The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-08-04

Blessed influence OF Temperance Societies.
We have received from an influential and
Intelligent lady of this city the following very
interesting and touching account of the happy in
fiuence exercised by the temperance societies It
is eminently worthy of perusal.
While the heart has been frequently made to
papitate al the tale OF woe, sympathies in the
following interesting instances, which deserve a
brief relation, have been unreservedly bestowed.
While as society, employed in our various bust
ness, very active and honorable member of the
Marshall Society, champion in the cause of tenn
perance, one whose daily walk is marked with ex-
presslons OF mercy, and whose privilege and whose
pleasure 10 TO tread those paths which thronged
by the forlorn and wretched, for the purpose of
promoting their happiness. or mitigating their mise
rles, entered our hall, and introduced favo-
rable notice an individual, for whom, IN the most
delicate manner, he solicited our aid. For him our
compassion was at once greatly excited, and his
reception by the direcress was kind and courteous
His step was stately. There was bitterness in his
languld smile that penetrated every heart, and mis-
scarcely illumined eye, and deeply furrowed cheek
bore witness TO the floods OF tears that had bedm-
ed the one and had been channeled by the other
His hair was svered, though not by age, and his
expressive face and graceful manner will not be
easily forgotten. He was gentleman, and had
been merchant in Baltimore, and whose sorrows
and poignant griefs had resulted from the touching,
aad the tasting, and the drinking Of the zone glass
more" Yes while amidst fashionable round OF
folly and crime, he became prey to a horrible
snare which conducted him to the prison at Sing
Sing where he has been made to feel that the sins
committed against the laws oil the community have
exposed him to pain, to shame and confusion, and
where he has been made to realize in his own ex-
perience, the application OF this sentiment OF the
Redeemer, with what measure We mete, il shall be
measured TO you again.
But while an inmate there, he was reach
I'D by the philanthrophist who introduced him to
MS, who offered him the Washlngtonian pledge, and
who upon obtaining his signature, extended him
the hand of brsthrrly kindness, and we are happy
TO know that ne was afterwards led diligently to
search the scriptures and that successive incidents
in his history during his detention;there have furn-
-hed satisfactory evidence that he has been led to
the knowledge Of Him. whom to know Is life
eternal. And as a society having been permitted
TO minister to his necessities, he has been restored
10 his native city, TO the sweets Of home. TO the
endearments and embraces Of vile and children, to
the charms of society and christian friendship
refined and touching communication, written
IN the hand OF taste and elegance, from member
of the Lady Marshall Society, to the First Drec-
ciety. The communication in which application
for relief in the hour OF special and peculiar need
and in which was developed SO much proprlety, 30
much feminine grace and loveliIess, not only re-
commended the sufferer to our warmest sympathy,
but was Immediately met with the becoming
response. This poor and piable lady is another OF
the many who was once affluent and honorable,
who has been pursued and overtaken by adversely,
till from the abundance of wealth, she has been
garrets, destitute at times of fuel and food, and till
recently, almost destitute Of clothes and covering
And if you ask her children dear,
Why mother is SO poor,
They'll whisper in your started ear,
Twas fathers one glass more. H. D.