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Gry by which paupsrisn is eonsttoted s ocsasioasd the expenses of our cFiminal justice arises from the same cause. That by reason of t.. we are taxed to double the amO0 tsas would be requisite, fl iulOxca- ting liquors were not known.

 The Outrages by which the moral seHss is shocked; the crimes which rouse the indignation of cili- gems; the difcuIlies which exist tn families; the quarres which arise between neighhOrS and friends, and lead lawsuits and lasting aenaOns, have gem eray their origin in strong qaOr. This faei wil, iI is believed, be confirmed by the general testimony of gentlemen of the bar and of judges of courts. It has been affirmed by persons competent to know the fact that im some or our oldest and most popnloUs counties the decrease of litigation has been in very exact proportion to the advance of the temperance re- formation.

 We cannot ralonally expect any thing but con-

 nuance of the evils ol intemperaHce 50 long as the practice of what is called moderate drinking by re- speciabe continues. Itis the use of spirits by persOns of respectable character that the of the drankard from being dsgracefu i" it's very be- ginning. Ifnone used it hut known drunkards. the race of them would become extinct. For the unhappy of the incorporate is respects this world, soon finished; and S,a few years will elapSe before all the present generation of nebrioes such a, once. but are made of moderate drinkers the latter existing more, the former could no lon- ger be f"und. As class, then, the modera.e drink CTS seem to be, in eminen. degree, responsible for the succession of incorporate men in the worId

 IT dealers in arden, spirit ofthe misery that is accustomed by the liquor which they sell they would not sell it. It cannot be that they know the n teror of the arankard's house. tle feelings of his wife aud his children. Nor have they felt the misery which he himself feels. That sense of personal de- gradaion which arise from credit gone, veraci.y altogether distrusted, iamiy beggared, weakness posed, and character ann6la,ed they have helped create; but they have not felt it. The wife of the oh- happy man lalors hard provide for the family ia, which lie who has to love her and provide for her and them has failed to supply; he finds it and se creIly takes it to the liquor store, exchange for drink which is again to bruily him. Does the dealer take il, and let him have the liquorY In some cases he does; and only knows the transaction as of branch of honest business. But he does not falow the wretched man home to his family He knows not the feelings of the wife when she ads that her little hoard. frugaliy hutbanded, aud choice'y lai away, has been discovered and plundcred by him who, al- ready worthless and abusive, has turned it into anguish. have the dealer exchange with the drunkard the liquor which was to turn him again into end, for domestic produce and knew that his wife had carefully laid by, of her labor, for the pres necesses of her children; bat the dealer did ae know i. And f he had dealt in liquor, he would not have done ii.

 The only way in which such things can be preven- ted, ia to dry up the fountain wheree they Total abstinence is the only effectnai cure for the evils which arise from the use of spirits. The mon. s,er cas"O. be tanned by gentle usage, he be initiated. So long he lives, there will proceed of his nosrils fire and smoke and birthstone lntem- perance is legion of dreadful evils; they a begin in moderate drinking, and will only end with it.

 Therc is, therefore, te strongest reason why those who are engaged in the of telHpcrnnce should persesere. Let them no, count any sacrifice too great, if by of it spirits may be wholly exrpa led from the earth. Let it not be thought that they can relax their eAortS tii inc work shall be accom-. plished. And let all the friends of man une in a pledge Of total abstinence and of mulpa support and coa.iass tl universal sobriey is secorsd beyond the possibility of a relapse. ME PARoixoh.

 ITEMS-sELEcTED.

 The National Intelligencer of Wednesday says:- "Dr. Aylett Hawes, of Virginia, has understand, bequea,hed freedom to about one hundred slaves :; and 20 dollars for each assist tho Colonizatioa So ciety in conveying them to Liberia"

 The late Earthquake was ielt in several parts oi North Carolina.

 The loss retxrned.-Some time in October, 1899, a young man belonging to Northampton, by the of ,nFS SLm, nS A. ceser Spy, left home for New York. in pursuit of bu- siness. It was soon asceriained that he had gone from the city, and nothing could be learned of him, sha ;nf,