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g-OpgßYo [From the Knickerbocker.] MONO OF THE TE-TOTAELER. By GEORGE W. BE rriUN'E. Let others praise the ruby bright In the reil wine’s sparkling glow, Dearer to rne isthe diamond light, Oftho fountain’s clearer flow: Tlie feet of earthly men have trod The juice from the bleeding vine, But the stream comes pure from the hand of God To All this cup of mine. Then give me the cup of cold water! The clear, sweet cup of cold water; For his arm is strong, though his toil be long, Who drinks but the clear cold water. The dew-drop lies in the floweret’s cup, How rich is its perfume now! And thefaiuting earth with joy looks up, When Heaven shed* rain on her brow The brook goes forth with a pleasant voice To gladden the vale along, And the bending trees on her banks rejoice To hear her quiet song: Then give me the cup of cold water! The clear, sweet cup of cold water; For bright is his eye, and his spirit high, Who drinks but the clear cold water! The lark soars up with a lighter strain When the wave has washed her wing, And the steed flings back his ‘thundering mane,’ In the might of the crystal spring: This was the drink of Paradise, Ere blight on her beauty fell, And the buried streams of her gladness rise In every moss grown well: Then here’s to the cup of cold water! The pure, sweet cup of cold water; For Nature gives to all that live, But a drink of the clear cold water. THE RAINBOW OF HOPE. It is hope that creates the aurora of bliss. On the hills of futurity gleaming; To entice weary man through a bleak world like this, Where happiness lives but in seeming. For when mail was expell'd from the garden of love, When happiness saw and forsook him, When innocence fled to the angels above, — Hope pitied the pilgrim and took him. The sharp pointed thorn and thistle are spread, Where the outcast ol Eden reposes; But Hope makes the pillow so soft to his head, That he slumbers—and dreams but of roses. I le awakens to woe—hut she brushes the tears, That are sadly though silently stealing: And points to a day through a vista of years, The holy and just one revealing.— For he t bought of his Eden—and wept for its loss, As he viewed the dark sorrows before him, Rut Hojie bade the pilgrim to think on the cross, And the victim that bleeds to restore him. When the rain-bow appeared, dove-eyed mercy was there To soften eaeh hue that array’d it— T was a beacon of joy in the land of despair, But Hope was the seraph that made it. Man wistfully gazed, and his grief-stricken heart, Was soothed into ineek resignation; The tear that had gathered forgot to depart, For Joy was diffused through creation. And hence, while fond Hope guides us through life’s way, Though still disappointed by sorrow, Wc sweeten the cup ofatfliction to day, With the bliss we reserve for to-morrow Temperance. From a hundred sources we learn that this glorious cause is rapidly advancing. Several hundred taverns have ceased to retail ardent spirits to their customers, and masses of the in temperate arc becoming Washingtonians. It is stated in one of the New-York city papers that all of the distilleries in that city are to be closed. In an interior county where there had been over one hundred distilleries, there are only now about a dozen in operation. The consumption of spir its has diminished more than one third. It pro duces considerable distress to those who have lived by vending ardent and intoxicating drinks, especially retailers. But society as a whole is a gainer to an almost ultimate extent in the restora tion of tens of thousands of useful members, who before were its excrescences and scourge. Cer- tainly, viewed in all its liearings, every patriot, philanthropist and Christian must rejoice in the miraculous and triumphant march of the glorious tempera nee reformation. May it spread until that vice-engendering and poverty-making curse of the nation—drunkenness—stall be driven from the abodes of men.— [ Olive Branch. To the Diflerent Temperance Societies in South Carolina. The State Temperance Society, at its last An nual Meeting determined on holding a meeting in Greenville, in the ensuing Summer. The time is now fixed for the 2d Monday in August. Each Society will be expected to send Delegates; the number is of course very much in their dis cretion ; hut I would suggest, that generally about ten delegates be appointed by each society. We have reached an mqiortant point in the Temperance reformation; the whole of the State are aroused on the subject. If we can act in har mony and perfect concert, the good which may he done is incalculable! The object of the Green ville Convention is to attain thaldesirable end. Let us then, beloved friends, for the rescue of of our companions, friends, acquaintances, and even “ the stranger within our gates,” come to the resolution to sacrifice a few days: and meet our hrethern of South Carolina and North Caro lina, in the sight of our own majestic mountains. There by interchanging thoughts, and becom ing known to one another, we shall be able to form that army of Terajierate freemen, who will be as unbroken and as invincible as the Macedo nian Phalanx. Let each Society, (Washington, Total Abstinence, or partial Abstinence,) send up delegates. We arc all acting for the good of our fellow men, and by taking sweet counsel to gether, we shall not diminish our chance of suc cess. Who would not rejoice to know, that there now was not, and never hereafter would be another drunkard in this State! Such a state of things would be the golden age, so beautifully hut fabulously depicted in ancient poetry. It may never be exactly attained. But we can ap proach it, if wc try. The Republic of an ancient philosopher was a creature of his fancy,--Our gallant and heroic fathers surpassed the Philoso pher s dream, in the noble republican institutions of liberty and freedom, which they nobly won, and secured for themselves and their posterity. A similar spirit of patient endurance, of un flinching purpose of pure disinterested motive, and of harmonious action, to that which they exhibited in the revolution, wdl now conduct us to the achievment of as great a conquest, and bring about as great a deliverance, as that which seven year's toil and blood accomplished for them. They thereby became freemen. We hope to con tinue free, and to be sober. For such consumalion let there be but one spirit among us, and ltt that he to excel each other in advancing the cause of Tenqierance, Let us have but one mind, and let that he to give up our own plans, anti act upon such as will do most good. These results can only be accom plished by the Temperance Convention at Greenvil e. To it let all constantly look, and in it, let every Society be represented. It is respectivelv asked of the President of each Temperance Society to read this cicular to the Society over which he presides, at its first meeting ailcr the receipt of it, and ask their con sideration of it. JOHN B. O’NEAL, President of the State Temp. Society. An Interesting Incident. “ Whit good will it do if I join the cold water army 1” said Henry, when lie found that every objection he could make was easily answered. “What good will it do!” replied Uncle Ed ward; “sftdown on the bank here, and I will tell you a story." Henry threw his skates down beside his uncle, and listond, while he related the following, about Black-eyed Joe. Two or three years ago, I went into a town in the state ot New-Hampshire to give a temper ance lecture There were many persons in the village who drank intoxicating liquors. But many came to hear me, and I noticed just as I commenced speaking, a little bright-eyed boy just about your age, who came into the Hall, and sat down near the door. He listened very attentive ly, and when 1 spoke of the cruel treatment of wives and children from intemperate men, I saw him more than once take his handkerchief and wipe away the tears. 1 told them that the pledge would prevent all this, and make men kind and pleasant; and I told the children to sign it ifthey would prosper and be happy in the world. This little fellow was almost the first to put his name down; and when I asked the people who he was, they told me he was called Black-eyed Joe, and that his father was one ofthe worst drunkards in the town. It was his custom every morning to mingle rum and sugar with the water, and pass it round to every one of the children, who took a little, as well as their father and mother. He would drink again at 11 o’clock, noon time, at 4 o’clock, and at supper. So that when evening came he would always be intoxicated, cruel and revengeful. Sometimes he would beat his wile, sometimes his children, or shut them out of doors in the cold storms. It was this that made Joseph weep, when I told of cruelty to children, and it was this that induced him to sign the pledge. He went home from meeting and determined to keep his resolution. The next morning, as usu al, the father took out the brown jug, mixed the pitcher of poison, anti handed it to Joseph first. He shook his head and derlined taking it. ‘ Drink, Joe!’ said the father. _.* 1 1 do not wish ior any again, sir. replied Jo seph. His father looked at him sternly a moment, and then said roughly: ‘ Did you go to that temperance meeting last night, Joe?’ 1 ‘ Yes, sir,’ he replied. ‘ Did you sign the pledge ? ‘ Yes, sir.’ ‘What did you do that for, Joe V ‘Because, father,’ said Joseph, hesitatingly, ‘if : I am ever a man, I do not want to he as you are.’ His father blushed, turned |iaie,stood confused a moment, and then opened the door, and dashed | the jug and pitcher to pieces, saying— ‘You shall have a father that you will not be ashamed to be like.’ From that hour he has never taken any thing i that can intoxicate; and is happy himself, and : renders his family happy besides; and I venture j to say, that Joseph will have an answer ready for ; any one who asks him, ‘ what good will it do to j sign the pledge V 1 Uncle Edward, you may put my namedow n.' said Henry, ‘and 1 thank you for telling me that story.’ So saying, he put on his skates, and went off upon the ice, with a swift motion, to tell the story ! of Black-eyed Joe to his merry companions. Too good to be lost. An old miser in New England owning a farm, j found it impossible one day to do his work with out assistance, and accordingly offered any man : food for performing the requisite labor. A half starved pauper hearing of the the terms, accepted them. Betore going into the field in the morn ing, the farmer invited his help to breakfast, after finishing the morning meal the old skin-flint though it would he saving time if they should place the dinner upon the breakfast. This was readily agreed to by the unsatisfied stranger, and thedinner wassoon dispatched. “ Suppose now,” said the frugal farmer, “we take supper; it w ill preserve time and trouble, you know.” “Just as you like,” said the eager eater, and at it they went. “ Now we will go to work,” said the satis fied and deligthed employer. “ Thank you,” re plied the delighted laborer, “ 1 never work after supper.” A True Patriot.— A man in Waldo county, Maine, who, for twenty years, by the advice of his physician, had used ardent spirits for some “ bodily infirmity," was at a temperance meeting, and concluded to sign the pledge When he was about to do so, the doctor started up and sai<l, “ Uncle Ward, if you sign that pledge you will die.” lie calmly replied that he li;ul been a soldier of the Revolution, and thought he was willing to die for his country. lie signed the pledge, and in one fortnight after, his bodily in firmity left him. Clerical H it. Watty Morrison, a Scotch clergyman, was a man of great laughter and humor. On one oc casion, a young officer scoffed at the idea of its requiring so much study to prepare a sermon, as Ministers usually pretend, and offered a bet, that he would preach half an hour on any passage in the Old Testament, without the least preparation. Mr. Morrison took the bet, and gave him for a text, “ And the ass opened his mouth as lie spake.” The boasting officer was little inclined to employ bis eloquence on that text; and the humorous Morrison won the wages and silenced the scoffer. |ln another occas ; on Mr. Morrison entreated airofficer of Fort George, to pardon a poor fellow who was sent to the halberds. The officer offer ed to grant his request if he would, in return, grant him the first favor he might ask. Mr. Morrison agreed to this. And the officer imme diately demanded that the ceremony of baptism should be performed on a young puppy. The clergyman agreed to it; and a party of gentlemen assembled to witness the novel baptism. Mr. Morrison desired the officer to hold up the dog, as was customary in the baptism of children, and said “as I am a Minister of the Church of Scotland. I must proceed according to the cere monies of the Church.” “Certainly," said the Major, “ I expect all the ceremony.” “Well then, Major, I begin by asking the usual question— you acknowledge yourself the father of this puppy ?” A roar of laughter burst from the crowd, and the officer threw the candi date for baptism away. Thus the witty Minister turned the laugh against the infidel, who intend ed to deride the sacred ordinance. A Yankee Baby. —The Concord Freeman is out with the following good thing: “ In the summer of 1775, when the British ar my lay in Boston, a message of General Wash ington was sent in through Roxbury with a flag of truce, borne by a large, stout, good looking man, from the town of Wilmington. Having arrived at head quarters, and while waiting for a reply, one of the British soldiers, who was'rather short in stature, after an attentive survey of him, uttered some expression of astonishment at his size. “ Oh,” said the Yankee, “ General Wash ington has fifteen thousand men at Cambridge and lam the only baby of the lot." Origin or slander.— Mother Jasper fold me, that she heard Greatwood’s wife says, that John Hardstone’s aunt mentioned to her that Mrs. Trusty was present when the widow Parkman saitl. Captain,HartweU's.cousiu thought Ensign Doolittl'-'sßWtrr beliexrd, that old Miss Oxlv reckoned. ttiafcSam Tree’s tetter IfclF hail told Mrs. Spaulding, that she heard John Brimmer s woman say, that her mother told her that she heard her grandfather say—that Mrs. Garden had two husbands! CIRCULATING AGBEROT, AND NEWS ROOM. SUBSCRIPTIONS received—Copies sold on the New York and London plan. New English Works Zanoni, Jacquerie, Morley Err stein, and Kva—now ready for the people. 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ADVOCATE, Devoted to the Cause of Temperance,—■putlishcd semi- monthly, in the City of Augusta , BY JAMES McCAFFERTY. i AS it is certainly desirable that such a publication should find its way into cveiy house,ihe low price of subscription will, we hope, guaranty it a wide cir culation. Such a paper w e believe is required in this community, especially at the present time. The determination our citizens have evinced, to drive the Destroyer from the land,has awakened the most intemperate to a sense of duty. This should bo hailed as an omen and harbinger of good. The spirit ol Reformation is aw akened throughout the length and breadth of our country—the Temperance Cause is | every w here happily advancing, bearing down all op position, scattering blessings on every hand, drying up the teais of the distressed and causing the heart of the widow and the drunkard’s wife to sing forj oy. It is a glorious cause—the cause of humanity and virtue : our country’s highest good is involved—her prosperity, honor and safety. Oh ! then, let us not prove recreant, but come boldly to the rescue, and with united heart and hand, assist in delivering our beloved country from slavery to the worst, most cruel of enemies. lo impress the necessity of such a work upon the friends of Temperance, nothing can be more appropri ate than tiie closing paragraph of a report from Mr. S. o. Chipman, 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 blazing before the public mind. Temperance lcc tures may arouse the people from their slumbers, strengthen the weak, confirm the wavering and re claim the wanderer ; but the temperance publication comes too often with their cheering accounts of the onward progress of the cause, with their interesting tacts and anecdotes, and with their stirring appeals, to ! permit the interest wholly to subside, or the slumbers oi the temperance men long to remain undisturbed. If I the arrival of the temperance paper does not excite a ! interest in the breast of the father, the children hail it as they would the return of the long absent nend : 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.” ■i HE Washingtonian will be printed semi-monthly, on a half royal sheet, and contain 4 large quarto pages, to each number making a volume suitable for binding at the end of the year, of 96 pages, on good paper. The Price of subscription for a single copy for one year, 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 cases, to be made in advance* CCr" All communications, by mail, must be post noid> to receive attention. Juncllth, 1842. "TkISSOLUTION.—The Co-partnership heretofore ex-’ , " istingin this city, under the firm of Browne & ( McCafferty, was dissolved on the 14th of May last.— All demands against the said firm will be settled by James McCafferty, and all indebted will make payment to him S. S. BROWNE. JA9 McCafferty. Augusta, June 11th, 1842 1