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©t%teeeC. ■- ■ - muc**- •.-- For the Temperance Crusader. ’ Some Thoughts on Predestination, How whimsical a thing is a man’s desti ny 1 How variously seem contrasted its most proximate vicissitudes, and yet how intimately linked its furthestincidents ; by how many anterior minute and bidden a gencies is often irresistibly produced tbe fast and sole ostensible cause of the, weight iest events! How entirely is tb;e will that seems spontaneously to urge u;a on, an un avoidable offspring of circumstances whol ly independent of that wil\, since prior to the very existence of the* being whom it sways. if man fancies himself tbe free agent he is not; if man regards many of his actions as wholly spontaneous, which are the last inevitable effects of a long series of prior hidden causes; if man overlooks the vast, machinery founded on the first progress of time, and extending to the farthest limit of spadh, by which independent of his will all we behold unto that very will is produ ced ; if man consents to a gratuitous re sponsibility from which he exempts tbe brute, and might exempt himself, it is precisely because his intellectual organiza tion, from being so much finer than that even of the highest brute, is often compel ed to volition and its consequences by a gencies so much more complex v and mi nute, and distant, and vet connected, that, from that very circumstance, it is often im possible to trace them to any particular an terior source, and to recognize them in any particular later effect; or, in other woros, man only thinks himself more peculiarly gifted with liberty than other animals, be cause he is the more equal and general, an unresisting slave to a greater number of more subtle and uncontrollable surround ing tyrants, physical and inoral. Unpos sessed of the smallest component part of body or of intellact, of will or of knowledge, of sensation or of thought, which—if its maker be really the sole Creator, mover, and upholder of all tilings created—is not an emanation, a part of that very Maker ; incapable of conceiving the most” transient desire, and performing the most trifling action, which —if there be a single first cause of all secondary causes or effects whatsoever—does not proceed from tho ex press will of that'single first, cause; una ble to name any species of t emptation what soever, which-if all tilings originate in one single source—flows not in reality from that single first source, as much as the strength to resist, or ;he weakness that yields. Vainglorious man, how ever cu rionsly the impressions he receives from external objects mav, in that strong piece of mechanism his i rain, successively as sume the various fin-ms of sensation, fho’r and will, is not the less, from his last breath, as entire a mere passive instrument in tbe hands of Providence os the insentient plant or the unorganized mineral: and so far from deserving to have his bickerings with his brother mites on this grain of sand mag nified into an insurrection of giants against Heaven, seems to me as fully, entitled to credit in doiDg what is. blamed, as in of-, footing what is praised ; would be guilty of as flagrant an act of rebellion in declin- ing the task of evil a-; that t*f-gcod set down for him, and leaves Heaven itself as exclu sively accountable for the mischiefs of the moral world as for those of the mere phys ical creation—for the destruction effected by conquerors and statesmen, as for “the havoc produced bv earthquakes, floods, hurrieaues, famine, and pestilence. To eat. and be eaten by each other is the lot as signed to all the sentient inhabitants of this unhappy globe ! It strikes me, that it’ the Omnipotent os> daincr of the universe, who could bare willed his works equally perfect through out, had yet left for a time rr\v-,r and its bitter fruits mixed with knowledge and with bliss, this ordination might in reality lead to ultimate joys, more intense than if all had been unmisieff happiness from the very beginning. Who, indeed, dared, on matin© consideration, to doubt, without calling in question both Almighty wisdom and goorir.fss, that if, on this transient stage of mere trial and probation, God min gled weakness with strength, and darkness with light, so far from its being for the cruel purpose of throwing temptation in man’s way, in*order that, he might punish him for yielding to their veice, and find reasons fW only saving half mankind, ■where the whole might have been blessed. It was, in reality, only with the benevo hmt. design of teaching all his creatures, through dint of a few fleeting injuries and sufferings, the eternal difference between good and evil, ignorance and knowledge, imperfection and endless unchanging per fcctiong ; and thereby enabling all, in their higher future state, to enjoy more com pletely, through the means of unceasing comparison, its good without evil and its bliss without alloy. As to partial preordination I reject it, and do so precisely from believing in pre ordination as a universal condition of”things created, which admits of no deviation, how ever trifling; from conceiving the connec tion betweeu cause and effect, beginning with the origin of the sensible world, to suffer no interruption until its- end ; from feeling assured that there is always a pre ponderating tendency to whatever actually takes place ; from conceiving that ovGi where man appears to possess the great est latitude of deliberation, motives ante rior to, or independent of his volition, can alone after all pot an end to bis suspense, and determine his will; from regarding what in human beings is most pre-emiuent ly dignified with the name of free agency, as after all consisting in nothing more than the faculty of founding their choice upon the suggestions of that experience and the dictates of that reason, whose extent and soundness must still depend upon extrane ous and incidental circumstances ; and, in fine, from considering entire free agency (and without being entire free agency can not subsist at all,) as an attribute wholly inapplicable to the creature man,, incom prehensible by human intellect, and only appertaining to that Deity which isequall}’- incomprehensible in all its attributes. If by some fortunate accident, or some greater reach of understanding, a man hap pen’s, independent ofbny merit Or design of his own. to have observed or have been taught, that good is more beneficial than evil; and thence to have through an irre sistible impulse, conceived a desire to dif fuse that useful discovery or doctrine, for the purpose -of extending its desirable fruits,, he will feel more anxious'so to do, he will with greater zeal bend all his forts to that purpose, if convinced that bis own influence may in his turn irresistably sway his neighbors mind and will, than it persuaded that after all his toil that neigh bor must still preserve his free agency as undiminished as before, still feel equally devoid as before of any superior inclina tion to virtue, and still retain all his pris tine power of equally taking the wrong way as the right. H. C. M ‘ mm. Here is a beautiful poetical Thanksgiving- or Rain.— “Bless God for rain, the good man said, And wiped away a pearly tear; That we may have our daily bread. He drops his show ere upon us here ; Our Father, thou who dweli’t in heaven. We thank thee for the pearly shower; The blessed present thou hast given To man and beast and bird and flower. The dusty earth, with lips apart, Looked up where rolled the orb of fame. As though a prayer came from its. heart For rain to come, and lo ! it came. ’ The Indian corn, with silken plume, And flowers with tiny pitchers fill’d, Send up their praise of rich perfume, For precious drops the clouds distilfJ.. The modest grass is fresh and green, The brookld swells its song again ; Methinks an angel’s wing is seen In every cloud that brings us rain, There is a rainbow in the sky, Upon the arch where tempest trod, God wrote it e’er the world was dry— It is the autograph of God. — Home. There is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o’er- ali the world beside : Where brighter suns dispense sosvner light; Time-tutored age, and love.-exalted youth ; The wandering mariner, whose eye explores The wealthiest isles, the most enchanted shores. Views not a realm so bountiful avid fair, Nor breathes the- spirit of a purer air; In every clime the magnet of his soul, Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole; ij For in this land of Heaven’s peculiar grace,. The heritage of nature’s noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweater spot than all the rest. Where man, creation’s tyrant, casts aside- His sword and sceptre, pageantry and. pride,. While in his softened looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friendj Here woman reigns, tbe mother, daughter, wife* : Strew with fresh flowers the narrow way of life! \ In the clear heaven of delightful eye, An angel guard of loves and graces He, Around her knees domestic duties meet. Ami fireside pleasures gambol at her feet, Where shall that land, that spot of earlh be found? { Art thou a man ?—a patriot—took around *. O, thou shall find, howe’er thy ‘ footsteps roam, I Thailand thy country, and that spot tbv muu-! 1 t Tame i Moiitff&mery. ’ —4.—* Star in a little Daughters Grown. The Rev. Dr. D.-tutel Baker, of Texas! gave us the following beautiful taci.: “During a revival in , n aywot- lit tle girl named Sarah, went home full of what she had seen and hesru ; sitting ar. the table with the-family* she asked her fattier, who had been to ebnrch, but wap, a very wicked man, whether he ever praved. He did not like the question’, and in a ve ry angry manner rrplied, “It is your moth er, or vour Aunt Rally, that, pnt v*>a up to that, my little girl.” “No p>.oh.” -v; i the little creature, “the preacher -.a 1 -a, ill good people pray ; and those who don't piny, ain’t going to. iie.a* en. Pa, u<> you pv.Ty V' ! This was more than her father coaid stand,! ‘and lu a rough way, ho said. “Well, you and your mother, and Vour Aunt SaUy may go your wav, and l will go mine.” “Pa,” said the ntbl© creature with sweet simplicity, which way are you going?”— This question pierced his hear’:. It flashed upon him that be was in the \vay to death. . fie'Bfcarted from bis chair, bm’yt into tears, and immediately began to cry aloud for mercy. Within a few days he was a hap py convert, and it will appear in heaven.as a star in his lifcnle daughters crow n ’of re juicing. - - -*~ One ? s Mother. Aroaird the idea of one’s mother the mind clings with fond affection. It is rhe first dear thought stamped upon our infant hoard’, when soft and capable of receiving most, profound impressions, and all the af ter feedings are more or less light in com parison. Our passionr and our wiliuliivess may lead us from the object of one filial love; we may become wild, headstrong’ and angry ip her counsels or opposition ; but when death has stilled her monitory voice, and nothing but calm memory re mams to recapitulate her good deeds, af fection, liken flower beaten to the ground by a rude storm, raises up her head and smiles amidst her tsprs. Around that idea., as we have said, thtrmind clings with fund affection ; and even when the v?{flier peri od of our -loss forcea memory t * j.>© silent, fancy Takes the place of remembrance, and twines the image ot our departed parent with a garhiud of graces, aim beauties, and virtue's which we doubt not she possessed. Smileft and Frowns. —-Which will you ck>—smile and make vour household happy, or be crabbed, and make all those young ones miserable ? The amount of happiness you can produce is incalculable, if you show a smiling face, a kind heart, arid speak pleasant words. Wear a pleasant counte nance ; let joy beam in your eyes, and love glow on vour forehead. There is no joy like that, which springs from a kind act or a pleasant deed ; and yon will feel it at night when you rest, at morning when you rise, and through the day when about, your bus iness.—Home Journal. No Proof. —Asa proof of the fact that, girls are useful articles, and that the world could not very well get along without them, a late writer states it ash fact, that if all the girls were driven out of the world, in one generation, the boys would all go out after them. But if all the boys went out ofTlie world all the girls would go with them. A Good Li tton —The Oincimm t-i Greett e learns that * ? A young n'iM’ lrnndk'cfmh gift,"’ residing on jjs.ytfafmoiv. street, ntteni |>ted v on last Sunday evening to sukwTe *by swallowing p. large dose of laudlimuu.—- Soon After taking it she need the rash adt, told what she,had done, and ‘became ex cecaliugly afraid site would die. A physi cian was called in, used the stomach pump, and yesterday the girl was"fining well, and not only likely to recover from the effects of .the poison, mil also fnan a love lit, that’ it seems induced the foolish attempt. ‘•Oh, JPoGtor!'’ Said she to “her -phys'i-. cbm, “wouldn t ;t have been horrible to ha ve. killed ’myselt f-;; s.uch, a ,stupicktellow as •; why, when he - board-of it he. said he. always thought i was a blamed fool !” - -, ixr^r:€^jasavxtaßSxmsaß*?*umxmi —- ir - -,nnvpwmi-m | A Friendly Warning. Somebody has been prying feloniously into the post office at Barnwell Court House, and our incorrigible friend, the Post master, whose reply to John Livingston, the bio graphical underlake'i and vender of ready made reputations, is fresh in the minds of many deligljted readers, thus sends after the wretch a warning : “Seduced by the instigation of the Devil, and regardless of your present and future state of existence, yon commitied a deed which will carry you to a.place : n compar ison with which the hottest day you expe rienced here last summer, is colder than ice. Think upon, this ve miserable vagabonds— meditate upon it., ye benighted ragamuffins ! —machinate upon it. ye bloody Know No things—repent of it ye midnight assassings! When ti e High Sheriff of inis District is flogging you at. the Market House, ye will repent. When you fie down to die, you will tremble. And when the Devil, your prime mover, shall gather you to Iris -arms, which he surely will, and you are. •howling’ for a drop of cold water’ to quench your in fernal parched tiiirst, and poor down your throat a table spoonful or two of bituminous substance, mixed with melton lead, out of a red hot ladle, and says to you, ‘Rob a post 1 office again, will ye,’, then i would suppose | you will think of it. My only regret is that. ; [cannot be there (temporarily) to witness j vour struggles. Anathenm maranatha.” — | Charleston Courier. - A Word upon Beards. William and Rufus shaved. Henry I. re | sumed the beard, so long laid upon the shelf. I Stephen had a beard, and was bearded by | his barons ; Richard I. had a short crisp, | close beard: Edward 1. a iong beard; Ed ward 11. a weak beard; Henry V. fought i at Agincourt with a clean chin; Henry VI. wore a beard 6 ; Edward VI. shaved and so j did Henry VII.; Henry VIII. had a wiry, j close, bushy beard; Edward VI. died before i iiis beard came; Charles I.’s grew dwindled and Spanish. In Elizabeth’s, reign we have Sbakspeare describing the cane-colored beard, and black, while, orange, tawny, pur • I pie, ingrain beard; the beard like a general, and the beard like a glover’s pgaring. knife, the hungry beard, and the beard of formal cu l ; the soldier beard like a ■ parch and the • coward with the beard of Hercules and frowning Mars. Among the curious a nee- dotes of beards, the oldest is that told of John Mayo, a painter, at the eourfofCharles V., whose beard was so long that he could stand upon it; this cataract of hair he kept tied up with ribbons to his button holes, sometime's unfastening it at the Emperor’s wish, opening the doors and windows that it might blow into tbe faces of the angry cour i tiers. Another famous beard was that of a Bavarian Merchant, who kept it enclosed in a velvet hag to prevent it from dragging the ground. An old writer, ofimore grav ity vve fear titan veracity, asserts that, the inhabitants of Hardenburghad formerly the sigulor custom of electing the Burgomaster who had the longest beard and the biggest ►fool ‘Our Friend. r * Brilliant to the- Last. A gentleman writing from Fails states that M. Place, the French bunker, who re cently failed for the immense amount of,six teen million francs, gave, on the evening be fore the grand catastrophe,-a splendid din ner, to which were invited all the celebrities of n certain grade upon the Bourse, togeth er with an equal number of ladies. The least was one of the most reciierche kind the cost probably being not less than twen ty-live dollars a head; and the buoyant spir its of the liberal host, were Ihe theme ofgen era’i admiration. When the enthusiasm was at its height a magnificent desert was placed upon the table, having in the centre a vase of silver gilt, which M. Place ordered the waiter to pass around to the ladies, as it contained a few nuts for their ©special crack ing. Every lady then plunged her hand within the vase;, and drew forth whatever chance bestowed in the shape of some rare jewel, flie cheapest of which could not have been worth less than sixty dollars, while some of them were of great price. After this delightful ceremony the generous host took his leave amid the reilered applause of his guests. The next day his house was si lent and deserted, and a defalcation of six teen millions was announced before the Tri bunal of Commerce!’ Hall unination. —To rj years ago a weal thy farmer named Simmonds, living near Newburgh on the Hudson river, “had a presentiment” that be would die on the 20th day of August, 1850. So strongly was he impressed.with the strange idea, that he regarded 1 1 its disease at the time mentioned as a matter of certainty, lie selected a .spot for his grave, bought an iron railing to surround it, and bad a fine toombetone and an elegant coffiu prepared arid brought to his house. On Tuesday last the day indicated by the “presentiment/’ he had a clergyman and an undertaker at hand, and at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, after having partaken, with his friends of a hearty dinner, lie went to bed for the purpose of yielding up the ghost. He tri ed his best to die, but couldn’t, and was at last obliged to confess that he had been the slave of a ridiculous hallucination. It is said that hundreds of people flocked to his house to see him expire. €]it tVmpcnmcc Crusabcr. PENFIELD, GEORGIA. Saturday Morning, October 25, 1856. Rev. Claibom Trussell, of Atlanta, is a duly authorized Agent for the Crusader. Liberal Offer. 1. ■ - Any person sending us five new Subscribers, ac companied with the “rhino,” shall bo entitled to an extra copy of the Crusader for one year. Orders for our Paper must invariably be accompanied with the cash tp receive attention. Stop Papers.—Settie Arrearages. 33§P*Subscribers to tbe Crusader who choose to haye 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 t such notice of dis continuance as the Law requires. Senior Exhibition. Wc had the pleasure on Friday the 17th rust., of attending.an exhibition by members of the Senior Class of our University. Right original speeches were delivered, which would have been ered table, even o;u occasions when more elaborate preparation is expected and required. It was a source of regret that the weather was such as to prevent a larger at tendant*'. We are much pleased with this new plan, and think it a decided improvement. * — Q-reenesboro. Our neighboring young city is surely on the high road to fortune, it has recently been expurgated of many impure the shape of Inrman being*, (both white and ‘black,.’) and could a fewoth . ers be ‘ousted’ we might then safely pronounce Greencsboro, in point of society, one among the most respectable, dignified and promising young cities in all middle Georgia, We feel no hesitancy ia saying tlDt it claims a vast number of citizens in whose ‘composition’ th o. simonpure ingredients of “m ble nature” are found in liberal quantities; men of taienf, ‘elevated character, and social temperament-; and la dies, both roamed and would-be-married , whom na ture has invested with the high and charming attri butes of womanly virtue and purity. We know the people of Greenesboro, male and female, and vve speak from personal kno Hedge. The population is some twelve or fourteen ’nun cio and, a large amount of busin ss is carried on there, and with a little more expurgation its progress to a brighter future would be unimpeded. One brilliant assurance of its progress is the ex tinction Os the “ corner Sebastopol ” —that mart for the sale of human souls to the. powers of darkness. Wc learn the u Little Redan” C c,avcs-ia’ on next month. Abolish the doggeries, fellow-citizens, ami when those cumbersome cankers of society are removed from your midst, your young city disenthralled, will rapidly rise in the scale of being, and it will rejoice in contemplating its own freedom. The foetid and miasmatic exhalations from those Woo l crimsoned ••marts breathe a death-like paralysis into the veins and internal organism of ali cities, towns and villages. Love. “Love l odes the camp, the court, the grove— And men below, and saints above.” Tin mcftjj is not shining; nor is it the calm twi light in which day sinks to her nightly couch. The sweet incense of flowers is not scattered around us, and mellifluous strains from mellow-throated song sters fall not upon our ear. The rich*glow of sun set, with the royal canopy of gold and purple, docs not present visions of glory to our view. There is nothing without to meet cor gaze but the dark mur ky clouds, nought t fall upon the ear but the shrill whistling of the wintry wind. Yet under all these disadvantages we have taken our peri in hand to wrifikof Lobe. We are not “full of our subject ;” (Heaven forfeod we ever should be,) and before we are through, may egregiously expose our ignorance. For ages past, this has been almost the sole theme of the poet and romance writer, and they have suc ceeded : n portraying it as a passion of great power and intensity. But it may he safely said that we really know’ no more of the nature and essence than was known five thousand years ago. Tn this, as in all else, what we do know, is much mingled, nay almost lost in what we do not. That there is a feel ing of warm, devoted affection which might not in appropriately be called love we all admit. But that there is such a sentiment as that described by poets and novelists under that name, is a tale as idle and unfounded as the ghost stories with which impru dent persons amused our childhood. With these love has been ctherializ'-d until it has become something too subtle in its nature, for such finite, fallible erring, practical animals as we are, to understand, far less to enjoy. lie who would ex perience this “excruciating bliss” must, lift himself above earth and earthly things. The fair object of his heart’s worship is to his vision, an angelic es sence in heavenly mould. Men and women are nev er the subjects of his thoughts; but like Jacob when he j urueyed to Padan Aram, he sees an gels moving from earth to Heaven and from Ileav- en to earth in every idle day dream. However im probable it may seem,, these visionary notions exert no small influence among men and is productive of much unhappiness; for to realize such wild fancies is clearly an impossibility. The young man whose shoulders have been new ly honored by ‘the toga I irills, becomes the victim of a morbid sentimentality, and in the wiki exube rance, cfbis fmcv, su poses himself in love. The fond delusion seizes upon his w hole being. The faint dawnings of hope beam upon his soul, and he is in an ecstacy of delight. While the excitement has sent the fevered blood coursing with rapid bounds through his veins, he scats himself to indite a son net to “the tond idol of his dreams” and modestly invites the muse from her sacred hil to shape his “rough hewn” thoughts into softly flowing rhyme. For a few brief months, ho revels in these exhilira ting joys, to which fancy has given birth. And then alas! “a change comes o’er the spirit of his dream.” He finds that he has “loved not wisely, but too .well.” The palace, in the enchanted halls of which he had slept, was an airy tenement, “a house not made with hands,” as insubstantial and Heeting as the summer cloud The golden bowl of his joys is broke i at the fountain, and henceforth, he can do nought but go mourning all his days, hut this soon wears off, And becomes,a leaf in memory dry, upon which he never looks without a blush of-shame.— tie soon ceases to suppose himself a genius because he is misera ie, and becomes aware that instead of displaying the inspiration of a poet, he’has exhibited the drolleries of a fool Such is the species of sentimentalism which false taste and porverted imaginations cause people to en tertain. It is, at best, baneful in its influence. It lays the ax<i at the -root of .the tree of happfo.s?, and utterly, destroys many of the best, purest feeling? of the heart. It leaves its serpent trail upon the rich e-t blessings of life, and its effects may be traced after, many yeans*. Over the thoughts, prejudices, it not nfrequently exercises a’ supreme control; over the actions we are sorry to say it ex erts but little influence. We say sorry because at tins day, persons of both sexes, in regard to no.’ 1 ’ mo ny, are governed by mercenary modems oob . w-j.wh we deem worse than the very worst form of se <i metuality. Prohibition—lts Legality. One class of our opponent* however, -say, “we grant that Prohibition would’ he productive ot benefit; but it is unconstitutional. The Legislature cannot grant it without transcending its powers. This is an opinion which many able; perhaps good men have advocated. The fact that such men have entertained it, gives the objection an important?* it would possess. Let U* examine-, it then Carefully and-estimate the weight • which it is just ly entitled. In what r.-spect is it uneonstitntional ? -If be said that it is so because it deprives individual:; of certain privileges then do we say I hat all laws are unconstitutional. For there is no law which does not more or less cuitail individual privileges, (we - will not say rights.) Laws, in Then* adaptation to th.e demands of society, haw to b - general; an 1 it s not ureasonable to suppose a case in which a man might gain perfect justice and yet receive a positive injury. Grant that it is She abstract right of every man to make and sol! what ver he may choose. So it i-s the right of every <i to murder all whom he meets, or Ss nlany as he pleases. If (hen the good of .society demands that he should be deprived oil T ANARUS: right, then for the same reason- he may be denriv- J of any or ail othlrs. Thai the liquor tr- file is an evil, j a great evi l , which is in (he hipest degree Jars! to j the well being of society, is a proposi’t*on which •wo suppose every one vrfil admit to be true. r < he !-•: shj degraded toper who could be found, vtould dohm-wi- j edge its destructive tendencies. There isn't;;, .Rum- : seller in all the land who will admit his vocation j is harmful. They do not attemni to defend tff-m- ! selves on the ground that they are doing good. Such | an idea enters not into all their arguments Titov j admit it is wrong and injurious, but strive to ward i off the personal blame by saying that if they did i not do it, others would. It is a gross and dishorwst sophism to k r esent a j Prohibitory law as .somethin -*; without a parallel, e- - j tirelv dissimilar to all other laws. In what do; • lh>; difference consist ? Other laws have ifieir mi: in in the necessity of defending a community against the injuries which vicious individuals mav produce.— Other laws break down and annihilate individual rights when they conflict with the goad of society. And other laws are strenuously opposed and ob stinately resisted by those with whose vicious prin ciples they are at war. Other laws too often fail in the ends which they are designed to gain. Tin se and many other points of similarity may be traced, ! which placed them all on precisely the same grounds. But why need any doubts be entertained as to tt: conititntionality of a Prohibitory Law?. Th L; quor Traffic has long been a-subject of legislation— every year the petty license tax is paid into the pub lic treasury. Is there anything wrong in I his ? Why has not every ranting, squealing, Woated-faced, sore eyed, red nosed, jack-leg politician been railing out against this great infringement of the people’s rights? And if the Legislature has ihe power u> line a man for selling liquors, has it not the power to prohibit his selling it altogether ? Wo cannot see that an, other inference could be drawn. Ah, lay not the flattering unction to your soul that the law is uncon stitutional. Fear not in Voting for it that von will harm or injure the rights of a single man. It will be a work of kindness, philanthropy and love ; a work which wilt liftman from the iilthv quag mires of degradation and, elevate him ,o the rank of a mor al and Intellectual being. * “Ultra 55 Men, There arc a class of men in the world who are al ways upon extremes. Whatever opinion they may entertain, whatever theory they may adopt, they seem to take a pleasure in carrying it out to ks full est extent, and in taking a position where reason and common sense would never advance. One form <A this disposition, (perhaps the least blameahlc) is that which m ist s from an inordinate self conceit. Per sons d<> sometimes have their powers o: vision so much impaired by gazing upon their own supposed greatness, that they become incapable <■ freeing cor rectly. Like the Knight of La Mancha they arc miserably crazed ; but on one subject only. Upon a variety of topics they can converse with elegance and fluency. But when ,W/',h; the theme, reason resigns her hold, imagination runs wild and they prove themselves complete fools. Such persons dt • serve commisseration rather than censure Which of these feelings they elicit, depends very much upon other characteristics. Men are frequently ultra in their nature, not so much from a consciousness of mental superiority, as from a desire to appear so. Adm ration is the high est object of their ambition, and one for which they continually strive. They rejoice to have persons suppose that they “Have seen the distant tops of thoughts, Which men of common stature never saw.' 1 Delight pervades every faculty, if by staling some strange, unexpected paradox, they ca'l forth a look of amazement from their hearers. This fondness for exciting wonder, very soon cuttes them to he ex treme in all their notions; often unreasonable. Bigotry is another cause of ultruism. Though the bigot wants every body to think and act in his way, he lias no disposition to make his yoke easy and his burden light. But ho might never run imo extremes, were he never met by opposition. When engaged in continued warfare with conHictiii” opinions, bigotry exhibits itself in its worst form. Then the obstinate bigot, in his anxiety -to avoid anything like & compromise’ of opinion, mas into t :o most unreasonable extremes. These persons arc governed by prejudices, not by facts, and no argu ment, however potent, can he brought to bear up on them with effect. They are almost in every in stance disliked by all who kn V v them, anu become a reproach and a by-word among man. * Book Table. (iodey’s Lady Book. The November No. is adorn ed witli the most magnificent embellishments, ft is accompanied by a Prospectus, in which the Publish er promises still greater improvements for the com ing year. Surely no Monthly of ts costly finish could be afforded for less than its subscription price $3 00 a year. Home Magazine. Punctually on our tablo. In addition to other tine embellishments, the Home Magazine will hereafter contain a beautiful colored steel fashion plate in every number. Important im provements will be made at the commeuctm.nt of the next volume. In the January number, Miss ~vo wnsend wilt cornu ence an original Novelette < f great interest. Price sjvi per year. ... --*• •49.•--. —a . ‘ The Order of S, of T. Below we give some well timed, pithy and correct r- flections of Ueti. Carv, •••on corning the Order ofSons of Temp. ; rr nee, and cemnuo and thorn to the attentive perusal of all on.* re-ding temperance friends. Many poriions of our S aii; .which were once supplied with flourishing 3)iv sums ..am-now without any temper ance organization whatever. V\ e frequently receive the painful inteiinicnce tbjit Sticn and such u Divis ion i- ibad; vc, ;i! ri -i vs deeply regret to bear of the disconfinuancc of prosperous Division, jmd would request <-ur tViond* • ‘Ughou. the country to stand by the 0. and r .ml not sutler it to languish and die. Establish new .Divisions and build up falling- one-, 10! the) are the cuasory levers by yvbich vve are to raise our drunken lurid from its fallen, besotted es tate. Bread. Orff Cary on ihc Order.*’ “The imports;;::, end pro-rdnerfi position of the Or der of the Sons of Tempera nee in the great reform, must not be undervalued, :u?d its via ms to the con tiuenc-* of the good nnd virtuous, sbonld be'often and forcibly presented. No on**, familiar -with the histo ry <-,f t! T o.p, nee reform, will question the tie eesriiv of age. -.nd. closer bond of union, than Rxi n.ed pr:oi ; to the c -iablishmcfit of the Order. The \V:-i dflugtwoian-movement,, which’ immediately p.v ceded the Order, swadoivt-l ifp. the. scattered frag, ment>. oi j. reviou< • rg.-.wiz-= tip:is, or, rather, swept them away. ‘lt cam- v h the force of a tornado; it was a moral ■ crt'Vjo.ak Hut rmtfci g more.. It pre sented no bond bid i sifopic pledg e—there were no frau rmfi f : cs, . : oiscipikie, no oiganization worth * the name. The ‘Washingtonian Societies* wjire d.is integrated as rapidly as were formed. The Or der vviis established, arnTrawidiy (lob rapidly for its own “ood) c; fhej-ed h .* i's in closure, the better portion. of ••-...•Trevanci uk-p, and furnished them with V home its* :,s •. ••.’hnent. Its Division rooms, wcekl*. meetings, offices, n galia, pass words,-find im pvcs.'i*• eremonk*veers a.i -<Lipted to establish . and. strengthen the brol v.vbond ; while its Grand gn.o ISaiional Divi-sloto a ‘•persfirg aad co-operating ..with.each ‘other, ‘ y and- >:;r*;Tgh-tnt r represcjita- Lves,,formed a comr.Jetf. and peritct unit, effective for the pr./tection of iis nmmbersbip, uud well calcu- I lated t > make an egg re- ive rdovcmeqt upon the ranks f infempa’.anee... and 1;- wo:vl Has never pvy j aentc-d a mere r fs-t institution ibv the attainment lof a given end, and ;i r this hour it is the only one to | which the b i -of temper/uice can look with con ! mience, to carry -forward ihetefofa>. The uncouht fed xnuiiitudo i.f kindred Associations which have ! beer? organ : zed sin* • the Order, whether they orig ! inated in true benevolence, or to -gratify ambitious [. spirits, Trvc only served to weaken the Son-, and j distract am-’ divide the anny of ‘temperance. The policy of: ultiplying S'.’cieties has been disastrous ; to the cause .f-Temperance. If there are desirable ■•. ad popular natures n otlrc-r Associations, which are not embraced in the Sons of Temperance, thar Ordtr was so eonatruced that its constitutions, forms, and ‘ceremonies coaid be changed every year to suit the devrioptoent*} of the times, and tho enlarged experi ence and constantly accumulating wisdom of its mc-uib-.is. if t t Order has not a com .dished all that might b vc been ac*- oingi’shecl, .what Association has, or Could have, done more, under the same circumstan ce-? It is a niaiur of ;>.-ta!iisimignt that it has with . stood so vveli tho a-vaults made upon it: and the fact I that is to-day the yuiti temperance organization in the world, ought to inspire every one of its mem bership .with hope and confidence for tire future.- Nothing but iht- protection and favor of God could ha .e e. -aught ouv,p; and rin safety to this hour, if it had not been that (he Lend was On our side, we, should have ceased to exist Hancock Fair. f’e have i-ceehod a “Premium fast*’ for tho An* nual Fair of the Planter’s Club oi Hancock to be held at Sparta, on .0 ‘ 12th, 13th, 1 I til. and TSlh days of November, next inbrth. We would like to he itbh to lay the ID? viore oar readers, but its great length f -rbids. Ficmiunis are offered for almost every specic-s of human industry and ingeni ty, and for all kind:- Offdomestic Animals. The ft 1 lowing are some pi :.he general heads. Field Crops, Samples of I* ieffi Crops, Horses and Mules, Cattle, Sheep, Sw hi-.*, Poultry, House De partment, Needy YV ork, &c. y Kinbroidery, Domes tic Manufactures. FmUs, Vegetables, Manufactures, Mechanics, &c. Ac. Under each of these heads are enumerated almost every no fblo varietv ol Samples appertaining thereto, and for each and all 0! them Picmiumsworth contending im- ai offered. The Pis’ ■ lev’s Ciuh of Hancock s'rends second only to the State Pair. Any one :ii our .-uimedhitc'vicinity wishing to sec this Premium Lis: can do so by calling in our Sane turn. - —•" r - G-ourgia Wevirs, | Green, tho wife of Lemuel Green, committed Suicide on Sat m day night- last, a? the 1 ‘oweta board ing nous?, in Golumbus, by swallowing r vial each 0. ly.uuanuth Ih. 1 oil o* clov es. Brutal treatment on the part of her husband is said to h .ve been the cause oi ber-tnii-i putting ;vtv end to her nvissrablo exigence. •Tames Pines, wh*? vas accused of murdering his wite, stool has tr.al in Preston, Webster county, last week, an<! was found guilty. The Court sentenced him to be hanged on ihc rH'th of Noveoiber. Tne Bainbridge Arc,fig suggests the name of j>r. ‘ James 0. Sei even, of Savannah, for the Presidency ot the .nain Trunk Railroad Cmnpr.ny. i he heard of Directors of Pic F; t Tennessee and i .eoigia raiiroad met at tbe oiflcc- in Athens, Teim., on Wednesday, the Sth ms!.,* and re-organized by re-electing Maj. C. Wal’acc, Preside.,t, and Maj. B. C. Jackson, Score-ary and Treasurer .a-ad Superin tendent oi Transportation. an. Benjamin t onley and hrothir, were engaged in bn-tang in a \velb in Athens, on the Bth inst., wlien an aceidental -explosion took place, killing Mr. B. Goal y ands vcr-ly injuring his brother.’ He leaves a wife and five ch ldreu. > iulJjahai.- This iniul affection may be easily pX -’-PPBeationt- of Perry Davis’ Vegeta iam Kilicr. It is equally effectual in curing sceius, *u;i-bs, Ac. -\uiamily should be without it. rcr the cure of Jtyspcpma. The Oxygenated Bit tei.-- bm tor entitled to confidence than any reme !P ‘’ n > “ n,t Tbetr peculiar action on the system, v vcner t!ic surprise ot those who have tried various medicines unbout benefit. ° -- lununfir- Payments for the Crusader. 1 “’id be 00, served that in making out our re ceipts, those* who bare paid up to the same date are c’ s anged togotiser, whiudi ttale h placed to tlie last name. o i lkrxnham \\ 1> Barksdale .J R Browning, to J ;' n :8; V; -.j Shank and J M Huey ro Jan ’SB; W G_- R ; ;.'*‘ TS’ Hammond, J C tffiapel J Arnold to Feb W G Foray th, Bev J Oliver and E McWhorter to April ’57; \V Zcig'.ar to June •’57; T \ Reid, to July ’->7; P D Dole, to Aug ’56; C II .rohnson and J A A Giduun to Aug ‘56; J A Wilson, J P Hurt, R i'l Les tev, V. I Tuggie, G A P Whitfield, Rev J Harris, J Shank and A ’Shaw to Sept ’57; E Richards L B * Fleetwood, Amanda G Hcwctt, Jit Mai 3, L Edwards, F L Neidiinger and P, M Gilliam to Oct ’57; Mrs J ZellftiK to Oe? 56; W P Shod Jo Nov ’67; ASJohn *so_n $2, O P Johnson #*l, J E Bryce s3 l what office) Vv L Martin : y sl. N B-Powell $3, Mary E Blackman $3, H I 1 Jones sl, \Y A Burton sl, T L Stroud sl, D W Roas $2.50.