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mil oi m sun timimi, pi n mnuia hi lunuin w unnn it MB. JOHN 11. SEALS, £ EDITOR & PROPRIETOR. \ NEW SERIES, VOL 11. TEMPERANCE CRUSADER. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, EXCEPT TWO, IN THE YEAR, BY JOHN H. SEALS. TERMS : SI,OO, in advance; or $2,00 at the end of the year. RATES OF ADVERTISING. 1 square (twelve lines or less) first insertion,. .$1 00 Each continuance, 60 Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding six lines, per year, 5 00 Announcing Candidates for Office, 3 00 STANDING ADVERTISEMENTS. I square, three months, 5 00 1 square, six months, 7 00 1 square, twelvemonths, 12 00 2 squares, “ “ 18 00 3 squares, “ “ 21 00 4 squares, “ “ - - 25 00 g^**Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions, will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. gggf Merchants, Druggists, and others, may con tract for advertising by the year, on reasonable terms. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sale of Land or Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, and Guardians, per square,... 5 00 Sale of Personal Property, by Administrators, Executors, and Guardians, per square, —3 25 Notice to Deotoi’3 and Creditors, 3 25 Notice for Leave to Sell, A 00 Citation for Letters of Administration, 2 75 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Adm’n. 5 00 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guardi anship, 3 25 LEGAL REQUIREMENTS. Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the after noon, at the Court House in the County in which the property is situate. Notices of these sales must be given in a public gazette forty days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of Personal Property must be (given at least ten days previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must foe published forty days. Notice that application will he made to the Court .of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must foe published weekly for two months. Citations for Letters of Administration must be published thirty days —for Dismission from Admin istration, monthly, six months —for Dismission from forty days. Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub lished monthly for four months —for compelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where a bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. will always he continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. To My Mother. The following lines written l v a convict in the Ohio Penitentiary, are touchingly beautiful. We have seen nothing of late that has so moved our sympathy. The man who can write such poetry, w ho has such thoughts, cannot be utterly depraved. The curse of intemperance, with its attending downward influence, has litre done its Work, and a spirit noble and generous that might and should be the pride and ornament of the social circle, is now the degraded convict in the walls of a Peni tentiary. How will that mother’s heart bleed it she shall hear of her darling boy, the inmate of a clrison in a foreign land:— Ohio Slate Journal. I’ve wandered far from thee, mother, Far from my happy home ; I’ve left the land that gave me birth, In other climes to roam ; And time since then has roll’d its years And marked them on my brow ; Yet 1 have often thought of thee— Fin thinking of thee now. I’m thinking on the day, mother, When at my tender side, You watched the dawning ofmy youth, And kissed me in your prid ; Then brightly was my heart lit up With hopes of future joy, While your bright fancy honors wove To deck your darling boy. I’m thinking of the day, mother, When, with anxious care, You lifted up your heart to heaven— Your hope, your trust was there ; Fond memory bring your parting word, While tears run down your cheek; The long last loving look told more Than ever words could speak. I’m far away from thee, mother, No friend is near me now’, To soothe me with a tender word, Or cool my burning brow; The dearest ties affection wove, Are all now’ torn from me; They left me when the trouble came; They did not love like thee. d'm lonely and forsaken now, Unpitied and unblest; Yet still I would not have thee know, How sorely I’m distress’d 1 know you would not chide, mother, You would not give me blame; But soothe me with your tender words, And bid me hope again. I would not have thee know, mother, How brightest he pcs decay; The tempter with his baleful cup Has dashed them all away ; And shame has left its venom sting To rack with anguish w ild— Yet still I would not have thee know The sorrows of thy child. Oh, I have wandered far, mother, Since I deserted thee, And left thy trusting heart to break, Beyond the deep blue sea. Oh 1 mother, still T love thee well, And long to hear thee speak, And feel again thy balmy breath Upon my care-worn cheek. But, ah ! there is a thought, mother, Pervades my bleeding breast, That thy freed spirit may have llow’n Ter its eternal rest; And while I wipe the tear away,- There whispers in my ear That speaks of heaven and thee, And bids roe seek thee there. COMMUNICATIONS. For the Crusader. An Argument. The License system should he abolished. 1 si, It is injurious to society. ‘2nd, It is unconstitu tional, and 31, It involves inconsistency. If not abolished,no punishment of any kind should be visited upon the drunkard for his crimes. In investigating these propositions, let us first inquire what is the license system ? We find it is a provision of the Legislature, in the form of law, grant'ng to certain persons, on the one hand, the privilege of demanding, and on the other, au thorizing or perhaps compelling certain Judiciary or municipal officers to grant to persons so de manding, a permit or license to vend ardent spir its at wholesale and retail. This license system then is intended|iiot only to protect, hut also to encourage that heartless in dividual known as the RUM-SELLER, in a traf fic, ruinous to litmself and others. It allows him for a paltry pittauce of “blood money,' 1 which is placed in the Treasury of the State, to deal out to his fellow men, all kinds of intoxicating bev erage without regard to quality or admixture. It enables him to render his bar fascinating in an eminent degree, so that lie mny more readily se duce the unwary, and perhaps, even the reflecting, until entangled they lay paralyzed in the meshes of his net. While he entails misery and ruin up on his fellow creatures, and secretly exults over his success, he continues to pander to the morbid and unnatural thirst, which his viands have pro duced, until burglary, arson, suicide or murder result. The State allows him, yea, signs a full li cense, for him to poison the life-blood of his fel lows—to undermine their health —waste their for tu: sand destroy their peace. He and lie alone— despoiler —fattens upon their wreck. The old Greek addage, “drunkenness is a partial insanity,” is wirified in the degrading condition of his vic tims, who led on step by step, in the art of drink ing, soon become habitual drunkards—yea they become, monomaniacs upon that subject and look upon the glass as their only solace. Indeed they crave nothing more—they can be content with nothing less, enveloped in the fumes of dissipa tion they lose sight of home, family and friends. They are dragged involuntarily by the car of the destroyer. The ambition which animated— the hopes which encouraged, and the affections which they cherished—all, all are engulphed in the vortex of pollution. The influence of the charmer is upon tnem, and their sole desire is, for drink, drink. The terrors of the moral, civil or criminal law cannot intimidate them. They will not scruple to use any means, nor fear to incur any risk in ob taining the pittance necessary to procure that which, momentously appears the cravings of a morbid appetite. Why ? because reason is de throned, and the mania is upon them. Hence, the records of Courts—the reports of Asylums and the observations of the calculating, go to es tablish the fact that more than four-fifths of the murders and about one-fifih of the cases of insan ity are traceable to intoxicating liquors as a direct cause. And no one knows, now many crimes are perpetrated through it indirectly. Let us now inquire, how is it that men fully aware of the injury they receive morally and phys ically, pursue a habit, that they know, will either embroil them in difficulties (by which they either lose their lives or take those of otheis;) or be forced to perpetrate some crime which, they oth erwise would shudder to think of committino-? I answer, the force of habit, under ordinary cir cumstances, is almost, if not quite unconquerable. The habit of chewing tobacco, grows impercepti bly upon the novice. At first he can continue its u-e or desist from it at pleasure, hut soon, how soon alas ! does it become his master! Take any number of tobacco chewers and you will find, perhaps, upon inquiring that at some period of their lives all tried to break off from the habit, and were unsuccessful. Indeed, where one per son succeeds in mastering it, ten fail. The con dition of the drunkard is quite analogous, but he has a harder master to subdue. The long use of so powerful a stimulant as ardent spirits,—its in roads upon his system, call loudly on him for its continuance, delirivm in menu, weak stomache, headache and swollen and aching limbs, cry out against its disuse. To cease to drink liquor, with the drunkard, is virtually to cease to live. There are many indeed, addicted to this habit that would give all they possess, if they had never become its votaries. They feel its evil influencies, daily deteriorating their nobler passions and affections and adding strength and vigor to the baser sort. They feel its mortal grip upon the heart-strings of life—they see the unerring tokens of a certain and perhaps, speedy dissolution in the bloated and earbuntled countenance—burning insatiable thirst —feverish brain, and failing appetite. Yes, in view of all these evidences of injury, decay and death, why is it that men cling so tenaciously to a habit so fatal? Ask the various temperance so cieties—the Sons of Temperance, and Knights of -1 Tcho why, and they will respond ; “Few, very I few ! can quit it, for thousands who were once of I our brotherhood, like the sow, have gone again to PENFIELD, GA, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1857. their wallowing in the mire of intoxication, and they who are among us, are chiefly those who never were drunkards, or if so, are self-reclaimed,” It may be considered an axiomatic truth, that where one person is found, who has abandoned the habit of drinking liquors, you will find one hundred who have vainly tried to do so. “Habit surely is second nature.” If the inebriates alone were injured by their habits, (and even then they would be objects of pity) the consequences would not be so momen tous; but alas! society in all its stages and grades is directly or remotely injured. His family, once happy, no longer enjoy domestic peace and quiet. Horae is rendered cheerless by the drunkard’s presence. The drunkard’s views all—relatives, friends and foes—with suspicion, and without cause imagine himself insulted, or wronged when no actual wrong has been committed.— While intoxicated, his intercourse with oth ers is marked by offensively profane and vul gar language, Society bears the expenses of his riots, his fights and his murders. The taxable portion of communities are forced to pay an enor mous tax to defray the expenses of his incarcera tion, and the State those of his prosecution. Mark the inconsistency of the State! It is eonceeded, I believe, that no law is valid which conflicts with the Constitution or which infringes upon any of its provisions. If then, the Constitution guaran ties to all persons the protection of person and property, any law violative of this provision, is necessarily a nullity. The license law is violative of this, and should no longer stain the pages of our Statutes, It is a fixed law of nature that “every cause produces an effect.” If the law pro hibited the sale of ardent spirits, drunkards would not, could not be made. There are no natural drunkards. All, who become such, are led to the fatal point, by imperceptible gradations. An oc casional social glass—a glass of cider, ale or wine with an old friend who will take no excuse—a glass at a wedding or other jubilee occasions—all, all leading the unsuspecting victim to the altar of* Bacchus to be self-sacrificed. If the State did not license fashionable bars and low doggeries, to meet the demands and suit the tastes of all—if our large wholesale and retail dry goods merchants would devote their small back rooms to a more laudable purpose than to accommodate a privileged class merely because the law allows them, a different state of things would exist. Young men instead of being made drunkards and vagabonds, would be useful citizens, and pursue a lawful and honor able calling. Domestic peace and happiness would prevail and the means of their continu ance would not be abated. The integrity of so ciety would not be so frequently disrupted, and men otherwise, gentle, kind, affectionate and friendly, would not be robbed of reason, and lost to a sense of right, and become the perpetrators of glaring crimes. Dethrone his reason, and you may see the inebriate wandering about uncon scious of his own acts —not distinguishing friend from foe. The constant use of liquors to a great extent for a few days consecutively will craze any man. If then the argument be true and logical, and we opine it is, we conclude, that as long as the license system prevails, the State —the whole people (are they not the law-makers?) are drunk ard makers, and are partireps criminis in every misdemeanor—from simple larceny to brutal murder—that the drunkard as such commits.— Therefore, I repeat it: “So long as the license sys tem prevails,” with its baneful and demoralizing influences, so long will Justice, view us—the whole people—as accomplices with the drunkard in every crime which lie perpetrates. Consistency demands of us one of two things to extricate our selves from the dilemma. Either, we must rise in masses and repeal the license law, or we must revise our criminal law, and insert this condition. “Except where such offense had been committed by any one in a State of Intoxication! 1 JUSTICE. For the Crusader. Number V. The votes complained of in the preceeding num bers were given with a knowdedge, that if the candidates voted for should be elected they would do what they could to protect and continue the liquor shop business with all its works ot intem perance, sin and misery. , Now my brothers, do you believe that when Christ shall come to judge the world, and shall send doggery-keepers, drunkards, gamblers and wicked vagabonds to perdition for their evil works? that he wi 1 say to you —to you who have voted for such candidates —-(refusing to vote for any but such,) as you expected, if elected, to favor and con-, tinue the liquor-shop business, which you know makes more drunkards, gamblers, vagabonds, <fec., than all other causes in the country. Do you be lieve that He will say to you, after you have done this, “Conte ye’ blessed of my Father, you have been’ faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things?” Mat. 25 : 21, &c. Do you believe that without repentance He will d<? this thing ? Can you so believe ? Have you no fear that injured women and children, who have been made to suffer in consequence of the business you promote and protect, will appear in Judgement and complain of your preserving the liquor-shops with their evils, by which they were made wretched and miserable, and that when you were entreated to withdraw yoursupport from them you disregarded every entreaty? Have you no fear of this? Be not deceived, the Bible is against you. We will bring a few .passages be fore you. In relation to Jehoshaphat it is said : “And Jehu, the son of Ilanaui, the seer went out to meet him and said to king Jehoshaphat, shouldst thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord ? Therefore, is wrath upon thee from before the Lord..” 11. Chron. Iff: 2. Jehoshaphat was one of the good kings of Ju dah but had been helping Ahab, one of the bad kings of Israel, in one of his wars and was return ing home when Jehu met him and said, “shouldst thou help the ungodiy,” ifce. “Therefore,” said he, “is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.”— “Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee which frameth mischief by a law ?” Psalm 94 : 20. The meaning of this is the same that it would be if its parts were thus arranged : “Shall the throne of iniquity which frameth mischief by a law have fellowship with thee ?” Or its meaning is, that the powers that “frame mischief by law,” have no fellowship for God nor has He any for them. This throne or law-making power with us is in the voters who chose their law-makers.— Again, “Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grieviousness which they have presented.” Isaiah 10: 1. By our quotation from the Psalms, David in the form of the interogative style, teaches in sub stance, that there can be no fellowship between God and the throne or power which frameth mis chief by a law. Or in other woids, the power which passes laws that cause or encourage “mis chief.’’ The quotation from Isaiah teaches in substance the same thing, denouncing a “woe” against such as “decree unrighteous decrees,” that js, pass such laws as operate to or cause unright eousness. And the “writing of grievousness which they have prescribed” is equal to saying “woe” unto them that write laws which they have “pre scribed” or determined to enforce which work grievous w rongs, producing distress and suffering. This “framing mischief by law” and “decreeing unrighteous decrees” or laws that produce “grieve ousness” or painful suffering is in the sight of Heaven a provoking abomination! Our retail liq uor laws are of this sort and the very worst of the sort. They are established means of “mischief’ and misery. “Woe unto them that decree un righteous decrees” or laws that produce “grieve ousness,” <fcc. Shall God have “fellowship with the throne of iniquity” or the power that “fram eth mischief by a law ?” Shall we have this?— Never! Lot it not be forgotten that “the throne of ini quity” or the power that “frameth mischief,” by a law or “decrees, unrighteous decrees,” or laws, is in our government, in the hands of the people, spe cially responsibly and emphatically is it in the hands and control of the voters, for they can and often do direct their representatives in the making and the not making—and the repealing and the not repeaaling of laws; and there is, perhaps no case, in which this power of control has been so much and so often exercised by the voters, as it has in relation to the laws establishing and continuing the liquor-shops. Men seem to act as though they thought that there were so many concerned in this evil that the Almighty would not know who to punish. Concerned in it, are those who pass the law. They who, in the legislature de fend and preserve it from repeal. Those who erect their shops and retail in them. They who drink at them ; and they who vote for men ex pected to preserve and continue this business, re fusing to vote for any others. But God will know how to find and punish all who are in any way concerned in this work of sin and woe. “And Jehu, the son of Ilanani, the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat shouldst thou help the ungodly, and love them which hate the Lord ? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.” Here they who help or act with the enemies of God are regarded as loving them. This is very reasonable; for a man might as well love those who hate God as to help them preserve their strong holds of sin and wickedness. This “help of the ungodly and love of them which hate the Lord,” whilst Christ and his reli gion are professed are not without examples in the Bible. In the II book of the Kings 17 : 33 it is said: “They feared the Lord,” (that is professed to hear him,) “and served their own gods,” <fec. In Ezekiel 33: 31 it is said: “And they come un to thee as the people cometh, and they set before thee as my people and they hear thy words but they will not do them : for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness”—that is, after the things they covet. In Hosea 8 : 2,3. “Israel shall cry unto me, My God we know thee. Israel hath castoff the thing ‘that is good : the enemy shall pursue him,” Our last quotations represent the people spoken of as coming to the Lord, “as the people cometh;” that is, they go into matters of leligion a* far as the people have made if po;.ninr. “And they hear thy words but they will i>. t do them.” ‘ With their mouths they show much love, but their heart went after their covetousness.” “They feared the Lord,” (as they pretended,) “but served their own gods,” Ac., ifec. When we reflect upon the vast amount of sin and misery causeii by the retail liquor-shops, with out doing any the least good; and when we have seen good men laboring to ob'ain from the power that is competent, a r< peal of the law that licenses them, and have seen these men met and opposed in their efforts to do good— not only by all the bad men in the country but by a union and com bination with numerous profi s-ors of Christianity and some professed temperanc men—a 1 working shoulder to shoulder as so many brothers in fel lowship, love and union, thereby defer ng a meas ure designed to remove an evil which they thei selves acknowledge to be a great one. When we say we have seen all this, we cou’d not avoid feel ing deeply the afflictions of sorrow! How shan we “he'p the ungodly, and love them which hate tire Lord and still be the servants of the Lord ?” If we have done wrong in this tiling let us try and do so no more. It is our privilege to repent, and it is our duty to avail ourselves of its benefits. This privilege ot repenting of wrongs and obtain ing forgiveness is the morning star, the noonday sun of Christianity. Then let us rll retrospect our past conduct and amend what we find to be w rong, and live in our duty for the time to come. L. R. For the Crusader. A Twilight Dream. BY MISS C. W. BARBER. A few evenings ago I picked up a number of the “Temperance Crusader,” my eye fell upon the following sentence: “We have no more Father Mathews or Joseph Grishams. It is with us to say, whether or not, the Cause which they entrusted to our hands shall wither and die. Shall it perish ? Answer this question ?” As I mused over the query I dreamed that a thousand phantom forms came gliding about my chair. F'irst, there arose a band of pale, half starved, miserable women. Some of them had babes in their arms. I saw at a glance who they were. They were the wives of drunkards. Each paused a moment and raised her tearful eyes to wards Heaven; then there broke simultaneously from their pale, quivering lips. Mr. Editor, an an swer to your question. Their exclamation was, “forbid it Almighty God! The temperance cause must not perish. We are wives, but Alcohol has made us worse oft* than widows. No, the good old ship must never be given up.” While I was wondering at this strange array, they glided away one by one into the dusky twi light, and in their places arose a host of children. They were in rags—in wretchedness—in poverty —in disgrace and ignorance. They came from noisome cellars—from miserable garrets —from filthy courts and out houses—from asyiums for orphans—from guard-houses and prisons. I knew them instantly. They were the offspring of ine briates. But, Mr. Editor, the language of every eye, lip, tone and gesture was, “ never give the old ship up ” Look at us and take courage. Your warfare is a holy one. If our mothers have pro nounced themselves to be more miserable than widows, we, the children, are worse than orphans. The heritage of youth should be joy and gladness, hut alas! you see Old King Alcohol lias robbed US of our rights—starved us —beat us—mangled us. The cause of temperance is emphatically our cause. Who will plead for suffering childhood? The injunction of a risen Redeemer was, “feed my lambs.” Dare you neglect us—dare you forget our wants—dare you Priest and Levite like “pass by on the other side?” I was looking upon these little wretches, and musing upon the earnestness of their tones, when I heard the clanking of chains, and turning I saw that the penitentiaries had for a time given up their inmates. Ranks of stalwart men were marching into my apartment through the open door—a mark like Cain’s was set upon almost every brow. Some of them wore ma.iacles upon their hands. Many of them carried daggers, red i and smoking with the warm life blood of then murdered neighbors, friends, and even of their wives and children. Horrid oaths came from their lips. Lust, hatred and rapine glared from their fiery eyes; all that is godlike in humanity had perished from their persons. While I looked upon this frightful spectacle I trembled, hut their leader approached me and said, “do not scorn us too deeply —we are misera ble and unfortunate men. We have been bitten by that poisonous reptile, “the worm of the still.” Its fangs are more to be dreaded than those of the rattlesnake. They infuse a poison into the system which dethrones reason, and mortals become mad men who murder alike, friends and foes, scarce knowing what they do. Pity us, and crush if possible this monster from the earth. If you do not strive for this you have no assurance that your C TERMS: 1 $1 iu advance; or, $2 at the end of the year. < OO ) JOHN H. SEALS V PROPRIETOR. VOL. XUII.-NUMBEK 2G. father, your brother or your child may not be among its next victims. The cause of temperance, strange as it may seem, is our cause. Do not give the old ship up until the last plank goes down- Had it not been for Alcohol, the wretches you behold, would have been happy, honorable and upright men. Intemperance is an enemy who lias wronged us out of every birth-right; namely, health, strength, honor, wealth, virtue and man hood. Avenge us of our adversary.” Just then, Mr. Editor, the supper bell rang. I started up, rubbed my eyes, and looked for my phantom visitors. Not one was to be seen. — Those wretched women, at the first tingle of the bell had fled back to their cellars and wash-tubs— the children were again at their street beggary, and the brawny armed prisoners had slunk away to their cells. Yet as I wended my way to the ta ble I could not help wondering if I had not had “a dream which was not. all a dream,” and, also, if your query had not been partially answered. For the Crusader. “The Shades. 3 ’ BY FEMME. How many plans will man invent, to lead the youth of our country astray? For instance, a few Sabbaths ago, while going to church, I was struck with the above title, as a sign over the door in the business part of our city. What is that says I—O, it is a grog-shop, was the reply of my friend. A grog-shop! A trap, thought I, for our sons! See, the innocent young man, yea, even the little boy who can just begin to read, passing by, they read “The Shades,” what can that be ? it is anew business, I will go in and see if window shades are not kept there. Tlius they are decoyed into the very pit of poison, yes, into “the shades” of disgrace; “the shades” of misery; “the shades” of crime; “the shades” of woe; and “the shades” of death. For what is the rum-sell er but a poison vender, using every stratagem within his power to get his fellow creatures to par take, and what is the grog-shop, but the mouth of the pit into which many have sunk, and are still sinking, from which they shall never rise; but will wail and lament their doom for ever and ever. Yes indeed, it is not only the shadow of a prema ture death, natural, but of death eternal. Will not the temperance men arouse! awake! and put on the whole armor of perseverance , not being afraid, of that word prohibition. Do come to the rescue of our boys, the hope of the country. Stop all those “shades” of iniquity, that we may no more fear to let our children walk the streets to and from business, without being ushered into one of those places of ruin, to soul and body. llovv can we hold our peace, fold our arms, speak of improvements and live at ease, when the youth of our “Columbia, happy land” are exposed to the burning liquid of “the shades.” If there was a large pit of burning fluid, just at the edge of a city, and one road went through it, think ye not, if a partv of young people were to start out that way, (ignorant of the danger) that there would be many a cry made to stop, stop ! Think ye not, that the way would be stopped, the pit so encir cled as to prevent any from falling therein. Now are there not thousands of pits, more destructive, all over our country, with roads that lead through all of them ? Moderate drinking, is the main road, besides many little by-paths. Why not cry aloud and spare not for there is no time to waste. Encircle the law around the sinks of de struction until there shall not be a vestige of one that can be entered, not even by “The Shades” dealer himself. May the Lord speed the time. Atlanta, June 12tb, 1857. Most Touching Incident. The Northern Home for Friendless Children is an Institution that deserves the liberal support of all our citizens. It is continully doing good, and the ladies who labor for it should be generously sustained. A correspondent sends us an incident that we are sure must touch the heart of every reader He says:— [Phil. Bulletin. I met one of the lady Directors of “Northern Home for Friendless Children” yesterday, and in advocating the claims of the Institution upon the regard and liberality of our citizens, she modestly stated “that the week previous they had a very interesting and touching case brought to their no tice.” It ran thus: “A middle aged female, neatly attired, and whose husband deceased about two years since, j < ne to the “Home” and inquired “whether per n ssion could be had for introducing to ihe care ..e management her three children, (all she had) little girls, aged 10 to 5 years?’ The. matron respouded ‘that the application was a liberal one!’ To which the applicant rejoined, T know it; but I am about to die, and I Lave no friends on earth, (except two or three as bumble as myself in cir cumstances,) and what to do, I know not. Upon examination she stated the cause of her anguish, (an incurable tumor,) and then produced the tes timony of two surgeons, establishing the fact, and the certainty of immediate dissolution. The Board investigated the matter and found it correct. But to the issue. “Three days since the mother brought her three children to the “Home,” and after giving them into the care of a “matron” and in the presence of the Directors, she bade a final adieu to the fath erless Ones, soon to be motherless also. The scene was described as heart-rending, as the lone mother went out from the hall to return to her silent home and die.”