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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!” : ~~ ~ ~ “ : ~”T j 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, -- —>in m 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