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Total Abstinence the only Remedy.
We are told that temperance is one |
thing, and total abstinence another; but j
the slightest examination into the phi- •
losophy of this question will show, that j
there is but one effectual means of ex-j
tirpating drunkenness, and training upj
our population to the strictest habits of
sobriety, viz: total abstinence from all
intoxicating drinks. If these drinks are
not necessary to promote a cheerful dis
position; if they are not necessary for
health; if they do not give edge to hu
man intellect, and polish to the human
soul; but if, on the contrary, they are
productive of so large an amount of
evil as we know exists in every part of
the world, in consequence of their use—
why, then, away—away with the intoxi
cating cup !— Temp. Standard.
Paupers in Nac York occasioned by
Jntcmperance. —The editor of the Alba
ny Argus, in an article upon pauperism
caused by intemperance, says that over
one million of dollars is paid for the
support of paupers in the State of New
York. lie further says, “this is a new
country, where labor is well paid, and
provisions abundant. Is it not time to
ascertain the cause of this state of things,
and apply the remedy; or at least, to
make an experiment, and try to tind a
preventative? Os this pauperism, three
fourths, directly or indirectly, is caused
bv intemperance, and yet there are those
who contend that legislation should not
interfere with what is eaten or drank.—
Would those who take this view of the
subject permit the unpunished selling of j
diseased and poisonous meat? And il
not, why refuse to pass a law enabling
the people if they choose, to restrain the
selling of poisonous drink, especially
when that selling costs the people of this
State more than a million of dollars?—
If lifting from the shoulders of the peo
ple a million of dollars of direct or indi
rect taxation, is not a proper subject til
legislation, we do not know what is.— |
Mass. Standard.
Fire! Fire! Fire!— -Toll the bell!—!
Sound the alarm ! Bring out yous en-1
gincs! For there is a tire in your city.
It is burning up buildings not made with
hands, but by the Almighty. It is con
suming its hundreds—and not a hand is
raised to put it out. Again we cry—fire!
tire ! fire! Is there no one that will help
to extinguish the fires of Intemperance
in our city? Is there no one that will
come forward and rescue that father,
mother, son and daughter from tjiis aw
ful death? NO! Ring the bells—and
cry—fire! fire! fire! until every inhab
itant is aroused from his slumbers, that he
may do something to put out the (lames
which are now leaping from house to
house, and from heart to heart.
SKEPTICAL, PHILOSOPHY.
BY THOMAS CAMPBELL.
O ! live* there, heaven ! beneath thy dread expanse,
One hopeless, dark idolater of chance,
Content to feed, with pleasures unrefined,
The lukewarm passions of a lowly mind;
Who, mouldering earthward, ’reft of every trust,
In joyless union wedded to the dust,
Could sit this parting energy dismiss,
And call this barren world sufficient bliss ?
There live, alas! of heavon-directed-mjen,
Os cultured soul, and sapient eye serene,
Who hail thee, man ! the pilgrim of a day,
Spause of the worm, and brother of the clay !
Frail as the leaf in Autum’s yellow bower,
Dust in the wind, or dew upon the flower!
A friendless slave—a child without a sire,
Whose mortal life, aud momentary fire,
I.ights to the grave his chance-created form,
As ocean-wrecks illuminate the storm ;
And, when the gun’s tremendous flash is o’er,
To night and silence sink for evermore I
Are these the pompous tidings ye proclaim,
Lights of the world, and demi-gods of fame ?
Is this your triumph—this your proud applause,
Children of Truth, and champions of her cause ?
For this hath Science search’d,on weary wing,
By shore and sea—each mute and living thing ?
Launched with Iberia’s pilot from the steep,
To worlds unknown, and isles beyond the deep ?
Or round the cope her living ehariot driven,
And wheeled in triumph through the signs of heaven?
Oh ! star-eyed Science, hast thou wandered there,
To waft us home the message of despair'—
Then bind the palm, thy sage’s brow to suit,
Os blasted leaf, and death-distilling fruit
Ah me! the laurelled wreath that murder rears,
Blood-nursed, and watered by the widow’s tears,
Seems not so foul, so tainted,and so dread,
As waves the night-shade round the skeptic head.
What is the bigot’s torch, the tyrant’s chain ?
I smile on Death, if heaven-ward hope remain!
But, if the warring winds of Nature’s strife
Be all the faithless charter of my life,
If Chance awaked, inexorable power!
This frail and feverished being of an hour,
Doomed o’er the world’s precarious scene to sweep,
Swift as the tempest travels on the deep,
To know Delight but by her parting smile,
And toil, and w ish, and weep, a little while :
Then melt, ye elements, that formed in vain
This troubled pulse and visionary brain !
Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom!
And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb!
Truth, ever lovely, since the world began,
The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man,—
How can thy words from balmy slumber start
Reposing Virtue, pillowed on the heart
Vet, if thy voice the note of thunder rolled.
And that were true which Nature never told,
Let Wisdom smile not on her conquered field ;
No rapture dawns,no treasure is revealed!
Oh i let her read, nor loudly, nor elate,
The doom that bars us from a better fate;
But, sad as angels for the good man’s sin.
Weep to record, and blush to give it in !
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Essay oil Words.
Words are mighty instruments. With
in are they mighty, for every operation
lof the mind goes on through them.—
Without are they mighty, for they are
the media of transmitting our electrici
ty into you, our dear reader. Breathe
a word into a friendly ear and it is music
all through him. Breathe a noble word
upon the atmosphere and where stops it.
It may reach some far off echo cave,
but it dies not there. Words are im
mortal. They have souls; they die not.
To use words is to use a tremendous
power, (treat masters of language are
sovereigns. They are reverenced.—
llow old Homer stirs the atmosphere
around us! llow Milton sweeps the
current around as! l?ow Cowper makes
music amid the trees and flowers! I
have listened to the song of birds and
fancied that I beard the still eloquence
of Bummerfield mingling with their me!*
odifs. I have listened to the thunder un
til it seemed that the grand voices of the
Apocalypse swelled above me. The (
spirit has a body, a dust-hody, for its
home; but words arc a higher and a
nobler body. They incarnate anew.—
Hefein. and herewith floats the spirit all j
about the mysterious world, communing j
with its chosen objects, whispering in
softness, swelling in loudness, as hearts I
may need.
may make words any thing.—!
Malacc turns a word into a dagger.—
Look st it, diart pointed and sharp
edged. There it rankles in some bleed
ing host in. I; murders peace and rep
! utation- Cos-ip makes words weapons.
It does .not rnian much, but it creates
mischief enough. It fires small shot—
sometinrs on! ’ pepper or mustard seed
—but ititings like all the world. Wit is
a small jword. that is rather dangerous.
Criticism is a ileal Damasmus blade.
For nr words, we are to give account
!at tho sjit of Judgment. Do we think
j of this? i Old Gilbert imagines, that all
j our word! will then return to us, crowd- 1
j ing the (Irs aid filling tho memory !
j Oh, wliawi sautation !—Old Gilbert.
Iron (lie N. O. Picayune.
I iPra rleclom.
Much Ills lien said and much written !
of the great eautv of the Texan prai
ries, but il i rrangement of words can
picture tlin with that truthfulness, I
which brink heir rich yet quiet charms |
home to tlil rind. After crossing the j
i Brazos, bun r K-re particularly after the;
traveller Tirlls 1 himself on the Western
side of tha Colorado, do these (lower!
gardens of lit ire spread themselves be
fore him at < r ry mile of travel. Im
agine a gem v undulating prairie, stud
ded here andtljr.re with cool groves, and
skirted by lieigrcen fringings of tim
ber which boilt the innumerable water
courses of tiejcountry. At one time
the way fare; cAnes upon a parterre of
gorgeous ycit>\v flowers, of coloring so
j rich that thijeyi is dazzled and made
weak by thJr bry splendor, soon his
way leads hdi though fields of buffalo
clover, withits Aossoms of modest blue
relieving and its rich fragrance
loading the fir with choicest perfume.
Then come be t» some bed of variega
ted flowers'wheh species innumerable
are all stttjglingl as it were, to rear;
their heads love tleir fellows, and where
the blending of allf'orms a picture than
i which noting canlbe more beautiful.—
! The gaudyjellow llossom is subdued by
the modes violet,the dazzling scarlet
is relievel by In: quiet pink, the
brighter pdple is tiftened by some a
zure neiglJor, whill a chastening influ
ence is t rown aiiund ty some bly
like flnwe whose imbitious stem has j
shot its bl >som higliover al. Nor can i
the most t inning di4>osal otcoloring by
the painte give tocaLvass this mellowed
richness, ibr can the jnost elaborate han
dicraft of the weaved blend aid harmo
ize aught toicompare tie-carpeting which
Nature’s hbticullure has sptead upon
what WillisWuld term prairidom.
Nor is it tie richness andvariety of
its covering a me that give beiuty to the
prairies. No ■ the traveller sees a knot
of red deer qi etly feeding on some gen.
tie slope; an a the large rabut qf this
section jump hurriedly from its \ form
and leaps wi i quickened pad toiseek
some covert o rank grass or wejds.l At
one time the i itire prairie is liijuphy a
universal sun- ght; the next m<jnem, as
some cloud ci ses the face of tte oib of
day, huge sha ovs, assuming slUpeathe
most grotesqi: and fabulous, p-e sfeen
coursing acre > the vallies and u the \in
dulations, loos ng themselves as lecaise
which produed them passes wayl—
Quails arc flu tering off as the fcavelbr
jogs onward, rising from ben ith ljs
horse’s feet so tame are they; tl: sneak
ing wolf sits watching him on y 1 knol, j
or else trots sty al Ally away as 1 deeni <
his steps are liadifig him nearer lan hii -
coward caution tlinks prudent May! i
hap a gang of w»d mustangs re cir-l |
cling with rapid stiides in the lstance,li
their manes strcamVig in the wjel, their J;
nostrils expanding, and their heads toss
ing proudly as if conscioss of their own
i powers of flight, and then, as the way
■ iarer nears the timber of some water
■ course, a flock of wild turkies whose
. quick eyes have discovered approaching
> | danger, are seen scampering off to their
: 1 shady covers. Such are the scenes, such
1 the beauties that the traveller witnesses.
, ; as he journeys over the fertile prairies of
, i VI estern 1 exas, nor is Jt in the power of
. | our poor pen to do anything like justice
to the subject. Had Claude Mclnotte's
i 1 wanderings led him jq the romantic
■ Caudaloupe or the San Antonia in spring
■j time, or when nature is first donning her
■ j summer attire, he never would have made
■ 1 his most romantic allusion to the Lake
i; of Como while murmuring his love talcs
in the too willing ear of Pauline.
From the St. Louii Reveille.
An Emigrant’s iParits.
BV SOLITABtEi
r l he inexperienced djveHcr in a quiet
j home, who has never been tempted to
wander from its peaceful precincts, has
: hut a faint idea of the (emigrant's trou
bles, and many rnny fajl to deeply svm
: pathize with Michael Q'Reilv, the sub
ijectof our sketch: but; there are those
! who have mingled in the perilous tide,
j and can knowingly spesjk of its dangers.
“ Maybe,” as Michael would say, “ it’s
mesilf that has had a ful peck measure
of thiin, harrin’ what 1 fijayneously is-
I caped.”
Michael's brother, P; 1 rick, had in
duced him to quit the lit le cottage and
pratie patch on the green sod, for a home
where “goold” flowed ip the rivers.—
At the time we encountered him he had
reached the spot where “a great man
intirely,” bad prophecied this shiny met
al would flow to, and lie! hut waited to
reach Patrick’s home on: the Missouri
river, to set a net in tlfc stream and
catch his share. As he akul Mrs. O’R.,
who was well, but, naturally enough,
“ wakely,” was seated on the boat, con
sidering how they could get further up
j the stream, a steamboat runner came to
their aid, and forthwith nfiide every' ne
icessarv arrangement for (taking them
safe. Michael’s mind being nt ease a
bout the matter, he venfurjed to indulge
in a whiff of the pipe, when he was ac
costed by another of tic kiffin-twenty
minutes agents.
“ Passage up the Missouri, sir ?” en
quires the runner. i
“ Vis, I’m goin’ will yak” says Mi- i
; chad, “sure wan uv you’re toys iugaged \
j me a minit ago. i
The runner perceiving in a moment i
that a rival had encountered .Michael, re- i
solved to do the aforesaid nival out of i
his passenger, and accordingly hurried \
him off to his own boat, by telling hirn f
that steam was up. <
The “ done ” runner, on returning and f
finding his passenger off suspected that 1
the rival boat had secured him, and van- <
tured upon the “terror experiment” to i
; win him back. Michael instantly rec
ognized his first friend, mid saluted him
with— ' ,
“ I’m here, ye see!”
“Yes, but you’ve got yourself into a
kingdom-come snarl, if ynu only know'd
it, without half tryin’.”
Twist the snarl whicl way Michael
i would, it sounded unpleasantly, and he
I ventured to enquire,
“ Its what did ye say fold of snarl , I
was i n ?”
“I only just want to nen your peep
ers to the fact, of havin; been trapped
on board an old boat, ful) insured, with
a desperate shaky ’scapt pipe, and en
gaged to be blow’d up ths trip, so good
by old fellow, you’rs tickdcd.”
“Och! if she’s fulh insured , ail’s
I right,” says Michael, wlispcring safety
to his heart, “and the b*y that I came
| wid says she can run up i tree if there’s
j a dhrap of water in it.”
“If she don’t run wp a tree,” was the
reply, “ she’ll be sure to rtn agin a snag
gy one, and then, I predcate, some of
[ her passengers’ll be blow’f tree high, so
you’re in for if, old hoss! good by—l
say, if you should see my old uncle
down thar,” pointing at the same time
significantly to the rushng river, “the
one I mean who didn’t leave me any
money, tell him for me, is he’s gone to
the d—l to shake himsef—will you?”
and after delivering himsdfof this sooth
ing request, he vanished, leaving Micha
el fancying himself astride of a ’scape
pipe riding over tree top*,rocket fashion.
“Och sorra the day liver put fut a.
mong such hathins!” pdiloquized Mi
chael, “to talk of a maps bein’ flow’d
to smithereens, ns if it Uas but a tintle
rap with a shillaleh—faith it’s uv
this I’ll be imigratin’ quicker thani you
could peel a pratie,” and forthwith he
proceeded to move, With all possible
haste, his stock of worldly effects a ob
serving which the runn r who hafi a
woke his fears shouted oi l as a quiclien
er, “don’t forget uncle, for he would
think it dreadful mean, if I didn’t s ind
word by somebody I kriev was gain' di
rect.”
i
“Leave that luggage alone,” savagely
l shouted the mate, “ you cant leave this
- boat—you’re engaged .”
“Thrue for ye’s,” says Michael in a
; doleful tone, “be dad I was omadhaun
' enough to do that same, as ye’s can
blow me me up when iver ye’re a mind
i to.”
. “We don’t blow her up,” says the
i mate, “until the downward trip, unless
f some gentleman’s requested it in his
' bargain; if you’ve got a flying ticket
s we are hound to accommodate you,” and
■ just at that moment whiz went thesteam
; cock.
“ Be aisy for the Lord’s sake,” shout
-1 ed Michael, “blow’ her up for thegintle
-1 man coinin’ down, as I’m not used to it,
1 I might fall awkwardly into some man’s
apple orchard and destroy a peach tree—
dy’emind.’”
Having been assured that all was
safe, and that by express desire the
blowing up was deferred, he took his
seat at the stern. As the shades of e
vening gatheSul around the boat and
over the the steamer pushed
from her moorings—the last wo saw of
Michael, he was holding in oile hand a
small string of'beads, with a rosary at
tached, while the other grasped the paint
er ol the jolly-boat towing astern, and
his eye with a doubtful, but resigned ex
pression, was firmly fixed on It he shaky
’scape pipe.
Married by Chanccj
The Count do M—- lived in a state if
single and independent blessedness. He
was yet young, very rich, anil was sur
rounded by every tiling whick could give
enjoyment to life—except a wife. He
had frequently thought of becoming a
husband, but had always declared off be
lore the knot was tied. Ontce, however,
he found himself very nearly committing
the folly of matrimony. A young per
son, the daughter of one of his friends,|
pleased him—her fortune pleased him.
not less perhaps than her person and ac
complishments, and there Wns other rea
sons of convenience, <kc., to justify the
union. I’he Count who had so frequent
ly made the first step towards matrimony,
hut as frequently drew baifk, had not do
ciiled upon the course he should adopt in
this case—he had promised the friends of
the lady repeatedly, hut hid made no out
ward sign of performance. His future
mother-in-law, knowing bis weakness in
this respect, resolved to bring matters to
a termination, and therefore demanded of
the Count whether he would or would not
marry her daughter, and requested an im
mediate reply. The Count found him
self in great embarrassment. At this 1
moment his fears and hesitation returned ]
with more force than ever—he trembled
at the consequences. To give up his c
cherished habits of bachelorhood, he r
found was hard, —it was almost impossi
ble to abandon them. In this emergen
cy, he resolved to appeal to chance. He
wrote two letters—in lie one he accepted
■ the hand of the lady, in the other, refu
i sed it. He then put them into a hat, and
called bis servant.
‘ Take one of thqse letters,’ said he,
i ‘and carry it to the chateau de
I ‘Which, sir?’
‘Which you pleasfe.’
I The servant chosura letter. The Count
■ burnt the other without opening it.
A distance of ten leagues separated the
: two chateaux. Tlje domestic must be
absent twenty-four hours; twenty-four
■ | hours must elapse before the Count can
II know his fate, llis situation is any
11 thing hut ngrecablp—he knows not du
ring twenty-four Ifours, whether he is a
married man or <f single one—whether
he has still the poker to dispose of him
ij self, or whether |c is not already dis
| posed of. The Homestie returned—he
had carried the latter of acceptation, and
Count de M 1 is, even at this time, the
happiest husband in that part of the
country.
Stolen Childifn. —It has been ascer
tained that the (psnges have twenty white
children among them, and the Indians
state that they purchased them from the \
Camanches, wao stole them from Mexi
co and Texas. They are represented to
be sprightly and intelligent girls and boys,
but they have been taken so youug that
they have lost all recollection of their 1
home and parents. The Osages will
only sell them for horses or goods. Oc
casionally they bring one into the settle- !
rnent to barter off. A few days since a
gentleman of*Newton county
for a horse, a pretty girl, about eteveij |
years old. A few days before a citizen
left, another Osage brought in a boy t
about eight or nine years old, which he,
however, did not succeed in selling.— a
Our government should direct the Indian t
agent among the Osages to purr a” r
these white children and pay so r ’hem. ?
The Osages purchased them n,. have ,
taken careof them and shou' ie remu- c
nerated. No time should be *o»t in efforts
to restore them to their f;un Sf.
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Be alufcvsat leisure tc d • k \ « „
'[LOOK AT THIS.
| 03“ Although the “Augusta Washing
-1 toman” publication is this day discon Ur
j a iJi J 2\S It 1 2 2\iT (II Business will be
conducted as heretofore, at the same old
J P lace ~-"’here I will be happy to receive
' orders for a ">' kind of Printing, from
t fiends and the public generally.
j JAS. McCAFFERTY.
Augusta, July 12th, 1845.
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Surgical Infirmary.
' 1 r r VC -rS cd in t,le erection of a Buildino
to allordsuitable accommodations to persons re“
quirmg Surgical Operations. The Infirmarv i*
l situated near the Depot oftlie Georeio y
-• *«! b r’Z !„ a,S’* KK'
commodate from 4 to 8 white, and from JO to 20
; t'flTr 3 ' A good nurse will heTn
anon at all tunes, day and nieht
No charge will be made so? hoard, nursing &c
-hut for surgical attendance and operations fife'
usual tee will lie required. ° ions, the
befSafS L n e . rtUre , m ° n,h! ' from Novcm
r to March, ot each year, patient* unable to
pay will lie received, nursed and operated unoh
by any member of the Faculty, free of fxpenk’
Prof C« , P AUL P - EVE >
*«.rgC". , ig ) r M " 1 -
RESTORATIVE CORDIAL,
FOR
DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS DEBILITY,
&c. &c.
> 'Y HE S reat success in the sale of this
most excellent and delightful medicine
and the very great benefit those have received
who have taken it, induces the proprietor aga n
to remind sum as are afflicted with the above
distressing complaints, to give it a trial.
Many Physicians now use this Cordial in
their practice, and recommend it in the highest
terms, and it isonlv necessary to giveita fair trial
to satisfy the most fastidious of its excellent
quaint*.
Prepared by C. C. SEBRING, New York :
And sold by HAVILAND, RISLEY & Co.
Augusta Ga., G. R. Hendrickson, Savannah’
M’ o' 9, UrtlS > 9 n . lumhia . S - 0-, E. M. Carey,
P % H^ 1& t A1 J ,n -
E. N. Miller & Co., P. M. Cohen tk Co., R. W.
Burnham, G. Pelzer, A. Head, aud W. Quirk,
Charleston, S. C.
April 26 41 ,j
TlJ\' MM'lirtfCTOß I*
bpiiVNEH'S Work frfvery descrintiun
made to order, at short notice, such as
Bathing Tubs,
Factory Cans,
C.v lenders.
Oil! Stands, (from 1 up to 100 gallons,l
1 atent Codec Pots, of all sizes, to suit ho
tels or private families.
„ & All the above mentioned articles made of
Doulde Tin.
A regular assortment of TIN WARE kept
constantly on hand, to suit merchants or pedlers
All kinds of ROOFING and GUTTERS
made arid repaired low for cash.
The above business superintended by
E. E. SCOFIELD,
lyext door above the Insurance Bank ,
„ . ~, Broad-street, Augusta.
Sept. 21 10 tt
AV M- HALVES, Jr. (Successor
|T! to Garvin A Haines,) Wholesale and
ret “tl Dealer in Drugs, Medicines,
Paints, Oils, Glass, Dye-Stuffs, Per
fumery, Surgical Instruments, &c. &c., has .now
on hand a select assortment of the above articles
i for sale at low prices and on moderate teims
All orders executed with neatness and despatch
WM. HAINES, Jr.
- s 'o. 23d Broad-street, Augusta.
July 20 flt
| I Nil AM & HLEAKLEY, Augusta,
Ga. has now on hand, and will continue to
receive during the Pall season, a choice and well
selected assortment of Paper, Books and Fancy
Stationary, which will be sold to Printers, Mer
chants and the citizens generally at a small per
ventage on New York cost. Cadi customers
will receive fair value for their mosey, by giving
us a call. [July2o 1 ly
E JOSEPH F MARSHALL,
i'homas I. Wray,
■ At h’s old and well known stand,
I aboje McGran’scorner, Augusta,
* Ga, wholesale and retail Dealer in
1 S/.i.ijctkd TAMIL Y Dill fiS
AIL DIVINES. hBulls)
Oold Foil and Leaf—Per/mnerv,
’ brushes, Paints, Oils, Dyf-StutE.
"window and Sky Ligijl Glass,
&c die j i.
CHEM’CALS prepared at shortest notice.
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