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For tlie Banner.
THE WORDS OF 4 DYING INEBRIATE.
T 1 V T . J . T.
There is no solace to my wearied soul,
No balm to tranquilize my ruffled mind,
No temperance ball, no council chamber,
No lordly palace, no majestic throne,
Am I allowed to fill.
Abandoned now by all that’s good and pure,
Estranged from friendship’s dear and holy tie,
I yield myself to fate’s untimely doom
And ne’er reflect of time beyond the tomb,
For I’m unfit to live.
Alcohol, foul disturber of my peace,
Meretricious demon of hell’s delight,
My life, my happiness, my all is gone,
A bloody deed of thy malicious hand,
For I no longer live.
Oh, thou reveler in sin and folly,
On me, one m ment, fix that eye of thine,
And when I’m gone, remember that’t was I
Who died a poor, deserted, sinful man,
Damned, damned forever more.
Augusta, Ga., March, 1855.
For the Banner.
AWAY WITH THE BOWL.
Away with the bowl, tho’ ’tis sparkling and bright.
It lures to destroy and wins to debase ;
’Neath its bright sparkling surface lurks a with’ring
blight,
To crush the soul of its victim in its cobra em
brace.
Tho’ the flowers which encircle it seeuw sweetly to
bloom,
Yet reptiles beneath them with envenomed breath
Sweeps over the soul like the blasting simoon,
Spreading famine, disease, destruction and death.
Like the bird that's enchanted screams flut’ring
around,
With no power to escape from the folds of its foe,
So the bowl’s maddened victim still sips it, spell bound,
Till he wakes with his soul in torment and woe.
Could the cries of the orphans, the mother’s sad tears,
As they weep o’er their sire, and she o’er her son;
Could the bright expectations, hopes cherished for
years,
Which by this fell monster forever undone.
Oh! man, could they all he brought to thy sight,
In a mournful and gloomy array,
Then thou would’st flee from its withering blight
And east the fiend thorn thee away.
Then flee from the temper, draw not near its path,
It sweeps to destruction the soul,
And fairv hopes blasted, disease, death ami nratb.
Are ingredients you quaff from the howl.
J. W. DOUGLAS.
Traders’ Hill, Ga.
For,ill? Banner.
TEMPERANCE CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR,
The question so repeatedly asked heretofore, “will
the Temperance men of Georgia run a candidate for
Governor,” has, I perceive, at last been answered by
the nomination of Mr. Overby. To the friends of
this great and glorious cause, who hare been accus
tomed to look in tain, for countenance or favor from
either of the two great political parties of the State,
who have petitioned our Legislatures year after year,
and session after session, for some protection against
the growing evils of Intemperance, to he answered
with silence and contempt , who have, with longing
eyes, looked forward to the day when the Genius of
Temperance panoplied in her strength, and inspired
anew with the divinity of her mission, would have
the boldness, in deliancc of party shackles, and par
ty intrigues, to muster her scattered and disjointed
forces into one solid phalanx ready for the great bat
tle which must sooner or later be fought upon this
question on the soil of Georgia; to such, I say, must
the prompt and energetic action of the late Atlanta
Convention bejnsl cause of gratulation and hopeful
ness. It betokens anew era in the history of the
Temperance movement in our State, which will close,
if the progress of other moral reformations may be
assimilated to this, in the utter overthrow of its ene
mies. and the complete establishment of its friends, j
The ides of October may not bring ns victory—but
iUbotcii to Cciupcraitff. literature, (Central intelligence, ani) the latest Melos.
Uaclewaril ’’ Wc may, it fe tree, for a time be de
feated, by the machinations of low demagogues and
tvyo-penny politicians, who win popularity by fawn
ing, and got office by servility, but the day of tri
umph vriii come at last, if the friends of Temperance
will bo “faithful to ihe c oho, and faithful to them
selves.”
Lot no entreaties from old politics 1 as-oeiates
swerve them from the strict line duty, and let
ttiem make no issues which <n, notlegiUinately grow
out of tins question. We have r candidate and a
platform which commend themselves to the suffrages
and the sanction of the independent voters of Geor
gia, and it is the duty of patriotic Temperance men
throughout the State, to give their cheerful support
to the one, ami their unqualified adhesion to the oth
er. Then
“Let us rise at once, gird on our swords.
And, at the head of our remaining troops,
Attack the foe, break through the thick array
Os his throng’d legions, and charge home upon him.”
We have been too often betrayed by promises
which were “kepi to the ear, and broken to the hope,”
into the entangling meshes of Whigery and Democ
racy, to be again unwarily caught. Experience has
taught us that nothing can be expected from either
of the political parties. They are non-committal or
treacherous as circumstances require, and as far as
our cause is concerned, “there is no goo 1 in them.”
Let the friends of Temperance then, —be they
Whigs or Democrats—in the approaching Guberna
torial canvass, spurn the efforts that will be made by
designing men, and pensioned presses, to draw them
from their allegiance to the Temperance Party. Lot
them make no compromises which will drive them
into affiliations with the heterogeneous masses of ei
ther political party, and let them enter into no alli
ance which does not look to the redemption of our
State from the thraldom of Intemperance, as the dis
tinctive and paramount feature of its organization.
Our cause is worthy such fidelity—Friends of Tem
perance will you withhold it from her?
FIDELITAS.
For the Banner.
PROHIBITION NOMINATION—OLD PARTIES AND THE
PARTY PRESSES.
Mr. Editor —As 1 do not often write for the pub
lic, I hope you will allow me to make a few remarks,
responsive to the hope of Aristides, who wrote in the
last number of the Banner, under the above caption,
and boiled to hear from some of his democratic
friends on the same subject.
I claim to be identified with the old democratic
party, and that from principle, but 1 don’t belong to
any party to ho dragged about into every extrava
gance. I don’t belong to any party opposing need
ful reform; and if the Southern Banner’s remarks,
relative to tho Prohibition Convention, are exponent
of democratic principles, I renounce the party; and
hope that every true democrat and whig, who have
duly considered the subject of the liquor traffic, with
its many thousand evils! will frown down oil sie't
trashy slang a* that of tin Southern banner; with
all such old party prejudices , as that of our friend
Aristides. lam sorry- that a true friend of reform
should suffer his old party prejudices so to run away
with his better judgment as to cause him to throw
dust in the eyes of his friends, because they honestly
diff.r with him in or about things that have been.—
Did I say dust. 1 almost might have said hail stones.
Now, friend Aristides, I would lake you by the hand
as a loving brother, and ask you to review’ your own
piece, and then reverse the picture, and suppose the
Atlanta Convention had nominated a democrat, and
then look upon yours as coining from the pen of a
democrat, and rating the whig party asyou have the
democratic party, and you certainly will see that your
position isone that will do the cause of temperance
more harm than forty liquor sellers could do! The
fact is, Aristides, unless you, in some way modify
your position, we ill have to class you with the
man that become jealous of the growing friendship
between two of his neighbors, and took the advantage
of the darkness of night, (ficticious name) slipped up
| behind one of the neighbors, aud struck the other
j one over his shoulder, thus leaving the impression
that one friend had struck the other.
I respect you, and love yon, for I have no personal
enemies; hut I was compelled to drop these hints
because I thought the cause of humanity demanded it,
but I hope tfifit abler heads and hands than mine
will take up this subject and show more fu’ly the
course t’oat the friends of reform should take in the
coming contest. <*ur language should be, “Conic
one, come all! - ’ not as whigs, nor ns democrats, but
as citizens of Georgia: as friends of humanity. Heed
! not the sneers of expiring parties, nor the whining of!
aspiring demagogues, hut bear the ‘Tics of suffering i
i humanity, the orphan’s wail and the widow’s sobs.— j
Already is.the banner unfurled to the breeze, and we
j sanguipe’y hope, that by next fall, our enlistments
i will have so increased that we will march our starid
! ard bearer, with an unprecedented triumph, into the
! white house at Milledgcviile.
WASHINGTON DRUMMOND.
Cherokee, March 20.
TENDER MERCIES.
A poor, woe-gone drunkard, relates the follow
ing
A shirt for </. drum.- -I went list* other day to a
man. who has, at different times, received a great
deal of my money; and told him that 1 was in a de
j plorable state for a dram; but I bad not the price
|by me. He .-aid you need not be bad long, with a
’ good shiit on your back. I stripped it off, and gave
, it to him, for which he gave rue a dram, and I was
’ obliged to go home without one, and what was worse,
PlffilD, SATURDAY, MARCH 31,1855.
Says the rum dealer, “ vv hat right have you to in
terfere with my business*” Let him lake the last
cenl or the last -hit t, from the father of a family, who
dates his ruin from his “strong ones,” and bv so
doing, forcing that funnily into tho poor house, for
his neighbors to support, and still he insists upon it,
“ that his trade must not be interfered with, or his
liberty to destroy abridged.” How wonderful in
this day of light, that the many should have so long
submitted to the tew, in so grant a wrong. Hut a
better time is coming.
QUESTION TO A CONVICTED FELON BY THE 10l RT.
“//ore you airy thing to say why tin Court should
notjiroeeed to pans uidenrc against y a?”
“If the Court please, 1 have something to say,
which, although it may not mitigate my sentence,
will at least entitle me to the sympathy and commise
ration of good tuen ; and may 1 not hope that other
young men, who are now following in mv footsteps,
will take warning ere a similar calamity befals them?
few young men, iu early life, have, had superior ad
vantages to myself. My literary education was the
best which indulgent parents could give me, in the
place where""l was reared. These parents still live,
and my strongest desire is, that they may never know
of the melancholy fate of their boy, and that they
may not, I have purposely concealed my residence,
and my real name, neither of which is know n in this
city.” [lnterrupted by the Court.] “We have not
time to listen to a history of y our life; you will con
iine yourself to the subject matter of the accusation
against you.”
Prisoner—“l had hoped the indulgence of the
Court for five minutes, but as this is denied me, 1
will remark that 1 liavo no fault to (hid with the law,
with the Court and Jury, the witnesses, or the at
torneys who have conducted the trial. Hut in ex
tenuation of my moral guilt, I declare before this
Court, and before my God, (my final judge.) that 1
have not the .slightest recollection of a single circum
stance in this whole transaction ns related by the
witnesses. Not a man in this room looks upon such
a crime as is charged against me, with more abhor
rence than your prisoner. J know J had been drink
ing freely with my comrades, and was quite intoxi
cated, but of all the events testified to in this Court
my memory does not retain one. I suffer willingly,
the ponalty of the violated law, but the God of per
fect justice will but regard me as the tool of tho dram
seller who received his license at, the hands of this
Court, to convert me into a demon, and then hand
me over to the officers of the law for punishment.—
I am another victim of the bloody traffic, and stand
before an offended country not only as a condemned
criminal, but as a witness to the deep guilt of my
country. My countrymen permit a trade to be car
ried on in their midst, with a full knowledge that
such as I will inevitably be ensnared and ruined. 1
am a sinner, and have been sinned against. Before
God I am not as guilty as the State which demands
my punishment.”
The Judge remarked that “drunkenness was no
excuse, but an aggravation of the crime—indeed,
drunkenness itself is a crime.” At this moment,
when the Judge was reiterating this old foolish doc
trine of the book, he was so inebriated, that he could
scarcely keep his seat. While his honor did not see
the force of the scathing remarks of the accused, all
the bystanders felt their truth, and more that a score
of witnesses were converted tv the Maine Law, and
went aw ay feeling that guilt, fearful guilt, rested up
on every individual who did not demand the extirpa
tion of the liquor traffic.
Reader! how far are you implicated in the charge
made by this noble but unfortunate young man, now
paying the penalty of violated buv in the Penitentiary ?
We ought all to tremble in view of the fact, that this,
and thousands of similar cases, will pass under the
review of a judge who is impel tial and just
THE VENDER IN TROUBLE.
This chapter we lake from the Cleveland Herald.
How many there are who, like this poor man, wish
the Maine Law would remove the temptation which
they cannot withstand:
A young man, in a state of intoxication, stepped
into a confectionary establishment on Water str* et,
a few evenings since, and called for a glass of beer.
Noticing his condition, the proprietor refused to sell
him any, remarking that be already had more than
was proper for him.
‘Oh,’ answered the young man, ‘l've been trying to
keep sober all day, and I can’t.’
‘Well, 1 can’t sell you ain beer, and yon need not
ask for it again.’
’ ‘Only one glass; come, here's the money.
‘Not one.’
‘l’m so thirsty—so dry.’
‘Well, there's a glass of water, drink.’ i
MtumMing up to the counter, the poor inebriate j
drank a couple of glasses of water ; and then, turn |
ing around, said, ‘you are the only man who has re-,
fused me liquor to-day—l wish u> heaven they all
| had.’
; He put his hand into his breast pocket, and look j
! tremblingly out a small miniature, opened it, and j
gazed upon it for some moments, it was thedaguer- j
rootype of an elderly lady, upon whose face were!
strongly marked lines of care and sorrow; pale, a!-:
most tillable, the countenance, and the eyes almost 1
seemed to search his soul, and apeak reproof to her j
erring soil.
‘Ob, my mother,’ ho said, ‘how much trouble, sor- j
row, and unhappiness, 1 have caused thee!’ His emo- j
tion was very great. At laM, tears came to his relief;,
lie wept like a child ; v. his upon the countenance
of those around were, depicted sympathy an ! _coqo_
miniature, j ut it in life pocket, ami turning, tottered
out, saving, you won't give me a glass of b. .*r—a
glass to drown all ?’ lie pans, and,
‘No,’ was the answer. 11c was gone.
‘Had I many such customers.’ observed the pro
prietor to those around him, T would take my beet
pump and pitch it into tile middle of the street, I
wish to heaven the Maine Liquor Law would be sub
mitted to us; I, yes, 7, who derive n large profit
from the sale of my beer, would VOTE FOR IT,
and that, too, freely, willingly, happily,’
1 eauie,’remarked a bystander, ‘to get a glass of
bt*r, but this fellow has so sickened my taste that,
more bitter than gall would be the stimulant, should
l drink it. Henceforth, since habit grows upon us
unawares, and since habit is second nature, 1 will de
sist from taking even my occasional glass.’
FRAUDS IN THE TRAFFIC IN STRONG THUNK.
Confessions of a Late Dealer in Intoxicating Liquors.
“Having been a retailer for about twenty years,
I have had occasion to notice the drugs and filth re
maining at tlm bottom of almost e very cask of liquor,
alter the contents were drawn oil. They are gener
ally of a black, brown, or reddish cast, - -throw off a
noxious effluvia, very offensive, and apparently com
posed of poisonous drugs and preparations, From
tho sediments and dregs of a wine cask, l have been
long satisfied that dye-woods are used to a very con
siderable extent in the manufacture of wines. It is a
notorious fact, that our distillers in tho country man
ufacture, in reality, most of our liquors—they make
and send the whiskey to New York, and other sc, 1 •
port towns, where it is metainoi pho.scd and trans
formed into our best Madeira, Port, and other wines,
into real genuine Cognac Brandy, St Croix Rum,
and Jamaica Spirits, or Holland Gin, and sent back
to us at an advance of from 100 to 500 per cent, pro
fit! In the first place the distillers poison it with
drugs fit is said with arsenic,) to make it into real
genuine old whisky, and then the adulterator poisons
it again—with anew compound, to transform it into
other liquors. No wonder the human constitution
falls an easy [.fey to such a deleterious combination
of poisonous substances, fs it not to be wondered
at that there arc not more cases of delirium tremens?
“But a short time fiilioe, when removing my stand
ing liquor cask to make room for goods more conge
nial to piy present feelings, I hail occasion to take
down a large whisky hogshead, w hich had been a
reservoir for retailing, and bad stood, on the bead
for several years w ithout being taken down or dis
turbed, ) found on the bottom a black, noxious, and
very offensive sediment, of several inches in depth.
This deadly mass collected from ordinary whisky
as it came from the still, without the addition of any
tiling afterwards, goes conclusively to show that it is
not only poisonous in itself, —but that the deleteri
ous substances are used in its manufacture.”
Dealers, having abandoned the sale of intoxicating
drinks, have it now in tln ir power to do a vast bene
fit to tin; community. The highly respectable indi
vidual who has furnished the above, has done his
duty. Others having facts of the like character,
should now give them to the public through tho re
gions and political press of the country. When the
voters of the State of Georgia appoaoh tho polls,
they should know before hand the kind of liquor, or
rather the kind of poison they vote for or against.
It i no wonder that the dealer- ding to their busi
ness with a grasp sJI deadly. What other business
yields a profit of 1 Os) to 500 per rent? Voters of
the Statu of Georgia, examine this whole subject
before you go to the polls; if you only arrive at a
small proportion of the trut h conrtected with the
manufectureand sale, (to say nothing of the use,) of
the intoxicating liquors now sold in this country,
you cannot deposite a vote for a delegate sanctioning
all this fraud, and finis perpetuate the miseries and
destruction of life find property, following in the
train of these frauds.
HIE 17,AR'S EAST APPEAL.
We, by the grace of God, Nicholas f., Emperor and
! Autocrat of all Russians, make known:
Our faithful and welt-beloved subjects knowhow
l greatly we desire to attain, without the employment I
jof the force of arms -without further effusion of blood
I—the end which we liavo constantly proposed—that j
| of defending the rights of our co-religionists, and of j
j Christians in general, in the East. This wish is equal- j
j ly known to all those who have watched with attorn i
| tjon and impartiality the march of events, and the in- :
i variable tendency of our acts. We have been, ami,
I till remain strangers to every other motive—to any i
[other view-in point of faith and conscience. And;
now, again, faithful to these principles, we have an-1
; uouiicod our assent to the opening of negotiations
| with the Western Powers, who have formed with
i the Ottoman Porte a hostile alliance against us. We
i believe vms have a right to expect on their part the
same sincerity, the same disinterestedness of inten
I lions, and w e do not relinquish the hope of arriving
at the re-establishtnent of n peace so desired, so pro
i cions to all Christendom. Nevertheless, in presence
i of the forces which they have assembled, and of the j
i other preparations they are making to struggle against I
us—preparations which, in spite of the pending no- j
I gotiations, are not discontinued, but even acquire
; every day, without ceasing, yet vaster developments
■ -we are constrained, on our aide, to consider im
j mediately the augmentation of tho means which God
j liar; given u* to defend onr country, to opp .sea firm
and povveiful barrier to atl the hostile attempts against *
j Russia—to all the project* which menace its security
j and its greatness. This, first of our duties, we fulfill,,
‘and, luvoking the* assistance of the Most High, with
nn |tftrlif'lt. i/litl! 11l I1 t (tint ft
VJAMES T. liLAIV
( MtIMTH.
vol. m-iWR m
to the Orthodox ('uin eh, and to yui dear coimti v
wo address this now appeal t 1! cite-.. - ‘..four sub /
jects, commanding, j
That the f.-u mat ; .vo ofa gxfWtta! jnalftn of the En.
pir„ uiilar, <j’ >< ro ‘(. Jt/ J.Dijiiri ) lx proceed
edwith
The arratijrynieiite relativ e f<s the formation and k®
the organization ul tills militia have been exHinin A >l
and cuts til’ fted hv tis, are. will be found ovj 0uw : ...!,
in detail to. special regulation. They will every**’
where be put into ec.-nit'ion with plinc.iiiatify am*
zeal. b
More thrift one. all-each, painful and even .-rut®
trials have menaced as and injured Russia; but she ha’*
always found her safety in her humble faith in Pro
videnco, in the close and iudi-voluble tie which uiitc-. ,r
tho Monarch t his subjects -his devoted children** 1
Let it prove, the same to-day. May God, who read j
lii ails~-wlsn blesses pure intentions—grant us hi 1 ”
as.-irttaricc.
Given at Si. IVtershurjc, the fltftfi day of the monii* r
of January, in the Year of Grace 1655,'and the Thlr®*
tieth Year of our Reign, ,n
(Signed) N’kh&M’ ll
. <J- -et
NEW POSTALE LAW, ho
Below we present, from the Gaily Globe, the mail - ”
feature of the New Postage Law, passed among
closing sicta of the last Congress: o’
1 lie bill pi ivid ‘s lint, in lien of the rates now
tablished by law, there shall, after the commence*’
moot of the next fiscal quarter, be charged for .-vet T
single letter lu manuscript, paper of any kind i
which information shall be askml for, or conmnwii .y
ted in writing, or by mark* or signs, conveyed iu th r
mail for any distance between places In the TTriit. v
State*, not exceeding three thousand mile*, thrs
cents; for nny distance exceeding three thousand
tulles, ten fonts. For a double letter the charge’
to be double; for a treble letter, treble; and lor a qua.
ruplo letter, quadruple thy rates. Every letter t
parrel not exceeding half an ounce we ight is to b
deemed a single letter ; and every additional wcigl
of half an ounce, or less t han half an ounce, fe to b
charged with an additional single postage.
Upon all letters passing through or in the mail c
the United States, excepting such as are to or foot
a foreign country, the postage is to ho pre-paid, <■:
oept upon letters ami packages addressed to ofticei
of Hit) Government on official business, which aim
be so marked on the envelope. And from and aft’
January the l*t, 1856, the Postmaster General ma
require Postmasters to [.lace postage stamps upon a
prepaid letters upon which such stamps may m
have been placed by the writers. All drop lettci
or letters placed in any post office not for tmnsmi
sion through the mail, but for delivery only, arc
he charged with postage at the rate of one cent eac
and all letters which are hereafter advertised as r
mainitig over, or uncalled for, In any post office, a
to lie charged with one cent cadi, in addition to t!
regular postage, Loth to lie accounted tor as uth
postages now are.
No poubnaster, or of tier jwrsdn, is to be allow
to sell any postage stamps or stamp envelopes for in
larger sum than that indicated upon their face, or f
a larger sum than that charged therefor by the Do
Office Department; and all persons who violate tl
provision is to he deemed guitty of a misdomeam
and, on conviction, is to l>j lined in any sum not It
than ten, nor more than five hundred dollars.
And further, that for the greater security of vol
able letters posted for (ransmisdou in mails of t
United States, the Postmaster General lie, and here
is, authorized to establish a uniform plan for tho r<
istration of such letters on application of the part!
posting llm same, to require the payment of thepo
age ns well as a registration fee of live cents on ev
ry such letter nr packet, to he accounted for by i
postmaster receiving the same in such manner as t
Postmaster General shall direct—provided, howevi
that such registration shall not he compulsory, am
shall not render the Post Office Department, or
revenue, liable for the loss of such letters, or the ct
tents thereof
•—•
PST'Scime years since two preachers were sent
a circuit in the South Carolina Conference, while
embraced the State of Georgia, one an old man a
tho other young Unci inexperienced in the itinerate
He had, however, enjoyed better advantages than t
old one, and was withal roindwlmt of an humorist
The old gentleman concluded that it would he b
i for the young preacher to accompany him the ii
! round, tokarn the habits of the people, tlie ups a
! downs of thi; new calling, and perhaps get some
! sight into the true method of preaching the gosp
• Having no great resources and h-os energy, and 1
ing on a circuit all file, he had contracted t
miserable habit of fixing up a sermon to preach
: every church during a single round. Aecordinj
st the first place they came to, ho read out tho t<
from Mat. vii. 14, 15, which details the sickness
Peter’s wife’s mother. His sermon was very pas
hie, but at every church the same tiresome rout
about “Peter’s wife’s mother being laid and sick o
fever,’ greeting the ear of the unfortunate you
minister, until he became re-tloss, if not indignant
the repetition of tho dose. At length they approa.
ed the village arid the distant tolling of the chut
bell Dill upon their cars, announcing a mourn
event ah ut to transpire. “Ah,” said the old gen
man^drawing a deep sigh, “some ono is dead, 1 w<
der who it can In#.” “1 don’t know,” said tlieyor
preacher, very unsopuisiicallj, “unless it be Peti
wife’s mother, for she has been sick long enough.’
Tie’ old Fogy was mum, for it knocked him out ba
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