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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.” Thk Washing to xi ait will In* printed semimonthly, on a half ro> ai sheet, and contain 4 large quarto pages, to each number making a volume suitable for binding at the end of the year, ol 06 pages, on good paper. The price of subscription for a single copy for one year, w ilt 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 $7- All commuiiicatious. by mail, must be post poid to receive attention. June 11th, 1842. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, Os every description, neatly and promptly executed at the Office of the Washingtonian, viz : Business Cards, Steamboat Receipts, Ball Tickecs, Rail Road Receipts, Invitation Tickets, Hand Bills, Circulars, Horse Bills, Checks, Notes, Stage Bills, Bill Heads, Show Bills, Catalogues, Labels, Bills or Lading, Pamphlets, See Sec. Together with FANCY JOBS, in colors, for framing. RI.ANRfj. 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