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THE TEMPERANCE iRUSADER.
BY J. H. SEALS;
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For the Crusader.
Suggested by hearing the beli’ tolUing at the death
oi’ G. Fi. Russell, late Student of Lafayette
Seminary.
BY MItS. M. A. E. DORM AST.
What mean those solemn tones, which mournful
strike nay ear ?
As of some loved one gone, they start the trembling
tear;
Why is if, that sad pang thrills through my aching
heart ?
ft is that I, like him, with all below must part.
Yes, far away from home and kindred friends he
died,
No pitying father near to close his glaring eves,
No tender mother, who might o’er her loved one
weep,
And smoothe his dying pillow, ere comes the icy
sleep.
He has closed for ever those now, sightless, tearless
eyes,
While A nereis wafYhis spirit, into the upper skies ;
Though death’s cold urn, so soon his youthful form
entombed,
A happier, brighter world, is now his endless home!
Patiently and resigned, he talked of Heavenly rest
Prepared for those, the faithful, who shall be ever
1 let ;
With Jesus for his pilot, his comforter, and guide,
He enters death’s dark river, and camly stems its tide.
Why was it he so fearlessly, the billowy stream did
view?
Because in in God he trusted, to bear him safely
through,
His treasure up in Heaven, his heart already there,
He longed for full possession of that world so won
derous fair.
Then mourn not, tender parents, dry up the falling
tear —
Our heavenly father chasteneth those whom he lov
eth here;
With lamps both trimmed and burning, still on the
watch-tower be,
For though the bridegroom tary, he’ll surely call for
thee.
Then to those blissful regions, he’ll waft thy spirit
home
Frorft this dark land of sorrow', where death no
more may come,
There ye may dwell iorever with loved ones gone
before
fn sweetest Hafia'ujahs to praise God evermore !
Fayetteville Ga., June 19th, 18^7.
For the Crusader.
A Love Song.
BY EM MI E EMERALD.
Oh ! the hours are sad and weary
When passed away from thee,
The world grows dark—the sky less dark,
All things are drear to me.
But earth puts on a newer garb,
The heavens a brighter blue—
The hours fly on w ith silver wings,
Whes they are passed with you.
For the Crusader.
Ladies Nowadays
Recline on the lounge from early morn till late in
the afternoon —rise in time, perhaps to breakfast,
at ten, in their dr >s9ing gown* —doze w th the
latest novel in the r hands until the dinner hour
arrives—makes a hasty toilet for the dinner table,
goes down with a languid air, sits down—is
first served to p rk and beans or something equal
ly as substantial —a good supply of pickles is laid
in. c<>rn-beaf and all t*-e etectras—wiih the same
air retires from the table and to bed again, and in
it remain until the golden orb of day sinks to its
rest —they then rise and make a supberb toilet
fur the evening; after that important task is ac
complished they take a stroll with some favored
swain— return in time for tea, tin n the evening
amusements begin and continue until a late hour.
Oh. y it little pale delicate creatures with tiny
white hands—too frail to labor, only fit to fed
“burning birds!” rise with the down <f day, milk
the cows, sweep the kitchen, prepare the break
fast don’t be idle. God made you for a wiser pur
pose ‘ban fur f-v tan to find something for your idle
hands to do. IL*w do you expect to marry any
body but a fop, when you have so often turned up
th t prettv little pug nose of yours at all manner
of work, and ref'us and to give the rough hand of the
“go< and old farmer” a hearty shale because it has
been in contact with the hoe, sickle and p'ough.
It won’t do ladies ; you are pining away your lives
without realizing the p'easures. God beautified
this earth that we might delight in and receive
enjoc ment and happiness therefrom. Throw a-ide
all light and trashy reading —read the Bible the
book of all books —witli others that are capable of
improving the mind and render us fiitforthe du
ties of this world. Be charitable, live for others,
as well as yourself —clothe the naked, feed the
hungry, be a friend to those that are friendless.—
Spek a kind word to those that are rebuffed by
others, in fact, a sister of charity to all who come
within your reach. By such means this world
will change as if by magic—you will tread on
roses where before only thorns were found and
peihaps not regret the advice t-iven by
“UNCLE TOBY.”
Thomson, June 22, ’67.
v [communicated.]
“Hare Or ape.”
Bro. Qrusadbr :-t— Tauntingly our opponents
call us “one idea men One idea, forsooth, as if
to be governed by it were sufficient to have abu-e.
derision and scorn showered upon us. One idea !
Well Bro. Crusader, for one l am not ashamed to
own up.
“Joe,” said my grandfather, (a rascally old
so ’y.) “Joe, my boy, don't have too many irons in
the fire.” What reader, old or young, high or
low, but has beard this old adage, and felt com
pelled to acknowledge the soundness of its philoso
phy. It is good sense; and the very men who
deride Prohibitionists, and taunt them with being
men with one idea, have, themselves, but one idea,
which they put sue with sleepless continuity and
untiring energy. And how few are the instances
of success where a person has embarked in more
thau one enterprize at a time.
At his start in life, the lawyer has but one idea ;
a reputation good and wide enough to secure a
lucrative practice and a fortune. By industry he
secures it. Success here causes him to change the
object; and political popularity and preferment
now becomes his one idea to which all others must
bend. Is a Railroad project started, be asks him
self, “will it be popular ?” “How will it take with
the people ?” Do the neighbors speak of any
other enterprize supposed to be promotive of good
to their locality, he tremblingly asks the 6ame
questions, and in every case be acts in reference
to his one. all absorbing, all controlling idea—no
matter what the result will be for good or evil.
The Miser sits over his hoarded gains. One
idea , and one only has haunted him a’l his life.—
To live mean that he die rich, and leave it at last
to pay lawyers fees or ruin his children, is his one
idea. Fie rises early—begins his toil, and toils
late—and passes almost sleepless nights to aceom
p’ish the one idea of his life.
There is no man but has some one fixed object
to attain; is governed by one idea. Every pur
suit of man embraces men of one idea, and these
are the men who themselves are preeminently sue
cessful, or whose one idea finally becomes import
ant to mankind. And vet these same men would
seem to wish to brand with infamy the one idea
of “Prohibition,” and arouse against us the scorn
and indignation of the masses of the very persons
whom we would benefit. Their one idea may
engross all their thoughts—govern all their actions?
and is sure and right, while ours is insane and
radically wrong. In pursuing it they become so
blinded—and it becomes so all-controlling in its in
fluence that they cannot perceive their own incon
sistency. Yes, Bro. Crusader, we are men of one
idea. , an idea tending to have the lost and ruined,
who become so through the one idea of the rum-
seller, GAIN.
“One Idea.” What was creation’s birth but
one idea, great., good and glorious. What the
of Christ but one idea, merciful, gracious,
sublime.
What but one idea governed the friendless
Mariner as he roamed from Court to Court—ex
hibiting his maps, and reasoning with reference to
a nearer route to the magnificent East. Faith in
his one idea alone sustained him wlii e hissed,
ho ted and laughed at; an! enabled him to per
severe until this Western World was g ven to the
Nations; a Continent which sln-uld prove the home
of L’berty—and a fountain whence a language
which may prove universal, should flow, bear ng
on hs bosom Christian Evangelization and its a
- blessings to all the world. The one idea
f Columbus provided a home where genius, un
trammelled wi h its one idea, should almost bid
defiance to lime and space. The one idea of Ful
ton ruined him but blessed the nations. The one
idea ot Morse has almost annihilated time and
space, pVuv'd remote nations in close communion
and thus multiplied the chances for the triumph
and reign of general peace.
Then let them laugh and sneer, for we know
that all great, good and splendid successes are
traceable to being governed by one leading idea,
and that defeat results from losing sight of it.—
Let us then, we Prohibit ion ists, still keep one eye
fixed on the one idea, “complete annihilation ,”
and work and strive and agonize for it until we
wrench success from an unwilling foe, and make
him bite the dust with our feet on his neck.
PROHIBITION CRUSADER.
For the Crusader.
The White Urn.
B V MISS C. W. BARBER.
’Tis a harsh world, in which affection knows
No place, to treasure up its loved and lost, —
But the cold grave!—Willis.
Some of the head-stones in the grave-yard at
Heathfield are broken off close to the ground—
Suine of them are set up corner-wise, and most of
them are covered with the moss and rust of half a
i
century'. The whole is madedark by fir and yew
trees. Old mortality himself, in all his ghostly
wanderings through church yards never saw
-u -h a piece. In one corner there is a pile bearing
this inscription :
“Here lie ye bodies, of Abigail Norton and her
child, who were both murdered by ye Indians, in
1 *7 ■!” the rest of the date cannot be deciphered.
Nobody knows any thing about the ones, whose sad
fate is thus kept in remeinberance. Tradition is
silent rejecting her and her little one. But they
reststidand peacefully there now after life’s fitful
fever, they sleep well.”
Rising up in the centre of this old “home of the
dead,” and rendered m ire conspicuous by the som
bre hue of everything around, is a snowy urn of
polished marble. Our Allie sleeps there. He was
not quite ten years old when the angel reapers
came and found him ripe for the heavenly garner.
So death thrust in his sickle, and the little one was
gathered into the sheaf of God’s shining ones on
high.
At the foot of the mound is a rose bush. In
the season of flowers its pure petals fall off aud
sleep among the green grass, like snow-flakes.—
No box of incense at holy vespers in magnificent
cathedrals, can ever emit so sweet an odor as the
breath of these white blost-oms.
Yes! that is our Allie’s urn ; —little Al'ie who
was drowned. He fell one day, long ago, into a
dark roiling river, and nothing could b* seen o.
him afterwards, but a white quivering hand, thrust
out of the eddying water, ami a golden curl which
ttreamed'upwa r d, and floated for a moment upon
the surface. His body was recovered with some
difficulty, aud buried in the old Heathfield ceme
tery. The urn is at its head, looking among the
darlc monuments by which it is surrounded, as a
child would appear, at sleep among stern, steel
clad wairiors on the battle-fiudd —as a lonely flow
er would look, nestling down among bristling
northern pines.
I love to think of that urn, .and of Allie, for he
was my friend, and the friendship of child-hood is
precious. Heaven bless the'children !” They are
the beings who link us to the angels.
He was, but is not! Yet could I have dictated
the insciptions upon that white urns’s base, I would
have written that good old latia word, Resurgam
—“ I shall rise again.” There will be “light in the
morning.” Like Pilgrim in the palace of the Beau
tiful, be has gone to sleep in a chamber, “whose
windows open towards the sunrising, and the name
of that chamber, 13 Peace.
Greenesboro‘, Ga,
For the Crusader.
Two Months in Dr. Mean’s Family.
The human family is so constituted that when
one of that large, and almost countless body
speaks of another, in either favorable or disparag
ing terms, the rest are at once ready to ask, is he
actuated by pure motives, and indeed, does this
one deserve such an eulogy or such a censure for
the good or evil deeds which he may have done.
Doubtless, all who read this will quickly observe
the truth herein setforth. Then reader, thinking
of the depravity of man, judge me not of preju
dice or fanatic views, till testimony is given so
pointed that not even a shadow’ of a doubt rests
upon your minds as to my guilt and untruthful
ness.
Dr. Alaxander Means, is too well known through
out Georgia, yea, throughout the United States
and across the expanse of seas, to be a Christian,
a scientific and a model man for me to attempt an
eulogy. A kinder heart never throbbed in the
breast of human, or in fine a more magnanimous
man the world has never seen.
His kind lady, an embodvment of Christian
virtues aud an ornament to her family, is a lady
of refined and cultivated mind. Asa private
friend her parallel is yet unborn, for in her breast
none but godly thoughts exist; her company,
which I always sought was pleasant and attractive,
so much so that all who knew her loved her as a
mother.
Now will I speak of the gified daughters of
the much beloved and venerated couple of whom
L-have just spoken. Miss , a young lady by
far superior to nine-tenths of her sex in worth, is
an embodyment of enobling principles and va
ried talents. She, with her candid and congenial
heart, was always ready to sympathize with those
who needed sympathy, to mingle her tears with
those who wept and to laugh wi h those who
were merry—thus she gamed the best wishes and
supreme affection of her entire acquaintance—
Miss , is a young lady of high intelh dual
endowment, wish talent, beauty and tenderness
beaming from her diamond eye of expression.—
Her voice, when accompanied with that angelic
strain of her sister, is clear and seraphic, then were
Orpheus to hear both combined he would string
his harp for a prouder arid more unearthly sound
—Miss the bast in years of the three, is
dignified and refined in her manners and conver
sation. • Intellect and genius is deepley imprinted
on her snowy brow. Those ringlets, which so
beautifully encircles her head, perfect her beauty
and renders her at once the admiration of many.
There are other members of the family of whom
I have not spoken; but suffice it to say, tire world
will yet hear of their onward march to eminence
and distinction. To them I wish success till they
have won the victor’s crown, and have become an
honor to themselves, the pride of their family and
an ornament to their country.
With the family of whom I have so inade
quately spoken, I had the unlimited pleasure of
boarding for two short, very short months. In
that circ e nothing but peace and good willl reign
ed, none but the choicest epithets and the kindest
language applied to any one. On each morning
and evening the whole family together with my
self were summoned by the sound of the prayer
bell around the family altar. There devout suppli
cation went to (rod issuing from 1 ps of eloquence,
whence none but sublimity of thought and origi
nality of expression proceed. Where shall 1 stop
my laudation? ir> one can appreciate the intrinsic
worth of such a family, but those who know them
and knowing, no one knows how or where to cease.
In conclusion, nothing less than magnanimity,
kindness and benevolence can give an adequate
idea of their merit* ECNERALC.
[communicated.]
Home Treasures.
See that noble, manly person, the husband of a
fair, blue-eyed beauty; see him as he gazes with
pride upon the object of his idolatry, and we will
venture to say that he is truly happy. Bift, oh !
just turn your eyes to the convivial board and you
will see the sparkling wine, lie quaffs his draught
at morning, noon and evening, and thinks there
is no harm lurking beneath the foaming cup. Hj s
little ones surround him and he administers to
them the fiery fluid, and still he thinks (here is no
harm to be feared. They smile and smack their
innocent lips, mid are soon at their play.
Yes, these are his home treasures—these con
stitute the full.measure of his earthly joys, and lie
feels himself a happy man.
His wife smiles and welcomes him on his return
home, for she sees not the viper in his regular
“glasses,” and he is unconscious of the devil that
lies lurking beneath the foaming draught. Ah !
man, you are happy now ! Years have passed
and the scenes of pleasure have changed to scenes
of sorrow; childhood |ias grown to manhood ; the
moderate drinker to the drunkard, the father a
maniac, and his sons following in , his footsteps
his home treasures have changed to home distrac
tions, and the blue-eyed, young mother to the care
worn matron; the raven locks to silvery hairs;
the young affectionate husband to the old sottfsli
brute. Such are the remains of the home treas
urea where A Icohol has been*tbe constant tenant
of the convivial board; Such may we qjjpys ex
pect to see in the end of the moderate cmWker.
GEO. E. WISE.
Mt. Carmel, Henry County, Ga., June, 1857.
€j n Cemptrance Crnsakr.
PENFIEFIX GEORGIA.
Thursday Morning, July 9, 1857.
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AGE NTS .
E L NEWMON Athens.
JESSE W JACKSON, Buck Head.
JOHN M HUEY Bowden,
R II GREENE, Columbus,
C R MIMS “
ALBERT G BANKS Covington.
J N SCOT I’ Calhoun.
M P SCALES Carnesville Ga.
W w VANIHVERE Dalton, Ga.
T J WIDI.IAMS, Etherage,
ww CARNES Fort Valley.
W M Watts Franklin, Ga.
JABE BRASWELL, Ftirhurn, Ga.
JESSE M CAMPBELL, Griffin, Ga.
J H PUCKETT, Hog Mountain.
R E WHIGHAM... Louisville, Ga.
J M DOR.-EY, Leo, Ga.
W A MORRIS Marietta.
J C 0 BURNETT M aeon.
J A J HARRELL Milledgevill, Ga.
B A CARSON, Orangeburg S 0.
D PRICE Pickens C. 11., 8. C.,
HI) MOORE, Pleasant Hill.
WM M 11CMPHREV, Fowelton.
JOHN M NEEL, “
B C JOHNSON, Rome Ga,
E A KING, Roswell.
J M PINKSTON Sparta.
J D BROOME, Tallahassee, Fla.
W F MORGAN Tennillc, Ga.
ABNER >TAXLEY Traveling Agt.
WM M lIURNIECK Warrington, Fla.
REV. LEWIS PARKER, Walterboro.’ S. C.
J C CALDWELL, Traveling Agent in
Hall and Habersham counties, Ga.
lEgr’We cal) special attention to the commence
ment notice of the Georgia Female College at Madi
son, in this issue.
V/heat in Cass County
A private letter which
we have recently seen, from Cass, states that there
will be two hundred a; and fifty thousand bushels of
wheat for sale in that county. Mr. Simpson Foucbe
o: Ron e, will realize S2OOO from his crop, at sl,lO
; er bushel.
——
Excellent New Wheat.—
Dr. B. F. Carlton of
this county, has realized from seventeen acres of
land, over One hundred and seventy-jive bushels of
the finest White Wheat. Tt would average, he
thinks 68 pounds per bushel—hard to beat, that.—
He sold 90 or 100 bushels immediately, at $1 50 per
bushel, in Augusta.
USSF” We return him many heartfelt thanks for a
bushel of this splendid wheat. We shall have a
new pound-cake, fill-up a glass with-water, and drink
Oiend Ben’s health, (a noble generous hearted fel
low,) “thrice limes o'er”
More Fine Wheat
Our old friend Mr. L. L.
Andrews has just shown us a sample of No. 1 wheat
which he has been cutting, and it is indeed excellent.
The heads of a large bunch which he brought to
our Sanctum, measured each from 6 1-4 to 6 1-2 inch
es in length, and were crowded with grain from top to
bottom. One head in particular contained seven
grains in one marsh. r lhis wheat he raised on his
Kansas place.
We likewise return him many sincere acknowl
edgements for a bushel. lie thinks he will make
lour hundred bushels of wheat this year. Such
liberal-hearted men we love to see rewarded for
their labors with an abundant harvest.
Good.
Pity but a few careless harum scarum bag
gage porters on our railroads could receive a s.rnlar
blow up :
The Buffalo Commercial says:
A baggage man at the Central Depot lately, while
handing a trunk in the usual slam-bang manner of
that useful class of citizens, threw it down with such
force as to explode a pistol within. The pistol ex
ploded a canister of powder, the powder exploded
the trunk, and the trunk exploded the baggage
man, tumbling him neck over heels ; and served him
rightat that. Ifsuch an accident could happen sem
i-occasionally, it would be a gl-rious tiling. It
might kill a few baggage smashers, but the commu
nity could endure t .ai loss in consideration of thv
gentler handling which their baggage would receive.
An exchange says:
“The man who does not believe in whistling,
should go a a step further, and put a muzzle on
bobolinks and n ock ; ug birds. Whistling is a great
institution. It oils the wheels of care, and supplies
the place of sunshine. A man who whistles has a
good heart under his shirt front. Such a man not
only works more willingly than any other man, but
he works more constantly. A whistling cobbler will
earn as much again money as a cordwaincr who
gives way to low spirits and indigestion. Mean or
avaricious men never whistle. Who ever heard of
a whistler among the sharp practitioners of Walt
street? We pause for an answer. Will the Jour
nal give us one? Th man who attacks whistling
throws a stone at the head of hilarity, and would,
if he could, rob June of its roses— August of its
meadow larks. Such a man should be looked to.—
Let him be looked to.
What Wc Drink. —Dr. Hiram Cox, chemical in
spector of alcoholic liquors in Cincinnati, says that
during two years he has made two hundred and for
ty-n.ne inspections of various kinds of liquors, and
has found more than nine-tenths of them imitations,
and a great portion of them poisonous concoctions.—
Os brandy he does not believe there is one gallon of
pure in a hundred gallons, the imitations having
corn whiskey for a basis, and various poisonous
acids for the condiments. Os wines, not a gallon in
a thousand, purporting to be sherry, port, sweet
Malaga is pure ; but they are made of water, sul
phuric acid, alum, Guinea pepper, horse radish, and
many of them without a single drop of alcoholic spir
it. Dr. Cox warrants there are not ten gallons of
genuine port wine in Cincinnati. In his inspection
of whisky he has found only from 17 to 20 per
cent, of alcoholic spirit, when it should have 45 to
50, and some of it contains sulphuric acid enough in
a quart to eat a hole through a man’s stomach. As
whisky is now tho favorite beverage, these facts are
worth consideration.
Coke fok a Snake Bite.— The Burlington Hag
Mr. John Andrews, of this District, informs us
that a few davs since he was fishing; he had with him
a small negro"boy, who, mistaking a moccasin fora
litk picked it up and was bitten on the thumb.
r. A. had been informed that his grand father, one
,of the oldest settlers, who was a great hunter, had
never failed to prevent any evil consequences result
ing from a snake-bite, by washing the wound in wa
fer and at the same time squeezing out the poison.
He, in this case, resorted to this cure. Holding the
wounded member ‘under water, he washed it for
sometime. The cure was completed; the thumb
did not even swelMfc
A Maiden’s First Love.—
Human nature has
no essence more pure—the world knows nothing
more chaste—Heaven has endowed the mortal heart
with no feeling more holy than the nascent affection
of a young virgin’s soul. The warmest language of
the sunny south is too cold to shadow forth even a
faint outline of that enthusiastic sentiment. And
God has made the richest language poor in the same
respect, because the depth# of hearts that thrill with
love’s emotions are too sacred for the common con
templation. The musical voice of Love stirs the
source of the sweetest thoughts within the human
breast, and steals into the most profound recesses of
the soul touching chords which never vibrated be
fore, and calling into gentle companionship delicious
hopes till then unknown. Yes—the light of a young
maiden’s first love breaks dimly but beautifully upon
her as the silver lustre of a star glimmers through a
thickly-woven bower; and the first blush that man
tles her cheek, as she feels the primal influence, is
hunt and pure as that which a roseleaf might cast
upon marble. But how rapidly does that light grow
stronger, and that flush deeper—until the powerful
effulgence of the one irradiates every c roerofhtr
heart, and the crimson glow of the other suffuses
every feature of her countenance.
Commencement in Sparta.
It affords us much pleasure to notice the interest
ing public exercises of the Sparta Male and Female
Institute , which took place last week, commencing
Wednesday the Ist of July and ending on Saturday
evening the 4-th. We had the pleasure of witness
ing and participating in the festival, and are happy
to say, in truth, that no similar entertain - ent ever
pleased ushetier. The examination of the pupils was
more honest, thorough, and far more satisfatory in
every particular than any we have ever heard. The
course adopted by the Instructor was such os to
satisfy every’ one present of the fairness of the exam,
ination. Placli scholar was called out and made to
stand alone fronting she audience, and the only
resource upon which they could rely was their
knowledge of the text, and we but utter a sentiment
which ali present entertained, when wo say the
scholars stood the best thorough examination of any
which they have yet had in Sparta The system of
instruction adopted by the principal of the school
is a superior one and should be introduced into all
the schools; the pupil is made to demonstrafe prac
tieally, so far as may be, each subject, to give the
reasons, the why* and wherefores of all minute points,
and consequently, instead of the students possessing
simply an acquaintance with thet heory they are en
abled to make practical applications of all their
knowledge, to material things as they exist in na
ture. Algebraic propositions were perspicuously de
monstrated upon b’ack-hoards, and j . rinciples in
Philosophy were enforced upon the min i by good
apparatus. The pupils were finely posted upon all
they had studied, which showed that they had been
properly taught, and furthermore shows the necessi
ty ar.d importance of having a good teacher to in
struct young minds.
The examinations which the young iadies bore
filled us \-iili pleasure unspeakable. Some of them
stood by far the best we have ever heard, male or
femaby ar.d that fact euariy repudiates the absurd
idea that the female intellect should not be developed.
The fin es* young soli tars and the most ambitious
we 1 avo evtr seen, were young ladies, and a,.me of
them at e in this school, who then will be so unreasona
ble as to say that such a desire for knowledge shall
be checked and those minds be permitted to grow
up without cultun ? Wecor.grat late all the young
ladit-s of the Sparta Institute upon their successful
exatni aiious. I nis school has a iayge number of
grow j; young iadies, pretty , intelligent and lady-like,
and it ass ids us pleasure to say that they la-fleeted
much c-edit upon themselves and their teachers.
The examination exercises were very interesting
throughout, during an intermission between the
class, s, the music department, under the direction of
Mrs. Du Bose an accomplished lady and very excel
lent teacher , entertained the audience with music.
Compositions by the young ladies, and speeches by
the Boys were introduced at various points in the
exercises which assisted in beguiling the tedium of
the occasion. On Friday night, compositions by the
young ladies, a couple of Comic Speeches, by the
Boys, recital of interesting Dialogues by the Girls
and little Boys, constituted the Programme of t’n<
evening, including some very tine music on the Pi
ano and flute, in which s one of the citizens who
ar q splendid performers kindly participated. Sat
urday morning’s exercises would compare very fa
vorably with a Junior or Senior exhibition in our
Colleges. Some v.-ry good original, Patriotic
speeches were delivered by young men of the school,
after which, Bishop Geo. F. Pierce addressed the large
audience in one of his i appy, eloquent, and stirring
strains for an hour, ilis lennrks were mainly di
rected to the Signs of the Tones, and ihe possibility
and prob-ibifity of our National and gre-dation and the
subversion of our Republican and social privileges,
by causes oilier than those which a* this time con
cern the public mind. He fairhf.dly ar.d correctly
deprecated party spirit and th. political madam of
this day, gave politicians some hard, yet merited,
licks. It was a speech w.li adapted to the times,
truly national in its character and devoid of all po
litical hi a-.
Time does not permit us to be very Specific in no
ticing ti.e perch nor the examination, but wo will
not close without congratulating friend Harris Prin
cipal of the Sparta Institute , and hi-: c't-ver an i gen
tlemanly ass slant teacher, Mr. Laird, upon their
very suecets.-l'ul public entertainment. Mr. Harris
has, in the opinion of all bis patrons fully sustained
the high character which he brought with him from
his i,si ive Slat*-, Vi-ginia. lie has permanently re
established the schoo', and Sparta now possesses a
seat of learning far siqMior nits character and
much larger than wc ever expected to see there
again. Sparta is an excellent location for a good
school, it is one of the first towns in Georgia, and
contains more real clecer j eople. Such a village
should in ver be without a good school and a good
teacher; it now lias both, anil it is the duty of the
citizens to keep and sustain them.
A moral young man with red whiskers, clean shirt
and jack boots was found in Orange street after the
third watch of the night, with eleven dollars in his
pocket and a brick in his hat. He said he was sober
and industrious, and had been taking the census of
Charleston on his own account, and for his own pri
vate benefit and satisfaction, hut that being a strang
er, the city had turned tlr? tables on him and taken
his senses. The city took the libarty of changing
his eleven dollar bill which reduced tne amount very
metcriaUy.— Ch. Nurs.
A Rich Editor. —James Gorden Bennett, Esq., of
the New-York Herald, recently purchased a oouritn
scat at Washington for which lie paid $95,000.
Leas than six months ago he bought a house on
Madison square and Fifty avenue, for which he
“forked over” $50,000. In addition to all this he
has expended about $90,000, in the last fortnight,
in the improvement of his office by the introduc
tion of lightning presses and superior printing ma
chinery. The Herald is a “fat take,” certain.
— - - ‘if 1
Matrimony and Young Ladies of this Bay. f
We heartily commend the two pieces which fol
low, to our readers, especially to the young Ladies.
The truth contained in them is immeasurable. Wbo
could censure a young man for not jumping into
matrimony the first thing in this extravagant age,
and day of female cheats :’
“More than four-sevenths of the marriages in the
State of Massachusetts are among the foreign born.
Why ii it? For the .most simple of reas ns—the
foreign born can afford to get married, and the na
tive born cannot; and this must be, so long as our
extravagant modes of life continue. In social life
there never was a people tending to deeper and more
destructive social corruption—-and that is most evi
dent from the records of all the courts, and the col
umns of all the newspapers—than Americans. Our
fathers used to tell of the mysteries of New York—
a city not far behind any in Europe. And, making
proper allowance for size, how far is New-York
ahead of our other Cities and towns ? Once was
the time when a wife was a ‘help-meet J’ now, in a
thousand of cases, you can change the ‘meet’ to
‘eat,’ and make it read more truthfully.
“We boast of our system of education; we have
female high schools, female colleges, female medical
schools, and female heavens. Our girls are refilled,
learned and wise; they can sing, dance, play pianos,
paint, talk French and Italian, and all the soft lan
guages, write poetry, and love like Venuses. They
a 1 e ready to be courted at ten years, and can be taken
from school and married at fifteen, and divorced at
twenty. They make splendid shows on bridal tours,
can coquette and flirt at the watering-places, and
shine like angels and winter parties. But Heaven
he kind to the poor wretch that marries in the fash
ionable circles. What are (hey at washing floors?
Oh, we forgot: nobody has hare floors now —how
vulgar that would be! What arc- th y at making
bread and boiling beef? Why, how thoughtless we
arc—to be sure they will board, or have servants. —
What are they at mending old clothes ? But there
we are again ; the fashions change so often that no
body has old clothes but the lag-meuand the paper
makers now! What are they at washing babies’
faces and pinning up their trousers? And here is
our intolerable stupidity once more; haring chil
dren is left to the Irish. What lady thinks of hav
ing children about her now? or if she is so unfortu
nate, don't she put them to wet nurses to begin
i with, and hoarding-schools afterwards? Wo repeat
j —we hsvo come to a point where young men hesi
\ tate and grow old before they can decide whether’
| they can marry, and afterwards keep clear of b&uk
| ruptcy and crime. What is the consequence?—
I There are more persons living a single life—are there
more hading a virtuous life? It is time for moth
ers to know that the extravagance they encourage is
destructive of the virtue of their children; that all
the foolish expenditures making to rush their daugh
ters to matrimony, are, instead of answering that
end, tending to destroy the institution of marriage
altogether.”
Are ihe Young Ladies of the Present Day Suita
ble j’or Wires? —Strange as the question may ap
pear, there is strong reason to believe it is perti
nent to the times, especially so, if we are to judge
of American woman, by those we meet in New-
York society, with their superficial accomplishments,
aimless struggles, useless vanities, and unreal pur
suits, and were it not for the redeeming fact, that
occasionally a good sensible mother educates her
daughters with a proper sense of their true dignity
and usefulness as woman, cultivating their hearts,
filling them with gentleness, and their minds with
truth, and by example impressing on their pure
minus a consciousness of the noble duties of wives
and mothers, we would bo constrained to.answer in
the negative.
Did w e not see and know that such mothers with
such daughters exist among us, we would say to
young men seek elsewhere for wives; let the devo
tees of fashion alonfc in thtir foil) 7 , for as wives they
would bring you sorrow, ruin, and perhaps to crime.
llow different the picture of present society from
that of our fathers, for example, the views entertain
ed at that time and those of the present, of an “el
ligible match.” In jnars gone by a young man as
piring to the hand of a young woman was certain
of the approbation of the parents or guardians, pro
vided he could satisfy them he was an honorable,*
industrious and prudent man of respectable family*
Wealth was not considered requisite, because it was
regarded that the above quabties would secure a
competency for his family, and a respectable stand
ing in the community. Hearts existed, and were
consulted then. The wife was expected to be an as
sistance to the husband, and it was her pride to
prove hers, if such. They passed through life
smoothly, loving their children and each other, com
panions and ornaments of community.
What constitutes an “elligible match” in the esti
mation of a fashionable lady of the present day? It
is an old man with money sufficient to support a
“palatial mansion” in tne Fifth avenue, carriages,
horses, liveried servants, to pay all bills unquestion
ed, a willingness on his part that the lady shall have
perfect control of her own time, and the manner in
which it is used, whether spent at the opera, shop
ping, or masquerade, regardless of family cares, or
duties so a sick child or husband. If the “oldcodger*’
only has the good taste not to make himself ridicu
lous by scrutinizing the character of the gallants,
or guests that hover around Madam, and to be obliv
ious to any “ little peculaHties” in the conduct of
ray lady, and not intrude himself upon her in society
unless by her order, the acme of fashionable felicity
is attained.
Tnis is not the worst feature in the case, the fash
ionable woman is not fitted to be the wife even of a
rich man. Early dissipation, and the injurious
method of education, prematurely develops disease,
and she enters married life with a constitution shat
tered, with the prospect of spending the greater
part of the remaining portion of her life as an inval
id. Her offsprings will he effeminate and diseased.
Moreover, early habits of folly, dress and absurdity,
have not prepared her fir the sacrod duties of a
motner, and when those duties are forced upon her,
she becomes restive and repines at the loss of the
waltz, flirtation, champagne supper, “et cetera,”
which constituted the former dream of life.
If this represented an isolated case of extreme
fashon, it would call for pity, but when the bane
ful influence of fashion extends to nearly a’l young;
w orn n, who receive what is called a good education,
it demands our censure, and hearty condemnations
Reason, patriotism, morality and religion require
tnat wo should raise our voice against the false, un
hallowed and injurious views inculcated at fashiona
ble boarding schools, and by weak, silly mothers.—
A young man with only moderate means cannot
venture to marry, unless he obtains a large fortune,
with the young lady of the modern type.
It is this unreasonable and unnatural state of so
ciety that makes that most despicable of all charac
ters, •‘fortune-hunters,” both male and female. To
illustrate this, take the young professional man,
either the doctor, lawyer cr clergyman, with noth
ing but their profession to depend upon, their posi
tion as public men, the feelings and tastes acquired
through their professional studies and asssociations,
all prompt them to aim at respectability and charac
ter, and to maintain such position, should they mar
ry a lady without money, of equal position in socie
ty, it would cost tht m at least $5,000 a year to keep
up, as married men, the same degree of respectabili
ty they maintained as bachelors on SI,OOO. It must
in the very nature of things be many years before
either of the professions can of themselves produce
$5,000 a year ; the result is they must become “for
tune-hunters,” or not marry—for if they marry
otherwise, they sink into obscurity, to raise up a
family in “genteel poverty.”
How is this unhappy state of society brought
about? Clearly by the frightful extravagance" of
the female portion, who are mainly responsible for
this ruinous state of things——clearly by the mothers
and through modern boarding schools. It is not
the fault ol young ladies. God gave them generous
hearts and warm affections, with sentiments and
feelings pure and superior to man. Why, then, has
this garden of tlowei s become a waste,” with only
here and there a solitary rosebud, beautiful in its
loveliness? Why has the violet of modesty been
choked out by the thistle of vanity ? the lily of pu
rity by the biiars of conquetry? the ivy of con
stancy by that ivy which contains within its treach
erous foiliage the po son of deceit? It is because
the cultivation of that garden has been left to the
uands of a hireling by an indolent and improvident
master.
Society is fearfully punished in the Tices that