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CINCINNATI, AUGUST 27, 1852.
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Gen. S. 7. CART. 1. . WH1TWELL,'
CALEB CLABK.
. S. F. CARY, Editor,
. WMTWELL, Corresfokdinu Editob,
CALEB CLARK, Prints.
Terms.
City subscribers, delivertd by the carrier, and
ingls-mail subscribers, 91,50
Four copies 5,10
Ten coiiiei and upwards, each I.H
Any Division, or person, sending a club of twenty,
hali be entitled to an extra copy.
Agents.
ti7"VV. H. Cl, of Si. Clairsville, Belmont
county, Ohio, is authorized to act as Agent lor the
Organ.
Hev. J. W. Clock It authorized to act as agent
for the Orjran.
llro. J. M. Adams, of this city, is authorized to act
as agent for the Organ in his tour through a portion of
Indiana.
ilro. John X. CLi.SK is also agent for the Organ.
tV. C. Burrttta, of College Hill, U., is an au
thorized agent ior the Organ.
tiTJoHK M. WaLDis, of College Hill, O., is an
authorized agent for the Organ.
General Agent
Bro. II. S. Elliot, G. W. P. Cadets
of Temperance, lias accepted an agency
for the Organ, Templars Magazine
and Cadet, and will shortly commence
canvassing the State. We commend
him to the friends of Temperance
generally.
To Correspondents.
" Senex," from Eaton, would find
a place in our columns if we had not
already spoken of the unhappy cir
cumstances whicli gave occasion for
his remarks. Ho is justly severe upon
the accursed traffic that robs earth and
Heaven of its priceless jewels. We
hope to hear from him again. "Senex"
seems to have the fire of youth, al
though his name would indicato the
contrary.
North Carolina.
The Editor has received during the
past week a pressing invitation from
the Grand Division of the Old North
State, to visit that jurisdiction. Some
of the leading members of the Order
are anxious that the subject of legal
prohibition of the traffic should be
discussed before the people. They
are ready for the Maim; Law, and wish
the public mind enlightened nnduuer
gized on this particular topic.
07" We are glad that our remarks,
in relation to the nominations for Con
gress in this district, have waked up our
I'rierulS. Rend his letter. "Them's
our sentiments."
Western Pennsylvania.
The Sons of Temperance in this
locality are doing nobly. Bro. Steel,
of Pittsburgh, says in u letter to us :
" We have twen!y-one Dirisions, in
Allegheny County." " We are joined
in heart and hand, determined to press
forward to certain victory our watch
word being total prohibition.'" The
Divisions have in their ranks many
of the most intelligent and influential
men in the State. They are all mov
ing for the Maine Law.
This is most encouraging, and ought
to inspire the faithful among us to
pray and -labor for the "good tune
coniin'r."
New Paper.
Bro. H. M. Addison, of Cleveland,
0.,has commenced the publicatkn of
the Harpoon, the first number of which
is before us, devoted to Temperance
and Free-soilism. We can commend
the Temperance department, but as
we have nothing to do with politics in
anv form whatever, wo have nothing .
to ray on the latter object. It is a
good .sized sheet, and is published at
the very low price of fifty cents per
annum. Subscription taken only for
six months, by which time the editor
hopes the Maine Law will be in opera
tinn in Ohio, when the paper will be
no longer needed.
More Extravagance.
In tie; Appropriation bills of Con
gress we find the sum of Si 50,000 ap
propriate!! to pny the Contingent ex
pense's of the United States' Si nate
for the present session. This sum is
designe I to meet the little unimportant
extras not provided for by law. This
sum, divided among the members
gives to each $2,343 75, or a little
more than trra dollars for each work
ing day of the session to each man.
An additional sum of S20.000 was
proposed to aid in publishing un ac
count of the Exploring Expedition,
but on finding that $ 185.000 had al
ready been appropriated to that object,
the bill was postponed for a day.
Oh, the rottenness of our National
Le rislature !
THE Q$G&N
I Fifth Annual Eeport
I sr .1. tar -t - i c. , rv - -
JJ me new 10TK otaie lniiptrrume
t Society, with the Proceedings of the
anniversary held in Syracuse, June
ll-lSth, 1852.
We are indebted to Win. II. Bur
leigh, Corresponding Secretary, for a
pamphlet entitled as above, and we
acknowledge our obligation, for we
have read it with inexpressible satis
faction. The Society has been doing a noble
work the past y earl. Three agents
have been constantly laboring under
the direction of the Society, and sev
eral others have been temporarily en-'
erased in the service. The teircula-
bo
tion of tracts, those silent but mighty
messengers of truth, has been a cher
ished object of the Society. The
Secretary truly says in his report,
"The importance of the tract enter
prise, as an instrumentality for the
advancement of the Temperance lle-
-forru, is", W"t!gr&'to say, but inade
quately appreciated. The majority
of even temperance men apparently
hold it in light estimation." "The
judicious distribution of these silent
advocates of truth will almost inevi
tably prepare the way for the lecturer,
the temperance organization, the peri
odical, the petition, and the ballot con
secrated to temperance reform." We
enter heart and soul into this senti
ment. When at the head of the Or
der of the Sens of Temperance, we
labored to impress these truths upon
the National Division, and through it
upon the whole Order. This organi
zation was and is pre-eminently qual
ified for the work of tract distribution
A number of valuable publications
were made, and to some extent were
obtained and distributed. But ''its
importance was not appreciated. "
(ireatgood, however, resulted whero
ever the brethren took hold of the en
terprise. This instrumentality un
doubtedly secured the "No License"
clause in the constitution of Ohio.
In reference to sustaining the temper
nnee press, the report says, " It is a
wise economy in every moral enter-j
prise that gives a vigorous support to
... . . ..
our Order, and the want of united and
concerted action against the liquor
traino. With the temperance mate
rial in tho Bn'-keye State, we ought,
long sluice, to have outlawed this
traffic.
Tho relation of jealousies, growing
out of variety and difference of organ
ization, modes of action, etc., the re
port breathes a catholic spirit. We
require that all partizan feeling is
passion away, "and the one great ob
ject to which all these associations are
devoted tends ever to make them one
in heart, as they are manifestly one
in hope and one in purpose." "There
may be among temperance men, as
among christians, differences of opin
ion as to forms, names, and other non-
t,,.sClltias . but j fuith, iu labor and
in resolve they are still essentially
one." "We must regard that man as
an enemy to our holy cause, whatever
his professions, who would create or
stimulate jealousies, bickerings and
contentions between the different di
visions of tho great Temperance
Army."
It would gratiry us much to fill our
Ori'an with extracts from this most
excellent report. The State Society
were unanimous in their support of
the great measure of "universal and
entire prohibition of the traffic." We
cannot forbear copying two of the
excellent resolutions passed at their
annual meeting, and we would urge
their consideration upon assemblages
of temperance men every where.
Resolved, That when the rum in
terest abjures the ballot box, and no
longer seeks to control our primary
and general elections, when the ini
quity of drunkard making is no long
er sanctioned by law, and the bur
dens and miseries of intemperance,
borne by those only who mnke gain
of the traffic that causes them, we
will listen patiently to tho exhortation
"not to bring temperance into noli
tics," but till then, as faithful soldiers
in a righteous cause, we must continue
to assail every strong hold of our
enemy, break down all his fortresses
and drag him from all the lurking pla
ces of the villages where he sits to
catch more.
Resolved. That inasmuch as the in
terests of Temperance are permanent
to all ordinary political issues, there
fore no desire for a partizan triumph,
no hope of political preferment, and
no expectation of pecuniary cmolu-
us press." To the niggardly manner j reauy leu me necessity 01 conciliating
in which the temperance men of Ohio j the temperance interest, because tern
sustain their press, is to be attributed, I pel ance men os such never have had
in no sin all degree, the declension of! any votes. 'I be Rum interest, on the
- OP ?BE ?EGI?EMiSE
ment, shall induce us to give our suf
frages for the elevation of any man to
office, tho duties of which concern the
enactment or administration of license
laws, in whose temperance principles
wo have not entire confidence, and
whp will not give us every reasonable
assurance that his personal and offi
cial influence, is sacredly pledged to
the enactment and enforcement of
laws entirely prohibitory of the traffic
in intoxicating liquors as a beverage."
If thesa two resolutions had been
adopted years ago and acted upon by
temperance men, their influence
would have been felt and their power
acknowledged in every State in this
Union. Tetotalers have the balance
of power, and they might, if they
would, compel politicians to respect
that power.
The rum interest, in many places,
has controled the elections, and tem
perance men, like hypocrites or cow
ards, have tamely and disgracefully
submitted. ....
' - Thcia-Getteention appointed
cominittea on tho subject of political
action, which committee made the
following report, which was unani
mously adopted, a glorious indication
of future progress :
1. "We do not recommend the or
ganization of a now party.
2. We urge Temperance men to
make all ordinary party issues and
party organizations, subordinate to tho
claims ot tho temperance ltelorm.
3. We earnestly recommend to
Temperance men throughout the State
the udoption and circulation fortdgna
tures, as widely as possible, of the fol
lowing pledge :
"We hereby solemnly pledge our
selves, that we will vote for no candi
date for any office, the duties of which
are in any way concerned with the
enactment or execution of laws iu re
ference to the liquor trallic, who is not
unequivocally in favor ol prohibiting
the traffic in intoxicating liquors as a
beverags, by a law, at least, as strin
gent as the anti-liquor law of Maine."
If, as sonio affirm, this is only a
moral quest on, it is still true that our
political action should conform to our
moral principles. Ruin has intrench
ed itself in politics, and Temperance
must be carried there to drive it out.
The fact is, politicians have never
11 C 1i .1 "i.
contrary, has been a unit and its
friends have brought their "moral
question'' to the polls and made all
other issues subordinate to this. The
New York State Society have taken a
step in the right direction and the li
quor traffic in that great State is doom
ed, if the friends of temperance press
straight forward.
We shall probably have occasion to
refer to these proceedings again. We
wish a copy could be put in the hands
of every temperance man in the coun-t7-
Intemperance in Scotland.
For several reasons, we would call
the attention of our readers to the
condition of things in old Presbyte
rian Scotland. This is acknowledged
to be the most enlightened country in
Europe, if not in the world, and the
Protestant faith is universal. It ought
to be a model of refinement and moral
excellence. Yet, the fact is, Scotland
is, at this hour, more thoroughly
steeped in intemperanee than Ireland
or England, or any other country
in Europe, except, perhaps, Sweden.
The liquor traffic is circumscribed by
licence laws and police regulations.
The friends of a judicious license sys
tem will find, by reference to the
condition of things in Scotland, that
this system is a perfect failure. There,
the greatest possible care is taken to
keep the traffic in tho hands of judi
cious, sober, pious citizens, requir
ing, in many parishes, a certificate
from the minister that the applicant
for a license, is an exemplary and
God fearing man.
Yet, under this rigid surveillance of
even the Church, intemperance has
grown into a gigantic and overpower
in" evil. It has eaten out the vitals
of the Church. Ministers and com
municants are not uufrequently ine
briates. At weddings, private bap
tisms and funerals, it is not uncom
mon to see all intoxicated. Some of the
clergy have urged upon the General
Assembly of the Church, to pass a law
forbidding private baptisms, because
they are made the occasion of drunk
enness, rioting, and every excess.
By the reports made to the General
Assembly, we find that the clergy, in
many places, have limited tho timo
of service at funerals, that tho mourn
ing friends and neighbors might go
home sober.
By the figures and estiraatos of the
Hon. G. II. Porter, F. R, S., Secretary
of the Board of Trade, it appears that
there is consumed in Scotland annually
as fol!ows:J-Whisky $29,600,000;
rum $ 40O0,QOO;strong-bcerlO,OOO,-000;
brandy $1,000,000; wina $1,
000,000. Total 843,500,dOt): The
population of Scotland is about 2,500,
000. The expense of drinking, there
fore, equally divided, would be about
seventeen dollars and a half for every
man, woman and child in the country 1
An intelligent Scotchman, who has
given some attention to this subject,
says, that the direct cost to tho United
Kingdom, in one year, for intoxicating
drinks, will fall very little short of se
venty million puunds, or three hundred
and fifty millions of dollars !
It has been estimated that about
onenullion sterling per annum is con
tribut4, f)e whole civilized world
for the various educational, benevo
lent and religious enterprises, looking
to the enlightening and renovating
this world of darkness and sin. Yet,
Presbyterian Scotland alone expends
more than cisdit times that sum for
intoxicating drinks ! The dawning
of the millenium is certainly not yet.
A writer has said, " The science of
' drink ' in Great Britain yields only
to astronomy in the gorgeous mag
nificence of its numbers, and expands
the soul with a similar feeling of im
mensity. Verily, temperance men have a
mighty work before them, and if they
depend upon their own wisdom and
strength, it will never be accom
plished. But this great reform is
Heaven-conceived, and tho God of
the Universe, who turns tho heurts of
the children of men, as tho rivers of
water are turned, will carry it forward
to ultimate and complete success.
The history of the traffic in England
and Scotland, show the utter folly of
attempting to regulate and limit the
evil by license laws.
The question is a serious one, how
is poor, inebriated bcotlanu to be re
formed? There are peculiar difficul
ties to be met. The Church, " the
light of the world," which is to take
the lead in this purifying process, is
first to be sobered. Tho Old Kirk
stoutly resists the spread of the un
scriptural doctrine of total abstinence,
and tho formation of " infidel socie
ties," which repudiate the gospel doc
trine of temperance, and preach teto
talism. Under the miserable delu
sion that the Scriptures teach the
moderate use of this good creature,
thirty thousand of the good people of
Glasgow alone, go to bed drunk every
Saturday night. This refuge of lies
must be swept away, We are strong
in the faith, that the present move
ments in the United States are to
shake the temple of Bacchus in Eu
rope, that the light of our example is
to dispel the darkness and gloom which
envelope the old world.
Temperance men in America, you
do not sufficiently estimate the great
ness and glory of your work !
When holding your neighborhood,
County, State and National Conven
tions, remember that your action is to
effect the civilized world, not merely
a given locality !
We feel proud to belong to this
apostolic army, engaged in this mil
lennial enterprise. We say to all,
" Come up to the help of the Lord
against the mighty."
Muskingum County, Ohio.
The brethren in this region are al
ways widea wake. The best -Divisions
in tho State are in this county.
The Division of Chandlersville, which
is now five years old, has built a fine
Hall, and propose to dedicate it in due
form on the 22d day of September.
Wo hope to be with them on that in
teresting occasion. We understand
that Olive Branch Division, of Zanes-
ville, the County seat, has 150 good
and true members, with $1000 in
the Treasury. It will be remembered
that of 1,200 voters in that place, 960
petitioned for the Maine Law. Where
the Order flourishes there is power.
"Woodsworth's Youths Cabinet."
A most excellent journal for the
young. It ought to be in every fam
ily. Price one dollar per annum. F.
Baily, on Western Row, near Sixth
street. Cincinnati, Agent.
Another Investigation. The Staten Island
ferry accident, by which eleven lives were
lot mi the 5th of July last, is to be investiga
ted by the Grand Jury uf Richmond county,
n. jr.
"REPORT
"Murder will out" The Burning
of the Heury Clay.
When we first heard of this terrible
disaster on the Hudson River, wo
supposed thatimost likely liquor was
at the bottom of it. One of the wit
nesses, Loyd Minturn, testifies : " 1
did not see much of tho clerk, but the
bar-koepcr and the crew seemed to be
PARTICULARLY EXCITED and MANY CON
GRATULART DRINKS WERE TAKEN AT
the bar. There were a lot of the
waiters on the forward deck talking
about the race, and one of them said
" be wished to be well forward when
the boiler burst." The reader will re
member the fate of the noble steamer
Swallow, on the Hudson, a few years
ago, and the scores of men, women
and children who were launched into
eternity. That, up to the present
time, was tho most terrible disaster
that ever occurred on the Hudson.
The bar, as appeared in evidence at
the time, was the cause of that ca
"jamity. The steamer Moselle was blown up
at Cincinnati, several years ago, and
from two to three hundred persons
killed, and many more crippled and
maimed for life. The Captain of the
boat was drunk at the time, and had
just sworn that he would "make the
quickest trip ever made to Louisville,
or blow the boat to hell."
The subject is now being agitated
in a drunken Congress, as to how these
disasters may be prevented. It is not
likely that they will fall upon the
proper remedy, viz: the Maine Law,
in reference to all boats upon our
rivers and lakes. This would be hard
we acknowledge, for it will be remem
bered that the bill for liquor for the
mourners, who accompanied the re
mains of the noble Clay, from New
York City to Albany, was some two
thousand dollars; but, nevertheless, it
is the best prescription that can be
made, and the only one that will ever
effect tho object. Let the proper offi
cers' search every boat when it leaves
port, and cast overboard every bottle,
demijohn and cask of liquor, and we
shall have no more such casualties.
The people of the United States ought
at once to demand, in the name of
humanity, the enforcement of a Maine
Law upon all public conveyances.
The Organ.
The Editor receives many letters
from friends, expressing the highest
gratification at the manner in which
his department is conducted, Re
cently we have devoted more time to
tho discussion of the many topics con
nected with the great temperance re
form, hoping to make the Organ wor
thy of a more extended patronage,
and secure for it a wider circulation.
It is a poor business to give our time
andattention gratuitously to this work,
and feel at tho same time that so few
persons are benefitted. We hope we
are actuated by an earnest and single
desire to do good, and if our paper
had ten thousand readers, we should
feel more like writing, and would
most cheerfully spend more time than
we do in preparing oureditorials. The
Publisher can get along with the pres
ent support, but the Editor wants a
larger crowd "to talk to." If every
reader of this article would exert him
self to procure at least one new sub
scriber, the Editor would take it as a
personal favor, as an evidence that
his efforts to do good were appreciated,
and an encouragement to labor on in
this important field. The Publisher
asks for "the dimes," tho sinews of
war with him, we ask for readers,
the only incentive to increased exer
tion on our part. It is a most miser
able economy on the part of temper
ance men to withhold aid from their
press. There are scores of men in
Ohio, who ought to make out lists of
ten and twenty names of persons who
are "perishing for lack of knowledge"
in their vicinity and send the names,
with the money, to the publisher. Let
the poor inebriate and his family have
the paper, let the liquor-seller and
distiller, and lifeless christian be in
vited to look into tho Organ weekly,
without charge. The money thus ex
pended would not be thrown away.
We have known many conversions by
this means. There are thousands and
tens of thousands who ought to take
our paper, and many of them would
do so if a respectable neighbor would
ask them. Reader, will you attend to
this request ?
Rev. 3Ir. Tintall, a licentiate ol the Third
Presbytery ol New York, has been invited to
the Second Presbyterian Church in Dayton,
O.of which Dr. flail was formerly a pastor.
Whiskey in Grocery Stores.
Since the " No Liceaso " clause
has been in operation, many of our gro
cery keepers, not satisfied with their
legitimate trade, have introduced the
" ardent" into their stores for sale by
the glass. We have always con
demned this practice, as have many
of our best citizens. The customers
of these half-grogshops nro getting
tired of the practice, and havo re
solved to put a stop to it. Tho fol
lowing protest was circlulated, signed,
and then read to the keeper, for hrm
to reflect upon. It fully speaks for
itself. The "stuff" will have to be
rolled out, for the grocery cannot be
sustained without the patronage of the
signers. There are many more con
cerns that we could name, that should
I e dealt with in a similar way. It is
the only argument that such whisky
deulers will listen to:
We, the undersigned, residing in
the vicinity of the Grocery Store of
Wm. Lance, near the corner of George
and Linn streets, do hereby pledge
ourselves no longer to deal in said
establishment; inasmuch as intoxica
ting liquor is there dealt out to all who
choose to buy. By patronising such
shops, we encourage both dram-selling
and dram-drinking ; and hence we
havo resolved to withdraw our patron
age, and cast our influence in the op
posite scale.
So soon, however, as we shall be
satisfied that the salo of liquor in tho
aforesaid establishment has been sus
pended, we will again extend to it
our former patronage: bnt not till then.
F. A. B. Simkins,
Elias Long let,
Mas. Vaier.
Mrs. Thoms,
Mas. Biiadford,
Mrs. Thomas,
John G. Enos,
John F. Wiltser,
S. I). IIown,
Wm. Quin,
J. S. Hewlett,
Isaac Marsh, Jr.
Rev. W. Chamberlain,
Jas. Wilson,
Acknowledgments.
Bro. W. Hanneman, Indianapolis,
la., $1 60.
Bro. Jno, Jobling, Zanesville, O.,
1. All right, send them on.
Bro. W. II. Clark, St. Clairsville,
alias Snaketown, 0., $1. How are
the Snakes, Bro. Clark? We should
like to hear from them again.
Bro. Edward Booth, D. G. W. P.,
New Orleans, 81. 1
Bro. Jno. R. Williams, Salem, O.,
sends us $10 and ten names from
Randolph, 0. Bro. W. says we shall
hear from him again.
In another letter, tho same brother
sends us two names and $2, from
Salem.
Bro. J. J. Kennedy, West Bedford,
0., $2 for tho Organ and Illustrated
Maine Law. Bro. K. is right side up,
and will do what he can for the causo
by circulating the Organ.
Bro. S. R. Tucker, Gratiot, 0 91.
Bro. W. Riddle, Petersburgh, Ky.,
1.
Bro W. R. Jackson, D. G. W. P.,
Columbia, O., $11 for eleven names,
sent some months asro.
The Bites of the Serpent.
A New York paper says, "Ono
hundred and fifty persons died in New
York city, durintr tho last twelve
months of delirium tremens! There
were nine murders, caused by rum,
and nearly ten thousand five-day com
mitments lor drunkeness, during tho
same time. 1 et politicians, office-
seekers aud their dupes, say Govern
ment has no right to interfere 1
Cadets of Temperance.
We are requested to call the atten
tion of Cadets to the meeting of tho
Grand Section in this city, on the
second Tuesday in September next.
Let there be a full attendance from all
the S tions in the State, as business
of much importance to tho Order wil
be transacted.
714 annual consumption of iron in tho Uni
ted States, amounts to about one million tons
per auuum, or one hundred pounds to each
person.
The debt ol the American Board ol Mission!
has recently been canceled by contributions
from various C'hnrches, and the new fiscal year
opens with a balance ol $5,25 on the right
side.
The Millerites yet maintain their distance
as a sect. A few days since they held a camp
meeting iu South Weymouth, Massachusetts,
which was very respectably attended.
Ferry Davit, the 'Pain-Killer' man, is build
ing a church in Providence, Khode Island, at
an expense of some $12,000 or $15,000.
It u said th peach erop ol Messrs. John
Reynold A. Bros., of Delaware, will yield 80,
000 baskets this year.
Rev. Henry Davis has accepted the post ol
assistant secretary aud general aRent ol the
American Baptist Home Mission Society.
Rev. Win. N. Irish, of Va., hag accopted
the temporary charge ol St. Paul'i Episcopal
church at Columbus, Ohio.
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