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For the Temperance Crusader.
YOUTHFUL DAYS.
The halcyon days of my boyhood, have past,
Like the sparkling dew, away;
And the Spring-time of life, has well nigh faded,
Like the flitting cloud in May.
Those flowers, by far, seem the sweetest, which
bloom
In earliest hours of Spring;
Whose odor fresh, to seent the broad fields fair,
The hastening zephyrs bring.
And so; much the sic ee lest, dearest , part of life,
Is found in earliest days;
Where rest no ambitious strife, and wasting care
To sadden the morning lay.
And oh! how sweet to the soul, those dear old
scenes, ‘
Which is far back in the past!
How delighted is memory, all the time, re
As o’er them she rushes fast.
But alas! those precious hours-have quickly fled,
And borne away their joys, all;
For the summer days are hastening us on,
To the cold and dreary fall. •
May my days glide calmly, like the gentle Brook,
Afar from its mountain height;
And when, to things of earth, I have bid farewell,
May my spirit bask in light.
Dalton, Ga., June 4th, 1856 IIENNIE.
For the Temperance Crusader.
A GENTLEMAN.
Man was created in the image of his
Maker—a pure being; but short indeed,
was the time that he enjoyed that state of
perfection. The wily serpent entered Jiis
bowers, beguiled him by his bewitching
powers* lead his enchanted victim to the
precipice* and he knew no morel He awoke
a carnal being; subjected to all the base
passions that now. form a part of his nature.
Hut society could not long remain in this
condition. Many began to feel a sense of
their pristine purity reviving, and some
even disengaged themselves totally, from
the snares of “sin and iniquity. As an nr -
my leaves its dead and wounded behind,
in order that they may not impede, its
marches; so by convention, society in ite
onward progress to refinement marked
those that were fit to on; er its bands. Hence
the distinction between a gentleman and a
vagabond. Although, in all countries these
(distractions) can be observed r yct the prin
ciples upon which they are founded bififef
very materially from each other. W hat in
one country might constitute a gentleman,
might in another possess no element of such
a being. In England those who are born
<if noble blood and are able to refer to “A
nm of illustrious ancestors” to grace withal
their names, are termed gentlemen. Rome
will tout any regard to the principles of
morality, but by some caprice of fortune,
divided her subjects into plebians and pa
tricians. America, with more reason than,
the rest, distinguishes hers by their educa
tion and general deportment'in social life.
Here, wo remark a very manifest disagree
ment Does not reason say, that immy
dcse-j ('■ ‘the a {‘.probation, but according to
the accepted standard cannot receive it?
All, of course cannot boast of ancestral dig
nities nor patrician stock,'’ and .shall true
worth on this account receive no reward?
(Fortune Ib vofs few, and cnanc-e may turn
it upon the unworthy.) Now considering the
various fluctuations io which the masses
are liable, ;t will be proper to'erect some
fixed'standard to which ail men may be re
ferred. As ail the inferences’ which men
(ini'.voii ibis subject are from the workings
of the human heart, the ultimate appeal
will be to nature, for “time will overthrow
the illusions of opinion and establish the
decisions of Nature/* We consider the un
couth back wood so mn, who bares jos braw
ny arm to.the sun. if he has that true prin
eiple of virtue implanted, in his breast, a
far better sample of a true gentleman, than
the fawning courtier that bends the
ant hinges of the knee” and sues for favors
at the “hands of his master. The one may be
the polished man , but the other the true
gentleman. We admit that education may
polish and do much to the refining of a
man (and moved by the springs of virtue,
will become the perfect gentleman;) but On
the other hand, neither education, rank,
nor wealth, without that innate principle
can fill our ide I. He must possess that
delicacy of feeling, that lively sensibility,
and that high toned principle of honert hat
w 11 not allow him to part with the vplga
larities of earth. Charity, should he his
household god. Truth —that golden link
which binds society by such close ties, he
should make his buckler. In fine we
would say that the fundamental element,
in the formation of a ‘gentleman, is a pure
heart. Would you ask an example to till
our ideal of a perfect gentleman ? We
would refer you to the character oft he Son
of Man. He the meek and lowly pilgrim;
he that “sat with princes” and raised beg
gars from the tomb; he that boasted of no
high eg birthplace than the manger of the
“homed cattle;” he whose •’life was gentle
and the elements so mixed in him, that
nature might stand up ami say to all the
world, this was a -trLanfi him we presentiis
a type of a perfect gentleman. LON A.
i'or the Temperance Crusader.
GRAVE-YARD REFLECTIONS.
I stood in the midst of the Cemetery of
oiv native village. C ? at twilight’s
tranquil, holy hour. A subdued and quiet
cal in fell over the restless waves of my
spirit as, alone art'll almost a stranger, I
mrisen amid those graves, while the dattk
enmg shadows of .evening closed around
me. Long years had lapsed away, sines 1
played a round those tombstones, a thought
less, happy boy. Since that time, how
many aiut sad changes had taken place !
liere, underneath me. lav friends of my
bo\ hood, from whom I had parted, ten
years ago, with hopes as bright* and pros
peets bu brighter than my own. Tee play
ground of the Seminary"bardT.y segmil to
J b’ saddeiieti spirit, oeserted and desolate.-
v< ’ ~ <-J <\\ l 1 .very ;-ur}‘*?inuiiiu; ob-
JGCt woie iiio aspect ot change and
A’cu\, anti (teat.il. ine very grave-yard•
no longer the same. Marble slabs and
•jFofchVks, with touching: inscription’ were
around me, marking the. epot where &fe-ep
the renn nihered and honored dead. From
tdicir gleam I turned to \vln.re a, pile of
Hindering rails, overgrown with weeds and
briars, enclosed two humble little graves,
and a tear would come into my eyes, as I
gazed, stricken and sad, upon them. They
were the graves of my own dear brother
and sister, who died in childhood, and had
long been sleeping in “a grave without a
monument/ 5 n&honored, but not forgotten..
I well remembered the time when those
sweet spirits passed away. I well remem •
bered the day that the clods rumbled upon
the coffins of the loved and the lost. I
well remembered the shadow that rested
on the stern brow of my father, and the
tears that stole down the quiet cheek of my
mother. I remembered, too, the grief of
my young heart. It was the .first sorrow
that ever saddened the spirit that lias been
so often dimmed and saddened since. I
looked upon the briars, that rankly grew
above those lowly graves, and wept. And
while human pride, even at that sad hour,
prompted the resolve that a marble slab
should take their place, human reason
whispered that it mattered not, and human
faith softly lifted my spirit from the ousts
and the shadows of that evening hour.
Reason whispered that it had -been well
with these lovely ones that ban
been sleeping beneath the weeds and niars
in that lonely grave-yard—.ar better than,
with the brother who had been left, to bat
tle with the ills, and the afflictions, and
th e sorrows of the stern task-mastt-i Lit.
Faith in her silvery soothing accounts
whispered, thai perhaps that brother might
be permitted to meet again with those he
loved so well in his boyhood—to meet n
gain in a brighter and better clime, “where
the weary are at rest and the wicked cease
from troubling/ 5 From that grave-yard I
turned away, I trust, a wiser and a better
man. “ i MORGAN.
Palmetto, Ga., June 14th, 1856.
THE ANGELS IN THE HOUSE.
Every parent, especially every mother, will appre
ciate these lines. We find them floating, anony
mously, in the newspapers:
Three pair of dimpled arms, as white as snow,
Held me in soft embrace;
Three little cheeks, like velvet peaches soft,
Were placed against my face.
Three tiny pairs of eyes, so clear, so dee]),
Looked up in mine this even,
Three pair of lips kissed me a sweet “good night”—
Three little forms from Heaven.
Ah, it is well that “iittio ones” should love us;
It lights our faith when dim,
To kno v that once our ‘blessed Saviour bade’them
Bring “little ones” to him!
And said He not “of such is Heaven” and blessed
them,
And held them up to his breast!
Is it not sweet to know this when they leave us,
’ I'is where they go to rest?
And yet, v> tiny angels of my house,
Three hearts encased in mine! *
How ! t would be shattered", if the Lord should say
“Those angels ;ire not thim!”
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THE DEVOTION OF A WIFE.
One of the m >! -remarkable ilistenecs
on record of the unfaltering devotion of a
wife to h r husband un.der tire most trying
;:i)d dreadful riiyumsfances, is giv, n in
the history oft ho- tbmree tragedy, in rite
Doles county, Illinois. A. I. Monroe kill
ed iris father-Uid.-jw— Ellington —in a tight,
in which Ellington struck the first blow.
Public opinion ,vv;ts s<. violent against Men
roe that t)ie Court, and even the attorneys
tor the defence, were overawed, ami a
change of venue, which wits begged by the
prisoner, was not obtained. The attorneys
of Monroe feared to Apply for it, apprehen
ding murderous designs on th • part of the
people. The trial .proceeded, and the'jury
did not dare to find the prisoner guilty of
any thing hut murder in the first degree,
and he was sentenced to he hanged. Tin?
Governor impressed that something was
wrong in the case, granted a respite of
ninety days, and file moo broke into the
jail and dragged Monroe out and hung him.
Amid all this terrible storm of i .furatted
public opinion, though his wife's father
was the vietiu; in whose mime the cry of
vengeance was raised, and he-had been a
fast man, having drank hard and kept had
company, Monne retained the love of his
“Nannie’* to the la&t, When he had been
murdered by the mob, she begged for his
remains, and had them transported to a
burial place, a few miles above Newport,
on the Licking river, and there, with her
child in her arms, stood the only mourner
by his grave. Three days before his death
she wrote to her husband as follows. The
person whom she mentions as Pole, is N
B. Atrlich, a distant relative of. her bus
band :
Charleston, Fob. 12th, 1856.
My Ever Dear Husband : - How miser
able you must be. Mv cerv heartaches
for you. 1 have not given up vet —I still
cave hope lam now at Mr. Bail’s with
Pole and Ma. Pole has been a l mother to
me and a true friend to you. I intend to
make his home my home, wherever that
may bn — 1 hope a good ways from here—
the/briber from here the better. Twould
rather die to night than to stay hem among
my enemies, for those who are your ene
mies are mine- , and yngr friends a re.my
friends.
As goon as lean make arrangements and
get the moans, I will leave this town, nev
er to return again. May is weli. Fare
well. but 1 hope not forever / subscribe
myself your drue and devoted wife.
Nannie Monroe
and pi'Qud to own it
THE BLOOMER COSTUME OUTDONE.
Tim Baltimore American, of the #oih of
April says : Considerable wonderment
Wiia excited on the appearance ot the Bloo
mer trowsets in the stieels of our good
city, hut anew style of female dress has
come up which fakes possession of the neth
er garment ot man. A lady appeared in
Baltimore street yesterday afternoon minus
the ordinary front tJroM to the waist, in-**
stead of which she wore a pr tty linen
shirt, plaited and studded, with jumljar
turned over. Theghirt was fastened about
the waist, above which the shirt was only
visible. It, was made loose anti gathered
in plaUsvdown to the waist, presenting a
neat and cool appearance. To these inno
vuiious upon their heretofore undisputed
fights ami, privileges, the erestion/
must submissively bow, as fttis.is hu hge of
progress, and in that progression the la
dies are <1 togbe equal with their
improvements. •
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A FIENDISH MOTHER. - /
At one of the London poliee courts, Jan.
22d, Olmi lotfe Ola ridge, a wretched look
ino - girl, 15 years of age, was charged with
robbing her mother. The mUher insisted
upon prosecuting her daughter, who stood
in the"dock weeping bitterly while her par
rent, ’ in woe-begone ‘ tones/ assured tRc
magistrate that the giri was incorrigible,,
-refused to work, and seized every opportu
nity of taking cil lything she could lay her
hands upon, and selling if wherever she
could., ‘The magistrate said —I think not
long sinCc you bfought this vonnggirl here
on a similar charge. Mother. —Oh, yes,
your worship; she’s such a bad girl I can
do nothing with her. Magistrate—=l re
member that she was then discharged,, and
complained of being left without anything
eat. Now, tell me what had you left
her for food op tin's occasion, when left in
care of your house"? The mother (confus
edly) I— I really don’t know ; she had her
breakfast left her. Mag.—Of what did it
consist ? Mother —I really don’t know ex
actly,’ I believe potatoes. Prisoner (clas
ping her hands) Oh, mother you know I
had not anything. You know 1 have cause
to do what lam charged with. 1 have ask
ed you to get me work, and you tell me to
go into the streets and take -my chance
with other girls. You go away for days
together, and leave me without, food.
What shall I do \ I should he glad to work.
The prosecutrix could hot deny the poor
young tiling’s statement, but evaded any
direct reply; and it subsequently tr anspi
ried that her daughter was illegitimate, the
father dead, and since married. Mag.:—
I suspected something of Hue. (To the;
■mother.) Mag.—Your conduct is most dis
graceful. Yon ought to Ire ashamed of
yourself, allowing she is. nil to blame, von
are far more guilty. What can you intend
to become -of her by desiring her to go and
take her chance in the streets ? I shall dis
charge her, and desire that the parish au
thorities look well after yon.
PREMHTURE MATRIMONY.
Marriage is a divine and beautiful ar
rangement. It was designed by providence
not solely as the means of keeping up popu
lation or as a mere social and economical
convenience, but as ihe blending of two
spirits into one —the masculine representing
wisdom, and the feminine affection. When
there is a true spiritual affinity between t he
two,then the design is accomplished.
Premature marriages are among the
greatest, evils of the times ; and it would not
be a bad idea in these days of reforms if an
anti-'rn i rrying-in-n-hurry Society were in
stituted. Now a days, people leap into the
magic life circle with no more consideration
than they would partake of a dinner—little
thinking that, when once in, they are there
until their end comes. There is little, some
times, of mutual analysis of disposition and
i comparison of taste and affections. They
seem to fancy that; if there are any discre
pancies. the fatal Gordian knot, which can
be seldom cut and never untied, will har
monize all.
The numbers who have felt this truth —
the numbers still feeling it to their heart's
core—are incalculable. They recognize it
as the great mistake of their lives. The
chain is not to them-a silk one, but a cable
of iron, that tightens around them more, arid
more, crushing out all hope and energy, sub
stituting hate for love, and eating out with
its rust, the very inner life of the sou!.
A KISS IN TEE DARE.
As home I sp r), to go to bed,
T met an angel, nearly;
Cupid at last, had caught me last,
1 swore I loved her dearly.
Her cheeks were of a rich dark brown,
Cerulean was her eye,
Her cheeks were soft as cygnet’s down,
Her tips like ppnkip-pie.
And now a kiss, comes not amiss,
So, ladies, do not wonder,
I raised her veil, tornadoes! hail!
A nigger woman, l,y thunder!
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AMERICAN BANG- FROIB.
Far away from the greal cities, half hid
den in the foliage, was the modest log hut of
a man, half trapper, half fisherman, -arid more
than kali savage. Os course his name is
Smith. He was married end lie ami his
wife in this one little chamber led the happi
est of existence, for on occasions she would
not object to go twenty miles to hear the
baptist minister preach.
One evening about sundown they were
both together in their little log mb in—she
knitting stockings for next winter’s snows,
he cleaning tfie barrel of his fowling piece,
all the parts oi which were lying dismount
ed about him—both busy, and neither utter
ed a syllable.
By degrees a dull but regular sound
breaks-upon the silence of the wilderness.
The steamer is ascending the river, making
the best of its way against the stream. But
neither Smith nor his wile pays any atten
tion ; he goes on cleaning his gun, she knit
ting her stockings.
The air, however, darkens; a thick smoke
risea upon every side; n formidable explo
sion was heard; one would have said it. was
a discharge of several cannons at once.—
The boiler had burst; the vessel hail sunk;
every thing was destroyed
£smith and his wife did not look up; he.
went on cleaning his gun, she knitting her
stockings; for explosions of steamers are so
common.
Ijijl this was one which was to interest
them more nearly, for scarcely had the ex
plosion ended before the roof of the cabin
split in two, and something heayy descend
ed through the aperture. This something
was a man, vvho dropped between the pair,
without, however, disturbing either—ho
stili cleaning l)F gun, she .still knitting her
stockings.
But the traveler, so rudely introduced,
seemed rather astounded at his descent.—
After a lew minutes, however, he resumed
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his coolness and bey an W> look about him,
fixing bis attention .at last upon the hole
through, which he had just arrived. “‘Air!
my man,” said lie. at length/ addressing
Smith, “what’s the damage ?”
On this, Smith, who had not given up his
work, put aside his ritie, and, looking up to
estimate his loss..answered,-after some little
reflection, “teq dollars/’
“You.be hanged !” exclaimed the travel
er, “last week, in the explosion I happened
to be'in with another steamer, I fell t hrough
three flights m anew house, and they only
me five. dollars. No, net ; 1* know
what s the thing in such matters. Here’s a
couple-of dollars, and if that won’t do, go
unci sue, and be ‘hanged.--'H. L’Alnfnbeii’s
“Tour en Amenqucf
“DO A GOOD TURN WHEN YOU CAN.”
M hat a glorious moral lesson this line of
poetry conveys ? Would that if. might be
written m meftyeable letters on everv heart.
Would that it might become agree! and en
nobling rule of action all around urn
I here is need enougleof human_sympnthy
and aid, as every bod}- knows. The world
is tnl! of trials and temptations ; thorns have
sprung up, where roses once blossomed
brightly, and shadows have fallen .heavily,
where everything was gav and fair. Many
have sunk down m the march of iife,■..some
weary and faint with the toilsome journey,
and others almost wild with the anguish .oi
disappointed hopes.
There is one trying to rise above dishear
tening circumstances and win fame and for
tune.
Gere is another, who. after having spent,
years ofiabor .in fruitless attempts to.gain
an honest livelihood, finds himself haunted
with the spectre ot want- —oppressed by the
burden of care and sorrow.
Yonder is a fellow-being, who.has gone
astray from the path oh rectitude and seems
well nigh overpowered with his disgrace.
O, there are thousands, who need help—
*‘do a good turn when you can.” Speak a
word of encouragement to the drooping
spirit; rea<fh out the hand of friendly sym
pathy to the weak and desponding,,and not
only speak but act. Give.gold if you ha-ve
it to relieve the distress of the need v, but if
you are too poor in worldly wealth, you can
find some way to work in behalf of man
kind.
A smile of approval—a word ‘of sympa
thy and kind advice have been magical in
their influence more than once. They have
lifted geuis irony obscurity-—changed gloom
and doubt to hope and gladness.. Aye, veto
a good turn when you qan.”
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THE ‘WIFE-SYSTEM IN TURKEY.
A tourist, in giving his impressions of the
Orient, relates the following little episode,
which a lady told him, of Turkish life In ihe
household : “Hus day we spent out of sight,
ol land, and chiefly in conversation with an
elderly lady, who had been staying at Con
state inobie upon a visit to a Turkish harem.
Her descriptions of ihe scenes she witness
ed there were exceedingly graphic. The
pusua nad twelve wives, and In the evening
they all assembled together and chatted,
without rivalry and without .jealousy, until,
at a certain hpqtr, a black gentleman enter
ed the room and. bowed to one oi the ladies,
i no others t lien - looked at each other just as
ladies do in England before they leave the
dining-room, and then separated lor the
night. One of our co-voyagers ventured to
ask whether the black gentleman always
bowed to the same lady. ‘We were there
ten days, and the same lady was never bow
ed to twice/ was the answer.”
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THE CQMIu Ci SICKNE S.
The germs of pestilence are hatching in
the elements. Everything points to the “ap
proach of a sickly summer and autumn, it
should, therefore, be tfie care of every per
son to preserve Ihe several functions of the
body in their full tone. Diseases fall first
upon t hose whose organism is already dis
ordered through their own neglect. Ouard
well against constipation, and its opposite.
Eat nothing indigestible. Avoid allgreen
and half matured vegetables and fruits'’ Pay
strict attention to the cleanliness of the sur
face of your bodies; and above all begin
the work of purification about your yards,
and m vour houses, early; and do it thor
oughly. Cleanliness, simple diet', and reg
ular habits will form tire strongest protec
tion against . the coming epidemic.. As no
man can tell where the arrow of death mav
fall first he is the wisest vvho first sets his
house in order.—Medical Specialist.
MENAGERIE OF THE SOUL,
What do-you say. have I beasts within
me? Yes, ‘Amp have beasts, and avast
number of them. And that you may not
think 1 intend to insult you, is anger an in
considerable beast, when it barks in your
heart? What is deceit, when it lies hid in
a cunning mind. Is not a fox ( Is not the
man who is furiously bent upon calumny, a
scorpion ? Is not the person who is eagerly
set on resentment and revenge, a most ven
omous viper? What do you say of a cove
tous man? Is he not, a ravenous wolf? And
is nor the luxurious man,- as the prophet ex
presses if, a neighing’horse? Nay, there is
no wild beast that is not found within
us. And do you consider'yourself as lord
and prince of the wild beasts because you
command those that are without, though
you never think of subduing or setting
bounds to those that are within you. What
advantage have you by your reason, which
enables you’to overcome lions, if after all,
you yourself are overcome’ by anger ?- ‘To
what purpose do you rule over the birds and
catch tlnyn with gins, if yon yourself* with
the ineonsisiuncy of a bird, are hurried hith
er andthithen and sometimes flying high,
are ensnared by pride, sometimes brought
down and caught by pleasure? But. as it
rs shampliil for fifth who rules over nations
to he a slave'at ImmA and for the man Who
sits qt the hglm ofstate, to he meanly sub
jected to the beck of a contemptible harlot,
’or even of ah imperious wife, will it not be,
in bke manner, disgraceful lor you, wiibe’x-’
opjrjfe donation pwr the beasls that. ‘ are
without you to be subject to a great many,
and thbse of the worst- sort, that roar and
dominfer In your distempered mind?
Cbc Cemperanct (£ntsakr.
; PENFIELD, GEORGIA.
Saturday Morning - , June 21, 1856.
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Persons Ordering their papers discontinued, must
invariably pay up all their dues. We shill not strike
off any subscriber's name who is in arrears.
Senior Class Graduated.
Thu Senior Class finished their course on Wed
nesday the 18th inst. The first honor was awarded
to “Messrs. T. A. Seals and. H. D. McDaniel; the sec
ond to Messrs. M. N. Dyer and J. T. Hand, and the
third to Messrs. J. T. Glover, M. B.'L. Binion and
M. P. Cain.
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Catoosa Springs.
We Invite special attention to the Advertisement
in thi; issue of these Springs, and would say to all
invalids, and seekers of pleasure, that there is no
piacc in the whole Southern country that can com
pare with Cotoosa for health and enjoyment. The
atmosphere is pure and balmy, the breezes coming
<Hrec| from mountain elevations; there are mineral
.'•vat res of almost every variety to be found there,
ami their medicinal qualities are unsurpassed—throw
away your “Spanish Mixtures,” “Blue Mass,” “Pa
tent Pills,” “Sarsaparilla,” and “toddy before break
fast.’’ and take a trip to Cotoosa a id it will cu%e you.
At these Springs visitors will at times find the most
morai, high-toned, and elegant crowd that can be
met with at any Summer retreat.
W ill our last -summer “Cotoosa acquaintances”
meet us there again the first of August? We would
bo extremely happy to meet the same party.
Wesleyan Female College.
A Catalogue of this old and well known Institu
tion has been laid on our table. This is the oldest
Female College in the United States; if not in the
world, having now entered its seventeenth year, and
has graduated fifteen classes. The present Cata
! loguq'shows it still to be in the enjoyment of a large
share of popu’arity, numbering 177 Pupils. It is
controlled by the State Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church,-and presided over by a Faculty
of distinguished ability.
goatherii Masonic Famale College.
Some unknown friend has furnished us with a
Catalogue of the above named Institution, from
which we learn that it is in a highly flourishing con
dition. There are 98 pupils in the College classes,
and o‘6 in the Preparatory department. This Col
lege is patronized and controlled by the Grand Lodge
o* tiie State oi Georgia, and it bids fair to become an
institution in every respect worthy of the noble fra
ternity by wnich it is fostered. Some of its laws
an i regulations are decidedly the best we have seen,
and if carried out (and we learn they are with strict
impartiality) they render it eminently worthy of
public esteem. Yv e copy the following with respect
to dress, the sound good sense of which must com
mend it to every one.
ihe Commencement dress wjil be plain white
bwiss muslin. No ribbon is to.be worn on the head.
Jewelry is positively prohibited, except a-breast-pin,
or Society Badge. No sashes or flounces or costly!
embroidery or laces. Apparel dresses for every day
will be\>fworsted, calico, ginghams, lawn, or mus
lins at moderate cost; and a calico, gingham, or
white :■ un-bonnet. For Sabbath, a neat white corded
bonnet, with no ribbon, for the warm season. For
the winter, a green silk hood, lined with pink, which
is a cheap, neat and comfortable bonnet. All silks,
satins, tissues, tarl tong, bareges, balgarines, crapes,
with all other costly goods are strictly prohibited,
dew ill not tolerate the folly of mixing up extrava
gance with education. Parents are requested not to
permit their daughters to bring any such dressing,
or jewelry with them; for they will not be permitted
to wear it, even upon pain of expulsion. Money
ought to be g.ven very sparingly to gfrls. Every
pupil should be furnished two pairs of thick walking
shoes. By wearing their cloth shoes in the winter,
many have lost both health and li e.
The Convention.
Tiie necessity for action in the approaching Con
vention cannot fail to have impressed itself upon the
minds of every one who has given the subject a mo
ments consideration, and that this action may have
its due efficacy, a full delegation is highly essential.
We want a delegation from every county in the
State, in order that the influence Which shall proceed
from the meeting, may extend its circles far and
wide over the land. We want them there too to
give encouragement, as an index of the amount of
interest fe.U in this subject. # They should be there,
to assist in the counsels and deliberations, to regis
ter their vows once more of putting their shoulder to
the wheel, to look back no” more until the good work
be completed. The amount or kind of business
widen may be transacted is not the particular point
to which our hopes are- directed. We hope indeed
there may be important matters attended to, and
that it may all be done an amicable, peaceful
-manner. But wo hope stdi more that the meeting
may to a feeling ot deep, abiding interest
_m vhe cause once.more, which shall diffuse itself over
the State. Would that some magic touch woulu
convert eaen dry, withered, useless skeleton which
are no.v seen throughout the camp, into living, ac
tive, devoted champions of Temperance. Above all
we hope the Convention will endeavor to get a Lec
turer in the held. This is now the great desideratum
ol our cause, and one which w© must have, if we
vvquid hope fur success. Georgia is far in the roar
ofWever.d States, and the want of a Temperance
Lecturer has conduced far mare than apy other cause
to place her in this position.
If the friends of Temperance in each ©ounty will
arouse themselves to action, and send up delegates
filled with a determination to do there
willyetbema y a battle,fought and won for the
cause of humanity ere the year is closed. Remem
ber, thb 4th Wednesday in July is the day. f)o not
run oft 10 some College Commeneeu ent and say you
were prevented from attending. The cause for which
wo are contending |s rho*o important than many
College-’ *
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attention to the Advertisements
in this issue, of the Madison Female (Icffiege, and the
sale, of land by Jfhs. Watson.
We return thanks to Eon. Howell Cobh, for
a copy of Ij,op; William Smith’s Speech on Kansas
affairs, delivered in the House of Representatives.
Sympathy. •
Sympathy is the bright golden link which, joins
the members of the human family tn a bond of broth
erhood. Without it, man would be travelling over
a dark, dreary waste, with no object of light to vary
the gloom. In adversity-the re would be no eye to
pity, no voice to soothe, no oil cf consolation to still
the- raging tumults” of the soul. Under misfortune,
the heart might break, or in prosperity mount to
the highest point of pride without a wftrnit>g voice
to say, “remember thou art but a mortal.” The
chief element in the formation of society would be
destroyed, and it would present the appearance’of
air incongruous mass, without any bond of connec
tion
“Do unto others as you would have others do unto
you,” is the concise rule of action laid down by Holy
Writ to direct our deportment to eaeh other. Ts we
observe the natural operations of the human •mind
we will fit once perceive the transcendant wisdom
of this precept. Do unto others as you would have
them do unto you, and in most cases they will do as
you wish them. It is as natural for men to recipro
cate each others feelings, as for the river to How in
its accustomed channel, or the flower to yield its
fragrance to the rustling breeze. Regard a man
with a deadly, manifest hatred, and though his na
ture be love itself, you will make him your enemy.
Pour out to him the warm affections of your heart,
and though his heart be cold and hard as Steel, yet
desert rock when struck by the prophets
wand, a rich fountain will gush forth from itshidden
depths. It is thus that the sympathetic sml filled
with “the milk of human kindness,” lives amid the
perpetual joys of love and peace.
Thank God for sympathy ! It is the highest boon
which Heaven has bestowed, the rich balm of affec
tion, whose silent energies possess a power to heal
the wounded, broken heart. It sends a thrill of
pleasure to the inmost soul, when recognised in the
kind smile of a passing friend. What rooted sorrow
could plant itself within the heart, or what melan
choly could rob the roses from the cheek in opposi
tion to an agent so continual and efficient in its op
erations ? It breaks every obstacle, surmounts the
walls which prejudice erects, and like the electric
fluid, though moving in an unseen current, it mare*
its influence felt everywhere. It is the richest bles
sing, left to sinful, erring men, a lingering relic of
his pristine happiness, w iefa, when purified by
grace become a fountain of living waters springing
up perpetually in the heart. *
“It is Hard if it is Fair. 55
This is a saying which may he safely applied to
many things in this world of ours. Circumstances
daily pass before our observation, or occur in our
experience, in which we are unable to perceive a
semblance of fairness or justice. We allude not to
those mysterious dispensations of Providence, which
must ever appear incomprehensible to our dim, ter
restial vision. We speak of the conduct and actions
of men, the characteristics which they display, and
the manner in which they shape themselves into the
great 1 fame-work of society. Here at every step of
the examination, we meet paradoxes which defy our
powers of reasoning, and encounter facts which in
duce us to believe indeed that “truth is stranger
than fiction. ’ People daily submit uncomplaining
ly to exactions by custom which if imposed by the
mandate of a sovereign would provoke a spirit of
rebellion. Such is the contradictory nature of man
which is displayed in almost all his actions, and this
has caused a thousand things to creep into society,
which are “hard if they are fair.”
There is a wife and mother, still engaged in the.
light, fashionable frivolities which employed her
youth. To dress, visit, and participate in every idle
am usement cf the day, comprise her highest aspi
rations. The duties and responsibilities of her sta
tion never attract her attention or produce a mo
ment’s serious consideration. Untold sums are ex
panded, for useless-trifles as if her treasury were some
boundless El Dorado, whose wealth could not be es
timated or its limit ever attained. All this time, her
husband, he whom she has sworn “to honor and
obey, is patiently toiling, day and night, perhaps
trimming the midnight lamp over his unfinished
ledgers, without a moment for relaxation or pleas
ure. And why is this? He labors incessantly to
lay up those treasures which “the partner of his joys
and sorrows” expends with such a lavish hand; to
sustain the glittering firefly around the lamp of Fash
ion in an atmosphere where a rational idea can never
reach her. Thus he toils on, patiently, without a
murmur, not having the least dim hope of a day
when he may c.-ase from his labors. It may be a
pleasure, a joy to Sim to do thus. But we would
say, “it is hard if it is fair.”
there is a young gent in whom, a faint appearance
of incipient pubescence upon his upper lip, has pro
duced an exalted opinion of his greatness, and a
thorough contempt for the generation of “fogies.”—
lo diligently cultivate this cluster of ‘rising beauties,’
to invent ties for his cravats, and to calculate the exact
angle at which his “beaver” should be perched upon
his head, are the noblest employments to which he
ever devotes himself. He is sent to College perhaps,
by his fond, well-meaning, but erring father. There
he spends half his time in sleep ; a large portion is
CAcn up in dressing and admiring himself, and all
the remainder is occupied in making monkey-like
attempts to win the admiration of others. All this
time his loving parents toil on patiently, depriving
themselves of many a luxury, perhaps many com
forts, encouraged the meanwhile by the lying reports
of their son, and the erroneous accounts of his de
ceived instructor, respecting the fine progress which
lie makes. The young man goes forth into the
world, and soon ends a life of worthlessness and dis
sipation in a disgraceful death. The “old man”
goes down with sorrow to the grave, under the sol
emn conviction that the world has greatly wronged
his poor son in not appreciating his brilliant taleffis
and patient industry.
There is a man and wife in a home of melancholy,
want and misery. Everything around shows that
wretchedness has taken up her abode there, and
poverty assei ts her dreary reign. It was not always
thus. That wife yielded to the loved one her hand
and heart, in her life’s j-oung summer, when the
rosy tints of health were on her cheek, and the smile
of hope wreathed her soft lips, and shone with
sparkling brilliance from her eyes. The world seem
ed beautiful and glorious, and they bounded away
elate with joy, noy dreamed that a §hade of trouble
could ever becloud hearts so loving as theirs. But
a change, a sad change, came over the spirit of their
dream. He learned to toqeb the wine-cqp, and
that instant the knell of their happiness was rung.
Idleness takes the place of industry; thriftlessness
ol economy. Their property ip squandered, anfj
even the necessaries of life are pawned to-satisfy the
unholy 4 r *nk. The tender wife, whom
whilom the winds were not allowed to visit fqo
roughly, is now driven fourth by her brutalized hus
band, to experience the cold charities of the world.’
Oh! in that wail of anguish which • ascepds to
Throne of 6od upoa t% chilly jpidnighf abhtjgee
there not a cry for the authors df this