The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-02-23
RODNEY, (Ndi#) SATURDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 49, 1880

Of the wine cup! And what dear console
ton 1t must afford those Grant jewellers. In
the sober hour, to think how effectually they |
unsettIe the repose of the city-what con- |
sternation, what aversion to their wan,on
aHd witless clamors they awakened in their
marchzhow their yelIs startled the sick
and laneuishing from their momentary slum
bers, and caused the babes, stainless Of guilt,
to nestle nearer to the maternal bosom for
protectim-all these must be precious in
heed, TO such brawling vagrants of the nigh,
when the spell Of the witcing bowl is bro
ken!
Sand strange to tell, it is rude, excess
lively rude, to complain of such innocent and
fashionable rioting. If the robber, with
stealthy and noiseless step, should enter
your dwelling and bear Off plumber of the
value of gilded button, straightway the
town is all agog to hunt the marauder dowa.
But the man that rlstles past your threshold
in drunken frenzy, like demon, With
shrieks and imprecations on his lips, who
robs you of that repose on which life itself
feeds, this man is above rebuke, because,
forsooth, he is young man, and must be
allowed now and then to have his frolic and
glee.
The Locfer's Soliloquy-I have fam,
recollection of having been sober at sosse
early period of my life before, and thisgs
looked then rs they do nov. It's dis,ress-
ing to think how ugly sobriety makes every
thing look. Yesterday though, myself IN
uncommon handsome young man, and nov
l'll be hanged if don't lock SO much Ike a
ragged beggar that Pm actually ashamed of
myself There amt halfso many stars in
the sky as there were last night, and they
don't dance half SO merrily As they common
Iy do. They say its July, but believe they
lie, for SILVER like December. | once
heard that idleness would bring a man to a
morSel Of bread; now l wish it would bring
me to a drop of something shortly to COIL my
burning tongue, for haven't got a tonic,
| and the bars and cellars are all shut Won
der if Dives was half SO h.t in Tophet as
am. iii do something; if don't there's
no snakes.
DEBT A CAUSE OF DRUNKENNESS
In a late number Of that abby Conducted
work, the Southern Revue y, alike remarka-
BILE for manly and Independent strain II
sentiment and viger Of style, Ne meet with
the following observations by the reviewer
of"Tne Anatomy Of Drunkenness Were
any additional testimony required, we could
adduce our own in corsobOratsssn of the me-
lancholy truth which they reveal. We have
witnessed many such cases as those describ-
| ed by this writer.
After giving the causes of drunkenness,
as laid down by Mr. M'Nish, the reviewer
continues:-sWhilst we heartily subscribe
to the soundness of these remarks, We mus,
be allowed to observe, that al the south we
have no hesitation in affirming. that debt Is
the most prolific cause of drunkenness. II
every man who signs bond would only re-
feet, that, without reasonable certainty Of
paying it, he was, as it were, entering into
a sort Of recognisance TO become drunk
ard, it might he productive of little more
caution in entering into perplexing and pre-
carious contracts. There is something In
the influence Of pecuniary embarrassment
on the mind that is exceedingly mysterious
and unaccountable. Much greater appa
rent misfortunes in life are borne with much
STcdt0T IOTtItuuc. TIC io>S VI utCuu>s tut
deprivation of sight and hearing, and the
ampu,aton of some limb necessary to the
convenience and enjoyment of life, are sus-
tanned with composrue, if not cheerfulness
but a Jail seems 10 be vested with an igno
mny and horror, which the bravest canno
contemplate without a shudderins panic
We believe, after all, tn secret bathing o
pecuniary embarrassment IS connected witt
a sentiment which enters more largely int
the passions and actions Of man than an,
other,-.hat is, pride. In spite Of the inter
vention of what the world calls bad luck, Z
man, unsuccessful in his peouniary arrange
ments, alwayssnffers under the self-reproacl
{ of having been wanting either in skill or II
, Judgment. If this be the most productive
7 it is, at the same time, the most melancholy
) cause of in'emperance. There is scarcei.
I any spectacle more pitiable than to see i
f man highly gifted with intelligence AM
: sensibility, seeming to drown all recollec
laion of his endorsements in intemperance
: and sinking undesits fatal and treacherou
!, consultations into hopeless brutality, Wills
] surrounded by the mostendearins obligation
I Of life that can call upon him in vain to =
rouse him from hls miserable lethargy. w
must condemn bat we cannot refrain iror
: pi,yinc such sufferer. BY what measur
/ shall we guage the indescribable agony .
his waking moments. when sobrlety not ool
e reveals to him what he is, but what he ha
!, beenf The fatal stimulus does not oPerai