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,J— I.".—' 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 ! * 1— " 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. _ ____ ; ' [ 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. ' " 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. August 17 ? a tJ2O aEW SERIES OF THE " SOI’TUFBJi MEDICAL & SURfiJO.ly JOURNAL. TV BB PI-BUSHED AT JcGUSTA BY P. C. GUIEUj AND EDITED EY / F. P. GARVm, M. D. & PAUL I f EVE, M. D. ASSISTED BY ABLE COLLABORATORS. 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