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The Beautiful Gate.
BY MISS KIMBALL. n
The beautiful gate of sleep is barred,
0 angel within!
The panels of pearl with diamonds-starred
Give back no sound to my feeble knock ;
Thave no key that will turn the lock !
How long must I wait?
O evermore and forevermore
Must f stand at the beautiful gate ?
My garments are thin—-my sandals worn, i
Sweet angel-within!
How piercing the blast—how sharp the thorn !
The night is cheerless-^—theiwind is wild!
My bruised heart sobs like a pftiful child'!
How long must 1 wait?
0 evermore and forevermore
Must I stand at the beautiful gate ?
If I were a queen I’d give my crown,
0 angel within!
Or famed, I would lav.rny laurels down ;
Or rich, I’d yield thee mv treasured gold,
For thy sweet shelter from raintand'cold !
How long must I wait?
O evermore and forevermore ?
Would T pass'through the beautiful gate!
A Pretty Lyric.
We’ll part no more, Oh, never!
Let gladness deck thy brow,
Our hearts are joined forever
By each religious vow.
Misfortune’s clouds have vanished,
That caused our bosoms pain;
And every care is banished,
No more to come again.
•Hope’s star is brightly burning
Within its brilliant dome,
And tells of joy returning
To cheer our rural home.
It shines through gloom to gladden,
Dispelling grief and care,
For sorrow ne’er can sadden
While it remaineth there.
’Mid flowery vales we’ll wander,
And by the laughing stream,
Our bosoms growing fonder
’Neath Love’s enchanting beam.
In yonder cot reposing
In plenty, side by side, *
Each morn fresh joys disdosffig,
Through life we’ll genUyiglide.
Xew York iHsqmtcJi.
Self Support
A relies of brick orstone.iire always built
upon a form or arch of wood, which is sup
ported by shoars or bests. Ou this form,
or wooden arch, the true arch is built, or
‘•turned, ‘ as it is called in masonry, awd
when the keystone or central cv-urse of
brick is laid, so as to bring together the
two sides of the arch, the fonu.,.or pattern,
may be taken out and the arch will be
self-supporting. It is usual, however, to
build above the arch to a considerable dis
tance before the supports of the wooden
arch are knocked out.
On one occasson, however, a builder had
got too much weight ou the centre of an
arch, and that centre being supported by
the wooden arch, and the masonry having
shrunken so that the lent of the arch did
not rest very firmly on their foundations,
they began to spread out. On seeing this
the workmen became alarmed mid started
to run, expecting a eras!) ; but the master
builder, wiser than the rest in respect, to
the principle sos the arch, seized, a sledge
hammer and knocked out iho wooden sun
port which had sustained the arch, and
which was now destroying if, and this ].
lowed tin- whole pressure to come equally
on every portion of the a cb, when it in
stan!iy became fixed and self-supporting,
and the more burden v; s then put upon it
the stronger it became.
‘Does any y*nng man detect in this n
moral, applicable to his own character and
the training to which he has been subjec
ted? Has lie been reared in luxury am!
ease, and sheltered ami protected by his
parents and friends? Does he lean on his
friends and fed indmed (< avoid respond
bilit.yi and live under the guidance-of oth
ere, and be secured from danger in his
course ? If so, let him knock out the sup
pos ts and leave the arch to settle down
upon its own bearings, ami become self
supporting.
Nearly every man of note. w!m stands
self-poised, and infincuhul
in community, was early thrown upon ai
own resources. Tim yoytlfful Cii.eS, witl
his entire property tied in a coft.m L-anu
kerchief and hung'over Els shoulder tat a
r:ugh stick, crossed life Alleghanies and
Imried himself in the western wilderness.
Daniel worked Lis way to fame
and the course, of ku'ig>. from having “nut
two red cents,’ as he s ’•* in a it*! ter to ins
brother, and being among sln*>u;i_ ri rs and
unknown. Henry Ciav way the poo? dmiil
boy df the slashes,” and became a jieer 01
tiie ablest statesmen and greatest orators
ot Ijis age. ‘ Jackson was a poor orphan
boy, and by dint of uncoyijumvsbie energy
and self reliance .made “him seif master of a
signal position, and sodayeti for rears the
destiny of his age and .nation. Xapole-m
was a poor soldier, am! carved out lor him
self a name, and taught the whole of Eu
rope to tear him. Roger Sherman va§ a
shoemaker, but fee-ling thejspint of great
ness struggling for he- took the
hint and signed the Declaration of Inde
pendence. ‘ ’
But why enumerate? Everywhere in
the different walks of life we tend those
most effective and intffuntial who were
early thrown upon their own powers, ’ and
thus were called into the rough experi
ences of life, arid .became trained to hear
storrps and heardship®, and to accomplish
great deeds.
The sons of the wealthy, ace sometimes
called in early 4 life to brave dangers, to en
gage in large business and manly enter
prises, like Washington, an develop
high and noble aspirations mid energies;
but in the main the sons or the rich are
too apt to become like hot house plants,
by ove -muchcare and brooding, and thus
they are smothered, weakened, and spoil
ed. - p ‘
r J’iie old eagle drives her young -put of
the nesi to try their wings, and tffus quali
ty them to cleave and rise above tin?
storm.
Let the supports be knocked out eo that
ev* ry one ehaii be brought to test his own
powers, and then will manly’ vigor, self-re
liance, planning -talent, and executive ’em
ergy be dcvleoped, for the success of inbi
viduals and the g6ou of society.
What a Woman Can Do.
Asa wife and mother, woman can make
the fortune and happiness ot her husband
and children; and if she did nothing else,_
surely this would W sufficient ’ destiny.—
By her thrift, prudence and tact, she can
secure to her partner and herself a compe
tence in old age, no matter how small
their beginning or how adverse fate may
hi theirs, ljy her cheerfulness she can
restore her husband V spirit, shaken by the
anxieties of business. By her tender care
she can often restore him to health if dis
ease’ has overtasked his powers. By her
counsel and her love she can win him
from bail company, if temptation in an
evil hour has led him astray. By her ex
ample, her precepts, and her sex’s insight
into character, she can mould her children,
however adverse their disposition, into
noble men and women. And by leading
in .ail tilings a true and beautiful life, she
can refine, elevate and spiritualize all who
come within reach ; so that, with others of
her sex emulating and assisting her, Mie
can do more to regenerate the world than
all the statesmen or reformers that ever
legislated. She can do much, alas peihaps.
more, to degrade man. if she chooses to do
ft.
Who can estimate the evils that woman
has the power to do? Asa wife, she can
ruin her husband by extravagance, folly or
want of affection. She can make a devil
and an outcast of a man, who might oth
erwise become a good member ot society.
She can bring bickerings, strife andafifscord
into what has been a happy home. She
can change the innocent babes, whom God
has intrusted to her charge, into vile men
and even into vile women.
Instead of making flowers of truth, pu
rity, beauty and spirituality spring up in
her footsteps', till the earth smiles with her
loveliness that is almost celestial, she cart
transform it to a black and blasted desert,
covered with the scorn of all evil passion,
and swept by the bitter blast of everlast
ing death. This is what woman can do
for the wrong as well as for the right. Is
her mission a little one ? Has she no wor
thy work, as has become the cry of late?
Man may have a harder task to perform,
a rougher path to travel, but lie has none
loftier or more influential than woman’s.
The Youth of Nations.
In the old age and of na
tions, there is a coming decrepitude of
mind, of energy, of genius, of all that con
stitutes worth and character in nations.—
Man is a different being then. His very
blood seems tainted. If mind is not per
ished, it is devoted to trifling and not to
utility. If genius lives, it is exercised for
little else than the purposes of luxury and
indolence. . Rome, Egypt, are examples.
Hopeless, then, almost hopeless, is any
attempt to help man in his decline, and
ait ‘st the downward progress of a nation
which has reached its summit, and com
menced the down ward and dreadful march
of degeneracy. History lacks example of
the resurrection of a nation once gone
down to tiie tomb of its glory. Other na
tions come in upon its soil, perhaps—
plant their standards—commence thtjr
upward work —catch something of the in
spiration of great hyss from the grandeur
and glory and refinement of the very tem
ples and tombs which they despoil ; and
rise to commendable manliness on the
ashes of departed glory. This is common.
Bnt the downhill course of blood is never
arrested. Such is history. • Its tale may
be ssd, but its lesson is deeply iustj;uc
tive.
Our Teeth.
It is often asserted that the teeth of the
present generation are much inferior to
those of the generations who have passed
ns. We wish that someone of our many
dentists would prove literary enough to
give us a dental history. We should be
astonished, probably, at. the dental evils of
other days. Evidences of the use of false
teeth by. the Romans two thousand years
ago. were found among the ruins of Pom
pel!. Three hundred years ago. Martain
Luther complained of the toothache : and a
German ambassador at the Court of Queen
Elizabeth spoke of the weakness and im
perfection of the English people’s teeth,
which he attributed to their custom of eat
ing a great deal of sugar. Shakspeare
makes one of his characters speak of being
kept -awake by a “raging fang,” Roger
Williams was struck by the imperfect teeth
of the Narragansett Indians, whom tooth
ache and decayed teeth troubled exceeding
ly. George Washington had a set of arti
ftdaHeeth. for which lie paid five hundred
dollars. Napoleon always had bad teeth,
and was especially troubled with them at
‘St. Helena. Walter Scott speaks.at a com
paratively early period of life, of dental
troubles, and wishes he had lome “fresh
teeth.” Such are a very few facts which
come up in our poor memory concerning a
somewhat interesting matter. We would
like to nave many more of them. For our
own part, we have no doubt that dentists
were iu demand at the court of Cliedorlao
mey.
It is often said by earless observers that
bad teeth belong to weak constitutions, or
are found attendant upon poor health.—
Such is a very great mistake, as any one
will discover who looks carefully about
him.— N. Y. Express Messenger.
L Bead Calm in the Facific.
We were once for ten days, in so com
plete a calm, that the animalculae died,
and the ocean exhaled from its bosom on
all sides a most insufferable stench. In
stances of this kind illustrate the utility
and necessity or winds and the agitation of
tlfe seas ; absolute calms, continued for
any considerable period, in the winds and
waves, would pi'oye equally fatal to all
manner of anima! life. The respiration of
all animal 3, whether the function be car
ried on,by lungs or gills, or other organs,
is essential to their,, being. Those living
on land breathe the atmosphere, and rob
it, at each inspiration, of a portion of oxy
gen. which principal is necessary to exist
ence ; those inhabiting the deep derive the
same principle from the wafers, though by
different means; and in both cages, the
air, pr water, thus deprived of its vital
principle, must be replaced by fresh sup
pli&, or in a very shffrt time all the oxy
gen in-their vicinity is exhausted, and the
animals, whether of sea or lahd, must per
ish.— - Voyage, Round tfe World.
The Beauty of Humility.
“In Jesus we see no display. He empt
ied hirhselfofglory, as we pour the con
tents of ;ygoblet on the sands. There was
in him no exaltation of high conceit. Tie
willingly let it all go, the greatness that was
by right his. He stood in a low condition,
and associated himself with vulgar compa
ny, and wore a common dress, and lived in
the houses of the people; he used the plain
talents of good sense and sober speech, and
guided himself by the modest lamp of con
science, and veiled his miracles in the home
ly guise of charity ; he journeyed after the
manner ot the poor, on toot, and instructed
the common people in the unostentatious
form of parables.*’
Cj \t Cempcnmcc Cnreakr.
PENFIEI.D, CxEORGTA.
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Macon, Hancock and Warrenton Rail Road.
We were truly gratified, daring our recent visit to
the capitol of Hancock, at finding the citizens of the
county so thoroughly aroused to the great necessity
and peremptory demand for the proposed and long
talked of Rail Road through that county. We think
the signs of the times warrant the assertion, that the
construction of the Road is an established certainty.
The people of Charleston, Augusta, along the pro
posed route, Macon and Columbus, are all manifest
ing deep interest in it. The building of this Road
will not be a mere experiment, for a recapitulation
of the practical benefits originating.from
its construction, stamps the enterprise as one which
admits of no vague theoretical hypothesis. Its es
tablishment is not shrouded in mists of doubt and
uncertainty, and every relative circumstance, re-af
finns the fact that it will be no hazardous investment.
It will open up the most direct line possible between
Charleston, Augusta and Macon and Columbus, —
indeed it would become the line of travel between
the Northern Atlantic and all the South-western
States, and doubtless would become’ the great tho
roughfare of transportation and importation between
those portions of country; the extension of the South-
Western, Mobile, and Girard Rail Roads will be
great tributaries to it. These Roads will largely
augment the quantity of staple produce which will
come to Macon, and that, in addition to what, is al
ready carried there by the South-Western Road, will
amount, according to an estimate made, to a half
million of bales, and -immense quantities of this cot
ton will undoubtedly take the Macon and Warrenton
Road for Augusta and Charleston. Augusta is per
haps as good a cotton market as any in the State,
and this increase of business will greatly improve
the market. This thoroughfare will break down
monopolies on all sides, —freights will be reduced
on all commodities,—-Goods will sell cheaper to cus
tomers, and all kinds of business will prosper pr -
digiously.
Particularly are the counties through which the
surveyed route goes, interested. The citizens of
Baldwin have long been oppressed by an unmerciful
monopoly on the part of Rail Roads, having but one
outlet, —this Road will ease them of that galling
yoke. This county also contains our capitol, and it
stands there almost in obscurity, far removed from
all other portions, without any means of access; hun
dreds of miles of travel and expense on the part of
naembeits of the Legislature would be saved by this
Road. Meu/bers from Northern parts of the State
are compelled to travel mile after mile unnecessarily,
in order to reach the? 1 ’ scats, during which time the
interest* of State may si'fer vastly. The people of
Jones county are aware of the practical importance
of the Road to them, and they arc taking hold with
the proper spirit. Especially is Hancock interested
in this enterprise, for it is one of the wealthiest and
most intelligent counties of our State, aad yet it
stands isolated and alone. The citizens of the cen
tral portions have no landing for their produce nearer
than twenty miles on the one hand and twenty-five
on the other. This Road will immediately connect
them with all portions of the State, and it will infuse
a “ newness of life ” into every department of busi
ness. The Georgia Rail Road is also largely inter
ested in the Road, for it will contribute to it an im
mense quantity of freight, all of which would bo
clear gain and none of which it can ever got in any
other way. An estimate has been made of the
amount which this Road would contribute to the
Georgia Road, for cotton, and if we mistake not, it
amounted to about fitc hundred ‘'thousand dollars
annually.
We trust the peoplo will not suffer the great in- ..
terest whieh is now being manifested in-this great
enterprise to flag until it is curried through. Keep
the waters troubled, and numbers of influential peo
ple who are not as yet posted upon lhe peremptory
demand Tor the Road, will step in, and lend able,
helping n.inds to the movement. We trust the* Con
vention on this subject to be held in Augusta on the
TBth of January ni*Xt, will be productive’ of great
good,-- of something decisive.
Books’ have been opened, for subscripts n along
the route, and reports will be made at the Conven
tion of the amount ol stock taken.
’ —•> 1
Thought.
Some men say that speech is the distinguishing
feature between man and other animals, and some,
say form. Were we to name any mark of distinc
tion above all others, it would be the mysterious,
wonderful and unrivaled power” of thought. In
speech he may be imitated, though never equaled
by the songsters of the feathered tribe. fr dignity
and beauty of form he is far surpassed by the.lordly
lion or the graceful peacock. But as a thinking be
.ng, he occupies an elevation to which n > brute can
ever approach. In the vast domain of reason he is
“monarch of all he surveys,” and need fear no rival
to dispute his reign. Considered merely a machine
for the production of thought, he is the most pet feet
specimen of workmanship which ever proceeded from
the Creator’s hand.
Nothing is calculated to strike 11s with more pro
found wonder, than the entire absence of lime and
space in all the movements of thought. These are
attributes of the external world, and have no con
neeiion with the world within us. This capability
of moving and acting unfettered by .duration or dis
tance may seem, and is incomprehensible to our
finite vision. Confined to the small circle in which
we Have our immediate existence, we have no esti
mate of the* Deity we have within us. In that itfi
measurable period offline, the twinkling of an eye,
what vast journeys can thought accomplish ! It.can
go where human feet have never trod, survey heights
and explore depths which Nature’s keene’st optics
have never seen. The frozen ledges of the North,
the po'sonous malaria or arid sands of the South,
offer no resistance to its course. With flight more
rapid than “the wings of the morning,” it hangs up
on the outskirts of creation, and pierces the dark
gloom where chaos still reigns. Speak not abbot
the speed of the electric spark, which in an instant
of time encircles the world with a girdle of light.
This is an agent whose velocity as far exceeds the
lightnings flash, as the eagles proud soarings sur
pass the snails measured pace. It knows no rule,
unconfined by limits, uninfluenced by matter, and
unawed by infinity. As unlimited in time as it is in
space, it hangs over the dark rolling confusion which
heralded Creation’s birth, or floating- far down the
future trembles at the dread announcement that
“Time shall be no more.” Ah, it is the attribute,
which in its power’s and capacities most nearly as
similates us to our divine original.
But this is no idle, useless gift. Thought has ele
vated man to his present position, and it is this pow
er alone that can sustain him there ; it is by this
that he has achieved an empire over the elements of
Nature, and made them Subservient to his purposes.
Thought has dug canals, pierced through mountains,
built cities and made messengers of the lightning’s
beams. Tt is manifested not less in the stately ves
sel that walks the waters like a thing of life, than in
the gilded tomes from which some learned antiqua
rian sweeps the (last. Thought is not something
imaginary, or intangible. Though it be mysterious,
if, is real, alive and earnest. We -may not know its
escenae, and be but little acquainted with its nature;
but vve see its evidences and manifestations wherever
the human race has been. The history of man’s ad
vancement is hut a record of the development an
thought. Bold* original thinking is the fly-wheel of
progress, and indispensa le to success. Whenever
this ceases, the powers of body and mind are paraly
zed, and ali advancement is at an end.
Hence it is that those nations which have de
voted themselves to the cultivation of mind, and
the expansion of thought, have so far excelled all
others. Li rro case was this more plainly shown,
than with the ancient inhabitants of Egypt and
Greece. The Egyptians were ft working people.
With indefatigable industry, they toiled through
long years, arid their pyramids and obelisks, which
almost seem to defy the ravages of time, still, stand
as monuments of their skill. The Greeks were equal
ly industrious, equally persevering. But.t'ne mate
rial upon which they wrought, was mind. They
confined themselves not to idle disquisitions on its
nature and capacities, but ardently strove for its
improvement. . While the Egyptian erected a Pharos
to guide the mariner over the stormy deep, the pa
tient Grecian was constructing a tower of thought,
which should guide and control lhe world for many
an age to come. And now when the voice of Mein
non speaks no more, and the pyramids and sphinxes
and wrapped in mystery, Homer still pleases and
Plato'iustrncfs, as they did three thousand years
ago-
But our theme is practical. We mast think. Each
hour, every minute, every second of our existence is
occupied in thought. We may think evil, we may
think good, we may think profitably, or idly. Here
is a wide field for the exercise of the moral powers.
It requires no small effort to subject the thoughts
to due control, to direct their tendencies to some,
purpose, that they be not like the wind, which
“blows where it listeth, and we hear the sound there
of, but know not whence it cometh, or whither it go
eth.” Yet this is necessary. Thoughts which flow
at'random, without aim, are powerless, and the in
fluence whiqh they might exert is lost.
llow grand, solemn and momentous the that
our thoughts are eternal. Not a thought, which has
once had birth, ever has, or ever-cm perish. A show
er of rain falls upon the earth, and in a few hours it
is gone,-‘-whither we know not. Some, upon wings
of tightness has re-ascended .to its home of clouds ;
Some has rolled off in rivulets and rivers ta the sea,
while still other portions have gone to renew the en
ergies of vegetable life. And thus for age after age,
the same waterjias hung in the clouds, descended in
rain, snow or hail, dashed in proud billow* on the
o'sean or flowed along dark caverns in the earth’s
inmost bowels; yet not one particle has been lost.
So with our thoughts. They may be as transitory
as the ripples on the lakes surface, as changing as
the fantastic forms of a summer cloud; hut they die
not when they are gone. They still live, still have
their Family hearthstone around which they will at
last be gathered. There collected, reunited, recom
bined, they will form the grand essence, which shall
receive the curse of iniquity, or be admitted to the
snn-iight of God’s eternal glory. *
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f§P* We return our thanks to Rev. Prof. L. M.
Smith of Emory College, fora copy of his Address
at the late Commencement of LaGrange Female
College. His subject, “Thorough; Female Educa
tion” is discussed in a papular and attractive man
ner, and though we can not endorse some of his pro
positions, WO give him credit for a very plausible ar
gument. Prof. Smith.is known in Georgia as one
of tfic best of her writers and speakers.
.—r
flSSP’Ouieen Victoria is reported to be hi an inter
esting condition.
|-if” Someone, Sidney Smit;i we believe, Tins re
marked that ever)- person supposes himself capable
of editing n paper. Whatever might be its tnithfrt!-
m-ss ill bis day, we know it. h very „.. ar t ) H , truth in
ours, Wty have frequently hemal pers ms who could
not compose a grammatical sentence, and scarce
write their own name, sneeringlv remark of sonu*
paper, 1 hat it Was “a worthies sheet.” \W suspect
that tno i who indulge in such sweeping criticisms,
are generally in arrears* with the journals they pa
tronize. lint with a great, nanih ‘V of well-informed
people, there is very little sympaihy for the printer
,or his vocation. He is look -d upon as a poor hang
dog wretch, who ought p ssivc'y to receive all then
almsivo criticisms, (inrush them his papers pnue.
twifh/y (let Post masters and Mail agents do as they
may) for nothing, unless by some ueaee.mutable
freak of good humor, they send him half his pay a
hout two years after it is due. i hey insist upon
thinking his profess on a sin. cure, defir! ving no re
muneration, or perhaps they are actuated by a phil
aht'hmpic a- sire to make the poor wretch take Long
fellow's advice, and “learn to labor sm i to wait.” If
such he their idea, we must say that it lias.in in it
more .-poetry than justice.
One need only have a bttie experience in Tims bu
siness, to be rebuked in his spirit of orifießin, and
have all his ideas of ease and comfort destroyed.
The attempt to please evoryhodv is neither a pleas
ant or easy undertaking. No two persons have tin
same tastes, and in most instances, prejudice is
the standard to which the appeal is linnlly made.
He will soon find that it is muon easier to condemn
an action ‘than to perfirm it, and will soon ceni ■to
the conclusion. that a yawl editor, like other good
men, “is horn; not made.’* *
——— - - ~*'iiiSfef-*
jags” “The subject of Tempera-ice bno old that it
has ceased to elicit interest or attract attention,” is a
remark sometimes made by one class of our oppo
nents. We admit that the -object is one which has
been long considered, and’just at this time, we are
sorry to say that it creates but little interest. Rut
we deny that there is any connection between them.
People do not lose interest in It subject R. cause it is
old. If they they did, how many of the subjects
which arc now agitating our country, would have
been long since dead and buried in oblivion.
Resides, there are some’ subjects which never do
get old, and this is one of thorn. True it is of long
duration./ It dates its origin from the time when the
inspired writer-said, “look not upon the wine when
it is red.” For ages, lino has been added upon line,
and precept upon p ecept to enforce this admonition.
Arguments have been deduced, examples cited, and
inferences drawn, all to strengthen t)r : s same great
truth. Yet men still taste of the wine that uiocketh;
still imbibe the strong drink that ragetii; still wea
ken their constitutions, squander their fortunes, and
abuse their families. Is this because the arguments
have lost their power to convince? Roes truth ever
become weakened or impaired by.age? ft is not be
cause it is old that men withhold their attention, and
those who advance the idea are conscious of its fal
sity. Men have clad themselves in the mail of pre
judice, and the keenest darts of reason can never
pierce them. Every widow’s moan, every orphan’s
tear, every gasping groan from Rum's* victim*, is
anew argument for prohibition. Every riot, mur
der, or suicide is,another call for grogshops to be put
down. (’all you this an old theme. It may lie so,
but. not more than the evils which it seeks to reme
dy. *
Book Table.
Mhthmjh lieeien'.— -i he October number is now
before us. The following is the table of contents:
1. The Life and Writings of Francis Aragb; 2. New
Poets; 3. Sinai. Palestine, and Mecca; h Vch.se’s
Courts of Prussia, Saxony, and Bavaria; 5. Alpine
Travelers; 6. Beaumarchais and Ins Times; 7. De
‘Candolle’s,Geographical Botany; S. Perversion; 0.
M. de Tocquevilk-’s Fiance before the Revolution;
If). The Political Crisis in the United Slid s.
1 Y&d minuter livriew is .likewise on our table, with
its accustomed punctuality. It presents the follow
ing - varied and interesting list of contents:
1. Alchemy and Alchemists; 2. Buddhism: My
thical and Historical; 3. The Property of Married
Women; 4. (!eo. Forstet; 5: Edinburgh Fify Years
Ago; if Silly Novels by Lady Novelists; 7. France
before the Revolution of ’B'J; 8. Emerson’s English
Traits, Contemporary Literature.
Both these Reviews are published by L. Scott A
Cos., N. Y. Price, #3 a-year, each.
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Georgia News
The Albany Patriot will be sold on Saturday, the
I.3th of December.
Reuben Hays, an old and respectable citizen of
Atlanta, died on Thursday morning la-1.
The fall term of the Supreme Court onened in
Milledgeville on Tuesday of last week.
The Sash, Door and Blind Factory in Lumpkin,
Ga., belonging to I. M. Cox, was destroyed by lire
recently.
A man by the name of Isaac Sisk was murdered
recently near Dalton, by Jack Miller, who has iled
from justice.
The new Presbyterian Church of A then-, was de
dicated on Sunday, 9th inst. Rev. Nathan Hoyt, 1).
P., Pastor.
For the Temperance Crusader.
Sons of Temperance.
One year has passed, since the severe trial of our
faith: to our sorrow we found faith without work,
was valueless; confidence has been shaken and too
many men’s integrity suspected on account of the last
election for Governor. Both the other parties, made
up of such heterogeneous materials as would co
- to advance self-interest, admitted our cause
wa k right, nlid our candidate altogether competent
and worthy. But we were going too fast and too
far. That we ought to tie on to one of the o'her
parties—that we were to > few to claim to lea par-,
ty—that we could not succeed, and one brave gor
mandizer offered to eat all over .5000 that Overby
would get, yet he has not claimed his meat, that I
‘have heard. Was it strange that all the unstable
and doubting should go over to'one of the other pie
ties, especially as the very existence of the State ar.d
Union depended on one who held power an 1 patroi -
ago; and the other who would reform the govern-
ment, and till all the offices with those who through
much tribulation should Overcome.
Let us take courage that there is yet a few on
whom we can rely, and that our cause is jtut. Aid
that Almighty power will prosper the works of our
hands when engaged to promote IBs glory, and too
good of mankind. Let caoh Son of temperance la
bor as if the work was to be done by himseit be
instant in season, out of season, at home, in public
places, and in your meetings, with the brethren ; be
entreated, my brethren, to provoke each other, to
love and good works, knowing that our labors will
not be in vain hi the Lord.
There are various organizations to promote Tem
perance ; some doing good service, arid many persons
who belongto no s ciety, labor with us for prohibi
tion. But on the Sons we confidently rely.
Meetjjno our division rooms, appoint of your bod
ies, delegates to the Convention to meet at Atlanta
on 22d February next. Call meetings in your coun
ties of ail who favor prohibition to nominate dele
gates to the Convention. Let us have a full deliga
tion of the right material, and “make a long pull—a
strong pollennd a pull altogether.” Make time-serv
ing demagogues see ami feet that we are a party —and
the right kind of a party, that only want power to be
able to do good.
JOSEPH GRISHAM, G. W. P.
Canton, Nov. 21st, ’564
cyciaHHi;
Grand Division of Florida.
At the Quarterly Session of the Grand Division
004 Ire Sons ofo Temperance, held in Monlicello on
the dthinst., the following Resolutions were adopt
ed,—
Resolved Ist, That Subbidinatc Division that
have forfeited their Charters, or have ceased to work
lie permitted to com nence work on their original
Charters where they have not been surrendered and
where they have, that they be restored t > them again
upon application.
Resolved 2d, That the Grand Scribe so inform
sjb i Divisions; and that the newspaper in the State
friendly to the cause of Temperance, be requested
to give these Resolutions a publication.
All application must be addressed to S. 11. Bunk
er, Grand Scribe, Madison, (’. 11., Fla
Horrible Death,
Andrew Dewit, of Marbletown, Ulster county, N.
V , came to bis death on Sunday night under the
rno.-t appalling circumstances. He had been drink
ing dfiring the day quite freely, and was at Wood’s
near Stone Ridge, in the evening. While sitting in
the bar room he became stupid and fell to the floor.
He was taken up, carried out, placed in a black
smith's shop, and left there. About two hours af’er
some persons went into the shop, when they-found
him dead, and part of his face eaten off by a dog.
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Libel Suit.
Mayor lluftington of \\ iimington, Delaware, has
entered suit for $2,560 damages against the editor of
the Delaware Republican, for libel, in the publica
tion of aii article in his paper supposed to reflect up
on the authorities. The editor was held in $5,000
bail and in SSOO on another charge of libelling Mr.
Charles H. Almond, in the same article. ‘
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Found Bead.
Martin Coolv, for fifteen years a respected citizen
of this city, and a carpenter by trade, was found
dea l in his room on Wednesday evening, 10th inst.
#tki is supposed to have died on Monday previous.
Mr. Cooly was never married, and came here from
Virginia, (his native State) where it is believed he
has an only sister living. A Jury of Inquest was
held over the body, and rendered a verdict, “that
he came to his death from (be effects of intemper
anc, — Mnrrietta Georgian. Xoc. 22 d.
Nicholas Marcellos IJcntz, husband of
the late Mrs. Caroline Lee Ilentz, died in Marianna,
Florida, on tine 4th inst., in the o'.ith year of his age.
He was for many years a Professor in the University
of North Carolina.
|3F”Mrs. Mary Bennett died recently in Philadel
phia; at the advanced age of 103 years. She was a
woman grown at the time of the Declaration of In
dependence.
|3F°Hon. John C. Larue, ex-Judge of the First
District Court ol New Orleans, died suddenly in that
city recently.
§a§?“The President has acknowledged Louis de
Crmtenein as the Consular Agent of the Kingdom of
the Two Sicilies in New York.
. Hedrick, lately removed from the Pro
fessorship Jn the University of North Carolina, is at
Cambridge, Mass.
SclP’Mrs. Julia Dean llayne is again playing in
San Francisco—the new baby having got a fair start
in the world. -
s3P”An engineer in Russia has discovered a meth
od of converting peat turf into anthracite coal and
causing a saving of 60 per cent.
1 here are eighteen establishments for manu
facturing steel in America; these have a capacity for
making 14,000 tons per annum. We have the best
ores in the world for making steel.
iu-W Every one of the three Washburns is re-elect
ed to the next Congress: Israel, in Maine, by 5,000;
Cadwallader in Wisconsin, by 5,000; and Kiihu
R-, in Illinois, by 11,551 majority.
(LgfDr. John B. Adger, of Charleston, S. C., has
hot n elected to the Cha r of Ecclesiastical Hist ry in
the Theological Seminary, vice Itev. B. M. Palmer,
who has accepted a call to New Orleans.
iid# 1 vv ° curious cases of intermarriage have oc
curred in Newton county, Virginia. Mr. Stephen
i bund, agvfi 56, married a'-daughter of N. Rogers,
who was 15, and N. Rogers, aged 62, married a
daughter of Stephen Darnel, who was 14 years old.
Senor Don Alfon/.o de Escalante, who, for
some time past, has been accredited to the C. S. Go
vi i nmentas Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni
potentiary of hei- Majesty, the Queen of Spain, has
presented to the President the letter from his Sover
eign, announcing that his resignation had been ac
cepted.
Cheap Miniatures. —An excellent likeness of Per
ry Davis, the inventor of th it most excellent medi
cine, the Vegetable Pain Killer, cau be had for 12 1-2
cents together with a bottle of that celebrated uni
versal remedy.
To many of anr readers it must be a great relief
to know that Pulmonary Consumption can be per
manently cured in many cases by the Wild Cherry
preparation of Dr. Wistar—that such cures have
been effected is bevornl a doubt.
pgT**Many young ladies make fools of themselves
by the looking glaSs, and many young men by the
drinking glass.
Witty Sailor. —A sailor being asked how he liked
his bride, is reported to have remarked Why,
d’ye see, l took her for to he only half of me, as the
parson says, but dash me, if she isn’t twice as much
as TANARUS, I’m only a tar —she's a tar-tar.”
How to }frrre a Prior. —An enforesting correspon
dent mentions a good retort which he once made up
on an acquaintance, whose wont it was to go around
the city “cherry cobhlering” of a summer morning,
ond who in winter was often fora week at a time in
a “state of whisky punishment.”
He was once very angry with me, I said to him
one morning:
“I’m going to make a rise” soon, and as you are
to be the means, lor charity’s sake, I’ll tell you about
it, though it is not essential.
“Well,” grawled my friend, “how isitV”
“Why, I intend getting your life insured for ten