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Temperance Meeting.
The Society of this city was addressed on
Tuesday evening, 9th inst., by Hon. Howel
Cobb, who was introduced to the meeting by
Dr. Robertson. With the spirit of the address,
every hearer must have been gratified.—lt was
manly, uncompromising, yet very kind. The
character of the address was altogether argumen
tative; perhaps this was its fault, yet every mind
must have been convicted, by the reasoning and
facts adduced by the speaker. We were
larly pleased with the delicate satyre of the gentle
man, when he addressed a certain class of patriots,
who are always expressing their solicitude about
the “dear people.” He very happily tested their
by offering them the pledge, and by
inviting their aid in reforming the “ dear people.”
We fear, if any demagogues were present, the
appeal was in vain. The people must be reform
ed, before their very “dear friends” will abandon
the attempt to steal away their reasons, that they
may tamper with their rights, and trample on
their sovereignty.
At the close of the address, some five or six
persons took the pledge.
Mr. Carey.
On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday even
ings last, our sggiety was addressed by this gen
tleman, in a truly convincing and interesting
manner. w.s are indeed sorry to say that
'“the meetiTp's wercjLery poorly attended. Those
who heard *Mr Carey, will not soon forget his
humble allusions to himself, before he signed the
pledge,rWhen he was almost hoping against hope.
Truly he has been a “ hard customer” in his day.
but the pledge, and the pledge, alone, has saved
him —as well as thousands of others. How ma
ny at this moment are in situations similar to Ca
rey's, before he signed that pledge, and how many
evidences have we before us of the truth of his
remarks.
We had expected that when Mr. C. came
among us, something could be done—that at least
our meetings would be well attended. lie is cer
tainly the best lecturer, in his style, (unassuming
and candid, giving a plain account of his own
downfall, under the influence of intoxicating
drinks, and his reformation through the Wash
ington pledge,) that vve have ever yet had the
of listening to. The cause of Tem
perance in South Carolina, by his exertions was
rapidly advancing, when he left there—ln the
village of Spartanburg, Judge O’Neill and Mr.
C. had held three meetings and received over
100 signatures, when he left. The Hamburg
Journal says, Mr. Carey delivered three or four
lectures in that'place, to full houses, and that his
labors were not in vain—that a deep impression
had been made on the minds of many,,'besides
those who came forward and signed the pledge—
and now it can almost be said that Hamburg is
regenerated, ate-total community. A drunken
man is rarely to be seen in the streets—such a
4 character is ashamed to act so foolish in their
midst.
* The Temperance Society of Columbia, S. C ,
has passed a resolution recommending the organ
ization of an “ Association for Intellectual and
Moral Improvement,” on temperance principles.
The organization is designed to supply the place
of animal excitement, produced by liquors and
gross indulgences of the animal appetite, by in
tellectual and rational amusement. It seems to i
be well received, and if properly carried out, such
an organization might no doubt be made a use
ful one.
Temperance.
The falling off in the importation of foreign
liquors exhibited by the following statement, ta
ken from the Shipping List of New York, seems
almost incredible. Aside from the proofit affords
of substantial result from the great temperance
movement, it shows away of avoiding hereafter i
one heavy item in our foreign debt: The value ;
of spirits and wines, imported to this country, !
heretofore, has been about four millions of dol- !
Jars annually.
Importations of liquors into the port of New
York in the first quarter (January, February,
March,) of the years 1842. 1843.
Quarter casks ofbrandy 1,026 7
Pipes of gin 1,096 265
Butts and pipes of wine 285 27
Hhds and half pipes of wine 2,318 197
Quarter casks of wine 6,053 1,109
Indian barrels of wine 989 238
Boxes 6,358 227
Pipes ofbrandy 44 0
Half pipes of brandy 2,03 4 38
Proceedings of the Washington Total Ab
stinence Society of Augusta.
Methodist Church, May 9th, 1843.
At the call of the President, the Society met at
this time Ihe meeting being organized, it was
addressed in a very happy and forcible manner by
the Hon. Howell Cobb, of Athens, the pledge
was then circulated, and five additional names
received. On motion, the Society adjourned.
WM. HAINES, Jr. Sec’ry.
Baptist Church, May 15, 1843.
The Society met this evening according to pre
vious notice, and was addressed by Mr. J. F.
Carey, a member and authorized missionary
agent of the Washington Temperance Society
of Baltimore, giving a very pleasing and interest
ing exposition of the principles of that Society,
together with his own experience in intemper
ance.
Mr. Carey addressed the Society on Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings following, (at the City
j Hall,) with much satisfaction to the audience.
| After Mr. Carey had finished his address, on
Wednesday evening, it was, on motion of James
j Harper Esq.,
Resolved, That a vote of thanks be tendered to
Mr. J. F. Carey, for his zeal manifested in this
great cause, and for the very able and entertain
ing addresses delivered by himbeforethissociety.
The Society then adjourned to the call of the
President.
Declamation for a little Roy.
I’m a little fellow, but I’m going to talk upon a
! big subject. ’Tis not too big for such as vve arc
j either. Some men laugh about little boys and
j girls forming Cold Water Armies, and say, what
good can they dol I will tell you.
You read about a little mouse that a lion help
led out of a little trouble and laughed at him be
cause he saiil something about returning the
favor; well, this great lion got caught in a hun
ters net. and he roared and growled and bit, and
that was all he could do. By-and-bye the little
mouse came along and gnawed off one by one, all
the cords of the great net and let the lion go.
That is what we mean to do; we may be little
mice, but are going to gnaw off every thread of
the great net that has bound down our country
for so many years. The net is intemperance and
our cold water pledge cuts off all the deceiving
threads that look so pretty and delicate, as wine,
beer, cordial, cider, as well as the stouter cords,
rum, gin, brandy.
Now don’t you think we can do something 1 ?
we know wc urn. intemperance shan’t catch us.
at any rate.— C. XV. Army.
The First Separation after Marriage.
BV T. S. ARTHUR.
“ It’s nearly a year now since I was home,”
Lucy Gray said to her husband, “ and so you
must let me go for a few weeks.”
They had been married some four or five
years, and never had been separated during that
time for a single night.
“ I thought you called this your home?”. Gray
said, looking up with a mock-serious air.
“ I mean my old home,” Lucy replied in a half
affected tone of anger. “ Or, to make it plain, I
want to go and see father and mother.”
“ Can’t you wait three or four months, until I
can go with you'!” asked the young husband.
“ I want to go now. You said all along that I
should go in May.”
“1 know I did; but then 1 supposed that I
would be able to go with you.”
“ Well, why can’t you! lam sure you might
if you would.”
“No, Lucy. I cannot possibly leave home
now. But if you are very anxious to see the old
folks, I can put in the stage, and you will go
safe enough. Ellen and I can take care of little
Lucy, no doubt. How long a time do you wish
to spend with them 1”
“ About three weeks, or so.”
“ Very well. Lucy, if you are not afraid to go
alone, I shall not say a word.”
“ I’m not afraid, dear,” the wife said in a voice
changed and softened in its expression. “ But
are you perfectly willing to let me go, Henry'?”
“ O, certainly,” was the reply, although the
tone in which the word was uttered had some
thing of reluctance in it. “It would be selfish
in me to say no. Your father and mother will be
delighted-to receive a visit just now.”
“ And you think that you and Ellen can get
along with little Lucy!”
“ O, yes, very well.”
“ I shall like to go so much.”
“ Go then, by all means.”
“ But won’t you be very lonesome without
me?” suggested Lucy, in whose own bosom a
feeling of loneliness was already begimng to be
felt at the bare idea of a separation from her hus
band.
“ I can stand it as long as you can,” was Gray’s
laughing reply to this. “ And then I shall have
our dear little girl.”
Lucy laughed in return, but did not feel as
happy at the idea of 1 going home’ as she thought
she would be, before her husband’s consent had
been gained. The desire to go, however, re
maining strong, it was finally settled that the vi
sit should be paid. So all the p.eparations were
made, and in the course of a week, Henry Gray
saw his wife take her seat in the stage, with a
feeling of regret at parting which required all his
efforts to conceal. As tor Lucy, when the pinch
i came i she regretted ever having thought of going
Without her husband and child; but she was
ashamed to let her real feelings be known. So
she kept on a show of indifference, all the while
that her heart was fluttering. The ‘ good bye’
finally said, the driver cracked his whip, and off
rolled the stage. Gray turned homeward with a
dull, lonely feeling, and Lucy drew her veil over
her face to conceal the unbidden tears from her
fellow passengers.
That night, poor Mr. Gray slept but little.—
How could he 1 His Lucy was absent, and for
tile first time, from his side. On the next morn
ing, as he could think of nothing but his wife, ho
sat down and wrote to her, telling her how lost
and lonely he fell, and how much little Lucy
missed her but still to try and enjoy herself, anil
by all means to write him a letter by return mail.
As for Mrs. Gray, during her journey of two
whole days, she cried fully half f the time, and
when she got ‘home’ at last, that is at her father’s,
she looked the picture of distress, rather than the
daughter full o! joy at meeting her parents.
Right glad were the old people to see their
dear child, but grieved at the same time, and a
little hurt too, at her weakness and evident re
gret at having left her husband, to make them a
brief visit. The real pleasure that Lucy felt at
once more seeing Jhe faces of her parents, whom
she tenderly loved, was not strong enough to
subdue and keep in concealment, except for a
very short period at a time, her yearning desire
again to be with her husband, for whom she nev
er before experienced a feeling of such deep and
earnest affection. Several times during the first
day of her visit, did her mottier find her in tears,
which she would quickly dash aside, and then
endeavor to smile and seem cheerful.
The day after her arrival brought her a lettter,
the first she had ever received from her husband.
How precious was every word ! How often and
often did she read it over, until every line was
engraven on her memory ! Then she sat down,
and spent some two or three hours in replying to
it. As she sealed this first epistle to her hus
band, lull of tender expressions, she sighed as
the wish arose in her mind, involuntarily, that
she could only go with it on its journey to the
village of .
Long were the hours, and wearily passed to
Henry Gray. It was the sixth iluy of trial be
fore Lucy’s answer came. How dear to his
heart was every word of her affectionate epistle !
Like her, he went over it so often, that every sen
timent was fixed in his mind.
“Two weeks longer! How can I bearitl”
he said, rising up, and pacing the floor back
wards and forwards, after reading her letter lor
the tenth time.
On the next day, the seventh, of his lonely
state, Mr. Gray sat down again to write to Lucy.
ItWM Ua wrnlu »ho Words, Utt ho proceed
ed in the letter—" Come home soon,” but as often
obliterated them. He did not wish to appear
over anxious for her return, on her fither’sand
mother’s account, who were much attached to
her. But forgetting this reason for not urging
her early return, he had commenced again wri
ting the words, “ Coine home soon,” when a pair
of soft hands were suddenly placed over his eyes,
by some one who had stolen softly up behind
him “ Guess my name,” said a voice in feigned
tones.
But he had no need to guess, lor a sudden cry
of joy from a l’ttle toddling thing, told that
“ Mamma” had come.
How “ Mamma” was hugged and kissed all
round, need not here be told. That scene was
well enough in its p'ace, but would lose all its
interest in telling. It may, however, be imagined
without suffering any particular detriment, by all
who have a fancy for such things.
“ And father too!” suddenly exclaimed Mr.
Gray, after he had almost smothered his wife
with kisses, looking up with an expression of
pleasure and surprise, at an old man who stood
looking on with his good humored lace covered
with smiles.
“ Yes, 1 had to bring the good-for-nothing jade
home,” replied the old man, advancing, and
grasping his son-in-law’s hand, with a hearty
grip. “ She did nothing but mope and cry all
the while, and 1 don’t care if she never comes to
see us again, unless she brings you along to keep
her in good humor.”
“ And 1 never intend going alone again,” Mrs.
Gray said, holding a little chubby girl to her bo
som, while she kissed it over and over again, at
the same time that she pressed close up to her
husband’s side.
The old man understood it all. He was not
jealous of Lucy’s affection, for he knew that she
loved him as tenderly as ever. He was too glad
to know that she was happy with a husband to
whom she was as the apple of his eye In about
three months Lucy made another visit “ home.”
But husband and child were along this time, and
the visit proved a happy one all around. Os
course “ father and mother” had their jest, and
their laugh, and their affectation of jealousy and
anger at Lucy for her “childishness,” as they
termed it, when home in May; but Lucy, though
half vexed with herself for what she called a
weakness, nevertheless persevered in saying, that
she never meant to go any where again without
Henry. “ That was settled.”
Effects of Delusion.
The Albany Ciiizcn, says: Monday was the
day fixed upon by a miserable dreamer as the pe
riod of time which was to wind up the affairs of
this world. Wretched as was the silly fa.brica
! l *°n, yet many persons were found in that city so
weak and credulous as to believe implicitly in all
its transparent absurdities, and make preparations
for the judgment. One family, consisting of tho
; husband, wife and two daughters, and another
| man and wife that we have since heard of, actu
ally dressed themselves in long white robes, and
in long white slippers on their feet, sot all day
long in patient yet confident expectation of the
end of ail earthly things.
Such conduct is mot exquisitely ridiculous,
and yet we cannot find it in our hearts to snser
or laugh at the ignorance and weakness which
leads people into such deplorable absurdities.
1 hey are to be pitied, and if possible, reasoned
out of such wretched folly.
Odd Fellows.
The origin of the order of odd fellows is of an
tique date. It Was first established by the Ro
man soldiers in camp after the order of the Ist®-
lites during the reign of Nero, the Roman Em
peror who commenced his reign A. D 55 at
which time they were called teHow citizens—
-1 he name of odd fellow was given to this order
of men A. D. 7!) by Titus Ciesar. Emperor of
Home, from singularity of notion and from their
knowing each other by night as well as by day.
and tor their fidelity to him and their country, he
not only gave them the name of odd fellows, but
at the same time as a pledge of friendship, pre
sented them with a dispensation, engraved on a
plate of gold having the following emblems name
ly; Ihe royal arch of Titus Ciesar, the ark of
the covent, the golden candlesticks, the golden
’ (' Vci ghingone great talent.) The sun for
iN- U, the moon and stars for V. G., a lamb for
secretary, the lion for guardian, the dove for war
den, and the emblem of morality for theG. M.
Dlscove'y of Glass.
The accountof the origin of glass, which Pliny
has handed down to us, is extremely plausible.
A merchant vessel, laden with mineral alkali,
having been driven ashore on the coast of Pales
tine near the river Belus, the crew went iD
search of provisions, and accidentally supported
the kettles, upon which they dressed them, upon
pieces of the mineral alkali. The river sand, on
which this operation was performed, was vitrified
bv its union with the alkali, and thus produced
glass. The important hint thus accidentally ob
tained, was soon adopted, and the art of making
glass gradually improved.— Flint’s Lectures.
Interesting Relic.— Royal R. Hinman, Esq.
has to the Historical Society of Con
necticut a hefCVy silk military sash, worn by Gen.
Richard Montgomery, at the time he so unfortu
nately fell, fighting for American liberty in
Canada, during the war of the Revolution.
New Discovery.
Messers Field Perkins, discovered a rich
strata of gravel last week out of which six hands
dug over two hundred pennyweights of gold in
three days. The importance of this discovery
consists not only in its richness, but in its location.
It isin a bed ot gravel lying under an other bed.
The first bed had been worked out, and paid a
fair profit. It may be for aught that is known as
yet, that most of the old deposit mines, which
were suppposed to be worked out, have still rich
er beds ot gravel lying below the first slate; as in
the mine here alluded to.— Uahlonega Times.
Tea in Texas.— On Cypress Creek, a few
miles from Houston, a shrub called Wild Tea is
found in great profusion. The Telegraph states
that the leaves ot this shrub so nearly resemble
in taste, odor and form, the leaves of the common
Young Hyson tea, that it would be difficult to
distinguish them from it.
Remedy for Whooping Cough.
The Tennessee State Agriculturist says:—
Take three cents worth of liquorice, three of rock
candy, three of gum arabic, put them in a pan of
water, simmer them till nearly dissolved, then add
threecen's worth of paragonc and a like quanti
ty of antimoniai wine. Let it cool and sip when
ever the cough is troublesome, and the cure is
said to be certain.
Feeding Animals with Hay.
A great loss is frequently sustained by feeding
animals too often and giving them too large
quantities at a time, in this way, by having a
great pile of fodder for a long time before them,
which is rendered more foul and offensive by
their constantly breathing upon it while rooting
it over and over, it is imperfectly eaten, and a
large part perhaps wasted. To prevent this, hay
should be given frequently and in small quanti
ties, especially when placed in racks or mangers,
as it shoul I always be when fed out. For when
hay is scattered over the ground, a greater or less
quantity is always wasted; and if the ground be
at all muddy, half or at least, is almost sure to be
trodden under foot and spoiled.
of the Superior Courts
of Georgia—published in compliance with
the Act of December 10, 1841—containing De
cisions rendered during the year 1842. A few
copies left for sale at this office. [May 20
IOHN MILLEDGE, Attorney at Law,
* office in the Law Range, will be thankful for
any business entrusted to his care. He wnl prac
tice in Burke, Scriven, and Columbia counties.
Augusta, May 20. f>t ts