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encouraged him, were convinced that their efforts had been of no avail. Intemperance, “like the strong man armed,” took posses sion of a soul that lifted no cry for aid to the Holy Spirit, and girded on no weapon to resist the destroyer. Summer passed away, and the anniversa ry of their arrival at the colony returned. It was to Jane Harwood a period of sad and solemn retrospection. The joys of oth er days, and the sorrows of maturity, pass ed in review before her, and while she wept, she questioned her heart what had been its gain from a Father’s discipline, or whether it had sustained that greatest of all others —the loss of its affections. She was alone at this season of self com munion. The absence of her husband had become more frequent and protracted. A storm, which feelingly reminded her of those which had often beat upon them when homeless and weary travelers, had been ra ging for nearly two days. To this cause she imputed the unusually long stay of her husband. Through the third night of his absence she lay sleepless, listening to his footsteps. Sometimes she fancied she heard shouts of laughter, for the mood in \yhich he returned from his revels was various.— But it was only the shriek of the tempest. Then she thought some ebulition of his fren zied anger, rang in her ears. It was the roar of the hoarse wind through the forest. All night long she listened to those sounds, and hushed and sang to her affrighted babe. Unrefreshed, she arose and resumed her morning labors. Suddenly her eyes were attracted by a group of neighbors, coming up from the riv er. A dark and terrible foreboding oppress ed her. She hastened out to meet them.— Coming towards her house was a female friend, agitated and fearful, who, passing her arm around her, would have spoken. “Oh ! you come to bring me evil tidings; I pray you let me know the worst.’ The object was, indeed, to prepare her mind for a fearful calamity. The body of her husband had been found drowned, as was supposed, during the darkness of the preceding night, in attempting to cross the bridge ot logs, which had been partially bro ken by the swollen waters. Utter prostra tion of spirit came over the desolate mourn er. Her energies were broken, and her heart withered. She had sustained tiie pri vation of poverty and emigration and the burdens of unceasing labor and unrequited care, without murmuring. She had laid her first-born in the grave with resignation, for faith had heard her Savior saying, “Suffer the little child to come unto me.” She had seen him, in whom her heart’s young affec tions were garnered up, become a persecu tor and injurer, a prey to vice the most de structive. Yet she had borne up under all. One hope remained with her as an “anchor of the soul”—the hope that he might yet re pent and be reclaimed. She had persever ed in her complicated and self-denying du ties with that charity which beareth all things—believeth all things—endureth all things. But now he had died in his sin.— The deadly leprosy which had stolen over his heart, could no more be “purged by sa crifice or offering forever.” She knew that not a single prayer for mercy had preceded the soul on its passage to the High Judge’s bar. There were bitter dregs in this grief, which she had never before wrung out. Again the sad hearted community assem bled in their humble cemetery. A funeral in an infant colony awakens sympathies of an almost exclusive character. It is as if a large family suffered. To bear along the corpse of a strong man. through the fields which he had sown, and to cover motionless in the grave that arm which trusted to have reaped the ripening harvest,awakens a thrill deep and startling in the breast of those who had wrought by his side during the burden and heat of the day—to lay the mother on her pillow of clay, whose last struggle with life was, perchance, to resign the hope of one more brief visit to the land of her fathers —whose heart’s last pulsation might have been a prayer that her children might re turn and grow up in the shadow of a school house and the church of God, is a grief in which none, save emigrants, may partici pate. To consign to their narrow, motion less abode both young and old, the infant and him of hoary hairs, without the solemn, knell, the sable train, the hallowed voice of the man of God, giving back in the name of his tel law Christians, the most precious roses of their pilgrim path, and speaking with di vine authority of Him who is the “resurrec tion and the life,” adds desolation to that weeping with which man goeth downward to the dust. But with heaviness of an unspoken and peculiar nature was this victim of vice borne trom the home that he troubled and laid by the side ot his son, to whose tender years he had been an unnatural enemy. There was sorrow among all who stood around his grave, and it bore features of that sorrow which is without hope. The widowed mourner was not able to raise her head fro n the bed when the bloat ed remains of her unfortunate husband were commit'ed to the earth. Long and severe sickness ensued, and in her convalesence a letter was received from her brother, invi ting her and her child to an asylum under his roof, and appointed a time to come and conduct them on their homeward journey. With her little daughter, the sole remnant of her wrecked heart’s wealth, she returned to her kindred. It was with emotions of deep and painful gratitude, that she bade farewell to the inhabitants of that infant set tlement, whose kindness, through all her ad versities, had never failed. And when they remembered the example of uniform pa tience and piety which she had exhibited, and the samt-like manner in which she had sustained her burdens, and cherished their sympathies, they felt as if a tutelary spirit had departed from among them. In the home of her brother, she eUicated her daughter in industry, and that content ment which virtue teaches. Restored to those friends with whom the morning of life had passed, she shared with humble cheer fulness the comforts that earth had yet in store for her; but in the cherished sadness of her perpetual widowhood, in the bursting sighs ot her nightly orison, might be traced a sacred and deeprooted sorrow—the mem ory of her eri ing husband, and the miseries of unreclaimed intemperance. L. A. S. Curious Deviee. The Episcopal Church of St. Paul, in New Haven, Conn., has in one of its tow ers two stones cut into forms of the ace of clubs and ace of diamonds —devices taken from a pack of cards. The explanation given is this: the architect first employed in the erection of the building was a De ist, and a man of bitter cynical spirit.— by way of burlesque, he resolved to cut the stones for the structure into such fig ures that a huge pack of cards might ap pear flaming out on the sides of the sacred structure. By means of scaffolding and other concealments, he veiled his design from the bniiding committee till the walls were nearly carried up, and his practical joke nearly played off. The discovery was at last made, and the whole structure, of course, taken down. In the course of de molition, the architect fell from a scaffold ing and was instantly killed. A most lux uriant woodbine mantles the present walls and nearly hides the two stones above re ferred to, which being near the foundation of the massive tower, were suffered to re main. CP(?%{lßC<srtL For the Temperance Crusader. The Orphan’s New-Year’s Eve. — o— LINN A. — o— New-Year’s Eve, a bitter, bitter cold night,, and the snow which had fal len during the day, was frozen hard on the streets; the moon was shedding a clear cold light on the untrodden snow, which gave it the appearance of crystal. All, yes, I may say all the stores in the great city of Philadelphia were brilliantly light ed ; and gas lights gleamed from many win dows. One general voice seemed to pro claim “be happy,” and indeed it appear ed almost impossible to be otherwise. Ed ward and Fannie Ellis were gazing from the window of their elegant parlor, on the interior of a ball room, which was direct ly opposite their house. The window at which they sat, was slightly raised to ad mit a little fresh air, as the beat of the room was rather oppressive. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ellis gazed at the scene before them, for some time, as if facinated ; but sudden ly their attention was arrested by what she thought to bo the sobbing of a child.— They listened for a few moments to see if they could discover the cause of the child’s distress, but in vain. Mrs. Ellis looked out of the window, and saw by the moon light there were two children seated on their steps, who also seemed intently gaz ing on the scene going on in the ball room. Presently, one of them (and apparent ly the oldest,) said to the other; “Mary, doesn’t that put you in mind of our dear old home? You remember that this time last year, we had a party, and as happy as any one there.” “Yes, Charlie, it does. I was just think ing of it,” said Mary, “but please don’t talk about it, for it makes me feel so bad,” and here the poor child burst into tears again. “Never mind Mary” said Cbalie, “don’t cry ; do you remember what our dear moth er used to tell us about prayer in time of trouble, as the best comfort that earth can give “Yes, I remembea it well,” replied Ma ry, “and so let us kneel right down here, and ask God to give us some friends.” So saying the brother and sister knelt down on the steps where they had been sitting, and sent up such a simple, childish, yet beautiful petition to Him who turneth not away his ear from the cry of the fatherless, that tears of pity found their way to the eyes of Edward Ellis, and his wife entreat ed with tears in her eyes, that her hus band would go out and bring them in.— When they arose from their knees they re seated themselves on the steps. Afer a while Mary said:— “Charlie, I am very hungry, ain’t, you.” ‘“Yes, Mary,” replied Charlie, “i am, and though we have tried all day lung to get something to eat, I wiil try once more for your sake.” So with this, he arose and looked around as if to see if he could dis cern any one to whom he could apply.— Presently, a man walking with a stick, ap proached the place where Charlie was standing. Charlie eagerly availed himself of this opportunity to make known his re quest, and meeting the old man said, “0 sir, please be so kind as to give me three or four cents to buy my sister and myself something to eat.” “Three or four cents” returned the man contemptuously, “I will give you three <>r four cuts with my cane if you trouble me any more.” At this, Mary came up and said, “please sir, give my brother what he asks you for; indeed, we have not had anything to eat since early this morning, and then only a piece of dry bread.” “Don’t I tell you to g< away,” replied the old man in a rage.” “Whydon’t you go to the poor house $ that is the proper place for beggars.” “At the word “oeggars” the children turned away.” “Yes,” 6aid Ch irlie with tears in his beautiful eyes, “we are beggars; the old man, though he was very unkind, spoke the truth.” P Oh dear,” said Mary as 6he looked at some gayly dresjed children going into the ball room. “Every body seems to have a happy New Year’s Eve but we,” she would have said more, but was prevented }y eaimg the duor open above them, and in a moment Mr. Ellis stood before the lightened children. He, however, quiet ed their fears, by kindly telling them that he had overheard their conversation, and wanted to hear more of their story. So be took them in the house, and after Mrs. Ellis herself had given them an ex cellent supper, they told their benefactors then story, the substance ot which was the following: “Their father had been a very wealthy merchant, and had always lived according* ly; but about nine months previously he died of the Typhoid fever. About a month afterwards, his wife took sick of the same disease, and followed her husband to the grave. Thus the children were left or phans, and without a home, (as the father failed before he died, and left h4s widow penniless,) at the early age of six and eight years. Though they kid been begging for about seven months, they had always made out to get something to eat, every day ; but to sleep elsewhere than in the street, or an alley, was a luxury really forgotten by them.” At the conclusion of their story which was given much more minutely than we give it, Mr. Ellis told them as he had no children, he would take them into his fam ily, and adopt them as his own. Before retiring, the children knelt down and thanked God, “that they did not have such a bad New Year’s Eve after all.” [From the Augusta Constitutionalist.] Buchanan Meeting in Greene County. Pursuant to previous notice, a respectable portion of the citizens of Greene county, favorable to the election of Buchanan and Breckenridge, assembled at the Court House for the purpose of forming a Buchanan Club. On motion of Jas. B. Hart, Esq., Col. R. J. Willis was called to the Chair, and D. A. Newsom, requested to act as Secretary. The object of the meeting being explained by the Chair, on motion of Judge Davison, a Committee was appointed by the Chair to report matter for the action of the meeting, consisting of the following named gentlemen: J. M. Davison, Dr. Thomas N. Poullain, Robert Newsom, llorzan Jackson, Sr., Dr. A. H. Jackson, Edward H. Wingfield, William L. Strain, T. F. Foster, L. L. Andrews, Albert King, S. T. Peake, B. E. Spencer, James M. Houghton, James T. Tinsley, Archibald Perkins, H. G. Harper and W. T. Shannon. After-the Committee retired, Col. Thos. P. Saf fold, Elector for the 7 th'Congressional District, was introduced to the meeting, nd made an able, man ly and patriotic address. He confined himself strict ly to the main issues now before the country. Ilis arguments were logical and conclusive, and we un derstand he is battling nobly in his District for Buc hanan and Breckenridge. The Committee appointed to present matter for the meeting, submitted the following report: While we view with patriotic solicitude the pecu liar features of the various political questions that now agitate and convulse our beloved country, di vesting ourselves of all old political prejudices and rancorous feeling, engendered by past political strug gles, we sincerely believe that the only safeguard for the country at the present momentous crisis, is a strict adherence laid down in the platform of the Cincinnati Convention, of which Buchanan and Breckenridge are the nominees. Embracing as it does all the great, conservative principles of the old Whig party, in the days of its purity, besides con taining all the constitutional and national doctrines of the Democratic party, proves to us that these great elements combined, as we here find them, can alone save us from the ruthless, reckless aDd un scrupulous efforts of the factions that even now ave endeavoring to lay their unholy hands, with fratri cidal grasp, on all the constitutional guarantees, (which is truly the ark of the covenant, politically speaking) and in which alone the South has a sure ty for her present or future safety. The opposition presents a platform which, when shorn of its sophistry and unmeaning garbage, means nothing but destruction to every constitution al right which the South has. It has been condemn ed and denounced by the Chronicle <£ Sentinel, the consistent organ of the party. The celebrated 12th section, the only slavery plank, no longer remains; every competent part of the present structure is composd of Abolition, Freesoil, and fanatical tim bers. As Southern men can we consistently support such a platform ? On this platform stands Millard Fillmore. We ask, will you, can you, fellow citi zens, support the champion of such principles?— What are his antecedents? Cradled in the very hot-bed of Abolition, nursed in the same foul at mosphere, he made his first advent into political life by his unjust persecution of that time-honored fra ternity, the Free Masons, during the great Morgan excitement. Always consistent in his avowed hos tility to the domestic institutions of the South.— Whilst in Congress, ever true to his constituency and sectional fanaticism, we find his name always recorded alongside of Adams, Slade, Giddings, Cor win, and men of like principles, down to the time when the Whig party at the North, under his ad ministration, became thoroughly denationalized and Abolitionized. We find him nominated for Vice President with Taylor in 1848, for the very reason, and none other, that he could carry and control the Abolition vote of the North better than any other man. During the time he acted as President, on every question where slavery was involved, we find him still true to his Abolition instincts. Witness his proclamation against Texas, in relation to her boundary. Again, his puling indecision, asking the Senate for enlarged powers in relation to the violation of the, organic law of the land, on the attempt to reclaim a fugitive slave in Boston; his Proclamation against the Cuban patriots; next, his pardoning and remit ting the fine on negro stealers in the District of Co lumbia ; his quibbling hesitancy in signing the fugi tive slave bill; besides, with the notorious fact sta ring us in the face that, under his administration the old Whig party, tottered, disbanded, became sec tional, and fell to pieces, all over the Union. He, forsooth, the model President, whose administra tion the nation refused to endorse by the election of Gen. Pierce and defeat of Gen. Scott, with all the prestige of his well-earned military fame. Save us at the South from such model Presidents as Millard Fillmore, a man alike unworthy and unfit to receive the support of any portion of the Southern people. Nor could any people, not blinded b party viru lence or criminally ignorant of the cardinal issues involved in the present contest, do otherwise than refuse to support him. On the other hand, the stnndard bearer of the Cin cinnati platform, James Buchanan, the noble states man and worthy compeer of Clay, Webster, Cal houn, Jackson and White, proudly stands forth as the consistent and constitutional friend of the South. Witness his support of the bill “to prohibit the cir culation of incendiary pamphlets and Abolition pa pers through the mails.” The same year he propos ed and voted for the admission into the Union of Arkansas as a slave State. In 1836 and ’37 he de nounced and voted to reject petitions for the aboli tion of slavery in the District of Columbia. In 1837 he voted for Mr. Calhoun’s famous resolutions, defi ning the rights of the States, and the limits of “Fed eral Authority,” and affirming it to be the duty of the Govei nment to protect and uphold the institu tions of the South. “In 1838-’39 and ’4O, he inva riablv voted with Southern Senators against the con sideration of anti-slavery petitions.” In 1844 and ’45 he voted for the annexation of Texas. In 1847 he sustained the Clayton compromise. Tn 1860 he proposed and urged the extension of the Missouri Compromise. In 1850 he proposed and urged the extension of the Missouri Compromise to the Pacific Ocean (which would have ensured the South one half of California) hut he promptly acquit seed in the Compromise of 1850, and employed all his influ ence in favor of the “Fugitive Slave Law.” In 1851 he remonstrated against an enactment of the Penn sylvania Legislature for obstructing the arrest, and return of fugitivo slaves. In 1854 he negotiated for the acquisition of Cuba. In 1856 he approves of the repeal of the Missouri restriction, and supports the principles of the Kansas-Nebraska act. He never gave a vote against the interest of slavery, and nev er uttered a word, which could pain the most sensi tive Southern heart. Ist. Resolved , That those favorable to the election of the Hon. James Buchanan for President, and the Hon. John C. Breckenridge for Vice President, do now form themselves into an Assocation to be called the Buchanan Association of Old Greene county, and we pledge ourselves to use all just and honora ble means to ensure the election ol these conserva tive and constitutional statesmen. 2d. Resolved , That we cordially invite all lovers of law and order, the rights of the States, a strict construction of the Constitution, the rights of the South, and her institutions under the Constitution ; to the end that we may be enabled to perpetuate our glorious institutions and the Union, to unite with us, in this, our effort, in so noble and patriotic a cause. 3d. Resolved, That although a large component part of this meeting, are old line Whigs, they yet feel that they have embodied in their present creed, all that was valuable of the great conservative prin ciples, of the old Whig party, and therefore invite the Whigs of Old Greene to, unite with them, to save the rights of the South from desecration. 4th. Resolved, That the Chair appoint a Central Executive Committee, clothed with power to appoint auxiliary Committees in every militia district in the county. The Chair appointed the following named gentlemen that Committee. Edward H. Wingfield, Wm. Davis, J. J. Wakefield, John Doherty, W. T. Shannon, T. F. Foster, Junius Poullain, Dr. D. C. O’Keeffe, Troup Perkins, J. 11. Snellings, H. G. Harper, David Howell, Henry Hoyt and Phillip Poullain. The Executive Committee being clothed with pow er to appoint presiding officers for the association made the following appointments, Hon. Thos. Stocks, President Col. R. J. Willis, Dr. Thos. N. Poullain, Robert Newsom and Green Moore, Vice President. On motion, the thanks of this meeting were ten dered Col. Thomas P. Saffold f r his able, spirited and patriotic address this day delivered before us. On motion of Col. Edward H. Wingfield, the Sec retary was requested to forward to the Constitution alist for publication the proceedings of this meeting with the request that all papers in the State friendly to the cause be requested to copy. On motion, the meeting adjourned. R. J. WILLIS, Chairman. D. A. Newsom, Scc’y. Greensboro’, Aug. 18th, 1856. €|e Cmpentitte Crasakr. PENFIELD, GEORGIA. Saturday Morning, September 6, 1856. Rev. Claiborn Trussell, 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 be entitled to an extra copy of the Crusader for one year. Orders for our Paper must invariably be accompanied with the cash to receive attention. Stop Papers.—Settle Arrearages. t3§T“Snbscribers to the Crusader who choose to have it discontinued at any time, will please express their wish by a written communication, accompa nied by the cash for all arrearages, rather than trust it to a Postmaster. Sending numbers back, or leaving them in the office, is n t such notice of dis continuance as the Law requires. would earnestly solicit our friends in ev ery part of our State to give us an account of the progress of Temperance principles in tlrtir sections. We will he obliged to them if they will be brief, as it will save us the labor of condensing. jfclT'We learn from a private letter that Benjamin Brantly, Esq., formerly of this place, has been nomi nated as a candidate to represent his county in the Legislature of the Territory of Kansas. He is a firm Southern man, and will doubtless, if elected, make them a valuable representative. — “The Intemperate.” We would call the attention of our readers to the e:egant tale which will be found upon our first page. It is quite lengthy, but let not that deter you from a careful perusal of it. The intrinsic merit of it as a literary production is very great; bat the moral forms its chief excellence. It faithfully portrays how the best intentions may be destroyed and the warmest kindness be converted into wanton cruelty by the demon of intemperance. — Democratic Meeting. At the earnest request of some of our democratic friends we publish in this paper, the proceedings of a Buchanan meeting held in Greenesboro, on the 18th ult. By publishing those proceedings we do not wish to be understood as approving or disappro ving any of them—our political sentiments we keep out of the columns of our sheet, and we publish the aforesaid account at the special request of our friends as a county matter, our paper having a very large circulation in the county. —— <. Oi> To Correspondents. We have a number of contributions on hand, which we most respectfully decline. Among these are “Prohibitionist,” “C. C,” and “Jimmie.” Storm. We were visited on Sunday last by one of the most destructive storms which has ever been known even in the recollection of the “oldest inhabitant.” Os the amount of damage done to the crops -we have no idea. It must have been immense. We have noticed very considerable havoc in the forests.— Many of our nicest shade trees were blown down, and all more or less injured. “Too Strong a Temperance Man.” “You are too strong a Temperance man” said a friend of ours to us recently. We were thankful for the compliment, for we could not possibly con sider it in the light of a censure. But laying the personality aside, we would ask if there is a possi bility of a man’s occupying too strong a position up on the Temperance question. We would gladly an nihilate the traffic in ardent spirits, banish its evils, and confine it to the oath bound precincts of the Apothecary’s Shop; and we do not consider ourself at all ultra. We should like to know how a Tem perance man can be less than a prohibitionist, or what kind of a Temperance man you would have.— We have heard of men who could make Temper ance speeches with flasks in their pockets, or write Temperance articles, whilo yet racked with pain from the effect of their last drunken debauch. Such persons from the very bott >m of our heart we de test. **■ The present times, require an uncommon degree offirmnosson the part of the friends of Temper ance, in the principles they advocate. There ap pears to be a prevailing disposition on the part of people to confound all subjects, whatever be their nature in all absorbing questions of politics.— Against this we have to contend. There are too opinions of long standing, deep rooted prejudices to be overcome, while an artful, insidious foe, is ever ready to take advantage of any opportunity to prac tice his wiles. To do this we must be ever on the alert, prepared to speak or act as the occasion may require. Too strong a Temperance man! We do not know the meaning of tho term. For when man has labored long and patiently; devoted every faculty and exhausted every energy of mind and body, Te kel may still be the righteous sentence of Him in whose vineyard he has labored. * The Fourth of July. —A friend of ours burnt his hand severely with fire-works on the ‘glorious 4th;’ he applied the Peiry Davis’ Pain Killer, and in half au hour was entirely free from pain. Don’t forget this. Circumstances alter Cases. They do, very materially. No axiom in mathe matics could be more plain, or more capable of de monstration, when necessary. Every day teaches us that it is far more of a fact in practice, than a truth in theory. Skeptical in regard to fate, and still more doubtful in their ideas of chance, men are yet the creatures of circumstances over which they seldom have any control. To these every thing is subjected. Men’s thoughts, opinions and actions change as they change, and are modified and entire ly governed by them. Even the purest and most holy code of moral Law becomes subject to its influ ence, in the hands of human'expounders. It is interesting and instructive to notice the cruel injustice, and the foolish absurdities which men com mit, upon this same plea, “circumstances alter cases.” There sits a poor female, upon whose pale brow the waning midnight lamp shines in flickering ray, who bends with tear-dimmed eyes over her work, which with weary fingers she steadily plies. The gay and pleasure-loving have retired to their slumbers, and a solemn stillness reigns. But she toils on, though her head throbs with weariness, and every limb is rack ed by pain. She labors to supply the mornings food for the little flock who lie in helpless innocence around her, and the strength of maternal love sup ports her in the task. She was not always thus. — Once she lived in affluence, and every indulgence which wealth could purchase was hers. Then flat tery paid her tributes of adulation, and the warm smiles of friendship greeted her on every hand. But in the midst of all this unalloyed happiness, misfor tune came, and swept away, at o e rude blast, every source of her enjoyment. The friends who had hov ered around her, now fell away, as if adversity had congealed the warm feelings of friendship. The rich lady, dazzling in silks and jewelry, who whi lome claimed her acquaintance as an honor, now passes her unrecognized, replying to each rebuke of her conscience, tha* times have changed, and “cir cumstances alter cases.” The scene changes. A fair young form is presen ted to our view, to whom Beau y hath lent her most bewitching charms. But the roses of health no longer bloom in blushing freshness upon her cheeks. The smile of joy no longer wreaths her lips in elo quent beauty. The light of love no more beams from her eyes, like faint dawnings of gloiy from an other world. The heavy hand of disappointment has forever stopped the pleasurable pulsations of that heart, and the sun of hope is blotted f**orn her sky. She was brought up amid all the splendors of u ealth. and then she was courted and caressed, while fond lovers bowed at her’ shrine, and offered up vows of eternal constancy. With all the ardor of youth, she confidingly threw herself upon the chosen of her heart’s affections, as the tender vine would cling to the firm oak for support. But when the hour o( her trial came, when fortune had ceased to smile, and other friends had fled, she found him too more insubstantial than the fleeting shadows ol night, “like the painting of a sorrow, a form with out a heart.” And now “like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished,” she hangs her head and weeps. But does he who has so grossly, so wantonly deceived her, who has crushed in their very embryo, every bud of her young hopes, shod no tear of repentance, cast back no sigh of regret. No, he still hurries on in his course of pleasure, putting to flight each rebuking phantom which conscience conjures, by the flatter ing assurance that “circumstances alter cases.” Again we find a man, whom a long life of useful ness and virtue has made worthy the admiration of the old and the imitation of the young. In the quiet retirement of private life, he has commanded the re spect and esteem of all who know him. But a change comes o’er the spirit of this dream. By a portion of his fellow citizens he is brought forward as a candi date for public office, and becomes at once an object upon which the envenomed tongue of slander may vent its utmos t fury. All the abuse and vitupera tion which envy could dictate or malice invent, are heaped upon his devoted head. His character, both public and private, is arraigned before the tribunal of public opinion, where the full measure of con demnation is u.eted out to him for all his imaginary offences. Even the inmost penetralia of his family are not secure from an invasion by this vandal horde of Party Spirit. A thousand virtues are forgotten or ignored in the wild desire of gaining an object of fac tious ambition. That ho was once honorable and virtuous all admit; but times have changed, they say, and he has changed with them. And thus it is that throughout the world, men en deavor to throw off from themselves the blame of their inconsistencies. They §top not to consider how far they are responsible for those changes in circumstances, or what influence they should prop erly have in effecting a change in their sentiments and principles. The real fact is that they only fol low the dictates of their own evil nature, and are ready to catch at any subterfuge which may afford them the shadow of an excuse. Amid a world where all is changeable, and men more than all else, our only reliance for pure, lasting happiness, must rest in that Being who is the same “yesterday, to-day and forever.” * “There’s wicked rogues in every place, Who prey upon the human race; But there is not among them all, A rogue so great as Alcohol.” Who can doubt the truth of it? Do we not see every day that Ilum is the most villianous and suc cessful of robbers? There is a man who yesterday was rich. He became intoxicated, and under the influence of this hellish, excitement, he went with reckless madness to the gambling table and lost ail. There is another whom Rum has robbed of the ne cessaries of life. Ilis wife and children in a frail tenement which scarce breaks off one blast of win try wind, perish with cold and hunger, while he drowns every other pain in the misery of beastly in toxication. Are you not convinced that he is a rob ber, when 3ou see that he has taken away wealth, comfort, and enjoyment? Go then to a yet darker scene of woe. Visit the Asylum and listen to the gibbering idiot and the howling maniac whom Rum has deprived of reason, and shut up in the realms of eternal night. Go to the gallows, and behold the condemned wretch perform the last act in the drama of human wickedness, and hear him *s ho charges upon Rum the authorship of his foul deeds. Do this, and then tell us if Alcohol be not a robber before whom all the Murrells and Shepards sink into insignificance, a tyrant at whose cruelties Robespiere might blush. * Death of an Editor. Ihe Albany Patriot records the death of Mr. J. W. Wolf, editor of that paper, on Thursday morn ing last. His late associate casts a tribute on his grave, saying he was “an intelligent, energetic and pious young man; studious to please, and yet de termined to do right. No eulogium is needed—such characters as his speak their own praise. In him the press has lost an able and gentlemanly member, Albany a good citizen, and his Church a noble pil lar and a devoted Christian.” jfir Madison Matrimonial “Conspiracy. ss An educated man once said that an individual was not considered as possessing genius unless he be ahead of the age. The boys of Madison who have always been denominated “great Boys, ” and some what rapid fellows, have, striked with one step far in advance of the age and erected an impr gnable plat form of principles abounding in matrimonial aspira tions, and anxious solicitudes for individual and so cial “happiness.” We see from the Visitor that they in “enthusiastic” convention assembled—consisting of three unmarried men, all told, firmly and indisso lubly standing collar to collar in the same matrimo nial cause —adopted a series of Resolutions, unani mouse, of which the first reads thus : “Be it therefore Resolved, That we recognize the dispensations of a wise Providence in the gilt of wo man to man; that we consider it our duty to pro mote her happiness; that it will always be our pride and pleasure to pay he the most assiduous atten tion, and, above all, we consider a union with her as the paramount social good, to which end we have united ourselves together.” Ladies of Madison, do you not feel uneasy? This “happy” association has been organized for “one end,” and that is to marry off its members to the “fairer sex.” The inference is irresistable from the Resolution that they are going to unite with you vi et armis wholus bolus cvjustandoquidem, and you are to have nothing to say in the matter. We trem ble ourself for your “happiness.” The conclusion deduced from the first Resolve is substantiated by their ninth Resolution, which reads thus: “ Resolved , That we consider it a settled maxim, that the 3'oung men of this town, like those of other places, have the right to say whether or not they shall marry, with or without love, money or niggers, as each one may decide f r himself. We infer again from the above that these How ards in Womans behalf have been unsuccessful in the artifices of love, and failing to wound the female heart with Cupid’s shaft have desperately concluded to slaughter the little “imp” and marry anyhow.— Their association they term the “A. L. A. o.”—writ ten in full should read Abandoned Lotharios Assas sinoting Cupid. The Progress of Temperance. Maine. — At a late Temperance convention, Hon. Neal Dow, in course of bis speech said, with refer ence to the reaction in Maine, that “the repeal of the law was a drawing back of the battering ram for a stronger and more effectual attack.” Massachusetts. —The Boston Telegraph is reliably informed, there are now 00 per cent more criminals in the House of Correction and jails of Worcester county than there were last year, when the anti-li quor law was enforced. Last year the law was well enforced. The increase of criminals arises mainly from the city of Worcester, where the law is now disregarded. Gov. Gardiner, who signed the present Prohibito ry Law, has been re-nominated by the American party. Rhode Island —The Providence Tribune, for the 2d of August, publishes the following: “There was a seizure of about one hundred gallons of liquor in Coventry, on Monday. It is now in the custody of the high ‘sheriff of the county. It will be, for a time at least, comparatively harmless. The liquor was sent up on the railroad. It was rumored a supply was on the way, by a different conveyance to receive tin* same attention given to the first lot.” Connecticut. —Every attempt by the opposition to repeal or amend the Prohibitory Law, at the recent session of the Legislature, was promptly voted down Says the People’s Advocate, of New Haven : “But what are the facts? Resolution after reso lution, some for the repeal of this section, and others for the modification of that, and one or more for the repeal of the entire law, were brought before the Leg : slaturc without success. The Senate did not even conic to a count in a single instance, but each petition as presented was voted down with hardly a dissenting voice. The Connecticut Prohibitory Law has handsomely stood the test of two Legislatures since its passage, and comes out of each unscathed, standing to-day upon the statute book on its own in trinsic merits, the settled policy of the State, and in decided favor with a large majority of the legal vo ters.” North Carolina. —A correspondent of the Raleigh Spirit ol the Age, writes, “Amidst opposition and predictions of our opponents, we are going ahead, in despite of all King Alcohol and his deluded sub jects can do or say.” South Carolina. —Tempoance and Prohibition have lately been agitated with considerable vigor in South Carolina. Louwana.—Rev. G. W. Evans, of Bastrop, More house Parish, writes: “We want something done in these ends of the earth, to stop the surges of burning lava which are devastating the land. Many are its victims here. 1 think if some eloquent Temperance orator could be induced to come this way and help us, lasting good might be expected.” The first barrel of whisky ever distilled in Louisi ana, was received in New Orleans on the Ist of July last. Kentucky. —The Baptists of Kentucky have adop ted the following resolution : “Resolved , That any member of this church dis tilling malt liquors, or keeping a dram shop, those breathing holes through which are wafted the dead ly tniasina of moral poison from the infernal pit, shall forfeit his membership with the church.” Ohio. —A State Temperance Alliance was organ ized on the lbth of July, with a view of an out-and out Prohibitory Law, instead of the partial measure now on the statute book. It was well attended, and a large number of counties were represented. Late returns show, that there are 100 Divisions of the Sons of Temperance in the State, numbering 5,700 contributing members. Michigan. —We learn direct from F. W. Kellogg, the veteran lecturer, now a resident merchant in Michigan, that the Prohibitory Liquor Law, lately sustained by the highest court, is doing very great good. lowa. —The inevitable efforts for repeal, have been made in the Legislature, but without success. The Senate adopted it, the House rejected it. Oregon. —The Temperance cause is advancing, and if we are allowed to judge the future by the past, the cause will soon have won the “cold water triumph.” Knnsas. —lt is the concurrent voice of all of our exchanges, who have touched the subject at all, that most of the violence and ruffianism which has scour ged this unhappy countr', grows directly out of in toxicating liquor. These drinks arc the grand stim ulating agent of this spirit of Evil; the traffic should therefore be instantly and totally abolished. A home missionary writes from Kansas as follows: “In this new territory, one of the greatest obsta cles to the spread of the Gospel, is. the alarming pre valence of intemperance. Yet Temptiance has its friend Band advocates here. Several Temperance meetings have been held, and, what is quite encour aging, tho stockholders of the ‘Manhattan Town As sociation,’ voted, at its last meeting, to instruct the. trustees to sell no Jot without a proviso in the deed, that if intoxicating drinks should be manufactured or sold on the premises, the lot or lots should revert to the original proprietor.”