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A Ravenous Alligator.
On Wednesday of this week, Josiah Fer
is and Rufenia Fales, young gentlemen
>f this place, started to Long Island, sit
late about two miles distant, for the pur-
K>se of fishing. They were engaged in
his sport when a large Alligator arose
dong side of the boat, and, as quick as
bought, dashed ahead, wheeled, turned
in his side, and clasped the bow of the
>oat between his jaws. The teeth made
jonsiderable indentures in either side.-y
Finding but little could be done in this
way, the monster gave several vigorous
shakes, tearing the bottom out of the boat
and sinking it in four foot water. As the
boat was disappearing, Fales, who was po
ling at the time, struck their antagonist
over the head, and, after securing a foot
hold on the bottom, r peated his blows
with such rapidity as to confuse the mode
of attack; finally, after manoeuvring for
some time, with mouth extended, the Al
ligator made a bold charge upon the young
men. As he advanced, Fales succeeded
in jamming the pole down his throat, and
holding him thus until Ferris, with a small
pocket-knife, was enabled to wound him
so severely as to decide the contest.
After the victory was won, a cursory
view of their position, forced upon them,
apprised them of extremedauger to which
they were exposed. In close proxmity
were five of these hideous animals, staring
at them, as though determined to make
them their prey. The captured one meas
ured 15 feet.
This conflict is remarkable for its rarity,
and the desperation with which it was char
acterized. The Alligator is supposed to
have been brought out by the recent fresh
el, from iiis home in some fresh water lake
,>r pond, where he had never seen a man
or boat, and considered it his duty to
‘‘pitch in,” to everything ho met. — Tam
pa Peninsula.
(PH©*
Country Girls.
Meta Victoria Fuller, in the Ohio Cul
tivator, in a sisterly way, thus talks to
country girls :
The farmers’ daughters are soon to be
the life as well as the pride of the country
—a glorious race of women, which no oth
er land can show. I seek not to flatter
them; for before they can become this,
they will have to make earnest efforts of
one or two kinds. There are some who
deprecate their condition, and some who
have a false pride in it, because they de
mand more consideration than they merit.
A want of intelligence upon all subjects of
the day, and of a refined education, is no
more in a country than a town-bred girl,
in this age of many books and newspapers.
Many girls discouraged because they can
not be sent away from home to boarding
schools; hut men of superior minds and
knowledge of the world, would rather have
for wives women well and properly educa
ted at home. And this education can be
had wherever the desire is not wanting.—
A taste for reading does wonders, and an
earnest thirst after knowledge is almost
certain to attend a sweet draught of the
“Pierian spring.” There is a farmer’s
daughter in this very room in which I am
writing, a beautiful, refined, and intellec
tual woman, whose girlhood books were
not as plentiful as now, and who gained
her fine education under difficulties which
would have discouraged any one bnt one
who had as true a love for study.
I will state why I think the country girls
are yet to prove the hope of this country.
The women in towns and cities are becom
ing so universally unhealthy, and so al
most universally extravagant, foolish and
fashionable, that men are almost in de
spair of obtaining wives who are not inva
lids, and of providing them with what they
demand after they have married them.—
Unless the young man has the fortune to
(good or bad) be the inheritor of wealth,
he must spend the best bloorn of his vouth
in acquiring enough to ‘start upon.”
people are expected to begin now-a-davs.
Men, even in high places, would go r.-j
the country for their choice if they met
their equal refinement and intelligence.—
Women are preparing to take a noble stand
in history, and they cannot do it in ignn
ranee. Town girls have the advantages of
more highly polished manners and greater
accomplishments; but country girls have
infinitely more to recommend them as ri
vals of their fair city sisters. They have
non- truth, household knowledge and ocon
my. health, (and consequently beauty.)
simplicity, affection, and freshness of im
nilse and thought. When they have eul
ivated minds there are more chances in
heir favor for good sense and real ability,
k cause so much is not demanded by the
Hvolities of society. The added lust re of
oreigri accomplishments could easily be
aught by such a mind, from a very little
on tact with the world.
I would not speak as though our farm*
rs’ daughters were deficient in education,
daily brilliant scholars and talcnttftl wo*
iei: may be found among them ; in New
ingland this is especially so; but I would
eek to awaken the ambition of all to be
orne that admiivd and favored class which
‘ey flight to be, if they will hut unite re
neu culture with their most excellent gra
e3. A sweet country home, with roses
ud honeysuckles trained to climb over it;
vitti good taste, intelligence and beauty
nthin ; toil enough to ensure health, and
dsure enough to court acquaintance with
ooks and liowers, and the loveliness of
ature—with peace, plenty and love, is
jrely one of tiie paradises which heaven
as left for the attainment of man.
Fashion. —Fashion is a poor vocation.—
s creed, that idleness is a privilege and
ork a disgrace, is among the deadliest er
>rs. Without depth of thought, or earn
itness of feeling, or strength of purpose,
ving an unreal life, substituting the ficti
ons fur the natural, mistaking a crowd
r society, finding its chief pleasure in ri
cule, and exhausting its ingenuity in ex
[dienls for killing time, fashion is among
e last influences under which a human
mg who respects himself, or who com
ehends the great end of life, would do
•e to be placed. — Channinq.
Asa special favor to our Democratic friends
we published in our issue preceding the last a Dem
ocratic political article, and in this issue upon the
tame grounds we publish a reply te it Eos. Cru
sjudbr.
[From the Chronicle & Sentinel.]
“Buohanan Meeting in Greene County.”
Mr. Editor:—la the Constitutionalist of the ‘2lst
Inst., headed as above, detailing the proceedings of
a Democratic meeting held in Greensboro’ last Mon
day. The writer having been absent from the coun-.
ty that day on business, proposes to review, in a
spirit of fairness and courtesy, the report of that
meeting as published. To commence with the first
sentence of the report, (which is unimportant, ex
cept as it affects the political reputation of the coun
ty abroad) he begs leave of his friend, the Secreta
ry, to join issue with him as to the “respectable por
tion” of citizens present. That those present were
“respectable” he admits—but upon the authority of
Americans and Democrats, of undisputed veracity,
he differs with the Secretary as to there being in the
meeting a “respectable portion” of our citizens. —
“Respectable,” in this connection, means considera
ble, large; or in other words, it conveys the idea
that more than a ninth part of the voters of the
county were present. Such, however, was not the
case, if we are to credit the testimony of both par
ties in the meeting. There were about a hundred
persons in this “Mass Meeting” as it had been cal
led before hand by some of its friends, and half of
them were Fillmore- men. One of the Committee
appointed “to report matter for the action of the
meeting,” is, and has been all the time, a warm
supporter of Fillmore, Another on the Central Ex
ecutive Committee was appointed against his wish
es, and lam informed is for Fillmore. Before pro
ceeding to review the “matter reported for the ac
tion of this meeting,” let me say to our friends in
other counties, that the first Tuesday in November
will find the good old Republican county of Gvoene
“light side up.” Two-thirds of the changes since
the last election are in our favor. And most of those
against us have been made by persons who say they
prefer Fillmore, but are afraid he “can’t be elected.”
But the sin of political ingratitude, on account of
the timidity of these few shall never be charged to
this my native county. Seven-ninths of her voters,
at least, (and we tjiink a much greater proportion)
will vote for the man. who while he presided over
this Republic, bared his bosom to the fury of Nor
ern fanaticism to defend our rights, and recently
told our enemies to their face that they were guilty
of “moral treason.” They will do so because they
think it te be their duty, and leave the consequen
ces to time and destiny. They are not yet sufficie'nt
ly skilled in the logic of party politics to see the
force of an argument founded upon the probable
success of candidates nor so far run in moral cow
ardice as to dread the result of being found with a
minority, even if they believed this would happen,
which by the way, they do not.
But to the report. T’he first paragraph consisting
of 23 lines, shows that there was in the mind of the
author a “pent up volcano” of words, end that in
the eruption nothing came up but party rant and one
idea, which alone merits notice. It asserts the very
novel proposition that the Cincinnati! platform em
braces “all the great conservative principles of the
old Whig party,” as well as “all the Constitutional
and National doctrines of the Democratic party*”—
Now it was generally understood throughout the
country that this Cincinnati affair was intended to
be what someone facetiously said of the nominee,
“all things to all merit;” but no one ever dreamed
before, that the Convention succeeded so far as to
blend in harmony the distinctive principles of two
great, antagonistic, political parties. Wonderful
structure! Your correspondent, being an Old line
Whig, and professing to know a little of the doc
trines of his quondam party, had been simple enough
to think that the Convention, wherever it deigned
to notice the time-honored principles of that party,
gave them “particular thunder.” No, gentlemen
of the Committee, the American, Democratic , Mac-
Whig, Buchanan, Cincinnati Convention had noth
ing in view but to cheat the people out of their votes.
The Northern delegates said, “d—n the platform, if
we can get our man.” The Southern delegates if
they did not my so, doubtless thought “and n the
man if we can get the platform, vague, indefinite,
and {filibustering, as it is.” But the trick was too
shallow. The ides of November will condemn in
tones of indignant, thunder both the nominee and
the platform. It would not be difficult to show, even
admitting the platform to be all it should be, that
Buchanan accepts it like the Irishman did his wife.
When the marriage ceremony was being performed,
the officer propounded the question, “will you take
this woman to be vour wedded wife?” he replied,
“Yie! be Janus, and the nagers too.” So when the
committee appointed to inform Buck of'his nomina
tion, asked him if he would accept the platform, his
reply, if given in the same honest language of the
Irishman, would have been, “Yis, be Jasus! and
the nomination too.”
The next paragraph opens with the following start
ling announcement: “The opposition presents a plat
form which, when shorn of its sophristy and un
meaning garbage, means nothing but destruction to
every Constitutional right which the South has.”—
What the Committee can mean by the word “gar
bage,’’ lamat a loss to divine. Webster defines the
word thus: “the bowels of an animal, refuse parts
of flesh ; offal.” If they intended to use the word
verbiage, they should have remembered tha old pro
verb, “those who live in glass houses should never
throw stonbs.” For the only striking characteristic
of their report is its verbosity. Besides, the plat
form they censure, if they have no other merits, is
remarkable for its conscientiousness and certainty.
But they complain that the 12th Section of last
year’s platform is gone. A part of that Committee
has no right to complain of that, because they said
last year that section was unsound. The others have
equally as little right, because, if the Council of Feb
ruary last were to be censured for failing to pass
precisely the same resolutions that the Council of
June, 1855, passed, then they should not have as
sembled—because, according to the reasoning of
these model n logicians, one set of resolutions is suf
ficient for a centurv.
As little faith as ! have in party platforms, and as
firmly convinced as 1 am of the necessity, in this
alarming crisis, of selecting for our rulers i.en of
known ability and tried integrity, yet to satisfy these
sticklers for platforms, let 113 see if this much abus
ed Philadelphia Council adopted nothing in lieu of
the celebrated 12th Section, equally as Southern and
American as anything to be found in the Cincinnati
omnibus. The Philadelphia Council of February,
(which, by the way, was not the body that nomi
nated Mr. Fillmore,) adopted as its 7th section “the
recognition of the right of the notice horn end nat
uralized citizens of the United States, permanently
residing in any Territory thereof, to form their Con
stituion and laws, and to regulate their domestic
and social affairs in their own mode, subject only to
the provisions of the Federal Constitution, with the
privilege of admission into the Union whenever they
have the requisite population for one Representative
in Congress. Provided , always, that none but those
who are citizens of the United States under the Con
stitution and laws thereof and who ’nave a fixed res
idence in any such Territory, ought to participate
in the formation of the Constitution, or in the enact
ment of laws for said Territory or State.”
Now I assert without any fear of a successful con
tradiction, that no one, who is i ot a Freesoiler or
an advocate of squatter sovereignty and alien suffrage,
can urge a valid objection, either to the doctrine, or
certainty of meaning of ,this section. And I chal
lenge the world to snow a sentence in the whole
platform where it pretends to shadow forth a line
of utuie policy that is hostile to'the interests of the
bouth. lhe only thing offensive to the most sensi
-11 vs Southern ear is the opinion expressed that the
re-opening of the slavery agitation by the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise, was unwise. This refers
to the past alone. And so far as we jire furnish
ed with any opinion of the Council as to their
views in reference to future policy on this subject
there is strong evidence that they did not wish to
restore the Missouri Compromise. Why, it is a part
of the history es their proceedings, that a portion of
the body seceded for the simple reason that they re
fused to adopt a resolution favoring a restoration of
the Missouri Compromise. Resides this view of the
platform, Mr. Fillmore, in his Rochester speech,
gives unmistakeable evidence that he is opposed to
its restoration. But if he had not- said a word on
the subject, every one acquainted with his eminent
ly conservative character, and hi#utter aversion to
seetionabstrife, must be satisfied that, knowing as
he must,-that the restoration of this Missouri re
striction would ren§ this Union into fragments, he
would be the last man in the natiou to favor the
movement, and the very first and foremost to frown
it down.
But two other ideas of any note are embraced in
this voluminous and verbose report. The one is a
partisan censure of Mr. Fillmore’s antecedents, the
other fulsome praise of Mr. Buchanan’s. “Oh,
shame! where is thy blush?” We are told in one
of the resolutions that “a largo portion of the meet
ing were old line Whigs.” Well, my old Whig
friends, you endorsed Mr. Fillmore in 1848, when
all his bad antecedents had been enacted. Since
then, the whole country, (abolitionists excepted)
endorsed his administration. And so high was the
appreciation of the merits of that administration,
that the nation witnessed the unprecedented fact,
that his political opponents in Congress had the
magnanimity to testify publicly to h : s ability, pat
riotism and integrity. You refer to “his puling in
decision” in the fugitive slave case in Boston. You
cannot wipe out the glory that gathers around the
history of that case by your ungenerous censure. —
The whole country knows with What a thrill of de
light every patriot’s heart was electrified, when his
memorable response to the enquiry of the mar-hall
who was resisted by the mob, “what must I do ?”
went trembling upon the magnetic wires with light
ning speed : “Do your duty—if you need assistance,
call to your aid the United States troops.” And this
was “puling indecision!” Oh! justice, where art
thou fled !
But I will take up the charges in their order,
with only a sentence in reply to each, putting their
charge in quotation marks, and my vindication im
mediately after. “His proclamation against the Cu
ban patriots; because it was in accordance with an
undisputed law of his country, which he had sworn
to support. “His pardoning and remitting the fine !
of some Negro-stealers in the District of Columbia;”
because they had been fined only $l5O, and had
been in prison so long that their expenses to the
District quadrupled the fine, and the prosecutors
and citizens generally petitioned for their pardon,
which he did not even then grant, without first con- |
suiting his Attorney General, Mr. Crittenden. “His i
quibbling hesitancy in signing the Fugitive Slave j
bill.” What the Committee arc pleased to term ;
“quibbling hesitancy,” candor would characterize
as thorough investigation. And as he would have
been entitled to little or no credit, if he had approv
ed it without considering its provisions carefully, so
he deserves all honor for endorsing it aft r a studi
ous investigation. But my heart sickens at this un
fair party tirade of abuse. 1 come now to their
praise of their candidate. And as I shall confine
these thoughts merely to a review, of course 1 shall
not attempt to portray Mr. Buchanan’s objectionable
antecedents, only in the instances enumerated by
the Committee as praiseworthy. And first, I enter
my solemn protest against his being called the ‘wor
thy compeer of Clay.” I wonder that any of his
supporters can have the boldness, (not to say un
blushing effrontery) to mention his name in connec
tion with the immortal Clay, whose slanderers, to
say the very least we can, he aided and abetted in
their dark crime of calumny. But they say “in 18,-
37 he voted lor Mr. Calhoun’s famous resolutions.”
Mr. Charles Irving, a -warm supporter now of Buc
hanan, published an article before the meeting of
the Cincinnati Convention-, in which he proved, by
reference to the Congressional Globe, that Mr. Buc
nanan opposed all those resolutions of Mr. Calhoun
of any importance to the South. So much for the
truth of that assertion by the Committee.
But he “voted for the annexation of Texas!” Yes,
he did with a protest that it was to furnish an outlet
for slavery to pass off from the country.
“In 1847 he sustained the Clayton Compromise.”
Yes he did, and Mr. A. H. Stephens proved conclu
sively to ray mind, and, doubtless, to the minds of
a majority of this same committee, in one of the
most unanswerable arguments I ever read, that the
Clayton Compromise completely excluded the South
from all the territory it covered.
Now as to Buchanan’s support of the Kansas-Ne
braska act, he is entitled to no great credit for that.
For to say the best for him we can, his position
was at least very doubtful on that question, until he
found it necessary to come out openly for it to se
cure his nomination.
But, my friends, why did you not go on and laud
your candidate for the assertion that he considered
slavery a great “moral and political evil,” and after
you were through with his slave record, why did
you not endorse his Ostend Manifesto, and the filli
busteringjoZafti- ol the platform of the Cincinnati Con
vention ? “I pause for a reply.”
August 23d, 1856. Republican.
IS ROOM & \ORREL L,
DEALERS IN
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS.
JTO. 238 BROAD-STREET,
AIGTSTA, GA.
J. .f. BROOM. j W. O. XORRF.LL.
Sept. 6, 1856. 35
PHILLIP If. ROBINSON.
ATT OKNEY AT LA W .
Greenesboro, Ga.
Will practice iu the counties of Greene, Morgan, Putnam, Ogle
thorpe, Taliaferro, Hancock, Wilkes Dd Warren.
July 5,1856 26
Ell WARREN. PETEK S. lIOMPHKIES,
WARREN & HIMPHEJES,
ATTOII NE Y S A T LA W .
* PERRY, , GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Macon, Sostli-western and
Southern Circuits. Feb 2—4
DENTISTRI.
Dr. B. B. Alford, would respectfully inform
his patrons and friends in Greene County, who have
solicited his services, that he will arrange his pro
fessional business, so as to spend a small part of his
time, during the summer months, in the County.
The experience in twelve years practice, with the
opportunity he has had within the year past in vis
iting Northern cities, for getting all the late improve
ments, enables him to say, that his work in either
branch of the profession will be inferior to none.
Assisted by his copartner, Rev. I. M. Johnson of
Alabama, a Dentist of high standing. Feb 23-7
Dr. Ifrrrojs having long received a liberal pat
ronage from his numerous friends throughout this
community, together with various calls from a dis
tance, begs leave to tender his thanks to all whom
it may concern; wishing them to remember that he
continues at his old stand, near Pcnfield.
Having associated with him D. 11. Herron, in the
practice of Medicine, in its various branches, is now
more fully prepared to attend to chronic cases at a
distance, upon the same liberal terms that he has
done for several years, namely : any person who be
ing afllicted with any form of disease, that will write
out their symptoms, and inclose therewith five dol
lars, and send the same to our address, will receive in
return, medicine and directions to suit their case, for
one month. Many persons have been treated and
cured upon this plan, with a great saving to the af
flicted; some of them living from 50 to over 100
miles, numbers of whom wc have never seen, while
we have had the consolation of meeting others after
their convalescence.
The undersigned has been closely engaged in the
practice for more than 20 years, adhering strictly to
the use of sanative remedies w hich are used in the
Reformed Practice; having had much experience in
the treatment of female diseases peculiar to this cli
mate - D. HERRON, M. D.
Penfteld, Greene county, Ga., April 2d, 1850.
N. B. Almost every person wishing to apply for
our remedies can have their symptoms written out
by making application to their family Physician.
6m!4 D. H.
Cjie Cratperanct (fasakr.
PENFIELD, GEORGIA.
Saturday Morning, September 20, 1856.
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 he accompanied with the
cash to receive attention.
Stop Papers.—Settle Arrearages.
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.
i JSF” Our friend from Elbert, who sent us the de
scription of the terrible wild beast seen by him, will
please excuse us for not publishing it until wa have
the full account.
Some unknown friend has furnished us with
a copy of an address delivered at the Commence
ment of Cherokee Baptist College, by Rev. A. E.
Marshall. It is entirely unworthy of Mr. Marshall’s
reputation for natural abilities and high scholarly at
tainments. We have seldom seen such sad havoc
made of the “King’s English.”
s3§f“ We learn from a private letter that at the
late term of the Superior Court of Taliaferro county,
j Pierce Bailey was convicted of manslaughter, and
I sentenced to the Penitentiary. An appeal has been
I made by his counsel fora new trial, which will prob
i ably ba granted.
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; g3§r° Some men, either from a fondness for pro
i claiming their own shame, or a desire to acquire
| newspaper notoriety, sometimes publish their wives
j as ihey would a stray Horse or a runnaway Slave.—
j W<? would request all such to favor some other pa
per with their patronage in this line. We consider
! such notices inconsistent with the objects and aims
of our Caper, and henceforth we will publish none
on any condition whatever. *
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Attention! Attention!!
We invite special notice to our Advertising col
urns this week, and particularly to our Augusta Ad
vertisements.
Messrs. Br&ome & Nokkell, are well supplied
with anew” arid splendid Stock of Cheap Dry Goods.
Geo. W. Ferry, is prepared to furnish every va
riety and size of Craniums with the most fashiona
ble and elegant style of Hat. Cap or “Bonnet.”
C. A. Platt & Cos., keep a spacious and exten
sive Furniture Establishment, in which any and all
articles of furniture for Domal purposes may be
found ; and of tho handsomest and most durable ar
chitectnre.
Court Week.
The September Term of our Superior Court pass
ed off last week. There was an immense amount of
business on tho docket, and it occupied the entire
week in executing it. The trial of the two Wrays
for the killing of Wood came off, and resulted in the
conviction of but one, Wiley Wray. We believe
Sentence was not pronounced on him, because ofhis
Council appealing to the Supreme Court for anew
trial.
True Bills were found against quite a number of
“short-card-players,” and we learn some of them
swore they didn’t know the “queen of clubs,” from
the “ace of spades.”
The people turned out in large numbers to the
Capitol; on Tuesday, the Hon. Robert Toombs ad
dressed them on the political issues before the coun
try, in behalf of Buchanan, and on Wednesday the
Hon. N. G. Foster addressed them in behalf of Fill
more. So far as wo could judge, we concluded that
stump oratory produces very little impression upon
the people of this county. We have never known,
in a political campaign, so much decision among
the masses, (wc speak of Greene county) all seem to
be fully posted and familiar with trie routine of Stale
charges adduced against the several candidates.—
We trust the day is coming just ahead, when the
common people shall spurn as reproachful insinua
tions the flummery of demagogues, and assert their
own mental independence —Think for themselves.
Fledgeling Politicians.
There is no national event in republican Govern
ments so revolt’ng to the moral sensibilities of the
truly conservative, religious, conscientious, and hon
est patriots, as political campaigns. Truth, virtue,
and honesty, at the opening scenes arc offered up as
hohj sacrifices to Mercury; slanderous tongues de
fame the fair names of ali who dare entertain con
trary opinions; the lowest ribaldry and darkest slan
ders are not too defiling to enter the mouth of the
“honest demagogue .” These evils increase with each
successive campaign, and the present one certainly
supercedes all others in the subversion of the holier
attributes of the human race. It also surpasses all
others in the number of its politicians. We are
struck with “fear and trembling” when we observe
so manv precocious, fledgeling spranlx attempting to
wrest the government from the shoulders of the
more experienced, and placing it upon their Hercu
lean frames. Every ‘ upstart ’ catches a few bold as
sertions and empty sounding phrases from some po
litical thimblerigger or “ten-pen-ha-penny” sheet,
and forthwith he essays to instruct, to lead, and ad
vise the populus; young “limbs” of the Law whose
first, business should be to become acquainted with
their profession, desert their calling and set them
selves up as guides for the w'andering multitudes.
The} all become political Aenenses bearing their fa
ther Atichises through the “fiery ordeal to the Ex
ecutive Mansion. “O, my countr} r , whither driftest
thou?”
Book Table.
Xorth British Review, received. Table of contents
as follows:
1. The Ottoman Empire; 11. Christian Missions;
HE Literary Tendencies in France; IV. Holland,
its Martyrs and Heroes; V. Samuel Rogers and his
Times; VI. The Microscope and its Revelations;
VTI. Memoirs of Frederi k Perthes: VIII. The Cri
mean Campaign.
Arthur's Home Magazine. This excellent family
journal is always punctual in its appearance. Pi ice
#3 per year.
Woodworth's Youth's Cabinet , always preserves
its established character of attractive simplicity.
Published in New York, at $1 a year.
Credit your Selections.
We are sorry to have again to complain of our
editorial Brethren, for mistreatment in this respect.
We are at some pains to get up our editorials, and
it gives us no pleasure to see them going, like stray
waifs, without any acknowledged parentage. Will
our friend of the “Age,” he so kind as to inform his
readers that the article, “Oh what a Bad Report”
which lately appeared in his editorial columns, was
a selection taken from the “Crusader?”
Personalities.
We are sometimes asked if we did not intend this
or that article for such and such an one. To all
such inquiries we answer no. We think all such
would be out of place and calculated to do injury
rather than good. We draw not upon our knowl
edge of persons , but of human nature generally,
and though this is very imperfect, what we say may
apply to many; we hope to very many. But we
shall never seek to bring before the public the char
acter of an individual, save as he is the representa
tive of a class.
This disposition to suppose personal, things that
were never intended as such is very prevalent among
men. If they would think and act rightly it would
be well were it more so. All men are full of faults,
and no greater favor can he done than to point them
out, that they may be corrected. When then a
man, reads an article or hears a discourse, which
seems aimed at the errors and follies of his life, he
should profit by the instruction, and instead of be
ing offended by the personality, should be thankful
for the kindness which has done him so great
service. Tn this manner he w ill relieve himself from
much uneasiness and anxiety; for greater wretched
ness cannot be imagined than that of him who con
scious of'his own faults, supposes every one equal
ly well acquainted with them.
Beautiful Nights.
We have had, for parts of last and the present
week, a succession of charmingly beautiful nights.
The moon, in the full meridian of her glory, almost
rivalled the day star in splendor, while not a cloud
fleckered the heavens to mar her loveliness. Her
rays rest in delightful softness, revealing and height
ening every charm. The evening breeze steals gent
ly through the forest boughs, while their leaves sil
vered by the moon beams, sparkle in gii.iering light.
Amid a scene of so much beauty, what a volume of
sweet, grand poetry rushes upon the soul. It comes
in a tide too deep, profound, overwhelming for ut
terance, but diffuses a wild agitated pleasure over
the whole spirit. Many a passage in which impas
sioned bards poured forth their feelings amid such
scenes is brought to mind. How I.r thfully beauti
ful is that charming description penned by the fa
ther of Poets three thousand years ago:
“As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night,
O’er heaven’s clear azure spreads her sacred light,
When not a breath disturbs the deep serene,
And not a cloud o’ercasts the solemn scene;
Around her throne the vivid planets roll,
And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole,
O’er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed,
And tip with silver every mountain’s head;
Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise,
A flood of glory bursts from all the skies.”
Or that still more exquisite one from “the Siege
of Corinth,” the happiest effort of Byron’s Muse:
“ ’Twas midnight—On the mountains brown
The cold round moon shone deeply down
Blue rolled the waters, blue the sky
Spread like an ocean hung on high ;
Bespangled with those isles of light,
So widely, spiritually bright.
A ho ever gazed upon them shining,
And turned to earth without repining?
The sea on either shore lay there,
Calm, clear, and azure as the sky;
And scarce the foam the pebbles shook,
That murmured meekly as the brook.
The winds were pillowed on the waves;
The banners drooped along their staves;
And that deep silence was unbroke,
Save where the watch his signal spoke;
Save where the steed neighed oft and shi ill,
And echo answered from the hill.”
The secret springs of Memory’s casket too, are
touched and display - rich treasures of long forgotten
joys. Moments of pleasure, which Time has long
since buried in the past, rise up to the mind in un
aiinmed distinctness, and is “like the harp of Caryl,
sweet but mournful to the soul.” Faces once dear
and familiar come round to greet u.s. And as we
gather around us a congregation of absent friends, a
deep solemnity steals over us; that solemnity as of
“one who treads alone, some banquet hall deserted.”
<s—
:‘Jes’ as Natural. 15 - Madison Club,
The lugubrio-politico-raatrimonal club of Madison
having intimated to the world and the “rest of man
kind” and to all womankind in particular, that they,
having been unsuccessful in their matrimonial aspi
rations, intended to ‘consolidate’ with the fairer sex
ar y-how-not-with-sianding-be-it-as-it-may, we en
treat them in the ladies behalf to relinquish their
ideas of violence; and we give them below an exem
plary courting collocution of a “Down Easter,” and
if they will adopt it as their tattle text, we will in
sure each member overwhelming success—provided
—he attachs the same genus of a feminine.
SCENE NO. I.
“Jonathan Joes you love boiled beef and dump
ling ?”
“Dang’d if l don’t Mary, bu: a hot dmuplin’ ain’t
nothin’to your sweet, purty, nice red lips, Mary.
“O, la, go away Jonathan.”
SCENE NO. 11.
“Jonathan, did you read that story about the man
as was hugged to death by the bar ?”
“Guess l did, Mary, and it did make me feel so
bad.”^
“Why, how did you feel, Jonathan?”
“Kinder sorter as if I’d like to hug you almost to
death tew, you tarnal. nice, plump, elegant little crit
ter you, Mary.”
“O, la! go away you, Jonathan.”
SCENE NO 111.
“Ah, Mary, you are sich a slick gal, heigho!”
“La! ain’t you ashamed, Jonathan.”
“T wish I was a ribbon, Mary.”
“What for, hey?”
“Cos, maybe you’d tie me round that nice, pretty
neck ofyour’n, and I should like to be, dang’d if I
wouldn’t.”
“O, la! go away, you Jonathan.”
SCENE NO IV.
“Ah ! Jonathan, I heard something about you.”
“La ! now Mary, you don’t say so.”
“Yes, indeed, that I did, and a great many said it
too.”
“La, now, what was it, Mary?”
“0, dear, I can’t tell you.” (Turning away her
head.)
“0, la, do now.”
“Oh no, I can’t.” •
“Oh yes, Mary.”
“La, me, Jonathan, you do pester a body so.”
“Well, do please tell me, Mary.”
“\Y ell, I heard that, that—oh, I can’t tell you.”
“Oh, yes, couie now, do.” (Taking her hand.)
“Well, I didn’t say it; but I heard that—
“ What?” (Putting an arm around her waist.)
“Oh, don’t squeeze me so! I heard that —that—
(turning her full blue eyes upon Jonathan’s) that
you and I were to be married, Jonathan!
A profitable Investment. —ls you would save twen
ty dollars in physicians’ feeß, and twice that amount
in time, buy a dollar bottle of Perry Davis’ Pain Kil
ler for family uae; you will never regret it
Are there Giants in these days ?
One might very reasonably suppose so, who reads
and believes all the puffs which are continually put
forth from the press, and from every source, whence
they can possibly proceed. The language of hyper
bole is employed by all classes, in writing, speaking,
and common conversation. Puffing is reduced to a
regulai Science., and has become so general that it
has, to a great extent. In t all its force. There are
persons who seem to make it their business to praise
everybody, and everything which comes within the
range of their observation. This spirit is more
praiseworthy than that which causes an indiscrimi
nate condemnation, but it is not a commendable one.
Praise bestowed where it is not deserved, may be
an advantage to an individual, but it is ever an in
jury to society. It is in this manner, that the vast
system ofhumbuggevy has been produced, and fo?_
tered until it is now one of the characteristics of the
age.
There is one style of puffing, which is very amus
ing, perhaps not very injurious. At all of our school
examinations, college commencements, or political
meetings, someone of the many visitors feels moved
by some straggling spirit of inspiration, to record
in the columns of a newspaper the glories of the oc
casion. His brain is forthwith put to the torture,
and in the course ol a week produces an article g’it
tering with all the tinsel glare of rhetoric. Graceful
figures and highflown expressions dance through if.
in the most beautiful confusion. Everything is mag
nified and intensified by his diseased vision. Every
boyish effort is exaggerated into an exhibition of
the most masterly genius, displaying great depth of
thought, and polish of style. All do well., exceed*
ly well, so that envy or prejudice alone could draw
a distinction. Each speaker is a young 1 lemoethenes
in the fervent power of his eloquence, a Calhoun in
the mastery of a profound logic, an Isaiah, in the
wild seraphic fire of imagination. All this sounds
remarkably well, and looks beautiful in print. But
we cannot help trembling for the fate of the world,
when this host of geniuses shall be turned loose up
on it at once. Surely it will not be able to hold the
even tenor of its way when these intellectual giants
take the management, of affairs.
But listen to the Reporter from some grand bar
bacnc or political mass meeting. He has just re
turned, and has not fully recovered from the excite
ment which it produced. lie is in a perfect fever
of agitation; his hand trembles as he grasps the pen
to indite his burning thoughts, and it is by the great
est efforts that he “bridles in his struggling muse
with pain.” There was, says he, a large audience,
great enthusiasm, and the very best speaking to
which he ever had the pleasure of listening. It
cheered the drooping, confirmed the doubting, and
sent terrible dismay into the ranks of the enemy.—
Each orator was a Goliah, with a weapon more pon
derous than a weavers beam, every argument “a
tower of strength” to which the multitude may trust
with the ulmost security. In ail the pride of his
heart he exclaims,
“Oh, such a ua}-,
So fought, so followed, and so fairly won,
Came not till now, to dignify the times
Since Caesar’s fortunes.”
Were there giants in those days? will probably
be asked by the future antiquarian, as he patiently
delves among the records of these times. Where
are those names which shone out so brilliantly among
them? Did those minds which gave such bright
promises of future greatness, remain forever unde
veloped; or were they kept down by the force of
malice and envy? These are questions which might
baffle ail his powers to answer, if he does not know
what we do, that all this that we daily hear and
read, is mere frothy sound, soon to pass away, and
“like an insubstantial fabric faded, leave not a rack
behind.” *
Female Chivalry.
A dangerous and bloody fight came off about 6
o’clock yesterday 7 afternoon, between two tipsy Am
azons, on Philadelphia street, in which a Mrs. Dur
rnet had her head badly cut by a brickbat in the
hands of Rosanna Doogan. The whole population
of this noted locality were out to see the fun, and
the crowd immediately about the scene of action was
immense. When we arrived, the wounded woman
was lying in the street with her head and face cov
ered with blood, and the one who dealt the fearful
blow was standing near by, in a frenzy of drunken
passion, addressing the crowd, with her uncombed
hair streaming in the wind, and her bloody hands
extended in violent and excited gesticulation.
The w 7 ounded one was placed upon a cart and
conveyed to the hospital, while two of the police
seized the perpetrator of the bloody deed by the
arms, and hurried her away to the Guard House.—
She appeared before the Mayor this morning, some
what cooled down, and improved in her appearance,
and after a hearing, was sent to the House of Cor
rection, to await the result of the cruel deed. It
appears that the parties were both drunk, and en
gaged in a hand-to-hand fight, with whatever wea
pons they could pick up. Mrs. Doogan exhibited
to the Court a sear on the head which she received
during the melee. This should teach them both a
lesson, but it is doubtful whether they profit by it,
as they are probably too old and hardened to learn
now.
\v c take the above from the Local columns of the
C harleston News. Who can read it without being
convinced of the foul, debasing nature of the Liquor
traffic? No class of society is freed from its destruc
tive influence. That woman sutlers from it everv
were, beyond all expression or description is too well
known ; but what painful emotions does the contem
plation of the above picture excite. A man under
the influence of strong drink, is a savage, a brute,
baser than the foul reptile which creeps the earth ;
woman becomes a fiend, before whom the Erinnys
would shrink affrighted. That men who daily w it
ness exhibitions of Rum’s power to waste and de
stroy 7 the human being, both body and soul, should
still give their aid to uphold this traffic, is an incon
sistency which nought but the most perverse bigot
ry could produce.
But this is only one of the many instances which
are daily occurring. Wc might take several such
paragraphs from every number of a Tri-weekly pa
per, and all of our chief cities might publish a reg
ister of vice, crime and misery, equally- dark.
\cai aftei year, immense drains are made upon the
honest and industrious portion of society to afford
, rotcction against these pests which the dramshop
creates. Why do they not rise up in their strength
and demand that protection from law to which they
are entitled?
The following is 1 oin another column of the same
paper.
Four women were arrested last evening in a house
in Gumming street near Calhoun, at the suggestion
of the neighbors (or quarrelling and fighting, and
keeping a disorderly house. Two of the faces were
very familiar at Court, the other two being more of
strangers. They were taken in the noise and confu
sion of a general row, partaking something of the
nature of a miscellaneous free tight, in which only
ihe occupants and invited guests were allowed to
take a hand. Two negro men were present as spec
tators, and a white man received a severe cut on the
head, but succeeded in making his escape. lie was
tracked some distance by thxs blood, but his rapid
(light and final escape prevented an examination of
Ins wound, or any definite knowledge of its extent
or character.
Two of these women were married, ono was awi-