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PO3ET3BY.
The following song was written by a gentleman 1
who, in consequence of intemperance, was once :
an inmate of Dr. White’s Lunatic Asylum. It
originally appeared in the Litchfield EnquireT:
WATER—A Song.
Tomb—“ Some Love to Roam.”
Some lute to drink from the foamy brink
Where the wine-drop’s dance they sec;
But the water bright, in its silver light,
And a crystal cap for me.
O a goodly thing is the cooling spring,
’Mong the rocks where the moss doth grow; j
There’s health in the tide, and music beside,
In the brooklet’s bounding flow.
Oho! ho! Oho! ho!
Some love to drink from the foamy brink
Where the wine-drop’s dance they see;
But the water bright, in its silver light,
And a crystal cup for me.
As pure as heaven is the water given,
’Tis forever fresh and new;
Distilled in the sky, it comes from on high
In the shower and the gentle dew.
A mirror fair, in the stilly air,
Is the lake and the stream’s smooth flow,
And the stars in their track sec flashing back
Their brightness as on they go.
Oho,! ho! Oho! ho!
As pure as heaven is tire water given, &c.
They say ’tis weak: but it’s strength I’ll seek:
The worn rock owns its sway;
And we’re borne along by its wing* so strong
When it riseth to fly away.
There’s strength in the glee of the mighty sea
When the stormy wind doth blow:
And a fearful sight is the cataract’s might
As it leap to tho depths below.
O ho! ho! O ho! ho!
They say ’tis weak ; but its strength, &c.
Some lore to drink from the foamy brink
Where the wine-drop’s dance they see;
But the water bright, in its silver light
And i crystal cup lor me.
O a goodly thing is the cooling spring,
’Mong the rocks where the moss doth grow;
There’s health in the tide, and music beside,
In tho brooklet’s bounding flow.
O ho! ho! O ho! ho!
Some love drink from the foamy brink, &e.
J. L. W.
’Steam.
From the Organ.
TIIE TEMPERANCE STAR.
BY T. WATEREURY El. US.
Tone—“ Behold I how brightly breaks the morning.
Behold, while brightly o’er us streaming,
The temperance star sweeps on its way,
Thro’clouds of gloom and sorrow gleaming,
To usher in fair Freedom's day.
In homes where fierce the tyrant sways,
And saddens all;
Like healing dew, its cheering rays
With blessings fall,
Restoring pace and happiness once more,
Restqring pace and happiness once more.
Fair distant lands that star is reaching,
And speding on with gentle force,
And hearts so late its light beseeching,
Now fondly hail its brilliant course ;
As thro’ the noble’s marble hall—
The pasant’s shed,
To break the dark degrading thrall,
Its, beams are spread,
Restoring pace and happiness once more,
Restoring pace and happiness once more.
In Erin’s sons that light has woken
The heart that all for freedom braves,
And soon must every chain be broken,
For temp’rancc men cannot be slaves.
Then while the ransom’d lands afar
Their tribute raise,
We’ll welcome here the temp’rance star,
Whose blessed rays
Have brought us pace and happiness once more,
Have brought us pace and happiness once more.
October, 1842.
Death and the Grave.
‘ I am hungry,’ said the Grave, 1 give me some
food.’
‘ I will send forth a minister of destruction,’ re
plied Death, 1 and you shall be satisfied.’
< And what minister will you send forth 1’
<1 will send forth Intemprance, and he shall
carry Alcohol for a weapn.’
< It is well,’ said the Grave, ‘ but how know you
the people will fall into the snare V
‘ I will demand the assistance of tempter,’ repli-
I ed Death, ‘ and he shall disguise the snare under
! various seducing forms, such as food and medi
cine, and pleasure, and hospitality, and benevo
i lence. The pople will then drink and die.’
‘I am content,’ said the Grave; 1 so, I preeive
that your scheme is skillful, and will succeed.’
The church bell began to toll and the mourn
j ers to walk through the streets, and the sexton to
ply his mattock and his spade; for the minister of
destruction had gone forth; and once more Death
and the Grave met together to exult over the
success of their scheme.
‘ And who is this they arc bringing I’ asked the
Grave.
i ‘This is an old man, who fancied that wine
was necessary to recruit his wasted strength. He '
: began with but a little at first, but gradually in
creased the quantity, and finally drank to excess,
and died,’
‘ And who is this!’
‘ This is a young man, who was fond of com
pany, and liquor was thought necessary at con
vivial meetings. He contracted the habit of
drinking, and is now a corpe.’
‘ And who are they bringing, followed by a
i train of weeping children 1’
‘ This is a broken-hearted woman, whose hus
band became a confirmed drunkard, and who left
her and her children to pine in want, whilst he
spnt his time and money in the tavern, —and
now they are bringing the corpse of the husband
! hims, If, who has lostliis life in a drunken broil.’
‘Hush!’ said the Grave, ‘I hear a loud wail
and the sobs of grief that will not be silenced.—
What is the meaning of this 1
‘Ah !’ said Death, 1 they are bringing the body
of a little infant, whose drunken father, aiming
the blow at his wife, destroyed it at the breast;
and the mother, like Rachael, ‘refuseth to be
comforted, because her child is not.’ ’
‘ And who are these 1
‘ These are the bodies of a female profligate
and her still-born offspring. She was once fair
and innocent, but liquor inflamed her seducer,
j and deprived her of caution. She was soon, how
ever, deserted, and after pursuing a short career
of crime, died.’
1 And these V
Theso are the bodies ofa murderer and his vic
tim; they were once bosom friendfc; but wine
snapped the bonds of friendship; they quarreled
over their cups, and one having died by the hand
ot his companion—the othet suffered a felon’s
death. But here is a crowning incident of our
shame. Behold the corpse ofa suicide! This
man drank until his property was dissipated and
his mind deranged; and so in his distraction, he
had laid violent hands upon his own life.’
Long did these dark associates thus converse,
and loud was the cry that ascended to heaven
from injured parents ami children, and brethren
and friends, until at last Mercy was sent down
to see what could be done to check the mischief.
And Mercy instantly sent her healing minister,
and she called it Total Abstinence ; ‘ for,’ said
she, 1 they cannot touch the evil without contami
nation. Like the poison ot the Upas tree, its very
smell is deadly, and no one comes within the
reach of its influence unhurt.’
The church belts were but seldom heard, and
but few mourners were seen in the streets. The
wailings of the widow and orphan were succeed
ed by hymns of praise and thanksgiving, for
ucath and the grave were despoiled of ail their
prey.— Tribune.
Ardent Spirits.
WHAT IT HAS DONE IN THE UN,TED STATES.
I. It has cost the nation a direct expense of six
hundred millions of dollars.
*2. It has cost an indirect expense of six millions
of dollars.
3. It has destroyed three hundred thousand
lives.
4. It has sent one hundred thousand children
to the poor-house.
5. It has consigned, at least, one hundred and
fifty thousand persons to the jails and states pri
sons.
C. It has made at least one thousand maniacs.
7. It has instigated to the commission of one
thousand five hundred murders.
8. It has caused two thousand persons to com
mit suicide.
9. It has burnt, or otherwise destroyed, proper
ty to the amount of at least five millions dollars.
i 10. It has made not less than two hundred
I thousand widows.
11. It has made at least one million of orphan
children.
12. It has endangered the inheritance left us
by our fathers, and fixed a foul blot upon the fair
I fame of America.
For these and other considerations it is, that
j every patriot, and every friend of man, should
! feel himself bound to take arms against the com-
I mon enemy, and expel him from our borders.
[ Gov. Everett.
We were a day or two since very much amused
1 in a hotel, with a joke that Wyman, the ventrilo
i quest, played on a countryman who had called
! fuj a julap. He had no sooner raised the glass to
! his lips, than he thought he heard a dog at his
; heels—he turned round to look, but discovered
nothing—the second attempt with the glass had
effect, except that the supposed dog
growlettlftere savagely—the countryman started
more wildly than before, exclaiming “ What’s
| that!” A voice was then heard :rom the glass,
saying “ I’m rum, and rum is the Devil.” Down
! dropped the glass of rum, the countryman crying
I out, “ By hoky, I’ll not taste rum again!”—Balt
imore Clipper.
From the Southern Miscellany.
“ Drive my waggon long the rode;
Sorry team and a heavy load. 1
“ Won’t you take somethin 1” says the wag
goner--puttin an old junk bottle ot rum, that
smelled strong enufl of inions to knock a man
down, rite under my nose fore I knowd what he
was bout. _ ~
“ No, I thank you,” says I, “ l’s a Washingto
nian.”
“ Who’s they 1” says he; “ sum of yer d n
Flurnoy preachers, 1 spose ?”
“ No,” says I, “ they’s revolutioners.
“ Revolutioners!” says he, “why my father
was a revolutioner, and fit agin the British at
King’s Mounting, and help’d to lick tyranny out
ot the country.”
“ D d all tyrants,” says I, “ and hurra for
the revolutioners.”
“ Come, take sumthin,” says he, and pinted the
bottle at my nose again.
“ No,” says I, “ I’m a revolutioner, and go agin
King Alkohol tooth and toe nail.”
•' King who ?” says he.
“ King Rum,” say r s I; “that very tyrant that’s
got you by the guzzle now, and he ll have you
choked down on yer knees to him fore a halt hour,
if you dont revolutionize on him and <juit him.
The feller stopped and looked rite down in the
fire —then at me—then at the bottle, and he tuck
another look at the fire.
“ That’s a fact,” says he, “ it’s had me on my
back afore to-night; but I cant—yes 1 kin—here
goes, mister —d—n all tyrants —I’m a revolution
er, a Washington revolutioner, for ever!” and
with that he throvvd the bottle of rum smack in
the middle of the fire, and it blazed up blue and
yaller like a hell-broth, as it is.
“ Give me yer hand, mister,” says I, “ I dont
want no bettor proof of yer manhood than that:
stick to it like a true W ashington revolutioner.”
“ Stick to it, mister I” says he; “why 1 never
broke my word when I was sober in my life, and
now I must do it afore 1 kin git drunk. Stick to
it I I’ve been wantin to revolutionize long a“o,
and now I’ve done it, and I’ll never knock under
as long As 1 live!” and he shuck my hand, and a
tear shined in the fire-light. 1 dont lileive that
waggoner’ll ever git stalled on a good rode as long
as no lives. Jos. Jones.
“ I wish I could join a temperance society,”
said a little boy about six years oIH, who stood
shivering in one cornet of a miserable habitation,
rendered so by ardent spirits. “ You are not old
enough,” rep.ied his mother, “you can’t under
stand it.” “ I guess 1 am old enough to know
know better than to drink whiskey,” was the
reply.
Dean Swift says, a woman may knit her stock
ings, but not her brow —she may darn her hose,
but not her eyes—rurl her hair, but not her lips—
and thread her needle, but not the public streets.
Well Said —Husband, 1 don’t know where
tint boy got his bad temper —not from me I’m
sure. i\o my dear, for I don’t perceive tint you’ve
lost any.
Jj’ Answer to to “ Scriptural Enigma,” publish
ed in our last. Six correct answers received.
THOMAS MARSHALL. Solutions: Tho
mas ; Amos; Lot; Ham; Aral.
O’ Answer to “ Geographical Enigma,” in
our last. Two correct answers received:
OLIVER HAZARD PERRY. Solutions:
Ohio; Lahore; lola; Vera-paz; Eclah; Ripley;
Havre; Adda; Zavala; Avu; Red; Dal; Pilar;
Early; Raivaivai; Rapa; Yczd.
For the Washingtonian.
A Rebus,
To the young Student in History.
Four-tenths of a name to Americans dear,
Two-twelfths of a name they glory to hear.
; One-sixth of a King the patriots abhorred,
I Two-sixths of a clan that o’er them would lord,
One-tenth of a city where Jackson prevailed,
One-eighth of a savage by Johnson assailed,
| One-seventh of a tribe that fought with great skill
Two-eighths of a man that left Covvpens ’gainst
will,
| Two-ninths of a hero, a Frenchman by birth,
j One-tenth of a stream where Ins blood wet the
earth;
Two-tenths of a battle where Wayne stormed
the fort,
Two-seventh of a people that seldom have court.
Three-tenths of a place where the wings suffered
pain,
One fourth of a lake where they battled amain,
Two-eights of the men that guard the whole na
tion,
One-ninth of a lake near a great natfal station,
One-fifth of a governor of Georgia State,
One-tweifth of a battle where many met fate,
One-seventh of a town where a battle was fought,
One-eighth of the place where Cornwallis was
caught,
These taken compactly, and placed in a line.
Form, what makes Augusta’s inhabitant’s “shine.’
An answer is requested, by
J. T. S. P., of the Pincv Woods.
■■mm—— "igaga^
“ Paint me as I am.”
“ Paint me as 1 am,” said Oliver Cromwell to
young Lely. “If you leave out the scars ami
wrinkles, 1 will not pay you a shilling.” Evej»
in such a trifle the great Protector showed both
his good sense and characteristic in his counte
nance to be lost, in the vain attempt to give him
the regular features, and smooth blooming cheeks
ofthe curled pated minions of James the First,
He was content that his face should go forth
marked with all the blemishes which had been
put upon it by time, by war, by sleepless nights,
by anxiety, and perhaps by remorse; but with
valor, policy, authority, and public cares, written
in 411 its princely lines. If men truly great knew
their own interest, it is thus that they would wish
their minds to be portrayed. —Edinburg Review ,
Truth and Honor.
The heaviest fetter that ever weighed down
the limbs ot a captive is the web ot a gossamer,
compared with the pledge of a man ot honor.
The wall of stone and the bar ofiron may be bro
ken, but the plighted word never.
PROSPECTUS
OF
spsjji wJk&iial&r®¥®ssrsAg.
Oil, TOTAL ABSTINENCE ADVOCATE,
Devoted to the Cause of Temperance, —published
semi-monthly , in the City oj Augusta ,
BY JAMES McCAFFFRTY.
\ S 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 tniai
community, especially at the present time.
The deteimitation our citizens have evinced,
to drive the Destroj er 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 thioughoutthe length and
bieadth 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 ol the
widow and the drunkard’s wife to sing for oy. It if a
glorious cause—the cause ol humanity and virtue : our
country’s highest good is involved—her prosperity,
tyonor 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 ol Temperance, nothing can be more appropri
ate than tne closing paragraph of a report from Mr. S.
S. Chipmas, an indelatigatile Temperance agent.
“Whatever other agencies may be used, the Cause
must languish without publications to diffuse informa
tion arid keep up an interest; they alone keep the sub
ject blazing before the public mind. Temperance lec
tures may arouse the people frqm tluur slumbers,
strengthen the weak, confirm the wavering and re
claim the wanderer ; but the temperance publication
comes too often with their cheering acclunt* of the
onward progress of the cause, with their interesting
facts and anecdotes, and with their stirring appeals, to
peimit the interest wholly to suhsuUi,*r the slumbers
ol' the temperance men long to remain undisturbed, ff
the arrival Ol the temperance paper does not excite a
special interest in the breast of the lather, the children
hail it as they would the return of the long absent
li iend ; they gather around the domestic fireside—
they devour its pages, aud its contents are read and
repeated with nil the glee and enthusiasm of childhood
and youth: and with the stated return ol such a moni
tor, the interest is kept up and the cause advances.”
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