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Atiiiia i/rmi, Important to Cotton Flanteis. Tho Kxpcutive Committee of the Georgia Agricultural A --iociation have put forth in an Extra, an Address to Southern Cotton Planters, in which is submitted a very valuable and impor tant suggestion. The subject will be brought forward for discussion at the Convention to be hold next month in Montgomery (Ala.) From this ad Ircss we make the fol- ’ lowing extract, containing important, considerations for the Cotton Planter. ‘•Great Britian habitually imports a- ! bout one-sixtb more raw Cotton titan she manufactures, an 1, according to Baines, i in Itia history of Cotton Manufacture, j makes a profit often per cent, upon the ! exportation of n portion of that excess ; to llarve. Arid she converts into yarn ! and exports about onc-lifih more ol the i amount of her imports of raw Cotton, i This is not the place to impure into the j means by which she is enabled to mon opolize so largo an amount of our raw staple, and to engross so large a profit by a mere transfer of what she cannot use at home, across the channel. It is more german to the purpose ol this pa per to inrju ire it the Cotton planters of the United States may not, themselves, spin and export part or all of that ex cess of yarn which Great Britian spites but doc-, not make into cloth ? The more direct ami practical proposition is, may not tho Colton Planters look forward to the time when tho exporta tion of raw Cotton will he as rare as the exportation of seed Cotton was thirty or; forty years ago/ There am not asi great difficulties now to the spinning! und c xportatioti of yarns as existed s true sixty years ago to the ginning and ex portution of clean Colton. Then the Colton gin was in the hands of the pat entees, who endeavored to m ike a ‘great Hast India concern of it’ bv establish- 1 iig dinners at numerous p lints in tie cotton region and coercing the planters j <o srd! their Cotton in tho seed, by rc fusing to soil rights to use the gin. That scheme of monopoly, urn,muting ] almost to fraud, was dtfiui J by the J engenuity of Nathan Lyons, who, as already stated, invented tho saw gin. Now, all the elements for ginning, card ing and spinning exist in machinery of almost perfect construction, uud its n daptalion to tho planter's wants is alone necessary to enable him to spin his own crop at his own homestead. The spin ning of Cotton —was one time tho gin ning of it —is a distinct pursuit, employ ing a distinct capital und creating a distinct and antagonizing interest to that of tho planter. The same energy that enabled him to unite tho ginning out of his crop with the production of it, will now unite, in his own hands, the production, ginning, curding and spin ning. And lie will find that lie will add proportionally more to tho profits of his investment by carding and spin ning than ho lias by ginning his crop, lor the women and children may be readily taught to spin, in winter, wlmt they have aided in cultivating and gath ering.” Tho following resolution, offered by Dr. Daniel, contains a proposition to promote the scheme which the Address urges with much force. If the machine sought for, should be invented, and generally introduced on Cotton Plantations, the benefits to result will be immense: “ The fluctuations in the price of; Cotton have long Been felt as a very serious evil to all the great interests ol the country, and plans huvo been sug gesled to supply more steadfast prices, to an extent strongly indicative of the prevalence of this conviction. As u measure calculated in its tendencies to exercise some influence in correcting these fluctuations, the ex'outivc Com mittee of the ‘‘Southern Central Agri cultural Society, ’ recommend to the Convention of Cotton Planters to assem in Montgomery, Alabama, in May next, to oiler a premium sufficient to stimu late tho mechanical skill ol the world to supply a simple and ejectin’ machine, calculated to spin into unv of the num bers in ordinary use of yam about ten | pounds of cotton per hour, which Cot-! ton planters may introduce upon their plantations, to spin into yam during winter the Cotton grown the preceding season.” Common sense vs Nonsense. Dr. F. Tuthil delivered an address the other day, before the Agricultural Society of Suffolk county, New York, undin tho course of his remarks lie touched upon “the false shame of la-; bor” in ttie following manner : “Tho day has ulready come in our cities, that if a man, stout as Milo of j old, has a load ol wood brought to his door, and lie really aches for the pleas ure of handling it, yet must ho hire a man to pitch it into his cellar, while he stands idle by, nor so much us touches a stick of it, on pair, of 1 using his caste. Isa stout and vigorous citizen, whose muscles swell with an excess of strength! has a load of wood lying on the side walk, lie may as well hang himself at once as to be foolish enough to save u j dollar and saw it up himsif; yet if the 1 man has pitched it in, and the grate is : 00 that ha shall not be seen, we are not! sure but he may saw- on till doomsday,! and no one esteem him less a man and a gentleman. If he curry and tackle his own horse, or lead him to the stable when 1 he has done with him, he is unpardon able vulgar. He would no sooner be taught carrying a trunk the length of] ORGAN OF TilK SONS OF TEM FFK AM i AM* ” iVn: TEMPERANCE (ONAENiiON a block to an omnibus than stealing a body from a grave-yard, vet h-will boast among Ids friends of the cnor moi.s weight he carries in the gymna sium having paid a fee of thirty dollars a year for the privilege. An I Ins friends applauds his gymnastic expend iture as wise and exceedingly judicious “for sure” they soy, “how can a matt live without ext rcise ?” In short, labor, which promites the ends ofecon . my, is an abominable tiling ; that which advertises their imbecility is a source of pride. These soft handed gentry may be our sans and brothers, hut we fancy that they must at tirn s feel ashamed of our common father, old A lam, who farmed it in Paradise.” Deep Ploughing Secubity Against Drought. —We have the testimony, up on this subject, of oiio of the best South Carolina planters to this effect. In u-ikmg of ill • m vino drought which has prevailed during the last summer, li sajs: “My crop has been cut short I every where one-lialf. Others adjoin ! ing me have been cut off two-thirds, or more. I think d< •j breaking and marl have made the dill rence as to drought, j and on similar lands [ shall boat them three to one. 1 broke up my thinnest firm lands last winter, eight inches deep, ] ui) i I think all land about here will be touched an inch or two deeper next! spring than it ever was before.” Singular Modi-: of Grafting. A friend from Massachusetts haseotnmu-! uioatod to us the following singular j method of grafting the peach on the j willow, and assures us that lie has seen ] tho experiment successfully tried.—j Bend a willow shoot until the two ends! take root and grow in the ground.— j Then bury a peach-stone midway be- ] tween, and when the young tree at tains a height sufficient to intersect the willow above, cut a slit in the latter, puss the peach twig through it, und close up tho opening with the prepara tion commonly used in grafting. A short time thereafter cut off the poach stem underneath, find it will continue to grow out of the willow.- Winchester Republican. rr-r- t.Mf’ !■;’ 1 ” ■ l "•.ir” J - jjk For tho Temperance Banner. No . In our lust and Blh No. we noticed the immense multitude of drunkards that ure swept oil’by the cholera. And the same is true in regard to other epi demics. li uUi), (that is drunkenness) makes light and mild diseases danger ous, und difficult to cure. This is the uniform experience of every Physician. Again, it shortens life ; this every one knows, and no one disputes. And if there was no oilier reason against the use of alcohol, what rational man would either use or sell it? Notice its effect upon the mind. We in a previous No. said that it hardens the brain, and thus disorders certain organs whose health is absolutely necessary to the clear opera tions of the mind. As well might you ; see clearly with a diseased eye, as think clearly with a diseased brain.— Exercise adds strength to every mem ber of the body. And it is just so with uuy faculty of the mind —regular exer cise gives new strength, as memory, im agination, &c., while irregular exercise occasions weakness. And whatever has a tendency to destroy this regular : exercise or action of the mind, weakens] it ; and such an effect is produced by j alcohol. It is like the effect of a blow; upon tho head. The judgment is weak ened, but judgment most; and yet look an I wonder! It is on the judgment, that the chief reliance of llm moderate | drinker is placed, lie goes on taking glass after glass —his judgment grow-; ing constantly weaker and weaker— while his uonfi ienoe in it seems to gro v stronger und stronger. Look at the effect on the morals of tho drinker. It destroys social a flections lie soon be gins to lie—lies first .bout the quantity, uud the frequency of the ruin or whis key lie takes. The habit increases up on him; the vile then lie about any thing. Front lying he goes to swear ing. And when ho has learned to lie and swear, he is prepared for something worse—and then lie learns to gamble— begins by throwing the copper to see who shall treat. Who ever heard of gambling around a bowl ot cold water? lie now is in a fair way to get beastly drunk. Next to what'? Siiail we say steal ? Tho writer once know a man, a drunkard, who actually stole the bread that his poor almost heart-broken wife had purchased, to save their chil dren from starving, that ho might buy rum with it! What next does he do? lie fights ! lie robs ! ! lie murders !!! In addition to the many evils of in temperance, as regards both the health of the body and the mind, there is still another consequence liable to follow, ] which does certainly set forth the aw.; ful and dangerous situation oft he drunk ard in the strongest light; that is the liability and danger ofspontuncous com bustions. It is well known that spirit uous liquors will burn when they come in contact with a dame. E. Opeuca, Walker Cos., Ga., ( April 17, 1852. ) Uncle Ben :—1 think you are the ; greatest stenographer of the age; your system is so very comprehensive and sails.) very plain that the veriest dunce may learn it and understand it too in a single lesson. Certainly this is an age of wonders. The fact that a single char acter and that the most simple in anv alphabet, should be made to convey so! muoli intelligence und be so noddy un- Iderstood, is perfectly admirable. N ’' v I did not intend taking lessons in \ air new system, but the subscription year rnri away before I was aware ol it. The fact is I do not know when it co n me need, not having filed th ; Banner, which lamv. ry >rry fur, -an I “hi mi 1 intend doing in future. Ihe excuse is a very lame one I will admit, but it is th - best 1 have Now as I did not ‘notify vou that I would not take lessons from you, 1 feel bound to respond to j your claim as being just and honorable. I did not see that very savage, “you I owe me.” “pay me,” black, clamorous looking emblem attached to my name until last week, and enclosed I send you I one dollar to erase it with, and another. ] dollar as a kind of bribe which no doubt ; you will understand, and which will * attest for me that 1 am a true friend to I the cause you so ably advocate, uud ! will keep that ugly looking mark from , before my name for another year, ul I which time you ure at perfect liberty to notify me again in the same maimer, TANARUS, 1 you bane a chance, and 1 hope it w.!i have the ?amo effect on all your sub-; j scribers who may see it annexed to j their names, so that your nr ms may 1 multiply exceedingly and enable y mi to follow up the enemy > clearly that he may be compelled to return from the ! field in Georgia principally as ha did ! in the good old State of Maine. 1 do not sco how any of your sulucri i Iters can take any offence at the nan- I nor in which you inform them of th dr ! indebtedness, unless there is thro ■ or : four marks staring thorn in tho focoev | cry paper they get, and then thoy got I vexed at the wrong person, for it is evi dent that it is the ms Ives that is in f uiit, \ and against whom they should take I their revenge—not by stopping your ] paper, but lr, enclosing their beloved dollars to you, thereby cancelling your very comprehensive tokens of indebt edness, and giving themselves an easy and quiet conscience. “May your shadow never grow less.” Yours in L. I*. & F. A. D. BROWN. Halcyondale, April 15,1852. Mr. Editor : —ln a conversation with a friend of temperance, who lives in the vicinity of the Central Rail Road, touching the consequences ot the sale and use of alcohol, i was struck with tho number of instances of tho most shocking deaths by the cars, within his I recollection, clearly traceable to this abominable evil, it appears that at a j number, perhaps a majority, ul the sta tions, those human dead-falls are set, where white men and negroes may pro cure the poison, under the influence of which tiiey prostrate thernselve upon the track to be crushed, in mgfod and destroyed, or return to their homes to see heart-ache uud despair into tho bos siiiiis of parents, wives and children, j Now lbr the remedy of these evils in general, there seems to be, at present, but one available instrumentality—the diffusion of light, and the exercise of moral suasion. The law, so far from j aiding the friends of temperance, is; against them—is, indeed, the most for-; midablo obstacle with which they have to contend. It is on the side of intern-; peranee,—is, indeed, i’s strongest bul wark. The retailer shakes the license* of tlie law in the face of the community j and defies their interference with his; work of ruin and death. The indig.! nant remonstrances of the master in be-i half of his servants —the faultering re quests of the parents tin - their sons—the agonized entreaties of the wite for her besotted husband, are ulike disregarded by him. With the rumseller, moral, suasion is out of the question. But is thero no remedy for the evil along the line of the Central Rail Road ?—none which the Directors, or Company can apply ? 1 think there is, and will ven ture to suggest it : 1 learn that there are stations along the road where no ulcoliol is allowed to ] bo kept by those who control. Now] just let the Company or Directors, or the property authority, by whatever name called, instruct their engineers and other employees to refrain from; taking wood and water from stations where alcohol is kept, whenever it is practicable to refrain; taking their supplies, as much as possible, from sta tions where the poison is not kept.— This method will appeal to the purse— an appeal which even a rumseller can’t disregard, however he may disregard the tears and groans of parents, wives and children. No rumseller along the line can live on the proceeds of hie sales of alcohol. 11 is chief support is de rived from tho sale of wood and water, or other service to the R. R. Company. Lot tiiis bo cut oft’, or seriously dimin ished ; and let him see his anli-rumsol ling neighbor tit riving, and Ids humani ty will bo touched, it may be, that in some instances, the rumseller is not in terested in the sale of wood and water, but is a tenant of the land-lord, who is. such a ease the course suggested would make it the interest oftlie land lord to dislodge his infectious tenant in order to reclaim the custom which his presence had driven ofl’ There is no need ot argument to show that all the interests of the R. Road would he pro moted by the entire removal of spirits from its vicinity. The foregoing suggestions ate given for what they are worth. They will be appreciated or neglected according lv. Y ours in L. P. & F. SCR l YEN. Wo 1. Dear Banner :—According o invi tations recived from Alabama and ~ i before day on Tues day noth March, leaving my family in bod, arid take the cars at Palmetto.-*— Arriving at Newnan, 1 find in waiting inv friend W. W. Hughey, a good son, to convey me to Liberty Hill, to lec ture before Dibble Division. We dine , with the Rev. W. W Steegul, that true hearted, sensible, devoted Methodist Preacher, a true Son of Temperance, but for some reason, lias not as yet felt it ids duty to join tho order. O, when will all sueh men cast the weight of their character into our order ? Leav ing my kind friend his most excellent j ladv, we arrive at Liberty Hill and lec ture at night, a tolerable croud. Lec ture next day, sons turning in regalia ; set it down Dibble Division is sound. ] [n the evening hail for Roan Oak, Ran-; dolph county, and lecture on the Hist March—here the Division hud gone, 1 am sorrv to record the tact that Moth-, odists, at least a good many of them about RoanOke, are neutral, but op posed to our order, whether this con tributed to the downfall of the Division, “the deponent saith not. 1 know liquor j sellers, many liquor consumers (not all) and prince alehy, and prince li , are opposed to us, or i think so, hut how profVs .ora ot religion are arrayed under the same banner, is a question for tnem io settle. 1 lectured in the day, get ti i: 13 names, I think mostly from the ] old Division, and they promised to stand erect for the future. Preach at night. Friday morning goon to Fredonia, | they Were utiappriz ui oi my visit, not withstanding it was published in the ! Banner. By night they ralied a good croud. .Lectured next da) at 3 o’clock ! and at night—during this time, receiv- 1 ed fifteen petitions, fourteen of whom were initiated before I left; one was a special case, R. P., long may lie live, to enjoy freedom from his old enemy. I left the Division much revived—at tended church on Sabbath. On .Mon-] day, sth April, 1 “as met at Rough & Ready, on the Montgomery Rail Road, ] by T. J. Russ 11, conveyed by him to Dudleyville, twenty-five miles—foe tured on Tuesday Gth at Dudleyville, five or six initiations. By the by this i i\ J. Russell, G. 1 . for Alabama, is worthy of his offices—he again con- j veyed me hack to the R. R., twenty five miles, a noble San is he. Upon the whole, with a few excep- ] tions, I find our Albania brethren nobly buttling for our good cause. I found a few Divisions had gone down, but 1 was enabled to revive them. I wjll al lude to these in another number. And just hold stiil until you hear from Salem, Alabama ; if every City and Town now in the Union, gain the day as Salem has done, then with loud acciaim we might all proclaim, “we have met the enemy and lie is over.” Trulv, D. P. JONES. SONS OF TEMPERANCE, j li'l.Mlgc of the §ons of Tempe- ] rsilice.—l, without reserve, solemnly pledge my honor as a man that I will neither make, buy,: sell nor use, as a beverage, any Spirituous or Malt Liquors, Wine or Cider. Officers of 9 Sic ijirainl Oivisiois. G. L. M’Cleskey, G. W. P. Monroe. , J.S. Pinckard, G. YV. A. Forsyth. ; W. S. Williford, G. Scribe, Macon. ] jE. C. Granniss, G. Treasurer, ~ J. E. Evans, G. Chaplain, „ ] I). E. Blount, G- Conductor, Clinton, jJ. D. llavis, G. Sen. Houston, Cos. ] Mr. Branlly, Dear Sir:— At the last reg ular meeting of Mobley Pond Division, S. of T. No. 248, the following officers were in- I stalled: P. L. Wade, \V. P ; 11. R. Nideto, W. A.; M. F. Dow, R. S.; 11. B. Mears, A. R. S.; A. J. Bowie, F. S.; J. llelmv, TANARUS.; J. 1). Wade j C.; J. M. Walker, A. C.; A. P. Wade, I. S; j E. Kelly, O. K. mßEßßaannEEam CADETS OF TEMPERANCE. PLEDGE. No member shall make, buy, sell or use | ‘as a beverage,any spirituous or malt liquors, wine or eider. Officers of isse Grand Section. J. W. Benson, G. P. Macon. B. Burton, G. A. P. Pondtovvn. L. C. Simson, G. S. &T. Atlanta. Rev. J. S. Wilson, G. C. Decatur. S. M. 11. Byrd, G. G. Oxford. W. P King, G. W. Thomaston. I. O. of Kccliabitcs. Officers of Georgia Dist. Tent, No. 26, loca ! ted at Washington, Wilkes Cos ,Ga.: Washington, Rev. G. G. Norman, D. P. C. R. „ J. D. Burden, D. C. R. Atlanta, C. R. UanTeiter, D. I), R. Washington, John R. Smith, D. R. S. „ George Dyson, D.F. S. ~ St. John Moore, D. Tres. „ R. H. Lynn, D, Levite. Hoclimbite's Pledge. I hereby declare, that I will abstain from all intoxicating liquors, and will not give, nor offer ! them to others, except in religious ordinances, or when prescribed, in pood faith, by a medi cal practitioner ; 1 will not engage in the traf fic of them, and in ail suitable ways will dis ! countenance the use, sate and manufacture of them ; and to the utmost of my power, I will endeavor to spread the principles of abstinence from a!i intoxicating iiquora. TEII MKimi. | PitATIELD, MAY 1, 1852. {Ur NOTIOS —Subscribers recei ving’ their papers with a straight black mar!-:, are there by nutifi and that they are in arrears. One mark indicates one dollar due; two, that two, &c. Please remit the amount at once by mail, with ’ out waiting for other opportunity. The Editor is absent this week in I attendance upon tho Semi-annual session of the G. I). at Savannah, arid asks the indul gence of correspondents and others, till his ! return. To Correspondents. “The First Book ot Chronicles, Chap. 1.” | from Greene->boro,” would probably be di- j | verting and taken as an article ot fun by most persons acquainted with the facts. But ] it would possibly be grating to the feelings ] of others; and without we were more fully informed of the circumstances attending the i ease, for fear of giving offence unwittingly, i we think it best to defer its publication, at i I least for the present. Several articles will receive attention in 1 our next. The articie of “Tallulah,” in our! i judgment and at our distance from Fort | Valley, we think, rather harsh. It may be j I that the Sons of Fort Valley were handled J I rather roughly by the soft hands of “Anna ] I Frances;” but our respected correspon-j i dent, “Tallulah,” is assured that in some ] ! other places, Anna’s articles suited to aT. The letter of Dr. Powell, commenting ! on a funeral event, published in our last, 1 should have been credited to the Crystal ! Fount, of Ala. Mr. Brush, Daguerrian Artist, has spent j two or three weeks in our village, and has ] i been very busy in brushing up the faces of] I the villagers and denizens of the neighbor-] hood. Perhaps no Daguerrian has been | ! more successfu! than Mr. B. or given so j | much satisfaction to those who have sit for | a likeness. JLgf* We have received a communication,] purporting to be from Mount Carmel Divis- j l ion, No. 173,signed“A Son of TANARUS,” caution-1 j ing the public, and the Sons in particular, I against an impostor. On ordinary ouca s sions, we are not particular in requiring the ] name of an author, but it will be seen at ] once that we cannot publish articles of the i character of the one under consideration j ! without a responsible name. We are indebted to Senator Dawson,! lion. Mr. Brooks and lion. Mr. Letcher, ] I for several public documents,for which we] reiurri our thanks. The notice from Savannah of the j public procession of the G. D. and address by Dr. Pierce, did not reach us till Satur- I day afternoon last—our paper having been i ] printed and mailed previously thereto. Postage—again. We are compelled again to complain of] the postage tax, to which we are unjustly subjected. Some of our correspondents, in requesting a change of their Post Office ad dress, or in discontinuing their Subscrip tions, unceremoniously tax us with the post age. Several Post Masters and their Clerks, are likewise guilty of the same con duct. We trust this practice will be dis continued. jjpgy” An old subscriber and friend, of Bibb county,sent us anew Subscriber this week,/With the promise of procuring twenty five during the year. How many oftlie old j standards will take the field to add to our ] list. In what way can the cause more likely I l>e promoted? We do not know that the same space ini our paper could he better occupied than in ] publishing what follows, from the pen of] the Editor of the S. of T. of Knoxville, Tenn. If the facts and conclusions of our contemporary cannot be successfully com batted, (and we believe they cannot,) what! then is the path of duty in relation to the ] great cause 1 The State of the Case. At the census of 1840, there were more j than 17 millons of inhabitants in our court-j try. The official returns of the census of i that year show, that 60 millions of gallons, j of distilled and fermented liquors, were an- j , nually produced in the country. The an ! nual consumption was 80 millions of gal-1 ! lons, and to supply the demand, we had to | import 20 millions of gallons. If we put; | the average cost at 60 cents, which is less | ; than it ought to be, including fine liquors, i ! the kind generally imported—the annual; 1 amount expended in the United States, for : alcoholic drinks was $55,250,00. The | number of drunkards was estimated at l 531,000. Supposing the Temperance Ref ormation to have done something, and that 1 100,000 drunkards have been reformed we would still have 431,000 drunkards. This! class of men, at thelowest calculation, loose one third of their time. Rut let us suppose them only to loose one third of their time and that the average wages per day, of all professions, is oOets—the loss would be $20,000,000. Let us put all these items together. Cost of liquors in the United States, $55,250,000. i Loss of lime, at 50 cents per day, 20,000,- ; 000. i Cost of crime and pauperism, on this ac count 13,281,250. Charaties bestowed on families ofdrunk ards, 5,000,000. Annual loss by intemperance, $93. 581,- 250. Almost ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS, : ,in one year, is tlie cost ot ardent spirits! i This would detray the expenses of our Gen eral Government for four years, or dunnr the term of any one President! What could be purchased witli this money? All the machinery manufactories —alt the soap ami dandle factories—all the rope-walks baging factories and fixtures—all die grist and saw-mills,all the oil, powder and paper mills —all tho sugar refineries, and printing. ; otiiices in the United States; and then, there would be enough left to construct all the Rail ltoads contemplated in Tennessee! Thus we have presented the ease in a nut shell, and instead of all this good, with this money, men, women, and children are made sick, naked, and even killed—they are sent to the poor house, the prison, the gallows, and many souls finally to hell! There is ! prodigious guilt somewhere! Where is it? Perhaps in the people who do not put down ! the practice of drunkenness. We have an Order here no w, wlsose history is brief, and if the men of influence in the country, would come into this Order, and give us their in fluence and councils, much could be done towards the relief of the suffering thousands of our country. We are not eatried back to the days of Hiram, or Solomon, or even ; to the Knight Templars—but to Septem ’ ber, 18-12, when the “Order of the Suns of ; Temperance,” banded themselves together jin an alliance, offensive and deffensive ] against intemperance. Editorial Correspondence. Augusta, April 26, 11 A. M. The stage for waynesboro’, (30 miles) comes here at one o’clock. Consequently I have but little time to tarry or to write. I can hear uut little news here interesting to to the readers of the Banner, f eme talk about the Bank of St. Mary’s,and very con* tradictory opinions are entertained as to the final redemption of the bills. Fifty cents to the Dollar is offered freely, but few sales roccur. I believe holders would readily sell |-at seventy-five cents to the dollar. So anx- I ious am i to close old accounts for Subscrip. ] tions to the Banner, that if those in arrears ] lbr two,years and upwards “ill forward us I St. Mary’s bills, we will, till farther notice, j take them at,par. j A tremendous Tain .is now falling. Bv ! the way, the report in circulation that Small ; Pox exists at Union Point, is entirely erro j neous—or at all events there was r:o case ! there last night. There is very little .prospect of ray get ting company from either of the Divisions here to go on to Savannah. I hope some thing will occur to give anew impulse- to our cause here, as it appears to he at a low j ebb. But l must close. - j iniiaU Fox. ] We regret to announce the death- of Air , GUSTIS Greene, Esq, from Small Pox, on the 23d ult. Mr. G. resided about two ] miles below Union Point, o.itlu Rail Ro.id, ] and ten miles from onr village. We learn through Dr. Foster, the at tending physician of Mrs. Sanford of j Greencsboro’, that she is nearly well, and that no new ease had oceured there. The report in circulation that Dr. Ran dle, of our village, has the Small Pox, is altogether untrue. it will be seen, from the last official re port, that no new case tuts oceured. Since <uir last report we Imve received the j sad intelligence ut the death of Augustin j Gkef.ne E*q, he died on Friday night, last; : the attending physicians report to us no new lease since our lust meeting. We nevertheless | earnestly recommend our citizens to use j their best endeavors to keep their slaves , closely at home. On belialt of me commit teeof safety. V. R. THORNTON, Clt'n. April 26th, 18j2. Dudleyville, Ala., April 17, J 852. ) Nazarene Division, No. J 26, 8. of T. t Relieving as we do that the temperance j reforumtion has been brought to its present. : elevated stand through the in diutii of or- I gattization and well directed public discus- I sion, Therefore Resolved, Is/. We will celebrate our an niversary on the 7th of August next. Resolved , 2<Z, That a committee of three be appointed to act as a committee of invi tation. Resolved , 3d, 1 hat we extend invitations to Bro s. D. P. Jones ot Georgia, J. P, Per ham and 8. M. Hewlett, of Alabama, to visit us on that occasion, and the tnvitation be published in the Temperance Banner, at *- Pentield Georgia. J. F. BLEDSOE, W. P. P. S. Owens, It. S. _ LaFavette, Ala,, April 19th. Cjooq samarium Division in L:iPayette is i j dated 8 each nigh; we have been increas ing tor the last three months, and tha pros pect is still bright. Bro. Hewlett will ad ! dress us ou next Monday night. Yours in L. P. &F. ° Dudley ville, April 17, 1852. Bro. Brandy :—The temperance star (to all human appearance,) had well i nigh set, and its glorious tight was be coming quite dim about the place, and but for a very few energetic Sons Naz arene Division, No. 126, S. of T. would | now have been numbered with the things that were. But some of us learning through the medium of your invaluable paper thatthegreat “blucher of the temperance cause south,” wj|3 passing hastily through these parts, we availed ourselves of a short time in which he seemed to have no appoint ments to get him ,o visit us even here in these backwoods and in this hilly country, that be might arouse us once . moi t ‘ f'om our lethargy and lead us on again to buttle with renewed energy against the foul monster and tvrant.— lie oame, yes uncle Dabney came, and though we had no notice of his oomingt unlit two days before the time, yet his i coming was like that cfone of old tvheti