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be constrained to acknowledge our cause ; what we profess it to lie, attend to its principles, keep out of politics, keep out of so much newspaper quarreling with character and state. We have done wonderful indeed about eight year?, now number about 800,000. ! hope no one will be so disposed as to make and offer t'o change our present order , thereby causing confusion throughest the whole order, and I fear its ruin. 1 have lengthened this article too long, hoping that Bay Creek w ill not he-! grudge the pittance, and become a good S. ofT., I mean an efficient member.] I am yours in L. P. & F. OR PH US. Morgan Cos., -May 21th, 1852. Dear Sir and Brother: —Bethlehem Division, No. 181, S. of TANARUS., at our last meeting appointed the undersigned com mittee towiiteout for publication in the Banner, the proceedings of its third an -niversary meeting, held on the 12th inst. And in compliance with that appoint ment, we proceed to give you, and the readers of the Ban.ner, the following brief account: The day was beautiful an ) fair, and at an early hour the three diil’e.rent itsso. ciatious of temperance held at our Hall, met; first, Wingfield Sectioy, No - 01, assembled in the division room, half past 8 o’clock opened in due form, and initiated into their fraternity two mem-, hers, and after making the necessary ar rangements for the day, adjourned to make room for Bethlehem Division, and the visiting Divisions and brethren of the order, which assembled half past! 0 o'clock, during the sun Bethlehem ! Cold Water Army organized in the low er apartment of the I lull, numbering . about 00 members, consisting chiefly of the beautiful and intelligent, awl inter esting fair sez, together with the iimo cent smiling laces of the little rosy cheeked boys and girls. All the preliminary arrangements having been made for the dav, Maj.} William Wood, of Madison Division, acting by appointment as Marshal, formed the procession at 10 o’clock,] and at the gentle lap of the drum and thrilling notes of the clarionets, mixed w ith the soft and sweet toned violin ; the procession marched oil'in handsome style, with their banners fl siting in the gentle breeze; the fair sex of Bethle hem Cold Water Army, by assignment, man lied in front, conducted by three gullunt Sons of Bethlehem Diviision Next in order came Bethlehem Divis ion, headed by our old hero, Uncle Dab ney and other officers of the Grand Di vision, noxt in order was Mount Ver non and Madison Division, with a good ly number of brethren from other Divis ions; and last, though not “the least, came Wingfield Section,’ as the rear guard of the procession, with buoyant hearts and step following on in the foot prints of their noble sires, ready to take the places of those who may full by tho way and to do Imlllo in the glo rious cause of temperance, until the last advocate of king alcliv shall have surrendered to the mild and peaceful sway of temperance. The procession thus arranged, marched to a convenient distance, uuu countermarched to tho stand, where a large and respectable’ audieneo had assembled, and at the! well-known sound of tho gavel, the procession was seated, and the services oflhc hour commenced w ith prayer by our esteemed brother, J. J. Wallace, Chaplain ; then music from the hand, and at the same sound of the gavel the, music ceased and l mde Dulmcv I‘. Jones, the tv/ cran soldier, the old apostle of temperance, the woman's friend, was introduced to the audience, who sat ea ger to hear the old apostle once more upon the great reformation in the cause of temperance, lie arose amidst the cheers of the auditory, and after his j own happy style enchained tho atten tion of the assembly for the space of two hours; at the el .e of his address the baud struck up some beautiful airs, ! suitable to the occasion - -altei which adjourned f>r dinner. And right here 1 w e take occasion to deny a gross charge upon the ladies, that they can’t keep; secrets, for it is a slander upon their social, generous, noble anil bent rolent characters, and as one instance amongst u thousand to prove it ; —when the hour arrived for dinner there was nothing visible to the eye, but in less than ten minutes the kind and generous ladies of the vicinity present, had their bask ets, buckets, boxes, trunks, &c. iVo., brought from their places of secretion, and their ample contents spread before the people which proved to be on tt- hundunce and to spare; we need not enter into particulars in regard to the repast, it consisted oluil that heart could wish or appetite crave, being carefully prepared at home by the kind ladies,; brought to their places ot secretion. until the proper hour brought them in requisition, which clearly proved that lhe ladies are ever ready and willing to contribute ‘.o the comfort and happi ness of mankind, for which they have the warmest affections ot our hearts. After dinner, and some recreation, the audience was again seated and Dr. W. T. C.C umpbell, from M ’Donough, j was iutroduoetl, who entertained the audience for the space of one hour, in an interesting and eloquent manner ; after he concluded Grand Worthy Pa triarch, IS. L. M Cteskey, from Mon roe, was introduced. He arose but did notenter into a speech, us the day was far spent, but gave us an interesting and cheering account of the order of me Sons of Temperance throughout the ; Union, an I closed his remarks by OJtfiAN OF Til F SOJNS OF TFMFFkAM F AM) STATF TFMI’KiiAF COIN V v 11(>\. ; cheering us onward and upward in tin noble, patriotic, and b'licvoleut cans.* of temperance. Mis remarks were to the |>oiiit, and feelingly ami sensibly felt ; we believe in the services of the day that good seed has been sown in a wi ll 1 prepared soil, and we look forward with pleasing anticipation w hen the harvest shall cane. A* the cb>se of his re marks, Uncle Dabney, as usual, opened a door for the reception of members, i iV a listofname, amounting to fourteen !in number, resolved for the future to i ] drink alone as a beverage of the spark--j ling water prepared by <1 id himself to nourish and invigorate bis creatures, and we believe tia-rc are others that! were present are under conviction, and j [ will ere long, come over and join our! happy throng, and help to shout lliej harvest homo, hy inarching under the] peaceful banner of J#ove, I’urity & Fi- ] delity. Ami in conclusion to - Uncle t Dabney I’. Jone , (J. W. I’. ‘I - ! and W. T. C. Camp 1 11, •• ma mutual thanks for tin i; ni nd . •a, i services, and our In-t w In ten present, future, and >•’ ; . R. A. PRIOR, j J. J. WADI, V I, | ~ L. G. ANDliid i • { M C;W. J.AWAfI J For tin; Tup ci ■fi urn J y _ Mr. Editor: —ln Poking ov, i a country sucli as mi is —a country w liicb i bus been growing in pow-r aje( gr< at- . i ness from the fiisU -sinig! ■ inward the ] aeliievement of our national ii.dt pend-. enoe down to the present moment—the eye will see much to swell the hear! with national pride. But whilst we have cause to be proud of this land, “the home of the free and asylum of the oppressed,” in many respects, we have yet greater cause to lament the little in terest mauifi -ted by her people in the temperance cause. All over our pros- j porous land may be ~oan these sinks of] / irnhlion mi l wretchedness, Douu-euiics ! — stepping-stones to hell, and may vve not justly say to our country \cventual downfall! We think so, when we reinem berthal those wliosit in our national halls ol Legislation and help make our laws, are subjects of king alcohol! And ma ny of our Judges who sit on our bench es, and others holding minor positions in our government, arc habitual dram drinkers, and countenance the hellish trallie. these ileus oj crime —where death, shame and misery are dealt out in pints and lin/J pints to the unhappy i victim of so merciless an enemy to the human race as the vender of damnable land deadly poison rum !—in a civilized, in a Christian country, and no arm up -1 ifieri to strangle tie; 1011-destroyer and crush the ihd.irtbTls tralli We may boast of liberty, national greatness, wholesome and republican laws, and all that , but we have only to remember the demon who mav be found in every town and hamlet in out wide-spread and highly-favored couiy try, carrying wretchedness and poverty j into the heart of almost every house hold, to see ut once in what our vaunted liberty consists. C mnilessjnumbers of’ our citizens are serfs to the evils of in-1 temperance —this is liberty ! ! Our | country is great in one respect — her j nurnber of dram-shops !! ! Her laws are wholesome, 100, from the fact that the liquor trajjie is countenanced by them—that so far from aiding in sup-1 pressing this great and crying evil; amongst us by legislation, which is the! desol ate r of si many hearth-stones, and j the destroyer of so much happiness; it is sanctioned by tho law, and suffered | to go continue its deadly work of ruin ; through the land, making widows and j orphans. We speak boldly—we speak so as not to be misunderstood—and why not, since the truth cannot be moreglar-j ing than t e evil itself —and since the law recog, es the traffic and gives to tho retailer a license which lie can shako in the luce of an indignant com munity, and mockingly defy their in- In ference in hts work of min and death. A few veins ago the mind w;s led to hope thiitsoon these “human dead.falls’’ j these entailers id’ want —would be torn down and destroyed, and the king of tho mid-night revel, Alcohol! be driven forever from our land ; hut ulus! not so —lie yet holds u fearful swap, and men who were thought, but yester day, to be the most stead last and llll flinchiug friends of temperance, are to day lur bitterest foes, and the current of thei’- ii'lluence lias b. u turned against is. Ibis hope uas enkindled front the active exertions ot the S ms of Temper- j mice and other triends ol the cause, at! that time. Then they went to work earnestly and zealously, and for a seas on, every Son reguluriy attended each meeting of his Division, and was often heard warning iiis triemls of the evils and horrible consequences of strong drink, and urging them to Jeava their ; neutral or opposition ground, and rally around the standard of temperance— productive of many valuable lesults.— But their zeal has subsided, and 100 soon have they grown tired ot tire great, and holy cause for which they were but l ; yesterday battling with such a deter-; i mined purpose. Now they are seldom,! if ever, found at tire Division room— and when the friends of temperance are ] assailed in their presence, they reply not a word—they are ma n on the sub- < ject. These are stubborn tacts, not to be controverted. What can we hope fv>r, Mr. Editor, or promise our cause, when va witness the humiliating spectacle entry order of the Sons ol Temperance in Georgia presents ? So long as this torpor exists, just so long we can do nothing ‘be en emy will never he exterminate I. Whero there we/e once dozens of ac cessions weekly their own numbers are now actually falling off by scores —and in many of the smaller town’s Di vis; ur , which were in a flourishing condition tun'a little while ago, have actuary , gone down—they fallen asleep, and the ; enemy is not conquered, hut. stalks i about in all his native hideousn ;ss and deformity—he has grown more daring . than ever before ; he even enters with, in the consecrated and sacred walls of ; their lodges, and drags brother after brother to the mid-nigiit reveller’s den; ] but strange to say, the remaining few sleep on, seemingly unconscious of 1 their danger. Sons of Temperance, if we would have our beautiful land free from the j folly, sin and miseries of drunkenness, and the awful deaths, and the thou simd mini’ less woes to which the use of strong ilrink exposes its victims, let ij., t as .Sons of Temp ‘ranee should do, shake off’this 1. ili-i i•_ v which has s i long [tarulyz and us. and once more ur. i furl flie ulm ioijs hhnner of t*u'oeraw e to the bieiz', arid si low to (lie world our attachment totin’ temp” ratio.! cans,', by a united effort to pul! down tin; dram shops all over our country, which an- nually reduce thousands to rags and the most abject poverty. In time this can r licet iially be done if tin temperance ] men ; f’the country will do their duty, mid ifevote their most can. st exertions in litis “great tempera;:-; • work—(be ‘reform cd reforms.” If this thing is] ever accomplished it will have to be done through their exertions, for vve; cannot reasonably expect, just now, as-} sistance from any other quarter. Men who wish to succeed in politics will not openly favor the cause, for by it thev ; are fearful of jeoparding their popular laritv. Then, us the work is left for | us tQ do, and as our object is to reclaim j the drunkard, we must bring to bear, if possible, tile influence of the saber, or this result cannot be attained—out cause never triumph. Not only the! sober must be prevailed on to forego bis glass of wine, if in the habit of indulg-! | mg in it ; but the moderate drinker must be prevailed on to resist bis tippling, and enlist in the tqjnperauce cause ; i for all the evils ol intemperance have ! their beginning in tiie moderate use of strong drink, and every drunkard in our land was once a moderate drinker —and if all the temperate men and moderate ] | drinkers should become Sons of our or ] Her, and remain good Sons, there would , be no more moderate drinkers—if none 1 of such it is apparent there would be no 1 more drunkards found wallowing in the ; I mire, with families brought to want and j J starvation by their intemperate habits— ] j and if none of either class, there would be no more tippliog.housos, for these | cannot exist without the patronage of moderate drinkers ; they cunn >t b sus ] tuined by the patronage of the inebri ! ate. And lastly, if no liquors were! I sold as a drink, there would be no more . ■ mantactured for such use, In this way the evils of drinking would come to an I ! end—the vender of the poisonous stujf’ ! would be forced to sees an honest occu pation, and the grog-shops in not only] ‘every town and village, and at every ] cross-road in Georgia, but throughout ’ 1 every State in our favored Republic,! would be closed, and ours would be a country never so prosperous and happy. ] . -May Hod stir up the friends ot' temper ance to action, and Hasten this happy 1 period. A Son ok Temperance. Athens, May 27, 1852. Query. Btto Tobey :—lf a member of the Baptist church is engaged daily in .hr t rathe ol'ardent spirits ought the church o regard him (the member) as u oon is, stent and worthy brother/ 2. And should we as Baptists allow ail applicant to become a member of our ! body while lie (die applicant) is a li quor dealer in every sense of tliat tern/ t’lease give us your views on the above. \Ve should be pleased to have the views of Dr. llooper, Bros. White and ] Prof. Brooks on the above. A Baptist. N. B. The above questions wore: asked tor the sake ot’ intbrmaii m, and it is hoped the above brethren wiil give their views. A professor of religion who is enga ged in buying and selling ardent spirits, tor men to drink, cannot be, and ought not to be regarded as a worthy member 1 of the church of Christ. I le is disgracin'’ ! niinselt, and lie is bringing reproact, upon the cause lit- professes to leaves His prayers must be hypocritical pray ers. lie cannot with any sort of con sistency usk the blessing ot’ God upon the labor of his hands, for the result |of this labor is ruin and death, —ruin here and ruin hereafter—death tempo ral and deatli eternal.—ln former days men could plead ignorance. Now, they cannot make tins plea. Now, one would suppose that ttie whiskey dealer would see around each barrel , ot the internal poison legions of devils, 1 each rejoicing as the poor wretches bear away their respective portions of the source of their woes. A liquor seller is doing the devil's dirty work. He is acting as agent in general and particular, for tho trails ’ action of Satan’s business. Can a Christian be engaged in such business? We tlo not think lie etui. If any man feels it in his heart to engage in such miserable work'he knows nothing of the ■ religion of Christ. He is .;t in the ! ‘gall ol bitterness.” If he . s not his j brother whom he lias seem I. v can he love God whom he has not seen ? “Woe unto him lliat givetii bis neigh bor strong drink.” Os course if whiskey selling brings a reproach upon rite cause of Christ, the fact that a man ii engaged in it ought to prevent tiny church of Christ from receiving him into fellowship. A man who is in the daily habit of; committing open known sin, is not a fit subject for membership in any church. The keeper of a liquor shop ] does this, lie should be exhorted to repent and forsake bis sins and then | come to join the church. There are; hundreds who make no profession of religion, who would cut oft’ their right] arm before they would engage in the j despicable business of scattering fire brands around their neighborhood. ] Now shall such be permitted to point to church ruempers and say—“ Those men are engaged in a business which l would not engage in. I would give hut little for such a religion as theirs!” Never, let it be thus. — Ed. Bib. lire. Grogomster- Literally a measurer of grog—actu ally tv man used like a quart pot in t\ iiich the grog is measured. Grogom- | etry is an old science, largely practic 'd anil imperfectly studied. Variations] in tbe weather does not influence the in-truinent as in the barometer; its va riations depend upon die change in the pocket. At high tide grogometer swells j up, grows wonderful laige, swears—at low tide be sinks down, until the beast of the hills walk over bin, sinks, col lapsed—snores! The lips, the tongue, the eyes, the nose, the forehead are all ] gauge marks showing the ascent of the grog on its upward march towards the brain to make the poor instrument a thrice doubled 00l ! — Age, While the Maine Law was before the Legislature of Pennsylvania, Mr. j Alexander, from the committee on peti- ] lions, displayed a roll containing 551 j names of the most respectable ladies of Pittsburgh. The entire number had ] been obtained by two very old ladies, ] almost on the outer verge of lif ■. One of them is a widow, who has followed her husband to a drunkaftPs grave. ] The other is now mourning over a part- j tier who is fast following in the foot- j stepts of the husband of her friend. They sent the petition to the Legisla ture, prefaced with the above facts. But it was unheeded. Those hundred distilleries still teed the insatiate worm of the still, while the widow’s prayer ] ascends to heaven—“ How long, 0 God,! bow long •!”— Olive Branch. One of your ‘foine’ young gentlemen, ] in turning swiftly on his heel in Broad- j way, ran bis bead against a young lady, lie put himself in a position to apolo gize. ‘Not a word,’ said the quick wil led beauty, ‘it is not hard enough to hurt any body.’ The coxcomb frown ed and slopped; the young lady smiled arid courtesied as gracetullv us an angel. “1 now speak within bounds,” as Harlequin Thiers said to the jailor. ’ X* “Sie- v SONS OF TEMPERANCE Pledge of She Sons of Tenipc ratio;.--1, without reserve, solemnly pledge myhonorasa mart that I will neither make, buy, sell noruse, as a beverage, any Spirituous or Malt Liquors, Wine or Cider. Officers us Hie Grand Si 1 j vision, G. L. M’Cleskev, G. W. P. Monroe. J. y. PinckaKd, G. W. A. Forsyth. \V. S. Williford, G. Scribe, Macon. E. C. Granntss, G. Treasurer, „ J. E. Evans, G. Chaplain, „ D. E. Blount, G. Conductor, Clinton.! J. D. 11avis, G. Sen. Houston, Cos. | CADETS OF TEMPERANCE. PLJbUGL. No member shall make, buy, sell or use I ;as a beverage,any spirituous or malt liquors, j wine or cider. Ofiieenof the Grand Section. J. W. Benson, G. P. Macon. B. Burton, G. A. P. Pondtovvn. ‘ L. C. Sm son, G. S. cV T. Atlanta. 1 Rev. J. S. Wilson, G. C. Deeatur.! S. M. 11. BvitD, G. G. Oxford. 1 W. P Kino, G. W. Thomaston. I. O. of Kcc list bites. Officers of Georgia Dist. Tent, No. 28, loca ted at Washington, Wilkes Co.,Ga : Washington, Bev.G. G. Norman, D. P. C. R. Washington, John R. Smith, D. C. R. Atlanta, C. R. Ilauleiter, 1). D. R. Washington, A. 11. Sueed, D 11. S. „ L. F. Carrington, D. F. S. „ St. John Moore, L). Tres. Atlanta, R. H. Lynn, L). Levite. llerliiibilcN Pledge. 1 hereby declare, that 1 will abstain from all intoxicating liquors,and will novgive, nor oiler them to others, except in religious ord.nances, or when prescribed, in good faith, by a medi cal practitioner; 1 will not engage in the traf fic ot them, and ill all suitable ways will dis countenance the use, sale and manufacture ot them : and to the utmost of my power, 1 will endeavor to spread the principles ot ab.micnce from a intoxicating liquors. mBPg MOTTO. PK.\FfELi), Jl JfE 5, 1§52. 03- NOTICE- —Subscribers recei ving their papers with a straight black mark, are thereby notified that they are in arrears. One mark indicates one dollar due; two, that two, &c. Please remit the amount a! once by mail, with \ out waiting for other opportunity. To our Subscribers. ;-a ~'The Hills of the Bank of St. Marys, : under five dollars, will be received in pay ment for till back dues for Subscriptions to the Temperance Banner, gT If pay , meat is made by the first day of July next. New Subscriptions and advance pay-’ : meats from present Subscribers, may also, be made in St. Marys money. To Correspondents. “Medicus” shall appear next week. Temperance Convention. Wednesday, ‘iOth ins/. i The State Temperance Convention of’ : Georgia, will be held in Newnan, commen cing at 10 o'clock, A. M., oii the last Wed-, ’ nes'day in June—which is the fifth Wednes day, mul the hist day of the month. Postage. Our Agents, at all times, are requested 1 to retain money from the amounts coffee-’ ted, to pay tlie postage in remitting by mail, to us. Other correspondents, when writing j upon business of their own, must pre-pay ! 1 the postage, or it will be charged to them ‘ ; in every instance. Ex*Scuatoi’ ilauuegau. We presume that most of our readers ; have noticed the account of the affray be- ] j tween Ex-Senator Hannegati, of Indiana, & bis brother-in-law, Mr. Duncan, in which ] the Litter was so severely wounded that lie j has since died fronr the effect of his wounds, i We allude to the ease now, only to call the attention of our readers to the fact that both parties were intoxicated and that the trans action adds another dark record to that long catalogue of Woes which spring from indul gence in strong drink. Mr. Hannegati was one of the most gifted men in this country. ] But unfortunately, bis habits have been of i such a character, that neither himself, nor any one else has received much benefit from his talents. In a drunken moment he lias plunged a dagger into the vitals of one whom lie acknowledges to have been his ] best friend, and has inflicted upon himself a j pang from which he will never recover.— i When, oh! when will men take warning and j beware of the poison which converts them j into maniacs. When will they learn to | shun the poison which is filling the world with sorrow! Pernicious influence of mod crate-Ifrinkeii. A gentleman recently remarked in our! hearing that he considered the example of| the individuals who drank ardent spirits reg ularly but in moderate degrees ns far more p.rnicious than that of any other class.— i The miserable drunkard is pitied ; nobody | ! envies his condition. Every one hopes that he maybe an exception to a condition so do-j J graded. But when men can point out to A, I ! B,& C, who are held to be respectable : members of society, and who are in the dai j ly use of stimulating drinks—men who, ! though they have been in the habit of indul- I gmg for years, seemed to have suffered no I injury either in reputation or in health, they persuade themselves that they can be like these moderate drinkers. Bdt in the great j. . = ! majority ot cases it happens that they arc ru ined in a very few years. It is true that some men, by some peculi arity of constitution or of temperament, ot ! by some sternness of purpose, seem to have) the power of indulging up to a certain limit I through an indefinite period without becom-j ing utterly abandoned. But it ought to be! j remembered that such cases are rare. Nine-1 teen out of twenty who commenced diink- ] | ing with the fixed resolution to belong to j i this moderate class become hopeless drunk- j ards in a very few years. Those who es cape are exceptions—and very rare excep tions to the rule. The rule is that the habit! becomes stronger ; that the quantity must j be constantly increased, in order to the pro i duction of the deserved excitement; and! that drunkenness and excess are the re- i suits. If all the moderate drinkerscer/ni/tZy | become drunkards it would be better for j | the cause. Multitudes in attempting to j imitate their examples fall into the pit and \ j arc undone forever. !C. Peeples £iq., and If ne t c Dabney. We had the pleasure of attending the re-; cent anniversary of Father Mathew Di vision of Athens, and of listening to the ; ; speeches which were made on the occasion by U. Peoples, Esq. and Uncle Dabney. As the crowded audience who were present! 1 wa re highly gratified with the exercises, we ! are disposed to extend this pleasure to our ! readers by giving them a brief account of I the addresses. The object of Mr Peeples’ address was to show that the duty which every man owed to himself, to his family, to his country, and to his God, required him to be a temperance ; mail. Each of these points was argued with much propriety and eloquence. The speak er repudiated the current idea that a gentle ’ man was to be known by bis dress, by his avocation in life, by his pecuniary resources; or by itis disposition to indulge in intoxica ! ting drinks, lie contended Unit the sober, honest man, whether found at the workman's bench or in the chair of Slate, was the true j gentleman. Whilst lie rejoiced that much j had been done, be regretted to sav that drinking was on the increase in tlie _ V in which lie resided. Thirteen years’ ‘ y rienec ns a lawyer enabled him to coi.||’ ” hut had often been remarked by the vales of our cause, viz that the ore-,*, jmity ot crimes were committed under tl, influence of intemperance. He appeal,.,] Ids brother, (Judge Dougherty,) who wu present, to know whether the same had been Ids experience. In the examination If . witnesses in cases of murder, of a9san ,, ; and battery, it almost invariably turned ont ! that the difficulty commenced at Mr. Smitl’ Grocery,” or “Mr. Jones’ Grogshop,” (>r “Old Squire Leu is’ Distillery.” Some p M . sons had said that lawyers ought not to he temperance men since intemperance pj> f , HK ted wrangling, fighting, and such practices as were prolific of lawsuits. It was there fore to the pecuniary benefit, of the lawyer that there should be lunch drinking. r p|,p was a mistake. The speaker had had con. siderablo practice in assault and battery n ses—the most frequent fruit of drunken rows, and he could assure the audience that the fees received would not pay for the salt which lie had consumed since he commend the practice. His brother Doughtery hid done more of this business than any other man in enrcuit, and lie had no doubt that his experience wojild bo similar. Mr. Peeples eoneluded with an earnest and forcible ap peal to every one present—to co-operate in an enterprize which proposed to do croud and only good to its immediate friends and to the country at large. Uncle Dabney followed. As the old gen tlemnn was in Athens and as lie probably sa n some of the “lamed” ones in his au ditory, lie commenced his remarks bv saying that ho once learned two latin words: they were sui, or sua generis,—he was not cer tain which. But the translation was, “Un cle Dabney speaks like nobody else and no body else can speak like Uncle Dabney.” He said lie had tried to make notes, to put down a few heads, &c., but it was all gone out of his mind, and the people now must just take him for what lie was worth. As lie looked round him he was rejoiced to see so many of the College boys with regalia on. In old times it did not use io be so. Some of the old graduates had told him how the Professors used to eateli them hug. ing tiltir brown jugs. Now things were changed; and it seemed well for the coun try where so many of the youth, who were receiving a liberal education, were also Sons of Temperance. Uncle Dabney con tinued his remarks for some forty-five or fifty minutes, fastening, by his peculiar man ner, the attention ot all present. Thus closed the fourth anniversary of Father Mathew Division. We are per suaded that the friends of the cause must have been encouraged by the exercises; whilst we trust that salutary impressions were made on those who have hitherto been careless or hostile. Chunnynuggee, May 22d, 1852. Dear Uncle I fen: —For some time 1 have noticed a curious black mark, not very straight, nor particularly crooked, on the margin of my Banner, and have often won dered what it meant. It did not strike me that it was put there as an ornament, for 1 confess that it is any thing but pretty. Week alter week it is still there and us [ never fancied black marks, 1 thought 1 would ask my grandfather, Dr. Powell? if be could tell me why it WiiS there, lie told me that ii. was intended as a gentle hint from you, that 1 owed you one dollar. Thisiu lormuitott struck uie with peculiar force. 1 am adelaulter and have been keeping Uncle Ben otu ot ids just rights. Now I want that black mark expunged. 1 cannot bear to have it staring me in the face and saying to me that lam cheating the printer. You l.ave no idea, Uncle iSuii, how badly I have telt ever since 1 found out what you meant by it and 1 am glad Saturday has eome so that I can write to you to rub out that un welcome reminder. Andi could not hfp wondering how shabby those subscribers must feel who have three or tour of those ugly, black murks on their papers every week, i don’t want to be in that crowd and if you have my name registered among such a set of spongers, l pray you put it somewhere else. lam a little school-girl and try very hard to keep my teacher from putting black marks againat me, but I be lieve 1 had rather get them from her than to have them made against me by the printer for readinghis paper and never paying Tor., | it. So Uncle Ben, rub it out. But grand i pa says it takes a dollar to expunge a mark i from your books. Well, 1 send you two ; dollars; as I have had the benefit of your labor tor one year, without paying for it, I send the other dollar in advance for the next year. And now Uncle Ben, don’t put any more of those ugly black marks on my Banner. 1 dont like their looks. Before my pay runs out next year, just write me a j short letter telling me of it, and I will send ; the tuouey, and keep the letter as a memo rial of good, old Uncle Ben, who is laboring, i so hard to save tile poor drunkards. i our affectionate little niece, MARY E. BLACKMON. | Our very worthy niece will not find an other black mark upon her Banner for along time. Every unpleasant reflection may be banished—we hope she may have peaceful hours in the day, and pleasant dreams at : night. What a model for about twenty-five hundred nephews! “Oglethorpe County, May 241 “Under t lie head of‘Unfinished Business.!* is the right time to pay our dues. Enclosed you will find two dollars—one for my dues, ami the other fora new Subscriber, Mr. W. D. B. send both papers to Goose Pond.’’ “Correct, brother,” and we Ivope. nil S. of T. in arrears, will follow the good example at the first meeting of their respective Divis ions. Washington, May IS. Mrs. Adams, died on Saturday, at her residence in this city at the ago of seventy-eight. Mrs. Adams was i na tive of Maryland. Her father, Col. Johnson, was Consul ot’ the I S. at London, where Mr. Adams ma.ricclt her in ITBI.