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YOUNG G RIM E S,
UY I). P. SIIIU.ABF.R, THE “MRS. PARTINGTON ” OF TIIE |
BOSTON PRESS.
Old Grimes is dead, that good old man,
W e ne’er .shall see him more;
But lie has left a son who bears
The name that Old Grimes bore.
He wears a coat oflatest cut,
His hat is new and gay ;
He cannot bear to view distress.
So turns from it away.
His pants are gaiters, litting snug,
O’er patent leather shoes;
His hair is by a barber curled ;
He smokes cigars and chews.
A chain of massive gold is borne
Above his flashy vest;
His clothes are better every day
Than were Old Grimes’ best.
In Fashion’s courts he constant walks,
Where he delight doth shed;
His hands are white and very soft.
Hut softer is his head.
He’s six feet tall, no post more straight,
His teeth are pearly white ;
In habits he is sometimes loose.
And sometimes very tight.
His manners are of sweetest grace,
His voice of softest tone;
His diamond pins the very one
That Old Grimes used to own.
A dicky tall adorns his face,
His neck a scarf of blue,
He sometimes goes to church for change,
And sleeps in Grimes’ pew.
He sports the fastest “cab'’ in town ;
Is always quick to bet, —
He never knows who’s President,
But thinks “old Tip.’s” in yet.
lie has drunk wines of every kind,
And liquors cold and hot;
Young Grimes, in short, is just (hat sort
Os man old Grimes was not.
(Shncj utal<
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For the Banner.
POLITICAL SIGNS.
Mr. Seals— I send you, for publication, some of j
the political signs of the day. All liquordom is in
trouble and confusion. The nomination of Overby
has cast a gloom over its prospects. Liquorsellers
show long faces in distress; little county treating
demagogues arc afflicted with a dimness of vision,
and double-faced-would-be governors can sec noth
ing hut “clouds and darkness resting upon all their [
prospects.” Old Scratch, too, their common lord, j
shares largely in their common grief. Not only does
he feel for the distress of his servants, but he sees ‘
that the very pillars of his throne is in danger of be-!
ing removed by the temperance reform. In this sit
uation, it is quite natural that an inquiry should be
started and run through all his dominions, “What
shall we do to defeat the election of Overby?” This
is considered an important inquiry throughout Li
quordom, for this man Overby is so saucy, as to tell
crowds of people that he is opposed to the liquor laws
for many reasons ; one of which is, that while they
protect the negroes from the alluring snares of li
quor sellers, they afford no protection to white men
or their children from the depredations of these de
stroyers. He tells them that he loves his little boys,
and that he wants the laws to afford them as much
protection as it ha- provided for the negroes He is
regarded as a dangerous man to Liquorism.
But his Satanic Majesty has proposed an expedi
ent, which seems to he adopted by his servants as
the best they can resort to. This is, for all old trb-k
workers—those who have long been in the habit of
putting up and pulling down men by convention-, to
profess anew and wonderful increase of their love
and respect for the people ; and to declare that, as
for themselves, they are opposed to recommending
any one as a candidate for governor. This is a bu
siness to be exclusively attended to by the people.
ihbotfb to (Tfiiipcnutcf, JCitcraturf, smcnil Intelligence, anti the latest Delos.
So talks some of the Editors of political newspapers,
&c. That the dearly beloved people shall now be
courted, wooed and petitioned to nominate for them
selves a candidate for governor, seems to be, ns we
think, the settled policy of all Scratchdom; and this
they are t.> do, without so much as a hint from these
pinks of modesty and politics, as to who would he
! worthy of their nomination 1
This much being revealed, we now conjecture the
; rest. I hough there is no doubt but the democrats
I will nominate, Ac., yet, that the policy here stated,
; is at present the’ policy ol the dissatisfied whigs, is,
|we think, too clear to be misunderstood. The way
j it is to be carried out, we suppose is, that after the
’ people have had love sick songs sung to them long
j enough, they will commence writing and publishing
! their complaints that a certain Mr. has not been
i called out to be their governor. Some of this being
| done, they will every where commence holding coun
! ty meetings, and by instinct, yes, by honest instinct,
they will every where know and call out the same
man. ()r perhaps, these meetings that are to be held
without hints or promptings from Editors, wire-work
ers or doggery men, will he managed by the influ
ence of the departed spirits, which have been of late, 1
writing to their friends, revealing the secrets of the j
other world, rocking tables and making them speak j
a language as plain as that spoken by Balaam’s Ass j
when he struck it w ith his staff. Whatever may be
the precise way, or the “Mediums” which is to work
this business, one thing is sure, viz: that neither
the would-be governor, or any class of his friends will
have anything lo do or to say concerning them—not
they—they are rather too modest and disinterested
for that! These men will all stand off, poor lovers,
and see how their blessedly beloved ones will work
it! Well, if the nomination of a temperance man for
governor, lias worked such a change upon these old
hardened sinners in politics, what will be the effect
of his triumph in October next ? Now think of that;
for all the present probabilities are, that all liquor
dom will not be able to prevent his being governor:
now mark that!
But what is to be the effect of these public meet
ings? Aye, that’s the question. Well, we suppose
it is hoped, that as Overby has nev r been working
in politics, and having nothing but a high order of
talents, integrity and business habits to rely on, and
| having no selfish interest to promote, lie will become
: alarmed, and be willing to give up the contest. That
! he is to believe from the noise which is to be made,
I that a 1 creation wants that other man to be govern
; or, is no doubt hoped. All this may seem very na
t tural to the liquorites, for they have been accustom
ed to raise frightful noises and news from the holes
of doggeryism, and the halls of their wire-working
trickers. Well, whether Overby will bescarced and
run to Texas, or stand up and light like a man for
the deliverance of his country from the laws and gov
ernment of liquorisrn, we will see.
LEWIS BENEAU.
Fayette county, April 1 L
For the Banner.
TO THE FRIENDS OF PROHIBITION.
Mr. Editor —Please permit me to say a few things
concerning our 22d February Convention, and some
complaints made against it. To defeat the object of
this body, a scheme of “feeding on soft corn” had
been adopted. This was to keep the temperance peo
ple ignorant of their real strength, and to prevent
them from setting up for themselves; so that they
might be used as poor tools in the hands of certain
two-faced men, who pretended to be much in favor of
temperance, but would be very sorry to see it carried
into politics ; that is, they would be very sorry to
see temperance men exercise the rights of freemen,
in trying to elect men who would carry out their
principles. By these means the temperance men
were to be pleased by being told by a candidate for
governor that he was for tlieir cause, and liquor sellers
and their folks were also to be pleased by being as
sured that the same candidate would throw the weight
of his influence against any and all attempts to elect
men to the legislature who would dare to Interfere
with the Boggard Monopolies, licensed and establish
ed all over the country by the acts of the legislature.
Notwithstanding all this, the temperance men,
feeling that they had had enough of these two-faced
candidates, nominated one for themselves—a candi- i
date that exactly suits them. He lias but one face, j
and when lie tells the people that be is for temper-j
ance, he also tells them that he is against the dogge-1
ries. He is in favor of doing away with the liquor!
traffic, furnishing liquor to he used as beverages, as i
far u- the people will authorize their Representatives !
to go. Having hut one face, and that being constant
ly set towards temperance, still In? ha - neither face i
nor smiles for liquor .'■tilers.
But as there were men, hard to please with any
thing we could do ; they have complained that we
were not sufficiently courteous to the minority of the |
convention. This is a mistake. It was suggested
that we should make our specche short, and the
majority acted upon it; hut one of these opposers in- j
timatrng that he would like to he indulged, to pre
sent his views at *oin< length, the convention told ;
him they would give hirn an hour. In fact, every
thing that liberality could a-k for, wa allowed to the
opposers of the nomination.
As one who lias seen some of the workings of the
managers of political contest-, wo beg leave to sug
gest to our friends, who de- ire the good morals, peace i
and happiness of the people more than they do the
triumphs of merely politi :al parties, whoso principal
object is the sp .ils of office, to them we suggest, nev
er to listen to the pretended opinions or news of our
enemies—never listen to their counsels, or treat with !
any regard their professed love of our cause. Tell ,
them we have principles, and that we have resolved 1
mm awn, sitiibmv, mi & i
ito act upon them. Tell them that we love our chil
dren, friendsand countrymen, and that we wish the ‘
i traps, snares and dead-falls which the legislature has
licensed, established and spread all over the State, to
tempt, entice and allure them into vice, ruin and
death—that we wish these State engines—these State
institutions—thesi nursed up pets of little dema
gogues in low jilaces and would-be governors in high
elevations, to be pulled down. Tell our enemies, |
that as the legislature and its governors have put up
and protected these State institutions of all evil, by
law, that we now want to have a governor and legis
lature that w ill put them down by law.
To the friends of reform, we beg leave to say, put j
out your candidate for the legislature—such as do j
not hesitate to declare themselves in favor of prohi
bition, and trust none who talk of the constitutional!
rights of liquor sellers to carry on their work of all
evil. Such candidates as these, whatever their pro
fessions may he, are devoted to the interest of these
traders. Neither the moan of weeping mothers, bro
ken hearted w ivos, nor the cries of children for bread,
will be regarded while they can serve themselves by
serving the liquor sellers.
I.FWIS RKNKAU.
Fayette county, April 14.
j iliitioti,
PROHIBITORY LIQUOR LAVV---ITN PROGRESS.
M vssaciu setts. —On Wednesday the 22d, at 12
o’clock, A. M., the Prohibitory Liquor Bill was I
brought to a vote in the House of Representatives,
and passed by a vote of 284 to 42. Fifty-two mem
bers were absent. This was a great and glorious re
sult. If no Court now interferes to pronounce some
section unconstitutional, it is to be presumed that in
the city of Boston, and throughout the State, it will
speedily be fully executed. Among the ayes were
• fifteen Boston representatives. The Bill, we learn, j
was soon signed by the Governor, and is now the j
! law of the Commonwealth.
Pennsylvania.— -The bill to abolish the whole sys
tem of liquor licenses, passed the House on (lie lltli
inst. by a vote of 57 to 27, and has been sent to the
Governor for his signature.
Connf.cth.tt. —This State, after nine months’ trial
of a Maine Law, held her election on the Ist inst. for
State Officers and a Legislature. The result has
shown that her citizens are not dissatisfied with its
operation. The question has been asked, “What
has the Law done for the State?” It has abolished
near 2,000 public dram-shops, and more are open.—
It has placed 12,000 inebriates in a vast asylum with
out temptation. It has restored peace and comfort
to thousands of families which before were so many
bedlams. It has led thousands of idle and vicious
men—idlers and vicious at the tavern and the drain
shop, to engage in honorable and profitable employ
j raents. It has removed temptation out of the way of
the young; made jails and poor houses almost tin -
j needed, and diminished taxation to an amount not
! easily estimated. Isal! this nothing?
Rhode Island. —The Legislature of Rhode Island,
at its recent session, strengthened its liquor law by
three additional acts, of which the Providence Jour
nal gives the following account:
The present law authorizes town councils to iiji- I
point as many persons as they may deem expedient;
to retail, in their respective towns, wines and other
strong liquors. I'he act of this session prohibits
them from appointing more than one agent within
any town or city.
The second act in relation to this subject, is an
amendment of the act concerning crimes and pun
ishment. It gives to the Supreme Court concurrent
jurisdiction with the Courts of Common Pleas in all
cases of appeal from any sentence of Justices of the
Peace. The practical operation of it is, that hereto
fore, persons convicted of a violation of the Maine
Law might appeal, and the appeals could only be tri
ed twice in each year. Under this law, they may
have to meet the Attorney General four times in each ;
year.
The third is the repeal of the act establishing a j
Court of Magistrates in Woonsocket. This court, j
we know not how justly, has the reputation of being j
friendly to the liquor dealers. It is now abolished, j
■and trials for the violation of the Maine Law in Cum- i
• lierland will proceed before Justices of the Peace, as
! in other towns.
Ni.w .Jersey. -The Trenton Reporter speaks thus j
! cheeringly of the prospects rn the State.
The first attempt to secure the enactment of a law ;
in our State prohibiting the traffie in intoxicating :
drinks, called universally at that time, the Maine!
Law, was made in 1852. The vote—in the House, i
of course, stood 13 for, and Hi against it. The next
year—’s3, the attempt was renewed, but with less
hopes of success, !) voting in the affirmative, and 15 !
in the negative. The next year, ’54, a perceptible
advance was made, 20 votes being obtained for the
law, and 39 given against it. This year, the gain in ‘
greater still, the law having passed the lower House
by the decisive vote of 35 to 22. Two votes more ,
would have passed it through the Senate 1 and this,
too, at the first trial. Many of our temperance
friends, possessing, we apprehend, more ardor than
discretion, afreet to be gp ally cast down and disqui
eted about the result in the Senate, hut we cannot, ,
| for our life, see any just cause for discouragement.— .
i Cheer up, ye disconsolate ones. Ihe God of truth !
is; w ith us. Hope, with her magic wand, beckons its
! onward.
Vermont.- The Vermont Penitentiary has hereto- ,
fore had from 80 to 100 convicts. Now it has but.
60. The cause for this decline in business is the
, rigid enforcement of the law against the sale of spir
’ ituous liquors. The jails in the State are in a still
worse state ot decline, many of them being without
tenants, and “to let.” The “drouth” lias had a sen
sible effect upon the crop of crime there, as it will
have elsewhere.
M arti.and.-- I he public mind in Maryland is ripe
for a prohibitory liquor law, and we feel quite sure
that there will be a large majority of the next Legis
lature pledged to the enactment of a Prohibitory
| Law.
lex as. —A gentleman writing from this State, says,
“Say to the friends of legal prohibition at the North,
that all is right at this end of the line. Texas is safe.
I Set us down as a Maine Law State after the grand
‘election in 1855. Some fifty of our weekly papers
|go for the law. An able lecturer is canvassing the ]
I State, Rev. ,1. Young, of Kentucky, who seems to!
j carry every thing before him.
New Bui nswick.- -This Province has recently re
newed and perfected her prohibitory law. It pass
ed, on the 22d ult., the House of Assembly, by a
vote of 21 to 17, and received tho sanction of the oth
er branch of Assembly without debate, ft prohibits
the importation as well as the sale of liquors.
Wisconsin. We deeply regret to say that Gov.
llarstow has vetoed the Prohibitory Liquor I,aw,
which had recently been adopted by decided major
ities in both 1 ranches of the Legislature. Through
the assumption of the one man power, the rum traflic
I lias again been entailed upon the people of Wiscon
sin with all its attendant iniquities. Gov. Barstow,
says the Tribune, is a politician of the Sham-Demo
cratic school, and is of course a candidate for re-elec
tion. As soon as the law was passed it was given out
by his friends that lie would veto it, and they have
been busy ever since in organizing the forces of Hum.
I*. S. The Legislature, we learn, immediately re
enacted the I,aw, leaving out the objectionable clause.
I’m; Ohio Law.—Gen. Cary acknowledges that
the Ohio law is doing much good, hut still lie objects
to it, because—
hirst. It does not interfere with the manufacture
j or wholesale traffic in liquors.
Second, It lines and imprisons one class of retail
ers, and leaves another, quite as dangerous, to follow
up the work of ruin, holding out strong inducements
to them to practice fraud and deceit.
Third, Its penalties are directed against the petty
retailer of distilled spirits, hut leaves the liquor in
his possession to bribe witnesses, kindle opposition,
inflame had passions, and deinorulizo the community.
Fourth, It falsely declares the house, where liquors
are sold, a nuisance, and provides for its abatement,
when in point of fact the liquor is the nuisance,-and
the law should provide for its abatement.
Fifth, It throws the whole burden of proof, and the
expenses of a failure, upon the informer, when the
liquor should bo made a witness, and its presence
made prime evidence of the guilt of its owner.
Sixth, It does not take away from liquor, kept for
illegal sale, its character as property, when it should
declare all contracts void when the consideration w as
intoxicating drinks.
Seventh, It expends its whole force upon the indi
vidual, when the implements of mischief should lie
forfeited and distrained.
INTEMPERANCE .STILL .MAKES VICTIMS.
What week passes without the record of life lost—
character destroyed -or misery entailed, by the sale
of ardent spirits in New Orleans? llow much disor
der, destitution, and violence it is responsible for?
Still the people slumber over groaning victims -look
calmly on scenes of terror to every humane heart
and our public servants fold their hands in Pharisa
ical self-righteousness, saying, “thank God, I am
better than those.” You are directly responsible for
every death, for all disorder, for all suffering, the
consequence of legalized liquor selling. That rum
blood stains your skirts. Read the proof:
F.htctof I nkiiiiiktv. —Toney Ossey had not slept
j off his ‘drunk,’ in the cells of the Fourth District, ere
| he attempted to clamber over one of the prison walls,
j from which befell, and was seriously, if not danger
| ously hurt. He was conveyed to the hospital,—
1 Southern Organ.
Another Ri m Mrsnnn, A man bj- the name of
| Michael Herring, residing at 82 Nielson street, was
j found dead in his bed by bin wife when she awoke,
jlle was on a drunken spree all the day before, and
! continued in it up to the time bis wife went to bed.
(The Coroner was called and held an examination, the 1
I result of which was, that he “came to bis death by
•an undue use of intoxicating liquor-.” Which one
■ofour tavern keepers will acknowledge that he had
a hand in bringing this man to a disgraceful and un
timely end? Who will now plead the “unconstitu
! tionality” and doubt the “expediency” of a law that
I prohibits such murders as the above, which are of
more than daily occurrence in our land ?—New
\ Iti nnmrirl Endoniah.
Another Victim. Dr. C. Blau volt, late Mayor
of Hightstown, died on Tuesday night last. He had
been a prominent and useful citizen, and at one time
held much influence in his county and neighborhood,
but the insatiable thirst for strong drink has brought
him to a sudden and untimely end. He was a kind
and indulgent husband and parent, a warm and gen
erous-hearted friend, a liberal and public spirited
citizen, a skillful and successful practitioner, and
would have been an ornament to bis profession and
, the pride of his fellow citizens. —Monmouth I)emo
rrat.
i
Homicide. —About noon yesterday a difficulty oc
. currcd in the vicinity of the drinking saloon adjoin
ing the Holland House, between Mr. Daniel Dough
-1 erty and James Martin, which resulted in the death
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of Mr. Dougherty by a stab from a knife in the
bands of Martin, lie survived but a few minutes
after receiving the wound. Martin was at once ar
rested and lodged in jail. In regard to the particu
lars of the affair we have heard several contfictina
statements, but as Martin will probably receive bis
trial this week, (the Superior Gourt being now in
session) we defer any further account of the matter
for the present. Mr. Dougherty was one of onr old
and valued citizens and his loss will be regretted by
a large circle of friends and acquaintances.—.l lliintu
Tntrll off liter , 18(7/ hint.
Women Wiiifdi rs and Ri m,— A committee who
examined the effects of the rum traffic in New York
j State, informs us that as they passed from prison to
! prison in their investigations, the remark met them
everywhere “Hewas put here for whipping his
wife.” In all their enquiries, no TEMPERATE man
was found in Jail for that crime In two-thirds of
the State of New York, ‘389 men’ were found im
prisoned for that crime, alone! and every one of that
number was a drunkard! In som Jails the women
whippors were 20 per cent., and in others about 10
per cent., of the whole number confined. Friends
of Humanity! look at this statement; three hundred
and eighty-nine men confined for beating their wives!
and not a temperate, sorer man among them!!—
And who’s to blame for all this misery? At present,
those who sell the maddening cup; but if you, the
sovereign people, do not vote down license, on every
occasion, the responsibility will fairly rest on your
own heads. See to it, then, that you dispose of the
rea 1. women whippors THE RITMSEI.LERS—as
did the London Liberal* with the cut-throat Haynau.
Down with them!
A SAD TALK OF LIFE’
During our brief career in the world of journalism,
we have often been made, (sometimes reluctantly,)
the confidant of those whose cup of bitterness in this
mortal world lind been filled to overflowing.
Yesterday, while staying in the vicinity of the
Southern Depot, we noticed a female with two chil
dren, seemingly waiting for the Southern cars. In
her youthful days she must have been very beautiful,
and even though her apparel was poor, her manner
exhibited intelligence and refinement. Using the
privilege of a stranger, she asked us a question rela
tive to the route southward ; and thus commenced a
conversation in which she told us tho following brief
sketch of her life, a sad, sad story, we fear that too
many of her sex have to tell, all arising from one
cause—-it drunken huehund :
When only eighteen, she married the man of her
heart. Hope was then bright and prospects were
brilliant. With love as her guardian angel, she fear
ed not the world ; she did not think of coming mise
ry, far less did she dream of cruel treatment from
the hand and tongue of her heart’s idol; but he
“took to drinking,” and rapidly sank into the very
kennel of dissipation! Then lie struck her when he'd
return to his house from his drinking revels, and use
coarse and vile language to her, and that, too, before
his young children. His next step was to quit her
almost entirely, “to take up with another woman,”
and thus did this miserable minded husband ami
father reach the bottom of the scale of morals.
Their youngest child fell sick and died ; and as the
little being, pale and weak, lay gasping and flittering
on the last spark of life, the mourning and ill treated
mother and wife thought “surely this sight will bring
my husband to bis senses.” She sent for him, and
he came, but not to reform, but to scoff and scold
her, and insult her, by telling her how happy he fell
away from her, and it was she was killing the child,
Ac. The babe died—and, says the mother to us,
“Do you think, sir, that I did wrong when I tell you
that I more no oath over the dead body of my babe
never to forget this conduct of its father, and to dis
own him as my husband forever?”
The husband afterwards sued to be restored to the
favor of his badly treated wife, but the latter refused
him, for he had lost character and self-respect, and
could not be depended on while bis associates were
rum-hole rowdies of the “Bill Poole” clique. She is
now on her way to Charleston, with her two children,
to live with some friends of her’s there.” —Eeterthura
Eifretn.
Bari'ii <• following truthful words are taken from
the Springfield Republican, a paper which has a
larger daily circulation than any other in New Kng
land, out of Boston :
“Has it not occurred to every body while reading
the accounts of poverty and misery in the cities thi
winter, how large a portion of it would be entirely
removed, and its place supplied by domestic thrift
and comfort, if the numerous temptations to intern
pereuce were but swept out of existence i \\ hat a
beneficent change is made in the whole aspect of
New York, merely by the suppression of the public
sale of liquors one day in the week. Let its thou
sands of foul dram-shops be closed every day in the
week, and how wonderful would be the transforma
tion I Does any body suppose that there would then
! be thousands of gaunt and shivering wretches throng
-1 ing the soup houses and eking out a miserable exis
tence upon public charity ? Away with nice theo
: ries about the right of man to make a beast of him
self. We are taxed by pauperism, afflicted with
| crime, and the very air is polluted with putrid and
festering social corruption, admitted on all hands to
spring from the liquor trafHc, and if the community
has any right of self protection at all, it has a right to
: protect itself from evils so palpable and insufferable
|as these. If Neal Dow’s plan of relief is not the best.
| produce a better. But until that is proposed, let us
have the remedy which has certainly proved effect
ual wherever it has been fairly and fully tested.”
( JAMES T. lII,AIN,
l PRINTER.