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VOL. XVIII the temperance banner IS TIIE Organ of the Sous of Temperance and of the State Convention of Oeorgia: PUBLISHED WEEKLY, by BOXf AflH BBAITLY. O’ Terms— One Dollar a year,in advance. Letters must be Post paid, to receive nt -*v|lt'on - i in iimm i I Bauer Almanack, for 1852. § II it a? 01 niiiif k< ’ >!""” tffi ;| * i: 3 <J-- 1 ;/ 2<!-i )!: 2 ff|4s| 2::u \ “Arvi, -*i •> t| s i>; 7 Aug— it -3| *!il ;• 7 X O ‘ s.'K.iii li.iaar .?! ]!! !*•* • X 9 17. M iijis-1 j;j2i A s 2*! 23 2 ‘i i f ’ 5 •■!’,T. ) 4*™"h i *l,?, ,l|ll i “ io >■ x | kzikm wrtssw | 4pri I !?! -life < V IS 111 21 Jl 22,2-1 21 1< 18 H*.2OL. 2- -.1 Nj !J 27 26 27 21 22 W 21 23 2li 27 * 211 ISO /’ QMay— i— i—l- 1 31 .1 ,! ..I I-1.. \ \ ‘ • ‘ “ , rat 7 SlNoV— .— li 2, .l| 1 * \ A I'a'iiMiia 13UI r>| 7 H itini ll;2 1.1 5 \ Mi 17 l 19 2121 22 II 1 3 1 1. 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Oil :ui.v o ea-i„„. a ISP Every friend to Temperance 6 should take the Temperance Banner: \ If Temperance men will not support \ jtlie Temperance Press, who will ! ’ fa MORAL AND RELIGIOUS. | ‘■l See a Light.-I’m Almost 1J me.” j The following beautifully touching incident is related of a young lady, whose journey was near its on *: “About her chamber glided gently j the loved forms oi lier parents, and only | sister. She silently noted their move-’ ments with a mild expression of herdy- j ing eye, turning it from side to side. Arrested by her peculiar looks, so ex-, ipressive of affliction and patient suffer-; ing, they paused to look upoifher whom they only now saw hut dimly through their tears; and so soon should see no j more. A feeble effort to speak, a quivering ‘ voiceless movement of the lips, dicv\ | closely around her the loving hearts j of that sorrowing circle. Mother, fath- j or, sister, all came closer to her side, j A playful smile lit up her countenance, j She laid her little pulseless hand within : her mother’s palin, then closed her | eyelids to to the light of the eaith, and sank away. The cold damp air of; death’s shadowy valleys seemed cir-1 cling over her. Slowly sinking down, she glided towards the river s shore, which like a narrow stream divides the spirit land from ours. But see the quivering lips essay to speak ! “Moth-; cr,” Old how each heart throbbed now,, and then each pulse stood still. 1 hen j list! “Mother!” the dying girl breaths, f ar _l_ see —a-light-l’m almost home!” j Blessed thought! Light is sown foi the righteous even amid the gloom and , the darkness of the grave. FORGET-ME-NOT. “Grandmother,” said little Gretchen, “why do you call this beautiful flower, blue as the sky, growing by this brook, ‘Forget ine-not ?” “My child,” said the grandomther, “I once acccompained your father, who was going on a journey, to this brook, lie told me, when I saw this little flower, l must think of him; and so we have always called it “Forget-me not ” Said the happy little Gretchen, “1 have neither parents, nor sisters, nor friends from whom lam parted. 1 don’t know who I can think of when I seethe ‘Forget-me-not.” “1 will tell you,” said her grand mother, “someone of whom this flower may remind you—Him who made it. Every flower in the meadow says, ‘Re member God;’ every flower in the gar den and the held says to us, of its Cre ator “Forget-me-not.” The Burning of Moscow. When Napoleon entered Moscow, the capitol of Russia, lie found it abandoned by its inhabitants, and nothing was heard but the heavy tramp oi his splen did cavalry, all was solitude. Mortier, who commanded the young guard in that celebrated eampain, was appointed Governor o-f the city. The description which follows, relating to that signal event in history, (taken from “Napole on and his Marshals” byJ. T. lleadly) is a graphic sketch of the tragical ‘J.ratna • B. Mortier, as governoi ot'tlie city, iin-! | mediately issued his orders and was j putting forth every exertion, when at daylight Napoleon hastened to him.— ! Affecting to disbelieve the reports that the inhabitants were firing their own ■ city, he pot more rigid commands on Mortier, to keep the soldiers from the t ! work of destruction. The marshal I simply pointed to some iron covered | houses that had not yet been opened,! from every crevice of which smoke was issuing like steam from the sides ofa pent-up volcanoe. Sad and thought ful, Napoleon turned towards the Krcm , 1 in, the ancient palace of the Czars, whose huge structure rose high above i the surrounding edifices. lo the morning Mortier, by great ex ertions, was enabled to subdue the fire. But the next night, Sept. 15th, at mid ’ night, the sentinels on watch upon the lofty Kremlin saw below them the flames bursting through the houses and palaces, and the cry of “fire ! fire !” passed through the city. The dtead j scene had now fairly opened. Fiery balloons were soon dropping from the air and lighting upon the houses-—dull explosions were heard on every side! i from the shut up dwellings, and the! ! next moment a bright light burst forth, ! and the flames were raging through i the apartments. All was uproar and! ; confusion. The serene air and moon- j | light of the night before, had given ! way to driving clouds, and a wild i tempest that swept with the roar of the j j sea over the city. Flames arose on ! every side, blazing and crackling in , ! the storm, while clouds of smoke and | sparks iu an incessant shower went j driving towards the Kremlin. The j ; clords themselves seemed turned into) | tire, rolling in wrath over devoted Mas-1 I cow. Mortier, crushed with the re- j sjionsibility thus thrown upon his.shoul-1 dors, moved with.hip young guard amid • this desolation, blowing up the houses and facing the tempest and the flames— struggling nobly lo arrest the conlla | gration. | lie hastened from place to place amid the blazing ruins, his face blackened with the smoke, and his hair and eye brows singed with the tierce heat-. At J j length the day dawned,, a day of temp , est and of.flame; and Mortier, who j hud strained every nerve for thirty-six 1 j hours, entered a palace and dropped | down from fatigue. The manly form J ) and stalwart arm that had so often car-! ! ried death into the ranks ofthe enemy, at length gave way, and the gloomy! ) Marshal lay and panted in utter ex ] haustion. But the night of tempests ! had been succeeded by a day of temp | osts ; and when night again, enveloped the city, it was one broad flame waver ing to and fro in the blast. The wind had increased lo a perfect hurricane, and shifted from quarter to quarter as: if on purpose to swell, the sea of fire 1 and extinguish the last hope. The fire was approaching the Kremlin, and al ready the roar of the flames and the j crusii of falling houses, and the crack- , ling of burning timbers were borne to ) the ears of the startled Emperor. Te j arose and walked to and fro, stopping ! convulsively and gazing on the terrific scene. Murat, Eugene, and Berthur! rushed into his presence, and on their i knees besought him to the; but lie still j clung to that haughty palace, as if it; were his Empire. But at length the shout, “the Krem lin is on fire!” was heard above the: roar ofthe conflagration, and Napoleon! | reluctantly consented to leave. He de scended into the streets with his siaff j and looked about for a way of egress, but the flames blocked every passage. !At length they discovered a pastern ! gate, leading to the Moskwa, and en ! tered it, hut they had only entered still farther into danger. 1 As Napoleon cast his eyes around the ! open space, girdled and arched with lire, smoke and cinders, he saw one sin gle street yet open, but all on lire.— i Into this he rushed, and amid the crash of falling liouses, and raging of the flames—over burning ruins, through clouds ot rolling smoke, and between walls of fire, lie pressed on, and at length, half suffocated, emerged in safe ty from the heated city, and took up his quarters in the imperial palace of Petrowsky, nearly three miles distant. Mortier, relieved from his anxiety for the Emperor, redoubled his ellbrts to arrest the conflagration. His men cheerfully rushed into every danger. — : Breathing nothing but smoke and ash es—canopied by flame, and sparks, and cinders—surrounded by walls of lire that rocked to and fro and fell with a crash amid tire blazing ruins, carying | down with them red hot roofs of iron ; he struggled against an enemy that no boldness could awe, or courage over come. Those brave troops had heard the tramp of thousands of cavalry sweeping to battle without fear; hut now they stood in still terror before the march of the conflagration, under whose burning footsteps was heard the incessant crush of tailing houses, and palaces, and churrhes. The continu ous roar of the iaging hurricane, nin- PENFIELD, GA. JULY 3, 1852. ‘gled with that of the plans, was morel terrible than the thunders of artillery; j and before this new foe, in the midst of this battle of the elements, the awe struct army stood powerless and af frighted. When night again descended on the 1 i city, it presented a spectacle the like of ! which was never seen before, and which : baflles all description. The streets* * were streets of fire —the heavens a j | canopy of fire, and the entire body of the city a mass of fire, fed by a hurri cane that whirled the blazing fragments in a constant stream through the air ; incessant explosions from the blowing up of stores of oil, and tar, and spirits, shook the very foundations of the city, and sent volumes of smoke rolling furi ously towards tiie sky. Huge sheets of canvass on fire came floating like messengers of death through the flames —the towers and domes of churches and palaces—glowed with a red heat over the wild sea below, then tottering a moment on their basis were hurled bv the tempest into the common ruin. Thousands of wretches, before unseen, * were driven by the heat from, the eel ! lurs and hovels, and streamed in an in ; cessunt throng through, the streets. — Children were seen carrying their par ents—the strong, the weak—while thou ! sands more were staggering u.nder the i loads of plunder they had snatched from.the {fames- This, too, would fre quently take lire in the falling shower, I and the miserable creatures would ho compelled to drop it anil flee tor their j lives ! Oh, it. was a scene of woe and fear inconceivable, and indescribable. A mighty and close packed city ofliou | ses, uud churches and palaces, wrapped ! from limit to limit in flames which are I fed by a fierce hurricane, is a sight this world will seldom see. Bui this was all within the city. To Napoleon without, the spectacle was! sti.il more sublime and terrific. When the (fames hud overcome all obstacles, j and wrapped every thing in their red | mantle, that great city looked like a sea j of routing (ire, swept by a tempest that drove it into vast billows. Hugo domes! and towers, throwing olf sparks like j blazing tire brands, now towered above j these waves, and now disappeared in ! I Weir maddening flow, as they rushed I and broke high over the tops, scattering j their spray of fire against the clouds.: j Th,e heavens themselves seemed to have j caught the conflagration, and the angry j I masses that swept them, rolled over a[ ! bosom of fire. Columns of flame | would rise and sink along the surface of this sea, and huge volumes of black smoke suddenly shoot into the air as if volcanoes were working below. The black form of the Kremlin alone, tow ered above the chaos, now wrapped in flame and smoke, and again emerging into view—standing amid this scene of desolation and terror, like virtue in the midst of a burning world, enveloped but unscathed by the devouring ele ments. Napoleon stood and gazed on this scene in silent awe. Though near ly three miles distant, the windows and walls of his apartment were so hot that he could scarely bear his hand against them. Said he, years afterward : “// was the speclable of a sea and billows of lire, a sky and clouds of fame, mouu ; tains of red rolling fame, like immense i leaves of the sea, alternately bursting and elevating themselves to skies of fire and then sinking into the ocean of fame I below. Oh !it was the most grand, the \ most sublime and the most terrific sight the world ever beheld When the conflagration subsided, Mortier found himself governor of a city of ashes. Nine-tenths of Moscow had ! sunk in the flames, and the gorgeous capital, with its oriental magnificence —its palaces, and towers, and gardens, | was a heap of smoking ruins, amid I which wandered half-naked,, starving wretches, like specties around the place of the dead. Napoleon returned; :to the Kremlin, but the spectacle tiio camps of the soldiers presented as he passed through them, was one hi., eye | had never rested on before. ‘Die sold iers had there thrown together a few i boards to shelter them from the vveath j cr, an 1 sprinkled over the soft, wet ground with straw to keep oft'the damp ness, und there, reclining under silken | canopies, or sitting in elegant chairs, I with cashmere shawls and the costliest | furs, and all the apparel of the noble : and wealthy strewed around them, they i fed their camp-fires with mahogany furniture and ornamental work, which I had a few days before decorated the palaces of the noble.” As the army withdrew from the city the Cossacks began to swarm uround it, and finally drove Mortier and his feble hand into the Kremlin. These were followed by ten thousand Russi ans, wlto pressed around the French Marshal. To perform the double task assigned him of defending the city and blowing up the Kremlin; ho was com polled, even while he occupied it, to gather immense quantities of powder within it, a single touch of which would send that massive structure broken and I shattered towards the heavens, i Ie! placed a hundred and eighuj-lhrec \ thousand pounds in the vaults below.; while he scattered barrels of it through 1 the different aparatments above. Over tins volcano of bis own creation he j stood and fought for four days, when the slighest ignition from one of the 1 enemy’s guns would have buried him and his soldiers in one wild grave to-: gether. At length, uftor he had kindled a i ‘slow lire-work whose combustion could be nicely calculated, he led his weary ’ troops out of that ancient structure.— But while lie marched with rapid steps : from the scene of danger, several Cossucks and Russians, finding the imperial palace deserted, rushed into it after plunder. The next moment, the massive pile wavered to and fro like a column of sand, and seeming to rise from the earth, fell with a crash that was heard thirty miles distant. The earth shook under Mortier as if an eartiiqua.ke was on the march. Huge stones —fragments ofthe wall—thirty thousand stand of arms, and mangled bodies and limbs were burled in one fierce shower heavenward together, , and then sunk over the ruined city.— The second act in the great tragedy \vs now ended, ui.d the last was about commence. Lumpkin, May 25th, 1852. Dr.J. F. Stevens—Dear Sir:—Un -1 der a resolution of llovvchitka Division, we were appointed a committee to re | quest u copy of your essay upon alco ! holic drinks for tlio purpose of publica tion. We hope sir, that this request will meet with your sanction, and a copy be forwarded. Yours respectfuly. J. CLARK, ) J. L. WIMBERLY, ‘ Com. C. A. EVANS. ) Lumpkin, June Oth, 1852. Gentlemen : —-Circumstances have [compelled me to defer until now, ale , ply to your note of the 25th ult., expres ! sing a desire to obtain for publication a 1 copy of the address 1 had the honor to deliver before the Division. Conscious of its defects, yet as it was ! prepared at the solicitation of the Divis- j ion, l cheerfully return them a copy to! be disposed of in any manner that will in their judgment best promote the cause of Temperance. Very respectfully, J. P. STEVENS. Messrs. James Clakk, J. L. Wimberly, I C. A. Evans, Com. Mr. Editor : —lt is the desire of; llovvchitka Division, No. 2i, that the enclosed address of Dr. J. 1\ Stevens, | should be published in your paper.— i We hope that you will comply with! that desire since, we believe, that the j great cause of temperance will be; signajly promoted by leading die people j to reflect upon, the physical as well as j moral evil cf intemperance. Yours in L. P. & F. J. CLARK, ) J. L. WIMBERLY, } Com. C. A. EVANS. ) Gentlemen of the Howchitka Division ;; When we contemplate the gigantic ef forts of the human mind as displayed in the powers of the orator and states man in controlling the turbulent pas sions of our nature, unravelling the in tricate meshes of the law, and render ing lucid and clear to the most ordinary perceptions apparent metaphysical ab stractions; when we observe the inven tive genius, indefatigable energy, and inimitable skill, of the searcher after treasures that lie concealed far beyond the vision of the ordinary observer, as he resolves matter into its original ele ments, recombines, aerial substances into solid materials, harmonizes appa j rent discrepances in the operation of j physical laws, renders available to the t utilitarian demands of the age those | subtle and intangible agents which rival thought iu the celerity of their move-! nieiits, almost annihilating space and time, we ure amazed at the resour- j ; cos of the human intellect. Each of these actors upon the arena of life is j cheered by the prospectof pecuniary : emolument, individual preferment, or lofoneday listening to the outbursts ol a nation’s gratitude as in clarion notes : his praises are wadied upon the breeze, • to find a response from tile hill-side to ’ the mountain, from the hamlet to the i palace. But how much louder is the call upon our admiration and sympathy, I when we contemplate the self-sacrifi cing energy and zeal of the true hearted , philanthropist, who, like the immortal Howard, penetrates the abodes of pliysi | cal and moral contagion, explores the dens of vice and iniquity, and perils! his own life in magnanimous endeavors j i to alleviate the woes und ills which arc I the natural heritage of man. “We spend our. life as a tale that is told.’ i We look within us, and even under, the most salutary condition of the vital j ; functions, we behold the continual war fare that is maintained between the vis ! vilm, and the powers that combine to* reduce all unimal substances to decay and putrifuction. We look without us, and the cheering carpet that is spread out upon the lap of our mother earth, the luxuriant fields of waving grain, the massive oak and modest violet, and the endless and beautiful variety ofthe floral kingdom that delight our eyes and enrapture our hearts, have each their short-lived cycle of germination, maturation, and decay. In what be. seeching miles then does the voice of benevolence invoke our etlbrts towards the exposition of the nature of that deadly upas, which not only contami nates the moral atmosphere, hut diffu ses its letiiean influence through the fountain ot life,, and by a gradual, though unerring process, saps the foun dation ot the noblest fabric reared by the mandate of Omnipotence. We will commence the investigation of the subject before us, viz : the effects ot alcoholic stimulants upon the human ■ system, by lulling u slight glance at the nature of those substances which are generally regarded as possessing intcixi l eating properties. “Alcohol is an inflammable liquor, lighter than water, of a warm, acrid taste, colorless, transparent, und of u pungent, aromatic smell. It is the pro uuct of the distillation of vinous liquors.” Ihe juices of almost all fruits and grains, when subjected to the vinous fermentation, produce alcohol. Thus tiic fermented juice ofthe grupe, when distilled, is culled brandy ; that obtain- ; ed from molasses is ruin; from corn are manufactured gin, uud the various kinds of whiskey flavored ; from cider, fermented, is apple-brandy. The vari ous kinds of wine and malt liquors have each their relative proportion of alco hol. The popular notion then that the use of eidar and malt liquors is innocu ous, upon the assumption that they are destitute of this poisonous agent, is erro. neous. According to chemical analy sis, the different kinds of wine among them, Lissa, Fort, Medeira, Cape Mus chut, Alba Flora, Malaga, Current, Hock und Bliumpane, each exhibit from 12 to 24 per cent of ulcohol. Cidar has 0, London l’orter 4, ale 8, brandy 53, whiskey 54, and gin 57 per cent. Malt liquors differ from what ure usual ly denominated as alcoholic and vinous preparations in their possessing un in tensely bitter, somewhat nutritious, anil narcotic principle, derived from the hop which is employed for the purpose of preserving them. The ustringency of this agent, if is said, precipitates the vegetable mucilage, and prevents the fermentation which necessarily ensues when subjected to the influence ofu warm climate. According to the quantity which is introduced mto the stomach, within a limited time, alcohol acts as a virulent poison, or a local and diffusible stimu-; lant. When taken frr large quantities, its sedative influence is as certain and analogous to that which Prussic acid j displays. It expendsits force upon the j nervous system, creating scarcely any; appreciable antecedent stimulation, but; it exhausts nervous sensibility, and j thereby completely extinguishes tile innate life-principle. The constant use ; of the same agent in smaller quantities, if persisted in for a sufficient length of) time, w ill result as disastrously, though \ by slow and certain gradations. Who; has not observed the turgid veins, the bounding pulse, and the swollen features; of the inebriate during a fit of debauch; j his whole muscular system relaxed, and unable to obey the guidance of his! will. This is the consequence, not merely of the local stimulation ofanin-l dividual organ, but the fiery fluid is ah- ’ sorbed into the circulation, its hydro carbon unites with the oxigen of the blood, and thereby a slow combustion is maintained the arterial blood is in some measure deprived of its vivifying influence, the brain suffers from the want of its accustomed stimulus, und comparative insensibility, sooner or la ter supervenes. During this state of apparent suspension of animation, the recuperative energies of the system ure taxed to their utmost capacity in making u concentration of effort to muintuin the wheels of the machinery in motion, while sustaining the weight of such a prostrating incubus. At length, nature proves adequate to her task. By’ the support of certain pliysiologicul laws, the blood regains its purity, reason re sumes tier seat upon the throne, and the miserable, self-criminating, self abhorring bipod, parching with thirst, and prostrated in mind and body, not unfrequently execrates the day of his birth. Again, we see him the victim of an imaginary demon which pursues him with double-edged sword, or blood thirsty knife, and suffering all the tor ments of the apostate fiend, he passes off'from the realities of time into the fathomless abyss of the unseen future. Let us inquire, for a few moments, into the validity of the opinion usually entertained by the habitual toper, that alcohol increases his strength, and af fords him substantial aid in cold as well j as warm weather. It is a proposition j weil sustained by philosophical reason-] j ing, that the albuminous tissues are. maintained solely by those alimentary substances which contain the elements | similar to those which enter into their own composition. B-y tlm albuminous tissue 1 mean that which constitutes the bones, muscles, tendons and liga ments, which give strength and solidity to our bodies, l'atly substances, (on the most part, are devoid of albumen. In the animal economy this f’utly deposit is made tor the purpose of supportim’ respiration, and maintaining ihe due proportion ot umirml heat under circuni i stances where an adequate supply of i bus been withheld. Hence we 1 see, that those hybemating animals, the I ‘’b* l bear, for instance, which remain, 1 doimaiit in winter become excessively fat during the autumnal months, and* this supply of fuel keeps the lungs in motion, und propels the current of the circulation during ihe protracted period of their apparent tit of inebriation. W hem tlie warm spring months impart their genial influence, bis amount of tuel having been nearly consumed, he creeps out ol his den, a poor, lean, decre pid creature, the mere shudow of his, former self. “Currie mentions the case of an indi-. viduul who was unable to swallow, and whose body lost one hundred pounds in weight during a month; uud according to \Vartel.l, a fat pig, overwhelmed in a slip of earth, lived sixteen days without lbod, und was 1 ‘und to have diminished in weight, in that time, more than one hundred and twenty pounds,” —(Lei hig’s Animal Ohem. p. 24.) Alcohol; is noil-nitrogenous, as the chemists call it. Its primary effect is an. exaltation of nervous sensibility, but it enfeebles muscular activity tor it is incapable of affording muscular tissue. An individ ual in the enjoyment of health, requires no aid from this despotic sovereign to the performance ofthe most protracted and laborious demands upon Isis physi cal and mental energies. Temperance in diet, properly regulated exercise, and nature’s sweet restorer, “balmy sleep, and libations and draughts, from the sparkling fountain unadulterated as it issues from the bosom ofthe earth, ahbrd the motive und sustaining power by which the most complex yet tlio most perfect of all machinery is main tained in a state ol perfect integrity. This position is corroborated by the well known fuel that the athletic,, about to perform feats which makes an, exces sive demand upon his muscular power, avoids the use of alcoholic drinks, and subjects himself to u rigid system of ex ercise, and indulges ill that kind of food which is known to be most nutritious, being aware that stimulation from exci ting drinks is neccessariiy followed by 1 a corresponding degree of languor and dejection. As u familiar illustration of the influence of those substances, like alcohol which are deficient in strength producing elements, let us observe phenomena that occur iu every day life among some of the lower order of ani- mals. Who that was about to com. j iriencw a long journey would subject ; bis horse to u preparatory diet of pota j toes or ground nuts, or would continue j this food during the progress of his journey ? liis animal wouJd probably | soon become sleek and rotund,, and ] beautiful to behold, while iu a state of idleness, but after a short period of la ■ bor his fatly deposit would melt away j like embankments of snow beneath a ; meridian sun, he would become dull and sluggish, and incapable of further i exertion. Experience directs tiiat his | manger shall he supplied with corn, hay and. oats. The materials first men lioncd are rich in fat-producing ele | ments; those of the latter afford those : constituents which impart strength to the body, and by a slow process of as similation to the different tissues, they keep the due proportion of heat without interfering with known physiological laws that control the healthy condition of the different functions. But let us appeui to the testimony. Facts speak authoritatively. Experiment is the ba ! sis upon which all scientific deductions ate made. In an extensive brick-mak ing establishment, which employment is regarded us being sufficiently labori to test the capability of physical endu rance, we have the following statistics : Suye a gentleman, residing iu Uxbridge,. England, “in the year 1841, 1. obtained the amount of bricks made by the lar : gest maker and the result in favor of the teetotaller was very satisfactory. Out of 23,000,000 of bricks made, thu average per man, made by the beei drinker, in the season, was 760,269, while for the teetotaller was 793,400, which is 35,131 iu fuvor of the latter. The highest number made by a beei*. drinker was 880,000 ; the liigest num. ber made by u teetotaller was 890,000;. the lowest number made by a beer drinker was 659,000; the lowest num. ber made by a teetotaller was 746,000, leaving 87,000 in favor of the teetotal ler. (British and Foreign Medical Re. view.” Equally striking comparisons are made in an extensile machine shop, in the report of itic reporter, where be tween one and two thousand workmen NO. 27.