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iiwrir c -tel ration cfthe 4lh July at Hamburg. ] At half'past 10, in the morning, a pro c«-ion was formed in front of Mr. Hun- ! tev's Hotel, under the direction of Mr. Vv. Edney, Marshal of the Day. The | Temperance party formed the escort, who turned out in great numbers, and ami guests formed tho procession, prece-; de l by the Hamburg Band,' marched to the Baptist Church, when, after prayer,. I y the Rev. Mr. Limehouse, the Decla ration of Independence was read by W. H. Greene, Esq., and an appropriate Oration delivered by M. Gray, Esq., in which she scenes and events of the times j that “ tried men’s souls,” were faithfully | delineated in “ thoughts that breathe and words that barn.” It was brief, yet j strikingly comprehensive, and well con nected. It was, throughout, a produc-; non alike creditable to the head and heart of its author, and more than real :zed the expectations of all who heard it. At half past 2 o’clock the citizens and guests proceeded to Mr. Shultz’s Park, where a sumptuous dinner was served up, under the direction of Messrs. Walker & Evans, which was in accordance to their unequalled taste and skill in the culinary art. The table groaned under the weight of luxuriant viands and delicacies, which at proper intervals replaced each other. Nearly two hundred, of both sexes, sat down at the first table, and nearly one hundred to the next; and fhu9, nearly three hundred of our people sat down to a Temperance feast. Nothing was in troduced that was not in accordance with the most fastidious principles of temper ance. It was the beginning of a new era in our history; and which, if perse vered in, will contribute more than any of the improvements of modern times, to promote “peace and good will among men.” It will tend to draw closer to gether the various and opposing princi ples, by which society has too long been divided. The ladies were present and gave gi u * and ornament to the occa sion. Tity were ranged on one side of the table, occupying its whole length, and the gentlemen on the other. It was, indeed, a magnificent banquet—one that did equal honor to our public spirited citizens, and tho memorable occasion they were assembled to celebrate. It was the temperate participation of the intelfigence and beauty of our city in “the feast of reason and the flow of souls.” After the cloth was removed, the acting President of the Day, Mr. W. Edney, took the Chair, and Andrew J. Ham mond, Esq., was requested to act as Vice- President. The Regular Toasts in the order in which they were read, was an nounced by the firing of cannon from the citadel, in answer to each, with appro priate music by tho Band in attendance ; after which, Col. John Milledge, of Au gu?ta, was toasted—replied in an appro priate speech, in which he made a happy allusion to the progress of temperance, its effects upon society and our common country.. His speech throughout was eloquent and patriotic. Several Volun teer toasts were given which have not been handed in, and consequently do not appear. The pleasures of the day were not a little enhanced by the Ball,"which closed its festivities. It was not until the Ladies were led out to the dance, that wo were struck by a display of beauty rarely surpassed in so limited a number. The ease and grace with which they glided through the mazes of the merry dance, gave evidence of the great profi ciency in that graceful and elegant accomplishment. About twilight it clos ed, and each one of that gay and happy throng, retired to their several homes, and were no doubt pleased with them selves and all tho world beside. Thus was tho cardinal doctrine of temperance carried out, “ Temperance in all things.” It was not followed by the midnight revel, nor the reeling yell of the maddened votary of Bacchus; but all ended as it began, in peace and harmony, adding another link to the chain that binds to gether tho moral and intelligent of our community.— [Hamburg Journal. Alcohol detected In the Brain. • The following case occurred at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, during the residence of Dr. Lewis there, as House j Surgeon, and it is communicated by him I to the editors of the Medical Examiner. June, 1840.—Walter Smith aged 45, was brought into the Infirmary by the Police, being in a state of coma, and with a barely perceptible pulse. The coun tenanee was pale and turgid; there was a frothy fluid discharged from the mouth, and the breath had a strong alcoholic o dour. No injury could be detected on any part of the body. An emetic was given, and hot application were made to the extremities, but he died in twenty minutes after admission. On inquiry, it was ascertained that he had* been in hab. its of extreme intemperance. The vessels on the surface of the brain were found on dissection to be more than usually filled with black blood, and there was quite an effusion of serum under the | arachnoid. About an ounce of the same : ! fluid was found in the ventricles. The ! posterior part of the left lung was gorged i with blood, and the bronchial tubes con-! tained a considerable quantity of a frothy , fluid. The other part 3 were generally ' healthy. No alcoholic odour could be detected in the brain or in any part of the j body. As it was probable , but not certain, ! that alcohol had been the cause of death i in this case, it was decided to ascertain, if j possible, the presence of that substance jby chemical analysis. Dr. Lewis, pur ; suing the direction of Dr. Percy, cut a j bout eight ounces of the brain into slices, | and then transferred them into a matrass, | covering the whole with a small quantity jof water. A bent glass tube was then adapted to the matrass, and the fluid was I distilled over an Argand lamp. After a I drachm and a half of the liquid was thus distilled, the operation was discontinued, and an adequate quantity of subcarbo nate of potash, well dried, was introduced into the tube, which was then hermeti cally sealed, and tho contents well sha ken. “ The mixture was allowed to set tle, and after a little while, a stratum of a very mobile, oily-looking fluid was dis tinctly observed floating on the saturated solution of potash, separated however, from it, by some ash-colored flocculi. In order to prove that this supernatant strat um was alcohol, it was tested next morning in the presence of Drs. Reid and Low, both by flame and camphor. It burned readily with a blue flame, and dis solved camphor rapidly, leaving, little on no doubt as to its nature.” The supernatant fluid in such cases, may be withdrawn-by means of a pipette, and its character can at once be arrived at, by blowing into the pipette, and ap plying its extremity to the flame of a lamp or candle.” Dr. Lewis claims this as only the sec, j ond case in which alcohol has been de tected in the brain by chemical analysis, Dr. Percy having been the first who proved it. It is remarkable that although a sufficient quantity was thus detected in the substance of the brain, yet in none of his experiments was Dr. Percy able to obtain any from the fluid of the ventricles. — Med. Examiner, New Series, May 7, 1812. An Honest Confession. “It is easier to persuade two men to give up drinking, than it is to persuade one from selling; there is no profit in drinking, but there is in selling.” It is not often that we see individuals who are engaged in a nefarious business, coining out and themselves openly con demning it; certainly not until they have renounced that business. If they have any misgivings as to its righteous ness, those misgivings seldom receive an audible manifestation. The motto of such men usually is, to use a significant or vulgar expression, “keep dark.”— When therefore we find an exception to this general course—when we sec a man, openly, in broad day-light, denounce his business as wicked and base, and yet pursue that same business, we think it ex hibits a hardihood of purpose rarely wit nessed at this day of light and knowledge. These remarks are suggested by the paragraph at the head of this article—a confession made not long since by one of our rumseliing neighbors in Water street, to a prominent friend of temperance in this city; a rum-seller who has in our opinion more of a man’s heart in his bos om than most of his compeers, and who ought therefore to be the more ashamed of his business. Let us look for a moment, at this Rum seller’s confession. ‘ There is no proflt in drinking .’ Sir, never was a truer word spoken. Ask him who for years, and at your counter, has drained the cup of sin, who has quafi’ed its boasted sweets, and tasted its black bitterness, if there is any profit in drinking! Ask her, too, whose kind and gentle spirit you have j crushed, and whom a cold and proud j world stigmatizes as a drunkard's wife, I if there is any proflt in drinking! Ask them—aye, ask them who have wept over a father’s fall, and whose souls’ misery is mirrored forth in the very countenances, ifthereisany proflt in drinking! Sir, you are right. 'There is no proflt in j drinking / But: ‘ There is profit in selling.' — Very true, Sir ; but will such gains en rich you? You may fill your coffers ■with dollars and cents, and of that which the world deems riches may have an a buudance; but can dollars and cents alone enrich you ? Is it nothing with you how they are accumulated ? Can you, Sir, sell to your fellow man a glass of your rum, in the drinking of which you say there is no profit, and take in ex change his three or six cents, and feel that you have made a fair trade? Ac. cording to your own words, you cannot. Then why longer continue in a business which you are compelled to own is an un profitable one for the drinker, and which we can assure you, will in the end prove, if it has not already proved, to be un profitable to yourself? i'jl j-«l-gJ mMV 1 ' 'JMLMKBmMKM. You cannot, Sir, if you would, al ! ways continue in this dreadful traffic. They who now throng our crowded ! streets, and yourself among the number, must soon give place to others who are to follow. Man’s life is but a vapor. Then why seek to amass wealth out of the ruin of those whom you must meet again at a tribunal different from that to which you are here amenable. ‘ Disguise it as you may, rum-selling is nothing less than a traffic in the bodies and souls of men. Rum-seller, pause—reflect—aban don rum-selling.— Norwich Spectator. THE WAS BIN'ETONIAN; .* ' / ' ■ AUGUST.** JULY IS, 1843. Wax king lon Total Abstinence Pledge. We, whose names are hereunto annexed, desirous of forming a Society for our mutual benefit, ! and to guard against a pernicious practice, which is injurious to our health, standing and families, do pledge ourselocs as Gentlemen, I not to drink any Spiritous or Malt Liquors, Wine or Cider. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE, i Rev. W. T. Biantly, Dr. F. M. Robertson, “ W J.Hard, Dr. D. llook, " C. S. Don, S. T Chapman, Esq. “ Geo. F. Pierce, James Harper, Esq. Col. John Miu.eooe, Our thanks are due to our friends at Decatur, for a manuscript copv of an i excellent Temperance Oration, delivered at that place on the 4th inst., by W. H. Dabney, Esq.—which will appear in our next number. (&~ The famous Dr. Appleton has been arrested in Lancaster Pa., as a fugi tive from justice from Bordenton, N. J. and will be given up to the authorities of that State. o£r The Southern Chronicle says— Col. Preston lias consented to deliver the Eulogy on the late Hugh S. Legare. In his letter of acceptance, he requests the Committee to name the day for the accasion. They have accordingly fixed the first Tuesday in November. We would again call the attention of our friends to the support of our paper. Where are the members of the different Societies throughout our State ? Awake from your slumbers, and, like a mighty host, come to the support of this holy cause. A small effort, and but a trivial sacrifice from each one, will place the Washingtonian on a firm basis. Shall the effort be made ? lam sure vou will J unanimously answer—yes! And what is the sacrifice? Only One Dollar— Just what, in old times, would have paid for sixteen drinks. Come, come then, let every Washingtonian take our paper, and, if he can, get his neighbor to do the same, and the work is done. How it must cheer the heart of every patriot to contemplate the spirited man ner in which the late anniversary of our National Independence has been celebra ted ; and, that too, without the aid or influence of the polluting demon Alcohol. From every direction we receive ac counts of immense processions—large | dinner parties, with the most patriotic | aiid soul-stirring sentiments, coming j from the cool heads and warm hearts |of the multitude. Celebrations on the | Washingtonian principles seem to be all | the fashion. And now, too, the “ better half ” of creation are not excluded from these gatherings : and why should they be ? Who, indeed, so appropriate teachers of the youth of our country in patriotism as their mothers! Who so well calculated to inspire the patriot with fresh love and devotion to his country as the fair daughters of our land! Thus may if ever be. Let roar of cannon announce this glorio’js day—Let the “ stripes and stars” float from every flag staff on land, and every mast, where an American vessel is found upon the ocean—Let the sflrill trumpet and rolling drum summon tlil flower of the land in i proud military array—Let the orator tell | the story of his Country’s struggles and ! triumphs in strains of noble eloquence.— But banish, eh!: banish forever, from these sacred ceremonies, the accursed ■ r ' i and polluting vice that would reduce us to a state of bondage more galling than 1 j colonial vassalage. W r here the insidious ' social glass once “ sparkled on the t board,” give us the sparkling eye of i beauty ; and for the rosy wine, give us . j the ruby lips and glowing cheeks of the fair daughters of America. Thus may the day ever be celebrated. Let no - strange fire be mingled with our sacrifi ces, but may the pure and unalloyed flame of patriotism burn in every bosom. We recommend the following beautiful and eloquent extract, from an address of the Hon. Thomas F. Marshall, to the perusal of every man who is indulging in the daily use of ardent spirits, even tem perately, as it is commonly, and most unwisely, called ; nay, though it be but j a social glass of Old Madeira or Port, i The eloquent speaker has told us, else where, in glowing and forcible language, | how this insidious custom of temperate and social drinking had well nigh sapped I the foundations of his physical as well as his mental powers. He was, indeed, within the very jaws of the monster; but, thanks to the Washingtonian Pledge, he now stands a monument of the saving influence of Total Abstinence. To the drunkard, we would say, read this, unfortunate man, and behold in it, as in a mirror, a faithful reflection of thine own condition—-Start not at the frightful image. ? Tis thine own—“/ftou art the man.” Take one more look, and resolve, like a man, to place your foot upon the monster—to face the world and show the multitude that you are not yet unhumanized —that the image of your Creator has not been entirely effaced. After describing the ruinous effects of alcohol upon the physical man, he ob serves — “But of all the ills it woAs—Oh !of all the ruin it brings upon man—look at the death it inflicts upon the heart and moral constitution of the human race. Here are its most terrible triumphs. We might forgive it all the rest: —if it only spoiled our beauty; if it only hurried man to a premature grave; if we could measure its ruin by dilapidated fortunes, by ruined health, and by destruction of life—O then we might forgive it! Men must die at last; and any agency which only precipitates that event by a few years, or months, or weeks, we may over look as no great evil. The mere dissolu tion—the decomposition of the physical elements of which our nature is so ; strangely composed-the sundering of that mysterious’ and wonderful link which binds the mind and body—which must eventually take place—is not so much to i be deplored, and the agency which pre i cipitates it might be forgiven. But what ! does a man mean when he says ‘ him self?’ What do I mean when I use the words I myself, and call inyself a man— what do I mean ? Is it merely his clay? . Oh, no!—When I say myself —when I I allude to what is called me —l mean that ! divine particular, which revelation tell us '; was breathed into man at his birth by the »j Author of his being. I mean that which ! the Divinity has implanted within him— the reason and the heart; not only bv the power by which he thinks, and imag ■ ines, and demonstrates, by all that world .| of moral emotions of which he is the . monarch and the lord. I mean all those ; fine feelings and sympathies which make I him human—all which make him holy— ' j all which make him, as we all hope and jas we all believe he is, eternal. The ruin . j of this—the prostration of this it is which , I makes alcohol man’s greatest curse, and renders its crimes to the eye of man alto gether unpardonable. It is the peculiar effect of alcohol; no other poison does it. < Arsenic kills a man; but as long as he ; lives—while he can draw a single breath [ —he is a man still. Other poisons pro . duce death; but so long as man can j breath under their power, so long he will 1 love his wife—so long will he love his ’ chi" and his friends ; and though he sink ' .nto the arms of death under the influence i of a poison too strong for his nature, still , j his moral nature triumphs, love survives, ( | and the man bids defiance to death and the grave! Alcohol docs what nothing else can do: it overflows, with a destruc -5 tive flood, all that is noble in human na i ture. It annihilates the immortal mind j and the deathless soul!— That's what it does! What other vice—what other crime 1 or poison, or pest on earth can turn the 3 ; heart and the hand of man against weak l ness and innocence ? Make a man a , ’•obber—throw him into the fierce collis j ions of life by which he must be surround j ed—let him surrender himself to their in fluence—make him the enemy of men— '; make him a robber or a murderer—and 1 yet, robber and a murderer as he is, at his I: own hearthstone he is a man still! He s loves his wife—his child clings to him for i care and support. That high chivalry .! of mankind which makes the feebleness 1 1 of woman her best defence—which ' ! makes her weakness her greatest strength —which gives her a claim on man for 5 defence and support —nothing destroys ;j it but alcohol. Nothing else on earth r : can raise the muscular arm of man a } gainst the weak, shrinking, helpless form of woman! Nothing else severs the pa rental tie that binds him to the offspring * to which he has given existence; noth ing destroys it but alcohol. In disease, in poverty, in crime, in the presence of 1 death, the fleeting wretch may be press f ed to the earth; but be infant who owes » to him his existence still hangs on him— { is still bound to him by a strong and in dissoluble bond, which grows stronger the more deeply he is steeped in misery and wretchedness. Nothing destroys it t but alcohol. This unhumanizcs man; it blots out the image of his God, strips him of his highest glory, and obliterates from his heart every trace of his great ’ original.” | Dr. Percv, in the conclusion of his s able experimental 44 Essay on Poisoning by Alcohol,” arrives at the following con ( elusions, which cannot fail to interest the , temperate as well as the intemperate - user of this form of poison. It is some times called a “ slow poison but we 1 fear that manv have been carried to a * I premature grave, by its influence, with *1 the most rapid strides. One thing is j certain—it is the most effectual, as weW j as the most speedy method of getting rid of one’s money, ami reducing himself’ and family to want and wretchedness. Wc presume there is not one out of ten thousand whom it has ruined, that will tell you that it is a slow way to poverty. And, ah ! couM all the victims of its po ' tent influence speak from their grates, they too would say, trust not to its being a “slow poison.” It may delay its work * for a while, but when it once gets a firm hold it is fearfully rapid and certain in its results. Dr. Percy observes 44 In reference to the principal object of the investiga tion, we may conclude that, although no direct evidence Ims been advanced in support of the statement of Dr. Ogston and others concerning the presence of I alcohol in the ventricles of the brain, af ' ter poisoning by alcoholic liquors, yet the circumstance of alcohol being separated . from the brains of dogs, and the human II brain, may be adduced as liivorabie to > | these statements. It must not be forgot - 11 ten, however, that I obtained two results, 1 1 which appear to be at variance with thi* , conclusion; for in two instances in . which I found an appreciable quantity of t liquid effused into the ventricles, I was ■ unable to detect any trace of alcohol in this liquid, though a sensible quantity 7 was separated from, the substance of the [ brains. I have already remarked, that I t do not consider these results of much 5 weight, as the quantity of effusion, in 3 both cases, was, comparatively speaking, jso inconsiderable, that the analysis can . scarcely be considered satisfactory. Be . sides, it is necessary to observe that 1 effusion, after fatal intoxication, has fre -3 quently been discovered in the ventricles ,of the human brain; although there are ' j only one or two cases recorded, in which. 1 ■ this effusion is reported to have furnished i any indication of the presence of alcohol. 1 Hence, also, the two results cannot be 1 urged as an objection to the preceding conclusion. r “A remark may here be appropriately 3 ! introduced respecting the situation in I i which the alcohol may exist in the brain. ■ That, to a certain extent, it is diffused j through the substance of the brain ; and that it is not all contained in the cerebral 3 I I vessels, will, I think, appear from the fob 3 lowing circumstances, —namely : That 1 although I have subjected to analysis a j much greater quantity of blood than can y possibly be present within the cranium, y yet I have, in general, been enabled to . procure a much greater proportion of I j alcohol from the brain, than from all this I I quantity of blood. Indeed, it w’ould al j most seem that a kind of affinity existed “ j between alcohol and the cebral matter. . j “ The rapidity with which alcohol may, 11 under favorable circumstances, be ab -1 sorbed from the stomach and conveyed ‘! to the brain is remarkable. “ That alcohol may be detected in the j' blood, the bile and liver, and other secre- / 3 tions. It may be separated with great 3 facility from the bile and liver ; and this 1 :\