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Avvnsr - » jrngßs tessgx: show eo smgtvsmt, Rgsfjwstwrsi m a mesSfe®*. - vol. n.} t J| /■' £ftp Sfe'a-htnatonCnit WTT.T. BE PUBLISHED EVERY .SATURDAY HORNING, BY JAMES McIAFFERTY, At the low price of one dollar per annum, for a single subseriHw. pve dollars for a club of six, or ten dollars for a club of twelve sub scribers— pay mi it, in adiunce. 03“ The following extracts, from the Fourth Report of the American Tem perance Union, or 1831, we commend to our readers. Coming from such au thorities, they a.ay be relied on as strict ly correct, ana »e hope will receive an readiim and due consideration f -from all which purpose we re-publish the extracts from an excellent work entitled “Ptrmauent Temperance Documents,” <fcc. | Wc come next «o speak of the effect of the use of spirits |jpon the liver. principle function of this organ is to aid in the process of tfigestion. As, in the performance of this funfction, its actions are associated with those-of the stomach, so many of the etfee’s of disease are of a similar character. There are, however one or two particulars in which the effects are so different as to demand a separate though concise consideration The liver complaint and the jaundice an sufficiently known 'o bo the frequent consequences of intemperance. But i seems not to be so well known that a more moderate use of spirit produces a strong tendency to tUe samo diseases. The liver is easily excited to extraordina ry action, not only by what a fleets the stomach, with which it is so closely asso ciated, hut also by whoever powerfully stimulates the general s/stem. and espec ially by strong emotions of the mind. When the excitement i moderate, such rsis produc ed by a proper do r, or by a vatmnal emplocm nt ofWe m -ntal fucul . ti..s, fheu the effect ups t ,in is salutary and healthful! But if, from either cause, the excitein.nt becomes too great,, it tends to disease and the ten dency is increased with every repetition. This explanation may'Hhow how it is that any quantity of ardflot spirit, how ever moderate, has an ' Injurious effect upon the functions of the iiver. 1 shall notice Only ono more class of the effects of ai#ji,t spirit; and this is its influence vffo o the brain and nervous system It is here that we have exhibit, ed the phenomena of that most distres sing of disease, delirium ir.'tmns. Th< tremblings—the watchfulness, which opium itself can scarcely conquer—the characteristic delirium, so fu ; !’ of fearful apprehensions, that seem htie the em bodied representations of a jsuilty con science,—all arc the result of ’{indue ex citement of the nervous system by ardent i spirit; and all united constitute la mea sure of distress and anguisiu, Mich is . none too forcibly expressed bv’ th\ name - given to this disease among the \ailors in our naval service, the horrors. The miserable victim is deprived of>his Under standing before he is aware ihat '*efis sick, as if to show .that the drunkard has i outlived his probation; and he sinks nto « death without one moment’s op'portuiity j to profit by the alarm of his danger. But you will say, reader,' This is I the disease of the drunkard : w iy spc;i i of its horrors to me? I drink ali ( tla, it 1 true, perhaps daily,—sometimes oftenert and sometimes, it may bs, not fciVsoveral days; surely I am no drunkard ; and why talk to me of delirium tramens f I Be it so, you are no drunkard; you! not in the way to become one ? Or ton- j cede that you are safe from this ganger, still you are not so safe as you irjfaagine from this most appalling disease. .Some of the worst cases of it that I hav\\ ever; seen (and the number that I haveAsoen is so great that my heart shudders ait the recollection of them) have been on per sons who had rarely or never been kiiovin to be intoxicated. ‘ Men have beep ti ken down by this delirium, whohafveM garded themselves, and have been retard ed by their neighbors, as temperate linen They were known to drink occasio f.aiM indeed; but they would have reWntJi as much as you do to be told that Uhej were intemperate. Nor is this the §oni)j evil. The nervous system is a mlcely adjusted structure, which superinhlmcfc the functions of the whole living bold}! There are many degrees of derangement ,l of which it is susceptible ; all of whiq are £f more or less importance, althouja tj they may not amount to so severe an! v fatal a disease as this of which we ha via AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1813. spoken. Every glass of spirit that you drink does some violence to the delicacy of this complicated and beautiful system; and every repetition of the glass destroys the harmony of one of those thousand strings of which your life is composed. The conclusion of the whole matter is as follows. We have seen that ardent spirit can be of no possible benefit to the human constitution, and is hurtful, unless in some peculiar and rare cases of dis ease, in which its administration, so as to do good and not harm, requires the. skill of a judicious physician. We have seen, further, that to take spirit only occa sionally, and even rarely, incurs a risk, and an imminent one, of being drawn, by a sort of necessity, to taking it again and again, until a habit is formed of taking it, first in moderate and then in larger quantities, until the unhappy individual, with little or no consciousness of his dan ger, becomes a confirmed, unreclaimed, despairing drunkard. Lastly, we have seen that, should so strange a thing be accomplished as that a man should per severe in limiting his quantity of spirit to what may be termed, in comparison with that of others, a moderate allow ance still he is by no means exempt from the evil effects upon his health and constitution. Wherefore, my dear reader, I conclude mce more with the advice to drink no spirit. It is not good for your health ; but it tends directly to induce disease, md to shorten human life.”— (Dr. Hale's Essay.) “All the healthy functions are the result of the action of appropriate agents upon the several organs. Thus light is adapted to the eye, air to the lungs, ap propriate food to the digestiveorgans, re spectively ; giving origin to the functions of vision, respiration, and assimilation. But where has nature provided a re ceptacle for ardent spirits? What organ requires their stimulus.'to enable it to perform its office? W jat gland possess es the power of extracting from them the smallest portion of neitrimenT, or any other ingredient which,can be usefully employed in the animalleconomy ? On every organ tbeykouch they oper ate as a poison. No w iere in the hu man body are they allovipd even a lodg ment, until the vita! powers are so far prostrated that they camot be removed. They are hurried onward from one or gan to another, markihj their course with irregularity of actio; and disturb ance of function, until at ist, as a com mon nuisance, they are ta cen up by tht •ununctories—the scaveng trs of the sys tem —and unceremonious! t excluded.— W hen, through decay of Si (ganic vigor this process ceases, the wor; ’of destruc tion is drawing to a close, and the last glimmerings of life are soon extinguished. The records of every hos >ital, and the j recollections of every inteLgent physi-! cian, will furnish multitudes of examples in which mild diseases have been render ed severe, and severe ones final, m conse quence of the use * spirits. This is more particularly the case during the prevalence of epidemics and in extremely warm weather. A British surgeon many years agf} stated, that in his opinion half the sudden deaths in the community are in a fit,/f intoxication, softened into iome milc’ .-r name, not to ruffle the feelings of frietds in laying them before the public; end there is i jo doubt that at leas: an ccjiat proportion of all the sudden accidents.' re quirjng the aid of surgery, sue)/ as wounds, dislocations, and broken f/anes, are occasioned in the same mariner/ These things physicians tell yoLfiom ‘ no sinister vi|vv3, from no lurking hrnci- For they we 'A kpow hot, when/distdled and stimaii'tingj li shall/be banished from the, Coinmu u‘.iV the f<p|intaiffpf one half of/ a |j ehro n;¥liseas<ss— a fi\itru! soutci 0 f their! enfeenf-will bi dried us. lhat a iortton oi surgical operations rr* <fsnsity of a We peases will . bC wf 1 'dimimshyi. ;/ , i^l a P : ’W " Raci tostim «lan<4£ induced for to take a t; ass c f spirits, aj ipstantW' t exciteii,g~j j s produced. 'The pulse be-y comes ij lore frequent; tin lace is flush ed ; a:il p unct j ons f thQ body ano j the are hurried; he eye sparkles: the to g Ue is unloosed ■ the imagination ' Ml?*/ ted: the whole : cene\assumes the a PP I ance of vivachy, aid glee, and PprSer all, it (.) unnatural. IX J WA*,<3 e Kw of health. It; is n/rt th -‘VaciFty of v outhW/It is not 'ibo huov \ i It is the flush of approaching fever: 7 the excitement of momentary delirium : ; the hilarity of the incipient maniac; ant 3 it cannot endure. Lassitude, weakness l and depression are its inevitable results. A shock has been given to the constitu -3 tion; the laws of health and life have t been violated, and the first chastisement 5 inflicted. 3 Suppose the warning to be disregarded, • and habits of daily tippling established., > The rosy hue of health is exchanged fdr 1 a deep scarlet; the eye loses its intelL , gcnce; the voice becomes huskv; flit • blood parts with its florid color; the tp. , petite is impaired; the muscle? waste ; • the face is bloated ; and in rap'd sauces- I sion the liver, the digestive organs the ; lungs, and heart, and brain, Jos# their • vital forces, and but imperfectly pt -rforin , their functions; and sooner or latter the ■ constitution is broken down, organic, dis ,; ease supervenes, and death closes the : scene* ! Since life is extinct, send now for a ■ surgeon, and let the body be inspected :. for the benefit of the living. i * The stomach is enlarged or contracted ; • j often indurated, and always diseased ; the intestinal canal, a masdiof disease; the mucous membrane through its whole extent, irritated; the liver, shrunk dense, discolored, and its vessels nearly obliterated; the lungs, er gorged, adher ing, often filled with tubercles; the brain hardened, as if it had b/,:r. immersed for weeks in alcohol. Every tissue proclaims but too dis tinctly the injuries s h has received.— There are no marks of weakness or del crepitude, as the res; it of natural decay; and advancing age ; but all the organs] in accents awfully impressive, speak of poison, of madras's, of self-immolation. The anatomist 'urns away in horror; the last tuneral ri.es are performed ; the earth closes over the dust; the scene is 1 forgotten. This is (he s’/ort history of thousands in our own tifl : and country, and of un told millions jd other tunes and in other lands. ’ Could I prise lit a picture of all the dis eases and d»kth-feed scenes occasioned by spirits, yhich it has been my painful lot to witness within the last twenty years, evo fy one present would involun tarily star hack with horror; the feeling would bfj’jniversal. If such are the'ef ;ccts of Spirits, let them be banished from the woij. If tin proceeding remarks are well foundjti, to a man in health there is no 1 such ts ing as a temperate use of spirits. In ant quantity, they are an enemy to ihehnnan constitution; their influence upon the physical organs is unfavorable to health and life: they produce weak ness. and not strength; sickness, and no{ health; death, and not life. Is the moderate use, or any use, of such an ar-; tie.'e as this, to be accounted tempi ranee f [Dr. Alden's Address. L “ We, the undersigned, do hereby dare our conviction, that ardent sp'fPrf ire not to be regarded as a nouris.mg' article of diet; that the habitual me Jofj; them is a principal cause cf disease, pqgfcj ertv, and misery in this plate; a d ihfjl the entire disuse of them, would > we* * fully contribute to improve the h*. tilth and comfort of the community.” '.M “ This document has receive J he stgy natures of four Professors offhe Mcdicm Faculty in the Universih, ( of Members of the Royal Cohere of Paysi cians, of the President abef twenty-Seven Fellows of the Royal QAilege of Sur geons, and of thirty-four other medical practitioners:—77 in all.” ' (Report Glasgow Temp. Soc .) “We, the undersigned, hereby declare that, in oar opinion, ptJthing would tend so much to tht? im'seveir.cnt of the health of the comuxu-uty as an entire disuse of arder., spirit a which we con sider as the most pnc. active cause of the diseases and Aonsfc queiit poverty and vvretchedne:jj)f the* working classes of Alex. Ja ’f J)., State Physician, John C ... i)., Prof. Mat. Med. R. Car ad ~jj ' . *M. e, Thos. : .V.iiV-? A !■).. f. tissek Rom v, J. Chcvnc, M. i . «/■-*• iari General, -A.;Colies, U’rof f :iWtv. Francis Barkr r. M D., T Th° s - H. Orpen, 1» *. [ 1 v Labatt, M. J)., John mV' M ’ Vfoo-Pr sid. K. and Q. M. D.,Thos. Hewson, is I!’• Hen. Marsh, M. D.. Prof. > e f| Fa< f poll- S'ur., Eph. M’Dowel, v-| m.i, jVf. D., J. Browne, M. D., I «iiofefoß. John M’Donnell, J. Har- ! ■ ~~ *» yfy* : 'l. D., R. L. Nunn, Corn. Daly, M. : D.. Will. Aychinleck, Francis White. R. M’Namara, Prof. Mat. Med., Rob. Bell, M/ D., Maurice Collis, C. E. H. Orpen. t* M. D., J. A. Crawford, M. • f.,W. W. Campbell., Will. Reuny., J. - Rerbv., John Osborne, M. D., W. J. ' Morgan, M. D., R. Collins, M. D., Mas er Lvmg in Hosp., John Mollan, M. : D., G. A. Kennedy, M. D., Rob. Law, M. D.» Ch. Johnson, M. D., George Hav den., C, J. Madden., J. C. Brennan.”* From the Washingtonian and Organ. End of Aunt Sally’s Story. “ I shall leave you to guess of whom I dreamed, Fanny, that night. Time pass ed on, and I grew every day more dis -1 creet and woman-like, and better worih respect and fine; for their is nothing fixes character, for good or ill, like the first serious, thoughtful and sincere at tachment. But it was broken off-—what ! separated us, now I’m going to tell him.” Father looked up from the fire with a great deal of earnestness at Aunt Sally— and Fanny and I were not a little inter ested too. Who knows that we shan’t he separated too, thought I. I stole a • look at her face, her eve met mine, and it didn’t heed any words to tell me that our thoughts were on pretty much the same thing. Aunt Sally continued, ad dressing my father—* “Do you remember that we were out of milk early of a morning in the Spring after that sleigh ride ?” Father shook his head. “ Why,” said Aunt Sally, “I’m sure I | should think you would. Father was go- I ing to Boston, and took an earlv break fast—»! here was none left over night, and the cows had’nt been milked.” The old gentleman made no answer. “ Well, then what a fool lam !” said Aunt Stilly, “ I do believe I am getting old. To thick that I should think that you woubl remember such a little thing, oVer forty years as well as I do, whose life has been turned upon it !—Well,' to make a long story short, mother told to take ajpitpber and run into some/of the neigbßs ! - * I tried and tried, at two or tbre&fm- <•*.;, and lhen run into the lavern (hat as where Mr'. Guttridge’s house i? n<m T was in the kitchen, and I hear! c 10, Ji in the bar-room. I should !)&Vi: 1 now ri that laugh if I had heard it io Mg a thousand, and I neve 7 ' had heard (Mm fore, when it didn’t male mv own heart pimp in answer. Fbt whatepu’d ! <>fffoa the doing there s?fote daylignt ‘ sfa minute mop*, I heard the iti(K .yxi th| tumbler, and then I heard Jpsi.'s -* : |emgain. I could not help liJpiing y-Araiich yoarso jokes as ! those-of wi ' flp' subject ! —Why, j Iliketo.hr rrppod going home more' than once, ». \ pftcher and all. It , wasn’t the . wdrjß'that were said, 1 rjfculdfr! M; *3 io*tjifnk. for though , fl- ybverg «: if qngh % means! no%arm. f a 3 place neither in j wHk* the»w#c ~OAen; but > the hour on4¥‘f hat w« i«nto the mcilfli'.before the iilßßfla can% mormcaaratn!” j .‘.Aunt Sally wSedf her eye\ ajnd we'hll i tWt serious, I cal tell you, tkit ‘father he ! poked like a man who had just fSupd out 4 riddle that had nuzzled him all nklife, “ I said nothinato nobody—how |ou!d I? But when Josh Bemis came ovek,Jjn the evening, how cpild I be as happy t*o see him as I was the evening beforlfi And when you scol led me for not beingj cheerful, brother, l could not rest you know. I was led to watch 1 Joshua, and found tHe morning dram was hot a mere accidental thing, but a habit, ind though there were a great many who used to do the same, J never could feel that they were safe. Well, one chill brought another, till at last Joshua began to have longer spells between his visits; aqd when he die! cqme, that unlucky morning had supplied me with a key to too much what you fancied was mere gobd humor; and then jigain I found that thd, cloud over his face, that he said came from fatigue cami from something else. I tried to jokaitiut amLof his habits . 1. -vu*- 1 : ly ;is a joke, and only laughed at me. I dared once to reason seifously with him, and he asked me if I uhought him a drunkard, and that was ye last time I spoke to him on the subject. And now 1 look back and tell the living truth, when I say that the hour in which I ascertain ed that he was coaxed away by an artful rival was one of real relief She court- i ed, and she won him. “ People pitied me. I told you then not to trust appearances, you thought it was only envy and so it did seem. He i * [No. 1. . was rich he was prosperous, he was honor" . ed, he went from step to step in public , life, he has been in the General Court, ■ j and he has been to Congress. His child . ren were loves and pets, his house and . homestead were a sight to behold for . pleasantness, and I know you did think ■ me almost a fool that I had not been a sharer in all this. “But flourish os the tree might, I knew what worm was at its root” and when in his jovial manners, his pleasant parties; his runners, his drives, his popular, uy, other folks saw only bright happiness, I could see that all these appearances were the plainest marks of decay—just as you mind trees turn'ai! sorts of beautiful col ors, when their leaves are just resady to drop. And just wrjen the world thought him best off, his one vice began to strip him. Leaf after leaf fell, till the tree was left all hare, and it is only® few old creatures like me that can recollect who that vagrant was, and what that inebriate ('nee possessed. Now he is dead—and ia his widow 7 , with her long life jof earthly h"P® of glad prosperity—of U:ontemp!u ous pride, followed by humiliation, trou ble, embarrassment and squalid poverjg —her children the plagues bf her lifeJ!/ her husband a torment in hes eyes mt # name forgotten—her heart' and- > desolate, and all crowned j#ha yv-' the paper; is she who ances better off now than old maid who did not ?” / Aunt Sally hid her Father go*, up and wdlpn Yi&lit'across the rire to her, P'Kpit lopfely, said he as he took her in # hirf—and the brother and jr kissed each other, as ifthyy iferlMh children, and Sally had been td'ng wer some girlish trouble, which ipodd be all wiped oul with X. the lips. Igf si there wasn't an eye '■ there that didn’t swim in tears; and as to Fanny, Ato believe that she’ll be afraid of ny'bereafter, if I only look at the outsid of a cask of spirits of turpen tine. L /~~ ! ( t'roin the New-York Tribune. Tea-Party in Deacon Giles’s / Distillery. Bostox, April 6th, 1843. f take the pen to sketch, though in a fa/nt and inadequate manner, one of the -Wolmiest moral scenes of which I have ever been an eye-witness ; a scene, the report of which ought to fill the land with joy and thanksgiving, and which cannot . fail to send a thrill of pleasure through : the hearts of all who are interested in the ! wonderful and almost miraculous pro j gress of the heaven-descended cause of i Temperance. *- Every body ha 3 heard of “Deacon | Giles’s Distillery,” immortalized by the ! Rev. George B. Cheever’s Dream, sev eral years ago; for which service that gej.tleman was first flogged in the streets of fyilem. at the instigation, as was sup posed, of the Deacon himself, and then tried and convicted and impris oned in the county jaiL These events will Cause Salem to be remembered, lofig afty the witchcraft of the olden tjßic ! shall haye been forgotten. Will you believe meMvhen I tell you, that I ,ast evening atte&ded a Temperance f’sa- Party in the “ saflfe old” Distil!?ry wi lc h was the scene of tJiiesYer’s Dream,Tlnd under the identical rjfoT,»A)er@ *p e Defe. icon carried bn infernal bnr'.— Hbe-:.s of manpfacturing New’'EofeUjgMl |R\um, and, o<nf to “ifiingle fiendish i ipfi'hij blessedness,” sold Bibles tty yjpl©'' love of the liquor or of the flMkjM’ Ito be'made from its sale, brought Im* | j doors ok his establishment?lncf. t bj*» as the statement may seem, both you : your reaefers may rely upon its W&§* Yes, it is vV-ri!y so K The old tort % Bacchus, wXjch, according to the ui aforesaid, wr\once scene ol v revelry and iftirth, and human hand! alowfc, bus- agents spirit- world, l abor\d oi,d toiled; offijlßyp the fearful tick of In^jgmp-^anee.»• Zg/mMk ed from the qnemy, Jpnd its night with the triumpji a |t & Mmr'&M-'- nearly two thousand under the banners of ‘the WWSS Jp§|, ans, and reverberated strains of music from lips toWed ifl P the inspiration of the scene. • But I must try to get %[6ww from fry stilts, and tell your reader/ the pCi:: story, leaving them to supply ail ein' jlishment (if such a tale can ne epibeiiyh ! ed) by the aid of their own jrhaf*#!l --j tions. The famous old Distillery! then, j De known, has recently been jfirchased by James N. Buffum, ojsLnm, who