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PEOFI,E’S_ EEIEK’D A. B. 8. MOSELEY, ) Associate MRS. MARGIE P. MOSELEY, ]£Jj|. ()rs REV. L. R. GWALTNEY, ) Rome, Ga., Saturday, March 8, 1873. ~llon. J. W. IL Underwood, G.' W. CL delivered one of his finest Temperance ad dresses at Summerville, Chattooga Count}', Ga., on last Tuesday night, to a large and appreciative audience. The meeting was called under the auspices of Gwaltney Lodge of Good Templars, and the rapid progress of the Order in that section was given new impetus by this meeting Other localities will be visited at an early day by our distinguished Chief, and the principles and objects of the Order plainly and elo quently set forth, and intemperance, with all its train of evils, so plainly depicted, that none can withstand the appeals of this great moral influence, which is so rapidly gaining strength in our State. Frequently we hear members of the Church, and not unfrequently ministers of the Gospel say, that the Church of Christ is the only Temperance Society that a Christian man should join. No better Tem perance Society than the C’hurch, provided the members and clergy act what they preach, but unfortunate men who hold to the idea, that a Christian man should not join a Temperance Society take their toddy more than once a day. Therefore, their example is one way, and their preach an other, that is, they advocate an X. V\ e are pleased to add The Jefferson Fries Si Farmer to our exchanges, and we are gratified the more, to see the name of one of tire Proprietors as Lodge Deputy, and Rev. J. It. Smith Editor, as Chaplain. We will guar antee a glorious future for this Lodge, or any others where the Press and Pulpit are combined in our great work of humanity. We give you, and your Lodge a cordial welcome, and shall ex pect to hear a good report from Battle Oak Lodge, No. 255. We make the following extract from the above paper of the Oth instant : Battle Oak Lodge in Loi lsville. — We are glad to say to our readers, that we have, at last a Temperance Lodge in Louisville. Although Louisville is as sober ami decent a community as you will meet with in a weeks journey, yet here as every where else, there are temptations to indulgence in intoxica ting drinks, particularly during such cold, damp, wet, rainy, snowy, freezing weather as we have had lately, and as the Good Templars have been doing good work in the United States ; we congratulate the county on the estab lishment of the Lodge, the second in the county. To Mr. Keith, W. C. T. of the Lodge, more than to any other individual, is the credit of its estab lishment due. He has labored inde fatigably for thecause, and was worthy the trust reposed in him of organizing the Lodge, and of being its first presi ding officer. We predict for this Lodge distin guished success. Will not Bro. Keith, and the other members of this new Lodge send a (lub to our paper? W< will keep you posted in regard to the progress of our Order. FROM THE FB.OSJT! MORE GLORIOUS NEWS!! Another Very Encouraging Letter FROM THE GRAND SECRETARY'S OFFICE! Rome, Ga.. March 6, 1873. Editor.'. Peoples Friend: I must again trespass so far as to give vour many readers the views of l.e o’.dt r fiom all parts of the State. There is still a very prosperous con dition reported of the many Lodges ht ai d from, and several of our efficient Deputies have commenced active ope tions within the last week. And still amdl’a r verv favorable indication, nnd a move in the right direction at the same time, is the return to their first oiganization of several Lodges tnat had temporarily suspended, and were, some of them, in the act of connecting themselves with the new Tempi rance order. I will not, in this issue, give l the letters from these Lodges, yet they are of a very interesting character. I will again reiterate my former asser tion, that the Good Templars are in a more prosperous condition, and are reporting more members, a better standing, more enthusiasm, more Lodges, and a better influence, than was ever reported before in this State. One Lodge writes: “we very foolishly determined to leave our first love and marry another, but fortunately, after a better view of our intended, and a closer inspection, we have decided to return to the good old path of life-long Good Templarism.” This extract is only one of many, that have been received in the last ten days, and several of the letters are written for publication, but I will refrain, yet, I cannot refrain j from protesting against the manner of inviting ten members of any of our Lodges to withdraw, and get a Char ter under a new organization, and then organize under the name of the Lodge from which the ten withdraws; but if ten desire to withdraw and form a new organization, under a new Char ter, let them not assume the honored , name that they have just withdrawn from, nor make war upon the Lodge that makes no war upon them, or any auxiliary to the great Temperance re form, but rather avoid any antagonis tic position to anything except rum and its attendant evils. Let us re member as a professed Christian peo ple, that “to grow strong ourselves, we must give strength to others,” and • none are so strong as to need no strength. Os the letters received in the last week I give you only a few en- I couraging extracts, yet many remain . of a similar type. I I have received another letter from Brother A. J. Hansell, President of the . Roswell Manufacturing Co., in which he writes: “It is a source of great pleasure to us to receive your assur ; ances of the progress and success of our order. 1 sincerely trust its future may be upward and onward. “Our Lodge is in good working or der, and the meetings are very rare in , which we have no additions. Our community is very small, but it is a Temperance community.” Brother Head writes from Tunnel Hill, from Lone Star Lodge: “I am pleased to write encouraging news from our Lodge. Our members are perfectly satisfied with the old order, and labor for our cause with a zeal that would have been an honor to a Ciesar, or have won laurels for Mark Antony. “During the last six months, we have initiated into our Lodge/7rirb/monters amid the jeers and curses of our op posers, and ere long the banner of the “Lone Star" will wave triumphantly over the little village of Tunnel Hill. Brother Jones writes from Clarks ville: “We are doing something yet in the way of moving on, though we are meeting with a great deal of opposi tion, and it requires all of our strength. I think a visit from the Grand Lectur er would do us gieat good," Brother King, Jasper, Pickcn.'. coun ty writes: “Our Lodge still prospt ring; any suggestions and advice for the good of the order thankfully received. We are all in fine spirits ami art* gain ing ground.” Brother McCollum from Cold Water L>dge. Chattoega County, writes: “L mler all the circumstances by which we are suit >un<led, I think we are do ing a good work. We are located in the country, and meeting with consid erable opposition from the still-houses and dram-drinki rs, still I think our prospects are flattering, and we intend to make a good report for the present quarter." Brother Kendrick, of Good Samari tan Lodge 21. at Hawkinsville, writes: “Ten additions for the current t : r . Lodge in good condition and well offi cered.” as his report with, quarfei’y returns will show. The pr o -rity ■ . ] pt rpetuity of a Lodge tan Le v n L, g for, with such a list of < an-l such prompt and accurate r- i • Brother Johnson, of Pim-nox LoJ .e Eatonton, writes: “Our is g. r tiug along very well. Some of our members have withdrawn to f >r:n an other Lodge, yet we are ail Good Templars, and intend to stick to the I. O. G. T. Sister Hancock writes from Ameri- I I j cus: “Our Lodge room has been taken by its owners and appropriated to other uses, and we have been without a suitable place to work in. We are, I however, about to perfect arrangements j I for a room, and we hope soon to report a better state of affairs in our section.” I Brother Baugh, of Mt. Lee Lodge, at Eatonton writes: “Our Lodge is prosperous, very prosperous at this time.” Brother Brooks, of Cassandra Lodge, writes: “Several of our members have withdrawn and joined Stony Point Lodge, yet we are prosperous, and are loosing up again. Thirty-seven mem bers now in good standing.” Brother Roberts writes from Fair burn: “Our Lodge is in a flourishing condition. Twenty-four sisters and twenty-eight brothers, all bearing true allegiance to the I. O. G. T.” Rev. T. H. Stout writes from Thom aston: “I want a supply at once to or ganize a Lodge at the village where I preach on the 2nd Saturday and Sab bath. We are wonting away for the Good Templars, and have no idea of going over to any other organization.” Brother E. W. Mason, who is in Griffin for the present, and who is lecturing and will organize some Lodg es in that section, writes me a private letter in which he says: “I visited Union Lodge 222 last Saturday night. We had 65 present; initiated two. They now have eighty members.” I shall expect to hear a good report from Bro. Mason, for he is a wording Templar, and he hae a very Happy style of saluting all who are holding aloof from this great influence. Had we plenty of such men as him to wori< in nor vineyard, the crowning result spoKen of by that distinguished Broth er, J. M. Richardson, President of Bowdon College, at Carrollton, in the following extract, would be realized. Brother Richardson strikes the key note, and there are many beloved ministers in our State who can and will verify his statement when he says, after stating that the prospects are hopeful in his Lodge: “If we could only reform the preachers, and Church members generally, we would do well. They are the stumbling blocKS in the Temperance reform.” How often have I heard a beloved man of God mane use of a similar ex pression, and how earnestly has he in voked the power of God to awaken the Church and Ministry to their duty in this worii? Let us then, like Jacob of old, wrestle with the spirit and contin ue to pray. Brother J. E. Young, from Darien, writes; “Our hall has been destroyed by fire, yet we have 51 members in good standing, but are sorely tried for a place to meet, as well as by some de feated candidates for office in our lodge, who are now conspiring togeth er to delude other members into the new movement, but you can rest as sured that Mclntosh Lodge rd! ner.-r </o. We are needing help to procure a hall. lam a Good Templar, and will remain with our blessed order until death.” Brother H. 11. Parks is organizing Lodges in North East Georgia, and gives a very encouraging report of the operations o r our order in that section, and the gradual increase of tin G ■ .d Templars influence. Brother Murphy writ s fr >m Mur phy Lodge 143: “We arc doing very well now, and we still look for belter times among us. The questions that have been agitated in a good many Lodges, we have passed by unnoticed, and are willing to let well to do alone, ami to remain in F. H. C. Brother A. B. < iari< win s from Dublin: • 1 L Iv i- l; a g<». »d con dition and our ’ rospecG arc bright." Brotln r M. 5 •of \ ilia Rica. repo>'ts >U n.'-n.■ r. g'>"d si-. eln.g, and . uv < h' ’ v 1 rs- a’'. 1 < Jr.c'G could . b J-tn i qual’y s -arisf mfory. The : ,i u wfi I-.-- o ■ ~f in my list Elbert i if nd Jt ff< soi: C »■;/'. - a:.d . < th.- Grand Lec turer Bro. W. D. ::iu-on, js now on .* tour tin o.o.itii an.ri--iof Warren, < ’ i nbi I i ?hi. >i 1, Bui se, Jefferson, ?[ Di’fiie, Ham- Wilxes ami Ogle thorpe, you may expect a number of | new lodges to be reported with each ' issue of the official organ, The People’s Friend. In F. H. & C., S. C. Robinson, G. W. S. P. S. Since the above was in type, ad i ditional news has been received, and as I know it to be important that such iniica i tions of’ success should be known by the ! members of the Order, I will first add the . returns of still another Lodge, at the vil lage of Sunny Side, in Spaulding county, j a fe.v miles from Griffin ; Brother E. W. Mason organized Sunny ; Side Lodge, No. 253, on the 3d inst., with i 24 Charter members, and writes; “ I Lectured at Cresswell on the 2nd, I had a grand rally of the Good Templars, j with Union Lodge, and had several to join. ; To-night I visit Barnesville. Next I shall plant my batteries at Brookville, on the Griffin & Newnan Railroad, and try to whip the Rum power.” But I must leave Brother Mason, you will bear from him again. Our G. W. Chaplain, Brother Dunlap, has sent up a club tor the Friend from Carrolton, and while his letter does not show as much prosperity as we would de sire, still there is a hope expressed that all will soon be revived, and “saved from the wreck.” I feel confident that where Bro. Dunlap i , Good Templarism will never suf fer, and we may expect to hear that his field ot labor will prosper before he leaves it. Brother Price also sends for the Friend from Pond Spring, Walker county, and writes : “Thecause of Temperance is encour aging in this section, although we have many enemies to contend with, and many who would glory in the downfall of the Good Templars, yet wc are gaining the ascend ency.” Brother Morton, of Union Lodge, No. 175, at Eatonton, writes: “Our Lodge has but few members, though we are in good condition, and have accomplished much good in the commu nity.” Brother .Zewell writes from Hancock county, Social Lodge 174: “Seventy members in good standing. Al ■ though less than our last report in num bers, 1 feel that we now have better pros pects, and a more substantial organization than at any former period since the exist ence of our Lodge.” Brother Landrum, of Jennings’ Lodge, 232, Oglethorpe county, writes : “We are progressing finely, and we are alive. The great power of our Order, in my estimation, is with the Lodges. What say you to this ?” I say you are correct my Brother; all the influence that oui Order has ever ex erted has come from the Lodges, and as long as our members will consider their in dividual responsibility, and do their duty, we will continue to exert an influence, and will continue to make our great power felt. Rev. J. M. Robertson, a worthy Brother who has recently moved to our State, and whose Ministerial labors have been assigned to some of the Baptist Churches in the counties of Floyd and Chattooga, came in to-day, properly authorized to carry out a Charter, Books, etc., lor a Lodge at Ar ia uchee. lie has gone out again, and in v lew days we will have another uuble little band enrolled in our county- Applications have been received, and Charters sent out for four new Lodges this week, with half a score of energetic Depu ties at work. And just ns i was closing this additionrl note, a letter arrives from Brother Atkin son, who sends returns of Waynesborough Lodge, 254, organized on the sth inst., in Burke county. He writes; “This is one of the best Lodges I ever organized, and of the best material. Judge E. F. Lawson is W. T., P. 11. Johnson . R. S., and Hon. J. F. Lawson Treas urer. I have another Lodge organized in Jefferson county, will send the return soon, an 11 expect to send the returns of two or three more new Lodges at the same time. I Lecture at Lawtonville to-night. The skies are bright down here for our order.— I will, on my return home, prepare an ar ticle for the Friend that will give the membership of our Order the new.i from my trip to this part of the State.” More next issue. S. C. R. SLANDER. He who can choke the sweetest flowers of social love, and taint them with disease —or in the paradise of earthly bliss, where the plants of virtue flourish, spread the bight ar.d mildew of desolation, hatred and distrust—who can crush his neigh bor's fame to dust and build on its ruins— who can write infamy on the brow of others to prove his own purity, is neither man nor beast, but a heartless fiend. Those who have their dearest interest tampered with —who have known what it is to have the priceless gem of a good name sullied by the poisonous breath of co’d, unpitying slander—such is the drunkard. Have you never suffered by slander, d rectly or indirectly ? If not, then, indeed, you are a lucky being, and should feel truly grateful for such an unaccountable blessing, for few, indeed, are the persons of either sex, or of any station in life, whose character and reputation have never been assailed, and more or less mutilated by thisinsiduous monster, who goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking to devour every thing that is fair, or lovely, or praiseworthy in the Human character. The evil effects of slander are as numerous and varied as the source from whence they emanate, is I revolting and contemptible. They affect all circles and all grades—running through every social fibre of which society is com posed ; poisoning the peace and happiness of thousands, destroying confidence, excit ing jealousy, awakening suspicion, bringing into action passions that should never be aroused, and breeding sin and misery in ten thousand shapes and forms. Blander is calculated not only to create strife and animosity in every community, but will of ten invade the domestic circle, and convert the once quiet, peaceful home into a literal pandora’s box. It is calculated to blunt every holy aspi ration, every virtuous impulse that would fein exist within the human heart. Oh 1 how many fondly cherished hopes have thus been suddenly blasted by the breath of slander ! Bu if such be ihe legitimate effects of slander upon society and its indi vidual members, how inconceivably con temptible are those individuals who spend their time and talent in circulating and en i couraging it! Indeed, to some, it is their I very meat and drink —the natural abili ment upon which their vitiated appetite I ever loves to feast- They may be found upon all occasions, and at all times, with an activity worthy ot a better cause, striv ing to promote the interests of that “King of tenors” in whose service they have en listed. They are always well stored with information pertaining to every body’s busi- > ness but their own, and, in the plenitude of their liberality, are ever ready to dissem inate their knowledge for the benefit of the ; public, of course. They literally cheat the I newspapers out of their just and lawful dues, keeping up a perpetual and danger ous competition with magnetic telegraph intelligence offices and Notary’s Public, , with such practical übiquity as they gen ■ erally possess, combined with their natural innate zeal, they are capable of accomplish ing wonders in their line of business. May the time soon come when these leeches of . ; society, who live upon the life-blood of the i public, and constantly knawing at the very vitals of the community, be treated with that indignation which their actions justly I 1 merit. In conclusion, Reader, as you value your t l own social and domestic happiness—as you love your fellow-beings and desire their , welfare, as you hope for the future pros -1 perity of the community in which you live, let me entreat you to frown down, imd if - possible, exterminate this evil, and you will I thereby rid society of one of its greatest I curses, and confer a lasting blessing upon > j posterity. C. i - _ Roswell, Cobb Co., Ga., 1 Feb. 26, 1573. ) A. B. Motley, Esq. Editor People’s Friend, Dear Sir;—Hearing that your paper was the organ of the order, I will give a short account of our lodge in Roswell, No. 112. We felt last fall that we had reached the breakers in our course, but the word “steady boys, mind the helm and steer straight” has carried us safe through. Our lodge is 1 increasing in numbers faster than at any former time since we first organized, and if members continue to increase at the present rate, wo shall be compelled to build us a I new hall, Wc rejoice in the fact that we are getting into our lodge some of the most . deteimined drinkers in town, and they stand firm, and make some of our most active and zealous members and officers. Perfect liui many and good will prevails. Our W. C. for the carrent quarter was elected by a unanimous vote. We are little folks and cannot boast of j “big” things. No matter how large or ' how small our town, when we have got all if it is but fifty, wo have enough, but if ' there are a thousand, we will never say enough till we have them all. Yours truly in F. H. and C., • O. Eldredge Cor. Sec. Roswell Lodge, No. 112, I. O- G. T. Chastise your passions, that they may not chastise yon. No one who is a lover of money, a lover of pleasure, or a lover of “•Joi'y, is likewise a lover of man kind. Riches are not among the numberot things that arc good. It is not poverty that causes sor row, but covetous desires. Deliv er yourself from appetite and you will be free.— Epictetus.