Washington telegraph., 1850-06-19

beauty, "aVertS ner DiuSHlHS ldCe o
leaves all nature to the hot dominion OF
summer. Summer comes and brings his
train of golden fruits and yellow harvests;
sweet birds gladden. our hearts with their
melodious carolings and teach US to learn
contentment and happiness from their
joyous songs The shade trees of our
town lend charm to every object; their
dark green foliage, even a: mid day. gives
a freshness and invigorating GOODNESS
which is altogether agreeable to street
loungers. Our gardens, notwithstanding
the rough treatment which the Icy gasp
of winter gave them, have been enamsled
with flowers of every tint and hue, whose
beauty cazzled the eye of the behclder
with their effulgent glow, and are now
langushing beneath the scorching rays
Of the summers sun.
Our citizens: having cast off the dark
wing of inertness which has so long
been brooding over their most fattering
prospects, are now exhibiting a strong
determination to build up and make our
town what its natural advantages and
increasing trade justi6es them in doing-a
place of importance. 1t is we'll known
fact that there is an extensive and fertile
country adjacent and lying around our
town-a soil adapted to the growth Of
almost every variety of produce; in addi-
ton to which, the most fattenng INDUCE
ments are held out to parents to make
our town a place of residence. Our
schools. under the care of corps of the
most accomplished and efficient teachers,
are not to be surpassed by those of any
other town in the State. Added TO this,
it is one of the most healthy and pleasant
places in the entire southwest. Arrange
ments are now being made for the erection
Of College here, which will afford every
facility for the acquisition Of knowledge,
and, which from the plan adopted by the
trustees, will make it accessible to every
class. But little doubt can be entertain
ed that at no distant day we will have a
fourishing institution here.
Many new buildings are being erected,
among others two large and commodious
churches, under the care of strong de-
nominations. Arrangements are making
for the early erection of another in con-
nection with Masonic Hall. Of this
there is no doubt, as the Masonic fra
ternity are now making the necessary
arrangements to lay the corner stone with
due form and solemnity on the Oath OF
June instant, the anniversary of their
great patron, St. John tile Baptist. But
! short time since there was not church
in town, and sermons were like angels
visits, "few and far between, n,"-perbaps
once a month, and then to a very small
audience; and until within the last twelve
months there had never been revival
or profession of religion in the limits OF
this town. Now, we have three or four
sermons every week to large and atten-
tive congregations. What has caused
this great moral reformation? We do not
hesitate to say, that in a great measure
it is to be attributed to the establishment
of good schools in our midst, and to the
influence Of the Sons of Temperance
This Order was instituted in the city ot
New Y ork on the 29th of September, / 842
by sixteen Washingtonians, who were
willing to array themselves against vice
worse in it's ra7ages than war, pestilence
or famine, and to bear the reproach and
censure of large majority of the world
From those sixteen individuals, the Order
has increased to five thousand subordinate
divisions, with over four hundred thou
sand members What an increase! no
institution upon the face of earth has
known such an accession to its ranks or
so much good 20 be done by its influence
in moralizing mankind in so short time
On the 28th Of August, i84S, the tri-colored
banner of "Love, Purity and Fidelity
was proudly unfurled in our town, and
the superior utility of the Order over all
other forms heretofore adopted for the
reformation of the inebriate and the ad.
vancement of temperance reform was
soon demonstrated, and many immedia te-
| ly 'hew to snccor and to save" There
is large Division in this place, and by
its quiet but to the enemy new and alarm
ing tactics is rapidly accelerating the
cause in this section, and if they remain
"faithful to the cause.-the cause of all