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Tllllfi W iI AN. 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. glj- To Di»t*nt Spbscribebi.—Post Masters are au- i Unitized by law to remit money to the publishers of > newspaper's smt periodicals, in payment of suhscrip lions. Subscribers to thu esn llicrefoie pay for their papers without subjecting themselves or the pnbiisiter to the expense of postage, by handing the amount to the Tost Master, with a request to remit it. 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. - - i 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. » - “ i ' '' : ' V : ' Against it. Counties M«j. Bennington 400 Addison 350 Orange 200 Chittenden 150 Caledonia 197 Franklin [small] Grand Isle [do