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■miliimti imitiTiii. sniit fimi, hi MuNiirilinir limit JOHN 11. SEALS, EDITOR & PROPRIETOR. SEW SERIES, VOL. 11. TMPIIAIB CRIMIR. PUBLI3UKI) EVERY THURSDAY, EXCEPT TWO, liY THE YEAR, BY JOHN H. SEALS. TERMS: SI,OO, in advance; nr $2,00 at the end of the year. RATES OF ADVERTISING. 1 square (twelve lines or less) first insertion,. .$1 00 Each continuance,— -- - 80 Professional or Business (lards, not exceeding six lines, per year, -- - 8 00 Announcing Candidates for 0ffice,........., 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 jggr’Advertiscmcnts not marked with the number of insertions, will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. 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,— 600 Sale of Personal Property, by Administrators, Executors, and Guardians, per square,— 3 25 Notice to Debtors 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, 8 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 ton days previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be 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 Guardianship, 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 be continued accord ing to those, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. For the Crusader. Lines. BY JENNY AVOODBINK. “Oh ! memory thou lingering rr.urmurer in joy’s bro ken shell, Why have I not in losing all I loved lost thee as well.” Many visions flit before me Some bring pleasure—some bring pain, As I list the gentle patter Os the slowly falling rain. And I close my eyes in dreaming Rest my forehead on my hand, And I then hold converse sweetly With the shadowy angel -bar.d. Ands seem to see before me One in youth who loved me well, But grim Death he came-ftjwooing, And vve laid her in the dell; Now the moss grows green above her And the gentle falling rain, And the spot where now she slumbers Sadly foils as though in pain. Then there comes the tear of sorrow— T can never see her more, Love has lost its brighest jewel, One sweet dream of life is o’er. But I never can forget her, And the pangs her death has cost, I must evermore regret her, Early loved, and early lost! And in dreams again I Wonder, Through love’s now, deserted bowers, Sighing o’er joy’s faded garlands, Weeping o’er hope's withered flowers. Bitter memories why thus haunt me, Leave oh! leave me once again, For alone I fain would listen, To the palter of the rain. How I love the gentle patter Os the slowly falling rain— Swifter now the drops are coming, Beating ’ganst the window-pane. Shadowy forms arc gathering ’round me, Loved ones living—loved ones dead, Gome they from for distant regions Come they from the grassy bed. False ones why in bright-hued visions Do you mock my soul once more, Causing mo to muse in sadness— • Os a love where hope is o’er ? “Memory thou lingering murmurer In joy’s broken shell, Why have I not in losing all I loved, lost thee as well!” “Bellevue,” Ga., June 1857. * 53F”The Paris Academy of Medicing has set the papers to writing and the people to thinking earn estly of the return to the practice of burning the dead. They say that in summer time the Parisian hospitals are crowded with these victims o£ pestilence engendered by the foul air of the grave-yards in the neighborhood. The vicinity of the cemeteries is a constant source of mortality. Their putrid emana tions filling the air, and the poison they emit impreg nating the water, are held chargeable for the many new and frightful diseases of the throat and lungs, which baffle all medical skill. [communicated.] Mr. Editor /-—Haying sot forth the difficulties in llie way of any present organization being re cognized as a suitable head for an aggressive po litical movement, it becomes me to as suitable. I shall advocate one that was con stituted, but forßome cause has escapi (jAlic atten tion of the temperance public. We shall set forth its leading features, andwas briefly as possible add remarks explanatory and defensive. We allude to the bbdies known as Grand and Subordinate Alliances, or Leagues. The Constitutions were published in the Banner ” three or four years ago. The organization provided that all persons pledging themselves to vote only for temperance men for office, and w'omen and children, could be come members. That no specific sum should be required as a prerequisite, but that the contribu tions should be voluntary. That the officers should be a President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Board of Directors. That one half the money collected by the Subordinates should go to the Grand Alliance. The money to bo expended by each body, according to the direction of the. offi cers and Board, for Periodicals, Ttracts, or the ex penses of persona invited to deliver addresses, — employed Lecturers. The Subordinates to work within their sphere, and the G. A., all over the State,soastoreach destitute or opposition localities. All documents to be distributed gratuitously , and the addresses and lectures to be delivered without ehargo to the audianee. Under the plan above sketched, every man, woman and child, all classes, sober men and drunkards , can unite, and become soldiers in the army waging war against the liquor traffic. We presume that every community contains men who will not join the Sons or Knights, and who will not even sign a temperance pledge. Who, neverthe less, see the evil of the traffic, or ar£ slaves to their appetites, and would gladly aid by their votes and their money to put it down. Many such undoubtedly voted for Overby. We want the names of the men—Ave want the material aid they will promptly and cheerfully afford; but we need a medium through which the aid and strength can flow. This medium we believe does not exist, but we think is afforded by the above plan. It is true the plan exacts time, care, pati ence and labor. If Ave are prepared to bestoAv and exercise these, the plan will Avork out success; but if Ave are disinclined to act thus on this plan, we will not on any other, and should therefore gi\ r e up the contest. A lecturer to canvass the State, year after year, has long been felt as a necessity. Various plans have been tried and failed. The temperance Con vention is irresponsible and no person would em bark under its patronage. The other organiza tions have bestowed their means mostly in “bene fits,” —partly in purchasing and distributing tracts, and much has been frittered away uselessly. It is not only important to have a lecturer, but be should be so provided for as to be able to draw together the largest number of people. Hence he should not depend on his audience for pay, but should be independent of it, so as to speak the truth boldly and fearlessly. This the Alliance will accomplish, if properly started, and discrete energetic men aro selected for officers and the Board. Not only should one lecturer be continu ally in the field, but fortAvo months preceding the election of Governor, and members of (he Legis lature, there should be one supplied for each Con gressional District. These could cross the bound aries and exchange with each other, under the advice and consent of tire Board ; as then the ap peal and argument could be presented to various audiences according to the diversity of talent and mind employed. In fact, imitate closely the course pursued by the jx)liticia *, who, Ave know do suc ceed. These lecturers, general and special, should be alloAved such compensation as will secure talent and integrity, say from Fifty to one Hundred dol lar's per month. Onr great need is, and lias been public speakers. In the present condition of our cause, we can not easily g’et them, because success is too remote; but money will secure them. As soon as success becomes apparent, Ave shall find plenty of wluntcers, willing to pay a bonus for the privilege of speaking for us, just as is tire case now with the American and Democratic parties. To such as are thinking about the cost of all this, avo will address ourself before we close. Tracts are a means of great importance too in preparing and informing the public mind. These should be supplied abundantly, but gratuitously. They may reach a family not privileged to attend a public gathering, and thus will prove a valuable auxiliary. The Subordinate Alliance properly officered, would so dispose of its funds, as to sup ply large quantities of Tracts in every neighbor hood, as the Grand Alliance would supply the Lecturers. Occasionally it might seeproper to in vite one private person to address a meeting with in its bounds, but the gratuitous distribution <sf Tracts would be its chief office. This, however, would be discretionary with the managers, who would act according ip circumstances. The Lec turers would reach all parties, those who read and those who could not, Thd Tracts would fasten PENFIELD, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1857f convic ion ou such rearders as the Lecturer may have excited to inquiry. But the most important power to be brought to bear is a publishing establishment on a basis of strength and amplitude, commensurate Avith the end aimed at. It should be located at the of fice of the Secretary and Treasurer of the Grand Alliance; at a central point, where the mails are frequent and reliable, and whence it, ami all else needed to operate on the public mind could be dispatched quickly to its destination by mail or otherwise. In order to be most poAverfully and extensively useful, it should be unembarrassed pe cuniarily, and untrammelled every other Avay. — While aA r aising itself of all advertising and other business which might offer, it should be placed in a situation to be independant of these aids. The reason of this will be obvious to all avlio desire our success. Once established under favorable auspices, it could and would maintain itself and grow. It should be so amply provided for in ev ery particular, that it could thfOAv out in a short time, largo numbers of its own sheet, or uch Tracts and addresses as the state of the canvass should from time to time demand. Noav, haA'ing laid out such a vast amount of work, and described the machenery to perform it, Ave will try to slioav Hoav to work it—the cost of Avorking it, and lioav to pay it. In the first place the Secretary or Treasurer, may be the resident Editor of the paper, the gen eral Lecturer, a travelling Editorial correspondent. The special Lecturers, might be the same for the time being. I bis mixing with the people contin ually, visiting them, conversing Avith them, and Writing about their locality, avquUl make the paper a favorite, and cause it to be sought. People avlio know Mr. Seals, have talked Avith him, and enter tained him, take more interest in his paper, and what he writes, than people do avlio have not this acquaintance. Thus the paper could soon become, not only self-sustaining, but a source of income to the Alliances. A large circulation would cause it to be sought as an advertising medium. The expense of the Grand Alliance would be say 1200 dollars, one year, for general Lecturer, and the second year, say the same*for him, and 1200 dollars for the eight special Lecturers two months each, an alloAvance of 75 dollars per month for them. This Avould require for each two years 3600 dollars; or an average income of 1800 dollars per annum. Can this sum be rais ed? Let us see. There are 112 counties in the State; and the small sum of 20 dollars per county will rais 2240 dollars per year. Here is more than enough.— But avg estimate that, with zeal and energy, at least 300 Alliances could be formed and sustained. Noav, if these average 30 members each, avlio will contribute an average of 50 cents each, avc shall have 4500 dollars as the incomo of the Sub ordinate Alliances, one half of which, going to the G. Alliance, would yield that body 2250 dollars. This furnishes more than enough also. The op eration of the Alliances could and should be grad uated to the income. If we can not at once ac compli ill all that we desire, we can in time, for we think the plan has internal power, and that the elements it contains will generate its own pro pelling force. We need not amplify. There should be reserved by each Alliance, (Grand and Subordinate, but particular by the G. A.) some portion to be invested until enough is accumula ted to establish the paper as proposed. The Lec turer (or Lecturers,) and the Tracts are immedi ately attainable. By long contributions of even small sums the necessary amount cap be raised.— But not all can be accomplished this or the next year. Indeed the establishment of such a publish ing house as has been set forth may lie five years remote, but that should not prevent the begin ning of effort to attain the object. No start, no race. Within that time, the writer believes the field can be thoroughly occupied as detailed, and the foundation laid broad and deep for final success. We should not expect an immediate harvest, a present victory. A few words and figures in reference to what has been raised and spent by the Sons and Knights and we close. There have been established within ten years some 324 Divisions (perhaps more) Sons of Tem perance at S2O each $0,500 Say an average of 150 lived for 10 years at an expense of S2O each per year for rent and incidentals, 30,000 Sixty Lodges of Knights constituted at an expense of S3O each', 1,800 Forty Lodges (average) at S3O per year Rent and incidentals three years, 4,800 Making a total of $43,100 Collected and spent, in addition to travelling ex penses and benefits. Then add to this the expens es of delegates to the temperance Convention, and you will have a large stun, probably more than 100,000 dollar s, spent by temperance men within ten years, accomplishing much good, but still falling below expectation, and to-day seem ingly lost. * & Looking at the above figures, which are be lieved to be really below the fact, we a can not be- lieve our project beyond our pecuniary ability, or too intricate and impracticable for popular use.— At all events it h given for what it is Avorth—sub ject to afford, modification, or amendment, —or to open up Avay for some other plan better adapted to our neaha and inclinations. It is not intended to supersede other organizations-nor is it intended to uproot the Temperance Crusader, —but to be auxiliary to the first, and provide a Avay for the last to be elevated {geographically and) in every particular to the point where it will aid the cause to the best an vantage and with most power. riiOHIBITION CRUSADER. [communicated.] Number VI. Some of our enemies say that our efforts to free the country 7 from the liquor-shops do no good, but on the contrary do harm. This, however, is not so. Though they have not done all the good de sired, yet they have done a large amount of it.— Before any of these efforts were made, the preju dice against interfering with the dram-shop by law, Avas so strong that any public avowal of such a desire, exposed him who made it to insult and bad treatment. Remember the excitement against Flournoy, merely because he wanted the people to petition the Legislature to repeal the license law.. For this, that good man Avas so persecuted, that not long after he left the State and died. We were not at that time a citizen of Georgia, and of our allusions are made from information. Where now is that wild and furious degree of sensitive prejudice, which once every where prevail- Much of it is gone. The investigations and reasoning employed in our efforts, as vvell to pro cure a repeal of the liquor-shop law, as that we ought to abstain from drinking liquor as a bever age haA'e bad the effect of moderating this preju dice and causing it to become much more modest and tame than formerly. Reasoning men have become convinced that moral suas'onists occupy Inconsistaut ground, when they say we ought not to drink liquor, and admit the liquor-shops to he great evils; and at the same time insis's that we ought not to unite in sending men to the Legisla ture who, as well as think them evils, and would, therefore, be in favor of repealing the laAv winch creates and establishes them. To say that these shops are evils, created by law, and still insist that they who believe them to be so, ought not to unite in the election of men to the Governors or Legislators who also believe them to be evils, and are, for that reason, in favor of repealing the law that creates them is the very highest degree of moral absurdity, and is exactly as rati nal, wise and consistent, as the Visitor’s conduct was in.declaring and commenting on his great love of slitters, and after the good lady, had prepared some for him at dinner, refusing to have them, saying, that though he was a dear lover of slitters }et he never eat them. When temperance men commenced lecturing they were compelled to tell amusing anecdotes to secure audiences, but now speakers ran be heard without such means of amusement. Large num bers are now willing to hear lectures on the merits of the temperance cause, the evils of dram-shops, and the religious propriety of electing men who are in favor of repealing the law that licenses those institutions of all evil. Speakers are no long er in danger of having to ride rails for insisting that the evjls of dram-shops ought to be removed by the Legislature. This moderation now exists more or less everywhere; and it has been produc ed by our efforts ; Ist, to convince men that they ought to abstain from drinking; and 2d, that we ought to elect men to repeal the license law. Our efforts, and they alone, have effected much eom putive moderation in what was once a deep root ed and violent prejudice. With these improvements, if we persevere, we cannot fail of success. Os this, intelligent ene mies are sensible and avoid all investigation on the subject. Many of our candidates for the Leg islature have quit the practice of treating over the county, and then, if elected, going to the Legisla ture, and before they take their seats swearißg in effect that they did not do it, when every one knows they did do it. This is, of itself, no small degree of reform. Whatever effect has been made for good has been produced by our efforts and not by our tem perance-loving enemies who are always distressed with fears of our injuring our cause. When the temperance people first began to organize societies our enemies predicted the loss of our liberties and our rights, and they, good souls were much dis tressed. After some experience it was thought so cieties might be formed that would be more effi cient and succevssful than those then in being, and with that the Sons of Temperance came forward. 1 his, our lovers of the people and temperance thought was terrible. The way, the people were now to be used up was too bad. Haughty ghosts were seen in all grave-yards— rampant hob-gob lins pranced over all old fielda—and furious raw heads and bloody-bones rushed from their castles, the liquor-shops, and yelled through all towns and other places too many to name. Demigogues small and great all shed tears and groaned in sor row. Liquor-sellers, poor things, how they sighed and sobbed and ewed afoud! The temperance cause, all classes ts lovers said, was doing so well, but the “Sons” were now ruining it and tak ing away the li> ert’es of p. ople their dear belov eds, their distress they all wept and “refused to be comforted.” After the Sons had made what converts they could they saw that something more than “moral suasion ’ was necessary; for while temperance men used their ‘“suasion” one way the people lovers practiced their “suasion” in an opposite way. these rhop keepers having been made so by law, and their “suasion” having the help of the law, we thought it would be right for the Legislature to take from them its aid, so that we might have a fair and equal fight with them in the temper ance field. An application to the Legislature to refuse this aid in future, being <h termine 1 on, new troubles were again seen among Whigs, Demo crats and liquor-sellers. We had been progressing so well, they said, with our societies and inoral suasion that we ought to be content. To presume they said, to ask the Legislature to discontinue their liquor-shops, would bo full of mischief to the liberties of the people and would ruin our cause.— We, however, made the effort, and though we foiled of success, we have done much good by it, for the number of persons, who believe the license law ought to be repealed, are largely increa-ed. If we bs Christians or temperance men we ought to persevere in our efforts to effect a repeal of the license law. Then let us s.y to all who love good morals, and especially to the six thousand two hundred and sixty one who voted for Overby, that we should not be discouraged but persevere in our efforts to effect a repeal of the license law. Six thousand men, if they will act firm y upon tem perance principles, can effect this repeal. If they will have it well nnd rstood that they will vote for no man to be Governor or a member of the Legislature who will hesitate to declare himself decidedly in favor of repealing the liquor-shop law, they wi 1 constitute a mueleus around, and to which others will collect and unite and form a party that will act for thepuhlie good. Let us be firm and.we will excite confidence, and then the work will be done. Why should we not form this party ? We can do it if we w ill. There is nothing in either of the political parties that deserves either our love or confidence. Their principle object is to obtain the offices. To this end they both endeavor to strength en their own parly, and to preserve the liquor shops as a means of corrupting the people and ob taining their votes as a means of securing and con tinuing in favor. Such parties are unworthy of our support. Though, in many cases, we might not hope to elect candidates of our own, yet we ought to vote for them if we have them and nev T er think of a second choice between the parties we have. The friends of the liquor-shop parties always do what they can to destroy the prospects of our can didates and then tell us that we cannot elect them, and advise us to vote for their party tools as a sec ond choice. A good man ought to feel that he could have no choice between parties or candidates who look to liquor-shops for their success. A Christian man ought not to “go Avith the multi tude to do evil,” He ought to vote for his own candidates. By an onward perseverence, let us slioav to all,! that w'e are a Band of Freemen, determined to bat tie for our cause and ou.r country, “through good; and through evil report” now and forever. L. R. For the Crusader. VATTKRVILLji, IN DIB STATE, ) j June 20, 1857, \ i Mistaire Preenlaire: I am von gentleman vot ave visite dis contrie from La belle Prance for ze purpas of making zei sick peepel restore damselves to dere helthe, by ze most natur.elle and quickest mode. Bot I am! motch discorrage—dey will not be cure viz ze physic or zefotrenair—l am asstoneesh— Parblue ! Vat is ze mattiare ? I sai to ,ze peepel “I am von Docture vat no some ting™ and ze peepel lie replv — ’ viz motch angair, “ ve vant not ze docture vat no someting, bot ze you vat no noting. 11 I qnderstandj not —I am surpize. Dey consiidair damselves motch bettair den myself, ri est cepas? Dey no bettair tlian me vot is ze meens fore ze cure of ze maladie of ze flesh ? Jih bien y verree veil. Bot Ij am perplex—l be here too- tree veeks in dis belle villa, dis butifool cittee, vere dene is motch vataire and ze no-nottings so plentyfool. Again once more I ave been ask by-ze oder peepel, * You no some ting, monsieure?” Ah, I remembair vat I sai be fore*-! ave been instruct, I ville l* carefool to maik von ansair correct dis time. 44 Vat you sai,” I inquire. Dey repeet ze saim ting. I respond verree quicklee, 44 no sair, Ino notting.” Den dey get motch vex viz me, dey call me “ von ignorante quack docture,” I becom verree crazee in ze brain of my head—l oonsidair viz motch reflection. — Ah! ah! Mon del—l inaik von grand discoverree. Z e parte of ze No-Notings is here in dis place. — I ave ze secret—l beeorn verree wise—l will be no longair von catalique. I will reliuqueeeh mi relegion, (bot I change mi mind not) I ville be von ob ze No-Notfing parte—-I ville become von TERMS: $1 in advance; or, $2 at tbe end of the year. johnhTseals PROPKIEI'OKi VOL. XIIII.-NUIBER 27. meriMlre ov ze church—ze church vitch ze most peepei attend to dere vorsbeep. Den I vill get inotch seeknees—l vill beconsidair von good man von good doeteer. I vill talk motch viz ze pee pel —l vill shaik dem hi ze hand verree strongs—- I vill maik motch inquire affair dere tamillees—l vill lass, ha! ha! Ouir monsieur, ye a sair—l vill maik miseef tres agreuble, vevree plessante viz ’em —I vill sai-notting , no-notting, do netting —Eh! Den I vill be populaire—l vill be fool of beezeness —I vill ave motch monnee—l vill ave motch fiend—l vill ave motch fan. Bot I most he von Ainerieaine, Oin, yes sair—l most mak miself von Natit, Den l ave ze preeveleege of ze oddair doe tour. I most not be too inqueeseteeve about ze affairs politique, bot I vill be fool of No-Notting. Is dis ze vay ze pauore frenshman moat do to be en corrage in dis contrie ov libertee and equalitee in dis land of Vashington, vat zee peepleel call ze home of ze free—dis land vere dere is motch Fe male College and not so motch Acadamice— Monsieur Editeur , lam fatigue— l am seek I am almost starve©—l most ave some monnee l most queet ze beezeness ov mi profession—l most be von pupill, vouee encore , not of ze medeceen ze physic—no—nevaire—bot I most studdee “ze art to pleeke ze peepei motch.” Vill you geev me ze news fore vitch I rite dis lettaire—l weeshto no vitch individuelle in dis contrie is ze best colcu late to teech me, not only dis science, but ze von, to no-notting, no-someting or to no-mi-own beese ness. lam bevildair, Ino not at dis moment vieh of deee qualitees is ze most necessaire fore me. Yen I am inform I vill maik von grand announce ment in ze pepair vieh vill astonessli, edaire zena tif — no-nottings, ze forrenair , ze no-sometings or ze few oddair peepei vitch no-molch bot hov care ver ree leetel fore deze tings. Pleeze pobblish dis lettair in youre good pep pair and tell ze peepei, “I visit to geeve no offense” Mon dieu / dis is von grand contrie J De suis vore serviteur VON NO-NOTTING DOCTEUR. From the Index. The Sanders Professorship. Dear Brother Walker:—l take it for granted that it is the settled policy of the Georgia Baptist Convention to nurture and sustain the Mercer Uni versity. It has long shared the anxious cares and the generous bounty of a large portion of Georgia Babtists, and it cannot for a moment be supposed that we shall let drop from our hands an enterprise of so much importance po the interests of learning and piety. To sustain properly a full and able faculty, and provide all other advantages necessary for a fjrst rate University, we evidently need an increased en dowment. Our College endowment proper, now amounts to about one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; this is truly a noble beginning, but it should be increased without any needless delay to $150,000. The proper endowment of th p “Sandgrs Professorship ” would carry it up to this amount. I well remember the anxious desire which pur be loved Sanders once expressed to me• it was that a sufficient number of our wealthy and liberal breth ren should combine in a vigorous effort, and secure at once an endowment of two hundred thousand dollars. IJe was willing to be one of a reasonable nunber to raise that amount. It was a noble con ception, but he was in advance of the times. There was wealth and weight in the denomination, but our brethren .were not prepared in mind for the enter prise. “ Has not the time arrived where we should take another step towards the accomplishment of . this desirable end? The endowment of an addi tional professorship, with our greatly increased numbers and means, need not interfere with any other important object claiming our prayers and our bounty. The present endowmet of the University, with the exception of the Mercer legacy, accrued mainly from subscriptions taken up in the years 1837 and 1838. Since then, the Babtists of Georgia have doubled in number, and more than doubled in their pecuniary means. If one tenth, or even one twen tieth of our brethren of respectable means, and who have never made as yet a single,contribution to the University, were to come fprward with reasonable subscriptions, how easily could the Sanders profes sorship be endowed? The present endowmets was made up by some six or seven hundred contri butions, in sums from $5 to $5,000; are there npt now at least one half that npuaber that would feel it a privilege to add their contributions to the bounty that has already been garnered up ? Let us go a little into details, that we may be stimulated by the iberality of those who have gone before us. In the subjoined statement, .1 do,not pretend to entire accu racy as to every item, not having all the dates before me, but it is sufficiently correct, ,to show in a gener al way how our present endowment was made up.— Subscription made by Brother Mercer in his life time $5,000 By a Brother living in Alabama 6,00.0 A Brother in Augusta,. .. 2,000 A Brother in Morgan County,... ... .1,800 A Brother in Wilkes Couuty, . ~1,250 ! Subscriptions from S6OO to $1,000.. 12,000 Subscriptions of SSOO each, about.. ........18,000 i Subscriptions of $260 each, about 10,000 Subscriptions of S2OO each, about-- . - 6,000 Subscriptions of SIOO each, ab0ut.......... 10,000 A few intermediate sums not embraced in •the above classigcation, and smaller sub scriptions—say .10,000 $81,060 Add to this amount the legacies of Mercer, and perhaps some other small items, and we reach our present endowment in t available funds, which as stat ed, is about $120,000 1 I suppose that something more than one-third of V th e above sum was given by the generous Mercer; and at least another third by about 60 individuals.— Yet there were many who gave smaller amounts, that stiff contributed liberally according to their , means, and encouraged others by their example to come forward and build upon the foundation which they helped to lay. Their Bpirit still lives, no doubt, in the hearts of many. Surety there are enough ready to come forward and lay another fair and sol id stone upon the foundation, and inscribe thereon the dear and honored name of Sandebb. But I must stop; I have written in haste, and omitted many things that might have been appropriately urged. Yours in the Blessed Redeemer, * C. D. MALLARY. Albany, May.22d, 1857.