fo the Mitor 4 the ■' Since the first moven&|t of the people in the city of Philadelphia, where the pledge to abstain from the use of spirit uous liquors as a beverage was first adopt* e d, more than one generation of people have come and passed a|?ay, and the pres ent one is nowagitatin#the subject anew, B nd of which many show themselves ig* noraht of the revolution then produced jo the drinking habits of the people, and of the great value of thh means made use of to produce the change. I resided in Philadelphia when this temperance move* oeni first began, and had done so for many years before and tifter that time, and with your permission will make some statements as to the dpinking customs of oor people at that tip&e, the measures e d to bring about! 'a change therein and the effects produced thereby , The facts which I will state are of my own knowledge, and may be of use to some at least of those now .very, active, in what is co w called the “total prohibition move ment. ’ During the war of 1812, and down to about the years of 1825 and 1826 the use of spirituous drinks as a beverage was uni versal throughout our State and along the seaboard of our whole Union, and by iigb and low, old and yonng ; very little comparatively of malt liquors was made or used then, and much that was used was imported ; of wine what was used was by the wealthy, none being made in the Uni ted Slates. Most of tfie spirituous liquors used were also -imported, but the poorer qualities,-whisky and rum, were made here and retailed at very low prices per drink or measure, . and intoxication whs of very common occurrence. Many for eigners, English and German, particular ly, being used at home to drink wine or beer, and unused to our stronger, cheap whisky and rum, soon and easily became drunken from their use, who were but seldom so under the influence of their own drinks at home. Almost all men drank their “bitters” early in the morn ing ; working men, mechanics, &c., very generally drank their “grog” at “grog lime,' 1 morning and evening. A very common piece of furniture was a “side board,” well furnished with cat glass de canters and wine glasses, frequently very costly, with good display of wine, cor dials, brandy, &c., for the “refreshment” i of visitors, &c. If a baby cried, “it had the colic,” and a little toddy was its cure, t and an appetite for strong drink implant ed in the constitution for all time, if it had not been born with it. In steam boats, taverns, &c., decanters of “bran dy/’ spirits,” were as common on tfie pub lic dinner table as was the salt cellars. It was deemed unfriendly not to ask a friend, when you met him or when he visited you, to drink with you, and equal- Jranttisaily in himAo .refuse, to. drink when asked. In a word the drinking of spirituous liquors was very common and general, and intoxication not rare. This was the slate of the case when from Princeton Seminary came the cry of re form v A public meeting was called and held in Philadelphia, where speeches were made against the use of spirituous irinks as a beverage; representations were made of the very great evil arising from their use, and pledges asked and given to abstain in future from their use. This movement was followed with great saccess all over the United States, east, west, north and south ; and Ibave never seen so great a change and revolution in &ny custom and habit as was then, and for many years afterwards, produced under '.be power and influence of reason and ar gument; and of “moral suasion.” No per son thought of calling for the aid of leg islative law or force of any kind other than reason, ic. Many of the worst in ebriate? became sober and temperate, and oi them many became eminent apostles -I temperance. The Washingtonians be well known for their power and in all over the country. Mathew, an apostle of temper a3:'e' c *m'- from Ireland, and with bis el “iuence turned many thousands of his -•untrymen from intemperance to a P-'edge of total abstinence from iq-toxical mg drinks. The brandy, whisky and rum the cut glass decanters were banished uom the sideboards in private houses, and *;so from the dinner tables in taverns and steam boats. There are many men now Tln £ whom I knew as men of intemper u::tlking habits, who were persuaded ■'abstain, and who became instruments 1D l worship to that of Christian by leg- Stive law, or by the use of any means no t used in their own churches among r own P eo ple for the same purpose, j il not be profitable if! tfc “ d enness with all temptations and ex h es everywhere around them. nd now after many years* battling te with our Legislatures and Courts about licensing houses for the retail of Intoxi eating drinks, lessening the confidence of our people in both, the duty is now re ferred to us, the people, to decide the question. In Beaver Falls there are, I be lieve, six houses authorized by law to sell ; spirituous or ; other intoxicating drinks, and to tempt men to the ruin of themselves and families. I know these houses, being so licensed, do tempt and cause many of our hard “working and oth erwise worthy citizens to drink and spend their hard earned money to the great "In jury of themselves, personally, and tfcir families also. While being opposed to the use of all force, yet l am, if possible, more opposed to putting temptation all along our public streets to induce our peo ple to spend their money for their great ruin. I appeal to those men- themselves to say if .this is not the result. I feel sure that many of them will vote on the 14lh of this month, next Tuesday, at the borough election, against license. I ap peal to all good citizens, whether they occasionally drink or not, to vote against those temptations being placed i along our streets by the authority of the law. None are so much injured by in temperance as women, and I appeal to every women, old and yonng, to use all her great influence to induce all having a vote to vote agat&st licensing houses for the sale of intoxicating drinks : use every argument ami persuasion to ibduce those you honor ttncL love to vote against license.. Every man and ;wbniaQ WKo\ does not wish the great sin to.test.upon their consciences of having been lof tempting their neighbors, their hua-i j band, their son, or their father and broth | er to drunkenness and ruin, will tote , or do all they can to induce others to vole ' against license. i As I have said lam not in favor of any I force or coercion of any kind being made { use of to.promote temperance or any prin ! ciple of morality or religion ; but the best 1 of all. prayers leaches us to pray that we may not be led into temptation—so I would not wish to he the means of tempt ing my friend and neighbor to sin against himself and, family and society. I have seen, on several occasions, on a large scale, when the temptation of strong drink was removed, a perfect revolution in the char acter and condition of mechanics and workingmen -and families, followed as ( a consequence. Messrs- White & Hazard were manu facturers of iron, wire, boilers and other sheet iron, &c, giving employment to many men in the Schuylkill; and when the city of Philadelphia built the Fairmount dam it flowed over tbeir works and water power, and the city bonght their rights and property, and White & Hazard bought large tracts of coal lands in the Lehigh river, and took their men up there to build railroads, ca nals r -t<> open up the.- coaLmi nesy to build a town, &c, all upon a large i scale. The change produced in the char i acter and happiness of the working peo ; pie was wonderful. Men from being ( poor, drunken, bad husbands, bad fathers j and bad citizens, became the reverse in all i respects And all this was brought about J simply by the banishment of intoxicating j temptations from their vicinity. I have i often heard Mr. Hazard speak of this i wonderful improvement in the character and circumstances of bis people from this cause, the removal of temptation . Many of you have beard of the great Wm. Wirt, of Baltimore. When a young man at the bar at Baltimore tbe Court ap pointed him to defend a young lad, the son of a widow, who was on trial fqr robbing the money drawer of Eton* where he was employed as clerk ; on the trial it was shown that the storekeeper had often left money loosely in the draw er and elsewhere to see if the boy would steal ; the young man withstood it all un- | til on an occasion when his mother’s fur- 1 niture was to be sold for her rent, money being again left to tempt him, tbe poor boy could not resist and took as much as | would save bis mother’s goods. The pros i ecuiing attorney was very severe Upon ! the culprit, and demanded that an exam ple should be made of him in an able speech. In his defence Mr. Wirt simply read the testimony, showing how his cli ent had been! tempted, and read from tbe Bible the Lord’d, Prayer, “Lead us not in -Ito temptation,” and argued that the i *tempier of the child was the guilty party j and not the tempted. The jury thought i so and their verdict was not guilty. Now let none of us with whom the power now vests be guilty of putting temp tation in our brother’s way, but do all that each ot us can to vote against license for the retail of intoxicating drinks. If Beaver Falls and New Brighton will give a majority against license on Tuesday, the 14th inst., the county will give a large majority against it. Let all pray that this shall be the result. Old Brighton. —A Washington dispatcb, of January 4tb. says: In conversation, this morning, Secretary Belknap said that General Sco field’s visit to the Sandwich Islands at the present time had no political significance whatever, and the report that be has gone on a secret mission is a pure invention. Gen. Scofield telegraphed tbe Secretary of War that a naval vessel was about to sail for the Sandwich Islands, and request ed a brief leave of absence that be might take this trip, which was granted. Gen. Scofield goes upon bis own volition, not at tbe suggestion of the administration. Tbe statement that the President is look ing to the acquisition of these Islands is also authoritatively denied. ' - • , - - - • • •• V :■? •:**■'. ** -v.' ’ * • • • - the late Argus correspondent, tlief following communication Beaver Falls Chinese Labcw tiqn scheme, which In form is: 6dl dressed to the editor oF the and is partly in answer to the inboh*. ftiderateand foolish pabUftbr ed in the 18th of December, issue of that paper. Without adopting the views of “Homo” we permit hint to free his mfnd; johw chnrin&N va inEßioMi o AMD BSQUiH LABOR. To the Editor of the Beater Argue. Sir:—ln your issue of the l6th ultimo,: yon take the' liberty of expressing your, views in regard to Coolie Libor at the Beaver FSUs Cutlery, and in so doing your state that "these Chinamen are bone' of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, the same] God who made us, made thein, and our’ common Creator gave us the whole earth as our habitation. * He did not say to us, ‘you live here, and work here,’ and to the Chinamen, ‘you live there arid work, there.’ He gave us and them, liberty go whithersoever we felt inclined, and wherever our interest led us." The above we allow to be in perfect harmony with the Divine will, hut where do we find it recorded that the John China man shall be bought and sold in gangs to satisfy the abnormal appetite of such, speculators as those at the Beaver fFallsCutloiy?. | ■ v dohn Chinameu as an individual, and John Chinaman in gangs bonght, and fSblct.iby. stich men as Ah Chuck, and hustled around over ■ the country, (as in times gone by,) like plantation darkies, to break down the price of American labor, is quite a different article, than the “liberty to go wheresoever they felt inclined and wherever their interest led them." We allow tbat the Chinamen, as well as any other foreigner, has a perfect right to migrate to this country,or “whithersoever he may feel inclined,” to better bis con dition. He has h right, too, to learn a trade,and to engage in any manner of work best suited to himself, and at* whatever price he chooses, and no one will coolest the affair with him. He wilhsoon learn better, aiid find that life means far more to a full grown man than a pint of rice, and a gargle o£tea a day. His needs will increase with bis knowledge and. oppor- tunities. But we do not allow “that until the in* trod action of Chinese Labor -into the works they were unproductive,”' hlfer ing that through the the Coolie, that the Cutlery is uow- insiiiuiion. We would here say ' fearless of a successful contradicliop. that the Cutlery don't pay at and further that all the cheap* Coolie Labor that they can pije ; iniAiby institn they have got an elephant , and all the Chinese junks tbaVthey can command to carry the beast, and all the John China man cheap labor that they are able to cram down the elephant’s throat, will not prove an antidote, or relieve the poor brute of its epizootic. “The owners of the poor beast referred to above, were therefore obliged to either procure cheaper labor, or close up entirely, and they chose the first alternative, knowing well that a choice of the second would deal their town a blow from which it would take a long lime to recover.” A thousand times over it would have been better for them to have killed the elephant that they had then on hand, than to send for one hundred and sixty more,which has dealt a death blow to their town more fated than had they applied the torch to the estab lishment. , These exotics don’t come here to build towns, or to become American citizens, neither to have their children educated to learn our language, that they may en- joy the privileges of a free intelligent republic. They are simply birds of pass age. They roost among us, intending every mother’s son of them, to go back to China again, as soon as they can save a hundred or two doilarsj. With; this amount, they will be ‘‘retired merchants” in their country, and will be “quoted on change," and run theta own set of family idols. These Coolies, when they arrive fn this country, “bunt up work at once, agree to perform it at a moderate price, and pay for everything they purchase.” * When and how do the Chinese “hunt up work ?” When they are brought up by the cargo long before they read* the American shore, by greedy speculators In human blood, and then sold out again to the highest bidder to do the damnable work assigned to thgjn* by their- task* masters, to cut down the wages of our American citizens to fifty cents per day. Men of Beaver county, and Beaver Falls* see to it that these Coolies pay their School tax, and County tax, and every other tax that you are called upoin to pay, and demand cheaper house rents from those oppressors of the poor that are worth; their lf they want cheap labor, demand cheap rent and cheap taxes. The editor of the Arqm will please dis continue my paper for I can’t conscien tiously patronize a paper that upholdsa system that is calculated to injure my fel low men. I discountenance it in the same manner that I did the system of American Slavery. I will not if I know it, use any thing that is produced by the accursed system. You will now please discontinue nfy paper. And oblige the late “Homo" of tub *'Argus” ■5 V - • t,Bochertcr. ■ ..Bcajfr .„ /, ■#< extendveljr circa* Western Ballraad.. «• m; Accommoditior wf *OP% at Bt.ia.; times XtsUrs ja*fl Item it Bp. suanim at »*. m. HevJtfm (instead o! Monday), on Saturday, at B p. nu Black Hswk,st.Clair, Clarkson and Kew Lisbon.) H. HOBS*' ; Sleiyh/or Sol€~-lu(\\x\:q of Dr. j. C. Levis, Brwgew&terZ. - *-S5iJ IFe sre ltidebted to HoD. Js. ; Beath,»lrveydrG«neralof this Btate,for (be ADDW(I Beport of tb« SurveyorCten eral, forlbejear ending November 30tb, •1872. The to get toots .and .shoes/ 1 to salt, andjpheap is at W. E. filaaghterhech, 173 Federal 5 street, Allegheny city, r ■ Se? • ' '^'v*! •'-•■ ♦—! j county was erected the! twe Ifth ot March, 1800, and formed of a part 6f Allegheny And Washington conn* ties: The Constitutional Convention assem bled in Philadelphia on Tuesday, and im- thb heavy, work will begin. Andttow MiUer, Esq. f of Hanover township. abbut four weeks ago sold the Harper }|n&; of 200 acres, located near for|Booo, to Alexander An dj wbd|lheabove township. ■ of the Argus has dis fidbt. of Beaver, Pa., and the batinessbfthe concern will hereafter be conduc&dPndertbe name of Weyand & ' • r&- "**' m • .f been six deaths by small; fbrty otber cases of varioloid and Castle* and measures afe to prevent its further spread. nqUcc by our exchanges that ihediaeaseia breaking out in different sections Of the State. Uthe CC&3 weather' following go. sooif after the ’rain, and, freezing the flooded streets, made the walks and roads during the early .part of the week almost impas sible for pedestrians. In Beaver Falls on Monday there were several falls of people oh thrice by which three received- hro keh and one old lady, it 4s, was Injuied fatally. r -,“' 1 t —-■ ■ ■ -- Wm, Hobb, purchaseda>j|ri||in aabt|>r'-frotnt th consisting of 116 acres, acre. Our columns are equally at the dispo sal of the friends and opponents of Local Option. We are in favor of the measure, but desire that the question shall have a full and Impartial bearing. We publish this week a very interesting letter, by “Old Brighton,” on the prohibition side, and ask for it careful consideration. H,Jt. Moore, Esq,, and bride, re turned* to Beaver Wednesday morning from their pleasant wedding tour. They are to board with Mrs. Stokes during the winter. The bride and groom being well known in this community, and having a large circle of friends and y well wishers, will doubtless be the recipients ofmany and warm congratulations. The Board of Auditors of Beaver county, consisting J. H. Christy, of Rac coon, Charles A. Hoon, of Beaver Falls, and Rev. C. C. Riggs, of Beaver, entered on their work last Monday. These gentlemen are well qualified for the busi ness, and no doubt will audit the ac counts of the county with dispatch, and to the entire satisfaction of everybody. The Heathen Chinee on a Strike. —The Chinese are apt. imitators and quick to iearn.and like Americans,believe in equality of rights. It seems that the Beaver Falls Cutlery Company made a difference in the wages of the first and second lot of Chinese laborers. The differ ence was siigbt, and in favor of the first comers,bnt the last batch won Id not be thus slighted and demanded to be placed on an equality before the Coolie-contracting system under which they are employed. The affair is not cleared up, and the facts are somewhat obscured, but there appears to have been a strike followed by a com promise of some sort, and now we under stand everything is lovely and the Orien tals are smiling childlike and bland. The committee on Permanent Certifi cates, elected at the recent Institute in Beaver, organized by electing Benj, Franklin of FaUston, Chairman, and J. G. Hillman, of Freedom, Secretary. The committee will meet at Rochester school house for the purpose of examining appli cants £for Permanent Certificate, on the last Saturday* in March and first Sat urday in September. 1878, at 9 o’clock a. If., of said days. Ail applications lor the Permanent Certificate must be ia the bauds of the Secretary at least two weeks before the days appointed for examina tion. No application will be considered or endorsed by soy individual of the Committee. . Applicants are requested to observe the foregoing directions carefully. ***ano Charley Greeting , on New Years day, while on a hnnt with? several other boys, near New Galilee, met w|lh quite an accident. One of bis companions was punching a fox hole with his gun, and in some way the muzzle was pointed towards Charley, who fearing that it might go off, undertook to torn it aside with bis arm, when accidentally the discharge took place and lodged a number of shot in bis left arm. Drs. Brittain and Hepburn were called, who extracted the shot and dressed the wound. We are glad to know that nothing more serious resulted, and that Charley is doing well- Boys should not play wnh fire arms. The Woman Question in a New Light,—A lecture will be delivered by Prof. Leo. Miller, at the Court House in Beaver, Friday evening, January 10, on the subject of “Woman and Her Relations to the Cause of Temperance.” Admit tance freel The Professor is an able and eloquent lecturer and should have a house, as no doubt he will have. Literary and Musical Enter tainment,—The juvenile performers of the ‘‘Busy Bee” lodge of the Band of Hope, will give an entertainment in “Templars Hall,” Bridgewater, on Tues day evening, January 14.1873, commenc ing at 7 o’clock. Admission 25 cents; children 15 cents. - Having at their previous engagement •only performed their exercises in part, the Band of Hope will entertain their pat rons with many new and edifying pieces, ..dialogues &o- lf _ Fox Hunt, —On Saturday, January 18, there will be a grand fox hnnt be tween Homewood and New Galilee, cen tering in the woodland near Mr. James Scott’s farm. A grand hunt is anticipat ed, and all lovers of that sport arc cor dially invited to partiepate. The Beaver County Fur Company will no doubt be on baud, and we shall expect to bear a good report from it. Ws learn there is to be anew paper started al Baaver Falla, to be printed in ttae Chinese lan guage . How is that for Bro. Hays? —Lawrence Guardian, If the above paper is printed in the Chinese language, it will be of little in terest to any one except a Chinese. We suppose it wHI be conducted in the inter ests of retrenchment and reform, and “for ways that are dark, and tricks thjtt are vain,” the Chinese paper will be peculiar. Robt, Ilarsha , of Hanover, bad a mare kicked by another horse on Satur day night, breaking its leg and rendering it unfit for further use. He shot it the next morning. We are indebted to the publisher J, L. Peters, 599 Broadway New York, for specimen copies of some excellent sheet music, among which are, “Hear me say my Little Prayer,” by A E. Pratt, “Ask ing a Blessing from Mother,” by J. E. Steward, “Sunbeans March,” by Miss Helen M. Skaals, “You’ll Always Find me True,” by Will S. Hayes. DonH forget Prof. Leo Miller’s temper ance lectnre on Friday evening the 10th, inst. He lectured on last Monday in Greenville, Mercer county. MARRIED. METZGAR—RUSSELL—December 31st, 1872, by Bov. M. L. Wortman, Ur. William A, Metzgar, of Salinesvilie, Ohio, to Miss Sarah A. Russell, of Industry, Pa. (Argos and Conservative please copy.) THOMAS—THOMPSON—December 80th, by Rev, J. L. Fulton, assisted by Rev. A. O. Rockwell, Mr. Jonathan Thomas and Miss Isabella Thomp son. SHORT—McALLISTER—By Rev. J. P. Cnm mings, at the house of the brides parents. Jana ary 2d, 1873, Hr. Daniel B. Short, to Miss Jane McAllister. Both of Beaver county. Pa. ROT- -BAXTER—January Ist, 1873, by Rev. John M’Csrty, Mr. William Roy, ofPnlaski, and Miss Maggie Baxter, of New Brighton, Pa. / MOODY—December 80th, 1872, Mr. James Moody, of Hancock county, West V irginia. MOLTBR—In Beaver Falls, Pa., on December 26th, 1872, Johnny, eon of hansel and Jennie Uolter, aged 2 years, lb months and 5 days. ORR—In Beaver, Pa., on Janaary 6lfa, 187 S, Linnie, eon of William and Blla Orr, aged 5 years and 4 months. By Ordeb of Committee. DIED . » Oor Bodlly Infirmities. all.; Httilpas are always sickr Ito man, woman or child is niu formiy in perfect health. Hock; however, of the sickness and suffering which render life a burden to so many of onr fellow beings Is due to care lesaness and neglect. A mighty antidote, to. the . eadlng cause sof disease bas been provided. It as harmless as It is efficient. Vo poisonous drugenters Into its composition. It is an unde filed stimulant, tonic and aperient, of which every ingredient la Vegetable. Tbls .unexceptionable preventive and restorative medicine is not ‘.‘a new thing under tbe annl” Hbstetter’a Stojmch. Bit teT* wiU Sbdn have been before the world 'qni terbf a century; and It la not too moth to avbr that thousands, aye, teas of tbonrands. are tow nsing . it- who, would ~havc bs,en , In. their graves . years ago tad they not been attongthWoii and ana tabled by this wholesome stimulant/ Tboffaptai tj with whlcß minor ailments often bccome,when neglected, obstinate dise«ses,lß well kfedto. This tonic te Damons for be immediate cheek which it gives to those breeders of deadly, disorders. Tbe sensation oflanguor, the sick headache, the ner vousness, the indispositionto exertion, the' nan .sea, the confusion of brain, the physical debility, intended tp prempnlsb us of the ap proach of serious danger, are invariably removed by a few doses of the Bitters. The fame of the preparation as a genuine specific for dyspepsia, billions complaints, malarious fevers,’rheumatism and chronic debility. Is as wide afij the worid; .and in these days, of infamous-charlatanism,'when fierce cathartics, that rob the invalid, of the last remnants of his strength, are advertised as invlg orants (?>, it is indeed a blessing to mankind that Hostetler’s Stomach Bittera are .everywhere pro curable, and everywhere popular. jan3-lm, Th.e rise and fall of numbcrl'ess machines heralded as superior to all has ebtivlnccd the pablic that it is safer to buy a good article of established reputation and of responsible parties than to risk their money in doubling experiments’ ' Scores of Sewing Machines have disappeared and left purchasers of machines with np means & repair or obtaining needles and parts of machines greatly to the detriment of the Sewing Mach ine business. The Singer Sewing Machine Company was first,established in 1846. The rapid progress of this popular machine In the estimation of "the public was such that from a small shop over a railroad depot on Broadway the Company have now one of the largest manufactories in the United States, and are now giving employment to over 3,800 hands, and sold last yeat 181,260 machines. With ample and unequalled manufacturing facili ties, they have spared no expense to: render the machine as perfect as it can be made,—it has been improved as to sew the heaviest and thickest cloth * manufactured, with