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AUGUSTA. JANUARY 11th, 1845.
~ editorial committee.
JRev. W. T. Bkastly, Dr. D. Huok,
“ W. J. Hard, James Harpkh, Esq,
" C. S. Don, A. W. JS'oel, Esq.
" Geo. F. Pierce,
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CO” The Governor of the State has
appointed Tb rsday, the 13th of Feb
ruury next, as a day of Thanksgiving
and Prayer throughout the State.
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The extract from Mr. Pierpont de
serves the sryious consideration of every
man who really desires the prosperity of
Augusta. In vain will we manufacture,
and economise in other respects, while
our children nnd servants are taught to
waste the fruits of our toil and care in
idle and ruinous dissipation. In vain
may we hope for prosperity, while nur
sing in our own bosom, a fire that con
sumes all the elements of prosperity,
In vain we expect the blessing of heaven,
while this patronized sink of pollution I
shows that wc do not deserve it. Sin is
a disgrace to any nation !—open and le
galized intemperance will prove the ruin
of any community!
Besides the continued waste of the
profits of labor resulting from grog sell
ing and buying, the encouragement giv
en to itinerant play-actors and circus ri
ders, tends greatly to drain our resources,
and also to demoralize our people.—
Night after night money is thrown away*
and physical and mental energy expend
ed, in attendance upon the vitiating ex
hibitions of men, too lazy to work, and
too ignorant to instruct. Ought it to
surprise us that the times are hard?—
Can men work in the day who spend the
night in dissipation? Can they relish
realities, who depend upon fictions for ex
citement? Can the money given to va
grants, remain to bless the city ? Hard
times! They are indeed hard, but they
will be much worse, unless the virtuous
arise in the majesty joC virtue, and say to
the vicious, “These things shall no lon
ger be.”
But it may be asked, how can the vir
tuous arrest the progress of vice ? We
answer—by enforcing the laws ugaint ad
vagrants and grog-sellers. Let them on
ly resolve and act together, and the work
is done. If existing laws are inefficient,
let the city authorities mnke them stron
ger, The taxes for shows may be so in
creased as to drive from among us the
traffickers in such degrading wares. The
penalties for selling poison to the unsus
pecting citizens may bo made more ex
emplary.
There is one cheering ray of light
breaking in upon us through the dark
clouds of commercial adversity—it is,
that hard necessity will insure the re
formation proposed, even if our pleadings
fail. Cash alone will soon be the only
thing that will command sensual gratifi
cations, and as this article will be want
ing, our grog-buyers and night-revellers,
will be compelled to call a halt. It
would be much more noble to do it from
choice, but good will come of it, let the
cause be what it may. When this is
done, the germ of prosperity will be
found in Augusta—until then no change
can do more than enlarge the means of
those, who waste them on unworthy ob
jects, and spend more at night than all
the industrious make during the day.
How they get it, we know not, but we
know, the city looses it! The city has
its debit and credit accounts, and its ba
lance sheet must always exhibit the
amount of its extravagance.
Tbe Kennel of Dogs. j
BY BEV. JOHN BIERPOXT.
Suppose a man should come into your
beautiful village—and here in front of the
State House Yard, should build himself a
pen for the purpose of keeping a pack of
mad dogs. And suppose that this man
every day, as your children should pass
by his kennel on their way to school,
should let out one or two of his mad dogs
to bite your little children—and every
day your little ones should be dying here
in Concord, with the hydrophobia! How
long would it take to wake up an interest
here to abolish that mad dog kennel ?
You would not have to stop to hunt up
Sheriff Pinkham and Justice Badger, but
instantly that dog keeper would feel the
sentiment abroad in Concord, and would
take himself and dogs out of town much
quicker than he came in. He couldn’t
meet one of the fathers nr mothers of
Concord. The indignation of their eye
would wither him to the earth. But what
Concord father or mother had not rather
their little boy should be bitten by the
mad-dog, and be laid away in the silent
grave—its gentle spirit gone up to hea
ven, innocent as it came from the hand
of God—than that that Loy should be en
ticed into the den of the Rumseller—
grow up in drunkenness and vice, expe
rience a drunkard’s life, at last fall into a
drunkard’s grave, and go up to a drunk
ard’s judgment. Who is the guiltiest
man—tell me, ye men and women of
Concord—he who should let loose the
mad dogs, or the men who are keeping
open here in your midst, these rum stores
and cellars—digging pit-falls here in your
streets, for the fall of your sons ?
The True Principle.
The friends of moral suasion may ar
gue as much as they please, and waste
ink for years to come, and they will nev
er succeed in convincing us, and we be
lieve, a majority of the friends of temper
ance, that there is but one way to carry
on the reformation. So long as men will
differ ir. opinion, and hold various senti
inents in relation to any object whatso
ever, they will feel and act differently in
this effort. It is vain to try to make
mankind think alike—as well attempt to
make all rivers run in the same direction.
We arc distinctly in favor of the true
Washingtonian doctrine—the reforma
tion of the drunkard by moral suasion
alone. We love to see the reformed man
standing before his fellow-men, and ad
vocating the cause that redeemed him,
and gave him the place among mankind,
which he had lost by his own madness
and folly. We deprecate the attempts
to force the drunkard to reform by con
fining him, and refusing kiin the opportu
nity of drinking. We have very little
confidence in any man who is forcibly
brought to sign the pledge. But there is
i another view of the subject to be taken in
to consideration. There are men who
are dead to every feeling of humanity and
forgetful of the obligations of man to
man, will sell, i. the face of argument
and reason, that which they know brings
death and misery to the bodies and souls
of their victims—men who refuse not to
pour liquid fire down the throats of their
own families, and send a brother’s soul
howling amid the horrors of delirium tre
mens, to the spirit world. The moral
suasionist would touch these men gently
and kindly, and cry out, if perchance
some doubting one would use stronger
measures. This touching such men
gently, looks to us like tickling a croco
dile with a feather; nnd it is generally
quite as effectual. The principles we
would urge is the same as proposed in
Cincinnatti, Ohio. Whenever a majori
ty of legal voters, in any city, or in any
township in any county in the Stale, shall
declare against the retail traffic (or
wholesale either , we say,) in ardent, spir
its, there such traffic shall cease. This
is the true principle, and one we hope to
see adopted in every part of our land.
Bring the question right to the people,
and whichever way they decide, so shall
it be—“peaceably ifthey can, forcibly if
they must.”
Total Abstincuce Fashionable.
Governor McDowell, the present Chief
Magistrate of Virginia, is one of the most
distinguished sons of that ancient comon
wenlth, which still claims the title, “ The
Old Dominion,” and which is, in many
respects, “the mother of us all,” —distin-
guished for learning, oratory, political
wisdom, virtue, and whatever goes to
constitute a great man and a good man.
At a party given at thegovernment-house
last winter, to the members of the Legis
lature, the officers of government, and the
fashionables of the city—of course, in
cluding visiting strangers happening at
that season, in the place, besides coffee
and tea for the refreshmontof the guests,
what sort of drink was furnished, do you
think, gentle reader? Cognae? Cham
paigne? Cider? Nothing of the kind—
nothing but “ Adam’s Ale,” —nothing but
cold water. Some young bucks pretend
ed to say, it was because it was cheapest ;
bat everybody knows better. What would
have been a quarter cask of Madeira, and
a few demijohns of brandy, or even a pipe
of Gin, to Governor McDowell ? He
consulted his own good taste, and the
good taste of those of his guests, whose
example is apt to be imitated. —Penfeld
Banner.
t •• v ' " • .'tew, Jk-':
Father Mathew.
i Great sympathy is felt, at the present
time, in Ireland and England for this be
i nevolent gentleman, who has done such
wonders in the cause of temperance. It
appears that by his benevolent actions in
donations of money to the poor, of med
als to signers to the pledge, and bv print
ing and circulating gratuitously temper
i ance tracts, &c., he has become, involved
to (he amount of £SOOO. He gave over
100,000 small medals to children. Sil
ver medals have gone from him to the *
amount of £ISOO, some sold some given
away. His printing bills for a period of
six years have been over £3OOO. He
has paid for the lodging and food of ma
ny a poor creature who has come a long
distance to sign the pledge ; and caused
many a trembling creature, who has
whispered in his ear a tale of wo, to leave
his presence with a light heart. While
recently administering the pledge in
Dublin, a hard-hearted creditor had him
arrested for the supi of £250. He ap
plied to a gentleman in Dublin, a great
friend to temperance, who he presumed
would release him from the hands of the
bailiff, from whom he met to his extreme
mortification a refusal. The Mayor and
an Alderman interposed and rescued him.
On Nov. II an immense relief meeting
was held at Cork. It was, in extent,
limited by the walls of the Court in
which it was held, and combined every
rank, class and party in the City. The
Bench was crowded with majistrates,
merchants, country gentlemen,clergy men
and gentlemen of other learned profess
ions. The body of the Court was also
crowded with respectable citizens, mostly
members of the Temperance Society.—
The Mayor presided, and very able
speeches were made in behalf of Father
Mathew’, which are reported at length in
the Cork Examiner. It was proposed to
raise the sum of £SOOO to pay off the
debt, and of £20,000 to sustain Father
Mathew in future operations.
Punch says:—
' Mathew the martyr brought his for
tune into the market to buy up vice; to
bribe wretchedness into comfort! to pur
chase, with ready money, crime and pas.
ion, that he might destroy them. He
has laid out all bis means, that he might
make temperance alluring to an impul
sive, whiskey-loving people: he counts
his ten thousands of proselytes , and then
taking out his purse he, counts nothing !
He has triumphed, but he is a beggar.—
Taught by his Temperance lessons, the
peasant and artificer—ah, thousands of
them—have made their homes more
worthy of human creatures, and the
teacher himself is shown the way to a
gaol. Mathew is arrested for the price
of the medals with which ho decorated
his nrmy of converts— we know few or
ders, home or foreign, more honorable,
if sincerely sworn —and unless Ireland
1 arise as one man, the reward of the Great
Teacher is the County Prison.”
We see nothing in the English papers
which countenances (he idea, which has
been spread here, that Father Mathew
has been reduced by endorsing for his
brothers who were distillers. On the
contrary it is said, his brothers, though
distillers, did much to uphold’him even
while he was cutting them down by his
operations.— Jour. Am. Tern. Union.
J. H. IF. Hawkins. —This excellent
man and able temperance lecturer, is
J now on a temperance tonr through the
West, down the Ohio to Cincinnati, St.
Louis, New Orleans, Mobile and C'harles
' ton. We hope he will everywhere be
’ well received and well rewarded. Tho
' laborer is worthy of his hire.
> An Appeal to Parents. —ls there a
- parent who would not rather see his or
f her son die of the most loathsome disease
God ever inflicted, than become a poor
gibbering thing, and die a loathsome and
p despised drunkard ? There is not.—
I Then let every parent lend his aid in
abolishing the use of intoxicating liquor
, as a beverage or otherwise.— Mr. Gough.
*
Letter from J H. W. Hawkins, to the
Corresponding Secretary of the Amer
, ican Temperance Union.
Pittsburgh, Dec. 21, 1844.
s Esteemed Friend: —I arrived in this
■ place on Sat. 14th. Before leaving Bal
! timore, I held some very interesting meet
• ings on the Eastern Shore of Maryland,
t where many signed the pledge who had
i never signed before, and many re-signed
, who had broken. Dec. 8, I held two
i very interesting meetings in Baltimore,
which many will never forgot. Dec. 9,
- left for the West; stopped at Cuinber
t land and held three very interesting meet
- ings in the Methodist Episcopal Church ;
; —at one, 49 signed the pledge. On the
1 Sunday evening after my arrival here,
1 I addressed a large congregation in the
; Baptist Church. Monday evening, an
5 overflowing audience in the Washington
5 Conference Hall. Tuesday evening, a
i large and respectable audience in Smith
l field Street Methodist Church. On Wed
nesday and Thursday evenings, held
very interesting meetings in the Tem
perance Ark, Allegany City, a large
brick building, built by the temperance
society, and holding about 1,000 people.
Last night, I finished up my work in the
temperance hall Pittsburgh. I have nev- j
er spent a happier week in all my travels.
In this place, the cause has many valua- j
ble friends. Should you come on here
with Mr. Gough, you would do a great
work. The Hon. Walter Forward, Sec
retary of the Treasury, is a host in him
self. Many others I could mention, are
strong pillars. I shall be in Wheeling on
Christmas day, and in Cincinnati on
New Year’s day. I shall then proceed
down the river to St. Louis and New Or-1
leans, and home by Mobile and Charles
ton, stopping and lecturing at all the
principle places. You shall hear from
me when I have any thing special to
communicate.
Yours in haste, and in the bonds
of Temperance and religion,
J. H. W. HAWKINS.
Faith iu a Father’s Promise.
I impressed on my daughter, says Mr.
Cecil, the idea of faith in God, at a very
early age. She was one day playing with
a few beads, which seemed to delight her i
very much; her whole heart appeared
absorbed in those beads. I said to her.
my dear, you have some pretty beads
there; “yes, papa,” she replied; well,
now throw them behind the fire. The
tears started in her eyes, she looked ear
nestly at me,as though she ought to have
a reason for that sacrifice. “ Well, my
dear, do as you please, but you know I
never told you any thing but what was
for your good.” She looked at me a few
moments, then summoning up all her for- j
titude, dashed them into the fire. “Well,” I
said I, “ there let them lie, you shall hear j
more about them some other lime.” A \
short time afterwards I bought her a box
of large beads and some toys besides.
When I returned home I opened the
treasure, and set them down before her.
She burst into tears of ccstacy. “Those,
my child, are yours, because you believed
me when I told you it would be better to
throw those few paltry beads into the fire.
I have brought you what is infinitely
more valuable. But, my dear, remember
as long as you live what faith is. You
threw away your beads when I bid you,
because you had faith in me thet I never
advised you but for vour good. Put the
same confidence in God. Believe every
thing that bo says in word, whether you
understand it or not. Have faith in him
who means, and wills every thing for
your good.”
v Danger of Iteanty.
Such is the influence of personal ad
miration in checking the growth of mor
al and intellectual beauty, and engender
ing selfishness and vanity, that we are in
clined to believe the deep pathos of the
feminine heart is to be found in the
greatest perfection concealed behind the
countenance that has seldom attracted
the public gaze. It is in such hearts,
whose best offerings are rarely estima
ted according to their real value, that
disinterested affection, in all its natural
warmth, lives and burns for the benefit
of the suffering or the beloved; that en
thusiam and zeal, tempered down by hu
utility, are ever ready lor the performance
of the arduous duties of life; and that
ambition, if it exists at all, is directed to
the attainment and diffusion of more
lasting happiness than mere beauty can
afford.— Mrs. Ellis.
Justice to ihe Ladies.
There is to be an application made to
the Legislature of New York at its com
ing session, to enact a law giving to fe
male patentees, whether married or sin
gle, the sole control over their inventions,
and over the profits arising from their op
eration or sale. This is a movement we
decidedly approve. Justice has yet to
be done to that sex. Woman is not yet
fully emancipated from the subordinate
position in which barbarism found her.
We would not have her harangue in sen
ates, drive the plough, or lead armies;
her mental and physical constitution best
fit her for the fireside, and for the quiet,
but important and endearing duties con
nected with it. Yet her rights in proper
ty should not, therefore, be neglected.
To the inventions of her genius, alike in
the mechanic arts as in literature, she
should be entitled; and the day is not
far distant when enlightened legislation
will erase from the statute-book all the
barbarisms on this subject that now dis
grace it. As the law stands, at present,
her property, on her marriage, becomes
her husband’s. All her acquisitions too
are his. The writer who coins money
by the fever of her brain, as well as the
poor washerwoman who toils from mid
night till the next evening, are alike lia
ble to have their earnings seized on to
pay the debts of an unfortunate or even
dissipated husband. What glaring injus
tice ! Such a law might do when wo
men were slaves, and then, indeed, it had
its origin. It is a shame on our civiliza
tion now.— Neal's Saturday Gazette.
M **‘—^■——t—
Beauty. •! T . *
Personal beauty is a matter upon
I which the possessor is apt to pique her
self or himself, somewhat highly, and ev
j er V one, no matter how philosophical,
likes to be at least tolerably good looking.
Even Madame De Stael would willingly
: have exchanged her genius and literary
renown fora share of feminine attrac
tion. But yet beauty is quite an inde
terminate thing. There are places in
which a woman to be truly lovely, must
be a load for a camel. In Tunis, the fair
; are systematically fattened. A Hotten
tot angel is too heavy to walk without
| -assistance; and Mungo Park relates that
i the ladies of Bondotf, after a careful sur
vey, approved of his external appearance,
with the exception of the two deformities
of a white skin and a high nose ; but for
these were kindly disposed to make al
lowance, being, as they believed, pro
i duced by the false taste of his mother,
who had bathed him with milk, when
[ young, and, by pinching his nose, raised
it to its present absurd height.
Accomplishments.
BY MRS. IIAI.E
\oung ladies are, now-a-davs, taught
such a multiplicity of arts and accom
plishments, that nothing which can add
to the grace of mind and manners, seems
omitted or forgotten. Only one requi
site is wanting to complete the system.
It is that these intelligent and accom
plished young ladies, should be sedulous
ly instructed in the art of applying their
knowledge, and exhibiting their graces
advantageously. Not that they may
procure a good establishment, which, as
the term is now understood, means a fine
house, fine furniture, and a husband who
has “ money in his purse but that they
may be fitted to discharge those impor
tant duties which can only make woman
useful, respectable, truly beloved, and
consequently happy.
The aim of female education, there
fore, ought to bo, not to exalt those who
enjoy its advantages above their sphere,
but to make them more capable of per
forming the part which the laws of so
ciety, and, indeed, the nature of things,
allot as the peculiar province of the fe
male.
“She looketh well to the ways of her
household,” is a commendation which
every lady, who is the mistress of a fam
ily, should be ambitious to observe; and
should she possess genius, and even tal
ent, yet still let her remember, that to
make a happy home for her husband and
| children is far more praiseworthy than to
make a book.
I was once Young.
It is an excellent thing for all who are
engaged in giving instruction to young
people frequently to call to mind what
they were themselves when young. This
practice is one of the most likely to im
part patience and forbearance, and to
correct unreasonable expectations. At
one period of my life, when instructing
two or three young people to write, I
found them, as I thought, unusually stu
pid. I happened about this time, in look
ing over the contents of an old chest, to
lay my hand on an old copybook, written
by me when I was a bov. The thick up
strokes, the crooked down-strokes, the
awkward jointings of the letters, and the
i blots in the book, made me completely
ashamed of myself, and I could, at the
moment, have hurried the hook into the
fire. The worse, however, I thought of
myself, the better I thought of mp back
ward scholars ; I was cured of my unrea
sonable expectations, and became in fu
ture doubly patient and forbearing, in
teaching youth, remember that you once
were young, and in reproving their youth
ful errors endeavor to call to mind your
own.
“ I tell you what,” said a neighbor to a
sign painter, who had an apprentice ra
ther awkward in business, “ifvou do not
look a little sharper after that apprentice
lad of yours, you will never make any
thing of him. He has no more notion of
painting than an old horse ! Look at that
lion that he has just finished; why it is
more like a dog than a lion. He ought
to be ashamed of himself, and if I were
yOu, I should very soon tell him so.”
“ And so I would,” replied the sign paint
er, “only that I have a lion hanging up
against the wall of the workshop of my
own doing when I was a lad, and to tell
you the truth, bad as his lion is, it is a
great deal better than mine; so I must
bear with him, and hope for the best.”—
Gazette of Education.
The English Bride of the Objibbeway
Indian. —lt was announced recently
that the bride of the Objibbeway Indian,
Noilekhem, or “Strong Winds,” recent
ly married in London, has returned to
the paternal roof, she and her spouse not
having been able to live comfortably to
gether. The Detroit Advertiser contra
dicts the story, and says :
“ We recently saw this Indian with his
fashionable wife at our stores, buying ar
ticles for housekeeping. She is a very