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TEE OFFICIAL OBGAN OF TEE OSTES OF THE FBIE1TDS OF TEMPERANCE. R. H. WHITAKER,--Editor. THEO. H. HILL, Associate. RALEIGH, OCT. 11, 1871. HEW DRESS. The Friend of TELrEHAX ce makes its, appearance, this week, in an entirely new dress, and in a larger form, than ever before, while the price of subscrip tion remains the same. The temperance men of North Car olina and Virginia know something of the struggles through which this paper has had to pass during its existence of four years and a half, and they will re joice at the improvement which we make this week, in its appearance, re garding that improvement as 4 an earn est of the paper's success. ; When we began its publication there were but few Councils,, all told, of our order, and the temperance sentiment in the country was at a very low ebb ; consequently, but few subscribers could be obtained.' But, with those few we went into the fight, and have continued fighting until now. What we have lost or. sufFerred in privation, the world need never know. Nor will it ever be known with what difiiculties we have had to contend otherwise. But, thank God, we can to-day say, that this paper is established upon a basis that will guarantee for it far greater usefulness than it has been able tojexercise in the past, Recent assurances, pom almost eve ry quarter, afford the gratifying testi mony, that The Friend of Temperance, as the organ, is more popular with the membership than ever before, and that its circulation will' be largely increas ed in most places- We do not suppose that we have been so fortunate as to please every body, in the four years we have been publishing this paper. It would have; been a miracle to have done that. There have hoen fault-finders and grumblers, of course some who have thought, and, perhaps, said, that they could have done better ; while they did little or nothing to help us. We have no word of complaint against such, because wo know it is a weakness. of human nature tof eel that, "I am bet ter than thou!" and to believe that "I could do better than thou V ' . Wo have done the best that we could, and we have the gratifying assu rance irom almost all sections of our work that our labors have given satis faction. At this we rejoice. Brethren of the Order! your paper is now firmly estalished. Will you go to work to give it a wider and more uscfuful circulation? State Temperance Convention. It is proposed to hold a Convention of the temperance men of North Carolina, in this city, on the 10th of November. To tliis Convention all temperance men arc invited, whether they belong to our order ; or to no order at all. But, especially do we - invite dele gates from all Councils, Divisions, and societies of whatever name, or order, to meet with us on that occasion. No question of greater importance will ever be brought before any delib erative body, then the one which will claim the a ttcntion of, the approaching Convention to wit : how most suc cessfully to put down the liquor traffic and save the youth of our land from the drunkard's life and death the drunkard's hell. ' ' We most respectfully ask the papers of North Carolina to give this notice one insertion, and to call attention to it editorially, so that the temperance portion of their readers maybe advised of the contemplated Convention. For any information concerning the matter address 11. II. WlIITAKER, Raleigh, N. C. : State Council of Virginia. Remem ber that this body meets on the 4th Tuesday of this month, at Charlottes ville, in annual session. A brother informs us that the antici pated meeting is much talked of and a large crowd is expected and desired. Charlottesville is the home of brothers Abell, Ross and Morgan, and they will have everything in the finest order. Let all who can attend. Demonstration. There will be a temperance Demonstration at Carthage on Saturday the 14th instant. The editor of this paper, wind and tide permitting,-expects . to be there and deliver an address. Ridgeway Council. The Secretary of the State Council has issued a char ter for Ridgeway Council, No." 111. It will be organized this evening, by the editor of this paper. The North Carolina Conference will meet in Charlotte on the 29th of No vember. "Bishop Payne is expected to preside. Tlie lYext State Council. -The approaching session of the State Council of our order willlxi one of in terest and importance. Its action up on various questions which will come before it must materially affect the pro gress of Temperance reform in our commonwealth for years to come, and it especially behooves every working council in the State to be fully repre sented. One vital' question the one above all others upon which our future depends is that of " Prohibition" of the Liquor Traffic, or such modifica tion of the License Law as will relieve our people of some of the burthen it imposes. We must abate the nuisance if we cannot wholly suppress it We must scotch the snake and bruise its hydra-head, if we cannot utterly de stroy it. For our parts, as repeatedly announced in these columns, we are in favor of " Local Prohibition" as be ing the cheapest,nearest, least objection able, and consequently the most avau able means for the attainment of Our ultimate aim, and the diffusion and advancement of the great reformation. We have deliberately taken this posi tion, in advance of any authorized, of ficial committal of the order of Friends of Temperance, to any prohibitory pol icy. Our views were clearly and suc cinctly embodied in the Memorial adopted by Carolina Council of this city, and subsequently endorsed by the Mass Temperance Convention, at Fay etteville, the district convention at Louisburg and many subordinate Coun cils. '' , ' I . . We believe that the policy of Local Prohibition as defined and advocated by us will receive the cordial sanction of Temperance men generally, both in the order and out of it. We are thorr oughly convinced that " Moral Suasion" will never succeed in overthrowing the Rum Tyranny,and it is equally evident that a Procrustean Prohibitory Law, general in its scope, can never be ef fectively enforced, when public senti ment is arrayed against it. Our schem is purely democratic or rather, in the best and highest sense of the term---re-publican. It proposes that local heart, conscience and will that local popular sentiment fairly and' freely expressed, shall control this matter of License lo cally. It protests against the setting up of grogshops in communities in which a majority of citizens not only do not want them, but regard them as unmixed nuisances ; at the same time it proposes that less civilized less christianized neighborhoods shall not be deprived of Rum-mills if they consider them blessings, or are even willing to tolerate them for their stomach's sakes or for anybody elses. One thing is certain, though the Legislature may refuse at present to pass a law giving to communities that control of the Li cense system which primarily, and of right, belongs to them alone, ; it will not be very long before educated en lightened public sentiment will compel them to surrender, or else give place to others who will . heed the popular will as enunciated at the ballot box. In the-meantime it would be well per haps to secure if. possible the imposi tion of heavier taxes upon distillers and retailers of ardent spirits, for the high er their taxes the more .will, they dilute their poisons, and the less injury will they inflict upon their infatuated vic tims and society at large. " Some tem perance men think that such discrimi nation in taxation as would tend to de crease the distillation and sale of ar dent spirits, by stimulating the growth and manufacture of native wines would be promotive of Temperance among our people. We do not commend the use of wine, nor favor any alteration of our pledge . of Total . abstinence. But we do favor, and stand ready to advocate anything that will banish from our land those poisionous bever ages which now .brutalize our people anything that would be pro motive of Temperance by decreas ing drunkenness at least in its most ag gravated and ruinous phase. If we cannot accomplish at once, all that we wish, we must not despise the day of small things. We would do well to take what we can get, and like Oliver, ask for more. Wife as a Moral Pruning Knife. A judicious wife is always .snipping off from her husband s moral nature little twigs that are growing in the wrong direction. She keeps him in shape by continual pruning. If you say anything silly, she will affectionately tell you so. If you declare you will do some absurb thing, she will find means of preventing you from doing it. And by far the chief part of all common sense there is in this world unquestionably belongs to woman. The-wisest things which a man.commonly does are those which lus wife counsels him to do. A wife is the great wielder of the moral pruning- knife. 1 We regret to learn from the Wilming ' ton Mar that the Hon. R. S. French had a severe attach of apoplexy on the morning of the 4th inst. It was feared, sit one time, it would prove fatal. Reinember. L That selling liquor never made men sober or industrious, but selling and drinking it has made them sots, idlers, and criminals ; and what it has done, it does now, and will continue to do. 2. He that buys rfc get a bargain. It gives him; sickness for health, a crust for bread, rags for clothing, the jail for a lodging house, the gutter for his bed, poverty for wealth, remorse and de spair for happiness - and comfort, and driveling idiocy for sense and Godgiv- en intelligence. 3. Rum robs men of health, wealth and reputation. It destroys the body, and ruins, the souL It is hard to pay such a fearful price to boot. These are the little extras thrown in with the money it costs that money that should ero to buy food,- clothingr, life to starv- ing wife and little ones. Ah ! young man, beware ! Put back the glass ! Set it down untasted from your Hps ! It is poison ! ! Do you not see the serpent coiled and ready to, strike you with its deadly fangs ! Think of it. On one side virtue honor, suc cess, and usefulness crowned with hap piness now and in the future on the otner misery, ruin, degradation, death ! For what? Can you pay the price? 4. That a bottle of whiskey is bottled essence of crime ; he who uncorks the bottle "unchains the tiger," which is a foe to himself and an enemv to mankind. 5. That permitting a wrong never stopped it ; that licensing and legally approving liquor selling was never in tended to stop it. Common sense tells every man that, and common honesty, if they have it, will make every liquor dealer admit it. It stops a little leak in the cask by opening the faucet. The only way to end liquor-selling is to stop it. The liquors-dealers won't stop it, for they are reaping rich har vests from it j the poor miserable drunk ards can't stop it, for they are its slaves. But temperance men must stop it. "How ?" you ask j, "how can they stop it ?" By sustaining and enforcing a prohibitory law against it. This can only be accomplished by having men in offi ces whose political party creed, pledge hem to sustain such a law. Will you vote only for such men? The Importance of our Cause. The following good words are from a late issue of the Cambridge Chroni cle, a paper that is doing earnest work or the cause of temperance, and one of the best among our many exchanges: It would not be too much to say, if all drinking of intoxicating liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its pres ent amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower orders would be indefinitely raised. Not on- y does the vice produce all kinds of wanton mischief but it has a negative effect of great importance. It is the mightiest of all the forces that clog the progress of good. It is in vain that every engine is set to work that philan thropy can devise, when those whom we seek to benefit, are habitually tam pering with the faculties of reason and will, soaking their brains with beer or ale, or inflaming them with whiskey, rum or brandy. The struggle of the school, the library and the church, all united against the beer-shop and the whiskey palace, is but one development of the war between heaven and hell. It is intoxication that causes terrible cat astrophes on our railroads, fills, our jails, our workhouses, our lunatic asy lums. Were it not for this one cause, pauperism and crime would be nearly extinguished. Looking at the manifold and fright ful evils that spring from drunkenness, we think we are justified in saying that it is the most dreadful of all ills that afflict any State. Wre are convinced that if a statesman, who wished to do the utmost possible good to his coun try, were thoughtfully to enquire which of the topics of the day deserved the most intense force of his attention, the true reply would be, that he should study the means by which this, the worst of plagues, could be stayed. The question is, whether millions of our countrymen should be helped to become happier and wiser, whether pauperism, lunacy, crime and disease shall be diminished whether thou sands of men, women and children, shall be aided to escape from utter ruin of body and soul ? This is the ques tion we are called upon now to decide and in the name of God let us do it without fear or favor, trusting in God for the result. The people of West Virginia will hold an election on Thursday, October 26, for members of the Constitutional Convention, members of the Legisla ture, County Superintendents of Free schools, and township officers. Lawyer Seymour of Newbern is ex pected here to aid Ihe solicitor in the J- prosecution of the Lenoir county par ties, says the Goldsboro Messenger. Hum did it. A farmer living near Waterbury, Conn., named Alexander McCrady went to that town lately, and got par tially intoxicated. On his way home he threw his wife from the wagon, breaking one of her legs ; and then be-, cause she could not walk as he ordered, her to do, he beat and , kicked her in a shameful manner and again threw her into the wagon. WTien he reached home he pitched her from t he wagon into the back yard, and having cut every particle of clothing from her, tied a rope around her body and dragged her under a shed, leaving her there naked and half insensible in the bitter cold air, where she would have perished had not one of the boarders happened to go out into the shed, and discovering her condition, took proper care of her. McCrady has offered half his farm to compromise the matter. Good God ! is theje to be no check to the devasta ting strides of this monster which is daily turning men into demons, and making it dangerous to walk our streets, to visit our friends, or for wives to be in company with those who should be their faitMul protectors ! Liquor Drinking in Families. The family circle should be re garded as a very sacred place, and in every well regulated family it is so. In olden times, when the bottle was kept in readiness to be brought out regular ly every morning, and to appear again when a visitor entered the circle, the sanctity of the family circle was violat ed, and an injury inflicted upon every heart made to witness the evil prac tice. The work wrought by temperance organizations in removing the social bottle, and throwing around the ten der lambs of the family the sacred guard of the temperance shields, has done more for our country and our race, than any mind can estimate. When it is no longer fashionable to present such an example before the children of the household, truly we have achieved a great triumph. It is also a great achievement to drive the bottle and the practice of drinking, behind the screen, and there by fix upon the practice of drinking, public condemnation, a practice too disreputable to be seen by the public. The further it can be driven from the public view, the better. Indeed these screens serve as a test of public sentiment. When liquor drinking be comes so popular that it can appear on the streets, with open doors, it is high proof that the temperance-sentiment is at a very low point. So soon as the public sentiment rises, the screens are seen to rise with it. TlieRev. L. C. Rutter. The Rev. Mr. Rutter more familiarly known as "the boy preacher," is oner of the most earnest advocates of the Temperance cause in this country. For many months he has been laboring in Ohio, and his eloquent appeals have already produced a hearty, salutary affect. He is about 20 years old, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsyl vania, and wras graduated at Lafayette College, a Easton, Pa., in 1868. After graduating at a Presbyterian Theological Seminay of Alleghany City, he was licensed to preach, and soon after was installed as pastor of the churches of. Salem and Caldwell, Noble county, Ohio, but a little over a year ago. Besides his other labors, he has regularly preached for both congre gations very acceptably up to the pres ent time. Soon after his ordination, he ob served that the greatest obstacle to the success of his ministerial efforts in this county was the existence, in almost every village, of a grog-shop, some twenty or more then in the county. He at once went to work to organize in every township a temperance society on "the open-door-no-secret plan. He rode all over the county, lecturing wherever he could find a house open and half-a-dozen to listen to him. ' He presented the pledge to all he met ; it was signed by hundreds. Soon the county was completely organized. Aroused thoroughly, the ; people, by moral suasion, and by enforcing the civil and criminal penalties of the liquor law, quickly closed every liquor shop in the county. And such is the state of public opinion to-day, that no man dare open a whisky-shop in that vicin ty- ; r Rutherford Vindictor says : An old man and his son, eivinsr the name s of Silas and Sikes Ingram, hailing from Lancaster county, S. C, came to Robert McFarland's at Sandy Plains, Po lk county, on the 27th ult., both sick and partially deranered. The son died on Thursday about 12 o'clock ; the old man is in such a condition that nothing satisfactory can be obtained from him in regard to his family. There was a camp meeting in Ran dolph week before last. jjrom flit 0M(I. D. V. P's. Reports. . . i Blanks have been , sent out to the D. V. P's. who are requested to make reports to President of the State Coun cil in time for him to make up his an nual report It is to be hoped that prompt returns will be made. v Nor tli Carolina. We learn from brother F. D. i Swin dell that Ocracoke Council will have a public Demonstration on the 18th of next month when he will deliver an address. Brother M. C. Guthriel writing from Cape Fear Council says : " The Temperance cause is progres sing slowly but surely down here. The Society has certainly - done good in our little town and God grant that it may continue . We are determined to keep it up as long as we can get a half dozen members to attend." ( That's the right spirit. Stand by your flag, let what will happen ; suc cess will crown your efforts, if with unwavering faith you press Onward. DITOR. ) Bro. W. J. Stewart writing from Carthage Council, says : "Our Council is doing well. Within the last two weeks we have received bur active and seven associate mem bers. Bro. D. S. Maultsby wriles a very cheering letter from LaFayette Coun cil. He says : ! " We have had several accessions to our Council lately and among them, ast Wednesday mght, Rev. William Brunt, the Baptist minister of the Fay- etteville church. He ,is a good stake in our fence. As our Chaplain's office was vacant we immediately elected and installed him into that office! Ah, my brother, I wish you could have been down here to see the initiation. Eve rything was as solemn as a funeral, and that respect shown him which is always due to a good man. j It is high une that all the ministers of the Gos pel should take hold of the matter of emperance. There may have been a time when they could have! rendered an excuse for standing aloof ; but i that time was before my day. j I Keep your powder dry my dear brother, and be ready to give the ene my a broad-side when the right time comes. My kindest reerards to vour better half. Oh, for a thousand like her. Ana sue savs . Uh. tor ten thousand Maultsbys !" Ed.) I Virginia. Bro. G. A. Bruce writing from Waynesboro says : j " Our colored friends are much pleas ed with their order, the " Sons of the Soil," and are quite zealous in their good work. V aynsboro Council still continues to hold larger meetings than ever before. I wish you could step in one of these Saturday nights, and see the array of youth and beauty that meet in the Hall and engage m the good work. Wish we could, and it must not sur prise brother B. if we do drop in some of these Saturday nights. Bro. Thos. W. CoUey informs us that we made a mistake in making an extract from a f oimer letter of his, and that we gave Abingdon Council credit or what Washington Council had done. Wre are sorry for it and promise not to do so any more. ...'! . Bro Colley says ; "Wo have had an other grand celebration since I wrote you. he Washington ana Wesley Chapel Councils were present at the celebration of Bethany Sabbath School, and by special request, the same speeches, with some slight alterations, were made that were delivered on the previous occasion. Fourteen active and twenty associate members were se cured. We bid fair to be the foremost Councils in the State." I Hope to hear from brother Colley often. Editor. i We leam from the Christian Sun that there was a grand temperance demonstration in Norfolk, last week, which was attended by a large delega tion of Suffolk Council. Rev. J. T. Whitley of Suffolk was one of the speakers of the occasion. j We learn from the same paper that Suffolk Council is still prospering. Mississippi. Brother J. A. Ott, writes as follows, from Mississippi, under date of Sept. 26th: i "Dr. Harmon, our State lecturer, - writes as follows : 1 have been out to Rehobeth Council 14 miles1 from Haz- lehurst and delivered a second lecture on the Temperance question.' The whole country round about is stirred up and the har dest cases are surrender ing and joining. We have closed up one grogshop and stifled ' another that was m the act ot " ournin. They are joining by platoons at Rehoheth fif teen and twenty m a class &c., Osyka Council No. 6, has elected the following very excellent gentlemen to fill the offices during present term . . hu Roberts, .resident ; W. T. Roark, Asssociate. ; J. G. Powell, Chap! ; 1 A. H. Gardner, Jr Sec'ty ; J. A. Ott,, Fi Sec'ty ; f W. M. Ott, Treas. ; Jno. W. Addison, Con'd j Ben'j. F. OwenAss't Conductor ; L Maasson, Inside Sent! ; A. Ricks, Outside Sent'l j This Council is in fine condition and steadilv increasing." i W&at a Giles d I i L I5Y MIXXIE F. RAY. An old woman sat in her 'comfort less room dreaming of other day3 ; of days when want and woo were un known and happiness reigned supreme. Of days when she proudly looked at her honored, husband and thanked God for giving her such a man. Ah, those were happy days when her little children played around the hearthstone, and a loving husband anticipated "every wish. But, alas! the frosts of many winters have silvered her bonnie brown hair, and a licensed curso has frozen her heart. See that haggard form staggering in the door ! See the marks of drunken ness and degradation which are cling ing to -him ! See the blood-shot eye and drivel ling face,and hear the muttered curse 1 That man is her husband the same one who years ago,in the flush of youth promised to love, cherish, and, protect, the wife he had chosen. Does he love her now ? For answer, see the brutal blow -as he staggers in the comfortless hut. Does he cherish ? Hear the bit ter curse, as he stumbles in his. drunk enness, about the hovel ! Does he pro tect? See the feeble, helpless look he casts on all, except the one he has promised to protect ! Oh, God, can this be the man, who years ago men looked up to and called a gentleman ? Alas ! yes ; the tempter came, and he fell low er and lower, from bad to worse ; and now in the very lowest depths of degradation, with only one friend, his faithful wife, he has passed from the no tice of his former friends and except in the lowest haunts of vice, he is rarely seen or heard of ! Alas, what a curse ! Yet decent men gentlemen, who have wives und children and who claim to be christians , vote to license a business whose sole, end is to kill the bodies andsouls of men ! i A little child "sits at it its mother's feet telling its innocent thoughts . Suddenly the child looks up in its mothers face , and says : " mama , when I am a man and drink whiskey I won't do like papa , when he comes homo. But perhaps papa wont curse when he comes to night " and thr child's .noughts wander to other things . A few short years ago , a young man married a lovely girl, and togeth er, they began to sing the song of ife. For a while all was well. Alas ! the love of ardent spirits was that man's besetting sin and he fell. That young wife's heart was nearly broken and his little children feared even more than oved him . I - But for the licensed curse, he might have made his niark m the world. But men say, " the world is wide; let the liquor seller alone, and ho will let you alone." It is false. The liquor seller invites them to take a glass of i i wine ; the appetite is appealed to ; the man is tempted is ruined. What a curse! I Again. A man of high social position and undoubted talent a man who has already won a name, and fame, as an author and speaker, and as a man of education and refinement. Troubles assail him, and he flies to the wine-cup o drown his grief. ! Years glide away and he reforms. Again, his talents command attention -again is his eloquence heard in the land. His kind and erenerous heart ! i draws to him many friends, but alas! there are those who would ruin him ; he falls once more in the snare, and and, mortified and. grief -stricken, he feels he is lost. Not so my friend. God is good. He will never forsake one, striving against the cravings of an awakened appetite, nor will he fail to listen to an earnest prayer. God help the man who is be trayed into error and who heartily re pents! , But for the licensed curse there would be no danger! But, alas! at every corner may be seen the gilded saloon, and the tempter standing by. God help the man who loves the taste of spirits, and feels the craving for stimulants, and yet is tempted on eve ry hand! What a curse! In a little hovel in the edge of town a lone woman sits and watches, through the hours of the night, and while she sits alone her thoughts, unbidden, flow to the happy past. She thinks of the time when she first felt the mother love welling up in her heart, and of the deep thankful tenderness she felt, when the baby boy was laid upon her bosom. She sees him as the months pass by and he prattles away merrily at her teet. men as years pass oy. ana baby becomes a lad and the lad verges upon manhood, the husband of her youth dies, and she feels, that earth holds no sadder heart than hers. Alas ! she little knew, how much un happiness her heart could bear, and still not break ! Do you know why she waits so patiently and sits till the bell tolls the wee small hours of night? She is waiting for the baby of other vears, her much loved son. Wick eel companions have led him astray has learned to dally with the wine cup, and spend his nights in debauch ery. Alas, poor mother ! you wait in vain.' The company of the vicious has more allurments for your boy, than the ' love and companionship of his mother But hark ! there are footsteps coininrr They stop ; she opens the door. WnSit a sight meets her there ! They have brought him home to her his poor old mother dead ! "Killed in a drunken brawl'' the papers sayf but the mother's heart i3 broken. See her as she cast her last look on the grave of her murdered son and then takes her place in the cart to carried to the narish rtoor Tirmcn L - a. v'"-? -utTe to be taken care of at the expense of the county. Alas, what a curse! But for the licensed dram shops, that wo man, might now be the mother of an honored man. Instead of bein a burden to the county she might be the mistress of a happy home. , But for the money squandered by her son for liquor, she might be happy and comfortable. No wonder the liquor-seller is able to sport his carriage and team, when the hard-earned money of the poor man and the inherited wealth of the rich, all go to fill his coffers ! No womlor he can have elegant houses, and live on costly, far -wh3n day after day and year after year, his pockets are filled with money that should go to tho sup port of the mothers and wives and children of the drunkards. "Alas what a curse !" ENDORSEMENT. It affords us pleasure to know, that Mt. Olivet Council, No. 9, which was the first Council to endorse tho Friend of Temperance, four years j ago, is still its friend and still determined to stand by it, as will be seen in the following recent action of said Council : Wilmington, N. C, ' OH-nhJ. 9 1871 At a regular meeting of Mt. Olivet Council, No. 9, Friends of Temperance, held this evening the following pream ble and resolutions were adopted : Witf.kkas, Brother R. H. Whitaker did at much labor and . expense, com mence the publication of the Friend of Temperance, when the order was in its infancy, and has successfully prose cuted it until it has become self sus taining ; and Whereas, This Council was the first to endorse the said publication, as the organ of the order, since Vhich time it has also been endorsed byj the Supreme and" State Councils : therefore be it Resolved, That we have seen no cause to regret our original uuuun uuu hat we deem it but just to say, al though unsolicited by its editors to do so, that we still recognize the "old pa per, which has weathered so many storms, as the organ of our- order and will continue to give it tur patronage. and encouragement.. . Resolved, That we deprecate divi sions in our ranks, and sincerely regret that any opposition should be made, and especiailv from the source from whence it comes, as wef honestly be lieve, that while one Temperance paper can be sustained in the State; that two. will not only injure but destroy both, and damage the cause. Resolved, That a copy of these pre amble and resolutions be forwarded to the Editors of the Friend of Temper ance with reouest that if their 1 sense of propriety will justify it, the same be published in their columns. Jas. W. Kxstg Secretary. We feel very grateful to Carthage Council for the followinGrikind endorse ment, and promise of support Calthage, N. C. Oct, fith, 1871. Rev. It. H. Whitakek Dear I3ro ; At a meeting of Carthadc Council on the evening of the 26th Inst, ''the fol- lowincr Preamble and resolutions were, on motion, unanimously passed i:y i"1- Council : Believing a well conducted Paper, nnhiisned m ine interests oi our orum indisnensablv necessary to the propa gation and final success of our great TYriTjrirlAH fViAvp.fnr Unsolved ' 1'" ' . V ., 'nY-.-A 1. That we recognize the "rneuu nfTpitiTwranRA" n.a thn ori?an of our or der, as ably propagating and" defend iner its principles, and ais worthy the encouragement and support of every true jp riena oi xemperance. 2. That we, as a Council and as in dividual members, pledge to it our cor dial and earnest support A friend "in need is a friending11' We ought to bless thgr circumstance, though it may be unpleasant ior awiw which tries friendship and proves tons who are our real friendsl -. Thanks a thousand thanks, io Mt. Olivet and CarthageL , It was discovered at the treasm? Thursday morning, say tne xuuei Sentinel, that H. H. Koberts, iorm; a clerk in the auditor's cjffice, and who was recently arrested and bound ovr on a charge of forging k warrant od the public treasury for $281, ha l forg another warrant on the treasury ior $81, purporting to be drawn in favor of W. T. Brown for expense incurriH in convey.'ng Catherine Brown to e lunatic asylum. We leam that he con fessed to having forged still another warrant to the am01t Qt UW
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