Farmers' gazette, and Cheraw advertiser. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1839-1843, September 13, 1842, Image 1
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VOLUMEVII. CHERAW, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,184.'. NUMBER 44.
By M. MACLEAN. j
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SIOCK. I **? IVOUII ?.w ... f
always is. He was in a hurry; was obJig.
ed to do all things for the present, and not
with reference to the future; must ac.
complish so much in a given time; keep
so much stock on n given quantity of fod.
der; therefore, in the fall his straw was
not properly secured, his corn stalks remained
in the field, his roots not properly
saved from the frost, and before spring,
he is running about town trying to pur.
chase, a little straw, to keep his cattle out
of the mud, and a little hay to keep them
from starving. It is clear that Mr. G.
has not learned that he cannot make n
water proof cistern with the axe and jack
^ knife.
There is my friend S., who has just begun
in the world, but at the outset he im.
bibed the idea that cultivating the soil wa<
a drug, and that the mercantile business
wasjust the thing for him. He sold hit
farm, went in paitnership with a friend at
inexperienced as himself, and the conse
ii. hi* draw was made witl
(JUCIICC una w*.
the axe and jack knile, and his money al
clipped through.
And here is his neigljbor D-, whoisii
trouble up to his knees. Spring ha.
coineon. He let out his teams during
the winter to be worked for their keeping
?i r.t i\.,. L,
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making joints with the axe and J ackknife.
44 Quid Nunc, what are you trying to I
construct with your axe and jack knife V* J
said I to my diligent and economical
neighbor, who was so busy with his work
that he could scarcely glance his eye to
ee who had called on him.
*41 was trying to construct a reservoir,
to catch some rain water," was his reply.
The joints of mv cistern were not made
tight, and the earth has washed in and
filled it."
O economy, thought I, what a jewel thou
art!
Here wchave it, Messrs. Editors, exactly
the modus operandi of three-fourths of
our farmers ; and among thein too, some
who are constantly harping on calculation
and economy. How striking the contrast
between such farmers, and the man >ho
spends his time,an 1 exhausts his patience,
in constructing a vat to hold water with a
jack knife and axe.
The honest farmer, who is the spine,
the bone and the muscle of the land, lives
beneath bis rights and his dignity. He
suffers himself to be led about by the oppressive
hand of the speculator, or the
cash of the selfish nabob, as the patient
ox is led to and from the stall, forgetting 1
his superior potency, and unmindful that
he has horns that may hook, or 4* heels
that may kick" his first agressor. The
truth of the business is, too many of our
farmers 44 blunder along" through the
world, with little or no order, had management,
had c.tlculut o is. Too many
* 1 f A PAiitino of k ?l ci
spend meir nine hi uic um iwuhm*. v. uuoi.
ness, without regard to mprovement or
system ; are a!w?iys doing and never done ;
and never know into which vessel to pour
a fluid, for the joints of all are made with
the nxe and jack knife.
There is mv industrious neighbor A.,
than whom a more systematic and economical
man never lived, (as he thinks.)
and one who has always attached the
?-?importance to economy, in door
and out. His father gave hnn a noble
farm, which puffed liiui up with selt-uro I
? portance; he married the belle of the city,
lor she could drum neatly on the piano, j
or chant melodiously in unison with the :
guitar : but the organs of hearing were
sadly pained at the vibratory tones of the j
frying pan, or the harsh notes of the dish
kettle?it was too condescending to watt
on the dinner table?she must narade in
the parlor or lounge on the sofa?or ride i
in the chaise with her consort, and wi h
the velocity of Jehu da-h about town to !
make her fashionable. The upshot of the
matter has been, A's farm has been taken
away by the merchant, ten acres at a
time?his costly furniture, his china, and '
ilvor plate, were sold at sheriffs sale?
his costly cottage was taken from him.
and he learned, as many others do, when
too late, that tight joints cannot be made
with the axe and jack knife.
Here comes Mr. G. What has he on
board? Ah! he is going to the tannery
w ith hides. He is a practitioner of the
skinning system. He laughs at book
farming ; scowls at agricultural journals ;
and wonders how farmers can content
themselves with fifty or a hundred acres
of land, and he obliged to keep so little
.oonli i?n? in his case, as it
an I must be lifted up whenever they lie:
j down. He, like too many others, loved
to he independent in regard to threshing
his grain. So he purchased a two horse
machine, with which he could thrash
when he chose, and with his own hands.
The issue was, he could not thrash as j
! HlltJ tutiini i Mm ?(iv t .? . . _
J o o o
: each. Only two of the fourteen hens
i showed the least disposition to set during
I the year. The food they consumed during
one year, consisted, first of twelve
bushels of damaged which I purchased at
: twenty-five cents per bushel, and afterj
wards twelve bushels of oats, also at
1 twenty-five cents per bushel, amounting
1 to six dollars. This, with a supply of
! fresh water every day, kept them in good
! condition, and caused them to produce
i large eggs ; for all fowls lay larger and
J heavier eggs when well fed, than when
they are poor. My fowls have also laid
the whole of this last winter. I have nev.
er succeeded so well with any other breed.
Buffbn says, a common hen, well fed
ottondpd. will Droduce upwards of
(IIIU u % v -1850
eggs in a year, besides two broods of
chickens. But the common hens 1 for
merly kept, always fell much short of this
, I number.
Were I to describe as the result of ray
5 experience, what 1 think the best food for
,! fowls, I should say a plenty of grain, not
3 ! much matter what kind, either boiled or
3 soaked in water, and in winter mixed with
. ! boiled potatoes, fed warm, twice a day.
) | It is also of great importance that they
] have a warm sunny place to stay in d iruintAr.
for if left without care to find
) lllg n
] their roost here and there in an open
s barn or shed, they will produce no eggs,
r If they could, in winter, he roosted in p
t j tight room ten feet square, where by theii
? contiguity they could mutually imparl
much with his machine, as the hand required
to tend it, could with flails ; and
further, it was always out of order, and a
complete kill-horse. One word as to
threshing machines?don't trust these
" pepper mills." Five and six horse machines
are the only ones that should go
into a barn. Threshing with these little
half-built, dangerous machines, is like
making a water tight vessel with the axe
and jack knife.
Mr. F. is a pretending, but in his own
estimation, an able jurist. His daily
walk is to the store, where he keeps gentlemen's
company. He rants exceedingly
; pronounces freely on the expediency
of such and such topics of legislation ;
talks of Shakspeare ; peruses Gibbon's
Rome ; makes now and then a journey to
the county seat, and struts along the path
with all the pomposity and ostentation of
a blue hen with a speckled chicken.
Meanwhile his fields are overrun with
weeds ; his fences scattered to the four
winds of heaven ; his cattle are the rulers
of his domain ; sheep, swine, and geese,
feed from the same trough, and occupy
the same cote; and those that get the
most are best fellows. Here is rigid economy
practiced on an extensive scale ;
for the trough being made wi.h the axe
and knife, what falls through, the hogs
and geese will pick up. In the next yard,
horses, cows, and calves, feed from the
same rack ; the weak ones are driven
about by the strong ; the fat grow fatter,
and the poor poorer ; and before spring, he
like Mr. G., has a lot of hides for the tanner.
When shall ice all learn that light joints
cannot he made irith the axe and jack knife.
One word in closing. Let us then ex
ert our mnuence ; use our uimusi caci
tions, to hasten the day when the farmer
shall take the station which the great Jehovah
designed for his occupancy : when <
penury and want shall be driven from
the land, and vessels and implements be |
introduced, mode by the real artizan% for I
those that owe their origin to the axe and i
jack knife. Economist.
MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY. (
Messrs. Gaylord & Tucker?I have
heen requested to give you and your readers,
some account of my success in the
management of domestic fowls. My experiments,
having been continued for
many years, have wrought in me the full
conviction, that there is as great a difference
and ns much ground of preference
among the breeds or varieties, ns there is
among cattle. Having tried a great
number of different kinds, I have adopted
as my favorite, the Poland breed, or the
black topknots, as they are familiarly
called. These, when pure or thorough,
hied, are of a glossy coal black, with n
large tuft of long white feathers on the
?
top of the head, and are the most beautiful
domestic fowl probably, that can be
found in this country. Their excellence
consists mainly in their disclination to
set till they are three or four years old,
and when well fed, continuing to lay eggs
the whole year, except during moulting
time. This generally commences in the
month of October or November, and occupies
about six weeks, during which they
never lav eggs.
Last year I kept of the black top-knots,
two cocks and fourteen hens. Early in
December, 1840, they began to lay and
continued laying, with occasion:)! intervals
of from three to six days, all winter
and summer, till about the middle of OcI
tuber, 1841, The whole number of eggs
: produced, 1 did not ascertain ; but of the
i eggs of three hens, that laid by them!
selves the year round, I kept an account,
I 1 ikai th*?v nvernjred 260 eggs
warmth, their improvement would be I
manifest to the most incredulous.
The only disease of consequence that i
I have observed among' my fowls, has)
been the pip, which is a kind of horny
scale growing on the tip of the tongue,
and by which they are liable to be attacked
late in autumn and early in the winter.
Wben attacked with this, they appear
stupid, stand by themselves with no inclination
to move about, refuse ill food, and
if not attended to in two or three days
they die. On discovering these symp
to shut up my fowls during most ot trie i
summer, where they could neither get insects
nor any kind of animal food, and
yet they continued to lay as much as any
1 have ever known that run at largo.
The banishment of cocks too, which he
recommends, I have tried, and abandoned
it as unnatural and worse than useless;
for with a good attendance ot the male,
say one to six in summer and one to four
or five in winter, I have always found
the hens to be the most profitable.
H. A. P.
Buffalo, March, 1842.
butter?pound cake.
Messrs. Gaylord& Tucker?Butter
is soextensively made in the state of New.
York, that it may be considered one of its
staples.
It is a surprising fact that this most
important article of northern production
is made poor from negligence in attend*
ing to the common and obvious qualities
of the milk. The pure milk itself pos.
sesses all the qualities requisite for making
good butter, and if properly manu*
factured, there would be no variation in
the quality of the butter, except that aris.
ing from the different qualities of cows or
their pasturage.
Mark the above expression?made poor.
This is the ereat difficulty. The milk
D *
I in all its stages of progress to butter is
subject to the influence of foreign matter,
and thence becomes tainted at its commencement,
verifying the old adage,14 as
the twig is bent," &c , thus it is easy
to see that impure milk must inevitably
make impure butter.
A cellar of about ten feet is most fitting
for a milk room ; be careful to have no
sink or hen roost near the room, nor any
plants of strong odor, such as eatnip, onions,
tomatoes, growing near the windows,
to taint the air of the room, which
ought to be kept at a temperature of from
> 50 to 66 degrees, and to accomplish this
desirable object a thermometer is recommended.
Flat stone or clay make the most suitaI
hie bottom for a milk cellar.
\ i Let there be a total abstinence from
, water in the making of butter, as it washes
t away much of its volatile sweetness,
r which gives it the rich peculiar flavor;
t this is fairly illustrated bv the fact, thai
tome, tney snouia Deimmeuiaieiy caugut,
and with a knife or the thumb nail, this
scale may bo caught on the lower side of
the tongue and peeled off, when they will
immediately recover.
Keeping Eggs.?Having tried many
ways of preserving eggs, I have found
the following to be the easiest, cheapest,
surest and best. Take your crock, keg
or barrel, according to the quantity you have,
cover the bottom with half an inch
of fine salt, and set your eggs in it close
together on the small end; be very particular
to put the small end down, for if
put in any other position they will not
keep as well and the yolk will adhere to
the shell; sprinkle them over with salt so
as to fill the interstices, and then put in
another layer of eggs and cover with salt,
and so on till your vessel is filled. Cover
it over tight and put it where it will not
freeze, and the eggs will keep perfectly
fresh and good any desirable length of
lime. My family have kept them in this
manner three years, and found them all as
good as when laid down. I believe we I.
have never had a bad egg since we com. i
menced preserving them in this manner, i
The trouble is comparatively nothing, for
when we have a dozen or so more than i
we wish to use, we put them in the cask
and sprinkle them over with salt; and
when at any future time we wish to take
them out, they are accessible and the <
salt is uninjured. But mark ! the eggs
should be put down before they become
stale, say within a week or ten days after
iliot; nrp. Inid. i
IIIVJ ?
Every man by this process may have
eggs as plenty in winter as in summer;
and farmers who make a business of sell*
ing their eggs, may easily calculate the
profits of preserving them in summer and
selling them in winter. Eggs where I
live, sell frequently in summer at eight
cents, and in winter a9 high as thirty.sev- '
en and a half cents per dozen. I
view of these various considerations, it
must he evident that no investment that a
fanner can make, will yield so great a
profit as a few dollars in domestic fowls.
They will coat, probably in no case, more
than fifty cents each per year for their
food ; the trouble of taking care of them
is fully counterbalanced by the pleasure
they give; and they will,or may be made
to, produce each on an average from 200
to 250 eggs, besides an occasional brood of
clrckens.
The theory of your correspondent B ,
in your March No., respecting animal food
being necessary to the production of eggs,
does not correspond with iny observation
of facts. I have for years been obliged
icd placed on a plate of good butter renders
it flat and tasteless.
Cream will rise sufficient in thirty-six
hours; it must be sweet when taken off
and sweet when churned. The butter in
coming from the churn must be well
worked with a wooden ladle; after a
short time strew on the salt and continue
working until the buttermilk disappears ;
Ik. 4 |L. L ..I i . I _1 * -_
men pm ino ouuer in a cooi piace ior
twenty hours ; at the end of this time the
salt being dissolved, the ladle may be
again used to advance. If the same care
and patience were bestowed in working
the milk from the butter, that is usually
bestowed in mixing pound cake, there
would be but few complaints of poor but.
ter. The ingredients of the pound cake
in general, must be admirably proportion*
ed, but how deplorable do we often find
the proportion of salt and butter! An
ounce and a half of the former is gener.
ally applied to a pound of the latter, and
from the manner in which butter is usual*
ly worked, the article would be intolera*
bly rancid with a less quantity of salt;
but if thoroughly worked, three quarters
of an ounce of washed Jand well pulveriz*
ed rock or Turk's island salt is sufficient
to preserve a pound of butter two years.
Butter firkins should be of heart ash or
white oak, to be soaked twenty hours be*
fore using. In putting down the butter,
use no salt between the layers. In pack*
ing, great care is required to exclude the
external air, exposure to which is highly
injurious; firkins, therefore, are prefera*
ble to open tubs or pots, as they can be
1.. La.J.J T.il,u u>ifh ticrhf slin
secureij iicautu. i uu<i ...... ?r
on covers, to hold 12 to 15 lbs. of butter,
are much in use, and are neat and con.
venient for a small quantity of butter for
immediate. Butter cloths are sometimes
necessary, and these cloths should be used
for butter only.
Butter is frequently conveyed to mark*
et and to exhibition for premium, in very
improper vessels and unsightly cloths,
which prevent a quick sale and good
price, and frequently the loss of a premium
when otherwise entitled to reward.
Magnolia.
New Machine ? The Genesee Farmer
has a cut of a machine for sowing all
kinds of grain by horse power, A horse
is harnessed in a plain vehicle with two
common wheels, on the axlo of which a
chair is fixed, in which sits a man with
whip in hand ; and the movement appears
to be a fast walk, or a slow trot. One
or two bushels of grain are placed in a
i?.
box on me snaus, mmwav un WCUII IIIC I
man and the horse ; and machinery, by
the motion of the wheels, scatters the seed,
as from the hopper of a corn mill. The
machine costs 840, and 25 acres per day,
may be sowed with it.
Discoveries in Agriculture.?A Paris
paper, called the Phalange, states that no
manure is found to be so beneficial to a
plant, as its oven decaying leaves and
branches. Thus the straw of wheat,
scattered over a field, in which the wheat
is to he sown, makes the best manure |
that can be procured. Vine dressers in |
France, who have mingled the leaves and
twigs of the vine with the earth about the 1
roots, have thus produced the most hardy
and prolific grape vines known.
Mr. Krebs, of Secheim, thus writes, in j
a German periodical: I
44 My vineyard has been manured in
this way for eight years, without receiving
any other kind of manure ; and yet
more beautiful and richly laden vines
could scarcely he pointed out. 1 formerly
fol'owod the method usually practised
in this district, and was obliged, in consequence,
to purchase manure to a large
amount. This is now entirely saved,
and my land is in excellent condition.
*' When I see the fatiguing labor used
in manuring vineyards, I feel inclined to
say to all, come to my v ineyard, and see
how a bountiful Creator has provided that
vines should manure themselves, like trees
in a forest; and even better than they !"
The foliage falls from trees in a forest,
only when it is withered ; and it lies for
years before it decays; but the branches
are pruned from the vine, whilst still
fresh and moist. If they are then cut into
small pieces, and mixed with the earth,
they undergo putrefaction so completely
that, as I have lenrned by experience, at
the end of four weeks not the smallest
trace of them can be found."
Wilhelm Ruf, of Schriesheim, writes :
14 For the last ten years I have been
unable to place dung on my vineyard, because
I am poor, and can buy none. But
I was very unwilling to allow my vines
to decay, as they are my only source ol
support in my old age; and I often walked
very anxiously amongst them, without
knowing what I should do. At Inst my
necessities became greater, which made
me more attentive ; so that I remarkec
that the grass was longer in some spots,
where the branches of the vine tell, thar
on those where there were none; so J
thought upon the matter, and then said t<
myself? ' If these branches can make thi
grass strong and green, they must als<
beabletomake my plants grow better
and become strong and green." I dug
therefore, my vineyard as deep as if
would put dung into it, and cut thi
branches into pieces, placing them in th<
i holes, and covering them with earth. It
, a year I had the very great satisfactior
; to see my barren vineyard become quiti
t beautiful. This plan I continued ever
year; nnd now my vines grow splendidly,
and remain the whole summer green, even
in the greatest heat.
" All my neighbors Monger very much
how my vineyard is so rich, and that I
obtain so many grapes from it; and yet
they all know that I have put no dung
upon it for ten years."
ADDRESS
To the People of South Caroli na.
i
Fci.i/iw f!tTT7FV9 r?Thft Stat a TpmnAranA-A
Society, assembled in Convention at Greenville,
would most respectfully, and, at the same time,
affectionately, address themselves to your under- 1
standing and your hearts, in hope of removing
prejudices against, and enlisting your naturally
generous impulses in favor of, the great Temperance
Reform. i
The proceedings of this meeting will inform |
you that our sole object is to persuade people to |
be sober. We have no political views whatever:
power and place arc wholly foreign from our object
: toe labor " without money and without price"
for the good of our fellow men. This end we hope
to attain without any other aids than such as we
can claim from knowledge and love. We seek
first to inform the people of the true principles of
Temperance, and then to claim their co-operation
on the principle of love to their kind, which in ev.
try uncorrupted, sober man, prompts him to do all
the good he can. To carry out this expectation,
we are anxious that people should 44 search the different
Temperance publications daily," *hat they
should attend our meetings, and hear the different
addresses. To our bitterest enemies, wc would,
in the language of the great Athenian, say,
44 ntrilro hut hpar " If. nftor SAarehinor our Dublic.
ationa and hearing our addresses, there be any
thing wrong found in*them, then we are willing to
abide the just condemnation: but if, on such examination,
there be nothing found which is wrong,
then fellow-citizens, suffer us to stand before you
in the character of Philanthropists seeking to do
you all the good we can!
The Temperance Associations in South Carolina
now number in males and females, nearly I
12,000 members ; this great body of the followers |
of Temperance is taken from all classes of society; i
the rich and the poor, the wise and the simple, i
the high and the low, the preacher, the lawyer, i
the doctor, the farmer, the merchant and mechanic (
are here all united together, as one family, among j
whom there arc no distinctions. What beautiful,
practical simplicity is thus presented ? Here too
there is no sectarianism! In the temple of Temperance,
all the worshippers take each other by
the hand as brothers.?Is it not beautifully illustrative
of that time when 44 the lion shall lie down
with the lamb, and the leopard with the kid ?"
But we present you a still greater claim to confidence
when we say, among us you will find hun
dreds of reformed drunkards, who were once like
the man who came out of the tombs 44 exceeding. 1
ly fierce, so that no man could tame him," but 1
they are now like him, after the Saviour had cast 1
out of him44 the legion," 44 clothed and in their (
right minds." '
How have these results been accomplished ??
By persuaeion merely! We have not been 1
helped by either law or force.?Such a thing as
compelling men, bylaw, to be sober never entered 1
into the head of any Temperance man. True,
->a nilliona on/1
IllOJijr U1 UUI II1CIUUC1S, US WUtuia IUIU
have thought, and still will think, that the whole
license system should be destroyed, and that pub.
lie tippling should be ended. But, as a body, the
State Temperance Society now disclaims all de.
pendance upon legislation in any shape, form, or
manner.?The laws as they are, or as the good of
the people of the State may will them to be, are
\ sufficient for us.
J We have no reformer among us, who, if he
had the power, would, like Mahomet, convince
people by the sword. We have all been reared
in that noble schoool of liberty, our free country,
where freedom of opinion, political and religious,
is as unrestrained as the air we breathe. Thus
reared, it would be strange indeed, that we should
attempt to force men to think as we do!?If, however,
we would, we cannot do so. For no enactment
of that kind, in Carolina, would be worth
the piper on which it would be written. The
Constitution would at once abrogate it. So, fellow-citizens,
your liberty can be in no danger
from Temperance. Instead of it, she is both the
parent and nurse of freedom. Where people arc
sober there will be found liberty : where they are
drunken, there will be seen the demon slavery,
stealing upon his revelling victims, until like the
armed Cyrus, bursting into the chamber of
Belteshazzer, he says and compels them to serve
or die. When your noble forefathers prepared for
* - ?/ At
that deadly contest, wnica was 10 win iur umu i
constitution and liberty, or to consign them to
bloody graves, and their country to desolation,
they did it so by Fasting and Prayer ! An arm.
ed nation, the Scots at Bannockburn, were seen
prostrated before the Lord of Hosts: and like
them arose to victory, because God helped them.
This was the fruit of sobriety : and their whole
contest of privation, suffering, daring and victory,
I was marked by the same calm spirit. They never
dreamed that they were fighting the battles of liberty
to make you the slaves of drunkenness: they
' fought for the noble privilege of governing themselves.
Can that be preserved in any other way
1 but in the temperance of the People ? The ques.
' tion is asked, and we think the answer so plain,
' that every man woman and child can answer it
! for themselves!
* These brief observations will we think
* remove your prejudices; we ask you now
... o ?n
to " come and go witn us. iu|ici ouauu
9 you to do so, we would say, do you wish
to serve your country ? If you say yes,
I we ask you again, is sobriety or imlul9
gencc in intoxicating drinks that which
B will best qualify you for her service ??
j We know that you have too often scorned
i the drunken public officer, to believe that
3 you will dare to clothe yourself with in.
f toxication when you seek her service. Do
you wish to be the useful citizen, " providing
for your own household," and doing
good towards your fellow men ? Be sober?drink
not at all of the intoxicating
cup, and you will be blessed ! Do you
wish to l>e healthy ? Swallow not poison,
for alcohol, the intoxicating quality
of all spiritous and malt liquors and wine,
is poison?the most deadly poison known
to medicine. Do you wish for length of
days? The intemperate man is cut short
before he has half run his course! The
sober man, the man tcho drink* no intoti
eating drink, doubles his chances for long
life. Do you wish for wealth? Is it to
be found in the profusion and waste of
the man who drinks intempcrately ? No!
is the answer on every lip. Let the tem.
perate drinker, however, calmly examine
his own account. Let him ascertain the
annual cost of the wine, beer, ale, cider
and spiritous liquors which he drinks or
gives to his friends ; the amount even to
the most economical will be startling?
to this let him add the time lost in drinking,
the annual bills for medicino and
medical attendance, which he incurs by
diseases caused directly or indirectly by
temperate drinking, and he will find it a
sum worth saving. In the language of
Dr. Franklin, 11 a penny saved will be 11
penny earned," if he becomes one of us
? who touch not, taste not!"
Do you desire to Ire happy ? It is well
known that intoxicating drink is, in no
shape, an ingredient in the cup of human
happiness?it belongs to wretchedness, to
poverty and to crime. Hut water, clear,
pure, cold water is God's own beverage
bestowed upon man, for his benefit and
blessing, and is typical of that <* water of
which if any man drink he shall never
thirst again !" It is to this element wo
invite you to return, to drink and be hap.
py ; not only men, but women and chil.
dren. In this way it is, we expect that
the sigh of the heart-broken wife, and the
waitings of the worse than orphan chil*
dren of the drunkard, will cease in the
land.
Do you wish crime to cease? Every
man answers enthusiastically, yes! We
reply, destroy the parent! Give up in.
toxicaiing drinks, and crime will cease.
Men will cease to quarrel, to fight, and
to slay, when the spirit of discord?in.
toxicating drink is withdrawn from among them !
Do you wish drunkenness to ccasc in the land ?
Yes, oh yes, is the answer of mothers clasping their
ragged children to their bosom : of children, who
are crouching down around their heart-stricken
mother to avoid the demoniac glance of their
drunken parent; of men who love God and eschew
evil! To them, to you, to all men every
where, we say, in total abstinence from all wliich
can intoxicate, is found that charm which saves
the drunkard in his worst condition. To prove
this, in the language of our fathers we say, 44 let
facts 6peak!" Enter into the homes of the thousands
of the Reformed Drunkards in these United
States, and they will tell you, that in cold water,
they have sunk and overcome their deadliest foe.
Their wives and children are no longer in rags
and poverty: they are no longer in wretchedness
and woe: they arc now clothed and surrounded
with abundance; their faces are radiant with joy
and gladness. Who will, who can retard this
good work ? Who can be so unfeeling as not to
unite in this excellent attempt to save noble and
erring men? Fathers, husbands, brothers, sons,
can you resist the drunkard's appeal when to you
he stretches out his arms as he sinks in the flood
of intoxicating drink and cries, 44 save me or I
perish ?"?Mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters,
can you look on with indifference at the effort
which is making to save all who are dear to you,
and with their safety to secure your own ? We
cannot, wc will not believe it! We look forward
with confidence to the co-operation of men, women
and children, in this great and glorious work,
which will make South Carolina one and undivided
from the seaboard to the mountains; which
will make her banner of freedom the banner of
Temperance, and under its ample folds place all
her people in innocence and security.
John Helton O'Neall, Fretfdt. of the
State Tem. Society in Convention assembled.
A Hair Brbadth Escape.?The
steamship Britannia, on her last trip to
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BOSIOII, 9 flit? kJilwy unwumviv??
a dense fog off the Banks of Newfound'
land, and a close watch was kept as usual
at the bow. While the passengers were
at the lunch, a loud shrill cry was heard
from the watch of M helm hard down !"
They rushed on deck, and directly ahead
a small fishing schooner, the skipper and
crew of which were standing with their
arms elevated, the very picture of fright
and despair. The helm was placed hard
down, and the ship obeyed it in a twinkling
; but so close was she to the schooner
that in describing the curve to avoid it,
the stern of tho ship came within three
feet of the little craft. Had the man at
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the watch, or had the noble steam/ship
been less ready to obey her helm, the
schooner must have been struck amidships,
and gone down without a soul to tell her
fate. The tears streamed from the eye*
of the skipper, and a loud exclamation of
"God btessyou !" escaped from his lips,
as the steamship floated on, and he found
himselfsafe. There were not many dry
eyes on hoard the Britannia, the humano
captain of which, it may well be imagined,
made no concenlment of his joy at the
deliverance of the fishermen,