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Jnleasure, or business, and who in many could act as delegates without or additional expense. — ? The influence which such a concentra tion of moral power would have upon our jlaw-makers is not to be wholly disregard led. True, we seek not to accomplish lour purposes by any enactments of theirs, ■but the success of our efforts depends ■greatly upon the opinions and practices ot 1 those men who arc placed in authority by I the people, and who are thus ackriowledg- I ed as their leaders in some respects, and who are consequently likely to acquire an influence over them in others.—Besides, the information which you propose to col lect, will be greatly useful in the complete *nd efficient organization of the State, to which alone we must look if we hope for hnv future, permanent good to grow out sos our efforts, on this great subject. I was gratified when you made the ori- Jginal proposition for a State Convention. II was also pleased to see that your brother I of the “ Banner” was so prompt to improve 1 upon your hint in getting up a meeting at (t Penfield. That meeting, it seems, was : only a partial one—consisting of about f forty-four delegates, representing some nineteen or twenty societies. This, 1 f hope, was the result of its local character, and the fact that it was held at a busy season, when the farmers and planters (our main dependence in such matters afler all) found it inconvenient to leave their homes. Yet even that meeting shows what can be done with the proper industry and concert. All these difficulties, then, will be ob viated by your suggestion of Milledgeville as the place, and the 2nd Monday of No vember as the time of holding Ruch a Convention. Let the committee of the Penfield Convention adopt your hint—lot the “ Banner” come actively, honestly, energetically to the work; and let us make “a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull alto gether,” and the result will be all the most J sanguine can anticipate. C. s' Fer the W.nhinglonian. y r A Convention. We are gratified with the recent effort made at Penfield for securing a conven tion of the delegates of all the Temper ance Societies in Georgia: for though the showing was not one twentieth part of our strength, yet it satisfied us of what may be done at a more central place, and at a more auspicious time. The time, which one of the editors designated as the most | suitable is during the session of the Legis lature. At this time wc could, for obvious reasons, marshal our forces to the best advantage. We would therefore call the attention of the Societies to a Convention Ito be held in Milledgeville on the day of— , 1843. Especially do we re* quest the President and Board of Mana gers of the Society of this city, to call its members together, and to suggest a day for the meeting of a General Temperance Convention of the State of Georgia. “Hal.” For the Washingtonian. Messrs. Editors —The smell of rum has annnoyed me but once since the appear ance of the communication of 11. on this subject, and I trust you will allow me, through the Washingtonian, to return him my thanks, which I now do, for relief from this most unpleasant annoyance. 1 beg leave also to take occasion to offer a few remarks suggested to the mind by that communication and its consequences. And first, I have to confess myself greatly astonished that any person, moving in de cent circles of society, has to be reminded through the press of the necessity of keep ing his person pure from snch odours as must annoy and distress those with whom he associates. The unfortunate person whose breath is offensive from diseased •teeth, or bad health, may be pitied and endured ; but who can compassionate and Lbear with him who makes his whole body rdisgustingly offensive by beastly, sensual : f indulgences ? It is shocking l~ it is un- i pardonable ! But it maybe that he is not sensible of the noisome effluvia constantly i exhaling from his person. If this be the fact, lot his friends inform him of his con- I dition, and as sarely as any self-respect I remains, he will never drink again. I But I have said this smell of rum has 1 once invaded my olfactories since the 1 publication referred to; and then it was i from the person of one of nature’s noble men, inform, goodness of heart, and gen eral excellence of character. Is it not painfully strange, that this should be true ■of such a man ! Perhaps no friend has! advised him of the feet, and that nothing i i but respect for his character enables his; , acquaintances to endure his presence!— ; Perhaps, he is not aware that the wicked I ' and their deluded victims plead his exam ■ pie in excuse of their nefarious and des tructive courses ! Surely, if aware of I these things, a heart like his, overflowing i with the milk of human kindness, and ever , prompting him to deeds of benevolence, . would never allow him again to annoy his I s friends, or encourage others in the ways. >of life-destroying vice. That ignorance! r of these feets may no longer be the cause! t of so much mischief, let his friends show him this paper. The effect of the hint about peach bran -1 ■ j dy has been, I trust, excellent, as well as rl amusing. In one case I have certainly ; not smelt it on the breath since, and be t sides, have had assurances that the “ crit s ter” is not indispensable to comfort, and t never was! Ha! ha! this is well: Stay ; your thunder-storm a little longer H.! I [ even hope the cloud containing it may be , | suffered to pass harmlessly away. M A MAX. For the Washingtonian. S , A Challenge. y 1 hereby challenge the editorial corps 5 of the Washingtonian—(by the way, Mr. j Editor, this challenging, according to the \code of honor, is rather impolitic : for the J challenger virtually declares the challen gee to be a man of honor and a gentleman. Now, if acceptance of a bellicose note be declined, the gentleman sending it is placed in rather an awkward position ; i lor the compliment of gentility is not reci. ’ procated, and there may ho much ado i about proof . Besides, if the challenger ( should subsequently post his honorable friend as any thing but a gentleman, is his testimony worth anything? He has ;testified pro and con: and the posting may result from personal pique.) To return: ( 1 challenge each editor—not to burn pow der and melt lead—for the times are hard, and I do not love pain; nor do I like to be scared out of a year’s growth ; nor am 1 anxious to die, and bear the consequence > °f my sin for eternity, especially as my death would not prove me honorable, inas ( much as many dishonorables have fallen “the gory bed of honor;” nor do I covet the curse of Cain, because “the " voice of my brother’s blood crieth unto j God from the ground.” No sir, though lack Fallstaff was not a temperance man, “honor.” To digress, will you bo kind enough, Mr. Editor, to publish Jack’s no ' tions about this matter. To come back : ’ 1 hereby ardently defy any one of you, and all of you, to procure twenty subscribers for the Washingtonian before I will, I extend my challenge to the President, Se cretary, and the Board of Managers. \V ho will meet me on the field of honora ble competition? I prove myself entitled to notice by the “good work” to which I would direct your efforts. Seriously, we have not performed our duty; and I invite every subscriber, and every Washing tonian, who is not pulling with all hi» might for the Banner, to come on, and make one strong effort for our admirable i paper, the “Augusta Washingtonian.” i “Hal.” i i For the Washingtonian. Anecdote of a Drunkard. A certain man in the State of South Carolina, who was in the habit of drink ing very bard, and very long, had become so besotted, that he was thought 'by all who knew him to be irrecoverably lost. He became at last a very beast in human shape, and slept frequently in a ditch, or some filthy place. His friends would talk to him; but all to no purpose. At length they resolved to try an experiment. Very soon an opportunity offered for carrying it into execution. The old fellow was found “dead drunk." —His friends stripped him of his clothing, procured a glue kettle and brush, gave him a good coat of glue, and then applied cow-hair very plentifully— they fixed claw's on his hands, and a cow’s tail in his rear, and left him alone. When he awoke he felt very queer—there was tightness of the skin and some constraint in his movements. He looked at his i|»wrHfiin m. mllljuf. w.u,, ;arms, and became alarmed.; His triendsji now approached, and carried him to a 1 i large looking-glass : his alarm increased, ! and he exclaimed, “0! I am like old ' Nebuchadnezzar, who took up his abode • among tiie beasts of the field and the fowls - of the air,” The experiment was emi- * nently successful—he sigued the Wash ingtonian Pledge, and continues to adhere ' to It. J. (K?” The following lines we have re ceived from a friend at the Arsenal, and we take pleasure in adding them to our columns. They will doubtless recal to jsome of our readers, who were actors in| the scenes referred to, the terrible havoc lof an invisible enemy against which no military discipline, no courage, no skill could avail; an enemy against, which none but the Lord of life could afford protection. We trust, too, that these .stanzas may recal many a vow made un jdcr such solemn circumstances, —andthatj not a mere poetic fantasy, but a serious: reality. Editor. Lines written in Florida. I. ! Though I through foreign lands should roam, And breathe the tainted air, A burning climate far from home, Vet thou my G< d, art there! 11. W hen dire disease to heaven upreared, , Defied the surgeon’s art; ! When terror in each face appeared, ; Aml sorrow in each heart; 111. To thee I raised my humble prayer, To snatch me from the grave; l found thine ear not slow to hear, Nor short thine arm to save. IV. Thou gavest the word, disease did cease, It prompt obeyed thy will; The raging blood was bushed in peace, And every nerve was still. V. , For this my life in every state, A life of praise shall be, And death, when death shall be my fate, Shall join my soul to thcc ! Fort King, E. Fla. r. w.e. She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, Is a much greater character than ladies de scribed in romances, whose whole occupa i tion is to murder mankind with shafts from the quiver of their eyes. DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. Bread Sauce. —Take four ounces of grated stale bread ; pour over it sufficient milk to cover it, and let it soak about three quarters of an hour, or till it be comes incorporated with the milk. Then add a dozen corns of black pepper, a little salt, and a piece of butter the size of a walnut. Pouf on a little more milk, and give it a boil. Serve it up in a sauce boat, and eat it with roast wild fowl, or roast pig. Instead of the pepper, you may boil in it a handful of dried currants, well picked, washed and floured. Oxiox Sauce.— Take a handful oi sweet herbs and the same quantity of shalots or little onions, and cut them up small. Put them into a sauce-pan, with some vinegar, salt, pepper, and sufficient i broth or warm water to cover them. Let them boil gently for a quarter of an hour. Take the sauce from the fire, set it on the hearth, and stir in, till it melts, a piece of butter rolled in flour, or a spoon ful oi olive oil. Curry Sauce. —Put into a sauce-pan two ounces of butter and a table-spoonful of curry-powder (or of powdered tumer ic if more convenient,) half a grated nut meg, half a spoonful bf safTron, and two spoonsful of flour. Add sufficient boil ing water or broth to cover it, and let it stew a quarter of an hour. Strain it, stir it in a little more butter, and serve it up. To raise tiie nap on cloth. —When woollens are worn thread-bare, as is gen erally the case in the elbows, cuffs, sleeves &c. of men’s coats, the coat, &c. must bo soaked in cold water for half an hour, then taken out of the water and put on a board, and the thread-bare parts of the cloth rubbed with a half-worn hatters’ card, filled with flocks, or with a prickley thistle, until a sufficient nap is raised.— When this is done, hang your coat, <kc. up to dry, and with a hard brush lay the nap the right way. This is the method which is pursued by the dealers in old j clothes. For sulphuring wool, silks, straw! bonnets, &c.—Put in a chaffing dish,; some lighted charcoal; put this chaffing dish into a small close room, without a! chimney, or into a closet or large box;, $ Then pound an ounce or two of brimstdne; and strew it on the hot coals. Hang up the articles yon would have bleached, make your door fast, and let them hang three hours, or all night, if you have time. This is what is called dry bleaching woollens; all fine coloured woollens should be sulphured in this way previous ly to their being dyed. Straw bonnets are likewise bleached in the same manner. augus t a PRICES • s CURRENT, £ s: s* i CAXErVt.LT CoRRECTKO WeIKLT. jj. ! Bagging, TTenip Tow Gunny.... ..... 'Bale Rope Bacon, Hog round Hams Shoulders Sides Beef, Smoked Butter, Goshen North Carolina... Country Coffee, Green prime Cuba. Ordinary to good.. St. Domingo Rio l.aguira I Porto Rico Java Mocha Candles, Sperm Tallow, Georgia, do. Northern. Cheese, American English Crackers, Augusta made.. Northern Cigars, Spanish American !Corn !Fodder ; Fish, Herrings Mackerel, No. 1 do. No. 2.... do. No. 3 .... ■ Flour, Canal Baltimore Western Country j Feathers Gingf.s Guntower, Dupont’s fff. . B asting Glass, 10 * 12 B*lo Iron, Russia Swedes, assorted Hoop Sheet Nail Rods Lead, Bar Sheet Leather, Solo Upper Calf Skins Lard Molasses, N. Orleans Havana English Island.. Nails Oils, Lamp Linseed Tanners Oats Peas Paints, Red Lead White Lead...... Spanish Brown... Yellow Ochre Tepper, Black Raisins, Malaga Muscatel Bloom Rice, Prime Inferior to good Sugars, New Orleans Havana white.... do. brown.... Muscovado St. Croix Porto Rico Lump Loaf Double refined Spice Soap, American, No. I do. No. 2.... Salt, Liverpool ground... do. do Steel, German Blistered j Shot, all sizes j Tobacco, N. Carolina Virginia Twine Tea, Bohra Souchong Hyson Gunpowder List of Payments to the Washingtonian. 0(?* The following persons have paid their subscrip, tion to the Washingtonian, up to June 10th,1544. August* —J F Carsewel), J B Ramey, C J Jenkins. Br.LAi* —Wm Doyle. Cassville— Warren Aiken. 8a- Thos Clarke, Thos Thompson. Sylvan Gxoye JasWM Jenkins. Louisville— Win H Baltlie. Ham burg, (S. C.)—Howard & Oarn.any. Barnwell C.H. (S.C.)—J Syd Brown. Charleston, (S. C.)—Master Edwin Q. Bell. Taxewell (Tenn.) —Ilu. Graham. The Augusta Washington Total Abstinence Society will hold a meeting on Thursday night,24th, inst., at a quarter beiore 8 o clock in the Presbyterian Lecture Room. The subject of a Temperance Convention at Mil-1 ledgeville in November will be discussed, and a full attendance ofthe members and others is ear ! ticularly desirable. Several addresses may be' expected. | The committees appointed to procure subscrip-; tions to the Washingtonian are also requested to be in readiness to report at the above meeting The committees consist of the following Gen tlemen : -- ” Ist. Ward—J. W. Meredith and J. L. Minis. 1 2d Ward—Jas. T. Hook and L. D. Lallerstedt J 3d Ward--Kokins Huff and G. A. Ingraham.; 4th Ward—Porter Fleming and Edward W.i Collier. Vv'M. HAINES, Jr. Secretary. I Augusta, August 19th t 843. ' j, of the Superior Courts of Georgia—published in compliance with the Act of December 10, 1841—containing De cisions rendered daring the year 1842. A few copies left for sale at this office. [May 20 ROOK Bindery and Blank Book Man ufactory, opposite the Post Office, and ad joining the office of the Augusta Washingtonian, i June 10 ly | T. S. STOY, | exchange j , - 1 Mechanics’ Bank .L ... Tf!s... par. Brunswick Bank ....' j.,,% « Bank ofAßgusta Jp «< Augusta Insurance & Banking Co A. .. * f Branch Georgia Rail Road ! “ 1 Branch State ofGeorgia “ Savann.ui Nores. State Bank Marine and Fire Insurance Bank.... ? “ Planters’ Bank “ ; Central Rail Road Bank , . 12 dis. CoUN’ip.y Notks. State Bank Branch, Mac0n..,. .... ~ par i Other Branches State Bank “ i Commercial Bank. Macon ~ “ Milledgeville Bank 11 1 ( -*. eor Si a Bail Road Bank, Athens City Council of Augusta “ Ruckersville Bank , •* Branch Marine & Fire Insurance Bank “ St. Mary’s Bank “ Branch Central R. R. Bank, Macon... 12 dis. Central Bank 8 a 10 “ Exchange Bank of Brunswick No sale. Insurance Bank of Columbus, Macon.. “ *• Phmnix Bank, Columbus “ " Bank of Hawkinsville f> dis. City Council of Milledgeville Uncertain. City Council of Columbus . *• City Council of Macon « Monroe Rail Road Bank Broke Bank of Darien and Branches , .... Chattahoochie R. R. and Banking Co.. “ Western Bank of Georgia “ Bank of Columbus “ Planters & Mechanics Bank Columbus “ Bank of Ocmulgee “ Georgia G pr. ct. Bonds for specie 73 pr. Georgia 8 pr.ct. Bonds, 92 cts. South Carolina Notes, Charleston Banks par. Bank of Hambutg “ Country Banks « Alabama Notes 17 a 20 dis. Checks. New York Sight i prem. Boston j ii Philadelphia j <* Baltimore j >« Lexington j « Richmond, Va par. Savannah p Charleston 3.“ o © sT© aa s? a o s?®» OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT THE ©Slice oMJte CffilasDfngtonfaix; SUCH AS Businf.ss Cards, Steamboat Receipts, Ball Tickets, Rail Road Receipts* Invitation Tickets, Hand Bills, Circulars, Horse Bills, Checks, Notes, Stage Bills, % Bill Heads, Show Bilis, Catalogues, Labels, Bills of Lading, Pamphlets, &c. &c. Law Blanks, Os the latest and most approved forms, always on hand or printed to order at short notice, o IT the most reasonable terms. v . Printing done in Gold and Silver Bran ~c, or in various colored Inks , if required. {K?-The office is fitted up with a splendid assortment of Materials for the above work, and the proprietor pledges himself to use every exertion to please his cus tomers, both in price and correctness of execution. AW NOTICE.—The undersigned ha* ving associated themselves in the practice of Law. under the firm of SNEAD & MIL LED GE, will devote their unremitting atten tion to the duties of their profession, and solicit for the firm the business of their individual friends. They will practice in all the counties of the Middle, and Lincoln and Warren Counties of the Northern Circuit; also, the Court of Com mon Pleas of this City. One of them may at all times during business* hours, be found at their office in the Law Range over the Post office. JOHN C. SNEAD ’ JOHN MILLEDGE- Augusta, Ga. August Bth, 1843. Aug 12 10 ts S. T. CHAPMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office third door above the Augusta Bank. July 22 7 ts f)R7jOHN MILLEN, Office N 07147, North side Broad-street, below Eagle and Phoenix Hotel, Augusta. [June 10 ly HaVILAND, mSLEY A CO. Near the Mansion House, Globe, and V Slates Hotels, Augusta, Ga. DIALCRS IN Choice I)rus;s and Medicines^ Chemicals* Patent Medicines, «Bursical& Dental Instruments Perfumery, Brushes, Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs, Window Glass, &c. &ie June 17 2 ly KKMUDY for worms!' . t he Compound Syrup ofPinfc 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 Wonus from the system. For tale, in. , quantities to suit purchasers, i! July I 4tf j WM. HAINES, Jr. a JOHN B. MURPHY, has removed to the Store. 3d door below the Post Office corner, No. 214, Broad-street, sign of the Large Golden Spectacles, Clocks, VVatchcs and Jcw- ;dry, carefully repaired and warranted. tT A continuance of former patronage will }be thankfully received. Augusta, June 10th, 1843 1 ly j t BRASS & IRON FOUNDRY. subscriber has now on band a large stock of the raw materials, of the best quality, tor Mill and Gin Gear, also, first rate patterns of every description of Machinery? at his Foundry, ir* the rear of the Presbyterian Church, on the Road from Augusta to Savaitnah --where he is prepared to do all kinds of business ,n 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 the merchants of Augusta, will br promptly attended to. Jnlvl 16m l P. H. 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