Fr II . 57 71 T V, "AT T'l IT -i" f,F M 7J T it r 1? STATE COUNCILS. TAKING II OLD. , The third annual session of "' the State Council of Virginia," Friends of Temperance, virill convene at Staunton, on the 3rd Tuesday, the 20th of Octoj ber. . ' . "'. ; ': , .. ' The second annual sessiori of the State Counci North Carolina will convene in this city on the 9th day of December. Subordinate Councils are i required to elect representatives to - these botl ies. The following is the law on the subject,:' : -" ';v' ''Ur'" ' Art. II Section 2; State (Constitu tion, says: Each Subordinate Council shall, at the first regular meeting , in 11 LJ UilllJ) wts,v CVCi UWViJ for representatives to the State Coun cil. All District Vice Presidents, Pres idents, ex-Presidents, - and Chaplains Ka xKrviKTrk Krif envTi nnltf cVioll lr entitled to seats in the ; State Council except tlioseLbqlding office therein) jrs sjiall receive a majority of the votes Mcafst the same being-set forth in their credentials; as follows: '-nuW. . ... . . . .CorxciTi, riok., . of 1., .'. . .October. .', 18. . To lit Slate Council of (lie ktate of. .... .. Thi is to certify that P. (or ex-P., or Chaplain, and if more than one the cre dentials may be made out together or sep arately,) has been duly elected to repre sent this Council in the State Council un til October next. . j SEALu j ill witness wueretrt ive nuve can ned this to be assigned by our Secretary, and the seal oC council to be attached. :, .i : "., i ;. .: . , : ............ y. 7 The' cau3e of temperance is stronger and and more firmly rooted in the Um-tonncil on Friday evening last ras States than ever it was; even in the truly an intetestihg and Pe LETTER BGK. writing B ro. P. IvL Stewart from Clav ton Council 'The Cause of Temperance is advan cing in this oommjinity. Several who predicted a total failure at this place, are now spcalang in the highest com Tit on it 'A finn iri r Uifi , Order. There has never bcvn violation of the pledge in our Council." . r'--.v... 'v- Well done - for piaytbn ! May the godd Cause con tin;ie . to Hhrive in that vicinity! By the way,; our brethren there must not get impatient for their By-Lawh. ; Wo will send them on' iri a few day. t :-- .; J ''. . . s Bro. lL S. Morgan Ti. V. P. of Lib erty ' Council, -'.i . Charlottes yillo,;,,Ta' : writes: . . 'x " : We-are having pleasanCmoetings ted St palmy days of the Sons. "We will at no very future :day give the statistics and the evidences which will sustain the" above assertion. In the' southern states the . war paralyzed, and in marly states, entirely crushed Jout the tem perance organization. This, was not the case at the north. .' There the cause kept on in its work,5 and when ' the dark war enrtain was lifted there stood the old temperance army, still ip posi tion, numbering, hundreds of ' thou sands pf total abstinence men. , Dur ing the . toas', year , ttip!" cause lia.; been greatly, revived m Jtb e I nortnnumejr- ouS papersliave sprung" up toAvorkn its interests, while from almost every pulpit and. through. the columns pf al most every '.religious ,paper in that section, temperance is preached and advocated. f- ' " In our, Southern county the people have been, most of them, too sorely perplcjxed with pecuniary an political difficulties to give the subject tha,t attention which .they otherwise would have dona Bnt.vevenJ amid these difficulties We discern the signs of an increased interest upon the sub joct, and the ou'-vr6ppiugS, ; we think of a general awakening. , . The Friends of Temperance are do ing a noble work in Yirginia, West Yirginia and this State, in. which three states they have up wards of a hundred Subordinate -Councils with a member- i ship, we suppose, of between oOOO and f i r r i THE CliESCEST MEETING. The public meeting held at Crescent mly pleasant al- ... .... . . , : .. fair, and will result we liave reasons for believing, in rcncli good to the Or d er. C resce nt Hall wh ich the ladies of the Coriricil had so beautifully : and appropriately decorated was filled with an intelligent and4 appreciative audi ence of ladies and gentlemen who Iis tened with 'great interest ."to the very ' , " - ' i ' -T, aDie ana convincing aauress maae py the Rev. H. T.. Hudson npon the subi iect of Temperance:" 'We cannot tin dertake, in this" short n otice, to . give an outline of the address, -bat .fcust content ourselves and satisfy the rea der with the remark, that, ; it was an For tha Frnnilif reniperance. to-morrow Re-,i a CnESE, 0ci?d l8 . 4 Bn6. WniTAKEn: There is to be) a cel ebration of Old' ReemV Creel: Coun J cil to-inorrow.nOen. -Vance and lHev! John Ammoris are to maW speaches.' We T-xect a good time and some, ae cessions. Iarihal Council also cele- 4 - , brate3 servant speaks be atibotlir! placea'bul Hii they bbtW come off the same day I am forced to be at only brie. It it is only one year since I organized MarsbTall 4 Cduhcil, aiid no w they have; 'active and associ- ate together, over one "hundred names. not ov b w ' arid y oar 1 h riinble to tucm. H SoiTVPcan't r SnfoLK Va., Oct 1, 18GS. .'.'jDeaii IitO. AVnrriKEn: I am feeling very anxious about the approaching sessions of the State Councils in Tir gmi And Xdrlli Carolina. Oar an- . nual sessions ought to bo better atten ded than they have heretofore been. '4' The Sub6rdinatrCbrraeUs should take 1 j more interest , in being represented in the 3 tnte Councils. Vhe, bast, the strongest and most earnest, inen of the Vv Order ought to meet in c ounscV We h!ave a great work on oar . hands, and it j will require the strength, the wis :. doai and the business talent of the Or- i : der to carry it forward succesofuly. Ours, is now, aud is destined to be in the future, in the Providence' of.Qod, the leading Temperance organizati oil in the Southern States.' The! wSons, ' J the?4Templars,Mtho MItechabites,M? and - it kindred associations , may I exist here ' iuarsnau is a verysmait place not over aaa ithere,, bit the great burden , of iBle afgnment'agahist theuCe Cf ,alco-4inef and chUdr hoi," and will not fail of doing much lhave gota goo good in the community, p The editor of this paper and John: R.Harrison Esq., responded totalis made upon them m a few remarks. A The singing was:6iie of the best fea tures' of the evening; it wasted by Mr. Best wlio was ably assisted by a nuux-r ber of young gentlemen and some pre tty 1 adies with very sweet 5 voice s. hhey use'd tfife'i'rih'd lJof ',;empeirance Songster. ( e have.heajd , ;olu manyi petitions , ! since tne meeting, urescent wili re in ).th Councils, at present ' The 'best initiation J eyevsav tpok place in H(povellCouncil a few weeks since.' -V.rAirrt to learn 'from a - . ...... . . at Henderson that the Council there is not doing its whole duty. AVe hope .tb3 brethren will go. earnestly to work Kohat tliey may be able to make n gojJl report when the State . Coaucil meets. .' t v j -. :' : ; MQ11L Til A X,Y HALL. When tlio widow cast into the- trea sury her two mites which were all her Jiving, the Saviour said that she had cast in more than all those who out of their- abundance had -given liberally. So we sayHhat David Lewis, a man who keeps a public bar in thil c i vf has douo more for the temperance Cause than all those ehriKtians whohaYC thus far sood aloof. How ? Why by bring ing in mambora.- Two weeks .tigo last Monday night, Mr. Lewis came to the Council room and brought; with him two gentlemen, who, through his persuasion, had agreed, to join he friends pf empranpej fEhey j were received and initiated and are now ab: staining frou the use , of Alcohol.-- How many of the Church members of tds city have done that much towards reforming society ? Of the majority of church members may it truly be said; 3t)ave Lewis has done more than ye ..aiir " ."'"I 4000. This order has been instituted and these results achieved in the midst of -an impoverished and; distrac'. ed communitv since the close of the war. As the effects of that war wear off and our people reco ver , f r om their pecuni ary depression, the Order will increase in zeal, activity and usefulness, and ifs sneeesses will be more than com- mamutute with, it. "o ifiy . trial-? and fit ruggles.. i .4i ... r r - tl Wu feel; very .certain," that no similar Order, labor'. ng under circumstances so adverse, has ever achieved more than t,n iMen.ls of TemvKirancc have since ; : i , their organization ; and we are equally ascertain that no temperance associa tion is better adapted to - the. work, ?nnd to the wants- and, peculiarities of our people .than 'ours. In it. -s we have all the elements of success and perpe tuity. . ;:; '";'-v v;. The public are beginning to under stand and appreciate the; principles of this new order and are awaking to a sense of their duty. In short, -the temperance cause is taking hold;. upon the public mind, and the temperance people have only o do their duty in order to make their cause success ful. r -: r : ' - Politics ,v Hard Business. We . ob- ap a rich harvest from thi3 iUtfi broad casting. '-. '-:-T. . r s . Roll on tLo b:l - Agitate Operi the Conucii doors aud call in the peo ple and make speeches to them. All that is'iiecessaiy, is for them to under stand our principles and they .will loin US. : ! ' , - . renVyot tho work many from the coun try around into their council. Thev wo- buf have somd members that1 are txueaand well tried, working "a.s men5 and men" Ought to work.1 TJ hope? tha Councils may increase. in number j vand membership from ho w until at our Grand Council we may report atlleast one hundred Councils, with ;an a gate fnemt)crshiji of at least ten thou sand, i Work while it is called to-day. . The political cauldron is loiling7and wo-and hard i until the mist passes awav it 'is to get tip enthusiasm on J ttyo temper ance question It is hard.fpr a man to become thoroughly alive toj two antag onistic interests, not nedessjirily antag onistic, but by bad men mjade nearly so at last. v1;-,; A T1'. ' We" must keep oiir eyes jn those our brethren who liave ever loved th critter, for the temptation' will be 1 dai Temperance work in the South must ' . rest upon our snouiuers. . ureal is mo , . and we must show ourselves equal 5 to the task Thi3 wo can only do By be ing thoroughly in earnest about i our -work, and earnestness will produce ' prornptness in the discharge of all Oar duties. . ; .v..:.;Vy " "It is thoduty of all the officers of .V. the State Councils to be in their pla ces at all the regular meetings of the body, and it is the duty of all the Sub- ordinate Councils to put forth every;' necessary effort to be represented in the State sessions. Urge this upon oar Subordinate Councils. - Another thing, exhort the Subordinate ;' Coun cils to greater punctuality and prompt ness, in making their quarterly re turns. Let the finances of the Order be watched with great care. No or ganization' ever succeeded, which fail ed in its financiering department. J l am. pleas3d to announce continu ed signs of prosperity to our Order. - i tne secretary 01 me otaie uouncu 01 , Tecently, for the organization of Coun . . " ... . ' . i TT ' ; The Wilmington n predic's, that, if any of the great" States which vote on the 13th go Dempcratie. Con gress .will enact suh measures as will t counteract such result, andi'tUat some of the Southern States will "choose electors throaglr their Legiftlatures. lv increased; until Uhe sto'rm" passes cils all at important points. XJniver- one over:' Especially must this be be in dnr town Councils. : Fraternail' as ever,1 J. "rv V;-;-; r - J.AV Reagan, . Foa- the Frit'nd of Tc;nperan?e; -WlLMIXOTON, N. ,C, Oct. Bno WlirTAKER: 1SGS. -I notice in f. Ulivet needs a ulani; for tnat -purpose, tnere d that ; We sincerelv trust that the Slav a nredictioii' will prave -incorrect, and Tlrat-lovrcnuning nd smurioks will Wt issue;a-caH ,upon he .Couii -io not be resortHd to by the Congress of a great nation Ho throttle the suffrages of. its . citizens! The campaign , will soon have passed and the election been Jield j: let t lie 'cainTga'fc-fairly and hono- al)lV coudhcteclrfthd the election fairlv held, and whether.: this ori.that party triumphs, the pcoplewill bo sat isfied. This is the only ,w;ry to 'make a peace. ( A resort to r wicked. means will assnrettiv'-reaalt in the feloction of w . . . . r . - f wicked men; as a natural consequence ; and we have the - authority of the scriptures fur saying;-that, wicked ru- loro will ln?i !'i inrnin!? upon a na- " - a e . -!,. tion. : . , - as none have been sent .. . ! I( is very 4 important that shoukl be a large attendance an every Council should bo Tepresenfed at'the State Council. I "would. ; there fore, suggest that a standing no tioe' fee kept in 'vonr 'columns- until after the meetiug, stating the time and place at sity Council, No. 4G, ,at the University of Virginia, is perhaps the most im portant Council, which has been char tered in the State. It will gather in . the young men'' from all. the South3.ru States, and send them forth as Slis sionaries in this great work of love. Prof. John B. Minor of the University is the'Tresident of the Council, and your i tae veneraoie ei ieuuauei kjviu. . 1 1.1?' 'xt-i'fW iinv ntlfnr nrorriinenfc IIAl'U A4Mf wvv send in their quarterly tunis,Jr, TS ill thev willbe r(;cognized as earnest tern - you please remind Bro. Hill that Mt: perance workers in other years. ? Staunton Council No 47, has been chartered thialweek. ; 'This i3 the sec- ondConucirin the flourishing town of Staunton, which vhas increased its population almost fifty percent j since t he ; vai. -r The Council will open under most favorable auspices and will be in good working order by the time the State Council.meets there. - f : Our Revised Ritual' has been re ceived with great favor by all who -which it will beheld, and who are oli- ! have examined it. AH the, new Coun- serve that in the 5th Congressionai District there are two Republican can didates running for Congress: the one ( W. F. Henderson) is a native North Carolinian, , while the other A. W. Tourgee ;s a native of Ohio, and is what is termed -ai' ' carpet-bag ger. convention nomij jpgT The Wilmington ffirtmrsays that tile reports that they have been enable. togal-herimTea ion crop of that section, and in fact, ILie ; WOlSqtaie, ' luuieatwr ma yield will be about equal - to that of last year. gible as delegates. Let the facts be so stated as that all may understand. I think cur Constitution should be made more explicit; for an article pro vides for re-instating an expelled CHEERING. At no time since the Friends of Temperance began to operate in this city has there been such a' deep inter est manifested in the Cause of Tern perance. as. s evincedaiow by the peo ple of both sexes. The address de- ' livered by the Rev. Mr. Hudson before prescent Council on Friday evening last, has given a new impulse to the work, and scores we learn are just up on the eve of connecting themselves with us. We learn that -Crescent had ; more than a dozen applications at her last meeting, wnile at; Oak City there are two or three initiations at every meeting. ? . "A recent district nated W. F. Henderson, but Tourgee; subseoenily bolted; and beanie4 an indfnendent candidivto and the two have taSen Ihe stumpi"" 'H believe what they say of each otherit would be a sad tning u enuer wua elected.: - It is said that Tourgee charges Henderson with "crimes of the blackest dye" stealing among other things stealing a mule at that; while Henderson charges' Tourgee with things equally ugly. Oh, these politi cians ! There is no telling what they are i guilty of until they happen to quarrel, and their sins astonish the natives. JB2 A tiegrg woman named d1? Adafns, near. thcikillejtja little negragiri on Mopdiiy'Sst'by hanging her by the neck - to whip her. The t-hWcVfi rseck was broken. ' The is in jaU.'; ' ",y yitMx t. woman Es, iPreriaratiohs have been for 10,0W-peopi atm-Mass3Ieeting and BarbecUey to be held in Tarboro' on the 24th. ; ter The'Cent ral Raptv;tvAssocia, t; nip.t rvpsterdav. at ) Wake Union J - ' . .. tehurch, about a mile, from: Wake For est College i v i i ( H K A Seymour and Blair flag, pre sen ted b v the ladies of the College, will be hoisted at Kittrelis Springs to morrow; ' -T ; ' 7 ' f ' ' ' ' ; ' brother, but does hot say wjiether any fees shall be required of him or not , finally, I would ask T more dficite information as regards the duties of D. .Y. Ivs. I have always looked up on them as useless appendages, but if cils are being supplied with it, and I think the old Councils f will 1 also - dis card the old book and, take i the new. . The changes aie not radical but .they add much to the harmony and lieauty I of our work. Bro. Hill the Secretary of the State Council of North Carolina h!s. just ordered a supply . , 1 You shall ,bear from me again soon. , - ; Yours in F. T. and C. -. ;i . " ;t r , . , , t W. B. Wellons. fiSTr Tlie outbreak in Spain has re sulted in the success of the rebels and the Order will have thenii let them be:. tb overthrow of the Spanish govern- thoroughly instructed 411, jtlier .duties, j nient. The queen has tied her coun- ad let poiUioi.f.b4Wgna1eli:for spff ' IaA1 xi n -n ..-, i t)OS8ession-oi x wwei.- - a. buw .- TIlDlll 111 II 1(4 il 111! II I I 1 I.I Jl JIII.L. Allll 111 1 IX - --?7- - ; -7 " -.VV bat great results. furnished themnl t ,7 mr:iehizri: m 1 Mt-dlivetisistiltaijroirkl and jitMt short timex we re expecting to remove at which place,; I have nodoubt, the boys wovdd cheerfully ,welcpfne:Jtlio &t dies as associate .members, and would be siad to entextairthe Editpivof i.theJ. U-J, CUicr, ; ; g . .t . - 1 QeKJcr- DusiiEK, Treasurer, , Friend as a .visitor. VriX. 3 ju-aKu 11atwwm, Consulting North Carolina Life Assurance, An- v J v nuity and i lst Company, ? - ltAL-EIGIIj N. C. OFFICERS. u KW.BiiKTl'resitlen!, U- EeSr Vie are to have two circuses here soon. - Five thousand dollars won't begin to pay the damages. About thirty-five Swiss immigrants, consisting of men, women, girls and boys, imported from " Switzerland, by Messrs. Thomas and W- F. Atkinson, of Wayne county, arrived at Goldsboro, on Xuesdav. They went to the farms s county. of the Messrs. Atkinson, about ten wiles from Goldsboro, where they will be5 sfettled. The Bough Notes says: "It has been our luck to see many immi grants, as they arrive in Ke w? York and Baltimore, but we have never met a moi e sober, intelligent and healthy set than those which arriye here recently." Gov. Holden has issued .writs of election for the 3d of November, to fill ' the' vacancies in the legislature . of those persons banded. . -..;. " ! The Sentinel learns that there is but one white Radical in Caldwell 3.The Democrats clainl to have made a gain of 5000 votes in Connecticut-, in the " recent 1 Municipal elec tions, over the lastStatevote. i - . . : . , . r Winchester Council No. 41, and University Council No. 45, Friends of Temperance, have both' been recently organised and with great enthnsiasm., Vf gIYonld, suggegt iljat Lat thejs meeting of the State XJouncil, thi Con stitution, be so4 altered , as to, xillow: the President upon, the request of a: Coun cil, to issue a special dispensation, au- fhnriyin a brother to fill the position o i 6f President, whether, he .. has; served two previous terms in any other office or notIy reason for this, suggestion, is, that in all Councils only a few per : sons are eligible: to this position and among the number,nay be some, to tally incompetent; hence, if the . daily avocations of those that are eligible and competent, will not permit them to accept; , tne otiice must ue gven 10 some incompetent person, simply, be cause he is eligible. Now I - propose, when this is the case," and a ciom po tent person can be f found, tha he should be made eligible by special dis nensation, at the request of his Coun cil, and not let v the Council be injured i by incompetent persns in the i Presi dent's position. -What says ; GenL Vance 011 this .subject h khI iii irn; PhysIciAn, A. S. Mutaiox. Attorney ami touaneucr. GsionoK Litti.e, "Vriu-K J. Paumku. Lxeciilvt Coiamitle. Tle ilin of Assurance adoited by the Boara of Directors,1 U popnlarly known us the ' 21 A SONIU PLAN. 1 An witrancefoc i charged, payable when a party a;jipiies for a policy. No other payment rs required, except on the death of a menjber, wheii an aMiaent of S2 50 is levied. The "afr gregate of As.seiiueats the value of the Poli cy, ',..'- ., . A Policy cna by tb plan be secured for les. W from 50 to 100 per cent, thau one for tb gamq araouiil iu ordinary Corapauies. - . uicaatsuf 10 and under 15 year?, pay $5 00 1 ..- V 4 2" ' 5 25 ': 25 " y 5'7o - 2.V : ' U0. " : . , - C 75. a 30 7 41 35. " ' " 8 25 . :s 40 " . 10 50 . 40 : . ' 45 13 50 45 50 w ' . 18 XJ 50 " ' 55 " v 27 25 T 55 V CO " ' 36 50 w 0 "":"65:. ? ' 50 00 t3!r For further particulars address the un-derfti-ned,. ' . QL'ENT. Bl'SBEE. Sept. 13 -tt. ..;" ,: .".vf- Secretary.