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her, which, if not beautiful, was at least the cause
of beauty. Eighteen weary months had been
registered on the past, since Tuthlamachee had
left his “ dark-eyed one,” and his romantic home,
when the almost disconsolate Nenah prevailed
upon her father, to accompany her to the village
of the Chippewas, in search of tiding of her long
lost lover. Ah! little did she think that in the
refined society of Boston, that men who were de
nominated gentlemen, had rivited upon her
young and noble Chief, a habit of vicious indul
gencc, which hail made him an outcast am! a sot!
Yet it was true. He had been taught how beau
tiful was civilization and society; he had associ
ated with the favored ones of fortune; it was
fashionable among th?m to “tarry long at the
wine,” he followed tlieir example, and it proved
his ruin. The Major used all means in his pow
er to cure the inveterate propens ty, but in vain,
his evil associations had sealed his destiny.
Major B-, deeply deploring, but unable to rem
edy it, turnished him with means and urged his
immediate return. Bloated, self-debased, and
abandoned, he set out upon his weary pilgrimage
to his father's roof, resolving upon reformation;
but with means at hand and temptation ever be
fore him, his resolutions were but baseless visions.
Arriving at the Sioux St. Marie, he purchased
enough rum to last him home, when he intended
to abandon its use forever. A few hours after
the supply had been consumed, and being within
but a lew miles of his native village, meditating
Upon the checkered scene of the last two years,
and the criminality of his vicious indulgences—
his nervous system in a tremulous condition—he
became, he knew not why,excessively alarmed;
poisoned arrows whizzed by him from unknown
quivers; unnatural forms of human beings
springing from dark ravines, with implements of
destruction, would pursue him; demons, with
lurid blood-shot eyes, holding in their hellish
grasp daggers reeking with the crimson gore o.
life, were living menacingly round and about him;
hefted in terror for his life, burst into his father’s
house, and, with a determination of blood to the
brain, felt dead upon the floor, a victim to the de
lirium. tremens. Bending over the I ill less body
of his brightest hopes, did the old Chief gaze in
wonder and in tears.
“ What demon of destruction,” said he, as he
hurriedly searched after the cause, “ has seized
upon my noble boy 1 What fiend from the hel
lish precincts of civilization, has brought home a
father’s hope in mockery, to be murdered before
a faiher’s eyes 1 Here, here it is,” exclaimed the
poor old man, as he snatched from the pocket of
the lifeless son, a black bottle, recking with the
mephitic vapors of New England rum. Reader,
shall I describe the maniac stare of old Et htala, as
he gazed upon that bottle 1 Shall I here record
his iiorrid imprecations upon that system ofsocie
ty which nurtures and imparis that most loath
some of all accursed practices 7 Oh no, we are
component parts of that very society, and some of
us may deem, unthinkingly, the practice inno
cent !
About a month from that,day, so sadly event
fat to that once happy family, might he seen
standing near a pile of stone which marked the
grave of Tuthlauiachce, a female form, like an
angel of pity, weeping o’er the cold and silent
heap—her dark lustrous eyes swimming in tears,
were rivitted upon the spot—for in that grave
reposed the ashes of all her affection. Nothing
could have been more wildly melancholy than
the sorrowings of poor Nenah for Tuthlamachee
every sigh breathed a tale of hopeless misery.
Oh! who could not have wept to have heard her,
and “ found a luxury in tears!” *he tore In r
self away, and resolved to steep in oblivion the
story of Lis wrongs.
1 ' * "-y ?• - •
“ She strayed along the sedgy brook,
And marked the blue bird’s song ;
But neither flower, bird, nor brook,
Could cheat her memory long.
Her thoughts flew back to moments past
And then she sighed in vain;
Her drooping heart was broke at last—
She never smiled again.”
Poor Nenah wended her weary way home
ward, and in a few months slept in that narrow
house where sorrowings shall cease.
11 Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,
She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.”
V ' • P. S. VV.
From the Temperance Banner.
Manla-a-Potu—Delirium Tremens.
I had been drinking until I became alarmed
and afraid that I should soon be on the same old
track. I concluded to quit home and travel with
a friend ahout fifty or sixty miles, and see if I
could not escape the storm that I saw rising. I
did pretty well fora day or two after we arrived
at his residence. One day. I was sitting think
ing about my situation and had drank but very
little, all of a sudden I was seized with a fit, fell
on the floor, was dragged or titled on to a bed,
and when I came too I was afraid of every thing
I saw. That night I was harrassed the whole
night with my old companions, and tried to run
off in the dark to get rul of so many miserable
looking things. The next morning after stimu
lating a little with some stewed spirits, 1 revived.
I fdtbetter, but was still in distress. ! sent to
an original Dutch Doctor, who also had become a
Thompsonian. Hesent me a phial of INo. 6 and
one of the Tincture of Nervine. 1 took a spoon
ful of each every two hours in spicewood tea un -
tH I got to sleep. The next morning I felt quite
refreshed and the third day I rode 35 miles and
come home well. This did me as much harm as
it did good, for after a short time I commenced ta
king morting and evening drams through tile
d iy, and be like those who always drink and say
they never take too much, and iff should happen
to gel into m; old track I cnuldsoon get out; but
not so. 1 could not get the old Doctor’s phials
cure all and quack as I called. I had one or two
light spells, and 1 managed so as to get over
them without suffering and seeing as much alto
gether as 1 did in my first case. I made use of
stewed whiskey and Nervitte and other teas.
After being well for some time, 1 was again
brought into it by travelling and taking a pocket
companion along to keep off diseases, and of
course 1 could travel much better. This has
always been given up by those who are fond of
these bosom friends, (alias Flasks,) and after a
while 1 discovered tiiat I was into it again.
Then followed gri f and sorrow and sleepless
nights. My eves flared, tile pupils began to lose
their natural size, and a number of sights appear
ed that wete far worse than l ever had witness
ed bolore, such as the blowing of horns and bu
gles. In the evening, and about sunset, I could
sec gathering around the house a number of
people, whom I took to be Arabs on little pideil
horses with short horns, and a number of tall wo
men, After dark they would come intothc rom
and commence a show. It was impossible to
shut them out. They would perform all night,
and I dared not offer to prevent them. They
would make sport of mv family, call me a cow
ardly rascal, and l would beg them to let me sleep,
but to no purpose. Towards day they would go
offsinging, with all the horns and bugles blow
ing; and about dark the next night, they would
return in the same as they had done the night be
fore, commencing with all manner of obscene
performances, anti with a greater degree of mean
ness. As soon as they would leave, 1 would be
tormented with men who apja-ared and disappear
ed like shadows, who could repeat and sing all
manner of mean songs, anti make them as they
wanted too without any trouble. When 1 woultl
strike at them, ray hand woultl pass through them
anti make them still worse, anil my entreaties to
them to have some respect for my family, would
only increase their obscenity.
Another night i was taken, bed and all, and
removed to a swamp, there to see the devil. I was
put into a large house, and the old fellow appear
ed in a tree at some distance. I was a little a
larmcd at first, but believing him to be powerless,
I commenced a conversation with him. I asked
him questions and answered myselfin his place.
He left, and soon returned with four hulls to a
carriage, in order to take me with him. He also
had a large company with him, and two men
with very long knives. 1 could hear them sing
for a great distance, hut this did not alarm me,
though companies of horse and foot and all kinds
of noises attended his inarch He catted me Adam
Johnson, i.nd said ho would take up his quarters
there, and have a show with his men and women,
in order to let mo see the |terformance. And
such an one 1 had never seen before. (I cant
think of mentioning his performance, it makes
me shudder to think of it.) This lasted until
morning, when 1 was relieved from this unpleas
ant scene of the Devil and his companions. Soon
after this, 1 was caught in a house where a num
ber had met in order to initiate a person into
their profession, hy the old piiest cutting his
tongue out bv the roots, and then making him
swallow it again, when it grew as it was before,
and lie was in full fellowship. The old priest’s
wife stood behind him, and appeared very much
pleased at the operation. Alter this, the whole
company commenced a show the most obscene
kind. I imagined it was very eolil, and that they
were keeping me there until I was almost frozen,
while the perlormers warmed themselves hy a
lightwood knot fire and drank freely of whiskey;
hut I dared not ask tor any as had as I wanted it
1 then was released, and taken a prisoner for kill
ing a cow thatdid not belong to me, for which 1
was condemned and sentenced to lie slicked. It
was almost death to nic to see the hickories all
piled up before me. Finally, the owner came
and releasei’ ie, saying that I wes deranged ami
that . must not he punished. I was relieved then,
hut directly 1 was taken as a vagrant, hut after
suffering considerably, 1 put on one of my broth
ers. I then saw that I had acted very mean, and
suffered more than before. Directly a couple of
men came that had iny notes and burnt them be
fore me, in order to made me fed still worse. Af
ter this. I was turned loose and run down by
hounds, and then carried before a king who had
many wives, and tried for stealing one of them.
1 was found guilty and condemned to he punished
in a great many ways. Finally, I Was confined
on a bed in a large room, and before me they
burnt my likeness, saying at the same time, that I
would soon have to go the same way. I was then
harrassed by wild beasts, cats and dogs, and by
mean men and women who acted worse than
any I had ever seen. At the end of this they
had put a negro and a mullato child in bed with
me, and swore it was my wile and child. Here
a new trouble took place, which continmd untd
daylight, when 1 discovered 1 was at home, and
my bed tellow had left me.
During this storm I took Laudanum—say one
spoonful every two hours, untii 1 slept—and
drank Nervine tea, also spice wood and slippery
elm teas. I was much longer in coming to my
self than I ever had been before. I wasconfined
ten days.
AND AGAIN.
I will give a part of this case and quit, for I see
that lam not one half of the way though. This
took place in the year’4o. About Christmas I
concluded to take a little egg-nog. and nothing
else but it would do; and no inebriate need not
depend ujionsuch a course. In this case 1 was
chased by dogs through large and muddy swamps
and large water courses by the orders of men and
women who I thought were once my friends, but
they had become s i contaminated by alcohol
that they cared not for themselves nor any one
else, and had given up to licentiousness in ways
that I cannot mention; hut alter 1 was taken I
hail to witness and dare not move —and in this
fix I saw pairs of every living animal that I had
ever seen before, following tlur example of these
deluded men and women, and men guarding me
with faces much larger than oxens and of the
same shape, and short dirty women with large
pale faces and short horns, and a great number of
small children following the example set by the
adults. lam here obliged to omit some of the
worst scenes that ever could be imagined by a
human being. There could not be a punish
ment thought of but what I was forced to under
go it, and every bad situation for a person to lie
in that would lie my place the instant I thought
ot it During this storm I had two fits, but lam
not sensible of them. 1 was lying in bed one day
and got a little cold, felt weak allot a sudden—l
thought death had struck me—l jumped up and
clenched the bedstead post —1 was seized with a
cramp —I said I was dying —my wife run with
some camphor and spirits, it done no good—l had
no pulse—she hallowed to a mnn who come in,
(and by the bye he had been a regular bread
drinker,) he poured out about a gill of reverent
whiskey—l drank it on nearly as much camphor
and whiskey that raised my pttlse and a sweat
ensued, ami I came to my natural feelings for a
while. The man asserted afterwards that my
healt did not move for ten minutes—for this 1
know not. Ii was several days and nights before
I ever slept any; hut alter a day and night’s sleep
I was up again. I managed this case as before.
In this storm 1 was so easily frightened that I
would run from almost everything 1 saw, and
used to try to get my horse to get off to some other
house to get shut of so many bad sights and per
formances that wete continually betorc my eyes
I have had sevrral spells since this, and have
seen ai.d felt more than 1 can undertake to men
tion at this time.
I will here remark to the young person, I care
not how temperate he may conclude he is, and he
may say he has come of a temperate family, for
they never were known to be drunk and always
made use of spirits, if he indulges in wine he will
find it a mocker. I once pursued this same plan
and was called a teniperate and a steady young
man for seven years, and since iny first debauch I
have left off alcohol lor six, twelve and eighteen
months, hut wine generally was the cause of my
taking another start. I have also tried Porter
and Beer anil Hard Cider, and after comment
ring on either I was certain to take the stiongest
spirits I could get; and I would advise all who
are determined to drink, to drink the strongest
andpurest(if any is pure)i-piriis they can get.
A |iers< n may indulge in alcohol tor years and
still think it does not hurt him—but not so. Af
ter a length of lime he will become restless and
out of order without he has his from 3to f> drinks
a day, and it will soon get to 12, and after this he
will have to take a night cap or two in order to
sleep sound, and in the morning the first thing he
must have an eye opener, phlegm cutter a stom
ach settler, &c. About iliis time the person thus
indulging will begin to complain of debility, a
sense ot numness in bis limbs, and an ina
bility to walk wilh his accustomed activity, and
these symptoms will increase and be followed by
mortifying indications of imbecility; his system
being excited by drinks, his sleep, though it may
be profound, is never tranquil and refreshing;
being raised to a state of feverish excitement, and
its healthy balance disturbed I’he iiudivdual
awakes, tiut finds himself fatigued rather than
invigorated; his mucles are relaxed, his intellect
imparl'd, and his whole system disordered : and it
is not until he is under the influence of food and
stimulous, that he can attend to any business.
Ikotliing r< duces a person as much as the want
of refreshing sleep. Alcohol acts on the blood,
deprives it of its vitality, makes it 10-e its Vermill
ion color and changes to that of a darker, and a
person taken with a sudden cold, a fever, a frac
tured limb, ora slight wound ot'the skin,is often
as much ns his shattered power can endure; even
an exposure to heat or cold, nr a slight emotion
ofthe mind,is more than he ran well stand; his
hands and feet are continually stinging with a
severe numbness, with a crawling of the skin,
and a burning in the aim like fire, which appears
to be between the flesh and skin, in the joints of
the elbow, with considerable pains in the knees,
ancles and shouldeis, ami the hreastand stomach
and left side; also pains in the eyes, and very
frequently in one or both cars, and a jerking of
the muscles’ slight headache, and continually
feeling something crawling up and down the
I* dy, the skin ot bis head belling and crawling,
and feeling things between the thumb and fing
ers; and tet a person in this fix survive it, it is
always the case that he will be as long in getting
over as he wasj in getting into it; for the whole
system ofthe l>. dy will become afflided bvintem
perance ; the liver,the brain, the heart, the lungs,
and the kidneys become the seat ol alcohol, and
this occasions a loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting,
aident thirst, pain in the head, red eyes, a bloated
face, coated or red tongue, symptomatic fever
And this is not all; it always has been my opin
ion, and is not a borrow, d one, that drinking ol
ardent s| irits, wines, &c., has produced dyspep
sia, jaundice, corpulence, dropsy, rheumatism,
gout, tremors, palpitation, epilepsy, palsey, apo
plexy, melancholy, madness, and often death.
I have thus made these brief remarks upon tem
perance. The sketch I have given is in part
and forms a mere outline of the subject; hut so
far as it extends, it is based upon facts, which I
have no fear, will bear the test of future observa
tion. Z.
THE WASHINGTONIAN?
AUGUSTA, KEBKUABY 4, I8«T
Washington Total .ibslintnce Fledge,
lie, irhcte names are hereunto annexed, desirous
,of forming a Society for cur mutual benefit,.
and to guard against a pernicious •practice,
which is injurious to our health, standing and
families , do pledge cursches as Gentlemen,
not to drink any
Sptrl on* or Malt Liquors, Wine or Cider.-
Clarknvii.i.k, G*. Jan. 28th, 1843,
At a meeting of the Washington Total Absti
nence Society of Habersham County, held at the
PWnix Hotel on Saturday evening 28th J4nu
ary, 1843,
Resolved, That J. Van Burcu, J. W. H. Un
derwood and A. G. Perryman, be appointed a
committee to call upon all those who have viola
ted the Pledge, and invite themto>our next meet
ing on Saturday night next.
Resolved, That the Habersham County Tem
perance Society meet on the 22d day of February
next, for the purpose of celebrating the Amrinr
sary of the Birth-day of W ashington’
Resolved, That in order thereto, that John H.
Wyly, Wm. C. Riteh, John W. Martin, N. A.
V. Guriy, and Phillip Martin, be and hereby are
appointed, a committee of arrangements for the
day; end that Lewis Levy be appointed Mar
shall, and J. Van Burcn and J. W. H. Under
wood, his assistants ; and that the said committee
with the Marshall aforesaid, give notice of the
order of said celebration in due time, previous to
that day; and that notice thereof he given to the
other societies of the county and to the cit : zcns
generally, by the proper officers of the Society.
Resolved, That a general invitation be publish
ed in the “Washingtonian,” Augusta; “ Tem
perance Banner,” Pcnfield, and “Mountain
Times,” Dahlonega, to the several societies in
the vicinity of this county, and a special invita
tion to Lumpkin and Flail counties to join this
society in the above cclebiation.
E. S. BARCLAY, Pres’t.
Lewis LEvy v Sec’ry.
In the tipper part of Kershaw District, (S. C.)'
during the Christmas holvdays, a murder nw
committed by a man named Dozier, while under
the influence of liquor, upon the body of Johro
Petigru. The parties, sometime previous, had a
quarrel, and on the day ofthe murder met on the
public road, and without any provocation on the
part of Petigiu, Dozier drew a knife and stabbed
him in the abdomen, cutting a hole so large that
a part of 'lie intestines fell to the ground, which
he raised and supported in his hands until he
reached a house at a short distance- After Peti
grue retreated to the house, Dozier entered the
room where he was lying, with his knife still!
dripping with blood, and with oath declared that
he had come to linish the work he had begun,
and was in the act of again stabbing his victim,
when Pe'igru told him to go away, that he had
already killed him. Dozier then left him. Peti
gru lived till- the nest evening, when he expired.
War and Intemperance.—The Report ofthe
New British and Foreign Temperance Society,,
computes that in the one hundred and one battal
lions, in a period of eighteen years, 143,218 sol
diers, or one-tenth of the whole, have been tried
for crimes committed under the influeuce of strong
drink, and have received 11,925,575 lashes, and
3,443,796 days imprisonment; and the deluded
lovers of strong drink have forfeited in their pay
or drunkenness, the sum of 130,9301. 12*. 4fd„
And, we dare say, some of these same men, if
asked to sign the pledge, would, like some we
knew, say “ 1 dont like to sign away my liberty”! l
that glorious liberty bequeathed by King Al
cohol, to forfeit their pay and have their backft
lashed, while in his service'