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. ... PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY JAMES ieCAFFERTY, MiCISTOSH-SIBKET, OPPOSITE POsT OFFICE. Terms of Paper. —For a single copy, one year, Two Dollars: for six copies, Ten Dollars; for thirteen copies, T wen- < ty Dollars, payable in ailvance. Advertisements Will be inserted at 50 ; cents per square fir the lirst insertion, anil *25 cents for each con inu.ince Twelve lines to constitute a squire. A liberal (letlucU.m t iyearly aifve: users. No letters taken t'ro:n the Post Office unless postage free. Augusta W. T. A Society. Dr JOS. A. EVE, President. Dr. DANIEL HO JK„ 1 Rev \VM. J. HARD,' > Vick Presidents HAWKINS HUFF, Esq. ) WM. HAINES, Jr. Sucretart. L. D. LALLEttSTEL) l\ Treasurer, managers: J-.nr.fS ILuvci, c, c. oiou, iu, Rev. C. S': Dud, James God by, John Milled ie, | Caleudar tor 1815. D AYS. w 2 H 3 H ? if-: | § | £ I | Ei MONTHS. I" * | | |?l* I • * * £5 * ! : , - : | 5 6 7 8 8 10 ill 1-2 i;» I t 15 16 17 181 11) 2J ‘2l *22 23 21 251 2d 27 28 29 30 31 February, 1 ! 234a 6 / 8 9 10 11 T 2 13 14 15 Id 17 18 10 20 21 22 j 23 21 25 23 27 28 March, „ ' 2345 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 20 21 221 23 24 23 2d 27 28 20 j 30 31 April, 1 2 3 4 5; r 6 7 8 0 10 11 12 i 13 II 13 16 17 18 101 20 21 22 23 21 23 261 27 28 20 30 May, 1 2 .i i J 45G7 8 9 10 11 12 13 11 13 16 17 j 18 13 20 21 23 23 21 23 2d 27 28 23 30 31 June, 12 3 4 5 6 71 8 9 10 11 12 13 14! 15 Id 17 18 10 20 21 i 22 23 21 23 2d 27 26! 20 30 July, 1 2 3 4 3 6 7 8 0 JO U 121 13 14 15 Id 17 18 19 20 21 23 23 24 25 2b 27 28 20 30 31 August, J -; 3 4 5 6 7 8 0! 10 11 12 13 14 15 161 ]7 18 10 20 21 22 23 24 23 26 27 28 20 30 31 September, 1 2 3 4 3 61 7 8 0 10 11 12 13! 14 13 16 17 18 10 20 21 22 23 *24 23 2d 27 28 20 30 October, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0 10 II 12 13 11 15 16 17 18 10 *2O 21 22 *23 24 25 2d 27 28 20 30 31 A ’ovcmbcr, 1 2345 6 7 8 0 10 11 12 13 14 15 ' Id 17 18 10 20 21 22 23 24 25 2d 27 28 20 30 December, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0 10 11 12 13 14 15 Id 17 18 10 20 21 2-2 23 21 25 2d 27 28 20 30 31 the Sale talus a substitute lor Salt IVtre in Curias Meat. Saltpetre has long been considered bv physicians as a had article to he used in curing meat, being extremely injurious to digestion; it is of so cold a nature that j only a small quantity is sufficient to de stroy life. In the article of saleratus, we have an excellent, convenient and harm less substitute, and should be used in the same manner as salt-petre has been. Meat has a stronger affinity for saltpetre than for common salt. Saleratus has the same power in that respect, and tfiereby prevents the meat from becoming too I salt; and the same quantity should be used as of salt petre. There is this dif ference in them, that the saltpetre dis solves readily in cold water, whereas sale ratus does not; it should he pounded and dissolved before it is put into the brine. Saleratus is composed of sulphale of pot ash and pearlnsh ; and if any person is disposed to proenre the sulphale of pot ash at the shops and use it instead of! saleratus, they will find its effects sub stantially the same. The usual way of saving hams and I shoulders, is to cut them as soon as possi- j ble after the hogs are killed. This course makes the meat tough and stringy. In cool weather they should he kept on hand just as long as they can bo, and not in any wise tainted. Then rub them over with sugar or molasses, and let them lie a day or two. Then put them into brine in which has been put an ounce of saleratus dissolved, for each ham or shoulder; let them lie three or four weeks in the brine. Smoke them in an airy smoke house, and they will be found tender and delicious. C. D. AUGUSTA WASHINGTONIAN. \VVMVV\VW\VW> WV\\AV\WV\ VWA WAAAAAAVW%VAAAW\AWV%V%V%VA\AV\\AVKW\MW\'WV\%VV%WV\V\i\A , WV»V\%\ WVSVWA\V\' wv\\ WtU\VUW\X%V\VVVX\VVA A WEEKLY PAPER: DEVOTED TO TEMPERANCE, AGRICULTURE, & MISCELLANEOUS READINGS. Vol. 11l ] Cub Meal. Messrs. Editors. —l noticed sometime \ since an article in vour paper--editoria|. I j think—in which it was urged upon far-: mers to grind their cobs, as the meal was ! valuable for many purposes on the farm 1 —particularly for poultry, hogs, and | I stock. On the strength of this suggestion, I “ acted,” and can now assure you, so well | satisfied am I with the result, that my j I cobs will never, as heretofore, he “use liessly thrown away.” As I grind rny | colts with the corn, I cannot speak defi i nitely as to the value of cob meal when used in its pure and unmixed state, but I am satisfied that there is a very impor i Unit saving attained \>y economizing cobs j jin the manner you direct. I have, during | the last three months, fed cor'n and cob j 'meal to my horses, cattle, hogs, and ! calves, and as I have a large slock this i winter, and have thus far fed them whol | Iv on the products of my farm, the sa-J | ving to me, from this simple suggestion,j I has, I assure you, been of no small value | as regards the purse. — Maine Cultiva- I tor. Feeding Fouds. —“A Subscriber” in-, quires “which is the best grain for teed ; mg fowls, egiis being the object?” Fowls require a variety of food. Grain |of all kinds is good. Wheat screenings, which can be bail at all mills where wheat jis ground, constitute a cheap and good | feed for fowls. Buckwheat, barley, oats, \ and Indian corn, should also be given oc casionally. They should also have smi i inal food. This may he supplied from the offals of slaughter houses. If they ! are kept confined they should have oc -ionally some cabbages cut up and given thorn. Potatoes and turnips will also be ; found useful. | uVJd3©£iL!LiAii*i[S DUB. From Hood's Magazine. How* Jack Marlamt solved a very still' I’iobleni. Jack Marland was a happy fellow—at least any one who saw him seated in his I comfortable chambers in the Temple in a vast easy chair, and enveloped with clouds of smoke proceeding from bis fa vorite meerschaum, as the hell of St. Paul’s rang ten, would have said so.— But Jack was not happy, or rather he thought he was not happy. Jack had got into his silly head that, in spite of his ; accomplishments, his cleverness, and his handsome figure, he, Jack, was a cow i akd ! and that, if ever his courage should lie put to the proof, he should be lamen tably wanting. This was Jack’s “ ombre moir ;” this was the thought that embit tered Jack’s existence; and at the time which we introduced Jack to the no j lice of our readers, he was in Iris afore said easy chair, and under the soothing influence of his aforesaid pipe, assisted | by a cup of strong Mocha, turning over in his mind the different methods by which he thought it likely that he might he able to solve the knotty question, “ Am J I a coward ?” Jack thought and thought, and smoked and smoked, till lie was half asleep, without coming to any correct or satis factory conclusion; the idea had taken strong possession of his mind and tor mented him strangely; he, however, de termined to seize the first oportunity which might present itself of placing himself in the way of grappling with some imminent danger. We shall in less than ten minutes see that the wished : for opportunity presented itself, and in rather a curious manner. The long vacation arrived ; that time so wished for, so looked forward to by ' the legal profession; the time during which, &c. Jack, like many other denizens of the ! Temple, packed on his traps sent his | clerk for a cab, stuck a card outside his door with this inscription, “ Return be i lore the 2l)lh of October,” “shipped j himself all aboard of a ship,” then of a ! diligence, and in due course of time Found himself in Paris. One half day was sufficient to enable him to find a good suite of rooms; and now behold Jack fully launched in all the gaiety, not to say dissipation, of the metropolis of the French. Jack, we should before have mentioned, was a very good siiot with the pistol, yet lie had never been guilty of that height of folly, a duel; and, indeed, had often been heard to say that he never would. He, however, frequented many of the pistol practicing galleries which AUGUSTA, GA. JANUARY 11, 1845. abound in Paris; ajid, amongst others, i he had honored with his presence the j j tir au pistol et of M. Lepage, where, ofh course, he very soon became known as!: j“ Ce monsieur Anglais, qui tire aussi bien ■ quun Francois.” One tlav Jack, on to the zrr.llcrv . of M. Lepage with one of his friends, 1 found it occupied by a young man well : known as one of the best shots in Paris; and most assuredly ho was a good shot. He performed all t!i£fc:iis which tradi- ! lion assigns to the Chevalier St. George; he each time hit the bull’s-eye of the tar- i j get at the usual distance, snuffed the can- i j die with the hall, split a bullet against; | the edge of a knife, and drove a nail in- ! ; to the wall by striking the head exactly j ;in the centre with his ball; and, in short, j ; by a thousand feats of his nature, proved i himself worthy the name of a first rate i shot, Ilis amour provre was roused by | the presence of Jack, whom the alien-1 dant, in presenting him with the pistol, had quietly said, was almost as good a . shot as himself; but at each shot, instead of receiving from Jack the tribute of praise he deserved, he heard Jack, in re ! ply to the exclamation of astonishment which proceeded from all in the gallery, jsay; T “No doubt it is a very good shot; but j the result would be very different, I’ve a i notion, if he had a live man for his tar get*;. This incessant calling in question ol his powers as n duelist, (lor Jack had re peated his observation three times.) at first astonished the “ tirevr” and ended j by annoying him; and, at length, turn- i ing round to Jack, and looking at him with an air half jesting, half threalning, he said : “Forgive me, Mr. Englishman, but it appears to me that three times you have 1 1 made an observation disparaging to my courage; and you will he kind enough S to give me some explanation of the mea -1 ning of your words?” “My words,” answered our friend, j 1 “do not, I think, require any cxplana-1 tion; they are plain enough in my opin ion.” “Perhaps, then, sir, you will he good i enough to repeat them, in order that 1 may judge of the meaning which they will hear, arid the object with which they have been spoken,” was the reply of the ■ Frenchman. *• I said,” answered Jack, with the most perfect sangfroid, ‘ when I saw you hit I the bull’s eye at each shot, that neither your hand nor your eye would be so I steady if your pistol were pointed against j the breast of a man instead of a wooden i partition.” I I “ And why, may I ask ?” “ Because,” answered Jack, “ it seems : to me that at the moment of pulling the trigger, and firing at a man, the mind would he seized with a kind of emotion ! likely to unsteady the hand, and, conse quently, the aim.” “You have fought many duels?” ask ed the Frenchman. “ Not one,” said Jack. “Ah!” rejoined the other, with a j.sneer, “then l am not surprised that you suppose the possibility of a man being afraid under such circumstances.” “ Forgive me,” said Jack, “you mis understand me. J fancy that at the mo ment when one man is about to kill ano ther, he may tremble from soma other emotion than that of fear.” “ Sir! 1 never tremble,” said the shot. “Possibly,” replied Jack with the same composure ; “still I arn not ai all convinced that, at twenty.five paces, that is, at the distance at which you hit the hull’s eye each time—” “Well! at twenty-live paces,” inter rupted (he other. “ You would iniss your man,” was the cool reply. “Sir, I assure you I should not,” an ! swered the Frenchman. “Forgive me if I doubt your word,” said Jack. “You mean, then, to give me the lie?” “ I merely assert the fact,” replied our i friend. “ A fact, however, which I think you i would scarcely like to establish,” said ■ the tireur. ; “ Why not?” said Jack, looking steady at his antagonist. “ By proxy, perhaps?” I “By proxy, or in my own person, I : care not which,” said Jack. “I warn you, you would be somewhat . rash.” I “Not at all,” said Jack, “for I merely I say what I think ? and consequently, my t ■■ ■' ■ —, . -m. conviction is that I should risk but little.” ! “Let us understand each other,” said the Frenchman ; “yon repeat to me a second time, that at twenty-five paces I should miss my man.” “\ou are mistaken, monsieur,” said Jack, “ it appears to me that this is the j fifth time that I have said it.” “ Parbleu !” said the Frenchman, now thoroughly exasperated ; this is too much j you want to insult me.” “Think as you like, monsieur,” said Jack. “ Good !” said the other, “ your hour, sir ?” “ Why not now?” said Jack. “The place?” said the other. “ We are but five steps from the Bois |de Bologne,” replied Jack. “ Your arms, sir ?” “ The pistol, of course,” was Jack’s , ! answer; “we are not about to fight a | duel, but to decide a point upon which I we are at issue.” The two young men entered the cabri olets, each accompanied bv a friend, and drove towards the Bois de Bologne. Ar rived at the appointed place, the sec onds wished to arrange the matter. — I This, however, was very difficult; Jack’s adversary required an apology, whilst Jack maintained that he owed him none, i unless he himself was either killed or wounded ; for unless this happened he (Jack) would not have been proved wrong. The seconds spent a quarter of an hour in the attempt to effect a recon i cilialion, but in vain. They then wish led to place the antagonists at thirty pn jces from each other; to this Jack w add j not consent, observing that the point in question could not be correctly decided if any difference were made between the distance now to be fixed and the distance at which his antagonist had hit the hull’s eye in tiie gallery. It was then propo sed that a louis should he thrown up, in order to decide who should shoot first; this Jack declared was totally unneces. jsary—thnt the right to the first shot nat urally belonged to his adveisary; and i although tho Frenchman was anxious that Jack should take advantage of this one chance, he was firm and carried his point. The “gurcon” of the shooting gallery had followed, and was ready to charge the pistols, which he did with the same measure, the same kind of powder, and the same kind of balls ns those used by the Frenchman in the gallery a short time before. The pistols, too, were the same ; this condition alone had Jack im posed—a sine qua non. The antagonists, placed at twenty paces from each other, received each his pistol; and the seconds retired a few paces in order to leave the combatants free to fire one afier another, according to the stipulated arrangement. Jack took none of the precautions usu al with duellists; he attempted not to shield any part of his body, by position or other means; but allowed iiis arms to bang clown by his side, and presented his full front to his enemy, who scarcely knew what to make of this extraordinary conduct. He had fought several duels, but it had never been his lot to see such sangfroid in any one of his antagonists; he felt as if bewildered; and Jack’s the ory occurring to his inind, tended bui little to reassure him; in short, this cele brated siiot, who never missed either his man or the bull’s eye of the target, be gan to doubt his own powers Twice he raised his pistol, and twice he lowered it again. This was, of course, contrary to ail the laws of duelling; but each time Jack contented himself with saying: “Take time,' monsieur! Take time!” A third time he raised his arm, and, feel ing ashamed of himself, fired. It was a moment of most painful anxiety to the seconds; but they were soon relieved for Jack, the instant after the pistol had fired, turned to the right and to the left, and made a low bow to the two friends, to show them he was not wounded, and then said coolly to his antagonist: “ You see, sir, I was right!” “You were,” answered the French man; “and now fire in your turn.” “Not I,” said Jack, picking up his hat, and handing the pistol to the garcon ; “ what good would it do me to shoot at you ?” “But sir,” said his adversary, “you have the right, and I cannot permit it to be otherwise; besides, I am anxious to i see how you shoot.” 1 “Let us understand each other,” said Jack, “ I never said that I could hit you; I said that you would not hit me; you < have npt hit me; I was right; and now there is an end to the matter.” And, in | [No. 26 —a . ... WASHINGTO-XIAN TOTAL ABSTINENCE PLEBGE. | J We, whose names are hereunto an nexed, desirous of forming a Society for our mutual benefit, ami to guard against a pernicious practice, which is injurious !to our health, standing and families, do pledge ourselves as Genti-emen, not to drink any Spirituous or Malt l.iquors, Wine or Cider. j spite of all the remonstrances and en- I treaties of the Frenchman, Jack mount ed his cab, and drove off, repeating to his friend, “ I told you there was a mighty ' difference between firing at a doll and firing at a man 1 ” Jack’s mind was at ease; he had solved the problem, and found that lie was not a coward. ** ashiiigtoii. America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done no thing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind. / Washington! “First in war. first in ; peace, and first in the hearts of his conn- Itrymen!” W ashington is all our own ! 1 he enthusiastic veneration and regard in which the people of the United States I hold him, prove them to be worthv of ; such a countryman; while his reputation abroad reflects the highest honor on his country and its institutions. I woidd cheerfully put the question to-day to the intelligence of Europe and the world, w hat character of the century, upon the whole, stands out in the relief of history, most pure, most respectable, most sub lime ; and I doubt not, that bv a suffrage approaching to unanimity, the answer would be—Washington. This structure, by its uprightness, its solidity, its durability, is no unfit emblem of his character. His public virtues and public principles were ns firm as the earth on which it stands; his personal motives as pure as the scVene heaven in which his summit is lost. But indeed? though a fit it is an inadequate emblem. Towering high above the column which our hands have huilded, beheld, not by the inhabitants of a single city or a sin gle State —ascends the collossal grandeur of his character and his life. In all the constituents of the one—in all the acts of the other—in all its titles to immortal love, admiration and renown —it is an American production. It is the embo dvment and vindication of our trans-At iantic liberty. Born upon our soil—of parents also horn upon it—never for a moment having had a sight of the old world—instructed, according to the modes of his time, only in the spare, plain, hut vvhnlrsome elementary knowledge which our institutions provide for the children of (he people—growing up beneath and penetrated by the genuine influences of American society—growing up amidst our expanding, but not luxurious civiliza tion—partaking in our great destiny of labor, our long contest with unreclaimed nature and uncivilized man—our agony of glory, the war of independence—our great victory of peace, the formation of the Union and the establishment of the Constitution—he is all—all our own! That crowded and glorious life—— “ Where multiludes of virtues passed along, Each pressing foremost, in the mighty throng Contending to tie seen, then making room For greater multitudes that weretocoine; —” that life was the life of an American citizen. I claim him for America. In all the perils, in every darkened moment of the State, in the midst of the reproaches of enemies and the misgiving of friends—l turn to the transcendant name for cour age, and for consolation. To him who denies, or doubts whether our served lib erty can be combined with law, with order, and the security of property, with the pursuits and advancement of happi ness—to him who denies that our institu tions are capable of producing exaltation of soul and the passion of true glorv—to him w ho denies that we have contributed anything to the stock of great lessons and great examples—to all these I reply by pointing to Washington !— Webster's Bunker Hill Address. Beautiful is the love of a sister, the kiss that hath no guile or passion ; the touch is purity, and bringeth peace and satis faction to the heart. Beautiful is the love of a sister; it is of heaven, and sheds its peace upon the earth. Drop Cakes. —One quart of milk, a large tea spoonful of salseratus, dissolved in a cup of cream ; to which stir in flour very smoothly until a thick batter is form ed. Then dip your spoon in rnilk, and with it place your batter at short dis tances in a buttered pan. Very delicate made entirely of cream, either with or without eggs. Butter is improved hy working the se cond time after the laps of 24 hours, when the salt is dissolved, and the watery particles can be entirely removed.