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IrprtiBfiJt. u Look aot upon the Wine." From the Prohibitionist. The Difference between Regulating and Prohibiting the Sale of Intoxicating Drinks. The advocates of a law prohibiting entirely the sale of intoxicating drinks, are obliged to contend not merely with those who have a pecuniary interest in opposing it, nor yet merely with those whose habits of so called temperate or excessive use of intoxicating drinks, aarray tbem against it, but with the deep rooted prejudices of perhaps a still larger class of men than either, who, having grown up and lived long and indeed all their days under a system which aims merely at regulating the sale of these drinks, show the usual effect of custom in predisposing them to misconceive, misjudge, dislike and oppose an innovation simply because it is one. They do- not mean to be unjust*, there is no malice in their hostility; there is no selfishness in their opposition; they are well meaning men, and many of them very intelligent; but like those who have looked long at the sun and see an image of it everywhere when they turn away, or who have looked long through colored spectacles, and see all nature Clothed in the same hue when, they taKe tnem of? their views of a prohibitory law are tinged and distorted by the influence of old, cherished and habitual ideas on the subject of regulating the liquor traffic. Many of the objections which are urged against a prohibitory law by this class of men, and the whole of their adverse feeling, originate, we have no doubt, in _ this source; and hence it may be wijl, if possible, to counteract an influence so injurious to a good cause, by placing regulation and prohibition side by side, and poiuting out, as uccu rately and impartially, as we can, the differences between them. Nothing more is necessary, we think, to vindicate prohibition as the more reasonable, just, expedient, safe and efficient measure. To perceive dearly these differences between the^ two, we must, first of all, remind our read ers of the fact?the announcement of which may perhaps startle them?that, in principle, they agree: are precisely and incontrovertibly one and the same thing. A prohibitory law allows those only to sell intoxicatingjiquors who sell for mechanical, medicinal, culinary and sacramental purposes: a law regulating the sale, grants a license to sell for any purpose to those only who have a given character, pay a given price for the privilege, and sell under varying restrictions of time, place, circumstances and quantity. A prohibitory law forbids the sale except for the purposes specified: a law regulating the sale, forbids all persons to sell except those who i have purchaser! a license. A prohibitory law punishes all parties who violate its provisions: a law regulating the sale by license, punishes all parties violating its provisions. In a word, botb allow the sale under given conditions; bo*b prohibit the sale beyond these conditions, j JMKf botb punish ail persons who violate tnese conditions; that is to say, compel them by legal coercion, to refrain from selling intoxicating liquors except. in conformity with those ' conditions. ? In principle then, the one is a prohibitory law as well as the other; so far there is no difference between them; and any one can perceive, that however objectionable the one may be, because it deprives men of liberty, the other is equally so. To empower one, two or three persons in a given community to sell these liquors, and deprive every other man in the same community of the privilege of doing the same thing, if such is his pleasure?is there ? ? ?I* ? Ur,lJAtiAft tkr*4 likodtu Jo loco inva/lnfl a mini vruu urnc<? uiaiiiuunj 10 jvw .Muu-, freedom of action less curtailed by this, than by empowering all to sell for specified uses and no others? Ail the opponents of a prohibitory tow, usually so called, are, we believe, advocates of a regulating license system ; but why they should be, if they object to the former? a prohibitory Jaw?on the ground that it deprives a citizen of liberty, we confess ourselves unable to comprehend; since what they receive is, on this score, quite as objectionable as what they reject?what they favor a** what they oppose. We can account for it only on the supposition, that their long larailiarity with the system of regulating the sale of intoxicating drinks by license, has blinded them to the characteristic peculiarities m it, which they are quick to perceive, for the opposite reason, in a prohibitory law. But while the " regulating" and " prohibiting* system, as we have shown, are in principle the same, there are important differences between them which now demand our atten tion. The first of these to present itself is suggested by oar remarks just made. The term 44 regulating," as well as the process which it describes, is deceptive ; it speaks falsely;?or at least, it does what is equivalent to this, it v studiously conceals the real nature and true intent of a license law ; it professes not to be prohibitory, when it is quite as much so as any }?w, so called, that was ever enacted by a leg islature. The consequence is, that men do not perceive the encroachment 011 what they term their" liberty," which It really makes. On the other band, the word 44 prohibitory" is an honest little word: it tells the simple and the naked truth. It calls things by their right names; and hence it is. that as soon as men hear it, they prick up their ears, see tyranny, fly <o their arms, and give battle; when the very cause of their doing this, existed long ago and exists yet in the license laws, and was not and is not seen by them, only, because they have been and still are blinded to its existence, and duped by the fraud practised on their understandings by means of the word "regulate:" an absurdity not exceeded by the man who flies in a rage, doubles bis bscs, ana uus to cursing, on being shipped with a cowhide, while be patiently suffers himself to be belabored with a broom-stick, and says he likes it. The first advantage on the side of a prohibitory law, then, is Us straight-forwardness and hooesty: nobody is deceived by it; everybody knows wbat it naeans. nnf morolv mtSrAH. AXyv7iMr?y, i?^?Momvn tivv mvavij # resents itself but it also misrepresents the liquor traffic with which it deal*. In some one or another of the numbers of this paper, this traffic has been proved to be a gross immorality,?a gross imposition upon the honest labor of the country in the shape of taxation to support the poor and to prosecute and punish criminals, in amount equal to three-fourths of the sum paid for these purposes,?a prolific source of crime of all grades against property , and life?and a cause of incalculable misery through all the domestic and aooial relations. D'oefe regulation tell us all thb about- the liquor traffic? Dot's it say, directly or indirectly, to the liqnor dealer, tlYoa are addicted to an immoral practice, and being so are a criminal in the sight of good Godjand men?*' Does it say to him, "You rrb the honest and destroy the weak??you fill our hospitals, poor houses and prisons with tenants??you cause the anguish and desolation jf our families??your business, therefore, is detestable and not to be tolerated?" Does it say this? this, which is nothing out me truth, though far, very far, from being the whole truth. It says,no such thing. It-pro nounces him an honest, welldoing, welldeserving man; it declares his .calling legitimate, and necessary to the wants and interests of society; it authorises him to proceed in it; it extends over him the shield of its protection; and, in short, it leaves nothing undone to give him position, character and respectability, and represent him and his busihess as the very reverse of what they are before the tribunal of right reason, viitue and truth. Such is regulation by license; such its endorsement of the liqnor deal er and his abominable trade: such the prodigious falsehood it tells to evory man in particular ana *o all men in general. Now observe the difference between this and prohibition. Prohibition stamps the liquor traffic as an immorality to be denounced, as a nuisance to be abated, as a crime to be punished. It separates the liquor dealer from the circle of useful , and respectable citizens, and pointing to him says: "This man lives upon the vices and misery of his fellow-men: he tempts and debauches them: he deprives thein of reason, health, property, character and life: he wrongs honest industry and hard earned capital by subjecting them to grievous burthens: he stimulates de pravity to commit crime: in fine, he corrupts the morals, tramples upon the rights, disturbs j the peace, and jeopards the welfare alike of the | individual and of society. He can no longer | be deemed, therefore, a fit associate of respec- i table citizens. He is a wrong doer, and the j law shall treat him as such. He shall no long | er be protected in his calling as if he were a good man and a useful member of the cominu- j nity; he shall be punished as the author of a ( great crime against God and man." , It will be observed, then, that while "regula | tion" calls good, evil, and evil, good, "pruhibi- , lion" deals with things as they are: calls him t a criminal who is one; calls that a crime which | is one?and instead of disguising the wolf in i sheep's clothing, and holding over him the | shield of law that he may more effectually lay j waste, without molestation, the unsuspecting Hock, strips him of his borrowed garments, un- ( looses the pack upon his heels, and calls upon | ?"??? frt bunt him rlmvn na nn an I F?V/WV4 ^ ?- ? - - ? emy of the common welfare, that can no long er be suffered to exist. So doing, prohibition is in conformity with virtue, truth, right. It permits iniquity no longer to wulk in the dark, and under false pretences to deceive the simple | and entrap the unwary. It stamps the liquor , dealer with his true moral value, and it denoun- i ces and punishes the liquor traffic as we donounce and punish any other crime. ] Thirdly, "regulation" not merely misrepre sents itself, not merely misrepresents the liquor 1 dealer and liquor traffic with which it deals, but also the proper nature of the articles of traffic. It calls intoxicating drinks 'healthful beverages' ?'good creatures of God:" as such it provides for their sale and use. It endorses tho sentiment and publishes it to the world under the sanction and by the authority of the State, that these drinks, as such, are healthful and useful, safe to all in due quantityxniade dangerous only by abuse! Was there ever a greater falsehood told by living man? or a more stupendous deception embodied in public law? In preceding numbers of the Prohibitionist we have adduced the testimony of a host of eminent chemists i nnrl nhvuiiMttiis who unaiiimouslv declare the r-v 1 --- -./ principal and the intoxicating or exhiliarating ingredient of these drinks a deadly poison, ca! pable of producing speedy death in a given ! quantity, (and, whether diluted or undiluted,) injurious to a person in health; its habitual use certain to undermine the constitution, and shorten life. Numerous as the testimonies are, we might multiply them to any extentl Few physicians or chemists in this country or in Europe, will hazard their reputation by giving any other testimony. Both experiment and experience have so fortified the fact affirmed? that these intoxicating drinks are poisonous, and destructive to health and life?that the man who calls it in question, will find .it difficult to sustain before the community a high character for science and professional ability. Yet " regulation by license"?by supposition, the collective wisdom'and righteousness of the State, says, ''Fooh! 1 know better: healthful beverages! good creatures of God!" _ ^1_!_ il !. J! f ana inis, yes, mis uireeuy in me nice ui science, sag* experience and common sense! " Prohibition/' on the other hand, we need scarcely say, rises on this testimony of science, experience and commoi^ense, as the pyramid rises on its base. It treats all alcoholic drinks as our laws treat other poisons?labels them as poisons, and confines their sale to-medicine and the arts, and is thus in harmony with the knowledge of the age. Finally, though far from exhausting the subject, " regulation" is a gross and shameful exampleof inconsistent legislation. Intoxicating drinks are either good or evil, healtful or injurious. If they are good, healthful, the State has no more right to impose restrictions on thc-ir sale than on the sale of bread or meats or * egetables or milk or lemonade or soda water; if they are evil, injurious, it is guilty of a detestable perversion of the sovereign power, ii.tiai, Sr anthrtricoQ fhpir snip Rtill mr?r? when it grants to some and denies to most the privilege of selling them, and more than all when it bestows this privilege for an equivalent in money, and thus derives a revenue from vice. "Regulation" adopts the first of these suppositions: intoxicating drinks, itsays, are "congenial," "healthful," "exhiliarating," "the good ereatures of God," " necessary and useful articles of diet;" and yet it proceeds, as men do not in any other case, to declare, under a -menace of punishment, that they shall not be sold exoept by certain parties forming an insignificant fraction of the community, and then only when they have paid a specified sum for the privilege of so doing! Did legislation ever play the fool more absurdly ? < " r* I ? _ II ? Al _ .ii l 1 _ m* "rroiiioitioii, on me outer nuuu, is gumy of no such outrage on eommon sense. It | brands intoxicating drinks as poison; and as 1 drinks, forbids their sale. It brands the liquor i dealer as a wrong-doer, and bids him desist; if I he will not, it seizes him and applies the lush- I of a righteous retribution. J We have done. If you have followed u? I thoughtfully, reader, you must be convinced ' that prohibition?not regulation?is the ptin- t ep.'o which leison sanctions, justly' represents t * * the nature of alcoholio drinks, truthfully declares the immoral character of, the liquor dealer and liquor traffic, and meets therefore, tho demands of the temperance cause and of an enlightened age. Prohibition is a just principle consistently applied; regulation is in principle false, in application absurd : prohibition is transparent good; regulation, disguised evil: prohibition, externally attractive, is internally the same?"swept nnd garnished;" regulation is a whitened sepulchre, fair-seeming without, but within full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. Extract From Mr. Oovgh's Lecture be/ore the Young Men's Christian Association in London. " I nm not going to give you an address full of my favorite theme, but 1 must speak of it. 1 must speak of it before (his assembly, for I never shall see you again tiii we meet on that day when we shall see things as they are.? Let me speak of one habit which, in its power, and influence, and fascination, seems to rear its head like u Goliah or Saul above all its kindred agencies of demoralization?I allude to the habit of using intoxicating liquors as a beverage, until that habit becomes a fascination. " But allow me to give my opinion upon these points freely. 1 consider drunkenness not only a moral evil, hut also u phjsical evil. A physical evil; and it depends a great deal more upon the temperament, and constitution, and disposition of the young man, whether, if be falls into the drinking usages of society, it becomes a habit or not, more than it does in his strength of mind or firmness of purpose. Here is an illustration which 1 have used more than once, and when I find a better, I will give it up. Take three young men?place them in the same position in society?in the same establishment?and I will ask vou which of the three is most liable to lorm the habit of drinking intoxicating liquors? Let me describe them: " We often meet men amongst us of a cold, phlegmatic temperament; they seldom laugh or cry about anything. They huve feelings as other people, but are moderate in. all their manifestations. Constitutionally moderate men. They have always been moderate, and n I ways will be. They are very much like a lot of tunes boxed up in a barrel organ. Turn the handle and you get th*? tunes without a variation, for years, save, perhaps, a few cracks in the notes?nothing else. That man's temperament stands between him and excess. He always wants a joke explained to him before he appreciates it. He is moderate in his affections, anil it is very hard to oflend him. Sharp indeed must be the arrow which can penetrate the thick bosses of his impenetrability. This man may use intoxicating liquors without injury. 1 am not speaking, observe, of converted men. 1 read in the Christian Almanac the other day of an old gentleman who said to his friend, "I have drunk a bottle of wine a day for twenty years, and have enjoyed good health." " A.h !" said his friend, " but where are your companions ?" " Oh!" was the reply, " I h.tve buried six generations of them." " Yes young men that's it (hear, hear.) Let many here to-night look back upon the fate of the companions of their youth, let the long fingers of the memory draw into that memory's chamber the forms of those dear friends, and how many would they find ha've gone to death and destruction through n bad habit working with an easy temperament f " Take another man. He shall be closefisted, and mean, and shabby. He shall be of a calculating turn of mind, always looking out for the main chance. Such an one as he, who, upon a certain season, got up before a christian congregation at Albany, New York, and boasted how cheap it had been to him to be the member of a Christian church, "brethren," said he, '* I atn happy to say I have been .a member of this church for ten years, and that it cost nie but two shillings." " Take a third young man, and he shall be full of fire and poetry. He shall be of a tier nous temperament, and generous heart; fond of society, and open und manly, in everything he does. Every one loves him. That is the man most likely to become intemperate. He enters into the outer circle of the whirlpool, and throws care to the winds. There he thinks to stay, but he gets nearer and nearer to the fatal gulf, until he is suddenly swept into the vortex before he dreamed of danger. This thing habit comes on gradually* Many a man who has acquired a habit, but does not exactly proceed to excess, is rescued simply by pos sessing certain physical qualities which his poor unfortunate friend had not. You say you are not such a fool as to become a drunkard. So he thought once. You say "lean leave it off when I like," as if he at first had not the power to leave it off when he liked. You say, "I have too sound an intellect to become a drunkard," as if he was born without one.? You say "1 havextoo much pride in myself, too much self respect," aa if he were not'once as proud as you. The way men acquire this habit, is by looking on those who proceed to excess, as naturally inferior' to themselves. The fiat iiiuan vim mirl n HriinUurf) insf. this -that you could leave off the .hubit,,but won't; he would with all his heart and soul, but cannot. I will put the strength of the habit to the test. You say you can leave it off when you please. Now 1 know you can, and this is said with regard to the acquiring of this and all bad habits. A man, smoking two or three cigars a day says, "I can throw it away when I have a mind to." When 1 hear young men saying this. 1 almost make up my mind that they never intend to give it up. The power of habit is gradually increasing and destroying your powers of sell-control. Sampson was bound three times, and when he heard the cry, "the Philistines are upon thee, Sampson," three times he burst his bonds. But he fell into Delilah's hands, he laid his head on her knees, and 6he took off his locks. Then came the cry, "The Philistines are upon thee, Samson," and he arose and said, "1 will go out and shake myself," but his strength was gone.? God pity you, young men, it ever you begin to feel the fetters of evil habit galling you, and you go out to burst them, and find them welded iron bands, eating into the marrow until you . t r 1171 cry cut in agony or spirit', - ?rno snuu ueuver me from the slavery of evil habits?" A man's power to do a thing is valueless unless he have the will to exercise that power. Suppose I lay royselfon the trams of the railway. You come to rouse me, and I say, "You mind your own business; I am not fool enough to be run over; I can get up when I choose." A train comes :hundering along and cuts my body in too!? Why, I am a self-murderer! I bad the power :nd the warning; ! refuse to exercise thatpowir, aud go before God a suicide! I tell yon, I young men, that while the power of a bad habit rl strips ) ou of nerve, and energy, and freshness c offeeling.it does not destroy your responsi- c bility. You are accountable to God for every x power, and talent, and influence of position, r Although the power of evil habit destroy s your n power of good, you are as accountable for it as t if >on had put it forth, and then, too late, you ti will find the wages of sin is death. "I can quit s it., but f won't!" If you say, Should I find it, by experience, to be injurious, I will give it up," surely that is not common sense. Such is r the fascination thrown around a man by the i power of evil habit, that it must have essential- I ly injured him before he will give :t up." c ? i The Rnm Traffic Indefensible. f Rumsellors claim for their bu?ine*s that it i? s in accordance with individual light; and yet ( there is scarcely an individual of tln'in Unit, s when the case is fairly stated will dare to do 1 fend if. f Ask a dealer in runt if a business which not only docs no good, but a vast deal of hurt, should be protected and sustained, and he wiil tell you no at once ; bufho will also deny that such is the character of his business, in the face of facts, too, that lead us instinctively to shrink from him as a man thai knowingly perverts the truth. 'lake the youth, whose duty lends him to ^ honor his parents; will he be better fitted to ? do the duties of an obedient child by imbibing 9 I i I .... | } IIIIUMCUIMI^ UJJIIUSi 1 IlilVC ftlM/HN %VUUJIJJ' sters to walk up to the bar and call lor ami drink the maddening poison, and becomedrunken. We ire not sure that every youth who takes a little wine or cordial will become drunk; neither are we sure that any one particular man will fall in a desperate battle; but it follows as a logical consequence that some roust he killed. So if youth drink, some will become drunkards. And is there a spark of good that will compensate for that dagger stuck deep , into a mother's heart? Take again the boy just bursting into manhood, full of fire and passion in bit relation to society, and does he need stimulating? Will c his impetuous nature lie more easily governed by the liquid poison ? Or take the girl just ? bursting into womanhood?beautiful as the i morning light?will she be more likely to be a ^ joy to her mother's heart, or the pride of her i father, for sipping the sparkling wine? Will 1 she be less likely to become the victim of the ] fowlers? or more or less likely to become a 1 disgrace to her sex ? or more likely to become j an ornament to society ? lhese questions car- ( ry their answers with them. And what a mighty throng of the eternally lost, both of men and women, have commenced J their downward course over the wine-cup!? Then it follows that as it. does no good to youth, ^ to unmatured young men and womeu.'to drink, but a vast deal of harm, the traffic in liquor |i>r their use is hurtful and should not be protect- 3 ed. ( Then take the man as he begins the win Id , for himself. In his newly assumed family le , lation, will he be tbe better husband or father? Will he be more tender of bis belterhalf in her * hours of tiial, or better qualified to bring up ; bis children in the right path, or correct them , of their faults? Will he provide better for his household, or be more likely to accumulate something for a wet day? Will he be in<?re ' likely to live to an honored old age, the com fort of his wife, and the pride of his children, who will look up to him with sweet remembrance? No! Then as liquor does no good to the man in the family relation but a vast deal of harm, the conclusion is, that, so far as man in the family rclation is concerned, the grogshops should he shut up. Where is the rumseller that dare say no??Examiner. The Curse ok Intemperance.?A writer in the Methodist Protestant, speaking of the cutse of intemperance, makes use <>f this decidedly strong language : " When the sword of pestilence in Europe, far and wide, mow ed down like grass its helpless victim*, the angel of the pestilence grew weaiy w it it the slaughter, and he sheathed his deadly blade.? The terrible two-handed sword of nlcohoi si i>s with an unceasing slaughter. Me never tfrcs ? he never holds Itack his bloody hand, neither night nor day. " The slogan" of his infernal mercenaries is: "slay and fliay," until your very soil is soaked with blood, and your graveyards groan with the bloated corpses of his victims. When the black plague swept over the Eastern world it killed, parsed on, and left the survivors free from fear or danger. The black plague of intemperance is an evcr-ahi. ding destruction?it wilJ not pass on?it never departs." You take away my Liberty. A prohibitory law, it is said, is a violation of personal liberty. What right, it is asked, has any man or any body of men, or even the State, to say what I shall not sell or what I shall not buy ? The question is answered by determining precisely what is meant by personal liberty.? Does personal liberty consist in doing, without molestution, any thing a man may choose to do? any thing whatever? This is not liberty; it is lawlessness. Liberty is power to do what we please, while we do no harm to others ; or nothing inconsistent with the public good.? Do we complain of this? No; and yet observe how this limits, restrains and shackles our freedom of action : We cannot injure a man's person, nor strike his children nor take his ' purse, nor enter his house, nor put our feet upon his field, without permission; we cannut 8etfire to our own premises, nor put any kind ' of picture we please in our own windows, nor go naked into the street; we cannot lead any kind of life we please, on our own premises: we cannot legally even sell rum, unless we get a license, without being liable to punishment. We might occupy a whole day in enumerating r things we cannot do, and the work would y not be done. Well, do we complain of o L?- t\ ?? | j. mis ( Uu wu ooj it 10 a viuiuliuii sji j?eia>ui- | *i al liberty ? Not at all. What then is meant P by this assertion that a prohibitory law vi " oIate9 personal liberty ? Nothing more thun this, we believe; if right, certainly nothing more: it takes from a man the liberty of doing what he has beenfhitherto, wrongfully permitted to do. Had he been always prohibited from , selling intoxicating liquors, as a beverage, as he has been prohibited from stealing, not a word o would we have ever heard about this violation ri of personal liberty I?Prohibitionist. Inexcusable Barbarity.?The other day, a most diabolical moustached individual, in 1 New York City, thought to amuse his canibal- ^ ish curitfsity, by giving a little boy a glass of ^ liquor to make him tipsy. The little fellow ? rank it down and in a few hours was laid out a orpse. The effect, of the violent poison on >ne of so tender an ape, could not be othervise than death. We leave our readers to nake up their own minds in respect to the infonous wretch who persuaded that innocent boy , o drink death, and also as to the infernal bever* ige which wrought this sad and distressing reult. ( The Legislature of Rhode Island adjourned 8 in Saturday, after a session of a week. An mportant amendment to the Maine Liquor r j?w was passed. It authorizes the arrest, :onfinemciit and hue of any person found drunk n any of the towns of the State; but, if sot-h, rersoiis shall di>close the name of the persons. S vh<> furnished the liquor with which he got ? h unk, and shall give evidence against said per* * mn, lie may be discharged from imprisonment; wid persons furnishing intoxicating liquors, I ;iviiig or selling, are liable to prosecution.? i'lie vote for the bill stood 43 yeas to 12 nays. 6 ' J ^netrtj. < For the Camden Journal. THE MOCKING BIRD. c ^ , k Jome, listen?oh hark I to that soft dying strain I )fm? Mookiinr-Bird. on the house-top again, C She comes every night to these old ruined walls, ^ iVhere, soft as the moonlight, her melody falls; )hl what can the bulbul or nighingale chant, C n the climes which they love and the groves which they haunt 0 dora thrilling and wild than the notes I have heard n the stillness of night from my sweet mocking-bird? saw her to day. on her favorite tree, Vhere she (constantly comes in her glory and glee, 'erch'd 6n a limb which was standing out far ^ tbove all the rest, like a tall taper spar, ? hie south-wind was wafting that limb to and fro,? krid she rode up and down like a skiff in a blow, 8 Vhen it sinks with the billow and mounts with the swell? ihc knew I was watching?the knew it full well. 1 ihe folded her pinions, and swelled out her throat, t.nd mimicked each bird iu its own native note? n.e Thrush and the Robin, the Red-bird and all, s ind the Partridge would whistle and answer her call; Then slopping her carol, she seemed to prepare, By a flirt of her wings, for a flight in the air? SVlien rising sheer upwards, she wheeled down again, ind took up her song where she left off the strain, EVould you cage such a creature, and draggle her plumes? Condemn her to prison the worst of all dooms? Take fi oin her tho pleasure of flying so free, \nd d :ny her her ride on the wind-wafted tree? Would you force her to d^oop within merciless bars, When eartli is all stim-hinc. or heaven all stare? Foibid it, oh mercy! and grant her the boon Df a sail in the sun, and a song to the moon. Whatii gift she possesses of throat and of lungs! The gi I apostolic?the gift of all tongues I ill 1 c mid she but utter the lessons of love, ro wenp us Irom earth aud to waft us above, What: liren could tempt us to wander again ? We'ds;ek but the siren outpouring that strain? iVuuld listen to nought but her soft dying fall, is she sat all alone on some old ruined wall. E. J. G. J J/VZ/LvJ nrp*r,rillA .<7 a June 1G. 1854 ? For the Camden Journal. THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN. INSCRIBED TO MY VENERABLE FRIEND OF LXX Thy pilgrimage will soon bo o'er, 'lis nearing to the end; The shadows lengthen more and more, The de-vs of night desceud; And heavier falls the snow of years, . Time's furrows di-epor grow, There's nought about thee, but appears _""'ho flight of 'lime to show, Except thy heart?that grows not old, Not geuial, warm and young, A3 if old Time had never told Its age, with palsied tongue. How beautiful the green old age, Whose leaf's not wither'd, when Upon life's lengthen'd pilgrimage, "The hand" strikes three score ten. Full three scortryears and ten thou art, How loDg the time must seem, Since sunny youth first threw athwart Thy life its morning beam I But mists of age can cast no gloom Upon thy spirit, when Fnitli holds the lamp of life t' illume u l Life's three score years and teu. i The light that shiuoth more aud more, ] Unto the perfect day, Still, shall it gild thy pathway o'er, And cheer thy lengthen'd stay; I Thank Ood, that soul-reviving light 1 Is not withholden, when * Doth come upou our life, the night Of three score years and ten. , Thank God, the scoring touch of Time Can never reach the soul; vFor, (taught us by our faith sublime,) ] "When, vanish'd as a scroll, Are Time and Time-things, here below, The immortal soul shall, then, , Look to a life, whose limits know No three score years aud ten. M. M. * i Camden S. C. \ SOWS OF TEMPERANCE. < WATERED DIVISION NO. 9. ! I^JbLfci regular meeting of this Division will be held on < Thursday evening, at 7 o'clock. i By order of the W. P. 1 J. T. BALLARD, R. S. < i i REGALIA. J rHE undersigned having been appointed by the | Grand Division to furnish Regalia fcr its Mem- , >ers, Deputies' Jewels, and Emblems of office for sub- < rdinate Divisions, takes pleasure in announcing that \ ie keeps a supply always on hand, and will also be < irepared at each session of the Grand Division to fur- | ish any of the above articles to Divisions or Membera. ( Lddress. Z. J. DkUAY, tirand Serine. , Camden, Jan. 7.?]y. M ^ i AT THE " OLD CORNER." J rAM now opeuing my stock of Spring Goods, to which I invito the attention of mv customers. Just pening rich Summer Dress Goods, best quality? P?s Kid Gloves, Ac.; also, a large assortment of Genemen'8 and Youths' ready-mode clothing: Sammer lata, and numerous other articles for spring trade. March 22, 1854. 13 t? ( PINE APPLE CHEESE. Almonds, Baisins, snpe- G rior Toas, Isinglass, Extracts, Boston Pickles, ae Chewing Tobacoo, Yeast Powders, Capets. Mus- B ird, Chocolate Ac. Just opened and for sale at the tl Old Corner,*%y H. VT. BONNEY. xi k" ..J % "BROWNING & LEMAN" IMPORTERS OF French, British and German DRY GOODS, 109 and 211 Klng-st. corner of Market-si CHARLESTON, S. C. 0ARPETING8.?Ingrain, 3 Plys, Brussels, Tape? try and Velvets. , ' CURTAIN MATERIALS, in Silk, Satin and Worted. . r CURTAIN CAMBRICS and MUSLINS, in large Va* iety. EMBROIDERED LACE and MUSLIN CURTAINS, ill styles. GILT CORNICES, in all the new designs.' < CURTAIN GIMPS, HOLDERS, LOOPS, XA8* 1ELS. Ac. )RAPERY CORDS and BELL ROPES in all varie98. * BRITISH and AMERICAN FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, SILVER and GILT STAIR RODS and STAIR CAR' 'ETINGS. of all styles. WILTON, VELVET, and AXMINSTER RUGS, i large variety. PLANTATION WOOLENS, BLANKETS, PLAINS' LER6EYS, CAPS, te. Red and White FLANNELS, SHIRTINGS, A& JOTTON OSNABURG8, of all the best southern1, . aakes. English and American COTTON FLANNELS. French, English, and American PRINTS. LINENS of RICHARDSON'S-superior make, fof Sheetings, Shirtings Pillow Cases, Table Damasks, loylies, Napkins, Towelings, Huckabacks, Fruit , Jloths, B. E. Diapers, Grass CJoths, Ac. ? CLOTHS, CA:SIMERES and VESTINGS,-of best 'rencli Goods. SERVANTS' CLOTHS, in all the shades of Enghsb rOOUS. SATrNETS, TWEEDS, JEANS, and LINDSEYS f all qualities and styles. With a full assortment of MM ' In SILKS, TISSUES, BAREGES, GRENADINES IUSL1NS, Ac. V" . . "BOMBAZINES, , ALPACAS, and MOURNING rOODS. in great variety. EMBROIDERIES^nd LACE GOODS of every decriplion. "... EVENING DRESS GOODS, in great variety oontartly received. ' - r? All the'above are of our own Direct Inipor* ation, and offered at the LOWEST MARKET 'RICES. CASH, or CITY ACCEPTANCE. gyThe ONE PRICE system strictly adhered to Bp ill good9 warranted. BROWNING A LEMAN. H Jan. 12, . ' 24 % tL >i prat's For th? rapid Cure of covens, COLDS, HOARSENESS, BRONCHITIS, WIIOOPIXG-COUGH, CROVP, ASTHMA, AND CONSUMPTION. 10 CURE A COLD, WITH HEADACHE AND SORENESS OF TIIE BODY,?take the CherryPrctoual on going to bed, and wrap up warm, to sweat luring the night - . FOR A COLD AND COUGH, tike it morning, )oon, and evening, according to directions on the botde, and the difficulty will soon be removed. None will suffer from this trouble when they find it can be so leadilv cured. Persons afflicted with a seated :ough, which breaks them of their rest at night, will find by taking the Cherry Pectoral on going to bed, they may be surf of sound, unbroken sleep, and 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 in 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 removes 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 Ciierrt Pectoral But there are some cases so obrtinate as to yield entirely to no medicine. Coebby Pectoral wild cure them, if they can be cured. . BRONCHITIS, or irritation of the throat and upper portion of the lunge, may be cured by takingCuKRRT Pectoral in small and frequent doses. The uncomfortable oppression is soon relieved. FOR CROUP. Give an emetic of antimony, to be followed by large and frequent doses of the Cherry Peroral, until it subdues the disease. If taken in season, it will not fail to cure. WHOOPING COUGH may be broken up and soon i-ured by tbe use of Cberry Pectoral. THE INFLUENZA is speedily removed by tbia remedy. Numerous instances have been noticed wheie whole families were protected from any serious consequences, while their neighbors without tbe Cherry Pectoral, were snfferiug from the disease. Repeated instances are reported here of patients who nave oeen cured from y. LIVER COMPLAINTS by this remedy, so many that there can be no quotion of its healing power on these diseases. It should be perseveringly taken until tbe pain in tbe side and other unpleasant symptoms cease. FOR CONSUMPTION in its earliest it should be taken under the advice of a good Physician if possible, and in every case with a careful regard to the printed directions on the bottle. If judiciously ueed, and tbe patient is carefully nursedmeantime,'it will seldom fail to subdue the disease. For settled CONSUMPTION in its worst form, the Cherry Pectoral should be given in doses adapled towhat the patient requites and can bear. It always affords some relief, and not unfrequently cures thosewho are considered past all cure. There are many thousands scattered all over the country, who feel and/ lay that they owe their lives and present health tothe Cherry Pectoral. ? TU!- ia rtffofA/? frt 4kn urtmmnnifr With thlP 1uio icuicuj ia viivivu w ?uv _ confidence we feel in an article which seldom fails to realize the happiest effects that can be desired. So> wide is the field of its usefulness and so numerous thecases of its cures, that almost every section of the country abounds in persons, publicly known, wbe have been restored from alarming ana even desperatediseases of the lungs, by its use. When once triedr Its superiority over every other medicine of its kind,, is too apparent to escape observation, and where its eirtues are known, the public no Idhger hesitate what . intidote to employ for the distressing and dangerous iffections ol the pulmonary organs, which are incident to our climate. And not only in formidable attacks upon the longs, but for the milder varieties of Holds, Coughs, Hoarseness, etc-, and for Children it i? :he pieoeantest and safest medicine that can be obained. No f imily should be without it, and 'those vBo have used it never will. Prepared and sold by JAMES C. AYER Practice, md Analytical Chemist, Lowell, Mass. Sold in Camden by T. J. WORKMAN; in Darlingon by CHARLES ? MILLING, and by Druggstis paerally. April 8.?8m.. CARRIAGES, CARRIAGES. LEONARD C MAPI If, MAJfOFACTURlR Al?t> BKALKR IK CARRIAGES AND HARNESS, P|F every description, Noe. 124 Meeting street, and J S3 Wentworth street, next to the old stand of rilberte 4 Chapin. Charleston, 8. 0. |yW. R. HUNTER may be found at the above iepoeitory, and takes this method to assure bis frfeftda rnt all orders entrustet to him will be attended ? ith promptaeee. andstret fidelity