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WRECK AND Rt'l.N A SCENE IN THE
u iv r Naples.
!n October, 1 j 48, I went over to the
Island of Ompi, * Miie twenty miles
from Na|>i •, in enjoy n rustic festival.
Our party consisted of some English
men atid some ftulihmh Tlie latter
being in the service ol the Gjvernment,
had a fixed limit toth.-ir leave of ab
sence. When the morning arrived
that wa appointed for the departure
of our Italian friends, we accompanied
them to the shore where they made
thetr arrangements tor the passage back
to tlie main land. There was a strong
west.and by-south wind roaring round
the Island, and the sen looked danger,
ous; nut in Naples, where there is no
career for n young man out of govern- i
incut employ, an official mus* not trifle
with his post. Tho t reputations, there
lore, lor the launching of the boat went
on.
It was one of those wide bottomed
boats, commonly used in the port of
Naples, upon which the s;ranger starts
out for u moonlight row* to Pusilippo, i
or betakes hiinsel! with bis portmanteau ;
and Ins carpet bug, or with his wife I
and in.-r pill box full ol u lew things,-
to the summer. .Such bnim me not j
itiude for riding on u .stormy sea. The
men preparing to put out that morning I
were our two friends, the officials and
two bonuneii. Uut- of the passengers
was huilck i>v the Captain of a good
strong nark upon the point of starting:
“Come with us linlfio itucclo* it will I
bo madness to suit out in that cock
leshell through such .i sea!”
Hatfnellueei'i, a d.iieato youth, re
plied thut in whs no coward, lie had
come in the hout. with the Madonna’s
blessing. The other pusscngci was a
stout bia* k beuriled man, sml tlie two
boat men were a youth and a weather.
beat**n sailoi from the port of Nuples.
The lit lie harbor ut Capri is so slid
tered from certain winds that there is
often a deceptive smoothm ss in its wa- j
tors. It was only by looking out to
sea that one protected, on that wild
October morning how tho waters writh
ed under the torture of the wind. Far
as the eye could reach, tho sea was
covered w ith those smaller storm waves,
called in the phi use of tlie country
jiecore. These, us the day advanced,
swelled into great billows, ( cava/tom)
winch came rolling on upon our little
island ami dashed violently against the
coast ot iMnssa and Sorranto.
The boat had been shoved oil', and
ha<i returned lor tome article, left, ac
cidentally behind. A group of weath
erwise old suiiors thronged about the
fool-hardy crew, in vain urging them
to wait tor luirer wether; but they put
out to sea uguin, and made straight tor
the cape, Under the summer palace of
Tiberius. This is a well known point,
which boatmen olien seek when they
desire to catch a direct wind for their
passage to the main land. The gale
that had been blowing round the island
appeared to pour out from this point its
undivided force, and beat the seu with
a strength almost irresistible.
W e saw the must of the little boat
snapped the mom-nt it bud readied the
cape, and the crew put hack, not to
nwuil calmer weather, but to seek an
other temporary mast and start again.
No threat or persuasion could detain
the Italians, who (bared to exceed their
term of leave. A rude mast was set
up, und uguin the boat started, leaping
across the wave. W’c aatv no more of it.
“I watched it tor some distance,” said |
the captain of the bark, which had star
ted ut the sumo time. ‘‘Their mast
bent us though it would break ut every j
wind, and tho little sail fluttered like J
a luu>kerchief upon the waves. In a
moment it disappeared, and we knew
that our foreboding bad proved true.”j
The rest of the tale I had trout the lips ,
ot the black-beared etlieial, tho sole:
survivor, and a wilder tale of human j
passion does not often fall within the j
bouuds of sober truth.
Tne old tnuiiner l starting had been
placed at ilia helm, ns the most compe
tent man of the party; but there was
an alarming dillcrence between the
eddies, i ui rents ami billows at ilia Cape,
and the smooth wuteis of the lint of
Naples. A monstrous caral’oni ap
pealed in tlie distance, leaping, roaring,
foaming. It was close upon their ijiiu.--
tei; itscrest overhung them; and hi ati
instant, said iny informant, they were
swallowed up. The boat was over
tin ned, but the crew struggling des
perate!*, for life—rose with it once
more to the surface, clinging to u- bot
tom. In their last agony they glared
opei ach other, lace to face, among
iue i., -'ing Wales, and the louil ox ■-
cratione of his companions w r* poured
passionately on the ancient mariner,
whose waul of “hill was cursed r ..
fatal Cause of their despair. The hold ;
ot the poor old fellow, mak with age
and faint with eir.oiiun, had not strength
enough to bear up au .and the tossing of
the waters, ar.d us Ins grasp relaxed,
the others watched Ins weakness
with a fiendish satisfaction. “It is
some consolation,” exclaimed one, “it'!
see you die first, fool os you are.”:
lie uid not hear the latest muleilictioiis,
but went do'.i u the deep sen.
1 he next who died was llntfurlluccio,
upon whose daily work ilia daily bread
ot a inothor on.l three cm Id re n depen.
Ued. “I am slid’ with colt!, and can
Inn g on no longer,” he s ua to Ins coin,
paniou. “Geton my shoulders,” was
the mswer oi the stronger man; and so
lid, and so he died, the living man
with me dead weight upon him, grap
pli g still lor life, und drifting before
the siorm. The young boatman, the
otuci survivor, tiecrH'liug him>,>!t upon
OiUiAN OF THE SONS OF TKMPKiIAiNCE AND STATE TEMPERANCE CONVKNIIQN
the brink of eternity, crept round tothe
| dead body, and having lobbed it of a
j watch uni! chain, and other valuables,
pushed it from the shoulders ot his
friend into the sea. So there only re
: rnamed these two men, clinging to trie
! boat aid gu/.ing on each oilier anxious.
!‘y- . .
The thought had crossed tne min ‘
jol the young man that if they lived
i until should be thrwon ashore, the sur- ,
j viving paseiiger would require lliut !*•
showlil deliver up the watch nrid other -
valuables to the family of Kaffaelluccio. j
lie may not have taken tlu-m with a |
design of theft, lie probably saw that j
the dead body cumbered his cmnpan-1
ion, and committed it from a good hu-
I man motive to the sea having removed ;
the jewelry. Hutto retain possession j
of the property, his conscience did not
bid him shrink from murder, of which
no eye ol man would evei see the stain.
An unexpected blow would silence his
companion, and leave him on tie- bom
to drift to laud, a sole survivor, quietly
| made richer by the wreck. “1 read it
|in his eyes,” said my informant,
j “The devil was in them, anil i watched j
j Inin well; but a happy sea raised his!
j side of tho boat—that was his opportu- j
1 niiy; and immediately ho struck n
heavy blow upon my head. If lie was
the younger I was the stronger, and lie
summoned me to struggle lor my life,
or tor that chance of life which either
of us had upon the gull of waters.!
There was a (terrible wresting. lam
| the only survivor.
‘•All that day, and through a stormy
pitch-dark night, 1 lay tossed about, al
most senseless, in the Hay ot N iples.
Hut, before dawn ot. the second d..y,
my boat was cast ashore at Torre deli
Anuunziatta, and there locked between
two rocks. 1 had just strength to crawl
to the Coast-guard-house, in w hich I
perceived that lights were twinkling.
I was spurned. My Papers were tie.
inand-.d.
“Fuiut as 1 was, in time I found it
possible to make the officials undel
siaiid my case, and excuse the produc
tion ol credentials from tho fishes.
They took me in and treated me with
Chr.stiau kindness. My looks had
Lightened them —my face was bloated,
and my eyes protruded like those of a
lobster.”
The mother of (lafTaeulluccio was
living in Capri, mid 1 was there when
tlie news came hack of her son’s (ate.
In the darkness of un October night, the
ruined family—the bereaved mother
and her daughters—mounted to their
house-top, and turning towards the sea,
shrieked wildly (or the son and brother
whom it held from them.
The voice of woe that then thrilled
in my ears will never be lorgotlen. I
never knew till then what agony could
he, not expressed only, but commu
nicated by the wail of women.
Sleep-
Tlie scientific American thusdis'.'our
ses tlie subject of sleep:
“No person of active min I should try
jto prevent sleep, which, in such per-
Isons, only come when rest is indispen-
Uible to the continuance of health. In
. fact, sleep once in twenty.tour hours is
’ us essential to the existence of mamma
j lia as tlie momentary respiration ol fresh
j air. The most unfavorable condition
j for sleep cannot prevent its approach.
Coachmen slumber on their coaches,
and couriers on tlieir horses, while sol 1.
In rs fall usleep on the field of battle,
amidst all tho noise of artillery und the
tumult of war. During tho retreat of
Sir John Moore, several of the British
[soldiers were reported to have (alien
asleep on the march, and yet they com
tinued walking onward.
The most violent passions and ex
citement of mind cannot preserve even
powerful minds from sleep ; thus Alex
ander tlie Greut slept on the field of
Arbelu, and Napoleon on that of Aus
terlitz. Even stripes and torture can.
not keep oil’ sleep, us criminals have
been known to sleep on the rack.—
Noise which serve at first to drive way
sleep, soon becomes indispensable to itsj
existence ; thus a stage coach stopping!
to change horses, wakes all the passen-;
gers. The proprietor of an iron forge j
who slept close to tlie din of ham ners, j
forges, and blast furnaces, would
awake if there was any interrupuon to
them during the night, and a sick mil
ler who had his mill stopped on thatac
count, passed sleeepless nights till the |
mill resumed its usual noise. I lonor, j
in the Iliad, elegantly represents sleep
us overcoming all men, and even the
Gods i xceptiug Jupiter alone.
the leiight ol time passed in sleep is
cut t ie sumo in all men ; it verbs in
Different individuals and at different
ig* ‘; but t*. cannot be determined from
the time passed in sleep, relative to the >
strength or energy ofthe functions of
tilt* body or mind. From six to nine
hours is the average proportion; vei
die Roman emperor, CululiuUt, sleep
only three hours, F'rederick of Prussia
uini Dr. John Hunter consumed only
tour or five hours in repose, while the
great Seipio slept during eight.
A rich and lazy citizen will slumber!
from ten to twelve hours daily. ltii|
during infancy that sleep is longer and
more profound. Women also sleep!
longer than men, and young men long- j
er than old.
~ j
For weeks past hundreds upon hun-’
! dreds of (migrant wagons have crossed .
j the Mississippi at Burlington, lowa,
[each one containing, besides heads ol j
families, ti.e usual number of “little;
1 white-haads,” b*und to anew home on i
•be fVrtilo plains of lowa.
80B81). TK.IPERA.HCE
Pledge of the Sons ol Tempe
rance.--!, without reserve, solemnly pledge
I my honor a* a mun that I will neither make, buy,
| aril nor use, as a beverage, any Spirituous or
| Malt Ltquora, Wine or Cider.
Officers of tlie Grand Division.
jE. H. Myers, G. \V. P. Mocon.
! H. Hrartly. G. W. a. Penfield.
VV. S. Williford, S. Scribe, Macon.
E. C. Gkanniss, G. Treas. Macon.
I). P. Jones, G. Chap. Palmetto.
Wm. Woods. G. Con. Madison.
TS M Hi.oodw*iirtii,G Sent. Liberty Hill.
Office of the Grand Division, )
Macon. Nov. Ist, 1852. (
/’” the Sons of Temperance in Ike State nf
(ieotgia :
, Beloved Brethren: —ln entering upon the
duties assigned meat the lute session ot tlie
G- !>., 1 feel impelled to address to _yuu a
few words of advice and exhortation. I
have but one object—the advance of our
most useful and beloved order. I shall not
make a merit of proclaiming my incapacity
for tlie office, but will assert, that with your
- co-operation our oruer will prosper; with
out it, an “angel from Heaven” would not
have sufficient capacity to give it an onward
impulse. We must all work—work hear
tily, unweuricdly, zealously, or our order
will prove a “splendid failure.”
I have, r ecording to the best of my abili
ty, selected Deputies for every county. In
a few days they will receive tlieir commis
sions. 1 have requested them to notify me
ol their acceptance, or if they decline, to
nominate some worthy brother to take the
otliee. It I cannot obtain a deputy for eve
ry county, who will attend to the work, 1
will endeavor to gel one for every Division.
1 shall not publish the names of any until
they formally accept the appointment, and
as fast as they accept, I will till up the list in
the Haimer. i iiupu there will be no delay
on tlieir part.
There are many Divisions, which l ave not
reported to the’ Grand Nseribe, lor two,
three and lour quarters. The probability
istlr.it they are not winking. Why is tins
so, brothers? Have you gone back, or has
the cause receded in y oar community ? Let
it never be admitted. Get to work again, or
it at work, make up your quarterly returns
and forward them at once. It sleeping,
wake up; it languishing, be encouraged,
ami make another t- 11t l tor Love, Purity
and 1* idelity, tlie three Daughters of Tem
perance. If your Division is not strong
enough to stand by itself, unite with the
sister Divisions in your neighborhood and
consolidate two or more into one. I hope,
however, that even this will not bo found
necessary.
1 have been instructed by the G. I), to
see it the Divisions, which have ceased to
work can be revived, and if any of them nre
past resuscitation, to ask a surrender of
ilieir charter, books, &c. Ido not wish to
make this demand upon n single Division,
ami l hope, brothers, that your Zealand in
dustry in tiie good cause, will save me from
ibis painful alternative.
Let me urge upon the Subordinate Divis
ions to keep up a regular correspondence
with the Grand Scribe’s Office by sendiug
up tlieir quartely returns punctually at the
prescribed time. Elect and install your of
ficers rogulaily. Remember that any l*.
W . P. can install,and you need never wail
for a deputy to be present. If you have
not new men to elect every quarter, remem
ber that there is no longer u constitutional
bar to the perpetual re-election of all the
old officers. Few men, true anil steadfast,
can therefore, keep up a Division.
Let me exhort you to have frequent pub
lie meetings in your Division. Set every
Ilian to speaking, who can make a speech
for Temperance. Keep the subject before
your community. Agitate— agitate,or else
we shall grow stagnant. If possible, have
a public demonstration every month. If
you wish to appear in regalia the necessary
authority can be obtained from yourdeoutv
G. W. P. 1 r j
Come, brethren, let us move again to our
glorious work ; let not your banner droop;
raise it high— fling it to the breeze ; lleaw
en’s balmy breath shall shake out its
drooping tolds, and it shall shortly wave
over the crumbling stronghold of our direst
loe. The order expects every brother to
do his duty.
\ ours in L. P. & F.
E. 11. MYERS, G. W. p.
P. B. I desire that the brothers into
i whose hands this may come, will give it as
wide a circulation as possible. Let the G.
D. W. P., W. P. or R. 8. rend it in each
Division and circulate it among the brother
hood.
CAPETS OF TEMPERANCE. |
PLEDOE. ‘ ‘ ~^
No member shall make, buy, self or use
as a beverage,any spirituous or maltliquors
wine or cider.
Offi<*<>rN of the Uraud Section.
J. W. Benson, G. P. Macon.
B. Burton, G. A. P. Pondiown.
L. C. Simson, G. S. &. T. Atlanta.
Rev. J. S. Wilson, G. C. Decatur.
8. M. 11. Byrd, G. G. Oxford.
W. P Kino, G. W. Thomaeton.
I. O. of Si. ilia ) 11, ~
Officers of Georgia PiM. Tent, No. 28, loca
ted at Washington, Wilkes Co.,Ga.:
John R. Smith, P. P. O. R. Washington,
|C. R. Hauleiler, D. C. K. Atlanta,
, Rrv.U.G. Norman,D. P. K. Washington
; A. H. Sneed, D R. 8- „
’ E. 11 (I'N’eai, P. F. 8.
, L. F. Carrington, P. T. ~
!C. W. Hancock, P. L
Ifccliabite’e Pledge.
I hereby declare, that I will abstain from all
I intoxicating liquors, and will uoi give, nor offer
them to others, except in religious ordinances.
|or when prescribed, in good faith.'of a medi
cal practitioner ; l will uot engage in the traf
fic of them, and in all suitable ways will tlis
: countenance tlie use, sine and manulacture ot
1 them , auii to tne utmost of my power, 1 will
! endeavor to spread the principle* ot abetmence
rein ail mrosicntitig .qcota
1 _ TMIIS IAMBI.
PENFIELD, NOV. 13, 1*5!2.
Herman, Camp, Esq. President of the N.
V. State ‘I emperanee Society, delivered an
i Address before the Society, at a recent meet
! ing, from which we take the following ex
tracts, applicable as well to Georgia as to
! New-York:—
i “It is our mission to keep before the peo
ple of this State, the astounding facts, which
are daily occurring, as the legitimate fruits
and consequences of our present system of
! liquor selling and liquor drinking. Our
j newspapers continue to furnish us with tlie
j most shocking accounts of suffering wives,
and neglected and starving children; of
! wives and children whipped to death by j
their drunkard husbands and fathers.
The loiig and black catalogue of human j
woes arid sufferings, tlie riots,fights, wouti- j
{ ding and killing of police officers, stabbing j
of friends and other horrid murders, which J
are tlie natural results of our present license !
laws and liquor traffic, will in time, we hope, j
convince the people generally of tiie m-eessi- j
ty of putting a stop to this destructive and j
suicidal business. I know of no recent j
| event better calculated to move tho public |
mind, and create a disgust and abhorrence !
ofthe foolish and wicked custom of wine |
drinking by members ot Congress, and oth- j
er men in high iite, and honorable stations,!
than the lamented history of the Hon. Ed- i
ward A. Hannegan, late a Senator of the j
Congress of the United States, and minister, J
who, in a drunken spree, cruelly stabbed
and murdered his best friend, his wife’s bro
ther, the brave Captain Duncan, of the
Mexican Army!!
Friends and brethren, may we not hope
(as I trust we shall, and fervently pray)
that our kind and beneficient Heavenly Fa
ther, who is able to bring good out of evil,
will so overrule this distressing and most
striking exhibition ofthe evil consequences
of fashionable wine drinking, that the advo
cates of moderate drinking and licenses to
sell this and other intoxicating drinks, will
perceive their error and retract it.
The law which we ask at the hands of our
Legislature, we desire as a protection for
ourselves, our children, and the whole com
munity against those insiduous temptations
to drink intoxicating liquors, which con
stantly assail us wherever we go, and that
too, by government agents. We feel confi
dent that our claim is just and reasonable,
since it is founded on the precepts and laws
of the Supreme Law-maker, and is conso
nant w ith tlie Supreme Laws and Constitu
tion of these United States. As this fact is
denied by some of our opponents, it may not
be altogether useless or inappropriate to
quote our authorities, although it has often
been done before in our publications.
For divine authority, the following ex
tracts from God’s statute Book, are deemed
appropriate and conclusive:
“It is not for Kings, O Lemuel, it is not
for Kings to drink wine, nor for l’rincts
strong drink ; lest they drink and forget tile
law, and pervert tlie judgment of any ofthe
afflicted.” —Proverbs 31.
“The priest and the prophet have erred
through strong drink ; they are swallowed
up ot wine; they are out ofthe way through
strong drink ; they err in vision, they stum
ble in judgment.” —lsaiah 28.
“Who hath woe l Who hath sorrow ?
Who hath wounds without cause ? Who
hath redness ot eyes ? They that tarry
long at tlie wine, they that go to seek mixed
“ine. “Look not thou upon tlie wine
when it is red, when it givetli its eolor in
the cup. * * At last it bitetli like a ser
pent and stingeth like an adder."— Prov. 23.
“A oe unto him that givetli his neighbor
drink, that puttest thy bottle to him and
makest him drunken also.”— Habakk.uk 2.
For human authority, we refer to the de
cision of the Supreme Court ofthe United
States in the famous liquor suits which
were carried up from Massachusetts and
New Hampshire, in which the Court was
unanimous, and which is as follows:
“Every State may regulate its own inter
na) traffic, according to its own judgment,
and upon its own views of the interest and
well-being nf its citizens.
“I am not aware,” said the Chief Justice,
“tiiat these principles have ever been ques
tioned. If any State deems the retail and
internal traffic in spirits injurious to its citi
zens, and calculated to produce idleness,
vice and debauchery, I see nothing in the
Constitution of the United States to pre
vent it fro til regulating and restraining the
traffic, or from prohibiting it altogether if it
thinks proper.” The Congress of the Uni
ted States, in the year 1814, passed a pro
tubitory liquor law much more stringent
.’ban the Maine Law, whicli authorized tlie
! seizure, and destruction of intoxicating liq
! ‘.tors found in the Indian territories, without
| even .. i f.’ct pt irorn a magistrate, or any ju
i dicial trial and proceedings whatever. The
laws ol the State of New York, authorize
. the search for, and seizure and destruction
j ot all gambling implements, and the forfeit
ure of all furniture in gambling rooms.
Thus the world may see and know, if
they will not shut their eyes and ears to
truth, that the law we ask for, if enacted,
would contain no new or unscriptural or nn
j constitutional principles; but on the contra
! ry is in perfect harmony with the Bible, the
Constiiuiion and the laws of the United
• States, and the several States.
j Our cause, then, is based on a foundation
• ’hat cannot be shaken by any arts or sophist
ry of its enemies. We may, therefore, thank
| God, and take fresh courage. Our enter
• prise being owned and blessed by Him who
J has enjoined tempo lance upon all men. it
must and will uliimately prevail.
“Gone a ducking,” is the term used
to a young fellow in Arkansas • bo goes
~ n ‘‘•t* up” to* yc>ung woman.
Frost.
Slight frosts were visible in this village
on the mornings of Monday and Tuesday
last. Vegetation shows very little of tlie
effects. A finer Fall has but seldom been I
’ experienced in this latitude.
Tclrben Wanted,
Persons qualified, are referred to the Ad
vertisement of the Trustees ot Bascom
Academy.
Also, to the notice of Rev. W. C. Wilks,
upon our outer torn).
G.W. F.’§ Address.
To be found under the appropriate head,
lis to the purpose, and should bo read and
j remembered by all the members ofthe Or
-1 der. The head ofthe Order for theensuing
j year, will be found to be a working man ;
land if his efforts are seconded in the right
’ spirit by all the other branches ofthe Order,
I our noble cause and institution will be re
i vived, and ail made to rejoice.
Guyton Effingham county.
Our Subscribers at this Post Office, com
plain of the iiregulnity in the reception of
the Banner, it is stated that tlie Banner is
sometimes missing for three or four weeks;
and frequently never reaches the Post Office.
We trust we shall be able to ascertain where
the Banner is detained. Our friends are
requested to aid us in this discovery.—
That it is the work of an “enemy” there
can lie no doubt, and information upon the
subject i:> specially requested.
Ass E siguiii f i* the Young:
Ladles.
I am composed of 19 letters.
My 13 5 13 18 19, is a county in Virginia.
„ 12 10 1 11, is a town in Ohio.
„ i 2 9 18, is a Cape an the borders of
New Foundland.
„ 15 6 3 14 7, is a town in Illinois.
„ 13 19 8 6, is a town in Missouri.
„ 14 17 6 5, is what all little children
love to do.
My whole is what every young lady should
not do.
Sharon, Ala,Oct. 28th, 1852.
Oh! woman,that this enigma solves,
Live by its precepts given ;
And oil! lead a happy, happy life,
And die and get to heaven.
JACK.
Letter to ISro. Jones.
Rev. Dabney P. Junes, Dear Sir:—San
| ders Division ol the Soi.s of Temperance,
Sheffield Ga., appointed me at tlieir last
meeting, to adcress you a letter, in which,
tney would most earnestly solicit you to
cuuie, ntas early a time as will suit your
convenience, not sooner than the loth inst.,
anil dedicate to Temperance,—the cause of
humanity and of woman—their new Hall,
and on the same occasion, to rally and bring
into lines our defaulting Sons. Many ut
whom, because they are at ease themselves,
seem to have lost the spirit and life, which
constitutes the soul of Temperance; and
whichever vigorous in the glowing warmth
of universal benevolence, can never, never
be suti-fied, until all are far removed from
the power and dominion ofthe enemy ; anu
her most gracious arms shall have encircled
tlie globe!
The Division, dear sir, have painful re
gret, that, because they are yet ss3ol) bell na
in paying for tlieir Hall, they cannot be able
to remunerate you beyond your bare expen
ses—and that much, a few ot the faithful
have agreed to pay out of tlieir private
purse. But, dear sir, they most cordially
welcome you to their hearts, and to their
homes; and to the best they have. And they
feel to hope, as they believe that no other
man can do them .so much good; and be
cause they flatter themselves, you have a
special interest in Sanders’ Division, that
you will hear tlieir “M; ceror.ia call,” and
come ovi r and I e p.
Yours in behalf of the Divi.-ion,
Most sincerely,
U. R. MILNER.
Sheffield, Ga., Nov. Ist, 1852.
Philadelphia, Tenii.,Oet. 30, 1852.
Mr. Editor: —Tiie members of Jones Di
vision, S. of TANARUS., expect to celebrate tlieir
first anniversaay, oil the 13th of November,
at which time the Division will compliment
Bio. Dabney P. Jones, of Georgia, with the
presentation of a silver cup in token of
their love and respect for Bro. Jones, fur his
distinguished labors in the cause of all man
kind. Bro. Jones will also be present to
speak for us on that occasion; there will al
so be a torch light procession on the night
of the 12th, ana a banner presented on the
13th, by the ladies of Philadelphia to our
Division. Our Georgia brethren are all
cordially invited to be with us on that ocea
sion.
i Our Division is located in Philadelphia i
Tennessee, immediately on the East Ten- j
nessee and Georgia Rail Road. The char-!
aeterof Bro. Jones as a temperance orator!
is too well known in Georgia to need com- !
tnenl from us.
WILLIAM \V. DICKERY.
R. S. of J onus Di vision, 8. of T.
Oct. the 30th, 1852.
Palmetto, Ga., Bth Nov., 1852.
Please publish a few appointments as
follows:
Pond Town,Thursday 9tb Dec.:—l must
be met at Oglethorpe.—A Division I forget
the name, Saturday, 11th Dec.—nearlVo.
14, Central Road jL-iee'.uro after I get off
the cars at No. 14, same di -Sunday 12th
Church.—Tuesday 14th,’ Dublin ;—mv
friend Walker ol Dublin, must have me
conveyed von Monday 13th to Dublin,—
I’liursday 16th, Sandersville.— Saturday
18th, Powellton;—my friends from Powell
ton must have a conveyance at Sanaersville
on Thursday night, to convey me to I‘ow
eiltou on Friday,—Sabbath 19th, Church.
1 o all these places 1 have been invited,
and Igo no where else. From Powellton!
! ’* spared, I propose to work my way to one
I ot the Rail Roads to go home, us these eom
: prise all tlie invitations on hand except Jef
j ferson, Jackson county, which place I cannot
vist until after Christmas.
Truly in L. P. &, JT.
DABNEY P. JONES.
i The greatest truths are the simplest
; —so are the greatest men and women.
A man sees clearly through a wo
: man’s coquetry, and yet fall a victim
to it: like the nightingale which sits
on a tree, and sees the net spresd he
, aniL yet hrtpj. •strsiight p
An Earnest Appeal to the Young.
We find an admirable article of this
class in the Georgia Banner. W e
should love, had we room, to transfer
the whole to our columns. The gems
of this sort that we find scattered
through our papers are tokens of great
good to our country. 01st those who
can tlius write, improve every opportu.
niiy afforded to gain access to the hearts
ofthe rising generation. — Journal A.
1\ Union.
Importance of Not-
The Boston Daily Chronicle, an unti-
Maine Law paper, lately had a para,
graph that “a// the sense, all the reason,
all the humanity are on the side of the
Maine Law.” This annunciation took
the whole city by surprise, and the
rummies were ferocious In die next
issue the editor insisted there was a
mistake—an omission, that tlie word
not had been left out; that sentence
should have closed, “are not on the side
of the Maine Law.”
The c,erection came too late, the
truth, and nothing but the truth, had
been told in the annunciation, and could
not be called back.— Lx. paper.
Baxter on Tippling.
The following objections and an.
swers are in Baxter’s Christian Direc
tory published in 1078. They are in
teresting as showing the sound and
correct wiews of that eminent writer,
and who was in this point much in
advance of tlie age in wi.ichhe lived.
Objection.— The Tippler saith, I
lake no more than doth me good. You
allow a man to eat as much as doth him
good, and why not to drink as innchl
No man is jitter to judge this than l, for
I am sure Ifeel it do me good.
Answer. — What good dost thou
mean? Doth it lit thee for holy
thoughts, or words, or deeds? Doth
it help thee to live well/ Or fit thee to
die well} Alt tiiou sure that it teudeth
to the health of ltie body} Thou canst
not say so w ithout the imputation of
tolly or self-coi ice Holiness, when ali
the good physicians in tlie world do
hold the contrary. No, it doth usglut
lotiy do’ii: it pleased) thee in the drink
ing butit fillein thy body with ciudi
ties and phlegm, and prepared) for ma
ny mortal sicknesses. Ii makelh die
body like grounds alter a flood, that are
covered with sinking slime, or like fen
ny lands lliut are urowited in water,
and bear no fruit, or like grounds that
Have too much lam, tiiat are dissolved
to dnt, a e unfit for use. It ma
ketli thee like a leaking ship, tiiat must
be pumped an emtkd, er it will sink.
Phy siciuns must pump thee, or disbur
den thee, or thou win be drowned; and
all will not serve it tiiou lio’d on to till
it up again; for inti mpcrancu maketh
most (diseases incurable. A liistoiian
speaketh ol t'vo physicians tuai duil-r
----ed in tlieir prognostics about a patient:
one Ibrsook lifi.-. as incurable, tlie oth
er undertook him ds certainly curable;
but when lie came to his remedies, he
pit*scribed Inn so stiict abstinence as
lie could not undergo; and so they a
greed to tlie issue, when one judgi and
him incurable because intemperate,
ami the other curable if lie would be
temperate. Thou that fee lest the drink
do thee good, dost little ilunk how the
devil hath a design in it, not only to
have thy soul, but to have it quickly.
Obj. But I wrong nobody in my
drink ; the hurl is my own.
Ans. —No thanks to thee if thou
wrong nobody. But read over the for
mer aggravations, and then justify thy
self in this if the u cans’. It seems thou
makest nothing of wronging God by
disobedii nee. But suppose it to he no
one’s hurt but thine own; dost thou hate
thyself ? Is thy own hurl nothing to
thee? What! dost make nothing of
damning thy own soul? Whom wilt
thou love, ifthou hate thyself? It is
the aggravation of this sin that it is
against your own bodies, much more
us against your own souls.
Uijj.— But 1 was but merry, I was
not drunken.
Ans —lt were well (or you if God
would stand to your names and difini
lions, and take none fur a sinner that
he taketli not himself for one. There
, are several degrees ot drunkenness
! short of the highest degree. And if
your reason was not disturbed, yet the
excessol drink only, and tippling and
: gulosity will prove a greater sin- than
i you suppose.
j Ihe Last Distillery. —A Boston pa
per states that the last distillery in
; Newbury port, Mass., is dead. When
j l h' s L true ot every distillery on this
• continent there will be, we think, no
mourning save tiiat ot rumsellers, but
! su °h a Jubilee as tiie world never saw.
| VVhat 11 sl,ollt “">“!<] go up through aIL
: tiie land, when tlie glad news, sent on
: the lightning wires, would be received
m eve.y hamlet, village, town and city*
i that the fires in the last distillery were
dying out;, that the stream of death had
ceased to flow, and nothing but ashes
and burned binders-told the fate ofthe
last distillery.
An old gentleman; travelling some
years ago inside the Bath mail, had
two ladies, sisters for companions.
I he younger, invalid, soon fell asleep,
j and the old gentleman expressed his
regret to see so charming a youny lady
!ui ill health. “Ah, yes’ indeed!’*
sighed the elder sister,'“ a disease of
the heart ” “Dear me,” was the sys
tematic response, “at her age! Ossi
firauon, perhaps* r. s ifi _f ‘< On,in „
■* lieutcudu; ”