petual, constantly increasing, enirnated mom'. moor.. It is not neressarY • for me to accupy this nu dience with arguments intended to prove to them , the evils of intentperaii... , . It is only necessary forsou, my friends, to search the records of your j own hearts—to associate yonr . dlf with men in their daily walks—to enter into the ordinary do mestic scenes of life, these willspeak to you in a language simple and familiar; what kvo see home }u `the mind—the telescope of : truth. stripsi the distance of its fantacioti,_ and brings life near r in utter nakedness i our own observation. is this most efficient engine of instruction ; enforces while it inculcates, and stimulates wittlell teaches. 'ho amerigtis, my friends, has not seen the 1 fital-elfects of-this destructive vice—who of us: indeed,, has Ttot , :watehea: with painful andety; with . impotent interest, the down ward progress of ; some-near friend:, or rolativo.perhaps, for .vvlVonki the' pathway of life looked bright and joyous= Whom a successful and ,eminent career was 'pro. phesied=watched him sinking, through the vari. ous elages of. dovadation - into a drunkard's grave. -whose h e art does not sicken asmemory recalls some such in,tance. Intemperance !it is the can ker worm of human hsppitiess; - once fastened on the heart of man, it lets not gaits hold Jill itAas distroyed every . tie of friendship, every sPell nt love: - - In the descriptioa of its evils all the wealth of langungii is t urne4l Ut penury ; even the buin inepords of holy Wilt seem irnpuissant when employed to describe its horrors. !It coe;vdiaint in-band with infidelityit bids the spiriaf man bow down at an unholy shrine—the .stkreOt of feLtione, the fondest hopes, tho hrighte4 visions 'of - earth sria•O/Tered a sacrifice to m &filen, that tiyren like; sings on oblivious lulahy to reason, while the sparkling wine glitters alluringly in the ,cup, end shadowy illusions come with pleasing .i unction to the soul But the wormwood and the gall of bluer conscaplunces are mingling with the dregs st the bottom of the goblet. . Like the fruit . of Paradise, salio;e mortal tarte brought death into the world. and all our woe, in ' temperance has ever been the bane of loan. infe rior only in its terrible desolati•ms; lir> that Mighty mischief wrou,ght Eden. There seems some occult charm, some invisible 6pirit in. the cup,. t _ which, be it angel or be it devil, fascinates beyond ;; our comprehension,-and shoes its strength li t c; mighty desolations. I sin not sktlled, enough in rho mysteries or our humari nature to account for the preiernaltiral eagerness IA ith s which man courts his ruin and hugs to hi's bosom en enemy that clings to him, rid will not. let go. its hold till it destroyed the tied of off,ction, turned the Milk of human happiness into tha hinerness or gall—and driven its i - ictinis to become the tool of passibn—the dlipc of 'avaricious an d diiiigning 'villainy. that lailies ,him with the' Scorpion thong of tin imperious and unrelenting despotism—scat leis arrows, firebrands, and death through all the blessings-of our social state,"—toppelsreason from her*throne; and reduces the intellectual fires to feeble, flickering,. painful teaming's. Ihat serve like homing flambeaus in a charnel house, only to reveal the hediobsisesa of the place-and the prey of the worm: - lle chase the plAnto - in pleasure. birwarell from behind thekurtain of all the glare of the. gayest revelry, we players merely, disport our antics in unbrideled'rnirth, demon protrudes his_hehiouslirrail and grins and gibbers and chuckles Wirh fiendish exultMion„ while he mixes the fatal ingredients of a deadly poison to' bo drained by u 3 with the' intoxicating. draft of pleasure. Do the throllhinis af ambition fill your soul, and has the, praise of your fellow .men become a precious incense alien it ia a sWeet thought and tall of melody, let it tremble-over your heart strings and kindle with a healthy inu• sic, that.'while your means are virtuous your ends be noble., But On! befie, beware, the - tempter, resist hint, in whale7tr he presents If You yield once, calling-it' good corn- . parithoship end good fellowship, you will yield again, and'again, and soon acquire such a habit bf Yielding, that letnptation heed only present it selflo be followed : habit will draw itself mound yoti, still tightening the coil, till the chain be- comes too permanent.t.u_lta broken by a temporary twine of rrinnrse or 0 . 4 e power of 'a. half forme .t 1 resolution.. Have you not all of you 'observed And marked .. the progressive dominion roff the temp ter, nverieme youth, who entered upon the career of life full of buoyant hopes and brilhant aatici• pations. He become a man and takes upon him the duties and responsibilities of a husband; to his-,wife he, is kind and affeetionate; while - new feelings an new hopes exist, but i tender him happy. The husband becomes a father, and the little prattling oft pring of his love become more links in his Attain of happiness,—he lives and re: Tole in the'bive and devotion of a fond husband and an Affectionate, fathe'r, :Gradually he is drawn into the giddy, senseless vortex of fashionable 0/inking; his business first droops: then withers, Then dies wider his neglect. He becomes careless of. himself, reckless of the c;piniut of men: .first coldnes,t, then abuse meted nut It) 114 becomes, try degrees, More and more foolish, ne 7 ,•glectfut, cruel and exciting, till 'he whose foul- steps: returning to his family told been the liarbin= ger of joy; whose entrance t t a his home . had for merly brought a radiant glad smile to the lips and .eye of hils wife, and called forth the fond kiss and endearing caresses of youthful lore from his, chil ' dren, has' become to his wife a sultject• of dread ; to his children a presedee to lie feared; awl to those around hien, a mark for the finger of scorn or the, ciclanation ‘ -of pity. Alas! the world is., . full of sureh instances. , ' What a charm Feats upon the: endearing name of home! home consecrated Vy domestic love, by • the putest feelings of the human heart ; thee? . father vcelmnies with fond atilt-non : a sisters - ay:ill 'pathy comforts in sorrow "and assists in trial ; i there a, pious • mother, when site knew us better thafa4 knew ourselves, and loved us better too. wateWil over us avith tender care, a n‘l with a de, p • solicit Ode for o.'sr 'eternal ti't - ing. early taught our iirfantdipsTo lisp the words of prayer. Home! the only paradise of earthly happiness; without It and its endearing associations, lift• is like a temple stripPCl.l of ita garlands. Home. sweet home! the'l pathway of- life may be painful,. it , : nary he elm _quered withsorrow and with rare, unkindness and frowns may:wither the joyousneSs of the fierier anartrace the smile from the . bro,w, , saind betieVO' . life's way with tears—still our arecti r inls will tile 'ger fondly around our home,—thee. are 'these lavhe love us still, and that thought is happineiy. Hush I 1-c still ! see ! 1 .1 a destioycr enters' this .paradise of tranquillity and bliss. to turn its harmo, ny .into discord; its happiness intoi woe. The footsteps of the demon are on the threshold—Mark , ' his foul feil work within. -.Listen to) the nil:tugs j of that poor maniac 111.1t1 who finicteS that the • tortures of the damned are already I his; ice!! there -is blood'on tire floor-and by thiObittle, on • that. Old • broken table!—my God! I . a nisi ha's passed intweterniiv ! How prepared r Would ' to. God that I could drop the curtairl here!—bus, alas' the, hand writing on the wall' heal. alre.vir inscribed the *revokable deerec—'-Tlie Drunkard caanotinheril the Kiriztlon, of God." Oh ruin! ruin! ruin! how at stilt rg. and te&ilile arc the .desolations. Listen now to the molninas oldie Poor widow, ns she wrings her cold lauds in ago: ny, and j walks her lonely chandler, night •alier ••• ,night-- s See those orphan children taking the thin •Ktrul of that Mother, and gazing upi l into her on- Meaning face I—the fountains of the heart are dried up. Hear the sound of the trad of the na • :Ited feet of Untie orphans; acs thatiwidow's wild ...eye and haggard brow: this is the, home of the desofate and broken hearted! and qh! too many • ibleeding, lacerated hearts atterdtiro,r, of the Otture—the . separation of allimb tv main . -force from ins parent trunk is a horror that makes hum thity Shudder--the flesh trill qui ver where the -pincers tear, and the sundered fiber tremble with s convulsive movement,: so will, the heart, when its cards of all mien are rudely. snapped asunder. (Tht: no fate en h . ard as hers who is' a widow' . whale her' htishand.' is yet alive; whose children' are. orphans' while their father fives., Brothers, I find tam encroaching' longer upon . your time. than I„had intended; perhaps I have already arearied your patieselbear with me a .1 few minutes longer, if you plesse r rind / shalt has. ten to conclude. You are engaged in a great, and as I believe, a' God approved enterprise. You are working for the cads° cf mankind. Yours is a nobte.organi zation—the. *ma of Temperance have already done incalculable good, yet much remains for you still to do: on every radiant page 'of your'trium lrhal records are troths to' flash corivictiun - ert' The mind. and will with every trophy. t ef henevoletsce set up along your verdant track, a!doper bold on the best feelings of the heart. The triumphs of the past are. pledges .for the: future ; in the cleat eye of .faith your history tecomes refulgent Pro phesy : struggle on,.and onward your radiant,ban ner shall be borne in triumph through the world— neither fear nor-douht,. for over you is the broad shield of the Omnipotent, and with the pillars of !loud end fire the path of duty is marked out be fore you. Man was greater.' in the unage,ofhie Maker to reflecthis 'attribute's and perfection: cre sted an intelligent, tl inking, reasoning, eympa i ) -thising being—and i tended by his creator to beg a sobe r being; and h'. ; despair not, for these ..will %tome a time whe this great truth electrical, shall lull ftoru man ll' man,. and the old cemented pyramids of error, shall is ith.one flash be crum bled into atoms. Wilhin your organization is a -continual tendency tn thi'4 one great end—alar.: monious niorementliective wprkingamt a sure ti result. How long will it be before ye - have ac , cemplished the good you aim at. Let no man - who loves his race and augers favorably Kits des... I ,tiny, be put out of countenance by the question. How long is. it since tbis 'vast continent, now the 1 seat of Christianity and of letters, arid the abeide of I un intelligent population, was a home for tribes of painted savages? If, the progress of human iin ! prnvement has been rapid in the field, it wilt be I vastly accelerated in the future—and even if it. should be slower than yriu,wish or hope, it is not i the less sure ; a great duty is devolved upon this j generation and upon'-you—but it is, not you who i eon erainplete the work, it Will lie carried on by that form live of generations, nl which you form trot little part. - Brothers, you must preSevere in the'work jou have begun, with en .energy and 1 zr'al which will not be quem•hrd, a steadfastness which deeimi nothing done while anything rernains ! to be-thitie—‘adhere to and cherish the - principles ! of yriter Order—the !siva of efiristiliiation are not imore uniforin in operation,' or heantifell in effect. For your adherence to the cause yin have voion -11 tartly engaged itt, and the faithful tli.seliarge of the resulting- duties, you have given hostages to so ciety in 'your families, in the persons of your wives and your little ones: enlarging, then, your conreptions to .the circle of - your duties, and ex., tending your efforts over the whole of the vast flAild in which you are required to act, abate troth ir4 of your zeal in the cause of mankind. Now Irrothers, take this Holy Book, which, through ,me, the ladies of Minereville present to you; iris now committed to the charge of • your chiisen t;hamplain. Make it, brothers, the marl ., of our counsel; Tegulate your movements by its inspired precept , ;'and so' shall your voyage over the surging surface of this world's wide sea be ttappy, and-lead you, finally, toe glorious immor tality: It "kill teach you the sum and end of all your duties—tent h you to recognize in your con duct the dictates ofjusticeand humanity—within ifs sacred pages you will find the strongest and roost awokerriniT incentive , to tire fortiintent of your responsible obligations. It urges you 'to sympathize wrth veer fellow men neinernbers of a ciiinition brotherhood, for (the glory of a common God—and urges all throu'gh the - pier:rifling name of et C , IIIIITIOII Sariollt. It urges you to be zeal. ()Us for the truth ; but .teaches you to speak the truth in love= as love is the motive, so must love ho the means. You have nothing to do with harshness', with denunciation or with censure ;-,.- but you should, it is your imperious duty, exhaust the resources of kindness and persuasion. The purpose and the end of all you ids tin earth will go with you into :the dental world, rind consign you either to woe arid ;twine unutterifhie-and its conceivable, as fatthlesi stewards; or form the ground of that e„ Bearing salutation ' which shall had you welcome, as faithful gercants,. to your- Master's joy. You . will be empty paid for all you do, and every sicrilice you make by an approvirig conscience; overpaid in infinite abundance, when both hint that soweth arid him that reapeth shall rejilice. together. . , .: FROM THE SEAT • OF WAR. Geiz. &ott'§ . llll in Jilapa—lhalill of General &Welds and General I'. F. if 411 r. 'Frt.: v the arrival nf flit) scliooner.Eleancr Steven=, aptain Hall from Vera Cruz, whence ehe sailed on the 15th itit, we have letter - A from Jalai.a to the 14th tust, three days later than our previous athires. Gen. IVorth left Peyote for Puebla on the 101 h, with his own and Gen:Quitman's divtsions.,He was expected to enter Puchltxon Sunday the Ilitht It is supposed the authorities. of the towq l Avill' come out to meet him and eaedrt hint in. UI will be' glad, to lertn tlist Gen, Shiilds is meridino. though slowly, and-that Gen. Smith has reported for duty.. ' • Gen. :icon is still detained at Jalapa, waiting for the arrival ofd wagon train from Vera' Cruz. lie . , was to nave in two or three days. The foreiLiners in the city of Mexico are all. extremely anxious for the arrival of Gen. Scott. It is raid that a heavy sum has,alrea4y been sub seribed grand Fourth of July dinner, one individual, an Irishman, having put dawn his name for no less than $8(.10. • , Santa Anna is said ro have moved t o wards the Capital 7 —as Mr: Kendall 'supposes, to control the . election of a :President. According to the Illonitor of thd 27th April, the Prestilent_SuhAitute ordered a .4 , Yankee" to he incarcerated because he had 'the audacity to ap• 1,4 at; beture hia'Excellency and expol to him.the at vantageg of entering into an amicable arrange• lJtnerit pith the Uniied States. The •village ,of Guadalupe was undergoing thori , ugh fortifications. (:en. 1). Sebastian Guzman had taken charge of the 'wor`,o", of fortification near the Capital, and the three followibg ponds had been selected to bq fort.fi , d between an Cifistoval and Cuesta de 13errientosi—lgt. Cerro de Tlapacoya Chitleo, with tho , e of Jico and l'epeciugo. 2d Cerro de San. Iridro, Italia and Cerr de Teyahuidco. 3d Penol Viijo. Cerro - de Galtapeta and. Santa Cruz de lila. C , cebaa., . - The' lii:-Irop.of Oajwa:hatl sent to the Govern- Mem $20.000 for the expenses ofthe war.— rieveral churehes-have delivered the'greater part of their plate to the ,Goyernment,.in order that it shoun.he melted into coin. • . M r.'Kendali states that Mr. Downie, sutler of the 2d Penns ! , Ivania Regiment had arrived ut Ja lapa. it maybe recollected that he had a large uin 'of money stolen from him st Vera Cruz by a Mexican ; ashort. time since, that be pursued the rascal to Cordova, and that he,succeeded in Nein- . ering the' most, of his money. • So fir so good; but the worst of it has vet to he told. 'Mr. D. came out with 'tire permission of the aleade and author- ities of VeriCruz iii search of the robber of his money.l,,und linui, and succeeded, ss is said above, in recovering the most ..f his treasure, bufjust at this moment a worse robber got hold of hint in the shape of Santa Anna; pcl'or D. was cast into pris on- as a spy, air his money again taken from him, and the only way by which he could ?Main, his liberty was to acknowledge, himself a Spy in wri- This Santa Anna insisted upon, as an ex• cure for robbing, hint of his money; 'but, on the other band, Downie insisted 'as well in putting a, prOte'st at the bottom of hbt cotifesSione stating that n il In, had said atnri!e was false ! Did ever one hear of such a rascally farce? The way in which D4Wirie,now speaita of Santa Anwis anything. but complimentary. • - The Supreme Governinent appointed a commit- tee to raise nioney.ly subscription, for the purpose of paying the.expenses of war—There we e sev eral thou-and names on the list and we see a ! aunts from 123 cents In $lOOO. - . The last number of the Star informs us that Tl 2, .more were rife Mi the 12qt Kist, that the troops at Orizaba lint pronounced against Santa Anna, and made hint prisoner. The Star is incredulous, and Mr. K's letter of ;the 14th does nut confirm, the news. C;)I. Childs is governor of ittlapa, and will re main there with 2000 picked troops when Gen. 11)13 moves to Puebla. The city.orialapa is en tirely quiet and orderly, nu rows or disturbances have oecurred'there. A letter from ialap4:, alludincto the cit.); of Mexico, says An intelligent Spaniard informs me that the most unparalleled' diarress prevails ainong the poorer classes there., 9 /1 the employ ees of the government — the secretaries, clerks, and alt who depend upon their salaries for support-t -aro literally starving. They have received no paY for months, and are fairly obliged to beg , the food with which to maintain life. Gaunt distress statics , through every street and thorotighfure. and even the better disposed are compciled .th,steel or call upon cbarilar loam them from starvation' Salurdalo ng,. June 5, 1547. - YOLNEY.i B. PALMER, • • • .dt his Veal Estate and Coal itrewies, ; Bo:ner of Tblid 4r. Cheakint Streets, Philadelphia, No.lbO, Nastau Street, ,N ew York, No. 16, State Street, Boston. and •, .• • _ Soutliekat. coiner of Baltimore, do Culvert Eilreet 3, Baltimore, is our Agent foe receiving subscriptions and advertinementa for the Miners' Journal.. • . • ' CIRCULATION. 1200 COPIES WEEKLY. - - - - - • - • THE TARIFF OF 5 Tke Coantry demands its storation.. , FOR PILESID NT, . ZA.CHARY .TAYLOR, Subject to the decision of the Na tional Convention. , FOR GOVERNOR GEN. JAMES IRVIN, • .:• OF CENTRE COUNTY. ' .FOR CA*4l, COMMISSIONER, JOSEPH l W. PATTON OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY PRIVATE.; COMMERCIAL LIST Merchaitts and Traders in Bread Stuffs Wish lug, to subscribe to. a Sealed (ircirlar to be deli vered whene.?er anY change in the price of Bread Stuffs takes Place, will pleasei leave their names at this office. D crt.r Licits.u..—At the solicitation of some of our business community, We have issued: a Prospectus for a Daily Janina], at $4,00 a year Oor arrangements are such that we can give all important news in atbrance of the city papers, as fully as is desired by business men., If the commu nity isde - sirons that such a pepet.shill be establish ed,we invite their co-operation, by:subscribing as early lIR possible. If ths puhlicatior , eis not desired, it will relieve us Frain much trouble and labor, which re sometimes an important ebnsideration.. We invite attention to th 9 Presentation : Address lately ddivered, at Mineijorille, by - J. K. , which will be found in this paper. Er' The Sone of TeinperancOlave erected a beautiful Fountain in the centre of their pall, io this borough, and will . 43/01N it•open, I nn Monday and Tuesday next; for the inspection of the.pUb: tic. The Ladies and gentletn en of this borough and nsig liorhood , are respectfully invited to visit it. 0: - "? Look out tOr $5 j3ills of he citize n s Bank of Atigusts, Maine. The Banlo6 !Woken, and the notes are worthless.. They have been offered in this neighborhood, man ;;named Hdghes, entered the-ofliC.o of T. Winterseeen, in Pore Car bon on Saturday lastomd broke open a Orderer, and took therefrom the suns of 500 which had been ilepotited there but a short time before 'by Mr. W. The robbery was comMitted its broad - day light:, in pre;enco-of a boy and eyverai other persons', Who were close by him at the tinie. Hughes ran up the mountain; and was pursued tt . ) , a late number 'of people, but managed . to escape. Fifty Dollars reward is offered for the apprehension of the rob. her, end filt..Y more fur the recovery, of the money. James Ewing a young man was arrested and committed . to take hie trial as an accomplice. W. Nt l clielv y•, and John 'Fleming were also •commit , led for want of bail, to appear and. give evidence at .Court. • ~ THE CisAt, REGION, Improvements in the Schuytkiil Valley We have alrea4 taken occasion to notice the many luny buildings recently erected, or now in graces. of erection in Pottsville andits immediate Other portions of the region have also imPrwied.censiderably within ri sbert - time and no section more than the Valley of the Schuylkill. Along the line of the Volley Rail Road from Pottsville to Port Carbon, the past year has pro- duced a