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SoWhcvn fiWW
From Friendship’s Offering for 1837.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
BY THOMAS MILLER.
Tread lightly here! this spot is holy ground,
And every footfall wakes the voice of ages:
Thesa are the mighty dead that hem tbee round,
Names that still cast a haloo’er our pages.
Listen! ’tis Fame’s loud voice that now com
plains,
“Here sleeps more sacred dust than all the world
contains.”
Thou may’st bend o’er each marble semblance
now,
That was a monarch—sea how mute he lies !
There was a day when, on.iis crumbling brow,
The golden crown flash d awe on vulgar eyes;
, That broken hand did then a sceptre sway,
And thousands round him kneeled his mandates
to obey.
Turn to the time when he thus low was laid
Within this narrow house, in proud array;
Dirges were sung, and solemn masses said,
And liigh-plumed helms bent o’er him as he
lay;
Princes and peers were congregated here,
And all the pomp of death assembled round his
bier.
Then did the midnight torches flaming wave,
nd redly flashed athwart the vaulted gloom;
And vyhite-robed boys sang requiems o’er his
grave;
And mutt.‘-'ring monks kneeled lowly round
his tomb:
And lovely woi.'i an did his lossdeplore,
And, with their g ashing tears, bathed the cold
marble floor.
See! at his head a rtide-carved lion stands,
In the dark niche where never sunbeams beat;
And still he folds his supp,'icating hands:
A watchful dragon crouches at his feet:
How oddly blended ! how all humble lies,
While they defiance cast from their fierce stony
eyes.
Here s.jeps another, clothed in scaly iL'ftil;
Battle’s red field was where he loved to be:
Oft has his banner rustled in the gale,
In all the pomp of blazing heraldry !
Where are his bowmennow, his shield, and spear
His steed, and battle-axe, and all he once hei’d
dear!
His banner wasted on the castle wall;
His lofty turrets sunk by slow decay;
His bowmen m the beaten field did fall,
His plated armor rust hath swept away;
HHjrihmws are scattered, and his helmet cleft,
'crumbling tomb is all he now
fought and bled! t
l*‘t Inin rest;
ancie )t bed,
The dust ofages dims his marble breast; ;
And, in that tomb, what thinkest thou remains! -
Dust! ’tis the on'y glory that on earth man gains! ,
And kings, and queens, here slumber, side by
side, ’
Their quarrels hushed in the embrace of death ,
All feelings calmed of jealousy ®r pride,
Once fanned to flame by Slander’s burning
breath;
Even the crowns they wear from cares are free,
j As those on children’s heads who play at roy
alty.
And awful Silence here does ever linger;
Her dwelling is this many-pillared dome;
! On her wan lip she plants her stony finger,
And. breath-hushed, gazes on her voiceless
j home:
■ Listening, she stands, with half-averted head,
I For echoes never heard among the mute-ton
gued dead.
And here Time stretches out his cloudy wings,
But never beats them, and they have turned
gray
I Withhovering o’er the forms ofcrumbling kings
And, like the marble, will, at last, decay,
1 Wearied with watching, fall, and be no more
Than the mere years of sand that gird the eter
nal shore.
Look on those gothic arclies, worn and old;
Whom monarchs loved, ’Heath them did once
appear,
Dazzling all eyes in “rude barbaric gold;
So rich the tissues which they then did wear,
The same soft light that fills this holy place,
Hath even here streamed full upon a Tudor s
face.
What gaudy figures rest against the sky !
With golden glories woven round each brow,
They float athwart the window’s deepened dye,
Rich in the colors ofthe ethereal bow;
Breaking the sunbeams in a thousand ways,
And mingling star and twilight with his dying
rays.
Bt hold those cloudy saints and angel bands !
How rich the robes in which they brightly
beam!
Such shapes we oft have seen in sleepy lands,
, Peopling the spacy silver of a dream;
' And just such harps, with carvings rude sur
rounded,
, Have in those face-thronged visions o’er the
i : wild air sounded.
0,1 could sit and weep here
I know not why
But I did dee \' t ~
Upon me j." .' ' ”*
. Of.Vetnor< ; .
For them* " '
i tx.-\
But this is fc ?t ' y /
Grows .‘Tt j P ast !
Thought >*’ ''r. -■ ’ t4eariedtra.il
' ■ at last;
Over the sleep.
thevKet.
BY T MULES-
A simple violet graced a ruined wall!—
How small a key unlocks the yielding heart!
That little flower did many a scene recall,
And hade the mist from by-gone years depart.
Again my mind was in the forest green,
> And one was with me, robed in virgin white;
: We traversed many a well remembered scene,
* And lingered in the old wood dreamy light,
And then 1 sighed knew such things had been,
Like a bright day closed by a cheerless night' J
■ rn ihm— iri inl l m
“WHERE POWERS ARE ASSUMED WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN DELEGATED, A NULLIFICATION OF THE ACT IS THE RIGHTFUL REMEDY. "-JefferSOn.
SUisceltaneousL
From the New York Mirror.
THE MONOPOLY AND THE PEOPLE’S
LINE.
BY GEOROE P. MORRIS.
The proprietors of steamboats, rail roads
and stage coaches not unfrequently carry
the spirit of competition to a ruinous and
ridiculous extent. A few years ago, we
went to Albany and were “found” for
a half a dollar; and it is within the recol
lection of every body that Gibbons, for a
long period, run his boats from this city to
New Brunswick for twelve and a half
cents! More recently, Mr. Vanderbilt, a
large capitalist, and doubtless an enter
prising man, with a view of breaking down
what has been denominated the “ odious
eastern monopoly,” has placed several
swift and commodious steamers on the
Boston line, and you may now take a trip
from New York to Providence for the tri-
Hing consideration of one dollar, lawful
currency ! Whether the public—the mis
used, flattered, cajoled, long-suffering and
indulgent public—is ultimately benefitted
by these reductions of the fare to an inad
equate price, or otherwise, is not for us to
determine; and we, therefore, leave the
investigation of the subject, now and for
ever, to those more skilled and curious in
such matters than ourselves. Yet we
have a right to an opinion’: and, as this is
certainly a free country, we presume no
one will quarrel with us—if we keep it en
tirely to ourselves. In acrowded steamer,
however, whose deck and cabin are throng
ed with what the great bard calls ‘ all sorts
of people,’ there is no more comfort than
there is said to be in a badly-governed
family of small innocents and snuff-taking
maiden ladies, on a washing-day: when,
the old ballad tells us, all is topsy-turvy
and most admired confusion. Yet we
would not be understood as raising our
feeble voice in defence of any monopoly
under the sun; but more especially that of
steamboats. Far be it from us. We are
patriots; but, what is a greater evidence
of our honesty and disinterestedness—we
have no stock in them whatever; and, as
we are nothing but a “waif upon the world’s
wide common,” or, in less figurative phra
seology, nothing but a poor devil of a weak
ly editor, we never expect to have any;
unless our delinquent subscribers should
pay up their arrearages: or we should
draw a prize in the lottery, or some un
known or unheard of rich relation should
die, and unexpectedly shower his bounties
upon us, or any other unimaginable, impro
bable, and impossible thing should occur,
of which wc have not the remotest concep
tion at this present writing. We, there
fore, of course, prefer a spirited and liber
ally managed opposition in all cases, when
ever the number of travellers will warrant
such an arrangement; and when mere an
gry feelings, jealousy, hatred and all un
charitableness, are not the governing mo
tive and groundwork of the competition.
But we have often noticed, that the great
contending parties have generally some
concealed motive, some private end in
view, and that, while they are endeavour
ing, like the Hibernian cats, to eat each
other up —“all up I”—they profess the most
profound respect and regard for that pub
lic, which, in the main, they
ly striving to humbug and -
public, however, like a re-ptlwfefe
verbiallyungratefi.il; and, seeing the
that people take to impose upon each other,
it does not hesitate, in its turn, to impose
upon every body. Our reminiscence fur
nish us with a case in point.
Not many years ago thei e lived on Long
Island, a jolly, well to-do. honest, old Dutch
man, who drove a stage from Brooklyn to
Jamaica for two dollars. This had been
the charge since Adam was a juvenile, or
since the time whereof the memory of man
“runneth not to the contrary.” It was
sanctioned by immemorial usage, and had
all the crust ofantiquity about it. Nobody
thought of disputing the matter. It was
settled like the laws of the Medes and the
Persians, and was a thing not to be sacri
legiously meddled with, or altered on any
account whatever. The Proprietor’s great
grandfather had driven the same route,
and so had all his other ancestors, and none
of them had managed to realize more than
enough to make both ends meet when
christmas came round. But it was left for
these degenerate days, and for modern
innovators, to work wonderful changes in
the destinies of Jamaica, which was then
a mere dot on the unexplored map of Long
Island. You might have held it in the hol
low of your hand, or Major Noah could
have put it into his breeches pocket. It
has assumed vast consequence since that
period—which was before the discovery
of lithography, unquestionably the most
magnificent and imposing art ol modern
times—and is an incorporated city—in
embryo I —with its mayor and its aider
men—its commodious edifices—its stee-
UiUfts. domes, and court houses—its spa
\ and its heaven-aspiring liber-
A-.d all the other requisites of a
• yican metropolis! If the fu-
Jof Jamaica may be gather-
Jflnousands <>l building lots that
laid out and disposed of for
’ slow" limes of hand, and if one may at all,
rely upon the prophecies of the eloquent
and disinterested speculators of Wall street,
“ who look into the seeds of time, and say
i which place shall grow and which shall
; not,” then is Jamaica, without the shadow
of a doubt, predestined to become the capi
tal of the world!
Oh, Lithography! let me apostrophize
thee ! Thou art indeed a mighty wizard
—and hast performed more miracles in
our day and generation than all the sooth
sayers, seers, and necromancers ofthe ol
den time! There is no obstacle that thou
. canst not overcome—no difficulty that
thou canst not surmount ! Docs a moun
; tain oppose thy onward march—one wave
, of thy wand, and it hides its diminished
head and disappears for ever ! Is a val
, ley too deep and broad for thy lofty pur*
■ poses—* another flourish of thy potent staff",
ATHENS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, IS3<5.
and lo I it is as level as the plain ! Is a river
inconvenient to ford, and does it endeav
our to frustrate thy plans, thou hast but to
w iH it—and, presto! its waters recede,
and the warm and genial earth, beautifully
checkered and converted into streets, ave
nues, spacious squares and desirable build
ing lots, remains in its stead ! Thou canst
people the wilderness —for the woods, like
those of Birnam, will “ unfix their earth
bound roots,” and move before thee—and
thou canst command the “desert to bud
and blossom like the rose,” and it is even
so ! Thou canst found settlements, villa
ges, towns, and cities, wherever thou list
eth—in the interior, by the running river,
the quiet lake, or on the more boisterous
borders of the ocean ? ’Tis all the same to
thee, Lithography. Thou canst do any
thing—every thing—al things— on\paper!
But I am wanderin' from my subject:
and must take care, that, in my admiration
for the most sublime of all modern inven
tions—always save and ' a cepting the “no
ble science of money making”—l do not
lose the reader as well as myself in the
labyrinths of imaginatior and metaphor.
In the course of time .ravelling increas
ed on the Jamaica tunpike, tho Dutch
man had his stage full every trip, and be
gan to thrive. But the star of his good
fortune, although it hal risen clear and
unclouded, was notHngin the ascendant;
for, one fine morning, there came another
stage-driver, the owner of a new turn-out,
as fine as a fiddle, who put in his claims
for employment. He >vas a full-grown
stripling, of little credit but some ready
money, and he secretly resolved upon
bearing off the palm from the quiet, but
covetous Dutchman. A! first he demand
ed the usual rates, and divided the business
with his old-established rival; but finding
that he had less custom, that he was look
ed upon as an interloper, and that all fa-!
ces were set against him, he resolved to j
cut down the fare to a single dollar-and
he did so, greatly to the satisfaction of the
applauding multitude.
This was a sad blow to the prospects of
the poor old Dutchman, whose carriage
was instantly deserted, as the fickle pop
ulace instinctively flocking to the glossy
vehicle of his adversary, who cracked his.
whip in high glee as he cashed along the
dusty and unpaved streets of Brooklyn. (
At first Mynheer did not know what to
make of the matter, so he lighted his pipe
and looked to St. Nicholas f >r the solution
of a mystery, altogether too profound for
his comprehension. One day, however, a
friend unravelled it to him, and suggested
the propriety of a reduction also in his
price; whereupon the whole truth flashed
ed upon him in the twinkling of an eye, and •
he instantly resolved, in defiance of the •
good examples of his forefathers, to hum- I
ble himself to the insignificant fare of his '
pestilent competitor. Now all was right
again, and things went on as swimmingly
as before, until the new-comer again low
ered the fare—called hisomnibusthe “Peo
ple’s Line,” and branded his opponent’s
“The Monopoly,” upor which the Dutch
man flew into a violent passion, broke his
pipe into a thousand peces, and swore by
all the saints in the caleidar, that he would
thereafter carry his passengers for nothing!
And so strange was his demeanor, flying
hither and yonder in t hurricane of hot
haste and hotter disdah, that all his neigh
himasthe “FlyingDutch
?*V:.'ilr he has never been
very hour. j
pie’s Line,” not m the least
discouLerted by this unexpected calamity,
also came down to nothing 1 and painted
on the panels of his cirriage the figure of
a fiery old man addressing a multitude, and
begging them to ride i.i his carriage gratis,
with the motto,
“ Nothing comes from nothing; try agam.”
This was evidently intended as a hit at the
‘ Flying Dutchman,’ who retorted by stain
ing'the “ Interloper,” as he always persist
ed in designating the “ People’s Line,”
with certain Dutch epithets, which respect
for our readers prevents us from transla
ting into veritable English. Fierce were
the animosities—bitter the feuds—and ar
duous the struggles that ensued between
the belligerents. Long they lasted, and
fatal promised to be the consequences to
both. Every expedient was resorted to,
tut as neither would yield aninchofground
to the other, they both went on, season af
ter season, running the stages at their
own expense and annoying every body
who would listen to them with a full and
particular lecital of their wrongs, their
wrath and wranglings. At last the owner
of the “ People’s Line,” fairly wearied out
by the obstinacy and perseverance of the
redoubtable Dutchman,caused a mammoth
handbill to be struck off’ and posted from
the East River to the Atlantic Ocean, in
which he stated, in ponderous capital let
ters, that he would not only carry his pas
sengers for nothing, but that he would ac
tually pay each and every one the sum of
twenty-five cents for going ! To the un
happy Dutchman, this was the drop too
much: and it effectually did the business
for this now unpopular and detested “ Mo
nopoly,” which was denounced at every
tavern by the road side, as a paltry, mean.'
and “ unconstitutional” concern, while the
“ People’s Line” was lauded to the third
heavens fbr its liberality and public spirit.
The Flying Dutchman flew no more. His
spirit was evidently broken as well as his
prospects, and his horses crawled daily to
i and from Jamaica at a snails’s pace, equal
ly unmindful of whip or rein—evidently
sympathising in their master’s disappoint
ment and discomfiture. Yet go the Dutch
man would—he had become accustomed
to the occupation —it was second nature
to him: and as he could not easily over
come the force of habit, he preferred work
in." for nothing and finding himself, to re
linquishing the road to his indefatigable
annoyer. “ His Shirtless Majesty !” as
some audacious poet has impertiently call
ed the sovereign people I however, general
"ave its countenance and support to its
own line, which still kept up its speed and
its reputation. It speaks volumes—vol
umes, did I say! it speaks ten thousand Ji-
- braries—for the intelligence and good '
. feeling of our locomotive countrymen; and,
» as faithful chroniclers, we are bound to
, record the fact, that not a individual
’ ever applied for the two shillin',7 s , ia t had
. been so generously and disinterestedly
. tendered, every one being actually con-;
: tented with going the whole distance gratis, I
■ and with being thanked into the bargain' I
One day, however, a long, thin, lank
sided, mahogany-faced down-easter chanc
ed to read the mammoth-bill with the pon
i derotis capitals; and without a moment’s
. hesitation, he decided upon bestowing his
. corporeal substance snugly in the back
seat of the “ People’s Line :” and it so fell
i out that he was then and there the only
> passenger.
The down-easter was a talkative, prying,
' speculative jim-crack of a fellow, who pro
pounded more questions in a single minute
than one could answer in a whole hour:
. and, in less time than you could say Jack
. Robinson, he was at the bottom of all the j
difficulty, and in possession of every parti- j
cular respecting the rival lines. He was I
“free of speech and merry;” joked with J
the proprietor; ridiculed the flying Dutch- >’
man, called him a cockalorum, and finally I
denounced him as an inflated, overgrown, •
purse-proud capitalist, who advocated a i
system of exclusive privileges contrary to '
the spirit of our glorious institutions, and j
dangerous to the liberties of the country ! I
—and he even went so far as to reconi-1
mend that a town-meeting should be im
mediately called to put the old blockhead |
down, and banish him from the sunshine i
of the public favor forever 1
“ I will put him dovt n I” said the driver.
“And he shall stayjauf when he is down!”
replied Jonathan, with an approving nod
of the head.
At the various stopping-places, Jonathan
—who was not a member of any of the
j temperance societies, for those institutions
were not founded at the time of which we :
are writing—to show his good fellowship, i
but with no other motive, did not scruple i
■ to drink sundry villainous bar-room coin- ]
pounds, at the expense of his new ac- i
quaintance, who, that day, was so over- i
joyed to find that the stage of the “ Monop
oly” was compelled to go the whole route i
entirely empty, that his hilarity and flow i
of boisterous humor knew no bounds, and 1
he snapped his fingers, and said he did not i
care a fig for the expense—not he ? ;
“ Here’s to the People’s hue !’’ drank
Jonathan.
“ The People’s Line forever I” shouted
the driver.
“ And confusion to the Monopoly !” re
joined the down-easter.
“ With all my heart!” echoed the friend I
' of the people.
i “ The Flying Dutchman is deficent m
i public spirit 1” said the landlord, a warlike
little fellow, who was a major in the mi
litia.
“ Behind the age we live in !” remarked
an insipient justice of the peace.
“ And he deserves to run the gauntlet
from Brooklyn to Jamaica for violating the
constitution 1” responded all the patriotic
inmates of the bar-room.
“ I say, mister ! your’e a fine specimen
of a liberal fellow,” said Jonathan, as his
companions paid the reckoning, resumed
| the ribands, and touched up the leaders
I gayly. “You deserve encouragement, and
; you shall have it. 1 promise it to you, my
j lad,” continued he, as he slapped the “ Peo
ple’s Line” on the shoulder like an old and
familiar friend, “ and that’s enough. The
Flying Dutchman, forsooth I why, he’s a
hundred years at least behind the grand
• march of improvement, and, as he will
never be able to overtake it, I shall hence
forward look upon him as a mere abstract
circumstance, unworthy of lhe least regard
or notice.”
Jonathan weighed every word of the
last sentence before he pronounced it, for
he was, upon the whole, rather a cute chap,
1 and had no notion of letting his friendship
for the one party involve him in a law suit
for a libel with the other.
The overjoyed proprietor thanked him
heartily for his good wishes, and for the
expression of his contempt for the old “Mo
nopoly,” and the lumbering vehicle thun
dered on toward Jamaica.
Arrived, at last, at the termination of the
journey, the driver unharnessed the horses
watered them, and put them up for the
night. When he turned to take his own
departure, however, he observed, that
Jonathan, who, after all said and done,
candour compels us to acknowledge, had
rather a hang-dog sort of look, seemed
fidgetty and discontented; that he lingered
about the stable and followed him like a
shadow wherever he bent his steps.
“ Do you stop in this town, or do you go
further asked the driver.
“ I shall go further, when you settle the
trifle you owe me,” replied Jonathan, with
a peculiar, knowing, but serious expres
sion.
“That I owe you ?”
“Yes—is there not something between
us?”
“ Not that I know of.”
“ Why, mister, what a short memory
youv’e got —you should study mnemonicks,
to put you in mind of your engagements.”
“ What do you mean I There must be
some mistake!”
“ Oh! but there’s no mistake at all,” said
Jonathan, as he pulled a handbill from his
pocket, unfoldod it with care, and smooth
ed it out upon the stable door. It was the
. identical mammoth handbill with the pon
derous capitals.
“ That’s what I mean. Look there, Mr.
People’s Line. There I have you, large
| as life —and no mistake whatever. That’s
. your note of hand—it’s a fair business
. transaction —and I will trouble you for the
. twenty-five cents, in less than no time; so
. shell it out, you ’tarnal crittur.”
. “My Christian friend, allow me to ex-
; plain, if you please. Iconfess that it’s in
. the bill; but, bless your simple soul, nobody
| ever thinks of asking me for it.’,
■ “ Did you everejaculated Jonathan. .
I “ Now, that’s what I call cm ting it a little
. too fat; but it’s nothing to me. I attend
- to nobody’s affairs but my own; and if <?th-
ler people are such ninny-h«.:'Bmers a> to j
' forgive you the debt, that’s no .reason why j
I should follow their example. Here are ,
your conditions, and I want the lUopuses.
A pretty piece of business, truly • to cri- j
to do your customers out their •
i just and legal demands in this mariner. |
I But I can’t afford to loose the amount, and '
I J won’t!—What! haven’t I freely given I
vou my patronage —‘liberally bestowed I
"upon you the pleasure of my company, (
and, consequently,afforded you a triumph ,
over that nano ‘Monopoly!
and now you refuse to coipply with your
terms of travel, and pay me my money,
you ungrateful var.nint, you ! Come, mis
ter, use putting words together in
this way. I’ll expose you to ‘old Monop
oly’ and every body else, if you dun’t book
up like an honest fellow; and I won’t leave
the town until I am satisfied.”
” ou won’t ?”
“ No.”
j “Are you serious?”
I “ Guess you’ll find I am.”
I “ And you will have the money ?”
J “As sure as you stand there.”
“ What, the twenty-five cents?”
i “ Every fraction of it ”
I “And you won’t go away without it ?” J
i “ Not if I stay here till doomsday :and i
’ you kn jw the consequence of detaining me j
against my will.”
! “ What is it !”
“I’ll swinge you,youjiysonsarpenLyou I” i
“ You’ll what ?”
“ I’ll sue you for damages.”
“ You will ?”
“Yes; I’ll law you to death, sooner than
be defrauded out of my property in this I
manner; so, down with the dust, and no I
more grumbling about it.”
J- — o
lhe bewildered and now crest-fallen
proprietor,perceiving from Jonathan’s tone ,
and manner, that all remonstrances would
be in vain, and that he was irrevocably
fixed in his determination to extract twen
ty-five cents from his already exhausted
coffers, at length slowly and reluctantly
put into his hand the bit of silver coin re
presenting that amount of the circulating
medium.
Jonathan, we blush to say, took the mo
ney; and, what is more, he put it into his
pocket; and, what is moreover, he posi
tively buttoned it up, as if to “ make as
surance doubly sure,” and to guard it
against the possibility of escape.
“ Mister,” said he, after he had gone
coolly through the ceremony, looking all
the while as innocently as a man who has
just performed a virtuous action, “mister,
I say, you must not think that I set any
more value on the insignificant trifle you
have paid me, than any other gentleman :
—a twenty-five cent piece, after all, is
hardly worth disputing about—it’s only a
quarter of a dollar—-which any industri
ous person may earn in half an hour, ifhe
chooses—the merest trifle in the world— i
a poor little scoundrel of a coin, that I
would not. under any circumstances, touch
with a pair of tongs—and which I would
scorn to take even now— it noere not for
the principle of the thing ! To show you,
however, that I entertain a high respect
for the “ People’s Line,” that I wish old
Cockalorum to the devil, and that I do not
harbor the slightest ill-will toward you for
so unjustifiably withholding iny legal de
mands, the next time I come this way again,
I will unquestionably give your stage the
preference—unless the “ Flying Dutch-
man holds out greater inducements than '
you do, in which case, 1 rather calculate,
I shall feel myself in duty bound to encour
age him I”
Since the veritable circumstances here
related, the Jamaica railroad has entirely
superceded the necessity of both the “Mo
nopoly” and the “ People’s Line” of stages
and their public-spirited proprietors, alter
making a prodigious noise in the world,
have retired under the shade of their lau
rels, deep into the recesses of private life.
There we shall leave them, to enjoy what
ever satisfaction may be gathered from the
proud consolation of having expended eve
ry farthing they were worth in the world,
for the gratification of a public that has
long ago forgotten they ever existed !
From the Philadelphia Saturday Chronicle.
CKEATION.
I see the sun in grandeur rise
Upon his morning throne,
And while his glory decks the skies,
Bids smiling nature own,
The spirit of its author fair
Is seen in broadest beau y there.
The starry hosts that sweetly shine
Upon the walls of night,
Show forth His majesty divine,
And charm the wandering sight
There’s not a planet rolls above
But speaks His everlasting love.
All nature, far and wide,
His beauteous works declare,
Hisskill on every side
Proclaim him every where.
There’s not a plant, a bud, a flower.
But shows the greatness of his power.
The shells that pave the ocean shore,
Os every form and hue,
Thy sacred beauty o’er and o’er
Hold out to human view;
And diamond treasures of the main
Make, Lord, thy matchless wisdom plain.
Above, below, and all around,
Thy boundless skill is shown,
Where e’er we turn thy hand is found.
Across creation thrown.
Oh! who can from thy presence flee,
For boundless space is full of Thee!
If you desire to enjoy life, avoid unpunctual :
people. They impede business and poison j
pleasure. Make it your own rule not onh to j
bo punctual, but a little beforehand. Such a
habit secures a composure which is essential
to happiness. For want of it, many people
live in a constant fever, and put all about
them into a fever too. To prevent the tedi
ousness of waiting for others, carry with you
some means of occupation —a Horace or
Rochefoucalt, for example—books which can
be read by snatches, and which afford ample
materials for thinking.
Vo!. IV-Ao. 84.
, GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
SENATE,
, Saturday, December 3,1836.
i J lie Senate refused Mr. Doutiugau’s motion
! to ri'-coiUidei' the vote of yesterday parsing ’!»•>
i bill foi the orgarnxatioti of the Court for Um
’ Corr rction of Errors. Yeas 30, Nay* 40.
BILL INTRODUCED.
By s|r. Liiddeli: so add anothtr section to
I ’be tttlr division oi the penal code.
BILLS FA3SED.
I To amend the act oi incorporation oftlw
r i tow. i of Columbus.
’ I 'IV. regulate the advertising ofthe of
’ ■ Gwitit.. tt county, so as to authorize s.ud adver
-1 i Using tc Be dotre elsewhere than iti ilie Somh
■ i urn Banner’,
BILLS REJECTED. *
j r |’<i alter >. t.d amend a part of the 3d sectioJ
! ofthe fld article' of the Cpustitution,
' To I ' g'.ilatc fho issuing pt inarrioge licenses
} ia certaiu cases.
KESOLUTIONS.
Mr. Gibson laid ou the tabla a rosolutixi
j authorizing the Qovertior toopen a corrcspo r
j dence with the several Banks of tb-j State, f nr
! the purpose of ascertaining at what rate of in,
| tercst they will receive any pertioiioftbe Bnr.
' plus Revenue, and report the same' to this
I branch ofthe Legislature,
I Mr. Swain’s resolution relati.e to adjourn
i meat, and lhe pay of Senators whfle absent,
i was laid on tho table the balance of she se»-
sion.
The Senate agreed to a Report and Reso
lutions of the Committee oa Printing, gjdug
the printing of the Laws and Journals, utid tiw#
Job Printing of this session, to P. L. jtobiusoi..,
I Esq.—he being the lowest bidder for the
| same. The work stipulated lo ba ll *>
I Milledgev.ru.
MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR.
A message was received from the Governor
in reference to a resolution found on the print
ed copies ofthe Laws and resolutions of lust
session, never agreed to by the Legislature,
or signed by the Governor—and suggesting.'
the propriety of legislative action thereon.
A communication was received from the
Treasurer, suggesting the propriety o! the Le
gislature designating the Banks whose bills
shall be current at the Treasury office—as in
co -sequence ofthe great incruuae of Banks
and Banking institutions, a state of things may
arise which will make the task of sjtec.’io.a a
difficult and delicate one for him, or may sub
ject him to perplexily and difficulty.
Mr. McConnell, from the Military Commit,
tee made a Report, which was read and laid on
the table.
The Senate adjourned to Monday morning.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The Speaker having left the Chair, Mr.
Wood, of Coweta, was called to the same.
NOTICE FOR A BILL.
Mr. White, of Butts : To add-u part of Hen
ry to the county of Butts.
BILLS INTRODUCED INBTANTER.
I By Mr. Blackshear, of Lowndes: To ap.
j propnate money to improve the uavigatfon of
the VVithlacoochee river.
By Mr. McKinley: To exempt Printers
from militia duly in time of peace.
Mr. Juo. B. Lamar: T<> establish a Bank
at Jfacon to be known as the “Commercial
Bank.”
Mr. Campbell: To regulate the duties of
the officers of the Central Bank in certai i
j cases.
I Mr. Burns, from the Committee on the Pen--
I itentiary, reported a bill to authorise a loan to*
i the Inspectors of the Peuitentiiry mt curtaia
purposes.
r'”i
Mr. Bulloch, from the Select Committee, re.-
ported a bill to amend the laws against bring,
ing malignant diseases into this State.
Mr. Miller: To amend the law iu relation
to the foreclosure of mortgages —Also,
To incorporate the “ Citizens B-.di” in Au.
; gusta.
BILLS PASSED*
To provide tor the election of a pubic Piin.
: ter,audio regulate the fees, &c.
To repeal a part of the Ist section of the act
for the distribution of estates; to provide for
posthumous ciiildrei; to regulate the mode of
lending property to children, tec.
BILL REJECTED.
To authorize a lottery to raise § 30.000 for
> a Masonic and Town Hall in Columbus.
messages from THE GOVER.XOB.
A message communicating a report from tho
i Commissioners of the Flint river on the sub.
jjectofthe appropriation for the improvement
j of the naviguti >n of saik river—gomg toshew
I the propriety of farther appropriation,
j A me; sage calling the attention of th' Gen.
j e:al Ass unb y to a resolution in the published
I copy of th j r* solutions of the last L -gislaturc,
I which was neither passed by the Legislaturu
. nor approved by the Governor— and ® u g"
I gesti g legislative action thereon.
j Jf . H<4combe, from the committee on Print
ing, made a report recommending the printing
of the Laws and Journals and the job printing
to be given to P. L. Robinson, Esq., he being
the lowest bidder for the same.
The House received a commit ication fr<»n»
■ the Treasurer, on the subject of the descrip,
tion of bills which he s iould receive at tho
I Treasury, <Ac.
I And the House adjourned to Mo >day tnoru.
J i: 'g-
SENATE.
Munday, Dec :mbek 5, 1836.
The Senate agreed to Mr. Liddell’s motion
i to re-consider the vote of Saturday, laying on
I the table the balance of the session the hill to
I amend a part of the Ist section of the 3d ar.
i tide of the Constitution.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Mr, Reese: Toamend the law of 1811, form,
ing the Srnatus Academicua.
Mr. Liddell: To extend to certain descend,
ants of Ch rokees, the rights and privileges of
j citizens of Georgia.
BILLS PASSED
To reduce the grant fees on Gold Lots
j fractions to 82 50.
To authorize the I ferior Court of Putt 4 **
! to remove the public buildings of said ce! nt y
; from Hartford to Hawkinsville, and tucoP*’*’*
ate the latter.
To appoint a Trustee of the Poor School
fund of Baker.
To alter and am»nd the act of vicorpor*.
tion of the Columbus Insurance Company.
bill lost.
To prevent the Circulation of bills uudwr
C2J. ‘ •