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Women and Wink. —Appended is an
extract from Mrs. Ellis’ new work, “The
Wivts of England.” It is from a pas
sage couns ailing the wife upon the man
ner in which she should treat “ a drunken
husband” during his fits of inebriation.
Glancing back to the remembrance of his
mad indulgence, she proceeds—
Could all women who encourage their
husbands in the commencement of in
temperance, not only by smiling with ev- i
ident satisfaction at any extraordinary
proofs of good humor or excitement as
they begin to appear, but beyond this,
and far more effectually, by their own
example—could all such women “ look
to the end,” and see the bitter fruits of
this trifling with the serious indications
of a growing evil, they would stand ap
palled at the magnitude of their own suf
ferings, in having to watch from day to
day, through their future lives, the grad
ual extinction of all they had ever loved
in the being to whom they must still he
united. They would see then how the
very countenance may lose its beauty,
-and like some hideous form that grows
upon us in a feverish dream, assume
first one aspect of distortion, and then a
nother, until all trace becomes extinct of
the “divinity” that stirred “within.”!
They would see then what an awful i
wreck is that presented by a lost and pol
luted mind; and they would feel, in all
its reality, what it is to be desolate and'
alone. For the woman thus circum
stanced must not complain. She must
not ask for sympathy, for that would be
to expose the folly and disgrace of him,
about whom her hopes still linger; over
whose degraded brow she would still
fondly spread the soft shadow of her ten
derness, that no ray of piercing light
might reach it, to render more conspicu
ous its deformity and its shame. No ;
she can only lock her griefs within her
own bosom, and be still.
It must bo from ignorance, for the phe
nomenon is not to be accounted for in
any other way than on the ground of ig
norance of what is to be found in human
life, as well as what is the capability of
the human heart for suffering and enjoy*
ing, which leads so many kindly-disposed
and well-intentiondd women into such
culpable neglect of points connected with
this important subject.
One would willingly believo it was be
cause they had never, even in idea, real
ized wlmt it must be to live through one
long night of anxious expectation, when
the crisis of a husband’s fate had come,
and when that single night would decide
whether ho had sufficient mastery over
himself to resist, or whether he would
allow his inclination to lead him for the
last time over the barrier, and finally to
plunge himself and his helpless family
into irremediable wretchedness and ruin.
It is in such seasons as these, that eve
ry moment is indeed an age, and every
pulse like an advancing or receding wave,
which falls with heavy swell upon the
shore of life. And then what sharpening
of tho outward senses!—what quickening
of the ear to distant sounds, giving to
that which lives not, a vitality, until the
very step is heard, and then—another
wavo of the fast-ebbing tide, and all is
gone, and all is silent as before. The
eye, too, though dim with tears, and wea
k ried out with watching, what does it not
—creating out of “strange com-
Bbinations” of familiar things, some sud
gApn aud 1 nexpccted evidence that lie has
BBturnod! Yes, already come! Then
an instantaneous flash of sclf-rc
|Kroach for having judged him with too
■kltlc kindness. But, no; the vision
Vmdcs away, and with it sinks the heart
W of the too credulous believer.
I And if such bo the quickening of the
outward senses, what must be that of the
different faculties of the mind ?—of mem
ory, whose cruel task it is through those
long weary hours, to paint the smiling
past, to make it live again with such in
tensity of loveliness, that while no actu
al form intrudes, nor actual sound breaks
through the chain of thought, the phan
tasy grows real; and old impressions
wake again, and voices speak so kindly,
aud cordial looks, qnd gentle loving acts,
are interchanged, and pure soft feelings
towards each other, as in those early
days when the sweet “trysting time”
was kept, and hope made light of expec
tation. Oh,agony! It is a dream—a
very dream. Nay, worse—the vision of
the sleeper may return; but this can
never—never live again.
There is no credulity like that of love.
However dark may be the fear which al
ternates with hope in the mind of her
who is thus situated, she has, under all,
and supporting her through all the deep
foundation of her own unchanging love
—that love which is strong as death. ;
And by the same comprehensive rule,
which to her includes in one close union
every faculty and feelingpf her soul—la
this rule she judges of her husband, and
calculates the probability of his return.
By this rule it is impossible that he
should forget her prayers, and her entrea
ties, her sorrow, her suffering, and her
tears. By this rule, then he must of ne
cessity remember her in that gay circle,
even when its mirth and its revelry are
at their height. She has wronged him
—deeply wronged him, to think he could
forget. Another hour will find him by
her side, repaying, Oh, how richly ! all
j her anxious fears.
With these sweet thoughts, she rises
and trims her fire again, and draws her
j husband’s chair beside the hearth, bc
! thinking her, with joyous recollection, of
sonic other little acts of kindness by
which she may possibly be able to make
his home look more attractive. But still
he comes not ; and that strange sickness
of the heart begins again, and creeps
along her frame, until her very fingers
ache with anguish; and tremblingly her
hands arc clasped together, and were it
not for prayer, her heart would surely
break with its strong agony ; for still he
comes not. Yet, —slowly as the heavy
hours drag pn, the midnight chime at
last is heard, that solemn peal, which
tells to some its tale of peace, of safety,
and of home; while it speaks to others
hut of darkness, desolation, and despair.
But who shall fill from one sad mo
ment to another the page of busy
1 thought, or paint the ever-shifting scenes
: which flit before the lonely watcher’s
j mind ? Another hour, and still he comes
I not.—Yet hark! It is his step.—She
j flics to meet him—Let us close a scene
i for which earth holds no parallel; for
here are mingled, horror, shame, repul.
j sion and contempt, with a soft tenderness
like that of some sad mother for her idiot
child—joy that tho shrouding wings of
love once more can shelter him—bliss ;
that no other eye but hers is there to sec j
—kind yearning thoughts of care to keep ;
him in his helplessness from every touch !
of harm—feelings so gentle, yet so pow- j
erful, of a strange gladness to be near him
in his degradation—to press the hand
which no one else in tho wide world
would hold—to kiss the brow which has
no trace of beauty left! And to do this,
night after night—to live through all the
changes of this scene, through months j
and years, only with less of hope, and
more of anguish and despair!
Such is the picture not exaggerated,;
lor that would he impossible, of one short j
portion in the experience of how many
women? Wo cannot number them.
I hey are to bo met with in society of
every grade, and yet society for the most
part can rust satisfied to do nothing more
than pity them. Nor scarcely that; for
the same voice which speaks with feeble
lamentations of the suffering of the wife,
will often press the husband to the fes
tive board, and praise the sparkling wine,
and urge him to partake.
Fibk—A Story.— By Isaac F. Shep
ard.—lt was a cold, clear night in No
vember, when the club met to spend the
hours at their gaming and their cups.
Lewis Benton was among them, the most
thoughtless of them all. Tho old church
bell had struck eleven, and, save this
gang, the villagers were all asleep.
Turner’s wife nbd children were in bed,
and for an hour had been locked in slum
ber. The company had all drank freely,
and were more than half drunk, when
Turner won tho game, and seized tho
stakes, putting them in his pocket. It
was the last cent that Lewis had, and it
was more than he could bear.
“ There’s foul play, Turner,” he cried,
“ there’s foul play, and the game was un
fairly won!”
“ For shame! for shame!” said two
or three at once, “I wouldn’t stand that,”
said another, “ Make him eat his words,”
said a third; and passions began to rise
among the bachanals. Lewis saw the
tide setting against him, and, infuriated
as he was he struck his clenched fist upon
the table, and swore he would fight the
man who dared to say the game was fair
ly played.
“The boy is drunk,” said Turner,
“and is angry that he has lost his money.
1 ake no notice of him, lads, but on with
another game!”
“ Boy, am I?” said Lewis with a con
temptuous sneer, “ and drunk too! Yes,
lam drunk: but who made me so? It
was you, Turner, who taught me to drink,
and to gamble; and now you would take
no notice of me! But you shall notice
me though ! Take that!”
So saying, ho sprang from his seat,
‘ and with unbridled fury he dealt a blow
lat Turner, that knocked him prostrate
. upon the floor. In a moment the room
was a perfect scene of pandemonium.
“Down with him! Murder! Seize
| the scoundrel!” rose from every side: 1
| and in the riot the tables were overturned,
j and they jostled against one another, till
i Lewis accidentally threw one of the can
; dies into a basket of shavings that sat in 1
a corner, and in a moment the room was !
; in a blaze.
I shall never .forget that night. The
cry rang through the village, with its
voice of terror, “Fire! fire! fire!” and '
!!■■■ » ' '.Wir ——H.l
unused to its tone, the people waked from
their slumbers, and ran, half dressed, to
the scene of conflagration. The wind
was high, and the flames spread with
awful rapidity. The women and the
children came together almost frantic
with fear, and the tumult and consterna
tion I cannot describe. The family of
Turner were awakened from their dreams,
and the mother rushing into the sleeping
rooms of the children, seized two of them
in her arms, and bore them to the street.
There was one left. She turned and ran
again for the stair-way, but at the mo
ment, the flames broke out at that point,
and drove her back. She raved like a
maniac, and tore her hair, running up and
down, shouting, “Save my child ! oh —
oh ! save my poor Fanny !”
Attempt after attempt was made to
effect an ascent to the chambers, but the
fury of the flames drove back the intre
pid firemen, scorched and beaten from
their purpose. At length a scream was
heard upon the night wind, and every
eye saw the little girl, standing at the
upper window, in her night-clothes, hold
ing out her little hands beseechingly, and
screaming in terror, “ Mother ! mother!
save me ! save me!”
The next instant a crash was heard,
and a shriek of horror rose from the mul
titude, as the timbers of the buildinjr cave
way, and the house fell, while the forked
flames went piercing into heaven, bear
ing upward the soul of Fanny Turner.
The morningaftcr the fire,and melan
choly loss of life attending it, our vilage
was all alive. The neighbors were con
stantly (Kissing, to and from the scene of
ruin, talking in suppressed voices, and
many a tear of sympathy flowed freely,
as they tried to comfort the inconsolable
! family that w as turned homeless upon the
world; a calamity a thousand-fold cm
\ bittered, by their dreadful bereavement.
' The mother refused to be comforted.
| At times her reason seemed almost to
| have left her. She would sit upon the
j bank opposite the smoking remains of
i her dwelling, and gaze upon them moan
ing, and wringing her hands incessantly,
at intervals uttering a scream of agony,
j and crying, “Oh give me back my
| child !—Do, do give me back my darling
|i t)j "
runny !
And when the intensity of her grief
' would be exhausted, she would relapse
| into a state of listlessness, with her eyes
fixed upon a scene of desolation, heed
less of every thing about her. Who ean
estimate the misery and death consequent
upon the use of intoxicating drinks!—
The child of this poor woman was ofler
ed as a living sacrifice, a burnt-oflering,
upon the altar of this dreadful tyrant;
and there could be no music sweeter to
his ear, than the groans and wails of the
desolate mother. Oh that men would
awake to the reality of the dieadful ruin
that alcohol has brought upon them, and
with one Herculean effort, drive the bru
tal murderer from the world. The pow
er is with them ! when will they put it
in force 1
The Difference.— A London paper
states, that, “in the reign of George 111.,
under the patronage of the Prince of
Whiles ; every nobleman and gentleman
cf the smallest spirit, went to bed drunk.
The Prime Minister and the Chancellor
in especial, and every body’s coachman,
footman and porter followed the goodly
example.” Now it has fortunately be
come unfashionable to be intoxicated;
and to be intemperate is to be classed
among the loafers.
In the United States, although drunk
enness in the times alluded to by the
London editor, and at a subsequent peri
od, did not prevail to so great an extent
in respectable society as among the no
bility and gentry of London, yet the
practice of tippling was very prevalent:
for it was then the fashion to offer liquor
to every visitor. Thus men were insen
sibly led into habits from which nothing
but the sternest resolution? could relieve
them. At this time, solicitations to
drink are omitted, and vile habits are not
so readily contracted; and, as the tem
perance societies are rapidly reformin'*
the old topers, we may reasonably hope
for a radical and blessed change in the
state of society.— [Bolt. Clip.
A Washingtonian says, he that drinks
a little daily, is as much a drunkard as
he who steals a little daily is a thief.
Some of these "Washingtonians have
queer notions, and they will express them
in their own way.
“1 love thee for thyself alone," as the
toper said when he drank Ins glass of
whiskey without water.
Cheap Curses.—The Puritans were more se
vere in punishment of swearing than cursing, for
j when an Irishman was lined a shilling for an
[ oath he asked what he should pay for a curse 1 ?
1 They said sixpence. He threw down a six
pence and cursed the whole committee.
'■ Come in out of the wet. honey” as the shark
| said to Paddy, when he w;v nfhr bathing him
j self in the Mississii>pi,
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T)R. JOHN MILLEN, Office No. 147,
North side Broad-street, below Eagle and
Phoenix Hotel, Augusta. [June 10 ly
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j June 18 its
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assortment of Printing Types, Ornaments, Bor
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For approved paper at six months, or seven per
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The Southern Miscellany:
A SOUTHERN FAMILY NEWSPAPER —NEUTRAL IN POL
ITICS AND RELIGION.
Illustrated icithfine Engravings on Wood. i
W. T. Thompson, Editor.
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npilE “Miscellany” is the only paper
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been in existence little better than a year, during
which time it has acquired an extensive cireuhv 1
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Amusing Miscellany—Congressional, Legisla
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■ ! and designed to circulate every where.
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PROSPECTUS
. OF THE
AUGUSTA WASHINGTONIAN,
VOL. 11.
j DEVOTED TO TEMPEBAXCE, AGRICULTURE
AND miscellany:
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY,
At Auguita, Georgia, ♦
By JAMES McCAFFERTY.
In commenceing the second volume of this pa-
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| a sheet to the public, which he trusts will meet
with their approbation—and he asks from those
; friendly to its prosperity, their aid in extending
; its circulation.
Competent gentlemen having kindly acceded
j to the call made upon them by the Board of
I Managers of the Augusta Society, to conduct
i the Editorial department, the publisher flatters
i himself that he will be able to place the paper on
| a permanent basis, and to give it a much more
elevated character.
Thus far, the march cfour tauseis onward,
j and in a few years, it may reasonably be expected,
; that if the energy which has characterised the
members of the Washington Reform, for the
j past three years, continue, an entire reformation
must take place, and that the greatest curse to
our country, will only be mentioned as among
i the evils that were.
The subject of Temperance will be the promi
nent object of the -l Washingtonian;” yet there
will be room for the stirring events of the day,
and for other items of interest to the general read
er—as Agriculture, Science, a Prices Current of
the Market, Exchange Table, &c. In short, the
publisher will endeavor to make this paper what
it should be—an able advocate of Temperance,
and a usclul Family Paper, strictly moral in its
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The “ Washingtonian” will be published
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at the unprecedental low price of Ons. Dol.LAit
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within the means of all who desire an excellent
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The publisher looks confidently to all the friends
of Temperance and Morality, to aid him in carry
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With their aid, it can be done. *
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June 10 1 ts
K!©T]©!L
AS I design being absent from the City
of Augusta, for about three months, Ileave
Messrs. N. K. Butler & Co. as my agents, until
my return ; therefore, those that are owing me,
will please to call on them for their papers, and
| those that I owe, will please to call on them as
their demands become due, (that is, if any should
become due in my absence.) I also leave parcels
of my papers in the hands of Messrs. Kerr &
Hope, Baker & Hutchens, Sfovall & Hamlen,
P. A. Scranton, O. H. Lee, C. Lindsey, and
; others.
Any persons having commands about or to
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I design leaving Augusta about the 13th inst,
i therefore persons having commands in that di
; rection, can call on me by that time, or write to
i me while in Columbus
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June 10 1 3t