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pray to-night.” Stop but one moment.
What a hand is hers! so thin and trem
bling; yet she grasps that pen as if it
were a rod of iron, to inscribe deep words
of misery in the rock for ever. They
pass away together—that penniless and;
friendless pair, strong in each other’s*
truth, rich in each other’s love. Weeks
glide away—months or perhaps a year; j
and they are seen together now, so hap
py! with their rosy children, standing at
their cottage door— their blazing fire,'and |
clean swept hearth, and plenteous table]
spread within.
Such are the .scenes which cheer oiw
every hand the laborer in the temperance]
cause, and if this passing sketch convey a
slight idea of the interest excited by such 1
scenes, what must be that of entering in
to the details of family and individual his
tory, where all things temporal and eter
nal are at stake, and all hang as it were
upon the transcript of a single name!
[ Voice from the Vintage.
The Drunkard.
Tub drunkard!—w ho and what is he?
A fallen brother—a miserable remnant of
humanity. Poor, trembling, tottering
man—victim of an unhallowed vic r —how
many weep at your degradation ! How
many friends and relatives mourn your
waywardness, and curse the enemy that
enslaved your soul! And will you not,
when hundreds wait to welcome you back
to the friendship of their bosoms, and the
endearments, of their friends, throw off the
chains of galling servitude that fester in
your spirit, and come once more to taste
of the freely offered joys of life? How
many and how great are the inducements
you have to change the dark current of ex
istence and permit it to flow on brightly
and calmly to the ocean of eternity!—
Stormy and boisterous, full of stifle ring
and disaster, has been your voyage thus
far. An unfortunate mariner on the flood
of time, driven to and fro by every fickle
passion, you are now called to the enjoy
meat of blessings pure and holy as ever!
angel spirit knew. Will you accept this!
invitation of love, and go forth with the
redeemed of our race to praise the Author
of our cause? Oh! give up the wassail
and the companions of your fatal merry
makings! Listen no more to the voice
of the tempter, but come away from the
scenes of your shame and woe. The out
stretched arms of thousands will Add you
in tenderness to their hearts, if with man
ly resolve you come out from the contam
inating halls of intemperance. If the eye
of one poor inebriate falls upon these
lines, penned bv one who knows some-!
thing of his wretchedness, oh! let him not
say that it is impossible to conquer the
burning thirst which rages within. No!
no! Remember the long ranks of re
deemed souls who daily cry out that there
is hope fi>r the drunkard. They once
groan-matchless symmetry of sinew and
limb—that regular flowing of blood—the
irrepressible and daring passions of ambi
tion and ol'love! And yet the thunders
of heaven and the waters of earth are
chained. Are there no floods, that man
is not swept under a deluge ? They re
main, but the bow of reconciliation hangs
out above and beneath them. And it
were better that the limitless waters and
the strong mountains were convulsed and
commingled together—it were better that
the very stars were conflagrated by fire or
shrouded in eternal gloom, than that one
soul should he lost, while mercy kneels
and pleads Air it beneath the altar of in
tercession.
From the Southern Miscellany.
Sumpter County , Ga.,July 1,184:1.
Mu. Thompson.—lt is with feelings of
deep regret that I inform you of a most
melancholy accident which occurred in
this County on yesterday evening, occa
sioned by that accursed bane to human
happiness, intemperance.
Mr. C , a rumseller living in the
country, went to Americus yesterday
morning to purchase a barrel of spirits to
sell to-day (the 4th,) at a celebration in
his neighborhood—taking with him in
the cart his little son, a likely child of
about eight years* of age. In selecting
his liquor he took care to taste freely, and
by evening he was quite drunk. In this
situation he set out Air home—but did not
get far before he fell last asleep, leaving
his little son to drive the oxen, which the
little follow did until he came to a declivi
ty in the road, when he was unable to hold
them back. The oxen run down the hill, ,
upsetting the cart, throwing the boy out
and the barrel of spirits upon him—mash
ing his head literally to pieces. The fa
ther was now aroused from his sleep, but
apparently unconscious of what had hap- j
pened. At this time there came up some ,
persons who put the barrel and the corpse !
of the boy back into the cart. The be- ,
sotted wretch drove to his home, w hen re
volting as it may seem to such as possess
the slightest particle of natural feeling,
the brute staggered off to his bed leaving
his murdered child in the cart, weltering j
in its blood. • i
This morning some kind neighbors j
have taken charge of the corpse, and arej
now* bearing it to the grave, While the iu
l ther, wgh his senses steeped in liquor, re
mains insensible, it would seem, of his
; melancholy bereavement.
This is but one of the thousand bitter
[ fruits of that accursed vice which spreads
■want and misery throughout the land, and
[brings death, temporal and spiritual, to its
j enslaved victims. May heaven bless the
noble eHurts that are now' making to sup
press intemperance. T. D. S.
I Stupendous Canal.—Take the tables
! showing the amount of liquor imported
linto this country for fifty years and then
ls*dd to that twenty times as much for the
domestic spirits that have been consum
ed in the same time (saying nothing
about cider and beer.) Then having the
result in gallons, multiply the whole by
[231, the number of cubic inches in a
gallon, and you have the number of cubic
feet. Then divide by 80, the number of
square feet in a foot of Canal 20 feet
wide and 4 feet deep, and divide by 5280
jtbe number of feet in a mile, and you
(have the number of miles of Canal, 20
(.[feet wide and 4 feet deep, this poison
I would fill. Yes, you have a stream of
Mdeath twenty-five hundred miles long !
. Liquid fire enough to burn up theinhab-.
,;itants of the earth, yet all this has been
[consumed in our land within fifty years
The depth and length and height and
j breadth of misery, wretchedness, an
! guish, woe and death, which have been
the result, are not so easily calculated.—
It can only be done bv the arithmetic ol
, Eternity.— Cincinnati Star.
Keep jogging along—don’t stop to as
’ certain who is behind, but push on for
’.those who are before. One of these days
perhaps, when ‘rum and ruin are driven
from the land, we can have time to look
•[back and count the wounded. Till then
| Washingtonians, keep joggmg along.
Dr. C. W. Appleton.
We copy the following article from the
•j Lancaster (Penn.) Sentinel of the 4th
;;iirtt. We are pleased to see that the un
blushing villain is like to receive the ptm
• ishment he so richly merits.
I Cool Impudence!! — Dr.C. W. Appleton.
A little befiire. 1 o’clock on Saturday
' last, we received through the Post Office,
! and marked “in haste,” the fiillowing
■ very polite and friendly card and invita
i tion, we suppose we must term it. It is
about the coolest piece of impudence w'o
ever knew to come from an accomplished
villain! In order that the public may
loose none of its beauties, we will copy it
as nearly as type can do. Here it is:
Lancaster. July Ist, 1843.
• Robert W. Middleton , Esq.
1 Sir: —lt appears from your Anti Ma
■ sonic Sheet published some two weeks
'since that you were very anxious to know
“ the whereabouts of “that pretty Boy Dr.
I Appleton;” for your information as well
as the benefit of an outraged community
• (as you seem to imagine) I would infirm
> you that I am now in town and can lie
' seen at the public house of Mr. Eberman
(sign of Compass and Square) and as
Brothers ofthc same order it is your duty
1 (according to the obligations taken) tocail
and see me, and ascertain all the (acts in
1 relation to this unpleasant afiiiir of w hich
it appears I stood charged before an en
lightened public call soon as I ex
’ pect to make a short stay in town my time
not being my own. Yours, &c.
C. W. APPLETON.
Iu the name signed above, our readers
will recognize that of the cool, black
hearted ingrate published in this paper
the Ist of May last, as having destroyed
the peace of w hole families, ruined and
• disgraced several amiable women, out
raged the sacred cause of Temperance ,
and polluted the sanctuary of the Most
High! He profanely calls us “Broth
er!” Why the Devil himself would
blush to own such a “brother” as the
outcast ingrate! this living, walking mon
ument of all that is beastly, devilfish,
abominable. Why he has ventured into
this community, we cannot conjecture—
unless it be that the guarding of a guilty
conscience has forced him into the hands
of Justice!
tK7 = P. S. The “Dr.” says above that
his “time is not his own.” This is true,
for directly after the above was penned,
Constable Hughes inflirmed us that he
had placed him in the Jail of the county
as a “ fugitive from Justice from Borden
town, New Jersey.” We can, therefore,
“take our time,” in visiting the “Dr.”
The “news” has been sent on to the
Governor of New' Jersey.
(K?” According to the minutes of the
Royal Astronomical Society’s proceed- I
ings, it appears that on March sth, the '
great comet which recently disappeared, (
was 8,000,000 German miles from the
earth, having a tail 12,000,000 German
miles long, and 4,000,000 broad.
Another Court Martial.—The N. ,
York correspondent of the National In
telligencer mentions that he is informed
that Com. Morgan is recalled from the 1
Mediterranean, to be tried bv a Court I (
! Martial. '
Ages of distinguished men.— Of the
five gentlemen now spoken of as candi
dates for nomination by the democra
tic national convention, four, Messrs.
Van Buren, Calhoun, Johnson, and 1
Cass, were born in 1782. They are now
therefore sixty-one years of age. Mr.
Webster was Jjorn the same year. Mr.
Clay in April of 1777, Mr. Tyler in 1790
and John Q. Adams in 1767.
A new Motive power. —Dr. Drake, 1
of Philadelphia, after many years study, j
has invented a machine to superset the;
steam engine. Atmospheric air is allow
ed to pass into a cylinder through a tube,
and w hen admitted there, is rarified by
, some internal chemical agent, and the
piston moves accordingly.
00“ An individual by the name of
- John S. Clinton, has been appre
hended in England, as the person who
! perpetrated the forgery by which Jacob j
Little & Co. of New York, were defraud
( ed out of some twenty thousand dollars.
From the facts relating to the case, the
opinion is entertained that there is very}
little doubt of his being the guilty person.!
The Learned Blacksmith.
In the settlement of a case at Bangor,
j relative to an estate in St. Thomas, a
document was produced as evidence,
which was written in Danish, and con
tained 40 foolscap pages, but there were
none who could translate it. It was sent
to Mr. Burritt of Worcester, known as
the learned Blacksmith, who returned a
, translation of it, which is spoken of very
highly by the editor of the Whig. In a
; letter, Mr. B. remarks that the transla
i tion cost him twelve days hard labor, for
which he presumed the sum of eighteen
i dollars would not be an unreasonable
compensation, and that would be “about
what any other blacksmith would charge,
provided he could do it with hammer and
tongs.”
i
Cool Water.
The following simple inode of making
water almost as cold as ice is from the
Philadelphia ledger.
“ Let the Jar or vessel used for water
, be surrounded with one or more folds of
; coarse cotton to be constantly wet. The
. evaporation of the water will carry off
; from the inside and reduce it to the freez
ing point. In India and other tropical
regions where ice cannot he procured,
this is common. Let every mechanic or
laborer have at his place of employment
two pitchers thus provided, and with lids
or covers ; the one to contain water for
drinking, the other for evaporation and
he can always have a supply of cold
i water in warm weather. Any person
can test it by dipping a finger in the water
and holding it in the air on a warm day;
! after doing this three or four times, he
will find his finger uncomfortably cold.
DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT.
To .make good Bueao. —The Tusca
loosa (Ala.) Monitor, gives the following
recipe for making good bread:—Take
an earthen vessel larger at the top than
bottom, and in it put one pint of milk
warm water, one and a half pounds of
(lour, and a half pint of malt yeast; mix
them well together, and set it away, (in
winter it should be in a warm place,)
until it rises and falls again, which will
be in from three to five hours; (it may
be set at night if it be wanting in the
morning) then put tw o large spoonsful I
of salt into two quarts of water, and mix
it well with the above rising ; then put
in about nine pounds of flour and work
your dough well, and sc? it by until it
i becomes light. Then make it out into
loaves. The above will make four loaves.
As some flour is dry and other runny,
the above quantity, however, will he a
guide. The person making bread will
observe that runny and new flour will
require one-fourth more salt than old
and dry. The water should also be tem
pered according to the weather—in
spring and fall it should only be milk
warm; in hot weather cold, and in win
ter warm.
Substitute for Cream. —Beat up
the whole of a fresh egg in a basin and
then pour boiling tea over it gradually to i
prevent its curdling. In flavor and rich
ness this preparation closely resembles
cream.— South. Planter.
J
To Preserve Apples and Pears. —
Wipe the fruit dry. Then take a var- f
nished crock or wide mouthed jar, at the e
bottom of which is to be a layer of
until the crock or jar is full. Put it in a!
dry place. Apples or pears thus treated '
will keep good all tho winter. ! J
- t
11 ■ ■■ wnm ii . i),
To extract- a glass stopper. —Take
a large strip of wool, pass it once around
the neck of the bottle, attach one end of
this band to some fixed object, hold the
I other, and then see-saw the bottle along
jit. The friction will soon heat the neck
jof the bottle, and by the heat the neck
j will expand sufficiently to allow of the
I stopper being extracted.
I Feather Beds. —A pound of ground
i pepper put into a feather bed, and well
shaken up, effectually destroys the in
sects which sometimes occasion a disa
greeable, musty smell.
A U G U S TAP U I C E S s to
a 3 £
CURRENT, | tL
CaBKFUI.IV CoItKECTKD WfKKLY. ~-
Bagging, Hemp
Tow
Gunny .'
Bale Ropf, .
Bacon, Hog round
Hams
Shoulders
Sides
! Beep, Smoked
Butter, Goshen
North Carolina...
Country
1 Coffee, Green prime Cuba.
Ordinary to good..
St. Domingo
Rio
Laguira
Porto Rico
Java
Mocha
Candles, Sperm
Tallow, Georgia,
do. Northern.
Cheese, American
English
Crackers, Augusta made..
Northern
Cigars, Spanish..
American
Corn
Fodder .
i Fish, Herrings.
I Mackerel, No. 1
do. No. 2....
do. No. 3 ....
Flour, Canal
Baltimore
[ Western
. Country
Feathers.
Ginger
Gunpower, Dupont’s fff ..
Blasting
, Glass, JO x 12
Bxlo
Iron, Russia
Swedes, assorted....
Hoop
Sheet
Nail Rods
Lead, Bar
Sheet
i Leather, Solo
Upper
. Cass Skins
1 Lard
I Molasses, N. Orleans....
I Havana
English Island..
Nails
1 Oils, Lamp
! Linseed
Tanners
Oats
! Peas
Paints, Red Lead
White Lead
Spanish Brown...
Yellow Ochre
. Pepper, Black
‘ Raisins, Malaga
; Muscatel.....
Bloom
Rice, Prime
Inferior to good
;■ Sugars, New Orleans .....
Havana white
do. brown
Muscovado.......
St. Croix
i Porto Rico
Lump
Loaf.
Double refined
Spice
Soap, American, No. 1....
do. No. 2
Salt, Liverpool ground ...
do. do
Steel, Gorman
Blistered
Shot, all sizes
Tobacco, N. Carolina
Virginia
Twine
Tea, Bohea
Souchong
Hyson
Gunpowder
List of Payments to the Washingtonian.
The following persons have paid their subscrip,
tion to the Washingtonian, up to June 10th, 1844.
Augusta— Dr. Paul F. Eve. Wavxxsboho’— Mrs.
James Cates. McDonough —P. S Owen.
S. T. CHAPMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office third door above the Augusta Bank.
July 22 7 ts
i J OHN MILLEDGE, Attorney at Law,
|** office in the Law Range, will be thankful for
any business entrusted to his care. He will prac
tice in Burke, Scriven, and Columbia counties.
Augusta. May 20, 24 ts
T)R. JOHN MILLEN, Office No. 147,
j North side Broad-street, below Eagle and
| Phoenix Hotel, Augusta, [June 10 ly
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
OOOK Bindery and Blank Book Man-
ufactory, opposite the Post Office, and ad
joining the office of the Augusta Washingtonian.
J June 10 ly ] T. S, Sl’OY.
j * ' - WWSpSflt jBfP i
p EXCHANGE TABLE-6>«cie LWs.
Augusta Notes.
f Mechanics’ Bank... p par.
Brunswick Bank.... .....i 1 .. “
*•" Bank of Augusta. Y. .. .... “
tr Augusta Insurance & Banking Co “
P Branch Georgia Rail Road
j 1 Branch State ofGeorgia.... Y. .^Hy.... “
k Savannah Notes.
P State Bank “
Marine ami Fire Insurance Bank...'® “
Planters’ Bank Y «
Central Rail Road Bank 15 dis.
j Country Notes,
State Bank Branch, Macon par
' Other Branches State Bank “
. Commercial Bank. Macon .. “
Millodgcville Bank “
• Georgia Rail Road Bank, Athens
City Council of Augusta “
Ruckcrsville Bank : “
Branch Marine & Fire Insurance Bank “
St. Mary’s Bank .... “
Branch Central R. R. Bank, Macon ... J 5 dis.
Central Bank .... 8 a 10 “
. Exchange Bank of Brunswick No sale.
Insurance Bank of Columhus, Macon.. “ “
Phrenix Bank, Columbus “ “
Bank of Hawkinsville 5 dis.
City Council of Milledgeville Uncertain.
City Council of Columbus “
City Council of Macon “
Monroe Rail Road Bank Broke
Bank of Darien and Branches “
Chattahoochic R. R. and Banking Co.. “
Western Bank ot Georgia “
Bank of Columbus “
Planters & Mechanics Bank Columbus “
Bank of Ocmulgce v*.'V “
Georgia 6 pr. ct. Bonds for specie,.... 73 pr. l
Georgiaß pr-ct. Bonds, 92 cts.
South Carolina Notes,
Charleston Banks p n r.
Bank of Hamburg “
Country Banks “
Alabama Notes .... 17 a 20dis.
, Checks.
• New York Sight 4 prem.
Boston ... ' j “
' Philadelphia j “
Baltimore j ><
Lexington j “
Richmond, Va Y. " par.
Savannah “
Charleston “
CHARLES E. GRENVILLE &. CO.
i JJOOKSELLERS and Stationers, 244
Broad-street, offers for sale, at wholesale
and retail, a large assortment of School,Classical,
Medical,.Law and Miscellaneous Books; togeth
er with Blank Books, Paper, Paper Hangings,
Quills, Metallic Pens, Fine Cutlery, and
Stationery of every description,
, Music, Musical Instruments, and every article
5 usually called for in a Bookstore.
Law and Medical Libraries furnished on the
most liberal terms.
Schools, Academies, and Literary Institutions
supplied at the lowest prices.
June 10 1 ts
JOHN B. MURPHY,
has removed to the Store
f/Ct " door below the Post
SI L \ JmEK, Office corner, No. 214,
\ Broad-street, sign of the.
I- ar g c Golden Spectacles.
Clocks, Watches and Jew
elry, carefully repaired and warranted.
O’ A continuance of former patronage will
» be thankfully received.
Augusta, June 10th, 1843 1 ly
REMEDY FOR WORMS.
i r |MIE Compound Syrup of Pink Root,
prepared by the subscriber, from the origin
al receipt of the late Dr. M. Antony.
This pleasant and safe preparation is recom
mended, as one of the effectual remedies for
expelling Worms from the system. For sale, in
quantities to suit purchasers.
4 July 1 4 tf] WM. HAINES, Jr.
gmfo WM. HAINES, Jr. (Succe?-
yjjSjf Bor to Garvin & Haines,) Wholesale
EK&I and Retail Dealer in Drugs, Medi
cines, Paints, Oils, Glass, Dye-Stuffs,
, Perfumery, Surgical Instruments, &e. &c—Has
- now on hand a select assortment of the above ar
ticles, for sale at low prices and on moderate,
terms. All orders executed with neatness and
despatch. WM. HAINES, Jr.
No. 23*2 Broad-street, Augusta.
June 18 1 ts
HaVIDAND, RISIjEY A VO.
~ Near the Mansion House, Globe, and U. Slates
Hotels, Augusta, Ga.
\ DEALERS IS
Choice Drugs and Medicines,]
Chemicals, Patent Medicines,
, Surgical & Dental Instruments
t&zmrL* Perfumery, Brushes,
Paints, Oils,
kSga Dye-Stuffs,
Window Glass, &c. Ac.
t June 17 2ly
BRASS & IRON FOUNDRY.
» subscriber has now on hand a
large stock of the raw materials, of the best
quality, for Mill and Gin Gear, also, first rate
’• patterns of every description of Machinery, at
his Foundry, in the rear of the Presbyterian
s - Church, on the Road from Augusta to Savannah
—where he is prepared to do all kinds of business
: in his line, as low as any other establishment in
the city. He flatters himself that he will be able
to give satisfaction to all who may entrust their
work to his care. Orders left at the Foundry, or
with any of tlie merchants of Augusta, will be
promptly attended to.
' July 1 4 Cm] P. H. MANTZ.
r1 S rtOrt BRICK FOR SALE.—
The subscriber has on hand
• 150,000 Common Brick, 25,000 Wei! Brick, also
10,000 Cornish and Water Table Brick, suitable
for binding for Door Yards or Garden Walks;
, all of which are well burnt, and for sale low, at
1 the yard, or can be delivered at any place in the
city or on the Sand Hill. His residence is near
■ the yard. Orders left at the post officewill he
; immediately attended to. ,
, July 1 4 3m] S. L. BASSFORD.
• | FOR SALE, —a Bargain l
MA Two Story HOUSEand LOT, on
Reynold street, near Lincoln-street, in
the lower part of the city, adjoining va
- cant lot belonging to Mrs. Gardner. If will bo
. sold low for cash. For further particulars app’y
at this office. June 24—3 ts
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