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THE RUM DRINKING CHRISTIAN,
The Lord pardon thy servant in this thing. ~ Kings v. 18
This was the petetion ot Naaman the byrian,
for the mdulgance in, a point where God and con
science condemned him. It is the prayer of ma-
thus desiring some forbidden in
dulgence. It is the prayer of the rum drinking
Christian.
I. I shall show who the rum drinking Chris
tian is.
11. That he pursues a practice condemned by
God and conscience.
111. That he pleads for his practice that it is
both useful and necessary.
1. The rum drinking Christian is not the drun
kard ; for the drunkard is no Christian.
He is not the hard drinker ; though some pro
fessed Christians, to their shame be it said, are
bard drinkers.
He is the Christian, professing to drink temper
ately ; priding himsell on a prudent use of de
structive poison.
He is a man of good reputation in society ; and
of regular standing in the church. He would
sooner sacrifice all his property than be seen
drunk. He deplores the immoralities of society ;
is Constantin his attendance on divine institutions,
and rejoices in the conversion of sinners and
spread of the gospel —but he drinks turn, espe
cially when engaged in any hard labour, as hay
ing and harvesting. He cannot go into the field,
or engage in fishing, ship building, or in mechan
ical employment, without this or some other in
toxicating liquor. W hen he comes home, he
takes it to create an appetite. When he is wet,
to keep him from a cold. When attending the sick,
to ward off fevers. He gives it to his wife and
children, and visitants and labourers, bnt always
prudently ; resolving to be temperate in all things.
Such is the rum drinking Christian.
11. He pursues a practice condemned by God
and conscience
A practice condemned by God, Ist, in his
word.
Against nothing does God more solemnly warn
his people, than intoxicating liquor.—“ Who hath
wo ? Who hath sorrow ? Who hath contention ?
Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without
cause ? Who hath redness of eyes? They that
tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed
wine. Look not thou upon the wine.” The
wine is an intoxicating liquor; and God says, in
view of its tremendous effects, not use it prudent
ly, but Look not upon it, avoid it, turn from it as
the destroyer of the soul, io\\at. last , it bitctli like a
serpent and stingeth like an adder. Again, “It is
not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes strong
drink, lest they drink and forget the law, and
pervert the judgement of any of the afflicted.”
Entire abstinence is here enjoined upon all ru
lers. Why ? Because strong drink clouds the
mind, destroys the perception and the sense of
right and wrong, hardens the heart, and perverts
the judgement; and it is for the same reason the
duty of all men, that they may in perfect sobrie
tv discharge all their obligations. Again, “ Wine
is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoso
ever is deceived thereby is not wise.” “Wo un
to them that rise up early in the morning, that
they may follow strong drink.” “Wo unto them
that are at ease in Zion, that drink wine in
bowls.” “Take heed to yourselves, lest at any
time vour hearts be over charged with surfeiting
and drunkenness.” “ Let us who are of the day,
be sober.” In what stronger terms could God
say to his people, Touch not,taste not,handle not ?
2. In his providence.
The providence of Grid sometimes furnishes
rules of aetton clear as his word. Whatever the
gemeaal good requires, we ara bound to do.—
Whatever the salvation of souls demands, we
must sacrifice. Now, through the prevalence of
intemperance, our country is on the brink of ruin.
The church is in danger of being paralyzed in all
her efforts. ‘Thousands of families are reduced to
degredation and wretchedness ; and thousands of
souls are plunging into eternal wo. Fifty mil
lions of gallons of distilled spirits are drunk in the
United States every year; (how great a portion of
it by professed Christians, who can tell!) and no
less than 130,000 drunkards stagger in the streets
of the nation every day. This tremendous evil,
every man is called in the providence, of God, to
help check and suppress. But the common sense
of mankind decides that it can be checked and
suppressed only by the entire disuse of ardent
spirits in the religious and moral community. —
Every man, therefore, is required, in the provi
dence of God, to practice entire abstinence him sell,
and to cease giving strong drink to others. The
Christian who does not do it, who drinks daily
himself, and puts the bottle to his neighbour’s
mouth, acts in defiance of the word and provi
dence of God ; 1 add, against the remonstrance of
his own conscience.
Hundreds ol once rum drinking, but now con
sistent Christians, acknowledge that it was once
so with them, while they periodically stimulated,
and while they gave brandy and spirits to others.
And the conscience of men act with great unifor
mity on such points. Once indeed, the conscience
ot good men were little disturbed on this subject;
for, but little light was thrown .upon such subjects.
But Christians are no longer blind. They have
light. They see the evil, and the extent of in
temperance ; and the remedy lies before them,
and now conscience must act; and if they willl
set at defiance the warnings of God, and the efforts j
of the temperate through the land, it must con
demn them.
111. The rum drinking Christian pleads forj
thia practice as useful and necessary.
Though it is fully shown from the facts and
the testimony of th e experienced, that even
a little strong drink is unnecessary and danger
ous, he pleads that he cannot labor without it;
that his strength will fail him ; that it makes
him feel better ; that he has more enjoyment of
his food, and better sleep ; that he cannot get
men to labor for him without it ; that he will
be unpopular in withholding it, and that a pru
dent use can do no harm; and thongh he knows
that his practice is condemned by the word and
providence of God, yet so powerfully does the
world and appetite plead, that he says, “ Ihe
Lord pardon thy servant in this thing.”
FROG SOUP.
We noticed, a few days ago in the columns of
a contemporary, a characteristic anecdote ot a
well-known citizen of a sister Stale, who has re
cently been honored by the general government
with a foreign consulship. It brought forcibly to
mind an incident in the life of that fortunate gen
tleman, which occurred some years ago. When
we first knew H , he kept a small restaurant
and coffee house, in Woodville, Mississippi, which
was the principal and favorite resort ot the vil
lagers and the gentlemen from the surrounding
country, and was noted for its ready and nice
preparation of all those delicacies so eagerly
yearned for by the “inner man.” Among those
gentlemen who usually resorted to H ’s es
tablishment, was one who had established, by his
repeated pranks and practical jokes, the most un
enviable reputation that a wag ever bore. Os
this character of D’s, it must be borne in mind,
H was entirely ignorant, and his then im
perfect knowledge of our language, and his sim
plicity of manner and easy confidence, made
him a most desirable subject for D *s jokes.
One day, D and several other gentlemen
were detained in town tilll after their dinner hour.
Among these was. one whom we will call S ,
who, although a very sociable and amiable man
generally, was, at times when excited, (and that
was not always hard to do) a very violent, and,
apparently a dangerous man. After these gentle
men had concluded the business which had de
tained them, it was agreed, before starting for
home, to stop at H ’s and get a bowl of oys
ter soup. While Sand the others went off
to H ’s, D , who had lagged behind, dis
covered in the grass, which covered.the court
house yard, a quantity of small frogs hopping
about—the production of a shower which had
previously fallen. Filling his pockets with these
varmints, D arrived at H ’s just as the
servant was going into the room where the gen
tlemen were seated, with a large bowl of oyster
soup. Distracting the attention of the servant,
he managed to slip into the bowl a handful of
little frogs, and the soup, covered over, was placed
on the table. H was in the room, and was
very eloquent in his praises of his own establish
ment, and of the luxuries it contained, and par
ticularly of the oysters, which he had just re
ceived from New Orleans.
Now, if there was any particular antipathy
S Had, it was certainly to frogs as an article
of foody and if he had any particular fondness for
any article, it was for oysters in any way. “You
are sure these oysters are fresh,” asks S. “Oh
yes, nevair was dere bettaire, very fresh,” an
swered H., and he went off in an eloquent dis
quisition upon the excellence of the oyster soup
then on the table. Just at this moment, while.
Sand II were thus engaged, D
placed before the former a plate of the soup, well
supplied with frogs, which, not relishing the hot
fluid they were immersed in, were kicking about
at a terrible rate. The eyes of both H and
S were fixed at the same moment upon the
troubled plate . “ Fox fire, ” exclaimed S ,
as he pushed back from the table, “FI . your
oysters are alive !’\ “By gar de be very fresh,
very guide,” and taking the sf>oon, he proceeded
to see what was the matter in the apparently en
chanted dish, and the first thing that appeared
upon the spoon was a frog, writhing in the agony
of death. “Frog soup, alive and kicking at that,”
exclaimed S with an oath, and springing from
the chair, he made after H , who terrified at
the sight of the frog, had already got to the door.
Then came the race down the street. IF $
scared to death, fled like one % who knew that in
his legs was his only safety from a severe punish
ment; and S , excited at the supposed trick
of poor FI , pursued him with the intentention
of inflicting summary vengeance. “Stop, you
frog-eater,” shouted S , “Take him off,”
bawled poor H . “Run H ;” “Catch him
S ,” cried the orowd which had heen attract
ed by the race. S soon gave tip the chase,
despairing of ever catching the terrified French
man, who ran on until he reached the bushes,
where he remained concealed until informed by
his friends that S had left for home.
The affair for a.long time hung like an incubus
over the spirits of poor H , who always con
cealed himself whenever he heard that S
was in town. The matter was ultimately ex
plained to the satisfaction of all parties, and the
good-hearted and vivacious H became him
self again.—A 7 . 0 . Picayune .
Republicanism. —Not many years since, m a
handsome mansion not a thousand miles from
Cincinnati, a young lady who has “high notions’
of what constitutes respectability, expressed as
tonishment to her mother that a young lady of
their acquaintance, of considerable wealth, should
receive the attentions of a young carpenter and
joiner.
“ He is an upright and intelligent young man.
I can see no objections,” replied the mother.
“ I don’t care,” returned the daughter, “ I
would not be seen on the street with him.”
“ Would you be ashamed to be seen with your
fatheron the street? ” enquired the mother.
“ Why do you ask that, mother ? ” *
“ Because I can well remember when he pushed
a plane,” was the mother’s reply.
Tying the Knot. —We do not pretend to vouch
for the truth of the following ; but it is said that
the ceremony of tying the nuptial knot is very
much simplified in the Hoosier State, as the fol
lowing scene will show,
“ What is your name, sir? ”
“ Matty.”
“Any relation to Matty Van Buren ? ”
“ No sir-ee.”
“ What is your name, miss ? ”
“ Polly.”
“Polly what! —Polly Hopkins ? ”
“No, squire, jist plain Polly.”
“ Matty, do you love Polly ?”
“ Well, I does.”
“ Well, Polly, do you love Matty ? ”
“ No mistake squire.”
“ Well, then, you want to be tied ?”
“ I reckon so.”
“ Then I pronounce you man and wife.”
“ Thank you sir.”
In the days of the Revolution there was an old
lad} 7 who occasionally entertained man and beast,
remarkably for her unfeeling covetousness. One
day a wear} 7 and famished soldier called at her
house and asked for refreshment—his appearance
indicated extreme poverty —the old lady thought
his means not adequate to remunerate her for a
very ample repast, so she placed before him a
dish of bones which looked as though they had
been pretty faith fully picked, and left her son to
settle with the soldier, when he had finished their
second examination. The boy, pitying the trav
eler, and willing to give his parent reproof for
her parsimony, told his guest, upon rising from
the table, that he was welcome to what he had
eaten, and made him a present into the bargain.
In a short time the mother returned, when her
son enquired, “Mother, how much was it worth
to pick them old bones?”
“A shilling, my dear,” said she, expecting to
receive the money. “I thought so,” replied the
boy ; “ and 1 gave the old soldier a shilling for doing
it.”
A Scene in a Convent. —The Madrid journals
state that a young lady, member of an illustrious
family, having been prevented by her parents
from marrying a young man of obscure condition,
lor whom she had conceived a violent passion,
was sent to a convent, and that there she attempt
ed to commit suicide by hanging, arid by setting
fire to her bed. The smoke having caused an
alarm, her cell door was broken off’, and she was
discovered in a state of dreadful agony, hanging
by the neck, with the flames playing around her.
he was immediately cut down and prompt as
sistance being rendered, life was preserved.—
Galignani .
A Sorely Afflicted Husband. —We question
whether a case so afflicted has ever occurred sim
ilar to that of a man in Louisville, who according
to the Courier, lost his second wife, of cholera,
on the 14th inst., his first wife having died of the
same disease only a month previous !
Mr. Sinclair is on his way from England with
a view to come to a proper understanding of the
difficulty between his daughter and her husband,
Mr. Edwin Forrest.
We passed along the wharf, says the Pittsburg
Dispatch , of the 23d ult., on Saturday morning,
from the point to Wood street, and saw not a. sin
gle article or pacha ge of freight —either being re
ceived or discharged. ‘There was not a dray on
the whole wharf. Such perfect quietude we never
witnessed before, except on the Sabbath, or in
mid winter.
A.German paper says that suspension of life,
caused by prussic acid, is only apparent. Life
is immediately restored by pouring acetate of potash
and common salt dissolved in water on the head
and spine. In this country rabbits have been at
once recovered from the effects of prussic acid
by this means.
A correspondent writing from Portage Prairie,
Wis., under date July 28, says :—“We are in the
midst of our harvest. Winter Wheat looks well
and would give a great yield, but the rust will
shrink it about one quarter. Spring Wheat will
be a heavy crop, also Oats. Corn in this section
does not look well on account of the cold Spring.”
“ Oh, Doctor,” said an elderly lady recently,
to Dr. H. , the celebrated bone-setter-, in de
scribing the effects of a diseased spine, “ I can
neither lay nor set.” “I should recommend,”
replied he, “the propriety of roosting /”
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MACON, GEORGIA.
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City and the Traveling Public generally, that they have leased
for a term of years, the above well known and commodious house,
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*S. BUFOitD,
THOMAS WILLIAMS.
july 9
To the planters and Farmers of &outh
Carolina, Georgia, ik lab am a, Tenn
essee and Florida,
T AM THE AUTHORIZED AGENT for the
sale and purchase of the CAM KLIN A SATIVA or
GOLD OF PLEASURE SEED, a native of Siberia.
1 am now ready to till all orders for the seed, and being au
thorized by the Company to purchase the same, I will pay the
highest market price for all that may be shipped to me in
Savannah. WM. HUMPHREYS, Jr.,
may 31 Agent for the Company of New York.
A 4JARO,
THE undersigned having re-opened, with an
JL entire New Stock of DRUGS, CHEMICALS and
FANCY ARTICLES, at No. 139 (South side) Brougliton
street, (formerly Walker’s Marble Yard,) is ifow ready to
furnish any thing in his line, at the shortest notice. SODA
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the city, and always to be had at the store, in the highest state
of perfection.
Prescriptions put up with care and despatch.
The subscriber having served the public long and faithfully,
respectfully solicits a share of their patronage.
apr 26 THOS. RYERSON.
Summer lUlreal ma the Sails*.
AT MONTGOMERY\
TWELVE MILKS FROM SAVANNAH.
ABONAUD respectfully informs his friends
9 and the public generally, that from the 21st inst., he will
be prepared to accommodate guests, to whom he promises
good attendance on accommodating terms, having good and
intelligent servants. Persons may be accommodated for board
per week, month or day, at the following rates, viz:
Board and Lodging, per week, $5 00
Do. do. per day 1 50
Horses well fed and attended to for 50 cents per day.
N. B. During the season there is an abundance of Fruit
on the place; and the table will also be provided with all kinds
of fish that the river will afford. apr 26
Tkos pect u s~~
OF THE
SYLVANIA REPUBLICAN.
The undersigned, native Georgians, propose to publish at
the village of Sylvania, in the county of Scriven, a weekly
Newspaper, to be called the- Sylvania Republican. Believing
the dissemination of useful information, and the promotion and
encouragement of correct opinions, to constitute the chief
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noblest occupation of man, will receive at the hands of our
journal, the almost exclusive importance to which it is entitled.
Though, as our name indicates, devotedly and exclusively at
tached to the principles of the Democratic Party of the South,
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JAMES W. DkLYON.
Sylvania, July 12th. 1849.
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