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From the Saturday Chronicle.
TO A WHO BOSE,
Which I found blooming in a beautiful and soli,
tary rak in the Western Highlands of Scot
land.
BY EOBERT HAMILTON, ESQ.
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air
Grey.
Rweet flow rot of this lonely vale,
How mild thy breast of beauty pale—
Spreads to die eye of morning bright—
Like maiden in her virgin light,
The dew bedecks thy petals fair !
Like orient gems in beauty’s hair,
And unseen zephyrs as they fly,
Steal fragrance from thy balmy sigh.
Lonely thou art, thou beauteous flower !
The blossom of a fleeting hour—
Thousmilest in joy, as if the lay
Os the grey lark, who hails the day,
Came thrilling on thy tiny ear,
In melody all soft and clear;
The golden bee on wandering wings,
Around thy form in rapture clings,
And lusciously the dew drop sips,—
Glow on in glory till day’s close,
I’ll seek thee then, thou beauteous rose
The aunhad kiss’d the mountain’s crest,
The deer had sought itscou.h of rest,
And sinking on a golden ray,
The lark pour’d fourth her vesper lay,
I sought the rose—no trace was there—
Os beauty’s form—a stem all bare,
Waved in the breeze, while ail around,
The dving sweets lay on the ground,
And worm and insect revelled on,
The leaves that late in glory shone.
‘Tis thus with life, in humble bower,
Apt emblem of this lonely flower,
It spreads its breast to virtue’s sky,
Blooms, withers, nnd unknown doth die.
From the London Court Journal.
THE SNOW STORM.
FROM THE SPANISH OF MELENDEZ.
Fill high the cup : and let it flow
With richest wine that Spain can yield—
For, gazing o;t this wintry snow,
My freezing blood seems half congeal'd.
How slowly through the tranquil air
The feathery, flakes in myriads fall!
The buried landscape once so fair,
Lies hid beneath an ermine pall.
Let us from this warm cot survey,
With thankful hearts, the scene around ;
Watching the snow wreaths fall away
In circles lightly to the ground.
How bends each shrub and forest tree
Beneath the sudde a weight oppress'd—
As ifby magic suddenly ;
Clad in a white and glittering vest!
A veil of Nature’s own pure grace,
Sparkling as crystal, swiftly hides
Each dreary valley’s altered face,
Dark rock.and sullen mountain sides;
The streamlet speeds a faster course,
> And soon by mightiest torrents boine—
Proud, in the added water’s force,
0 erleaps its fettered bounds in scorn.
The rustic views with pensive eye
His furrow’s early labour gone,
While scaicely able to descry
His neighbour’s pastures from his own.
Each silent bird, with folded wing,
Has shrunk within its nest for fear,
Or seeks the shelter’d covering
Os treacherous man’s asylums near.
Now hath the careful shepherd told
His bleating flock, and close together
They timorous stand within the fold,
All safely guarded from the weather; —
Swift rides the storm in angry heaven!
Faster the snow descends! as fast
Before the gathe’ ing whirlwinds driven,
To scatter in the northern blast I
Let it ride on ! The wine cup’s glow—
With thou, my own Dorilla, near.
And joys that only true hearts know
We brave the storm and laugh at fear.
A bumper fill! and let the song
Dispel this wintry gloom of ours—
“A health to Spring !” may Zephyr’s throng
Soon bring her, with a world of flowers.
MW
From the Boston Mercantile Journal.
Approved and Economical Re
cipe lor Connubial Felicity.
Many a wedded pair who find their happi
nets transmitted into a joint stock of ennui,
arc at a loss to divine the cause. In the hope
that it may be of general application, we quote
an anecdote from the Tuscahomian, that th<*
lesson it contains, and the moral to be dedu
ced from it, may cause a reformation in one
point at least, in the conduct of those who do
not take the Boston Mercantile Journal. The
long winter evenings are seasonably relieved,
and agreeably spent by the aid of a newspa
per: —
“ A young Planter in the upper part of the
State of Mississippi, lately married to a beau
tiful and and highly intellectual lady, after the
honey moon had passed, was pained to observe
that his young bride was thoughtful at times,
and appeared to suffer much from ennui!
Thinking this might be caused by the absence
vs female companions, he induced several
young ladies, relatives, to make his house their
home, in hopes thereby to render her com
pletely happy. This arrangement had not
the desired effect. His beloved, though ap
parently joyful and cheerful while conversing
with him, us qoon as the conversation lagged,
relapsed into the melancholy mood. Surpri.
sed at this, he fell to pondering the cause;
and after a lengthy reflection, he came to the
determination of sending to New York for a
piano, to be forwarded by the first ship bound
foi Natchez, Vicksburg, or Grand Gulf. Well,
the musical companion at length arrived—and
a splendid article it was, of beautiful mahoga
ny, ornamented and polished to the value of a
SSOO bank note. And then it discoursed such
ravishing melody, as the snowy fingers of the j
young bride pressed over the keys! The
young Planter wis in raptures! and congra- j
tulated himself in having procured the one
thing needful to his bride’s complete felicity.
Poor man ' he paid but a poor compliment to
hi* amiable partner’s intellect, if he thought
she could contentedly pass herleisure hours in
strumming a piano forte! He was mistaken, j
Though “ music hath charms,” like love, it is
not the only desideratim in :hts world—for '
awhile it pleases the ear and touches the j
heart, but ministers not to the mrnd. The la
dy seldom courted Apollo, and her husband
had the mortification of feeling that he had
Rot yet made hist domicil a paradise to “ her he
i adored.” At last to solve the riddle of her
I discontent, he asked her if she did not some
times regret having entered the marriage state.
“Oh no indeeds” she replied with earnestness
“never for a moment have I been other than
your happy wife; but sometimes ”
‘‘Well, sometimes what, dearest?” “If I
must toll you then— sometimes I regret that
you don't take newspapers! Pa takes half a
dozen !"
Starting Children in the World.— Many an
unwise parent labors hard and lives sparingly
all his life for the purpose of leaving enougli
to give his chili Irena start in the world, as it
is called. Setting a young man afloat with
money left him by his relations, is like tying
bladders under the arm of <no who cannot
swim—ten chances to one he will loose his
bladders and go to the bo tom. Teach him’o
swim, and then he will never need the blad
ders. Give your child a sound education, and
you have done enough for him. See to it, that
hit« morals are pure, his mind cultivated, and
his whole nature made subservient to the laws
which govern man, and you have given him
what will be of more value to him than the
wealth of the Indies You have given him a
“start ’ which no misfortune can deprive him
of. The earlier you teach him to depend up
on his own resources the better.
A Soldier of the Revolution.
In the House of Representatives, last week,
a bill was reported granting a pension to Ben
jamin Gannett, widower of D borah Gannett.
a soldier of the Revolution ! The Committee’s
'■eport states th" following singular facts in this
case : — United States lelegraph.
‘ The maiden name of Deborah Gannett, a
soldier of the Revolution, was Deborah Samp
son. She was born in Sharon, Massachusetts,
nd entered the Army undir the name of
“Robert Shurtleff” She served faithfully three
years tdl th" close of the war, when she was
honorably discharged. She was at the cap
ture of Lord Cornwallis, at York. She was
in many engagements, where she behaved man.
fully. In the skirmish at Tarry ton, she was
badly wounded by a musket ball, w hich was
never extracted, and the effects of which she
fe’t through life. Her sex was never divulg
ed while she was in the service. The motives
which prompted her conduct do not distinctly
appear, but are supposed to have been enthusi
asm in the cause ofindepender.ee.— She drew
a pension from the Government till the year
eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, when she
died. She was married io Mr. Gannett, in the
year 1784. He is represented to be a poor
but honest and respectable man, and now far
advanced in years. He expended, from time
to time, a considerable sum of money, on ac
count of the state of his wife’s health, which
was much enfeebled by the effects of her
wound, and the great hardships she had en
dured. The Committe, therefore, reported a
bill continuing to him his wife’s pension from
the time of her death.”
Sounds.— What noisy creatures would the
better half of creation be, were their voices,
in propol tion to their weight, as loud as that
of a locust! A locust can be heard at the
distance of one.tenth of a mile—(at least so
ays the “Na’’ral Philosophy” that 1 went to
school in,) Well, a golden wren is said to
w* igh but half an ounce : so that a middling
sized “ houri” would weigh not short of four
thousand of them: now it must be strange if
a golden wren could not out-weigh four of our
locusts. Granting the fact, then—that, one of
our ladies, of medium size, weighs as much as
16 000 of our locusts—ai d that the note of a
rust can be heard 1 10th of a mile, —why,
i the name of confusion and distraction! the
cooings of one of these “doves of paradise,”
pretty sound in wind and limb, engaged in a
curtain lecture or the ordinary regulation of I
h r morning household, might be distinctly
h-ard at the distance es One Thousand Six
Hundred and Ninety Miles ! Upon this sup
position, what would be the effects ot a con
jugal explosion, from the lips of some of the
higher keyed dames which it has been my lot
to hear !— llerschell’s Commet would be dri
ven at a tangent three or four times the ength
•fits orbit into the immeasurable blank of
space, as wildly and helplessly as a pu.iv gnat
from before the mouth of an exploded forty
founder!—Her sneeze would send the inhabi
tants of ti e fartherrst stars screaming and yel
ling into theit dens and caveins. believing that
'he walls of all the worlds were tumbling about
their ears !! !— Printer's Devil.
Unrighteous Verdict.— A man was indicted
lately in England for stealing a ham. The of
ficer who apprehended him, stated that the
prisoner said he had stolen the ham for the
purpose of being prosecuted and transported,
as he was tired of living with his wife- The
jury found the plea insufficient, and the man
! was acquitted!
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From the Chronicle dp Sentinel of Ft b. 10.
Four-fifths of our readers, who reside in the
country, are Fanners—of those who reside in
the city, there is a large number who own
farms in the vicinity, either for the purpose of
profit by the business, or for the purpose of
raising family supplies. For the benefit of
such, we transfer to our columns, from the
February No. of the Farmers Register, the ar
tide in another column, headed “Remarks on
the Uses, Value, and Culture of Sweet Pota
toes.”
Remarks on the Uses, Value, and Culture of
Sweet Potatoes.
To the Editor of the Farmers' Register.
Columbia, S. C. January 5, 1537.
The interest on agricultural subjects seems
to have much diminished ot late in this part of
the United States, and as much as I can per
ceive, in other parts also. When we have
done with president-making, and the meetings
of abolition societies at the north and west,
we can talk of nothing else than rail roads.
Itis all very well, each in its proper place ;
but it seems to me, that we neglect toe much
our own natural, noble pursuit, agriculture.
Formerly, this country furnished many parts
of Europe, and the West India Islands, with
bread-stuffs ; but now Europe sends us flour,
wheat, and other grains in great quantities, and
mirabile dictu, even hay. I shall not attempt
Io seek for the causes of this anomaly, lest it
should lead me into the interminable specula
tions about banks, currency, abundance or
scarcity of money, good, bad and indifferent,
i It seems enough to say here, what few will
dispute, that there is something wrong in ail
[ this. Leaving th n, these most elevated and
I fruitful subjects of discussion, I shall take the
I humbler task of maki ig a few observations on
I the culture of the sweet potatoe.
! At the 474th p-’ge of the number of your
| Farmer’s Register, for the last month, in a piece
signed S. Carter, this gentleman, very reason
ably disbelieves tho assertions of some of his
neighbors, that the potatoe vines are voison
ous to cattle ; or, at least, that they occasion
them to swell. As for the latter effect, it is
very possible, that potatoe vines, as well as
other rich succulent food. may, when eaten
100 greedily, or too abundantly, have that ef
fect. It is, however, little to he feared at th"
season of the year when Mr. Carter speaks of
cutting his vines for ptovender ; for then,
much of their succulence has dried up, and
probably given their place to highly nutritious
matter. The saving of the vines of the pota
to for cattle, is not practised in this state, that
I know of; but it is not that they are not w. r
thy of it ; but because we are too careless in
taking every advantage offered us by a boun
tiful climate. It may also be on account of
the difficulty of curing these vines, so as to
keep them in bulk. As to their nutritive qual
tty. there are few vegetables more wholesome
and nutritious. Many years ago, I was inform
ed, on authority scarcely to be doubted, that
in the island of’St. Domingo, horses and mules,
were in many parts, entirely fed all the year
round on potato vines ; and my informant as
sured me, that he knew a cultivator in the vi
cinity of Cape Francais, who made yearly
about SIO,OOO, bv sending. every day, potato
vines to the city, where they were bought for
the exclusive food of horses, mules and cattle.
On the plantation or farm of this cultivator,
the vines, and not the roots were the chief ob
ject.
I atn glad to have it also in my power to
stitngthen the authority of Mr. Carter, as re
gards his experiment of planting small potato
roots, for the purpose of producing sprouts to
be transplanted in due time, into the beds pre
pared for them. This is a practice much
followed in this state, and many persons, I
among the rest, think these sprouts produce
much the best potatoes for the table. It is a
method well suited to those countries where
the summer is too short to produce the potato
in perfection, by any other. The usual way
is to prepare a nursery bed of small dimeii
sio s. in a warm and sh Itered situation, by
manuring it highly with stable manure ; make
drills in this bed at very short distances from
each other, from five to ten inches, and in these
drills put. small potato roots, so close as to touch,
and cover them lightly. This should be done
earlier than the usual season for plant ing the
crop ; and for fear of frost, the seed may be
covered with straw, leaves, or some such mat
ters. A bed about four faet wide, and fifty or
sixty feet long, will furnish sprouts enougli to
plant at least an acre of ground. It is neces
sary to have the beds ready to plant the sprouts,
so as to take advantage of every shower of r tin
to transplat whatever spi "Jis are large enough,
that is a few inches high. The nursery bed
will soon again be covered with a new set to
planters the next suitable weather. Potatoes
produced in this manner, arc generally smooth
and well formed, and the crop very abundant.
Fvery facility afforded, for the extended cul
tivation ot this invaluable root, is undoubtedly
a great advantage ; for it is nutritive and whole
some in a high degree. Many planters in this
state feed their negioes for several mouths ex
clusively on sweet potatoes, and during that
period, they are all, young or old, healthy and
iat. I have very little doubt but it miiiht be
advantageously cultivated for the manufacture
of sugar, which it would probably produce in
greater abundance th an the beet ; tor i.ot on
ly sugar can be extracted from its ready form
ed saccharine matter, but also from the starch
which it contains in great abundance. This
isatleast, well worth the trial.
I am, very respectfully, sir,
Your obedient servant,
N. Herbemont.
From the Farmer and Gardener.
OBSER VA TIONS.
Relating to the Culture of Fruit Trees.
To promote the Growth.
It will be proper, early in the spring, to ex
amine such trees as have been planted the pre
ceding fall, to ascertain whether the high winds
which prevail about the time of the breaking
up of the frost, may have shaken them loose ;
if this should be the case, it will be best to
have the ground trod firmly around the tree
again, as the shaking will be likely to destroy
the tender roots as fast tis they are pul forth,
and of course the tree must perish. In order
to make fruit trees thrifty, and come early into
bearing state, the ground about the trees ought
to be constantly kept mellow, and neither w eeds
grass, or crops permitted to grow over the tree
roots ; and a very great improvement in the
growth and appearance of the trees would be
made, if a small dressing of manure was an
nually in the fall spread around where the ends
of the roots may have arrived at, and have it
immediately dug in—and the young trees al
ways thrive best when the land amongst them
is constantly kept under tillage—The following
crops may be raised very suitably among them,
provided every, or every other crop is inanur
ed : —Potatoes, Pumpkins, Beans, and other
vegetables—Wheat, Rye, Oats and Clover are
considered injurious to the newly planted or
chard. I n ordet to destroy insects, and increase
the thnfiiness of the trees, prepare a wash fi-r
them as follows : —To 10 gallons of strong
soap suds, add 1 -Bth of u bushel of stone lime,
and as much soft cow dung as will make the
wash ofa proper consistance to work with the
common white wash brush—put it on the bod
ies, and as high on the limbs as the brush will
work. Early in October or April is the best
seasons to wash the trees ; a white wash com
posed of lime and water is often used to good
advantage, but is not so safe or useful to the
trees, as the above ; especially where the trees
are covered with a rough bark, and consequent
ly receives too large a share. Soft soap or
potash prepared so as to be put on with a brush,
is better than either of the above. Persons
becoming acquainted with the beautiful, thrif
ty appearance, the above washes will cause
the tri es to have, as far as the brush touches,
will seldom neglect having it done at least once
a year, while the trees are young, destroying
a large quantity of insect’s eggs, and makes
the bark so smooth as but to afford few hiding
places for them, and at the same lima increases
the growth of the trees.
Trimming.
Every spring the trees ought to bo examined,
and trim out any branches that appear as though
if left on, might cross or crowd the main
branches of the head of the tree, and on look
ing at it, a judgment must not only be formed
from present appearance, but how it would ap
pear three or four years to come, for it a limb
should be left on for that length of time, and
afterwards have to be cut out, it would be a
great loss of nutriment, that would otherwise
have gone into the main branches, and would
have made the tree that much larger; also
trim off all the branches that hang too low. or
ought to be cut to make the tree balance, and
much of the nutriment ofthe tree will be saved,
by trimming off’all the superfluous sprouts ol
spring growth, early in June, with the addi
tional advantage of preventing a recurrence
of them, as the wounds would immediately
heal over, aud would very much dimi tish the
winter or spring trimming. A young orchard
may safely be trimmed any time during the
winter, when the proprietor can attend to it
best, especially if done at least annually, there
by rendering the amputation of large limbs
unnecessary.
o tt t ru OSSfc is♦
Apples, Soil, Aspect, &r. proper.
Any lands that will produce good crops of
Indian corn will produce good crops ot Apples,
whilst sandy land, stiff clay, and wet land is
unfavorable, as the Apple blooms late in the
spring. I’he aspect is of less account than
fur most other fruits —however, if protested by
native woods, or plantations on the north and
west, would be the means of ripening the fruit
with a higher flavor, and being protected from
high winds would not be so subject to have the
fruit blown down. To make an orchard pro
ductive, it must be kept rich, especially after
it commences bearing.
Pear Trees.
Pear trees whilst young require nearly the
same treatment and same soil as recommend
ed for the apple—but as our climate is rather
warm for this valuable fruit, which in rich
ground and under good culture, frequently
grows too rapidly, producing soft sp< ngy wood,
and in my opinion renders the tree less capable
of withstanding the various changes of our
warmest months, and hence impart the cause
ot the disease ct lied fire blight.
To counteract the effects of our climate, I
would recommend planting in a cold north
eastern aspect, defended by lofty trees on the
south-west, at a sufficient distance to prevent
the roots from coining into collision with the
Pear. And after the tree has put out buds,
head it down to the lowest eyes or buds, and
once a year shorten the mam branches in
March, or early in June, in order to prevent
the from towering high ;in other respects
trim sparingly, leaving limbs sufficient to ab
sorb the superfluous sap that would be sent
up by the roots ofthe tree, which has not been
docked like the top— by which means the tree
becomes strong, the wood firm, short jointed
and hardy, and before the. tree may be expect
ed to commence bearing fruit, set the land in
grass under them, not to be mowed, but be
left on the ground during the hot months to
keep it cool. Should it happen that after al.
the above care has been taken, a limb should
be attacked by fire-blight, which may readily
be perceived by the leaves changing color,
immediately on such a discovery, proceeu to
omputate the diseased limb, cutting a few in
cries below the diseased part, as the only wav
to prevent a further spread of the case, pare off
the edge, and cover the wound with soft cow
dung or brown paint, if nothing better is han
dy.
ROBERT SINCLAIR.
Sagacity of the Horse.— The Pennsylvania
Sentinel relates the following anecdote of the
sagacity, and humanity shall we call it ? of
the horse:
As the Germantown stage, drawn bv four
horses, was passing along 3rd street, above
Willow, a small child endeavored to cross the
street in advance of the leaders, apparently
without observing the dangerous proximity
ot the latter. One ot the leading horses ap
peared to appreciate the situation of the infant
and made every effort to avoid coming in con
tact, with it. He swerved from the direct line
as far as he could, and endeavored to pass it,
but being brought up by the rein, was forced
against, and prostrated the child.—The instant
the latter fell, he stopped, as if to allow it to
escape ; but being driven forward by the hind
er horses and impetus of the vehicle, be rear
ed himself on his hind legs, and with one bound
e’eared the body. In doing this, either from
design or accident, he threw the child, with
bis hind foot, out of the track, so that when
the heavy carriage passed on, it did not run
over it, although it came within a few inches
of it. This may be nntinct, but it looks to us
marvellously like reason and feeling.
Interesting to Horses.— “A friend to the Horse”
in the Pittsburg Gazette cautions owners of
horses against putting cold bits into the mouth
of the horse when the weather is much below
the freezing point;—by doing so, the conse
quence is, that whenever the bit touches the
tongue or lips, the skin will come off’, as if burnt
with a hot iron. Hence the sore tsngue m
horses so often complained of and suffered.
This fact should bo made known, and the prac
tice of warming the bits, observed in all nor
thern latitudes, where the thermometer ranges
between zero and the freezing temperature.
If any one doubts the truth of these remarks,
let him put his tongue to a piece of exposed iron
in a cold morning, and he will doubt it longer.
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New style Belts to suit each dress
Silk Oil Cloth
Black Gros de Swiss
Do Italian Lutestrings
Do and colored Salins
Do do fancy Silk Shawls
Thibet wove Shawls
Rich belt Ribbons, assorted colors
Linen Towels with el’d borders
Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs, assorted quali
ties
Florence Silks
Taffeta Ribbons, from No. 6 to 22
Satin do do do
Black Girard Ribbon
Silk Braid, all colors
Black and white Blond Edgings
Super embroidered Muslin Capes
Black Mateoni Cravats
Do Love Shawls and Veils
Rich Gauze Cap Ribbon
Gumelastic Suspenders
Also from New York.
3-4,4-4 5-4 browu Shirting and Sheeting
Black Carpeting
Plaided Satiuetts
Cassimeres
New York Jfill Shirtings
Embroidered Cambrics
Fancy Dark Prints
Black and Lavender Prints
Rossetins, a new and fashionable article for
dresses
Extra tine striped and checked Swiss Mustin
Do do plain do de
Assorted Vest Patterns
Scotch worked Capes and Collars (some extra
rich)
Low priced Green and Printed floor Baize
White Jeanes
White Canton Flannel
4-3 and 6-4 Bed Tick
Crash, for Toweling
Fancy Gilt Buttons for Children’s Clothing
A good assortment of Thread Lace, Footing and
Edgings
Assorted Bobinet Footing and Edgings
Ladies superior Silk Stockings and Gioves
Drab and Brown Satinetts
Russia Diaper, Green Bombazetts
Black Sinchew Silk for Ladies Aprons
A fair assortment of Scolloped and Inserting
Trimmings
Linen Collars, black Bombasin Stocks
Ladies black and fancy col’d Merino Hose
Open worked White and Brown Cotton Hose
Do do do colored do do
Scarlet, Yellow and Green quality binding
Knitting Cotton
Fur Capes ofthe following description:
Petit Gris Capes
Spotted do do
Do do with ends
Siberian Squirrel Capes
Do do Tippetts
Chinchilla do
Black Genet do
Spotted and Grey Capes for Misses and children
Carpet Binding
Green Flannel
White and col’d Bed Lace
4-4 Furniture Dimity
6-4 low priced and sup’r Cotton Cambrics
4-4 rich figured and sprig’d Bobinet Laces
; White, black, brown and slate corded Dresses
Quilted Skirts
White and black worsted halfhose
Assortsd sizes Misses white and fancy colored
hose
Men’s lamb’s wool and Vigouia long hose, some
very fine.
Ladies’ embroidered cotton gloves.
Mohair caps
India Rubber aprons
4-4 star thuie lace
Ringlets, all colors
The following are now on the way and expected:
Superior English long cloth
•Scarlet Merino flannel
•Sup’r. Oxford merino satinet
5-4 Italian lutestrings
Bird’s-eve diaper
Boys’ dark and light silk pocket handkerchiefs
Hernam, Chally, and Thibet merino shawls
•Sup’r. black watered belt ribbons
Ladies’ black II S gloves
Corsettsfrom No. 1 to 12
Assorted flax thread, Kentucky jeanes dowlas
Irish linen sheetings
French and English merino cloth
Mull muslins
Rogers’ patent white flannel
Crimson and plain white pongee handkerchiefs
Bonnet ribbons, black Italian crape
Damask napkins
•Sup’r. Wilton hearth rugs
5-4 brown sheetings, &c.
Sept. 10,1836.—19 .
If, AW-
rgAHE undersigned has settled in Macon with
t the view ot practicing LAW—He will at-;
tend the courts of the adjoining counties, and :
maybe found by application at the office of!
.Messrs. Poe & Nisbet for the present—His j
Office, not quite complete, is on the second floor !
ofthe New Commercial Bank.
In winding up my business in the Octnulgee !
circuit, I have associated with me Augustus !
Reese, Esq. of Madison. Our joint attention
will be applied to that object.
E. A. NISBET.
Macon, January 28—39—15 t.
The Southern Recorder, Chronicle and i
Sentinel, and Whig, will publish the above j
weekly until the first of May.
Executor’s Sale.
WILL be sold on Friday the third day of
Marchjjnext at the late residence of Wil
liam Hodge, Esq., late of Madison county dec’d,
all the personal property belonging to the estate
of said deceased, (not already disposed of by the
Will,) consisting of Corn and Fodder, Shucks,
Oats, Straw, Iron and Steel and numbers of
articles too tedious to mention. Terms oa- "
day.
ALLEN L. HODGE, BMQ
January 21—38—tds.
GEORGIA, MADISON COUNTY.
Inferior Court sitting for Ordinary purposes,
January adjourned Term, 1837.
’VW/' HERE AS, Janies Millican Executor of
* * John Millican, di c’d., have applied to the i
Court aforesaid for Letters of Dismission.—
Ordered that after six months publication of this
order in one ofthe public Gazetts ofthis State,
the said James Millican Executor as aforesaid,
will be dismissed—unless cause be shewn to
the contrary, ot which all concerned are hereby
notified.
A true copy from the minutes ot said Court,
this 10th January, 1837.
WILLIAM SANDERS,c. c. o.
Jan. 21, —38—6m
FXOUR months after date application will be
made to the Courv of Ordinary of Clark
county, for leave to sell all the real estate of
David Richardson, late of (dark county dec’d.
DAV ID RI Cl IAR DSO N, A<l m’r.
Feb. 11,—11—lui I
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n order that the public taste of novelty, may, in
“ome measure.be accommodated, it may either
be procured in Nos. weekly, in vols., each work
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ron Von Tietz, which may be had complete, ei
ther in numbers, or neatly bound, forming vol.
I. of Foster’s Cabinet Miscellany. It is follow
ed by a “Steam Voyage down the Danube, with
Sketches of Hungary, Wallachia, Servia, Tur
key, &c” By Michael J. Quin, author ofa
‘Visit to Spain,’ &c. The first part of which
has already appeared. Both these works have
been noticed by the reviewers of England with
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The proprietor ofthis work is impressed with
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seminated among them, and for books that shall
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ficient in rational amusement, even while they
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man’s library.
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discover that a signal service might be perform
ed to the world, by embodying, in a cheap and
compact form, a series of publications that
should have utility as their primary object, but
rational amusement in the manner of their con
! coction. By issuing a small poition at a time,
i and in frequent succession, he conceived that
j he should impel the generality of his readers—
| not the studious or the literary ones, of course
' —to keep up with the publication, and not allow
| their reading to run in arrear. Bj' a well-timed
’ and well-judged selection of articles it is believ-
I ed that, he accomplished, not only this ostensi
ble object, but a secret and more important one.
Gradually a desire for more solid reading in
creased in society, and that which originally
began in the hope of amusement, was continu
ed in the wish for information. Useful matter
was published at a comparatively cheap rate, it
j was continually accumulating, yet the expense
• was hardly felt. Encouraged by bis success,
| the enterprising publisher began to insert netv
; matter in his selections, and the public in return
rewarded his exertions and expenses,, bv.cn
larged patronage.
_ Were Constable's Misceffn
United States, perhaps the
sent series would not
to commence the latter ls ve ".
membered, that in sp"of
Constable, it is out relatively— compared with
ttie publications in Great Britain generally,
which is dearer than that of any part of the
world. Constable’s Miscellany is published at
about half the English rate, but the present work
purposes to be at one-third even ot Constable.
The ob ject then of Foster’s Cabinet Miscella
ny may be easily explained. It is to introduce
to the reading public, a series of works that
shall blend entertainment with information—
that shall take off - the edge ofthe voracious ap- i
petite for mere fiction, which has been brought
on by too great a profusion of works of that de
scription—that shall gradually form a collection !
of writings which may be referred to with sat-:
isfaction at a future day, whether to elucidate a ;
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compare with a more recent writer; that may j
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tion; and that shall be cheaper than has ever ,
been issued.
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cellany, will be in every range if polite liters- i
I ture. It is intended to suit, as m,uli as pos
sible, every taste, and by an agieeaole variety
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thy excitement for rational entertainment.
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vestigation, and of the more abstruse sciences
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ing in view, that only substantially good works '
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lisher will use every means to satisfy himself,
before he commits a work to press.
It is trusted that the Cabinet Miscellany will
be a melange of all that is valuable in modern
literature; it will assuredly be the medium of
introducing works which would hardly find
their way to the American public generally,
through any other source. It will present them ,
at prices varying from one-fourth to one-sixth,
and in some cases even one-eighth of the Eng
lish cost; and the execution, it is hoped, will
meet with genetal approval.
GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
J AMES PHILIPS and David Stevens Ex
ecutors of John Harris, latent Oglethorpe '
county, dec’d. will apply tor letters of dismis
sion. These are therefore to cite and adinou
ish all and singular the kindred and creditors ot
said deceased, to be and appear at my office ;
within the time prescribed by law to shew I
cause (if any they have) why said letters should
not be granted.
Given under my hand at office, this Ist Dec.
1836.
HENRY BRITAIN, c. c. o.
Dec. 10.—32 —6m
FOUR months after date, application will be
made to the Honorable Court of Ordinary j
of Madison County, when sitting for ordinary j
purposes, for leave to sell a Negro woman, he- :
Joining to the Estate of William L. Griffeth de-
F J ™^ £ *-'™ ER “ ART ' i Admr ’ 5 -
• Nov.
Aicriol ' .*>■ B’ MA ESS.
f|IHESi» - (aged in the above
3. businl" j, ,o :lH b "-
.TOELFIIOST. !
Tho's. HancockS®**®*
•Stevens Thomas,
Asbury Hull, Eqr’s.
Athens, Dec. 31,-35 —eow3m,
zldsiaini«trat«i e ’s Sale.
TS WTILL be sold at the late residence of Ro
w w bel t Williams, Sen’r. deceased, Madison
county, on Friday the 24th of February next,
all the personal property belonging to the Estate
of said dec’d., consisting of Corn, Fodder and
Oats, House-hold and Kitchen Furniture, Hors
es, Cattle, Sheep & Hogs, farming tools,&c &c.
Terms on the day of sale.
DAWSON WILLIAMS, Adin r. I
Jan. 7,—3<i—tds
| WATKINSVILLE ACADEMY.
rsiHE Exercises of this Academy will com-
J nieuce on the first Monday in Februa y
next, under the direction and management ofthe
former Rector Mr Clarke and Mrs. Clarke.
Any thing said in commendation ofthe abili
ty with which this institution has been conduct
ed by Mr. and Mr H . C if ‘ rl<e » would seem entirely
unnecessary to those who have had an opportu
nity of visiting their School or attending their
Examinations, it is sufficient to say that the
growing popularity of this School has rendered
it necessary to engage an assistant teacher,
which has been done by the present Rector, and
by this arrangement from 120 to 150 Pupils can
be comfortably accommodated.
A musical teacher has also been employed to
give lessons to such as may wish to be instruct
ed in that branch of science.
Boarding in private families can be had upon
reasonable terms in the Village,
Terms of tuition usual.
THE TRUSTEES.
Dec. 31,—35—t1F
OF THE
SCUTZSaaK HBVIEW.
TO be published at Washington,quarterly, in
an Bvo. No. of 275 to 300 pages, price $5
I per annum, payable in advance. The place
is chosen, not only forits facilties ofinformation
literary and political, but as that at which the
Southern State can be united upon the under--
taking, with the greatest ease, and with the
comuletest exemption from all State or Party
jealousies.
Ofthe matter' three-fourths (say 225 pp.)
shall consist of regular lievietcs; making about
9of 25 pp. each. These must,as literary works
at least, return as a general rule, somewhat to
wards that older method, now almost forgotten
and give a regular analysis ofthe book reviewed,
if it be of any merit. In Politics and upon Oc
casional Topics, there may be a greater liberty
i of deviating into mere disquistition.
In this portion of the Review, there will bo
I given, in each No. a paper historical of th*
( Politics and general events of the day; to
i serve as a Historical Register. Its execution
I will alway be committed to the strongest hands
I only; and its purpose, to give a unity and con
sistency to the Public Doctrines of the Review
I such as can scarcely be so well effected in any
' other manner.
Occasional Retrospective Reviews will also he
j embo -ied in this part ofthe plan, with a view
of favoring, in a certain degree, the more curi
j ous studies; or to revive the knowledge of im
: portant books, forgotten in the confusion of
modern learning.
Writers will be led, of regulaj purpose to give
their papers, wherever the subjecj will permit,
the form ofa Series; in older not only that they
may thus afford a completer body ofinforuiatioH,
serve, also, to re-print apart, for popular circu
: lation; a method that will much augment both
the reputation and usefulness of the Review.
A body of Miscellanies(sity some 50 pp.) will
form the subordinate and more amusing part
of the Journal. Its contents will be somewhat
various; but will, for the most part, consist of
short Literary Notices; Bibliograpical Articles;
a critical list of New Publications, foreign and
domestic, and general Literary, Intelligence.
In Communications, the most compressed
mode of writing will be every where required..
Papers, in winch the works do not bear a just
proportion to the information conveyed or the
effect intended, will be either rejected, without
scruple, or abridged, without mercy.
To warrant this exaction, the usual rate of
compansation to writers will be advanced to
2 1-2 dollars per printed page; a price that will
offer fair remuneration to the talents aud labor
which we wish to secure.
Ofthis revival of a Review of the South, tho
i purpose is, to give once more to our region, (now
eminently needing it) an Interpreter and a De
fender; the common Representative of our In-
I stitutions, and ofthe Mind itsefamong us. Such
jjn that great Congress ot Opinijn, where th®
■■bui of civilized nations are now so largelv
w<- <i'> not possess and we have already
Mreed much for it. It is tinieto make our-
understood and respected there. The
Journal which shall do this, must combine the
general strength ot all who, throughout the
South, love the country, and are capable of*
doing it mtellected service. It must, then, be,
not the champion or the propagandist of local
opinions, but the friend of all that pursue the
public good. Into the vulgar methods of Poli
tics, debased by Partizan rancour, or corrupted
by the interest, or overborne by the popular
passion ofthe hour, it must not fall.—From it,
the pride of the Nullifier "niuts leceiveno di
minution,the fidelity of the Alnionis no reproach.
—lt must be no vantage-ground to either part;
nor serve but as an equal field, where they will
only contend which shall most advance the
cause of the South, and of that older doctrine
of Jeffersonian State Rights, avowed by both
parties alike, and now the only hope of rallying
j and of rescuing the country.
To vindicate, than, our pecular Instituitons;
to rebel with argument, lest presently we be
forced to rebel with arms, all interference with
our domestic condition; against the wild rule
of mere Chance and Corruption, to uphold a
Republican and Federative, as distinguished
from a Democratic and Consolidating adminis
tration administration of the National affairs:
from the disorders ofthe Central government
Where Reform is hopeless and even useless,
till you have given yourselves stronger and
wiser local systems—to direct the public view
towards a home policy of the State, capable,
through itseffi to confer upon us the blessings of
well-ordered Liberty, expected in vain from tins
Federal Power: from the delusions o* Partv
Politics abroad, to call home the wise and brave
have often raised petty States into noble and
prosperous Commonwealths; to attach men,
if possible,to their birth-place,and convert them,
from wandering and selfish adventurers, into
citizens, the lovers of civilization: to re-animate
public spirit, and give it purpose, as .veil as
energy: to hold, over Parties and Politicians, the
tribunal ofa Public Opinion far different from
that idle and corrupt one, of which the News
papar Press is tin. voice; for these purposes, to
diffuse through the land sound and well con
sidered public doctrines, with Knowledge and
Taste, their natural allies such will be the gen
eral aim of that literary league, among the best
talents of the country, which has been set on
foot, in the present undertaking.
Os its critical purposes,it is not necessacv to
speak so minutely. In general, it will ofcourse
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 dent of his
temporary renown, nor chat of his birth on
this or the other side of the Atlantic. Towards
the few good writers, that want of cultivation
has yet permitted us to have, in America, it will
know how to be respecttul. But in Literature,
as lately in Trade, we shall insist that no man's
bad commodity be forced upon us, under pat
riotic pretences. Upon all that school of wri
ters, whose works, fur want of every other
merit, attempt to make themselves one,’ out of
the very fact that they are not English, an un
sparing war will be waged; nor less upon that
other great division of the invading army of
Dulness—the endless compilers of bad and
illiterate Schoolbooks—a sort that drive out
every thing humane amongst us, by poisoning
its very fountains, where they pass. Over
these and whatever else of pernieicous the
Northern Press pours out upon us, a strict
supervision must, for our very safety, be main
tained.
Upon the Literature of mere Amusement—
Novels, Verses, the Travels of ignorant and
impertinent people, or the the like; upon An
niversary Orations, Inaugural Discourses, and
those volumes of Indigestion which pass for
Public Speeches: upon the Biograpnies of
Presidential Candidates, and of al' illustrious
and heroical persons in general, that are stilt
alive: upon Charity or Missionary or Tem
perance or Antimasonic Sermons or Reports;
and upon all Awful Disclosures whatever, th®
current criticism ofthe Review must proceed
by notices, justls proportioned to the brevity of
exis ence enjoyed by this literary grass, which
flourishes greenly in the molding, and is cut
down and tiling away before the night. Life,
is too short, Art too long, and Learning grown
too prolific, for people to occupv themselves
g ose than an instant with bad 'books, while
such great bodies of good ones ro , cyest uu»
read.