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A MOTHER'S RYES.
A mother's eves are the magnets of the child,
To draw him up to boyhood; then, liko stars.
They arc put out by meteoric youth
Dimming the pure calm of their holy ray.
A mother's eyes, the grown up man forgets,
As they had never been: with knitted brow,
The goddess pilot of Ambition’s sea,
Steering his bark to island's all unknown
He never reaches. Lo !in dismal wreck
Those isles are covered with the ghosts of ships
That only drift there through Oblivion’s night,
Touching the shore in silence.
In old age
Remembrance from her portrait lifts the veil,
And then a mother’s eyes looks forth again,
And through the soul’s dark windows gaze, like doves j
New lighted from the sky, and fill it thus
With thoughts of innocence and dreams of love.
THE MOVEMENT -STATES AND PROVINCES.
Maine. —The Prohibitory law has been swept
away from the statute book -and a more stringent
one enacted instead!
The new Liquor law of Maine was signed by the
Governor, on the 17th of March. It provides for im
prisonment for one month for the first offence; in
creased terms of imprisonment for the second and
third offences; and for the fourth and every subse
quent conviction, SI,OOO fine, and one year in the
State Prison.
New Hampsk i r.—Th is is the only one of the New
England States which has not upon its statute book
a prohibitory liquor law.
Latest news from New Hampshire assures us that
the people are in earnest for Prohibition. They have
returned, it is said, a Maine Law Governor and Coun
cil, three-fourths, at least, of the Senate, and proba
bly more, and a large majority of the House of Rep
resentatives. Let thorn about their task, now, in
earnest.
Vermont. — A grand Juror, in Middlebury, elected
by the liquor men, instead of favoring the sellers,
does his duty towards law-breakers, after the maimer
of Mayor Wood. Among the parties fined, at the
insianceof the new Grand Juror, is Nicholas O’Brien,
who was found guilty of nineteen offences against the
law, and lined $l9O and costs.
The town agent at Island Pond, was prosecuted
for violating his lie nse; delivered up his license,and
some 50 or CO gallons of liquor, which was spilled,
The law is being executed in other parts of the
-date with wisdom and firmness.
The election of Censors has resulted in the suc
cess of (lie Temperance Reform People’s Ticket by
about two to one.
Massachusetts. —The New Liquor Bill, making first
offence punishable with irnpris ‘nment, passed the
House of Representatives, March 21st, by a vote of j
24 t • 41. The n mber of absentees or dodgers, was i
51. It passed tie S. nate without dibate. At the
present writ'ng, it is not signed by the Governor.
Now mark the “re-action.” Tin: notorious Peter j
Brigham, who up to this ha.- hurled defiance at the ,
Temperance men, and trampled insolently upon ov-:
ery law on the subject of the traffic, loses his courage
when threatened with a pri on. and has just sold hi* j
establishment, and quit the business. Pi ter was one ,
of the Temperancc men who kept forever recom
mending “moral suasion.’’
At the last town meeting at Palmer, it was voted
to abolish the liquor agency, because, ns the Palmer
Journal says, some of the liquor would not burn,
some would not freeze, and it was hinted strongly
that some would eat holes through a horse blanket,
and take the hair from the animal which it covered.
RhoJ Island. —The Legislature, just adjourned,
has passed three acts to give greater efficiency to the
Liquor Law; one of which forbids towns from ap
pointing more than on-- ngc-nt to retail strong drink,
in a town ; another gives the Supreme Court concur
rent jurisdiction with the Common Plea-, j n cases of
appeal, so that such cases can now bo tried four
times a year; a third attolishe- the W oonsocket
Court, on the presumption that the court was friend
ly to liquor dealers.
Ho goes invtl.e work of “re-action!”
Connecticut. —A Maine Law .S ate Convention was
held at Norwich, on the 7th of March.
We exceedingly regret to learn that Governor
Dutton, has not been re-elected.
StMtfc to Crmpcrancc. literature, Enteral Intelligence, ant) tjtc Jfatcst flctos.
William T. Minor, Governor-elect, however, was
recommended by the State Temperance Convention,
ius equally with Gov. D. an out and out advocate of
j stringent Prohibitory legislation.
David Clark, a prominet merchant in Hartford,
: and fined S6O and costs, for liquor-selling, ha np
• pea'ed the case, and is determined to test the law
fully, regardless of expense. Posterity will asso
ciate Clark’s patriotism, with Hampden's.
Official reports demonstrate the triumphs of the
j Connecticut law, in diminishing pauper and crimi
| nal arrests, vagrancy and street-begging. It make
the heart of the good man rejoice, to read any can
did newspaper from “the land of steady habits.”
Aetr Jersey. —The Maine Law, after passing (bo
House by a handsome majority, has been lost in the
Senate by one vote. On this occasion a drunket
i roman was in the lobby; and another woman, as
she left the Senate Chamber, met her drunken hus
band/
Disappointed, but not dismayed, the Reformer en
ters upon another campaign in the following spirit:
“Though the bill has, for the time, failed, the
good cause which it represents has not l>een defeat
ed. It stands strong in tho hearts of an earnest
people. Every hour's delay but increases the popu
lar conviction of the necessity for the law, and adds
to the number and courage of its friends.”
Liquor-sellers in Jersey City, count upon a great
increase of business, in consequence of the passage
of a Prohibitory Law in New York.
The council of New Brunswick, N. J., have grant
ed one tavern license. The Fredonian warmly con
demns the act as “taking a back-ward step.”
The “Carson League” in Newark, is accomplishing
a great work in breaking up the liquor dens which
have evaded the vigilance of the authorities.
Pennsylvania,. —Mayor Conrad is himself again!
The power to close the grog shops on Sunday, of
which ho was stript by the Courts, lias been restored
by special act of the Legislature. It was to go into
operation on Sunday, Ist of April.
The Mayor issued a proclamation in which he
slated that the provisions of the law would be en
forced with the whole authority of his office. He
enjoined the police, and requested all good citizens,
to aid in its enforcement.
A telegraphic dispatch, dated Philadelphia, April
Ist, announced: “The Sunday law is most stringent
ly enforced to-day, and not a single drinking shop
has been open. The refectories confine their opera
tions to eatables only.”
Ohio'. —The enforcement of the liquor law is very
general in the different couatieu of Ohio. Fines and
imprisonment are the order of the day for violations,
and a multitude of drinking shops have already
been closed.
At a recent term of Probate Court, in Belmont
county, no less than nine tavern and grocery keepers
were fined from S2O to SSO each, and sent to jail
from 10 to 20 days. The people rejoice.
All the principal hotel keepers in Cincinnati have I
signed an agreement to abide by the new liquor law
of Ohio, and hereafter not to sol! any liquor prohib
ited by said law.
Kentucky. —-A new Sunday Liquor Law lately
went into operation at Louisville. The Democrat
says: “The general, if not universal, obedience to
the law, must have gladdened the hearts w ho love a
quiet day of rest.”
In the city of Lexington, only taverns are licensed
to sell intoxicating liquors, and they are taxed S4OO
each per unnurn for the privilege.
At Princeton, Ky., licenses to sell liquor have
been increased to SISOO per annum.
The City Council of Covington Ky., has refused
to grant any more licenses to taverns and groggeries.
Missouri. —A Prohibitory law was voted down in
the Missouri House of Representatives on the 2d
instant.
Tennessee. —At the State Temperance Convention;
held on the 22d ult., a thorough organization of the i
friends of prohibition was earnestly recommended. I
It is understood that every effort will be made to!
bring the people to an issue on the Prohibitory ques
tion.
Alnbama.- -In Tuscaloosa, the charge for lice nse
is $5,000. The consequence is, very little liquor is |
sold.
North Carolina. —The price of a license for sell-1
ing liquor in Wilmington has been fixed at S3OO. — j
There is alo, according to the new revenue law, a |
State tax of 5 per cent.
Arkansas. —The Legislature of Arkansas passed |
an act at its last session, regulating liquor license. !
It is similar in its main features to the one now in |
force in Mississippi, requiring the written consent
of a majority of the resident voters of the township 1
in which the license is sought to be obtained.
Illinois. —A prohibitory law goes to the people,
on the first Monday of June, for their endorsement.
The State, meantime, is to be canvassed by tried
! champions of the cause, and an emphatic popular !
verdict, is confidently predicted.
The Municipal Election which took place in Chica
jgo, on tho bill of April, resulted in a complete Maine
j Law triumph.
The Mayor of Chicago is doing his duty; arid that’
lis saying a great deal for a Mayor. Heretofore, six
‘hundred grog shops have been in full operation on
the Sabbath. “Last Sabbath,” says a Chicago pa
per, “all were closed.”
$26,000 are to be raised by the Liquor men to aid
j in defeating the Prohibitory Liquor Law.
Indiana. —The inauguration day (the 12th of
’ June,) of the Prohibitory law, is to be marked with a
great popular demonstration.
Maryland. —A State Temperance Convention was
1 held in the Temperance Temple, Baltimore, March
nvu wmi, him it, ur % is.
20th. Judge Gold-borough, of Dorchester county,
presiding. The delegations comprised live gentle
men fiotn each ward in the city, as also-from a num
ber of temperance societies throughout the State.
The following are among the resolutions adopted
by tho Convention:
Resolved, That it is the unanimous opinion of this
Convention that the people of Maryland are fully pre
pared for, and do imperatively demand of the Legis
lature, the enactment of such n prohibitory law.
Resolved, That wo pledge ourselves to use our ut
most inltuence to secure the return of such members
to tlie next Legislature as will; for the good of the
State, give us such a law.
John H. W. Hawkins, so intimately associated
with the reform in Baltimore, addressed the Conven
tion, with I is usual eloquence and force.
B’/Veo sin. —A liquor law, partially Prohibitory,
passed the Legislature on the 10th of March ; was
vetoed by the Governor; passed again to obviate his
objections; and vetoted again by the Executive.
The Common Council of Janesville refuse to grant
liquor licenses the coming year, by a vote of 9 to 1.
loica. —On the 8d of April, the people voted for
Liquor Prohibition, in confirmation of the act of tho
‘ate Legislature.
Texas. —The news from Texas is cheering. The
Rev. James Young is now canvassing the State, lec
turing in favor of tho Maine Law. He thinks the
people are fully ripe for a strict Prohibitory law.—
Some fifty weekly papers advocate the law. With
such aid from the press, there is no power among
men to keep the Maine Law long out of Texas.
Oregon. —Westward the star of Prohibition bolds
its course 1 The people of Oregon are astir in this
mighty movement, and have taken one step at least
in the direction of the Maine Law.
They have just passed anew license law, by the
terms of which every one who wishes to sell liquor,
roust give ten days’ notice of his intention to apply
for a license, and get the signatures of a majority of
the legal voters of his precinct, to his petition.
The necessity of complete Prohibition is being as
siduously urged upon the attention of the people
throughout the Territory.
Canada—A prohibitory liquor law is before the
Canadian Parliament, and is extensively petitioned
fur by the people. Early in the session, 267 peti
tions, 41,162 signatures, were sent in. Among the
petitioners were the Catholic Bishop of Montreal, and
over 20,000 of his flock.
The Prohibitionists of New York, pray earnestly
for the passage of the law ir: Canada I
Nora Scotia. —A Prohibitory law passed the As
sembly lately, by a vote of 2!’ to 19. It was lost in
the Legislative Council.
New Brunswick. New Brunswick is the Maine of
the Provinces.
On the ‘2lst of March, 1855, the House of .Assem
bly passed the Prohibitory Liquor law, by a vote of
21 to 17. It is said to be a .stringent bill, prohibit
ing not only the sale of liquors, but their importation.
A itliont debate, it received the sanction of the other
branches of the Legislature, ft goes inlo operation
on the Ist of January next. To interdict tho impor
tation of liquors, is anew stop in Temperance Legis
lation, and will be hailed by Prohibitionists every
where, with enthusiasm and applause 1
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CQltsceUauecmef SclcetuMitf*
From th** Atlanta Tiiteliigencer.
POLITICS AND PROHIBITION.
To us it seems very clear, that despite the raving
of demagogues, goadc 1 to madness at thoir ap
proaching downfall, despite the gross misrepresenta
tions of the press, the cause of prohihlion, address
:ng itself to the minds, consciences, and hearts of
the free people of Georgia, will be a controlling ele
ment in the politics of the State. Demagogues may
endeavor to uphold parties who eschew morals; they
may inveigh against the introduction of any moral
principle into our stale elections —this is but natural.
It is natural fur men to decry that which they do
not possess, an 1 repudate that which condemns
them; but. the mass of the people of Georgia are j
honest; they wish to do right, and when fairly pr. j
sented, the question will find a hearty response, and
the cause obtain the firm support of clear heads and
honest hearts.
The strong and vindictive opposition of the, rum
party can only be inspired by the apprehensions of
the loss of office. Their strongholds, the grog
shops, are assailed, and these once destroyed, they
can no longer hope to control by such degrading in
fluenc -s; and hence it is not strange that they should
endeavor to perpetuate their influe ice, and employ
the liquor shops to aid them. But we hope the peo
ple of Georgia have become awake to their best in
terests, have seen the exceeding folly of keeping up
a system so ruinous to morals, and so great a tax ori
industry, and for which no defence can be made.
It is under a full conviction that they an- ripe for
the reform that wr: appeal to our fellow-citizens to
array themselves with us on the i ‘e of prohibition,
and at the next October election let. u- in united pha
lanx battle with Grecian, yea more, with American
and Georgian valor, for our wives, our children, anil
our country, against the w ilii st and deadliest fe that
ever s-saile-il the land we call our own.
Ob! but mays one, what will become of the whig
and democratic parti<-.-, if Overby is elected? We
answer, let wliigfc an 1 deiins.iats enlist, w ith us, and
whichever party will do the most to aid us shall be
our party, and wirii them we pledge ourselves to
abide as long as they prove true to our cause to put
down the horrible traffb-.
Oh! but says another, what will Sam say ? Let
him say what be pleases. If he is a whisky-loving,
grog shop-supporting advocate, his professions of
love for his country go for nothing with us. We
don’t believe in him.
But it ho will help us to effect our aim and push
forward the reform, we shall be glad to secure his
co-operation, confident that in depriving the objects
of his peculiar antipathy of the enemy wtuo steals
away their brains, they will show but little desire to
snatch the reigns of govermn mt from the hands ot
those legitimately entitled to hold them, and also
lessen the foreign rage to come to the land now (low
ing with cheap rum and whisky, but which will
then offer no such appetizing inducements.
But why add more. We may be deceived, but
we honestly believe from what we have seen and
heard recent’v in an extensive trip to the up country,
as well as what is transpiring at home, that the signs
are auspicious for tho success of the prohibition
candidate, and it only remains for the friends of the
cause to be active and persevering in diffusing light,
and we shall wrest from the demagogues their ill
gotten power, and confer it on those alone who are
willing to promote the great reform.
EDIT<)RIAL OORRESPONDEN(.’K.
Bt.Aiiisvu.iK, May 1, 1855.
The ('ause iii Cherokee Georgia. It is commonly
supposed that there still exists a deep-rooted and im
placable opposition in this section of Georgia to the
temperance reform, and that in this mountain coun
try the prohibition cause will find no advocates. As
little complimentary as this opinion is to the intelli
gence, virtue, and patriotism of the people, we con
fess that wo have entertained it, and it was with lit
tle expectation of seeing a single friend of the enusi
that we entered the mountain country. Our renders
may judge then the surprise and pleasure which vn
felt when we found hero as ardent advocates of pro
hibition as are to be met with anywhere, and thes
are not few or far between; and it needs only a fait
exhibition of our principles before the people to unite
a majority in this holy reform. “The fields arc white
to harvest,"and the mountains of Cherokee will si nil
forth their thousands in October next to array them
selves on the side of religion and philanthropy, and
vote to stay the ravages of the destroyer. Party
politicians and demagogues are last losing their in
fluence, and the effort to rally either the whig o:
democratic parties with the old party watch words
will fail. They awake no lively response.
We carin t be mistaken in the signs of the times.
The people are beginning to think for themselves,
and subject to a rigid scrutiny the motives of those
who are opposing moral reform and shouting “Great
is Dianna of the Ephesians.” They have been deceived
by the flatteries and falsehoods of demagogues too
often not to view with suspicion the attempt now ma
king to array them as democrats on the side of dram
shops and drunkenness, ami enlightened patriotism
spurns such an alliance.
Gol. Lester, of Camming, in a short speech in this
place tin: other night, remarked with emphasis, in re
ply to a speech delivered during the day by Col, Un
derwood, that he spurned tho imputation mad.
against the democracy that they were in favor ot
dram shops, or that those who advocated prohibition
were opposing democracy. “If,” said he, “to he
member of the democratic party is to be opposed ti
prohibition; if it involves the advocacy of dram shops,
drunkenness, crime, and all the thousand evils tho’
grow out of tho liquor traffic, I am no democrat.—
Whenever the democratic party becomes the liquoi
party, lam not of it.” This declaration from an old
line democrat, from one who has never faltered in
his devotion to his party, was received by the crowd
ed audience, a large portion of which were democrats,
w ith loud applause.
The American party up heie is in favor of Overby.
They are anxious that he should run, and his nomi
nation would be more generally acceptable than that
of any other man. If the American party consults
its own interest, if it would preserve its integrity, it
must not array itself against prohibition, for then
are thousands, both whig and democrat, who claim
affiliation with the order, who will permit no claims
of party to control their votes, but who will vote for
the prohibition candidate, and feel in doing so that
they have performed an act of devotion to God.
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OPINION OF EMINENT JURISTS'.
That the sale of intoxicat'ng liquors, as well as
all other practices, the tendency of which is to en
danger the happiness, security, hea'th, and morals
of the citizen may, and ought to bo legislated against j
and prohibited, to the extent that human government
can consistently prohibit vice, hardly admits of in
telligent doubt. Such has been the united testimo
ny of many of the most eminent jurists.
Said Justice Grier, on an occasion after quoting
the familiar maxim, u Stilus pojiuli svprema lex.:”
“All law for the restraint or punishment of crime,
fur the preservation of the peace, health, and xnor
als, arc, from their very nature, of primary impor
tance, and lie at the foundation of social existence.
They are for the preservation of life and liberty, and
necessarily compel all laws on subj eta of secondary
importance which relate only to property, conve
nience, or luxury’, to recede when they come in con
tact or collision.”
Said the Hon. George Sullivan, of New Hamp
shire, on one occasion: “The right of the Legisla
ture of any State to allow its citizens to tra le in ar
dent spirits, jnay well b<- questioned. To do so is,
in my view, morally wrong. If the Legislature ot
| a State permits by law a traffic which produces
poverty, with all its sufferings, which corrupts and
destroys the health and lives of thousands in the
!c< rornunity, they defeat the great and important end
for which government woe eeUbliahtd.”
vol ni-mmm 21.
Said the Hon. Mark Doolittle, of Massachusetts;
“Tho seal of everlasting reprobation and abhorrence
u|mhi this traffic is, that it has no redeeming qualifi
cation. It never has done man any good, and, from
tin- na'ure of the case, it never can.”
Said the Hon. Mr. Davis, of the same State, in
the celebrated cases of Massachusetts, New Hamp
shire, and Rhode Island, in the United States Su
iirctnc Court: “The worbl has raised its voice against
the indiscriminate traffic in wines and spirits, and it
seems to me that if health, morals, usefulness, ami
respectability are worthy of public consideration,
mid merit protection fr-im an insidious foe, the Leg
islature would be criminally guilty in wholly disre
garding a matter of such obvious importance.”
Hon. Mr. Burke, ol New ll nnpshirc, on the same
occasion, said: “Nearly the whole civilized world now
concedes that the traffic in intoxicating liquois is a
crime against society. It is disapproved of by man,
and stands condemned by the great moral Judge of
the universe, whose purity cannot countenance such
manifest and admitted wrong. It is an inhuman
traffic, a moral crime that grows blacker and more
hideous the nioro it is contemplated, and the more
its horrid effects become visible.”
Said Chief Justice Daggel: “It being admitted
tiiat tho use of this article is destructive to health,
reputat on, and property, it follows conclusively that
they who make and soil it, sin with a high hand
against God and the highest interests of their fellow
men.”
Said the Hon. Mr. Frelinghuysen: “We owe it to
our history, to our free institutions, and, above all,
to Him whose benignant providence has so richly
bli-ssisl us, that wo purify our laws. If men will
engage in this destructive traffic, if they will stoop
lo degrade their ronnon, and reap the wages of in-
: quity, lot them no longer have the law-book for a
pillow, nor quiet their consciences by the opiate of
a court license.”
Lord Chesterfield, in the British I‘nrllamcnt, ovei
one hundred years ngo, uttered upon this subject
that ever memorable sentiment—ne mutable from the
time, the place, and the person by whom it was ut
tered: “Tho number of distillers,” said he, “shoo'd
be no argument in their favor. I never heard that
a law against theft was repealed or delayed, because
thieves were numerous. If these liquors are so
delicious that people are tempted to their own ruin,
hit us secure them from the fatal draught by burst
ing the vials that contain I hem. Let us crush at
once these artists in human slaughter, w ho have rec
onciled their country men to sickness and crime, and
have spread over the pitfalls of debauchery such
baits as cannot be resisted.”
Said our distinguished Chancellor Walworth,
many years since, when reviewing this subject in tho
light of his clear intellect and moral vision : “’I he
time will come when ri fleeting men will as goon be
caught poisoning their neighbors’ wells, as dealing
out to them Intoxicating liquors as a beverage.”
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NOBLE SENTIMENT.
At an exhibition of d<-af and dumb pupils in Alba
ny, lately, one of thim, who w as asked lo define her
notions of “Woman’s Rights,” replied as follows:
“Woman’s Rights is a theme on which we spend
lint little time in speculation, for tho reason that we
ire not sufficiently strong-tiiindtd to discover any
great wrong. To us it. seems that w oman’s true field
i- her home; and to do honor to this, her intelh ctu
al powers need a higher cultivation than is usually
them. But as, a legislator, a statesman, a ho
coine upon the battle-field, there are but ft w who
now so strongly advocate tho system who wou and not
mlo, should they bo callld upon to face the stein re
ality. For ourselves, vve are satisfied, and would say,
in the language of one of our countrywomen, ‘Let
u-i go and learn our s'a ions at the tomb of Mary,
the mother of Washii gton.’ ’’
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A COMPLIMENT TO THE LADIES.
Walter Savage Landor, now residing at Bath,
England, in his 81st year, became acquainted w ith
Lady Blessington, at Florence, in 1825. lo Mud
lon's Life and Correspondent e of that lady, just
published, w c find suve-al letters of Landur’s. We
make the following extract: “Cannot you teach
those about you to write somewhat more purely?
lam very fastidious. Three days ago, I wasobligid
to correct a friend of mine, a man of fashion, w ho so
far forgot the graces, to say, of a lady, ‘I have not otten
been in her company,’ Say ‘presence;’ we are in
the company of men, in the presence of angels and
of women.— Transcript.
GRAVE OF A STRANGER.
The grave ol a stranger is holy ground. Ft is not
so, b-cause his hopes are gone—that friends who
floated on him are disconsolate—or because a female
bends over his coffin, and watch’ s the earth thrown
upon it. No—this is not the reason; it wou dho
difficult to explain why it is so. To witness the
slow proc -sslon—a widow among strangers, laying
her earthly hopes in a place remote from friends—
the mourning kindness of neighbors, and to hear
tho condolence of piety—the blessings of an aged
and venerable clergyman, asking the assistance and
support of divine power; all these occurrences and
scenes cannot but produce a so'tinn impression.
And there maybe friends at a distance, wishing
and hoping for happy tidings in relation to his liealih.
The anxiety which is occasioned by sickness, cannot
be confined by space. It is in the air; it looks on
the stars wishing them to tell what they know, it
asks of the tnoon, “is our friend better?” All this
is easily conceived. But can the stars publish the
truth? If the moon can transmit news, how many
hearts would heat when it rises, and how many spir
Us sink ere it goes down!
S JAMES T. BLADJ,
( PBINTEB.