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LINES.
The Louisville Journal says’ >l We defy
any tasteful lover of poetry to read the fol
lowing lines, without exclaiming—How
beautiful!”
My soul thy sacred image keeps,
My midnight dreams are all of thee;
, For nature then in silence sleeps,
And silence broods o’er land and sea;
Oh, in that still, mysterious hour.
How oft from waking dreams I start,
To find thee but a fancy flower,
Thou cherish’d idol of my heart.
Thou hast each thought and dream of mine —
Have I in turn one thought of thine V
Forever thine my dreams will he,
Whate’er may he my fortune here,
I ask not love—l claim from thee
Only one boon, a gentle tear;
May e’er blest visions from above
Play brightly ’round thy happv heart",
And may the beams of peace and love
Ne'er from thy glowing soul depart.
Farewell! my dreams are still with thee,
Hast thou one tender thought of me?
My joys like summer birds may fly,
My hopes like summer blooms depart,
But there’s one flower that cannot die,
Thy holy memory in my heart;
No dews that one flower’s cup may fill,
No sunlight to its leaves be given,
But it will live and flourish still,
As deathless as a thing of heaven.
My soul greets thine, unasked, unsought.
Hast thou for me one gentle thought?
Farewell! farewell! my far-off friend!
Between its broad, blue rivers flow,
And forests wave and plains extend,
And mountains in the sunlight glow ;
The wind that breathes upon thy brow
Is not the wind that breathes on mine,
The star-beams shining on thee now
Arc not the beams that on me shine,
But memory’s spell is with me yet—
Cans’t thou the holy past forget?
The bitter tears that thou and T
May shed whene’er by anguish bowed,
Exhaled into the noontide sky,
May meet and mingle in the do ml;
And thu3, my much-loved friend, though we
Far, far apart must live and move,
Our souls when God shall set them free,
Can mingle in the world of love.
This were an ecstacy to me —
Say—would it be a joy to thee?
MAKE HOME HAPPY.
Doirt let a fretful, fault-finding disposition
destroy your domestic happiness, for as sure
us vou indulge a morose and cross temper,
you destroy your own comfort and the com
fort of all around you, the influence of your
example will be felt for generations. Let
there come one cross, discontented spirit in
to a family and it will turn a happy home
into confusion and distress ; for even sick
ness is not so distressing where there is
cheerfulness and patience, as the constant
contention of a fretful and impatient spirit.
The little ones of the household are gen
erally influenced by the examples of the fret
ful and cross. When they are spoken to in
a cross and fretful manner, they soon pass
it along, und a little brother and sister is soon
treated in the same manner. And it their
influence ended in their childhood it would
not be so bad, but it does not, except with
their death It is the duty of each one of
the family to make home happy; but it is
the office of a woman to make home the hap
piest place on earth. In all the relations of
life, as wife, mother, daughter or sister, let
cheerfulness reign.
The spirit of kindness is glorious in the
aged. When vve look on the cheerful and
resigned countenance of a good, kind grand
mother, we cannot but love and venerate
her; and although she may not be able to
do much with her hands to benefit the house
hold, yet by imitating Lois ot old, she cart
do much for the family. While she relieves
the mother of some of her pressing duties,
she interests the little ones, and gains their
love and affection, which renders herself a ;
blessing to all.
In the mother, nothing can bo more beau
tiful than a meek and quiet spirit. There is
no adornment compared to it. The mother
who possesses such n disposition, can do
more for the lasting well-being of her fami
ly, although she may he feeble, than the
cross impatient one, if she possesses the pow
er of Hercules. The one throws around
her a halo of love and joy. and makes her
home happy, while the other scatters mil
dew and death.
In the daughter, a gentle, cheerful and
quiet spirit is a crown of beauty. It is a
pearl that renders the possessor more love
ly than the richest jewels or the most costly
raiment could make her. The little ones
look up to her for example and encourage
ment; they put confidence in her, kno ing
that she is always gentle and obliging, and
the encouraging smile of the gentle sister,
will stimulate the brother to good and noble
actions. Let every member of the family,
male and female, strive to make home hap
py, and they .may render it a ‘sweet home,’
even a Heaven on earth.
HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL.
As we were about to start,l saw the cap
tain move to an elevated position above the
wheel; and it was interesting to see how
quickly and completely the inward thought
or purpose alters the outward man. He
gave a quick glance to every part of the
ship. He cast his eye over the multitude
coming on board the ship, among whom was
the American embassador to England, who,
if the captain may be said to embody the
ship, may be said with equal truth to em
body in his official person a nation’s right
and honor. He saw the husbands and
wives, the mothers and children entrusted
to his care; and his slender form, as he gave
orders tor our departure, seemed at once to
grow more erect and firm ; the muscles of
his face swelled ; his dark eye glowed with
anew fire ; and his whole person expanded
and beautified itself by the power of inward
emotion. I have often noticed the interest
ing phenomenon; and have come to the con
clusion, if man, or woman either, wishes to
realize the full power of personal beauty, it
must be by cherishing noble hopes and pur
j)Ose8 —by having something to do, and
something to live lor, which is worthy of hu
manity —and which, by expanding the ca
pacities of the soul, gives expansion and sym
metry to the body which contains it.—Pro
feasor Upham.
is a divine ‘down east,’ trv
jnt; to persuade girls not to marry. !!•>
might us well undertake to persuade ducks
that they could find a substitute for water,
or rosebuds that there is something better
for their complexion than sunshine. The
only convert he has yet made is a single
lady—aged sixty. ______
- For tire Temperance Crusader.
WHO ABE THE “GOOD TEMPLARS ?”
Several times, when speaking of Temper
ance Associations, has this question been
asked ; so often, indeed, that I apprehend
few of your readers would object to a gen
eral answer to all.
It is a Temperance Association having
I for its motto, “Faith, Hope and Charity.”
| In it ladies and gentlemen are on equal terms
and entitled to hold any office in the Lodge.
! The offices are similar to those ot its sister
f Societies, the Rechabites and Sons ofTem-
I perance. If its ritual differs materially from
i that of either of the others, it is that it te.tc 1-
jes us more our dependence C*°d am tie
uselessness of relying upon any but Him lor
strength to carry out good resolves—to at
tain high and noble purposes. -
The pledge resembles that ot the S. ot 1.,
save that it is made obligatory upon the
member to use all fair and honorable means
for the suppression of the Liquor Traffic; a
clause, the value of which, at this time, can
not be over estimated ; for, not only are we
under obligations, morally and religiously,
to refrain from using spirituous liquors, as a
beverage, ourselves, but we are just as much
bound to do all we can to prevent ourneigh
bors from committing self-destruction, and
beggaring and degrading their children.
Members in good standing, may, after six
months, be elected to the first degree, in
three months more, to the second, and in
another three months to the third. Several
Divisions of S. of T. have been broken up
by spies and hired tools of the pro-Rum in
fluence; but with this method, if the doings
of the Lodge, or of even the first and second
degrees, be revealed, and an attempt be
made to give up the charter,still enough will
remain of the tried and true, (who alone can
enact the third degree) to save the Lodge
from ruin.
The passwords, salutations, <fcc., do not
differ materially from those of the Orders
before mentioned. Each degree has its
password and explanation, distinct from the
general Lodge. Besides these, are signs by
which members may make themselves
known to others of the fraternity, somewhat
similar to those employed by the Masonic
and other kindred associations.
These signs are frequently very conveni
ent. My brother tells me that he was once
traveling on the cars, and having never seen
before a single person of the multitude about
him, and having no one to converse with,
became wearied and lonely. Happening
to bethink himself, he made a sign to those
in the car, which was answered by three in
dividuals, to whom he was thus provided
with the best sort ofintroductory letters, for
no one, without a good mitral character can
become a “Good Templar.” lie soon for
got his weariness in conversing about the
glorious cause of Temperance.
“Benefits” are dispensed with ; hut com
mittees are appointed for visiting and provi
ding for the sick, at the expense of the
Lodge.
I am happy to say, this institution, with
the Sons. Rechabites, Washingtonians, and
temperance men and women not united with
j any particular organization, are fighting ihe
battle of Prohibition. The sound ofthe,tem
perance trumpet is heard throughout the
Union. The battle that commenced in an
extreme north-eastern nook, is becoming
general, and the cries of the vanquished foes
of Temperance unite with the glad shouts
from millions ofthe sons and daughters of
America, and ascend to the God ofthe just.
State after State wheels into line: arid j
shall Georgia he behind l Shall she refuse i
l<> join in this great revolution against a!
worse oppression than that which constrain
ed our gallant forefathers to leave the plow
rusting in the furrow and march, shoulder
to shoulder, against a common enemy ? God
forbid!
The tears of orphans and widows appeal
to you ; the desolation of homes appeal to
you ; the groans of the dying inebriate ap
peal to you. Shall they not be heard ?
Whose family has not been accursed hv it?
Who can sav it has not injured me or mine?
Not one ! \ our asylums, your poor-houses,
your jails, your graveyards, echo it —not
one !
Then arouse yourselves, throw off your
apathy, awaken your neighbors and go for
ward to the struggle. See that good men
and true men fill your Legislative Halls; not
experienced wire-pullers and demagogues,
but staunch temperance men; men on whom
you can rely to carry out such principles
and execute such laws as shall give a death
blow to the retailing of ardent spirits as a
beverage.
Daughters of Georgia, use your influence
to favor the cause of humanity. Sons of
Revolutionary sires, show yourselves men ,
and let not Georgia he the last and alone—a
blot and a reproach. Latimru
For the Temperance Crusader.
A PRACTICAL MAN.
Wayfarers in the journey of life have
found, between theory and practice, a deci
ded irreconciiiation. “Poetry and song)
leading the mind along the flowery path of
imagination, not” only hide from view the
rough places and chasms in the road of life,
but plant upon the wayside the most fra
grant flowers (or his regalement, and build
most magnificent palaces for his comfort
and entertainment. But what “a change
comes over the spirit ol his dreams” when
nought is found but rank weeds for his
eglantine breezes, airy log cabins for his
delicate frame, and coarse cornbread and
fat bacon lor his epicurean palate. Like
the prodigal son, he wishes he could return
once more to his father’s house and to the
primitive day of his youth and content
ment “Life is not an empty dream,” hut
is real, not only in manhood, for even the
hearts of the young “like muffled dreams are
beating funeral marches to the grave.”—
The great hero of France has told us that
“every moment lost in early life may he
years of misfortune in age ” Idleness and
improvidence spe-siflheir misfortunes in the
evil ofthe times and justly the poverty of
their homes in a verdict against the provi
dence of God. The joyous flow of life, in
stead of reflecting the beauty of the scenery
around, and mirroring the image of the sky
above, is poured along in one wild noisy
stream, marring its surface and wasting its
strength in useless war with the shoals. —
The happv song which should be thrilling
the heart of age and shouted from the lips
of childhood, is converted into loud tirades
against the degeneracy of the times and
the follies of mankind. How different is it
with the practical mind ! With the mag
netic touch of a Midas, the basest metals
are converted into gold. It is the mighty
crucible in which imperfection is tested and
virtue is purified. The gaudy decorations
and “purple and fine linen” of Dives, can
neither captivate or upset his judgment—he
looks deeper into the soul; for he knows full
well that there can exist ns honest purposes,
and as pure a heart can palpitate in a bo
som under the cotton shirt of a sore arid
humble Lazarus, as under the ermine of
Earth’s grandest monarch. Imagination
may lead his mind in its loftiest flight to re
gions unknown, and untrodden by human
foot, and may tickle his fancy; but the grains
of wheat are safely garnered while the chats
is scattered to the winds of heaven.—
Prejudice may throw around its worshipers
a thousand charms, and distort with Satanic
deformity its adversaries, yet he is moved
not one jot or tittle; but weighing them well
in the balance, he gives to virtue its prepon
derance and reward. Vituperation and
calumny may raise their Gorgon heads, but
they too must fall before his Damascus
blade. Like the wise virgins of yore, his
lamp is always trimmed and supplied when
the “bridegroom cometh,” and lie is not left
in ignorance and obscurity. His aircastles,
if he builds them, ire not beyond the coniines
of space, nor set with “gold and purple
chambered” halls, nor peopled with fairies
nor Aladdin like spread with inconceivable
banquets and luxuries, but he gives to them
“a local habitation and a name.” Truth,
not irrelevent, but useful truth is the highest
pinnacle of his hopes, and to drag it down
for erring mortals is his holy life struggle, in
which, if he succeed, he lives a hero of be
nevolence and philanthropy, and if ••fall he
must, he falls a blessed martyr.”
TrescAm.w
For the Temperance Crusader.
AN OLD MAID’S SOLILOQUY.
Bless me ! if t is isn’t my birth-day !
Thirty-six years old : incontestably an old
maid! How came this ever to pass ? that/s
what l want to know. My mirror assures
me daily that 1 am not unhandsome : my
hair is glossy and luxuriant; my figure is
neither petit nor embonpoint, —just a happy
medium. The merchants can testify to the
exceeding daintiness of my foot. Evident
ly, then, my personal appearance is not in
fault. Twenty years have I been on the
carpet. I have had numerous suitors, and
visitors without number. I have been be
sonnetted by poetical geniuses in almost ev
ery class graduated since my debut. Yet,
despite of all this, I am a “college-widow”
with as little prospect as ever of being com
forted in my widowhood, Tis strange —
passing strange. Let me see ; 1 will recall
the faces of some of those who have bowed
at my shrine in times gone bv.
The first that presents itself, is that of an
exceedingly nice young man—one whom
the girls called a pretty fellow, and who was
a general favorite. lie was noted for pump
soled bools and perfumery, for mammoth
cravats, and for fashionable apparel in gen
eral. 1 don’t recollect that he was remark
able for brains; but his prettiness fully com
pensated for what iie lacked in that partic
ular. Report said we were to be married,
but somehow, report made a sad mistake.
The next face belongs to one who was
emphatically a ladies man. lie visited eve
ry lady of his acquaintance, at regular
and oft-recurring times, He abounded in
small-talk—in delicate flattery and palpable
flattery—in easy nonchalance—in fine, in
complacent belief of his ability to captivate
any lady. He rejoiced in the reputation of
being a wholesale flirt. Certain persons,
however, were so invidious as to doubt whe
ther bis success with the ladies was anything
more than ordinary. It was, also, darkly
hinted that his visits were tiresome. ThU,
of course, originated among those who had
not been honored with them.
Another rises to view—a very tunny one.
Not that there was anything remarkable in
the face itself; its individuality beingalmost
totally derived from its adjuncts—beautiful
ly curling hair and an half starved mous
tache. It was an affecting sight to see him
lavishing tenderness on the half-starved
moustache, as if pitying its miserable con
dition ; and it was instructive to witness his
sublime faith in the efficacy of well curl
ed locks. When he entered a parlor, ea li
particular lock struggled to obtain the floor,
and seemed to say to him, “Now, my dear
fellow, all you have to do is to turn me
around to the best advantage. I’ll captivate
the lady without the aid of your talking.—
Don’t commit that irreparable blunder. No
body should pretend to have sense, who re
joice in such a splendid head of hair.” But
his most charming peculiarity was the pre
cise manner in which the half-starved mous
tache encored everything he said. His au
ditor had never any trouble in deciding at
what point of a story to laugh ; the mous
tache invariably laughed at the proper time.
In fact, it was a pretty study—that learning
the language of an half-starved moustache.
1 cordially recommend it to all who are in
terested in the intricacies of philosophy.
Are these all ? Eureka! I have it. I
now understand why I am an Old Maid.—
The pretty fellow undoubtedly was pleasant
to the sight and sweet to the smell—ns a
wax doll might he sweet and pleasant. But
to marry! Pish. And so of the Ladies’
man and the man with the curling locks and
half-starved moustache. Each was well
enough in his way—but the way ? Was it
abominable, or execrable, or both t I leave
it for others to decide. My solemn convic
tion is, that l am an Old Maid from sheer
force of circumstances, in living in this pret
ty village, and—because no woman of sense
would think of marrying the pretty fellow,
or the Ladies’ man, or the man with curling
locks and half-starved moustache.
Lola Laj>jk>o.
£Jg Crntjjctancc (Crusator.
PEN FIELD, GEORGIA.
Saturday morning Ittarcii 15, 1856.
OC T* Enclosed find your Bills, and settle
them, and accept as many thanks as you
think proper. The amount is small andyou
will not miss it. but it will help us abun
dantly.
TO PRINTERS.
A good Compositor is wanted at this oltiee, (and
none other need apply,) to whom a permanent situa
tion will be given. Address J. T. Blain.
Liberal Offer.
Any person sending us fire new Subscribers, ac
companied with the “rhino,” shall be entitled to an
extra copy of the Crusader for one year. Orders for
our Paper must invariably be accompanied with the
cash to receive attention.
We Need a Temperance Lecturer.
More than a month since a proposition was made
by Mr. 11. Phini/.ec, of Forsyth, to be one of sixty to
raise a salary of three thousand dollars for a Tempo
ranee Lecturer in Georgia, and the inquiry has been
mad*.*, who will join him in this undertaking? We
have awaited with anxiety to hear some response to
this call. But none have responded. Do any doubt
the necessity of a lecturer, or that be would be pro
ductive of the greatest practical benefit to the coun
try? We arc persuaded that none, or at least very
few, entertain either of these opinions. The benefi
cial results of Lectures on this subject have been
shown too plainly to leave any appearance of reason
to such views. It is true, we have hitherto had
comparatively few Lecturers of the right stamp. We
have had some who, for a time, zealously canvassed
the country and spoke furiously wherever they could
get any to hear them. But their bloated cheeks and
red noses too plainly proclaimed that they did not
practice wlmt they taught, and a few months found
them staggering under the influence of Rum, satis
reason, dignity or sense. Others have made it their
sole object to excite the laughter of their audience by
distorting into horrid grimaces “the human face di
vine.” Buch men have invariably injured rather than
b. nefitted the cause which they espoused, and brought
upon it the ridicule of an unthinking multitude.—
There have been, however, some noble, honorable
exceptions to these descriptions. We have had some
disinterested philanthropists, who have thrown aside
the advantages of private interests, and the love of
personal aggrandizement, and have labored with un
remitted zeal for the good of their fellow-men; who
have not striven to excite the mirth, flatter the van
ity or please the imagination of their hearers; but
have endeavored, by strong appeals, to win their
sympathies and convince their judgments. These
are the men who have done honor to themselves, and
advanced their cause; and such a man we want now.
To the lovers of the Tempera ce cause, the times
appear truly gloomy, and alarming. Their forces
are scattered, disorganized, without animation, and
unprepared for active service! Who can arouse this
host from their lethargy, awake them from their
death-like slumbers, and marshal them for a renew
ed combat. To accomplish these great and desirable
ends, an able, thorough-going Lecturer is indispen
sably necessary. Who then will second the move
ment of Mr. Phinlzee? Where are those old sires
of the Temperance Reformation, who twelve months
ago were so inspired with hope, so energetic in ac
tion? Can they not arouse their energies for one
more effort? Would that they would give this mat
ter a patient, prayerful consideration, and be moved
| to act with that zeal which they once manifested.
i The friends ofthe cause must begin to stir, must ro
| organize, and unite in one unyielding phalanx, to re
i pel the insidious 100, or Intemperance will continue
| to devastate our land, and groceries, grogshops, and
| all the horrid evils which they engender, will be
! transmitted, an accursed dowry, to posteritr. *
Dram-Drinking Church Members.
Is ( litre really n class who deserve the title placed
at the head of this article? We would fain say no;
hut truth demands a contrary reply. We know
there is such a class, and wc blush to say i! is quite
numerous. It is, 100, a class from which the Tem
perance Reformation has met with the most decided
opposition at every step of its progress. An opposi
tion which expended itself not in words, but was
manifested in the most vigorous action, arid was the
more successful, as it came from those who should
! have given it their earnest support.
Wc include not in the class of which we speak,
those who deem it a virtue to be ignorant; who liv
, ing in the light of the nineteenth century, yet breathe
the heavy air of the Dark Ages, and who think a
j stiff glass of “the good creature of Clod” the most en
dearing bond of Christian fellowship. These drink
because they know no better, and are, to some ex
tent, excusable. But we speak of those whose
Church Covenant or Discipline, expressly forbid the
immoderate use of intoxicating liquors, and who ad
mit in theory that they are highly injurious, and in
compatible with genuine piety. These are contemp
tible, neither for their numbers, or the influence,
which they are often found exerting in society.—
There are multitudes who pursue a course
opposed to the principles which they profess, which,
by their own admissions is demoralizing in its ten
dencies. They may be considered as divided into
two classes which differ from each other only in de
gree, not in kind.
The first of these are professedly very sound Tem
perance men; are by no means loth to deliver lec
tures on the subject, when they can do so with any
eclat; take prominent parts i:i church counsels, and
are ready to visit the full force of the law upon all
offenders. In their outward conduct they manifest
no want of propriety, yet they seldom fail to have a
well supplied bottle secreted in some private recess
with which they hold frequent and delightful cora
tmin oii. But a daily increasing appetite must final
ly acquire the ascendency of its victim, and his piety
and moral principles are entirely swept away by its
resistless strength. The alarming intelligence is then
conveyed to the community that brother A or B, who
for so long a time lias been considered a pattern of
sobriety, has suddenly become a ban! drinker. Not
so suddenly if all the facts were known. He has,
with a blind fondness, cherished, for many years, the
foul monster which has dcstioyed him, and he has
none but himself to blame as the author of his ruin.
The other class are less circumspect, or has hypo
critical, but perhaps more culpable. They at e not at
the trouble to hide their bottles, but blush not to call
for their glass at the bar of a tippling shop. They
may be found loitering around the grocery doors in
company with the miserable, degraded topers who
assemble there. There may be some, perhaps many,
who act thus, who never become intoxicated, or nev
er drink at all. But th's (Joes not, to any great ex
tent, diminish their guilt. The whole influence of
their example i> by this conduct given to intemper
ance, ami it is a matter of trivial importance whether
or not they themselves drink. We do most serious
ly, and we think most reasonably, doubt the piety
of any church member who can derive any enjoy
ment from the low, obscene jests which are heard
around a drinking shop. That men who take de
light in such things should desire to maintain a con
nection from which they do not derive, and to which
they do not impart any benefit, is a paradox we can
not explain. Be it said to their shame, it is often
mercenary motives alone which influence churches
to retain such members.
Such is the charactei of some of those who set
themselves up as lights: but like the deceptive glare
of the ignis fatuus, they lead their deluded followers
-into the quagmires of death. Professing to he the
salt of the earth, they arc the unsavory element
which poisons the very life blood of society. Evil,
and that continually, is the work of their hands, avd
vice, misery and crime, the natural results of their
influence. *
Error Must Develope Itself.
This remark has been known to he true so long
that it has passed into an axiom, and yet is verv rare
ly considered a practical truth. Many who readily
yield it their assent when stated, seem never to think
of it as a fact which is every day verified. Multi
tudes pend their lives in deception, earnestly engag
ed in promulgating error, fondly supposing that they
have achieved a work which will be as lasting as
time. But it is a reflection which must he consoling
to every lover of truth that error, however much it
may baffle his efforts, contains within itself, the ele
ments of its own destruction ; some principle which
must finally disclose its deformity to the world.—
Come in what form it may, though it he as gaudy as
the‘rainbow, or brilliant as an angel of light, it must
fade away before the face of truth. It has within it
self no elemeut of perpetuity, must inevitably perish
when no longer fostered by its adherents, and its
form and its power alike pass away.
From its creation up to the present time, this world
has been a vast battlefield where truth and error
have striven for mastery. Everywhere over the earth
has the conflict raged, and the noise of the combat
has reached every land. Error has summoned Her
culean strength, and built up systems which defied
the revolutions of ages, and her votaries fondly im
agined her power eternal. Her giant form spread
its portentous shadow over the nations, and beneath
its I pas shade the horrid shapes of prejudice, bigot
ry and fanaticism sprang into existence, whose office
it is to poison the purest fountains of human happi
ness. She enthroned licrself in all the majestic pomp
°f power, and kingdoms and empires bowed before
her in servile homage. But she could not thus re
main. The seeds of dissolution were sown in her na
ture and all the paraphernalia of regal magnificence
could not prolong her existence. Her towers crum
bled, her strong places wore captured and the ban
ner of truth waves in triumph over their ruins.
Such has been the fate of some of those errors
which have for centuries held fearful reign over man
kind. Tt has presented itself in forms less imposing,
but no less ambitious, to gain and exercise a lordly
dominion over the minds of men. It has coine clad
in the specious garb of Philosophy, and putting on
the form of truth, has led them astray by its false
pretenses. It has boldly 7 dared to attack the founda
tion of all reasoning, and by its subtle sophistry has
led off the human mind into mystic labyrinths, where
it could find no place of rest, “in wandering mazes
i lost.” With an airy intangibility it eludes inquiry,
and thwarts every effort of logical skill. But this
I very 7 tendency to avoid scrutiny finally proves the
I chief agent in their overthrow. Like all other errors,
! when brought to the test of a close examination, they
I tuelt “and like the baseless fabric of a vis
; ion, leave not a rack behind.”
It is an old and true adage that “murder will out.”
The same is true of all manner of error in a still high
er sense. No strength which the favor of earthly
potentates can bestow can save it from this self-de
velopment. They may impart to it, for a brief peri
i od, the power of the truth, but never can bestow up
: on it (hat great essential element, eternal existence,
i “Os the earth earthly” is written alike upon its
i nature, and every effect which it produces. It may
! raise vast monuments to its glory, proud landmarks
i along the stream of Time, to mark its progress, and
; proclaim it< victories, which outliving the systems
i they were erected to commemorate, stand mournful
| relics of things forgotten and unknown,
i Error, in whatever form it may present itself, has
| never failed to he deleterious in its nature, and pro
i ductivc of evil. If there be any one thing which
I more than all others has brought woe upon mankind,
| that thing is religious error. This has existed in all
| ages, and its adherantslmvc clung to it with a fanat
ical zeal bordering on madness. It has excited per
secutions, the mention of whose horrors would shock
the strongest nerves, and converted the world into a
Golgatha of Death. From the day when the shout
around the Golden Calf was raised from the Jewish
camp, to that on which Smith exhumed his mysteri
ously inscribed plates, error, fanaticism, and bigotry
have been leagued allies, and the amount of mischief
which they have wrought upon the human family
cannot he estimated. Religious systems have been
founded in error, and built up from elements of the
most discordant nature until they were overthrown
by their own incongruity. And so with all error.—
It can never form a regular, well-adjusted structure.
There will he parts which fit illy with other parts,
and destroy the beauty and symmetry of the whole.
Errors which once wielded great power have fallen
from their own weakness. But the world is still fall
of error. There are errors in morals, in polities, in
philosophy, in religion, which apparently defy all
detection. But let the lover of Truth despond not.
The dark shadows of Ignorance and Superstition are
slowly but surely rolling off the earth. The banner
of Truth must eventually wave in triumph over a
world subdued to its reign ; it must finally conquer
in its conflict, which has been waging for more than
forty centuries. Let him press on then with pa
tience and vigor ; for “it must follow as the night the
day,” that error must develope itself. *
Our Book Table.
Jidinburgh Heciew. This is perhaps the most cel
ebrated of the four Reviews republished by Leonard
Scott A( o. It is a sufficient mark of its high char
acter to say that this was one of those “Scotch Re
views” immortalized by the pen of Byron. Price $3
a-year.
Southern: Medical and Surgical Journal. This
periodical justly deserves the liberal patronage which
it receives front the devotees of Medical Science. It
isedifed with great ability, and numbers among its
contributors some of the most talented Physicians of
the South.
Job Office.
Persons wishing Job Printing done, must address
J. T. Bluin,—-see Ids card. The proprietor of this
paper has nothing to do with that department.
Married—Will our Time Ever Come ?
In the issue preceding our last wo published the
departure of two of our old friends and warm associ
ates, (J. TV. B. and TV. F. II.) from this life of single
blessedness; the “last two” on our list that we thought
‘could ever marry * —but
“ ’Tis strange how in things most remote
Love will some likeness find;
It is as an electric chain
Were flung upon the mind.
Making each pulse in uni-on,
Till they hut thrill and throb in one.”
Our sincere acknowledgments are due them for*
their kind and pressing invitations to he present and
witness their “awful plunge.” We found it totally
impracticable to do so. We happily assure one ofc.
them that his “sweet” remittance of a “piece of cake”
was duly received. We placed it under our pillow,
invoking Queen Mab to muster up her fairy train,
and we had a most shocking passage through the
i Spirit land. We, ourself, individually, and personal-*
! iv had become “bone of one hone” and “flesh of one
flesh” with a red-headed, freckled-faced, cross-eyed,
I pigeon-toed representative ofEve, and was agonizing
j under all the curses, trials, and tribulations atten
| dant upon copartnerships formed at the llymenitf!
’ altar. We had a “sk rniish” with our “worser half,”
and in the difficulty bit a piece from the small of her
hack. Our troubles becoming too ohorous to carry,
we awoke, and found, to our joy, that our multifari
ous matrimonial troubles were being caused by a
“mice” which had smelt the cake, and in his search
for it had gotten hold of our “ear” and was gnawing
it movsef ully. We felt greatly relieved to find it no
worse—we were still a single man.
But are we doomed to a prolonged existence in
destitution, suffering and nakedness, the legitimate
fruits.of old Bachelorism? We trust not, and since
our two friends have found respectable, highly ac
complished and exceedingly elegant ladies “simple”
enough to risk their chances in such hands, we
take abundant courage. But we have struck so
many sand-bars under the breezes of “coquetry,”
i been turned “hecl-a-hcads” through the leger-de-
I main oi chaste “Flirtation,” “and sung the last link is
! broken that bound me to thee,” so often, that our heart
i is growing faint and restless, and wehavn’t the cour
j Age to “pop the question” any more. And we would
| say, in pathetic anguish, to our fair sisterhood, that
i our arm- are now folded, and our boat is drifting up
on the wide ocean without a helmsman, will not some
of you ministoring Sublunary Angels come and of
fer your services to pilot it over the precarious waste
intasome sweet Haven ? It is leap year—do come!
; We will gladly welcome you to our “Fathers house.”
—
Miss Holsey not Married.
j The marriage notice of Miss Ella Holsey, of Sparta,
which appeared recently in the Central Georgian,
turns out to be premature information manufactured
by -ome infamous tale-bearer. Miss Ella is one of
the most elegant, amiable, and worthy V’oung ladies
of our State, and any attempt upon the part of any
one to injure her b} 7 false publications should not go
unwhipped of justice.
Negro Marriage.
In our last issue we published a notice of the mar
riage of Essex Weaver and Frances Emanuel, which
we have since learned was a negro marriage. We
regret that we were not informed of this fact before
publishing the notice. It was sent to us by a good*
friend, and we simply glanced at it, (as we usually
do such notices when we recognize the person send
ing them) and handed it in to the Printer. We have
fretted so often over impositions in the way of mar
riage notices, that wc forbear to express ourselves in
regard to this one. We regret that it was published
under the same head with White People.
Stop Papers,—Settle Arrearages.
j Persons ordering their papers discontinued, must
invariably pay up all their dues. We shall not strike
off any subscribers name who is in arrears.
f-UF'The following note of “Sic Transit'*' ’ adven
tures has been handed us by a correspondent. We
pay him no very extravagant compliment when we
pronounce it the best we have seen.
Sir transit and his brother Gere com in last even
ing by the fate. Sic looks rather bonl from vox- he
has received from sum one. You orta sedem at supi r
last night, when he satis self at the head of the table.
Sic and Gere (gem ini !) brought a quarto liquor with
them. They are noAtUn hoys and not thepvcr gen
tlemen their hastes thought’ they were. Gere ait a
very large /nine of hoc at te, besides a great deal of
<*’ cetera —he i< withal a perfect guis. Sic soon got
into a Jide with old man flic's sore, but he founder
couldn’t finer hue out. flic had ncc holt on him and
was about to beta a hole in hitn, when sum one sed
“make him ride a railanother sat “ tulem , boys,”
and Sir. began to tjcllo , and hogged him to lucem. —
If his object was to rentes courage anas didn’t lie
fuisil? Alas for Gere , he et too luanv jtes and vrb.s,
and is in cere much mi cri about his belli. They
will ait in a few das —we hope before the parte. —
After the Jide was over. Sir *cd. da mas. and Gere ml
ding the urb*. j) u - 4
Penfield, March 4th.
jggr’Mr. Adam T. Scott, Tax Collector for lboo,
and elected again for the preseut year, having failed
to square up on last year's score, renders another
election necessary, which we learn will be held on
the Ist Tuesday in May.
53*P\Ve return our thanks to Hon. Robt. Toombs,
for a copy of his Lecture in Boston.
Georgia News Condensed.
T he county site of Lee county lias been changed
from Webster to Starkville.
Edwin L. Hollis has been elected Jailor of Chat
ham county.
1 he tax far a billiard table, or any other gaming
table, in Newnan, is three hundred dollars a-voar.
Charles S. Arnold, the junior member of the firm
of Paddleford, Fay Cos., in Savannah, died recently
in New York.
A man by the name of Wilson, confined in the
Cassville jail, for burglary, made his escape on the
27th ult.
An Agency of the Branch of the Bank of the State
of Georgia, at Augusta, has been established in At
lanta. A J. Brad} 7 , Agent.
Col. J. TV. Dodd has re-assumed the editorial man
agement of the Rome Southerner, from which he re
tired a year or two since.
Col. John S. Hutton, of bibb county, has been ap
pointed one of the Aids to his Excellency, 11. T
Johnson.
Rev. J. B. Stiteler, of Baylor University, Texas,
has been appointed to the pastoral charge of the
First Baptist Church in Savannah.
George A. Gordon, Esq., of Savannah, has been
appointed Commissioner ut the Court of Claims for
the State of Georgia.
The Governor has appointed Dennis F. Hammond,
Judge, and W. M. Fu’ldcr, Solicitor of the new Cir
cuit formed from Coweta, Carroll, and other counties.
The Georgia Hussars, of Savannah, have accepted
an invitation from the Charleston Dragoons, to unite
with them in their next anniversary paiade on the
Ist of April.
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