Gray hairs and beardless boys, mothers and daughters, both sexes, all ages and ranks were here. Reformed drunkards made good and sober citizens, and these not seen in one or a score but in a thousand faces. The heart beats lighter at such a spectacle as this, and words in praise of it is but gilding refined gold or adding

a perfume to the violet.

We have obtained the following notice of some of the banners borne by the Temperance Societies :

Cold Spring Temperance Benevolent Society. Henry K. Gushing, President ; P.

J. Bagwell, V. R. Terry, Vice Presidents ; M. Dougherty, Recording Secretary ; Thomas Edgerly, Corresponding Secretary; John C. West, Financial Secretary; Ezra Beach, Treasurer Dr. M. L. Osborn, Marshal. Banner, of blue silk, (presented to this Society ;

by John Stewart Esq., Alderman of the 14th Ward,) representing a gentleman tendering the pledge of total abstinence to a poor ragged inebriate. " Turn drink of Inscription, ;

the pure fountain of life, come with us and be free. A small banner, Cold Spring Temperance Benevolent Society. Organised Nov. 19, 1841. Large Banner of the Baker's Temperance Benevolent Society. America, the Genius of Temperance, offering the Staff of Life and the Cup of Health, and pleading the cause of Temperance. The Temple of Science and Wisdom divides the picture, showing the opposing principles ; on the left the sun rises in all his glory ; Peace, Commerce, Mechanics, and Agriculture flourish. On the right how different the picture ! The sun sets in blood, the earth wrapped in all the horrors of Intemperance the lightning destroy- ;