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TnfE jPAT-r: or-’ : r /„n —ec,
which wi\3 s C • ■ _ b. a ■m, .£ a i-.vcrrl
years ago, in which all the crow save, the Captain
perished.
The thunder loud proclaims a Covin,
The rain in Uu rears pours—
No light except the livid Hash
While loud the tempest roars.
The mariner is cr. the- sea
His heart is full of dread
The raging billows at his side,
Reminds him of the dead.
Alas on such a night,
The sea is ‘nil commotion,
The noble slip tossed to and fro—
Wild raves the maddened ‘ocean.
With fruitless efforts she reels on
The storm is in her wake,
She feeli the crested foam to coil
Around her like, a snake.
High o’er the oceans billows
She gallantly doth ride,
Unmindful of the crowd below
Or iwhat might her belli©.
A crash ! ’Tis o’er, the noble ship
Her fate we all Lave read,
\Y Lb enow the whale in silence chants
i\..p i.iu - j the dead,’ . .
Levis ,J. ArpLEWinT*;.
■ i .■> (ie-i'-’.i r, <i; , .VUC. 2utii, leyt. ’
Tor tbe Crusader.
Mu. Editor :—You will no doubt be snrpised
to bear from.us again after our long silence, but
a “press of other matters, must be our apology,'lor
truly our hearts best wishes -are ever with you in
the noble cause you ad vc ;te ; pud n:though our
pen lies been idle our voire has not been” silent on
the- subject .o’ rnfhiring curse of our laud,-
Intemperance . NoL Gyu 1- £I J ! for until our
tongue is palsied i.i death we intend u> .sound, ine
note of alarm to old and young wherever in im
providence of God our lot is cash
Dut we sat down to say a word about Monroe.
Thank Heaven we have found one more town in
Georgia where we can breath-tree 1 Another place
where the vile Demon, Alcohol, has no High
Priest —no shrine—no worshippers ! How re
freshing to inhale the fresh, pure air of Heaven
unmixed with the sickening odors of the Hum-stye
or the mephitic, exhalations oi those breallung
holes of the infernal il-iigUms, _DAAdi— SHOi ‘A !
Here no boisterous north, no obscene jest, no
“language of Devi’ J r gr;*tos harshly on t h<? ear;
no ragged, wretched, beslavered .inebriate is seen,
staggering on his way to a drunkards grave, ‘“ the
deepest ever dug for frfhii” ! Hero the “spartan
Baud” have achieved a complete victory over the
legions of Alcohol, -
Ye have done well, ye noble men and women
of Monroe —lovers of your race, ye have done well!
may God bless you and your “little ones” to the
latest generation for the noble stand ye have tak
en in “shutting down the flood-gates of Ruin.;
and if ever Intemperance shall march al ids hosts
of “Brandy sippers” “Rum-smellers” “Gindickers
“mud-tumbler-'” “window-smushers” ‘ Nose-break
era” “ Eye-gouge rs” “skull-crackers” ‘ T tout-, ut
ters” and (meanest of;::!), “wife-bruisers” tor an
onslaught upon your 1 >vely, qufot town, ‘.:o say
to you, < stand firm, trust in (tod, and keep vour
powder clrg !”
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To tlie fdiVrrof i- ‘ *■’.*:. tviUnetlist:-
The discussion i: t,e -.-urir rn papers, ia vefcrxiTca
to the ccndue-: of.Gov. Walker, has boon of great
interest to us in Kar sas. Southerners hi’the Terri
tory wc-ro pleased to see th.ryt the LV novats of the
South were -not ,<o to desert ug in the hour of
danger. Gov. walker came to os as a pro-slavery
man, with our full conti kiicc ; he was received cor
dially and welcomed by us as a man who would
prove true to the rcen who brought his party into
office. But how was this confidence received? liis
inaugural address is a free State document, his To
peka speech an Abolition harangue, and Has become
the platform of the ft Suae party. Not content
with this, from the <Ky Lo arrived in the Territory
he has use'” his individual and official ini’deuce for
the purpose of m:ri ;n* Kansas a free State.
The people of the* T’orritory. were willing to give
him a fair trial and, if possible, sustain ’< 3 Adminis
tration; but it has reached that point a! which we
must derouncc him or desrrt those principles tor
which we have so long fought. To show you what
the Southern people think of Walker, read the fol
lowing resolution, adopted by the Democrats, at a
meeting in Fort Scott, one of the strongrs- pro-slave
ry towns in Kansas. On motion of Dr. George P.
Hamilton.
Eesohed, That Gov. Walker, in his course in. Ka
nsas, has violated the spirit of the Kansas-Ne'braska
bill, and, his efforts to make Kansas’ a free'State
is a usurpation of power on his part, which meets
with the hearty condemnation and disapproval of
this roenting.
At the sitting of the District Court, at Lecompton,
where Gov. Walker r sides, Secretary Stanton drew
up a paper strongly approving the course of Gov.
Walker, and pr> seated it to the Gtar.d Jury, it was
rejected with but one dissenting voice, for the rea
son that they did not approve of the course of Gov.
Walker.
We appeal to the Souther- press to stand by us
in this crisis. Our convention meets the first Mon
day in September. What course they will - adopt
about submitting the Constitution to the people, I
.cannot tell. .If-it is submitted, they .will require at.-
least ft six months -residence (o vote on the ?y;Qption.
I would cot bo sutprised if it was sent directly to
Congress. In that case we'will Expect the whole
South, as one man, to demand that Congress hrimit
that Constitution
Jteipeetfully, R, F, B, j
oecurr-eutn thi* city, illustisitivul ©if ‘ the -|®verli”
that “tfeemT many a Tip ’twixt the.•up-.itud thd--
iip.” ..A yourijf p ntl- tnv.iYba.l l-Jeii &'r*yj|tte'rirn
to .a y.,uA iady,GUoulW.'rjr*;p
.ed, was neccptLtl, and
Y'Len.ti ‘ iicppy tin: . :m:v^yvC>o
•* m:n... cv/ v '*‘’opuiori,'gnthf*rej tin? :*-a
-----;!• gv gs w.i her jyr, tm-1 afixioudy uwpit
t;--i ihe f: lv;d.(-f •He groom.. Thelaßen- iudividu
(i, vno CTji'hitut.'d sotieecssary a part of the ao-
appear, and after watt-’
iug. a long.time tjve party broke up, lighttl were
extingußH tmf imrorfMafe maid -ret ired To
weep *iv<.*r 2!:. r iil treatment. The.next day .-.he
waa new,-ii. and eon lit tied for some time, and on
thajfoflowifg Simday;a minister was sent ■ for :to
visit and console lu-r hi lmr. affiifction, On his ah
riva l atyjy hqu: e the reverend gentleman was
much surprised to see (ho groom (that was to be)
engeged ia conversation wh tbo lady, and before
tho ruinii-ter Ipfl be ;wl ed him to.pertorrn tbo cor-
the .sn I ..la’ he did rsot come at-the
f••• id nt thought
a,sh“rt time v: id . - ■}: r.oinference. Tins did
rTff‘'•'Tt *’ led , T' ’ e ‘ ‘ ; ed To bo ‘rau’ff'ed
‘o l.ra in’ -;. •<•. id o >, whereupon ho
• ahrtip iy ieu, r-r ■ die l y rod.
. ■ ‘ : I; ::/ *.. ro t ;■?; ; uti ‘
L ‘ f'.r breadituffij lit limited.
me-.-, - {;•. I it ac as, oc-cn reached, and even
Ia shade lower. The prospect is, that there will be
: r , ifxora ftctfro rxn'T : c( floor and grain than was
j ar.ick-rc i, ?•** . - t—*• furnish a ‘substitute for the
cm i;in si o *'v sos gold, it is .seated in the Jour
nal of Cos nmcrce, that the engagements of grain for
Grc u Br.itaia have averaged titty thousand,bushels
a clay for several days, and if the decline in prices
docs not prevent the pircu.iee froin coming forward
from the ictenor, the Journal looks for an active
btisiness in this line throughout the fall months.—
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Walt, Art, vt I>if faculties. — If the Merchants
! Exchange had-been prostrated by an earthquake U
could not have created greater consternation than
j tho failure .of the Oliio Life and Trust Company.—
: Thi- was ‘coinpi-.v,lively an old institution; it had
weathered m >‘y r storm, and had the confidence of
i the public. Bv gteking to make ‘money • too fast,
and realize more than a fair interest for its capital,
it lent itself te Railroad;speculators, men who are
willing to pay thi c-e per cent a month for money, and
it has lost both principle and interest. This
is the usual consequence of transactions, were an
extra rale of interest is the temptation. No railroad
no company, no business can afford to pay away one
’ third of its capital a year for the uso of monev.—
! The law, wisely and philosophically looking at this
I great and long established truth, regulates the rate
of interest. Those who pay, and those who receive
more are almost invariably the victims of their eva
sions.
We look every hour for further and more astound
ing disclosures. In the meantime we should like to
know what more the William street bears are going
to subsist on. They have broken down good stocks
as veil as bad, and cannot do anything better now
than to suc k their “awful paws.’ ( —[Ad }’, Mirror.
—0 * -O--* *r- - r
Not a yjotY LYattemino Compliment, —The Hon.
Henry W. flilliard, of Alabama, a recent convert to
Buchanan-WaTkerisra; made a speech a few days
since'at a Democratic gathering in Hamilton’Har
ris county, Ha., which if the following incident, re
lated by tue LaGrango Importer, reflects the gener
al sentimeat,of.the audience, was not very highly
appreciated by his new political associates ;
‘■After LI; - , IJiliiapd had concluded his speech, an
obi Do:**ocr.sl——a I>roivh man—a Buchanan’ Demo
crat —vrH.vVad'listened very patiently and atte'nt
ive v during -‘the whole speech, looked up to Mr-
I Hi haul as he Had finished, and in a very earned, and
1 tm-asuiru tone, retnarked to Mr. H. : “ You have
made a U — 4poop apetoU f to which Mr. 11. replied,
“you vvou and not if }-ou intended to vote for
my friend Brown for Governor.” “I voted for Buch
anan and intend to vote for brown, but you made a
d—d poor speech , and T have no use for you because
yon are a turn-coat,” was the prompt reply of the
! old Democrat;
Ireland— A Legend, —.—Bishop Simpson, in his
’ travels in Ireland, mus describes the country through
i wbicp he pasyed :
I In alsslngyhrougli’ the country I found two things
, difl'en-nt frorii wfiat 1 h‘a'-J expected. First, the land
j is not so wholly occupied nor so perfectly cultiunt
! ed'as-I had fancied, f had supposed the whole (s
----| land to be a-garden but I found waste places and
i poorly cultivated lands. The country is also much
j uioie hilly or. mountaiaous than a garden can be.—
Ranges of no.unl.fois skirted tlie view nearly the
whole length of the Toad. On “the east were (he
Galtee Mountains, end on the western range is a high
peak with a remarkable notch, called the Devil’s
Bit. Various legends are connected with this spot.
The Kiiiarney boatmen told me that it was said that
Satan was chasing some souls that had just escaped
from purgatory ; they lied across this mountain in
to the province of Connaught •; whereupon Satan,
concluding that Connaught was about as had as
purgatory, ceased his pursuit, and contented him
self with biting a piece of the mountain summit, and
spitting it after them. Similar stories the inhabit
ants ot the different provinces delight to tell in ref
ei ence to each other.
—
Simplica .*. . ill sr. —l A ire, of the Louisviifo
i Jutuna! ak hu .?■ ren L-rs :
j Thoxc ~ Gunk t .at, tn ord’ -to dress well, ?t is
I necc . u y t* : --;css exiravagantly and gaudily, m-kc
’ ... j, . . ,
-> I"cu-becomes ;. v tomunne oca yas
simpk , v y“ : ’ n many a remarkably ‘film
i ‘ ’ \ <: . •••• being over so ...~
A * a.- a. cv*!oaded
!•• • ‘ • ‘ -Si.e :s seen
i.t n.c. ‘res, painted by men of
v.: b ,v*p- tor e bsbc genius. In Athens the ladies
wove gaiiddy but si *iq lv arrayed, and we doubt
whether tmy lua.es excited- greater admiration.—
So also the noble olu Itomans, w hose superb forms
were wo ; boy of them, were also plainly dressed.—
Fashion often presents tpe lines of butterflies, but
fashion is not “a classic goddess.
Bea Farmer.—To every young man who desires
a long, dpcAd.. i’ldenthdent and happy life—one of
few ceres add anxieties-—boat farmer ; or in the lan
guage of the Louisville Courier, “If a young man
wants to engage in business that will insure him, in
middle life, the greatest amount of leisure time,
there is nothing more.sure than farming. If he has
an independent turn of mind, let him he a fanner.
If lis waut. to cogyg jin a healthy occupation, let j
hbn till :oe soil, in short, ii lie Would be indepen
dent', let him get a spot of earth, keep within his !
means, shun tbe lawyer, be temperate, and avoid
the doctor, be honest, have a clear conscience, im
prove the soil, so as to leave his farm better than he
found it ; and then, if ho caimot live happily aud die
content, there is no hope for him.”
Cheap Si o.au.—There is a bow of promise on the
saccharine cloud, and we are inspired with the hope
that sugar will be cheaper. Already the sugar mar
ket is giving way, and the pi ospect of the crop bids
fair to turn to the bottom before it stops. Louisia
na promises three hundred thousand hogsheads
whc-n it had but about one hundred thousand last
year. Cuba will afford an abundant crop, while
Brazil and Mauritius will each yield a good supply.
Even India gives indication that it will contribute
its usual yield to help to stock the market. With
-uch prospects we may indulge a rational hope that
for the next year the sweets essential to our sumpt
ual enjoyments may be reached at much less price
than has been extorted for them during the past.—
Buffalo Exp.
< i IB i
A correspondent of the London Times writes
from Cikklewood : A block of pure crystaline ice
weighing nearly twenty.-five pounds, was discovered
op Monday last in a meadow belonging to Mr. War
ner, in this neighborhood. On the day prior a
storm passeed Over spot. Mezerny, in his his
lory of France, mentions a block of the weight ofon
hundred pounds, that foil during a thuader-atortri
iotbe year 1010, .•
v, asi'.^,-v■ t;jr^
HENFIELD, GfBOROIA.
BY ’ ■■*—- iOl i m ‘ll'^-'l
Thursday Morning, September 24, 1847*
1
Osart in Groass!JOTo. ,
Adjourned on Friday er
ening.- No eases of much interest were disposed of
bv tlie court—dll the moat important ones os usual
. ‘^n|
being postponed. .
Y.'e learn.they ha_d considerable political speaking
duiirigih** week, ftom.Messrs A. H, Stephana, Fos
ter aiid Cob Hill. ‘ | .
“FarmcrV’
Questions to the Candidate in this
County who vindicated himself in our columns, can
not be published unless he puts them in better lan*
gutigb. - It is not pur business nor have we the time
to femofo-1 communications for the press, but if he
desires, we will publish his article just as it is writ
ten.
iiw Ip/bx,
Jim, temporary Editor of the Chi istian
It :, in Ft; ••* issue of that paper, seems, to be
. stirred up by the little Editorial pata
h . ’ 1.-li appeared in the Crusader about his
j “Critic.” If these few Editorial remarks excited
■ him to such an extent, what will he say when he
: ;• s the reply of “citizen?”
——
Revival in Penfield.
We have had a most in
teresting revival of religion going on in our Village for
| two or three weeks, and nothing more encouraging
| nm* acceptable* ‘has visited-us for many days. A
| truly humble a .and devotional spirit seems to pervade
the entire community, and on last Sabbath the or
dinance of Baptism was administered by the Rev.
-Mr. Martin to nine new converts. The meeting is
dill encouraging and though it has been postponed
for a dry or two, we hope and believe there are ma
ny yet who are earnest in their manifestations of
deep cone rn, and in their desires to unite them
selves with thie people of God. We sincerely hope
to see many more in this community “step into the
| pool while the waters are troubled.”
J. K. Hora &Cos.,
Os Augusta, which is tbe same
establishment formerly known under the name of
J. M. Newby &00., are now receiving the largest lot
of ready-made clothing ever brought to the Augusta
Market. V r e taka pleasure in commending this
clothing emporium to all needing ready-made dry
goods. Joe Newby is in New York and keeps them
supplied with the very best clothing, and all the
new styles.
4l#i *
Sibley fe Boggs,
Is the title of anew firm of Grocery
merchants recently established in Augusta,a few doors
above the old Mansion house. They have decidedly
the most handsome and tastily arranged grocery
stot .* in the city, and it is filled with a superior stock
of groceries, comprising everything usually kept un
(for that head—and especially do they keep by far,
; the best ciyms we have ever puffed. If you wish
i to enjoy asmoke which will do you good, call at
this establishment aud get a cigar.
Bes des this they are young men, clever gentle
manly and generous hearted fellow,send, will do ample
justice to all who patronize them.
Hon, C, J. Jenkins and Gen. Walker.
The fol
lowing paragraph is an extract from a letter written
by the Hon. C J. Jenkins to tho Constitutionalist,
i denying that a letter addressed to himself by Gen.
Walker was published by his consent. It seems that
Walker published the letter before sending it to Mr.
Jenkins, which was contrary to Mr. J’s. orders,
ITe has driven me to the alternative of submitting
to inevitable misconstruction, or of making unfavor
able comments upon a letter addressed to myself.—
I choose the latter, declaring unequivocally — First,
that I wholly disapprove Gen. Wm. Walkers con
templated invasion and conquest of Nicaragua—Sec
ondly, that the proposed revival of the African slave
trade is abhorrent to me. I will add that Gen.
Walker has taken a very unwarrantable liberty
with me —a liberty inconsistent with the sense of
propriety which should regulate intercourse between
strange.! s—a liberty expiessly interdicted by my
plain declaration, tnat “its publication as a letter
addressed to me, must depend upon my concurrence
in his views.” Very respectfully, &0.,
Charles J, Jenkins.
The Young Men of Augusta.
We venture the
assertion that Augusta can produce more real clever ,
: social and generous hearted young fellows, than any
cby of the same population in the Southern country.
| Wo Fhali song remember some of them for tbeir
i hospitality, and kindness as exhibited towards us
! during arr m passage through their city. Especi-
Yby wifi vve remember our friends C S., 8., J S.,
1 .... 0., the imperial B. H M., & McG. The mention
of their names revives pleasant recollections. That
| scientific air which the Imperial, on that memoriable
I night, sang to the sleeping beauty, and slumbering
I Nightengale, still rings upon the tympanum of our
ear, and the echo of his laughable and inimitable
prelude, of “ touch wood” which flashed like elec
tricity through his outside auditory , is still distend
ing our visibilities.
Success and a long life to these friends. May that
pleasant flow of spirit which they did then and
do now enjoy, never be checked by the rude Visita
lions ol adverse fortune.
The Chicago ladies went to a ball the other even
ing in a furniture wagon— no ordinary carriage
I could contain the immense dresses they wore.
The Agency of the Marine Bank of Savannah, for
merly at Gridin, has been removed to Atlanta.—
Allen Fleming, Esq., is the Agent.
Consul Recognized.—W. Dressel is the correct
name of the gentleman who has been recognized by
the President as consul for the Grand Dukedom of
Hesse Darmstadt for Maryland and North and South
Coretina, to reside in Baltimore.
■
A Calculation’ To Look at. —Suppose a man
drinks four glasses of liquor a day, at five cents a
glass ; in a week he spends in a year $72 80.
This will buy the following articles : four barrels of
flour, say ; four pair of boots, sls ; forty pounds
of beel, i? 9 ;ane w ?ft tin vest, $4; a bonnet for wife,
$5 ; sugar plumbs for children, $1 80—total, $72-
Bo. —California Farmer.
{West Point is now the headquarters of the
Army, it having been removed from New York a
bout a month since. Gen. Scott has his office in
the Academy building, where he transacts all nec*
essrry business. . ,
CniXiisE Sugar Cane.—' lt is stated that over 100,-
000, acres of land in the United States have been
planted with the Sorghum, or Chinese Sugar Cane.
This is a wonderful result, when it ia considered
that only two or three years have ejapsod sines it
was first introduced into tho country,
WUHiiWlUii,
the Commercial metropolis of the
old Palmetto Slate, la its construction, merchandise
audio tbs eleytted Bond chorister, end generosity
of its dtiaens steads among the very first of oar
Southern cities. Its population in about sixty thou
sand, nearly all of which ire Southerners* Count
-I*, elegant end tasty brick buildings, form, solid
wall-blocks on the streets, and in these blocks are
handsome stores. An immense quantity of bnsi.
ness is done in this city, wholesale and retail. A
moag the leading establishments in the dry-goods line
is that of Crane St Boylstone, who are excellent gen
tlemen and do by far the largest business of any
wholesale firm in the city. In the silk business
Clarke, Bancroft &oa, hare the largest and most su
perb stock of fancy silk fixtures we bare ever seen.
J. Aahurst &Oa, hare by far the most spacious buil
ding we saw in Charleston, and it is filled with mil
lions of drugs. We had the pleasure during our re
cent risit to this city of farming many rery pleasant
acquaintances among the business men of Charleston
and especially among the young men of the sereral
houses. We hare seldom enjoyed such kindness as
was manifested towards us during onr illness while
there, and for it wo return our new acquaintances
the acknowledgements of a gratful heart, and to
our Physician, Dr. F. M. Robertson, a polish© 1 and
rerra geeablo gentleman, and an able, popular and
appreciated Physician, we shall eren feel under ob
ligations for his kindness, and attentive care. We
regretted very much our inabilily to return the calls
of our brethren of the Editorial craft, success to them
and their excellent journals.
We were no little pleased to learn that in this
large city, there is a most flourishing order of the
Song of Temperance, numbering if we mistake n©t
nearly or quite a hundred members. They meet reg
ularly on every Friday night, and so manage the
meetings as to make them interesting to all the mem
bers—they are supplied with musical instruments,
and have vocal and instrumental music at every
meeting. They do things up in the proper style,
and we invoke the richest blessings upon their Di
vision, and wish it may continue to thrive and flour
ish until its influence is felt and acknowledged
throughout the whole city of Charleston.
Sullivan’s Island.
We availed ourself of an op
portunity while in Charleston to take a pleasure ex
cursion over to this Island. It is about four miles
distant from the city, and a boat goes and returns
twice every afternoon. There are a large number
of residences on the Island and a great many Charles
tonians with their families spend all the summer on
it. The Island is public property, it was given to
the city of Charleston, and the privilege granted to
any citizen to claim and own a lot on it, provided
he would build and improve it. There is a mule
car-railroad running from the wharf the entire length
of the Island to the Monltrie house, which is located
on the beech at the opposite extremity, and a beau
tiful locality it is; just on the edge of the broad At
lantic, where you may sit for hours with increased
delight and gaze at that foaming expanse of waters-
We wandered alone upon the smooth sea-washed
shore and picked up the beautiful sea-shells as the
water would float them out on dry-ground. We
stood motionless upon the beach listening to the wild
sea-roar, while the billows broken around our feet
and as we gazed enchanted upon those unquiet wa
ters and ever surging waves, our bosom swelled with
but one sublime thought which We addressed to old
ocean. 0, thou trackless, boundless, awful and ever
heaving deep, thy God knew thee when thou wast
born and he alone with the command “peace,be still”
can calm thy chafing waters into slumbers unruffled.
We for the first time experienced the truth which
Byron spoke when he said
“There is, society where none tatrades
By the deep sea, and mu*io in ita roar.*
i mn <
Our Bachelor Prospects.
Tell me ye winged winds
That rtfnnd my pathway roar.
If there be on earth a Quiet retreat
Wher6 bachelors cart keep from starring.
Our “Paradise Regained” is fast losing its charms.
The garden vegetables have all “gin tout ” and the
same bankruptcy has extended from the vegetable
to the animal kingdom, entered our “ smoke-house ,”
and even that has/at’fod. A few stewed tomattoes,
and a “corn dodger” made of meal, worth $l
- per bushel, is the unchanging prospect which
presents itself every day at dining hour. No butter
to he had, and tough beef worth eight cents, where’s
the charm in such a life? We find want rather
pinching t No angelic feminine shares our tent
with us, whom we may love, if there did we might
“subsist on love\ for a short season. But poor un
fortunate fellow, we return careworn from our daily
labor and enter our lone grotto, but no angel smile
meets us at the door with a hearty welcome—our old
gown hangs on the chair just as we left it, our old
shoes sit in the same position, and the silent walls
speak not a word, —even our crayoned beauty who
sits upon the mantle-piece, does not disdain to turn
her head, but still gazes at the North Star. Where’s
the charm? Tell us ye winged winds! We are
almost prepared to endorse the lone Dutchmans’ la
mentations.
Yen I lays myshelf in my lonely pet-room,
Und tries to shleep very soundt,
Tetreams, oh, how into my hed dey till comes,
Till I vish I vas unter te grount.
Sometimes, ven I eats von pig supper, I treams
Dat my stomak ish flit full of stones:
Und out of my shleep, like ter tivil I schrearns,
Und kick off te pet-klose and kroans!
Den dar, ash I lays, mit de pet-klose all off,
I kits myself all over froze;
In de morning 1 rakes mit de het-ake und kof,
Und I’m shiek from het to mine toes.
Oh, vot shall pe tun for a poor man like me—
Vot for do I lead such a life ?
Some says dere’s a cure for dis trouble for me—
Dinks I'll dry it und get me a vise 1
It is said that one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars have been raised in the State of Georgia, to aid
Geo. Walker in his descent upon Nicaragua.
Columbus Times.
4l>
The Prohibitionist of New York hold a State Con
vention at Rochester, on the 30th of September to
nominote a State ticket.
Prospect for Port and Madeira Drenkeks.—
Wioe-bibere, says the New York post, must be
c reful how they “lay in” their customary swpply
of port this year unless they wish to be laid out;
for our advices from Oporto assure us that vast
quantities of deleterious and even poisonous mix
tures have been sent from England to the latter
place, to be converted into “tawny” port wine. The
gyape from which what we call Port has hitherto
been made, has almost entirely failed, and we doubt
if a-singe pipe of really honest wine be sent from
Oporto this year.
Decided at Last. —The St Louis papers of the
29th ult announce that the election fbr Governor of
Missouri, which has been for some time enveloped
in a dense fog, has resulted in favor of Stewart, the
Democratic candidate, by a small majority. The of
ficial tote of one or two counties has not yet been
received, hat the Intelligencer concedes the slectioa
to Stiwirt,
uuui 1 i&iiiuqmpMMOTi
dates.
It is generally known that the test State tem
perance Convention, decked nominating a candi
date for Governor,, but passed a resolution to inter
rogate the candidates of the political parties with
the view of concentrating the temporanoe vote of
the State upon the one which should express him
self most favorable to the temperance cause. As
yet no action ..whatever has been taken upon that
resolution by the Committee, but it has gone like
all the other resolutions of temperance bodies ; they
aro passed in abundance, but unfortunately they
pass into oblivion and are never heard of afterwards.
We have patiently awaited the orders of the chair
man of that committee, but ho seems to have for
gotton itentirely,'and we venture the assertion,
that the chairman appointed, does not now remem
ber the appointment. We speak from the indiffer
ence exhibited by members of past committees ap
pointed by the same convention. Rather than such
should be the case it would be far better to hold no
temperance meetings and appoint no committees.
But we have not urged the resolution, nor said a
nything concerning it, for saveral reasons, some of
which we now beg leave to submit to our frain ds.
In the first place we were opposed to it from the
beginning, because we knew full well that it would
be nothing more than a “tinkling symbol signifying
nothing.” Political bias, party predilections and
obligations aro too strong and too deeply rooted in
the hearts of men nowadays to suffer them to forego
their political elective privileges to support a cause
which to them is of minor importance. Every elec
tion, state and national which has been held in this
country, for the last twenty five years has involved
a serious and momentous “ormV” and every
voter has been made to believe that the fate of the
government hung upon his vote, and that all would
be lost if he should cast it upon a “side issue ” as the
temperance interprise is called. Such being the
true state of things where is the use in passing such
resolutions as the above, or the slightest semblance
of a hope that it will be observed? It is probable
that one temperance man out of every hundred would
vote according to the resolution. It is a bard thing
to say about the temperance men of Georgia, but it
is nevertheless true, that upon that question they
are not reliable. They have so proved themselves.
In the next place we did not favor tbe resolution,
because we considered it as aiming not only at a
hopeless point, but at one which if gained would
boos no practical benefit to the temperance cause. —
The election of a Governor is not or should not at
this time be the object of our efforts, for we have
accomplished nothing, should we elect a Gover
nor. He has no power whatever vested in his hands,
save the veto privilege, and under the present state
aad progress of this good cause we opine it will be
many a “long weary day” before this question
is ever submitted to the chief Magistrate of Georgia
for his sanction or veto. If the Legislature never
passes an Act giving this subject tbe aid of the Law,
a Governor might reign a thousand years and yet
could do nothing for temperance. But suppose for
the sake o the resolution, that the temperance men
of the State were to unite upon one of the political
candidates, and he were to be elected, could m claim
a triumph ? It would never be conceded to the tem
perance vote wo all know. The e lection of tem
perance Legislators is the point at which we should
aim.
In the third place we have said nothing in re
gard to th s resolution because both the political
candidates for Governor now before the people are
temperance men. Mr. Joseph E. Brown is a son-in
law of the lamented Joe Grish im, who was emphati
cally a pioneer of temperance, and a faithful leader,
who considered it of paramount importance to every
other issue, and with whom we imagine the highest
recommendation which a man who wa3 seeking ad
mission into his family could bring with him,
was, that he was strictly a temperance man. Mr,
Brown has never been ashamed to ow n that he was
a temperance man. Mr. Hill, w 0 opine is equally as
ardent an advocate of temperance. He is a strictly
religious man, moral, hightoned and delights in see
ing his country and country-men elevated to dignity
and respectability. So between the two men it would
be difficult to make a choice on the ground of his
temperance principles, we guess it will therefore be
left to the voter to support either of the two be may
prefer. But we are ready to act with the commit
tee, and if they prefer to interrogate Messrs. Hill
and Brown, and one should express himself more fa
vorable to our cause than the other we will heartily
support that one and hold him up in our columns for
the suffrage of all the temperance men in Georgia.
[communicated.]
The Index-and “Critic.”
Some two weeks since, while oc< yiag temporari
ly, the chair editorial of the “Temperance Crusader,”
I took occasion to notice briefly a communication in
the “Index” over the signature of “Critic,” in refer
ence to the commencement exercises of Mercer Uni
versity. The “ Locum Tenens” of that paper has ta
ken up the cause of that redoubtable character, and
indulged in comments of so personal an ature as to
force me to the disagreeable necessity of making a
reply. T shall do so briefly. He tells us that “Crit
ic” is? very “learned” and “experiencedthat he
has forgotten more than I ever knew. Very likely.
But we fear that the important art of speaking and
writing the English language correctly, is one of
the things he has forgotten. This is a great misfor
tune to one who has a penchant for appearing in the
public prints.
He wrote “not in malice, but for improvement.”
There are many methods of promoting improvement,
but of all with which we are acquainted, ridicule
and sarcastic raillery are the most unsafe and least
efficacious. This is the very kind of method which
“Critic” in his “playful mood,” has attempted to em
ploy. What may we expect from him when in a
more serious “mood ?” If he be possessod of such
learning and experience as he is represented, could
he not administer his aid toward improving the of
ficers and students of Mercer University in some
more appropriate form than a newspaper squib? Alas!
“gray hairs can not make folly venerable!” Enough
however of “critic.” We shall however, have to
have some other assurance than his writings afford
to convince us that he is either “learned” or “expe
rienced.”
Our friend next indulges in several laudatory sen
tences in regard to himself as a journalist lam not
in the least disposed to demand from the public an
expression of opinion respecting our comparative
claims to prudence and judgement. But I have nev
er yet in my short career, condescended to the be
trayal of editorial confidence in order to reply to an
opponent. Some time during last March, I wrote a
short article for the Index in reference to Mercer
University in which there was one sentence objected
to by some persons in Ponfield. This was an over
sight, or it would hare been stricken out or so mod.
ified as to be unobjectionable. But that article aas
very unlike that of Critic. It was a plain outspoken
appeal in behalf of (hat Institution} but I did not
orsbip of (ha piece. I leave Ti to a candid public to
judge whether the circumstance* of the ease justUp
Mr, Landrum In divulging what was committed to
him under the most solemn pledge of secrecy, la
not tins “stoop to conquer” rather § inconsistent with
his character as a Christian gentlemen and Minister
of the Gospel?
He pronounced my style “coarse” and undigni
fied ! He may say the same of this. To this I can
only say that I always try to adapt my style to my
subject, whether that subject be tbe “Critio” or the
“Leetttn Team*” of the Index.
L. LINCOLN TRAOT,
Crawfbrdvile, Ga., September 18, 1857.
Incidents and Accidents on ths Gsomua Bazl
soad.—Two gentlemen jumped from the down pas-”
senger train on the Georgia Road last night under
very strange and deplorable circumstanoes.
The first—a Mr. Kent of Miss., on his way to Ylr*
ginia, with his wife and children—was seen jusf
above Rutledge to start up from sleep, rush out, and
jumped from the train, lfis wife was in the saloon,
and the Conductor was not informed of the occur
rence until the train reached Greenesboro. No in
telligence has been received from him, and his wife
is at the Planter’s Hetel waiting with painful anxiety
to hear his fate. He was a sober man and it is
thought was in a fit of somnambulism.
Two miles this side of Greenesboro, a Mr. Lewis,
lately of La Grange, a very nervous and decrepid
gentleman, rushed from the car in a fit of drunken
excitement, and had his leg badly broken. Another
who was his companion, could hardly bo kept on
the train, and was locked up on his passage over
the S. C. road to day. A sad chapter of incidents
for one train truly.
We are indebted to the courtsey of Mr. W. B.
Ccx, conductor on the train for these particulars.
Sisterly Devotion.— There is a young lady living
in Saratoga who has visited the grave of a sister ev
ery morning for three years. A more touchiug sight
we have seldom seen, in this inconstant and for
getful world, than this devout maiden kneeling to
place flowers upon the green coverlet of a sister’s
“narrow bed” and to repeat her morning prayers,
where none but God can hear them. There is fa
naticism of tbe affections which one cannot but rev
erence ; and the scene we have alluded to makes
the love of woman holy, even to those whose skep
ticism has become chronic.
Fire. —On Saturday last between two and three
o’clock, P. M , the alarm ol fire was raised, and upon
repairing to the spot, we found the residence of UoL
Win. S. Rockwell in flames. The fire originated np
stairs, in a closet, from the catching of Kerosine oil.
Col. R. attempting to make gas. His loss is between
four and five thousand dollars, loß'ng nearly all of his
library, one of the choicest in the State, besides near
ly all of his furniture, ail of his bedding, wearing
apparel, and many other articles of value. The out
houses were saved by great exertions. —Southern
Recorder 15 th inst.
Horrible Murder. —The body of Mr. David
Gunn, a very’ clever old man of this city, was found
to-day, near the Double Branches, a mile from town,
his throat cut from ear to car. He was murdered
bv a man by the name of Dovier, an inmate of Mus
cogee asylum for the poor, who has since been ar
rested and placed in jail. Mrs. Dozier confessed
that her husband committed the murder, and the
knife used by Dozier, stained with blood,Jis deposit
ed away for safe keeping. We understand it was
an affair of jealousy, and woman was at the bottom
of it —Columbus Times , Sept. 12.
Curious “Ska-waif.” —A correspondent at Mon
trose says that a few days ago the crew of a
fishing boat picked up at sea a scrap of paper, firm
ly corked in a bottle, having the following written
upon it in pencil; “On board the brig Ellen of Whit
by, 7 Novr., 1749, 10ng.3.40, lat. 26. Blowing a
hurricane ; lying to, with closer eefed mamtopsail
Ship waterlogged; cargo wood, from Quebec. No
water on board ; provisions all gone : eat the dog
yesterday ; three men dead. The Lord have mer
cy on our souls,. Amen. Thomas Jackson, chief
mate.” —Edinburg {England) Courant. \
Suffering rs LiBERiA.-Accounts from Liberia an
nouce that the colonists were suffering severely from
want of food. The failure of the rice crop and the
lack of industry among the emigrants from the Uni
ted States, seems to have produced a sorry state of
affairs in the colony.
Tn Ireland they are having a sensation over a
young and extraordinary female preacher. She is
drawing crowds of all sects to listen to her eloquence.
Her hair, eyebrows and eyelashes are almost white,
here face pale, and she is only twenty-two years of
age. She has many invitations to preach from all
parts of the country, and even Scotland. She ac
cepts no earthly fee or reward, and says she is
prompted to speak in obedience to answer to pray
er a twelve-month since.
+ +
Frost at the East.—The “cold snap” on Sun
day and Monday nights extended over a large ex
tent of country. In New Hampshire it was quite
general, with more or less frost. At Concord the
frost was light. At Manchester on Monday night
there was a heavy frost. There was a slight frost
upon the low grounds in the vicinity of Worcester
Mass., on Monday night. On Monday morning
frost.as seen on the side- alks in Bangor, Me.—
There was a heavy frest on the Kennebec on Sun
day night. —Baltimore Sun, Sept. 11.
The news from Salt Lake City is of little impor
tance. Os late, the Saints appear to have become
considerably modified. The ferocity which charac
terized Brigham’s harangues has disappeared, and
he now addresses his audiedee in the mildest man
ner.
The election in Washington Territory has result
ed in a “Democratic victory.” As far as the returns
have been made, 20 Democrats have been chosen to
the House of Represeetatives, and but 5 Black Re
publicans,
A i Wl
The South is afflicted with slavery; and if it chooses
to cherish the disease that is eating out its life, that
is none of our affairs. When Ephraim is joined to
his idols, it is best to let him alone. —[A eiv York
Courier and Enquirer.
That is the right position, Mr. Courier and En
quirer, and we are glad you have arrived at it at
last. Just stick to it, and we shall have peace.—
The South will take all the risk of that “disease that
is eating out its life.” We feel and look quite healthy
thus far, even in spite of it —Savannah Republican.
The Southern Commercial Convention. —We per
ceive that the above patriotic assemblage a quiet lit
tle tap. Editor Syme is evidently of that stripe of
men who will not evon spare their best friends, when
a chance for a humorous dig in the ribs, presents it
self. His remarks on the recent convention at
Knoxville were confined to the following:
“This itinerant gas factory, having blown suffi
ciently, has, we presume, discontinued its operations
at Knoxville, to resume them some where else at a
future day. These meetings serve a most excellent
purpose, lor there are a set of gentay in the country
who would blow up with a loud crack, if they don’t
blow off their gas once or twice a year.”
A Dress Reform Convention. —Miss Hancock, the
Secretary of the Cayuga Dress Reform Society,
publishes the proceedings of a convention of tbe
reformers, held at Auburn on Thursday. The fol
lowing resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, That as health is closely allied to dress,
we, as reformers, adopt and lend our aid to carry
into common use, short skirts, loose waists, minus
tbe whalebone, and any style which wo deem com
fortable and healthful.
Resolved, That we regard Paris fashions s a nu
isance; and that we, as American free bora women,
do discard them aasuch.
The convention adjourned to meet it sk%M*telea,
N. Y., November 18 th, when a Mias uhw hau
is to be given.
Jack th* Giant Kilter, has kmg Wen the wendet
of children, hut the modern giant, Perry Davis’
\ egetable Pain taller, it victorious over hia great