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AVGUSTA Cffpotilrlf AND GEORGIA fUtorrlfam BY T. S. HANNON. TERMS. For Oke City paptr, (thrice a wee>J Six Dollars a tnnnvm, payable in advance, or Seven DeHart inot paid before the end of the year. For the Country paper, (once a week,) Three Dol *s per annum, payable in advance, or Four Dol an, if not paid before the end of the year. Any order from a responsible subscriber to dis continue his paper will be complied with on a set tlement of duet, and not before. .... , Advertisement) will be Inserted at the following fates: For the first insertion, per square, Sixty two and a half cents; for each subsequent, suecet nve, insertion, Forty three and three quarter cents: In alt other cases 62 1-2 cents per square. When an advertisement is sent, without a sped- | fication in writing of the number of insertions, it will be published until ordered out, and charged i accordingly. , .. LETTERS, (on business) must be post-paid—or they may not meet with attention. (O* In this paper the Laws of the United States are published. 9ROM THE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. Literal Errors. Messrs. Editors. Some twenty years ago I used to write occasionally for the press, and was thus led to take a little more notice than common of typographi cal mistakes. I was vexed enough, and often, at* the trouble given by the blunders of some ignorant or careless workmen, and compelled to revise my own proofs to give my readers some tolerable chance for ascertaining my meaning. It was about this tiibe that a printing house, under the title of the “ literary office,” was established, with good reason, but poor success ;, for its productions were rather more tile- Urate than those of any of its fel low-craftsmen. Since then, I pre sume, these literary pretension* have been dispensed with in prin ters, and authors left to see to the correctness of their works them selves. However that may be, I have bad nothing to do with the business for some time, but to read the publications of the day, with put caring whether they were well Or ill printed. I could not but smile, though, now and then, at the ludi crous mistakes 1 continually per* ceived in the newspapers, general ly the extent of my literary re searches ; and at length, a few weeks since, commenced a memo randum of such material ones as 1 should fall under my observation. The list being now full enough. 1 believe, to fill a column or newspa- 1 per essay of a decent length, 1 send 1 you its contents for republication ; —and if you do not smile at some items in the catalogue,- you will at least learn from them how much im- - portance may depend on [the oinis •ion or addition of] a single letter The first blunder 1 noted was in an account of a dreadful storm in 1 France, after which “ two hundred ' and fifty peasants were found killed 1 by the hail,” according to one pn- i per. What an awful destruction! * thought I, and how impossible!— until in some other papers, I found i it correctly stated, pheasants, the h t being omitted in the first. < The same paper contained the ( advertisement of what it denomina- I ted a cheat store—doubtless in- ' tended for cheap one. Well, tho’t i I, possibly the truth by mistake, ( and therefore the more provoking to the trader, who might well tell t the printer his paper ought to be t “ right to a t.” A few days after, skimming over t 0 bundle of old country papers, I f lit upon a dismal writer on the Mis ( Souri question, who bitterly depre- i cated the possible consequences of j that dreadful dispute, to the “ Un- | tied States.” Whether he meant I United or not, 1 could not discover by his lamentable strain, as he was ; apprehensive of a dissolution of the ; union. Perhaps the printer did not transpose the letters. About this time 1 saw an account i i/T a feeing at torney, apparently in i tended for a feeling one, but very ( posaiidy the more safe, if not cor- 1 Tent reading, without the I. I In another paper I read a story i of a number of persons who had i ibeen to a gpeat religious assembly, , where they were vehemently exor cised. thought I—like the days the apostles— cast out devils— Well, perhaps in this way the good folks exercise•/ their visitants. And if such were the case, it could not j be said, as I once saw in a paper, ; that. , “ —they who went to jess retur- j o’d to.play,” instead of pray, as the i graceless compositor should have put it. i An advertisement in a late ga zette, announced a property for sale, of which it said the gardens were “ laid out with great waste." Possibly true ! thought I, although taste was the word intended, and both not incompatible with each o ther. Not “ right to at” again. Another offered a manufactory for sale, “ calculated for a veiy ex pensive establishment” —for exten sive. Not “ right to at” again. Yet possibly more true. The next memorandum was of a celebrated temple of antiquity rased by the hands of its builder. What an affront to the memory of the pious monarch who raised it. The lan guage is not murdered, as Curran said—it has only an i knocked out. I was soon after startled on falling in with an article headed “ infernal improvements” of this state, and predicting nothing but mischief and ruin—to certain districts—even to Albany itself—from the great ca nals. Here I suspected ,my old friend t was ill-treated again, and should be restored to bis place in all the internal concenrs of the com monwealth. An editor, byway of congratulat ing a new married man on the ac quisition of so much booty in bis bride was suspected not to be so very wide of the mark, however blunt the compliment, although it was evidently so much beauty he meant to say. But bow alarmed must the musi cal world have been, upon seeing announced for public exhibition, a duel by Messrs. Incledon and Phil lips ! Discord between these two celebrated son* of harmony, to so deadly a pitch, and the public invit ed to witness it! Nothing but a duet after all, if poor t had been permitted to occupy its proper place. “ The press with all its errors ” was held op in terrorem lately to a politcal adversary ; who must have smiled at the impotency of the threat, which is divested of all its force, and a mere blank cartridge, by the omission of the t, to consti tute the terrors.—VVhen will prin ters be “ right to a t ?” T, again. I read of a team ship being spoken at sea, bound to N. Orleans, probably the Robert Ful ton, navigated by steam, and not one o| our horse-boats of the ferries. But what would the Boston (or New-York) eulogists say to that country editor, who told his readers that Mr. Kean, the famous actor, was playing there to fool houses! More meant than met the ear in giv ing full so broad an accent. j’he editor of a weekly publica tion, lately inserted the phrase weakly Miscellany, in speaking of his work—whether through inge nious modesty or ingenios mistake, I will not decide. One of our papers the other day said of a certain celebrated, though somewhat equivocal military char acter, that on a particular occasion, his retreat being cut off, he found no resource but in flight— meaning fight, but whether stumbling nearer the fact or not, I cannot say. In one of the late “ reminiscen ces” of the Boston papers, a criti cism of Dr. Byles was called a wit ticism. From the known character of the reverend doctor, however, I presume either phrase would be correct. But what think you often thous and dollars loss on a single “ cup of coffee,” said to be suffered in one of the West India islands 1 Impos sible, unless the cup were like the bowls ofCleopatra’s wine, in which were melted pearls of immense value. The careful printer meant to say crop. In a New-Jersey paper the teach er of a female academy offers to in struct young ladies in the elegant and useful accomplishment of sigh ing instead of singing. Perhaps some of his flair pupils would prefer the mistake to the correction. It is not sq bad, however, as a painter advertising to paint sighs by the printer giving the n a long too hind leg. I read in a city paper, that such an actor played the Dug of Venice— a new character, substituted by the printers for the Doge of Venice. But, sir, only imagine my aston ishment, on carelessly looking into old papers to see it asserted, on a certain balloting in a certain great house or assemblage, for a speaker, that n number of members were bought over to vote against the can didate from their own state ! Mercy on us ! says I, here’s scandelum magnatum, contempt, breach of privilege, and 1 know not what all, if not high treason itself! And I waited in the greatest anxiety and suspense, until I found his apology in the next day’s paper ; stating his absence at the time of the publica tion, and desiring his readers for the offensive word to substitute the intended monosyllable brought. — And so I suppose that storm blew over poor Ty.p*r PROM THE RAI.EIGtI REGISTER. « TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.” Meeting with these auspicious words at the head of an article in u late Mobile newspaper, we hastily glanced our eyes below, to see what bad called forth so expressive an apostrophe. Was it the discovery of the perpetual motion, of the phi losopher’s stone, or of the elixir of life ? Had the rot in the staple of the country been extermined, or an infallible preventative invented for its destructive fevers ? What new blessing was proposed to the human race, or to what fatal evil had an antidote been disclosed ? Some thing of this sort we figured to our selves when we found that News was to be related which was “ too good to be true.” W hat, then, was our astonishment when we found these words served as a preface to a vague report of the probability of a War be tween this Country and Spain! With such levity as this do men treat the omens of a state of things which, at all times, imparts wretchedness to thousands, sufferings and death to many, and cause and anxiety to all. Os aur readers, we trust, there are few who will not at once be struck with the absurdity of rejoic ing at tbe prospect of an event so pregnant with evil. It appears to be vain to reason against so prepos terous a proposition. It would be sufficient peremptorily to deny its truth ; yet we cannot forbear a few observations in support of that de nial. It is not inconsistent with our purpose, to allow that War may be come necessary, and when necessa ry is justifiable. Courage and strength are given to men for the protection of their political freedom and personal rights, and to repel encroachments on them, from what ever quarter. This nation has twice been engaged in war ; but in each case, war had been waged a gainst us long before we returned the blow, and we had not the choicfe of alternatives. On other occasions we might easily have been involved in war, and even with this very gov ernment of Spain, but for the wisp counsels which determined ourgov ernment to prefer a pacific policy, tbe fortunate results of which our readers are well apprized of. But, in the abstract, what is there in War which should induce an Ame rican politician to consider the ru mor of it “ too good"to be true ?” To prevent a greater evil, we allow, war may be resorted to. It is the last appeal of governments. To save life, a limb may be amputated ; to extirpate a cancer we scarify the body : and to cure a fovi r, we re sort to what, under other circum stances, would be poison to our health. Shall we therefore wan tonly lop off a limb, disfigure our face, or drug ourselves with opium and antimony ? Let us not fall into the error of supposing, because we rose with new strength from the wars in which this nation has been engaged, that it i$ good to be at war. The policy of this nation is peace. Not to speak of the accumulation of debt, entail ing endless taxation on a people, which it infallibly occasions. War engenders a thousand ills which it were well to avoid; It fosters a restless military spirit in a people, which spurns “ the dull pursuits of civil life,” and in chase of the phan tom of glory, seeks for a different field for the exercise of talent, than that which our simple constitution affords. It builds up reputations and fortunes for a few at the ex pence of the many. It multiplies the number of widows and orphans —of the helpless and bereft; and, under our system of temporary levies particularly, furnishes graves for thousands upon thousands who never have an opportunity so see an enemy. It introduces crimes, too, as well as diseases unknown to a state of peace. War may he necessary, we have admitted, but it is always a neces sary evil. But perhaps it may be thought there would lie something particu larly felicitous in a war with Spain. If so, it must he, because she is weak, and we have no occasion to fear her. This motive, for desiring a war with Spain, we are sure, the American peopde would disdain— for they are magnanimous. More over, it would be founded in a great mistake. Once at war with Spain, our commerce would be swept from the ocean. Buccaneers of every nation, and even of our own, would assume her flag j and the Alabama editor would grossly deceive him self if be counted on the maritime weakness ufSpain. In this respect, Great Britain herself, with her thousand ships of war, would scarce ly be a more formidable enemy. — On the other hand. Spain has little wealth afloat, on which to make reprisals; her treasuieships will not venture upon the ocean in such a season, or, if a scattering one fell into our power, it would he a smull loss to the government of Spain, to counterbalance which,.hundred* of 1 our mercantile fellow-citizens would 1 be ruined by the capture of their ' private property. But we couldi 1 take xMexico, it may be said, anl 1 indemnify ourselves from its store -1 house of the precious metals. Fatal ' delusion, if this be the prize which f gilds the prospect of a war with f Spain. If Mexico were already 1 ours, the shirt of Nessus would not r be a more fatal gift. What would ' be its dross in comparison with tbe * blessings we now enjoy ! What its 1 boundless territory and bottomless ' mines, if the possession of it endan ' ger our present blessings, and ren * der insecure the enjoyment of the > soil on which we live. In some governments, war may 1 strengthen tbe hands of their rulers. I In a Monarchy, it enlarges the pow -1 er of the sovereign, extends patron age, and surrounds the throne with 1 a false, but not therefore less daz zling splendour. In a Republic, t these, instead of being inducements > against it, where it can be avoided. > {to war, are irresistible arguments * p War isagame,” it has been written, 5 !“ which were their subject* wise, 5 Kings would not play at.” With * how much more force may it not be > >aid, of a government of the people, > of which their happ.ness should be ■ the sole principle, that war for any ! thing less than essential rights would * be “ the madness of the many for the ' penefit of a few.” If war should ever again become ecessary, let us buckle on our r rmor, and meet it like men. But - ar from us be the sentiment, that - he news of approaching war is I /* too good to be true." •f —~ i i ANECDOTE. |, , An English traveller, after describ- J mg tbe fete given at Paris in honor j of the last peace with Cogland, con ] eludes with the following anecdote : j “ A lusty young Frenchman, who | from his head dress, a la Titus, I i shall distinguish by that name, es i corting a lady, whom on account of I her beautiful hair, I shall style Berenice, stood on one of the hind i most benches. The belle, habited in a tunic a la Greque, with a spe , cies of sandals which displayed the ■ elegant form of her leg, was unfor tuuately not of a stature sufficiently . commanding to see over the heads . of the other spectators. It was to no purpose that the gentleman call . ed out ‘ a has les chapeaux !’ when , the hats were off the lady still saw . no better. What will not gallantry , suggest to a man of fashionable j education ? Our considerate youth . perceived, at no great distance, . some persons standing on a plank supported by a couple of casks,— r Confiding the fair Bernice to my . care, he vanished: but almost in an p instant, he re-appeared followed by i two men, bearing an empty hogs head, which it seems he procured f from from the tavern at the west j entrance of the Tbuilleries. To i place the cask near the feet of the t lady, pay for it, and fix her on it, r was tbe business of a moment.— ; Here then she was like a statue on . its pedestal, enjoying the double , gratification of seeing and being r seen.— But for enjoyment to be t complete, we must share it with i with those we love. On examining , the space where she stood, the lady f saw there was room for two; and . accordingly invited the gentleman tto place himself teside her. In j vain he resisted her entreaties; i in vain he feared to incommode her. j She commanded ; he could do no . less than obey. Stepping upon the 3 bench, he thence nimbly sprang to i the cask ; but O, fatal catastrophe L , —while by the light of the neigh i boring clusters of lamps, everyone 3 was admiring the mutual attention of > this sympathising pair, in went tbe ) head of the hogshead I Our till then , envied couple fell suddenly up to i the middle of the leg in the wine less left in the cask, by which they » were bespattered up to their very eyes. Nor is this all ; being too eager to extricate tbemselve * they t overset the cask, and came to the ground rolling in it and its offensive . contents. It wou|d be no easy mat ) ter to picture the ludicrous situation > of citizen Titus and Madame Bere r nice. This being the only mischief > resulting from their fall, a universal . burst of laughter seized the sur . rounding spectators, in which I took t so considerable a share that 1 could , not immediately afford my assist i ance.” I A Gentleman is advertised in a i late Dublin paper as missing. After describing his person and dress, the ; advertisement observes, that be , "is remarkably fonk of getting ■ drunk with whiskey punch." Candidates for Congress.. —No less than > eighty four persons are certified by the , Governor of New-Jersey, to have been | “nominated as candidates for representa tives from New-Jersey, in the eighteenth 1 congress of the United States.” 1 (A". Y. Com. /Mb. The following recipe comes from (he hands o t a lady, eminent for the neat and judicious management of all her household concerns —we can say from happy experience, that ta bles spread under her superinten dance,, are always inviting as well for the variety of good things; as for the taste with which they are dis played. Ed. Am. Farmtr. To Preserve Tomatoes Through Hie Winter. Peel the Tomatoes, cut them small, and stew them without water, their own juice being sufficient: season them with salt, pepper, grated gin ger, garlic pounded fine, to your taste —when cool, put them up in bottles and cork them so as to ex clude the air—look al them fre qufently, if you observe an efferves cence of mould, or a disposition to foment, heat them over a slow fire —they must be done an earthen pan, or the fine red colour will not; be so well preserved—they re-1 quire to be kept on the fire some j considerable time, until some are j wasted, or they will not keep—! when the weather is cool there will \ be no further trouble with them. I Prince Ypsilanti was the son of a Greek Hospodar (Governor) of Moldavia. When the Russians overren that province in 1811—12, the Emperor Alexander took the Hospador’s family under his pro tection ; put his sous to a military school, gave the eldest, tba subject of this article a commission, and afterwards introduced him into the family. He was with the Emperor near Dresden, when Moreau was killed by his side ; and, it has been said, was wounded by the shot which killed Moreau. Forhis con duct in the Greek insurrection, the Russian Emperor ordered his name to be struck off'from the army list ; and Ypsilanti, having sought an asylum in Hungary, was arrested, and is prisoner in the celebrated fortress of MootgutZ.—[CenriW, Wounded Taylor. A taylor fol lowing the army, was wounded in the head by an arrow. When the sturgeons saw the wound, he told his patient, that as the weapon had not touched his brain, there was no doubt of his recovery. The taylor, said, 4 If I had posaessd any brains, I should uot have been here. A Tavern Dinner. A party of ton vivants, who recently dined at a celebrated tavern, after having drank an immense quantity of wine rang for the bell. The bill was ac cordingly brought, but the amount appeared, so enormous to one of the company, [not quite so far gone as the rest,] that he stammered out, it was impossible so many bottles could have been drank by seven persons. ‘True, Sir,” said Boni face, 4 but your honor forgets the three gentlemen under the table.’ FROM THE MINERVA. Confirmation. ——A poor woman who had attended several confirma tions, was at length recognized by the bishop. 4 Pray have 1 not seen you here before,’ said his Lord ship ? 4 Yes replied the woman, ‘ I get me conform’d as often as I can : they tell me it is good for the rheu matis.” It is understood that the Navy Department is in possession of suf ficieat evidence to establish the pi ratical character of the Panchetts, alias Palmyra, recently captured by the Grampus, and ordered to the United States,. We have now two armed vessels cruising between the Maine and the opposite islands, and another employed keeping a sharp look out in the Mona Passage : these vessels render a more important service at this time to the country, than the Mediterranean squadron, which coasts the treasury twice as much to keep afloat; the value of our West India trade, scarcely bears any comparison to the limited commerce carried on in the former quarter. —[Washington Gaz. JVegro politeness. —ln some parts of our country, it is customary (or squires and clergymen, after performing the ceremo . ny of marriage, to request the groom to salute the bride, and a'compliance is con sidered as a prelude to a general round of salutations among the company. Some time ago, a negro led his bride, with many “unseen blushes,” before a Penn sylvanian ‘squire, to get married. This matrimonial black-smith had a practice on all such occasions, to invite the parties, after bis Judicial benediction, to take the customary salute. As soon therefore as he had pronounced them “one flesh,” & denounced those who should part them, he desired the groom, as usual, to salute his bride. — Sambo, who was at once both humble aod accommodating, had no idea of taking the start of his betters in their presence, and therefore, to avoid the imputation of impudence, and also to evince his gratitude for the services ren dered him, took the bride by the hand, led her forward to the squire, and ma king a very obsequious bow, replied, 44 ater you, masta. ” It is said this Iyer of knots never repeated this request after wards. B« TUESDAY, OCTOBErThb" B'' ff?* The inconveniences gene . Kt rally attendant on the R EMov^ of a Printing Establishment, prevent us from issuing another K paper before Saturday next-, b t | The Office will, after that ti me Hu hbe kept on Washington H<! a few doors south of the corner! H store uow occupied by Messrs’ M’Lea Mackie. tch ■K Mr. Hannon, Will you have the goodness to re- Hi* publish an article from the last Gear- Her! gla journal, aign, J " .^K<. ! It is not in a very conspicuous i in that paper, and should receive as r: j extensive a circulation as possible j especially as the Election Day j* j near at hand. It is believed, and He! j upon just grounds too, that very ex . B°“ ' traordinary efforts are making to ex- Be! elude the gentleman (mentioned in B Lil 1 the article to which I allude) from a Ku I place in the councils of the nation.-,. 4 The object of his opponents cannot I''! be misunderstood, and it will there. B ief fore scarcely be necessary to suggest Bib' to his friends the necessity of a “long-pull, and apull-all-together l» ■ D ‘ t The Election takes place next Mor\- B> day. FAIR PLAY. B er ’ We cheerfully comply with the B> r ‘ request of our correspondent, though B'! we must confess that we have not B h ’ : such apprehensions as he seems to Bm entertain—still, it would be as well to B>i be “ wide awake P* B|“ H FROM THE GEORGIA JOURNAL.* Httl Mr. Camak —l perceive that some B' one of your correspondents has com- Be! municated a congressional ticket, to B>~ which you have given publicity. It is not my wish or intention to derogate B u ' from the character of any of the gentle- B’ men thus recommended to (he public; B» but I must be permitted to say that there are other candidates who would certainly not suffer by a comparison with any of those who seem to be the i peculiar favorites of your correspond- II ent, and who, permit me to say, have B| ; not “ shuffled in the ranks.” Let ! me ask if there i* a more sterling, it*. flexible republican among the whole |B I list of candidates than General Th - • mas Glascock ? Is there a maa Bl i who with more alacrity would lay’ B| t bare his arm and risk his life in de- H i fence of his country ? Certainly not l||| i one. It is with pride and satisfac- |||| tion then, I recommend him to my BE s fellow citizens, and particularly to H| those that were with him in the ser- SB vice of his country. —He possesses H| talents, integrity and independence, , and is a native of our soil—Let up H| , therefore support him. A VOTER. ■ ni mmrn m■ - jn [ FOR THE CHRONICLE & ADVERTISE!".. Hj : RESJONA TJOK. B Though time its Lethean mist may spread; Its dark oblivious stream may bear, HS Each lawless thought, as sleeps despair, Or stifles Joy, or lulls despair. But there’s a balm that soothes to rest, IB Each passionate, wayward inclination, Sp| That calms in peace the troubled breast— Tis the spirit that teaches resignation. |||| ’ That spirit which smooths the fretted hours. .?/;J When doom’d to wake—when doom’d to weep- - BjS , Which smiles, tho’ fate relentless pours, Sjj Its draughts of sorrow, dire and deep, ’ That binds with poppy’d wreath our woW, B i In peaceful fetters still restraining} |||| i The bursts of grief intoft repose, 1 Aod reason’s empire yet retaining, • That bids us with misfortunes cope, B > When every earthly Ue is riven— . Ves—even then its bids us hope, I|| i For oh 1-—it tfaendoth point to heaven. ’ COMMUNICATED. B f “ A mother’s csre B ’ Shielded my infant innocence with prayer i H I A father’s guardian hand my youth maintained! H . Call’d forth my virtues, and from vice ref trained- ||| ’Twas on the 7th of August, thatß Taylor TindilL, observed to his father, jg who was seated in his arm chair, in yf ||| • shady side of the piazza ; Paa, I’m sic»i fej t and I'm sure I shall die. _ H James was a youth in bis nineteenth ■ > year. ■ He had been bred to the cheerful oc- 8| I cupatiou of a Planter, in which, he had it ? s proved himself, the sagacious and imius- ■ i trious husbandman. His mind, bad no ■ • been left unimproved ; for, he had early te| i been sent to school, where he had be* o ■ • instructed, in those elementary braocbM ■ , of an English education, usually taup ll ■ ! in a country school. . I i The natural cheerfulness, and pie°‘ ■ • samtry of his mind, which had been i°' ■ , creased by the harmony, and loveyf “>* ■ : family, made James, a favorite with a* H i the neighbouring youth. g > Even with the aged, he was at all tun* ■ i a welcome visitor ; for the sweetness I his disposition, and the unaffected sy®P a ' I • thy, he felt for those who were affec.* > ■ • caused them to make his youthful bosom, ■ , the deposit of their joys and sorrows. || James, was a pattern of filial f**” ' IS , he loved his parents, and used oa sufp r casions, every art that love could inspire* || .to smooth the down-hill of life, and »a» || their descent, into the vade of years* j