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POM BY.
THE MUSIC OF TEMPERANCE.
What fairy-like music steals over the sea,
Entrancing the sense with charmM melody"?
’Tis the sweet song ot Temp’rance that floats o’er
the main,
Inviting inebriates to join in the strain!
O, come, gentle brother, we’re waiting for thee—
Come throw off the yoke and resolve to be free,
And gladden the heart of thy mother once more,
Who has wept long in silence thy loss to
deplore.
t: ■ ! “W .
O, come to thy sister!—you’ll find her the same,
Although you have caus’d her much anguish
and shame;
O, come, take the pledge and resolve to be wise,
While songs of devotion ascend to the skies,
What fairy-like music steals over the sea,
Entrancing the sense with charm’d melody ?
’Tis the sweet song of Temp’rance that floats o’er
the air,
Inviting all classes its comforts to share,
Baltimore, Nov. 20,1842.
The Reason Why.
BT MRS. BIGOURNEY.
I saw a little girl
With halfuncovered form,
And wondered why she wandered thus
Amid the winter storm.
They said her mother drank of that
Which took her sense away,
And so she let her children go
Hungry and cold all day.
I saw them lead a man
To prison for his crime,
Where solitude and punishment,
And toil divide the time.
And as they forced him through its gate
Unwilling along,
They told me’twas intemperance
That made him do the wrong.
I law a woman weep
As if her hcait would break;
They said her husband drank too much
Os what he should not take.
I saw an unfrequented mound,
Where weed* and brambles wave,
They said no tear had fallen there,
It was a drunkard’s grave.
They said these were not all
The risks the intemperate run, i
For there was danger lest the soul
Be evermore undone.
Since water, then, is pure and sweet,
And beautiful to see,
And since it cannot do us harm,
It is the drink forme.
fir The following poem was published in the
New York Museum, a literary paper, in 1802:
RUM.
GREAT Spirit, hail! convulsion’s angry fire
And like thy parent Bacchus, born of fire;
The jail’s decoy, the greedy merchant's lure:
Diseases of money, but reflection’s cure.
We owe, great Dram, the trembling hand to thee,
The headstrong purpose, and the feeble knee;
The loss of honor, and the cause of wrong;
The brain enchanted, and the faultering tongue.
While fancy flies before thee unconfin’d
Thou leav’st disabled prudence far behind.
In thy pursuits our fields are left forlorn,
Whilst giant weeds oppress the pigmy corn.
Thou throw’st a mist before the fanner’s eyes;
The plough grows idle, and the harvest dies.
By thee refresh’d, no cruel norths we fear;
It’s always warm and calm, when thou art near;
On the bare earth, for thee expos’d, we lie;
And brave the malice ofa frowning sky.
Like those who did in ancient times repent,
We fit in ashes, and our clothes are rent.
O, grand deluder! such thy charming art;
Twere good we ne’er should meet, or never part,
Ever abscond, or ever tend our call;
Leave us our sense entire, or none at all.
Experience-Telling.
" George Pellhouse, one of the parties implica
ted in an assault and robbery of a marine at Nor
folk, was a few days since tried, convicted and
sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in the Pen
itentiary. A remark which he made after his
sentence was pronounced is worthy of notice. ‘I
wish,’ said he emphatically, ‘ that 1 had died be
fore I ever tasted the first drop of liquor, tor that
has been the cause of my ruin.”—iV. Y. Union.
A Sad Picture.
The following graphic sketch is not altogeth
er a work of the immagination. It is from the
pen of the lamented Bcnnatyne.
“ We have often read of shipwrecks in which
the whole crew, driven to Irienzy, rushed to the
spirit room, and drank till they were helplessly
intoxicated, abandoning themselves and the ship
to inevitable destruction. Still more dreadful
would be the tate of a nation, on which the
course ofuniversal darkness had fallen! Where
is the skilful statesmen who is to steer us through
the storm? He is drunk. Where is the collec
tive wisdom that is to enact laws for our safety?
It is drunk. Where is the lawyeT to plead my
cause ? He is drunk. Where is the officer to
execute the law ? He is drunk. Where is the
physician to save my dying child ? He is drunk.
Where is ihe minister of God to stem this torrent
of iniquity, and rouse us from this awful perdi
tion ? He is drunk! drunk !! drunk!!! A sea of
drunkenness without a simre, where men,women,
and children wallow in its lurid waters, and after
a brief struggle, drop down to bottomless perdi
tion, while as many more stand on the brink,
ready to iih thcirplaces and to sharetheir doom!
i have'often heard it said that were it not for
the temperance reform, America would soon have
become a nation of drunkards. How far this may
be true. I know not ; but suppose for a moment
that the tem|>eranco reform had not taken place,
and that intemperance had continued, and in
creased till this foreboding was actually fulfilled,
and we were now living in the midst of a society,
where drunkenness reigned supreme in every
city, tillage, hamlet, and household of the land—
presided at the family board, amidst the haunts
of business, on the bench of justice in the halls
oflegislation, behind the chair of authority and
around the altar of God: where the scenes of
Bacchanalian revelry, enacted once a year in
some of t life cities of ancient Greece, were of every
day occurrence, and—but I will not dwell on the
picture, for if such a state of things were ever
realized, it could be but for a very brief period.
The earth could not long bear the burden ofsuch
a social enormity ; she would spurn it from her
bosom, and the confirmed drunkenness of a na
tion, as of an individual would speedily be closed
in irremediable ruin. —Maine Temp. Gazette.
Let Washingtoninana remember that if a poor
brother fall we must not desert him Many have
fallen in an ev 1 hour, but they immediately re
signed the pledge and have since been consistent
teetotallers. Press not down a brother; the best,
the strongest are liable to fall. Angels have fall
en and why not mortal man. Treat, all that are
thus unfortunate kindly. Stand by them! desert
them not in that, their hour of trouble, but be in
deed, what you profess to be, a band of brothers,
uidinerand sustaining one another through good
and through evil report:—- Hvnl ip Organ.
The Truth.
How forcibly is the unjust inequality in the
administration of “justice” brought home in the
following extract from Lover’s Handy Andy :
“ Och ! its a fine thing to be a gentleman !”
said Andy.
“ Cock yon up said his mother. “ May be
it’s a gentleman you want to be; what puts that
into your head, you otnadhaun 1”
“ Why, because agcntleman has no hardships
compared with one of us. Sure, if a gentleman
was married, bis wife wouldn’t be tuk off from
him the wav mine was.”
“ Not sosoon, maybe,” said the motherdrily.
And if a gentleman breaks a horse’s neck he
is only a bold rider, while a poor servant is a
careless blackguard for only taking a sweat out
of him. If a gentleman dhrinks till he can’t see
a howl in a ladher, he is only “ fresh-like,” but
“dhrunk is the word for a poor man. And if
a gentleman kicks up a row he’s a “ tine-spirited
fellow,’ while a poor man is a “ disorderly vag
abone”for the same; and the Justice axes one
to dinner, and sends the other to jail. Oh. faix,
theiavv is a dainty lady ; she takes people by the
hand who can afford to wear gloves, but paple
with brown fists must kape their distance.”
‘ Wito, said a Washingtonian the other day,
‘.it seems to me that I sec a thousand things that
we want in the family. How is it that we have
nothing.’ ‘ Why,'said the wile, 'husband, you
must know that although we have been married
some years our housekeeping has only just begun.
Before you signed the pledge we never made a
beginning, and we are begining now, just as if
we were married yesterday. But, glad am I, hus
band, that our housekeeping is at last begun! 1
Temperance Mince Pies.
Take a neat s tongue, * weighing generally
three pounds, cut off the root, wash it perfectly
clean, and boil it till it becomes tender; skin it,
and when cold, chop it very finely. Mince as
small as possible, two pounds of fresh beef suet
from the sirloin. Stone and cut small two pounds
of bloom raisons. Clean nicely two pounds of
currents, pound and sift half an ounce t mace,
and a quarter ot an ounce of cloves, grate in a
large nutmeg. It it is to be used immediately,
add a dozen apples, minced fine, a pound and a
half of good brown sugar, the grated rind and
the juice of a large lemon, and a wineglass of
vinegar, a few bits of citron, and preserved lemon
peal. It it is not to be used immediately, the ap
ples had better not be put in until it is wanted.
The following is a republican watchman’s de
finition of the degrees of drunkenness: A man
is as drunk as an owl when he cannot see; as a
sow, when he tumbles into the dirt; as a be<nrar.
w . n imprudent; as the devil, when inclined" for
mischief; as a lord, when he is every thing bad.
The Tailor aud Dean Swift.
An Anecdote to suit the times.
A tail, rin Dublin, near the residence of the
Pean, took it into the “ ninth part” of his head,
that he was specially and divinely inspired to in
terpret the prophecies, and especially the Book of
Revelation. (Quitting the shop board, be turned
out a preacher, or rather a prophet, uutil his cus
tomers had left his shop, and his family was likely
to famish His monomania was well known to
Dean Swift, who benevolently watched some con
venient opportunity to tu:n the current of his
thoughts. One night the tailor, as he fancied,
got especial revelation to go and convert Dean
Swift, and next morning took up his line of
march to the deanery. The Dean, whose study
was furnished with a glass door, saw the tailor
approach, and instantly surmised the nature of
his visit. Throwing himself into an attitude of
solemnity and thoughtfulness, with the Bible
open before him, and his eyes fixed on the 10th
chapter of Revelation, he awaited his approach.
The door opened, and the Tailor announced in
an unearthly voice the message: “ Dean Swift,
I am sent by the Almighty to announce to you”
“Comein, my friend,” said the Dean; “I
am in great trouble, and no doubt you have been
sent to help me out ol my difficulty.” This unex
pected welcome inspired the tailor, and strength
ened greatly his assurance in his own prophetical
character, and disposed him to listen to the dis
closure. “My Iriend,” said the Dean, “ 1 hate
just been reading in the tenth chapter of Revela
tion, and am greatly distressed at a difficulty 1
have met with, and you are the very man sent to
help me out of it. Here is an account of an angel
that came down from Heaven, who was so large
that he placed one foot on the sea, and the other
on the earth, and lifted his hands to Heaven
Now my knowledge <f mathematics,” continued
the Dean, “ has enabled me to calculate exactly
the size and form of this angel, but 1 am in great
difficulty, for I wish to ascertain how many yards
of cloth it will take to make him a pair of breeches,
and as that is exactly in your line of business, I
have no doubt you have been sent to show me.”
The exposition came like an electric shock to the
poor tailor —he rushed from (be house, ran to his
shop, and a sudden revulsion of thought and feel
ing came over him. Making breeches was ex
actly in his line of business. He returned to his
occupation thoroughly cured of his prophetical
revefctions by the wit of the Dean. What a pity
such a method cannot be hit on to cme some of
the Millerites!
“ Old Wine. —At a recent dinner given by Pre
sident Tvler, at Washington, a bottle of wine
was produced, which was represented to be up
wards of four hundred years old. This wine is
said to have been given to our late townsman, the
Hon. William Pinckney, by the Senate of Bre
men.”
We know of a far older beverage than this—
one as old as the world, and given to the first man,
Adam, by the Creator himself; and moreover, in
great plenty—the possession of the poor man as
well as the rich—not Rerved out sparingly by the
“ bottle” at some especial banquet, but a well
spring of health and gladness flowing full, free
and refreshing, for the benefit of all. The awe of
this drink is a Inmt fiOOfl years, and its name “sold
Water.' I—S. 1 — S. Advocate,
PROSPECTUS
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OR, TOTAL ABSTIN ENCE ADVOCATE,
Devoted to the Cause of Temperance, — published
sem i-monthly , in the City of Augusta,
BY JAMES McCAKEERTY.
The determination our citizens have evinced,
to drive the Destroj cr from the land,has av. akencd the
most intimpeiate to a sense tu uuty. This should be
hailed as an omen and harbinger of good. The spirit
of Reformation is awakened thioughootthe length and
bieadth of our country—the Temperance Cause is
every where happily advancing, bearing down all op
position, scatteringblestingson every hand,drying tip
the teats of the distressed and causing the heart of the
widow and the drunkard’s wife to sing for oy. It is a
glorious cause—thecause oi humanity ar.d virtue: 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
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 of Temperance, nothing can be more appropri
ate than the closing paragraph of a report from Mr. S
S. Chipman, an indefatigable Temperance agent.
“ Whatever other agencies may be used, the Cause
must languish without publications to diffuse informa
tion and keep up an interest; they alone keep the sub.
ject blazing before the public mind. Temperance lec
tures may arouse the people from their slumbers,
strengthen the weak, confirm the wavering and re
claim the wanderer; but the fhmpcrance publication
conies too often with their cheering accounts ot the
onward progress of theiause, 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 endistutbed. If
the arrival of the temperance pa|ier does not excite a
special interest in the breast of the fatheb, the children
hail it as they would the return of the long absent
friend ; they gathei around the domestic fireside—
they devour its pages, aud its contents are read and
repeated with all the glee andrnthusia-m of childhood
and youth and with the stated return oj such a moni
tor, the interest is kept up and the cause advances. - ’
The Washingtonian has, up to this date, attained
its thirteenth No., and has now a circulation of nearly
five hundred subscribers. This number can readj’y
bc increased to a thousand if the friends of the Tern
perance cause will aid us in procuring subscribers
which will enable the publisher, at the close of the
present volume, to make it a cheap and valuable family
paper, as well as a warm advocate of the Washingto
nian Temperance Reform. We respectfully ask of
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 paid
to receive attention. r 1
December Bd, 184 i.
SANDS’S SARSAPARILLA,
'p'Oß the removal and permanent cure of all disease
A arising from an impure state of the blood, or habits
of the system, namely, Scrofula , or Xing's Evil, HJteu
iootism, Obstinate Cutaneous Eruptions, Pimples, or Pus
tules an lie Jace, Blotches, Biles, Chronic Sore Eyes,
Ring IVorm or Tetter, Scald Head, Enlargement and pain
of the Bosses and Joints, Stubborn Ulcers, Syphilitic
Symptoms, Sciatica, or Lumbago, and diseases arising
frum an injudicious use of Mercury,,decides, or Dropsy,
exposure or imprudence in life. Also, Chronic, Consti
tutional litsoi ders will be removed by this preparation.
Its timely administration has been attended with the
happiest results in many anomalous edections; but jt
is chiefly intended to fill the void which exists between
cathartic and aperient medicines, hence its modus eper
'andi is that of an alterative directlyindirectly, prov
ing a lasting tonic to the system. Diseases of the osse
ous and glaudulas sy stem, also of the joints and liga
ments, are safely auu eeitainly cuied by its use, as the
peculiarity of its operation consists in removing the
germ or cause of disease, and the health ofthe patient is
speedily restored.
Sarsaparilla has enjoyed a high reputation in the
treatment and cure of diseases for many years, but the
value of no other article in the maicira Medica, that at
one time held so high a lank, has at others been placed
so low-: the cause of w hich is chiefly ow ing to the
great s atiation in the manner of its preparation, and
w ant ol caie in selecting the proper article. A distin
guished medical writer who resided many years ia the
section of country w hich produces the best quality of
Sarsaparilla, truly observes, “of six or eight species of
the loot w hich 1 found grow ing in the w oods, I never
found but one to manifest to the taste any of the sensible
properties of ihc genuine medical Sarsaparilla,the rest
being insipid and nearly inert." As the medical pro
fession do not act as thetrowu Phaimaceutists, but rely
on the skill of the Apothecary for preparing and
compounding diflerent formula, it is a matter of the ut
most importance that there should be a correct stand
ard preparation of Sarsaparilla, on which the ‘Faculty’
and public generaly can rely with implicit confidence;
—such is the article now oflered. It combines the
Uhle cum Dulce, and in uumeious instances has given
speedy relief and made a perfect cure when the patient
"as apparently list verging to the grave. The jiropri
otors have devoted many years ia experimenting and
testing various modes of preparation to enable them to
concentrate in the most efficient form all tha medicinal
value of the root, and this most desirable result has
been at last triumphantly accomplished by means of an
entirely new, ingenious and costly apparatus. The
Sarsaparilla is combined w ith other articles selected
wholly from the vegetable kingdom, all of which are
the most powerful purifiers of the blood: and these are
concentrated into a fluid extract of great power. The
patient therefore who uses this prepaiation lias all com
bined that can he used for tho removal of his complaint
The numerous objections to diflerent foi ms in which
Sarsaparilla has been heretofore prescribed, are well
founded; the quantify of sugar contained in the syrup
will In most instances nauseate and surfeit the stomach,
if a sufficient dose he taken to be of any benefit—the
ddcoclioit and infusion being so liable to spoil, combin
ed with the difficulty of preparation, render them both
comparatively useless and inert; hence, tho superior
value and efficacy ofthe article now under considera
tion.
In addition to the other advantngesof this preparation
it will lie found exceedingly palatable, so that even to
a child it may be readily administered, and to the most
delicate person it might be given, without offending or
disagreeing with the stomach.
Asthe addition of mineral poisons is frequently ob
jected to, this preparation is guaranteed entirely free
*i°m any thing ol that nature, leaving it to the judge,
ment of the, physician or patient to make such addi-
and in such quantities as the case may require.
Ssm> s SißtiriftiLLt is adapted to all the various cases
where tile medicinal virtues of the root are required
Mid in order to derive the fall advantages of ihc nreiia
tion, it is recommended to pay regard to the diet, avoid,
mg salt food, high seasoned meats and Stimulatinir
drinks, and to keep the bow els regular.
In many cases of Diseases of the Skin, an external
application is also necessary :-in such it is recom
mended to use Sands’s Remedy for Salt Rheum, which
together- with the use of the Sarsaparilla internallv
cannot fail to cure and eradicatethe disease.
The most satisfactory testimonials may be seen
where this medicine is sold. 3
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