Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-04-20

STARTLING.-R d the following,
from &; recent address by Rev. I. l..
Cuyler in New York: "Here on our
island, beneath the shadow of our
own homes, in the Empire City, there
are, according to official statements,
5000 rum stores, from the sumptuous
hotel to the reeking cellar, but 1000
Of which pay license to the govern
ment. In each of these there are IN
an average $40 day expended in
rum-$S0, 900 i'll a single dav, $780,
900 in week, $4,000 in a year-an
amount greater than we expend in all
our churches, public schools and char
tiles put together. In Brooklyn at
least $1,000 are spent. Every one
suffers by this, employers as well as
employed, broken-hearted wives, mo-
theirs, sisters and children. Alcohol,
whether found in New England rum,
native wine, or the so-called inoilcn-
Sivc lager beer, is poison, and we
mean so to educate the people that
they will acknowledge the fact. We
mean to attack the principle that men
should be their own doctors, prcscri-
bing hitterS and other commodities for
themselves. All these articles are
hascd on Santa Cruz rum, and are del
cterious. They have been the great
promoters of intemperance in the COM
munity. We mean to urge on all good
citizens " selfdeniai" for the sake of
others. If a man, 10y glass of wine
Oh his table, induces another to stuln-
BILE, he is a apariceps eriminis. This
demon is cXerting its influence in pla-
ces where you least suppose. 1t has
invaded the pulpit, and leaves its vic
tins on splendid couches, on Turkey
, carpets, and beneath Brussels lace in
brown stone mansions. We propose
: to food the country with tracts, and
give the country that which it has ne
yer yet possessed, good temperance
literature.
. The RUMsELLER's REwARD.-The
a following is an extract from an adj
dress by Thurlow Weed Brown, de-
iivered at Palmyra, n. Y, over the
> grave of citizen who died of deliri.
h am tremens: srsF9 -.
c "You, gentlemen, who hold the con-
!, trary, go where the night is the black
Ii est and poor, weary hearts are slowly
e breaking under the weight of woe =
it tell them yoa have JOYOUS news! Tell
Y them that for all this bitter desolatiosl
d your palm is filled with gold! Tell
Il thc smitten victims of the household
K hat out Of their mouths, off their
o backs, and from their biighted fields
j. on and your chosen Instruments have
;, sathered harvest of gold Tell the
ii pale, wasting wife ami mother that
u YOU have pretty percentage OF al
Ii that was noble in the husband or kim
v. .ather, in yellow gold! Tell the drunk
% ard, he dreams, perchancc, that he car
i'd set beat back the red pillows that toss
ly and consume him, and that for his pnol
er aody's death and souls damnation yo,
Id have gold Stand at the threShol,
he Of the poor house, and mockingly taun
Id the squalid, the dcformed, and the id
.i- iotic with the news that out of all tlIci
vs. ruin you gathered gold Stand b.
ed the prison door, and as the remorSG
nd less hinge shricks after the victims
i'm entombs, peer through the grating
lis cheer the living dead with the new
to that you sold them to crime and inf
lis my, for gold! Tell the murderer tina
mn you made him a murderer, for gold
rn Stand by the new graves OF the la;
ew twelve months, and whisper to the Ii
he ty thousand slecpers, victims of you
ur regulated traffic, that you slew thel
,h- Tor gold! Enter the vestibulc of pc
MI dition, and with the Bible in han,
ell read that no druahayd shall inherit u
aas ,l kingdom Of Hearea." Iszfl 81
dv. %ta Coon ADvICE.-aLook not upon II
~, wine when it is red, when it givetil i
I Of color in the cup, when it moycth itsc
ne, her Alright, for at last it .biteth Ike a SC
:ree pent aud stingcth like an adder
the Heed these words and save years
sorrow and sin and shame.
ION A TEMPERANCE LECTURE-A ma
on in the last onics of dclirinm tr
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