Circular: To The Friends Of Temperance In Michigan

The Execdtive Comahttke of th? Michigan State Temperance Society recommend, to the friends of temperance throughout the State, the propriety of celebrating, on temperance principies, in their respective towns, the approaching anniversary of our national independence. A day, consecrated to liberty, may well be observed as a Temperance Jubilee. "The Temperance Reforraafion,' says the report of the American Temperance Union, "has been instrumental in saving not less than half a milliun of our citizens from degradaion nnd rum - has restored more than one hundred thousand drunkards - has dried up Ihe fountains of pauperism in agieat degree - has made the poor rich, the wretched happy, and the idle industrious. It has greatly diminished crime. In Massachusetts, of 148 discharged prisoners, who have signed the pledge, only three have been recommitted.- It has given the death blow to the traffic in ardent spirits. A strong feeling has been excited against the License System. Two thirds of the inland Lake trade is now carried on without ardent spirits. Many of our vessels on the ocean now eail without any spirituous liqnor except in the medicine chest. It has penetrated the army and navy in spite of that curse of thfi service, the spirit ration. It has added greatly to the weallh of the nation. Every deparlment of honest industry, every pólice orlicer, evcry school, every military company, has feit its operations, and it has aided the cause of piety and true religión throughout the land." Such is temperance in our own country. - Abroad, all over the world, the cause steadily advances. From the report jeferred to above, we. learn, that in Great Sritain the prospect is indeed cheering. In Ireland alonn, with a population of eight millions, six millioiis have received the pledge. In Canada ten thousand, Fifty thousand in Sweden. In Norway, Parliament has resolved that after ten years there shall nol be a disülltry in the land. The Kin of the Sandwich Islands, all hischiefs, and fifteen hundred of his people have taken the pledge. In distant Africn,nnd throughout the "Islands of the Seo," the Temperance Standard, with its glorious motto - "Total ABS11NENCK FROM ALL THAT KNTOXICATES' has been unfoltled to the gaze and admiration of thousands. As patriota, thanVfnl to God for t.he progress of temperance at home: as philanthropists, for its rapid extensión over the icorld, let its friends, in their local celebration of the Fourth, give it the preponderance due to so great and good a cause. By order of the Executive Committee of the Al. S. T. S. F. SAWYER, Jr. Ree. Sec . Ann Arbor, June lst. 1843. Pomeroy's Express will transad y our "exchanges," between New York and any place t;out west," far cheaper than the U S. Bank. Try it!Catherine 1. of Russia was intemperately ddicted to the use of Tokay. She died of lropsy,vhich complaint was probably brought n by 6tich indulgence.