COLUMN ON TEMPERANCE. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tn: Muss LAw.—'1‘here are some-who say of this 
     
     great reformation movoment—“ It will blow over.” 
     
    

    
     In reply to this false and injurious prediction, the New 
     
     Haven Advocate says :-—“ It is ‘ blowi'ng over’—but over 
     
     the Union and across the Atlantic, gathering impetus and 
     
     power in progress. Lay not the flattering unction to your 
     
     souls, ye minions ofan outlawed traffic, that ‘ prohibition 
     
     has done its work,’ and you are again to riot in the tears 
     
     of suffering innocence. Stern law has butjnst taken you 
     
     in hand. Justice has only just began its work. What 
     
     you suppose to be the expiring throse of the Maine Law 
     
     are only its notes of preparation, the burnisliing of its ar- 
     
     mour for battle. Each year but proves more conclusively 
     
     its justice and its wisdom ;—giving it wider scope, new 
     
     friends and greater strength. If to-day it seems to yield 
     
     to its adversaries, it is only to gather new vitality and 
     
     greater power for to-morrow. It will “ blow over,” but 
     
     only to sweep in its course every opposing obstacle until, 
     
     rum selling shall receive its proper place in the criminal 
     
     code, and rum-sellers shall be assigned their position 
     
     among the breakers of the land.” -- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Liat:a'rr.—Tlie Prohibitionists stand on firm ground 
     
     —their aim is to promote the happiness of their fellow 
     
     creatures—-comfort the coinfortless—be friends to the 
     
     destitute, and lead the self degraded creatures-betimes, 
     
     half-demoniac, back to reason, virtue, happiness. Can 
     
     the sticklers of the liquor-traffic adduce one plausible rea- 
     
     son for the wholesale and retail traffic of so withering a 
     
     blight on the fair face of creation. The charge of hy- 
     
     procrisy, if sustained at all, belongs to rum-sellers; for he 
     
     it is who acknowledges the evil, while he continues the 
     
     trade ! And as to the tyranny-—the less that the antiprohi- 
     
     bitionists say about that the better. To deprive a mother 
     
     and her children of the bread they ought to eat—aiid the 
     
     clothes they should wear, just because the poor infuriated 
     
     husband and father is the instrunient-—it is tyranny of 
     
     the worst description ! But, a truce to rccriniiiiation, the 
     
     first day of January I856 is nearly at our doors, and it 
     
     would be a noble thing for every man, be he tcinperate 
     
     or inhempcrate, so to regard the laws of our country, as 
     
     in the case of the Prohibitory Liquor Bill—to watch the 
     
     working ofan Act intended for good—and not be found 
     
     fighting against the ‘ Powims THAT ai:.’—St. Stephen’s 
     
     Banner. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Looit on THIS PICTURE, THEN on Tl-lAT.——l have 
     
     subdued the nations of the earth-—is there no other world 
     
     for me to conquer. Alexander the Great. 
     
    

    
     I have fought a good fight. l have finished my course, 
     
     I have kept the faith, henceforth there is laid up for me 
     
     a crown of righteousness.—Apostle Paul. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     A paper of New York State, mentions, by name, three 
     
     of the more prominent and influential opponents of Neal 
     
     Dow and the Maine Law, who had each recently to be- 
     
     wail for a son in the “ lock tip” or in a prison, in conse- 
     
     quence ofdrunkenness. 
     
    

    
     The men, as men, were to be deeply commiserated, 
     
     because of the acute pain which, no doubt, their child- 
     
     ren’s degradation caused ; but they became liable to such 
     
     reflections as that above alluded to,in consequence of their 
     
     bitter opposition to that which was for the healing of the 
     
     evils they have been made to deplore,—and their sustain- 
     
     ment of a system whose direct efforts are to produce the 
     
     degradation that has come to members of their families. 
     
     Good Temperance men have been sorely troubled by 
     
     means of intemperate sons,—but the difference is, that 
     
     while fathers of the one class were reckless of the evil, or 
     
     did not oppose it, or even gave it countenance,——the oth- 
     
     ers denounced and opposed, and struggled to prevent its 
     
     effects on society. Evil to one came, by invitation, as it 
     
     were ;—-to the other, as some sad deprecated visitation, 
     
     which they could not prevent, but which they would save 
     
     themselves and others from, at the expense of much man- 
     
     ly exertion. Every father might take some warning from 
     
     the melancholy circumstances narrated, and should recol- 
     
     lcct, as the paragraph says, that “all drunkards are some 
     
     persons’ children” ; and that the community requires, for 
     
     prevention and cure_,tlie earnest exertion of all good men to- 
     
     wards the extirpation of so cruel and overwhelming a vice 
     
     as that which proceeds from the intoxicating liquor system. 
     
    

    
     Among the strange phases of society, are the apathy 
     
     which prevails on this subject, in some circles; and the 
     
     tolerance which is given, by many, to a plague that is so 
     
     extensive and so extreme.--Men talk solemnly of slight 
     
     delinquencies and annoyances, while they allow a fount- 
     
     ain of ofl'ence and of trouble to play freely in the midst of 
     
     the community, without appearing to notice the evil, in 
     
     relation to any efficient remedy. We hopefor better 
     
     thoughts and times on this and other questions.—-Hala- 
     
     far Athenaam. ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     -Sentiiielle of Ninnur) is about’ to occupy public attention 
     
    
   
   
    
     marrried, tyrants. 
     
    
   
   
    
     HASZAR_.D’S GAZETTE, JANUARY 26. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A Novel. Law S}hi._A very curious affair (says the 
     
    
   
   
    
     in Belgium. In the siege of Bouvignes, in 1455, the Duke 
     
     de Brabant made prisoner a nobleman named Legrain; 
     
     the duke consented to spare his life on condition of re- 
     
     ceiving all his estates and property. Legrain made over 
     
     his possessions, butsti ulated that at the end of four cen- 
     
     turies it should return to his family. The duke made no 
     
     objection. The four centuries expire in July next, and 
     
     already it great nieny persons,rcpreseiitiiig them themselves 
     
     to be descendants of Legrain, are perparing to claim the 
     
     property. It is foreseen that the claims will give rise to 
     
     numerous lawsuits. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A GREA1‘ Ci.ocx.—The great clock for the Houses 
     
     of Parliament, Mr. Dent states, has been going in 
     
     his factory for some time. The dials are to be 22 feet 
     
     in diameter, and will be the largest in the world. 
     
     Every half-minute the point of the minute hand will move 
     
     nearly seven inches. The clock will go eight and a half 
     
     days, and strike only for seven and a-lialf, so as to indi- 
     
     cate by its silence any neglect in winding it up. The 
     
     mere winding of each of the striking parts will probably 
     
     take two hours. The pendnluni is 15 feet long. The 
     
     wheels are cast-iron. The hour-bell is 8 feet high, and 
     
     above 9 feet in diameter, weighing 14 to 15 tons. The 
     
     weight of the hammer is 4 civt. The largest of the mere 
     
     quarter-bells is about the size of the great bell of St. Paul's, 
     
     which weighs 5 1-2 tons. The clock is said to be about 
     
     eight times as large as a full-sized cathedral clock. The 
     
     main works will be on the top of the great frame, which 
     
     is a trussed girder frame, 19 inches deep (like the girders 
     
     of the Crystal Palace), resting on the walls 11 feet apart. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tiin lecture before the M. L. Association on Tuesday 
     
     evening was delivered by Hon. Horace Mann. Subject 
     
     Man—" Man below the brute and man above the brute.” 
     
     He drew a dark picture of tiian the animal, and dwelt at 
     
     considerable length upon the degradation and depravity 
     
     of the human species. His arguments, facts and illustra- 
     
     tions were forcible, true, and pointed, and there was a 
     
     keen satire running through this part of his lecture. He 
     
     dwelt upon the evil of drunkenness with masterly force 
     
     and power, showing that in this vico man was a long wa 
     
     below the brute, and he evinced his regard for the Maine 
     
     Law in unmistakable terms. He depicted the horrors of 
     
     war, with graphic power, pouring upon it his earnest con- 
     
     demnation and satirized the mock heroic spirit which mani- 
     
     fcsls itself in civic military parade; and showed up the 
     
     ridiculous character of the thing with a pungency that 
     
     must have made even the adherents of that system laugh 
     
     at themselves. 
     
    

    
     Mr. Mann is no drone, but on the contrary he is one 
     
     of the most laborious, able, and indefatigable thinkers and 
     
     workers in the country ; and it seems not to have at all 
     
     abated his natural force. He looks as hale and as hearty 
     
     as he did nearly twenty-five years ago, when President of 
     
     the Massachusetts senate. He is now President of Anti- 
     
     och College, and long may he live and the impress of 
     
     his great mind he imparted to many generations.—Port- 
     
     land lug. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mas. PARTINGTON A1.‘ THE CATTLE Siiow.—“ This is 
     
     a beautiful sight for a person with a refined beastly taste,” 
     
     said Mrs. Partington looking at the big sheep, and ad- 
     
     dressing a young man by her side. He responded, 
     
     “ Yes’m.”—“ Is that a hydraulic ram ?” she asked, with 
     
     great simplicity, provoking a smile. The young man in- 
     
     formed her that this was a long-woolled sheep, from which 
     
     very long yam was spun. “ Ali,” said she, “ you are very 
     
     kind, but can you tell me, if the Pope has sent any of his 
     
     balls over here to this show P'’—‘‘ No,” said he, smiling 
     
     tremendously, “ but among the swine is a descendant of 
     
     the great Boanerges.” Neither Mrs. Partington nor 
     
     any one near them knew what he meant, but he laughed 
     
     loudly, and those outside laughed louder than he, much to 
     
     his satisfaction. They laughed even louder when he 
     
     found swinging from his button behind a tag bearing the 
     
     inscription, “ Devonshire Boy,” with age and weight 
     
     given, but he didn’t. And Ike was looking so innocently 
     
     all the while, trying to make the ram sneeze, by tickling 
     
     his nose with a straw ! 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sums! men are the owls of society, and the very atmo- 
     
     sphere around them is chill aiid gloomy. Their reforma- 
     
     tion is about as diflicult a task as liewing out and hollow- 
     
     ing the sarcophagus intended for the remains of the Duke 
     
     of Wellington. When single they are stupid, and when 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     war mm can IIAKB no wii.r.s. 
     
     ' Meaydying make their wills—why cannot wives? 
     
     Because wives have their wills during their lives. 
     
    
   
   
    
     (Jnoics or A Tasni«:.—When Rothschild was asked b! 
     
     a lady anxious to select a profitable engagement -for her 
     
     son, which was the best-paying business, the great com- 
     
     mercial man replied.—‘-Matches, ma’am; selling matchel 
     
     is as good a trade as any, if you have enough of it.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Esousii Stiitmiiiii;s.—-“ When Adam delved and 
     
     Eve span, there were not only no gentlemen in the world 
     
     but everybody was contented with a single name; an 
     
     the good old rule, “one name,”sufficed among all the chil- 
     
     dren of men long after their language had been confound- 
     
     ed at the Tower of Babel, and their races scattered abroati 
     
     on the face of the earth. In the early state of society, 
     
     Abraham and Moses among the Jews, Achilles and 
     
     Ulysses among the Greeks, were known to their respective 
     
     contemporaries by the single names by which they are 
     
     mentioned in holy writ, and in the poetry of Homer. 
     
     A latter and higher state of civilisation was accompanied 
     
     both in Greece and Rome , by the use Ol surnames. The 
     
     names used by onr Saxon population before the Conquest, 
     
     may, from the time of teir conversion to Lliiistiaiiity, 
     
     be called names of baptism, but are not derived from the 
     
     names of Christian saints, as John and James, Gregory 
     
     and Lawrence, and [so many other names introduced 
     
     after the conquest were. Eacli of the ordinary Saxon 
     
     names had its well-known meaning, as Edward)truth— 
     
     keeper), Wulf helm (Wolf-head). In the ‘present do. 
     
     the name of baptism is but seldom heard in Lnglan , 
     
     except from master to servant, in conversation between 
     
     persons who are extremely intimate, and on the celebra- 
     
     tion of ceremonies such as those of baptism and marriage. 
     
     But in some parts of the continent, the Christian name 
     
     is, in the main, alone used. The first and smallest class 
     
     consists of the Norman names brought itito Engla_.nd_ at 
     
     the Conquest. The second and most numerous division 
     
     of English surnames comprehend all those which‘have a 
     
     local English origin. A vast number of places in lungland 
     
     have contributed to form this class of snriiames. A for- 
     
     mer Lord Lyttclton once contended that his family 
     
     must be more ancient than that of the Grenvilles, since 
     
     the little town existed before the gr.-mde t-tlle._ At 
     
     Venice a somewhat similar; but more serious dispute 
     
     arose between the houses Ponti and Canali. '1 liedoriner 
     
     alleged that they, the Bridges, were above the Canals; 
     
     the latter, they, the Canals, existed before the Bridges. 
     
     The senate was obliged to remind the rival houses, that 
     
     its authority could equally pull down bridges and stop 
     
     canals, if they became a public nuisance. The follow- 
     
     ing is the number of births, deaths, and marriages in a. 
     
     single year in England and \Valcs. of some of the more 
     
     nnineroiis of these English families whose surnames are 
     
    

    
     crivcd from occupations, from Mr. Lowe’s tables. of the 
     
     hirtlis, deaths, and marriages of persons bearing sixty of 
     
     the most common surnames :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     Births. Deaths. Marriages. 
     
     Smith 5,583 4,034 3:005 
     
     'l‘aylor 2,647 2.5.5 1,518 
     
     Wright 1.398 1,142 729 
     
     Walker 1,32 4 1-070 754 
     
     '1‘uriier 1,217 1,011 680 
     
     Cooper 1,103 950 540 
     
     Clark 1,096 952 635 
     
     Baker 1,033 839 513 
     
     C00 910 742 433 
     
     Parker 824 594 471 
     
    
   
   
    
     Nearly 900 Kings are born annually in England and 
     
     Wales. The family is almost as numerous as the Cooks, 
     
     and more so than the Parkers. Camden’s observation 
     
     is, that the ancestors of persons of such names must have 
     
     “ served such parts, or were Kings of the Beane, Chirst- 
     
     mas Lords, dzc.” The frequency of King as a surname is 
     
     a. little remarkable. It was borne by the old republican. 
     
     Regulus, and was also known as Rex, at I_{ome_: it is 
     
     very common now-a-days in France, _Le Roi, Roi, and 
     
     in Germany, Koenig.—Edinburg/L Rcvww. 
     
    
   
   
    
     An American paper says , “ Belles call a great many 
     
     people to cliurc|i.” 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     GENTILITY is said to be eating meat with a silver fork 
     
     when the butcher has not been paid. 
     
    
   
   
    
     No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, 
     
     any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech. 
     
    
   
   
    
     As auctioneer does as he is bid, a postman as he is 
     
     directed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cutaneous diseases, and a certain remedy for them.—-_How many 
     
     thousands of human beings are rendered the most unsightly, my, 
     
     almost hideous to behold, from the effects of some very disagreeable 
     
     and sickly looking eruptions on the face or hands : they are shunned 
     
     by friends, and avoided by acquaintances: for this reason. many 
     
     have siiffaied much and expanded a large sum in endeavouring to 
     
     obtain s cure of this malignant form of disease, but without success. 
     
     Holloway’s Ointment, however, if used with |:lolloway‘s Pills, will 
     
     cure ‘ebery description clauses and ulcers even of 90 years standing, 
     
     and will restore the patiuit to haalth sfierrolief hss bun despsired 
     
    
   
   
    
     of, leaving thi suflarsr without a blemish. A