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'-' "4'-t;-M ' ;'"' '"' - . - . ; 4 .4.: , tv -. ' ; I- ! M . : " ";';'.' '::.""" 'r'""" ''""""'Fi:::::-r: ' : . 1 '-' ' J ''-"'. ! l,;tV L o; C A L . See ti;t page 1 for communications. f " I o iFcarc vegetables and greenbacks. if wt:r ; - if -v-,.iirnn candidates fur the mnvor- ji- I - - .. salty. 1 - - - - , . "f - . o- ; : . I Concord Presbytery meets on the 23d In stant, ntj'Bethel church not far from David Ion College. . ;MiJ;Wi - : : : ?: IS ! I - O- ' - ' About one hundred and -twenty-! ve bisons jiave professed religion 1 reaching of Miss Painter, who r. ... 1 it . unuer ine lo"f- rifl. !tei tl:y ir lliileigh, yhei-e she wilt cou fdiict a revival. j ' ' I - o- decided improvement is the new ferahite pavement, now leing laid in front M the- Bbydeu Hoi House, and we hope to see wore "frit -o- ; fRfir. Ross & Greenfield come to the 1 front this week, with a new aud elegant ttiu t (ll Olirillt UUU UTO lilL'll UUUVC iu Hosioess Local, A Sbw Post! Office has been , cstab in Mt. Una township, on the line jetweei Rowanj Mills and China Grove, fnanJCd iiiacKmer. rTbl Literary k-lub met in tue large parlor of : -a - . 1 'U- 1 liUcVrter, Esu., Tuesday mgtxu me attendance lanrei and the ! txerelses were Interesting and $plcanul Some oC tbe oldest members are the i ktMMSt relisatra ui (,ucw iAiii.i3ra, uuuci me S"uu I tllCCtS OL'n IUt;jft Ultrj takiijf m uv myK vu U1C, ! . Th 1 er. picn icer I egg ea ters, sportsmen , niwl iiIcasnrefseeKeis,. an. were out in Jh'iirch-0f .eniojroienii iass Aionuay, imiour S " Is ' I . !. ... ' . . hint Uey succeeded; in finding all they 'were afjer. . a,. .r ir . I -U. 0 . . . I There was considerable excitement oc- irhisibiiet) near tlie public square about IftnVioM. WednUday evening. Moses 15eifciuilwas chastising his dog, and while !:.. Art: jinnf-lipr iliiflr kf riifri-r) mn nn i laud tit aMr. JJ., iwho drew a pistol ana 11 HU' bjw "-r C O - " I' Blit hin). V ! j; . f if 1 -O I .MessiL:1 Wittkbwly & Baracli, mer Uliant inces, CUmrlptte, occupy a.. large hu&ctS imfour advtjrtismg columns to-day fTliey occupy a large place in tho meicaii tife business of Wt'-stein -orth Cai-oliua. fl'lieir rr(l-J';lt KIK'CCKS IS f. V.dMirf llf VfTIl il fk - buliness luiiiicauous us wen as Jgrcatl 1 ilflflality prices. W.elutvc'.a lit le darkey' that would addition to Barnmu's iosities : He has been upon his head on a six fnrove afevaiuaoit 1 U . t I aiTHtuaoi .'collection of cu Iknown Jo stand inclf plan! suspended over a mill race, Iw hkli iten teen ieet wido, while Ihematliiliiiii flowed water to the depth of lieu feet? j How isjthis-lor a level head 1 - II Hyjwiiy of suggestion, to prevent all liiUHuadei -standing the part of the Com iuissib'iiui's who njay be elected, let there IteopejUcd 011 th day of the municipal frlection,fa third po jc in which all voters imay ac tneir oaiiots ior or against the iHocLat. This will not only ascertain ,tLe sentfnieurof he jeople on this subt re the proper disiosat rjet, bui will assij lof tho sybject by Uurh eSftifssion the new 'board, by whom'' will be reirarucd 111 the liit of msti actions. 1- Mr. J0I111 Y. Itico reV fjxjits tliit a tticnijbcr. of "his family 11a r fE( x esaetl lei;iig sh ot by the explosion :ol!a loatU'U brass cartridge. A fire was not much 'used, and cartridge had liecu ac- it. . . : ! i KiitUUnl rn a 1 mhi1 lit is HHtos'd the ili(Vidaly swept 'into tjie fire-place, and Ik lodeif 011 geti ng hot. I he ball bur itselr iti the. ce ling of the room, and V(iil(l have vmh ingered the life of any 'one htrutik by it.! j ii This if the Si'cond case of the kind, to oiirkmf ledge, th'at has happened in the uioiuiry. ln the former instance the ball ceilinjr. rrin se cases how a man may lose his life ironi a cause uoc irenerallv considered angeroas. Sam hop ok, the Whisky Question. ii,'aRSin up street the other da v and meet- -;ibr witUjiJur .friend, Sambo,' we thought it irn igbt not be amiss to interview him on tie iill-asoibing theme of Whisky, or No whifiky, when he theorized a follows: h 1 ryiuyou sees, i.l loss, when my ole jmisus wus niiiniu' de farm, she always ikpj a flock ob geee, an wheneber won ob denigooii3 got lo4s den wus de time Ire i made luo fuss den you wnd . belebe a goose" cabel obi; Jow, den, jis so wid dis heah. Wzne8s. Jpey tells me dat dey is making ai mity:big fuss iu! de noosnaners. cause fiBfubody!iez les vote on dis subjeck and wu 1 to um dat sum body is bout to git it sioss or sumpin, wui I " Then, fifter scratching his hea ipeni, hepontinued "Now, wih, ad a mo- dis aai J'-t.opiit ail l ken sjiy, cepm' kkfS3 dat I CCKS yu which am de loss Zephyrs. i AYTitin Ttf rl tl Wwf j1 pit ivunfliAM and !iu vinus, Aepiryii-8 are scarce. There js still hc f ruit left, though; at s v : i W- ----- T" one ttiiic;; we though it all killed. 'e.ipi I 1 yrartnets are irather bac k wa rd abou t llautn ,..s...; si. I if K 11 a k OR'" general thing: some, how? Vyer,jnefuearly dine, whilst others have (Jtist fairly coninieuced. We had "a re jjtehuiugfjuu on jtUe 15th-the first we lf ve hadsincerFebruai-y ' 4Abut iin average acreage ofotton aud corn willjbo plantetl and our farmers are ginng nipie than lusiial attention to the ijpases aid clover. Wheat looking fine V?- lof Unity is threatening us a "iuin." Dbn't send tTM1 bbrtd a hokr through Ihe middle 1 t; 1 ii:::'t(lh fd hassuch a kuacll'or diridiufj pt,nns generally, that weeoiftess to being tu.v fnl of hiiii, don't send us tlmX I, KIllll" i. ill I !. I. . ; 1 i! lfvasi uu we nave more leisure -lecoer soine.what froai our fright. U"uthllliver i Itinnles" and "Wood eaves" ar twitting each about "lasses." f l wsse's,1 &c.i aud otherwise assum- i?S a-beUfgeient atitude, geuerall y. What ital uiean f j We dout eethejj)i; 'f.u,l it 1 bQysl keep! cool ! " The "lase" iruuw UOW t(it:ik Mrf.nft iPin Viw. 1 1 X i I1"3 1 110 grog-.si.ous WlllllU !. f . t . o t - n 1- our j. """: yonsequentiy, mere is no Xi , or, Wi ix veiy littlo dranW. "M tlieu ,hi nersoh 'takes n Iretl , Now dkrttp, ll liWjsioiuacli'i; silked. Therefore, 011 ? "V calfd"local option quesfiou,is J1 all otUrs, Eiaukliu is kcepitfj cdol. It ifi r$ electiou !to teBt the question at s j .(therd Ijeiui: absolutelv no need of it) rfbre Auouf succeeds, as he has r- 'weneflj to driv the traffic'1 from Sill fti uto Franklin. We trust he will Li H 111'!1 thing,! lest, peradveiitnre(' we s r , -- uu uietuuciii lsuau spirit 10 ex liirrv- V'ea.w 01 icjb nutoms ana cat -an j 1 o nvnuAi ouck: to Salisbury iUraiu. knows W- L. . t II.,- I It franklin it, friend M, e tell you. Lin advance, we ' Avou't fork it. We : are tod 4usy now, working ;mi oaf farm, "tending our", fish, etc, to jMIier wfth "suuis." liesides, Unity cut OUr "Catlfl l"l;lllL-"Uli fwi in.wla i- into .i . k. r. Lexington Our jail has only 13 inmates at pres ent,, but there is a tine prospect for an in crease soon. , i -V? From nil accounts the fruit in this sec tion is not all 'killed, and the prospect for a fair supply is good. , j: j A horse thief was captured! near lvro last Sunday, and is now iwhere he can bid the dreadful "spit dog" deHan0e24 Mr. r. V. Ieonard is erecting a large livery stable in rear of the Lowe Tdoclc. Lexiugtou has long felt the want of such an institution, f "-' . ; t, ' Late showers have greatly improved the appearauce of vegetation, especially wleat anoT oats, which suffered ngood deal from ; the ; prolonged j dry and cold weatner. j $ i While returning from a singing school near this place on Friday last a Mr. Sink and his sister were thrown from a buggy, the latter receiving severe injuries, from which, however, she will recover. XA negro boy about 17 years of age was oefore Justice bnnth last week, charged with forging the name of John It. Wei born to orders for goods, on John Lay den, a merchant of this pbice, to the amount of fSO. t ailing to give bond 8200 for his appeamnce at Court he was sent to board with Trexler. : y s ; - . On the night of April 9th some of our young men, with rebellion; in their hearts, proceeded to the residence of the highly esteemed Kev. H. Martin, and gave him an 'awfuP pounding' with) some of -the substantial ainu luxuries Of tins life. A number of ladies engaged iu this rebellious act, and several whoconuTuot accompany thehi "aided aud abetted,'1. and are parti- cepa crimniii.'he good niau's heart was touched at" this demonstrations of friend ship. , i'' - ? I -- - I regret to announce that, our highly resi ected fellow townsman, Mr. T. Earn- heart, is no more. After a painful illness of five weeks, he passed away, on the loth, aged 51) years, j He moved from Stanly county to Lexington in 1352 and has been eagacreu in tne inercnanute ou.siueiss ever since that time.; Although twice burned out he never lost that energy which was so-characteristic of iiiui. ; Dusex. ' For the Watchman. Prohibition in Salisbury Township- Continued. licfore proceeding to the further argu ments of the rohibition question, it will be necessary to brush away some of the sophisms, which Progress has woven, gossamer-like, around the subject. Since his hrst manifesto, he has been employed, like the candidate tor kuiimthood, in watching his armor, and in patching up the holes that have been knocked into it Or if at any time he has levelled his free lauce, it has-been at some imaginary giant or wiudmill, and not at the true enemy that lias been knocking his castle about his ears.- Indeed Progress 'appears to be iu a dilemma. He is not-willing to own the proposition which his arguments seem to aim at. He disclaims the charge of bein" the champion of lie liquor sel lers, and vet Ins arguments, it thev prove anything, would seem topnive that liquor- selling was a useful, honorable,; refining employment; that liquor-sellers were a race of persecuted martyrs, aud that so ciety. would be ..vastly-improved by hav ing an "otter-slide" 011 every square. If it were not for the fallacies in his argu ments, they--would' indicate-; that the right to sell and drink whiskey was the dearest k light of a freeman, especially the right to sell. He admits that to dunk it is an evil. And he seems to tinuk it a most killing stroke, a perfect coup de grace, to call ins antagonists arucies ami state ments, "tame sermous," "reckless asse tioiiK " "ridiculous assiimitf miia " ftr. Of course if he.des not know .how to reason like a sound logician, he must be allowed to use such w eapons as he has 111 his ar mory, although they may have been loiij since discarded from the arjjuaof digui tied controversy. But the inost remark able feature is that he asks us to take his unsupported assertions as proof. Am these assertions no intelligent reader win ever cnarge wmi "lameness.' un inc contrary thev are of the wildest kind. The observing reader will observe that he even distinguishes intemperance from sin thus separating tne species ironi tne ge nus, aud predicating one thing of the ireuu8 and auotlier ot the sin-cies. it is sin, original sin, according to David and Paul, he argues, thatproiluces the evil, and not the sale and use of liquor ! Shade of Aristotle, what logie ! Just as if any one should say, 'It isu t the copper head and the cobra, that kill by their poisonous bite, but it is snakes I And further, More Arton did not say that moral suasion, -and the sweat influ ences of the gospel were objectionable as a remedy for intern peianee, but objec tionable when relied ou as the only rem edy. Aud there is no nation under heaven that thinks of adopting moral suasion, aud gospel influences as the only preventive of crime. These precious in fluences are effective upon the hearts that are opened to this gracious power, but many will not heed them. liven Moses, utter giving the moral law for universal use, added the' judicial code, or civil law, witirits penalties annexed, for the use of the commonwealth. The Christian world has had to refute many arguments alleg ed against thepower of prayer but the most earnest advocate of pntyer has never a leged that all that was neCessay" to pre ent crime iu society was t pray against it. Eveu George Muller, powerful as he has been through the agency of prayer, in maintaining his orphan asylum, would hardly undertake to prevent crimes in llristol, Without law and a police-force, by the sole agency of "prayer. And Paul recognizes the sword,' iu the hand of the civi! magistrate as an element of legiti mate government And if-the licensed sale of ljqnors is the cause of unuumltered evils, as weJiavo proved, aud will prove Ligam, men it ougiit -to oe classed witn- ot her. misdemeanors, if the man who teiupts-anotler to steal or to murder, and shares the profits of the theft or murder, is particeps crimiuis iu law and iu right, how in the name of reason can he le in nocent who furnishes his 4lupe with the means of druukenness, and the dimes which accompany it, and at the same time 6hares the profits of the transaction T But Progress thinks that it is enough to punish the- crimes that may chauce to grow out of whiskey driukiug, but not try to hinder the drinking. Aud he in sists tha' prohibitory laws are punish ments "to those who dyink. Theie aro two satisfactory answers to this assertion. The first is that governments, like kind parents,' not only punish evil,, but protect their subjects from "-evil, aud promote morality and well-doiug. It is the pre rogative of government to remove, as far as possible, the great evils that are likely to eudanger morality and wealth and life. It is not therefore a punishment to tjie drinker, but a removal of temptation from his path, for which many a devotee at the shriue'of Bacchus will be devoutly thank ful. " ; But furthermore it is always best and most humane to remove the causes of evil, before they have accomplished their baleful purposes. An ounce of preveut- ve is better than a pound of cure. It is better to close the rum-shop than to pun ish Jthe assaults, aud murders that may flow- from it. It is better to close the rum-shop than to maintain the paupers that are made by it.- And as society has to foot the bill of costs for violence and crime, aud for maintaining paupers,; so ciety Jn s a right to'interfere iu the mat ter.' Every tax-paver is interested iu this matter, and he has a right to protest against, and remove, if he can do sj law fully, the lustitutious that doublei his taxes aud make life and property inse cure. Jtesides all tins, it is u 11 scriptural, as well as unreasonable, to wait till the mischief., is doue, before applying-the remedy. Moses directed that the onfner should keep shut up the ox that was wont to push with his. horns ; and if the owner refused to do so, he- was held accountable for all the damage the pushing ox might do. We know that the liquor-bar is a pushing ox, with a deadly horn, and! we are not bound to stand still aud see pun push and push, and then punish every one elite but .the real author of all'the mischief. If a showman would insist on letting his lions ' out in the street, we would not wait until they had killed some body, before requiring them to be. caged. We know that the lion that lurks behind the painted screen will devour and destroy, and we have a right to 111- .1 t ! ' " 1 ? sis inai ne oe caged, beiore lie slays -any more. -We know that crime ls'jncreascd hjulhe sale of liquor, aud that j fortunes are ruined, a .d families beggared by it. We know -still -further that prohibition has successfully mitigated the evils of in telnperance, and we therefore desire the blessings of prohibition. .-! ""' But tlie most astonishing part of all is the mortal terror .of Progress lest the '01d Puritan Laws" should be re-enacted. He entirely forgets that the ''Old Puritau Laws" aie largely a my th, unsns tained by any reputable historian, and that so far as they are not a myth, they are the spirit of the I7thcentury. The Puritans simply re-enacted, as against others, the laws under which they suffered iu Eng land. What wonder that the victims of Bonner and Laud, of Claverhokise and Taylor iu Old England, should protect themselves from their old enemies by laws of similar spirit, in New England f But who dreams that the 17th ceutiuy spirit can be transfused iuto the 19th f But surely Progress ought to know that the fabled "Blue Laws of Connecticut" neviM hail any existence, except in the imagination of caricaturists, and those w ho have been credulous enough to be their dupes. Judge Smith in his supple mentary History of New York says there never was such a code iu existence. It is said that some of those laws that now-pass- curreut as "Blue Laws" were writ ten for the purpose of deriding the laws of Connecticut, which w ere indeed some what rigorous, but never inhuman. The historian Bancroft seaks in the highest terms of the laws of Connecticut, and the happiuess aud prosperity that prevailed under their beneficent sway. 1 And it seefns that it was after New England discarded her so-called "Blue Laws" that she lecaiue troublesome to her neighbors. It appears that Progress has vet to learn the nature ot civil lilei-t , and its distinction from unlimited license. Or. Paley, in his work on Political Philosophy-, says that "Civil Liberty is the not being restrained by any law but what conduct's iu a greater degree to the pub lic welfare. To do what we will is nat ural li berry. To do what we will, con sistently with the interests of the com munity to which we belong, is civil lilierty." Natural libeity must always yield to the interests of the mass of the community. Jeremy Bentham has well phrased it wheu he said that the greatest good of the greatest number is the crite rion by which our civil conduct is to be judged. And so a passenger from au iu fee ted region cannot be allowed to en ter his home or native city at pleasure, hut is quarantined, and 'confined if nec essary in a lazaretto, till the danger is over, and no one thinks that his civil liWrty has been invaded. In the same way, if the saloon-keeper spreads moral contagion, and crime abroad, it is both right and Christian to abridge his natural liberty, dose up his saloon, and allow him to direct his energies to some more useful Occupation. Co-ercion, even the co ercion of a prison, is not incompatible with civil liberty and civil rights. It is to be hoped therefore that the qualified voters of Ilowau will not be deterred from exercising their rights at the ballot box to close up the liquor traffic ; of course some one will cry "persecution," . u nanism,: "Digoiry," and ask your sympathy for the poor persecuted martyr, the rum-seller But there is no invasion of his rights, since he can have no right to lead his neighbors ihto temptation, or sell tluun the wretched spirits that steal away their braius, "transform them into idiots, brutes or demons, and send them home to scatter wretchedness and woe among those they are bouno: to love and cherish. ' But before adducing the nditional ev idence, let 11s get the point aimed at. Progress is inclined to admit that whis key drinkTng is nu evil, but deuies that whiskey selling is an evil. The reason whiskey selling by license is not an evil, is, that ineir will have.it any how, license or no license. He thinks it is better to be able to get it openly and legally than by sneaking and blockade-running. Now it is just on this point, viz., that prohibi tion does not lessen the drinking, that ii wish to adduce additional testimony. The witness is X'hief Justice Noah Davis, of New York, whose character and posi tion are a sufficient guarantee of his truthfulness and accuracy. He is neither a "temperance howler" uor "temperance fanatic," nor wandering temperance lec- tnrer, advocating the cause for money. not even a "Puritau," but a Judge of high character, large experience and lun- imiteachable honesty. In a recent ad dress he said, "Among all the causes of crime intemperance stands out the unap proachable chief." Speaking on the ben efits of Prohibition he said : , Thc relation of temperance to crime is a'sj plainly maniKt where drunkenness is repressed by partial, or complete prohibi tion. The cases of towns and villages .whereby the arrangment of theif founders, no liquors or intoxicating drinks have been allowed to be sold, furnish strong evidence. Vincland, with its 10,000 people, without a grog shop, and with a police force of one constable who is also overseer of the poor (with a salary for. both offices of $73), re ports in some years a singlo crime, and a poor rate swelling to the aggregate of four dollars a yesr. Greeley in Colorado, is an other town of 3,000 people, and no liquor shop. It neither uses nor needs a police force, and in two years and a half, seven dollars only was called out of its poor fund. Ba varia,' Bliuois, a town of the same popula-tion,-with absolute prohibition, was with out a drunkard, without a pauper, and with out s crime. In Maine, under prohibitory lawv the convictions lor crime in -1870 were one for every 1,689 population, while in our own State during the same time, the aver- age wa one in 620. In Connecticut undefthe prohibition law. of 18512 crime is shown to have dioiinishcu 75 per cent. On the rcsto-. ration of license in 1673, crime increased 50 per cent in a single year, and in two years in Hartford, crime increased 400 iper cent. In New London the prison was empty, and the jailor was out of business for a while af ter prohibition went-into effect. In New - i i. rx ' 1 r i f : 1 oia xorn, toe iueiruioni.M isw 01 xouu, 1 ! 1 ! 1 -1 -. ' a ' '. was, aosoiarciyprouiouorr on ; ounuaj.- Prior to that law; there had been no mate rial difference ia the number of arrests : on that; and other days of the" week. After the law went into effect, the number of ar rests oa the Sabbath was diminished , more than one-half, On the day bf ' our annual elections," statute draws around. each poll ing place a'circle of - absolute prohibition, within which no intoxicating drinks may Ix? sdd or givpn. ; Contrasted with former days; who fails to recognize the charge frontf ex citemenjt, disorder, and crime, toalmostuni versal quietude and peace ? And who does not see that. the measure of peace depends upon the vigilance with which the police eulorce the; statute f But j volumes cannot contain all the testimony that might be collected setting forth the benefits of Prohibition. The question is'nssuming Tast proportions, and is inet with on all sides. In fact a large pari of iour country is already shingled over With prohibitions, in great er or less Circles around colleges, acad emies aud churches. ItJaonly aquestiou of time! But it is too late to enter npon a new -phase of this subject iu this paper, and so we will Wait for . More Anon. ii . , For the Watchman. THE TE3IPEIJANCE QUESTION. Mr. Editor,' Allow me to return thanks to Judex," "Stranger," and "Hap py Girl tit to p: uphold 1Tif hftl t 111 1 until tu tlintr Imtra anon Wl V 1 iiiiki 40 ttit-j itctkiv jatpii y Progress for his feeble effort to iwhat he regards as 11 great princf- pie of 1 ht. Progress feels as great au interest in the welfare of his fellowmeu as any tetuperniice reforuiercan. He has ever been an advocate of thd utmostliu erty nun) iu favor of., the exercise of very human .prerogative consistent with good I morals',!- social enjoyment, and the de mands of well ordered society. He could not, therefore, ; favor any scheme that could by any possibility, in his judgment, redowuto the oppression of any one. He has very near friends aud dear children who look to hint; for counsel aud guidauce, and he would fear to deliberately impress upon them by word or deed anything, doc trine, tenet i- creed that might effect i'yu riously,jtheir physical or social goody -jor their i-ejnpor.il or spiritual ieace. I say this much iii answer to the sneers of those self-righteous temperance reformers who seem toj imagine that every due who op poses tlieni, is actuated by' selfish, sinful, or dishonest motives. "More Anon": opens his third sermon on the temperance, question thus: ''the friends lof J license have begun to call names and attempt by folce of mere as sertion to eiriitradict'stateaueuts made 011 the luosjt reliable authority." In tlis he is most jsad)y mistaken, lie has dohe lit tle else jsiuce he! began to preach xcept to endorse .the most reckless assertions: I have tyrabded them as such, and it de volves upon hini to bring the pitwf,-which he has liot-vet done or promised to do.j If he has ylet;brought forth the first state ment founded upon authority Worththe paper oil which he announced it, I must confess,! with all deference, 1 have not seen it. j He has not brought forward a siugleUithority sustaining his cause that Wmtltl ptaud in a court 1 law. He has simply goiie blundering about here and there, like a big bug in a closed-lighted room at night, tapping a State, a comity, a township: or a town, not by accident merely,! but on purpose, in looking for a (oau stool on which to rest one of those "statements made on the most reliable authority." Anil in all this broad laud of States, jiiul counties, and .townships, and towns lije has found alxuit one half dozen, altogether which have -been improved by pioliibiiion, according to this same. re liable authority.? Now. this "reiiableau thority"! is 'ex parte. It is made generally by th.osq who are monomaniacs on the sub ject of temperance reform and who are no more "rehslblo" than those who lived du ring the fearful reigu of New England witchcraft, when every man who would not swejir that he sawan old wo ucn riding broom-s-ticks a mile high in Hie air, was iu danger : of being hanged for a wizard himself.; ' Never! since Noah, the son of Laniech, ehjoyedjhis mellow slumber beneath" the ample folds of his antique tent, spread out on the beautiful, deluge-washed, ami his toric plains of Armenia, were such On ar ray of njere words and uucouviueing pro positions jumbled together to force down the throiit of men despicable dogmas and repulsivje measures of reform aud doubt ful humin amelioration, as those to le found iu the last serinou of Moro Anon on this relic of mediaeval ages, com'rc.tem ptrauce preform : ? And these he diguities in a previous article, facts and figures. First, he takes up the case of Salisbury when the Five Gallon Laur "was in force here. le siys that "the! sober and intelli gent people of that day, though t that good was done even by the 'five gallon law.' " Of coursje, none are capable of defining the good or evil 01 tins question, unttne -sober," aud none are "intelligent" except they sidp with the local optiouists." W-hat presumption! Bu tmr the reason giv en for the' non-coutiiiuauce of this law which did good according to "reliable au thority !' Tlie "sober ami Hitelligent ieo pre" would riot j)ersist iu doing good and would ubt go to the polls, because those who opplosed thein insisttnl ou having a ballot on the question every year. How meek 1 how; submissive ! I do not think it necessary to give here the concurrent and overwhelming testimony of a very large number pf sis good citizens as ever lived in the place, against the 'so-called good said to havo leeu effected by the puritan ical measure. It. was not an uncommon thing, but lather the practice of all dis posed toidissipate, on the Sabbath and frequently of week-days, to seenre a jug of liquor from the "iufau ous dens, just outside the town limits," perhaps, aud re tire to the cedar and pinegroves just out side of town, or to some secluded house or room jiuside, aud then card playing, low jest jand revelry ruled the hour. Such scenes afe not to Ikj witnessed in Salisbu ry now under the well regulated system of licensing bar-rooms. If uot, theu the good was done after the law was repealed. ext, it is denied "that prohibition in creases drunkenness aud tempts men to break tie law." If tho liberal-minded and liberty-loviug were as simplejas the disinteitisted and pure local optiouists would hive us believe, this untenable and reck less u.-sert ion might be swallowed; But lets see: Why do men violate the Inter nal lie ve;u ue laws t Why do meu ever try to evade any law T Mainly because it is regarded as. harsh aud oppressive.. It is man's nature to resist .what he considers au encroachment pon his rights, and he will face danger and death, eveu, to grat ify his a ; ipetite and desires, if for 110 oth er reasoL than tosliow his contempt of those who would deprive him of them. Kefcrchcc is made to Winston, Salem, . , - - --uuiuj, ffSSJ??-.1" been put iu force thenUia never been repealel. ; I might answer by saying that fanaticism lias never been known to mlmit it. --,..-.. or relimiuMi lHld ou por otU driv r n IMtjiuon uy mebsolnte mi-ns of sujHjnor strength. The allegel m! i v 1.11 m eu iu rnvor ot the law 1 in tilVse places, is contradicted b as many reliableitnesses ns have tes'tified io its support. Nothing is said of the mauv towns iu the State which have tried mid rfiwil. ed the law because they 'found its effects to woi-K evil.! Ai-o. the people iu these towns "all fools T" " - fiominil n.r.11 TITll !. 1.' .1 .1 " , 1 ' , vv..'u, uvui inn is nfiu np as a place which has been redeemed bv local and the ex parte evidence ot a reliable tee totler is brought ill tn con ri lien ntoit that there can be no mistake alwut it. Every one knows that the disorders at Gold Hill twenty-five years ago arose, not from the fact that whisky was sold there, but from a miscellaneous and un congenial population that had gathered there as fortune seekers anoTgold-iuiiiers, and that the effects of time and the influ ence of tlie gospel (for the world i 111 proves day -by! dav wherever its irentle is brought to bear), have been the means of tne improvement which is to be observed there now, and not local optiou. . iliird, Newton, a town never addicted to whisky drinking is set in evidence as a town enjoying the coercive blessiugi of 1 oca 1 option, out liberal-minded meu and citizens there say that there is as much druikmg as ever, and no ..re venue accru ing to the State or town. , , Fourth, A big thing is attempted to be made out of Northampton county whose population is set down at 14,000 ,0l)0 negroes and 6,000 whites. Local option has been iu force iu this county 2 1 - V. or 3 years, and it is stated that tlie couu ty expenses have been reduce one-half Ju hve years. When Ave remember what fearful extravagance prevailed in all those counties where the Kepublieau element predominated, after the war. and until the Democracy put checks upon thereigusof tne rule and ruin and plundering mem bers of the Republican party, we have 1 key that explains the reduction of coun ty expenses throughout the State. I sun pose that I might assert that there is hot a county in the State where the expenses nave not been greatly reduced, aud in very many, cut down one-half withiu tho last five years. 1 his reductiou iu countv and other expenses is not to be attributed to fanatical temperance measures, but .to a change iu the rule of parties, to the re storation of order by the inauguration of good and kind government, and the in crease of moral sentiment and religious influences. - Next, other instances are given from abroad, and on. tlie "statements of this same most reliable authority," they are set forth as convincing evidence that the adoption of this second edition of tlie old Blue Laws will make men quit drinking: and it requires a ramble over the whole territory of our couu try to draw up four? cases. It seems to 111c that I can give a greater number of places where eopleJ are equally so tier, and happy, aud virtu ous without the use, or even the knowl edge of force measures to make them so. The first instance given is a county iu Illinois. In that couuty, according to the reliable authority of a sectarian pa per paragraph, there are comparatively no paupers, no criminals in jail, and taxes very low, all the result bf having fto'li ceused liquor saloons, (t)tlio.igh the people there can get whisky, it' they choose. Another instance cited, on the authority of a religious paper, is a county iu Ken tucky. According to that paper, at the time the editor wrote, there was but one criminal iu jail, &c, because local optiou was enforced one year before. There are many times that hundreds of counties have but one. criminal iu jail. Even in whisky di inking North Carolina it often happens. It has happened in Rowan and tliere was no prohibition law in op eration' either. Another argument iu favor of prohibition is based on the declaration of the Prince of Humbugs, Mr. Barunm. It seems that he said in Philadelphia that if they would give him all the money speut for drink in that city, he would pay all the taxes, the police, the expenses of courts, &c, fcc. , If theyJ would give me one half tho money seut there for tobacco, cigars aud snuff, I would do all that Baruum agreed to do, endower every college in North Carolina liesides, and still be; rich. Some men spend their money for whisky,, others for dress, others for tobaccoj others for pleasure, aud so on, and have they not a right to do so f without being continual ly upbraided by fanatics and fools t Next, a long homily of words is given on the Maine liquor law from one Dr. Ham lin, who seems to be a double-dyed fa natic, and like all suclH rejoices over the fact that five men had becu put iu jail tip there for selling liqnor. The tyranny, the evils, and failures of the law in that State have been so frequently, exposed and denounced Uy thoso who were not fanatics, that it will be hard to make the well posted reader l?lieve there is any good in Maine or her Puritan laws. These unsatisfactory I was about to say worthless instauces are held up as proof that coercive, measures are more effective in correcting acknowledged evils than the gentle influences of the gospel. None, I hardly think, but the dogmatic pharisee and blinded fanatic aud bigot can think so. Next, after dodging my argument iu favor of putting down all the great evils of the day,.by. kind measures, charity and love, and the gentle influences of religion, More Anon '"vaults" to1 the conclusion that the proper way to answ er me is by ridicule, and thereupon proceeds to "re duce my argument to what he calls a syllogism. But iu this, as in everything else, ho fails, for his projiosition is com posed of the sylly, while the gism is left out. Now, I appeal to the deliberate judg ment of an unprejudiced aud liberal public to bear me out iu the assert ioti that the advocates of local option through the Watchman, have not nly failed to meet or refute my arguments in favor of mild and Christian measures to correct evils, but they have given- ns nothing new. They seem content to repeat the same old worn out arguments iu favor of force. They try to impress j the public mind with the idea that there is a higher law, a law over aud abovtLthe Bible, a more jm tent force than the New Testament Scrip tures aud the example and teachings of the Saviour, necessary for the correction of evils, for the prosperity and happiness of societv, and the preservation of social order- They forget this is an enlighten ed and Christian age; they forget that proscription is a relict of barbarism ; they forget that tlie shackles are fast falling from men's limls and I consciences ; they forget that the time is rapidly approach; 111!' W hen the bands will be burst from the Christian conscience and the Chris tian intellect, and there will no longer be proscription for opinion's sake, or the de uial of free thought, or free speech, even within the nreciuctsof a creed. The class of evils to which whisky uiHizmru uy inn . r.vt'rv aiiemnr 111 tin diction Tia f5leti, 3 asZ wirtd grown older and the Christian rellirion Incomes more preilominauf. iri-enter will be the failure of all arbitmrv appliances to make men belter, or to prevent crime orsiu, if for no oMier reason r" because they are repugnant to, and inconsistent witii me idea of Christian libortv. Tlu.n. why do intelligent meu talk of them now f Jesns proclaims that human virtue iu its touuclatUHi and essence is represented by one word love j love to God aud man ; uot a mere emotion, savs Yuhm?. cnViiil. nate and enuervatiug, a sign and a cause of weakness, but an enlightened, mascu line, resolute and supreme recaitl to th" righu of God, and fo the rne interests of our fellow beings. He proclaims that this is the end of rational existence, the uigmty, strength, aud joy of the ratioual nature; This eud reached, man is Gotl- iihe, a partaker of Divine nature, re created in the imago of his Father. Further, as has lieeu "most eloonentlr Siiid, neither the Talmud nor the Kornii. . nor any oilier doctnue ever promulgated by the mouth of man, is so rejdete iu mild ness and mercy, so full of grandeur and glory, . of ' sublimity and song, as that whirh pur Lord aud Saviour jrave to dying world. The saint and the savage. the philosopher aud the fool," alike have felt-its influence l and testified to the superl sentiments rtnd living language which it contains. I Its .influence, what telescopic eye can foresee, what human intelligence recapitulate f From the . . . 1 . . ... v . great and gloomy though glorious era when the Saviour came tu.redecra a fallen world, it has swayed the minds of men, ami its lunueiice win, coutiuue over mil iums ot men unborn. Until something more sublime, something mmo !. ai.Mn aim conciliatory, can be substituted in the place of the annihilating philosophy 01 lunueiity, let tlie ancieut and venera ble temple of Christianity still tower over tlie iaiien pyramids of pagan suiersti tiou, the safeguard of morals and the harbinger of hope and happiness here- utter. L Mr. Editor, in conclusion, allow me to pay my respects to Uncle Joshua, by ox- pressing me nope mat lie will continue 10 give us ins poiuieu and sensible views on the temperance question. r IHMJKKSS. For the Watchman. Temperance and the Metempsychosis of rrogress and Mm rod Jr. Since Progress will have it, that Nim- rodJr.is uot only an ass, but Balaam's ass t ...1...;. i . . . 1 aumn ure iaei, ior me nome; and re quest those who read to hold this article in one hand, aud their Bibles ommi at the 22d chapter of Numbers in the other, and compare the two. As I am the transitu grated ass of theavariciousaud unscrupu lous false prophet ; Progress must himself be the mtMsmijmfal false prophet ! as-the sequel shows ; and as he and I therefore kuow more about that incident of Holy Writ than the transmigrated Isrealitesand Moabites;aud as it is wo tohisiutercst to tell how it was, 1 ask the liberty of giving to those w ho are i u te rested t h e to 1 1 o w i ng prac - cai paraphrase ot that episode in our lou and otherwise monotonous existence If Progress complain that this is sacrileg ions, let him remember that it comes on ly from the month of his -irresponsible donkey, and that Inmselt led the honest beast iuto the lirisistlble temptation to adopt this method of biting oft his head 111 a good cause. "Beware of entrance to a qnarrel ; - but, being in, bear it that the opposer may beware of thee," is 111 v motto. It seems strange that we should Iiave met iu the plains of Moab, B. C 1,452, and again in the plains of Rowan, A. D. 1879. But as some say. false prophets aud donkeys never die; aud as "history repeats itself, it is uot very romantic The donkey had the advantage of Ba laam in several particulars, viz: 1. The donkey w as not bribed Balaam was. 2. The doukey was safe in the angel's presence Balaam wasn't. 3. The doukey was wise Balaam was not. 4. The donkey could see Balaam was blind. 5. The donkey feared the Lord's anger Balaam didn't. 6. The doukey kept her temper Ba laam didu t. 7. The donkej' diiln't get her foot crushed Balaam did. 8. The donkey didn't need conversion Balaam did. U. The doukey didn't "metamorphose' Balaam did. 10. The donkey did not wish to prosti tute her .office Balaam did. 11. The donkey saved Balaam's life Balaam wanted to kill her for it. - 12. The donkey reasoned Balaam rared. 13. The donkey did not w ish to curse those whom God had blessed Balaam did. 14. The donkey could not be forced against he will to do irrong Balaam was forced against Ins will to do right : if Balaam had the advantage ot tlie donkey in anything, let Progress show if he can. Now tothe paraphrase. And the Prohibitionists set forward and pitched in the plains of Rowan on this side the Yadkin by Salisbury. 2. And the Tapsters and Iipplers, sons of Bacchus, saw all that the Prohibition ists had done to the Guilfordites and other tribes,. 3. And the License men were sore afraid of the people because they were ! many : and the License men were distressed be cause of the Prohibitionists. 4. And the Liquor dealers said one to another, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And the Liquor dealers were kings of tlie '1 ip plers at that time. 5. They sent messengers therefore to Progress, the son of Boreas, to his hone, which is. by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him. saying, Behold, there is a eople come out from the land of Iwnidage : behold, they cover the face of the earth, aud they abide over against us : b Come now therefore, w e pray thee, curse for us this people ; for they are too mighty for "us : peradveuture we shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that we may drive them out of the land ; for we wot that whom thou blessest is blessed, and lie whom thou cursest is CLUSKI. 7. Aud the chief men of the Liquor dealers auLof the tipplers departed with the rewards of divination iu their hand; and they came unto Progress and spake unto hiui the words of the liqnor dealers. ' 21. And Progress rose up in the morn ing and mounted Niturod Jr. and weut with the princes of the liquor dealers. 22. Ami God's anger was kindled be cause he went ; and the angel of Temper ance stood iu the way; for an adversary against him. Nw he was riding npon Nimiol J -n and his 1 wo servauts "Judex" and ''Stranger" were with him. 23. And Nimrod Jr. saw the angel f Temperance standing in the way, and his "; ' a wont drawn iu his hand ; and Niturod Jr. turned aside out of the way, aud weut murine neiui and rroitress smotti N m. rod Jr. to turn him iututh ii- - i - 1 irl- 24 But the angel of Teiurtei-iMitn1 at Anil in apath of the vineyards, n wall beinir ' on this side, aud a waH 011 tharside. "! Aud when Nimmd saw theTu32 gel pf Temperance, lie- thrust hiiMM.lf nufo the wulfj and crushed Progress' foot against the wall : and he i.i..t . 1,in. ' JIgaUl.. ; j " - - " :;. f .j .,-.." . 2b, Aud thf nngel of Temperance went further, aud Wood iu a, narrow! place. wnere was 110 way to turn either to the light baud ori to the left.( ! , ,-.;. Aud when Nimrod Jr. W Hii"ii-' - gel bf Temperance' lie bowSd himself i upuer 1 1 ogress las any other btier and submissive ass would have doue) f, and Progress' anger was kindled, and hesawt Ninn-od Jr. with a bludgeon. f j 2d Aud -the angel of temnrntiM i . ojHiied the mbuth of Nimrod Jr. aud h saidiuu to Progress, What have I done' untq thee, that thou hast smitten mo ' thesr three times (vide ProgiW article Nos, 1, 2, and 3). : ! ' ' 2M. And Progress said nuto Nimrod Jr., Because thouj hast mocked me; I would 1 theif were a sword iu miue hand, for ; uowjwould Iliill thee. - ; 'f1 0.. Aim .Miunm jr. said unto Progress, Am hot I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since thou didst set out on ' thislrr0 expedition t did I ever treat ineeiso betoitji'f . And he said, Nay. . 31 And the eyes of ProgreMi were ojeied, amV le saw the angel vf Temper? ancd standing iu the way, aud his sword, dravfu in his hand j aud he bowed down his head aud fell flat ou his face. 32 And the angel of Temperance Jd uutilVi-ogrcss, Wherefore hast thou smit-j ' ten Nimrod Jr. these three times f Be- f holdj I went out to withstand thee, be' causf thy way is perverse beforo me. t lM1 j- 33 And Nimrod Jr. saw ine, and turned-. . thee from met these three times: unless he had turued thee from me, surely uoyr also f had slaiu thee, and saved him alive "111 fared it kith Roderick Dliu, r ' M When ou thegiound his targe he threwf Fdr, trained abroad hisirnis to wield,. Fitz James'j blade was sword and shield. ; - Tljree timei in closing strife they stood AndJhrice the Saxon blade drank bloody. It is infiuitely better 10 bo an hon&t ass. show'iug the good results of development than! a false prophet 3333 years old with no sign of improvement ou his old habits. Wp.nder where "that fox" is now T "We stoojl to conqiier." Nlmuoix Jitr ! April 14th, 18711. , j "MOUNTAIN MUSIC." In Sthe Watchtjuin. of April 3d, is an ar ticle fcopied from the b'cieniijic AVirt on the abo subject. Every one who lias been in the fountains of Central Carolina is famil iar; with this music," and when cow-hunting ia bright .sunshiny days would gladly be rid of it, as the roar is so loud and inces sant It is impossible, at times, to hear n4 iearn, the direction of-t-he tinkling of tb bells 1 on the. cattle searched for. Many a boy Has run himself down thinking he was in pursuit of a swarm of bees, and when able to run no longer stops to rest and finds to his chagrin that his swarm of bees is " Iwully scattered," and that the hum there of may be heard in all directions for miles arourtd in the shady valley, on the rough -hill side, and on the mountain top. In the mountains of Randolph, Stanly and Mont gomery, this music -is plaved only in the sumnier months, and on bright days, and is here attributed to myriads of beeii, flies and gnats, and is not at all like the roar and snapping of electricity on the approach of a thunder storm. MONTGOMERY JOTTINGS. '.; r Tlie Forney or Stokes property on Beaver dam Ijas Ix:cn sold for fifteen thousand dol lars. jNew earth broken with a good show of th yellow metal. -' " ) NeW discoveries have lcen made ton the lands 5of HenryiBlalock, (formerly the Jared - Lliussell), in Stanly county Ii Tlui Yadkin river is unusually low and clear, ;and fishermen have but little to dK- . According to present indications .-(April 12) tJk-re will be plenty of peaches in the mountains of Montgomery. Corn is coming up but meets an atmos pherejtoo chill jfor its ' wliolesome." Wheat ; and oats arc looking puny, except on im proved lots ' " - ;' ' The! foliage of forest, fruit and other trees not liibch damaged by tlie late 'arctic wave.: Grape vines looking well. ""Garden peas near rf;ady to bloom. Pieplant and Aspafs- " gus yielding returns for care bestowed on them. i , " Thtf familiarj sound of M gouWe-goublo-gou !" so much prized by huntsmen, is daily sung out on the -morning breeze, with sn occasional " kw5t zhure" thrown in by wsy. of diversion by; " his majesty," the Turkey; Gobleh NkmO.-, j tiai:uii:d. At th n-ililence ol .Mr. L. CTanrord, In MllledjN vine, C, April 6th, 1879, by Wm. .McAllister, Esq., David Uuki.kv, to! Mlis Kij.en, diUifUter of 1.C. Hull, Es i., I ' I The Mexican Dollar. 1 Wh.-it i tl iliflrence between the Mexican dollar liml 'fabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment? One does what U 'pruutMe and the other does not. 'fhe Mexi&iii ' dollar r says, l am one; hundred cen is;" but When you corae to invent it you slind it u only eiglity-five. Tablera Buckee Pile Olatment mit I will cure youi of Pi iet;" and upon trial it in found to do suin; every k?. It tnakes but one promine-ld cure Pe; aud diien io without failure. Prlcsj o0 cenfr a bottle, i For sale brC. -R. Barker, Salihbiiry, N. C. : ; Co!i.4nens' Cot pound Honey of Tar has been ; ' m lon and favorably known that it needs no eficoiniuiu. For cough, co11m, note ihroml, hoanteae., etc, it allonU upevly relief, and is a merit (pleasant and efficacious remedy, honey i mid .ar being two of its ingredients. Theskill , of the liemit, arid I he knowledge of a phji- j cian were united in its preparation, the result bein H compound which is the favorite reme dy in tlii Mt-vere jrlinuile, and Iism no etmal as a cure for couslis cohU, hoarenei, broncltitU, croup,! etc. Use Cotrwrn' Honey of Tar. Price 60 cents. For sale by CTt. Barker,' Salisbury, -N. C. j j AXNOUSCEMEXTS! r AH announcements under this head will W. charged Tit the sahie rate of business locals, vi: l6 cents pet line for 1st insertion and 10 c-fcius per line for each additional Insertion. r I liefehy n not? nee niyvelf candidt for mayor kf Salisbury, at h elet-tion lo be held on the fit h of May next. K. W. Price. 244t. ; I hereby auneiunce myself ss a candidats for Miivor of the town of Sal it bury. - . Apifl!, T9. j J. J. STEWART. No person ever heard of an accident re sulting from th use of I'ratt's Astral Oil, and mi Qie call produce a sample of th genuine Oil that will uot give the clearest, isoftesr, ami most xteauy ugns iuau in tn h! obtaineii irom art nrup- sonicet I J. D. Gaskili , Ag- I ! - i ' - v ,
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