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upon and cheated, and in truth most like ly Ut-Mo. It is no excuse to say business fou there and you met some friends and joined them in a drink. If you go to such places upon business, do your bu siness and come away —drink to please no man or company of men. Are you in trouble and wish to drive a wav care f For heaven’s sake resort not to the bottle. It may for a while, by its force, mechanically banish your cares and lull your conscience to sleep, but only to break loose upon you afterwards with the creator fury. This you know to be true, if vou have ever resorted so it under such circumstances. It is not the antidote you want. That is only to be found else where. Does your time hang heavy on; your hands? Employ it in reading good fd useful books, acquire a taste for them; dis you have an aversion to books seek some employment as a relaxation —teach your children, if you have any—if not; so much the worse for you —then seek amusement with your gun —your fishing tackle, &c. &c. if you can enjoy none of these things—amuse yourselt at any thing so it be innocent —but resort nottOj the dogserv, and there to pass time, get ( : drunk. It is had enough to spend yourj t money, witliout wasting and lavishing | your time there too. % Are you melancholy—low spirited ? t Liquor won’t help you ; for il you raise > your spirits artificially by drinking, you f know they will soon sink and flag in pro portion, and then they must he raised a gain, and so on, until at last you will have no spirits to raise. Do you say it will make you odious to your associates and cause them to regard : vou as a mean spirited fellow? Well if ibis be so, remember that you are not to stSnd or fall hereafter by the opinions of I vour associates; besides, no doubt you j have sometimes opposed their errors, and I if so in one case, if you arc right, why I not in another, for you will at least be I sure of the good opinion of the sober part I by keeping on the right side, —the nppro- I bation of one of whom is worth more I than that of a thousand drunkards, f Do you drink merely from habit ? t When you are in great danger of becom- I ing a confirmed drunkard, for nothing [ .grows like habit, especially one that de- I stroys as it creeps, and renders its subject I less able to resist as the habit grows stronger bv the weakness of its victim | If your apology for drinking is, in your •opinion, a good one—reflect again candid. I Jy,and if you are true and honest to your ■iself, you will see its fallacy—its conse- I quenccs and your ruin. Then stop at I once. If you are a single man, it will 1 raise you higher in the estimation of the B good and wise. If you are a married one, then all I have said should have a ; double force; your duty to yourself— -1 your wife whom you love, —your pratling | babes—all—all admonish you to stop in your mad career, ere the door of repent ance and reform be shut against you. i ' N * A Tavern-Keeper lecturer. I We learn from the Essex county Re- I former, that the Keeper of the Railroad I House in Lynn, is an interesting speci- I men of a Washingtonian. The Reiorm ler says —Me is a man. that for a long se- I ries of years, previous to the commence ment of the Washingtonian movement, was engaged in the business of keeping a tavern at the placetWhere he then resided. He sold liquor lrefely to all that called, and drank freely himself; but when the Washingtonians first commenced their ■efforts, he became thoroughly convinced of the pernicious nature of the traffic, and from principle abandoned the business. He entered the Washingtonian field as a laborer, lecturing and telling his own ex perience, and carrying with him that weight of influence which it is well known |a tavern-keeper can command over a par ■tieular class in the community, and was ■the means of doing much good. From the Penlielii temperance Ban ncr. I TEWEaANCE COXY'EYTIOX. Eatontox, Sept. 11, 1843. At a meeting of the Eatouton Total ■Abstinence Society, held in the Court- Hliouse on Monday evening the 11th inst. Hit was, Resolved, That the Committee ap pointed by the recent Temperance Con pention at Penfield, to whom was refer ped the propriety of holding another Con-, ■vention of the friends of Temperance, pome time during the ensuing fall, be re puested to select Eatonton as being the ■nost eligible place for holding the samej —end appoint such time as they may 'deem most suitable. Resolved, That the citizens of Eaton ton freely extend an invitation to all the* delegates, of said Convention, and that they will throw open their houses for their reception and entertainment. Resolved, That we request said Com mittee to publish the above resolutions, together with their report and address. WM. A. HOUGHTON, President. Robert F. Trippe, Sec. pro. tern. In answer to the above invitation, and in behalf of the recent Penfield meeting, the undersigned Committee do invite a Convention of the friends ofTcmperance, to assemble at Eatonton, on the forenoon of Thursday, the 23d of November next. ; It is earnestly hoped that Societies in all parts of the State will be represented in that meeting. P. 11. MELL. J. M. ASHURST. J. H. CAMPBELL. O. L. SMITH, : Sept 13th, 1843. G. M. PAINE. r OCT Editors in the State favorable to | the cause of Temperance will confer a favor, by giving this a few insertions, and noticing it editorially. Kum Seller. Do you say, you do not sell to drunk lards?—so much the worse. You know, f or ought to know that “every moderate drinker is the drunkard’s apprentice.” If the unfortunate drunkard did not re s form lie would soon die, and the rising race would be a race of sober men. The 1 practice of selling to sober men perpetu ■ ates intemperance, and the evils of intern - perance. Example and Candour. A countryman went to consult a fa ) inous oculist, and found him sitting at a j table eating and drinking heartily, f * W hat must Ido for my eyes?’ said the peasant. ’ ‘ You must abstain from use of wine,’ I replied the oculist. i ‘ But it seems to me,’ returned the pea -1 sant, walking up nearer to him, ‘that . your eyes are not much better than mine, and yet you drink.’ ‘Truly,’ replied the oculist, ‘that is * because lam fonder of drinking than of - being cured.’ Marriage. Marriage is to a woman at once the . happiest and saddest event of her life ; it is the promise of future bliss, raised on t the death of all present enjoyment. She * quits her home, her parents, her occupa * lions, her amusements, every thing on t which she has hitherto depended tor com s fort, for affection, for kindness, for plea sure. The parents by whose advice she has been guided—the sisters to whom she had dared to impart the every embryo ' thought and feeling—the brother who has - played with her bv turns, the counsellor - and the counselled, and the younger chil t dren, to whom she has been the mother I and the playmate—all to bo forsaken at jone fell stroke; the spring of every hope .and action is to be changed ; and yet she tlies with joy into the untrodden path be i sere her. Buoyed lip by the confidence -of requitted love, she bids a fond and grateful adieu to the life that is past, and turns with excited hopes and joyous anti cipation to the happiness to come. Then ' wo to the man who can blight such fair hopes, who can treacherously lure such a heart from its peaceful enjoyment, and : the watchful protection of home—who jean,coward-like, break the illusions that -! have won her, and destroy the confidence I [which love had inspired. Wo to him - who has'too early withdrawn the tender - plant from the props and stay of discipline * in which she has been nurtured, and yet - make no effort to supply their place, tor , on him be the responsibility of her errors t —on him who has first taught her, by his * example, to grow careless of her duty, , and then exposed her, with a weakened - spirit and unsatisfied heart, to the wide ' storms and wily temptations of a sinful I world. A R jyal Mechanic. A writer in Fra-er’s Scottish Maga zine is furnishing some interesting re minisces of the youthful life of Louis Phillippe, King of the French. He states that the citizen king was from his earliest years attached to mechanical pursuits and to family accupations. He acquired a practical knowledge of many trades. He excelled, for instance, as a cabinet maker, and as a basket maker. At one time, with the asssistance of his brother, the Duke of Montpensier, he manufac tured for the house of a poor woman at St. Leu, a large press and a table with drawers, which were as well made as if put together by an experienced workman. It is this happy faculty of turning his hand to any tiling, of adapting himself to the most varied circumstances, that has enabled Louis Phillippe to be useful and honored in any station: as the humble ; teacher in Switzerland, the cheerful ex ile in America, or as the powerful Mon- i [arch of France. i ; We learn from a letter, dated at Lan- • Irens C. H. S. C., that the late frosts have 1 materially injured the Cotton Crops in I that section; and we may safely say, they will be one fourth short this year in lour State. —Hamburg Journal. Cotton in India. The Natchez Free Trader publishes a' letter from Q. N. Hawley, Esq., one ofjj the gentlemen who went out from that place to attempt the culture of cotton in*! India. The following extracts will show his estimate of the probable issue of the experiment:— “The company has sent out to Idler ofPhiladelphia, tor some more of his gins: they have already a great many here, sent from England, all of which are of no use without great alterations being made in them, if they are then. I am to plant two or three hundred acres of land with the native or indigen ous cotton, this season, as the Mexican has entirely tailed in every part of India where the experiment has been tried yet. We have done nothing toward improving the cotton here, and wo have no prospect , of ever doing so ; and the sooner the gov , eminent sends ns home the better, as we 1 are doing little or nothing here. I have ginned some four hundred hales of cotton at this place, after which I gave the gins into the charge of an engineer., These people despair of ginning the India cot -1 ton on our gins,as the staple is so short! j and coarse. I expect to hear from Eng land soon, whether the cotton I have shipped is approved or not.” r _ Tlie First Sword. Many of our readers have perhaps . seen the annexed anecdote, but it is good enough to read a second time. It was tolrf at a 4th of July celebration at Pro vidence, It. 1., by the Hon. Mr. Tilling hast, a member of Congress from that 1 State. I The first sword that waved in triumph upon the surmounted ramparts of York , town, was a Rhode Island sword. The owner of that sword, as he clambered up the work, received upon his hands and | arms the stalls of the bayonets that were aimed at his life, and having gained the 1 summit, and planted himself firmly there, lie lifted his sword aloft in his bleeding .| hand, and called aloud to friends and foes, “ Capt. Stephen Olney's company forms here /” ; DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. 1 To Prevent the Ravages of Fowls. L “ —Around the yard enclosure, from post ' to post, extend a small wire, about twelve I inches above the tops of the pailings.— Barn-yard fowls are not very aspiring " birds, and seldom attempt a flight higher “ than necessary to accomplish their object. ; The imperceptible wire therefore oper ates as a complete rebutter to their at tempts to skim the pailing tops, and the r unexpected check forever quiets the as ' piring hopes oftlieir vaulting ambition. 1 ! This plan, which might he extended to I I the garden as well as the yard, is the I l next best we know to that of a poultry e yard, in which the fowls are constantly " confined. —Southern Planter. 8 - Potato Starch. —Wo find in the Cleveland Herald, the following method * of making potato starch, which it says is II the veritable arrow-root, so highly valued 1 for invalids: ! Take a dozen large and smooth mealy potatoes, wash them, and then carefully J pare off all the rind. Next grate them 1 fine with a suitable (in grater. The pulp ‘ must he mixed with a pailfnll of cold * water, and thoroughly agitated and r squeezed by the hand or any other suit " able instrument, at the same time throw -1 ing away fibrous matter, and permitting r the starch to sink to the bottom of the s vessel. This must have a fresh Washing 8 in cold water, till the pure farina is ob ; tained free from all other matter. This * should be spread on earthen dishes, and j dried in a warm, airy situation. The good house-wife will exclaim: “ Why, this is nothing but potato starch.” True it is not —nor have you used any . other article under the name of arrow . root, for the sick members of your family, s though you may have purchased it at the > rate of several shillings per pound. By proper modes of cooking, known to i every nurse and house-keeper, this arti cle becomes a delightful beverage for in- 1 valids weak of digestive powers; while a 1 pleasant dietary, even to persons in good ( !health, it possesses a strong attrac- i tion. French Mode of Cooking Potatoes. 1 —When the potatoes are boiled, cut them in slices and put them in a sauce pan; pour some onion broth over them; then,; add a piece of butter and keep the pota- | toes hot without boiling. .Slice eight onions, and set them on the tire; when they are tender, take a large spoonful of flour which is to be well mixed with them; and salt, coarse peppeQ, a small ' table spoonful of broth or water, and a !! clash of vinegar. Let the onions gently a simmer for a quarter of an hour, place! them on the potatoes, and keep them hot j till served. ' List of Payments to the Washingtonian. Augusta: Mrs. Elizabeth G. Thew, Wiggins, paid to Oct. I, 1844. McDonough r Wiu. H. White, to June 10, '4l ' ""J Im. We are authorised to announce Dr. JOHN MILLEN, as 1 iWndidate I for Tax Collector of Richmond County, at the 5 Election in January next. Oct. 28 ' 21 ul TAW NOTICE.—The undersigned ha- * ' ving associated themselves in the practice of Law under the firm of S N E A D & MIL L E D G E, will devote their unremitting atten-2 tion to the duties of their profession, and solicit; tor the firm the business oftlieir 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. I One of them may at all times during business hours, he found at their office in the Law Ran«rc.! over the Post office. JOHN C. SNEAD, "> JOHN MILLEDGE- ; Augusta, Ga. August Bth, 1813. Auv 12 10 ts T. CHAPMAN, Attorney at Law, will alti ml the Courts of Law and Equity in the Districts of Edgefield, Orangeburg and Barnwell, S. C. Also, the several Courts oT Richmond ami ad jacent Counties, Geo. tOf - Office, Constitutionalist Range, Augus ta, Ga. Sept. 2 13 ts SOUTH CAROLINA COURTS. I Pnrven.’i n Return Bay. September Kith, j ' ’ ’ t Court sits October Ist &2d weeks. Orangeuucc, \ “ e,u ™.?“£• September 30th. ( Court sits October ibtli. R tßvwri i $ Return Day, October 7th. b ' R nw [ - U -| Court sits Oclober 23rd. 1 HY - Business committed to the undersignei ’ 1 will receive promptattention. = i Sept. 9 If S. T. CHAPMAN. HAVIDAND, UISIjEY CO. Sear the Mansion Douse, Globe , anil l ■ States Hotels, Augusta, Ga. | UEAT.KH* IN Choice Drugs ami Medicines, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, ® l Surgical c# Denial Instruments Perfumery, Brushes, Paints, oils, Dye-Stuffs, Window Class, &c. dtc. Juno 17 2 l v 0B&* wM. IIAINES, Jr. (Succes ’ sorto Garvin & Haines,) Whnlesah ‘ a an, l Retail Dealer in Druos Medi cines, Paints, Oils, Glass, Dye-Stuffs , Perfumery, Surgical Instruments, Ac. &c —Hat ' now on hand a select assortment of the above ar tides, for sale at low prices and on rnoderati terms. All orders executed with neatness and despatch. WM. HAINES, Jr. No. 232 Broad-street, Augusta. * June 18 Its i FIR- JOHN M * L LEN, Office No. 147. , North side Broad-street, below Eagle and Phoenix Hotel, Augusta. [June 10 ly ffK LIVERY AND SALE ■ STABLES. The undersigned 2LIMLM respectfully inlorms his friends and* fl* the public, that he has taken the, Stables on Ellis street, formerly known as Gued ’ ron’s Lower Stables, and more recently kept by ; Mr. N. Bullingal. which are now undergoing thorough repair. These Stables are large, airy j and commodious,with splendid Dry lots attached. ’ Every attention will he 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 reasonabh . ! I terms. CHARLES McCOY. Augusta, August 12 10 1m 1 CHARLES E. GRENVILLE & CO. i and Stationers, 244 o Broad-street, oilers for sale, at whoiesalr * anil retail, a large assortment of School,Classical. J [ Medical, Law a nil Miscellaneous Books; logoth-> er with Blank Books, Paper, Paper Hangings, j Ciuills, metallic. Pens, Fine Cutlery, and , | Stationery o f every description, J ; Music, Musical Instruments, and every article 1 1 usually called for in a Bookstore. 0 ,j Law ami Medical Libraries lurnished on the. | most liberal terms. Schools, Academies, and Literary Institutions? supplied at the lowest prices, £ June 10 yti . v a JOHN B. MUItPHvI has removwd to the Store) dd door Below the Post Office corner, No. *2ll* Broad-street , sign of the* Laj'gc; Golden Spectacles Docks, Watches and Jcwiio elry, carefully repaired and warranted. fCf A Continuance of former patronage wilr be thankfully received. Augusta, June 10th, 1843 1 l v n aoa a> aas?a □as a ! OF EVKUV DESCRIPTION, NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT THE* tOaitcc of tljc fSasiungtonfan; 'f —SUCH AS Business Ca'fds, Steamboat Receipts, Ball Rail Road Receipts, 5 * Invitation Tickets, Hand Bills, f- Cikculars, Horse Bills, ("hecks, Notes, Stage Bills, Bill Heads, Show Bilis, » Catalogues, Labels, Bills of Lading, Pamphlets, &c. &c. t* r Law Blanks, Os the latest and most approved forms, always on hand y or printed to order at siiort notice, on the most reasonable terms. - ■ § OQhThc oilice is fitted np with a splendid assortment ill Materials for the above work, and the proprietor pledges himself to use every exertion to please hiscus- * icniers, both in price and correctness of execution. ? FOR SALE,—a Bargain! A- U A Two Story HOUSE and LOT, on i Reynold street, near Lincoln-street, in | •—“the lower part of the city, adjoining vu u cant lot belonging to mrs. Gardner. It will he £ sold low for cash. For further particulars applj at this office. June Sl—3 ts [O.v’E Dollar a Year. -scorn benevolence—wear oat your institution, and as sure as you live ealth will pour in upon you like a flood, ut remember—it must be a comfortable “flection that you have worn yourself ut in accumulating property, while death ill soon stare you in the face. Ye who [‘oufd be rich—who leave no path untried i add to your coffers—do not forget, we ray you, that you must die and leave our property to other hands. Tell us, /ould it not be better to enjoy life, by laving every tiling that is really necessa v, in doing good to others—assisting the . oor and needy, and in laying up a trea : ure above ? Just believe it and you will I ,e tenfold more happy—enjoy more of the j appincss of life—live to a greater age, nd finally die in peace.— Portland Tri une. The Sailor on Land. If an honest heart beats in one bosom norc warmly than in another, it is in hat of the brave American Tar. Wheth. ?r it bo the many dangers that beset him on a perilous voyage, ora sense of loneli ness while rocked upon the mountainous , wave, that leads him to cherish and lock up with sacred care his affections and the better feelings of his nature, and keep them untouched by the scenes of vice and of which he must often be a witness, certain it is that the American sailor is more sensitive to wrong, and more keenly touched by misfortune, than sany other individual in the world. It may be that his adventurous life, teach ing him, as it must, to cling to his ship . mates as to his all—strengthens his no bler and kinder feelings, and warms into .livelier action than the more momentous .jand peaceful life of the landsman. A , sailor, who had been long absent on a i voyage, came into port the other day, * immediately left Boston on a visit to his . friends in Vermont, whom he had left in i health a number of years before. Upon ‘I his arrival at the spot, the lighthearted tar found that they had all died in his long absence. Even the bright eyed girl whom he had left in all her virgin bloom— ■ and to whom he was betrothed—she who II year after year had anxiously watched tor his return—slept beneath the cold f sods of the valley!—lie retraced his steps, l and when we met him on his return he '• was seated by the road side weeping like ‘‘ a child. *A feeling of loneliness had , come over the noble hearted fellow that ; touched a chord in his bosom which all ■i the loneliness of the ocean could not j, reach. His home desolate—the cherish ed of his heart, and the loved of his youth ■ —his affianced bride—the sturdy oak the lilly that bloomed in its shade— £one —all • c "one forever!—The sailor was ship wrecked on land, and the bold heart who had withstood the beating of the surge and the mountain waves; who had brav jed the perils of the deep in the midnight j storm without the trembling of a nerve or the blink of an eye—had now lest sight ofhis polar star, and bitterly wept at the desolation which had come upon him. Such a man has treasures within his bos om above any price—treasures which are the fruits of a noble nature alone, and can be found imbedded in none other than an honest man.— Claremont Eagle. Cutting Ketort. Two gentlemen, Mr. D. and Mr. L., stood candidates for a seat in the legis lature of New York. They were vio lently opposed to each other in politics. By some artifice, Mr. D. gained the elec tion. When he was returning borne, much elated by his success, he met an ac quaintance, to whom he observed, ‘Well, l have got the election: L. w.as no match for me. I’ll tell you how I flung him. If there happened any Dutch voters, 1 could talk Dutch with them— and there I had the advantage of him. If there were any Frenchmen, I could talk French with them— and there I had the advan tage of him. But as to L., he was a clever, honest, sensible little fellow.’ Yes, sir,’ replies the gentleman, ‘ and there he had the advantage of you.* Temptation.—You know not the power of temptation. Associate with a vicious person but one day, and yoo re ceive a serious injury ; then what must follow if you are on the strictest terms of intimacy with such a character ? By lit tle and little you will lie assimilated to bis practices, till at length you become his equal. A modern Historian thinks that Co lumbus is entitled to no great for having discovered the American continent. H* .-ays it was so large he could’nt teell have, mitsed it.