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Tin, temperance crusader by j. H. seals, Tffl LAW OF WEWBPAPEHB. 1. Subscribers whoMo not give express notice to tbs contrary, are considered as wishing to continue Stair subscription. S If subscribers order the discontinuance of their newspapers, the publisher may continue to send them untflaUarrearagesare paid. 8 If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their newspapers from the offices to which they are di rectJCthey are held responsible until they nave set tled the bills and ordered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers remove to other places without the publishers, and the newspapers are eent to tl Winner direction, they ore held responsi ble. 0. The Courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of inten tional fraud. 0. The United States Courts have also repeatedly decided, that a Postmaster who neglects to perform his duty Os giving reasonable notice, as required by the Post Office Department, of the neglect of a per son to tftlfft from the office newspapers addressed to him, renders the Postmaster liable to the publisher or the subscription price. 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 ,°l” o"h •W*-* 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. PATENT MEDICINES. Moffat's Life Pills and Phoenix Bitters. Irreg ularities of living privation and over indulgence of the appetite bring on indigestion and dyspepsia.— In all such cases the Moffat medicines may be resort ed to with an entire confidence that a complete res toration to health will follow'. Sold by the proprie tor W. B. Moffat, 335 Broadway, N. Y. 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