Provoking To Good Works

- A atrit'e ofr an unusual character was carried on in Bufiao during the late cold weather. The mayor, ibenezer Johnson, gave public noticc in the city apers, on the 16th of Februaryr that he would 'urnisli twenty five cords o-f wood to Buch poor ámilies a wrre unable to supply hemselves - with a proviso, that ';none nced apply whosc)overty haa been caused by ñwemperance." This brought out Manly Colton, Esq. on the Rih, who gave a like notice that he would give 'to the shi vering mothers and children of the ciiy who have become poor and destitute inconequence of the beastly crime of intumpsrance on he part of their "natiwal protectors," twcntyfive corda of wood. The next day O. H. Dibble gave notice that he would furnish twenty-five co ds of wood to euch families as were unable to urnÍ8h it, without requring them to prove either that they are "beastly drunkards," or "that ihuy mve never expended meney in intemperance." The day following, Samuel Twitchell, Jr. offered to give twenty five corda of wood tosuch as were destitwe and uuable to-purchase, "no matter from what cause they beca me so." On the same day, Blanson and Julia Palmer announced that they would give one hundred dolara in provÍ8ons and clothing to the ncedy. - They say, "Itwenough for the npplreanis to be poor - we wish not to know the cause of their misfortunes, but wish all to be températe, indusiious and hoppy.""John Whcelockr a butcher, alao gave noiice, n the same day, that he would give to ihe sufering poor of the city. twenty five pounds of beef or every eord ofwood that th mayo would iurish - and1 would "notgointo a d'etaiJtd' exain nation of how they became needy.'T