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MISCELLANY. From the Knickerbocker. COURTSHIP—AN EXTRACT. “Former times cannot parallel the present in the longevity of its court ships. Many a lover besieges the flint walled heart of his mistress for a period greater than the Greeks re quired to siege and sack Ilium. Right frequent are courtships that run the length of a mortal genera tion, performed by modern epicures in love. Just think of it a moment, brother bachelor! You fall in love with some lady to-night, quite acci dentally, and tomorrow, you com mence a courtship, the purpose of which is to nullify the robbery per petrated by her roguish eyes on your affections, by taking hers in ex change. Day after day, and year af ter year, you toil and dally on, now cheered by a rosy smile that falls on your heart as sweetly as the dew of .Hermon, and now saddened by a frown black as Erebus. Thus alter nating like a pendulum, between sun shine and shadow, you keep time as regularly as a town clock, until your hair is streaked with gray, the twilight of old age. In May, twenty years afterdate, you promise to pay to the blushing damsel, girt with sat in and rainbowed with ribbons, at your side, at the alter, on demand, any amount of love and attentions that her happiness may require.— Would you nottake the blcssingsthat breaks upon her lips, when she prom ises to ‘love, honor and obey’ you, as an ample recompense for all the fears and troubles you have suffered through the long campaign, the stout probation of twenty years of court ship? Twenty years arc rather too long for the impatience of a warm blooded lover; but better thus, than an extemporaneous wedding, after three days of eager wooing. Six calender months may be well em ployed in courtship; and this is short enough; for who that plucks a blush ing flower roughly from its parent stream, or enters the land of prom ise with a stranger, can properly ap preciate the bloom of the one, or the delights of the other? Antici pation of pleasure is sweet, but nev er more so, than when love’s honey mingles with it. A man should not be too coward ly nor too slow in his courtships. The Bonapartcan system of warfare may be used advantageously. Con centrate the forces of your charms on the enemy’s weakest points, and depend upon it, her human nature cannot resist you long. 'Flic ladies! make use of the Parthian tactics. As the foe approach, they fall back, meanwhile keeping up a brisk lire with the missiles which they, the world over, use so skilfully. Glanc es brilliant as flashing steel-smiles that arc daggers to man’s affections —blushes, that glow like the eve ning’s purple on the far-off clouds— thoughts and words that mean more than they express-all fall on the at. tacking party w ith an influence fatal to bachelorism. The fashionable system may be illustrated as follow s:—A gentleman, whiskered, and scowling, and look ing as fierce as belligerent Mars, en counters a lady whose smile is per fectly bew itching. This is a hire, and a signal of warfare. Mars ap proaches Venus, and she, reflecting a portion of his own fiery redness, blushes, and effects a transit to some other place in illimitable space. He pursues her with the most indefati gable vigor. Sciences of dramatic interest soon transpire. They meet most fortuitously on all occasions; at parties they glance with savage fierceness at each other:] he strives to persuade her that he is earnest and sincere, while she hops from him like a crippled sparrow, at times turning round and smiling, after the manner of the immortals, upon him. They strive to avoid each other; but the kites have tiecreed their union, and accidents bring them together. The gentleman bristles up and de- clares himself, and the lady puts her hand in her pocket, and signifies to him that she has better use for it. He snatches courage from despair, and recommences his suit, with an ardor all-defying. She flies away on easy wing awhile, until, satisfied or fatigued with her long-sustained flight, she comes fluttering to earth at last. The game is his. They wed, 7’hcir romance is a tale of the past. Their poetry is gone. They are soon numbered among the prose ar ticles in the great periodical of hu man existence! Go on lovers, and know the basis of courtship! If your love is mutual, your pleasure will be elys ian. Your barques are floating on ! the surface of a sunny sea, fragrant winds fill your sails, and breath in music over the flashing waters. Far before, your cynosure, the star of hope, is gleaming forth its twinkling | radiance. Let discretion be your ! helmsman, and after a blissful voy age, you shall enter the haven of love, on the shore of that rosy sea. What though the undulating wave may conjure up dark fears before you? It will but break the tedium .of the passage: and when your dan gers are over, your joys will be more brilliant in proportion to the depth of the shadow's in the back-ground of the past.” The Scotch King and his Minister. Generally speaking, the Scotch en joy persiflage, and the Irish are apt to take tire at it. After a mess din ner of the 21st (Royal North British Fusileers,) always a gallant and gen glemanly corps of a very national character, there has been a good deal of proud reflection upon the stern faith of the North Britains, in their treaties with other powers. A lively boy, who had recently joined, observed to some of the ciders that he had a legend in confirmation of the claim, and narrated it according ly- Few' of our histories refer to a ve ry sanguinary war that subsisted be tween an early Scottish king and a ( king of the Land’s End. Scottish valor prevailed, & news was brought of the complete success of an expe dition against the strong holds.— 7’hc monarch was elated beyond measure, and sending for his princi pal adviser, Lord Alexander ,ad dressed him: “Wheel, Sandy, is there any oth er king I can bring to submmission the noo?” “An’ if please your majesty, there is but ane king whom you canna van quish.” “Ano king that I canna vanquish! An’ wha’s he, mon?” “I mean, your majesty, the King of Haven.” “Ha\ on! Haven! whar’s that, San dy?” His Lordship pointed to the sky, and then bowed becomingly to his master, who did not quite compre hend w hat was ineant, and feared to betray a geographical ignorance by inquiring more particularly that he had already done.” Nae matter, Sandy, gang and tell the King o’ Haven that gin he docs na surrender his dominions at once. I’ll come and bang him oot of them. And mind, my Lord, you danna shew yer face before us till you hacdone our bidding.” This w as an embarrassing position , for the noble favorite, who knew that expostulation, or even explanation was too dangerous to be attempted at such a moment. He therefore re tired submissively, and consulted a i priest. 7'his progenitor, of Loyala consoled him by the assurance that, on an occasion of the kind, it was quite allowable to tranquilize anion-, arch of weak understanding by put-! ting an artificial construction on cer tain passages of scripture. Lord Al exander appeared, accordingly, in the royal presence, and was instant ly observed by his gracious master. ••Wheel, Sandy, what says the j king o’ 1 la ven?" ‘•picnsc vour tnniosty, I have na | ty seen himself, but L have conferred with ane o’ his accredited ministers, an’ he solemnly engages that your majesty may hae his kingdom for asking fo.r.” “What he sae cecvil?” inquired the monarch, warmed to magnanimi. ty by the assurance; “then cen gang yer gait there once more, and tell the King o’ Haven that for his ceevility nae a Scotchman shall never set foot in his kingdom.”—l* 'raziers Magazine. Georgia Land for Sale. No. 168, 28 Dist. 3. Section. 73, 14 “ 3. Do. 308, 7 “ 3. “ 195, 7 “ 4. « 231, 13 « 4. “ 285, 27 “ 2. “ 209, 8 “ - 2. “ 85, 26 “ 2. “ 2,7 “ 2. “ 19, 7 “ 2. “ 128, 7 “ 2. “ 169, 8 “ 1. “ 40, 20 “ 2. “ 582, 21 “ “ “ 195, 21 “ “ “ 102, 21 “ “ “ 490, 21 “ “ “ 157, 1 “ ‘ 4 “ 281, “ “ 4 “ 444, 15 “ 1 “ 464, 12 “ “ “ 781, “ “ “ “ 309, 18 “ 3 “ 1075, 3 “ 3 “ 1158, 3 “ 3 “ 434, II “ I “ 265, 2 “ 3 “ 1163, 3 “ 4 ‘ 1243, 4 “ 3 « 248, 4 “ 3 “ 71, 2 “ 3 “ 405, 4 “ I “ 34, 3 “ I “ 938, 3 “ 1 “ 607, 17 “ 2 « For all or any of the above lots apply to the Subscriber at Cuthbert Randolph County, Georgia. A. HOWARD. Jan. 26. —2.-4 t. WALDIES NOVEL AND I.UPOKTANT i Literary Enter pise—Novels, Talcs. Biography, Voyages, Travels, Reviews, and the news of the Day. IT was one of the great objects of “Waldie’s Li brary,” “ to make good reading cheaper,” and to bring literature to every mans door.” Their object : has been accomplished; we have given to books wings, j and they have flown to the uttermost parts of our vest continent, carrying society to the secluded, occupi ■ lion to the titerary information of all. We now propose I still further to reduce prices, and render the access to a literary banquet, more than .wo folds accessible; i we gave and] shall continue to give in the qnorto li. ■ brary, a volume weekly, for twocents a day. We now I propose to give a volume in the same period for less than four cents a week, and to add as a piquant sea. soiling to the dish, a lew columns of the shorter lite j rary matters, and a summary of the news and events ■of the day. We know by experience and calculations that we can go still further in the matter of reducti >n, and we feel that there is still verge enough for us to aim at oflering to an increasing literary appetite, that i mental food which it craves. The Select Circulating Library, now as ever so great a favorite, will continue to make its weekly vis its, and to be issued in a form for binding and preser vation, and its price and form wilt remain the same. But we shall tn the first week of January, 1837, issue a huge sheet of the size of the largest newspaper of America, hut on very superior paper; filled with books ■ of the newest and most entertaining, though in their several departments of Novels,‘Tales, Voyages, Tra vels, Ac. select in their character, joined with read-' ing such as should fill a weekly newspaper. By this method we hope to accomplish a great good—to enli- i ven and enlighten the family circle, and to give to it, at an expense which shall be no consideration to any, a mass of reading that in book form would alarm the ’ pocke's of the prudent, and to do it in a manner that the most sceptical shall acknowledge, •• the power i ui concentration can no further go.” No book which i appears in Waldie’s Quarto Library, will bo publish- J ed in the Omnibus, which will be an entirely distinct periodical. every description. TERMS. Waldie’s Literary Omnibus, will be issued every Friday Morning, printed on paper of a quality superior 1 to any other weekly sheet, and oi the largest size. It wi 1 contain, Ist. Books, the newest and best that can be pro cured. equal every work to a London duodecimo vol ume, embracing Novels. Travels. Memoirs. Ac. and only chargeable with newspaper postage. 2d. Literary reviews, tales, sketches, notices of books, and information from “ the world of letters," of; 3d. The news of the week concentrated to a small compass, but in sufficient amouut to embrace a know- ■ ledge, of the principal events, political and ffiiscella nevus of Europe and America. The price will be two dollars to clubs of five sub. ' scribers, where the paper* is forwarded to one address, i To clubt of two individuals, five dollars, single mail subscribers, three dollars. The discount on uncur. rent money will be charged to the remitter; the low price and superior paper, absolutely prohibits paving a discount. On no condition will a copy ever be sent until the payment is received in advance. As the arrangements for the prosecution of this great literary undertaking are all made, and the pro prietor has redeemed ail his pledges to a generous pub lic for many years, no fear of the non-iulfilinjent ol the contract can be lelt. The Omnibus will he regu gularly issued; and will contain in a year, reading mat ; ter equal tn amount to two volumes of Ree’s Cyclopc. j dia for the small sum mentioned above. Address post paid, ADAM WALDIE. 46 Carpenter St. Philadelphia. ! Ij a w. Subscribers will attend the Superior Courts of the Cherokee Circuit, Georgia, and the Courts of Cherokee and Benton, in Alabama. All business entrusted to their care, will be promptly attended to. LUMPKIN & WRIGHT. Rome, Feb. 2. 3. ts. State Kights KSotel, Mi Ml LioW cAston, geo. FHIHE subscriber respectfully informs his friends m and the public, that lie lias removed from his obi stand upon the west part of the public square to the house formerly occupied by B. F Johnson. He as. sures those who may favor him with a call, that noth, ing will be wanting on his part to render them com comfortable. His Table and Stables will be furnished with the best the country affords. B. F. DANIEL. Canton, Jan. 19—1 —wGw. Watch Repairing. 1 D. EDWARDS respectfully informs the pub. lU, lie that he has established himself in Cass ville as a Silver Smith, where he intends to remain permantly. He will also, attend at Rome on the first Wednesday of each month, and oftener if necessary, to do such work as may be offered. Persons haying work to do in bis line, will please send it by the dif ferent mail routes to Rome, yvith the directions and owners names, and deposit it at some place intown and it shall be punctually attended to. All watches warranted to perform well for one year. January 13. I—ts. <*■ Administrator’:* Sale. 4GREEABLY to an onder of the honorable the Court of Ordinary of said county, wi. l be sold, on the first Tuesday in April next, at die Court-house in Cumming, Forsyth county, Lot of Land No. 140, in the 2d District and Ist Section, of formerly Cherokee, now Forsyth county. Sold as the property of Joseph M. Waters, late of said county, deceased. JOSEPH WATERS, Adm’r January 19—1—ids. SJ rayed or Stolen r 1 & the residence of William Smith, Esq. liv ing one mile from Rome, a small Sorrel Mare, star in the forehead; one whi'e foot white; no other marks recollected. Any person deliver ng said mart to the subscriber in Rome, or to Mr. Smith al his plan tat ion, will be liberally rewarded. JOHN M. JOHNSTON. Jan. 19, 1 ts. ! GEORGIA, WALKER COUNTY. | TV MT II ERE AS Robert Allen applies to me fui | V V Letters of Administration on the Estate < I John Gilbert, late of Jackson county, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish al am) ; singular, the kindred and creditors, to be anil appeal |at my office within the lime prescribed by law,to shew i cause, if any exist, why said letters should not be I granted. Given under my hand at office, this 22d day of Jan uary, 1838, JOHN CALDWELL, o. c. c. o. Jan. 26 2 30d. Floyd Sheri fife Sale lor March, W'lLLbesohl on the first Tuesday in March next, before the Court House door in the Town of Rome, Floyd county, within the usual hours : of sale, the following property, to wit: Lot of Land No. 546, in the 16ih District, 4th Section, of originally Cherokee, now Floyd coun ty : levied on as the property of Hiram King, to satisfy lour fi. las. issued from a Justices court of Henry county, two in favor ol Becks A Clark, and the other two in favor of Peck & Johnson, vs. said King. Le vy made and returned to me by a Constable. Lot No. 790, 3d District, 4th Section, of originally Cherokee, now Floyd county; levied on ns the property ol William Davis, to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from a Justices Court of Fayette county. In favor of John R. Cargill, vs. said Davis, and Ronben Millsaps, security. Levy made and returned to me by a Con. stable. * WESLEY SHROI’SHER, D. Shfl. January 26. Floyd Sheriff* Sales for Harrli. ’R if ILL he sold, on the first Tuesday in March w w next, in the town of Rome. Floyd county, within the usual hours ut sale, the following property, to wit . Lot No. 86, in the 14th District, 4th Sec tion; levied on ns the property of John llollan>*. to sa. nsfy a fi. fa. issued from a Justices Court of Forsyth county, in favor of John Wheeler, for the use of James Law A Co. vs. said Holland. Levy made and re ttfrncd to me by a Constable. Or.e Negro woman by the name of Dart iet, thirty years of age : levied on to sati-ly n fi. fa issued from Floyd Superior Court, in favor ot Bennet Laurence, vs. Samuel S. Jack and William E. Mer edith, Executors of William IL Meredith, deceased, Andrew Patterson, mdor-er. Property pointed out by said Laurence. AT the same place, on the first Tuesday in April next. One Grey Mare; levied on as the property of John Gent, to satisfy a Mortgage fi. fa. issued from Floyd Inferior Court, in favor ot Joseph Ford, vs. said Gent. WILLIAM R. WILLIAMSON, ShfF. January 26. HE undersigned will attend the Courts in all the M Counties of ihe Cherokee Circuit, Habersham and Raburn of the Western, and Cobb of the Coweta Circuit, and also the Counties of Benton and Chero kee Ala. All business directed to their address Cass ville, Ga. will receive prompt and punctual attention. WILLIAM 11. STEELMAN, JDiiN V-. H UNDERWOOD. Feb. 10. 4. w. d«no. Strayed or Stolen W7IROM the subscriber living three « miles below Rome on the Coosa O! River, on the night of the 10th inst. two V 4 pirfl Roan Mares, one seven years old, four teen hands high; the oilier two years old, and well grown. Also, a bright sorrel horse, fourteen and a half hands high, with a white streak in the forehead, trots and racks well. Any person de livering said Horses to me or giving information where th may be found, shall be liberally rewarded. ROWLAND COBB. Jan. 19. 1 2t. ~ com m e at c a a l Hotel, Roane, Floyd Coimty, Georgia', ••'tbscriber Laving opened his ™- new Brick House in the Town of me ’ as a for the purpose of act commodating permanent boarders, and trancient customers, tenders his services to tjje public. ! Hetrusts that his accodations will be such aawill sa. tisfy the most fastidious. His table will at all times i be furnished with the best the country affords, and ev ery exertion will be made to conduce to the comfort and convenience of all who may call upon him. Hq will also be prepared to accommodate Families With board and reared Rooms during the summer season. His stables will be attended by a faithful and atfentiva Ostler, and provinder supplied in plenty. He there, fore feels himself authorised in soliciting public pat. ronage. FRANCIS BURKE. Rome. Jan. 19.—I—if. PROftPlCll’S ’ OF THE SOUTHERN REVIEW. ' >e Polished nt Washington, quarterly, in an ! JL Bvo Nrt.of27s to 31)0 pages, price §5 per mv : num, payable in advance. The place is chosen, not ] only for its facilities of information, literary and poliib j cal, but as that at which the Southern Slates can bo I united upon the undertaking, with the greatest ease, ; and «ith the completes! exemption from all State or Party jealousies. Os the matter, three.fourths (say 225 pp.) shall con sist of regular Reviews, making about 9 of 25 pp cnch. These must, as literary works at least, return as age. neral rule, somewhat towards that older method, now almost forgotten, and give a regular analysis of the book reviewed, if it be of any merit. In Politics and upon Occasional Topics, there may be a greater liber, ty of deviating into mere disquisition. In this portion of the Review, there will be gi en, n each No. a paper historical of the Politics and gen. < rul events uftheday; to serve asa Historical Regis ter. Its execution will a’wuys be committed to the strongest hands only; and its purpose, to give a unity and consistency to the Public Doctrines of the Review s ich as can scarcely be so well effected in any other m liter. ADceasional Retrospective I?evi» ws will also he cm. >.;died in this pari of the plan, with a view of favoring i;i a certain degree, the more curious studies; or '.o re v ve the knowledge of important books, forgotten in the tonlusion of modern learning. Writers will be led, of regular purpose tn give their i.ipers, wherever the subject will permit, the form of i service; in order not only that they may ihus afford i completer body of information, serve, also, to reprint l>art, for popular circulation; a method that will much t igment both the reputation and usefulness of the Re. view. A body of Miscellanies (say some 50 (>p.) will form rhe subordinate,'and more amusmg part of the Journal. lis contents will be soim-wliat vnrtoti-; Ini: will, for the nost part, consist of short Literary Notices; Biblio. irapliical Ar icles; a critical list of New I’ubiii ations, oreigttand domestic, and general Literary intelli gence. In Communications, the most compressed mode of writ.ng will be every where r< qmred. Papers in •illicit the works <lo not bear a just proportion to tbe nformution conveyed or tin l efleet intended, will be either rejected, without scruple, or abridged, without mercy- To warrant this exaction, the n<-nal rate of contpen* «aiion io writers will be advanced to 2 I 2 -dollars pi r primed page; a price that will off. r fair remuneration io the talents and labor which we wish >o secure. Os this revival of a Review of iho South, the pur. pose is io give once more to our region, 'now utuifi* i emly needing it) an Interpreter and a I'cfi-nder ; the common Representative of onr Institutions, nnd of the Mind itself among us- Such in that great Congress ol Opinion, where the fates ol civilized nations are now so largely settled, we do not possess and we have al. ready suffered much sorts. I< is time to make our. selves understood and respected there. The Journal which shall <1 > this, nttist comb ne the general stiengh of all who, throughout the South, love the country, and are capable of doing ii mielli-cti d service. It mint then be, not the Champion or the propagandist of lo cal but ihe friend of all that pursue lite rub in- good. Imo ihe vulgar methods of Politics, debas. ed by I’artiz m rancour, or corrupted by the interest, or overborne by the popular passion of the hour, it must not fall—From it, the pride ol the Nullifit-r must re ceive no diminution, the fidelity ol the Unionists l|o reproach : It must be no vantage.ground to either part, nor serve but ns an equal field, where they will only i C-aiteiid which, shall most advance the cause of the South, and of that older doctrine of Jeffersonian .Stalo Kights, avowed by both, parlies alike, and ,w tho •n!y hope of rallying ami of rescuing the • ounfry. To vindicate, then, our pe< uliar Institutions; to ic. ‘•el with argument, lest presently wc be forced to re icl with arm?, all interference with on domestic con 'll ion, against the wild rule of mere Chance and Cor ruption, ton; hold a Republican and Federative, a sdis. nnguished from a Democratic and Consolidating ad. inmisiraiioii of the National i flairs, from the disor. ders ol the <'emral government. Whi-re Reform is hopeless, and even useless, till you have given your -elves stronger and wiser local systems—todriect the public view towards a home policy of the State, capa ble, through itself, to confer upon us the blessings of well ordered Liberty, expected in vain from the Fe deral the delusion of Party Politics abroad •o call home the wise and brave have often raised petty States into noble and prosperous Commonwealth ; io attach men, if possible, to their birth place, and convert them from wandering and selfish adventurers, | into ci izens, the lovers of civilization, to re.animate 1 public spirit, and give it purpose, ns well ns energy; I io hold, over parties and Politicians, the tribunal ol a Public opinion fur different from that idle nnd corrup? i one, of which the newspaper Press is ihe voice; for these purposes, to diffuse through the land, sound and well considered public doctrines, with knowledge and Taste, their natural allies, such will be the general i aim oi that literary league, among the best talents of . the country, which has been seton foot in the present undertaking. Os its critical purposes, it is not neceatnry to speak so minutely. In general, it will of course strive to guide the popular taste towards the best sources in knowledge, and the truest models in Elegant Letters. Its judgments will however, found themselves upon the dent ol his temporary nn-wn. nor that of his birth on this or the mher side of the Atlantic. Towards the few good writers, the want of cultivation lias yet permitted us have in America, it will know how lo be respectful. But in Literature, ns lately in Trade, we shall insist that no man’s bud commodity be forced up on us, under patriotic pretences. Upon all that school of writamed. Upon the Literature of mere amusement, existence enjoy-d by this literary grass, which flourishes green ly in the morning, and is cut down and flung away be. fore the night. Life is tco short. Art too long, and Learning grown 100 prolific, for people to occupy them, selves more than an instant with bad books, while afislt great bodies of good ones arc at their command.