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2 From the Sons-of \ Temjxrance Offering for 1853. |
3 -I>nr rnf.n W4TEH FA1VAT1C.
BY" T. S. ARTHUR. . j
"Come, Parker," said a young man named
Franklin, " there's to be a temperance meeting
over at Marion Hall. Don't you want to hear
the speaking ?"
" Xoy-I believe not;" was answered indifferently.
" I have little fancy for snch things."
i " Sturgess is in. town, .and, I am told, will
..7 ^ ' ;
" I heard- hinxor.co, ancR!,hTT~vras^-r
forme," replied Parker. "lie's a cold water
fanatic."
Tins was said in'agroiip' ofhalf a dozen menv
most of whom were strangers to Parker. Some
^ of these "^doked at each otlicr with knowing
glances. Here a separation took place, and the
different partieslmoved away.
HH "I think you had better go with rae," said
Parker's friend, who still kept in hi&couipany.
? " If Sturgess is a little enthusiastic in the cause.
j^B he is yet a very interesting 'speaker. Perhaps
he may say something that, will set even you to
^B thinking."
BB "I'm 'mt a drunkard," returned Parker.
j|? " No; still, you are not beyond the reach of
danger. No man is, who daily gratifies a desire
H for a glass of brandy."
BB " Don't you think 1 could do without it?"
E| " Certainly; you could do without it now"
" "Why do" you say now so emphatically ?"
" Now, means at the present time."
wp " Well
" I cannot speak for the future. You are not
P ignorant of the power of habit" '*
"Upon my word I you are. complimentary.
Then you really think me in danger of becoming
a drunkard.'"
" Every young man, who takes daily a glass
of brandy, is in that danger."
^ " You really think so ?"
B " Most assuredly! How are drunkards made ?
^ You know the process as well as I do. Every
mighty river has its;bcgiuuiog in a scarcely noticed
stream. Ask the most besotted -incbriatcfor
the history of his fall, aud you will find a
part of that history running parallel with your
own at the present time."
" You are serious, as I live," said Parker, forcing
a smile."
? t
" It is hardly a matter of jest. Bnt, come!
Go witli me to hear this cold water fanatic, as
you call him. You have ho other engagement
for the evening. Now, that your thoughts have
been turned upon the subject of a daily glass of
brandy, it may be as well for you to hear something
further as to the consequences of sueh a
t habit. A wise man forseeth the evil and hideth
I himself."
f " Put the fool?why-don't you fiuish thequoI
tation, Franklin ?"
[ "That is needless. Its application yon fully
understand. You will go with me ?"
" I will, as you seem so earnest about the matter."
And so Tarker went to Marion Hall, which
lie found crowded. After some difficulty in procuring
a scat, he made out to get one very near
to the platform, upon which was seated the president
and secretary of one of the temperance as
sociations m tne piace, whd uvo ui mice vmtio,
who were to act as speakers. One of these latter
was a man past the prime of life. His hair
was thin and gray, and his face lean and withered
; but his dark, restless eyes showed that
within was an active mind and quick feelings.
This was Sturgese, the individual before referred
to. After the usual preliminaries, necessary on
such occasions, he arose to address the meeting.
For some time, he stood with his eyes moving
through the audience. All was hushed to profound
silence; and there was a breathless expectation
throughout the room. The speaker's usual
style was impulsive, lie was more given to
declamation than argnmcnt; generally carrying
his hearers with him by the force of strong cnk
thusiasin.
" My friends," he at length said, in a low, subdued,
yet thrillingly distinct voice. His manner,
to those who had before listened to him, was so
different from what was expected, that they felt
a double interest in the speaker, and bent forw-iril
nnwr to catch everv word.
. J -O
[ " My friends," he repeated, " a little over half
| an hour ago, an incident occurred which has so
P checked the current of my thoughts and feelings,
that I find myself in a state fitted for the seclusion
of my chamber, than for public speaking.
It is a weakness I know; but' even the best of
us arc not all times able to rise abovo our weaknesses.
I was conversing with a friend in the
midst of a group of men, some of whom were
unknown to me, when one of the latter proposed
. to an acquaintance, whom he called by name,!
an attendance upon this meeting. 41 have no
fancy for such things,' was answered. 1 Sturges
is to speak,' was advanced as an argument.
' He's a cold water fanatic,' said the vouug man,
with a sneer."
There was the most perfect stillness through*
out the room. All eyes was fixed upon Sturgess,
whose low, sindued tone of voice, so unusual for
him, made a imTrkcd impression on the audience.
He stood for some moments again silent, his eye
searching everywhere.
1 " 11 - - ?* 1 ~? 1.1/* l
" if," he resumed. in me same w?, nan-saa,
impressive voice, " that young man were Lore
to-night, I would fed it a duty, as well as a privilege,
to tell him why I have become what he
calls a co:<l water fanatic, why I let forth my
^ whole soul fr this cause, why I am at times over
enthusiastic, and whv T am, probably, a little in"V.
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temperate in my chisatfo against the monster
v$fc that lias desolated oiir homes and robbed us
of'the sweet promise'God once gave us in our
childhood."
The speaker's voice had, trembled?but now it
was lost in a sob. In a moment he recovered
himself and went on, still in the same low, searching
tones:
" Iu the sweet proinisd.of our childreii. "Where
are theyj., I look all around this large^audience.
Tliere site an oldfriend ; and there, and there.
Like mine, their heads are blossoming for eternity.
Long years ago, Two started side by side
An rim iAiirnnv of life. We had onr wives and
our littio -ones around us then. Where are they
now?'
Another long pause and deep silence followed.
The dropping ol' a pin could have been heard in
that crowded assembly.
" When my thoughts go wandering back to
that olden time," resumed the speaker, " and I
see, in imagination, the bright tire, now extinguished,
and hear, in imagination, the glad
.voices of children; now hushed- forever; and
when I think of what caused this sad change, I
do not wonder that I have been all on fire, as it
were; that I hare appeared to some a mere cold
water fanatic. ' ;
" I wish that young man were here to-night;
and, perhaps, he is here. I will, at any rate,
take his presenccfor granted, and make briefly
[ my address to him."
You havccalled me, my^dung friend, a cold
water fanatic. If you had iHriiHnTtiffi4asik'rI..
would have liked the -term better. But, no
matter, a fanatic let it- be. And what has made
me so ? I will draw -for you a picture.
"TVra is a small, meaner! v furnished room
in the third story Of an old building. The time
is winter; and on the hearth burns a few pieces
of pine wood,'that afford. bat little warmth.
Three persons are in that, room?a mother and
her two children. The mother is still young;
(Bub her thin.6ad, suffering face, tells a story of
poverty, sickness, and that heart-sorrow which
tines up the very fountains ojTlife. A few
years previously, sbeihad gone forth from her
father's house, a happy bridp,. looking down
the open vista of the future, and seeing naught
but joy and sunshine. She. clung to her husband
as confidingly as the vine clings to the
oak; and she loved him with-alltlie fervor and
devotion of a pure, young heart Alas ! that a
shadow so soon fell upon her path ; that love's
clinging tendrils were soon torn away !
" She is stillyoung. Look upon herns she
moves with fdlble steps abotft her room. Ah !
into what a depth of misery "she has fallen !
Where is her' husband?he who so solemny
swore to love, cherish, and keep her in sickness
and in Ij^alth ? The door, has opened!
He enters?gaze upon him ! N? wonder an
expression of pain and disgust is on your countenance
; for a miserable drunkard is before
you. No wonder the poor wife's pale cheek
grows pnler, nor that the sadness of her face
changes into a look of. anguish. .\HarK i lie
has greeted her with an angry word. He staggers
across the room, and, in doing so, throws
over that little toddling thing on her way to
meet him. The mother, with an exclamation,
springs forward to save her child from harm.
See! The drunken wretch has thrust her angrily
aside with his strong arm ; and she has
fallen?fallen with her head across a chair!
" The fall, my friends, proved fatal. A week
after that unhappy day, I stood by the grave
of one who had been to me the best and most
loving of children!"
The speaker's voice faltered. But he recovered
himself, and went on:
" A few years before, I gave my child, dear
to me as the apple of an eye; into the keeping
of one I believed to bo kiud, noble-hearted and
faithful. He was so then?yes, I will still say
this. But the demon of intemperance threw
upon him her baleful glances, and he became
changed. And such a change ! The scene I
have pictured took place in a far city, whither
my child had been taken. Alas! the poor
child did not die in my own arms. I was summoned
too late. Only the sad pleasure of
gazing upon her wasted cheeks, white as marble,
and icy cold, remained to me."
The old man could no longer suppress his
emotions. Tears gushed over his face, and be
wept aloud. Few dry eyes were in that assemblage.
" Is it any wonder," resumed Sturgess, after
he had again recovered the mastery of his feelings,
" that I am a cold water fanatic ? Methinks,
if the young man to whom I have referred,
had passed through a sorrow like this,
he, too, would have been an enthusiast?a fanatic.
if he will, in the cause of temperance.
He, too, would have proclaimed from the
streets and the house-tops, in highways and
by-ways, hismission of reform 'and regeneration.
But let me say to him, and all like him,
that prevention is butter than cure, that it is
easier to keep sober than to get sober, easier
to give up the daily glass at twenty-two or
twenty-rfivc, than at thirty or forty. These
drinking habits gain strength more rapidly than
others, from the fact that they vitiate the whole
system, and produce a diseased vital action.
"A cold water fanatic! perhaps I am. But
have I not had cause ? Ten years ago, a youth
of the brightest promise stepped confidently
upwards, and set his foot on the firm earth of
manhood. He had education, talents, industry,
and good principles. But he lacked one element
of safety?he had not a deeply fixed antagonism
towards nil forms of intemperance;
indeed, like the young man to whom I have
before referred, he rather regarded the advocates
Of temperance as fanatics. And he was
not so much to blame on this account, for his
own father, in whom he confided, kept liquors
in his side board, used thorn himself, and set
them out in mistaken hospitality before his
friends. Well, this joung man went on well
for a time; but, sad to relate, a change was
(apparent in a few years. His frequent visits
tnvornc hi-niirrbt him into contact with dan
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gerous companions. Drinking was followed
by its usual consequences, idleness: and the
two united in apeedily working his ruin.
" My frienfflr?the speaker was again visibly
excited?fi one night, two years ago, 1 was
returning home from a visit to a neighbor. It
was dark, for heavy clouds obscured the sk v,
and there were all the indications of a rapidly
approaching storm. Presently lightning began
I to gle^fh out, and thunder to roll in the dis
tance. 1 was, perhaps, a quarter of a mile
from home, when the rain came down in a
fierce gust of wind. The darkness was now
so intense, that 1 could not see five paces
ahead; but, aided by the lightning, I obtained
shelter beneath a large tree. I had been there
only a few moments, when a human groan
came upon my ears, chilled the blood back to
my heart -The next flash enabled me to see,
for an instant, the prostrate form of a man,
lie lay close to my feet I waaj'for the time,
paralyzed. At length, as flash after, flash renflnrnrl
flio Amiro' mnnnnllir viaitito. flnH <Tmnn
after groan awoke human -feelings, I spoke
aloud. But the only answer wa8cithatcontinued
moan, as one in mortal agony. I drew
nearer, and bent over the prostrate body.
Then,,by the lightning's aid, I knew it but too
well. It was alas! that of the unhappy man I
*Jbave mentioned?my owx bom- !
" I took him in my arms," continued the old
man, in a faltering voice, after another pause,
in which the audience bent forward with manifestations
of intense interest, ^and with a
strength given at the time, carried him home.
I was, from the moment of recognition, unconscious
of storm or darkness. .Alas! when I
laid him upon his own bed, in his own room,
and looked eagerly down into his face, that
face was rigid in death. If 1 am a cold water
I fanatic, friends, here is my apology! Is it not
| all-sufficient?"
And he sat down amid low murmurs of feel-ifigr
Jfc
For a time the silence of expectation reigtted
throughout the room. Then one of tho au|
dience stood up in his scat, and every gaze
was turned towards him. It was tho "young
man, Parker. Fixing his eyes upon the still
disturbed countenance of the speaker, he said
slowly and distinctly :
" Yes, the apology i3 more than sufficient.
I take back the words unwisely spoken. With
such an experience, a man may well be pardoned
for enthusiasm. Thanks! my venerable
friend, not only for your rebuke, but for your
reminiscence. I never saw my danger as I see
it now; but, like a wise man. forseeing the
evil, I will hide myself, rather than pass on,
like the fool, and bo punished. This night I
enlist in your cold water army, and I trust to
make a brave soldier."
Parker sat down, when instantly a shout
went up that startled the far-off. slumbering
echoes. Sturgess, yielding to the impulse of
hi.? feelings, sprung from the stage, and grasping
the young man's hand, said in a voice mot
yet restored to calmness?
" My son?born of love for this high and
holy cause; I bless you! Stand firm ! Be a
faithful soldier! Our enemies are named legion
; but we shall yet prevail against them."
Here drop we the curtain of our narrative.
Parker, whpn the hour of cool reflection came,
saw no reason to repent of what he had done.
He is now a faithful soldier iu the cold water
army. -aIf
we knew all that some advocates of temperance
have suffered, we might well pardon
an enthusiasm that, at times, seems to verge
011 fanaticism. They have felt the cause?they
have endured the pain?they know the monster
vice in every phase of its hideous deformity.
No, we need not wonder at their cnthu
si asm ; the wonder should rather be, that it is
not greater.
^lisfflloutotts.
Tu? Liquor Traffic iii Richmond.?A
writer in the Southern Era, (a paper published
in Richmond, Va.) harangues the people of that
city lengthily and elaborately upon the evils
of dramshops. Among other things, ho says
that there is a mammoth distillery in the place
which is capable of cousuming twelve hundred
bushels of coru per day and of manufacturing
near five thousand gallons of whiskey in the
same time?that there are some twenty-five
wholesale and retail houses where liquors of
all kinds are sold, and.-twenty eight regularly
licensed ordinaries?and, worse than all, that
there are at least three hundred and twentt-fivb
hells, where the sale of spirituous
drinks of the meanest kinds is illicitly carried
on, day and night The annual loss to the
city in the decreased value of the negro property
from this blighting and debasing cause is
/1/MMM in .nnnrl mimhnrc of. fr\rtn ilinn.
JlSUU uumi, III IVUUU I tuuiuvioj i* w j v# ?f?w w
sa/jtf dollars.
We once tasted a " hail-storm" in Richmond
which we considered at least equal to the nectar
of the gods, it was "got up" in such exquisite
taste! But if such beverages can only
be had under a system which equally sanctions
the Retail of the most villainous compounds,
we are prepared to say, away furcver
with even hail-storms, rather than bo .annoyed
by their vulgar and disgusting bastard cousins.
Edgefield Advertiser.
The Daugeit>of Brandy Drinlclug.
In the last number of the Irish Quarterly Review,
the weakness of poor Mngiun is thus alluded
to:
"lie now turned for comfort and inspiration
to the foul fiend, Brandy, which has been the
cause of misery to so many men of genius. Wc
regret the errors of Addison and Steele, we sigh
at the recollection of poor Moreland the painter,
working at his last picture, with the brush in
one hand, and a glass of brandy in the other,
for ho had then arrived at the terrible condition
in which reason could only visit him through intoxication
and Maginn, although not so fallen
as this is sunk deeply. The weary hours of lonely
watching brought no resource, but that which
copious drafts of the liquor could supply. Health
was fading away, the brightest years of life were
passed for ever, and as the dim, influence of that
demon which enthralled the brilliant souls of
Addison, of Sheridan oi'Charles Lamb, and-which
seut the once stalwart form of Theodore Hook
a miserable skeleton, to the grave.
Maginn, wc know, felt his position. He was
neglected by his own party?he was forgotton
by many of his former, friends, Slid as we looked
1 i i -I?** .1 1
upon nun in ms pmauie conaiuon,8uu cumpu<ju
wnat we then saw in him with what he might
have been, we often recalled the fearless passage
of Charles Lamb: "When you find a ticklish relish
upon your tongue, disposing you to a witty
soil ofcorivor.-atiou especially if you find a pre^
*r.
! ternatural flow of ideas setting in upon you at .h
, the sight of a bottle and fresh glawes, avoid giv
ing way to it as you would fly youf greatest de- i
struction. If you cannot crush at oncO the power
of fancy, or that within you whiclryou mistake b
: for such, divert it, give it some father play.? 6
Write an essay, pen a character "of description d
i ?but not as I do now, with teirs trick ling down .tl
, my checks. To be an object of compassion to c<
, friends, of derision to foes; to be suspected by
, strangers, stared at by fools; to bo esteemed1 d?;1|> - $
wlir.n vAil AannAt 1-ia wiftr- frtKo nnrilftltrlwl frtr IS
"iivii j v*% vujjuvu vv v ?v?v? ,
when you know you have.been dull; to.be^allcd^ W.
i upon for extemporaneous exercise of that faculty- which
no premeditation can give; to be set on ^
to provoke mirth which procures hatred; to give
pleasure and to be paid with'e^uihting malice;_to 41
swallow drafts of life destroying wine, which are
to bo distilled into airy breath to tickle vain au e<
ditors; to mortgage miserable morrows for nights: M
of madness! to waste whole se^s of time upon p<
those who pay it back iu little inedijsiderabje drops pi
of grudging applause, are the Wages xif buffoonry le
And death." * M
ra
4< I am like that I^eaf.'?
Nature has been called the first and ^g^eat
instructor of man : it is so, and it is wall that di
it is. There are many that can- bleached at
only through the phenomena of natore,and, hi
therefore, He who "doeth all things ..well," at
hath biililen them to speak, though voiceless, tii
From fiie dew that gently distills, to tbfc gor- w
geous leaf of autumn that falls in matty a cir- re
al1 harmoniously join-iu ieachlng 6t
mnn wlinf. Ti'mo innrnrhn^yl to dpfitwwE: Yot im
manding human intellect, a truly great man,
when heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift, is not a
j. temporary flame, burning bright for a while
and then expiring, giving place to returning G
? darkness. It is rather a spark of fervent heat, T
' as well as radiant light, with power to enkin- w
' die the common mass of human mind ; so that 2!
when it glimmers in its own decay, and finally tl
: goes out iu death, no night follows, but it leaves tli
the world all light, all on fire, from the potent
i contact of its own spirit. Bacon died; but
the human understanding, roused by the touch o!
of his miraculous wand, to a perception of the fc
f.rnn nhilnsonhv. and the just, mode of inquiring tj
w* " I r / >
after truth, has kept on its course, successfully g
? and gloriously. .Newton died; yet the courses si
of the spheres arc still known, and they yet h
' move on. in the orbits which he saw, and do- fi
scribed f< r them, in the infinity of space. c
all unmoved, \vc calmly note tHem ^fSflyoy ori?)l
idly pass them by, and thus neglect wipfi&to* pi
' " I am like that leaf." How many time i
have thought to use the expression, Tfwso life- X
like! The Spring timo of year has the
summer is gone, the harvest done, and now f>"<
Autumn is here, shedding hor tears on tfl^reast &
of earth. Even the grasshoppers, which have to
so long been a burden, are now gone^, we hear SI<
no longer the hum of insects, thoy arifwptameral,
and with the hours of summer aW^'one;
and the falling leaves betoken Wintetrnjcoining. tli
in the course of time. So the springtime of bv
life soon passes, aye, is already gone jysumtuer bj
with its llowers, is seen, now heard again; the d(
harvest of worldly gain and manly applause is sit
ended ; and now, as the senses one'bj&to^iiuf; es
the falling tears as so many leaves^jgnfoind as th
all is passing, never to return. ' th
"I am like that leaf." My hoidupon life at
is bound by as feeble a threid-as that which sli
binds that leaf to its parent slem?a wind, a ru
zephyr, may snap it, and forgotten 1 shall moul- m
der on the ground. Or, ifjit is spared even to n(
three-score and ten yearsSyet they are all pt
speedily passed, and then wast come the fall, tit
the decay. We may smiUCpow, flowers may tit
bloom around us, all mayJbe attractive, yet the th
jghilling winds will bloa^ the oold, damp air ar
Tmshrdutf us, and the.gfave entomb us. Jf
"I am like that leaf." It may have been th
beautiful, but it will soon fade entirely; it has h<
fallen and no one knows or cares where it lies. G
So man may for a time adorn the world, then re
he passplh away, {tujd no one knows where he th
lies, or if they knbw will speodily forgot, and cc
41 4-U..4. k',v> nkoil L'nAtu lllm
I lie piaCCS 11.ill, UUWJ Mien JUIU OIIUI1 nuvn unu
no more fcrever. ^Leaves have their time to
fall, and though Death knows no season, jet *
wo have our timeiio die; the very hour and n.(
its agonies were known in heaven before time tu
began. The common lot of mortals is to sleep 0
in Lethe's waves,- and it is sad to see the light
of beauty wane away, to behold the limbs p1
losing their rouhdness and shrivelling up ; sad- j Is
dcr to know that the lines where beauty has /
lingered, the eye where love has dwelt, the /c
mind where hope has thrived, are all to bo
swept by " decay*effacing fingers."
" I am like tfuflkaf." My hold upon life ai
is feeble and frail^Bwill soon be broken ; and cc
when I am goneJ|ven my momory will not
remain behind mc In vain I look around w
for durability; all afcpassing away with me. sc
And may kind Heavjgjrant that likothatleaf,
our work may be ddra ana wen aono; men f0
we shall bloom besi^pthe river of life, never ]3
to decay again! g]
Great Mcir!$iever die.
In the oration delivei^Biiby "Webster in Fancuil w
Hall, in 1820, on the dciith of Adams and Jef- tc
ferson, lie thus tcils us, arid his words have now, &
full application to himsqC that great and good "j
men uever die: m&fe e|
Adams and Jeffcrsoi^I have said, are no moro.
As human beings, indeed, they are no more.? of
They are no more, as itf 1770, bold and fearless ni
advocntcs of independence.: no more, as on sub re
sequent periods, the lieids of the government ; *
no more, as we have, repently^ seen them, aged zc
and venerable ubjeclsm.adrairation and regard, rc
Tliey are no more. fxhfcy are dead. But how cc
little is there, ofcgtho great and good, which ]'j
can die. they yet live, and it
li^e, and&ve iforevei\ "^niey live in all that P'
perpetuates tho remembrance ofmen on earth;
in thjrrtbOTdedjproofs of their own great ac- j11
tions^rolthe offspring of their intcllcnt; in
! the-dcqSjangraved lines of public gratitude, a'
i and irr^Jpt respect and homage of mankind. e'
They live in their example, and they live, em- te
pha^callj^nnd will live, in tho influence which r'
their lives and efforts, their principles and a<
, opinions, now exercise on the affairs of men, ti
i; not only in their own country, but throughout P'
fho ftiviHzed world. A superior and com- n
The'present scarcity of silver is supposed, to <
e owing to'the shipments'-of large amounts . of
re frnnc pieces to the East .Indies.- The Lon-. j
on News says: "It may "be as well to' 'mention i
mt the-movement is-perfectly in the due' f
mrse of trade, and' is chiefly caused-by the
3mand for coin for circulation in our ; vast In
la possessions, on the arrival in which the metal I
duly melted "down -and Coined : into _ ru?c%Tor 1
ie East India CompaoyJ'ir-f .'1
: Negro Stealito.?We find the following par- <
rraph in the Milledgevi'le (Ga.) Recorder of the 1
;h instant: - ^
"Messrs. Searcy and Jenkins of this city arrest- j
I one Geo. M. Jone9, on Thnredav" last, near >
onticello, who>had some twelve;negroes in his (
^session, one of which escaped -after he was ap- 1
rehended. Said negroes beiong to Mr. P. Bai- f
y, of Double Wells, "Warren county, Grv., Thosr <
'orraon, of Harris county, and Dr. -W. A. Jar- J
itt, of Baldwin county, exceptin^foair, owned i
p the said Jones. " '
"Jones had-camped near this city for several 1
ryspriojfto the absence of Dr. Jarratt's boy, (
id it was suspected at once that-be had
m, having had'theboy in his tent several .
id having been known to have had a consulta- 6
on with'saidboyl " Messrs. and Jenkins. 0
orc.at once put on.the track^of Jones, and ar 1
sted liim without-htneh.trouble. Jones was ;
ed at, thajjarr^gra2ang his, scalp. ,;;$he white ?
an and-tfforocs are all confined in jail at this ?>
r# Searcy ae'd JenMoa <!?erve miicb <
W$* tUoir ^ia"M an-eting-th^wa .
~ J-zizjjuy#./.J-JL ' '1' .>
Abolition in Jamaica.?"VVc take from the r
Trqrh a letter,. *t
Dm Bcnj. Walker, Esq., of,-Jamaica, to his s
other-n^^ckniey Wnljter,>B3^V<>f Cbaries- c
n. The former is .an Englishman, and has reled
in Jamaica for seventeen years: ,.,|a
"On more than, one ocops^Fhave been on f
e point of giving, letters of introduction to yon, 9
it as the parties openly professed abolition 3
anions, I thought it prudent to abstain from
>mg so. lest any foolish conduct might occa- '
i>h consequences unpleasant tq you. I do not J
;actly know what are your political opinions on 1
at subject, but I imagine that all residing in f
e Southern States'can hold but one. Ihope
id trust you wil' never be imbued with anti- $
ivery doctrines; and if many could witness the 8
in of iuterests, both; moral and material the 11
isery of families, and the desolation which I ?
>w see around me, occasioned by the emanci- *
ition of the negroes, there would be less agita- 0
m in your country on that much vexed ques- k
m. I hope the people of the South will "hold
ieir own." .Emancipation means connscation,
id, misery, to both races. Let_peopie come to I
imaica and judge for lhemselvcs,~ahd witness 1
le white race driven from their hearth and I
)me by the destructive policy of the Mother e
ountry. An Exodus of the white race has alady
commenced, and I am preparing to join in s
ie stream, and abandon a worthless and ruined 1
tun try." \
A Commendable Role.?the Democrats of t
biladelpliia city and county have adopted a E
;at set of rules to govern their primary elecjns
in June next, and among them is the fol- i
wing: i
"If any candidate for any office, by offers of j
fts of meat, drink, money, or any valuable thing, r
found guilty of attempting, directly or indirect- s
, to influence the vote of any Democratic citi- e
n at the election on the second Monday in {
me, or if any conferee, his name is to be strick- ?]
i from the list of candidates by the conference, ,
id auy votes cast for such candidates will not be j
uinted." t
Singular Application for Divorce.?A e
oman lias made application, in the Massachu- *
tts Supreme Court, for a bill o! divorce. Her I
usband has been sentenced to the State prison 1
r a period of over seven years, which, by the .
w, entitles her to a divorce, but it appears that
i6 was instrumental in getting him to prison. E
n
Bar-Rooms Closed.?Be it known to all 4
horn it may concern, that the bar-rooms ofour j
>wn were closed by order of our Council on the j
,*st day of the year 1853?and, moreover, that t
> license has or will be granted for the selling f
r liquor by the quart, in any grocery store or
sewhere, during said year.
We have no hesitation in approving heartily
the course our authorities have adopted in this
latter. The nefarious traffic has undoubtedly 1
suited in much and serious injury to the char- I
iter of our town and to the interests of our citi:ns.
Many there arc who doubt whether the ^
scent enactment will do any good; and we
mfess that we are among those who have fears *
pon the subject. But we sincerely hope that
? successful operation will soon remove all ap- .
rehensions. In any event, nothing could be ]
orse thau the open-shop business which has i
ist been terminated. t
It now behooves our Council to bo ever on the 1
ert to preserve their ordinance inviolate. Their '
fort to suppress this crying evil will be eslimaid
entirely by the degree of its success. If car- j
ed on with energy and determination to the {
ihievement of its object, it will in six months {
me command the applauso of its bitterest op- j
ments. If suffered to fail from indifference and .
dolence, it will be scoffed at as an absurdity, j
[.Edgefield Advertiser.
?? t
The Legislature of Florida has elected 3. St.
eorgo Rogers, Solicitor of the Eastern Circuit <
ho "Liquor Bill," which had passed the Ilouso, (
as defeated in the Senate by a vote of 8. for |
2 against it. This overwhelming defeat, says .
ie Floridian, was caused by the conviction (
mt the bill was unconstitutional. , <
The following is supposed to be the number ]
f newspapers in the world:?Ten in Austria, ,
turtcen in Africa, twenty-four in Spain, twen< ,
r in Portugal, thirty in Asia, sixty five in Bel- j
ium, eighty-five in Denmark, ninety in Rusa
and Poland, three hundred in Prussia, three
tmAnf., !n ndiof (>armanin sffltpq
UIIUICU ttllU inuiVY Hi VWIVI V V.
vo hundred in Great Britain and Ireland, and
ightecn hundred in the United Slates.
ion and are capable of estimating them jyatljy
u If an immense majority^
ertain bonds?after
ume fraudag^B^w^^agaiost whole masses 3^
".JapB^ie people of Mississippi, some years V
go, refused to acknowledge the validity of the . *
Jnion-Bank Bonds, there were similar sneers __
rom very small sources at home, andfrora British"
nobs abroad; and there was quite a talk of '
eizures, blockades and similar ' what note.'
"The credit and opulence of the State grew A
ler assailant, no more than the eagle stoops from |
te flight among the sunbeams, to. feed . on flies |
rom the feet of a beggar. %
u The people of a sovereign State?a people ')
horoughly enlightened, like the people of Mis- 1
issiDDi?a Deonle whose ideas of free Govern
nent have been adopted, more or less, by every
itate that has. revised its Constitution within the
ast fifteen years?certainly understand their >
wn business better than outsiders, and outsiders ?
lave no right to intermeddle with it. ^
aborers are busily employed in poshing the
Niagara Suspension Bridge to completion. It
" Imagine a span 600 feet in length, forming
i straight hollow beam, 20 feetwuf&aqd about.
.8 feet deep, with top bottom and aides;; There
vill be an nppor fioor to Bupport the railroad
tnd cars, 20 feet wide between the railings, md
snspended by two wire cables assisted by.- . ;
"The lower floor, 19 feet wide and 15 feet : *
ligh in the clear, is connected to the upper *
ron wire, when properly united into ca^^or . ,
opes is found to be from 90,000
quare inch, according to quality.?^ThlNlSfeitone
used in constructing the-r
i pressure of 500 tons upop overys^uaremot.
the towers are 60 feet high 15 feet at'the base,
inrt R of tho tnn Wlion thia hri/fiTA ia cr?voroH I
>y a train of cars the whole length.itwillsns- '
ain a pressure of not less than 405-ton v The
ipeed is supposed to add 10 per eent, to the
>ressure, equal to 61 tons. The weight of snlerstructure
added, makes the total aggregate
veight sustained 1,273 tons.
" Assuming 2,000 tons as the great-tension /
0 which toe cables can be subjected, it is con- v
lidered safe to allow fire times the regular
itreugth, and providing for a weight of 10,000^^81
ons.?For this, thirteen thousand miles of wire
ireTeiquired. The number of wires in one cajIo
is three thousand.?The diameter of cable
ibout 9 1-2 iuohes. The %H%e we believe, Is : ' Jq
he longest between the points of support of
iny iu the world." : '
w Mrs.
Lotitia Preston Flood recently died in .
raze well county, Va., aged 74 years. She wm
ho widow of Gen, John Floyd, formerly govwior
of Virginia; mother to ex-goverwSr Jno. B.
Hoyd; niece to the late James P. Preston govsrnor
of Virginia, and aunt to the late James
tlcDowell, of Virginia, and lion. Win. C. Preson,
of S. C.
The Legislature of North Carolina lias passed
1 law providing that when a man d^es intestate,
eavinga widow and no child or children, the wiiow
is to have one-half his personal estate. If
he husband make a will, and the widow dissent
herefrom, she is to receive one-third, as hcreto"ore*
^
A Child's Eve.?Those clear wells of undo
iled thought?what on earth can bo roorebeau,iful
? Full of hope, love, anil curiosity, they
uust meet your own. In prayer how earnest,
n joy how sparkling, in sympathy how tender!
Hie man who never tried the companionship of a
ittlo child has carelessly passed by one of the
greatest pleasures ol life, as one passes a rare
lower without plucking it or knowing its value.
\ child cannot understand you, you think.?
Speak to it of the holy things of your religion?
)f your grief for the loss of a fiiend?of your love
or some one you fear will not love you in return
?it will take, it is true, no measure or soundings
)f your thought, it will not judge how much you
should believe whether your grief is rational in
proportion to your loss; whether you are worthy
5r tit to attract the love which you seek ; but its
ivholc soul will incline to yours, and engraft itself,
as it were, on the feeling which is your feeling
for the hour. ,,
'<i *
Judge Nash has been appointed Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of the State of North Carolina,
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the late resignation
of the lion Thomas Ruflin.