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FOEMYo
The Firemen’s Song.
Oh ! have you heard that a raging fire,
Is burning up both son and sire;
Awake and hear the startling cry,
And quickly to the rescue ily.
Chorus.
So here we come with pure cold water,
Here we come with pure cold water,
We will never, never tire.
The victims to this dreadful woe,
Do*never all theii danger know;
Until the fire has burned so long,
It flares on high and ragefstrong.
So here wl come, &c.
When louißhey raise their heart-felt cry,
Oh 1 who shall find thelemedy ;
Come on my hoys, your engines bring,
The pledge, the pledge, we’ll gaily sing.
So here we come, &c.
While water flows all pure and good,
This raging lire (tin he subdued—
With eager heaA and bodies stout,
We’ll and put it out.
So here we come, &c.
The mother with a deep drawn sigh,
An* daughter with appealing cry,
® Tnvite us to the Temperance Hall,
And we have come at beauty’s call.
So here we come, &c.
And wc will do our best to save
Their dear ones from a drunkard’s grave;
Then here we come with purpose high,
Anil in this cause we’ll live ami die.
So here we come, &c.
Wc’ll ring the hell and give the alarm,
For alcohol will do great harm ;
We’ll sound the warning far and near
And go to work with right good cheer.
So here wc come, &c.
Enlisted in this glorious cause,
We’ll drive it on and never pause,
Till Alcohol is fairly drowned,
We’ll spout cold water all around.
So here we come, &c.
From the Cryetal Fount.
Your Gobkt9 Fill.
Sparkling and bright is the hallowed light,
O'er ourgloiious banner beaming;
May virtue and peac? with our (lag increase,
While reform on its folds is gleaming.
Then your goblets (ill from the gurgling rill,
Till the tyrant’s legions vanish ;
And the ruthless foe like summer’s snow,
W ith the mother’s tears are banished.
Arish in your might, destroy the blight
Os misery, sighs and sadness;
Tears cense to flow, hearts cease to woe—
Loud raise the shouts of gladness.
Then your goblets fill, &c.
’Tis left with us to arrest the curse,
Which sails on eagle's pinions;
Our cause will save from the. drunkard's grave,
' '■**-*v And crush the foe’s dominions.
% Then your goblets till, &c,
I Temperance and Hellgion.
As weWxpected, the temperance reform which
has been (weeping over the country with such
power, tbruhe last two years, is now being fol
lowed up By the most extraordinary religious ex
citement this country has ever witnessed. Al
most every newspaper has some allusion to revi
vals in theirVicjnity, and in very many eases, the
fact is mentioned, that reformed drunkards are
uniting wit by he church. It is also an interest
ing fact that in most places where the temper
ance reform has made an impression, religious
excitements follow ; this was long since an es
tablished historical fact, and recent events have
also shown that vhe power of revivals is gradua
ted by the previous force ot the temperance ex
citement. These are important considerations
for Christians, and should induce them to urge
forward the cause of temperance.
A son of the Emejald Isle, who had just arri
ved at New York the other day, was asked by
an acquaintance to take a glass of grog, hut de
clined, giving as a reason for his refusal, that he
had joined the tempyance society in Cork, be
low leaving Ireland. His friend replied, that
wa« no a pledge given in Ire
land was not binding here. To this piece of left
handfed mofafo. Patrick indignantly retorted,
u j) o yesuppose whmlbrougbt iue body to Ame-
I’d be aflher Infer, me sowl in Ireland I”
Horrors of the French Revolution.
Never were the finest affections [more warmly
pxcited, or pierced with crueller wounds. W hole
families were led to the scaffold for no othercrime
than their relationship; sisters for shedding tear#
over the death of their brothers in the emigrant
armies; wives who lamented the fate of their
husbands, innocent peasant girls, for dancing
with the Prussian soldiers; a woman giving suck
anJ whose milk spouted in the face of the execu
tioner at the fatal stroke, merely for saying as a
group were conducted to slaughter, “ Here is
murh blood shed for a trifling cause!”
The people were goaded from tame into wild
beasts. Not they, hut their boastful oppressors
turned pale, and crouched to the earth. Liberty,
like the bruised adder, turned and struck its mor
tal fangs, inflamed with rage and hate, into those
who wished to crush it. The vilest and meanest
of mankind were brought into contact with the
pandered and the high-born—rag-seller, dog
clippers, thieves, mendicants, with the haughty
noble, the dignified prelate, the elegant courtier ;
and for one short hour misery showed to gran
deur no more mercy than it had always received
from it.
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Power of Cod.
The sun is as large as 337,(XX1 of our worlds.
Jupiter is as large as 1,281 ot our worlds. Mer
cury flies along, in its path at the rate of twenty
miles a second. Uranus is seventeen times as
large as our world, one billion eight hundred mil
lions of miles from the sun, and flies along at the
rate of two hundred and forty milts every min
ute !
Here, then, is the power of God ! A world,
with all its mountains, and oceans, and king
doms, is hut a pebble in the hands of the Al
mighty.
The Philosopher and the Ferryman.
A philosopher stepped on hoard a ferry boat to
en ss a stream —on the passage, he inquired of
the ferryman if he understood arithmetic. The
man looked astonished Arithmetic! no sir, 1
never heard of it before." The philosopher re
plied, “ I ain very sorry, tor one quarter of your
life is gone.” A few minutes afier, he asked the
ferryman, “Doyou know anything of Mathe
matics 1” The boatman smiled, and replied,
“ no." “ Well, then, another quarter of your
life is gone.” A third question was asked the
ferrymanDo you understand astronomy 1 !”
“Oh! no, sir; never heard of such a thing.”
“ Well, my friend, then another quarter of your
life is gone.” Just at that moment the boat ran
on a snag, and was sinking, when the ferryman
jumped up, pulled off his coat, and asked the phil
osopher, with great earnestness of manner. “ Sir,
can you swim 1” “ No,” said the philosopher.
“ Well, then,” said the ferryman, “your whole
life is lost, for the boat's going to bottom!”
Wonders of Mesmerism.
* * “ The next experiment was upon ‘the com
munity ot‘ sensation.’ The operator ate an apple
and the pig seemed much pleased with the taste.
When the operator had finished the apple, the
pig held up his snout as if desirous of more of
the same food. The operator retired some dis
tance and read a note which was handed him.
The pig seemed to understand the contents, and
nodded his head as if to give assent. The eyes
of the pig were now bandaged, and the operator
held an ear of corn in his hand. The pig appa
rently saw the corn, and approached to receive it.
A large dog was now put in communication with
the pig. The dog barked, and the pig grunted.
The dog ran at the pig which approached him,
and their noses stuck together just us the pole of
two magnetic needles would do. By these ex
periments ‘the community of sensation’was fuiiy
established.
“ The operator now assumed the command
over the pig, for the purpose of examining in
phreno-magnetism. The organ of music was
first touched, and the pig gave some most melodi
ous squeaks. The next oroan touched was that
of penetration, when the pig commenced rooting
in 'he ground. The organ of combativeness
was next touched. The. pig gave a look of de
fiancr, #nd gave a warlike grunt. The next was
the organ of observation. The pig now looked
very knowingly towards the sky, as if toexamine
the state of the weather. The operator here got
quite angry with a hoy who was interrupting the
fluid, and struck him. The pig immediately be
came very ferocious, and attacked the boy also.
“ Surprise now took the place of anger in the
operator. The pig slopped, and also appeared
unaccountably astonished. The operator took
snuff, and the pig sneezed. The operator chew
ed a piice of tobacco, and the pig turned sick at
the stomach. The operator now, for the first
time, asked a question: “What's the matter, pig
gy!” and mirabile dictu! the pig answered “ugh!
I’m sick.’ Many other very wonderful experi
ments were performed, and we became satisfied
that the animal under the influence of mesmeric
power might, in process of time, not only be able
to describe disease in patients he had never seen,
but even to practice medicine with considerable
success.
It is no sin to be ugly, but it is rather inconve
nient. Still some men like it. Mirabeau was
proud of his extreme ugliness: he valued him
self as much on being the ugliest man in France
as on being the best orator. He was so ugly that
the boys used to stop him in the street anil ask
him if his face didn’nt hurt him.
MlOerism.
The New York Union says, a partner of one
of our most respectable Pearl street jobbing hou
ses, who has for years been deemed a pattern of
industry, and one of the best salesmen in the
street, who by Irugality and perseverance, amass
ed a comfortable property, has become complete
ly insane on the subject of Millerism, believes
fully in the approach of the world's termination,
has relinquished his interest in the concern, is
perfectly reckless as to what becomes of his pro
perty, carries a bible under his arm through tue
streets, and takes every opportunity of endeavor
ing to convince his acquaintances and friends
that they should give up all worldly considera
tions, and prepare tor their speedy exit.
We.occasionally hear of a simpering, uouble
refined young lady, boasting that she never la
bored, and could not for the life of her make a
Pudding, as though ignorance of these matters
was a mark of gentility and a leaning toward
European nobility. There can be no greater
prool of silly arrogance than such remarks, and
for the especial benefit of such, wc would kindly
inform them that Madame de Genlis supported
the family of the Due de Orleans (and among
them the present reigning monarch ot France,)
in London, by the sale of her drawings; one ot
the Dutchesscs of the same court maintained her
self and husband at Bath, by leaching a musical
school, and the Queen herself, kept her tamih
by spurned bonnets. These examplesofour own
good country women would be punished and
ridiculed as vulgar, and rude republican | models.
Warts.
These troublesome cxcresernces may be de
stroyed by a simple and certain application. The
writer discovered it while performing some chem
ical experiments with soda: Dissolve as much
common soda as the water will take up; then
wash the warts with this for a minute or two, and
allow them to dry without being wiped. This
repeated two or three days, will gradually destroy
the most irritable wart.
The editor of an Irish paper, speaking of a
shipwreck says, “ he is happy to state that the
crew were all saved except four hogsheads of to
bacco.”
Pretty Good.
A Lowell printer requests one of the Millerite
preachers to “ call and settle” for the printing of
some second advent hymns before he goes up.
tie says, “we can go before a magistrate and
swear that we believe he intends io leave the
State.”
Absence of Mind.
The wife of a celebrated toper, intending to
take up a coal of fire to light a candle, caught
her husband’s red nose between the tongs, and
did not perceive her mistake until she held up
the candle, and tried to blow the supposed coal,
when he told her he could blow his own nose.
PROSPECT IIS"
OF
ffssa WA»iE23Br@ir©mAisff 9
OR, TOTAL ABSTINENCE ADVOCATE,
Devoted to the Cause of Temperance,—published
semi-monthly, in the City of Augusta,
BY JAMES MeCAFFERTY.
The determination our citizens have evinced,
to drive the Destroy er lrom the land,has awakened the
most intemperate to a sense of out) . This should be
hailed as an omen and harbinger ol' good. The spirit
of Reformation is aw akened thioughoutthe length and
breadth of our country—the Temperance Cause is
ever) where happil) advancing, bearing down all op
position, scattering blessings on ever) hand, drying up
tile teats of the distressed and causing the heart ol the
widow and the drunkard’s wife to sit g for o). It is a
glorious cause—the cause ol humanit) and virtue : our
countrp’s highest good is involved—her prosperit),
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
slaver) to the worst, most cruel of enemies.
To impress the necessity of such a w r ork upon the
friends of Temptrance, nothing can be more appropri
ate than toe closing paragraph of a report from Mr. S
S. Chipmas, an indefatigable Temperance agent.
“Whatever other agencies may be used, the Cause
must languish w ithoul 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, conlirm the wavering and re
claim the wanderer ; but the temperance publication
comes too often with their cheering accounts of the
onward progress of the i ause, with their interesting
facts and anecdotes, and with their stirring appeals, to
permit the interest w holly to subside, or the slumbers
of the temperance meD long to remain cudistuilied. If
the arrival of the temperance paper does not excite a
special interest in the breast ol the father, the children
hail it as they w ould the return of the long absent
friend ; they gathet around the domestic liresi.lt—
they devour its pages, and its contents are read and
repeated with all the glee and enthusia-m of childhood
and youth : and with the stated return of such a morn
tor, the interest is kept up and the cause advances.’’
The Washisctonian has, up to this dote, attained
its thirteenth No., and has now a circulation of nearly
five huudrcd subscribers. This number can readtly
be increased to a thousand if the hiends of the Tem
perance cause will aid us in procuring subscribers—
which will enable the publisher, at the close of the
present volume,to makeit a cheap znd valuable family
paper, as well as a warm advocate es 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.
(gj- All communications, by mail, must be post paid
to receive attention.
December 3d, 1842.
SANDS'S SARSAPARILLA,
17 OR the removal and permanent cure of all disease
•a arising from an impure state of th« blood, or habit*
of the s\ stem, namely , Scrofula, or King's Ecil,Hheu
matisrnj Obstinate l ulaneous Eruptions, Pimples, or Pus
tules on the face, BUtches, Biles, Chronic Sort Byes,
Ring H arm or 'l etter, Scald Head, En.argemeut and pain
of the Bones and Joints. S abbotn Vleers, Syphilitic
Symptoms, Sciatica, or Lumbago, and diseases arising
fror/t an injudicious use of blercur y.Jlscietts, or Dropsy,
exposure or imprudence in life, allio, Chronic, Consti
tutional Disoi ders still be removed by this prepur ation.
Its timely administration has been attended with the
happiest results in many anomalous aflections ; hut it
is chiefly intended to All the void w hich exists between
cathartic and aperient medicines, hence its modus vper
andi is that of an alteratiTe directly; — indirectly, piov
ing a lasting tonic to the system. Diseases of the osse
ous and glaudulai sj stem, also of the joints and liga
ments, are safely ana certainly cured bj its use,as the
peculiarity of its operation consists in lemoving the
germ or cause oi disease, and the health of the patient is
speedily restored.
Sarsaparilla has enjoyed a high reputation in the
treatment and cure of diseases foi mauy years, but the
value of no other article in thematciia Medica, that at
one time held so high a rank, has at others been flaced
so low : the cause of w hich is chiefly ow ing to the
gieat variation in the manner of its preparation, and
w ant of caie in selecting the proper article. A d.stm
guished medical writer who resided many years in the
seciion of country w hich produces the best quality of
Sarsaparilla, trulv observes, “ of six or eight species of
the root w hich 1 found growing in the woods, 1 never
found but one toinauifesi to the taste any of the sensible
properties of he genuine medical Sarsapaiilla,the ten
being insipid and nearly iueit.” As the medical pre
session do notact as theirown rhaimaceutists.but iclv
on the skill of the Apothecary for preparing an
compounding diderent formulae, it is a nutter oi the ui
most importance that there should be a conect stanc
ard preparation of Sarssparilla, on w hich the‘Faculty
and public grtieruly can rely w ith implicit conlidenci
—such is the article bow ottered. It combines ih
Utile cum Duh e, and in numerous instances has given
speedy relief and made a perfect cure when the patient
was appatanily fast vetging to the giave. The propri.
etors liavedevoted many years iu experimenting and
testing various modes of preparation to enable them to
concentrate in the most e flic lent loim all the meuicinal
value of the root, and this most desiiable result has
been at last triumphantly accomplished by means ol an
i entirely neyr, ingenious and costly apparatus. '1 he
, Sarsaparilia is combined with other article* selected
i w holly from the vegetable kingdom, all of w hich are
the most pow erlul puritiers of the blood ; and these are
1 concentrated into a fluid extract of great pow er. The
patient thereliaie w ho uses this prep aration has all com
bined that can be used for the removal of his complaint.
The numerous objectious to ditlervul foi ms in w hich
Sarsaparilla has been heretofore prescribed, are w ell
l'oouded j the quantity of tngar contained in tile syrup
1 w ill in most instances nauseate and surfeit the stomach,
if a sufficient dote be taken to be of any benefit—the
decoction and infusion being so liable to spoil, combin
ed w ith the dilHchlty of preparation, render them both
comparatively usUess and inert; hence, the superior
value and eliic&cy of the article now under consideru-
liuu.
11l addition to the other advantages of this preparation
it will be found exceedingly palatable, so that even to
a child it mi) be readily administered, and to the most
delicate person it anight be given, without offending or
disagreeing with the stomach.
Asthe addition of mineral poisona is frequently ob
jected to, this pieparalion is guaianteed eutirel) tree
horn any thing ol that nature, leaving it to the judge
ment of the physician or patient lo make such addi
tions, and in such quantities as the case may reqiure.
Sand's Sahsaparslla is ada)ited to all the v arious cases
where the medicinal virtues of the root are required,
and in order to derive the full advantages ol the prcpa
tion, it is recommended to pay regard to the diet, av oid
ing salt food, high seasoned meats and stimulating
drinks, and to keep the bowels regular.
In many cases of Diseases of the Skin, an external
application is also uecessaty in such it is recom
mended to use Sands's Remedy for Salt Rheum, w liich
together w ith the use of iheSarsapoiilla internally ,
cannot fail to cure andeiadicutethe disease.
(gy- The most satielactory testimonials may he seen
where this medicine is sold.
Prepared and sold at tvholesale and retail, at. for ex
portation, by A B. SANDS )k t o. Druggists and Che
mists, tii unite Buildings, aid Bro»dv\ny, comer of
Chamber street, N»w Yoik. Price,One Dollar.
Sold by special appointment in Augusta, by
HAVILAND, KISLEY & CO.
Sept 3. 13 l*2t] Druggists.
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