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(The Cnujjffltnff fanner.
PENFIELD, GEORGIA.
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Saturday Morning, May 5, 1855,
FOR liOVKBJVOM,
B. 11. OVERBY,
OK FCI.TON.
fIRM-BI9PB SHOULD IB SUPPRESSED ONLY BY LAW.
It is with astonishment and vexation that we con
t'nuo, now and then, to receive letters from intelli
gent people, or see the writings of intelligent editors,
advising moral suasion as the only means ol suppress
ing Liquor Shops. Allow us to speak out our views
upon the subject, and to show the futility of such a
remedy, and we would willingly put a stop to all
such harangues.
In the first, place, what has Moral Suasion ever
accomplished? Literally nothing! ’1 he greater por
tion ,f it.-, conversions have been momentary, and
almost ephemeral. The past history of the Tein
p r ,>,,•< Reformation proves the assertion condu
cive',. In the beginning, it “’as left entirely to Mor
:,l (•'msion: the prime movers of the cause thought
that that was the only legitimate means of ad van
ting it, hut they soon discovered its inefficiency,
and having tried every other means, save legislation,
they were at a loss to know how to proceed, and
iirr about to leave it in despair; hut the discussions
and < xpcrimentftl legislation which took place upon
the liei use laws becoming suggestive, a ray of light
dawned upon them. The idea struck them that if the
law could protect, they could suppress, and looking
about they found laws actually in force, and against
rviN which have no comparison to that of Intemper
ance. The most devoted friends of Moral Suasion,
were so fully of the belief that it was not the correct
remedy, paused in their exertions, and began to
tremble, and fear, lest all the time they had appro
jointed, and I he money they had exp ended, amounting
in the aggregate to millions, would soon he lost in the
ivthir cud swell of the evil they had been So long
endeavoring to extirpate. Their whole attention was
turned to the law, and experiment, and its success,
has proved it to ho the only remedy. Maine took
the ,‘iid, and many of her noble sister States have
fellow • and her example. V! hen our Tenijterance soci
etie. were first established, through the infiueneo of
M •nil Suasion, within two years, fee hundred thou
. mil persons became members of them, as abstainers
front sluing drink b hut was it an enduring abstinence?
History answers. No. Within equally so short a
on , thru’ hundred thousand of them fell front their
‘xabed positions, Mid sank deeper into their pollu
• i ■’ Him cur; uud could we cxjiect anything else,
wh ii the sumo evil which first seduced them from
lie-p; lh of loclitude was permitted to hold out to
the. 1 i' : Wily invitations? This is, in an important
sense, a war against the appetite, and it is hard to
ov.-roome a defect in nature. The avarice of the
•ell and the craving appetite of the drinker, offers
resistance whic’ Moral Suasion can never overcome.
Man has inherited from his primogenitors mental
weakness; he is by nature incapable of withstanding
temptation. \\ le u was the moral courage of Mother
Lve, w hen she violated the express command of her
find, and ate of the forbidden fruit? when at the
"ue time the great arcana of nature spread out be
fore her all that was glorious and lovely, and condu
cive to her comfort. That same veaknm is to he
found in the present day among her sons, and you
can never remedy it by argument And is he cttl
liablc? lly no means I—he has inherited it. Whom
then, do wo blame,—the rumseJler? No! Rut the
tiovi rnment ! and not only do we charge it with the
injury done, but we pronounce it a mockery. The
mmscllvi has never claimed it as a natural and inhe
• ii Jit to sell liquor; ho applies to the Govern
i it, and it grants it to him, and then protects him
in tin i xercise of it.
In the second place, moral suasion does not come
into this controversy. Let us define moral suasion:
■lt i i. prow ss of changing the belief or practice of
:m individual, by arguments addressed to his under
standing, and motives addressed to his heart. Eve
ry act of benevolence, so far ns it is produced by the
influence of one man, or any number of men, uj,on
another must he the result exclusively of moral sna
-ion. We use moral suasion to restrain men when
lb. ■ injure none but themselves. Whom, wc ask
and. s the Rumscllcr injure? Any one can answer
the question. And are you going to rely on moral
elusion to secure to you what is justly due you ?
W!> u n.-c is there for laws,and Governments? Yon
asen'ie to moral suasion the accomplishment of that
t V l.Vh government was established, and thereby
render ii a nullity. It is folly to talk of moral sua
sion i rou eting i man’s rights'.
In tb. third place, it is emphatically the duty of
tin Govern.,,, ,u to njqo css grogshops, and if it rc
’ 11 11 gain meddle with the
11*< , ‘lie ’ll no tmi nor manner, hclaimsthc
i :g .1 •> regulate, out denies its l ight to restrict it
Our Govern,no, , not only licenses, but prelects
1.0 ,nc r h i.m legal responsibility. If Uiey were
h’l’ :*u. Other citi/, ns. responsible for the legitimate
l u.t- ol their business, thecas* would be materially
changed. But instead of that they are protected
b’ mal muh, and at thus made the most honored
•o ‘ot men < have in ourcountiy. They make pau-
I’; rs * ‘ “"not lit compelled to supjwrt them—
They produce t rill,inala, hut iminot be tried as *e
w M> n > tunas the storekeeper, the butcher, the
. ‘’ :uo !tll ,K ’ W lia,, 'c for the character and results
the articl-e which they sell-thc doctor, for mal
-1” tier; the mechanic, for his work, and even the
* ‘J"’ for any pernicious doctrine he may
• mi with n.t other piofessionaj men—
-V ni. J.,,,,, /if h , Ullo , vrh rtnM)>ltlbil(y _
• • * ambassador and tin Devil’s co-worker in
hi* hellish
,. ’ tV 1 ’ community, thereby turning
. ami the,, to look withun
,, ’ “"'D’j 1 ’ m-y upon the vllhe baa u jought
; - to. thereat peid him by, leGoVem .
• P ‘D'c Bring beneath the
c- ot ..cem-e and lit. mure U™.
L I r ' ,nc “ i " t, ‘ '*lwry 1 with mo. day
8 U cwmUuouce such absurd,,i,* It* I
slur upon the intelligence of our State, a dark spot
upon her escutcheon, which, like the stain upon
Macbeth’s hand, all oceans’ waters could not wash
out. If the people w ould look at the subject in its
proper light, we are compelled to conclude they
would do away with that worn-out and long exhaust
ed “text” of inoral suasion, and we would rejoice
never to hear it again—for we honestly believe, and
ever shall, that it is inefficient to accomplish this
work ; and furthermore, we believe it to be the duty
of the government, and hence “cap” our article with
the assertion that the traffic “Should he suppressed
oni.v by Law.”
INVITATION.
We call the attention of Mr. Overby to the wish of
some of the citizens of Danburg to give them a call.
CROWDED OUT.
Some interesting communications have be. n crowd
cd out of this issue, but will appear in our next.
MR. OVERBY’S ADDRESS AT THE CITY HALL.
The following complimentary notice is paid Mr.
Overby on his speech before the citizens of Augusta,
by the editor of the Constitutionalist & Republic.—
We transfer to our columns only a portion of the
notice. We arc sorry to find the intelligent Editor
of that paper preaching the old, insipid doctrine of
“Moral Suasion” to suppress “Grog-shops.”
“We had the pleasure of hearing the greater part
of Mr. B. 11. Overby's Address at the City Hall on
Tuesday evening. He had a very large and respect
able audience. It was composed in a large degree of
our most intelligent and influential citizens of all re
ligious denominations, Protestant and Catholic, and
of all shades of politics, Democrats, Whigs and Know
Nothings. Mr. Overby made a highly interesting
and impressive speech, and made for himself a favor
able impression.
“He is a handsome man, with a pleasing and intel
ligent countenance, on which is plainly stamped be
nevolence, frankness and firmness. His voice is
strong and not unmusical, and there is a touch of
pathos in some of its tones which go direct to the
heart, as he pleads the wrongs and miseries of help
less women and children, inflicted on them through
the persons of tiieir husbands, fathers, and brothers,
by that seductive, but. ruthless old Tyrant, King Al
cohol.
“Mr. Overby speaks like a man deeply imbued with
an honest and earnest zeal in the philanthropic cause
to which he is now devoting his time and talents. —
His judgment may be misled, as we think it is, in
the means by which he aims to effect the.much need
ed reform of that monster vice, intemperance, which
annually desolates so many hearthstones, and claims
so many victims for untimely graves. But there is
an uninistakeable honesty and earnestness in the
advocate, which commands our respect and good
w'll. We have no doubt too, that Mr. Overby’s
present efforts in canvassing the State and discuss
ing the subject will be productive of most excellent
moral result;. Tt. will do good by arousing the zeal
of the friends of Temperance Reform—by exciting
universal attention to the subject, by inducing intel
ligent ntinds to inquire into “The Oid Law, the mis
chief, and tiie remedy,” and last, not least, by the
moral influence he will exert upon inebriates them
selves. This last, in fact, we consider the great and
most effective means and instrument in the hands of
Temperance Reformers.
“Mr. Overby has gone from this city to Savannah.
We bespeak for him a respectful hearing, from all
sides and all classes. He is an interesting speaker,
and no one can listen to him without feeling well re
paid for his attention. Asa Moral Reformer and
Exlioi ter to Temperance, he will do good wherever
he goes. It is from his efforts in this respect, and
not as a legislator, that we look for the happiest re
sults.”
The following notice is made of him by the Savan
nah Journal & Courier, on his speech before the cit
izens of that city :
“This gentleman was patiently and respectfully
heard, lust Saturday night, by about as many jieople
as could find admittance into Armory Hall. He made
a favorable, perhaps, wo might say, a very decided
impression, upon the minds of many of his auditors.
Yesterday he preached in Trinity Church (Methodist)
of this city. He leaves this evening, to fill an ap
pointment on the railroad, between this ritv and
Macon.
“Mr. Overby is a jileasant and forcible speaker,
thoroughly honest and thoroughly earnest in In's de
letion to the cause which he has espoused. This,
no one who hears him can question. And with such
a theme as the evils almost inseparable from the grog
selling, with which to work upon popular feeling, ho
will command supporters wherever he is heard
whether enough to elect him is another matter. This
we may sav, that we wish it may he Georgia’s fortune
always to have as faithful, patriotic, and competent
a chief magistrate as wo believe ho would make in
case she should honor him with that office.”
MAOAMNES, PERIODICALS.
Wo have on our table the following Magazines,
for May: Harpers’ Xetr Monthly, published in
Franklin Square, X. Y. Price *3,00 per annum.—
PutMm' Monthly, Dix A K<|,, ;r d-, Publishers, 10
Path Place, N. Y. Price $3,00 a year. The United
States Matron te, anew, superior, and interesting
work, just “gotten uj>.’’ Published by J. M. Finer
son A Cos., 1,3, 5, and 7, Spruce street, N. Y. p r ; oe
SI,OO per year. Graham's American Monthly.
Published by Abraham 11. Set', lOtt Chesnut street,
Philadelphia. Terms s3,o# per year. Household
‘Cords, published by Dix A Edwards, No. 10, Park
1 lace, N. V levinss3,on per annum.
Ve have also received the Southern Cultivator and
tb.’ Sod of the South, for the month of May, both
are filled with highly inqiortant and interesting mat
ter to farmers, anil each one contains a copy of the
Introductory Lecture of Dr. Daniel Lee, the Terrel)
Professor of Agriculture in Franklin College.
The founder of fl at Professorship has designated
the following subjects upon which lectures are to
l*e gi eon:
1. Agriculture os a Science.
2 Ihe Practice and Improvement of different
peoj'hi.
Oh niistry and Geofo'y, for as they m.-.,- he
I uaeftu in Agriculture. ’
1 A- Manures.
THE TEMPERANCE BANNER.
5. Analysis of Soils.
0. Domestic Economy, particularly referring to the
Southern States.
We have received the first number of the Georgia
Prohibitionist, published at Marietta, and recom
mend it to the public as a Highly respectable and
dignified sheet. We wish it success.
We are in receipt also of the first Issue of a
Highly creditable little Temperance sheet published
at N T ashville, Tenu., calling itself the Southern Foun
tain. Its motto is “Down with the Liquor Traffic!”
TIIE BPRIAL OF THE AUTOCRAT OF RUSSIA.
We take the following beautiful extract from a
lengthy and eloquent description of the death and
burial of the Emperor Nicholas, of Russia: —
“The embalmed body lay in state a week at the
palace, and all, from highest to lowest, were admitted
to kiss tiie dead man’s hand as a final homage. The
scene on entering the room was most striking, though
all the arrangement was simple. A small gilded can
opy covered the giided coffin. Near by was drawn
up a detachment of the splendid body guard; all
around were ranged the innumerable orders presented
by foreign potentates; placed near were the seven
ancient provincial crowns of the empire. At the
dead man’s feet stood a company of venerable priests,
in flowing hair and beard, chanting in a low mono
tone the Sclavonic prayers,, which continued night
and day from the moment of the sovereign’s death
to that of his burial. Hard by was the little cham
ber, where, stretched on his leather camp-bed, and
wrapped in his military cloak, he passed out of range
of cannon and caricatures. He died well; the worst
of his enemies cannot gainsay that.”
For the Banner.
B. H. OVERBY—INVITATION.
Mr. Editor —Some of the citizens of Danburg and
vicinity, wish to invite Mr. Overby (through your
paper) to visit and address us on the subject of Tem
perance and Prohibition, and to notify us, through
the same paper, when he will do so, and give us time to
make it public. These measures have some very
strong friends, as well as strong enemies here, and
wo think much good can be done by such means—
if the jieople can know their duty they will do it. I
wish to remind Mr. Overby of the strong opposition
he has to contend with in this canvass, —some of our
influential Congressmen, who are enemies to the
cause, would willingly prejudice the public mind
against it, if they could. But he will be encouraged,
we hojic, by the reflection that he is advocating a
good cause; one, having for its object the good of
the peojile and the glory of God.
For the Banner.
THE PEOPLE ARE NOT READY.
Mr. Editor —The Christian Religion was estab
lished and generally riceived, in many large commu
nities, in less time, after its first introduction, than
the time since the Temperance question lias been
under discussion in our .State and country. Many
other great reforms, both moral and political, have
been introduced and carried in various quarters of
the world in less time than this all important ques
tion has been under consideration. But in all cases
of such reforms it is natural to suppose that the last
argument of the opponents of the reform have been,
“The people are not yet ready.” The most remark
able instance probably on record of this ultimo ra
tion is is furnished in the history of Julian, the Apos
tate. Julian, in point of talents, is represented to be
one of the greatest men of the earth. Not only so,
lie was liberal and kind hearted ; but he took it into
his head when he found himself Emperor of tiie
world, that the people were not ready for the Chris
tian Religion. To this end he had the Pagan idols
set up, and tiie Pagan temples opened, and the an
cient heathen rights and orgies re-established and
performed. It is true he did not abolish Christian
churches, or prohibit Christian worship ; but after a
trial of years to make dumb idols speak, and the
worshippers of sin and folly live and flourish, he
found out his sod mistake—he found all dead, “a
dead Lion,” and himself covered with ineffaceable
infamy and disgrace. Titus he died, and with him
died t hose molochs of Pagan wickedness. Since his
day have arisen other and other idols perhaps equal
ly destructive to the physical and intellectual well
being of society, equally destructive to the body and
souls ot men. Among those, stand most prominent,
that heathen discovery, that heathen fire, called dis
tilled liquors. Civilized communities have embra
ced and cherished this demon: but in latter years
they have discovered that this idol, this modern god,
is a fiend from hell, and seeks worshippers only to
people the more rapidly that bottomless pit. The
people of this dark world, in these days, it miy be
repeated, have discovered the paternity and true
character of this model n god, and have resolved to
break down his temples and exjiel him from the land.
The matter has been under discussion and examina
tion a whole generation,—thirty years,—and yet the
prudent and would-be great men of the land tell us
that the “people are not ready” to expel him, and
that this heathen god and fiend of hell must be wor
shipped lo! these many years more.
J They all say that “temperance and the temperance
cause are good tilings, and that grogshops and liquor
I are great evils.” Thirty years ago hardly a man
could be found to admit such a thought. Thirty
years of discussion with its flood of light has pro
duced this change in the minds of men, and since the
22d February last, w hen action wt.s taken to embody
the great sentiment into practical ojieration in Geor
gia. tiie stale old phrase “the people arc not ready,”
has been written and spoken in Georgia more than
a million of times. And indeed it is the same phrase
and the same sentiment that has been used bv the
! watchers of tiie popular breeze, and by political
I trimmer* ever > into the flood, And it comes from the
j same v'la.-* and the same kind of people that are now,
> .aid ever have heeq dyad weights and clogs to all po
| litioal and moral reforms, and opposed to improve
, menu of every kind that have been achieved by men.
I Twenty years ago these men said the Temperance
men wore going too far—•entirely too far, That it
was wrong to abuse grogshops or intoffer, in any
way with those- who sold liquor, tha*. “the jraajdc
were not ready ‘ for such talk; that it was an unwar
ranted and unjustifiable, interference with the rights
of others. But mark the change. Two years ago,
and after the action of that large and highly respect
able Convention in Atlanta on the 22d Feb., 1853,
these same men cried out in great agon;/, “gentle
men, you are going too far, why have you changed
your tactics. You have no right to let the people in
the counties and neighborhoods abolish grogshops,
even if they are unanimously in favor of doing so.—
Why don’t you keep on with your moral suasion
principles. AVe always believed in moral suasion, it
lias done a great deal of good ! Why don’t you stick
to inoral suasion and let politics alone ? Do keep
Temperance out of jiolities. You will ruin the cause
if you bring it into politics. The people are not
ready for such action.” Two months ago, and since
the action of the Convention that met in Atlanta on
the 22d Feb., 1855, the same individuals, the identi
cal men, have been heard to say a thousand times,
“Gentlemen, why did you not stick to the plan you
started two years ago ? Why don’t you go in for
a law leaving it to the jieople of each county to dis
pose of the liquor shops? We were always in favor
of this jilan, and if you had only adopted it we
would have gone with you. But now you are mak
ing a j>arty question of Temperance, and you are ru
ining every thing. Oh ! what a pity that men will
go so far. We were always temperance men. Tem
perance is a great cause, what a j>ity it should be ru
ined by going too far. We always wanted the mat
ter left to the counties.” Thus it is and, thus it will
be with these men until the voice of the people, like
the voice of many waters, shall proclaim the truth,
and abolish tiie molock of destruction, the temples of
this heathen god. ARISTIDES.
Oemfc of
Change seldom, for changes are inconvenient.
Cheerfulness is perfectly consistent with piety.
Chide not severely, nor punish hastily.
Choleric men sin in haste and repent at leisure.
Conversation, however light, should never approach
the confines of impurity.
Carnal sins jiroceed from fulness of food and emp
tiness of employment.
Casual omissions and little sallies of wit should
never he severely visited.
Cater frugally for the body, if you would feed the
mind sumptuously.
Christian morality is true generosity.
Clemency is the brightest jewel in a crown.
Command your temjier, lest it command you.
Commend nor discommend any one hastily.
Contracts should never he undertaken unless they
can be strictly performed.
Captious people create trouble for themselves, by
troubling others.
Custom surpasses nature; be careful, therefore, to
what you accustom yourself.
Charity obliges us not to mistrust a man; pru
dence, not to trust before we know him.
Commend nothing so much as strict virtue.
Common sense is the. growth of all countries,
i Common fame is often a common liar.
Oomjdaisance obliges while it reprehends.
Complain not of the shortness of life, but employ
thy time usefully.
Create not imaginary wants, lest you fail to satisfy
them.
Compete not with persons who have means beyond
thy reach.
Competency can only be obtained by an attention
to frugality.
Complacency is more persuasive than anger.
Comply cheerfully where necessity enjoins.
Constant .serenity of mind can only be obtained bv
a clear conscience.
Companionship and good-fellowship must not be
mistaken for true friendship.
Jsgf Bishop Andrews, of the M. E. Church South,
accompanied by the Rev. Messrs. Moore and Ellis,
missionaries, had arrived at San Francisco.
J(fy T '(’ol. Kinney has been held to bail in New
York, in the sum of SIO,OOO to stand his trial on the
7th of May for a violation of neutrality laws. Con
sul Fabens not yet arrested.
the speech about the abolition of slave
ry arid t.lic intelligence that 20,000 troops were to be
sent from Spain, have been received at Havana, the
newly- raised volunteers are in high spirits, and gravely
threaten “ to ga to Xew Orleans and destroy the nest
of pirates” in that city-. Just fotch ’em along!
J3F°The New York Sun says, thr.t a company is
soon to be formed in that city, for the manufacture
of paper from sawdust and shavings, from which it
has been found, by experiment, that the most beau
tiful paper may bo made. It is estimated that saw
dust can be purchased for $a per ton, and that the
process through which it will go in tiie production of
pajier will materially lessen the price of the latter.
The sawdust is reduced to pulp, in the process of its
manufacture, by acids, and afterwards passed through
an operation similar to that through which the jiaper
in use is subjected in its preparation. From the saw
dust turpentine is extracted in quantities sufficient
to make it an object of labor, and the acid used in
reducing the sawdust to pulp is purified into its orig
inal strength, with loss only of about ten per cent.
Removal of the Pennsylvania Capitol.—Resolu
tions passed the House, on Wednesday afternoon, to
remove the seat of Government tc Philadelphia.
The Liquor Late. —The Evening Telegraph states
that Mayor Smith, of Boston, has expressed his de
termination to enforce the new liquor law, and that ■
he will soon issue a proclamation to thjt egbet
The Physician <*r the late fhvperor Nicholas.—
A letter from St. Petersburg says, Dr. Mant, homoe
opathic physician to the late Emperor, haa left Rus
sia in great haste and secretly, Re is reproached
with having too loqg concealed from the august de
ceased that his lung was attacked; also with having
himself prepared the medicines destined for the Eni
jk ror, instead oi having had them prepared by &
druggist. Great irritation was manifested against
him at Ft. Petersburg, and the Emperor Alexander
himself advised him, it Is said, to leave Russia.
U'Oi'y Penalty. —The slave girl who escojved from I
Richmond in the steamer Jamestown, and came to j
New York, was not recovered by the captain, and he 1
had to go back without her. The penalties for car
rying ofl’ a slave from Virginia are very severe—a fine
of two thousand dollars and imprisonment for five
years. When he arrived in Richmond ho found that
the girl’s owner had not yet become aware of her
escape. The captain related all the facts to the own
er, and he let him oil'on paying $1,250.
Computing Tel,graph.— An interesting invention
is Fuller’s Computing Telegraph, which lias been re
cently introduced in Columbus, Ga. The Times &
Standard of that city, approves very highly of it—
The most complicated arithmetical and geometrical
problems can be solved immediately. The above
journal remarks:
“Its operations are simple, rapid and accurate. In
working the equation of payments, average of ac
counts, computing dividends and interests, testing
the accuracy of balances, and its unfailing capacity in
the detection of errors in long and intricate calcula
tions, render it an invaluable Vade Mecum to the.
Ranker, Merchant and Mechanic.”
Present from Japan. —Col. Colt, the great pistol
manufacturer, has received a costly and magnificent
[iresent from the Emperor of Jaj.an, consisting of
several patterns of swords of the finest workmanship,
and several guns. These swords are said to be fai
superior to the celebrated Damascus blades, being
tempered in a manner known only to the Japanese.
These articles were in return for about fourteen hun
dred dollars worth of “Colt’s revolvers,” sent to the
Emperor by Col. Colt, through the agency of Com.
Perry. The Commodore, I understand, says these
pistols aided him no little in negotiating his treaty
with the Japanese Government. The Japanese con
cluded that a people who could invent a firearm that
would shoot five halls through one barrel, must be a
people worthy of consideration. A vorv sensible
conclusion this.
-I Patriot after his Bounty Land. —The following
is a copy of one of the two thousand letters applying
for oounty lands under the law of the last session ot.
Congress, which were received yesterday at the Pen
sion Bureau. The “frog-sticker,” referred to, which
was sent along, carefully done up by way of circum
stantial proof of the applicant’s service as claimed, is
an old-fashioned, half butcher’s knife, and half cut
and-thrust sabre, and looks as though it may have
gone through all the wars of our country, from the
old French war to the very last encounter with the
Souix, on the great overland route of Oregon.— Wash.
Star.
Washington, March 27th.
Mr. Commissioner of Pensions:—l send you my
irog-sticker. I was in the war at bledersburg, and
used this sabre like a true solger. I want you to
give me land, as they sty you are the man for that
business, and I want you to send my land to me by
the rale rode, so that I can get it, and I want you to
give the frog-sticker to the Congress of America, for
I see that old President Jackson had his sord giver,
to that benevolent asylum, or you may give it to tin
Washington monument. Your friend,
ELTON BRENT.”
Another Libel Suit. —We are pained to see that
“the difficulties in the Baptist denomination,” are
likely to be brought again into a court of law. The
Rev. Isaac D. Newell has brought an action for libel
in the Supremo Court of Pennsylvania, against the
Rev. \\ m. B. Jacobs, editor of the Christian Chroni
cle, published in Philadelphia. The Chronicle; thin
explains the case:
•‘And what is the offence in this instance? We
were requested by one of their number publish our
objections to the Bible Union move moot; we did so,,
in good faith and in a kind spirit. We told the truth
and only the truth. This led us to speak of the Bible •
Union Agent, in this city, and of his attempts to in
troduce anew version of tiie Bible by first traducing
the one we now have. We here sustainod our jwsi
tion by reliable witnesses, and we have refused, as
we still shall most firmly refuse, to take back or
modify one word of the truth. We are now sued by-
Mr. Newell, the Bible Union Agent, and wc abide:
the issue, Our position is impregnable, and wc have
no fear.”
Scene in a Western Pan£, —One of our Western
correspondents tells the story of a man who had a
draft on one of the banks of Illinois, lor three thou
sand dollars, for which he demanded specie. The
bank officers invited the applicant to come behind
the counter, which invitation was accepted, when
the door of the hank safe was opened, and addressed
the following language to his visitor: “Say, stranger,
look in that further corner of this safe, and you will
see a small pile of gold. Now, that pile is the least
possible sum that the law will allow us to keep or
hnnd a wasting, while we are a banking institution; ;
and if you think that I am going to break one of our
state laws to pay you in specie, you don’t know ’h 1 *?
I ant. You never wronged me, and I have- HO’
will against you, but take care how veui fo,-.. on our
bank, or I w ill bring out our revolvers."’ ‘ffio Gran
ger took bills for his draft— Vroanseripi,
This reminds us of an incident that occurred many
years ago, in one of the Wall street banks, when
sjiecie was not as plentiful as it is at present. The
good old president kept a keg of cents nearly filled,
which the porter was directed to roll over the floor,
whenever there was a call for specie—the latter at
the same time declaring in a loud voice, that he nev
er before had such trouble with specie. The rus..
was generally successful, and the call for specie sub
sided.—X. Y. Corn, Adc.
Jdask: l/sits in Massachusetts.- That remarkabb
body, the Massachusetts Legislature, has been legis
lating pretty nearly all the present session for the
benefit of the blaoks. They have adopted an addres
to the Governor, requesting the removal of a Judge
for acting as United States Commissioner in a fugitive
slave case; a law disqualifying all persons who assist
in the execution of the fhgitivc slave act from hold
ing office under the State Constitution, has passed
the House, we believe, and a law placing negro chil
dren on the same footing in the public schools a*-
wliite, has also been enacted. Now the blood of the
Winthrops, the Otises, the I.ymans, the Endicotts,
and the Eliots, is in a fair way to be amalgamate*
with tin- Sambos, th*> Catos, and the Pompeys. The
negroes have several times forced their children into
the public schools, and been sustained, in one or two
May