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THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADER
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BY J. H. SEALS,
THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS.
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newspapers, the publisher may continue to send them
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rected, they are held responsible until thejr have set
tled the bills and ordered them discontinued.
4. If subscribers remove to other places without
informing the publishers, and the newspapers are
sent to tl e f inner direction, they are held responsi
jjl Q
i. The Courts have decided that refusing to take
newspapers from the office, or removing and leaving
them uncalled for, is primafaoie evidence of inten
tional fraud.
6. The United States Courts have also repeatedly
decided, that a Postmaster who neglects to perform
tua 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 Postmaster liable to the publisher
for the subscription price.
For the Crusader.
It is a source of dissatisfaction to many tha
they were born in humble circumstances. They
regret to see their neighbors in higher circles, make
a gTeat parade to show, when they themselves are
often very much straightened as to means. Very
seldom if ever, do they speak a word in behalf of
their rich, or nearer rich neighbor, no matter what
virtues and amiable tratis of character may con
centrate themselves in him. Ever and anon are
they ready to attribute the most worthy acts, to
sinister motives. If any one blessing claims the
precedence, outside the gospel, it seems that the
very one which is endured with such heart-burn
ings and murmurings, is the one to which the
claim rightfully belongs. There seems to them'just
grounds to think, that many laboring people, who
now enjoy a fine degree of health, both mental
and physical, would, had they been wealthy, have
been long since food for the shiny reptile- Cons
tant employment gives beauty, symetry, strength,
energy, health and sweet sleep. When the sturdy
farmer sits down to the table lie does not feel like
he is going to take a cup of castor oil, with the
greasy bubble slipping about on it. If he has
been a faithful veteran of the plow, he has done
two goodly deeds : first he has been making bread
for himself and family, and secondly he has cre
ated within his stomach a most splendid sauce,
which makes cornbread taste betterto him than bis
cuit to the idle lounger. When he lies down at night
ho does not have to use soporifics, or ‘count a thou
sand to procure sleep. His sleep is undisturbed,
except occasional, he dreams such beautiful and
picturesque dreams that it arouses him for a mo
ment, but he soon returns to the land of such pie
ties. When the sabbath comes and he mingles
a crowd of his friends at church for the first
time in a week, he actually enjoys himself finely.
It is something new to him. It is interesting and
delightful. He feels glad that the precious text
stands recorded “and the poor have the gospel
preached to them.” And he hears enough to
ponder on the whole week. And he feels and
knows that he is a smarter man than he wouid
have been had he idled the six days away, and
the seventh caught him with the head-ache and
eyes entirely too red to go to church or elswhere.
Numerate the gamblers and dissipaters over the
length and breadth of the land, and there will be
found four to one, in the ranks of the wealthy, ta
king into consideration the numerical strength, of
the two classes. Many poor men live to an hon
orable old age, who would die in the prime of life,
had they the means that some have. Some would
be shot or stabbed in tumultuous riots. Others
wouid be ship-wrecked and drowned on their way
to distant climes. A many a man would drink
himself to death, but for the want of means.—
Families frequently suffer because wealth abounds
in them. Suffer by disease in character, bv the
slanderers foul tongue, and last, though not the
least because they have no employment. What
a “fine fix” poor people are in if they just could be
lieve it. They have not half the sins to answer
for that the rich have. Why so ? Because they
have not had time to commit them. Which are
in the worse condition, “poor rich people, or rich
poor people ?” Os course, poor rich people are.—
They are so rich that it makes’ them poor, and
the others are so good that it males them rich.— ,
It would be better to be with the rich poor man,
in Abraham’s bosom, than to be with the poor *
rich man in that flame. OAK BOWER.
Hart Cos., <9a.
For the Crusader.
Wright&robo.Ga. Nov. 9th.
Mr. Editor :—Will yoiKalloij me a corner in
your columns for the purple of recording the
discovery of a very remarkable cave or vault in
the range of hills situated about a mile to the
South of this place. The was accidental
ly made by a young Mr. Holliman while out hunt
ing. In going up the hill, his attention was call
ed to an opening in its side,—i&kid opening being
protected by an arch of Granite. The entrance
which is elliptical and large enough for a man to
creep in, seems to have been covered with earth
and the washing of a gully directly above, was no
doubt the means of making it visible. On going
in, Mr. Holliman found the floor pavqd with the
same kind of stone of which the arch was con
structed, the height of the this room was about six
feet. Mr. H., did not attempt to explore further,
on account of the darkness which was perfect, so
he returned and procured a company of several of
our Townsmen, who went prepared with torches,
matches, cord &c., to make a thorough explora
tion of this singular subterranean passage.
It was my good fortune to make one of the par
ty, on entering about nine A. M. the next Tuesday
morning, we found everything as represented by
Mr. H. We proceeded alongarched passage
of some forty feet in length, arrived at a
blight of steps made of stone, on descending these,
ot which there were seven, there burst upon us a
scene for which none of us certainly were prepar
ed. It wa9 a room about Twenty feet square, the
floor was paved with a kind of blue glazed brick
on many of which were a peculiar kind of hiero
glyph anu the representation of animals but of
what kind we had no idea. In the centre of the
room was a square atone pillar, nine feet high and
covered with hieroglyphics, this pillar was surraoun
ted by a hollow inverted cone in which. were
found nine medals or pieces of coin, on one side of
these, are inscriptions in unknown character and
the reverse has the representation of what I take
to be a beatle with a serpent in its mouth.—
They were all covered with a whitish green rust,
and when polished show a color between that of
Lead and Brass. This was all that was found,
but certainly enough to induce the inquiry—by
whom, and when and for what purpose was this
relic of the olden time, designed.
Very Truly, &c.,
S. T. HENDERSON.
Barber Lodge, No. 125.
White Plains, Nov. 5—1867.
Whereas it has pleased the all wise disposer of
society to remove from our midst our brother C.
C. Alexander, a master mason of this lodge.—
Who has for many years associated with us in
the various relations of friend and brother, there
fore for the purpose of expressing our appreciating
of his virtues and our sense .of our own bereave
ment be it
Resolved, That in brother Alexanders death
our lodge has lost a worthy and acceptable mem
ber, and the fraternity one who was in every sense
a worthy brother —that though we deeply de
plore his loss we derive consolation from the fact
that while in life he discharged faithfully his duty
in the various relations of husband brother father
and friend, and that he had fully the esteem of all
who knew him best.
Resolved. That we commend his many virtues
to his surviqing brethen. That although while
in health we had not the evidence of his accep
tance with ’God—although on the bed of affliction
he gave strong evidence of his acceptance with
God of mercies which give us the ground to hope
that the great architect of the universe has
called him from his labors below, to rest in the
grand sanctum above.
Resolved , that we tender to his bereaved family
our heartfelt sympathies, andjfor them we offer our
earnest prayer that the God of the fatherless and
thewidow may he to them a present hslp and a fu
ture friend.
Resolved. That the jewells of this lodge ba clad in
mourning for three months and the bretheru wear
the usual badge for the space of thirty days an and
that a blank page of the book of records be dedi
cated to his memory and inscribed with his name
Resolved , That this preamble and resolutions”
be published in the Temperance Crusader and
Chronicle & Sentinel, and a copy be furnished to
the family of our deceased brother.
Thomas Hightower, )
Isaac A Williams, h Com.
John W. Swann. )
Never Despair.
“Do not agitate these questions now ; the peo
ple are not prepared to adopt extreme measures,
and you will harm your cause.”
This is familiar language. So-called conversa
tism, sitting comfortably and lazily under the shad
ow of old wrongs, feelingly deprecates, anything
like agitation. Fanaticism will break in upon
these peaceful slumbers, and hoary gentlemen in
white hairs be dragged along at a most undigni
fied pace. This timid policy is found in the church,
in our social commuuities, and breaths asthmatti
cally in the columns of the press. No measure
of reform must be talked about, much less legisla
ted into form, which does not follow public senti
ment.
The history of reform is replete with instruction.
No principle of progress has ever been made act
ive and regenerating, without advancing. Some
seem to think that old wrongs must exist eternal
ly, because they do exist. It would seem that
common sense would teach that the only way to
remove wrongs, would be to elevate public senti
ment up to a practical application of its power
for the removal of acknowledged evils. The ad
vanced parties in the struggle may be borne down
again and again, but their ranks will swell under
additions, the ground will be maintained, and the
whole body be brought up in line.
Men speak proudly of the Lutheran Reforma
tion. They should not invoke the stirring mem
ories of that reform. The iron-willed and daring
leader, at one bold stroke, left the religious world
behind him, and single-handed and alone, stood
against the shadowing power of the Roman church.
That great measure was acheived by martyrdom,
and the feet of contending hosts advanced and
retreated over fields slippery with blood. Luther
went abroad and educated the people up to his
position.
And so with the reform of 1776* Strong hearts
quailed before the odds against them. Some coun
seled timidity in Independence Hall, and wished
to await a more favorable hour. But the Henrys,
Jefferson’s, Adamses, and Hanoocks, stood where
they had iaken their position. They were ahead*
The storm surged aronnd them, but with the
standard tossing above them, they relied upon the
people to come up. But it was a fierce, protract
ed, and oftentimes doubtful struggle. ‘The reform
cost an immense aggregate of life and treasure - —
The armies marched to triumph through the red
glare of carnage. The colonies were brought up
to the position where their representatives had ad
vanced, and pledged life, fortune, and sacred hon
or in the stake. Had the Continental Congress
looked back instead of forward, no beacon fires
would have blazed from Bunker Hill.
Under this timid policy, the temperance re
form would have remained as at birth—but a
powerless infant. The pioneers in the movement
were cautioned to keep within a safe distance of
public sentiment. Yet it has been a history of ad
vance, Public sentiment has been educated, un
til the old pledge of more than a quarter of a cen
tury ago, has ripened into the fulness of Prohibi
tion, and tosses States and nations upon its stormy
wave.
Now, then, no true friend, to our reform will
hesitate to wish that the rum traffic might be pro
hibited entirely. Prohibition is the watchword
of our people. You are ahead of the people, says
the trimmer—too fast. Well, in the name of com
mon sense, how shall we ever ge't the people up
to Prohibition by sneaking behind the demoral
ized sentiment of that people, and under the shad
ow of legalized grog-shops, preachin g and praying
over the effects of intemperance ? v
Onwrrd ! Push the advanced columns to the
very gates of this doomed Bastileof and eath. Down
with the flag-staff, and up with the and rally
around it. Let our old standard float the skull
and crossbones of legalized piracy. We> shall be
compelled to retreat, probably, many and I .’ many a
time. But out parallel has been made. Again
and again we will return to the shock. ♦Gather
ing new strength as we hear the warm t irayers
and earnest wishesof the wives and mothers in
their homes, we will stand fast. The peoph l will
come to us. Prohibition shall be the battlecry h the
struggle, and under this standard our triumph s ball
be achieved. When the old farmer drew his w.x>d
with a raw-hide thong, and under the action of
the rain, found, when he arrived at the house, th at
his wood was where he started, he reasoned that
if he hitched at the house, the action of the sun
would bring up his wood. And so it did. We
will hitch, and await the heat of public soutimet
to bring thefpeopie to the spot. —Chief
Moral and Legal Suasion.
Many persons seem to regard moral and legal
suasion as directly opposed to each other, when
in fact they agree and harmonize exactly. A man
cannot be found who advocates the prohibition of
the liquor traffic, who is not a strong-friend of mor
al suasion. He pleads with the drunkard and
moderate drinker to flee from the wrath to comes
by abandoning their cups. He shows to the
dealer in poisons the immortality and w ickedness,
of his trade, and presents every motive
which an honest man could require to quit his
accursed business. He exhorts the people every
where up to ?he “help of the Lord against
the mighty,” and crush out the last vestige of the
evil. If moral suasion fails to turn the rumseller
from the error of his ways, the same weapon is
employed with the masses to induce them to de
mand a cessation of hostilities. There is, we know
a class of pseudo-temperance men who contend
that the only remedy for the evils of the traffic
and use of liquor is an appeal to the hearts and
consciences of men. This class is looked upon
with favor by the whole army of rumsellers, for
these fear nothing but law. There is not a sin
gle reason for resorting to appeals to the conscience
of a liquor seller, and there leaving the subject
that will not apply with equal force to the thief,
highwayman, or any other desperado. It is right
and proper that the immortality and criminality
of stealing should be enforced in every nursery,
school and church ; and it is also necessary that
there should be a law to punish those who will
steal in defiance of all moral appliances. So far
from our being opposed to moral suasion, we have
never hoped for success from auy other source.—
We never attempted to frame an argument a
gainst the traffic, or make an appeal to the drun
kard or the drunkard-maker, upon any other plat
form. We advocate the law before the people as
moral suasionists. The only redemption for th e
world is to be wrought out by moral suasion.—
The great object of law is not reformation, buty?ro
tection. We do not inquire primarily whether,
law will convert and reform, but the question is,
will society be protected by.it? We would not .
coerce men to be moral, but we would compel
them to respect the rights of others.-— Cincinnati
Crusader.
A Battle Incident.
At a battle of the Thames, a laughable inci
dent occurred, which is thus related by one who
was in the engagement.
The British General had formed his mod in op
en order wiih their cannon pointing down the road
by which the Americans were advancing, Gen .
Harrisoa immediately took advantage of this, and
ordered Col. Johnson’s mounted legiment to charge
at speed by heads of companions, so as to expose
the least possible front, pass through the open
intervals, and form in the rear of the British for
ces. This movement was briliantly executed by
the battalion under the command of Lieut. Col.
James Johnson, his brother Col R. M. Johnson, at
the same time charging the Indians with the other
battallion.
It happened that in one of the companies under
James Johnson’s command there was a huge braw
ny fellow, named Lamb ; he weighed about 240
pounds; was a brave man, and as good humored
as big—brave men proverbial y are. Lamb had
broken down his Kentucky horse by his great
weight, arid was mounted instead upon a short,
stout, wild Canadian pony, from whose sides his
long limbs depended almost to the ground, wjjile
his bulk frame rose high above the beast looking
not unlike an overgrown boy astride of a rough
sheep.
When the charge was made, Lamb’s poney took
fright, and broke into a run. Lamb pulled until
the bit broke in the animal’s mouth, and all com
mand of him was lost. The little pony stretched
himself to the work, dashed out of the ranks, soon
outstripped all the file leaders and pushed on in
advance of the company. Lamb was no longer
master of his horse or himself, hand he was in a
quandary. If he rolled off he would be trampled
to death by his friends ; if the horse rushed upon
the British lines with him, so far ahead of the rest
he most be killed. Either way death seemed in
evitable ; and to use his expression, he thought
“he’d jist say something they could tel! his friends
in Kentucky, when he went home.”
He struck both heels into the pony’s flanks
and urged him to his utmost speed. On they
drove, some fifty yards in front of the leading file
Lamb’s gigantic person swaying from side to side
and his legs swinging in a most portentious fash
ion—the little Canadian “pulling foot” all he knew
how, his tail straight, his nostrils distended, his
ears pinned back, and his eyes flashing from un
der their shaggy foretop, with all the spite and
spleen of a born devil. Just as he got in astride
or two of the british, Lamb flourished his rifle
and roared out in a voice of thunder. “Clear the
way, G and and n you ! for I’m coming !”
To his surprise the lines opened right and left
and he passed through unhurt. So great was their
astonishment at the strange apparation of such a
rider, and such a horse moving upon them, with
furious velocity, that they opened mechanically at
his word of command, and let him pass. So soon
as he gained the rear of their position, Lamb
rolled on the grass, and suffered his pony to go
on his own road. A few minutes more and he
was withhis comrades securing the prisoners.
What a Thought ! —There are in the United
States 300,000 drunkards. Suppose they ‘were
all to die to-day, and Were to be buried side and
side, in one continued line, allowing three feet for
the width of each grave, and three feet between
them—the line of graves would extend 3,406
miles ! Were they to be buried in one grave yard
they would cover an area of 680 acres, and a
fence to enclose it would be more than four miles
in circuit. War has its horrors —famine has it hor
rors—pestilence has its horrors—but the hor
rors of intemperance concentrate and exceed them
all. In ten years time, the whole procession will,
have passed, and the great grave yard will be
filled. How long shall it be so ? Will an end
never come ?
jO?“Who are, the enemies of temperance? How
shall we know who they are? All profess to be
the very best friends of the cause in the world.
And what test will distinguish the genuine from
the counterfeit ? The following will hardly ever
mislead our calculation. If a man, while profess
ing friendship for it, manifests no sympathy in
common with its active friends—if he
found doubting the wisdom of their plans without”
proposing any other, but’ lives only to suggest
doubts, and to throw suspicion on the
cy of all plans adopted by others —you maPpi#
him down either as sin open enemy or a false vrwfitß
whose assistance is useless.
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Valuble Cargo. —The steamer Flying Cloud
that passed'up yeaterdjy has as one item of freight
eighteen tons of bulk*)!—silver. It belongs to
the United States Government and as in transit
to the mint to be sSined. It was in gharge of
Adam’s Express conjjpkny. So says the Memphis
Bulletin of the 4tßinst.
‘•Put It Through.”
o*’ the express office; in HU >i v i ! e :
ulli iP'day the agent having been- o!\en an;io\ • >1 by
#fije one about his premises, "dmrwplmy the .. m
teuts of kegs or demijhohs containing wine or
%ur which the company had to ‘for.
ward determined to Set a. -rap for the offender.
Accordingly he-got- Dr.-——to so. mo lien a
deraijhon of wifie (which he had purchrsed fo
the to make those who sh uld drink
of it very sick at the stomach/ This 4on<> he ad*
dressed it tg some**name in Boston"JabelT&n
marked it to be ”J J ut through with cawy tuiu
it with the day’s freight It wassopn espied by
the depredator for whom tlie trap had been laid
and it was not long- before lie managed .o . a
good swing at it. He was caught in the act by an
other clerk’ and had tR compound for it bv let
ting him take a pull at it also. The latter com
municated the pleasing intelligence to others and
as they had nil been working hard and stood in
need of refreshment and itwas rather a good joke
than otherwise anil the company was amply
able to pay for it they all took a drink. The orig
inal drinker by right, of discovery drank two or
three times and presently a sicker man y.m never
did see than he was. Ha was hot along* in his
misery but he had the Worst of it. The emetic.j
operated with more or less violence upon sovera
persons and a very ludicrous picture—or rather a
whole gallery of pictures—they presented. In
all probability the contents ,of wine bottles it
transitu through that office will be enlierly safe
hereafter. —New VorJc Tribune'.
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A Hiding Place for Robespierre,
A curious discovery has lately been made v Idle
repairing the house for.mdy occupied by the J aco
bin Club during the great revolution and now
known as the Hotel do Londress in the line St,
Hyacihthe St honors. The Club which guided,
the destines of the revolution during some few
years had often boasted of allowing the ambition
of Robespierre and other leaders to progress so
far and no farther; and the, members by vote had
passed a law which entitle.] the majority to ex
clude from any pamcular seance any particular
member whose interests might lead him to sway
the opinions of the club. Robespierre whose am
bitions had rendered him an-ojbeofe of suspicion,
had often been voted out of the assembly; and it
has been a matter,of suipi'foe to the h istorian of
the time that lie could so long have , maintained
his influence in spile of the violence ofthl opposi
tion thus permitted. The secret is now revealed:
A small room—n hiding place in the thickness
of the wall —has just been discovered, opening by
a trap door into the very hall where the delibera
tigqs were being carried on, and whence he could,
listen to the measures to bo taken against him anp
thus forearmed have power to defeat them. It ip
.evident that this hiding place must have been oc
cupied by Itosbespoirre; and when first entered by
the workmen the traces of his presence were still
visible iu the journal which lay upon the table
and the writing paper from widen had been torn
small portions as if for the purpose of making a
memorandum. The only book which was Lund
in the place was a volume of Florain ope\ 3!
the second chpater of Claudiue, It was covered
with snuff which had evidently been shaken from
the readers shirt-frill and bora testimony p tire
to the truth of history which records the simplic
ity of the literary tastes of Robespierre. Ills pres -
ence seemed still to hang about that small space
as though lie had quitted it but the .moment be
fore; and singular enough the marks of His foet as
though he had recently trodden through the mud
were stil| visible on the tiles with which the floor
ing is composed
The Close of a TAfe of Crimes. —The Mobile
Tribune publishes the following particulars touch
ing the last end of James Copland, one of the no
torious “Wages clan, which for a long time infest
ed the bord r counties of Alabama and Mississippi
Copland was hanged at Augusta Perry county,
Miss., on tire 30th ult, for the murder of James
Harvey some ten years ago :
“Since his co'fleninalipn, he dictated to the Sher
iff of Perry county a breif history of his ignoble
career. lie remained perfectly hardened to the last
moment. Wliile riding to the gallows he talked
freely with the crowd (numbering some two thou
sand persons ) and expressed his gratification on
being so numerously attended by his tellow cit
izens and playfully remarked that he would re
turn to them in a few days. Before the expiration
of his crime he bequeathed his body .’to a medic ;]
gentleman but in his last moments recalled the
bequest. He assisted the Sheriff to adjust the
noose which was to deprive him of life and then
recklessly proposed that he be allowed to leap
from the top of the gallows. The deceased was
thirty-one years of age and had passed cl -vert
years of his existence in prison.”
— .
Ship Struck by Lightning at Sea and Burnt’
The ship Howadji, Captain Balch from Boston’
bound to Liverpool with a “cargo of cotton hemp
and tallow was struck by Lightning on the 3d
inst. at 8 am., in fat. 42 50 north long. G 1 42
west being about 100 miles from Sable Island.
The cargo was set on fire and the ship totaly con
sumed. The Captain and crew were fortunate
ly rescued at 1.1 o’clock the same night by the
ship Guttenburg Capt. Myers and brought to
New York.
A Tribute to the South. —An important report
of the committee of Finance in the New York
Common council after describing the distress at
the North, says :
“ißook at the contrast. To-day the t’orei gn
debt of the United States is absolutely less than
then. The South is not only out t*’ debt but ab
solutely rich. She owns her own, cotton sugar
rice and tobacco. The north is in debt but, the im
mense serplus of her productions from harvests
hitherto entirely unknown, are amply sufficient
to meet it all and yet the prices rule lower than
at any for four years.”
What is a coquette *? A heartless flirt ; a thiirg
with more beauty than sense, —more accomplish
ment than learning more charms of person than
mental graces, —move ‘apmirers than friends more
fools than wise men tor attendants. , • V ,
What is” a dandy ? A thing in pantaloons’
with a body aud two arms head without brains
and a cigar stuck-in, a hole before tight boots a
cane a “scented white%andkerchief a standing col
lar two breast-pins aircta showy ring on his little
finger .? §L
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A gentleman who had ‘been out dining at a
fiend’s with his lady in during home mistook the
way/irftfSnade such nuine&ms blunders, that she
begtfff to fear that her excellent spouse had taken
that) was wise fnd she ventured to
lsh‘£ the same. Never* vqvv— fear my d-d dear
said he; ‘l’ll get home all stfe if—i the /i-h-horse
only hold together /’ I|# wasn’t the worse for
liquor I Not at all !
£ Libellers are I ujrjPbravos by
i or illiterate
goods is as bad as tbelLheif tbe buyer of'li
bels is as guilty as their author. As the’ reader
Os a slanderous journal woiUjJcßf-he had the
What he reads, the maligner would f>e
corae had . lie the oportuuity and
the c^fege, —He who stabs you with a pen
thatsame with a penknife..were he equal
ly safe from detections and jm law.
£|e Cenif ome (toaber.
PENFIELD, GEORGIA.
Thursday Morning, December 3, 1857^
The Last Issue,
This Number of our paper is
the last that will be issued for this year. There is
one number niore, due, but as we have a great deal
of work to do i \ the office, to prepare the way for
new Printing material, we have couoluded, it will
pay fill parties interested, better, to do the work
than so issue the paper.
We ropiest all our friends to be quiet until they
hear from us again.
Extras.
Containing the advertisements will be is
sued, for all the county offices, and any one in the
county wishing to advertise* will send in the adver
tisement and it will! be properly circulated.
A Bu t. has been introduced in the Legislature by
Mr. McDonald of Ware, to authorize the voters in
the different districts, to allow, or prohibit spirituous
liquors to be .retailed in the districts.
Plantation in Warren co. for Sale-
We invite
attention to the Advertisement of Mr. A. B. Phelps
offering his valuable plantation in Warren county
for sale. The place is known all over that and the
adjoining counties as being a place worth having.
Vv c call attention to our new advertisements in
this number. Especially to the Advertisement
of the Carrol ton .Cason ic Institute , and the Buena
Vista- Academy and A. L Johnson &, co. “e,r traor
dhurry inducements to purchasers”
j The Departure of Gen. Walker,
We find in
the New Orleans papers accounts of the circumstan
ces attending the departure of Gen. Walker from
Xovy. Orleans for Mobile. It seems that he left his
bail of S2OOO to take care of itself, and left the city
by the Pontchartrain Railroad, his comrades taking
the same direction in small parties, and assembling
to the number of upwards of three hundred at Lake
End. The whole then embarked on board the U.
S. M. steamer California , that plies between New
Orleans and Mobile. Tho Picayune, of the 18th
publishes the following communication from a mem
ber of the Expedition:
Before this reaches you, Gen. Walker will have
loft the United States on his way back to Nicaragua
with the first division of emigrants. The division
will number about three hundred and fifty men, 0-
Ver two hundred cf whom’ left New Orleans. Os
this number there are over thirty officers and men
who were with Gen. Walker in Nicaragua. The
officers a re. as follows:
Aids to the General. —Mai. J. V. Hoof and Captain
A. Brady.
Assistant Surgeon (Anerait— D r. Kellum.
Colonels. —Frank P. Anderson, Brunoatzmer,
Thomas Henry.
—o At* 9 -
Our Banks for Twent 7 Years.
The Louisville
Courier fu. A s the following instructive chapter
of facts and fu;. es.
When the financial revulsion of 1887 began, there
were in ail the bi-iks of the Union 1:18,000,000of
specie, •:> 1 est Os ir note iin circulation, $i4!>,000,-
000. ‘j hr circulation began contracting as the crash
progn , and continued- decree Jng from year to
yea;. •> i O IB it was reduced to S3B, f >oo,ooo
whih ;>;c(e was $83,500,000. Then (he circu
late: i to increase again until, in i 5-1, it
reach-.d tin vim of $201,0/0,000, while the specie
was $59 :i -ii..uC!o.
Ti -■> ib.'il- may again be regarded as the
tuVnh “ point in the contracting process. There are
not % ’ >OO,OOO of specie in the banks now, and there
are 1.0 ■4,0,00,000 of their notes in circulation.—
How long this contracting of the circulation will con
tinue, it would’- be difficult to determine, but it is not
likely to cease until th'e quantity of specie in the
banks is increased. That there are too many mil
lions of notes in circulation, and too few millions of
specie in tiv banks, is certain. The one must be in
creased,, an 1 the other decreased, and wliile this pro
cess is going on, tho price of many things that are
now oud'a- eou: ly high will have to come down.
Them ; o no v in the United States more than
1,250 banks, v fill 143 branches. Their capital, all
told, r i 35,000,000. Their yearly discounts
and lot is amount to nearly $700,000,000. In ad
dition i.o ! u.u the amount of capital employed
by bankers has been estimated at $113,000,000. —
Withsuoh Banking facilities it is not wonderful that
our people go wild with speculation and extrava
gance. The country is at one time flooded with
money, and then the leaction all at once comes on
and in the contracting of the banks people go to ru
in. I; is bound to bo so, for it were otherwise, the
price oi everything in the country would reach an
intolerable height, and everybody would be seem
ingly ru h, while in reality they would be poor.
The people and the banks are now uhde going a
fiery o.v. ai. The strongest find it difficult to stand.
The creak go down almost without a struggle.—
Doubtless we shall all be the better of the trial,
though it prove hard to bear. It is to be hoped
that we shall profit by our present experience, and
not ru Aon to another ruin as we did from 1823 to
1837, and from 1837 to 1857.
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(Ji ■>);<;r.v Penitentiary.— We make the following
abstract from the annual report of the principal keep
er (YVir, Turk) of the Georgia penitentiary, to his
excellency, the Governor, showing the condition of
that insti Aon at the close of the last fiscal year,
ending October 6, 1857 :
Mafe convicts in prison, Oct. 4th, 1850 159
Rec'M “ during the year (58
“ females “ “’ “ 4—72
Total - - 231
Males pardoned by the
Females “ by “ “ •>
Males died 4
Males discharged on expiration of sentence. .13
Males escaped 4—07
Leaving in prison on sth Oct., 1857 164
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110 .u n*ii at W.yhrexton.—An affray occured at
Warren ton on Friday night last, in which a young
fad named Wh'f'hesid shot and killed John Jennings
Tne circuni stances as we learned them, were to the
effect l t Jennings, in a quarrel with the elder
Whip h and, drew a pistol and snapped it twice at
Whitvhead; end was about making a third attempt
to fire, \vh >n the boy seeing the danger of his fa
ther seized a gun and disehraged the into
the side of Jennings the wound proved mortal.
Quebec Nov. 21.—A fearful financial panic occur
red on the day after the steamship Atlantic sailed.
All the banks refusdd to discount in any shape.
The Treasury Department issued an order supen
ding the Banks of Eng and’s charter and authorizing
the issue of small notes to any amount. The effect
was an instantaneous cessation of the panic.
The news was telegraphed to all the principal cit
ies on the continent and was received with furious
acclamations of pleasure.
Coton and produce of all kinds immediately ap
preciated in value. The cotton quotations are notn
•innl and irregular
Fair Orleans Middling Orleans 7?d.
“ Mobile, Uud (No quotations)
“ Uplands Middling Uplands 7d
The stock of American cotton is 162,000 bales.
Consols were quoted at from 89 1-8 to 89 1-4.
New Orleans, Nov. 14.—The Legislature of Tex
as have elected J. Pinckney Henderson and J. W. ’
Campbell, United States Senators, to succeed Gene
rals Houston and Rusk.
Inquest. —An inquest was held yesterday morn
ing, by Lewis Levy'. Esq., ex-officio, on the body of
a man named McLendon, overseer for Robert TANARUS,
Jones, of Burke county. The verdict of the Jury
was, that the deceased came to his death in yor-se
quence of being run over by the morning train on
the Waynesboro’ railroad, near this city: It was
the impression of the jury, from circumstances and
facts brought to then- notice, that the deceased had
been intoxicated, and thoughtlessly and unfortunately
got upon the railroad track in that condition, and
was crushed to death.— Constitutionalist.
♦>
fr-W Three new States will apply for admission
into the Union during the next session of Congress,
to wit Minnessota, Kansas and Oregon. When these
are admitted, the number of States will be thirty four
and the number of senators sixty-eight. The Ten i
tories then left will be Washington, Nebraska, Kiev
Mexico, Utah, Dakotoh, and Arizona.
K
There is nothing but specie in Aikan-m
there being no banks. Texas are paid in g. Id
and silver and the State pays nothing but ihe
“hard” out. The State Treasury is well provided
with gold and silver; having more than will I;’ ■j>
the Government for two years.
PATENT MEDICINES.
BS™* m ,W&. 0
Ophiiou* of ihc Press.
We call attention to the great remedy of Pcitv
Davis & Son called the Pain Killer. We belie-..
that the public generally have great confidence iu
the efficacy of this medicine, as it is in this Smli
very generally* used. Biblical Recorder, [A. <'. >
In conclusion, we will take the liberty to remark,
that a more justly celebrated article than “Perry
Davis’Pain Killer” has never been introduced u
the public.— Prov. General Advertiser..
Notwithstanding the many imitations of this art:
cle, and many other medicines in the market in
tending to answer the same purpose, yet the s!e
of Perry Davis’ Pain Killer is more than the u 1
of them put together. Itisoneofthe few articles
that are just what they pretend to be. Try ii.
Brvmwicl- Telegrapih.
We have but little confidence in the trumpet
songued statements of the proprietors of adverb -a and
medicines generaly, but we are forced to concur 11
the opinion, uniformly expressed by all who lr- vt
used Perry Davis’ Vegetable Pain Rider, that it U a
very valuable article, and one that it would bo
well for every householder to have at hand, in case
of bruises, scalds, burns, diarrhaea, dysentery, clml
era, fever and ague, and the host of diseases, exter
nal and internal, which it is adapted to cure or alle
viate. No article of medicine ever attained to such
unbounded popularity and extensive diffusion. It
has penetrated to every part, even the most remote
of the known world, bearing with it healing influen
ces more potent than those of the spices of “Araby
the blessed.” We are informed by our principle
druggists that they sell more of this article for ex
portation than of any or all others, and that the us
mand is constantly increasing. —Salem Observer.
Sold by all medicine dealers, John B. Moore, and
Cos. Savannah wholesale agents. 5-2v-4S.
A Great Medicine. —No medicine ever offered to
the public has met with such universal and signal
success as Perry Davis’ Veggtable Pain Killer. It
is a sure cure for all kinds of pains. Try it ami
thank us for the suggestion. Sold by the Druggists.
Moffat's Life Pills and Phoenix Bitters. Irreg
ularities of living privation and over indulgence of
the appetite bring on indigestion andSlyspepsia.
In all such cases the Moffat medicines may be resori
ed to with an entire confidence that a complete re
toration to health will follow. Sold by the proprie
tor W. B. Moffat, 835 Broadway, N. Y.
WEDLOCK.
“ The bloom or blight of all men’s happiness.”
|E£f~ln Cuhoden, Monroe co., Ga., on the Even
ing of the 10th inst„ by the Rev. TANARUS, S. Allen, Mr.
T. J. Foster, of Fairburn, Ga., to Miss M. L. Lesu
cur, of the former place.
On Thudsday the sixth Nov. at 11 o’clock A. M.
at the residence of her Bro. Col. T. L. Davis, in
Washington co. Geo. by the Rev. D. T. Myrioh,
Miss Winifred Cornelia Davis, to Col. J. Randolph
Hardison, of Florida.
OBITUARY.
“When coldness wraps this suffering clay,
Ah! whither strays the immortal mind,
It cannot die, it cannot stay,
But leaves it’s darkened dust behind.”
>-*: ———
Tn Carroll county, Ga., on the 18th ult., Laura Dean
infant daughter of Joseph H. and Milly Broona, aged
thirteen months.
Rest in thy silent tomb, sweet child, until resur
rection’s morn, when thy mortal will put on immor
tality, and live forever with that Savior who said,
“Suffer litttle children to come unto me and forbid
them not, for of such is the kingdom of Heaven.”
W. F. S. P.
Died, at Fort Scott, Kansas Territory, on the ev
ening of the 18th October, of chokva infantum,
Macon Crawford, youngest child ofjenjamin and
Susan F. Brantly, aged Seventeen months and a few
days.
Sandhill Division No. 357 S. of T.—Died at his
residenci on Friday the eighth inst., Jefferson C.
Moody, aged about forty-ffve years. Brother Moody
had been the friend of temperance but for the last
twelve months a member of Sandhill Division, ’tie
was faithful to his pledge, died sober, and was bu
ried with the usual ceremonies of the Sons of Tem
perance,
Resolved , That in the death of brother Jefferson
C. Moody, Sandhill Division has lost the society of
a faithful brother ; the community the example of a
sober citizen, and the family the protection of the
father’s strong arm.
Resolued , That we deeply regret the death of
brother Moody, and offer to the family our heartfelt
sympathies in their bereavement.
Resolved , That we will wear the usual badge of
mourning for thirty days, and that a page in out-re
cording book be dedicated to his memory.
Resolved, That a copy of these proceedings be for
warded to the family of the deceased, and another to
the Crusader with a request to publish.
NT B. W. HOLT, R. S.
Nov. 21st 1857.
Statement of the Bank of li
at the close of business o*l Tuesday
84AI day of November 1857.
ASSETS. LIABILITIES.
Notes Discounted, *90,000,00 Capital stock sub-
Expenses, Salaries Ac. 3,088,62 scribed, $200,000,00
Office I urmture, 417,42 25 per cent, paid isA* 50,000 (Hi
Paid f or Engrav.ng A Circulation, ‘* 60 099 00
Printing Notes &e. 1,752,23 Protits on Interest
Due from Banks, 4,879,00 and Exchange, ‘ 5 289 27
specie, 15,121,00 Due Depositors, 6,000,0
115,588,57 ijs 27
GEORGIA, (TJERSONALLY appeared before me 11
Greene County, ) M 15. Godard, President, and J. A. l’t
dbn, Cashier, of the Bank of Greenesborough, and made oath
that the foregoing statement isjust and true to the best of their
knowledge and belief. 11. B. GODARD, President
JAS. A. PEDEN, Cashier.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 20th Uav <V November
1857
List of Stockholders.
CHAS W. KEITH, 800 at *IOO *30,000
H. B, GODARd, 500 “ *• 50 000
B. B. WIGHT, 285 . •• 26 500
W. M. KEIIH, 280 “ “ aa'oOO
T. CHITTENDEN, 2*>
Tot ab S2OO,OC#