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I f!— For the Washingtonian. Athens, Ga. Nov. £4tb, 1812. I Mr. Editor: Dear Sir —I now undertake a task which to me I is truly unpleasant, that is, to give some of the jfl i'ems connected with my travels in Georgia, for j ■ seven months past —not that I am weary in wcll ■ doing, for my whole soul is engaged ur the cause I of Total Abstinence—but from the fact, that 1 I am incompetent as a writer to do justice to the , I facts I would introduce. I know nothing about I grammar —neither do I understand the stops, or I punctuations, as some call them—l am also a [ miserable speller; but notwithstanding all these I impediments, if you will take it on yourself to re -5 gulate the bad grammar, bad spelling, and tix your own stops, you aie perfectly welcome to these facts tor your paper, if you consider them worth publishing. It cannot be expected that I should give the place of residence and names of • every case I shall here introduce. Those who have given me liberty to use their names and re sidences, as well as the facts connected with their sad history, I cheerfully introduce; but those who have not given that liberty, I shall on ly refer to a small portion of their history, without mentioning names.' Os course, sir, I would be prudent, and therefore would not lay before the public the names of persons without their consent. ' Yours, truly, RIC.iARD P. TAYLOR. When I visited Augusta, Ga., in April last, 1 was. forcibly struck with the business character of the city —men from almost every state in the Union were there, engaged in their different vo cations. You could pass but a short distance on either side of Broad-street, without coming in contact with a rum-mill, or in other words a grog shop, or doggery—some of them were termed respectable drinking houses—that is, the resort of more respectable and fashionable drunkards, those who dissipate in tile third or fourth story, who go their brandy-toddies, mint-julaps, gin slings, wine and porter, &c. &r. There were others adapted to men in different circumstances and in more humble life. This is what 1 call high life below stairs : ’--going it on rat soup, in the form of Albany beer, and the meanest kind of bald-face whiskey—where a man could get drunk for twenty-five cents, and then be hurled out in the streets, there to snooze away until morning, and the rolling of waggons brought him to his senses. There were rum-mills also to accommo date the black population—these might be found in the more secluded parts of the city—their pro prietors sunk so low in their own estimation as to rinse the glasses negroes use. It always looks desolate to me, to see grog-shops standing so thick in any city or village, not that I would pro scribe the dealer; but in such places, with so many grog-shops, I always take it for granted, that a great deal of liquor is consumed. I then think of my own former misery and degradation, and thank God for my escape. I think of that vast mass of mind lost to our country of the 300,- 000 drunkards in our own land—that land which is the home of the free and the brave—bound down the most willing slaves of this vice. I think of the 10,000,000 women and children— the families of those unfortunate men —with their blasted prospects, blighted hopes and broken hearts. I think of those mothers, with their little ones, in their comfortless hovels, with their gar -1 raents tattered and grown old with years, with their cheeks pale and lank, as they sit round a few coals of fire, chilled by the wintry blast, waiting hour after hour for the return of the drunken companion and father. I think of those poor little creatures, as, with uplifted hands and j gnawing pangs of hunger, they petition that mother for bread —there is no bread in that | wretched hovel. 1 see that mother's bosom heave and swell with anguish. I hear her sobs —the language of a lascerated, torm, broken, and bleeding heart. I see the big tear, gush after gush, as it gathers in that eye once bright and joyful, but now turned dim by years of bitter an guish—that big tear, like a mountain’s weight, rolls down the deep furrows of her cheek, as she turns a look of despair and pity on her starving, helpless children. It was such thoughts that en tered my mind while walking the streets of Au gusta. It seemed strange to me, when some of the friends of tempeiance in that citv supposed that nothing more could bo done, than to revive the old friends of the cause, by a few temperance lectures—yes, strange indeed, when there were at that time hundreds in the city groaning under the heavy chains of Prince Alcohol. I asked myself the question —Is there no remedy ?—no means of escape for this mass of bleeding human ty 1 Yes, there is a cure; the remedy is pure cold water. I then thouglit of what had been done since the reformation of the six reformed drunkards in Baltimore, and supposed something could bed no for Augusta. The friends of the cause again rallied around the standard of total abstinence —called up their latent energies— j struck the blow, which was the death b ow to the old Prince. Wo saw his mighty fabric in that city raied to the ground —his magazines blown ! up—his standard trailing tho dust—his soldiers j deserting and marching under the white flag of Peace and Temperance, as its broad banners I were floating to the breeze, waving triumphantly and gloriously over the citadel of the once vaunt ing, but now vanquished foe;—yes, there were multitudes of the hardest cases flocked to the stand of Temperance: moderate drinkers, wi biliers, in short all classes and conditions, until • our numbers, to the Washington Pledge were swelled to 750, with tlie additional number since, making in all about eleven hundred Augusta cannot easily be beat. The first or se cond time 1 walked up Broad-street, I saw an individual on a perfect swell—he was one of your periodical spreers—a man of a noble, generous soul—social and intelligent; also, modest and so mow hat reserved when sober; but when on a spree a perfect box ot music and fun, as a drunken man Would call it. I was introduced to him— saw at once that he w'as a good clever fellow, and I reckon lie thought I had been drinking— he said he could see it in my eye. 1 presume 1 did look so to him; for when a man looks at a sign-post and it seem- to him as if one makes three, it is difficult lor him to determine—at least, I know it was so with me, when I used to get j drunk, for 1 then supposed every body else was drunk too. He was so much in the belief that 1 would take the critter, he urged me very hard to ’■ go into a rum-mill ami take a horn with him; but as drinking liqusr was not my business in Augusta, of course I refused. That man signed the pledge: I have seen him since clothed in his right mind—a man of intelligence—of a high sense of honor, and a perfect gentleman in every 1 sense of the word, and now one of the most ac , live members of the Society in the city. There '(arc numbers of cases I might mention, which would be interesting to the citizens ofGcorgia, that came under my observation in that portion of the State where we first planted the Washingto , nian standard. There was one hard case in the | city of Augusta who took the pledge not to drink the critter in any ofits forms—it made him very sick —he went to the doctor to get him to pre scribe only one drink—the doctor said no. He then asked him if he might eat some brandy [»eachfs —he could not get them prescribed as medicine. Brandy peaches or syllabub will not do for any man who would save himself from drunkenness; we might as well drink brandy, gin, bald-face whiskey, wine, ale, or cider, as to eat them; for a man with a good set of grinders can soon cat himself drunk on brandy peaches.— Syllabub is not quite so hard on the teeth; there fore, better adapted to ladies with delicate checks, weak and slender jaws; and it is also a first rate article for mothers to feed their little children, to form, at an early period, the appetite and relish for liquor—not “to teach the young idea how to shoot,” but how to get drunk. This is the way that parents dig the graves of their children by their own fire-sides- this is the way that fathers and mothers, by their example, become the mur derers of their own offspring. When will the heads of families wake up to this subject—when will they open their eyes to the light, and see the danger of this vice in any and all of its forms.— | Many have cleared their vision of this mist of fashion, and abandoned this worse than heathen I God, --they will no longer cast their helpless chil dren into the jaws of the crocodile, or throw them under the wheels of juggernaut—or, what is worse, by early tuition and example, expose them to a drunkard’s life, and a drunkard’s death; — others will not wake up sufficiently to abandon this fashionable vice, until the drunkards in our country arc, en mass, reclaimed, and they find themselves stepping in their tracks, the only drunkards in the land, and their wines and julaps stamped with the same labill of disgrace, ruin and death, that attends the drinker of strong Lieerand bald-face whiskey. The Drunkard’s Consistency. “ If my wife is abed when I go home, i’ll whip her.” (said an old rummer as he was endtavoring to find the house he lived in;) “ how dare she go to bed when lam out ? It is her duty to set up and help me to bed w;icn I come home ” Se cond thought.--” And if she is up I’l whip her; what business has she to set up and burnout candle light when 1 am gene. , . .... r II 111 I MIHIIISIM lliaw ■!■■■» 11l Lofty 1 uaiblicg. Whoever has been acquainted with the move ments of some men in high life, has seen lofty tumbling. It is well known that strong liquor drinking has been fashionable, in what is called " fashionable circles.’’ Judges and Jurors, have drank IreeTy of arelcnt spirit— ministers and peo ple, once- partook treclv ot the social glass—the Genefal and the Soldier—the Admiral and his crew the civilized and the savage, drank freely of a poisonous and intoxicating beverage. Drunkenness has not been confined tothe poor and lowly—there has been much lofly.tuinhling. While intern) erance |>n vaihd in all parts oftlie countiy, and among all professions, little was said about it by those in the habit of drinking afSjUnt , spirit, generally however the poor were the only ! sufferers hy it. A man of mean attire, and in I humble circumstances, when falling down in our j streets, under the heavy pressure, and potent sur ges ot rum, was led away to tile dark hole, while lofty tumblers were led to beds of down and chambers of comfort, it any such thing as com fort belongs to the drunkaid; and one class of those wiio were tumbling were favored, whilethe other was punished. The scene has changed, an.l the poor Washingtonian is in a more secure and comfortable position, than his brother in high life, whose tumbling is lofty. Great men have fallen, never to rise again, like a leaf shaken from the tree—by that great enemy, intemperance. Neither wealth, nor honors, nor rank have been spared, but all have been prostrated and destroy ed by alcohol. If there is a subject worthy ot sincere and practical attention and regard, and Itcyond all others, short of pure and undefiled re ligion, important, it is the cause of total absti nence from the use of intoxicating liquors. Progress of Temperance. During a recent visit to Edgefield, we were in formed, that the Temperance Society of the Vil lage, embraced nearly every individual, who had been intemperate in the Village itself/and its immediate vicinity, and that there had not been a single reformed di unkurd , V'/io had relapsed into his former habits. The Society has able and zea lous officers, and its influence is extensively felt. Grogshop. In Lancaster District, we have been informed there is but one, and that it will probably soon be closed. Lancaster was one of the last Districts to go forward in the Temperance cause but it has nobly redeemed its lost time. -S. C Temperance Advocate. Average Mortality of all Mankind. The population oftlie whole earth has been va riously estimated at between eight hundred and a thousand millions of souls. If we fix upon an intermediate number, say 946,080,000 and assign 30 years for the continuance of each generation, we shall find that the ‘children of men’ come into the world anil go out of it at the following average: Every second, 1; minute, (>0; hour, 590; day, Bfi, 400; week, 604,800; month, 2,592, 000; year, 31,536,000. Every tick of the clock a soul departs, and a new birth takes place at the same time. Thus, by the wise dispensation of the Creator, is the world perpetuated. The human heart beats more than 5 000 times an hour, 120, 000 times a day, and 43,830,000 times a year. If it lasts fifty years, it beats 2,191,800,000 times. Dublin Warder. List of Payments. We have received the following payments for the Washingtonian since our last publication: Augusta.. Washington Lawson, Mrs. Ann L. 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