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ikpi A NOBLE POEM. * *
’ ;iflaHUh a joy akin to rapture that we welcome
/•|Sf|Bmr columns, altera long absence, a poetess
.Mme is one of the choicest of our country’s
Can any one read the following without
& of its exceeding power and beauty ?
From the Louisville Journal.
|f The Two Angels
’ ■ OF FEVER AND OF FROST.
BY L. VIRGINIA FRENCH.
H>’er the Crescent City! Hark! she sings,
■ to the land with overshadowing wings!”
■ the victim of a judgment ju9t,
Hioble city, with the dust
Hr pale forehead ? Shrouded in eclipse,
Hi in thick shadows veiling her proud head,
Hing the sunlight, while her blanched lips
Hyt r, and mutter o’er her children dead,
Hn dust and darkness cover. Is this rod
H of His justice, and the “scourge of God?”
Hocked by earthquakes to a dreaming sleep—-
Host amid the wild tornado’s sweep
H the black bosom of destruction dire—
H>y the crevasse —or the wasting fire,
He's law to judgment
Like a land flame
H’ome huge Pagen’s altar glowing, came
■ passed the burning day—like it ’mid cries
m groans licked up its human sacrifice!
Haunt and clouting eye, a pi ‘“nee vague,
Hi’ the molten air—the Moloch of the plague;
H glance of that fierce eye, with subtle glare,
H nervele s victims sank in wild despyir;
Hd day by day his altar dark and dread,
Ks heaped with horrid cries, ‘Bring out your dead!’
■The stately city! Then her vaulted domes
Hhoed the knell of desolated homes;
H strength o’ertasked, her regal beauty faded,
Hr pleasure-paths with yew and upas shaded,
H r fairest day seemed of the night a part;
Bght an abyss—when from her reeling heart,
H*den with silence ominous and dread,
Hhc wind came up o’er the unburied dead,
Hose, hot, and stifling, like the drunkard’s breath ;
Hnd Terror stalked abroad with Grief and Death.
I Then of her noblest spirits many a one
H T as left to struggle darkly and alone,
Hvith wile, or mother, angel-babe, or bride,
Hather, or 1 ver, perished from its side,
Hor none their doom might stay. The grave’s eciips*
Hi id beauty’s withered brow and shrunken lips—
■tern Power his sceptre brake, and Wealth his gold
Karr for one narrow house, so drear and cold—
■And Intellect, whom treasury of mipd
■Was filled with jewels, rare as those they find
■On Indian shores, in far Golconda’s mine—
■ Bowed low, and laid them on the burning shrine.
Hoarse spake the angel as he onward trod,
I And gave them to the coffin and the clod—
-14 Down, down to the charnel, to rot and to rust,
I Heap ashes to ashes and dust unto dust!”
II
Night o’er the Crescent City! Lo! she sings,
“A Saviour comes with healing on his wings!”
Courage thou stricken one! Behold on high
The moon, sole shadow’ on the lucent skjq
Floats in her golden shallop-shell along
The deep and tide-like azure. Gay the throng
That sweeps thy thoroughfares, and thro’ the clear
And silvery billows of thine atmosphere
Glitter a thousand lamps, as upward come
The shout, the song; the spirit-stirring hum
Os labor and of life. Thy heart was rent,
Iby proud head low to misery was bent,
But like unto a voice at night that crieth,
Dying aw ay in gioom, the phantom dieth.
And the black shadows of thy sorrow's night
Break in a golden morning. New delight*--
The frost has some, and thy quick pulses leap
As to a bugle-blast? _ <
And gray, crag-rifted fissure, whence the rills
ijo dancing down the rugged Northern hill*,
Where the bold mountain to the keen, clear sky,
Lifts up his pine-clad summit, and on high
The autumn’s banners on the wind are tossed,
Comes he, the radiant Angel of the Frost (
Still as a star-beam through a loudv rift.
And as severely shining—yet as swift
As the first slanted rays of morning rise,
To do the bidding of the great, All-wise,
He came. How mysterious too
This spirit of a w andering cloud of dew !
Fresh from the waters of his crystal chrism,
His wings shook off the rainbows like a prism ;
The sunbeam stealing in, all gla4 and bright.
To some dark mountain gorge, till is light,
Was not more beautiful. In silentness
As erst of old, an angel came to bless
God’s chosen people with exemption, free
From the dread piague of childless misery;
An Angel of the Passover —his breath
Wrought on each crystal casement 4 ‘Free from death*
In quaint and gorgeous tracery. To part
And vanish soon—unlike the grief the heart
IFhere memories lengthening lie forvermore,
Like the long sunset shadows—ail is o’er;
Jjt'der the rooftree they wiiltait alone,
And weep to find their fairest, brightest—goer.
¥et *4 g the angel as his pinion high
Up die blue ethei floating sought the sky;
“A spirit sent forth from the Mighty to save,
“I nave conquered the conqueror, Death and the
grave.”
Forest Home, Ist Nov., 1852/
For the Tempei Crusader.
THOUGHTS AND INCIDENTS.
My heart was pensive, and as the sun
went down I musingly strayed towards a
village churchyard to indulge the melan
choly. vet strangely pleasant thoughts
which come to mv soul, like spirits of the
departed, amid the deepening twilight. At
length I reached the resttpg-place of the
dead, and sat rne down upon u tomb stone,
which was slightly covered with mildew.
On reading tire inscription. I found that be
neath it were the remains ol an aged minis
ter of God, whose life had heen devoted to
the service of his Maker. I had frequently
seen him at my father’s house, in the days
of my childhood; and I thought of the pious
expression of that good old man's face,
when he used to talk of heaven, and urge
us all to lay up treasure there. I remeitt*
bered with what peculiar delight 1 used to
hear him sing the beautiful lines, ‘‘There’s
nothing true hut heaven!” And 1 thought
of the Scripture which says, *flessed are
the dead which die in the Lord, fioiu hence
forth; yea. sayeth the spirit, that they may
rest from their labors; and their works do
fellow them.” I wandered along, occasion
ally admiring some sweet and lovely flower,
which the hand of affection had planted
where sleep the loved lost. Presently
i came upon an old man, wife had been
prompted to visit the spot by keltog .similar
to my own ; but in whose breast, nO do.ybt.
were emotions which I had only felt in part.
He was leaning against a tree."and did not
.observe me, until I gently accosted him,-
lie did not seem to regret that I had so sud
denly interrupted his meditations, but enter
ed at once into a low and friendly conver
sation with nie. I remarked, “ many of
your friends i presume .a?# btfrfed here ?”
•*Ye,** said he, *‘my nearest and dearest
tnebde MV in the spirit-world, and the mor-
tat remains of many of them are mouldering
in this churchyard, and,
•When I remember all
* s The friends, so Jinked together,
I’ve seen around me fall,
Like leaves in wintry weather,
? feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet hall deserted.
Whose lights are fled,
Whose garland’s dead,
And all but he departed.’ ”
I expressed the sympathy which I lelt for
that way-worn pilgrim of earth, who was
musing among the graves of the friends of
his youth and his manhood, and anticipated,
with feelings of mingled joy and sadness, the
time, not far in the future, when he too
should lie down with them and be at rest.
“The poet, Montgomery,” said I, “writes
very beautifully of the grave, and makes us
muse with strange delight, upon the dead
man’s sleep. He says,
‘There is a calm for those who weep,
A refit for weary pilgrims found;
They softly He and sweetly sleep
Low In the ground.
The storm that wrecks the winter sky,
No more disturbs their sweet repose,
Than summer evening’s latest sigh
That shuts the rose!’ ”
“Yes/’said the old man, “those lines are
beautiful, and I often think pf the next stan
za following, and adopt the language as my
own, - ~
‘I long to lay this painful head
And acting heart beneath the soil,
To slumber in that dreamless bed
Front all my toil.’ ”
I and my old friend then parted, each ex
pressing a hope that we would one day meet
each other, and our friends, where there are
no graveyards, where sorrow is not known,
and where parting shall be no more I
P. H. B.
Sutallee, Ga., July 19th, 1856.
“MEET ME IN HEAVEN”
BY KEPLER PHILLIPS.
Is it not strange how long a tone of the
voice, or a glance from the eye, will re
main fresh in the memory? and how, when
tong years, with their accumulations of
joys and sorrows, shall have passed, a few
words from the lips of the dying will lin
ger in our ears, and even be, as it were,
the guardians of our destiny? Where,ver
we may wander, amidst whatever scenes
we may mingle —be the circumstances
which surround us what they may. how
ever truant we may prove to the soul's
highest and dearest interests, these little
oracles will fierce themselves upon and
claim onr attention. We may have many
rabies in the casket of memory whose bean
ty and purity are sources of ceaseless joy;
but what heart will not acknowledge this
little string of pearls—“ Meet mo in H a
possess a charm superior to them
all? They may have come from the cold
lips of that sainted being who watched our
infant years, and who first taught ns to
bend our knees ip humble prayer .befoxc.
would treirver ns tfoto tub temptart^n- Tff
the world; that He would give us strong-h
in the future to preserve untarnished am
integrity of our hearts, and that, wh n fire
fierce battle of time shall have been fought,
we may be found with the conquer*
wreath upon our brows. A darliny
may have uttered them just before her
sp lit winged its flight to the better shore ;
and while we think of her many Met* of
kindness^—the gentle manner in which she
would reprove us for our faults, and now,
with tearful eyes, she would plead vyi tit ns
to turn from the error of onr ways—do we
opt frequently say to ourselves that we w il!
endeavor fp lead anew life—try to meet
her? A father may have spoken them,
even while the last 6and was pacing from
the hour-glass of existence, and though
every thought associated with him
the memory of a sternness which always
quelled the gushing forth of the young
heart’s pure emotions, Still he was opr fn
fcher, and “Meet me in Heaven/* it
faintly comes from his lips, falls upon our
hearts With ft peculiar and
bears away ail gnjyupdJy feelings.
If we would harjken mom Jp these little
sad, but holy verba! mementoes, of jthe past,
and permit them to have their way, they
would create a well-spring of happiness
1 witluft J? 6 whose glad waters would not
only give life ziftri vigor to our own enjoy
ments, but would also extend their virenes
to all around us. Oh ! yes, * jVer
keep them in onr minds, and constantly i
dwell upon tim ]pve that gave them utter
ance. they wjli prov/B and power
fill counteract ant 8 of this i i> selfish
ness; ‘hey will pour within our hearts a
continual stream of Christian •sympathy
for each other’s misfortunes—a sympathy
which will bleea the giver as much as the
receiver. And this is not all ; they will
fortify us amidst the trials and sorrow's of
life, and wi]J tell us, in pleasant tom a, of
the good time that is coming, when our
hearts shall be no longer wpary.
“Meet me in Heaven.” Weahoqb! nev
er try to drive that little note from our
ears—never strive to raise its soothing in-
Auennk from our hearts; we know not what
a moral it may wield ; we should
place-it even as a upon the
watch tower of our hearts, permit its
glad beams to extend far out ppon the
ocean jof life, though we be tosfled about
by rough galee, our way„ shall be made
clear. And thus this little oracle will fol
low us until the period shall cpme for jjs to
journey kence, and as we turn our backs
Upon tipie, and our .eye* towards eternity,
if we <Pil listen, we tpay’ hear the spirit
voices of the fewaekold bam 1 Fearing us up
to their own beaKpful while own
g'!.*d hearts can the craping answer’
fr? Ihero, that We are to|
‘-‘meet yon jn Heaveti!” . j
-
fair” The oldest jghaty£#£ >,u earth i
supposed to be ft warrior of tjhe
of Indians, who, according to the r.ed npip’s i
mode of computing time, w'as 172 years .of
fge in March last. This venerable old
chieftain, strange tosay, is yet possessed of
poood mental faculties, and relates with
accuracy ami minuteness some of 11 inmost
thrilling adventures of ancient day
A HOMELESS NATION.
The present generation live on the side
walk. The ladies pay twenty-five dollars
for a bonnet to adorn Broadway, and they
sweep the pavements with the costliest
silks. Our sole aim now is to create a sen
sation at the hotel or boarding house table.
Our flirtations are carried on in Broadway,
en promenade and our young and blushing
brides commence their honeymoon in a
steamer. W-e rib longer live'for ourselves
and for the calm enjoyments of the family
circle ; we only exist to show our neigh
bors how very fine we can be. We live in
fact not to please ourselves, but to astonish
the Browns. The household gods have
been packed up in an old trunk and put in
the cellar, and we have only one genuine,
sincere worship in the world, its temple the
marble dry goods box in Broadway, and the
high priest is Stewart. The result of this is
even now beginning to be visible in the lax
public virtue and private morality. That
center of alt godliness, Home, is disappear
ing, and we shall not be astonished to hear
it announced, that the next generation will
be conducted by patent labor-saving ma
chinery, and farmed out. by contract at fash
ionable hotels.
This living in public in addition lo the lax
ity of personal morality it engenders, will
also lead to an extravagance which will
produce two enormous classes of Society,
the distinctions in which will be, simply
master and serf—tyrant and slave! That
noble Republican simplicity and indepen
dent equality which carried our infant Re
public of three millions of freemen through
the appalling struggle of’76, will be replaced
by a mere Ilelotism, which will render our
present force of thirty millions inferior in
all respects.
We repeat, that the great defect in our
system is the abolition of the sentiment of
home, which will inevitably lead to extrav
agance, debt, dependence and bankruptcy.
—N. Y. News.
From the. Southern Baptiet.
Rev. Dr. Mallary on Temperance.
Brother Tustin : —ln a former communication,
[promised something further respecting the earlv
Temperance movements in South Carolina. Cir
cumstances have produced some delay, hut a con
venient opportunity at ieng.h occurring, I resume
the subject.
At the next annual meeting of the Charleston
Association, (Nov. 26th) the introductory sermon
as intimated in lira letter, ty<*js preached
from Pr v. xx: 1, “Wine i* * moek<v, strong drink
is raging,” <fce. In that, discourse the preacher
took strong ground against the use of aieoimlic
drinks as a beverage, and if I rightly remember,
agritirt the ordinary traffic in ardent spirits At
that association, “The South Carolina Anti-In
(emperonce Socicti/*’ was organized, consisting of
the individual referred t<> in my formercotnnmni
i*b a additional re<-tnit*. The offi
liftw were qsfaiiij'Aa—Eid*-r Jesse"fjhtrtyyell, Presi
fden-; Mr. Win, Pot'S Splir, Vico Piv-ri/L..,; -
Secretary*! A constitution was adopted, umbra
ring the following fundamental principles.
“’i he objects ~f this Society shall he to ditseoun
tenn.co, and, as far as pt-Hedcahle, suppress the
n-e of ard-rd -{ilr’p.
‘AW agree tj te'itHjuisi: the use of ardent spir
its entirely, except wte. n required as necessary
medicine in sickness.
•AVe agiee to refrain from the common, but
danovruHi, nrfjc'ice of ivi<ing others to drink nr-
C }
dent spirits.
‘AVe agree lo use our influence in every prudent
mar.u-1 to carrv into >)-■--< the object of this Soci
ety.’
For awhi-o the Soviet)’ held its meetings in
o..mi--,\ion with the annual session of the Charles-
Lup t A-< ciation, that body, by courtesy, giving the
friends of lempe/anti. a pout an .hour of its time, to
transact the business of tire Soyiely, r.nd make and
i lu'ftf !jtt!e short t-unperance speeches. At the
lUe.eUfg in ! §2y it was agreed lo hold
niectings, that thcfe might he “more
time for ihe ifdl'sffctiop of business, and a better
opportunity to mature for more enlarged
and usefulness.” The first semi annutl
meeting was held at Society Hi!!, in May, 1828.
7’h p influence of the Society throughout the
bounds of the .Association, was eviden
tly’ salutary; and through rise nr.t} tracts
that were annually published in connexion w'ttJ
the minutes of the Society, some good was pro
. jjably effected in other sections of the country. At
the meeting y? a letter and delegate (Wtii.
Riley) was received from (’ljarleston Antii
Intemperance Society,” and the Society wa* ulctj
received fr°. ra ‘‘The Congaree Ariti Internperanoo
Society, v .though ls delegate failebl to attend.
To illustrate the progress of the dmiig
this day q{ “tmoll thinys ” one or two pxtraqa
from the minute* of J 82) ? not b* altogetlibr
unacceptable.
“An opportunity was now given for the mem
bers and friends of the Society to relate such fa<ts
as might tend to illustrate the utility and success
qf their efforts; and to offer any considerations
which might animate to further exertions. On
said hat by entirely a<*&un;.n£ from the use <f
spirits, be was not only i* gainer in a pecuniary
point of view, but he was actually better )U health.
Another observed that by acting upon the princi
ples of tbj Society, he had saved probably forty
dollars during the pASi.year, H° also st>ted that
by his example ami efforts, many fla’ his friends
had been induced to abandon the use of spirits acfl •
the neigkkoyhood around him had been material
ly lanefitted. It had heen found from actu
:jj experiment, that at log rollings a&d other pla
ces where flbri rally supposed tha(, spirits are
necessary, work twf been done, and greater
Q F4*r hvi beou preserved jn consequent 0 f the
disuse offipirityops liquors. It was stated
byai.uihw.kr*^'^/ '*&>> Os Wmk, tkat j
spirits had seldom been ’?.*? fdetnjs
and delegates at the present meeting of tho-assu- 1
ciatton j tfyspp the goo<J effects of our Society were
beginning lo M foie in several churches
and neighborhoods, that several who were at first
oppoeed to our measures, have at length become
ihesr zeahais suppc.ithat many who io not.
subs.il*- din mb Key; rtheless express, their cor
ded appiobapoM of our designs, and to re
joict.’ in otir suece—s. Eider Eli Hal! from V irginia
broiigtn to-vieW rto* success which had alternted
the .efforts at similar societies in that State.”
“Several persons who attended ihe meeting
came forward and subscribed the rules of the So
cieiv, 1 hia was a |ieasing, melting time; tho
fjord was present, and we had greater occasions
than ♦.-v.-i io fee! assured that our cause i- the
cause </! i-g!;i .-ousness awd * rutli.**
Ibo. Mason alludes to a certain temperance cir
cular. Ihe , Mcumstances were these—the per
son who preached from “wine is a mocker,” hap
pened to be appointed by the association to pre
pare tin* circular for the next year, (1827). Be
ing somewhat intoxicated (as many may have
thought) -v. iih the temperance theme, be brought
tuespirit and substance of the sermon into the
circular. Ihe history ot said circular was in s'ima
respects rather amusing. A committee was ap
pointed by the association, according to its usual
custom, to examine the document, in connexion
with the author. Brethren Manly, Hartwell and
Timothy Dargan, were the committtee assisted, I
hell ve, by Bro. Bail of Virginia. Now it must bo
■remembered, that in those ancient days, the ex
amination of a circular letter was frequently a very
grave matter—a whole night would sometimes
be consumed in the work. Orthography, syntax,
capitals, rhetoric, doctrine, logic —all had t*> be
well seen ro. The circular above ivbrred to, nee
ded special attention, for it held forth some ques
tionable views. If I rightly remember, tin* work
of examinat ion commenced pretty soon after sup
per and continued till ‘about iwo o’clock in the
morning. The main thing to be accomplished
was to soften down die fier\ document, so that it
might go forth -is a jus*, and fair exponent of the
views of thy assi>c;ation as a (axis, ’(’bis was
supj.tosed at last t■ > be preny well .lone—wbero
upon the author remarked, “w.•!!. brethren, vou
have cut off its head, and out 4 ii.’ tail, and pull
ed out its liver,” or something to this effect, and
perhaps guvu out some intimation that he did not
care to be known as the’author of such a mutila
ted affair. Bro. Manly— (we hadn't many doctors
in those days) I think it whs, came to the author's
rescue. He suggested that he would he pleassd
to see the document printed in it* original form ;
but as it could not in that form represent properly
the association, nor in its changed aspect ihe sen
timents of the author, he proposed to dispense
with a circular, and substitute in the minutes a
condensed statement of the condition of the
churches i'ompo-ing t!m Kodv, This suggestion
was reported to the body, ami HVepr,*.]. Tno cir
cular, however, survived its misfortunes, and was
appended as an address (or at lea-u ?h- substance
of it) to the minutes of the Temperance Society.
I do tioi exactly rememb.-r when the Society
was disbanded, it was perhaps in 1801, cr the
year previous. \b-uit that time, h S roe Society
of a more popular and imporing character was
organiz'd in Ho-uth Oaroliu.t. an 1 tie; little Bap
tiiit afliiU) ttiij&iiiitr vvi.-eiv or ttmL was m
those ear 7 !} temperance *noits, ti strikes rue Utal
they were the germ of much good, and that they
were more thoroughly based on religious principle
than many of the efforts of a later period. It was
to n great extent “the work of faith, and the labor
of love.” And it presents itself ft) my mind as a
question ot very grave moment, whether we have
a right to look for the full triumph of the temper
ance cause without bringing to its support more
of that prayerful gospel spirit which seemed to be
its main strength to irs early struggles. The world
may do much on the outworks, but the founda
tion must be, laid in Zion. As an illustration of
the spirit which seemed to control she first movers
in this good work, I may be pardoned for quo
ting the concluding paragraph of one of the ap
peals of the little South Carolina Temperance So
ciety.
“We should do well to remember, that if a
complete reformation is eyer to be effected, the in
strumentality ot the saints must be secured. A
spiritual influence must be exerted. Human rea
sop apt) resolution alone will not effect the object.
Legislative restricting will not effect the object.
The evil has taken such root that nothing but the
power of the Almighty God can destroy it. This
power he exerts in a special manner through the
agency of his people. They are the light of the
world; they are the salt of the earth; they are
j workers together with God to the pulling down of
strong holds. therefore, these powers shall
once be vigorously enlisted in the CAiisfi, vyda an
humble reliance on Divine support; when, feeling
the full weight of the subject, they shall approach
the throne of grace with holy, agonizing, perseve
ring importunity, something must be done. God
has taken the cause into ins oyn lends. Will he
not bless those efforts to which his children are,
urged, by the requirements of the gospel, by the.
powerful operation* pf hj f ?P irir ll P° jl hearts ?
Will he n,Qt avenge his oiyn ejyct wlijcli cry day
and night ptohim ? Brethren, this is a war of
faith. Tffo victory |s t.o be obtained on the same
field where the Gbriribin obtains ail hh pjuivphs.
Our legislatures may deliberate decree and tax ;
our wise men may devise many imposing schemer,
but whatever plan is formed which docs uotcall m
the aid of the gospel, and enlist the energies of
their prayej and fajth and self-denial, we have no
right ft) anticipate a , compose an*} an- *s‘V* to
ry. The subject coifft-s hm.m’ to smuts .ot the
Most High God. Let them -tLp*.*e o! U ‘ft -view
of their Christian obligtiou~io view of Judgment
and oternity.”
1 add no mote, hayalready inmsceuded ad
reasonable limit-. If ihe *><*, fri^knof
it, will meet in any nlfiftsuW ll“3 ‘■ff tie
Brother whose letter called forth these reminiceiD
m. ttud u any who may sympathize with
him in those matters, MQ t fb %v? U
a place jt) yoyr coffimus. Xjfrace, mercy peftCp
be with you, Toms in Ghrist Jesus our Ltord.
- jS. D. MALLARy.
G- §d,
comfort ftf a good, conscience
iv { ;1 . | c f, , v the mmendation of any
creature a.
fljc Ccmjmncf (trnsator.
PENFIEIJ3, GEOKOIA.
Saturday Morning:, .August *i, 1556.
Claihorn Trus3ell, of Atlanta, is* a duly
authorized Agent for the Crusader.
Liberal Offer.
Any person sending us five new Subscribers, ac
companied with the “rhino.” shall he entitled to an
extra copy of the Crusader for one year. Orders for
our Paper must invariably he accompanied with the
cash to receive attention.
-
Stop Papers,---Settle Arrearages.
Persons ordering their parsers discontinued, must
invariably pay up all their dues. We shall not strike
of! any subscribers name who is in arrears.
The Temperance Convention
Convened*in Atlanta according to previous ap
pointment. The meeting was a small, hut enthusi
astic ons. Owing to the necessity of giving “all
hands of the office rest during Commencement
W eek we will have to defer saying more until next
week, when we will give a full account of the pro
ceedings.
Commencement of KEercer University.
! his week has witnessed the saturnalia of our
University. Amid the nois>', hustle, dust and con
fusion in which we have been involved, we have
soaice been able to think, speak or act, Even now
we have not fully recovered from its giddy excite
ment. ti the short time *.vc have, we art* unable to
give anything like a full account Wo subjoin bolow
the Oiuto oi exercises for *-acn day, lo ping for a more
minute account in our next issue.
SOPHOMORE PRIZE DECLAMATION.
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
Marco Bozarrix.
Cooper C. Campbell, P. I). S tiritfin, Ga.
The Bible, the light of the world
Fred. A. lleazlcy. C. S Taliaferro Cos., Ga.
Scotland.
Edward J. Coates, P. . S Twiggs Cos., Ga.
The platform of the Constitution.
Marshall J. Clarke, P. D. S Lumpkin, Ga.
Leonidas to his three hundred.
Allen B, Candler, P. D. S Franklin Cos., Ga.
Inu last Indian .
Samue l A. Burney, C. 8 Madison, Ga.
j he Expunging Resolution,
Edwin A. Jelks, P, D. S Uamiltcn Cos., Fla.
Eulogy on W ebster.
James M. Lennard, P. D. 8. Talbot Cos.. Ga.
Republicanism of the Bible.
-oseph R. Andrews, C.S Penfield, Ga.
Speech of Robert Emmett at his trial for hi ah treason
Aim. L. McElmurray, P. D. 8 ‘Burke Cos., Ga.
I irgima and Massachusetts.
Junius M. Macon, P. D. S. Penfield. Ga.
hienzi to the Romans.
Adrian S. Morgan, C. S Penfield, Ga.
G r attan s Reply to Mr, Lorry attack on his character
Win. R. Roberts, P. D. S Burke Cos., Ga.
Speech in behalf of the Greeks.
Redmond V.'Forrester, C. S Lee Cos.. Ga.
The Battle if Waterloo.
Joseph S. Marrow, P. D. S .. .Effingham Cos., Ga.
Enmity towards Great Britain.
Charles E. Sanders, C. S Cass Cos., Ga.
j Bxtent of Country not dangerous to the Union.
Win. if. Prichard, P. 0. S., Griffin, Ga.
Dangers of Annexation,
Wm. H. Patterson, P. D. 8,. .Dougherty Cos., Ga.
JUNIOR EXHIBITION,
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
Liither. ~
Mirabeau B. Swanson, C. S Tuskegee, Ala.
‘The Student's Woes.
John IV. Wright, P. P. S’ Macon Cos., Ala.
Richard Henry Wilde.
\\ in. If. Cocroft, C. S Greene Cos., Ga.
Perils of Eminence.
Robert J. Boyd, P. I). S Columbia Cos., Ga.
“Look out for the Engine when the whistle blows.”
James W, Arnold, P. D. S Wilkes Cos.. Ga.
The good time coming.
John M. Nuckolls, P. D. 5... Madison Cos., Ala.
Errors of Genius.
Wm. t Chapman, C. 5........... .Taliaferro Cos., Ga.
Power of Imagination.
Isaiah A. Wilson, P. I). 5.,.......... .Talbotton, Ga.
Signs of the Times.
Tliaddcus C. McLendon, P. 8.5.,,,.,, .Wilkes Cos„ Ga.
Encouragement of Action.
Thomas W. Davis, C. S. ~ .Chambers €o„ Ala.
Fame,
Rufus E. Lester, P. D. 8 Burke Cos., Ga.
COMMENCEMENT DAY.
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
’ Bacon and his Philosophy.
Melvin N. Dyer, P. B. S. .2d ilonar, ..LaFayette, Ga.
J. T. Hand, C. S., 2d Honor, Excused,. .Taliap. Cos., Ala.
I The First Sabbath.
‘ 31. B. 1, Bjuion, P. 1). S., ,3d Honor,. .Hancock Cos,, Ga.
J* Baris Andrews, P. Ib S.. .Excused,... .Penfield, Ga,
The Pleasures of Memory.
Mdses P. Cain, P, D. S.. ,3d Honor.. .Jefi'erson Cos., Ga,
James S. Blain, C. S.,,Excused,.(Penfield, Ga,
Errttr—its extent and influence.
Joan TANARUS, Glover, P, D. S., ,3d Honor,,, .Twiggs Cos., Ga.
Jack L. Andrews, P. D. S.. .Excused, Penfield, Ga.
Fixedness of purpose necessary to success.
Robert P. Havant, P. D. S Penfield, Ga.
John C. Binns, P. D. S.. .Excused Wilkes Cos., Ga.
The character and genius of Goldsmith.
Jesse A, Heltzclaw, C. S.’ Penfield, Ga.
John 0. Hixson, 11.l 1 . 8., Excused, Taliaferro Cos., Ga.
Aristocracy, . . . t•’ ••
Alonzo Howell, C. 8., White Plains, Ga,
J. ib Bromne, P. I). S,. .Excused.... v
xnt zii ivu nn*,* m /> . • - _ ‘
Thomas J Pinson, r. if. S. Coweta Cos., Ga.
James G, Cain, p. 11. 8.. .Kxijused,, Jefferson Cos., Ga.
The Bible.- < ’ !
Wm. T. H. Scott, C. S Sumter Cos., Ga.
ioljii 3L Howell, C. S.. .Excused. .. .White Plains, (la.
Mitcliei joties. P. D. S.. .Excused, .Burke Cos,, Ga.
Charlps E, Sniith, C. S.. .Excused, ... .Wilkes ft*., Ga.
Early Education.
Thomas A. Seals, lb lb 5.,. Ist Honor.. ..Penfield, Ga.
Machinvclim.
Henry P. .McDaniel, C. 5.,. Ist H0n0r,... .Atlanta, Ga.
... - -V
Concert at the Female Seminary.
On Thursday evening, 24th ulb, wc spent a cou
ple ofLcurs quits agreeably in listening to a Musical
EntextainfoenVgiyeii -by the yowng }sd|ps cf or.r Fe
male
taste, and thu'excellenee displayed by the young la
dies in performance showed them to have been un
der the care of skillful instructors. Considering
their number and‘age, the Concert was decidedly a
good one, :inu would Jf<Kb° Py*- r n blush many a
■i.ttti'ar at our high sounding Beninie fJ011.g.,.
1.g.,. They Q„|j w**
ter advantage had the deportment of the audience
have peep Hut rapping, stamping, whistling,
talking, Arid mfltTiy other inhuman noises grouted a
babel which might have fused older hcajfc than
thejr’s. displays but very little wit,
and a grpgt deal of jll-breeding; PprrOfpi whp haw
i) Jjttfv regard fop decency and good bphaykr,
ahyukl ap v*ys ksrp away from places wber* these
qualities AiC required. These entertainments al
ways cost pains in getting up, and when they art
gratuitous, every gentlemanly principle ought to
prompt the auditors to deport themselves with pro
priety. The well behaved portion of the audience,
(there were 80 me) are of course not included in these
remarks. There were doubtless many others who
would have behaved well, had it not been for th<-
contagious influence of bad example. *
Commencement in Oxford.
A few days since, we stole from our sanctum, for
got our care,-; and perplexities, and hurried off to at
tend the literary festival of Emory College. We
get out with a determination to enjoy ourself, large
ly, but our old relentless foe, the toothache, soon
banished all such fond hopes. After a very disa
greeable journey through dust, smoke, and any
amount of hustling confusion, we found ourself in
the little sylvan village, the name of which is insep
arably connected with classic learning. In a few
hours after our arrival, we were seated in the spa
cious College Chapel to hear declamation by select
members of the Sophomore Class. We intend no
p?//f ofthis exhibition, nor indeed of any of the Ex
orcists w hich we witnessed. For apart from its be
ing entirely unnecessary, such compliments have
become so very common us to he meaningless.—
When then we say that we were well pleased with
their performance, we mean just what wr say.—
Twenty young men made their appearance upon the
sta e, and won from a very large audience, the uni
versal verdict that each one did well. We have sel
dom seen as much equality among the members of a
class. The Committee however, succeeded in mak
ing distinctions, and awarded the first prize to D. G.
Purse, of Savannah; the 2d to S. J. Saffold, of Mad
ison.
At nine o’clock ihe next morning the Junior Ex
hibition was opened. The class acquitted them*
selves as well as they could have expected ordesired.
The speeches were well written and most of them
well spoken. There was, however, one great defect
in the exhibition. The speeches, almost without a
single exception, were entirely too long, being gen
erally fifteen minutes long, and some even longer.—
Young men must recollect that to please fully, on
such occasions, the} - must be short. After their
speaking closed, the prizes were awarded to the
Sophomore deciaiiners, accompanied by a highly ap
propriate address by Bishop Pierce. Whatever may
bethought of his positions (and we differ from him
very materially in regard to some of his views) none
could fail to listen with interest and pleasure. But
Bishop Pierce is too well known to demand further
notice.
The address before the Alumni Association was
delivered by M. W. Lewis, Esq., of Greene county,
at three o clock in the afternoon. Our acquaintance
with Mr. Lewis had given us a high opinion of his
abilities; but we must confess to an agreeable disap
point in his effort on this occasion. He gave to the
oid, worn-out subject of education a treatment which
commanded the attention and won the applause of a
large audience for near two hours. It abounded in
sound reason and practical good sense.
1 his was the last of the Exercises which we had
the pleasure of witnessing. Continued indisposition
compelled our departure on \\ ednesday morning,
much to our regret. We subjoin the programme of
that day, one of which happened to fall into our
hands just before left.
COMMENCEMENT DAY.
OP.DKK OF EXERCISES.
jJ, A. Jackson, P. G. S Ist Honor. Corinth, Ga,
j Salutatory—Public Lift.
J* * -WJko...® A . . ,'.uv 2St <ii.. t *. .'Yb.vtiGuV'wa.
| W. H. Tarver, F. S.. .*!! Macon Cos.. Ala.
The Godlike in Man.
j D. R. Andrews, P. G. S Stanfordville, G;t.
J Journalism.
| T. M. Dozier, F. S Oglethorpe, Ga.
Love of Truth.
M. f. Uglier, F, 5.^... .Excused, Buena Vista, Ga,
Value of Opposition.
R. W. Carswell, F. S Burke Cos., Ga,
J. W imberly, Twiggs Cos., Ga.
The Human Mind.
W, D. McCurdy, P. G, S Oak Bowery, Ala,
Our Country .
G. 8. Orr, .Excused, Jackson Cos., Ga.
J. E, Cobb. P. G. 5.... .2d Honor, Thomaston, Ga.
Patience in Genius.
H. B. Gaither, P. G. S Excused. Oxford, Ga.
Fillieusterism from the days of the Patriarchs to the
time <f Gen. W r alker.
J. 11. Campbell, F. 8 Ist Honor, Auburn, Ala.
The power of Religious Instincts in Man.
C, B. Wooten, F, S Excused, Sparta, Ga.
G. F. Lewis, P. G. S 2d Honor. Sparta. Ga.
“One self approving hour whole years outweighs,
Os stupid xtarers ana land huzzas.”
W. I, King, F, S Excused, Perry, Ga.
IV. P, McDaniel, F. S,f; i; •.’:.Atlanta, Ga,
r t Rational Monuments.
R, W. Smith, P. G. 5.,,. .Ist Honor,.. ‘, .Greene Cos,, Ga,
Valedictory.
We returned as highly pleased with our visit to
Oxford os coul, be under the circumstances, i here
va.s nothing in all that we saw or heard calculated
to mar our pleasure. In the beauty and healthful
ness of her location, in the intelligent and refine
ment of her citizens, she has few equals in our State.
The success of the College has been eminently wor
thy of the energetic denomination by which it is sus
tained. *
“Honor to Whom Honor Is due,”
We notice- several‘ of-'our editorial articles in the
to them. We are not egotisucal enough , 0
any great complaint; but if there be any honor
the authorship of these pieces, we would prefer to
haye jt. 1 ’ .... <
e would ealFtbS attention of Our lady rea
ders, especially to the advertisement’ of the Penrl
Medipal I niversity of Philadelphia, found in anoth
er column. The pjedjpal edqcatiqn qf wojnep ( i$ at
present attracting 3,
which it jqstly should. This subject should bg re.
garded as, what it really Ib, the leading reform of the
age. Ladies should become familiar with Physiolo
gy, Anatomy and such other branches of Medical
hcience, as relates to hygienic laws; and as far as
practical, become qualified to practice the healing
art, much of the most important aud profitable part
ol vr];;;*h ‘'onres with’n her proper and legitimate
spbprfey • • V
Our Book Table.
JJarjmr s Magazine. This number contains the
close or Virginia Illustrated. We feel a sadness at
parting fix>m Porte Crayon and his charming cousins.
It contains aUo many other interesting papers.—-
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