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Tin, temperance crusader
by j. H. seals,
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The Sphere of Woman’s Influence.
Home is the sphere of woman’s influence—the
temple in which she worships with the zeal of her
nature, aud the fervor inspired* by the beautiful
images that flit across her brain, when occupied
in the cheerful performance of her allotted duties.
It is a place where, like a divinity, she is hedged
round by all that is calculated to make life flow
on to a placid end, equable and happy :
Would to heaven I that it was true, and that
indeed every woman’s home was hedged round by
all that is calculated to make life flow on to a
flacid end. Visit with us the homes of the three
uodred thousand drunkards of the land ; and
see the haggard, woe-begone wives, and destitute,
ragged, half starved children, begging of her for
bread to keep them from starving! See them af
ter they have toiled, until their hearts ached
with pain, and their strength entirely gone, for
bread for their starving children the imbruted fa
ther snatches the last penny from her hand to buy
whiskey. See them for years struggling with wain
neglect and abuse, until at last with crushed hearts
they sink to the rest of death, and are borne io
a paupers grave—while their children are left to
weep over the loss of the only one that could
shield them from hunger or the cruel blow ; and
now they are left to the cold charities of a heart
less world, and compelled to meet that withering,
blighting taunt, “Your father is a drunkard !”
Tell me that “ home is the sphere of woman’s in
fluence* while the tide of intemperance is rolling
over our land, rill adding tribute to rill, until our
very nation is threatened to be swept away. It is
fast destroying all honor and manhood, virtue
love and truth—all that is noble, good, and pure,
in society—and shall we sit quietly in our homes
and see this wholesale ruin of our sex (to say
nothing of the misery or the drunkards them
selves,) and quietly console ourselves, that “om
homes are hedged about ?” No—we have sworn
by the sufferings of our sisters, on earth, and a just
God, in heaven—an uncompromising warfare up
on the traffic, and our influence shall be exerted
both at home and abroad, in public and in pri
vale. With us it is a war of extermination, and
shall never cease till death, unless we live to sec
the traffic regulated in the same way that other
crimes of the same nature are.
While our law-makers will sit down and coolly
ask these demoniac specimens of humanity, “what
will you give us” if we will deliver these helpless
women and innocent children into your hand:; ;
and for less than “thirty pieces” will sell the riglr
to spread the ruin and misery all around them,
we will not expend the “zeal of our Batura and
the fervor inspired by the beautiful images that
flit across our brain,” merely “in the cheerful per
formance of our allotted duties.” God forbid that
we should act so selfishly. We verily believe,
that if the women of our country could be made
sensible of the power they possess, and with one
voice demand that their homes may be all ‘ h edg
ed about by a good prohibitory law, it would b
done. But it never will, while those who have
happy homes, will wrap themselves up in their
delicate, not womanly dignity, and say, “our sphere
ie at home. For our part we can’t see how ala
dv can bear to do such things.” We have no
patience with such frivolous, nonsensical, idle
creatures, and only hope that if women must still
continue to be cusred with drunken husbands,
that it will be these very refined specimens of b u
xoanity.— -Ladies Tribune
Beautiful Extract.
I saw the temple reared by the hand of mac
standing with its high pinnacles in the distant
plain—-the storm beat upon it—the God of uh
tore hurled his thunders against it—and yet i
stood as firm as adamant. Revelry was in its
halls —the gay, the happy the young and beauti
fill were there. I returned, and the temple was
no more—its high walls lay in scattered ruins;
moss and wild grass grew wildly there, and a
the midnight hour the owl’s cry added to the des
olation of the scene; the young and gay who
revelled there had passed away.
I saw the child rejoicing in his youth—theido’
of his father. I returned, and the child had be-’
oome old. Trembling with the weight of years. h
stood* the last of his generation, a stranger amid
the desolation around him.
I saw the old oak stand in all hia pride on th
mountain ; the birds were carolling on its boughs
T returned. The oak was leafless and sapless :
the winds were playing their pastime* through
the branches.
‘‘Who is the destroyer ?” said I to my guardiar
ang-1.
“It is Time.” said he“when the morninc
stars sang together with joy over the new-made
k® conntnsnced his course ; and when b*
shu have destroyed all that is beautiful on earth
plucked the sun from his sphere, veiled the moon
m blood, yea, when he shill roll the heavens and
the earth away as a scroll, then an angel from th*
throne of God shall come forth, and with one foot
on the sea and one on the land, lift up his bead
toward heaven,and heaven’s Eternal,saying, ‘Tim*
, Time was, Time shall be no longer’.” Puuld
ing.
A, Beautiful Extract—Labor. —Why, mar
of idleness, labor rocked you iu the cradle, and has
nourished your pampered life ; without it, th
woven silks and wool upon your back would Bah
the fold. For the meanest thing that minister
to human want, save the air of heaven, man.is in
debted to toil ; and even, the air, by God’s ordi
nation, is brea hed with labor. It is only the
drones who toil not, who infest the hive of activi
ty like masses of corruption and deea'y . The lord>
of the earth ere working men, who oaa .build up
or cast down at their will, aid who retort the.
sneer of the “soft baud,” by pointing to their tro
ph e*, wherever art, science, civilization, and hu
inanity are known. Work on, man of toil ! tby
royalty is yet to be acknowledged as labor rise
onward to thehigbest throne of power. Work on
and in the language of the true poet, be
“A glorious man 1 and thy renown shall b.
Borne by the winds and waters thro’ All thre
While there’s a keel te earry R on the sea
Prom eHiM to v
Or Ged etdaiM that idleness is erime.*
* Relief Against
in parts pf France there is female
sex, a holy horror oLfeelng Regarded aafjjtrfnaids
.and as want oT money is considered bhefC the
chief difficulty in obtaining a, husband,- resort is
had to a noypl expedient to relieve them of this
liability. A late letter from Paris says thatfseveral
female’ clubs have been formed in the depart
ments of the Var, and the Oironde, for mutual re
lief against celibacy.
The original club, after which the others ate
modelled, has been in existence for four years.—
Each member pays lOf. monthly to the treasurer.
These subscriptions produce annually 24,000f., to
which b added the amount raised by two half
yearly lotteries, of which the prizes are composed
of valuable article's, the gifts of the members.—
The original club is composed of two hundred
young ladies. At the end of the year the society
is enabled to dispose of $30,000f; ar 4f1,000f.
which serve to give a marriage portion to two or
three of the members chosen by ballot. If the
fortunate candidates are not married within a
year the money returns to the common fund, and
additional candidates are portioned the following
year.
The members of the club continue to pay their
subscriptions for ten years after their marriage
and are bound to facilitate by all means in their
power the marriage of their former associates.—
The members of the association, married or single,
are. bound as long as they live to aid and succor
their fellow members under all circumstances.—
How it would shock the sensibilities of our Amer
ican ladies to have to resort to such means as this
to obtain husbands!
The Drunkards Heme.
Os ail the woe and want, and wretchedness, which
awaken our compassion; of all the scßne3 of
misery which call so loudly for sympathy ; there
is none that so harrows up the feelings as the
drunkard’s home ! Look at him who began life
with the love of friends, the admiration of society
‘he prospect of extensive usefulness ; look at him
m after years when he has learned to love the
draught which, we shudder while we say it, re
duces him to the level of the brute. YVhere is
now his usefulness ? Where the admiration,
where the love that once was his ? Love! none
but the‘ove of a wife, ora child, can cling to
him in his-degradation. Look at the woman,
who when she repeated “for better for worse,”
would have--shrunk with terror had the faintest
shadow of the “worse” fallen upon her young heart
i3 that she who on her bridal day was adorned
with such neatness and taste ? Ah, me I what a
sad change ? And the - children for whom he
.hanked God, at their birth; the little ones of whom
ie had been so proud whom he had dandled on
is knee, and taught to lisp the endearing name
>f father—see them trembling* before him, and
ndcavorino’ to escape his violence. Look’ at the
euiy basket, and the fail bottle ? the natural
.wants of tee body denied to satisfy the unnatural
cravings of a depraved appetite.
Ob, God, have pity on the drunkard’s home ?
Escape of Ge&i Walker from NkwOrleans
—Starting of his Expedition of Fillibuslers for
Nicaragua. —General Walker started from New
i Orleans*on another filibustering expedition, not
withstanding his professions to tho contrary. He
appeared ii the District Court Wednesday, and
‘aye bail to appear for examination on the 17th
nst, and on the llth inst. himself and staff, with
over 300 men, embarked on board the Mobile
mail boat. The steamer Fashion, Capt, Caughlin,
with another poftiou of his men, a large quantity
of anus, munitions and provisions, got off about 2
o’clock the morning of the IGb, having first sub
milted to a search by the U. S. Marshal.
C.'pt Fassnyoux remains at New Orleans. Geu.
Henningsen is expected there this week. The
commander of the United States steamer Fulton,
which was stationed so as -to intercept the depart
ure of the expeditions was completely outwitted.
The Walker expedition was transferred to a
steamer waiting ia Mobile Bay with a further sup
ply of arms and ammunition. It is supposed that
the steamer Fashion has gone for the Texas regi
ment.
Advice to young Men, and some old ones.
Nev-r befall of promise, and lack for performance.
Lounging and drinking in saloons without a pen
iy in your pocket, will never endorse your an-
u; cement to do a service for yourself, your fam
ily or society. If you have business to do, do it
first, and then pleasure can be much better enjoy
id. Pay your debts, mind your own business.
Do these tbings, young men. —and old ones too
Understand ?
Face ihe world proudly, with courage and might
Plant thy feet jirmlv, and look to the right ;
Conscience thy judge Heaven thy hope,
Manfully proudly, with the world cope.
Heed not, though co'dly the proud pass thee by ;
Ben i thy bow boldly, and aim thy shaft high ;
Fcr affection and truth do not fervently hope,
But sternly and cautiously with the world cope.
Economy Becoming Fashionable.- -The New York
Minor has the following .
“We have reason to believe that simplicity and
•conomy in living and dress will be the prevailing
style in high life in the great metropolis, during
he coming season. It will he voted ‘ mauvais
’on, as well as bad taste to indulge in expensive
i&bits. Good taste in dress, equiqage and social
ppointrnents, is, after all, but the highest ex
oression of what the French call cohvenable—ap
propriate and harmonious to the occasion. It is
lot corrve noble to dress richly when the whole
jommerciaLworid is under a cloud ; nor is it gracef
ul for a lady, to display her jewels when her
uisband, or her brother, or even her lover, is on
he brink of failure, or has passed the rubicon
which separates worldly prosperity from he/irt
ackmg -calamity.”
A Hundred Years Ago.
Somebody had under the above caption,thrown
ogetbftr fcom§ striking facts iu the history of our
joutitiy and of the word:
A hundred years ago, a stupid German iiionarch
Nvigued over these United States—then oologies
>f Greht Britain ; and on the whole earth, with
he exception of Switzerland, there was cot a
ingle republic cf any pretensions. A hundred
•?ears ago the French Hug floated over Quebec
Pittsburgh and New Orleans. A hundred years
<go the old,. French monarchy existed—the 1 >as
its accursed towers, and Louis the
Avdi dallied with infamous Wantons, squandered
ms money, and blasphemed 5n his own
the. name of man. Fifty year* ago rail
u 7 and magnetic telegraphs were
■rucfchhy unknown. Fifty v.-ma ago there were
•CHfrely nve ranbons of people inthe United States
almost as much a wilderness as
he 2 ou w now. Fifty years ago Washington
ju*t djed, Jefferson was stilt living, and Clay.
1 * ousfcti Htd W-irti names tounknown
o.faiue, -v
fc*
The Wiru Bottl e.—~“I think the intimacy
vihch is.begotten oyer the wine-bottle, has no heart
-,?#y* Thuckery. ‘I never knew a’ good feeling
’.oma from it, or an honest friendship made by it;
t 07vly entUes - men, ami ruins them ; is only
i phantom of friendship and feejjng. called up by
he delirious blood, and the wicked spells “jof the
wiaa.” % ,
=gSTT- •*-
The alarm felt among batehelors qo account of
the decision, by the courts, that a few visits aud
friendly attentions to a lady flight be construed
into an engagement is subsiding under the folow
ing method of protection. Out West; the bach
elors provide themselves with cards duly labelled,
“Good for this, call enly i” which are sufficient ev-*
denee of no aeriouae intentions.
Fomp-~ u Why do you hab your hair parted
in the middle, you swell nigger.” F:
Cuff —“Kase it’s de fashion, with all dat res
pecks deraselves, you bald-headed embodiment of
blackin’ you. But what is de difference between
your hair and mine, Pomp ?” . iff!
Pomp —“ Gives it up.” ,‘ j
Cuff —“My hair is parted in the middle, and
your’n is de-parted !” .
A vagabond-looking fellow, with weiUmanured
rags partially eovering bis was latey
brought before a magistrate at Tourbridge, En
gland, on the charge of stealing turnips. After
making some droll remark, he was asked by the
magistrate. “But did’nt you take the turnips found
in your pockets?” “Certainly not. 1 went to
sleep in the field among the turnips, and the three
you found in ray pockets grew in them while I lay
there,the heat of my body causing them to shoot up
faster than ordinary. I steal turnips your Worship?
I’d scorn the idea!”
Some time ago, there lived in Vermont a queer
old man, named Miller. He had lost part of
his palate, and was a specimen. He .owned a
mill, the water of which was brought fer some
distance thruogh a wooden flume. One morning
an apprentice informed him that the flume waa,
full of suckers. Milier posted himself at its
mouth, placing a large basket to catch the suck
ers in, while the boy went to the other end, to
hoist. There was a “rush of many waters,” car
rying Miller, basket and all, over the overshot
wheel, and thirty feet below. AH dripping he
scrambled out, sputtering, “You may think I’m
an idiot but I aiu’t such a consar n ®d fool that I can’t
see through that joke.”
Distinguished Ladies. —A French officer being
a prisoner at Portsmouth, England, was permitted
to walk about the town on his parole, and accor
dingly went one morning to church, where he saw
the Mayor's daughters, two very handsome girls.
“Ah,” said Monsier, when ne came home, “two
vera tine ladies vare at church dis morning.”
“Who were they ?” inquired the land-lady.
“Me have forgot de name ; bu# be dat ting dat
nibble at de grass ?”
“0,” said she “a cow?”
“Na, na,” said the Frenchman.
“A sheep ?”
“Na.”
“Horse ?”
not de horse; but what de horse’? wife
name ?”
“A mare ?”
“Qui! de mares two daughters vare at church
ands morning two very pretty ladies ; dey put de
water in ray mouth.”
Married vs. Unmarried. —“ You’ve no> wife, I
believe,” said Mr. Blank to his neighbor.
“No, sir,” was the reply, “I never was married.”
“Ah,” said Mr. Blank, are a happy dog.”
A short time after, Mr. Blank, in addressing a
married man, said —
“You have a wife, sir ?”
“Yes, sir, a wife and three children.”
“Indeed,” said Mr. Blank, “you are a happy
man.”
“Why, Mr. Blank, said one of the company,
“your remarks to the unmarried and the married
seem to conflict somewhat!”
“Not at all-— not at all, sir. There is a differ
ence in my statement. Please be more observing
sir. I said the man who had uo wife was a “hap
py dog and the mau who had a wife was “a
happy mannothing conflicting, sir, nothing at
all. I know what I say, sir !”
The Hard Times.— Scene, the Levte; Xwoctd
, lord, gemmen in dialogue. — “l say, Pete, old hoss
[ wants de cash on dis note ob yourn for six bits
I loan you long time ago. Ise makin my collec
shuns, so ae to make all tings squar agin Christ
mas.”
“See lieah, Sam, haint you been around some
whar, two tree mont up de riber 1 Your hind
de times, you is, and don’t know nuffin bout what’s
gwine on naong de munnyd men. Ise spended
speshy payments I has !”
“You’se done what ? Wy wat de debbil de
nigger taikin ’bout ?”
“Now, gemmen, (addressing the by-stsvnders,)
I aeshuliy pities de ignorance ob dat ar nigger
wats just oome down into the comntershal sarcles
and knows nuffin ’bout de <aientific frazes. Sam,
you’re a meJuiu*illy case ob neglected eddycashun
an I told wat spenshun ob speshy payment means.
Wen I dont know nuffin at all ’b-out my own
notes, and stop dealinin money wid ebery body
’cept Somebody’s got suffin to pay me, dat’sregler
sp&nshun speshy payments, and data jus wat Ise
J.un, nigger : duz ye und’atand me?’*
“Ye—yes. I spects I duz ; but I duzzeat know
nuffin ’bout wat ye mean. Ise got de note and
I I wants de six bits.”
! “Sam youse a sprising case ob i: jpioramus, and
> ye must larn—you mnst larn, Sara And with
ibis consolatory remark the draw er of the note
walked off whistling, leaving the. holder of the
document desperately engaged in a> effort to com
prehend the (to him) new system < f sotting things
by “spenshun of speshy payment a.”
A Darkey's Speech. —ln one of “the smaller cit
ies of Massachusetts, the colored : p bpulatuw held
meetings to discuss the propriety of celebrating
the anniversary of the West India emancipation
August 1. At one of these meeti ags, a very con
servative gentleman was surprise id to see some of
the “lair sex,, rising and taking p Art in the discuss
ion. After two or three of the sisters had “freed
dar mines” on matter under de bate, lie sprang up
in a greatly excited state and a ddreased the audi
ence : • “ • * I
“Feller-citizens ! Es I’d a isposed at de ladees
would be p’mitied to take a p aurt da dis yere dis
cussion—(sensation)—ef I’d & inode ’at the la
dees Could jino in dis yere df dbafce—(all eyes tur-’
ned on the speaker) —es I’d Ibleeved for one
raomunt, feller citizens, ’at d< female sect wood
dar to rais deir woice in clia yere *neetiu,’ I’d—
—feller-citizens—(“Wot! -wot wood* you’ve a did
es you’d node it ?” shouted two or, three of the
strong minded sisters, a* the white* of their .eyes
flashed on the speaker)—l g his wool)
fda hr tiny my wife along wid me !’ r
Here the discomfited omter d into his
tear, completely exhausted.
An Unpleasant Tenant. — Fourteen yea*** ago a
French officer, Uricli, whilst fighting agai ‘nst the
Arabs, was struck by a ball in the eye. A fsw
days ago he had a slight attack of apoplexy which
hook him greatly, and a few night* after •‘.he was
awakeded from his sleep by a sense of suf ftxnation.
Jumping up he found that the bail b)ad, bf
degrees, worked its way down,and had at Ja*r&l
-icti from the upper part of his mouth Jfcito Uh
throat 1 By violent efforts he succeade din dis*
lodging by corrosion, was found to wefeb twenty -
five grammes, (about four-flths of an oua *.)
Cjj t Cmptrance faster;
* PENFIEIJD, GEORGIA.
Thursday Horning, November 26, 1857.
Rev. C. W,. Stephens.
Os Sparta writes to the
Editor of the Index that at intervals he has recent
ly baptised at Horeb church, Hancock county, (SI)
thirty-one; at Darien,(Bo) thirty.
The Hancook Fair
came off during the last four
days of the week past. We hope they had a fine
time, but if the weather was as cold there as here,
we think the “/air” and all, must have friz-up. —
We have heard nothing from it
Broughton’s Sale.
We call attentinn to the sale by
the Executors, of the perishable property belonging
to the estate of John H. Broughton deceased, which
tpkes place on Thursday the 8d day of next month.
pg*We acknowledge the reception of the follow
ing Magazines, circulars, &e.
Harper’s Magazine for Dec.; Arthur’s Magazine
for Oct. and Nov.; Godey’s and Petersons’ Ladies
Books for Dec; Blackwood, for Sept and Oct.;
American Medical Gazette; Mother’s Journal.—
Circular of the Georgia Female college ; catalogue
of fruit and ornamental trees cultivated and sold by
Peters, Harden A co., Atlanta Ga.
Pork.
The correspondent ofthe Columbus Sun, wri
ting from Shelbyville, Tenn. fith. Nov. says, “there
has been but little change in the price of Hogs, since
I last wrote you. Another purchase of 1,500 Hogs
at five cents net, has been affected, that now being
the asking price, but buyers at Nashville, only 55
miles north of this place, are only offering 41-3 cents
net.
Wife Advertised.
Under the head of new Adver
tisements in this issue, will be found “due warning”
given by a man in Taliaferro County, to all persons,
that he is not responsible for any accounts contract
ed by bis absconded wife. It is always unpleasant to
us to read such advertisements, as we cannot but
regret that circumstances ever render it necessary
for a husband to publish such notices concerning
his wife. And it is too frequently the case that the
man is altogether to blame for such a state of things
between himself and his companion—hence the Press
haT uniformly placed high charges ;upon such no
tices, as a sort of protection to innocent wives. But
on the other hand it sometimes so happens that the
woman is the evil spirit stirring up discord in the
family, and violating the marital vows; She then
very justly forfeits all claim to the protection and
support of the man whom she promised to love
honor, and obey, and he is justifiable in withdraw
ing it from her.
In this instance, from all we can learn, Mr. E—is a
good husband, an excellent citizen, and a noble
hearted man, —one above treating his wife unkindly,
and as he has conformed to the requirements deman
ded in such publications, we cheerfully insert his
Notice.
Ws invite the reader to the beautiful Novelette
en our outside written by Mrs. Bryan. She writes
in a graceful, easy, and simple style, and her composi
tions are always pithy and strikingly interesting.—
She ranks among the very first female contributors
to newspapers now in the United States, and those
who have read her 3 communications to this paper
will endorse the encomium we give her: some
of them have been unexcelled in'point oftaste pungen
cy, and beauty of composition. In “the old Spell
ing Book” reminiscences which she recounts on the
first page of this issue she touches a chord which
vibrates in every bosom. Who does not love to wan
der back in “fond memory” to “childhoods years,”
and revel again in “the light of other days ?” Myriads
of little incidents which occurred in our youth come
ganging” to the mind, and the least in importance
is vested with peculiar charms, because of its con
nection with the happy moments which are “past
and gone.”
The early school-days of every person who en
joyed the privilege of going to school, form the most
interesting reminiscences in their youth. They can
recall the difficulties they encountered in their text
Books —the simple words they failed to spell and the
hard examples in Arithmetic which almost destroy
ed their temper ‘and made them pronounce a school
boys path a “hard road to travel,”
“We remember the School JBen Bolt
And the master so kind and so true,
The shaded nook and the clear running brook
Where we gathered the flowers as they grew.”
We remember our school mates, and the mention
of their names brings to mind many many happy
hours spent in days “lang syne.” And when the
solemn thought forces itself upon the mind that these
pleasant scenes and happy days have been wheeled
by revolving time into the cyles of the past never to
return again—and that our schoolmates and
“frisnds have been scattered like roses in bloom
Some at the bridal—some at the tomb,
the heart grows feint with melancholy regret and a
tear-drop bedews the cheek.
I&r In the Senate, on Saturday, the bill legaliz
ing annnal sessions of the legislature was passed by
a vote of seventy-one yeas to seventeen nays.
the Senate also passed a bill directing Tax Col
lectors to reoeive in payment of taxes, all bank bills
in general circulation at the time of payment, and
the State Treasurer, County Treasurers, and officers
of the State road were also directed to receive the
same kid of currency .
The time for Tax collectors to make their returns
to the Comptroller is extended thirt days in this
bill.
ggr The directots of the Bank of Augusta have
delared a semi-annual dividend of four per cent.
ry The Georgia Railroad and Banking Compa
ny has declared a semi-annual dividend of three
dollars per share, payable on and after the Bth of
December next
llv son how could you marry an Irish girl ? Why
<atfaer, lam not able to keep two women—for,d ye
IT* had I married a Yankee girl, Id been obliged
tThh'* * Iriflh 6 irl t 0 tttkecare of her ‘
. licenses have been granted by the ConMnis
. ►sw in the city of New York to ‘641)
- whom it is said 70 have not yet
liquor deale. to receive then’ papers
called on the y am ount thus held back
and settle their . 7 ”
‘••rn*- **. mme of a *•*. of
The whwk.y root “ h . . w|lM is saM
caoto. foundra Mexico fjoM g e drink ,._
to produce the earn. e& “ kJtow „ piwe to ex
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penenoe an tneenects oiuu ~ mto gen-.
u toxication. If this root sho be
eral use, the facility of taking fl !<’ “W” be
greatly increased.
In tht middle ages of France, a y
ted of -being a culumniator, was 00.
pikee himself on all fours, and bark _°®’
for a quarter of an hour. If this cusi
Adopted at the present day, there would b
scow-wowing.
Northern and Southern Slavery.
It fs to be hoped
that the wretched and starving thousands which
are strolling through the Northern cities, begging
bread, will forever seal the mouths of those freedom
shriekers who cry out such horrible denunciations
against Southern slavery. The scenes of starvation
and human suffering which meet their eyes, and the
inflammatory hunger-mob speeches threatening to
obtain bread vi et armis, must convict them of the
truth that they have among themselves a slavery
which is ten thousand times worse than any African
slavery which has ev. r existed in any Southern
State. The meanest negro slave here, is not denied
meat and bread, —all his family are fed and clothed
and he has no concern whatever. Each returning
day brings him his usual quantity of food, it is
placed before him and he consumes it, without a
care for the morrow. And let the money market
be as tight as it may, and slave-owners be st-ained,
harrassed and ovowded ever so badly, yet their ne
groes must, be, and are, clothed and fed. Uow dif
ferent the scene at the North! The poor laborer
who is compelled to earn his sustenance by hard
work, and who executes daily trible the amo unt
that any negro does, and who is as servile a slave
to the will of his employer as ever any negro was
to his master, is instantly discharged and thrown
upon the public charity so soon as a little monetary
stringency occurs in the market. His “ occupation
gone,” his payment is suspended and his family de
prived of bread. Whose situation is the more envia
ble of the two, his or the Southern negro ? Submit
the question to a Georgia slave and he would in
stantly decide it in'favor of his own happy condition.
Ah, let the heart rending cries which are now com
ing up from the thousand starving families in
tiondomtell the wretched tale of Northern slavery .
let th e fifty thousand hungry, stalwart, workmen
who throng the streets of New- York, demonstrate
its cursed inhumanity to those negro worshipping
Republicans.
We opine that the present state of things among
the poorer classes in their midst is sufficient to di
rect the speeches, and prayers of Abolitionists from
our Southern Institutions, to the shameful, base,
slavery which exists under their own system of
laws; and we trust no wall-eyed freedom croaker
will ever again raise his sickly voice for the aboli
tion of Southern slavery; for if the slaves of the
North are now enjoying a specimen of that glorious
freedom which they so extol and implore upon the
African, we beg that the Almighty may ever protect
us and all the negroes from experiencing such a
curse.
A Cotton Planter’s Meeting.
was held by a
portion of the planters of Hounton county, a few
days since to suggest to the planters generally
throughout the State a regular organization on their
part, so as to enable them to regulate the prices of
their Staple. Wm. B. Biyan presided over the
meetiny, and Jesse D. Havis acted as Secretary.—
Isaac West, Samuel Felder, and John 11. Powers
were appointed a committee to prepare an address
to the Gotton Planteis of the Slate. In their ad
dress they urge with good logic a thorough combina
tion of al! the Planters bv which mean,- they can
bring cotton under the same rule;; of trade with all
other articles of merchandise viz. that the s. Her has
the right to iix the | rico of his sdtable good.;. We
make one extract from the address, which icfers to
the direct transportation of Cotton to Liverpool.
New Y oik *4a market for the.sole of cotton ; what
necessity—nay, what proprieiy there, that New
York should b.- a market for the sale of Cotton ?
Can any one show ? Cotton is s ipp’d from Savan
nah to New York, to he re-shipped from X■>w York
to Liverpool! Why not ship to Liverpool, direct
from Savannah ? Now one of the main pui poses of
this Address is to direct attention particularly to
this object. A Planter in sendibg his Cotton to a
Factor in Savannah for the purpose of its shipment
to Liverpool, may have to wait a short time for re
turns, but the increased price there and the r&te of
freight between Savannah and i iverpool, (3-8d per
lb.) go to show that it is the Planter’s interest, to ship
direct to Liverpool. The estimate is, that by a di
rect shipment to Liverpool, the Planter save, from
twelve to fifteen dollars on each bale shipped ; asuf
ficent inducement, certainly, to give the proposed
plan decided preference over the plan of either selling
in the interior markets or shipping to New York.—
The proposition of shipping direct to Liverpool, may
be carried into effect in the following manner : let
some safe house in Savannah be selected by all the
planters, (for there is no use for more than one) —
let the house i Savannah be connected with anoth
er in Liverpool to which the shipments sh.dl be
made. Georgia raises about four hundi ed thousand
bales of Cotton ; suppose this ail sent i t one house
in Savannah, that house could afford to receive and
ship the Cotton at twenty-live cents per baV, which
would bo one hundred thonsand dollars to the Sa
vannah house. This arrangement looks to the fact
that if the Northern States of the Union want cotton
to supply their manufactories, they must come for it
to Southern ports, and not, as heretofore, procure it
in New York.
At a meeting of mechanics held at Masonic
Hall, Louisville, on Saturday night, the startling fact
was developed that three thousand industrious peo
ple are out of employment in consequence ot the
money pressure, with a long winter before them,
they are becoming anxious—not for charity but for
work. A committee was appointed under instruc
tions to confer with the employers the bauks and
the merchants, as to theKst method to obtain it,
and when teady to report to cal! ain ding—an earn
est, peaceful meeting —of ai! the business ciisses
and of all branches of industry in tho city, to hear
it ; and to deliberate upon it. If that committee
find that the present employers can’t cairy on work
and furnish the needed employment, then the mon
eyed men will consider how and on what terms and
by what system of agency the necessaries of life can
and will be furnished to the unemployed and the
needy.
A Remarkable Case.— A marriage took place in
Fairfax county, on Saturday last, of a couple who
were divorced nine years ago. Tn the meantime the
man had been married and his wife died, and on Sat
urday he was again married to his former wile.
Alex. Oaz.
Gbußuia Conference —This eolesiastical body is to
hold its annual meeting in Washington, Wilkescoun
ty, commencing on Wednesday, December 9th.-
We are gratified to see so many active preparation?
in progress to entertain this body with the pro per
hospitalities.— Wilkes Republican.
Whiskey. —At Cincinnati, we see that the ar
ticle of wh'skey is down to fifteen and a quarter
cents per gallon. This is almost “dog cheap,” as
it should be, for the hogs even are killed by the
“mush” of which the detestable, strychnined,
and consequently, poisonous, liquor is distilled.
We would assoon ask an apothecary for a dose
of strychnine, and drink it, as to call at a saloon
tor, and drink a glass of this whiskey. No won
der it is cheap, and no wonder w see so many
swelled heads and faces—*o many fit subjects for
lunatic asylums in every community. Good peo
ple “we pray you avoid it “-Atlanta Intelligencer
Old Brandt.— Mr. Syme of tho Raleigh Register
thus wittily acknowledges the receipt of a bottle of
forty-eight years old : “Our thanks due
to tie Committee on Domestic Wines and liquors
for a bottle of Apple Brandy forty-eight yearn old.
This Brandy is so old that # very much fear it can
not line mvth longer.
Th© Legislature—The Banks.
We are constrained to believe that the position
which Governor Brown in his inaugural, took, in re
gard to the Banks of Georgia, is proper and correct.
Os all institutions in the country, Banking estab
lishments deserve the least sj'mpathy in the hour of
trouble. For they are but a complicated system of
base speculation themselves, and serve as extensive
mediums for capitalists to speculate and grind the
poorer class. Who does not know that the funds of
Southern Banks have gone in large piles to the
North to purchase at heavy discounts the papers of
southern merchants ? Is not that an undue use of
their funds * No one doubts it, and ’ it’ that test
could be properly applied to the Banks generally, to
decide whether they should stand or he abolished,
few would escape the crash. What class of people
are benefitted by accommodations from these insti
tutions ? Everybody knows,—and their management
and marked partiality to speculators, is well calcu
lated to call upon them the imprecations of
the masses. Banks and Banking companies when
they operate within the limits of their chartered
privileges, are a great convenience to the conntry, and
might be a great blessing, for we strongly advocate
a paper currency, and can conceive of nothing , bin
perplexity and inconvenience in case of its abolition
We do not favor the policy of abolishing the
Banks nor tbeir small Bills, but if the Legislature
can devise any means by which to make then) ob
serve a little more honesty in their operations it w ill
be a universal benefit to all classes. As regads small
Bills, under five dollars, we rather think the recom
mendation of the Committee on this point ill-advised
The Chronicle cfe Sentinel , plainly shows the absur
dity of such a step.
We publish to-day the Report of the Committee
of the House with the accompanying hills. The
importance of the subject demands at our hands, i
notice of the provisions of these bills. It must,
however be brief, as our time and space will not per
mit extended comment.
We assume as a fact, which cannot be successful
ly controverted, that the Banks in Georgia, those
generally accredited as sound Banks, wore never in
a sounder condition than now; never at anytime
stronger in means to meet their liabilities. Unfor
tunately, however for them, and the country, those
means were not’ convertible in a monetary panic,
and as a means of self preservation and protection
to the people, they suspended specie payments ;
and this has elicited the movement in the Legisla
ture to which we have referred.
The first Bill has eight sections, the first and
last of which are the only tico sections it should have
contained, except one requiring the Banks of the
State to forfeit their charters, and making it the du
ty of the Governor to proceed against them forth
with, if they failed to resume specie payments //;
ninety days after the resumption by the Banks of
New York. That is ail the legislation necessary,
hence a bill with those three sections was all that is
reqnired to protect the rights and interests of the
people and the souudness of the Banks.
All the other sections of these Bills are superflu
ous, and some of them mere boys play, of which
grown up men, who had any experience in the ope
rations of currency, should be heartily ashamed.—
Os this character especially is the exterminating
war made upon small bills, or bills under the de
nomination of five dollars. We had supposed that
the history of our own legislation on this subject, if
that of no other State had sufficed, would have
warned the Committee against such a miserable
blunder—and they would have steered clear of such
a recommendation. Some twenty-four or five years
ago, in the good old days of Jackson currency tink
ering, the Georgia Legislature undertook to make
the gold and silver dimes, and quarter Eagles “shine
through the interstices of every mans silk purse in
the country: ” and the first step in this great, work
of currency tinkering, was the passage of just such,
or even a more stringent law in relation to the issu
ing and cireulating of small bills. And what was
the result ? It is easily told ; the people every
where repudiated the ’aw, and no more respect was
paid to it than to the direction of the winds—it was
a perfect dead letter the moment it was enacted.—
The same thing has been attempted in other States
with precisely similar results.
But let us suppose that the small bills ofthe Bunks
in Georgia were all called in by the Banks, what
then would be the effect under the operation of the
law prohibiting a farther issue ? The question is
easily answered, and every State in the Union where
a similar law has been passed, furnishes the answer
—Virginia is an apt Illustration. But to the answer :
We should be flooded with the small bills of the
Bank of the State of South Carolina, which has nine
teen thousand dollars in specie to redeem a circula
ti&n oj <> million and a half! Nor is this all; the
trash of the “one-horse” and “ VVild Cat” Banks of
Tennessee would deluge the State, and the people
would everywhere be the victims of Brokers and mon
ey changers. This would as certainly be the effect of
such a law, as that the sun gives light; and yet
such a measure, in the face of all the experience of
the country, is recommended by a Committee ofthe
House of Representatives of a Georgia Legislature V
Wonderful indeed is tue progress ofthe age in cur
rency tinkering ! And great and numerous are the
currency tinkers!
There are other, not only superfluous, but obnox
ious features in the bill, but we cannot devote more
attention to it to-day. We shall recur to the sub
ject again, and point them out, and elaborate the
whole question —and show’ to every unprejudiced
and intelligent man, that the only legislation requir
ed is that pointed out by us in the commencement
of this article.
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ularities of living privation and over indulgence of
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In all such cases the Moffat medicines may be resort
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Our readers are doubtless already familiar with
the valuable properties of Dr. M'Lanes Celebrated
Vermifuge and Liver Pills , manufactured by Fhm
ing Bros., oj Pittsbupg, Pa, There are now imita
tions of both these popular remedies before the pub
lic, the venders of which are no doubt using their
best endeavors to impose them upon the public as
the genuine articles. Such of our readers as may ‘
wish to purchase either of these valuable prepara
tions had better examine the article with care, see
that each wrapper is signed Fleming Bros, without
whose signature none can be genuine.
Statement of tine Bank of Qreencsborough
at the close of business on Tuesday
24tli day of November 1857.
ASSETS. SUABILITIES.
NWa
Expensas, Salaries 4c. 8,688,6-2 scribed, ♦200,000,00
Paid Engraving 4 Circulation, 60.509,00
PrinWng Notes &e. 1,782,23- Profits on Interest **
Dugffrom Banks, 4,879,00 and Exchange, 5,289,27
ypjfcie, 15,121,00 Due Depositors, 0,000,00
Total, ‘.. .$115,888,27. Total, 1115,888,27
GEORGIA, ) WJERBONALLY appeared befgre me 11, B.
Greene County, fJL Godard, Presideut, and J. A. Pbdks ,
Cashier, of the Bank of Greenesborough, and made oath that the
foregoing statement is just and true to the best of their knowledge
and belief. h. B. GODARD, President:.
JAB. PEDEN, Cashier.
,o?, orn aud subscribed to - before me this 24th day of November
185 ?. C. 0. NORTON, Notary Puttie.
List of Stockholders.
SHARKS.
<-H AB. W, KEITH - 600 at SIOO SBO,OOO
U. 4. GODARD, 50u “ “ 50,000
it. B. ‘VtGHT 285 “ “ - 28,600
IV v. ivEl iu, 280 “ *• 28.000
T. CtifTENDEN, 235 “ “ 28,500
ixfa! . ‘?-J00,060