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TEMPERANCE BANNER.
A ;TUATRI>. by a conscientious Mre to further i
/\ the cause of Temperance, and experiencing
great disadvantage in being too narrowly limited in
space, by the smallness of our paper, for the publica
tion of Reform Arguments and Passionate Appeals,
we have determined to enlarge it to a more conve
nient and acceptable size. And being conscious of
the fact that there are existing in the minds oi a
large portion of the present readers of the Banner
and its former patrons, prejudices and difficulties
which can never he removed so long as it retains the
name we venture also to make a change in that par
ticular. It will henceforth be called, “THE TEM
PERANCE CRUSADER.”
This old pioneer of the Temperance cause is des
tined yet to chronicle the tr.uinph of its principles.
It has stood the test— passed through tiie “liery fur
nace” and, like the “Hebrew children,” re-appeared
unscorched. It has survived the nmrxpaper 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 the “death struggles of many contem
poraries, laboring for the same great end with itself.
U “still lives,” and “waxing bolder as it grows older,”
_ novH wardr.K an eternal “Crusade” against the “In
fernal Liquor Traffic,” standing like the “High Pnest”
of the Israelites, who stood between tbe people and
the plague that threatened destruction.
YVe entreat -the friends of the Temperance Cause
to give us their influence in extending the usefulness
of the papei* We intend presenting to the public a
*hect*wQrthy of all attention and a liberal patronage;
for while it is strictly a Temperance Journal , we sha.l
ondeivor to keep its readers posted on all the current
events throughout tire country.
E-Prce, as heretofore, sl, strictly m advance.
** John h. seals,
Editor and Proprietor.
Peafield, G*., Dec. 8,1866.
Betoftl) to feinfßitiire, IJtaraliij, J’testiin, (fatral Jntdlipcc, |Jetos, fc-
The Stolen IVote.
liY A ERTIRRD ATTORN BY.
——— * !
Except that he indulged too freely in the <
use of the intoxicating cup. John Waihce i
was art honest, high minded and exemplary i
man. His one great fault hung like a dark !
shadow over his many virtues. He meant j
well, and when he was sober he did well. j
He was a hatter by trade, and by his in
dustry and thrift had acquired money
enough to buy the house in which he lived.
He had purchased it several years before
for three thousand dollars, paying one thou- j
sand down, and securing the balance by a
mortgage to the seller.
c o
The mortgage note was almost due at
the time when the circumstances made me
acquainted with the affairs of the family.—
But Wallace was ready/or the day: he had
saved the money, there seemed no possibil
ity of an accident.
1 was well acquainted with Wallace, hav
ing done some little collecting and drawn
up some legal documents for him.
One day his daughter Annie came to my
office in great distress, declaring that her
father was ruined, and that they should be
turned out of the house in which they lived.
“Perhaps not, Alias Wallace/’ I said, try
ing to console her and give the.affair, what
ever it was, a brighter aspect. “What has
happened ?”
“My father,” she replied, “had the money,
all ready to pay the mostgage on the house
in which we live—but. - it is all gone now.”
“Has he lost it 7”
“I don’t know; I suppose so. Last week
he drew out the two thousand dollars from
the bank, and lent it, to Mr. Bryce for ,ten
“Who is Mr. Bryce ?”
-He is a broker. My father got acquain
ted with him through George Chandler,
who boards with us, and who is Mr. Bryce’s
clerk.”
“Does Mr. Bryce refuse to pay it?”
“He says he has paid it.”
“Well, what is the trouble then?”
“Father-says he has not paid it.”
“Indeed ! but the note will be evidence
that he has not paid it. Os course you have
the note ?”
“No, Mr. Bryce has it.”
“Then of course he has paid it.”
“I suppose he has, or he could not. have
j had the note.”
“What does vour father sav?”
“He is positive he never received the
money. The mortgage must be paid to
morrow.”
“Very singular. Was your father—”
I hesitated to use that unpleasant word
which must have grated harshly on the ear
of the devoted girl.
“Mr. Bryce says my lather was not just
right when lie paid him, though not very
bad.”
•■I will see your father.”
‘He is coming here in a few minutes; I
thought I would see you and tell you the
tacts before he came.”
*T do not see how Bryce could have ob
< t a inert the note, unless he paid the money.
| Where did your father keep it ?” -
j “He gave it to me, and 1 put it in the se
j cretary in the front room.”
| “Who were in the room when you put it
j in the secretary.”
i “Mr. Bryce, George Chandler, my father
; and myself.”
i The conversation was here interrupted
ibv the entrance of Wallace. He looked
; pale and haggard, as much from the effects
j of anxiety ns from the debauch from winch
! he was just recovering.
“She has told you about it,l suppose?” lie
! said in a very sad tone.
“She has.” . 1
I piled him, poor fellow, for the two thou
sand dollars was a large sum for him to ac <
cumulate in liis little business. The !qss of
il would make the future look like a d.esert
to him. It would be a misfortune which
one must undergo in order to appreciate it.
“What do you think about it?” asked he,
very gloomily. “I know he never paid me.
I was not much in liquor at that time. I re
member very well of going home as regular
<l3 1 ever did in my life, I couid tell lioyv I
passed every moment of the time.
“What passed between you on that day?”
••Well, 1 merely stepped into his office,—
it was only day before yesterday—to tell
him not to forget to have my money ready
for me to-morrow. He took me into his
hack office, and as I sat thei'e he said he
would have the money ready the next day.
Hejthen left me and went into the front of
fice, where I heard him send George but to
the bank to draw a check for ‘two thousand
dollars; so 1 supposed he was going to pay
toe then.”
“What, does the clerk say about it?”
“lie says Bryce remarked when he sent
him. that he was just going to pay me with
the money.”
••Just so.”
“And when George came iii, he went to,
the front office again, and took the money.
Then he came to me again, hut did not offer
to pay me.*
“Had you the note with you ?”
“No; “now 1 remember, he said he sup
posed I had not the note with me, or he
would pay it. He told me to come in next
day and be Would have it ready—that was
yesterday. When I came to look for the
PESlmi). GA„ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1856.
j-irete, it -could not be fpupd. , Aimio and I
j have hunted tne house all over, ‘but could
■ find nothing of it.”
j “You told Bryce so V*
i “I did? he laughed arid showed met be
i note with his “sign at ure crossed’ over with
: ink, and a hole punched through-it.”
| “It is plain, Mr. Wallace, that lie paid
j you the money as he alleges, or he Syrs ob
| tained fraudulent possession ofthe note, and
j intends to cheat you out ofthe amount.”
| “He never paid me.” replied he firmly..
“Then he has fraudulent!;/ obtained the
note. What sort of a person is the Chand
ler who boards with you?”
“A line young man. Blcs- you 1 he
wouldn’t do anything of that kind.”
“I am sure he wouldn’t!” repeated Annie
..earnestly*”
“How else could Bryce obtain the note,
but through him. What time does he come
in of nights?’-’
“Al ways at tea time. He never goes oast
in the evening,” answered Wallace.
“But father he did not come home until
ten o’ciock the night before you went to
Bryce’s. He had to stay at homer to post
the books, or something nl that kind ”-
“How did he get in ?”
“He has a night key.”
“I must see Chandler,” I said.
“No harm in ‘ seeing him,” added Air.
Wallace, “I will go for him.”
In a few minutes he returned with the
young man. Chandler, in the conversation
I had with him, manifested a very lively in
terest in the solution of the mystery and
proffered himself ready to do anything to
forward my views.
“What time did you return to the house
on Tuesday night?” I asked with the inten
tion of “sounding” him a little. *
“About twelve.”
“Twelve?” laid Annie. “I was not more
than ten. I heard you.”
“The clock struck twelve as 1 turned the
corner of the street!”. replied Chandler pos
itively.
“I certainly heard someone in the front
room at ten,” added Annie, looking with as
tonishment at the group around her.
“We are getting at something,” I remark
ed. ““How did you get in, Mr. Chandler.”
The young man smiled as he glanced at
Annie.
“On arriving at. the door,” he replied, “I
found I had lost my night-kev. At that
moment a watchman happening along, I
told him my situation. He knew me, and
taking a ladder from an unfinished house
opposite, placed it against one of the second
story windows, and I enteied in that way.”
“Good ! now who was it that was heard
in the parlor at ten, unless it was Bryce or
one of his accomplices. He must have ta
ken the key from your pocket, Air. Chan
dler, and stole the note from the secretary.
At any rate I will charge him with the
crime—let what may happen. Perhaps he
will confess when he finds himself hard
pushed.”
Acting upon this thought, I wrote a law
yer’s letter —‘demand against you/ &c. —
which was immediately sent to Bryco.—
Cautioning the parties not to speak of the
affair, I dismissed them.
Bryce came.
“Well, sir, what have you against me? ’
he asked, Hither gruffly.
“A claim on the part, of John Wallace for
two thousand dollars,” I replied, pokmg
over Biv papers, and appearing indifferent.
“Paid it,” Said tie, short as pie-crust.
“Have yqu ?-’ and I looked him in the eye
sharply.
The rascal quailed, I saw that he was a
villain.
“1 have.”
“Nevertheless, if, within one hour, you do {
not pay me the two thousand dollars, and
one hundred dollars for the trouble and anx- j
iety you have caused my client, at the end j
of the next jiour, ycu-.&ha’ll be lodged in jail
to answer to a criminal charge !”
“What do you mean, sir ?”
“J mean what I say. Bay, or take tne
consequences.”
It. was a bold charge, and if he had look
ed like an honest man I should not have
dared to make it.
“I have paid the note, 1 tell you,’ sa;a he.
“I have, it.in my possession.”
“Where did you get it?”
“ Why, of course, when 1 paid It— •
“When you feloniously entered the house
of John Wallace, on the night ot Tuesday.
February 20, at ten of the clock, and took
the said note from the secretary,
“You have no proof, stammered ne,
grasping a chair for support.
“That is my lookout, I have no time to
waste, will you pay, or go to jail?
He saw that the evidence 1 had was too
strong for his his denial, and he immediate
ly drew his check on the spot for twenty
one hundred dollars —laster begging me not
to mention the affair, he sneaked.ofi.
I cashed the check, and hastened to YV al
lace’s house. she reader may judge vvith
what satisfaction he received it, and titfw
rejoiced was Annie and her lover. Wal
lace insisted that.l should take the bundled
dollars for my services; but 1 was magnan
imous enough to take only twenty. Wal
lace kept, his promise, and ever after yvas q
temperate man. He died a few years ago,
leaving a handsome property to Chandler
and hia. wife, the marriage between-him and
i Annie having taken place shortly after the
s above circumstance occurred.
Satan a Fisherman.
I -was some! imp .ffnee walking upon the
wharf vrberb'a fishing lioat lay-, and as I
wap passing and re passing, the master was
uttering tremendous oaths. At length I
.tin rii:: 1 U him arid standing beside his boat,
said :
‘cut lam mi acquainted with y<>m bud*
nes . What kind.of fish giro t'heso V
‘They are codfish/ replied he.
‘How long are you usually out, in order
to rnttain your load.?’
‘Two.or three weeks/ he answered.
‘At what price do.you*sell them V
He informed me.
/W|h have yon had bal’d work to obtain
i living in this way V .
x es, harp work*, said he.
•With what do yon bait these fish V
‘With viafnsd
‘Did you ever catch mackerel V
‘Yes.’
‘Weil, now did you ever catch a fish
without hair V
1 ‘Yes/ said be, ‘I was. out last, year, and
one day when I was a fi.xi.nj my line the
bare hook fell into the Water, and the fool
took hold of it, and 1 drew him- in/’
‘Now, sir/ said I, ‘I have often thought
that Satan was very much like a fisher
mar.. He always baits his hook with that
kind of bait which different sorts of, sin
ners like best, but when he would catch a
profane swearer, he does not take the trou
ble to put on bait at all, for the fool will
always bite at the bare ho >k.’
He was siient. His countenance was
solemn, and after a pause, as I turned to
go away, 1 heard him say to one standing
■by him
‘l guess that’s a minister.’ — People'# Or
gan.
Drifting.
It was only the other day that a man tell
asleep in his buat on the Niagara River.
During his slumber the boat broke loose
from her moorings, and he woke to find
himself shooting down the rapids directly
towards the cataract. In vain he shriek
ed for help, in vain lie tried to row against
the current, he drifted on, and on, and on,
till his light craft upset, when he was car
ried rapidly to the brink of the abyss, and
leaping up, with a wild cry, went over and
disappeared forever.
In the great battle of Gibaraltar, when
the united fleets of France and Spain at
tacked this impregnable fortress, one of
the gigantic floating batteries broke from
her ackoragc and began to drift directly in
to the hottest of the British fire. The thou
sand men, who formed the. crew of the un
wieldy mass, vainly strove to arrest, its.
progress or divert it from its path. Every
minute it drifted nearer- to the English
guns, every minute some new part took fire
from the red-hot shot, every minute anoth
er score of its hapless defenders were swe pt
like chaff from its decks. The most super
human efforts failed to prevent its drifting
with its human freight, to inevitable death.
-4,skip was wrecked at sea. The passen
gers and crew took refuge on a raft, the
boats having been stove in the attempt to
launch them. For days and weeks these
unfortunates drifted without oar or sail,
on the hot, brazen, tropical ocean. At last
their,provisions failed, and then their wa
ter ; still they drifted about vainly looking
for a sail, or hoping for a sight of land.—
The time had now come when that fearful
alternative becameinevitable—death from
starvation or feeding un human flesh—and
they were just beginning to cast lots for a
victim when a. vessel was seen far away on
the distant korizoii. They abandoned their
terrible design j the stranger would ap
proach. The shi p came to wards them. —
She drew nearer and nearer. They strove
to attract her attention by shouts and by
raising their clothing; but the indolent
look-out saw them not. They shouted loud
er; still they were not aeon. A: last, the
vessel tacked. With frantic terror they
arose in one body, shouting and waving
their garments. It was in vain. The un
conscious ship stool steadily away. Night
drew on, and as the darkness fell, the raft
drifted and drifted in the other direction,
till the last trace of the vessel was lost for
ever.
So it is with life. The int mperateman,
who thinks he at least, will never die a
drunkard, .whatever his neighbor may do,
only wakes to find himself drifting down
the cataract, and all hope gone. The sen
sualist who lives merely for his own grati
fication, drifts into an emasculated old age,
to be tortured with passion he cannot grat
ify, and perish by merciless, agonizing dis
eases. The undisciplined, who never learn
to control themselves, who are spendthrifts
or passionate, or indolent, or visionary,
soon make’ shipwreck of themselves, and
drift about the sea of life, the prey of eve
ry wind and current, vainly shrieking for
help, till at last they drift away into dark
ness and death.
Take care that you are not drifting. See
that you iiave fast hold, of the helm. The
breakers otlifo forever roar under the lee,
and adverse gales continually blow on tho
shore. Are you watching how she heada?
Du you keep a firm grip of the wheel? If
you give way for but one moment, you may
drift helplessly into the boiling vortex.—
Young man, take care ! It rests with your
self alone, under God, whether you reach
pprt triumphantly, or drift to ruin.—Bal
timore, Sun.
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Profit of Recent Authorship in England,
ibe lute Mr. Tcgg, the publisher in
Obeapside, gave the following list of re mu-,
nerative payments to distinguished authors
in this, time—and he is believed to have
taken considerable pains to verify these
items :
Fragments of History, by Charles Fox,
•ybd by Lord Holland, for $26,500. Frag
ments of History v by Sir James Mackin
tosh, $2,500. Liogard’s Histoi y of Eng
land, $28,415. Sir Walter Scott’s Bona
parte was sold with the printed bucks, for
$90,000; the net. proceeds of receipts oi
copyright on thu first two editions only,
must have been $50,000 Life Os Wilber
force, by bis sons, $20,250. Life of By
r on v by Moore, $20,000. Lite of She rid an,
by Moore, SIO,OOO. Life of Cooper, by
Son they, $5,000. Life and times of George
IV., by Lady C. Bury, $5,000. Byron’s
Works, SIOO,OOO. Lord ot the Isles, half
share, $7,500. Lulls, Rookh, by Moore,
$15,000. Rejected Addresses, by Smiih
$5,000. Crabbe’s Works, republication ol
by Mr. M.-xou, $5,250. Bnlwer’s Riehzi,
SB,OOO. Marryatt’s Novels, $2,500, to $7.
000 each. Trollope’s Factory Boy, SB,OOO.
Hannali Moore derived $15,000 per annum
for her copyrights, during the latter years
of her life. RundelPs Domestic Cookery,
SIO,OOO. Nicholas Nickelby, $15,000. —
Eustace’s Classical Tour, $10,500. Sir R.
Inglis obtained for the beautiful and inter
esting memoir of Bishop Tie her, by the
sale of his journal $25,900.
A Story of Watsrloo,
The world has been listening for years to
stories of Waterloo, the scene of the last
great action of Napoleon; but it would seem
like a certain other commodity long since
familiar to our readers, “that there is a few
more of the same sort left.”
An individual who owned a small tavern
near the eventful field, was frequently ques
tioned as to whether he did not possess some
relics of the battle, and as invariably and
honestly answered in the negative. But he
was very poor, and one day while lament
ing to a neighbor not only his poverty, but
the annoyance to which travelers subjected
him, his friend cut him short with,
“We’ll make one help the other. Make
some relics!”
“But what can I do !” inquired the poor
man.
“Tell them that Napoleon or Wellington
entered your shop during the battle, and sat
down on that chair.”
Not long after, an English tourist enter
ed, and inquiring for relics, was told the
chair story. The chair was bought at an
incredible price. The next comer was in
formed that Wellington had taken a drink,
and the “Wellington tumbler” was accord
ingly sold. The third ‘‘arrival” gazed with
breathless wonder at the nail on which Bo
naparte “had hung up his hat.” The fourth
purchased the door posts between which he
entered ; and the fifth became the happy
purchaser of the floor on which he had trod
den.
At the last advices the fortunate tavern
keeper had not a roof to cover his head, and
was sitting on a bag of gold in the centre of
a deep pit, formed by selling the dirt on
which the house had stood.
An Eastern Legend.
There is in A Afghanistan, a country a
bounding in legends, one to this effect;
that Satan entered into a compact with the
people, to teach them to cultivate the earth
and bring forth its fruits, the produce to
be divided between them. Tho proposi
tion being acceded to, the soil was prepar
ed by the labor of the people. Satan toon
produced the seed, which in-due course of
time came up carrots, turnips, and other
vegetables, the value of which Lies beneath
the ground. When the time of division
arrived, the ignorant people took that
which was above the surface. Discover
ing their mistake, they complain loudly.
Satan heard their lumen tinge with cairn
composure, and then to soothe them, bland- j
ly promised that it should be different next j
year. The people were to take all the pro
duce beneath the soil, and as Satan had
this time sown wheat, barley, and such
like grains, he obtained all the profit, and
they were Tricked again, having nothing
for their share but useless roots.
This legend has a moral. Satan never
sows any seed in the human heart that
brings forth any fruit by tho growth ol
which any but himself is tho gainer.
Origin of G-old.
In Australia Mr. Mooney has been deliv
ering a lecture on the origin of gold, con
cerning which he propounded the following
novel theory: He set out by declaring his
belief that gold is the petrified remains of
matter which was once animate; and ac
companied as it generally is by ocean peb
bles, quartz, crystal, and other saline and
marine debris, he was of opinion that gold
is the petrified fat or marrow of a peculiar
fish which once floated over ihe gold fields
when those fields were beds and bottoms of
the world’s great ocean. In proof of the
hypothesis that gold is nothing more than
the “petrified” fat of a peculiar fish, the lec
turer showed specimens of quartz in which
marine shells were embedded. Mr. Moon
ey also alluded to the fact that iron exists in
the human blood, and argued from that po
sition that gold might be educed from the
marrow of fishes.
TERMS: &1.00 IN ADVANCE.
JAMES T. BLAflf,
PBisnia.
VOL XIII.-KUMBiR 41.
South Arasriean shakes.
In this part of the Orinoco we repeatedly
saw water-snakes swimming from one isP
and to anotner; and in some instances they
passed over the bouts, to the great alarm of
tne passengers, but without attempting to
do any mischief. They are ol a light gfeen
color, six cr eight teet long, and swim with
about a third ol their body out of the water
—propelling themselves rnpidlv along by
the undulating motion of their tail. We
were informed by the boatmen th.it the r
prey consisted principally of water-rats and
young birds. The steersmen of the L.unch
e-i-always endeavor to avoid sailing under
the trees that overhang the river, lei-.t the
masts might detach some of the.snakes from
the branches. We frequently saw numbers
of them, exhibiting the brilliant cofora
vvbde basking in the sun bn the h ee. An Eu
ropean.tr&veler, who visited these parts in
1838, lay down to sleep,upon the banks of
the Orinoco, and was presently awakened
by cries of alarm and horror. What was
his dismay when he found himself encircled
in the folds of innumerable snakes! Tho
native boatmen, whose crie3 had aroused
him proceeded to deliver him from the hid
eous coils in which he was enmeshed; but
the traveler never completely recovered
from the shock which he had received
His nerves were completely unstrung, and
he died delirious, about four years alter*
wards, at Porto Rico.
?. P. ?, ?,
Frinting Presses* Pulpits and Petticoats.
These are the great levers that govern
the world. Without them the bottom would
fall out, and society would become a chaos
again. The press makes people patriotic,
the pulpit religious, but women sway all
things. There would oe no going to church
if there were no girls there; neither would
there he any going to war. Were the sold.ers
to meet with no applause but from the mas
culines. Without the sunshine shed bv
women, the rose of affection would never
grow nor the flowers of eloquence germi
nate. In short, she is the engine of life, the
great motive power to love, valor, and civ
ilization. In proof of this truth all history
speaks trumpet tongued.
A Rich Joke.
A California paper tells the following of
Lieutenant Derby, “John Phoenix,” the hu
morist :
One evening, at the theatre, Phcenix ob
served a man sitting three seats in front,
whom he thought he knew; he requested
the person sitting next to,him to “punch the
other individual with his cane.” The polite
stranger did so, and the disturbed person
turning his head a little he discovered ins
mistake—that he was not the person he
took him for. Fixing his attention stead
fastly on the piny and affecting unconsci
ousness of the whole affair, he left the man
with the cane to settle with the other for
the disturbance, who being wholly without
an excuse, there was of course, a ludicrous
and embarrassing scene—during all of
which Phosnix was profoundly interested in
the play. At last the man with the cane
asked, rather indignantly, “ Didn’t you tell
me to punch that person with my stick ?”
“Yes!”
“And what did you want?”
“I wanted to see whether you would
punch his or not !”
Joko,
Tom Ivlrkman used 10 tell of a friend of
his dropping in about dinner time on an old
lady who invited him to draw up to the ta
ble. There was a huge pile of the pot or
der for dinner. The old lady helped him
bountifully, and he being hungry, was do
ing justice to it. “Stranger,” said the old
lady, “you will find almost every sort of
meat in this p : e.” “Yes, madam,” said he,
“and fish too,” as lie drew from between his
lips what he imagined was the back bone
or a red horse or sucker. “Lord have mer
cy,” exclaimed the old wornau. “if there
ain’t our fine-tooth comb that Billy los. two
weeks ago.”
The young folks of Ashland, Ohio,
are ‘“"airing with their wishes” in a rather
humorous v ay. The Times says :
“A society has been formed among tho
young ladies of Ashland, having the com
mendable object in view of inducing the
young men to abstain from ail intoxicating
drink8 —even ale, Vser, wine or cider. A
provision of the society debarring young
ladies from associating with those who re
fuse to sign the pledge, having become
public, some of the young gents refused to
sign, protesting against such action, and
formed another society, which requires of
the young ladies, to, make them eligible to
“good society,” to abandon hoops, paint,
and Alabama silkF TVe bavq not heard
whether the two parties design nominating
candidates for the Presidency.’ 7
The girls are right—stick to the pledge.
The young men unreasonable. —
What would Some of the ladies he without
hoops and paints'? There would not be
enough of them for the “fobereTto court.
By the way, what is Alabama silk?”
Sandtisky Register. -
“Young’un, 5 ’ don ? t yon know'{ “Ala
bama silk” grows on a Cotton plant; it
was used at New Orleans by Gen. Jackson
for breastworks.— Clevelander .