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it also are po'> scmccl of' «on*iderab!c poetical merits having the true spirit, being coached in the appropriate language of the ballad style. i [From the Jtt*. Have* Fountain.] -■ : ‘-j:■;; Socg of the Dmakard’s Child. A m—“ Btnecr 0/ Prayer." Oh pity me lady. I’m hungry and cold,— Should I all my sorrows to you now unfold, I’m sure your kind heart with compission would flame, My father’* a drunkard-but I’oi not to blame. Aly mother's consumptive, ami soon will depart— her sorrows and trials have broken her heart ~ My poor little sisters are starving! Oh shame! Our father’s a drunkard—but we re not to blame. Time wm we were happy, wj*!jlillftf%ijd peace, And every day witnessed par Oh, then with what rapture we lisped forth his name, — But now he’s a drunkard—yet we're not to blame Time was when each morning around the fire side, Our sire in the midst like a saint would preside, And kneel, and for blessings would call on God’s same; , 4.^* - ,<4 n#r*U. But now he's a drunkard—can we be to blame 1 Our father then loved us, and all was delight ' Until he partook of this withering blight, And sunk his poor family in misery and shame— Oh yes, he's a drunkard—but we’re not to blame. Vet we must bo censured and shunn’d by man kind, Trod down with contempt and to sorrow con. signed; Our friends all forsake us and leave us, Oh shame! I own he’s a drunkard—but we’re not to blame. My poor dying mother, must she feel the scorn,— Must she be forsaken to perish forlorn! Oh grief, when I call on that much-revercd name, I must ask the proud world—can that saint be to blame 1 My sisters, poor orphans, Oh what have they done, Why should you neglect them, or why will you shunl Let not foul disgrace be attached to their name,— j Their father’s a drunkard—but they’re not to blame. A .Child’s Prayer. Father! now the day is past, On thy child thy blessing cast, Near my pillow, hand in hand, Keep thy guardian angel band : And throughout the darkling night Bless me with a cheerful light. Let me rise at morn again Free from every thought of pain; Pressing through life’s thorny way, . Keep me, Father, day by day! in- ' : TEMPER jfta<QE. ~ ' The Irish Wife. A lean, pale, haggard-looking man, so • striking a contrast to the Kerry tanner, • as to be absolutely startling, advanced to the table at which sat the patient and .good tempered secretary of the society, • and asked if his reverence would be in shortly ? A pretty delicate looking young woman, very scantily clad, but perfectly clean, was looking over his shoulder as he , iasked the question. “I think I have seen you before my ! good man,” said the secretary, “and it’s ■ not many weeks ago.” “It was more his brother than he—it ( was indeed,” answered the haggard man’s wife, courtosying, and advancing a little bofore her husband.—He interrupted her. “ Don’t try to screen mo Nelly, I don’t deserve it from you! Sec tho way l beat her last night, gentlemen, on both arms, like a brute that I was.” “It was’ntyou dear,” said the young woman, drawing her thin shawl more closely around her bruised arms; “It was the strength of tho spirits did it, and not himself—he’s as quiet a man as there’s in tho city of Dork when he’s sober; and as fino a working-man; and he would’nt hurt a hair of my head barrin’ ho was in liquor.” The poor creature’s affectionate appeal i on behalf of her erring husband, was in terrupted by the secretary again demand ing if he had not taken the pledge before ? ‘ I did it, sir—stand back, Nelly don’t try t a screen mo. I camo here and took it from. Father Macleed—and God forgive nu, I broke it too. I broke it last night, or rather all day yesterday, and,’ ‘never heed any more about it, James, dear,’ said the wife eagorly, ‘ never heed telling any more about it. A man may be over taken once, and yet make a fine Christian at all. You would’nt bo sending him from tho priest’s knee because he broke it once. When, as I said before, it wa3 his brother was in it, and not he, only for company.” “ I had no heart to come this morning, only for her,” said tho husband, “she re membered his revcronco, preaching about there being more joy in heaven over cnc like inc, than ninety and nine goed men. Oh! if she would let me tell tho wicked ness of my past lifo, and the sin and shame! that have followed me.” “It was the, drink, '-Tames, it Was wJ .1 drink,'’ reiterated the wife earnestly.' ‘•Do net be distressing yourself for it was nothing but the drink, —Sure, when sober, ! there is’nt a more loving husband, or ten derer father on Ireland’s grounds—and ,now you’ll be true to the pledge and its jhappy we’ll tie, and prosperous—for the j master told me this blessed morning, that jif he could depend on you for soberness, you’d cam twenty five shilling?, a week, and have the credit of a Monday man, and you will, Jamer—you will—for my sake, and for the sake of the children at home.” “Ay,” he interrupted, “and for the -ake of the broken hearted-mother that bore me—and for the sake of little Mary whom I crippled in the drink. O! when the sweet look of that baby is on me—her sweet patient look—l think the gates of heaven can never open to such a sinner! While he made this confession, his arras hung powerless by his side; and his pallid face lengthened into an expression of helpless, hopeless, irreclaimable mis ery. The wife turned and burst into tears. Several evinced the quick sympa thies of Irish natures, for she shuddered and murmured, ‘ The Lord ire betwixt us and harm, and look down upon them both *’ The woman was the first to recover con sciousness ; impelled by a sudden burst of feeling, she threw her bruised arms round her husband’s neck, recalling him to him self by all the tender phrases of Irish af fection. We can never forget, the agonized ear newness wilh which the unhappy man took the pledge, the beautiful picture of his gentle and endearing wife, as she stood beside him ; or the solemn response that followed from a score of voices, ‘ 0 then, God strengthen thee to keep it!’— Ireland by Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall. , Moderate Drinking. When a man becomes a notorious! drunkard lie is to be pitied. The sight ot , a man drunk is a deplorable one; but j when wo see a man turning a glass of | brandy down his throat in what is called ' genteel style, and in genteel company, j the sight is ridiculous in the extreme, for J tho very rensbn, that a man cannot for , the life of him, give any reason for this f folly. Often times when we say a word i about moderate drinking, we are told that , the business of Washingtonians is to pick r up drunkards; be it so—how often is it , that moderate drinkers in the day time t become genteel drunkards at night.— , Many is tho man, and wo regret to say < it, that passes off as a moderato drinker by day, and is led home drunk under nightfall. There is no excuse for mod erate drinking. If a man has not the * , o appetite, why in the name of all that is 1 good does he commence to drink modcr- 1 ately, to create a thirst for the infernal E poison, that is sure to throw its victim, if 1 it once gets the better of him? One or I two things is true of moderate drinkers— 1 that they either drink to create a love ' for tho liquor that they may now and then get fuddled, —and just in proportion 1 as a man is fuddled, he is drunk. We 3 care not which horn of the dil6mmn the moderate drinker fakes. If he drinks his c little because he already loves it and the ' stimulating effects it produces, he is a drunkard—he may not be a staggering gutter drunkard, but he is a genteel moderate-drinking-drunkard. And if he >■ is the latter, he is a subject for the Wash- ; ingtonians to work on. Moderate drink- c er, cur advice to you is—“ Touch not, e tasto not, handle not.” Father Mit hew. 1 Tho Editor of the Albany Evening ' Journal, in one of his letters from Ireland, 5 says:—“ The portraits we have drawn of this excellent man are so faithful, that * had I met him accidentally in the street, * I should have recognized and spoken to £ him as * Father Mathew.’ I say that I c should have spoken to him, because there c is so much of gentleness and benevo- 1 lence—so much to admire and love—in: c his face and form, that you could not - pass him. I have never seen so many 1 | of the bright and beautiful virtues as 3 ; bloom and blend in this good man’s heart, ‘ displayed and revealed in the ‘human ' face divine.’ ” : The following is an extract from a t speech delivered by Father Mathew, at a temperance meeting in Cork, Ireland: “Ifout of our bridewells, lunatic asy- • lums, prisons—if from tho gibbet or the , grave—nay, even from hell itself, the , voices of the victims of drunkenness could , be heard, what an appalling and fearful , picture would they exhibit ? They would 1 trace again, as did the mysterious hand upon the walls of Belshazzar the king, the , dreadful doom of the drunkard, and cause ! our hearts to die within us, and our spirits ' to fault away. It is therefore, for this rea son, that I call upon ail to assist us in this great and glorious work. If all co-oper ated with us in our cause, wc should pro mote the happiness of thousands who arc now perishing through neglect and jadif jforence. I call then upon all who lovej jthoir species, io assist us in the completion 1 <of thi? wlo-nfms work, IfH ♦m'yyort are *wm%um iiw uxm min —wnii pii',: aw mmtzrt Jnot commanded by any precept, human or to abstain—but if the great uni j versa! springs of human action, hopo*and .dear, have not entirely lost their influence, liyou will obey the call, and assist us in re newing on earth the glorious era ofChris >jtian charity and love, making it a habita tjtion in which each man might sit down in , Peace, with Temperance, like a golden . chain, binding all together in the bonds of j social harmony, Christian charity, and | brotherly love.” ! ! Africa. At a public meeting in London, James ; i Backhouse, Esq., stated that he had signed l the declaration of total abstinence among the Hottentots; and he had found, that if 1 he and his companions had not adopted ’ this practice, all they could have said in f]fh vor of other Christian principles would ■ j have been useless. “As drunken as a i Hotteijtot,” was a common saying: yet, after two years, the children had so little 1 i idea of drunkennes, that when they saw ■ a drunken Englishman, they at first 1 thought him mad, then sick, and at last • concluded he was blind, and olfbred to I lead him ! Alter the drunkenness of the people was cured, it was astonishing to observe the spread of the Gospel; it sccin ;ed like a new outpouring of the Spirit. After many interesting facts, Mr. Back house continued, “ I travelled over hot sand, so hot that the very dogs howled with pain on treading upon it; the ther mometer often at 11G degrees, and the water so bad that we had to conceal the, . taste with coffee: and I believe no journey! of the same length was ever made with so! little risk or danger. I have pleasure in bearing this public testimony, that there is no single net of my life to which I look with greater satisfaction, than to the adop tion of the practice of total abstinence.” ' The Hon. T. V. -Marshall. This distinguished statesman, con-j gressman, and temperance lecturer, has; been lecturing on a tee-tolal temperance; pilgrimage through the State of Kentucky with great eclat. Wherever be has ap-l peared it is said that all ranks and class-! es have united to testify their high admi ration and gratitude for his praiseworthy achievements in that golden field of la bor, the temperance reformation. Every; where generous hospitalities and hearty greeting awaits him on the roadside, whilst the town he approached, sent out their deputations of reception and con gratulation, without distinction of party or condition. Great Meu. It is humiliating, it is heart-sickening, to see great men amid triumphs of temper ance in which they are actually compelled to take a part, still calling for brandy; and, over their bottles of champagne, playing tho part ofhigh bloods and topers. It so causes us to lose that respect for them which we desire to feel, that we would gladly turn our eyes from the sight. Yet we are thankful that the prospect is, | that, ere long, all will be shamed out of such low practices. It is delightful to have that respect for a ruler, especially one exalted to the highest places, which we all feel for the memory of Washington. [Amcr. Temp. Union. Toes and Tcetotalism. Take care of your Toc3, Gentlemen Topers! The only cure for the Toe-a*he is Teetotalism. Hear how corroborative 1 of this is the following, from one of our exchanges.—S. C. Temp. Advocate. “Wins, Cider, and the Goer.—lt is now clearly established that the acid of wine and cider is the only cause of the gout. That this disease is not produced by good eating is evident from the fact i that those who cat tho most meat and Jive ! highest, if water drinkers, never have the J gout, unless they inherited it from wine \ drinking fathers. That want of exercise, i or a sedentary habit, does not produce gout, is proved by the sedentary water drinkers who are never afflicted with it. And many gentlemen of the gouty consti tutions have subdued the disease by ab staining from wine and cider, though they have indulged in luxurious eating: and to their comparative temperance in wine and cider drinking is to be attributed the i almoftt total exemption of females from ! this disease.” Turkeys vs. Tiplers. There is a veteran turkey in Fairfield, Vt., that has been shot at in various shooting matches, 224 times, and has ne ver been killed. He has yielded his owner nearly fourteen -dollars, at four pence a shot. — [Logan’s paper. ! There is a veteran tippler in this State, ! who has been half shot more than a thou sand times ; he is not dead yet. He has yielded the grocery keepers, fine farm, six likely negroes, and a merchant mill, at jfour pence a drink— [Mills Point (Ky.) \ Herald. 0 The Banner State. —The Cold Wa lter Army of Massachusetts, numbers | about 200,000 —or nearly one-third of !her entire population! We claim the ’banner. Brother Washingtonians of the ■lvftioTi, what rav you foil ? r “When a fellow is too lazy to work,” - says Sam Siick. “he paints his name Rover the door and calls it a tavern, and . makes the whole neighborhood as lazy as -| himself,” The Washingtonian Armyof Michigan | numbers over twenty-four tbousond good j men and trite. 1; Why is a drunkard like a hull? Be s cause he takes his horns wherever he | goes. , j A ©VSiSJOS'Ep EMTSj f! CHARLES E. GRENVILLE & CO. f f? OOKSELLERS and Stationers, 241 i Broad-stccet, offers for snip, at wholesale I and retail, a large assortment of School,Classical, i. Medical, Law and Miscellaneous Books; togeth -1 er with Blank Books, Paper, Paper Hangings, • Quills, Metallic Pens, Fine Cutlery, and »! Stationery of every description, ?;Music, Musical Instruments, and every article - ! usually called for in a Bookstore, j anil Medical Libraries furnished on the bmost liberal terms. t! Schools, Academies, and Literary' Institutions > [supplied at the lowest prices ,j June 10 l ts CitMZJiP BOuMfLS. ■I ERIODICALS,. Temperance & Lit erary Newspapers.—A great revolution is . ijoiflgon in the progress of cheap Literature, cre , ating adeep anxiety and thirst after knowledge ; band to accord with the movements of the day", ] ’ inform the reader, what Major Junes says—that ■U am the “greatest hook man in the country;” ,’jand upon the representation of the Major, this is I no flattery. j The New- Work!, Brother Jonathan, and the j Harpers’publications, constantly for sale, at pri i ccs from 12J to 25cts.—A numerous collection of I Pamphlets, Papers, Periodicals, &c.j"st received —also. Alison’s History of Europe, Family Li brary. Brand’s Encyclopedia, Graham’s vlnga zine, Ladies’ Book, Artists and Ladies World, Miss Leslie’s -Magazine, Musical Library^Ac. ! IS* All orders will meet with prompt attention tis accompanied with 50 cents, SI or more. S. A. HOLES Literary Depot, under U. S. Hotel. N. B. Friends of cheap Literatuie and Tern ipcrance, are invited to call— small favors thank fully received and large ones in proportion. June 10 J ts tWM. HAINES, Jr. (Succcs. sor to Garvin & Haines.) Wholesale; and P.Ptail Dealer in Drugs, Medi cines, Paints, Oils, Glass, Dye-Stuffs.! rertumery, Surgical Instruments, Sic. &c —Has ! ; now on hand a select assortment of the above ar-j i tides, for sale at low prices and on moderate terms. All orders executed with neatness and despatch. WM. HAINES. Jr. No. 232 Broad-street, Augusta. June 18 1 ts WSv LIVERY AND SALE STABLES. The undersigned; respectfully informs his friends and) *j. - jL * the public, that he has taken the Stable* on fc-llis street, formerly known as Gued-j ron’s Lower Stables, and more recently kept hv Mr. N. Ballingal. which aro now undergoing thorough repair. These Stables arc large, airy and commodious,wilt) splendid Dry lot* attached. Every attention will be paid to the Drovers, and; charges moderate, according to the times. I will also keep on hand Vehicles of every de scription and fine Horses, to hire, on reasonable terms. CHARLES McCOY. Augusta, August 12 10 4ui Georgia Agricultural Repository, Iron and Brass Foundry. THIE subscribers (successors to Rob-I ■*" ext Phii.ip & Son,) having completely re fitted and added additional Machinery to their Shops, are prepared to execute any orders they may be favored with, for Agricultural Imple ments or Castings, in either Brass or Iron, with neatness and despatch, and at as low, if not low er prices, than any similar establishment in this, place. Having a good stock of materials on hand, and competent workmen, they feci confi dent that they will give satisfaction to all who may entrust them with their work. ALEXANDER PHILIP & CO. June 10 a 1 8t IWK Oftft brick for sale— The subscriber has on hand; 150,000 Common Brick, 25,000 Well 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 »r sale low, at; the yard, or can he deliverer! at any place in the' city or on the Sand Hill. His residence is near the yard. Orders left at the post office will be immediately attended to. July! 4 3m] S. L. BASSFORD. TIN MANUFACTORY/ rp INNER’S Work of every description made to order, at short notice, such as j BATHING TUBS, FACTORY CANS, CY LENDERS, OIL STANDS, (from 1 up to 100 gallons.) PATENT COFFEE POTS, of ail sizes, to suit hotels or private families, PATENT BOILERS, for washing or hcat ! ing water for Baths. ; O* All the above mentioned articlfs made of Double tin. A regular assortment of TIN WARE kept constantly- on hand, to suit merchants-or pedlers All kinds of ROOFING and GUTTER.' made and repaired, low for cash. The above business superintended by E E. SCOFIELD, Jackson-street, between the Globe Ho tel and Rail Road Depot. Augusta, June 17 2 ly WM. CHURCHILL & CO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in EARTHENWARE, GLASS AND CHINA 209 Broad-street, Augusta. June 10 1 ts FOR SALE, —a Bargain ! MA Two Story HOUSE and LOT, on Reynold street, near Lincoln-street, in the lower part of the city, adjoining va cant lot belonging to Mrs. Gardner It will be 1 sold low for cash. For further particulars apply .it' this office. June 21- 3 ts * ”j PROSPECTUS OP THE I ;! ALGLSTi WISHIITOIM, f VOL. 11. DEVOTED TO TEHPEKAHCE, AOBICULTt'Kr. ■) j ASB MISCEALASY I j! PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY ! At Augusta, Oforgia, By JAMES McCAVFERTY: I In commeneeing thcacrsmt! volume of this pa . "". per, the publisher ha* the gratification to presort a ehect to the public, which be trust* will met- I , with their approbation--and he ask* from thou j friendly to its prosperity, their aid in extendii j its rirculatioo. Competent gentlemen having kindly actedu W to the call made upon them by the Board i • m ;Managers of the Augusta Reciety, to condu. • I * the Editorial departaient, the pnblisiser flatter-1 rj himself that be will be able to place the paper o>. $ ?,a permanent basis, and to give it a ruucti mo:i i -, elevated character. i! Thus far, the march pfonr cause is onward and in a lew years, it may reasonably be expectec j that if the energy which has characterised th e> members of the Washington Retl rm, for th f ! past three years, continue, an entire reformatio; > e: must take place, and that the greatest curse t.. & our country, will only be mentioned as amen. & s the evils that were. m I The subject of Temperance will be the prom ■ nent object of the “ Washingtonian , yet tber- j| wiH be room for the stirring events of the day §1 and fur other items ofiutetest tot lie general rcai r . er—as Agriculture, Science, a Prices Current i • T s ithc Market, Exchange 't able, Ac. In short, tl ■■ m publisher will endeavor to make this paper wh;- §| it should be—ah able advocate of Temperartci | j and a useful Family Paper, strictly moral in it?- jsS , | bearing. ■>' The H Wxsinxotokmx” will be published EVERY Saturday, (on a Sheet £0 x 26 inches. £ at the unprecedental low price of One Doll ? 5 e per annum, always in adxuvce- -thus placing ?: within the means of all who desiie an rxccilent p Family Paper, at a very cheap rate, to obtain it j | The uublisher looks confidently to all the friend oft emperance;and Morality, to aid him in earn .i mg suceesstully, this enterprise into effect—ai,? with their aid, it can he done. 1 O' CLUBBING.—To persons who will do: , together, and forwanl to the publisher, ( ret? i postage) Five Dollars, in current luikls, will l>, j I entitled to st.r copies, and so in proportion. Fur ‘a package oftwenty-six paiiers, to one addles* ! T wehty Dollars. O’All Post Masters are respectfully requet?: ed to act as agents. 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