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Fur the Temperance limner.
Temißranco L -gislatioa
Whit is to be <lone next ?
Iro. Ur antiy : —The Convention of
• friends of J.egLl-i'ioi his tin )
’ in harmony. I doubt if therr
r was s) great unanimity among
body is large as this heretofiiro us
| nbled in one Suit But our work is
j half Hone, nnd tli<* question will
•sent itsslf. ‘'whnt is la be >lone next f
May I be permitted to suggest mi
swer, and to 1< t it pnss tor whet it I
ty fie worth. ‘/hefriends- of the
rnsuro must organize. I find almost
id they must eel the start of its *-ne
ies. lint this is impossible. They
‘e already organized. Kvery bar
tom is u citadel —( Very grog-shop a
oekiide—every doggery u recruiting
arracks. Thri/ alieudy have their
hicliiuns and a host ol regular soldiers,
esides a multitude of tiucrrillas , who
resupplied with ammunition anil tin
•mienal of war, h\ the master spirits of
he war, We cannot get the stall ol :
heir Lieuteuunt Generals, Colonels,
Japluins or Corporals. They are
ready for the light, to fly-stick in hand.
But we can gather and array our hosts
ou the other side, and it my judgment
is not at fault, w< ought to do it at once.
It.scouts tome important that wn should
start in the race of excitement, and
show our strength, which is truly for. I
midalile, if we ourselves would believe
it, Indore the timid or the lukewarm
have taken sides against us. There is
a multitude, who will goto the strong,
cut party, and a vigorous action on our
part will ally them to ourselves in
this coup st.
I am mor • an I more conli hint that it
was a wire action in the Convention to
appoint a Central (immittee and (bum
ly Committer men. it is to hoped that
every appointed in the several (,'unifies
will at once announce to Mr, Williford
Chairman of the Central Committee
that he accepts the apduintrneril. I,el
the Counties now tally for Ratification
Meltings. Let all the It lends to the
action o( the Coif • ntion guiher at their
Court I louses, and given demonstru
tiun id their z al. Let them appoint
u large Committee—one in each Mili
tia District —w ho shall assist the *p
pointee ol the C invention in his work
of obtaining signutur* s. If he docs not
accept the appointment, h t them select
the must active anti influential hiend ol
the cause who can he found m the
County, to stove as a link hit ween the
County Committees and the Central j
Committee (an iitdisp m.silde an tinge,
inent) and immitia:e him to the Central
Committee to supply the place olTlie’
declining appointee. It ought to be
understood that llm County Committee
man was not appointed by the Con
vention to do all thi! work, but to take
a leading and aclive part in it,
and he will m and ul 1 the help he
can get. And w hat heller lime to give
him help, than in i County It itilicalion
meeting. Ido hope to hear ol many ol
them, through the columns of the li.iu
ner.
A not he r thought 1 would suggest to.
tho consideration of my fellovv-citiy.'ms.
Let those friends o! Legislation, who
take any interest in parly politics, go
into the County caucuses or (.'.nivei,
lions,‘which are called to select candi
dates for the Legislature, and make
their voice heard in their rcsyvctt tv pitr
tit’S, in the selection of candidates. Do
not let the grog-shop whigs and demo
crats take the nominations out of the
hands of the romperuncc wings or
democrats. Why should we not begin
at the beginning of the canijiagin, an 1
assert the rights and use the powers,
which we have let slumber too loni; !
l)o not lot the parti/, ms o’ the doggery - ;
system bring out the candidates m the
respective parties, and, after every po.
litieai puriizul has rallied to their sup
port, step forth to ask them, whether or
no they will support our views, ll
they do, we will perhaps, lie driven, in
the end, to support an enemy,—or to
stay awuv from the polls,—or to run a
third ticket. lam assured that vigi
lance at tttis point is essential, and that
this policy will save us a vast amount
oi trouble and perhaps secure our ends.
It does seem to me that we are .strong 1
enough in very many Counties to ren
der it a matter of policy, if we will in
sist upon it, that the candidates of both
parties should be in favor of tho law \ve
ask. V or, as it seems to me Providen
tially, the public mind is aroused on
this great moral question at a time that
party boundaries are so illy defined,
and party-ties are so weak, that it can
not cost u sincere patriot—>r an honest
well-wisher ofthe cause of sobriety and
good morals, much of a struggle to dis.
regard party obligations altogether, and
to give his vote ami his influence to that
man, whauver his political creed, who
w ill do work to place the Retailsystein
in ‘die power of the communities to be
aifected by it. 1 lenoe, 1 suppose, that
these true men may hold the balance of
power, in a muj irity of the Counties,
and the parti/ms will be glad enough,
in nominating candidates, so to frame
their tick* ts as not to alienate this class
of citizens. But then, they must see to
it that their views are respected, and I,
therefore urge upon them to make their
wishes known, at the carli, st possible
moment, and to make themselves felt in
those CountytConventious, w hich noini
nine tho candidates.
I Itape that you, llro. JJ., and vour
reader* likewise, will | >ardtSn thrue few
u ’gestimu from vour friend nud their
fellow ciiu-n. ‘ IS. U. MYIiUS.
Macon, Ft-b. I*sß.
1 m i. i
DUGAN OF I IIK -SONS Ol- I K-MI’KIMNCE AND S TATE TKAIPEKANCK CONVENTION.
Mbrepiesentation.
It is surprising how many ir.tollig- nt
men have been mi-led by (lie clamor
which inter* sled persons raise against
- the Maine Iftpi >r Law.
Not long ago, a very intflligent p< n
(lonian of this city, naked us to furnish
him a copy of the Maine Law, stating
that he wished to publish articles upon
its uttcon.s'itudonulii V, uud injustice, as
a sumptuary enactment. We assured
him ‘ a’ he would find little in the law
- out of which to manufacture articles of
llit smt mentioned against it, and furn
i-died him wiilt i copy of it, asking him
• to use our columns ir, bringing his views
: before the public. Several days after,
we met him, and inquired what prog
ress he had made in reviewing the law.
As we expected, reading it had remov
ed the objections 1m had conceived a
: gainst it, ami he said emphatically that
! therew as nothing unconstitutional in any
ofits provisions. That lie hud seen state,
inoiiis about in the papers w hich had no
Imm-iaiioii in the law itself, and conse
quently had no articles to write a.
gainst it !
Now this is precis ly the case with
every man having two ideas more than
,iii utter, who opposes the Maine Daw,
and is honest in ids opposition to that
law upon unconstitutional grounds.
Ile has not read the law, and is misled
by the false statements of those w hose
interest it is to support the traffic in
liquor.
Opponents, in riu instance that we
.have seen, meet the true issue fairly
made by tin* law. That issue is the
propriety of the traffic in liquors us a
hr err a ire ! It is not whether a man
has a light to drink—or whether he
i may, or shall drink or not. It fully re-1
cognizes tin* right of any mas to drink,
mis! what and when lie pleases. it al
lows him to w allow impunity tmils arid |
brick--fits, if he chooses. The law has j
nothing whatever of a sumptuary ■
- eh,'trai ler about it; it is simply a emit.!
men ial enactment, declaring how a j
• branch ol business may he conducted I
in the community. We would sav to
I hose engaged in the traffic, tiiat by!
misreprestilling and lying about ill*
Maine Law, it will only make matters j
worse fur th< m in the end.— Temperance I
Battery.
A New I.'lfuovement in Firearms.-
Among the many improv ‘inents which
have been made in lire anus, we know
of nolle which is at all comparable to
tha of Mr. William Murston. This
invention is entirely unlike any that
has yd been offered to the public, and
is rt markable for simplicity of con
struction. Its peculiar value consits
in the ease with which it can he used,
the great rapidity of loading obtained
bv means of it, increased length of
reach and accuracy of aim.
It obviates the old, and somewhat 1
dangerous practice of loading ut tiie
muzzle, an i entirely dispenses witii the
necessity lor a rum. rod. The gun, 1
pistol, rifle, musket, und heavy ordnance
! to all of which it is applied, are loaded j
til the breech, will! a cartridge pre- j
pared especially lor the purpose, and I
tor which Mr. Murston has also ob ,
turned a patent.
Al the breach is a bolt which is ca
pable of being moved backward or for- 1
w .ini by means ol a lever. Whim the
bolt is drawn buck it discloses the cham
ber for the reception of the cartridge,
which is forced into the bore of the bar- !
rel by means of the lever. The lever t
und hilt are so constructed that when!
the gun is loaded and the bolt is pressed t
close up to the bore *, 1 the barrel, the
end ol it is in the same position us th*’
keystone of an arch, to receive the!
backward force of the discharge. It is!
m taut utterly impossible, from its me
chanical arrangement, for any acci
ileui t*> occur iii the way of explosion.
A small hole is *Jtilied throuuli the!
centre ol the breach bolt, which com
municates with the priming hole of the
cap.nipple, to ignite tiie powder in the
cartridge. The cartridge, are of van
ous sizes, according to the dimensions
ot tho gun, and in form are not unlike ,
the Chinese cracker, with this excep
tion, that the paper shell is not so thick,}
and it is not one-third the length. The!
bullet is of a conical form, and is fast
ened to the cartridge with cement,
while the butt of the cartridge itself,
consists of a piece of leather, having a
small hole in its centre to let the Hash
of the priming cap puss through the j
priming hole into the powder.
The edg* sos the disc arc greased,
and the disc of one cartridge is driven
out by tho bullet of the next us that
i part is always left behind. livery suc
ceeding cartridge, therefore, by driving l
out the leather of the paeviaus one,
cleans the barrel, so that rilles using
oortridges never require to be “swab
bed” out. Constant firing, therefore,
instead of fouling the gun, lias the elicet
of uleaning it and making the inside of
the barrel as bright us polished steel.
Mr. Marshal is a practical gun
smith, and has a large manufactory s>n
the corner of Jane und Washington
streets, in which ninety hands are con
stantly employed; und lilies, varying
in price from twenty-five 10, oue bun
ireti dollars, are made. His invention
has attracted considerable attention in
Europe, and he is ut present engaged
in supplying an order tor the French
Emperor. it lias also been exhibited
in England, where iis superiority over
the tire-arms at present in use, ha
been satisfactorily tested. Wo may
state, in conclh.ioo, tiiat it w as tried in
the ordnance department at Washing
ton, with the same success, and that in
, tiring one hundred rounds, without
cleaning, at a"distance of two hundred
yards, the balls penetrated thron > l - sev
-len iticlib cuds, burying themselve, in
! tl) • eightli. The otfico.isai No. 205
Broadway.——JV. I . livening Post.
Alt Till'-1A I. f’KODCCTION OF FtSH. —
The Kronen Government is continu. , >
load ou the admirable discovery of
. (J dti.: dud lltiny, tisliermen ot the \ os
ges, lor aitifn, liy lecuuduting the
~ggs of fish. It lias, ju particular,
caused it to he practised ou a grand
scale ut 11 uningeu; anil the fish produ
ceJ by it tliure are, on arriving at acer
; tain degree of mututity , to he sent into
lilf rent rivecs and canals. In the
southern Departments, also, ,ho same
system Ims been practised with extraor
ilniury success. It consists in collc'c
ting the spawn of iho female fish, in
stead of allowing them to deposit it in
the beds of liters, and in applying i* to
the milt ol mates, instead ol leaving the
malts to do it themselves The egg
titiis prepared are preserved until they
become batched. Jhe consequence-is
i that many thousand fish are thus pro
duced I rum each female’s spawn,
| whereas only very few indeed are ob
tained whi u the fish are left to effect
the fecundation themselves, owing to
the eggs being devour* and by other fish,
waslr.d away, or injured by dill.
: IliVtr.s, streams, canals, lakes, am. 1 ‘
; ponds cM thus be made to teem vvith
i fish; and anew brunch of com merce is
tltcieby created, whilst an abundant
supply ol w bob some too l is obtained.
1 lie expense ol apply ing the svstemof!
li my and G* Inn is very trilling in
dent. 1 hose men have been tnjom
’ pensed by llm Government for the great
services they Itav-’ been the ni ‘ans of;
rendering to iso public. Their plan
is applicable to a.t sorts of fish that 1
spawn in rivers.
I
Discovery of a Buried City.—A
buried ci y lias been discovered in : ’
i'ig.vpt, mimed Sicckurcth. It npp'-ar.-.
ti bo situated a6 > ul live hours journey
from Cairo, near the liist cataract. An 1
Arab having observed what appeared to j’
Ij • the head ol a sphynx appearing a- i‘
Dove the ground near this spot, drew 11
iho attention ol a French gentleman to 1
the circumstance, who commenced ex- 1
euvuling, and laid open a long’ hurt- tl
street, wilieli contained thirty-eight
granite sarcophagi, each of which t
weighed about sixty-eight tons, ami
which formerly In Id evidently the ash
es el sacred animals. The French
geruleiiiiii bus got a grant of the spot;
hum the F.gypttan I’acliu, and has ex
burned groat quantities of curiosities,, 1
some ol them ancient earthenware ves
sels ul u diminutive si/. ■. This street,!
‘hen lit up ut night, firms a magnifi
cent sight. It h upwards ol 1,600 t
yards in length. Many ol’ the dturios- i
itie.s dug out have to b • kept buried it. j
sand to presserve them from perishing. ,
i
Save Vouh Far.mnus. —The prac
tice whten apprentices, clerks, and
others have, of spending their earnings •,
as tost us they accumulate, is one great
reason why so many never attain a
position above mediocrity in life. A
person who receives but a small com
pensa-ion lor his services, will, with a
tittle car) over his exchequer, and a
system of regularity in his expendi. !
tui\ s, find that at the end of the year
he is prepared to encounter any enier
gency or mishap. But, us ag* neral
tiling, they manage to get rid - . , r
earnings quite as quick as they ut* . .
thus leaving them wholly unprepard tor
emergencies, by sickness or otherwise.
A system of curtailing inmecessarv
exp use, if udop.ed by our younger
folks, would bring around the most hap
py und gratifying results, and he the
means of raising to eminence und stand
ing in society, many w ho now have con
traded the habit of parting vvith their
earnings so readily and foolishly for
the habit of keeping continually in debt,
begets indifference and dissipation, a
lack of self-respect, and an utter disre
gard lor future prospects. The real
cause tor a great deal of crime mav be
traced to the habit of a foolish expendi
ture of mo.toy in earlier days. —Albany
Transcript.
A Female Lawyer-
A young lady named Annie R.
Cooper, was recently arraigned before
the Court of Quarter S ssions, in Foil,
adelphia, Judge Allison, pre.-idmg, on a
charge ot larceny, and after the exam
ination ol the witnesses against her the
counsel who hud undertaken her de
fence very uugali•• m 1 y abandoned her
case. In this dilemma, she took up her
defence, and notwithstanding the most
positive pnof against her she is said to
have made a In illian: defence before the
jury. But a fie 1 all, she -was convicted.
In the course of the *\\ unination it was
shown that she was of Indian or Negro
extraction and ot extraordinary talents
und accomplishments. Her employ
ment was that of a seamstress, but it
appeals that In. r wit and brilliancy
marie her a welcome visitor to many
laintlii s otafis ii'.iiio:). Among toe Do
mestics of the family in which she had
last fieen employed, she was regarded
as an Indian sorseress, who hud the
(tower of producing gradual death by
touching the small part of the cheek.
Altogether M;>s Annie R. Cooper ap
pears to have been a most extraordina
ry young woman.
Mr. Co’gswell, the rum and tenter
member ol the House from Bedford,
Mass., is (he gentleman to w h in a num
ber of ladies presumed a petticoat, a
, year or two since.
TEHEE MMUHL
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date and the 4th of July next.
We have received a communication, j
from Paris, Coweta County, signed “Re- j
vealer,” giving an account of a “Tragical
Scene,” which it is said recently occurred |
in that vicinity. The facts stated require a
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licity to them.
Idctitlintioii,
When an Editor expresses an opinion!
from which you dissent, be sure to order i
your paper stopped immediately. This is !
much less troublesome, whilst it is so much
more manly, than to enter into an argument !
vvith him to convince him that you are
right and that hi- is wrong!
Ihlccatiou ill Cicoi’glu.
In no State in the Union i t there a larger
“umber of persons receiving (in proportion I
to the population) a liberal education, than ;
in our own State. There are at least four !
hundred nnd fifty young men in the four
male Colleges in the State. The female
Colleges have at least twelve hundred.—
v\ hen it is recollected that our white popu- 1
lotion is but live hundred thousand, this is a 1
very handsome proportion. In our Institu- |
lions education is no superficial work. Our
people do not cultivate the ornamental at
the expense of the substantial. The proper
foundation is first laid, and on this the most
valuable superstructure is received.
Sicum-viiiji Eri!*siis.
We regret to notice that the scientific men
in the vicinity of Washington City, are ap
prehensive tint this steamer when laden
will move so slowly as to become compara
tively valueless in Navigation. We had
- hoped that the day of explosions had passed
and that henceforth we were to be delivered
from one frightful source of mortality.
“Peep at Xiimber Five: lly the author of
Sunny side. Mew York, 1852.”
This volume is understood to be from the
pen of Mrs. Phelps, the gifted authoress of j
“Sunny Side.” In Sunny Side Mrs. I’helps I
delineates with graphic power the struggles
of a Christian Minister to provide for his
family on the scanty pittance which he re
ceived from a church which, without any in
convenience, could have afforded him a
comfortable support. In the present vol
ume the picture is reversed and we see how
a Minister of the Gospel may have his use
fulness abroad, and his enjoyment at home
promoted by a little consideration on the
part of tiiose for whom lie mimisters. It is
a deeply interesting volume, and may he
procured of Mr. J. S. Peterson, Athens.
“Uncle 11-irrey's Tiles of Home ami Foreign
Semes. AY ie York. 1). Appleton .(■ Cos.”
This is an interesting book, designed, as
I its title indicates, for children, but contain
ing matter which many of those who have
passed the years ofehildhood, are not very
fuuili.tr. Wo think our readers will find in
it good morals ami sound instruction. Our
young friends will he partieulaly pleased
with it. It can be purchased iu the book
store of Mr.J. S. Peterson, Athens.
Atlanta, Feb. 20, 1853.
Mr. fj ’ij. Brantly :—Unclosed please
find two dollars for my paper, which please
place to my credit.
Yours, &.C.
T. A F. HANNA.
A.f” If our corn spondent will be kind
enough to inform us to what Post Oilicc bis
Banner is sent, we will then be enabled to
credit him. We certainly cannot find Ids
name among our list of Subscribers at At
lanta, nor in our Alphabetical list.
Mr. Editor: —The Solution of the Enig
ma from the pen ot Jack in the Banner of
the 12th ult. is, “banish rum and tobacco
from ‘ >ur house. ’ vvhnh lie -ays I .hon'd
do. it I am a married man ; the purport of
which st ems to be, that prov ided I am a
married limn, there i. no doubt but those ar
ticle. have a place about mv bouse.
B.
Tlie nguiii.
Our readers may remember that a few
weeks ago we proposed to discuss with the
Constitutionalist the merits of the m usurps
which the friends of humanity in Georgia
are proposing, with regard to the traffic in
ardent spirits. Our proposition was de
clined. The Editor was unwilling to de
vote so much of his paper, as would lie nec
essary in such a discussion, to a subject in
which ins readers generally took no
lar interest. Though the tendered discus- !
sion did not seem to be agr • cable, we no-,
Lice that the Constitutionalist permits no
opportunity to pass without expressing dis
j approbation of those legislative enactments,;
which the friends of the temperance reform
in connection with many other citizens of
the State, are striving to procure. Recent
ly we observed a long editorial in earnest
opposition to the movement. The article
appears to have been provoked by a com
munication from a subscriber who was so
much dissatisfied “ith the Editor's opposi
tion, that he withdrew his subscription to
the paper.
In the editorial to which we have referred
the writer . offers two reasons against the
: proposed change in the laws. They are
diluted in a whole column of verbiage, but I
so far as we can gather, they are the follow- j
ing:
1. Legislation, so far from advancing,
j would retard the cause of temperance.
2. If laws, prohibiting the indiscriminate
sale of intoxicating liquors, should be
j placed on the statute book, it would not be
! possible to enforce them.
With regard to the first of these reasons,
we beg leave to say that it is nothing more
than a begging of the question. The Editor
avows himself a friend of tiie temperance
cause and insists that moral suasion is the
most potent measure which can be adopted
for its advancement. Have we not tried
moral suasion ? Have we not for the last
twenty-five years entreated, vvith all the
earnestness which we could commend, our
fellow-citizens to desist from a traffic which
-vas reducing multitudes to beggary?—
Have we not constantly raised the warning’
voice and admonished the youth and the old
-to beware of a habit which, where it. en
slaves, never fails to destroy its victim?—
And what is the result? Fifty thousand
; drunkards annually die in the United States;
crime, pauperism, high taxes, wretchedness
-in a thousand forms—the baleful effects of
; intemperance—abound all over the land.—
! It is true that much good has been done by
the efforts of temperance men. Much suf.
- lering has been relieved, and much more has
been prevented. Many inebriates have been -
reclaimed, and many more rescued from ;
| tiie thraldom of thv tyrant. Enough has |
been done to compensate a thousand fold j
all tlie exertions which have been made, all;
the sacrifices which have been encountered.
But yet compared with what remains to be I
done—with what must be done before our
j great objects are attained, we have iiecom-I
t plislied little. We have tried moral sua- j
sion and this has not been sufficiently ener- j
! getic. \\ e n ust now resort to something I
| else. If the Constitutionalist will suggest’
; something more feasible we shall be pleased
to hear.
As to the second objection—the impracti
cability of executing the law—this is the ■
stereotype argument against all unpalatable j
legislation. We admit that in this country 1
no law cun be enforced which is unsustuined
by public opinion. But there is no doubt
with regard to the decision oftlie public in
reference to the law in question. In many
of the counties successive Grand Juries—
bodies w hich are justly regarded as the rep
resentatives of the popular will—-have spo
ken on this subject in such a manner as
to show how they w ill deal with the violators
of the law, should it be enacted. We believe
that there are at least ten thousand voters
in the State,in connection vvith temperance
organizations, who would favor the law. The
religious sentiment oftlie State of every de
t nomination is decidedly in fav or of the law.
Add to these multitudes who are neither
church members, nor technically temper
| anee men, but who di-like pauperism, crime,
| and high taxation, and who believe the !i
----| quor traffie to be a fruitful source of all these
! evils, and the friends of the law will make
themselves felt at the ballot-box, in such a
way that their opinion will be respected, and
their earnest desires gratified.
**Tli* liiiiglil of Joriclio.”
We have received the first number of a
paper bearing the above title, published at
Atlanta, by Mr. C. H. C. Willingham. It
is to be published every other week, at One ;
! Dollar per annum, with a reduction to clubs. !
Extract dated,
Griffin, March 3d.
“1 am glad to say that the good cause of
Temperance is still alive, and on the ad- j
vance. 1 think the people are ready for the |
question of License or No License, and 1
when it comes I think that Sp alding county -
will say. No License.
1 sit out at the commencement of this
year to procure ten new Subscribers to the
Banner. 1 forward the sixth oue.”
The Drunkard’s Character.-From
a volume of pamphlets, lettered ‘Mis.
cellaiieous Sheets, presented by George ;
111. to ilte British Museum, was taken
the follow ing:—‘A drunkard is the an !
noyance of modesty; the trouble of civ
ility. lie is only the Brewer’s
agent, the tavern and ale-house |
benefactor; the beggar’s companion;;
and constant trouble. He is his wife’s
woe; liis own shame. lie is a tub of
sw ill, spirit of sleep, a picture of a beast,!
and a monster of a man.’
A ‘curious woman’of Rockville, savs
the Il.irlf.mJ Couiuni, counted tiie
stitches she took in making a sin rt.
Fhe number was fuiiu it thousand
foil-’ hu.itr- I an-l thiriY-five
I
Klbf.rton, March 2d, 1
Dear Uncle Ben :—I send you two'dol
l.irs which I think will pay may arrearges,
an I put me near a year ahead—if not let me
know what will put me a year ahead, as 1
wi-h to jiay u year in advance always here
after.
You will iv membcr I am against law on
the liquor question, as a matter of policy;
though l have nothing to do with that now,
or any other question to he decided by
votes. Time was w hen I could afford to
I be patriotic, hut lain so busy now trying
“how oats, peas, beans and barley grow,”
and raising pigs and chickens, that there is
!no time left to weep for the drunkard. I
have taken time, however, this evening, to
send your dues. You are engaged in a
hard tight with a brilliant prospect of being
well drubbed in the end—for you will find,
in my opinion, liquor to be stronger than
any preacher, lawyer, stump-speaker, and
news, pa per, in the State. We shall see.—
But that is no reason your subscribers
should not pay, hut all the mure reason
they should pay promptly ; for it is pre
cious little, 1 fear, of any other sort of com
fort you will be able to take to yourself, af
ter the Ist Monday in October.
EP” The above was not intended for
publication, but as we omit the name, and
desire to make a remark or two, we trust
the author will not he offended at its ap
j pearanee in print.
Well, we differ, very widely, from the
| conclusions of our respected correspondent,
|in regard to the result on the first Monday
in October. We are aware that we have a
wily and powerful foe to contend with, and
that tiie battle will be fierce and every inch
of ground contested. But we have trutl*
and right on our side, and go forth to the:
battle knowing the enemy that we have to
contend against. It is true we need some
equipments, and thank, mist sincerely, our
correspond’ nt for the gentle hint to delin
quent subscribers. If the hint is successful,
we will clothe the B inner in new and shi
ning armor, our sword shall be brightened,,
and we will give the Old Prince such a
fight as will render him harmless in anoth
er campaign. But should we be mistaken,
receive the “drubbing” anticipated, and get
no pay from many of our Subscribers, it
will be too bad. Think of that tardy friends.
1 -.t March, 1853.
Dear Uncle By opening this paper you
will find a one dollar bill, for which you may
forward me a Banner for the ensuing year-
Address Bold .Spring, Franaliu Go., Ga.—
The women are awake in old Franklin, — ;
looking and listening for the Maine Liquor
Law in Georgia.
liesp ctfuffy submitted,
mar rna e. gunnels.
IrP” U e enter the above name upon our
list of Subscribers, with much gratification,,
j and call the attention of our Elbert county
I triend to the le ter ab iva, as a s tru iudieu
| lion, that we shall n it be so badly ‘drubbed’
as l e supposes. \Vi h the women on
, our side the Oid Piiuce may tremble.
racer’.* Jleetiiij.
The extract below is from otic of our
| Savannah exchanges, and is an indication of
waat may he cxpecli and Iro - the same class,
throughout the S ale. The proceedings of
the meeting never met our eye. which
: we regret; and we publish all that we have
-; seen of tiie s.uond meeting Our old eiu
my shall haven fair hearii g in our columns,
it l.e oesiics. e have iuiiglit him long,
j and with our best skill; hut the tight has
: been open and fair on our side, and we in.
i tend it shall be so still. \Ye rejoice that
j one day out ok seven has been surrendered,
‘and, vvith the blessing ot heaven, in five
I years, every day in tiie week will be free
i . tioin the sale ot A cohoi, (as a bevera• r t-,)
■ I by authority of law in tie Tgia! -
Grocer’s Meeting.
An adjourned meeting ot the rocers
of this city, convened ut the Long R >, m ,
ofthe exchange last evening, !br the
purpose of receiving the report oi a
cornmit.ee appointed at a firmer nice
ing to draft resolutions expresive of the
sense of that meeting on the attempt to
procure further legislation outlie traf.
tic in liquors, and to prepare tules for
their government as an association.
The ine> tmg was organized by Mr..
Win. M. Davids m pr< siding, anil Mr.
\\ aring Russell acting as Secretary.
The following resolution was read,
introductory to llu-ir cotistitutio i, and
unanimously adopted :
Resolved, l'hut the undersigned, be
lieving that the legislation which is re
commended by ibo'C who are in favor
ofi be law known ns the “Anti-Liquor
Law,” will be in violation of rights
which are inalienable, and not the sub.
ject of restriction by legislation : and’
| let-ling that it is a duty that we owe to
ourselves and our fellow-citizens, to
j prevent, if possible, any further pros.
11 cution ot a subject injuiiousiu its tei -
j dencies and restrictive of our rights as
citizensof lite U. States; are desirous of
j forming an association having for its
| object the opposition by a'l proper and
; lawful means, of any further legisla
tion upon the subject of the traffic in li
quors; and also for our mutual protec
-11,1(1 I he pursuit of a just and honora
. hie culling: And we do hereby form
murs. Ives into an association to be call
ed the “Urocer’s Association of the City
I ofSavannah.”
Among the articles of the Constitu
tion, we noticed the following declura.
lions:
I hat this (the association) is to
have no reference to any party (poliii
cal) organization now existing*”
In iclciuuce to a proper observance
ot tlte Sabbath, the 9:h article thus ex.
presses the sentiment ofthe association.
It being ihe desire of every mem
ber of this association to discontinue
the practice of trading on ‘Sundays,
and belie ving that ii will advance the in.
iciest of the association, we do pledge
’ ourselves i.. discontinue the practice,
and hi, , c.ose our doors on the
\ihhatk, % *
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