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V IS © S it? E i’ T l M
OF THE
TEMPERANCE 010)11
[quondam]
TEMPERANCE BANNER.
A OTU VTSi> by a conscientious desire to further
_/ \ tue cause of Temperance, and experiencing
groat dn ulvantaga in being too narrowly limited in
space, by the smallncAS of cur paper, for the publica
tion of Reform irgumenfcs and Passionate Appeals,
wc have determined to enlarge it to a more conve
nient and acceptable size. And being conscious of
the fact that mere are existing in the minds ot a
iarue portion of the present readers of the Banner
and its former patrons, prejudices and difUnities
which can never be removed so long as it retains the
I, j c- c venture also to a change -n that nai
ticular. It will henceforth bo called, “THE TEM
PER ANCE CRUSADER.”
This oid pionoer oi the Temperance cause is des
tined vet to chronicle the tr uraph of its principles.
It has’stood the test —passed through the “hery f :r
- like the “Hebrew children,” re-appeared
unscorched. It has survived t:.e ft&tAS’pwpfir f&wiuc
wi-.oii has caused, and Is st>'U causing many excel
lent journals, and periodicals to sink, like “bright ex
halations in the evcn : r.r,” u “isc no more, and it has
c- n heralded the “death struggles of many contoui
pora os, laboring for the same great end. with itself!
ft “ Ht in hves.” and “waxing bolder as it grows older/
ic now waging an eternal “Crusade” against the “in
fernal L-quor Traffic,” standing like the “High Priest”
of the Israelites, who stood between the people and
the plague that threatened destruction.
We entreat the friends of the Temperance Cause
to eive us their influence in extending the usefulness
of the paper. We intend presenting to the public a
sheet worthy of all attention and a liberal patronage;
for while it is strictly, a Temperance Journal, we shall
endeavor to keep its readers posted ou all the current
events throughout the country.
iay"Piicafks heretofore, sl, strictly in advance.
JUHS T H. SEALS,
Editor and Proprietor.
Pecfiald, G&-, Deo. 8,1856.
fttottii to Canptrmct, |starjt% S’iltnttare, feral ftrttlligettce, Jletas,. fe.
Who’s to Blame!
A SHORT STORY TOR MARRIED LADIES.
One evening, the fastidious Henry Went
woith, on coming home tired and depress
ed, found his wife in the parlor, dressed in
a soiled morning gown, and wearing a pair
of si : ppers down at the heel. To increase
his vexation she was sitting in vn easy chair
with one leg crossed over the other, read
ing a trashy novel.
‘‘Why. Fanny !” he exclaimed in amaze
ment. for they laid been married only a iew
months, and hitherto he had thought her
the pick of neatness.
‘Well, what is it?’ she asked looking up.
Then noticing the direction of his eyes, she
assumed a more becoming position. ‘You
don’t like my dress, perhaps,’ she continu
ed : “but really, I was too tired to change
it.”
‘What have you been doing all day V said
Harry.
‘Oh, reading this,’ she replied ; she col
ored ns she held up the book, and added,
‘and then it has been so warm !’
Now her husband had been hard at work
all through the sulty summer day, and had.
us was usual with him when busy, dined .at
i his office. Yet his attire was neat, and even
his hair newiv brushed ; for he had gone to
his chamber to do th ; s before corning into
the parlor. It may be supposed, therefore,
that he was annoyed at the slovenliness of
his wife, the more so, as, on looking at the
novel, he found >1 quite a worthless affair.
He said nothing however, except. ‘At least
change, your slippers, my dear. You don’t
know how I dislike to see a lady slipshod.’
Do you ! how odd I’ said his wife, with
a silly laugh, stooping to pull up the heels of
her shoes. ‘There, that will do, I think
I really can’t walk so far as the chamber
this warm evening. I wish you would ring
for tea, the hell is just by you, as I want to
finish this chapter.’
Her husband sighed, but did as he was
bid. The tea came up, and he took his
seat, but the chapter was not yet conclu
ded, and so he was compelled to wait.—
When, at last, Mrs. Wentworth came to
the table the tea was cold The meal under
those circumstances, was a dull one, and
the husband, after tea was over, finding his
wife absorbed in her book, lay down on the
sofa and finally Went to sleep.
Airs. Wentworth had been the belle of
the town before her marriage. Her spright.-
l’ness and beauty had been the th- me of
constant admiration. But these qualities
would hav.e failed to have won Harry Went
worth’s heart, if they'had not been sustain
ed by a most exquisite taste in dress. See
Fanny when you would, she was always
carefully attired ; and as Harry Wentworth
was particularly fastidious on this point, he
thought himself the happiest of men, when
Fanny, one bright summer morning prom
ised to be his.
But unfortunately the bride had no real
habits of neatness, but only a love of admi
ration. It was vanity that had indu ed her
while single to be careful of her dress; but
now that she was married she gradually
gave way to her natural indolence. The
first occasion on which she did this to any
very glaring extent, was the evening on
which our story opens ; but it was soon fol
lowed up by other exhibitions of slovenli
ness.
*1 do wish. Fanny, that you would dress
more neatly,’ said Mr. Wentworth in a vex
ed voice, some months later still. “Night
after n ght I come home and find you in that
atrocious wro pper.”
‘You used to think me pretty enough in
any dress,’ retorted Mrs. Wentworth, tes
tily.
‘But I never saw you in one like that be
fore we were married/ replied her hus
band.
‘To be sure not/ said’ Mrs. Wentworth,
and she laughed ironically. ‘I always dres
sed for the company then, and I do so now.’
What could Mr. Wentworth say? If
his w fe did not think it necessary to be neat
in his presence—did not cons : der him as
worthy of pleasing as the comparative stran
gers whom she called company—it was use
less to argue with her; so after tea, the
slipshod heels still annoyed him, with a per
ceptible hole in the stocking to increase that
annoyance, he moodily took his hat and left
the house.
At first Mr. Wentworth walked up and
down the street, but at last fatigued with
this, he stopped into a debating room at
tached to u tavern. Here he met several
acquaintances, and gradually failing into
conversation, the evening passed rapidly
a way.
When he went home Mrs. Wentworth,
looking very sleepy, and a little out of hu
mor, accosted him with—Where in the
world have you been ? I finished my novel
an hour ago, and have had nobody to talk
to ever since. I am moped to death. There
was a time, she added, poutingly, “when
nothing in the world could’ have induced
you to spend .an evening away from me.’
Her h usband was on the point of replying
in a similar upbraiding style, but he recol
lected that he had expostulated too often
and too vainly* and so he said nothing.
It was a week before Mr. Wentworth
spent another evening out. He tried sin
cerely to stay at home ; but his annoyance
at his wife's sloveliness was too great, and
PENFIELD, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1850 • UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY
, at last he left her again to her novel and her
slipshod shoes.
Mr. Wentworth has now become a con
firmed visitor of the debating room, the
members of which are chiefly married men;
and if the full truth were known, it would
appear, we believe, that most of them, if
not all, have wives resembling Mrs. Went
worth. Sometimes there is an unduequan
titv of brandy and water drunk at these
meetings, so that some members, and Mr.
Wentworth among them, * * * ecetera de*
sunt.
Courting in the Eight Style.
‘Git eout, you nasty pup—let me alone
or I’ll tell your ina!’ cried out Sally
ro her lever Jake , who sat about ten
feet pulling dirt from the chimney jam.
‘I aru’t techin’ on you, Sai,’ responded
Jake.
‘Well, perhaps you don’t mean to, nuth
or— go yer V
‘Cause why, you’re too tarnal skearry,
you long-legged, lantern jawd, slab sided,
pigeon-toed, gangled-kneed old owl—you
hain’t got a tarnal bit of sense; git along
home with von.’
‘Now Sal, I love vou. and vou can’t help
kn owin’ it, and of you don’t let me stay
and court yon, my daddy will sue yourn
for tiie cow he sold him t’other day. By
Jingo, he said he’d do ir.’
‘Well, look here, Jake—es you want to
court (ne, you bad been do as a white man
r, oes that thing—not setoff there as es you
thort I was *pizfcn.’
‘How on aiith is that, Sal V
‘Why saddle right np here an 1 hug and
kiss me, as es you had some of tile ‘bone
and sinner’ of a man about you. Do von
spose a woman’s only made to look at you
tool you ? No—they’re made for practicle
results, as Kossuth says—to hug and kiss,
aud sich like.’
‘Well,’ said Jake, drawing a long breath,
if I must, I will, for I do love you, Sal.’
And so Jake commenced sliding up to
her, like a male porker going to battle.—
Laying hia arm gently upon Sal’s skoul
del*, wo thought we could bear Sal say—
‘That’s the way to doit, old boss—that
is acting like a white man oner.’
‘Oh, Jerusalem and pancakes ! exclaim
ed Jake : ‘ef this ain’t better than enny ap
ple sass inarm made, a darned sight.—
Buckwheat slapjacks and lasses ain’t no
whar ‘long side o’ you Sal—oh, how I love
you !
Triumphs of the Traffio.
We clip the following item from the Cin
cinnati Times :
Two Appeals.—Ja the Police Court,
yesterday, a woman with care, plainly
marked upon her brow, thinly and poorly
clad, appeared as a witness. She coin
planned ageinst a man aud his wife, whom
siie charged with constantly alluring her
husband into the debasing habit of intoxi
cation.
“I love my husband,” was the substance
of ber statements, “and though I have suf
fered much, I am willing to suffer more, if
I can only cause his reform. He is a good,
kind man, when sober, and I am confident
would not drink, if not influenced by im
proper persons. Ho is ;i tailor, and so is
this man. He (the accused) and his wife,
are both addicted to intemperance, and
seem to take great pleasure in making my
husband a drunkard. They offer him work,
he accepts it, and as sure as he enters
their shop, he never leaves it sober. What
becomes of his earnings, I do not know.—
I get none of them. lie works for them,
drinks with them, and is fast going to rum.
If I call for him, I am insulted and abus
ed. That woman has struck me several
times, and her husband has also attempt
ed it. Can I not have some protection as
■i wife? Will not the law force them to
leave my husband alone? That is all I
want, and all I ask.”
Her request was complied with a6 far as
it could be under the law.
This morning a woman some forty-five
\ . are of age, was among the prisoners at.
the Police Court. The witness against her
was an honest-looking Irishman, her hus
band. His appeal was about as follows :
“She is my wife, and the source ot great
annoyance to me. Five times have I al
ready complained of her, and ns many
times has she been sent to jail. I have eight
children, all of w hom I honestly support,
though I receive but a dollar a day for my
labor. My wife is constantly drunk whe ;
out of jail. She came, home last night af
ter dark, and immediately commenced
beating the poor children. She drove us
all out of the house, broke up the furni
ture, and threatened to fire the building.
There seems to be no hope of her reform,
and she gets drunk the moment she is re
leased from prison. I ask all the protec
tion the law can give to myself and chil
dren.”
The degraded wife and mother was com
mitted to prison under the provisions of
the liquor law.
■ ———-
fSgT ’‘Pat., you have dated your letter
a week ahead. It
month by one week, you spalpanc/
“Troth, boy indade an’ it’s jist mesilf
what is wanting swat© Kathleen to get it
in udya-Nce of the mail. Sure I’ll not care
if she gets it three days afore it is written,
me darliut.”
A Thrilling Adventure.
A merchant, who, wishing to celebrate
hie daughter’s wedding, collected a party
of her young companions. They were cir
cled round her, wishing much happiness
to the youthful bride and her chosen one.
Her father gazed proudly on his lovely
child, aud hoped that as bright prospects
for the future might open for the rest of his
children who were playing among the
guests. Passing through the hail of the
basement be met a servant who was carry
ing a lighted candle in her hand, without
the candlestick. He blamed her for snob
conduct, and went into the kitchen to see
about the supper. The girl soon returned
hut without the candle. The merchant im
mediately recollected that several barrels
of gunpowder had been placed in the cel
lar during the day, and one had been open
ed.
‘Where is your candle ?’ he enquired with
the utmost alarm.
‘1 could’nt bring it np with me, for my
arms are full of wood,’ said the girl.
‘Where did you put it V
‘Well, I’d no candlestick, so I stuck it
in some black sand that’s in the small bar
rul.’
Her master dashed clown the stairs ; the
passage was long and dark; his knees
threatened to give way under him; his
breath was choked , his flesh St-emod ury
and parched, as if he had already felt the
suffocating blas s os death. A t the end of
the cellar under rhe very room where his
children aud their friends were reveling in
felicity, be saw the open barrel of powder,
full at the top; the candle stuck loosely
in the grains, with a lona red snuff of burnt
wick ; this sight seemed to wither all his
powers; the laughter of the company
struck upon his ear like the knell of death.
He stood a moment unable to move. The
music commenced above, the feet of the
dancers responded with vivacity ; the floor
shook, and the loose bottles in’ the cellar
gingled with the motion. He fancied the
candle moved, was falling! with desper
ate energy he sprang forward. But how
to remove it! the slightest touch would
cause the red hot wick to fall into the pow
der. With unequalled presence of mind
he placed a hand on each side of the can
die pointed to the object of his care, which
as his hands met, was secured in the clasp
ing of his fingers, and safely moved away
from its dangerous position. When be
reached the head of the stairs ho smiled at
his previous alarm, but the reaction was
too powerful, and he fell into fits of the
most violent laughter. Ho was conveyed
to his bed senseless, and many weeks elaps
ed ere bis nerves recovered sufficient tone
to allow him to resume business.
Testimony from tho Bench.
The Judges of England are now uniting
in the most startling testimony against the
Liquor Traffic. The following impressive
passage is from a charge to the Grand Jn
ry. by the Recorder of War
ren, Esq. The same gentleman is more
widely known as the author of “Ten Thou
sand a Year.” In all that celebrated fic
tion there is no passage of such painful in
terest as the following statement of facts.
“Intemperance and ignorance were, he
urged, the two mighty evils at the root of
all social evils.” He continued as follows:
“W uld that a holy crusade would bd set
on foot—a national movement —against
these two inveterate and deadly foes of
mankind! I was never heard to speak a
syllable with levity or disrespect to the
Temperance movement, as it is called—
for, to me the sight of a man especially in
humble life, who voluntarily abstains from
a pleasure and excitement, which he has
iound to lead him astray from virtue, peace
and happiness, is very noble and affecting
as an act of self-denial, which must be ac
ceptable to Almighty God. Geutlemen,
to the best >f my belief, no Temperance
man ever stood at tho oar to receive judg
ment from this seat, in my time at least,
while I tremble to express iny belief, that
seven out of every ten who have done so,
have been brought here bv intoxicating li
quor: 1 have talked with them alter wards
in prison, and they have owned it with
tears of agony.”— Prohibitionist.
Mormon Husbands. —One of the Mor
mon women who was in the company of
the late crowd which has passed through
our town for Salt Lake, we learn lad no
less than four husbands. She is said to
h°ve been an intelligent looking individu
al. She contended that women have as
good a right to have a number of husbands,
as a man had to have as many wives as
he wished, provided the men were all
members of the Mormon Church. There
is nothing like making circumstances suit
occasions, and these Mormons appear to
have a peculiar faculty for such transac
tions.—Rock Islander.
Washington Irving in his beauti
ful Affections of the Dead, says:
“Go to the grave of buried Love, aud
meditate. There settle the account with
thy conscience for every past benefit unre
qnited, every past endearment unregard
ed. Console thyself if thou canst by this
time unavailing sorrow for the dead, and
henceforward be more faithful aud affec
tionate in the discharge of thy duties to
the living!”
Refinements of Language.
Among all the improvements of the age,
none, perhaps, are more striking than those
which have recently been made, and, in
deed. are at present making, in the lan
guage of ordinary life. Who, in these davs
ever reads of boarding-schools They are
transformed into academies for boys and
seminaries fo r girls; the higher classes are
‘ establishments.” A coachmaker s shop T
a repository for carriages ; a milliner’s shop ;
a depot; a thread-seller’s, an epipowurn.—
One buys drugs at a medic.d hall, wines oi
a company, and shoes at a mart. Blacking
is dispensed from an institution; and meat
from a purveyor. One wouid imagine thal
the word shop had become not only con
temptible, but had been discovered not to
belong to the English language. Now-a
days, all the shops are w arehouses or “pla
ces of business,” and you will hardly find
a tradesman having the honest hardihood
to call himself a shopkeeper. There is now
also, no sodli word as that of tailor —thn.
is to say among speakei a polite. C!oh:er
has been discovered to be more elegant, al
though the term tailor is every bit as respec
table.
Instead of reading that, after a bail the
company did not go away till daylight, we
.catold. that the joyful gioups continued
tripping on the light fantastic toe, nil Sol
g ive them the warning to deparfo If one
of the company happened to stumble into
a ditch, we hculci be informed that his foot
supped and he was immersed into the li
quid element. A good breakfast is describ
ed as making “the table groan with every
delicacy of the season/’ A crowd of brief
less, Hzy lawyers, unbeneficed clergymen
and half-pay officers, arc enumerated a
“host of fashion” at a watering place, where
we are informed that ladies, instead of ta
king a dip before breakfast, plunge them
selves into the bo-;om of Neptune. A sheep
killed by lightning is a thing unheard—tht
anirnal may be desmoyed by the electric flu
id, but even then we should not be told tha<
it was dead ; we should he informed that
the vital spark had fled forever.
All little girls, lie their faces ever so
plain, pittied or pitiable, if they appear at
a public office to complain of robbery or ill
treatment, are invariably “intelligent or in
teresting.” If they have proceeded very
far in crime, they are called unfortunate fe
males. Child-murder is elegantly’termer 1
infanticide, and when it is punished capi
tally, we hear not that the wicked mother
was hanged, but the unfortunate culprit un
derwent the last sentence of the law, and
was launched into eternity. No person reads
in a newspaper that a house has been burn
ed down; he perhaps will find that the
house fell a sacrifice to die flames. In an
account ol a launch, not that the ship went
off the slips without an accident, but that
she glided securely and majestically into her
native element; the said “native element”
being one in which the said ship never was
before. To send for a surgeon, if one’s leg
is broken, is out of the quest on; a man in
deed may be despatched for medical aid.—
There are now no public singers at tavern
dinners; and actors are all professors ol
the histrionic art. Widows are scarce, they
are all “interesting relicts,” and as for nur
sery maids, thev are notv-a-days, univer
sally transformed into “young persons, who
superintend the junior branches of the fam
ily.”
Another Church paying for Skirts. —
Some years ago, when she narrow * skirts
were in fashion, certain good people built
a church up town. In order to get as ma
ny seats as possible, tho slips were made
pretty narrow. This has occasioned great
inconvenience of late : 1-ut was got along
with as well as possible, until a few week>
since, when four ladies, wearing those huge
whalebone skirts, became wedged in one
of those slips, and were drawn out with
great difficulty. The trustees had a meet
ing and at once, resolved to come up tu
the ago, and workmen are now engaged
iu remodelling the building, so that, a sim
ilar accident will not be likely to occur
again.— JST. id Times.
A Judge Baffled. —It is related of Thos.
F. Marshall, that s Judge having once fined
him thirty dollars for contempt of Court, he
arose and asked the Judge to loan him the
money, as he hadn’t it, and there was no
friend present to whom he could so well ap
ply as to his honor.
This was a stumper. The Judge looked
at Tom and then at the Clerk, and finally
said: “Clerk, remit Mr. Marshall’s fine-~
the State is better able to lose thirty dol
lars than I am.”
Anecdote of Judge Bates. —The Judge
recently called at the Village store, design
ing to make the purchase of a. mackerel.—
Several friends were in who knew that the
Judge had become a good Temperance
man, and were willing to run him a little.
Tuc storekeeper joined in the sport, and
begged the Jujige to take a little some
thing.
‘ Yhat will you have, Judge ? Take any
thing you like.’
The Judge looked around, as If in doubt
what to choose, and replied :
‘ Ibelieve I will take a mackerel!’
Helping himself, he gravely walked out
of the etore, and was not invited to take
anything there again.
C TERMS: SI.OO TN ADVANCE.
) JAMES T. BLAIN,
V. PRINTER.
VOL. XXH.-NUMBEE 37.
Rottenness of Hireling Ccvniunities.
We are pleated to learn that Professor
Vv rn. A. Smith has been lecturiag in por
tion* of Eastern Virginia on the subject of
slaveryespecially pleased that he de
fends slavery on principle—contends that
the slave relation is the normal and natural
condition of society—and that slavery is a
necessary social and political institution.
This involrns the necessity of maintaining
that society, without this patriarchal
ment, every where proves a failure in the
long run This, we learn, he does with bold
ness and great ability. Slavery can only
be defended by showing that even the com
paratively partial and shortlived experi
ments in Western Europe to dispense with
it, has been a failure, and has placed the
emancipated laborer in a worse condition
than if he were a slave in law as well as
fret. No one cm doubt this fact who will
examine history and statistics. Systems
formed on such opposite principles as Sla
very and universal liberty, cannot both be
right— cannot both endure.
It ha? boen less titan three years since the
utter rottenness of hireling society was first
announced in the South. The announce
ment has met with no contradiction, much
iess with any seiious attempt at refutation
—and now, one of our ablest Professors and
most gifted Lecturers, openly maintains and
promulges the doctrines in public advlrescos.
The North evades and shirks the ques
tion, but w. 11 not be able to oersist in eva
ding it much longer. It so happens that an
equivalent assertion had been made by all
the Abolitionists, who a’ e all Soc alists
and as ruch, in favor of the ■ubverslon and
reconstruction of society. It is true they
include slave society m their schemes of re
;orm, and insist that it is also a failure. But
their admissions are good evidence only
against themselves. Their testimony as
against us is altogether hearsay, and utter
ly invalid and worthless. —Richmond Ex
aminer.
A Knotty Case.—' ‘ls the Squire at home?’
enquired Pat of the lawyer’s lady, who
■pened the door at his summons. He was
answered negatively.
‘Maybe then yourself can give me the
necessary information well as th.e Squire,
•tern you are his wife.
The lady promised to do so, if, on learn
ng the nature of the difficulties, she lound
it in her power, and the other proceeded
to state his case as follows :
‘S’pose you were an old white mare, and
I should borrow you to go to mill, with a
turn of grist on your back, and we should
get no farder than the first bill, when all
it once 3 ou should back up, and pitch up,
mu Kneel backwards, and break your darn
old neck, wboM pay for ye? Not I, darn
me if I would.’
The lady smilingly told him as she clo
sed the door as he had himself passed the
sentence on the case, advice would be en
tirely superfluous.
fan Dieman's Land . —A magistrate of
that region announces himself a half Maine
Law man. We quote from the Cornwall,
(V. H. L.) Chronicle:
“While sentencing the prisoners tried at
the last sitting of the Quarter Sessions, on
Thursday last, Mr. Rone, the Chairman of
the Quarter Sessions, remarked that altho’
he was not an advocate for the Maine Li
quor Law, still he would like to see one
half of the places where men got drunk,
closed. Re would implore every one not
to drink to excess, not to indulge in the
heavily-stinging, soul-destroying vice of in
temperance. He said that drunkenness was
the greatest calamity ever introduced into
the colony. He was prepared to say that
mne-tenths of the crime committed in Van,
Dieman’s Land were consequent on drunk
enness. It was from thirty years’ experi
ence he was speaking, and he wished eve
ry publicity to be given to the opinion of
the Court.
8S1F” A little Galveston boy, only eight
years old v now on a visit abroad, and wri
ting home to his mother, 6ays :
“If you and > not receive this letter, tell
father that I wrote it any how, for I want
him to know that I keep iny promise.”
This is like Pat, who, in writing to his
better half, said :
“When yon call at the post for this, if
the post-master tells you it is not there, tell
him he lies, the baste, for sure, Biddy,
be I not writing at this present moment
intirely
— ■"■■■ ■
Echo. —The shadow of a sound— a voice
without a mouth aud woids —without a
tongue. Echo, though represented as a
female, never speaks until she .is spoken
to; ana at every repetiou of what she has
heard, continues to make it leo3, instead
of more; an example recommended to the
special attention of tattlers aud scandal
mongers.
A Happy Man. —A Doctor returned a
coat to a tailor because it did not suit him.
The tailor seeing the doctor at the funeral
of one of his patients, said :
*Ab, doctor, you are a happy man.*
‘Why so’ asked the doctor.
‘Because,’ said the tailor, ‘yon never
have any of your bad work returned on
your hands.’