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From the PenfieM Temperance Banner. At the Temperance Convention lately! held at Pcnficld, the Ilev, J. H. Camp bell offered a resolution in support of tern* pcrance papers, which was accompanied by a few very appropriate remarks. He deemed it unnecessary, before so enlight ened an audience, to dwell upon the pow er and influence of the press—suffice it to sav that whew once its power was brought *«w ' 1 o to bear upon the minds of the people, it would exert an almost irresistible influ ence either for good or evil. In the days of the Huguenots when Infidels spilled the blood of Martyrs, the use of the press first suggested the idea to the church to publish tracts in order to stay the destruc tive tide of infidelity. He said that po litical papers could he sustained, and that too without much difficulty. But tern pcrance papers could not, because the people were not sufficient interested in their support. Ho would therefore urge upon the members of the Convention (lie necessity of writing for temperance pa pers; and hoped they would endeavor to 1 make them interesting to tfle people. He stated that there were something like 24 political papers in the State and be lieved they were generally well sustained. But™pps are only two little temperance publications, and they were languishing lor fne want of patronage. They need subscriliers and the money too; for sub scribers without money could never sus tain any paper. He rejoiced at one thing greatly—and that was that political editors were not ashamed to publish tem perance articles in their papers. Only a few years ago they were unwilling to ad j mit temperance articles into their col umns for fear of losing patronage. But now they arc willing and even anxious to publish. This, he said, argued well for the cause, and he hoped the time was ap proaching when temperance publications would supplant others of far less inipor tance which are now flooding the land. A Looker ox. An Argument for Tavern-keepers. We profess to publish an independent paper—to advocate the cause of the weak, and resist the oppression of the strong. Now, heretofore, we have been on the side of the Temperance men, because they “ fought a good tight” when they had a : powerful army opposed to them, but now they have waxed strong, and have almost annihilated their opponents, they are ex ulting over the weakness of their pros trato foes. It has been shrewdly remark ed, that his Satanic Majesty is a most ex cellent friend to the Ministers of Religion, tor so soon as his influence is overcome, ; and his powers annihilated, the field would . lie closed against their labors, and the I millenium would ho at hand. So with i the nim-sellers and temperance men— annihilate the former, and the latter would • immediately disband their forces. Hence * ouf sympathies in favor of the ruin-seller,; and hence our desire to furnish him with a strong and impregnable argument in 1 favor of his glorious traffic. Here it is, i and let doubters no longer dispute the t legality, honesty, and morality'of his cal- I ling. Let our new allies of the grog-shop I and tavern rejoice that they have one i ■press devoted to their interest, and award < us a “ jorum of punch,” for this our first overpowering argument in their favor! < We stand on firm constitutional ground,! and wo defy all the powers of the Tern- I pcrance Advocate to dislodge us from our I position. Tremble ye Temperance mer, < as if the mania a portu was already riot-; ing through your Veins! Rejoice and he i strong ye rum-sellers, while you read the following ad captandem argument in your I favor: I “ Mr. Picrpont, says the Boston Post, l delivered a temperance lecture at Cabot- 1 ville, the other evening, and said, as lie had been accused of bearing down rather i heavily on the venders of intoxicating drinks, he proposed on that occasion to vol unteer his services to the injured iudividu- : als aforesaid, as counsel and advocate. He then went on, (as the Chronicle in forms us) to state the various pleas which men tnake to excuse their continuance in the traffic; and answered them seriatim. The last plea which he put and answered was the license. Yes, said the speaker, | you have a license, and that is your plea. Well, mv friend, it* that is your pleu, I would adjure you to keep it—guard it as the apple of thine eye—and when you die, and are laid in the coffin, be sure that the precious document is placed within your cold and clammy fingers, so that, when you are called to confront the souls of your victims before your God, you may be ready to file in your plea of justification, and boldly to laydown your license on the bar of the Judge. Yes, my friend, keep it—you will then want your’lieense, signed by the commissioners of Hampden, and endorsed.by the selectmen ofSpringfield.” Thus,'our grog-shop friends will per ceive, the Rev. Mr. Pierpoxt manfully sustains the licexsk plea; so success to rum-sellers and the License system! Who would’nt be a drunkard? —Cheratc Ga~. Extracts Irani the ** Drunkard’s Looking Glass. BY M. L. WEEMS. 1812. “For God’s sake, don’t go in, the creek’s past fording”—were the words of a Jfrienato John Walker, Esq.,ofS. CL, as, .half shaved, he dashed down on horse - | back to Rocky Creek, in a fresh. He >• swore by his Maker he had never yet . asked any odds of Rocky Creek, and that .| he’d be ifhe’ddo it now; and there. j iipon pitched in and perished, i! “ Rptwixt the saddle and the groiimi, I Mercv l sought, and mercy found,” _ j was the favorite song of poor Andrew Lipscomb, Halifax Co., Va.; but return i ing, half shaved, from a regimental mus- Jter, he gave his horse the lash, and stav ing through the woods like a huntsman Jrun mad, was dashed with such violence !against a tree that his brains gushed out. j j “Hurra! for my ten years of sinning iand serving the devil—and then for my ; ten years of repenting and serving God.” j Such was the hope wherewith young Torn , Madden, when drunk, used to comfort ’ himself! But alas! he never saw his re pent ing years. For coming home one >j night, quite blue, from a grog shop, he I got his neck snapped short by a fall into [ | his own saw pit. “You are an impertinent puppy, sir, and if you’ll only get down, I’ll give you a [ whipping, sir”—These were the ' very words of Patterson to Briene, both j blue, at the door of a grogshop, in Mil ledgeviilc. Briene, who was on horse back with a gun in his hand, did not get down, but struck Patterson with his gun, and, turning his horse, set off. Patterson threw a brick-bat, which struck him an ill knock on the back of his head, and then ;he lurgied and fled. Briene wheeled his I horse and took aim. The people who were present called out, “don’t shoot! don’t shoot! tor God’s sake don’t shoot.” But being too drunk to reflect, he pulled away and lodged the contents of his gun in Patterson’s hack. What made it more melancholy, poor Patterson had come to town that very morning to get his wed ding clothes. “ Boh! who the pltigue’s afraid to die ?” said an old sot by the name of Ransome Buckingham, “I wants, when I go, to go like a flash.” Ho got what he wanted; for coming home quite groggy from a tippling trap, he took what the jockies call a ground start, and went head foremost down into his own well, sixty feet deep. I “ Last night a littlo boozy, On whiskey, ale and cider, — Such was poor sailor Tom Halyard’s song, interrupted at times with hiccups, as he staggered along Baltimore street, under a press of grog, and as happy as an admiral. But, unlucky, broaching to, all standing, he capsized, and pitching down, bow-sprit under, into a deep cellar, he jfnctuml his skull, and never rose again. Our Parson, he preaches for tythes, 0! Our Lawyer, he prattles for prog; Our Doctor, he blisters—as you know, But, hang’ein, they all love the grog.” Thus huHupedyoung Bon Glover, the brick-layer, Milledgeville, as with “a drop in his eye,” lie skipped into a carpenter’s shop, and reached his hand to the whis key bottle. But, alas! mistaking for it a | bottle of aquafortis, he knocked down a bumper, and went off, as with a dram of hell-fire in his throat. “ Never fear, Tom, I’ll soon have some of your democratic blood out of you,” said a certain Maryland doctor, as he bound his patient’s arm for bleeding. But being fuddled, lie did what a thousand Fiddled doctors have done before him—he pricked a tendon for his patient, whereby he died in all the agonies of a lock-jaw. “ Who the will pay a dollar for a ferry boat, w hen he can go over ibr no thing on such a fine bridge of ice, like this.” Thus brawled out a drunken wa goner, as he drove down to Hammond’s ferry, Patapsco, in time of frost. On reaching the channel, 15 feet deep, down he went through the bursting ice, and was lost, both he and all his horses, with a load of fine teas and muslins. “ A candlestick, indeed! Who wants a candlestick when there’s a barrel at hand with such a nice little bung-hole in it as this?” and therewith stuck his can dle into the bung yf a half barrel of gun jpowder, which, by a strange fatality, hap pened to lie by him. Such were the words and deeds of a young midshipman, who, with a do’zen other young midship men and surgeon’s mates w ere carousing in the cock-pit of one of the U. States frigates lying in the road of Malta, whence they had just procured a hamper of good wine: presently in the midst of their singing and roaring, down popped the candle into the powder, which broke loose upon them with a sisserara, that quickly discovered three of them, and so black ened and burnt and crippled the rest, that several of them never got over it. Among this latter sort was an elegant young medical gentleman—a relative of ray own. “Oh, if all the trees in the world were but one tree, what a great tree that would be!—and if all the axes in the world were but in one axe, what a great axe % wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmammm+mmimi i 11 IB » ,iww—l ; that would be! —and if all the men in the world were but in one inan, what a great man that would be!—And now, if that - great man were to take that great axe, Vand cut down that great tree, O what a !fall that would be!” Thus spouted a -jsilly young sot in Alexandria, profanely ' j mocking a piousold Quaker —his drunken in the mean time all around Mhim, reeling and roaring, excessively tle ■ lighted w ith his wonderful humor. But, ibehold! just as he came to the ending iclause of his sermon—“O what a great 'fall that would be!” one of the sots, by v way of practical pun, overset the table ' on which he stood, and down, head fore ‘ most, on the floor came the ‘ preacher, and fractured his skull so mis -1 orably that he died the next dav. 2 'ffc.: - ■ ■ ■ . Aii Ancient Pledge. ? On the blank leaf of an old English f Bible which has been handed down from parent to child through successive gener -1 ations, and appears at the time to have t been the property of Robert Bolton, - Bachelor of Divinity, and preacher -of God’s word, at Broughton in North 1 amptonsliire, is written the following 5 pledge: “From this daye forward to the ende of j my life, 1 will never pledge anye health, t nor drink a whole carouse in a glass, cupp, J I bowlc, or other drinking instrument what ever, wheresoever it ho, from whomso - ever it come, except the necessary of na-| ■ turedoe require it. Not my own gra-j 1 cions Kinge, nor anye the greatest mon-> » arch or tyrant on earth, not my dearest: 1 friende, nor all thegoulde in the worlde,j I shall ever enforce me or allure me. Not 1 an angel from heaven, (who I know will; 5 not attempt it,) shall persuade me. Not; 1 Satan, with all his old subtleties, not alf ; the powers of hell itselfc, shall ever be- | trayc me. By this very sinne, (for a I sinne it is, and not a little one,) I doe: 1 plainly find that I have more offended and dishonored my great and glorious Maker, and most merciful Savior, than! by all other sinnesl am subject untoe :l and ffor this very sinne it is, that my God has often been strange unto me ; and for that cause and no other respect, I have 1 thus vowed ; and heartily beg my good Father in heaven, of his great goodness and infinite mercy in Jesus Christ, to as sist me in the same, and to be favorable unto me flor what is past. Amen. Robert Bolton. Broughton, April 10, 16.39. Temperance. i The last New Orleans “Crescent City,” , gives a pleasing detail of the temperance , cause in that quarter. It says, “Teiuper i auce is going ahead at a very fine rate in [ this city. Four of our most promising , young lawyers have signed the teetotal ■ pledge, and a pair ofthe most prominent’ knights ofthe quill in this city have come | to the same conclusion. One of them is the handsomest man in town, and ‘time ; w as,’ us father Bacon’s brass head is re j ported to have said, when this political I Apollo could carry more good brandy wi lder his vest than any other we wot of. On Tuesday evening he went to the tem perance meeting, and when he came home, instead of going to the sideboard to that decanter, he set himself down by a ! little mahogany table, took a glass of ice water, and wrotd a long article on the ; virtues of total abstinence. Wc would j | that some “ knights of the quill,” politi jeiansand public men, that we know of; I could only be induced to “go and do like .■wise. A Good Speech. The following speech was recently made by a Washingtonian in Connecticut: “ There is no mistake about it, sir. Rum never did, nor never will, make the man rich that drinks it. The last winter has: been a hard season for us poor folks, gen erally. But I have lived better—happier ■ —laid up more money during the winter, although destitute of work more than half jot the time, than I did last summer, when I had work every day. I have not done half so much labor, and still am twice as well off. And, sir, the reason is this,—j last summer I dranli rum, and last winter ! I drank water. Temperance in Ireland. Father Matthew says: “ Our cause pro gresses ; it gathers strength every day.— We now' number in Ireland more than' five millions of total abstainers, (loud cheering,) not to mention those who have j fallen—men, women and children, whom: j no inducement would cause to bend the; | knee to-Baal. Lately the daughter of a; wealthy farmer was married, and the fa ther of the bride sent two vats of porter ' into the town of Naas, that the inhabitants 1 might partake of the festivities, and though the vats were broached there, not a single ; 1 i individual was found base enough to taste j 'a drop of it. (Much cheering.) | s We learn from the Honululu Temper ance Record, that 0f203 men on board the 5 U. S. ship Boston, only 72 drew tlieirj 1 grog—the others, in lieu thereof receiving! 1 6 cents a day as the value of it. The! : boys were not allowed to draw grog. A ? donation of sls from the officers of the' t Boston was presented to the Seaman’s tj Chaplain, in aid ofthe temperance cause ; , also a Bethel flag by her commander, i Capt. Long, which donations are thank i folly acknowledged by Rev. Mr. Damon, on behalf of “all seamen visiting the port.” n [ Traveller. The chief of the Medical staff of the French Army, has stated it as a fact, that ’ the six thousand survivors who safoly re ■ turned from Egypt, were all men who . abstained from the use of ardent spirits, yj [Safeguard. ;|XiviRTiiBEMiMTe. ■o ® a aas?a£ s? o 9 r OF ETEKY DE.SCKIETION, NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT THE ©ffifee of the SiLasljfngtonfan; —SUCH AS 1 Business Cards. Steamboat Receipts, .;Ball Tickets, Rah. Rosd Receipts, (Invitatioh Tickets, Hand Bills, 3 j Circulars, Horse Bills, 'Checks, Notes, Stage Bills, ’lßill Heads, Show Bilis, r | Catalogues, Labels, Bills of Lading, Pamphlets, &c. &.C. !j Law Blanks, ■ Os the latest and most approved forms, always on hand pi or printed to order at short notice, on the most reasonable terms. Printing done in Gold and Sitter Bronze, or in various colored Inks, if required. ■j, Ct7"The office is fitted up with a splendid assortment iof Materials for the above work, and the proprietor ’ | pledges himself to use every exertion to please his cus , i temers, both in price and correctness of execution. HAVILANI), lUSLIIY Afc CO. : Near the Mansion House, Globe , and U. Slates ,) Hotels, Augusta, Ga. DEALERS IN Choice Drugs and Medicines. Chemicals, Patent Medicines, t Surgical & Dental Instruments Perfumery, Brushes, Paints, Oils, Dye-Stud's, Window Glass, <Ssc. &c. I June 17 2jy j REMEDY FOR WORMS. j'T’HE Compound Syrup of Pink Root, prepared by the subscriber, from the origin-1 al receipt oftheiate Dr. M. Antony. This pleasant and safe preparation is recom mended, as one of the effectual remedies for expelling Worms from the system. For rale, in quantities to suit purchasers. July! 4 if] WM. HAINES, Jr. BRASS & IRON FOUNDRY. r pilE subscriber lias now on hand a large stock of the raw materials, of the best quality, tor Mill and Gin Gear, also, fust rate : patterns of every description of Machinery, at lbs Foundry, in the rear of the Presbyterian , 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 tile city, fie Hatters himself that he will he able to'give satisfaction to all who may entrust their work to his care. Orders left at the Foundry, or l with any ofthe merchants of Augusta, wi.l be promptly attended to. > j July 1 4 «m| P. H. MANTZ. j LIVERY AND SALE STABLES. The undersigned r<, .specUully .informs his friends and .V 3 V I lie public, that he has taken the! j Stables on Ellis street, formerly known as GUed-j ron’s Lower Stables, and more recently kept by! Mr. N. Baltingal. which are now undergoing! thorough repair. These Stables are large, airy j . and commodious,with splendid Dry lots attached, j , Every attention will he paid to the Drovers, and: charges moderate, according to the times. 1 1 will also keep on hand Vehicles of every dc-j . scription and fine Horsrs, to hire, on reasonable . terms. CHARLES McCOY. Augusta, August 12 10 4m 1 1000 brick for sale— i 1 The subscriber bason 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 arc well burnt, .rift for sale low, at I flic 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 office will be immediately attended to. July 1 4 3m] S. L. BASSFORD. TIN MANUFACTORY.' /JPINNER’S Work of every description 1 made to order, at short notice, such as ! BATHING TUBS, | FACTORY CANS, CYLENDERS, . OIL STANDS, (from lup to 100 gallons.) PATENT COFFEE POTS, of all sizes, to suit hotels or private families, PATENT BOILERS, for washing or heat jitlg water lor Baths. ! O’ All the above mentioned articles 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 fob cash. The above business superintended by E. E. SCOFIELD, Jackson-street, between the Globe Hi> tel and Rail Road Depot. Augusta, June 17 2 ly WI.CHURCIIILL&CO Wholesale anil Retail Dealers in EARTHENWARE, GLASS AND CHINA 209 Broad-street, Augusta. June 10 1 ts S *T < FOR SALE, —a Bargain ! MA ywo 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 b< ! sold low for cash. For further particulars apply 'j at this office. June 24—3 ts -iTAECISIONS of the Superior Courts . “of Georgia—published in compliance with ! i the Act of December 10, 1841—containing De- Mcisions rendered during the year 1842. A few .[ copies left for sale at this office. [May 2 ( if PROSPECTUS ;! OP THE Al'GUm WASHINGTONIAN, VOL. 11. ' DEVOTED TO TEMPERANCE, AGRICULTURE ! MISCELLANY : PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. At Augusta, Georgia, , By JAMES MoCAFEERTY. - per, the publisher has the gratification to. presto > a sheet to the public, which he trusts will meet with their approbation—and he asks from tho* friendly to its prosperity, their aid in extendiu its circulation. ,; Competent gentlemen having kindly acceded jtothc call made upoir them by the Board ot Managers of the Augusta Society, to conduct , the Editorial department, the publisher flatter* I; himself that he will be able to place the paper on I a permanent basis, and to give it a much more , elevated character. Thus far, the march ofour cause is onward and in a tew years, it may reasonably be expected that if the energy which has characterised tin 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 anion: 1 'the evils that were. | The subject of Temperance will be the promi . nent object of the “ W ashingtontan yet then will be room for the stirring events of the du\ 11 and for other items of interest to the general rea er—as Agriculture, Science, a Prices Current j the Market, Exchange Table, &c. In short, the j publisher will endeavor to make this paper whirl l it should be—an able advocate of Temperano and a useful Family Paper, strictly moral in it* I bearing. The “ Washingtonian'’ will be published. I ' ’EVERY Saturday, (on a Sheet 20*26 inches ! at the unprccedcnlat low price of One Doll. per annum, ahtaijs in advance- -thus placing i: I | within the means of all who desile an excellerr 1 ;; Family Paper, at a very cheap rate, to obtain it 1 The oublisher looks confidently to all the friem • of'lemperancejand Morality, to aid him iaearr Sing successfully, this enterprise into effect—aii j with their aid, it can be done. ' CLUBBING.—To persons who will rlu: j ■together, and forward to the publisher, (dree . I | postage) Five Dollars, in current funds, will ], I entitled to six copies, and so in proportion. Ft a package of twenty-six papers, to one add n s 1 wenty Dollars. fj* All Post Masters are respectfully request , ed to act as agents. O’All communications, by mail, must b. ' •post paid, ton*ceive attention. By ttie rules . j tho General Post-Office, Post Masters ma, 1 Frank subscription money for Newspapers. June 6th, 1843. 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