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THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADER.
BY J„ H. SEAI.S.
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ble; ,
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newspapers’ from the office, or removing and leaving
them uncalled for, is prima fade evidence of inten
tional fraud. +
6. The United States Courts have also repeatedly
decided, that a Postmaster who neglects to perform
his duty of giving reasonable notice, as required by
the Post Office Department, of the neglect of a per
son to take from the office newspapers addressed to
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for the subscription price.
THE FOLLOWING QSAGTIFGL LINES
were addressed by an unknown friend to Miss Max
tie S—, of Penfleld, upon her joining the church,
as the author says, “to show forth his gratitude For
the happiness efforded him by hearing .her relate
such a good expsrieaca” — [2dr. Cbu.
TO MISS MATTIE S
No earthly visions seen so bright,
Nodai ting meteor by night
Nor gorgeous sun whose rays of light,
Dispels the midnight shades away,
Can equal those sweet hopes cf Heaven,
Which are to new born sinners given
By him; “the Rock of Ages riven,
Who sits as Ring of endless day.
No! Earths fond visions fade away,
Ooirupted hopes meet quick decay
Ambitions vices will not stay
To marshall in, the glorious morn
When Jesus’ pardoning love appears,
To him who seeks with groans and tears,
AU wicked vices disappears
From that dear soul that’s newly born.
It was a pleasure sweet to day,
For me to sit and hear you say,
Old things with you have passed eway,
And all things now are Dew and bright.
You spoke with tones as sweet and mild
Asa fond mother to ber child.
So pure, so free, so undefiled,
Which filled my soul with sweA delight.
You spoke about a mother dead,
That sweetest one, whose lifeless head
Lies low upon the coffin bed
tYithin the cold and silent giave,
W hich lovely one, you wish to meet,
•And in Angelic beauty greet.
With smiice, embraces, kisses sweet,
When you in Heaven’s fountains lave.
This lovely hope with you, I share,
Because I hrve a mother there,
Embalmed in glory bright and clear,
Icviting me to come and drink
The living waters pure and free,
And eat of the glorious Heavenly tree,
Which God has offered you and uie;
The scul inspiring thought to think.
O yes, to think when troubles are o’er
V- hen pains, and sins, and woes no more
Shall try our heartson Heavens shore
W’ii meet those darling friend.} above.
And in the Angelic choir sing.
The sweetest anthems to our King.
Making sweet Heavens arches ring
With one enrapturing song we love,
Then let us scale the mounts'n bright,
And bask in fields of rich delight
W hich glorious Heaven, though out of sight
Has promised evtry one who comes.
So let us quafi’ the waters pure.
Whose healir g halm all sufferings cure
And patiently our toils endure
Until we gain our Ileav.hly home.
Uk&n'owk,
For the Crusader.
Impartial Father.
What is More delightful, than to think of *ueh
a father ? TLer<j is something endearing in the
wofJ, father; something which indicate?, pro
ttct : on, love and sympathy. When vvc cbmtenft
plate an impartial father our hearts are filled with
gr ititude; in realizing the truth that there is such
a Father in Whom we may place all of our atTee
rely ng on lliru to do all things wall. Yea.
with what confidence can we say, our Father, feel
ing that he will deny his children nothing that i
fhr their gx>d ; for Ha is more willing to give
good things to them that ak, than our earthly
father is to give us bread. Are not parents wil
ling to feed their children or to give unto thorn
what they have? Surely they ought to be; bu:
alas, alas! how some children are treated by their
own desr father, perhaps bo will make an idol or
one or two, and the others are on red for but li'tle.
if actions prove anything. Sea that child who has
been di -inherited by his father, in hie hours of sol
itude, shedding tears of bitter RPgnjdi; yea with
a heart fail and ready to break hear hint saying
why, O why I all this difference? What have ]
done that merits such treatment ? O, my fuher
my father, to whom can I go if thou cast mo off?
Sometimes there are other differences, that are per
haps unnoticed by the community generally, but
weigh heavily upon the child, and often make
him w erp, feeling as me of old, if it had been an
enemy I could have home it, but it was my own
familiar friend, yes, my own beloved father, in
whom I had trusted. Mmy earthly fathers are
prone to partiality, even the best of them, may be
guilty of this sometimes. If a father happens to
think cne of his sons a little smarter than the
rest, he will lavish all the praises upon that one,
making him very vain; always speaking of the
others as though they were nothing, discouraging
them by every remark until they desponding, come
to lire conclusion, that they are worthless crea
tures, seek pleasure from under their parental roof;
until finally they are found among the rumseller’s
web. Again, perhaps one of his sons has married
rich or to P ! se him a little better, than some of
the others ; gif s are lavished upon that one, wh|le
the other* receive but little, although they aro teak
!y the needy m*. .Forinstance,l knew of a 1
gentleman, who said if one of Lii sons were to join
the American party, he would disinherit him ;’ he
was tpld that his son — -was already an American
“Of say* be, “ha i*rich enough, it would’nthurt
him if I did*nt give him anything, he would not
care one cent.” Such, my friends is not the cue
with our Heavenly Father. Ha is rich into
all, lie give .h to all that ask and upbraideth none.
He has the richest of blessings for all that will ac
cept, yea, even salvation from an awful destruc
tion, unto life eternal around our Father’s throne,
where we shall rejoice evermore and fee at rest.-**
Id truth, he is an impartial Father. Who will
not love such a father with all their mind,. soul
and body ? Is not that quality alone sufficient to,
make one love, while he possesses others we can
not enumerate ;now; that should lead ns to Jove
and adore Him. Let as remember however, that
He is an impartial Father, and castetb of? none
who will coma-unto- Him. Will you not come
unto him through Christ, my unconverted friends,
>hnt ronr tins blotted oat and you receive
Lifer ‘ . FEMME..
. Atlanta, Sep, 16 —1857.
For the Crusader.
Ail Honest Grocer’s Advertisement.
Mr. Editor : — Your paper seems to fee a one
rded paper, as it gives grocers particular scissor?,
and it scarcely ever says anything in favor of
grocers. Now if you will permit me, I will give
you a email clatter on a very important matter
hat may mike your teeth chatter. Just the
-ther day I op°ned my grocery and I am doing
ffne’y. I keep several kinds of liquors; keep the
be*t and purest; do Dot water it at all ; and sell,
it by the small to rich, poor and all. * Now if I
So, in ail good conscience, honestly buy and hon
e-tly sell these liquors, what can any man, any
<ober man (for I know a drunken one will not)
against it ? Now I keep a Bible in my gro
eery and at times (which is but seldom) when no
•me is about, I read and ponder over the Scrip
tures, and I find a verse iu it that says: “Drink
ye and be drunken, fall down and spue.” I shall
not teil you where to find it; you had as well
hunt about for it as I. Now you know that drink
in the above sentmee is a verb in the impera
tive raool, and agrees with the person or persons
commanded. Here we go after a syllogism ; peo
ple are commanded to prepare to meet God; again
people are commanded to drink and fall down
and spue; again a person must obey the com
mands cf God if he ever expects to get to Heaven,
that is, he must fail down and spue, if he ever ex
pects to get to Heaven. Casting no insinuations
at all, don’t you think Mr. Editor, that I have
-battered the temperance men’s voices mightily f
If any of you think you are able to meet me on
it, just come it aud I will reply. B. Q. X.
Blr. Hill on the State Road.
The American party of Georgia should congrat
ulate themselves in possessing a candidate for Gov
ernor, who is not afraid to speak out upon all
questions of State and Federal policy. The At-
Huta American noticing a masterly speech from
Mr. Hid in that place on the Bih isnt., and furn
ishes ati abstract of it. Upon the subject of State
Rond, Col. llill very dearly takes and defines his
position as fellows:
“ A c suming that the State Road should be ta
ken out of the hands of mere politicians, no matter
of which party, he proeeaded to state, in the most
distinct and emphatic manner, the disposition
w hich in his op'uion, should be made of it— and
then, how the proceeds should be applied.
Taking it for grauted that six millions was the
total cost, and that it could be sold at <x>9t, and
that it could be sold at par, he tbought two-tbirds
of the Road would bring the State four rail ions
of dollars. The Road had been in operation ten
years, during which time it had paid but a tri
uirg amount into the State Treasury, and hence
could not be regarded as a profitable investment
sit now stood. On the contrary, the people
were t-ixed, now, to pay the interest on the debt
*likh was created, in part, to build and equip the
Road. A sale of two-thirds, then at the sum sta
ted, would pay off that much of the debt, release
the people from tfle necessity to pay the interest
now, and the further tax in the future required
: o pay the debt itself. Mr. Hill considered that
eu years was time enough in which to prove its
profitableness. We think so too —and we believe
itw people will take the same view ofit.
The road being then under the control of pri
vate parties—with experienced business men to
murage its affairs, instead of politicians—he felt
confident that the Stare would receive a larger
income from the remaining two million, than she
does now from the whole six millions.
He next proceeded to discuss the objects to
which the four millions should be applied. And
first, we would pay off that portion of the State
debt contracted in behalf of this Road. This he
regarded 3 the straight forward, honest course
on which we presume there would be no d.ffer
ence of opinion. But there would be a lage sum
e:t after doing that, and what ought to be done
uith that ?—With his accustomed openness, he
he advocated the investment of the surplus, under
proper restriction?, in other Roads, and thus aid
ing in developing the resources, increase the popu
lation and wealth of the State.
Calculating that from ail the Railroad invest
ments, we should have a handsome income, the
question arose as to how it should be applied ; and
here Mr. Hill confessed that his whole mind
and soul were absorbed. “We wanted the ineome
from these investments invested yet again. He
would have it appropriaied to the establishment
of a Common School system in Georgia, that eve
ry child within her extensive borders might re
reive the rudiments of an English education. And
that he considered the bert paying investment of
all—one which would make a return to the State
of untold benefit, and which would be felt through
all coming time.”
What an American sat/8 of Parliament.—*An
American writes from Loudon to the New York
Commercial:
“ -Parliamentary proceedings are much like the
doings in our own Congress. I was in both hou
ses two or three hours yesterday, a friend having
kindly sent me a ticket of admission. It is impos
sible to get in without a ticket sighed by a mem
ber. Members have no accommodations like our
•aw makers—the seats run lengthwise, aud each
one will hold about thirty, I should think. Mem
bers sit with their hats on, unless they are speak
ing; and a more common-—in fact I might almost
lav, rowdy-looking set of men is not often met
with. The rooms, however, are splendid, and are
furnished with great taste. There are Dochandal
iera or lamps to obstruct the view, the entire
rooms being lighted by gas from the ceiling, per
haps something on the plan adopted in the Meth
odist Church in 7th avenue, New York. The gas
ights are covered by stained'glass, so that you can
hardly see the flathe, and on turning thecas on,
Ithe building is Hghted up as if by magic. The
strrfjtCe’ from which’ eottre# is about 15
feet by 4D, immediately over the centre of the
room.”
Inn
Democratic Mwting ia Greened
According to previous not oe, the Democratic
.party of Greene county met at the town Gall, on
Tuesday, the 12th inst r for the purpose of nomi
nating a Senator and Representative to represent
Greene county in the neat General assembly.
On motion of Judge J. M. Davison, the meeting
was organised by the appointment of V JL L.
Andrews to the Chair, and D. A Newsom, .Secre
tary.
The object of the meeting feting explained by
the Chair, a committee of eleven Was appointed fey
the chair for the purpose of selecting suitable per
sons* to represent the county in the Beaate and
lower House. The following committee were ap
pointed : Judge J. M, Davison, T. i. Allen.
Finley, Johnson Boswell, John G. Mitohe), Col.
E. 3. Wingfield, N. B. King, H. TANARUS, Perkins,
William Giiham and Joel R. Chivers, who after
retiring, through their chairman, Judge J. M.
Davison, reported the name of Col. Richard J.
Willis for the Senate, and that of Archibald £L>
Perkins for the House of Representatives ; w£jcb;
report was by Reclamation unanimously:.confirm
ed fey the meeting. • • ?
On motion, the fetiowing resolutions w*r a
d opted: r L,
Raolvtd, That we take pleasure in presenting
to the voters of Greene county the hatnes of the
nominees, men entirely worthy of their support
and confidence;
Resolved further, That we pledge'oumtivea to.,
use all honorable means to secure their election. ■
On motion, a committee Was appointed fey the
Chair, consisting of Judge Davison, Col. James
M. Houghton, David A. Newsom,. Albert King
and Col. E. H. Wingfield, to confer with the nom
inees, requesting their acceptance of the positions
this day tendered them by the party. The candi
dates feeing in attendance at Court, the commit
tie conferred with them, and reported their ac
ceptance.
On motion of Col. E. H. Wingfield, the meet
ing adjourned till Monday next, requesting the
Secretary to furnish the Constitutionalist with the
proceedings of the meeting for publication.
Col. L. L. Arcaasws, Ch’m.
D. A Newsom, Sec’y.
Greensboro’, Sept. 15, 1857.
“Onoemore on the Breach.”
Scarcely three weeks remain before our biennia
election. Then the fate qf candidates, and, if we
believe the papers, of the commonwealth, it is to
be jobbed out to journeyman State saviors, the
voters, who work for a share of the spoils, or of
the whiskey, according to their respective appe
tites and positions. What is done must be
done quickly. If there is a clod-hopper in any
corner of the district that has recti ved no mark of
consideration, from each candidate, let him be at
tended to.
If any are on the fence, halting between two
opinions, let them receive especial attention. Let
the Americans distribute freely Fox’s Book of
Martyers, the Chronicle <k Sentinel and Hill’s let
ters, —while the ucterrified scatter copiously the
Constitutionalist, accounts of the Baltimore riots,
pictures of the hole which Sam entered and drew
in after him Buchanan’s letter to the distinguish
ed si Hymen of New England, and other standard
electioneering documents. If these, and 9uch val
uable mementoes cannot be had, a lock of hair,
an old tooth, or a toe nail might fee left at the
nearest grocery, “with the compliments of the au
thor.” Don’t let any be slighted. Be sure te
squeeze the hand of every sovereign until be
‘chirps’—no matter if it dirty enough for a turnip
patch. Be familiar—the old adage that too much
familiarity breeds contempt, is a humbug, espe
cially if it is done With the spirit and the under
standing—and especially with the spirit. If
there’s a ball ora wake, or a fuueral, “go in lem
ons”—weep with those that weep, and rejoice with
those that do rejoice. Ah, there is work to be
done in the next moon. And among the most im
portant matters that claim your attention is the
printing and distribution of tickets. If you can
humbug anybody by smuggling in your name a
rnotig those of tbo other side, see that it is done.—
You have “personal friends,” you know, who wish
to vote for you, anyhow. Then if you can get a
nybody to vote by fake heading, get the printers
to fix ’em up. Gull green Democrats by putting
“American Democratic” over your ticket—for we
are all Americana. Gull verdant Know Nothings
by transposing it— ‘ Democratic American” will
take the most intense American feeling.
Above all—bare the bar-rooms chartered—free
liquor is getting to bo one of the most important
of our national institutions, and ought to be in
scribed on our national colors. When you get
to Milledgeviila you can swear that you did.not
obtain your election by bribery—you of course
knew nothing of it. “Many friends,” an the can
didates say, in their annoupeemema, wist be res
ponsible, if any hard aweaiiug is to be done, and
possibly “many fiieDds” wtii pay the bill—“in a
horn.”
Hunt on the county record#—consult neighbor
hood gosMppers —and if you can find any kind ot
rascality perpetrated by any one bearing the name
of your opponent, have it brought out with Cer
tificates, just before the election—too late to be
refuted, aud too plain to. be doubted. Call your
opponent all manner of bard name# such as
‘•Dead Rabbit,” “free soiler,” “9a g night,” “con
spirator” “Jacobin,” anything that sounds mean,
but of course you will not “indulge in abuse,”—
Car di dates seldom do. Tear down notices of the;
meetings of your opponents—-and destroy their
bills in every way—you may thus prevent the
people from bearing and seeing, both sides.
It you can fiind a sentence used by your oppo
nent which you can distort by cutting it out from
its, explaining connection, bare it issued in circular
form, headed “Facts for the Peo le.” If your op
ponent ever kissed bis wife, or went to bed with*:
out taking his boots off, publish it—peg it to him
—you may influence some bare footed brother by
the exposure.
In short, leave no stone unturned—no dirty
trick untried, to get votes. “The end justifies the
means, should be your code of morality ,aud how
ever low you descend, never shrink from any art;
device stratagem, or rascality ,tbat promises votes.
Remember that the glories of a Milledgeville or
Washington winter await yon. Good liquor, hand
some wages and handsome women wilt greet you
there. Miitedgeville mud or Wall street shinplas
ters and the office seekers will stick to you—and
you will have a davelhh good time generally.—
So pitch in, Tray, Blanch, Sweetheart, little dogs
aud all, and may the Lord have mercy on you and
the country—Amen. —Augusta Dispatch.
Lmros Juice in Drowsy. —Lemons are recommen
ded for dropsy iaa Russian medical journal, and
are s id to be beneficial in the most hopeless cases.
The first dav one lemon was given, after taking the
peel off, and cutting it up in small pieces, in sugar;
the two following days three were given, and after
wards eighteen every day. For now iahment nest
was given. In every case the water came off the
seventh day. . *
In 1745 hoops were wofin as large as new.. Sir
Robert Strange, fleeing from purs tit after the battle
of CoUvden, was concealed ia the crisis of his trow
hie byjs who offered to shelter him un
covered. Either love or gratitude suggested them j
qnet, and they were subsequent}/ mawiatl J
_Y HUMOROUS.
-i. urwnrat• i^rmsa ■ •. .''"-'l” ■ .j ■■ .
Sut tmogoMfti Skirt,
■ ar s —'a,. oy xsary,
r Th* first person*l met was “Sut” (after masino
the Hiawassee), “waving and moving along” in
his usual rabbling, uncertain gait H s appear
ance at once satisfied me that something wa
wroD S-. Go had. been tick, whipped in a freefight
ar was just outgrowing one of hia feig drunks.—
Bat upon titis-pomtl was soon enlightened’
“Why, SOt, what’s wrong now i” -
*vG®**P *. wrong; durn me skin if I faint meets
“fat bote, Georg'*, n ’ tax® a bore,
white I take two (staking’ that everlasting, ffeak pt
his at me), an’ plant, yeweif on that ar log, an’
FU tell ye es I ken, bet; it’s moat beyond telfin*.—
} I’m ther darndest fool out an Utaw spent
my dad, for he acted boas, an’ I habit dun.that
yet—alters in'i^otrap that cudent keeb a sheep.
lULdrown myaeJfaum day, see es I don’t, just to
sfog. a fotnfly diapersitioa to make 4—d foods on
thteUtisfces.* -
v “*Haw is.k, Sut, .have .you Jbeen beat playing
cards- or drinking, which is it f”
°h* pthat oan’t be did in these parts ;
but mu’- it’s >ou, George, I’ll tell you ; but I swar
l’m ’shafried, tick, sorry, and—ana-r-mad—l am.
i With’ Bill Oair, at his cab n.’
Oh the moutitti-, and pays fur tiqh as I gets when
I bev money, an’ wheel heveot any why he
takes one-third outen me in, custiu’; and she.
that’* his Wife,* Bets, takes out tother two-tbirds
eftb the battiin stick, ana the iutriist with her
tongue, and the .ininut’s more’n the pi inti’l—a
heap more. She’s the cus?edes ’onaac 1 ever seed
eny how, for jaw, breedin’ and pride. She can
scold a blister-onto a bull’s face right on the curl
in .two minits. • ahe outbreeda ev’rything oo the
river—aud patterns wrier ev ry fatiuon she bears
tell 00, from busatis to britches. Oh 1 she’s one
on ’em’ and sometimes she’s two or three. YYeli
you see, I-got some hum-made ootton truck .to
make anew shirt oaten, and ooaxed Bets to make
it, and about the time it were dun, here comes
lawyer Johnson along and axed for breakfus—l
wish it had pixened him, durn his hide, and 1
wonder it didn’t for she cooks awful mixing* when
she tries. I’m pizec proof, myself’ (holding up
his flask and peeping through it), ‘or I’d beta
dead langage
- Well, while he were a eaten, she ied out
that his shirt was stiff an’ mity slick ; so she nev
er rested till she worm’d it outen biin that a prep
ara ion of fiour did it ; and she got a few particu
lars about the percedings outec him by ’omau’s
arts—l don’t know how she did it, perhaps he
does. Arter be left, she set in and biled a big pot
of paste—nigh onto a pock of it, an’ soused in my
shert an’ let it soak awhile, then she tuck in and
ironed it out flat and dry, and sot up on its aidge
agin the cabin in the sun. Thar it stood as stiff as
a dry boss hide, au’ it rattled like a sheet of iron,
it did. It were pasted together all over. When
I cum to dinner nothin’ wud do but I must put
it on. Well, Bets an’ me got the thing open
arter some hard work she pulling at one of the
tails aud me at the tother, an’ I got into it. Durn
the everlasting new fangled shert, Isay ; I felt
like I had crawled into an old bee gum an’ hit full
of piss-ants ; but it were like lawyer Johnson's
and I stud it like a man, and went to work to
build Bets a ash-hopper. I worked powerful
hard and swet like a hoss, and when the shert
got wet it quit its hurtin’.
“Arter I got dun I took about four fingers of
red head, and crawled up into the cabin loft to
take a snuzo.
“Well when I waked up I thought I wasded,
had the cholery, for all the joints I could move
wer my ankles, wrists knee—could’nt even move
my bead, and skaaely wink my eyes —*he cussed
shert was pasted fast onto me all over, from the
pint of the broadax collar over ray years. It sot
to me as close as a poor cow docs to her hide in
March. I squirmed and strained till I sotter got
it broke at the shoulders and elbows, end then I
done the darndeet foolish thing ever did in these
mountains. I shuffled my britches off and tore
loose from my hide about two inches of the tail
around, in much pain and tribulrtion. Ob, but
it did hurt! Then I took up a plank outen the
loft and hung tny legs down through the hole and
nailed the aidge of the front tail to the floor be
fore me, and the hind tail I nailed to the plank
wot 1 sot on. I unbottoned the col’ar and r’s
bands, raised my bands away above my head,
shut up my eyes, said grace and jumped through
the ground flora.”
Here But remarked sadly :
“George, Pm a darnder fool than ever dad was,
boss, botnets an’ a!!. I'll drown myselt sum of
these days, see es I don’t.’,
“Well go on, Sut; did the shirt come off’”
“I—t-h-i-n-k; —it —d-i-d. I heard a noise
sorter like tearing a shingle off of a house at oust,
and folt like my bones were all that reached the
flore. I staggered to my feet and took a look at
my shirt. The nails had ail hilt their hold, and
darit were hanging, arms down, inside ou% and as
9till as ever. I: looks like the tnap of Mcx’co just
arter one of the first battles—a patch uv my hide
about the size of a dollar and a hauls bill here; a
bunch of my har, about the size of a bird’s nest
thar: then some more skin; then some p iste ;
then a little more har ; then skin, and so on ali
over tbo darned, new fangied, everlasting, infernal
cuas of a shirt. It was a picture to look at —an’
so was I. The bide, har and pa*to were about e
. quaily divided atween me and hit. Wonder
what Bets, darn her, thon when she cum home
and found me missing. Spects she thinks I craw 1
ed into a thicket and died of my wounds. Jt must
have skared her good, for I tell you it looked
like the skin of some wild beast torn off alive, or a
bag what had karried a load ov fresh beef from a
-shooting match.
• “Now, George, if ever I ketch that lawyer John
-son out Til shoot him, an’if ever an Win talks
to me about flat’oin’ a shert for me again darn
my everlastin’ pictures I don’t flatten her. Its
ritribution sactia, the biggest kind of a pieacher’s
ritribution. Do you remember rny drivii gos dad
through that hornet’s nest, and then racing of him
inter the kreek ?”
“Yes,”
‘‘Well, this is what comes of it. I’ll drown my
self some of these days, tee es I don’t—es I don’t
die from thatawful sbere. Take a horn, and
don’t you try a sticky shert as long as you live.
A traveler called at nightfall at a farmer’s
house—the owner befog from home, and the moth :
er and daughter being alone, they refused to lodge
thewayfarer, “How f*r then,” said he, “to a house’
where a preacher can get lodgings ?” “Oh, if you
are a preacher,” said the lady, “you can stay here.”
Accordingly be dismounted. He deposited his
saddle-bags, and led his horse to the stable.—
Meanwhile, the mother and daughter were debat
ing the point as to what kind of a preacher be was
/He cannot be a Presbyterian,” said the one, “for
he is not well dressed enough.”—?-“Ho is not a
Methodist,” said the other, “for his coat is not the
’right cut for a Methodist.’* “If I could find his
hymn-hook,” said the daughter..“l could tell what,
sort of a preacher he is.” And with that she
thjrust her bartd into the saddle-bags, and pulling
out a flask of liquor,'.she exclaimed, “La 1 mother,
he’s a hard Shell’d Baptist.
bad.
F HTToo much zeal is suspicious. The man who
tries “stop thief’’the loudest, set uufrsquently t urns.
, eei te be the thief himasi£
C|t ftnpme Crnsabtr,
Ny,.. ■ my i ym> ■.— i■ ■ ..yj— ■ T*V - -'T T ■ ■*, 1
PENEiEXJX GEORGIA.
Thursday Morning, October 1, 1857,
The Annual Session of the Grand
Division of the Sons of Temperance,
for the year 1857, will be held at
Bethanny Camp Ground, Jefierson
County, commencing on the fourth
Wednesday in October next. The
Camp-Ground is within three-fourth?
of a mile of the Central Rail Road,
the place for getting off, is at Griffins,
the 107 - mile post, where Delegates
may expect to find conveyance for
their accommodation.
Baldwin Raiford Division held at
that piaee have made ample arrange
merits for the accommodation of all
Delegates who may attend. The
meeting is looked forward to with
much interest, and it is hoped that no
Division in the State will fail to he
represented, the officers of the Grand
Division are all expected to bo pres
ent.
Distinguished ITisitor.
Dr. C. F. Me Cay formerly
a Professor in Franklin College, and recently Pres'-
dent of the Souih Carolina College at Columbia i
spending a few days in our Village; and we ae
pleased to learn that h'S son has entered our college.
Free Barbecue in Greenesboro,
The Ameri
can party of this county are making extensive pre
parations for giving a very la’-go dinner in Greenes
boro, on Saturday next lion I). IT. Dill. Col Josh
ua Hill, Hon. N. G. Foster, Col. J. A. Billups and
Isham Fanning E^xj.will be present to address the
sovereign people.
< .a.--
Election Excitement
Is running higher in this
county just now than we have known it for yearn.
The Candidates are all upon the “qui vive,”aud each
one thinks the sky looks dark. There are three
Candidates in the field for Senate, and four for the
House, only two democrats in the race. Monday
next will decide the fate of all aspirants ftr the
White House.
Tlio OommimioalJoii
Os fr iend Vv passing some
very high complune its upon the ladies of W&rren
ton has not been published because of our inability
to read the man iscrip'., No one, we daresay can
read it, save tor author, and we doubt whether he
could do it, since iiis band writing has gotten cold.
Syrup.
Our esteemed friend Mr. Peter Norxhen has
presented us with a bottlo of syrup mr-de by him
self frooi the Chinese Sugar Cane, which far ex
cels any rpecimen we have soon. It is of a trans
parent honey-color and not , mole is to b* seen in
it. The t**te is very fine, nd has none of that
green nor scotched bitterness which lias been the
objection to all we have seen before this. He made
a number of experiments while manufacturing his
syrup and succeeded in making thre-o qualities. He
has made 1 CO gallons or mote.
—; —sM-6a* ——-
A Pretty Sign.
Our young fri-md Minor Hobbs has
painted, and presented ns a very handsome Office
Sign which may b seen over our door. The let
ters arc largo Gothic characters painted blue, and
he has executed them finely. We don’t think the
sign caa be easily excelled. Minor paints any and
everything that comes to hand, and when you have
a job of painting to be done, cal! on hi a* aud be will
do it in style.
The lodes and its ’‘feuw T*r*a*.
Wo b?g
leave to Inform oer worthy cotemporary, and es
teemed friend L., thattfeey ** aborting t th& wrong
mark , when the? direct their “fugeo” %* the Crusa
der. That, was not the pi-em-Hed in to ? arti
cle of “Citizen,” and vfu are very ;„■ y that they
have ignored the pof i r-nd T • pwr,ei the Crusader,
for eo far ftR that id concern- a the Crusader is net
responsible for anything Crd ha/ been said upon
the subject, for both *.;s in ques'ion were pub
liahed during the absence of il.e Editor, tierce we
think it would be proper for the Index and its Edit
on to fight out the hsttle *!tb those who are on
gaged ia it.
•*>+*&
Mr. W. Jl Hunter.
1 bo childrens friend is now in
our village giving u-j* aerie* ci!*<aura ;;p:,n rabbaib
Schools. His lectures thyn/h t Idre-jsed principally
to the children, are jet Very interesting to all class
es of persons. He i-Ss a groat many tine thoughts,
orthodox views, and vovgh rape which lie frequent
ly drops veer the catidruns bhouldere, into the ears
and tide* of the older members of his auditories. He
has a remarkable uat for keeping the interest and
cuiiosty vhilic; oiuidnjn, ail the time excited, ibej
never weary nor grow sleepy under his lectures, but
will ait and manifat the deepest interest in w bat he
is ss> ing for two hours or uioe at a time. Too grcai
number ofaautsing s and appropriate hide anecdotes
which ho is tvntiiiU&iiy it uirg, keeps them wide
awakoa. and they never think ofgeiii ig tired.
Mr. Hunter is an excellent lec.unr, and is doing
more real and Hfebr.g good tonhe rsTg generation!-
oftho laud tiran it is possible to conceive. The im
pressions for good which he makes upon ihe tender
young minds of the children vrili never be obliterated
By holding up to them the proper coni so of eonduct
in its most win riltig and attractive phases, and por
traying the evil in its despicable deformity he tire*
the boys and girls with an ambition to be good
children.
His lectures are also of groat benefit to the young
men and young ladies, for he shows them the influ
ence for good or evil, which their deportment as an
example exerts upon the young.
He is now canvassing Georgia, has been in
thirty-nine counties and establis bed twenty secen
Sunday . Schools, and twelve Bible classsea - fie ex
pect! to labor the balance of this year and all ofr.exi
in this State and we bespeak for him a warm reoe p
tkra wherever ho may go. He deserves and will
certainly win the entire confidence of the people in
every community. He is a universal benefactor, an un
selfish and philanthropic) Howard striving to benefit
the hurnuu family.
‘* His labors are very highly appreciated by the
people of th : e community and we hear the mono from
all sections which he has visited.
Par IKcre .Guilty,
“We haw hot a doubt that in tba opinion of out
ny men, the wholesale dealer occupies a much high
er position in the sea’© of morality—immeasurably
higher—than does the retailer. But is he really en
titled to such a position upon any just principle?—
do not hesitate to answer no t We care not for
his fine ap; are!, his cosily furniture, or his prirceiy
dwelling. They are stained ail over with the blood
of victims of his unholy cailiag. It crimsons the
rich mantles in which his gay wife and daughters
flaunt by the wretched and thinly clad children of
want end destitution, made so by his trade. Every
-.tone in his marble palace has dragged some Soul
lowa to the drunkard's hell upon earth. Every
spring In bis sofas has eost the sinewsof sorae atroDg
man. Every Ire-string in his piano has been torn
from some panting bosom. All tbe gorgeous dye* in
his soft carpets bars been cunningly extracted from
the bodies of his victims. There is the bright Ver
million, drawn from the throbbing arteries of weak
women, —the ultra-marine of children's blue eyes
iod the lake white, ground from voun g men’s bones
wrought into beautiful devices and brightly'colored
dowere, which he treads proudly under bis feet.-*-
fvs. had be a conscience, he might fear to tread that
crimson carpet lest his feet should Blip Lu the gore,
•r the boass crack!© under them or the starry flow-era
look up with tearful, human eye.?, reproachfully up
on him from its delicate woof. He might start up
■shuddering, from the spring seat of his luxurious
■tof t sis if he felt human muscles contracting undUr
aim. He would fly fom the sound of hi3 rosewood
piano, as though evary key-touch sect forth a wail
of human agony. Ho would shun bis gilded mirror
as though a gost lurked b-diind its quicksilver amal
;anit ready to a f,"6 upon his face and reproach him
for its muider. He wouid not dare to seat hiutsolf
behind his blood hors 2 —purchased with the prioo of
blood—lest the echoing sound of every proud hoof
fill might summon a spirit from the land of shadows
to cba r ge him with the ctime3 which naturally and
inevitably result from his unrighteous business 1 Shall
he be deemed comparatively innocent because he
pours out poison by the wholesale ? As well uright
one who ah. uld poison the waters in the Croton Aq
ueduct plead innocence, because, forsooth he drew
it not forth from the leaded pipes and pressed it to
the lips of the citizens. And is he not guilty of the
meanness cf adulderatlng that which is already poi
son ? as if the hot draught were rot potent enough
for the destruction of body and soul, until they drug
ged it with the fiery essences of delirium tremens,
so that the brain of him who drinks the accursed
draught shall teem with phantom snakes and dag
gers, and bring prematurely upon him the horrors
of the d&inned.—Surely when men Shall come to re
alize the true nature of this horrible curse which 0-
verahadows the whole land, they will assign to eve
ry one engaged in it, his proper place in the scale of
morality. The rumseller will then become isolated
from the atfectious, from the respect of good men
in every community, whether he is a wholesale or
retail dealer in the liquor poison.”
Bsautifsl.
The following pretty and pointed extract
wo command to the perusal of our friends wao al
ways look upou the dark side of overy picture.—
Read it and never sink into the “sloughs of des
pond.”
Why should we not, the few fleeting transitory
years of our existence, look at the more sunny spots
of our creation ? why when there are lovelv lands,
rich in nature's profusion, ciothed in the fruit and
foliage of heaven, tenanted w.th melody, and beam
ing out burst of animated beauty, should we ex
plore the cold and chilly vaults of earth ? Why seek
the lamprey on the barren rock, when the loaded
Vineyard glows within our reach ? It is not in
our fate, that we should be compelled to the first
hard fare, as much as in the viciousDess and insens
ibility of our appetites, that make the bad election.—
iiettsiiks, he that hunts after the weaknesses and
failings of humanity, stands in the same position
with the chiil' 1 , apatn tic eremite, who leaves the
lavish lap of juicy FiOra, for the bleak and sea-re
pelling rock ; break sullenly from the morris-dance,
the beaming happy fiiees that peer forth for mirth
and exercise, to the desolate and howling-wildness ;
tears off the fragment wreath of May, and invests
him the cowl and gown of baii--hoids converge with
skull and moonlight— and for what hoping?—
“To heaven by making earth a hell.”
The world is rancorous and unfeeling enough,
w ithout our own black pre3agings of deeper gloom ;
without our denying the existence of same sweet
power, from whose genial b arns we may gather
iightand comfort all eiso scowl : and such arc th -y
who question the truth cf female perfection as nar
rated tiy poets. If it Were fiction, how man’s ear
liest and dearest anticipations ol joy and happiness
would be chearod and deceived! how many biiss-
Ira ught bs. Ls, loosened from their haven of nope
and confidence, would drive wrecking on the sea of
life, without one testing place to furl the sails, and
r:da in baieiy on the summer tide !
Coldness and frigidity of heart may smile and
call me visionary ; yet, a firm opinion oftho beauty
and elevation of humanity will strengthen me in the
tar kof comparison, wueu i avow, the great heroine
that ever acknowledged the most bojiueous deacrip
of truth and love iues3 from the brain of poet and
romancer, may find her rellcctiou in the world’s
glass, nncl the mirror of history. The same dovo
fton of leeling and stiengh of intellect which adorn
the J tyrrha o; Byron, the La :y of colt, and the /<-
Ldvea of Maturin, are not oi unearthly gro wth, bu-,
like a ro'-e-bush in a wilderness, lefresa the weary
pdgrmi in his way ; he pluck him a flower, and its
penning refreshes aa he journeys. Time robs its
oeauty, but ‘‘the scent of the will linger there
atil
What ia Your Rum Tax?
Os course, you don’t
drink the fiery poiosn. That expense so oucrous to
many, i3 saved to you. You employ no operatives
who use it —and thus are saved the breakage of
toolo, the spoiling of wo. k, and the loss of tme in
cident to its use. Still ycu have to pay a rum tx.
Paupers are to be supported—criminals arraigned,
tried and punished—-jails erected and officered—
and the machinery of ourcriminil court**, and char
itable institutions, kept constantly in motion with
(ho people’s money. You understand how rum
makes paupers and criminals; and, oi cours’, com
prehend this item in the aggregate f your taxation.
But this is not all. Here is anoth r item which
you have probably never dreamed of: The resid nts
of our cities and lar e towns know something of
the high price of fuel—and it is still going up—up
—up as the winter advances. It is a terrib e state
of things for the poor. Has rum anything to do
w.th this? it may bo asked Read toe following
from “The Miner’s Journal,” published in the heart
of the coal region, for an answer, and when you pay
the extra dollar on your next ton of coal, as you in
evitably must, remember that that dollar is a part,
and only a pari of your ruin-tax.
“Coal is coal just now, and those are esteemed
fortunate who can secure any now, even as a favor.
Outsiders are entirely cut off. Rum has reduced
the supply from this region at least one hundred
thousand tons this year, which will be the moans of .
enhancing the price of coal ait least one dollar per
ton in the different markets. So that the rum traf
fic in this region the present year will probably coat’
the people abroad nearly one million of dollars in
the sing o itein of l'ue?, and that too without benefit
ing this region a single iota. Thin U worth thinlh
inff about, ever, by these who consider Temperance
adoocatet fanatic* and lunatics.”