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The subjoined poem may strike some read
ers as not being entirely original. -A greater mis
take could not possibly be made. We, at least have
never seen anything like it any where, and who has,
let him point it out. — Knickerbocker.
The night has come, but not too soon :
Westward the star of Empire takes its way ;
Ye banks and braes o’ Bonnie Doon!
Blue spirits and white, black spirits and grey.
Rocked in the cradle of the deep,
Old Caspars work was done;
Piping on hollow reeds to his pent sheep,
Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley on !
There was a sound of revelry by night,
On Linden when the sun was low ;
A voice replied far up the height,
Tall oaks from little acorns grow!
What if a little rain should say,
I have not loved the world, nor the world me;
Ah ! well a day!
Woodman, spare that tree !
My heart leaps up with joy to sec,
A primrose by the water’s brim;
Zacchcus, he did climb the tree;
Few of our youth could cope with him.
The prayer of Ajax was for light,
The light that never was on sea or shore;
Pudding and beef make Britons fight,
Never more!
Under a spreading chrsnut tree,
For hours the gither sat;
I and my Annable Lee;
A man’s a man for a’ that.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air,
In thunder, lightning, or in rain ;
None but the brave deserve the fair.
Tell inc not in mournful number,
The child is father to the man;
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber,
Thev can conquer who believe they can.
A change came o’er (he spirit of my dream ;
Whatever is, is right;
And things are not what they seem ;
My native land good night!
Dresg.
This is ft subject of great importance to
ladies. TTow many spend one-half of their
time, in dressing for the other half? llow
many spend sleepless nights, and anxious
days, over dress ? How much malice, en
vy, and uncharitableness, is caused by
dress? ITow many bitter tears, and taunt
ing sneers are produced l>v dress? Amer
ican ladies are, like tbe lilies of the field,
“they toil not, neither do they spin, and
yet Solomon, in all his glory, was not ar
rayed like one of these.”
We are led to this subject, by the elab
orate, and gorgeous dressing now being
displayed at our watering places. In walk
ing with a gentleman, at the Montgomery
White Sulphur, we observed a par ty of la
dies, dressed in trailing sdk robes, with
costly fringe upon each flounce, climbing
up the rugged steep of a mountain. We
turned to him and said, how much sweeter
a gingham shirt, and basque, would look
in that position, and how much more beau
tifully it would harmonize with the bats
the ladies wore, and the picturesque land
scene by which they were Af
ter making this fine speech, we saw the
gentleman smile significantly. Wherenp
on, this good adage recurred to us—wo
give it in the last new style. “Those who
reside in tenements composed of the vit
reous material, should not project parti
cles of granite.” In short, dear readers,
to confess the truth, we ourself, were walk
ing among the rugged Alloghanies, in a
fbin tissue berage. with light purple floun
ces, with satin stripes, on which were the
most delicious flowers ! But. it wan late in
the afternoon, and we had not the strength
of mind, not to be dressed at that hour !
Is there nothing, absolutely nothing, that
can put a stop to American extravagance
in dress!
One lady at the Montgomery Springs
brought only two hundred dresses ! Anoth
er. modestly confessed that she had but
seventy-five I Still we, and all others must
admire muslins, straw hats, simple basques,
and such things, among the mountains.—
We pity the silks, only woven for marble
balls, when they are displayed, and ruined
forever, in the bustling dining rooms, and
dewy walks of the Virginia Springs. Now.
we propose one thing, that silks shall he
out of order in the mountains. We pro
pose a society of dress reformers, to lu*
organized now, and adopt their resolutions
for next season. Let the wealthy Virginia
ladies, those refined, and sterling descen
dants of the old cavaliers, who frowned
upon the fancy dresses, and refused to pat
ronize Lola Monfez, who scorned Kossuth
and never thought it an honor to kiss Hen
ry Olay, let them unite, and oppose the
terrible extravagance of female dress, now
getting beyond all reason, and all bounds.
Let them seek the mountains of the Old
Dominion, with their friends and children,
Mid let them some only with wardrobes
adapted to the climate, and the healthful
exercises in which they should indulge.—
And if Mrs. Sucli-an-one does spend thou
sands in a season, and attract all eyes by
the costliness of her apparel, is that any
reason why Virginians should forget their
own mother wit, and plunge into excesses
at which their distinguished ancestors would
sneer ? We should like to see a stout pha
lanx of Virginia dames with their sons and
daughters, deliberately turn their backs
n j on the whole set of hundred dollar silks,
instead of supinely courting their smiles,
ami exaggerating their fortunes.
Speaking of fortunes. Surely there was
never as much wealth in our old State be
fore. Haifa million is about the average
of fortunes, we believe, this summer. And
many a Virginian has counted half a mil
lion, and been sadly disappointed in the
Tent- roll, \vu dare say.
Our readers must read what we write,
and, if possible, act upon it. Like all our
sex, vvt- are somewhat given to dressing—
still we admire simplicity, and like a great
many others, wish we had the strength of
mind to consult our means, and our taste,
rather than some, monstrous fashion in our
dress. Who will he the first woman to
contrent the tyrant fashion, and sav she
.shall no longer rule over ns? Where is
Hie young, wealthy, beautiful, and popn
lnr Virginian, who will do this thing?—
Oh ! with what a burst of Applause this
pen should hail the lovely wou*&p ? who
with that modesty so becoming to her sex,.
under all circumstances, should dethrone
the tyrant Fashion, and place Reason in
her place!
Service at the North.
The following is an extract of a letter
from a gentleman of Memphis, who has re
cently returned from a Northern tour, with
his family :
You ask me with much solicitude about
Marion. It was a risk I acknowledge to take
her on ; hut my wife had confidence in her
and insisted that she should he trusted.—
She was approached at every place we
made a stop at, with offers of freedom, a
white husband, plenty of money, and oth
er temptations ; but she invariably replied,
that she was well treated and happy; that
she had a kind master and mistress, whose
children she loved as her own; and that
she wished nothing better than to spend
the rest of her life with such protectors.
At Niagara, New York, Long Branch,
Cape May, Philadelphia, Newport, and
other places, she was tempted in every
way possible, by white girls, and tree ne
groes, but she invariably communicated to
her mistress, within a half hour afterwards
every word that was said to her.
She asked the white girl who approach
ed her in New York, “How much money
she was paid per month?” ‘Six dollars per
month,’ was the reply. “What time do
you go to bed, and what time do you get
up?” said Marion. ‘We retire at eleven
or twelve, and arise at three or four,’ was
the answer. Addressing herself to one of
the girls, ‘What number of rooms do you
clean up?’ ‘Fourteen, 5 was the reply. ‘lf
you get sick who attends you?’ ‘The doc
tor, to be sure.’ ‘Who pays the doctor?’—
‘We do, ourselves.’ ‘lfyou happen to have
no money, who pays the doctor then?”
‘Now,’ said Marion to the white girls,
‘I prefer to return to the South, and liv -
with my master. When I get sick, he pays
the doctor to attend to me—he gives un
clothes and board that comes to a good
dual more than six dollars per month, and
it you wish me to leave rny master and
mistress, yon must otter better induce
ments than I have yet seen—for, to t 11
the truth, I never knew what real hard la
bia- was, till I saw it among the free per
sons of the North during my short trip
here.” *
The consequence of all this. us you have
idna-iy conjectured, is that Marion is now
with us, delighted to place her feet again
upon slave territory, and happy that she
is not a white servant girl of the North!
The Miser’s Frayer.
O thou well beloved and all-powerful do)
lar; we come to prostrate ourselves before
thee, to pay our devotions at thy shrine.
We acknowledge that thou art the source
of all ‘ ur enjoyments in this life—and of
all that we can hope for in that to come.—
Our heart’s best affections are centered in
thee, and in thee do we delight—for thee
we sacrifice every finer sensibility of our
nature—for thee we pass toilsome days and
sleepless nights; for thee we become aliens
from the comforts of home, and the kind
ly enjoyments of society—for thee we wil
iin-;ly sacrifice our own comforts and that
f o’iure, diligently following the meanest
practices to secure thine all-powerful favor.
For thee we grind the face of the ]<>■ r, keep
hack the hire of those who serve us. exact
the utmost farthing from the widow and
latherless, drive the gray-haired beggar
fioin our doors, and spurn the infant child
that solicits bread at our hands. For thee
wo are guilty of every mean and dishon
orable action, for thee we pierce ourselves
*‘tlirough with many sorrows.” ami sacri
fice our hope of eternal life and everlast
ing inheritance.
To thee we look for comfort when the icy
hand of death shall fuel after our heart
strings. Forsake us not when our grey hairs
come wiih dishonor to the grave ; when
those, we have wronged—the orphans, the
destitute an i forlorn—shall invoke curses
on our hoary heads. To thee we look for
consolation when the terrors of the great
vengeance, day snail stare us in the face;
when the canker of our ill-gotten and close
lv-ho.mied gold and silver shall eat onr
flesh, “as it were fire;” when the cries of
im se who have “reaped down onr fields,”
am! whose hire Ims boon kept back by fraud
ami shall have entered into the “ears of
the Lord of Sabbath.”
Even now, there is with us, a “certain
fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery
imlignal’on that shall devour the adversa
ries and we are forced to invoke to our
aid the memory of all the millionares of
past time to keep us true to our purpose of
loving thee, ami thee only.
O then great dollar, who hast rescued
the greatest villians of past time out of the
hands of justice, save us from the hands
of the final Judge. Forsake us not we pray
thee, for it is our determination to he faith
ful unto death, ami then—the judgment!
Tiie Judgment! Onr heart sinks within
us at the thought! The course of justice
is turned by the mighiy influence now, hut
will it avail in the coming day, and with
the spotless Judge? O Almighty Dollar,
hear us, hear us, for all onrtrust is in thee!
Amen
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A Poor Man’s Wish.
1 asked a student what three things lie
most wished.
He said, “give me books, health and qui
et, and I tale for nothing more.”
I asked a miser, and lie cried “Money,
money, money !”
I asked a pauper, and he faintlv said
“Bread, bread, bread !”
I asked a drunkard, and he loudly call
ed for strong drink.
I asked the multitude around me, and
they lifted up a confused cry, in which 1 ‘
heard the words “wealth, fame and plea- ‘
sure.” ]
I asked a poor man, who had long borne
the character of an exemplary Christian,
he replied that all his wishes could be met
in Christ. He spoke seriously, and I ask
ed him to explain. He said, “I greatly <
desire these three thingsfirst, that Ii
may be found in Christ—secondly, that I ;
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may be like Christ-.—thirdly, that I mav he
with Christ.”
I have thought much of this answer,
and the more I think tln#wisor it. seems.
Cjre Cmjmnce Cntsator.
PE NFI ELD, GEORGIA.
Saturday Morning, October 4, 1856.
jffiT°Rev. Glaiborn Trussell, of Atlanta, is a duly
authorized Agent for the Crusader.
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continuance as the Law requires.
Sons of Temperance.
The next annual meeting of the Grand Division S.
of T. of the State of Georgia, will meet in the city of
Atlanta, on Wednesday the ‘22d day of October next
at 9 o’clock, A. M.
It is earnestly hoped and expected that each and
ever .’ Subordinate Division in the State will be fully
represented, and that the older members of the or
der may be present to give us their aid and counsel
at that time, as business of great importance to every
true Son of Temperance will come up for action.
E. C. GRANNISS, G. W. Patriarch.
Macon, Sept, 16, 1856.
To our Friends at New Harmony.
Our “Nine” friends at the above place must ex
cuse us from publishing their Article. We gave both
sides a showing which we intended doing in the out
set, and then closed our columns. (We trust they
saw both “pieces.”) We beg leave to say to them,
that they do us great injustice in imputing to us the
doctrine which they do. We are precisely the re
verse, and perhaps as enthusiastic, or more so, in
furthering them than any one in the community.—
We are entitled to our political sentiments and pre
ferences, but we must exclude politics from our pa
per. We trust, and confidently believe, that the
principles which our “Nine” friends entertain and
endorse will triumph in the coining contest.
Rev, Prof. Williams.
Our community has for many years been signally
favored with the ministerial labors of the ablest and
most eloquent men. Ministers who stand among the
first of the denomination; but in the mutation of
things, those faithful heroes upon Zions watch-tow
ers, who have labored so long and diligently’- with us
in endeavoring to explain the pure and sublime mo
rality of the gospel—to exalt the aim of our souls
and to direct their aspirations to immortal worth,
are. gradually leaving us. The Rev. S. G. Ilillyer,
whom we all loved, admired and revered for his pie
ty, eloquence, sincerity, and for his devotion to the
good of his people and the work of his Master, has
gone to proclaim the conditions of holy faith, and to
reveal that glorious and dreadful destiny so closely
connected with our actions, to another people ; and
soon our much beloved Crawford, whom we all ven
erate, —whose pious instructions shall abide in our
hearts—whose moral precepts shall guide our feet,
and whose memory will ever be enshrined in our
warmest affections, will leave us. He is going to
build “pavillions for Israel’s God,” and to erect
shrines of education and piety in western lands ; but
the ties which bind us to him are indissoluble, for
though lie may dwell in another land, yet will we
love him.
But a gracious Providence, not yet indifferent to
us, has furnished us with a Minister to fill their
places ; and we utter no extravagant language when
we say, Pro f. Williams ranks among the very first of
the Baptist Denomination. His name went before
the Executive Board with the highest testimonials
of his abilities, and his Sermons corroborate the at
tentions—they abound in the deepest and happiest
thought, and well-up from the native fountains of the
heart, and in the language of I)r, Witherspoon,
‘ there is a piercing heat, and penetrating force in
that which flows from the heart, which distinguishes
it not only from the coldness of indifference, but also
from the fiil.se fire of enthusiasm or vain glory.”—
His deductions are clear cogent, and pointed—his
language chaste, luminous and concise ; his fluency
seldom impeded; and now and then he electrifies his
hearers with brilliant corruscations of vivacious fan
cy. The combination of these happy faculties in a
Sermon seldom fails to win upon the confidence, and
captivate the judgment ofan audience. As was said
of Stillman, “the truth comes mended from his lips.”
Asa man, he is pious, unassuming, social, and fives
up to what he preaches. He has already won the
esteem, affections and confidence of all our citizens,
and we compliment ourselves upon being so fortu
nate as to secure him in our midst.
Death of an Editor—Duel.
Wm. It. Taber, jr., one of the Editors of the
Charleston Mercury, fe'l a victim on the 29th ult.,
to that barbarous practice of dueling. Edwarth Ma
grath was the opposite party, and Taber fell at the
third fire mortally wounded, the ball taking effect in
the head.
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1856 a Year of Disasters.
Vegetation has had to face almost every species of
calamity this year. It was in the beginning ‘pent up’
long after its’usual time of appearance in the frozen
bosom of Winter, —then it was visited by scorching
and withering droughts,—then by the devouring le
gions of the “Army-worm,”—then by a powerful
storrn, —and then in September, an occurrence with
out a parallel, it is visited with “frost.” No won
der the prospects for another years’ subsistence look
gloomy and ‘scanty.’ Old corn is the only hope of
the country.
Yellow Pever in Warrenton.
One case of this horrid infection appeared in War
renton a few days since, and resulted in the death of
the individual attacked. He was not a native of the
County however, but had rocently arrived there,
having left a post as Cook upon a Philadelphia and
Savannah packet, in which capacity he was serving
at the time of his death.
Dra, Culver and Gibson publish a Cardin which
they apprehend no danger as to the spread of the
desease from this case. Their Town is very healthy,
there being.no case of Fever of any kind wifhn.their
knowledge.
Letter from Uncle Ben.
Tlx* following communication from old Father
Brant!}', which we find in the Constitutionalist, will
be read with much interest, by many of his old
friends.
fbe old gentleman, it seems, has gotten into con
siderable trouble; far better would it have been for
him, had he rernainel contented in a land of peace
and plenty, and spent the remnant of his days with
his pleasant family in quiet.
ernon Countv, Mo., Sept. 11, 185 G, )
Twelve miles from Fort Scott, K. T. {
Mr. Editor : I address you from this point, hav
iiig, in common with nearly all the settlers in the
tm itory, fled with most of my family, to escape the
clutches of a ruthless enemy, From my arrival in
the territory last April, to within a few weeks past,
we have sat “under our own vine and fig tree,” and
tnere were “none to make us afraid.” It is true,
however, that ever since tlie arrival of the celebrated
“Investigating Committee,” sent here by Congress,
and the unprecedented and extraordinary course pur
sued by a majority of that Committee, we have had
apprehensions and misgivings. But we hoped for
the best, and our people were pursuing their lauda
ble occupations, with the prospect, from the latter
rains, that the earth would yield a fair increase, and
that we all, through a kind Providence, would he
provided for another year. But a gloom has come
over us, and our “moisture lias been turned to the
drought of summer.” Our fair territory has been
invaded by an armed and worse than savage foe; our
friends murdered; our property stolen and plunder
ed; our dwellings burned, and our fields laid waste.
I bear witness, Mr. Editor, that since my arrival
in the territory the pro-slavery party, almost with
out an exception, have conducted themselves peace
ably; and, with two exceptions only, have 1 heard
of any acts of insubordination to law and good order
by persons professing to be pro-slavery men. it
was the universal feeling among us to rely on the
ballot box to decide the complexion of the territory
—all agreeing to remain in, or remove from the ter
ritory according to the result. We were anxious
that the bill, introduced and passed by the Senate,
should find favor in the House, preferring, with all
the chances against us by the provisions of that bill,
to meet and decide the question at one?, rather than
to have delay and suspense.
But our opponents in Congress and out, chose an
other course, arid about the period of rejecting the
bill by the house, our territory is invaded by an
armed force, provided with all the necessaries for an
aggressive campaign, and without any declaration or
manifesto of grievances, any statement of injuries to
be repaired, or any great principle in government to
be established —the work of murder and plunder is
commenced—“weave the advance of the northern
army,” and “a pro-slavery man shall not remain in
the territory,” were all that our citizens could learn
in regard to objects or aims.
And, Mr. Editor, this army, too, from perfectly
reliable sources, 1 am justified in saying, is compo
sed, about one-half, of the refuse of foreign coun
tries, picked up in the purlieus of Chicago and oth
er Northern cities, and the other had’ men of the
“baser sort,” from the work houses and penitentia
ries of the Northern States—all hirelings, to do the
dirty work of fanatics and fools.
I beg you, Mr. Editor, and also ail the other Edi
tors, not only in the South but in all parts of our in
jured country, to re-publhh the address signed bv
Atchison, Doniphan, Stringfellow, and others, as
containing a true history of the events that have
occurred in our unfortunate territory. A system of
lying has been gotten up by Abolitionists, and ly
ing is relied upon to keep up the excitement and
sustain the lawless acts of our enemies. But I want
. the truth published from one end of our land to the
other, and the document referred to above should
find a place in every honest paper.
But, sir, the work of retribution has been com
menced. Ossawatomie, one of the strongholds of
the enemy, has been laid waste; and unless I am to
tally at fault, Lawrence, (the stronghold,) in less
than a week from this date, will be among the things
that were. A spir.t is aroused among ur people,
that the enemy will rue. Froe-soiiers, or Abolition
ists, and Pro-slavery men, cannot both occupy this
Territory in future.
r ] he events of this Territory have, pained me to
the heart. You, Mr. Editor, have some knowledge
of my love to my country--for the whole United
States and Territories. ‘There is one consoling
thought concerning the depredators of our peace
and homes—l do not acknowledge our present inva
ders, as my countrymen—they are the refuse of so
ciety from other lands, as well as our own. I can
not believe that the people of the North will coun
tenance, aid or abet the movement.
But I have not time to write more. One of my
sons is now in the tented field—two have been, and
made a narrow escape. You will hear of important
events by or before the reception of this hasty arti
cle. Benjamin Brantev.
Hang Him by the Neck.
We sincerely trust that Gen. Geary may he suc
cessful in his search for that foul-mouthed, and black
hearted Lane and swing him from a limb :
St. Louis, Sept. 23. —The steamer David Tatum,
arrived here yesterday from St. Joseph. At Kansas
City she took on hoard 350 citizens of Missouri, who
in obedience to the proclamation of Gov. Geary, had
given up their military organization and returned to
Missouri.
Lrwrcncc was in possession of the United States
tsoops, by whom 90 of Gen. Lane’s men had boon
made prisoners, Lane had Hod from Lawrence with
the remainder of his troops, and was in Nebraska.
The tra’n from Jefferson City last evening brought
down several gentlemen direct from Kansas. They
were passengers on the steamer Aubrey, and bring
the latest news. \Yo learn from them that the whole
of Gov. Reed’s force has been disbanded, and return
to their homes.
Gov. Geary was at Lecompton with 1000 U. S.
troops, all determined to maintain the peace and ex
ecute the laws. Under his ord rs 90 men had been
taken prisoners at Lawrence.
The report of Lane and his men having fled to
Nebraska is confirmed.
Westport, Sept. 19. — Gov. Gearv with several
companies of dragoons has gone in search of Gen.
Lane, with the determination to arrest him if he is
in the ‘Territory. He was en route for Nebraska.
The Pro-slavery party are taking measures thor
oughly to organize for the election on the first Mon
day in October.
Anew feature has been introduced into po
litical meetings at Wheeling, Ya. At the conclusion
of a discussion which recently took place near that
city, “a number of beautiful young ladies appeared
upon the speaker’s stand, and sung two songs in fa
vor of Buchanan.”
Very unbecoming! Ladies, should not engage in
political strifes. Wonder if these “beautifulyoung
ladies” will be allowed to vote for Buchanan at the
election ?
Paul Stillman, an employee in the N. York
Novelty Works, died last Tuesday, from the effects
of wearing tight boots. He had them on his feet
only two hours. Mortification set in, which made
amputation necessary, and utter prostitution of the
system followed.
The error of wearing tight boots is carried to an un
limited and fatal extent among the young men of this
day. Large feet arc compressed into as small a space
as possible, and it is hard to find a young man whose
feet are free from “corns,” or whose “toe-nail” is
not transgressing its limits and possessing 1 free ter
ritory.” Give the feet room ; if they are large so
much the better, for then your equilibrium is well
poised, and it will be difficult to ‘humble youi up
right aspirations for they are based upon a good un
derstanding.
An Expedient. —A dashing and fashionable widow
up town, says she thinks of suing some gentleman
for a breach of promise, in order that the world may
know she is in the market.
Excellent introduction! Wonder, if it would not
be well for some who are not widows to adopt the
same expedient ! Excuse the enquiry ; we ask for
information,
Twilight.
No period of the day is more charming, more
sweetly beautiful, than the hour of twilight. Other
times m,‘tv present more grandeur, hut none can he
more solemnly impressive. Ihe sunrise is a glori
ous sight. To see it in summer, when with its first
golden streaks, a chorus of songsters breathe thou
mclodv upon the ear, and the whole air is filled with
fragrance, the mind is pained by the power of its
own emotions, and grieves that it can take in no
more of the scene. And when he retires, it is with
a gorgeousness too brilliant, for the mind to contem
plate in all its splendor. lint t'.e beauties <>l twi
light are of a subdued nature, which the soul may
drink in to their utmost fullness and never become
disgusted by satiety.
Who has not reveled in the calm enjoyment of
this hour, when the labors and cares of the day were
over? The harrowing thoughts of business are for
the time dismissed. The gentle moon has just la
- to send forth her first faint glimmerings in se
rene loveliness, while zephyrs softly stir the forest,
boughs, and cool the aching brow. “ The shard
borne beetle wheels his droning flight through the
air while the katydid carols lays of sweet', st melody
in the grove. And now “the sentinel stars set their
watch, in the sky,” and the whole firmament glitters
with their brilliant array. Feelings of chastened
pleasure, consonant vitn the quiet stillness, rise up
and possess the soul. Hope, love and memory bring
[ their contributions to the altar of the heart; offer
’ in ,r s far richer than the incense burned before some
. heathen shrine. The beauty and grandeur of the
• scene command our homage and m all the fullness
; of enthusiastic adoration, we thank the (Lea lor for a
! world so fair.
The power of adapting our tastes and feelings to
. the different seasons may he esteemed one of our
, highest blessings. We gaze with equal admiration
‘ on the glories of the sun’s rising, the splendors of his
; setting, or the milder beauties of Use twilight hour.
We hail with the same joy the awaking hurst of veg
. elation, when ‘Spring winds her merry horn,” the
torrid hoat of Summer, Autumn, in her “coat of many
1 colors,” and winter in vestments of snow. And as
earn season glides away, we enjoy its passing, in the
> assurance that “our Father made them all.” *
| “The Game of Brag.”
, it is quite amusing to an outsider, (and such we
i are) to observe the different charges which the po
litical parties, in the heat of their furious contest,
heap upon each other. Each accuses tli - other of
b asliug to an extent which fact will not authorize,
. and in this each happens to be true. The organs oi
• each party pretend, even up to the very day of decis
ion, that they arc just on the eve of a glorious victo
ry, however notorious the fact may be that they tire
in a hopeless minority. How men can reconcile
such a system or wilful falsehood to their consciences
is something we cannot comprehend.
Political bigotry has, at this day, gained almost as
. rank a growth as it is capable of attaining. The rot
tenness and corruption exhibited by all parties arc
shocking to any one of fine sensibilities who will
contemplate the n impartially. Each one brings up
a long array of platforms and resolutions, to produce
the impression that they are nobly contending for
principles, while they arc in reality only scrambling
for power and office. If any question, in which the
good of society is really involved is presented for
their consideretion, they spurn it from them as some
thing with which they have nothing to do. They
boast continually of the proselytes they make, and
of their rapid progression, but never mention any
good that they are accomplishing in the meanwhile.
Bragging is over a very low practice ; the more so
from tlu; fact that they do not always adhere to the
truth more closely than they should. Wc have
never seen a braggart who was not guilty of men
dacity to a greater or less extent, and the most of
them indulge in it inordinately. But for the leading
politicians in the country to stoop to so low a prac
tice is really shocking to the moral sense of a peo
ple. Such a state of things would seem to indicate
that wc are indeed approaching that ruin which all
predict. *
“Ann Montgomery, an old offender, was brought
up again on the old charge of being drunk and dis
orderly in the street. She seems to be a wayward
and ungovernable child of misfortune, who has sin
ned away Iter day of grace, and is now past all re
d motion, although she is still in the bloom and vig
or of womanhood. Her mania for drink seems to
l e a disease which she would gladly control but can
not, and she is an object of pit}’ mote than censure.
The fir. t blunder in her life was a fatal one, from
which, sn all probability, she will never recover.—
Her appearance is good, and she seems to be possess
ed of a quick, discriminating mind. But her intel
lect has become clouded, and her perceptive faculties
blunted by the excessive use of intoxicating drinks,
a id its attendant consequences.
“She has been in the House of Correctic n for the
past month, and was released from there hut a dav
or two since, and is now returned, perhaps for an
other month. In a short conversation with tier this
morning, she expressed a desire to leave for some
other place, and said that her only hope of reform
in Charleston, was confinement for fife in the House
of Correction, where the maddening draught was be
yond her reach. She has, no doubt, been driven to
this course, as thousands before her have, and thou
sands after her will, by some secret sorrow, some
hidden grief, which is blasting her happiness, and
drying up the fountains of life. The blessings and
•pleasures of life have been turned to bitterness and
curses, and existence itself is doubtless a burden
which would gladly be shaken off.”
What could more plainly show the need in which
we stand of a prohibitory Law than the above ex
tract? Here is a poor, suffering, deluded woman,
willing, nay, anxious to break oft’ from a practice
which is hurrying her body to the grave, and her
sou! to he'll. Hut habit has acquired too firm a mas
tery over Iter, and she cstnnotdesist. Moral Suasion
cannot aid her, for she is fully sensible of the error
of her ways. All the efforts of a kind hearted char
ity cannot reach her. Like the maniac whose chains
alone restrain him from suicide, she needs a law to
save her from herself.
This is not a solitary example, by any means.
Thousands and tons of thousan s who have felt the
bite of the asp, would gladly free themselves of its
accursed iniiuence. The appetites, broke loose from
the power of the will, run wild and resist all control.
To reduce these to subjection, aid from some other
source must be obtained. Remove the means of
gratifying these depraved desires from their reach,
and they may yet be saved. But how is this to be
done? Will the Rumseller have pity on the poor
slaves of habit, and give up bis soul-destroying trade?
Ah, no; an emotion of commiseration for his wretch
ed victims never enters his breast. He is ever readv
to protect his dear traffic, and raise for it the hy, o
ci itical cry, “Great is Diana of the Ephesians.” This
work of charity, mercy and love must be done by
law, if it is done at all. * *
—<■;><><*>> .s*-.
“ Hie Banished Son,” is the title of anew volume
by Mrs. Caroline Lee Ilcntz, which was issued on
thc2i th of September, by T. B. Peterson, of Phila
delphia. One volume, cloth bound, *1.25. Paper
o’er, two vols., sl. Copies will be sent to any part
of the United States,. free of paMuye on the r.,wp
tion of the prices above named.
NT Mr. P. 11. Green has paid to January 1857
JSF” The loss by the recent extensive conflagra
tion in Macon is estimated at $200,000.
Wc learn from the Contrd Georgian that
Mr. Win. Wiley, of i 1 incoek county, a few d.ivssinee
lost his residence and ah his miter buildings !>y fire.
learn fimn a private Ictbw that the small
pox has appeared within six miles of Perry, Houston
county.
Jgp fn the town of Liberty, Texas, a line of $25
is imposed upon every man who utters an oath in
the presence of a woman.
The principle is good ; but the punishment is not
severe enough. Any one so void of those fine feel
ings which should characterize a gentleman, should
he treated to a decent castigation, as well as have a
large draft made upon his “private purse.”
A Xrw rhitform. —At a Buchanan meeting in
Portland, a few days ago, aSng-Nicht orator mount
ed a whiskey cask and opened his speech by ex
claiming, “/ xtuii.il (.'pan llu■■'platformof my party. ’
There was vastly more truth than poetry in the
exclamation of that Sag-Nicht orator. A whiskey
barr-1 is the soundest, purest, most conservative,
national, republican and digestible platform that can
be offered to two-thirds of the massess. We venture
the assertion that this platform will find nine endor
sers to the Cincinnati Platform one.
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Georgia Mews Condensed
Mr. G. orgc Peabody, the celebrated banker, re
turned to this country on Tuesday by the Atlantic
after an absence of nearly twenty years.
We learn from the Columbus Times that Mr. Lane,
formerly of the Sun, of that city, has gone to Charles
ton to aid ns assistant editor of the Courier.
Dr. Leconte, the Professor of Geology in the Geor
gia University, has been invited by Professor Henry
to deliver a course of lectures on that science at the
“Smithsonian Institute” this winter.
The fire at the Georgia Railroad depot, whiehjtook
place or. yesterday morning did considerable dam
age. Besides destroying the Engine House, it has.
rendered unfit for present use some seven or eight
locomotives that wore in it at the time, and it is
more than probable that several of them will never
again be tit for use. The loss to the company may
be estimated at from twenty to twenty-five thousand
dollars. And but for the extraordinary exertions
of the Fire Company of our city, who succeeded in
saxing the adjoining building, used as a deposit for
oil and other inflammable materials, there is no toil
ing to what extent the fire would have raged.—At
lanta Examiner.
Tlie Record of a Triumph!—Consolation
for the Suffering,
There is no little consolation in the thought that,
however the imposter may flourish for a season, he
cannot long continue to delude mankind. How
many men contrive to acquire a brief and flashy rep
utation, and then sink into disrepute and oblivion !
This is especially true of the pretenders to medical
skill, who, in an age when diseases abound, seek to
inveigle themselves into the confidence of the pub
lic, and to impose upon it with their noxious nos
trums. We confess that, years ago, when we first
heard of the universal celebrity of professor Hollo
way, we distrusted his lofty claims, and av ogated to
ourselves a superiority of discernment which would
not allow him to entrap our judgment. Most hear
tily do we beg his pardon for the unjust imputation.
A careful study of his system convinced us that we
were indeed mistaken, and that \hc world, to do him
justice, should immediately, as it undoubtedly will
hereafter, rank him foremost among its benefactors.
He has solved the mystery of human diseases, and
proved that all medical treatment, from the time of
ITuntcr, has been based upon false premises. Jen
ner did not effect a greater revolution in the method
of dealing with the small pox, than Dr. Holloway has
done in the ordinary medical routine of the present
day.
Ihe human blood is not a mere fluid, coursing
through the veins and arteries, and partaking of the
mere qualities of other fluids. It is - startling as the
statement may see n—alive. It is, in plain words,
“the life of man. ’ All physiological diseases, such
as indige tion, deranged kidneys, liver, heart, lungs,
stomach, all impure secretions in the body, and a
large majority of epidemic and endemic diseases have
their origin, or, at least their exciting cause in the
impure state of the blood. Cleanse that and keep it
cleansed, and no sickness can prostrate, or even as
sail the system. Tills splendid discovery has given
a lustre to Professor Holloway’s name, transcending
the renown of heroes and statesmen. We do not
wonder at the great fame he has acquired in Europe,
Asia, Africa and Australia. We rejoice that he has
visited our own country and opened an establish
ment in New York, which will be a very Temple of
ilealtn to our own citizens. His Pills and Ointment
are the most wonderful sanatives which science and
skill have yet produced.—AT. Y. Sunday Times.
Schuyler Colfax Mobbed by the Old I i
ners—Women, Men, and Horses, knock
ed Down.
From a reliable correspondent we have received an
account of the riot at Bourbon, Marshall County,
at the discussion between Judge Stuart and Mr. Col
fax.
A wagon containing four men and a number of
ladies came from Kosciusko county, to attend the
speaking. In the wagon was borne a banner rep
-1 esenting a iniek on his last leg. Threats were made
against the wagon before it reached the ground, and
during the speaking thirty Irishmen, who were em -
ployed upon the Railroad, prepared hickory dubs,
and as the wagon passed a Grocery at the’oppositc
on- 1 of the town, it was attacked by these men, who
knocked down Inc horses and commenced an itidis
-0 unmate assault upon ail m the wagon.
The screams of the women, as they begged for
t.ioir lives, and the shouts and murderous blows of
the attacking party, were awful, and presented a
scene which drove in terror the multitude, which
was largely made up of women. Men endeavored
to save their own families, and there was no time to
assi.'-t the unfortunate wagon load, which was soon
overpowered by the infuriated brutes, who made no
discrimination between the women and men in their
mad attack.
Whilst one of the mob stood with his club eleva
ted with both hands, and in the act of striking, he
was shot, and fell dead. The persons in the wagon
were seriously bruised and injured, and were only
saved from death by the attention of the mob being
attracted by another object.
In the wagon was the wife of a Mr. Lelfel, a cit
iuen of Kosciusko county, who, hcarbig of the din
ger of his wife, rode back to protect her. On ap
proaching the wagon, he and his horse were knock
ed down, and finding the odds against him too
strong, lie retreated to the house of the liev. Mr.
James, whose family, with himself, lmd been wit-