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^SSSSBe^BBSSBSBSSaSBBSSSStSm Cfmperoure flffwrttnent. u Look not upon the Wine."' For the Camden Journal. Law and Temperance. NO. II." In a previous article on this subject, we set out with ucomparihon between the Temperance reformation of the present cV.y and that of the Religious reformation in the sixteenth century. But in doing so, we trust that none w ill under fon/t n? tn mp'an that the mrn who are endea voring to bring about a change in the customs of the present day will have to undergo any _of the physical tortures or pecuniary forfeitures which the ancient christian martyrs endured? by no means. But they will probably have to submit to be spoken evil of, to have their motives impugned; they will no doubt be termed fanatics. This is a natural consequence, as every one well knows who has ever attempted to reform any evil, social, moral or political? and such we pronounce the Liquor Traffic, though some, by sophistry, endeavor to disguise their real sentiments, and defend their animal propensities for strong drink, by ad mitting that the traffic is a " necessary evil."? * * ... I \\T _ We admit no sued disguise or ueience. >y e say it is a great evil, ail unnecessary and soul destroying evil, and as such, should be exterminated by the law. For if there is in the law power and the right to create an evil, we contend that the same power and the same right to abolish this evil also belongs to the law.? The constitutionality of such a laio is not a matter of argument at all?in fact, we may will doubt the sanity of any one who would pretend to question it. This being an established fact, the only difficulty is to prove the expediency *of such a law?the necessity, all must admit, has existed for a'ges. If we were indulging in a vague and prospective dream that there would be in a few years hence, drunkenness, riot and bloodshed?that men would, at a fu ture day, spend their money for strong drink, and thereby deprive their families of the neces sarins nf life, that crime would be more abun dant, such as was never known, we would be right in listening to those who would say to us "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof," wait till the evil appears before you enact laws to suppress and put it down. This is not our case?the evil is in our land, and the blood of thousnuds who now fill drunkard's graves is crying to heaven for a law to suppress this terrible evil, for they have brethren whom they would save from joining them in their place of torment These facts assure us of the necessity, and the necessity establishes the expedien cy. We admit that the appetites of men have much to do with the evils of the day, but there is another fact not to be lost sight of, which is, that as long as there are those who will sell, bo lorg will there be found those who will ' drink ardent spirits. The traffic is the great primary cause. The effects would fill volumes; they are known to all. Remove the cause and the evil will no longer exist. But how is this to be accomplished ? As we suggested before, fix the price of license so high, that few or none will be willing to pay for it (in advance,) and run the risk of making money by it; in each case require the explicit consent of every resident within half a mile around endorsed on the application, before the license can be granted, t n 1 lit or me" oar openeu?me same. ime evoj um er place of business, to be entirely closed on Sunday, or subject the keeper to a fine of one hundred dollars and one month's imprisonment for the first offence, and double for the second, and compelling the purchaser to be a witness for the State. While the traffic is sanctioned, and protected bj law, it will bo carried on? while it is continued men will drink?while men canjdrink,crime will continue and increase,. v and so long will innocent tnen be taxed for the punishment of crime and the suppoit of pauperism consequent upon drunkenness.? Make the law^ effective, or repeal them entirely, and let those engaged in the traffic stand upon their own responsibility, and not screen themselves behind the law. More anon. From the South-Carolinian. The Prohibition Question. Messrs. Editors: An article with the caption 44 Who will Volunteer," is in your paper of June 8, which ought to have some notice. The writer says that without making an elaborate inquiry as to the expediency of legally restraining the sale of ardent spirits, " 1 will simply state a fact ai rived at by actual observation, that in those communities, within our own borders, whers licenses have been refused by the authorities, (such as Greenville, Anderson, Due West and Newberry,) more liquor has been sold and drunk since than be/ore pro hibition J" The very language of the writer is quoted. As to the argument based upon this assumed state of things, and the inference drawn there from, 1 shall not now say anything; out inquire for the evidence of the fact in the quota tion. Will the writer be so good as to furnish that ? He says this fact is arrived at by actual observation. May one who desires to know the truth in relation to the quantity of ardent spirits drunk in Newberry (for with the other places mentioned I am not so well acquainted as with New berry) inquire how this observation which furnished the fact alluded to, was made? How the means of information were arrived at? It is not denied that liquor is drunk in Newberry, but it is very seriously doubted whether more is drunk than when licenses were granted. The writer wishes the advocates of temperance to go back to moral suasion. . I am the advocate ot moral sausion, too; but when pubbwn Kppii nrnnorlv histr?f>fi?d pdnpn. (IV. , , J ted, I may say, in the principles of the temper, ance reform, 1 would say that very public s ntiinent must be sustained by legal enactment. A platform is then furnished on whi?h the temx^rance advocate may stand on vantage ground ltkthe contest with this foe to humau peace n<*buman happiness. A Vautiful oicture of the triumphs of the temperh?e ,eform in 1841-46 is drawn, and the writeNksirestliat 6uch a period may again be brought ^out by the powerful influence of moral suasion. I am 0f opinionion that even if his desires ccm^ be gratified, so far as to have the attempt\,a(j0? would prove a failure, because ot the \kewarmness of the friends of temperance whiclrv>uid follow any considerable excitement. g^g 0f things,wouId result from the fact thats^blic sentiment is not siwtained in the form ftjaw; but let that public Sentiment be sustaifiu by law, and stNugth would be given to tn^ cause which we-uRenahle it eventually to tr^pbover all eppofciflon- \ :\ \ \ It is contended that the refusal to grant li censes to liquor Bhops increases the desire of indulgence in intoxicating drinks. Is this true? Do the laws against gambling increase the desire to gamble?, Do the laws against theft increase the desire to steal? Do the laws against anything which is prohibited increase the desire of indulgence in tiie thing prohibited? If so, reform! reform! should be proclaimed as (he order of the day, with trumpet-tongues, from all the high and low places in the land. Yea, and I write it with reverence, th9 Almighty may as well abrogate the moral law, for the purpose of reforming the profane swearer, the idolater, the Sabbath breaker, the murderer, because ti?en*the desire to indulge in any of the sins forbidden would not be so great as that desire is while that law stands face to face with the transgressor. The question is asked in the communication "Why, especially, are so many of our young men ot Columbia, our tuture nope, worsnippmg nightly at the shrine of Bacchus? Why the midnight orgies issuing from the numerous little depots on the railroad to hell that disgrace our town?" Will "E." give the reason why these things are so in Columbia? If I am correctly informed licenses are granted there, at least so I read in the papers published there. Has prohibition, or refusal to grant licenses, scattered its scathing influence in the beautiful town ofColumbia.and stricken down theyoung men who are her future hope? May it not be that the making "of the numerous little depots on the railroad to hell that disgrace our town" (Columbia) respectable by the authority of law, be the cause of the evils which the writer so feelingly deplores, and in which he has my eomnuftur Utrjicot cijuijmuij. I have only leisure to intimate that the object of a prohibitory law is not to force men to be sober, any more than it is the object of law to force men to be honest. The law would prohibit the sale of ardent spirits as it would prohibit the introduction of goods infected with the small pox. As the introduction of the one can be and is prohibited by law, so can the sale of the other, and that is all that a prohibitory law would require. Such is the distinction which the advocates of such a law contend really is to be made, and that is it on which they rely to show that the destruction does exist on which tley insist. NEWBERRY. Wholesale Liquor Dealers. The Boston Herald has the following article which has seldom been surpassed for bold and terrible imagery, withering reproof, cutting sarcasm, and fearless, outspoken truth. It is like a two edged sword?like a thousand daggers ?like the bitter wail and the fierce invectives of those who have been enticed, corrupted and ruined by the maddening cup. If I was engaged in the liquor traffic, it would be like Banquo's Ghost, always before me. It would give a complexion "black as night" to my dreams, and disturb my waking hours. Read it, ye men who sneer ?t Prohibition as fanatacisin, and stand-unmoved at the sorrows, and sighs, and tears which your business brings upon ten thousand wretched families. Read it, and abandon at any cost, a traffic so pregnant with mischief and misery to your fellow-men. "We have not a doubt, that in the opinion of many men, the wholesale dealer occupies a much higher position in the scale of morality ?immeasurably higher?than the retailer.? But is he real y entitled to such a p >sition up on any just principle? We do not hesitate to answer no! We care not for his fine apparel, his costly furniture, or his princely dwelling. They are stained all over with the blood of the victims of his unholy calling. It crimsons the - -L -*-1- on \r mifa onH A.llll* ncil IllUIIlrejS III' v> 1111/II UIO *...v K..?. dren flaunt by the wretched and thinly dad children of want and destitution, made by his trade. Every stone in his marble palace has dragged some soul down to a drunkard's hell upon earth. Every spring in his sofa has cost the sinews of some strong man. Every wirespring in his piano has been torn from some panting bosom. All the gorgeous dyes in his soft carpets have been cunningly extracted from the bodies of his victims. There is the bright vermillion, diawn from the throbbing arteries of weak women?the ultra marine of children's blue eyes?and the lake white, ground from young men's bones, wrought into beautiful devices and brightly colored flowers, which he trends proudly under his feet. Yes, tinH ho a onivcoionno. he niiffht fear to tread "w ^ """" ' ' ?- o that 'crimson carpel,' lest his feet should slip in the gore, or the bones crackle under them, or the starry flowers look up with tearful human eyes, reproachfully upon him from its delicate woof. He might start up shuddering, from the spring-seat of his luxurious sofa, as if lie felt human muscles contracting under hiin. He would fly from the sound of his rosewood piano as though every key-touch sent forth a wail of human agony. He would shun his gilded mirror as though a ghost lurked behind its quicksilver amalgam, ready to stare upon his face and reproaeh him for its murder. He would not dare to 6eat himself behind his blood horses?purchased with the price ot blooa ? lest the echoing sound of every proud hoof-fall might summon a spirit from the land of shadows, to charge hitn with the crimes which naturally and inevitably result from his unrighteous business! Shall he be deemed comparatively innocent becanse he pours out poison by the wholesale? As well might one who shouid poison the waters in the Croton Aqueduct plead innocence, because, forsooth, he dicw it not forth from the leaden pipes and pressed it to the lips of the citizens. And is he not guilty of the meanness of adulterating that which is already poison ? as if the hot draught were not potent enough for the destruction of body and soul, until they drugged it with the fiery essences of Delirium Tremens, so that the brain of him who drank the accursed draught shall teem with phantom snakes and daggers, and biing prematurely upon bim the horrors of the damned. Surely when men shall come to realize the true natureofthis horrible curse which overshadows the whole land, they will assign to every one engaged in it, nis proper piace in the scale of morality. The rumseller will then become isolated from the affections, from the respect of good men in every community, whe ther he is a wholesale or retail dealer in the liquid poison."?Phil. Ledger. Tennessee.?A State Temperance Convention is to be held at Murfreesboro' on the 4th of July next. This promises to be an impor. tant movement towards redeeming the State from the ruin power. The State Sentinel 6tates that the Board of Mayor and Aldermen have enacted a portion of a prohibitory law in Nashville, forbidding the sale <>r gift of intoxicating liquors under severe penalties, to slaves or free negroes. We look upon this as the first step towards legal prohibition. Z The use of Alcoholic Uquors A ffords No Protection from disease. We shall now proceed to inquire how far the experience both of individuals and of large bodies of men, supports the idea, that abstinence from alcohulic stimulants, or at mo*t the very sparing use of thetn, is favorable to the endurance of extreme heat, especially when great bodily exertions is required. And we shall first cite the evidence of the late Mr. Gardiner, a well educated surgeon who spent several years of most active exertion in the exploration of the Botany of Brazil, into which country he penetrated further than any scientific European had previously done. Duiing three years'travelling in that climate, he tells us under constant fatigued and exposure to vicissitudes of weather and irregularity of living his only beverag" besides water was tea, of which he had laid in a large stock previously to his departure from Pernambuco. He was told when he arrived at Brazil, that he would find it necessary to mix either wine or brandy with the water which he drank; but a very short experience convinced him, not only that I -a .1 they are unnecessary, nui mm. mcy mc ucndedly hurtful to those whose occupations lead them much into the sun. "Whoever drinks stimulating liquors." he says, "and travels day after day in the sun, will certainly suffer from headache; and in countries where miasmata prevail, he will he far more likely to be at tacked by the diseases which are there endemic." Equally explicit testimony is borne by Sir James Brooke, the enterprising and skilful colonizer of Borneo; who speaks in his "Journal" of habitual abstinence from alcoholic liquors as decidedly conductive to the maintenance of health, and of the power of sustained exertion in the equatorial in which he had established himself. So again Mr. Woterton, the wellknown traveller, speaks of himself as confident that the preservation of his vigor during many years of toil and exposure in tropical ;c mnirilv dim tn his total abstinence Isl I I I i <1 ? \ tjj U J ?- - ?... W from fermented liquors. And.the writer has been assured by Dr. Daniel, who was for a long time stationed as medical officer in the equatorial portions of Western Africa, that he found the use of the ordinary alcoholic liquors decidedly inimical to the power of exertion; the strongest beverage which can he habitual-, ly made use of without injury, being the 'palmwine' of those countries, which is very little if at all, more alcoholic than our ginger-beer. The following testimony given, by Doctor Mosley in his work on Tropical Diseases may be added to the foregoing: "I have ever found," he says, "from my own knowledge and custom, as well as from the custom and observation of others, that those who drink nothing but water, or make it their principal drink, are but little affected by the climate, and can undergo the greatest fatigue without inconvenience." Many other individual testimonies might be citied to the same effect; but as these are open to the objection of peculiarities of individual constitution, it will be preferable to have recourse 'o cases in which largo boJies of men are included. The following statement which the writer has received from an officer in the regiment to which it refers, proves that our English soldiers in India not only do not suffer from, but, are absolutely benefitted by, abstinence from Alcoholic liquors during a continuance of unusual severe exertion. " In the early part of the year 1847, the 84th Regiment marched by wings from Madras to Secunderabad, a distance of between four and five hundred miles. They were forty-seven days on the road, and during this period the men were, practically speaking, teetotalers. Previously to leaving Madras, subscriptions were made among the men, and a coffee establishment was organized. Every morning, when the tents were struck, a pint of hot coffee and a biscuit were ready for each man. instead of the daily morning dram which soldiers on the march in India almost invaria bly take. Half way on the day's march, the regiment halted, and another pint of coffee was ready for any man who wished it. The regimental canteen was opened only at ten and twelve o'clock lor a short time, but the men did not frequent it; and the daily consumption of arrack for our wing was only two gallons and a few drains per diem, instead of twentyseven gallons, which was the daily Government allowance. Thecoinmanding officer employed the most judicious precautions to prevent the men from obtaining arrack in the villages on the route; and his exertions were effectively seconded by the zealous co operation of the other officers, and by the admirable conduct of the majority of the men, who were luily Dersuaded of the obnoxious influence of ar I dent spirits during exercise in the sun. The results of this wafer-system were shortly these: Although the road is proverbial for cholera and dysentery, and passes through several unhealthy and marshy districts, the men were free from sickness to an extent absolutely unprecedented in our marshes in India; they had no cholera and no fever, and only two men were lost by dysentery, both of whom were olJ chronic cases taken out of the hospital at Madras. With these exceptions, there was scarcely a serious case of sickness during the whole march. The officers were surprised that the men inarched infinitely better, with less I'otimf otrniriilnre thnn fhpv Ittll^UC illiu Willi IU?? VI ...... J had before known; ami it was noticed hy eve ry one that the men were uuusunlly cheerful and contented. During the whole march, the regiment hud not a single prisoner for drunk eriness." A considerable proportion of the men (the writer ha9 learned from his informant,) abstained entirely from arra<*k; and the consumption of those who occasionally took it, was far below their usual allowance. Those who entirely abstained were certainly in no respect inferior, either in power of sustaining exertion, or in freedom from sickness, to those who occasionally took small quantities of spirits; on the contrary, they rather seemed to have the advantiige. That this remarKame result was not due to any peculiar healthfulness of the season, or other modifying circumstances, is shown hy the fact that the 63d Regiment, which performed the same march, at the very same time, though in the opposite direction, lost several men out of a strength of 400; and that it had so many sick, that when it met the 84th on its march, it was obliged to *tia annm " rihnnliea" for the nalan W..W wr...^ x? ____ r quins for the sick) belonging to the hitter. The foregoing account fully accord i with that given by Sir James (then Mr.) McGrigor, of the march In Egypt of a division of the British army in opposing the French under Bonaparte. After the Great Desert had been crossed, in July, 1801, no spirits were issued to the troops in upper Egypt, owing to a difficulty in procuring carriage for them. At this time there was much fatigue-duty to be performed: whioh, for want of followers, was done by the soldiers themselves; the other duties were severe upon them; they were frequently exercised, and were much in the sun ; the heat was exces sive, the thermometer standing at 113 deg. or 114 deg. Fahr. in the soldiers' tents in the middle of the day ; bvt at no time was the In dien army more healthy. The intimate acquaintance of Sir Charles Napier with the habits and wants of the Indian soldier can he doubted by no one; and the following is his testimony in favor of the ?v?stpm. (delivered in his own charac auauilwuvv ? , X teristic manner,) as contained in his address to thj 96th Regiment, when he reviewed it at Calcutta on the 11th of May, 1849: " Let me give you a bit of advice?that is,.don:t drink. 1 know young men do not think much about advice from old men. They put th?*ir tongue in their cheek, and think they know a good deal better than the old cove that is giving them advice. But let me tell you that you are come to a country where, if you drink, you're dead men. If you be 6ober and steady, you'll get on well; "but if you drink, you're done for.? You will be either invalid or die. 1 knew two regiments in this country, one drank, the other didn't drink. The one that didn't drink is one of the finest regiments, and has got on as well as any regiment in existence. The one that did drink has been all but destroyed. For mmmmit fnr u.>hifh T hftvfi repnect bind n"J lc6",,vu' " -- i ? there is not one of the British regiments that I don't respect,) I should always try and per suade them to keep from drinking. I know there are some men who will drink in spite of the devil and their officers: but such men will soon be in hospital, and very few that go in, in this country, ever come out again." Whatever temporary advantage, then, is derived or supposed to be derived from the stimulating powers of Alcoholic liquors, when they are used with a view of sustaining the power of exertion in tropical climates, is dearly purchased by the increased liability to disease, which not only theoretically, but according to all competent evidence, actually results from their habitual use. And thus Theory and Practice aro again completely agreed in affording a decisive contradiction to the usually received idea, that Alcoholic liquors assist the body the endurance of Heat.?Dr. Carpenter. T* T X? A loftnn I'ROHIHITOK* LiAW in JUIII>UA,<U. n ivuvi received A3 we are going to press, from the Se cretarie9 of the United Kingdom Alliance, says: " I he Alliance is rapidly becoming a national power. Day by day it is convening large popular assembles in the various towns and cities. In Bradford an Alliance has been inaugurated under the most imposing circumstances; numerous magistrates, ministers and merchants being present, and ull exhibiting a sympathetic, earnest and unanimous spirit for a prohibitory law in England. We have now tested public opinion throughout the three kingdoms, and are satisfied that the people only require information, and they are with us. Your Appeal we have condensed and re-arranged under the title of "Facts in the Case," and sent it to ovorv inprnhpr of Parliament. We shall SOoil take measures to place it in the hands of every magistrate and clergyman in the land. We find it unanswerable. The Chancellor has just brought in a War budget, which adds 45 per cent, t<> the Malt tax, and augments the duty on spirits in Scotland Is., and in Ireland 8 pence. These articles he says, have been selected, to make as little deduction frum the comfurts of the people as possible. Jour, of the A. T. Union. A Rbmaukadle Man.?At a temperance meeting held in Alabama, about six years ago ..ml I AiiianAiiebtr lulin Kuil Kooil ttvaitft/. VU1UIICI UCUiail?/usi\J f miv ?'.*? wvvi* v.fw..?j three years in the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte, nddressed the meeting. He rose before the audience, tall and vigorous, with a glow of health upon his cheek and said: "You see before yon a man of 70 years old. I have fought two hundred battles, have fourteen wounds on tny body, ha\e lived thirty days on horse flesh, with the bark of trees lor my bread, snow and ice for my drink canopy of Heaven for my covering without stockings or shoes on my feet, and only a few rags of clothing. In the deserts of Egypt I have marched for days with a burning sun upon my naked head; feet blistered in the scorching sand, and with my eyes, nostrils and mouth filled with dust so tormenting that I have opened the veins of my arms and sucked my own blood ! Do you ask how I survived the horrors? I answer that under the providence of God, I owe my preservation, my health and vigor, to this fact, that I never drank a drop of spirituous liquor in my life, and continued he,'Baron Larry, chiefofthe French artny, has stated as a fact that the 6, ()00 survivors who safely returned from Egypt were all of those men who abstained from ardent spirits." Iowa.? A State Convention met at Iowa City, May 3, J. Zephaniah Swift, esq., presiding. Delegates were present from most parts nf the StMte! The securing a prohibitory law . ? - - o I t v ! was the great object of the Convention. For this purpose a State Alliance was organized, < with power to appoint auxiliary societies for the purpose of circulating petitions, raising funds, and doing all such other acts as they may think right and proper, to advance the J cause of'1 emperance, humanity, and progress. The whole subject of political action by temperance men, say6 the State Journal, was debated with -a logic and rhetoric that would grace any hall of legislation in the land. Jour, of the A. T. Union. Do not Swear.?If to use an oath occasionally, is a sin against God, or to utter one in so ciety an anomaly in enqueue, it is certain mat a free vent of profanity detracts amazingly from the merits of scholarship, rendering one's person disgusting, his very beauty contamina ting, and his address dissonant and gr .ting as a sleigh driving through the streets on bare ground. In a critical point of view, he* is guilty of tautology, penuology, grandiloquence, and a thousand other rhetorical crimes. How could one be entertained by a public debate or lecture. abounding in blasphemies? Why, the most illiterate of the rabble would justly plead to himself that he could swear as well us the speaker. How would you, who are a professor in this business, be edified by reading a paper blended with this trash. In point of denunciation, or satire, let it be remembered that there are terms more pertinent and forcible than a thistle growth of pro fanity. And as for the eloquence of introducing it in circles, it would be interesting to bear or read an essay from one of its champions, marking its peculiar beauties, and the majestio euphony with which it abounds. / / For the Camden Journal. BONO OF THE COLD WATER ARMY. A PARODY.?BT J AS. T. ELLS. Awake, arise I with arniOr bright, The hour of danger's nigh; The tyrant reigns in all bis might, And man is doomed to diet Not "on the field, by foeman's blade," Are the enemy's conquests won; Bv noiaonous drauerlits. in ambuscade. The work of death ia done. Shall we resign this beauteous land To alcoholic chains, Nor even dare to raise a band To wipe away its stains ? Awake, awake 1 and look not back, But foi ward as you go; . Press on?press on! there's work?there's work For every man to do. Arm, arm I your country bids you arm? Fling out your banners free! Let faithful Warren sound alarm O'er mountain, plain and sea. Freedom, thy battle hour is nigh I Pledges gleam and banners wave; The array charges?shout on high, ILTTT 1 A "V>e COIUO KJ OCUIV auu oaisi Fcom the American Courier. ALCOHOL. There walketh a Fiend o'er the glad green earth, By the side of the reaper, Death; He dazzles alike with the glow of mirth, Or quenches the light of the household hearth, With his foul withering breath. He stalketb abroad with his hydra head, And there gathereth in his train, The tailing foot and the strong man's tread, The restless living?the ghastly dead, And Misery, Want, aud Pain. He nerves the arm of relentless Hate With his goblet's beaded foam; He lurks in the halls of the rich and great, In the beggar's moan at the palace gate? Aud curses the poor-man's home. He barters ttio weaitn ot a spouess name, For the wine cup's subtle glow; ? And scathes the pinions of deathless Fame, Till they droop with their burden of Guilt and Shame, 'Alid its dregs of sin and woe. And there seeraeth ever a sorrowing wail, In the path of his blighting tread; And childhood's cheek grows wan and pale, And its heart is faint, and its footsteps fail, For he grudgeth the poor their bread. Grudgeth the poor their daily bread, And filleth the drunkard's bowl With want and woe?remorse and dread, With a nerveless bund and a falling head, And a curse on his deathless souL And beauty and manhood?love with mirth, Still turn to the languishing wine, But the blighted house and the darkened hearth, And the tears of tho sorrowing ones of earth, T.in fJooh in ifQ rrlMRrn flr?H Qllfinfi. o And the Fiend still watcheih with tiresome will Foriheswift and the weary tread, For lie kuoweth the wine, with his subtle skill, Shall gather aliice the good and the ill. 'Neath the curse of his iron tread. GROG MEN AND WATER MEN. Friend Smith, the razor-strop man, thus bits off these characters respectively. We hope be has "a few more left of the same sort." The man that drinks grog, wine, brandy or beer, And loafs around the tap room from year to year, Will llnd in the end that lie's lived in vain, With sore old bones and an addled brain; Ua swMinrtia a nrl onofiTfio anrl v/hpt>7nQ anitfl. ""V. "... 1- 1 And he'll die at last in spasms and fits. But the man that drinks water, old Adam'sown ale, Will always be healthy, stout, rugged, and hale; Of dimes, dollars, and eagles he'll ne'er be bereft, But always can boast of a few more lelt; And he'll live till bis hair is as white as a sheep, Then he'll die like a baby going to sleep. Important Decision on the LiauoR Traffic.?From the Philadelphia Argus we learn that on Friday of last week ari important de- j cision was made by Judge Thompson of the Philadelphia Court of Quarter Sessions, ad- i verse to the sale of liquor on Sunday. A man j indicted for keeping a disorderly bouse, was charged in the second count of his indictment, I with selling liquor without license. The disturbance which caused the indictment took place on Sunday, and there was evidence of the sale of liquor on that day. Mr. District j Attorney Reed took the ground that, although the defendant was a licensed dealer, yet the li-1 cense did not cover sales of liquor made on Sunday. Judge Thompson charged the jury that the defendant's license did not give him the privilege of selling liquor on Sunday; that the Supreme Court hud so decided, and if they believed liquor had been sold by the defendant on Sunday, he could be convicted on that count. This decision of Judge Thompson is based on that of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in the case of The Commonwealth agst. Omit. An application of the principle laid down by Judge Thompson will entirely suppress the traffic in liquor on the Sabbath, as the license for its saie does not cover the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, on .1. I a I wined no worldly employment can ue cumeu on. ~ SONS OF TEMPERANCE. WATERED DIVISION NO. 9. nPHE regular meeting of thia Division will be held on X Thursday evening, at 7 o'clock. By order of the W. P. J. T. BALLARD, R. S. REGALIA. THE undersigned having been appointed by the Grand Division to furnish Regalia for its Members, Deputies' Jewels, and Emblems of office for snb ordinate Divisions, takes pleasure in announcing tnata be keeps a supply always on hand, and will also bJ prepared at each session of the Grand Division to far* nish any of the above articles to Divisions or Members! Address. Z. J. PeIIAY, Grand Scribe. 1 Camden, Jan. 7.?ly. M PnSQTTT? At WARTTTCN ^ Faotors and Commission Merchants CHARLESTON, S. C. HAVE opened their Office on Central Wharf, and will be pleased to receive the fhvors of their friends either in selling Cotton or purchasing Supplies. JOHN R0S8BR. Sept. 13. THO. J. WARREN. HIDES WAITED.?We will pay in Cash, the highdst market price for green or dry Hides. April 36. WORKMAN ? CO. P??B???I??P?P?B " BROWNING & LEMAN," IMPORTEBS OF French, British and German DRY GOODS, 209 and 211 King-st. corner of Market-st ? nonriAW fi ^HAULiXiS A UH) a. CARPETIN6S.?Ingrain, 3 Plya, Brussels, Tapes try and Velvets. CURTAIN MATERIALS, in Silk, Satin and Worsted. CURTAIN CAMBRICS and MUSLINS, in large Variety. EMBROIDERED LACE and MUSLIN CURTAINS, all styles. GILT CORNICES, in all the new designs. CURTAIN GIMPS, HOLDERS, LOOPS, TASSELS. Ac. DRAPERY CORDS and BELL ROPES in all varieies. ' BRITISH and AMERICAN FLOOR OIL CLOTHS. SILVER and GILT STAIR RODS and STAIR CARPETINGS, of all styles. WILTON, VELVET, and AXMIN8TER RUGS, a large variety. PLANTATION WOOLENS, BLANKETS, PLAINS KERSEYS, CAPS, Ac. Red and White FLANNELS, SHIRTINGS, Ac. COTTON OSNABURG8, of all the best southern, makes. -j-' English and American COTTON FLANNKL8. French, English, and American PRINTS." ) LINENS of RICHARDSON'S superior make, for Sheetings, Shirtings Pillow Cases, Table Damasks, Dovlies. Nankins. Towelincs. Huckabacks. Fruil Cloths, B. E. Diapers, Grass Cloths, Ac. CLOTHS, CArSIMERES and TESTINGS, of best French Goods. SERVANTS' CLOTHS, in all the shades of English Goods. SATINETS, TWEEDS, JEANS, and LINDSEYS of all qualities and styles. With a full assortment of HMttHi In SILKS, TISSUES, BAREGES, GRENADINES MUSLINS, Ac. BOMBAZirES, ALPACAS, and MOURNING GOODS, in great variety. EMBROIDERIES and LACE GOODS of every description. EVENING DRESS GOODS, in great variety constantly received. All the above are of our own Direct Importation, and offered at the LOWEST MARKET PRICES % - . TKRUfi PASTT. nrPTTY APPEPTANPK. E9"The ONE PRICE system strictly adhered to all goods warranted. BROWNING & LEMAN. Jan. 12, 24 . . ; tf. . Pnr th? rmnfd Core ot COUGIIS, COLDS, HOARSENESS, BRONCHITIS, WIIOOPING-COIJGH, CROUP, ASTHMA, AND CONSUMPTION. TO CURE A COLD, WITH HEADACHE AND SORENESS OF THE BODY,?take the Cburt Pectoral on going to bed, and wrap up warth, to sweat during the night. FOR A COLD AND COUGH, take it morning, noon, and evening, according to directionson the bottle, and the difficulty will aoon be removed. Nono will suffer from this trouble when they find it can be so readily cured. Persons afflicted with a seated cough, which breans them of their rest at night, will find by taking the Cdebbt Pictobal on going to bed. they may be sure of sound, unbroken Bleep, ana consequent refreshing rest. Great relief from suffering, and an ultimate cure, is afforded to thousands who are thus afflicted, by this invaluable remedy. From its agreeable effect io these cases, many find themselves unwilling to forego its use when the necessity for it has ceased. TO SINGERS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS this remedy is invaluable, as by its action on the throat and lungs, when tkken in small quantities, it remove* all hoarseness in a few hours, and wonderfully increases the power and flexibility of the voice. ASTHMA is generally much relieved, and often wholly cured by Coebbt Pectoral. But there are some cases so obstinate as to yield entirely to do roedicine. Cuerbt Pectoral will cure them, if they can be cured. BRONCHITIS, or irritation of the throat and upper Eortion of ti e lungs, may be cured by taking Chebbt ectoral in small and frequent doses. The uncom fortable oppression is soon relieved. FOR CROUP. Give an emetic of antimony, to bo followed by large and frequent doses of the Cherry Peeroral, until it subdues the disease. If taken in season, it will not fail to cure. WHOOPING COUGH may be broken up and soon cured by the use of Cherry Pectoral. THE INFLUENZA is speedily removed by tliia remedy. Numerous instances have been noticed where whole families were protected from any serious consequences, while-their neighbors without the Cherry Pectoral, were snfferiug from the disease. Repeated instances are reported here of patienta who have been cured from LIVER COMPLAINTS by this remedy, so many that there can be no queftion of its healing power on these diseases. It should be perseveringly taken until the pain in the side and other unpleasant symp ~ leoSarWIaphT MANUFACTURES AND DEALER IK CARRIAGES AND HARNESS, OF every description, Not. 124 Meeting street, and S3 Wentworth-street, next to the old stand of Gilberts A Chapin, Charleston, 8. C- , 13TW. R. HUNTER may bo found at the above Repository, and takes this method to asrare his friends that, all orders entrusts! to him will be attended to with promptness, andstrct fidelity