Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

For the Temperance Crusader. LETTER FROM UNCLE DABNEY. Thank Gtxl I am still alive, and though ad- vanced in years, nay devotion to our great cause, Temperance and Prohibition, is una bated. I can speak as long and as loud as ever; and though I expect to remain at home the balance of my days, except that I mav sometimes sally out on some occasion al skirmishes, yet the ruin and blight ot jdram shops will always be held up by me to the gaze of bleeding humanity. Igo lor the abolition of the liquor traffic all the time. I want moral suasion to go forward with the olive branch of peace in her left hand, and legal suasion with the requirements of the law in her right hand. lam still strong ly in favor of the Sons of Temperance as a high-toned moral institution, and while I would not detract from the great excellen cies of the Knights of Jericho, as equally promotive of morals, yet I think the “Sons better adapted to the masses whom we would reform, being more simplified ; and I expect less expensive. The Knights are better adapted to cities and large towns, but it appears to me the “Sons” suit best tor small towns and the country. I am glad to learn that in some places the “Sons,” Phcenix like, are rising from their ashes and flapping their wings for another fight. In Fairburn, above our town, they have revived with renewed and increased energy—and if my voice could reach every place in Georgia where Divisions have gone down, I would say, brethren, try again. I would say, think of the good you accom plished, and do build up an asylum again for the poor inebiate and his afflicted family. I live, as you know, near Palmetto, where I assure you, liquor has a fearful reign, where death and ruin have been produced, and though I am always ready, at all suita ble times and places, to raise my voice in favor of our noble cause, yet I confess I have been greatly discouraged here—yet, last Wednesday night, a sweet star, the star of hope arose and shot its mild rays athwart Palmetto—-I, in conjunction with the Rev. Noah Smith, who is not slow on a speech, received fifteen or sixteen names to revive, re-model, guilt and letter our old Division. We expect to organize to morrow, and swell our numbers. The ladies, too, are uniting with us, and we expect, in the name of Goa, humanity and our country, to effect great good. I rejoice to see the widening circu lation of the Crusader; I hope our Temper ance hosts in Georgia will every where pa tronize it ; let light beam forth, let Overby take the field, with a banner over his head, with these words inscribed on it, GREAT IS TRUTH AND IT WILL PREVAIL, and instead of six thousand rallying to the support of a Prohibition Governor next time, fifty thousand will come to the rescue. I still, if spared, want to redeem my pledge, in all of this year, to be one of that hundred to get one hundred subscribers for the Cru sader. Truly, sec. # D. P. JONEK. Prohibition Hill, April 17th, 1856. P. S. Passengers often on the cars while the cars would stop at Palmetto, would ask, in my hearing, “does not Uncle Dabney live near here?” pointing to the liquor signs.— Well, I would not say a word, i hope the day is near at hand when, if the question i asked, I can say YES! For the Temperance Ovusader, Meesre. Editor a: In the Republican & Discipline of the 11th inet., I notice, over the signature of “Justice,” an article in op position to the move which is now being made by some of our Temperance friends, to relieve Uncle Dabney. Now there is evidently some mistake in regard to all this thing. In my article, published in the Crusader some weeks ago, I endeavor ed to set this thing before the people in its proper light. I said then, and I re peat it now, that Uncle Dabney is not beg fared, nor is there any likelihood of it. lo can easily pay every debt that be owes and be independent, as regards the good* of this world. We are not then begging charity for the old man. There is a vast difference between a debt that we owe, and an alms that we give. The Temperance people of Georgia owe Uncle Dabney some compensation for the time, labor, and mon ey, that he has, directly and indirectly, expended in their canse. The question is, will they remunerate, him f Someone per haps, will ask—should not Uncle L'abney bear a portion of the expense necessary to further our cause ? We answer, certainly he should. But has he not already borne his part aud more than his part in the five 3 ear’s labor and privation in our cause? that hardest of all labors, mental —a labor that wrinkles the brow, burdens the heart, and tortures the brain ? Have we so soon forgot the self-denying toils of onr own faithful Georgian in onr canse ? Was hie voice not heard from the mountains to the seaboard, and at a time too when domestic afflictions were well nigh to the point of overwhelming him with their wild waves of agony—afflictions that, with some men, would have conjured a fury to lap its kiss ing wing around a maddened brain ! The bending of his powerful intellect wholly to our cause, and the mental toil, and the bod ily pidvation, that were the necessary con comitants of his five years’ wanderings, are surely enough for him to contribute! Prior to those five years he always made a support, and something over. Since that time he has never made a sufficient sup port. Does not every one know that a man’s presence at home is necessary to the prospering of his business. Neglect of that business has gotten him in arrears. Now why did he neglect that business ? Simply because he was so devoted to the Temperance cause, and the good of his country, that ho was willing to leave all, and to endure all, and to risk all, for the furtheringof that glorious cause and those noble principles to which ho is yet wholly and soully devoted. I know Uncle Dab ney well; I know his secret feelings, many of them, -and hie peculiar proclivities; I know that, next to his God and his hope of Heaven, he values the Temperance refor mation. He was not the originator of this m|)ve in his behalf. It is, with him, adeli cate subject. Anonymous waters may at tack him on this move; they may inpQgn his motives, and load him with bitter invec tive, and he, perhaps, will never reply. I am not alluding to Justice; from his article I take him to be a candid and generous man, Bntl am merely surmising Uncle Dabney’s feelings, in case he should be assailed. It iB useless, and boots nothing to multi ply words about it. The facts are before us* He is now in debt between two and tbwe thousand dollars. Those debts, as I have already said, have accumulated in consequence of the neglect of his business at home. That neglect was in consequence of his love for us and his devotion to our cause. Now shall we let his property be sacrificed f lam one of “his neighbors,” and, being well acquainted with the facts, I have personally contributed my mite to him, which he will testify. I, too, say justiliafiat etsi ruatooelum. Public bene factors “generally go unappreciated and un rewarded. Friendship itself is not enough ‘like the oak that stands firm in the storm,’ and too much like “the willow that trem bles in the breeze.” There is not enough incentive to disinterested philanthropy, and self-denying patriotism. A nation will let a hero fight its battles, and rot on a dunghill; the literary world will let age nius increase its stores, and then die in a poor house, and rest in a “grave without a monument.” Are the noble hearted Tem perance men no better than the common worldling ? Northern demagogues have come among us, with their theatrical mum mery on the subject of Temperance, and we have liberally contributed to them. Shall onr own Southern champion be for gotten and despised 3 PHILO. April 19, 185(1. For the Temperance Crusader. MONSTER SERPENT. Reason is the faculty by which we arrive at correct conclusions from the collection of knosvn facts, and the inferences they sug gest We wish then to ascertain, by this agent, whether, or not, all who indulge, and those who do not, would be better, happier, wealthier, wiseer and more useful by absti nence from the habitual use of ardent spir its ; whether, or not, our national felicity would be promoted by the abrogation of ex isting laws, which grant license for the sale of intoxicating liquors, and the passage of a law prohibiting it ? Let us imagine that a monster serpent winds his loathsome form through every settlement, village, town, and city, in the United States, planting his poisonous fangs into the persons of the inhabitants, and spreading desolation, poverty, and misery throughout the land. Would reason not ad monish us to shun this hideous monster ? Let us also imagine that this poisonous reptile has the gift of charming his victims unawares into his fatal coil—that his poison eventually creates an incurable malady, called “ mania a potu” which dethrones reason and leaves the passions and vices triumphant,—that those deluded victims, thus robbed of reason and humanity go a broad insulting, wounding and murdering relatives, friends and foes alike; that wives, daughters and sons having stood aloof from his charms and escaped his poison are forc ed to the extreme mortification of beholding the husband, the father, the brother, the friend, a miserable outcast from decent so ciety, a gambler, a maniac, a murderer 1 Would not reason—would not our duty to our fellow-men and our country prompt us to legislate for the removal and extermina tion of this monster serpent, which thus in stigates men to violate and defy the laws of the land ? Would not our country be freed from a mighty grievance? Who would not war against such a prodigious pest ? Can any Christian law protect such a monster ? Would the Constitution of this free country forbid such legislation ? If so, our Consti tution is a curse to the country, and tolerates rather than prevents crime I There is not really such a serpent exis ting, but there is something equally as bad, which Solomon, the wisest man the world ever knew, declares (Proverbs, 23d chap., 32nd verse) biteth like a serpent, and sting *th like an add<r” It is wine ! OLA. GENTLY CHECK A CHILD. A child was asked why a certain tree grew crooked, replied, ‘-Somebody trod upon it, I suppose, when it was little,” He who checks a child with terror, Stops its play and stills its song. Not alone commits an error, But a grievious moral wrong. Give it play and never fear it, Active life is no defect; Never, never break its spirit, Curb it—only to direct. Would you stop the flowing river, . Thinking it would cease to flow£ Onward must it flow forever— Better teach it where to go. WOMAN’S LOVE. Oh I the value of the love of a true woman I Gold cannot purchase a gem so precious I Titles and honors confer upon the heart no such serene happiness. In our darkest moments, when disappointment and ingratitude with corroding care gather thick around, and even the gaunt form of poverty menaces with his skeleton finger, it gleams around the so.ul with an angel’s smile—Time cannot mar its brilliancy, dis tance but strengthens its influences, bolts and bars cannot limit its progress, it follows the prisoner into his dark cell and sweetens the homely morsel that appeases his hunger, an “ silence of midnight it plays a round his heart, and in his dreams he folds 8 ” oso jn the forms of her who loves on still, though the world has turned coldly from him The couch made by the hand of a loved one is soft to the weary limbs of the sick sufferer and the portion administer ed bv the same hands loses half its bitter ness. The pillow carefully adjusted by her brings repose to the fevered brain, and her words of kind encouragement survives the sinking spirit. It would almost seem that God, compassionating woman’s first great frailty, had planted his jewel in her breast, whose heavenlike influence should cast into forgetfulness man’s remembrance of the Fail, by building up in his heart another Eden, whose perennial flowers forever bloom, and crystal waters gush from ex haustless fountains. A HAPPY HOME. In a happy home there will be no fault finding, no overbearing will be no peevishness, no fretftflnesa. Unkind ness will not dwell in the heart or be cm the tongue. Oh. the tears, the sighs, the wast ing of life and health, and strength, and time —of ail that is most to be desired in a hap* py home, occasioned merely by unkind words. The celebrated Mr. Wesley re marked to this effect, namely, that fretting and scolding seemed like tearing the flesn from the bones, and that we have no more right to be guilty of this than we have to curse, or swear, or steal. In a perfectly happy home all selfishness will be removed. Even as ‘‘Christ pleased not himself,” so the members of a happy home will not seek first to please themselves, but, to please each other. Cheerfulness is another ingredient in a happy home. How much does the sweet ness emanating from a heart fraught with love and kindness, contribute to render a happy home. How attracting, how sooth ing is that sweet cheerfulness that is borne on the countenance of a wife and mother. How the parent and child, the brother and sister, the mistress and servant, dwells with delight on those cheerful looks, those confi ding smiies that beam from the eye, and burst from the inmost soul of those who are near and dear. How it hastens the return of the father, lightens the care of the mother, renders it more easy for youth to resist temptation ! and, drawn by the cords of affection, how it induces them with loving hearts to re turn to the parental roof! Oh, that parents would lay this subject to heart, that by untiring efforts they would so far render home happy, that theii children and domestics shall not fieek for happiness in forbidden paths! THE HIGHEStToRM OF LOVE. Blanche. —l should like to hear what Cousin Leonard would say of Love. It is not likely that so grave a man has thought much about so foolish a thing. But his big books tell him every thing, I think? I often fancy I hear them talking together in the night. Milverton. —Why, beauty, I think that love is the only thing that shows us the possibilities i:i human nature. I be lieve it was given us for the purpose that the sight of the infinite involutions of star ry worlds was given. Knowing what one human can feel for another when in love, seeing the inventive and undying toler ance which love gives, one can imagine what it would be if some feeling of the same kind were to pervade the whole race, and men exercised the best of their pow ers in discerning and developing what was level}’ to all those about them. It would create a universe of loveliness. Elleemere. —Whether she wears a bon net that is like a coal scuttle, or whether she claps on a little platter that is attached to the back of her head; whether, graceful ly, she trails after her in the muddy streets an ample sweep of flowing drapery, or whether, succinct and neat, she trips along, in bloomer costume, she is equally fasci nating, equally tiresome, and equally dis posed to look- in at all the haberdasher’B shops. Ob ! what a pains-taking and ac curate translater is lost in me. Milverton. —Rons&ean Ims said, to my mind, one or two of the best things about love—l cannot recollect them exactly, and I merely saw them in quotation, )>ut it struck me when I read them.—ls this is a bad fellow, as they say be is, at any rate he Ims had the most delicate and exquisite notion of love. Os course without the ex act words they are nothing. Blanche. ray, Leonard, let us have j them. Milverton. —Well, my pot, they were very slight, simple things. “It was merely that-he made out that the height of love was in an exquisite companionship. That if, for instance, you were in love with a man—lain not sure that you ever will be, not many people are to that heights of af fection—you will never be dull with him. You will be in the most eloquent company with him, even when bespeaks. You will have almost the freedom .of solitude, with all the joys of companionship. Ellesme7'e.~~Forg\ ve roe for interrupt ing, but I suspect you are describing a man’s love, and not a woman’s. I believe that when we are fond of any of those be wildering creatures, it is pleasure enough to see them more about the room. Milverton.-— And variety enough in the change of lights and shadows which, in quick succession, fall upon their beautiful selves and the folds of their drapery as the} 7 glide about. Mildred. —Very prettily said, gentle men; but these beautiful figures must be dumb, I suppose, or nearly so. Milverton. —No, by no means. Whatev er they utter then is equally and unac countably delightful. Ellesmere. —Oh, yes; their nonsense is grateful to our ears as a baby’s cooing to its mother—as unintelligible.perhaps, but not the less delectable. Stop a miunte, tho.ugh. I believe 1 am running into unmeaning generalities. I won’t pledge myself to say that all these felicities happen in general It is only when one is in low with that rare creation, a pleasant woman. There are plenty of loving women, graceful wo men, good.domestic, women, the women who make the heroines in novels, who do not venture to talk or act much but who, the author tells us, are very loveable, and about whom he throws a charming halo of dainty insipidity. I do not mean any of these, but a pleasant woman, one of those delight ful appreciative creatures who, whether they are beautiful or not. are charming *when young, most agreeable and compan ionable when middle-aged, and exquisitely pleasant when they are old women. Milverton. —l do not intend to bebou&d by Ellesmere’s rather captious classifica tion of women. The lorer always finda in the society of his beloved something of that pleasure which Ellesmere has so ad mirably described, and which be wishes to confine to the society of those whom he calls pleasant women, Midhurst: —Any wav, this pleasure wont last long, and that’s oorofort—-at least to ua, who know nothing about the “ex quisito companionship.” Milvei‘ton. —A hi you malign human na ture. It will last long, it will outlast all that we generally mean when we talk of love; and this perfect companionship— rare blessing, I admit—is the highest thing this world, or, as I suspect any world can give—l mean in the relation to one anoth er of created beings. Nay, the compan ionship will be so sweet, that you may seek for solitude, and quit even the object of your love, in order to think over the happi ness which there is in being with it. That last thought is one, too, winch I believe we owe to that strange and sensitive French man. Innumerable men, however, must have felt the tiling which he so beautifully describes.— Brazier's Magazine. Cj )t (Tmjmwf Cnisakr. PENFIELD, GEORGIA. Saturday Morning, April *, 1856* 5-jgT'Rev. Claiborn Trussed, of Atlanta, i= a duly authorized Agent for the Crusader. Liberal Offer. Any persoa sending us five new Subscribers, ac companied with tlie “rhino.” shall be entitled to an extra copy of tho Crusader for one year. Orders for our Paper must invariably be accompanied with the 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 for the forthcoming issue. Our county Officers par ticularly wifi bear this in mind. Agents Wanted. We want a hundred Agents for tho. Crusader— . 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 the 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. Meroer University. Anew Catalogue of this Institution has just been ! issued at this office, which shows it to be in a very flourishing condition. The College classes number 22 Seniors, 24 Juniors, 30 Sophomores, 17 Fresh men. We trust that the Trustees at their approach ing meeting, in Savannah, will succeed in procuring able occupants for the vacant chairs. More Clubs. We return our thanks to J. B. Ford, and Mrs. L. Jackson, for the new subscribers whom they sent us. We are doubly happy in acknowledging the latter, as it is the first Club sent us by a Lady. We hope it will not be the last. Every true woman should be in favor of Temperance and Prohibition, and we need their support, Philos, Wo would call attention to the communication of “Philos,” which will be found in another column. Wo have not seen the article of “Justice,” to which ho refers, and of course are not prepared to express any definite opinion in regard to it. Wo are very sorry to hear of any man’s entertaining such senti ments as it is said to contain. The Temperance men of Georgia owe “uncle Dabney” a heavy debt of gratitude, and if they choose to pay it in a sub stantial way, who should say unto them, Nay. If any do not feel disposed to contribute of their sub stance to this fund, let them hold their peace, nor strive to hinder a work of love and mercy. * Temperanoe Convention. The Temperance Convention of Georgia which held its last meeting in Marietta, appointed the place and time of its next meeting to be held in the city of Atlanta on the 30th of July next We make mention of this at an early day, in order that the friends of the cause in each county may prepare to have a delegation there, and we may hereafter name it from time to time, in order to keep them reminded of it We hope this Convention will be largely at tended by representatives from every part ot the State, as we think that a meeting of this kind, a real mass-meeting is an indispensable requisite to the re vival of Temperance. Let its friends bestir (hem seives actively, and send up men of zeal and devo tion to the cause, and a great change will be wrought in our prospect. Now is the time when vigorous action on our part can be of avail, when a calm is resting on the sea of politics, and men are unbiassed by the evil genius of demagogueism. One effort can now do more than years of toil when human passion is excited by political strife. “Lot us then be up and doing, With a heart for every fate.” * The Cost of Intemperance. Intemperance is, without doubt, the most expen sive vice in which an individual or a people over in dulged. Were there no other, this would be a suffi cient reason why every one should wish its suppres sion. The amount of money which is paid out di-: rectly for intoxicating liquors, is enormously great, and would be sufficient to give a decent support to all the indigent and helpless people in our country. The money thus spent would be sufficient to estab lish and maintain a free school in every county in our State. But this becomes but a small item when compared with the immense destruction of property which is produced by intemperance. Where may we not see dilapidated dwellings and neglected farms lying in useless sterilty, produced by the drunken ness of their possessors f When may wo not hear of property sold at public outcry to liquidate debts contracted at the Grocery ? For the rumseller is the most merciless of creditors. However bland his smile may be, while mixing the ingredients of his “poisoned ehalice,” when the day of accounts comes, he is inexorable. He would strip the poor man of his last raiment, or snatch from his famished lips the last morsel of bread, to pay for the hellish poison, which he hus sold. Intemperance is not merely an injudicious outlay of capital, not yet a positive waste which makes no return, but it gives back an equiva lent in a curse, blasting to tho fondest hopes, blight ing to the fairest reputation, utterly destructive of soul and body for time and eternity. * Idgrßeitfamin Brantly, Esq., wishes his corres pondents to address him at Kansas City, instead of OaseviUe, Ga., as heretofore. Will Ton Have A Lecturer? We have awaited for the last two or three weeks in anxious solicitude, to hear of new names to the subscription list for a Temperance Lecturer; but wo have waited in vain. Why is this apathy mani fested in a subject of such vital importance ? Mr. Overby has signified his willingness to accept, pro vided the requisite amount be -raised; and ail attest his fitness for the high, responsible office. In accep ting under these conditions, he will make a sacrifice, a great sacrifice, much greater than any one man will have to make in order to raise the required sun'. Yet the year is rapidly passing without a Lecturer in the field Now while a quiet is reigning over the land, when men can listen with unprejudiced minds to the voice of reason and truth, we are idle. Soon the political caldron will begin to bubble, and all the attempts at successful action will be vain. It is now that energetic efforts on our part can meet with de served success. And how can we act more efficient ly than by securing the services of an ardent, zealous, eloquent, State Lecturer ? Is there not enough of patriotism, philanthropy, and devotion to our cause to contribute the small sura of three thousand dollars, to promote such laudable ends? The trifling sum of fifty dollars from each county in the State, (more than twice this amount is given to every cir cus or monkey show which comes along) Would make more than is required The friends of Tem perance should meet in every county, and send up their donations; to this fund, and they may do so in the full assurance of having it returned to them with usury. Wo knvw that Mr. Overby’ would do good His eloquent voice would, like the song of a syren, woo men from the path of the drunkard, which ‘‘takes hold on hell” and ring like a clarion of hope to the despairing struggler in the waves of iniquity. Send up your names and your contributions then, and let us have him in the field at an early day. We tell you candidly, and we would have it impressed on your mind with ail solemnity, unless you are de termined to act with vigor, to make sacrifices, to manifest a spirit of self-denial, you may as well “give up the ship” forever. * Maine Repudiates the Blaine Liquor Law. .Speaking of the repeal of tho Maine Liquor Law by the Legislature of Maine, the Hartford Times re marks : “Thus has Maine, the State that originated the li quor law to which it has given a name and notoriety, repudiated the ultra statute by a decided vote. The action of the legislature in this respect seems to re flect the popular sentiment throughout the State, and it is not likely that any future legislature will restore the Maine law to the statute book. Maine, the first State to try the Maine Liquor law, is the first to turn her back upon it. Ita unconstitutional provisions, and its. infringement of individual rights, prove to be of a character too flagrant to be endured, even in Maine.” The above is a fair sample of the side thrusts which political and secular papers are continually making at the Temperance cause. Few have had the effrontery to attempt opposition by reason and argument. Whenever the evils of intemperance are arrayed before them, or the question is presented to them as a matter of public polity, whether the sup port of Law shall be given to it, they either seek wilfully to ignore it, or to produce the impression that it is a moral question only. But let the least re verse happen to it, and their ovations may be heard from one end of the land to the other. They eagerly catch at these as evidences of the popular will, and endeavor thereupon to palm off a statement to which they dare not give words, that the Cause is wrong in itself. They would, with a look of scorn, or-a sneer of contempt, attempt to crush arguments which they cannot meet with reason. Howl ye, long and loudiy, in your fiendish triumph. You have before you spectacles of your Rum-God's power, over which ye may gloat to your heart’s content But know that your cries-of victory will 9 :nd no chill of despair to our hearts. We rely not on the aid of your party leaders, who are lost to every sentiment but the love of office, for the success of our Cause. It is the Cause of humanity and truth, and we feel assured that it must prevail. You may ignore if you can, you may despise if you will; you may pour out upon it the surcharged volume of vituperation; but you cannot check it It dates its beginning from God; it has received the unction of His Holy Spirit, and it must go on, “conquering and to conquer,” until the last foe has yielded to its power. * A “Great” Sermon, Anecdotes of the self-assuring ignorance of the “Hard-Shell” ministry have become so common that they have almost ceased to be ridiculous, The fol lowing, which we take from the May Number of Harper, may have been preached by a brother of the one who “played on a harp of a thousand strings.” “During the summer I attended an association of the Hard Shell Baptists in a western county of Geor gia, At the appointed time on Sabbath morning a plain preacher rose and conducted the usual intro ductory services without exciting any special atten tion. After reading the chapter in the Gospel of St. John, where the blessed Saviour demands of Peter three times ‘Lovest thou me i ’ he chose these words as his text, and then solicited the prayers of the peo ple in the following quaint address : “Old Coles is in a tight piaco—has deep and mud dy water to wade through—and now, dear brethcr ing, he wants you to help him out by your prayers.” The bretheren manifested their acquiescence by audible groans. The preacher then went on to de scribe the object of the Saviour’s mission to the earth; gave his own opinion of the nature and ex tent of the work he performed; his belief as to the proper subjects and the mode of baptism; the final perseverance of the saints; and nearly every doctrine in and around the Gospel, till we had at least all the theology that Preacher Coles had ever found in the Bible; then he came down to the abomination of building handsome churches and paying ministers for preaching in them; the folly of fashion and the sin of wearing silks and feathers, and all that sort of thing; till at last he happened in his excursions to stumble on his text, and suddenly wound up his discourse in such words as these : ’ “Now, my dearly beloved brethering, Old Coles don’t exactly agree with some of the Presbyterians Methodist and the softer Baptists, as to our Lord’s meaning when he axed that question, ‘Simon lov est thou me more than these V Some of them’high larnt, thousand-dollar preachers contend that he meant, ‘is ™ur love for mo greater than for these follow-disciples?’ Another set of the broadcloth and satin-vest preachers contend that he meant ‘is your love to me stronger than the love of the rest of ifutwh 0 ?!? B *-’ i°I and i eS hain t ? ot uo education ini SSf he J p,C H ed P bere and tW, while swing {°, tbe Ptow-handles or swinging the ax—never go- fai therthan the rule of three in rethmotic — r u lhing abo , ut i°S ra P h y and such tomfoolry, ?" and bI , U whon U ScripteV the old feller has a few wrinkles, and wouldn’t swap places with any of them college chaps. Now, listen dear brethering, and Old Coles will tell you in few words what our Lord meant when he said, ‘lovest thou me more than these r You know they had all just been oating dinner, and that dinner was made of nsh: at.d consequently, therefore, on this ero ac count I conclude and reckon, that he meant to ask Simon, ‘lovesi thou me more than thou lovestyM/’ 1 wonder, dear brethering, if Peter would have made the same answer if the question had been put to him before dinner 1 Brethering, I rockon not 1” This was pronounced with an air of aelf-cutiaficd assurance, and with q few ‘♦preliminaryremarks, the discourse was ended, Smiles. Smiles are beautiful reflections cast by the sod upon the wails of its outer temple, which convey some faint glimmerings of the hidden mysteries within. They transcend the eloquent music of the voice, or the impressive language of the beaming eye, and hold immediate converse with “the heart of hearts.” Who hath not felt t e power of friend ship’s smile, as it steals over the troubled spirit, cha sing from the brow each anxious frowst, and diffuse? a placid joy through every faculty? It comas like toe rich gushings of a lyinpid fountain to the weary traveller, amid a scene of arid desolution. Ah, how it smoothes every deformity, increases every beauty, until the whole countenance beams with the Heaven lit radiation of joy 1 But far exceeding this in all its excellencies, is “the smile from partial beaut}’ won.” It is the dawning of hope, more lovely than that which heralds the rising sun, and more brilliant than the glow which emblazons his retiring splendor. But a smile is only the mirrored image of the heart. A beautiful smile can not be reflected from a heart where moral deformity reigns. All smiles art* not interesting to contemplate or pleasing to behold. There is tho simple smile, which always precede* “tho k*ud laugh which speaks the vacant mind.” There is the bland smile which means nothing, and the patronising smile which is intended to speak volumes of complaisance and condescension. There is the faint, meagre smile of the miser as he chuckles with inward delight over his ill-gained treasure, and the feeble smile of the ascetic as he chases rt away with a gloomy frown, ere it is half formed. And the hollow-hearted hypo*'rite “grins horrible, s, ghastly smile” wishing people to forget that “a naan may smile, and smile, and be a viilian.” Would you have & beautiful smile; a f>mie which would speak of innocence, friendship, and Jove r Then cherish goodness and virtue in your hearts. Let kindness and charity be your ruling motives. Then will your smile be like an ever-blooming flower which yields its sweet fragrance to all around. * The Sons in Jefferson. A friend from Louisville has furnished us with some interesting news from that place and countv. There are three Divisions of Sons in the county, all in a i}.igl\l\ flourishing condition. YVo are glad to hear ofit, and hope they will all be valiant in the cause which they have espoused. The time is now at hand when we must have firm and true men to attain success. “December on the Lap of June. 55 After a week or two of the most delightful weath er, we were last week visited bv another blast of winter. Wo hope it is a farewell salute, and we feel no reluctance at the parting. Wo entertained the most serious apprehension for fruit, but we believe it has thus far escaped unhurt. A New Coat. A handsome Coat has a tendency to “haudsotn iae ’ a homely person;; but a handsome Coat on &, handsome naan (as ourself for instance) is certainly the handsomest thing of the handsome genus, and if we hay ut a handsome Coat, then you can u(nnpi tute our “red nose. ’ It was manufactured at the Taiioring Establishment of Morgan & Tarwater, where you may get one nearly as handsome by leav ing your order. Editorial Changes. Friend T. A. Burke, recently of the Cassviile Stand ard, has returned to Madison, formerly his home, aadt taken the Editorial Chair of the- Visitor. h riend C. L. Barbour has retired fi-ona Hie Atlanta Examiner, and left its Editorial interest in the hands of his co-Editor, Steel. We regret exceedingly, that our sensibilities are no more to be regaled by the hu mor, witticisms, and literary effusions of friend Charlie. —ml 1 a ISIP’The following lines were sent to us by a young friend, whose indulgence wo claim for giving them an insertion in our columns. It is among her earliest efforts, and of course wants the smooth flew which is the result only’ of long practice in pootic composition. Poetry of the highest order, cannot of course be expected from girls of thirteen sura mere. There is however a richness of imager? about this which gives promise of better things. Night has unlocked, and ope’d her casket wide, And countless jewels sparkle, side by side; Devices strange, appear ; and fastenings firm and strong Secure, now flowery wreath, now fiery serpents long. Crosses of light, and crowns like glittering gold Ghams oi the diamond’s lustre, things of curies mould, * With anchor of hope, and shield of Warrior famed. Mtx strange; in olaspiugs strange aro But mark one lonely gem, apart from all the rest. With beauty and with dazzling brightness blest; It seems to watch me, and oftimes to say Lise al. things mortal, thou must pa.se sway. Must leave this busy world of thorns and flower* ” hc ; r , e a,i H 0 S lid the fleeting hours, Must leave this world of mirth, and joy and sorrow, 1 - mhnbiv realms where conies no more to-morrow. Our Book Table. Harper a Magazine. The May number Is more than usually interesting. It contains an account of Cora. Perry’s expedition to Japan; a continuation of Dickens ‘“Little Dorrit,” and No. 5 of a well written series on the Senses. His “easy chair” is as Jooww*. as ever, ami his Drawer replete with humor, $3 r, year. G<ydey'& Lady's Book. “Excelsior” },i the motto of Godey/and well do his promises and actions ac cord. It is designed particularly for the ladies, and he spares no pains in getting up a work in every way worthy of their patronage. Price $3 a year. Stop Papers.—Settle Arrearages. P ersons ordering their papers discontinued, muse invariably pay up all their dues. We shall not strike off any subscriber’s name who is in arrears. Let the List swelt Wo shall keep a standing list published just hen; in our paper, of those who shall aceeed to Mr. H. Phinaaee’s proposition to raise three thousand dob :ars to employ the Hon. 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 hope by next issue to publish a column of names. Let us enter the names of every Division and Lodge of Knights in the State. A few have already respond ed, whose names will be seen below. Glade Division, Oglethorpe, co., SIOO, 00. Rev. J. Grisham, Canton, says Chero kee will find two, 100, 0&. Rev. H. Phinazee, Forsyth, 50, 09.. Taliaferro, county, 50, OCi jj£jgf*'Drß, Coe & Latimer, late of sire their correspondents to address Jeffeißon county, N. Y. •