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VOL. XIX
TILS T&FLPERANC3 BAMJfTSR
IS THE
Organ of tlic Sons of Temperance,
AND OF THE
State Convention of Georgia:
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
By Benjamin Brautly.
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fr Bvt>ry man is in danger of becoming a drunkard who is in
the Ufthi; ol’drinking ar-ent spirits, */
I. When he is svana. < n. When lie is at work. \-
f. 2. When lie is wol'i. / 12. W hen tie is idle. <A)
3. When he is wet. / .‘1 lie fore uv.vls. /
4. Whou he is dry. S 14. Alter meals.
5. Whou ho is dull. \ in. Whan he gets up. /
sj 6. When he is live y. ( It. When lie goes to bed. V
7. When he travel*. / 17. On h dlitlays. *5.-
S. When he is at home. \ I.S. On Pu 1 lit-occasions. O
9. When lie is in owiupany ( IP. Oh any day: or
S livery friend to Temperance^
|s#hoiild take the Temperance Js:mner:\
“If Temperance men will not support V
Temperance Press, who will 1”
S < K *. X ‘ASP. v *:
)H8 P TEMPERANCE.
Pledge ol (he Sosis of Tempe
rH.ilCO.--L without reserve, solemnly pledge
nay honor as a man that 1 will neithermake,buy,
•sell nor use, as a beverage, any -Spirituous or
Malt Liquors, Wine or Cider.
Officers of tlicblrund division.
;E. H. Myers, (i. VV. P. Macon.
iB. Braxtly. G. W. A. Penlfeld.
W. S. Williford, S. Scribe, Macon.
JE. C. Granniss, (i. Treas. Macon.
D. P. Jones, G. Chap. Palmetto.
Wm. Woods. ti. Con. Madison.
TSM Bi.ooDWor.TH,(i Sent. Liberty Hill.
For the Temperance Banner.
Mr. Editor, —Dear Sir :—Perceiv
ing your paper lo be the organ ol com
rmunioTtion for all who arc ardently at
j,ached to the cause of temperance,
whether male or leinale, I have taken
the liberty to address a fetv lincsthrougli
y'our columns, to your numerous read
era.
An ardent and devoted lover of tem
perance myself, 1 have witness id with
pride and hope the triumphant march
ofthat noblest of bodies, the Sons, for
• long time. With pride, since that
noble band is composed of the patriots
of my own deaa country, the youthful
patriots too, in a great measure, and
with hope, because I see the ranks of
the enemy continually becoming thin
ner from their deadly onslaughts. —
Who should rejoice over the victories of
temperance more than woman—woman
the greatest sufferer from intemperance.
And though wo cannot have the privi
lege ofjoining the ranks of the Sons,
and struggling with them against the
common toe, we may do what woman
has always done, encourage the valiant
toduty, soothe and nurse the wounded,
and reward the victorious. And there
is still anottier way in which we may
do much —by Holding no parley with
the enemy —hut letting them know,
invariably, on w hicli siite of the great
irorul question our sympathies and our
influence are exerted. Let the ladies
only lake such a stand, and he faithful
themselves, and they are pretty likely
to have the happiness to find themselves
united to the Sons, by a life-member
ship 1 cannot sympathize with those
who for fear of wounding the feelings
of those with whom they hold inter
course, refrain from expressing their
admiration of the insdur.ion, and thus
lose the opportunity of persuading their
frauds to enlist on the side of reform.
None know better than the ladies, how
to “speak the truth in love. and will
they weakly fear to exercise uieif jre
eious gift .’ ’ Friends of the S ms, have
vou no remembrance of having been
dissuaded from some premeditated
wrong by the soft tones and pleading
looks of a mother ? Did a sister’s ea- :
ress, and her half-whispered “dear bro- j
■.her,” never restrain you ? Or has
not the timid appealing glance of one
dearer than either, driven evil inten
tions from your heart?
You who have felt all this, and nil
have who read, can well testify how
important it is that the ladies be on the
right side. By the free expression of
our opinions, we may lose the friend
ship of some—but who are they ?
Men to whom we would he afraid to
commit our earthly happiness, —men
whom we may yet see laying aside the
glorious prerogative of humanity, and I
grovelling with beasts. And whose
friendship shall we gain ? The friend
ship of that noble hand, lo whose name
the proudest appellatives add no lustre,
the Sons of Temperance. They, the
free, the noble.hearted, who can un
blushingiy, raise their heads beneath
itie arch of heaven, will he our friends. I
Need wo any others ! We have one j
other—the consciousness of having!
done, right.
For myself I am resolved, come what
will, to stand by the cause, and if for
this reason friends fall away and leave
me, lean but float dowm the stream o! ;
lime alone , happier thus than attended j
by any other than a noble and valiant j
Son. iMy labor shall he, for them, even
if l !o--e my reward. Shall it be thus ?
EVELINA.
Lawrens county, Jan. 25th, 1858.
The friends of temperance aadoth
er People are preparing for it.
Bro. Branlhj :—You are apprized
that at a public meeting held at Macon,
29th October, 1552, a plan was proposed
and adopted, by which to bring about a
change of the liquor laws.
This, in substance, recommends that
; petitions he prefered to the next legis
lature, asking for a repeal of the liquor
license law, and a provision for holding
elections in each county, for the pur
pose of ascertaining, whether the people
are for the continuance of the liquor
traliic among them, or are for ifs sup
pression. Where a majority may he
found in favor of its continuance, the
policy is to let them have it—with all its
blessed influences to industry, economy,
peace, good manners social morals,
brotherly love, prosperity, intelligence,
schools, (and best of all,) liquor relig
ion and liquor liberty, —together with
| their w ise editorial defenders and chain
| pious, who compare the temperance re
! form to the things enquired about in
I the fourteen questions asked in “the
Dalton Times”of the Dili ofDec., 1852.
| One of these questions, with its blazing
j brilliancy is, “Do unbupiized infants
•go to heaven? Another with equally
i sparkling wit, and splendor is, “Is light
I lacing and multitudinous petticoats!
! fashionable suicide ?” ami tlie other
i twelve evince deep tiiouglil, and equal
! ly towel ing conceptions !
It is the policy to let the liquor ma
jorities have all the blessings wu have
I mentioned, with their scratched faces,
j bloody noses, red noses, blaok eyes, red
eyes, i roped ea s hit fingeis, gouged
j eyes, weeping mothers, Lean broken
w ives, starving children, stabbed friends
and murdered companions. It is, we I
have said, the policy to let them have
all these desirable means of happiness 1
ami respectability, without measure,!
j limit, stint, restraint, or the embarrass
I ments of licenses or liquor monopolies
But where a majority shall vote to he
; freed from the rule of the liquorites,
the polluting stench of the liquor shops
and the moral pestilence of ihe liquor
traliic, with its ensnaring temptation*,
j ihere it shall he suppressed.
This plan pluses the control of the
trade in the power of majorities, and is,
therefore, sufficiently democratic. It
j is in substance, the plan we have been
i recommending, through die “Banner,” j
for more than twelve months; except
that we prefered that each civil district:
j should decide for itself, whether the!
traffic should be continued or suppresed
within its limits. IJut as both forms of j
; the plan submit the question to the de
cision of majorities, we are content with
ei her.
Civil government is designed to pro
tect its citizens or subjects, from such
practices and business, of selfish and
had men, as is know n to be injurious to
the morals or the peace and happiness
of society. Such a protection secures
civil liberty, hut wiinout it, there is no
slid) thing. Then Ictus have the pro*
posed elections to decide upon this rum
ous trade.
It is, as we understand, to i fi - ct un
ion and concert, that the meeting at At
lanta, the 22d of February next, L pro
posed. ‘Then let ttie people friendly
to the measure have themselves repre
sented in it, for some definite plan of
action, will likely be there agreed on.
The spirit of ttie temperance cause
is abroad in the laud. There is a mov
ing forward in every part of the Uni
verse. The order of “The Knights ut
Jericho,’ have p anted tin ir stendudJ!
in Atlanta, and eve y win.-re, tee snag.
PENFIELD, GA. FEBRUARY 12, 1853.
“The teetotallers are a coining ’ is
sung; and they sing—“We are u band
!of freeman, and we’ll shout it through!
the land.” The churches 100 are coin
ing to the rescue. Hear the preamble ,
and resolutions of the Presbyterian ;
synod of Middle Tennessee :
“Whereas, it is believed by this sy-
nod, that the time has come when the
Church of Christ should take higher
ground on the subject of temperance; ■
and believing that the Mair.e liquor j
law should be adopted in every State,
as the best antidote against the ruinous j
and destructive effects of drunkenness, j
therefore,
Resolved, That it is recommended to I
the Ministers and congregations within j
our limits, to adopt such measures us
seem proper, lo secure the passage ol
such a law by the*legislature of Ten-j
nessee.
Resolvedfurther, That the Mt. Minn
vide Enterprize and the Newspapers’
of Nashville, be requested to publish
this preamble and resolutions.”
This is a praise.worthy move of the
Presbyterians of Middle Tennessee. —
Will not those of Georgia, with their |
Methodist and Baptist brethren, also
come to the help of the temperance
cause ? We hope they will. They
! all owe it to their denomination, their
country and themselves, to make their
i churches temperance societies in tael,
| as well as in theory and profession.
But this Can never bo, while they
j fellowship their members in the prac
tice of drinking drams; for these pro
duce all the drunkards and drunkenness
in the world. The drains, whether in
relation lo others, he the first, seventh
or twelfth, are all of the sumo material,
j they all tend to the same effect on the
j constitution of the drinker. The first
■ connueiic s an excitement which is not
| caused by food or water, it is the
rousing effect of the intoxicating spirit —
it is the effect of alcohol, —it is the com
mencement of drunkenness. No after
draw, while the effect of the first con
tinues produces any new eflLci of its
own. li only increases that which was
produced by the first. Like every
thing else, drunkenness has its degrees,
its beginning, increase and ending.
’File sin of drunkenness is in drink
ing the drums which produce it, and
not in tneir effect. The drinking is
tlie willed act of the drinker, hut their
effect, drunkenness, is neither willed
i nor desired by him. This effect of
j drunkenness is produced by the organ
ic laws ol our nature, being deranged
j in their action, by the exciting and in
j digestible liquor unwisely obtruded no
! on their natural and regular exercise.-
j 1 liese laws were prescribed bv our
j Maker himself, and do their work inde
pendently of our will. He who drinks
I the drams, can no mors help their ef
| feet oi drunkenness, than lie can help
! shaking with the ague, when his blond
! and his bones arc saturated with the
| poisonous miasma that forces his shiv
j ering. He cannot help it; —therefore
! the sin of intoxication is, as before sta
ted, in the drinking of the intoxicating
drams. Drunkenness is an ell’jcl, and
drains is its cause.
Os all the drains that are drunk,
when considered in their connection
j with others, the first is the most sinful
jof any, because it is drunk when the
! drinker is in possession of his reason,
and because also, it commences the es
. Ret ofintoxication, which no after drain
can, while tue eflect of the Jirst contiu
sus.
All drams drank as beverages, tend
exclusively to evil, and never to good.
They all tend to the injury of health :
and bodily strength, to the blunting of!
the moral tieelings, tiio derangement of!
the mental faculties, and to a dethrone-1
meut of their power to reason. Their
effect is the same, whether they bn
drunk by a Christian, an infidel ora
savage. This is as it should he, lor |
it dangerous pleasures he indulged in
by Christians, infidels and savages, the!
consequences ought to be, and by the
lavs of High heaven, are the same to
all.
The notion that we may drink drams
temperately, is palpably founded in
mistake. There is no such tiling.
Temperance is moderation in all things
that are right, and abstinence from all
that are wrong. ‘The negative branch j
of this definition is as essential totem-’
peranee, as its affirmative ; both blanch
es ure designed to keep more within
proper limits, in all their actions and
Iju-iness. There cannot he temper
uuce in any thing that is vvromr. VVe ‘
cannot lie or cheat temperately. X,’
can we gamble, swear profanely, or
break the .Sabbath, teinperamly. Be-’
cause all these, and similar actions, j
art all wiougund sinful, as well in
their small, as in their largo quantities.
I hey are sinful, because they tend to
the oorrup.ion of morals, and the pro- 1
duolion of misery among mankind.
Temperance being a Christian virtue,!
it canu >t associate with any thiim,
wiiich is apt to operate to had results.
Drams, both few an J many, operate
ti evd ami all the means .m tinman mis-!
er : ,, and never to good. They in ike |
no poor man rich, hut they make rich
men poor, and the poor still poorer.—
They make no foolish man wise, hut
they make wise men fools, nnd they
that were fools before they make more
foolish still. They make no bail hus
band, father, master, neighbor or citi
zen to be good, but they make many,
who where sober and good men in all
those social relations, to bo the worst ol
madcucd tyrants, in all their connec
tions vv ith society, often inflicting wrong
and misery on all exposed to their povv.
er, and not unfrequeiitly, inflicting
cruelty and even death upon helpless
members of their family, dependant up
on t* m for support and protection.
Drams, neither few nor many, never!
promote the success of any lawful un
dertaking, though they cause uiuny ru
inous failures, and promote ninny evil
works. They never encourage the ;
[iractice of any virtue, moral or relig
ious feeling, but on the contrary, they
blunt all the moral, social and religious
sensibilities, and cause scuffling at re
ligion, sneering at its virtues, and the
trampling of the laws of both God and
man under their feet, tilling the world
with violence, crime, mis.ry, ruin
and death ! Temperance can have no
connection with any practice having
such tendencies.
Tlie liquor truffle furnishes all tlie
means of this destroying evil, with uil
its corrupting and deadly consequences.
It produces the dram-shops and those
infinitely worse establishments, where
liquor is sold by tne quart or larger
quantities. By k tlie business of these
latter places, or liquor stores, maily
more men are initiated into tlie destroy
ing uso of liquor, than by the business
of any other department of the liquor
trade; because the sellers are general
ly men of better exteriors, and tliere
, tore exercise more power in their work
jof deception, than the more humble
drurnseller is able to practice. These
! m oi would sell a waggon load of liquor
to a drain-seller, and then when his
neighbor come in for his jug-full, he
would likely speak as contemptuously
iof the doggery business us though lie
Idid not promote it with all his influence.
Between the liquor stores ami drum
shops, men are tempted, enticed, de
ceived, deluded and swindled out of
their property, reputation and useful
ness; .old with them, their families, if
! they have them, are left destitute, de
graded and ruined. The liquor sellers
have got their property, and have given
deception, ruin und death, us the con
sideration for it. The wholesale dealer
has worked with a less obvious disro
gard of the welfare of others, and has
therefore worked the most deception,
and lias get tlie largest share of tlie
plunder.
Therefore, let ns liuve the elections
proposed, that wo may decido whether
this unholy scourge ol sin und misery,
shall be longer continued among us.
LEW IS RENEAU.
From the Maine Law Advocate.
LUCY’3 ARITHMETIC,
AND WHAT IT HAD TO DO WITH
THE MAINE LAW.
BV KATHRENE.
“Where is your Arithmetic, Lucy?”
said the teacher of a school in u pleas
ant village in Connecticut, to one of the
best scholars in her arithmetic class, a
(dass by the way, ol which she thought
she might justly be proud.
“1 did not bring it ‘.ids morning,”
said Lucy, with down cast eyes, and u
flushed face.
“You had better go home now, and
get it,” said the teacher.
Lucy seemed gieatly embarrassed
and distressed by this direction. Her
teacher perceived it, and though she
did not understand how it came to pass
that Lucy’s arithmetic was absent from
school that morning, yet, having great
confidence in her favorite pupil, she im
mediately added—
“ You need not go, if you do not wish 1
to; you can use Mary Gibsons’ this !
morning.”
80l Lucy made little use of Mary
Gibson’s arithmetic, or of any othea
school-book thut morning. I ler thoughts !
were faraway from common fractions,
or from square and cube roots. Her
mind was employed in solving other
problems of a very different nature. —
Bii uas not among the light-hearted
group who gathered during recess to,
let eff in shouts of merriment, the exu
beiauce of animal spirits which, in tlie
school-room, liaJ been restrained by
needful discipline.
There was one among the merry
group wh i missed her, and that one
was tier friend Mary Gibson. As soon
as Mary found that Lucy was not there
shr left her gay companions to seek for
her. Bhe found her in a retired spot,
to which she hud resorted to escape oh
servation, weeping bitterly.
“Lucy what is the milter? Da toll
me wfiut is tho matter ?” sai J Mary.
Lucv, though she threw her arms
around her friend’s neck, did not reply,
but continued weeping.
“Do toll mo wind makes you cry)
so,” said Mary. “Como cheer up.--
Ihe boll will ring soon, and 1 liuve
come to tel 1 \®u what 1 wish you would
and in recess this afternoon.”
“1 shall nt be at school this after- j
noon, Mary,” said Luoy, in tones so j
sad that they quite drove from Mary’s
face the smile which was play ing there,
in the hope of calling an answering \
smile to the sorrowful face of her friend.
“You shan’t l why not Lucy ?”
“Because our teacher will ask me
why 1 do not bring my arithmetic, and 1
cannot tell her.”
“But why do you not bring it ?”
asked Mary in a timid whisper; for she
felt from Lucy’s manner, that the ques
tion was a delicate one for even her to
ask, and she possessed a large share of
that refinement of feeling which shrinks
from saying anything to wound the
heart of a friend.
“Dear Mary, I cun hardly bring my
mind to tell evin you, and if I can’t tell
you kovv can I tell my toucher. I can’t
come to school this afternoon, Mary, 1
can’t,” said Lucy bursting into tears
afresh.
“ Tell me why you cannot, Lucy
dear. It will do you good to tell some
one, und I am your dear friend, you
know. Can’t you bring your hook
this afternoon ?”
“No, Mary.”
“Why not ? Now don’t cry to, hut
tell me why not.”
“Father has taken it from mo ant' 1
sold it.”
“Sold it! for what!exclaimed Mary,
hut her question was answered only by
a fresh hurst of tears. In the first mo
ment of surprise, the tones of Mary’s
voice had expressed more of astonish
ment than sympathy—and tlie wound
ed heart was quick to perceive it.
llovv susceptible is the heart of child
hood and early youth ? llow sad to
see it in t e spring time oflife, weighed
down with grief which seems more be
fitting to he borne by the heart which
bus been disciplined by a long experi
ence of life’s joys and sorrows. Can
those be guiltless, who for a considera
tion in dollars und cents will dash the
cuj) of joy front the glad lips of child
hood, and instead thereof hid litem
drink to the dregs the hitter cup of sor
row.
Mary instinctively perceived her
mistake, und in tones of deep sympathy,
s h e entreated Lucy to tell her all.
Lucy made several attempts, but
each time the words she would have
spoken seemed to choke her utterance,
at length she sobbed out—
| “lie sold it for ruin, Mary.”
Mary now understood it uil. She
felt that it \vu* but small consolation
which she could oiler. Months before
she had rejoiced with Lucy in her fa
ther’s return to sobriety and temper
ance. But now, alas, tlie hopes so
fondly cherished were all blighted and
withered. The gleam ol’ sunshine
which for a few short weeks hud glad
dened the hearthstone of Lucy’s home, |
had gone out again in darkness, uud (or
Lucy there remained only to make out I
as she could, the fearful estimate of all !
the disgrace, suffering, and misery I
which must fall to her portion as a
drunkard’s daughter.
Tlie school bell rung.
“Oh! Mary!” said Lucy, “what |
! shall 1 do? My eyes must be red,
j very red with weeping. Are they red?”
j Mary looked sorrowfully up into the
face of her fiietid, and she could not j
i deny thut her eyes were indeed very
! red.
i “Ican’tgoin Mary. The girls wiil I
want to know what is the matter; and
! the teacher, too. will ask me, und I
cannot go in. Let me go home, and
tell the teacher lam sick. It will not
he a falsehood, dear Mary, for I’m sure
1 do feel sick.”
Poor Lucy! What sickness is like
heart sickness? It has carried many a
victim to tlie grave. Lucy was just
the one to be carried there by it. A
heart more delicate arid refined in ah ,
ils feelings and emotions, never beat in
the bosom of the most cherished idol of
a happy home. How could such an
one breast the storm which howls
around a drunkard’s habitation ?
When Mary returned ut noon to her
own happy home, her face wore an ex
pression of such unwonted sadness, that
tier affectionate and watchful mother at
once perceived it, and exclaimed—
“ Why, Mary, what is the matter?” !
Mary at once confided to her mother
all thut hud taken pluee.
“Ido feel so sorry for Lucy,” said
Marv. “ J ’here, is not a more uiniuble
girl, or a better scholar in schorl. 1
thought her father had reformed. Lu
cy never talked with me about her fa
tiler’s habits. She seemed to shrink
from unking it a matter of conversa
tion even with me, her most intimate
friend. But when her father signed
the pledge, tier heart wms.no full ot joy,
that she could not hut tell me of it, and
how happy they uil wer.- at home, that
1 might ri j (ice wiih her. I did not
know that her fatliei had broken the
pb(Jg<—lid you mothor?”
<•*, my dear, \ have heard .-
“Lucy Inis not said a word to me
about it, though I have thought, for
time past, thut 6he often looked
sad. How sorry I am for her. Hov?
came her father to drink again ?*’
“f halve understood that he went intrf
a store where they sell liquor, and the
temptation was too strong for him to
resist. He called for a glass—and
since then he has been as bad or xroritet
than ever.”
“But is it not strange that he could
not resist the temptation ?”
“It will seem strange, unless wo tnlr*
into the account the strength of the ap:
petite, or the desire for intoxicating
drinks, when the appetite has once been
: formed. ou know how strong your
desire for any thing of which yon ara
very fond, when you see it pldced
temptingly before you ; and how hard
it is to deny yourself, und lei it alone.
But this gives you but a very faint idea
of the strength of the drunkard’s appei
tile, and how hard it is to resist its de
mands in tlie hour of temptation.”
“Do you not suppose thut Lucy’s fa.
ther really wished to stop drinking, wild
become a temperate man ?”
“1 have no doubt of it. But sueh
was the strength of the appetite he had
j formed, that when tho temptation was
i placed in his way, it overcome ail his
i resolutions.”
| “Do you suppose lie would oMj
ken his pledge, it lie had not gone where
they solil rum ?”
“1 do not think ho would.”
“Why then uid he not keep away
j from tlie sight ufjit ?”
j “That is not so easy a matte?,- my
; dear, in u place where it is so plenty.”
“How 1 wish there were no places
where he could find it, and then how
happy Lucy ami her mother would be.”
“II they lived in Maine, or in soma
of the other States, this would he tWo
case.”
“1 wish the/), they did live in Maine;
I should be sorry to purt with Lucy,
but I really wish thoy could go there,
if her father could there boa sober and
temperate man.”
“But think, rnv dear, how many fa
thers in this State cause their families#
far greater suffering than does Lucy’s
fatiiers. Some of them will even tukd
tne bread from their children’s mouths,
and care not if they staive, iftheoruv
ing appetite of which they are victims,,
can only he indulged. We could not,
;f we would, remove all those families
to Maine. Would it not effect the some
on a better purpose to bring the Maiuo
Law here; or, in other words, to inako
such a law in this State ?”
“llow 1 wish they would, mothor.—
If I were a mail, 1 know J would voto’
for it.”
“If you cannot vote for it, my dear,
perhaps you can do something to pro--
mote the cause. You can, at least, feel 1
an interest in it, and manifest this in
terest on all proper occasions.”
“I will, mother—l will try to per.
suade as many ass can to vote for the
Maine Law. Uncle James will always
do wliut 1 ask him, und I will ask hint
to vote fora Maine Law here. If they
could only have seen dear Lucy this’
morning, I am sure their lieurts would
have been touched. Do you think Lu
cy’s fattier would bj glud of such a
law ? —then he would have no tempts,
lion to drink.”
“1 think hewo'uld. Many poor intein
perate men are in favor of such a law.
They know thut it will rernovo out oP
their path temptations which they foe!
they liuve not strength lo resist.”
Deaths, Marriages ano Births ix
1 Massachusetts.— During the pastyesf
ihero were 18,91) 1 deaths, 28,8(11 births,-
und 11,900 marriages in Massachusetts.
During the three yeurs, past the annual
average of births, marriages an J deaths’
so the population, respectively one’
birth in 30. one marriage in 102, and*
one death in 58. It appears that the
duration of die lives of agriculturists
was 1:1 years ab-sve the general average
nearly 1!) above that of the common la
borers, und 18 percent, above averuge,-
at death, of mechanics. During thb
year eight females of fourteen, and
about forty of fifteen yeurs, have be
come wives. The youngest cotuple
were each sixteen only. 1 Bistonorr*
male of nineteen married a female of
twenty.eight, and in Worcester county
u lad of seventeen married a female in
valid, who has been unable to stand for
a number of years, aged thirty.eight.
Fourth, fifth and sixth marriages are to
be found on the records. One man of
thirty.eight married Jor the fifth time,
and in Boston a colored man of fifty,
eight, committed the same absurdity
for the sixth time. Ihe oldest person
noticed among the returns of marriages
during the year, was a male of seventy*
two years, who was united to a female
under thirty.
Ihe editor of a western paper ah
pounces the marr.age of a Mr. Ilenry
Bdl to Miss, Mary Small, and thinks
the law which ,w*
NO. 7.