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JOB PRINT IN O, of every description, done with neatness and dispatch, at this office, and at reasonable prices for cash. Ah orders, in this department, must bo addressed to ,1 T. BLAIN. ff nsi? e l I s i ? s ‘OF THE TiipiMi ram [quondam] TEMPERANCE BANNER. 1 CTUATEL) by a conscientious desire to further ‘ jTjL the cause of Temperance, and experiencing j great disadvantage in being too narrowly limited in | space, by the smallness oi out paper, for the publica- * tion of Reform Arguments and Passionate A pp* ate, i we have determined to enlarge it to a more convc- j nient and acceptable size. And being ixntfii ■*>'■ of j tiie fact that there are existing in * r,e mb 4 <d n large portion of the present reader* of to- K< .<, and its former patrons, prejudices ami i eh which can never be removed so long as it r-: ifie , name, we venture also to make a change in that par ticular, It will henceforth be called, “‘THE TEM PER AN CE CMUSAD ER, ” This old.pioneer of the Temperance- cause is des tined vet to chronicle the triumph of its principles. It has Stood the test—passed through the “fiery fur nace ” anfi, like the “Hebrew children,” re-appeared unscorched, ft has survived the newspaper famine wbieh has caused, and is still causing many excel lent journals and periodicals to sink, like “bright ex haltions tn the even hi to rise no more, and it has even heralds [ th • “death struggles of many contem poraries, laboring for the same great end with itself. It “still livys,” and “waxing bolder as it grows older,” is now waging an eternal “Crus.-nlo” against the “In fernal Liquor Traffic,” standing like the “High Priest” of the Israelites, who stood between the people and toe plague that threatened destruction. We entreat the friends of the Temperance Cause to asive ps their influence in extending the usefulness of the paper. We intend presenting to the public a sheet worthy of all attention and a liberal patronage; for while it is strictly a Temperance Journal , we shall endeavor to keep its readers posted on ail the current events throughout the country. as heretofore, sl, strictly in advance. JOHN H. SEALS, Editor and Proprietor. punfiold, Ga., Doo. 8, 1855. Debotei) to (Temperance. Moraliti), literature, (general Intelligence, Hetus, £e. SeXecKumg* The Vermont Cousin.* i V CAPITAL <TOHV FOfc YOUNG I.A Mils. —n— “ft is too provoking, isn’t it, that lather will in.sjs) upon in.viting that Yankee Cons iti to come and stay at our house and go to* school ! I don’t see, lor my part, how he catue to have such oountrvfied relations; hut-since he has. I think he might let ‘diem stay up among their own green mountains, instead ofbringing them down to mui til’y us in the city, with their awkward airs and nasal twang 1” Thus spoke out Miss Julia Acton to her younger sister Helen. aftc tiiev had retired to their room one evening, during which the expected arrival of the Vermont cousin had been one theme of conversation. ‘T am sure I have more reason to lie mor tified than you, Julia,” answered Helen, ‘•for I have to walk with her lu and from school, and, of course, I cannot conceal from them that she is my cousin, and 1 know that they will all ridicule her, and make- all man ner of Tun of her. Brother Ned stopped there jast year when he was traveling thro’ New England, and he says they all say meow,’ and ‘abeout,* and ‘dew tell,’ and I shall sink iTshe talks so before the girls.” “Well.J think no one fins as much* reason to dread her coming as i have.” answered Julia, “for-what do you think Herbert Fer guson will say when he linds we have such a set of Yankefied relations ; he has such a liorrer to everything unrefined, 1 would not wonder if he should desert me altogether, a tier site comes to the house,'rather than be brought info contact with anything so vulgar. He lias been more than usually at tentive too. lately, and Mamma says he is the greatest match.in town.” “Well, now, I have heard that Herbert hefguson cares only for intellect; that he thinks nothing of looks in comparison.” “i can tell you, you are mistaken, Miss Helen; if he has no regard for looks, as you say. you ought to know what he said to me lately; but no matter, I won’t tell you. I only wish Father wasn’t so obstin He, and Mamma is quite as much vexed about i-f as we are; why even the servants will laugh at her, l know—Thomas is so exces sively genteel.” “Well, well, it can’t be helped. Father feels under great obligations to Lucy’s lath er; the brothers all agreed that father should be sent to College, and the others remained fit home and worked on the farm, and pro vided the means oi his education, and now he believes lie ought to assist them in re turn. But one thing l would suggest. Miss Julia, and that is, that you have vour party over beiore she comes—o| course she will not go out as she ‘sonlv a school girl—but I know lather will insist upon having her in the room if we have company at home. “Well thought of, Helen; let’s see. I am engaged every night for a week to come; I certainly cannot get an evening till tbe lat ter part oi next week, oh ! 1 am so afraid she will come before that time,, it Nvill just spoil all my pleasure, and I expected so much.” 1 be invitations for Miss J ulia’s party were all sent out, and the extensive preparations were proceeding most swimmingly, when the very ciuv beiore that on which the, par ty was to be given, a stage loaded with trunks drew up before the door of Mr. Ac ton’s elegant mansion. From this, in the first, place, alighted a stout, sunburnt young termer, who was immediately followed by a slender gill oi about .sixteen years of age. — ims latter was none other than the much dreaded V ertnont Cousin. “Weil, il this isn’t a little tooMnuch !” ex claimed Miss Juba, who had been drawn to Die window by the bustle; “here is a clod hopper oi a man-cousin, too; this is rather more than we bargained for; 1 declare.” she continued, half crying with vexafjjpn. “if that man stays I will pretend I am sick, and countermand the invitation to my party.” Cousin Arthur Holmes proved to be a ve ry different, youth, and one dinner among such fine folks as the Actons was all he could stand. He was on his way to Yale College, his Uncle having from his own ob servations. and from what he had heard of the young man, been convinced that to keep him laboring upon a farm, without the advantages of education, would be to hide a •or a i/U.ditd a light which, ii trimmed mJ fed, and sulfered to shed its beams. ; Ui'gbt Mime forth for the illumination oi id ov. ft and future generations. And with this j expectation tie sought an.l obtained a wil | ling consent from his elder brother to his proposed plan of taking the education of Arthur under his care. As I said before. Arthur was not at all at ease among his fine’relatives, who, with the exception of his uncle, took no pains to make him l’eei so, and, therefore, to Miss Julia’s great relief, he took his departure the same evening for New Haven. Cousin Lucy—but I am afraid you will set her down as ugly, if I simply describe her features, and she is such a favorite of mine, that 1 could wish her to make a fa vorable impression upon my readers from the first. Now I cannot deny that Lucy had bright auburn hair ; Julia called itjred, but Julia was not always good natured, and did not always adhere so closely to the truth as she might. Lucy’s nose was slight ly inclined to turn up at the point and her complexion was one of those exceedingly PE NF IE LI). GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 18?)(). UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY ! fair ones which easily freckle ; but she had j a pair of the prettiest, laughing, deep blue eyes, and ttie sweete-t smile and the most brilliant teeth, and when she spoke or stnil- ! ed. (ami she seldom did one without the j other.). therb was n chaim about her whole j face which made you forget hair, and nose, j and freckles, and you only looked upon it j as a face to love; True, she had what Julia caHed a **Yan- j kec twang,” and she was not dressed in the j height of the latest fashion, hut in spite of these ora whacks you loved her stiil—at least some people did. There was a great deal more about Cousin Lucy, too, to call tor respect and admiration—but this will all come out in time. As she was, she had come, and now*.she must appear at the party, and he introduc ed as the cousin of the Misses Acton. It Was mortdying— was distressing—but there was no help for- it now. The evening <>f the party proved clear and bright, and as it. was well known that the entertainment at the Actons would he ► one of the most brilliant of the season, none of tiie invited who.could get there remain ed at home. By ten o’clock the brilliantly lighted rooms were well filled, Cousin Lucy simply attired in white cambric, (for she had rejected the ornaments and embellish ments with which her (’ousins, for their own sakes, would have adorned her) sat alone in one corner on the sofa. She was introduc ed to very few ; she did not look in the least neglected, however, but sat in unaffected enjoyment of the new and brilliant scene. An hour altsr the other guests were all assembled, there sauntered.in leisurely, as if for a call, with his hat under bis arm. and his slight little curie in his hand, an exquis ite of the first water, rejoh-mg in the eupho nious name of Mr-Meredith Fitz Henry.— This was one of those brilliant youths whose sole time during his day, which begins per haps at twelve o’clock, is spent lounging in saloons, studying the fashions, sauntering up and down Broadway, and staring at the ladies, or driving on the fashionable thor oughfares ; and in the evening dressing for tiie public entertainments, and attending them. He aims at being “The glass of fashion and the mould of form,” and has no higher ambition than to be stu died and copied as the perfection .of-dress. Me fancies himselfa Brnmmell as to man ners, and a Count d’Orsuy in point-of beau ty and grace. He may be handsome—we cannot tell—for the. immense amount of hair on lr!s face, renders it impossible to distinguish any feature, except a pair of great round light eyes, ami a short and effeminate nose. Occasionally he conde scended to smile, and then his white teeth gleamed through the mass of nair surround ing the lower part of his face, like light ning fro mu cloud. Mr. Meredith Fitz Henry, unfortunately, sets up for a wit, and his silly speeches are laughed at, ajnl repeated by sillier young ladies, till be hr refill v deluded into the be lief that they are worth r p tit ion. On entering Mr. Acton’s parlor, Mr. Meredith Fit*/. Henry,-with his glass to his eye, stared about ban with great nonchal ance ami impudence, Gil at length his at tention was attracted by tiie Vermont cou sin, sitting quietly in the corner, utterly unconscious of his observation. “Ah ! what vision ofhvvfitness aitdgrace is that I seg befinv me ?” ‘exclaimed lie to Miss Laura Wlton. a very voting lady, en joying her first winter out. This brilliant >iu eeh was greeted with the usual iiifer by the young lady, who was exceedingly fiiibo<d by oven this mark of attention iKon tiie periumed and be wlli< k• - red (•. xqu i e be. “Oh, that, is a conn try. cousin of die Ac ton:-, IV an Vt rmorti ; a farmerY da lighter, exclusively verdahL 1 assure you,” answer ed ihe \ onng Indy. “fmm t urtitinihi . is she t ah, well, T .suppose 1 TiiUsf pay V armoimt scene little attention ; 1 wonder.who will lay me un der everlasting obligations by giving ice an introduction to so fair a creature. “Oh, l will, ii.itreduce you, answered Miss Laura, in great giee, and then by signs she ieh gritph -d those m-ar her to l craw up to the so lb, aa giant tilth might tie expected. Grad i aßy the crowd thickened in that part ol the room, ail pretending to he engaged, in Something else, but all ea ger to hear the witty Meredith fitz rfeiiry quiz, tie* \ ermo<iticousiu, Herb.it Feigns on sar. qilietly looking over a book of plat.es at a table near the sofa, on which, tho iulrodUitt ion having now taken place in due form, tbo-pevfuui ed exqnisito threw himseii wirb Ids head ‘brown bail?, and bis delicate little shin ing boots tln list out, dutc i mined to show fiiinsi If off’ to his admirers, and have some fun out of the uususpieiou.s country gwh “Ahem! lately “arrived, 1 believe,’ said Fitz Henry. “Yes, sir, i came yesterday,” answered Lucy, very simply. A few more questions were asked, to which Lucy replied in a perfectly lady-like •maimer, thinking all the thoe that she was conversing with a very soft* pa ted coxcomb, but being too good-natured to let him see haw great a fool she thought him. At length the exquisite remarked, “Everything’s very gre*ui up there in Vei rnont, ain’t it!” This witticism was followed by such a giggle, that Lucy casting her eyes quickly round on the group before her, and seeing. tiie look of eager expectation on almost ev ery sane, understood, at once that the siliy fop at her sale was intending t” make a butt of her, for the aniuserneuf of the. by-stand ers: brightening up in t on'e, she began to take an interest in the conversation, and re plied: “Oh, yes, we have green tilings- there, but 1 have seen greener ones already since 1 came to the city.” “No! dew tell!” said the unsuspicious dandy, imitating Lucy's tone of voUe, “how’s wheat neowT” “Weil, wheat’s poor,” said Lucy, appa-! rently with much interest. ‘-La, is it now, what a pity! what’s the matter of it?” “Why, they say it all runs to hear/l this year, and when that is the case, there is lit tle or no head —and if there is, it hasn’t any thing in it!” A few laughed heartily now who had not laughed before, and Herbert Ferguson, lay ing down his book, fixed bis eyes on tiie Vermont cousin, as if be expected some amusement. The young fop fidgett.ed and turned red, and tapped his little boot with his little cane, and laughed a silly laugh, as if he did not know just what to make of the girl, and then said: “Now, 1 suppose you mean to grace the theater and opera with your presence, don’t you?” ■< “I think dot,” said Lucy. “La! now, why not? But perhaps vour ma does not approve of going t<> such places.” “Mv parents did say they thought 1 had better not have my mind distracted by such amusements, and especially while l was at school.” “Well, it is bad for the mind; i found it so, and pa. had to prohibit my going to such places at all.” , Here came a perfect shriek of delight from Mr. Fitz Henry’s admirers. “Ah!” answered Lucy. “1 should have thought that you were perfectly safe from any danger of that kind; did you ever go to a menagerie ?” “No, my pa won’t let me go there, either; he keeps me very close.” “Oh !” said Lucy, in a patronizing tone, “I should not think that would hurt you.— We had a very fine one through our country village this fall, and I was perfectly delight ed with it.” “Now dew tell! what did you see?” ask ed the dandy. “Why I saw a babboon dressed up liken j man, a regular fop, you know; -and really,” said site, screwing up her eyes, and looking at Mr. Fitz Henry from head to foot, “real ly the likeness was so perfect that I should hardly been able to tell which was which; it was really perfect, cane, eye glass, and all—but I never imagined that one of the first exhibitions I should see on my arrival in New York city would be that of a man endeavoring to see how much he could look and act like a babboon.” The room now fairly rang with shouts and screams of laughter; and as soon as he could be heard, Herbert Ferguson, who had enjoyed the whole thing mightily, called out : “Novy. Fitz Henry, you had belter beat a retreat as soon as possible, for vou are only getting deeper into t rouble.” And the discomfited young coxcomb who had just begun to perceive that lie was caught in ins own trap, muttered something about “another engagement.” and sneaked j off’, ail that could lie seen of Ids face being | of deep crimson. From thence tiie Vermont ; cousin was quite safe from his unticks; in- j deed be seemed so thoroughly uneasy in her ! pre-dice, limt if she even came on the same ; side of the room, which she sometimes did j on purpose to tease him. he always had! some excuse for changing his seat. “‘Why, Lucy, you were rather hard on j thai poor young man to-night,” said Mr. Ac j ton to his hieee, after the company had re- i ti.ied, “and it must have set tiie harder, be cause dels accustomed to nothing but latinn from our wise young ladies.” “Wei!, uncle, all l can say is. I;.e brought it upon himself. It is very unU (efisan * j to hurl, the teehngs ot anv one, and 1 was perfectly civil [o the yq,,ing man, though it was something est a piece ofselfdeuial to talk to the poor creature, till 1 found that it was his aim to hold me up to ridicule as an unsophisticated country girl. I thought it was only fair to turn his own weapons against him.” “1 think so too, Lucy, and I rather think it is the last li4ne one here will attempt to quiz you,*’ Helen Acton and Lucy Holmes began school together the next term at otic ot the first schools in the city, and it was not long bqfore those who had Lucy’s education un der their care, became convinced that in the Vermont young lady they had no ordinary mindto jleal with.* She came really to ac quire knowledge — while most of the girls in the classes with her looked upon their school life as a sort of ordeal through which It was necessary to pass, before they could come out as young ladies, and spent their lime in novel-reading, trusting to chance or cheating for the manner in which they should acquit themselves betore the class. Ley applied herself intensely, and soon outstripped all her classes, and was obliged to go on with her studies by herself. At ev ery examination, she was th# observed of all observers—excelling in every branch ol'| study, .f><l talcim? the first prize •in every i department; her compositions in particular! were, regarded as master pieces; and in short l.ucy was the pride of the school. During the two years of her life in New York, her manners, too,had acquired a pol ish only given by association with people of refinement, and even Julia was proud to introduce her cousin, “Mis Holme*.’’ Lu cy’s example and assistance were of great use to Helen, who proved under her influ ence a very dilTerent. character trom what she would have been it left only to the gui dance ol her gay and lashionable sister.— Though inferior in intellect to Lucy, site* was still far superior to the superficial young ladies with whom she associated; she really learned to love know lege lor its own sake, and prepared on leaving school to relish a style ot reading more improving than the light trashy works of the day, which form the only reading of many of our young la dies. Helen was really a very fine girl, and uncommonly attractive and interesting. During the two years in which Lucy made her home at her uncle’s. Herbert Ferguson continued to be a constant visitor there, and Julia often wondered that he made no declaration. When thinking on the subject she exclaimed, “Strange! un accountable 1” varany a time and often, du ring those two years. She wondered, too. that Herbert seemed to love so much to talk to Lucy; but still her self-complacency was never in tlie least disturbed by the (bought ofLucyasa rival. And, throughout those two years, Arther f lolir.es, who had entered in the junior class at Yale, ranked ns high in his class ns his sister did in hers. Being a young man of line principles, as well as splendid intellect, ho was determined to show his uncle that he intended to make the most of the advan tage he had so kindly furnished him. At the end of two years he graduated with the highest honors, and was immediately offer ed a distinguished professorship in another college. Wno would now recognise in the easy and elegant Arther Holmes, the difli ; dent young “ clmi-hoppor.” who alighted from the stage years before, at uncle’s door. Helen and Lucy had graduated, the lat ter taking all the highest prizes, and Helen coining only second to her, and the next day Lucy was to leave for her Vermont home, when, quite curly lit the morning, at least early fur visitors, as it was not yet I twelve o’clock, in looking from the window. : Julia-sa w Mr. Ferguson ascending the steps, j “Strange 1” said she, “ he never calls soj early, and oh dear! 1 am notdre-sed! he 1 must have come for something special.” And in a flutter of excitement J ulia began ! to arrange her hair. But he/ hair was ar-j ranged, and her toilet completed, and no i messenger had conic to summon her to the! parlor. Pulling the he!i. she called to Thomas and | asked him if Mr. Ferguson had not called. -Yes'. Miss,” Thomas answered. -And why did you not call me.?” How ; can you be. so stupid?” “Because he asked for Miss Lucy,” repie ed Thomas. “ Strange ! unaccountable 1” exclaimed Julia, ns she walked up and down the room, her cheeks flushed with agitation. “What can he want with Loey? perhaps he wishes her to make interest for him with /no, or, to ascertain my sentiments towards h m.” | But the minutes wen* by. and Julia had 1 exclaimed, “Strange! unaccountable!” a! dozen times, and yet no one came to call! her. Presently her little brother Harry! came rushing up stairs, ha vine just cc from school. •‘Just like me!” he exclaim'* ’ ‘ Wui.derii.ft in where I uin\ must ido lust, now hi” . • , ~ , .. J burst into tne libra ry, and there sat * r> .. , .t r ..sT. I*erguson on the sofa with his arm • i . • i , r , . , . ~ronnd cousin Lucy. They loM . t 0 awa y b° ni each other, and , 10 -s it nothing was going on; 1 saw 11 ’hough it all.” < Juba had now more reason to exclaim j ‘‘‘Strange !” -unaccountable !” than ever, — j Arthur came for his sister, and Herbert | Ferguson, too, accompanied her home as i iter affianced lover; and thus ended all Miss i Juba’s hopes and expectations, j “Isn’t it. odd, J ulia?” said Helen one day, i a tew months later. “You were so afraid * to have Luty come here, lest it should drive ; Herbert Ferguson from the house. She i has been the cause ot Ins deserting you, to • he sure, hut not from any dislike to her, or ! mortification at being connected with her.” “Well, 1 am sure it is no less strange !” i answered Julia, -that you are engaged to I that same awkward; shy ‘man-cousin.’ of ! whom we were both so ashamed two years I ago.” “It only teaches us,” said Helen, “not to judge too hastily tram first appearances.— Who would have thought that we should ever so much reason to he proud of them both?” Herbert Ferguson and his Wife now hat© one of the most elegant establishments in the city. Arthur and Helen went to Eu rope directly alter their marriage ; Arthur having been sent on business tor the Fol iage. with which he is still connected. Ju lia lives still in single blessedness. Mr. Meredith Fitz Henry may still be seen any fine day lounging up or down Broadway at the hour when ladies “most do congregate” there; and one of the high est objects of his ambition now ia to be able at least to say that he is an inyited_gmaUiL TiniMS: SI.OO IN ADYANCi JAMES J? SLAIN, PR f WEIS. VOL. XXtl.-M'MBKR il the elegant ands uch talked of enieuaiiMj merit- of the once ridiculed Vermont sin. Anticipated tfnion of all Nations. I 1 hero is an >id Arabian •talc in whtclfl t hree young princes arc represented as iutvl ing obtaim and p<>su-sM>m of three impir-fl mcntß, the works of the genii, vvhiffi werel esteemed the mo>r wonderful of which man* had yet hoard. There was a small tv.Jet.-B cope which could assist the sight of the ob-1 server t<. penetrate tie>Uoau<is of mih> from I ;he. -put on which he stood. There was a I carpet which transported any one who took I his station upon it *wlfr a* a wish to any I place to which he desired logo. There was I an apple which healed all diseases of the I patient, but inhaled the fragrance of it- sun ny rind. Syycli were the subjects of the tales with winch the Arabs soothed the mo notony of their midnight encampments, and which the Indian story teller related to his swarthy audience under the arch-of the city gate in the short twilights of the East. The imaginations of the most imag inative races bad Jbeon taxed to their ut most stretch to conceive what miracles could he performed if the supernatural powers might lie made favorable to man. and such were the results. Science in these modern times, and human reason, acting as we blieve, under the immediate guid ance ut Providence, have outstripped these fanciful legends of the Eastern world. - There is-no oriental poet who ventured to imagine that a dweller in Damascus or Bagdad could communicate ids thoughts to the utmost limits of the habitable world instantaneously ns they were conceived in Ids own brain. The notions of physical geography were so limited that the Fuis - ern had no conception of the true form of the planet which wo inhabit. Had they, however, been told that the world was a sphere, and that the thought of man could be made to encompass it like a girdle, ra pidly ns the flash which rent the cloud* asunder add passed away ere one could say that it. had-lightened, how poor in com parison with such a result would all the wonders have appeared, which, as they supposed, lay hidden from human eye ami sealed for ages to come under the sacred signet of'Solomon. The electric telegraph is the miracle ♦>! modern times. As yet this invention is hut in its infancy; but already all Europe is tra versed by its wires, and the continent, too, of North America. In the course of the next two or three years, we trust to see re sults far more extensive. The wire is al ready coiled up which is to be cast into the depths of the Atlantic. The mountains and valleys of that great sea have been fathom ed to ascertain the most convenient course for its deposit, In’ a brief space, the elec tric spark which is generated in London will pass as swiftly as tiie exigencies of its own nature require to trie great cotton city on the delta of the Mississippi, and U> that rude town, whichever it may be which may then-lie further w estward in the domains of the buffalo and the red man. Contempora neously with this gigantic result, we have other laborers in the same field at work, who are busily engaged in fixing the true rod for the electric spark between th~ ” -** .pcau consilient and the northe- y cinro- Africa. This"limit once o’ .* a snores ot ning thought cun lias 1 ytained, the light ncross the old la* ireeiv on its course er hv the P * utl liie Egyptian, vvheth- Mesu- Sea w . ?<•* V plains of ... jAjtamia, to the cities of our Indian em , and m due time, no doubt to the great ] centres ot Chinese commerce.- Nor is this aii. Ine wire which had been laid down ltom London in one direction will soon be carried to the city of the California gold dig ger. The corresponding wire, on which we have just marked a few (stations, will then be borne ar.ioss the Chinese seas and j the Northern Pacific—touching, it mav be ! on its way at the mysterious empire of Jr. j pau. and will he linked ou at San Frane.isco to the Western chain. Then it will happen that a man may generate a spark at. Lou don, which, with one fiery leap, will return hack under his hand and disappear; but in thru moment of time it will have encom passed the planet on which we are whirling through space into internity. That spark will be a human thought! We await with impatience the. complex ion ol our own Indian tim sof’telegraph, and ot their connection with ihe mother coun try. r l tie election union of the Canadas with the British isles is but lii& iWliiir of h few months, nor meed we despair of ulti mately seeing the extension of the system to our Australian colonies. Then indeed .the British dominionswill.he concentrated into one vast whole.— London Times. TJMYd you know, says a traveler in Cent ml America, that Washington had been placed in the calendar of saints? There is u church at Rivas, over the principal por tal of which is a very well executed bust of the leader of the American Revolution, and on inquiry of a native of the town, 1 was in formed that it was a bust of the “good saint, George Washington.” I confess that as I passed this church I felt like taking off my hat, and I did it—not because of custom, hut because I couldn’t help it. 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