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-JOHN HENRY SEALS, ) . AND } Editors. L. LINCOLN VEAZEY,) -SEW SERIES. VOL. I. TIIPIMCI CRUSADER. A m PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, EXCEPT TWO. IN THE YEAR, BY JOHN H. SEALS. TERMS : SI,OO, in advance; or $2,00 at the end of the year. RATES OK ADVERTISING. 1 square (twelve lines or le.-s) first insertion,. -SI 00 Each continuance, (50 Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding six lines, per year, o 00 Announcing Candidates for Office, 3 00 ■ STANDING ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 square, three months, o 00 1 square, six months, 7 00 j 1 square, twelve months 12 00 j 2 squares, “ “ 18 00 ‘ **3 squares, “ “ 21 00 j 4 squares, “ “ 25 00 j USy*Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions, wt'l he continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. 52jf®Afe v ehant, Druggists, and others, mnv con tract for advertising by the year, on reasonable terms. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. .Sale of Land or Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, and Guardians, per square,... son Sale of Personal Property, by Administrators, Executors, and Guardians, per square,... 3 25 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 25 Notice for Leave to Sell, 4 00 Citation for Letters of Administration, 2 75 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Adm’n. 5 00 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guardi anship, 3 25 . LEGAL REQUIREMENTS. Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, i Bweeutors, or Guardians, are required by law to he held on the first Tuesday in Ihe month, between the ; hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the after- j noon, at the Court House in the County in which the : property-is situate. Notices of these sales must be I given in a public gazette forty days previous to the I day of sale. Notices for the sale of Personal Property must be j given at least ten days previous to the day of sale, j Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must j be published forty days. Notice that application will be marie to the Court j of Oq&qary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published weekly for tiro months. Citations for Letters of Administration must be published thirty days —f.r Dismission from Admin istration, monthly , six months —for Dismission from Gu ardianshi p,, forty days. Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub lished monthly for four months —for compelling titles r from Executors or Administrators, where a bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three . mouths. will always be continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements,-unless otherwise | ordered. The Law of Newspapers. 1, Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their subscription. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their newspapers, the publisher may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 3! If subscribers neglect or refuse take their newspapers from the offices to which they are di rected, they are held responsible until they have set tled the bills and ordered them discontinued. 4. Ts subscribers remove to other places without informing the publishers, and the newspapers are sent to the former direction, they are held responsi ble. 5. The Courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of inten tional fraud. <>. The United States Courts have also repeatedly decided,.that a Postmaster who neglects to perform his duty of giving reasonable notice, as required by the Post Office Department, of the neglect of a per son to take from the office newspapers addressed to. hinjtt renders tho Postmaster liable to the publisher for the subscription price. JOB PRINTING^ of every description, done with neatness and dispatch, at this'office, and at reasonable prices for cash. All orders, in th^department, must be addressed to J. T. PLAIN. jt PROS V U € T 5’ S OF TIIF TEMPERANCE CRUSADER. [quondam] TEMPERANCE BANNER. 4 CT'UATED by a conscientious desire to further the cause of Temperance, and experiencing great disadvantage in being too narrowly limited in space, by the smallness of om paper, for the publica tion of Reform Arguments and Passionate Appeals, we have determined to enlarge, it to a more conve nient and acceptable size. And being conscious of the fact that there are existing in the minds ol a large poition of the present readers of the Banner and its former patrons, prejudices and difficulties which can never be removed so long as it retains the name, we venture also to make a change in that par ticular. It will henceforth bo called, “THE TE.M- Jt ITERANCE CRUSADER.” This okl pioneer of the Temperance cause is des tined yet to chronicle the triumph of its principles. It has stood the test—passed through the “fiery fur nace,” and, like the “Hebrew children,” re-appeared a uferufrched. It has survived the newspaper famine winch has caused, and is still causing many excel lent journals and periodicals to sink, like “bright ex halations in the evening,” to rise no more, and it has . even heralded tli.* “death struggles of many contem poraries, laboring for the same great end with itself. lives,” and “waxing bolder as it grows older,” is-novv waging an eternal “Crusade” against the “In itial Liquor Traffic,” standing like the “High Priest” olfthc Israelites, who stood between the people and tins plague that threatened destruction. j[We entreat the friends of the Temperance Cause to give, us their influence in extending the usefulness of the paper. We intend presenting to the public a sheet worthy of all attention and a liberal patronage; for while it is strictly a Temperance Journal , we shall r endeavor to keep its readers posted on all the current throughout the country. iI2SF"Pr : 6e, as heretofore, sl, strictly in advance. y “ 80 HN H. SEALS, ’ Editor and Proprietor. Bwxfleld, Go., Dm. 8,1868. tpctotA it CtntpmmcE, JJonifj, Ifitatart, (foicral Intelligence, -fta, Ac. A BILL To be entitled An Act to authorize persons to submit controversies to arbitration, de claring how arbitrators shall be chosen, prescribing their powers, regulating the manner in which their proceedings shall be conducted, and for other purposes therein mentioned. The General Assembly of the State do ; enact as follows ; : Section!. All persons having matters of ! controversy may submit the same to arbi tration, and any personal Representative of any decedent, or guardian ofany infant, idi ot or lunatic, or any trustee, may submit to arbitration any matter of controversy touch ing the estate or property of such decedent, infant, idiot or lunatic, or in respect to which he is trustee. Sec. 2. Every arbitration shall be com posed of three arbitrators, one of whom shall be chosen by each of ihe parties and one by the arbitrators chosen by the parties. Sec. 3. All submissions to arbitration shall be in writing, and shall contain a clear and accurate statement of the matters in controversy submitted, the names ot the ar bitrators chosen by the parties, and also any other matter that may be pertinent to said submissions. Said submission shall be sign ed by the parties or their agents, and when so signed shall be delivered to one of the ar bitrators chosen by the parties, and when this is done, said submission shall be inev >- ! cable except by the consent of all the par ties. Sec. 4. ‘flic arbitrators chosen bv the par ties shall then choose another arbitor, and they shall appoint their time and place of meeting, which shall be as soon as can be done consistent with a proper preparation of the case, and the parties sh ill have three days notice of the time and place of meeting. Sec. 5. At the time the submission is made, or so soon thereafter as can conveni ently be done, it shall be tiie duty of the par ties to furnish the arbitrators chosen by the parties, or one of them, with a list of the witnesses whose testimony they desire to be had before the arbitrators, and any party neglecting to do this for ten days after said submission is made, the hearing of said case shall not be delayed, on account of the wit nesses on the part of the party so neglect ing not being present. . Sec. 6. Said arbitrators shall be clothed with all the powers of the Superior Courts to compel the attendance of witnesses before i them, and also to compel them to testify,! and any one of said arbitrators shall have | power to issue subpoenas requiring tho at- i tendance of witnesses at. the time and place j appointed for their meeting, which subpee- { nas shall be served in the manner pointed | | out by law for the service of subpoenas in j ; cases pending in the Superior courts, and i ! witnesses so attending shall be entitled to j the same compensation as witnesses attend- j ; ing the SuperiorConrts, and may be collect- ! | ed in the same way. : Sec. 7. Testimony may be taken by com | mission under the same circumstances, and ; in the manner and subject to the same rules and regulations as is now prescribed by law for the taking of testimony by commission in the Superior Courts, saving only that ; thiginal interrogatories shall be filed with : one of the commissioners, and the commis- I sion issued by one ol the commissioners, and | the testimony when taken shall be directed I to the arbitrator who issued the commission. •Sec. 8. All free white persons who have arrived at sufficient age to understand the obligation of an oath, and are not idiots or i lunatics including, also, the parties to said : submission, shall be competent witnesses in i all cases before the arbitrators, saving only, that the wife shall not be witness for or against the husband, nor the husband for or against the wife, except in cases where the same is allowed by law. Sec. 1). Said arbitrators shall be clothed with all the powers of the Superior Courts to compel the parties to produce hooks and all other papers, that they may deem neces sary and proper for the investigation of the matters submitted to them, giving to the I party or his agent, from whom the produc tion is required, three days notice. Sec. 10. When the arbitrators meet for ; the purpose of hearing said case, if any one ,of the arbitrators selected by the parties, should not be present, the party whose ar : uitralor is absent may then choose another in his place, and if the arbitrator chosen by the arbitrators is absent, the arbitrators cho ; sen by the pat ties may choose another in his ; place, and the arbitrators so chosen shall i have all the powers of the arbitrators first J chosen. Sec.il When the arbitrators meet for | the purpu e of hearing said case and making up their award, they shall first be sworn im partially to determine the matters submit ted to them, according to law, and the jus tice and equity of the case, without favor or affection to either party, and which oath they may administer to each other. Sec. 13. When upon the meeting of the arbitrators, either party shall not be ready for trial it shall be lawful for the arbitrators to postpone the hearing of the case to n fu ture day, which day shall be as early as pos sible, looking at all the circumstances ot the case, but there shall not be more than two adjournments of the case, except for provi dential cause. Sec. 13. After said arbitrators have com menced their investigations they may ad PENFIELD, 6A., SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 9, 1856. journ from day to day until their investiga tions are completed, and they h ive made up their award. Sec. 14. After said arbitrators have made up their award they shall furnish a copy of the same to each of the parties, and shall re turn the original award to the next Superior Court of the county where the award is made, and said award shall be entered on the minutes of said Court, and shall have all the force and effect of a judgment or decree of said Superior Court, and may be enforced in the same way at any time after the ad journment of said Court, and shall be final and conclusive between the pariies as to all mutters submitted to the arbitrators, unless objection shall be plead to the same as pro vided in the next section of this Act. Sec. 15. When said award shall have been returned to said Court, and entered on its minutes as provided in the previous section of this Act, it shall be lawful for either of the parties to suggest on oath to sa ; d Court, at the term at which said award is return ed, that said arbitrators, or someone of them, has been guilty of fraud and corrup tion in making said award, and it shall be the duty of said Court to cause an issue to be made upon such suggestion, which issue shall be heard by a special jury, under the same rules and regulations as are prescribed for the trial of Appeals, and which trial shall be had at the same term of the Court at which the suggestion is made, unless good cause is shown for a continuance, when the same may be continued for one time, and no longer. Sec. 10. If the jury shall return a verdict finding that said arbitrator, or either of them, had been guilty of fraud or corruption in making up said award it shall be the duty of the Court forthwith to pass an order va cating and setting aside award, and the same shall be null and void, but if said jury shall not so find, said award shall remain in full force as provided in a previous section of this Act., and shall be final and conclusive. Sec. 17. Said arbitrators shall have pow er to administer oaths to witnesses, and all other oaths that may be necessary for car rying this Act into full effect. Sec. 18. Said arbitrators shall return in their award the costs of the case, which they may tax against either party according as shall seem just and right, or they may tax part of the costs against one party and part against the other. Sec. 19. Said arbitrators shall have such compensation for their services as may be agreed on by themselves and the parties, and which shall be paid equally by the par ties. Sec. 20. All laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed, and this Act shall be of force from and after the passage thereof ALL’S WELL. The following exquisite gem is worth re taining and preserving. We doubt it the whole range of English or any other litera ture can furnish anything more simply beau tiful—rmort purely eloquent: “Twelve o’clock at night, and all’s well.” False prophet!—Still and statue-like, at yonder window stands the wife. The clock has told the small hours, yet her face is pressed closely against the window pane striving in vain with straining eye to pierce the darkness. She sees nothing, she hears nothing—but the beating of her own heart. Now she takes her seat; opens her bible, and seeks from it what comfort she may, while tears blister (he pages. Then she clasps her hands, and her lips are tremulous with mute supplication. Hist! —there is an unsteady step in the hall; Jie knows it! many times, and oft, it has trod on her very heart strings. She glides down gently to meet, the wanderer. He falls heavily against her, and, in maudlin tones pronounces a name he had long since forgotten “to honor.” Oh ! all enduring power of woman’s love ! —no reproach, no upbraiding—the light arm passed around that reeling figure once erect in “God’s image.” With tender words of entreaty, which he is powerless to resist, if he would, she leads him in. It is but the repetition of a thousand such vigils'. It is the performance of a vow, with a heroism and patient endurance too common andev ery day to be enchronicled on earth ; too holy and heavenly to pass unnoted by the “registering angel” above. “All’s well!” False prophet! in yonder luxurious room sits one whose curse it was, to be fair as a dream of Eden. Time was, when those clear eyes looked lovingly into a mother’s face—when a kind, a loving father laid his trembling hand, with a blessing { on that sun ny head—when brothers’ and sisters’ voices blended with her own in heart music around the happy hearth. Oh! where are they now ? Are there none to say to the repent ing Magdalen— “neither do I condemn thee —go and sin no more !” Must the gilded fetter continue to bind the soul that loathes it, because man is less merciful than God? “All’s Well!” False prophet!—there lies the dead or phan. In all the length and breadth of the green earth there was found no sheltering nest where the lonely dove could fold its wings when the parent bird had flown. The brooding wing was gone that covered it from the cold winds of neglect and unkind ness. Love was its life; and so —it droop ed ! “All’s Well!” False prophet!—Sin walks the earth in purple and fine linen; honest poverty, with tear-bedewed face, hungers and shivers, and thirsts, “while the publican stands afar off!” The widow pleads in vain to the ermined judge for “justice;” and, unpunished of I lea ven. the human tiger crouches in his lair, and springs upon his helpless prey. “All’s Well !” Ah. yes, all is well, for He who “seeth the end from the beginning” holds evenly the scale of justice. “Dives shall yet beg of Lazarus.’’ Every human tear is counted. They will yet sparkle as gems in the crown of the patient and enduring disciple ! When the clear, broad light of eternity shines upon life’s crooked paths, we shall see the snares and pitfalls from which our hedge of thorns has fenced us in ! and, in our full grown faith, we shall exultingly say—“ Father ! not as I will, but as Thou wilt.” Fanny Fern. THE PERILS OF EXCELLENCE. The desire for excellence is commenda ble. ft is one of the noblest affections which can animate the breast of man, because it lies at the foundation of all true human pro gress. It should therefore be cultivated ra ther than repressed. The man who sets lbs heart upon high and ennobling things and principles, will be continually aspiring to wards their attainment (for it is a law of the Inman economy, that we are led and gov erned more by our affections than by rea son or intellect;) and in the efforts made in ibis direction, he will experience the interi or delights which ever accompany a genu ine elevation of soul. But to excel does not imply a disposition to vie with another for the purpose of over reaching him in any respect, or of outstrip- j ping him in some property or position, in ; which he is distinguished ; this is mere ri valry, an abomination to the purely virtuous mind. The true notion of excellence is ex hibited in the progression of our own indi vidual states and attainments, to arrive at a higher degree of perfection to-morrow than we enjoy to-day ; to go on and on for ever, not halting by the way to parley with the suggestions of indolence and sensuality, but keeping steadily before the mental eye some desirable form of beauty, to press forward constantly and diligently towards it. This principle of progression, this gift of excel lence should be inscribed upon all our un dertakings ; from the performance of the simplest and most menial services, to the ex ecution of the loftiest and most important duties devolving upon them. Its presence will make the meanest work sublime; its genial vivifying influence will impress with an effigy of greatness, the lowliest deeds of the honest sons of toil. And why should it not be so? Why should any rest satisfied with the position he has at tained? If treasures lie within your reah. will you not extend a hand to grasp them? If you say that you are satisfied, and need push no further on the upward journey, you beguile yourself with a fond delusion, if you suppose that you can rest. The plain of hu manity has no level. Stand still you cannot. If you will not advance, you must recede. The vital phenomena are not amenable to mechanical laws. Ifyou indulge repose ;if you would stop short upon your way ; that instant decomposition of your mental and moral fabric commences. The vital organ ism becomes impaired from inaction, the vi tal functions become sluggish, and vitality itself is stagnated. Go then up the hill of life courageously, and you will have no rea son to regret your choice. Let your stand ard be a holy one, and let its position be high up the pilgrim’s pathway, and do not be squeamish about a little toil in your endea vors to gain your end But do be captiva ted by the vain conceit that you are born great, and that you may attain real excel lence without application and labor. It is not obtained so lightly ; it is not. a bauble to be purchased for a groat; nor is it an un substantial fairy creation, to be wooed and won by the wishing only. If you succeed— and succeed you will if you are in earnest — ; you will have had not only to bear, but to overbear. You must work , and you must wait. And there is a sublimer virtue, a more generous nobility oftentimes displayed in this waiting, than in the more obvious pal pable working. When vou shall have arrived at any dis tinguished point ol excellence, either in your artistic, mercantile, commercial, or moral concerns, be sure you will not be permitted to remain unmolested. It is not good that you should here live at.ease. The giddy worldly spirit has no sympa thy with the trials and toils which your pre sent position has cost you. It looks only upon the one now apparent point of excel lence, and is forthwith envious. In God’s good providence it will be your scourge.— It will harass you with strange and unrea sonable questionings; it will strive to cir cumscribe your sphere of action; it will seek to damp the ardency ot your efforts, and to quench your bravest enterprises. It may even go further, and by maligning your motives may bring contumely upon your labors. But so sure as this becomes your position; so certain may you be, that you have under the guidance of heavenly prin ciples attained some degree of excellence; that you are in short better than you were. Be not discouraged. Now come* the grand est epoch of your moral history. Here is a star for your beginning ? keep it ever before you ; “when reviled, revile not again.” Can any but those who have gained an ad vanced post indeed act thus ? Stand firm upon your principles, and the pressure from without will only squeeze a smile from you; a smile, it may be, intermingled with a pel lucid tear of pity. Sweet and precious gems are such heavenly smiles and tears! When persecuted, let not a ruffle disturb your moral features, let a holy placidity in vest your soul ; then will you understand something ot what is involved in that most humane of all duties, the duty o iwaitin-*. If this be your experience, you will be en abled to see that the storm which has pass ed over you, lias purified and cleared up the mists which hang about your mental hem- j ispheres, and has lelt you :t brighter and a ‘ wealthier man. Such assaults, as those above described.! cannot but- be bitter for a season. Frail hn- j man nature would fain be spared them.— I Can I escape them ; timidly asks the newly ‘ awakened spirit. Tut, man, they are for ! your good. Were you exempted from them. ! you would be deprived of one of the most! efficacious means of attainingto moral d : gni-1 ty and greatness. Temptation is a boon, which the upright traveller towards heaven i would not willingly forego. It strengthens! and fortifies his spirit, when by divine assis tance he is enabled to repel it by the force of true and high resolves. It furnishes his whole being. Tho upshoot of a victorious encounter with the powers or principles oi darkness is this: the affections beam more gloriously with the resplendency of love; the intellect shines more brilliantly with the light of truth, and the outward life exhibit both in a humility and frankness of demean or ; emulative of His, the essential meek and veritable divine man, who was and is ! emphatically “the Light of the World.”— : Ph re no logi cal Jo urn al. IT WONT LET ME ALONE. “You let it alone, and it will let you alone,” said a liquor seller to me, as I urged him, m consideration of the public good, to abandon the traffic. But it is not true, i Thousands and thousands in our State, never use intoxicating drinks themselves; they let the liquor alone; yet their suffer ings in consequence of its use by others, are very great and ought not to be endured. Mrs. Albro is a lady of superior talent and education. In her early days, and for the first few years of her married life, she was surrounded by kind and loving friends, and had all that her heart could desire. — Multitudes almost envied her, as they view ed her beautiful mansion, her peaceful and happy home, with her affectionate husband, and beautiful and well-behaved children; but a sad change has come over her. That kind ajid faithful husband began to visit, with boon companions, a fashionable sa loon. He soon acquired an appetite for j strong drink. The habit increased. He i soon became an inebriate —a loathsome drunkard. His business was neglected — his property wasted his mansion sold by the sheriff—his family reduced to penury i and want. In a few short years the once happy Mrs. Albro found herself the wife of a man who seemed to take a sort of fiendish delight in abusing her and her children, and making their life wretched beyond description. At length, her spirit crushed by the abuse <4 a once loving husband, and a body-emaci ated, and sick from her priv.itions and suf ferings, she and her little ones are carried to the alms-house, while the husband ami father is in prison for crime committed in a drunken spree. Now, Mrs. Albro and her children let liquor alone, hut did it let them alone? .Mrs Albro is but. the representative of at least twenty thousand women in this State who, with their children, are suffer ing more than language can express, in consequence of the traffic in strong drink. Yet they let it alone, but it won’t let them alone. Need we say such persons ought t* be! protected? There is another class in the eommuni- j tv which liquor will not Jet. nione, though ; they may be total abstinence men. To say nothing of the interest every man j has in the public morals of society—the j peace, happiness and prosperity of the peo- ; pie at large; every tax-payer is injured by the traffic, and has a right to claim protec tion by law. It has been shown beyond all reasonable, doubt, from official documents, that three fourths of the criminal prosecutions and, seven-eighths of the entire amount ot pau perism in the laud,-may be traced to strong drink. Os course, three-fourths ot the ex pense of the whole system of criminal ju risprudence, the cost and interest on cost, of all our jails, penitentiaries, and prisons of every description, are attributable to this cause. The men who pay the enor mous tax necessary for these purposes, may let liquor alone, but it will not let them alone. The man whose ship is wrecked and pro perty destroyed, because strong drink Inis caused the commander or pilot u to err in vision or stumble in judgment,” may never use liquor himself, yet sutlers in conse quence of the traffic and its use by others. We may safely aver that there is not a man, woman or child in the country, who is not injured, directly or indirectly, by the traffic in intoxicating liquors. r TEEMS: ijli.OO TN ADVANCE. ) JAMES T. BLAIN, PBINTKU. VOL. HII.-OTJMBER -5. There is, then, no truth in the declara tion, “L von let liquor alone it will let von alone,” it won’t, hurt you if you don’t use it. !*• d<es injure every one of us.—- TI extern (JrusacU v. EBB AND FLOW. The nun who expects to see an everlast ing llood-ti- m this side of Jordan, may as wdl give up tli.it hope now, as to oher iit till the ! 0.-vitable elk* :e S1 • -11 him trande< 1 a hove tlu marstu sol . Men’s mind> are like the oc an, if not ex actly governed by the moon, us with luna tics, vet- web ‘... and re: -T mg in wor-flnc tuat’ug tides, licit carry witli them ths hopes ands. art's, the triumphs and dt spurs, of those who have human . regress dcvplv at lieart. W hen I bo Hood com in, and the good cause sot ms drawing the whole world after it, our hopeful frieuus begin to date from the ivLilieuoium ui: once; and antic paling aii immediate lan ling of the whole craw, of whatever ship of Zion they are steering*, in the happy port of the New Jerusalem on eairh; .i; y shout, elated with joy and liii'\Vi"-al goo.; Wiii, and 1 >1! SiloS’ u i . ■! ill ii:ijp\ fuinnot, as if eager to oespeak hacks and cabs .dr the ui no humbv i miliions, in ore or less, just mi the eve of entering in!<> rest. The. next conscionsnc-ss to \\ hich they are mused by the ebb „tido, is a half-distinct, idea tiiat the Happy City is adrift, and that their particular ship of Zion is being; de tained through a most unaccountably long quarantine, while the whole world is slow ly settling down in the mud, leaving Orion and Pleiades unutterably distant. X<>w, we want the enthusiasm of high hope in every good cause, and can hardly expect to have it without the correspond-”’ lug depression, when, a reverse comes. A f-w bravo men, h wever, may also be wise men, ami knowing that the best cause in its brightest fortunes is not secure from change and retrogression, they will exert an o er-strength through triumph and de feat; not elated by the great waves of a i coming tide, nor desponding as the billows are sucked back into the guffs. Such,men may-seem cold in t lie hour of victory, but when disaster and defeat are near, tiiat im perturbable calmness, and the inflexible strength which accompanies it, will be the hope of the weary and disappointed, and the shield of the defenceless. Let every man make,his own application of the broad fact we assert, and whatever good he seeks to accomplish, be sure tiiat the reverses he may meet are quite in tire • >rder of nature, that the world is not wreck ed or stranded with the momentary failure of his enterprise, and that a stout heart and busy hand will bring any true thing for ward to success at last; while the luckiest lie that ever swept past, him in splendor of gilding and clamor of loud huzzas, will go I down to the murkiest bottom, to rot in | darkness forever. — People's Organ. BEAUTIFUL FIGURE. j X o painters were employed to frescoe I the walls of a magnificent cathedral ; both j stood on a rude scaffold, constructed tor the ; purpose, some forty feet from the floor.— j One of them was so intent, upon his work i that he became wholly absorbed in admira i tiom and stood off from ihe picture, gazing I at it. with intense delight. Forgetting where ’ he was. he moved backward slowly, survey ing critically the work of his pencil, until he had neared the very edge of the plank upon which he stood. At this critical moment his companion turned suddenly around, and almost frozen with horror, beheld his imminent peril; an other instant and the enthusiast would be precipitated upon the pavement beneath : if he spoke to him it was certain deatii —it he ! held his peace it was equally sure. Hud ! deniy regaining h.s presence of mind, and j seizing a wet brush, he Hung it against t;ie I wall, spattering the bcautifubpicture with I unsightly blotches ot coloring. Ihe painter ! flew forward, and turned upon his friend ! with tierce imprecation, but startled at his i gha'tlv face lie listened to tue recital oi Ins I danger, looked sh-addring over the dread. ! space below, and with tears of gratitude j blessed the hand that saved him. I Ho, said a preacher, we sometimes get ab i sorbed m looking upon the pictures ot the world, and in contemplating them step back wards. unconscious ol our peril, when the Almighty dashes out the images, and we spring forward to lament the destruction— into t he outstretched arms of mercy, and are saved. [iTpOne ofthe finest passages in Richelieu is the following:— Richelieu —Young man, be blithe; for,, note me, from the hour I grasp thal packet, think that your guardian star rains down fortune on you. 1 1 uncis;:o —lf 1 fail? Richelieu —Fail ! fail! in the bright lexi con of youth, which fate reserves for a most glorious manhood, there is no such word as fail! # Why should a young man fail! If he honest, if he be honorable, it he be-ardent, it he be energetic, it he be.gilted with mental power, if he be right in soul and strength, he should never foil; and if any alluring tempta tion whisper in his ear words that make bun turn aside, let him revert to that bright lex icon and never fail. ’ V.. I j