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VOLUME 7.* CAPE ISLAND. NEW JERSEY. THURSDAY. EEBltUAUV ~7. ts«2. NUMBER :is

\ ' rm "m »'"bki « r ro«6 «-j • THE TRUE JERSEY S~G£. BY T.T.raict, M.P. . " Test— "The K*<J, W'UHC and glue" The brave volunteers of New J ersey, AH patriot*. Dnl.hr a ml trS* ; Aroused at tire etlliif i.nr country. We'll stand hjlliorml, while aud ' ■To typanls »» ran irever eive in; Rebellion hliall have jt» jitst due, l'or Utii'tu ami l\hirt</. In.- in. • Thn hearts of lire t to-' Jersey itiue. • . > Ib.ld trexvm. upri-iiig. i* atricruir To ploek the bright star* rrotn tire blue; Ami freedom'*. Ia«i hope I* surviving Maintain'.] 1> r the ««ortU of the true — Shall liberty lung. f»h and perish. t Because we are u»l brave, or true ? Oh no 1 in ntir htueiwi we'chcrish * The' fume of the true Jersey I'Jue. p Ou« father* of old, long before n« ' Woo. and lalt a promt name fur their A Their apiritf are hovering o'er us, W ..' . Their blood, in thejr caldron atill rpn»; P Ob long may we share in. and merit The glory to pel riot* due ; We'll maintain tint promt naure ire inherit La Lung. ItUig.Uve I lie tri* Jersey lilue. V No r»rty nor clan shall divide n*. W The Union we'll place elm re nil— f The In ic< of oar I md must Mill ruil« o«, f • . United we'd itatnl, or we'll fall — And loii^nuv tiifc blessing* of Heaven . , Uescenu on the hr.nv ami true : Three oheer.' for the Uni-di Im given, k'-gs . And three tor the true. Jersey lUue. i- June, lbCI. for the "o.rin W«*e." • •DRCSKEKHESS, DTETIJfOUIWIED DRUXZAZDS. *«. The beastly vice of -drunkenness has r, in. nil ages of the world furnished ilttnir* for the pen of the theologians, the hislurisnt, the poet*, mo! pliilusuplitTviif every country wlrero i earn tag and lettor* hare been chrrislied. These s.*ve.. ml classo* of wrltcra hare descanted on the evils and influence* of intoxicating drink*, cncli in their own peculiar vein, whether Iitnr.il, mental, pVvsiiT.l.mx-ial, oeuttomivnl, or jKiiilical, jn*t us the rqiir- : it ninvid teem. It appear* from all that we know urn! : ■ rend, to Jiuve ljcc.'i Oiu- of tire fir*t ef fort* of lin:uan ingenuity to discov. r itl»iu« opjcie* of intu&k-u^u' mink,, und there is hardly any .nation or tribe of lisrlntriuns so destitute of invention a* not to have succeeded in the Satanic rex search. We read in (leneait that Noah planted a vineyard, "drunk of Urn wine and wit* drvnlei i." It is also recorded ** In inspired •rrit that the drunkard und a glutton ghnll co. tie to poverty." Again ! U-Jtays "\Viii» is a tnockj-r, strung alt ink." I i< rttgin;*, <kc.,? kit Paul speaks of rioting and drunkenness, nuiLsay*: "He ' - hcl tlrutiU with Willi;,' wherein L excess." TltMcpaasngcs plainly indicate that tlw ' were addicted to extic. tire drink 1 i { tag itt the days -of Su'othun "hud St. j . Pnnl _ I • lMdtazz.tr, whose tragical end :* wr!I *• known, was fcixttpg und drinking ( 1,1 ' C. ft38 year*) when the word*, "ileue, ' Tekrt, Uphart»n,'r appeared on the wwil. 1 In Hie midst ■ f revelling ami carousing* i the ehy of, I J-j ti v Toft wu* tukrn by sur- ' prise, ant) King lkt*hgzzar was murdered. Cyras, the Persian General, entered the eity upon the bottom of the 1 s drainsd-river, and th«fjte4»f the rinn K'upire was rculcd. . . ' Wulo, a cel. bra tell Greek pliilosopbe'. * who died about 348 years before the 1 Christian erst .speak* of the ' Feasts of Hacchcf," ss practiced by the Grecians ' " und -Persi»i.A, gmf states that he had ' seen the trnSft of the city of Athens ilrnnb at onee. What a- host of ilrunk- i ni%'*! What a horrid picture t>r htnnnii i -tlepmrlfy he must have witnessed, a* the . eity of Athens , probably contained an ! isnnaiise population, and w.s the Capital' of Greece, surrounded l»y wafls t which h««l a circuit of nearly twenty i rallra, and was for several egt-s the een- i f tre of European civilization. AccorL dii:g to I«Wy, afamotis Kotuaii his'o.-iafi ' r who lived about sixty years before the " I- Christian e(% those sacrilegious "Feas'.a* I of Haccbus" were fasbiouable at Uome., 1 K ' and completely demoraliz.-d the whole : city with the most outrageous drunkm L. deU-„nchery. The fall of the Kois.uu - L Empire was undoubtedly nrccipitated by i ; HHHHHHHI

. lite druukeutu-ss nf its Ktnpeeors; -m» hu . ' man. nature was contimmlly dishonored by enormities coiumiitcd by thcm_)u drunken Jury,* I'latareh, a Greek biographer wito traveled through flreree' and Egypt in ; (piest of knnaledge about lite year 6G, A. D., speaks of the drunkenness of the inhabitant*, lie also states that the. Tuscan who betrayed his country to the Celtic nations allured them into Italy ; by the prospect of doliciou* wine, tint prodpcticin.of a more fertile Country i Gibbon, the historian, states that the ancient German* were extravagantly loud of strung beer, A lienor extracted from wheat or burh-y ; and soon after tasting of the rich nines of Italy and' Until, their iiilempi-rata love of intoxicating drinjis mum d them to invade the ueigli- ; boring provinces where they could pro- " c ire .more delicious drink* of intoxication. The lore of .olctdtoHc drinC? sometimes canted a battle, n prpltucled 1 war, or a revolution among the aucieiils; . nmi during the civil- wars of the sixteenth century, tribeacf ltaibarians werenttracud'ialo France by the promises of pinny Champagne, IJt^rgniidr, the de-lit-ioo* wines which tho French and otlcf civilized ustions to thisdwy are driukiog to excess. Soon aTter wine and spirits were for- . bidden by the laws of Mahoiin-t, the. Turks ^ouimeuceil chewing and smoking opium, which prodiiiHs*-MiidV-pf the tie grading and demoralizing cSvets of nt-c-dioiic poison*. The IVr»inns also in - <h!ge in bpiuin, as tin ir religion bbligss thorn to abstain from strung hipior* — Toe Indian* uf-S. America, wiien Crst tliscovercif by European*, were in llio habit of smoking tobacco, and by in - bediltg lhe atmno drawn up with u u i it - ihaMnfliit'to the niiciiiii.tlis fumes of tfhieli uncemiiug t.» til • brain they, felt aVi the frenzy of inlavicalioo uini by 1 .t'.naSofl imin^ lbric'4» t>«io u were r^'^Ifcrcdfrum tin- pa>i»^rf-itMnk'Jng. VfJity tribe* |i<»»ea*id the art Jf cXtrmrliug ail iutoxicutihg drink from maize or.tlta manioc root, which lheya4i<tingui.shi-d by variuu*. naun-s, nod. which they were beastly fond jf. Robertson's Iliitnry of America fiifortns u* that the Indians of' North America, ahctt Or»l discovered, were wot ncipminti-d with any Intoxicating driuk ; buthro sootier did the Enron ' jMra i* -supply ihcnr wjth liipiors, than druiikcu'icss became us tiiiiu^tel among them a* among their countrruten at the Sou'A. aud their wonn-u iudulgc-' in it with as Httle deevney and moderation the men. To cite even the name* >f all the nations and tribes who have disgraced hu- . n mure by drunkenness would far exceed our limits. The history of the world exhibits the laturntuble picture of the overthrow of Uyuauics and Empires through the- potent power oi in\emptr.inec and iiceutiousncts from the. eldest of oaliod* down to the ilarbarkn ' iuciirsfunt of - the middle ages* Nor docs the hirttpy of the mudcru uges exhibit a urui-h better spectacle Exampin may be hi aped upon example of Prtuces und Kings, Comjucrur* tind notorictics who have tilled the. world, nidi their names and tobred .it . with their deeds atiil yet lute grovcjtaikjnd died besotted incbritea. • Alexander tho Gceat.^dne^iiMV tho raosi brilliant tiu;n of antiquity, a \vucm.I whoiu; pnYcp'tors were Leouidss and Aristotle, who slept with the potnus of Romer under hi* Ijrad. wn* a drpnkard. -Kulliu's History of Alexander state* that lie was seized with n violent fever after having ij»ent a whole night in ca. roHu'itg itnd t! rutting to the health' of every parson in the company, llm number of gue*ts nt ids table being twenty. "'The true poison," say* Rollin, "which 'brought him to his end wo* wine, which killed many thousands besides AleX ander." Xorxe*. th»grcat|st Kyrviau Monarch was m ordered lie one of his Courtiors, ^ af»«r • feast where ail were juflamed by | m m m

nine. From tltat li|( the I'ersian Em- i I j.'re ' d-cliiii it The tireek Empire i which succeeded, and' whleft comprised * tuition of drnnkard*. m rentustludcr i at tlm <1 -nth bl Ah-xandcr the Great, i Of ten sovereigns vvTiiT hTi'Vy reigned , in K'i*«ia since the oc^e*.vj>in \t Peter! • the Great, iix were l»ea*!ly drunkards— It i* wiitten of the Empress El xaWeth : ■ "She wa* completely brutiried lie^trnug ' liquors — from day to day she *ns almost [ always in a state of- bocelyc eestacy--' shq could not bear to be dressed — in the ] - morning her women loosely attached some robes, wtihrli'a few cut* of the i scissor* disenguged In the evening." — ; The quotation gives an idea of the gen era! condition of the Kussi^ITtfDart for [ nearly a century. Frederick. William l l . King oM?russia, was a besotted inebriaty, aud sieli'y . ^ deserved the contempt of his subjects ' aud the scoff of Europe. '| Stnde, the brilliant author of the "Christian -Hern. "..was a beastly drunkard. Of him it is written: ".lie would ! put on hi* wig. cap^tbtl laced coat, kiss his wife und childr^, Jill .a lle to'them about his prcsiirig engagement*, and heeler over to the Hose, and imye ajollif. cation wjth his bottle oiiipatiions " Hums, tlu good iiaiioual hard of ' Scotland, the witty author of "Tbiu.O' Shan'.er, a « an generous t > a fault, died "all wretched," mid filled a drunkard's ■gr... Ilrron, tho g*enl poet, whose sublime ; I !i-n» ond graphic poweig of description will be admired' by million* yet unburn, was a tippler, aud it h said- thai u large portion of the reck!' -* verm? of "Ron J nun" wu* written when he was order the influence of gin. Charles Lamb, the tulettp ti author of the "Essays of Elia," u tyaii abounding ' iu amiable qualities, bu; with all his kind ulUetiun for his gisicr Mjiv, could j not In lp bv-i ig cm r ied laiunr Irrntijied by vlriiii|j| jitpiiaiil. . ' Edgar A. roc. Th'e ~gi1tcipUnfTf6r br*1 "Tne It vycn" via* u drjukatd lit* tie- 1 plumbic cud is well known, and is even ' iou:e nictaneJfolly than the rcfraiu of "The Haven." Ilntlley Cideriflge, n .poo', whose ' vvrse und prose are alike exquisite, wus a l>c4*'.iy drunkard. ' Douglas .r'ctnthl, and English dramatic writer, ond a witty cootrilmtor to tin"J^oiidon I'linrh," (ditif in 1867) is said to have injured his fine • power* by ' being a devotee of gin. He Was, liowevef, better know on. this irido of the Atlantic .by hi* cotistaniabuse ot Atuer- . lean production*.' -Mannegtn, a Senator of the United State*, was a tJOOYrioti* drunkard, and disgraced hinnclf and his -cuuniryvby outrageous drunken debTucl.cry wBeu - ; Sent nbroad as pleiiipoteniiary. A l>o«t ' of illostrious Amertchn iiiimta jnigln'be - n-!<U-d to the list of distinguished driuik- - aid*, if our limits would permit. The Congress of the United State.*. * 'for many years pnk hat been par ly-, composed of poliltcal - gambler/, rowdie*. rnlSans, tippler* and drunkard*; • the spawn of lotr-bar-rooma and grog, t gene*, wliovo only ambition nrite* from the love of power which mat let its puss -Mor to plunder the public treasury. M my of them jinrch ise their way into • .Congress, and ga there reeking with the-' slime from which they have crawled, and corruption is their natariil element. They sdl their vote* for money and for office*, and play the part of traitors to the Republic. A few years ago, William Smith, a member of the House of Representatives, >*sailed and beat the Editor of the Evtuing Star.— Albert Host, a member of the House *of Rcpresenta- ! lives, assailed and beat the Editor of lite i X, Y. Tribune « n the ground of the . Cfpllol. Philip T. Ilerliert, of Alabama, a raeuibiT of Congress from Culifjrnia, s'»at -down aud killed an Irish , waiter at Wiiiard's Hotel Preston S, lirjoka. u member of the House of Rep- ( hhhhmhsI

i rc*!-nalivea front S JUth Carolina' 'c/tf- ' nrdly aMaiiifd and' beat unmerwfolW »| Senator from .M**iachu*ctt*, wlii v, of-;, | citpyhig hi* seat in the Senate ehaHher. A dram drinking, r.illi u.ly/ brutal set ! of politicil thieve*, "bavo-rorcir" trifling ' I with lire live*, the libertiey und tlie lies- 1 tiny «»f mllion* of fn-em/n, ami ^a di*- i, rupljon of the Union has been the re- : suit. It is said that some of th* mV*i itn- : ' - partant cnAetiucnts ever passed lit Coq- j ' j gres*. enactineuts invrdving the welfare of future Empires, have been passed j • while the floor of the House was partly j , strewed with-drutikcn members. ' The . city of Washington-," say* an intelligent • trawler, "ij the most drunken town in the Uoion." A reiwrter who resides ( ' there, not longshore remarked : The tew , tliotMaiid rum- hops are doing a thriving , business — hundred* ond thousand* arc : II > wing into llteir treasury. AU laws for the prevention of tin sale of liquors are set at defiance openly und on all ' Shortly after Urn battle of .Manassas, ' : Ore \juw\W\eJJounnd asserted thai , whiskey had been almost a* much our , foe ns secession. Previous to the bat tie, many of the men were tippiing:imd •-arousing hi the low grogcrie* about Wushtnizt'in, and their officers Were j ■ spending their lime hi a similar manner i , ; iu the hotels The cgrvgioiidy bud con- ' | i jluct of a drunken officer — who may | | thank tnero reasons of policy that lie . ' i*ua> not exposed .and punished— hits 1 heen given as one of'tbe reasons f<>f the ' ! il.-feat nf the Federal army at Manassas. Mitch hu* luain said, coiicuriiin'g the ; ItteHte-of "gniusiwe ligit Ts,'' and tin- de- ( tuof i'.iziiig effects «d oufv tire "cheap : , and tow grgggetiet." We. don't pr> jc--to be judge or "genuine liquors," but we know.iiiat tUa price of llie'-gcnnliie" ' is so eiionno-.i* that the toinptatioii to ! frauds nnd oilultcration. igjrifry' gnn.t. , and such arc tire ingenuity mid scicrre , I 'pplied to tin.1 maiiiiMM-tifro of I qn ir* i ! dint only the most experienced judges ' J can detect the cheat. Perhaps the saf- ' j i est liquor to drink is American Vihinky, A which is s.v much cheaper Ihntt other 1^ : quors that it is not so likely to lie imitu^-j ted ; and upon which a m in may make -r ■ n bruio or lihum ir at a. ■modt-rirttt ex- ( p. tise, mid s-dn+tkstTJs^'rai.'ituI suicide in a few y« ur<. With respect to the "rhrap and low _ ' yogj tries," wu boldly assert' that u/l ^ groggerius are A/ir,*nnd all prog ia per- t i nicii'u*, whether sipped hy tire ladles, . quaffed by gentiemeu, or swilled in bampcrv by tire dregs of the people. xi ' A I<K.pt|NC. I llid Ohtndo.uC. J. BtAHTOK'S DEYOTIOH TO HIE DUTIES. f!-« N. Y*7yi4tt»ic says: "The people , can appreciate Secretary Stsm ton's ilet.i- . |.ti>'U*to the war,' from the fact that, toidtf- | pati. ii ruitsin liu<irivi*. he ha* wilTiin t»o j stayed tlireo days and thive nights j in kis oHicv, having hit fund brought to him in n hostel, and using a sofa to recline on, - in the intervals id clerical preparation of papers. At the U-t reception at'his house. • i in cotivnrsBlioti with three Urtgudier-Gctie. ' ^il*. !.a publicly said : • Yon mult Debt-— If ae ore defeated, it cannot be helpwil — If Victorious, toynaek thwbeticr. Kqt y-.<u ! must fighl." It is tbit spirit which has unj itnated the war in Tennessee end L'aridiua, ■ 'which will soon crush -the enemy opposite the Capitol, save the nation from baukiuptcy and restore the Republic.'' It haviiis been repeatedly charged in 1!- j liriois. that Gov, Yates has given the lb-., publicans Btarly utl the jukviiult -c'onhiiita . s.on» in the volnniceis fiom tlint State. „ careful Krunity has Wen made, ahirti j shnaa that the Ibspablicans have 20- Colon: 'lea while the L euiocrat* have no less Ibau | 37. . ! Since tho capture of Koanokn Island we ■ j shall have no Inrlbcr tBreat* to bang Vul. ' i Corcoran, l^e and other*. The release of i thesu liru'vo men w.U soon follow. O J« li, Loiog* Wise, reported abut through the hip ! nt Iloantiko.-.Ss tho former editor of tlie . lUehmoiid Kuyuirer, who shut Shrrrard I demtoana throu-h the hqi ia ac duel, bin. : lug tqe latter for life. jdh

TJie U'ashiiiittiin corn-spondenl of the | /finning Post declares that President ' I.ini Cida is in favor of the nresh vigorous prose. i*iitioii.nf the war. lie frankly avows his j p-irpdso to pash *he war to a speedy com. I clnfiwn. and admits that the peoplu ai* deI re and iog tha'. whrn they are taxed so I r .ifndlr, as it J* proposed to lax' tliem. i socn-fiiius shall be doire toward e*twquu*llj ing the rebellion} A Western Governor ; « Hl/theT* resident, who a*k- . r+Jlif.H V^AV.n Hre people of the West j sustain #L« Gciverinirenl througli the oner- : tluem ' • anyttiing, if they j ate cou'/iiicvd lliaVtney have gut a gor.-Vu- •! meat. ' • . . 11 ' 'I he Slate Depart mam has recived oheor. ; ing di.patcbet from «*tar Ministership F.ur.'pi;. They all a-.' res - tlml Foreign Power*. however d«»,ruu* that the w.ir,"oi«y l»o closet!, ail) nbt Intervene At present. A j May ol proceedings, is cYnnted, soine say R.r six mouths, and same' for sixty -days. If at the expiration, of this term of graco ' the rebellion dues. not appear to be (in its ; lust b-g*. France ar.U England ' will bo itvard from. It is believed by Competent • jtulges in Lnndi-n tli.it I'urliuBtenl afll by a decisive tnajority. vote down the motion ; n cognise *tho Sot/ihern Confederacy, aliich wilt bo vcliettirnlty pre.-svd by its * Anuv Gi xxkus. — Hymo of tluT ncwapa- * perm advise the soldier*, especially artillery-i men, to near nilc-d wool in their ears to pro-" " — : t licit! from lire conclusion, A correspundent cf l!n> IMiiludclpiiia JUjnlger, wljo \ ' professe* to know, says. -,n\ L will t.-j hurt by the report of artillery, if ho .. II ojien his mquth. Juki us we throw op a'aitt.iovr sash to prevent > . r glass from be- ; lug shattervti by tire discliurge of ti cannon, < S" we slioulj open our mootbs lo'saveonr ' e.tt*. The eonettssioii cstnex then un both • •••. - of *rtm drum of the ear, und bus no ill ' eff.ctV' Tut: Ri-.'xa" 'o* rjrAis.- li is said that tho i real ruler of Spain is a nnn by the name of ; nf I'ulrnrino, a ho has arqnlred an almost . uiihuatnlcd infiaeiico over Queeo Isabella. ! JSho protessca to be an Kcstatiea, or one gifuvf uiili iniracalous power*, bat Iter at:. ti-i'vdi-tita slrew that she was a convict. Iiav. Ttri"te'.-n- Ji-rmrrty- ct.od«Riiiud .by u, lue«l;_ in Mailt id for unposture, for having vxliiuileil no her baud* uinl feci the iiuiik* pf the t.'r ti itixipn. Yet at this time her supernatural pretension* ur» a' kuowjedged _Jiy the Court, and- 1rer advice, said to lie . dictated hy the Pope, is usked on every " i emergency. * A report Irota Wiiliatfisport. Mr.rvlir.il, stutcs thnViil a coin pit. i.ci.[»-y supper given to tli.irie* J. 1-Htilkiier, formerly mini*, to France, ut Martiiislmrg, Ya., alow' ! days riiu-e, ho ileetarvd it uselib* fur the qjouth to cor.tviul sny longer; the Southern Confederacy could nut stand, and {he sou--'Ii-r the *u' Was ended the better it would in* (or the Southern people. .* . Mr. FuulUner exercise* rtir.sWlerabhi in. ffnmcB in Rtnnc portions of Virginia.— Marlioshurg is where Faulkner's Uuirty re- * : - ...•' . In North t'uroiiiio, not far Trout Roanoke. Ulqiol, if loeniyd a t^wn rolled Jerusalem. It nili not Id ng remain in tint ;io**e**ion of tho I'liib-fiiii-s. Another town on A1b«- . inaije'Souiid if called -Union. When oar troops gel ilit.n 'Jiunir, Union will i>* re.stored to the L' uian. despite Becewion «rdiuance*. Anollu-r icadmt; town is Gold*, borough, whdn{ sii hoje- t'ommodorn • Goldsborocgh will at .in oarlv day i>c hos.-r pliably ••iilertainrel." Tne r«Wl* should nol c uiptain If n* amid our uoldsborongU to take their* —Prevs. t.'.inccruiiig llie blockade ol the Southcm poris, mi officers of our fleol write* tliaYyhly three streamers haVe got out of Charleston in ninety day*, and only taro ' out of Saratmsh, In tho rigid blockade of the French ports by Great Urituin, dur- , ing the last great European war, there wus ■ nothing that was as complete and effect '*n as onr preccnl blockade is. Our blockaile Dgnin'l vessel* going in is equally effective, which is proved' Iff lire exorbitant prices j for all fareign commodities throughout tbe ! doufheru Slates. , ^ Tho Secretary. <>l War pro|H)se* to have ; swift cunimiihlowtion with Port Unyal, 1)1 altera* Inb-t, Uu*iiiik» lsUnd, and all . <>ther-|H>ints on the- -rebel cuMl occupied by j ouf fioces, uud to this eial ha* advertised' j for proposals for doing a dispatch busiues* 1 j by mewos of »wft steam packeHn ,