Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-11-23
Cincinnati Correspondence.

pectcd visit of Father Mathew to our Citv ha.
been postponed until next Spring. A letter
was received from him week or two since by
Bishop Purcell, stating that the condition ofhis
health compelled him to leave st. Louis imme-
diately for q Southern climate. and We have
since learned that he has gone to Florida to
spend .hc winter. We hear nothing more of OBJ.
jections to the Rev. Fathers anti slavery sent;.
mcnts from the South--his ready dsavowal of
any sympathy with abolitionism made to pro-
pitiatc their favor, seems to have satisfied them
and Southern latitude appears to be as conge-
nial to his feelings as to his health. Ho express
cs his profound regret" that he cannot at this
time visit the "Queen City of the West" to
which he was invited by the Bishop, as his
guest, on his first arrival in this country.
1t is matter of general regret that Father
Mathew could not visit us this Fall, as reyiy
al in the Temperance cause was nerer more need
ed, and his influence might have been cxcrted
benefcially in its behalf. Our City Council
after debating the subject at several sessions.
declined appointing a committee to welcome
and escort the Father to the City. This was
consistent enough. After recently licensing
ono hundred cofFee.houscs at a single sitting,
and for year past rcplonishing the treasury of
the City from the liquor traffic, it would have
been the hight of inconsistency to have pre-
tended any sympathy with Father Mathew or
his benevolent movements. 1t would not, how
ever, have been worse than the offer of the hos
pitaltics of the BuRSET HOUSE to him on his
arrival here, by the proprictors. An establish
mcnt where more liquor is drunk daily than in
any other place in the City, and which has in
store stock of wines and brahdos amply suf-
icient to set up wholesale dealer The in
congruity and Inconsistency of their position
must have been felt by both parties. 1t will be
too palpable not to strike the most careless OBJ
server.
An effort is now in progress to revive the
Temperance Reform among u.s. The Washing
tionian movement in lSil and AZ superseded
the old Temperance societies, and this again
was supplantcd by the Orders of the I" Sons of
Temperance" both of which have embraced
features very Objectionable to many ofthe carli-
faults it cannot be denied that great good has re-
suited from both these organizations, but they
have had their day. and the various Divisions of
the Sons" at least in this section of the coun-
try, have now little morc than nominal exist
cncc, and arc evidently insufficient for the open
out of-door, aggressive movements the times de-
mand. by common consent we are falling back
upon the good old fashioned mode of opera
ton, which in the opinion of many ought ncv-
or to have been abandoned A new society has
been formed called the "Quecn City Temper
ancc Society," with suitable officers, a wcll-di-
gcstcd plan of operations for keeping public
meetings; employing City missionary; pub
fishing statistics and appeals; building Hall
collecting q Library, sc. A meeting few eve
nings since to perfect these plans was well at
tended and enthusiastic, and VIC have reason to
hope that, relying on argument and persuasion,
and appealing to the intelligence and conscienccs
Of mon steady impulse will be given to the
cause more permanent in its results than any
interest or excitement awakened by the noreAies
and clop-trGps which have been too often resort
ed to in aid Of this noble reform.
The census returns are coming in slowly;
here and there we have partial or full returns of
City, town or county, but not enough as yet
to make any fair comparisons between different
States. The rapid growth of some of our
Western Cities will astonish our friends ut the
East. Take for Instance as n sample a few