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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1554, ByCHAS. W. HANCOCK. f VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Year - - -94 00 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 HTPayable in Advance an All advertisements eminating from public offices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia— 75 cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of -one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising Rates. One Square first insertion, - - - -51.00 Each subsequent insertion, - - - - .50 ®"Ten Lines of Minion, type solid con slitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements tooccupy fixed places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. DON'T HUY Groceries BEFORE EXAMINING GLOYERtfe PERRY’S LARGE STOCK! —AS THEY — WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD I On any article in their line, but propose to UNDERSELL! WILL PAY HIGHEST PRICE FOR Georgia Seed Rye ! COUNTRY MERCHANTS Will find that they can buy ot us Kerosene Oil, Gun Powder, Shot and Matches! ! For less money than they can order. GLOVER & PERRY, ssp9tf Americus, Ga. OLD BTJGG COMES TO THE FRONT THIS SEASON WITH DRINKS, FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE FOR TEN CENTS. OYSTERS, FISH AND GAME ON HAND AT ALL TIMES. MEALS FIXED UP IN ANY S'IYLE AND AT ALL TIMES-DAY AND NIGHT. BILLIARD^ 5c per game two games for 25 cts- cash. POOL VA CENTS PER CUE-ALL CASH. Come one, come all, and see if you don’t get the best—nothing charged at these rates. Best Cigars and Tobacco Always on Hand ! BOTTLED LIQUORS ALWAYS ON HAND IN FRONT ROOM. J. P. CHAPMAN. AGENT FOR KING’S ROYAL POWDER COMPANY, Also, PARKER’S GUN AND BREECH LOADING FIXTURES. Americus, Ga., Sept. sth, 1882. 6.2 m J. J. HANESLEY’S, IffIWHFECIIEBY. I would call the attention of farmers and all others wishing a good meal, to the fact that lam still running my RESTAURANT, Under the Barlow House, where I will serve you up a warm meal at any hour. Oysters, Fish and Game served in their season. I Also keep a full line of CONFECTIONS!! Fruits, Cigars and Tobacco! Americus, Ga., Sept. 20,1882. tf DAVENPORT’S Belle of Ameripus, Davenport & Son Are Sole Agents for BELLE OF AMERI CUS. It is made of the best Havanna long fillers, Is not flavored or doctored, and the only 5c Cigar In the market that Is as good as an imported cigar. oct6-5m MULE TAKEN UP^ H. J. McFarlan, near Bottsford, took up about the 18th of September, a medium size BAY MARE RULE. Owner, come for ward, p rove-prOperty, pay charges and take (he mule. sept39otf FALL MILLINERY ! A splendid assortment of NEW P Alila MILLINERY AT THE STORE OF Mrs. M. I. RAINES. The Ladies and all desiring to purchase something New and Fashionable! in Millinery, will find it to their advantage to examine her stock at an early date. STORE AT THE OLD STAND, Jackson Street, west of the Public Square, Americus, Ga. octlltf Miss KATE KING Invites the attention of the Ladies to her SELECT STOCK OF Millinery anil Fancy Goods NOTIONS, Etc., ALL OF THE LATEST STYLES. Which she keeps on hand at all times, and at the LOWEST CASH PRICES! TSTEW GOODS ARRIVING DAILY. gfDon’t fail to Call and Examine her took before purchasing elsewhere. Miss KATE KING, PUBLIC SQUARE AMERICUS, mar3ltf THE CELEBRATED “ SEXTUPLE SPRING BED. To breathe, eat and sleep well is the first requirement of physical organization. S. FLEISCHMAN’S SEXTUPLE BED SPRING, [Patented Aug. 22, 1882.] Is the first and foremost to accomplish this end, as it facilitates the first, accelerates the second, and perfects the last of these grand purposes. It is a “thing of beauty and a joy forever.” Last with life, perfect in its adaptation forcomtort, being disconnects ed in the center prevents sagging. Made by S. M- LESTER, who will put them on, and is from long experience able to guarantee satisfaction. AGENTS WANTED to sell these Springs. Territory and Spring outfit turnished and large commissions paid. S. FLEISCHMAN, Patentee and Manufacturer, octll-6m Cotton Ave., Americus. Ga. Rosser & Gunnels. M Bar and Billiard SALOON. Messrs. G. S. ROSSER and P. W. GUN NELS have opened a Bar and Billiard Sa loon in the new building of Hamil Bros., on Cotton Avenue, where they have a fine stock of pure Brandies, Wines and Whiskies ! Also the National Drink, ANHUESER BEER, the best in the land. The best Cigars and Tobacco always on hand. Our Billiard Saloon is one of the best in the city—everything new and good. We in vite the public generally to give us a trial. In a few days our RESTAURANT will be opened, and we promise that it shall com pare with the best and be surpassed by none. ROSSER & GUNNELS, septßtf Americus. Ga. FOR SALE. A valuable farm, eight milesof Americus, n a good neighborhood, healthy section, Church privileges convenient, good water, good dwelling house with six rooms, good g(n house and press, and other necessary out houses, six hundred and fifty acres of g ay and mulatto land, four hundred open nrd in good state of cultivation, two settle ments on place, and a fish pond stocked with German Carp. If you want a desirable home, with good productive lands and com fortable and convenient surroundings, ap ply soon. J. A. ANSLEY, septlStf Attorney at Law. The Genuine Article. Now Is the time for sowing RYE and BARLEY for winter grazing. We have on band the genuine Dooly county Seed. sept27tf GLOVER & PERRY. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1882. DARBYS PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. A Household Article for Universal Family Use. For Scarlet and 1 Eradicates ■’Typhoid Fever., ■ Xiraaicates ■ Diphtheria, Sall- I MAT.AB.TA | TOtton - Ulcerated ■ Sore Throat, Small ■■■■■■■l Pox, Measles, and all Contagious Diseases. Persons waiting on the Sick should use it freely. Scarlet Fever nas never been known to spread where the Fluid was used. Yellow Fever has been cured with it after black vomit had taken place. The worst cases of Diphtheria yield to it. Fevered and Sick Per- SMAIX-POX sons refreshed and and Bed Sores prevent- PITTING of Small •and by bathing with p ox PREVENTED Darbys Fluid. . , . - Impure Air made A member of my fam harmless and purified. j]y w -“ taken with For Sore Throat it is a Srnadl-pox. I used the sure cure. Fluld ■', the Patient was Contagion destroyed. n ?‘ dd *rfous, was not For Frosted Feet. P‘ u ? d ' was about Chilblains, Piles, ,hc * ouse ‘ n *** Chafing*., etc. "'J 11 ?- 22? Rheumatism cured. _. I- ' V - JV utc " Soft White Complex- tm^Phdaddphia. ions secured by its use. Ship Fever prevented. I it can't be surpassed. I , - B Catarrh relieved and ■ aIOVGUtSCL B cured. Erysipelas cured. ■■■IIHiHIHBi Burnsrelievedinstantly. The physicians here a Darbys Fluid very Dysentery cured. successfully inthe treat- Wounds healed rapidly. ment of Diphtheria. Scurvy cured. A. Stollbnwbrck, An Antidote for Animal Greensboro, Ala. or Vegetable Poisons, * Stings, etc. Tetter dried up. I used the Fluid during Cholera prevented, our present affliction with Ulcers purified and Scarlet Fever with de- healed, cided advantage. It is In cases of Death it indispensable to the sick- should be used about room.—Wm. F. Sand- the corpse —it will ford, Eyrie Ala. prevent any unpleas ant smell. The eminent Phy. ■Scarlet Fever I _ fl York, sap: “I am Cured B convinced Prof. Darbys * B Prophylactic Fluid is a BIIIIIIHBNnB valual>le disinfectant.’* Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. I * cst ‘ly to the most excellent qualities of Prof. Darbys Prophylactic Fluid. Asa disinfectant and detergent it is both theoretically and practically superior to any preparation with which I am ac quainted.—N. T. Lupton, Prof. Chemistry. Darbys Fluid is Recommended by Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia • Rev. Chas. F. Deems, D.D., Church of the Strangers, N. Y.; Jos. LbContb, Columbia, Prof., University,S.C. Rev* A. J. Battle, Prof., Mercer University: Rev. Geo. F. Pierce, Bishop M. E. Church. INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY HOME. Perfectly harmless. Used internally or externally for Man or Beast. The Fluid has been thoroughly tested, and we have abundant evidence that it has done everything here claimed. For fuller information get of you* Druggist a pamphlet or send to the proprietors, J. H. ZEILIN & CO., Manufacturing Chemists, PHILADELPHIA. TUTT'S PILLS A DISORDERED LIVER IS THE BANE of the present generation. It Is for the Sure of this disease and Its attendants, SICK-HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, DYS PEPSIA, CONSTIPATION. PILES, etc- that TUTT‘B PILLS have gained a wprld-wide reputation. No Remedy baa ever been discovered that acta 80 Tfßntly on the . digestive organs, giving them vigor to aa simiiate food. Asa natural result, the Nervous System ia Braced, the'Muaclea are Developed, and the Body Bobuat. OHIUs and Fever, B. RIVAL, ft Planter at Bayou Sara, La., says: My plantation la in a malarial district. For several years I could not make half a orop on account of bilious diseases and chills. I was nearly discouraged when X began the use of TUTT’S PILLS. The result was marvelous: my laborers soon became hearty and robust, and I have had no further trouble. They relieve the engorged Liver, cleanse the Blood flrbm poisonous humors, and cause the bowels to aet naturally, with out which no one ean feel well. Try this remedy fblrly, and yon will gain a healthy Digestion, Vigorous Body. Pure Blood, Strong Nerves, and a Sound Liver. Price, 23 Cents. Offlee, SS Murray St., N. Y. TUTUS HAIR DYE. Gray Hair or Whiskers changed to a Glossy Black by a single application of this Dye. It Imparts a natural color, and acts instantaneously. Sold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt of One Dollar. Office, 88 Murray Street, New York. (Dr. TV TVS MANVAI* of Information and Vmeful Moooipto I will be mailed FEIE on application! Mrs. M. T. ELAM Announces to the public that her stock of Fall MILLIE? ini NOTIONS IIAVJ'i ARRIVED, The assortment is complete, selected by herself in the olty of New York. As to Style and Quality ! of goods, the taste of the most fastidious can be suited. As to prices, she can almost say that even chronic grumblers will be satisfied, She regrets that on account of the dust being so awfully had, she has to forego the usual opening. Still, her stock is here in more than usual richness and variety. Customers will he waited on by her corps of assistants, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Tommey, Miss Preston, Miss Head. Cash buyers and prompt paying short (fine customers aro Invited to call, examine, prloe and buy. octlStf THE PLACE TO TRADE I have on hand the finest stock of mocEiffi m conm In the city. Ten big cases of toys, looking like young houses, in store, and more on the road, and by Christies the finest stock of Toys will be In store that has ever been Styjwn in Americus. Cigars of the finest qualities from a nickle to ten cents—real Havana flavor. Confectioneries the sweet est and choicest. The fruits of the Tropics, the most luscious and the best. A good , stock of Chewing Tobacco—golden leaved. ED. ANSLEY. I Americus, Ga., Sept. 20 1882. tf TABERNACLE SERMONS. BY REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGK THE BED DRAGON. Behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns up on his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven—Revelation xii., 3, 4. Some commentators think that this red dragon of the text means one thing, and other commentators think it means something else, and there is such a wide difference of opinion that 1 feel at liberty to think that it may be sugges tive of the great monster of intemper ance, fiery and all-devouring, with at least ten horns hooking and lacerating society, and by taking possession of so many governments may be said to wear seven crowns, and by dragging down kings and queens and orators and poets and so many illustrious men and wo men from their firmament of power, that it may be said to draw the third part of the stars of heaven after it. Alcoholism the worst of all red dra gons! Last Sabbath, in my discourse, I reprehended the degradation of the two political parties of this day, and sug gested that as probably they might have fulfilled their mission, the loss of both of them would not be a very great loss. The Republican party was or ganized to kill slavery. Well, slavery is dead and damned. The Republican party having accomplished its object, if it should pass out of existence I could see no very gieatloss. The Democrtic party was formed by Thomas Jefferson to oppose the law of primogeniture, by which all the inheritance came to the oldest child, and to drive out from this country all foreign titles and to give equal rights to all classes of people. These things having been achieved, if that party should pass off the face of the earth it would not be a very great damage. I said to you last Sabbath there needed to be in this country some great party with God-given, sublime ideas. I said to you that the first principle of that party ought to be the recognition of the Etetnal God in the affairs of men and governments. I went on, also, to show that such a party ought to be antagonistic to all national wastefulness and the friend of all na tional economy. This morning I take a step further, and say that such a party ought not only to whisper but to thunder against the curse of curses, the abomination of abominations, the in fernalism of infernalisms—the intem perance of this country—and that with national prohibition it ought to go forth to slay the red dragon of my text. If you have any idea, my friends, that the prohibition victory in Kansas and in lowa is a fanatical paroxysm, you have made a very great mistake. In six years the Prohibition party will hold the balance ot power in every State of the American Union. It may not have a majority of the votes, but it will hold the balance of power; so that no man can be Governor, or Lieuten ant-Governor, or Secretary of State, or hold any important position in the State until he is a pronounced Prohibitionist, and in twelve years it will have its President in the White House. No party has ever risen into power so rap idily as the Prohibition party is rising. The Anti-Slavery party came out from under the mountain of scorn and con tempt to take the Presidential chair and both houses of Congress; but the Prohibition party, if you will watch the statistics, is coming with four times the celerity. American slavery was a pet lamb as compared with this red dragon. All the families which have been robbed of fathers and brothers and sons by the rum traffic; all the States of the union that have been despoiled of their mightiest men; all the churches of Jesus Christ which fiud the chief ob stacle to the advancement of religion in the appetite for strong drinks and all the intelligence, and all the patriotism, and all the enthusiasm of the land will yet pack itself into an avalanche that will come crushing down upon this, the worst evil that ever afflicted a na tion. I give fair noticeto all politicians in America of what is coming. Better lead off than follow in afterward as stragglers. Many of the strongest men in both political parties, North and South, see the rising tide of this refor mation, and they are preparing to fight the red dragon. Thero may be many defeats before we get the final victory, but victory will come as surely as there is a God in heaven, and that this na tion was not intended for ono great drunkerv. I nominate for President and Vice-President of the United States in 1884—caring not which is the first, or which is the second named on the ticket, althongh one is a Republican and the other a Democrat, and one a Western man and the other a Southern man, but both pronounced Pohibition ists—Gov. St. John, of Kansas, and Gov. Colqnitt, of Georgia. The far West ought to have by this time a man in the White House, and now that the war is over, let ns prove that it is over, and that we realize that it is over, by nominating to the highest or next to the highest offlee the illustrious Georgian. 0! my Lord andi my God, what a country this would be with no dramshops. No dramshops! Then no poorhonses, no penitentiaries, fewer broken hearts and fewer disconsolate homes. No woman brought up in lux ury, afterward married to a man who sets her, with her shriveled arm, and hollow eye, and pallid cheek, and con suming lung, to fight back the wolf that thrusts its nostril through the broken window pane, snuffing for the blood of her helpless habe. Let the contention between the great temper ance societies of America cease, and the 70,000 men belonging to the temper ance societies of the State of New York join hands with the hundreds of thou sands of temperance men in other States and the millions of men who belong to no temperance society but who are anx ious for the sobriety and the disen thrallment of this country, and the work will be done, and done in less time than I tell you. First of all, we want an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ratified by three-fourths of the States —an amendment prohibiting the man ufacture and the sale of alcholic liquors in all the States and Territories, ex cept for medicinal, artistic, mechanical and scientific purposes, and a prohibi tion of the importation of foreign alcho holic liquors except for the same pur poses - We want a great national con vention this year, or next year, or the year after, to demand an amendment to the Constitution of the United States for national prohibition and to nomi nate men for the higher position, and I invite such convention to come to Brooklyn, and as on this platform, in this house, last winter, Gov. St. John, of Kansas, and Gov, Colquitt, of Geor gia, stood side by side in a temperance meeting, I ask that national conven tion to hold their session in this house of God. The mere prohibition of the manufacture and the sale of intoxica ting liquors in a State, perhaps, may only drive that intoxication and that alcoholic liquor into another State; but let us have national prohibition, and then one-half the iniquity tumble off into the Atlantic ocean and the other half of the iniquity tumbles off into the Pacific ocean—drowned in two oceans of cold water! Let there not be from the Canadas to the Gulf room enough for this red dragon to put one of his feet. That State legislatures have the right to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors was estab lished by the opinion of John McLean, of the United States Supreme Court, and by Judge Waterbury, and by Judge Grier, and by Judge Daniel, and by Chief Justice Shaw, of Massachusetts, and by Chief Justice Harington, of Delaware, and by Chief Justice Mason, of Nebraska, and in that memorable case where Daniel Webster and Rufus Choate made the argument and Judge Taney, of the Supreme Court, support ed by all his associate judges, declared that there was nothing in the Federal Constitution or the laws of Congress to hinder any State legislature prohib iting the manufacture and sale of in toxicating liquors. But while it is es tablished as a State right; we want al so the boldness and the courage and the aggregate force of all the good peo ple of this country to come together and demand that it be a national pro hibition. We want a national move ment, so that the stronger States in the matter can help the weaker States, and so that the country districts can help the dissipated cities. We want a national movement. “Oh!” save some one, ‘the United States Government gets so much tax from the liquor traffic; the liquor traffic pays the United States government millions of dollars a year as tax, and -ve can’t afford to let that tax go.” 1 tell you where the liquor traffic pays the United States govern ment one dollar, it steals ten in the properity destroyed, in the criminal trials that are necessary, in the poor houses, the almshouses, the peniten tiaries that a:e required to take care of the victims. The United States gov ernment makes as much out of the rum traffic as you would make as a mer chant if you sold a man a knife for one dollar, and after he had paid yon the one dollar for the knife he should thrust the blade through your son’s heart—as much as if you sold a box of matches, and after the customer had paid you for the matches he opened the box and with the first match struck set fire to your dwelling. One million drunkards in the United States to-day, sixty thou sand of them annually dying in the United States, one hundred thousand men and women thrust into prison as a result of the liquer traffic—two hun dred thousand children by this infamy thrown helpless on the world or gather ed up in the institutions of charity, thirty thousand maniacs in the United States asa result of the rum traffic, while England pays annually $400,000 to support the alcoholic insane paupers. Twenty-eight thousand prisoners in Canada, and twenty-one thousand of them the victims of rum. Judge Alli son, of Philadelphia, whom I know very well as a man who gives honest statistics, sayS that four-fifths of the crime in the United States is chargea ble to the rnra traffic. Mrs. Comstock, the Quaker missionary, says that out of 115,000 wore victims of strong drink. Ninety-nine one-hnndredths ot the children of America kept out of school, the childreu of drunkards. A statistic was made some time ago, when the evil wqs not as great as it is now, that the cost of and ruin by rum in the United States annually is twelve hundred millions of dollars. Oh! they talk about crooked whiskey, by which they mean that which escapes the tax of govern ment, bnt I tell yon all whiskey is crooked, because it makes a man’s path crooked, and his disposition crooked, | and his business crooked, and his for [ tnne crooked, and his example crooked, and his destiny crooked. Crooked whiskey, crooked gin, crooked wine, crooked cognac, crooked schnapps, crooked everything that intoxicates. It is all crooked. We talk against this evil and good is done, but the work will not be done until there is national pro hibition. In Edwards county, Illinois, twenty-seven years ago they resolved they would have no rum in thatcounty. and for twenty-five years, for a quarter of a century, there was but one man sent from that county to the State pris on. and he committed his crime under intoxication from rum he got in a neigh boring county. The county jail for the most part empty. Only two or three paupers in the whole county. Taxes 32 per cent, less than in the neighboring counties, although the roll of the taxes showed theie was more valuable properity in that county than in any other county of the same size in the State. Good citizens of America, I do not know how you feel, but I con fess that 1 am tired of paying taxes to fix up the work of these infernal grog shops that are tossing tens of thousands of people into crime and suffering. Out with them from Brooklyn! Out with them from the United States! I have and now proclaim war for the the rest of my life against that abomination. State prohibition. National prohibi tion. “Oh,” says someone, “if a law of that kind were passed it could not be executed.” Why, it has been exe cuted in parts of Maine, in parts of Massachusetts, in parts of Rhode Island in parts of Maryland, in parts of lowa, in parts of Kansas, and in some of those States throughout and throughout. Give us such a law in these Atlantic cities, and if the authorities did not ex ecute it we would do as the “Forty niners” did in California, and we would form a vigilance committee, and we would make quick work with the of fenders. Give us such a law of pro hibition iu Brooklyn, and it the author ities did not execute it, some Sabbath, standing in this place, I would marshal a battalion of strong-armed men, and we would go out, and in the name of our homes, and in the name of the Lord God Almighty, we would shut up all the grogshops in Brooklyn. The work can be done and it will be done; but it will not be done until the whole nation wakes up. State prohibition will not accomplish it. It must be national prohibition, You say, “Who would join such a party?” i will tell you. In the the first place, hundreds of thou sands of drunkards who, unable to en dure the temptation, wish that these allurements were taken out of their sight. These poor tempted men can not run the gauntlet of the bar-rooms and the wine cellars. From morning until night they cannot out of the way of these fascinations which are be fore them, behind them, on either side of them, an all-encircling fire of de moniac bombardment. For God’s sake give these men a chance, and make it possible for them to walk the whole length of Fulton street, Atlantic street, and Broadway, and Lascelle street, and Chesnut street, and Pennsylvania ave nue, without the inhalation of alcoholic malodors. Let a petition to the Congress of the United States asking for nation al prohibition be well circulated through this country, and you will find on that petition the straggling signatures of hands tremulous with dissipation, which have fought an unsuccessful war against these dissipations for a long while; signatures, if it were necessary, made with pens like those of the scotch Covenanters dipped in the blood of their own veins, if that would make the signature to the petition any more importunate. That was an exciting scene last Tuesday when a madman with a sharp compass rushed through the crowd at Broadway and Fourteenth street, striking right and then left and stabbing men, women and children, until the city am bulances were filled with the wounded. It was well done when a stout man grasped the demoniac and threw him to the earth and others helped disarm him. But I have to tell you that there is 4 a thousand-armed maniacs of alcohol ism rushing through the streets of all our cities, striking right and left, stab bing many homes to the heart, stabbing the state to the heart, stabbing the American Union to the heart. Who will rise up and help the United States government throw the demoniac. Who will pull the wounded out from under the paw and the tooth of the red drag on? Also belonging to a great national prohibition party will be the physicians of the United States. I have the name of 123 prominent physicians of New York and Brooklyn who petition for State and national prohibition, the con fining of alcoholic liquors to medici nal, mechanical and artistic purposes, and that petition, which was made some years ago, carried through this country would get nine hundred and ninety-nine out of the thousand of all the doctors. These gentlemen know the ravages of this red dragon. They have not only gone to bind up the wounds of the sot tumbled into your station houses, but they have in some of the brightest and the most beautiful and the wealthiest homes of your great cities, gone in among masterpiece pic tures and under gorgeous canopy, to help hold down on an embroidered pil low the victims of delirium tremens into whose imagination all the jungles of the tropics have seemed to pour their reptiles, and all perdition to have pour ed its de- ilB. The physicians of this country, than whom there is no more self-sacrificing class of men, will all be on the side of prohibition. Yes, I have to tell you the women will be on the side. “Oh!” says someone,“thatmakes ] FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 14. no difference, they can’t vote.” They can end they do. Are you not willing to acknowledge that the wives and the mothers of America are the mighti est power extant? The women carried lowa and Kansas for State prohibition, and the women will carry the United States for national prohibition. Every man with a wife who is not a fooljis affected by her moral sentiment. If a business man wants business ad vice he goes to a business man, but if he wants moral advice he asks liis wife, unless he is resolved on immor ality, and then he asks no one. Wo man understands the ravages of this dragon. She has seen one of its feet in the nursery, and another foot in the wardrobe, and another foot in the empty bread tray, and the other foot saturated with the tears and blood of a desolate home. Woman knows what rum does by its fiery wake. Charles Dickens laughs at the punch bowl, and poets garland the wine cup, and many an impersonator has made audi ences roar with mirth at the step of the drunkard; but woman sees but lit tle fun in that dramatization. She looks beyond the footlights of the comedian until she sees the blue, cold, shoeless feet of little children, and the daughter by destitution turned into a life of infamy, and the gash across the wife’s temples from the edges of a de canter, and a wild, disheveled man standing midfloor, uttering a halloo that makes the children shriek and the wife drop on her koees; looking toward a God who for ten years has not seem ed to care anything for her--that maniac with one fist dashing to pieces the mirror at which his bride once ar ranged her tresses, while with the other hand he throws the family Bible with the|marriage record into the flames,and with cracked lips curses the God who will yet avenge the cause of His child ren, though His judgments tarry long. There is not much fun in all that for woman. Oh! we shall have in this country a million Deborahs ready to help the Baracs in this conflict, and who will go forth and demand of the United States government national prohibirion. Yes, my friends, the churches of God will come in solidly on the subject, The world may scoff at Ohristain people as insignificant, but, banded together for any great moral movement, they can carry any thing at the ballot box and Congress ional assembly. The trouble is they have never yet massed their forces. The rum-drinking professors of relig ion will get out of her and go clear over to the devil who owns them from hat to heel, and the Methodist Church, and the Babtist Church, and the Con gregational Church, and the Episco palian Church, and the Presbyterian Church led on by some Dr. Guthrie, and the Catholic Church led on by some Father Mathew, will come in on this cause, and then the question will be so thoroughly settled and the work will be so thoroughly done that after you and I are dead and far on the fu ture, in a museum iu this country, there will be standing on the same shelf the lachrymatory of an ancient tomb and the demijohn of a modern wine collar, both alike curiosities, and the antiqua rian in his lecture will explain to his students how one of them was a recep tacle of tears for the dead, and tie oth er was the fountain of tears for the liv ing. There will arise some man in the Senate of the United States or the House of Representatives, ordained by the laying on of the hands of the Lord Almighty and by the laying on of the hands of all the righteous people of America, who will demand that the right arm of the American government be raised to stop this plague, and into his speech he will intone the plaint of hundreds of thousands of little children, and the groan of womanhood reaching from ocean to ocean and from earth to heaven. While that Senator shall stand before the national legislators making his plea, those legislators will see a vision of two lakes—a lake of tears and a lake of blood—and a vision of two scrolls, one scroll like that which Ezekiel saw written within and with out with lamentation and mourning and great woe, and the other scroll contain ing the proclamation of emancipation mightier than the one Abraham Lin coln signed, freeing more slaves from worse bondage, and declaring that un der the swords and the bludgeons and the heels of an indignant American na tion shall go down this red dragon which has so long been hooking with the ten horns and reigning with the seven crowns, drawing the third part ot the stars of heaven after it. Yes, all the patriots in both parties will come forth, the men who are tired of building asylums and penitentiaries and poorhouses, the men who want nothing themselves, but who want to have the land saved from drunkenness and crime, and to become a paradise for comfort and prosperity—domestic, so cial, national. For the church of God, for all patriots, Republicans and Demo crat and Greenbacker, for all good wo men as well as all good men, let the battle cry for the next twenty-five years be, “Down with the rum traffic National prohibition! No quarter for the license system! Eternal smash lor the wine bottles! Death to the red dragon!” I take the sword of the Lord and of Gideon, and I thrust the old grizzly monster through and through, and stamp on the execrable carcass, and I cry with the angel that St. John saw standing in the sun at the time the beast was slam, saying to all the fowb that fly iu the midst of heaven, ‘Come and gather yourselves together to the supper of the great God!”