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OR, TOTAL AIISTINENCE ADVOCATE. VoL. 1.1 ' THE WASHINGTONIAN. PUBLISHED BY JAMES McCAFFERTY, TWICE EVERY MONTH. Office on Macintosh street — opposite the Post Office. TfRMS. for a single copy, for one year, One Dollar; for six „ •copies, to one address. Five Dollars; for ten copies, to one address, Eight Dollars—and so in proportion. . j. 0&* Payment in all cases to be made in advance. All communications by mail, must be post paid, to receive attention. Journal of a Washingtonian. If any one wishes to know how a Washing tonian does up his work, we refer him to the lol lowing account which Mr. Vickers, one of the reformed Baltimoreans, gives to his Western tour; and if any persons are at a loss for enter tainment in a temperance meeting, wo recom mend him the reading of this paper: Before I commenced with Kentucky, vou will recollect that I had already visited Pennsylvania, 0 or partially so. On my route I went to Harris burg, where I found a Washington Society flour ishing astonishingly ; they heard ofmy being at York; that 1 was coming on ; so as soon as we ar rived, some one put his head into the stage and cried out, 11 Is Vickers here? ” Yes, said F, he is —so off they carried me to a temperance meeting, and what astonished me more than anything else, they opened it with singing a temperance song; they al ways do it. and it does sound most delight ful. Every member there, while in the meeting, wears a badge of the society on the lappel of Ins coat, so that any stranger can tell who are the members. I went from there to Westmoreland, and according to the good old principles of the / w ashington Society, I went to see a distiller; an I offered him the pledge to sign. “.No, sir,” saitl he; “ 1 manufacture the article, and do you suppose I would sign 1 I'll tell you what I’ll do,” said he, “ I have a son, and 1 should be right glel if you could get him to sign; and you mav * toll him, if he will, there are five hundred dollars in the hands of Mr. Taylor, and the home farm, and he shaft have them both she signs it”—like many a fuller, he was willing to give any thing but the influence of example. So off I went in 'j search of the son. 1 told him what his father said. “ Well now,” said lie, “how can you ex pect inc to trot when daddy and mammy both paces ?” 11 urned round and went right oif after the old man—now said I, what do you say to i that? “Well, sir,” said lie. “I pledge you inv % word 1 never saw it in that light before, and I never will drink or manufacture another drop as ; long as I live;” and he put down his name upon ; the spit.’ I took tiae pi dgc to the young man i with his father's name to it, and he signed it di u rectly. I found some men in that part of the U country who were sacreligious enough to take the Bible in order to justify drinking. ~ One man ■% who had not courage to come out himself picked 1 out some passages of scripture, and sent a parcel, about thirty rowdies, to propound them to me- -so j the whole gang came up with sticks in their f? hands, and the foremost bully among them came Jm up close to me, and said he, “ Sir, do you say " whiskey is my enemy 1” Yes, replied 1. “Well then,” said he, “does’nt the scriptures say we I must lore our enemies?” At that moment it ( seems to me, as though by a kind of inspiration, j an answer came into my head, and I replied to him, Yes, sir, it does; but the scriptures does’nt i tell us we must tat ox drink our enemies! At | this they all burst out into a laugh, and the whole ! I band signed upon the spot. I never let old King i Alcohol run me off the ground if I can help it. When I arrived at Pittsburg, 1 heard some I good news about the reform there. There was a man there who had been a senator, but before any of these temperance efforts had reached there, he had become so low from drink that no man would give him a sip to buy segars, because they knew before ever he’d get to a tobacco shop he’d spend it for liquor. That man is now may or of the city—Alleghany city; and another man who was a “notorious drunkard, is now chief mar shal of the same place. I next went to Cincinnati, and there has been a mighty work going on there—lsay there has been, since I was there before, a mighty work— why they have had meetings every night, except Sunday night, since. It’s a rare chance that ever you’d see a drunkard there, I assure you. I thought, however, there might be some few left, so I thought it would be as well to hold a mcet ing down on the river—accordingly I gave out on Saturday, that the next day there would be a fe meeting between Main and Sycamore streets, on the river bank. It rained nearly all dav Sunday; however, I mounted an old box and there soon mustered a large crowd. Before the meeting was over about thirty persons signed, and a whole steamboat’s crew—captain, mate, all hands and cook too. And now they won’t have any hotly AUGUSTA. GA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1842 about that boat who is not a total abstinence man. and there is no danger now, hardly any where upon the Ohio; a great many of the hands, and the ofiicers ot many ot the boats, arc temperance men. As I was going from Pittsburg down to Cin cinnati, 1 foundevery man on board a temperance : man but two, and one ot these was an old pledge > man; the other, who was a fine fellow, but loved a little occasionally, allowed that he was a free man and did not intend to be bound, and that I was a slave, I could not do as I pleased; but 1 i proved to him before we got to our journey’s end, that he was the slave, anil I the free man. lie wanted to drink, but was ashamed to go to the | bar; so when the boat stopped at a small town I this side ot Marietta, he ran up to a little tavern on the hill. When ho came back—Now, said I, which ot us is the slave ? lie lives in Louisville, and when I go back there 1 expect we shall get | him. ; While about Cincinnati, I visited a small town called Mount Vernon, and 1 must tell you ot a certain class of folks I met with there. The temperance cause meets with more opposition in that part ot the country from u certain class of : Christians who hold up the idea that tiic church is temperance society enough—that if a man's a Christian lie’s a temperance man. They arc called Campbellites; and there are a good many of them hold up that doctrine. One of these men, a very line man too, got right up in a meet ing where I was speaking, and said, that as lor bis part, lie could’nt see any use at all for a tem perance society, that the church was a suflicicnt salegu ird; he could take care of himself; and that a little, lie had found out, did a man good. Up gets a little fellow, who was pretty well corn ed “That’s right, old fellow,” said he, tapping him on the shoulder, “give it to’em; you meet mv vi ws exactly.” “ Well,” replied the Camp bellite, “it I do, I’ll nop meet them any longer.” And so we got him, mid nearly the whole town, ministers and all, except one; at last he came in and said that he had always thought the church 1 'emperanee society enough, and now hehad dis covered that the church was & subject between him and his God, but this was between him and his fellow man. There was a poor little fellow near that place, who was almost dead; he was drawn double al most from drink; lie lived in a poor miserable hovel out of the town, with nothing but a dirt floor. They told us about him. Well, said I, 1 let’s go and see him. O, said they, it’s no use ; you can never do any tiling with him. We went to see him. I asked him if he would not like to become a respectable man once more. *' es, 1 w,.u!d,’i said he. M ell now, said 1, you can live to be a respectable man yet. “ Well, if you will show me how, 1 will try,” was his reply. Now, said I, in the first place you must get your own will to d» it, and then you must sign the pledge. Well, lie did. And I told some of the gentle i.en then that he must have some clothes— second hand clothes, said I, will make this man look first rate. Next thing J told them to make warm soup —I’m a great advocate for soup, there is nothing like it in such cases. Next we got a tub of warm’ water and some soft soap, and then went to work; forthe little fellow was amazingly dirty—it was ground in his very flesh, like. W hiie they were washing him we’d occasionally give him some soup; and it appeared to me that I <>t every spoonful you could see a joint of his back j bone slip into its place. Weil, we dressed him I up, and on the fourth night he give in his expe ! rience. I next went from Cincinnati to a place called Portsmouth, where there is one of the largest iron works in the western country —they employ 120 men, and every man of them signed the pledge. I left in that place a flourishing society of upwards of4oo members. From there I went, according to a previous in vitation, to Kentucky. Perhaps you would like here to know something of Mr. Brown, the gen tleman that went with me from Cincinnati Well, he was the man that signed on the last night that I was in Cincinnati before; poor fel low, he was almost dead ; one foot in the grave, he was so low. In the first place he has a good experience, ho was a regular drunkard, and is a pretty smart fellow, and speaks off hand. He was once deputy U. S. Marshal—l found him a good help-mate; he is a noble hearted fellow, and I like him. We first went to Maysville. As I came back, I found in the places which we had passed through societies as follows: Mays ville Society 1700; Washington 350; Mayslick 700; Lexington 2300; Frankford 900; Nicho lasville GOO; Georgetown 500; Versailles 400 ; Midway 250, Crossings 100; Stamping Ground (the place where the buffaloes stamp) 150; Lan-1 caster 400; Canville 800; Laurenceburg 200;' Hogshead Church 100; Harrodsburg 600’; Per rysvillc 150; Hustonviile 250, Stanfrom 350; Syricia 100; Richmond 100: Bryansville 100— All Washington total abstinence pledges—no variation—would’nt allow any—making in all While we were holding meetings at Maysville, there was a poor fellow put off of one of the bftats I going down the river. He had no money, no friends, no clothes, and was very siek. Some ■ one told us of him and we went down and found him. I spoke to him, and told him that I knew ; how to feel for him in his situation, and asked if he would not like to sign the Washington pledge —and what do you think were the first words he said 1 W hy, that he was not going to sign away ; his liberty ! 1 told him that lie would be fej anil j clothed, and work would be found tor him ; that j there were plenty o. Washingtonians there rea dy to assist him if he could only get his own con | sent to reform. I then told him that his situation was precisely as mine was once in Charleston. Said he “ \V hy 1 used to live there, and 1 carried on the largest saddle and harness factory in the place.” i At last lie consented to sign; we sent for soma clothes, had him doctored up, and he was getting along finely. Three days afterwards I was relating an account of this poor fellaw in Washington. A gentleman who heard the ac count rode flown to .Maysville the next day, and discovered him to be the very man he had served j his time with. Ile took him home, and he now 1 has a comfortable home as long as he lives. There were not many drunkards left before we; left .Maysville; however, there were some old 1 fellows we could never get into a church. Let us have a meeting in the market-house, said I, that’ll rcacli them. So we had it cried about town that Messrs. Vickers and Brown would hold a temperance experience meeting in tile market-house. The market-house was so near the coffee-house that we had all the eofi'ee-housc men and haul cases in the place. At this meet ing, after I had done speaking, a brewer who carried on a pretty large business, commenced replying to me. While he was speaking, the people began to come up on all suits. Go on, said I, there’s three now signing under your ad ministration to every one under mine. The same night we had a meeting in the Presbyterian church, and it was crowded—they flocked to it from tile market-house and every where else; almost every one came forward ; the brewer see ing them all agoing, and iiis custom going, tho’t he might as well go too; so down went his name. A Large Throat. The Morning Star, published at Cincinnati, relates the following anecdote of a young gentle man of the South who had expended a large for tune, —money, lands, negroes,—every thing, in a course of intemperance and profligacy. lie had just paid a last year’s grog bill of $800; one day he was walking in the street very leisure ly, when seeing a physician on the opposite side, he called out to him, said he wanted him to come over. 1 Doctor,’ said lie, ‘ I wish you'd just take a look down my throat. ‘ 1 don't discover any j tiling sir,' said the doctor, after looking very care- ! fujiy. ‘ You don’t!’ said lie, ‘ why that’s strange; j will you he kind enough, sir, to give another look.’ ■ Really, sir,’ said the doctor, after a second look, ‘ I don’t see any thing.’ ‘ JSTo! why doctor, there is a farm, ten thousand dollars, and twenty ne- j groes gone down there!’ And it was a fact too, he had really swallowed the land, negroes and all. This young man acquired the habit of drinking 1 at college from a fellow-student from Mississippi, who it was said, had actually, out of one hun- 1 dred and twenty companions made the majority I of them drunkards, hy his example. They at! first used to smuggle wine into their rooms, and \ afterwards they drank openly at the hotel. All this from the influence ofone young man. The Mouse in Liquor. Mr. Smith, the reformed drunkard from Lon don, apologised for much of the folly of the drunk ard, hy the following story of the Cat and the Mouse: A Mouse raging about a brewery happened to fall into one of the vats, was in imminent danger of drowning, and appealed to a cat to help him out. The cat replied it is a foolish request, for ; as soon as I get you I shall eat you. Tile mouse ; piteously replied, that fate would be better than j to be drowned in beer. The cat lifted him out, | but the fumes of the beer caused pussy to sneeze,, the mmse took refuge in his hole The cat call- 1 cd upon mousey to come out —“ You rascal, did I you not promise that I should eat you ?” “Ah!” j replied mousey', “ but you know I was in liquor at tlic time.'’ Whiskey and the Gallows. The Rev. Dr. Yore stated at a late meeting in Dublin, that he had attended at least lilO crimi nals to the scaffold, and every one ofthem declar ed, that intemperance was the means of bringing them lo that end. “It’s all over with us 1” feuiil an old distiller in our hearing yesterday. 11 Making whiskey is killed dead—done up teeto | tally—ruined." “ And what are you doing now said a bystander “ Why we have rigged up for grinding wheat tor the farmers.” “ flow ] many barrels of flour can vou grind a day V’ | “Why, we can make about 40,1 suppose, though I I hardly know'. We have only just smashed down, and we have turned the old distillery just in season for the new wheat crop. Since the . W ashingtonians have killed off our business, we must make a change and do something for a liv ing you know.” “But corn will be cheap,” said the bystander, “why do you not go on making j whiskey 1” “Oh, hang the whiskey,” said the I old distiller, “ what’s tile use of making if nobody will buy 11 would not make if they would give : me the corn for nothing. 1 must do something better than making whiskey at twelve cents a 1 gallon.” Here was an “ old ’un,” really choaked off by I lie W ashingtonians—could not pursue his call ing any longer because no money could be made by it. Let all Washingtonians be encouraged ;to go forward with redoubled energy. We will pjit out the fires of ths “ old King,” one after ano j ther, till lie cannot raise a light to show where he is.— \Morning Star. Temperance Singing. An intemperate man, on a visit to his friends in this place, was persuaded to go to one of our meetings But, in consenting, he declared he would not sign the pledge. He went, and was surprised and charmed with a beautiful quartette sung that evening. “That’s the right sort of I toupwance, said he. “If I had not vowed I would not sign here, I would join.” He went back to his home collected his tippling associ ■'t's, and termed, without help, a flourishing temperance society. Soon after this a revival of religion visited that rural population ; and the I TwT beCamu a Christian con fer . When the things of earth shall live only | m distant memory, he will not forget the simDie and sweet melody of the “Chrvstal Spring” even amid the resounding and myriad-fonaued harmony of the Anthem of Redemption !~W port of Harrisburg W. T. Soc. r .... Young Men. What a pleasing sight it is to see the youth of our land, the hope of our country, so zealously engaged in the temperance reformation. Who can divine the benefits wc are to derive from their co-operation. Who can estimate the stores of I prosperity they are accumulating for themselves ? Uuarding in early hie against the vice from which al oUiers spring-removing the temptation that has so often enticed the unwary into the haunts of dissipation and disgrace—the young hlcn of | ®“ r natl ”" W'H 1,(1 'veil fitted to wear with manly dignity the honors soon to fall upon them. We ; believe that in a few short years the whole aspect ot society will be entirely changed. All who now oppose the work of reform-all who now ijuafi the ruby wine when it gives its color in the tmp —ail who now seek the halls where bachana- ! an r «;velrv drowns, for the moment, every thought of time and eternity-will have passed rom the busy scene of life, giving place to the sober and clear-hoaded men who are rising up to ill the stations of those who will then sleep with be generations of the earth that have gone before them.— Teetotaller. Cure tor Drinking Spirituous Liqors. Talee two ounces of the flour of consideration, j dissolve it in a pint ofthc spirit of self-denial, then add one quart ofthejuiceofresolutiontoit;shake it well together, then put it into the golden bowl —if lll <- golden bowl (memory) be not broken: then sweeten it with the sugar of high-reputation. A dram of these hitters may be taken as often as the appetite craves liquor. A larger portion of juice may be added ifncccssary, and if one bowl full should not perfect a cure, it must be filled up again with the same kind; the longer one takes these bitters, the less bitter will they taste. I rifles are not to be despised. The nerve of a tooth, not as large as the finest cambric needle, will sometimes drive a man to distraction. A musquito can make an elephant absolutely mad. 1 he rock which caused a navy to founder, is the work of a worm. The warrior that withstood death in a thousand forms, may be killed by an in sect. Small pleasures make upthe sum of human happiness. The deepest wretchedness often re sults from a perpetual countinuance of petty pains. A single look from those we love often produces exquisite pain or unalloyed pleasure. The first glass of wine that was drunk, led to all the hor rors, miseries and crime that have sprung from drunkenness, and darkened the earth for centu ries. [No. 8.