Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-08
The PLEDGE This Pludge'-Father

campaign reminds US OF the fairy legenas
which are so thickly interviewer with the
recollections of his native land-of the
%strongholds and giant towers which hold
captive numberless fair maidens, with all
their horrid tales and frightful surmises of
imps and spells and enchantment, and
which, in some lucky day, fell before the
proves of some single Chief or Saint
who delivered the thankful inmates from
their lives Of slavery and magic.
He has attacked the stronghold of the
giant, 1ntemperance, in BrookIyn, and
almost at once, we might say, made free
over 5000 souls. To-day he has opened
his campaign in this city, and his numbers
have been greatly augmented. When
we were at the school house in Mulberry
street, at about IL ls2 o'clock, there
were over 5000 enrolled, and he had COM
menced giving the pledge but a short
time. Great numbers were still contin-
uing to pour in.
In the course of the day the worthy
Father addressed the people who were
coming and going several times, and re-
lated many anecdotes, religious and hui
morous, all tending to enlighten his hear
ers or bearing some point to the Temper>
ance question.
Several persons came to shake hands
with the father, who had taken the pledge
in Ireland, some as far back as Ia or Is
years, and others recalled his memory
back to some of the great meetings held
in the "Ould Conntry," at which his face
lit up and his eye frightened as he spoke
of the thousands who were there. We
predict much good from what we wit
nessed.-N. Y. Tribune, Goth.
The Secrets Of Primeval 7iiaoe.-The
last number of the North British Review
says: Already has the disintcrment of an
Gent life carried US back to the circles of
the past-to study the catastrophies and
the creations by which the earth was pre-
pared for the reception of man. The re-
lies of those mysterious times have been
embalmed and preserved, and the desola-
tons of flood and of fire, and we, at pre-
sent, know no more of the structures of
organic life, which preceded the creation
of man, than of the early period of our
own current cycle. .s.
From the mounds of Babylon, as from
those of Nineveh, we shall yet recover
her monuments, and indite her annals
of idolatry and crime; and even the an
tediluVain age may yield to the scrutiny
of another century the scanty materials
of her history, and the prestine monu-
ment of her skill. The first city-the
city of Enoch, may yet be surveyed, in
stone or in dust, beneath some nameless
heap where the Armenian shepherd now
feeds his focks; and the brass and iron
utensils of Tubal Cain may yet exhibit
to US the infant ingenuity of our race.
The planks of 9Gopher-wood which foa-
ted Noah over the universe of waters.
may yet rise from the tanks or the base
of Ararat in lighite or in coal; and the
first altar-that which Noah "builded"
to his Maker and Preserver, may yet be
up from its burying place by the
mighty earthquakes that shake the plain
of Araxes. ~ a .s
OUer Seven Tons gLaws.-The laws
of the last session of the Penns" |
5000 copiss2s sa over sew, Q
81 n,. - itasaccrtainly not be for the :
want q. weight.-Harrisburg Union. n
FfghtineJ~ fun.-A man once rushed n,
ito light. and after beating the com M
atants Unfortunately, some one asked W
i'm which side he was on: 81 beg par-
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