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For the Washingtonian.
TEMPERANCE SONG.
Oh! don’t yousee the temperance cause
Flics like Pegasus wing’d—
Though habits long, the drunkard’s laws
Have led men into sin.
Old Bacchus, long, has rul’d the land—
Wine, a theme has given :
Oft from the poets burning pen,
Both Truth and Love arc driven.
The bottle, long, like Aaron’s calf,
Has been an idol dear;
Bramjy has rous’d the festive laugh,
When Death and Hell were near.
At midnight hour the mother’s shriek,
And infant cry’s been heard—
List! now in accents bold, though meek,
Temperance! the watch-word.
An Alcoholic tyrant base,
Long with an iron rod,
Wrapt in our country’s fond embrace,
Has rul’d our natal sod :
But, wo our freedom now declare,
As did our father’s bold;
And from our neck the yoke we tear,
As they a yoke of old.
Though torics may our cause oppose,
And grog-shops still they rear,
Like Washington, we’ll meet our foes—
Like him, we’ll never fear.
We’ll mount the Alps, that’s in our way—
We’ll sign tho Temp’ranco pledge;
We are rcsolv’dlto gain thejday,
Though at the sabre’s edge.
Come old and young—come one and all—
Come join ourlittlo band;
Together, let us rise or fall—
Give us your heart and hand.
From Maine, to sunny Georgia’s shore,
Let fly the gladsome sound,
The Temp’ranco cause is marching o’er
This long polluted ground.
Brothersville, Ga. Sepl. 23 d, 18-12.
THE WATERS.
The waters bright! the waters bright!
In gems they leave the sky,
And only pause to hang the light,
In rainbow hues on high;
Then, weighed on blessings, lowly sink,
And caverncd vases fill,
Before they gush rejoicing forth
From creviced rock and hill.
The littlo streams! with guileless trust
They run to meet each other,
Pure temperance envoys, sent to teach
How each may help a brother;
They never stop, for fear they’ll •' mix”
With streams less pure and free;
They know they’d then be stagnant pools,
And never reach the sea.
From these we’ll quaff, and soul with soul,
Like mingling brooks combine;
There’s strength, and health, and joy ,and wealth,
Within the draught divine.
On rosy wine and ferment sweet,
Delilah smiles arc borne,
But trusting Samsons, waking, find
Their locks of strength are shorn.
Their fatal charm, their wily snare,
Their bait of sin we’ll fly;
Those hues, like flame, scorch through the brain,
And stain the beaming eye;
In unmixed water sparkling lies
The talisman we bear,
And blessings rich spring up, like trees,
Beside the fountains fair.
Why did’nt he take the Pledget
A melancholy case has occurred in a neighbor
ing village. A mechanic, who, many years ago,
used to be an abandoned drunkard, and a most
desperate man when intoxicated, four years since,
to tne joy of his friends, and the astonishment of
his acquaintance, quit the use of ardent spirits,
and became a sober, industrious man. This was
the more remarkable, as his shop was placed im
mediately between two rum mills. For the last
four years he has been an orderly, quiet citizen.
When Mr. Taylor, the reformed inebriate, lec
tured there, he warmly advocated the cause of
Temperance, and successfully recommended the
pledge to many who were injuring themselves by
drink— but he refused to sign it himself. A
month ago, be was found drunk, and when we
heard of him last, he had been three weeks with
hardly a sober interval. —[Penfield T. Banner.
To a Mother.
You have a child on your knee. Listen a mo
ment. Do you know what that child is ? It is
an immortal being; destined to live forever! It
is destined to be happy or miserable! And who
i 3 to make it happy or miserable'? You—the
mother! You, who gave it birth, the mother of
its being, aic also the mother of its soul for good
or ill. Its character is yet undecided—its destiny
is placed in your hands. What shall it be?
That child may be a liar. You can prevent it.
It may be a drunkard. You can prevent it. It
may Ik* a murderer. You can prevent it. It may
he an atheist. You can prevent it. It may live
a life of misery to itself and mischief to others.
You can prevent it. It may descend into the
grave with an evil memory behind and dread be
fore. You can prevent it. Yes, you, the mother,
can prevent all these things. Will you, or will
you not? Look at the innocent! Tellmeagain,
will you save it? Will you watch over it, will
you teach it, warn it, discipline it, subdue it, pray
for it? Or will you, in the vain search of pleas
ure, or in gaiety, or fashion, or folly, or in the
chase of any other bauble, or even in household
cares, neglect the soul of your child, and leave
the little immortal to take wing alone, exposed to
evil, to temptation, to ruhi? Look again at the
infant! Place your hand on its little heart!
Shall that heart be deserted by its mother, to heat
perchance in sorrow, disappointment, wretched
ness and despair? Place your ear on its little
side ami hear that heart boat! How rapid and
vigorous the strokes! How the blood is thrown
through the little veins! Thinkofit; that heart,
in its vigor now, is the emblem of a spirit that
will work with ceaseless pulsation, for sorrow or
joy, forever!
The Orphan’s Friend.
God is the orphan’s friend. So we learn from
the Bible,anils** reason teaches. For he is ever
the friend of the weak and the defenceless, of
those that most need his protection. Would we
have the friendship of God ? Then should we
be friends to those that are the objects of his pe
culiar regard. This is to be like him.
[Soria/ Monitor.
Learning is obtained only by labor; it cannot
lie bought with money; otherwise the rich would
uniformly be intelligent. Learning regards all
men as equal, and bestows her treasures on those
only who will work for them.— Social Monitor.
SjT Answer to the” Enigmatical Rebus,” pub
lished in our last:
2-4 HO-rn, cape in S. A.
9-6 ME-xico, city;
4-5 INDU-s, river in Asia;
1- S-criven,county in Geo.;
2- TR-cnton, city in N. J.;
1- Y-onah, mount in Geo.;
2- SO-rata, a high mount in Peru ;
1-5 .C-hina, oldest Kingdom in the world ;
1- I-llinois, river in the West;
2- ET-na Meant in Sicily;
1-6 Y-adkin, river in N. Carolina.
These united form the name of Home Indus
try Society, (a body in Augusta.)
For the Washingtonian.
Scriptural Enigma.
I am composed of fourteen letters:
My 1,11, 3, 7,5,10, was one of Christ’s dis
ciples ;
My 8,4, 3,6, was one of the prophets of old;
My 14,3, l, was the man who fled from Sodom;
My 2, 12, 7, was one of Noah’s sons;
My 5,9, 8,13, is a sea in the division of the
earth through which Christ travelled when on
earth.
My whole is the name of a Washingtonian of
great celebrity. **
J. T. S. P., of the Piney IFoods.
For the Washingtonian.
Geographical Enigma.
( Acrostical .)
I am composed of seventeen letters.
My 1,7, 3,1, is a river in North America;
“ 2,10, 7, i, 6, 14, is a town in Hindoostan;
“ 3,1, 2,8, is a town in the United States;
“ 4,14, 6,8,13,10,9, is a town in N. America
“5, 14, 2,10, 7, is a town in China;
“ 6,3, 13, 2, 14, 17, is a town in the U .States;
“ 7, 10, 4, 16, 14, is a town in Fiance;
“ 8,12,12,10, is a river in Europe;
“ 9,8, 4, 10,2,8, is a town in Texas;
“ 10,4,8, is a town in Asia;
“ 11,5,12, is a river in North America;
“ 12, 10, 2, is a river in Europe;
“ 13, 3,2, 8,11, is a town in South America;
“ 14, 8, 16, 2, 17, is a county in Georgia;
“ 15,10,3,4,8, 3,4, 10, 3, is an island in
Oceanica;
My 16,10,13, 8, is an island in the Pacific
Ocean;
My 17, 14, 9,12, is a city in Asia.
My whole is the name of a distinguished officer
of the United States Navy. N.
From the Social Monitor and Orphan’s Advocate.
Advice for Children.
Children look forward anxiously to the time
when they shall have grown up, and assumed
the rank of men and women. Now we wish
them to remember, that the reason why they are
so long in growing, is, that when they are grown,
they may be prepared to act like men and women.
God might have ordained that a boy should grow I
as fast as a calf; but who would wish to grow so, I
if, after having reached maturity, the mind and
manners should be as uncultivated as those of a
great steer, We sometimes do see a child as
sume the stature of manhood more rapidly than
another; but such an one very commonly appears
awkwardly, because, while his body has arrived
at maturity, his mind is that of a child still.
To all children who do not wish to become
awkward, ungainly, unmannerly, boyish men, or
girlish women, we would like to give a little ad
vice. It is, that they improve their time in learn
ing things useful, and, also, that they constantly
endeavor to acquire a correct and respectful de
portment. Never a moment tarried for you; and
if you do not accupy the time in preparing to act
well the part of men and women, time will still be
occupying you, in carrying you along each min
ute one minute nearer to the condition of grown
up persons. It is with you now to decide mainly
what your future character shall be. Say whom
you would wish to be like. Would you wish to
be like that miserable, ill-humored, ill-mannered,
ignorant, despised, outcast man, or that intelligent
refined, virtuous, respected, prosperous, and hap
py gentleman yonder ? like that poor, contempiblc
nag ofa woman, or like that other woman, whose
mind is furnished with every pearl of
thought and fancy, whose deport mentis agreea
ble to all around her, whose love and kindness
flow forth on every side, and who receives, in
turn, the respect of all 1 It is for you now to say
which ofthesccharactersshall bey ours.
Habits contracted in youth are rarely cast off.
Hence the importance to every child of cultiva
ting only goou habits. If you commit an impro
per act, that act helps to form in you a wrong
habit, which you rnav never, in your after life, be
able to put away. You should, therefore, be uni
form in your temper, never, no never indulging in
a sally of anger; you should ever be kind to those
around you, both to your parents, and to persons
older than yourself; also to your brothers and
sisters, and other children of your own age, and
to those younger than you. You should be kind
to every body , old or young, rich or poor, friend
or foe. Then, in addition to being merely kind,
you should treat those older than you with the
respect due to their age. It is a great sin to des
pise gray hairs; and just in proportion as ano
ther has advanced towards old age, should we
respect him for his years.
But, in every particular, should yon l»e careful
—you cannot be too careful—-of your habits.
Your deportment at table, at school, at church—
every where, both at home and abroad, —even in
your most careful plays with your companions,
even in your most thoughtless hours in your own
mother’s kitchen, all will have an influence in
the formation of your character; you should
watch, and cherish, and regard all these, as your
eyelids do the tender eyeballs which they cover.
“ I wish I was a man!” says a boy. Short
sighted boy! If you truly saw what you have to
do before becoming a man, and felt the responsi
bilities that now rest upon your shoulders, yoti
would say, “It is enough." You would not wish
to assume the responsibilities of a man in addi
tion to the responsibilities ofa child. The duties
of childhood must first be borne, and if these are
rightly estimated, the responsibilities of manhood
will come quite soon enough. Why, you are
now settling the question, what sort of a man you
shall be. Is not this a great question 1 See that
you settle this wisely. The boy who does so,
does as much as any man; the girl who does this
properly, discharges as high a duty as ever de
volved on womanhood.
In one word, remember the responsibilities of
childhood.
A Moral Tale of the Times
BY THE LAST OF THE COCKED HATS.
A little Frenchman loaned a merchant five
thousand dollars, hard as the times were. He
called at the counting-house a few days since, in
a state of agitation not easily described.
‘ How do you do 1 ?’ inquired the merchant.
1 Sick—ver sick,’ replied Monsieur.
‘ What is the matter V
1 De times is de matter.’
1 Detimes —what disease is thatT
‘ De maladie vat break all de merchands ver
much.’
‘ Ah —the times, ch I—well, they are bad, very
bad, sure enough! but how do they affect you V
1 Yy, monsieur, I lose dc confidence.’
‘ In whom ?’
‘ In every body.’
1 Not in me, I hope V
‘ Pardonnez moi, monsieur; but I do not know
who to trust present, when all de merchands
break several times, all to pieces.’
1 Then you wantyour money, I presume V
! Oui, monsieur, I starve for want of Vargente!’
1 Can’t you do without it V
‘ No, monsieur, not one other lectle moment
longare.’
The merchant reached his bank book—drew a
check on the good old Chemical for the amount,
and handed it to the visitor.
‘ Vot is dis, monsieur 1 ?’
‘ A check for five thousand dollars, with the
interest.’
‘lt is von,’ said the Frenchman, with <rreat
amazement.
‘ Certainly.’
‘ Have you d'largent in the bank V
‘ And is it parfaitment convenient to pay the.
sumT
1 Undoubtedly. What astonishes you V
1 Vy, datyou have got him in dese times.'
‘Oh yes, and I have plenty more. I owe no
thing that I cannot pay at a moment’s notice.’ *
The Frenchman was perplexed.
‘ Monsier, you shall do me von leetel more fa
vor, eh V
1 With all my heart.’
‘Veil, monsieur, you shall keep d'dargent for
me, some leetel year longare.’
‘ Why, I thought you wanted it.’
‘ Tout au contraire. I no vant de t argent —
I vant de grand confidence. Suppose you no got
de money, den I vant him ver much—suppose
you got him, den I no vant him at all. Feus
comprehennez eh?’
After some further conference, the little Frencli
man prevailed upon the merchant to retain the
money, and left the counting-house with a light
heart and a countenance very different from the
one he wore when he entered—and although he
did not stand in need of the money, he wished to
know that his property was in sate hands.
Tliis little sketch has a moral, if the reader Ims
sagacity enough to find it out.
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OF
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OK, TOTAL ABSTINENCE-ADVOCATE,
Devoted to the Cause of 'l'tmperance,—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 price
of subscription will, we hope, guaranty it a wide cir
culation. Such a paper we believe is required in this
community, especially at the present time.
The determination our citizens have eviaeed.
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
of 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 teats of the distressed and causing the heart of the
widow and the drunkard’s wife to sing for oy. It is a
glorious cause—the cause of humanity and virtue: our
country’s highest good is involved—her prosperity
honor and safety. Oh ! then, let us not prove recreant,
but come 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 Temperance, nothing can be more appropri
ate than the closing paragraph of a report from Mr. S.
S. Cmifmak, an indefatigable Temperance agent.
“ Whatever other agencies may be used, the Cause
must languish without publications to djß'use informa
tion and keep up an interest; thev 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 w anderer ; 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 stirrin g appeals, to
permit the interest wholly to subside, or the slumbers
of the temperance men long tt> remain undisturbed. If
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special interest in the breast of the father, the children
hail it as they w ould the return of the long absent
friend ; 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 monl
tor, the interest is kept up and the cause advances.’’
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