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H For the Temperance Crusader.
Our Duty.
m to tub prohibitionists op oorroia.
H Brethren, —Now is a propitious time for
Miction. Now, while a calm has succeeded
Mhe violent political storm that swept, like
ft, tornado, over our land and country a few
ftyeeks ago. We must get to work in earn-
Kst. Let us gird on our armor for the ap
ft> reaching conflict. We have principles
Mo maintain, cherish, defend, and carry out.
■ .Pit: us “once more nnto the breach” and
■nake a firm and gallant, struggle. We
■iave a fierce and uncompromising anta-
Kmniflt.-to battle with, and it is very proba-
Kle that onr opponents will select for their
Standard-bearer, one who has openly array
led himself against us, and who declared
■hat “unless this Overby squad was check
led, it would overthrow the party with
■which he was allied.” Will not. strenuous
■efforts be. made on their part to accomplish
■our destruction? They have a Cannibal
In their ranks too, that threatens to devour
■onr “little squad !” Dues not every one,
■then, perceive the urgent necessity for vi-
Bgilance, for prompt, untiring, and united
■effort on our part?
| I wish to make a few suggestions in re
lation to the nominating Convention which
■will assemble in Atlanta on,the 20th of
■February next. The time is but short for
Ins to perform the great work we design.—
lit is highly important that every County in
mhe State should be represented in that Con
I veution! Let the Temperance men of every
■name, and those favorable to onr princ
iples, form themselves into a County Asso
Iciation, composed of Auxiliary Associa
tions in every district; its officers to con-
Isist of a President, Vice President, Record
ling and Corresponding Secretaries, \ igi
liancc Committee, Ac. The Corresponding
■Secretary to correspond with ai! others
■throughout the State. Meetings should
■be held at least once a month. This will
leisure a wholesome discipline to our cause.
■Let these Associations be formed immedi
lately, and send up their delegates to At
lianta in February next.
The Convention should be well attend
led for another reason. Alt hough the eyes
■of every patriot in Georgia is turned with
■ longing gaze upon our noble standard
I bearer, who bore our flag unsullied through
Ithe contest, “unharmed ami! the rage of
■ party conflict, undimed amid the smoke of
■ battle,” as the choice of the people to be
■ their nominee for the‘second time; yet it
lis probable that he will decline the nomi
Illation. In that event, we must deliberate
| with wisdom and select with discretion our
|next nominee. We will need the wisdom
land experience of the aged, the virtuous
|and the upright, to guide us in that selec
tion. I would also suggest that a meeting
Ibe held at Atlanta on the lflth of Febru
|ary next, to which special Delegates be
■ sent from every Association, bringing all
■ the information they can command, to con
I fer and deliberate together upon our pros-
I pects.
Again, I would suggest that every Cbris-
I tian in our ranks, as well as all who desire
I our success, set apart one day, say the 25 th
I of January next, as a day of Fasting and
I Prayer to Almighty God in behalf of our
I cause; to beseech Him to guide us in our
I course by llis unerring counsel, and direct
lus in our selection. May we not put our
I trust in an arm of flesh, but in Jehovah
I the Lord of Hosts.
Let us also send up all the “sine qua
I non” (money) we can, to form a fund for
I the purpose of distributing documents, Ac.
I All the people need, is light,—let them
have it. The opposition may erv “.there
is no chance for you.” Let them make it.
That cry is but the dying gasp of any par
ty that uses it—-the death-knell of princi
ple, and moral courage. Let us not be in
timidated by that cry, But let us come to
the contest with renewed energy, untiring
zeal and undivided front. Let us tight as
one man in the defence of Truth and Right,
ami if vve must and do fall in the contest,
we will fall in the discharge of our duty to
God, to our country, and to fallen humani
ty. Ido not fear defeat in the approach
ing contest. Press onward ! Remember
that “Truth crushed to earth, will rise
again.” Press on ward ! Inaction at a’time
like this will prove but the precursor of
dissolution. Awake! awake! Freemen of
Georgia ! Burst asunder the bonds that
bind yon to party. Give up party welfare
for public weal ! Come, ye hardy moun
taineers of northern Georgia! Come, ye
chivalrous knights from the gay savanna’s
of the south ! Come ye from any portion
of the “Empire State” and aid us in eradi -
cating from our midst the source of crime
and woe. We have stormed the outer
works, let us now besiege the citadel !
J.et us make one more gallant struggle!—
Let us—
“ Strike for our altars and our fires,”
resolved to conquer or to “dia at least, un
yielding.” 4
Hoping that these suggestions may meet
your approbation, or, if not, that some oth
er plan may be adopted soon, I tender
them to you, with the prayer that success
may crown eur efforts.
W. G. W.
For the Temperance Crusader.
Young America’s Proclivities.
Among the many hasty conclusions, im
politic tendencies, improper remarks and as
sertions daily manifesting themselves, there
are some so presumptive, that to pass them
in silence, would be injustice to the com
mon cause of propriety. ‘Therefore, we
propose to present some ol them in the most,
favorable light possible. It the perversion*
of kindnesses into demonstrations <t love,
which is most remote, from the heart or
head of the kind actor, is pronounced a has
ty conclusion by the credulous, we infer that
the considerate would call it not hasty, but
unjust. Yet there are those who are so
blinded by their own personal attractions,
that they make gentle words, natural smiles
and accidental looks, all manifestations*of
Cupid’s order. But if such are unjustifiable
conclusions ordinarily, what are they when
practiced at boarding houses, where least
of all places, are such excusable? I: is su
peifiuous to add that, alter the ab we indi
cations have been confirmed by numerous
mgTmaginations, air castles built..only by
lovers and hymenial lestives reign supreme.
The restraints of prudence are too frail to
keep them concealed; like n consciousness
of guilt they will out and expose them
selves in ejaculations the most affectionate,
in unmeasured verse and “essays tinged
wrth the hues of'his own subjectivity,”
There are other peculiarities equally, and
some more preposterous, that deserve at
tention, which are not confined, however, to
the boarding houses of their possessors. If
those who are best characterized by an. af
fable verdancy should indulge in remarks
upon the dress or peculiar appearance of
certain persons, it would, of course, pass un
noticed or be answered in their own idiom—
the source.” But when those
vvho have entered the honorable classes lose
sight of propriety so far, t hat a young lady
can’t walk the streets or attend church in a
new dress without being a subject of criti
cssm and conversation; then it is necessary*
to employ some means to restrain such ten
dencies. And it seems to me that if they
have no more respect for our belles, village
and themselves, than to gratify such pro
clivities, we must use an immediate restraint
or content ourselves to he known by our
gossip—young laoies in new dresses.
If it is apparent, that the above state of
tilings transgresses propriety, what reproof
is too severe, what censure too grave for
threatening to flirt with Innocence “just to
keep their hands in ?” While they deserve
rigid discipline, they ore appropriate sub
jects of sympathy; for they are certainly ig
norant that a supposed, flirt goes the rounds
of female friendship, as quick as a ‘patent
physic the circle of newspaperdom. But
sympathy ceases to be a virtue, when it nul
lities justice, and it would he giving loose
lein to arrogance, to forgive, in addition to
tiie above threat, the bold assertion, that be
cause Purity had loved two or three boys,
therefore she can never love another. The
assertion is in the highest degree improper,
because that is asserted which is unknown,
and it it was known, it assuredly would be
bad policy to talk it, for good natured peo
ple—especially boys—would not give it cre
dence. As experience teaches us that they
think girls are poly-hearted, and if legality
is allowable, non compos mentis.
OBSERVER.
Penfield, Ga.
Tlie Heart’s Guests.
When age has cast its shadows
O’er life’s declining way,
And the evening twilight gathers
Round our departing day—
Then we shall sit and ponder
On the dim and shadowy past;
Within the heart’s still chambers
• The guests will gather fast.
The friends in youth we cherish
Shrul come to us once more,
Again to hold communion
As in the days of yore.
The}” may be stern and sombre,
They may be young and fair;
Rut the heart will have its chambers,
The guests shall gather there.
llow shall it be, my sisters?
Who, then, shall be our guests?
How shall it be, my brothers,
When life’s shadows on us rest?
Shall we not, midst the silence,
Tn accents soft and low,
Then hear familiar voices,
And words of long ago?
Shall we not see dear faces,
Sweet smiling as of old ?
Till the mists of that still chamber
Are sunset clouds of gold ?
When aae has cast its shadows
O’er life’s declining way,
And the evening twilight gathers
Round our departing day?
Advice to Young Ladies.
There is another topic, young ladies, to
which I would fain call your attention, and
yet hesitate to mention from fear, if not of
giving offence, of seeming, at least, to tres
pass upon the office of your instructors, pa
rents, or more immediate guardians. Its
importance,.however, to your happiness in
time and eternity, will certainly justify n
few words of timely admonition from one
who claims to be your true friend. No
sooner will you be released from your Col
lege restrictions than—it is no adulation
to say —a swarm of admirers will pour
around you “thick as autumnal leaves in
Yailombrosa.” The good and the gifted
—the pure in heart and noble in spirit—
men capable of appreciating your virtues
and talents, will come to do homage at the
shrine of your loveliness. But these are
not all; the vicious and profane—the flat
terer, with smooth tongue—the worldling,
with words of compliment upon his lips,
but “ihc thirty pieces of silver” in his heart
—tin so, too, will c >rue and strive to enlist
your young and ardent affections. Beware,
then, young ladies, how you fall in love!
Let no fear of becoming old maids—of
which some affect such holy horror —no
romantic notion of love at first sight, tempt
you to confer the priceless affections of
your warm and glowing hearts upon men
unworthy such inestimable guerdon. Bid
“Young America,” unless he improves his
manners and mends his life, keep at a. res
pectful distance. Smile not upon the flat
tering coxcombs and fantastic beaux,
“Who cut extensive clashes
With Shanghai coats and short mustaches;”
idle loafers, who have “just enough of soul
to save t e expense of salt,” and whom,
even your charms would be impotent to
win to the love and practice of virtue. Let
the man of your choice be such an one as
yon can “to, honor and obey,” and whose
will shall be your law, because that will
will . lwaygfcseek to promote your happi
ness. But, tied, in this as in every impor
tant step of life, you may he so guided as
to eschew evil and secure good, seek coun
sel and direction from Heaven! Woman
can never be happy, nor fill the sublime
offices for which site was created, without
the religion of Christ.
“Oil, .what is woman—what her smile—
Her lip of love 6 —her eyes of light,
What is she, if her lips revile
• The lowly Jesus? Love may write
Ilis name upon her marble brow,
And linger in her curls of jet —
The light spring flower may scarcely bow
Beneath her step, and yet, and yet
Without that meeker grace she’ll be
A lighter thing than vanity.”
Bee. Luther M. Smith.
&UUBU <tlll l UilUvbilUtT* ’
#KNFIKI.r>, CFROH(UA.
Saturday Morning, December 6, 18&6.
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A Word to the “Boys”—Students.
Many of you are leaving to visit your homes, ar and
soon all will do likewise. Allow us to soTcit. your
assistance in circulating our paper, as you k circuit its’
among your friends and relatives. We have grate
ful hearts, and appreciative natures, and will con
sider ourselves under obligations for any assistance.
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Our Posters.
Wc politely request each of our friends who re
ceive one of our large Pouter* in tins issue, to give
it due attention by displaying it in a conspicuous
place.
BagPThe Junior Editor will be at Crawfordville and
A hite Plains at different times during the next two
or three weeks, when he will be pleased to settle with
all who are indebted to this office, either for adver
tising or subscription. *
—
jJrgTfPor a week or ten days past, the weather has
been extremely variable. For several days it was
warm, spring-like, attended by frequent showers,
then clear an 1 cold, then a cold drizzly rain. It has
been very bad on farmers who have not sowed their
wheat. *
iST”A few nights since the quiet of our town was
disturbed by a very noisy, but by no means tasteful
display of fire-works. Such things are always bad
enough when the occasion seems to demand them;
but iu ordinary times, they are absolute nuisances.
We are surprised that tnercha its who thereby have
their property endangered, should sell them. Every
man who does it, ought to be subject to an indict
ment. *
* <
UPWc hope none of our readers will neglect lo
peruse that charming little poem, “God’s Wife,”
which will be found on our first page. It is one of’
the most touching pieces we have lately met with.
The name of its gifted Authoress, Mrs. L. ‘Virginia
French, is a sufficient recommendation. *
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ST-dP”Almost every drunkard with whom you meet
wih tell you that his father enjoined upon him ab
stinence from intoxicating- drinks. Why then did
he grow up in open disregard of this advice? Be
cause the parent added not example to precept, and
the rod to example. Parents, in common vvitmaii’
others musJt practice what they teach. *
• —-
ilF’Soine one has favored ns with a Catalogue of
the Teachers and Pupils of “Woodland Female Col
lege.” It is, we think, unfortunate that the title of
this institution has been changed from “Seminary”
to “College.” We do not suppose that its character
and design have thereby uftdergone t e least change.
We hope the day will soon come, when this misno
mer, College, will be struck olf from all our schools
for young ladies, and let them be known by their
proper appellation. ‘Phis institution is located in
Cedar Town, and presided over by Rev. J. M. Wood,
long known in upper Georgia, as an able and suc
cessful Teacher. The patronage is mostly local.—
Female “Colleges” are now too thick in our coun
try to enjoy any other than local support. The
truth is, we never can have any schools of the first
order while there is so much competition for patron
age. *
Novelists and poets rack their brains and tax
their imaginations to invent incidents of exciting in
terest. Yet how much of truth and poetry will be
forever unwritten and unsung. Some writer has
observed that every man’s life is an epic, and the re
mark is, to some extent, a true one. There are few
individuals who have not been actors, in scenes,
which, if arrayed in the gorgeous vestments of Ro
mance, would be glowing, living immortal poems.—
Nature is in all things the best instructor, and the
author acts blindly who seeks knowledge from any
other source. - *
When you pay a man a friendly visit, and
thereby interrupt his business for two or three hours,
do not assure him while leaving, that you “have
bored him long enough.” This will force him to
practice falsehood or impoliteness. If you are con
scious of having been in the wav, leave without giv
ing expression to your feeling*.
Never give a man advice which you know to be
opposed to his previously formed determination.—
You will either be despised for your impudence or
laughed at for your f dly. #
Never reveal, even in jest, things which if true,
would cause you disgrace. It is always imprudent
and sometimes fatal. The tongue of slander is suffi
ciently active without this supply of material. *
——
valued correspondent sends us the follow
ing plain, practical remarks, which we gladly give a
place in our columns. They strike at an evil which
wp have no doubt exists to a very great extent, wher
ever the principles of prohibition have nominally tri
umphed :
“Do away with the retail system, and shut up the
grogshops, and then we ask if Prohibition has suc
ceeded ? 1 answer no; and never can, so long as
our dr)’ goods merchants are allowed to keep liquors
and sell them by measures falsely called a quart.—
This has been proved to my satisfaction, in the little
village of . The citizens did much, and all they
could to deliver themselves from this accursing pest.
They bought out the only grogshop in the place,pledg
ed themselves never to sell liquors on their premises,
or to dispose of them to any who would do so. All
this was well enough. But how does it succeed?—
There are several stores in flic village, and at each
of them various liquors are kept and sold; not as a
medicine, an h pretended , but for a beverage. It is
very rare, and then only as a matter of form, that
the merchant inquires for what purpose it is to be
used. Any who are able to buy and pay for this
“ medicine ,’ can do so, and use as be likes. People
express surprise at this or that person’s getting drunk
so soon after coining to town. It is always ip a pro
found mystery, however. No one professes to know
him, and drank with him. -Tuns • this
‘system is cayried oji vsth the knowledge, but despite
the opposition of alt good citizens. W hHUT such
.deception practiced in a moraland religious commu
nity; lam almost led to doubt the final success of
Prohibition. ’ ‘ s B.
People should be careful into whose hands they
trust the power of violating the laws. Liquor sell
ing is a money making business, and it is not every
rnan who is honest enough to re Ist the temptadon.
Temperance men cannot be too cautious and vigi
lant. 51 ■ *
■*—. —’
Our College and our Town.
When we say our college, we do not wish to be
understood as occupying the position -of an advo
cate of one Institution to the neglect of all ofh’ iv,
for such is not the tone of our principles nor dis
posTtonf. We rejoice in the prosperity of every
seat cf learning established for the T'mpartation of
thorough education to the youth of the land, and
are prepare l j.O lend a ready and willing, though
feeble, hand to the erection of an educational shrine
in every district. We exult in the proud position
which our State occupies in point of Colleges.and
Schools, and, it. is our boast that none can surpass
her, but while we have the presumption to claim to
be a warm friend to aii our Colleges, we would ad
vocate Urn especial claims of -our own loved Alma
Muter. I hough comparatively young, none is more
permanent, more deserving, nor more influential. It
had its origin in a bonus of twmty-jhe hundrtd dollars
to the poor young men of our State, contemplating
the Gospel Ministry. In 1833, the corner stone of
the Institution was laid, and receiving the approba
tion oi a Beneficent Create!', who prosp*-reth the
work of his hands, its onward progress and growing
importance became manifest, and in 1838 it received
li otn the State Legislature a Charter, with the title
ot Mercer Ln; versify. In 1841, it graduated its first
t .ass, consisting of three young men. Since that
time it has sent out a hundred, and twenty- fire grad
uates prepared ior a worldly conflict—the last class
consisting of twenty-two members. Os all it* grad
uates none, not one lias become a drone in society,
but nearly all are occupying prominent positions,—
.u c men cl distinction—ol high character—living re
flexes of the imperishable glory of the Institution
which armed them with sword and shield for the
strife. Where shall we find them ? Amid the ftr.se
ranks of all the professions—at the head of the first
institutions ot learning, and in the sacred desks of
the most flourishing churches; travel across the per
ilous waters to the shores of the ungodly, and among
tlie dark and gloomy African jungles you find the
graduate of Mercer, lifting up the Bleeding Cross
amid the impenetrable cumulus of heathenism. The
cnaracter anu positions ot her graduates is encomi
um sufficient, in behalf of the Institution.
Bi nec that small donation from the generous hands
ot Josiah Penfield, which was the germ of the Insti
tution, its funds have steadily accumulated, until
now- the endowment of the college amounts to near
ly one hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars. —
Its foundation is a metallic one, and as such cannot
be overthrown. The Institution has suffered noth
ing from the changes which have recently been made
in the administration of several of its offices. All
< f theiff are now filled with young, industrious, faith
ful and competent officers, —all harmonizing in the
prosecution of their duties, and studying the pros
perity of the college, and the educational advance
ment of its pupils. Anew office has been created,
whereby ;he student has the privilege of acquaint
ing himself with Modern Language*, which is far
mme importanfimore profitable and more agreeable
tlieTfflTnrstoi a1 s, Elegies, Lyrics, and Poems
o l tonyuesdead. This office is filled with a voung
man ably qualified to discharge the duties of the
chair, and fond of imparting knowledge to his class
es. The Presidential Chair is to be filled at the next
Georgia Baptist Convention.
We would have the Baptist Denomination of our
Elate to remember that it is an obligatory duty de
volving upon them to support this Institution. It
is the State University of the Denomination, and as
such lays claims upon the patronage and influence of
every Baptist in the State. Denominationally the
Baptist is distinct from all other religious organiza
tions, and why not maintain that distinction in
Schools and Colleges? It would without a doubt,
conduce largely to the prosperity and success both
of the denomination and their Institutions. The Meth
odist Fraternity adopt this policy, and the practical
results, as seen in all their enterprizes, testify to the
wholesomeness of the principle. This Denomina
tion, in matters of this kind, should he Patterned by
the Baptists. One great faux pas of which the Bap
tists have ever been guilty, and which has always
militated against the success of their Colleges and
schools,, is, they endeavor to establish too many;
they are a liberal-minded race, and arc always ready
to give ear to propositions for erecting anew seat
of learning, and were it not that splendid theories
and replete propositions, upon such enterprizes nev
er become practical “specie” basis , there
would doubtless be a Baptist College on every eligi
ble hill-top; they ignore their duty to advocate, at
all times, and under all circumstances, the claims of
those which are already established. We heartily
wish the denomination would abandon this destruc
tive system, and remembering that “union is
strength,” would concentrate their influence upon
their denominational College. They have here a
Mecca of learning which is in every way worthy of
(heir care and protection; an honor to the Fraterni
ty, and it is destined to take the leafl among South
ern Institutions.
We grow jubilant with pride in contemplating the
bright lestiny of our Alma Mater, plough there
may he some who would rejoice over its downfall, as
’ ero over burning Rome, and would stealthily plan
wireworls whereby toparalizc its progress, and in
fluence, yet their wires, will only serve as tripping
cords to their own devious footsteps. The progress
of the Institution is upward—its lucuient radiance
is immortal.
“The vane of its spire is slow-turning in the liquid sky,”
and the dark surges of Envy, Jealousy and Preju
dice will break upon its walls only to be dashed
back in foam. *
A word concerning our Town. Doubtless every
one who has ever heard much or little of Penfield,
are aware of the fact that there arc among its in
habitants, two parties , socially, not. politically speak
ing. But we are of the persuasion that such a state
of things is decidedly beneficial, for it enables one to
know who are his friends, and who his onomies.—
•Friendiftiip misplaced is attended with the worst of
consequences, and the man who abuses another’s
confidence has the betrayed in his clutches and ca
do him more injury than a thousand open enemies.
Wc have a few of that unprincipled class in our
small village. Men entirely devoid of conscience,
and strangers to disinterested friendship,—men of
fair countenances and would-be-winning ways, but
with hearts as corrupt as putrefaction itself. But
ihe fact that you find mean men in a Town should
he no objection to the place, fur they exist in every
village. You will find in all places, as you do in
j cniuiCt b“ helped. .'he two parties in our Town are
! so well defined that art one may easily discover the
| principles of each, and there is no danger ofa person’s
heingentrapped through mistake, and though consci
ous of the fact that such a state of things has hereto
fore greatly injured the place abroad, yet we trust such
will not in future deter citizens from moving into
Pen field. Everything is now progressing smoothly,
and quietly,, and we have a pleasant, retired, eleva
ted, undulating and healthy little village; classical
in appeal am e, and far removed from the wild al
lurements which vain speculations concoct to attract
young minds. This, perhaps above all other places, is
best adapted to study. With a very few exceptions
we have a set of the most generous, social, and up
right citizens, than any Town can produce. We
hope Baptist parents throughout the State who have
children to educate, will consider their education a
point of paramount importance, and will conic with
them to this inviting country village, hud locate
around this Pierian Spring, that their sons may
drink■ de**p of its healing, crystal vvateis.
—
g3gf°Thc tendencies to practice and sustain impo
sitions seems ever to keep pace with each other. —
In a community of simple rustics whom no \v< n h r
ful tales ever reach, the spirit of curiosity is so little
-dive, that they know or care nothing about their
next door neighbor’s affairs. But let it be once
aroused, and moderately fed with wondrous repor:s
of prodigies, and it soon will have attained an inor
dinate groVth. No expense or inconvenience will
he too great to be incurred for its gratification, no
statement too monstrous to gain belief. Men often
;u t really childish in these matters. That a boy of
nine or ten summers, should be v\ filing to go a doz m
miles through heat or cold to witness a circus show
is perfectly natural; but that a man should travel
such a distance-, spending his time and money, mere
ly to look at (t woman with heard on her face, is
simplicity involved to the tenth {lower.
That curiosity'-, when properly restrained and ex
ercised, becomes one of our most ennobling attrib
utes, is a proposition we very readily admit. That
it is developed in many culpable forms, is equally’
t’ u>\ The spirit of idle curiosity wh’ch prompts
men to pry’ into and interest themselves about things
which do not concern them is a positive vice. That
which causes men to adopt every new tangled no
tion, and run after everyone who wi 1 sav, *1 >! here
is a wond r,” can hardly be less so. We think all
such, sad perversions of a principle planted within us
for the wisest purposes. Las us natures are without
doubt, interesting, and to a philosophic mind may
become instructive objects of contemplation. But
we doubt the good taste of any who merely seek
them lor the pleasure they may afford.
But we set out to speak of humbugs, and have
merely referred to curiosity as the principle to which
they appeal, and by which they are supported. They
have been fed and n uirished, until they T now exist
throughout the country to a most alarming extent.
In the days of Alchemy, the most absurd theories
were put forth and the grossest deceptions practiced
upon the people. Sometimes these were detected,
and condign punishment inflicted on the perpetra
tors. But the credulous multitude were just as
ready to believe in the next new wonder. All the
knowledge and intelligence of the present day’ have
not rendered men much less susceptible of being de
ceived.* Nor is it at all probable that they will ever
become so enlighted as to be entirely free in this re
spect. ‘I here is indeed a degree of pleasui ein being
deceived; a pleasure however with which the no
bler feelings of our nature have nothing to do. Could
we believe everything we see or hear, we might be
a happier, but certainly not a better race of beings.
*
“An old Bachelor says that women are so fond of
appearances, that if they knew there were no looking
glasses in IT aven, they would he unwilling to go
there. It is strange how age sours the disposition
of some men.”
It is no great evidence ofa sour disposition to say
lhat ladies a-e fond of appearances. That many of
them are inordinately .so, is a fact which we suppose
few of their most abject adorers would have the har
dihood to deny. If they consult their mirrors from
:t pure love of the beautiful, we should say it were
commendable; for many of them see reflected there
images which would abundantly gratify such feel
ings. But woman’s frivolity and her reliance upon
artificial charms to enhance her personal appearance,
are caused far less by the want of good sense on her
part, than that of the empty brained coxcombs vvh >
call themselves her admirers. They make it their
business to praise her for qualities which entitle her
to no credit, and bv thus creating vanity, destroy or
sadiv mar all the firmer feelings of the heart. As
long as she allows herself to be idolized and flattered
by such men, she can never be the noble being her
creator intended. *
*
Book Table.
Putnam's Monthly. —As a literary Journal, this
stands deservedly high among American magazines.
It is to be regretted that at the north, no literature
is too pure to be tinctured with the dark slain of ab
olitionism. Could they ignore the subject of slave
ry, many of them would be all we could wish.
’ ‘*4 •4B&>
Georgia News
Pork is selling in Atlanta, at l‘> 1-2 cents. The
Examiner says the supply of hogs is large.
The Georgia Conference of the Methodist episco
pal Church, South, convened at Americas, on Wed
nesday last.
Virgil Powers, Esq , has .been appointed Chief En
gineer of the Georgia and Florida llail Road, in the
place of W. N. Mussey, deceased.
The Southern Enterprise, at Thornasville, of 25 th
ult., says that the recent heavy rains in that section
have raised the water courses very high, and render
ed the roads almost impassable.
Tuos. Hatcher, who escaped from the Macon jail,
on his way t-> the Penitentiary, was recently killed
near Jacksonville, Fla.
The Post Office at Woodhurn, in JcfferSon coun
ty, has been discontinued, and all mail matter in
tended for that office, should be directed to “Pope
IlrH, Jefferson county.”
YVe learn from the Athens papers, that the citizens
of that place presented the late President of Georgia
University with a beautiful Silver Tea Service, on
Friday evening, the 21-st ult. On each pierce is in
scribed, “A Token of Affectionate Regards from the
Citizens of Athens to the Rev. Alonzo Church, 0. D.,
1850.”
slem# utem#,
J. Lee Williams, author of the History
of Florida, died at his residence in Picolata, on th •
7th ult., of paralysis. Aged 70.
she Lynchburg (V.) Republican states that j
the Sheriff of Smythe recently levied an execution I
on a passenger train of the Virginia and Tennessee
Rail Eoad for $20,000, on a judgment obtained against
the company by Mr. Alexander.
ried shortly, ‘to an English Earl, who distinguished
himself iicthe Crimea War.
T. Bromley, Professor of Coemisfry and
Ccology in Um .South Carolina College, has resigned
in consequence of ill health.
Ijjp—Lt. John T. Walker, of the Navy, committed
suicide by hanging himself recently at his lodgings
in Charnbers-st . New York.
tar A petition has been presented to the Legisla
ture of Florida, to’ incorporate a company for the
purpose of” laying a submarine telegraph from the
Cape ot Florida Via Key West to the Island of Cuba,
and thus bringing Havana in connection with the
great telegraphic world.
jftjjjr**The eighteenth annual Convention of the di
odes of Florida, will, by appointment of Bishop Rut
ledge, he he! i at St. -John’s Church, Tallahassee, on
the 12th itisr.
ts arc in circulation (says the Cleveland
Banner'of the 28fli u’t.j that the Bank of East Ten
nessee has failed. This report had its origin in Lou
isville, Ivy., and there.is no truth in it. The Nash
ville banks have refused to take if, on account of this
report, it is bankable .at this place, and, as far as
we know, the institution is perfectly solvent.
ißF“!'he Rev; I)r. E wald, one of the missionaries
of the Jew’s Society, States that there are now more
Jews in Whitechapel, London, than in Jerusalem,
and more Jews in London than in the whole of the
Holy Land. The total number of Jews in the im -
i.ropolis is estimated-at jKM>OO.
§aSfiF“Ata recent meeting of the Board of Trustees
of South Carolina College, B. W. Means was elected
Librarian and Treasurer, to supply the vacancy oc
casioned by the resignation of F. W. McMaster.
The resignation of Prof. Liebcr, of which notice
was given in December last, was accepted.
Vi e learn also, from the Carolina Times; Nov. 20,
that it the meeting of the Board of Trustees, held
last evening, Prof. Jos. Leconte was elected to fill
the chair of Chemistry vacated by Prof, Brumby, in
consequence of ill health. Rev. R. W. Barnwell,
Jr., was also elected Professor of History and Polit
ical economy, vice Prof. Liebcr, resigned.
Good Authority. —The Cincinnati Evening Non
park 1 says of the Perry Davis Pain Killer it re
moves pain as if by magic from any part of the body
and no one who knows its virtue would willingly be
without it.
A Friend, in Am?, is the Balsam of Wild Cherry
to ali who are afflicted with Bronchial troubles or
Asthma. Its singular power over these diseases has
rendered Dr. Wistar famous wherever pulmonary
complaints arc kn vvn.
t’W O An English mechanician has invented a very
ingeniously constructed nautical instrument for ac
curately determining both latitude and longitude,
without the assistance of a chronometer and without
lunar observations—an observation of the sun, only,
’•cing required.
North Carolina Baptist Convention,
There were some 200 delegates at the late Conven
tion at Raleigh. A proposition to raise $50,000 as
a further endowment to Wake Forest College, was
in A by a subscription on the spot, in one hour, of
about $25,000. Two brethren. subscribed $5,000
each, five SI,OOO each, five SSOO each, a few S2OO
each, and a large number, perhaps thirty or forty,
SIOO each. Besides which, SIB,OOO were subscribed
to build anew bouse of worship in Raleigh.
A New Light in English Literature.
The Bondon Press says that all the readable arti
cles in Household Words are written by a young
fellow named Sala. The literary Bohemian, as we
have heard from other sources, is a most remarkable
instance ofa literary mimic, and his fecundity is not
less inai velous than his initiative talents. He writes
so much in the style of either Dickens or Thackeray
that it would take a sharp critic to distinguish the
false from the real author, and what is more marvel
ous still, is his faculty of imitating popular actors.
People have wondered at the fertility of Dickens, in
writing so many articles in the Household Words,
while he was at tne same tune engaged in writing
Ids Bleak House and Little Dorrit. But the secret
of his wonderful fertility is explained by the an
nouncment lhat he has an admirable Crichton in his
pay’, vi ho acts as lus double; This literarv journey
man is the son of Madame Sala, a theatrical per
former.
—li
Temperance Celebration.
1 nc tenth anniversary of the introduction (if the
Order of Sons or Temperance into South Carolina,
and of the organization of Palmetto Division No. 1,
was celebrated last evening at the new ball on King
street. The attendance was good, considering the
state oi the weather, and the exercises were of a
pleasing and interesting character. The music,
“hicn was fine, was conducted by Messrs. Reeves &
Greitorex, assisted by a number^ofamateurs.
Allen the singing of she firjst Ode, the exetcisesof,
the evening were opened by prayer from the Rev.
John Culpepper, of Bennettsvillc Division. The
speaker, elect, of the evening, Albert J. Russel, Esq.,
was then announced from the Chair, by Charles M.
Mason, YY. P., presiding, who arose and entertained
the audience in a brief but eloquent and compre
hensive speech of some thirty minutes in length.—
lie treated the subject in its widest and most com
prehensive sense, and portrayed in a lively and ani
mated manner the evils of intemperance. Misad
dress was conceived with taste, delivered with ef
fect, and received with applause. He carefully avo-'d
eu the rock upon which so many young speakers
have been driven and wrecked, of not knowing when
they were done: Mr. Russell did not rise until he
had something to say, and as soon as he had said it,
and said it. well, he took his seat.
Mi. E. I hay er then introduced, in a short speech,
the Rev. John Culpepper, whom he said was an old
vote: an in the good cause, and whom he knew the
audience would be pleased to hear, and who respond
ed in one of those nervous, home-made, off-telling
for which he is sojdistinguished. He spoke
.with good sense, sound argument, and much effect,
until the last bell rang, which, he said, warned him
that the hour for closing had arrived, and suddenly
took his seat amid the applause of the audience, who
would gladly have heard him longer.
Another celebration will be held in the same hall
this evening by Palmetto .Section of she Cadets of
temperance, when the boys will have a chance, and
somathing rich, rare and racy may be expected.—
Every body is invited to attend at 7 o’clock. P. M.
She toe programme in another column.— Okurlcs.
toti JVewth *
2dF”A lady in Oregon, In writing to a friend, says
that cattle in that,;region live to such a great age
that their owners have to fasten long poles to the-,
end of their horns for the wrinkles to run out on!