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the temperance esugAPER.
by j. h. seals,
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tional fraud.
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decided, that a Postmaster who neglects to perform
his duty of giving reasonable notice, as required by
the Post Office Department, of the neglect of a per
son to take from the office newspapers addressed to
him, renders the Postinaster liable to the publisher
for the subscription price.
Tor the Onuader.
Another Trip to Carroll County.
Prohibition Hill, Oct. 10,1867.
Dear Seals :—I can hardly help saying Car
roll now i3 well nigh, if not quite, the banner
temperance county in Georgia. In the first part
of September, I visited Bowden, and spoke twice
(two suecessive nights) and received sixty names
to the pledge of the “Sons.” The next night
spoke in Carrolton and received forty-five. I
wrote to our Grand Scribe and attained the nec
essary documents —last week I went to Carrollton,
installed the officers and set them to work
under the name of Mary Ann Division No. (I
think) 177. The Division is in full blast —they
have initiated as high as 12 of a night. I went
on to Bowden, installed the officers, and initiated
thirty-one at one time, mostly or almost, all young
men, and men of families, except two youths —
and a large number of ladies. The old Prince
may begin to look out, the ladies are “risen.”
The name of this Division is Mary Jones, No 176.
The Grand Scribe knows, I may forget. In Bow
den there is a splendid Literary Institution, con
ducted by Messrs. Richardson and McDaniel, gen
tlemen of thorough Collegiate education. There
are few temptations here to vice, and the power
ful temperance influence here, together with the
ability of the Professors and cheapness of board
make Bowden a most desirable place to obtain an
education in all branches taught in our colleges. I
know of no place I would sooner send my sou.—
To the credit of the students, almost all put on
the collar. TJarroll county has now three noble
working Divisions. 0 that every county in Geor
gia would wake up, and “go and do likewise.” I
hope the Divisions will send delegates to the
Grand Division. For Heaven’s sake don’t let us
give up the ship.
Success too to the noble Knights, they are doing
a good work. There is land enough for all to
cultivate, “Let not the heardsmen of Abram and
Lot fall out.
I travel no where, unless called, I was on my
way to a camp-meeting in Alabama, and organ
ized the above Divisions, for thank God I still
preach.
For a small while I yet remain at Prohibition
Hill, where my lot may be cast, I know not —O
when will the Philanthropists the true patriots and
Christians in Georgia arise in moral and sublime
grandeur, and help put down the greatest evil un
der which humanity groans ! I present through
the Crusader, my sincere love to all my fellow
heroes and heroines in the great temperance re
form in Georgia and Christendom.
Truly &c., D. F .JONES.
For the Crusader.
Encouraging!
It affords me infinite pleasure to say that the
Knights of Jericho are flourishing in our little
village. We have about thirty members most ot
whom have lately joined and there are many
more who are being ,‘moved of the spirit.”
At every meeting our ears are greeted with the
sound of petitions from the “Recorders desk.” —
Surely this is very encouraging to every true
Knight. It should be a stimulus to greater ac
tions, it should encourage us to carry on and car
ry out this great enterprise. But what is most en
couraging of all is the fact that soon our hall is
to be the receptacle of Oxford’s worth and beau
ty, the sparkling eyes and sunny smiles of sister
Knights shall urge us on to conquest. And we
shall conquer with beauteous woman as our ally.
Encircled with the. guerdon of beauty we shall
tread with light and joyous step o’er many a bat
tle-field. In consideration of these facts therefore
I entreat you my brother Knights to persevere in
this great and noble enterprise until the glad
shout of victory shall echo and re-echo through
every hill and dale in’ nil the land. Then let us
buckle on the armor ofhumanity, let us unsheathe
the sword of Temperance, and with our brows
surmounted with the helmet of charity rush to
the conflict to conquer or to die.
“LEON A KNIGHT.”
Emory College, Oxford Ga.,
ENNUI.
Nine-tenths of the miseries of mankind proceed
from indolence and idleness. Persons who have
naturally active minds-—whose quick thoughts
like lightning are alive—are most perniciously af
fected by the evils of sloth. The favored sons of
genius, endowed with great original powers, were
not made for repose; indolence will quickly freeze
the genial current of the soul, and if left idle long,
they perish from inaction, like a scimiter corroded
and destroyed by rust. By the active occupation
of our faculties is a safe guard against these great
evils, vice, penury, and desponding gloom. Says
Colton, “ennui has made more gamblers than av
arice, more drunkards that thirst, and more sui*
cides than despair.” if we would be bo-h useful
and happy, we must keep ourselves industriously
and virtuously employed. Old Dumbiedikes was
wise in telling his son to be aye stiekmg in a tree
when he had nothing else to do. Count de Cay
lus, a Freneh nobleman, being born to wealth and
princeljpdleneae twned his attention to engraving,
of the nobility demanded from tarn a reason for
The Mediterranean Telegraph.
On tile tenth of September, says the London
Star, intelligence reached the town of the success
ful submergence of the cable in the Mediterran
ean, and it now unites in instantaneous intercourse
England and Europe with Africa. The expedition
started from Cagliari, on the Sardinian coast, with
the cable in the hold of the Elba, and began pay
ing it out, commencing from the African coast,
from Bona, on the Algerine frontier. Prelimina
ry operations were commenced on Monday, and
the centre cable submerged and commmunication
effected with either coast on W ednesday evening.
The distance between Cagliari and Bona, is 150
miles—an Island of rocks, called Galeta, only in
tervening a short way from the African coast.
The weight of the cable in the former experiment
that failed was at the rate of eight tons to the
mile; Whereas the weight of the cable, now so
successfully submerged, has been
tons to the mile, or about equal to that of the At
lantic cable, and this, added to the perfection of
the machinery for paying out and the skill ot tne
engineering manipulation, tended greatly to fact i
tate the operation under circumstances of much
physical difficulty, since it was found from the
survey, and soundings made by engineer Dela
marche, of the Tartarus, that the plateau of the
Mediterranean presented depths and inequalities
in the comparatively short distance of 150 nnle9,
as formidable to be mastered as any m the Atlan
tic. Every assistance was afforded by the r rench
and Sardinian Governments to the company, who
have an exclusive privilege granted them for fifty
years by the two Governments —the French Gov
ernment giving a guarantee interest of 4 per
cent, on £120,000. About one half the quantity
of cable required to extend the Mediterranean tel
egraph from Sardinia to Malta, and from Malta to
Cortu,is manufactured; and as soon as the other
half is ready these places will be brought into the
range of telegrapic connection with England and
the Continent.
The Daily Lire of Milton.
Iu tiis mode living, Milton, as might be an
ticipated. was moderate and temperate. At his
meals he never took much of wine or any other
fermented liquor, and he was not fastidious in his
food; yet his taste seems to have been delicate
and refined, like his other senses, and he had a
prefeernce for such, viands as were of an agreea
ble flavor. In his early years he used to sit up
late at his studies, and perhaps he continued this
practice while his sight was good ; but in bis lat
ter years, he retired every night at nine o clock,
and lay till four in summer, till five in winter ;
and, if not disposed then to rise, he had someone
to sit at his bed-side and read to him. When be
rose he had a chapter of the Hebrew Bible read
for him ; and then, with, of course, the interven
tion of breakfast, studied till twelve. He then
dined, took some exercise for an hour —generally
in a chair, in which ho used to swing himself
and then played on the organ, or the bass-viol, and
either sang himself or made his wife sing, who, as
he said had a good voice, but no ear. He then
resumed his duties till six, from which hour till
eight he conversed with those who came to visit
him. He finally took a light supper, smoked a
pipe of tobacco, and drank a glass of water, after
which he retired to rest. — Keightley's Milton.
Cleaning Silver.
The following valuable piece of information re
lative to the cleansing of silver is taken from a
late number of Chamber’s Journal.
“A desideratum long sought for has been achiev
ed —that is, a means of perfectly cleaning articles
of silver without injury to the metal. It is the
discovery of Prof. Bottger, a Gorman. Take a
glass or glazed vessel sufficiently large for the pur
pose; fill it with a strong solution of borax, or of
caustic or potash; dropjnto it an inner vessel maefe
of zinc, and pierced with holes, as a seive. Then
take your silver, plunge it into the liquid, it comes
into contact with the zinc. The effect is magical;
for, under the combined action of the solution and
of the electricity involved by the contact of the two
metals, the silver loses all its dirt and discolora
tions, and becomes as bright as when first manu
factured. Should it not be convenient to use the
inner vessel of zinc, the cleansing may be accom
plished by sinking the silver in the solution, aud
stirring it about with a small rod of zinc. It is es
sential to success that the two metals touch each
other frequently.”
The Strychnine Brand.—The dreadful mur
der of a patient in the New York Hospital, by an
other who was suffering rroin delirium tremens,
calls to mind the assertion made so frequently of
late, that in the present day this mental disease is
rapidly assuming a far more incurable form than
it ever had at any one time, and that the propor
tion of deaths among its cases is incredibly great
er than of old. The cause of this is of course the
adulterations now practiced on almost every varie
ty of intoxicating liquor, some of them being, in
fact, of a deadly nature, whenever disease is once
induced by excess in them. Between the increas
ing tendency to nervous complaints and strych
nine, to say nothing of a great variety of other
“curious comdiments.” a man runs almost as much
a risk now-a days in drinking liquor, when not
positive as to the purity of its origin, as did the
knight in the old fairy legend, when the goblin
king gave him his choice between the two gob
lets of Death and Happiness, without any hint as
to which was which.
“Drink,” said the king to the stranger knight,
“Drink while the goblets are foaming bright ?
Taste the one and thou shalt be
Blest by the spirits of land and sea ;
But drink of the other and thou art then,
Accursed by spiritsand scorned of men.”
And really a small course of fighting brandy,
warranted to strike at one hundred yards, is quite
enough now-a-days, to produce effects very much
like those of the “second goblet,” compared with
which the “wine of Borgia” wonld be a delicious
beverage. As we have said before, if you must
liquor be careful whom you liquor of.—Philadel
phia Bulletin.
We take the following fromtheWakulla (Fla.,)
Times of the 14fh inst., and give it to our readers
for what it is worth :
A friend informs us of the following occurrence,
which is reported to have taken place recently at
Attapulgus, Ga. A gentleman who had received
a considerable sum of money, was compelled to
go from home, leaving his wife alone in the house
—situated some distance from any other dwell
ing, Towards evening, two negroes entered the
house, and demanded of the lady the money, or
they would take her life. Being a woman of great
coolness, she saw at once that it would be useless
for her to attempt to evade the demand, so she
produced the money, and gave it to them. The
negroes then remar. ed, that as supper was nearly
ready, they would stay and eat with her. She
told them to be seated, until she could get it ready.
The woman had a vial of strychnine in her cup
board The woman in sweetning their coffee,
managed to put a dose of the poison in each of the
negroes cups. They drank and in a few moments
were dead. The neighbors were called in, and the
negroes discovered to be white men in disguise—
near neighbors and friend* of her husband, who
had known of bis receiving the money, and ofhis
absence. .
- HiatAitv U nod*#- illuminated dock
“Buttoned up a Bumble Beep —The Rev. I>r.
TANARUS., a clergyman, was a man of high character,
and distinguished for bis dignity of manner. But
it was remarked that frequently, when ascending
the pulpit stairs, he would smile, and sometimes
almost titter, as if beset by an uncontrolable de
sire to laugh.’ This excited remark, and at last
scandal ; finally it was thought necessary by some
of his clerical friends, at a meeting of the associa
tion, to bring up the matter for consideration.
The case was stated, the Rev. Dr. T. v being
present. “Well gentlemen,” said he, the fact
charged against me is true, and I beg you to per
mit me to offer an explanation. A few months
after I was licensed to preach, I was in a country
town, aud on a Sabbath morning was about to en
ter upon the service of the church. Back of the
pulpit wasra window which looked upon a field of
clover, then in full bloom, for it was summer. —
As I rosl to commence the readihg of the scrip
tures, I cast a glance iuto the field, and there I
saw a man performing the most extraordinary
evolutions—jumping, whirling, slapping in all di
rections, and with a ferocious agony of exertion.
At first I thought the man was mad, but sudden
ly the truth burst upon me—be had buttoned up
a bumble bee in his pantaloons ! I am constitu
tionally nervous, gentlemen, and the shock of the
scene upon my risible sensibilities, was so great
that I could hardly get through the services.—
Several times I was on the point of bursting into a
laugh. Even to this day the remembrance of
that scene—through the temptation of the devil
—often comes upon me as lam ascending the pul
pit. This, I admit, is a weakness, but I trust it
will rather excite your sympathy and your pray
ers than your reproaches.”
The New Hall of the House oj Representa
tives.—This hall is progressing rapidly toward
completion, and bids fair to be a model of archi
tectural and artistic beauty. It looks dow as
though it would be ready for Congress at the open
ing of the session.
The architect, Mr. Walter, has completed his
plans for the Speaker’s, Clerks’ and Ilegersters’
desks, and they are now in the hands of as many
workmen as can be employed upon them. The
design is magnificent, and the whole pile, embra
cing ample space for all the clerks and reporters,
as well as for the Speaker, is composed of polished
marble, grouped in a pyramidal form from the
level of the floor to the height of six feet and nine
inches.
Ihe lowest desk is tor the accommodation of
five reporters. It consists of a rich balustrade, with
pedestals, and finely proportioned cornice of white
Italian marble, resting on one step of Tennessee
marble, richly variegated and highly polished.
The clerks’ desks rests on a massive polished
base, also consisting of variegated Tonnessee mar
ble and crowned with a rich cornice, all of polish
ed Italian marble.
The Speaker’s desk rises above the rest, and is
wholly composed of polished Italian marble; and
all the steps by which the stages are approached
are composed of the same material.
From what we can judge of the drawings which
we have had the pleasure of inspecting, and such
portions of work as are already executed, we think
that this will be one of the most striking and
beautiful features of the Capitol.— Washington
Union , Oct. 16/A
“Please Sir." —“Sir, do you want to know how
1 was converted, I, an old, grey-headed sinner ?”
“Tell me,” answered the minister.
“I was walking along one day. and met a little
boy. The little boy stopped at my side. ‘Please,
sir.’ he said will yon take a tract? and please sir,
will you read it ? Tracts! I always hated tracts
and such things, but;hat “please sir,” overcame
me. I could not swear at that kind spoken
‘please sir,’—no, no. I took the tract, and thank
ed the little boy, and I said I’d read it; and I did
read it, and the reading of it saved my soul. T
saw I was a sinner, and I saw that Jesus Christ
could save me from my sins. That “please sir,’
was the entering wedge to my heart.”
A Thrilling Ixcieent. —Among the incidents
ot the Sepoy revolution, the following possesses a
thrilling interest :
“Frank Gordon, Alick Skene, his wife, and a
few peons, managed to get into a small round
tower when the disturbance began ; and children
and all the rest were in other- parts of the fort—
altogether sixty. Gordon Lad a regular battery
of guns, also revolvers, and he and Skeue picked
off the rebels as fast as they could fire, Mrs. Skene
loading for them. The peons say they never miss
ed once, and, before it was all over, they killed
thirty-seven, besides many wounded. The rebels,
after butchering all in the fort, brought ladders a
against the tower and comenced swarming up.—
Frank Gordon was shot through the forehead and
killed at once. Skene then saw that it was no use
going on any more ;so he kissed his wife shot
her, and then himself.”
a
When you travel in Judea, the heart is at first
filled with profound melaucholv, But when pas
fog from solitude to solitude, boundless space op
ens before you, this feeling wears off by degrees,
and you experience a secret awe, which so far
from depressing the soul imparts life and elevates
it. Extraordinary appearances proclaim a land tee
ming with miracles. The burning tree, the towering
eagle, the barren figtree, all the pictures of Scrip
ture are here. Every name comrae curates of mys
tery—every grotto anaouuces a prediction—every
hill re-eeboes the accents of a prophet. God him
self has spoken in these regions, dried up rivers,
rent the rocks, and opened the grave. The des
ert still appears mute with terror, and you would
imagine that it never presumed to interpret its si
lence, siuce it heard the awful voice of the Eter
nal
Solemn Thoughts.—\Yq see not in this life,
the end of human actions 5 their influence never
dies ; in ever widening circles, it reaches beyond
the grave. Death removes us from this to an e
ternal vvorld, time determines what shall be our
condition in that world. Every morning when
we go forth, we lay the mouldering hand *on our
destiny ;and every evening when we have done,
we have left a deathless impress upon our char
acter. We touch not a wire but vibrates in eter
temity.—Newton's Express.
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A Pointed Blow. —An invalid sent for
a physician, and after detaining him for some time
with a description o|ffcs pains ect., he thus sum
med them up : No, doctor, you have humbugged
me long enough with your good-for nothing pills
and worhless syrup ; they dont touch the real dif
ficulty. I wish you to strike the cause of my ail
irnent if it is in your power to reach it.—lt shall
be done, said the doctor; and, lifting bis cane, he
demolished a decanter of gin that stood upon the
side-board.
A Prudent Amendment.-*— God. Washington
seldom indulged in a joke or a sarcasm, but when
he did, he always made a decided
lated that he was present in Congress during the
debateon the establishment of the Federal Army,
when a member offered aresolution limiting the
army to three thousand men, upon which Wash
ington suggested to a member an amendment,
providing that no enemy should invade the coun
try with more than two thousand soldiers. The
Cfjt Ccmperanct tfiusater*
GEORGIA.
Thursday Morning, October 29, 1857.
The Annual Session of the Grand
Division *of the Sons of Temperance,
for the year 1857, will be held at
Bethanny Camp Ground, Jefferson
County, commencing on the fourth
Wednesday in October next. The
Camp-Ground is within three-fourths
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 place have made ample arrange
ments 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 be
represented, the officers of the Grand
Division are all expected to be pres
ent.
A Premium List.
Os the Hancock Agricultural
Pair has been sent to us by Col. John Bonner, Presi
dent of the club, and will be published in our next
issue. The Pair comes off on the 18th, 19th, 20th,
and 21st of Nov.
Magazines.
We are happy to acknowledge the reception of
Hater's Magazine for Nov. It is the close of the
fifteenth volume and finely sustains the high charac
ter of the periodical. Now is the time to subscribe.
Arthurs Ladies Magazine for Nov. has been re
ceived, and it affords.us much pleasure to commend
it to our numerous patroos and friends throughout
this State.
The Mother's Journal for Oct is at hand, filled
with articles tending to cultivate the moral endow
ments of our race.
Tun American” Language. —The Russian Gov
ernment has decided that the German language shall
be no longer taught in the public school at Irkoutsk,
but shall be replaced by the American language.
Bennett.
Oi the New York Herald has sustained a
very heavy loss through the failure of hi i Bankers
Persee and Brooks, who were indebted to him,
$?o,000. But he is perhaps as able to stand up un
der it as any editor in the United States. What
would become of a Georgia Editor were he to lose
a third of that amount ? would he have “ ary red”
left? Echo answers, “ n'arry copper.
Ihe New \ork Herald, speaking of the costly
dresses of the jadies of tjiat city, says: “Who would
think that the husbands of these ladies who wear
thousand dollar dresses and wipe their “dear” little
noses with hundred dollar pocket handkerchiefs
were shining about Wall street, borrowing money
at three per cent, a month, or putting on a Jong face
and telling their creditors that they haven’t a cent
in the world?”
Life’s Irritabilities.
What is the use of it ? l)o
not worry yourself to death of what other people
may say ot you, as long as you know that it is not
Hue. Take care of the truth • that is your busi
ness. All falsehoods go to the bosom of their fa
ther, the devil, and their framers soon follow. So
much as to falsehoods of you. As to falsehoods
to you, and as to every tale the most remotely pre
judicial to another, treat it and the narrator with the
utmost indifference, until you hear the story of the
other party ; this ordy is just, and wise, and kind.
Unde Dabney.
God bless his old soul, is still wind
ing his bugle-blasts round the walls of the accursed
Babylon. He sounds the tocsm of .alarm and his
comrades flock to his standard. See the cheering
success he has recently met with in his Lecturings,
related to us in a communication from himself, in
this issue.
The raiding which you have taken to your
self beloved sire was intended for another person
altogether. If you will examine more closely you
will find, I think, that you are not the chairman of
that Committee.
The Poor.
No class suffers more Jroui intemper
ance than the poor. It robs them of lire—of food—
of clothing—of shelterof health—and of almost ev
ery blessing. They cannot afford to be intemperate
themselves or have intemperate relatives, or friends, or
neighbors. The grogshop is their natural, implaca
ble, ever-active, most deadly enemy. Their inter
est—the very instinct of self-preservation—-every
manly principle within them, demands that they
should combine for its suppression. No poor man
should give his vote against prohibition, for in so do
ing he votes against his own welfare —against his
present and prospective prosperity. A prohibitory
law would be greatly advantageous to them, whech
erlhey now drink or whether they are sober.
One way to Sober the Men.
We take the fol
lowing from the Louisville Democrat of the tenth
inst:—“Considerable excitement was created, yes
terday, at one of the fashionable drinkining saloons
of this city, by a lady, who, according to her own
statement, “will soberize the men.’ The lady afore
said, who belongs to uppcr-tendom, went into a bar
room and called for a ‘brandy smash’ with as much
nonchalance as a Tegular male toper, drank the prep
aration, deposited a dime, and left. The barkeeper
being a handsome man, has struck for higher wa
ges.
Is such an .act on the part of a young lady who
circulates in the first ranks, censured by an entire
community as a disgrace ? Then what makes it res
pectable for a young man to do the very same thing?
The natural laws of society, it is true, forbid ladies
from waiting the places which men establish as re
sorts, but so far as the act of taking a glass of liq
uor at the bar of a grog-sltom is concerned, the mor
al turpitude is as base in ths*one case as the oth
er. The young man who is guilty of such habits
forfeits his claim to the respect of society just as
completely as the young lady.
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The Basest Imposition.
If the liquor traffic im
posed its burdens on those only who participate in
its benefits, our opposition to it might be regarded
as unreasonable : but the reverse of this is true. —
Not only does it lay a tax upon all the industrial
energies of the State to repair the mischiefs it in
flicts upon it, but it also imperils the most sacre l
rights of society —rights unpvrchasable and infinite
ly dear to man.
The liquor seller is not the only one who has
rights. What becomes of the rights of other peo
ple while the liquor seller is exercising the legal
right to live by the destruction of his customers ?
They are invaded and destroyed.’ The sober man
has the right to raise his sons to sobriety and virtue.
The liquor seller ensnares and destroys them. He
has the right to travel without unnecessary risk, in
the Steamboat, stage coach, and on the railroad.—
Gan he do this with drunken drivers and engineers ?
He has a right to his own property, but the liquor
seller’s customers steal, burn, and destroy it. He
has a right to the money he earns by his labor, but
the law compels him to support the paupers and
criminals which the liquor seller makes. No man’s
life or property is safe, while the right to sell liquor
is granted by the legislature.
Tlie Crusader Shall look better.
Our paper is
frequently printed so wretchedly bad that it almost
makes one use bad english to open a copy. It has
given us a great deal of mortification, and we have
used almost every efiort to remedy it, but our efforts
as all our patrons know, are frequently fruitless.—
But in the future we promise our friends a better
looking sheet. We are filling out a bill for new
type and next year we will greet our patrons in on
entire new dress. Our old associate L. Lincoln
Veazy will be with us again, and will take charge
of one department of the Paper. We are making
arrangements and preparations to issue such a pa
per as will merit the confidence and support of the
masses. We beg our friends not to abuse us too
severely, but give us a ‘little farther showing,’ and
.we will do better or “spile things ” worse.
For the Ladies.
The New York Tribune has a
good word for the ladies after this fashion, we com
mend it to them as truly encouraging:
Some of the papers are lecturing women upon
extravagance in dress,and advising them to retrench,
especially during the present financial difficulty.—
Doubtless there are many cases of unwarrantable
extravagance in this way ; but do people ever con
sider that two or three glasses of brandy and half a
dozen regalias indulged in daily by a man, to say
nothing of five and ten dollar dinners, amount to
more in a year than would be required to dress a
woman up to the full requirements of fashion ?
Much of this ta k about the extravagance of women
is nonsense. They are almost universally careful,
and many a trader would to-'kiy have been safe and
sound if he had listened to the prudent counsels of
his wife, rather than the reckless promptings of his
own ambition. It is natural for mean men to endea
vor to shift the responsibility of their folly to other
shoulders, but it is rather too much to charge a
commercial revulsion like this upon one's wife and
daughters.
Economy in Dress.
The population of the United
Scales amounts at the present moment to about 25,-
000,000- “if every individual (saw the No*- York
Herald) in t ins aggregat i were to economise ten
dollars yearly, the annual sr ng would in- ,f 25b,090,-
000 Bv wearing ourdotb- - six months longer the
ten dollars could easily be rpared. and we would not
be less comfortable or respectable for the economy.”
That may all be very true, but re there not other
sources of wretched extravagance among o .r popu
lation, far more censurable and deplorable than ex
travagance in dress ? Think a moment, an 1 the
enormous expense cursing our people through the
agency of spirituous liquors, will instantly occupy
your mind. The thought of it is enough to make
every citizen lift his hand in holy horror. Two hunt
dred millions of dollars, does this father of extrav
agances, and mother of curses, extort annually from
the pockets of these twenty-five millions of people.
Even in Georgia it taxes the people yearly to the
amount of 595,000 dollaas. For Heaven’s sake let
this be the first sou r ce of extravagance which shall
be spiked, and who doubts for a moment but that
we will be far more “comfortable, more respectable ’
and more wealthy by “the economy?”
“Encourageeach other’’—Noble example.
When the last sea had swept over the ill-fated
“Central America” and sent her down into the dark
unfathomable caves of the ocean, many of her un
fortunate passengers rose to the surface and floated
about upon the merciless waters The night
was dark and stormy, and the billow’s swept moun
tains high, and there in an open sea ninety-five
miles from land, drifted these unfortunate beings
upon frail fragments of the wreck. What an appa 1
ing situation ! Where was there to them the shad
ow of hope, save in the power and goodness of God?
Whence came a word of edrnfort to those lost and
despairing souls, tossing to and fro upon the raging
bosom of that wild ocean? ah, it came each
other. Several of the survivors said; “as w - rose
to the surface and floated about upon fragments
of tbe wreck, we che red each otur i> > voids of
encouragement, until the rescue came. What a noble
example ! Lotus lake it from the • atcry mi i-ocean
and plant it in the sea of life. How many a noble
soul is to-dav floating powerless on some shattered
fragment in tu ocean >vi iile ready to sink, but by
a word of encouragement from his fellows be. might
suppress the feelings of despair which rise in his bo
som and brave I si pi g b:l <vr ti.i rescue comes?
But the cheering word is withheld ar.d be goes
down ‘unwept, unii more i, and unsung ’
Complimentary to the Students.
At the wed
ding which recently took place in our village no tin
pan serenaders inflicted their musical paroxysms on
the occasion. We had no “college-smile,” not a tin
pan. was beaten, no trace-chains were rattled, nor a
bugle-note nor ram shorn sounded. Whether
we regard it as a compliment to ourself and our
fair me, or as an evidence of the moral improvement
of our young men, it was certainty very gratifying
to as, as well as the family and the entire communi
ty to see that the boys had laid aside that undigni
fied habit of ‘ kicking up” a terrible fuss around the
residences on sici o:cistn> a: on any occa
sion calling together a few of the citizens. It cer
tainly speaks well for our young men, and a recol *
lection of the tremendous l ‘up splurges ” and the ev
erlasting clatter of cow-bells , tin-pans , and rams
horns, which the boys of former times used to get
up whenever a marriage took place in town, forces
us to draw this contrast
Mr. Editor :— Among the list of bank suspen
sions, I have not seen the name of the Wahoo Bank
Has that institution survived the storm.
A Former Depositor.
The Financial Crisis.
The Christian Index contains the following truly
sound editorial upon the financial crisis and Bank
sespension?. The remarks of the Editor are. full of
meaning, and thp. paragraph is the best we have
seen relative to the monetary paninc.
The present stringency in monetary affairs an 1
the consequent suspension of business in many sec
tions of this country, supply materials for sober re
flection. What has superinduced the prevailing dis -
tress?—who are to blame? It is riot the sequence
of any Providential withholding 6f the annual fruits
of the earth, nor the effect of any sudden and ap
palling calamity. There is not a country on the
Globe which has been more largely blessed with
God’s munificent favors than this land of America.
The sun has shone upon it as brightly as ever, the
seasons have returned with their abundant harvests,
and the atmosphere, cleansed of its noxious effluvia,
has infused health and energy into the human sys
tem. In fact, for eighteen months next preceding
the late failures and bank suspensions, nature, health
and a superintending Providence have been mo 4
remarkably propitious! The cause of the present
pressure, therefore, must be sought for in the cu
pidity, reckless adventure, and moral obliquity of
man himself. This is the reason assigned by many
of the most respectable and influential journals in
the of this nation. Pride, fashion, ex
travagance and a prurient haste for speculation to
secure immense wealth have besieged the banks and
monied corporations, which, thirsting in their turn
for heavy dividends, have paid out the money with
which they should have redeemed their bills and
checks.
It becomes a theme for serious thought now as to
what reliance may be placed in Banks. That they
are a great convenince for merchants and depositors,
cannot for one moment be questioned. Indeed, the)’ -
are almost an indispensable necessity. But if their
managers are not governed by moral principle—if,
after holding deposits without interest, they can sus
pend with specie in their vaults, or because they
never had an adequate specie basis, who can be ex
pected to entrust funds with them ? Much wiser
would it be to invest surplus funds in lands, or hide
them away in the earth, than to place one’s all at
the mercy of irresponsible harpies in human form.
These remarks, thank od, do not apply to all banks
nor perhaps to a majority of Banking institutions,
but that they do apply to many monied corporations
is an incontrovertible fact. What are we to think
of the Banks of a large city agreeing to suspend !
In other words, agreeing to refuse payment of their
notes and checks. Who can trust such Banks in
future? What is to prevent them from suspending
at any time when a few thousand bills are pre
sented for specie ? And when a Bank can publish
to the public that it has “coin on hand, exceeding
any demand that can be made upon it, but deems it
injurious to permit its specie to be withdrawn,” how
do we know bnt that the time may come when it
will deem it injurious to pay its debts?
We trust that the events of the last few weeks
will prove to be a salutary lesson to the people gen
erally of this great Republic. Let them all live
within their means, and serve God sincerely, and no
money pressure need be feared.
33F~The subjoined from an editorial in the New
York Examiner, we commend to the friends of Col
leges in Georgia. It may be read with profit on
both sides of Mason and Dixon’s line.
“The prosperity of a college depends a great deal
more on whai it is, than on where it is. It is not
place that has given Harvard and Yale their prom
inence. Princeton College, in the interrior of New
Jersey, and Dartmouth, in a retired village of New
Hampshire, Williams and Amherst colleges, plant
ed among the hills of Western Massachusetts, stand
among the first seats of learning in America. The
truth is, that every institution of learning must rely
for public appreciation, first on its character and ad -
vantages, and secondly on the character, influence
a;d godd will of its graduates. For these to make
a proper impression on the public, time is required,
and when the impression is successfully made, stu
dents will be attracted, with very little reference to
locality. An ex-Governor of Massachusetts, a grad
uate of one of her rural colleges some fortv years a2O
has often told with much gusto the story of his pur
suit of knowl dge under difficulties. Arrived at a
place fourteen mil- s distant from the college, he
found there was no stage coach further. He seem
ed doomed to proceed on foot, or return, when a
man came along in a one-horse wagon. He, with
his wife, sufficiently filled the only seat in the ve
hicle, but they allowed the young aspirant for know
ledge to take passage with them, on condition that
he should hold the baby. His parents certainly had
a reason for sending him to that institution, quite
independent of any advantages of location. This
mav be an extreme case, but it is a case which prop
erly illustrates the principle.
Again sto what constitutes a favorable location,
we fear that pers ns take a one-sided view of the
subject. There are advantages and disadvantages
on either side to be set off against each other. A
city location certainly offers some privileges—a
greater variety of means of culture, frequent oppor
tunities of knowing some of the best oratory, both
pulpit and secular, the freshest literature, &c., be
sides the chance of higher social advantages. But
it also offers increased ogportunities for dissipation,
and temptations. To ‘see the world’ may be a
great benefit, or the reverse, according to the de
gree in which a young man is under the restraints
of principle. Th*se advantages, however are inci
dental. A student has iittle time for outside socie
ty. Moreover, they are purchased at a price which
many are unable to pay. The expenses of a stu
dent in large cities are more than double what - is
required at institutions further inland.”
Circular to Tax Collectors.
Governor Johnson has issued the following Circu
lar to all the tax Collectors of the State:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Milledgevilee, Ga. Oct 16th, 1857.
Whereas, the Laws regulating the collection of
Taxes, require the several Tax Collectors of this
State to receive none but the Bills of Specie paying
Banks, in payment of the Taxes due by the citizens
of this State; and Whereas, by reason of the gen
eral suspension of specie paying, by the Banks of
Georgia and the adjacent States, it is impossible fur
the citizens to obtain the bills of specie paying
Banks, and impracticable, except at great sacrifice,
to obtain coin for the payment of their Taxes; and
Whereas, by tne Seventh Section of u An Act to
amend an Act entitled AX ACT further explaining
and defining the duties aud powers of the Comp
troller General, passed the sth day of December,
1799 ; also more particularly to define and prescribe
the duties of the ‘Treasurer of this State , Approv
ed December 25th, 1821, the Governor is authorized
to interfere with or “suspend the collection of Taxes
&e,” until “the meeting of the next Legislature, af
ter the suspension.”
It is therefore ordered, that the several Tax Col
lectors of this State, be and they are hereby dire ct
ed, to suspend the further Collection of Taxes until
the 4th of November next, (that being the da\ on
which the next Legislature will assemble) to the end
that the General Assembly may adopt such meas
ures of relief or instruction, as, in ■ their wisdom,
may be compatible with the circumstances and the
emergency. lIERSCHEL V. JOHNSON.
,‘What arc Wages here?” asked a laborer of
a boy.—“l don’t know, sir”—“What does your fa
ther get of Saturday nights ?”‘-‘Gei. said the boy ;
“why, he gets as tight as a brick.”
Ah, poor fellow ! he will one day realize that the
wages of such a habit are indeed heavy. In this
life they are destitution, misery, nakedness and
starvation ; and in the life to come, it is eternal
death.
The Baltimore American says “A man named
Andrew Tillner was on Friday last in St. Louis,
fined SSO for using obscene language on the street
while ladies wer e passing. The magistrate who ad
ministered that sentence should have a monument
The Columbus Enquirer odds ;
We say ditto and bfg leave to add that a smaller
fine should be the penaltyinevery State for improp
er remarks made of passing ladies, their general ap
pearance, dress &c., which is too frequently the sold
employment of street idlers, half grown men and o
vergrown boys,.in almost every city in the Union.