The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

CHOLERA.

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Again I come.
The knell shall be toll'd,
But not for one :
Ere set of sun
Some work shall be done ;
For a hurried grave shall these sleepers hold,
And the proud shall then think of the earth's poor
scum.

TYPIIIIs.
No meddling spies disturb my reign.
The black ditch creeps in the populous lane ;
In the mouldy cellar the infants huddle ;
The alley is dark with the filthy puddle ;
And the breath of heaven ne'er visits the den
Where the poorest dwell. Leave, leave me here.
I make no noise, and the well-fed men
See my victims die,
And pass quietly by,
With no vain lament, and no idle fear.
CHOLERA.

Me they shall fear.
TYPlttr S.
But stay not long.
Take a few away that are wholly mine ;
My pleasant places are willingly thine,
But go not the rich and the happy among.
CHOLERA..
I'll take thy leavings, with nobler prey.
Shall wretches pine beneath thy sway,
And those escape who have known the wrong P

TYPHUS.
Leave me, rash Sister, leave me here,
To fill the graves from year to year ;
For our trade shall go to a swift decay
If you gather the crop from day to day.
Then the hovels will fall and houses rise ;
The rich and the poor will both get wise ;
And the Law will open its hoodwink'd eyes.
No more shall we ride on the tainted gale,
Where foul trades flourish and men grow pale ;
Where the slaughter-house floods the slippery stones,
And the reek is heavy of boiling bones.
They will drain their streets, and build their schools,
And hunt us out.

CHOLERA.
Twice warned, the fools
Still keep us here, and they still will keep ;
For the Justices wink and the Vestries sleep,
And Red Tape ties the willing hand,
And Laissez-faire still rules the land.
Sept. 23. S. T.—Times.

A VEGETARIAN TEMPERANCE
BANQUET IN NEW YORK.

Tn latest New York papers are almost filled with re-
ports of the speeches, toasts, &c., at the Whole World's
Temperance Convention, the Abolition Convention, and
Woman's Rights' Convention, simultaneously held in
New York. The banquet of the temperance gathering
seems to have been a recherche affair, and we accordingly
give an extract from one of the papers concerning it.
After an introduction containing a description of the hall
wherein the banquet was held, and a dissertation upon
the vegetarian system, our account goes on
But to return to our—not mutton, but vegetables. The
banqueting hour was announced for six o'clock, and at
that hour our reporters were at the hall ; but, for some
reason unknown to us, the edibles were not prepared.
The members of the committee of arrangements, assisted
by several young women in overpowering Bloomer dresses,
acted as servitors on the occasion. They were designated
by a crimson rosette, from which depended a satin ribbon
as a vegetable young woman was good enough to
tab, ornamented with spangles, making the effect " real
pretty,"us. The company at this time was more select
iaorin
than numerous ; and in the dim twilight the leaders of
the several wings of reform were holding little levees and
receiving the homage of their adherents ; for there is a
great deal of man-worship among reformers, and they
rank according to the amount of notoriety they have
achieved, and the quantity of martyrdom they have suf-
fered in the shape of peltings with " unmerchantable
eggs," and other equally unpleasant missiles. We noticed
that particular attention was paid to Greeley, who was
continually ducking his head as women of all sorts and
ages were paraded before him.
At about seven o clock the victims began to come in by
little squads of two or three, and the gas was turned on.
There were a very few pretty women in the two hundred
specimens who were congregated on this occasion. The
gentlemen appeared to be generally from the " rural dis-
tricts." We noticed several Bloomers, but the dresses
looked like the work of botches in the mantuamaking
trade. One lady we noticed was got up in tremendous
style. She was apparently young, with fine features, of
medium height, good figure, and blonde complexion. Her
hair was arranged a la Chinois, with a number of little
" water curls," flattened down on each side of her face.
She were a brocade silk dress, of the colour called by ladies
" ashes of roses," with a pea jacket of the same, open in
front so as to display a white satin waistcoat, which was
cut high in the neck. Her skirt was short enough to dis-
play her white satin Turkish trousers, which were gathered
around the ankle. Candour compels us to say that this
lady was a failure. She was accompanied by another dis-
ciple of the Amelia Bloomer school, who was dressed in
crimson and black. Her figure was petite, and her ap-
pearance rather more piquant. To give variety to the
scene, there were several Shaker ladies present—their
long, unwieldy bonnets, and old-fashioned, short-waisted
dresses, combined with their Methodism and taciturnity,
formed a very interesting feature of the entertainment.
At this time, a quarter past seven, the attendance be-
came general, the shilling gallery was nearly filled, and
among the auditors were observed a party from Ken-
tucky, including Geo. D. Prentice, from Louisville, and
several other distinguished gentlemen.
And, finally, the banquet was ready. The party, num-
bering some two hundred women and one hundred and
fifty men—we saw no negroes—sat down to the tables,
which were arranged so as to run parallel with Broad-
way. The high seats in the synagogue (strange that
these socialist reformers will make these odious distinc-
tions) were placed upon the stage. There was a murmur
of applause as, by a well-executed flank movement, the
leaders deployed from the dressing rooms on each side of
the stage and took seats on the platform. Horace Greeley
presided, and on each side of him sat the file leaders of
the new lights. Among them we noticed Miss Lucy
Stone, Miss Mary C. Vaughan, President of the New
York Women's Total Abstinence Society ; Mrs. C. J. H.
Nichols, of Vermont ; Miss S. Clarke, of Leroy ; " Dr."
Harriet K. Hunt, of Boston ; Mrs. irances D. Gage, of
Missouri • Mrs. Lydia M. Fowler, phrenologist, of New
York ; Miss Susan B. Anthony, " editor," of New York ;
Dr. R. T. Trail, President of the New York Vegetarian
Society ; Rev. John Pierpoint, of Massachusetts ; C. C.
Burleigh and C. M. Burleigh, of Connecticut ; Dr. J. C.
Jackson, of the Glen Haven Water Cure Establishment ;
Dr. Snodgrass, of Maryland, representing all the " isms"
of the day and night.
Mr. Greeley, having been obliged several times to
restrain the brethren from pitching into the " banquet"
which was spread before them, now announced that the
Rev. P. H. Shaw, of Williamsburgh, would invoke the
Divine blessing, which the rev. gentleman proceeded to
do with much fervour and elegance. In his invocation he
prayed that the audience might " have strength to make
their appetites submissive to the requirements of the love
of God," which was a very singular idea, to say the least
of it. The Amphions indulged us with a quartett, com-
mencing thus :
Lo, the world is rich in blessing 1
Thankful all, His praise repeat;
" Every herb, and each tree yieldinf
Seed and fruit shall be our meat. '
Nature's banquet, pure and peaceful,
Is a " feast of reason" too ;
Every healthful sense delighting,
Ever changing, ever new.
The eonapany then Rroceeded to attack the fruits and
vegetables. The following is the

RILL OF FARE.
VEGETABLE SOUPS.
Tomato Soup, Rice Soup.

FARINACEA.
Graham Bread, Mixed Fruit Cake,
Fruited Bread, Apple Biscuit,
Wheat Meal Cakes, Moulded Rice,
Corn Blanc Mange, Moulded Farina,
Moulded Wheaten Grits.
VERETABLES.
Baked Sweet Potatoes, Stewed Cream Squashes.
PASTRY.
Mixed Fruit Pies, Pumpkin Pies.

FRUITS,
Melons, Apples, Peaches,
Pears, Grapes, Pineapples.
COOKED. FRUITS.
Plum Jellies, Baked Apples.
RELISHES.
Cocoanut Custards, Fruited Ice Cream.
BEVERAGE.
Pure Cold Water.

There was a painful scarcity of pepper, salt, and all ex-
citing condiments of the same sort. The water was not
iced, and was far from being pure, and the cookery was
evidently the work of " artists" who had never studied
Ude or Soyer. How such an affair would have shocked
the great Alexis ! We have no doubt that a dinner could
be got up from the same materials in much better style,
and our readers will perceive that, even for a vegetable
dinner, the bill of fare is shockingly meagre. The Irish
potato, the tomato—au naturel—and many other succu-
lents and fruits, were not represented in this gathering of
the vegetable kingdom. The " soup" seemed like starch,
and the farina moulded in forms was musty. Brown
moist sugar was used for the blanc mange—but we need
not *particularise. Many of the ladies had the bad taste
to sit at the tables in their bonnets. The people were
very much puzzled to know what to eat, but, as the
peaches were very fair, they managed to satisfy the crav-
ings of their appetite. We hope the society will be careful
to secure ripe fruit when they next give a banquet to the
Whole World's Convention, otherwise we may lose some
of those amiable females who supply us with so much good
advice and rational amusement. If the beauty of a feast
is in the welcome you receive—if, as Mrs. Macbeth truly
observes,
The feast is cold
That is not often vouched while 'tis a making
'Tis given with welcome— ,
then this was a very cold feast. The people devoured
what was eatable, and stowed away a considerable amount
in their pockets.

LIVE.RPOOLACADEZTY