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The Washingtonian, or, Total Abstinence Advocate. VOL. I.] THE WASHINGTONIAN. PUBLISHED BY JAMES McCAFFERTY, TWICE EVERY MONTH. Office on Macintosh street—ojrposite the Post Office. TERMS. For atingle copy, for one Tear, One Dollar; for six copies, to one aildress, Five Dollars ; for ten copies, to one address, Eight Dollars—nnd so in proportion. (jQf- Payment in all cases to lie made in advance. fjtj- All communications by mail,must be post paid, to receive attention. Morsels for Beer Drinkers. We presume that most of our readers hate heard of the celebrated law-suit between E. C. Delevan, and the Albany Beer makers; but for the benefit ofthose who have not, we will briefly | state the cause. In the year 1835, and while Mr. Delevan was * Chairman of the Executive Committee of the f New-York State Temperance Society, a physi cian of respectability handed Mr. D. a written I statement that certain Brewers in Albany used “ filthy disgusting water for malting grain for the purpose of making beer, of which the following is an extract. “ He states, that so long since as six or seven years he was knowing to the fact of Fidlerand Taylor’s and Robert Dunlap’s malting establish ment, on the hill in Albany, being supplied with water for malting from stagnant pools, gutters and ditches, often in such a state as to be green on the surface, that such water was collected for several seasons to his knowledge. That he had , not only seen the water of this character collect ed, but deposited in the malting establishment for ' the use ot malting. That no attention was even j paid to cleanliness; the water was often taken from puddles in which were dead animals.— i When the water was low in the pools, boles were j made, in which the pail was sunk; and he had seen the sides of it come in contact with dead I animals in a state of putridity; had seen water | carried to the malt houses nearly as thick as [ cream with tilth ; saw last winter, water passing i fc on carts coming from the direction ot some filthy ! pond, and taken to malt houses. There are sev i oral malt-houses on the hill, all of which, he he- j I lieves, rely on water taken ftom such places as he 1 described, occasionally. That the facts heresta- j (ted, he believes to be known to hundreds residing , in the neighborhood of the malting establish- j merits. He states, also, that seven hogsheads of; water are usually placed in a steep-tub at a time, and it is then filled with barley; that he has seen a deposite or sediment of from 10 to 12 inches of the most filthy matter settle to the bottom from * that quantity of water. This has been from wa ter collected from the places described.” This statement appeared in the Albany Even ing Journal, and subsequently eight libel suits were commenced against Mr. Delevan, for this publication, with damages laid at $300,000, upon which he was arrested and held to bail in the sum 0f540,000, In 1840, he was tried upon one suit, brought bv John Taylor, damages laid at $74,- 000, whicK resulted in a verdict of sixpence dama ges in favor of Mr. Delevan, which of course threw the costs on Mr. Taylor. The other suits L were never tried. I To show our beer-drinkers what delicious soup they have been guz/.ling, we submit the following testimony given on the trial, by a man who had been engaged in drawing water for the malt house : From how many places did you assist in draw ing this water 1 I think 15 or "20. From what places’? From the big pond; that was always a * standing source; and then, after rains, from what ever points were nearest the malt house. From 1 puddles on the surface 1 Yes, from puddles. Get any from Poor-house creek ? Yes. Was it below the bridge of Poor-house creek? Yes. Get it ever from the vicinity of Jndson ; s[the name not distinctly heard] slaughter-house? Yes. Where was 'that looatal ? I think on Orange- j street. North of the Schenectady turnpike? Yes. Were there any puddles in front of the srravc-yards that you got water from ? Yes. Any thing offensive that drained into the puddles near Judson’s slaughter-house? Part "f the offal of i the slaughter-nouse drained into the pond from J which water was taken, near the slaughter-house. You drew water from the pond ? Yes. How j long? Four or five seasons. The pond in the vicinity of the malt-house? \ es. What was the character of the water in that pond ? Very bad. How so? Bad, from the fact that it was receiving almost all the offal from the hill; dead 1 hogs, and dogs and cats; horses, all drawn very I aear the pond; many in the pond, and with the I ■sun on them, making it exceedingly foul, so that | in drawing it, frequently made me sick. On the ! banks of the pond, were there dead animals ? There were. In the water? Almost always | more or less dead animals in the water. What j dead animals have you seen while dipping, if TOTAL ABSTINENCE ADVOCATE. AUGUSTA. GA. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1842. any? Seendeadcats—dogs. While dipping?— Yes; and 1 think hogs: not sure, however. Seen any dead cows or horses, thereabouts ? I have seen horses up towards the glue factory. This, while you were dipping? Don’t know that it was exactly at the time. They were left there to decay ? Yes. What time of the year did yon usually commence dipping ? Commenced the first cold weather; I think in October, or therea bouts. These four or five seasons that you spoke ot, about what time did you begin to draw watt r for this malt-house? That f don't know; I should think in the commencement ofthe season. Os the malting season? In cold weather, lknow. How long did this continue? As long as the cold weather continued. They required cold weather for malting?—Yes. How did you dip water in the winter, when it was frozen ? Cut a hole through the ice. What evidence had you, it any, that there were dead animals there in win ter? I have frequently seen them. They would come to the hole from the wash of the water. I have drowned eats in these holes myself. Was it the ordinary way to drown cats in these holes ? It was. Did they coine to the holes frequently, so as to be troublesome? Exceedingly so. some times. Plaintiffs Counsel, —Came there so thick? Not so thick. Exn mini lion resumed. — [-low did you manage it? Thrust them back. Did they come in con tact with the pail while dipping that water ? Yes sir, they did. Were these dead animals in a state of putrefaction ? Sometimes they were.” If any man can drink beer after reading the above, without involuntary shutting his teeth to keep rotten cats and dogs from slipping down his throat, he, must have a greater relisn for such nice things than we have. —[Columbia Wash ingtonian. From the Fountain. Tlic Dram-Seller’s Soliloquy. How hard the times! The like was never seen, since I have been engaged in making drunkards. Something must be done, or I great ly fear my business will be ruined. Oh for the return of the sunny days 'that arc past! Once, when I unbarred my doors at early morn, my eyes beheld a thirsty set of waiting customers, who from their beds came to get their morning dram. Yes, from morn till night, my shop was thronged with red-faced, bloated, thirsty sots. Witb what eagerness did they seize the glass, and pour down their parched throats the blue ruin! ’Twas a glorious thought, to know that drunkards left their wives and children destitute at home, while at my shop they spent their time and money. Then, from their love of liberty , well did I fleece their pockets. Poor fools! to give me their hard earnings for rum! Yeti did not tell them so, but made them believe I was their friend; though when they became drunk, and moneyless, often did 1 kick them from my shop, and send them reeling headlong to the gutter. True, the deliri utK tremens sometimes robbed me of a customer; hut then I had this consolation, that while they lived I got their money, and made their families wretched. But now, how changed the times! These cursed Washingtonians haunt, me as Banquo’s ghost haunted Macbeth, and goaded him on to madness. So are the Washingtonians in my sight. It makes me desperate to sec them now so decently clad, spurning my shop and getting away my customers. They rob me of my good name, my honor, and my business—causing men to leave iny “ Golgotha,” my “ Place of Skulls,” where the strong arm of my poisonous mixture has oft held them to the floor at night, causing me to lock them in, or drag them forth and leave them exposed beneath heaven’s broad panoply, to per ish or crawl home as best they could. I have raved and chrscd, circulated false reports, and done all I could to stop this Temperance reforma tion; as yet, however, it has done but little good, for few have broken their pledge and returned “ like a dog to his vomit,” after all my swearing and my false reports. Now will I take another course; what I can’t do by bare-faced impudence, I’ll do by cunning. Like a snake in the grass will I crawl quietly until I get them within my power, and once more under my control. Now will 1 treat resolution, and then commence my plan of operations. • “ Chery Bounce.” L/0! the Poor Indian. Os the Indians at Tonawanda, N. Y. 250 had signed the Pledge in July last, including all the chiefs, Kiin number. The entire number is es timated at 500. The white man may well take example from this remnant of those who once possessed this continent, and whose worst enemy has been the ‘ fire water’ ofthe whites. If all our chiefs would sign the Pledge what glorious re sults we might boast of in a short time, through'the impetus our cause would thus acquire.— [Organ. OR, Open to All. Some people have very funny notions of what constitutes good Washingtonians. They seem to have entirely trodden under loot the good old rule, “ let. every tub stand on its own bottom,” whether it be pine, oak, or cedar, and contend that men may cheat, lie, violate the sanctity of our firesides, and act perfectly reckless of every fair and honorable obligation between man anil man, and yet. be as good Wash ingtonians as the best of us—that “all should be alike treated and respected whosignthe Pledge!” Ifthisis Wasli ingtonianism, it is certainly newfangled, and we can safely assert that it was never dreamt of in the philosophy of the ‘illustrious six reformers’ of Baltimore: it seems to have been “made to order at the shortest notice,” for the especial ac commodation of those whose interest it is to have as little said about character as possible. That it was the intention of the founders of the Washington Societies to have them “open to all,” cannot he denied, nor is its wisdom doubt ed. The legitimate business of these societies is undoubtedly to make men sober; though they do not exart in their constitutions, a reformation but in the drinking habits of their members, yet they contemplate , and expect a reformation in other re spects. The reasons given we hold good and sufficient. “ A sober man is more likely to be a good citizen than a drunken one,” “ A man’s reformation from intemperance, places him in bis original position.” “ When a man joins a Wash ington Society, and is reformed— come to his nro per senses and his conscience—no one can doubt the eflcct his reformation will have on his notions of other things. Cold water clears the head; and though it does not regenerate, it greatly un war|is the heart.” Such are the sentiments of Mitchell and his compeers, and they meet our hearty approval. To say that we are hound to treat and respect as a brother, a man who has robbed us, and will do so again if he can get a chance,merely because he does not “drink spir ituous or malt liquors, wine or cider,” strikes us as bordering on the ridiculous; it is evidently a false and dangerous doctrine. If a poor drunk ard, who in consequence of intemperance has committed errors, sign the pledge and manifest a disposition to become a reformed man, we are in duty bound to cheer him on as a brothei —but if a drunken rascal sign the pledge, and becomes merely a sober rascal, there is no part of the Washingtonian creed, which requires that he should “ be alike treated and respected” with ho nest men. In this respect, men in our Societies, (being “open to all,”)must be judged as in the eommuntty —“ by their acts ye shall know them.” A bad man can no more be a good Washington ian, than he who is dishonest can be a good citi zen.—N Y. Temp. Organ. New way to give a Temperance Lecture. A few days since, a stranger in our city, was seen at noon-day, upon his back, reposing on the side-walk, with his head pillowed upon a door step —his mouth open, and his whole length stretched across the pavement, so that the passers by were compelled to step over him. Ladies pass ed upon the other side; but in doing so, they lost the benefit of a valuable caution, which appeared in large characters upon his heart, in these words: “ •ModeraU Drinkers! Mint are!!'" After the poor fellow had slept off the fumes of rum, and placed himself in an erect position, he was kindly invited by some dozen of our cold water boys, to sign the pledge—he accepted their invitation, and they brought him to the temper ance Rooms, where he registered his name a mong the army of tce-totalers. Those who have seen the drunkard in his worst’eondition can im agine his appearance, when he staggereil in our presence, to declare his wish to reform. He was a loathsome being. He departed, and the next Sabbath, sober and neatly dressed, he called at the Temperance Rooms to secure a seat in a car riage bound to Glcneo temperance meeting. Columbia [Hudson] Washingtonian. An Example, Worthy op the Imitation of all. — One of our Washingtonians whose heartis in thecause, but whose means are limited, fearing that he might at sometime be out of employment and unable to pay his dues, took the first oppor tunity when he had incans, to pay up his society dues for a year in advance. He thinks it the best expenditure he ever made. What a contrast be tween this man, and many who are well oft', who bluster loudly at business meetings, and yet suf fer their dues to go unpaid month after month. [IV. Y. Organ. Why don’t rumseliers have newspapers to de fend tlieir traffic? Would’nt be funny to see paraded about the streets, by a multitude of little ragged urchins, the “ Rumseller’s National Ga zette,and Tipler’s Universal Advocate.” Who’ll start one.—Set Us down for two copies. [ Virginia Teetotaler. Many Facts in Few Words. A legal stone of fourteen pounds, or the eighth ofan hundred in England, are sixteen pounds in Holland. The fathom, six feet, is derived from the height of a tall grown man. A hand in horse measure, is four inches. An Irish mile is twenty-two hundred and forty yards; a Scotch mile is nineteen hundred and eighty-four yards; an English or statuie mile, seventeen hundred and sixty yards; German, eighteen hundred and sixty yards; Turkish, eighteen hundred and twenty-six yards. An acre is forty eight hundred and forty square yards, or sixty-nine yards, one foot, eight and a halt inches each way. A square mile, seventeen hundred and sixty yards each way, contains six hundred and forty acres. 1 lie Christian era was first used, in counting time, at Rome, in 627; adopted in France, in 750 in Spain 1350 ; and in Portugal. 1410. The early Christians dated from the accession of Dio clesian,in 284. The Persians give name to every day in the month, just as we give them to days of the week. A man is taller in the morning than at night, to the extent of half an inch or more, owinir to the relaxation ol'the cartilages. The Esquimaux attain the height of hut four feet three inches, and the Mongul Tatters hut four feet nine inches. The human body consists of two hundred and forty hones, nine kinds of articulations or join ings, one hundred cartilages or ligaments, four hundred muscles or tendons, and one hundred nerves, besides blood, arteries, veins, & c . Riley asserts, that Arabs, in the desert, live two hundred years. The foot of the Chinese female, from the heel to the great toe, is only four inches long. I otal abstinence trom food abovo seven days, is fatal to man, but there are instances of survi ving after a longer period. A religious fanatic, in 1789, determined to fast forty days but died on the sixteenth. I n marching soldiers take seventy-five steps per minute; quick marching one hundred and tight and hi charging, one hundred and fifty steps ’ The Hindoos have the art of personating death so as to deceive able surgeons. An elephant bred to war stands firm against a volley of musketry, and thirty bullets in the flesh will not kill him. Fish are drawn towards a light; they assemble to he fed hy the sound ofa bell, and are fond of music. A chesnuttrce on Mount ./Etna is one hun dred and ninety-six feet round, close to the trunk. Potatoes planted below three feet do not vege tate; atone foot they grow thickest, and at two feet they are retarded two or three months. The mahogany troe is full grown in two hun dred years. Cypreas tress are known to be eight hundred or nine hundred years old. There are no solid rocks in the arctic regions owing to the severe frosts. Fossil bones of the lizard, twenty-four feet in length, equal to the dragons of antiquity, have been found in Bavaria. The surface of the sea is estimated at 150 000 000 square miles, taking the whole surface of the globe at 197, 000, 000 square miles. Its greatest depth is supposed to be equal to the height of the highest mountain, or four miles. Fresh water begins to freeze at thirty-two de grees, called the freezing point; but salt water does not freeze till thirty-eight and a halfdegrees. Os one hundred parts into which the surface of the earth may be divided, Europe contains seven Africatwenty-one, Continental Asia thirty-three’ New Holland, &c, eight, South America fifteen’ North America sixteen. A cylinder of water may be converted into ice by placing it in five pounds of sulphate of soda’ and four pounds of sulphuric acid, at thirty six degrees, well mixed. The ice is extracted for use by putting the cylinder in hot water. Extreme cold produces the same perception on the skin as great heat. When mercury is frozen at forty degrees below zero, the sensation of the skin is the same as that of touching red hot iron. The sound ofthunder may be heard for twenty or twenty-five miles, or with the ear to the ground much more. Lightning is reflected one hundred and fifty or two hundred miles.— Saturday Chron icle. Beware of borrowing trouble; it will come soon enough, without your taking the trouble to anti cipate it. Things are never so bad but thev might be worse, and when they have arrived at the pleasant point of misery, they must take a turn for the better, —at least so we heard our grandmother say. Above all things keep out of debt; it makes you a liar and a knave. And the secret of keeping out of debt is to live within your means, and to marry a girl who prefers a clean cotton gown to a flashy satin or silk one. [No. 11.