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jPQIB TW.Y. A BalUd.— BV TOM HOOD, JW. There liv'd an Itoncst fisherman, 1 knew him paining well— W ho dwelt hard by ft little pond, Within a little dcih A grave and quitt man «as he, W ho lov’d liia hook a»d rod — So eten ran his line of He, His neighbors thought it odd. For science and for books lie said He never had a wish— Mo school to him was worth a fig, Except a “school offi*..." This single-minded fi|h< roan A double calling had— To tend tiia flocks in vvintrr time, In summer fish tor shad. In short, this honest fisherman All otoer toils iorsook, And though no v. grant man was he, He liv'd by*' hook and crook." All day tlflt fisherman would sit U)ion an ancient log, And gaze into the water, like * Some sedanlary I'rog. A cunning fisherman was he, His angles all were right; And when he scratch'd Ills aged poll, You'd know he'd got a bite. Tocharinthe fish he never spoke, Although Ids voice was fine; He found the most convenient way, Was just to “ drop a line.” And many a "gudgeon” ofthejiond, If made to speak to-day, Would own, with grief, this angler had A mighty •* taking tray.” One day while fishing on tho log, Ho mourn’d his want of luck--- When suddenly he felt a bite, And jerking—caught a duck. Alas! that day the fisherman Had taken too much grog, And being but a landsman, too, He could’nt “ keep the log." In vain lie strove with all his might, And tried to ga n the shore— Down, down, he went, to feed the fish He’d baited oil before! The moral ol this mournful tale To all is plain and clear — A single "drop too much" of rum May make a watery bier. And he who will not “sign the Pledge," And keep the promise last, May be, in spite of fate, a stiff Cold vater-man at last. On stceiug Child:en at Play« I love to look on a scene like this, Os wild and careless pi ly; And persuade myself that I am not old, And my locks are not yet gray ; For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, And makes his pulses fly, w To catch the thrill of a happy voice, And the light of a pleasant eye. I have walked the world near fourscore years, And they say that 1 am old, And my heart is ripe for the reaper death, And my years are will nigh told. It is veiy true, it is very true, I’m old and t " bide my time,” But my heart will leap at a lime like this, And I halt renew my prime. Play on, (dev on, I am with you there, In tho midst of your merry ring: I can feel tha thrill of a darling jump, And the rtjsh ot the breathless swing. 1 hide with you in the fragrant hay, And 1 whitop the smothered call, Ami my feet (lip up on the seedy floor, And 1 care riot tor the fall. I am willing '*die when my time shall come, And i shall lie glad to go, For the world, at best, is a weary place, And my pulse is getting low; But the grave is dark and the neart will fail In Heading its gloom away; And it wiles my heart from its dreatiness To see the young so gay From the Columbia Wadungtonian. The Envenomed Worm. “Outveuoms the worms oi Nil*.”—Shakspcare. Who has not heard of the rattlesnake or cop per head ? An unexpected sight of cither of these reptiles will make even the lords ol creation re coil. But there is a species of worm, tound in various pails of this fctatr, that conveys a poison so deadly, thst compared wtth it evrn the bite of the rattle-snake is harmless. To guard our read ers against this fisc oi human kind, is the object of tins communication. Tins worm varies much in size. It is frequent ly an mcti through but as it is rareiy seen, ex cept when culled, its b noth can liaroly be con jectured. It is ot a dull lead color, and general ly lives near a spring or small stream ot water, and bites this unfortunate people who are in the habit ol going there to drink. The brute crea tion it never molests; they avoid it with the same instinct that teaches the animals of Peru to snun the deadly coya. Although numerous have been the instances that reptile has inflicted its injuries ; and fearful beyond description its effects, yet sucli is the spell in which the senses ot the sutleier are bound by it, that no sooner has the unhappy patient recov ered from the paroxisms produced thereby, than he seeks out the destroyer, lor the sole purpose ol being bitten again. The symptoms of its bile arc terrible. The eyes of the victim become red and fiery—bis tongue swells to an immoderate size and obstructs Ills utterance. And after having been repeated ly bitten, delenun- of the most horrid character is the inevitable consequence. It is not unseldom that every friend deserts him when n this state; leaving him to t-.c fear ful exercise of his ungovernable rage. His fami ly arc gener&lly Ins truest friends; hut if be bus a tender wife and helpless children, they seldom, il ever, escape becoming the objects of his frantic fury. In a word he exhibits to the lile, all the delcßtftblc passions that rankle in the hosoiu of a savage, divested of th redeeming traits that characterize the inhabitant of the wilderness. I have seen a good old father- his locks as white as snow -Ins slejis slow and trembling, beg in vain of his only soil, to quit the lurking place oftlu* worm That son once loved his lather, and would listen to every word ot his kind advice and gentle reproof. Oh! how my heart bled when he turned away, tor I knew that the fond hope, that his -on would be “ the staff of bis de clining years,” had supported him through ma ny a sorrow. Youth's of Columbia, would you know the name oftliis reptile: ami knowing, will you shun its withering, ruining sting I It is the W orm oj the iUUI. F. The Joys of Home. 0! what so refreshing, so soothing, so satisfy ing, as the placid joys of home I £>ee the traveller. Does duty call him for a season to leave his beloved family circle —the image of his earthly happiness continues vividly in his remembrance. It quickens him to dili gence; it cheers him under difficulties; it makes fiim lk.il the hour which sees his purpose accom plished, and Ins face turned towar.ls home; it communes with him as lie journeys; and he hears the promise which causes him to hope “thou shalt know also that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation and not sin." 0! the joyful re union of a divided family—the pleasurq ot renewed interview and conversation aller days of absence. Behold the man ot science. He drops the labor ami |»intiilnp»B of research, closes his volume, smooths his wrinkled brow, leaves his sludy, ami unbending himself,stoops to the capacities, yields to the wishes and mingles with the diversions of his children. ‘ He will not blush that has a father’s heart, To take in childish play, a childish | ait; But bends his sturdy hack to any toy, Thai youth takes pleasure in, tu please his boy.” Take the man of trade. VV hat reconciles h>m to the toil of business'? What enables him to endure the fastidiousness and inqiertinence ot customers? What rewards him for so many hours of tedious confinement? By and by the season of intercourse will arrive, he will be em bosomed in the caresses of his family, he will behold the desire of his eyes, the children of his love, for whom he resigns his ease; and in their welfare and smiles, he will find his recomjtcnse. Y’omlercomes<hc laborer. He lias borne the burden and heat ol'the day; the descending sun has released him from his toil, and he is hasten ing home to enjoy repose. Halfway down the lane, by the side of which stands his cottage, hi children runs to meet him ; one he carries, and one he leads. The companion of his humble life is ready to furnish him with his humble re past. See, his toil worn countenance assumes an air of cheerfulness; his hardships nre forgot ten; fatigue van shes; he eats, and is satisfied; the evening fair, he walks with uncovered I ead around his garden; enters ayain, and retires to rest, and “the rest of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much.” Inhabitant of this lonely, lovely dwelling, who can be mil fler ent to thy comfort ? Peace be to this house. “ Lei not ambition mock thy useful toil. Thy homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur h. ar with a disdainful smile, The shoit and simple annals of the poor.” Dr. Franklin’s Wifi-. Franklin, in his sketch of his life and habits, relates the following anecdote of his frugal wife. A woman could scarcely make a prettier apology tor purchasing the first piece of luxury. “ It was lucky for me that I had one as much disposed to industry and frugality as myself. She as-iittrd me cheerluliy in my business, Hiding and stitching pamphlets, amt tending snop, pur chasing old linen rags for making paper, &c VV e kept no idle servants; our table was plain and simple; our furniture ot the cheapest sort. For instance, my breakfast for a long time, was bread and milk, (no tea,) and I ate it out of a two penny porringer with a wooden spoon ; but mark how luxury will enter families, and make a pro gress in spite of principle; being called one morning to breakfast, 1 found it in a china bowl, with a sjiooii ot silver. They had been bought foi me without my knowledge, by my wife, and had cost the < notinous sum ol three and twenty ! shillings, lor which extravagance, she said she : thought her husband deserved a silver spoon as . well as any of her neighbors. This was the first appearance of plate or china in our house, 1 which afterwards in the course of years as our wealth increased, augmented gradual y to several hundred pounds in value.” Cute hr Consumption, The following coimnurneati n come from a source entitled to tile fullest confidence: Messrs Editors—A letter from a distinguished friend in England, recently received, o utains Ihe following remedy lor consumption, which a sense of duty impels me to give to your readers. My correspondent states that it was given by an eminently skilful German physician, who had tested its efficacy on many patients; amongst oth ers, on his wife. I mention it to you, says my correspondent, in the hope that it may he useful to some of those la boring under that afflictive, and indeed, hitherto incurable malady, on your side the Atlantic, it was discovered in Russia, and has been tried with astonishing success in Germany. “Rub the body round and round, from the ni ck low down on tile body, for halt an hour morning and night, with the fat of bacon cured in smoki Flannel must he worn during the course of the cure, and not changed more than once a month at the soonest. Ihe cure occupies trom four to six months.” Should any of your readers be suffering under thealiovc named disease, and he apprehensive of a hoax being practised in the remedy specified, you are at liberty to mention my name. Yours, &c.— Charleston Courier. On board the schooner Stauch, Upton master, from New York to Mobile, the officers, passen gers, and crew, ail save one, signed the temper ance pledge, resolving never again to use' strong drinks of any kind. At the request of the cap tain each passenger and officer brought up ail ttie liquor they had purchased, and threw it into the sea. The ladies of Baltimore are al out to present a splendid Siker Pi chei to William K. A.itcu kll, one of the immortal SIX wt.o organized the, first Washington Tempeianee Society. The firemen ot Philadelphia will offer Mr. Mitchell a similar token of esteem. PROSPECTUS OP OK, TOTAL ABSTINENCE ADVOCATE, Devoted to the Cause of Temperance,—published semi-monthly, in the City of Augusta , BY JAMES McCAFFERTY. The determination our citizens have evinced, to drive the Destroy «*r Irom the laud, has a wakened the most inti mi eiate io ast nse of nut}. This should be hailed as an emen and harbinger of goon. The spirit of Reformation is awakened thioughoutthc length and bieamh of our country —the Temperance Cause is eve i y w here happil) advancing, beating down all op position, scattering ble&Hngs on every hand, drying up the teai s oi the distressed and causing the heart ol the w idow and the drunkard’s w ife to sii g for oy. It is a gioiious cause—the cause oi humanit) andviitue: our country's highest good is involved—her prosperity, honor and saiety. Oh! then, let us not pro\e recreant, hut come boldly to the rescue, and with united heart ami baud, assist in del.vering oui beloved countr} frwm slavery to the worst, most cine! ol enemies. To impress the necessity of such a work upon the friends of Temi t ranee, nothing can be men* appropri ate than t> e closingparagr&|h ol a report from Mi. S S. t hipman, an indefatigableT*-m|*crance agent. “Whatever other agencies may be used, the Cause must languish without publications to dilfuse informa tion and keep up an interest; they alone keep the sub ject blazing before the public mind. 1 emperauce lec turns may arouse the people from iheir slumbers, strengthen the weak, confirm the waveiing and re claim the w anderer i but the temperance publication conies too often w ith their cheering accounts oi the onward progress of the« ause. w ith their interesting lacts and anecdote*, and w ith their stiiring appeals, to pel mil the interest w holly to subside, or the slumbers of the temperance men long to remain ’.ndistui bed If the arrival of the temperance paper does not excite a special inteiest in the breast ol the father, the children hail it as they would the return of the long absent friend ; they gathei around the domestic fireshU— they devour its pages, and its contents are read and repeated with all the glee andtnthusia m of childhood and youth and with the stated return of such a moni tor, the inteiest is kept up and the cause advances.*’ The Washi>gtoman has, up to »his date, attained its thirteenth No., and has now a circulation of nearly five hundred subscribers. This nun.her can readily be iucieased to n thousand if the f: rends ol the Tem peiance 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 \ aluable family p;»pi r. as well as a warm advocate of th* Washingto- j nian Temperance Reform. We respectfully ask of] each friend to our paper, to endeavoi to procure one i additional subscriber, if not more, and forward to us j immediately. All communication*, by mail, must be post paid to receive attention. December 3d, 1842. SANDS’S SARSAPARILLA, FOR the removal and permanent cure of all di«ea»e aiising from an impure state of th* Hood, or habit* of the 8) bU-m, namely, Sciofuta, o> Kings Kvil> hheu mat ism, Obstinate i utaneaus Eruptions, timples, or hut tule* on the Jace, hi tches , Bites, C Arc ate Sore 2-yet, Hm* H mm or 7 ttter, Scald Head, Eh argt meat and j am of the Bones and Joints. S übboin Vice is, Syphilitic by mi toms, Sciatica, or Lumbago, ana diseases anting from un injudicious useoj Meicuiy,Jiscietes, or hrupsy, eaposwtor naps udence in life, •also , Chionic, Consti tutional Lisoi aas vill be » emoted by > his preparation- Its timely aumiuisti avion ha> been atienuid with the happiest usults in many anomalous * ructions ; but it is chiefly inu need to fell the \ oiu w hit h exists bt tw etn cathartic and aperient medicine*, hence its modus iper andi is that cl an diiectty i—indir*etly piov mg a lasting tome to the *y stem. diseases ol the osse ous and glaudtilat fcy stent, also oi the joints am; liga ments, aie sal« ly aim ceituinly cuivu by its use, as the peculiarity ol its operation consists in itmoving the geim or cau>c ol disease, anu the health oi the paUiic?!? speedil} rr stored. Sarsaparilla has enjoyed a high reputation in the treatment anu cuie ol diseases foi many ) ears, but the value ol no otliti attiele in ihemalcna Nieuka, that at one time held so high a rank, has at others been placed so low : till cause of which is chieli) owing to the gieat vaiiatjhn in the manner of its pu paration, ai d want oi caie in selecting the proper article. A ti.stin guithe«i medical w iiiei wholesaled man) yeais in the s» c-ion ol ceuuti) w htch produces the Lest quality of SarsapanUi[tml) observes, u olsixoi eight species of tin loot which 1 lounu glow ii.g in the woods, 1 never found but ane o manifest to the taste any ol the sensible pit.peities ol the genuine meuical Sarsapaiiliu,the ust being in*lpid and utaily ineit ” As the menu ai j ro fessiuu do not act as their own I’haimaceutists, but lely on the skill ol the Apothecary lor pieparing and compounding uiffeient loirmiia*. it is a m.itterot the ut most importance that th« te should be a coriect stand ard piepaiatiou oi baresjaitlla,on which the ‘Faculty and public generaly cun rely with implicit continence; —such is the article now otieied. It combines the Utili i'ii ih l)ul* e, and in riuineaou* instances has given speedy re lid aim matte a perfect eme w hen the patient was «| patently fast veiging to the giave 'i he propri etors Laveue\oted many years in expelimrntiug and testing vat ions n ones of pieptrvtion to enable them to conceiitiate in the most elhc<ent luim all ihe mecicinal value of the root, ami this most desiiatie result has been atiast tiiiim| haiitlv accomplished by means of an entnely new, ingmious and costly &}paratus. 'ihe Saish | *iilia is combined with other aitnles selected wholly fiom the vegetable kingdom, all of which aie the most |ow erlul puiiheis ol the lii-od : and these are concentiati u into a fluid extract ol great power. The liatient therefoie who uses this pi epaiaiion has all com bined that can be used fur the removal of his complaint. The numerous objections to ditto em foi ms in w hich Satsap&rilla has been heretofore piesciibed. aie well founded ft the quantity of sugar contained in the syrup w ill in mast instances nauseate anu suii. it the stomach, if a sufficient dose l»e taken to be ol any l enelit- ihe decoction au.t infusion being so liable to sj oil, combin ed with thmlUflculty of preparation, rentier them both useless and inert; heuce, the superior value-nd efficacy of the article now under considera tion. In addition ta the other advantagesof this preparation it will be found'exceedingly palatable, so that even to a child it may Uft rea< ily auministeied, and to the most delicate person H might !>e giv en, without otiendiug or disagrei ing vv ii It the stomac h. As the audition of mineial poisons is frequently ob« jected to, this pieparation is guaianteed entiiely irom any thing ol that nature leaving it to the jutfge mnmt of th«, phy stefen or patient to make such aodi tions, and in such quantities a» the case may lenuire. Sand's Saksafarilla is adapted to all the various cases where the medicinal virtues of the root are requii«d, and in order to deiive the full adv amages o! the j r» \ a tion,»t is recommended to jwy regardtp the diet,avoid ing salt food, high seasoned meats nud stimulating drinks, an-J to keep the bow els regular In mai y cases of Diseases of the fckin, an external application is also neccssaiv in such it is recoin mended to use Sands’s Remedy for Salt Rheum, which together w ith the use of the Sats&i aiilla internally, cannot fail to cure and ei adicate the disease. {jtf- i he most saiisfaciory testimonials may he seen where this medicine is sold. Prepared and sold at w holesale and retail, ar. -for ex portation, by A B. SANDS Ac t o. Druggists and Che mists, Gianile Buildings, v? 3 Bro»du..y, coiner of Chamber stieet, Nt w Yoi k. Price, One Dollar, bold by special appointment in Augusta, by HAVILAND, KiSLEY <fc CO. Sept 3. 13 liit] Druggist*. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING. Os every description, neatly and pron ptly executed at / the Office of the Washingtonian, viz : Business Cards, Steamboat Receipts, Ball Tickets, Rail Road Receipts, Invitation Tickets, Hand Bills, Cikiulars, Horse Fills, Checks, Notes, Stage Bills, Bill Heads, Show Bills, Catalogues, Labels, Bills of Lading, Pamphlets, kc kc. L*'V BLANKS, Os the latest and most approved foims, always on hand oi printed to order at short notire, on the most reasonable terms. LAST NOTICE. IT has become necessary, in order to enable the sub* * scribei to ruy hm debts, and to keep him fiom gt ing to law. that all persons indebt« d to the iate him of J. Morris &< o. 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