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exhibition of the Blind.
At the exhibition of the pupils of the
New-York institution for the blind, the
exercises were highly interesting. The
following piece of poetry was composed
for the occasion, by Frances Jane Cro
shy, one of the pupils, who has been blind
ever since she was one year old; and her
sense of touch is not so delicate as to en
able her to read with raised letters.
THE BLirO) GIBL’s ADDRESS.
They tell ua ot the starry train
That sparkles in yon sky of blue;
When gently o’er the verdant plain,
Mild Evening sheds its pensive hue;
And of the glorious orb of day,
That 'lumes the specious earth we tread:
But vain, alas! its golden ray,
Upon our sightless eyes is shed !
They tell us of the landscape fair,
The gushing fount,the pleasant shade;
OfSpring’s young flower’s that blossom there,
In nature’s lovely garb arrayed.
The smile that decks the human face,
The brilliant eye, the joyous brow!
Arc beauties we may never trace,
A rayless midnight shrouds us now.
But why, ah why the falling tearl
Why heaves the sad, unbidden sigh 1
The lamp of knowledge, bright and fair,
Pours lustre on our mental eye.
And oh, Religion’s heavenly ray,
Our bosom lights with sacred love,
And bids us look from earth away,
To an eternal world above.
To us our Father hath denied
The blessings he on you bestows:
Yet sweetly now our moments glide
lie gives us friends to soothe our woes.
And though wo never can express
The gratitude to you we owe,
God, your benevolence will bless,
And his approving smile bestow.
TEMPER A WOE.
The Broken Leg.
- BY A. F. E. LAXGIiEIX.
Go fetch a quart of Sack ; put a toast in’t,
Well, if I be sorted such another trick I'll
Have my brains ta’on out and buttered,
And give them to a dog for a new year’s gift.
Shaktpemre.
Bonnard appeared at all times, and
every where, before mid-day, a prudent
and amiable man, but after dinner, and in
the evening, he was not always precisely
st). In fact, he was a true son of the an
cient Germans, so often reproached for a
love of drinking, and knew no greater en
joyment, than that of singing amidst con
vivial friends, the inspiring songs of “En
joy the charm of life”—“With laurel
crown the flowing bowl,” and in empty
ing out a flask of good old Hochheimer, as
an accompaniment. Had he been satis
tied with one flask, nobody would havo had
a right to say aught against him, especial,
ly as his income permitted it; but one
flask ever and anon called for another,
coupled with the proverb, “(hat a man
cannot stand upon one leg,” or “that
three all the world over is a lucky num
ber.” Alas! he was not at a loss to tind
wise saws and proverbs, as an excuse for
a fourth, fifth, and even a sixth flask.
The. mother, sisters, and brothers, with
whom he resided, had the mortification of
seeing him return home almost every
night, perfectly intoxicated. Their most
urgent remonstrances were fruitless, and
they began to think that his drunkenness
was incurable. Laura, Bonnard’s sweet
heart, thought so too, for after innumera
ble little quarrels, a complete breach was
at length made between the tw r o lovers,
who indeed were almost as much ns be
trothed.
From that moment he sank deeper.
He had until this time, from a respect to
Laura, maintained at least the outward
appearance of good manners, but now he
became a shameless and notorious drunk T
ard. No night passed, that he had not a
scuffle w ith watchmen, or slept off his in
toxication in a round-house. His health
thereby began visibly to be injured, and
his fortune to melt away. In short, he
was upon the brink of ruin.
Two of his friends, who, although they
often drank with him, always kept them
selves within the bounds of moderation,
were much grieved at his conduct, and re
solved to reclaim the drinker, by a meth
od not the most common in the w’orld.
\Y ith this view they one evening accom
panied. Bonnard to a public wine-cellar,
and appeared in particularly high spirits.
Bonnard’s favourite Hochheimer, was
called for, and they encouraged him to
qua ft'as much of it as ho. liked, and that
was no small dose. He drank himself
into the clouds.
Towards midnight, the two friends be
gan to yawn, shut their eyes, and seemed
to fall asleep. Bonnard was delighted,
for he could now r drink another flask Wit
hout being reproved by them. Before
however he had finished it, intoxication
reached its highest pitch, and he at length
fell dep rived of reason, into a sound and
death-like sleep,
His friends instantly started up from ]
2jtheir pretended slumber, shook and jogged!
s | him, and to their great joy found that he!
1 exhibited no symptoms of wakefulness, j
“By a sign which was previously agreed;
1 upon, they now called in a surgeon, who
- was waiting in the adjoining apartment. |
i He immediately entered, bringing with
x him splints and other implements for a
broken leg, and soon laced up the right
limb of the sleeper, as tightly as if it had
been most dangerously fractured. Upon
this they sprinkled water upon his face,
and gave a fearful thundering cry.
The sleeper started up—seized instant
iy his leg w hich the splints squeezed, and
wished to rise from the chair; his friends
however held him fast, crying out, “Un
fortunate man! stir not—you have receiv
ed a dangerous contusion. We had
scarcely fallen asleep till in attempting to
go down stairs, you fell, broke your leg,
and fainted. Upon that w’e awakened,
raised you up, and caused you to be dress-
s > ed. In heaven’s name! stir not for your
life! We have ordered a litter, and it
will l>e here immediately to carry you
home.”
Bonnard was delirious; —his fancy
magnified the pressure of the splints to lie
the pain of a real broken limb, and never
once imagining that he was deceived,
permitted himself to be borne home la
menting.
There his family received him as w’as
concerted, with tears and wailings. For
four weeks he continued to be visited by
the surgeon, who kept his leg squeezed in
to a case, so that he could not move him
self, nor even entertain a suspicion of his
own perfect health. So Jong an impris
onment was unbearable; he cursed wine
as the cause of his misfortunes, and made
a solemn vow never to get drunk in fu
ture.
At the expiration of a month, the sur
geon informed him the cure was com
pleted. He went as if upon eggs to save
his broken leg, and his first walk was to
the house of his sweetheart, whom he anx
iously entreated to forget the past, and .
; once more to reinstate him in her affec
tions. She promised both on condition j
of a temperate year’s probation. He kept
it manfully, and then became the husband
of his Laura, and continued during the
course of his life, an orderly, respectable •
man, who never at any one time drank •
! more than he could carry.
After several years, Bonnard, for the
first time, discovered the trick that had
been played upon him ; he thanked his
friends heartily for it, and began once
more to tread firmly on his right leg, the
straining of which he had always until
then most carefully avoided.
The Watchman of the South contains |
the following Letter from a ‘Public Pros- ]
ecutor’ in Virginia, of whom the editor .
speaks as an old esteemed friend.
I have been a public prosecutor in five ,
courts off and on, for 58 years, and I can ;
now declare, I believe, that three fourths J
of the criminal prosecutions proceeded, t
as appeared from the evidence, from in
temperance; that at the time the act
was perpetraited, the criminals were in '
an excessive state of intoxication ! from j
the immediate use of ardent spirits. For J
15 or 20 years after the Temperance So
cieties went into operation, so evident j
was the change for the better, in the 1
' manners and morals of my fellow-citi- '
zens, that I had the curiosity to get from
the clerk, a list of all the prosecutions, f
criminals, that had taken place ten years •
prior to the Temperance Societies going [
into operation, and the list came to a con
siderable amount. How many do you |
think Sir, (said I to the Clerk,) for you •
arraigned the criminals, and I prosecuted
them, and both of us heard the evidence,
proceeded from intoxication, by the im-
moderate use of ardent spirits? One j
half, at least, said he; and 1 give my cer
tificate at the bottom of the list, which I 5
have shewn to many ministers of the gos- •
pel, and other persons, and they express
ed their astonishment. And Ido again 1
make my solemn declaration, that the '
immoderate and excessive use of ardent
spirits, was the efficient cause of the pro- j
secutions!
That man, is in an excessive state of 1
intoxication, is a madman for the time *
being; this I knew for a long life of ob- j
servation and experience. I was once a |
1 rooper ot a Voluntary Company of
Cavalry, 62 in number, as fine a troop of j
young gentleman of family and fortune
■as ever drew a sword. After thirty j
; years, I enquired of a brother trooper, (
how many of their company were then ,
; alive. He said that it often made him
i melancholy, when he thought of the mor- !
tality of his brother troopers—Count ‘
' them: there is yourself, myself, and five
others, mentioning their names. How
. many do you think came at an early and l
I middling age, to an untimely grave ? 1
, one half! But before their deaths, a i
. great many brought themselves, their i
: wives and children, to sore distress and
i poverty. But only about twenty years
i since the Temperance Society had gone
1 into operation—a wonderful change has
taken place. The greatbodv of the peb
: pie, I have been acquainted with for fifty
! years, and they were always the most
kind, generous, hospitable and civil peo
-1 pie I ever knew; and to those noble and
excellent traits of character, above men.'
|tioned, they have, under the influence of
the Temperance Societies, superadded
piety, religion and morality. About
twenty years ago, when the Temperance
: j Societies were first instituted, some of the
1 Societies, by their constitution permitted
i wine, porter, cider, and other small
, drinks. Now, when the Societies pros
pered so well under such permissions,
■ what will they do under the Temperance
1 Total Abstinence Society ? How glori
i ous will be the results! I have, in two
■ Superior Courts, for two or three years
• past, prosecuted only one criminal, and
1 that for a small offence; and at two or
i three Spring and Fall terms of the Court,
, the Grand Juries have made no present
, ments of any kind! Enquiries have
• been made of the gentlemen prosecutors
r for fifty miles surrounding the city of
t Richmond, and they sav that there is not
i one third of the prosecutions that there
used to be, in their courts, and they at
tribute all this to the effect the Temper
■ ance Societies have on the conduct ant
’ morals of the people.
From the Spartanburg (S. C.) Journal.
Spartanburgli Temperance Convention.
The Convention met at the Methodist
' Church on Wednesday the 2d inst. an<
organized; after which they moved in
procession to the Grove, near Colonel
Thomson’s, where a stand and scats had
been prepared. The President then de
livered a very eloquent Address—several
Resolutions were pc H.
On Thursday, the • compelled the
audience to leave ' -,ove and take
shelter in the Baptist. sch, where ad
dresses were delivered oy J. F. Carey
and If. A. Jones, Esq. Many Reports
and Resolutions were adopted.
Meetings w ere held every evening du
ring the week, in the Baptist and Meth
odist Churches, which, notwithstanding
the inclemency of the weather, were well
attended.
On Friday, at 12 o’clock, M. the Con
vention adjourned sine die.
The number of Delegates in attend
ance amount to 350—and there were
about twice as many visitors.
The following are the officers:
Hon. J. B. O’Neall, President.
Jno. S. James, ) a .
f' i ? secretaries.
L. J. LLFORD,
[From the Norwich Spectator.]
A Noble Speech.
Gentlemen frequently decline speaking
on Temperance because nothing new can
be said on the subject. Put it into the
hands ofa great mind, and the results
prove something very different. The fob
lowing outline of a speech, made at a Tem
perance convention in Maryland by John
Mason, Esq., of Baltimore, we should like
to see carried out through all its ramifica
tions.
“The cause of Temperance is ‘great,
good, beautiful, and TRUE.’ Great be
cause it comprehends, in its range, the
habitable globe, and is an instrument, in
the hands of Providence, in effecting im
portant results. Good, in breaking off
the shackles of alcohol—ameliorating
man’s condit ion, physical, moral, and so
cial. Beautiful because it acts gently,
without violence to any thing—but in per
fect harmony with the social, moral, polit
ical and religious observations. True,
because it seeks only truth for its advocate
—is cadid and undissembling—wants no
factions or fictitious aid or influence—but
in the language and habiliments of truth
jresents her claims to admiration and sup. |
>ort.
“A moral enlightened public opinion,
las taken charge of the cause—opinion is
stronger than the lever of Archimedes—it
must prevail—no custom, fashion, or habit,
in a country like this—a country, a gov- !
ernment, a community of opinion—can
withstand its power. As well might the 1
spirit of liberty, have been attempted to be
suppressed a tier the battle of Bunker’s
Hill, and the signing of the Declaration of
Independence, as the effort to arrest the
progress of temperance, simple and un
qualified. Its foundations are deep. Its
principles are laid upon the solid founda
tions of ‘greatness, goodness, beauty and
truth’—its objects are allied to the best in
terests of man, temporal and eternal—it
stretches forth its hand of pure benevo
lence. and philanthropy to the four quarters
oft he earth, and seeks to gather in the
world of man. Its advocates must be con
stant, zealous and untiring, in the perform
ance of duty.”
Losses by Rum.
The report of the British and Foreign
Sailor’s Society, says: It has been proved,
by parliamentary evidence, that nearly
three millions sterling are yearly lost by
the British nation by shipwrecks and acci
dents at sea; and by far the greater
number of such casualties are the immedi
ate results of intemperance, or of causes
immediately connected with it. From
November 11, 1 *3B, to March 16, 183!?,
i°ne hundred and sixty vessels were wreck
ed, and the crew’s all perished ; forty-two
stranded; twenty-three foundered; ninety
two abandoned; sixty-eight sunk ; twen
jty-eight condemned ; two hundred and
fi twenty-seven wrecked ; seventy-six not
1 heard from. Total, seven hundred and
t sixteen, with a loss of twenty-six hundred
lives—chief agent believed to be intem
;!perance.
j
I More temperance in the Navy.—
The U. S. sloop of war Levant, Hugh
|N. Page commander, just fitted for sea,
’I is expected to sail from Norfolk, Va. in a
lew days. The vessel and crew is said to
5 be in fine condition and well disciplined,
s j and the commander a fine officer. The
j most interesting features of the case,
r j however, is the temperance resolve of
“all hands.” Spirituous liquors have
’jbeen banished from the ship, except in
Jthe surgeon’s department. The crew’
Jhave stopped their grog, and the officers
j. abolished the use of wine in their messes.
, [Norwich. Spectator.
The Change.
“Poor Jim is dead! said a Washing
tonian yesterday. “ What a change!—
Four years ago I was a poor miserable
drunkard, and he was a respectable tip
pler with plenty of money. Now lam
a reformed man, doing well; he has just
died in the poor house, and been buried
in Potter’s Field!”
Is here not a lecture—and a true one?
How many such cases have occurred!
Ihe reformed Washingtonian goes up,
I up, up—while the moderate drinker goes
■ down, down, down.— N. Y. Oman.
| _
( “Tis strange, that a man can’t
, govern said a would-be-styled
moderate drinker, the other day, as he
lifted the glass to his lips. “Now I can
stop when I get enough.” “No you
, can’t,” said a Washingtonian, who stood
by. “ You have got enough already,
and now you -can’t deny yourself that
glass; you must drink it; you can’t con
trol your appetite enough to refuse it.”
But he did, though ; he threw it on the
floor ; then called for another glass to
treat his resolution, probably. Poor
man ! he thinks he is perfectly safe.
[Middlesex Washingtonian.
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-1 PROSPECTUS
) j OF THE
AUGUSTA WASHINGTONIAN,
VOL. 11.
1 DEVOTED TO TEMPERANCE, AGRICULTURE
AND MISCELLANY :
] PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY,
At Augusta, Georgia,
By JAMES McCAFFERTY.
; In commenceing the second volume of this pa
- per. the publisher has the gratification to present
j 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
1 its circulation.
) Competent gentlemen having kindly acceded
to the call made upon them by theßoard of
Managers of the Augusta Society, to conduct
the Editorial department, the publisher flatter
, himself that he will be able lo place the paper on
f a permanent basis, and to give it a much mor •
U elevated character.
Thus far, the march of our cause is onward.
1 and in a lew years, it may reasonably be expected
f that if the energy which has characterised th<
j members of the Washington Reform, for the
past three years, continue, an entire reformation
must take place, and that the greatest curse to
our country, will only be mentioned as amon»
the evils that weref -
The subject of Temperance will be the promi
. nent object of the “Washingtonian;” yet there
. will be room for the stirring events of the day.
, and for other items of interest to the general rea’,
' cr—as Agriculture, Science, a Prices Current of
- the Market, Exchange Table, &c. In short, the
I publisher will endeavor to make this paper what
jit should be—an able advocate of Temperance.
. and a useful Family Paper, strictly moral in its
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The “ Washingtonian” will he published
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, June 6th, 1843.
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