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VOLUME 2.1 THE CHATTOOGA ADVERTISER PUBLISHED A r SUMMERVILLE, OA., EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. KA TES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Copy One 4 -ar :::::::: $2 00 One Copy Six M nths $1 00, No Subscription will be taken for a less j time than six mo. ths. or it a DrAVT/.v •Ok. | 3 mo; hs 6 months 12 rnon’s f square 44; 00 4 71n0'4 10 or* 2 squares sfi! 00 $lO 00 415 00 3 squares $ 8 00 414 00 420 00 i column 412 100 420 00 430 O'* i column 420 iOO 455 00 f tiO 00 I column S4O !00 $75 00 TOO 00 1? All iiOAD^ Western & Atlantic R. R. Change *>f Schedule. On «ni after thi-i date the Passenger tn.’ns will run on the Western and Atlantic Rail Road AS VOLIOWS: NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN TO NEW YORK AND LflK WEST. Outward. TA'ave Atlanta. 8:35 P. M. Arrive at Chatta .oog, 3:40 a. m. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN TO THE SOUTH AND WEST. Outward. Leave Atlanta, 8:30 a. m Arrive at Chattanooga, 3:50 P. M I.IOUTNIN’O EXPRESS TO NEW YORK. Outward. I.eaves Atlanta, 4:05 P- M. Aarrives at Dalton, 9:23 P. M. night passenger train from NEW YORK TO THE WEST. Inward leaves Chattanoo ra, 5:20 P. M. Arrive at Atlanta, 1:30 a. M. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN FROM NEW YORK TO HE WEST. Inward Chattanoo a, 8:30 A. M. Arrive at Atlanta, 3:50 P. M. ACCOMMODATION TRAIN. I nward. Leaves Dalton, POO A. M. Arrives at Atlanta. 9:50 A. m. tv B. WALKER. aprilfitf Master Transportation! Quickest an j Best Route TO THE NORTH. EAST & WEST is Via I .onisville. THREE Dail Kxpses- Trains runninv throush from Na-hville to Loni-ville, malt ing e'o-e connect!.in- with Trains and boats for the NORTH. EAST AND WEST. No Change of* Cars rum i.(muvim,e to St. Louis, Cincinnati. Indianapolis, Chicago, Cleveland. Pitts burg, Philadelphia ana New York. ONLY ONE CHANGE TO BALTIMORE \\ \SHI\GTft\ & ROTO Quicker time by this route, and lie Her accommodations, than by any other. Se cure stieed and c ■nifort when traveling, by a-kinar for Ticket s By the Wa of Louisville. Ky. Through. Tick ts and Baggage Checks may be procured at the office of the Nash, rifle and Chatta* ooea Railroad at Chatta tmoga, and at all Ticket Offices throughout the South. ALBERT FINK, W. H. KING, Gen’l. Sup’t. Gen’l. Passen er Ag’t. Juncß. Saint Lo-iis, Memphis, NASHVILLE & CHATTANOOGA R.ilLltOtl) LINE. CENTRAL SHORT ROUTE!’ —°— Without Chang.* of Cars to Nashville, Mc- Kenzie, Uni n City, Hickman, Co lumbus, Huniholdt. Browns ville, and Memphis. —o— Only One Olinnpre To Jackson, Teon., Padncah, Ky.. Little Rock, Cairo, and St. Louis, Mo. MURE THAN 130 Niles Shorter to Saint Louis Than via Memphis or Louisville, and from 8 TO 15 HOURS QUICKER!! Than via Cos inth or Grand Junction. ASK FOR TICKETS TO MEMPHIS AND THE SOUTH WEST VT V CHATTANOOGA and McKenzie :: AND TO Bt Louis and the Northwest via Nashville and Colmn’-u* —all Rail; or Nash ville a id Hickman—Rail and River. THE LOWEST SPECIAL RATES FOR EMIGRANTS. WITH MORE ADVAN TAGES. QUICKER TIMR AND FEWER CHANGES OF CARS IWTHAN A NY OTHER ROUTE.-** Ticket* for Sale at all Principal Ticket Offices in the South. J. W. THOMAS, Gen’l. Supt. W. L. HANLEY. G. P. k T. Agent VwshriJV. T—vs* Rome Railroad Company Change of Schedule. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Rome 8:40 a in Arrive at Kingston 10:30 am Leave Kingston 11 :- ! 8 a m Arrive at Rome 1:00 p tu NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. L 'aves Rome sail p Arrive at Kingston 12:40 a Leave King-Pin 1:18 a Arrive at Rome 11:20 ***v Connecting-with train* on the We Pirn & Atlantic Railroad at Kingston, and on the Selma,|Rome and Dalton Railroad at Rome. C. M. PENNINGTON, Eng. and Sup't. BY BEQUEST. An Address Delivered by Rev. L. R Gwaltnev, Pastor of the Baptist Church ii Rome, Ga, Before Safe Refuge Lodge of Good Templars in Dirt Town, Chattooga County Ga. In response to your invitation, I have come to plead for the cause of Temperance Reform. Despite the ef forts of many earnest workers to mit igate and banish theevils of the Liquor 1 raffle, these evils still exist. Asa tide of fire. Intemperance rolls its current through our . outhern land, sending out on all sides an atmos* j phere of death, and bearing to the j 2u'f of despair the joys and hones of thousands. My efforts may and > but little to arrest this tide, yet, perchance, 1 may snatch one vietiin from its seoth iig billows; he may rescue others; they may save hundreds; for influ ence among men ever multiplies itself on the shore of a blissfu 1 etcr..i!y and I may meet so ne of them and rijoice with them fore. er. Such an suit is at least worth the efforts of a l.fe time. Happily in my efl'or s, I have the sanction and encouragement of God’s Word, the great repository of good counsel and divine wisdom. Let us heed its faithful teachings, Prov. 23, 29, 35, “who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds with* j out cause? who I ath redpess of eye’s? They that tarry long at the wine, they | that go to seek mixed wine. Loos ■ not then upon the wine when it is red, ; when it giveth his color in the cup, : when ii rnoveth itself aright. At the | last it biteth like a serpent and sting i eth like ati adder.” The pitiable ruin of the unhappy inebriate called forth these thrill) g utterances from the lips of the man lo whom God gave a “wiei am! un derstanding heart" above ail men.— Though the mould of twenty-eight centuries has gathered about his tenth no writer has ever surpassed in vivid distinctness and fearful truth this in imitable pen-picture of the “woe,” the “ho row,” the “contention,” the “bab bling,” the “wounds without cause,” the “redness of eyes,” the poisoned body, the perverse heart, the beclouded mind, the unconsciousness of immi nent peril the insensibility to shame, the utter recklessness and folly of those “that tarry long at the wine,” “that go to seek mixed wine.” The whole passage depicts with terse brev ity and terrible emphasis the physical, mental and moral evils of drunkenness. It is indeed strange that argument and persuasion are necessary to influ ence men in the direction of reform from a vice so degrading and so deadly. It is true that there are no advocates for drunkenness itself. This is a vice so shameless, and so charged with wretchedness, want., and woe, that no one can be found to approve or defend it. Its gross forms are so hideous and repulsive that all turn away in dis gust and sorrow from its miserable victims. And yet, despite this uni versal sentiment, this shrinking from the lowest pit, the last stage of intem perance, every community has its abandoned drunkards. This dreadful end is not desired, not designed, is in deed abhorred, and yet it is reached hv thousands who never thought that they could fall so low. Ilow are we to account for this? What solution explains the dreadful ruin which was so distinctly seen in others, w hich was scorned and loathed, hut which at last has been fully realized? Here is the answer, the solution, men utterly mis conceive, fail to comprehend the true danger, inevitable tendency of fash ionable moderate drinking. This practice presents to the eye and the appetite all its fascinations and enjoy ments, while it keeps out of sight its repulsive features and dreadful results until its victims are fatally ensnared, fettered, blinded, paralyzed, so changed as to the power of true perception, right judgment, self control, and moral firmness that they are beyond the reach of all redeeming agencies, save the “grace of God.” It is my chief purpose to point out the same, positive evils, and to unmask the con cealed danger of moderate drinking; just that kind of drinking in which so many indulge. It is common in every class and rank, in the church and out of the church, among the elcr-'v »s wr!J as among t,he. laymen. SUMMERVILLE. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1872. Even good men excuse and defend this usage, they sanction it by exant. pie. they plead for it on the ground of personal liberty, of social enjoy ment, of harmless gratification, and even of Bible precedence and allow ance. Strange infatuation! P>ywhat wonderful sorcery has this delusion held sway over oo many of our race for so long a time? Surely the Prince of evil has thrown some cunningapell arou and his hapless victims that they cannot see the truth. It’ this were a question of morals only, involving simply the right or the wrong to him who indulges, and making him simply acrountable to his God, I might be less moved when I witness the con duct and hear the excuses of these advocates for moderate drinking.— Though convinced that their position is condemned by the letter and the spirit of God’s Word. I might leave them to the decision and award of the Omniscient Judge; hut this is a mat ter which involves the earthly happi ness or misery of countless thousands who have been, or will be lulled into fatal indifference to their true danger by such erroneous views of what is called the moderate use of alcoholic liquors. It is a question of morals. “No drui kard shall inherit the king dom of Heaven,” “Woe to him that giveth his neighbor drink, that giveth the bottle to him and maketh him drunken also.” It involves to him who temp's and to him who indulges the frown and punishment of a right eous God—but this is not all: As to others, it, involves the property, the health, the entire well-being of the j many thousands who, innocently, in spite of all their entreaties, tears, and griefs, are entangled in this net work of Satan, this horrible macliinety by which he blights and destroys the hopes and lues of his wretched vic tims. “Look not upon the wine whey H is red.” Observe this earnest cau tion, it relates to wine, the ruby wine. Even this is a mocker, for at the last “it biteth like a serpent! its sting is that of the dradiv adder. Like the fie/ of \Lh'i u , rice. mtoU)- periinceJF;iraiy;:e> i 'ty, mind, enovates-a. and corrupts.the foii'i laios of lifts, anti ultimately diffuses throughout ,the whole body a disorder whose foulness could not be endured if it could be fully seen. 1 shall at tempt to make good this assertion: — l am aware that serious efforts have been made to prove that alcohol is good for the well man, hence thai the various drinks containing it are not otilv harmless but highly beneficial. — Not satisfied with claiming this agent as a valuable medicine, a claim which I shall not now disc uss, some members of the medical profession have asser ted that it is both food and medicine. One says “it is a reconstructant as well as a stimulant.” Another af firms, “It acts dietieally as well as medically,” and still another writes, “It preserves the tissues of the body, and thus virtually supplies tissues as animal food would do.” I shall not now dispute these statements. Grant them true. I should still utterly op pose the inference drawn from them, the use made of them. They are seized upon by moderate drinkers as arguments with which to ensnare oth ers and justify themselves in the course to which appetite and habit have so long inclined them. I oppose utterly the inference that the human body in ordinary health stands in any, the least, need of alcoholic drinks, ale, beer, wine, whisky or brandy, as a daily beverage. Many of the most eminent and candid physicians regard their daily use as aq evil which ad mits of no satisfactory defense, as in flicting serious damage upon body and mind with no compensating good, as attended with such positive injurious results arid such probable dangers, that the prudent man, not already wedded to appetite and habit, will at once discard their use. Among these writers, Dr. Win. B. Carpenter stands in high esteem. He was “Examiner in Physiology in the University of London, and Professor of Medical Ju-- risprudeocc in University College." Asa physician in a large city, he had extensive and varied experience, un der circumstances the most favorable for reaching just conclusions. I can give but the briefest summary of liis views on a few points, as presented in his work on “Alcoholic Drinks:” Alcohol is a poison, undiluted, it would kill as surely and quickly as arsenic and strychnine. “The man who is drunk is poisoned: he may die or may recover. The only reason he does not die is the fact that his drink was diluted alcohol; hut this process of poisoning long continued, constant ly repeated, will at length produce death. The moderate drinker is stead ily approaching this condition, gradu ally preparing the way for this fatal result, though the successive steps may be so gradual as to elude notiep. ” To this conclusion of Dr. add the language of anothey Wmery Dr. Uenrr Monroe, “T.ejftnrev o- Medical Jurisprudence at the Hull and Eastriding School of Medicine:" “Alcohol is a powerful narcotic poi son. and if a large dose be taken no antidote is known to its effects.” “It may be said no one drinks pure alco hol. Quite true; you might as well try to drink a glass full of sulphuric acid.” “So you will understand when we speak of the action of alcohol, we mean alcohol as it is taken, largely diluted with water, or mixed with oth er ingredients. According to the a mount of alcohol contained in the liquor, in the same proportion will be its degree of action on the body.” Many smile at this statement, and say. “It is all nonsense to call alcohol a poison, I wont believe it—so here’s to your health." Yet modern science with a voice of deep sepulchral tone, still persists, “If is a poison," ar.d many a breaking heart, on leaving this world, has sobbed out its last fare well, re-echoing these words.” Asa poison taken in small quanti ties, it possesses the fascinating and dangerous power of increasing and perpetuating a greater thirst, or rath er longing, for its eff cts. This long ing requires yet more and more to satisfy its cravings, until it becomes so imperious as o take no denial; its demands must be gratified at the cost of treasure, honor, lot e, and life itself. On this point, I add the emphatic lan guage of Dr. W. W. Hall. “It is with the express purpose of obtaining the effects of alcohol that wine and beer are used, and if they did not contain alcohol they could not be sold at a dime a gallon to any regular drinker.’ “As wines, beers, and ci ners are artifial stimulants, the more they are drank the more frequently and the more largely the system re quires them, yearns for them, in pro cess of time they do not yield stimu< lus enough, and articles are used in tlicir stead which contain a larger a inount of alcohol; so that the habit ual use of w'ine, and cider, and beer, /can's uniformly and inevitably, sooner or later to habitual drunkenness." — “At this very hour drunkenness in 'Switzerland is ten times more preva ifha w *2, a very few years ago, so that all talk about tli'e use of Vine Minding to prevent drunken habits is a most palpable fallucv. [See Hall’s •Journal of Healtft ffr March 1372. But even when gross drunkenness j is not seen, not even suspected by careless observers, alcohol by its poi sonous effects produces consequences c-quaily dreadful, though slower and uii.re remote in their development. T will select some from l)r. C’s classifi cation of these consequence's. Upon the nervous system, particularly the encephalic portion: The tendency is to cause inflamatory,diseases of the brain, Cerebretis. Appoplexy, Paraly sis, Epilepsy, Delirium Tremens, etc. These diseases proceed from a diseased state of nutrition of the brain, of which state intemperance is the most frequent disposing cause. These dis eases may follow one nights revel, or they may ensue as the result of con tinued moderate drinking. In the lat ter case, sa\’s Dr. C., the citadel of life is gradually undermined, and death finds an easy entrance through one of these forms. In all these diseases al cohol has an important indirect agen cy, i .astnuch as by the temporary sup port it affords, it sustains the nervous apparatus under a degree of exertion that is in the end most injurious to it, and thus renders the whole system more tolerant of morbific causes of various kinds, the manifestation of whose action is only postponed and becomes the more severe in the end, in proportion to the duration of the agency.” Upon the liver, the tendency is to produce what is called fatty degenera tion of the liver, a condition of this organ which involves a change in its color, size and consistency. “In mod erate drinkers the liver becomes spot ted, soft and enlarged, in, drunkards it becomes whitish, soft, and fatty, and is so enlarged as sometimes to weigli from ten to twelve pounds. Life is certainly shortened. When death en sues it is attributed to disease of the liver. True, hut what made the liver so diseased? Alcohol, says Dr. C. Upon the kidneys, it produces what is called granular degeneration of the kidneys. Dr; (J. affirms that three fourths of the cases of this disease under his treatment came from the ranks of habitual drinkers. He says, moreover “When violent diseases of the liver and kidnejs may possibly be escaped, yet. as a consequence of the imperfect elimination of morbific mat ter through these organs, rheumatism arid gout seize in after years upon those who have prepared the way for these visitors by the constant presence of alcohol in the blood.” Upon the heart andV arteries, Dr. C. assigns the diseases, of these or- as the most prolific cause. The Ujpo'l itself assumes the state known «s fatty degeneration. The natural | proportion of fat in the blood is 8 J to 0,1000 par*'-. fr the drnV*.rd'». Wood the proportion of fat is often 117 to 1000, 1200 per cent, increase.” Tnis statement from a physician of learning and experience supplies food for sober thought. Let the moderate drinker remember it. In this condi tion of the blood the most serious and fatal disorders must sooner or later ensue, preparing the way for untimely death. They are substantially reaf firmed in the reports of the “Ameri. can Medical Association for the re form of inebriates,” which met in the city of New York in November 1870. The concurrent testimony of these high medical authorities ought to check the moderate drinker and cause him to retrace hi* steps. The ques tion is not simply whether he may or may not indulge in a certain enjoy ment; but whether he may rightfully tamper with a poison which always injures the well man, in the great ma jority of cases shortens life, in many cases rapidly leads to death. If he continue his indulgence it is utterly impossible for him to escape the wretched consequences. The evil day will surely come, the reckoning must be had, and a terrible reckoning it will bo. “He sows to the wind; he must reap the whirlwind.” We often hear the reply, you would abridge our personal liberty. No! no! we only entreat you not to use your liberty in a way which will surely in* jure you, and may prove your ruin.— We also hear this reply: “The abuse of a thing, good in itself, does not constitute a valid argument against the right use of it.” Let this be our answer: The highest medical authori ty affirms that there is no right use of alcoholic drinks, except as a medicine under the direction of an intelligent, honest physician. Any use beyond this is the wrong use, the unsafe and dangerous use of an article that prop erly belongs to the materia medica, arid not to the articles designed for man’s daily drink. Let us aggregate these results, if we can form a conception of their full and terrible magnitude. Ist, Tens of thousands bloated, disfigured, diseased, tortured human beings, dying by inch es, yet surely dying. 2nd, Their in tellects beclouded, darkened, foolish or crazed by drink. .3d, Millions of property wasted, all branches of in dustry checked, paralyzed, destroyed. 4th, The wreck of charade, followed by counties crimes, with their attend i ant litigations sufferings and enmities | to communities, families and individu ala. sth, Thousands of desolated i homes, the abodes of poverty and J shame, the humiliation of lovely daugh- I ters and sisters, the unutterable an guish of heart-broken wives and moth ers, the ignorance, want and helpless sorrow of neglected children; so many doomed to tread the lonely waste of life, for whom there is not one gleam of sunshine or ray of hope. 6th, So cial life, corrupted, degraded and af flicted with countless vices. 7th, im mortal souls, steeped in pollution and sent to perdition. All this makes a picture of sorrow and wretchedness that beggars description. And yet, all this is the dreadful result of mod erate drinking, this the horrible fruit of the liquor *rafic. Even the men engaged in this work of .death shrink from the contemplation of results so grievous and frightful. Fain would each one solemnly declare as the har rowing scence comes before his mind, “You cannot say I did it.” But what else can we say? If every confirmed drunkard on earth were to die this day, these dreadful evils would not cease. An hundred thousand distill eries and dram shops would still feed the depraved thirst of a million mod erate drinkers; hence the same mise ries, crimes, and heart-rending ago nies, and wretched death* would con tinue to be repeated. But let this traffic cease, let moderate di inking come to an end, soon 80,000 would be snatched from death—6oo,ooo placed beyond danger—3oo,ooo annually saved; three-fourths of all crimes ceased; three-fourths of all paupers and orphan dependents no longer a burden upon the public; three-fourths of penitentiaries, jails and poorhouses become useless. No drunkard’s wife would.sit in tears beside her desolate hearth, no drunkard’s daughter blush for shame and mourn with grief unut terable as she looks upon a bloated, besotted being whom she still pities and loves, thoug he drives the iron into her very soul by his shameless life. No wan, poverty-stricken chil dren would sob out their inexpressible anguish amid calamities and hardships from which their helpless innocence should have protected them. No gen tle maid would tear from her virgin heart the joy and hope that nestled there because he Jo whom she had plighted her vows, had proved himself unworthy of her love and unsafe to be trusted with her happiness. Sor rowing fathers and mother* would no more lay their heads on tear-bedewed pillows, or find refuge in the welcome ed grave because their noble sons, tempted, beteeved end mined, V>sn« met the drunkard's doom; or because j their lovely daughters have been con-1 signed to a fate even worse—the help less misery of a wife.— j Such would be the blessed result if : all liquor selling and moderate drink- ! iug should cease f om this day. Every j man who continues to sell liquor, every man and woman who continues to drink, and thus help to sustain the seller, is delaying this happy consum< rnation, is in part responsible for the continuance of the terrible curse of intemperance. How much each One is doing, God only knows. In the judgment of the great day this net work of temptations, influences aud causes will be uurolled, and each man’s share of guilt in the enactment of these seenes of wrong, of suffering, of tears and blood, of heart-rending anguish and indescribable misery will be distinctly ascertained. Then, and then only, will be fulfilled the terrible denunciation of Holy Writ; “Woe to him that giveth his neighbor drink, that putteth the bottle to him and maketh him drunken also.” Can nothing be done to arrest and banish the evils of inte nperanee?— Yes! something in the way of cure; some can be brought to see their dan ger ; some to take the pledge of total abstinence, many such have been, can be saved. But much more can be done in the way of prevention. To stop a vast conflagration in a forest you must go in advance and remove the material from its path. So you must get in advance, take the material from out the range of this devouring scourge. Gather the youth especially into associations or societies for united work, and let such societies be centres of influence, rallying points for every moral and social power that can be arrayed against this great evil. As the fatLer of Hannibal taught him to hate and to swear eternal opposition to Rome, so do you teach your sons and daughters to abhor and detest every alcoholic beverage, even wine itself, as a foe to human happiness, deadly to be dreaded because so fas cinating, so deceitful, so sure to be tray and ruin. As they grow up pledge them to lifelong renunciation of the wine cup, to uncompromising effort against its bewitching and blight ing influences. Whose children are safe ? whose loved ones secure? so long as the drinking usages of the day con tinue, and so long as men remain in fatuated with the delusion that these usages are both innocet and commend able? But if the many whs have long indulged convivial habits cannot be convinced of the present evil and fu ture danger springing from such hab its, let us at least unceasingly entreat the young men not to begin such a course. Young gentlemen, indulge me in a few words of counsel. Let all liquors alone, even cicer, beer and wine, never taste them; avoid them as you would the touch of the serpent; habit is a tyranical master—its sway is not ea sily broken. Dr. Combe says, “A tendency to resume the same mode of action at certain times is peculiarly the charac teristic of the nervous system, and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual faculties. All ner vous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods. It is this principle of our nature that promotes the formation of what are called hab its. To apply this, if we perform a certain physical act, or mental effort, or moral deed, whether good or bad, at certain times of the day, we find ourselves entering upon this act or ef fort without premeditation, with ease, with a sort of irrisistible impulse.— Especially is this true as to the habit of dram drinking; each repetition makes an impression upon the ner vous system which calls for its repe tition with greater and still greater urgency until the demand becomes the law of a tyrant who will take no denial. Your habits are forming.— Now is the hour of peril. The great est danger to vegetation is just at the time when the germ is unfolding, and the blossom is bursting into fragrance and beauty. Thus, with you, at this critical period of life, the blighting influence of one evil habit may destroy all the hopes of a whole lifetime.— You will surely be tempted by the usage of social drinking, so common in all circles. When the temptation comes, when the enchanted isle spreads out before you its beautiful shore and its breezes waft to you the perfumes qf -a thousand flowers, and the song of-,the syren thrills with its voluptu ous strain, then it will require moral courage of the highest order to resist. “Pleasure is the fatal rock which most have split on, for men, bewitched by the cursed syren’s voice, sail on re gardless till they strike on ruin.”— If in these first temptations you ean say “no," firmly, manfully, unuttera bly* you can once turn your back upon tie tempter, once trim your sails to another gale, and waft your bark to s*. diffeewnt. point, won not, OTllw INO. 27. gained one important victory you have made it easier to gain another and yet another. Resolute resistance soon es tablishes a habit of resistance, arid thus becomes possible, easy, certain. But, if in some thoughtless moment, you yield, saying “It is but for thi* once,” your power of resistance is weakened. Every indulgence makes it weaker still, while it also increases the desire for still further indulgence. The habit at length becomes firmly established; then, no power on earth can prevent its certain unalterable operation; no earthly love can exempt from its terrible sway. So sure is its power, that it guides and governs even against the conviction of the mind, agaiastthe voice of conscience, against the entreaties of love, against every interest in earth and heaven. Says John Foster: “Themind is weak when it has once given way, it is long be. fore a principle restored can become as firm as one that has never been moved. It is as in the case of a mound of a reservoir, if this mound has in one place been broken whatever care has been taken to make the re paired part as strong as possible, the probability is that if it gives way a gain it will be in that place ” Thus we see it in the case of the unhappy inebriate. In vain the conviction of his own judgment, the condemnation of his own conscience. In vain the appeals of earnest, warm-hearted friends; in vain does his professional standing plead for the abandonnmnt of his habits. Poverty stares him in the face, in vain his patient wife, whom he has sworn to love and cher ish, beseeches in the agony of her heart, with tearful eyes and tremu lous voice, she pleads the plighted vows and sunny memories of happier days, but in vain! His lovely daugh ters, and manly sons, and innocent babes look with mute but eloquent re monstrance upon their natural guar dian, exemplar, and guide; but look their reproofs and entrerties in vain. Has he no understanding? Yes. Hag he no heart? Yes. Has he no con* scienc? Yes. Does he not see and feel all this ? Alas! yea. He too bit terly feels, too truly knows all, all, but he is in the hands of s giant, in the embrace of a habit chose arms are triple brass. God help him, or he is gone, forever lost! "But he* did not intend all this. There was a time when he was not thus infatuated, bound and helpless, was where you are now, nor dreamed of danger. Would you be safe? Form not the habit of moderate drinking. “Touch not, taste not.” Start not on this enchanted, delusive, fatal current. Its waters glide smoothly before your eye; sweet flowers exhale perfume from either shore; beautiful foliage throws a grateful shade on either band; en chanting music laps the soul in soft and sweet delight, but yonder the cur rent grows swifter; yonder it rushes amid rocks and. eddies; yonder it sweeps over boulder and barrier, yet yonder is the cataract thundesing its dirge of the miserable and the lost. Once embarked on that treacherous current, once near that foaming cata ract, no human arm can save. Now make your safety sure by the lifelong pledge of total abstinence. The wine cup is a snare, moderate drinking the frightful source af countless ills in this life, of unutterable anguish in the life to come. “Look not upon the wine when it is red; at last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.” Men Who are in Prison. Among the political prisoners in the Albany Penitentiary, sentenced under the infamous Ku-Klux law is a man by the name of Moore, and this is his histoty, as he gave in brief, from! his sick bed, to tho editor of the Utica Bee: “Before the war I was a well-to do planter in Alabama. I owned many slaves, which constituted my wealth. The events of the war reduced ma nearly to poverty. At its close I gath ered together the fragments of my ruined estate, hired a few of my for mer slaves and commenced life anew. All went well with me until a month or six wedks ago, when I was suspected of being a Ku-Klux, arrested bv a Uuited States Marshal, given a hasty trial, found guilty, sentenced, and two weeks ago was brougt from Washington to this prison. My term is tenyears, The editor of the Bee adds: “Ths man vowed upon his honor, and as heprayed that it might be his deatl bed, that he was as innocent of th< crime charged against him as I was. He knew nothing whatever of the Ku Kluk. I asked him if he had a family The mention of family seemed to par alyze him with grief. He sobbed bi‘« terly, and between the tears I heard him moan ‘Oh! my poor little boy—my poor wife, I hastened away, but under the pretense of filling his kid with we» ter, in a half hour I returned. He was still lying on his narrow bunk, and clasping a Bible in his bands seemed deeply interested in one of theplaintiv* Pvaiir'-- of TVrifP