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HASZARD’S GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER. 22.

Temperance lins been associated, in all ages

‘ of the world, with the rise and progress of hu-

' tionl ; while to its opposite, iutcin crunce may

- be traced the decline and fall o States and their eventual disappearance. Whatever else

may have been their vices or the ends of an

, overruling Providence in permitting the more

_ illustrious and enlightened nations of antiquity to fall a prey to the swords of their enemies, it is a remarkable fact, that their inteinperate

" habits avcd tho wa ‘ for their overthrow and rcn cred their su ijugatiqn a work com- paratively less diliicult. _

'l‘he Histories of Greece and Rome furnish undeniable evidence in sup iort of this proposi- tion ; while the connexion etween sobriety and prosperity on the one hand and adversity on the other, is traced in the Histories of Persia and Babylon,us by the ﬁnger of Uinnipotvnce itself.

hat the Persian Monarch was a chosen in- st uinent in the hands of the Almighty for the ohastiseinent of the Cliuldcans, we learn from the word of God itself; that he was frugal and temperate, that his eye was undimmed, his strength unimpaired by the cnervating influence

I of the intoxicating draught, and that to his own

~ strong intellect and manly will’ (guided, per-

, hope by lliin in whose hands he was) he owed

,~ -his freedom from its syi-en inﬂuence, we learn from no less a witness than the immortal .\'eno‘- plion. [low the noble son of Iran reprovcd his grandfather Astyages for drinking wine. With what consuniinate skill the sage of twelve years attacked the wine-bibbing propensities of the Court is familiar to every reader of the classics. Trained to thought and inured to toil; waxing in strength from the observance of the scvcrer rules of Temperance and from repeated conflicts with the Monarcli of the Forest. the youthful Cyrus became the accepted head of a people predestined to become the scourge of" the ellcte and pleasure-loving Babyloniuns.

. Ere long those two nations confront each other in battle array, and as might be expected. the hosts of Bclshazzar melt away like snow flakes before the ﬁery ardour of tlicir.iiupcfii- ous adversaries. Defeat follows defeat,’ and pressed on every side by the advan.:in,v; masses of their victorious ll)(.'lll..‘ll, the liuugliiy Baby- lonian \‘i'ltlilll'::.\\'a liiniself\\'itl.in tlic protecting

_ walls of the “ Golden (.‘ity."—'l'licre with stores oflforn for thirty ye.ii-.~z,- they look down upon the prancing steeds and athletic riders and once uiorc shout (leiiuiicc “or two yeairs. soldiers of Cyrus essay in vain to overleap those lofty hattlenients. For two long years the Persian coiuinander employs tlic arts of aggressive warf.irc, but fails to rcacli the taunt- ing foe. There stand the unbroken walls, and their the tall towers lift their heads in ‘gran-

cur to tile skies. 0 nearer to the quarry -than he was two years before. Ba ed and dis- couraged, the Persian may as well retrace his steps. But hark, the sounds of revelry within the walls. The Moiiarcli and a tliousanil of his nobles are met to celebrate a lleathen e:ii-nival. The feast of Bel is a feast of wine. The mighty City is given up to drunkenness. -

I In the pride and infatuation of his heart. for- getful of the terrible manifestations of lIiv’ne power which his nation had been mudp to it- ness. the dl‘llfll(3li monarch shouts for the sa- cred vessels which had belonged to the Tem 10 of God at Jerusalem ; they are desecratcd with the red wine of Chaldea. The King raises one of these to his impious lips; at that inonieqt a shadowy hand is seen tracing mystic chame- ters on the wall. Terror seizes upon the de- bauchec. Quaking with fear, lielistens to their itterpretation by the aged Daniel. 'l‘h«.,i fulfil- ment is at hand. The sound of strife is ll‘ rd without, a confused noisy which grows loiﬁer and louder as it nears the Pzilac-3 walls. until it swells into the broad roar of battle. The guards are cut in pieces, the doors burst open : the King and his attendants are slaughtered in their festal chamber, and the Empire of Baby- lon ceases to exist!

Almost parallel to the history of Cyrus is the history 0 Malioinet. That far-se ing man, being resolved on conquest, and sons: le ofithe importance of enforcing habits of sobriety among his soldiers, the want of which mi ht often jeopardize their safety and ruin is schemes of aggrandisemont, made -the inhibi- tion of wins an article of Religion, which has been -observed with more or less strictness, down. to the present time. Some s’ ly persons, with ‘little brains and less logic. ave endea- toured to cast opprobrium upon Temperance

_ men because they resemble the followers of the

false Prophet in rlspect to their rejection of the

wine-cup. just as though abstinence constituted laboinedanissr! If there was no feature in the code of Iabonet more objectionable than this, we opins that it would scarcely prove oﬂnsivo to the Author of‘ our being. In r hibitin the ‘intoxicating cu , we believe, that the out or o the Koran on borrowed a leaf i from the Word of God itosl ; and that over nation on the face of the earth would do we I to follow his cum a. While the Mohame-

o aotpyi to the faith in respect to the

Awino-drin rig, they so far do well; but we

that th ir intercourse with the Eo-

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a':d French o beginning to olocta change ‘’

their habit; that many 0 than have relax-

are any better for the example an influence of

sergeant, who went out with the regiment, had risen to the rank of ensign, and was lieutenant. Colour-Sergeant Dwyor,wound¢ ed at the Quarries on the 7th June, had re- turned to his regiment before the end of the month, and was ensign. lieutenants nominated -for captsincies after that action had only been one, tivolvo, the other in inoutbsin the service.

letters sddrsood to one who was long and wollrospoetod in the Rain on informs us

urn allies.—Will the Christian Bil. -, not they

their new friends in respect to the use of in- toxieatin liquors!

And this reminds us of the conduct of our own Government—how different i'roin that of Cyrus? llowditferent from tliatoflilahoinct. While these took care that the diet of their soldiers should be such as to promote the full dcvelopement of their muscular energies, the rulers of Britain are plying the heroes of Alma with the fiery draught which is consuming their strength and rendering them, in other respects, unfit for the discharge of the responsible and arduous duties that devolve upon the soldier during the period of war; which has had as much to do, we have no doubt. with the preva- lence of cholera and with the clieclis with which our brave fellows have met, and the dis- appointments they have been called upon to en are, as the obstinacy of the enemy, the short supply of food and clothing and other conimissariat mismanagement that have occiir- red since the siege ol Sebastopol first coin- iiienced.

Had our army been Mahomedan in one re- spect, its ranks had not been so cll'ectu:illy thinned by disease: greater vigilance on the part of our sentinels and outposts might have saved the loss of many lives: and the cross of St. George might have waved long ere this, over the crumbling ruins of Sebastopol !—St. John Ti’/rgrap/l. l)l2A'l'll OF DR. Co.\'E.—Ri.-v. S[)l"ll(.'(‘l' . Cone, President of the Aiucrican iii- ble Union, died at New York on the morn- ing oftlie ‘28th ult., from l’:ir.ilysis.

Z\lACHl.\'ARY IN 'i‘ni-: wi:s'rr:n.\' STATES. ltsiriso l\l.iciii.Vr.s are almost ultogi-tlic used at the Vi’:-st. They cos‘! They will cut fourteen acres of wheat per day. lontructs for rcafping are made at 62% cents per acre. The contractor furnishes a driver and two horses; the furincr finds two horsi-s. ﬁve binders, and two sliockers.

(llSCllfll'ge(.l on ‘.25 n diiy-; this, with the £20 regimental annuity, will enable me and my family to do well. The Coloncl—inay God bless liiin!—was very kind in i-ecoinmhending me for it. It will just give me an income of £56 10s. per year That is very nice indeed, as I am so very healthy. lwlll goto Castlebar, where I intend to commence some business, and remain lllere.” Hc_ mentions, that Mrs. O‘D(innell, widow of the Sergeant Major of the Rangers who succeeded Mr. Little, and was killed at lukerinun, was in receipt of 7s a week from one of the London funds. Mrs. O‘Donnel|’s own letters to the respected old soldier whom they all address are be- fore as. One relates a touching incident. On the 4th ofNovcmber, Sergeant Major O‘Donnoll wrole ii tender letter to his wife (who, with Mrs. M‘Nully, wife of the fore- going, had parted from ‘the regiment at eiiiharkntion, and returned to Castlebnrh, and desire alock of hair to be cut from his baby-daugliter and sent to him in the Ciiineu. It was ii fectionatcly done. But the mail which took out that letter met another homcwnrd bound, with the olliciul lists of killed and wounded oftlie 5tli'No- vciubcr, of whom there was “Sergeant Major O‘I)oiinell, killed.” That lock of baby’s hair still wanders from ofiicc lo oliice, or is buried in the confusion ofBala- klavu. . it is pleasing to observe the respect, the alfcctioii, with which all the letter-writers ofthc Rangers speak of their gallant colo- nel—-Sliirley, now Brigadier General. One correspondent relates, that a bullet llﬂtl entered the colonel’.-i holster-case, and would have wounded llllll severely, if not fatally, but for his pr:iycr-book, in which it loilgtrtl. And another letter s:i_vs:——“ We expect, with God's help, the colonel will be

'l‘iiuisi:ixr: :\lAciiINi:s will thinsli 300 huslicls pea «lay. it is ginicrrully contracted to'bc dom at five. cents per buslicl, the "f)llll‘llClUl‘ I".i nisliiiig four lidrscs and three hand.-r; the larincr flll'l|l>'llCs four more linl‘S0:= and five more liand-', making in ull viglif liainds, viz: one driver, one feeder, one iucasurcr, one to pitch slu-uves, 0ll(‘7!n cut hands, and three to take away straw.

I’no.\io1'io_\'—A Gi./i.v<;i: n 'riii: (Jon- xscciir RAivor.iis.—A walk through Win- chester Barrucks the other day led to some inliirmalion about promotion and the regi- mental incidcnts of war which may be in- teresting. The depot of the Cnminught Rangers (88th Foot attracted attention.

_"i was ‘.32 years in the regiment, and have only left the depot I2! months,” s id

P., “yet I never before saw (list sergeant of the 88th, who is on duty at the gate, nor one of those inin-i~oniniis-xioiicd ofliccrs; all have joined as recruits and been promoted, since I left his! year.” An ofliccr whose peculiar task is to di-ill young ofiicers for the army, and to get them ready 1 for regiinehtal duty in the shortest possible, time, was pointed out. Tlii.-' was Cupiniuf Dunning, formerly Adjutant of the Rangers. l He entered as 's private soldier in 182], and rose through all the gradations ol' iion— commissioned ofiicers. He had fifty-six young gentlemen under him the other day; and the bnrraclt rumouris, that the “ young swells” would rather be in the Crimea, than toil and sweat under the inexorable Captain Dunning at Winchester. Serjeant-Major LittIe—born in the Run- gers, his father having been a colour-ser- geant—vvss commissioned as ensign soon after reaching Verna, last year. After the action of tho Quarries, 7th June, 1855, and after three lieutenants were named to ﬁll the vacant companies as captains, Mr. Little stood senior lieutenant except one; he was also sdjutnnti Tho qusrtorinaoter-

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Two of the

An interesting collection of regimental

f those and other portion are about

Cri- ssrvioo and ‘no rewards. ’

oil the strletnoss of their oboorvanooo and in- Julp freely inidvilh tntrodoood

by their west-.horinon, then describes his caoo:-"I Illl

Sorgoont M'Nal|y, who lost a log at in-

'l8l3.—Loiidoo Tiara.

dates to tho l8th As‘. The note is not very inportsnt—bsslsovs nation won doll, but the

promoted to a C. B. and inajor—gcneral."

l Tiii: COST or run VVin.-—lf we turn ‘again to the expenditure occasioned by the ‘struggle, we shall have little ditiiculty in ldisccrning the heavy costs of war. From itlie sum of £l(i_.30i),0O0, which constituted, fupon the average of the three years I851, l,l8.'i2, and 1553, our aggregate cliurges in lilic army, nilvy, and ordnance dcpurtiiicuts, we have now advanced to upwards of .1116,- l0O0,0ll0, and, indeed, including the vote of ’credit of£.‘),lll)0_llt)(l, to upwards of £49,- 0il0,0ll0, sliowin,r_v upon the whole an addi- tion of some £32,50(),00O to the figures which sniiiccd in the lime of peace. Per- Ihaps it may have occurred to the rcndei"'ns reniarkzible, that, with liirces whicli are represented as still undeveloped, and with lan army in the field of small numerical strcnglli, compared with our resources iiud ,populailion, we should, uevcrtlieless, have ‘made such rupid advances in our outlay. The result, liowcvcr, admits of easy ex- planation. in the first place, it must he observed that our expenditure upon army, nav , and ordnance, largely augmented though it has been, has not yet reached such an iimount as it attained in the closing years of the last war. In 1811 this outlay was above .£5‘),000,00ll, in IBIS above £59,000,000, and in the two following years above :€7l.000,000. Moreover, our expenditure upon the army itself is by no means so considerable at the presentme- ment, as it was at the periods to which we have referred. Of the £7l,000,000 in 1813 and 181-1, .'€4~l,000,000 in one year and £45,000,000 in the next were devoted to the army alone, whereas our present charges in this respect are still under £l9,- 000,000. On the other hand, if our naval charges approach more'nearly to the stan ard; we obtain fleets powerful and effective in proportion. in 1811, we spent something over £l9,000,000 on the navy, an outlay which was continuously augmented by about an additional million in each of the three succeeding years, our present expenditure in this res ct being between £l9,000,0fI) and £W,g;0. In the ord- nance, however, as might be expectod,'our charges are considerably larger than they were in the lost wor,- being now over £8,- 000,000, whereas they were only between £5,000,000 and £6,fI)0,000 in the your

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urn non ciaivosnis no siisrnus. The California otosinoro at New York bring

miners were doing‘ well. number of tragic s_ceucs appear to have occurred lhiouglioui the Male-

Morc than the nodal

The passengers came through in perfect health, there having been no cholera or other disease on the route for two months. The lake boat San

Carlos, capable of carrying a thousand passengers

comfortably. conunlutced her regular trips ion the 30m uh The Transit Ccmpfny now having three liriiis on Lake Nicaragua, there in no pm. bahiliiy of dctcnnnn.

From Nicaragua we learn, that the war still rages in the iuicrior. On the ‘l8Ih ugusi at Sauce, 24 leagues from Leon, toward Segofis, a bloody battle was fought between the government iioops under Guiiidiola, and the democratic army under Munos, assisted by Alveres, with force; from Honduras, which resulted ip the complete defeat of Guiii-diolzi, and the death of Muuos.

Nothing of importance has occurred in Cslilbi-. nis since the last steamer. except the departure of I. C. Woods of the ﬁrm ofAd:ims & (10,, for Auvtralia, and the discovery of a bogus 'guld dust manufiicior .

The San l-‘ranciso Chronicle ssys——

On Wednesdsylssi ii gentleman in sesrchof some properly belonging to him went into lhe cellar ofl’.1rroi’s building, on the corner of Moni- gumery and CfllIli)l’tll'.| streets, and in going in the vault midi-r the place forincrly occupied by Adams & Co's bank, discovered apparatus. which had «wide: t'y been-used for ‘the preparation or bogus gold dudf, or for some kind of npemiion on gold dust. 'l‘hen~‘ was an iron uiill with A label asla grain and coffee mill, and on ltll'lllII,I_' it par- ticles of -gold «lust were found to come out. His mill had b-cu used to give rough particles of gold or basnr metal the peculiar shape ol the flake gold, which is generallv of the finest quality and the highest price. There were, beside. seven jars rontiining acids and other clii-micals suitable for unholy uper-iiions upon gold dust. There was also it large strong earllienwnro bowl, about men- iy iiiclies in diiiiucler, a foot deep. and it is said that there is It ‘.\'llllE5:i in the city, who saw Woods at ilie work, and will he brought before Ilio mails to testify at no dislnnl -lay. '

More lmlian troubles in the north are repoiled. Yr~k:i. during Ihe last fi-w ilnys of .lul_v, was in :i consi':nt lI‘l"I‘(‘nl. ll or'gn.:.ii d from :i drnnlaen :ifl'r:i_\ liciwccn a ivhiir rnd lui'iun. in \\'lll(‘lI the former was killed. The whites cupliired the lat- ter, and hung liiin. .\"iiiie iii-.'lI', a party of the Apple-_~aio tribe ll(“:‘l.'L’|lllL’(l ml lloclceve liirt on Klzunath River. and killed nine inch. Aiins-and zlllllnllllllllln were promptly p!:u-oil in the liiiuds old vohiiuecrs to rid the i.-ounii_v of the savages.

A C0\'VE.\?Tli)N or .ii:\v.<.

The annexed is ii copy ofii printed tir- culnr now being circuhiled among the Jews:

Hebrew—SaIani ul Israel.

Translation-—I’earc willi Israel.

lN riiii Nim: OI-‘ inn JEHOVAII, Till One Gon or lsiuii-;i. AND IN 'ri'ir. NAME or Isiui:i.’s Hon RELIGION, the Ministers, Rabbis, and delegates of the lsrnclitisli congregations are respectfully invited to assemble in :1 conference. to take place the 17th October ncxt, 5(il(i, A. M., in the city of(?lcvel:ind, Ohio, to deliberate‘ on the following points: l

1. On the Union of American Isrucli_tes

'2. On it plan to organize ii regular per mnnent Synod or Sunliedi-iin of Rabbis.

3. On a plan for religious and scholastic education of Hebrew youth.

-1. On any other proposition that may he brought forward in the conference.

By oi-per ofllie l’rovisioiia'ry Sanlicdriin of American Rabbis. .

This will be the first assemblage of the kind that has ever taken place in the Uni- ted States. The Jews l‘l0\\' form ii large populalion, who worship according to rituals established in Spain and Portugal, Poland and Germany. These forms are of ancient date, and are clogged with ceremo- nies and repetitions which are repulsive to many enlightened Jews of the present day in Europe and America. There have been sevi-.rn’l synagogues established in different cities in Europe and this country, which introduced in their forms of worship rituals peculiar to each synagogue. These refor- iners, not however. reformers no to doc- trine, but merel as to manner of worship, a poor to have ad no ﬁxed rule of action.

his was occasioned by the want of acou- oort, whicll could not be had in any way except by a Ssnhodrim or Conference.

The proposed Conference in Cleveland, we understand, intends by its prospectus to establish s Misluig -dincrico, which means I form of worship peculiar to the United States, and diﬁbring in a material degree from that now noticed in Europe. but adhered to by the majority of Jews in lllil country. We do not bear, that the 00"‘ moot is participated in by the Jewish poo- plo generally. but we are told tbot til II" party has numerous odboronto, though 70% in the minority so to numbers.