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AUGUSTA, APRIL 20, 1815.
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE.
Rev. W. T. Bravtly, Dr. D. Hook,
“ VV. J. Hard, James llarpkk, Esq.
" C. S. Dot>, A. VV. Noei., Esq.
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To our Crrrespondmt.
“ Eugene id upon file. He has, how
ever, barely passed muster.
Tbo Meeting on Thursday uigt last,
Was not exactly what we expected to
see. The members did not manifest as
much interest as wo could wish to see,
nnd the people generally were lacking in
showing that they felt and believed that
the Temperance cause was a good and a
glorious one. Wo say we were disap
pointed, and wo are sorry to say that the
ladies were the principal cause of it.—
Wo thought they especially would seize
on every occasion to aid us—to cheer us
on, and give us all the iufluence in their
power. But not so; a few ladies only
attended the meeting.
Let us be understood. Wo mean to
sav that wo complain more because the
meeting was not what it should have been,
than for what it was. Considering ma
ny circumstances, it was such a one as
by no means to discourage us, but rath
er to induce the belief that the cause
was on the advance even in our beauti
ful Augusta. Considerable interest was
felt by the speakers in debating the ques
tion—indeed so much, that the question
was postponed for further discussion un
til the next meeting of the Society, on
Thursday night (next week) the Ist inst.
At the next meeting, and upon a further
discussion of tho question, Mr. John F.
Markey will open the debate, and will be
replied to by several speakers. Alto,
gethcr then wo may say, that notwith
standing tho meeting was not what it
should have been, yet we are satisfied
that the Temperance cause has not suf
fered by it.
That one Wheeled Sulkey.
The Petersburg (Va.) Intelligencer,
in reply to a cotemporary who expressed
some doubts as to the existence of such
a vehicle, says:—Wo saw the Sulkdy,
and, in common with every one who did
seo it, were convinced of its utility. It
can be constructed at less cost than any
other description of Sulkey, and driven
with safety and speed over roads which
would be impassable by the ordinary Sul
key. Mr. Reaminglon (the inventor,)
has driven it thousands of miles without
the slightest accident, and is ready at any
time to test its advantages us compared
with other Sulkies.— Columbus Enquirer
Perhaps there is no country in the
world where the inventive faculties of
the mind arc more closely employed, cr
where there exists a greater degree of
skill and ingenuity among mechanics, as
well as others not immediately engaged
in such callings, as in the United States.
Our citizens not only invent themselves,
but there is no invention of others but
they immediately seize hold of and work
with it until it would seem that perfec
tion was certainly attained. Sometimes
there appoars several claiming the same
honor, and tho emoluments too, arising
from a notice in the papers that such an
invention has been made. Coleman’s
jEolian Attachment to the Piano is now
claimed as the invention of a gentleman
of Savannah: and many others might
be named if necessary. Another claim
ant is found in one of our citizens as the
inventor, and no mistake, of the one
wheel sulkey spoken of above.
Mr. A. G. Willis of our city, 13 the
person we allude to. We have in a sis
ter State beard the idea of such a sul
key. ridiculed by several persons some i
years back, and Mr. Willis too, for the
conception. Whether justly or not we
are not prepared to say; all we can say
a we only eicrclso our faith when we
t yield our belief in what we do not know
of our own knowledge, or to what we
' have not seen demonstrated as practica
| ble. We know that Mr. Willis long ago
! claimed to be tho inventor of a sulkey
i to run wiih one wheel, and whether Mr.
j Ileatnington and himself have conceiv
' ed the same idea, and can carry out their
principle in practice, is more than we
can say. “Experiments vocet.”
(&“ The sudden death of a negro
man on Saturday evening last, belonging
to A. Martin of this city, suggested to
some persons the idea that there had been
some foul play done; but a jury of in
; quest having been called over the dead
body and a post-mortem examination
having been made, it was readily dis
covered that such had not been tho case.
’Hie jury returned a verdict accordingly.
Tile Daily Journal
Is published at Hamburg, S. C-, on
a medium sized sheet at 85 per annum.
Wo do not know that wo can anticipate
the success of a daily sheet in Hamburg,
but if the editor is not greatly deceived
such must be the result. Ho says, “It
is useless (o set forth any proof why
time has brought around an event, which
ho is rejoiced to say, warrants him in
publishing a Daily Journal. The evi
dcnce is boldly presented in the increas
ed trade, and unsurpassed advantages of
Hamburg.” Wo have received several!
numbers of the Journal, and from their
general appearance must .say that the
publisher deserves success if he docs not
meet it. All wc cau do is to offer our
best wishes for tho successful result of
the enterprise.
Lowell O fieri aa.
Wc copy tho following from the cover
sheet of tho Lowell Offering that our
readers may know the truth about a mat
ter about which some doubts have been
expressed from more quarters than one.
It has been doubted whether the articles
in the Lowell Offering arc in truth what
they purport to be; viz.—the writings of
“Factory Girls.” To correct any false
impression on this subject, wo have cop
ied so much of the article referred to, as
to satisfy all doubts; at least wo hope
so;
“ Ono of our agents writes thus to us :
—“Do let me know the real names of all
your writers, for people will not believe
that tho articles are written by ‘ factory
girls,’ unless they have their real names.”
We have heard such statements ere
this, and can but say that if wc were in
clined to deception, wc cannot perceive
what insurmountable difficulty we should
meet in the request for names.
Those who wish us to prove our good
faith in this manner, have little sympa
thy for tho feelings of young, inexperi
enced females, and appear not to con
ceive that motives of delicacy may res
train them from giving their names in full
to the public. But, to disarm suspicion,
if it is in this manner to ba disarmed,
tho writers have been more generally
known, by their real names, within the
past year than they have ever been be
fore. “The Improvement Circle,” as a
circle, has been more public, and in our
own neighborhood there has been in fact
r.o secresy. This has had one ill effect.
It has contracted the circle—new mem
bers are more diffident about joining us,
and old ones more shy of writing.
Small private circles are forming.—
Wo have recently learned of that upon
tho Merrimack Corporation, and there is
another upon theßoottor Massachusetts
Corporation, or both connected.
But, with regard to those who remain
with us, there is not now, in publicly in
troducing them, that feeling of violated
faith, that there would have been one
year since. Wc therefore give the
names of writers for the Marcli number,
trusting that none will be offended, in
consideration of our motives, though we
doubt not but all will be surprised.
The Country Wedding, by M rinm R.
Green, or rather Mrs. M. R. G. Kimball,
j a weaver upon the Massachusetts Corpo
ration. The Early Doomed, by Miss
Lucy Larcon, book-keeper upon the Law
j rence Corporation.* The Confession or
The Murderers Death, by Miss Jose
phinc L. Baker, weaver upon the Mid
dlesex Corporation. The Feast of Lan
guage, by Miss R. Haves, weaver upon ■
(he Merrimack Corporation.' A Peep at
Factory Life, by Miss Baker. The
Stanleys, by Miss Eliza W. Jennings,
j weaver upon the Middlesex Corporation.
Reform, by Miss H. F. Curtis, harness
knitter upon the Lawrence Corporation.
Intemperance aud its Evils, by IVJiss E
lizabeth Pervgr, weaver or dresser .we
know not which, upon the Merrimack"
| Corporation. The Sea, by Miss Laura
i Tay, weaver upon the Massachusetts
{ Corporation. T Vinter, by Miss Jen
j niugs. Editorial, by Miss H. Farley,
| weaver upon the Merrimack Corpora
' tion. Thu different Corporations are
! not so fully represented in that number.
;as in some others. We had forgotten
j until we look up the magazine, that two
! writers had more than one article in it,
j although this perhaps has never been the
j case with regard to them before.
.
Fortlie Washingtonran.
Messrs . Editors, —There are evils in
| our city that it is extremely hard to en
dure. May I point them out to you ?
First then, the weather is uncommonly
hot. This we must endure, and could
endure tolerably well with all our cool
ing appliances, but for the intolerable oh
structions thrown in our way by the
| Grog-sellers. While panting for breath
| under a burning sun, as we move along
j the streets, suddenly we coinn to one of
their open doors, inviting us in to drink
brandy or gin ! Instantly the idea of
melted lead possesses our minds, and the
perspiration issues from every pore. A
little further on, and when we have par
tially cooled ourselves by forgetfulness,
and keeping in the shade of the houses,
in passing another of these hells, we are
met by one who has just como from the
liquid llamcs, —his face is red, swelled,
and bathed in sweat. His appearance
fills our minds with thoughts of stew
pans, gridirons, caldrons, and roasting,
broiling, and boiling fires. Imagination
controls us, and wo even feel the steam
issuing from the hidden furnaces. A
gain the perspiration breaks forth, and
the languor of exhaustion which it indu
ces, arrests our further progress, and
compclis us to seek relief in repose and
shade. Was there ever any thing so
incongruous as heating drinks in hot
weather ? Was there ever so provoking
a nuisance as that, which keeps the mind
employed at such a time, about things
that increases the heat ? Really, the
powers that be ought to abate it.
The bare idea of a grog seller in a
season like this, is enough to raise one’s
blood to a fever heat. A thought of his
gin, and popper, and hot rooms!—is a
“thought that melts.” His praise of
stewed drams too, arc in “words that
burn.” I could as soon take comfort
in considering him a patriot or u phi
lanthropist, as to keep cool now while
thinking of him and his heating, burning
potations. Gut I may be too fastidious,
and therefore I will call for your views
upon the subject. Can you then, gen
tlemen, imagine a creature in the shape
of a man, offering a draft of hot pepper
and brandy to a poor fellow already
overcome by heat, without feelings of
disgust; and at the same time, without
a wish to escapo to cooling streams and
refreshing shades ? If not, then arc you
witnesses for me, that I hare exposed a
nuisance that ought to be abated.—
What, shall we live through this summer,
amidst red pepper, brandy, gin, red no
ses, grog-sellers, and whatever else they
can devise, to keep us ever under the
feelings of one suspended over a boiling
caldron, or a fiery furnace! Forbid it
ye powers that be. Lash.
• tiling Men and Fashionable I?uni Holes.
It is melancholy to contemplate the ut
ter indifference with which multitudes of
our young men regard the progress which
the great Temperance Reformation is
making in America and throughout the
world. It is but a few evenings since, !
that wo entered one of the outer courts
that lead to the inner Temple of the
chambers of death. There, in a splen
did banqueting hall, whose burnished
mirrors reflected the dazzling light of the
suspended chandelier, and whose marble
tables resounded to the fall of the cut i
glass tumblers; where music fell from!
woman's lips, and the Genius of Sensu- j
ality had reared her throne, we beheld a 1
young man, the only son of his widow- |
ed and sainted mother, who, a few years
ago, left Iris home in the country and
came to our busy mart to establish both
his character and his fortune, hut who,
' in an evil hour, was seduced from the
path of sobriety, and is now rushing with
the rapidity of time itself towards the
awful doom of the drunkard. Home,
with all its pleasing associations, is for
gotten ; even the mother who boro him,
and who, when she parted with him at
the door of her . humble dwelling, be
sought him -to beware of the - tempter
is seldofc thought of! while the society'of
. the dissolute is courted and scenes of con
viviality and insane revelry are sought,
j There, too, we beheld the young man,
born and bred in the city, splendidly at-
I tired, with rings of gold upon his fingers
and a chain of gold about his neck, squan
dering in dissipation the money which a
wealthy and too indulgent father had fur
nished him, talking maudlin over his
j champaigns and venting the little wit
that had not been drowned in the glass,
|in denunciations of temperance. There
too, were still younger persons, mere lads,
I calling for their liquor; and scattered
here and there about the establishment
were veteran topers of twenty or thirty
years standing, whiskered, fat, and rosy,
| swearing stoutly, and ever anil anon
damning the temperance fanatics, and
1 calling out for a glass of “ Dea. Grant,”
jand "Jewettt’s Fancy,” while their jun
j iors in vice, growing bold through their
, example, echoed and re-echoed the dam
nation till the oath fell upon the car of
j the MASTER OF CEREMONIES, who shouted
i amen and quaffed another glass of hot
whiskey punch.
It is in such unhallowed places that
large numbers of the young men of our
city congregate, contract habits of intem
perance, grow bold in crime, and learn
to despise the temperance reformation.
Here it is that they become corrupted for
life, and contract habits of vice that unfit
them for earth or Heaven.
Young man, whoever you may lie,that
speak contemptuously ot temperance, we
infer that you have not kept good com
pany, that you cither love to drink, or'
else associate with those who do, and are,
consequently, in danger of becoming a |
drunkard. Wo infer that you frequent
places of bad repute; that you are a
young man, dangerous as an associate
and to be avoided as a corrupter of others.
We bid you, beware! We advise you '
to pause and consider, to break away :
from the habit that is binding its cords
about you, and which will ruin you be- i
yond the dream of redemption. Hareto (
be singular. Listen to the warning which (
the reformed inebriate gives. His youth
was one of promise. Like you, lie, too, j
began with the single glass; lie drank ,
only occasionally and in company; but
little by little the habit increased upon
him, till lie fell before its power, became
a curse to his kindred and the world— ;
dashed to the earth the fondest parental i
hopes, blasted his own well-grounded cx- j
pectations and crept, like a worm, through i
life, shunned and despised of men, till, in
a happy hour, he came lo himself, aban
doned the sinful indulgence, and became
a reformed man. Resist the beginning
of evil. Say to the tempter: “Get be
hind inc Satan,” and you are safe.
Temp. Standard.
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Fr- gress of the License Law.
The new law for the regulation of the
traffic in intoxicating drinks, has passed
the assembly, and is now waiting its turn
in the Senate. The Albany Evening
Journal gives the following outline of its
provisions, as passed in the house, and
we presume it will go through the San- i
ate without any material alterations: j
Ist. A special town meeting is to be ■
held on the Tuesday before lho first Mon- i
day of May next, at which the electors j
are to vote on the question of “License”
or no “License.” 'lbis provision also
extends to the several cities of the State,
and at the unanimous request of the del
egation from the city of New York, the!
act also includes that city.
2d. When the first vole has been ta- ■
ken—whichever parly may obtain the
majority—the result is to stand for one
year at least, and until one-fourth of the
electors shall petition the proper author
ties for a new trial, when a new elec
tion is to be held. The above named
provision is to extend to all elections.
3d. If the people vote “License,”
then the Boards of Excise, now estab
fished, arc to possess the samo powers j
they now possess, cither to grant or re
fuse licenses for the retail of intoxicating
liquors, to such persons as may have the
necessary' conveniences of travellers—in
other words tavern licences. No gro
cers' licenses are to be allowed, and no
pay is to be received for any licenses.
4. If the people vote “No License,”
then none arc to be granted, and all the
penalties now imposed by the Revised
j Statutes against the retailing of intoxi
! eating liquors, are to apply in their full
| force. The only exception is in*favor of
1 the physician, who may prescribe far
medical purposes.
sth. If the overseer of the poor neg
lects for ten days to prosecute for any
penalty incurred under the previous sec
tion, any citizen may do so, in his name,
by giving security for costs of suit in
case of failure. If conviction follows
the prosecution, then such complainant
is to recover one half the penalty.
The day fixed for the election ns above
put down, is Tuesday, the 291 h of April.
The delegation from this city arc enti
tled-to the thanks of the temperance
community for their course in this mat
ter, as in the original bill Nq\v .York \ v ’as’
* . *' ; *
not included in its provisions.—2V. F.
Organ.
Temperance In Great Britain.
In consequence of the fact being ful
ly ascertained, and generally believed,
that most of the liquors sold in Great
Britain under the name of wine, are a
gross and vile fabrication, made up fioru
distilled liquors and drugs, various de
nominations of Christians are making
great efforts to procure the fruit of the
vine for the communion, as free from a
dulteration and alcoholic poison as pos
sible.
A trial lias recently taken place in
Birmingham, which caused great com
motion among the wine drinkers. A
gentleman having purchased a cask of
port wine of a large wine dealer, sus
pected fraud, and refused to pay; (ho
consequence was a prosecution. Tho
defendant called in the servants of tho
prosecutor, when it appeared in cviclenco
that the dealer had for several years been
extensively engaged in the manufacture
of spurious wine, and had agents trav
elling in the country selling it as pure
imported; while in fact it did not con
tain u drop of the juice of the grape,
but was entirely made up from distilled
liquors and poisonous drugs.
llio Duke of Wellington, in the
House of Lords, in remarking upion the
loss of revenue on spirits, stated: “A
considerable portion of this reduction
had, no doubt, been owing to the Tem
perance Society which had been estab
lished throughout Ireland (hear, hear) —
fortunately established, he would say,
(loud cheers) —and lie thought it highly
desirable that the temperance system
should be encouraged as much as possi
ble.” *
“ Fhe Right Honorable Viscount Dun
cannor, and John Bright Esq., prevent
ed their agents and friends from giving
intoxicating drinks to the inhabitants o'?
Durham, before, during, and after the
late contested election, whereby much
quarrelling, destruction of property, and
domestic misery have been avoided. A
public vole of thanks lias been awarded
to the two candidates for breaking a long
standing but most pernicious custom.
Tho L.iceuso Qu siioa in Vermont.
The question of licensing the sale of
ardent spirits, was left to the decision t f
the several counties, to be taken by bal
lot. The vote has K> -v taken, and tho
result in the different counties, is as fol
lows :
For Licensing.
Counties. Maj.
Rutland 125
Windham 029
Windsor 300
Washington 381
Orleans [small]
L i Motile [do]
Essex, [do]
Total 1425 1528
Dissipated l.awyeis.
Drinking is making sad havoc among
tire lawyers, as it does everywhere else
where it is practiced. Several young
men, who hut a few years ago hid lair to
win laurels of fame at the bar, have
been destroyed by the blinding, desola
ting habit of social drinking. Very re
cently, the connections of one distin
guished tor eloquence, perseverance and
research, have been called to follow him
to a premature grave—and as in almost
all oilier cases,no one dreamt that he was
in danger, until lie seemed passed recov
ery ! Why, why will ye not profit by
past experience? Intoxicating drinks
benefit no one, but injure all who uso
them as a beverage. Day after day do
we see the pride <tt‘ our nation cut down
by their blasting influence. But the so
lemn warnings are unheeded—drunk
ards die oft', habitual moderate drinkers
fill their places, while our youth fill up
the ranks of our moderate drinkers—
and thus thirty thousand are annually
pushed into drunkards’ graves, in this
country! Put yourself beyond tho
reach of danger, we beseech you—givo
us your name and your influence to put
down this monster vice- N. Y. Organ.
Entertainment ot Travellers.
The teetotallers of Gralton are wido
I awake to the interests of the temperanco
cause. Not long since a man living
there announced his determinalicn to
open a rum hotel, when the people rose
en masse, held two public “indignation
meetings,” and promptly adopted such
measures as prevented the fellow from
earn ing bis design into effect. There is
now no tavern there for the accommoda
tion of strangers, but the people think it
infinitely better that travellers should
not lie entertained at all, than that they
should be entertained in a rum-hole.—
We honor their judgment, and trust tho
teetotallers will imitate the example of
their brethren in Danbury, Conn., who
throw open their own dwellings for the*
entertainment of travellers, rather than
that they should be obliged to patronize
houses where liquor is sold.— lbid.
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Against it.
Counties M«j.
Bennington 400
Addison 350
Orange 200
Chittenden 150
Caledonia 197
Franklin [small]
Grand Isle [do