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“ir master* nouhry and produce—
lat say you to such n state of tilings,
ist wi! have lhr carrion of South Cur.
oa ? (iive us rather the Maine Law.
Yours in L. I*. Si l'\
I). C. SMITH, R S.
For the Temperance banner.
Pro. IbantJy: —Was there ever a
ne when the great temperance Te
rm demanded stronger arms and
•aver hearts? Notwithstanding our
Torts are often puralised by the cease
as vigilance of our opponents, and we
ive to struggle through difficulties
iparently insurmountable, may we
>t reasonably hope uni believe, that
leaven’s richest blessings will rest
pon us, and that we shall finally be
‘iumplianl? A few evenings since
•■e had the pleasure of listening to Mr.
iewlett, and of hearing one of his elo.
juent and unanswerable arguments in
iavor of the suppression of the liquor
raffic; and to say that it was a happy
•(Tort, and Din make nn impression,
would be but a faint tribute to him as
i speaker, but glorious for the cause. j
And yet there are some professing!
members of Christ’s visible church, so j
willingly blind and deaf to the misery 1
of poverty stricken families, as to stand 1
aloof and refuse to lend a helping band
in raising the poor deluded drunkard
from irretrievable ruin. Car. such;
men be Christians? Many of our citi 1
zens, hitherto undecided, have, since
then not only expressed themselves fa
vorable to, but as being ready at any j
time to vote for the Maine Law. The j
grog shops of Fort Valley are already j
trembling before the strong arm of that!
law, which will deprive them of their;
cursed traffic, and raise their victims in
the scale of being. The heart of Oldj
Talulah beats strongly; and she yet
possesses working members who will j
never suffer the sacred cause in which |
they are engaged, to fall before the:
murderous assaults and “masked hat
teries” ot her adversaries.
Yours in L. I’. & F.
SOMEBODY KL.SU.
Fort Valley, (in. Feb. 7th 185:1.
Starkvili.e, Feb. llili, 1853.
Dear Banner: —According to pre
viou.s appointment l!ro. Hewlett, was
with us on the 9ih and delivered ad
dresses at *2 o’clock I*. M. and at night.
Mo has produced quite a sensation in
in our coinmuhity. His close, logical,
perspicuous reasoning, his uncompro
mising, untiring zeal and energy, iho
anxiety and solicitude ho manifests for
the success of the cause lie has espou
sed, proves that as a philanthropist he
deserves the gratitude of mankind, and
that as a temperance man he is worthy
to hold the helm of our ship, however
angry may be the war of the elements
I do r.ot think (and in this opinion al
most every one here concurs with me)
that Bro. 11. has his superior as a tem
perance lecturer in the United Slates.
Presses at the North give him the pre
ference, and 1 think he deserves it. In
whatever part of the world this may
meet his eye, let him rest assured that
he will not soon cense to ho remember
ed in our quiet little village and that
the young ladies who so uigently re
quested him to deliver a second address,
have not grown wearried with listening
to him.
Our cause in this place is flourishing.
All enthusiasm, it is true, has died
away, but the duties it enjoins are
performed ns other practical duties tliut
iiave a claim, an imperious claim upon
the time, tnleu.s and energies of those
engaged in their performance. We
have an occasional accession and but
few retrogressions. Where is the old
man? Tell him that the members of
Chehaw Division will ever cherish the
recollection ol his visit as one of the
“greenest spots in memory’s waste.”
1 need not and will not say anything of
the cause in general, “the world knows
its history hy heart, the past at least is
secure.” Goon Dear Banner in your
“work of love” and may Heavens
choicest blessings be visited upon tliej
labors of yourself, Bro. Hewlett, Uncle >
Dabney and the friends of temperance!
generally in Georgia and elsewhere.
Yours, &c.
PHILOS ANTIIROPOU.
j (
Decatur, Gu., Ist. Feb., 1853.
A meeting of the friends of Temper- i
mice was held in the courthouse this
day.
On motion James 11. Kirkpatrick
was called to the chair, and J. M. Wil- 1
son requested to act as Secretary,
The objecl ot the meeting was ex-1
plained to be fertile purpose of appoint- !
ing delegates to represent this county
in the State Temperance Convention to
be holden in tlie city of Atlanta on the i
23d day of this month,
A committee of three was appointed
to report names for delegates. Com
mittee, L. Dean, John A vary, J. N.
Hadden. Committee retired, and after
a few minutes consideration, reported
the follow ing names :
Lemuel Dean, J. 11. Kirkpatrick, J.
S. Wilson, J. M. Smith, J. N. Hadden,
John Avurv, Win. Hazard, 1. J. I)j ;l .
motid, H. IL Dean, J. Norcross, \Vm.
Forsyth, A. B. Forsyth, I. O. McDan
iel, O. Houston, I. T. McGinty, J. W.
Fowler, Dr. Wm. B. Jones, C. D. Yan,
Stephen Lerry, Rev.J. N.(’radon, w!
11. Evans, H. II Lntiiner, Lewis Ren
eau, Levi Willard, 8. F. Grant, J. H.
Bom. J- M. Wilson, K. F. iLvis. John
|^* w, P* on . B. A. Davis, John White G.
DkSohnson, Daniel Johnson, T. J Fowler
PjV S. Fowler, Robt. M. Cobb, Solomon
• aoe, John Isom and U. W. Hum
phriej.
OKU AN OF THE SONS OF TEMPERANCE AND STATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.
On motion, Resolved, That the pro
; ceedings of this meeting be forwarded
to the Kditor of the Temperance Han
ner for publication, and that the Allan
ta papers friendly to the cause be re
quested to copy.
The meeting then adjourned.
J. 11. KIRKPATRICK,Ch’in.
J. M. Wilson, Sec’ry.
Watkinsville, Ga., Feb. 8, ’53.
In pereliance of a public notice, u
very respectable number of t lie citi
zens of Clarke county assembled at the
court house, for the purpose of appoint
ing delegates to attend the Temperance
Convention, which is to be holden at
i Atlanta on the 22d inst.
On motion, the lion. E. L. Newton
was unanimously called to the chair,
I and J. S. Peterson requested to act as
| secretary.
The chairman then requested B. 11.
Overby, Esq., to slate the object o! the
’ meeting, and of the Convention ; when
jtliat gentleman responded in a brief ad
dress, delivered with his characteristic,
earnestness and eloquence. After
which James O. Halloway, Esq. moved
that a committee of live be appointed to
name ten persons as special delegates to
the Convention ; which being agreed to. j
Messrs. J. P. Halloway, J. H. New. j
ton, Kobt. Turnell, J. L. Wozencralt, j
and P. W. Hutchinson, jr., were ap- j
pointed said committee. After
a short conference the committee re
turned and reported the names of the
following gentlemen, viz:
John 11. Lowe, sen. J. P. Halloway, j
McCalvin Johnson, Alex. Woodson, P.
VV. Hutchinson, jr. E. L. Newton and
J. 11. Newton, Esq-s.—Rev. B. Lang-!
ford and Rev. J. Moore, and Ur. Jas.
Camak.
The report was unanimously agreed
to. The following was then offered
and adopted:
Resolved, That any citizen ol this
county favorable to the cause, who
choses to attend the Convention, be con
sidered as a delegate, am) authorized
to report himself as such.
I). 11. Walker, Esq. being called
for, made u few remarks.
It was then moved that the proceed
ings be published in the Temperance
Banner and tiie Athens papers, and that
other papers be, requested to copy •
which being adopted,
The meeting adjourned.
E. L. NEWTON, Ch’m.
J. S. Peterson, Sec’ry.
Forsyth, Ist Feb-, 1853.
According to published notice, a
number of citizens of Monroe county
met in the court house; when Rev.
Absalom Ogletree was called to the
chair, and D. Sanford requested to act
us Secretary.
The chairman explained the object
of the meeting, when on motion of Rev.
A Wright, a committee of five was ap
pointed to nominate delegates to repre
sent this county in a Convention to be
held ill Atlanta on the 22d inst. Rev.
A. Wright, Dr. Parsons, Win. B. Da
vis, and Win. Langby Lvsqs., and Rev.
Furiner, were appointed suiil committee.
The committee reported the names
of Rev. Absalom Ogletree, 1). Sanford,
Wm.S. Norman, F Askins, T D.Flint,
amt Archibald Davis Ksqs., which re
port wus unanimously adopted.
On motion, it was Resolved, That the
proceedings ot this meeting he forward
ed to tlie Banner for publication.
The meeting then adjourned.
A. OGLETREK, Ctirn’n.
D. Sanford, Sec’ry.
Temperance Hall, Jan. 29th, 1953.
I Bro. Brantly: —By order of lirothersville I
Division, S. of TANARUS., the subjoined extract j
from the minutes is forwarded to the Ban- j
ner:
“On motion of bro. Jas. Malone, the fol
lowing preamble and resolutions were unan
imously adopted :
Whereas, at the late annual session of the
Grand Division of the S. of TANARUS., of the State
of Georgia, all matters relating to Legisla- I
tion upon the liquor traffic, were submitted j
to a committee of five to report thereon,)
which report was finally adopted. There- !
fore be it
Resolved Is/. That the lirothersville I)i- j
vision heartily approve of said report, and
will conform its actions thereto.
Resolved ‘2d, That whatever may be ou r
individual opinions upon this* subject ; yet,
as a Division, we earnestly deprecate any
attempt upon the part of the Grand Divis
ion. orony Subordinate Division, to connect
the Sons of Teinpejance, us an Institution,
with any political question or movement
whatever ; believing, as we do, its tendency
to be, to impair the usefulness ot the order,
and strike a fatal blow at the vitality of its I
. principles.
Resolved That a copy of these reso
lutions be signed by the K. S , and for- j
warded to the Editor of the Teni|>eranee !
Banner, with the request that he publish 1
j same.’’
Yours in L. P. & F.
W. L. KILPATRICK, R. S.
The Blaine Law
l'lie people ol'Jersey say, “way down in
Maine,
There’s a law to keep tipplers from drink
ing,’’
And one Mrs.Garlet, with utter disdain,
Says she, too, has always been thinking
That if such a law in New Jersey were
passed.
And grog shops shut up in a hurry,
The sins of the people, which now are so
vast,
Would not have a tendaney to con
tribute so much distress in the world,
and people would get along much bet
ter; besides, it would obviate, or re
i lieve, the sorrows which her philan
i thropic nature now so much werv.
• Jkksiyman.
II ——
■1 A Spirit Level!—A drunken man in
- the gutter.
lor the Temp.'ranee Banner.
Philosophy teaches that there is no
piled without a cause to produce it ;
hut the reason why men wear their
heard so long, (even till it becomes
long beard,) in these days, I nave not
found in nil my Philosophic research.
’I is true, that in the beginning,
when the arts and sciences slept, and
nature’s aspects appeared in all their
origmalities : when art failed to form
the tools with which to trim ; and
chemistry could not compound the ne
cessary ingredient with which to soften
and cleanse ; some reason might have
been found for wearing long beard. —
; But in these bays of improvement of
arts and sciences, light and knowledge,
soaps and razors, why is it, that men’s
faces are like forests, is to me a myste
j ry. Can i*. be pride ?oris it laziness?
or has the old soap-maker used the fa
bled l*ear’s greaee, (a touch of which
issaid to have turned u deal-box to u
j nice haired trunk in one night,) as a !
‘component part of his soap? thus prov- !
ing so efficacious in the growth of I
beard.
- Alter these interrogations, and deiib- j
I era lions, I was about to give in to the j
! notion that -pride surely must be the |
! cause ; but just then meeting a body ol
many ministers of the gospel, luund a 1
number of them, mapped and mufiled ‘
the same as others, so I started again, j
what can be the came ?
Here i was about to solve the ques- ‘
tion uy imputing it to ignorance, when
it occurred, this is letting the ministry !
too low, and besides everybody can
read in the book of nature, arid St. Paul
tells the Corilhians that nature teach
es that it is a shame fir a man to have |
long hair. And yet nature with all
her efforts cannot color their cheek-, or ‘
if the coloring is produced, it takes a j
centre peep to see it through the massy 1
mop which meets mystically the strug. |
gling eye, und fairly defies its fiercest
penetrations.
Again, I am thrown upon a world of
wandering, and the field of inquiry.—
What can be the cause of such hateful, j
huge, heavy hair, hanging down the !
breast, hovering over the face, hedging
in the mouth, hiding all the comely
parts, and hampering in the whole hu
man head ?
Be the cause what it may, the effect
is abundantly produced in these days;
so much so, that this is becoming a
hairy world, and a woolly dispensation;
from which we should pray to be de
livered.
ADREFERENDUM.
Bashful Men-
There is hope for these poor fellows
yet.—Somebody lias been giving them
a “first rate pull",” and the press has
been generous enough to pass the apol-|
ogy round. We, of course, will give’
them the benefit of a hearing in the
O j
People’s Paper uinong the rest. Here)
is the article:
We never saw a genuinely baslifu l man j
who was not the soul ofhonor. Though
such may blush and stammer, and shrug
their shoulders awkwardly, unable to
throw forth, with ease, the thoughts
tliut they would express, yet, commend
them to us fair friends.
There are line touches in their char
acters that time will mellow and bring
on’. —perceptions as delicate as the faint
est tint is to the unfolding rose; and their
thoughts are none the less refine.l and
beuutilul that they do not flow with
the impetuosity of the shallow streamlet.
We are astonished that such men are
not appreciated; that ladies with really
good hearts Ok cultivated intellects wilt
reward the gallant Sir Moustachio
Brainless with smiles and attentions,
because he can told a shawl gracefully
and bandy compliirn nts with Parisian
elegance, while they will not conde
scend to look upon the worthier men,
who feel for them a reverence so “real
that every mute glance is worship.
The man who is bushsul in the pres
ence ol ladies, is their defender when
the loose tongue of the slanderer would
defume them. It is not he who boasts
of conquests, or dares to talk glibly of
failings tliut exist in his imagination
alone; his cheek will flush with resent
ment, his eye (lash w ith anger, to hear
the name of woman coupled with a
coarse oath: and yet he who would die
to defend them is least honored by the
majority of our sex.
Whoever heard of a bashful liber
tine/ The anomaliy was never seen,
blase ami elegance ure his requisites—
upon his lips sits flattery, ready to pay
court alike to blue eyes and black,
he is never nonplused, he never blush
es. For a glance, he is in raptures —
tor a word, he would professedly lay
down his life. Yet it is he who fdls our
vile city dens with wrecks of female
purity—it is he who profanes the holy
nari.e of mother—desolates the shrine
where domestic happiness is enthroned
—ruins the heart mat trusts in him—
pollutes the very air he breathes—and
all under the mask of a polished gentle
man !
Ladies, a word in your eat: have you
a lover, and would you possess a wor
thy husband?—Choose him whose deli
cacy of deportment, whose sense of
your worth bauds him to stand alool
while others crowd around you. Iflie
blushes, stammers, even, at your ap
proach, consider them so many signs of
; exalted opinion of your sex. If he is
retiring and modest let not a thousand
! fortunes weigh him down in the bal
ance—for, depend upon it, with him
| your life will be happier with poveity
than w ith many anothers surrounded by
[the splendor of palacts.
THHUB IBANHEM.
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can procure a Prospectus by application.
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22/1 BYltruitry.
Tuesday next is the day appointed for the
meeting of the Convention in Atlanta, to j
take into consideration the present L’quor j
License System; and to adopt measures to ‘
free our Slate from this great evil. From ‘■
present indications, the Convention will be j
a large one—composed of the most aged |
and experienced citizens of the State. We |
look to this meeting with great solicitude— j
not doubting but wise councils will pre- j
vail, and the most happy results ensue for j
the consummation of our noble reform.
Old Kicliiiioiil again.
We recently had the pleasure of record- ‘
ing the action of the Grand Jury of this!
County tor the first week of the Superior
court, in reference to the proposed reforma
tion in the license system. The Grand Ju
ry for the second week of the same court
has. we are happy to perceive, fully en
! dorsed the views which were published on
I this subject by their predecessors. We
have looked over the list of these jurors
and find that they are among the most re
spectable, intelligent and influential persons
in the county. Very few of them, we be
lieve, are technically known as temperance
| men ; that is, they are not members of any
i of the existing organizations for promoting
i this object. But they are citizens ; taX
| paying citizens; humane citizens; crime- \
haling citizens. They have the intelligence i
to discover that the indiscriminate traffic in j
ardent spirits destroys the peace of families, i
i testers idleness, begets pauperism, is a most
prolific source of crime, and (what is a nee-;
i essary consequence of these facts.) that the !
| people must lie taxed to support paupers)
and to punish and restrain crime.
W e hail it as a most auspicious omen for
our cause, when intelligent men without
distinction ot creeds or parties are begin
ning to assort the monstrous evils of the
liquor traffic and to recommend measures
for its abatement and suppression. The’
evils are so numerous and aggravated that
if public attention can once be thoroughly
aroused to this subject, a reformation is
sure to follow. No free people will tolerate
such enormous abuses after they have be
come sensible of their existence.
Experience a test of sound leg
islutiou.
In our last we took occasion to specify
several classes of persons who would op
pose very strenuously any restriction of the
liquor traffic. They have anticipated what
would be the action of such a law, and have
declared that it would be unwise, useless,
oppressive, &e. &c. The best evidence
which we can give of the propriety of any
enactment is the fact that such an enact
ment has been tried and found to be bene
ficial. In urging upon their fellow-citizens
the measures which they contemplate, tem
perance men are not asking the public to
venture upon any untried experiment.—
They are not calling upon them to adopt
expedients whose utility lias never been
vindicated by actual trial. There are sev
eral States in the Union in which the traffic
( has been prohibited by the most stringent
regulations. Several years trial proves the
law to be salutary in the (lightest degree;
and though petition after petition has been
, poured in upon tli-- legislatures begging re
peal or modification, the law remaii s ui r -
pealed. In answer to certain petitions ot ‘
this class, the legislature ot Rhode Island i
so changed their prohibitory statutes as to
strengthen their law in a point in which
| one of the Judges had found it weak. Af
ter such a reply we do not suppose that
there will be many more rum petitions sent
to the Rhode Island legislature.
It has been said that laws which are bene
ficial in Maine, and Massachusetts and
Rhode Island would not be salutary in
Georgia. This would be true of laws tor
the abolition of slavery, but not of the laws
in uuestion. The operation of ardent spir
its is precisely the same in Georgia as in
Maine. The liquor which will intoxicate ,
in Maine will intoxicate in Georgia. It it
begets crime in one plaee, it has the same
effect in the othei. If it disqualifies a man
for every honorable and useful vocation ot
life at the North, it is attended with the
same result at the South. If sober men
have to support police officers and poor
houses (the frnit of the liquor business.) in
one section of the country, they will be un
der the necessity of doing the same thing in
another. The circumstances of the ease
being in all respects similar, we have no
hesitation in saying that any law on this sub
ject which has proven useful and philan
thropic in anyone State of this confedera
cy, would prove useful in every other.
Free Negroes at (lie North ; or
Uncle Tom’s Cahiu ia the*
(Rate Prison.
That Freedom is a great blessing, we
shall be the last to deny. But there is a
freedom that does not elevate, nor purify
either the intellect or tlio heart. Such a
condition differs from slavery only in ma
king the degradation more complete. That
such is the position of the free negroes at
the North, is evident from tile following sy
nopsis which we have compiled from Statis
tics published in the last annual Report of
the Prison Discipline Society. This publi
cation contains the reports of a number ot
State Prisons , specifying the number, class,
&c., of the convicts. YVe have taken the
pains to compare the number of convicts,
white and colored, with the population of
their respective classes in the different
States, whose statistes are given. The re
sult of this comparison is exhibited in fol
lowing table :
Maine—l white Convict to 6837 per
sons.—l color’d to 662; or 10c. to 1 white.
N. Hampshire—l white to 4020.—L col
ored to 237, or 17 colored to 1 white.
Vermont—l white to 3522.—1 colored to
355; or 10 col. to 1 white.
Massachusetts—l white to 2329.—1 col
: ored to 195; or 12 colored to 1 white.
Connecticut —1 white to 3243.—1 col
i ored to 174; or 18 colored to 1 white.
New York—l white to 1969.—1 colored
’ to 280; or 7 colored to 1 white.
New Jersey—l white to 3284.—1 colored
to 398; or 8 colored to 1 white.
Pennsylvania—l white to 5909—1 col
ored to 521; or 11 colored to 1 white.
Michigan—l white to 2470.—1 colored to
170; or 14 colored to 1 white.
Total.—Seven Free States—l white to
29M.-1 colored to 309, or9col. to 1 white.
Now, in all soberness, and (rankness, w@
desire to be informed wherein consists the )
great value of a freedom, which carries!
along with it so great a prevalence of crime?
What reason can Mr. Henry Ward Beech
er, or his equally notorious sister, Mrs. Har- [
riet Beecher Stowe, assign for the very!
bad figure cut by their colored equals upon
the tree soil ot the North? Is not nigger
nature as good as wliitefolks’ nature? “Ol>
yes,” says the gentleman; “Certainly,” re
sponds the lady. Is not theeolored individ
ual i qua) to the pale-face? “No doubt,’’|
says the Editor of the Independent; “that
ar am an undubitable sack,” echoes from the i
dingy walls of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It is
the law of the land, promulgated and en
forced from the North Pole to Mason’s &,
Dixon’s line, that black and white are both
free. Ami the Northern Pupilts, occupied
by Mr Henry Ward Beecher and his abo
lition compeers, herald it as truth th. t the
Gospel is preached to no negroes but the
free colored people of the North. But,alas!
for the hum an nature of the darkie; alas! for
the equality of the races; alas ! for the pow
er of the gospel over the black-man’s heart;
alas! for the glory of the freeman : the free
black of the North is confined in the State
Prisons, ten times more numerously than
the whites. What is it owing to? The
fact doubtless is owing to the degradation
of the free negro. He is among the whites
hut not of them : politically, he is free ; but
socially, he is degraded ; and all the evils
of degradation are allotted him. We can
not speak of the fully, fanaticism and wick
edness, which, for the empty name of free
dom, does all manner of mischief.
We merely ask, What must be the moral
degradation of a people of whom one in ev
ery 195 is in tlie State Prison? Can the
Professorinn of Andover, or the Editor of
the Independent answer? For our own
part we consider the white people of the
North responsible, in a great measure, for
the crimes of the colored , tor when they
have made them free, why do they degrade
them?
Frightful CvpeiiH*.
A New York paper shows that the citi
zens of the United States paid last year six
millions of dollars for imported cigars. —
There is no means of ascertains live cost ot
those manufactured at home. The item,
however, is not small. It ks said it is diffi
cult to distinguish a lighted from an unlight
ed eigar. It w ould he decidedly more tip.
nuuiieal not to light.
Dcutli of Judge Sayre.
I The death of the Hon. N. C. Sayre,
I is recorded in our present issue with un-
I feigned sorrow. For the last ten years,
! he has been a patron of the Banner, and its
| columns have been frequently graced with
‘able productions by him in behalf of the
Temperance Reform. Our State has lost a
ta'entei and useful man, and the tem
perance cause one of its ablest advocates.
Deaths of aged citizen* in Au
gusta.
By a remarkable Providence three of the
most aged citizens of Augusta, as well as
the oldest residents, have recently been re
moved almost simultaneously. We allude
to Richard Allen, Martin Frederick and
Mrs. Nancy Barrett. Mrs. Barrett was
universally beloved for her benevolent spir
it. Formany years she was a faithful fol
lower of Christ. VVe have no doubt that
she has been received to the praises of that
upper sanctuary, towards which she has
been most earnestly pressing for a long
time.
Hayne and Webster’s Speeches. Red
ding & Cos., Boston, have published in a
neat pamphlet of 84 pages the speech of
Genoral Hayne, of South Carolina, m the
U. S. Senate, on Mr. Foot’s Resolution,
Januaiy, 1830, —and Mr. Webster's speech
in reply to it. Gen. Hayne was an eloquent
debater, and a fine specimen of Carolina
chivalry and gentlernanJy bearing. On the
occasion in question, he stood forth ostensi
bly as the champion of the South, and ven
tured to freak a lance with the intellectual
giant of the North. The speech is of inteia.
est as a reminiscence of a period of high
political excitement and acrimony; and is,
moreover, necessary to a competent under
standing of Mr. Webster’s reply. This, it
is generally known, lias ever been regarded
and spoken o Jas u the great speech ” of the
Massachusetts statesman ; as a profound
and luminous exposition *>i fundamental
prrnerplesoflhe Federal Constitution. Had
lie never delivered another speech, this;
alone would have transmitted his name to’
the latest periods of the Republic.
This publication, interesting at any time,,
derives additional interest from the recent
death ofone of those distinguished orators,
and we have no doubt will be eargerlyr
sought after by the reading public. It may
be ordered from Hostou by mail. The
price is 25 cents.
IMF” We cheerfully r.-fer traders to Aui
gusta, to the Advertisement of Mr. G. YV,
Ferry, published in this issue of the Ban
ner. For something nice and ser\iceahle r
be sure to call on G M Ferry, a few doors
below the Globe Hotel.
The Illustrated Magazine of Art. —No.
2 of this periodical has been received, and
tully equals in appearance and interest No..
L Did our limi s permit,, we should he
: pleased to- publish the table of ConteJits and
must rat ions. We must content ourselves,,
however, in giving it as our opinion that the
; Magazine ot Art, is destined to be popular
I and widely circulated, it is a quarto in
double columns, ol GO pages, and published,
monthly, in New York, by Alexander
Montgomery, single copy 25 cents ; yearly
Subscription Three Dollars.
The Water Cure Jour ml and Herald of
Reforms, denoted to Physiology, Hydropa
thy,and the Laws of Life.
American Phrenological Journal; and Re
pository of Scim c, Literature, and lien
eral Intelligence,
The February Nos. of those two Jour
nals are on onr table. We do not profess
io be believers in all the doctrines set forth’
by either ot these publications ; but we are
always interested in the ability with which
they are conducted ; and the very neat style
of general arrangement , and clear and
beautiful print, make these two journals al
ways pleasant to our view.
They are published by Fowlers &,
\\ ells, New York, each at §1 per annum -
Men's Wires, by William Thackery.
This is a 12mo. vol. of 274 pages, and is a
republication of Papers from Frazer’s Maga
zine, where they appeared as tlie contribu
tions of George Fitz-Boodle. They are
by a popular author, and show off ‘high fer
lution” life to aT. For sale by J. S. Peter
son, Athens.
Vermont.
Our late exchanges inform ns that a great
victory has been gained in Vermont, which,
has given an ov. nvln lining majority in fa
vor of the prohibitory law enacted by the
last Legislature:—
The N. Y Tribune well says, “This law
is very far beyond the Maine Law in its se
verity, on the Liquor Traffic in Vermont, On
ly reasonable fidelity and vigilence on tlw
part of its friends are required to enforce it
l it ahnosl'goes itself.’ And whenever it
, does go, let the Rumsellers clear the track!!
No measure was over more bitterly oppo
! seri, nor had a stronger array of influences
to contend against.”
Rhode Island.—The House have passed
the new liquor bill by a yote of 39 to 27.
! Good.
Detroit, Feb. 10—The Maine Liquor
Law passed the Legislature yesterday, and
will be submitted to the people for ratifiea
tion or rejection Jit ihc special election next
July.
An American, now travelling in Eu
rope, says that “Dutch babies are the
most phlegmatic, contented, indepen.
dent-looking creatures on the face ol
the globe. They never cry. In or
der to test this, 1. pinched several of
them as 1 pa-sed in the crowd. One
of them slightly yawned; the others
merely gazed placidly at me, but made
no sign.’ Model babies, those.,