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posraT. THE BF.LLE OF THE BALL: AN EVERY UAV CHARACTER. BY Til* AO THOU OF LILLIAN veart ago—ere yet my Hreama Had l»**en or being wiao or dilty ; fcre I had done with writing theme*, Or yawn'd o'er thia infernal Chitty; Tran, vesrsagn.»»hilo all n, yJoy Was'in my fowling-piece and tilly; In -hurt, while I waa yrt a boy, I lull in lo»e with Laura Lily. I avr her at the country hall; There when the eound of flute and lidcllo Geec eienal aweet in that old hall. Of hands acroaaand down the middle. Ifera waa tire anbllett apell by Tar iil'all that aet young hearts romancing, j, waa our om en, our roae, our alar ; '. id when alredanced—oh,heaven! hcrauncing I Jlirrk waa her hair; her hand waa white; •tier voice waa exquisitely tender ; Her eyee were full of liquid light; I never law a watal ao slender; llur every look, her every amile, Shot right and left a acore of arrow* ; 1 thought'twaa Venua from her iale, And wonder’d, where aho'd left hot sparrow*. She talk'd of politic* or prayer* ; Of Southey'* prove, or U ordworth’* lonnet*; Of danger* or ol dancing bear*, Of battle*, or the hut blue bonnet*. Bv cnndlc-ligbt. at twrlvo o’clock, To me, it matter’d not a little; ]f tlioae bright lip* had qooted Locke, I might have thought they murmured tittle. Through *unny May, through sultry Juno, I loved her with a love eternal; I spoke her praiaea to the moon, I wrote them for the 8unday Journal. My mother laugh’d; I aoon found out That ancient ladie* hare no feeling; Mr father frown’d; but how ahould gout thud any happiness in kneeling? She waa the daughter ofa dean Rich, fat, and rather apoplectic; She had one brother jnat thirteen, Whose color waa extremely hectic; Uer grandmother, for many a yaar, I fail fed the pariah with her bounty; Her second cousin waa a peer. Aid lord lieutenant of the county. But titles and ihe three per cents, And mortgage!, and great relation*, And India bonds, and tithes and rents, Oh I what are they to love’s sensations! Black eyes, fair forehead, clustering iocke, Such wraith, such honors, Cupid choose*; He care* as little forlho stocks, As Baron Rothschild for the muses. gbr sketch'd : the .vale, the wood, the beach, Orow lovelier from her pencil's ehadipg; She bolaniaed ; 1 envied each Young blossom in her boudoir fading; She waroled Handel: it waa grand— She made the Catalina jealous, j'\e touch’d the organ; I could aland For hours and buuts and blow Iho bellows, She kept an album, too, at home, Well fill'd with all an album’s glories; Paintings of buttorflioa and Home, Patterns for trimming,Persian stories; Soft songs to Julia's cockatoo. Fierce odea to famine and to slaughter; And autographs of Prince Leboo, And recipe* for alder water. And she wae flatter’d woraliipp’d. bored ; Her steps were watch'd, her dress was noted, Her poodle dog was quite adored ; Uer raving* were extremely quoted. She laugh’d and every heart wa* glad, As if the taxes were abolish’d; She frown’d, and every look wa* aid, As If the opera were demolish'd. She smiled on many, jo*t for fun— I knew that there was nothing in it; 11 wa* the Aral, the only on* Her heart had thought offer a minute; I knew it, fot she told mo ao, |n phrase which waa divinely moulded; She wrote a charming band ; ami oh 1 How sweetly all her note* were folded I Our love waa like moat other loves — A little glow, a little shiver ; A rosebud and a pair of gloves. And “Fly not yet" upon Iho river; Some Jealousy ot some one’s heir, Some hope* of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vowa, and then wa parted. We parted—month* and years roll’d by; We met again four summer's after; Our parting was all sob and sigh— Our meeting was all mith and laughter: For, in my heart'* moat secret cell, Thera had been roauy other lodgers; And ahe was not the ball-room’* belle, But only Mr*. Something Rogers. M3SGBLL ANT. A SKETCH OF WAR. Tito moon in nil her orienlal splendor, tvaa surrounded by innumerable litllo slur*; Iho ■ky waa one sheet of pure, unspotted blue; the breeze waa cool, but refreshing and reno vating ; all nature seemed at rest, saving the apparent whispering of men as if in secret council; tbo scene was awfully still and lone ly, broken only, at interval*, by the chnllon- { ing of (be watchful sentinel in the fort of liegg, in Bengal It was nu the night of— December. 1804, at the mid hour which sum moned onqniot spirit* to wander front the cold sepulchre of the dead,—that st-lf-sume hour summoned a detachment of British troops to open a destructive lire against the high nnd haughty bastion of that fortress. The vivid flash of the great guns—their lernfir roaring— their appalling re-echo, followed by the about- ing or one thousand elated men, plainly told the congregated foe,that hundreds would anon; ye see that elephant, with a 34-pounder *nd a a death-like pause whiru lasted for some min ute*, each supposing iho other was about to relinquish tbo contest, then, all of s sudden, a terrific cannonade and thousands of match locks and rockets. In ono minute the whole fort was enveloped in a dense volume of fire. It wag o spendid, hut majestic sight: some times twenty rockots, with their long, destruc tive toils, soared high above our heads ; some fell nmong us- Variegsited lights, more eape- ctally that of blue, burnt bright nnd long, which caul a denlli-liko hue upon the features of onr foes, who lined the bastions nnd para pets, expecting we were going to nllompt the fort by escalade. This firing was continued for ten minutes with unabated spleen, while we rested quietly upon our well pointed bayo nets and double louded pieres. Their shots were well directed ; many of thorn bore sad messages of death to many an nrdent and he roic Britain, who there found a grave, and dear romrnde* wept over their untimely fall. Yet. what soldier would not willingly sacrifice his life for that dear, that valued country, old England ! But to the thread of my narrnfivo: When the firing had somewhat subsided, and the pnt.ic struck soldiers satisfied thul we were not so indignant as thny supposed, the siego went on coolly and systematically, and little worth mention happened during the night, excepting the low-pussing whisper along tho trenches, that some dear comrado had bid us farowell- An involuntary tear fell upon our rocky pillow to his respected memory, and deep sighs were audibly board, which scarce died upon the breeze, when tho heart was opened afresh by the report of another added to tho list of tho dead. The report reaches the heart, but is as short lived as that litllo creature whose life is but a day, tho ephemera. There is always aomething in the active life of a siege In wean the mind from tho morn sober purpose of the thoughts. Towards morning the firing from the fort became slow and inef fectual ; ours, steady nnd regular- At last the gray twilight opened the windows of the East, nnd wo could observe tho heads of men watch ing on the bastions and parapets ; variegated colors, speurs, matchlocks, wero like tho young shrubs in a forest. The morning gun was fired in our camp; the drums beat the revellie; end the morning gun fired in the fort. Imagine our astonishmont when we heard tho British revellie boat. Every cor wns on tho listen. The thing was pulpablo. What did this moan ! All wero silent, unwil ling to believe their eare. At last Serjeant Murphy said, " By tho powers 1 some of them blurb rascals aru turned drummers and fifors; for that’s tho selfsame tunc that is after being played in our company. By my conscience ! hut I’ll givo them an extra poke, so I will, dead nr alive, fur their praysumplion.” “ How will yo do that, serjeatit, deary t A man can not hurt another when he is dead, or kilt, or murdered.’’ “ Well, hut. Pal, honey, I can Ituvo the inclination : sure llmt’s all oue. If I can’t hurt tho spulpeuns, dead or alivo, suro I ran haunt them. Sec, tho villains, how they dunco about ! By my conscience ! but I’ll mnkn you dance nn Irish jig to an English hornpipe, so I will. By the powers ! but they are ns thick as pralccs In a field. Och, Cor poral llogun, honey, suro thore is n great big black rascal with a white face ! Arruh, take (tie glass and see.’’' “ Tho devil a while faro I can see, that aint black or some other color To prevent it.’’ “ Bccnuso you abut both your eyes, so you do, to be suro, when you look through n glass, or what tho devil is the use of it I" “ Arrnh, Pat, honoy, whore wore you born, that you shut both your eye.- whon you look at any thing ? Come here and put it to the left eye, nnd keep wide open the right, without rinsing either. Look straight forward. What do you see!” “ Nothing, now, nothing at all. N ow, arrnh, stay, stay ; keep it fast. Ocli, there aro hundreds and thousands in tho end of tho glass.” “ Arrali, Pat, what tho devil aro you looking fori” '* Suro, sergeant, joy, 1 saw a thousand of thorn in the glass, but tho devil o one is left.” “ You fool; bo- cause Iho glass multiplies.” ” I suppose so, fait, for they looked mighty small.” “ Take another peep, corporal, dear.” “ So I will. Arrah, murdor in Irish, but I have them I” Hero a cannon-shot knocked up the dirt about poor Corporal Dogan’s face nnd com plotely blinded him. “ Oclt, you dirly black guards, I'll look again, although you have blinded mo, juat to be revengod.” Hero he ap plied Ibe glass to hia bunged-tip eyes. “ What do you see, Corporal Dogaa I” “ Nothing at ull i only I an) looking at them for tear; but the devil a morsel ran 1 soo. Whon you see another ball coming, just givo me tho wink, that 1 may bob.” “ It’s coming!” ** But aro you suro of that, joy I” llore tho ball struck close to him. “ By my conscience !-and that’s no miall oath—but it wns true enough.” “ I think you had butter ait down, or, perhaps, they may menu their shot!” “Nevermind their shot; never mind : I’ll staro them out of rountenanue, so I will, although I can't ace the length of my noao t” There was a gene ral laugh nt the expense of poor Corporal Do- gan, wince raised tlu< iro of tho said corporal, and be angrily replied, “ Arrah 1 what the do- vtl are ye all grinning at T Fail, although I’m blind, 1 can see as far as any blind man in cump, so I can; or as any of you. Now, can any mother’s »on of ye see that fellow caper ing about on a white horse, with a long spear, with a ragtiil, a brace of pistols, and a large blunderhuth as big a* a six pounder t” All gazed, but none saw it. “Can any one of hies out of his ey ca ll was now clear daylight; and the reader cun imagine their astonishment, when they found four batteries erected under their very noses. ’They showed themselves in great numbers ; the bastions and parapet swarmed with them to gaze on our work. Not a shot was fired on either side ; there seemed a ces sation of hostihlios for the time; the foes stood gazing on each other ; all seemed deep in thought! Tie scene wns truly imposing : the bright sun rose in all his majesty, and brightened the dejected features of the con tending foes. When Pat Dogan, as queer a fellow as over pulled a trigger, disturbed the gravity of ihe scene, by bellowing out, “ Ser geant Murphy, doar, arrah, come here ! here’s a fine sight, that'll make your heart glad with joy !” “ What is it Pat ?” said Iho serjeant, placing himself by the side of Ihe corporal. “ Serjoant, honey, he just after shutting your wrong eye and looking with tho right.” Here the serjeant, who was as rum a wag as the other, shut his loft eye, nnd said, “ Well, cor poral, what am I to look nt ?” “Just be after fixing your eye on those great big guns, *er- jeant.” “ I see no guns.” “ Fait, then, I do, some hundreds; (hero they ate, all in a row and as straight as a line, with their ugly mugs turned this way.” A salvo from about twenty soon tumbled poor Pal Dogan over.— “ Never mind!” said Pot, as he lay sprawling in tho trenches ; I don’t think I’m dead, but I fool mighty queer, so I do, Jemmy dear," coolly said heroic Pat, “ have you been after scein’ a stray leg! for I see one of mine is marched ofT! Sure, the rascals might as well hnve taken tho one ns had the corn9 on, so they might! Never mind, serjeant, joy, I have got two hands left, and will have a grap ple with the rascals yet. If I Bhould die of the amputation of the ler. that’s shot off, make my compliments, nnd tell them I sha’n’t forget to remember them another time !” Here poor, bravo, merry Pat fell back, gathered up hi* knees to his chin, clenched his hands, bit ItiA lips, gave a deep groan, and died: he had re ceived a shot in tho body. This i9 Ihe lifo of a soldier! From the trials oflifc, by the author of De-Lisle. A Wifi in Danger.—A husband, finding his wifo received splendid presents from an ndmircr, thought it would lie unwise not. to show ho* what dangerous ground sho stood upon. Sho had been driving out one morning a lady, and went to the dining room. immedi. ntcly on Iter return homo, intending to show her purchases to hor husband. No husband, however, did she find—but what, for tho mo ment, delighted her more—tho table covered with jewels! Tho transported Alicia eagerly advanced. “ How beautiful 1” sho exclaimed aloud, as sho tried the briliants upon her arm and fin gers, and alternately put down ono ornament to admire another. “ I did not soe, even at court, such a diamond necklace as this !” sho continued. “ I wonder whero they came from.” Suddonly sho spied a bountiful box lo hold bon bout, set in diamonds, nnd of a particular ly beautiful shape. These bonbonnieres were much the fashion nt that lime, and the Dutch ess of D. had displayed ono nt tbo opera house, which had boon tho envy nnd admirn lion of all present. To havo a moro elegant nnd precious box lltnn her grnco of D. ; to set tho fashion of that shape ; to show her fair taper fingers to advantage, ns she presented to her noighhors—how many sourceB of do light to a fhsiionabli- belle! Instantly tho or namenls were replaced and forgotten; no thing but this delightful box deserved thought. She was so much engrossed by her admiration, that she saw not her husband until ho stood before her. “ Oh, Mr. Chatrville," she cried, with child- ish joy, “ see how lovely, nil the* things are 1 Do but look at this bijou of a box! Oh ! I would not part with it for worlds! And this, too, is tho opora night, ond I shall show it there I Is it not charming t” Which, my love!” replied Mr. Cltairville, with a amile t “ the diamonds or the opera!' “Oh, both to bo sure! hastily answered his wife. ‘'But you do not seem to admire them.” “ Indeed I do! but you know I think no thing charming but you.” And was it to make me morg so* said Alt cia, laughing, “ (hat you aonl for all these gay things!” I am not rich enough to display the con* tonts of oil Ihe jewellers” shops, to you and bid them court your acceptance,” said Mr. Chair- ville. “These came from one who has more of the power; though not more of the will, to tlease. The P sent them to you, and be summoned before that tribunal,from whence do delinquent has yet returned. They ac cepted our challenge with a manly shout nnd some twenty gun*. Variegated lights studded (be whole line of the long parapet, ao that Ihe •pot which bad been selected for our approach was as light as at noonday. \Yc wer« quiet, not a word was beard. A second *alv« was given, followed by the same simultaneous whole company of artillery on his back I” “ No, no, no I Where, where 1” went round the whole ranks.” “ By the powers, boys, do you sea that regiment oflight horse, all moun ted on ceroels t” *• Here tbe whole eet up- a about at Pal’i regiment of light hone mounted on camels I “What! you can’t see them? Och, ye blind boobies I then your eyes are no better than mine, knock’d out I” Here tbe •hoot, which was, in like manner, relumed as j laugh was at the expense of the quick-sighted ; earnestly from tbe fort; after which there wae j end poor Pot Kogan set down to pick the peb- spread them on the tablo to enjoy your first surprise.” “ How very magnificent!” replied tho sim ple Alicia. “ And may I chooso what I like I” “Without doubt,” said her husband. “They are all yours, if you like. But you forgot the price.” “ You do not pay for a gift,” said Alicia; the calmness of her husband's manner subdu ing Iter satisfaction. “These diamonds, nevertheless, have price,” he said, fixing his eyes steadily on his Mourning wife ; “lam tbe price.” Thu glittering baubles fell from tbe band of the appalled Alice; mechanically she retrea ted from tbe table, which now only inspired her with alarm and horror: she pul her arms behind her, and continued lo walk backwards, until sbe reached the extremity of the apart men! ib which she stood; then, leaning against the wall, she reised her eyes, with an implo ring expression, to her husband’s face, as if she feared tbe very eight of these presents had sunk her in his esteem, although she had still bm a confused idea of bis meaning I *' How pale you are, my beloved! bow you tremblo I” said her husband, tenderly suppor ting her. “ You cannot fear an evil you need net bring upon yourself—an evil which, I know, you will not bring upon yourself or me- J did not ahork you in this sudden way be cause I doubted you, but because I thought it the simplest way of disclosing to you the p ”* views. Now, will you return the diamonds!” “Ob, no!” exclaimed Alicia; do you return them. It would make me ill to look at them again.” You would regret parting with them!” he aaknd her with an indulgent smile. “ Du you think so meanly of mo !” said hia wife, some of those half-smothered feelings nature had given her flashing from her dark bright eye*. 11 1 wonld not touch again those baneful gifts, for the wealth of fairy tales.” “ Indignation is a new improvement to beau ty,” said Mr Chairville; but my Alicia is be coming under every emotion!” Prince Telleyrand.—The princo of state- men is sketched by the German satirist, Boerne, (in his prohibited “ Letters from Par is,”) in the following trails, which are really almost as true as they aru clever:—“ Talloy- rand has been upbraided with having betrayed every parly and every government in its turn. True it is that he passed over from Louis the Sixteenth to to Republique, nnd from that to (he Directory, and llience to the Consulate, and Irom the Consulate to tfapoleon, and from Napoleon to the Bourbons ana from them to Orleans ; and it is certainly on the cards,' that he may turn himself over from Louis Philippe to a Republic. But, it is not true that he be trayed any one of these; ho only abandoned them after they bad given up tho ghost. He sat by the patients’ bed-aide, in every season and under every administration, kept his finger anxiously on their pulse, and was the first to detect the last throb of their hoart. He was instantly away from tho defunct owner to the living heir; whilst his colleagues continued for a while their service' to the corpse. Call you this treachery ! Is falleyrand at all the worso n man, bccnuso he is wiser than his fel- lows,and offirmer materials,and makes a quick er merit of necessity. The' affection of his com rades was not one moment more enduring than his, but they broke through the spell at a late hour. 1 havo ever boon used to listen fur Talleyrand’s voico, as if it were the very award of life. It is warm in my recollection, how tho blood curdled in my veins on obser ving that Talloyrand stuck by Louis the Eigh teenth, after Napoleon’s return from Elba, To me it was sure preaago of Napoleon’s fall. I was delighted when ho declared for Orleans for from that hour, I perceived it was all over with the Bourbons. I should like to havo this individual in my own apartment; 1 would nail him to the wall, like a barometer, and without reading a lino in a Newspaper, or oven open, ing my window, I should be certain, from day to day, what sort of weather was abroad I” The Toilette oj a London Dandy.—As a sample of the necessities of a London dandy I send you the following statement bv my “ fashionable” washerwoman, “ elegans,” and is the only person who can mnko cravats of the right stiffness, or fold Ihe breasts of the shirts with plaits of the right sizo. An “ ole gant,” then requires per week,—Twenty shirts, twenty-four pocket handkerchiefs, nine or ten pair of “ summer trowsers,” thirty neck-hand kerchiefs (unless he wears black ones), a dozen waistcoats, and stockings “a discre tion.” I see your housewifery soul aghnst. Rut as a dandy cannot get on without dressing three or four times a-dny, tho affair is “ tout sim ple,” for ho must appear— 1st. In breakfast toilette—chintz dressing- gown and Turkish slippers. - 2’ Morning riding-dress—frock coat, boots, and spurs. 3d. Dinner-dress—dross coats and shoes. 4th. Ball-dress, with “pumps,” a word sig nifying shoos as thin as paper. Earl of Warwick:—This nobleman wns very afifable with his tenants and people; one of them came up to him one day when ho was riding and told him he hnd a great favour to beg of him. The Duke asked him what it was. The man replied, after somo hesitation, that he had a little boy who plagued him day and night to let him see Iho Duke, and that as bis Grace was now closo to his cottage, he would perhaps do him tho great favour to let his son look at him. The Duke readly eon sented, and rode laughing to the cottage, whore the delighted father ran in and fetched his child. The boy stood amazed, looking at Ihe middle-aged gentleman of not very com- maudmg extenor before him, of whose great ness and power ho had heard so much; gazed at him a long time; then touched him; and suddenly asked, “ Can you swim!” “ No’ my ;ood boy,” said tho Duke. “ Can you fly I” No, I can’t fly, neither.” “Then 1 liko fa thers drake bolter, for be cau do both.” PROSPECTUS OK THE GEORGIA GAZETTE* a nrta to at tcblisued weeilt, at atoms, oa. I N issuing proposal* tor publishing a new paper in this section of the country, reason and duty would aeeni to combine, to invite from u* eome exposition of the circumstances which have urged ns to the attempt, a* well as a brief outline of the principles by which we will be governed in our course. This task we perform cheerfully. The population of the State u rapidly isereanag; her system of Internal Improvement at its nascent period of existence; her jurisdictional limit* actually aad pros pectively extending; her chartered rights and Indian relationships assuming new and deeply interesting as pects; and her financial resources presenting to her sons the appalling alternative of oppression in fotnre |iy burthensome taxes, or bankruptcy without some salu tary change in her representative apportionment, all combine to render an additional Herald of intelligence to the present nninber altogether proper. But these by no means constitute the whole cata logue of inducements. Ours is palpably a government in experiment. The principles ana terms upon which it was based, were professedly novel, and by conic* qitence it would bo fair to assert that they were not al together understood. Tbe progress of events has de monstrated this truth. The constitutionality t-f a na tional Bank; a system of Internal Improvement by Congress; the power to tax foreign imports for the protection of domestic industry; inshort the whole fa bric of implication, remainsyet to undergo its final and legitimate analysis. They are topics which must agi tate, and (hat deeply, every patriotic bosom in the con federacy. To maintain the honor and rights of tbe State under her constitutional reservation ; to remon strate with promptitude and firmness of purpose against all infractions of the compact, and to preserve tho Union by enlightened discussion or rational compro mise, according to the plan of Jefferson and Jackson, shall be onr constant aim. Our columns shall alio contain as far a* practicable, important item* of intel ligence in the department* of morals, literature, and science. In our State politic* it would be impossible under onr present impressions, to adopt the principle* of tho Troup parly in most of its measure*. CONDITIONS. The Georgia Gazette will be issued about the Art* of July next, on a large super-royal sheet, with type entirely new, and we hope splendid, at $3 00 per an* nn, patable within six month* after the receipt of the first number, or $4 00 if not peid -r-’hin the year. Advertisements will be inserted at the uiunl rate*. Athens, March SO.—IS— Other Georgia papers will be pleated to insert tbo above. PROSPECTUS OP THE SPIllIT OF THE TIMES AND LIFE IN NEW YORK. I N undertaking the publication ofa paper, devoted, as this ia designed to be, to the pleasures, amuse ments, fashions and divertiaeinenta of life, the subscri ber* have been animated by the persuasive encourage ments and gratuitous promisesofsapport, of many of the moat influential, enlightened and respectable mem bers of the New York community. It is to a certain extent, a field unoccupied by others, and one which t* deemed important to be filled. For while the politi cians, Ihe theologian! and the literati of our country havo each their separate oracles, which (like that of Dclphos) proclaim aioudond defend tbeir several opin ion* and inteieata; the cause of fashion, pleasurable en tertainments, of taste and recreation, find but feu pub lication* ofa periodical kind, appropriated solely to their encouragement and support. To paint “ file aa it is,” without the artificial embellishments of romance; to speak of its propensities for enjoyment, its appetite for pleasure and indulgence, and its tendency to cater into occasional follies, is to do what many must ap prove, and no ono can condemn. For it i* cettainly nu more improper to record the acts of men than to pro- uvilgato them orally to the World. “ Pleasure,” say* the noble Frenchman,“is tho chief business of lile,” and however seemingly incorrect Ihe maxim may be in the estimation oftsme.yet ilia literally true, for tbo devotee certainly takes pleasure in the cserciee of hie religion, the inert hant and mechanic in their several branches of employment, and tho man of letter* in hie books; wliilo the sportsman who cliasos the hare, and attends the ring or the race, is only pursuing pleasures in congeniality with bis natural or cultivated taste. In presenting this new candidate for favor and pa tronage to the public, it ia the intention of Ihe publish ers to render it as interesting ae possible, and to please all if they can, without wounding the feeling* or die- turbing the prejudices of any. The language will bo always chaste, ao that the most delicate may approve. The paper will treat of Faehion, Taste and Scenes of Real Life, gathered from tho every day exhibitions of the world. Theatres, Museums and other fashiona- blo places of rceort, will receivo appropriate notices, while the Sports of tho Turf, the Ring, tbe Fit, of tho Fisher and the Fowler, will engroes no inconsiderable portion of attention. The proceedings of the Couits, civil and criminal, wills* far aa possible be given,when matters of interest occur, and more especially those of the Police, where life in all its forme and coloring is ao faithfully portrayed.—Ilia also the intention of Iheedt- lore to devote a considerable portion of etch paper to the compilation and dissemination of tbe news of the day, in a aummariel form, which will serve aa a brief and faithful record of ail important and patsing events, condensing a large mast into a comparatively small Singular Mistake.—A short time ago, (ho sexton of Haywood Chapel received the body of a still born iufuat for interment, but owing to the urgency of tome other business, he put the coffin into the vestry until he had leisure to inter it. It so happened that Ihe school master of the village, who is a noted violin player, bad also pul his fiddle and case into the vestry. About dusk the same evening, the sexton went for ihe purpose of taking the infaut to bury it, but be actually buried lira fid dle and case instead of tbe child; and the mis take was not discovered until tho schoolmaster wanted bit fiddle a few days afterwards. A Higher Court.—Among a striog of “Items” the Boston Traoscript gives the fol lowing: “ A wealthy farmer ia the State of New York, haviug been sued by Mr. Havens, wrote tbe following classical to his attorney; “ Esq. ■, Sur if that suite of Htaitnfs goes a gin me i want to carry .'t to a higer coarle for God ooea i doot owe him one cent* ” with these intentions, fully and fairly pioelaimed, and with the most perfect good feelings towards all oqr co-laborers in Iho same vocation, we present ourselves before an enlighted community, as candidates for their patronage and smiles. IVM. T. PORTER. JAMES HOWE. ICP Post-Masters, and other Gentlemen who will act as Agents for our paper, by giving us notice, can have forwarded to them subscription papers and extra copie*.—April 1838. HABERSHAM COUNTY Academy. T HE Trustees have engaged an able and experi enced (etcher, Mr. BROWN, to take charge of this Institution; and it is now in successful operation. The mode of teaching is upon Ihe new and moat ap proved plan. It is interesting to the pupil; for while he is thoroughly taught, be is made to reason and re flect for himself, and to feel at every slap that his im provement and bit success in life, depend* upon hi* own eserlions. The course of studies ia intended to give youths of both sexes a familiar knowledge of all the branches of education, and to prepare young men for College; and at the same time give them a taste for learning and ■tody. As tetching school ia an important profession, one cites receive** particular coarse of instruct!-1 for that purpoae. The manners, morals, company, and tbits ofthe pupils, will receive strict attention. Pupil* may have board under the parental care of respectable families for ft 85 to |1 75 centa^ per Week. Tuition from 10, to|34 per annum. Language*, Rhe toric, Chemistry, Mathematics, Ac. (24. Tbe village ia naturally pteaianl; the aeat of health,much resorted to by reapaetabl* stranger* visiting the Mountains, Falls, Gold Region and Nation. The Trustee* can re commend tbe reaming, industry, and devotion tf the principal, to the foil confidence of parents who with to give their soo* and daughters a sound education on reasonable terms. Able assistants ore engaged. Let* ten addressed to the principal. ClarkeaviUe, Jan. II.—5—m4m. Blanks of all descriptions for sale at this Office.