Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1845-08-20
From tie Nee Harea Courier.
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From the Nee HageR Courier
The Drunkara.
..Unllappy man. whom sorrow, thus and rarc
. To different ills alternately engage;
Who drinks, alas, but TO forget; and
! That melancholy slot,. severe disease,
Memory confused and Interrupted thought.
/ Deaths harbingcrs. lie in the drau sht;
And ia the flowers that wreath the sparkling bowl
Eel aaeieis hiss ana poisonous serpests roll"
Whon We contemplate tho life of tho drunk
ard, 1t is with feelings of pity and disgust. A
being formed in the image of his God, and en-
dowed with faculties for his high atclloctua and
social enjoyment. sinking himself below the brute
creotionl Man! the noblcst work that over came
from tho hands of the worlds great Architect,
dares 10 dcface the Creators Image. and crush
with suicidal hard heavens pure attributes Ho
isa husband,--a father. Then douby weighty
is.hs sin. for no has made miserable that vito
whom he sworc TO love and protect, and a pa
rent, is setting IN example before his children
only calculated to poison their mind, and render
miserable those who would look to the parent tree
for advice and support.
When man, through tho process of indul-
gance in intoxicating beverages. has become q
drpnhard, he is both physically and morally
changed. He no longer secs with the same eyes.
hears with the same or has tho same facui.
ties which, he was once master OF. All around
assumes u new aspect. Tho genial warmth of the
sun-the refreshing breeze-tho beauties of ma
ture. calculated TO inspire the heart with love
and admiration, arc lost to him. The pure at
mos?hore he brcathes is tainted with tho poison.
lie dcspises himself. and therefore believes that
those who arc his best friends behold him with
tho same feelings. - - e.
Where now the manly virtues which once
could win the atectionssof confdng friends!--
Whore tho miidnoss of temper, the principles of
benoyoloncc, those traits which ennoblo the
human characterl Swept away by the fond in
temperance!
liz l.l,
bring--!et him recino upon a bed Of down, and
be famed by tho breath of flattorv, the same
gnaws at his vitals and corrodes his soul.
It is true that if thus situated, the worlds cold
scorn may not be felt, for wealth gathers around
Ii fawning favorites and rotten hearted pretend
ers. but let his powor TO cater to tho OF oyments
and fashions of the day be lost. and he at once
becomes tho poor desPised drunkord-those who
were his FRIENDS while wealth lasted have desert
Cd HIM, and their adder tongues
iippant IN his praise, so now arc thcy Industrious
" engaged in spreading his faults and fall to tho
world. -~-~s-l s--.s.-.~.e>,r-s ~~..- SEA-.
| That tho drunkard is happy, his whole appear
anco donics. He may steep his soul in tho Le-
thcan draught, until forgetfulness croeps his
stupefed senses, and for a tme renders him dead
to the awful consequences of his course, but tI,e
spell is soon broken, and he awakens but to fool
4 the more kcenly the gnawing of the worm with
in. There is to the drunkard peace, no hap
pines, no hope. He feels the full weight Of the
curse which, like an incubus, presses him to the
earth, and yet no cngs to his destroyer until;
with all the horrors of death produced by inc
briation. he sinks fill snominious grave, un-
nourncd. His sufferings on earth are ended,
but is 1t with that family who havo Just con-
signed him to tho tomb! They yet live to foel
tho blight and mdcw Of drunkurd's heritage.
It is reflection we'll calculated to impress tho
free mind with tho deepest emotions, and tho
thought IS forced home who s~sa.ld be-e 3-un1.
ard, No surely over commenced life with
the romotos idea that such would be his ond yet
thousands of those who once only partook OF the
cxhcratng beverage of fashions shrine, now
feel tho full weight Of the drunkard's woe-the
Idrunkard's curse
! Look not upon the vino when it is red in tho
cup, when it movo,h itself aright-at last it biteth
like serpent and stingeth like an adder."
:. CAPRICE OF LIGHTNIsG.--The Eastern Afgus~
/ relates that Saturday afternoon last, tho house
of Mr.. Webster in Gray, was struck with lightn-
ing WHICH following down the chimney, scattered
over the floor all the materials for baking which
Mrs. w. had just placed there, and herself for
Itunatoly had gone away.-Thence the fluid
pierced tho floor to a lower room, following tho
floor. till it came ont in the entry. There, says
the Argus. Mr.. w. his son were sitting, and
largo dog was lying near, directly over nail in.
the floor. Tho lightning came up by this mil,
making 4 hole the size Of knitting needle, and
killed the dog instantly. Mr.. w, and son wore
not hurt. So little affected was Bose by his sud-
den death that nc moved not limb II was
not noticed in the confusion that he was dead
SO natu rally did no rest-for some twenty minutes
after tho stroke. -4 4 -
A YoUSG iIERoIyE.-We have just heard Of
an incident which occurred at Glen Cove on
Tuesday, a9d which does infinite credit TO two or
Three persons there, of whom is young In
dy bat little moro than fourteen vears Of MOO. A
young man whiio bathing there. got beyond his