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ME TEMPERANCE CRUSADER:
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his duty of giving reasonable notice, as required by
the Post Office Department, of the neglect of a per
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[COMMUNICATED.]
Mu. Editor: —l seegowj? on iu your columns
an exchange of views in regard to the causes of
failure of past temperance efforts, and wlmt should
be the future policy of the friends of the cause. I
also hel inclined to “shew mine opinion.”
I want the dog dead. (1 will not dignity him by
the name lion ) I care not by what means he is
killed, only so he is kille l . lam aware that this
is strong language, and I will quality by saying.
Ido not wish any improper means employed, yet
find it difficult to imagine that any means which
will accomplish the end can be wrong. I am
therefore prepared to co-operate with the friends
of temperance under any justifiable form of effort
that promises success. What that form shall be
is one of the questions of the day.
The question is asked ; shall temperance men
put forth a candidate for Governor in the ap
proaching canvass ? I incline to think they
should. lam no politician—know little of poli
ties —the state of parties —or the bearing of this
subject oji these things. I only know, or think I
do, that the temperance cause is a righteous one
—that Prohibition is a righteous method of
promoting it. I am therefore for making the
issue as direct as possible and fighting out. —
We have been defeated —may be again—and
again until all the leaders, and the rank and file
of the temperance host fall, like Gresham, in
death ! But what of that? Our sons will catch
up our weapons and continue the conflict; and,
as sure as there is a righteous God, the cause will
succeed in time.
In a political sense only one other expedient is
left to us ; that is, let the political parties nominate
their candidates, and let temperance men choose
betweeu them if there should b s any reasons for a
choice. But, for myself, I confess this plan does
not commend itself to my judgement. I have no
confidence in politicians who are not fully com
mitted in principle and declaration on this sub
ject
A communication which appeared in your col
umns a few weeks ago struck me forcibly. Ido
not remember the name, assumed or real, of the
writer; (the paper containing it is not at hand,)
but his leading suggestion was, that some common
ground should be sought on which all the friends
of temperance can unite and co-operate. I like
the thought and sincerely hope it may be reduced
to a reality. Will nut that writer let us hear from
hi in again ?
Among many, I will mention two causes which
I regard as having contributed to the waving in
terest felt in the temperance cause.
I think there has t>een too little moral and re
ligious sentiment incorporated into the efforts for
its promotion. Temperance speeches, in too many
instances, have partaken much of the character of
pethy political harangues. The passions of men
have been aimed at rather than their moral and
religious sense. Hence the effect has been like
the flame from a heap of faggots rather than the
steady glow and warmth of a fire from a pile of
solid oak logs.
Another cause, I conceive, is the irreverence
manifested towards churches and ministers of the
gospel. Temperance speakers, (not all of them,)
have exalted and glorified their favorite temper
ance organizations above the churches in import
ance—indulged in wit, irony and sarcasm towads
preachers ami their brethren. I have heard this
Mr. Editor, in the Division Room and on the fo
mm, and that, too, from church members, until
mv heart haß been deeply pained. Now I do
not intend to way that churches and preachers are
altogether what they ought to be in the temper
ance cause; still they are, in fact, the substratum
of all moral reforms—ignore them and the whole
list of temperance organizations can accomplish
nothing. Preachers and churches may have been
deficient in regard to this cause—l think mauy
of them have been—but still they are God’s or
ganimations and God's ministers and it is danger
ous to other organizations or to individuals to en
deavor to thrust them aside or deg.ade them.—
God may allow his people to be thus scourged and
still reckon seriously with scourgers as he did with
the Chaldeans for their treatment of the Jews.
The effect of this treatment of ministers lias
been to stave oft’ trorn these organizations hun
dreds, if not thousands of the liest and strongest
men in our land. Not that these men had wo re
gard for ihe temperance cause, or did nothing fru-
its promotion ; but they did not choose to be.iden
tiffed with such disparagement of Sacred Things
had no hope of success in any scheme that was,
but prefered to work in their own way and single
handed until they saw some-way of co-operating,
with others under better auspreies.
I hope, Mr. Editor, that Some conion ground
may be devised on which all the temperance host
can unite— that one lecturer, at least, will fee en
gaged to canvass the State, competent to present
this subject to our fellow citiztns in ail ite bear
inga, social, political, and moral ; —that the friends
of the cause will refrain from measures and re
marks that will deprive them of the co-operation
of good men. *
I have said, hastily, my say. Let it so for what
it is worth. But if all our organized efforts foil;
or none is made, my own course is, long has been,
marked out. I expect to War against “Prince Al
cohol,” publicly, privately, dn the congregation, in
the parlor and by the way-side as long aS I live !
I may die first—shall I presume—but the Prince,
as a ruler, will as certainly die also. I believe
this Mr. Editor. I cannot belive that Grisham
has fought and fell—and that Uncle Dabney
has suffered and toiled, and their co-adjutors with
them, for nought. Do fight on Uncle Dabney a
little longer and drop your armor, but not the
confidence of the final success of your cause. My
tears fall for thee my old friend. You deserve a
better portion in this world than your brethren
have dealt to you, but God will reward you.
G.
—
For the Crusader.
Golden Moments.
B V MISS C. W. BARBER.
“To every thing there is a Season.”
I saw a flower. It opened its flushed petals to
the sun light and loaded the wing of the zephyrs
with perfume. But in a few dap nothing reinain
ed of all this floral loveliness. Then I repeated to
myself the words of the preacher —“to everything
there is a season.”
I saw a babe. It opened its tight blue eyes and
smiled. It was a beautiful type of innocence.—
But when I visited the nursery soon afterward, its
dimpled hands were crosse 1 over a cold and life
less bosom. The sexton was bringing in the coffin,
and preparing the little body for “the narrow
house.” While I looked, a venerable man arose
with the Bible in his hands, in tremulous tones
read to the distressed mourners this text “to every
riling there is a season.”
I saw a youth. Ilis hair was like the raven’s
wing, and his eye was as strong as the eagles.—
But the infirmities of age crept over him. His
vigorous manhood pissed away, like “the flower of
grass.’’ He tottered in his gait, and spoke often
of the days that had been. “I was once sprightly
as the lark,” he said, “but feebleness is now iny
portion. Alas! to everything there is a season.”
I met a pauper. He was weeping over bis van
ished wealth. Vessels belonged to me once, he
said, which were freighted with the treasures of
every clime, but they were swallowed up in the
waves. Banks broke and lands depreciated in val
ue. I was ruined before l knew it. I have been
wealthy, but to everything there is a season.”
Then I said to myself mentally, the words of
King Solomon are indeed true, “to everything
there is a season.” Happy are those who seize
upon and enjoy with a keen appreciation the good
that exists iu the present, for no one knows what
a day may bring forth. Why should we vainly
imagine that all golden moments exist in the fu
ture? It is not so. Let us enjoy the present as
it glides away, for in “the days to come” memory
may look back with straining eyes to the past, and
mourn because “youth, friendship, and love, each
had their season and are gone.
[communicated.]
Mr. Editor: —With all due deference to the
neutral character of your paper, I would repeet
fully solicit space in its columns to make a few
passing comments on a communication which
I‘tely appeared from a correspondent in Taliaferro
county in reference to the “free Negro question.”
I do so because it contaius one positive, and an
other implied misrepresentation. He says “the
different adjoining counties have run their free
Negroes off’ on account of misdemeanor and they
have all lodged the nselves in Taliaferro.” This
is a statement which the facts of the case will not
substantiate. We know that some have come
here from other counties, and some havo gone
hence to other counties; but we do not suppose
that the counties had any thing to do with their
immigration or emigration. The truth is, that in
our county Town free Negroes and all other Ne
groes enjoy a large degree of favor from bad men,
and therefore it is to them an eminently desirable
location, hence they have become a nuisance and
a disgrace. Their temoval is a consumatiou de
voutly wished for by all good citizens, and there
is not, ns your correspondent would insinuate any
candidate before the people, who is opposed to
this, provided it win be effected humanely and
honorably. This last sentence defies our fe
ble powers to comprehend; we suppose he knew
what lie meant as he is doubtless a scholar. But
let the Toliver rifle boys “*Aoof” whom they
may, it is to be hoped that they will not send
Legislators to Milledgeville whose only claim to
the office, is their impatience in demanding it.
UNITS POPULI.
Crawfordvillc, On.
[cOMMUSICATKD.j
Mu. Editor: —l see in the Crusader of June
the 11th that one of your correspondents has be
come alarmed about the free Negroes in Taliaferro.
It is evident that it is his object to create an ex
citement. But the Toliver boys, are not so easily
duped. Admitting that there is as much danger
as your correspondent would have us believe, be
lias begun at the wrong place to remove the evil.
For the great numltea of free Negroes, is not be
cause so many have heeu run from the adjoining
counties but on account of the attractive power
oi the liquor-shops which are to be found at al
most every comer in Crawfordvillo. If they were
removed tree Negroes would vanish immediately.
There aro many “Toliver Boys” who would,
support a candidate who would declare himself
openly in tavor of temperenco much more cordi
ally than they would one who is going about
preaching that free Negroes is the greatest curse
of the day, whereas they are but a drop to the
jpeean. A VOTER.
Crawfordvillc, June 18th.
ty“Thfi London Economist of the 23d ult., p üb
lishes an official tabular statement of the number of
persons arrested for drunkenness within the Ju
risdiction of the metropolitan police from the year
1831 to 1655, inclusive, which shows that the num
ber of drunken persons taken into custody in the
first year was 31,353, and that in the latter year was
only 19,256, while the population ofthe city ha 4 in
creased about 50 per cent within the period includ
ed in the return. *
Sgf* ;
ey“ls that a lightnining bug?” asked a short
Sighted lady. “No,” said the Miss, “it’s a big bvg
With a cigar.”
[communicated.] ;
•‘Madison College Girls Dressing—Stella.”
MivEditor.— Will you alldw me the privilege
of asking through your paper your fair correspon
dent “Stella” from Thompson, which College she
refers to in her article of the 4ih of June? I sup
pose, being a gradmue of one of them, she certain
ly must h tve known there were two Colleges in
this place. One is the “Madison ” and the other
the “Georgia Female C illege.” If she referred to
the first, then her article needs correction, and if to
the second Ish all leave her ini he hands of the
“kind aud gentlemanly President” of that Institu
ion. As she has attacked one of our Institutions
upon the ground of extravagance and recomme ided
as a remedy for this great evil —drag Ginghams
and White Bonnets for summer and something
equally suitable for winter, and will l6t me know
whether or not sire refers to the Methodist or Mad
ison Female College, I have’ a few things to say
upon the subject of a “Uniform Dress, Extravagance
•fee., that will bring me, either, in conjunction or
Opposition with this “bright particu'ar star.” [•
“Stella” does not allude to the Methodist College,
1 have but one word to say, and it is this, whenev
er she writes about our Coliege, she will do us and
the public, the kindness to inform us, to which In
stitution she refers. CHARITY'.
P. S. The “Madison Female College” has a law
prohibiting young ladies from contracting “accounts
when aud where they please ” 0
Robert Emmet and his Love.
’Twas theeveuing of a lovely day—the last, day
of the noble and ill fated Emmet,
A young Girl stood at the castle gate and desired
admittance into the dungeon.
She was closely veiled, and the keeper could
not imagine who she was, nor that any one of such
proud bearing should be art humble suppliant to
the prison door. However, he granted the boon
led her to the dungeon, opened the massive iron
door, then closed it again, the lovers were
alone, lie was leaning against the prison wall
with a downcast head, and his arms were folded
upon life breast. Gently she raised the veil from
her face, and Emmet turned to gaze upon all that
earth contained for him, the girl whose sunny brow
in thedays of boyhood had been his polar star —the
maiden who had sometimes made him think the
world was all sunshine. The clanking of the
chains sounded like a death knell to her ears, and
she wept like a child. Emmet said but little, yet
he pressed her warmly to his bosom, and their
feelings held a silent meeting—such a meeting
perchance as is held in* heaven only, when we
part no more. In a slow voice he besought her
not to forget him when the cold grave received
his inanimate body—be spoke of by-gone days—
the hapyy hours of childho and, when his hopes were
bright and gloriouS, and he concluded by request
ing her sometimes to visit the places and scenes
that were hallowc 1 to Ills memory from the days of
h’schildhood and though the world might pronounc e
his name witli scorn and contempt, he prayed she
should cling to him with aftecuon, and remember
when others should forget. Hark ! the church
bell sounded and he remembered the hour of ex
ecution. The turnkey entered, and after dashing
the tears from his eyes, lie seperated them from
their long embrace, and led the lady from the dun
geon. At the entrance she turned and their eyes
met —they could not say farewell! the doar swung
upon its heavy hinges, and they parted forever.—
No ! not forever! is there not a heaven ?
At sunrise next morning he suffered gloriously;
a martyr to his country and to liberty.
And one — o’er her the myrtle showers
Its leaves by soft winds fanned,
She faded ’midst Italian flowers—
The last of their fair band.
’Twas in the land of Italy ; it was the gorgeous
time ofsuuset in Italy ; what a magnificent scene !
A pale, emaciated girl lay upon the bed of death.
Oh! it was hard for her to die far from her home
in this beautiful land where flowers bloom peren
ial, and the balmy air comes freshly to the pining
soul. Oh ! no : her star had stt; the brightness
of her dream had faded ; her heart was broken.—
When, ties have been formed on eaith, close burn
ing ties, “what is more heart rending and agoniz
ing to the spirits, than to find, at last, the beloved
one snatched away, and all our love giveu to a
floweret. Enough ; she died the betrothe lof
Robeit Emmet; the lovely Sarah Curran. Italy
contains her last remains; its flowers breathe
their fragrance over her grave, and the lulling
notes ol the shepherd’s lute sound a requiem to
her memory.
The Toll Gate of Life.
We are all on our journey. The world through
which we are passing is in some respects like 5 a
turnpike—all along where Vice and Folly have
erected toll-gates fur the accomodation of those
who choose to call as they gi —and there are very
few of all the hosts of travellers who do not occa
sionally Btop at someone or other of them—and
consequently pay more or less to the toll-gather
ers. Pay more or less, I say, there is a great va
riety as well in the amount as in the kind of toll
enacted at these different stopping places.
Pride and fashion take heavy tolls of the purse
—many a man has become a beggar by paying
at their gates —the ordinary rates they charge
are heavy, and the road that way is none of the
best.
Pleasure offers a very smooths, delightful road
in the outset; she tempts the traveller with many
fair promises, and wins thousands—but she takes
without mercy ; like an artful robber, sho allures
until she gets her victim in her power, and then
strips him of health and money, and turns him off
a miserable object, into the worst and most rugged
road of life.
Intemperance plays the part of a study villain,
lie’s the worst toll-gatherer on the road, for he not
only gets from his customers their money and
their health, but be robs them of their very brains.
The men you meet on the road, ragged and ruined
in frame and fortune, are his visitors.
And so I rnjglit go on enumerating many oth
ers who gather toll of the uuwary. Accidents
sometimes happen, it is true, along the road, but*
those who do not get through at least tolerably
well, you may be sure he has been stopping by the
way at some of the places. The plain, common
sense men, who travel straight forward, get through
the journey without much difficulty.
• Inis being the state of things, it becomes every
one- in the outset, if he intends to make a comfort
able journey, to take care uht kind of company
he keeps in with. We are all apt to do as com
panions do—stop where they stop, and pay toll
where they pay. Then their chances are one to
ten; but our choice in this particular decults our
fate.
Having paid due res ect to a choice of compan
ions, the next important thing is closely to observe,
how others manage; to mark the good or evil that
is produced by every course of life—see how those
do who manage well; by these means you learn.
Be careful of your habits; these make the man.
And they require tlie long and careful culture, ere
they grow up to a second nature. Good habits
I apeak of. Bad habits are more easily fl^quireS 4
—they are spontaneous weeds, that fiouriafefrrapid
ly and rankly, without care or culture.
C|e fnnpcranct Cntsabcr.
PENFIEIjD, GEORGIA.
Thursday Morning, July 2, 1857.
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A QENTS .
K L NEWMON .....°° Athens.
JE3&K W JACKSON, Ruck Head
JOHN M HOOT Bowden, ‘
BHGfeEENK Columbus,
C E MIMS
BANKS .Covington,
3 S !-COTr I. . .Calhoun.
M P SCALES, Carnesville Ga.
W vandivrre ; „ altoni
1 J WiDLIAMS, Kthernge,
W W CARNES Fort Valiev.
W M WATTS Franklin, Ga.
JABE BRASWELI Falrbuni, Ga.
JESSE M CAMPBELL, Griffin, Ga.
J II PUCKETT, Hog Mountain.
R E WifIGMAM Louisville, Ga.
J M DORSEY Leo, Ga.
W A MORRIS Marietta.
J CD BURNETT Macon.
J A .1 HARKELI Milledgevill, Ga.
R A CARSON, Orangeburg S C.
D PRICE Pickens C. H.,8. C.,
H I) MOORE, Pleasant Hill.
WM M HUMPHREY Powelton.
JOHN M NEEL,
B 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 BUItNIKCE Warrington, Fla.
REV. LEWIS PARKER Walterboro.’ S. C.
J C CALDWELL, Traveling Agent in
Hall and Habersham counties, Ga.
The State Temperance
Convention
Meets in Atlanta on Thurs
day, the 9th of July. Rev.
J. E. Ryerson of Augusta
will deliver the Annual Ad
dress.
All temperance men in
the State are expected to
attend.
The Convention will as
semble at 10 o’clock in the
City Halt.
Wo welcome the cointnuncaiion, of our
revered and longtimed friend “G,” to be found in
this issue. Hope he will let us hear from him
again.
The Sanders Professorship.—
In this issue,
we publish an article written by that good old chris
t;an and faithful friend to Mercer University, the
Reverend C. I). Mallary, giving the original sub
scriptions for the endowment of this University,
showing that a great many of them were very small
amounts, and also that a great many small amounts
when brought together make a bulk of some size.
Hence all small favors in aiding to raise the endow
ment of the Sanders Professorship will be felt and
thankfully received. In the issue preceding this we
published a communication to the Index from Mr. T.
J. Burney, showing satisfactorily the utility in cre
ating this professorship, and the exigences of the
University for an additional endowment.
Mr. J. F. Swanson the Agent for raising this fund
has been to this place soliciting subscriptions, and
we are happy to know that he met with very flat
tering success, —received subscriptions to the a
mount of a thousand dollars or more, with a prom
ise of additional subscriptions from some others ol
our ablest and most liberal-hearted citizens.
Woodland Female College.—
The public exer
cises of this popular Institution, located at Cedar
Town, have been omitted this term in consequence
of the Measles getting among the scholars. The
Trustees and Faculty have issued a card stating the
fact and the reason. The Georgia Patriot , publish
ed at that place, says:
“It is to be regretted that the examination and
commencement exercises of this Institution, will be
omitted this term. When the Measels made their
appearance in our midst, some students left for their
homes, and we understand that several caught the
Measels on their way, or immediately after they
reached home —that disease being generally pre
vsdent this season. The great “bug bear,” “Small
Pox,” reported to have been here, was one of the
grandest swindles to our institutions of learning that
could have been played off. No such disease has
been near here, nor is there any danger of it coming
—it couldn’t live in our country, and parents need
have no fears in sending their sons, or daughters
back, on account of any epidemic whatever.
Jag?” Professor D. Barton Boss, author of the
Southern Speaker and other class books, attempted
to co r.mit suicide in St. Petersburg, Va., on Thurs
day, by taking chloroform and stabbing himself in
the region of the heart with a clasp knife. He was
not dead at 2 o’clock on Friday morning,’though lit
tle hope is entertained of his recovery. The wound
was inflicted while shut up in his room at Powell’s
Hotel, and when found was lying on the floor in a
pool of blood. On the bed were found letters ad
dressed to his friends and wife indicating disappoint
ment and depression of spirits, and intimating and
attributing the intention of taking bis life to reverse
of fortune, and the non appreciation of his efforts in
the furtherance of Southern literature.
-
An absent wife is thus advertised for : “Jane,
your absence will ruin all. Think of your husband
—your parents —your children. Return—•return—
all may be well—happy. At any rate enclose the
key of the cupboard where the gin is.”
Judge JOSEPH E. BROWN, of Cherokee
County, Nominated as the Demo
cratic Candidate for governor
Macon, Juno 27.— After the twentieth ballot yes
terday, which resulted for J. H. Lumpkin one hun
dred and seventy-nine, and H. G. Lamar one hun
dred and seventy-five, with some few scattering
votes, W. H. Hill, Esq., of Clarke, moved that the
delegates from each Congressional district appoint
or elect a committee of three, for the purpose of
recommending the name of a gentleman, as the
Democratic candidate for Governor, that the Con
vention can harmoniously and unanimously unite
updn. The motion was adopted and the committee
appointed.
After full consultation, the committee reported the
name of Judge Joseph E. Brown, of Cherokee Cos.
and the nomination was confirmed by acclama
tion. — Conati tutwmiltit.
Prip|e Morality
's the basis of public virtue,
and they both flourish and prosper or sink together.
Human society is made up of individuals, and each
person constituting a component part of the whole
mass, necessarily forms an element in its character.
And in the same degree that each man is virtuous or
immoral to the same extent w ill the Republic be
moral or immoral. The character of every citizen
whether it be good or bad, enters into the formation
of national character. The character of the nation
is the character of the people, and the character of
the people is the character of the individuals com
posing the masses. How very little this plain, sim
ple fact, and the great obligation it imposes upon
each member of society, is thought of by men. It
obligates every man to conduct himself in an up
right, moral, and virtue- s maimer, to give tone and
dignity to our national reputation. Individual influ
ence is work! wide, and constitutes the basis of both
national morality and national degre lation. The
application of this position to the whole country is
upon the same principle that it is applicable to com
munities; as the citizens of a community are re
ligious or irreligious, temperate or intemperate, so
is the character of that community entire. The
citzens of Imperial Rome lost sight of their private
virtue, and public morality sank into nonentity and
carried with it the Roman Empire. Prance forgot
her obligations to cultivate private virtue, and her
scenes of degredation, blasphemies, ido'atry, obscen
ities and immoralities of all kinds, made her a fit
emblem of hell on earth, and branded her with in
famjr. The cities of Sodom and ti onion ah were
swept away by the Almighty with the besom of
destruction, because of the licentiousness of the
people.
Upon the morality of its subjects depends the
permanency of our cherished Republican form of
Government. Obliterate that and the beautiful fab
ric of American frecdo u w ill crumble and totter. —
And when the Moralist surveys human society, with
t ie ken of a true patriot, and sees the internal corrup
tion among the masses, the demoralization, drunk
enness, and sin of every phase, he can but contem
plate with fear and trembling the safety of our na
tional dignity, respectability, and existence as a free
country. So long as we suit* r the “free flow” of in
toxicating spirits in our midst despoiling every vir
tuous work, corrupting every noble aspiration, and
consuming and madly inflaming the brains of men,
woman, boys and children, just so long shall we
justly wear the brand of beingan immoral, servile and
degraded people. Our country may boast of its
free Institutions of Republican liberty, of its church
es and its schools, of its religion and scientific learn
ing, but all these national glories will shine in dim
splendor until they are freed from the obscuring
stain which intemperance casts upon them. Lit us
profit by the fate of hesotted England, and numtain
our Birth-right to untrammeied freedom, by crush
ing out this national scourge which eclipses and de
grades our sciences and boasted excellencies.
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White Plains Academy.
We availed ourself of a spjci.tl invitation to be
present at tin: public exaininati n oi the pupils of
the above Academy, (which took place on Thursday
and Friday last,) an i • njoyed the trip vastly. Quite
a large number of pe- pie were in attendance, from
the surrounding country, and the occasion was one
of general i iciest. The Sch ol is a flourishing one
—receives tlie patronage of the entire community,
and justly men's the su, port of all its neighbors.—
The Princijiul is our old Iriend J. D. Mathews Esq.
of College da) s happy remembrance, and pleasant
associations, and no one is move worthy than him
self of ihe confidence which he enjoys from the
good people of that community, llis public exhi
bition did much credit to himself and pupils, and
the variety which he introduced into his Programme
of exercises served to destroy the monotony, and
thereby prevented them from becoming wearisome.
The School is composed of Girls and Boys—grown
young ladies and young men. The class of young
ladies, Misses Lightfoot an l A!friend, in Trigonom
etry * sustained a very creditable, and somew hat as
tonishing examination ; they deni mstrated with
great accuracy, some of the most abstruse theo
ries in both plane and spherical Trigonometry, at
which older and sterner heads might have hammer
ed for hours without success; this shows satis
factorily the capabilities and su-ccpt:biliti<s of the
female mind. Let woman he eiuxateo.
At night the audience wore entertained by quite
a vaiicty of performatives, consisting of an exhibi
tion on the part of the music department of the
School under the instructions of Mm Wkihaart,
compositions and speech s by the young ladies and
young men, “Floral Presentations” by the Gills, and
recital of Dialogues by the Boys. The exercises
were very interesting.
White Plains is a neat, pi.-asaiit little village, situ
ated in a beautiful grove, and can boast of a truly
generous-hearted, clever, refined and inte'ligent set
of citizens. We enjoyed the liberal hospitalities of
our highly esteemed, and whole-souled friend Dr.
Alfrieud, —met a number of old friends of days
“la ng syne,” which made our heart glad; among
them were our College associates, the no v Rev. J.
H. K 1 patrick, and Dr. Isaac Moore, both of whom
are residents of this place, and are enjoying life and
good health.
While l*lain a after enj ying a thrice-glorious
freedom from grop-shops lor ten years, is at last to
have a —a filthy, seething, damning cess
pool of corruption whose putrescent miasma is to
obliterate the peace of that quiet little Town and
curse ail of its happy family circles. Our bosom
swells with rage and iegret at the thought. A cou
ple of heartless, ti (noiseless vagrants, in open defi
ance of the entreatits, and scathing anathemas, and
with a total disregaid of tho wishes, religious feel
ings, and moral sentiment of the citizens, are erect
ing one of tins tpHjiring in the very heart of
the village. They Wta)k-in like two highway butch
ers, with daggers in hand determined to stab fatal
ly the long standing morality of that pleasant little
Villa. Deep gloom thickens around the hearth
side of many.happy families, as they see the insatiate
demon with sharpened fangs and hungry stomach
invading their social circles. Fond parents look
upon their promising boys, and shed tears of sorrow
at the thought of this damning vestibule’s standing
vvith open doors by day and by night, inviting them
at all hours into its haunts of error, and wc would
advise those parents to cling with watchful affection
to those idols,—or else the butcher-knife of this rum
fiend will reek with their young blood. The sentiment
of the people of that whole community are bitterly
opposed to the grog-shop, yet it goes up. Would to
God it were not so, and that these clever and high
toned people might still enjoy their “great deliver
ance” from rum-hells.
entire stock of barreled pork in Louis
vdle, in first hands, is estimated at six thousand nine
hundred and fifteen barrels, against twenty-six thous
and nine hundred and sixty barrels at the same pe
riod last year.
Another Failure.
We don’t know that we ever became as nick of
seeing anything paraded through the newspapers as
we did of seeing the humbug collision between the
comet and the earth. Every editor made a labored
effort to get off something sharp relative to it, but
we are really of the opinion that they all “busted.”
The folia wing editorial which we clip from the Char
leston Keening Xem, is the best we have seen, and
indeed is a capital good hit.
“Quarter past ten o’clock, and all is well,” as the
watchman cries from the steeple. “The agony is
over and the country is safe,” as the successful can
didate says after an election. “To be or not to be,”
was the question, but to-day the “not to be” is strick
en out, and the J *to be” has become a fixed fact, a
tangible institution. We looked out this morning
with a tremulous gaze and agitated nerves upon the
rosy-footed herald of the morn, as it opened the gold
en portals of the east, thinking that we might never
look upon its like again, and not knowing but whst
that cloudless sun m ght rise to go down no more
behind the darkened west, but be burled from his
meridian height and have his eternal tires quenched
amid “the w'reck of matter and the crush of worlds.”
But disappointment is the common lot of man, and
we are not yet to be favored by the grand denou
ment, the sublime illumination which was to have
attended this general smash up upon the great Cen
tral Railroad of the Celestial Empire. The morn
rose bright and beautiful as that which hailed the
natal day of young creation’s birth, and the morning
stars sang as sweetly as they did over the cradle of
the infant universe, and nothing unusual appeared in
the heavens above or the earth beneath, to indicate
the fearful collision on which the fate of two worlds
and perhaps the whole solar sytem depended.
We have cause for rejoicing that time has been al
lowed us to repent and collect our July bills; and we
here present our congratulation to the cices mu tali ,
on their happy escape, and can inform them that
the distinguished visitor, the fieiy war horse of heav
en, lias refused the public entertainment that was
ottered him, and brushed by this insignificant sphere
without even so much as a nod of recognition, and is
pawing the light clouds and galloping over the blue
fields of ether on another long nrssion of a thousand
years. We felt confident from the first that He who
fashioned the worlds in the hollow of His hand, and
rolled them out into their appointed paths, and
marked them with his own omnipotent finger, would
not allow them to vary their course, or run out of
scheduled time. There is room enough for each to
revolve through all coming time, without crossing
each others tracks or smashing their engines at a
sharp curve.
We may have made a narrow escape, but “amiss
is as good as a mile,” and our planet is still marked
“r>g t side up with care.” The next time the wise
astronomers mounts the tripod and sounds the alarm,
and summons the nations of the earth to attend
the funeral of time, they will find a slim cortege and
but few pall-bearers. They may brush up their
glasses and look sharper next time, but when they
blow the whistle nobody will stand from under or
look out for the engine. Many delusions and false
teachers may arise, and people may be led astray
and made to believe a lie, but our word for it, you
will never be able to get a corporal’s guard after this
who will subscribe to the doctrine that the earth is
to be destroyed by a comet.
South Carolina College.
At the last meeting of the Board of Trustees of
the South Carolina College, a resolution proposing
the re-organization of the institution on the Univer
sity plan, met with the approbation of the Board.—
Col. W. C. Preston, who offered the resolution, pro
posed the following modifications of the education
al system:
He recommended the establishment of fourteen
schools, or professorships—each professor to have a
salary of one thousand dollars, and to receive ten
dollars from each student entering his school, which
should be a perquisite in addition to his fixed salary
—so that one hundred studentsentering the school
of a professor would give him an income of $2,000
and so on.
The number of students would thus depend upon
the reputation, ability and attractiveness of the
professor, and make his emolument commensurate
with his merit. This stimulus of interest Mr. Pres
ton thought desirable for the professors, while the
fixed moderate salary would relieve the enterprise
from the character of a mere risk. This Mr. P.
said, was the plan at the University of Edinburgh.
Each student matriculated in the College should
be required to enter in at least three schools, and
the fee of matriculation should be sls for the whole
course, while the student continues in College, se
curing to him the privileges of the Library, appara
tus and use of the rooms.
Thus the permanent appropriation for fourteen
professorships would be $14,000. The matricula
tion fee for 300 students would give $4,500, which
would be enough to keep the public property in
repair; while the ticket for three schools, S3O, and
the fee of matriculation, sls, would be less than the
tuition charge now paid. The public appropriation
would be diminished SIO,OOO, and the charges up
on the students ten per cent. The following were
his suggestions, as to the schools:
1. A School of Law.
2. Os Medicine.
3. Os Natural Philosophy.
4. Os Natural Hiotory.
5. Os Mathematics.
6. Os Engineering.
7. Os Chemistry.
8. Os Geology and Paleontology.
0. Os Belles-Lettres and Rhetoric.
10. Os History and Political Economy.
11. Os Greek and Latin.
12. Os Hebrew and Cognate Languages.
13. Os French, German and Modern Languages.
14. Os Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics”
The selection of these schools would be voluntary,
and without any prerequisites except of moral
standing.
Ihe standing of the students in their respective
schools would be ascertained by two vearly exam
inations, at which the degree of proficiency shall be
masked from 1 to 11, and those who attain the mark
of 1, 2 or 3 may receive a certificate of proficiency.
The diploma ol the College shall he conferred ex
merito , upon a final examination, having attended
three schools for two years.
The proposition was referred to the consideration
of committee, to be reported upon at the next meet
ing of the Board.
The Greenville Patriot and Mountaineer makes
the follow ing explanation in relation to the conduct
of the Trustees:
“The Board of Trustees were satisfied there was
no foundation whatever for the charges made against
the 1 resident, and felt it their duty to say so in
most unqualified terms. Having done this, they
thought it might give rise to a supposition that the
charge ol a w ant of veracity was impliedly fixed on
the Professors. This was not the case, and Urey
said so. There was no question of veracity between
any of the parties; but the Board of Trustees came
to the conclusion, from all that was said and done
that the government of the College was inefficient!
and required reorganization. The Faculty did not
take that control or enforce that discipline which is
essential to the prosperity of the College. The
Board of Trustees did not conceive it to be their du
ty to punish the students. They looked to the Fa
culty to do this, and inasmuch as they had not done
it, they dismissed the Faculty. Instead of doing
their duty and suspendit g the junior class for refus
ing to recite to their President, the Faculty apply to
the Governor to convene the Board of Trustees for
the purpose of getting rid of the President! The
Board of Trustees look to the Faculty to see that the
laws of the College are enforced rigidly. In the
late disturbances, it w’as manifest that the students
had been encouraged, tacitly and impliedly, by the
expressed hostility of the Professors towards the
President, and by the intimations and opinions of
the Professors that, if they refused to recite without
a class meeting, there would be no combination or
cause for his power. The Trustees came to the
conclusion that the condition of the College imperi
ously required reorganization. It was painful and
distressing to have to call on the Faculty for their
resignations. Some years ago the State Military
Institution was reorganized in the same way by the
Board of Visitors. The defining condition of the
College requiring the same energetic action.