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TBS WAIBITCTOSTIAir? OR, TOTAL ABSTINENCE ADVOCATE. VOL. I.] THE WASHINGTONIAN. PUBLISHED BY JAMES McCAFFERTY, TWICE EVERT MONTH. Office on Macintosh ttrect-*~opposite the Post Ojfict. TERMS. For a single copy, for one year, One Dollar; for six ■copies, to one address, Five Dollars ; for ten copies, to one address, Eight Dollars—and so-in proportion. {jt~p l’a> n>ent in all cases to he made in advance. All communications by mail, mast be post paid, to receive attention. List of Agents for the Washingtonian. {H7» The following gentlemen are respectfully re quested and fully authorised by us, to act ns agents" for the Washingtonian, in extending its circulation : Clarksville — \ ?'■ W ' J ‘ Ku * k > (Lewis Levy. Dalohntga —C. B. Leitnor. Cavtngum—C. Pace. Jlttalur —L. Willard. Athens —E. L. Newton. » MniiHla— James F. Cooper. Columbus —K. Boyd. Sondtrsville— A. O. Ware. So ciul Circle —J. L. Gresham. Lineulntnn —Henry J. Lang. Crawforioille — Rev. John W. Wilson. 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The determination our citizens have evinced, to drive the Destroyer irom the land,has awakened the most intemperate to a sense of duty. This should be hailed as ait omen and harbinger ol 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, dr) ing up the teais of the distressed and causing the heart ol the widow' and the drunkard’s wife to sing for o). It is a glorious cause—the cause ol humanity and viitue : 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 -andhaud, assist in delivering our beloved country Irani ! slavery to the worst, most cruel of enemies. j To impress the necessity of such a work upon the j ifriends of Temperance, nothing can be more appropri-1 ate than tne closing paragraph of a report Irom Mi. S | S. Chipmak, an indefatigable Temperance agent. “ Whatever other agencies may be used, the Cause must lauguish without publications to diffuse iiiforma- \ tion and keep up au interest j they alone keep the sub-! Ject blazing before the public mind. Temperance lec tures may arouse the people from then slumbers, j strengthen the weak, confirm the wavering and re-j claim the wanderer ; but the temperance publication j comes too often with their cheering accounts ol the onward progress of the c ause, with their interesting -facts and anecdotes, and with their stirring appeals, to permit the interest wholly to subside, or the slumbers of the temperance men long to remain 'iudistui lied, ii the arrival of the temperance paper does not excite a special interest in the breast ol the father, the children hail it as they would the return of the long abseut friend \ they gather around the domestic fireside— J they devour its pages, au4 its contents are read and i repeated with all the glee and enthusiasm oi childhood , and youth: and with the stated return ol such a mom tor, the interest is kept up and the cause advances..’ The Washingtonian has, up to this d ite, attained its thirteenth No., and has now a circulation of nearly five huudred subscribers. This number can readily be increased to a thousand if the fi lends ol the Tern iDerance cause will aid us in procuring subscribers — which will enable the publisher, at the close oi the present volume, to make it a cheap and valuable family 1 paper, as well as a warm advocate of the Washingto-; iiian Temperance Reform. We respectfully ask ol >each friend to our paper, to endeavor to procure one •additional subscriber, if not more, and forward to us immediately. All communications, by mail, must be post pa id ito receive attention. 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. [No. 16.