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PQFffJBY. . From the W. R. Washingtonian. ‘AWAY WITH THE BOTTLE.’ hab.v*kcx,2J, 16: 16. Tl'NK— Campbells are Coming. Away with the bottle— away, away, The curse if upon you unless you obey ; For the Lord, who is righteous, hath noticed thy sin, And soon shall thy just retribution begin. Thinkest thou to escape from the snare thou hast laid, Thy'foot shall be caught in the ‘gin’ thou hast made, And while glory and honor are sought for thy name, Thou shaltsink in the depths of pollution and shame. Look thou on the bottle with redness of eyes— Drink thou of the poison there hid in disguise, And let thy fair fame be exchanged for disgrace. While the mark of thy traffic is seen in thy face. o,give this foul spirit no longer control, Thou art killing thy body and cursing thy soul; Fly, fly ! from the fiend, ere he make thee his prey, Away with the bottle—away, away. Lafayette, Aug. 20. 8. B. C. The following beautiful lines, published in the Western Morning Star, were written by a daugh ter of the late President Harrison, and addressed to the Delegates of the Cincinnati Washington Temperance Society. Go, warn the youth who gazes On the wine-cup’s ruby glow, That beneath the sparkling nectar There lurks a treacherous foe. And bid him fly, while reason Exerts her potent sway;{ For, once dethroned, to that dread foe, He’ll fall an easy prey. Full many a widowed mother Will bless you in His name, Who always hears ihe orphan’s cry, And grants the widow’s claim. And many a wife rejoicing O’er husband “ lost and found,” Will feel, at mention of your name, Her grateful heart rebound. On with the glorious banner Os “ Temperance and Reform,” Break down the haunts of Satan! His very “ stronghold storm.” And nobler triumphs will be yours, A more enduring fame Than that which wreaths the conquerors brow, Or circles round his name. From the Olive Plant. A Life and Death Picture. As the summer’s azure sky, Was the clear blue of his eye, And his laugh went ringing by, On the air; When a happy guileless child, On two parent-hearts hesiniled, And with angel-love beguiled, All their care— Cherub-thoughts were in his face, As he ran his frolic race, Bearing mirth from place to place, Like a bird ; • Ah, no mocking bird more free, Sung his song of varying glee,- Where is now that minstrelsy, Once we heard! Bright boy of days gone by, Lurid flames glare in thine eye, And I hear a tiger’s cry, From his lair! Thy ribald accents fierce, Thy father’s bosom pierce, And thy mother’s days are tears, And despair! Tall thy form since last we met, But thy brilliant eye is set, And with deadly dew is wet Thy pale brow ? God grant redeeming grace,— Gone is every demon trace, And death’s calm is on his face, Mercy now! Charac eristics ot the Temperance Reform. It is bold, fearless, above board. The impos ter always has about him something he cannot or will not explain: something that must be con cealed. or ne cannot succeed—hence he is at times cowardly: he seeks to veil himself in mys terv. and rover his purpose in obscurity. His success depends upon the weakness of those he acts upon. His appeals are to ignorance, scepti ' j cism, passion, credulity. In the end, the impostor | always fails. The temperance reform comes to town in the day time, and eornes to the most densely popula ted,intelligenttowns; there is nothing it somuch dreads to look in the face as a lazy, ignorant, vi | cions audience. If. courts investigation; it in j vires reason, analogy, experience, to come and ' mike an experiment upon it.' .Nothing pleases j Temperance more than to see an intelligent, j honest mar. go away, saying, “ I’ll go home, and i give you a lair trial.’' It appeals to facts. “ See here,” says Tem perance at the dose of a lecture, “ here is a man whom I found two weeks ago almost burnt up ; with rum, as you yourselves who know him, know. I shook rum out of him, put tpod in him, washed and dressed him: he has been with me j now two weeks, and did you ever see such a ! change in any man before 1 It cost me nothing, \ and it cost him nothing; on the contrary, he is ! nov.’ worth one dollar a dav more than he was | before I took him. I brought him here as a spe -1 ciinen : what do you think of my work 1" Noth ; ing but stupidity can stand out against such argument and demonstration. Temperance goes into the shop where the ma ker and seller stand ready to hand it out to all who can pay for it, and says to him, “ ft's wrong for you to (so that; what you give that man i till kill him ; what he gives ydu will do you good ; that is not fair nor honest; is not your conscience , uneasy 1 Jlon’t you think thatyou ought to give it upJXow what can be fairer titan this?— | Wnat more fearless, honorable or above board? Temperance has nothing to be ashamed of, noth ■ ing to conceal. It appeals to truth, fact, observa tion, experience: it asks to be tried by its own merits, and scekß no foreign aid. In the end, Temperance always succeeds. —{Selected.] A Temper nice Incident. An old taper of our acquaintance in ail adjoin i ing county, took it into his head to eschew bis evil practices, and join the Washingtonians. , Acting upon this resolution, he put his name to I the Pledge at one of the evening sessions of the society, in the plare where he resided. The next morning bright and early, our friend arose from bed, dressed, cleared up his throat with three or fourahems! and made for the door. His wife, not having much confidence in his resolution to abstain from his previous habits, and suspecting, as was his custom, that he was about to visit the grog-shop for his morning dram, called out to him, and demanded where he was going. “ I’m going to feed the cattle,” was his reply, as he closed the door and walked in the direction to the barn. The wife, hastily dressing, put out after him. He passed the barn and made for a small thicket ot cedars that ran along the margin of a stream overhung with rocks. His wife followed on. She saw him approach a ledge of rocks, and concealing herself behind a bush, watched his operations. He stooped down, picked up a stout I stick of wood, and commenced poking away among the leaves. Presently a junk bottTe, filled with blue ruin, was disclosed to view. “ Touch not, taste not, handle not, the unclean thing,” muttered lie to himself, as he rolled it over and over with his cudgel. “ And you are there, are you, Mi. Manongahela ?—You must have had a cold time of it last night, for one of your warm nature and fiery spirit, Mr. Oh-bc-joyful,” said he, as he gently tapped it on the bottom “But you and I must part nay right stout triend,” and then he whirled the bottle round and round with such amazing velocity as to make the leaves fly in eve ry direction. Tiring w ith this part of the per formance, he seated himself upon a fallen tree to philosophize. His wife looked on from her hid ing place, wondering what was to come next. After remaining in this position for some time, his eye transfixed upon the bottle, he suddenly jumped to his feet, swung his stick high in the air. and with a—“ d it your eyes, take that!” shivtred the bottle into a thousand fragments. [ Hash . and Genius. “ Doctor,” satfi a poor fellow whose physician had interdicted his smallers, “ doctor, now do vou think that a liltleJffandy just once in a while, would hurt me ‘much? 5 ’ “Why, no,” drawled out the doctor very deliberately, “ I suppose if you took a very little—very seldom—it would’nt much—but if you don’t take any—it wont hurt I you at all.” j That’s the point. “Do thyself no harm,” j much or little. Take none. Sign the pledge and help us to persuade every one to do the same. [ Temperance Agent. Hinis to the Working Classes. Next to the virtues of industry and sobriety in the working classes, may be ranked the virtue of carefully preserving their humble gains, and hus banding them in such a manner as to make them avail to the utmost of their capability. There is no greater difficulty than to make men believe, and practically act upon the belief, that, if they j will but save thenence, the pounds will take care jof themselves. For the purpose of enforcing our I remarks, and showing by arithmetical calcula tion the sure and progressive increase of small i sums, if properly secured, we subjoin the follow ing statement, which is indeed a worthy hint, not only to the laboring, but to all classes. * We ear nestly commend it to tile atttention and action ot ; our readers. ; “If a man, 21 years of age, began to save one I dollar a week, and put it at interest every year, he would have at 31 years of age, 5650; at 41 ’ SI,150; at 71, $11,500. When w* look at these sums, and when we think how much temptation might he avoided in the very act of saving them, and how much good a man in humble circum stances may do lor his family with these sums, we cannot help wondering that there are not more savers of §1 a week. He who saves this j sum may not only pay his own way, but help the afflicted, and subscribe to various benevolent I societies. In short he may show mercy to thou sands in this world, and he may help them on their way to a better. The above calculation is ! from an English paper, and the interest is reck oned at about one half the rate in this country. ' Isa man here were to save Si a week during the ■ time specified, he would, at 71, be worth nearly i 20,000, provided the interest be computed semi annuajiy at 6 per cent, per annum.” We would merely add, that the gum at 71, 1 would exceed that above specified, in this State, as the rate of interest is 8, instead of 6 per cent. [KnrannaA Georgian. A Health Preservative. | Cheerfulness, constant and habitual cheerful ! npss, is earnestly recommended by, a sensible writer, as one of the most effectual preservatives of health, especially during the heat of summer; and this preventative of disease is within the reach and power of every person, however poor, embarrassed, or crossed and straitened in circum stances they may be. Some there are who op pose this theory, and aver that they cannot con trol their natural feeling; that they cannot be cheerful when they are perplexed or distressed in mind; but yet it may be often observed, that the same person who denies the power to control his own feelings, if even while fretting and repining, he is suddenly aceosted by a person in whose presence he wishes to appear to the best advan tage, the frown and scowl instantly vanish, and, assuming a smile, and expression of vivacity, he speaks up blandly, and converses in a lively manner, and, in fact, not only appears better,but actually feels betterthan he did three minutes be fore'. We never yet saw a person who could not occasionally assume the cheerful, when it suited his or her convenience and. interest. Why, therefore, will people maketlicmselvesandfriends gloomy and miserable, bv indulging an evil habit, which is so easily overcome? Resolve to be cheerful under all circumstances, and you will add much to the health and happiness of your self, and all with whom you associate. [American Mechanic. Cure for a Cancer. A lady who had for several years been afflicted with a cancer extending all over the breast and stomach, and during that treatment under physi cians, without deriving any benefit, was advised to try a poultice of what is termed carrot dock, a smail long leaved variety which grows with a long root,* and al-oto dr nk a tea made from it, to be sweetened with the syrup of sarsaparilia. She did so, and in a very sliort time the whole surface affected with the ulcer, assumed an ap pearance indicative of healing, except a small deep spot on the ribs of her left side, and in a few weeks was, with that exception, covered with skin, haying before that, for a long time, been in a condition of the most painful excoriation. In about two months after it, the rest of the cancer was healed over and to all apjiearance well, in i taking off the poultice from the deep spot alluded j >o above the core came out, accompanied by a re port similar to that made by the uncoiking’a bot tle of porter. From this period but a few weeks elapsed before that place also was healed over. It has now been two years since the cure was el* freted, and no symptoms as yet have occured, to cause apprehension of the teturn of the cancer. ! The tea from the dock was continued for some j time afterwards.— American Farmer. *\Vc know two varieties of smail leaved dock: the one has a short tap root, wi'h many lateral Acs the other a long slender one without 'other latffids, this latter kind is the one to be used. The following is the to the enigma by “W. F.” puWshed in outlast. (We have re ceived three correct answers..) WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. Solu tions—Ware, Iller; Lille; Loire; Iseo; Ain; Marc; Halle; Ems; Niemen; Ree; Yarc; Har inin; Aar; Rome; Rheims; Iser; Saale; Oeiras; Nismes. For the Washingtonian. An Enigmatical Rebus. To the Young Student in Geography. T wo-fourths of a cape, in America ( South,) Two-sixths of a city, for riches renowned, Four-fifths of a stream in Asia, source and mouth, , One seventh of a county in Georgia found, ! One-eighth of a stream, bounds Georgia by east, Two-seventh of a city of New Jersey state, j One-fifth of a mount in Georgia (not the least.) Two-sixth 6 of a mountain of height very great, One-fifth of a kingdom the oldest e'er known, One-eighth of a river that flows in the west, Two-fourths of a mountain that Sicily doth own, One-fifth of a stream by Carolina possessed. In these all united, will quickly be shewn, The name of a body Augusta doth own No w, to this little rebus an answer 1 crave Through the next “Washingtonian." Shall lit have? : J. S. P. of the Piney Woods. Orme. When this intelligent historian presided in the export warehouse of Madras,jMr. Davidson, who acted under him, was one morning at breakfast asked by Mr. Orme of what profession his father was? he replied, that he was a saddler. “And pray ” said Orme, “ why did he not make you a saddler 1” “ I was always whimsical,” said Da vidson, “ and rather chose to try my fortune as you have done, in the East India Company's ser vice. But pray, sir,” continued he, “wfcat pro fession was your father V’ ‘My father,” answer ed the historian, rather sharp!), “was a gentle man.” “And why,” retorted Davidson, with great simplicity, “did he not breed you up a gen tleman V Books and Authors. BOOK BIN i >ER Y & BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY, OPPOSITE TUP, POST : OFT!CE, AIGUsTA. GEO DLANK BOOKS, of every description, made to order, *■* and all oilier kind of Books neatly bound. June 11th, 1542. T. S. 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Such a paper we 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 be 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 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 wife to sing foij oy. It is a glorious cause—the cause of humanity and virtue: our country’s highest good is involved—her prosiierity, honor and safety. Oh! then, let us not prove recreant, -i‘i L om ? bo, ( ily . tothe fescue, and with united heart and band, assist in delivering our beloved country fi cm Slavery to the worst, most cruel of enemies. io impress the necessity of such a work upon the riends of Temperance, nothing can be more appropri ate than the closing paragraph of a report from Mr. S. »wv'! il '’ an iudefatigable Temperance agent. , 11 . f ot ber agencies maybe used, the Cause must languish without publications to diffuse informa ■ li . e l’ U P an interest; they alone keep the sub ject blazing before the public mind. Temperance lcc uies 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 a ™ progress of the cause, with their interesting lacts and anecdotes, and with their stirring appeals, to Interest wholly to subside, or tiie slumbers ot 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 G- A the y w ; ould the return of the long absent mend; they gather aronnd the domestic fireside— they devour its pages, aud its contents are read and repeated with all the glee and enthusiasm of childhood and youth: and with the stated return of such a tnoni e interest is kept up and the cause advances.’’ Th , e Wa.hixgtoi.iax will be printed semi-monthly, on a half royal sheet, and contain 4 large qnarto pages, to each number making a volume suitable for binding at the end of the y ear, 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. {jQH All communications, by mail, must he peel por'd, to receive attention. June lPh. 1642.