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Death aiid the Drunkard.
BV CHARLES PRENTISS
His form was fair, his cheek was health,
His word a bond, his purse was wealth;
With wheat his fields were covered o’er,
Plenty sat smiling at his door,
His wife the fount of ceaseless joy ;
How laugh’d his daughter, play’d his boy!
His library, though large was read,
’Till half its contents deck’d his head.
At morn, ’twas health, wealth, pure delight.
’Twas health, wealth, peace and bliss at night,
1 wish’d hot to disturb his bliss —
’Tis gone, but all the blame was his.
The social glass I saw him seize,
The more with festive wit to please.
Daily increased his love of cheer —
Ah! little thought he 1 was near.
Gradual indulgence on him stole;
Frequent became his midnight bowl.
I, in the bowl, the head ache placed,
Which with the juice hislips embraced.
Shame next l mingled in the draught,
Indignantly he drank and laugh’d,
In the bowl’s bottom bankruptcy
I plac’d— he sipped with tears and glee;
Remorse then did I in it pour,
He only sought the bowl the more,
1 mingled next joint torturing pain,
Little the less did he refrain.
The dropsy in the cup I mix’d,
Still to his mouth the cup was fix d,
My emissaries thus in vain
I Bent, the mad wretch to refrain.
On the bowl’s bottom then myself
i threw, the most abhorrent elf
Os all that mortals hate or dread,
And thus in horrid whispers said,
“ Successless ministers I’ve sent,
Thy hast’ning ruin to prevent,
Their lessons nought —now here am I,
Think not my threat’nings to defy—
Swallow thou this, thy last ’twill be,
For with it thou must swallow me.
Haggard his eyes, upright his hair,
Remorse his lip, his cheek despair,
With shaking hands the bowl he grasp’d
My meatless bones his carcase clasp’d
And bore him to the churchyard, where
Thousands, ere 1 would call, repair.
Death speaks—Ah! reader, dost thou hear 1
Hast thou no lurking cause of fear!
Has not o’er thee the sparkling bowl
Constant, commanding, sly control 1
Betimes reflect—betimes beware —
Thy ruddy health, full now and fair,
(Reform postpon’d another day)
Too soon may mix with common clay.
A Fragment.
A few years ago, and a good angel stood upon
his distant watch-tower, and looked out over the
busy scenes of the earth. A lair spirit came
past on snowy pinion, and preferred the anxious
salutation, “ Watchman! what of the night?” —
“ Dark, sombre clouds are sweeping to and fro
over the landscape. A great people, and strong,
have just freed themselves from the shackles of
mortal tyranny and are now bowing their willing
necks to the yoke of a greater tyrant,—a darker
despot — the demon of intemperance! “ Darkness
covereth the land, gross and darkness the people.”
The sad angel turned away and sought again
the city of the Blest. * * * * *
A few more years passed away, and again the
fair messenger passed by the sentinel on his lone
ly tower; again he made the salutation, “ Watch
man, what of the night ?” “ Brighter glows the
landscape. The star of hope is rising! The
clouds of death are vanishing. The sons of free
dom have resolved to be free—they have hung
out their banners! The Banners of Total Ab
stinence are waving upon the outer walls of every
city!” The glad angel turned on joyous wing—
back to the paradise ot God.. And there was joy
in Heaven, for many had dashed down the ine
briating cup, and sought again the fold of Peace.
Pithy Logic.
If there be any man who opposes the cause of
temperance from conscientious motives, I will
endeavor to convince him of his error, I will
bring him to a garret in a loathsome lane, and I
will show him a corner where 1 and my wife and
family used to lie on a wad of straw, almost na
ked, without food or fire for days; and then I
will lead him to a respectable street, and on arri
ving at the drawing room, I will show him a
well dressed female and two children, fat and
healthy, surrounded by all that can produce hu
man happiness, and I will tell him that these
were the people who lived in the garret I showed
him; tee-totalism took them by the hand and led
them here; and would you advise them to go
back again
The ladies are interested in the temperance
j cause in more ways than one. When an intem-
I perate young man signs the pledge and reforms,
the next thing he thinks about is getting himself
I a wife. Girls, you that want good husbands,
take a pledge and go to work.
Not a solitary 1 fatal accident’ happened in the
city of New-York, amidst the almost countless
| variety of celebrations on the 4th of July last.
1 How the old fire-king, Alchohol, must have
i gnashed his teeth, as the clock tolled out the last
| hour of that day, and.he found not a single vic
tim to appease the ragings ot his never-satisfied
i hunger! We believe it is hardly within the long
space known as 1 the memory of the oldest inhab-
I itant’ that the 4th of July in New-York, has
. passed over without the loss of many lives. Hur
; rah for total abstinence, say we. — [Total Absti
| nent.
j A reformed rummer says, when he signed the
| Pledge he commenced writing about the centre of
j the page, and finished, up in the corner. He has
been going up ever since.
Feeding Poultry.
Professor Gregory of Aberdeen, in a letter to a
friend, observe*, “ As l suppose you keep poultry,
1 may tell you that it has been ascertained that if
you mix with their food a sufficient quantity of
egg shells or chalk, which they eat greedily, they
will lay ca:teris paribus twice or thrice as many
eggs as before. A well-fed (owl is disposed to lay
a"vast number of eggs, but cannot do so without
the materials for the shells, however nourishing
in other respects her food may be; indeed, a fowl
fed on food and water free from carbonate of lime,
and not finding any in soil, or in the shape of
mortar which they often eat off the walls, would
lay no eggs at all with the best will in the world.
Lay this’to heart, and let ine know in the spring if
the liens lay two, or two for one ”
The juice of cider leaves will kill skippers in
cheese, bacon, &c., and strong decoctions of the
leaves or root, are fatal to insects, which depre
date on plants in the garden.
Interesting Experiment.
Place several small pieces of camphor gently in
a bason of pure water, and with a red hot wire
ignite them as they float; —the lumps will shoot
about the surface in various directions, perform
ing many comical antics, exhibiting a lively dance
of tire-balls.—dm. Mechanic.
Cure for Nervous Excitement.
A friend once told me, that among other symp
toms of high nervous excitement, he had been
painfully harrassed by the want of sleep. To
such a degree had this proceeded, that if, in the
course of the day, any occasion led him to his bed
chamber, the sight of his bed made him shudder
at the idea of the restless hours he had passed up
on it. In this case it was recommended to him
to endeavor, when he lay down at night, to fix his
thoughts on something, at the same time vast and
simple,—suchas the wide expanse of ocean, or
the cloudless vault of heaven—that the little hur
ried and disturbing images that flitted before his
mind might be charmed away, or hushed to rest,
but the calming influence of one absorbing
thought. Though not at all a religious man at
the time, the advice suggested to his mind, that if
an object at once vast and simple was to be se
lected, none could serve the purpose so well as
that of God. He resolved then to make the trial,
and to think of Him. The result exceeded his
most sanguine hopes; in thinking of God, he fell
asleep. Night after night he resorted ot the same
expedient. The process became delightful; so
much so, that he used to long for the usual hour
of retiring. What began as a mere physical op
eration, grew, by imperceptible degrees, into a
gracious influence. The same God who was his
repose at night, was in all his thoughts by day.—
Rev. Henry Woodward.
Tlte Daniel Boon of the Press.
The editor of the Washingtonian, a Temper
ance paper. published at Canton, Ohio, gives the
following description of Mr. Pike, a former part
ner of his, but now editor of the Circleville
Watchman:
“ Mr. Pike and I published a newspaper in 1837
among the Miami Indians, in the State of Indi
ana. It was a great partnership, that. We had
two advance paying subscribers, one who liquida
ted his subscription with white beans, the other
with saw logs. Godfrey, the Chief, took 5 papers,
and could not read a word. Our paper was call
ed the “ Peru Forester,” and being printed in the
woods that title was appropriate.
The town of Peru had many magnificent names
for its streets, such as Pearl, Broadway, &c.,
which streets, exhibited the animating and bust
ling spectacle of stumps, trees and weeds as high
as a man’s head. The stirring events which
transpired in this interesting city imperiously de
manded a couple of chroniclers, ana Pike and 1
were at hand to discharge that important func
tion.
Pike wrote poetry and I dipped considerably
into State politics, and discussed in a learned
manner, every question of interest to the few set
tlers and Indians. Pike was a queer fish. He
had more irons in the fire, than any man I ever
knew. Besides being an editor and printer, he
kept the Broadway Hotel, was postmaster, justice
of the peace, land agent, pettifogger, canal con
tractor, merchant, overseer of the poor, painter,
had been a schoolmaster, and a day laborer, was
twice a widower, was brought up a Quaker, and
the last time I saw him he was a Baptist preacher,
had married a third wife, was an auctioneer, and
what more I know not 1”
Duties of the Press.
We should be glad if our brother editors
throughout the country would resolve to have a
full and fair discussion of the actual duties and
responsibilities of that tremendous engine whose
power they wield. We have noticed with plea
sure the suggestion of of editors, bv
our brethren in Virginia, and should be glad to
seethe idea carried elsewhere. Let us have a free 4
investigation of this important subject, and we j
shall perhaps discover that a majority, or at least j
a very large number, of the newspapers now in j
existence, are actually a draw-back upon the gen
eral spread of intelligence, rather than being of I
the remotest benefit in the great work of meliora
ting the condition of the human race. Os the
partizan presses, if four fifths of them were fairly
outofthe wav.the world would be wiser and better.
Removed from the daily and hourly influence j
of the never-ceasing ding-dong of politics, mens ]
minds would become more calm, and they
deliberate and form opinions and questions of
public policy, under the guidance of reason rather
than prejudice and passion. It is an admitted
axiom that the unbiassed result of human judge
ment is nine times in ten, correct; and it is only
when men’s prejudices become inflamed by con
stant appeals to their passions, that the liberties
of the country are in danger. Whence came
‘party discipline’ and its long train of evil and in
justice! From the cunning of those cool, calcu
lating and selfish men who, void of feeling them
selves, become rich and powerful by speculating
upon the feelings and honest enthusiasm of
others. Artificial excitement, as well in the body
politic as in the physical system, is the great cause
of convulsion and premature decay. The natur
al impulses of men, forced from their healthy cur
rents by foreign stimulants, break out in ulcers
which eat into the very vitals of political liberty.
The legitimate object of the press is to diffuse
intelligence, to hold up constantly before the
world examples ofgoodness, that man may behold
and emulate, and to denounce crime, without bit
terness, The press that pursues this course soon
acquires the confidence and respect of the public;
its statements are relied upon, and its arguments
carry with them weight and influence.
As to personal abuse, blackguardism, and the
application to the individuals of epithets with the
pen which the writer would not dare to let escape
from his mouth in the presence ofthe object of his
malignity—the man who perverts the press to
such vile purposes deserves the same punishment
as he who poisons a public fountain.
And yet, look at the political partizan press of
this country, England and France! What one
public man has escaped without his name having
been blackened with slander and defamation!
whatman of talent, and intellect who has not
been compelled to struggle up beneath a load of
contumely and abuse, neaped upon him by the
hirelings of the press, beneath which so many
bright spirits have sunk into the earth ! No gen
ius is so exalted, no station so lofty, that the ven
om of partisan fury has not spit upon it. To be
a public man is to set ones self up to be abused,
ridiculed outraged and insulted, by every witling
who can obtain temporary control of a ephemeral
newspaper, got up under the auspices of a party
committee, who strut and swagger, and talk about
their 1 immutable principles,’ until the election is
over, and then dissolve into ‘thin air’—leaving
the poor tool, the editor , to father their lies and
libels, and to go to jail or shift for himself.
The indiscriminating fury of political partizan
ship has been the cause of more evil than all the
religious fanaticism and all the crusades against
witchcraft, with which the world has ever been
cursed, and we should rejoice to believe that the
day is approaching when men may differ in their
political sentiments without calling each other
jiars and scoundrels, or stabbing and killing one
another in the street. The press, we begin al
most to hope, is fast shaking off the incubus of
blind partizanship which has so long paralysed
its energies, and will soon stand forth, the cham
pion of right and the dispenser of knowledge.
Then indeed will it be a blessing and not a curse.
The above excellent articles, we coppy from
the N. Y Sun, and we most heartily respond to
it. If there ever was a time when the country
needed rest rom the angry elements of political
strife and discord, it is at the present. The great
mass of the people have no interest in the present
disgraceful bickerings, other than to put them
down. It is of no consequence to us, and millions
like us, who is president, or supervisor; (for be
tween the selection ofthese two functionaries, on
either side) may be traced the almost entire ruin
of the country. The people need a union, a com
promise, by which industry can be resumed, con
fidence restored, and our currency put into some
available shape. Office holders," office seekers,
and rabid demagogues must be made to learn that
their claims on the public consideration, are but
of small amount under the present state of things.
Party spirit is well enough when flowing through
a healthy channel; but when the suffer
ing at every point, pertinacity on one side, and ob
stinacy on the other,becomes criminal. Nothing
but conciliation and compromise can extricate
the country from its embarrassments. The peo
ple demand such a course from their rulers.—
Masonic Register.
“ My dear friend, that woman has been talking
about you, again ! She has been telling the aw
fullest lies you ever heard ; why, she railed about
you for a whole hour!”
“ And you heard it all, did you V’
"Yes”
“Well, after this, just bear in mind that it
takestwo to make a slander; one to tell it, and
one to listen to it.”
Philip of M acedon. having been wounded in a
the leg. limped ever afterwards; at which,ex- 1
pressing his regret , ‘ Sir,’ said one of his officer; 1
1 never be ashamed of an infirmity that puts von 1
in mind ofyour valor every stepyou take.’
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PROSPECTUS
OF
Sana s
OR, TOTAL ABSTINENCE ADVOCATE,
Derated to the Cause of I'emperance,—published
semi-monthly , in the City of Augusta,
BY JAMES McCAFFERTY.
AS it is certainly desirable that such a publication
should find its way into every house,the low piice
of subscription will, we hope, guaranty it a wide cir
culation. Such a paper we believe is required in tbis
community, especially at the present time.
Ihe determination our citizens have evinced,
to drive the Destroyer 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
ol Reformation is awakened throughout the length and
breadth of our country—the Temperance Cause is
every where happily advancing, bearing down all op
position, scattering blessings on every hand, drying up
the* teais of the distressed and causing the heart ol the
w idow* 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 prosperitv,
: honor and safety. Oh ! then, let us not prove recreant,
j but come boldly to the rescue, and with united heart
I and hand, assist in delivering our beloved country from
' t 0 worst > most cruel of enemies.
: lo impress the necessity of such a W’ork upon the
friends of Temperance, nothing can be more appropri
ate than the closing paragraph of a report from Mr. S.
an indefatigable Temperance agent.
Whatever other agencies maybe used, the Cause
must languish without publications to diffuse informa-
Uon and keep up an interest; they alone keep the sub.
ject blazing before the public mind. Temperance lec
tures may arouse the people from their slumbers,
strengthen the weak, confirm the wavering and re
claim the wanderer ; but the temperance publication
1 comes too often with their cheering accounts of the
I onward progress of the cause, with their interesting
lacts and anecdotes, and with their stirring appeals, to
permit the interest wholly to subside, or the slumbers
°t t . em P erance men long to remain undisturbed. Jf
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
j jfiend J they gather around the domestic fireside—
-1 they devour its pages, and its contents are read and
, repeated with all the glee and enthusiasm of childhood
I youth: and with the stated return of such a moni
tor, the interest is kept up and the cause advances.*’
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