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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, to receive attention. June 11th, 184*2. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, Os every description, neatly and promptly executed at the Office of the Washingtonian, viz : Business Cards, Steamboat Receipts, Ball Tickets, Hail Road Receipts, Invitation Tickets, Hand Bills, Circulars, Horse Bills, Checks, Notes, Stage Bills, Bill Heads, Show Bins, Catalogues, Labels, Bills oe Lading, Pamphlets, &c Stc. Together with FANCY JOBS, in colors, for framing. BLANKS. The following list of Law Blanks, of the most ap proved forms, printed on good paper, will he kept on hand, for sale, on as reasonable terms as any other es tablishment in the State: Claim Bonds, Garnishments and Bonds, Magistrate’s Casas, Insolvent Debtor’s Notices, Attachments, Blank Powers, Magistrate’s Summons’, Magistrate’s Execu tions, Witness Summons’ for Magistrates Court, Exe cutor’s and Administrator’s Deeds, Peace Warrants, Jury Subpoenas for Superior, Inferior and Magistrate’s- Courts, Commissions for Deposition, Marriage Li censes, Civil Process Bonds, Executor’s Bonds, Letters Testamentary, Witness Summons’ for Superior and Inferior Court, General Powers, Bills of Sale, Letters Dismissory, Letters of Guardianship, Letters of Admin istration, Declarations in Assumpsit, Beelaratians in Trover, Notary Notices, Notary Protests, Marine Pro tests, Warrant’s of Appraisement, Sheriff’s Titles, <fl Sheriff’s Casas, Mortgages, Land Deeds. Recognizan- Ces, Sheriff’s Executions, Guardian’s Bonds, Adminis trator’s Bonds, Ci. Fa. against Bail, Short Process, In solvent Debtor’s Bonds, Witness Summons’ for Court Common Pleas, City Sheriff’s Executions, Forthcoming Bonds, Declarations V. B.District Court, &.c. fcc. The subscriber, in returning thanks to his friends for past favors, assures them that his personal attention will be paid to the prompt and correct execution •fall' orders for Printing; and he hopes, by strict attention, jg to merit a continuance of their custom. Terms—Cash on the deUbery of work. JAMES McCAFFERTY. June 11th, 1842. BOOK BINDERY & BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE, AUGUSTA, GEO. IXLANK BOOKS, ofevery description, made to order, and all other kind of Books neatly bound. June 11th, 1842. T. S. STOY. 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