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mil ii mi smi iimm sin thhiihl hi him low ii hunts it jeiictk. JOHN 11. SEALS, ? EDITOR & PROPRIETOR. ( NEW SERIES, VOL. 11. TMIAIU CIUSAIIRR. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, EXCEPT TWO, FIS THE YEAR, BY JOHN IT. SEALS. TERMS I ‘ II ,00 ? in advance; or $2 ,00 at the end of the year. RATES OF ADVERTISING. 1 square (twelve lines or less.) first insertion~ Each continuance, -- * 50 Professional or*Business Cards, not exceeding six lines, per rear, 5 00 Announcing Candidates for Office,— 3 00 STANDING ADVERTISEMENTS. I square, three months, - 5 00 1 square, six months, 7 00 1 square, twelvemonths, 12 00 2 squares, “ “ 1® 00 3 squares, “ “ 21 00 4 squares, “ “ - 25 00 Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions, will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. Druggists, and others, may con tract for advertising by the year, on reasonable terms. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sale of Land or Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, and Guardians, per square,— 500 Sale of Personal Property, by Administrators, Executors, and Guardians, per square, —3 25 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 25 Notice for Leave to Sell, 4 00 Citation for Letters of Administration, 2 75 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Adm’n. 5 00 Citation for Letters of Dismission from G uardi anship, 3 25 LEGAL REQUIREMENTS. Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten iti the forenoon and three in the after noon, at the Court House in the County in which the property Is-situate. Notices of these sales must be Slven in a public gazette forty days previous to the ay of sale. Notices for the sale of Personal Property must be given at least ten days previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court es Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published weekly for two months. Citations for Letters of Administration must be f published thirty days —for Dismission from Admin istration, monthly , six months —for Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub lished monthly for four months —for compelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where a bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. will always be continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. For the Crusader. Nameless Rhyme. When “Jenny” strikes her heaven-given lyre, Drawing from passion’s clouds electric fire, Which glances, sparkling o'er each silver string, “Leon” awakes and “Florio” strives to sing. Each stretches forth his hand to grasp the prize; Each dreams his rising fame shall reach the skies. A dreamer, too, I join the motley throng, (Borne onward by the swelling tide of song, Whose turbid waves, fast rising on the shore, Threaten Parnassus with thiir sullen war.) How unliedgcd bards, who scarce their pens control, Wax warm with curses on the ruddy bowl, All speak of ttine, quite negligent of gin, And juleps, smashes, agents all of sin, Direct their darts against the weakest foe, And at the strongest aim no deadly blow. Port and Madeira wake poetic rage ; Nectar and Peach arc reverenced for their age. Shall Whisky kill its victims every day, And still, unchallenged, hold its sovereign sway ? Come, now, ye youthful aspirants for fame, Upon his flag, see your opponent’s name; Sharpen your p n=, and arming for the fight, Put your ignoble enemy to flight. Intemperance in a thousand forms appears; Then let us smite it in each garb it wears; And having cut its crimson doublet through, Attack its garment of a paler hue. Mark how it steals the strength of youth away, Dooms manhood to a premature decay, Drags age with tottering footsteps to the tomb And quenches genius in uneading gloom. Yet party leaders must invoke its aid, When votes are sold, a price is to be paid; Well aimed with jugs, upon the field they come, And buy success with copious draughts of rum. Speakers may rant, and candidates may boast; lie wins the race who “treats” his friends the most Alas! my country, ’twas an evil hour, * When casks were made the stepping-stones to power. Oh 1 dark and sad indeed must be our fate, When brandy-bottles prop the chain of state. .Shades of dead heroes from your tombs arise, Revive your nation’s virtue ere she dies; Visit again the scenes ye once held dear. Thunder your warnings in each freeman’s ear; Arrest corruption ere it farther spreads, Avert the storm that lowers o’er our heads. But not around the ballot-box alone, The demon, drunkenness, its spell has thrown ; ’Tis found ’mid all the varied scenes of life, Goading the passions, urging on tostrife-.-’ See the wild light it kindles in the eyes—- So glares the sinner, ere he, shrieking dies, As does the drunkard, when With boisterous shout, From midnight haunts of sin he staggers out. Follow the monster homeward to his door, Then pause, the sickened heart can bear no more; Look not within, upon his weeping wife, And infant child, just ushered into life; Their grief is sacred; their imploring cry, ‘Unheard on earth,-shall reach the throne on high. Women of Georgia! this may be your fate; The teuderest love may change to fieroMoi*te. Yes! he who cannot love you now too well, May turn your future home into a hell; Care o’er your brightest hopes may cast a shade, And sorrow’s touch cause all your charms to fade. Lest this dread doom upon your heads should fall, To sayc yourselves* upon you now we call. Haste to the rescue, rush upon the field, , Grasp the blights-pear, and shake the glittering shield; Full on the squadrons of the foe advance, And to their hearts direct the shining lance. The unequal contest none will dare to try, The host of crime will from your presence fly. Then shall the thauks of thousands greet your ears, Mothers shall bless you in their evening prayers ; Poets emba'm your names in sweetest lays, And future ages echo with your praise. MERLIN. Athens, Ga. Politics, Parties, and So Forth. It may not be necessary to define our position in reference to political parties —we hardly think it is ; but as we wish to say some things in con nection wi h this matter, we will do so, even at >he iisle of repeating what our loulers already distinctly understand. * The temperance sentiment of"the state is diffus ed among all classes, conditions, denominations and parties of men ; and our mission as conduct ors of the Prohibitionist, is to find it wherever we can, and embody it in right action—to make it, not the basis of anew church or party, but a pow er and a-life in all organizations, political and ec clesiastical, bring ng them up to the requisitions of a law that demands pure appetites as the pre-re qu’site of pure lives, and while.it says, “Love God and man,” with equal emphasis enjoins, “ Do thy self no harm ” It is our business to recognize this sentiment wherever it exists; if dormant, to quicken it into new life; if active, to co operate with, ami-wnduct it to Where we fait to find if, our mission is to create it;'m-t by showing that or.e political party is right and an other wrong ; one re!ipons denomination ortho dox, and another heretical; but that inn iterance is suited to all men : that it is a need of man, in every department of his complex nature, and in harmony with the law of l.is physical and his mo ral being. Os course, we have no controversy with ecclesiastics, except to far as they ignore, or neglect, the claims of the temperance movement: none with politic! ms, beyond what grows out of their indiffeignee, or hostility, to the great Interest which we advocate. As with individuals, so with parties —all will be bet'er for a practica l recognition of the claims of temperance upon them, both as a personal duty and a beneficent Enterprise. No t: ue political interest can be put in jeopardy by its triumph. It is not opposed to democracy —if democracy m >ans “the largest l.beriy of the individual, compatible with the security of society,” or “the greatest good of the greatest number.” It is not antagonistic to wh ; ggery, if wbiggeiy implies, “Industrial Devel opment, as the corner stone of a true and benig nant National Policy.” In fact, it would be diffi cult to find a politician of any name, who would confess to any principle or purpose entertained by his parly, opposed to the reform which we would render universal, or obstruetng. even indirectly, i’s onward progress and final tiiumph. Vet not withstanding tt:is general recognition of temper ance as an abs*ract good, many politicians man age to justify their opposition to every practical movein nt for its promotion, and will sometime? inveigle whole platoons of their partizans into a f&Ue position in regard to it, thus rendering them, for the time being, the opposers of a cause, in whose consummation their own highest interests are involved. We ask—not that this party should be repudi ated, and that sustained, but that the good men of all parties should see that their several organi zations respect the temperance principle; and that themselves should never sacrifice it for the sake of obtaining a partizan success. Civil government is of God : are none but tipplers, rowdies,.and black legs, or men who will throw the protection of law over the gambling hell and the liquor saloon, qmlifted for its administration ? If the parties put such men in nomination Lr office, as they sometimes do, what is the inference to be drawn from their conduct? Either that they have no go3(1, upright, moral men in their ranks, or that the party is so generally and hopelessly corrupt, that such men have rTo In iness there; or that the honest porti* n tacitly consent that the rogues of ihe party shail monopolize all the offices, under the sanction of “regular nominations,” and in obe dience to “ party usage.” This is all wrong.— The friends of virtue, in every party, owe it to themselves, ar.d to the organizations with which they are affi iated, that temperance and morality shall not be ignored in their c ucus nomina'ions. They should insist upon this. Would they em ploy a drunken preacher to expound to them the scriptures, Sabbath after Sabbath ? Or a drunken schoolmaster to instruct tin ir children in the nidi ments of knowledge? No. In the one instance ihey would fed that God was insulted—in the other, that the best interests of their children were impeliled. Both of these evils meet, in the e!ec tion of drunken rulers; for if civil government is God’s institution, then is lie insulted when “the wi ked bear rule;” and if the character of the law-maker natura ly impresses itself upon his laws, then may we expect that,they will partake.of the defective morality of their authors, and transmit it to society, and, if unrepealed, to generations yet unborn. Nations have been corrupted and de stroyed in precisely this way; and none is so ex a'ted and prosperous, that it can chetisli the cause of rttirt, and yet claim exemption from its legiti mate effect. „ Jhe drunkard has neither moral nor mental fit ness for the office ofUaw maker; and it is wise, when we are abowjftto select candidates for high official stations, not the confirmed sot only, but also the man who is evidently on the highway to drunkenness; the habitual tippler, fashionable or un p a-hicn tble. Just to the decree that men are, under the influence of intoxicating liquor, they are unfitted for the grave duties of legislator) or of PENFIELD, GA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,185 ft magistrate, or, in short, of anySPufficjal trust what ever! Does not that fact co&cern the good men of all parties ? We have a question to ask, which may as Well l>a asked now as a year hence: Ilaw can teftifter an -e u.en, having a due regard for their solemn p'edge and Covenant, to do all jn their power to advance the interests of th’s reform, and feeling also their responsibility’to society, and to ‘theft own children, to promote the cause of sound ntorafity —how can such men give their suffrage s to any one seeking political preferment, whether it be the ■office of constable or that of pr esident, who either drinks or sells iuthxTeating poisons ? We are not alone in asking the question, Thousands have done so already, and answered it. Tens of thou sands wi l do so before the days of the year mow begun are numbered, and the ballot boxes will give emphasis .to tlreir answer. We do not wish to obtrude our advice, unasked, upon politicians; but we have a pret’y decided conviction that the day has gone by when men can clamber into office on a ladder of wlrskey barrels. Politicians sometimes complain that temperance is a “disturbing element” in their party, arrange ments. We are sorry that it is so—or rather, we are sorry that they should have any arrangements that can be “disturbed” by temperance. Put the difficulty can be easily obviated.’ Let the several parties agre§ in this t that howewr widely they differ in ordinary po'rieal issues, they will unite their efforts in behalf of this reform, and so secure its early consummation. If #ur advice is reject ed, it may cost temperance men some trouble, but it wi 1 cost politicians more. If they are wise, they will receive ard act upon it. There will be no regurgitation to the tide now setting in against the liquor traffic, sufficient to save that traffic from ultimate destruction. Prohibition may have its transient ebbs; but there is an ocean of public sentiment behind it, whose strong propulsion shall send it onward, and still onward, till it rolls with its healing waters, over wine vat and grog shop, and distillery, engulphing the one, and quenching the fires of the other, and purifying the lahd_from the stains and the curse of a'!.— Prohibitionist. Keep Your Temper. “I never can keep an} thing,” cried Emma, al most crying out with vexation. “Somebody al ways takes my things and loses them.” She had mhLid some of her sewing implements. “There is one thi-g,” remarked mamma, ‘‘that I should think you might keep up; if you try.” “I should like-to keep even ore thing,” Emma. “Well, then, my dear,” resumed mamma, ?‘keep your temper ; if you will do that, perhaps you will find it easy to keep otlier thingß. I dare say now, if you had employed your time in searchig for the missing articles, you might have found them before this time; but you have not even looked for them. You have only got int > a pas sion—a b.id way of spending tithe, and you have accused somebody, and very unjustly, too, of tak ing away your things and losing them. Keep your temper, my dear; when you have mislaid any article, keep your temper and look for it.— You had better keep your temper, if you lose all the little property you possess ; getting into a pas sion never btings anything to light, except a dis torted face; and by losing your temper, you be come guilty cf two sins—you get into a passion and accuse somebody of bang the cutse. So, my de;r, I repeat, keep your temper.” Emma subdued her ill humor, searched for the articles she had lost, and found them in lur work bag. “Why, mamma, here they are ; I might have been sewing all this time, if I had kept my tern per.” - <■■ Bombast in the Pulpit. —ln a few anniversary meetings which we attended, we siw some tokens of an ex ggerated convulsive, bombastic style of speaking, which many clergymen think is eloquent. Our platform declaimed are pecufiary prone to sio in this manner. One orator having occasion to sny that in a few years an eniire genera’ion’ would be gone, poured out such words as these— -4 the waves of time will soon dash them all away by its irresistible spray”—accompanied by a vio lent swing of both arms; while by others very common and simple thoughts wi re illustrated by fiery comets, mighty earthquakes, and roaring cataracts. One preacher treated us to a figure of a mighty railroad to Heaven, the cars of which were run off the track, and men and women were mak ing ihe awful plunge —-.duly illustrated by the a r m thrust down pelow the pulpit. We hope we shall sometime leirn to utter simple thoughts in simple words. An idea is not magnified by the great swehmg terms in which it is set forth. Some of our fashionable ihetors liave much to answer for in corrupting the public taste. When a love for this tinsel and theatrical machinery gets into the pulpit on the platforms of religious anniversaries, truth and sincerity are not the things sought for ; and most solemri things of life become ashes. ggjT JtJtwri/where —East, west, north and south —the footstep? of Rum are marked with blood ;uid hope? in wreck. The dtbrvt ot a mind and shattered humanity rot on every shore where the monster has lingered, fn spite ot the tffortsof the ‘ moral suasionists,’ recently so eloquently ad vocated by the demon’s ‘alliedpowers’ in the Le gislature, dealers .continue to ply their licensed engines and people continue to die in the mania ol tlierr cups. Thousands, in every land, fall be fore the bold invader, and the slaughter goes on bravely at our own doors until the world is made a, wi<je spread Crimea of* carnage. Human life is weighed in the balances with the rumseller’s till, and immortality goes down like the bubbles on the strata, yet, when an ‘effort is made to arrest the maddened sweep of this damning tide, the filth of the slaughter pens boil ovey with threats and denujieiatfous. Men, claiming respectability, stiike hands with rum and swear that the right to beggar tire helpless and finally damn jtheir fellow men, not be ‘ relinquished’ without a ‘strug gle? ’ We would rejoice to face Rnnfa allies with a From the Spirit of the Age. Home. “The spot ©f earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.” Is there another word in our language which sends such a thrill of bliss through the human ••heart! At the mention of this little word what joy, what pleasures, what dear associations flit q’er the memory—all that is sacred and dear in life is known and felt in that word, home ! How the absent one pines for the best, congenial atmos phere of the dear, sacred spot; how tbe parted bride clings to her wonted home—and with what melancholy pleasure the sa lor boy thinks of his loved and rative home when ‘o’er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,’ rocked by every passing bil low, and lulled by 7 the enchanted music of the sea irerze he sleeps to dream of country and friends, and slumbering murmurs of ‘home,sw r eet, home.’ Moore has sung, 1 there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream,’ truly there’s nothing ha'f so sweet in life as one’s own home. When careworn and vexed with life’s toils, where doe3 the stiong man seek for rppose and happiness? And, where, after all else has ceased to interest or amuse, and our hopes and affections are thrown ►back upon themselves, and where do we look-for an object on which to lavish our heart’s tribute of affection, where, but to the sacred altar of home ? Degenerate and unnatural, indeed, must that heart be, whose memory does not thrill with joy and b.issful asiocia ions at the reoollections of their sacred homes. The outcast and wanderer of earth has yet enough of human feeling to shed a tear of sorrow and regret at the mention of his child hood's home, and letter days. Oar home! ’tis the sacred spot where all our hopes and fears, our joys and sorrows alike are centered: the world has no pleasures to compare with, fame, renown and glory no boon to bestow, half so sweet, as the joys of home. VIOLA. Aethelingay, Va. A Plain Letter from Georgia. Southwestern Geo., July, 1857. Editor of the Day Book: I am a subscriber to your paper through a club located at Fort Gaines, Clay Co.j Georgia, and am pleased with it. You seem in some particulars to misunderstand our oj.iniobs upon the slavery ques tion. We do not advocate it as a necessity, nei ther do we uphold the system because of our cli mate not permit 1 ing other laborers, but as a moral and political blessing. Here, and only in the slavebolding States, of ail the world, is the line bttwe n the freeman and the slave, the master and the servant, drawn by God—the white are flee, the black are slaves. This is our doctrine— we hold no other—we tolerate no other. ’Tis net ask all northern men who dwell among us if they agree with us, because we are or rather were, careless of their opinions and only desired them to wait and see for themselves.— Now, the term “Yankee” is fast becoming synon ymous with poltroon; they are speedily being driven from ail offices of honor and profiq and it is a term of reproach and disgrace. You cannot object, for ’twas all their own do ings; the day of their power is fast departing. Your ow n ifforts may delay the hour, but what is one paper to thousands ? Northern teachers, northern mechanics, northern merchants, lawyers, and doctors, are not patronized. The recommen dation to a college or school is, No northern teach eis or professors. But go on; your people are “ hopelessly blind.” I send you the letter of ac ceptance from Mr. J. Crawford, our present repre sentative; publish it if you please; it is the best written statement of our feelings and opinions I have seen. Me is the only Crawford politically alive, in this State, and will be elected by the largest majority ever cast in this district. We have thousands, aye, hundreds of thousands of acres of fine land, with not a tree or shrub cut on them. These lands are as healthy as any portion of Georgia, and are level and fertile; they will average ten bushels of corn without manure, and other crops in proportion. Game of all kinds is abundant. Np consumptive person has ever died of that disease who came before his lungs were gone; I can give you the names of fifty who were not expected to live six months, but who have re covered and are entirely well, with no pulmonary symptoms. We live in log houses, mostly, poor and rich. The viilag.-s are built with brick and frame houses, but log houses are universally conceded to toe the most heaitby. To this climate many of your peo ple c.uld come and regain their health, but not if they meddle with our institutions; but let good, true men or women come, purchase a p’ace and build a cabin and b?come one among us, and a more generous, benevolent, kind-hearted people can be found no where. We do not care one cent about tite Union except f r its Revolutionary asso ciations, because we feel the burdens of the gov ernment—general government —fall upon us, and that our worst enemies are the people of the north ern States. Yes, those who strive to iujure us rao-t are those whom we formerly styled northern brethren. They are the last to whom we look for justice. We look to the people of England, France, Germany, Rus-ia, Spain, &c., of all or any other nauon for friends, before the “Yankee na tion.” This spirit of fanaticism is increasing ; the generation coming on are much more prejudiced than the present, and it is a noticeable fact that in the contest of 1849 and ’SO, the disunion party were the young men. Where Bre they now? In Congress, in the- Legislatures, governors, judges, cleiks, <ke. The hand-writing is on the wall read it;.and without the South, where will the North be ? Can you answer that question ? If you can, do it, frankly and independently; come out and let your deluded people see the abyss into which they are so thoughtlessly rushing; turn them, if you can. I doubt if every public man were to recant his doctrines and begin to retrace his steps, if the whirlwind they have raised would roof toss them aside and seek more conge nial leaders. .God speed you, Mr. Editor, in your task. Your reward should be a rich one, both in this and the world to come, to equal your deserts. riir*y Wai&s. Opinions of Eminent Jurists. That the sale of intoxicating liqttors, as well as all other practices, the tendency of which is to enr danger the happiness, seemity, health, and morals of the citizen, may, and ought to be legislated against and prohibited, to the extent that human government can consistently prohibit vice, hardly admits of intelligent doubt. Such has been the united testimony es many of the most eminent ju rists. Said Justice Grier, on an occasion after quoting the familiar maxim, “ Salas, populi suprema lex:” “All laws for the restraint or punishment of crime, for the preservation of the public peace, health, and morals, are, from their very nature, of primary im portance, and lie at the foundation of social exist ence. They are for the preservation of life and liberty, and necessarily compell all laws on subjects of secondary importance, which relate only to pro perty, convenience, or luxury, to recede when they come in contact or collision.” Said the Hon. George Sullivan, of New Hamp shire, on one occasion : “The right of the Legisla ture of any State to allow its citizens to trade in ardent spirits, may well be questioned. To do so is, in my view, morally wrong. If the Legislature of a State permits by law a traffic which produces poverty, with all its sufferings, which corrupts and destrojs the health and lives of thousands in the community, they defeat the great and important end for which government was established.” Said the Hon. Mark Doolittle, of Massachusetts: “ The seal of everlasting reprobation and abhor rence upon this traffic is, that it has no redeeming qualification. It never has done man any good, and, from the nature of the case, it never can.” Said the Hon. Mr. Davis, of the same State, in the celebrated cases of Massachusetts, New Hamp shire, and Rhode Island, in the United States Su preme Court: “The world has raised its voice against the indiscriminate traffic in wines and spir its, and it seems to me that if health, morals, use fulness, and re-pectability are worthy of public consideration, and merit protection from an insidi ous foe, the Legislature would be criminally guilty in wholly disregarding a matter of such obvious importance.” Hon. Mr. Burke, c-f New Hampshire, on the same occasion, said : “Nearly the whole civilized world now concedes that the traffic in intoxicating liquors is a crime against society. It is disproved of by man, and stands condemned by the great moral Judge of the universe, whose purity cannot such manifest and admitted wrong. It is an inhuman traffic, a moral crime that grows blacker and more hideous the more it is contem plated, and the more its horrid effects become visible.” Said Chief Justice Dagget: “It being admitted that the use of this article is destructive to health , reputation and ‘property , it follows conclusively that they vi\\o make nnd. sell it, sin with a high hand against God and the highest interests of their fel low-men.” Said tbe 1100. Mr. Frelinghuysen : “Weowe it to oar history, to our free institution*, and, above all, to Him whose benignant providence has so richly blessed us, that toe purify our laws. If men will engage in this destructive traffic, if they will stoop to degrade their reason, and reap the wages of iniquity, let them no longer have the law-book for a pillow, nor quiet their consciences by the opiate of a court-license,” Lord Chesterfield, in the British Parliament, over one hundred years ago, uttered upon this sub ject that ever memorable sentiment —memorable from the time, the place, and the person by whom it was uttered: “The number of distillers,” said he, “should be no argument in their favor. I never heard that a law against theft was repealed or delayed, because thieves were numerous. If these liquors are so delicious that people are tempt ed to their own ruin, let us secure them from the fatal draught by bursting the vials that contain them. Let us crush at once these artists in hu man slaughter, who have reconciled their coun trymen to sickness,and crime, and have spread over the pitfalls of debauchery such baits as can not be resisted.” Said our distinguished Chancellor Walworth, many years since, when reviewing this subject in the light oF his clear intellect and moral vision : “The time will come, when reflecting men -will as soon be caught poisosuug their neighbors’ wells, as dealing out to theru intoxicating liquors us a bev erage.” Rum Among the Indians.— We do not claim any original discovery when we assert that alcohol is the stimulating and‘direct cause of four-fifths of our troubles with tfire Indians, as it is of four-fifths of the crimes among white men. If the Govern ment would inflict a heavy penalty on anyone who sells the fire-water to the red men, and then deputize a vigilant .force to carry that Jaw into execution and. enforce that penalty, there might be a hope of something like perpetual peace.. In dians may smoke their kintdkinik in a calumet, but a diink of whisky is an emblem of contention and crazy wrangling. There is four times the need to-day for tbe Government to station troops along the frontiers to prevent a set of vagabonds from pursuing this everywhere nefarious traffic, and putting to the red lips of the poor Indian the cup that shall make him toad,'than, for the sup pression ot actual hostilities. This is tire key to all our frontier difficulties. . We sell to the wild and benighted savage something that makes him drunk, then we send Government troops to bayo net him because he don’t keqpeober. The Chippewas have been>fup*ishetl with liquor on the Upper Mississippi, and have cot frequently become unmanageable ami wailiike. They have threatened tjie >vliitc settler*;, and have driven the Rev. Mr. Breck from hi* mission at Le ch Lake. This infamous traffic not Only sets frilx s against each other and lights feudal sparks of discord into a blaze, but it puts in jjeejpardy the lives of our settlers and our settlers.’ w ives and children, and margins our territory wiihbilood. — St.Paul Times. J3T“Paddy,” “why don’t you get your ears cropped ? they twye too king for a man. “And yours,” replied Pat, “ ought to he length enedwrthey are ehoijfc so? an j^as!” N ( TERMS; 1 $1 in advance; or, $2 at the end of the year. ) JOHNH°rSEALS V. PROPRIETOR. YOL. XXIII.-NUMBER 35. “One and Twenty.” With youth, no period Ts looked forward to with so raudh impatience, as the hour which shall end our minority—with manhood none is looked back to with so much regret.. Freedom appears to a young man as the brightest star in the firmament of his existence, and is netver lost sight of until the gaol, for which he has been so long travelling, is readied. When the mind and spirit are young, the season of manhood is reflected with a bright ness from the future, which nothing can dim but its own cold reality. The busy world is stretched out before our boyhood like the exhibition of me chanical automata —we behold the merchant accu mulating wealth, the scholar planting his foot on the summit of the temple of fame, the warrior twining his brow with the laurel leaf, and we yearn to struggle with them for supremacy. In the distance we see nothing but the raosyiromi nent part of the picture, which is guish of disappointment and defeat is hidcKf&i^v, our view; we see not the pale cheek of merit., or the broken spirit of unfortunate or the sufferings of worth. But we gaze not long, for the season of youth passes away like a moon’s beam from the still water, or like a dew drop from the rose in June, or an hour in the circle of friend ship. Youth passes away, and we find ourselves in the midst of that great theatre, upon which we have so long gazed with interest—the paternal bonds which in binding have upheld us, are brok en, and we step into the crowd with no guide but our conscience to carry us through the intricate windings of the path of human life. The beauties of tbs perspective have vanished—the wealth has furrowed his cheek, the acquirements of the scholar were purchased at the price of bis health; and the garland of the conqueror is fast ened upon Ills brow with a thorn, the rankling of which will give him no rest on this side of the grave. Disappointment.changes the ardor of our first setting out, and misfortune follow closely in our path to finish the work and close our career. Mow often amid the cares and troubles cfjnattMi hood do we look back to the sunny memory, the season of our youtb ; and does a wish recall its escape from the bosom of those who once prayed it away. From this feel ing I do not believe that living man was ever ex empt. It is twined around the living soul; it is incorporated into our very nature, and will cling to m, even when reason itself has passed away. And although the period when parental enthral ment is broken, and when the law acknowledges the intellect to be full grown, may at the time be considered one of rejoicing, yet after life will bang around it the emblems of sorrow, while it is hal lowed as the bright hour of youth. Drinking Among Young Men. Tim Philadelphia Sun says truly, that indis criminate drinking among our young men must eventually make its mark upon the population of our cities. We can see it already betraying itself in the rising generation. It is impossible for any man to drink even pure liquors six or seven times a day without suffering severely in constitution, Aod when be transmits this impaired constitution to his son, who in turn impairs it st’ll further by ‘ the same course, It requires little foresight to see * that we are preparing a population for our cities that will not in physical frame be much better than the wretched Aztecs. This love of drink and bar rooms is every day increasing. Every day sees fresh saloons starting up in our midst. Every day sees our youth becoming more the victims of this habit, for really we think it more a habit, than a provision. It is no love for joviality that tempts them, except in a few cases. It is not the hot exuberance of youth. It is not the evan escent impulse of the gay young fellow who is sowing his wild oats. It is, as has been said, a cold, deliberate, confirmed habit. “No atmosphere of recklessness or jollity surrounds the drinking groupes, except on occasions, and no peals of mer riment atone for the act, by proving that it is at least unusual. A grim and melancholy air per vades each- countenance. Tire drinks are poured out, the gla3 c es raised and touched with a loath some air of custom, and each man swallows his portion with the same impassive countenance he would wear if lie were drinking a glass of plain water. All the concomitants that partially re deemed or excused, are want : ng in this sad and formal ceremony, Th® actors drink, not because they love it, and wapt to be merry, but because they have boeji accpstpmed iio it ever since they were boys, and that has now become a habit which is more Imperious than if it were passion. Women of the Empire State. —You are or should be the governing spirit of every well regu lated household. With you, in a great measure, rests the settlement of this great question. ,It is for you to say “ chain that ox,” and the fetters will be made strong around him. Let a convention ‘ be called in each family in the State by the female head of it, and let this question be fully debated. Let mothers, sisters, wives, there around the fami ly hearth , debate this question with their hus bands, sons and brothers; let them not relax their efforts till each man within the circle of the fami ly, gives his pledge to vote for those and those only who are in favor of confining this murderous Ox. So that future generations may not suffer from his horns, as the past have. Let the women of this State now take this great question in hand, use their power in the right di rection, and untold blessings will follow on the heads of their children, and childrens children, as well as upon the State and the world &t large. Hanging by the Dozen.— The Texas Indianolian of the 11th imt., says rumors have reached that place from the upper country, that the Vigilance Committee are raking the country fore and aft, and swinging every horse thief and murderer they can find. A gentleman, says that paper, who came down the road afew days since, says that he saw a dozen bodies suspended to one tree, and on another, five. A great many desperadoes have passed through ludianola, on their way to New Orleans —not considering it healthy for them tq remain guy longer.