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ME TEMPERANCE CRUSADER: ’ byj. h. seals, THE LAW OF jNEWSPAPERS. 1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their subscription. . 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance or their newspapers, the publisher may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 8. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their newspapers from the offices to which they are di rected, they are held responsible until they have set tled the bills and ordered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers remove to other places without informing the publishers, and the newspapers art sent to the former direction, they are held response ble. 5. The Courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of inten tional fraud. 6. The United States Courts have also repeatedly decided, that a Postmaster who neglects to perform his duty of giving reasonable notice, as required by the Post Office Department, of the neglect of a per son to take from the office newspapers addressed to him, renders the Postmaster liable to the publisher for the subscription price. [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. HEAD THESE PARAGRAPHS. Subscribers in remitting us money, discontinuing or directing their address changed, must be especially particular in ipention ing the office at which they receive their papers, and from which they wish them changed. No r subscribar should order the paper discontinued until all ar rearages are liquidated, for such orders will not receive attention, and the subscriber is hehl responsible for the time the paper con tinues to be sent. Those who choose to discontinue their sub criptions will please do so by a written communication; revising to take the pa jiers from the office is not the proper way. We think none the less of any one because of their discontinuing, for it is every man’s privilege to subscribe or not, as he may think proper. Take particular notice of the published fact, that our terms are on* dollar if paid in advance each year; but if no* paid until tlie end of the year, subscribers must expect to pay two dollar*. Any person sending us five new subscribers, can receive the pa per gratis for one year, Orders for the paper, unaccompanied witli the dollar will not receive attention. 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. — >.<>.♦- 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.