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YOL. XVIII. THE TEMPERANCE BANNER. IS TIIR Organ of the Sons of Temperance’ AND OF THE State Convention of Georgia: PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY BBIfJA.WIIf IIBASTLY. Uj> Terms—One Dollar a yenr.in advance. Letters must be Post paid, to receive at- Banner Almanack, for tslz! 1 | jj§iff*l£’ !r 4 I § i|i|lj3|rd|l | s liiitim 3 tl|| if I^l | |T[ill flf _i I [lfnlfli )j ! ‘5 J— iTiT al July- - - I—l—l li 21 sj V i ’ i->o 7sU i,i /: .5,1 -| /1 it i > v* 11 I‘■ 1') 17 n 12 13 U I.!K 17 \*j P 0 IS 19 20 21 22 23 24 t* 111 2f 21 32 g jj} & V 25 26 27 25 1 29 3t)i3l 25j2‘i27i2s 2M 1 ?!-'*! \ v Feb —“r 2‘~3 4561 7 Aug— 1 23 1 1 • 1 f jl® 1? isli* Jnljl 4 a *.*! March- 1 2 3 4 1 8 Sep.------- 1 ~ 3 1 A V 7 S a will 12 IS *1 ! 7 “ i X S3 11 1.1 Hi 17 IS|W 2” 1211.1|M I5|S 1711? A <1 C| l 2 n 24 2l‘S 27 W 3121 32,3 91 S3 V Q #*) j 21 27 IS 2.'!” I ■} April, - 11 * k- 4! (i 7s'9 18 |a, 1 1 !,•. 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On any day: or A 8 0?gf” Every friend to Temperance^ >s| should take the Temperance Banner: AA If Temperance men will not support Y Jtji the Temperanee Press,^ who will MORAL AND REhItUOUS. The Elixir of Life. —In all ages and countries the search for an Elixir of life has consumed the time of philos ophers and impoverished their weal thiest patrons. And yet few persons, even if they could, would choose to live forever on earth. Our happiness here is so involved with that of others, that he who survives his family and friends, has little left for which to live. Could •a man’s existence be protracted to five hundred years, he would spend at least four hundred years, alone in the world, with no companionship of wife or chil dren to alleviate care, or sweeten pleas ure. The legend of the •‘Wandering Jew” is regarded, and among all na tions, as typifying the most awful pen alty which it is possible to suffer in this world. The desire for an Elixir ot Life is a weak feeling, opposed to all •experience and to all correct reasoning. It springs from that instinctive love of existence which belongs to the mere animal nature, and is not sanctioned in this its excess bv either the soul or the intellect. To live for centuries, yet grow old at three score and ten, would he a purgatory on earth. To survive all our friends, even if we pre served our youth, would bo like living several lives, and enduring all their griefs, when the sorrows of one life are enough generally to bear down the stoutest heart. The happiest lot, perhaps, is to fill the usual term of life, unci die in a green old age before we are left entire ly alone. Few, however, do this. But the fault is theirs, not Nature’s. If all would live according to the laws of their being, human life would nearly always extend to seventy. But wo scourge ourselves to death with our passions, or wear our existence out with anxieties about wealth, or consume our physical powers in the fire of intemper, ate living; and then, when death draws nigh, we reproach heaven with not giv ing us protracted days. There are some cases, it is true, in which a week ly constitution is inherited from parents; with this exception, we all have as it were, a long orshort life at our disposal. A cheerful mind, methodical habits, and steady occupation are nearly cer tain to produce long life. But dissipa tion, excessive ambition, a passionate temper, and all other causes which wear out the human machine inevitably shor ten existence. The true Elixir of Life is not to be sought in medicine, therefore, hut in the proper ordering of our days. There is not an hour in our whole ca reer, when we mav not do something, either to lengthen or shorten our lives. Yet how rarely do we reflect on this! llow little when engaged in the pur suits of pleasure, do we regard this great truth ? To live long we must avoid excesses, whether of the body or mind; do our duty to our fellows & take air and exercise; and thus, with n mind at ease, and regular mode of life, we may boast of having found the true Elixir . —Philadelphia Bul/etin. He is a Christian u ho lives like one. ] The Prisoner’s Friend. John M. Spear, who has been known in Boston for many years as a benevo-1 lent friend of the destitute prisoner, has published a history ofhis philanthropic; labors tor the year last past. In this | we find the following episode : Last August, a young man was con-; victed in the city of Boston of the ciime of highway robbery, and for that of fence was liable to imprisonment lor life. When ho was brought into court for sentence, ho said *.o me, “Mr. Spear, 1 am innocent of (lie crime of which I have been convicted. My fa ther was formerly high sheriffof Pehoh scotl county. My mother is dead. 1 am now without money, and have no friends.” Deeply moved by Iris touching story,) I said to. the judge, (Wells,) “The piisoiier claims to he innocent. He; says he is from Bangor, and that when he left there he had many friends and a good character. He may he innocent,” I added, “if the court will postpone his sentence until next month, I will go to i Bangor to obtain a history of him, and I will bring to the court just such infor mation as 1 obtain, whether favorable or unfavorable to the prisoner.” The judge consented to niv proposal, and the prisoner was sent back to jail. I went to Bangor, learned that the young man had told the truth in respect to Lis relatives, and that when he left there, two years before, he hail a good character. His father was now ab sent from Bangor, and being poor, was unable to aid his imprisoned son. I also learned that the young man had kept a provision store a short time in Boston. Failing in business, and out of employment, he had become asso ciated with gamblers. On my return from Maine, I con versed will) some of the jurymen who convicted the prisoner. From them 1 learned that gamblers testified in his favor, and that had they believed them, they would not have convicted him.— From them and from the prisoner 1 then learned more perfectly the nature nf the case. It appeared that on the morn ing following the Fourth of July, be tween two and three o’clock, the pris oner was standing with some ofhis as sociates in the street, when he was in formed that a man was lying near by drunk, lie went to him to do an act of humanity—to raise up the fallen.— The drunkard turned upon him, and accused him of stealing his watch ami money. He was arrested, imprisoned, and the gamblers who saw the whole transaction came into court, and testi fied in his behalf; hut being known as gamblers, they were not believed. I had now become most deeply inter ested in the case, and determined to leave nothing undone on my part to j help him. 1 requested that sentence | might be postponed another month.— | The judge (Mellen) consented, lie was again sent back to prison. 1 now went back to the town where the man lived who had said that the prisoner robbed him, and the facts which I gathered there led me to the belief that the witness had sworn false ly. Returning back to Boston, l now went toConcord to see Judge Hoar, who tried the case. He gave me a test by which the truthfulness of the witness might bo tried. My investigations in dial direction, aided by kind friends,) satisfied the prosecuting officer that the prisoner ought not have been convicted; and in the month of October, after lie j had been in prison more than a ban- ) dred days, l enjoyed the privilege of 1 hailing him, and of returning him to) his friends at Bangor. Application was made for anew trial. It was I granted, and the case was settled, nev er to be again called up. The young! man is now in Bangor, and is doim> : well. This case cost me much time, labor 1 and money; but I do not regret the es- ) fort, and I know my fiiends who aid me in rny labors w ill not, when they consider that, for doing an act of hu manity, this young man was liable to be pi isoned for life. What tho Times Demand. We agree with the Penfield. Ga., Banner, in its veiws ot the character of tho men the times demand to carry on and through, to triumphant completion, the Great Temperance Work—the Reform of Reforms. We have been clogged and retarded with poor materi ;al long enough. We want, first, men ’ who are acting from principle. It is | one thing to act from mere feeling or impulse, und it is quite another thing to he impelled by deep convictions of j duty und truth. Efforts which spring fro ii the former cause tnay for a time | be zealous; they may be productive of many valuable results; and so long j as they last they may prove quite as! useful as those which are prompted by any other motives. We say so long as they last, for unfortunately such zeal is but transient. It is necessarily; so. They spring from particular frames! or ft dings, and flies' 1 ,- depending ns; PENFIELD, GA. MAY 22, 1852- they do upon a thousand contingencies, are most variable in their nature. Any mental agitation which diverts the at tention, a derangement of health, or an ebullition of temper, may change the whole current of the feeling. Not j so is it with the man of principle. He; has made up his mind that the enter- ! prize in which he has embarked is one ‘ to which the high and sacred claims) of duty bid him devote his most earnest I exeitions. Thus actuated by a motive which is exempt from those casualties that affect the mere feelings, lie is con stantly engaged in the proseuction ofhis purpose. One reason why the temperance cause does not achieve more rapid and brighter triumphs, is owing, we have no doubt, to the fact that the majority of its advocates are swayed rather bv feeling than by reason. Under some powerful appeal, or with a living illus tration o( the horrors of intemperance before them, they have declared war against the monster and joined the ranks ot the reformers. For a season, they are found at every meeting, and oflen heard warning their friends of the peril of indulgence. But presently their zeal subsides. The impression of the appeal is effaced, and they lose the vivid picture ofthe woes which first impelled them to do battle in the cause. Lhe most elfectual method of guarding against this evanescent interest, is to lix in the mind an abiding conviction of the great importance of the cause. Ibis will induce action from a fixed and uniform principle. Second, in addition to men of prin ciple, we need those who iove tfieir species, and who for their sakes are willing to he self-denying. One great object which we have in view, is to re claim the intemperate. We must bring, at the same time, the moral influence of the sober to hear upon them, or this result cannot he attained. The sober must be willing to forego the indul gence of a glass of wine, which thev may be in the habit of occasionally taking, for the sake of example. He must invite the poor inebriate to follow him in the total abstinence to which he has pledged himself. Unless a man have philanthropy enough to practice self-denial, lie can do us hut little good. Third, we need urn who are more anxious for the popularity of temper ; anen principles, and the success of our measures, than for the advancement ot their own private interest. The two sometimes seem to clash. Men who wish to succeed in politics are unwilling to prejudice against themsel ves the proprietors of establishments to which large numbers are constantly resorting for stimulus. These venders control not untrequently many votes, and their influence is never exerted in behalf of an advocate of temperance. Nor can he expect the patronage of those who are addicted to a practice lie reprobates. It is on this account that some are deterred from co-operating; with us. VV edo not want such men. We need men who arc not afraid to) jeopard their popularity, if need he, in ! a good cause, —men who will eschew! every unworthy consideration, and pros-1 ecute that which conscience approves,! unawed by enemies and unseduced by , friends.— Penn. Olive Branch- Who Oppose the Maine Liquor Law? The following we extract from the Boston Watchman and Reflector. 1. Not wives whose husbands come ! to their'homes, infuriated by the cup,! to beat and bruise them and their help less children. 2. Not sisters whose brothers are! brought to tiieir homes at midnight, and ! rolled in upon the hall floor besotted j and insensible. 3. Not whose sons, just en-j to ring upon manhood, begin to find pleasure in the cup, and meet tempta tions at every corner in our cities and large towns. 4. Not sober and virtuous citizens,! who look with -sympathy and dismay! upon domestic peace destroyed, talents and reputation thrown away, estates! wasted, jails, prisons, alms-houses and hospitals filled, by the monster iritem peianco with no returned; to society. 5. Not drunkards, themselves, who desire to reform, who know their weakness, and dread temptation as tke cutting off-of their last hope of! deliverance from the chains which hind ! them. These do not oppose the Maine Li-’ quor Law. Who ure the opo, users ? 1. Manufacturers of the poison, who, to increase their wealth, would roll a stream of liquid fire over the whole! earth. 2. Liquor dealers, of every stamp, from the wholesale vender to the retail- ’ ers of,every form; from the keepers of fashionable hotels and elegant saloons, ! down to the haunts where poor day la borers are swindled out of earnings which are needed bv their suffering -n | families. These all oppposo the liquor law, and with a zeal which would not be ex ) celled if they were the very pillars of ’ society, and the only friends of “the I largest liberty,” as they boast them jsolves to be. But these men, we are sorry to say ’ it, have some better company in their ! opposition to the Maine Liquor Law. | They have 1. Those who drink moderately, and ) ! do not like to have their habit tabooed , j !by legislation which assumes as its ! basis, that the use of intoxicating liquors ) Uv n beverage, is dangerous to society. ! i’tiis class overlook two important con- 1 ! siderations,—first, that they cannot’ change the fact that such a use is dan gerous, and second, that every citizen owes it to society to surrender art indul gence which threatens the public nood. O I 2- Those who are afraid the law can not he sustained. Lot all such stop croaking, and come up to the work of sustaining tho law, and there will not he opposition enough in the State to ut : ter one peep. 3. Those who make politics a trade, —who ask not what do the people de mand, but what will be the consequen ces to our party. Sucli men are found in all parties, and the bane of politics. When such considerations determine our legislation, God save the Province of Canada ! Canada Paper. Curious facts for Moderate Drink ers.—.Some object that they drink but a small portion of alcoholic drink, and therefore cannot be injured by it. This remurk arises from ignorance.— One drop of alcohol would fill a tube whose length and diameter are the eighth of an inch. If you decrease the diameter one-half, you must prolong the tube four times, if you wish it to I contain the same quantity of liquid.— This is a mathematical fact, aud there fore no conjecture. Well then, go on decreasing the diameter of the tube in question, and prolonging it until you get a capillary as small as the smallest blood vessel in the human body, the ; tube will be of an astonishing length, demonstrating that one single drop of alcohol, when pass,2d into the minute vessels of the human frame, will he suf- I ficient to cover nearly the whole sur. | Dice ot the body, and, consequently, as [art inflammatory poison, capable of de i ranging our health to a very great de ; gree. What then must be the mischief effected by taking daily a wine-glass or more of this pernicious spirit 1 To talk of moderation in the use of alcohol is absurd ; the only moderation is ab stinence.—Exchange. A Chapter of Absurdities.—l. To desire to have men sober, and vote a license to make them drunk. 2. To mourn over drunkards, and vote a license to make more. 8. To pity a drunkard’s family, and vote for the chief means of their misery. 4. To expect to restrain men from j evil by telling some of them they may , lawfully do it. 3. To think that authorizing a busi ness will discourage it. fj. To suppose that making the sale !of intoxicating drinks legal will not i make it respectable in the estimation of , most people. 7. To suppose that making the sale of them respectable, will not encourage the use of them. 8. To regret the growth of the upas, and keep watering the main root. 9. To believe that we should not do evil that good may come, and license men to sell poison for the sake of having orderly (?) houses to drink it in. 10. To think that drinking intoxica ting liquors in orderly houses will not promote intemperance. 11. To profess benevolence to our fellow men, and vote fir a chief cause of idleness, quarreling, poverty, and misery among them. 12. To pray fora blessing on our neighbors with our lips, and seek curse with our voices. 13. A government instituted and sustaineii for the goad of the people, li censing a trade that brings upon them. —Lutheran Ob. Effects of Nioht Ant. —An error which exerts a most pernicious influ ence, is the belief that the night air is injurious; this opinion hinders the in troduction of the ventilation more than all oilier errors together. Now there I is not a particle of proof, nor have we any reason whatever to believe, that the atmosphere of oxygen and nitrogen 1 undergoes any change during the night. But there are certain causes in operation at night which are known to exercise oAer us an injurious influ- j ence. We will investigate them to see \ D if closed doors and windows will shut, them out or slop their operation. First, it is known that there is a slight increase of carbonic acid from plants during the night, hut this poison is generated in much larger quantity from the lungs of; animals, arid accumulated immensely I niore in close rooms than in the open I air. It is therefore certain, nothing is gained in this respect by refusing ven- Illation. The next difl’eience between night and day, to he noticed, is tin fact, that sunlight exercises a most im portant influence on plants and also on animals; but it is evident, that shutting out tresh air will not restore his rays. Another fact is, that all In,firs, ani-j I mate or inanimate, exposed m night to ! the direct rays of a dear sky, radiate! heat with great rapidity, and (lieir tein ) peratu re is quickly and grout! v reduced; ; and it is well known that it i.; liungci-- 1 ous to the health of men for the temper ! ature of their bodies to be greatly and | rapidly reduced. But persons deep j ingin a ventilated room, even if the windows are open, are not exposed to the direct rays of a clear sky, (and tho I law does not apply toanv other coinbi- I nation of circumstances,) therefore, this ) frequent source of injury to persons ex posed does not reach those in a shelter ed house. As to the injury to be feared from u cold current of air* I would sav it is gross carelessness for any one to j expose himself to this danger, night or! day, whether the house is ventilated or! unventilated. I believe there is not) known any other cause which can be j supposed to produce any special inju- \ rious effect at night, and tho least re flection Will show that not any one of those mentioned can by any possibility injure a person more in a ventilated than in an unventilated Imuso. It therefore follows that the objection of’ the night air being injurious is utterly futile. The pure atmosphere bus nothing whatever to do with causing the death ol persons exposed at night with the tropics; nob does it produce the cough ofthe consumptive and asthmatic, nor tho languor and misery which tho sick so frequently experience. These and pther sufferings experi enced more particularly at night, are caused by carbonic acid, absence of sun-light, rapid reduction nf tempera ture, tin-air being saturated with mois ture, Arc., and not by that air without which we cannot live three minutes. It is absurd to suppose that fresh air supports our life and destroys our health at one and the same time. The same thing cunnot possess the utterly incompatible character of good and evil, of supporting life and destroying it. [ Appleton's Mechanic’s Magazine. Cure for Rheumatism.— A Parisian correspondent of an English paper says: “I picked up the other dav, i from one of the most eminent and intel ligent physicians in France, the favor ite pupil of Dupuytren, some curious scraps of medical lore, that perhaps may amuse you ; and coming from a man whose liberality of opinion is one equalled by his own skill and intellect,* they are certainly worthy of perusal, 6z, might afibrd valuable hints to sc’cnce., | A lady wiio had formerly been a patient ! | of his, hut whom in consequence of her’ removal from Paris, he had not seen for some time, came to him lately to say that her daughter was afflicted with vi olent rheumatic pains. As she still re- ( sided in the country, however, Hr. C. ! I could not do more than give her some general counsel, deferring the actual treatment till site could bring her | daughter to Paris. In a few days she returned, telling him that her sufter ittgs were completely removed, in the following singular manner : One night ! being seized witli an attack, the vio : leuce of which was intolerable, tbo rno | tiler in despair, sent to the only modi ;cal practitioner of which the village! j boasted—a man who, by the help of a little self-taught lore, and a certain! I knowledge of simples und old woman’s 1 remedies, treated the peasants satisl’ac- I torily enough. No sooner did our Galen arrive, than j lie directed that all the empty buttles! i that could he collected should lie placed i jon the floor, the mattresses laid over! j them, and the sufferer extended there-] lon. The effect was magical. In u few minutes the patient experienced the greatest relief, and finally a com-j plete cessation of suffering; und though the attacks had afterwords returned, they never failed lo yield to this singu lar remedy. The solution of the mys tery (of which the village doctor was! quite ignorant) Dr. C. found at once. ] Electricity, it appears, is the great ag- 1 gngvalor of all such maladies; and of mis force,glass is a non-conductor. It’ then, the electric current is cut off from contact with the patient, immedi-. ale relief is the con sequencer. Profit ing by the hint, Dr. (J. has since, in all such eases, caused thick glass cylin ders to be under the feet of the maludoV bed, and with a success the most com- : plete. Another case was a cure v. bore con-1 sumption had actually commenced, and ! had made some progress by passing five or six hours a day in a butcher’s sliop. A thirl, where what was con sidered a fatal affection of the spinal marrow in a young girl, completely i yielded to the process of sun-burning the patient being stripped to the waist and placed facing a south wall during the hotest part ofthe day. Ihe Weather and Earthquakes —A correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce makes the follow, ing observations with regard - to the weather and the recent eurtbquake : “ At 1 a. in on Thursday, April 29, the temperature was down to 37 de grees, or within 5 degrees ofthe freez mg point. At 7u. m. the atmosphere u rn unusual! v bright; temperature 4-i. At 0,50 and, ere os north and south, beiim a most extraordinary rise of 14 degrees in (Id minutes. At Ip. m. it reached bo, uml at 2, 67 degrees, which is tho highest except on the 13th of March since tho 21st October, 1851. About 6 p. m. a most powerful electric cur rent streamed up to the zenith and be yond it, from below the horizon so the southwest—the streamers diverged, and the. moment a cloud came in contact with tin's current it became crystalized. At I<> minutes to I p. m. a severe earth quake was felt at Raleigh, North Gar olina; about 1 p. in. two shocks were felt at Washington City; and about the same hour the scholars in one of the schools on Brooklyn Heights felt a shock of earthquake. A similar state id existed on the 13th of March lust. The temperature at 2 and 3 p. in. wasatf)B and 69 degrees north; on that day a shock of earthquake was felt at Guanajuato, Mexico. On tho 21st of October, 1851, the temperature aas at /0 degrees for five consecutive hours, attended by a lightning storm at Newburyport, Mass, and proceeded by severe earthquakes at Stagne Piccoli, Dalmatia. Thus l present the three greatly-heated periods within the last six months, and each connected with the samo cause—earthquakes.” A Word to Young Men. Os the three modes of using tobacco, , smoking is that which seems to Iravo insinuated itself most extensively a mong the youth of our community. Tobacco imployed in this way, being drawn in with the vital breath, conveys its poisonous influence into every part i of the lungs. i here the noxious fluid is untangled , in the minute spongy air-cells, and iias time to exert its pernicious influence on the blood—not in vivifying, but in vitiating it. The blood imbibes the stimulant narcotic principle and circu lates it through tiro whole system. It [ produces, in consequence, a febrile ao- I tion in those ofdelicato habits. Where there is any tendency to phthisic and I the tuberculin deposit in the lungs : i debility of those organs, consequent on ’ the use of tobacco in this way, must j favor the deposit of tuberculous maf i ter, and thus sow the seeds of consump tion. This practice impairs the catur •d taste und relish for food, lessens the appetite, and weak ns tire powers of ! the stomach.—JV. Y. Tribune. Grattfitno of Curiosity. Tho Bur lington Free Press is responsible fur the fellownur : Last Saturday, the 3d ins!., ns the Express train from Montreal was run ning at great speed, to make up lost time between St. John’s and Rouse’s Point, the engine man discovered a wo man standing in the centre of lire track, frantically swinging a basket, evident ly with tire intention of stopping the train. The whistle was immediately sounded for “down brakes hard,” and with great exertion the train was bro iglit to rest within a few feet of the woman, who never stirred from tho track, or evinced the slightest fear.— The engine-man, fireman, brukeman, and superintendent (who happened to be on the train) ran up to tire woman to find out w hat horrible accident had hap petted ahead to call forth such strong demonstrations’ ou her part. Each asked eagerly the cause for her signals. “Lawful sukes !” said sire, “f never seed one of them machine before in mv life, and I dodoelurc it’s the funniest filing I ever did see.” - _ . Salem, Ala., May Ist, 1852. Bro. Brantly, Dear Sir. —Crescent Division, No. 78, S. of T. at its last regular meeting, being desirous of in forming your numerous readers that she still stands out as one of the unfa ding stars in the gallaxy of temperance, ut the same time adding another link to the chain of distinction, that has marked the course of our distinguished grand lecturer, S. M. Hewlett, have in pu.. suance of the same, appointed the an dersigned a committee to inform you of the signal triumph that burst upon the Sons of Temperance on the 241 h of April lust. It was tho day appointed for our Bro. Hewlett to address us. And on tho morning of the same the Sons convened a: the Division Room at 9 o’clock, and ntrer lire transaction of some business for the government of the day. After while Bros. John Dawson, R. D. Thorn- NO. 21.