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EXTRACT FROM A LECTURE ON PHI
LOSOPHY.
Delivered in Tho/nasciUe, ltd,
IK| JOHN M. DYSON.
( Concluded.)
Philosophy, in its growth, follows that
Mtv of gradation which obtains in nil pro
gress. The fusibility of matter into gaseous
vapor, as demonstrated by the compound
blowpipe, and tho existence of masses of
i nebulas in the stetlar world revealed by the
i telescope, together with the remains of fish
! es. reptiles, coal-beds, and the depositions of
| successive strata, found iinbededat immense
j depths belo w the surface of the earth, mdi*
[cate that many ages must have elapsed in
’ the process of its formation ere it became
fitted for the abode of man. And history
plainly teaches that the civilization of the
present century is the sum total of all the in
ftiustrv and legislation, all the toils and wars,
all the error and truths, that have engaged
the attention of man since iris creation.—
The same silent and indestructible process
of accretion characterizes Philosophy.—
Great ideas are evolved slowly, and require
time in order to be established ; but -Ulti
mately they become incorporated into our
forms of thinking, constitute the staple of
the most ordinary conversation, and impart
vitality to the institutions of the- day. But
though the centuries are slow in bringing
them to light, their appearance is not there
fore the less cert gin. There is ever going
on in nature, the act of self-registration.—
>See how the whirlwind leaves its track in
the desolation of the forest, the rolling stone
its scrat h -on the declivity of the hill-side,
and the decaying leaf a spot of fungous
earth, to attest their agency; so does every
; age. every epoch, every era, every race, ey
ery language, every phase of society, fur
nish its distinctive feature which Philosophy
straightway seizes, and stereotypes on her
tablet. From every quarter she is receiv
ing contributions to augment the sum oi
human knowledge. She garners up in her
immense storehouse the precious grains of
wisdom beat out on the threshing floor of
time, and reserves them for the common in
heritance. The discoveries of one age be
come the acquisitions of the next, in a circle
of progress whose circumference is ever
| widening, and whose motion continues to
j accelerate the march of improvement. As
the world grows older, it grows richer in
wisdom. The individual, like tho leaves ot
a tree, may perish, but race, like the trunk
of that tree, will survive, . Fach generation
commences its improvement where that of
the preceding terminated. Tho child, that
has not seen more than a dozen summers,
may understand physical geography better
than Colurhbns, whom it required years of
patient study to arrive at the theory of the
rotundity of the Earth. The boy, who has
not reached the age of majority, may go far
ther in astronomy than Copernicus, Gallileo,
or Kepler, and follow Newton in ! is exten
sive mathematical combinations. And it is
difficult to find a graduate of any of our col
leges, if his attainments be at all respecta
ble, whose notions in metaphysics are not
j clearer than Plato’s or Aristotle’s. Such is
the vantage ground, resting on ail past, ages,
occupied by Philosophy. It is always pro
gressing and never completed ; always ac
quiring and never satiated. It is the” very
genius of humanity, and therefore a neces
sity ; and though like industry, like politics,
like art, like religion, temporary circumstan
ces may war}) it into occasional error, yet
like industry, politics, art, and religion, it is
nevertheless a necessity. It is not, as many
imagine, the creature of the schools, but the
voice of universal reason.
AVo have said that Philosophy is the love
of wisdom, and wisdom is the practical ap
plication of knowledge. It remains then to
vindicate the practical character of Phvlos
ophy. For more than two thousand years
did it rule the world under tho systems of
Plato and Aristotle. True, it was often.oc
cupied with verbal quibbles and scholastic
subtleties, but then it fashioned all the insti
tutions of that day, both civil and ecclesias
tic. The school, the college, the church,
the bar, the workshop, trade, and commerce,
all were modified by it. In process oftime
Cfftne the inductive method ofßacon, which
inaugurated anew era in science. Its pro
gress was rendered more certain, and its re
sults more tangible. Everywhere we see
its fruits ,* in steam locomotives; in disarm
ing electricity of its terrors ; in the renova
tion of the exhausted soils of the old world ;
in the safety extended to the miner ; and in
the prolongation of the average duration of
human life. It has added to civilization in
numerable comforts and conveniences which
bless the poor as well as the rich. Nor
must we overlook the few’ instances when
Philosophy; like a silent cloud, has gone on
gathering strength, until it burst upon the
world like an appalling clap of thunder,
spreading horror and dismay amid blood
shed, amid carnage, and amid revolution;—
The student, who gits at the feet of ages to
learn with humility the lessons of wisdom,
will not forget, that the French Revolution
of 1798, with all its elements of good and
evil, owed its origin to a recluse buried
among books and portfolios. That man
was Locke. Greater than Ctesar, or Alex
ander, or Napoleon ; ho resoTted to ideas,
, and not brute force, by which to move the
| world. And he did move it; he upturned
PENFIELD, GA, SATURDAY, MARCH 2% 1856.
from their foundations the politics of kings ;
he made princes tremble upon their thrones;
he sapped the timehonored strength of
priestcraft; and all by the talismanic power
of philosophic thought. And our Revolu
tion, bringing with it a long series of events
calculated to promote justice and liberty,
was greatly modified by Franklin. He it
was, who first moved the union of the colo
nies into a confederated republic, and the
spirit of his w-ritings still breathes in the
thrift, economy, and greatness of our people.
In no nation, indeed, has liberty been cher
ished, where Philosophy was not cultivated.
It enters into the inmost recesses of our be
ing, and in the constitution of tho will dis
covers the germ of all free institutions. It I
dictates the policy, and decides the battles,
of nations. Marathon and Salamis, Wa
terloo and Bunker Hill, were not merely
bloody battles ; they were crises in the opin
ions of the world to settle whether principle
or chaos, light or darkness, truth or error,
philosophy or empiricism, should prevail,—
Philosophy is also the handmaid of religion.
It has met infidelity and atheism on their
own ground more than a thousand times,
and as often vanquished them in the conflict.
Before the splendor of its blase superstition
vanishes as the mist of the morning. There
are times when religion seems to decline be
hind the hills and mountains of iniquity, and
it is then that the truths of science, like the
stars in the sky, come out to admonish us by
their smile that all is not gloom, that Hea
ven is still above us, and that light will again
return to bless our vision. Philosophy
shows us God in all things; in the flying
cloud, in the tempestuous storm, in the moan
ing winds, in the vicisitudes of the seasons,
and in the great miracle of decay and repro
duction ever going on. It leads the mind
to look with aversion on riches, and to de
spise vulgar applause. It whispers of se
renity, benignant affections, sweet charities,
cultivated manners, and humble submission
to the allotments of Divine Providence.
WtlSzeMmsm® Select
THEY SAY.
Well, what if they do? It may not be
true. A great many false reports are cir
culated, apd the reputation of a good man
may be sadly sullied by a baseless rumor.
Have you any reason to believe that what
they say concerning your brother is true"?
If not, why should you permit your name to
be included among the “they” who circu
late a scandal?
They say —. Wt o says? Is any per
son responsible for the assertion? Such
phrases are frequently used to conceal the
point of an enemy’s poignard, who thus
meanly strikes one whom he dare not open
ly assail. Are you helping the cowardly at
tack ? If “they” means nobody, then re
gard the rumor as nothing.
They say —. Why do they say so? Is
any good purpose secured by the circulation
of the report? Will it benefit the individual
to have it known; or will any interests of
society be promoted by whispering it about?
If not, you had better employ time and
speech to some more worthy purpose.
They say —. To whom do they say it?
To those who have no business with the af
fair ? To those who cannot help it or mend
it, or prevent any unpleasant results? That
cortainly shows a tattling, scandal-loving
spirit that ought to be rebuked.
They say —. Well, do they say it to
him ? Or are they very careful to whisper
it in places where he cannot hear it, and to
persons who are known not to be his friends?
Would they dare to say it to him, as well as
about him? No one has a right to say that
concerning another, which lie is not. ready
to speak in his own ear.
They say —. Well, suppose it is true.—
Are you not sorry for it; or do you rejoice
that a bi other has been discovered erring?
Oh, pity him if he has fallen into sin, and
pray for him that he may be forgiven and
1 restored.
I fit should be true, don’t bruit it abroad
to his injury. It will not benefit you, nor
him, nor society, to publish his faults, You
are as liable to lie slandered, or to err, as
your brother, and as ye would that he should
defend, or excuse, or forgive you, do ye
even so to him.
_ _
A LADY ON BEARDS.
A fair correspondent of the Home Jour
nal has the following sensible remarks on
the wholesome habit of wearing tho beard,
which has lately come into fashion :
u It is astonishing w’hat a change a few
years has wrought in regard to shaving.
Once, everybody shaved, but now, I much
mistake, if every gentleman has not found
to shave or not to shave, a question sug
gested by his morning toilet. Alas for the
razor-strop man. His occupation is near
ly gone. I hope he will succeed in find
ing another, for the present generation will
lx> a bearded race.
“I was quito interested last winter in
reading a 4 'Natural History of tho Human
Species,’ by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles
Hamilton Smith, in which he states that a
bearded race are the conquering races.—
For this reason, tho beardless races are
averse to them. This aversion ho states
tobo the result Os experience, proving the
superior activity of those who have sprung
from ‘such races. Jeughis, Timur and
Nadid Shah, were directly, or in their an
cestry, descended from Caucasian mothers,
and hence, also, the jealous exclusion of
the European women, fpom China. The
progressive nations, he tells ns, are a beard
ed and hairy race. Sampson’s strength
lay in his hair. Bereft of that hrs mighty
power was gone. The lion is king of the
forest. How much of his beauty he owes
to his magnificent inane. Shave him, and
he is king m> longer/
“I cannot imagine why a beard is given
to man, unless it rs to try his patience, if
h.*jis. t<-spend his time in daily cutting’ it,
a* it daily asserts its right to a manifested
existence. The beard is an emblem oft
nianly power and dignity, and is certainly {
an element of manly beauty. Tho Fa .
flier of the Faithful, and all the old- PatriA
archs and Prophets wore beard;'so did
our Saviou-r, when ha dwelt as man among
the hills of Judea. So, too, most *of the
venerable divines who have transmitted to
us their schemes of theology. It is ft mod- }
ern itineration to shave off the whole j
beard. It was not common before the (
commencement of the last century. Mos-j
es forbade the Jews to mar the corners of!
their beard; and David, when hie Embas-j
sadors were insulted by Hainan’s shaving j
off one halt* of their beards, permitted them
to tarry at Jericho till their beard* had
grown.
“While the beard properly Worn, is an
ornament, it is sometimes rendered hide
oils by the manner in which it is trimmed.
A round mass of bristles on tho chin is nev
er becoming, yet sometimes thin cheeked,
long-faced gentlemen elongate their coun
tenances, in this way; often these tufts
impart a low, animal expression; they nev
er confer dignity nor beauty. Some few
are greatly improved by fall whiskers,
others by a moustache. Some look best
with the beard rather close. It requires
an artist’s eye to decide on what is most
becoming. Nature leaves a varying out
line to the beard, which is more perfect
than any semi-circle cut bv a razor.
“Perhaps yon may think I have .wan
dered from my proper sphere in writing
about beards. I had no idea of doing, so
when I commenced - this letter; you must
charge it all to snow storms. I must leave
the subject of ladies’ dress for another day.
Yours, <fcc., “Anna Hope.?*
THE SANDGLASS.
In our present use of clocks and watch
es wo miss something of the striking les
sons which our fathers had when the sand
glass was used.- There is much about this
antiquated emblem to impress the imag
ination. How goodly seems the store of
sand in the upper department of tho glass
when it first begins to run I So the year
appears at its opening to many a thought
less spendthrift of time. It is rich in
many days, and one stolen from them for
fully will never be missed. After a little
comes what we may call the manhood of
the glass: the sand is half expended.—
Yet a little longer, and its old age draws
on; the mass of sand, once a goodly heap,
is now diminished to a few grains. The
last of them comes—it glides, it falls, and
the mural of life is told. Sand-glasses for
domestic use seldom contain, now-a-days,
more dust than would last a few minutes.
Once, however, they were made to em
brace a larger portion of time. We have
sometimes thought, could a-glass I*3 im
agined large enough to hold the sands of a
man's whole life, and could thero be shown
below, in separate, departments, the way
in which each portion of the mass that
ran down had been employed, how start
led should wo he with the spectacle!—
What mountains would be found spent in
sin i What, hills in vain pleasures?—
What tiny portions in the real service of
God, and in devotion to the things of eterni
ty. — Leisure Hour.
RUM TRAFFIC.
The rum traffic is a ceaseless scourge.—
,‘t is no respecter of persons. Every week
adds to its hecatomb of victims, and the
upper grog-shops—sacred to those who oc
cupy position and standing—furnishes a
full quota. Indeed, these are tho grand
recruiting stations for tho whole army of
drunkards. Shorn of some of the more
disgusting features which repulse from low
groggeries, they 7 enlist the unwary, and
make strong the chains of tho destroyer.—
Those who sustain such houses —'“respects
ble” liquor shops—do far more towards
the spread of intemperance than tho thou
sands who congregate father down the
stream. The man of position, intellect,
and, commanding talents, who, in public
or in the social circle, lends his influence
to a great wrong, rests under a fearful * re
sponsibility. lie does far worse than to
bury the talents confided to his care. Ho
makes them giant levers for evil. He
stands where he could reach out and lend
a strong hand to a great reform —help to
roll back an aecursing flood, which carries
away in its black current tho hopes and
happiness of thousands —yet rotuses to
heed the right. He strengthens wrong.—
He helps make paupers and criminals, and
impoverish and disgrace his fellow-beings.
He cannot shirk this matter. No one ev
er saw a gutter-drunkard yet, but what
quoted the example of men of wealth and
position, as an excuse for his own degrada
tion. And in Auburn, there is no lack of
such examples to refer to. Men and wo
men who should lead in good works, choose
rather to aid and sustain a foul and loath*
spuio traffic. In view of all this, we trust
that when the long deferred decision on
the prohibitory law comes, justice wj.ll
strike in high quarters. Take care of the
i'estpeetable drunkeries first, and the lower
groggories will surrender without parley.
The traffic is outlawed in the Empire State.
Then why not bring homo tho whole
strength of that outlawry even to rum curs
ed Auburn ? Let us clear away this
scourge, and see if cmr city will be any the
less prosperous—-see if our poor are not as
well clad and fed, as under the away of
■ whisky, and the great principles of truth
and justice as well promoted.— Coy. Chief.
SCENE IN A LOU CABIN.
It was nearly midnight on Saturday i
night, that a messenger came to Col. ;
requesting him to go to the cabin of a get-!
tier, some* three miles down tho river, and :
see his daughter, a girl of fourteen, who
was snpposed to bo dying. Col. awoke
me and asked me to accompany him, and
I consented, taking with mo the small
package of medicines which I always car
ried in the forest; but I learned soon there
was no need of these, for her disease was
past euro.
“ She is a strange child,” said the colo
nel, “ her father is as atrago ft man.—
They live-together alone on the bank of
the river. They came herd three years
ago, and no one knows whence or why.—
He has money, and*i6 a keen shot. The
child has betfn wasting away for a year
past. I havo seen her often, and she seems
gifted with a marvelous intellect. She
speaks sometimes as if inspired, and seems
to be the only hope of her father.
We reachtxl the hut of the settler in
less than half an hour, and entered rever
ently.
The scone was one that cannot easily be
forgotten. There wore books and ‘evi
dences of luxury and taste, lying on the
rude table in the center. A guitar lay on
the table near the small window, and” the
bed furniture, on which the dying girl lay,
was as soft as the covering of a dying qneen:
She wag a fair child, with maeges of long
black hair lying over her pillow. Her eye
was dark and piercing, and as it met
mine, she started slightly, but smiled and
looked upward. I spoke a few words to
her father, and turning to her, asked her if
she knew her condition.
“ I know that my Redeemer liveth,”-
said she, in a voice whose melody was like
the sweetest tones of an Eolian. You may
imagine that tho answer startled me, and
with a few words of like import, I turned
from her. A half hour- passed, and she
spoke in the same deep, rich, melodious
voice:
“ Father, I am cold; lie down beside
me,” and the old man lay down by his
dying child, and she twined her emaciated
arras around his neck, and murmured in a
dreamy voice, “Dear father—dear father.”
“My child,” said the old man, “ doth
the flood seem deep to thee?”
“Nay, father, for ray soul is strong.’*
“See’st thou the thither shore ?”
“I see it, father; and its banks are green
with immortal verdure.”
“Hearest thou the voices of its Inhabit
ants ?”
“I hear them, father, as the voices of an
gels, falling from afar in the still and sol
emn night-time; and they call me. Her
voice, too, father—oh, I heard it then!”
“Doth she speak to thee ?”
“She speaketh in tones most heavenly!”
“Doth she smile ?”
“An angel smile! But, a cold, calm
smile. But I am cold—cold--! Father,
there’s a mist in the room. You'll bo lone
ly, lonely. Is this death, father?”
And so she passed away.
A GREAT IRAN.
GeorgeXippArd, in his work called “the
Nazarino ” thus speaks of President Jack
son : “Hd was a man ! Well I remember
the day I waited upon him. He sat there
in his arm chair—l can see that old warri
or’s face, with its snow white hair even
now. Wo told him of the public distress
—the manufacturers ruined, the eagles
shrouded in crape, which were borno at
the head of twenty thousand men into In
dependence Square. He heard ns all.- —
Wo begged him to leave tho deposits
where they were; to uphold the great bank
in Philadelphia. Still ho did not say a
word. At last one of our members, more
fiery than the rest intimated, that if the
Bank were crushed, a rebellion might fol
low. Then the old man rose. I can see
him yet.
“Come 1” he shouted in a voive of thun
der, as his clutched hand was raised above
his white hairs—“Como with bayonets in
your hands instead of petitions—surround
the White House with your legions—l am
ready for yon all! With the people at
my back, whom your gold can noither buy
nor awe, I will swing yon np around the
Capitol, each rebel of you—on a jibbot—
high as Hainan’s.”
“When I think,” says the author, “of
that one man standing there at Washing
ton, battling with all the powers of Bank
and Panic combined, betrayed by those
in whom ho trusted, assailea by all that
the snike of malico hiss or the fiend of
falsehood howl —when I think of that one
man placing his hack against the. rock and
folding his arms for the blow while he ut
tered Sis vow: “I will not swerve one
C TERMS: SI.OO IN ADVANCE.
L JAMES T. BLAIN,
L PRINTER.
VOL. XXII.-NUMBEE 12.
inch from the course I have chosen !”—I
must confess that the records of Greece
and Romo—nay, the proudest days of
Cromwell or Napoleon cannot furnish an
instance of n wjll like that of Andrew
Jackson, when ho placed life an A sold and
famo on the hazard of u die, for the peo
ple’s welfare.” —Providence Sentinel
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.
The following wait’, afloat on the “sea
of reading,” we clip from an exchange.—
We do not know irs paternity, but it con
tains some wholesome truths, beautifully
set forth:
Men seldom think of the great event of
death until the shadow falls across their
own path, hiding forever from their eyes
the traces of the loved one whose living
smiles were the sunlight of their existence.
Death is the great antagonist of life, and
tho cold thought of the tomb is the skele
ton of all facts. We do not want to go
through the dark valley, although its pas
sages may lead to paradise; and with
Charles Lamb, we do not want to lie down
in the muddy grave, even with kings and
princes for our bed fellows.
But the fiat of nature is inexorable.—
Ihero is no appeal or relief from the great
law which dooms us to dust. We flourish
and we fade as the leaves of the forest, and
the flower that blooms and withers in a
day has not a frailer hold upon life than
the mightiest monarch that ever shook
the earth with his footsteps. Generations
of men appear and vanish as the grass,
and the countless multitude that throngs
the world to.day, will to-morrow disappear
as the footsteps on the shore.
■ln tho beautiful drama of lon, the in
etinct of immortality, so eloquently utter
ed by the death devoted Greek, finds a
doep response in every thoughtful soul.—
When about to yield his young exist*-nee
as a sacrifice to fate, his beloved Clem
antho asks if they shall not meet ag on,
to which he replies, “I have asked that
dreadful question of the hills that look
eternal—of the clear streams that flow for
ever—of the stars among whose fields of
azure my raised spirit hath walked in glo
ry. All were dumb. But. while I gaze
upon thy living face; I feel that there is
.something in the love that mantles through
its beauty that cannot wholly perish.—
We shall meet again Clemanthe.
POLITENESS IN MEN AND WOMEN.
A Cincinnati editor makes the follow
ing revelations of the comparative polite
ness of tho sexes in that locality;
“Not long since we had occasion to ride
a short distance in one of Our city omnibuses.
It was after dark, and the omnibus started
off, nearly filled with men. Soon it stop
pea, and a woman opened the door; in
stantly there was a move among the men;
they crowded together, and a seat was
furnished the lady. After proceeding a
Bquareor two further, another lady wished
to get in; an additional squeeze was made,
and she was accommodated with a seat. A
similar application was again soon made,
and a gentleman instantly gave up his seat
and got on top. Another soon followed,
and another gentleman did likewise. Re
peated instances like this occurred, and
tho gentlemen by crowding together, hold
ing market baskets and children, accom
modated every lady applicant, till we coun
ted inside —men, women and children—
nearly twenty persons. Then the number
began to diminish; men and children got
out, and the omnibus was decently filled
with women, there being but two men in
side, and they at the further end, complete
ly blocked in by market-baskets. And
now a woman opened the door; not a lady
stirred. “Can I have a seat,” modestly
asked tho applicant. “I should like to see
where you’d sit,” said one lady. “Don’t
you see this’bus is full?” said another.—
“You can’t stand,” sneeringly said a third.
“I can walk,” replied tho spunky appli
cant, and slamming the door off she walk
ed.
“Now, had tho omnibus been as full of
men as it was.of women, that lady would
have been furnished a seat without a mur
mnr. But it is not only in the omnibus
that men show their superior politeness
over women. In a rainy day, if wo meet
two men abreast on a crossing, one instant
ly steps behind tho other, and gives you &
passway. But if you meet two ladies ten
chances to one but you have to step in
tho mud. In a crowded church, men will
squeeze together to accommodate another
man; but ladies will spread themselves
out, so that threo or four would fill a pew,
and not an inch will they move to accom
modate one of their own sex. So in rail
road cars, and other places where men
and women congregate, and where the true
disposition is instinctively shown. We
state those as general cases. There are
exceptions, of course; but we merely wish
to draw attention to the general fact, that
while a man’s rudeness to a woman is so
rare as to attract notice when it occurs,
the rudeness of a woman towards a man, or
towards another woman, is so common as
to be considered a matter of course. If,
among other ‘Woman’s Rights,* wl ich
some ladies are now striving to obtain,
they will engraft the right to be always
courteous and polite to each other, we
men will take care of ourselves, and them,
too-—God bless’em. With all their faults
w love them still.”