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THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADER.
BY J. H. SEAI.S,
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COMMUNICATIONS.
For the Crusader.
“More Grape.”
Mr. Editor :—One of our chiefs has fallen, and
we shall hear his bat' le cry no more. But nearly
all of our officers are left, ‘‘The Old Guard,”
and most of the veterans belonging to the differ
ent divisions of our army. Our first battle ended
in defeat and has dismayed and paralyzed and
scattered our forces; but we are not conquered. —
Whoever went into the fight, two years ago, with
a hope of success greatly misjudged. The writer
was favorable to a nomination two years ago; and
under proper systematic organization as a party,
is favorable still. We did not expect, nor sliou'd
we now exp-ct a triumph. The vote polled being
only a little more than one half what was antici
pated. We frankly confess ourselves disappoint
ed. but we are not disheartened.
What we want is a more vigorous, energetic
and persevering use of the means now in use and
at our command ; or if needed to increase those
means. Compromise writes sensibly, proposes a
platform but proposes no systematic plan of ae
t!on. The most profitable use we can make of
the past is to avoid its errors and mend its defects.
If our zeal has abated and we feel an unwilling
ness to make sacrifices, we need to be revived,
and if we cannot be revived we had better retire
from the field altogether. As now working we
can avail but little. We need a central power, a
Grand Head to mark out a systematiceourse with
an organic law conveying the power, and provid
ing the means to enable it, through suitable agen
cies, to pursue that course to a eonsumaiion. Each
temperance body is now figtinglike Guerillas —in-
dependently —no union and no conct rt of action*
but for the same ultimate object. Neither recog
nizes the State Convention as its head, and each
seems to regard the others as rivals. The Con
vention is made up of citizens with temperate
temperance notions, each session an independent
assemblage, bound by no former action and binds
none in the future. Under this view there is now
no association embodying a “union,” or capable of
producing concert. A mere platform will be found
inadequate, powerless. We need an organization
whose officers shall be in succession, which can
lay dowtt a plan of operations to be pursued
through a succession of years, only modified by
circumstances, until our object be attained. That
object being the “complete annihilation of the
liquor-traffic as a beverage.” We should adopt
such a course, such a line of policy as wi 1 secure
it. This will need system, energy, talent, writing
and oratorical ability, and money. Without all or
most of these we shall be doomed to repeated dis
aster; to secure these should our efforts he direct
ed. But how to secure them is the ail important
question. The demagogues can work by system
—with energy —and use all the necessrry appli
ances to secure political power, and fatten on the
public plunder. Money is poured out like water,
if need be, and this secures the other elements of
success.
To run a candidate for Governor as we are situ
ated, or candidates for the Legislature even, wou and
be futile. We must first settle down upon and
adopt a ‘plan of action. Having done this, go to
work to gather strength in numbers, talent, abi i
ty and money. When this strength is gained
we can enter the political field with some pi ospect
of success. We must not, like “once a prohibi
tionist,” give up the fight and lay down our arms
but like “W. R. ’ and “Compromise,” be ready to
keep up the fight, and on the look out for that
body which bears the “prohibition” banner. In
fighting for prohibition, we do not necessarily say
we will take no less. No, Bro. Crusader, let us
try for a law, giving the citizens of a district, town,
city or county the right to say whether the traffic
shall be allowed, or iet us take, at first, anything
promising an advance toward the ult'inate object
and turn it to the utmost advantage. Where
our friends are strong enough let them show it at
the ballot-box, and so step by step advance to
power.
I have digressed, but in future numbers will try
to develope my plan, and trust that interest enough
is felt to induce friends to attack it if need be, or
make amendatory suggestions, or propose an en
tire substitute. Still a Prohibitionist.
PROHIBITION CRUSADER.
For the Crusader.
Madison College Girls Dressing,
Thompson, June 4, 1857..
Mr. Seals lam just from Madison where
I was a student for several years, and I am proud
to claim one of the institutions for my u alma-ma
ter.” I found one of the institutions, I will not
state which one, quite small in number of pupils —
it cannot be that the public think the teachers in
eonqntent of teaching the “young idea how to
shoot,” fi r lam sure no college can boast of better.
The fact is, Mr. Seals, the young ladies dress too
extravagantly for the old gentlemen’s pockets; 1
was surprised to see such elegance of dress as was
exhibited by the “school-girls” on last Sabbath in
the town of Madison; why in the name of good
reason and common sense don’t every institution,
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Wat least Female Institutions, adopt an uni form ?
a gray dress of gingl tarns iu summer and a neal
white sun bonnet; ami something equally as suita
ble for winter—such would look better tiian so
much finery. If you wish to dress your daugh
ter fine wait until she leaves School—don’t send
her there with enough frippery to fill a freight
ear and tempt girls less able to dress than herself.
I like to see young ladies dress I admit, but to al
low young ladies to visit the sores when they
please and buy-what they please will injure any
school, and is certainly unbecoming in school girls.
I hope that the kind and gentlemanly “President”
of the College I have reference to, will so change
ills rules and regulations in regard to this great
evil, that his school, next term, may be filled to
overflow, and al his future efforts crowned with
success is the heart felt wish of one of his warmest
friends. “STELLA.”
For the Crusader.
Shady-Dalk, Ga., June Bth, 1857.
Mr. Djditor :—With your permission, I -wish
to speak a few words (through the columns of the
Crusader) of kind entreaty to the dry-goods mer
chants throughout the country, for the unwise,
unjust,—and I may add unprofitable, evil they
are exerting, by keeping for sale, their bottles of
“fine Brandy, best of Port Wine,” &c.
I am acquainted with a village —not far distant
from yours Mr. Editor—where, not many months
since, the citizens made up money and bought
out all the “doggeries,” with the sincere hope and
expectation, of preventing the sale entirely, of in
toxicating spirits in their midst —which had made,
and was making, innocent woman and children,
the widows and pittiful orphans of drunkards.—
For a short period, this village seemed converted
from its scenes of Babel, to a peaceful
the miserable devotees to the “sparkling cup,” once
more engaged in their different employments, and
bid fair to become a comfort to their families and
friend*, but alas! when the merchants laid in
their next stock of goods, they each thought it
advisable, to order wines and brandies, “ only for
medical purposes ,” but what has been the conse
quent evil of their medicines? Why those poor
unstable minded drinkers, concluded (I suppose)
they needt <1 just a littie wine or brandy as a tonic,
“of course it was bought for that purpose, and
nobody must be refuseso the “ tonic ” is sold,
the man takes more than a physician would p:e
scribe, and his home is again made a scene of
wre'chedness. Now gentlemen mcichants, do you
not see the evil you bring on a community by
your ine ‘ical spirits, and the injustice you are do
ing to the families of those who will not refrain
from drinking liquor if it is where they can obtain
it —they care not for the pin e, they would (if you
wi'l allow the expression) sell the last shirt oft’
their backs, t/> secure only one bottle of Mr. A or
B’s good brandy. Let me entreat you gentlemen,
(some of you are professing Christians) if you
value your own reputation and interest, to stop the
sa'e of ardent spirits in your dry-g ods stores, you
are not only losing the high estimation of the
respectable portion of the community, but you
are losing their patronage, among the ladies es
pecially, who are your best customers —you are
doing yourselves, a vast amount of injury. Where
is the lady that likes to go info a store, with the
fear that she may be accosted by a drunkard, be
fore leaving? There is none —and hence you
miss many a call from tlmm, in consequence of
those brandy bottles—and truly lose more from
them, perchance in one week, than you gain
from your liquor customers in months, so you per
ceive, to say the best of it, it is an unwise, unjust
and unprofitable business. Where there is no
drug store, if physicians (they are plenty) want
spirits for medical purposes, let them keep *uch,
but let me again beg of you merchants, for your
own sakes, for the sake of the drunkards and their
poor wives and little ones, and last but not least
—for the sake of retaining the esteem, respect,
and patronage of the “fair ones of creation,” to
forever dispense with wines, brandies, fcc., from
your store-houses. Then you will not only be
cheered by the constant smiles of the Ladies, but
you will be amply blessed by the smiles of fortune
dispensed by a kind, appro\ing Providence.
A LADY.
From the Chronicle & Sentinel.
Meeting of the American Party in Old
Greene.
A meeting: of the American Party of the county of
Greene, and others friendly to its principles, was
this day held in the Court House, and organized by
calling the Hon. Y. P. King to the Chair, and request
ing James L. Brown to act as Secretary.
On motion of Miles W. Lewis, Esq., a committee
of seven was appointed to report business for the
meeting consisting of Miles W. Lewis, Geo. 0. Daw
son, F. C. Fuller, Robert L. McWhorter, James
Moore, H. 11. Watts, and Ephraim Bruce, Esqs.
The committee, through the Chairman, Miles W.
Lewis, Esq., reported the following resolutions as em
bodying the principles of the American Party of
Greene county, and which were unanimously adopt
ed.
The American Party of Greene county, unwilling
to imitate the example of those political weather-cocks
who are unerring indices of the course of the popu
lar wind ; but, on the contrary, united more closely
by defeat, and resolving more firmly to do battle for
what we conceive to be the best interests of the
country, declare the following principles as conduct
ive to those interests:
1. We hold the public lands to be the common
property of all the States, held in trust by the Gener
al Government, and that according to the principles of
the common law, founded in reason and justice, as
applied to that portion obtained by purchase, as well
as from the deeds of the cession of the remaining
portion, each of the States is entitled to an equitable
share in any disposition that may be made of them.
We, therefore, are indignant at the course pursued
by Congress in appropriating them almost exclusive
ly to the new States and Territories, and to Mam
moth Coporations, whose object, in many instances,
is speculation and fraud. And we can account for
the votes of members from the old States, who have
supported such measures, in no other way than that
they were willing to sacra fife the interests of their
constituents to advance the ends of party, thereby
verifying the trite phrase applied by Mr. Calhoun to
a party of the same name, a score of years since—
“held together by the cohesive power of the public
plunder.”
2. We here enter our protest against the policy, fore
shadowed in Mr. Buchanan’s inaugural address, of
building the Pacific Railroad by the Government.
3. In the decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States, in the Di ed Scott case, we have the.
highest judicial authority of the Government, that
the opposition of the American party to the princi
ple called “squatter sovereignity” is correct upon le
gal principles—it being generally conceded that in
point of policy it is a doctrine fraught with ruin to
Southern interests.
4. We will sustain the President in any speedy
and decisive steps he may take to crush all opposi
tion in Utah to Federal judicial authority. Will the
Democratic party consider it “a violation of the rights
of conscience” to compel the Mormons to obey the
United States authorities, rather than the behests
of their spiritual leader, Brigham .Young? If so the
President must look to his political opponents for “aid
and comfort.”
5. We reaffirm our unqualified hostility to alien
suffrage in the Territories, are more and more
convinced by the developments o| experience, of
the necessity of remodelling our Naturalization
Laws. U
0. We regard the fair- prornises of the Democrat
ic party as the “masktfd battery” behind which
they use the stupendous engines of alien suffrage,
and the speedy fabrication of votes under our Nat
uralization Laws, to play with slow but certain des
truction upon the rights of the South. >
7. We are still satisfied of the propriety of vesting
the Government of the Western & Atlantic Rail
road in other hands than those of the Governor;
convinced by its history, for a few years past, that
under its present re’illations, it will be merely an
engine of party, and not a source of income to the
State, as its owners, the people, contemplated in its
construction.
8. We are, therefore in favor of its sale, either in
whole or in part, and suggest that the proceeds a
rising therefrom be appropriated to the education of
the people of Georgia 4 42,000 of whom, over 20 years
of age, at the date of the last census, could neither
read nor write.
9. We recommend a return to annual sessions of
the Legislature, a reduction of the Senate, and a
limit to the length of the sessions.
10. Not discouraged by defeat, but stimulated bv
the hope of victory, and impressed with a deep con
viction of the rectitude of our principles, we recom
mend to the party throughout the Slate, that a Con
vention be held in Milledgevill on Wednesday, the
12th of August next, for the purpose of nominating
a candidate for Governor. And we recommend the
same time and place for holding a Convention to
nominate a candidate for Congress to represent the
7th Congressional District.
11. We will appoint five delegates to represent
us in belli of said Conventions.
On motion of Miles W. Lewes, Esq., it was
Resolved, That a Convention of the American
Party of Green county be held at the Court Home
on the first Tuesday in August next, for the purpose
of nominating candidates for the Legislature and
county officers.
On motion of Geo. 0. Dawson —
Resolved, That a committee of seven be appoint
ed by the Chair to suggest five suitable persons to
represent Gi t one county in the Gubernatorial and
Congressional Conventions to be held at Milledge
ville on the 12th of August next.
The following .gentlemen were recommended and
appointed as delegates: Geo. O. Dawson, R. L. Mc-
Whorter, Valentine Gresham, M. W. Lewis, and
Dr. B. F. Carlton.
‘On motion of John G. Hoitzclaw —
Resolved, That the delegates appointed, in case
they cannot attend, have power to fill their vacan
cies.
On motion of R. J. Dawson, Esq.—
Resolved, That the proceedings of the meeting
be published in the Chronicle & Sentinel and Tem
perance Crusader.
The meeting then adjourned sine die.
V. P. KING, Chairman.
James L. Bimwx, Secretary.
Greenesboro’, June 8, 1857.
A Boston lady who had a somewhat Bacchana
lian spouse resolved to.frighten him into temper
ance. She therefore engaged a watchman, tor a
stipulated reward to cany “Philander” to the watch
house, while yet in a state of insensibility, and to
“frighten him a little” when he recovered.
In consequence of ibis arrangement he was
waked about eleven o’clock, and found himself
lying on a pine bench in a strange and dim apart
ment. Raising himself on his elbow, he looked
around until his eye listed on a man sitting bv a
stove and smoking a cigar.
“Where am I?” asked Philander.
“In a medical college!” —said the cigar smo
ker.
“What a doing there?”
“Going to be cut up !”
“Cut up—how comes that?”
“Why you and td yesterday, while you were drunk
and we have brought your body here to make a
natemy!’’
“It’s a lie 1 ain’t dead
“No matter; we bought your carcass anyhow,
from your wife, who had a right to s.ril it, for its
all the good she could ever make out,of you. If
you’re not dead, its no fault of the doctors and
1 hey'l 1 cut you up, dead or alive!”
“You will do it, eh ?” asked the old sot.
“To be sure we will—now —immediately,” was
the resolute answer.
“Wall, look o’here, can’t you let us hayc some
thing to drink before you begin ?”
Byron and his Lady. —Lord Byron told Tre
iawney that his separation from his wife proceed
ed from a few hasty words, uttered when he was
unaware of her presence. During his financial
troubles his wife had come into his study so quiet
ly that Byron did not know’ it. Thinking over
his condition, and how much his marriage had
rendered his ruin more unpleasant, he cried audi
bly enough for her to hear “Lady Byron is con
foundedly in my way !” SI e roused him from
his brown study by saving, “Indeed, my lord ! I
can easily get out of it.” Byron would have it she
never forgave this escapade.
The enormous increase in the manufacture
of whisky in the West within the past few years is
attracting considerable attention at present on ac
count of the purposes to which the product is ap
plied. Much, the larger port on of it is manufac
tured into alcohol, the shipments of which to Fiance
have been enormous. A Cincinnati paper states
that only a few days ago 10,U00 barrels of alcohol
were sold to one house in New Orleans, intended for
shipment to Fiance.
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There is a woman, youthful and quite handsome,
who visits the Baltimore penitentiary every clay, and
converses with her husband for an hour and more
through the iron burs. Yet this man is serving out
a term of years for having cut her throat (his wife’s)
and inflicted several severe stabs in her breast, from
the effects ol which her life was for a long time des
paired of. What an evidence oflove and constancy !
The Mother. —It lias I>en truly said ; The first
being that rushes to the recollection of a soldier
or a sailor, in h ; s heart’s difficulty, is his mother.
She clings to his memory and affection, iu the for
getfulness and hardihood induced by’a roving life.
The last message he leaves is for her, his last whis
per breathes her name. The mother, as she in
still* the lessons of p ; ety and filial obligation into
her infant son, should always feel that her labor is
notin vain. She may drop into the grave—but
she lias left behind her influence,’ that will work
for her. The bow is broken, but the arrow is sped
and will do its office.
A Sure and Easy Cure for Corns. —Tie a piece
of raw cotton to the corn, and wed it three times
a day in spirits of turpentine; this will in three
days cure the corn without the least apparent pain.
iV. Y. Chronicle.
Pickles. —An excellent way to make pickles
that will keep a year or more, is to drop them into
boiling water, but not boil them ; let ihem stay
in ten minutes, wipe them dry, and drop into cold
spiced vinegar, and they will not need to be put
mto salt and water, —and are a! way A ready fur
use.
|3PThe Atlanta Intelligencer of Wednesday says;
—The Southern Central Agricultural Association
met in this city on yesterday. We understand their
next Fair will be held here—and that Atlanta has
been fixed upon as the permanent location.
C| t Cenpntact (fasafeu
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Thursday Morning, June 18,1857.
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ELNF.WMON ...Athens.
JE3SF. W JACKSON, Buck Head.
JOHN M HUEY Bowden,
R II GREENE Columbus,
C EMI MS “
ALBERT G BANKS Covington.
J N SCOT!’ ...Calhoun.
M P SC ALES, Carnesville Ga.
M W VANDIVERE Dalton, Ga.
T J WIDLIAMS, Etherage,
W W CARNES Fort Valley.
WM WATTS Franklin, Ga.
JABS BRASWELL Fairburn, Ga.
JESSE M CAMPBELL, Griffin, Ga.
J H PUCKETT Hog Mountain.
R E WHIGIIAM Louisville, Ga.
J M DORSEY, Leo, Ga.
W A MORRIS, Marietta.
J CO BURNETT Macon.
J A J HARRELL Milledgevill, Ga.
B A CARSON, Orangeburg S C.
D PRICE Pickens C. 11., S. C.,
H D MOORE, Pleasant Hill.
WM M HUMPHREY, Powelton.
JOHN M NEEL, “
I! C JOHNSON, Rome Ga,
E A KING, Roswell.
J M PINKSTON Sparta.
J D BROOME. Tallahassee, Fla.
W F MORGAN, Tennille, Ga.
ABNER STANLEY Traveling Agt.
WM M BIJRNIEOE, Warrington, Fla.
REV. LEWIS PARKER, Walterboro.’ S. C.
J C CALDWELL, Traveling Agent in
Hall and Habersham counties, Ga.
|3P”Read communications on the first page.
B®*“ The solution of the Cattle Problem will ap
pear next week.
is rather down on the habit among
the Madison College Girls of dressing fine.
Examinations.—
Read, in another column, the
several examination notices.
our first page will be found some very in
teresting ami feeling resolutions passed by the Grand
Division of South Carolina upon the death of our
lamented Grisham. We thank friend Corley for
furnishing us with a copy of them, hope to hear from
him again ere long. The envelope has been proper
ly directed; the suggestion relative to the officers is
a good one and will be attended to forthwith.
Prohibition Crusader
Writes well, and wc are
pleased to hear him say he intends giving us a grape
shot every week if possible. Read his Grape ar
ticles, for they are to the point. In his next he pro
poses developing his plans for concert of action.
President Thomas,
Os Oxford, will accept our
thanks for a copy of the Catalogue of that fiourshing
College. In the number of students it is considera
bly ahead of any other College in the State, which,
together with its character, speaks a great deal to
the credit of the Methodist denomination. The num
ber of students in actual attendence, says the Cata
logue, is one hundred and eighteen.
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The Knights of Jericho
had quite an interest
ing time of it in Macon, on the 4th instant. In the
morning, a large procession of ladies and gentlemen,
girls and boys, marched to the old methodist church
where, after appropriate religious services, a beauti
ful banner was presented by Mrs. Laura M. Walk
er, in behalf of the ladies of the order in that city
to the Lodge, through the Rev. Thomas Dougherty,
Chief of the Institution in Macon.
In the evening, they had a handsome entertain
ment at Concert Hall, which wound up the festivi
ties and ceremonies of the day.
Sparta Mala and Female Institute.—
We
invite special attention to the card headed “Public
Announcement” in this issue, which is a programme
of the public Exercises of the above Institution of
learning. A great and interesting time is anticipat
ed, and our worthy and esteemed friend Harris is
the man to get things up properly. He is succeed
ing finely with his School, giving universal satisfac
tion so far as we can learn, and fairly sustaining the
character and high recommendations which he
brought with him from his native State.
We thank him for the honor he confers upon us
and his warm invitation. Providence permitting
we hope to be present at his literary festival.
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Violin Improvement.—
Friend Jack. Gorham, of
Bairdstown, who possesses a double amount of the
spirit of real ingenuity, has shown us an original
trick of his to change the key-note of the violin. —
Should you wish to play a piece for instance in three
sharps or two flats, instead of changing the nut
upon the gamut with your finger, which is very dif
ficult to do, you can simply apply Gorhams’s caput
de astro and then play in the natural key. W e
think the idea a capital one and more than likely to
succeed, lie intends applying for a patent.
Military Encampments at Milledgeville. —ln be
half of the Citizens of Baldwin County, the city of
Milledgeville, and the Baldwin Blues, the several
Volunteer Companies of the State are by the Gov
ernor invited to assemble and encamp at the Capi
tol on the 3d, 4th, sth, and Gth days of July.
Wc learn also, that it is the intention of the Gov
ernor, to bring down the Cadets from the Military
Academy, at Marietta, to participate in the parade.
If this be true, older soldiers may look to their
laurels.
We further learn that the citizens of M illedge
ville have ottered to defray the expense incident to
the entertainment of the large body of visitors that
may be expected.
Mr. John will deliv
er the annual Literary Address at the commence
ment of the South-western Female College in Cuth
bcrt,'Ga., on the first Wednesday in July next.
Hon. John of Savannah, wilt de
liver the annual address at the approaching Com
mencement of the Wesleyan Female College, Macon,
on the 15th of July.
BST” The Bank of Fulton has declared a semi
annual dividend of five per cent., payable at their
banking house on demand.
Sentenced to be lluug. — We learn from the La-
Grange Reporter, that the slave Aaron, charged with
tlm murder of Mrs. Allums, his mistress, alter a fair
and impartial trial, was, on Wednesday of last week,
found guilty of the charge, and on Thursday
afternoon was sentenced by Judge Bull to suffer the
extreme penalty of the law on Friday, the 10th of
July.
Merchants Selling Whisky.
“A Lady” in this issue addressidg the dry-goods
merchants upon a practice which exists almost uni
versally among them where there are no regular
tippling-shops, that of selling spirituous liquors, is
evidently firing at one of the strongest holds of in
temperance. We gladly publish the communica
tion, and commend it to the perusal of all merchants.
The citizens of the village to which she. alludes,
recently purchased the stock of liquors which their
bar-keepers had on hand and then destroyed it entire;
the act met the willing approbation of every citizen
of Georgia who loves sobriety and social order; but
if the dry good’s merchants are availing themselves
of the absence of grogshops and feel it to be their
duty to supply the vacancies from their cellars, and
back rooms, we are free to say let the regalrr dog
geries be opened again, lor secret murder is far
more dishonorable than anyother species of blood
shed ; and rather than the merchant should sell it in
his store, let him place his barrel in the grocery
and share the proceeds with the whisky seller. The
Town spoken of is not the only one where the
stores convert themselves into regular brandy de
positories. It is the case in every village where the
good and sober citizens have rooted out the open
retail shops, and the system should be broken up;
if the merchant himself has no more self-respect nor
regard for the moral and virtuous portions of the
community in which he resides, than to engage in
the traffic thus secretly, the Town Council should
take the matter in hand, and put an end to it. We
consider this system far more injurious, more de
moralizing and subversive of the public spirit and
personal dignity essential to the good character of a
Town, than the disgraceful public saloon, for it of
fers a temptation to those respected citizens who
scorn grocei ies, and who would otherwise be per
fectly temperate, to drink—and it is mortifying to
say that not a few are unable to resist the temp
tation. Strong drink will show itself after awhile
upon the man who imbibes it, and very frequently
you hear it whispered around in private that such
a one who had for many years past, been looked
upon as a highminded, sober and moral man, is
hilling himself by drinking. Such a report violent
ly shocks the feelings of every respectable man, and
immediately the secret drunkard is looked down
upon with scorn. Between the regular open grocery
and the secret one, we prefer the former, and had
rather sec the merchant, if he be disposed to trade
in spirits, dispose of his dry goods, and fill the
shelves with hiskies and Brandies, —such a course
is more honorable, and more dignified. We like to
see a man “show his hand.” The virtuous lady en
ters the store feeling no delicacy nor uneasiness, for
suiely it is what they represent it to be, “a dry
goods store” but if she only knew it, she stands in a
filthy doggery , and is liable at any moment to have
her sensitive nature outraged by drunken indecen
cies. The ladies should be informed of these places,
and we feel confident that nothing is necessary to
prevent them from patronizing such but a knowl
edge of the fact that spirituous liquors are sold there.
Does not the dry good Whisky merchant see that by
such a course on his part he loses instead of being
benefited? We know they would regret losing the
custom of the ladies, for it is always the best they
get, but we wish such may be their punishment so
long as they’ keep liquors to sell. The statement
that they keep it for “medical a eposes,” is an im
potent subterfuge—too shallow to merit the least
degree of countenance. The time never has been
yet, when the health of any community was so bad
as to require every dry goods store to be filled with
Medicine, and who does not know that the health
of the community wo .Id be a thousand degrees bet
ter if those medico-brandy stores were abolished?
It is humiliating to temperance men to think that
merchants will take such advantages. The moral
citizens of some pleasant little village through vigi
lant and untiring exertions succeed in extirpat
ing the open dens, and feel conscious of having
achieved a great triumph, that of relieving the com
munity of the curses of Rum, but when the tiuth
is revealed they 7 find to their discouragement that
they have only sunk the cistern of deadly drugs
from the building into the cellar; you walk the
streets of the village which boasts of its freedom
from grogshops, when underneath every public
building are to be found reservoirs of brandy', and
their miasmatic fumes secretly permeate the entire
atmosphere of the place, scattering the seeds of
death among .he unsuspecting people. We heard a
good old whole-souled temperance man, sometime
since in speaking of a town which had abolished its
groceries, and where the dry goods uicrctiants were
carrying on this system of soiling liquors, say that
he now considered that whole town, one big grocery.
We were forcibly struck with the truth contained in
the remark, and such a reputation is of no advant
age to any place. We entreat merchants every
where to reliect upon the injustice which they and o
to themselves, the community in which they 7 live
and to the great temperance movement, by this
pract cc, and abandon it.
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Snuff Rubbing.
The subjoined pithy extract from a speech deliver
ed a few weeks since by Dr. Boring to the students
of tho Atlanta Medical College, has been going the
rounds ever since, and we have several times clip
ped it for publication but have omitted it every time
until now. The faithful picture which he draws of
a woman “dipping” is of itself, i r at least should
he sufficient to make any lady who thinks anything of
herself disdain such a filthy and health-destroy
ing practice. We had much rather see a nice lady
with ivory-white teeth and cherry lips pull out of
her pocket a large twist of tobacco and a big knife,
cutoff a huge quid, cram it into her mouth, chew and
spert “ anibeer ” manfully, than to see her rubbing
and sucking a-uasty, sickening stick with filthy sali
va running down the corners of her mouth and drip
ping upon her dress. What can be more disgust
ing? It is the worst species of slovenliness. Do
any of our Penfield ladies indulge in this filthiest of
all practices? Certainly not. It would be difficult
for us to believe any of them so destitute of self-re
spect and decency. You hear a great many ladies
personally defending the practice by saying, “it may
injure some but it don't hurt me.” That is exactly
the consoling text of the dram-drinker, and you all
know whero such preaching leads him. Fair lady
you deceive yourself; for every “stick-full” of snuff
which you take into your mouth injures you. It
exerts an exhilerating effect upon the system, giving
an unnatural, excited life to the spirits, the tenden
cy of which is to destroy their natural flow, making
it necessary to keep up the stimulation or the whole
system is relaxed, deadened and tho lady miserable.
This is the feeling of all snuff-users when their bot
tle of Mackeboy gives out, and then you see them
hunting up the nearest neighbor who uses snuff, to
get a dip into her bottle, and there the case is made
more disgusting, for you have two or three mouths
dipping and slobbering in the same nasty bottle.
Shame, shameful, that ladies who cnll themselves de
cent will countenance such a habit. Read what Dr.
Boring says about it:
“Except one of her sex, rioting in alcoholic fumes,
and blundering into the ditch, it is hard to conceive
of ft more disgusting object than that of a woman ‘dip
ping.”
“Think of it. A woman! a bottle of Mackeboy.!
a filthy stick—stained lips—yellow teeth—polluted
breath—sick headache—nervous irritability— novel
reading—sleepless nights—hysterical spasms—blue
devils and hob-goblins ! and she a wife—a mother!
“Gentlemen, if I desired to wither your prospects
for all time to come, and to embitter the cup of fife,
I would ask that such a woman should be yours!
“A few day's since, when on board a car with an
unusual number of passengers, I saw a young girl
of fourteen or fifteen years of age, indulging in this
foulest of habits. The stick, (brush) used on the oc
casion was absolutely 7 black —had evidently don#
good service, and although the operation of‘dipping,’
rubbing, sucking and spitting was disgusting beyond
endurance, this hopeful adept seemed to become al
most ethereal under the narcotic, and finally stretch-*
ed herself on the seat, seemingly insensible to the
burning shame of her degrading habit and position.
What a spectacle! who can plead for it ? Let the
voice of the profession be raised against it, and let
example enforce the teaching.”
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From tha Macon Messenger.
Messrs. Editors : — I find the following article in
the last Temperance Crusader:
Hon. Alx. H. Stephens.
“If there be a report that Mr Stephens designs re
tiring from public fife, we hope it is untrue; for we
should regret seeing him retire from the position
which he has so long filled with honor and useful
ness to the country. All parties and classes unite
in according to him great ability and influence in
the National Councils, and not only Democrats but
Know-Nothings, Whigs and Americans all, would
regret to see his post vacant in the House of Con
gress. lie is a favorite son of Georgia, lias been of
great service to the State, and politics laid aside, the
whole State would object to seeing him fail to return
at the next session.”
“The Crusader is I believe, the organ of the tem
perance party of Georgia, and as an old fine tem
perance man, I here take occasion to enter my dis
sent to the foregoing fulsome and false statement.
I leave that paper and others, to determine how far
the course of Mr. S. of late years , has heen calcu
lated to p’ace him before the country as a model
worthy of imitation, in any respect. And when the
impartial biographer, shall set himself to work to
record his deeds, he will be surprised at the poverty
of those materials which furnish a la-ting memorial
of goodness and greatness. If the editor of the
Crusader, can point to one solitary act of statesman
ship—one great and beneficient state measure that
originated with Mr. S. or was consummated by him,
I shall not object to his trumpeting his fame. Until
then, I shall believe that Mr. S. is merely an adroit
slippery politician — nothing more.”
JUSTICE.
When we penned the little paragraph which “Jus
tice” has extracted above and commented upon, we
did not dream of its being so eagerly snatched up
and branded as “fullsome and false ,” for it was not a
political sentiment nor does it, in the least, savor of
politics. This is not the only brand the article quot
ed above has received, we have positively refused to
publish some which were addressed to us in reply
to it. Our political preferences and predilections
we give no publicity to, for though we are entitled
to them, it is not proper that we should introduce
them into a neutral, non-political journal; nor have
we ever published one line which in the least shadow
ed them forth. The remarks which we made rela
tive to Mr. Stephens were not dictated by politics,
for it almost invariably happens that our political
sentiments differ very materially from his; yet is that
any reason why we should not admire and express
our admiration for the man? No, indeed. It mat
ters not bow much our views have differed or
may differ from a man or politician of abilty, we
are ready, at all times, to awaid him the guerdon
of praise which he merits. Our admiration for Mr.
Stephens is founded not in politics but :n something
higher, worthier and more honorable ; we love him
for his genius and native intellect.
We have no idea who “Justice” is, but when we
hear him thus repudiating a man of ability upon no
other than political grounds we pity his weal; stan
dard of justice. Who has ever yet mingled in politi
cal strife and escaped political damnation? If Jes
us Christ himself were to come upon the earth dur
ing a Campaign, political sentiments would be at
tributed to him and huckstering political quattle
bums would crucify him again. In calling Mr.
Stephens nothing but a slippery politician, “Just
ice” does shameful injustice to a great and good man.
Think of him descending from humble parentage and
being educated by a few benevolent ladies, and after
contending manfully against seemingly insurmounta
ble difficulties and soon gaining the mastery he is plac
ed upon more respectable grounds; then see him
nobly refund the money expended in giving him an
education, and resolving to educate annually at his
own expense, in our State Colleges, poor young men,
to which benevolent resolution many grateful young
hearts joyously testify, and then call him noth
ing but an adroit and slippery politician. Hear
his shrill voice as it re-echoes the first time in the
Legislative Halls upon State policy, arousing slum
bering old Legislators who had looked upon him as
a mere tallow-faced, bloodless, dirt-eating boy ; lis
ten to his stirring eloquence which never ceases
to burn, as he pleads the defence of some unfortunate
criminal whom the violated Law prosecutes for his
life—hear his keen musical voice as he lifts it amid
abolition turbulence, and standing upon the Nation
al floor, like the old Isreafitish High Priest who
stood between the people and the plague, rebukes
the dark flood of Northern aggression, and then call
him a “ slippery politician and nothing more.”
“Justice” challengesus to point to one act of States
manship of Mr. Stephens; why sir, we point you to
h\s whole public career. In the opinion of many
lie may sometimes err in the course he marks out
for himself, but an error in judgement where the
heart is right does not effect a man’s patrotism, and
it shows a narrow-contracted, selfish and illiberal
disposition to brand a man as an intriguer because
his political sentiments differ from yours. Mr.
Stephens is a Statesman of whom Georgia is and
might well be proud—of whom the nation is proud.
He is the favored Elisha upon whom the mantle of
the great Clay fell when Eiijah-like he ascended from
the admiring gaze of his countrymen.
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Rum-Sellers Repenting.
A friend from Washington, Wilkes county, gives
us the following very interesting and encouraging
account of a religious revival going on in that plaoe.
It speaks of hope, to see the hard-hearted retailer
whose hands are dyed in the blood of his fellow man,
incited to tears in contemplating his transgressions;
and has any human being more cause to feel alarmed
at his condition than such a man? It is enough to
make him shudder with fear and trembling when
he remembers the many immortal souls he has sent
reeling and staggering into eternity—the social hap
piness he has destroyed—the wretched misery he
has entailed upon thousands of families—the orphans
and destitute widows he has made, and the jails,
penitentiaries and asylums he has assisted in erect
ing. We learn with great gratification, that this
class of men, in some portions of the country, are not
yet devoid of feeling nor ignorant of the truth that
there is a day of reckoning ahead in which they will
have to answer for the deeds of the flesh. We earn
estly hope that the Stirling gospel truths which are
moving them at this time in Washington, may
be effectual in bowing them as humble penitents