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IVILL-liz_offered at Piislic 7 Srire on Wedneaay the Sth day of Octo ber nextru pen tho pfamiacs--iU-tluntittu lo inviiship, Adams county, about mile froin Petersburg, and adjoining lands- of John Saddler, Daniel Fickes, John flow and oth ers, a small tract of land, lato the estate of ABEL WALKER, and• Col!taint - lag About 20 Acres, more or less upon which aro erected a . a ONE AND A HALF S 7 DRY, ; j 1; 1 ; aleyee DW,11,12.np iILIAO - G- IIA.IIA with Threshing Floor attached, and sever. at other outhouses;—there is a well of good water and a pimp in it, convenient to the door.--Thero is also on the above property .and excellent APPLE ORCHARD with a variety of ether Fruit trees consisting' of Peaches, Pears, • Cherries, &c, - SALT; to commence at 1 o'clock, P. M. when wendanee and terms will be made known by _ _ _ JOHN WOLFOR D. A dministrator4 By order of the Orphans Court. Auguat - ,300), 1845. ' te-24. 4 ( N 76, r I ';,," ..461 ,112, TO COLLECTORS. . lIIIIE Collectors of Militia _fines aft) here -A: by re - quired to pay off their duplicates, t t. on or before he 4th day of -Obad rer ne .',Che CommisAioners will meet. on ti ,ay _to exonerate these fines that c a nnot be cu - ledted. . • ... . -By order of Commissioners, J. AUGIIINI3AUGII, Cams. . • Commission:We OFFICE, Gettysburg, Aug. 30, 1845.•'1 • , ZZEOUTOR'.'S ITOTICE. ETTERS,TESTA MENTA !II onihe ,Estate of ELI7.ARRTII STEN:MEI-.EN, late' of Adains county, deceased, having been granted to the subscriber; he hereby gives notice to all those. indebted, to sake tmmediate - pay ment and those having claims to present them, properly authenttented for settlement, to the- subscriber, residing _in Gettysburg.. SXIIIIJEL S. SCEIMUCKER, Executor. September 6, 1845. • 6t4-25 ALEX. IL- STEVENSON, ATTORNEY LT LAW. OFFICE in the Centre Square, North of the Court-hOuse, hetween "Smith 's and "Stevenson's" corners. Giotlistiurg, - May 543 ly-7 A viron NEY AT • LAW, OFFERS his professionakierviceit' s to the people of Adams County. is the olio on the public square in Gettys burg, lately occupied as z law office by WILLIAM McSmEMI , EsQ• Ile has'made arrangements to have the advi'ce aistanco of his, father, DG E - ItEED of Carlisle,, in alkhflicult cases. July 26th 1845. WIVI B. MCLELLAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office South-East corner of the Franklin House, formerly occupitd as 'SHERIFF'S OFFICE.VGEORGE W. AIcCLELL 4 N Esq. Dec.. 21st, 3844. -40-1 y aatzjer at e _ - At La . Arl FFlCE—next dur to Henry Forry'a i N,Jr• Hotel, South Baltimore etreeti-- - Vir.- tyaburt, Pa. ItEittIOVA..L. "-• G. FRIENC-H, ';:fsAttornay Counsellor at Law, J AS removed to Wavneaboro,' but will practice in the 'Courts . of Adams colinty, . Ile will . be of the office of Wm. I47'SJER• Esq., opposite the now Lutheran Church during sessions of the Court. G.ctlyoburg,- Aug. oth DR. WTI. P. BELL 'j..ESPECTFULLY offers his, PRO, ITEg SERVICES. to the Citi, .zehs of: Gettysburg and vicinity. He cawat all times he found at hi - s .office in.SOU'PH 13:1LTIMORE. STREET, unless professionally engaged. . Nov. 2 . 3d,' 1814, To MOTIIER. Lthere be, as there is, in this !' valley of tears, ,One remembrance more sweet than another, It is that which runs back to our infantile years The remembrance of thee—dearest mother ! In the wide span of mem'ry now circling the pas There are loved ones long lost to each other, And as thou Wert the - first, so thou still art the las To smile fondly on me—dearest mother! Though endeared as it is—think much as we may Of the love of a sisteP or brother. , • Vct.it borrows the warm of its brightening ray From thy .Iliavezi of Love—dearest Mother h Then be TIIIS m y love—'tis a spark of that flame Which age upon age cannot smother— 'Twas enkindled above—from Heaven it came Oh, bu it then mine—dearest mother! There is one Uri& enchanting spot, Where loVe and beatit grow, Which oft the glorious g ace of God Math made a heaven bdow.; .And in that covenant-shel ered spot,• • • There is a radient gem, -.More precious far than oc , an's pearls, Or empire's diadem ! Oh! keep that gem ye pli htcd ones, Nor trout that spot dep• rt;" That spot is llONE—deligl tild home! .That gem, - the YAITUPC HEART. THE PEDIALE .AUCT ()NEER. , "Who'll•buy a heart?" sweet TT ries, Mary the : blooming and the fairy Whose lovely form mid dove-like eyes Can banish grief and soothe despair. "Come bid: my heart is up for sale! Will no one bid.? Pray, sir, consider; ''Tis sound, and kind, and - fond, and hale Besides a bargain to the bidder." "I'll bid!" cried Giipus, "I will pa ;‘ , /"...5. A thousand sovereigns promptly told." "That is no bid, sir, let me say, A faithful heart's not bought with gold." ' "I'll bid with marriage faith, and• plight A heart, with love o'ertlow," quoih John! "Ay, that's'a bid; that't something - like; And now my heart is going—gone!'! MISCELLANEOUS. HONORING PARENTS As a stranger went into the church-yard ,of a pretty.lallage,_ho beheld three children at. auewly, made. grave. A boy 'about ten years of age was busily ,engaged in placing plants of turf about it, while a girl, who ap peared a year or two younger, held in her apron a few roots' of wild t3.mere. The third child, still younger, was sitting on die grass, •watching with thoughtful-look the movement of the other two. They wore. . _ pieces of. crape on their straw' hats, and a few other signs„of mourning, such as are sometimes worn by the poor who struggle between their poverty and their afflictions. The girl soon began plantingsome of her flovFers around the heed - of the grave, when the stranger addressed them: '.Whose grave is this, children, about which you are so.busily engngedl" "Mother's grave, sir," said the boy. .!•And.did your . father send you to place these flowers around your mother's grave 1" "No, sir, father lies here too, and little . Willy and sister Jane." "When did they. die?". "dMother was buried a fortnight yester day, sir; but father died last winter; they all lie here." ' , Then who. told you to do this?" "Nobody, s eir," teplied the girl. "'Then why do you do it?" They appeared at a loss for an answer, but the stranger looked so kindly at them that at length the eldest replied, as the leers started -to his•eyes: '.O, we do love them, sir!" . "Then you put these grass turfs and wild flowers where your parents aro laid, because you love them?" "Yes air," they all eagerly replied. What can bo more beautiful than such nn ezhibition of children honoring the wen - tory of deceased parents? Reader, are you an o mho nt„Neyer_fpF4eLth e. dear.pa r cots miha inkchefillied y.ou m your talent Ever rottember their paiental itindnessl— : Honor their memory by doing those things which-you—know'would please them were -they now alive, by a particular i tt gard to their dy_ing comman g s,and carrying on their pins otusefulnes.s? Are your parents'spa= red to you? Ever treat diem as you will wish:yokti bad done, when you stand n lone ly. orpnhn at their graves. floW will a re membrance of kind afnetionnte conduct to wards those departed _friends, then help to soothe your grief and - heal Ittur- wounded heart ! "It is but a line," says Dr. Nott, in his el. oquent addresses te.young men,—"that sep arates between innocence and sin.--:-Who ever fearlesSly approaches this line, •will soon have crossed it: -- To keep at a distance, therefoie, is the part of y.isdom. No man ever made up:his-Mind in consign his Kin! to perdition at once. No man ever enter ed the known avenueS i _which conduct to such an end, with firm undaunted step.— The brink of ruin is app,rofiched with cau• tion,•and by imperceptible degrees, and the wretch, who now stands fearlessly scoffing 'there; but yesterday had shrunk back from the swill) Cliff with trembling." • Om-21 1 y-36 ETa HOME. GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIDAY _ EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1845. . _ _ .• Wor.tx.—G rent- indeed is -the:task_aS-.! GOOD !=READ IT! Aigti - dtreili - 0601111Tivitri - ; . eirAlevele . :l4 - i44--1.---T-Ite-lacties of New York - , -- have - resnrced inty ; ! Not to make la w s, not to lead armies, to marry no man who 'dues not lake the not to govern empires; but to form the - so newspapers—and further inore;they won't by whom laws are made, armies leci,-and allow a fellow to look at thorn, who owes empires governed; to guard against the the*printer for more than one year's sub slightest taint of bodily infirmity the frail El m - mi en . yet spotless creature whose moral no less: Well, I don't wonder. A family without than physical being must be derived from a newspaper are alWays half an ago behind her; to inspire those principles,to inculcate limn in general information. Besides, they those doctrines, to animate Mose. sentinienta . can never thiiilt much, nor find much to talk which.generations yet unborne and nations [then. And then there are the little ones yet uncivilized shall learn to bless; to soft groiuing up in ignorance, with no taste,. for en firmness into mercy and chasten honor reading... ,Besidest-fill these' evils, - ..ithere's into' refinement; to. exalt: generosity' into the . Avife, who, when her work is done, has virtue • by a soothing care to allay the an-' to sid , down with her hands in her lap, and guish of the mind; by bar tenderness to dis• nothing to amuse ber,'or - divert her mind I arm passion ; by her purity to triumph over from the toil's and cares of the domestic cir sense ; to cheer the .scholar sinking under de. Oh, dear!—be on your guard, girls his toil ;to console.,the.statesman for the - in-I imitate th e example o r th e no bl e & th ou gh gratitude of a mistaken people ; to be corn- I ful ladies of New York. pensation for friends that are perfidious, for happiness that has passed away. Such is her vocation. The couch of the -tortured sufferer, the prison of the deserted friend, the cross of the .rejected Saviour—those aro theatres on which lier greatest triumphs 'have been achieved. Such is her destiny;' to visit ,the forsaken, to attend the neglect ed when monarchs abandon, when counsel lors betray, when justice persecutes, when brethren and disciples flee, to remain unsha ken and unchanged; and to 'exhibit in this lower worlcha typo of love; pure, constant; ; and ineffable, which in another world we arelaught to believe the test of virtue. From Blaclarood's QUARRELS.—One of the most easy, the roost common, most perfectly foolish things in the world, says an exchange paper, is to quarrel—no matter with whom—inan wo marfor child; or on what pretence, prbvo cation, or 'occasion whatever. There is no kind of necessity in it, no manner of use in it; and yet, strange as the fact may be, the ologians, politicians, ,lawyers, doctors, and princes quarrel; nations, tribes, corpora tions, men, women, children, dogs , nnd curs, birds and beasts,-quarrel - about all inanner •of things, and manor of occasions.— If there is any thing in the world, that,,will make a men feel bad, except pinching his flngers in the crack of a door, it is Unclues tinnably a quarrel. :NO man ever fails io Think less•of himself than he did before one; it degrades him in his own eyes, and in the oyes of others, and, what is worse, blunts I his sensibility to disgrace on the one hand, and increases the Tiower of-passionate irri tability on , the other. The truth is, the more quietly and peaceably we all get on, the hoer for our neighbors. In ninn,enses . out of ten, the wisest course is, if a man cheats yriu, quit dealing with him; if-he is abusive, quit his company; if he slanders you, trike care to live so that nobody will be lieve him. No .matter who he is or how he misuses you, the wisest waYlis•generally just to let him alone, for there is nothing better than this calm, cool, quiet way of dealing with the . wrongs we meet with. A FR AWIENT. -TO entor this world With out a welcome—to leave it without an n dieu —to suffer and be unequal to your suf- ferings—to stand a sad and silent monu ment amid the joys of others', which you cannot understand nor conceive of —to car ry within your bosom the hurried seeds'of happiness which are to grow. of intelligence which is never to burst forth, or usefulness which is never to germinate --to find even your presence afflictive, and know not whether you excite compassion or horror a whole existence without ono cheering Sound—without one welcome bccont—with out ono exhilerating thought—without one recollection of the past—without one hope of the future--oh! what clouds of wretch- edness cover, 'surround 'and overwhelm such a deplorable v len m.of sorrow. Now, to throw over such a benighted being the sweet rays of intelligence--to open the in .telieerFatiltlifit-it-- rush forth to streams - of light and joy--to rouse the affections that they may know and love God, the giver of. thirms nnd mercifulin tili bin .e.hettiae.. -merit 9 7 -iti her.sauLthaFitEnnay:see its Origin and r ifestiriyto:_c - rinse the lips to smile, though they cannot speak—the eye to glisten with other emotions than those or sorrow; and the mind to uriderstaftd, though it cannt hear--oh! what a ` Jeautiful supple. meat-to the . benevolence r heaven. Lowell Offering. "I, WILL BY AND BY." lien will you do it? . To-morrow, next month, or next year? The "by and by" you ?peak cifoev.; er comes. Why don't you fix upon a day, if ten months hence; or a year, if -twenty years ahead, when you will pinto= your 'duty: & not.make use' of your ' , by and by?" We like mon that we can depend upon— who will decide upon a course, or when to do a favor or a duty, - and when . they hare decided, to perform . . The longer you put it off, the longer y.ou Oh how many deeds Of deathless virtue and immortal crime . The world had wanted, had the actor said "I will do :thititO morrow 1" . " Portland Bulletin It is said that since the last arrival of the Great Western, 15,000. barrels .of Flour have beefi.bought up in the New Yolk roar• .kelfoi England, at $1 73 par bbl. ‘F E ARL E i• ANA FREE." THE DOCTOR AND THE PAVIER.—Dr. Radcliffe had a great objection to paying his bilk.. A pavier, after long and fruitless atierripls to gtt his aoqount'seitled, caught Dr. R., just g,eitiog out of his chariot, at his own door, in Bloomsbury Square, and de marfied the liquidation of his-debt. "Why, you rascal," said the doctor, "do you pretend to 130 paid for such a piece of work? Why, you have spoiled my pave ment; and then covered it over with earth to hide tour bad work." "Doctor," said the pnvier, "mine is not the only bad work that the earth hides." . "You dog, you, - ".said Radcliffe, "are you a wit? You must me . poor—comp in, and you shall be paid." A Good ONa —Tile Tribune chronicles a remarkable cash of honesty. A poOr boy in Grand street was crying over a five. cent piece he had just lost, and which a cartman had jtist•pielced up. Ile tng O l e boy" cry,. the-cartman asked what Was the matter. 'l've lost my money— boo-no•hoo!" blubber ed the boy. " What-was it? a five-pence?"— inquired the liOnest man. "Yes-hes, - sir!." said :the boy. '"There thed,", said the man while a glowo(real pleasure lit up his broad brown face as he put the coin into the ur chin's- hand—"there's your money ; don't ery." The boy took the money—put his fin4,e,to his nose a In coffee mill, and ex claime as he hopped away --"Well, in'€ you a littkl'er the ereenes!! I scen you pick up that ere shiner.'" KICKING AT NOTHING,— A.BIITOWd far mer, in the Vermont Li , gislature; declined answering the' speech ofa member who was remarkable -- for nothing but his frothy - and pugnacious impudence and selfconceit,thus: "Mr: Speaker, I can't reply to that or' speech, for it always wrenches me' terribly to kick at nothing." A Tennessee paper talks of a chap at !lolly Springs, who was so astonished at seeing a lady bringing music from her pi ano, that after listening for a minute or two, he withdrew his head and hallooed after his companion, "I say, Jim! just come back here; (lunation seize me, if here aint a wo man pulling music out of a chest!" ' AN. APT ILLLISTR ' ATIeN.—"Never tell me!" said a veteran toper-.-“take my word for it, there is no harm in a cheerful glass; it is only the fuss you temperance folks make abriut it, that gives it an ugly look to seine people; You have only to hold your tongue and all will go on Well triongh." • • "You remind me," 'replied the . 'rifter, "of a servant girl, who, When her mistress corn- - plaine'd of tile filthy condition of the parlor, replied, 'Oh, ma'am, the parlor is wall e nough; it is only the nasty sun that comes in aril shows the dirt; but I will close the shutters and all will be well enough."' PLEASING EXPERIM ENT.—Put thirty grains of phosphorus in a Florence flask, with four oz. of water; place the vessel over a spirit lamp, hnd give it a boiling heat._. Balls..oC svill giga.hejtcten.jOssua- i .frp - ho water., t Ire - aitintic - r — oraTilfri life iiil tire WOrk,.iiitit!#4llosti)eitiktitll . _ _ _ corruscations: TILE APPLES OF 50D031.-111 1110 Cres cent and Cress we find this'passage: / "On resuming our desert path, we picket(' up some apples of Sodom, that lay strovit upon the deseri,without apparent connection with any stem; tliey wore old bright gold-green about the sizepf-ari'orange, but perfectly ronud.and smooth: they gave the idea of be= ilia swelled out with the richest juice, that, when bitten, must gush forth to meet the thirsty lip; you • crush this plausible rind, however, and a cloud of fetid dust bursts forth, which leaves only -a few cinders as n residue." A dying father gave. this advice to, his beloved son:—"By all means be dili gent in - acquiring a•reputation for honesty .arid sobriety -with it y.ou will be beloved and respected by all who have the pleasure of your acquaintance=without it, disrega.r ded and miserable." An old 4i - twister, in his' sermon a few weeks ago, okierved tli:it "no one ever got religion in a bustle!" 11V . INGlii OF afr.itiNGIFISIIED Nltiat• —The Pittsburg Commercial gives the fol lowing account of the dy ing words of seine of the most distinguished fliell that pet taps ever live&:-,."llead of the army"—Napole on. "1 mast sleep now"-13yron. "It mat ters little hew the head Iveth"—Sir Walter Raleigh. "Kiss me, liardy"—Nolson'.— "lion't give up the ship"—Lawrence. "I'm d—d if I don't believe I'm dying"--Chan caller Thurlow. "Don't let that awkward squad fire'over my grave"—Burns.. Schiller asked, when he _spoke last, that he might be.raised up so that he 'could:see tho'sun, whtch,glerious ilia PeeCtiliinb waa slowly declining beyon d _ the hills of the Rhine. onxs vs. Ftrionas.—Notwithstanding the now universal adoption of this useful ap pendage to the tat ~ hout. the civili zed world, it is.nc a well ascer tained historical fac recently as the reign of Elizabeth, the prudish maiden Queen fed herself with her fingers. It is a mistake to say that forks were not known then, for'Elizabeth possessed several,which had been presented to her; but it is certain they were not used, nor for a considerable time after they did become common. In - - deed,.the prejudice wqs as rife against them even among the higher 'classes, as it is now r t against machinery among the _ o s. Onii divine preached against the use of fo is as )'an insult-on Providence not to touch one's meat with one's fingers." The-'five pronged metal forks (commonly called French forks,) are riot likely to' come into "eneral use; nor aro they appropriate to the present style of English' cooking: - ''. . FAsums.—The summer costume Of II Georgia gentleman is said to.be a shirt col lar and a pair of spurs. The Natchitoches native dandies have a 'dres s equally ati cool. It consists' of - an ostrich feather stuck in the liair,land kturkey's tail fan in the hand.— But as scant as these fashions are, there is ..a superfluous quantity of clOthing when pared with the court:dress of a prin is of one of th e South Sea Islands, which ' mists entirely of a necklace of pearls. FIERY FOUNTAIN.-If twenty grains of Phosphorus be cut very sMall i .and mixed with. fort y. grairur;ofgrariulat,d or powdered zinc, and put • into half an ounce of water, with two drachnts of concentrated sulphuric acid, phosphorated hydrogoivgaß ,will quick ly cover the whole surface of the fluid in succession, forming a complete fountain of fire. • NEW A PPLICATION . OF THE colored woman at Frankfort, Ky., run a nee dle in the fleshy part of the palm, some . 3 month ago. Last week Mr. John Goodman, to whom the woman belonged, knowing the needle would not remain stationary, that it would produce suppuration and gradually move from its imbedment, it struck him that it might be attracted to the surfed() or skin,. and he procured a magnet and applied it to the. hand. Soon a sensation . of' pain was produced; aril three days after the needle made, its'appearance just under the skin, when it was easily extracted. .11(3 Whig candidate for`.; Governor in Maine, is a practical mechanic ship car von: The editor of jii.ojconnebec Journal says, he .called upon Mr. Morse, at his shop in Bath, a few we.elcs' ago, and found him with his coat off, busily engaged upon the Bgure.,head of a ship. .The journal says that Morse.is,,neyertheless, one of •the'betit informed men in Maine: . His P chat) in Congress show him to be a man of great talent.—/V. Y. American Patrivt. MSLA NC: Washingt Nichols()) der the COMM, 10LY SurdrnE.—A 'letter. from in says, 'that the lady of Major of the Marine Corps, while un ififluence of . temporary :insanity, lied suicide by editing her (Wont, mat 2 o'cloelt on Tuesday, at the reek denco of Mr. Riell, on Capitol Hill. The unfortunate lady has been subject for a year try_two- - patit_, to_siudden_ftte_ofin;army. She several -tint,- - to -ni(Tuiiiiiit=niefiiVdh-o-hi-em FACTS IN MillM — Tile bOnes of birds are hollow and filled with air instead of mar row. • The flea jumps 200 times its own length, equal to a quarter of a mile ter a man. A sniffle house fly produces in one sea son 20,080,350.! The members of the- Free. Church of Scotland, who raised nearly £700,000 for new churches, are now collecting a fund to build • houses: tor_ (her Ministers.- Nearly 150,000 have been already subscribed. When the King, , iind Queen of the French and all of their family are lodged in- theiTuille►ies, the number, with their respective atte.ndents ale no4ower than 1500 persons. A "kiss me quick-before-mother-sees-you 13 • bonnet coming in fashion in Lynn.—Ex change paper. . . They are behind the age if that "love of a bon- . net" is only "coining in." ',lt has - been' vogni here for:some time and is a:general favorite - with both 6exes.-IV. Y Courier. TF.RMS-$2 00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.] COMMUNICATED. TO THE CITIZENS OF ADAMS 'QODNTX The undersigned, a committee' appointed - by the last Temperance Conyention of !hie County, to address you :n furtherance of the important subject which brought them to gether, present to your serious onnsidera- . , lion the following facts and reasonings : ' That Intemperance is an evil of the'great est magnitude, and most wide spread jolts influence, no one will deny. It is thus re garde& by the law of God. • Whilst. - the laws of the land punish by fine or impris onment, the law of God distinctly declares, that no drunkard 'shall-enter — the Kingdom -- of Heaven, and. ranks him with idolaters & murderers. As it thus, in itself, among the worst forms of immorality, it originates cub- • era: It is the_frighttul source of almoit all • other crimes, as is proved by the reports of our prisons and hospitals.. It. carries in its • train, indolence, profanity , impurity, theft, robbery and murder. It hardens the heart, sears the conscience, and destroys natural affection; so that parents cease to'be inter ested in their children, and children lose all respect' and reverence for their parents,_ dries up the'fountain of generous emotions, and fills the heart with selfishness, and fi nally, it presents before the soul a barrier"; to the adonibsion of the truth, and shuts out all the gracious influences of - the elicily But why attempt to portray by language what must have been the subject of obser vation to 'most pfluans. For the effects of , i intemperance have been so general, that-but ,6; few families have escaped its power. ft er has 'entered the sacred desk, and, thence descending, has pervaded and wasted all • professions and trades, crushingin itspro greis the hearts of wives___and :mothers. and sisters, and leaving inits 'path pov- • erty, misery end wo. • Tothe, moral e. vds - which it generates in our County, .the; pecuniary loss to to he added, which, iv , by. _ no means inconsiderable. We support an nually in our almshouse 50. paupers,, made., so by intemperance: These, at a nest of $5O each annually, are , a tax upon ,the J sober part of the community of $2,50,0.,—, There are in the County 48taverne1icensed,, the average amount 0 r:09 8 P1 3 .09a i 4 -024. 1 4. • 1 fiarreis orvvhiskey, besides otherliquors, 'Chia, retailed at 3 cents a drink, will smeurit to $lB,OOO, and added to the other, liquor* consumed, will'not be less dm $25,000.-1 ff to this we add the loss of time, negligeßce in business, dec. which accompany the con; sumption of ardent spirits . , we may , fairly infer that the loss to the _County, from thlse_ ___ sales, is not less than $30,000, Here, the w , e have the support of 50 paupers (Mc if ; 11 sober men, might have .snpported th tn. selves, and added to the wealth of the coml., ty,) and the sales and accompanying idle ness of 40 taverns 630,000—making a grime sum of $32,500 annually lost to the 'Coun 4 ty. For the liquor that is drunk is a lope to the County of all tile' money that ie. eat = pended in purchasing it, together with the • loss of time, and other accompanying evils; We do not deem it necessary to enter into a detailed argument, to show that what a man expends upon liquor to be "commned by himself and others, is a loss both to him- self and to tho wealth of the County. Atg ono can easily see that, if he consumes twen- ty five cents tudav in ardent spiritii, he will have expended, at the end of the year, s9l*,. withoet• having received an equivalent. 'He is, therefore, so much poorer than if he had not expended hie money in this way; and, as the• wealth of the County is made up of t \ he wealth of the individuals in the County, it will become 'poorer, just in proportion.to the money thus expended. If we inquire. who are criminal. in this matter, (for there must be great criminali ty somewhere,) we reply I. The Vender. Ardent spirit is 'a poi son, and cannot be used as a drink withofit - injury. Its use, therefore, is an immorali- equal, in ynagnitude; to all the evils, tem poral and eternal r which flow from it. To 801 l ardent spirite, thin, to be used as a iiiige r is a - sin — of:6oa nitignitucle, and the -vender wicked, inithe sight of Geitais ' the drunkard he has formed. Indced, his criminality is greater, for three reasons.- Ist. No one becomes a drunkard intention- ~n --~ ally. He naturally dislikes the taste , cif spirits, as is proved in the Case of irifuntel— He ie drawn into the 'first draught, and the repetition of it through the scares laid by the vender. He is led by companyinto the tavern or grocery, and is tempted to drink. The vender is fully acquainted with . theited consequences which generally result, from such a beginning. He is more 'criminal then; than the youth whom he contorts in--- to a drunkard, because- he has enticed hitn into the habit, with the full •knOWledgi) of • alrits dreadful consequence° • - 2d. He is more elf - mien', beetiosei4or f. the sake of a little gain, he icwilliog lobo the instrument ofpliinging,higtoriflb*,l2, to irretrievable, temporal intteterinattlii i with a full knopledgekorSrbal be WO/OP' 3d. He k more orimioAtf4ip tfisEinttitW ate. becausehi. - tra i 1 vile in the inereasegrist ittkatfek, and confirms in drualitsmesstip Bb3kiii vender May produce_ Misery , lit hundred familiero, bct.thiktfrookOW 4 49,lloo l 7"- - ea ouly his..own hottieheld. WHOLE NO. sos. TEMPERANCE.
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