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M_v voice faltered—-Mother wept aloud. I sum moned courage to say —father, will you quit drinking? “Hush your impudence! Do you presume to lecture your father!” This answer ! contained the first hard words my father ever ut- j tered tome. Sorrow, gloom and sadness now overshadowed us. My father went on, from bad to woise—we were reduced to poverty. Our hous6 was sold by the sheriff, for debts that had no connexion with our family expenses. My mothers health failed—she‘left the world to wretchedness and woe!’ Her last articulation was a prayer for her husband and daughter. Yes, and when the pow- i Cr ot speech was gone, h#r upturned eye and moving lip told that she was beseeching mercy for those she loved. “ She’s gone!” said the at-[ tendant nurse, “ she’s gone!” None but a bereaved daughter can realize my j feelings at that moment. No earthly protector but an intemperate father! Almost did I desire j to be lifeless beside my mother ; but that wicked thought was at once checked. Having conse crated myself to the service of God, I felt bound j to live for His glory, till he should call me hence. The day of burial came. Custom was to offer wine to those who came to sympathise. My fa- j ther drank, his appetite being excited, was intox- | icatcd; and in the absence of a clergyman, drunk ! as he was, proposed, and actually led, the devo- ! tional exercises at the grave! My heart sunk ! within me; I sorrowed more for my father’s con duct than for my mother’s death. The church had neglected all this time to call my father to account. He was summoned for trial, and expelled. On our communion Sabbath he was called by name, and arose in the congre gation. The closing sentence of the excommu nication was—“ You are expelled from this church, and delivered over to the buffettings of Satan." These words pressed with mountain weight on me. The sentence was just. But the thought was insupportable that he should no more meet with us at the sacramental board, and might be excluded heaven. I pass by years without comment. My resi dence was far from my father—nor did I have frequent intelligence from him. One afternoon a stranger presented himself at my door—he smiled. I at once recognized that smile, which for twenty years I had not seen. My father!— “ My child—my only child!” he answered—“l bring you good news.—l am a reformed man.— 1 have taken the pledge.” We are all happy, and are greatly amused that our little Mary, who bears the name of her grand mother, runs about the room calling out, “dam pa’s come, dampa’s come.” ARABELLA. Kor the Washingtonian. Geographical Enigma. I am composed of fourteen letters : My 1,5, 8, 10, is an Island in Oceanica; “ 2,3, 5, is a Town in South America; “ 3, 12, 5, 11, is a County in Missouri; “ 4,5, 12, 12, is a County in Georgia; “ 5, 11,1, is a River in Great Britain; “ 6,5, 11, is a County in Missouri, “ 7,5, 3,3, 10, is a City in Asia; " 8,13, is a River in Europe; “ 9,5, 8,9, 11, is a River in Asia; 11 10, 12, 9,5, 11 is a Range of Mountains in Asia, . “ 11, 10, 8, is an Island in Oceanica; “ 12, 13, 13, 3,4, 13, 13, is an Island in the Pacific Ocean ; “ 13, 4, 2,13, is a River in the Western States; “ 14, 13,13, 9, is a River in Iowa; My whole, is the name of a celebrated advocate of the Temperance cause, W O N. An answer is requested. From the (Penfield) Temperance Banner. From Greenesboro’, Mr. Taylor visited our ■own village of Penfield. It had been made known in the neighboring country, that he would lecture here on Monday evening of this week. At an early hour, the Chapel of our University was pret ty well filled; and at the close of the lecture, the pledge being offered, 131 names were enrolled. On Tuesday evening, Mr. T. again lectured to a crowded house, and at the close about 50 ad ditional names were added to the pledge. It was announced, that other engagements would com- j pel Mr. T. to close his labors here on Wednes- ! day evening. This annunciation was spread j through the surround : :»g country, and at the ap- [ pointed hour our friends poured in upon us en- 1 masse. All classes and every body, for miles a- 1 round, were present—not even forgetting our old l friend Aunt Betty Green, who was to be seen | occupying a conspicuous seat near the speaker, i This evening’s address was one of Mr. T’s best j efforts, and at the dose, the list of pledges was | swelled to 232!! Well done, Penfield. We think a blow has been struck, that will drive the old Prince from this region. Indeed, a clean •weep bs« nearly hern made already We know of but few individuals within miles of our village, but have signed the pledge—“ hard cases.” shop keepers, and all. Our fnends are in the best spi i rits, and a ball has been set in motion, that will I roll on, and roll on, till the cloven foot of Prince ! Alcohol will not make a single track upon the sands of our soil. ThePenfield Total Abstinence Society has , dissolved, and a meeting ofallthe friends of the cause is to be held at 2 o’clock, to morrow after noon, for a new organization ; when, doubtless, the principles of the Washingtonians will be a dopted. Mr. Taylor left here immediately after the lec j ture, on Wednesday evening, on a short visit to his family in Athens. He will be at Crawford j ville at the end of the week, and from there he goes to Washington. | Before he left, at our request, he politely hand- I ed us the following article: Mr. Editor:—For four months past, I have been ! travelling in Georgia, disseminating the princi ! pies of the Washington Total Abstinence Soci j ety;— I have visited the following Counties:— : Richmond, Clark, Morgan, Walton, Newton, j Jasper, Gwinnett, DeKalb, Cobb, Forsyth, Cherokee, Henry, Pike, Bibb, Baldwin, Putnam, and Greene. During the four months abovemen j tinned, in visiting these Counties, I have delivered i 142 addresses or lectures, in 125 days; the num ber of Societies in the abov? Counties, organized upon the Washington principles, is 31; the num ber ofaccessions to the pledge in these Societies jis 6,310. Os this number there are over 600 re j formed drunkards, 500 of whom are men of fami | lies; over 2,000 moderate drinkers, 1,600 temper- I ate men ; and 2,000 ladies. I I will explain what I mean by the different l classes here mentioned: By a drunkard, I mean a hard case, one who falls down, and feels for the ground upwards, or holds fast to keep from falling off. By a moderate drinker, one who is in posthaste j to the gutter, who lets “ his moderation be known to all men.” By a temperate man, one who takes a little, now and then, for his aches and pains. You know, sir, what l mean by ladies. We dare not suppose them to be in the habit of drink ing; but some of them think that a little wine, porter and cider, brandy peaches and syllabub, I are mighty nice. Os course we dare not lay bran dv, gin and bald-face whiskey to their charge. RICHARD P. TAYLOR. From the Louisville Journal. Temperance, Whiskey, Lird Oil, Stearin Candles, Cornstalk Sugar, Berkshire Hogs. In the scheme of Providence, provision is made to counterbalance, compensate, or supply all ex cesses and deficiencies; and thus harmony is ,or ever sustained in the affairs of the world. W hen the temperance cause began to shut up the distil leries and to throw the cooper and jug maker out of employment, there were many misgivings among the corn-growers and other parties inter ested ; but no sooner had an over supply of corn taken place, than ingenious necessity devised modes of making sugar out of cornstalks, and oil and candles out of corn elubrated into hogs. Os corn-stalk sugar, the method of making it, and the mode of cultivating the com for that pur pose, we have already spoken at large in the Jour nal. We have likewise informed our readers of the new uses to which hogs’ lard has recently been applied, in the manufacture ofoil rivaling the best 1 whale and olive for burning and machinery, and in the manufacture of candles equal to the best sperm. A pound of hogs’lard will make half a pound of stearin and half a pound of oil, Stearin is, to the senses and to all other tests, identical : with sperm. It can he manufactured, with a I good profit, at 18 to 20c., perfectly pure. The 1 oil can be well afforded at 50 cents a gallon. Al ready have a number of factories been established ; in the West, (at St, Louis, Cincinnati, and Lex j irigton ; j and one is about being established here. In fine, it is now reduced to a certainty that the whale* business will be abandoned, and that the hogs will hereafter supply the whole demand for oil and sperm candles, not only in America, but throughout the world. We say the whole demand, because it is obvious that we can grow land whales far cheaper than we can obtain the sperm whale from the ocean. Os course, the stearin candle, from being cheaper than the sperm has been, will be more generally used. infinite, then, will be the demand for lard. How will the farmers supply the demand 1 Sim ply by converting from 50 to 75 per cent, of his hogs into lard; and nothing in the world can be easier than this. It is only to procure a breed good for making fat, (such as the Berkshire,) and to trim the hams and shoulders close, converting, if necessary, the whole middling into lard. The hog must, of course, be fed from the start with plenty of the most nutrious food, so that he may nearly run altogether into fat. Here is a serious matter to be digested by the farmer. He may now make Indian corn the bur den of his crop, and he will even find it necessa ry to adopt the improved mode of cultivating it, by which he can produce twice as much to the acre as formerly. The name of Walter C. Young will now be famous, ind thousands will owe their fortunes to the Louisville Journal and the Dollar Farmer. But what shall we say of Berkshire hogs ? They will henceforth be in far greater demand than they ever were before; for you may as well attempt by hand to compete with the ma •Whalei were becomeing quite icarce, gad the hogi have stepped in to «upp)y the deficiency. chinerv lor making shoe-pegs, as to bring the land-pike and alligator hogs in competition with the Berkshire in lard making. From the N’. c. Temperauce Union I'i'wiii the official returns made to the depart ment of state, it appears that 71 million 162 thou sand and eighty-nine gallons of intoxicating li quors are annually consumed in the United States, cider not included. Os this amount some thing more than 40 millions of gallons are ardent spirits. A large part of this reaches the consumer at the retail price of six cents a glass, or eight dol lars a gallon. We willsuppose, however, which is no doubt far below the truth, that it reaches the consumer at the price of fifty cents per gallon, and at that rate, the amount spent for intoxica ting liquor in our country would amount to the enormous sum of35J millions of dollars a year. It appears from the same official returns that more than nine millions of capital, and more than twelve thousand persons are engaged in its manufacture in distilleries ami breweries. It is certainly a low estimate to suppose that eight times as many persons are engaged in its sale, as there are in its manufacture. This would give 110,(WO persons employed in the sale and manu facture of ardent spirits. The wealth of every country depends upon its productive labor—anil if that labor is withdrawn from useful occupations, and devoted to that which is unproductive, so much is subtracted from the wealth of the com munity. If then we suppose the value of the la bor of those persons engaged in the manufacture and retail of ardent spirits to be worth fifty dol lars only a year, we have an annual loss of labor to the country ofs2j million of dollars. There are supposed to be 375,000 drunkards in the United States. Suppose these to lose, on an average, 100 days labor in the year, and estimate this at twenty cents a day, and we have another loss to the community of 7j millions of dollars. There is unquestionably a shortening of an aver age of ten years in the lives of 50,000 drunkards, who die annually of intemperance; this, at fifty dollats a year, gives us another item of loss in the productive labor of the country of 25 millions of dollars annually. Wc have now the materials for forming some estimate of the l< ss arising from intemperance to the wealth of the community. 71,000,000 gallons liquor, at 50 cts. $55,500,000 110,000 years of labor of persons en gaged in the manufacture and sale, at SSO per year, 5,500,000 100 days labor 0f275,000 drunkards, at 20 cents a day, 7,500,000 10 years lavor of 60,000 men killed annually by intemperance, at SSO a year, 25,000,000 Cost of pauperism and crime, 7,000,000 $80,500,000 Making the enormous amount of Eighty Mil lions Five Hundred Thousand Dollars annually. To this is to be added the labor of criminals confined, and paupers—the support of lunatics— the amount of private charities to paupers, not in cluded in the estimate—and the loss from ship wrecks, disasters, and accidents of various kinds occasioned by intemperance. No man can esti mate those in the aggregate at less than 10 mil lions of dollars more. Ninety Millions of Dollars a year for the use of intoxicating liquors in the United States. Verily King Alcohol has ruled us with a rod of iron. Clay and Calhoun. An anecdote is told of the meeting of Mr. Clay and Mr. Calhoun, after the former had retired from the Senate, which shows that political strife, though it may for a while deaden the finer feel ings ofthc heart, cannot destroy them, especially in those hearts that heat with generous and man ly sensibilities. As Mr. Clay was passing to wards the door to leave the Senate Chamber, Mr. Calhoun met him—they had not spoken to each other for five years; but they now simultaneously extended their hands, and rushed to each other’s arms; neither spoke, but both wept. At length Mr. Clay said on parting, “ Give my best regards to Mrs. Calhoun.” How much more noble was this reconcilliation and parting, than if they had separated looking defiance at each other! They had almost spent their lives together in Congress, and at various times stood shoulder to shoulder, animated by patriotism and emulous only of serving their country. Time had passed over both, and the young had become old. One was about to retire, and both must ere long “ sleep the sleep that knows no waking.” The retirement of the one would leave the other with no com pany or rival of his younger days, and it told him emphatically that he too must soon follow.— Thoughts like these soften the heart not wholly indurated, and cause the fountain of generous feeling to gush forth—it came and the two dis tinguished rivals and antagonists, under the in fluence of these sympathies, were drawn together. Would that they had never been separated.”— Worcester Waterfall. “ Gentleman of the jury,” said a western law yer, “ would you set a rat trap to catch a bar ? Would you make fools of yourselves by endeavor ing to spear a buffalo with a knitting needle lOr would you attempt to empty out the Mississippi with a goard 1 No, gentlemen, I know you would not, then how can you be guilty of the absurdity of finding my client guilty of man-slaughter for taking the life of a woman ?’’ “ G’way, g’way, dere—yon’m doin’ gjischicf,’ said a negro, who stood on the top of a ladder to a hog, which was rubbing against the bottom of it. “ Ba-ah !” shrieks a halt'naked infant of about eighteen months old. What's the matter with mamma’s tweet little duckey 1” says its affectionate mother, while she presses it to her bosom, and the young sarpint in return digs its iaions into her face. “ Da den, .Vlissis, I knows wot little massa Jim wants, exclaimed the cherub s negro nurse. “Youblack hussy! why don’t you tell me, then V’ and the infuriated mother gives Dinah a douse in the chops with her shoe. “ Why, he wants to put his foot in dat dar pan ob gravy, wots coolen on de harf!” whimpers the unfortunate blackey. “Well and why dont you bring it here, you aggravating nigger, you,” replies the mother of the brawling brat. Dinah brings the gravy, and little Jim puts his feet in the pan, dashing the milk warm grease about his sweet little shanks, to the infinite amuse ment of his mother who tenderly exclaims— “ Did inomor’s yettle Dimmy want to put its teeny weeny footseys in the gravy. It shall play in the pan as much as it choosy-wocsys, and then it shall have its pooty red frock on, and go and see its pappy-yappy!” Now read the following bit knocked about amongst our exchanges witnout any papa: “Children.—They are the blessings of this world —the sweets among its sorrows—the roses among its thorns. With their merry smiles their joyous voices light up our abodes as with a ray from heaven. Whose heart does not leap within him to hear their shouts ? Who can look on their faces and not rejoice that there are such happy creatures on this dull earth ? they meet the poor man coming from his labor, anil he forgets his fatigue, and his whole soul blesses them. They gather round the rich man’s hearth, and he who is haughty to others must stoop to fondle them. 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