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December 3d, 1842.
AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1813.
“ Inquire at Am s Giles’ Distillery.”
Some time ago, the writer’s notice was arrested
by an advertisement in one of the newspapers,
which dosed with words similar to the lolwwino;
“ inquire at Amos Giles' Distillery ” The read
ers of the Landmark may suppose, if they choose,
that the following story was a dream, suggested
by that phrase:
Deacon Giles was a man who loved money,
and was never troubled with a tenderness ol con
science. iJis latlier and his grandfather lielore
him had been distillers, and the occupation had
come to him as an heir-loom in the family. The
still-house was black with age, as well as with
the smoke of furnaces that never went out, and
the fumes oftortuicdingredients, ceaselessly con
verted into alcohol. It looked like one of Vul
can’s smithies translated from the infernal re
gions into tiiis wori i. Its stench tilled the atmos
phere, and it seemed as if drops of alcoholic per
spiration might be made to ooze out from any one
of its timbers or clapboards on a slight pressure.
Its owner was a treasurer to a Bible Society, anti
he had a little counting-room in one corner ofthe
distillery, where he sold Bibles.
“He that is greedy of gain troubleth liis oicn
house." Any one of these Bibles would have
told him this, but lie chose to learn it from expe
rience. It is said that the worm of the still lay
coiled in the bosom of his family, and certain it is
that one of its members Sad d owned himself in
tile vat of hot liquor, in the I art loin of which a
skeleton was some time alter found, with heavy
weights tied to the ancle bones. Moreover, Dea
con Giles’ temper was none ofthe sweetest, natu
rally, and the liquor he drank, and the tires and
spirituous fume*among which he lived, did noth,
ing to ■often it. If his workmen sometimes fell
into his vats, he himselfuftener tell out with his
woikmcn. This was not to be wondered at, con
sidering the nature of their wages, which, ac
cording to no unfrequenl stipulation, would be as
much raw rum an they could drink.
Deacon Giles worked on the Sabbath. He
would neither suffer the fires ol’tlie distillery to
go out, nor to burn while lie was idle; soke kept
as busy as they. One Saturday afternoon his
workmen had quarrelled, and all went oil" in an
ger. lie was in much perplexity for want of
hands to do the Work ofthe devil on the Lord’s
day. In the dusk ofthe evening a gang of sin
gular looking fellows entered the door ofthe dis
tillery. Their dress was wild and uncouth, their
eyes glared, and their language had a tone that
was awful. They offered to woik for the deacon,
and lie, on his part, was overjoyed, for he though
within himself that as they had probably been
turned out of employment elsewhere, he could
engage them on bis own terms.
lie made them bis accustomed offer, as much
ruin every day, when work was done, as they
could drink; but they would not take it. Some
oft Item broke out and told him that they had
enough of hot tilings where they came from, with
out drinking damnation in the distillery. And
when they saw that, it seemed to the Deacon as
it’tiieir breath burned blue; but be was not cer
tain, and could not tell what to make of it. Then
he offered them a pittance of money; but they set
up such a laugh that he thought the roof ot the
budding would fall in. They demanded a sum
which tlie Deacon said lie could not give, and
would not, to tbe best set of workmen that ever
lived, much less to such piratical looking scapi
jails as they. F.nally, he said lie would give
halt wnat they asked, if they would take two
thirds of that in Bibles. When he mentioned
tlie word Bibles, they all looked towards the door,
and made a step backwards, and tlie Deacon
thought they trembled, leal whether it was with
anger, or delirium tremens, or something else, he
could not tell. However, they winked, and made
signs to each other, and then one of them, who
appeared to he the head man, agreed with the
Deacon, that it he would let them work by night
instead ol day, they would stuy with him awhile,
and woik on his own terms. To this he agreed,
and they immediately went to work.
The Deacon had a fresh cargo of molasses to
be worked up, and a great many hogsheads then
in from his country customers, to be tilled with
iiquor. When he went home, he locked up the
doors, leaving the distillery to his new workmen.
As soon as he was gone, yon would have thought
thatonc of the chambers of hell had been trans
ported to earth, with all i'.s inmates. The distil
lery glowed with li es hotter than ever before, and
the figures of demons passing to and fro, and leap
ing and yelling in tbe midst of their work, made
it Took like tne entrance to the bottomless pit.
Some of them sat astride the rafters, over the
heads ofthe others, and amusing themselves with
blowing flames out ol their mouths. Inc work
of distilling seemed play to them, and they ear
ned it a with supern dural rapidity. It was hot
enough to have boiled tbe molasses in any part
ofthe distillery, but they did not seem to mind it
at all. Some lifted the hogsheads as easy as you
would raise a tea-cup, and turned their contents
into the proper receptacles; some scummed the
boiling liquids; some witti hugeJadlosdipped the
spiking tluid from the different vr.ts, and raising
it high in the air, seemed to take great delight in
watching the fiery stream as they spouted it back
again; some drafted the distilled liquor into empty
casks and hogsheads—some stirred tlie fires; all
were boisterous and horribly profane, and seemed
to engage in their work with such familiar and
inaligant satisfaction, that I concluded the busi
ness of distilling was as natural as hell, and must
have originated there.
I gathered from their talk that they were going
to play a trick upon the deacon, that should cure
him of offering rum and Bibles to his workmen;
and 1 soon found out, from their conversation,
what it was. They were going to write certain
inscriptions on all ins rum casks, that should re
main invisible until they were sold by the Dea
con, but should flame out in characters ot lire as
soon as they were broached by bis retailers, or
exposed for the use ofthe drunkards.
When they had tilled a few casks with liquor,
one of them took a great coal of lire, and having
quenched it in'a mixture of rum and moliaso s,
proceeded to write, apparently byway of experi
ment, upon the heads of the different vessils.
Just as it was dawn, they left off work, and all
vanished together.
In the morning, the Deacon was puzzled to
know how the workmen got out ofthe distillery,
which he found fast locked as he had left it- lie
was still more amazed to lii.d that they heal done
more work in one night, than could have been
accomplished, in the ordinary way, in three
weeks. He pondered the tiling not a little, and
almost concluded that it was the wark of super
natural agents. At anv rate, they had done so
much that he thought he could afford to atti ml
meeting that day, as it was the Sabbath. Ac
cordingly he went to church, and heard his min
ister say that God could pardon sin without an
unmet... nl—that the Words licit am! devil/, were
mere figures of speech, and that all men vvoul i
certainly be saved. ,jie was much pleased, and
inwardly resolved fib would semi his minister a
half cask of wine, ami, as it was communion Sab
bath, he attended meeting all day.
In the evening the men came again, and again
the Deacon locked them in to themselves, .and
they went to work. They finished all his molas
ses, and filled all his rum barrels, and kegs, and
hogsheads, with liquor, and marked them all, as
on the proceeding night, with invisible inscrip
tions. Most of the titles ran thus; “ Consump
tion sold here. Inquire at Deacon Giles’ distil
lery." “ Convulsions and epilepsies. Inquire
<il De“con Giles’ Distillery." “ Insanity and
Murder. Inquire at Deacon Giles’ Distillery.’'
“ Dttopsy and rheumaiism. Putrid lever and
cholera tn collars. Inquire at Amos Giles’
distillery." “ Delirium tremens. Inquire at
Amos Giles’ distillery.’’
Many ofthe casks had on them inscriptions
like the following: “ Distilled death and liquid
damnation. The Elixir of hell, for the bodies of
those whose soul arc coining lliere." Some ol the
demons had even taken sentences from the Scrip
tures, and marked the hogsheads thus: “Hilo
hath woes? Inquire at Deacon Giles’ distillery
“ Who hath redness of F.yEs? Inquire at Dea
con Giles’ distillery ” Others had written sen
tences like the following; “ A port ion from the
lake of FIRE and brimstone. Inquire at Dea
con Giles’ distillery.” All these inscriptions
burned, when visible, “astill and awful red.”
One of tlie most terrible in its appearance was as
follows: “ Weeping and wailing and gnashing
of teeth. Inquire at Deacon Giles’ Distillery."
In the morning the workmen vanished as be
fore, just as it was dawn; but in tlie riu/k of the
evening they came again, and told the Deacon i;
was against their principles to take any wages for
work done between Saturday night and Monday
morning, and as they could not stay with him
anv longer, he was welcome to what they had
done. The Deacon was very urgent to have
them remain, and offered to .‘lire them for tiie sea
son, at any wages, hut they would not. So he
thanked them, and they went away, and he saw
them no more.
In the course of the week most of the casks
were sent into the country, and duly hoisted on
their stoups, in conspicuous situations, in the tav
erns, and groceries, and rum-shops. But no
sooner had the first glass been drawn from any of
them, than the invisible inscriptions flamed out
on the cask-head to every beholder. “ Consump
tion sold here: Delirium Tremens, Death. Dam
nation and Hell-fire .” The drunkards were
terrified from the dram-shops-the, bar-rooms
were emptied of their customers: hut in their
place a gaping crowd filled every store that pos
sessed a cask of the Dt aeon’s devil-distilled li
quor, to wonder and be affrighted at the spectacle.
For no art could efface the inscription; and even
when the liquor was drawn into new casks, the
same deadly letters broke out in blue and red
(lames all over the surface.
The ruin-sellers, and grocers, and tavern-keep*
irs were lull ot fury. They loaded their teams
with the accursed houor, arid drove it back to the
distillery. All around and before the Deacon’s
cst ib.ishment the returned casks were piled one
upon another, and it seemed as ifthe inscriptions
burned brighter than ever. Consumption, Dam
nation, Death and Hell, mingled together in
frightful confusions; and in equal prominence
(lamed out the directions: "Inquire at Deacon
tiilcs' distillery" One would have thought the
hare Sight would have been enough lo terrify
every drunkard from his cups, and every trader
from the dreadful tiaffic in ardent spirits. In
deed it had some effect for a time, but was not
lasting, and the demons knew it would not be,
when they played the trick; for they knew the
Deacon would continue to make rum, and that
as long as he continued to make it, there would be
people to buy and drink it. And so it proved.
The Deaei n had to turn a vast quantity of li
quor into the streets, and burn up the hogsheads;
and his distillery has smelled of brimstone ever
since; but'he would not give up the trade. He
eat l ies it on still, and every time 1 see this advert
isement, '• Inquire at Deacon Oilcs’ distillery .”
1 think I see licit and Damnation, and he the
pioprietor.
Successful Manufacture of Cornstalk Mo
lasses.
Mr. James L. Vaugham, of Henry County,
Tenn., has succeeded in manufacturing excellent
and i tear molasses from cornstalks. A letter in
(:.e Nashville Banner, in relation to it, says: “It
is pronounced by all who have tasted it far pre
ferable to that made from the sugarcane, h has
somewhat the appearance of honey, and the
more you use it the better you like it. The mill
for grinding the stalks is very simple, cost only
six dollars, and can be made by any common me
chanic who hasover once seen it. With this
mill, wliiih would answer very well for an apple
min, and which runs with two horses, he produ
ced one hundred and twenty gallons oi juice per
day. The yield of molasses from the juice, as it
came from the mill, was as one to Are. Ifplantcd
early, and cut in August or September, Mr.
Vaughan thinks about liO galloqs of molasses
from each acre in corn might he-obtained, and
perhaps more. The corn which he used was
planted vesy late in June, and a severe frostfell
before he finished cutting it. To this frost, and
the fact that the corn had not sufficient time to
mature properly, he attributes bis failure in
making sugar. Mr. Isaac Norman the mechanic
wiio constructed the null, and who had been an
old sugar planter in Georgia, says that he never
saw finer syVup from sugar cane, or which gave
greater appearance of 'raining, and that it did
not grain must be owing altogether to the frost,
which fell a day before they commenced ope
rations Mr.‘Vaughan is, however, highly
pleased with the success of his experiment so far,
having demonstrated conclusively, that with a
mill not costing more than six dollars, every
farmer in Tennessee can manafacture his own
molasses, and that of a superior quality. Another
year he hopes to add his sugar also. It must be
mentioned that the ‘ refuse juice’which is skim
med off in the act of boiling, makes a most excel
lent beer, and likewise may be made into excel
lent vinegar. ”
Transfusion of the blood of a Goat into
the veins o a Man.
A man, 38 years of age, was seized with an
haemoptysis which continued so long, and so vio
lent, that the only means of saving his life ap
peared to be by supplying the loss of blood by
transfusion. On the fifth day after the attack, a
canula was introduced into the vein of his left
armjasyrige, previously heated, was filled with
blood drawn from the jugularvein of a goat, and
about five ounces were injected into the vein
of the man. Immediately he complained of a
feeling of oppression; but this soon afterwards
went off. An attack of phlebitis came on next
day, but was subdued in eight days by means of
cold applications alone. His strength from this
day returned, and at the end of three months he
was able to resume his usual occupation. It is rew
marked, as the interesting point of this case,
that it proves that the injection of the blood of one
animal into the veins of another is not necessa 4
rily fatal.— Dr. Bleeding. /
_ f
A woman in Rankin county, Florida, who last
year presented her husband, with fourchildren,
at one birth on a recent occasion add#] Jive more
to that family. Poor man, he sympathy
of somebody.
Goon Laws aievery gcod~4iut good manners
ud good habits are much Jiette-r. As the laws
depend entirely on these sot their observance.
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