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1 WISH HE WOULD DECIDE.
A Parody on “Will don't the men propose?”
I wish he would decide, mamma,
''l wish he would decide;
I’ve been a bridesmaid twenty times —
When shall I be a bride ?
My cousin Ann, my sister I’an,
The nuptial not have tied ;
Yet come what will, I’m single still
I wish he would decide I
lie takes me to the play mamma,
He brings me pretty books ;
He woos me with his eyes, mamma—
Such speechless things he looks 1
Where’er I roam--abroad, at home
« He lingers by my side ;
' Yet come what will. I’m siiHjle still
I wish he would decide !
I throw out may hints, mamma,
Ispeak of other beaux,
I talk about domestic life,
And sing “they don’t propose 1’
But ah! how vain each piteous strain,
His wavering heart to guido ;
Do what I will, I’m single still—
I wish he would decide!
I really shailinsist, mamma,
If nothing intervenes,
That brother Thomas question him,
ask him what he means.
And if he wants to break, mamma,
My passion or my pride
Unconquer’d yet, shall scorn regret —
I wish he would decide !
From the New-York Sun.
LADIES’ DRESSES.
We are sorry to notice occasionally in the
street, evidences of the bad taste among the
fair promenaders. We allude to the expen.
sive style of dressing, which with some fair
ones, has survived the fall of comrnerical cred,
it. I fit were the only folly which has thus
survived, we should, perhaps, hold our peace.
As it is, the most prominent of the follies which
should have gone out of date ere this, but have
not. it may bo well to say a few words respect
ing it. This wo do not with any hope or the
most distant idea that any lady will forego the
gratification as her vanity for what the news
papers may say about it. If tho Sun could
really induce a lady to throw aside a fiftj dol
lar ’kerchief —a fivo hundred or thousand dol
lar shawl, or any one or more articles pur
chased at the same moderate price, it would
be equal in potency to tho natural sun itself;
a strength we do not claim, however our ad
mirers (sensible souls) may claim it for us.—
Ladieswho wear expensive gear out shopping
leave their shrewdness at home, however well
filled their reticules may otherwise be. A
elerk or shopman can tell at a glance who to
impose upon, and most richly doth he replenish
his till from the purses of those whose extrav
agance points the way to their pockets. With
no confidence and no assurance can a lady,
gaudily attired, contend for the pennies : “ I
am sure madam, a lady of your taste or liber
ality cannot deny a tradesman his profit,” or
This might answer for suck persons, but you,
tnadame, must purchase a better article to be
in keeping,” &c. &c. What can a poor body
«ay against all this? Plead povoity? (Be
tween us, reader, many of them might, despite
their gay feathers.) Plead poverty, with the
external insignia of wealth on them ! That,
they fancy, won’t answer—they must buy at
Muslin’s price, or decline altogether,and leave
him to guess that their previous fitoul has ex
hausted their finances. So you sec the thou
sand dollar rig is not the one to make purcha
sesin. Look at it in another light. Hard
face and Screw have been reluctantly listening
to a man’s petition for grace or extension.—
They have almost yielded, and the thing hangs
in suspense. Hardface meets the wife —they
bow! she recognizes him with smiles, ho
amiles till he gets past her, and then
« A change comes o’er the aspect of his dream.”
“ Damn the fellow,” he scowls and says to
himself. “Talk of hard times —want exten
sion;—ask help to lift his notes —and his wife,
with a little fortune invested in unproductive
ornaments.” The poor husband learns that
the demand is peremtory. Hardface & Screw
“ are sorrv—but their own affairs are urgent.
Do not like to pass a man, but necessity knows
no law. Will be happy to accommodate at
another time,” &c. tec. 'Another time never
comes. Wife sails about town —goes home
to dinner —wishes husband would be more
punctual—dinner spoiled—men arc wretches.
Husband comes home, tired to death with shin,
wing—eats cold dinner and wife’s black looks
for sauce. She reads lecture— not
knowing al! the time that the fault is her own.
So, you see, a splendid dress on a wife, though
its first cost be not counted, makes a husband a
heavy sufferer. Every body, and alas ! every
body must be pushed for money at some time.
Lenient creditors are angels. Urgent credit
ors are precisely the reverse. Middling inter
est men suffer as much from their wives, as
those who pretend to be richer, and are not.
Too much dress on n woman will injure her
•elf, her friends, or any cause of charity she
may espouse.
Finally and lastly. The heaviest fire, the
most effective argument we have reserved for
the last. A man of tolerably good taste, we
assure ladies, pledging our reputation as a
judge thereupon, that an expensive dress docs
not look well. Every one knows the line,
“Beauty unadorned.” It is true as gospel:
sensible as Solomon, and provable every day
by example. A neat dress of reasonable cost
finishes the portrait of a woman fit to love.
Profusion of ornament puts her on a level with
a she camel, carrying the wealth of the Arabs
across the desert. It is ten chances to one
that she carries the wealth ot her husband’s
crediters—and what are creditors but Arabs?
Or, she sinks herself to the level of a savage
mind—or below it. The Indian girl will
thrust you a pound of gold, if she can get it
through her nostrils, and as much to each ear.
Tn the matter of expense, she can go far ahead,
and expense is all the beauty of costly attire.
There is another item which women may re
member. Suppose the writer of this article
should load himself down with quotations and
citations, and bury his discourse with borrow,
ed matter. You would fancy he has nothing
•f his own to offer. Just so the knowing men
■hate heavy diessed woman. They judge that
■no lady who had any prentensions to beautv,
.would summon the aid of the wealth of the
world to achieve what she might accomplish
without. From henceforth be it understood
Ahen, that no extravagantly dressed woman is
kandsoine. ‘ft is the feathers upon which she
jrelie*.
A FRAGMENT.
“ There is no place like home.” This po.
.etic phrase is no less beautiful than true. We
find that the fond attachment of home pervades
all .ranks and classes of society. The wander
ing’Scythians, although they had no abiding
habitation, yet they maintained that regard and
' encratiun lor the place where the bones of
their foiefathers slumbered that the mighty
arm of Cyrus could not appal. Even the
rude untutored savage of America, whose
dauntless spirit never quails before a foe has
nevertheless a heart which beats with the
wannest love towards his friends, and the most
tender regard to the spot where stands his wig
wam. Hut in civilized society, what is it that
binds every sympathising feeling of the heart
around the cottage where our fathers dwell?
Is it because there is more intrinsic worth at
tached to it, or is it those heaven-born associa
tions which connect each brook and rill, each
hill and dale, with sonic joyful recollection ol
happy hours spent in the' company of a. youth
ful friend, who now, perhaps sleeps beneath
the cold sod of the valley ? I s, this tends
more firmly to rivet the ties of affection to
paint to the imagination scenes which occur
red at home, and to call up from the wreck of
the past, hours sacred, to memory, Aet those
associations joyous as they are, would sink in
to comparative nothingness; it from that cir
cle where we spent our youthlul days in the
gay sunshine of pleasure was removed —a
mother. Yes, home, sweet as it is, would be
like a temple stript of its garlands, were it not
for the sacred name of mother, to consecrate
its portals. Like the evening dew, which
scattersits fragrance while all else is wrapt in
the slumber of night, so the mother, while e very
other ear is deaf, is attentive to our griefs;
mingles her tears in the cup of our misfortune,
and sooths our dying agony. What a solemn
place for contemplation is the grave of our
mother? Every fault is buried in the stillness
which entombs her. Then it is that soothing
words that fell from her lips, the swqpt smiles
which emanated from her countenance, and the
warm sentiments which breathed from her
soul, come floating along like heavenly visions.
Alas! never did 1 fully comprehend the charms
that are conveyed in that word mother—until
the grave had hid her from my view. But
though the grass waves over her grave, and
the soft gentle breezes of summer pass unhee
ded by, yet never until the spirit shah have
flown to the other worlds, never until the grave
shall enclose my humble remains, will I forget
that word, mother.
Water' water! water! — Poor abused wa
tet—of all nature’s provisions, the most grate
ffil useful —abundant —valuable—& like all
our best friends the most abused. If it were
a rare article, and difficult of access, what for
tunes would be made of it! It would be pub
lished as a panacea for all tho ills that the
flesh is heir to —certificates of its wonderful
cures would burden the newspapers, and its
venders would grow rich on lite sale.
Now without the need of purchase—-obtain
able without money and without price, it is
no less a panacea than if it were an expensive
and difficulty obtained article. But people do
not know, or do not seem to realist? and im
prove its value. The first great purpose to
which it cannot be too often applied, is its fre
quent application to all parts of the body.
Everv man, we know cannot aflbrd to furnish
a bathing room in his house —or to visit the
bath daily. But a piece of sponge, and a few
yards of crash—the coarser the better—are
within every body’s purchase.
If, everv morning, and when tho heat is op
pressive every evening, the whole surface ol
the body were bathed with a sponge, and the
pores of the skin rubbed open and cleansed
with a crash towel, (better than a flesh brush)
the population of the city or country tn which
so excellent a custom prevailed, would be re
markable for health, let the climate be as it
might. A strength, nerve, and solidity of
flesh would be gamed by the process, which
would set the heat of summer, and tho cold
of winter at defiance. Thousands of diseases
which now haunt our crowned communities
would become obsolete. Thirst would not be
so much suffered, and thus the temptation to
deluge the stomach with fluids would be re-,
moved. Perhaps among all the evil practices
which produce disease and weakness, none is
more injurious, as well as than (he
universal habit of impairing and preventing
digestions by filling the stomach with fluids.
As we remarked before, a healthly state of the
! skin would diminish the practice by taking
away the inducement.
Upon mothers, nurses, and others, who have
charge of children, the frequent use of water
in lavations oftheir little charges cannot too
much be urged. Physicians tell us that two
thirds of the infantile diseases which occur,
owe their origin and aggravation to a neglect
of cleanliness. I’, is not enough that a child’s
face is not marked with filth so as to bo dis
cernible at half a block’s distance. The
whole body should be so frequently washed
that the skin may perform the functions for
which nature intended and curiously con
structed it. —New York Sun.
THE MOTHERLESS.
How interesting he appears to every feel
ing mind, A child robbed of his mother ex
cites universal commiseration and affection
from every human bosom—we look forward
with anxiety to every future period of bis life,
and our hopes attend every step of his journey.
Wo mingle our tears with his on the grave of
ot her whose maternal heart has ceased to
beat, for we feel that he is bereaved of the
friend & guide ot his youth ? His father
would, but cannot supply the loss. In vain
the whole circle of his friends blend their ef
forts to alleviate his sorrows, and to fill the
place occupied by departed worth, a mother
must be missed every moment, by a child who
has ever known a valued one, when she sleeps
in the grave. No hand feels so soft as hers ;
no voice sounds so sweet; no smile is so pleas
ant! Never shall he find, again, in this wild
wilderness, such fondness, such fidelity, such
tenderness as he received from his mother !
The world is moved with compassion for that
motherless child, but the whole world cannct
supply her place to him.
A very common way of betraying shame at
economy is the thrusttng ten thousand apolo
gies down the throat of a guest with his din
tier. This thing is poor,A; t hat is bad—this un
derdone and that overdone—this too fresh
& that too stale. The poor guest is on thorns
during the whole sitting, and compelled to ex- 1
haust his vocabulary of commendations, in or
der to show his hostess that he is perfectly sat
isfied. As you value your good digestion, nev
er dine twice where they flank every dish
with apologies, and endeavor to persuade you
that the food provided for the family is not fit
for pigs to eat.”
Sii Waller Scott's Notion o f First Love.—
Writing to a Mr. Gordon in 1820, Sir Walter
says: “ Assure yourself that scarce one per
son out of twenty marries his first love, and
scarce one out of twenty of the remainder has
cause to rejoice at having done so. What we
love in those early days is generally rather a
fanciful creation of our own than a reality.—
We build statues of snow, and weep when they
melt.
The girls at Northampton (Mass.) have
been sending a bachelor editor bouquets of tan
zy and wormwood. He says that he don t
care—he had rather smell them than matrimo
ny.
THE MOTHER.
BY CHARLES SWAIN.
A softening thought of other years,
A feeling link to hours
When life was all too bright fer tears,
And hope sang wreathed with flowers ;
A memory of affections fled,
Os voices heard no more ;
Stirred in my spirit when I read
That name of fondnet-s d’er.
Oh, mother I— in that magic word
What loves and joy combine ?
Wiiat hopes, too oft, alas, deferred !
What watchings—griefs—are thine ?
Yet, nover, till the hour we roam,
By worldly thralls oppressed,
Learn we to prize that holiest home,
A living mother’s breast.
Ten thousand prayers nt midnight pour’d
Beside our couch of woes;
The wasting weariness endured
To soften our repose ;
Whilst never murmur marked thy tongue,
Nor toils relaxed thy care !
How, mother, is thy heart so strong,
To pity and forbear?
What filial fondness e’er repaid,
Or could repay the past ?
Alas, for gratitude decayed !
Regrets that rarely last!
’Tis only when the dust is thrown,
Thy blessed bosom o’er,
We muse on all thy kindness shown,
And wish we'd lov'd thee more.
’Tis only when the lips arc cold
We mourn—with late regret,
’Mid myriad memories of old—
The days forever set,
And not an act, nor look nor thought,
Against thy meek control,
But with a sad remembrance fraught,
Wakes anguish in the soul!
In every land, in every clime,
True to her sacred cause ;
Filled by that influence sublime
From which her strength she draws,
Still is the mother’s heart the same ;
The mother’s lot is tried ;
And, oh, may nations guard that name
With filial power and pride.
In 1817, when straw bonnets first became
general, it was common to trim them with
bunches of artificial wheat, or barley, in the
ear; on which the following lines wore writ
ten :
Who now of threatening famine dare complain,
When every female forehead teems with grain,
See bow the wheat sheaves nod amid the plumes,
Our barns are now transferred to drawing rooms ;
And husbands who indulge in active lives,
To fill their granaries may thresh their wives ?
From the Farmers’ Cabinet.
ROTATION OF CROPS.
System is as important in farming as any
other business ; without it, confusion, disorder,
and loss, will be the inevitable result. Fifty
years ago there was no regular, rational, sys
tematic rotation of farming pursued in what
arc now called the best cultivated districts of
Pennsylvania. The consequence was a reg
ular and constant deterioration of the soil, pro
ducing less and less annually, till starvation
aud want seemed to be inevitable, in many sec
tions of country, that are now in a very high
state of cultivation. Pho introduction of red
clover and plaster of paris, with a rotation of
crops, gave rise to the astonishing improve
ments whch have taken place within forty or
fifty years. The soil gradually became en
riched and regenerated under the improved
system, and its increased products enabled its
owners still further to add to its fertility ; and
how far this plan of progressive improvement
is capable of being carried, has never yet, that
I have ascertained,been determined; but many
of us have lived to see farms that yielded a ve
ry scanty support to a single family, under
the old way of cultivation, now not only sup
port in affluence three, four, or five families,
but furnish the means of enriching them all,
by the adoption of the modern improvements
in agriculture. Recently meeting with an in
telligent farmer from the lower part of Dela
ware State, and falling into conversation with
him on the subject cf a proper rotation of crops,
1 was not a little surprised to find that the
system, which with us has enriched both the
soil and its proprietor, should not have found
its way into that part of our common country ;
but that the old plan of impoverishing tho land
and diminishing the resources of its owner
should still, at so short a distance from us, be
pursued to a very ruinous extent. At the par
ticular request of my friend, who informed me
that you had many subscribers in his vicinity,
I consented to furnish for your Cabinet a
statement of the rotation of crops, whch is gen
erally adopted by the best and most success
ful farmers in the best cultivated parts of eas.
tern Pennsylvania.
After a grass or clover field has been mow
ed one year, and the next succeeding yea
been used for pasture, it is broken up or plough
ed, either late in the following spring, and
planted with Indian corn, which is cut off’in
the fail and the field ploughed as before, either
in the fall or following spring, and sowed with
oats or barley ; and immediately after the
harvesting of the oats or barley the ground is
ploughed, manured, and sowed with wheat.
Grass seed should be sowed on the wheat
early in the spring, and if timothy is intended
to-accompany the clover it had belter be sowed
in the fall, and the clover, orchard grass, or
herd grass seed sowed early in the spring ;
aud be sure not to be too sparing of the grass
seed, for much loss is often sustained by not
putting it on thick enough, particularly as the
clover in some soils is often injured by the win
ter frosts, and then it is important to have plen
ty of timothy, orchard gruss, or herd grass
roots, to supply its place.
The spring following the wheat crop, plaster
of paris should be applied, say one bushel to
the acre ; most of our best farmers consider
this to produce as great an effect as any larger
quantity. This season cut the grass or hay,
and the next succeeding season pasture the
grass, and in tho autumn it may be again
ploughed for corn the following season, and
proceed with the same round of crops again in
the same order ; but if the farm should contain
a sufficient number of fields, aud the grass be
well set, it may be pastured a second year be
fore it is broken up for corn. The first is a
five year rotation, the latter six.
The best timo for applying lime or marlin
this rotation of crops, is believed to be in the
fall, after the w heat crop, itpplied us a top dt ess-
Ott&tT €V tl As? Z ♦
ingon the young grass clover. In this moce
of application its effects arc very conspinious
m the increased quantity ol grass the first sea
son. and when the sward is broken up lot’com,
the effect, of the limo or marl on that ciop,
wi’l be much greater than if they were applied
to it the same season. Agricola.
From the Southern Agriculturists.
On. feeding Horses on Pease to save
Blades.— Mr. Editor: Agreeably to my pro
mise, you will find below a piece on feeding
horses on pease, to save Ll,ides. In 1836, 1
believed that I bad not made as many blades
as I thought would serve my horses the year;
and I had a fine crop of pease. I fed my hor
ses on pease in the haums at night, and at 12
o’clock, and in the morning, on corn. I gave
each horse half a bushel of pease in the
haums. My horses got lat on them, and they
did a great deal of work al! the time. This
piece may benefit the up-country planter, more
than the dowa-couatry planter, as they have
the advantage of marsh, that they can use by
the first of May. But if the up country plan
tor’s blades happen to give out by April, he
has nothing that he can feed on in place of
blades, but oats, and they do not come in un
til the middle of .lune. 1 have been pursuing
the same course with my horses this winter,
though I had plenty of blades, and 1 intend to
I continue to do it as long ns I am a planter,
j Hoping this may benefit some planters, lam
yours, respectful! v’,
COLLETON.
Preservation of Apples.— The following
practical observations, contained in a letter
from Noah Webster, Esq. have been publish
ed in the Massachusetts Agricultural Reposi
tory. It is the practice with some persons to
pick apples in October, and first spread them
on the floor of an upper room. This practice
is said to render apples more durable by dry
ing them. But. 1 can affirm this to be a mis
take Apples, after remaining on the trees as
long as safety from the frost will admit, should
bo taken directly from trees to close casks
and kept dry and cool as possible. If suffer
ed to lie on the floor for weeks, they whither
and lose their flavor, without acquiring any
additional durability. The best mode of pre
serving apples for spring use, I have found to
be, tho putting of them in dry sand as soon as
picked For this purpose, dry sand in the heat
ofsummcr, and late in October put down tho
apples in layers, with a covering of sand upon
each layer. The singular advantages of this
mode of treatment are these : Ist. The sand
keeps the apples from the air. which is essen.
tial to their preservation. 2d, The sand checks,
the evaporation of the apples, thus preserving
in them their fuh flavor—at the same time
any moisture yielded by the apples, (and some
there will be) is absorbed by tho sand ; so
that the apples are kept dry, and all mustiness
is prevented. My pippins in May and June,
areas fresh as when first picked ; even the
ends of the stem look as if just separated from
the twig.
Sowing wheat.— The following communica
tion, on the subject of sowing wheat, after the
manner it details, is from the pen of an enter
prising agriculturalist of our country, and
merits attention. If such abundant multipli
cation of tho stocks and grain follow from giv
ing more space in the planting, and the expe
riment detailed should be sustained by others,
made under tair opportunities for testing the
result, it must prove highly valuable tothe far
mers, both as to the saving of seed and the
great increase of its production :
To the. Editor of the Winchester Virginian.
Sir : Having read of a new mode of raising
wheat in England, by dropping and covering
two grans in small boles about one inch and a
half deep and four inches) apart —in this way
I planted one hundred grains last fall, & found
this harvest that every two grains had produ
ced from 20 to 50 stalks. I rubbed out one
hunch of thirty stalks, and found to my aston
ishment nine hundred grains of fine plump
wheat, of that species called mountain sprout.
In this way I do believe that one bushel may
be made to produce five hundred.
A Farmeb.
Green Corn.— Any deleterious effect from
eating a reasonable quantity ot this delicious
vegetable may be avoided by dissolving a
piece of pearl ash, about the size of a hick
ory nut in tho water in which it is boiled. By
using this precaution, all danger may be avoi
ded ; and it should be in varibly adopted here
in the city, where it is a rare thing to get hold
of any corn that has not been plucked from
the stalk so long as to become unwholesome.
Pearl ash will nullify tho deleterious effect
it acquires by stateness.
Miraculous Power of Lobelia. — The New
York Morning News gives the followtng as
the reported testimony of a witness in a trial
for manslaughter by the injudicious use of
lobelia. The witness was called for the de
fence. “ I know an important fact. A man
was blown up in a powder mill. Two and
twenty fragments were collected in a basket;
one teaspoonful of the seeds of lobelia was
shaken into the basket with them ; this united
the stray particles, and roused up a healthly
action in the basket; tho basket, in fifteen
minutes, vomited out the man in ono entire
mass, and he stood on his legs ; the third tea
spoonful restored him to consciousness, and a
cup of composition enabled him to talk He
has been well ever since."
“ Patrick, I want somebody to kill my hogs ;
do vou understand butchering ?” “ Faith,
and it’s me that can lend you a hand at that
same, but it’s boss you’ll want along wid me,
(orgcßmg the fur off is the only part of the
business I understand.”
GEORGIA, CLARK COUNTY.
Inferior Court of said County, sitting for or
dinary purposes.
ISjjlc AN.
mHE petition of Glenn Phelps sheweth that
Robert R. Billups, deceased, in his lifetime
to wit, on the sth day of December, 1835, made
and executed his bond to one Henry Kirkham,
to make titles to said Kirkham, for a certain
tract of Land, lying in the county of Jackson,
in said State, containing one hundred and se
venty-two Acres, more or less, joining land of
Boren, said Phelps and others, on the wafers of
Oconee River, and it appearing to the Court
that said Bon.l has been regularly transferred
to said Phelps, who is now the holder thereof;
and it also appearing to the Court that the con
ditions of said bond have been complied with,
it i-s therefore ordered by said Court, that Eliza
beth AV. Billups, executrix of said deceased, do
make aud execute lilies to said Phelps accord
ing to thetermsof said Bond (a copy of which
is of file in this office,) unless cause be shewn
to the contrary in terms cf the law, and it is
further ordered that this rule be published in
one of the public Gazettes of this State, accord
ing to law.
A true extract from the minutes of said Comt.
Given under tnv hand, this Kith August, 1838.
DAVID J. FENN, n. c. c. o.
August 25, 17 3m
LAW BLANKS
For Sale at this Office.
“ THS TKUH EICHES OF LIFE
vjT./'E know that health and ability to labor,
VV is the wealth of the great mass of the ;
people in this, as in tff&st othei countries. To |
preserve, therefore, that heal'li by natural means I
is a grand, moral ami political scheme, to fulfil ’
which, requires our utmost attention. ‘
The unprecedented success which has result
ed from the adoption of Peters’ Vegetable Pills, j
during a period of upwards of U years, the nu-1
mere u.s & extraordinary cures which they have
■ performed upon hundreds of individuals whom
they have r< scued from almost inevitable death,.
after they had been pronounced incurable by the
most eminentof the faculty—justifies, fully jus- 1
tines Dr. Peters, in warmly and conscientiously
recommending them to the special notice of the j
afflicted.
Peters’ Vegetable Pills arc the safest, most
effectual, and economical remedy for diseases
of the human cotist.ituf.ion, that has ever been
discovered. Dr. Peters, the inventor of this
valuable medicine, from his knowledge of the
human system, derived from a lopg and exten
sive practice, has arrived to this conclusion, that
the great and primary cause of most diseases is
a derangement in the functions of the Liver; or
in other words an increased or diminished se
cretion of the Bile.
So well is this understood, that it is common
for persons to say when they feel unwell, that
they are billions, meaning that they have too
much bile in the stomach. On tho other hand,
when the flow of bile is diminished, the process
ofdigestion is imperfectly performed, the patient
becomes weak and emaciated, because nourish
ment contained in the food taken into the sto
mach is not properly extracted, and the food is
ejected in a crude state. Dr. Peters is confident
that, the famous Hygean Theory, so called, that
“ impurity of the blood is the cause of all diseas
es,” is a great absurdity. Everyone who re
flects upon the subject a moment, will perceive
that impurity of the blood is a secondary, not a
primary complaint—the effect and not the cause
!of disease. When the functions of the liver are
deranged, and the flow of bile increased, it is
often taken up by the absorbent vessels and
carried into the circulation, and becomes min
gled with the blood as in jaundice, when the pa
tient shows it in his countenance. Now this
I impurity of the blood is caused by an increased
flow of bile, and to remedy it you must correct
the secretion of the liver, and restore it to a
healthy state.
Dr. Peters has spent much time in experi
menting with different vegetable medicines, for
diseases of the liver; and now offers his Vege-
I table Pills, as the best, most convenient, and
cheapest medicine that can bo prepared for gen
i eral use, and in offering them to the public, is
| actuated more by benevolent than pecuniary
• motives as the price of the medicine will show.
Dr. Peters flatters himself that his long ex
perimenting with vegetable medicines has ena
bled him to discover the true and only substi
tute answering all the purposes of mercurials
without any oftheir attendant evils. One great
quality of his vegetable pills is that they have
the alternative principle combined with their
cathartic, or operative qualities, so that they not
only cleanse the stomach and bowels by purging,
but they reguiate the liver, change the morbid
secretions, strengthen the digestive organs, pu
rify the blood, invigorate the circulation, and
give tone and energy to the nervous system.
They are mild and pleasant in their operation,
and convey almost immediate conviction of their
utility from the first dose. *Thcy can be taken
with safety by persons of any age; and the fee
ble, the infirm, the nervous, and delicate, are
strengthened by their operation, because they
clear the system of bad humors, quiet nervous
irritability, ami restlessness from whatever
source, and invariably produces sound sleep.
The Vegetable Pills are a sure remedy for
jaundice, sick and nervous headache, dyspepsia,
costiveness, sickness of the stomach, heartburn,
all billions complaints, fevers of all kinds, and if
taken at the commencement will invariably
check their progress, and save the patient from
a protracted and dangerous sickness. They
are invaluable in nervous and hypocondrica
affections, loss of appetite, and all complaints to
which females alone are subject. They oper
ate as a mild and speedy purge and are a safe
and certain remedy for worms in children.
Since I have introduced my Vegetable Pills to
the public, I have received numerous certifi
cates oftheir superior efficacy in curing diseas
es, also, many letters from respectable physi
cians, who have used them in their practice with
the best success.
I might, publish a small volume of certificates,
but consider it. unnecessary, as the medicine
will recommend itself to all who will make trial
of it.
Prepared by Jos. Prcstley Peters, M. D. No.
129 Liberty street, New York. Each box con
tains 40 pi'fls, I iice 50 cents.
07?” Be careful and enquire for Peters’ Vege
table Pills, they arc sold in Athens,by
REESE c?-LORD&
W. B. WELLS.
July 28,
GEORGIA, MADISON COUNTY.
Inferior Court, sitting for Ordinary purposes,
June adjourned Term, 1838.
Kule Xisi.
VTTHERE AS, Reuben Simmons, administra
® * tor of Joseph Albright, deceased, has
petitioned the Court for Letters of dismission;
whereupon it is ordered that a copy of this rule
be published once for six months, in
one of the public Gazettes of this State, that all
parties concerned, may have due notice, and file
their objections, (if any they have) why said
Letters of dismission should not he granted.
A true copy from the minutes of said Court,
this 7th June, 1838.
WILLIAM SANDERS, c. c. o.
June 23—8—6 m
Executor’s Sale.
IN obediance to the last will and Testament,
i Thomas Branch, Deceased, will be sold
on the first Tuesday in October next, to the
highest, bidder between the usual hours of sale,
at Duncan Court House, Nine Hundred Acres
of Land, more or less situated lying and being
in Said County, of Duncan, on Gray Creek,
being apart of the real Estate, of said Dec’ll.,
terms made known on the Day of Sale.
WILLIAM. S. BRANCH.
Qualified Executor.
March 17—46—tds.
(ty- The Georgia Journal, will please give
the above two insertions, and forward their ac
count to this office, for payment.
GEORGIA, CLARK COUNTY.
WHERE AS, Henry P. Thomas,& James L.
Thomas, Administrators of the Estate of
Levin W. Thomas,deceased, applies for Letters
of dismission.
This is therefore to cite and admonish all, and
singular the kindred and creditors of said de
ceased, to be and appear at my office, within the
time prescribed by law, to shew cause (if any
they have) why said letters should not be
granted.
Given under my hand, this 7th dav of
.May, 1838. J
DAVID J. FENN, d. c. c. o.
May 12,—2—6m
Administrator’s Sale.
A. (<l\l’,l', kBLL to an order ofthe Honorable
the Inferior Court of Madison county,
when sitting for ordinary purposes, will be sold
on the first 'lticsday in December next, at the
Court Houscin Union county, Lot No. 178, in
the 17th District and Ist Section, originally
C lierokcp, now Union county.
Also on the same day at Vanwert, Paulding
county, Lot No. 258, 3rd District and 3rd Sec
tion, of originally Cherokee, now Paulding.—
Sold as the property of Agness Lawless, late
ot Madison county, deceased. Terms made
known on the day of sale.
JOHN B. ADAIR, Adm’r.
Sept. 32,—21—tds
MR. & MRS. EGERTON’S i
MR. and Mrs. EGERTON beg leave grate
fully to acknowledge the liberal patronage
and encouragement which they have received
from their friends and the public during the
past year—They pledge themselves that their
exertions shall not be wanting to render their
institution still more worthy of public coi 11-
dence.
The course of instruction in the ensuing term
will be extended, and the best talents the coun
try affords will be employed in the departments
of the school.
There will be. but one term in the year extend
ing from the Ist of October to the Ist of July.
None will be admitted for less than one term.
The Primary Dapartmcnt will consist of small
children, and their studies will be strictly ele
mentary. Tuition for the term SSO.
The Senior Department will embrace all except
the children, comprise' a liberal and complete
course of study ; consitmg of
1 Os the common English branches,
2 Os the higher Eng. Branches and Belles
Letters,
3. Os Mathematics,
4 OfNatural Sciences,
5 Os Ancient Classics,
G Os Vocal A/usic Tuition SBO
Music on the Piano Forte, (extra) $75.
French, 40
Drawing. 40
Use of practising Piano, 8
One half payment required in advance.
It is particularly desired, in order to prevent
breaking up the classes, that those who are to
become pupils ol the school, may be sent at the
beginning of the term, and continued, if practica
ble, to the end. No deduction will be made for
absence either al the beginning or end of the term.
The rooms are fitted up in a st yle of.comfort
ami elegance, and with the additions to be made
will be adapted to seat commodiously eighty
pupils, to which number the school (exclusive
of the Primary Department) will be strictly lim
ited.
July—l4—ll.—to.
03=The Southern Recorder, Columbus En
quirer, and Athens Whig, will publish the above
weekly till the first of October, and. charge this
office.— Chronicle <)'• Sentinel.
DYSPEPTICS !
RESTORE YOUR HEATTH.
HE subscriber, ever thankful for the very
-EL liberal patronage afforded him, would say
i to the public that he has, during the past and
present year, completed a large addition to
his former Tavern, which adds very much to
the coinfort and convenience of his house :
and takes this method'of saying to the commu
nity generally, that from actual experiments
made, he flatters himself that his Well of wa
ter will prove the most valuable water in the
Southern country, being different in its quali
ties from all others within his knowledge. He
has had it analyzed by Professor (Jotting, who
pronounces it strongly impregnated with Lime
& Sulphate of Magnesia, with a less quantity
of Sulphur and a small trace of Iron. The hap
py combination of which is thought by some
medical men and those who have experienced
the effects, to be better adapted to Dyspeptics,
, Liver Diseases.and Consumptive persons, than
any water known, —possessing the happy
'qualities of cooling and reducing internal in
flammation of various grades. More
over, he would say that a t valuable Tonis
Spring has been discovered and fitted up in
Carnesville, so that persons wishing the stimu
lating or tonic waters may be supplied also.
The number of Hotels in Carnesville and
the cheapness of board, can be no objection to
the visiter, provided he finds a table spread
with such as suits his appetite; and should
we fail to please the taste, we will endeavor to
give you health and a good appetite,
A. E. WHITTEN.
Carnesville, Geo. August 4.—14—2 m.
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Address— EDMUND RUFFIN,
Editor if Farmers' Register, Petersburg, Fa.
June 9, 1838.
Sale.
A GREEABLEto an order of the Honorable
-■*-AA Inferior Court of Buko county, whilst
sittingas n court of ordinary, will lie sold on
the first Tuesday in October next, at the Court
House in Fayetteville, Fayette comity. Lot No.
5, in the sih district formerly Henry, now Fay
ette county, containig 202 1-2 Acres more or
less, being the property of the estate of Elijah
Walker, late of Burke county dec’d. Sold for
benefit of the heirs and creditors of said es
tiite.
A LEX AND E R CARS WE LL.,
July—2B,—l3—tds Adm’r. of E. Walker.
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rail- iwTil)
ATHENS, GEO.
FTUIE undersigned has taken charge of the
-**- large and convenient House formerly oc
cupied by Mr. John Jackson, and known as tire
Franklin Hotel. The House is now undergoing!
a thorough repair, and will be furnished with
new furniture, making it in every respect com
fortable for Families and Transient Customers.
The management & convenience of his Lot and
.Stables, which have also been repaired, cannot
fail to please ■, the Lot having a constant stream
of water running through it, and the stables be
ing extensive and well supplied..
If a strict and unremitted attention to the com
fort of his guests, can impose a claim upon the
patronage ofthc public, he is confident of re
ceiving that support which it will be his aesick
nous endeavor to merit and obtain. It is in.
line, his design to make this establishment what
it should be, both from its name and the increas
ing necessities of the place for more enlarged
and improved accommodations. For the con
venience of travellers who may visit the place
by stages, there will be after the first of Jnnc,
a splendid Barouche running between Athens
and the Helicon and Madison Springs, which
will leave the Rail Road Hotel every morning,
ami return the same evening. The price of
board will be the same as at the other hotels.
D. J. L YLE.
March 31--3—ts.
Ots“The Constitutionalist and Chronicle &
Sentinel at Augusta, the Recorder at Milledge
ville, and the Savannah Georgian, will please
give the above three insertions ajnd come and
’juoqd out their bills.
Executor’s Sale.
YM/’ILL be sold on the first Tuesday in De
* * ceinbcr next, in the Town of Gainesville,
Hall county, between the lawful hours of sale,
Lot No. 101, in the 12th District ofsqid County;
sold agreeable to the will of Wm. Roberts.—
Terms made known on the dav.
PETEK G. MORROW, Ex’r,
Sept. 13,—20—tds