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THE HASHITCTONIAN. AUGUSTA. FERUARTSth, IB4S. EDITORIAL COMMI TTEE. Rev. W. T. Bhantly, Dr. D. Hook, •• VV J. HaRB, * HARPKH.IEsq.] iS.. '* C. S. Don, A. W, JSoki., Eeq. qo- To Dhtavt Bi-b.cb!be««.— Post Masters nre mi. thorireil bv low to remit money to the publishers of newspapers »n<l periodicals hi payment of subscript Hons. Subscribers to the con therefore par for their papers without subjecting th.-nut-ice. or •he publisher to the expense of postage, by handing the amount to the Post Master, svith a request to remit it. Augusta. We have been pleased to see some movements among our citizens of late, which indicate that they are waking up to their true interests. We have been a community of consumers, and political economists tell us that the prosperity of such communities cannot be permanent and healthy. Heretofore the high prices which our staple has commanded, have enabled the planters to pay us a pretty good price for negociating the article, and pretty good prices for our goods.— But times have undergone a material change; the planters cannot pay as much as we have been receiving from them. There remains but one alternative—to address ourselves to work. We are fully persuaded that unless the wheels of industry are sot in motion, (either by steam or water.) that our city cannot much longer enjoy that prosperi ty that has heretofore distinguished it.— Those who have made themselves con versant with such matters, are of the opinion that our city possesses peculiar advantages for manufacturing purposes. All that we need is that spirit of enter prise which lias characterized the efforts of our Northern brethren, and which has so considerably increased the wealth and population of the New England States. Cold Weather. „ ! Our winter which has been an unsual ly mild one, changed its tone on Tuesday last for the opposite extreme. Wo have had several days which would no doubt be pronounced very respectable winter weather in the latitude of New York. J. 11. Gough. This distinguished Tcmperanco lec turer has recently been addressing crowds in the city of Philadelphia. He is rep resented as an Orator of the first order. We wish that he or some one else would visit our city and call from the grave, (in which it seems to be interred.) the in terest which once existed is Augusta, in behalf of the Total Abstinence pledge. Where is our old friend and respondent, “ Rewo rder ?” Has he given' up in despair? The rum-sellers are still vending their liquid poison,—making drupkards —beggaring families—increa sing crime, and imbruting souls by their destructive traffic. They have been reasoned with, entreated, urged to desist from their unholy business—but all' to no purpose. Avarice swallows up every other consideration, and sell the pestilent stuff they will. With the fruits of their business constantly ripe before their eyes, they continue to sow the seed which produces such death-distilling fruit.— Not the tears of heart-broken wives, nor the wail of orphans, nor the fearful mul tiplication of sorrows, can persuade them to break off from the circulation of a beverage fraught with so much mischief. Como, brother Rewarder, try your hand again. Shew these people their sins.— Let them not (with the light which you can throw upon their trade,) have it to say at last, “In ignorance we did this thing.” The Deposed Ouderdouks—Ttmpcrancc. The recent deposition of the Episco pal Bishop of Pennsylvania, and the more recent suspension of his brother, the Episcopal Bishop of New York,supply matter for painful reflection. None but a malignant heart can exult in the calami ty which has overwhelmed them. Chris tianity in her remotest connexions, bleeds when her public advocates prove recre ant to their high vocation. Wc allude to the matter nt the present time to sound the note of warning. It is generally believed that both of the Onderdonks, so far from supporting, were the decided enemies of Temper ance organizations. The baleful influ - ence of their precept and example, was seen in the conduct of the clergy of their Diocese. Whilst ministers of all other denominations were found among the zealous friends of the Temperance Reform, the Episcopal clergy of New York and [Philadelphia (with a few hon orable exceptions,) stood aloof. Had their Bishops lent tJjjpir countenance and support to this philanthropic cause, it is highly probable that their ministers would Kave folWwed their example. The result w,ould doubtless have been great good to tl\p people of their charge in general, amj to the Bishops in particu- j larC ***""" * ” Anecdote of Robert Hall. Right j tujnes. —A brother preacher who WappenStJ to be lodging with Rev. Robert .to'him that he was in the ImblKof taking a little re freshment after preaching. The refresh ment called for was a glass of brandy and water. “You cannot have it by that name, my dear sir,” replied Mr. Hall; “call it by its proper name and you shall have it.” “ And pray what is that?” “Not refreshment —but liquid poison and distilled damnation .” A pret ty hot dose. We would suggest this as | a suitable label for the decanters. To call the article by its right name might have some effect in diminishing its pop ularity. Delirium Tremeus. r » Reader, have you ever seen a case of delirium tremens? You know that this is the state which ensues when the wretched drinker of turning spirits is re covering from some ’drunken debauch, j He is then tormfnted by a thousand dis tressing npprehpnsipns, which thoagh they have no real existence, are never theless invested by his imagination with all the power of troth- Let a man be fully persuaded tKjtt, frrspds have become his enemies; atpl are t!urst ing for his'blood;'that he secs demonsJn some frightfufViMh'armed wirirvinsTru ments of torture to ffiWess Apu.pur suing hint whithersoteveKhe that he hears voices fti fir Ihroatning hjtq with the most awful } ttyit h \ftelf then? pressing violently against his body; let tiinj not only imlgikebut btj fully convinced of all this (ina ’sober nfan can ;)‘in kddltibn to this, le’t him be wholly unable either to sleep of eat; and he-will Jmbejsome faint ijfea of wretchedness of a poor being, suffering under deiiriuAi t/cmens. Sometimes the anguish olj thy sufferer is so great that, the case.terminates in confirmed insani ijy, and lie rfiust.be put in confinement. Tn% kqepertf of otir mad-houses tell us that *& fjonsi’derable proportion of their tenants.have been made such ky intern perancA* Where insanity does not take place, tbe system suffers such a violent shock, thpt death, sooner or later is the consequence. It is true that nature) as if willing xto warn, spares the victirti and permits hftp to recover from orle or twd; and more attacks. But th& consequences <Jf repetition are inva riably (atal. Death,' pr what is worsd, madness, is the universal result of fre quent repetition. Now every man who drinks to excess, or who even drinks habitually, in such quantities as will not in themselves pro-1 duce intoxication, is exposed'to this hor rible malady. The moderate drinker has placed himself under a discipline which will assuredly train him up for this most melancholy of all conditions. O ye lovers of the deceitful beverage, ponder these things! Keep away from the damning grog shop! Fear the man I who mixes for you the sweetened poison, as much as you would dread the assassin who seeks your life! Let no man enrich himself with the blood of your soul! For the Washiugtoninn. Rum Selling* Notwithstanding the specimens of fine fellows which this business occasionally affords, wc believe that it so imnnirs ones * . i sensibilities, that if persisted in for a length of time, the rumseller will he found destitute of any heart. Recently one of these fine specimens afforded the evidence in favor of our assertion. A poor fellow was led by the aforesaid specimen of charitable beings some dis tance from the shop, and left, thougi scarcely able to stand —almost we sup pose too drunk to talk, or to know where he was. The night was bitter—the stranger might die. On that very night we had given shelter to a poor brute that we thought might be injured by the in clement season—it could not pay us-* yet, its comfortable appearance was*!im ple reward. But the rumseller, who had | helped a man to become stupid attoj hll()- less, leaves him to he tloes not, care what becomes of him. He keeps, a drinking and not a drunken sfu>p- When men are unable to drink, whj%he has no use for them, and he will then turn them out under circumstances to which decent men would not expose a dog. ANTI-RUM. From the Temperance Banner. It is, perhaps, a well known fajjt to all that Alcohol had bis origin and that in the early par! of his existence he was considered to be a greirt frictul to mankind. y paving now stated where in a brief manner, I will mentidn of (be traits of his character—both good add bad, (for I do not wish, in the least degree, to do him injustice.) Jr. the ear ly part of his life, his .biographer informs us, he was considered a very groat physi ician; so much so indeed, that all per sons, of every age, size, and sex, resort ed to him, to be healed of w hatever mal adies they were afflicted. Alcohol see ing himself becoming renowned, and at so early a period of his life, and being naturally of an ambitious spirit, wished to extend his borders a little farther. He at length made his way into Eu. rope, where it seems he met with almost universal reception. No grades of soci ety refused his presence, but, indeed, all sought it : he was adored by the monarch on his throne and by the peasant on his stool. Having extended his borders thus far, we roav readily conclude that he had no difficulty in embracing the whole -WQfld, nor was he long in doing this, So for it seems that Alcohol wasabtotomun do, acknowledged and received great Jhan.N ’ \ t Having-given a very concise deserij/- (ionofhie younger days, we will now proceed to give a more minute detail of tyivcharadter in his subsequent life; which willvbe acknowledged as true by some, if ho| *>y4tl). Alcohol was by no means partial as a prince, for he favored the mbst miserable beggar ns much as he did the most exalted king. He ardently do qired tp gain the good will of all men— and ifjit had been possible, of the very brutjef themselves; but they, perhaps being*more wisely taught by instinct than may, refused his gentle woings. He w T as considered, not only the great- j est doctorative, but also law yer; and, indeed, to bei&ort, theta-wfls no avocation in life that he was not con sidered up to. He wn9 invited to all kinds of parties, and held a very con spicuous place, during the interim ; the fair damsel placed her ruby lips to his mouth while with her hand she heartily embraced his neck—and then the noble lords, in turn, would do the same. All having partaken of some of his vital principles, they would sit down in jovial glee, each one to sing of the great things which he himself had done; all talking and mfooe listening. He causes, people sometimes to be very religious; I have seen them when they had taken Bountifully of the old prince, kneel and pour fortfi tfs humßle a petition to trie tb*«ne of grace, as ever did the most Christian. Just let a lawyer be under the influence of him, and he will pour forth a strain of eloquence that will cause the very walls of a court house to to (heir lowest founda tion. He (Alcohol! makes men wealthy in their own estimation—but let a poor sot get as much wants, and he feels as though her-waved the sceptre over mill ions of his fellow men. But, it is necessary to mention some of his bad qualities, to the impartial. In the first place, he is one of the greatest murderers that ever- lived; no estimate i can be formed of the number of deaths j he has caused, either directly or indirectly 1 —should a dreadful earthquake cause this ponderous globe upon which we move to shake to its very centre, and at the same time engulph thousands of thousands amid the crumbliug ruins, it would not equal the number of lives that have been destroyed by his murderous hand. As a tyrant hr s‘nnd» unequalled. Hr causes the man to leave the grog shop at the darkest and most gloomy hour of the light, when not a t glimmering star doth show its face to guide his weary feet; and when not a single cottage is near in which he may rest his shaking frame. Had the foul fiend of the infernal regions been turned loose with all his hosts, he could not have done more harm than Alcohol with his progeny. Fkaskun. STong Testimony. Benjamin Silliman, M. D., L. L. D., Professor of Chemistry, &e., in Yale Col lege, says:— “At about forty-three years of age, I an almost entire prostration of health, in consequence of eicessive labors, and affliction, from the sickness and death S»f several of my children. During sev- ! eral years, in which 1 was sinking, I tried in vain, under medical direction, the most improved forms ofetimulus, joined with the most nutritious and varied diet.— When at length, my powers were almost broken down, I was persuaded by a friend, to abandon the use of wine and i every other alcoholic stimulus, and to de- j pend upon a small quantity of bread, crackers, rice, and little animal muscle, or other simple kinds of .food, with water, milk, or other mild, diluent drinks, omit ting every thing thai, contains alcohol. Within a few weeks, mv health began to j yiend, and at the end of one year, I was j \Me to return to arduous duties, demand- j exertions of both body and 1 mind'. My frame, naturally vigorous! and elastic, gradually recovered its tone, and now, thirteen years after the period of pay greatest depression, I am able, up*n a simple but common diet, consist ing of the most usual articles of food, taken without any use of alcoholic stimu lus, to perforin constant labor in rny pro- ! session, with much public speaking, and 1 sustain no inconveuience except the fa tigue which sleep removes, as in the case ; of other healthly persons. I was, from childood, constitutionally prone to bleed- i ing at the nose, and sometimes to an alartning degree. After the recovery of rny hpalth, 1 allowed myself to use, with much moderation, the best bottled cider, at dinner- only. Afte) abstaining from it. j for a few weeks, on a long journey, (lie- j cause cider ofa good quality could not be obtained, at the tavernsj) my nose bleed fng ceased, and with itithc jrertigos, and confused and uncomfortable feelings of he head and nerves, by which I hnd fre qupntly been troubled. Thinking that cider might have been concerned in can- j sing these effects I have never returned I to its use. and for nearly three yeans, i since I omitted cider, I hnve had no seri- j ous recurrence of these affections. v ; “P. S. In two othercases wfHjin my j knowledge, nose bleeding has ceased by \ the omission of cider. In ofie oF these, the bleeding was excessive and danger-; ous. The individual Inst referred to is a very athletic man, of full habit and san-j guine temperament.” Religion a.nong the Cherokees. —The j five churches under the careof-tbe Cher- ; okee Mission (says the Missionary Her-1 aid for January,) embrace two hundred and forty members. About one hundred ! and fifty dollars hXye been raised by the natives during the past year for the dis tribution of the Scriptures arming their own people, The Temperance -Society embraces aboqt twenty three hunched members; and this cause is advancing in the nation,V They have made pro visions for * sustaining eighteen free schools from thaiKown funds. ■ Duelling fn tTeiigress. There is often a stale of society, in a people externally and yet not j thoroughly Christian, that can be desig nated by no better Jerm than that of'‘re fined fytrbarians.” , We hope the epithet : may never merit to be applied to our selves, as a people, who profess more virtue than they practise. ByV recent vote of the House of Re presentatives of the United States, the antiquated mode of adjusting personal ! differences, by the “ Duel,” or, murderous combat between two men, who meet in cold blood, to assassinate one another, has received the sanction of the Repre sentatives of the people of the United ! States! Does this vote express the opin ions of the people of the United States? Is it a faithful representation of the popu lar sentiment? We answer decidedly in j the negative. Public opinion among the j mass of our population, does not favor | duelling. It may receive countenance ; from a few idle, opulent and conceited I men, who misled by warm fancies, seek ito ape, what they call the chivalry of ancient times, and of which “ancient times” became so ashamed, that she ex ploded it as a barbarous practice, and left it to be revived by the mushroon pride, and vindictive passions of a free poeple, in a new land, whose proud motto is “equal and exact justice to all men.” The injustice of this practice glares rpvoltinglv on its very front. “Death” is j the penalty of a word/ And that “i cord," commits no other offence, than inflicting a momentary wound on morbid vanity. j Conceit calls this vanity “honor!”—and | as conceit of vain men makes honor something which cannot be defined, death must be the penalty of touching it with a | leather. We have known many of these sons of vanity, who enroll themselves in the “legion of honor,” not Bonaparte’s j legion, which W'as founded on genuine ! courage—who had no regard for honesty, truth, sincerity, candor, or any noble | feature of our nature—who would allow i their tailors to call them cheats , and serv i in g men to upbraid them as being defi. cient in manhood—and vet thev were at any moment ready to' blow a* man's brains out who doubted their honor, which thus became defined at once to be the disposition and willingness to commit Murder! This is honor. It has no re i iation to any one meritorious quality of j our nature—but is found most abundant- I ly in gambling hells, in bagnois, in tav j erns and in public assemblies, where men | speak under the excitement of passion, in ! a manner disgraceful to a gentleman , or under the influence of liquor, which be wilders their reason. The satisfaction of a gentleman is always asked from one who has deported himself as no gentleman would. In fine, the whole cope of honor, as it is termed, is made up of contradic tions absurdities,evasions, lies and duplic ity, and winds up by committing murder for a hot word which was not intended tobe uttered! Now, if such men wil murder themselves, it is no loss lo society, howe ver much it may disgrace our character es a Christian people. But before Con gress gives its sanction to so grossnn ab surdity—so outrageous an infraction of God’s laws—let them pass an act to com pel all men of honor to pay Ihdir debts before they send a challenge—failing in which, the penalty of duelling shall he the gibbet. After that, we shall hear no more of “modern chivalry,”—see no more “calling out,” and be shocked by no more votes against a motion to expel members who attempted assassination.— Saturday American. Resolution. —There is nothing in man so potential for weal or wo, as firmness of purpose. Resolution is almost om nipotent. Slieridinn was at first timid, and obliged to sit down in the midst of a speech. Convinced of, and mortified at the cause of his failure, he said one day to a friend, ‘lt is in me, and it shall come out.’ From that moment he rose and shone, and triumphed in a eonsti mate eloquence. Here was true moral courage. And it was well observed by a he'athen moralist, that it is not because things are difficult that we dare not tin deriake them, but they appear difficult because we dare not undertake them.— Be then, bold in spirit. Indulge no doubts, for doubts are trnitors. In the practical pursuit of our high aim, let us never loose sight of it in the slightest in stance : for it is more by a disregard of small things, than by open and flagrant offences, that men come short of excel lence. There is always a right and a wrong: and if you ever doubt, be sure you take not the wrong. Observe this rule, and every experience will he to you a means of advancement. Boys «lo you Hear Thist Some considerate editor thus talks to the boys. Hear him. One hour in youths spent studiously, is like putting an idle dollar out at compound interest; it comes back in the futurea hundred fold: What say you, boys? —The evenings are now nearly as long as they will be during the cold season; suppose you spend two hours of each in useful study. This would make fourteen hours per week, that would make sixty hours per month, and three hundred hours by the first of April. Think of it. Lay out a system of studies, and pursue it faithfully, and if you do not know more, and are not wi ser, and consequently better fitted for the practical duties of life, we shall be ex ! ceedingly disappointed. These two hours per diem will not at all encroach I upon the time necessary to read the newspaper. The study of any of the j sciences will, in fact, give increased zeal j for the lighter and practical contents : which fill the columns ot a well conducted ; news sheet. The head of a family who would cultivate a taste for study and. ! knowledge among his children, should not j fail to keep continually within the reach iof overy member of his domestic circle the newspaper. A Merry Bridal. The annexed pleasant account of a vil lage wedding is from a late English jour nal, which feelingly dwells upon a delight ! ful scene calculated to gladden the heart j and to excite the gentler sympathies of human nature. The winsome daughter ;of the pastor of Doddlestone was to be married to a promising young clergy man, and the inhabitants of the parish loving all parties, determined to make the nuptials an occasion for a joyous fes * • 'ML.