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THE TEMPERAffCE_CRUSADj^
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For the Oruaader.
Mr. Editor lam bent on replying to ona
of your correspondents, about the justification of
dealing in liquors. His article is under the sig
nature of B. Q. X. to which I expect to direct the
most of my unmeaning expressions.
It seems that he keeps a Bible in his grocery
for the purpose of reading it at his leisure hours.
And he has found a place in it, where it wy,
“Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew.” 1W
no doubt was very strong language to him, so
much so, that he did’nt (I suppose) even finish
the verse. Eroneously thinking that the Bible
tolerated liis cause. If he had even finished the
verse, he would have certainly smelt a mouse in it.
“And fall, and rise no more.” If he could follow
the command in part: that is, if he could “Drink
aud spew,” he ought to fall and rise no more.—
Hence his inconsistency. I have no doubt that
he was very intent in searching the Scriptures to
try to find something that might favor him in
cause.
And it is no wonder that he found it, in his own
estimation, with a mind as much leaned as his
was—as I will subsequently endeavor to show.—
If the text already quoted, presents a single fea
ture towards justifying him for drinking spirits,
I would advise him for the future to leave his gro
cery, (I suppose he was in his grocery, when he
read “Drink ye and be drunken”) when he might
have an occasion to read any article whatever, so
that he could get its true purport. He might
•with his mind in such a critical condition, mistake
an order, for a gallon of whisky to be a note of
hand, with his own signature annexed.
Is it not reasonable to suppose, that a man who
would take the preceding Scripture to mean, that
we were oblidged to get drunk and spew, before
we could get to Heaven would take an order
for a gallon of whisky, to be a note against him
for any amount that his conception might conceive
of ?
[communicated.]
Mr. Editor :—At a meeting of the “Putnam
Rifles,” held in Eatonton, on the 17 th inst., a com
mittee, consisting of Lieut. Griggs, Sergt. Davis,
Corp. Marshal and Frivate Mcßee, were appointed
to prepare and report resolutions, appropriate to
the occasion of our recent visit to Greenesboro’
—which committee reported as follows:
Resolved , That we highly appreciate the gen
erous hospitality, with which the citizens of
Greenesboro’ received and entertained us during
our recent visit to their city—that their kindness
to us as a company, and as individuals, will long
be remembered by us with grateful pleasure
Resolved , That our thanks are especially due to
those gentlemen, whose personal attention to our
wants, and our comfort in camp, contributed to
make our sojourn among them so pleasant
Resolved , That the parting tokens of kindness
which we recevied, was not the least agreeable of
the many agreeable incidents of our visit.
Resolved, That thoso kind and generous ladies
whose graceful and delicate attentions, and tokens
of kindness, contributed so much to the pleasure
and comfort of the camp, deserve our warmest
gratitude, and kindliest remembrance—that their
names will be cherished by us, as associated with
the most pleasing of our camp experience.
Extracts from an Address.
To the People of York District. S. Ch on the ob
jects <kc., of the Sons of Temperance-
Fellow Citizens ; —We address you by in
struction and authority of the York Division of the
Sons of temperance. The objects of the society,
and the duty of the Christian, the moral man, the
good citizen and lover of bis country in reference
thereto, will constitute our topics. The objects
of the organization are readily expressed in a few
general propositions. They are, to encourage
each other in total abstinence from intoxicating
drinks—to reclaim the drunkard—to suppress
by counsel and example all drunkenness in the
land—to work for the eradication of all those in
ducements, by which intemperance is sustained
and promoted, and thus by necessary consequence
promote the best interests of our people, and ad
vance the welfare of our State.
The first consideration is—is the use of alco
holic drinks an evil in our land t Who will stand
up and affirm that it is not—is not a mighty evil,
the greatest of all the social evils, which pollute
our homes, and defile our country ? Go where you
may—wander where you will—whether to the
ballot-box, in the discharge of your duty as a citi
zen of this free republic—or to the field of military
parade—-or to the indispensable sale of the effects
of a neighbor, whose place on earth shall know
him no more—or to any point of business or of
pleasure —or even to the sanctuary of God, what
fear broods over your mind—what evil looms up
before, your imagination, except the demoniao ra
vings and consequence of the guzzlers of whiskey
and distilled spirits ? Intemperance is that feared
evil—the only usually realized. Clear of the
blighting curse, our country would be a compar
ative Eden. Fathers and mothers could better
hope for their sons, and rest in calmer seenrity.—
The patriot could look forward with greater confi
dence to a bright career for his cherished State ;
and the Christian would exhult in the enlivening
prospect of a glorious ingathering of the ransom
ed of the Lord. It is intemperance mainly, which
crowds your Sessions’ dockets-—fills your prisons
—supplies your gallows—cuts the throats of your
citizens —blights the happiness of the domestic fire
side—breaks the hearts of wives and children and
friends —beggars families— sows discord among
neighbors—induces beastliness—conduces to al
most every other vice—impede! the progress of
allg moral reforms-%ipples the labors of the
sanctuary, and robe church, State and society of
what should be man's glory, duty and destiny.—
It is an open, glaring, wide-spread, and frightful
evil. If there be a single individual witi in the
confines of our district, whose understanding is so
perverted, and whose conscience is in such a con
dition of obliquity as to doubt the evil of intemper
ance, we tell him, this address it not designed for
him. Such a man has our sympathy, but not that
consociation even implied by a public address.
Admitted then to be an evil, an evil of deplora
ble magnitude, should not drunkenness be oppos
ed, suppressed and rooted out of the land ? Con
science—your conscience, reader, returns no un
certain answer. Furnished by your Creator with
this inward monitor—this “candle of the Lord,”
you reply to the question with a full affirmative.
No honest man can claim ths privilege, to com
promise with evil. To seek and affect the ac
complishment of this noble work, whose is the du
ty f It is yours as Well as ours. Who permits
you to repose at Moroz ! Not He, which has pro
nounced a bitter curse against those who “came
not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the
Lord against the mighty.” How and by what
means is the evil to be opposed —abolished ? How
else than “with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind"—by your counsel
influence, example and substance —“yea* with
what clearing of ourselves, yea, what indignation,
yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea,
what teal, yea, what revenge 1” and with what
readiness and esal of Phinebas, by which the
plague of Israel was stayed. To do less is to trifle
with known duty. He, who knows his Master’s
will, and neglects it, cannot escape with impunity.
The detail of the means is not yet exhausted.
Man is a social being. He has to do with his
fellow-man. The evil is abroad In society. The
question here arises, can the greatest good be ac
complished by individual action, or by combined
effort and organization ? Without the possibility
of a doubt, reason itself cannot err from the cor
rect conclusion. Why do good men organize Bible
societies, Missionary societies, Tract societies, and
hundreds of other benevolent societies ?—why do
individuals form associations or organizations in
every department and concernment of life ? It
is simply because of the superior efficiency of or
ganization. The experience of mankind speaks
trumpet tongued on this subject. But to close
cavil, the Spirit of divine truth has affixed his
seal, that organization is the preferable mode, and
is our reasonable duty. If not why did Christ re
quire organization of His Church f He never re
quires a vain thing. The conclusion then is in
evitable, that, to suppress intemperance, organiza
tion is more efficient—more in accordance with
duty than individual effort ; and it becomes your
and our duty, whether as Christians, or as good
citizens, to resort to it. To do less is again to tri
fle with duty.
But to what organization does our duty point ?
Truth and conscience answer: to that which is
most efficient without trangressing duty. This
most efficient organization we are bold in avow
ing is the one among us, known as the Sons of
Temperance. Reader, name the better and more
efficient organization, if you can, other than that
which we have named. Are you a member of
that other? Furnish us with it, and we will dis
ch rge our duty in seeking membership with it and
you. The evil is upon us, cutting down its thou
sands—our sands of life are fast wearing away,
and our accounts hastening to a close. Shall you
and we Btand here all the day idle, or, almost as
culpable, shall we play the part which
ed at Washington in 1814, when the
rapidly advancing to pillage and destroy the city ;
instead of thowing out the flints by the bagfull,
■hall we proceed to count them out one by one,
and fearing some mistake, insist on counting them
over again ? The city was lost of course ; and our
cause will be lost by adhering to a like policy.
It is written : “Whosoever shall confess me be
fore men, him shall the Son of Man also confess
before the angels of God.” Some of us have
heard from the pulpit, that this confession is two
fold : to wit, visible connexion, and practice in the
life. The man, who professes to be a Christian is
expected to seek and exhibit this visible connexion
and not merely to practice in his closet the obli
gations of duty. Why should not this principle
apply to the professors of temperance ? In our
view it has direct application. If you regard the
language of Isaiah as truth : “Wo unto them
that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength
to mingle strong drink ; which justify the wicked
for reward, and take away the righteousnes of the
righteous from him”—if it be your duty to abol
isn, by all the means in your power, the use and
evil of strong drink—if you claim the distinction
and title of friend of temperance, how do you ex
cuse and exhonerate yourself from this visible con
nexion—this principle of confession ? “I know thy
works, said the faithful and true witness to the
church of the Laodiceans, that thou art neither
cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.—
So then because thou art luke warm, and neither
cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.”
Obedience to the injunction of Paul is your duty :
“Quit you like men, be strong.”
*******
We dare to maintain boldly, that the orgoniza
tion of the Sons is built upon principles recognized
by the apqctles and prophets, (not covering, by
any pretensions, the whole foundation) —that its
cause,ln great and leading objects, is the cause of
God—and that it recognizes no sinful principle or
practice, and transgresses no precept or injunction
of the Divine Law. However, let us for a while
come and reason together. It is a plain aod un
deniable proposition, that the Society is either
laudable and ought to he supported, or sinful and
should be opposed. If it contains the evil which
debars you as a professing Christian from entrance
we tell you, that as a faithsu) follower of Christ,
you are bound to oppose the Society openly and
fearlessly. It becomes your duty to sound the
trumpet of alarm—to assemble the people, and
proclaim Us sinfulness from the house tops. By
whom will you or your orator be sustained ? Os
every conceivable shade of character in this com
munity, from the most devout to the most de
based and vile, on what shade can you calculate
for support with the perfect faith and assurance ?
Dare you answer to your God f Prompt to the
call, they came. What an assemblage f The sight
would turn a good man pale. To escape from
the slabbering embraces ofhia drunken allies, the
orator mounts the rostrum. ( My noble and most
worthy peers: my order-loving and virtue-sustain
ing companions; my estimable associates in the
cause of morality and of happy firesides No
good man ought to have any thing to do with
that atrocious set, the Sons of Temperance,’ pro
claims the orator. ‘Hoo-raw, go it, my hearty—
true as preaching} re-echoes the motley crew.
As all earthly scenes must have an end, this one
too would end| somehow. Can any man deny,
that the chief support in opposition to the Sons,
for such an occasion, would have to be congrega
ted from the guzzlers of whiskey and their inter
ested supporters ? This should be a startling fact.
The swifter* of whiskey sink, as the society rises
—the swUlers rise, aa that neglected, contemned
betrayed Society sinks. This is an awful fact. Let
the good man *ponder the path of bis feet,’ and
pause in his opposition. Is it possible that prin
ciple ean confound the Christian, the moral man
•adjdeoant citisen, with such a dan ! ©e not a
mong wine-bibbers’ is a divine command. How
oooei it that the objector is among them ! Yoorj
sentiments and actions somehow place you there.
Acconnt for the fact, if you can, why you and
they should so peculiarly coalesce in sentiment
and conduct on this particular subject, and agree
most probably on not a single other moral ques
tion within the whole range of ethical philosophy.
Mistrust the principle and reasoning, which leads
you to such aid, counsel, and fellowship. Can
you doubt in other cases, when you behold God
and Mammon cheeck by bowl ? ‘What fellow
ship hath righteousness with unrighteousness ?
What concord hath Christ with Belial ?’ Are you
not persuaded, ye cannot drink the cup of the
Lord, and the cup of devils,’ The cup of opposi
tion is, by nature by principle, by taste, and by
interest peculiarly theirs. Whether from your
opposition you are to be regarded as drinking the
dregs of that cup with them, is for you to decide.
€j \t Cempraitce fainter.
PENFIEIJD, GEORGIA.
Thursday Morning, November 5, 1857.
Hanoook Fair.
We invite attention to the Premi
um list of the Planters’ club of Hancock, which we
publish iu this issue.
The Soaroity of Provisions.
The people of this
section of country have not in many years if ever,
experienced such destitution of the actual necessaries
of life, There is an almost universal cry for bacon,
lard, butter, and eggs.
MaJ. R. L. McWhorter,
our Representative e
lect left for Milledgeville on Monday morning ; the
Legislature convenes on Wednesday the 4th inst.—
The Major will make a good member in our State
council, —we have no hesitancy whatever in saying
that his chair will be decidedly well filled.
The Putnam Rifles.
Send us a set of Resolutions
which are published in this issue, expressing great
pleasure experienced by them during their recent
visit to GreenesboroWe can assure them at all
times of the uniform hospitality of the citizens of
that little city, for it possesses many noble fellows
whose bosoms are overflowing with the “milk o’
human kindness,” and no doubt they would be
pleased to welcome the Putnam Rifles among them
once again,—and whenever they do visit Greenesbo
ro’ in future we request them to send a messenger
ahead to procla m their coming that we, over the
creek, may hear of it.
Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal. —We
have receive the Oct., No. of this Periodical Pub
lished in Atlanta and Edited by Drs. J. F. Logan
and W. F. Westmoreland; it i3 a very neatly gotten
up journal, and is edited with ability. This No.
contains the Valedictory address of Dr. Thomas S.
Powell of Sparta, to the Graduating class. We
read his address with great pleasure because we
know tbe head and heart which gave birth to it, and
we think it reflected great credit upon both.
Bp There is no salvation for our land from the des
olations of the grog-shop, till good and patriotic men
take the ground that it is a low and filthy pest
house, and in the name of the Constitution, as well
as that of humanity, of justice, of decency, demand
the outlawry of the traffic Then we may have a
Sabbath for the city as well as for the country. —
Then peace will take the place of discord—church
es be thronged instead of the synagogues of Satan
—the children be gathered into Sabbath schools in
stead of being left to roam the streets and shock
the sober-minded with exhibitions of precocious de
pravity—ana society, throughout all its ramifications
will wear anew aspect in its deliverance from a
source that smites more sorely than pestilence or
famine.
A great work is a noble thing. And we know
few greater works in the present day than the tem
perance reformation. What is the object of that
work? It is to put down a great iniquity in the
midst of us. It is to abolish customs and practices
replete with deepest injury to thousands of our race.
It is to disenthral the poor drunkard, to deliver him
from a premature death, and, by divine grace, from
the woes of hell. It is to rescue the moderate
drinker ere he fall into the deep gulf of intemper
ance. It is to throw over the young a sh'eld of pro
tection against this destroying vice. It is to destroy
our country’s greatest soical evil, and to remove the
greatest obstacle in the way of the progress of the
Messiah’s kingdom in our land. Is not this a great
work?
Help the Weak.
We commend the following from the
Chicago Alliance , to the attention of our readers.
We owe something besides scorn, something more
than pity even, t"’ the drunkard. We may hate his
vice—we must often be repelled by his beastliness—
but he is our brother man, after all, and if through
any instrumentality he can be redeemed from his
bondage to appetite and restored to society, in the
name of sweet charity let it be done.
“It is often said among the liquor fraternity, that
if men will drink they ought to suffer the conse
quences ; but this is a most wicked conclusion. The
love for strong drink is the result of habit, which
it is difficult to control when it once gets the maste
ry. To aid men in resisting temptation and in
governing their appetites, there is no more efficient
instrumentality than temperance. Take from men
temptation ; close up the sources of supply; make it
impossible or difficult for drinking men to obtain
the means of self-destruction, and they are induced
to stop and think. When they once see themselves
as they are; inflamed, brutalized and enslaved by
the monster curse which seeks to crush them, they
wisely conclude, that deliverance and salvation for
them lies in the direction of avoiding the use of the
poison which destroys them.”
Imprisonment or American Citizens. —The Na
tional Intelligencer says:
“Information having been received at the State
Department of the oppressive incanartion of two
American citizens —a shipmaster and his mate, we
believe—by the authorities of the Haytien Republic,
the Department has made a requisition on the Navy
Department for a vessel of war to sail immediately to
Cape Haytien for the purpose of investigating the
circumstances. All the available vessels of the Na
vy being now employed in watching the filibusters
in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean sea, it will
probably be some little time before the requisition
can, at the earliest, be complied with. The charge
on which the two Americans were imprisoned is said
to be the false one of having knowingly passed a
two dollar counterfeit Heytien bill.
Appointments bt the President.— Joseph Ganahl,
Attorney of the United States for the district of
John M. Harrell, Attorney of the United States
for the eastern district of Arkansas.
The amount of specie in the United States is esti
mated at about $800,600,000 or equal sl2 in coin
for eivery inan, woman and child in the country.
..... -Good men are human suns ! They bright
en and warm whenever they pass. Fools count
them mad till death wrenches open foolish eyes.—
They are not often sung by poets when they die ;
but the hearts they heal and their own are their
rich reward on earth, and their place is high in
heaven.
Who does not love to contemplate, and dwell up
on the life the actions, and the sayings, of a good
man t In this age of moral darkness, and human
degeneracy, such a being may very appositely be
compared to a “human sun’’ shining upon the deg
radation and prostitution of “the rest of mankind”.
And though truly good men are scarce, and stand
like mile-posts along the pathway of life, it is cheer
ing to catch an occasiAal glimpse of such beacon
lights, for it swells our hearts with the proud thought
that all the divine impress is not yet obliterated
from the human family. A good man is the true
shekinah, a living reflex of the Great Divine Origi
nal.
“Angels are round him ever, to catch the Incense of his prayers
And they fly to minister kindness to those for whom he pleadeth.’
Tis mans highest glory to be good. The humblest pil
grim along lifes dusty highway, though he be denied
the fleating luxuries of affluence, and may not point
with shylock exultation to his ‘‘hoarded coffers,”yet if
he be good, he wears a crown more valuable than
all the gilded splendors and purple ornaments which
Ophirs mines of gold can purchase. And when the
Messiah comes to make up his jewels on earth, he
will select not the wealthy, because of his wealth,
not the wise, the virtuous, the immoral nor the ar
istocratic, but be will gather together only those
who are good. Lazarus was poor but he was good,
and when he died he was carried to Abrahams bo
som, Dives was rich, but not good, and when be
died he went to hell.
It is indeed pleasant to contemplate the charifeter
of a good man, and hear him speak, in a long and
holy life to the living. Think of a Howard, a Wil
berforce, a Jessie Mercer, aB. M. Sanders, a Charles
Malary, and a Vincent Sanford, a sub ime grandeur
encircles their mortal career which becomes more
glorious as they enter upon their “inheritance which
is incorruptible, undefiled, and which fadeth not
away, eternal in the heavens.” The pathway of
the good man is ever radiant and his influence nev
er dies, and
“gome there arc,
by their good deed3 exalted, lofty minds
And meditative authors of delight
And happiness, which to the end of time
Will live and spread and flourish.”
No earthly catastrophe can obscurate, the sun-like
brilliancy of his character, for like the dazzling orb
of light it will shine. Imprison Peter, and with an
angel fora harbinger star, he will swell his aurora
from the founfains of Jordan to the well of Beershe
ba. Imprison Paul find there wiil be high noon o
ver all the Roman Empire. Imprison John and the
isles of tbe Aegean and all the coast around will kin
dle with sunset visions, and a boundless panorama
of prophecy, too gorgeous for human powers of des
cription. Bury Martin Luther in the depths of
“Black Forest” and the “angel that dwelt in the
bush” will honor him there ; the trees will turn
like shafts of ruby, and his glowing orbs loom up a
gain round and clear as the light of all Europe. Thrust
Bunyan into the gloom of Bedfords Jail and as he
leans his head upon his hand the murky horizon
ofßritain will flame with fiery symbols—“delecta
ble mountains” and celestial mansions will glitter
in heavenly emblazonry beckoning man to the pearly
gates of paradise. Let us emulate the bright exam
ple ofthe good man and strive to make our career
and last end like his.
Our bachelor grotto invaded—Home made cheer
ful—Woman reigns absolute on the premises !! !
“His house she enters, there to be a light
Shining within when, all without is night,
A guardian angel o’er his life presiding,
Doubling his pleasure and his cares dividing.”
A change has come o’er the household. The
prosaic scenery of our lonely Bachelor cabin has
been suddenly transformed into a grandiloquent ro
manesque Parterre. The ennui, blues, long-fa
ces, and woe-be-gone countenances, have been routed
and are gone to seek other abodes. A cheerful voice
sweeter far, than the silvery notes of the Brazilian
Arawongo, with its matin lays and vesper hymns,
chases away the ghosts of solitude and thespectred
visitants of care, which were wont to intrude them
selves upon the death-like stillness of eur lonesome
apartments. 0, the thrilling magic of an amiable
woman’s voice ! It operates upon the soul of msn,
as did the lyre of David upon the dark spirit of Saul.
To have such a voice continually ringing in ones ear
discoursing snatches of sweet songs and whispering
words of affection, is enough to ‘lap the soul in ely
sium” and transport the heart to the empyrean
heights above and make it to lingerperpetually up
on things divine.
Yes, there is a change. A bachelor’s fixtures don
new fixtures when woman enters his hut. Everything
appears different. The cooking and food is more in
viting, it looks clean , and he has dessert for dinner
sometimes,-the rents in his pantaloons begin to heal
up- he has buttons on his linnen goods- his old socks
fast unravelling at both ends soon ( w)heel round, and
“toe the mark”-and when he returns from his labors
weary and heavy laden with cares and fatigue, there
is a sweet smile to meet him upon the threshold,
and an angel voice to whisper in his ear “Trouba
dour Troubadour welcome thee home.” Ike Mar
vel’s felicitous Bachelor Reveries are all miserable
stuff when we come to realize these blissful privile
ges. And 0, what a “joy forever” life will be it our
Desdemona never discovers the truth in cupids
whirligig , that
“Husbands
Are like to painted fruit, which promise much
But still deceive us, when we come to touch them.”
Numberless noble women are ready to exclaim
that the above couplet contains a vast deal “more
truth than poetry.” Yes indeed, many a one is
ready to cry out in the deepest anguish of bitter dis
appointment o’ it contains volumes of truth , for ere
the honeymoon had waned, the chilling knowledge
that they had wedded a devil incarnate , flashed up
on their troubled minds*
Marriage is an institution of heaven ; and where
heart meets heart at Hymens altar, and two souls
co-mingle in one pure essence, the wedded twain
revel in a glorious sublunary elysium and matrimo
ny is to them a
“Perpetual fountain of domestic sweets,”
But
“O marriage ! marriage 1 what a curse is thine,
Where hands alone consent, and hearts abhor.”
The Atlantic cable is about the size of a dime in
diameter. The outside is composed of eighteen
strands of small wire ; next is six strands of yarn ;
next three coats of gutta-percha;inside of all are seven
coppor wires for telegraphing. The aggregate length
of smaller wires required in the manufacture of one
mile of the cable is 126 mile. It weighs 1,800
pounds to the mile, is quite flexible and it was esti
mated to be strong enough to bear in water over six
miles of its own length if suspeuded vertically.
Tne whole capital of the company is $1,759,000,
and has been taken in shares of $5,000 each. The
proportions in which these shares have been taken
are IQI in London, 88 In America, 86 in Liverpool,
87 in Glasgow, 28 in Manchester, and the remainder
in other parts in England. ‘ ***
Betraying Confidence.
- There is no sin which
should so consummately damn a man in the
eyes of the world, as that of betraying personal con
fidence. It is sometim es pleasant to have a social
friend upon whom we may rely, and to whom we
may unburden our bosoms, and the secret thoughts
thus confidentially communicated should be kept as
sacred and holy treasures ; and he who would open
ly abuse the confidence thus entrusted to him is a
contemptible Delilah, a black-hearted Judas Iscarri
ot. Upon this subject the If etc York Chronicle con
tains the following.
One mode of despoiling character is that of elicit
ing from another a confession of his fault and thon
making it public. The law will not extort the se
crets intrusted to a man in virtue of his profession.
It is more just, more considerate, than those mean
persons who worm themselves into the confidence
of another on purpose to get something to tell to his
injury. These are Delilahs in the lap of societv, ex
torting secrets to multiply their victims. Thoy ap
proach you to say “how much they like you, how
natural you seem, how much you remind them of
a dear old friend, how free and easy they feel in
your company,” and thus, when they have elicited
your most secret thoughts and feelings, they run all
abroad, detailing them to your injury. This is the
most malignant of all the arts of slander, and is a
common remark, that no enemies are so embittered
as those that spring up between former friends. It
is extorting from one’s own lips a story to tell to his
injury. “Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with
their tongues thoy have used deceit; the poison of
asps is under their lips, whose mouth is full of curs
ing and bitterness.”
Noses.
The Quarterly Revieic gets oft'a long article
setting forth the nasal indices of intellectual devel
opments. It makes the shape of the nose an index
of the different formations of the mind, —transfers
all the phrenology of the cranium to the nasal pro
tuberance. We take considerable interest in this
subject, as we nose right smart (about it,) and here
transfer to our column s a short paragraph from the
article of the Review
Large noses in men are generally good signs ; es
pecially, they add emphasis to the good indication
of a well-formed head ; but they must not be too
fleshy or too lean. If they are long (yet short of
being stout-like, ) they mark as prolongations of the
forehead the intelligent, observant and productive
nature of the refined mind. If Roman, arched high
and strong, they are generally associted with a less
developed forehead and a large hind-head ; and they
disclose strength of will and energy, rather than in
tellectual power ; they show also the want of that
refinement which is indicated by the straighter
nose. The Jewish or hawk-nose commonly signi
fies shrewdness in worldly matters ; it adds force to
the meaning of the narrow concentrative forehead
symbolical of singleness of object; and its usual nar
row nostrils wear the unfailing sign of caution and
timidity. The Greek, straight nose, “indicates re
finement of character,” love for the fine arts and
belles lettres , astuteness, craft, and preference for in
direct rather than direct action. “Perpendicular
noses —that is such as approach this form,
suppose a mind capable of acting and suffering with
calmness and energy.”
Drunkenness and Education.
At a meeting of
the Church of England Education Society, held in
the city of Manchester, the Rev. Hugh Stowell spoke
of the antagonism of the drinking customs of his
country with its metal culture and moral advance
ment, in a manner that might well startle some of
the conservative influences of “the establishment.”
But such truths are ne ded to educate the English
mind up to the righteous requirements of prohibi
tion, and we hail their utterance, before such a body
as a cheering indication of progress in the right
quarter. They may be more needed there than here
but they are adapted to every locality that is curs
ed by the liquor traffic. Said he :
“However we inav extend our educational ma
chinery, l am satisfied we cm never keep pace with
the drinking machinery that is disgracing and de
grading this country. It is all nonsense to talk about
intellectual culture, and places of amusement, and
exhibitions, and tea gardens, and places of that kind
counteracting the drunken usages of this country.—
So long as this country has an immense class of in
dividuals who get their bread by manufacturing
drunkenness , and so long as an immense proportion
of the capital ofthis country is staked upon the in
creased drunkenness of the country, so long will it
be impossible to elevate the masses of this country.—
They may give them education, and churches, and
every moral and religious machinery, and may mul
tiply intellectual institutions, mechanics institutions
athenaeums, and lyceums, and cheap publications,
but there will still be a mighty mass of drunkenness
throughout the country, disgracing it before od
and man, filling prisons, lunatic asylums, work
houses, and ail receptacles of crime and misery.—
We must put a stop to beer-houses altogether, and
put restraints upon our dramshops and public hou
ses, such as other countries were doing. America
is leaving us far behind in this matter ; the daughter
si putting the mother far behind in the race.”
Canada is becoming sick of the free ne,ro popu
lation. Petitions are being forwarded to England
to send them off to some of the English tropical is
lands.
The Philadelphia Ledger states that within the
last three months, forty three tons of new cents have
been issued from the Mint The entire number coin
ed has been 8,600,000.
Out of the one hundred and thirteen commercial
failures in all sections of the Union, recorded by the
New York Independent of last week, but six accu
red south of Mason and Dixon’s line.
The new law of Mississippi against passing bank
bills of a less denomination than $5, will go into
operation on the Ist of November next. After that
day it will be an indictable offense to pass smaller
notes than $5 within the State of Mississippi.
The names of fifty-five thousand and ninety pen
tioners for revolutionary services have been placed
on the rolls since March, 1818 but on the 30th of
June last, only three hundred and forty-six of this
number were reported living.
Effects or tub Panic os Emigrants.— The pros
pect of hard times for the coming winter, has large
ly increased the number of passengers going to Eng
land. Every ship going from New York to Liver
pool, has, it is stated, all the passengers she can car
ry, and multitudes apply for opportunities to work
their way across the Atlantic. It is supposed that
as soon as the news of financial revulsion reaches
the other side, there will be a decided check to em
igration from the old world.
White Man Elected by Black MeN’s Votes.—
The Democratic papers produce statistics to show
that the Ohio Governor (Chase) owes his election to
the negro votes. The Cincinnati Enquirer , says:
“At Obevlin over one hundred such votes were
cast for Chase & Cos. In Ashtabula many such
votes were also cast as also in Trumbull, There have
been polled a sufficient number of negro votes
throughout the State to more than make up Chase’s
majority. His advocacy of the social and political
equality of the negro with the white race has been
of vital service to him. They have saved his bacon
for him this time sure.”
Perforated Bricks.—By repeated tests it has
been shown that perforated bricks have double the
strength of solid ones. A pier of the ordinary kind
was crushed in England with one hundred and fifty
tons weight, while three hundred and fifty tons were
required to crush the same pier built of the hollow
brick. The new kind is also drier and more favor
able to ventilation, consuming less, too, of a materi
al now less abundant than of old. All the model
lodging houses in London are built entirely of the
new article.
Fanny Fern receives $5,000 a year for her writ
ings for the New York Ledger.
SCISSORINQS.
— _ : — : :
A fellow caught stealing, excused himself’
on the ground that he did the act in a fit of ab
straction.
Sheridan having threatened his son Turn
to cut him off with a shilling, received this re
tort :—“Where will you get the shilling ?”
Grief knits two hearts in Moser bond*
than happiness ever can; and common sufferings
are far stronger links than common joys.
A man attempted to seize a favorable op
portunity, a few days since, but his hold slipped,
and he iell to the ground considerably injured.
“My notions about life,” says Southey,
“are much the same as they are about travell iug
—there is a good deal of amusemeut on the road;
but, after all, one wants to be at rest.”
A distinguished literary tourist was once
found in a paroxysm of tears over the supposed
tomb of Washington, at Mount Vernon; but it
turned out to be only the ice-house.
A gentleman hearing a lady praise the
eyes of a certain prominent clergyman, wrote the
following:—
I cannot praise the doctor’s eyes,
I never saw his glance divine,
For when he prays he shuts his eyes,
And when he preaches he shuts mine.
A kiss, says and ingenious authority, i>
like the creation, because it is made of nothing
and i9 very good. A French lady is said to have
reported on the subject that it, of all others,
“Coule si pea et donne tant de plainer ” costs less
and gratifies more than anything else in existence.
Antidote against Poison. —Hundreds of
lives might have been saved by a knowledge of
this simple receipt:—A large teasp.>ouful of made
mustard, mixed in a tumbler of warm water, and
swallowed as soon as possible, acts as an instant
emetic, sufficiently poweifui to remove all that is
lodged in the stomach.
A gentleman of Alabama, was lying in
bed one morning, when a friend, stepping in, said :
‘‘P , breakfast is coming on”—“Let it come,”
exclaimed P with a look of defiance, “I am
not afraid of it.”
Unitarians. This Sect began A. D. 1550
....Drama. We owe both forms of com
position, tragedy and comedy, to the Greeks.
... .The piano-fort was invented by J. C Sch
roeder, of Dresden, in 1717.
... .The ancient Greeks buried their dead in
jars. Hence the origin of the expression, “He’s
gone to pot.”
.... Which can smell a rat the quickest—the
man who knows the most, or the man who has
the most nose ?
... .It is with ideas as with pieces of money
—those of the least valuation circulate the most.
... .The latest way to pop the question is t to ask
a fair lady if you can have the pleasure of seeing
her to the minister’s.
... .A number of individuals are getting their
dubious bank bills liquidated by taking their
worth out in brandy, rum and whisky.
.... A loafer who had been fined several weeks
in succession for getting drunk, cooly proposed to
the judge that he should take him by the year at
a reduced rate.
....Men may lose by being too communica
tive. The great laconic philosopher, Shirk, says :
“Keep shady, and if you see a quarter on the
ground, put your foot on it.”
... .God is on the side of virtue ; for he who
dreads punishment suffers it, and he who deserves
it dreads it.
.... In a country paper, the marriage of a Mr.
Cooper to Miss Shaves is announced. The result
will probably be barrels. Not so, tbe result will
be a lot of little shavers, aud if any of them be
daughters, it will eventually be in hoops.
Murderers may congratulate themselves
upon the fact, that the hemp factories in Brook
lyn have stopped business and discharged their
hands.
... By doing good with his money, a man, as
it were stamps the image of God upon it, and
makes it pass current for the merchandise of hea
ven.
.... It is a very erroneous imputation upon one
of our prominent politicians that ‘he drinks hard.’
There’s nothing in the world he does easier.
... .A correspondent from Northampton, Muss,
is responsible for the following:—“A subscriber to
a Moral Reform paper called at our post office, the
other day, and inquired if the ‘Friend of Virtue,’
had come. ‘No,’ replied the postmaster, ‘there has
been no such person here for a long time.’
The receipts of the Illinois State Fair foot up
$12,350.
At New York the demand for gold is now almost
entirely confined to the want of other cities. The
bullion brokers are buying at a half to three-quar
ters per cent., and selling at one to one and a half
per cent
A match race, for three thousand four hundred
and thirty dollars is announced to come off at Spar
tanburg, S. 0., on Thursday, the oth of November,
between Traveller and Thickety.
A Touch or the Sublime. —The Englantina, a
New York paper says. As winged lightnings dart
from the clouds when Jupiter has unbarred thei r
bolts, so does a fat nigger run like the devil when a
big dog is after him !
The Boston (Mass.) Journal says : “Some papers
have been giving currency to reports that the Bos
ton submarine Armor Company had proposed to
the underwriters to raise the Central America and
save her treasure. The mates give her position
when she went down, hit. 21 deg. 45 min., lon. 78
deg. 15 min. From that point to the nearest land
(Cape Roman) is 95 miles, and the sounding show
ing 600 fathoms of water. From these facts the ab
surdity of attempting to raise the vessel or her treas
ure is apparent.,’
The Siamese Twins. —The Wythville Tele
graph says: These wonderful progidies arrived
in our town on Sunday last and left Monday, with
the intention, as we understand, of proceeding
South as far as Cuba, for the purpose of exhibit
ing themselves. They had six of their children
with them, and upon a gentleman expressing sur
prise at the number, he was coolly informed by
oue of the twins that there was a heap more at
home, and upon inquiry it was ascertained that
they had fourteen in all. They are about forty
five years old, seem to be in the enjoyment of
good health and certainly bad no lack of appe
tite.
Washington, Wilkes Cos., Ga.
To prevent Skiqperin Bacon.— -When the meat is
taken out of salt, wash it clean in cold water, and
cover the flesh part of each joint with about one
tea-spoon full of flour of sulphur—rub it in well and
hang it up to smoke. The sulphur is an effectual
prevention to skipper, and does not effect the taste
of the meat in the least A. L. ALEXANDER.
A Sure Cure for a Felon.— Hold the part affect
ed in Perry Davis’ Vegetable Pain Killer for half an
hour, and the pain and soreness will entirely be re
moved. But don’t take our word for it when 121-2
cts. will buy a bottle iff it at the Drug Stores.