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but in contemplating the effect, (fce cause* seemed to etude me—lt it surely ult tint we dream of purity in earthly love, and all that Imagination paint* or faith can promise in high- j er or holier Intercourse. The father ** hit face reflected in softer anJ gentler form* in Hi* infant daughter; her expanding min i catches it* impreosion* from It* experience; In joy, her participation double* h.a delight; in sor row, her sympathies and endeating fondue** mitigate the pang. In prosperity, she sderrtt*; in adversity, with kindly roiim;r..tinn* she lighten* by sharing the Jwtheii ; in the eold and bhler cup of poverty, sha tningl * Ihe in gredients of willing o’ edicnce and growing love. “Such was mine—and I looked, when dei rasccived and irtrS .gth failed, to h tte passed away from life without * groan, pillowing mv palsied head upon a daughter’s bosom. ‘-Out no—no j the blast that scattered branch and fruit, speut it* force upon the upholding prop j and no*.v the *eutU, u trunk barren ami l-aflc*. totter* at e.cry breeze, lonely, profit less, and unseemly.” The old man ng tin ahook my hand with a convulsive grasp, anti left tun 1 upon tho grave of •**’ nnd turned my gaze upon the fattier, a* he moved slowly from me —ami felt that, for the morning’* experience, for tho power* pf sympathy with the smitten and tho lonely, it was “good for me thui I had been afflicted.” MEETING AT Sr. MARTS. At s large and respectable Hireling of thn citizens of St. Ma-ys, held in the Preshyterian Churcli on l lie evening of the lilt Sptembcr, 1833, for t he purpose of expressing tlieir feel ing* in relation to the death of thtnriuie fellow citizen, Thomas R. Hardee, Esq., Arch'd Clark E-.q., was called to tbo chair, and Dr. 11. Bn eort, appointed Secretary. The following preamble and resolutions were adopted. Whereas by the verdict of the Jury of In quest, of our late hum-tiled fellow citizen Thomas E. Hardee, was deliberately murder ed in the street of this place on the 3.lth if Au gust, 1830, by Charles Ro-ngnoll, and w here as the committing so high it crime in a peacea ble* civil and Christian community, is an out rug.- which requires our reprobation a* n*Fii, and Christian.*, and should it pass unnoticed, and the perpetrator be allowed to escape, other of our fellow citizens may in like manner lose their lives, and our town be again plunged into mourning and sorrow for the loss of some of her brightest ornaments nnd best inhabitants: And whereas by such all id, the law sos the land are put, at defiance ; the peace and good order of Society contemned mid disregarded, the best feeling of our nature trampled upon, and life the greatest boon of Heaven sported with and wantonly, tmd maliciously taken •, families deprived of their head umi support, niul they with their sympathising countrymen celled to lament and monr over their untime ly and unfortunate death And whereas we consider it due tooursvi. es, to our country’s laws, to stamp and stigmatize this great and allocking crime w it h the seal of our condemna tion, and if possible bring Dm offender ... Die punisbmenyi'vatflud !<> ssueh high t.ffci, by tite laws of the land. We therefore, tha citi zen* of St. Mary's do hereby resolve : Ist. That we are warranted by the verdict of the jury of inquest to consider our into lamen ted fellow citizen Thomas E. Hardee, to hate been most wantonly murdered, and our com imiltity to have been thereby deprived of one of its most valuable and worthy members, and thiit this unfortunate result and shocking ca tastrophe has been brought about by the publi cation of an tmnonymuus p.unplet entitled. ‘The Imposter,’ Hid. Tltut we highly disapprove of the prac tice too prevalent in cut c< until,of carrying, concealed weapons, and us citizens we will dis courage and discountenance this dungerous and unlawful practice, 3d. That we w ill use our best exertions and utmost endeavors to prevent ail rencontres in QUr streets, u hereby u fellow cieature may lie deprived of his life, and we will uw ail right proper and unlawful un its* to bring the viola tor* of the good order and yeat eof society ter Die puuhthtacntf ue thercUL^BlF ‘•ld. That tlie Intendunt be directed to offer reward of Five llut.dr.il Fcl'nis for the up prehension and confinement in any safe jail of the .state, of 11re said Charles Itossignoli, tliat In may be tried for the crime charged on hint by the jury aforesaid. • tit- 1 hat this meeting deeply sympathise with the family of the deceased, for the loss they have sustained in his unfortunate death. (hit. That these proceedings be* gned by the C hainnan and Secretary, tltut a copy thereof be ftirnidled the family of the deceased, and to His Excellency the Governor of the State, Al so that they be published in the gazettes of Sa varnish, with the request that the editor* of all papers throughout the State, favorable to the good order and peace of Society, w ill give them an insertion in their icspectivc paper*. ARCH. CLAIIK, Chairman. 11. Bacon, Secretary. Singular Epidemic. —A letter from Springfield, Vi. was ott Saturday received at Boston, from w hirh the Mercantile Journ al makes the following extract. Spi ingfield is at the base of the Green Mountains, a re inarknhly healthy situation, w e had always supposed : “Our town is almost a string of hospi tals. A virulent dysentery, accompanied with symptoms of Asiaslic cholera, has bro ken out among us; and hardly a family escapes. The wires of two of mv nearest neighbors died last night, and m every di rection seems spreading. We are not ex empt : J and ll—have the first stage* *>f it. <Jur ‘help’ has left us. sick, and we are not as we were and w ish to he. No stagnant w ater exists near. All nature is still clothed in verdant beauty and luxuri ant vegetation. I slay at home ou this ac count. i have calls to visit others, when! iny own family can spare me. One, nay, I several of our best young men and families j are down w ;i> this epidemic.” ; IIE II EH Ml): rm th* bsien tmani.r. The Temperance Cause. Mr. Enir a : 1 statcJ I t a previous communication tbst I Wat at a J vacate <>f tempera tire and gladly would w ish, if I know my own heart. that the evil of Intempersiue hou!d *pee.li y be abolished from our community. Upon this I •Object, I presume, ail good rilize is agree— fur ititemper.tnc< i* sotm-iiDy an evil, that my heart si< en within me, when I see my fellow men yielding to tie dentiucnve influence of i:* charms, and sinking, like the beast, into I their own mire. Tltere ia a do!B"*ic tyrant now traversing the flirt it dialricts ofmir country, consuming i it* young and vital energ es; Heading down t she biussoms of it* hopes; undermiuit g its free Institutions; setting at defiance all it* att tho i'ies; multiplying etg tt sos torture ; fen cing, ffg:a'.e yards; and breaking pe.iilence u; on every acre ofour goodly heritage. This van-devouring “fftopSt may be call J wiiab s\apt* Ha non* Di#ti • in rn*mbr join* or limb/* *'F*rcetth Ith luriet, tumble ov i* l\:r-tmiANcz. “Other lords have had do i minion over us.” but berets the very Nero of j | the horrid dynasty, and we must dethrone the despot or we are lost. If we sit still but a lit- ! tie longer and look quietly on. while tbi* scourge is roging li e a tempest of file lit all our borders, the fourth of July will indeed come; but we shall have no independence to celebrate—Oltr liberties w ill exist only in the ‘ song of the diuiikard fail /ilium. (I hat they wi at.) will be wntipn on all the monuments of : our glory. This *in fetters tho immrrtil mind n* we'l j us the body. It not only blister* the skin but ! scorches the vitals. While it scourge* the j flesh it tortures the conscience. While it crip j pie* the wratch in ei * y limb, and broils away j lit* blood, and inside i it* channels, and throw* j every nerve into ady mg tremor, it a.-. goes j down into the unsounded depths of human de pravtty, und not only .j< ie- ell tl e j inn-t t. to fierce insunection ..gainst God and man. hut kindles a deadly civil war in the very heart 1 of their ow n empire, . Who can enum •rate the disease w hich in temperance generates in the brain, sum.act.. ’ lung*, liver, pore*, muscles, nerves, fluids, am! , ’ hutever tire is suspretibie of di>ea enr pain f in the human sysn m ? How rudely does it • abut up, one after another, all the doorsof sen sat ion ; or lit the cupric’ of its wrath, —throw ’ them all wide open to oicry hateful intruder I ■ llow, with a refinement of cruelty almost pc . collar to itself, dues it fly in the sac of itsvie 1 titus, and hold theirqnlv.-ring eye alls in it ‘• fitnga till they abhor th * tight an Iswim in blood! < Maik that eobuneled. slavering doubtful 1 .out.ia.it of ain in, retching and picking tansy ’ before sunrise—loathing hub. , a .1 g ‘tnau ’ I his car bored to tile dout of a dram simp u • hour after—dbgui.-ed b. tore ten—quarreling ’ by dinner tune, and snoring drunk bcf. r. -up ’ per. See bun next morn tin at his retching ! j mid his tansy turain ; and a* the dr. : v nr.- , i.i couung noisy cross driveling, and tnlnxi ’ ciited. ’I bilk of this dragging out months and years of torture, till the earth refine* any ’ longer to Lear such a wretch upon its *u f ;co, ■ and then tell me if any Barbadian slave was 1 ever so miserable. Hut who is this that comes hobbling up,— w ith bandaged i. gs, inflamed eyes, and a dis- I tortedenmuemm. e I Every st. p is like the piereji gnl u sword or the driving of u nail nnioig terv. sand tendons. And wh.it is the • cause I The humor* be tells us, trout.'e him; and though lie has applied to ull Ihe doetius far and near, lie can get no relief. Alt, these ! w icked and ini e erate humors I Every body ‘ i knows whe e they cume from. But for the ’ bottle he might have been a sound and Ileal | j jhy tra i. |j|; Look next at that wretched hocel, open on | all sides to the rude and drenching infrusbm of the elements. ‘I he polling vWeton, l\ mg las you see, upon a !.iMe raw in the corner. ! 10 cimsuinptiou, was ome the owner of a cotnfflrraoie mansion. It is i.iteinperance j which has consumed his substance rioted up- j on his l!o-h und bis Breath, und fixeJthat deep s q n ehiul cough) in his wasting vitals.—But j your sympathies runic ton late. Pe.hapse you •old him the very poison which has brought him to this—or it we it out sparkling from your ! distillery to the retailer, —and thence ii.tothe jug, half concealed by ih ■ tatterel g irment of the vtetiri, us he curled it home to his starving ! family. Go next to the almn house, and tell me whether you recognize that dropsiral figuie lingering IVotn week to week, under the slow torments of strangulation. How piercing are | bis shrieks, as if he was actually drowning!— ; He was once your neighbor thrifty, reputable and happy—but lie yte.ded to the hlatvdish- j luetits olthe great destiover. He drank, firsi temperately, then freely, then to excess, ami finally, to habitual inebriation. The conse quences are before you. The swelling flood in w bich he e.ches every precarious breath, no finite power can long assuage. Leaving him, to be cast u ivieck by the ang- , rv w aters upon the shore ofeleririty, enter that! hut. towards which a solitary neighbor is ad j vuncing w ith hurried steps. There a husband : and a father is supposed to be dying. The disease is delirium (rent tis. Every limb and muscle quivers as in agonies of dissolution. Reason, having been so often and so rudely I driven from her seal by habitual intoxication. . wow re fusing m return. I have now attempted to paint to the reader a drunkard. Will some of the members of the Temperance Society now point out a remedy? If action is necessary, they must adopt some , plan toga upo . If they intend to continue in tbe:r efforts, and let the mighty and irrestst abir powft-of publie opinion abolish ibis hy l dra from the soil of our young republic, I go j heart and hand w Uli them. But if they intend I ;o nuke i. a political question, and unite their I¥l C SOsSTOOtT NTV H3O R/L leiP. forturc* with n jo ttlca) party. I will opfsec, as) hope every man will such an alliance. The cry wou.d be ( hutch and State! “ho would : doubt ilia t nc? The cause of Temperance I which hat flourished likt th* fhre:i Bay tree, and wrought a wonderful change in public Opinion would fade, w iilu r end and e. I trust tie more reflecting portion of the temperance men w til ace Ihe fo’iy “f attempt ing to have tno.e laws paaae'i upon the üb ji-et. One ha sos those who are signing mr meri.da are totally ignorant of the naturenf the lawa w hiclt ure in exi*tanc. —und if they would do their duty to ti e c< mmtmity and I tiave ihe existing law* put in force, the evil of which they complain ao much, would vatt i*h a* the flux w hich fall*osundrrat the touch of fire. But unfortunately for their cause, they lend too deaf an ear to the vok eof re iton. and are pushing their point with a determina tion bordering on infatuation. The result will be a determine 1 opposition by a powerful par ty —and the temperance cause will sink to in dgnificance and derision and fin,a ly (dumber in a graie from which there will be no reaur i rcetion. FIDEB. W hile- Oak Plantation. FROM THE aaVINNAH OMHIOIAN. AIiLANtHOLY Hill PM HI ( K. AVe have litis uior.ii.ig to ree-ir.l the I >*s ;of the fine Ship \lUle,ige’ ille, a regular packet between New York mid this port, | which the veteian seaman, ("apt. I). L. Pout er, commanded. Apprehenj ms fr her faie have been eiiirrtuiiied in tbi* I city ftr several days, (since the arrival of the brig Philura ami otiier ies-ela which encountere I the late qale.) The u nil ol I yesterday veil lere.l ceriuia her fate, and j ihe ilisuater is rendered mure li*tre**i.i j. : bv the iuielligenee that seven i idivi luul* | (whose names we are not aide to itirnti mi) j iiave perishe !. Another ofour i e-se s, the ; 11. H. Douglass, on Iter v iiage fr on St. Ebon to Baltimore, suffered in the gale— ’ (for tbF particulars of which we refer to our j marine head), Extrart of a letter from a passenger (on j hoard the Milledgeville) to a friend in tiiis j city, dated. Elizabeth Citv. Sept. 5. 1913 I have had news to giie you ive were u rr eked on theSlllh nil. oil ih<- coast of Nortli Carolina, forty mile* North ol Cape llalteras, after being nine days at sea. 1 j an* very near losing mv life. I via* the !.i*t that left the vessel ;C.ip . Porter h.-.ir l\ escaped. I have loutallniv elotliing a* | well a* u .iiamity • fgomls, whielt i had mi board. lam ob.i-ed to return to N York lo lit ike other parch ihc. We have lost ! seven passengers an I one seaman. Twelve hours after the ship struck she , was itt a thousand pieces. All the go i.ltd* ion hoard will he lost wi.h the ix -< p.iou of i imii, u hirh are in good order. Tliev w ill lie gold on the o.it 10*1. i was aim st | naked ami w ithout iiiimi v w! <■ . I reach I 1 lie Sh ite. Thu ik God l!.e L * lge will - it| ply me, and 11 s’ !i u.e ■ rein: nto New j York. Pram the fforfol H-.u'on. Ith insl. A’, e sjiic below, ail aeeou it of the lost of • >L.e pte.k'-t snip Milledgejrille, from New Y ok, i> on. i to Hina.mail, with the lo*s of n-veral | a-:l.gi'rs and .me if the er. u. hi/ in rC’ and hiss of life —Hei eral sea ! men arrived here vestmluv aft.-ni um, who i stiio'd that they belonged to the ship Mil j edge Ville, C.iptaiif Porter, which sailed Iril.u New V ork the 2lsl lift, ivitii a cargo and tli y yo.oo, &r. and reieral passengers, hound to Sava..mill, ami was totally lost on Thursduy imnniug at 2 A. M. foundering, i on Chiekamaeomie t, about twenty miles to j the North ward of Cape H.ittenis. Eight passengers, a whom was a female, j mi I one of rite crew were ilrowtied. (’apt. Porter remaiue 1 on the Iw-arb to attend to that pugl ufthe car go which wash ed asiiore. U e also learn from llie rwiv of the ship Mviledyei ille, that a iimi.her of rattle were driven ashore on fftt fieucfc, suppose ! to be from some \ easel bound Ua the West 1 ti i dies. Athens, Sept. ft. Miraculous Escape.— Mr. Detlar, a highly respectable citizen of Augusta, pre | ripitnled himself, hemi foremast, from the third story window of the Central Hotel on Wednesday night last, an ! although he fell “it a pile of wood, escaped uninjured, lie was at the time lab .ring tin ler the i lea that he lui l taken the Yellow Fever in Vugusta, i (which place he had recently left) and wished to destroy himself. He was taken hock to his chami.er, Imt with that running ; so peculiar to insane persons, clu led the vigilance of th ose place Inn otch hi n, a id again jtnnpe I out of the sane window, alighting on his lead; he did not escape as before, as his head was tlrea Ifulli bruised, an I several hones broken. It is. however, thought that he will recover.— li list. The Lexington. Ivy. Intelligencer states thatu bloody affray look place at Richmond, Ivy.on the‘Jff.h, between Mr. Muzzy, prin cipal ol an Academy at Richmond,an I Mr. Thomas M. Stone, a merchant of that place, w hirh resulted in the death of the lat ter. The parties met in the street, both armed w ith pistols, and fired three rounds apiece tw oof w hich, from Muzzy, took af icet upon his niitagn..its, causing immediate death. * V Beautiful Exclamation. —When the Queen of France, consort of L mis Pliillip pi first heard ot her late daughter Marie’s death, she ejaculated—“ My God, 1 have a daughter less—hut tin.u hast an angel more.” Society is improving in Michigan, since its great production of grain. At a tiial be fore a Justice in Pontiac, lately, one of the parties spit tobacco juice in the face of the magistrate, and threatened to flog him. The Philadelphia “World” says that the Spanish Consul of that city has applied to the United Slates Government for the sur render of the negroes raptured in the “Am i?lad.” This is nonsense. If any one ap plies for their surrender, it will be the Spanish Minister, who is now residing with Ins family a - . New Brighton. D4K J£ N JI ; 3 -Tt A s.B - , \Kf V ! , n .'uestluy Morning:, heptcmlcr IT. |-fOn Mondny the 9tb iuat J .and -eCmaLTOM • j r-fl <ard M jot of th* city of Savannah, by ths Board of Aid rm'n. Important rao.M Mi.xsco.—Bustamente, since I.is assuming the government, ha* annul led all the acts of Santa Ana, p irncularly the contract at Loudon for a loan of £13.) >J J. He ha relieved General Thomas Andrade of the penalties incurred by him m not returning to ilex.co within the time flxeJ by the amnesty of 1833. He bos formed anew cabinet, w hich is composed of the follow ing nu n : Juan de Dio* Curnvdo, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Luis (. Cuevas, Minister of the Interior ; Xavier Echevcrria. Minister of Finance. Bus latneiilr ha • u o reestablished the liberty of the pre--., and appointed General Gaona governor of the Castle of San Juan de L'lioa. Vera Cruz is now commanded by the brotbern-in luw of Santa Am, General Coro, who, when he leirm-d that General Gaona had been ap pointed Governor of the castle, declared that he would uM allow him to take possession of that fort, and that he had 2 KM men, Including j the coitvi Is, under ills command to oppose him. Santa Annah id not keen assassinated as re ported, but was still intriguing for the dicta torship of Mexico. Oca Cues rav—The continuance ofour B - j publican Government depends upon the mo rjiity anJ virtue of her citizens. Nothing, on the contrary, will m ike it so insecure as ignor ance ammtg them. It it this dreadful evil j which will yield them nn easy prey to desig ning politician*. the deluded and dangerous victim* m tun -s of public comm .lion. Such were the leading characters in those awful tn surrcctions and in tssacre* in France, who. dr tilttte of every m >ral culture, sported with the in i .g ej bodies und Innbsof tlieir fellow citiz ens. L .ok ul every country, and you see the m .st ignorant and mieJuratedaluayscomposc that class, who are the most disposed to out- i rage and violence. Ben in these United I.Suits, we say it with pun. that the largest portion of subjects for punishment, in our cri.n ..I courts, is found to consist of youth who e e irly instruction has been neglected who h ive bd) trained up in on Morality. The principal 4c .gn of .Sunday Schools is to rem c.y rucli debasing and growing evils. Their object embraces the children of the indigent as well us of the wealthy; h> that ail may read and be taught those g. .-at truths upon which and pen is the well being of community, and tlieir ow n future welfare. No political ecou om.-t can declare the virtue and improvement which ibis vast engine is producing by its in flueuce,—is the correct oducition of the young the never-fniliug spring of national feliciiy ? i Then more than one hutt irel thousand,chd drett, in the United States, obtain in these schools, the best of all kunivh*jg<—their duty to God and nt in. We will he.o men.ton a ; fact tliat should be gou rally known, to awa ken the into.eu of every lover of hiscoitutiy. It iathU— ailing the thousands ol youth m strtteted in Sa.iday Schoo.s, of Gieat Urttain and Amertca.'scarceiy an instance has occur r-d of lit.- conviction of a felon. This sine <• fact speaks vo times in sir >ng lesffiuony of a system so e tiiaentlvc deulate I to ditfu ie th.osc uabit*ani principles, which support the pillar of our n ition’s fa ne, tha bulwark of our free institution*. To inane the mind with truth is to pns-ess it with c irrect vie vs; ta.l to imprest these up on the heart, is to form the proper soil for the pteduction of- very virtue. And we have no iiedtution in attributing the preservation ofour civil privileges, in a great measure to the in flu. nee of religious instruction. In this ligh Sunday school teachers are the l est friends ot their country their labor* are eminently pa runic, iloiv noble! How disinterested o ‘heir conduct! Hate, while you contemplate you cannot but love, reverence, and admir. •he labors of the philanthropist, whithersoev er he goes! It was but as yesterday, that we seemed to he no peop.e. Fifteen years ~gi, clouds atu. commotion filled our political horizon. Wt appear ut once to have emerged into a different attn .sphere—” the winter is past,” and now vvh.it cheer.ng prospect* are before us! Scarce has the shrill clarion of battle ceased to sound, and the soldier to lay down his helmet than the voice of peace is h ‘ard through the lanJ. The past short p ‘riod which has brought us to our present condition, is only a prelude to the fu ture splendid scene before us. It is widening aud extending, it surpasses the widest rang ot thought. Blessed w ith a healthy climate, a fertile soil, an extensiv e c juntry, a moral peo ple. a fee goverment. our situation is without parallel on the earth. Let our population in crease :is rapidly as it has heretofore; allow that it will continue to double once in 22 years - and a half, as it did previous to the last census, and before the close of the present century, j we shalf amount to more than Eighteen Mil lions.’—And vve shall, with this increase, soon become one quarter of the whole earth. Our lofty forests will lie prostrate before the rapid inarch of civilized man. YVhe e all was gloom, and the stillness of nature prevailed, there now. the echo of human speech bursts from every grove. The seasons passing on their solemn course, will witness this vast con tinent one day covered with populous and splendid cities. Our navy 02C our 2ag altali iriunphauily . ride upon the bosom of our most distant wa ter*. The cloud* shall be dispersed from the wilderness— the.* shall the Sabbath briug round its mild und swt-et return, and the sanc tuary unfold its inviiu-g di>cr*. Amidst the hilt* & valleys may Sunday Schools raise ibe : r humble roofs, filled with blooming and happy children. Wher once was he,.rd the war song of the cruel savape there now resound* tl e carol of the peaceful plot.ghboy, a* he tra ces the silent furrow. Agriculture and tnanu factu.es ate iuctea ing and multiplying the the sources of affluence and ease. Our com merce spreadii g her w bi'e u ing* abroad, with | propitious gal. *, visit* every ocean Public i roads and canals w ill extend themselves to the tn >t distant p .rt of the Union. Them*) stic waters of the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Mis souri, the Columbia covered with ie<se|s pro pelled by the giant force of steam, will bring the cho res productions of foreign countries into the very centre of America. Thus a* sticceding ages roil on, guided by Heaven, our empite will increase—our free dom will surviie. Y>! our children, and ourchiidre t’s children, to the latest prosperi- ty, shall maintain unspotted their birthright, and perpetuate the morality, the happiness, the power, and peace of this mighty Common wealth I For the Herald. THE RETAIL LAW. .Mg. Edi tor ; It is a favorite maxim of the friends of the Retail Sy-te n, “ that th'ir property is their own. a id they hare a right to use it as they please.” Tus sentiment, (ib*u r d as it j win appear ) form* a pr uniue it topic tnall; the public harangue, and pit dish -J arttc e* of the day, against an ipphc.ition to the tegisla iature forrenef from the u niterahle mischief* I of ihe ic> line law. It may a s ver i'.s pn*-p >se ; lor political effect, among a cl is* who m- er think for themselves -but, one would think i! j need never h ive !*en repeated among a p pie, who pride th-m :.ves with their in e r tuai streng h. It is the dicta’- of co n non tense, as wail . i the law of the land , Ih it no man may use hie own property to the inj try of hit >r. One in.in liai exactly tlie sun • right in his o-. ti property, that another nun ha*, in his. But there are limits lo the Use of it, m the rase ul everyone. No man for example has a rig it lo me Ins property in th • in niuf ic’.u.-e. -u chase and sa.e ofcou tterfeit m ite,'. Itt* -t c true then of any one, th it he ha-, u rig'L to use his property a-he pleases. Ec-ry one hoe the right oj using hit property for thrpro j motion of his own ha up in ■is in a iy way lie I chooses protiilesfohe Li-s ml so use it, as to di minish the innocent happiness of his neigh bor, or of the comm nuty. When he imns gre.-eq here, the law justly lays its restraints upon him. He may not use hi* property to make disasterous inroads upon the families it is in his power to destroy, lie may not do this, though the fathers of these families are Willing it should be done, lie may not employ his on ti suit, to the detriment of his neighbor. Hu mav not dig a deep pit anJ leave it unrov ere I, without being answerable for the conse quences. If hi* neighbor’s child, or beast fail iqto it, und t Kille-J ur manned, on his head will the penalty eotne. c ha* no right to re mote from his own land, some natural em bankment, vt hich holds back the flood, which wou.d sp etd desolation below, lie may not dam the stream that runs athwart his own pre mises, and thus throw back a pond, who-e ’ putrid wa.ers wi.l diffuse a pestilence among the dwellers on its banks at least, if such b<q the effect of the embankment lie constructs, the neighbors may, after a reasonable time, de c.arc il a n lisa ice, aid the law will authorize tt removal. Numeious and free, lire our rights fu this emmiry. we are free “only to use our own tilings, so as not to injure our neigh bor. Oovious as these princip’e* are, il is sliil said and reiterated in the midst of an enlight ened people, who know it is not so. that every man has a just r, ;ht to use his property as he pleases. A thousand examples, Mr. Editor, in.giu be adduced to shew the absurdity ofihe saying. But I forbear. Allow me to make use of the above reason ing for my own purpose. It seems to be ad nutted on all hands, “ that the prevalence of grog shops ut any community, is an evi! to be deprecated—that they conduce neither to the morality, we.fare, nor respectability of any 1 tass ol men ; that they* l *ud to the subversion of good order, to the g.ocest immorality, and to the loss of dom.-stic happiness.” And vet a is maintained by the pr.uciple I am oppos ing, that a few men in community hare a right so to use their property, as to entail these tre mendous evils on the many . Is it so ? The unrighteousness of the thing, is so glaring, .hat it is wonderful, that abused and insulted communities, have born with it for a mom. nt. By what right. I would ask, do the. e men, de preciate the value ofour property, and dimin ish the amount ofour labour, by spreading the cause of inebriation among our negn.es ? I!y whal right do they levy a perpetual assessment, upon the sober civil community, to support the paupers n.ad at their counter, and to pr./- secute and imprison those whom rum, drawn from their casks, has driven to deeds <f vio lence *nd blood ? By what right do they e m pel us, to feed from our table, to warm wiih our fuel, and clothe from our Cocks, those. ; “ ll0:ie property and earnings are safely .odg j 111 their till ? —Do they render back an equivoieut, for value received 1 Its an equiv oient. which, in thousands of instances, makes wives widows, and clothes in rags, and de prives of a home, children be.eft of their fa thers. I know r etaiiersof spirits stand on the authority of the license law. But viewing this iaw, in the light of the above remarks—it carries its condemnation on its own front. The iniquity of it, stands out in bold relief and if it shield the conscience, it wiM not shield the soul, of the spirit vender, i/ora Blame. I hav e ever thought and do still, t.-t tie Legislature ia liccaing the sale of in- toxicating drinks contradict* more than fifty of it* own express enactment*, for the protec* lion of our rights, and the security of our per sons & property; and I honestly believe,that Ihe time is not far distant when the Legislator* ol our county will view it in the *anie light, and make haste lo empty their hand* of the price, and dear their skirt* of the iniquity of ihey tem. I atn not among the number of those, who think the Legiriature is not to be petitioned and lias nothing todo, with subjects connected with the moral reformation of community. I had supposed ihe very object of Government, was, not lo elevate a few. an biucu* ot pt wer, over the many—bat the good of the governed —1 have teen taught to think that the primi tive object of Government, was, the happiness of human society—by eontrouting the luviees and protecting the innocent. Moral means, are to regulate the welldisposed—but these will not protect society against the erile These must be restrained by law. “Now, every Government, has declared the traffic in intoxicating drin s. the foul enemy of the eommuuity-by throwing around it, the guards ofihe license law—making it penal, lor any to engage in the traffic but those w ho hare a spe cial license. “ Now. if il it perfectly obvious vital this res trictice statute, operates as a p.-rinil, to pour out upon a:t innocent, unsuspecting communi ty, all the causes, that would flow from the tuo-t unrestrained indulgence, can it he other wise than that in time, as the community shall understand this subject, they will demand a Legislative action, which shall grant no licen | re* ’ a i l treat the whole, as they treat other ;mtoe ibie nuisances. But il is i texpeJteitiopetition n >vv? ‘h | lleCiuv public opinion is igt.it*’ it. r ’ | K.ij-v* >v ■’ i ll? Wear - aot r• t if--’. : : tr jo ii n nil i.’.or > : e . ■ t jnlit . p -v -J. But how ar • |r. 1... ..lohe be . ...< r k •v. ti a p*? i >n? If i m.j *ritj ; Slate are op,. se Ito .iny ~.uti i “ l ’ * > ; :e th .o *p >k “.ii uv counter tn- - or liovtji o; 4 ..lord r pui ih.-.r names to .;.e : p.. :• ia it. ait It..i be {’>i if upon tr:.: (. • lc- Ue,• tt vvtil fee i.i loci. ) that public opt.non is j r,i f, r0f.!12 at asttre let lie f stature do i |.,J|l V, iiei u r penal th” vending of ia ,t . c lii .g Jri tl. —unit! uTndu’ 1 by the cia.n ----i r .a; suih.ilaw tan.iol i.s enforced. For j me, I am pets-cry wi .utg. ny desirous, that j uu c-vnstituied oinhortiiesof the -*>lllll’. should ;bv u . t-d. in this in .'ter. bv the public will ! —and it ii ua f a.,d that th ,j op:e irditot yet ■ ripe. lor r form, i can wait pa’ten ly til they : am—and then, if th- te >- found those, wh<> in i sj.tte 01 iegin wive • 1 ,eime.it.; Will c-mttn..e to tr.iusjre-’S; at t!.err dui.r ii-t t!tC consequences be. REFORM. Sep 1” roa TUI DARIEN’ lit:; LD. I find, M . EJiiur, upon openuig your ( apr; of ilic la;h mat. that 1 hav. utav. u 1 , ut: 11 > >< If the. : iiiiiiauvursM usol iwu v. rit. tt,. v b.< Ii g- - to siiovv tint the” laliaticihiu” ot .tie ‘ietiq . r ! nn e 8 *i’ ty is not likely to pa-; 11 no..end. 1 vvonki.sir, that ihcse ‘ fe.i i,tun .a n the vv at* h tower t.l Liberty,” were as ready 10 ‘rni.-e the i iot'-in ot alarm” m the fanaticism of iliu>-cl liug and rnmdrinking. Yv hen i gluiiced my eye iwer so large a portion of your paper as is occupied by /onr twocorrespotKieuismy heart misgave me in review ol opposition so lormi lubte nt (east iu appearance. 1 ba.ercaa ih. tr itriiel.s, however, and find that I was ’more -eared than hurl,” ami with vpWrtcave. sir, ant vviiiiug to try again. ’ Fkli s” inuinpluin'Jy ! ask* ii t do not “know that the Leg. slat lire . never witi ptos so ilff-gal an hci?” No. sir. Ido iftii. nor do tnelieTe. either that Mich an act | would te illegal, ot tliat the Legislature .**ill i not pass 1). It I did 1 should not have wastid t me. nor tie-pasted upon the patience of y twit readers and yourself by ehitnig public alt. ntiott jto the subject, lie enquires il the mail ol ar dent spirits is un ev .1. v. by do not tin uuthoi i : ties of Darien, put the law in lurco ? ‘ihe ”au -1 thi.rities” imist answer for it cn.selve*. 1 ui 1 I y 1 no means a. mit that it is ”1 realise ptd.lie . pin ion is in favor ol the retail law.” ‘1 he gross violation of .he present law ha* Senna rtljeet of e. mp'ai .t. and in the ex. euti. n . I it. the ”aut!>on.ie.v’ would tinqt cslii.nai iy i uve bet n 1 sustained, f have never known that they weie jtheo.p r.s of public opinion in this matter. I have 1. a dot.lil that if the lit. mis of the te -1 loiin n’.ea.-uic. v iilshovv cn.y ball the zeal in. I laining signalutes to them, nioriat that Tides’ ; does in defence oftli. se nuisance*, tliat inlet our city and .otinlry a large majority wifi be : found upon the side of if e pelim it. The subject lias not yet been tested, and c. n ’ sequent)) vve ate in ignorance as to what pub j lie opinion is. except so tar as it has Wen ex pressed in private intercourse. ‘I he cv il has t ten sc. n. and lamented, hut from an apathy winch is ns a.-t. nishilig, as it is inexcusable, 11 has been vv it ked at. Each j one fu.s waned lor Ins neighbour to m,.ke the fiist move, and so it has passed apparently urmotic.d. “ Fide*” is iu error when he attributes to the Tem perance Societies the origin of the memorial. J l think that the citizeis ol 1 oti . iii t.Li.ty not in the capacity of a society, Lut a- aI• oy ot eiliz. n-, brst blot ght the sot j>ct belt re ilie public. Tt mpeiauce Si cilies have moved in the matter, but they are united wnhn anv vv t.o belong to no sucteiy. ’1 iiat they have deteimined to “elret no man to the legisla ture who indulges in the use of iiqt.< r, or v ho wiii not advocate their cause,” i- a t.-ibvi . n of w hich 1 never heard belnie u:d <n tie pan of the Society cf th s e. only, I disc am any such inteuticn. f app eln no tb< p< t e man is mistaken here airo. l.esavs’t. ct voca'es .f 3 eirp eraice ten uc, evi:v cm who do* s not think t* th. y 1 1k ‘ £ . t the h< ne.-tv of my heat, It.; > ! - > > ■• 1 cue ha’f the det.ULeiett. n fit 11, t! ■ ;; ei or < t the cause, .hat bus nuia'iC t:.ni ’ierii!: of the uppos.tioh. \ e are called Tanatius.” “h’evoiutionisis.” and by this very court. < us writer, are charg. and v. ith an • alt. tnpt to.-ap the foundation of the Temple of Ui.ed. n.” as through all the patrioticm of the land was to fce found at a li,(. I.snauen t. vei. i have vet to learn when vve have espo-ed 10 public odi um • God’s best gift to mail.” And yet this refined w riter who blushes not to drag fictn I the ‘ domestic hearth these precious and deli cate liliies” whose spotless reputation I w ould sullv with a defence talks of proscription, and calls upon his fellow citizen-, to “watch wiih je-iions,eyes” our m.-ven ent? ! “If PM lantrophv” he continues “is the object of the Temperance Society why not turn their atten tion to the condition of the poor and destitute ? YY hy not establish a system of general educa tion where, true morality and virtue will be .taught ?” Dur attention'have beea turned to