For the Washingtonian.
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MEssRs. EDITORS: am happy to be able to
say, that the Star of Total Abstinence has
arisen in Washington county, and, like the
Star Of Bethlehem, is now guiding the wise
men of the east to an instrument of redeeming
nower. Its light shines most brilliantly on the
darkness Of intemperance in that portion of
our District. A Temperance meeting was
held on the evening of Sunday, the 31st of
August, in the neighborhood of Good Hope,
and ten signatures We're added 10 the pledge
1t was eloquently addressed by DR.. Joseph
Walsh, corresponding secretary Of Association
No. g. United Brothers of Temperance, and by
John l.. Maddox, president of the same asso-
citation. These gentlemen proved, TO the sa-
tisfaction OF numerous auditory, that alcohol
is the bane Of moral excellence; that it poi
sons society, and transforms "the noblest work
of God" into a loathsome wretch; also, that
the Temperance cause is cause in which all
are deeply interested, and that, on its success,
depend the happiness and prosperity of the
human race.


A Temperance meeting will be held at Good
Hope, Washington county, d. c., on the even
ing of Sunday, the 14th instant, at 8 o'clock,
and on that occasion several distinguished ad.
vocates of the cause will deliver addresses.
The public are respectfully invited to be pre-
sent at the meeting.


Come on, we topers in distress,


Ye drinkers through the wilderness,
Who still your liquors feel;


Do not forget your griefs and fears,


Nor wipe away the drumkard's tears,
But come onward to the hill. JL.