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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 ■ yard »7 20 • “ 15 18 : “ 18} 22 ■lb 9 12 0 • 8 • “ 8 10 ■“ 5 7 ■ “ 61 8 ll • “ tG 20 10 15 “ ! 15 20 • “ 9 10 •“; 7 9 • “ 7 ‘ 9 • “ I 8 11 • “ I 9 11 • “ 9 11 • “ 14 16 • “ 1 18 20 • “ j 25 35 • “ i 12} 18? « 16 18 • “ 8 121 . « • “ 9 12} . U • M. 15 00 20 00 • “ 500 12 00 ■ bush. 37} 50 • cwt 75 100 • box H 75 125 • hbl. 42 00 14 00 • “ j 8 00 10 00 • “j 0 (X) 800 • “ j 6.00 700 • “ 600 675 • “15 50 650 • “ 550 650 • lb. j 20 25 • “ , 10 12). • keg 1 6 00 700 • “ 400 450 ■ box 300 350 “ 250 300 • cwt. 450 550 • 11 450 500 • “ 700 800 “ 700 800 • “ 700 800 • lh. 6 8 . <; . “ 23 28 ■ side 1 50 200 • doz. 18 00 36 (X) • lh. 8 10 • gal. 28 34 • “ 22 31} (( • lb. 4} 6 • gal. 87} 125 . “ 100 125 “ | 55 62} • bush. | 37). 50 • “ ! 62} 75 • lb.; 15 • keg 200 300 . II) 4 • “58 . “ 10 12} • box 200 250 . “ 200 225 I! . cwt, 250 350 . “ 200 250 . lb. 6 8 “ 11 121 •“ 7 8 “ 7} 9 . “ 8 11 .“ 7 9 “ 11 13 . “ 12 14 . “ 14 17 . “ 10 12} • “ 6} 9 .“ 5 7 . bush. 40 50 . sack 200 250 lb 15 16 . “ 8 12} . bag 175 j 2 (X) . lb. 8 15 . “ 15 40 .! “ 25 33 . “ 62} 87} . “ 60 75 . “ 80 125 . “ 100 125