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TEMPERANCE BANNER.
4 CTUATED by a conscientious desire to further
/w the cause of Temperance, and experiencing
great disadvantage in being too narrowly limited in
space, by the smallness of om paper, for the publica
tion of Reform Arguments and Passionate Appeals,
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nient and acceptable size. And being conscious of
the fact that there are existing in the minds of a
large portion of the present readers of the Banner
and its former patrons, prejudices arid difficulties
which can never be removed so long as it retains the
name, wc venture also to make a change in that par
ticular. It will henceforth be called, “THE TEM
PER A NCE CRUS A DER.”
Tins old pioneer <>! the Temperance cause is des
tined yet to chronicle the triumph of its principles.
It has stood the test—passed through the “fiery fur
nace,” and, like the “Hebrew children,” re-appeared
uuscorched. It has survived the newspaper famine
which has caused, and is still causing many excel
lent journals and periodicals to sink, like “bright .ex
halations in the evening,” to rise no more, and it has
even heralded thv “death struggles of many contem
poraries, laboring for the same great end with itself.
It “still lives,” and “waxing bolder as it grows older,”
is now waging an eternal “Crusade” against the “In
fernal Liquor 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 give us their influence in extending the usefulness
of the paper. \Ve intend presenting to the public a
sheet worthy of pH attention and a liberal patronage;
for while it is strictly a Temperance Journal , we shall
endeavor to keep its readers posted on all the current
events throughout the country.
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Editor and Proprietor.
Penfleld, Ga., Dec. 8, 1855.
lo fempraitce, rtlonliin. fitoata, (general gntdJiptn, Jtea, so.
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• [From the Concord Weekly Gazette.
Grog Shops.
Reasons why they should not be suffer
ed in a community.
1. They are nuisances, as respectable
men who live in their neighborhood can
testify.
2. They manufacture drunkards, who
are nuisances to the public, to their fami
lies and to themselves, whose portion is
misery in this life and eternal misery in
the world to come.
3. They manufacture paupers who are
supported by the public money or individ
ual charity.
4. They tend to impoverish a communi
ty, by destroying the property and the so
ber, industrious habits of his citizens.
5. They originate nineteen twentieths of
the law-suits that are tried in our Courts.
0. They cost our country more than one
hundred millions of dollars annually, for
which vast sum of money no compensation
is given.
7. They draw money out of the pockets
of the moral and respectable, to build and
support jails, penitentiaries and poor hous
es.
8. They originate the larger portion of
the murders, adulteries and other abomi
nable crimes, which disturb the peace and
destroy the virtue of the country.
9. They manufacture a clan of base char
acters who are devoid of principles, and
are ready to lie, steal, fight, and perpe
trate any crime which occasion may sug
gest.
10. They destroy domestic peace and
happiness.
11. They outvie any scourge of God in
making heart broken widows, and ragged,
ignorant orphans.
12. They are a fruitful cause of many of
the frightful accidents on our railroads and
steamboats, by which the lives and prop
erty of the citizens are endangered.
13. Poison is sold in them, which if it
were put into bread and sold to human be
ings by accountable man, would cost him
his life. Alcohol is a poison rank enough
without mixing with it other poisons.
14. Those who frequent them, avoid the
house of God, drown the whispering of
conscience, drive away the influences of
the Holy Spirit, and put themselves be
yond the reach of mercy.
15. Those who live in these dens of pros
titution and deal out ‘‘liquid damnation”
become devoiij. of all principle, lost to all
sense of humanity, honor, shame and re
ligion, and disgraced in the eyes of all re
spectable men, outcasts from decent socie
ty, whose hearts are harder than a mill
stone, and whose consciences are seared as
with a red hot iron.
The reason mentioned above, are some
of them legal, some of them political, and
some of them moral.
Os course the steps to be taken to remove
moral and political evils, even if they
should be of the most atrocious nature,
ought to be strictly legal. But that com
munity is in a deplorable condition in which
“vice and immorality” cannot be punish
ed, and so in a good degree prevented, by
laic.
In such a community, the majority are
either themselves under the influence of
these vices and immoralities which ought
to be destroyed ; or are shamefully indif
ferent to their existence ; or their inaction
must he owing to the want of moral cour
age to remove them, or to some selfish con
sideration. Upon the supposition that the
majority are not under the influence of the
evils deplored, their inaction cannot lie oc
casioned by the want of power to remove
them. I cannot be persuaded that a ma
jority of any community in this Republi
can Land are compelled to submit to a gen
eral moral and political evil. Neither can
I believe that the majority of the citizens
: of the town of Concord are ignorant of the
j main cause of vice and immorality which
jis allowed to exist in their midst. Why
then is not the town purged of the giant
evil that pollutes it? Why is the vile
fountain from which flow streams of pollu
tion through a respectable community not
dried up? Why should Magistrates, Law
yers, Sheriffs, Constables, Jurymen, and
Witnesses, be paid out of the public mo
ney to cleanse the polluted streams, while
no efficient step is taken to arrest the cease
less flow of the corrupted fountain ?
Will a farmer desiring to prepare a piece
of wood-land for cultivation, waste his
strength and money, and spend year after
year in stripping the trees of their leaves,
rather than lay the axe at their roots ? We
will have murders, and street-fights, and
quarrclings, and a rude, unprincipled set
of men and boys infesting tiie streets, pol
luting the families of the town, and de
stroying their peace and comfort as long as
we have grog-shops. Then in tiie name of
humanity and religion ; if there be any
lawful method: to put. down the cause of so
many evils, let us use it. If there be no
lawful method and none can be devised,
then let us confess that the laws under which
we live are the reverse of those which God
has laid down as proper for human govern
ments, and are a praise to evil doers, and
a terror to them that do well; and let us
mourn our sad condition, and pray God to
remedy the defects of our government.
God hath said, “If an ox gore a man or
a woman that they die, then the ox shall
PENFIELD, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1856.
he stoned, but the owner shall be quit j
hut if the ox is wont to push with his horns,
and it hath been testified to bis owner, and
he hath not kept him in, but he hath kil
led a man of a woman, the ox shall be sto
ned and his owner shall also be put to
death.” I contend for the moral principle
of this law as being applicable to all hu
man governments.
Ardent Spirits are wont to destroy the
bodies and souls of men, and-it hath been
testified to the venders of it.
Billiard looms.
There are few schools of vice more suc
cessful in ruining young men than the Bil
liard Rooms. Now we do not suppose that
there is anything morally vicious in the
game of billiards, any more than in a game
of draughts, chess or base-ball. But it is
initiative to so many vices, as generally
conducted, that no prudent parent would
allow his son to frequent these places. In
nine cases out of ten, liquor is freely dis
pensed at these attractive haunts. The
temptation to drink is greatly enhanced bv
the lact, that “the drinks” are often played
for, and thus gambling is superadded to the
temptation to indulge in intoxicating bever
ages.
Besides this nothing is more common than
to “play for the games,” and to bet on the
players. Thus a young man who is really
averse to gambling, and who would shrink
with horror at the thought of being called a
gambler, through a false pride and a fear of
being called mean by his comrades, is in
duced to lay down a small siake on the is
sue of the game. If successful he is tempt
ed to bet more largely—if he looses, he is
induced to risk more, that he may retnve
the losses lie can ill afford to bear. So step
by step he is led along the fascinating path,
until he becomes somewhat seriously in
volved—has incurred “debts of honor”—
heaven save the mark—which he has no
means to liquidate. Then he borrows, as
long as credit lasts, and is again, and more
deeply, involved.
In this dilemma the wretched youth asks,
“what can I do ?” At this point, he has
laid himself open to the assaults of the arch
Fiend, who ever stands ready to assist his
victims—in their downward career. Then
comes, first, petty thefts from the till of his
employer, next, forgery is suggested, and
the Devil whispers in his ear, “perhaps a
good stroke of fortune will put you in pos
session of the means of liquidating the claims
laid upon you, your bad luck cannot last
forever.” The third step in this course of
crime is exposure, loss of character and the
Penitentiary involving in his downfall, the
disgrace of his family, the unutterable woe
of his broken hearted parents and friends,
and a felon’s brand burned into his forehead
and souk
With such natural dangers before his
child, what parent will not see to it, that he
be kept from these entrances to Hell. What
young man will risk the awful results, for
no higher boon than a little pleasure in the
Billiard Room. Beware, young man, lest,
where so many have fallen into the yawn
ing gull) your feet, ’ere you are aware, shall
slide into perdition. The only safe course
for you is to keep away from these exciting
scenes, these traps of the great Enemy, set
to catch the simple and unwary. If there
be any young man who reads this article
and who has already taken the initiative
step, we bid him pause and ponder well his
course, for his feet already “take hold on
Hell.”— People's Organ.
“I have Lived Too Past. 5 ’
This expression is reported to have been
used by Caldwell, after his late arrest, in
conversation with Mr. Rucker, and as im
plying regret as to his mode of life. In
closing his argument in behalf of the people.
Mr. Stuart uses the following expressive
language in connection:
“Ah, gentlemen, the pivot on which this
sad drama turns is condensed into that sin
gle expression, I have lived too fast! Preg
nant. words ; they should fall from this court
room like a tocsin on the giddy whirl ol
young men below; the multitude that has
watched with varied emotions, but all with
intense interest, the progress of this trial,
should carry it forth and spread it in the sa
loons and in all the popular resorts of youth.
I have lived too fast ! It, is the most forci
ble as it is the most graphic expression of
the unhealthy life that characterizes —I
shall be allowed to say—a multitude ot
young men in this beautiful city. In no
town in the world do the centres of allure
ment and temptation bear such a propor
tion to the population. Extravagance in
dress, extravagance in living, dangerous ex
travagance everywhere is apparent, to the
observer, nor need that observer wear Pu
ritanical glasses to see what 1 allude to.- —
Perhaps it is the inseparable incident of the
marvelous growth of this great city, and
when things become more settled, and when
the more conservative institutions of society
become established, their superior moral
force will cause all other elements and ten
dencies to revolve around (he true central
influences of society.”
Oh that these words could be made to
reach the hearts, ns well as the ears, ol the
one hundred thousand inhabitants ol this
city, and there rankle and burn until all im
purities and blemishes were consumed. —
The picture here briefly but truly outlined
is a sad one to contemplate, and should
j wring tears from adamantine hearts. But,
il we go behind the scenes, we can there
find still greater cause for sorrow, a still
lower strata in the scale of morality; for we
shall there see men and women who mould
the habits and customs of society, indulging
in all the follies that they pretend to con
demn, and which make up ihe characters
of those who “live too fast.” The example
set for their children, if there were no other
attendant evil, is of the most pernicious
character, and will soon flood, not only this
city with these fast livers, but the country
at large.
In view of these things, is it not well for
society to seek protection in legal enact
merits for the suppression of some of the in
fluences that are so powerful for evil among
our younsj men f Would it not be wise to
stay the tide while it is within our control ?
Or shall we allow it to sweep onward gath
ering strength and force with every ad
vance. until a generation is engulphed in its
embrace ? It is vain to lament—it is folly
to pray—so long as. rum, and its adherents,
are allowed to govern in the political and
social realms of the country.— Spirit of the
Age.
Remember Jesus.
It is a mark of grace, that the believer, in
his progress heavenward, grows more and
more alive to the claims of Jesus. If you
“know the laws ot Christ.” his is the latest
name you will desire to utter; his is the latest
thought you will desire to form : upon him
you will fix your last look on earth; upon
him your first in heaven. When memory
is oblivious of all other objects; when all
that attracted the natural eye, is wrapped
in the mists of death; when the tongue is
cleaving to the roof of our mouth, and speech
is gone, and sight is gone, and hearing gone,
and the right hand lying powerless by our
side, has lost its cunning, Jesus ! then may
we remember thee! If the shadows of
death are to be thrown in deepest darkness
on the valley when we are passing along it
to glory, may it be ours to die like that saint,
beside whose bed, wife and children once
stood, weeping over the wreck of faded fac
ulties, and a blank, departed memory. One
had asked him, “Father, do you remember
me?” and received no answer; and another
and another, but still no answer. And then,
all making way for the venerable compan
ion of a long and loving pilgrimage, the ten
der partner of many a past joy and sorrow,
his wife draws near. She bends over him,
and as her tears fall thick upon his face, she
cries, “Do you remember me ?” A stare—
but it is vacant. There is no soul in that
filmy eye ; and the seal of death lies upon
these lips. The sun is down, and life’s brief
twilight is darkening fast into a starless
night,. At this moment, one calm enough
to remember how the love of Christ’s spouse
is “strong as death,” a love that many “wa
ters cannot quench,” stooped to his ear, and
said. “Do you remember Jesus Christ?”—
The word was no sooner uttered than it
seemed to recall the spirit, hovering for a
moment, ere it took wing to heaven.—
Touched as by an electric influence, the
heart beats once more to the name of Jesus;
the features, fixed in death, relax; the coun
tenance, dark in death, flashes up like the
last gleam of day ; and with a smile, in
which the soul passed away to glory, he re
plied, “Remember Jesus Christ ! dear Je
sus Christ! he is all my salvation, and all
mv desire.”— Guthrie.
- —ss-e£-os>- —
The “I Cant’s.”
The “1 cant’s” are numerous and übiqui
tous. Their numbers are astonishing. A
curious statistician estimates that about one
halt ol the children born into the world are
furnished by Nature with a remarkable lin
gua! facility lor the utterance of this brief
and cowardly sentence. Neither time nor
experience enables them to abolish from
their vocabulary these fatal words, and from
the cradle to the grave they drag a slip-shod
file spent in accomplishing nothing, from
the iact that they lack the energy and will
necessary to accomplish.
These human drugs are recognisable any
where under any circumstances, and in
whatever garb. In the palace, but more
often in the prison, especially in such en
lightened States of ours, where prisons
serve as a welcome refuge to many of them,
who are 100 utterly worthless to get their
own living, and therefore force their cred
itors to get it for them. And with this ex
ception we can see no other humane pur
pose in a debtor’s prison. Os the regal and
ducal “I cant’s,” history furnishes too many
examples to need illustration at our hands.
Ol titled members of the order, of lower de
gree, the world is cursed with a less num-‘
her than formerly, for the reason that the
race is dying of mere insanity; but in the
great world, among the masses, it is aston
ishing what a host of drones share the hon
ey of the bees’ gathering. Regarding eve
rything they do as hardship, looking upon
labor as an evil, it seems to be a sort of mo
ral duty with such men to do as little as
possible, and get all they can for it. “I
can’t’ is their shibboleth and shield. Pro
pose to them the accomplishment of what
ever new work, anything out of the beaten
track, any little addition to what they have
done, and see ! how, like trained jackdaws,
their beak fly open—without a moment’s
consideration of the possibility or desirabil
ity of the doing—and out it comes, like the
‘.‘pretty Polly I’’ of a pet parrot—“l can’t.”
We have said you may know them eve
| ry where: in the legislative halls, on the bat
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tlefield, in the council-chamber, at the bar,
in the counting-house, in the studio, at the
bench or in the furrow; for they are spawn
ed everywhere, and among all classes ofin
dustrials, merchants or mechanics. You
may know “1 can’t” as well by what he
does, as by what he will not try to do; and
a miserable—mumbling-—mealy-mouthed—
mountain raising, and mole-hill moving
mummy ot a man, will you find him in any
of these pursuits. He is always for delay.
“He hasn’t time, or he hasn’t tools; he lacks
means; or he must have more help;” you
“had better wait,” or he knows “it is impos
sible; anything rather than do it. “i’ll try!”
never comes into his head, as it did into
Capt. Bragg’s; to try being just what he
wishes to escape from ; while to say “I
can t, is the easiest as well as the meanest
method of accomplishing his desires.
“I can’t, is a humbug and a nuisance,
and society ought, to make him sensible of
the fact by kicking him without its pale.—
All things are possible to God ; and of the
countless things possible to man, through
the right use of the gifts He has bestowed
upon him, not one in a hundred have yet
been accomplished; myriads of failures re
sulting from the soulless efforts and combi
nated blunderings of the inanimate host of
“1 cant’s.” A boy, of sound body and mind,
ought to be punished every time he used the
phrase, by the adoption of which salutary
corrective the number of the men who will
use it can materially be diminished.
“Can’t, ’is the most contemptible combi
nation of letters known to the English schol
ar; and it may be safely assumed that nei
their Alfred nor Arkwright, Milton nor
Maury, Washington nor Whitney, Girard
nor Astor. nor any other among >.he glori
ous galaxy of determinate industrial stars,
ever yet recognised the canting use to
which the phrase is put by such as we de
scribe.—Hunt's Moral for Merchants.
The Untasted Cup.
BY INVALID.
rhe palace ol a proud nobleman was
decorated for a banquet. A thousand wax
lights burned in its stately rooms, making
it bright as mid day. Along the walls
glowed the priceless tapestry of the Gobo
line, and beneath the foot lay the fabrics
of Persia. Rare vases filled with flowers
stood on the marble stands, and their breath
went up like incense before the life-like
pictures shrined in their golden frames
above. In the great ball stood immense
tallies covered with delicacies from all lands
and climes. Lpon the sideboard glittered
massive plate and the rich glass of Mtira
no. Music, now low and soft, now bold
and high, floated in through the open case
ment, and was answered at intervals by
tones of magic sweetness.
All was ready; the noble and gifted
poured into the gorgeous saloons. Silks
rustled, plumes waved, and jewelled em
broideries flashed from Genoa velvets.—
Courtly congratulations fell from every
lip, for the noble lord had made anew step
in the path to power. Wit sparkled, the
laugh went round, and his guests pledged
him in wine that a hundred years had mel
lowed. Proudly the host replied ; but his
brow darkened and his cheek paled with
passion, for his son sat motionless before
his untasted cup.
“Wherefore fs this?” he angrily deman
ded. “When did my first born learn to in
sult his father?”
The graceful stripling sprang from his
seat and knelt meekly before his parent. —
His sunny curls fell back from his upturn
ed face, and his youthful countenance was
radiant with a brave and generous spirit.
‘’Father,” he said, “I last night learned
a lesson that sunk into my heart. Let me
repeat it, and then at thy command I will
drain the cup. I saw a laborer grand at
the door of a gav shop. He held in his
hand the earnings of a week, and iiis wife,
with a sickly babe and two famishing lit
tle ones, clung to his garments and be
sought him not to enter. He tore himself
away, for his thirst was strong ; and but
for the care of a stranger his family would
have perished.
We went on, and, father, a citizen of no
ble air and majestic form descended the
wide steps of his tine mansion. His wife
put back the curtains and watched him ea
gerly and wishfully, as lie rode away. She
was very, very lovely, fairer than any la
dy of the court, but the shadow of a sad
heart was fast falling on her beauty. We
saw her gaze around upon the desolate
splendor other saloon, and then clasp her
hands in the wild agony of despair. When
w'e returned, her husband lay helpless on
a couch, and she sat weeping beside him.
Once more we paused. A carriage stop
ped before a palace. It was rich with bur
nished gold, and the armorial bearings of
;l Duke were visible in the moonbeams.—
Wo waited for its owner to alight, but he
did move, and he gave no orders.—
oon servants came crowding out. —
Sorrowfully they lifted him in their arms,
and I saw that some of the jewels were torn
from his mantle, and his plumed cap was
crushed and soiled, as if by the pressure
of many footsteps. They bore him into
the palace, arid I wondered if his duchess
wept 1 iko the beautiful wife of the citizen.
As I looked on all this, my tutor told
me that it was the work of the red wine,
which leaps gaily up and laughs over its
victims, in demon merriment. I shuder
TERMS: SI.OO IN ADVANCE
JAMES T. BLAIN.
FSI33VT33IS.
VOL. XXII.- NUMBER ‘3l
6u, father, and resolved never *i£> 11 ;■ i
taste it, lest I should fall. But vour wor
is law'to me, shall I drain the cup?
j The father looked wonderimrly upon hi
first born, and then placing his hand grave
iy, vet tonuly upon his head, answered
u.N"o, my son, touch it not; it is poison
as thy tutor told thee. It fires the brain
darkens the intellect, destroys the soul.—
Put it away from thee, and so thou shall
grow up wise and good, a blessing to thy
self and to thy country.”
He glanced around the circle ; surprise
and admiration, were on every face, and
moved by the same impulse, all arose,
while one of their number spoke—
‘‘Then hast done nobly,” be said, “and
thy rebuke shall not be forgotten. We have
Congratulated thy father upon the acquisi
tion of honors which may pass with the
passing season. We now congratulate bira
upon rue best of all possessions—a son wor
thy of the worthiest sire.”
The haughty courtiers bowed a glowing
assent, and each clasped the hand of the
‘>oy. But the father took him to his h,-;:.r , 4
ana even now among the treasured r. lies of
iue family is numbered that silver cup.—
Spirit of the Age.
’ ■ —*
t Sickens on &rog Shops.
The August number of Household words
has an article on the Countess Caumont—
Laforce of Paris, who was murdered by her
groom, in Feb. 185 G. Dickens says:
*'l ne process by which servants are
brought to kill their employers, is a thing of
considerable importance to society, and
well worth knowing.”
(That is through the drinking shop.)
the only faults of this groom were, his
sometimes getting drunk, and his taking no
thought for the morrow. His intelligence
was rather limited, and the effect of drink
upon him was rather to brutify than to irri
tate him. He entered the service of the
Countess in the end of January, eighteen
hundred and fifty-six.
On the morning of the twentieth of Feb
ruary, he came out of the huge green gate.
His mistress had sent him to buy some rolls
and milk. Bowman, after making his pur
chases for his mistress, entered a wine shop
and bought and drank two pence worth of
brandy, as much as could be obtained in
Great Britain for a shilling. The wine shops
are the colleges and chapels of the poor in
France. History, morals, politics, jurispru
dence, and literature, in iniquitous forms,
are all taught in these colleges and chapels,
where professors of evil continually deliver
these lessons, and where hymns are sung
nightly to the demon of demoralization.
“In these haunts of the poor, thelt is taught
as the morality of property, falsehood as the
morality of speech, and assassination as the
justice of the people. It is in the wine shop
the cabman is taught to think it heroic to
shoot the middle class man who disputes his
fare. It is in the wine shop the workman
is taught to admire the man who stabs his
faithless mistiess. It is in the wine shop
the doom is pronounced of the employer
who lowers the pay of the employed.
“The wine shops breed—in a physical at
mosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence
of envy and vengeance—the men of crime
and revolution. Hunger is proverbially a
bad counsellor, but drink is a worse.”
Bsrved Him Eight.
A long winded subscriber to a newspa
per, after repeated dunnings, promised that
the bill should be paid by a certain day. if
he were then alive. The day passed over,
and no money reached the office.
In the next number, therefore, of the pa
per, tiie editor inserted among the deaths a
notice of his subscriber’s departure from
this life. Pretty soon after this announce
ment, the subject of it appeared to the edi
tor-—not with the pale and ghastly counte
nance usually ascribed to apparitions, nor
like them did he wait to be spoken to, but
broke silence with, “What, sir, did you
mean by publishing my death?” -Why,
sir. I mean what I mean when I publish the
death of any other person, viz: to let the
world know that you are dead.” “Well,
but lam not dead.” “Not dead ! then it is
your own fault; for you told me you would
positively pay your bill by such a day, if
you lived to that time. The day passed,
the bill is not paid, and you positively must
be dead; for I will not believe that you
would forfeit your woid.” “O, ho! I see
you have got round me, Mr. Editor; but
say no more about it; here's the money.—
And harkee, my wag, you’ll contradict my
death next week ?” “O, certainly, rr, just
to please you ; though upon my word l
can’t help thinking you were dead at the
time specified, and that you have really
come back to pay this bill on account of your
friendship to me.”
—
A Remarkable Swimmer* —“A singular
wager,” says the Salut Public, of Lyons,
“lias just been decided here. One ol the
best swimmers of the city made a bet tiiat
he would cross the Rhone on his back, car
rying on his stomach a small table, on which
should be placed two bottles full of wine,
■six eggs on a plate, and four glasses. The
fall of any one of these articles would in
volve the Joss of the wager. The swimmer,
however, crossed the river without displa
cing .one of the articles, and won the bet.”
DCr’Sheridan, being asked to define the
word “nothing,” replied, “the extent of our
knowledge.”