John Hockings

{E?"We Jearn from the Boston Chronicle, that John Hockinga, a celebrated English lecturer on Total Abstinenco has arrived in thú country, and is aboutf'settling in the West. He is a mechanic - a blacksmi'h, we be lieve. The following particulars of his history, from the Chronicle, are both interesting and instructive. "Having early acquired a taste for ardent spirits, it increased into a habit strong and apparently insuïmountable, growing with his growtb, till the most of his hard earnings went to sntisfy bis uncontrolled appetite.- About eleven years ago, his attention was called to the subject of total abstinence, while on a vi8t to a friend who owned a piece of and which he had brought to a high state of cultivalion. It surprised him that one who earned no more than himself, should be the owner of a paich of ground; he thought on the subject - made calculations as to the price of land per acre - that every time he drank a pint of ale, he drank a certain quantity of land - every time he stnoked op a pound of tobáceo, he putYed away onother quantity of land; thus he argued in his own mind, and resolved he would leave off drinking and smoking, de tennined to have a house and piece of giound that hecouid cali his ovn. He becatoe a teeiotnller. Men laughed, ridiculed, persecuted, but he persevered. - Wherevet he went he preached by precept and example, striving to have others enjoy the blessings which he so much prized. Though he had much to contend againsr, yet he cheered himself with the reflection, that by ndustry and perseverance he should eventuallyattain his object. Years pa86ed by; the land was bought, the house built, all paid from his earnings, which would otherwise have gone for stiong drink and tobáceo. A short time 6ince, he sold his place for cash , and is now in this country, c teetotaller, with a respecable sum of money; and, having pttrehased land in our western country he is doubtiess with his fainiiy ere this on his way 10 improve it, and spend the remainder of hifi days in the cultivatioa of the soil. Sureiy this is an aslonishing instance of porser vanee, equal to that recorded of tbe jooog man ia Foster's Essay on Decisión of Character."