections, anybody ? ‘Yes, yes, hold on there. That would be taking away a man’s rights.’ Don't you see? You can take away the liberty of selling had meat ; but you can’t take away the liberty of selling hail drink. That’s liquor; and you can’t stop a man for selling it. Its—its— ‘ unconstitutional .” Reader you can draw your own conclusion.” “In the cases carried tip in 1847, by appeal from Massachusetts and Rhode Island: Chiej’ Justice Taney said: ‘lf any State deems the retail and internal traffic in ardent spirits injurious to its citizens, I see nothing in the constitution to prevent it from regulating and restraining the traffic, or from prohibiting it altogether.’ Mr. Justice McLean said: ‘No person can intrp duce into a community u alignant diseases, or anv thing which contaminates its morals or endangers it's safety.’ Mr. Justice Catron said: ‘lf the State has the power of restraint by licences tc any extent, she has the discretionary power to judge of its limit, ami may go to the length of prohibiting sales altogether.’ Mr. Just . ■( Daniel said of import- that are clear all ollu-r properly of the citizen whether owned by me importer or his vendee, or may have been pui ! ’’.V piece or yard, or by hogsheads, ■ asks, or botlHs.’ In answering the argument that the importer purchases the right to sell when he pays : dam s to government, Mr. Justice Daniel continues to ! S:| y, ‘N'<> *<*>’ l ight is ever purchased by the impol icy; lie cannot purchase from the government that which it could not insure to him a sale, independent ly the laws and policy of the* State.’ dud Mr. Justice Grier said: ‘lt is not necessary to array the appalling statistics of misery, pauperism and crime, which have their origin in’ the use and abuse of ardent spirits. The police power which is exclusively in the States, is alone competent to the correction of these great evils, and all measures of restraint or prohibition necessary to effect a purpose are within the scope of that authority.’ Upon another occasion, Chief Justice Marshall holds the following language in the IT.l T . S. Supreme Court: “The genius and character of the whole U. S. Gov ernment seems to he, that its action is to be applied to all the external affairs of the nation, and to those internal which affect the States generally, but not to those which are completely within a particular State. 1 he completely internal commerce of a State, then, may be considered as reserved for the State itself.” In a case carried up to the U. S. Supreme Court from the State of New York, the Court decided that ji State may law, “That concerns the welfare of the whole people of ai State, or any individual within it, whether it relate to their rights or their duties, whether it respects them as men or as citizens of the State, whether in their public or private relations, whether it relate to the right of persons or of property, of the whole peo pie of tlie State or of individuals within it; and vyhose operation i.s within the territorial limits of the State, and upon tire persons and tilings within its ju risdiction.” IPrtgtmil. For the Danner. THE PARAMOUNT QUESTION OF THE DAY We are told, with much apparent sympathy, that it is really unfortunate that the Temperance issue should be made at this time; that Mr. Overby can not secure the vote upon this subject during the present canvass; that it is not before the people upon its true merits and cannot be until public opinion is very much changed. Then, we are told, it will not be difficult for the friends of Temperance to define their position. Messrs. Editors, all such talk is mere stuff; for ourself, we do not believe one word of it, but do be lieve the time has come when this issue should be made in Georgia. We further believe that Overby will get the vote of every true Temperance man in the State, [t i.s emphatically the paramount ques tion in Georgia politics; therefore, proper at this time. It involves the greatest interests—the most important subjects. Its demands are immediate —its necessities imperative. All others of which we heai so much, in these days of party strife, are, to say the least, prospectively future. Again, Overby will re ceive the Temperance vote, or he will not receive it; this i.s certain. Now, “He that is not for us i.s against us.” If you are what you profess to be, “Prove your faith by your works,” and we will believe you are sincere, therefore Overby will receive the vote upon this subject. If he is elected, we do not believe a Southern interest would suffer under his administra- tion. He is acknowledged by* all to be able, frank and honest. If he should not be, it will be perpe trated by friends, by those who entertain, professed ly, the profoundest respect for his high qualifications, and against whom none have dared to bring an ac cusation, and against whose opinions none dare to institute a controversy with the remotest prospect of success. Should he be unsuccessful, he will fall upon the pedestal of Virtue and Morality’, the foun dation stone of Civil and Religious Liberty. Shame upon such desertion, based upon such miserable sub terfuges. “The tree (however) is known by its fruit.” Should he not succeed, lie will fall like the “strong man,” and bring down the very pillars of Constitu tional Freedom along with him, upon which we will rally again and again, until (like wise men) we will change public opinion, and then record our princi ples upon the Statute Books, to be cherished, res pected, perpetuated, and even venerated, by every truth-loving citizen of the Empire State of the South. We would say to every partisan in Georgia, what we ask is reasonable, practicable, expedient and just. It neither conflicts with any political principle of our country’s weal, nor compromises a single feature of constitutional liberty. It is the Cause of Humanity —the Cause of Truth. It must—it will prevail. O, ye professedly Temperance men! Will you stand at your post or will you shamefully and ingloriouslv worship at the shrine of Political Detnagoguism?— Will you strike for your country’s weal, for your homes, your wives and children, or will you desert their cause and leave them groaning under the gall ing yoke and onerous burdens of one of the most ex acting Tyrants the world has ever known? Chris tians, Patriots, and Philanthropists! come to the res cue! Raise the Tocsin, from the mountains to the sea-hoard, “To yot.r Tents, 0 Israel," —every man to your duly! 0! land of the brave! home of the oppressed! Never, no, never ‘‘give up the ship,” until the death-knell of King Alcohol shall be heard throughout the length and breadth of the land—un til his last fiendish remains shall be buried in the vale of forgetfulness, without the hope of a future resurrection. Rally to the standard of Prohibition, under whose flag Overby stands, graphically portray ing the evils of a legalized traffic, and eloquently pleading the cause of God and Humanity, while demagogues are ranting and wrangling for the spoils of office, lie stands unmoved, towering far above all party strife, inviting to deeds of glory—pointing to the blessings of a bloodless victory. Come, then, Georgians, to the polls, on the first Monday in October, and let politicians know that you understand your necessities and know how to secure your rights. They say our cause is feeble, a.id laugh at our simplicity. Wc .nay yet, after all, be more troublesome to them than they wot of: so says one who .nay vote for Overby in OLD PUTNAM. For tbe Banner. MR. OVERRV’S PROSPECTS IN JEFFERSON - Messrs. Editors —lt lias been surmised that Mr. Overby’s exertions in Jefferson county bad but little effect, and people took but little notice of his posi- September