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THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADER. BY J. H. SEAI.S, ~ TEg LAW OF NEWSPAPERS, L Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their subscription. ~. . 2 If subscribers order the discontinuance of their newspapers, the publisher may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. . 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their newspapers from the offices to which they are di rected, they are held responsible until they have set tled the bills and ordered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers remove to other places without informing the publishers, and the newspapers are sent to the former direction, they are held responsi ble. 5. The Courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of inten tional fraud. 6. The United States Courts have also repeatedly decided, that a Postmaster who neglects to perform his duty of giving reasonable notice, as required by the Post Office Department, of the neglect of a per son to take from the office newspapers addressed to him, renders the Postmaster liable to the publisher for the subscription price. 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, : - J - ■ - - 1 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. —• >■ 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 PENFIELD, GEORGIA. Thursday Morning, June 18,1857. READ THESE PARAGRAPHS. Subscriber in remitting us money, discontinuing or directing tlieir address changed, must be especially particular in mention ing the office at which they receive their papers, and from which they wish them changed. No subscriber should order the paper discontinued until all ar rearages are liquidated, for such orders will not receive atteution, and the subscriber is held responsible for the time the paper con tinues to be sent. Tiiose who choose to discontinue tlieir sub criptions will please do so by a written communication; refusing to take the pa pers from the office is not the proper way. We think none the less of any one because of their discontinuing, for it is every man’s privilege to subscribe or not, as he may think proper. Take particular notice of the published fact, that our terms are one. dollar if paid in advance each year; but if not paid until the end of the year, subscribers must expect to pay two dollars. Any person sending us five new subscribers, can receive the pa per gratis for one year. Orders for the paper, unaccompanied with the dollar will not receive attention. A (Jr ENT S . v • 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. - 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. * ■ ■ 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. - 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.” • 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. ——^ 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