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AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL, 



171 



do. do. 



do. 



1st premium of 100 dollars, to Luther Chamberlain, 

 of Westboro', Mass. for entry, No. 20. 

 2d do. of 50 dollars to Cloud Harvey of Bar- 

 net, Veriiiom, for entry, No. 17. 

 3d do. 30 dollars to Richard Hildreth, of Ster- 

 ling, Mass. for entry, No. 6. 

 4tli do. 20 dollars to Oliver Johnson, of Ster- 

 ling, Mass. for entry, No. 7. 

 The premium butter sold at auction as follows : 

 '1st premium, 6 tubs from 43 to 434 cents per pound. 

 2d do. 7 tubs a 39 do. do. 



8d do. 6 tubs 32 to 42 do. do. 



4th do. 2 tubs 35 to 36 do. do. 



There were four entries for old, and thirteen for 

 new cheese. 



11 from New Braintree, % 

 3 do. Barre, / County of Worcester, 



2 do. Mendon, i Massachusetts. 



1 do. Southboro', ^ 



OLD CHEESE. 



No. 1 Ebenezer Tidd, New Braintree, 



2 Seth Davenport, Mendon, 



3 Daniel Hunter, New Braintree, 



4 John Mathews, do. 



NEW CHEESE. 



No. 1 Gabriel Parker, Southboro', 



2 David Lee, Barre, 



3 Daniel Bacon, Barre, 



4 Ethan Holden, do 



5 Lorenzo Converse, New Braintree, 



6 Daniel Hunter, do. do. 



7 Roswell Converse, do. do. 



8 David N. Pierce, do. do. 



9 John Mathews, do. do. 



10 Job Rainger, do. do. 



11 Welcome Newhall, do. do. 



12 Ebenezer Tidd, do. do 



13 Seth Davenport, Mendon, do. do. 300 

 The committee upon examination of the differ- 

 ent statements made respecting the cheese, do not 

 tind any remarks which they think would be iiseiiil 

 to publish. The old cheese, for which premiums 

 were awarded, was considered of an extra good 

 quality. None of the new cheese was found so 

 decidedly superior as to justify the committee in 

 awarding the first premium of fitly dollars. 



The premiums on cheese are as follows : — 

 Old cheese, 1st premium of 100 dollars, to Daniel 



Hunter, of New Braintree, entry No. 3. 

 do. do. 2d premium of 50 dollars, to John 



Mathews, of N. Braintree, entry No. 4. 

 New cheese, 1st premium of 50, not awarded, 

 do. do. 2d premium, 30 dollars, to Ebenezer 



Tidd, New Braintree, entry No. 12. 

 The committee were greatly aided in their de- 

 cision by several gentlemen of the city of Boston 

 and its vicinity. They would express their obli- 

 gation to Edward T. Hastings, John Hurd, Asa 

 Richardson, Greuville T. Winthrop and Newell A. 

 Thompson, Esqrs. The two last named officiated 

 as Secretaries ; and also to Messrs. Coolidge & Co. 

 who officiated as Auctioneers in selling the butter 

 and cheese. E. Hersy Derby, Chairman. 



Boston, 5th December, 1832. 



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PERIODICAI. CIRCUtAR OF THE A9IERICA]( 

 TEMPERAJiCE SOCIETY. 



Dear Sir, — The Fourth and Fifth Reports cf 

 the American Temperance Society, contain tlte 

 history of the Temperance Reformation in this and 

 in other countries, an exhibition of the principles 

 involved in it, and a statement of the facts \>r 

 which those principles are illustrated and enforced 

 Persons who wish to become acquainted with this 

 object, will here find ample materials; and thost 

 who wish to promote it, will be furnished with 

 means to do it efficaciously, and to the best ad- 

 vantage. These publications are constructed, noi 



on the plan of being merely annual, or temporary 

 Reports, btit on the plan of being permanent docu- 

 ments, which will be as important as they now are, 

 till the use of ardent spirit as a drink shall be en- 

 tirely done away in the community. They arc 

 stereotyped, and aontain about 120 pages each. 

 The Committee are especially desirous that a copy 

 of thrill should be jiossessed by every family ; and 

 had they the means they would give to them a 

 gratuitous and universal circulation, that every 

 child in the United States might become acquaint- 

 ed with the nature and effects of ardent spirit ; and 

 with the benefit, which would result to our 

 country and the world, should the use of it as a 

 drink be discontinued. But as the Committee 

 have not the means of doing this, the publications 

 are sold at 25 cents a copy, .$2,25 per dozen, and 

 .* 16,67 per hundred; and may be had, in any quan- 

 tity, of Aaron Russell, No. 5, Cornhill, and Perkins 

 & Marvin, No, 114, Washington Street, Boston; 

 John P. Haven, No. 142, Nassau St. New York ; 

 French & Perkins, No. 159, Chesnut St. Philadel- 

 phia ; and many other booksellers throughout 

 the United States. In many cases individuals 

 have distributed several hundred copies. In other 

 cases extracts from them have been read in public 

 meetings, and a subscription taken to put a copy 

 into every family in a town or county ; and the 

 consequences have been most highly beneficial. 

 What is wanted is information brought home to 

 the fireside, and the bosom of each individual ; 

 and should it be universal, there is reason to be- 

 lieve that it would, with the divine blessing, do 

 much towards changing the habits of the nation. 

 More than a million of our countrymen have re- 

 nounced the use of ardent spirit ; the government 

 no longer furnishes it for the army ; nor are permits 

 granted to the soldiers to purchase it, or sutlers al- 

 lowed to sell it to tliem. A similar change it is to be 

 hoped will soon take place in the navy ; and should 

 the use of it be abandoned in the United States, one of 

 the principal causes of pauperism and crime, sick- 

 ness, insanity and death, would be removed ; many 

 of the deepest fountains of human sorrow dried up ; 

 atid thousands of our countrymen annually saved 

 fijom a premature grave. The effect of ardent 

 spirit, in prod ucing sickness and death , may be seen 

 hjjT the following statements, viz. The physicians 

 0^ Annapolis, Maryland, state that of 32 persons 

 ^Tho died in that citj', in one year, over 18 years 

 <j age, 10, or nearly one-third, died of diseases 

 occasioned by intemperance ; that 18 were males, 

 and that ofthe.se, 9, or one-half, died of diseases 

 qccasioned in the same way. And they say, 

 " When we recollect that even the temperate use, 

 as it is called, of ardent spirit lays the foundation 

 ftir a numerous train of incurable maladies, we 

 feel justified m expressmg the belief, that were tlie 

 use of distilled liquors entirely discontintted, the 

 number of deaths, among the male adults, would 

 be diminished one-half." Of 91 deaths of adult 

 persons in one year, in New Haven, Conn., 32, in 

 the judgment of the Medical Association, were 

 occasioned by strong drink. Of 67 in New 

 Brunswick, N. J. more than one-third were oc- 

 casioned in the same way. Of 4292 deaths, in 

 Philadelphia, 700, or more than one in seven of 

 the whole number, were, in the opinion of the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons, occasioned 

 by intemperance. And medical men, extensively, 

 have given it as their opinion, that a similar propor- 

 tion has been occasioned, in this way, in otherplaces 

 In Albany, N. Y. a careful examination has 



been made, by respectable gentlemen, into the 

 cases of those who have died of the cholera m that 

 city, during the past season, over sixteen years of 

 age. The result has been examined in detail by 

 nine physicians, members of the Medical Staff at- 

 tached to the Board of Health in that city, (all 



who belong to it, e.xcept two, who were at tliat 

 time absent,) — and published at their request, un- 

 der the signature of the Chancellor of the State, 

 and the five distinguished gentlemen who corn- 

 pose the Executive Committee of the New York 

 State Temperance Society, and is as follows : — 

 Number of deaths, 336; viz. intemperate, 140; 

 free drinkers, 55 ; moderate drinkers, mostly 

 habitual, 131; strictly temperate, who drank no 

 ardent spirit, 5 ; members of Temperance So- 

 cieties, 2 ; — and when it is recollected that of more 

 than 5000 members of Temperance Soci(!ties in 

 the city of Albany, only 2, not one in 2500, have 

 fallen by that disease which has spread sackcloth 

 over the nations, and has cut off more than one in 

 50 of the inhabitants of that city, we cannot but 

 feel assured that the universal dissemination of 

 these facts, and such as are contained in our Re- 

 ports, would save multitudes of our countrymen 

 from an untimely grave. 



By means of a Circular, which has been issued 

 and sent to every town in the United States, Tem- 

 perance Societies, and the friends of temperance, 

 have been invited to meet simultaneously, on Tues- 

 day, tlie 26th ofFebruary,1833, in every city, town, 

 and village, in the country, to hear addresses; to form 

 Temperance Societes in all places in which there arc 

 none : to enlarge as much as possible all that are 

 now formed ; to disseminate information, and 

 to take measures to extend the benign influence of 

 the Temperance Reformation throughout the land. 



In no way, is it believed, can this be done 

 more efTectually, than by putting a copy of these 

 Reports into every family. If you. Sir, will vst 

 your inflmnce to do this, with regard to the families 

 in your vicinity, you will essentially aid the Cotti- 

 mittee in the great work in which they are engaged, 

 and perform an important service to the community. 



The avails of all sold, will be devoted to the 

 gratuitous distribution of the publications, to the 

 disseminition of the facts which they contain, and 

 the pronotion of the cause of temperance tlirough- 

 out the United States. 



Respectfully yours, &c. 



SAMUEL HUBBARD, Pres. Am. Tern. Society. 

 JOHN TAPPAN, ") 



GEORGE ODIORNE, 

 HEMAN LINCOLN, I Executwc 

 JUSTIN EDWARDS, I ^'""""«« 

 ENOCH HALE, Jr. J 



Boston, jVovember, 1832. 



P. S. A copy of the Reports in the hand of 

 each legislator and magistrate, will essentially pro- 

 mote the good of the community ; and each in- 

 dividual WHO receives this Circular is respect- 

 fully and earnestly requested to communicate 



ITS CONTENTS AS EXTENSIVELY AS POSSIBLE. 



Editors of Newspapei-s throughout the United 

 States are resjjectfully desired to insert the above, 

 and if they will forward the paper containing it to 

 to the Ex. Committee, a copy of their last Report 

 shall be sent them. 



All persons having communications to make to the 

 subscriber, are desired to address them to No. 129, 

 Chntou Hall, New York, until March, 1833. 



JUSTIN EDWARDS, Cor. Sec. of the 

 Am. Tern. Society.. 



