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(LOCAL. . , Marchlwent out with a howling wind. -o- (Jive its commissioners who will contin ue the f fiog law.f Keep them off the Btreets bfr all jneans. i- - - - Ifi'-' j-o ..- - - :. I Mr. S. A. Harris,! Professor of Penmen -jmuisbipf will commence exercises at the public School House (North Ward), this evening jtJ7 Vclock. Pupils are request ed toaltudprompHy. : f- .' : v. . : v "- 1 Bcsixiiss GiiAXoks. R. F. Graham has purchase the grocery stock of Gi M. Buis, ind will fcontiune jthe business at Buis' eta no. -i- ' . . i : Hucrlanni & Co.1 have bonght out W. T. Linton & Co. ' Mr. lfuerbanur is well r . .-. t : i . r f t- ..: . : jnuWU lere ins imnucr, air. jluviiis from New York. J L r JMI.n- f ""J""" .... - . .j buying cotton for the well known and wealthy firm of Williams & Murcliison, of Raleigh. Mr. Boydfn complains of the scarcityof cot ton in iheimarket he! only being able to pur chase a Utile over a hundred bales while here. ;- 'i '? - 4" . young lady haying her picture taken t Woolwine'a gallery, was so charftijed with tk result that die bolted out, and wt nt at a jjTing rauf down town; to show to her admirer th work hf art--imairine her surprise when r Woolwine handed her her bonnet and Vhrnrl aodfreroarked, panting for breath, (for be had rnif after-her) that she had left those thing in the gallery.) - jv - ;i o - - 1 An alarm of fire on our streets last Satur Aa eTeriine created quite an excitement, and Ann the Hook and ,iLadder Truck and fire nffinea were oft the street: It was a falwe alarm.-eanSPedabj the burning of a chimney in : r . the housa eftr. Jarac M. Gray. : 1 t j o ' Mr. Jnd. Si Henderson, recieved quite an 'ovation- ffforii , nr- jwrty of gentlemen from Fratikliu Township, in the way of a serenade &c, one night last week. As our Frauklinoneftpondent, "Zephyrs" gives an account ef the affair we will let that aufticc.. , 1 1 - - " . j. .' J . " b A largefcrowd, including Hand "No. 2" trent to Spwers' Ferry last Friday evie toing to wHcome Mrf Frank Brown on his Jrtuding.fUnlbi Innately we did not ar rive nutilfthe party had returned to Salis bnr'. Ha made the trip from Wilkesboro, down thc a'adkin tojhis point, nloueno accident's j'orth mentioning. 1 PKoniniToitY Liqcok -Laws in Kowax Got XTY--iAfter tliej lstf'day of May, it will he-unlawful to sell any spirituous li quors witljfin riiree- miles of Ihick Creek (l'resiyteiaii cnurcii, witmn two miles of Christ (Episcopal) church, Unity (Pres hvteriaii) lliurch, Oak Grove (ethoist) cfumh, ',uther,s Chapel," and Prospect (Presbvteriaii) chu; eh. . j.j- ,-;, v o -J. The time has come when selections for Town ConjjmissioBcsrs to bo elected for the ensuing year ought to be made We incantiousjy approached one of our "city dadav!vitli a protiosal for his re-election. Hestarted ack,nghust, and h ty. vciigeiiee' from his eyei uiooktng'migh- s exclaimed: 1 will none ol it never, winie tne sun b lues : Td" rather laf me gently down and then "there wcuild Jhj rest4rom the vexntious jU ending the this horrible thing -a town cVfnniissioner V This is my au Bver, 'ticmtlpro ghnjter.'" i N kv J rTicK. We Juo. 8. llefidersoif, Esq. are indebted for the followi to liit of, Jusrjces of the Peace for Rowan county, eh'l'ted byj Lbe General Assembly nt iti Jiisrf -sMim : Kalishri'ry-.T owns hip John Win. A. Hedi ick, rraiiklin Unity 1 Scotch Irirffi Mt.Ulla 1 Atwell I Locke Hitaker I Gold Hill f Morgan l'rovidcnccf if. r raiev. KichM CiiIIh tsou, Jesse Powlas, Phi. Alexander, " Jos. F. McLtaa, J. F. Kobinsou, Isaac S. Linker, Adam C. Ka in hart, Wiley Bean, Qeo. L. Lyerly. n ( it ( All of the above apoiutmeuts are'for en years, i L -o- )Ve nnhesiallnglyli copiimend lo the perusal of all clause! of palrdna the well I written arti clen appearing in ( his paper on the legal Prohibition of 1 he iqiior traffic. "Progrew" fired ijie finM gun j; three, weeks ago, wnce when a rapid tire opened on-: the other side, and the rear ' of guns becoming heavy and continuoiw. We.do not propwe to character iie the war fUrther than; tcpay it i decidedly intereKting Li observant and reflecting people 1 anywhere, wtjether within or without the liotm darien "of the community which propone to aet tle thenetain by an appeal to the ballot. If ;yo0 would know what jean he naid on boh lide read tlte article for Jit is seldom better i wnuen or abler arUcleS ifre presented to the - z lAAMJUU.ITION OF TYKO ACADEMY. Tiro is iu Davidson county, nblnit eicrht miles from tjiis place, jstnd is the tenter of a prosperous and well informed cOmmnnitv. A large icademy hns lately leien erected there, and q'n last fjafarday itwas inaug urated Fpefches and music tilling np tire H'ngraninie, The Hev: Mr. Julian made short .1 literary i atldress and closed his jreoiarks by introducng'to the audience James M, Gray, Esq who made the nd jtowof the'day. Iu; the afternoon C. obbius, Ewj., a,,d Kev. M r. SSimpstm liiiadeadtlresses. Weare glad t o see the leople of Tyro taking such commendable Jttterefitin Idncatitiinj-aiways a mark of lrosj)t'riiy and ' enterprise in anv com rnitimty.Mr. Gray; we learn, is also to jnaKe the address Wfore the societies of ladkiu Colli-ge, iu the same county. 1 Vi'ood.LeaTes. T The prohibition .all'V has "00606 tjairly here. Over two-thirds of the vo 'erjave 8lgtd petitions askiug for a ltt vote onthe qttesMon. j Mr. Richard Ctilbeftsoii was appointed f -magistrate-for this township by the i'aLtglaure. A jgood selection, f n,t still they co'inb tWproldems, we fu-Taud I getting! , "Avos and wus." r. W FranKlia -pitched into us with a rr thatiailiiig, next she tried shelling .wswith lu.r fix inch globe, and now South t;!iVer.W),oe8'at lis with a barrel! The Jutitfu ottbe last : problem is so simple ,jat we wonder that South Uiver did not Hf "M Just get "Little Jimmie a 3 tu tak liis galhm po't aud measure i wiein 8orlniin v til. v s W? aHn for irce problems. Some tkS 8n,celtt was a I pathetic appeal to f u ; 0'Jt. i llV Inlfralirri 7ki f lioi-i-ia t1iu anili ent that ".tripartite liouquet," Ci ""MiHipitU agifiiu a query about Wt rp south Kjver a Vsum? br two bv way rnl'"1"' their j-courtesies-bnt ffov'tjiisweekj; " M. ill 1 r.inki 8houW N avoided in day -- uriiig com weal her, as they have uueiicv to it-oul-.... fi le lungs and affect 'e-..throiit rri.A Bull lulPs Cough yr-4 .colds and hoarse-1 Pricey cut: is H bottle. South Hirer Hippies j J Wheat is looking wellj i The prospect for a full crop is flattering.! I Seveml houses in the neighborhood are being painted, j .... : ! ! i The cold weather has opt injured the frnit in Hi is section. i Fishing is not a paying business now. The water is too clear and cold. ! U ;: Zephyrs, though gentle, will sometimes ruffle up the "Ripples j , C i Mrs. Kobcson.'wife of 6nr friend; Mr. Jno, iRobesou, has been seriously 01, "but we are. glad to learn that she u now out of danger. I . ; K '! ; Tlie farmers are pretty ! well op with all their work. The Bpririe has been well suited to their interest; though rain would not have been objectionable. ' :. S. Franklin Zephyrs. Oni last -Thursday nicht, at 8 oVock P. M., abwit fifty citizens of Franklin Township, comprising many of our lead ing farmers nnd their eons, accompanied by the Franklin string bandr marched to the residence of Senator John S. Hender son in the Eastern suburb of Salisbury for tile purpose of giving him a complimen tary serenade iu .honor of the passage of the, 7tock Law, originated by him at the recent Session of the General 'Assembly. On arriving at the frout piazza the delega tion formed in a semicircle around the band, who proceeded 'to play several pieces, after which, Mr. Henderson, being loudly called for, stepped out upon the piazza, when Judge Kevd, on behalf of the delegation, iu a few appropriate remarks, stated the object of the meeting, where upon j three hearty cheers were given lor Mr. Henderson, who, after feelinigly acknowledging-ihe compliment, proceed ed in -la -speech of about one hour, to dis cuss many of the Acts of the late General Aescmbly which were -of interest to the public geuerally. He finally discussed the "Stock Law," and we think he j suc ceeded iu - satisfying every person pres eut, that his bii) was the best that could have been passed. Again thankiug the delegation-for their compliment, he said that his lad.y had been thoughtful eitough to prepare some; refreshments, and open ing wide his door, he bid us welcome to the hospitalities of his house, and noth ing loth, we eutered his elegant dining wheieve found Irs. Henderson ready to receive us, nt the head ot a table which was fairly 'groaning with huge hams, tur keysj ducks, coffee, cakes, fruits, confec tions, etc., but an attempt to describe it would be futile, so we will only say, that it had the appearance of n strictlv first chss w edding supper. The supper lieing over, and the ladies having called for more music, the band played several pieces, during which time the crowd were in other portions of the house regaling themselves with cigars and lemonade, until about II o'clock, w hen they all arose, and Judge Keed, on their behalf returned the thanks of the company to our hostess and her husbaud for their kind hospitalities, and bidding them "good night," imme diately Started to tlieir homes, each and every .one.-thoroughly weir pleased with his visit. I11 short, those who were pres ent on that occasion w ill not soou foaet their visit to Senator Henderson and his pleasant family. W. 11. F. I For the Watchman. PROHIBITION IN SALISCURY-TOIVX- " siiircoxTiN V i:d. llnving shown that tfie licensed Bale and use of intoxicating liquor is; fi nancially ruinous, and a gieat moral and social e'vil, bejng-the cause of a large. part of t'e crime of our land ; aud hav ing shown still further that society j has the perfect right to rid itself of sncb so cial evils, aud to prohibit such occupa tions, as are injurious to the welfare-of the community, it only remains to in quire, what are the-best means of rem edying the evil. Moral suasion, and the indue nee ot 'the pulpit, and the gentle ofiices of the gosjiel of peace are suggest ed as the ouly rcincdv, or the best im- edy. There are two objections to this.' rust, as a general rule both the dealers in spirituous liquors, and habitual drink ers' have put themselves beyond the pale of "pulpit iutluences, by constantly ab senting themselves from church. iNor would they allow the friends of sobriety to uso moral suasion upon them. Iu fact many reseut auy such influences as im pertinent, and characterize' reformers as iiitertneddlers and busy bodies. The sec ond objection is that evils of such gigau tic proportions, in every other case, are met with Open -aud positive statutory prohibition. The Jaws forbid the com mission of those evils mentioned by "Froiiressf' and penalties are annexed to them, use of Aud 111 the case ot the sale and iquot s the law of the State; has provided only this 'local option law." We are allowed to determine by our Ibal lots, whether wo, will have whiskey sold in our township, or not. Would it be of any use to prohibit the sale of it f ; it must lie confessed that it would be immensely better to expel the enemy from the whole county, as Northampton countyf did, five years ago ; or from the w hole State, as Maine has done for the .last twenty-five years. But bust now that cannot be done. This is the day of beginnings, and a w ise man will not re fuse to do a little good, because he can not do all the good he wants to do. And though township prohibit ion is not as good as county ot,State pinhibitiou, it is immensely better than license with i the intemperance and crime that follow in its train. I We nroixise to treat whiskey like treated "poor Joe," make it inore on,' uutil it is moved completely away. IBttt the first thing is to "move" it over Grant's Creek ; into Franklin township. Aud then, when a line i of j grogshops is estab ltshed all aloug the road to Salisbury the solier people of tliat township w ill rise in their might, and "move" it overjnto Unity ,-jaud Unity will "move" itnjver the South Yadkin, into Davie county, whence so much of the w hiskey comes. And so on aud on, let it be "moved," until there shall not be a drinking saloon iu North Carolina, from the- smoky mouutaius to the Atlantic ocean. 1 But will it do auj good to move the sale of liqurs beyoiid "an imaginary j line in the woods," th& boundaries of Salis bury' township T On that 1 oint there is a difference of opinion. ! The liquor-sellers, some of the liquor-drinkers, and a few disinterested Dersons. declai-e that local prohibition is a hkilure. On the other hand, most of the sober and temperance men, the mass of the ; non-drinkers, ! and the grea t majority of i the jieople where the experiment has been made, affirtn that it, has done much good. 1 Citizens of Greensboro, Statesville; Morg:vnton Le noir, Salem, Winston Newton, and other temperance towns, in large and increasing majorities, declare themselves in favor of prohibition. In Guilford county, prohi bition has worked outward! from tbe ieeu- tie towuships, uutilrit is said that nearly the whole couuty! has adopted it J In Statcsville the liquor iuteit raintu mis winter, and got np a petition for a repeal of their law. As soon as the movement was discovered, the friends of sobriety got up a counter-petition, signed by 'over Whelming numbers. That the influence of prohibition is good, is attested, not only by the concurrent approval of the best citizens where the experiment has been tried, but by the refusal of the peo ple to go liack to the, old system of li cense. Many of the best citizens of Statesville, both in the churclies and out of them, are wont to say that the im provement is so great that a "blind. man can see it." As the law does not prohib it drinking liquor, or giving it uwaj', or importing it, of course those who are very anxions for it can get it ; aud those who choose can give it away. The greatest benetit-.claimed for prohi bition iu some of these towns is that it re moves open temptation out of the way, makes it so difficult to get, that few will undergo the trouble and expense : and the social feature, the most dangerous of all, is abolished. Many a good fellow, who had no very strong desire for driuk, aud who did not wish to go home to his family drunk, often found himself unable to refuse a friendly invitation to take "just one glass" before startiug home. The banishment of liquor will save that man, and send him home sober to his wife aud children. But there will be dodges and evasions, says some opponent. So there will. "Liberal" merchants may stock their cel lars with barrels of whiskey to give away, and eveu a new drug store may be opeu- ed, and a 'liberal-souled" doctor may be t I... ! ft ... iiuioi-beu wuo win presence wnisney freely and frequently for all "the ills flesh is heir to." But the "liberal" nier chant will lie apt to liud out that it won't pay to gat herbal I the old topers of the county around his store, and drive off the sober men, w ho generally have the most money ; and the new "druggist" and his co-adjutor, the "liberal doctor," may come to grief ftr evading the law. Therlneasure' is chiefly a preventive only and is calculated to save the youug, whoso appetites have not been depraved and perverted. And perhaps' some hard drinkers may lie reclaimed, for some of them would rejoice to break the cords of habit that bind them in slavery. But alas, their best resolutions vanish when they see the inviting sign, hear the rattle of the glasses, and catch the scent of their loved beverage as they move along the street. ' It is probable that three-fourths of the qualified voters of Salisbury township are sober men, to whom it is no great priva tion to abstain from liqnor. It is there fore only for the liquor sellers, aud one fourth of the voters that the sale of li quors is allowed. And will these sober aud industrious three-fourths stand by and allow the others to rule this town ship, to opeu saloons, to manufacture drunkards out of tlieir sons, to ruin the good name of the community, and make our town the resort of the ousted bar keepers of other towns, coming hero to "sell out their stock f" Is it possible that good sober citizens are willing to make Salisbury a kind of Botany Bay, where exiled ruuisellers will find a safe retreat, and a congenial home, and friendly twjus to plead tlieir cause iu the public priuts, while at the same time the character of the religious class of the peo ple, and even ministers are held up to ridicule f In the days of the Planragenets and Tudors, there were certain towns f Eng land set apart as "sanctuaries," some thing like the "Hebrew cities of Itefnge." Lawbreakers were safe there from the hantjs of justice. In the "time of Henry VIII, the numlier of these sanctu ary tow ns w as greatly reduced, and the result was that the few that were left were, soon crowded with a mixed multi tude of evil doers, so that society became absolutely corrupt, life aud property un safe, aud all good citizens who were able fled from those towns as from the plague itself. And such, it is to be feared, w ill be the fate of our fair city, as one byj one the neighboring towns and counties) are adopting temperance principles. Itjwill become the very paradise of rum-sellers -and whiskey-drinkers! Keal estate! has already greatly depreciated in value, from the pressure of the times. Bat if the license system goes on unchecked, and the lovers of w hiskey turn their eyes from the neighboring counties, as the.' de vout Moslem turns his face toward Mec ca, corner lots in Salisbury will iu time be worth little more than they were in Sodom the evening before the conflagra tion. j It is a notable fact thatciime flourishes where the grog-shop flourishes and di minishes as whiskey driukiugdiminishes. As an illustration, take one example from home history. The Raleigh Observer, a few weeks ago, published the statement that Rowau county furnished thirty; out of the fifty-four convicts employed on the Western North Carolina Railroad, gath ered from the fourteeu contiguous coun ties, while the other thirteen counties furnished only twenty-four. According to the geueral crime average of the State, these fourteen couuties would have; had sixty -six convicts. But our fourteen counties fell twelve below the State av erage.'" But while the whole number itlras falls below tlie average, Rowan county rises into the sorrowful pre-eminence of furnishing six more than all the other thirteen counties. What is the secret of all this ? No doubt this is partially ac counted for by the character of our p ulation, and by the fact that ours is! tin largest town along the line of the road. But this is not a sufficient explanation. We can hardly forbear reflecting that Salisbury is a license town, and the! rest are temperance towns, auu that; it is mainly in this fact that we can see any reason why this county should outnum ber thirteen others iu its list of convicts. But it will require another article to show the actual working of prohibition. "The facts aud figures" are ready, j Moke Anox. For the Watchmaa. . THE TEMPERANCE qUESTIOS. Mr. Editor: In the Watchman contain ing my reply to "Ximrod, Jr.," another retoriner steps out to unburden his soul aud read us a very tame lecture on the evils of whisky drinking. I am both gratified and amused at "More AnonV sermon. 1 admire the tone,' but I am forced to laugh at the tactics he adopts to squelch Prog ress; He strikes like a cross-eyed man. He does not come square to the tight, hut dodges around, and essays to put in a thrust iu the back or side, which he seems to imagine is wonderfully effective, if not fair, lie is somewhat like Nimrod, Jr., after all his protestations against the use of personalities and in favor of sober argument, &c. ; for he is not as charitable as he would seem. He sets me down as the advocate of the bar-room and the traf fic. He ought to have been able to fouud this assertion on fact, which he cau not do from any article I have yet writlen. Hfis amusing to see what squirming, and pul ling, and assuming there is in the effort to kill Progress' first article without an? sweringa single point or position taken in It. 'I -: 11 r ; u. The fact? is; all of "More AnonV arti cle which is not founded ou mere assump tion, is simply a rehash of tins wornout ar guments of the teuijeraiice lecturers who iiavej-'araued themselves before the public for the last fiftjf years He says whisky drinking ii au evil and he quotes Prog ress ns evidence; but he neglects to tell his readers! that there are greater: evils than this, j Not he would f have you be lieve that whisky drinking is the great evil of the lago ; and here is his evidence t He says that "prominent gent lenieu in gen eral terms assert, that whisky is the cause of three-foil rths of all the crimiual suits iu our courts of ' law, and of even a greater proportion of homicides." Ths tnere as sertion, &uiX every one who has carefully examined the question and the statistics bcariug oni knoics that there is Scarcely au element of tfuth in it. I challenge him to show that -one-seventh of the criminal suits, or of the- homicides, is caused by whisky drinking. Take the nvcord of the courts from the magistrate's court up, aud he will find that not one-tenth, and 1 venture to 'say, not oue-tw eutieth of the crimiual prosecutions of the day is in any way chargeable to whisky driukiug. Let him take the record of the courts of Row au, aud he; will see how utterly falftilous his statement is. Within the recollection of the writer,! ruuuiug over a period of nearly twenty-live years, there have been about; twenty homicides or killings in Rowan county, aud but three of these had any connection with whisky drinking whatever, r could by any possibility be chargeable; thereto. Aud furthermore, it is even duubtful whether these three ex ceptious w;ere caused by ic. It is well known that in oiie case au old grudge ex isted, aud it is stated that when the fatal meeting ttiok ; place, the parties were driukiug, but does this fix the crime upon w hisky f Who will undertake to say it ues I In the other case, referred to by More Anonj there was a drunken fisticuff going on, w'heu the party who did the fa tal stabbing entered upon the scene, but there is no evidence that he was druukor drinking. If he had been, I think it not at all improbable that the dcod would not have been perpetrated. For it is a fact, that there is less damage done in drunken brawls or fights than sober ones; and they are niore easily repaired. Within the same period,: there have been perhaps a half dozen or. more attempts at murder, and three-fourths Of them, I know, had no connection with whisky driukiug, and I have, nevjur heard that the others did. Now, is Rotvan a better county thau oth ers, or is it an average county iu point of crime f If a better county, theu the tem perauce hoivlers should migrate. If an average cotyity, then its record of crime should put to bliish their reckless asser tions. Any magistrate will tell you that he has ten bastardy cases to one arising from whisky drinking; and as I stated in a previous article, this crime of lust, of libertinism, jis the greatest crime of our time. But Morcj Anon has "struck He." Ho has found but from the Raleigh Xctrs "that not lc$s than six millions ot dollars are spent in! North Carolina bar-rooms in a year." This is also mere assertiou, with out a particle of evidence lo justify it, aud I am inclined to think is worth about as much us that most ridiculous oue made about the number of criminal prosecutions a'nd homicides.! But take it for granted that it is true, what does it prove f Don't it prove that all the bellowing, psalui-sing-ing, and loud praying of the temperance howlers, assisted by weak legislatures, with which he .'(tcople have leeu cursed in North Carolina these many years, have most signally failed to stop or lesson the evils of whisky (tiiukiiigf Yea, instead of stopping or decreasing it, it has in creased almost feu-fold, if his figures are correct, in as many years. The cause of their failure Is patent; but there are mne so blind as those! who w ill not sec. Again, wU's More Anon, a New York paper states that "All the cotton grown iu North Car olina will not pay her liquor bill, which am nunts to !$,5X),!XJ0, a year by more than a million." ! This statement is pub lished w ith the same unsupported effront ery as those above ; and worse, it does not tally does not agree, with that he has taken from j the Raleigh A'etc. It makes North jCarblina pay nearly $4,000, 000 more for; wjiisky by the .wholesale than that her people engaged in the traf fic realize byj retail. Did any one ever read more reckless more absurd 'state ments f But these are on a par with those generally made by the fanatical temper ance howlersj They seem to be utterly oblivious of such a thing as statistics or consistency, j More Anon proceeds to moralize, basing his calculations on the above outrageous statements, and coolly not to say shamelessly, asserts that Salis bury expends eighteeu thousand, and Rowau couuty one hundred and two thou sand dollars annually for liquor ; and w ith "all the seeming of a demon that is dream ing," he manages to fix this amount so as to draw at a rate of seven per cent, on the valuation of all the farms of the coun ty, and with one grand flourish expresses his astonishment that any one should wouder that we are poor. "Now, what has the money expended for whisky to do with the tax on farms? Because A ex pends money jfor liquor, does that impose a heavier tax ou B's farm f As well say B's farm is burdened with taxes because A's family dresses too hue. Just as much sense; iu it. And why uot, pray, charge the laboring jeople with the burden of the rich people's1-luxuries, ns well as set down the cost of w hisky to the temier ance people, j There is really more pio priety in the former than in the latter; tor the laboring jieople are tfie producers of all wealth. laud the costs of the silks and satins of he rich draw heavily upon But More Anon is not sat their muscles. isfied with $102,000; so he' figures up, af ter his own Kculiar style, the monstrous sum 6t 204,000 -as the annual loss to Row an comity through the so-called evil of whisky drinking. Is there any better evidence needed; than this assertion to show; the mau not only a fanatic, but a hopeless dreamer? If there were a setu blauce of truth in these assertions, is it uot strange that States aud cities that have had iu force for years the prohibito ry w hisky laws, have uot grown rich, and peaceful, aud happy f It would require but a few years, according to these figures, to make any community rich, if it will but abstaiu from the luxury of whisky driukiug. What cousummate nonsense ! States aud cities that have tried the ex Iieriment of prohibition, are not only not rich, and happy, and ieaceful, but seem as though a blight had passed over them, and their eople; appear restless, envious, jealous, aud give 11 over to all sorts of ismsi Crime iu the iemperauce. paradise, bleak old Maine, is bore rampant and frequent than in whisky drinking North Carolina. I suppose More Anon will will not deny this, but if he! should, he cau get the facts and figures. After that threadbare twad dle of the temperance lecturer abour, tears, and sorrowing ivives, aud weeping uu thers, the shame and anguish of sutleiing children, and other flummery, balderdash, and pointless verbosity, More Anon grave ly asserts that "four white men crime to an untimely grave in this towu last year, directtg through intoxicating drinks." And what authority has he for this assertion f It boots nothing if a physician told him, for unless said doctor had been intimate ly acquainted with each man's constitu tion,, tidbits, and physical disorder's from his boyhood, he conld wot give an infalli ble opinion as to what brought abont his death; and no thoroughly posted aud skillful-doctor would give a positive opiu 1011 without such acquaintance. If I have the same persons referred to in my mind's eye, neither of them died in a drunken debauch, or immediately after one. Fur thermore, each and all of them gave nnre st rained license to their! passions before they began to drink whisky. They were inordinate tobacco chewers, smokers, lep icuriaus, dissipated-stayers-out-at-ni'dit : who knows that they did not contract the disease that caused their death by the in dulgence of their passions in some of tlwse evils t Tobacco usiug is almost as great an evil as whisky driukiug: aud there are 92 exieuded for it iu Salisbury for one there is for wishky. It slays its hundreds aud thousands annually, if the published opinions of learned men are to be believed. 1 will cive a few extracts as compiled by a most eminent physician of New York : Dr. Rush says, that even iu moderation, tobacco causes dysepsia, headache, tremors, vertigo, and epilepsy. Bishop Ames, of the M. E. Church, ex pressed to the New England Conference. some years ago, his opinion that a large portion 01 ine iuuus tor superannuated preachers is paid to men mentally and physically disqualified by the use of to bacco. Dr. Wood ward presents a long array ot iacts to snow the tendency of to 1 m uacco 10 prouuee apoplexy, aptiony, hyp ochondria, consumption,; epilepsy, head ache, tremors, vertigo, dyspepsia, cancer, ana insanity, lhe .New 1 ork Home Jour nal says that oue of the members of the i reuch Academy of Medicine, in a verv elaborate paper, drawn up with great care, asserts tliat statistics snow that 111 exact proportion with the increased con sumption of tobacco is the increase of dis ease in the nervous centres (insanity, gen eral paralysis, paraplegia), and certaiu caueerous atfectious. The German phy sicians state iu their periodicals, that of the deaths occurring among men iu that country, between eighteen and thirty-five years of age, one-half die from the effects ...e ... 1.: riM 11.. ' . wiiumny. x uvy uneqivocaiiy assert, that tobacco burns out the blood, the teeth, the eyes, aud the brain. I could give a great many more extracts, but these are sufficient to show that everybody don't die from whisky driukiug. The certain ty of lust aud gluttony to bring on disease and death uo one will question. Then, when a man indulges iu all these evils, who is prepared to say which will be the direct cause of his death. More Anon says he is after the traffic, aud that no one claims the right to dic tate w hat his neighbor shall, or shall not drink. Why then complain about the amount of money expended for liquor t Has a man not the right to expend his money for what he pleases? This is a very uice qnestiou, and if my article was not already o long, 1 would endeavor to satisfy More Anon that others besides the "savage" are endowed with certain-inalienable rights that may be exercised iu de fiauce of all institutions, if they stand in the way of liberty, moral good, purity aud truth. A Christian has no right to go outside of his religion to force any meas ure upon his neighbor; neither is "he re sponsible for any evil" growing out of the acts of his neighbor, after he has warned him and set before him the way of good and evil : He may then kick the dust fiom his feet and leave him joined to his idols. "The soul that siuueth, it -shall die." Now, who will say that the so-called Tetii H ranee movement, as conducted in these days, has a particle of Christianity iu it? Who w ill deny that it is pure and simple fanaticism, as greatly to be feared and condemned as anj moral distemper that ever afflicted society? It is identically the same illusion and moral disease that cul minated in the wild religious crusade of the middle ages, and that cursed the world and blurred history with the crimes of Puritauism and witchcraft at a later day. The design is simply to put down the trade and close up the saloous that stand open night nnd day to tempt the unwary, aud lead the enthralled victim on to de struction." Then, why in the name of common sense don't you close up the bawdy-houses, which not only stand open night and day to tenTpt the unwary, and lead the enthralled victim on to destruc tion, but their shameless inmates promi nade the streets, the. public highways, lay in wait at every corner, and by much fair speech the youth of the land are led away to the dens of harlotry as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correc tion of the stocks. When you rememlier that more than 100,000 of these poor er ring creatures, whose feet go down to death and whose steps take hold ou hell, are daily and nightly plying their avoca tion throughout these States; that the blood of the whole human race is becom ing contaminated with venereal poison by reason of them ; that the amount of pro perty invested in the traffic of prostitution is many millions of dollars, and the sus ceptibility of youth to yield to the blan dishments of this monster evil, it seems to me, that here is a field for the opera tion of the philanthropist that makes tlie evil of whisky-drinking pale into insig nificance. Yet, you can not put down this evil, apy more than yon can whisky drinking, with local option laws, (which are a disgrace to civilization, a blot upon the statute books of our State, and un-! worthy of our people), or any other sort of human laws. There are too many laws already. Too much law too much gov ernment is the bane of the world to-day. Now, Mr. More Anon, does it uot really appear foolish to you to attempt to stop the evil of whisky drinking by local op tion laws by drawing a line through the woods? If prohibition laws accomplish .110 good when they encompass a whole State, what can you hope to effect by mere township prohibition ? The five gallon law was tried here once, and there was more drunkeuness duriug its exist ence than there is uow. This foolish ti rade against whisky has lieen productive of great evil, for the manufacture of it has largely iucreased aud the use of it lie come more general, though it is more gen erally adulterated, because good liieu have been driveu from the production of it by the temperance crusaders, and less scru pulous ones taken their places. The re sult is, they have made what was once an exhilaratiug drink, a deadly oison. Whis ky drinking you never cau stop, while it is made. And as for the traffic, does it hot ill become those who use tobacco or opium, or iudulge iu gluttony, or lust, or Iviug, or any other immoral habit, to unite their strength to put down the sale of liquor and thereby prevent people from drinking it, if they choose? Let those w ho are innocent cast the ! first stone at the toper and the traffic. PKOGUESii. Winston has fifteen manufactories of plug aud tw 0 ot smoKiug iou".w. . i- For the Watchman. THAT FOX'S 0PISI0X OF TRAIL. ' L ' A FABLE. I It seems that early ou that , memorable evening of the coon hunt, lefore Trail appeared ou the scene, tliat fox Indulged rather freely iu his opinions of society in general (see Progress' first article) ; but when lie found Trail at his hefts ho re garded hhn as the concentrated! essence of his own distorted fancies ; aud indeed, in his relation to Trail, as the pnrsned party he found it necessary to turn his attention to him. Foxes are shrewd, and his plati was soon formed and executed, rut : to throw Trail off Uis track by offer ing tempting inducements to hi in t fol low soine other animal. And, (1) I doubt not he was greatly amused at his own stratagem, and smiled to think Imw soon he would leave Trail on the track of some innocent hare or sheep, while j himself would be at Jiberty to find his sapper in some neighboring barnyard. But, (2) Later in the night when he had exhaust ed every resource of his cunning! to de ceive; Trail without success, and! finding himself tired, hungry and disappointed, with that pertinncionshound still pressing on his rear, lie got "orr " he j let fall some crocodile tears, aud in foxy style soliloquised thus (see Progress' ! second article) ;: "I am exceedingly sorry that any hound 'assuming to be able to lead' other docs 'should ntteinnt to nalm off such miserable gush . . ii is a sou sight to see a chief of the' hounds descend to this Mow flung personality.'; What does he want to chase me for ? I am but a lone fpx, tough aud long-winded, would make but a poor supper if caught, 'and he could so easily capture a sheep add satis fy his greedy appetite. 1 have set before him strong inducements, have stirred up all the animals iu my flight, and begged him to notice them: 'And how shave I been responded to ? It cannot be pre tended that I have been answered at all, or that my respectful (J) request, has lieeti heeded by' auy in this race (except that yellow dog, bless him and give him a rabbit). My pleading has been hi vain. It i. sad, so sad to thiuk of." Then, (3) That fox got cantaukerous and rayed thus : What horrid noise! this hound music, is old and "stale as the bread buried beneath the ruins of Herculatieum it is dull to blunlne.s it is flatter than a goose's foot." Very nat ural for it fox to have gnosejn his mind. " There are poor old iguoraut negroes who can" sing better than that. In the exer cise of my maguificent brains 1 have com posed a grand "medley" of the i;iinble feet and tinkling bells of all the beasts "Wbose taint foottulls tinkle on the tufted floor" of field nnd forest, and this dog has gdt it to the keg vote of an "." And because I have roused all these, animals I am "charged with persaual familiarity with all the immoral and vicious elements of society. ! Pharisaical like !" Yes,' these "sanctimonious" looking hounds will sit iu the churchyard on Sunday and ho.vl a dismal accompaniment to the psaliu singing,of thecongregationr audi then, when night lends her mantle to cover their hypocrisy, they are ready to run the breath out of a poor innocent (?) fox. And here I am "charged" with levying "blackmail" because I have tried to force these hares, sheep, See., to yield their tenderer flesh to these hungry hounds as a ransom for myself. And has'ut:a fox the right to do that ? Far from recog nizing this inalienable right of foxes, this Trail is still following me with a vtru "in the highest, degree worthy of the crusa der. He thus unwittingly lets out the an imus of his clan, aud brands it with the spirit of intolerance that would put to shame the incarnate Puritan fiends"? (fcc, &c, and so on, etc., ad nauseam) . (Again) And what an "Ishmael" this Trail is ! It may be egotistical, but, to myself at least, I am everything ; and he certainly is against me everything ! ! How I i wish that Hagnr had let him die iu the wilder ness. And what "ignoramuses" : these hounds are!. "With that sanctimonious air and self-righteous seeming, best im itated bj- a buzzard just on the eve of disgorging au overdose of putrescent horse" (O-n-u-gh-h, hold your nose, Trail !), thev have deemed all the hares aud sheep I have scared up unworthy of their notice. Poor puarisuical fools J th6y don't know that mutton aud rabbit ven ison are better than tough, sinewy fox- flesh. l)e QHstibus non eat dispvtandum. Then, (4) That fox became imaginatire, and tried to believe that Trail was a "picture" of "a donkey" framed jn "a common horse collar ;" but Trail j soou awoke him from that delusion, and Then, (5) I imagiue he was so badly frightened that to escape he would gladly have accepted tlie fate of 1 am U Miantcrs luckless mare, if he could ouly have leaited the keystone of some magical "pons asinorvm," with the loss of hi tail. Then, lastly, that fox, on parting with Trail, turned po O, Trail, repent and believe the gospel ; don't let "a fox outdo you on that line. First he eulo gized Christians, and then he tried to preach it (A rundown fox with bedrag gled tail aud frothy iuoutlLpwicftiw the gospel! ha! ha!) Ho announced the golden text (of course) "Whatsoever ye would that others should do onto you, uo . 1 .1 1. .. ye even --so uuio inem, auu iiicij ne preached.. But take out the sacreu: text and there is nothing left but the gonpel of licentiousness. Foxy throughout. A fox iu borrowed garb can uot even imitate the truth. His sermon would le perfect, af ter its kind, if it w ere headed w ith; this text, Every goose for himself, and the fox take hindmost. Now, Mr. Editor, as skirmisher iii this 'unpleasantness," 1 am willing to leave that pions(?) fox at present alone in 'his glory, in the pulpit of his own erection, and lie on my small arms and see "More Anon" with his heavy artillery knock his siuewy frame into shoe-strings ; with on ly these remarks : wTiefe I have j said Trail" 1 meant prohibitionists, where I have said "Fox" I meant "Progress? on ly, not the advocates of license, and w here, in my former article, I 6aid 'fyel low dogs," f did not inenn "Progress and tnose who thiuk as he does," but wieak knwtl prohibitionists. That foxy solilo quy was natural enough it was ; just what we' might expect of a fox under such circtmistaures. Indeed, I do not kuow how he could have thought other wise while so hard pressed, and I caunot blame him. Though I think it would have beeu wiser to keep his "Irish" down miuI save his wind for leg-bail sailing. But his "billiugsgate" did'ut hurt Trail iu the least. Trail might say, as a good man once did w hen asked how he took an offered iusult : "Why, brother, it diiTnt go through my jacket." j "Woul't weep ? woul't fast ? woul't tear thyself? woul't eat a crocodile? woul't tight ? woul't driuk up" all the whiskey iu l'owan ? I shunt, March 3tst, li79. NiHRQP, 3r. 1 For t-ie Watchn an "TIljE TEMPERANCE (QUESTION Mr. lipnroit : Rowan beim? mr nitl county and Salisbury the home of mr r ;wy ooou, 1 nave ever felt a deep iutereG iu.viiatever transpired in either) this U the imly apohgy 1 offer for asking the privilege of J. replying R an article on" "Tlie Temperance - Question . signed. 'Progress, lathe Watchman of the I3th lust; , . . - A . . Progress .says, "we are told that whi.:. key j drinking is a great eril," etc., etc, . , and that it is claimed to be the "duty at all good citizens and especially Christian .people to prevent men from indulging in , what their! nppctites-nive,w etc; and. lhis is an arbitrary cremand,an attempt to trammel men's rights," &c, ' Docs i Progress oii auy other individual out of -tlie asylum! need any additional proof "that whiskey drinking is a great evil V ' Surely not.l Is it arbitrary in good citi- reus nnd Christians to nuite to repress by law br otherwise rape, murder "and other crimp ? Is the selling of ndultered flour, medicines or putrid meats legitimate bai- ' iuess In the legal or moral codei of Prog.1 res I or does he-think the prohibition thereof would abridge "men's rights ? If it U right and pntper to prevent and' punish crime, is it not the duty of all men! 1 to try to remove the exciting nnd Btima'' kiting cam of crime? While we hato 1 uo right to say what another shall tiot eat) or drink, we have the right to claim tho protection of the inuoccnt, helpless and fallen, by prohibiting others from selling or giving to their neighbors anything calculated to endanger life, health or property. I Progress then indulges ia quite a tirade against local option lawt 1 ...... v i.au.tu UIHUID HU nncotisistencies of "so called Christl me inurmiiies oMin man nature and Um judging from which we would suppose h belonged to that class - who regard all others fanatics who think for themselves and j"so called Christians" who do nol . belorig to his particular sect ;, tlie stupid ity of which is not worthy a reply He then asks if the "sd called Christians9 t and temperance men had not better unite their efforts to more "proper and legiti-"! mate religious duties." If tj,e selliug of -intoxlcatiug drinks did not materially in termeddle with the social, moral and legal rights of the "so called Christians" and others, then they should attend to other and higher duties aud leave the minor questions under consideration to plcbcs ? and outcasts, ir this legalized demon, had never entered the sacred desk and snatched therefrom many of the brightest L lights and of the highest order, then f neither the real or "so called Christians' (as 8tch) have the right to interfere id I this option law question. If theChris- j tian and home altars had never been ": robbed of their teuder loved ones ; if the J learned professions had lost no bright j stars,? the business world no workers, or L society uo jewels by the traffic in strong ! driuk then the so called arguments of J Progress would not be sophistry, but the i temperance people would really be f mat-' f ics. In the estimation of this self- 1 righteous, pharisaical writer, all temper-', ance men are idolaters and worship a golden calf of their own making "disre garding the requirements of the law as ! incorporated iu the commaudments and trampling upou the spirit and teachiugs of the' Saviour of the world." When Aaron and his sons were set apart for the ' priesthood they were com mantled not to drink any strong drink, and this law has never been repealed. Our Saviour and the Apostles never taught directly or in- ' directly that the making, selling or using as a beverage intoxicating drinks, .as they 1 are made, sold and used by usthaiflhey advocated usury and many other evils uot named iu the ten comiiiaudineiits, but which lead to the violation of them. 'If Progress is a theologian he must have4 studied the Koran, Joe Smith's bible or some Other mutilated "so called" holy writ, for King James' translation of the Bible teaches "Woe to him that puttcth , the bottle- to his neighbor's niouth,wj "Lookj not -upon the wine when it is redj for at f Inst tit biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an addcr nuto others as you would have others do unto you, j "Love one another," and mauy like pas- :! sages. I Aaron was responsible to a great degree for the making and worshiping of the golden calf while Moses was 011 the mounts and it is to be feared some of the . priesthood of our day are responsible for the liquor calf worshiped by the Church ' and the world. Then Progress pleads for the revenue arising from the traffic! If money4made by the wreck of fortunes, homes, altars, bodies and souls of human beings ! cau be, collected by a Christian nation, State or corporation and used for the well being of society, this advocated constitutional rights may be j a trust worthy! teacher. Not otherwise;. Iredell. For the Watduaan. Tournaments That Temperance Mr. Editor: In any and all discus sions, lie that begins his part by waiving argument, impugning the motives of hit -opponent and endeaving to draw him in to personalities by ridiculing him witbr silly stories he is the man wlio is seek ing to create a "diversemeut" from tho main question ; and he is unworthy of the kind of a reply lie expects, be it so, rious or comical. Who, after reading Niinrod-Jr's long, hard-strained and melodious, description of a "c f devil" hunt, can d""" that he, Nimrod, Jr., is measuring Progress wheat by his, jNimrod Jr's halfbnshe1f7 and has'been taking lessonsiiinjself from Hey n aid in creating 'diyersenlet8?,, 1 kuow not which to admire most, the deep and sound reasouingjof Progress or the fox-like cunning of this preteuded reply. , In the name of the public, Lcall on our local option men to answer Progress, if they can, in that fair, open, dignified and logical spirit in whichhe has "opened -the ball." If Nimrod Jr. disdains to do it, let some of the rest of them try their h ind. If they do not, let it be accounted a victory for Progress. They cannot laugh him down iu this kind of style. To avoid all misunderstanding, T de cline to take sides in this controversy; declare toy utter ignorauco of who either of your aforesaid corresjiondents erson ally may lie, and withhold all judgment as to which party is right till we see the; question fairly and fully discussed. -f .. Judex. I Frittering Awat OrroRTUXiTiES.--Seven times the Republicans fiad a 'chancy , to elect a "nigger" Clerk, and seven times, they didn't do it. On Me other, hand, the first chalice they had of-stealing all the "niggers' 1 uion.y-4bey improved it by a device known as the Freed niau'a Bureau Saying Bank4 Smart fellows, these Rad, ieals, and derilish sly." Washington, l r
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