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’ dMgsiiwcHU For the Temperance Crusader. AN APPEAL FOR SNAKES. [concluded.] In our last article, we discussed, some* what summarily, two classes of reasons urged for the extermination of snakes. — AVe attempted to show, that there is. no such thing as an instinctive enmity against this class of animals; and that they pos sess no magical powers, such as are claimed in the thousand and one “snake stories” of the day. Many may think that we have unnecessarily alluded to these two points. We have done so, out of respect to the large number of persons, who really enter tain such opinions, and who religiously in culcate them in the minds of their children. We think them unfounded; and if we have succeeded in unsettling their faith in these two points, then the battle is half gained and we shall look forward to the day, when snakes will receive like justice with the other lower orders of animals. The third class of reasons is founded upon a belief, that many , perhaps a ma jority of , snakes are poisonous. As the whole question really turns upon this point, we invite particular attention to our re marks under this head. The division of snakes into poisonous and harmless classes, must rest upon the presence or absence of poisonous fangs. Poison is never secreted in any other part, and there is no secretion or exhalation from their bodies, of an injurious kind, which can be inhaled or communicated by hand ling. The fangs are placed in the front part of the mouth, and are easily drawn out, by a stick, from the sack of flesh, which encloses them. Their size, length and po sition. distinguish them from the common teeth. In addition, all poisonous snakes, with .one exception, have thick, clumsy bodies, bln n't tails, small necks, large tri angular heads, a deep pit or indentation between the eye and nostril, and few teeth (not more than one row) in the upper jaw. As some harmless snakes have short, stum py bodies, the shape of the head and neck, and. the pit between the eye and nostril, are the best characteristics of those that are poisonous. Now, using these as guides, we shall find the number of these exceed ing small. In the list of snakes, compiled by Dr. Hull)rook, of Charleston, for White’s Sta tistics of Georgia, we .find 33 species, which are found within the limits of this State. Os this number, only (1 species are poison ous—less than one-fifth. In Baird A Gi rard’s Catalogue of North American Ser pents. compiled for the Smithsonian Insti tution, are 110 species, of which only 18 are poisonous—less than one sixth. Below we have arranged the two classes of the •e-rgia snakes, under their common names, > far as known. POISONOUS. imled Rattlesnake, Highland Moccasin, diamond Rattlesnake, or ♦ ii ouncl Rattlesnake, Rattlesnake’s Pilot, Water Moccasin, Bead Snake. It A KM LESS. (Pass Snake, Scarlet Snake, Black do. Pine or Bull Snake, Corn do*. Coach-whip do. Ring do. Green do. Pilot Bl’k Snake or Racer, Ribbon do. Chicken Snake, Water do, Chain ■ do. Do. do. King do. Do. do. Ilelicops Erythrogram- Copp rbelly, mus, Garter Snake, Horn Snake, Grass do. Ground do. Hog-Nose, Calanaaria Elapse idea. Black Adder, Brown Snake, Spreading Adder. * Gopher Snake. The snakes of the first class are so coin- Mionlv known, that we need call attention to none, except the last. This, the Bead Honke, is about 2 1-2 to 3 feet long, slender, anil its body is made up of red and black vino’s, 14 to 19 each. Its fang is immove able, its head and mouth small, and its bite so-insignificant, that, but for the possession of sanes, it would hardly he ranked in this class. 1 Os the snakes in the second class, the poisonous qualities ot the Glass snake, as well as its power of re-uniting its several parts, when broken by a blow, are mere matters of tradition. The Horn snake is equally harmless.— Its tail tapers to a fine point, but has neith er horn nor poison-sack. The Green snake has a bad name, be cause of its unfortunate color. By many, all poison is supposed to he green, and, conversely, every thing green must be poi sonous. The caterpillar, that, in anger or fear, ejects from its mouth, a greenish drop, ns harmless as water, becomes, in their ♦ ■ves, a terrible monster. The Grass s*nake is much more formidable, for he is so full of poison, that it lias penetrated his whole system and colored Ii is very skin. Besides the Copperbelly, there are three water-snakes, which are confounded with the Moccasin, but which are entirely harm less. “With a little practice, they may he easily distinguished by their brighter co lors and more cleanly appearance. The three Adders, black, spreading and hog-nose, are, also, incapable of harm.— They have a threatening appearance, but it is a means of defence, given them, by the Creator, to the exclusion of more dan gerons weapons. Every person, accustom ed to going into the fields, has trodden near their heads and been frequently exposed to their bite, and, yet we have never known one to be bitten by an Adder. This sin gular exemption is explained, when we search for fangs and fincf none,but the com mon teeth, intended for catching and hold ing their prey. In the above classification, we have done violence to the common belief on this sub ject, but vve are -sustained by every natur alist, who has studied these animals in per son, and by every intelligent man, who has risen so far above early prejudices, as to give the matter an impartial investigation. And this is all that is required to set the question at rest. The generality of per sons have received their faith from their fathers, and, in the absence of proper tests for satisfying their own minds, have help yd to propagate error, which a moment’s •personal examination would dissipate. It A a n ewv matter to determine, which have fangs and which have not, and we trust that our readers will have the manliness and hardihood (for it requires both) to sa tisfy their own minds and to spare the rep tile, that, however loathsome and threaten ing, yet has not power to harm a child. You will thus feel greater security in your own person, and will save the lives of many, which will help to exterminate the Moccasin and Rattlesnake. Dennis. Penfield, Feb. 4, ISSG. H §1 Iffll l m For the Temperance Crusader. LETTER FROM FATHER GRISHAM. Canton, Ga„ Jan. 24, 1856. To the Editors of the Temp , Crusader : In your issue of 19th inst., the first num ber which has reached me, I find under the Editorial head the following: “Where is Joe Grisham —Dabney Jones, and Ben Brantly ?” With due respect, I respond to the enqui ry. lam here !! Although laboring under bodily pain and debility, have not been idle. In October I attended the Grand Division, and tried to rouse them to action, but the re sult of the election paralized all effort there. On my return I sent you notice of a propo sition to be one oftwenty to pay one hun dred dollars each to employ a State Lectu rer. I have had one, and only one, to re spond ! I published in the Republican and Discipline an offer to be one of twenty to pay each five hundred dollars to purchase a Press and materials to print Tracts and a Periodical, to supply the Lecturer, and all Prohibitionists with papers and tracts ! Two Printers have proposed to contribute labor, but no man as yet has offered money ! Hearing that General S. F. Cary,has been at Columbia, S. C., and addressed the Leg islature on the cause of Prohibition with good effect, and had gone to labor in North Carolina, 1 addressed him a letter at Ral eigh, inviting him to come to Georgia and help us—and proposed if he would make two or three speeches to the Legislature, and as many at Atlanta, I would pay the ex penses of himself and wife. (On asking sev eral friends if they would help, the unani mous reply was No!) Although Brother Cary cannot come, 1 am not disheartened Why should Ibe ? “We shall reap in due time if we faint not.” I send you a copy of Gen. Cary’s letter, which by publishing, your readers will see that neither Gen. Ca ry, myself, nor the Sons of Temper once are yet dead, and though we may die, the cause will not, till God shall have accomplished His purpose. Salcm, N. C. Jan. 8, 1850. Red’d and Dear Bro. —Your very kind and flattering letter directed to Raleigh, reached me here last evening. Nothing could afford me greater pleasure than to at tend your meeting—but my engagements are such that this pleasure is out of the ques tion. 1 sympathise with you, my venerable and beloved brother,in your unrequited and gen erous efforts, to promote the cause in Geor gia, Unfortunately, there are but few Jo seph Grishams in Georg'a, or elsewhere,and were it not that our cause was the cause of God, and that He will not permit it to fail, I should long since, have left the held in dis pair. Keep on the harness, my dear brother, and God will reward you in this life and that which is to come. Mv tour through North Carolina has, been attended with blessed results. Divisions have been reorganized, with large numbers ol the right kind of men, wherever they had broken down, and large accessions made where they were feeble. At Ashvili£, we initiated 76 new members in two days, and this is but a specimen of my work. 1 make it y first object to show the necessity and constitutionality of Prohibition; then show them the importance of organization to se cure Prohibition, and then point them to the Order as the only hopeful instrumentality. In a few days i leave this State and go to Virginia, and hence home. My labors have been arduous beyond all former precedent, yet God has blessed myself and wife with excellent health. My partner in foil sends her best regards and kindest wishes to you. May God bless you and permit you to live to see the land redeemed from the curse which you have labored and prayed to re move. In haste, your liro. in the cause of Truth. S. F. Gaily. Rev. Jos. Grisham. You must now know my whereabouts ! It is for you, the young Joshua, to muster the forces! Appoint your day. and place; it able I shall be there ! 1 have lost none ot my zeal, my faith is unshaken, and hope to remain sled last to the end. Joseph Git isham. . For the Temperance Crusader. VACATION IS GONE! Heigh-ho! how soon vacations pass.— Like angels visits, they are few ami far be tween; like them, they keep away during their continuance, the evil spirits that mo lest us poor girls.* We may, then, enjoy some peace, quiet, seclusion. We may go to church without having to force our way, going in and coming out, through a dense crowd\f students, congregated at the en trance-laughing, talking, criticising our apperance, and enjoying our embarrass ment; may sit at ease on our seats, spared the annoyance caused by the steady and impertinent stare of a score of unmannerly eyes, our ears not plagued by the mingled sounds ot mirth and whispering while the choir is singing; our sense of decorum not outraged by restlessness, yawns, and other indications of inattention to the sermon. In vacation, promenades are not interrup ted by ditches bereft of their bridges; par ties are neither saluted by miserable cari catures on gentlemanly serenades, nor edi fied by weak, gosling like imitations of the Shanghai’s note. The henroost exults in comparative safety. Turkeys understand the periodical change, and strut forth be yond their prescribed limi|s in conscious security. But what i<? the-feeling of relief experienced by these dumb creatures to that which thrills the pulses of living, breath ing girls '{ Out miniature fetiiality breathes Ireer, lives freer, laughs freer, and enjoys incnbns. that ordinarily confines its soaring spirits. At night, it is so much more p ea sant to sit in one’s own easy little chamber, weaving into fantastic textures the silent fancies suggested by the cheerful 1 in and the whistling winds without, than to pass-wearily, hour after hour, in the dull parlor, endeavoring to amuse and interest some student visiter who will neither be amused nor interested ; or what is worse, drumming the piano out of tune over march es, waltzes and polkas, that afford no mu sic to his unmusical ear. What a relief to see him take his leave! Again, it is such a luxury to be free, all day and all night, from filthy tobacco smoke, from boisterous and uproarious mirth, from rude songs, from foppish affectation, snobbish imperti nence, and other harrassing attendants of boarding house life. But vacation is gone! The little Miss with bright eyes and happy face walks briskly and eagerly to school, for she is go ing to her beautiful grove and play-ground, and knows nothing of the cares of her older sister. The Penfield Daily has, again and again, discharged upon the town its whoop ing, swaggering, blustering burden. The morning prayer-bell that waked us rudely from the pleasant dreams of overnight, to a bleak, cheerless, matter-of-fact winter’s day, waked us more rudely from the more deli cious dream of vacation to a long term of un dreamy, unpoetic, but inevitable incon veniences. Noise is again heard in our qui et village. Turkeys shrink to their former insignificance and dare notshow their bends abroad where lately they rioted in undis turbed freedom. Henroosts quake. Shang hai’s tremble, lest their two-legged breth ren monopolize their occupation. And — alas! that mine should be the pen that re cords it—the girls are deprived of their short-lived exemption from annoyance. Lola Lapdog. Penfield, Ga. For the Temperance Crusader. EDGAR ALLEN POE. Poetry is undoubtedly the grandest at tainment that, the Author of nature has be queathed ,to man. It has been the channel through which the talented of all time have poured forth their golden oracles for the de light and instruction of the human race. It is the God-like part of man which bursts through the earthly form, and shines for a moment in the bright radiance of the Eter nal. It is the innate man that beats in uni son with nature. Wherever the hand of the Creator has scattered forth beauty and sublimity, it is there that the soul of the true | poet finds an object to rouse his feelings.— In the beautiful and sublime, there, poetry catches its inspiration. The boundless uni verse. the storm-tossed sea, the starry mid night, and all thatexpands the mind, elevates the soul and bids the affections claim affinity with trie godhead, are the scenes of its pe culiar choice. Not only in the material world does poetry find objects worthy of its study, but it views with admiration every noble action. Wherever the Godlike and the heroic appears, it is there, that the God dess of Poetry delights to dwell. It chron icles the magnanimous deeds, and with words of celestial glory .clothes them with immortality. These thoughts have naturally occurred to us in reading the poetry of Edgar Alien Poe Whatever may be said of bislile.it matters not, he was a true poet. Ah, the truest that America has yet produced Let the evils of his life rest in the grave, ile has produced works that would redeem a life of darker stain. The chief characteristic of his poetry seems to be a deep-seated melancholy and a dark foreboding. It rests with its sombre weight upon all the golden beauties that have issued, like brilliant scinilations of ge nius, from his pen. Indeed, it is to this pe culiarity that his poetry owes its principal charm. In the death of an adored and an gel wife we are to trace the origin of this gloomy melancholy. It is “The fatal remembrance —the sorrow that throws Its black shade alike o'er his joys and his woes— To which life nothing darker or brighter can bring, To which joy hath no balm, affection no sting.” In all the poems written subsequent to the death of his wife, frequent mention is made of the last one. To the lovely image of the “Lost. Lenore.” he pours forth the homage of a gloomy and sensitive nature. The sweet lines, “To one in Heaven,” is an elo quent tribute to the memory of the loved and lost. •‘The Raven,” is his principal poem, and we think it is his best. The melody of these lines is the sweetest that the hand of genius ever produced. It is too familiar to quote entire, but we cannot refrain from giving one stanza. The melody of this whole po em is unsurpassed, notice the first two lines particularly, “And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each pur ple curtain, Thrilled me —filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before ; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, ‘Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my cham ber-door, Some late visitor entreating entrance at my cham ber-door ; This it is, and nothing more.” There is a melancholy sweetness about these hues that haunts the mind of him, who inis re.id it once. Let the shadows of Iwt light steal round him and the mournful dirge of “never more” is continually ringing in his ears, like fancies from the spirit world. We seem listening to the voice of a syren in some old deserted cathedral, surrounded by thq gloom of a dense forest, where the winds is heard sighing through the trees, and all be sides is still and hushed. Yet with all this melancholy we dearly loved to listen to his sweetly sounding lyre and ponder with de light over his mysterious.beauties. “Annabel Lee” is another gem of poetry. Annabel is represented as liis bride, so pure and beautiful that the angels in Heaven en vied him her love, and bore her away to their home in the clouds. As an image of artless love, there is no poem that surpasses it in the English language, The. hand that penned these sweet lines is now withered, and the heart that trembled with melody, is now hushed in the quiet of the grave. Butliis memory can never pass away ; no,,not while we have hearts to ap preciate his genius, and pens to perpetuate equal behind, we will cherish his name. Let ns say with one who loved him while living, and wept over him as a sister when dead, “Let the turf.press lightly on him, Lay his lyre upon his breast; * And the laurels fame hath won him, Hang them o’er his place of rest.” lon. For the Temperance Crusader. Friend John ll. , —Having some sympa thy and acquaintance with vour position and character as a young pioneer in Edi torial life, induces me to contribute a few incidents to relieve the monotony and to in vest variety and spice to congenial (not ar dent) spirits. Hoping the contribution will pay the investment, I pass, believing you will taste before condemning it. I will remind you that this is the Capital of Alabama, and the Legislature is now in session. I have just visited both Houses, and find no important matter on hand, it being the morning session—which was de voted to reading bills, &c., and were alto gether local in character. I waited, how ever, for Nebraska Bill to come up (which he did not do) that I might make the Liou in the fight. He is certainly an inde pendent character, and the wildest Bill I ever knew. Perhaps it was a scare given him that, pitched him before the Georgia legislature, for I see he is tliar. lam at times bewildered in canvassing the human character. It is passing strange that men of talent, and statesmen, should pitch up on Bill for a fight before any General As sembly, when the Compromise Act puts a quietus, as an ultimatum, upon his future state. I will mention, the members com posing the General Assembly are a hetero geneous mass, with intellects varied as their physiognomies, and how the vanity of some got the advantage of their better judgment, to offer as members, is certainly a problem. Ido not intend to sav there is no genius here; not so, for there is some very respectable talent among them, and as old man McKinney used to say, “I gan ny, now you hear me.” If you wish me to institute a comparison, so far as intel leet is concerned, I will say it is on tother side of Jordan —Georgia has it; that is, if lam any judge. It is the talent of Geor gia that gives her character and position among States, and it is our father land too, that makes her the “harp of a thou sand chords,” making her the Empire, of the South. I promised you at the start, variety; the spice, you will perceive, is in the sudden transition from one subject to another—my style and manner being native, not foreign effusions. You must catch the idea as the goose spreads out —for she never adds on a prefatory. Fancy is on my heel, wish ing a description of the city. Presuming she might go into paroxysms, I hav’nt got a word to say. It is Peel’s Minstrels and the Circus music that is putting me through to close. Respectfully, Oconee. Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 29,1856. aiagMgniiinHi> i ri r,,-.™ ~ LABOR AND REST. “Two hands upon the breast, and labor is pash” Russian Proven). “Two hands upon the breast, And labor’s done: • Two pale feet crossed in rest — The race is won: Two eyes with coin-weights shut, And all tears cease : Two lips where grief is mute, And wrath at peace.” “So pray we oftentimes, mourning our lot; God, In his kindness, answereth not.” Aye, when life seems a burden too great to he borne, and when the sky of the soul is dark, without a sun or a star —when the pilgrim on life’s highway feels ready to sink clown without ever gaining a glimpse of the dear Mecca the eye had hoped to see, and when all friends seem to have for saken and the ties of nature seem torn asunder, then the prayer goes up to hea ven, to take us away from the earth and give peace and rest —“hut God, in his kind ness, answereth not.” It is a part of our being to mourn, at times, and to look upon all that surrounds with gloomy forebodings, as if all was indeed dark; and it is well perhaps; for when hope dispels the clouds, the heart leaps.with lively joy and the eye kindles at the glorious prospect that bends above of golden sunlight and skies of blue. How glorious is the dawning of the better day that cheers after the dark night of the mind! The pathway of the pilgrim is beau tiful, with sunshine and flowery hemmings —there is a sweet music thrilling the harp of the heart, and the distant Mecca glows with a resplendent light, from architrave to dome, that cheers the pilgrim on his way. We all have a Mecca in view, and we are all pilgrims bending sometimes with heavy steps to its sacred of the Age. - WOMAN’S LOVE. Oh ! the priceless value of the love of a true woman ! Gold cannot purchase a gem so precious ! Titles and honors confer upon the heart no such serene happiness. In our darkest moments, when disappointment and ingratitude with corroding care gather thick around, and even the gaunt foi m of poverty menaces with his skeleton finger, it gleams around the soul with an angel’s smile. Tune cannot mar its brilliancy, distance hut strengthens its influence, holts and bars can not limit its progress, it follows the prisoner into his dark cell and sweetens the homely morsel that appeases his hunger, and in the silence of midnight it plays around his heart, and in his dreams he folds to his bosom the form of her who loves on still, though the world has turned coldly from him. The couch made by the hand of a loved one is soft to the weary lunbs of the sick sufferer, and the potion administered by the same hand loses hall its bitterness. The pillow carefully adjusted by her, brings repose to the fevered brain, and her words of kind en couragement survives the sinking spirit, It would almost seem that God, coinpass on aling woman’s first great frailty, had plant ed this jewel in her breast, whose heaven like influence should east into forgetfulness man’s remembrance of the Fail, bv building up in his heart another Eden, where peven- j nial flowers forever bloom, and crystal wa- I ters gusli from exhaustless fountains. Cj \t Canjtrantt fasator. PENFIELD, GEORGIA. Saturday Morningr, February 9, 1856. To Printers, A good Compositor is wanted at this office, to whom a permanent situation wifi be given. Apply immediately to J. T. Blajn. — Receipts, The want of space has unavoidably crowded our receipts out of the present issue. They will appear in our next. Thanks for Clubs, We return many heartfelt thanks to the following patriotic friends, for clubs of new subscribers: Rev. A. Adkins, of Republican; Rev. J. D. Wilson, of Talbotton; and Mr. J. S. Fowler, of Warrenton. To the Students. We are under many obligations to the Students of our College for their kind assistance in helping to circulate our paper. Many of them have brought us lists of new subscribers which helped our feelings amazingly. We hope our friends abroad will take an interest in us, and circulate our paper among the people. — hlereer University. The presence of the Students, and the ringing of the bell has again given an appearance of life and an imation to our village. The exercises of our Univer sity were resumed on the first inst., under very favor able auspices. Most of the old Students have re turned, and a very respectable number of new ones have been added. At no period during its history has the University offered greater facilities to those wishing to obtain the elemenls of a thorough educa tion than at present. ‘ On . Correspondents, We present our thanks to “Wifi Weeney” for his well written, chaste, and eloquent contributions, and beg a continuation of the same. Our thanks are also due “Emmie Emerald,” for her elegant and tasty articles, and we trust she wifi con tinue to favor us with them. To our esteemed correspondent W., we would say “Shy Boots” is respectfully declined on account of its length, the difficulty to make heads or tails to it, and because of its containing too many subjects. We hope to hear from him again soon. The “Reminiscences of a Methodist Preacher,” from our highly esteemed correspondent, is respect fully declined, for several reasons. We hope to hear from her again soon. To all of our correspondents we would say, “be short.” Female School. We are mote than happy to learn that our Female School has opened encouragingly, considering the extreme bitterness of the weather. Mr. Dickinson is a man of the proper spirit—talented, energetic, and | living only in the present. We sincerely trust that the | School, under his administration, may flourish pro digiously. Our people in the vicinity must send in their daughters, and help us to build up a prosperous Mecca of female trailing. Miss Anna E. Macon “has charge of the Musical Department, and we cordially recommend her as ful ly competent to do ample justice to her pupils. Her Musical talent is most excellent, and her desire (o please and instruct, overflowing. She will exert her self in behalf of her pupils, and we bespeak for her the patronage of a!! those who have any desire for their daughters to learn Music, the great and indis pensable accomplishment of the age. — Stop Papers.—Settle Arrearages. Persons ordering their papers discontinued, must invariably pay up all their dues. We shall not strike off any subscriber’s name who is in arrears. Liberal Offer. Any person sending us five new Subscribers, ac companied with the “rhino,” shall be entitled to an extra copy of the Crusader for one year. Orders for our Paper must invariably be accompanied with the cash to receive attention. “Unole Dabney. 55 We have received a very interesting letter from our esteemed friend, Rev. D. P. Jones, which a press of matters prevents our publishing. He has been making an excursion tlirohgh Campbell and Carre counties, but at the time of writing had been com pelled to take “port from stress of weather.” But the coldness and inclemency of the season has notin the least cooled the ardor of his zeal for the Temper ance Cause. So long as he is able, be wifi think, speak and act for the Cause nearest his heart. The friendship and assistance of such men as “Uncle Dabney” are indeed encouraging to a laborer in the Temperance field. Valentines ! Valentines i! We would invite special attention to the Adver tisement in this paper of Benj. G. Liddon, Esq., of Madison; offering to those who deal in the ‘commod ity’ called “Love,” the largest and most splendid as sortment of Valentines ever before offered in Middle Georgia. lie is prepared to fill orders at prices from five cents to twenty dollars. To those who desire such articles for the approach ing ldth, we would say they can have their fancy, however cultivated or vitiated it may be, gratified at the Madison Book Store. The Proprietor has on hand every variety, from the most farcical to the most superbly gorgeous and artistical. See his flaming and attractive Advertisement in this Paper. Splendid Daguerreotypes. We were shown, a lew days since, by Mr. G. M. Ihomas, an Artist, at this time in Greenesboro, some specimens of his skill in the Art, and we have no hesitancy in saying they were superior to any we have ever seen. His pictures are drawn to life—ev ery delineation of the original is presented with ac curacy and distinctness—and the individual is made to appear as if protruding from the plate, and thus re sombling a person in vita. We were unable to discover a single objection to the specimens, and^would say to the people of the community that they now have an opportunity of securing correct likenesses of themselves, or their children. Mr. Thomas will remain in Greenesboro but a short time longer. Give him a call—you will find him an accomplished and accommodating gentleman. Rooms over Smith & Hall’s Store, Broadway, Greones boro. Who are They? Almost every mail brings us information of foul and inhuman murders committed by persons while under the influence of strong drink. Who are they, against whom the blood of these victims will cry out to Heaven ? A heavy retribution will undoubtedly be called on the heads of those whose hands held the fatal weapons. But a much greater weight ol con demnation must be passed on those, who, with poi son, a poison which dethrones reason and destroys the sensibilities, impelled them to their deeds ofhor ror and shame. These are the real murderers, who untouched by Law', and unharmed by public opin ion, yearly commit thousands of the most shocking crimes which imagination can conceive. Supported by their licenses and sustained by legislative enact ments, they, pour over the land a dark flood of death and mockingly laugh at the efforts of philanthropists to stay its course. Rolling in the pomp and luxury which the price of blood has purchased, they knew not, and care not, of the misery, destitution and suf fering which they produce. The wail of anguish from widowed mothers, or the cry of suffering from her hungry children, never fall upon their ears- or if it does, it is upon ears forever sealed to the voice of mercy. They will flatter and caress the wretched sot for his last dime, and when that is spent, they wifi drive him from their door, even though the pelt ing storm is raging with relentless fury without.— They reduce the man of worth and respectability to the lowest depths of degradation, and then pour upon him their contempt and obloquy, though his shame and ruin are but “the workmanskip of their own hands.” Like the fabulous vampyre, they prey upon the very life blood of society, but unlike them, they never become satiated or gorged by their horrid food. These arc they, to whom the Politicians pander, ‘and cringe, and pay flattering compliments and oily words, not omitting material bribes to gain their in fluence among “the dear people.” They take away reason, judgment and common sense from the sover eign voters, and entirely annul the freedom of elec tive franchise. These are they through whose in strumentafity men are sent to our legislative halls, udiose heads would entitle them to berths in the asy- — j lum, and whose principles ought to send them to a felon’s cell. They utterly destroy all religion, honor and truth by their hellish machinations, and make justice a mere nullity in the land. They disorganize or derange every portion of the system of govern ment, and spread throughout it anarchy and confu sion. Yet these men, not only go unpunished, but are protected by Law- and sustained by Legislative enactments. And when we would fetter or destroy this monster of ruin and destruction, our politicians give us a boisterous harangue, full of patriotic senti ments, about “ 'freedom ” and “ independence ,” and “our forefather’s bleeding and dying for liberty,” and our wishing “to take away the rights of the peo ple,” and many other things which may amuse us by their extreme simplicity, but provoke disgust bv their shallow sophistry. That men of good sense, when free from prejudice should be convinced bv such reasoning, we cannot believe. Yet such are the only arguments behind which the opposet sos Prohi bition intrench themselves. Prejudice, a strong, overgrown prejudice controls the mind of men, and prevents them from reasoning with calmness on this important subject.- But when does this prejuSfee arise ? Does it take captive the man in his mature years, and hold him thus fast in its iron grasp? No! it is formed in his early youth, and “grows with his growth and strengthens with his strength.” The rumseller takes the timid, unsuspecting youth, while yet the smile of innocence lingers on his countenance, and soon instills into him principles, and impels him to deeds, which would bring a blush to Satan’s cheek. The dramshop yearly saps the constitution, destroys the intellects, and corrupts the morals of thousands of promising young men, and consigns them to un timely graves in the spring time of life. It is at this period of their lives that intemperance makes her vo taries, and forever darkens their prospects and blights their hopes. How many young men whose brilliant talents might have told upon the destinies of the world ; whose eloquence might have commanded the applause of listening Senates, have had their ener gies crushed, ffeir career checked in the very outsef, and their usefulness forever destroyed bv this dread ful scourge. 0 thou foul seducer of youth, and de stroyer of human virtue, long, dreary, and inglorious has been thy reign upon earth. Reason, mercy, and humanity demand thy expulsion, nor would justice prolong thy days. Ihe souls of thy ruined victims, as they whistle through the gates of hell, shriek back a long and bitter curse upon thv name. All good nn n shall rejoice when thou art no more, and thy knell shall ring in joyful peals throughout the world, i ne requiem of thy departure will be a loud Tc Deuni sung by lioerated thousands which rising up in one full chorus, will make Heaven’s high welkin ring. * - The Arbitration Bill, M e are indebted to our able and efficient Senator, Hon. I. H. Cone, for a copy of his Arbitration Bill, which wifi be found in our present issue. The Bill we think a good one ; one which our has long needed, and which brings justice within the reach of t every man. True, it would appear to some extent to eonil ct with the interest of the legal raternity, but it would benefit the mass of the People more than it could injure the Lawyers. Were the provis ions of this Bill carried into effect, the poor man might obtain his just rights without reducing him self to beggary by paying Lawyers’ fees, and piles of law papers ot “Jarndyce and Jarndycc” would be unknown. * Rum is not a Gift of God. 1- rom the hands of that benevolent Being who sit tetli upon the “circle of the universe,” directing the destiny ol the human family, we receive nought to injure or molest us, —all of his dispensations are for our good, and that only—and all of his gifts are for our happiness while upon the earth. Those mighty engines of human destruct ion which damn our earth and obscure Heaven, are of human origin, and hu- man invention; and Rum, the great Sire of them all was conceived, concocted, and created by man, foi no where in creation can it be found among the gifts ot our Heavenly Father. The following beautftulj paragraph upon this point we find among our scis sorings: “W e affirm that in all the world—nay, in all the universe of God, there is not a lake, a river, a stream let or a fountain, of intoxicating drinks. There is no such thing in nature. Water, God has every where given, spread it all over the world, sent it down from the eiouds, sent it bubbling up from tn# earth, made it journey in ceaseless activity in rilfc and streams and great rivers, towards the ocean.—\ He has, wherever man can live, given it to him atT his very door, but intoxicating drinks he has pro vi ” ded no where on the face of the whole earth, f hat ‘gift,’ whether ‘good’ of evil, is not the gift of God,. but the invention of man—an invention that has de stroyed more lives, desolated more homes, occasion ed more sorrow and anguish, than war, pestilence and famine combined. It may by many be thought; a questionable policy to deprive men of the use of it by legitimate enactment, but to call intoxicating drinks the ‘Good gift of God’ is an abuse of terms, and a burning reproach against the benevolence and holy attributes of the Deity.” •„ * ... J