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(Continued from Vag6 I’irst.) lently; but their flashes were not the soft gentle colors I had just seen, but sharp and dazzling like forked lightning. Vast quantites faded into nothing, and there remained but a few on the spot, brighter, indeed, than they had arrived; but I thought these few brilliant shapes a poor compensation for the numbers that had perished. Even in the planet Venus, I said, there is death, and love, and war; —and these, among beings impalpable and destitute oi our earthly faculties. What a les son ot humility I read : I passed my hand through many of these forms —there was no resistence —no sense of touch ; I shouted, but no sound ensued; my presendo was evidently unnoticed —there existed not the earthly sense of sight. And yet, I thought, how wo creatures of earth reason on God’s motives, as if he were endued with faculties like our own; while we even differ from these created phantoms of a sister-world, as much perhaps as they from the tenents of Jupiter, and far more from the creatures of other systems ! But there was still one thing common to us all. All these bright beings float ed close to the surface, and it was evident that to keep the restless be ings of creation to their respective worlds, a general law’ was necessary. Great Newton ! neither touch, nor taste, nor sight, nor sound, are uni versal, but gravity is forever, la lonc am the only wretched being whom a feverish curiosity has peeled of this general garb, and rendered more truly unsubstantial than the thin sliding hues I gazed After some time I fancied my own native planet was shining above me. {sprung frantically upward, but ma ny a dreary century passed by, be fore I approached near enough to distinguish the objects on its surface. Miserable being ! I was again out, outlie proper line, and I should have' passed once more into boundless darkness, had I not, in passing the earth’s surface, imbibed a small por-1 tion of gravity; not indeed sufficient to draw me to it, but strong enough to curve my line of flight, and makci me revolve round earth like a moon,, in an elliptic orbit. This was, per haps, the most w retched of the phan tasies of my brain : in continual sight of my native land,without the chance of approaching it by foot! There I was, rolling in as permanent and involuntary an orbit as any planet in the heavens; w ith my line of nodes, syzygy, quadratures, and planetaryi inequalities. But the w orst of it w as, I had im bibed, with that small portion of gra vity, a slight share of those terrestri al infirmities 1 had hitherto felt free from. 1 became hungry—and my hunger, though by the slowest de-' grees, continually increased, and at, the end of some years, I felt as if re duced to the most emaciated state. My soul felt gradually issuing from my tortured body, and at last, by one of th« strange inconsistencies of dreams, I seemed in contemplation of myself. I saw my lifeless body whirl ing round its primary, its limbs some times frosen into ghastly stiffness, sometimes dissolved by equinoctial heat, and swinging in the wide ex panse. 1 know not if it sprung from the pride inherent in all created be ings, but this contemplation of the ultimate state of degradation of my poor form, gave me greater distress than any part of my phrensied wan derings. Its extreme acuteness brought me to myself. I was still standing m my garden, but it was daylight, and my friends stood look ing on my upright, though fainting form, almost afraid to approach me. 1 was disengaged from my tubs, and sacks, and carried to bed. But it did not escape the notice of rite bystan ders, that 1 was destitute of weight ; and although I took caretu'show my self publicly with a proper gravity. • \en with an additional stone weight, strange stories and whispers went forth about me: and when my feats of agility, and frightful, though not fatal, falls was recollected, it became generally believed that I had cither sold myself to the devil, or was my self that celebrated individual. I now began to prepare myself for im-i mediate escape, in case 1 should be legally prosecuted. 1 had hitherto been unable, when suspended in the air, to lower myself at pleasure ; for I was unable to make my pump acti upon itself, and therefore, when 1 endeavored to take it with me, its own weight always prevented my I making any considerable rise. 1 j have since recollected, indeed, that had 1 made two pumps, and extract-; 1 ed the weight from one by means of the other, 1 might have carried the light one up with me, and filled my self, by its means, with gravity,when 1 wished to descend. However,thisj plan, as 1 said, having escaped myi reflection, 1 sat painfully about devis-! ing some method of carrying about gravity with me in a iieutralised stale, and giving it operation and energy when it should suit my convenience. After long labour and expensive ex periments, 1 hit upon the following simple method : You will readily imagine that that subtle fluied, call it gravitation, or weight, or extraction, or what you will, pervading as it does every body in nature, impalpable and invisible, would occupy an extremely small space when packed in its pure and unmixed state. 1 found, after decom posing it, that besides the gases h mentioned before, there always re mained a slight residium, incombus tible and insoluble. This was evi dently a pure clement, which 1 have called by a termination common, among chcmisls, ‘ gravium.’ When 1 admitted to it the other gases, except the asote of the atmosphere, it as sumed a creamy consistence, which might be called ‘ essential oil of gra vitation;’ and finally, when it was placed in contact with the atmos phere, it imb bed asote rapidly, be came immediately invisible, a&d form ed pure w eight. 1 procured a very small elastic Indian Rubber bottle, into which 1 infused as much oil of gravity as 1 could extract from my-, self, carefully closed it, and squeesed it flat; and 1 found that by placing over the orifice an extremely fine gausc, and admitting the atmosphere through it (like the celebrated Eng lish Davy Lamp,) as the bottle open , cd by its own elasticity, the oil be came weight; and when 1 squeesed it again the asote receded through the gause, and left the weightless od. I Thank heaven, 1 was now in posses -1 sion of the ultimatum of my inqui ries, the means of jumping into the air w ithout any weight, and the pow er of assuming it w hen 1 wished tode scend. As 1 feared, 1 was indicted as a sorcerer, and condemned to be j hung; 1 concealed my bottle under' my arm, ascended the scaffold,avow - ■ ed my innocence, and was turned ofl. 1 counterfeited violent convulsions, | but was careful to retain just weight i enough to keep the rope tight. In the evening, when the populace had retired, 1 gently extricated my neck, j walked home, and prepared to leave my country. At Petersburg!) 1 heard that Captain Khavk of Voronets was about to sail to India to bombard a British fortres*. 1 demanded an in terview. ‘ Sir,' said I,‘ lam all un happy man. whose misfortunes have compelled him to renounce hiscoun try. 1 am in possession of an art by w hich 1 can give you accurate intelli gence of every thing going on in the fortress you arc to attack; and 1 of fer you mv services, provided you will give me a passage and keep my secret.' 1 saw by his countenance he considered me an imposter. “ Sir.” 1 said, “ promise me secre sy, and you shall behold a speci men of my art.” He assented. 1 squesed the little bottle under my arm, sprung upward, and played a long the ceiling to his great amase. lie was a man of huher, and kept Lus promise; and in six months we arrive! off the coast <f Coroninndcf. I lore 1 mafde one of the greatest mistakes in my I fe. 1 had frequently practis cd mv art during the fits! part of the voyage Uarthcamus m. nt of ’he •.us: ar.C ies’eud of carrying hij’ gravity.hottie with inc, I used 1 to divest myself of just sufficient gravity to 1 leap mast.high, and descend gently on the deck; and by habit I knew the exact quantity which was requisite in Northern climes, But when I had ascended to view the fortress near the equator, 1 found too late that I had ex tracted fa- 100 much, and for this reason.* I 1 you had anorange at its head and stalk, by the fortingcr and thumb, and spin it with velo city, you will see that small bodies will be thrown with rapidity from those parts which lie mid-way between the finger and thumb, while those that are nearer are far less affect ed by the rotatory motion. It was just so with me. 1 had been used to descend in the north ern climates with a very slight weight; but I 1 now found, that in the equatorial regions 1 was , thrown upward in considerable strength. A strong sea-breeze was blowing. 1 was borne rapidly away from the astonished crew, passed over the fortess, narrowly escaped being shot, and found myself passing in the uoble« + inaa ner over the whole extent of India. Habit had entirely divested me of fear, and I experienced i the most exquisite delight in viewing that fine country spread out like a map beneath m: 1 . (, recognised the scenes of historical interest. There rolled the Hydasnes, by die very spot where Fonts met Alexander. There lay the track of Mahmoud the great Gaznevide. I left the beautiful Kashmir on the right. 1 passed over the head quarters of Persia in her different ages, Herat, Ispahan, Ramadan.— Then camo Arbela on my right, where a na tion, long cooped up in a country scarce lar ger than Candia, had overthrown the children of the great Cyrus and crushed a dynasty . whose sway reached uninterrupted for two | thousand miles. I saw the tomb of Gordian, on tho extreme frontie r .of his empire—a noble I spot for the head of a nation of warriors. I skimmed along the plain where Crassus and , Galerius, at the interval of three hundred years, had learnt on the same unhappy field i that Rome could’breed. A stromg puff from I the Levant whirled metothe northward, and . dropped me at length on a ridge of Mount Cau- ! casus, fatigued and hungry. I assuaged my hunger with mountain mosses, and slept a few hours as well as the extreme cold would per mit me. On waking, the hopelessness of my situation distressed me mn?||, After passing over so many hot countries where the exhala tions from the earth had enabled my body to imbibe gravitation more rapidly ‘than usual, 1 had gradually moved northward, where the centrifugal force of the earth had much de creased. From these two causes, and in this wild country, without the means of chemically assisting myself, I now found my boity too heavy to trust again to the winds —intrenched as I Avas, between the Black sea and the C is pian, but without weight to give ’firmness to my step; without the lightness of a fowl, 1 had all its awkard weakness in water. The sav age cast lots for me, and I became a -rfaye. My strauge lightness was a source of mirth to ; all, even to my fellow servants; and 1 found, i by-experience, how little weight a man 'bears m society who has lost his gravity. When 1 attempted to dig, 1 rose without effect on my spade. Sometimes when 1 bore a load of wood ■ on mV shoulders, it felt so top heavy, that up on the slightest wind I was sure to tumble ov er—and then I was chastised: my mistress one ' day hoisted me three miles by a single kick on the breech. But however |>owcrless against lateral pressure, it was observed with amaze how easily I raised the vast weights under . which the most powerful men .in the country sunk; for, in fact, my legs being formed to the . usual capabilities of mankind, had now little or no weight of body to support: I was, there- J fore, enabled to eabry ten or twelve stone in addition to a common burden. It was this strength that enabled me to throw several feet from the earth a native wlto hud attacked me. lie was stunned by the fall, but on rising, with one blow he drove me a hundred yards before j him. I took to my heels, determined ifpossi i ble, tc escape this wretebed life. The whole I country was on foot to pursue me, for I had J doubly deserved death; 1 had bruised a free ' man; and was a fugitive slave. But not with ' standing the incredible agility of these people in their native craggs, their exacl knowledge pf the clefts in the hills, the only passes be tween the eternal snows, and my own ignor ance, I utterly baffled their pursuit by my want ; of weight, and the energy which despair sup plied me. Sometimes when they pressed har- ' dest on me, I would leap up a perpendicular crag, twenty feet high, or drop down a hund. red. 1 bent my steps towards the Black Sea, determined, isl could reach the coast, to seek a passage to some port in Cathenoslaw, and re tire where I might pass the remainder of my life, under a feigned name, with at least the of dying in the dominions of my legitimate sovereign, Alexander. Exhausted and emaciated, I arrived at n straggling village, the site of the ancient .Pity us. This was the last boundary of the Roman power on the Euxinc—and to this wretched place state exiles are frequently doomed. The name Lccamq proverbial; and, 1 understate, has been so far adopted by the English, that the word “Pityus” is, to this day, rrtost adapt ed to the lips of the banished. In a small ves sol we sailed for Azof; but when we came off the straits of CaflTd, where the waters of the Don are poured into the Euxine, a strong cur rent drove us on a rock, and in a fresh gale the ship went speedily to pieces. I gave my self up for lost, and heard the crew, one after the other, gurgle in the waves and scream then* last while 1 lay struggling and butfetißg for life.’ But after the fust hurry for existence, I found I had exhausted myself uselessly, for my specific giavity being so trifling, I was cna bled to lie on the surface efthe billows without any exertion, and even to sit upon the wave os securely as a couch. 1 loosened my neck- cloth, and spreading it wide with tny hands and teeth, 1 trusted myself to the same winds that had so often pelted me at their mercy, and always spared mo. In this way I traversed the Eu\ine. 1 fed on the scraps that floated on the surface —sometimes dead fish, and once or twice on some inquisitive stragglers whose curiosity brought them from the deep to con template the strange sail. Two days I floated tn misery, and a sleepless night; by night I dared not close my eyes for fear of falling backward—and by day I frequently passed ob jects that filled me with despair—fragments of wrecks; and then 1 looked on my own sorry craft: once I struck my feet against a drown ed sailor, and it put me in mind of myself. At last 1 landed safe on the beach, between Odes sa and Otchacow, traversed the Ukraine, and b v selling a little curiosities I had picked up on n. v passage, I have purchased permission to reside IC'* tiA rest of my days unknown and unseen in a forest near Minsk. Here, within the gray ci .unbling walls of a castle, that fel'l with the .independence of this unhappy country, I await my end. 1 have left little to regret at my native AK’scow’, neither friends nor reputation, nor lawful .life; and I l ]a d failed hi a love which was dearer to me than reputa tion—than life—than gravity n?ell. I have established an apparatus, oh improved princi ples, to operate cm gravity; aasd I am now em ployed, day and night, for the benefit'• not more of the present, than cf ajil .mankind are to come. In fact, £ am Laborioiwly ano unceasingly extraatiug the gravitation from the earth, in order to br.iug.it nearer the sun; and though, by thus diftiinisbing the earth’s or bit, 1 fear I .shall confuse the astronomical ta. bles and calculations, 1 am confident I shall im prove the teihperature of the globe. How far I have succeeded, may be guessed from the re cent errors ifithe Almanacs a bent the eclipses and from the late mild winters. NOTICE. SL verrise in the Western Georgian. Letters on business connected with their office, must come Post Paid, otherwise they will not be attended to. STEPHEN JONES, Sh’ff. February 2.3 4t. WASHES NOVEL AN» a.HPOKTANT Literary Entcrpise—Novels, Talcs, Biography, Voyages < Reviews, and the news of Ihe Day. IT was-one of the great objects of “ Waldie’s Li. l brary,” “ to mak« good reading cheaper,” and t<> hr.ng literature to evt ry mans door.” Their object has been accomplished; we have given to books wings, and they have flown to the utierm >st parts of our vast continent, carrying society to the s<-cluded, occupa tion to the literary information <»f all. We now propose, still further to reduce prices, and render the access tq.a literary banquet, more than .wo folds accessible; we gave and, shall continue to give in the quorto li brary, a volume weekly, for two cents a day. We bow propose to give a volume in the same period for .ess than fotrr cents a week, and to add as a piquant sea. soiling to the dish, a tew columns of the shorter lite rary matters, and a summary of the news and events of the day. Wo know by experience and calculations that we can go still further in the matter of reducii »n, and we feel that there is still verge enough for tis to 1 aim ut offering to an increasing literary appetite, that 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 ami preser vation, and its price and form will remain the same. But we shall in the first week of January, 1837, issue a huge sheet of the size of the largest newspaper of America, but on very superior paper; filled with books, of the newest and most entertaining, though in their several departments of Novels,‘Tales, Voyages, Tra vels, &c. select in their character, joined with read ing such as should fill a weekly newspaper-, fly this method wc hope to accomplish a great good—to enli 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 ot concentration can no further go.” book which appears tn Waldte’s Quarto Library, will "be publish ed tn the Omnibus, which will be an entirely distinct periodical, every description. TERMS. Wd’tJiis’s Literary Omnibus, will bo issued every Friday Morning, printed on paper of a quality superior to any other weekly sheet, and of the largest size. It will contain, Ist. Books, the newest ami best that can be pro cured, equal every work to a London duodecimo vol ume, embracing Novels, Travels, Memoirs. <fcc. and only chargeable with newspaper postage. 2d. Literery reviews, tales, sketches, notices ol books, and iriiorniatton from “ the world of letters,” of, 3d. The news of 'the week concentrated to a small compass, but in sufficient arnouut to embrace a know ledge, of the principal events, political and miscella neous of Europe and Amorica. The price will be two dollars to clubs of five sub. scribers, where the.paper is forwarded to one address.t To clulm of iwo individuals,'five dollars, single mat! subscribers, three dollars. The discount on uncur.: rent money will be charged to the remitter; the low price and superior,paper, absolutely prohibits jraying a discount. On no condition will a copy ever be sent until the paymant is received in advance. As the arrangements lor the prosecution of this great literary undertaking are all made, and the pro prietor has redeemed all his pledges to a generous pub lic for many years, .no fear of the non-fulfiiimcnt of the contract can be kit. The Omnibus will he regu gularly issued; and will contain tn a year, reading mat ter equal in amount to two volumes of Ree’s Cyciopc. J:a for the small sum mentioned above. Address postpaid, ADAM WALDIE. 46 Carpentsr St. Philadelphia. Law. f Subscribers will attend the Superior Courts 3. ot the Cherokee Circuit, Georgia, and the Courts of Cherokee and Benton, tn Alabama. Ail business entrusted to their care, will be promptly attended to. LUMPKIN A WRIGHT. Rome, Feb. 2. 3. li. Strayed or Stolen TAHDM the subscriber living three —■*.— m’ miles below Rome on the Coosu River, oti the night of the 10th inet. two Roan Mares, one seven years old, four teen hands high; the other 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 mtiy be found, shall be liberally rewarded. ROWLAND COBB. Jan. 19. 1 2t. COMM EIM’S A ifTf<>TEE, fr'loyd CJoaiiaty, <»eorgia. Subscriber having opened his new Brick House in the Town ot IJJBIKW R° me > as a Hotel for the purpose of ac commodating permanent boat tiers, and traneient customers, tenders his services to the public. Hetrusts that his accodations will be such as will sa lisfy the most fastidious. His table will at all times be furnished with the best the country affords, and ev »ry exertion will be made to conduce to the comfort and convenience ot all who may call upon him. He will also be prepared to accommodate Families with board and retired Rooms during die summer season His stables will be attended by a faithful and aHentivo Ostler, and provinder supplied in plenty. He there, lore feels himself authorised in soliciting public pat. ronage. FRANCIS BURKE. Rome. Jan. 19.—1——if. p ßos pj;j eTl j S - OF THE SOUTHERN REVIEW. rEMO be published at Washington, quarterly, in an JIL Bvo No. 0f275 to 3JO pages, price §5 per an* • num, payable in advance. The place is chosen, not o.'ly for ns facilities of information, literary and politi cal bud as that at which the Southern Slates can be united .’ipon the undertaking, with the greatest ease, •and with the completes; exemption from all State or Faurty jea.lou.dcs. Os the matte.'- three.fourths (say 295 pp.) shall con sist of reeular Re/iews, making about 9 of 25 pp each. These miust, as liter., ry works at least, return as age. neral rul«.-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 de*ia'»iHg into more disquisition. In this portion of the Review, there will be gi-en, in each No. a jumper historical of the Politics and gep. eral events of the <lay; to sei-w.c as a Historical Regis ter. Its exee-ulion w-illl always be committed to the str-oage'st hands only; and its purpose, to give a unity and consistency to the Pw'blie Doctrines ot the Review such as can scarcely b<e so well effected in any other «iiaititer. Occasional Retrospective Reviews will also he ent. ' ■Uo.dicd in this part of the pla«, with a view of favoring in a certain degree, the more curious studicsjor tore* vive the knowledge of important books, forgotten in the confusion of modern learning. Writers will be led, ot regular purpose to give their papers, wherever the subject will permit, the form of a service; in order not or.ly that they may thus afford a Completer body of information, serve, also, to reprint apart, for popular circulation; a method that will much augment Itu.th the reputation and usefulness of the Re. view. A body of Miwccllmuos (say some 50 pp.) will form the subordinate’and more amusing part of.the Journal. Its contents will lie somew hat various; but will, far the most part, consist of short Literary Notices; Biblio. graphical Articles; a criri-cal list of New Public nitons, foreign and domestic, and general Literary Intelli gence. In Uonnnunications, the most compressed mode of writmg wdl be every v'liere required. Papers in which the works do not bear a just proportion to the information conveyed or the effect intended, will t>e either rejected, without scruple, or abridged, without mercy* To warrant this cxaeiion, the u.-iial rate of compen* sation to writers will be advanced to 2 1.2 dollnis per primed page; a price that will offer lair rinumeration kj the talents and labor which we wish to secure. Os this revival of a Review of the South, the pur. po&e is. to give once more h* <H»r region, (now emin ently needing it) an Interpreter and a defender ; the common Representative ot our Institutions, ntid of the Mind itself among us. Such in that great Coiigres.s of Opinion, where the fates ot civilized nations ureiiow so largely settled, we do not possess and we have al. ready suffered much for it. It is li«w t-o enuke our. selves understood and respected there. The Journal which shall d-i tiiis, must combine the gem ral strengh of all who, throughout t'„c South, love the country, and are c a pah* oof doing it intcllceted service. It must then be, not tbe Champion or the propagandist of lo cal opinions, but the friend of nil that pursue fch® pub lic good. Into the vulgar methods of Politics, debus, ed by I’artizan rancour, or corrupted by -the interest, or overborne by the popular passion of the hotir, n must not fall—From it, tlie pride of the NifUrf-er 'must re ceive no diminution, the fcdeltiiy -elfthe Unionists no reproach : It tnubttlsemo vanitrge griaumf to either part, nor serve but ns an equal field, where they will only contend which shall most advance the cause of ii>o South, and of that older doctrine of Jeffersonian State It.ig'hts, avowed by both parties alike, and now the only hope of rallying and tA resetting the country. To vindicate, then, our peculiar Instilutione; to tn. bcl with argument, les-' presently we be forced to re bel with arms, all interference with ou domestic con dition, against the wild rule of mere Chance and Cor ruption, tour holds Republican and Federative, axd s tittguished from a Democratic and Consolidating ad ministration di the National affairs, from ffee dtsor. ders of the Central government. Where Reform is hopeless, mid even useless, till yon hare given your selves stronger aud wiser local systems—to dried the public view towards a home policy of the State, capa ble, through itself, to confer upon us tho blessings of well ordered Liberty, expected in vain from the Fe deral Power; from the delusion ol Party Politics abroad to call home the wise and bravo have often raised petty Stales into noble and prosperous Commonwealth ; to attach men, if possible, to their birth place, and convert them front wanderwig and selfish adventurers, into ci izens, the lovers of civilization, to rc.aaiaute public spirit, ami give it purpose, as well as energy; to hold, over parties and Politicians, the tribunal of « Public opinion far different from that idle and corrupt one, of which the aewspaper Press is tko 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 aim of that literary league, among the best talents of the country, which lias been ectou fool in the present undertaking. Os its critical purposes, it is not necessary to speak so minutely. In general, it will of course strive la guide the popular taste towards the best aeurccs in knowledge, and the truest cnodek in Elegant Letters. Its judgments will however, found themselves upon the dent of iris temporary renown, nor that of his birth on this or the other side of live Atlantic. Towards the few good writers, the want of cultivation has yet permitted us have m America, it w ill know how to be respectful. But in Literature, as lately in Trade, we shall insist that no man’s bad commodity be forced 4p' on us, under patriotic pretences. Upon all that achodl of wntamed. Upon rhe Literature of mere amuecmcnf, existence ' enjoyed by tins literary grass, which ffouriehea green ' ly tn the morning, and iecut down and flung away be. : fore the night. Luc is tco short. Art too long, and I Learning grown too prolific, for people to occupy them, i selves more than an instant with bad books, while suah grvat bodies of good ones axe at their command.