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For the Temperance Crusader.
COHUTTAH DIVISION.
While there are so many evidences of
lukewarmness, coldness and decay amongst
the various temperance organizations in
Georgia, in may not be uninterestingto your
readers to hear a word from a Division
which has survived the open assaults of en
emies, the secret stab of pretended well
wishers, and the coldness and apparent in
difference of friends, and which to day stands
as a monument of the energy, firmness and
perseverance of the noble and faithful band
who, years ago, “united to perpetuate the
cause.” Such is Cohuttah Division, No.
140. It was organized on the 3d of Janua
ry, 1849; has initiated 285 men and 35 wo
men, making a total 0f320 initiations. Three
other Divisions have been organized from
its members, (only one of which however, I
am sorry to say, is now in existence,) and
we now have about 100 members, including
females.
Now, Messrs. Editors, when I inform you
that this has been done in a village with a
population of less than 300 souls, where
there has been all the time one or more
grog shops, and where the order has been
opposed and its progress resisted by wealth,
and political power, you will give us credit,
I think, for having done good service in the
cause.
If any friend of temperance would know |
by what means we have succeeded. I can
tell him it has been by a regular attendance
at the Division Room in all weather and un
der all circumstances. For over seven
years some of us have met weekly, and in
all that time I have heard of but two occa
sions when there were not present enougii
members to organize. Our Division has al
most invariably been opened and closed with
a petition to the Throne of Grace for Divine
aid and direction. We have always had
the cheering smiles and earnest prayers ot
Woman, and her zealous co-operation in our
efforts to extend the principles of the order.
And in seasons of doubt, of gloom and de
spondency, (for we have we have
thus far had some strong and faithful bre
thren, ready to raise aloft our banner inscri
bed with Love, Purity and Fidelity, and en
courage the faint-hearted and wavering to
rally again beneath its folds and preserve it
from shame and dishonor.
But with all these aids to moral suasion,
our community is still annoyed by scenes of
drunkenness and riot, emanating from a
grog shop in our midst, sustained by an in
fluence which is, I fear, beyond the reach ot
any amount ot moral suasion; and 1 regret
to learn that an extensive distillery has just
been put in operation in the lower part of
this county, on the plantation of one of the
■wealthiest men in the State. What chance
has moral suasion against a capital of five
hundred- thousand dollars. How strange it
is that the people do not demand of their
Representatives some legislation to suppress
the mighty evil of intemperance in the land.
1 fear our Legislators will have a fearful ac
count to settle at the great day of retribu
tion. for having so long turned a deaf (or
drunken) ear to the calls of humanity on this
subject. With the light which Georgia has
on this question, it is reasonable to believe
.hat even Sodom and Gomorrah would have
discarded the infamous traffic in human souls
pursued by the present race of doggeries,
had such a nuisance existed in that age of
the world. MURRAY.
For the Temperance Crusader.
ARISTOCRACY vs. POLITENESS.
BY EMMIE EMERALD.
It was Sunday night: that holy and beau
tiful ceremony instituted by Jesus of Naz
are-th himself, was to be performed in the
Baptist Church. They who had left the
broad and sunny path, the glitter and plea
sures of the great world, to toil up the steep
and rugged way of Calvary, and seek the
shadow of the Cross of “the accursed tree”
on which he died, were like him, to go
down into the water and “be baptized.”
That stately house of God was being ra
pidly filled with the rich and the proud, the
young and gay, with all who had any curi
osity to behold the same scene enacted that
took place in the bright waters of the Jor
dan eighteen hundred years ago, when St.
John
“Stood breast high amid the running stream,
Baptizing as the spirit gave him power.”
The hospitable brethren of our Church
had with indefatigable politeness, procured
seat after seat for strangers, and crammed
pew after pew with aristocratic old gentle
men and their dignified dames, with dash
ing belles and,
“Dandy noddies
With soul3 adapted to their bodies;”
and now the bustle and hum was over, the
deep solemn notes of the organ were hush
ed, and the rich thrilling tones of our no
ble minister broke the silence, reading
words of glowing eloquence and beauty,
from the book of life eternal. He was one
to command attention.
“In his eye
Burned the wild fire of love—and as he spake
The ear lean’d to him, and persuasion swift
To the chain’d spirit of the listener stole.”
And as the old gentlemen took their
hands out of their pockets and the old la
dies hushed their whispering, the young
one’s left their ribbons and gloves “alone,
while “fast young America” ceased to
suck the puppy heads on their canes, and
all listened to him who told of a Father’s
wondrous love. Presently the door opened
and three ladies—do pray excuse me—fe
males I meant, in calico-hoods and worsted
shawls, came timidly in, looking askauot
from side to side, as though pleading for a
place in the house of their God. But none
seemed disposed to offer them one, for the
old gentlemen, looked at the course garbed
strangers whoso coming had disturbed
them, with righteous indignation, while
“fast .young America” peered under their
bonnets with sinful impudence, and kept
their seats with the utmost composure.
But where in the name of wonder was good
affable brother M., who always fills Tils
own pew, and the neighboring one’s which
are not his, with his moneyed friends ?
Where was bland brother W., whose offici
ous politeness in procuring seats for velvet
cloaks, has worn out the aisle carpeting ?
Where was kind brother Gen. E., who
stalks up and down on such occasions like
a reverend chanticleer, with a plurality of
feather crowned femalit.y at his angrrst;
heels? Why they were sitting at the end
of their respective pews, supposed to he
ignorant ot the fact, that three females
were unprovided with seats. Perhaps had
these been heralded by the pompous step
of pride and the rustling of silks’ and wa
ving of feathers, they would have al t met ed
the attention of these godly men; but: as it
was, they passed on with burning cheeks
and faltering steps the _ whole length of
those long broad aisles, unnoticed, even
though the minister paused, and his noble
brow, reddened with the crimson flush of
shame and sorrow at the sight. lam hap
py to state that there was one gentleman
some where near the door. I did not see
him (I wish I had, it would have been a
refreshing sight.) I know not if he wore
broadcloth or “hodden gray,” or whether
the hand that opened that pew door was
white and jeweled like a lady’s or roughen
ed and brown with daily toil, —but this I
do know, that he was the only specimen
of true Southern chivalry and manliness in
that spacious Church.
P. S.—But apropos, those friends in the
galleries may consider themselves except
ed.
Augusta, Ga.
For the Temperance Crusader.
CONFESSIONS from a BOARDING HOUSE.
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BY MRS. .NETT LET ON.
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—3.
The week previous to the opening of the
term, was insufferably tedious. I was rest
less and, I fear, made every body about the
house as res'tless as myself. The days seem
ed interminable. At last Sunday came; I
was never before so tired ot a sermon.
Monday lagged as if loth to depart. On Tues
day I had nearly given up in despair, when
news came that a few of the students
had arrived. This intelligence revived and
cheered me somewhat. Still, no one had
engaged board at my house. I had taken
the precaution, however, to request the
Hack Driver to give notice that I was pre
pared to accommodate boarders, and felt as
sured that there would be, at a few
applicants. Next day, the students poured
in rapidly—giving to the otherwise quiet
and lazy village a bustling, noisy appear
ance. In the eveuing, 1 was summoned to
the parlor. I found there a pompous look
ing old gentleman, and a boy with his hat
swinging in his hand. The old gentleman
introduced himself as “Mr. Fleshing; and
this”—said he, “is my son Enoch.” Enoch
acknowledged my salutation with a bow
and a stare, and then continued to swing his
hat.
“1 have called, Mrs. Nettleton.” said Mr.
Fleshing in a patronizing tone—“to know
whether my son could board with you ? He
has entered College, and I am anxious to see
him settled before I leave.” “I don’t like
any of the other boarding-houses,” put
in Enoch. “Your terms are the same as at
the other houses, I suppose,” continued the
father unheeding the interruption. “The
same,” I answered, and not knowing what
further to say kept silent. “The grub will
be eatable, will it. ?” again interposed young
hopeful. “Sir,” said I, not knowing what
he meant. “Enoch,” said the fat her proud
ly, “has some peculiarities ; indeed he is
different from other people, and of course,
talks a little differently. He meant to ask,
if you would keep a good table. He inten
ded no offence; it’s only his way ?” 1 ven
tured a more deliberate survey of Enoch,
to see whether I could discover or fancy
an}’ resemblance to his namesake of old.
Instead of walking with God, he seemed
scarcely capable of walking with his flesh.
He had an impudent leer, and a .self-confi
dent air, which said plainly : “I have been
somebody at home, and I intend to he some
body wherever I go.” His features were
tolerably good, but the expression of his
countenance might have been better. En
och’s father continued to praise him ; saying,
that he was considered a good scholar at
school; that he had a most amiable dispo
sition ; that his mother nearly idolized him;
that the Faculty could easily manage him
by kindness, but lie would’nt be driven ; and
ended by hoping, that while lie remained
with me, I should supply the place of his
mother.
So it was arranged—with many misgiv
ings on my part —that I should be a mother
to F.nocli, and he was to be a dutiful son.
Applications for board multiplied, until, be
fore the week was gone, I had secured my
compliment. Among them was more than
one Enoch, but no other Mr. Fleshing ap
peared. Then began the routine of my new
life. My boarders were as gentlemanly as
College boys generally are, but I could’nl
escape the reflection that they might have
possessed better looks. My eldest daugh
ter, Sarah, soon discovered that fact, and
before many days had passed, noticed other
disagreeable facts.
“Mother,” said she one morning, as the
young men were leaving the breakfast ta
ble, “I never saw such an assemblage of
ugly boys. Why there is’nt a fine looking
fellow in the number. And just see how
they eat! Every one appears to be racing
with the rest, to see who can eat the most
in the least time. Ugh ! lam ashamed of
them.”
“My child,” said I, “you ought not to talk
so. I daie say they are like all the others.
You ought to recollect that many of them
five in the country, and have never been
away from home until they came to college;
and that this rough exterior, at which you
complain, will wear off in a short time. Be
sides, you must teach them better manners
? S ° o<l cxam pl®-” “A pretty
time I shall have with these unpolished
boarders she muttered as she went about
clearing the tab e. “Well, ifOliviana Frisk
told the truth, all the boys are not so; and L
guess Iwih see intelligent and refined compa
ny sometimes.” The boarders did improve
m manners as the term passed. They ate
more slowly, and I believe masticated their
food more perfectly than they did at first.
Still my patience was severely tried when
ever company was present at meals. Some
of them would never wait until all had fin
ished the first course and were supplied
with the second, but would hastily despatch
their share of the dessert as soon as it was
set before them, and retire from the table.
I have more than once detected my friends
staring in wonder at such conduct. “But
patience;” thought I, they will surely learn
better after a while.” had learned
to repress her risibles when excited bv i.icii
voracious eating, and her disgust at their
perfumed and Oily heads, their cologne and
cinnamon and cloves. She treated them
just as if they were the most irreproacha
ble gentlemen imaginable. Her hearing
was the same to all. They were encour
aged by this to seek her company with con
siderable eagerness. A few mistook her
ordinary politeness for an exhibition of ten
derness, and seemed determined that her
tenderness should not be lavished in vain.
Sarah and her sister loved their piano
dearly, and sang together with taste. The
hoys soon discovered this, and made the
girls sensible, too, that they had discovered
it. They would go to the parlor, in num
bers varying , from one to half a dozen,
whenever they chose, without asking per
mission or enquiring whether they intruded
or not. At first, the girls bore the intrusion
patiently ; singing and playing and chatting
gaily, as if they had not wished the boys in
Texas, or in their own rooms, or elsewhere
out of the way ; but the evil steadily in
creasing, became, at length, almost intoler
able to the rest of us. Yet, as Sarah was
passionately fond of music and as her visi
tors expected her to play for them, she would.
practice in spite of the boys—that is, until
the boys interrupted her. She was preven
ted by her household duties from always
choosing an hour to practice when the
young men would necessarily be away
from the house. As for myself, I was fre
quently kept awake very late at night by
the boarders in the parlor. This would
have been patiently borne if it had occur
red only now and then, when a strange vis
itor was in the house; but for the boarders
to presume thus on their situation, was too
provoking.
Already had my Elysian dreams been
dissipated,—already had the thorns in my
new path outnumbered far the roses, —al-
ready had I learned that there are situations
in life happier perhaps, than keeping a
College boarding-house. I strove in vain
to repress the sight that came unbidden at
the recollection of my former boarders.
Even Ketchem was an agreeable man, and
a gentlemanly one, too, in comparison with
these rude, unpolished boys. Gruff and un
sociable as he was, I would gladly have
taken him in exchange, for the least noisy
and troublesome of his successors. What
would quiet, Dr. Killem have said, had he
heard the din and clamor from tle young
men’s rooms, that rarely failed to inflict on
me a severe headache ? This is but a faint
picture of the real case. At some future
time, 1 may mention more fully other causes
that served to render that period of my life
peculiarly uncomfortable.
A NOBLE WOMAN,
| “There’s a noble creature,” whispered a
| friend to us, pointing out a handsome wo
| man, in the prime of life, who stood oonvers
-1 ing with an aged man.
| “There is something majestic about her.”
! was our reply.
“The majesty of goodness ?” exclaimed
our friend. “How low and soft her voice,
and what a world of love in those dark eyes.
And her lips ! mark their fine hut firm out
line ! I tell you, she stands there a true wo-f
man; and, though now splendor surrounds
her, and wealth pours in upon her, she once
I renounced fashion, fame, and riches, for a
man who was glorious in his attributes, but
poor in pocket. He had no splendor to of
! ier her—-nothing but a priceless heart. She
was lively, witty, and very much accom
plished. jrler parents had” bestowed upon
her all they had. to give her a liberal educa
tion; yet she was never, because of their
old fashioned, simple ways, and unpolished
conversation, ashamed of them, for in all that
makes nature noble they excelled, and in
spite of their bad grammar she loved and
was proud of them. I have seen girls—
charming girls, intellectually and physically
—who never cared to know what made the
eyes of the poor old mother dim, or what
kept her so silent in their company; and I
knew she was thus brought by the laziness,
conceit, and contempt of these charming
daughters—alas ! But her old mother was
no slave to her darling and beautiful child ;
for she sat down smiling in the cheerful sit
ting room, while the sweet, voice of her
daughter carolled forth from the neat, home
ly kitchen.
She married, and very soon came press
ing, bitter want. Sickness blighted the
strength of her husband ; but she loved him,
and loving, what will not a true woman do?
With her own hands she toiled, with her
hopeful words encouraged, until the clouds
parted, and the sun shone again.
Slander now joined hands with envy to
aid in trampling out the brave heart, but in
the end they made it much stronger. Like
the little flower that sends forth rarest per
fume when crushed, so that gentle heart lov
ed and trusted more exceedingly. And
when that malignant sisterhood hedged up
the path of her husband, she had only to
smile, and a rose burst out ; she had only
to speak, and the thorns bowed themselves,
turning outward the down that shrouded
their stalk.
And they saw that with such a wife, that
man could not be conquered or even for a
moment cast down. So they ceased their
machinations, and fortune smiled, and
friends came with better times, and the true
woman stood belore the world a model wife
and mother.”
1 gazed towards the subject of M.’s eulo
gy, and as I gazed 1 venerated. “How
many such,” thought I, “can our land boast,
of in this day and generation ?”
GOING TO SLEEP.
It is a delicious moment, certainly, that
of being well nestled in bed, and feeling
that yon drop gently to sleep. The good
is to come, not passed, the limbs Save
just been ‘tired enoug to render the remain
ing in one position delightful; the labor of
the day k gone. A gentle failure of the
perception creeps over yon; the spirit of
consciousness disengages itself more end
more, ami with slow and hvnhing degrees,;
like a mother detaching her hand from
that of her sleeping child, the mind seems
to hare a balmy lid closing over it, Uke
ihe oyo —'tis closed. The mysterious spir
it has gone to take its airy rounds.
fie f rmjicranec fnisaler.
PENFIET-iD, GEORGIA.
Saturday tloruing, April 19, I§s<>.
Olaiborn Trussell, of Atlanta, is a duly
authorized Accent for the Crusader.
Liberal Offer.
Any person sending us.five new Subscribers, ac
companied with the “rhino,” shall be entitled to an
extra copy oi the Crusader for one year. Orders lor
our Paper must invariably lx*, accompanied with (lie
cash to receive attention.
Notice to Advertisers and Correspondents.
The outside Form of our paper goes to Press early
every Monday morning, and the inside at 12 o’clock
every Thursday. So any Notices or Advertisements
reaching here after 12 o’clock Thursday, is too late
I for the forthcoming issue. Our county Officers pnr
• ticulariv will bear this in mind.
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 countv
in toe 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.
We will attend the Baptist Convention,
A number of our subscribers have heretofore made
it a point to settle their subscription for our Paper
at the Convention; we would say to such that it will
be pleasing to us to have them adhere to the same
plan for the present year. We will be there “in pro
pria persona” to receive all such. Many subscribers
from different portions of the State might send their
payments down to us at the Convention by the Dele
gates.
Temperance and the Georgia Press.
It can but be mortifying to every nobleman of
Georgia who looks beyond self-aggrandizement to
the welfare of the common people, to see the uncom
promising neglect with which the Press of Georgia*
treats this all important and paramount subject of
Temperance. Each Editor ignores it as an unpopu
lar theme ; as one which would militate against the
prosperity, or success of his high-toned, widely-cir
culating and influential gov mod. His paper is sold
to partizan prejudices, to party corruptions, political
degradation, and sectional strifes ; and were Reform
incorporated into its principles, it would lose the fa
vor of the vulgar and unprincipled, which float like
gutter scum upon the surface of our commonwealth.
It is a blind error in those who place themselves be
fore the people as instructors of the masses to court
the favor of the lower class in preference to the high
minded, moral portion of the country, and vve charge
this unbecoming and undignified policy upon every
sectional journal in Georgia. Some few are less cul
pable than others, but all are guilty; all make war
upon this, the only noble and laudable theme that
has ever been agitated by the American people. The
subject meets with no comments of encouragement.
Let us win the day after a hard struggle, and the
presses are mute in reference to it; but lot the cause
receive a set back-let it be defeated at an electoral
balloting by a combination of the Rum power and
Demagogueism, or let a legislative enactment be re
pealed by a corps of corrupt and bribed Judges, and
it is heralded abroad upon the wings of the modern
Sybil with telegraphic velocity. The veriest pica
yune sheet that imposes itself upon the public, pub
lishes the tale conspicuously, and spouts over it with
exultation as a glorious achievement. •
Brethren of the “quill,”vou desecrate the cause and
the purposes to which this, greatest of all agencies,
was, by its first labors, consecrated. It’s dawning
upon the darkness of the fifteenth century was hail
ed as the commencement of anew era in the moral
universe. The first publication it presented to the
world was the Book of Psalms from the aman
uenses of the Holy Spirit. Commencing then
with the Bible, the “Book of Books,” its mis
sion was to work a reformation in the public heart.
It operates upon the immortal man, and changes are
wrought bv it in silence. No agent that lias ever
been brought to light exerts such influence over the
minds of men; like the irresistible music of the fabled
syrens, it all tires the unsuspecting upon the quicksands
oflife, or like the demi Gods of old they attack the
strongholds of vice with brazen clubs, and crush the
llydraheadsof the monster. It is then obligatory upon
those who are termed Sentinels upon the Watch
Tower, to keep this great safeguard of our liberties
in the channel where it was placed at its birth. It
is your duty as laborers in the promulgation of
knowledge, to study the public good. You have
resting upon you the responsibility of thousands of
souls, and if you are derelict in your duty to circu
late among the masses the proper material for the
formation of their tastes, and for the correct moulding
of their minds, you are guilty of misdemeanor to
werds your countrymen, and are unworthy of the
positions you occupy.
1
The Women Folks let Loose—Great Ex
citement.
A despatch to the St. Louis Republican, dated
Princeton, Ind., March 22d, says:
A number of ladies net at#the Methodist church
this evening, equipped with axes and hatchets, and
from thero went and destroyed five groceries, entire
ly demolishing the contents of each. Great excite
ment prevails.
Weil, take it altogether, that must have been a
sight worth seeing. No wonder the appearance of
‘•ladies” at a church armed with axes and hatchets
and the subsequent performances of said “ladies,”
caused great excitement.—-V. 0. Picayune.
The ladies referred to should know that destroying
bar-rooms does not altogether destroy tho appetites
of their husbands for strong drink.—Constitutional
ist.
Pray -tell us what will, or rather point, out some
method by which virtuous women can be saved from
being the unprotected victims of the beastly inebri
ates who have tßkcn vows to bo their husbands, but
who act as if they were sent on earth for the sole pur
pose of being their persecutors. It very well be
comes a Press which opposes giving the aid of I.aw
to helpless females, to upbraid them for thus acting
in self-defence. We are not in favor of the ladies vi
olating the modesty of their sox by entering into
street riots, but we deprecate still more the necessity
which compels them to act thns, We had far rather
seo them engaged in demolishing a grogshop with
pickaxes, than with flushed cheeks and chattering
tongues to be sipping cordials amid a crowd of brain
less youngsters, thus giving the influence of their
example to intemperance in one of its worst forms.
We arc really glad to hear of the ladies taking a
stand so very decided upon this subject. They have
been the chief sufferers from intemperance. They
have been abused, downtrodden and oppressed, un
til the most abject slave was less wretched than they.
M ell thee does it. become them to raise their hand
against this curse which has been the blight of their
happiness, the destroyer of their most cherished
hopes, it is noble in them to do it, and we hope soon
to hear of many, who with the patriotic zeal and he
roic devotion of a Nancy Hart, will lead their hus
bands, sons and brothers to the ballot box and make
them vote for Prohibition.
Women have an important part to perform in ihe
Temperance Movement, and they have never yet
come up to the full extent of their responsibility.—
Many, alas that we should say it, have given, in an
open manner, their encouragement and influence to
the enemy. They are not ’.infrequently found in the
gaily thronged ball-room, offering the intoxicating
cup with tempting smiles and persuasive words, to
hesitating young men. And just here, many a man
has commenced his journey to a drunkard’s grave.—
\ oung ladies must cease to drink wines at their fash
ionable parties to give a roseate hue to their checks
and animate them in the giddy mazes ot the dance, j
or they may confidently expect to have drunken !
brothers, drunken husbands, and drunken fathers for
their children. *
The Cost of Iniquity.
‘The wages of sin is death,” U the terrible anathe
ma which the voice of inspiration hath spoken. Nor
was it left for revelation alone to proclaim this awful
truth. It is a fact, seen and experienced everywhere,
that misery is the certain and inevitable concomitant
oi sin. The trembling sunbeam speeds not more
surely in its mission oflife and beauty, than punish
ment follows the commission of crime. Man is in
extricably surrounded by the delicate meshes of a
moral law, the slightest cord of which, if broken,
will send a message to the throne of Heaven, and in
voke the vengeance of a sin-avenging God.
The world is a .stage, and human existence one
long continued drama, in which this truth has been
taught in ten thousand forms. And what a fearful
picture of human depravity, and human woe docs it
bring to light. YV e need not name (he time when
the blue eye of Heaven poured forth its liquid flood
for forty days, to wash out the pollution of a sin
darkened world. Or when the accumulated volume of
divine wrath at one tremendous outburst, converted
the smiling vale of the Decapolis to a dreary waste
of waters. Consult the unerring oracles of History,
learn the rise, progress, and downfall ofNations, and
the research will prove the momentous fact, that na
tional calamity is the inevitable result of national de
pravity. It matters not what may have been the
principles of its Government or what elements of per
petuity it may have contained; it matters not what
may have been its internal strength, or its external
power; if its people were wanting in virtue, ruin and
dissolution was its unavoidable fate. Nations, like
individuals, have sometimes flourished in vice; have
scoffed at treaties, and made mock of the most sa
cred obligations; have made ambition and interest
the Deities, at whose altars they immolated every en
nobling feeling ; but they have finally been overta
ken by a destruction as fatal in its consequences as it
was just in its infliction. And thus reaping the fear
ful, though deserved reward of their iniquity, have
city after city, nation after nation, empire after em
pire, passed from the face of earth, leaving nought
but a name or a few shattered monuments to attest
their existence.
Nor is the tale less sad, less instructive, which in
dividual history would teach. Who has lived, labor
ed and sinned in this world of ours, who will not say
that he has purchased iniquity at a fearful price.
Go and ask the aged man who is trembling on the
very verge of the grave, what iniquity lias cost him,
and the accumulated sorrows of three-score and ten
year s will give the sad response. Ask the man of
middle age, as ho pauses for a moment between the
steps of ambition, and he will say that the path of
sin is the path of woe. It may not appear in the
outward man. He may be prosperous, may obtain
wealth, honor, and fame. llu fc there is an inner man,
far hidden from the gaze of all but God, from whom
justice demands the dread penance ; where sorrow
broods in one long reign of darkness and gloom.
The cost of iniquity, ah, what lias it cost! It is
breathed in the hollow moan which burst from the
prisoner’s lips, and echoes along his dungeon walls;
it is spoken in the wild shriek of despair which arises
from the bed of untimely death ; it is proclaimed,
plainer than language could speak, in the burning
cheek and tear-filled eyes of the youthful struggler
;in the toils of vice. But these arc enly slender sti
pends of interest on a principal, the amount of which
Omniscience alone can compute. The clay tenement
in which the spirit is encased shall soon decay, the
insubstantial shadows which surround it shall dis
solve, and the soul ushered into the presence cham
ber of God, will learn that the price of iniquity is
eternal woe.
It is an old saying, which some quote and a few
believe, that “virtue must have its reward.” It is a
sacred promise, registered in Heaven, and determin
ed in the immutable counsels of Deity. But it has
little truth on earth; is little known in the dealings
of men. Here virtue often toils, labors and endures
in vain, while vice triumphantly reigns in fc‘ e pride
and pomp of power. But the time of reckoning
cometh, when iniquity shall have spent the last lin
gering day of grace which mercy allows, the full
measure of its cost will be paid out, while virtue
will enter its haven of rest to bask forever in the be
nign rays of unmixed joj T . *
Fast Boys and Fast Men.
“The boy is father to the man,” is an old, much
quoted adage, which is to a great extent true. But
as thero are often found very marked differences be
tween the father and son, so it often happens that the
character of the man differs very widely from that of
the boy. Asa general rule, and one which has few
exceptions, fast boys never make fast men. Some
children manifest uncommon love of knowledge, and
great ardor in Us acquirement, which should be
promoted by giving them intellectual food, suited to
their years. But instead of this, parents and teach
ers often take pride in pushing them into studies,
which are utterly beyond their comprehension. To
see a boy of ten, plodding over mathematical prob
lems or buried in lexicons as large as himself, is an
affecting sight; a sight however, which often begets
in his friends the conviction that ho is’ a genius of
the rarest stamp. In these expectations they seldom
fail of disappointment. The prodigy of smartness
at five, generally becomes the dunce of fifteen and j
the fool of twenty-five.
Stop Papers.— Settle Arrearages.
Persons ordering their papers discontinued, must j
invariably pay up all their dues. We shall not strike ■
off any subscriber’s name who is in arrears.
Thanks to the Students.
Maj. Holtzclaw requests us to tender hi?, aeknowi
edgments to those Students whose labors wese so
efficient in aiding to arre.se the burning of the mill
on Saturday evening last.
The young men are of inestimable service at Rich
times; some of them lay hold with unflinching spir
its. While speaking of the Students in connection
with fire?, we take advantage of this opportunity to
guard them against “hallooing fire” when there is
no outbreak of the element. It is very common to
hear .someone in the streets bawl out, [fire’ with no
evil design, but the bad effect of it, is a tendency to
make the people incredulous, and when an alarm is
given in earnest they consider it a hoax and pay no
attention to it, which has been the case with several
persons during our recent excitements. TinkJ. of
the boy crying icolfl, and abandon the habit.
SIOO from Greene County for Overby.
Our enlightened, wealthy, and moral county which
occupies a prominent position among the first coun
ties of our State, must not be behind in giving aid to
send Mr. Overby, as a Lecturer, in the field. It
would be a stigma upon her fait ir.me, and we ap
peal to the citizens to make a demonstration of the
interest they take in this subject by subscribing one
hundred or two hundred dollars to support the Lec
turer. We can but believe that our citizens will re
| spend to the call forthwith. Let us hear from you
! immediately, fellow citizens, in all pans of the county.
Let the List Swell.
We shall keep a standing list published just here
in our paper, of those who shall acceed to Mr. 11.
Phinazee’s proposition to raise three thousand dol
lars to employ the lion. B. H. Overby to lecture
through the State, the present year. Let the list
swell rapidly, for it is time he was now in the field
for the year is fast wearing away We liopeyhv
next issue to publish a column of names. Let us
enter the names of every Division and Lodge of
Knights in the Slate. A few have already respond
ed, whose names will he seen below.
Glade Division, Oglethorpe, co., #IOO, 00.
Rev. J. Grisham, Canton, says Chero
kee will find two, 100, 00.
Rev. H. Phinazee, Forsyth, 50, 00.
Taliaferro, county, 50, on
The Young Heir of France.
Paris and all France arc filled w ith reports of the
birth of a son to the Emperor and Empress, and
many American papers contain long accounts of the
splendid festivities which attended the occasion. The
Emperor has very prudently sought to create as
much eclat as possible, in order to dazzle the French
people, and win their admiration. What the destiny
of the royal infant will be, is of course unknown. R
is not probable however, that he will escape the Jatal
ity which has attended his family, and indeed all who
have been of royal birth in France for the last cenflr
ry. The tenure by which Louis Napoleon holds the
French throne is very uncertain, and is every dav
weakening. That fickleness which lias long been a
characteristic of her people, will in a few years, per
haps in a few months, hurl him from his proud
position of assumed greatness. One, whoso life
and power depends on ihe caprices of the French
populace, may very well entertain the feelings of n
courtier in an Eastern country who never went out
from ihe presence of bis master without feejiy? to
ascertain whether his head was safely on Isis should
ers. The brilliant displays which are now being
made over the young King of Algiers, remind u*
forcibly of ihe ostemious pageantry which attended
the nuptial of Louis the Sixteenth with the beauti
ful, but ili-staired Maria Antoinette. It is to be hoped
by every philanthropist that his advent into the
world may not presage such disastrous events as
were witnessed in the reign of that unfortunate
Prince.
Alliances.
A week or two since, our friend ‘•Prohibition Cru
sader, requested us to publish the Constitution oi
the Subordinate Alliances which appeared in ihe
Banner in the Fall .of st. We have not mention
ed it heretofore, as we hoped to find the number of
the paper? which contained it. This we have been
unable to do, owing to our being unprovided with a
file paper of that year. We hope therefore, that he
will not suppose us to have slighted his request. K
N. Y. Prohibitory Law.
The Court of Appeals of the State of New York,
have rendered their decision touching the law for the
suppie.vlon ol intemperance, crime, and pauperism
A great degree of interest was manifested in regard
to the decision of the Judiciary, and though they
have paralysed some of the vital features of the law,
yet they maintain that a Constitutional Prohibitory
La.\ can be passed, and thereby their decision crush
es to ‘loath the doctrine of Justice Brown, which
Liquor Societies, and Clubs have been so rampant in
; spreading over the country, that is, that the Legis
lature can pass no Prohibitory Law, whatever. We
give the points as passed upon by the Court, all the
eight Judges being present.
ihe Court held that, a party proceeded against
for misdemeanor was entitled to a trial by a jury if
he demanded it, and offered to give bail lor his ap
pearance at the Court at which he might be so tried;
and that the act, so far as ii prevented this ritrht was
unconstitutional.” b
( [We learn that five of the Judges voted in the af
firmative on the aboie, two in the negative, and one
(Selden) did not vote.]
“2d. That the law made it criminal for a person
to keep in certain places, liquors which he lawfully
had there before the law took effect, and in that re
spect was unconstitutional.”
[On the above, five voted in the affirmative and
three in the negative.]
. That unconstitutional part was so blen
ded with the other parts of the law the
sale liquors; that all those parts were void.”
{1 he relative vote on the above not ascertained by
us. J J
“4th. That the Legislature could not prohibit the
sale of liquors which were in the State, at the time
when the law was made.”
[On the above the vote stood again, five in the af
lirmathe, and three in the negative.]
and , u h 'u ßut COU r ,d rohibit the sale of those which
s loukl be manufactured or brought into the Stat°
Rer the law shall take effect.” tRt “
On the fifth and last point, the eight Judges were
vnanimovs. So we have the unanimous jfdgmfnt
oj the Court, that a Inhibitory Law may be passed
■interdicting the traffic, in Intoxicating Drinks
which would be ‘perfectly constitution ai,
As to the distinction drawn between liquor held be
fore the law took effect, and liquor manufactured
and purchased thereafter, wo content ourselves now
with quoting the general remark of one of the three
who pronounced the law constitutional
throughout. Said that enlightened Jurist. “Five
of my colleagues have this day subscribed to several
points, each of which stultifies the other ; and all
or whsch stultify the Judges who subscribe to them,”
To Hire.
W e invite attention to the advertisement of Mr. A,
F. Greene, wishing to hire a valuable Carriage smith.’
S. Hearn s money was received and cred
ited to his account. AU right until Feb, 1857.