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ff QBiffßY. __ From theHarri«burgh Washingtonian. The Clarion.—Air—“ The Chariot." The clarion—the clarion of freedom now sounds ; From the east to the west Independence resounds; From the hills and the streams, and the far distant skies, Let the shout, Independence,from Alcoholrise. The army—the army have taken the field, And the Cold Water hosts, never, never will yield ; From pure fountains refreshed, animation now glows, And with ardor immortal they rush on their foes. The armor—the armor that girds ev’ry breast, » Is the hope of dpliv’rance for thousands distress’d ; With kind words of persuasion, we call on the throng To desert the black banner, and join in our song. The banners—the banners of freedom now wave, Lo ! the eagle now covers the ranks of the brave ; With the shout, Independence! creation shall ring, From the cruel taxation of Alcohol King The conflict—the conflict will shortly be o’er, And the demon Intemperance shall triumph no more O’er the tears, and the sighs, and the premature graves ! See, the flag of our freedom eternally waves. The empire—the empire offreedom divine, Like the gray vault of Heaven forever shall shine j Then as wide as creation her blessings shall roll, And a star of new glory illumine each pole. The laurel—the laurel unfading shall wave [grave ; On the brows that have rescued their friends fiom the And the thanks of a nation forever be given To the horocs immortal, —co-workers with Heaven. From the Organ. The Decision. Oh ! taste the wine! come bathe thy lip, Fair maiden, in its purple stream, Oh! taste the wine, and while you sip, New brightness in your eyes shall gleam. Away—away—my lip is pure, I bathe it but in holier streams; I scorn, I loathe, the wine cup s lure— I would not share its feverish dreams. Away—away, my eyes reflect No borrowed radiance in their light, My cheek no shame-tinged blush hath deck’d My soul abhors the wine cup’s blight. Away—the beaded goblet take; No vestals serve at Bacchus’ shrine, My throbbing heart may bleed, may break — 1 will not share thy love with wine! Believe me, thou must break the spell, Oh here we take a last farewell. Almira. Temperance Ode—Bv R. M. Cuarlton, F.su. Air— Marseilles Hymn. Ye friends of Virtue! wake to duty, See, see! what havoc Vice has made;— The widow’s cries, the tears of Beauty, Implore your help—beseech your aid : Shall tyrant Custom, ruin bringing, Reel to and fro throughout the land, With none to raise a voice or hand, To warn the victims round it clinging? Awake, awake from sloth, Proclaim with loudest breath, That he who drains the “ flowing bowl,” Drinks shame, despair, and death. Oh Temperance! can man forsake thee, And all thy tranquil joys give up; Or will he vainly hope to make thee Companion of the sparkling cup? Ah no! the wise this lesson knoweth, That danger in each goblet lies, And he the bright enchantment flies, And quaffs the tide that Hcav’n bestoweth. Awake, awake from sloth, etc. It is astonishing to see what a change intem perance causes in families. I have known a youthful couple settled in life, with the most bril liant prospects, residing in a pleasant dwelling, with every comfort around them, many friends smiling upon them, while their pure character excited the respect of the community. I have seen the happiness of that family turned into misery, their pleasant dwelling exchanged for a hovel, their friends— business—character and re spect all gone. I have seen madness and death come among them, consigning some to the grave and scattering the rest to the four winds. What has been the cause of all this? The horrid evil is embraced in the one word, in tem perance. By slow but certain approaches, it east the chains around the husband of a fond and virtuous wife. It gradually palsied his in tellect and brutalized his affection -it led him in to bad company and destroyed his attention to bu siness—it made him sour, morose and cruel —it made him reckless of the respect of community, of good manners, ofdecent appearance—it sowed the seed of disease in his whole frame, destroyed his property, brought him to poverty and vice ; it often sent him home staggering in his filthy hab its, with curses upon his lips, and while his wife with the affection which never dies in the sou! of the true woman, is preparing the coarse food . I which poverty sparingly deals out, he beats her. ! as though to endure him were not enough—and ! it crushes him at last with the horror of insanity into a premature grave, while his wife, it she dies j not before the ignoble winding up of her com panion’s career, is left to be sustained by the ! stinted charitiesofthc world. Call you this fancy? ’, a dream? In the span of my days, I have seen it all. Such is the incalculable wretchedness produ ced in families by intemperance, that 1 have fre ( qucntly wished that intoxicating drinks had ne-. . ver been made.— Water Spout. Did the British Soldiery during the Revolu tion spread more devastation through the heart ot , j onr beloved country, than does Intemperance ! ! Did they make more spoil of the property, the happiness, the reputation and the health of their conquered victims ! Then, where arc the patri otic hearts who confront the enemy to our Coun try? They are the solely pledged and active members of Total Abstinence Societies, Is this i not so ? Death from Intemperance. Mr. Thomas Wright, a citizen of this neigh borhood, came to an untimely end on Saturday i morning last. He had been to Columbia county on business, and returning on Friday, it is said he received an injury by a fall from bis horse nearCrawfordville. Hearrividat Wootlvillein a stateofintoxication; here he renewed life drinks, and in attempting to ride off, again fell. He was i taken up, and received kind attention during the i night—but all in vain. lie expired early on Satur day morning. Mr. Wright had scarce)} seen a sober hour in the last six years; was in the prime of life, and but for his love of rum, might have been a respectable and useful citizen. But he is gone; let others profit by this sad event. 1 - Tim pcrance Banner. What shall we do with our Apples t A few years ago this was the anxiousjnquiry | of the farmers throughout New Englaixl, New York and New Jersey, as they began to 3ee the inconsistency and folly of extracting from them a (J■ ink, which took a high rank among theagents of intemperance. If we may not use them for cider, what shall we do with our apples T Tem perance and health and economy all replied, bet ter leave them to perish in the field than to make of them so poisonous a drink. But this would not satisfy the mind ready to ask. why all this waste ! Providence points out a use for them; though it was manifest that tar too much of many a beautiful farm had been appropriated to the or | chard. For horses, cattle and swine, they were 1 found too valuable to waste, and we believe that I now they are seldom carried to the mill, for the ! bane of man, and that so universal is the infer ! mation respecting their value for swine, tiiat nothing more can he published to much advan tage ; yet as some of our readers tmnv he without needful information, and as this is the month in which, if any, the inquiry will be made, we give the following letter from the Temperance Re corder, written by George \V. Patterson. Esq, a distinguished farmer, formerly of Livingston county, and late Speaker of the House of As j serobly of this state. — [Am. Temperance I ninn. Westfield, Julv ‘J, 1842. ! Th. Phelps, Esq. Dear Sir—ln reply to your enquiry respecting the use of apples as feed for hogs, I answer that 1 from lß3tito 1810, inclusive, when 1 resided on my farm in Livingston county. I made use of ap ples as the principal feed to fatten my hogs.— The mode adopted was as follows: A potash kettle was filled with apples, a bucket of water put in the bottom, and the whole covered with wheat bran to prevent the steam from escaping. 1 As soon as the apples became sort to the core, they were put into a tub or box, that would hold three to four hundred gallons, and when filled with apples cooked as above, together with a small quantity of bran mixed with them, thev were allowed to remain until fermentation took place, and then fed to the hogs. Care should he taken not to make the apples too soft in boiling. Those who have suitable convenience for steaming their apples, would un douhtedlvsave considerable lahor thereby. One year I iattened my hogs exclusively with this kind of feed, and have no hesitation in say i ing that the pork was as good as I ever had on ! my farm. j I formerly used corn as the principal feed, hut ' found from experience that it was too expensive j making pork in that way, and when made it was no better than when the hogs are fatted with apples. It will he found that the same suantity of ap ples are nearly or quite as good as jxitatocs for i feed; and it certainly tequires much less expense | to raise them, and they will afford a much better profit when fed to hogs, than when made into cider. Let a farmer sell his corn and fatten his hogs on apples, and 1 will guarantee that his clear profit at the end of the year, (all other things being equal,) wilt be more than that of his neigh bor, who makes cider from his apples, and spends his winter evenings drinking that beverage. Apples will be found valuable as feed for store hogs, in the winter, either with or without cook ing. If fed without boiling, sweet ones are pre ferable; but when cooked, and allowed to fer ment, 1 have never found any material difference. GEO. W. PATTERSO-V Djd you ever see a wine merchant who would not contess that it is vastly easier to manufacture wine, than it is to import it ? The Mother of Washington. An excellent address on the subject of Tem perance, was recently made at Cleveland, Ohio, by James A. Briggs, in the course of which the orator paid the followin'? beautiful tribute to the material virtues of the mother of Washington: “ It was to his excellent mother that Washing ton was indebted for his success in after life ; lor she instilled into his mind in his early years, those principles of virtue and correct action, which, in his mature years, were to him ot so much importance, and to which he was indebted fur all his greatness.’ The mother of Washing ton taught her son upon his Bended knees, with his little hands clasped in hcr’s to repeat the Sa viour’s prayeT against temptation: she taught iiim the great truths oi the Christian religion; she stamped upon his mind the impress of her cwn virtues and greatness, and as her son grew in years and strength, that impress deepened. She bade him seek for knowledge, and she filled his mind with the rich treasures of human thought. She taught him that there were no treasures so rich as those of the mind, and no reward like that ever attendant upon a life governed by the stand ard of moral rectitude. She discharged the high and sacred duties of a mother, and her virtues are as immortal as the name ot her son. I believe j sir, if the mother of Washington had been like some of the fashionable mothers of this day, that hr never wouldhare been beard of. I do not speak 1 this from any disrespect of woman, for I venerate the very name. But, sir, Ido believe that a wo- j i man whose highest ambition is, to learn the new est fashions for dress, and who thinks more of decoiating her person than she doesofcultivating her mind ; who is a mere doll—a toy—a pretty ■ plaything, would never teach her children those lessons of wisdom, which would tend to unfold ■ the moral and intellectual powers of the being 1 committed to her care. How high the trust, how great the responsibility of the mother. She moulds the character of her child—she gives the first direction and tone to infant thought. Mrs. Sigourney has written, “that the mind of the child is like wax in the hands of its mother, and she can stamp it with whatever impress she pleases.” How true, how correct is this remark, of one of the most accomplished women in our : epuntv. A holy charge is eonimitted to the mo ther in the education of her children; and if she i< not educated and qualified to discharge in a proper manner the duties devolving upon her, the consequences must fall heavily upon society. 1 We never forget the teachings oftlie mother who ■ watched over the cradle of our infancy and pil < lowed our heads upon the bosom of maternal love. Her counsels abide with us through all the chan ges of life. Her lessons are treasured by us in our hearts best affections; and her words of love and kindness are written upon the tablets of uur memory, anil they never can bo erased. By the late post-office law, the scale regulating the postage of newspapers has been so regulated that nil papers of and under the size of the IVexv York “Courier and Enquirer,” will be carried at the minimum rate of one cent. Those of a larger size will be charged at a graduated rate of increase which will make the postage on one of the mam moth weekly sheets, “Brother Jonathan or “Bos ton Notion,” for instance, 17 cents.— Southern Miscellany. Several valuable specimens ofGold were taken from a mine a few weeks since, discovered on the land of Valentine Derr, on Stanley’s Cretk, in Lincoln County, N. C One piece weighed 49 penny weights and ti grains, and six other pieces averager! from two to five pennyweight, pure gold, when lound. The mine has now been worked about six months, and seems only to in crease in value.— Spartanbursr Journal. Swimming. There is one simple scientific rule which, if suitably impressed upon the mind, would save life in all ordinary cases; and for want of a know ledge of this rule, very expert swimmers are some times drowned. The rule is this: Clasp your hands behind your back, make your nose the highest point of your body, (or look towards the horizon over your forehead,) and do not stir a muscle, and you will infaliblv float. Thus every human being" has a life preserver against water, if taught to use it. The brutes, from their different conformation, ami especially from their want of the great rational develop ment of the forehead, float by necessity, and swim by instinct. It is a pity and a paradox t hat men should lose their lives by a more liberal al lowance of brains—Boston Free Am, What Somebody says of a Yankee. In London one day, I was walking up Recent street, and my attention was attracted bv “two very genteel looking young men, who from" their appearance I took to be sprigs of nobility. On approaching them, I was surprised to recognize two Connecticut acquaintances, who invited me to their room, and on saying that thev cut such a swell 1 did not know them,replied wo thought we’d show these fellows that some things can lie done 1 as well as others, and so we adopted the/miff ton of the elite, and now we want to show you our new butter machine we have brought out on speculation. To remove Ink Stains from Paper. Dip the feather of a pen in muriatic acid, and gently pass it over the part of the paper which is inked- -this will turn it to a red color; afterwards dip the feather in boiling water, and pass it over ; the same part several times, and all traces of the | ink will be gone. To Purify Water. It is not so generally known as it ought to be, that pounded alum possesses the property of puri fying water, A large table-spoonful of pulver ized alum, sprinkled into a hogshead of water, (the water stirred round at the time,) will, after the lapse of a few hours, by precipitating to the bottom the impure particles, so purify it, that it will be found to possess nearly all the freshness and clearness of the finest spring water. A pail full, containing four gallons, may be purified by a single tea-spoonful. There is a man at Rochester, who has become so celebrated for adjusting difficulties, that the ladies in his neighborhood, when they arc out of eggs, send for him to nettle coffee. 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A few copies of those con- I veuient tables on hand. Price 60 cents. For sale at this office. [Aug. 6 J'J IRC ELATING Newspaper Agency and News Room v Subscriptions receii ed—Copies sold on the New ' York and London plan. New Engli-h Woiks forth coming, constantly by the steam-ships from Europe. Please to call next door to John G. Winter’s, Bioad , street. S. A. HOLMES, A gent. Augusta, Auguste 5 ts PROSPECTUS 1 OP [ OR, TOTAL ABSTINENCE ADVOCATE, Devoted to the Cause of Temperance,—published semi-monthly, in the City of Augusta, BY JAMES McCAFFERTY. 1 AS it is certainly desirable that such a publication should find its way into every house,the low piice j of subscription will, we hope, guaranty it a wide cir i dilation. Such a paper we believe is required in this community, especially at the present time. The determination our citizens have evinced, f to drive theD< s*ro) er from the land,has aw akened the , i most intemperate 10 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 bieadth of our country—the Temperance Cause is exerv where 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 w ife to sing forj oy. It is a glorious cause—the cause ol humanity and virtue: our I country s highest good is involved—her prosperity, honor and safety. Oh ! then, let us not prove recreant, k ;it j- ome 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. To impress the necessity of such a work upon the friends of Tern j t rance, nothing can be more appropri ate than the closing paragraph of a report from Mr. S. lrM vN, an indefatigable Temperance agent. >V hatever other agencies may be 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 i ciaim tiie wanderer ; but the temperance publication comes too often with their cheering accounts of the onward progress of the cause, with their interesting facts and anecdotes, and with their stirring appeals, to permit the interest wholly to subside, or the slumbers ol 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 lnend ; 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.” Ihe 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. ( K?“ AN communications, by mail, must be post paid , to receive attention. June 1 Ith. 184*2.