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From the Torrent.
Voice* from the Prison.
What voice is that we hear 1
And whence its saddened tone 1
It comes from yonder prison drear
A melancholy moan.
Oh, Christian, heed that voice—
Thy brother speaks to thee—
Though erring, fallen, raise him up—
He claims thy sympathy.
It speaks unto the heart,
But not without a sigh,
Os scenes of joy, of dreams of bliss,
On winged hours gone by.
• * *****
Wo, wo, unto the sinning wretch,
Who tempted first away,
The unsuspecting “ Orphan Boy,”
From virtue’s path to stray.
Hit deeds of guiit and crime,
Here meet with justice due;
But is there not a sentence-day,
For their vile author too 1
For him who Bprcads the snare
And cast his fetters round I
Decoyed the youth of noble heart,
To the enchanted ground 1
Yes, surely there’s a God,
From whose omnicicnt eye,
No secret thought can e’er be hid
Whose power can none defy.
And will you thus go on I
And scatter woe abroad!
Deal death in every poisoned cup,
And mar the work of God!
Go on, and fill your measure up,
Os unreoented crime!
The world shall give your names unto
The blasting winds of time.
[H. I .5....
From the Camden Journal.
The Grog Sellers Invitation.
Come rest on this counter, thou rum-stricken
loafer,
Though the pavement’s thy couch, here still is
thy toper,
Hero still is the friendship no cloud can o’er cast,
No malice destroy—while thy money shall last.
Oh! what was rum made for, if'twere not for man
To sell and make money as fast as he can !
Though thy friends should all seek to persuade
thee away,
Yet stay, I entreat thee, oh! stay, loafer stay.
Though the wife of thy bosom heart-broken
should weep,
Though the long lonely night forbids her to sleep,
1 hough the smiles Os thy babe may allure thee
away,
Yet stay, I entreat thee, oh ! stay loafer, stay.
Here still amid scenes of enjoyment you’ll revel,
Keep bright all day, and drive care to the Devil,
While you keep up your scores you’re welcome ;
to stay,
—But your pocket is empty—haste loafer away!
TOM.
T EWER AMO £ j
An Element of National Power.
Our preliminary observations on
this interesting subject, published in
the Hun of last week, will have pre
pared our readers for a more detail
ed account ot the radical errors on
the subject of “ Rum rations ,” that
stairs our Naval Service, with a de
formity as barbarous, as it is degra
ding. Leaving the Seamen to that
condign punishment which the false
policy of government dooms them to
endure for their crime of intoxica
tion, instead of depriving them of
nil opportunity for its commission—
by a strict tempernnee system—let
us inquire how far the example of
Midshipmen, Commanders and Offi
cers, tends to the immediate encour
agement of intoxication in the crews.
Thai inebriety does prevail to ruin-!
ohs and degrading extent among the
officers of our National, as well as
Merchant ships ; wc have too formi
dable a mass of testimony, to allow;
us to doubt, and this too, in violation {
of the articles of War, which pro
vides punishment by Court Martial
for “drunkenness;” hut which, by
having become a dead letter from
non-enforcement, remains a mere
nominal interdiction of the offence.
A rigid enforcement of existing laws
against Officers and Midshipmen for
this offence, which, as an example,
is fertile in the demoralisation of the
Navy, would go far towards produ
cing temperance habits in every
crew. If the Seamen are made
spectators every day of the drunk
enness ot the officers, it is very prob
able that they will deem themselves
entitled to the same privilege, though
not entitled to the same exemption
from punishment. It is evident,
| that owing to collusion among the
■ officers there has been established a
I false code of honor, not to charge
one another with the crime so that
the law is never executed against the
officers—while it is always enforced
with even excessive severity, against
the seamen—as if to atone for their
own vices, by doubling the penalty
on those subject to their power.—
Wo to the Drunken Sailor—“ the
Cal ” excoriates his flesh to the very
hone—while the drunken Officer or
Middy, for the same offence, receives
a slight reprimand, or is confined to
his room for a few days to read nov
els and smoke cigars—the penalty
in the latter case, amounting to a
positive premium for intoxication;
while in the case of the Sailor, it of
ten degenerates into cruelty, by hav
ing the punishment agravated by
the furious passions kindled ir. the
minds of his superiors, by their mad
dening potations ! On this point we
speak with confidence, being fully
advised of existing abuses in our
otherwise noble, gallant, and enter
prising Navy.
How often this vice of Intoxica
tion among officers, leads them on
to the perpetration of other crimes,
for which they are tried, broken, and
disgraced—we have not at present
considered. That belongs more
properly to a subject, which we re
serve for future discussion; yet we
cannot avoid the remark in this place,
that we have known cases, in which
officers have been guilty of purloin
ing spirits, to make them intoxica
ted—and then, while under the in
fluence of the mad potation, pur
loining the money of their comrades,
or fellow-middies—and when these
latter crimes have been committed,
the code of honor not applying to
them—they have been brought up,
under a Court Martial, tried, con
victed and dismissed in disgrace
from the service! Yet these crimes
would not have been committed, but
for tlmt Parent of all crimes, drunk
enness. That under these circum
stances is the duty of the Navy De
partment. What can it be hut to
exclude all rum rations from the Na
vy, both to the officers and men—
officers of all grades—so tlmt no ex
ample of intoxication shall exercise
a pernicious influence upon the sea
men ? If the Navy Department has
not the power, let it lose no time in
making application to Congress, for
the passage of appropriate laws.—
The very existence of the nation
| may depend on this reform being
speedy, thorough, and effectual.—
; VVe shall recur to this subject again,
and earnestly appeal to oar mer
chants and ship owners, to bestow
proper attention upon this great re
form, in which all the interests of
society have so vast a stake, and all
feel so deep a concern. Do you
want your Insurance officers to make
better dividends? Encourage a
Temperance innrine. Do you want
a better revenue for government ?
Encourage a Temperance marine.
Do you want a happy and honorable
class of officers and seamen, and
plenty ot the latter ? Encourage a
Temperance marine. Do you want
to banish theft, murder, piracy, bar
rating, and all other crimes from the
ocean ? Encourage a Temperance
marine. Government may have
more sordid and factious objects to
accomplish, hut none more noble,
more vast, more extensive in mag
nitude, or vital in interest, than that
of a National system of Temper
ance.—Phil. Sat. American.
The use of Intoxicatliu; Wine not coun
tenanced by the Scriptures.
When Jesus Christ is said to have
made “wine” for the feast of Cana,
the question is, what does that word
trine mean ? I want to get light on
the fact. I find that there are two
kinds of wine mentioned in the Bi
ble ; because I find that the Bible in
other places reprobates the use of
wine in most unqualified language.
Do you believe that. Jesus Christ sat
at table and made for a company of
people that which the Holy Ghost
has denominated “ a mocker ?” Do
von believe that the divine Saviour
said, “Look not upon the wine, and
yet I will make it for you”—make
that which at the last will bite like
©T : 1
a serpent and sting like an adder ?
I make it—l drink it—but du not
you touch it ? I say it is evident,
that in the Bible two kinds of wine
arc mentioned. Well, then, in this
case which kind is it ? Here I get
light. Igo and examine the nature
of alcoholic wine; I find it always
the same; I find it to be just that
kind of substance described in the
Bible, “sparkling in the cup,” and
yet, at the last, “ bites li like asepent,
and stingeth like an adder;” “taking
away the heart” of man. I find it
treating men just as it did Noah;
just as it did Lot; just as it did Ko
rah, Datlian and A bit am. 1 find all
its effects, just as is described by the
prophets in their solemn reproofs of
Isiael. Then, I say, I am inclined
to believe a priori that Jesus Christ
never made such wine; and when I
find that there are two kinds of wine
in use among the Jews, I rest on the
conviction that he made that which
was not intoxicating, and that in the
Lord’s supper he gave the legitimate
fruit of the vine, the pure juice of
the grape, and not the petrifying
substance th#t is now called wine;
that he gave the pure juice of the
grape. 1 ask a person how he rec
onciles the Bible, if he supposes there
was but one kind of wine? Our
view of it takes the passages that
reprobate wine, to speak of wine
that intoxicates, and takes the pas
sages thut sanction wine, to speak of
the wine that does net intoxicate.—
And I will mention here, (as I have
known it to throw light on some
minds,) what you will doubtless re
member, in the case of the chief but
ler in the prison relating his dieum
to Joseph, lie says that he squeezed
out the juice of the grape into Pha
raoh’s cup. There you see was the
juice of the graj)e immediately drunk:
and that J have tasted, and 1 find it
a very pleasant drink. We thus
find the Scriptures harmonise with
nature, with chemistry, physiology,
with fact; you do not: you cannot
reconcile the thing, and we can rec
oncile the tling.—Ken. E. N. Kirk.
Slpi the Pledge.
We cannot too often repent it—
sign the pledge ! Have you not had
warning sufficient? Have you not
seen the evil (effects of intoxicating
diinks long dough to be convinced ?
and will you not be intreated to leave
off entirely tire use of the dangerous
drag, which bas besotted and brutal
ized so many—led them down to the
chambers of death—scattered their
property to the four winds of heaven
—made them a reproarh and bye
word ir» the community ? How long
will you adhere to the vice? How
long will you persist in the slavish
habit—in the path of ruin and de
struction ? Will you countenance it,
when you know to wlmt a sad tei
mination it will lend? Will you not
rather use your influence to arrest
its progress ? If you say you will,
come out at once and sign the pledge.
Be willing to lend your aid to save
others as well as secure yourself
from danger. Yon will be welcomed
by every true hearted Washingtoni
an, and will cheer on the work of
rescuing those in danger,.and lestor
ing the inebriate once more to him
self, to his family, and to society.
Put your name to the pledge! En
roll yourself as a Washingtonian ]
soldier, and stand in the ranks of i
this glorious army, where it is the |
duty of all to be on service and push
forward the temperance hosts.— !
Once more, we say, sign the pledge j
and be freemen—and you cannot
fail to be in the path of duty and ;
honor.— Reformer.
i
Temperance Fable.
The rats once assembled in a large i
cellar, to devise some method of j
safely getting the bait from a small ,
steel trap which lay near, having ■-
seen numbers of their friends and !
relations snatched fiom them by its (
merciless jaws. After many long J
speeches, and the proposal of many t
elaborate plans, a happy wit stand- !
ing erect, said—“ It is my opinion, ;
that if with one pair we keep down i
the spring, we can safely take the •
food from the trap with the other.” s
All the rats present loudly squealed !
assent, and snapped their tails in ap- c
' —* - "
? plause. The meeting adjourned,
t and the rats retired to theit homes;
, but the devastations of the trap be
t ing by no means diminished, the rats
; were forced to call another “ con
l vention.” The elders had just as
: rcmbled and had commenced the de
> liberations, when all was startled by
I a taint voice, and a poor rat, with
s only three legs, limping into the ring,
I stood up to speak. All were instant
, ly silent, when, stretching out the
: bleeding remains of his leg, he said :
“ My friends, 1 have tried the meth
; or! you |'io|>osed, and you see the re
■ su t! Now let me suggest a plan to
I escape the trap —Do not touch
jIT !”—Cataract and iVoter fall.
An Experimental Toddy.-" You’ve
had five gin toddies already this
morning,” said a barkeeper to
one of his hardest customers who
had called for a sixth.
“ Have I,” queried the chap.
“\es, you just have. Dont you
think another will get you drunk?”
“Well, I don’t know; mnke me
one, and we’ll see. It’s always best
to try experiments.”
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PROSPECTUS FOR VOL. VII.
OF TUB
American Phrenological Journal.
To reform and perfect man—to bring out bv j
culture the original beauties and capabilities of
his nature, are objects the most exalted that can
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Ist. That ofPhysiology. Though, forsrveral
years, the Journal has contained or less
physiological fact and information, yet its space
has been too much occupied otherwise to give
that full attention totlie exposition and enforcing
of the laws of animal life, including the "alue of
health and the means of regaining and preserv
ing it, which their importance demands. To
know and obey these laws, lies at the basis of all
human improvement and harness; for, be it
remembered, that life and health depend thereon,
and on them depend all our pleasures, whether
mental or physica'. Even intellectual attain
ments and moral progression must be accompani
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tality—the different states ot body as inducing
their corresponding states of mind—have been
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gists themselves. Our talents, our virtues, our
vices, our mental and moral progression, dcjiend
more upon what, how, and when, we eat, drink
sleep, labor, bathe, &c.—upon our physical hab
its and physiological condition—than most people
suppose. The plain fact is, few people know
how to eat! or sleep! or breathe! or live! If!
they did, sickness would he unknown, and sin I
comparatively banished from our world. Those
, ] physiological conditions, therefore which affect
. ani * morals, wifi be lreetv discussed in this
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" ■' n3 - J hat of Animal Magnetism, or the vital
principle. So iudissoluhlv is this seienee con
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- that neither should ever be pursued wilhoutthe
. , other. At least, every student of the latter sci
‘ ences who prosecotes his investigations unouided
by the light of this new star of human science,
F ; " ut - r 'T' s hls ln comj.antive darkness.
~ Surprisingly beautiful and philosophical, as well
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, discoveries evolved by applying magnetism to
. phrenological and physiological investigations.
And surely as a remedial agent, this application
L exceeds, a: d will eventually supersede ail others.
: Aware ot no work or periodical which covers this
most interesting, moot important field of human
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- partially, in this volume.
} . 3rd A department devoted to woman. To
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-1 generacy deteriorates it. Female education
nearly every thing appertaining to her-is now
i effecting her ruin as fast as the rapid flight of
tune will allow. Long enough has her vanity
» been inflated with the gaudy, the artificial, and
S, , ' l ‘) fashionable. Too long already, have her ex
quisite sensibilities lieen pervertedj and the beau
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> i th *f inU * play things mere toys for man to sport
with—or else prostituted at the shrine of the
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by mortals, are the natural charms and beauties
ot the female character But, they have vet to be
brought out. To do this effectually, lief nature
> af | ll capabilities must be known. These her
' j Phrenology and Physiology will reveal; in doing
t which they will also disclose her true sphere and
: her consequent duties. To this eventful subject
I —ami none can be more prolific of goed to man—
! will a portion of this volume be dedicated Nor
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! mothers, he neglected.
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