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■ t i//.vi Jt.irtkn Jim:—l <• hi’i
Im ’i i vc In eO i(oii* Intel, ill in
ill im loniiT your announoeinrnt in tun
1$ n,u r~t the lU;h instthat you wan
t• I ii husband. 1 want u wife; and
ho>v :> co about getting one, Ins long
b. iiona.j puzzled i;ie.
i liiivf bi til sti.i. dug lor some tune,
os it uric, iii tlie midst of a delightful
gu din, surrounded by the most guy
and lx auiilni (liweis; where 1 have
seen the blushing r >ses plucked, one by
one, ..ud their fragrant ordors joyously
iuhuli i ; und ere I could miss them,
nuntlim uss others would spring up in
their stead. While thus gazing with
idle curiosity on the scene around me,
and witnessing multitudes of my friends
ii nd associates gimp with trembling
hands, the alluring objects—how with
hvinenettl soh niniiy utul kiss their ruby
lips, w hich fin in and to import the neeta
na i nwefts of costa ! ic bliss to their en
raptured souls, a thought involuntarily
occurred to me, that I should look
around, make a selection, end do like
wise. Dut no i,hi in ihit • I attempted
to edict ibis resolve, hy unci remonious-
Iv reaching for ti c u.tractive blossom,
than my adv nice has lx < n checked l>y
some pretending thiniy liraucli, before
u iiobserveu.
After rfpeale Iv thrusting my arm
hither and yon, in similar manner, till
my sleeve was picked threadbare, I sat
down in serious and doleful mood, re
(lei ting upon the fruitless efforts, which
had now reduced nc- to an almost utter
ly forlorn condition, and closely inspect
ing my tattered sleeves, I resolved to
get me u n w emit an I try again, But
oh! dcuiest Martha Ann, in uc/ine mv
great clingrine at finding mv do Ii still
toosiazy to encounter such majestic ob
s'aclcs. I iigaiu sank down with de
.•poding heart, ami like tho fox that
Could not reach tho grapes, I tried to
console nnsclt with the m (lection that
the charming flowers we ro net really all
that they seemed to he, that the vermil
lion tints glowing with -such glossy at
traction upon their smiling faces, won
no more than mere poke-berry Inns,,
that would lade at the first touch of the
breath of matrimonial cure, and needed;
only a slight connubial pressure to the
bosom of some young gentleman to eb
literate their dazzling radiance.—
Though in despite of all this, l am yet
in the field, surveying the scene, with
’.lie sanm queiemonious tickling a'out
my devoted “gizzard.” Do not think
that I have been standing buck and hes
itating lor a season, because 1 am
“ashamed to touch upon the subject of
matrimony,” or that I need ardent
“spirits to iais ■ my courage,’’ tor the
‘sedoteous’ charms of the ladies ure .suf
ficient to inspire me with all the cour
age necessary, if i only feared are
pulse. Hut I entertain greater fears of
fieitig tmsun essfui in obtaining a wife
tliun Ido in getting married. It is not
(•vi rv iiiaii wlm marries that gels a
wile. i lie gentb men ate us liable to,
be deceived as the Italics, for both are
apt to wear tlie most smiling faces be.
lore marriage—and the ladies in par
ticular. 1 have always heard that wo
men after marriage ure too apt lobe
come like old fiddles tbat require a good
deal ol screwing up to keep them in
fine; consequently a gentleman cun
not fie too judicious in making n choice .
for life.
u Jiencver 1 hear u single lady talk
with alfi-cted sweetness, that her voice
could change a hull-ripe hunch ol fox.
grapes to the most delicious raisons, I
conclude at once that she could not suit
me. Young men, it while courting a
lady, ler words full upon your ear
liko drop* of molten pearls into a dia
mond rose, you may <xpct then to
come after mariius'c upon your sad
heart, like a shower of pen tor into a tin
hasin of sour mid;.
Mow, i\l;ss Ala rilia Aon, 1 do noi
wish you to itndei si and that i include
you in the class to w hich 1 have alluded,
—not at ail. the smsiblo light in
which you have i xnousi .1 vourself upon
tiie subject, leads mo to conclude that
you view matters proper!j. And since
you have so frankly confessed that you
“much dr sue to he pressed to the bosom
ol some e,i>tlei!\an whom you can
proudly call husband,’’ 1 must, with
qua) candor, mva that 1 groa’iy desire
the happiness t.j clasping lou. r >ome
other lady to my boaoin. whom 1 can
recognize ns wile. Therefore, 1 hope
tr hear from you o.i this subject again;
and if yoair desire lias not been grati
lied, nor your i.mion chunged, 1 respec
fully beg the honor and privilege of cul
tivating n personal acquaintance with
you. For proof of tny character us a
sober man, I -refer you to the communi
ty in which 1 reside. I can prove to
your satisfaction (hat 1 have never
drank any thing more stimulating than
peppermint ami “ciunamt nt.”
Respectful!v, Are.
PATRICK GORRIS.
Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga.
(From the .Arte York Herald.)
Austrilia and its Gold Nines-A
New Jerusalem
Five years have hardly elapsed
since the gold yield m California be.
came a fixed fact, and w ithin that short
period of time between a hundred and
ninety and two hundred millions worth
of gold dust has been udded to the wealth
of the world, and a (rude has sprung
up between the Atlantic States and San
fiat.cisco of the greatness of which
some idea may bo indirectly formed,
“roti. the fact ihat the imports from all
ORGAN OF THE SONS OF TEMPERANCE AND STATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION
other p irts of tim world to that port
• i ; a■ ren s* I from time and a half
mi. lions, in 1851, to ten und a half
millions, in 1852. The emigration to
Calif/rnia, within the last five years,
mis ho. ii of u riugiiitud ■ perhaps un
; paralleled in the world's history; and
s’ill it continues pouring ort in a con
tinuous and increasing f? id, such as
will very soon make tin opululion of
that Stule number at I .si half a mil
lion. At present, h.-sid-s fifty tltous
and that, during tim year, have gone
by sea to Califii’niu, is avast train of
over forty thousand pi rums traversing
the plains, aid when this large
item is added to the population,
hi may expect incr< a-- ,1 energy in the
working of mines. We wou.d not be
surprised, if, w lien the fall rains c me
; to enable the miners to resume opera
tions on a home scale, the imports of
gold during tho iemain Itr of |h® “ft r.
Would ri mb six mil , • tnon’h.
Tile (Nil.forma nriovi .:• tit has ni.ele
! its infiuenci’ f. It all over the world; but
now evert California ilscll seems to be
eclipsed und outstripped in its produc
tivmn iby tin* more recent and more
nngnificent di’ covet ms of gold fields
in Austrilm.
In Aitslrilia we find an island con
tin’ lit, of about 2,400 mih-s from north
ito south, by 1,000 mil s from east to j
v. i, surrounded on Us castoru and’
:otttii“t'ti sides, by mountains of volca
nic origin, of form 2,000 to 0,000 feet
above i,: i. vel id the va. ’1 ‘lif ranges
; exist at firm 50 to 100 miles from the
c ast, with valleys and water courses
on their eus’ern slop s which disem
-1 bogue into tim on, Their western
•lopes a. b . precipitous, and roll off
in steep;:, or irregular rich grazing
platforms giving re - t > water courses,
j which run towards a vast unexploied
c litre. The northern purtofthc island
dies within about ten degrees of the
Equator, vviiile the southern portion
extends to about 00 degree;, south lat
itude.
i he island “1 A Usi i ilia is di\ ided into
: four principal colonies. The lir.sl,on
! dio eic-t side, with filiy-six counties,
is culled New S rutii Wales, with Sid
I ney (ur Us capital; the second, culled
Vicloiiu or Foil Philip, with twenty-six
.comities, at the extreme south, with
Mellmme for its capital; tho third,
| New South Wales, to the west of Vic
toria, with nine counties, and with
Adelaide lor its capital; tho fourth,
W. stern Au.st.nia or Swan River, on
the western side id the island, with
Perth or Swan River for its capital.
I Sidney was the earliest point settled,
Western Austrilia next, and Victoria
lust, which was first inhabited by a
t w lumilies, chirflv English, from,
\ an Ifiemuu s land, in 1836.
i The climate of Austrilia presents all
j the varieties common to tropical and
: temperate latitudes,
f nt l l tlie discovery of gold, the
growing cl shei p was the main pursuit
i"l the colonist; and in 1800 ’ol, die
nuinhi i ol soeep on one island was es.
tiniut ’ <1 at thirteen to fourteen millions,
about tin’ millions of which were in
the colony of’ Victoria. The climate
. and soil ut this new and growing colony
’ is iu presented to he the finest in the
! world. At Meibom, its capital, it is
almost a jeup. tu.il spring. Ice never
i forms thicket than a shilling, and even
; u scum of snow is hut seldom seen.
! Sheep grow and multiply !>v merely
| turning them loose to graze, and never
require tho slightest use of artificial
food; and such is the mildness of the
climate that Ihe v lam!) twice a year,
in the months of April and October.
Butcher’.- meat, before gold was dis
covered, sold as low as 2d. per lb.
So plentiful are cattle’ that boiling es- ;
tublishinents exist, where they aro boil,
down for t!i■ -ir tallow, which is ex nor- I
ted m large quantities to england.
Much ol the soil, in all of the colo-1
tiles is exceedingly fertile and pro-j
ductivo,'on which can be grown the j
mo.t luxuriat ei.p, ol all kinds known,
similar latitudes in oilier parts of the
world, and in great abundance and per- 1
hi.ii’.. Hut tie soil (bund within;
one hundred miles of Melbourne, in
Vie'oit.i, or Port Phillip, exc eds in
fertility any oilier part of the world.
It is i t a dark, bright chocohttnoolor, I
resulting, it is suppo-ed, from the do- i
composition of ejected materials from j
oxliiiit volcanoes. It pi luces, when!
cultiv; ••!. cue hu ml red bushel rof corn,
or six'y b ihc|s of w'heut to the acre; j
the l.itter Weighing sixty.four pounds to |
the bushel. In the famine years of,
1847 and-! J this wheat was shipped
to England, and commanded a premium ,
oer tie- bi >t English grown article,
l'im stains of wheat in Victoria attain
a height, in some places, of seven leet.
i’he climate lias moderate falls of rain
every month in the year. The ther
mometer rarely goes above 73 or 80
degrees.or falls below 40 degrees. The
mean temperature is about 61 degrees
tire year round. It lias the summer of
England or Ireland, and the winter of
the south of France or Italy. The;
growth of Victorio has been, if we ex
cept some lew parts of the United,
States, without a parallel. In 1836
and 1837, there were only about 274
‘ouls inthe colony, in 1830 and ‘3l
the population of the town of Melborue
alone amounted to übout 23,000. while
the colony numbered near 77,000 Mel
bourne is distant about 600 miles south
west of Sidney. The handsome gran
it*> fronts of some of the houses, it is
I said, would do credit to any European
i city. A sttme bridge of 150 feet span
bus been erected over the river Yura
Yara.on w iiicii the town stands, at an
expense of *75,000. It contains some
six or seven chufehes; the principal cl
which cost from SIO,OOO to 815,000
each. It boasts a stone court house,
jail, ami some half dozen newspapers,
two or three which are daily, a college,
mechanics’ institute, Am. In 1850
its imports were £744.205 and expo'is
£1,041,700; giving an exm-.-s of ex
ports of £297,501.
I he fertility of the soil mav he seen
from the following statenn nl: In 1850.
in two counties onlv of Victoria (Bourk •
ami Evelyn) 11,807 acres, sown it*
wheat, produced 130,040 bushels, 1,-
31S acres sown in barley produced
32.950 bushels; 2,282 acres, sown in
oats, yielded 59,338; 1,129 acres, in
potatoes, yielded 1,093 tons; 0 041
acres, i-i hay, produced 9,801 tons.
VVe thus see a colony, 10,000 miles
from England, in about fourteen or six
teen years—in the lifetime of a mere
child—-increase from 274 souls to 77,-
000, and also increase its agricultural
exports from nothing to near 80,000;-
000 It should be borne in mind, that
V iciuria has never been a convict col
ony to the extent of New South WalNt,
ami at this time there are not fiv* hum
died bound convicts in the colony, and
since 1843 none have been sent to any
pan of Austrilia. They are now sent
to Norfolk Island and Van Dminan’s
Laud. To the vast agricultural re
sources of Victoria and New South
Wales, we have now to give tho most
astounding accounts es gold discove
ries ever mado on the habitable globe.
Tney completely throw into the shad*
! all the mines of Peru, Mexico, or Cal.
! tfornia. Ho expensive are the gold do
• posits distributed in Victoria, that tlie
very streets of Melbourne are found,
in a manr.cr, to be paved with them,
ihe broken quartz rock which have
b. en usi and to MacAdutnise the streets
are found to contain goiu—thus
realizing a sort of New Jerusalem, the
■• treels of which are paved with gold.
While Melbourne is blessed, miaeg
l of immense value have been opened
at Mount Balluret and Mount Alexan
der, about eighty to one hundred uuien
| north of the city. The treasure taken
fiom these two deposits alone, Isom the
Ist of December, 1851 to the Ist of
Apnl 1852, amounted to about $9,000,-
; 090. Its deposits were also discovered
in a rungo of mountains in the same
colony, called the Pyrenees, Mount
Macedon, and Mount Cole.
d'lie first discovery ofgold was made
near Bathurst, in New South Wales,
on the 22 I May, 1851, from 150 to 104
miles west of Sidney. The localities
first worked were at Summerville
Creek, Abercrombie river, from whence
further discoveries have been made over
a vast mountain region of country,
many of the localities being known
us bur.goniu, Shoal Haven diggings,
Wentworth diggings. Ophir, Brad
wooe, Major’s creek, Hanging Rock,
Aso.; one of the most prolific b iog
Uruidwuud. From May tolheoih Sep
tember the shipments readmit $750,-
! 000, an t on lite Bth November about
$1,000,000. — Lamps were occasional.
ly found weighing from twenty to liven
j ty-seven pounds. At an early period,
Dr. Cerr found one lump winch weigh.
:ed one hundred pounds. In December
1851, the partu s at llm diggings m
\ ictoria were esti. nated at I rout eight
to ten thousand, and near Bathrust, at
four tkousand. flu: whole amountsent
England since the discovery, only’ a
year ago, amounts to twenty milliot
of dollars already.
Tim a.,1,| region already discovered
in Austrilia promises to yield double
and triple the quantity of gold, by the
same number of laborers, over that
obtained in California.
The extent of the gold fileds in Vic
’ loria, or New South \V ales, exceeds
! that of California. Hence they already
1 possess two (Juliforuitts in Austrilia;
and are likely to find twoor three more,
lor the mountain chain in w hich limy
are lound runs a distance over from
1,000 to 1,300 miles, with various
j spurs and otfslioots at right angles to
the mam chain. The golds fields, it
is likely, are spread over not less than
13 than 20,000 square miles, seeing,
that the erea of the whole island is
i about three millions square miles, i'he j
i whole population of the island in 1831
lint not exceed 350,000. U wul* Ji.ow
soon contain several millions.
The English government have or
ganized a system for the working oFthe
mines, and u small tribute is exacted (
, from the earning of the diggers, who I
must procure license to dig. Coimnis-j
! slent'is are stationed in the diggings;
to regulate matters, and whose duly it
|is to prohibit the establishment of all]
grog shops and gambling houses.
They burne down grog shops where
ever iliey can find them. 1 hree shops
were burnt in the diggings last wniter,
m Victoria. Here we have a Maine
Liquor law in full force. Hut the Aus
irahuns will soon borrow more from us
than teetotal laws. The principal re
publicanism has taken root iu the coun
try. The emigrants from Europe,
and those from California, will give
new torce and vigor to that idea, so
that we believe the day not lar distant
■ when America will have the pleasure
of hailing Australia as the latest born,
and, next to herself, the greatset ot
republics. In the meantime there be
no mob law—no trials ami hangings
oy the Code Lynch. The judicial au
thorities will be sustained by the strong
arm of both the naval and military pow
er. Os this those loving security ot life
and property may feel satisfied, while
the lawless will be governed or hanged.
What is to be the eud of all this?
. What are to be I lie results to the world
of this illimitable supply of the pre
cious rnel il? Whi n California, in four
years produced two hundred millions
;of dollars, what will be the effect of
its continued yield, when that of Aus
’ India, with three times the exunt of
gold field,, will be added to it? It must
inevitably it volulionize the social con
j dition of the civilized wort, and produce
the grandest and most momentous con
sequences, on all that appertains to the
trade and commerce of Europe and
i America, that h.,ve taken place since
the ft ist discovery of this continent by
the Genoese navigator.
The Warrior Wasp. —lt is curious
that in the Isle of France the common
bee is not to be found us a native of the
woods, while, in the Isle of Brougham,
it is common, and furnishes an abund
ance of wax and honey. This is ex
plained, by supposing that tiie wariiors
of iv hem we are about to speak, desttoy
[the bees, and have thus prevented their
multiply ing in the island in question.
Truly, like the banditti of w hom we j
read m books these wasps are splendil
ily attired, although not on the spoils of;
‘those whom they have robbed, Their!
head, chest, and body are of a r, splend
unt lustre ; now green, or seen in an
| other position, blue, and listening with
! ail the lustre of an exquisite varnish.
Their autenie are blaey, their eyes ofa j
brownish yellow, and tneir legs partly
: bronze-colored, und puitly of beautiful
I violet. They are strong and swift oi j
wi’.jr. and are possessed of a terrible!
lance, in: thrust of which even men i
cannot endure without far more pain
and inflammation than attends an ordi
nary sting. The foe with which these
magnificently-dressed warriors have to
contend, is a kind of insect allied to the
cock-roach, which, in our kitchens, have
acquired the incorrect title of “black
beetle.” The insect is detested by the
inhabitants of the island, for its ravages!
upon almost everything of value or deli- j
eaey. and is not less hated by the sailor ■
j for its destructiveness on shipboard. It
! is called Kalcer/ac, and is much larger!
| thin the cock-roaches, which are the)
plague and terror of our cooks. I mag-!
hie that one ot these great, old, odious!
insects is marking along the highway. I
Ihe warrior wasp has also been mak
ing his expeditions for prey abroad, j
when suddenly his eager eye catches
sight ol the kakerlac hastening to some
new scene of depredation, The war
rior iustantly alights, and the kakerlac
stops, thinking, perhaps, to intimidate
its adversary by its size and ferocious
aspect. Both insects glance at each
j other. The wasp is first to attack, and
; and darts upon the other, seizing it bv
j its muzzle with us strong jaws, then
! bending its body so as to bung its tail
j under the abdomen of tfie kakerlac.—
l 1 he lance, with its charge of poison, is
I deep.plunged lino the body ol the un
! happy foe, imbuing a deadly venom into
; its system. Having made this thrust,
die w urrior li st s the foe, ami soars in
j iriunv'h a little way into the air, satis- ]
tied ot a successful issue. Tin; kakei
j lac, after alow Lniei convulsions, lies
paralysed on the ground, unable to stir
a step from lim spot where it encounter-;
ed its terrible adversary. Fully aware
of dhS) the victorious w asp, after taking ]
l il *e w turns, as it to proclaim the down- j
j fall of the giant kakerlac to the sur-j
j rounding neiglibirhood, returns to the
scene where the conflict was found.—
file kakerlac, unable to resist tfie vie
; tor, and being naturally, though a great
jdevouser, a very faint-hearted creature,
; lies immovable, while the wasp seizes
the prostrate sue by the head, and, in a
sort of triumphal march, drugs it along
j the road to its nest.
SONS Ob’ TEMPERANCE.
Pledge of I lie Mou* of Tcmpe
r;nee.--I, without reserve, solemnly pledge
my honor as a man that 1 will neither make,buy, I
sell nor use, as a beverage , any Spirituous or
Malt Liquors. Wine or Cider.
CADETS OF TEMPERANCE.
Officers of flic tiraml Section.
| J. W. Benson, G. P. Macon.
B. Bukton, G. A. P. Pondtown.
]L. C. Simson, G. S. &T. Atlanta.
Rev. .1. S. Wilson, G. G. Decatur,
i S. M. H. Bykd, G. G. Oxford.
!W. P King, G. VV. Thotnuston.
I. O. of Kecliiibitei.
Officers of Georgia Dist. Tent, No. 28, loca
ted at Washington, Wilkes Co.,Ga.:
John R. Smith, D. P. C. R. Washington,
C. R Hanleiter, D. C, R. Atlanta,
Rev. G. G. Norman,D. D. R. Washington
A. H. Sneed, D R. S. „
E. H O’Neal, D. F. S. „
L. F. Carrington, D. T. „
C. W. Hancock, D. L. „
Keeliultite's Pledge.
1 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 good faith, by a medi
cal practitioner ; 1 will not engage in the traf
fic of them, and in all suitable ways wi!i dis
countenance the use, sale and manufacture oi
them ; and to the utmost of my power, I will
, endeavor to spread the principles of abstinence
, from a inti mating liquors
IfJiLS
I’E.ffFlliLD, OFT. 30, IBf2.
INlitori:*l Aorrespoiwleiicc.
Macon, Oct. 220, 1852.
No event worth recording came under
‘our observation, after leaving home, till we
arrived at Atlanta. The great congregation
that had gathered at this point to take pus
sage for Macon, caused some delay in get
ting off; and night coming on afforded a |
hatch of light-fingered gentry a.i opportuni
ty of displaying their ingenuity in rilling the j
! pockets of several passengers while in the.
act of getting seats in the cars. Ihe lady j
of the Rev. Mr. Mann, lost her purse , and I
Dr. Price, of Clarke county, had a case of I
lancets taken front his pocket; and while the j
■ light-fingered individual had the Doctor’s
: pocket book partly drawn out, the operation
was discovered, and the pocket book saved,
though the thief escaped. There were ten |
nassenoer cars, crammed to their utmost ca
pucilv, in the train, which rendered the trav
el from Atlanta to Macon rather unpleasant.
Uii the way, a gentleman took occasion to
i smoke a cigar outside the ear, and upon re
i suming his seat was seized with a violent
: lit, which caused some confusion. It is sup
posed the strength of the cigar and the eon
fined air in tlie car, led to this result, umicli
j should be another warning to tiime ad Jic
i ted to the injurious habit of smoking. At
one of the stations, our friend Pleasant
j Stovall, Esq., of Augusta, stepped out of
the door of tlie ear upon the platform, to get
tlie cool air—the sudden starting es the car
threw him, and as lie went between the
ears, he foitunately eatched the break with
a single jinger of his light hand, and drew j
himself up, and in this extraordinary man-j
tier, his life, in all probability, was preserved, j
The lines by Watts,
“Great God, on what a slender thread
Hang everlasting things!”
ran through our mind; and hereafter in our
Rail Road trips, we shall be seldom found
standing outside the cars.
On our arrival at Macon, we found the
Hotels crowded almost to their utmost ca
pacity, and it was after two o’clock in the
morning before we found a bed at the Floyd
House, with tour strangers in the same
room. Early on Tuesday morning, a few
hasty visits were made to some old friend*,
and we wended our way to the Fair Ground.
The assemblage of persons was large,
though in our judgment, not equal to the
attendance last year. Some alterations and
additions to the arrangements from last
year, were perceptible and dcecided im
improvements. The articles on exhibition
in the various departments, were attracting,
j and we thought superior to last year’s exhi
! bilion. Ti eor space will not admit of de
tails.
I It was soon evident that the City and
Fair Ground was infested with adroit pick
pockets; and hand-bills were posted, and
other expedients resorted to, cautioning the
public against these depredators. We heard
ofa dozen or two wiio lost pocket-books,
| containing various sums of money ; and an
gratified to leant that two or three of the
depredators were detected and lodged in
jail to await their trials.
The ladies held a Fair during the week,
so - the purpose oi’ assisting iu raising funds
to build a house for the accommodation ol
tho baptist Church and congregation, which
was well attended on three nights; and we
have learned that not far from a thousand
dollars were realized.
Two meetings were held by some of the
friends of a law prohibiting the liquor traffic
in our State. Some resolutions were i
passed; a Convention of the friends of the j
measure was appointed to be held at Atlan
ta, on the 22d of February next; —and n|
committee appointed to prepare an Address [
to the people. All of wiiich will appear in j
the Banner at linearly day. Connected with
this subject, we are happy to say, that we
are daily growing in confidence that the
people of Georgia, upon a fair showing, are j
ready to sustain a prohibitory law. We j
think there I as been an improvement in j
Macon, since our visit one year ago; and]
that the amount of drunkenness and noise i
has not occurred, that was w itnessed during
j the fair week last year. But that .Upp is
! yet room for improvement, all will agree,
■ when we state that we have learned, that at
! one retail establishment on last Sunday,
j more than two hundred dollar* was taken for i
I intoxicating beverages.
We must not forget to record another oc
! currenee of the week. On Wednesday
! night a “fancy ball” came off, at which
| I’fince Alcohol played a conspicuous part;
and it madam rumor may bo relied upon,
some dozen or more of the fair sex in ut
attendance, were so much under his influ
ence, as to cut some “fantastic tricks,” that
would make less sensitive beings than angels
weep. It is, also, reported, that a young
gentleman, of .tlie upper tens, who figured
conspicuously among the ladies at the ball,
was found next morning in the passage of a
; gentleman's house, with his “anrnenliona
bles and oilier articles of apparel, missing,
1 and himself insensible to his whereabouts,
, or the time or manner of his getting there.
But the hour is late, and I must not dwell
i upon such matters. The Fair closed late
: this afternoon, and most of the visitors are
journeying for their respective homes. The
town is quiet, and the change of scene, not
easily to be described.
Tlu> MV cut her
For the past two or three weeks has
been most delightful. We have rarely
I known in this region a fall more fan tabic
for the ingathering of the cotton crop. Not-!
withstanding many unfavorable indications
the yield through the state uni.-: ;• an aver
t*Hv. I
Xilij iTcddciilial Contest.
Though we have not less than four elec
toral tickets distinctly before the people—
a number from which we might expect un
usual excitement, yet we have rarely known
so little excitement. Almost nil the mass
meetings which have been attempted, have
proved failures. Scores can hardly be
found where thousands were once congre
gated. There is no enthusiasm. Well, we
are neutral in polities; but we rejoice inthe
absence of political excitement. One ex
citement is very apt to introduce another.
When men are inflamed with political ani
mosities, they are disposed to seek other
stimuli, hence the drunkenness attendant
i on elections. We trust that tho calm which
i now prevails may continue until after the
I 2nd day of november next.
rite Chronicle Jk Sentinel in
the field.
A recent number of this Journal contains
the following:
Another Victim of the Retailers. —The ac
count, which we publish to-day, of the mur
der in Wurrenton, will attract the readers at
tention, and cannot fail from its enormity to
make a deep impression upon the public
mind. We learn that the fiend who perpe
trated the deed probably got twenty dollars*.
The correspondent who furnishes the ac
count, pertinently remark: “Whatever may
have been the motive for this horrid affair,
one thing is certain, if there had been no
spirits retailed in Warren'on, the deceased
would, in all probability, have gone home af
ter his discharge from the Jury to his peace
ful family, and would have been alive to
day.”
This remark of our correspondent, which
lew will probably controvert, affords much
food for tlie calm and dispassionate reflect
tion of the intelligent and order-loving citi
zens of Warren, and indeed every county in
j the (State.
That the people are indirectly responsible
for the victims of this traffic,no intelligent
; man will deny, because they are tlie source
•of all power—from them eininates the law,
j and the law countenances and licenses the
retailing of liquors. Hence their responsi
bility. We ask them, in all sincerity, it
| they hud not better, in the discharge of their
j duties as good citizens, philanthropists and
I patriots, assume a still higher, but not so
; tearful a responsibility, and suppress the re
tailing of iiquo. s—thereby saving thousands
of good and worthy citizens from untimely
deaths—and secure to wives and children a
husband and parent, who will supjiort and
protect them.
We address this enquiry to the orderly,
reflecting, sober men of the country, not to
the tippler ami besotod frequenter of the
Ale-house, who boasts his love of the largest
liberty, and from whom we can expect or
hope but for a single response, and we trust
they will consider it dispassionately in all
its bearings upon the pence, order and good
being of society.
We Imil the Chronicle & (Sentinel as a co
laborer in the cause of reformation. It is
time, high time, that the infamous system,
by which poverty and erime are multipled
over the Suite, should be abolished. When
ae look seriously ui the frallie, which is now
authorized by law, we are amazed that the
intelligent, judicious voters of Georgia,
should tolerate for one day a system so pro
lific of ill, Tiie rum-seili is und their vic
tims eoiisiiiuie a large class. These ure our
m®st active opponents. ‘J hey are constant
ly crying out against every attempt tx rc
reneli their liberties, —insisting upon it that
jin tins republican country every man has a
right to get his living in any way which he
chooses; and that ii people arc willing to
destroy themselves by drinking, or by
any o.bur means, nobody iias a right to in
ter!'ri in tb mat r.
We have intimated more than onee, that
if the attention of the public could be fully
roused to a consideration of this subject, the
work of reform would assuredly be effected.
| And if the friends of temperance do not agi
j tate this subject, who will do it l We trust
j that it may be a matter lor debate in every
] Division room throughout the State, and
j liiat our public speakers will permit no op
! portunity to pass w ithout putting in a good
word for this important object. We hope
that they will piosecute tlie subject with
such zeal that a petition tortifled by so many
] thousands of signatures may be presented
j to the next legislature that our law-makers
may feel constrained to respect their appli
; cation. \\ cdo not allow’ men (by law at
least) to lose their property at the gaming
table, and why should we make laws author,
izing men to destroy that which is infinitely
more valuable than property; we mean
health, life, and even the soul itself.
ANSWER
To enigma, “For Young Students in
; Geography,” in No. 30, — Cadets of Temper
a nee. ‘ STUDENTS.
ENIGMA.
I am composed of 14 letters.
] My 1 4 4, is a county in Georgia.
“ 4 13 4, is a river in Europe.
“ 6 8 5 13 8, is a town in Peru.
“ 8 5 8 3 2 10, is a Sea in Asia.
“ 3 4 5 3 12 5 10, is a devision of Africa,
j “ 14 8 5 4, is a river in England.
“ 13 10 1 IU 9 9 8, is a town in Asia.
’ “ 12 5 2 12, is a lake in N. America.
10 13 12 1 2 10, is an island near the
Atlantic coast.
, “ 98 3 12 11,is a county in Virginia.
, “ 13-4 5 9 45,is a county iu Pennsylva
nia.
“ 13 2 1 1 45,is a county iu Arkansas.
8 1326 2 4, is a river in Louisiana.
13 8 1 8 7, is a peninsula iu Asia.
My whole is the place where l was com.
posed.
„ STUDENTS.
s. C., Pickens Dist., Sept. 29.
During a thunder-storm in East
Bridgewater, a day or two since, the
lightning entered in a cellar of a barn,
p is.sed through a pile of Imy some 10
or 12 feet in thickness, and escaped
through the roof, leaving a hole through
j the hay 12 inches in circumference,
but neither the ii iv nor the ham was
l ( ’ • 1 * ’’ ‘ ii* : _ hi* ui .