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H SEALS. / “r, ‘ l orrims. E. A. STEED. S m SERIES. VOL. I. THE TEMPERANCE BANNER, ~ m.isiifcn . rut ?.vn ruv i.tcerrTwn in xm vkais, I BY JOHN H. SEALS. Ti,. HVVM.H h* . UKV <•■ir.'uloil. >•** * ,U '|> in ” I f.ii u> Ikcohii* lU< moil j.O|.uUr |.Hp. r ,n tl.e | N>a(h It is oIThc.I, w..L • .nfUewt\ towing 10 it’ circulation e- j K n.l.) to Were*,M*. M vhM.W, bu.t men, ,n ADVERTISING MEDIUM through wltich tli*ir l>n*n*'M may . Ik- tltrmlfHt in tLi aM * TERMS Os PL’B*?* ‘KIPTION . i 4l f m f r Annum, il p*i*l iu artrsnr . } •*! • “ if not paid wtliin *i* month*. *• •* If not paid until the end of the year. T Kit MH OK AI)V UUTIHI N<s. 1 *,uwe (ei*ht lta or t,t iiiirti(in t 1 W Kacli continuanee, 60 Fr(,f.-~-i..nl ‘.r lt.i-ine.i- O.rii-, u.it exceeding ft linos, f.r yr ft ‘Hi ST A N I)IM ADVERTISEMENTS. I goitre three months, without alteration, ♦ 5 IH) j i. „jj “ altered quarterly, #® l •• twelve “ “ “ 12 00 •2 square. “ “ “ “ ,Sh 0 - .. 21 00 „ ~ ~ 25 Oo pge.Uvertl-ementu not marked with the nuroher oj Iri-ertions, win he continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. tdgr Merchant*, Drugglsir, and others may contract for adver tising by the year, on reasonable term/. TEMPERANCE—A MIXK OF WEALTH. n Hive mo the ‘.■old the drunkard spends, The wasted skill, the labor lost. As ruin’s downward path he wends Unmindful of the fearful cost. And I will buy each rood of soil In every yet discovered land. Where hunters roam, where peasants toil. Where many peopled eities stand. I’ll build asylums for the poor, By age and ailment made forlorn; And none shall thrust them from the door, With withering looks and words of scorn; [’ll clothe each shiv’ring wretch on earth In needful, nay, in brave attire, Vesture befitting banquet mirth, Which kings might envy and admire, In every vale, on every plain. A school shall glad the gazer’s sight, Where every poor man’s child tnay gain Bure knowledge, as free as air and light; A temple to attract and teach, Shall lift its spire on every hill. Where pious men shall feel and preach Peace, mercy, tolerance, and good will. To every province shall belong, Collegiate structures not a few, Fill’d with a truth-exploring throng, And teachers of the good and true. Music of bells on Sabbath days, Bound the whole earth shall gladly rise, And one great Christian song of praise Stream sweetly upward to the skies. HuN AVI DDK It WESTBROOK .TOOK” THE SHERIFF. Some years since professional business threw ine into the company, for a long day’s ride through a dreary pine-wood country in an eastern county, with ; Mr. Stubbs its Sheriff. By the middle of the after-; noon, it e had exhausted, as subjects of conversation, - the particular attachment case which brought us to-! gether, the political condition of the country, the i prospects of the growing crop, and several matters j of personal history. In fact, tve had run out —to use a trite but expressive metaphor—when suddenly Mr. Stubbs’ eye Hashed, and a strange smile flutter- j i-d across his lips, as he remarked : “I havu’t told you, Squire, l believe, how 1 got | mined servin’ the first process (the Sheriff was not I a learned man, and occasionally did misplace the ac ,', iiU that ever ciune into my hands.” “So; let’s have it.” I replied, turning half round j in the saddle; “it rot you some money, did it—your I mistake ?” “Ah “ lie i jacubtted with ;i -igb, •’it ixs-t t heap -a fen], .’” This was .-aid with 1 h*-. air of much suffering, and 1 told him if it awakened painful emotion!-, lie must lint think of opening the nid wound, merely for my < ntcrtainmont. “ItV all over now,” said he. “and 1 don’t tnind lollin’ it.” 1 don’t know how it whs, just at this moment I c.mght sight of a shabby fold of crape around his hat, and l could not helj. associating it with the sigh, the lugubrious expression, and the “salvin’ of the iirst process.” A win thni, wt shall discover anmething presently. Mr. Stubbs proceeded . • I was Tected lirst sheriff of the county, and at that time there weren't moi'n three or four hundred vo ters in it. To be sure, 1 was right proud—it was -itch an honor, like.' 1 “This is your second term, then ?’ ••Yes, I had to miss one term of service on account of the law ; but then I was depity (deputy) under Stokes, ami when hie time run out last, two years ago, 1w as elected again. Hut that ain't tellin how 1 got ruinated by tli.it writ. Now it’s reasonable to -oppose that the first of a thing ain’t so easy to know a-, the middle or the last. So when the lawyer down at town made out the paper and put it in my hands 1 was just as had nonplussed ** ever you see.” “What sort of a writ was it!” “Nothin’ but the common sort, i'o/cis rtt) 1 know ’em now, like a book Es I ha/1 only knowed ’em then!” Here another deep drawn sigh supplied the place of words. *‘l took the plaguy thing home, and l called in Bill Stokes (which wa- sheriff himself, after that; and old Squire Lumpkin to counsel me on it We read it ■Elfbotrt to rniiptranct, literature, tieneral Intelligence, an) tljc latest slctos. ! over throe or four til ms. It ordered me to take the j hotly of Hanna Westbrook if to be found in my coun | ty, and her safely to keep so that I should have her jto answer before the judges at the next circuit, for a | debt she owed; and more’ll that, it said l was to do |it without delay-—and it was nigh on to live months ! till Court: What was Itodo w ith her all that time, j and no sign of a jail in that county V” “Well, it was a hard looking case, but that was simply a form, and the writ might have been served by leaving a copy with the lady.” “Oh, 1 know that mighty well now, hut l didn’t know it then ! Besides, at the bottom of the paper was writ, ‘No hail,’and I know now that them words means no bail required ; but 1 thought then it meant that efslui was to offer the best security in the State 1 wnrn’t to take it. And it was the construction that Stokosand Lumpkin both put upon it; and the old Squire went so far as to .say, es he was Sheriff he’d take that woman and carry her home and lock her up in the .-mall room with himself and his wife, ev ery night, ontel Court came round.” “That would have made it pretty safe.” “Yes,” said Stubbs, “but I knott ed that wouldn’t j suit me, for my wife (that was then) was high tetn ! pored, and never would hear strange people in the room. But, how ever, after counsellin* I got Stokes to go with me, and 1 went up to the widder and told ! toy business. She was mighty bad scared at first, . but when she got over that she Cared and pitched, j 1 should jist a gin out and gone home and resigned, j but Stokes quieted her sayin’ we could put her in i jail, but es she behaved hcretlf we’d only take her : down to my house, and let her stay tell Court. Then i she turned into cry in’ and beggin’ to take her nigger | woman and keep her for security for the debt, which ; was only something over a hundred dollars, and the ; nigger was likely. But I looked in my paper and read it out to tier —to take the hody ofFlanna. j brook /” “She said she’d go, and she bad the old roan horse i saddled up, and while Stokes and me were talkin’ ‘and not noticin’, she mounted him ami started off in ; a lively canter, on the Georgia end of the trail. \Ve mounted and galloped after her, and she hadn’t got a half mile before we had her. Then she cried and begged again, but we put a plough line round her waist and held the end, and after letting her give some directions to her nigger, I took her down to my house. My wife treated her very civil, uud every day or two we’d let her go up home and look after : her oonsarns. So time rolled on till about a month before Court, and one day Stokes rid up to the gate, in a powerful hurry, and called rne out “You’ve played thunder,” said he. ‘llow V” said I. “Why, think of Mrs. Westbrook. It’s all wrong, and she’s sent w ord to the very lawyer that put out that writ against her; anti’s got two against you; one to make you turn her loose, and t’other to make you pay twenty thousand dollars for taking her I” “I shan’t serve ’em,” says I. “Makes no odds. They’ve done appointed a kuri i nor, (eoriiier) and he’ll be up to-morrow, soon as ; Mrs. Westbrook has a chants- to swear to somethin’, i You’d better look out I” “Well,” said 1, “I reckon they’ve got you. You j was along, and helpt to do it.” | “Oh, yes,” says he, “but they’ve got ine for a wit j ness!” “I said no more, but walked right into the house, and there I saw the widder looking mighty pleased, j and 1 told her slie was free to go, and asked pardon, j and shouldn’t charge her any board, and 1 hoped ‘she’d come and see my old woman, and so on, and | so forth.” “She went, f suppose.” “She did, and the kurriner come ; and he showed ! me how to serve a writ by copy, I shall never forget ; it. She look me into Court and there weren’t noth ; in’ done the first time. Before the next Court, my ; old woman died, and that upsurged every thing.— What with her (lyin’ a .and the suit. I thought I would j go crazy, to be sure.” j “But you didn’t?” “No. I bore it as Well as I could, and just before j Court came along the lawyer—Jenkins- said to me, \‘l think you and my client, Mrs. Westbrook, could compromise that cii-a-,, es you wa.v to talk together j about it.’ 1 hardly waited for him to leave, fa-fore ; I jumped on my horse and rode up to the tv Riders.” “She sorter laughed and -aid may Is-.” “I’ll give you a hundred dollars to drop it,” said 1. i “>lh- frowned rnightly, and said that warn’t the way she w anted to settle it.” “I’d give you two,*’ said I. “She frowned worse than before, and -aid Unit warn’t the way she wanted to settle.’ “Directly something came right into toy mind. I ; seemed to see plain. I studied and considered.— Then 1 cleared my throat ‘Widder,’ say- f, ‘will | you have me ?’ “Says she, ‘I will!’ “I give that rascal Jenkins fifty dollars tor his j share -mid then the w Rider took me for her*. I had kept her an unlawful prisoner for nigh four months, j but, Squire, she had n-under arrest for might v nigh seven year*!” SELFISHYESS IV PRAYER. Selfishness is so born and bred in wan, that it comes out more ‘>r le*s in every act of his lift, even the most holy. This worm is proud in the presence ;of Almighty God, and *tfish even in bin prayers.— It i- a matter of sham* that we cannot forget our j petty pervjnal interests, even when we approach our Maker. Not that he who prays, means to place bim • self before all the world. Yet unconsciously his own ; little S"!f is first in his thoughts. ram* {■Riimvnwr, n n, i& To some extent it is right thus to pray. Religion is a jK'rsonal thing, between the soul and God ; and every man must confess his own sins, and pray for mercy to himself. Hot v .\arrv the right of peti tion much farther than thi., and supplicate God to fa vor our personal -clu ines, to grant us great worldly prosperity, and thus to patronize our pride and am bition. For those things we have no right to pray, t he only petition in the Lord's prayer for worldly good is “Give us this day our daily bread.’” 1s t that bound our requests. It is not necessary to be minute in specifying all flint we want. “Our Hea venly Father knows what we have need of.” We love to hear a strain of fervent supplication for spiritual blessings —for pardon of sin, for true repen lance and humility of spirit. All this carries the soul straight to heaven. But at limes this solemn act of worship may take a different torn. We delight also to see a man overpowered by u sense of God's goodness, so that for the time he forgets all hi* own wants, while he pours out his soul iu thanksgivings. There is also another exercise of devotion, in which file human spirit, liowtsi in awe before the majesty of God, can only adore. Such is the worship of an gels before the throne; and it is in such adoration of tho King immortal and invisible, tbattbe soul mounts above the earth, and (Hisses within the veil.—.Y. J f.'miige.Hut. Wli From the WomaoS Temperance Raj*-*. TEMPERANCE AND INTEMPERANCE. In looking retrospectively upon the paat, 1 call to mind the character and history of two young men, who aiTlvcd at the age of majority and cgan life for themselves, alxnit the time of the commencement of the temperance reformation. So nearly alike were they endowed, as to physical, moral and intellectual powers, that it is sufficient to say, that the chief dif ference observable in them teas this: One jiessessed more independence and self-reliance than the other, ami was of a mechanical cast of mind, with superior accomplishments as a mechanic. The other, being less independent iu spirit, was more easily influenced by those with whom he associated. His sympathies were strong, hence were readily enlisted on the side of the oppressed and suffering. He was industrious, persevering, frugal iu his habits, and a tiller ojf the soil. At this time, althougji intemperance seemed, as it were, to be deluging the earth, a “Maine Liquor Law” was not even dreamed of. It was then all “moral suasion.” It was a time in which it was thought that there might Is 1 sympathy enough in the human heart to he enlisted to do away with the mighty scourge. It ft as a time when noble-hearted men went forth to battle the giant wrong, and to im press upon the ruind of the liquor-vender the tact that he was carrying on a body-and-soul-destroying business. It was then with burning eloquence that they apjtcaled to those who had fallen victims, and urged them to stay their downward course, and free themselves front the destroyer’s power. But, alas for the soul and sympathy of the rumscUer, and some of his besotted victims, they were riot always to be found! Young men, too, notwithstanding they had the example of the vender and his besotlod victims often before their eyes, as a warning to keep them from danger, and w ere watched over by sotlte well w ishing guardian, some kind-hearted, loving, angel mother, were openly appealed to anti urged to come forward, with fathers, mother-, and sisters, arid sign the Total Abstinence pledge! Hut did these young men sign the pledge? One of them did. The other did not. He reasoned with himself, (unreasonably,) and said in his own heart, “I will be free to drink or not as I please. 1 will be my own master, con sult my own tantc as to what 1 shall drink.and drink when and where I please. The occasional glass will not hurt me, 1 know, for 1 have tried it.” Time has since rolled many years away to swell the number in eternity, and yet internjs.ru n • with i all its attendant evils exist-, and is still casting it blight over our fair land. But where are those young men? They are still living, arid although they have but little more than passed tho meridian of a lorer life, they bear the Tin rni-takable evidence that many years of trial liave passed over their head-., and that ug<- has-been steadi ly and effectually stealing upon them. But how have they lived? He who took the pledge i has kejit it faithfully. Having been industrious and frugal in hi* habits, be has accumulated h handsome property, and now enjoy- the sootety of dearest frienrl--, i* a g(ssl citizen, a Christian, arid is in the enjoyment of worldly pro/qterity. He who took riot the pledge has lived independent, alter th< merits of his early reasoning. He went on from month In month, and year to year, taking the “ occasional glass,” with now and then a ‘Spree,” according to timer, circumstances and occasions, sa long did lie gratify hi- appetite for strong drink, that it years since became his master, arid he now toil* for a small pittance to feed that master, his direst for. He ha* tm rely lived and *pont his time, for he ha.- accumu lated nothing. He ha* raised a -mail family of child ren, but fiat their condition now is, I know not, for they are separated, and dwell 1 know not where.— His wife has left him, and fie is now a-it were, alone and friendless in the world. Young man, you who have hod these a:si similar characters before your eyes ever since you were old enough to realize a difference between the extreme* of right ami w rung, can you, after taking due thought and reflection, *ay, in sincerity of heart, that he who indulges even in the occasional glass, enjoys gTeoter freedom than lie who pk*lg< * himself to abstain from all that can intoxicate man ? If you can, the fate and tie* freedom of the moderate drinker tnay yet las your*. But if it i.- not thus, and those who havo taken the pledge have set the nobler e-sample before the world, why no(, to imitate its tr example, go and do thou likewise? Why not enrol your names upon that bright page, on which ur written the names of those who have pledged fidelity In the cause of tem perance? W \V. S Htm Hit. DARKEY JAKE H IS iI'REI) OF BtTmti. lly the LittU ‘un in th> Spirit qr’ tht Hme*. Nome years since 1 was employed rt.s wnre-h6u.se clerk in a large shipping-house in New Orleans, and while in that rapacity, the following funny incident occurred: One day a vessel eainu in consigned to the house, having on fmard a large lot of rhocoe from New York; during the voyage some of them hud become dam aged by bilge water, (the ship having proved leaky,) consequently the owner* refused to receive them ; they were, therefore, sent to the consignees of the ship, to fn’ stored until the. ease could lx* adjusted. I discovered a few days afterwards, flint a- to jer fume, they were decidedly too fragrant to remain in the warehouse in June, and rcjmrted tho same toiny employees, from whom 1 received order* to have them overhauled, and send all that were passable to Beard and t’olhnun’a auction mart, (then in Old Camp slr.-et Theatre,) to he disposed of for the licnefit of the underwriters, and the rest to the swamp. 1 got ! a of black boys to work on them, and when they stirred ’em up, “Be the (tones of Moll Kelley’* quail mug! but the stnell was illegant intirely.” 1 kept a respectable distance, believe uto, lor strong nigger and strong cheese, on a Lot June day, Just bangs a!! common essences, including a certain tar mint we. read alxiut. IVeoently the Imya turned out an immense fellow almiit thrt'e loot sis “across the slump, ” from which the l six had rotted off; iu the centre a space ofalMiut ten inches was very much decayed, and appcartal to bo about the consistency of mush, of a bluish tint, whftTi was caused by the bilge water. The I toys had just set it up on Us edge on a lade of gunny bags, when I noticed over the wav a big darkey (then on sale) from Charleston, N. C., who w its notorious for his butting projiensities, hut ing given most of tho niggers in that vicinity a tusto of his quality in that line. 1 had seen him and another fellow the night previous, practising; they would stand, one on each side of Oie hydrant, some ten yartls distant, and run at each other “ ith their head* lowered, and cluppiug their hand* on the hydrant, they would butt like vet eran rams A thought struck me that I might cure him of his bragging and hutting, and have some sport also, ho I told the boys to keep dark, and 1 called ‘“Old Jake” over. “They tell me you are great fWlow Rw butting, Jake I” “1 is some, tnaasa, das a tac I done but de wool ’tirely ors ol old I’eteV head la* night, and ma.ssa Nicholas was gw ine to gib uie go** ’ 1 kiu jist) bang de head ors any nigger in deae |>arta, myself -I kin!” “Well, Jake, Ptc got a little job in that lino for you when you haven't anything else to do.” “f’ae on lutn for all dem kinc ofi joist, myself—l ■ L*.” “Well, you soe that large cheese liadi there?” “I does dat! I does, myself.” “Ni.w , if you ran butt a (lent in it, you shall Imve it.” “Golly, riuutsal you foolin’ dis nigger !” “No, I’m not, Jake—just try me.” “Wot? you gib me do hull ob (Lit cheese't I Vnitt a dent in uni ?” “Yes.” “De Lor ! 11l bust ‘em wfide o(*iv, 1 will, myself. Jes Htand buck dr, you Orleans nigger*, and clear de track for Ole Nous ('amlijui, case I’sea cornin’my self -I is!” And Ole Jake started bark some fifty feet, and went at it in a good quick run, and the next instant I heard a dull heavy soiuid, a kind of squash, and old Jake’* bead disappear, il from siglit, with tin- top just vioibU*. on the Other -ide he arose from hi* new fashioned neck lace, tic. soli rrdien cheese (Xz.- ing down all round ?iim v tt settled down, so that just his eye* were visililc. From the Centra of it { Jake’s vnici was scarcely audible and half smothered, ) a* hr vainlv to remove the immense cheese. | “tSMVoa! it do Lor! lna~ • Vs>k um ors ! 00-zr-ol I Vires* d’ Lor 1 lif him up 1 Gora mity ! f Meanwhile I teas nearly dead myself, having laid hack on a cotton Vinh (adding myself together to keep from bursting, while, the boy- -u**l round Old Jake, i>aying him off “De Lor! how dc nigger’s bret -nuill ’ You dov*n’t j ■ cl.kh your teeth, Old Jake!’ “I av ! von didn’t tnujee trv.i>■ *lan kiur Unan tint ; ban, did you, ofe Ik/*-;” “Well, you i- • nasi) nigger, da- u tact” •‘Well, you U de big2((st kitie of Welsh RaMdt, , j you i*.” “What you get jour hat gmese?” and thus the, ’ hoy* run ffld Jake now half smothered —until I , took compassion on him, and told them to take it off. 1 Jake didn’t stay to claim Ills but put out growl 'fng “Oor a udty! I done got -*le ilat timet I’se a, • com; of yellow- feber I i.-, myself 1” Old Jake was j never known to do any more butting in that vicinity j i after that. WOMEN WHTPPEHH A .YD HIM. j A committee who examined the efl’ect* of the rum 1 I traffic in New York State, inform* u* Uutt a* they pOf>*od from prison to prison in their investigations, the rertMrk met them every where, “He was put ! here for whipping hi* wife.” In all tls'ir inquiries, no TKMPEARTE man was found in jail for that ! crime. In two-third* of the State of New York, three ■ baedifl and eighty-udv <■ iik-o vn rt’ f(Min(| impriOfl- < JAMES T. BLAIN ) PRIATEH. vol m-Niira a ed for that crime atone! and every one of that t iitr her was a drunkard ! In some jails the women whip pers were 2U per cent., and in others about 1(j p* r cent., of the wholo number ronfinod. Friends <f humanityt look at thi* statement; three hundred and eighty-nine men confined for beating their w it . • and not a tomjK-rate, sober man among them'! . .; who’s to blame for all this misery? At pro-cn’ those who sell the maddening t up; but if you tin sovereign people, do not vote down licence, or . a occasion, the responsibility w ill fairly re-1 on your own head*. See to it then that you dispose of the real womon-whippera the rum-seller* as did the London Liberals with the cut-tliroat Hayr.au. Dou i. with them !!—Southern ttrgan. A HIGH GROUtiERY. Since there are low groggerieo, *ay* the Now York Organ, and everything has its opposite, there inut of necessity ho high groggerie* But the title does not, by any means, douote or elevate the character of the people who visit them. Nimply going up stairs into n bar, or up marble slops into a saloon, doesn’t make a drunken mar re spectable ; it is only the difference of a few feet. A pig will be a pig if you put him into tho parlor , ht> will root round just the same, and show all the pro pt rvsities of that delicate annual. So moustaches arid gold-headed cane* may go up in a high groggery, and mount tho counter if they like, alter all they are only the brandy drinking, gin-ripping “rummies” that their brethren of the low groggeries arc. But thcr.i’,, a distinction merely affecting figures of speech; this is one. Instead of high church and low church, tho contention ought to be now for high groggery ami low groggery. Turn your head in that direction, •leur public, get up a controversy, and attempt t. settle the. queatiori—only forget not that ye. arc hr., tbren, ye of the high groggery. Squint your eye the twenty-eighth part of un inch when you pass th>- low groggerie* ; incline youreauo to the low grogite sipping his throe center at the low counter. Don't be too proud to acknowledge your future acquaint mice*. A friend in need is n friend indeed, na von may come to admit, when you beg a penny some Jut of your bosom low grogite, and ho turiwbi* empty jtoi'.kct Inside out to find one. For a change in the. matter* is n one-sided allitir Rum is the only mi - ter that never says, “go to the head;’’ it is “g,, p the foot continually. Thi; low grogit.. seldom h piles to the high groggery ; tin high grogite. descend steadily down. And it * like the burnt end of u rocket, ti*>, minus the whiz, nod flash of champagne and wit; minus the gold-headed cane, gloves and moustaches; minus cocktail* and coat-tails, too; mi nun brandy smashes, but not some other kind of smashes, minus a stiffener, but not minus a bruiser; minus a Roman punch, but not a punch of the knuck lots. And at lost the low groggeriefi run over you, a fine specimen of decayed gentility, to the drunkard’ grave. WHAT CAS WOMBS DO T We learn that Miss Pellett (raveled on horao and mule bach in tin- mountains five hundred and lift\ miles, and hold twenty-two temperance meetings In tightem day* ‘ The counties where this wan done, Shasta, Sierra and Siskiyou, arc among the moss mountainous counties in the State. The weather from the first to the twentieth of dune is near the In t est of the season. Onv,ard went the cold water wo. mun in the blazing tom, cm. mule ami horseback, plainly creeping up the burning ide n ofihemoun tains, through the dusty way, for five hundred and fifty miles, ns glad to meet the miners as to meet the cool stream in the glen, as refreshing to talk of tem peranee as a drink of coo] water to the thirsty travel er; and talking oneo, and sometime! twice, and even three times a day ! Well, w)mt is the woman about’ She has no remarkable gift of utterance, nor any p. culiarly grand terms or ideas to advance. Rho pr<: servo* her lndy-liko personal manners, anil works like a- man! The poetry is her deeds. That canto (or canter) of 1550 miles was the working out of a prodigious ideal, and the measure, however bro i ken, whether a mule pace, a hobble, a trot, or run, did Iwttor tliao most poetry; it got people to temper awe meetings. It was a moving measuro anyhow’ How this great work-poem will end we can’t tell.- We have not the gift of prophecy; and what is hu man is so uncertain that w e will await “time’s un erring tost.” We hope the poem will go on, that the glorious Ideal which struggle* out in such labors n.uy come to realize the victory of truth and humanity. t.-aliforni/t Chrktufn AdvoeaU, PROHIBITION IS SOKTU CAROLINA, The Justices of Wako county Court refused t , grant any licenses to retail ardent spirit*. The peo ple of Salisbury have voted that there shall be no more license granted this year to'retait spirituous li quors iu that towu. Gen. Cary reports: “I eoufess Uiat I am greatly disappointed with tb advanced state of the public mind here on this sub i jecl. The Son! of Temperance have, to a great ex , tent, changed the habits of the people, and rendered | drinking unfashionable and disreputable.” Many merchants of Edenton have signed the foi i lowing card: ’ “We, the merchants of Edenton, convinced of tin baneful effects of alcoholic liquors, do hereby pledge ourselves, each to the other, as gentlemen, to quit selling this pernicious article of trade, as soon as the stock on hand shall have been disposed of, keeping a 1 small quantity of pure spirits for medical purposes ! only. ’ . “May (Mb, 1*56 “