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J. H. SEALS, i ami > EUITOKS, E. A. STEED, S IW SERIES, VOL!, THE TEMPERANCE BANNER, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY EXCEPT TWO IN TIIE YEAR, BY JOHN H. SEALS. The has a lai* circulation, which is daily in* creasingr, and bids fair to become the most popular paper iu the South. It is offered, with confidence, (string to Ita circulation be ing *0 general,) to Merchants, Mechanics, and Professional men, as an ADVERTISING MEDIUM through which their business may be extended in this and adjoining States. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. SI,OO per annum, if in advance. $1,50 “ w if not paid within six months. $2,00 “ M if not paid until the end of the year. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. 1 square, (eight lines or less,) first insertion, $ 1 00 Each continuance, 50 Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding 5 lines, pr yr 5 00 Sr A N1) I\ T (i AI) V ERTIS EM E NTB. 1 square three months, without alteration, $ 5 00 1 “ six “ altered quarterly, 700 1 “ twelve “ 44 “ 12 00 2 squares 44 44 44 44 18 00 3 “ 44 “ 44 “ 21 00 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 44 25 00 not marked with the number of insertions, will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. {5P P "Merchants, Druggists, and others, may contract for adver tising by the year, on reasonable terms. HOME AND FRIENDS. Oh, there’s a power to make each hour As sweet as heaven designed it; Nor need we roam to bring it home, Though few there be that find it! We seek too high for things close by, And lose what Nature found us; For life hath here no charms so dear As Home and Friends around us! We oft destroy the present joy For future hopes—and praise them: Whilst llowers as sweet bloom at our feet, If we’d but stoop to raise them ! For things afar still sweeter are, When youth’s bright spell hath bound us! But soon we’re taught that earth hath naught Like Home and Friends around us! The friends that speed in time of need, When hope’s last reed is shaken, To show us still, that come what will, We are not quite forsaken: Though all were right—if but the light From Friendship’s altar crowned us, ‘Twould prove the bliss of earth was this— Os Home and Friends around us. THE YOUNG BRIDE OF FREEDOM. o BY PKASCIS DAVIS. Oh, wreathe her a garland, Right meat for a queen: And braid ye her robes with The gold and the green; For a spring bloom of beauty Her brow hath burst o’er, And she walks in the glory And brightness of yore. Then bring ye the maidens In silken array; And bring ye the minstrels Before her to play; And bring ye the guardsm ■), With sabre and lanco; For the young Bride of Freedom Goes forth to the dance! And proud is her step, where The banners are high ; And proud is the spirit Enthroned in her eye; And proudly to foeman Defiance she (lings From a tongue that as sweet as An arch-angel sings. She looks on the hills, where The war-horses browse; She sees them illumed with The smiles of her spouse; She sees his broad banners In gorgeous advance; Lead on, virgin Erin, Lead on to the dance! And hear, oh, ye beacons, All beaming with light; And hear, oh, yc mountiins, All teeming with might; And hear, oh, ye nations Away o’er the deep, Lo! the queen of the w aters Hath risen from sleep! Then bring ye the maidens In silken array, And bring ye the minstrels Before her to play; And bring ye the guardsmen With sabre and lance; For the young Bride of Freedom Goes forth to the dance! A little glove stirs up my heart, as title* stir up the ocean, And snow-white muslin, when it fits, wakes many a curious notion. All sorts of lady flxens thrill my feeling* as they'd orter, But little female gaiter hoots arc d"ath I _apd_nothing - : --mi. .li.. M. M.... ~ ilfbotcb to Ccmpcraitcf, Jdtentfurc, (General Intelligence, anb the latest |lelus. SATAN IN COUNCIL. AN YIJ.KIiOKY. BV “I.’lNt ON\ V. ” “I have used similitudes."—llosr.v. On ‘e upon a time, far hark in the remote past, Sa tan, the “Prince of the Power of ttie Air,” called a council in Pandemonium. Lucifer himself, was seat ed upon a throne of splendor, wearing upon his brows a diadem of living fire, while, from the gems with which it was encrusted, flnshe 1 intolerable ra diance. Myriads upon myriads of fallen spirits, rank upon rank of Principalities and Powers, and of those angels “which kept not their first estate',” thronged to the hall of audience. Silent they sat in that illim itable hall, which sulphureous (lames lighted up, while the lurid smoke hung like a canopy over the scene. Then up rose Satan, horn to rule, who “dwelt like a star, apart,” matchless in evil as in pow er, and thus spake : Princes and Potentates, who do my bidding, and who best serve me when most ye thwart the Al mighty, listen! Ye know that we have tried pur subtlest wiles upon the race of men. But so hedged in are they by holy influences, ay id watched over by good angels sent from above, that we can scarcely destroy a single soul. Therefore, most noble chiefs, have I called you together, to fake counsel of your wisdom how we may best ruin mankind while they dwell upon the earth, and most surely afterwards bring them to this pit of woe. Speak ye, each his mind, and to him who shall give wisest counsel, and offer strongest means to effect this, our royal pur pose, 1 will give the dominion of the earth and a seat at my right hand forever. Thus spake the fiend, and hell, to its inmost cen tre, resounded with applause. Then up rose Moloch, “horrid king, besmeared with blood of human sacrifice, and spake, “0 chief of many throned powers, that led the embattled se raphim to war,’’ I claim the offered prize, fam the spirit of cruelty. I hardened the heart of the first murderer. Give me dominion over the earth. 1 will sharpen the assassin’s knife; I will bring the rack, the wheel, the fire of persecution upon man.— I will change man into a pirate and robber, and bid millions to rot in dungeons and in chains. 1 will bring war upon the earth, and amid the smoke of burning cities, will teach men to rend each other like wild beasts, till continents shall reek with mid night massacre. I will call men together by hun dreds and thousands, to gash each other with horrid wounds, and will make them devilish engines, that in a second shall blow whole squadrons into the air. Then shall they come, oh master, shrieking from the battlefield, to people thy dark dominions. Scarcely, ’mid applause had the fierce Moloch end ed his speech, when Belial arose ; the fairest seem ing, but withal, the subtlest of the fallen potentates. Graceful m form and movement, and of most persua sive aspect —eloquent in speech ; “To make the worse appear The better reason; and perplex and dash Maturest counsels; for bis thoughts were low, To vice industrious, but to noble deeds Timorous and slothful—yet, he pleased the ear.” And thus he spake: Let me, the spirit of Discord, rule the Earth, for without me, war could never be. I will spread all false reports, and set every man against bis neighbor, and darken the counsels of the nations, till anarchy, and confus ! on, and hatred shall arise and fill the whole earth. 1 will point the tongue of the slanderer as a serpent’s tooth, and set his heart on fire of bell ! I will be the author of all evil coun sels, and false witncssin'js, end fraud and secret ma lignity; till even good men, persecuted and torn, shall doubt and deny that Jehovah reigns, and die blaspheming, to come and dwell forever with the damned. Let the dominion of the Earth hi- mine, O Master, and thy realms shall be peopled With the souls of men. Then Mammon aros<, “The meanest, and least erect Os nil the spirits that f< II from heaven,” who would not heed tie glorie- o'er hi, load hut on the golden pavements at his feet forever gazed. “Listen unto me, 0 Satan, for thou know eat my power upon the souls of men. Giv • me dominion over then , and hell shall never he empty. I will make men lunatics and fools, and- :ui them through pol ir snows and horrid burnings, to dig in the holes and corners of the earth,’mid r oa: -and men; more savage, f.r a few hand ful >1 yellow du.-t'r So intent shall they he, sifting and grasping the paltry | ore, that they shall forget the starry crowns that hen-; Ten offers them ; and fever and famine shall cornci and sweep them lik“ eh ill'front the threshing floor, j to the great hurtling. And even before their corpses , are fairly stiffen'd, their companions shall gather like ! vultures, to fight and gash i aeli other for the gold i which the dead have left. I too, will sharpen the assassin’s knife, un 1 help on the rnhfier and the bur g'ar. All ti<how ever strong or holy, will I break, j and teach men to t ome and wo. ship me, though the path to my altar shall he over bleeding In arts, noble aspirations, and all else that give- a charm to the life of man. At mjr command, shall that glorious race, ■ who were ere—ted “ -r-.ft, to took upon the star-, ! blot the- divine signet oflii-h intelligence fr >m their ! brows, and fetter and confine their mighty spirits, J till they bn me dwarfs, that they may do my bid ding. I will whisper in the ear of the young mai teti, in the pride of her h auty, and straightway-hall she forget h r plighted vows to the youth who loves iier aftd leave I. m heart-broken to die; and though sil k en and- re - ‘ ‘ ” mm (JEORIiIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, M Nay, tner. shall how down ami dohim reverence, and call him wise, and good, and great, though every pi* ce of gold he owns is stained with blood, or wrung from the hand of want by cruelty mid oppression. Tin possessor of gold shall hiuisclf become infatua ted, and at midnight shall steal from his bed on tip toe, and looking cautiously,*! n .t and in fear of robbery, shall open his iron chest, and count over each glit tering coin, and hug it. to his heart and worship it. >o shall he live a curse to his fellows and to himself, and when the death angel comes, he shall clutch the yellow dross in his skinny hands, and die, and come with all my votaries, and make his bed in hell. I hiis spake Mammon, and as lie paused, Satan “grinned horribly, a ghastly smile” upon his servant. Then up rose the tierce Apollyon, the Destroyer, and spake thus: O thou Arch-ruler of the damned, listen unto me! The volcano, the avalanche, the earthquake, the pes tilence and famine are mine, lie it mine to rule the Rnrth. I will pour <low n boiling lava froni the moun tain tops, burning up the fruits of the earth, and overwhelming the thronged cities, with all their wealth and people, in the twinkling of an eye. I will hprl tlie avalonche from the glacier’s crest, upon the slumbering village. 1 will dry up the springs, and send hail and blight and mildew upon the fields; and strong men, and women, and tender children, shall go forth and creeping under the leafless hedges, shall faint and die of famine. I will send the earth quake, and he shall “smack his mumbling lips” when he swallows up a city—and the pestilence shall (in ish what the famine and the earthquake leave ; and men shall fall in the streets, and houses he tilled with the dead and dying, and none shall lie left to bury them. Dogs shall howl through the vacant streets without a master ; in the palaces und temples, the e- 1 and the raven shall build their nests, and the ships rot down sailorless; and all the sons of men, destroyed by me unwarned, will 1 send to thee as a tribute. Be mine the task to rule the Karth for thy glory and for mine. Loud rang the plaudits, as the fiend sat don , and the rest obsequious, gave place, not doubting that Apollyon should be ruler of the Karth. The tumult was hushed, and all waited with intent, their great Master’s decision; when suddenly, from a beetling cliff; (in- out in the burning lake, arose a blue lam bent flame—which while they ga/.ed, took shape ; a horrid shape, and stood before the ossein hied fiends. It was clad in vesture wet with blood ; the goro hung heavy from its matted locks, and the fiercest fires of holl shot from its hunting eye-balls. Even Satan started and turned pale with fear, and Hell shrank hack with horror. “11a! Ye fear me, then,” hissed the horrid mon ster. “Well might ye fear, were I not a friend and an ally. But thou knowest me not, 0 Satan, for I am an earth horn spirit, and have long hid myself— aye, for a thousand years—hut now come to offer service and allegiance, and to claim the offered prize. Fear not but listen, and let me be ruler of the Earth, for none hath power like me, in all the dark domin ions. Moloch and Bulial and Mammon, and Apollyori promise much, but they shall he my servants and subalterns. Their power is weakness compared to mine. O listen, till J tell thee of my strength, and how I will wield it. Sly shapes and names are le gion, and I change them at will, so that men shall ofltimes hug me to their bosoms as an angel of light. I will be the greatest of all hypocrites and deceivers, betraying ever with a kis-, when my only aim is ru in. I w ill he the patron and solo support of the gambling den. and of her “whose house incline).)) unto death, and her paths unto the dead.” And I will throw open her portals, bring the very flow or of manhood to blight and shame and everlasting con tempt. On every foot of earth and sea will 1 follow my victim--. Where discord and anarchy prevail, there will 1 he; where cruelty is, there will I come, and burn out from the hearts of man every vestige of mercy till they become fiends incarnate, and devise | unimaginable horrors. I will stand beneath the gab i lows-tree, and even while the death-rattle is in tin throat of the criminal, w ill drive men to robbery and j murder. I will lie in w ail in the streets of cities, | and plan tin* midnight fire and at- assi nation. I will j plunge my victims into prisons and hospitals; I will 1 steep them in poverty and and gradation to the very i lips ; I w ill cast forth their families to want and w in- , try winds, and I lie babe shall peri.-.h in its mo*tier’s j arms, with its. tears frozen to ice-drops upon her ho- | om. I will turn thedagy rof the husband against the heart of his wife, and Icr blood shall stain the i cradle ofhis children. Stimulated and uiged on bv me, the father shall dance in maniac glee over tic mangled bodies of his murdered babes, and laugh to see their fair locks dabbled in blood; the mother shall “forget her sucking chid,” slain by her band, and mock at the tender years and helplessness of her own offspring. On whatsoever hearth-stone my foot shall he plant-1 cd, the glads'itne fire shall go out, to he lighted no > more forever; and the roof-tree shall fall, and tile voice-’ of children he hushed, and all that men Hus-; , ter around them to make th in srtlily homes so much like heaven, shall vani h like a v.reath of smoke, and 1 ! desolation brood over the ruin-. I will point the -on’s knife against the father's throat, and his grey j hair -hall drip with gore. VV litre war and vengeance are, I will rouse their fury to ten-fold rage, and blot from the soldier’s breast the last vestige of humanity. The incendiary's torch shall be my• banner; the; crackling flames of burning villages, and the shiiek of murdered innocence, the meric of my march * **• rating thi “ i Ticum, meanwhile stiil bound fe. >l,. ‘ else h'id heen secure. I will -proud finer oan I di-- oaso even in the lands of plenty and health, un i w: 1 seal up the eyes of all my victims so that they shad not see nor know that their next plunge is into pci dition. I will sweep whole continents of their in habitants; and give woes and sorrows and “wounds without on use” to the whole race of man. Yet, who soever is wounded by me, shall seek me ns hid teen sons to ho wounded yet again. I will bind upon their brows the iron crown of suffering, hurtling with hell fire, that shall scorch and sear and cnl into tlu ii brain and heart and soul, yet shall they fall down and worship me, and, for my rake, part with lioiisi s and lands, an 1 wife and children, and hope .and hea- ven. Let Jehovah send forth spirits, puro ns the snow Hake, to dwell in earthly bodies; I w ill sen them out, and kindle ill their hearts an unquenchable (ire tluii shall consume them ; and the cherubim shall watch long for their return, at heaven’s gate, hut they shall never again look Upon their Father in Heaven. The student at his books, the mechanic at his toils, the laborer at the plow, will I destroy, ami none shall stay me. I will coil myself in the brain of the sea captain, and seal up his eyes, or so distort them that he shall know neither chart nor compass, und his vessel and all on hoard shall be engulfed, and the bones of the mariners whiten the bottom of the ocean. I will he the omnipresent curse of humanity, and tin der my guidance the race shall walk forever a.s in the shadow of an eclipse. Eyes they have, lull .shall sec not the end and the purport of the crooked paths through which I shall lead them. I will take the sons of the kings ami the mighty men, and the captains, and the great ones of the earth, and will mangle them w ith horrid wounds, strip them of wealth, reputation, life itself, and till their last hour with torment. Around their dying couches I will send siirpent forms, unfolding coil af ter coil from out tho darkness, brandishing their forked tongues to sting them and lick lln ir blood, ns a fierce flame licks up its fuel. Thoughts shall be come things, living filings, to mock and curse llmm. And Homo in their agony shall leap into this burning lake, in hope to escape still greater torture; and ome will 1 hold upon the brink, and rejoice when I see every nerve shrinking with agony, us I open to their startled gaze the horrors of that pit in which I shall plunge them forever! Yet, this is not all. I know that you will laugh, (if fiends can laugh,) when I tell you that I will so manage that mankind shall all along think me their friend! Though it is my mission to torture and de stroy the whole race of Adam, yet ho will I mix wiih their business, their pleasures and their daily Imhits; so flatter ami delude their stupid senses, that they shall pronounce me a “good creature,” nay a “crea ture of God!” At (heir wedding feast I will In, the source of joy, and at the funeral gathering, the solace of their sorrow. The rank grass shall grow over those slain by my hand, and the mourners shall for get it, and fall in their turn. The father shall com mend to his son, and reeling to his grave, shall leave him as no inheritance, a fondness for me; and tin son shall follow in the footsteps ofhis father, down to perdition. The physician shall invoke my aid in i sickness, and in all circles I w ill plant myself si cure j ly, and make myself a companion and a familiar, and men shall never ho so merry as in the presence of their deadliest foe. Poetry shall lend me her rose garland, and mil i her charm ; and the spirit of melody shall speak from i myriad harps to sound my praise, and witch tin-j world with the idle drenui that I am the in-pin r ol mirth and the soul of happiness and all good fellow- I ship and if there he one of all that glorious race, for whom yon planets, from their golden urns pour down their sib-nt, everlasting cataract of light, who excels his fellows, I w ill lure him with s<mg and visions of beauty, arid str< v his path with rose h-av till at last he shall w alk heedless into my toils. And, once my slave, though thousand should weave their heart-strings around him, and weep tears of ! blood, he shall, in all his pride and beauty, sink deep er and deeper, and in tribulation and anguish unut terable, dig hi- own pathway do in to hell. 1 will j I lie at the h a ts of all the great and the wise of earth, i j w here rank and fashion i t ign supreme where forms i i not lc/s beautiful than those of heaven, move to ec- j ! hstial harmonic-, and where wit and mirth und w ire j I go round, and glasses sparkle on the board, I will - lap thcii scn.-tH in Elysium, and I,bey shall fee) rich , or, wiser, st'ouger ami more -rilty than before. But: at the last, I will hurl them • own, one by one, from their fancied elevation; and they shall drag out a ‘ j wretched existence in tb’ hunger-dens and vilest j I purlieus of tilt earth, and snt-ak to dishonored graven, | : rejoicing to hide from the withered acorn of their specie**, and to give their soul* to eternal punish ment in (ires less fierce than those in which 1 have | tortured them on earth. Nay, the kings an ! govern ments of the earth shall pass laws for my protection, and th id of my emi- wries, as we walk the earth, de cimating its inhabitants and tumbling them into hell. Give me then, () Satan, the dominion of the earth, and thou halt behold, through ages, “Hell's every wave break on a living shore, Heaped with the damned like pebbles.” lie ceased. One unearthly yell of applause arose,! amid the stamping of countless feet and the clashing of adamantine shields. The Ar*h Enemy stepped from his throne, and leading the horrid spectre to a seat at his right hand, thus spake: “Terrible eingl if thou canst indeed do these! !things, thou art henceforth my Vicegerent upon the’ earth. Go forth! and my realms shall be crowded ‘ f „i, iicumii- ‘r ‘’ 11 * MI ” ?"“• Tl' -man m ...:■ ..V S JAME. T. BLAIN, ( I’HINTeR. VOL MUimi 46. And the fiend answered, “Ai.cohoi.!” ts,, saying he spread his broad bat like w ings, and hell grew lighter ns he vanished. How hath he fulfilled his mission? F>r a thousand years hath ins fiery breath, Smote flu white earth rith rime and death, And furnished men, as daintiest food, l 1 or the red flesh-norm's slimy brood. Wl<ll> ■I VERY Toriill STORY. The following story is told Hy that renowned wag, •lob I’houiix, of the I’nlilornia I’intiocr. The reader w ill see that it records the Vcrdiet of a “coroner's inquest,” and in other particulars, hears a trong re semblance to some of the tough stories which our op ponents have circulated against the republican party in the States. Dr. TushiunkiT was never regularly bred as aph\ sieian or surgeon, but he pos.-cssed, naturally, a strong iiieelmiueal genius, anil a lino appetite; and finding his teeth of gie.it service in gratifying thelut ler propensity, he concluded that lie could do more good in the world, and create more real happiness therein, by puttim the tooth of tho inhabitants in good order, than in any other way ; so he became a dentist, lie was tho man shut first it, von ted the method of placing small cog-w heels in the bark teeth, for the more perfect mastication of food ; and ho claimed to tie the original discoverer of that method of filling cavities with a kind of putty, which, becoming hard directly, causes the tooth to ache so grievously, that it has to be pulled, thereby giving the dentist two successive fees lor the same job. TushumUer was one day sealed in his office, in the city ol Boston, Massachusetts, when it stout old fel low, named Hyli s, presented himself to have a buck tooth drawn. The dentist seated his patient in the chair of tor ture, mid opening bin mouth, discovered there an eiinrin •i: tooth, oil tilo right hand side, about as large, .i bv afterwards expressed it, “ns a miinll Poly glot I ‘ible. “I hall have trouble with this tooth,” thought. I ushii ukor ; butte clapped on his heaviest force) is and pulled. It didn’t come. Then lie tried the twrnserew, exerting bis utmost strength, but this tooth wouldn’t stir. “Go away from lu re,” said Tnshmaker to Byles, “and return in a week, and I will draw that tooth out, or know the reason why.” Byles got up, clapped a handkerchief to his jaw, and put forth. The dentist went to work, and in throe days he in vented an instrument, which, he wus confident, would pull anything. It was a combination of tho lever, pulley, w heel and axle, inclined plane, wedge, audseivw. The eastings were made, and the ma chine put iif* iii the office, over an iron chair, render . and perfectly stationary by iron rods going down into Uio foundations of the granite building. In a week old Byles returned; bo Was clamped in to tin-, iron chair, the forceps connected with the ma chine attm bod firmly lo the tooth, and Tush maker, stationing himself in the rear, took held of a lever, j four feet long. lie turned it slightly—old Byles gave a groan, and ! lifted his right leg. Another turn, another groan, and higher went old Byles’ right leg again. “What do you raise your teg fort” asked the doc tor. “I can't help it,” said the patient. “Well,” said Tushraaker, “the tooth is bound to come now.” Ha turned the lever clear round, with a sudden jerk, and snapped old Byles’ head clean and clear from his shoulder*, leaving a space of four inches be tween tlm severed parts ‘ They had a pohl-mortem examination—the roots of the tooth were found extending down the right side, through the right leg, and turned up in two prongs directly under the sole of the right foot. “No wondi r,” aid Tush., “that fie raised his leg.” The jury thought so too, but they found the roots much decayed, and live surgeons swearing that mor tification would have ensued in a few months, Tush it aker was cleared on a verdict of “justifiable homi cide.” lie was a little shy of that instrument afterwards; but one day an old lady, feeble and flaccid, came in to have a tooth drawn, and, thinking it would come out very easy, Tushmakcr concluded, just by wuy of variety, lo try the machine. He did so; and a* the first turn drew the old lady’s skeleton completely and entirely from her body, leaving her a mass of quivering jelly in the chair! Tush maker took her home in a pillow-oaae. She lived haven years a/ter that, and they called her the ‘‘lndia Rubber Woman.” She had antlered terribly with the rheumatism, but, alter this occurrence, ! never tied a pain in her bones. The dentist kept 1 them in a j;ia*s cane. Alter thin the machine nan acid to the contractor |ni the Huston OibUitn house ; and it wan found that a child three y* ars of age could, by a single turn of the screw, mine a atone weighing twenty-five tons. Smaller ones were made on the same principle, and sold to the keepers of hotels and restaurants. - They were advantageously used for boning turkeys. There is no moral at all to this story, and it is pos sible that the circumstances may have become slight ly exaggerated. 01 course, there can he no doubt ! of the truth of the main incidents.— Canada Paper. The greatest bar to happiness is the liar of the ! grog-shop. He who frequents it, will very likely ’ soon nd himself before the bar of justice. let us -t~ •“""•won to plants. It would betray still - j greater to deny reason to animals, since the faculty