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VOKZBY.
The Firemen’s Son?.
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 m long,
it flares on high and rages ? sitrong.
So here come, &c.
When loudthey raise their heart-felt cry,
Oh ! who shall find thelemedy ;
Come on iny boys, your bring,
The pledge, the we’ll gaily sing.
So here we come, &c.
While water flows alfpurc and good,
This raging fire can be subdued
With eager heart and bodies stout,
We’ll water bring and put it out.
So here we come, &e.
The mother with a deep drawn sigh,
And daughter with appealing cry,
■ Invite us to the Temperance Hall,
And we have eotne at beauty’s call.
So here we come, &c.
And we will do our best to save
Their dear ones from a drunkard’s grave;
Then here we come with purpose high,
And in this cause we’ll live and die.
So here we come, &c.
We’ll ring the bell 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 we 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 Goblets Fill.
Sparkling and bright is the hallowed light,
O’er our glorious banner beaming;
May virtue and peace with our flag increase,
While reform on its folds is gleaming.
Then your goblets fill from the gurgling rill,
Till the tyrant's legions vanish ;
And the ruthless foe like summer’s snow,
With the mother’s tears are banished.
Arish in your might, destroy the blight
Os misery, sighs and sadness ;
Tears cense to flow, henrts cense to woe—
Loud raise the shouts of gladness.
Then your goblets fill, &c.
’Ti« left with us to arrest the curse,
Which sails on eagle’s pinions;
•Our cause will save from the. drunkard’s grave,
And crush the foe’s dominions.
Then your goblets fill, &c.
{ Temperance and Religion.
As w'efxpccted, the temperance reform which
has been |weeping over the country with such
power, for the 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 their vicinity, and in very many cases, the
fact is mentioned, that reformed drunkards are
uniting with the church It is also an interest
ing fact that in most places where the temjtr
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 ihe 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 Emerald Isle, who had just arri
ved at New York the other day, was asked by
an acquaintance to take a glass of grog, but de
clined, giving as a reason for his refusal, that he
had joined the temperance society in Cork, be
fore leaving Ireland. His friend replied, that
was no as a pledge given in Ire
land was not binding here. To this piece of letl
handed morality, Patrick indignantly retorted,
“ Do ye suppose whin l brought me body to Aine
ricy, I’d be afther laving me sowl in Ireland 1”
Horrors of the French Revolution.
Never were the finest affections|more warmly
excited, or pierced with crueller wounds. Whole
families were led to the scaffold for no other crime
than their relationship; sisters for shedding tears
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
and 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
much blood shed for a trifling cause!”
The peuplc were goaded from tame into wild
beasts. Not they, but 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
pain(ered 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.
Power of Cod.
The sun is as large as 337,000 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 miles every min
ute !
Here, then, is the power of God ! A world,
with all its mountains, and oceans, and king
doms, is but a pebble in the hands of the Al
mighty.
The Philosopher and the Ferryman.
A philosopher stepped on board a ferry boat to
cr. ss a stream —on the passage, he inquired of
the ferryman if he understood arithmetic. The
man looked astonished. Arithmetic! no sir, I
never heard of it before.” The philosopher re
plied, “ I ain very sorry, tor one quarter of your
life is gone.” A few minutes after, he asked the
ferryman, “Do you know anything of Mathe
matics 1” '[’he boatman smiled, and replied,
“no.” “Well, then, another quarter of your
life is gone.” A third question was asked the
ferryman: “Do 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, anil asked the phil
osopher, wuh great earnestness of manner. “ Sir,
can you swiml” “ 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 of sensation.’ The operator atean 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 fowl. 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
iff the pig were now bandaged, and the o[H’rator
held ail 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 as the pole of
two magnetic needles would do. By these ex
periments ‘the community of sensation’was fuliy
established.
“ The operator now assumed the command
over the pig, for the purpose of examining in
phreno-magnetisin. Ihe organ of music was
first touched, and the pig gave some most melodi
ous squeaks. The next organ 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
fiance, itnd gave a warlike grunt. The next was
the organ of observation. The pig now looked
very knowingly towards the sky, as if toexainine
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 stopped, and also appeared
Unaccountably astonished. The operator took
snutT, and the pig sneezed. The operator chew
ed a piece of tobaceo, 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 dirtu! 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 wasso ugly thai
the boys used to stop him in the street anil ask
him if his face didn’nt hurt him.
Mlllerism.
The New York Union gays, 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 througn tue
streets, and takes every opportunity of endeavor
ing to convince bis acquaintances and friends
that they should give up all worldly considera
tions, and prepare tor their speedy exit.
We.occasionally hear of a simpering, double
refined young lady, boasting that she never la
bored, and could not fur 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 es|>ecial benefit of such, we 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, hy the sale of her drawings; one ol
the Dutchesses of the same court maintained her
self and husband at Bath, by teaching a musical
school, and the Queen herself, kept her lamil\
by spurned bonnets. These examplesofour own
good country women would be punished and
ridiculed as vulgar, and rude republican|models.
Warts.
These troublesome excrescences 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 hogshead* 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.
He says, “we can go before a magistrate and
swear that wc believe he intends to leave the
State.”
Absence of Mind.
The wife of a celobraled 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.
PROSPECTUS
OF
HFIS!! ®a3S , ®l , ©3S , 3.'®,SS , s
OH, TOTAL ABSTINENCE ADVOCATE,
Devoted to the Cuuscof Temperance,—published
semi-monthly, in the City of Augusta,
BY JAMES McCAFFERTY.
The determination our citizens have evinced,
to drive the Dcstioy er Irom the land,has awakened the
must intemperate 10 a sense of out}. This should he
hailed as an omen aud harbinger of good. The spirit
of Reformation is awakened thioughoul the length and
breadth of our country—the Temperance Cause is
every where happily advancing, hearing down all op
position, scattering blessings on every hand, drying up
the teais of the distressed and causing the heart of the
widow and the drunkard’s w ife to sii g for oy. It is a
glorious cause—the cause ol humanity and 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 del.vering 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 tee c losing paragraph of a report from Sir. S
S. CmpMA!t,an indefatigable Temperance agent.
“Whatever other agencies may be used, the Cause
must languish w itliout publications to diffuse informa
tion and keep up an interest; they alone keep the sub
ject blazing before the public mind. Temperance lec
turcß may arouse the people from their slumbers,
strengthen the weak, confirm the wavering and re
claim the wanderer ; but the temperance publication
comes too often with their cheering accounts of the
onward progress of the t ause, w ith their interesting
facts and anecdotes, and with their stirring appeals, to
permit the interest w holly to subside, or the slumbers
of the temperance men long to remain endistuilied. If
the arrival of the temperanee paper does not excite a
special interest in the breast of the father, the children
hail it as they w ould the return of the long absent
friend ; they "gathei around the domestic fireside—
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 moni
tor, the interest is kept up and the cause advances. - ’
The W»shixgtonian has, uptoihis date, attained
its thirteenth No., and has now a circulation of nearly
five hundred subscribers. This number can readily
be increased to a thousand if the fiiends of the Tem
perance cause will aid us in procuring subscribers—
which will enable the publisher, at the close of the
presi nt volume,to make it a cheap and v aluable family
paper, as well as a w arm 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.
{X AII communications, by mail, must be post paid
to receive attention.
December 3d, 1642.
SANDS’S SARSAPARILLA,
POR the removal and permanent cure of all disease
•T arising from an impure state of th* blood, or habits
of the s\ stem, namely, Scrofula, or King's Evil, B.heu
aulists, Obstinate C ulanevus Eruptions, Pimples, or Pus
tules on the face, Bitches, Biles, Chronic Sore Eyes,
Ring H'orm or 'letter, Scald Head,Enlargement and pain
oj the Bones and Joints, S uitor» Ulceis, Syphilitic
Symptoms, Sciatica, or Lumbago, and diseases acting
from an injudicious use of Mercury, Jtscietts, or Dropsy ,.
exposure or imprudence in life, ailso, Chionic, Consti
tutional Dr soi ders srill be removed by this prepur ation.
Its timely administration has been attended with the
happiest results in many anomalous ; but it
is chiefly intended to till the \oid w hich exists between
cathartic and aperient medicines, hence its modus iper
andi is that of an alterative directly indirectly, piotv
ing a lasting tonic to the system. Diseases ol the osse
ous and glandular sj stem, also of the joints anu liga
ments, are safely ano certainly cured by its use, as the
peculiarity of it's operation consists in removing the
germ or cause of disease, and the health of the patient is
speedily restored.
Sarsaparilla has enjoy ed a high reputation in the
treatment and cure oldiseases foi many years, but the
value of no other article in the matcira Medica, that at
one time held so high a rank, has at Olliers been flaced
so low : the cause of which is chiefly owing to the
great variation in the manner of its preparation, and
w ant of cai ein selecting the proper article. A d.stin
gtiished medical writer who resided many years in the
section of country w hich produces the best quality of
Sarsaparilla, trnlv observes, “ofsix or eight species of
the root which 1 found grow ing in the woods, I never
found but one tomanifesi to the taste any of the sensible
properties ol he genuine medical Sarsapaiilla.the lett
being insipicMtid nearly inert.” As the medical pre
fessiou do no*act as theirown Thatmaccntists,but icl
on the skill of the Apothecary for preparing an
compounding ditferent lormulw, it rs a matter ol the ut
most importance that there should be a coriect stand
ard piepeiatiou of Sarsaparilla, on which the ‘Faculty
and public generaly can rely with implicit confidence
—such is the article now offered. It combines th
Utile cum Dnlie, and in nunieioas instances has given
speedy relief and made a perfect cure w hen the patient
was apparently fast veigtng to the giave. The propri
etors tia>cdetOted many years iu experimenting and
testing various modes of preparation to enable them 10
concculiate in the most ettictent loim all the medicinal
value of the root, and this most desirable result has
been at last triumphantly accomplished by means ol an
entirely new, ingenious and costly apparatus. The
Sarsapatilia Is combined with other articles selected
w holly from the vegetable kingdom, all of w hich are
the aiost pun ertul purifiers of the blood : and these are
concentrated into a fluid extract of great power. The
patient therefore who uses this preparation has allcom
bined that rail be used for the lemoval of his complaint.
The numerous objections to ditterent foi ms in w hich
Sarsaparilla has been heretofore prescribed, are w ell
founded , the quantity of smgar contained in the syrup
w ill in most instances nauseate and surfeit the stomach,
if a sufficient dose be taken to be of any benetit—the
decoction and infusion being so liable to spoil, combin
ed w ith the difficulty of preparation, render them both
comparatively listless and inert; hence, the superior
value andefficacy ti the article now under considera
tion.
In addition to the other advantages of this preparation
it will be found exceedingly palatable, so that even to
a child it may he readily administered, aud to the most
delicate person it might be given, w ithout offending or
disagreeing with thestomach.
As the audition of mineial poisons is frequently ob
jected to, this preparation is guaranteed entirely tree
liom any thing of that nature, leaving il to the judge
ment of the. phy s'xiau m patient to make such addi
tions, and in such quantities as the case may require.
Sand’s Sadsafarilla is adapted to all the various cates
where the medicinal virtues of the root are required,
and in order to derive the full advantages ol the prepa
tion, it is recommended to pay regard to the diet, mold
ing salt food, high seasoned meats and stimulating
drinks, and to keep the bow els regular.
In many cases of Diseases of the Skin, en external
application is also necessary in such it is recom
mended to use Sands’s Remedy for SaU Kheum, which
together w ith the use of theSursaparilla internally ,
cannot fail to cure andeiadicatcthe disease.
T 1 e most satisfactory testimonials maybe seen
where this medicine is sold.
Prepared and sold at w holesale and retail, or.. for ex
portation, by A B. SANDS X t o. Druggists and Che
mists, Granite Buildings, u 73 Broadunv, coiner of
Chamber street, N* w Yoik. Price,One Dollar.
■Sold by special appointment in Augusta, by
HAVILAND, KISLEY & CO.
Sept 3. 13 Hit] Druggists.
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