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ODE TO HUM.
BT WILLIAM BROWN, OF BOSTON.
“ O, thou invisible spirit of Hum! if thou had.it
no name by which to know thee , wc would call
thee — Devil.” Sha kspkake.
Let thy devotee extol thee,
And thy wondrous virtues sum:
But the worst of names I’ll eall thee,
O thou hydra-monster RUM !
Pimple-maker—visage Moatcr,
I lealtlv eorrupter—idler’s mate;
Mischief breeder—vice promoter,
Credit spoiler—devil’s bait.
Almshouse builder— pauper maker,
Trust betrayer— sorrow’s source,
Pocket emptier—Sabbath breaker,
Conscience stiller—guilt’s recourse
Nerve cn feebler—system shatterer,
Thirst increacer—vagrant thief;
Cough producer-—treacherous flatterer,
Mud l>edaut>cr—mock relief.
Business hinderer—spleen instiller,
Wo-begctter—friendship’s banc ;
Anger-heater—Bridewell filler,
Debt involvcr—toper’s chain.
Memory drowner—honor wrecker,
Judgment warper— hluc-faccd quack ,
Feud- begi n ner—rags- hcdccker,
Strifc-cnkindlcr—fortune’s wreck.
Summer’s cooler —winter’s warmer,
Blood-polluter—specious snare;
Mob- collector—man-transformer,
Bond- u ndoer—gam bier’s fa re.
Speech-bewraggler—headlong-bringer,
Vitals-burncr—dcadly-fire;
Riot-mover—firebrand-flinger,
Discord-kind lor-—misery’s sire.
Sincws-robber—worth-depriver,
Strength-subduer— hideous foe;
Reason-thwarter—fraud-contriver,
Money-waster—nation’s wo.
V ile-sed ucer—joy-dispeller,
Peace-disturber—black-guard guest;
Sloth iinplanter—liver sweller,
Brnin-distracter—hateful jmjsl.
Utterance- boggier— stench-emitter,
Strong man-sprawlcr—fatal drop;
Tumult-raiser—venom-spitter.
Wrath inspirer— coward’s prop.
P.'iin-inflictcr—eyes inflamer.
Heart-corrupter— folly’s nurse;
Secret-babbler—body-maimer,
Thrifl-defeater—loathsome curse.
Wit-dcstroyer—joy impaircr,
Scandal-dealer—foulmouthed scourge,
Senses-blunter—youth’s ensnarer,
Crime-inventer—ruin’s verge.
Virtue-blaster—base-deceiver,
Spite-displayer— sot’s delight;
Noise-exciter—stomach-heaver,
Falsehood spreader—scorpion’s bite.
tiuarrels-plotter— -rage discharger,
Giant conqueror—wasteful sway ;
Chin-carbunclcr— tongue-enlarger,
Malice-venter—death’s brondway.
Tempest-scattercr—windowa-smasher,
Death-forerunner—hell’s dire-brink;
Ravenous-murderer—windpijie-slashcr,
Drunkard’s, lodging, meat and drink !
The Drunkard.—The description which Dr.
Rush gives of the effect of strong drink on the
Drunkard, is almost too bad to be repeated. And
yet what is not too bad to be practised, ought not
to be considered too hard to be spoken of. °
He says, “In folly, it causes him to resemble a
calf; us stupidity an ass; in roaring, a mad bull;
in quarrelling and fighting, a dog; in cruelty, a
tiger; in fetor, a skunk; in filthiness, a hog; and
in obscenity, a he-goat.” Alas! that man should
reduce himself to such a character as this!
More Monstrosities.--One of the English
papers, under the head of “ new pa
tent,” announces the discovery of a “ patent hy
drophobia water-proof hat, made of the skin of a
mad dog, warranted not to take water.” A no
torious toper having expressed his surprise at this
announcement, a by-stander remarked, that a
much more efficient water-proof article could be
made out of his mouth, for it had not been known
to take water this ten years.
■Some citizens of Sandusky were a few ni'jhts
ago attracted lo an old out-budding, l»y tries from
within of “Murder! murder!--Come quick—he’s
eating me up !!” and on entering found tying .
there a loafer who had gone to sleep drunk, and
two young twin cults sucking his cars!
“ How are the mighty fallen?” cried a drunk
en orator, as he leaued against a lamp post. —
“ Lengthwise in the gutter,” responded the voice
of one, who chanced to be his neighbor.
The report that Encke’s Comet can Ur seen
with ‘ good glasses,’ is contradicted by a man
who says he look six ‘good stiff glasses, on pur
pose to sec it, and only saw stars.
The celebrated English divine, Thomas Ful
ler, was a great jester. On one occasion, he
asked a Mr. Spanrowhawk, “ what was the dif
ference bet wren an Owl anil a SparrtrwhawkV’
“ Sir,” said Mr, Sparrowhawk, “an Owl is Ful
ler in the bead, Fuller in the face, and Fuller all
over.”
A Reply to a Challenge. —The Allowing
has been handed to us as the reply of Col Gardi
ner, a British ofliccrof distinction and tried valor,
to a challenge sent to him by a young adventurer:
“ I fear not your swonl, but the angej of my
God. 1 dare venture my life in a good cause, hut
cannot hazard my soul in a had one. 1 will
charge up to the cannon’s mouth for tbegood of
my country, but I want courage to slornjthe cit
adel of Satan.
Comparative uiSs on Gold and Palkr as a
Circulation. -Mr. Page, a distinguished Eng
lish writer, has from reports ofthc and
American mints, ascertained that therois a loss
on gold coins, by wear and tear, of 1- 1C tier cent,
which is less than 1 30th per cent. |>er annum;
and so that out of every 1(HI/. coined inkny par
ticular year, there would remain over 9. r >(7*. t Or/,
in real value at the end of one hundrtd years.
A comparison is next made ofthc ox poises of a
paper currency, which, at 2j per cent, is staled
by Mr. Norman, (of the Bank of is
found to he fifty-three times greater thaii the loss
by wear on a gold currency. If the expense of
paper currency he 2} percent, per annum, this,
on a sum of 20,(KH>,<HH)/.; while the loss by wear
on a gold currency of 20,000,000/. during the
same period, is only 922,003/ The dift-rence is
therefore, 49,078,000/.
•
The Bishop of Jerusalem not ejectid.—Let
ters from the Bishop of Jerusalem and hit friends,
have been received in England, dated is late as
March 9th, which sfM'aks in warm terns of the
kindness ofthc Turkish authorities, and show
that there was no foundation for the rtportg of
any disturbances. One letter iays, “ tin Pasha
has received directions from Constantinople to af
ford us every facility. It was this inornng pro
claimed in all the mosques, that he who touches
the Anglican Bishop) will he regarded ai touch
ing the apple of the Pasha’s eye.” Rev. Mr.
Ntcholayson, in a letter gives a very giatifying
account of the Bishop’s reception by' tin Greeks
and Armenians, on the occasion of hk visit to
their convents; and says the Bishop’*presence
has made a very gratifying and happy impiress ion
in Jerusalem.
Curious Pilgrimage.— Mar Yohantm,tile Ncs
torian Bishop from Persia, paid a visi; to Mount
Vernon—a pilgrim from the distance of ax thous
and miles, who had come to stand neat the dust
and admire the fame of our Washington That
fame has spread its light to the fart lie: Persia.
The Bishop was accompanied by the Riv. Justin
Perkins, a missionary in Persia. Mr. P. remark
ed, says a letter in the Philadelphia Norfi Amer
ican, he had stood on Mount Ararat, there the
Ark of the ancient and venerable Noahhad res
ted after the deluge, but not such emotons pos
sessed his soul as when his feet stood oi Mount
Vernon, where reposes the dust of him, who, af
ter a great moral conflict, in which miliary force
and martial merit were hut constituent elements,
retired to close a heroic life with atranmil death.
Nature a Proof of God’s Existence.— lt is
sweet to be alone, with nature’s wort around;
where God has traced in clearer lines, han ever
priest or prophet’s page contained, the proofs of
attributes divine; where earth and heaven out
stretch their amjtle pam for men to read. The
humblest floweret of the vale, if viewed aright,
will pirove to skepitic man what never pagan rite'
or papal bull, or mystic creed has proved, that
God exists in wisdon, pjower and Uve—in all su
preme. For what, but wisdom infinite, could
form the simple leaf with varied kue, and filled
with countless tubes, that draw from earth’s dark
clods a shapeless mass, dissolved aid purified, till
matter, brute and dead, revives, and springs to life,
and crowns the vale with flowers and sweet per
fumes. Can man such simple work perform?
The skilful hand may form a nimie rose, with
stem and leaf o’erspread, with c*lors false, and
borrowed odors sweet. But let him bid the or
gans play, its leaves unfold, and yield him in
cense, fresh and sweet at morn anl eve, as nature
offers up to God. The rash, presumptuous man
would stand abashed, and his own nothingness
confess, compared to Him, whose voice from noth
ing called to life, and clothed with beauty all that
lives.—[ Manchester Democrat.
“ Please Exchange,” as the printer said when
he offergj his heart to a beautiful girl.
! Mother. —There is somethin!! in that word—
mother, that sounds a pause in the 1 usy pursuits
of life—nay, in the current of ordinary thought.
There is a calm about it that divests of every
selfish, every sortiid feeling—it strikes tiie sweet
est string of the sympathies ol'our nature; it
brings up the remembrance, the peacefulness,
the sunny days of our earthly life, and with them
all their vision of prospective honor, and fame,
and happiness. Notion:—no distance---no vicis
situdes of life can change that deep, that holy
veneration, we eaily imbibe lor her who gave us
existence. It is not the first principle that g. r
minates in the bosom of infancy; it is, as it were,
the guardian spirit of youth and eVen maturer
years; it is the act that quits the human heart
when abandoned to vice—whyii it becomes an
outlaw to its God. If our footsteps have been
directed in the paths ot virtue—if success has
rewarded our exertions in the pursuits of a virtu
ous ambition —if we ride joyously upon the waves
of affluence and glory ; a “ mother's voice" min
gles, and gladdens, anil crowns the felicity. If
overtaken by the storms of adversity; every hope |
blighted by chilling disappointment; betrayed by
the treachery friendship, the hypocracy of the i
world; abandoned to jienury, sorrow and dis
ease; then, even then, there is one that will not
desert us; there is yet one safe, quiet asylum ;
left us; homr, the home of our childhood, a
11 mother** home!” It is a green spot of the great
Zahara of life; it is the peaceful narbor, where
we may find shelter from the tempest of the ever
changeful ocean of human existence. Mother !
In the sound of that sacred name, the monarch
himself forgets his diadem, and feels that he is a
child; the wretch who is doomed to miserable
existencein a dungeon, or to one for crime upon
the scaffold, whose atrocities long since have
sealed up the fountain of his sympathies, tell him
of the bitter anguish of a ‘•mother,” and,though
the apostate to his Maker, lie trembles and kneels
in penitential sorrow; the tear, that stranger to
vice, trickles silently down the brawny cheek,
wrinkled by time, and care, and guilt.
Such is the tribute, the involuntary homage of
our hearts towards our mothers. The principle,
the controlling power of this veneration, although
almost imperceptible, is still incalculable. Where
is the man, whatever may he his age, his wisdom, ]
his condition of life, that would utterly disregard
the counsels of his mother? Where is the
wretch, however lost to virtue, however aban
doned to iniquity, who would: dare to raise his
hand in crime, should he hear the maternal in
junction-, “forbear!”
To Parents.— The right education of your
children is dearer to you than any earthly ob
ject: for a good education is a young man’s
capital. To educate your children well is to give
them a fair start in the world: it is to give them
an equal chance for the privileges and honors of
manhood.
But, to keep them from school the most of the
time—-to iurnish them with a miserable, useless
teacher—to deny them the necessary and the
most approved school books—to be unwilling to
spend a little to procure pa|iers and books for
general information and reading—to do these
things, or cither one ot these, is to do your chil
dren nn incalculable injury.
You wish your children to be conqianions of
the virtuous and intelligent: then make them
virtuous and intelligent; unless you dothis,your
children will be unfit for such society as'you
wish them to keep. You wish your offspring
respected and influential: morality and intellect
are always respected, and these qualities are al
ways influential, too. You do not wish others to
trample upon the rights of your children—you
do not wish others to lead them, to think for
them, or to make them mere tools for ambitious
ends. Then give them an education, a mind,
that they may know and keep their rights—that
they may make for themselves, and have the
privileges of lreemen. Ignorance is always the
vassal, the slave of intelligence. The educated
man always has had, and always will have, the
advantage of ignorance; and if you let your
children grow up uneducated, you let them grow
up to be the tools and the slaves of You
cannot do your children a greater injury than to
let them step into manhood uneducated; and in
no other way can you do these free institutions a
greater evil.
Education. —Education is a companion which
no misfortune can depress, no enemy alienate, no
despotism enslave; at home a friend, abroad an in
troduction; in solitude a solace, in society an or
nament. It lessens vice; it guides and strengh
ens virtue ; it gives at once grace and government
to genius. Without it what is man ? A splen
did slave ! a reasoning savage! vacillating between
the dignity of an intelligence derived from God,
and the degradation of brutal passions.
Economy. —Economy is one of the chief duties
of a state, as well as of an individual. It is not
only a great virtue in itself, but it is the parent of
many others. It preserves men and nations from
the commission of crime, and the endurance of
misery. The man that lives within his income,
can be just, humane, charitable and independent.
He who lives beyond it becomes, almost necessa
rily, rapacious, mean, faithless, contemptible.
The economist is easy and comfortable; the pro
digal, harassed with debts, and unable to obtain
the necessary means of life. So it is with nations.
National character, as well as national happi
ness, has, from the beginning of the world to the
present day, been sacrificed on the altar of profu
sion.
A Vile Class. —Mi tic arc people who think |
that no at tick-can ho good Cor any thing unless it
be an ii!i|K>rtc(i one., Kin k[a rsons are the cm - I
lilies to tin towns in u hieh they live. They iiu
what they can to retard progress and discourage
its citizens. It is wholy wrong, unjust and lout
ish. Every real friend to the place in which he
lives, should do all he call to encourage its me
chanics ; and he who a just conception of the
duties oi’a good neighbor and a true American citi
zen, will ever take pride in doing so, and not
run after every thing, thinking that by so doing
it renders him a nian of the tun, by such an act
of injustice to his fellow citizens.— Kx. Paper.
PROSPECTUS
op ■> m y
OR, TOTAL ABSTINENCE ADVOCATE,
Devoted to the Cause of Temperance , — publislud!
semi-monthly , in the City of Augusta ,
BY JAMES McCAFFERTY.
A S it is certainly desirable that such a publication
**■ should find its way into every house, the low price
of subscription will, we hope, guaranty it a wide cir
culation. Such a paj»er we believe is required in this
j community, especially at the present time.
The determination our citizens have evinced,
to dri\ e the Destroy or from the land,has awakened the
most intemperate to a sense of duty. This should be
hailed as an omen and harbinger of good. The spirit
of Reformation is awakened thioughoutthe length and
breadth of our country—the Temperance Cause is
every where happily advancing, bearing down all oj»-
I»osition } scattering blessings on every hand, drying up
the teats of the distressed and causing the heart of the
widow and the drunkard’s wife to sii.g forj oy. It is a
glorious cause—the cause ol humanity and virtue : our
country’s highest good is involved—her prosperity,
honor and safety. Oh ! then, let us not prove recreant,
, but come l*ol*ll> to the rescue, and with united heart
and hand, assist in del.vcring our belov ed country from
. slavery to th< w orst, most ci uel of enemies.
To impress the necessity of such a work upon the
friends of Temperance, nothing can be more appropri
ate than the closing paragraph of a report from Mr. S.
S.Ckipmak, an indefatigable Temperance agent.
"Whatever other agencies may be used, the Cause
must languish without publications to diffuse informa
tion and keep up an interest; they alone keep the sub
ject Mazing before the public mind. Temperance lec
tures may arouse the people from their clumbers,.
; strengthen the weak, confirm the w avering and re
■ claim the w anderer ; but the temperance publication
comes too often w ith their cheering accounts of the
onward progress of the t ause, with their interesting
lacts and anecdotes, and with their stirring appeals, to
permit the interest wholly to subside, or the slumbers
of the temperance men long to remain undisturbed. If
the arrival of the temperance paper does not excite a
special interest in the breast of the father, the children
hail it as they would the return of the long absent
friend ; they gather around the domestic fireside—
they devour its pages, and its contents are read and
repeated with all the glee and enthusiasm of childhood
and youth : and with the stated return of such a moni
tor, the interest is kept up and the cause advances.”
Thk Washin<;toman will be printed semi-monthly,
on a half royal sheet, and contain 4 large quaito pages
to each number making a volume suitable for bu»d* ■'* *
at the end of the year, of 96 pages, on good paper. The
price of subscription for a single copy for one year, J
will be One Dollar—for six copies, to one address, Five
Dollars—for ten copies, Eight Dollars, and so in pro
portion. Payments,in all eases, to he made in advance.
All communications, by mail,must be post paid,
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June 11th, 184*2.
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June 11th, 1842.
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TAISSOLUTION.—The Co-partnership heretofore ex- ,
isting in this city, under the firm of Browne Sc
McCafferty, was dissolved on the 14th of May last. — 4
All demands against the said firm will be settled by
James McCafferty, and all indebted will make payment
to him S. S. BROWNE.
JAS McCAFF&RTY.
Augusta, June 11th, 1642 1