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7. i A True Sketch. BY J. C. PARC£LUk “All loved him, And many wept his downfall; As a summer (lower hejblooiaetl awhile, And perished. :, s I knew a youth—a noble generous, youth—from out whose heart (here flow ed a living fount of pure and holy feelings,: which spread around and fertilized the soil of friendship, and warm and gener ous hearts crowded about and enclosed him in a circle of pure and godlike hap piness. The eyes of woman brightened at his approach, and wealth and honor smiled to woo him to their circle. His days sped onward, and as a sum mer brook sparkles all joyous on its glad some way, so sped lie on, blithsome amid the light of woman’s love and manhood’s eulogy. The earth, the sea, the air, and every bright and bubbling stream and fount sent forth their murmuring melody; and his pure heart, unstained by worldly guile, drank in their glowing happiness. He wooed and won a maid of peerless: charms; a being fair, and delicate, and pure, bestowed the harvest of her heart’s young love, and earth became a heaven. The car of time rolled on, and clouds arose to dim the horizon of his worldly bliss. The serpent of inebriation enter ed in the Eden of his heart. The pure and holy feelings the God of nature had implanted in his soul became polluted by the influence of the miscalled social cup. The warm and generous aspirations of his soul became frozen and calloused within him. The tears of the wretched—the agony of the afflicted—found no response within his bosom. The pure and holy fount of universal lovo wilhin his heart, that once gushed forth at the moaning* of misery, and prompted the hand to ad minister unto the requirements of the ■wretched, sent forth no more its pure and : benevolent offerings. Its waters had be. come intermingled with the poisoned in gredients of the wine cup, and the rank 1 weeds of intemperance had sprung up 1 and choaked the fount from whence the 1 waters flowed. The dark spirit of po verty had flapped its wings over his habi tion; and the burning hand of disease had seared the brightness of his eye and palsied the elasticity of his frame. The friends who basked in the sun- ' shine of his prosperity, fled when the * ■wintry winds of adversity blew harshly ■ around his dwelling. Pause gentle reader. * Go to yon lonely burial place, and ask 1 of the rank grass that spreads from its 1 polluted soil, who rests beneath its lone. ; ly surface, and the sighing winds will an- 1 swer—‘‘The mouldering remains of a ! drunkard.” There lies the rema'ins of 1 one who possessed a heart overflowing j with the milk of human kindness; the days of whoso boyhood were hallowed by high and noble aspirations—the bourse! whose early manhood unstained by care and crime—the setting orb of whose des tiny was enshrouded in a mist of misery and degradation. lie saw the smile of : joy sparkling on the brim of the wine cup. He noted not the demon of destruction lurking at the bottom of the goblet. With ] eager hand he raised the poisoned chal- ] ice to his lips, and ho was not. What Temperance does for the Drunkard. ' When we reflect upon the advantages 1 which accrue to the drunkard from the 1 adoption of a thorough reform in his hah- 1 its and associations, we marvel that lie docs not more fully perceive them him- 1 self, and betake himseif to the enjoyment ' of them. That ho does not, argues that his intellect is too degraded and brutalis- 1 ed by his intemperate courses, to enable ' him to see the large gain which would en sue from a change to sobriety. He spends his days and nights in the company" of his boon companions, rioting and wasting his substance in the bar-room, and flatters himself that this is the very heighth of enjoyment —that nothing under heaven can equal the joys of drinking—that te play dominoes and finger a filthy pack of cards, is the limit beyond which pleasure cannot go—that he is a jolly good-fellow, and a generous soul, who is nobody’s en emy but his own—and this, when his bro ken-spirited wife is weeping at home, and the money which makes him mad should fill his hungry children. And this is pre cisely the state of hallucination in which drunkards generally live, until awakened from their delusion by the expositions of the temperance lecturer. They are not aware that what they mistake for pleasure is merely delirium but a degree removed from insanity, and that even this tempo rary elation is more than compensated by the reverse picture when the excitement of the drink is past. The temperance lecturer takes his subject in this state, and the scales fall from his eyes. Everything changes to him its appearance, and he it enabled to sec with the eyes of sobriety that what he had formerly supposed was the very goddess of pleasure is in fact but a ghastly skeleton, enveloped in the fog ofinebrity, ’ # ’ This is what temperance does for the, drunkard. It causes him to see his actu al condition, to realise what position he ! j occupies in the scale of human existence. It shows him not only that he is guilty of: igreat moral turpitude in his intemper-, ance, and that his family and himself are: sufferers by his course, but that what he] . supposed to be enjoyment, only bore that semblance when seen through the mists of rum. When the drunkard’s percep j lions are thus awakened and active, his jinind and heart are in a pliant state, and j ] his reform comparatively easy, and he re turns to society, to regain the station he j'occupied before he fell, and becomes a useful and honorable citizen of the com munity in which he lives. His house, his family, and himself soon assume a differ ent and an improved appearance.—His I own person from ragged and tattered wretchedness changes to neat and clean- I ly looks of comfort and respectability ; j his wife and children put on their smiles . and healthy looks again, running to him ’ for caresses who had before avoided his drunken blows, and in his house order, . harmony, and plenty reign the year round, I instead of wrangling, reproaches, and . starvation. lie walks out among his fel low-men, and his neatly dressed wife and . children with him, without any consci ’ ousness of inferiority, and he gradually wins his way back, by industry and so briety, to that consideration among his I townsmen which it is always the first de sire of a good citizen to acquire and re tain. And this, among other things, is what temperance does for the drunkard. Organ. Alcohol and Crime on the Wane. “At the Great National Banquet” which lately took place in Dublin, Lord Morpeth, after giving particulars of the return of outrages reported in the con stabulary office, by which it appears that since 1836, they had diminished one third, proceeded to remark, that of the heaviest offences, such as homicide, out rage upon the person, assaults with at tempt to murder, aggravated assaults, cut ting and maiming, there were, In 1837, 12,006 1838, 11,053 1839, 1,077 1840, 173 Facts like theso require no comments —the mere abstinence from one article of beverage has done more in two or three years to diminish crime, than would ever lie accomplished by all the powers of leg islation, the activity of police, and the horrors of military force. But it is not in the diminution of crime alone, that we see the cheering and happy fruits of the j temperance reformation in Ireland. The] returns of the Savings Bank proves that improvidence has diminished, while do mestic comfort, intelligence, and wealth have rapidly increased.— Worcester IVd terfall. A Curiosity. A man living in the town of II Maine, who had been a most notorious drunkard for many years, often drunk j two weeks at a time, was induced to join; the “Total Abstinence Society” about five months ago, and has been faithful to his pledge ever since. Not long after he had become a sober man, he requested three of his bottle companions to visit his home, and he would show them a curiosi ty. They accepted the offer, and when they arrived at his home they saw a new milch cow in an enclosure. “ There," said the once wretched drunkard, there it is (pointing to the cow,) and it is mine. Just four weeks ago I signed the pledge; j' my family have lived comfortably ; I paid twenty silver dollars for this cow from my j earnings, and have named her Temper-] axce. He also added, “My wife this! morning milked the cow, and it is the] first milk we have had for eight years that was not begged.” D inc Drinking. Dr. Trotter, in his work on drunken ness, page 170, remarks : “My whole experience assures me that wine is no friend to vigor or activity of mind. It whirls the fancy beyond the judgment, and leaves the body and soul in a state of listless indolence and sloth. The man that on arduous occasions is to trust to his own judgment, must observe an equilibrium, alike proof against con tingencies or internal passions. He must he prompt in his decisions, bold in his en terprise, fruitful in resources, patient un der expectation, not elated with success or depressed with disappointment. But if his spirits arc of that standard as to need a iilip from wine, he will never con ceive or execute any thing magnanimous or grand. In a survey of my whole ac quaintance and friends, 1 find that water -1 drinkers possess the most equal tempers ! and cheerful disposition.” Gentlemen, observe ! Spots which al cohol leaves upon the health and charac ter, can be removed by cold water! This ; fact will be certified to by hundreds of thousands! Try it. 'SB.. ’’-IIS"'. ■SMUIBJgg.-" 1— ■■ ISaSBJ-™*. . CO" Will our friends aid us in procuring Statistics of the several Temperance iSocieties in Georgia; thereby enabling us to extend the table published below, : • that we may in time exhibit the entire strength of the Temperance cause in our State 1 We desire to obtain the names of societies, number of members, (designa ting male and female,) and the nature of their pledge. Our subscribers and ■ friends of temperance generally, at a distance, will please respond to our earnest > request. TEMPERANCE STATISTICS.* h ■ » ■ - - ■ ■ -- ■ -■■ ■ ■ t NAMES OF SOCIETIES AND COUNTIES. > Penfield Washingtonian Society, Greene County ‘ New Providence Total Abstinence Society, Warren County ■ Camak Temperance Club, Warren County ; Washington Total Abstinence Society, Decatur, DeKalb County i Twiggs County Total Abstinence Society, Marion, Twiggs County Marietta Washingtonian Society, Cobb County Jefferson Academy Temperance Society, Mount Pleasant, Newton county 5 Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society, Grecnesboro’ . Hartville Total Abstinence Society, Warren county ; Washingtonian Society, Washington, Wilkes county i Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society, McDonough ' Washingtonian Society, Crawfordville ■ Blakely Total Abstinence Society, Early county j Red Clay Temperance Society, Murray county , Rockbridge Society, Decatur county ‘ Watkinsviite Washingtonian Society, Clarke county 1 Academy and Olney Temperance Society, Jefferson, Jackson county s Burke County Washingtonian Society Thomas P. Marshall Total Abstinence Society, Mallorysviile Pcrrv Total Abstinence Society, Houston county ’ Mars Hill Washingtonian Society, Clarke county ' Mountain Creek Temperance Society, Harris county . Cumming Washingtonian Society, Forsyth county [ Warsaw Washingtonian Temjicrance Society, Forsyth county Cold Springs Washingtonian Temperance Society, Forsyth county ' Ebenczer Church Washingtonian Temperance Society, Forsyth county... ’ Hightower Washingtonian Temperance Society, Forsyth county . F’lint River Temperance Society, Carsonville, Talbot county , Washingtonian Soc ety Lawrenceville, Gwinnett county “ P>augh’s Meeting House, Gwinnett county “ “ Harmony, Gwinnett county “ “ Mount Carmel, Gwinnett county “ Rockbridge, Gwinnett county Jackson Total Abstinence Society, Butts county Augusta Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society Rock Spring Total Abstinence Society, Wilkes county Reedy Creek Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society, Warren county.. Marlboro’ Washingtonian Society, Morgan county Clarksville Washingtonian Society, Habersham county Batesville Washingtonian Society, Habersham county Mossy Creek Washingtonian Society, Hahersharn county Tugaloo River Washingtonian Society, Hahersharn county Naucoochy Washingtonian Society, Habersham county Mount Yonalt Washingtonian Society, Habersham county Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society, Lebanon, Cobb county Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society, Salem, Clarke county Rehobotliville Jeffersonian Society, Morgan county Emmaus Temperance Society, Monroe Pond Town Total Abstinence Society, Sumter county Culloden Total Abstinence Society, Monro county Americas Total Abstinence Society, Sumter county New Salem Total Abstinence Society, Sumter county County Line Total Abstinence Society, Sumter county Tabernacle Total Abstinence Society, Sumter county Friendship Total Abstinence Society, Sumter county Atapulgus Total Abstinence Society, Decatur county Way’s Meeting House Washingtonian Society, Jefferson county Louisville Washingtonian Society, Jefferson county Camp Ground Washingtonian Society, Jefferson county Providence Washingtonian Society, Jefferson county Hopewell Total Abstinence Society, Newton county Thomaston Total Abstinence Society, Upson county r~ Pleasant Hill Total Abstinence Society, Upson county Barnesville Total Abstinence Society, Pike county Warrenton Total Abstinence Society, Warren county Hearnvilfo Friendly Total Abstinent Society, Putnam county Jones County Temperance Society, Clinton Clopton’s Mills Total Abstinence Society, Putnam county Eatonton Total Abstinence Society, Putnam county Rchobotli Temperance Society, Monroe county 3(ioth District Temperance Society, Hall county Athens Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society Tabernacle Temperance Society, Monroe county F’ort Valley Temperance Society, Houston county Berlin Temperance Society, Richmond county Liberty County Temperance Society The Hancock county Total Abstinence Society Fairplay Washingtonian society, Morgan county, Kamller’s Creek Total Abstinence society, Jackson county, Union Temperance Society, Stewart county, Beech Spring Washingtonian Society, Harris county Savannah Washingtonian Temperance Society Bark Camp Temperance Society, Burke county, New Prospect Temperance society, Burke county Canton Washingtonian Society, Cherokee county, j Dahlonega Washington Total Abstinence Society of Lumpkin county | Auraria Washington Total Abstinence Society of Lumpkin county j Barrettsvilie Washington Total Abstinence Society of Lumpkin county, : Leather’s F’ord Washington Total Abstinence Society of Lumpkin county j Pike County Washingtonian Society,.... Knoxville Washingtonian Society ! Coweta County Total Abstinence and Anti-memorial Society, ; Philadelphia Washington Society, Putnam county, Gainesville Washingtonian Society, Hall county, Philadelphia Total Abstinence Society, Fayette county ♦Copied chiefly from the Pcnfiekl Temperance Banner. or EVERY DESCRirTION, NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT THE ©Slice of tlie C&asJjfitjjtonfati; —SUCH AS — Business Cards, Steamboat Receifts, Ball Tickets, Rail Road Receifts, Intitation Tickets, Hand Bills, Circulars, Hoksf. Bills, Checks, Notes, Stage Bills, j Bill Heads, Show Bills, | Catalogues, Labels, | Bills of Lading, Pamfhlets, &c &c. Law Blanks, Os the latest anil most approved forms, always on hand j or printed to order ut short notice, on the most reasonable terms. | office is fitted up with a splendid assortment jof Materials for the above work, and the proprietor; j pledges himself to use every exertion to please his cus-j temers, both in price and correctness of execution. TIN MANUFACTORY. fTHNNER’S Work of every description made to order, at short notice, such as -BATHING TUBS, FACTORY CAINS, CYLINDERS, OIL S TANDS, (from 1 upto 100 gallons.) PA lEN T COFFEE POTS, of all sizes, to suit hotels or private families, PATENT BOILERS, for washing orheat jing water for Baths. i! JUT 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 for cash. . The above business superintended bv p EE. SCOFIELt), Nest door above the Insurance Bank, Broad-st. Augusta, June 17 2 ly The Bom me r Manure Method.! WHICH teaches how to make vegeta-1 hie manure without the aid of live stoi k, j from 15 to to 30 days, by a course of hum id for- i mentation, set into action at a cost from 50 cents ! to ss4. And also, to make Compost in a few days. And how to make a rich fertilizing liquid, called purin,” having the strength, without the acid qualities of urine. With a view of graduating the cost, to the quantity' of land upon which it tuny be desireil to use the method, the following scale of prices has been adopted, viz; For Gardens, of any extent, $6 00 Farms up to 100 acres, 10 00 “ from 100 to 200 acres, It! 00 1 “ from 200 to 300 “ 18 00 “ from 300 to 400 “ 20 00 over 400 in any one farm 25 00 By the remittance of tlie sum here specified, a (copy ot the method will lie sent by mail, or in any r; mode proposed by the purchaser. ■| AH letters of inquiry must be post paid, i ABBE TT, & CO., Baltimore. ■! Proprietors of the Patent right for Southern and YV estern States. 21-T Ihe publishers of any newspapers, who is following agricultural pursuits, by giving our ad vertisement insertion to the amount of a single method ot any extent which he may want, and sending to us a copy of each number containing it, shall have for his own exclusive use, acopyot the method remitted to him by mail or otherwise, as he may order. 3 A. & Co. Oct 14 18 I2t O* The patrons of the American Farmer and others, wilt have their orders for rights and direc tions for using the above process, supplied by en closing the cash, post paid, to ‘j A. SANDS. DECISIONS of the Superior Courts of Georgia—published in compliance will the Act of December 10, 1841—containing De . ctsions rendered during the year 1842. A few copies left for sale at this office. [May 20 PROSPECTUS OF THE AUGISTI MMTOMfIi, VOL. 11. i DEVOTED TO TEMPERANCE, AGRICCITUBK AND MISCELLANY : PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, At Augui-ta, Georgia, By JAMES McCAFFKRTY. In commenceing thesecond volume of this pa per, tiic publisher has the gratification to present a sheet to the public, which he trusts will meet with their approbation--and be asks from those friendly to its prosperity, their aid in extending its circulation. Competent gentlemen having kindly acceded to the call made upon them by the Board of Managers of the Augusta Society, to conduct the Editorial department, the publisher flatters himselt that he will be able to place the paper on a permanent basis, and to give it a much moie elevated character. Thus far, the inarch of our cause is onward, and in a lew years, it may reasonably be expected, that if the energy whicii has characterised the members of the \\ ashington Reform, for the pestthieeyears,continue, an entire retormst'on |must take place, and that the greatest curse to our country, will only be mentioned as among the evils that were. The subject of 'J’emperaKce will be the promi nent object of the “ Washingtonian j' 1 yet then; will be room for the Stirling events of the day, and fur other items of inteicst to thegeneral read er—as Agriculture, Science, a Prices Current of the Market, Exchange '1 able, &c. in short, tl e publisher will endeavor to make this paper what lit should be—an able advocate of Temperanci, ; and a useful Family Paper, strictly moral in its j bearing. The •' Washingtonian” will be published EVERY Saturday, (on a Sheet 20 x 26 inches,) at the unprecedeutal low price of One Dollar per annum, aiifoi/s in advance- -thus placing it within the means of all who desite an excellent Family Paper, at a very cheap rate, to obtain it. The uublislitT looks confidently to all the friends of'l Morality, to aid him in carry ing successlully, this enterprise into effect—and with their aid. it can be done. 5.'.!? CLUBBING.—To persons who will club togellu r, arid fonva-d to the publisher, (iree of postage) Five Dollars, in current funds, will bo entitled to fix copies, and so in proportion. For a package of twenty-six papers, to one address, 1 weiily Dollars. fjr* Alt Post masters are respect fully request ed to act as agents. ICa* All communications, by mail, must b« poet paid, to receive attenlion. By the rules of the General Post-Uflice, Post masters may frank subscription money lor Newspapers. June 6tfi, 1843. Editors inserting the above prospretus, or noticing the appearance of our paper, Ihrough their columns, will confer a favor which wo shall be happy to reciprocate. PROSPECTUS OP THE Southern Quartrrlg lUUfcto. IN commencing the f.fih Volume of this I publication, the Editor-wishes lo urge, vwtn p arriestness its claims upon the patronage ai.tl ; support pf the citizens of tl.c bout a. lis eireu.a iHum, always respectable but ntv. r large, r< qums to lie, and, it is Deiievid may be h.ucn extended and tbe work be thus rendered a more efficient organ in maintaining the lights and sustaining the literary reputation of the Southern States. I'he discontinuance of other periodicals, which have divided the public putlt riage, renders the present time a pccuiiaily appropriate one lor pre senting such consideration as will awaken a new interest m it, and tor making such efforts to ex tend Us circulation as will place it on a permanent basis. It may be proper to stale, briefly, the lending objects which such a Periodical pi oposes to ac complish, and also the reason, which show the importance and neccs.-ity of sustaining one with energy, at the present time, at the South. The general objects of such Periodicals am ipretty well understood. They serve to embody he opinions of enlightened minds on all great [questions in which ihe interests of the arts, sci- Icnees, letters and politics are involved, at certain j periods in the history ol the country. Their aim is, not only to review books, and, in the spirit of itiiorougli and impartial criticism, to decide upon | their merits, hut also, in the performance of this iduty, to discu.-s important subjects in such a man | ner as to make deep and permanent impressions upon the character of the people and the desti nies of the age : to diffuse knowledge not to fos ter prejudices : to create, direct and controul not to echo opinions; and finally, to canvass princi ples and maintain truth in a calm and dignified manner, and in a style chaste, luminous, nervous and appropriate. The offspring of a high state ofcivdizition, they furnish evidence of intellectu al advancement, and are the objects of a just and ’ honorable pride, regarded as the exponents of the literary standing and character of communities. The importance of sustaining such a work at I the South, with übiiily and effect, is equally obvi- I ous. The South, like the North, and the othtr sections of the Union, owes a duty to the age and ,to the country in behalf of her literature. She , requires an able and heightened Periodical, that is titled to nourish, and call into active exercise, the literary talent of our Southern Common , wealths. But, more than this, our institutions , arc peculiar, and require a distinct organ through J which they may be defended with power ami |jspirit, when assailed, as tney often are, by other |j sections of the American Confederacy. This )! aggressive conduct on the part of our countrymen, ’[so prejudicial to the general harmony, requires ‘ to be met and repelled by argument, first, and by action, if necessary, afterwards. The South is an agricultural country, and her position is differ ent trom that of other sections more particularly devoted to commerce and manufactures. Her 1 views of her peculiar interests should be known, and require to be maintained and defended with ability, through some such channel. The Southern Quarterly Review is issued at J Charleston, in January, April, July and October. ‘ Among its pledged contributors, are —Dew, Bachman, Burnap, Davezac, Upshur, Cushing, Tucker, Simms, Cartwright, Elliott, Garnett, ' Thornwell, Grayson, Holmes,Everett, Brecken ridge, Brantley, King, Stevens, and other distin guished American scholars, residing chiefly in ■ the Southern States. The style of its typograph [ ical execution is not surpassed by any work for eign or domestic. An appeal is confidently made to the generous an patriotic feelings of Southern citizens in its behalf. TERMS.—SS per annum,payablein advance. No subscription taken for less than ayear, and all notices ot discontinuances to be forwarded be* ore the first of October of each year, or the sub scription will be binding for the succeeding year. DANIEL K. WHITAKER. 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