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WM®. 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. #