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PLL LET YOU. v .- A q*rr-:. - ‘• *! ‘i,’\ ■ If a kiss be delightful—so tending f That a thousand soft wishes besetjyou, # {, I vow by the nectar that Jupitar ?*, .... J;! On certain conditions —l'lllat ‘ If you swear by my charms that Crne. ■ And that no other datnsefcsbpdl gal yowl By the stars that roll rouid. Jpotf sumw efijlua, Perhaps sir,— m y<W- . . If not urged by a passign as fleeting ; That makes all the virtues forget you. But affcgtiQß. wTCUilhtd* ssftt foment ana mild. You ask for a kiss, then—l’ll let you. ,J’ * /../ V(4tsp>U ‘ * ~ . sggjf*There is something beautiful in the lollowing lines : Take the bright shell From its home on the sea. And wherever it goes It will sing of the sen. , So take the fond heart From its home and iU hearth, ’Twill sing of the loved To the ends of the earth. “MY WIPE IS THE CAUSE OP IT ” It is now more than .fort? years ago that Mr. L. called at the house of Dr. B one very cold morning, on his wav to H “Sir,” said the Doctor, “the weather is very frosty, will you not. take ‘something to drink,’ before you start?” In that early day, ardeut spirits were deemed indispensable to warmth in winter. When commencing a journey, and at eve-, rv stopping place along the road, the trav eler always used intoxicating drinks to keep him warm. “No,” said Mr. “1 never touch any thing of that kind, and I will tell you the reason; my wife is the, cause of it. I had beer in the habit of meeting some of our neigh bore every evening, for the purpose *>f playing cards. We asseinbed at each other’s shop, and liquors were introduced. After a while wo met not so much for playing a* drinking, and I used to return home late in the evening more or less in toxica ted. My wife always met me at the door, affectionately, and when I chided her for sitting up so late for me, she kind }y replied,.“l prefer doing so, for I can not sleep when you are out.” “Thisalways troubled me; I wished in iuy heart that she would only begin to scold me, for then l could have retorted and relieved my conscience. But she al ways met me with the same gentle and loving spirit. “Tilings passed on thus for months when I at last resolved that I would, by remaining very late and returning much intoxicated, provoke her displeasure so much as to cause her to lecture me when i meant to answer her with, severity, and thus by creating another issue between us, unbnrtheii my bosom of its present trouble., ”1 returned in such a plight about four o'clock in the morning. She met me at j the door with her usual .tenderness, and | *aid, come in, husband; I.hare just been j making a warm tire for you, because l| knew you would be cold. Take off your! boots warm tour feet, and here is a cup of j hot coffee.” “Doctor, that was tuv much. 1 could not endure it any longer, and i resolved j that moment that I would never touch j another drop while 1 lived, and 1 never will. He never did. He lived and died prae-! rising total abstinence from all intoxicat ing drinks, in a village where intemper ance had ravaged as much as any other in tiie Srat-. That man was my father, and that wo man my mother. The fact above related 1 received from the Doctor—himself, when on a vis ; r to my native village, not long since. May we not safely assert, that were • here m- re wives like my blewse 1 mother ‘here would bo fewer confirmed drunk ards. — - + iEE i % FLOWER LANGUAGE. For the benefit of our lady friends— libis being leap year, wiiual—- we extract Irhe following from the “City of tbo Cma leenr, with pictures of Harem Life:” One curious effect of the seclusion in ■which n Turkish woman, whether married Im* unmarried* usually lives, is, that ]ove- Indvanet* mu*t always come from her.— ■The man would not presume to notice her I—and, besides, it would be vulgar to do so. ■ Hence the language of flowers, of which I the following specimen ia given by our 1 author: I “Ami not pretty ?” and she holds up ■ n white “He holds up a flower of Paradise.”— I ion jmv lovelier than the honris in Kork- I ham—. Paradise. “Do you love to look upon me s-ked I h;, presenting a blush-roe re. ‘* *As the t iger-lil y loves to gaz* -1 upon I it* own’ . I “ ‘Can vou love me ri and she shown a I daffodil. I “ ‘As the daisy loves the sun sand he I terns towards her the flower in question. “ ‘Would you die for my sake V and ■ j.nllsa rosebud in two parts. I ‘I would submit my neck to the bow luting without a murmur;’ and he pulls 1 “If the bead of a yellow geranium, or a ■ VlOlC'i.; *• ‘You are good, and 1 love you !’ and ■ mm? shows him a jasmine. “He makes the teraina (a gesture of ac- Bknowledginent) with tho rapidity of light ening. “‘Will you be my husband!’ She puils lit hair from her head, and winds it round ■he jasmine. I “He picks out a rose, and holds it with ■he flower pointing downwards to the ■artb. ■ “ ‘I cannot live without you; but if you ■ fuse to have me, I shail die.’ ■ “She takes a sun-flower, and holds it by ■c side- of the jasmine. ■*‘ ‘Meet me to-night, at twilight;’ now Rilv is quickly added; ‘by the fountain 111.’ Then ala vender-bud,’ ‘there is noth- Hg to tear.’ Bat a white rose is, ‘be as Ireful as you can.’ And then she re-ad ■sts her yashuiak, which is; ‘there will ■ ,a mark where you should climb.’ V&S&igpm&iZ them A|imp<sftible, but tft jjjbpiii: lovei honor, innocence, inn|t:>ieligi||Require. The voice of pieaa of may pass them unheeded thoi Vdice.of Miction never. J/: rij Ttm chamber of the eick, the pillow of i;tho dying, the vigils of the dead, the altar of religion, never missed rhe presence or the sympathies of woman f Timid though she be, and so delicate that the winds of heaven may not too roughly visit her,, on such occasions she loses all sense of dan ger, and assumes a preternatural courage, which, knows not, and fears no consequen ! ces. When she displays that undaunted | spirit which neither covets difficulties nor ; evades them, that resignation which utters s neither murmurs nor regrets, and that pa* I tienee in suffering which seems victorious * even over death itself. DICKENS’ PICTURE OF WOMAN. ; The true woman, for whose ambition a ; husband’® love and her children’s adora- I tion are sufficient, who applies her milita i ry instincts to the discipline of her house ! hold, and whose legislatives exerc’se them selves in making law’s for her nurse; whose intellect has field enough for her in com munion with her husband, and whose heart asks no other honors than his love ami admiration; a woman who does not think it a weakness to attend to her toilet and who does not disdain to be beautiful; who believe* in the virtue of glossy hair and well fitting gowns, and who eschews rents and raveled edges, slip shod shoes and audacious makeups; a woman who speaks low and does not speak much; xvho is patient and gentle, and intellectual and industrious; who loves more than she rea sons, and yet does not love blindly; who never scolds and never argues, but adjusts w.th a smile; such a woman is the wife we have all dreamed of once in our lives, and is the mother we still worship in the backward distance of the past. From our Correspondent. A TEMPERANCE LECTURER, Brother Crusader, —In backing up the proposition of Mr. H. Phinizee, of Forsyth, you pen some remarks in reference to the want of. a Temperance Lecturer. That one or more is wanted, and of the right stamp, no one having the reform at heart will doubt. But how shall the object bg se cured? That’s the all-important question. We have propositions from one here, and another there, to be one of a certain num ber, to raise a certain sum. with which to pay a lecturer to canvass the State. But the propositions are isolated : one proposes one amount; another,a different amount, — one can, or is willing to do more than an other ; but, somehow or other, none agree; there is a want of harmony—no response from one to another, and each finally gives over, and counts the cause as lost And l am sorry to 9ee that you. 100, some times indulge in despondency, because of the apparent quiet which prevails. You are wrong. The contest ot last fall, it is true, left us badly beaten, but not whipped; nor are our forces scattered, or dishearten ed, or unprepared for active service. The | ball is still roiling—it is still silently, gradu ally, but most certainly gathering strength; and, when the time arrives, you will find the Oi.d Six Thousand Prohibitionists at their posts, and every tr.an with a convert. Politicians fight differently from what we do, and that is why they succeed. Thero has been but little feeling since last fail, — the political parties propel, seem to sleep as well as we. The Presidential campaign, even, is beginning to open, but still there is but a little npple on the political waters. —* When the time comes, though,—when ac ; tion becomes important, then you will find on every stump, in every locality, every where, a patriotic friend of each of the nomi nees, speaking by the hour. Now, no effort is made, —then, no stone will be left unturn ed. and all the energies of their natures will ho brought into requisition. 1 have not a doubt, but that the different lemporance Orders have been gaining members ever since last October. Some Divisions and some Lodges of Knights have died out, but in most eises, it was whore there was one of each,, and one had to go. In such cases, the strongest survived.—ab sorbed the other, and received all new re cruits. Jhe contest of last fall, wili be found to have strengthened Prohibition. Now, instead of a Canvasser, let as many as possible of the Division* of Sons, and Lodges of’ Knights celebrate their anniver saries,—-let the ‘i parade in regalia, and let them have speeches from able and tried Temperance men, and herever possible, a dinner. This will exhibit the strength of our numbers,—our enthusiasm, —and reani mate such as have become lukewarm. Let this be the programme for this year. Noth ing political can be gained,—so let us pre pare the way this year for a mighty effort, and a mighty work the next. Numbers we have-— speakers we can have—and much can be done for the piesent without a regu lar Canvasser. Next year let the onset be made, after everything is properly arranged, and our forces organized. Then, one speaker will not answer,—but many,—and thev can be had for the money. They cannot’ be had, however, all the year. Politicians find time between the Courts, in the Bummer, to do all the work belonging to political warfare. “They all, with one accord,” range from ; river to river, and from mountain to inoun j lain to seaboard, —all within a few months, | —accomplish their work, and fall back.-- Now, I would have Prohibitionists adopt a similar plan of warfare Let them secure the services of n@ many speakers as they can, at as many points within h short space of time as possible, just as politicians do, and my word for it. the result will astonish the most sanguine. If you will re-publish the forms of Con stitutions for Grand and Subordinate Alli ances —to be tound in tle columns of the Banner, (published in the T'ali of ’£>L)—-I will undertake to show how the plan above rtffc Seope and effect* of the effort, content* [plated by the Alliances, *l*b6hibitigx Cbusadrb. For the Temperance Crusader. j HELP—FOR UNCLE DABNEY. [ Messrs. Editors —-I beg a small space in [the Crusader, to say to my friend “Coweta” ! that the gauntlet thrown out, some two or three weeks back, to Monroe and Fulton, by him, is accepted— at least, by Monroe; and I have no doubt but what Fulfon wall re spond : and now, Mr. Coweta, that Monroe has led off agreeable to your proposition, let there be np backing out, but come to the scratch like a man Should you entertain any doubts in reference to the action *of Monroe, just take apeep into the Treasu rer's book—Judge Ezzard is Treasurer.— Then, if you choose, make your mark ahead. Although Coweta claims uncle Dabney, as her own, we hold that he belongs to Geor gia, and that Monroe has an interest in him, and that he is the common property of the State. Just as the great statesmen of the West and of the Fast, belonged to the Uni ted States. It will be recollected, no doubt, that owing to the devotion of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster to their country, that they became much embarrassed, pecuniari ly, but did the people allow them long to suffer, or their hands to hangdown? No. A generous people came to the rescue, to the amount of #30,000 in one case, and per haps two or three times that amount in the other, as well as I recollect; all, however, to New York. Louisiana, and Kentucky.— Wei), to me it is evident, that Uncle Dab ney’s embarrassment is partly owing to the sacrifices made in the cause of Temperance; and now, will the people of Georgia, the Temperance friends especially, allow him to go to the wall, to be stripped of his pro perty, and turned out in his old days ? O certainly not. Home, help, and conveni ences are pleasant things. Now, friends, what do you say ? Help must come soon, or it wili be too late. What do you say, Coweta, Fulton, Troup, Meriwether, Spald ing, Upson, and Henry ? What do you say for Newton, Judge? What do I hear from Putnam, Greene, Baldwin, Hancock, War ren, Taliaferro, Oglethorpe, and Elbert?— Friends of the cause throughout the State, if you would but entertain the subject, it would be one of the easiest things imagina ble to accomplish. A little effort, and the work would be done. A triffling effort in Monroe accomplished much. Messrs Editors, —you and your readers must pardon me. 1 have written much more than I intended when 1 commenced ; but I feel deeply on the subject. 1 will now close by saying that if Uncle Dabney goes to the wall, it shall not be my fault, nor the fault of Monroe. Forgyth, March 15, 1850. For the Temperance Crusader. A VISIT TO PENFIELD. Messrs. Editors: —ln company with six teen members of Emory Lodge, Knights of Jericho. I left Oxford on Thursday evening 13th inst. to attend on the follow ing day, according to invitation, the Anni versary of “ Rising Star Lodge,” at Pen field, Ga. The weather was inclement and the prospects for a pleasant excursion very gloomy, but a strong faith, that provi dence always smiles propitiously upon a good cause, induced me to press forward for the point of destination. After a short ride—soon effected by steam, 1 was safe ly domiciled for the night in Greensboro’, where 1 shared the hospitality of a worthy brother, “a gallant Knihgt.” “ At the dawn of morning, the rays of “the powerful king of day,” as he came “rejoicing in the east,” gave token of better weather and inspired the hearts of our chivalrous band with brighter hopes. Having partaken of a fine breakfast, and smoked asocial cigar—prob ably one of “Norton’s best”—and traveled seven miles, “pver hill and dale ” by pri vale conveyance, I found myself in your quiet and delightful village. We arrived just in time to enter the pro cession, which marched to the Chapel of Mercer University, where after an appro priate prayer by the Chaplain, an attentive audience listened to a very able and elo quent address, delivered by W.T. H. Scott, the orator of the day. The speaker is a young man of promise, and his effort was alike creditable to himself and the order.— His address is to be published and will speak for itself. The Knights then repair ed to their Lodge-room, transacted all nec essary business and adjourned. I accepted the invitation of the W. C., to abide with him during rny stay, and “fared sumptuous ly every day.” Many thanks tor his “brotherly kindness.” In the afternoon, accompanied by a friend, I visited the Campus of the University and was highly pleused with its appearance. It is certainly a pleasant retreat- for the stu dent, one admirably adapted to the purpose of an institution in. which youthful minds are being trained and prepared for the weighty responsibilities of active life. I was conducted through the well furnished halls and libraries of the two literary so cieties—the Ciceronean and the Phi Delta. But nothing impressed me more favorably than the students. Their high-toned morals and gentlemenly bearing will command the respect and admiration of any visitor. On my return, as vou doubtless remember, I visited your “sanctum” for the first time— I hope it may not be the last, and looked upon your * faces divine Through the liberality of some friends, i was favored with a copy of “the Temperance Crusader,” an acceptable present. It has undergone a radical change of hands, dress and name, hut advocates the same glorious cause with renewed zeal and marked ability. It ought to be in every family in Ga. While there is a superabundance of political papers in the State, there is hut one devoted exclu sively to Temperance, and it. certainly ought, to be well sustained* Will not the friends of the cause secure it a patronage commen surate with the great object to be accom plished? Let all bestir themselves in the noble enterprise. How many young men are there, who will obtain twenty new sub scribers for it during the present year? I will be one “to try.” Who will be anoth er? ,/ “v ; But lam digressing. At night I attend ed the party given bv the ladies of Penfietd to the Knights of Jericho. A brilliant af fair it was. It reflected credit upon the fair donors, who are always “ready for every good word and work.” Notwit hstanding the inclemency of the day previ ous, a large number of both sexes were present from different portions of the State. When the command was given for each gentleman to escort a lady to the supper table, I promptly obeyed orders. ‘The ta ble was richly laden with every luxury that heart could wish, or that the most fastidious taste could desire. But it is use less for me to state which engaged my at tention the more deeply, the Costly least so profusely spread.before me, or the amiable Miss- beside me, who assisted in its pre-, paration, I leave the reader to draw all in ferences. If “Rising Star Lodge” does not realize the best of results from its anniversa ry I shall be greatly deceived. Composed as it is of intelligence and moral worth, and these aided by the 9iniles and influence of the ladies, it is bound to prosper despite all opposition that can be arrayed against it.— May Heaven’s richest blessings ever test upon it. A pleasant ride of a few hours the next morning landed me at home. My com panions were all perfectly delighted with their visit and will not soon forget it. May it result in good to all parties. The above is a brief and imperfect sketch of my flying vieit, without exaggeration or amplifica tion. and you are at liberty to dispose of it as you mav deem proper. POLYMNIA. Oxford, Ga., March 18th, 1856. For the Temperance Crusader. SISTERLY LOYE. Beaufiiul and holy is a sisters love ! There is nought else on earth so utterly, so purely unselfiish. Compared to that, all other affections are alloyed with the dross of earth—are earthy. The mother idolizes her darling boy, because she sees renewed in him, those graces of mind and person which, years before, had captivated her maiden heart and won, for their fortu nate possessor, her hand at the altar. The father’s heart glows with tenderness to wards the despotic little beauty of a few summers, because he sees her mother’s soul beaming froip the dark eyes—her mother’s modesty in the blush that mantles the soft cheek—her mother’s self in every tone of the voice, in every toss of the head, in eve ry movement of unstudied grace. Or if uninfluenced by such considerations, the children of their love are dear to the par ents chiefly, tor their very helplessness, their absolute dependence, at -me time of life; at another, for the womanly goodness and accomplishment, or the manly develop-! ment which they proudly feel is the result I of their labors and their training. Filial love, also, is prompted partly bv selfish motives. The earliest recollections of a child, tel! him of a mother’s eyes smil ing sweetly on him, a mother’s breast pil lowing his restless head; of a father’s en deavors to amuse him, displayed in a thou sand ways. They have never deserted him, never wavered for an instant, either in their unfaltering attachment to him, or in their efforts to advance his happiness.— Such constancy calls for love, intense, de voted, absorbing. And when in manhood he supports the tottering steps, executes the querelous requsts, and supplies the wants of Ins venerable parents, it is simply in requit al for similar offices which, through long years, they performed for him. The maiden yields her heart, with her hand, into anothers keeping, but it is to find a strong arm to lean upon, u brave heart to trust in—a husband, who while protecting and cherishing, shall repay her love with a love equally devoted, and re ward her trust with a trust equally confid ing. He may prove false to the * trust of that sweet being; still the wifely heart re fuses to loosen its hold, and loves him for the memory of what he was, rather than for what he is. lithe wife forfeit her claim upon the confidence and esteem of the hus band, he sternly effaces the image pictured on his heart of hearts. The difference in their respective conduct, under the circum stances supposed, arises from the difference in iheir respective dependence on each oth er—further increased, perhaps, by the di versity of their natures. A glance suffices to show that all these loves, parental, filial, conjugal, are prompted more or less, by selfishness. The motive that inspires it, can clearly be detected in the love itself. But far different is it with a sister’s love. She has received no such benefits as those mentioned above ; there exists no such ob ligation or necessity to call into exercise her latent affections. IShe loves her brother simply because he is her hi other, and not for what he is, or for what lie does to her. Bhe seldom asks a return for her affection —seldom expects one. Her love is a pure and holy sentiment that regards not the worthiness or un worthiness of its object.— The brother may never have opened his lips to her but to taunt, may never have played with her but to tease, may never have stretched out to her his hand but to strike; in .spite of taunts and blows, she loves him and will deny herself to gratify his most unreasonable whim. ‘Hie taunt may bring tears to her eyes, or the blow may leave its mark upon her person; she wipes away, the one, afid carefully conceals the other, lest, being discovered, they may bring punishment on the offender. Her tears oi pity are ever ready to flow when be is disgraced with a flogging in school: her hand is slipped quietly tntolus, as if to assure him that, at least, one little loving heart thinks none the less ot him lor the disgrace under which he is smarting. So, when in after years others forsake him, when society boots and hisses him for his crimes, the loving sister closes her heart against the conviction that he is other than she would have him be. Her welcome is as eager, her kiss as sweet, her embrace as tendfer and loving as when uo stain of re proach attached to his name. The devo tion of sisters in general —to which there are comparatively few exceptions—rarely receives the commendation it deserves.— Those who are blessed with sisters, think it a matter of course, that they will be kind, selfsacrificing and loving, while the unfor tunates who have them not, caunot be ex pected to appreciate fully the value of such a treasure. Cornelius. C|e Cemjienmce Glntsakr. PENFIELD, GEORGIA. Saturday Momins, March 99, 1896. £jg?~Rev. Claiborn Trussell, of Atlanta, is a duly authorized Agent for the Crusader. Liberal Offer. Any person sending us fire nevr Subscribers, ac companied with the “rhino,” shall be entitled to au extra copy of the Crusader for one year. Orders for our Paper must invariably be accompanied with the cash to receive attention. Agents Wanted, We want a hundred Agents for the Crusader.— Enthusiastic and energetic Temperance men; those who take a lively and earnest interest in the subject, are the kind desired. We wish one in every county in t. lO State; one who will canvass the country and remind the people of their duty in regard to patroni zing the Temperance press. Liberal compensation will be awarded to all who will act as Agents for our paper. An Earnest Appeal to our Friends. There is but one Journal in the State of Georgia devoted exclusively to the subject of Temperance; a subject fraught with interest and importance to every man, woman, and child, within the limits of our State. The Crusader, espouses this allirapor tant subject, and advocates it in all its length and breadth with a fearlessness which cannot be checked, with a zeal which naught can cool, and with an energy which will not flag, and we petition for it the patronage of the pc-ople. It is the only beacon-light which shines amid the gloom that often o’er,shadows our cause, endeavoring to infuse cour age into the bosoms of the faithful patriots when their hearts begin to sink within them and in agony to tremble over their hopes. We call upon our friends throughout the State, to give us the benefit of their influence in extending the circulation of the paper. It is the duty of every man, whether ho be temperate or intemperate, to support the Press de voted to moral reform. If you be a man of family, you owe it to your children to lay before them a Journal which endeavors to point our an upright, moral course of conduct, ff you be not a man of family, you owe it to yourself, to those around you, and to your Maker, to welcome among you a peri odical which preaches temperance and morality con tinually. * Think of the many weak-minded individuals with in the circle of your influence, who are ready at all times to follow your example. Every man exerts more or less influence upon those around him, and he is culpable for the influence which he exerts if it tends to demoralization. We must have your assistance, People of Georgia! Remember blooming youth, the pride and glory of our country, is exposed to the wiles of that demon ,which stouter hearts cannot withstand. Place before them, }.B an instructor, a Temperance Journal w hich is continually portraying the ravages of the foul curse, and it will be a great moral safeguard which shall rescue them from the dark pool of destruction into which their ancestors are falling daily. Will you consider the matter? We are truly gratified when some old, affectionate father writing to us, renewing his subscription, says, “let the paper continue to come. It is a welcome visitor to ray household; my childrdn love to see it, and they reed it with eager ness.” Many of our friends have went us clubs of subscri bers this year, and we are under lasting obligations to each one ol them. We assure them that such fa vors aio duly appreciated Will not others do like wise ? A large number of friends have said to us they intended doing something for us in the way of procuring new subscribers; we beg of them to re meinbr it. Wo have it in mind, and are anxiously waiting to hear from them. Let every man consider it his duty to send us some assistance in that way. We are loath to believe that there in any one who doe** not exert influence enough to procure a club of five subscribers to so cheap a paper. Will you try ? Many Thanks to the Knights of Americus. The Americuß Lodge of “Knights of Jericho” hove ordered thirteen copies of our paper, and accompa nied the order with the cash. We return them many heartfelt thanks for the favor. Mr. B. W. Smith, the instrument in gaining for us this assist ant, in the recipient of our warmest affections—we shall ever remember him in kindness. He states | lhe >’ are organizing a Lodge of Knights in Starkville —we wish them abundant success. We love to hear of them springing up in different portions of the country, for they are noble in their design, and have accomplished great good in those places where they are established. Will not the other Lodges extend to us a similar patronage? Wc petition them for it, and are vain enough to believe we deserve it; and further, wc believe it to be the duty of all Temperance organi zations to support the Temperance press. The Lodges will boar in mind, that by ordering a number of copies they come cheaper: for every fivo copies, we grant an extra one. Remember that, and send in your orders, and distribute the paper among the poorer classes. The three great elements which characterize your Organization, are Temperance, Humanity, and Charity,—give them practical de monstration in behalf of the worthy poor in vonr vicinity, by placing in their hands the Crusader. Mitchell’s Map. It will be remembered that we published three or foui- weeks ago, a notice of this Map. We have since had an opportunity of examining it, nml find it fully equal to the representations. It is gotten up in a very superior style, richly colored, aud contains more information than anything of the kind we have ever seen. It embraces the Canadas, the whole of the United States, giving the counties, and New Ter ritories, Mexico, Central America, and part of the VY est Indies. Those wishing to procure a cheap, beautiful, and useful Map, will do well to secure one of these. Pire. | The Blacksmith Shop of Messrs. Wilson and Max* ey, in Penfleld, was eutirely destroyed by fire, on YY r ednesday night last. YY’e have not ascertained the loss. Stop Papers.—Settlo Arrearages. Persons ordering their papers discontinued, must invariably pay up all their dues. YY e shall not strike off any subscriber’s name who is in arrears. Is Drunkenness only a Moral It is the favorite argument of the opposers of Pro hibition, and the only one possessing any degree of plausibility, that intemperance is a moral evil, and can be combatted only by moral-suasion. With such <• a flimsy sophistry, they succeed not only in warding off the attacks of sound reason, but make converts to their faith and practice. He who can yield his assent to such a proposition must be blinded by pre judice, crentirely unobservant offsets around him. Let him go to the doggery nearest him, (and he need go far no where in Georgia to arrive at one,) and witness the scenes which are almost daily enacted there, and then say if drunkenness is only a moral evil. Let him observe the quiet, harmless country* man, as he < nters its sin-polluted precincts. In his bosom burns no malice against any member of the human family. But he has the fiery draught offered to him. He drinks, and his reason, judgment, and prudence, are all destroyed. He quarrels, fights and his kindest neighbor, his bosom-friend*lies butchered beneath his hand. Who has kilk-d’w? The poor man, whom Rum has bereft of reason, <* the hardened wretch who sold him the maddening poison? Ahl that is a question which must at one time press with fearful weight on theaelf-oondemned soul of the Rum-seller. Let him who thinks intemperance a moral ewl only, enter the inmost adytum of the family circle There the benign spirits of Love and Peace preside in a weet harmony, which spreads a hopeful smile over the faces -f the guardian angels lingering near. But in the midst of all this bliss and happiness a stranger presents himself. It is Ruin. He seizes with potent grasp the kind father and doting hus band, and soon his whole manner and nature are changed. He abandons his peaceful fireside, he fre quents the gambling shop, and leaves his business to wreck and ruin. Misery and want invade his household, and bitter cursings and low abuse now supply the place of those loving accents which were wont to fall from his lips. Often are his tender wife and helpless children driven forth from home or shelter amid the terrors of the night, to join their wailings with the howling of the storm, and mingle their tears with torrents as they fall. And is there no protection for the suffering ones? No; Intem perance rejoices in its oppression of the weak, and dances to the music of widows’ and orphans’ groans, and the law stretches forth no arrn to punish or re strain. Can any man consider these facts, and say that Intemperance is only a moral evil? But the whole is not yet told. Let him go to the ballot-box, and there behold anew phase in its his tory. There, a little, ranting, shrill-voiced “ stump peaker,'’ who has learned somewhere that in “’76” “our forefathers blc-d and died for liberty,” and has found out, from experience, that Liquor deprives men of their senses, mounts a whisky barrc-l, makes a furious harangue, closing with a stirring appeal to all who will support him to come up and take a drink! He is elected, becomes a representative of the people and a guardian of their interest, when it would be much more appropriate for him to have a guardian. It is by such men and such means that this horrible system has been, and continues to be sustained. It is through the influence of such men that all parties have attained the very extreme of political corrup tion. It is by such men, guided by erroneous prin ciples, and unmindful of the dictates of conscience, that our country has been brought almost to the very verge of ruin. Who can observe the fearful, alarming influence which Intemperance and the li cense system is wielding in our country, and say that drunkenness is only a moral evil? We know that it is a moral evil; a dark sin against the purity and majesty of Heaven, which shall con sign millions of its wretched victims to the realms of eternal woe. But it is likewise a social evil which expels peace and happiness from thousands of fire side*, and dries up the richest fountains of human love and affection. It is a political evil which cor rupts and defiles wherever it exists, and is now sha king the strong fabric of our government to ita low est foundations. * Spring. Once more hath the genial deity of Spring, en throned itself, in the land to rule with benignant sway, its allotted portion of the year. Breaking loose from winter’s icy grasp, it has brought back the pure azure of the skies, and sent up the balmy zephyrs, soft and gentle as Accents from lover’s lips. The rivers have loosened themselves from their fro zen beds, and are now rolling their foaming floods in proud currents to the great parent of waters.— Flowers of ten thousand hues are coming forth to deck her in robes of loveliness and beauty, as if for some splendid ordeal. Multitudes of winged song sters add their music to her charms, and like a thing of life and joy, she speeds on in one continual round of revelry and beauty. With every returning spring, we feel thankful to a benign Creator for giving us a season so full of all that is pleasing to the soul No portion of the year is more fraught with lessons oi’ momentous im port to the human mind. If the seared and falling leaves of autumn remind us that we are mortal, that this tenement oi clay shall soon dissolve, spring no less forcibly impresses upon us the duty of prepara tion for the coming future. The husbandman pla ces in the prepared soil the seed, which assited by the agency of labor, sunehiue and rain shall supply him with food and raiment for another winter. So in the spring time of life we should garner up those rich treasures of knowledge and wisdom which will > be invaluable in long years to come. Or rather it 1 teaches that we should throw upon the world the I seeds of goodness and charity, which watered by the ; showers of grace, shall spring up in perpetual ver dure amid the bowers of immortality. From the earliest ages, spring Ims been consider ed an emblem of youthful innocence and purity.— And how full of sweet poetry and beauty is such a comparison. When the untaught soul with unsus j pecting confidence throws itself upon every object for support, and meekly strives to climb upward to Heaven and to Gd. Ere the rude blasts of adversi ty has torn loose their embrace, and left them to trail in the dust, and each warm affection chilled and destroyed by the cold charities of the world. Ere the sort teudrils and delicate leaves which they put forth under the mild rays of a vernal sun, have been scorched nnd wasted by summer’s firery heat, fitted to be nipped by frosts and swept away by win try blasts. We know that each passing period must write its history on the humatn mind in character which no subsequent experience can efface. Each scene in the vast panorama of nature impresses its symbols |on the heart’s inmost folds, which like the hand writing in the festal hall, none but a prophet eye can read. Man can not hold converse with objects of external grandeur, w ithout feeling their powerful, irrisistihlo influcnco in moulding his sentiments and opinions. The anow-cappod mountain, nnd the barren heath, the gloomy forest and the wide extend ed plain, the gentle atephyr and the wild tornado’s blast, the tiny dew-drop and the ocean’s rolling flood, the crickets small chirrup and the eagle’s