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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1845.
VOL. V.
No. VI.

THE DEATH OF WIND-FOOT.
AN INDIAN STORY.
BY W. WHITMAN.

Three hundred years ago -- so I head the tale not long since from the mouth of one educated like a white man, but born of the race of whom Logan and Tecumseh sprang -- three hundred years ago, there lived on lands now forming an eastern county of the most powerful of American States, a petty Indian tribe, governed by a brave and wise chieftain.  This chieftain was called by a name which in our language signifies Unrelenting.  His deeds of courage and subtlety made him renowned thro' no small portion of the northern continent.  There were only two dwellers in his lodge, himself and his youthful son; for twenty moons had filled and waned since his wife, following four of her offspring, was placed in the burial ground.

As the Unrelenting sat alone one evening in his rude hut, one of his people came to inform him that a traveller from a distant tribe, had entered the village and desired food and repose.  Such a petition was never slighted by the red man; and the messenger was sent back with an invitation for the stranger to abide in the lodge of the chief himself.  Among that simple race no duties were considered more honorable than arranging the household comforts of a guest.  Those duties were now performed by the host's own hand, his son having not yet returned from the hunt on which he had started with a few young companions at early dawn.  In a little while the wayfarer was led into the dwelling by him who had given the first notice of his arrival.

"You are welcome my brother," said the Unrelenting.

The person to whom this kind salute was addressed was an athletic Indian, apparently of middle age, and habited in the scant attire of his species.  He had the war tuft on his forehead, under which flashed a pair of brilliant eyes.  his rejoinder was friendly and brief.

"This chief's tent is lonesome -- his people are away?" continued the stranger, after a pause, casting a glance of inquiry around.

"My brother says true, that it is lonesome," the other answered.  "Twelve seasons ago, the Unrelenting saw five children in the shadow of his wigwam, and their mother was dear to him.  He was strong like a cord of many fibres.  Then the breath of Manita snapped the fibres one by one asunder.  He looked with a pleasant eye on my sons and daughters, and wished them for himself."

The Unrelenting turned as he spoke, and pointed to an object just inside the opening of the tent.

A moment or two before, the figure of a boy had glided noiselessly in, and taken his station back of the chief.  Hardly twelve years seemed the age of the new comer.  He was a noble child!  His limbs, never distorted with the ligatures of civilized life, were graceful as the ash, and symmetrical and springy as the bounding stag's.  It was the last and liveliest of the chieftain's sons -- the soft-lipped, nimble Wind-Foot.

With the youth's assistance, the preparations for their frugal meal were soon completed.  After finishing it, as the stranger appeared to be weary, a heap of skins was arranged for him in one corner of the lodge, and he laid himself down to sleep.

It was a lovely summer's evening.  The moon shone and the stars twinkled, and the thousand voices of a forest night sounded in every direction.  The chief and his son reclined at the opening of the tent, enjoying the cool breeze which blew freshly upon them, and flapped the piece of deer hide that served for the door, sometimes flinging it down so as to darken the apartment, then raising it suddenly up again, as if to let in the bright moonbeams.

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Wind-Foot spoke of his hunt that day.  He had met with no success, and, in a boy's impatient spirit, wondered why it was that others' arrows should hit the mark, and failure be reserved for him alone.  The chief heard him with a sad smile, as he remembered his own youthful traits; he soothed the child with gentle words, telling him that brave warriors sometimes went whole days with the same perverse fortune.

"Many years since," said the chief, "when my cheek was soft and my arms felt the numbness of but few winters, I myself vainly traversed our hunting grounds, as you have done to-day.  The Dark Influence was around me, and not a single shaft would do my bidding."

"And my father brought home nothing to his lodge?"

"The Unrelenting came back without any game," the other answered; but he brought what was dearest to him and his people than the fattest deer or the sweetest bird meat -- he brought the scalp of an accursed Kansi!"

The voice of the chief was deep and sharp in its tone of hatred.

"Will my father," said Wind-Foot, "tell --"

The child started and paused.  An exclamation, a sudden guttural noise, came from that part of the tent where the stranger was sleeping.  The dry skins which formed his bed rustled, as if he who lay there had changed his position, and then all continued silent.  The Unrelenting proceeded in a lower tone, fearful that they had almost broken the slumber of their guest.

"Listen!" said he; "you know a part, but not all the cause of hatred there is between our nation and the abhorred nation whose name I mentioned.  Longer back than I can remember, they did mortal wrong to your fathers.  The scalps of two of your near kindred hang in Kansi lodges and I have sworn, my son, to bear them a never-ending hatred.

"On the morning of which I spoke, I started with fresh limbs and light heart to search for game.  Hour after hour, I roamed the forest, but with no success; and at the setting of the sun I found myself weary, and many miles from my father's lodge.  I laid down at the foot of a tree, and sleep came over me.  In the depth of the night, a voice seemed whispering in my ears; it called me to rise quickly to look round.  I started to my feet, and found no one there but myself; then I knew that the Dream Spirit had been with me.  As I cast my eyes about the gloom I saw a distant brightness.  Treading softly, I approached.  The light was that of a fire, and by the fire lay two sleeping figures.  O, I laughed the quiet laugh of a deadly mind, as I saw who they were -- a Kansi warrior, and a child like you, my son, in age.  I felt the edge of my tomahawk.  It was keen as my hate.  I crept toward them as the snake crawls through the grass.  I bent over the slumbering boy; I raised my weapon to strike.  But I thought that were they both slain no one would carry the tale to the Kansi tripe.  My vengeance would be tasteless to me if they knew it not -- and I spared the child.  Then I glided to the other; his face was of the same cast as the first, which gladdened me, for I then knew they were of close kindred.  I raised my arm -- I gathered my strength -- I struck, and cleft the warrior's brain in quivering halves!"

The chief had gradually wrought himself up to a pitch of loudness and rage, and his hoarse tones at the last part of his narration, rang creakingly through the lodge.

At that moment, the deer hide curtain kept all within darkness; the next, it was lifted up, and a flood of moonlight filled the apartment.  A startling sight was back there, then!  The strange Indian was sitting up on his couch, his distorted features glaring toward the ucconscious ones in front with a look like that of Satan to his antagonist angel.  His lips were parted, his teeth clenched, his arm raised, and his hand doubled -- every nerve and sinew in bold relief.  This spectacle of fear lasted only for a moment; the Indian at once sank noiselessly back, and lay with the skins wrapped round him as before.

It was now an advanced hour of the night. -- Wind-Foot felt exhausted by his day's travel; the father and son arose from their seat at the door, and retired to rest.  In a little while all was silence in the tent; but from the darkness surrounded the bed of the stranger, flashed two fiery orbs, rolling about incessantly like the eyes of an angry wild beast.  The lids of those orbs closed not in slumber during the night.  Among the former inhabitants of this continent it was considered rudeness of the highest degree to annoy a traveller or a guest with questions about himself, his last abode, or his future destination.  Until he saw fit to go, he was made welcome to stay, whether for a short time or a long one.  Thus, on the morrow, when the strange Indian showed no signs for departing the chief expressed not the least surprise, but felt indeed a compliment indirectly paid to his powers of entertainment.

Early the succeeding day, the Unrelenting called his son to him, while the stranger was standing at the door.  He told Wind-Foot that he was going on a short journey, to perform which and return, would probably take him to night fall. -- He enjoined the boy to remit no duties of hospitality towards his guest, and bade him be ready at evening with a welcome for his father.

The sun had marked the middle of the afternoon, when the chief finishing what he had to do sooner than he had expected, came back to his own dwelling, and threw himself on the floor to obtain rest, -- for the day though pleasant had been

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a warm one.  Wind-Foot was note there, and after a little interval the Chief stepped to a lodge near by, to make inquiry after him.

"The young brave," said the woman who appeared to answer questions, "went away with the chief's strange guest many hours since."

The Unrelenting turned to go back to his tent.

"I cannot tell the meaning of it," added the woman, "but he of the fiery eye bade me, should the father of Wind-Foot ask him, say to the chief these words, 'Unless your foe sees you drink his blood, that blood loses more than half its sweetness!'"

The Unrelenting started as if a scorpion had stung him.  His lips trembled, and his hand involuntarily moved to the handle of his tomahawk. -- Did his ears perform their office truly?  Those sounds were not new to him.  Like a floating mist, the gloom of past years rolled away in his memory, and he recollected that the words the woman spoke were the very ones he himself had uttered to the Kansi child whose father he slew long ago in the forest!  And this stranger?  Ah! now he saw it all.  He remembered the dark looks of his guest -- and carrying his mind back again, traced the features of the Kansi in their matured counterpart.  And the chief felt too conscious for what terrible purpose Wind-Foot was in the hands of this man.  He sallied forth, gathered together a few of his warriors, and started swiftly to seek his child.

About the same hour that the Unrelenting returned from his journey, Wind-Foot, several miles form home was just coming up to his companion, who had gone a few rods ahead of him, and was at that moment seated on the body of a fallen tree, a mighty giant of the woods that some whirlwind had tumbled to the earth.  The child had roamed about with his new acquaintance through one path and another with the heedlessness of his age; and now while the latter sat, in every direction around were towering patriarchs of the wilderness growing and decaying in solitude.  At length the stranger spoke:

"Wind-Foot!"

The child who was but a few yards off, approached at the call.  As he came near, he stopped in alarm; his companion's eyes had that dreadfully bright glitter again -- and while they looked at each other, terrible forebodings rose in the boy's soul.

"Young chieftain," said the stranger, "you must die!"

"The brave is in play," was the response, "Wind-Foot is a little boy."

"Serpents are small at first," replied the savage, but in a few moons they have fangs and deadly poison.  Harken, branch from an evil root -- I am a Kansi!  The youth your parent spared in the forest has now become a man.  Warriors of his tribe point to him and say, "His father's scalp adorns the lodgings of the Unrelenting, but the wigwam of the Kansi is bare!  Wind-Foot, it must be bare no longer!"

The boy's heart beat quickly -- but beat true to the stern courage of his ancestors.

"I am the son of a chief," he answered, "my cheeks cannot be wet with tears."

The Kansi looked at him for a few seconds with admiration, which soon gave way to indignant scowls.  Then producing from an inner part of his dress a withe of some tough bark, he stepped to Wind-Foot, and began binding his hands.  It was useless to attempt resistance, for besides the disparity of their strength, the boy was unarmed, while the savage had at his waist a hatchet, and a rude weapon resembling a poinard.  He pointed the Wind-Foot the direction he must take, gave a significant touch at his girdle, and followed close behind.

When the Unrelenting and his people started to seek for the child and that fearful stranger, they were lucky enough to find the trail which the absent ones had made.  None except an Indian's eye could have tracked them by so slight and devious a guide.  But the chief's sight was sharp with parental love; they followed on -- winding, and on again -- at length coming to the fallen tree.  The trail was now less irregular, and they traversed with great rapidity.  Its direction seemed toward the shores of a long narrow lake which lay adjacent to their territory.  Onward went they, and as the sun sank in the west, they saw his las flitting gleams reflected upon the waters of the lake.  The grounds here were almost clear of trees, and as they came out, the Unrelenting and his warriors swept the range with their keen eyes.

Was it so indeed!  There, on the grass not twenty yards from the shore, were the persons sought -- and fastened near by a canoe.  They saw from this, too, that if the Kansi should once get him in the boat, and gain a start for the opposite side, where very likely some of his tribe were waiting for him, release would be almost impossible.  For a moment only they passed.  Then the Unrelenting sprang off, uttering the battle cry of his tribe, and the rest joined in the terrible chorus and followed him.

As the sudden sound was swept along by the breeze to the Kansi's ear, he jumped to his feet and with that wonderful self-possession which distinguishes his species, determined at once what was safest and surest for him to do.  He seized Wind-Foot by the shoulder and ran towards the boat, holding the boy's person as a shield from any weapons the pursuers might attempt to launch after him.  He possessed still the advantage.  It was a fearful race and the Unrelenting felt his heart grow sick as the Indian dragging his child, approached the water's edge.

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"Turn, whelp of Kansi," the chief madly cried, "Turn thou, whose coward arm warrest against children.  Turn, if thou darest and meet the eye of a full grown brave!"

A loud taunting laugh was borne back from his flying enemy to the ears of the furious father. -- The savage did not look round, but twisted his left arm and pointed with his finger to Wind-Foot's throat.  At that moment he was within twice his length of the canoe.  The boy heard his father's voice, and gathered his energies, faint and bruised as he was, for a last struggle.  Vain his efforts! for a moment only he loosened himself from the grip of his foe, and fell upon the ground.  that moment, however, was a fatal one to the Kansi.  With the speed of lightning, the chief's bow was up at his shoulder -- the cord twanged sharply -- and a  poison tipped arrow sped through the air.  Faithful to its mission, it cleft the Indian's side, just as he was stooping to lift Wind-Foot in the boat.  He gave a while shriek; his blood spouted from the wound, and he staggered down upon the sand.  His strength, however, was not yet gone.  Hate and measureless revenge -- the stronger that they were baffled, raged within him, and shot through his eyes, glassy as they were beginning to be with death-damps.  Twisting his body like a bruised snake, he worked himself close up to the bandaged Wind-Foot.  He felt to his waistband and drew forth the weapon of stone.  He laughed a laugh of horrid triumph -- he shouted aloud -- he raised the weapon in the air -- and just as the death-rattle sounded in his throat, the instrument (the shuddering eyes of the child saw it, and shut their lids in intense agony,) came down, driven too surely to the heart of the hapless boy.

When the Unrelenting came up to his son, the last signs of life were fading in the boy's countenance.  His eyes opened and turned to the chief; his beautiful lips parted in a smile, the last effort of expiring fondness.  On his features flitted a lovely look, transient as the ripple athwart the wave, a slight tremor shook him, and the next minute Wind-Foot was dead.

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CHARITY AND BENEVOLENCE,
A LECTURE
Delivered before Covenant Tent, No. 67, I. O. of R.

BY BRO. DAVID W. THOMPSON.

BRETHREN -- It frequently has been a matter of dispute as to what really constitutes charity.  In the common acceptation of the term, charity is to give without the reciprocity of reward.  But this, brethren, is wrong and wholly erroneous; and as charity constitutes one of the many benevolent feelings or qualities which link us together as a brotherhood, you will pardon me if I arrogate to myself the task to-night of properly defining the word.  The task is light when we call to remembrance the fact that charity is based upon one foundation only -- the incorruptible and chaste teaching of a moral and virtuous mind.  It matters not how liberal a man may be, so long as his breast is devoid of those noble impulses which have their origin in charity.  To proffer is to give, but unless the prayer of the donor go with the boon, the act has no deeper claim upon our affections than the unfelt thankfulness of the beggar for the pittance he receives from a mercenary hand.  In this instance the act is involuntary and is doubtless forgotten in the next moment that succeeds.  The mite is received as a mere matter of course, and the beggar wends his cheerless journey without the recollection of one kind act to soften the bitter reproach of his poverty, or to strew the uneven pathway of his destiny with aught but thorns.

Permit me to illustrate this by example.  Suppose, for instance, an object of misfortune approaches me, and by his words or manner demands my sympathy and compassion.  Suppose, again, that many causes have combined to reduce this object to the low state of degradation to which he has arrived -- early companionship with the vain and profligate -- the inbred corruption of a foul passion, which in an evil hour has gained the mastery -- or he has fallen through the neglect of kindred and friends, or the mismanagement of his affairs.  To either cause we may assign the result of his present estate without detracting from the point of our argument.  Therefore, habited in the ragged habiliments of want, he traverses the crowded thoroughfare of cities, weighed down by care, oppression, and the unseen festering of disease, asking from his fellow man the bare subsistence of nature which we tender to our dogs, and content with the outhouses of our homes, or the damp earth for a bed whereupon to repose his weary limbs, and to forget in the reveries of his dreams the sorrows of his calling.  Misfortunes, we say, have brought him to this stage.  Is it, then, a crime to be poor?  Must we loathe because his wants are more numerous than ours?  God forbid! and yet we deny him the very floors of our comfortable dwellings whereupon to repose from his weary pilgrimage here -- a bed whereupon to die!  he cannot work, or he may be a cripple; the first cause, from a disease consequent upon his misfortunes: in the second instance his helplessness may spring from the like fault.  In both cases he is to be pitied, not despised.  He cannot work, and destitute, he must beg.

Think you, then, that he still retains none of those sensitive and many affections of his earlier days -- that because his day of happiness has merged into the dark night of misanthropy, and no redeeming ray of mental sun-light bursts through the gloomy haze of his mind -- that he is entirely lost to humanity and human laws?  I tell you -- No!  He yet is my brother -- and your brother.  But, to pursue our argument.  The complication and multiplicity of his ills no doubt at first weighed heavily upon his mind, and left him open to the convictions and persuasions of any belief or dogma, however erroneous or averse to reason; and first among those the unfortunate are led to think every man their enemy.  Hence, in the object we suppose, this impression, carrying with it a degree of truth from 

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the manner in which he is at first treated, renders him in a short time callous to reproach, contumely, imprisonment, death -- anything but pity.  This state of mind continues as long as his treatment continues, but acquiring, as in the order of nature, a more unyielding and tenacious hold upon his feeling as time advances.  Consequently in a short time, his very desires, though springing from an imperative necessity, partake of the dishonest aspirations of a guilt-stained conscience.  And wherefore?  Because his usage has been less humane -- less gentle than the very toleration we render, as their due, to brutes. -- Herein lies the secret of his depravity, if into such speculations his mind at last sinks; and if crime and vice paint their signet on his forehead, or attend him in his wanderings, the sin lies at the door of that man who gives, but not in charity.

Thus, brethren, you have the beggar before you.  Now, then, to take up our first supposition; He comes to me in the language of want and destitution, and claims my gratitude.  The world has indeed wound about his heart, comparatively speaking, a barrier to persuasion, and has sealed up every avenue to his reason.  What would it avail to hold parley with him -- and who would hear for the sake of alms, but in heart rebel against the very inducements to virtue we hold out?  No -- I will give to him, or I will not, as the case may be, or as my wishes dictate.  So I might argue -- so reason, although averse to the meaning of the word.  But what follows?  We part: he goes his way, and I mine.  But think you my alms with that man was charity?  On the contrary they were as daggers to his heart -- as poison to his lips.  No word of kindness accompanied the boon; no inquires into the state of his necessities: no fatherly care.  He receives the base price of an improper motive, and plunges into the next sink of vice he meets with.  In a moment it passes into other hands, and he, not I, becomes the victim.  Who made him so?  I, I, whose thoughts of his welfare extended no farther than the tap-room, or the haunts of his inquiry.  I, who never speculate over the poignancy of his sorrows for a moment, but shun and loathe him as I would a pestilence, yet oppress him by the very acts the world call charity.

Change now the phase of affairs, and let me sum up the opposite tendencies of a generous gift.  He goes to you with the same complaint, and you treat him with the kindest, the affection of a brother.  You take him by the hand and introduce him into the bosom of your homes.  You manifest your sympathy in deed, not in word.  You administer to his wants, relieve his infirmities.  You heal, by the very attention you pay to his situation, the long unhealed wounds that yet bleed with the recollections of his wrongs.  Or you visit with generous forbearance, and yet with charitable intentions, and counsel him rather in example than in precept.  And what are the invariable results of such conduct?  The mean and bed-ridden beggar opens his soul to the moist tear of awakening virtue -- the long pent-up affections of his bosom revive under the genial touch of pity, and manhood rekindles in his heart the forgotten memories of his boyhood's innocence.  If he is criminal, he forgets, in the hour of his repentance, the crimes that prostrate him.  If he is an alien to the laws that govern the moralist, he rejects his ill-judged notions, and returns to the path of rectitude.  If he is prone to neither of these errors, and yet lacks what otherwise might be deemed a "moral code of principle," the gratification of high-toned passion or desires, his heart softens under the influence of your treatment, and he spurns the power which has so long destroyed the purity of his thoughts.  Add to these that he is a cripple -- would not your mercy-taught act of charity have a double triumph over the narrow and mercenary gift of him who gives, but gives in the sense of a curse?  Certainly.  A sense of your goodness would expand his soul, and open his bosom to the conviction of reform; while at the same time his infirmities would be thought of only as so many of heaven's chastenings for the deeds of the body, and as incentives to urge him to new and honorable employments.  The street beggar, with all his despicable vices, is a creature like ourselves, and subject to the same natural laws.  Therefore in illustrating these species of charity, you can well conceive the difference between the two.  They may in name be summed up in few words: one is the cold sympathy of the passer-by -- the other is the charity which has its origin in the mind of the virtuous -- the bosom of a brother.

But, brethren, this is not the charity (in the former sense) of our institution.  Like every quality, charity has to stand responsible for many abortive issues, and has many wrong and illegitimate constructions to bear; yet, withal, it requires no deep study to place it in its proper position in the sense of mental action.  We are a brotherhood, and we insert in our governing rules and laws this same word charity, and pretend to observe its dictates.  Now, then, in sincerity permit met to ask -- "How many of us paused while reading, and unconsciously dwelled upon the sentence that embraces it, to consider its purposes and to analyze its merits?"  I will venture to say, out of a hundred not ten.  And why? simply because the word is in such common use, that we pass over it without a second thought.  Not that we do not wish to understand the sense in which we are to use it -- not that we naturally, or by acquired habit, refuse or wish to neglect its teaching; no, this I do not mean -- for, like the fountain of a mother's love, true charity is eternal and unalterable, and knows no precepts save in the unrevealed mysteries of those impulses which dictate involuntary action without our power to resist, or will to acquiesce.  But we can incline our heart to pity -- and pity and charity go hand in hand in palliating the griefs and sorrows of the afflicted breast.

We build charitable edifices on the foundations of both.  We discern not who it is that demands our support.  So long as he leans upon the staff of virtue, and walk in the narrow compass of moral worth, so long will the shadow of our protective angel, mercy, however around and dispel the sombre clouds that gather over the horizon of his misfortune.  Not to the brother of our Order only, for then it is charity no longer.  It then becomes the interested speculation of barter; and grief, and poverty, and despair are bought and sold as we would tamper with the current articles of usury and commerce.  But we must go forth, and whenever want stares us in the face, or whenever its dark form shrouds the tenements of poverty with its presence, then must we forget the exalted station chance may have accorded to us, and compensate, by the purity of our charitable deeds, for the blight the dusky wing of fate may have occasioned.  Remember that charity knows no laws of distinction. -- The same that is demanded from the humble is likewise demanded from the great, for, like the grave, the night of adversity wraps in its common gloom the outward trappings of our greatness or our state of humility, and grants but the privilege of deeds, or the soothing caresses of the voice of sympathy.

Twin-born with charity is benevolence.  The womb that conceives the one conceives the other, and both flow from the heart in a mingled stream of affectionate and silent eloquence.  And is not benevolence eloquent?  Who will deny it that has every felt its consoling reward in the language of a contented mind.  It is like the dew that falls from the palm of heaven -- like a sunbeam upon a broken sea.  As the dews of evening vivify and invigorate the drooping flower, and distil from its closed chalice the sweetest fragrance, so does benevolence administer a reviving cordial to the crushed and stricken spirit, and brings up from the desponding heart the sweet perfume of dissembled gratitude, which is the most acceptable incense to the truly charitable.  Like the sun-beam which unseals the congealed fountain, causing it to leap forth, sparkling with the joy of freedom, and courses its way to the warm valley, scattering life and beauty in its trackless wanderings, so does benevolence unseal the fountain of goodness with adversity had congealed, and it gushes forth from the dark recesses of misanthropy, elevates the sinking affections, and courses with joyous haste to the light vale of human kindness.  It is a compound of the pure element of live friendship and self-interest.  While the former curb the ambition of the latter, and prevent its grossness from being too apparent, in our offices of charity, the latter acts as fuel to the former, which otherwise laxly speaking, would be consumed by their ardor, and the bosom that they warmed be left a cold and barren waste, subject to the scathe of unruly passions and unholy desires.  It forms within the soul a fixed bond of sympathy, an indissoluble tie of genuine friendship -- that friendship which, like the Phoenix, springs from the ashes

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of pure attachment or affection, partaking of its elemantary character, with but a small alloy of self-interest -- the holiest attitude of social beings; for when old age sheds its twilight over the ocean of life, it burns a resplendent evening star in the horizon of its decline -- a censer of sweet perfume on the verge of the grave.

Wherever charity establishes for itself an abiding place, there reign the supreme pleasures of contentment and happiness.  Joy seats itself at the table and the hearth-stones of our families, and bliss spreads over our social gathering the shadow of its protection.  No corrupt and sensual gratifications are we permitted to indulge in or sigh after, for the pleasing delight of our charitable offices have left behind no such desires.  We may be consoled and cheered with the reflection of having established for the child of want an asylum and a name song the children of men; and what greater delight could wind about and hold secret commune with our affections than this?  Happiness! the very sound, like the music of a dream, awakens the responding echoes of our bosom, and conveys a thrill of rapture to the listening ear.

Shall it, then, be said of us, whose Order is based upon the firm basis of truth -- whose laws are regulated by two such purposes as these, that we do not understand their meaning and intent?  I hope not.  I cannot believe, that because a sufferer has no hold upon our institution, any one present would or ever will refuse to administer to the cry of adversity.  Charity embraces a wider range than the gift of peace.  It treads the precincts of vice, and gazes down into the low dens of iniquity; it stands as a sentinel at our prison doors, and lulls the despairing captive convict to his slumber in his cheerless cell; it seats itself at the bedside of disease, and ministers consolation to the aching head and phrenzied reason of the afflicted; it clasps the cold hand of agony and remorse as a brother, and stills the wild anguish of minds laboring under the effects of guilt and contumely; it wanders amid the repositories of the dead, and carries to the ear of the mourner the solace of a sigh; it holds vigil over the relics of unredeemed mortality, and pays to the demise of worth the tribute of a tear.  This is that feeling, that quality we call charity.  May its roots find a congenial soil in your bosom to night, and by its influence over your moral pursuits, may it shed a ray of light over your pilgrimage on this earth, and illumine in death the passage of your spirits to heaven, to be forever with the blessed spirits of immortality.

The following toast was given at the late Horticultural Fair in Boston:
Woman -- The earliest gatherer of fruits; by picking the first apple, she caused the first pair to fall.

A premium being lately offered by an agricultural society for the best mode of irrigation, and the latter word being made irritation by a mistake of the printer, a respectable farmer sent his wife to claim the prize.

The 27th November has been selected by the Governor and Council of New Hampshire, as the annual day of Thanksgiving.  They have also decided to order another election in November, to fill the vacancy existing in the Congressional delegation of that state, and the 29th has been fixed for the 3d trial.

The late rains have caused considerable damage to crops by overflowing the Mohawk river.  The rise in the Hudson had been so great at Albany, as to reach Quay street on Monday evening.

From the Boston Traveller.

TO JOHN B. GOUGH.
BY WM. B. TAPPAN

Victim of malice -- not of lust -- 
On holy truth yet seen to stand, --
Thou hast, my friend, as at the first,
With my whole heart, my warm right hand.

Not less a dreadful champion thou,
That spiteful serpents bruised thy heel;
The head and heart are fitter now, --
With surer lance and truer steel.

Let not remorse, that comes to all
Who sin, afflict thy gentle soul;
Nor thus, for an imagined fall,
Let drops of mighty anguish roll.

Thou hast not sinned! but wicked hands --
Incarnadined with blood they've spilt,
Which all the seas that wash all lands, 
Can never cleanse -- have wrought the guilt.

And Heaven, who this sore trial sent, 
Thy sterling worth will well assure;
And Christ, who o'er the furnace vent,
Refining -- sees the silver pure.

Thou led'st the host, thou led'st the van, --
Then blazed the eternal aegis there! --
For sacred Truth, for Woman, Man,
For God -- till round thee closed the snare.

Hell revels! -- yet thou leap'st from earth,
With wrathful blow and flashing eyes;
What storms of blows that change its mirth
To shameful tears and coward cries?

Again, by thee, in glory's field,
Truth's awful standard is unfurled;
The tongue, that like a trumpet pealed,
Again with clangor shakes the world.

News Items.

In an affray with some rowdies, on Saturday morning, a Baltimore watchman, named Hughes, received a stab in his head which is likely to prove mortal.

A lad 6 years of age, son of Mr. William Yohn, of Reading, Penn., who was bitten by a mad dog last August, was on Wednesday attacked by hydrophobia, and died on Friday.

Hon. Henry Hawkins, of Alexandria, Genesee county, formerly a Senator from the Eighth District, died of small pox on the 9th inst.

Five companies of U. S. troops from Portsmouth, Ohio, destined for Arkansas Bay, arrived at New Orleans on the 2d inst.

The Neapolitan Government has made a free port of the harbor of Brinidisi.

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At Amity, near Reading, Penn., last Friday, an altercation occurred between William Laffell and Enos Row, which ended in the death of the latter by a blow inflicted upon his forehead by Laffell with a 5-lb. weight.

We find in the St. Louis Reveille an account of an Anti-Abolition Society, established at Chicago, for the purpose of intercepting fugitive slaves.  It seems that they have already been quite successful, and bid fair to thwart many such enterprises.

A strong effort is making at Baltimore to establish regular lines of packets to Wilmington, N. C., and Mobile.

Mr. Merrick, aged 60 years, long a resident of Hannover, Penn., fell from a chestnut tree a few days since, and was killed.

The receipts at the Philadelphia Bazaar, up to Thursday, were five thousand dollars, and the Saloon was crowded.  The object is to revive the Academy of Arts, which was broken up in Philadelphia by the incendiaries there.

The boiler connected with the machine shop, &c. of F. Curtis & Co., in Hartford, exploded last Tuesday night.  Fortunately no person was seriously hurt, though several were in imminent peril.

Four Negroes, the property of Mrs. Newell, of Prince George co., Va., were burnt to death a few days since, at the destruction by fire of a portion of the residence of Mrs. N.

The small pox is prevailing to some extent in Baltimore.

The horticultural seed store of Samuel Walker, School street, Boston, on Sunday, suffered to the amount of $2000 by a fire set by an incendiary.

James T. Vermillyon was murdered at Pleasant Valley, Fairfax co., Virginia, by a negro, who escaped while they were carrying him to prison.

Buffalo lost $60,000 by fire, during the year ending 30th ult.

Baker, the murderer, was hanged in Clay county, Ohio, pursuant to sentence -- Gov. Owsley, refusing to interfere in the execution of the sentence.

The Norfolk (Va.) New Era mentions the death of Anthonia R. Billsoly, aged 86 years.  He was with Count de Grasse at Yorktown, and aided in fighting the battles of liberty.

The population of Kings County is 78,691, of whom 59,574 are in Brooklyn, and 11,338 in Williamsburgh.

Subscriptions to the stock of the Syracuse and Oswego railroad to the amount of $250,000 have been received.

LIST OF TENTS
BELONGING TO THE NEW YORK ENCAMPMENT OF THE U. D. OF R.

Purity Tent, No. 1, meets every Wednesday evening at Crystal Fount tent-room, 93 Third Avenue.

Union Tent, No. 2, meets every Thursday, at 3, P.M., at Lafayette tent-room, 193 Bowery.

Rose of Sharon Tent, No. 3, meets weekly at New London, Conn.

Branch Tent, No. 4, meets every Friday evening at Eastern Star tent-room, 460 Grand st.

Olive Tent, No. 5, meets every Monday, at 3, P. M., at Manhattan tent-room, Avenue C, Third st.

Clinton Tent, No. 6, meets every Friday, at 3, P. M., at Columbian Hall, 4th story, Grand st.

Miriam Tent, No. 7, meets every Wednesday evening at Brooklyn tent-room, 309 Fulton Street.

Palm Tent, No. 8, meets every Thursday, at 3, P. M., in the hall, corner of Hudson and Grove.

Peace and Safety Tent, No. 9, meets every Tuesday, at 3, P. M., at Eastern Star tent-room, 460 Grand st.

Unity Tent, No. 10, meets weekly Chester, Orange County.

Washingtonian Tent, No. 11, meets weekly at Hudson.

Passaic Tent, No. 12, meets every Tuesday evening, at Patterson, N. J.

NEW YORK ENCAMPMENT, No. 1, will hold its regular meetings the first Monday afternoon of each month at Mount Vernon Division-room, No. 93 Third Avenue, at 3 o'clock, P. M.  Representatives are earnestly requested to be punctual in their attendance.

Communications relative to the United Daughters of Rechab, should be addressed to Mrs. Carpenter, 430 Bowery, or Mrs. P. A. Moger, 164 Attorney street, New York City.

LIST OF TENTS
IN MASSACHUSETTS ENCAMPMENT, U. D. OF R.

Somerset Tent, No. 1, East Boston, meets every other Friday, at Rechabite Hall.

Norfolk Tent, No. 2, Roxbury, meets every other Wednesday, at Rechabite Hall.

United Daughters' Tent, No. 4, Charlestown, meets every other Wednesday, at Warren Hall.

Unity Tent, No. 3, Lynn, every Wednesday evening at Mechanic Hall.

Eastern Star Tent, No. 5, South Boston, -- meets every other Wednesday, at Rechabite Hall.

North Star Tent, No. 6, Boston, Rechabite Hall, every other Monday.

Fidelity Tent, No. 7, Boston -- meets every other Wednesday, at United Brothers Tent room.

Siloam Tent, No. 8, Salem -- meets every Thursday evening.

Every information as to formation of New Tents or other information, can be had by applying to Mrs. J. Crawshaw, E. S. M., Roxbury, or Mrs. Piruse, No. 2 Garden Court street, Boston.

THE ORIGINAL PURITY TENT, No. 1, United Daughters of Rechab, meet as usual every Wednesday afternoon, at four o'clock, at Washington Marine tent-room, cor. Canal and Elm streets.  This tent is in no way connected with the Encampment Union, but deposits its funds in the Savings Bank, for which they draw 6 per cent interest.  Any Lady wishing to unite with this tent, may obtain any information by calling on any of the following sisters: -- Mrs. W. P. Boss, 20 Ludlow street; Miss Mary Jane Smith, 15 Forsyth street; Miss Jane E. Stocker, 185 Broome street; Mrs. Roswell G. Allen, 164 Eldridge street.  MRS. W. P. BOSS, P. S. M.
MRS. H. WEEKS, S. M.
MRS. W. KENNOCH, J. M.
MISS M. GUNN, Sec.

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LIST OF AGENTS.
GEORGE SNEDEKER, Brooklyn, L. I.
JOHN NORMAN, Williamsburg, L. I.
AMOS H. WILLETS, Bushwick, L. I.
J. KENDRICK, Flushing, L. I.
GEORGE W. SMITH, Portchester, N. Y.
E. SEAMAN, Mamroneck, N. Y.
JAMES D. POND, Utica, N. Y.
H. A. BREWSTER, Rochester, N. Y.
A. SMITH, Troy, N. Y.
JOHN ACKERMAN, New Brunswick, N. J.
Bro. SEARS, Paterson, N. J.
JAMES CONE, New London, Conn.
ARLOW COLLINS, Hartford, Conn.
JAMES GALLAGHER, Hartford, Conn.
H. BURDICK, Norwich, Conn.
I. JEWETT, and T. S. NEAL, Boston, Mass.
B. SELMAN, Marblehead, Mass.
BENJAMIN COLMAN, Salem, Mass.
CHARLES COVERLY, Roxbury, Mass.
J. M. MONROE, and B. IRESON, Lynn, Mass.
J. MURPHY, Pawtucket, Mass.
W. HANDY, Providence, R. I.
W. P. MOULTON, Portsmouth, N. H.
SAML. WAITE, Portland, Me.
MR. CROOKER, Saco, Me.
R. SAWYER, Bath, Me.
JAMES O'DONNELL, Gray, Me.
J. A. M. HOISINGTON, Chicago, Ill.
WM. COOKE, Wilmington, N. C.

THE CRYSTAL FOUNT.
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCT. 18, 1845.

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
We sent, a week or two since, notices to a large number of subscribers, informing them at what time their terms and expired, and requesting to be informed whether they wished the paper discontinued.  To some of these notices we have received answers, to others none.  To all who have not taken the trouble to answer this reasonable request, we give notice, that we cannot continue to furnish them with the paper, unless we receive further directions.  We cannot afford to supply subscribers from month to month without knowing whether they wish the paper or not, or even intend paying for it.  Our terms are in advance, and for our own safety and to insure the continuance of our paper, we must adhere to them.

FIRE!  FIRE!!  FIRE!!!

We have often been amused in looking at the fire engine in this city as they go dashing along through the streets.  The long rope is filled with men, some pulling with right good will, now and then giving a shout; others keep up a continued hallooing, pulling very little; one or two fellows run outside and never pull at all, but make more noise than all the rest; while at the tail may be seen one or two pushing away with all their might, but never saying a word about it.

There, we have thought, is a fine emblem of the temperance war.  It is rushing along to save the property, aye, and the souls and bodies of those who are suffering from the fires of alcohol. -- There are a great many persons aiding the onward course of the car; -- some of them are actively engaged, doing all they can, and making a little noise about it; others are apparently doing a great deal, but when we come to look narrowly, we find they make a great deal more noise than other people, and do much less work.  There is another class of men engaged, and these are like the chaps that run outside with the trumpets, doing nearly all the shouting, attracting a great deal of attention, making a mighty show at large meetings, but never pulling at the rope an atom.  Then there is one more class, more deserving than all.  They will be found by close attention to be always in the back ground, keeping gallantly up with the car, making no noise at all, but yet pushing away with all their might.  They never shout, never call the attention of the lookers-on, never look to see admiring eyes, never seek to be made a gazing stock for the multitude -- but with heads bent down, and every nerve engaged to push on the car of temperance. -- There are some people, when they hear the cry of fire, who very cooly ask the direction, or what district it is.  If not near them, they turn away indifferent to their neighbor's misfortune.  Like these are many men who care nothing for the raging of the fires of alcohol, so they are not burned.  Their neighbors or relatives may suffer -- no matter, it is not my house, let it burn.  Some run with all their might to see the fire burn, and never take hold to assist.  So there are many who run to see poor drunkards in the street; the fires of alcohol are coursing through him, yet they care not -- they can cooly look on, and stretch forth no hand to save.

Life may be lost at the fire -- the lookers-on care not, so it be not their life.  Souls may be lost through alcohol: many care not, so it be not their souls.  Ah! how often the heartless lookers-on are caught by some falling wall, and ere they know it, are lost; and how often the standers-afar-off from the temperance work are by their very listlessness caught in the snare, and ere they can fly for safety, are lost.  How much better would it have been if they had taken hold of the car, and put the fire out.  Heaven knows the fires of alcohol are burning fiercely enough in this city, and the labor of every man is now demanded.  We want no noisy demagogues to cry out, go on, go on, running along by the temperance car, yet never doing any work.  We want no drones to drag the car back instead of forward -- we want no faint-hearted ones, who dare not face the fire, but we want true and faithful men who are willing to pull, push, or anything else that is called for -- who are ever faithful -- not one day making a great cry about their temperance pledge, (in which the have promised to "discountenances the use, manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors") and the next going and slyly depositing a vote for a rum-seller, in whose hands is the licensing power, and who will multiply grog-shops without end.  We want no such men -- they do us no good, but bring upon us the sneers of the very men whom they have elevated to office.  We want good, faithful, honest men, and plenty of them, and with them the temperance car will be carried on until it crushes under its ponderous wheels every vestige of the power of the tyrant rum; and a glad and happy band of the redeemed shall shout forth the notes of joy as they see the last citadel of the enemy fall to the earth, to rise no more.

Sign the pledge! sign the pledge!

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BRANCH TENT, U. D. OF R. -- We believe some explanation is due the ladies constituting this institution, with reference to the advertisement of their celebration, which came off on Thursday evening, in the Universalist Church in Elizabeth st. -- The advertisement in question was left at the residence of one of the publishers, instead of the office, and was entirely overlooked until too late for insertion in the "Fount."  We trust this explanation will be sufficient.

Although unable to attend the meeting on Thursday evening, we are pleased to learn that it was well attended by a highly respectable and intelligent audience.  Excellent addresses were delivered by Messrs. White, Bard, Oakley and Poisal, and good singing by a select choir, besides solos and duetts by ladies and gentlemen of the highest order of talent.  One great feature of the evening was the reading of the 35th chapter of Jeremiah by a blind boy, 16 years of age.  But we have not space to detail at length the interesting character of the exercises -- suffice it to say, that every thing passed off, as we have been informed, to the entire satisfaction of all present.

CALEDONIAN T. B. SOCIETY. -- We dropped into this Society, (holding its meetings in Croton Hall,) for a few minutes on Monday evening, and listened with pleasure to an address delivered by that staunch Washingtonian, Henry A. Ware.  The instrumental band belonging to the Society also "discoursed most eloquent music," and several persons signed the pledge.  There is not a more efficient society in our city, than the one in question.

MY EYES!  WHAT GOODS! -- We would advise those who have not yet provided themselves with winter clothing, to call on Bro. THOMAS MOORE, No. 286 Division st., near Grand, and if they do not find there every thing to be desired in the way of Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings, &c., why, then, we know nothing about it.  All Bro. M.'s goods are selected not only with reference to elegance of style and fashion, but every thing is of the very best material, and the way he can make garments is a caution to some of your Broadway artisans.  Give him a call, "before purchasing elsewhere."

THE OLD PARENT. -- We paid a visit to this excellent society on Thursday week, and found an immense concourse of people assembled to hear the merits of temperance discussed.  Able addresses were delivered by Rev. Jno. Chambers, Col. A. Ming, Jr., and Rev. Wm. M. Stilwell, who made his first public address upon the subject of total abstinence.  Mr. C. A. Cady's choir was on hand, as usual, and aided materially is enlivening the exercises of the evening.  Twenty-eight signed the pledge.

LADIES' SOCIETIES. -- There are yet several of these societies in operation in the city, and we understand they are beginning to prepare for the coming season of suffering among the poor.  A number of these societies have passed away, and the others are much smaller than formerly.  This we are so sorry to see, and hope those who were once active will again take hold in the good work.  They have done much good, and if continued will do much more.  We hope the benevolent will remember these societies, and send to them such goods as are necessary, and if they can, money.  It will be gratefully received, and our word of it, will be well applied.

Written for the Crystal Fount.

PURITY.

Self-interest too often governs the purposes of men.  Disinterested motives are rare, in this money-making, magnetic age, and should one by chance be found who has pure intentions, it is hard to make the world believe the fact.  The temperance cause has suffered very materially, because our sincerity was doubted.  Moderate drinkers can hardly believe we totally abstain, and "rummies" positively assert that temperance men are humbugs, and drink on the sly, and fortify their assertions by quoting this man and that, whom they know keep liquor in their houses for medical purposes.  Now there is more in this than meets the eye of the casual observer.  Experience tells me that bottled moonshine is just as good for all medical purposes as bottled brandy, and cold water is better than either.

I was once in a museum in a country town, and was shown a bottle containing some of the darkness that covered Egypt at a time, all who are conversant with the Bible no doubt remember the history of.  It was also asserted by the veracious exhibitor that a snifter out of it would cure any disease man was born to suffer under.  This case has its parallel only in the heated brains of a brandy-guzzling Doctor who would recommend Alcohol to his patients for nervous complaints or fevers; or a gin-bibbing old woman who gives gin and sugar, just a leetle warm to, a baby, for the cholic.

So long as actions are impure, so long will sincerity be doubted.  The temperance man must eschew keeping liquor in his house, before it will be believed he is pure in his professions.  He must discountenance it in every form, he must plead with his neighbors against their using it, he must attend temperance meetings, and if he wants to be beyond temptation, he must join one of the Beneficial Orders, where he will constantly be in contact with temperance men, and beyond the reach of the demon's power.

Let us, then, be pure in purpose, in carrying out the great principles we profess.  Let our hearts be enlisted in the cause, and there is danger of our heads proving recreant.  Stability in character for temperance, will produce steady hands and steady habits, and once in possession of these, our course through life will be peaceful and happy, and like an ld maid's cat, we may purr our way through life without fear of being disturbed by the unruly of mankind.  Reflect and act.

OBEDIAH SHINGLE.

REV. JOHN CHAMBERS -- This Philadelphia champion of our cause has been giving our societies the benefit of his labors, for two weeks or so.  He is a fluent, impressive, and convincing speaker, and we trust his labors will be blessed wherever he may go.

ANDERSON T. A. SOCIETY. -- This society commenced the "fall campaign" in good earnest, on Saturday evening last, at Croton Hall.  The attendance was good, and marked attention was paid to addresses delivered by Messrs. Flanagan, Often and Munson.  Messrs. Horton, Fraser and others, sang some of their excellent songs, and the renowned Dr. Thorne gave a recitation or two with great effect.  Several signed the pledge.

DR. THORNE'S ENTERTAINMENT. -- This entertainment, which was advertised in our paper a week or two since, came off on Thursday week -- was well attended -- and gave unbounded satisfaction to all present.

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PROSPECT SOCIETY CONCERT. -- We were much pleased to see so large an audience present on Tuesday evening at the concert for the benefit of this society.  The large room of National hall was well filled, and all who were present seemed well pleased with the performances.  We hope the society reaped a substantial reward.

MUSICAL JUBILEE. -- We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of the Musical Jubilee to take place at the Tabernacle, next Wednesday evening, for the purpose of aiding the General Temperance Council in holding a series of Mass Meetings in different parts of the city during the coming winter.  The entertainment will be an excellent one, and will more than repay the small price of the ticket.  We hope to see the house crowded to excess.  Let every man turn out, aye -- and every woman, to aid the great work now progressing.

GET THE SONGS. -- A large majority of the songs to be sung at the Musical Festival next week, can be found in the "Songs of the Washingtonians," for sale at this office.

MARTHA WASHINGTON CONCERT. -- There was quite a good attendance at the concert for the benefit of this society, on Wednesday evening.  The exercises were unusually interesting, and the audience appeared highly pleased.  The members of Ark Tent, No. 61, I. O. of R., attended the concert in a body.

Proceedings of Societies.

CANAL STREET T. A. ASSOCIATION.

Sunday afternoon, October 5th -- Foot of Canal street -- Mr. David Leal presiding.  Addresses by Messrs. Qua, Estes, Poole, Locklin.  Also at the foot of Amos street, Mr. Qua presiding.  Addresses by Messrs. Sims, Austin and Often. -- Singing by Mr. Waldron and Piggott.  32 signed the pledge.

Sunday Evening, Oct. 5 -- At National Hall.  Mr. Austin presiding.  Addresses by Messrs. Powers, Webster and Manchester.  Singing by Mr. Powers and the audience.  3 signed the pledge.

A subscription was raised amounting to seven dollars and eighty-eight cents, for a destitute family, consisting of a man, his wife, and four small children.

JOHN CRARY, Sec.

CLINTON T. B. SOCIETY.

Monday evening, Oct. 13. -- The President, Mr. E. A Burr, in the chair.  Addresses by Messrs. Lazar, Hogan, Bates, and Mr. Mason of Troy.  Singing by Messrs. Hogan and Mason, and the Clinton Musical Association.

V. M. P. LYON, Sec.

CALDEONIAN T. B. SOCIETY.

Monday, Aug. 11 -- Mr. Peter McDonald in the chair.  The meeting opened by reading the pledge, and some preliminary remarks by the President.  Addresses by Messrs. Munson, Vanderhoff, E. Ware, and Brown.  Singing by Messrs. Tovey, Powers, McDonald and Leesinburg.  Music by the amateur Band.  6 signed the pledge.

THOS. T. BENNETT, Sec.

YOUNG MEN'S COLD SPRING T. A. SOCIETY.

Wednesday evening, October 8. -- President in the chair. -- Addresses by Messrs. Long, Manchester, Col. Snow, and Dr. Kirby.  Singing by Master Vose, Messrs. Bertram, Vandenhoff, Dr. Osborne, Dougherty, and the Young Ladies Cold Spring T. B. Society.

GEO. WILSON, Sec.

MARSHALL T. A. SOCIETY.

Tuesday evening, Oct. 7. -- President in the chair.  The Rev. Luther Lee delivered an address on the great and good advantages and effects of Alcoholic drink.  Dr. Reese followed on the opposite side of the question.  A very able address by Mr. Mason of Troy, N. Y.  Singing by Mr. Powers and the audience.  3 signed the pledge.

F. FOSTER, Sec.

THE MARSHALL T. A. SOCIETY will hold a public meeting for the advocacy of Temperance, at the Hall in Grand street, near Broadway House, on TUESDAY EVENING next, Oct. 21.  Exercises will commence at 7 1/2 o'clock.  Addresses may be expected from Messrs. Robert, Townsend, Jr.  D. D. Griswold, James Locklin, and others.  Singing by Messrs. Powers and Marshall.  Odes by the choir and audience.  Instrumental music will enliven the meeting.  The temperance community and the public generally, are invited to attend.

A. D. WILSON, Pres't.
F. FOSTER, Sec.

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"SONGS OF THE WASHINGTONIANS."

BY MRS. V. R. A., 

AUTHOR of "Flow Gently, Sweet Croton," "What Fairy Like Music," "My own Temperance Home," &c., &c., -- consisting of the most popular Temperance Songs in use, together with many new ones, besides 12 pages of Music.  This edition is printed on fine paper, new type, and done up in a handsome cover.  The book contains 64 pages.  $4 per hundred, or 6 cents single.  For sale at the office of this paper.

Through the means of the New Postage Law, this book can be easily introduced into every Washingtonian Society throughout the country, and add much without doubt to the interest of the meetings.  Remit to the subscriber (paying postage) at the rate of 50 cents a dozen, and you will receive the books by return of mail at the rate of 9 cents postage on a dozen copies.  

FRANCIS D. ALLEN, Jr.,
Address
243 1/2 Centre st. N. Y.

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ELEGANT FALL FASHIONS.

ECONOMY AND FASHION. -- The Subscriber has reduced his superior moleskin hats on fur bodies, to the extreme low price of $2.25.  The above are an elegant dress hat, and will compare advantageously with hats sold at $2.50 and $3.  Also constantly manufacturing, fur and silk hats of the best quality, latest patterns, and lowest city prices.

N. B. Country merchants supplied by the case as low, not lower, than by any other house in the city.

J. W. KELLOGG, 116 Canal.

THE ALPHA SISTERS,
AUXILIARY TO THE UNITED BROTHERS OF TEMPERANCE.

This Society meet every Monday afternoon, at 5 o'clock.  Any information concerning it can be had by applying to the Presiding Sister, Mrs. Timothy R. Hibbard, 225 Bowery; Mrs James Harper, 40 Rose street; Mrs. Alexander Welsh, 9 Stanton street; Mrs. Daniel Barnes, 134 Christopher street; Mrs. Joseph Chamberlin, 367 Broome street, N. Y,; or Mrs. Chas. C. Colgate, 20 Willow street, Brooklyn.

MRS. T. R. HIBBARD. P. S.

TENT ROOM TO LET.

THE SPLENDID ROOM now occupied by the Knickerbocker and Excelsior Tents, is to let on Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday evenings, at a moderate rent, with no extra charges.  This room is 80 by 23 feet, situated in Cherry street, between Clinton and Montgomery streets.  It is fitted up with more taste and splendour than any other room in the United States.  For further particulars, apply to

J. H. HAVENS, 39 Burling Slip.

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JAMES G. FORBES' Temperance House, 336 1/2 Third Avenue, between 26th and 27th Streets, New York.

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UNITED BROTHERS OF TEMPERANCE,
ASSOCIATION NO. 1,

MEET every evening at the Hall, corner Broadway and Grand street, at 7 1/2 o'clock.  Subject for discussion on the 22nd inst. -- "The best manner of convincing the importer, distiller and seller of Ardent spirits, of the evils arising from their business.  The members are particularly requested to attend.

DANIEL BARNES, Pres.
EDWARD BURKE, Sec.

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THE GENERAL TEMPERANCE COUNCIL, ENCOURaged by the success which has attended the late series of Mass Meetings, at which over 1200 signers to the Pledge were obtained, will celebrate the results by a Grand Temperance Jubilee, in the Broadway Tabernacle, on Wednesday Evening, Oct. 22d, at 7 1/2 o'clock.

Admission on this occasion will be twelve and a half cents and the number of tickets limited.  The proceeds to be appropriated to sustain the General Council in holding a series of Free Mass Meetings, through the fall and winter, in the largest public buildings in the city.

Dr. A. D. WILSON, President of the Council, will preside.

PROGRAMME.

PART FIRST.
1. Chorus -- Rejoice Washingtonians . . . by the Audience.
2. Song -- A temperance ship and a temperance crew . . . Macdonough
3. Song -- Drunkenness is falling . . . Collins
4. Quartette -- Blow on . . . Cady, two Ladies and a Gentleman
5. Song -- Adam's Ale . . . F. A. Walden
6. Glee . . . Amateur Glee Singers
7. Song -- We'll pelt old Alcohol . . . Powers
8. Song -- The white Flag . . . Bulkley
9. Song -- The Temperance Tree . . . A. Walden
10. Song -- My Mother's old Arm Chair . . . M'Dougall

PART SECOND.
ADDRESS . . . REV. JOHN POISALL
1. Chorus, Sparkling and Bright . . . by the Audience, standing
2. Song -- Star of Temperance . . . Cady
3. Glee . . . Amateur Glee Singers
4. Song . . . Bulkley
5. Song -- The Washingtonians told us so . . . F. A. Walden
6. Quartette . . . Mr. Cady, two Ladies, and a Gentleman
7. Song -- The Drunkard's Wife . . . Powers
8. Song -- Temperance Flag . . . Collins
9. Song -- The Drink of Paradise . . . Macdonough
10. Song -- The Drunkard's Child . . . A. Walden
11. Song -- I'm sitting on a stile, Mary . . . M'Dougall
12. Finale -- Good night! Good night! . . . by the Audience

Tickets 12 1/2 Cents, to be had at the following places -- Organ Office, corner Nassau and Fulton; Crystal Fount Office, 192 Fulton; Croton Lunch, corner Bowery and Division; Allen's Book Store, 243 1/2 Centre; Martin's Saloon, opposite Columbian Hall, Grand st.; J. W. Kellogg, 115 Canal; Croton Hotel, 142 Broadway; Welsh's Temperance Saloon, 85 Nassau; D. H. Sands, 14 Forsyth; Dr. Field, corner 11th street and Third Avenue; M. N. Croft, 214 Broome; G. W. Kelsey, 38 Avenue C; S. W. Cronk, 258 Bleecker; Mr. Penfield, corner 27th street and Third Avenue; Wm. Tate, 135 Eighth Avenue; of the Members of the General Council; and the Committee of Arrangements -- J. W. Oliver, D. Cady, D. Leal, R. T. Trall, H. M. Sweet, A. D. Wilson.

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NOTICE.

THE Members of MOUNT VERNON ENCAMPMENT, No. 1, E. O. of R., are requested to be punctual in their attendance on next Thursday Evening, Oct. 23d, at their Hall corner of East Broadway and Grand street.

By order of
WM. HARRIGAN, M. E. S. D.
JAMES GRUNDY, M. W. R.

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DAUGHTERS OF TEMPERANCE. -- New York Union, No. 1, Daughters of Temperance, being impressed with the belief, (in which they are joined by Brooklyn Union, No. 4, and Friendship Union, No. 7) that a connection with the self-called "Grand Union of the Daughters of Temperance of the United States," with the styles, titles, and usages they have assumed and adopted, would be attended with no advantages, but would prove a positive detriment, in requiring the application of part of our funds to purposes other than those for which they were raised, and in having a tendency to retard the progress of our cause and to bring our beloved Order into ridicule and contempt, would inform the public that no such connection exists, but that they continue to hold their original position in the Order, of which they were the founders, and which was instituted, and this Union organized, October 21, 1843.y  The likewise continue the use of the simple and beautiful forms first established, being satisfied they are better adapted to the female character, and better calculated to illustrate and impress upon the mind the principles of our motto, "Virtue, Love, and Temperance."

This Union at present consists of 250 contributing members, with a fund, deposited in the Seamens Bank of Savings, of five hundred dollars.  They meet on each Tuesday evening, in Atlantic Hall, No. 28 Catharine street, corner of Henry, where ladies desiring to form new Unions, can obtain a Charter, with our forms and all necessary instruction in their application, free of charge, other than the cost of printing.  Application may also be made by letter to Miss M. S. Rich, No. 12 High street, Brooklyn.

Unions already organized, who are dissatisfied with the innovations of said Grand Union, and who wish to unite with us on first principles, are respectfully invited to communicate with us.  Ladies desiring to become members of our Union, can obtain further information on application to Miss M. S. Rich, P. S., No. 12 High street, Brooklyn; Mrs. J. E. Baker, S. A., 290 Walker street, New York; Mrs. M. Sweezy, R. S., 172 Broome; Miss E. G. Dodge, A. R. S., 408 Broadway; Miss M. A. Clark, F. S., 304 Houston; Mrs. E. Wicks, Treas. 219 Cherry; or to Mrs. C. M. McKibbin and Mrs. E. Galpin, 43, Mrs. A. Cox, 65 1/2, Mrs. M. F. Ripley, 224 Division; and Mrs M. Underhill, 4 Birmingham.

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THE PRIZE ESSAY, the Philosophy of the Temperance Reformation, &c., has been published by the General Temperance Council, in a neat pamphlet form, and will be furnished to our country temperance friends and others, at One Dollar per hundred, which is about the cost of publication. -- Orders may be sent to the Organ Office, 192 Fulton street.

J. W. OLIVER, Ch'n Ex. Com.
W. J. HUXLEY, Sec'y.

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WILLIAM J. PELL'S COAL YARD, NO. 189 Rivington street, between Attorney and Ridge streets, New York.  Peach Orchard, (Red Ash) Schuylkill, Lehigh, Lackawana, Liverpool, Virginia, and all other coals of the best quality, at the lowest market prices.  Orders punctually attended to.  Orders received at Badger's Ship Chandler's Store, 191 South street.

CROTON LUNCH -- JAMES STOCKWELL begs respectfully to inform his temperance friends and the public, that he continues to occupy the commodious and pleasant basement under Croton Hall, corner of the Bowery and Division street, which is fitted up in a superior manner for an
EATING SALOON AND READING ROOM.
Where all kinds of eatables will be served up in the neatest style, and on the most reasonable terms.
OYSTERS, PIES, &c., &c., CONSTANTL ON HAND.

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PETER GRAHAM. -- Merchant Tailor, -- No, 347 Pearl st., Franklin Square, New York.

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S. WESTBROOK, Dyer and Scourer -- Gentleman's clothes cleaned, -- 171 eighth Avenue, between 20 and 21st st. -- All orders attended to with despatch.

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The Rechabite Recorder.

PLEDGE.

I hereby declare that I will abstain from all intoxicating liquors, and will not give nor offer them to others, except in religious ordinances, or when prescribed by a medical practitioner.  I will not engage in the traffic of them, and in all suitable ways will discountenance the use, manufacture and sale of them; and, to the utmost of my power, I will endeavor to spread the principle of abstinence from all intoxicating liquors.

PRINTING!  PRINTING!!  PRINTING!!!

We beg to inform our brethren and friends that we are prepared at all times to execute in the neatest manner, and on reasonable terms, printing of every description: -- such as Cards, Circulars, Handbills, Billheads, &c.  Tent By-Laws printed with accuracy and despatch; Tent Notices, Steward's Receipts, Proposition Books, Committee's Reports, and every description of printed tent stationary furnished at the lowest rates.  We respectfully solicit the patronage of the brethren of the Order.

BURNETT & AIKMAN,
No. 192 Fulton st., New York.

NEW YORK DISTRICT, NO. 1, I. O. R.

The members of New York District are notified to attend a regular meeting of this body, on Thursday evening next, the 23rd inst. at the Marion House, West Broadway, at 7 1/2 o'clock.  The punctual attendance of every member is requested.

JAMES G. BURNETT, D. C. R.
WM. P. ESTERBROOK, D. R. S.

VOLUMES. -- We are now prepared to furnish to those of our subscribers who want them, the last volume of the "Recorder," beautifully bound.  There are twenty-six numbers in the volume, and to one who wishes to preserve a record of the progress of the Order, and a good temperance volume, it is almost invaluable.  It is, when bound, a good book for the parlor or the study.  Price for the volume one dollar.

BACK NUMBERS. -- We have a few copies of back numbers of the paper on hand, with which we will supply those who have lost numbers from their sets.

BOSTON.

We commend the suggestions contained in the following letter from our correspondent, to the attention of our readers. -- They are worthy of much consideration.  We are glad to hear of the success and standing of our Order east.  The "old Bay State" is always right.

BOSTON, Oct. 10, 1845.

Bro's Burnett & Aikman: -- The I. O. of R. of Mass. District, No. 3, is in a most flourishing condition, and we venture to assert that no District in the Order possesses a more determined spirit, for the future welfare of the Order; the Tents are each and all receiving proposals every week, and the best feeling prevails.

I was present on Monday evening last at Union Hall, corner of West and Washington streets, leased by Covenant Tent for their weekly meetings.  The members of this tent have been, and are in keeping with the times, -- they have, at a great expense, fitted up a hall that will compare with any one; it was done by a general and equal assessment on every member, which was promptly paid.  The tent is in the best condition -- they have for the last year had a large number of sick members, but the treasury has not yet been drained, they stand ready to do all that they promise, as regards the weekly stipend for sick gifts, &c.  Four were initiated on the 6th, and six proposed, and a better spirit and determination could not be proposed, and a better spirit and determination could not be manifested; every member seemed pleased with Union Hall; and with the present zeal among the brethren, Covenant Tent will rank with the best tents of the Order.  And the union and brotherly feeling is not confined to any particular tent, all have the same determination, to make the Order not only the first but the best charitable Order in the land.

To use an old expression, "a child must creep before he can walk," -- so it is with our Order.  We are now in our infancy, we have passed through the darkest days, and the present aspect of our flourishing condition, denotes that our future prospects are more than flattering; the community that abhor rum drinking give preference to the Order, because it is the only one in existence (save the S. of T.) which discountenances the use, sale and manufacture of ardent spirits.  In point of charity we do all that the constitution allows, and often more than is laid down in that instrument.  But one objection is raised against the Order, and that is the pledge.  In that alone consists all the beauties of the Order, and that objection is not of so serious a nature.  At the second thought one is induced to believe that there is some virtue in the pledge, and when the time shall have arrived for the community generally to look to the temperance cause in the right light, then accessories from that class that have formerly stood aloof from the cause may be expected.

There is one thing to be done, let those that are now members of the institution, strive in their legislation to enact such laws and bye laws as will be unexceptionable, to make the Order perfect in every manner, and those that may deem it best to join our ranks will find the Order all its friends recommend it to be.

Another thing not to be forgotten by the brethren is, attendance to your temperance meetings.  The prime movers in the Rechabites and Sons of Temperance are active Washingtonians, and if you would cement the bonds of frienship and brotherly love, meet each other in the Washingtonian meetings; by so doing a feeling exists, harmonising each other, and if you would have one cause prospor it behooves you to give some attendance to the other.

S.

FUTURE. -- Remember that the future prospects of our Order depend almost, or we may say entirely on the course taken by those who are now engaged in the work.  On those who are first engaged in a great enterprise, rests a great responsibility.  If the foundation of the edifice is not well laid, how can the structure stand.  We desire that this edifice we are now building should withstand the shocks of many years, and that against it the storms of time should beat with no effect.  To accomplish this great design, it behooves us all to see that we give no occasion for the shafts of the enemy to be thrown against us -- that there be no defects, either in the organization or ourselves -- that our temple be fair and beautiful, the pride of all nations.  Then shall many of the future generations rise up and call us blessed.  Then shall the memory of the founders of the Order be held in grateful remembrance.

East Boston.--We are pleased to have an opportunity of presenting another letter from our correspondent Bro. Turner. We hope with Bro. T., that our correspondents will not forsake us because there is no particular subject fir discussion. We are always happy to receive letters or communications suitable for our paper, and if our brethren will assist us, we will enlarge the borders of our Rechabite department, and add much to the interest of our paper.
East Boston, Oct 13, 1845
Brothers Burnett & Aikman:-- Since the meeting of the General Distriet Convention, your correspondents seem, in a great measure, to have vanished. I hope this will not be so; we should mingle our ideas together often--it would serve to cement our affections more closely, and make us emphatically Rechabites. 
We had a lecturer last Friday evening before Massasoit Tent, be Rev. Mr. Hichborn, our worthy brother. The address was such as expected from our worthy brother, able and eloquent. It was upon the work of our Order, giving us the idea that every sign and ceremony was full of meaning and moral instruction-- that we should not look on them merely as a form, or an evil to be endured for forms sake, but as but as a lesson full of instruction and elevated sentiment, and eloquently did he maintain his point. The following hymn, composed by Bro. Hichborn, was sung in the Tent:
THE SONG OF A RECHABITE
Let others boast of friendship found
At festive boards, where friendship dwells,
Where sparkling wine-cups circle round,
And madden with their potent spells.

But we are bound by closer ties
Than such as from the bottle come,
Ours is the friendship of the skies,
Or that of peaceful, happy home.

In Rechab's Tents, away from strife,
Where lovely Temperature e'er doth dwell;
We meet in joys of social life,
And high our songs of gladness swell.

Heaven's blessings on us! may we be
United firm in heart and hand,
From every evil influence free--
A happy, free-born, temperature band.

We intend to have lectures during winter months, from members of the Order, and we hope thereby to gain instruction, and habituate our members to the sound of their own voices in public. We also intend to form ourselves into a debating club, to meet once in each week for mutual improvement. This seems to us a good idea. Our tent is a very flourishing condition.  We are growing as fast as we ought, having the interest of our Order at heart. I fear that if we grow too rapidly, we shall neglect to investigate the characters of candidates as we should; our investigating committees should be men who will attend closely to their duties. It is far better that we reject one good man, than admit one in whom we have not the fullest confidence--for if unworthy members are admitted, the character of our institution must fall; therefore let those  who have the guard of our tents examine rigidly who they admit. I hope your correspondents will continue to furnish articles of our paper, for by this course we make it more interesting.
WILLIAMSTOWN Mass.--We have received a kind letter from the worthy D. R. of Hoosic Valley Tent, Bro. Edgar M. Brown, enclosing us a very acceptable and liberal answer to our query a week since, viz.--"What brother will not try to send us at least one subscriber?" Br. B. has sent us much more than his quota, for which he will accept our thanks. Hoosic Valley Tent has been organized for a short time, yet they are actively engaged in the act of Rechabitism, and their efforts are crowned with success. We extract as follows from the letter received:
"Our little tent meets with some opposition, but still we are progressing much beyond our expectations, and we operand believe when our principles are fully understood, that we shall win many worthy persons in our cause, who are now disposed, through mistaken ideas, to oppose us. Those who have enlisted under the banner of Rechab in this place are mostly men, he oldest being thirty-one, and we are determined to do our whole duty to this glorious cause. We intend in a few weeks to have a public lecture on the principles of our Order, and in this way try to remove some of the prejudice which exists against Rechabitism * * * Please accept my kind  regards, and may the cause in which we are engaged progress until there is a tent of our beloved Order in every town and village in the United States."
MONTREAL DISTRICT, NO. 13
We have received a letter from Bro. J. C. Becket, of Montreal, informing us  of the regular organization of this District. The tents in Canada are flourishing, and a the determination of all seems to be to "go ahead." The following is a list of the newly elected officers of the District:
JAMES BROWN, D. P. C. R.
LAIRD PATON, D. C. R.
WILLIAM SLACK, D. D. R.
J. C. BECKET, D. S.
CHA"S Alexander, D. R.
ROBERT IRWIN, D. L.
Covenant Tent, No, 1, Boston--A letter from the worthy Secretary of this tent informs us that they are in flourishing condition. The receipts in the tent for three weeks being over $200. They intend dedicating their new hall next Wednesday. We hope to have a full account of the proceedings on the occasion.
PROSPERITY.--Few of us know the values of prosperity until the storms of adversity break upon us. We smile when the sun shines, and too often think the bright days will never end. How different from this is the experience of every man who lives. The hour of adversity will come, let us then prepare for it. The hour of adversity will come, let us then prepare for it. And what better preparation can be made than to become one of a band of brothers, who are pledged to sustain each other when the blasts of adversity blow. Whose hands ever open and whose hearts are warm with sympathy for every member of the brotherhood. In this band we find the shelter the cold world refuse, when misfortunes and sorrows press hard upon our path. 




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Dedication of Rechabite Hall. A new Rechabite hall was to have been dedicated by the brethren of Union Tent No. 7 , of Norwhich Conn., on last Thursday evening. Bro. Wm. H. Burleigh of Hartford was to deliver the address. We received the advertisement from the brethren too late for insertion into our last paper. This will account to the brethren for the non-appearance of the notice.  

Prospering- We understand that Clinton Tent, No. 18 is still progressing steadily; at their last meeting a goodly number of propositions were handed in, and there seldom passes a night that one or more new members are received.

Palestine Tent, No. 62, will hold its first anniversary meeting in the Hall corner of Canal and Elm street, on next Tuesday Evening. An address will be delivered on "The benevolent designs and tendencies of Rechabism, and the duty of a Rechabite" See advertisement. 

Clinton Tent, No. 18- Our readers will see by the advertisement of Clinton Tent, that a lecture is to be delivered at the next regular meeting, by Bro. Mayhew. We feel assured that all who attend will be richly repaid. They meet at 193 Bowery, opposite Spring Street.
Married
In Chardon-st. Chapel, Boston, on the 5th ult., by Rev. Bro. A. P. Cleverly, D. C. R., Bro. John Gifford, of Covenant Tent, I.O. of R. to Miss Mary Roberts, of Kennebunk, Maine.
In Griswold, Conn., September 21st., by the Rev. Mr. Potter, Bro. Gurdon J. Davenport, of Union Tent, No. 7 I.O. of R., Norwich, Ct., to Miss Sarah E Lawrence, only daughter of bro. John P. Lawrence of Union Tent.
Died
In Pratt's Hollow, September 23d, Mrs. Lydia H, consort of Bro. Edward Manchester, D. C. R. of Empire district, No. 8, I. O. of R., aged 32 years. By this stroke of Divine Providence, a husband is left to mourn the loss of a kind and beloved companion-four children, a confiding and affectionate mother- and friends and neighbors an amiable and worthy member of society, loved and respected in life, and lamented in death.

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COLD WATER FOR ME 
A TEMPERENCE GLEE

Arranged by Prof. ASAHEL ABBOT.                AIR—"German  Crambambuli Song."

1. Cold water! cold water! this is the title Of that good drink we love the best }
It is the means of proof most vital, When evil fortunes mo-lest} In evening late and
 morning free, Cold water is the drink for me, Cold water, cold water is the drink for me!

II.

 It grieves me sore, ye foolish-hearted, 
That ye still love and drink your wine;
To drunkards are ye now converted, 
That might be angels all divine. 
Drink water from the ice-brooks free;
Cold water is the drink for me— 
Cold water, cold water is the drink for me

III.
 Cold water! cold water! still it shall cheer me, 
When every other joy is past ;
When o'er the glass grim Death draws near me,
And life's last sands are ebbing fast; 
I'll drink with him in company, 
My last glass of cold water free, 
Cold water, cold water is the drink for me!

IV.

Then who 'gainst us cold water freemen
His spiteful mouth with envy screws, 
We'll hold him for no kind of Christian, 
Since he God's blessing doth refuse, 
I'd give him, though for life cried he, 
No drink but ice-cold water free—
Cold, cold water is the drink for me!

TEMPERANCE PUBLICTION DEPOT
NO. 192 FULTON STREET, (WEST OF BROADWAY,) NEW-YORK.

Advertising Department Of The Crystal Fount.
Daughters Of Temperance.--New York Union,
No.1, Daughters of Temperance, being impressed with
the belief, (in which they are joined by Brooklyn Union, No. 4, 
and Friendship Union, No. 7,) that a connection with the self-
called "Grand Union of the Daughters of Temperance of the
United States, " with the styles, titles, and usages they have
assumed and adopted, would be attended with no advantages,
but would prove a positive detriment, in requiring the applica-
tion of part of our funds to purposes other than those for which
they were raised, and in having a tendency to retard the pro-
gress of our cause and to bring our beloved Order into ridicule
and contempt, would inform the public that no such connection 
exists, but that they continue to hold their original position in
the Order, of which they were the founders, and which was in-
stituted, and this Union organized, October 21, 1843.y The 
likewise continue the use of the simple and beautiful forms first
established, being satisfied they are better adapted to the female
character, and better calculated to illustrate and impress upon
the mind, the principles of our motto, "Virtue, Love, and Tem-
perance."
This Union at present consists of 250 contributing members,
with a fund. deposited in the Seamens Bank of Savings, of five
hundred dollars. They meet on each Tuesday evening, in At-
lantic Hall, No.23 Catharine street, corner of Henry, where
ladies desiring to form new Unions, can obtain a Charter, with
our forms and all necessary instruction in their application, free
of charge, other than the cost of printing. Application may
also be made by letter to Miss M.S. Rich, No. 12 High street, 
Brooklyn.
Unions already organized, who are dissatisfied with the inno-
vations of said Grand Union, and who wish to unite with us on
first principles, are respectfully invited to communicate with us.
Ladies desiring to become members of our Union, can obtain
further information on application to Miss M.S. Rich, P.S.,
No. 12 High street, Brooklyn; Mrs. J. E. Baker, S.A., 290
Walker street, New York; Mrs. M. Sweezy, R. S., 172
Broome; Miss E.G. Dodge, A.R.S., 408 Broadway; Miss
M.A. Clark, F.S., 304 Houston; Mrs. E. Wicks, Treas. 219
Cherry; or to Mrs. C. M. McKibbin and Mrs. E. Galpin, 43
Mrs. A. Cox, 65 1/2, Mrs. M. F. Ripley, 224 Division; and Mrs'
M. Underhill, 4 Birmingham.
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Picnic Parties furnished with refreshments on the 
ground, by Stockwell, of the Croton Lunch, at the
moderate price of Twenty-five Cents, where 100 or more re-
freshment tickets are sold.
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The Prize Essay, the Philosophy of the Temperance
Reformation, &c., has been published by the General
Temperance Council, in a neat pamphlet form, and will be fur-
nishd to our country temperance friends and others, at One
Dollar per hundred, which is about the cost of publication.---
Orders may be sent to the Organ Office, corner of Ann and
Nassau streets, or Crystal Fount Office, 192 Fulton street.
J.W. Oliver, Ch'n Ex com.
W.J. Huxley, Sec'y
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Daniel McLeod, Book Binder and Paper Ruler, No,
150 Fulton Street, (Third Story,) New York. Book-Bind
ing in all its brances. Particular attention paid to re-binding
old books and Periodicals.
The Original Purity Tent, No.1, United Daughters of
Rechab, meet as usual every Wednesday afternoon, at four
o'clock, at Washington Marine tent-room. cor. Canal and Elm
streets. This tent is in no way connected with the Encamp=
ment Union, but deposits its funds in the Savings Bank, for
which they draw 6 per cent interest. Any Lady wishing to 
unite with this tent, may obtain any information by calling on
any of the following sisters: --- Mrs. W.P. Boss, 20 Ludlow
street; Miss Mary Jane Smith, 15 Forsyth streetl Miss Jane 
E. Stocker, 185 Broome street; Mrs. Roswell G. Allen, 164
Eldridge street. Mrs. W.P. Boss, P.S.M.
Miss Sarah Pardoe, S.M.
Mrs. W. Kennoch, J.M.
Miss M. Gunn, Sec 
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RECHABITE MINSTREL!
Just Published,and for sale at this Office, in any quantity, 
the first number of the "RECHABITE MINSTREL,' a col-
section of original Solos, Duets, and Glees, written and adapt-
ed to some of the most popular music of the day, by Bro. J.S.
Fowler, D.C.R.  The Minstrel is intended to be brought
out periodically, and may be obtained at our office, 192 Fulton
street, or of the Author, a A.P. Rider's, corner of East
Broadway and Catharine streets, New York.  Price 61/4 cents
each, or $4 per hundred.                                            je14

TENT ROOM TO LET.
THE SPLENDID ROOM now occupied by the Knicker
locker and Excelsior Tents, is to let on Monday, Tues-
day, and Saturday evenings, at a moderate rent, with no 
extra charges.  This room is 80 by 23 feet, situated in Cherry street, 
between Clinton and Montgomery streets.   It is fitted up with
more test and splendour than any other room in the United 
States.  For further particulars, apply to 
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L. Flavell, Carver, and Gilder, Looking Glass and Pic-
ture Frame Maker, No. 7 Henry Street, corner of Cath-
rain Second Story, New York. Certificates framed and glazed
in every style.  Officers insignia, poles and ornaments for ban
nets, &c., supplied.   Old Frames, &c., re-gilt.        a10tf

REFRIGERATORS.
IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT.
MUCKRIDGE AND TOWNSEND'S justly celebrated self
ventilating Refreigerator, in unquestionably the greatest
improvement ever made in the above article.   They are very
neat in appearance, and more convenient and useful than any
other Refrigerator ever offered for sale in the United States, 
being divided into two separate apartments, on of which re-
mains perfectly dry; and the same quantity of ice required in 
the ordinary Refrigerator will keep this apartment sufficiently
cold to freeze.  They can be obtained only at MUCKRIDGE AND 
TOWNSEND'S UNION REFRIGERATOR DEPOT, No. 50 Marion
street, between Prince and Spring streets. 
Also, John M. Lyons' Patent Refrigerators, and every other
description of improved Refrigerators constantly on hand, which
they offer for sale on the most reasonable terms.  Union Refr
greater Depot, No 50 Marion street, between Prince and 
Spring streets, removed from No. 458 Broadway, corner of 
Grand street, where they last season sold over six hundred
Refrigerators.                                                             a26 3m 

BURNETT & AIKMAN,
BOOK, JOB, AND MUSIC PRINTERS, 
No. 192 Fulton Street, New York.

ALL ORDERS IN THE ABOVE LINE WITH BE EXECUTED WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH







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