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J. H. SEALS, ) _ . > I OIIO!(v. E. A STEED. S D SERB VIII. |. THE TEMPERANCE BANNER, PI HI.tSJIFD KVIRY SATURDAY I'.XCRPT TWO IN THE TEAR, ‘ BY JOHN H. SEALS. If "; IIAYMVR has a large circulation, which Is daily in- >’ crtatlng, *nd bids fair to hecorae tlie most popular paper In the! l South. It is offered, with .-.nii.lence, (owing to its circulation be ing ro general,) to Merchants, Mechanics, and l'rofes,ional men, i as an ADVERTISING MEDIUM through which their hutinea, nuty I he extended in this atel adjoining Slate.. TERMS OP SURSCIUPTinx (*,wt per annum, if paid in advance. ’ “ if not paid within six months. if not |>aid until the end of the year. ThRMS OF ADVERTISING. 1 square, (eight lines nr less,) tirsl insertion,. * 1 no Each continuance, -^t I'rofecoional or U incs- Carits, not exceeding 5 line.-, pr yr f, (Ml • STANDING ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 square three months, without alteration, (. S 00 l “ sl* “ altered quart* rly, 7 tM* 1 l ** twelve “ ** “ . Vi 00 • squire? •• “ v ‘ “ 18 (HI * “ “ “ “ “ 21 00 4 “ “ “ “ “ 25 00 Advertisement!* not marked with the number of insertions, ttlllhe continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. Merchants, Druggists, and others, may contract for adver ti.-iug by the year, on reasonable term-. A IU’MSELLER‘B DEATH SfENE. BY .MRS. MAUV It. 1fA1.1.. Wild was the storm and (link the night. I.mid howled the tempest thro’ the skv ; A , Earth shook as if some with’ring blight, Was felt w ith keenest agony. l’pon a bed .of softest down, Within a spacious mansion lay One, whose pale cheek and deadly moan. Told that he soon must pass away. The crimson curtains round his bed, The gilded trappings wealth bestows. All could not ease that aching head. Or bless the soul with sweet repose. Wild was the storm—his eye more wild, And Hushed with strange unearthly fire; l.ike some stray comet's midnight glare •Ar demon filled with furious ire, A piercing 100k —a shriek he gave, Which caused the circling blood to chill, “Away” he said, “thou yawning grave- Away! away 1 O death, be still! “Why mock me with that ghastly grin? Why aim that skinny hand at me ‘r Away, I say! thou horrid thing, 1 never, never ’ll go with thee ’ “Who comes?—more demons from the [tit To haunt me while I dying lay! 1 will not go, not ready yet— Again I say, away! away! “What! will not goal my command O God! what spectres do I see? Around tny bed they seem to sland. And fix their ghastly looks on me. “O heaven, they speak—they curse me all, Upon my skirts they show their blood ; Here young and old—here great and small, Charge nte with murder—O my God .’ “What, call on God! no, curse his name! 1 ask no mercy at his hand; Karth, heaven and hell, are all the same To me, now sinking with the damn’d. “Mv hands and soul are stained with blood, 1 feel—o that F could not feel! | Why wish ! it cannot do me good, I heir crimson blood I can’t conceal! “But hark! what’s sounding in my ears ; See how they thicker, faster come! They say iny wealth is bought with tears For which T paid them cursed rum. ••[ wrung it all from bleeding hearts I’hev say ’tis drenched in human gore! - True, true I own —• new depart, I’m dying, dying—etirse no more!’ The chilly hand now hath. <i his bm. His quiv’ring breath the conqueror sloh*. father of heaven, where i- be now < i w here his blood-polluted siud tor TAKE ttV'AV VIA LIBERIA. A prohibitory law, it is said, is a violation ol per sonal liberty. What rijrlit, it i- asked, has any man or any body of men, or even the .NtJite, to say what I shall not sell or what l shall not buy v The question is answered by den i mining precis’ |y what is meant by pcrronal liberty. Hoe-, per-on-: at liberty consist in doing, without molestation, wy ‘/tiiuz a man mav choose to do f any tiling ic/e*f cc*rf This is not liberty ; it is lawlessness. Liberty is power to do what we please, while we do no harm to others; or nothing inconsistent with the public good. Ho we complaiu of this? No; andyet observe imw this limits, restrains and shackles our freedom of ae- • tion! We cannot injure a man's person, nor -trike his children, nor take his purse, nor enter his house, nor put our feet upon his field, without permission ; we cannot set tin to o ir own premises, nor put any kind of picture we please in our own windows, nor go naked into the street; w. cannot lead any kind of life we please, on our own premises; we cannot le gally even sell ruui, unless we get a license, without trf>ing liable to punishment. We might occupy a whole day in enumerating things we cannot do, and the work would not be done. Well, do we complain BcOotci) to Cnnprraiur, fitcraturc, Central Intelligence, ani) % fatest slelus. ot this ? Do wo say it is a violation of personal lib erty ? Not ,it all. What then is meant by this as sertion that a prohibitory law violates personal lib erty? Nothing more than this, vve believe ;of right, certainly nothing more it takes from a man the lib erty ot doing, w hat he has been, hitherto, wrongful ly permitted to do. Had he been always prohibited from selling intoxicating liquors, os a beverage, as he has been prohibited from stealing, not a word would we have ever heard about this violation of personal liberty ! TO AGED ELECTORS. Let us call your attention to the past—call up to your memory the history of the doings of alcohol in your neighborhood— -count up the number that have been destroyed by it —the widows it has made—the orphans ii has thrown upon the world’s cold charity —the hearts of parents it has broken, and then ask yourselves where all this originated? Will not the response he ‘V/ic lliquor nhopn have been the main fountains from which these evils have emana ted.” We now want your testimony against this traffic—w e want your influence against it, before the day of election—wc want you to instruct the youth in your neighborhood, as to theirduty and give them your experience, tell them what Hum has done in your town, in times past, and what it w ill continue to do, if the people vote for its continued legalized sale; hut more especially we want all of you, capa ble of going to the polls, to he sure to he there on : the day when the people are to decide whether they [•refer to live under rum rule or not. We want you to ho there, that your years, your grey hairs, and your experience, may have their proper influence, hut above al! wc want your influence. VO LICENSE. i In the near prospect of eternity, can there be an ] aged man in the Slate willing, by his vote, to entail I upon posterity the legalized traffic in rum! we trust J : not—we believe not —we pray not.— JMnnet. INTEMPERANCE IN THE CRIMEA. The report from Scutari that Florence Nightingale was ill, worn out by her heroic devotion to the duties she had undertaken, fell sadly on a multitude of . hearts on this side the ocean that now rejoice to know ’ she is recovering tier strength. But as wc learn from a letter of hors just published in England, the cause jof this illness has not been correctly understood. It is not the poison breath of infection or the exhaus tion of until ing toil or the glaring summer sun which already states with fierce glow on the shores of the Bosphorus th.it weighed down her slender form. — I “All this could I have borne with deep joy,” she 1 writes, “hut to see the stretcher brought to the gates j 1 every hour laden with men foaming in the mouth and black in the face, not w ith the gore of battle, hut w ith the horrible defacement of a foe more dreadful or deadly than the Russian or the plugue, oh it is terrible!” This loe, of which she speaks in such touching lan-1 guago, is intemperance. The hawkers of u poison that has worked more ruin and wretchedness on earth j than all other wars and wickedness, have followed | like a pest in the w ake of the camp, and stolen on i their prey. They have worked, Miss Nightingale; says, more havoc than the hall of the Russian or the stroke of disease. Nor is this foul curse of drunken ness confined in the Crimen to men alone. Before Florence Nightingale sank and abandoned her jwst | ol duty, she had night after night to sit up, unable to j trust the women appointed as nurses, and paid to ■ watch over the couch of sickness. I util the grog shops were started at the Crimea her w ork was toilsome indeed, but still u labor oflove and of hope. Her nurses were vigilant and took pride in sharing the honors of their task. They are ! now jirolligate and abandoned drunkards. So this noble girl, not until alter repeated efforts at reclama tion, has been forced to admit. Before drink came, her patients were heroes; they are now sots. Veins i swollen with liquor are, under the Crimea sunglare, like powder in the focus of a burning ions. .She has had to move w ith disgust through lines of beastly ’ victims of intemperance. Hitherto she had over come the incapacity of rulers, the obstructivenrs* of subordinates, dirt, dearth, disease and death, but be fore these last horrors, in which under the raging’ physical distemper a still fouler moral disease de- i •.-troys, no wonder liiaf. dishearted and distressed, the brave heart which had so long supported her i frail .strength gave way. From her sick and almost dying couch she has ‘.-entail imploring voice, as many noble children of 1 humanity have done before, calling upon that coun try whose incapacity her heroism ha- redeemed, to -weep away those wretche- who taken and feed upon ( the misery and min of their fellow-men, who, as she -ay-, “know not v.haf they do.” Banish, -he cries, banish this deadliest of enemies from your own rank ! ] ; It can hardly be that such an appeal, coming from j ~nch a source md at -uch an hour, can pa-s; unheed ed. It wilt touch not alone the heart of England,! but will rouse and animate to in w exertion the brave land the good of every land. The picture of the work of I hi-, demon ol drink in ! the f'rioita is but a faithful type of it- doing* in every spot in which it obtain- dominion. If those only who often “knowing not what they do,” engage iu and sustain this fata! traffic, could follow its victims, and have p-~cd 10-fore them the brute degradation to which it has brought once honest men, and the misery it ha.- planted on many a happy hearth, we cannot believe but that they would shrink w ith horror from tills w ringing ot wealth out of the blood of their fellow-being-. It i- not in the revel round the camp fire of the Crimea that the effects of intemperance are found. It is in those scenes which have “truck down the miiii, cm sitimii, jm, i& gentle spirit of Florence Nightingale, it is iu the hos pital and death-heap at Scutari. It is not in the glee j ot the gilded bar room or the riotous loyster of the - convivial circle that drink is to he seen in its true ! form, but in the foul dens of vice, in the poor house ; and the prison, to which it is the over-teeming fotin-1 lain of poisonous supply. And let those everywhere I who labor to set hounds to this deadly evil, take new courage and gather a more persistent resolution from j the co-operation of this noble woman, who now sol justly commands the sympathy and admiration olj the world Trihunt. INTEMPERANCE. The follow ing is the most graphic delineation ofl the miseries and effects of intemperance wc have ev er seen. It is from the arguments advanced by cor-1 tain citizens of Portage county, Ohio, in a memorial | |to the Legislature, on the subject, in IMPS “And yet its inarch of ruin is onward still. It reaches abroad toothers ; invades the family and so cial circle, and spreads wo and sorrow all around. It cuts down youth in it.- vigor; manhood in its strength ; and age in its weakness. It breaks the father's heart; boi caves the doting mother; extin guishes natural affection ; erases conjugal love; blots out filial attachment; blights parental hope; and brings down mourning age w ith sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength ; sickness, not; health; death, not life. It inukes wives widows; children orphans; fathers fiends ; and all of them .paupers and beggars. It hails fever ; feeds rheuma tism; nurses gout ; welcomes epidemics; invites! cholera ; imparts pestilence mid embraces eonsmnp ; lion. It covers the land with idleness, poverty, dis- 1 ease and crime. It fills your jails; supplies vour j I ale-houses, and demands vour asylums. It engen der-controversies; fosters quarrels, and cherishes riots. It contemns law; spurns order; and loves ! mobs. It crowds penitentiaries, and furnishes the j victims for your scaffolds. It is the life-blood of the ■ gambler ; the aliment of the counterfeiter; the prop 1 of the highway man ; and the support of the midnight’ incendiary.” “It countenances the liar; respects the thief cud esteems the blasphemer. It violates obligation; and’ reverences fraud and honors infamy. It defames he- i nevolencc ; hates love; scorns virtue and slanders innocence. It incites the father to butcher his off j spring; help- the husband to massacre his wife; and I aids,the child to grind his parricidal axe. It. burns man; consumes woman; detests life; curses God’ j and despises heaven.” “It suborns witnesses; nurses perjury; defiles the 1 j jury-box and stains the judicial ermine.” “It bribes votes; disqualifies voters; corrupts ! elections; pollutes our institutions arid endangers our ( iovernment. It degrades tin: citizen; debases the legislator ; dishonors the statesmen ; and disarms the patriot. It brings shame, not honor; terror, not safety; despair, not hope; misery, not happiness.. - | And now , as w ith the malevolence of a fiend, ilcalrn j ly surveys its frightful desolations, and insatiate with I havoc, it poisons felicity; kills peace; ruins morals; | blights confidence; slays reputation ; arid wipes out i i national honor; then curses the world and laughs at i I its ruin.” RUM'S DOINGS. | The following is a faithful history, in part, of I I urn’s doings in a certain town iu the South - it may ’ Ik*, that some of our readers will be able to locate it |in South Carolina. All the cases occurred in the { highest classes of society. i Ist. Doctor , man, had an | only daughter. A fortune was expended on her j | education, accomplishments, Ac.,, lor she was ani . only child. That daughter, wi are assured, recently ! • died from decft drinkimj. 2d. Doctor , also a distinguished man, had an i only son. Much Money and care had been expend ed on his education, lie too died from the win/: cup. 3d. Air. , had four son- and one daughter. One is dead from drunkenness, and hi* daughter ut terly ruined from intemperance, and it- too fre quently awful results. 4th. Mr. ——had three sons —mu i- dead from ‘ ! intemperance, one killed in a duel, and the third is i now a debased, degraded drunkard. 3th. Doctor . One son dead from drinking i two .-lep-*oim fast killing lliemselvt - w ith wine —no i i other male children. <>th. Mr.— luid five sons -two of tho.o- al- • ! ready dead from drink anothei Inst following his brother.-. ith. G'-in-ral h- trie -on - —four of them are , intemper.it-, *rd one of them nearly an idiot from 1 drink. sill. Mi —had five-on- and tlire* nephew-—j ! lour “on* are dead from drink -the tilth is a drunk-: lard, and the three nephews art all dead, of drunk-, ennes-. ytff'See that voting man, whose habit- of business 1 have been ruined by dissipation, whose nights ore . spent over the gambling table, or in the lowest haunts of vice ! He mav hove the mo-t fascinating intellect, ■ and a heart which by nature is noble and generous. Andyet, thus throwing himself away, wasting o’ wreck of character and happiness, and bringing damnation on hi- soul, i- lie not a pitiable fool? Gan any brilliancy of mind make us respect the man who perverts, every faculty, and throw n away life, and peace, and salvation ? Words that are often used together become asso ciated in the mind; and unless w e r<*-i-t the force of verbal association, we shall often ay something dis- I ferent from what we mean lion cons £>c Lccii&M#* ; T ANARUS A In thee I loudly hoped to clasp A triend, whom death alone could sever, fill envy, with malignant grasp, Detached thee from my breast for ever. True, he has forced thee from my breast, A et in my heart thou keep'st thy seat; There, there thine image still must rest, I'ntil that heart shall cease to beat. And. when the grave restores her dead, When life again to dust is given, • >n thy dear breast I'll lay my head w ilhnut thee, where would he mv heaven? From thr Dollar TfUir* I.OVK SOMETHING Drehe sieh jedei I'm die eigne Lnst. Ooetht. Love is the oak to the vine of the human heart, by which it groweth upward to the broader sun light and the* purer air of Heaven. Many more, then, and rich and longer-living are the leaves and blossoms of the* vine, which, creeping on the earth, would droop and wither ere tho Summer’s parting. The human heart, like the vine, cannot he w ell and beautiful, unless it embrace Love, and feed its strength and support, when the bright sky changes and the roaring tempest falls. The air, the sun, the here and the hereafter of our being should be Love, —must be, if we hope for aught, or trust in the dreams the soul hath, dim, ■ mystic, inellahly beauteous, of the imaged longings of cur blessud deathlesaness. Life is not life, de prived of Love, the fashioner of Destiny, and con queror of Fate; the seed, the sun, the seasons, and the showers is Love; and by it is the plant of tho | spirit Ixiru and reared and perfected for aye. ; Ai t the highest, Genius the most rare, hath limned j Love only faintly; ns the first voice of music, was ! tho gush of the Heaven-horn soul, telling its Future ’ rudely to the heart. Thou cast-out one of Eden, tin* flat to labor has , gone forth, but the counsel to love is w ritten by Na ture’s band every where and ever, lleed the great • behest, if thou would not arm thy soul against itself, and slab thy happiness to death. lxive something, many things- all which thou i eaiist; and wed thyself to the I inverse by Sympa thy, -the ageless and halo-girt parent ol'all Love ! , Naught is ton humble, naught too high for Love - the (lowers, the stars are lovely both—the sea and i land, the bill and vale, the tiny shell and giant mount, the purling brook and roaring cataract, the human form, the mind, the heart, the soul, all lovely too and, as the string of some vast harp, bear up each note of Love in one wide harmony to the Creating Cause! Love something beyond thyself, if then love thy self truly. Open thy heart to tile treasures, brtun* ; toons and brilliant, which Nature everywhere dis plays-- fiHfull thy heart, if thou vainly hope thou : inny’st, with Love, and etfuse it forth again with will more prodigal than free. The Universe is all for every man; and let him i lusp it in his arms, and make himself its master hy his Love. Catch every w here the breath of Lore, and lie immortal with many lives, while thine own mortal one doth yet remain. Love something, love everything; and the joys of Heaven will greet thee ere thy time! * Jesus. WHO AHE^riMTAGUkESSORK. The Boston Post, n journal which, in the. fvot.-bed of abolition, stands almost alone in its vindication of the constitutional rights of the South, quote (Ik*fol lowing Irofu that accomplished scholar, careful ob server ami true man, Rev. Dr Adams, of Boston.-- In bis Sooth Side View of Slavery, among other passage*of like import is the following: “What bad the South done to injure us, except through oni sensibilities on the subject of slavery? What liav w e done to her, hut admonish, threaten, ! excommunicate her, stir up insurrection among her ’ slaves, endangers her homes, make her Christians and ministers odious in other lands.” * + * xx x X t “What has she ever done, except in self-defence, sin our long quarrel, which, upon reconciliation, | would rankle in our memories, and make it hard for •us to forgive and forget ? i’ositiv.ily not. one thing. We, have been the assailants, she the mark; we the i prosecutors, she the defendant; wc the accuser., .-lie ’ the self denying respondent.” This i- a fair and just statement of the case.— I How could it be otherwise? What motive ha.-, the | South foi aggression- upon the North? How could ! she extend slavery to the free States, if she would, , and what would she gain by it if sin: coo 14? The reiy word Ahohtiou tell.- the whole story, and gives the true position of the two -lo tions. Abolition! ■ Abolition of what? Os slavery; of Southern insti tution-. The North lias no institutions that the South wishes to abolish Os course, then, in the i language of Dr. Adam-, “they are the assailants, the South the mark; they the persecutors, she the de ’ fondant; they tlm aci ; u t .r(. ) .she the self-denying re spondent.” Yet, as the Boston Post truly -ays, these men, leaders of this abolition crusade, have the audacity to denounce the South as the aggressor*, and to in sist. that this spirit of aggression is so predominant among Southern politicians that %ny honorable onion or co-operation with them by any Northern party is idle. They revile and stigmatize as dough face*, lickspittle*, and thousandlfithft “ l —. I J — r ?., vHsme rw obtr’tde too near in VOL. Ml.-IMBI2B. i there arc still‘multitudes of such) who raises his | voice in behalf of the Constitution and of equal jus tice to all sections. France, in the blodies! days of its first Revolution, was never cursed with enemies more dangerous to tho peace, good order and happi ness of society, than tho miscreants who are fanning tho Hatties of abolition fanaticism in the North, and laboring day and night to dissolve the Union amt kindled the flames of insurrection and civil war. [Richmond Deajxitch, MEANNESS DOEtTivoT PAV. There is no greater mistake that a business man makes than to he mean in lii.s business. Always ta king the half cent for tho dollars he has mndc and is making. Such a policy is very much like the farmer’s, who sows three pecks of seed when he ought to have sown live, and as a recompense for the leanness of his soul, only gets ten when he ought to have got fifteen bushels of gmin. Every body has heard of the proverb of “penny wise and pound foolish.” A liberal expenditure in the way of business is always sure to be a capital invcslinent.- There are people in tho world w ho are short-sighted enough to believe that their interest can he best pro moted by grasping and clinging to nil they can get, and never letting a cent slip through their fingers. Asa general thing, it will he found, other things being equal, that he who is most liberal is most suc cessful in business. Os course we do not mean it to he inferred that a man should be prodigal iu his expenditure; but that he should show to his custom era, if ho is a trader, or those whom he ifmy be do ing any kind of business with, that, in all his trail saetions, as well as social relations, he acknow ledges the everlasting fact that there can lie no per manent prosperity or good feeling in a community where benefits are not reciprocal. Jlhii/'h J fir chant* Mtigazinc. <!•!> CHINESE AMAZEMENT AT ENGLISH FASHIONS. Europeans who go to China are apt to consider the inhabitants of the Celestial Empire very odd and supremely ridiculous, and the provincial Chinese at CantonMnd Macao pay back this sentiment with in tcrest. It is very amusing to hear their sarcastic re marks on the uppcarancu of the devils of the West, their utter astonishment at the sight of their tight - tittiug garments, their wonderful trowsers and pro digious round hats, like chimney-pots, the shirt col lain adapted to.cnt, oil’ the ears, and making a frame around such grotesque facts, with long noses and blue eyes, no beard or moustache, b :t a handful of curly hair on each cheek. The shape of the dress coat pu/yJcs them above everything. They try in vain to accoujit for it, calling it a half garment, be* cause it is impossible to make il. meet over the breast, and because there is nothing in front !o correspond with the tail behind. They admire the judgment and neipiisitc taste of putting buttons behind the back where they never have any thing to button. — How much handsomer they think themselves with their narrow, oblique, black eyes, high cheok bones and little round notes, their shaven crowns and mag nificent pig tails banging almost to tin ir heels. Add to all these natural graces a conical bat covered with rod fringe, and ample tunic, with large sleeves and ‘tack satin bouts, and a white Bole of immense thick nos, and it must be evident to all that a European cams*/ compare in appearance with a Chinese a MoiiEhvTirrioNAnv. Public Abuse- The mud with which every tra\ cler is spattered oil the road to distinction. Distant Relation- - People who imagine they have a claim to rob you if you are rich, and to insult you if you are poor. Belle—A beautiful, out useless insect, without wings, wlic.se colors fade on being removed from the sunshine. Heart a very rare article, s©u.etimes found in human beings. It, is soon, however, -destroyed by ffornmerco with the world, or else becomes fatal to I its possessor. Housewifery —An ancient art, said to have been on'6 fashionable among young girls and wives; now entire// out of use, or practiced only by the “lower orders.* Wealth—The most respectable quality of tin man. Virtue—An awkward habit of acting different from other people. A vulgar word, ft creates great mirth in fashionable circles. Honor—Shooting a friend through the head, whom you love, in order to gain the praise of others whom you despise. Friend—A person who will not assist you because he knows you will excuse him. State’s Evidence —A wretch who is pardoned for being baser than his comrades. Sensibility A quality by which the possessor in attempting to promote tho happiness of other peo pie, loses his own. *•■ SPEED. The velocity of a ship is from eight to twelve miles an hour; of a race-horse, from twenty-nine to thirty miles; of a bird, from fifty to sixty miles; of the clouds in a violent hurricane, eighty to one hun dred miles; of sound, eight hundred and twenty three miles; of a cannon-ball, as found by experi ment, from six hundred to one thousand miles; of the earth round the sun, sixty-eight thousand miles —more than a hundred times quicker than a can non-ball; of Mercury, one hundred and four thous and miles; of light, about eight millions of miles, passing from the sun to the earth —ninety-five thou sand in about eight minutes, or about a million times swifter than a cannon-ball; and the exceeding „ ~ u .o-'niig oenma turn, leaving the Chan ts cel lor to eiyoy his laugh at the adventure. S JAMES T. BLAIN, l pnixriiu.