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! AV6VITA WASBXIfiTOiriIV. .... ...... AUGUSTA WASHINGTONIAN. | Vol. II No. 30.] * *VILL BE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY ( MORNING, BY JAMES McCAFt’ERTY, j, rt the low price of one dollar per annum, for . a single subscriber, five dollars for a chib of ' six or ten dollars for a club of twelve sub- < ■ gcribcrs—paymcat, iti udvonce. f jAll Communications, by mail, addressed to the j ( . publisher, must be post paid to receive atten-j, F (j on . By the rules of\lie Post-Otfice Depart “ ment. Post masters may frank subscription ' f money for Newspapers. I | Advertisements will be inserted at the follow- ( ing reduced rates: -For one square, not ex- ' 1 cceding twelve lines. 50 cents for the lirsli 1 insertion, and twenty-five cents for each con- i tinuancc, if published weekly; if semi-monthlyj, 37J; and if monthly 43| cents, for each con-f tinuance. | Yearly advertisers 10 per ct. discount. I gggg— ssa : Es;gs and Poultry. Among all nations, anti throughout all!. I grades of society, eggs have been a fa- 1 F vorite food. Hut in all our cities, and ■n particularly in winter, they arc held at fsuch pnces that but a few families can af ford to eat them at all ; and even those kho are in easy circumstances consider iphem too expensive for common food. ■ There is no need of this. Every fa |miiy, or nearly every family, can with ■ very little trouble, have eggs in plenty ■ during the whole year; and of all animals ■domesticated for the use of man, the coni- j I moil dung hill fowl is capable ol yielding ■ the greatest possible profit to the owner. 1 In the month of November, I put apart ■ eleven liens and a cock, gave them a small; ■ chamber in a wood-house, defended from! ■ storms, and with an opening to the south.! I Their food, water, arid lime, were placed lon shelves convenient for them, with I warm nests and chalk nest eggs in plen-j I ty. These hens continued to lay eggs; I through the winter. From these eleven I hens 1 received an average of six eggs; I daily during the winter ; and whenever I any of them was disposefl to set, namely, I iis soon as she began to cluck, she w as: I separated from the others by a grated; I partition, ami her apartment darkened ;; these dockers were well attended and well fed ; they could see and partially associate through the grates with theoth-i er fowls, and so soon as any ot these pri-' Miners began to »tng She was liberated, and would very soon lay eggs. It is a j pleasant recreation to feed and tend a; [ bevy of laying hens ; they may lie tam f ed so as to follow children, and will lay I in a box. Egg shells contain lime, and in winter,! i when the earth is hound with frost, oreo-i I vered with snow, if lime is not provided [ for them they will not lay, or if they do : I the eggs must of necessity be without! L shells. Old rubbish lime, from oldchitn !neys and old buildings, is proper, and on ly needs to he broken for them. They! will often attempt to swallow pieces oi l : lime plaster as large as walnuts. | I have often heard it said that wheat is 'the best grain for them, hut I doubt it;; c they will sing over Indian corn with morej than over any other grain. *U'he singing hen will certainly lay eggs,! if she finds all things agreeable to her;! but the hen is much of a prude, as watch-; ful as a weasel, and as fastidious as a hy-! pocrite ; she must, she will have secrecy! and mystery about her nest; all eyes but her own must be averted ; follow her, or watch her, and she will forsake her nest, and stop laying; she is best pleased with a box, covered at the top, with a backside aperture! for light, and a side door by which she can escape unseen. A farmer may keep an hundred fowls in his barn, may suffer them to trample| upon and destroy his mows of wheat and other grain, and still have fewer eggs than the cottager who keeps a single do zen, provides secret pests, chalk eggs, pounded bricks, plenty of Indian corn, lime, water, and gravel for them ; and jXvho takes care that his hens are not dis turbed about their- nests. Three chalk teggs in a nest is better than a single nest | e g?> and large eggs please them. I have Kollen smiled to see them fondle round and ■lay into a nest of geese eggs. Pullets ■will commence laying earlier in life, ! ■where nests and eggs are plenty, and j ■where other hens are cackling around I them. A dozen dung hill fowls, shut up from < any other means of obtaining food, will i require something more than a quart of ; Indian corn a day ; I think fifteen bush- < els a year a fair provision for them, and < after they have become habituated to find!' enough, at all times in their little man- ii ger, they take but a few kernels at a time, 1 1 except just before returning to roost, t when they will take nearly a spoonful in- t to their crops; but just so sure as their a provisions come to them tented or irregu-|\ InrljTj so surely they will raven up a whole I ;cro[Ffull at a time, and stop laying. is A single dozen lows, properly attended, \ will furnish a family with more than i 2000 eggs in a vear, and 100 full grown . chickens for fall or winter stores. The i expense of feeding the dozen fowls will! ( ! not amount to 18 bushels of Indian corn, s They may be kept in cities as well as in i j the country, and will do as well shut up i the year round as to run at large; and a ; jgraled room, well lightened, ten feet by ; • live, partitioned from any stable, or other < out house, is sufficient for the dozen fowls. 1 with their place, nests and feeding ; troughs. At the proper season, viz: in the ; spring of the year, five or six hpns will: ; hatch at the same time, and the filly or sixty chickens give to one hen. Two !hens will take care of a 100 chickens well enough, until they begin to climb theiri little stick roots; they should then besep-; iarated from the hens entirely; thev will! ! wander less, and do better away from jother fowls. I have often kept the jchickens in my garden; they keep the May bugs and other insects away from the vines, etc. , In cases of confining fowls in summer it should be remembered that a ground : room should be chosen; or it will do as well to set into their pen, boxes of dried sand, or kiln dried, well pulverised earth, tor them to wallow' in, in warm weather. Mississippi Valley Farmer. { !J 0 L L [E iii n Destruction ot the Spanish Inquisition. The follow ing was originally, we be lieve, a contribution of the Rev. Mr. Kirk, ijtotbo ‘Western Citizen.’ It has widely i travelled through our Exchanges ; but , the exposition of that tremendous power ijand persecuting spirit of Rome, which Napoleon, with all his faults did so much to destroy, is w'orth preservation in every ! Protestant community.— South. Baptist Advocate. Baltimore, May 1,1843. Mr. Fast man : —My fellow passenger on the Ohio river, was Col. Lehmanous jky, formerly an officer under Napoleon, now a minister of the Lutheran Church. For twenty three years he served with ! him in stations of trust, which rendered iho most intimate relations necessary; and it was only when Napoleon was con i fined on the Island of Elba, that Col. Le manousky retired from the service. “In the year 1809,” said Col. L., “be ing then at Madrid, my attention was di rected to the Inquisition in the neighbor ;bood of that city. Napoleon had previ jotisly issued a decree for its suppression, I and when I reminded Marshal Soultof .this decree, he directed me to proceed toj destroy it. lie accordingly gave me two; required regiments, in addition to my: down, one of which was under the com mand of Col. De Lile, who is now, like ,! myself, a minister, pastor of the Evange lical Church in Marseilles. With these j troops I proceeded forthwith to the lnqui jsition, which was situated about 5 miles from the city. The Inquisition was sur rounded with a wall of great strength, and defended by about four hundred sol diers. When we arrived at the walls, 1 addressed one of the sentinels, and sum moned the holy fathers to surrender to the imperial army, and open the gates of the Inquisition. The sentinel, who was standing on the wall, appeared to enter I into conversation for a few moments with some one within ; at the close of which he presented his musket and shot one of my men. This was a signal for attack, and I ordered my troops to fire upon those w-ho appeared upon the walls. It was obvious that it was an unequal warfare. The walls of the Inquisition were covered with the soldiers ol the ho ly office ; there was also a breastwork up on the wall, behind which they kept con linuallv, only as they partially exposed! themselves as they discharged their mus-l kets. Our troops were in the open plain, and exposed to a destructive fire. We! had no cannon, nor could we scale the walls, and the gates successfully resisted all attempts at forcing them. I saw that it was necessary to change the mode of attack, and directed some trees to be cut 1 down and trimmed and brought on the ; ground to be used as battering rams I Two of these were taken up by detach- i ments of men, as numerous as could I work to advantage, and brought to bear t upon the walls with all the power which < they could exert, regardless of the fire < which was poured upon them from the 1 AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1843. walls. Presently the walls began to trem- i ble, and under the well directed and per- i severing application of the ram, a breach i was made, and the imperial troops rushed i into the Inquisition. Here we met with : an incident which nothing but Jesuitical effrontery is equal to. The Inquisitor General, followed by the father confes sors, in their priestly robes, all came out of their rooms, as we were making our way into the interior of the Inquisition,! and with long faces, and their arms cross ed over their breasts, their fingers resting on their shoulders, as though they had been deaf to all the noise of the attack and defence, and had but just learned what was going on, they addressed them selves in language of rebuke to their own soldiers, saying, “Why do you fight our friends the French ?” Their intention, apparently, was to make us think that this defence was whol ly unauthorised by them, hoping, if they! could produce in our minds a belief that : hey were friendly, they should have a better opportunity in the confusion and plunder ofthe Inquisition to escape. Their artifice was too shallow, and did not suc ceed. I caused them to be placed under guard, and all the soldiers of the inquisi tion to be secured as prisoners. We then proceeded to examine this prison house iof hell.—We passed through room after room, found altars, and. crucifixes, and wax candles in abundance, but we could discover no evidences of iniquity being practised there, nothing of those peculiar features which we expected to find in In quisition. Hero was beauty and splen dor, and the most perfect order on which my eyes had ever rested. The architec • ture—the proportions were perfect. The , ceiling and floors of wood were scoured until highly polished.—The marble floors were arranged with strict regard to order. There was every thing to please the eye i and gratify a cultivated taste ; hut where were those horrid instruments of torture of which we had been told, and where 1 were those dungeons in which human be ings were said to be buried alive ! We searched in vain. The Holy Fathers as ■ sured 11s that they had been belied—that . we had seen all—and 1 was prepared to give up the search, convinced that this Inquisition was different from any others 1 of which I had heard. I But Col. I)e Lile was not so ready as I myself to give up the search, and said to ■ me, “Colonel, you are commander to ■ day, and as you say, so it must be, but if you will bn advised by me let this mar ■ file floor be examined more. Let some water be brought in and poured upon it, and we will watch and see if there is any place through which it passes more free ,ly than others.” I replied to him, “do !’ as you please, Colonel,” and ordered wa > ter to be brought accordingly. The slabs 1j of marble were large and beautifully po lished. When the water had beenpour ■ ed over the floor, much to the dissatisfac : tion of the Inquisitors, a careful examin • ation was made of every seam in the ! floor, to see if the water passed through. Presently Col. De Lile exclaimed that he ! had found it. By the side of one of these ■ marble slabs the water passed through , fast, as though there was an opening be • neath. All hands were now at work foi [ further discovery. The officers with their ■ swords, and the soldiers with their bayo ) nets, seeking to clear out the seam and f pry up the slab. Others with the butts s of their muskets striking the slab with all • their might to break it, while the priests 1 remonstrated against our desecrating 1 their holy and beautiful house.—While f thus engaged, a soldier who was striking . rvith the butt end of his musket, struck a : spring, and the marble slab flew up. ;Then the faces of the Inquisitors grew pale, and as Belshazzar when the hand appeared writing on the wall, so did these I men of Belial shake and quake in every bone, and joint, and sinew.—We looked beneath the marble slab, now partly up. and we saw a staircase. I stepped to the table and took from the candle-stick one of the candles, four feet in length, which . was burning, that I might explore what was before us ; and as I was doing so, I was arrested by one of the Inquisitors, who laid his hand gently on my arm, and with a very demure and holy look, said, “My son, you must not take that with your profane and bloody hand ; it is ho ly.” “Well, well, I said, I want some thing that is holy to see if it will not shed light on iniquity, I will bear the respon sibility.” 1 took the candle and proceed ed down the stair-case. I now discover ed why the water revealed to us this pas sage. Under the floor was a tight ceil- ing, except at the trap-door, which could it not be rendered close ; hence the success ( of Col. De Lile’s experiment. As we i reached the foot of the stairs, we entered 1 a large square room, which was called the s Hall of Judgment. In the centre of it ( was a large block, and a chain fastened ( Ito it. On this they had been accustojn- 1 led to place the accused, chained to his I I scat. On one side of the room was one ( iclevated seat, called the Throne of Judg- 1 rnent. This the Inquisitor General oc cupied, and on either side were seats less 1 elevated for the holy fathers when enga ged in the solemn business of the Holy 1 Inquisition. From this room we proceed- : ed to the right, and obtained access to small colls, extending the entire length l of the edifice; and here, what a sighl I met our eyes! How has the benevolenl , religion of Jesus been abused and slan dered by its professed friends. The cells were places of solitary con. I linement, where the wretched objects of ( inquisitorial hate were confined year af || ter year, till death released them of their and there their bodies were suffered to remain until they were entire r ly decayed, and the rooms had became fil for others to occupy. To prevent this ] practice being offensive to those who oc , cupied the Inquisition, there wore flues or tubes extending to the open air, suffi- I cicntly capacious to carry off the odour I from these decaying bodies. In those r cells we found the remains of some who ’ had paid the debt of nature; some of them had been dead apparently but a short lime, while of others nothing remained but their hones, still chained to the floor of their dungeon. In others we found a the living sufferer of every age and of j both sexes, from the young men and mai g dens to those of three score and ten years, all as naked as when they were born in ’to the world. Our soldiers immediately applied themselves to releasing these cap “ tives of their chains ; stript themselves ' in part of their own clothing to cover those wretc.ied beings, and were exceed ingly anxious to bring them up to the light of the day, . But aware of the danger. ( I insisted on their wants being supplied, () and being brought gradually to the light , as they could bear it. When we had explored these cells, am) opened the prison doors of those who yet survived, we proceeded to explore nno s ther room upon the left. Here we found 3 the instruments of torture, of every kind ' which the ingenuity of men or devils • could invent. At the sight of them the ' fury of our soldiers refused any longer to ’be restrained. They declared that every ■» inquisitor, monk, or soldier of the e.stab f lishment deserved to fie put to the torture. ’ We did not attempt any longer to restrain 1 them. They commenced at once the ' work of torture with the Holy Fathers. s I remained till I saw four different kinds ■ of torture applied ; and then retired from ■ the awful scene, which terminated not ■ while one individual remained of thefor ' mer guilty inmates of this anti-chamber 3 of hell, on whom they could wreak re • venge. —As soon as the poor sufferers L ‘ from the cells of the Inquisition could e with safety be brought out of their prison 1 to the light of day, (news having been ■ spread far and near, that numbers had r been rescued from the Inquisition) all r who had been deprived of friends by the • holy office, came to inquire if theirs were among the number. s Oh, what a meeting was there ! about • a hundred who had been buried alive for s many years, were now restored to the ac ? tive world, and many of them found here K a son, and there a daughter, here a sister, l and there a brother, and some, alas! 3 could recognise no friends. The scene • was such that no tongue can describe. 1 When this work of recognition was over, ! to complete tho business in which I had B engaged, I went to Madrid and obtained [ a large quantity of gun-powder, which 1 3 placed underneath the edifice, and in its • vaults, and as we applied the slow match 3 there was a joyous sight to thousands of 3 admiring eyes. Oh ! it would have done 1 your hearts good to see it; the walls and 1 massive turrets of that proud edifice, were ! raised towards the heavens, and the In ■ quisition of Madrid was no more.” 1 11. H. K. . 1 . i Irfidclity. A celebrated officer of the American Revolution, a Virginia gentleman, had 1 unfortunately been tinctured with infidel principles. The efforts of Mr. T. Paine to promote American liberty—the effu sions of his pen, and the zeal of his life, tended to make his infidel sentiment pop ular with many of our countrymen, at the; [O.ne Dollar a Year. era of the revolution. This officer had often introduced the subject, strange as it may appear to his daughter, and urged her to embrace its tenets. If infidelity succeed with man, it cannot often mas ter the heart of woman, for above all others, the law of her nature is trust, and she needs peculiarly the holy trust of heaven. The young lady resisted the entreaties of her lather. She clung to the principles of her Saviour’s religion. Disease afterwards wasted her fair form, and she drew near the closing scene. Friends loved her for her lovlincss, and the father wept, that earthly beauty should thus languish into the tomb. The work of disease was almost consumated ; the light was passing from her eye, and the pulse from her heart—it was a fearful moment—the dividing moment between time and eternity. She called the infidel tiither to her bedside—and as she gently pressed his hand; and looked tenderly up into his sad countenance, she said, ‘ Father would you have me he an infidel now ?' There was a pause—there was a sigh—and the heart-stricken man an swered, “ No, my daughter, No!” The Secret. ‘ Mother,’ said a girl of ten years of . age, 4 1 want to know the secret of your going away alone every night and morn ing’ . Hip,* , 4 Why, my dear ?’ , 4 Because it must be to see some ono , you love very much.’ 4 And what leads you to think so ?’ I 4 Because I have always noticed that . when you come back you appear to bo I more happy than usual.’ 4 Well, suppose Igo to see a friend I love very much, and that after seeing him, and conversing with him, I am more happy than before, why should you , wish to know any thing about it?” 4 Because I wish to do as you do, that . I may be happy also.’ 4 Well, my child when I leave you in the mornbig and evening, it is to com mune with the Saviour. Igo to pray to him, —I ask him for his grace to make me happy and holy,—l ask him to assist l mein all the duties of the day, and es pecially to keep me from committing j any sin against him—and above all, I ask i him to have mercy on you, and save you from the misery of those who sin against I him.’ I 4 0, that is the secret,’ said the child ; , 4 then I must go with you.’ Goil Defined. i Collins, the free-thinker, met a plain countryman going to church. He ask ed him where he was going :—‘Tochurch, sir,’ — 4 V\ hat to do there? ‘To Worship i God.’ Pray, whether is your God, a 1 great or a little God ?’ ‘He is both sir.’ How can he be both ?’ ‘He is so great ■ the heaven of heavens cannot contain i him, and so little, that he can dwell in my heart.’ Collins declared that this simple an swer of the countryman had more effect ■ on his mind than all volumes the learned > doctors had written against him.— Chas. 1 Rambler. , Capt. Stockton's Gun. —The N. York ] Sun discoursing of Capt. Stockton’s great ■ wrought iron cannon, says, “the gun is 3 not of mammoth proportions, as many j believe, and is easily worked ; the merit of this improvement consists in the tre t mendous ball, and the distance which it ris carried. Three kegs of gunpowder to . a single charge, and a ball carriecnto the ? distance of three miles, places opposition t at defiance, and renders a navy almost t useless. A steam ship armed with such 3 a gun can take position out of the reach . of a seventy.four and tear her all to ) pieces in a few discharges. The success ] of this experiment will produce quite at. j sensation abroad.” Caution. —We have been credibly in ' formed, two or three females in our rieigh ‘ borhood have been sickened so much as to have to call in medical aid, for using j apple butter, that had been deposited in j new earthen vessels. Precaution should ! be taken to scald new earthen pots before using them for this purpose, as the acid contained in the butter will draw the poi sonous substance used in the manufactu ring of them.—Williamsport (Md.) Ban ner. Newspaper Law.— ln case of a suit for fraud, the Georgia Courts have decid ed that refusing to take a newspaper from the office, or going away and leaving it uncalled for until all arrearages are paid, is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud.