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»" —■asaai TUB W.SHINIJTONI.N. 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, To Distant Sumchkiciu.—Post Master* are au. tlwriied by law to remit money to the publishers of navspapcn and periodicals, in payment of subscrip tions. Subscribers to the can therefore pay lor their papers without subjecting themselves or the publisher to the expense of postage, by handing the amount to the Pott Master, with a request to remit it. 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. «=Th.< " ; - i; ~ 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