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VOL. XVIII
THE TIKPERANCE BANKER
IS THR
Organ of the Sons of Temperance
AND OF THE
State Convention of Georgia: ;
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
BY BE1IA?III!V BIIAMTI-Y.
U* Thrms —One Dollar a year,in advance.
Letter* must be Post paid, to receive at
tention.
“suns of temperance.
Pledge of the Sons of Tempe
rance.*-!, without reserve, solemnly pledge
my honor as a man that I will neither make, buy,
sell noruse, as a beverage, any Spirituous or
Malt Liquors, Wine or Cider.
Officers of the Grsiud Division.
E. 11. Mtkrs, (. W. P. M aeon.
B. Brantly. G. W. A. Penfield. !
W. S. Williford, S. Scribe, Macon.
E.C. Granniss, G. Treas. Macon.
D. P. Jones, G. Chap. Palmetto.
Wm. Woods. G. Con. Madison.
TS M Bloodworth,G Sent. Liberty Hill
CAUETS OF TEMPEKANCE.
ei.
No member shall make, buy, sell or use j
as a beverage,any spirituous or malt liquors J
wine or cider.
Officer!) of the tfrand Section.
J. W. Benson, G. P. Macon.
B. Burton, G. A. P. Pondtown.
L. C. Simson, G. S. &. T. Atlanta.
Rev. J. S. Wilson, G. C. Decatur.
S. M. H. Byrd, G.G. Oxford.
\V. P Kino, G. W. Thotnaston. j
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1. O. of Kec ha bites.
Officers of Georgia Disl. Tent, No. 28, locs- |
led at Washington, Wi!kesCo.,Ga.:
John R. Smith, D P. 0. R. Washington,
C. R. Hanleiter, D. C. R Atlanta,
Rev.G.G. Nerman.D. D. R. Washington
A. H. Sneed, 1) K S. „
K. H O'Neal, I). F. S. ~
L. F. Carrington, D. T. •>
C. W. Hancock, D. L. >,
Becliabite’s Pledge.
I hereby declare, that l will abstain from all j
intoxicating liquors, and will not give, nor offer ;
them to others, except in religious ordinances, i
or when prescribed, in good faith, by a tnedi
cal practitioner; 1 will not engage ill the traf :
ficofthrm, and in all suitable ways will dis- j
countenance the use, sale and manufacture ol
them ; and to the utmost of my power, I will
endeavor to spread the principles ol abstinence
from all intoxicating liquors
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.
From the National Era.
A Vision of Worlds.
BY MART CLEMMER AMES.
Lost to the sense of earth’s dull sights,
On new-lent wings tny spirit flies,
And resting on heaven’s terraced heights,
II reads the mysteries of the skies.
Faint, glimmering beams of distant light,
Are, now, no longer all I see,
Os worlds, which measure in their flight,
The circles of infinity.
Fathomless depths sweep far below;
Measureless heights above I see;
While towering systems form the gates,
Which shut from sight the Deity!
Infinite lengths their folds embrace,
As o’er all human thought they rise;
Where surging deeps of flaming worlds,
Form the faint outline of the skies.
Here central suns shoot forth their rays,
And rolling orbs their cycles keep;
While forming spheres, like Eden isles,
In seas of ether softly sleep.
On, with unutterable pace,
Rush sweeping worlds of filmy light,
While o’er iatermiliable plains,
Lie long eternities of night.
Anthems are jng and echoes heard,
Waking the mysteries of sound;
The solemn hyirns of singing worlds,
Wake music in the vast profound,
O! if an angel’s soul were tuine,
With fiowers divine to grasp eaeh sight,
No measured lengths of rolling years
Should mark the boundaries of ray Sight,
But, lo! a trembling child of earth,
I view God’s might—his glory here;
Lest in infinity of sight,
My human heart is filled with fear.
In vain may thoughts essay to rise;
Imagination’s swiftest pace.
Grows faint and slow, when mortals strive
The majesty of God to trace.
But, 0! we know that He who made
And rules this vast immensity.
Will give unto a deathless *oJ,
A life of immortality.
Mysterious voices in its depths,
But faintly tell what it shall he;
In this undying light ®t stars,
I reach my own eternity.
Immortality-
It cannot be that on earth is man’s
abiding place. It cannot be that our
life is a bubble, cast up by the ocean of
eternity, te float a moment on its waves,
and sink into nothingness. Else why
is it that the high and a-pita
lions which leap like angels from the
temple of our hearts, are forever wan
dering abroad unsatisfied t Why is
it that the rainbow and the cloud cornel
J over us with a beauty that is not of
| earth, and 1 hen pass off and leave us to
muse upon their faded loveliness ?
Why is it that the stars which ’‘hold
their festivals around the midnight
throne,” and sol above the grasp of
limited faculties—forover mocking us
with their unapproachable glory? And
finally, why is it that bright forms of
human beauty are presented to our
view and then taken from us—leaving
tlie thousand streams to flow back ill
an Alpine torrent upon our hearts! VVe
I were born to a higher destiny than that
of earth. There is a realm where the
; rainbow never fades, where the stars
will be spread out before us like the
islands that slumber on the ocean, and
where the beautiful beings which here
pass before us like visions, will stay in
our presence forever.— Prentice.
Time and Eternity. —VVe step the
earth—we look abroad over it, and it
looks immense—so does the sea. What
! ages have men lived—and know but a
small portion!—They circumnavigate
it now with a speed tinder which its vast
I hulk shrinks. Bui let the astronomer
lift up his glass and he learns to be
| lieve in a mass of matter, compared
with which this great globe itself be
comes an imponderable grain of dust.
And so to teach us, walking the road
of life a year, a day, an hour shall
seem long. As we grow older, the
[ time shortens, hut when we lift up our
eyes to look beyond this our seventy
years and tlio few thousands of years
J which have rolled over the human race,
vanish into a point; for then we are
measuring Time and Eternity.
Sublime Pagan Divinity. —Cicero,
it) his Natura Deorum, has preserved
to us, from a lost work of Aristotle, a
fragment which justifies tiie fame of
tliul Jlumen orationie aureum which so
largely fertilized the literature of anti
quity. Tiie fine idea is as follows: *‘lf
there were beings who lived in the
depths of the earth, in dwelling places
adorned with paintings and statues, and
everything enjoyed by those most
wealthy and toriunalo in the world,
| and if these beings could receive tidings
j of the glory and power of the divinities,
| and, after that, come out from their
jdurk residences through the fissures of
j the globe to the suifuce on which we
! stand; if they could suddenly seethe
i earth and the sea, and the circle of
| Heaven—contemplate the great cloudy
expanse, hear the winds of the firma
ment, and admire the maj< sty and beau
tiful effulgence of the sun; could they
behold the starry host of Heaven, in the
night, the rolling and changing moon,
and the tising and setting of the celes
tial orbs in the order prescribed from
eternity—they would surely exclaim,
‘There are indeed gods, and such mag
nificent tilings must be the work of their
hands!’”
Old Winter. —‘-Old winter is com
ing” we are told. Os course he is—
and let him come, for a merry old fel
low is he. All! the poor, take care of
the poor—when he plays his bag-pipe
around the cornes of the dwelling, or
whistles his songs through the leafless
branches of the trees. After all, ifyou
have a merry company around you; if
eyes sparkle and cheeks glow, and
mother sews, and grand-mother knits,
while you hold the newspuper smuggled
down in that cosy arm-chair, and en
joying the same talk generally what a
happy being you are! How good the
i roast apples smell! All merry, happy
| —even the baby—the little laughing,
1 pratling of its mother, makes more fun
i than all.
1 The Boston Olive Branch, advises
its readers, und so do we ours, to hang
up your golden squashes by their crook -1
ed necks, at the same time hang up
discontent with his crooked neck. If
he should strangle, so much clear gain;
for have you not heard, ‘-belter is a
dinner with herbs where love reigns,
than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.”
List your doors and shut out the wind;
at the same time shut envy out of your
hearts. Mend your gate*, and mend
—your manners, we were going to say
—there is room for improvement in
every thing. Lay in your sugar and
molasses, and as much sweet temper
(warrented notto ferment) as will keep
till spring, Preserve your peaches
and your equanimity. Keep your
mould from your cheese, pork barrel
and your memory ! the two former by
being careful, the latter by being vir
tuous. Look over your apples and po
tatoes occasionally and overlook your
neighbor’s faults. Give your attention
to vour business—give of your abun
dance to the poor. By following these
rules we will insure you a happy
j winter.
Transtorted for Life.—The man
who marries happtlj.
PENFIELD, GA. DECEMBER 4, 1852.
Fnr the Temperance Banner.
To Mr. Patrick Gorris, Esq., oj Jtff
\ferson. —Dear Mr. Gorris: —Yours
was read with intense interest. Al
- towards the first, your beauti
ful words caused a mighty Buttering in
my left side, yot 1 became measurably
u/t-nervous alter a while. A word fit
ly spoken is like apples of gold in pic
tures of silver. Your words were fitly
spoken. You state, that like the fore,
you have hitherto been unable to reach
t '■if'grapes and have consoled yourself,
that they were not really what they seem
ed to be. If you will allow a weak
headed girl to judge, you guessed ex
actly right in that ; for frequently it
happens that the most daxzling dress
and tho gaudiest flowers are used to
deck nobody ; and that frequently a
master is uisguised in a very ruslio
dress. He who pays his addresses to
one who is apparently “just emerged
from the chest,” and whose every word
is blended with honey, if he catches her
lie catches a tartar ; and she will be a
lormenter and not a soother. Such girls
are like the tiger, outwardly they ap
pear beautiful, hut within they are cru
el, malicious, devilish. The less one
has to do with them the better it is for
him. You fear you will not get a
wife if you get married. That is the
true principle dear friend ; goon. Tho
greatest objection 1 find in gentlemen is,
(with the exception of intemperance)
that they are too easily pleasee. They
never make the necessary inquiries.—
When 1 see a man that is hard topleuse
in a partner, I take it for granted that
his aim is to make his wife happy, and
of course he wants a wife of the same
sort of material—ho will do and no mis
take. Girls when you ure wooed by a
man who will kneel and cringe and say
you are a perfect model, and let you
say what you will, agrees that it is all
right, dread him ! oh dread him !
It is almost invariably so, that there
will he hard words more or less be
tween every couple, and it is my im
pression that all the scolding should he
done while single. It is much to he
regretted that people do not quarrel
white in the ranks of the single, and
then after marriage do their courting ;
if indeed they needs must quarrel.—
Again, Mr. Gorris, you are aware that
many a lovely happy girl has been won
from her father’s bright fireside to drag
out a miserable life with an unprinci
pled villanous man (not a husband) who
itad craftiness enough to hide his faults
from the unsuspecting girl, utid when
she uwakf din the morning of matri
mony, it was as the universalists awak
ing in the lower regions, not as she ex
pected. Do not think dear Mr. Gorris,
that I mean you. You write too frank
ly, too freely, (or me to entertain for a
moment, any sucii opinion of you ; hut
you know that many times, the reason
a lady “appears like an old fiddle and
requires a good deal of screwing up,”
the man is not u judge of the instru
ment, consequently he tunes too high
and ruins the moral, mental and corpo
real tone ol his fiddle. -“My desire
has not been gratified, nor my notion
changed,” and if you choose, l will
grant you the privilege of becoming
personally acquainted with me. As to
the proof of your being a sober man, I
will not call in question at all ; all l
have to say about that, is, that I wish ev
ery man from the East of Maine to the
West of California was down with the,
same complaint.
Kind sir, I hope you will not think
me hold for writing that “1 wunted a
husband,” for this is Leap Year you
know, and the girls have great prioi
leges during Bissextile, which is my ex
cuse fbr'first writing. Write again
soon if you choose.
Yours, &c.
MARTHA ANN.
Craftsville, Ga.
For the Temperance Banner.
The Drunkard’s End.
See that crowd rushing into a house
j from which the screams of a woman
j and her children are heard. The hus
j band in a fit has fallen into the fire,
i and lies half consumed on his own
hearth. See that melancholy light
which streams from the shattered win
dows of yonder old dilapidated shed.—
It is midnight. The drunkard is dy
trig, surrounded by his wretched fami
ly. He has not been sober before for
years. His constitution can bear the
burning stream no longer. He must
die. He knows it. He feels it. lie
knows he has blasted the hopes of that
ematiated woman who kneels weeping
by his bed. He knows he has reduced
his little children to rags. He knows
he has sinned against an omnipotent
God. He dares not think of heaven?
Time, probation, infinite mercy have
all been despised. Eternity, dark, fie
ry, interminable eternity, rolls its hor
rorsover his soul. But let us not hear
his execrations of despair. Let us not
| look upon the agooies of his.
In concluding this awful picture let
ussiy to you who love the bottle, con-
jsider what muy beyimr end. And ye
who hold tho bottle to your neighbor’s
mouth —hearken to the truth Ye are
accountable to Almighty G!od for all
such ruin as this !
BETA.
For the Touiperaiioa Banner.
Palmetto, Gu., Nov. 19, 1852.
Dear Banner, —On Wednesday, the
10th inst., I leave home lor Tennessee,
and stay all night at Butler’s cold wu
ter house, (Oily Hall,) in Atlanta.—
On Thursday 11th, 1 get on board the
State car and find that polite and popu
lar 00-nfuctor, Reynolds on board. 1
get off at Adairsville, having an ap
pointment at night. Here they have a
small Division, but just set it down “it
is good what’s ol it.” The scene at
night where 1 lecture 1 was not credita
ble for those engaged in it. That ex
eel lent man, and agent at the Depot,
McAlister, aided by other friends, fitted
up the Depot for the meeting. We had
a good turn out, several ladies. There
were hard by the Depot six [freight eii.
gines who usually meet here at night.
Soon as I began to lecture, the whistles
began to blow and yells heard, respon
sive to the blowing. We were much
annoyed too by their coining to the
door some bantering me to go uud
drink. One, as I was told, tried to get
a negro to reply to me when done
He, as 1 learned, got knocked down by
a gentleman, though no Son of Tem
perance, a friend to good order. I
know r.ot how many or how few of the
oar hands were engaged in the afluir,
one thing I know, if Mr. Wadley knew
who they were, he would not pass the
affair unnoticed. We hud assembled
peaceably on a lawful occasion, and
were annoyed in a waj known to those
present us well us myself.
On Friday, got on oars, dine ut Cal
houn at tits Calhoun house. I cuu say,
try it who may, they will pronounce it
a good house, though there is another
good house here, the Gordon house. —
The whole place was in u stir of hu
man beings to see two negroes hanged.
1 saw several under the influence of li
quor. When will public execution,
cease! I get to Dalton at the usual
hour—l found on board yet Mr. Chan
dler as conductor. No road cun boast
of more polite conductors than those on
the Slate Road, a Reynolds, King and
Chandler. 1 make not these remarks
to discriminate tor 1 believo all the
roads in Georgia are blessed with reul
gentlemen us conductors, uud if they
are not Sons of Temperance all of them,
they are practically temperate. I think
too. sober, competent and careful engi
neers mostly hold the reins of the old
fire horses. Hence surely none of tho
engineers were accessary to the scenes
of the lltli inst., at Adairsville. At
Dalton 1 take the East Tennessee curs
and find friend McClelland still conduc
tor, as pleasing, as polilo uud gentle
manly us ever.
I land in Philadelphia, Tenn., about
dark and find the brethren of Jones
Division preparing for a torch light pro
cession. It came off ut night, preceded
by a hand of music, was quite imposing.
1 hud the pleasure of getting up this Di
vision about twelve months ago with
23 charter members, they now number
seventy, many are the cold water tro
phies mi it, causing joy to beam in many
eyes of women and children. On the
13th, the procession of Sous and ladies
moved to the Presbyterian church,
where the ceremonies of the presenta
tion of a silver cup to your humble ser
vant took place. W. C. Nelson made
a pretty speech, 1 responded and re
ceived the cup at Ida hands and felt
prime. The cup is now before me—
|my children and grand children must
| keep it in the family u a family code of
i arms, commemorative of my battles with
Prince Alchy.
1 preached on Sabbath, 14th in Phil
adelphia, a good meeting—again on
I Monday night—still interesting/
| Preach again on Tuesday night, on
I Wednesday before day get on cars and
1 hail for Georgia, dine at that good
j house (try who will,) Dr. Johnson’s at
Kingston.
If 1 had lime, I could say much in re
gard to the sweet valley of E. Tennes
see where 1 was, its people, agriculture,
dec. Truly in L. P. & F.
D. P. JONES.
Dangers of Brandy Drinking.
in the last number of the Irish Quar
terly Review, the weakness of poor Ma
ginii is thus alluded tot
“He now turned for oornfbrt ar.d in
spiration to the foul fiend, Brandy,
which has been the cause of misery and
death to so many men of gen. We
regret (lie errors of Addison and Steele,
we sjgh at the recollection of poor
Moreland, the painter, working at his
last picture, with the bru h in one hand,
and a glass of brandy in the other, for
he had then arrived at the terrible con
j dition in which reason could only visit
I him through intoxication; and Maginn,
although not so fallen as this sunk deep-;
i ly. The weary hours of lonely watch-1
i. ing brought no resource, Inti that which
11 copious drafts of the liquor could sup.
i ply. Health was fading away, the
brightest years of life were passed for
i ever, and as the dim future lowered, lie
i gazed upon it under tho influence of
| that demon which enthralled tho brill
: iant souls of Addison, ol Sheridan, of
Charles Lamb, und which sent the once
stalwart form of Theodore Hook, a
| miserable, wretched skeleton, to the
; grave.
Maginn, we know, felt his position,
lie was neglected by his own party —
he wus forgotten by many of his lor liter
friends, and as wo looked upon him in
his pitiable condition, and compared
what we then saw in him with what he
might have, and ns we hoped would
have been, we often reoulled the fear
ful passage of Charles Lamb: ‘When
you find a ticklish relish upon yuur
tongue, disposing yon to a witty sort ol
conversation, especially if you find u
preternatural flow of ideas setting in
upon you ut the sight of a bottle und
fresh glasses, avoid giving way to it as
you would fly your greatest destruo
lion. If you cannot crush tiie power of
fancy, or that within you which you
mistake for such, divert it, give it some
other play. Write un essay, pen a
character of description—hut not as 1
do now, with tears trickling down in)
cheeks. To be an object of compas
sion to friends, of derision to foes; to he
suspected by strangers, stared ut uy
fools: to he esteemed dull when you
cannot be witty, to he applauded for
witty when you know that you have
been dull; to he culled upon for the ex
temporuneous exercise of that faoulty
which no premeditution can give; to he
set on :o provoke mirth which procures
tho procurer hatred; to give pleasure,
and be paid with squinting malices to
swallow drufts of life destroying wine,
which are to ho distilled into airy breath
to tickle vain auditors; to mortgage
miserable morrows for nights of mad
ness; to waste whole seas of time upon
those who pay it hack in little ihconsid
erable drops of grudging applause—are
tfie wages of bulfoonry ami death.’”
From the Philadelphia Sun.
What I Don’t Like to See.
1. A man, who has been a confirm
ed drunkurd tor years, become reform
ed and sign the pledge, thereby making
the hearts of his wife and children glad.
2. A mail of Wealth making large re
ligious and charitable donulions.
3. A minister of thu gospel who
practices all he preaches.
4. A traveller in the cars buy a
newspaper of a hoy in haste, for fear
the might start and jeopardise ttie poor
hoy’s life in getting off.
6. A young lad resists the tempta
tions by which he is assailed, in the
form of amusements, novel reudiiig,dzo.
and apply himself diligently to that
wined will give hint virtuous instruc
tion.
6. A chuoh pay u paster the salary
he deserves.
7. Senators und Representatives of
the United States think only of the good
of the conntry, und leading sober ami
respectuble lives.
W. The police of a city honest and
faithful in the discharge of their duly.
9. A merchant refuse to cheat his
customers.
10. A husband and wife lead un up
right and loving life, and bring up their
children in the paths oftruth.
11. und lustly. Ido not like to see
my own servants—ruinsellers and
drinkers, gamblers and deceivers—re
pent their actions, refonn, and become
sober, steady and upright men.
Satan.
Scorch Corner, Demon town.
CtfiNksE HotfSE Builders.— A num
ber of Chinese mechanics uml laborers
are now engaged on I’arroti’s splendid
granite building on tho corner of Cali
fornia and Montgomery streets. They
appear to he a very steady, sober, and
industrious set —apparently very slow,
but sure. They calculate with great
exactness and nicety, and turn out their
work handsomely. They ure at pres
enl building a queer kind of scaffold for
the masons. It is made out of small
poles ami bamboos, which are fastened
together with smull withes. It is strong
and substarrtil, and less liable to give
way than those gennrally erected by
our mechanics. The building on which
they are engaged will, when complet
ed, he the most magnificent structure
in California. This structure is inten
ded for Page Bacon & Co.’s Banking
House.
It is curious to see the Chinese work.
Instead of hoisting by tackle the large
blocks of granite, as with us in Eastern
cities, they simply fasten ropes around
the block, arid having secured them to
bamboo poles, eight big strapping Chi
namen take the block upon their
shoulders, and march up the staging
to the second story, and pluce it on the
spot desired. Many of these blocks
weigh 300 to 500 pounds each. There
l is u perfect building mania existing
here at present. First class fire-proot”
buildings continue to go up like magic,
all over tho city. Brinks are now
cheaper than lumber, and the high
rents ruling in luce multitudes to invest
their surplus money ■ in stores, as the
surest investment to he made.— San
Francisco Carr, if the N • Y. Jour, of
j Com.
The Supply ok Cotton.—The ex*
perience ol tlio pust tew years, satisfies
us of the niter fulluev of making caiou
iaiiotts upon u growing crap of cotlou,
and thu probuble aggregrlu re< ejplv.—*
Wo have read circulars emanating from
most respectable sources, the authors of
j which ure veterans in tiie “oottou line”
j observing, intelligent, uud of general
accuracy in the management of their
affairs, and yet the oulculution und es-
I liinules made up in some of these circu
lars have been most ludicrously ut va
riance With the result. Upuit this sub
ject tho most observing and accurate
ure inclined to be at tuull. it is only
about u year ago, that a papei was han
ded round among our cotton merchants,
and each put down his own estimate of
the ensuing crop; but how did it luru
out ? The one that came the nearest
to tlio result wus some 490,000 baloa
short in his estimate. We consider it
then as time unprofitubly employed, to
he indulging in speculations as to tlrsf
extent of the crop, and figuring it out,
as many do, to a fraction, apparently to
there own satisfaction, and with a view
of producing conviction in others.—
The deulers in cotton are distinctive
and antagonistic and
sellers ; being influenced by their in
terest their judgment follows the lead
or bent of their desire*—and long crop
men und sltort crop men ure such be
cuuse their wishes und interests incline
them to bo so.
But it is not only in the extent of the
crop that we have annual witnesses of
this fallibility of judgment; the same
uncertitude prevails in estimating the
consumption. The magnitude ol last
year’s crop orealed no greuter surpris
than i he enormous consumption, which
lias exceeded all expectation.—lY. (K
Couimsicial Bulletin.
Washing Mauk Easy. —The “era
zy folks” in the Asylum ut Hartford,
Ct., mix a gill of alcohol with a gallo,.
of soft soap, just as they ure going la
rub it in the clothes, which they then
souk two or three hours, and then mere
ly rinse out In clear water-, and all the
dirt is out as effectually as good sense
is out of a lellow after drinking the
same quantity of the “poisonous stuff.”
Just tell the women that this is the
eusiost wuy to make wushing easy,
and urge them to try it, and you will
thereafter have no reason to run away
on wushing day. In wushing stairs
and passages, always use a sponge in
stead of cloth when wushing the space
between the curpet and wall, and you
will not soil the odges. Sponge is
cheap, and this information ischsan, but
is vuluahle to all housekeepers.
Walnuts a Family Mbdioirb.— Thar
New England Cultivator present* the
following receipt for making a useful
medicine from walnuts. Gel the green
walnuts fit for pickling, put them in it
stone jar filled up with sugar, in the
proportion of half u pound to a score of
walnuts; place the jar in u saucepan of
boiling water for about threw hours,
taking cure that the water does r.ot get
in, und keep it simmering during the
operation. The sugar, when dissolved,
should cover the walnuts, arid if it does
not, add more, cover it close, and in six
months, it will he fit for me; the older
the better it is. One walnut is a dose
for a child six years of age; as a purga
tive, and it has this grout advantage
over drugs, thu, while it is art excellent
medicine, it is at the same time very
pleasant to the pul ate, und will bo es
teemed by the young folks as a:reut-
Effects of Wearing Tight Boots.
—Thomas Lippencott, a young man
now lying at the Commercial Hospital,
Cincinnati, has injured one of his feet
to such un extent, by the practico of
wearing tight boots, that it is necesvary
to have it umptrtated.
Enlarging the Area. —ft is aaid that
the tract of lund lately ceded to the
United Stales by the Sioux Indians, i
about 800 miles long by 140 broad,
malting 1 i 2,000 square miles, or a piece
of ground nearly three times the size
of New-York and almost equal to the
area of England, Ireland and Scotland
put together. It is ten times as large
as Holland, nine times tiie eize of Bel
gium, half as large as France, thnw
limes the size of Portugal, five thous
and square miles larger than Prussia,
and over five times the size ofSwitzer
land.
“Why do you use too much tobacco?”
said ait Englishman to an American
the other evening. “Because 1 chews/’
was the reply.
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