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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. - ; 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. * —O 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-