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For the Temperance Crusader.
TO GEORGIA DEMOCRATS.
\wake and look on the of
Alcohol, and come to the rescue ! fay
aside all excuses, go to Atlanta on 23d mat.
prepared for battle. The enemy destroy
ing our people. A few da?s ago an old
mau of 73 years killed his wife aged 71
rears: he was-drmrk (it is said) and ism
iail at Canton. A man a week ago cut
mothers throat with a case knife very ban
(not mortal it is supposed) both was drank
at a still house. A murderer was to have
be< n tried at last court, but he put otr his
trial for a witness. Both the murdered and
murderer were drunk S A small sample
of Cherokee county pr ‘ducts! How is it
in all the other counties'? Carry up a list
of the slain, the wounded, the widows, or
phans, and paupers made bv Alcohol; and
the amount of taxes, caused thereby !
The editors of Democratic papers an
afraid of the demagogues ! afraid to tell th*
truth ! They refuse a half column or less,
in reply to an abusive article on the Maine
L iw. They refuse a short reply to an ed
itprial on the Prohibitory Law of Crorn
well!! They will not publish any thine
to open the eyes of the people, loving th*
the liquor, they work to keep a supply ;
Poor deluded men, the day of retribution
is coming! When the bo >ks shall.he open
ed and they hear read out, the black cat a
logue of crimes, to which they are accesso
ry ! The D moerate are slow to believ*
that every voter, who helps to elect officers
opposed to a prohibitory law, is in sonr*
degree guilty of the crimes committed un
der the influence of Alcohol. Dry up the
fountains, and desolations of the streami
will, cease. The traffic is authorized b\
law, the Legislature will continue the pre
sent iniquitous and tyrant cal system, un
til the people send Representatives to
change it. NTo change can be made flu
the worse! The prohibitory principles L
engrafted in the license laws now, over Oh
of every 100 citizens are under prescni
laws prohibited retailing! The State com
missions the few, to make murderers, wif
whippt ts, loafers, criminals, paupers, an*
vagrants, for the mai y t > convict, punish,
and support! Have we not bourne tlies*
burdens long enough ? How many mor
of our children, neighbors and friends shall
he murdered ( How much more tax wil
you pay ? and cause us to pay for the liqnoi
traffic? If convinced of the evils <!o no’
fold your arms and say there is no re me
dv ! You have only to act, the remedy is
- ure. is sovereign! It yon haw never con
. jtiered ihe extent of the evil, examine foi
ourselves, and pray to God to help you t
liscbarge your duty fearlessly and faith
rhljy. And my prayer is, that the Con
vent ion may he.attended by faitijb.il men.
relying on an Almighty akm, that they
ii iiy co instrumental in doing miK-ii to uti
\ anee the cause in the Empire St- <>t the
s uith. and all the world.
JOSEPH GRISHAM.
Fo: the Temperance Crusade? - .
Atlanta. July oth. 1,85d.
J.*t mi callon the of religion
■ o.i moral *—all who - love their children,
kindred ami country, to come to. or have
o era selves represented in this convention.
‘They who have that sort of religion which
? res nothing about the support of good
corals out-side of what -they are pleased
fail religion; they who think it is enough
f r them to get themselves to heaven, (a
very heavy load to carry there.) without
t.ronbleing themselves about the welfare of
*-there, or feeling any concern, or exerci
s i;g any mercy towards the thousands that
are, in consequence of the liquor shops, in
.instant misery and ruin—let these one
and all stay-at home, for if they weiv to
attend, they would be to the Oonven'u-n.
*• hat many of them are to their churches,
u eh>o t<* every good work, i hen let them
star at home.
We hope there will be something more
boo at this convention than a mere com
ing together, hearing a speech or two, and
theii adjoinning. It will be proper t<
show lv our proceedings, that we are sti *
determined to ptrsevere in the support of
our enutif, i*i gartih fs of the consequences
to either the Democratic or Iv oiv Nothing
ieadt rs. Tlu-y are devoted tooth* rol j<>r t
than that of the vvvifare *i : the people,
how* vi r much lore so eof them may p* s
sess tor Hie Temp* rauce reform. If w
had serve* 1 our G<<l <*r ur country win
half the z* al we have our party leaders
the stability of our government, and th*
morals and happiness of its people migb’
be very different from what ttev now are.
Then let us as good cit*zens f’*r the future,
support the aieii and measures that, wi i
pr.'inot* virtue, suppress vice, and reniov*
from the e* untiy legaliz*'d temptations t*.
sin. ruin and death ! Then come to tl *
Convention, and let ns unite fbc the pro
motion of these great objects.
LEWIS RENEAU.
For the Temperance Crusader.
Messrs. Editors /--Toere are a great
trinity persons win* look upon what is st yled
an ‘‘Old Field School,” as a place where
nothing is taught beyond the lower branch
es of English, and where the rod is used
extensively. Os the latter article we can say
nothing, but as to what is taught, we can
sny that such persons med only att< nd
an examination at Smith’s Academy to be
convinced of their error; for we sujps**
tbat. the school at that place is an “Old
Field School.” We laid the pleasure of
•atlending the helo there on
the ,loth inst. it to us quite a novel
affair, and consequently, it was ah amu
sing, as it was interesting. We found the
audience, .which was quite large, collected
U7der an arbor at the rear of the A**h(D :
in*; this suited our feelings much ‘ etfor
than being jammed crowded in almost
suffocating room, asj generally the eas*
at our Qpllege Cofninenfiem-'nt* The pu
pils bore the test of examniaHo;* finely ;
ihe classes in Rhetoric, Latin and Gr’cek.
Yc iuHted the nisei ves as creditably .as
uu>h]i.ave ever heard; and in the latter class
there, tviis & dg.rkfi'J&l Fjlow^.Who.
we would pot to shame iiiany who
are farther ad shaped, Wq think, however,
that the scholars would Inive *lone
justice to titeniaelves as well as to their
teacher, ff they had have spoken louder.
We expected to have heard a literary ad*
dreßß, but were disappointed. At 12 o'-
clock wo were invited to partake of the
“barbacued hospitality” of the communi
ty, which we readily did, and were amply
repaid. There was a number of ladies
present, and from appearances, we thought
<-t*pid was busily engaged troublmg hearts;
tie dislodged one’s entirely. There was
an Exhibition at night, but we could not
stav to witness it.
PENFIELD.
For the Temperance C rusader,
BlOGitr PHY—Extract.
(delivered in the college chapel
The Biographer should be as truly an ae
ist as tne sculptor, the painter, or the
novelist, for bis works are jm.t as sub
•eptible of criticism according to rules of
rt, as are the works of the others. His art
•onsists in the judicious selection and ur
ang* meiit of mat* rials, in the- disposition
•f the light and shade, of the for- g; ■ >vmd
and background. A listie reflection will
how that liaif'a dozen different narratives
of the same life may be constructed, each
of wh ch shall furnish neither a true account
>f the mans life, ora true picture of his
■haracter. In th e hands of Mr. .1. Part *n,
hat compound <>f Brow alow bilingsgate
and Theodore Parker raving, commonly
clept. Ho ace Greciy, becomes a great
nan, a Christian, A philanthropist ; in the
same hands, Jolin C. Calhoun would pro
i-ihly beem another Aaron Burr, ambi
rions to su’a ert the government of ills conn*
ry. Ttiis arises from the fact, that as all
a* even the greater part *; the occurrences
■fa life could not be recorded in any rea
sonable limits, the biographer necessarily
cMi flues himself* to such as are, in his opin
ion, tuns’ worthy dr mention. The art of
he biographer should enable him to make
a selection of materials which, ..in artistic
combination, should produceau effect most
nearly similar to what the whole mass of
incidents would produce, if it were possible
for them to bo minutely represented. If is
u’incipaiiy the want ol tins art of selection
mat floods the world i?h specimens of
>v<>r! iiless biography.
Fidelity anti impartiality mv i.jimliries so
imperatively demand*.-'! that without them,
or un appearance of diem, a biography,
f iibh ss in other re-peets, would be con
demned aiid ostracised. The very nature
i me undertaking to write lives ol’other
men - opposes tin* possession of dies-. 1 qua]-
1 1if:. Otherwise, them would be no reli
ality in anything recorded, we would re
ceive the authors statement-* any remarks
with suspicion, if not with positive unbe
lief, and this noble art would degenerate
■n to ordinary fiction Fidel it;, and impar
tiality are requisites . rely found in .p-.-rfec
tion, ami for this r ahov:, they nnv ffi ,-
ded specious ground T -r dm fiercesta?•:las
on biography. Tome, m u tiddly atoioniiv;*
that they yield, no credem to the accounts
of transactions and the representations • t
character given in Mogrq*hU>. because
they are all distorted by prop re*.. When
these men urge that all hiqgrn.p. ram* .mu
he lore. the. reader an overdrawn uiciurs,
to.* biglii ■*. colored b>r ’ lie original .
washing over the base actions mid quali
ties, and sometimes elevating info, ah r
without serious blemish a man c hose .*-•-■■
g’ons and vices made him a ‘*-;■.
what then ? Why the fault y. l<'vous m
h- sure, but none the less uni versa I tin ail
that. Does not the great Gibbon, a Levi
atlian in literature —who -me.-i-- ai tl
*hnst;an 2■ >n i I.i ■ -••,• * t lie
knee is l homage to hF God, wim sernii-o
-e- with the most hypoci itic-d auah sis \be
claims of other men to give
rhis great man devoutly* rais* up be id n
-elf an object of worship in ■ >;■* pei>*.*n *.f
Jol’ao the Apostate ? Does not the famous
Mr Micaulav put ti.rth all h's str.-ng: h u,
deify William the Third? DiMheiml wr.b
it s nisO'ry o. ill* the avow.sl object to yin
d'icate the principles. Ho policy, file ue
*:o?.-of the Whig party ? His view*. ;uv
the views of a Whig—the very antt-j/ode#
to those of a lory. An adherent.of tin
vu -its woj.th; have given a totally differ
ent character of Wisiin.m, and a totally dif
* rent vmHion of *he causes uad iiiLj'its ol
the mvoluti’ u. And is this not true, more
r less, of al) iiistoi'ians? What historian
f what ag* has given such an jugcount <i
lie events and chuiaceis *f that age, that
half the reading world has not assailed it
ti.i* its parfialitN? If then, philosophic his
o.rians cannot free their narratives and
rlicir jmrtiaiis of men fiotn the bi*misii < t
•r- julice, shall we condemn biograpiii foi
, t similar d* ti ct—a defect which is mcuicii
m every species of composition alike, lull
which is neither rn,uv common n-.*r more
glaring in biography that: in a;py otlier de
l;uiment of U tters ? Still, partiality {im’
A‘. jn*lice are blemishes (hat. of ai! others
Humid Ik. avoided by the, biographer. The
pivvidenee U the;i ever) bruneii of let
ler- Jo*--- remler them am the less *icfects
o - the first magnitude.
HONESTY AND TRUST.
The following pleasing anecdote is from
•‘Glances and Glimpses,” anew book by hr.
Harriet K. Hum. who was once a teacher
in Boston:
A cousin of mine in Charleston having
passed away, it became proper that l should
attend her funeral. It was school afternoon.
I did not dismiss the scholars, and, as they
disliked a monitor, \ hit upon the following
plan of leaving them :
I placed in the chair the large old fashion
ed slate, (it had been my father's wrote on
it the names of the scholars in the order in
which they sat; and arranged the needle
work and reading—for 1 always had some
interesting work read aloud by some elder
pupil every afternoon— and then said “Now
children, when the clock strikes five, leave
your seats orderly, go to my chair and place
on the slate by each of yen’ names a unit
for good behavior and cross for bau.
I return I shall anxiously look at the slate,
and in the morning, when you are assem
bled. I \ydi read the bed, but 1 will trust in
yon ”
On my return I visited the scl%ol-roorn.
and found but one teupss on the <lm*\ atitf
that where I least expected iti—appended to
the name of a beautiful, open, bright, crave
child, who then promised much for the
worid—the fact of having rich parents be
ing her g’-entest drawback. She was the
last child in the school I should have though
capable of any misconduct. Well, the next
morning came; the list was read; it proved
truthful; but, when I came to this name, 1
said, “My dear child, you must explain;
why is this ?—what did you do v ’ Looking
up to me with those soulful eyes and speak
ing with a soulful tone, wh ch ever made
her an object of sacred interest, she replied.
‘•I laughed aloud. I laughed more than once;
1 couldn’t help it. because a slate was keep
ing school!”
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From the Index.
THE SCENES IN THE LIFE OF A BELLE.
BY KATF. j
“As the laothei*, **o is the daughter.”— Bible.
■What a beautifiilcaibi my Maggie is,” exclaim
ed Mrs. Lincoln as she -Ted her little girl to her
knee, and wound and re-wound her golden curls
around her finger. “What a levely creature she
is, and what a belle she will make. One of these
days she will break hearts, I’m thinking.”
“Whatdid you say mamma?” asked the child
lifting her innocent blue eyes to her raother’s face.
“Did you say that [ was pretty ?”
“Yes Maggie, lovely as a half-opened tve e-bud.
Few little girls have such bright eyes, aud rosy
cheeks, and dimpled chin. You are handsome
now, and will be a great deal prettier by-ana by
Everybody, when you grow to be a young lady.
I dare say, will pause to admire your fine face and
figure, [already fee! quite proud of you, but
you must not be vain—oh, no you must not be
vain and proud!” and the lady shook .her head
and looked the mentor to perfection.
“No mamma,” said the little girl sliding down
from her knee and running towards a large mirror
in she room, ‘ti won’t be proud, but l want to see
my beautiful eyes, and rosy cheeks, and golden
curls, lam glad that 1 am handsome, for now
there is no necessity for me to study hard, as
plain Mary Stanhope does. I shall get along
very well through the world, without knowing
Astronomy, and Botany, and Latin, and Greek,
and all those abominable things, sha’nt I mam
ma and the little girl turned and looked wisi
fully into her parent’s lace. ‘Well, I don’fknow,”
said Mrs. Lincoln with some hesitation. *1 want
you to be very accomplished. You must be sure
and learn your music well, and must pay particu
lar attention to your drawing, and must, also
I learn French {for ever genteel lady is expected
• n<*w n-Oays to know something about that,) and
! you must try and write a fine Italian band, and
converse fluently and knowingly. Further than
| that. I don’t see the use of your troubling your
i head over books. You will have a great deal of
!,, , , °
j beamy, an*} some tortune, and U you can manage
,to become accomplished, it will be enough. You
; will gvr aiong very well I dare say, but you must
Igo right a way now to your practicing. Your mu
•r o\-;c.Jier will bo here before von have learned
iL--s: n*-\v song.’
Maggie hoard ih-* H*? part of what her mother
i “••*** mg-, but ‘*;.<• <ji i mu, lu-e l it. She linger
j !-d al* -u- time Ix-foreilic glass, uncurling and re
| curing** her hair—pinching her cheeks to make
i ti:em vo-*v, and walking to and fro to improve her
| gait. When her teacher ;ii last rung the hell, she
i started away towards the piano and was running
I her fingers nimbiv • *ver the keys, when the ladv
’ • -
i entered. *
••Have you learned me -snug Margaret f said
Mrs. Wildmsu. pausing behind her chair.
‘Vi-s in iiiifi —no ma’ani —I can’t, say that I
have fiHly learned it. I’ve been practicing on ir
some, however,” and Maggie blushed in spite of
hersfit m the deception she rvas at that moment
guilty of Poor Maggie! poor inspite c. her for
tune and rare beauty. She had learned the first
lessons of vanity and deception, and was in dan
ger, through a mothers ill timed thoughtlessness
of being launched oih upon the ocean of life, with
false hopes, and false lights, to le id her astray, be
fore site had reached anything like a safe and
comfortable haven.
five years passed away, Maggie Lincoln
had, indeed, become the be He of the bail-room, —
She glided with fairv-liko grace lit rough the ma
zes of the dance —her c-tirls were thicker, longer,
and more golden than ever; she sung and played
tolerably well —she understood dancing to per
faction-—-she had a smattering of French, an>*
wrote an elegant hand. People said “what a
love of h girl,” and Frenchefied beaux, watched
her through their oye glasses and pronounced her
“decidedly fair-looking and genteel “ And so she
was, but tho heart had grown barren for waul of
tillage, and the soul — the immortal sovL for which
the Savior poured forth a crimson tide of blood
upon Mount Calvary i Ah*, for that- immortal
siail! It had never known an aspiration above a
potty head-dress, But Mrs. Lincoln was satis
fied that her daughter would ignite a sne conquest.
become elegautiy settled in life, and Maggie
whs as happy as tlm unquiet human soul can be,
out ot the shadow of the Cross.
YY hy should she entertain thoughts of the shade,
aim the narrow house, and the earth worm, anti
the scenes which open fyeyend. in Eternity, when
the present was so full of light, and iiorjg, and
laughter, and that mocking phantom, Death
was so far away and uncertain. Why should
she indeed.
Two years passed away, mid there was another
scene. Inn large <!;ajpber, upon a bed *of snowy
whitenc- v-there lay n pile, emaciated being, w ith
sunken-checks, and eyes —-a hpl-iow cough, mid
lips black iind withering, Tb Ago I don luiir was
put soberly away under a igsj in-cap, bid now
and ihen a cu:i broke loose, and floated m if in
WQel&rf’ around the whips and heading throat.—
Tj ,j • ydnch tossed re&k-spiy to and
‘*£&**. ** f
and the blood was settling in purple patches
noaih nail-., Gonsnrajilup! j*>*.d found, unoiiv j
’er v!Ctio : <, YFuggir I inoolr* w.-e tiring. It was a
glad .i:*d yi. r * is da*, in summer time without.—
The sky wa- flu > as sapphire, and the breeze
stol.fi.in-■•through the half-raised window, swaying
the long 1.-ieupud * rimson curtains to and fro, and
throwing, mocking life-like shadows upon the
ujarhle cheek of girl. A sweet briar, laden
with blofesoms. looked in and nodded carelessly.
shaking perfume from every brightly-tinted flow
er. Nature rarelv seems to sympathize with hu
man wo. 3
But Maggie lay hoerdess r.i everything imirpir
ing around her. She did nor see with those large
dilating pupils ofheri-, the wret- bed. thoughtless
mother who had taught her-from* her earliest in
fancy, that to glitter in the ball-room, and at the
fashionable soiree was the-find and aim of life.—
She did not hear the waits which broke from her
bursting heart. She did not. see (Tor the firet time
in her life.) the dress of tnrleton. with it;: beauti
ful flounces hooped up with whim roses, which
had beer, brought in bv the dress maker during
* .
her illness, and was now- carelessly tossed into one
corner, together with a tiny pair of white satin
dippers, spangled with gold.
The physician was there with Ids vials and
drugs, and anxious face, but hi> skiil could avail
nothing then —it was too late—the consumptive
had shut eyes and ear? to every symptom of dis
ease, and danced on until she stood upon the con
fines of eternity. She iay. and insensibly breathed
her life away. There came at hist n slight quiver
ing of the eyelids—a contraction of ihe muscles
about tbo month, and then the spirit passed a wav.
and the butterfly-existence of art immortal sou I had
•oded. She went from h land of Bibles and Sab
bath schools, and churches, and gospel ministers
into the presence of her Maker, almost us ignorant
■>f the precious blood which had been shed for the
human soul’s redemption, as the blinded Hindoo,
or idolatrous African.
Thoughtless mother! this sketch -is written for
you. See to it. that you educate wisely “the deni
zens of one world, and the candidate for another.”
See to it, that you educate them religiously, lest
*n the great, day of accounts, the blood of souls,
cries lo you, “Abe! like, from tho ground.”
C|c Ccmpermicf (L f nts;iki\ j
PENFIELD, GEORGIA.
Saturday [Horning. July 10, 1856.
§s*T“Rev. Claiborn Trussell, of Atlanta, ip a duly
•authorized Agent for the Crusader.
Liberal Offer,
Any person sending us five new Subscribers, ac
companied with the “rhino,” shall be entitled to an
extra, copy of the Crusader for one year. Orders for
out* Paper must invariably be accompanied with the
cash, to receive attention.
Stop Papers.—Settle Arrearages.
Persons ordering their papers discontinued, must
invariably pay up all their dues. We shall not -strike
off any subscriber’s name who is in arrears. !
TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.
Tine friends of TE3iTERA!VCF throughout l
the State wilt hear in mhsd the Yrmuui Con- ‘
vciition, which take*; place on the FOURTH j
tVEDItESDAl 7 ) the 23rd iiigt., iii Atlanta,’
and prepare themselves lo attend, or appoint ■
Delegates to represent tlicm, A large meet* i
ing is desired, and. the Temperance men must I
lay aside other engngcrents and go, as there j
ss much important ma tter to come before the 1
Convention. Tho ditierenl organizations are j
expected to be represented.
S3P”Our Exchanges in the State will confer j
quite a favor by noticing- the above.
Many subscribers will find goad opportuni
ties to forward u dues by persons visiting our Com
mencement, wo trust they Will not overlook ns.
—
Rev. Prof. YYilliams will deliver the Address
before the Young Men’s Missionary Society of Mer
cer University, at the approaching Commencement, j
23§f B Yue annua! examination of the Pupils of the i
Penfield Female Seminary will take place .on Wednes- \
| day, the 2Sd in>t. A Concert wilj be given on j
Thursday night following. The patrons and public j
generally aie invited to attend.
grwc invite attention to the advertisement in j
this issue of YVtn. D. Condon, Esq., who has leased
the Statham Hotel in Greenesbfiro for five years, and
designs keeping a first class Public House.
We invite special attention to our Adverti
sing columns in this week’s pa, er. in them will be
found rpapy new Iveptjseinentf?.
-ft * <7 ? j?:
We return our thanks to the Hon. Howell
Cobb, for a copy of the alleged assault on Sumner.
Coimnencemeat Week.
Our Commencement Exercises begin on Monday,
the 28th inst. —“big day,” Wednesday, the 30th, j
Public House for Commencement.
We arc pleased to learn that friend James Arm
strong of our Tev.u, y.'ill open ;> Public House for
visitors to our approaching Commencement, Re
designs making extensive preparations, so that all
who may call on him that week, shall find, accom
modation.
Speech at St. Cloud.
The time at which Uncle Dabney Jones will ad
dress the people r.t £St Cloud, is changed to the
inst.
Editors Easy Chair—Splendid Present.
A large number of the leading citizens of our Vil
lage have presented us with an elegant, handsome,
and most acceptable present in the way of an “Easy
Oliivir.” Whether they have presented it to us lor our
services in any partieu ur cause, or simply as n testi
monial of their regard, it isnot Ur topnquire; but
whatever may have, been tho considerations that
prompted the donation, we assure our respected and
beloved friends and fellow-citizens, that wo ure un
der. lasting obligations to them.
Wo are now comfortably seated, and if Harper,
Pickens, Mrs. French, or Mrs. Stephens can speak
of their “easy chairo” or Mrs. Bale of her “arm
chair,” &o can wq with equal dipnity and vifaninp.
Should we become eloquen t or inspired in our
*flg’ effusions, wo shall attribute it to tho donors of
this mafffii/bwn tpresen f, and wo would beg leave to
s ay tp them, that \vo have had nfeu) ideas more clear
and profound, since ice had the Chair, than ypy
whichpppr electrified ovrbrain before.
Commencement in Madison.
Having availed ourself of a special invite to attend
the annual Commencement of the Madison Female
College, we deem it due the College and the public
generally, io give an account of the Exercises. We
we e, certainly, never more highly entertained by the
public Exercises of any similar Institution. The
weather, though warm, was comparatively pleasant
the major part of the time. Wo reached there Tues
day afternoon, in time to hear the three higher
classes examined iu several studies, and though ox
aminationsars always considered extremely “boring”
to an audience, yet the “Young Ladies exhibited such
a thorough acquaintance with their Text Hooks in
giving prompt answers to ail questions propounded,
that we listened the whole time without any degree
of impatience. ‘The Junior Class under Prof. Pierce
in Logic, did remarkably well, and as a Class, wc
pronounce it in every respect ‘fCimher one. On
W( dnesdav morning Prof, Bass examined them in
Natural Philosophy, and in that they also did great
credit to themselves and their teacher. The Senior
Class, perhaps the best the’ Institution ever gradua
ted, reflected untold honor upon the College. Their
examination in Mental Philosophy, and the appa
rently unlimited acquaintance which each membei
exhibited with the principles of Plane aud Spherical
Trigonometry, even when reduced to tho most spe
cific analysis, and the great ease* with which they
demonstrated the most abstruse propositions, rind
their familiarity with the complex rules and ropor
tions for finding the unknown angles or sides of a
right angle triangle, van truly astonishing. The in
termissions between the Examinations were happily
beguiled by good piano ami vocal music, arranged
by the accomplished Miss Simmons, who displayed
fine taste and good judgment, in selecting pieces for
the popular ear. Vve cannot refrain from noticiz g
tho “Jenny Lind” of the College, Mis:-. Carrie Orr,
of Lqvvrenceville. She is certainly one of tho fines’
singers in the Southern country. Her strong, volu
minous. and melodious voice, when executing that
popular air, “a mile from Edinberough Town,” or
that soul stirring melody, “( love the merry merry
sunshine,” almost elco.rifted the auditor and “lapped
his soul in Elysium.”
At night came off the Conceit, under the direc
tion of Prof. Taylor. We never saw z. house so
“jammed 5 witn people, and of course the confusion
and disturbance was intoler&ole, end music discours
ed to such a crowd was worse than “casting pearls
before swine,” or “wasting its sweetness upon the
desert air.’ Tho programme contained many nice
pieces which would have been popular and well re
ceived if they could have been heard. Mr. Tavl. 1
very appropriately threatened to discontinue the
Concert, unless there was less disorder. No one
would have questioned his right nor the propriety of
■ the act if he had done so, for if people go to Con
certs to laugh and talk it would certainly be the bet
ter plan to dispense with them altogether. The
Concert closed with that popular piece called the
“Sleigh Ride,” and it was pei formed very well in
deed. The little belles sounded so familiarly that it
it had not been as hot as a “dirt oven,” and we had
not got ‘s guashco. we might have thougot there was
several feet of snow on the ground. During the Ex
ercises we got into a “werrv Halit place,” having
‘hung’ ourself over the back of n bench to speak to
someone, a great, solid, handsome ‘Lass’ who had
been s anding upon the bench, in sitting down aouar
td herself flat on our ter the compression on our
part was considerable, causing an attack of the “di
aphragm” of the “stomach, ” and “cranium” of the
“head”—and as the mouse said when the Jseg of a e
| ci-e roiled over him, these arc pressing times in the
i “money market, wc thought • hose were pressing
times among the Seals, being mashed info p. -'wafer’
by an awful ‘bundle* of ‘difficulties’
Thursday was Commencement, of which the fol
lowing is o Programme of the Exercises:
Miss Julia A. Foster,-—Saiutaton .
Miss Melissa N. Early.—Fancy Paints the World in
False Colors.
Miss Virginia A. Rees, —“Let us Live while we Live.”
Miss E. Cleminune Brooker, —Civilization in its
Highest Form.
| Miss Mary E. Floyd.—“ln vam wo seek a Heaven
below the Skv.”
| Miss Ellon J. Burney.--~
“Oh ’wad some power the giftic gio us.
To see oursels as ithers sec us.”
Miss Martha R. Lewis, — Assigned —“Where shall
Rest be found ?”
Miss Annie R. Blount, —A Fast Ago.
Miss Irene E. Arnold, —Objections to Female Col
leges.
I Miss Julia A. Foster, —A Defence of Female Colleges.
: Miss Mary V. Hudson, —“Angels live not alone in
i Heaven”— Valedictory to T ustees and Faculty.
| Miss S. Cat lie Orr, —“The Earth hath Bubbles as the
Ocean hath,” — Valedictory to Class.
| The Compositions were all good. There was most
| too much sameness among some of them, but ihe\
were all arranged with good taste. Young America
received pointed and unmitigated ‘punches’ on all
sides. We forbear to particularize, but they were
all highly entertaining, and wore received with
rounds of applause. After the reading of their Com
positions, Pres. Echols honored them with their
crowning glory, ("sheep skins") and after delivering
to them a sound, piactica! and parental address, con
sisting chiefly in pointing out difficulties which they
wouffi encounter in real life, and the popular blun
ders which they should shun, ho sent them on their
way rejoicing. We heard several of them, after their
Examinations closed, exultingly exclaim, “Farewell
! Text Books,” (quite an error they make.)
: In the afternoon Bishop Geo. F. Pierce delivered
the Address—and coming from him, of course it was
exce lent. He made the ablest effort on the side of
a thorough and complete education of Woman, that
wc have ever heard, and an interesting feature in it
was, it was n reply to an address delivered on the
same occasion hist year by a talented man who took
very different views of the subject, and defended the
opposite side—to this individual the most of the
Speech was personally directed. As the Address is
to be published entire we will give nosynopsis of it.
The week's Exercises were highly creditable to
the already popular Institution, one which we think
well worthy the protection of the denomination
whose protege it is,
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The following handsome notice of our young friend
and fellow-eountyman, Geo. 0. Dawson, wo find in
the Griffin Union. We are pleased to learn that
Oscar acquitted himself so creditably in bis address
to the Young Ladies.
We did not have tho pleasure of attending the
Commencement execises of the Griffin Female dol
lego, but understand that the compositions of tho
y&ting ladies of the graduating class —eleven in num
ber, were well written and handsomely read. All
acquitted themselves in such a manner as to reflect
credit upon themselves and the institution. Tho ad
dress of Hon. Geo. O. Dowson, was excellent —
worthy of the occasion, the time, and the place, and
replete With bound ueijse apd good advice to thbse
who \v(Tc about to commence tho journey of life.
Wc understand that a'rbte of thanks was awarded
him for his able and appropriate address, and a copy
requested for publication. May the virtues of the
sire descend to the son and he be equally honored
when he approaches lifels “gloaming.
Are you A Prohibitionists ?
“I am a Temperance man, but not a Prohibition
ist,” is a remark frequently made. Does not the na
ture of things absolutely preclude the possibility of
occupying such a position? Wc think it does. The
time has been, ere the question of Prohibition came
up iu the present form, when such a position might
have been consistent. But as the issues now stand,
ifyou arc a Temperance man, you must be a Prohi
bitionist. It is useless to attempt by etymological
distinctions to disprove the truth of this propositi ,n.
Come at once to the question, and answer it candid •
ly. Can the objects which all true Temperance men
desire, ever be accomplished by any other agency
than a Prohibitory Law ? Tell us not of moral sua
sion ; wo understand its power, and we know that
it may do much. But for it to act with efficacy, it
must have a moral nature to act upon. And where
is the moral principle of the Rumscllcr, of that olasr 1
who constitute the curse of our land ? What idea
of right and wrong do you suppose exists in tho per
jured vender of a barrel of mean whiskey at every
cross road, who makes a living by cheating slaves
out of what they car. steal ? And what doggery
keeper in our whole country is not engaged in-a
contraband traffic with this class of our population ?
Moral suasion for such men! Why you would as
soon win the fish, to abandon his native element,
and live in air as persuade tho Rumseller to relin
quish his hell-born and hell-peopling occupation.
The condemnation of public opinion will not affect
the r;. So long as they are patronized by the mean
est negro in the land, they -nil continue in the trade.
Ihe ides of influencing such men by moral means is
utterly preposterous. Tell us not then that you are
“a Temperance man, but not a Prohibitionist.” You
may be sincere, but wo can not believe you. We
would as soon trust the cry of devotion to the union
from the Northern fanatic, when his every effort ie
directed against it’s very existence. If you were a
whole-soul, devoted, uncompromising friend of Tem
perance, you would desire to see those cess-pools of
iniquity, those antechambers of hell, which disgrace
and destroy our country, broken up. It is time that
men were delivering themselves from tho deceptive
fallacy of moral suasion. It has bee” displayed in
all its length and breadth, it’s efficacy has been tri
ed, it has been “weighed in the balance and found
wanting.” And now it behooves every true man.
patriot and philanthropist, to rise up and with one
voice demand a Prohibitory Laic. *
Profanity.
Novice in which men ever indulge is so useless
and simple as profanity. Other vices may afford
their perpetrators some, perhaps a great, life-long
advantage; but this yields none, not even a moment
of passing enjoyment. The only purpose which it
’ answers, (and it does this most admirably,) is to im
press every one with p. low estimation of him who
adopts the practice. There is no index bv which
to judge of characters upon which rely more thar.
the language which a man employs. When we look
upon his countenance, his mouth, his eyes, we form
som idea of his nature and disposition ; hut it is not
until we hear him speak, and note his manner of ex
pression, that we have this opinion confirmed. Lan
guage to the consummate hypocrite, mat’ become one
of his chief instruments of deception. But in com
mon familiar intercourse, it is seldom designed or
calculated to deceive. It is this which gives so
thorough an insight into the character. When then
wc meet with a stranger, who opens not his mouth
without an expression of profanity, we at once sup
pose him either naturally corrupt, or ruined by vi
cious associations. By the indulgence of this vice, a
mm may convince people wherever he goes that h#is
w eked and aepraved. He may be possessed cf good
and noble qualities, which arc worthy of all admira
tion; but the habit of profane swearing creates an sd*
verso prejudices which deprive his virtues of many cf
their deserts.
It may, at first glance appear- surprising that a
practice so useless and absurd, should obtain so
largely among almost every class cf persons. It
must be considered, however, that very few grown
men ever contract this habit. Formed at the period
when with a quid of tobacco or a cigar, the preco
cious specimen of swaggering adolescence strives to
a'T the man, it strengthens and increases until it be
comes a vice of rankest growth. Even the wisdom
and experience of age is in many eases unable te
break loose from it. To it is opposed every dic
tate of reason and good sense. For aside from its
m rai turpitude, the fact that it ig aq evidence of
vulgarity and ill-breeding should make it avoided
by every one.
it is a me.ancLv/iy ‘act that ail of those habits
which men contract so easily, and by which they arc
so reststlessly governed, are evil in their nature, and
pernicious in their tendencies. A good habit is the
result of long continued, patient effort, self-sacrifice,
and self-denial, and when acquired, it holds on to the
person with none of that tenacity vvh:ch marks those
of a contrary nature. A bad habit uay he formed
unwittingly, which it will require the boldest efforts
of moral courage to destroy. It is in this way that
the habit now under consideration is frequently
formed. Beginning with a fondness for by-words
and expressions, it continues to increase, until it be
comes the most impious profanity.
This vice is in itself, a great moral o il, a viola
tion of one of the highest laws of Heaven. But it is
not for this reason alone that it should be avoided,
it exerts a great influence over a man’s disposition
and performs no small part In directing his course
of life. The young man who habitually uses pro
fane language, is prepared to indulge in'any forfn of
dissipation which temptation may present. It is a
sale passport into the very worst society which vice
can produce. The hall of drunken revelry and the
gambling saloon, are scenes which the profane swear
er is fully prepared to enter. Ah! it is no trifling
thing to take the name of God in vain. * ‘
Our Book Table.
Petersons Magazine. —This elegant Monthly is al
ways on our table at an early day. The August
number is handsomely illustrated. Tho picture
“beginning early” is charming. Price $2.
Woodworth's Youth's Cabinet.—A nice little Jour
nal for the young folks. price $1 a year.
Sioan's Bank Pots List and Detector , is a useful
work and should be patronized by all men of busi
ness. Published semi-monthly at $2 a year, by C.
R. Hanleiter, Atlanta, Gn.
Georgia News Condensed.
A difSculty occurred in Augusta lately, between
Julian Gumming, BJsq., and sir. O’JJaloran, clerk in
the Augusta Hptel, in which* the former received a
pistol shot which indicted * severe, if not mortal
wound.
There was a very large attendance at the Cuth
bert Railroad meeting on the 4th. The result was
a determination to unite with the South Western
‘ • • 1 . . * ... “ t
road in extending the same from Amerious to Cu|;h
bert. * i §
The Dahlonega Signal announces the escape of
five prisoners from the jail in that town on the night
of the 2d. Their namesare John Adair, William