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h ils mercy grunt, that tho power of
tli.is great and rising country may
n vor fall into hands that would
abate a single jot of its rights or
>t|st interests, in favour of a nation
which, if fairly or in any way repre
sented by the daring and insulting
assumption of its minister for foreign
aflairs, is, at this very moment, uni
ting to the position of a rival, the
spirit of an enemy! In the full con
viction that we have no share what
ever in the dishonour of this transac
tion, If. el that we shall ultimately
get out of if without any injury even
of a less affecting nature.
THE CALM OBSERVER.
[From the Greene ch. Republican ]
The defeat* of the Naval School
bill in the United Slates Senate by
the single vote of Martin Van Buren,
after having voted in its favor, and
his conduct in nlation to the Geor
gia affair, as developed in the recent
publication of a correspondence be
tween Governor Troup and Mr. Ber
rien, a Senator from the state of
Georgia, will, if we mistake not, be
reprobated bv the people of thi.-
State. It is universally conceded
that Georgia is the aggressor in Ihi*
controversy, and that the course pur
sued by her exe:utive in surveying
the Indian lands, is an invasion ol
the sovereignty oftbe Unitad States,
in as much as it is a violation of a
sacred treaty made with the Creek
Indians called the treaty of Wash
ington.—Without any partiality for
John Q. Adams, it appears to us that
while he constitutionally holds his
present place in the government, he
must and will be sustained in the ex
ercise oi his co.istuutioual functions,
and the delegated authority ol the
Federal Government will be support
ed by the peopl , the true source
of all legitimate authority ordained
for the government of civil society,
so happily roc gnieed iii our social
Compact. They will not stand pas
sive Spectators in witnessing the de
molition of their governme't, nor
wet i.» y be peuurius of a little
blood in the maintenance of a fabric
that has been reared at the expense
of so much. From the views we
have entertain*-. <1 ol Mr. Van Buren’.-
capacity and fitn.'-’s# lor the place lie
now fills, and the rank he holds a
inong the statesmen oi our country,
we had indulged hopes ol better
things for the honour oi our state,
than an abandonment of !« ’ r inter
ests, in seeking to promote th. and <d a
Georgia rebellion. We subjoin Hi
concluding paragraph o'. Governor
Troop’s letter to Mr. Berrien :
‘ Do me t tie lav or to pr sent my
best thanks to Gen. Harrison, Cos!.
Havre-, And Mr. Van Buren, and
Judge White, FOR THEIR ABLE AND
liberal Co-Operation with you.
in the cause of the weak against the
strong; and, as I trust, of the just
against the unjuq^”
From the Hanjax Acadian.
.Gov. ’MHtup and the Georgians
give fair [TOmise ofan internal -drug
gie, in tjie maintenance of principle
which, it estahli-imd, will -trip the
general government ol all real au
thority, and leave- it but a shadow
ot power; it may then, in the inn
gunge of Burke, possess all ihe kno
dosities of the oak,” hut without any
of its strength. The citizens of one
Slate have never yet been brought
into direct hostility with those ot
another ; anil should the experiment
b< tried, we have no doubt that it
would furnish sufficient proof of the
little power the general governm nt
possesses to control the individual
parlies of which it is composed
We do not dwell on these internal
difficulties of the United States with
exultation although the example
ol t e American Pres, in reiterating
the occasional disturbances in Ire
land,! e distresses in England, and
the differences in Canada, might
amply excuse us if we did As the
happiness of so many millions of our
fellow-beings is in the peace and
tranquility of this Republic, as citi
zr nos the world we would pray
that the torch of discord might nev
er be kindled within its bosom ; hut
we e nnot shut our eyes upon facts,
we cannot but iook forward to the
period when the coming < vents, the
shadows of which are every day be
coming darker and more indistinct,
Will divide the power of the Union
A writer in a IV w Y >rk paper oh
serves, that, ‘ It is the interests ot
Great Rrita in that we should be a
divided people; and that the Fed
eral governm. nt should not have
the power to protect our national
interests. In conformity with this
view, we find Gov Troup declaring
war against the General Govern
mi nt and calling upon the "Hancock
troop of horse,” and the Cth and 7th
d,visions of Militia, to resist the U.
States officers. Ido not apprehend
any serious result from “ tins whirl
pool in a mustard pot;” hut the sanc
tion which his measures have receiv
ed from the opposition senators, for
which Mr. Van Huron, in particular,
has received his hearty thanks; and
the determination to w hich the Vir
ginian legislature has Come, not
“ To support the government ol
the Lnited States, in all measure
warranted by the Constitution oft he
tinted Slates,” lest the state gov
eminent rfGeorgia should think Us
course < oiidetnned by -urh * reM ,
ee/iug of the country against an op
tution ; ought to rouse the public
position alike selfish, unprincipled,
and treacherous to the best interest
of the country. B.
Fr-im Ihe Philadelphia Dem. Press.
Extract of a letter dated “ Charleston
(S. C.) .March 23.
I have, by one of those chance
which sometimes befall lucky trav
ellers, obtained a copy of a handbill
vvh ch is privately, but as I am assur
ed, extensively circulating through
out the southern states. I impute
it wholly to the modest;’ of the Pa
tentee that it has not been publicly
announced. The effects already
producer! are so satisfactory ; and
the character of the Certifiers so well
known that the value of the discov
ery cannot but be duly appretiated
by all to whom its properties and
wonder-working qualities shall lie,
made known. This Panacea ha-1
been for some time in use, to the
South, and lias performed some as
tonishing cures. It is, lam inform
ed by the friends of the Patentee,,
about to be introduced into the Mid
dle States. It is with that view tbe
Certificate of a Member of Congr< ss
is published It is not contemplated
to attempt the introduction of this
Panacea into the N England States;
the prejudice again-t the Patentee,
and other prejudices would, it i
feared prevent its success in (hose
States. 1 send you a copy and hope
you will give it publicity.”
NEW PATENT POLITICAL PA
NACEA
Martin Van Buren, Cabinet-ma
ker and Joiner, No. I. Alba.iy-stret t,
New York, informs his friends and
the public that he has w ith great la
bour and sagacity succeeded in the
composition of anew Panacea which
'reduces the most important, valua
ble, & truly unheard of effects upon
the human system. It is well known
that some of the most difficult disor
ders to he treated in the system oi
political men are those which aris*
from their opinions being supposed
to be committed on certain points,
s that when it is become conven
ient to adopt other views, the old
doctrines are found to be in the way,
the digestion, becomes impaired, and
the general health and character ot
the patient are gricviously affected.
The most obvious symptoms ot
the disorder are a diffi< ulty of swal
lowing the new doctrines, and a gen -
eral tremor and flushing of the face,
when the patient first publicly an
nounces his conversion, together
with many other distressing symp
oms and circum-taiices.
To remove these complaints has
long'employed the efforts ofdistin
giAsh and politic il physicians, hut it it li
erto thfjr labours have proved gen
erally unsuccessful.
Mr. V. B. Congratulates himself,
aid the Ame/i. r -*u public in general,
upon the complete efficacy ol his
Panacea, which h.' s succeeded to tli
otter astonishment of all who have
witnessed its magic operations
Some of the most inveterate cases
(apparently) have been so success
fully treated that the nearest friends
of the patients have declared then
inability to recognize them agai"
The proprietor thinks it needless to
xpatiate upon the virtues of the
Panacea, but refers with entire con
fidence, to the following certificates,
to which he can add his own testi
mony, having firs had occasion to
tiy the medicine upon him-elf.
Terms.
The new Patent Panacea is sold
in botties, each containing printed
directions for its use , signed by the
proprietor—and may be had of the
following persons:
Boston, The Statesman Office.
New York, The Enquirer do.
Philadelphia, The Palladium do.
Washington City, The Telegraph do.
Richmond, Tim Enquir r do.
Charleston, The Mercury do.”
Several other agents, it is said, in
our own State, are very anxious to
get a few bottles for private use wit
authority to vend the same. The
following we believe have been al
ready established; in
Savannah, Two
Augu-ta, Two
Milledgeville Two;
—each to have a Sub-agent in Da
rien, Athens, Macon Lc.
The Patentee, having arranged hi
husiness in Augusta passed up, we
learn, on Sunday last, to exchangi
recognizances with the Consul at
Lexington, by whom he will doubt
less be accompanied to this place, t(
attend the ministry of a special dis
pensation to the Governor of Geor
gia. It may be proper, for the ben
efit of those who use ‘ Van Buren’.-
Panacea,” to remind them that he
manufactures different kinds, suited
f r climate L circumstances—to pre
vent the danger ofmistako.tho.se onl\
are genuine, which are countersign
ed G. M. T. We also advise any of
our particular friends of sickly habits,
who may feel disposed to try a few
drops of this nostrum, that it mat
he ha i of either ol the agents above
mentioned/ree/y,— the poor will be
served gratis.
CtRTiriCATFS.
“The following are selected from a
iiiinber of certificates lu thc.posses
stun of the proprietor.
GEORGIA STATESMAN, MONDAY APRIL 23, 182 J.
Samuel D. IxcHni.of Bucks coun
ty, Pennsylvania, rtent, late appren
tice to the Turning business, certi
fies, that he was il 1823 aid 1824
• me of the stoutestldvocates for the
Tnritf, and like his preceptor, con
tended earnestly for a liberal expo
sition of the constitution of the Uni
ted States, but having lately receiv
ed orders froi* Tennessee and South
Carolina for the manufacture of a
new set of opinions, he found himself
exceedingly embarrassed and agita
ted ir his nerves by this operation,
and felt at one time, serious
doubts about his political diges
tion nrdil he was recommended
totry 1 * Van Bure ’s Panacea ;” a sie
ge spoonful of w hich had the desir
td elect, and lie now finds himself
itroug enough to stand on his legs
for an hour at a time, and declaim
against his former opinions. The
only inconvenience he at present
fears, is that in consequence of the
fundamental change in his opinions,
he will not be able to keep his seat,
which, in the business he follows,
would he ntire ruin
Wm. B. Giles of Virginia, (farm
er,) deposes, that in tile year 1824,
he was violently opposed to the elec
tion of General Jackson, because, I
He repeatedly viola:ed the constitu*
tion of the U. Statei, by suspending
the writ of Habeas Corpus, impris
oning a Judge, invading a friendly
country, &.c. 11. Because he caused
six Militia men to be executed by
the regular troops, after their term
of service had expired. 11l Be
cause he recommended the destruc
• ion of the Democratic party. IV
Because, when in the Senate of the
Unit and States, he advocat and doc
trines decidedly opposed to the Vir
ginia system ; and for divers others
good reasons, as they appeared to
the deponent, at the time. That
since the election of the present in
cumbent the deponent lias felt anx
ious for particular private reasons,
to relieve himself of these opinions,
and was fora long time unable to do
so by any course of medicines, al
though he employed the ablest po
litical physicians ; at leangth having
heard ot " Van Huron's Panacea,"
he procured a few bottles of it,
which almost immediately brought
away the offensive doctrines and re
stored tbedeponent to perfect health,
and he can now declare that he is
opposed to the re-election of John
Quincy Adams. I. Because he is
a native of N w England. 11. Be
cause he does not hold slaves. 11l
Because he is friendly to Domestic
Manufactures IV. Because he re
commoded Internal Improvements.”
From the increasing popularity of
this mixture in this State, the public
may soon exp-ct many other Certif
icates of like import.
An abridgement of a classical Tour
to Troup and Muscogee Counties:
Continued.
ARGUMENT
The vanity of Men mtnifestud in the hight ol
Fences and the lefgth of Lanes—the un>-
versal lave of distilction—general state of
civilization—the Me of Man—in what ii
consists —aspect <f Forsyth—Onus—the
Flysian Fields—acidents, which befel th
author at Forsyth-t-tlie mind of the negro
.corporeal and in the skin—an ora
tion addressed tot him—its eloquence and
proliindity—Mirutological aspect of the
country'-
Leaving Clinttm for the next town,
we passed through a country gener
•lly beautiful, hut not quite in -i
high a state of cultivation, as th.
ue, through which we travel! •
nriilie. We remarked to d.ny as w»-
rode along, several boldspecitTi ns id
that vasity and of that love ot'fam
which are universal in the human
heart, in the great and unnecessary
length of lanes, and in the tit u-u
and superfluous height of fences <>i
tive/itv sturdy rails high. They
seehieil to speak to the traveller
from the lips of tumid pompositv t
noli I }’ him, *M . lives her ,an
Mr.—lives there.—lt is nece-sirv
you should know these facts; vve are
here for that purpose: expect the
tribute of admiration: our Masters
enjoy a reputation through us, and
fling their neighbor* in the shade.”
One piles up the rails on his fence,
iini.ther extends his lane, claims dis
tinction of his fellow men, and Iron
posterity, after death, everlasting
time.
On what narrow basis does vanity
etect her throne, and look proudly
down upon the contemptible medi
ocrity, from which she imagines she
has extricated herself. All hate the
vaigus ignobile as deadly poison, and
rest day nor night until they
have rid themselves of its dominion
by dressing in rags, or putting on a
fine flashy suit, by entertaining
dogmatically some frivolous opinion
peculiar to themselves, or doing
some trifle in a way no one ever
dreamed of. One lives in a tub, an
other in a splendid mansion, and arc
equally secured from Mediocrity.—
The Griei k Philosapers went in
shreds to display and set off the
riches of their minds—they begged
their bread to feed the world with
their intellect.
The inhabitants of this country
enjov that state of seme civilization,
which philosphers generally have
conceived to be most conducive to
human happiness. They neither
nfler Irotn the pains of high and
• Kili-hed life, nor from the hardship
and cruelties of the ssruge state. 1
In the individual, who put us
across the river, we witnessed a
rare example of the Temperamen
turn Segnitia. Although in a sound
-tate ot health, all his motiorts were
slow and feeble like those ofa man,
who had just recovered from a long
and sev re spell of sickness. The
least exertion seemed extremely
irksome, and the state of rest th
only one congenial to his nature. —
His speech corresponded with the
motions of his body, dropping from
his lips per saltern
I had before seen this inaptitude
to motion, not only in men, but in
animals, which seems to depend up
on a deficiency of contractiltiy, and
the other moving powers of the or
ganic system. Upon what a w ide scale
ot difference has nature fixed the
constitutions of men in the modifica
tion of these powers, and thus deter
mined, even betore their birth, the
parts which they are to acton the
theatre of society and of the world.
In vain may men attempt to rise
above the level of these original ca
pabilities, stamped upon, and inter
woveu in the stamina of their consti
tutions. It was this modification ot
the energies ot mun’u pliy-iologic.it
frame, which the ancients called
Fate, and which they poetically re
presented in the occupation of the
hree sisters the Parcae, one of
winch turned the wheel, another
drew out the thread of human lit.-,
and the third clipped it with her
-cissors. It is this modification too
which gives a man a taste for Heav
en ami impels him thither, or shoois
him more or less furiously to tn
realms below. It is just that tapering
point, on which is suspends I (lie
doctrine of election so much and so
•utterly contested by Christians, like
the Magnetic needle in the great
equator of the world. Will tho rea
der pardon me,
We suffered this day extremely
from heat and in the afternoon arriv
ed at
FORSYTH.
This is a pleasent looking littl
town, the site of which is comforta
ble and convenient, is surrounded by
a country more or less sterile, con
tains about twenty Store houses, an
some neat private dwellings. The
Court House is built with considera
ble taste and elegance, and dispro
portionate, in these respects, with
the ballance of the village, all ot
which is new. Considering the seat
of this place, which, but the other
day was the wilderness of the savage,
the arts and comforts of social and
civilized lie, are considerably ad
vanced, though civilization itself, it
must he conceded, extending the
comparison even r.o further than
Clinton, is on the decline—tapering
gradually off until it is lost in the
gloom and solitude of the desert.
Lodged under the roof of a vener
able and respectable old man, I en
joyed the hospitality and conversa
tion of his family until a late hour of
the nigl t, when I retired, and fell in
to a nx st refreshing and profound
sleep- tlicit sleep which an ancien l
P iet has so well described.— 'Nunc
Placida compos"tuspace.’—Sopor qui>-
us membra sujfusus est.’ At tin
• awn of morn a sound came rti-hmg
nto my chamber, which discomposed
hut did not entirely break this slum*
her; and the image of things deform
and and ghastly wreaked their v< n
seance and corroded my imaginatii n
vith pain. The sound increas d—
t was the sound ot human ululation
oortentiovs of extreme suffering, and
it length it awoke me. 1 sprung up
on my feet and looked around me
and out at the window. The gray
ootid , as the Poets and Novclests
ire wont to express it, were drifting
lowly along before the first beams
f morn, Aurora was lashing her
'anting steeds up the steep East
which whitened as she advanced,
’he so 1 were crowing intensely
tiiroughotit the whole village, and
at h neighboring farm-houses, the
-tars still shone, but with fainter
oriliaocy, and the mixture of light,
>f darkn ss and of noise altogether
contused the incipient ideas of
my first waking. I continued at the
window straining my eyes through
lbp gloom; the image of things im
perfectly seen, resembling shadows,
com, uted and doubtful occupied and
seemed to extend beyond the utmost
hound of my vission; all above arid
below w ere girdled by darkness, the
Last only was less opake, and looked
Ke the frontier of day. Still stupi
fi and With si ep 1 was doubtful of
what I saw, and of where I was;—
whether this darkness was the arch
of night still resting on the earth, and
that brightness the light of advanc
ng day, or whether this gloom was
t lie everlasting shades of death, and
the brightness, the prospect of the
Elystan Fields This doubt and this
unci ainty galvanised my whole
thinking frame, all my thought? were
phosphorescent, and 1 trembled, in
corporeally. If these are the realms
below, I reflected that I must be
dead, and that I expired last night
in my si ep, for cone but ghost are
permited to visit the shades of their
dreary lands.
I made every effort to free myself
from this terrifying uncertainty, and
to asscertain my true state and po
sition in the worlds of existence.—
I felt of my limbs, and they seemed
| corporeal, I exerted the power of
edition, ami they obeyed its impulsi
i compared all my feelings with those
of life, and they perfectly correspond
ed. But yet my doubt was not at
all removed, for the changes the
soul may undergo by death may al
ter the mantier and nature of its per
ceptions, and the airy limbs of a
shadow may feel as firm and corpo
real to it, as the limbs of a living
man’s body, may feel to his mind.—
Nay, it is not impossible hut the bo
dy ofa ghost may feel infinitely more
firm and corporeal to the mind, which
iuhabits it than a living man’s body,
may, to his mind. It is further rea
sonable whether among the living or
the dead that the soul and body
must be in harmony, and correspond
with each other, and the feeling of
corporeal and incorporeal depends
i»nly on circuit stances, being mainly
the mere mode of preccption.
I again gazed on the prospect be
fore me, and distinctly heard the
sound, the plaintive ululation of hu
man pain, and the corresponding
strokes of the thong, which preceed
ed each doleful scream, anti which I
before had not heard. This last cir
cumstance dissolved all doubt, and
determined my true situation of ex
istence. This sound is the cry of
ihe dead lash and by the Euminides,
the Furies, who, day and night per
petually whip them through sleep
less years with serpents. These
shades I silently and horrificably ex
cl aimed are the abode of the dead,
the gloomy empire of Pluto and his
brother, not the pleasant village situ
ate beneath the orb of tho sun and
tilled with life, in which I lay last
night; IL yon bright space obleekciy
above walled in by those beautiful
marble looking clouds, is the E
lyssiari Fields, the delightful aiu
happy residence and empire of Riia
damanthus. The broken pieces ol
these clouds swiming separately and
suspended on a tranquil sea of dis
tant orbicular light, seemed so many
fit and splendid mansions for th res
idence of the Divinities, who preside
over these happy realms.
Are then the Christians in the dark
respecting the civil and physical ge
ography ot this land beyon the grave;
and did nature, in her young and
frolicsome days, reveal the secret o
it to her first children, who was
nourished at her firm and full bosom
and loved their mother more than
we, which we look upon and treat
as a fable, fabricated in the infancy
of th* human race, covered with the
rust and rubbish of time?
The same horosonnnt cry of hu
man wretchedness and pain still con
tinued, and the reverberations of th
lashing thong rose clear and shrill,
spreading far around through (he
liquid darkness of this humid and
dreary region. This is indeed I ex
claimed, the fabled region of the dead
realized—the land known to Am
phy-ia, where the sceptre of Plato
rests on a throne of eb-*nv.—"Urn
brarum Inc locus est, Somni. Noctisque
sopora: corpora viva nejas Stygta
vet tare carina. Hie ‘continuo audi
tee voces, vagitus ingens eiffantumque
aniinee flentes in himine primo: quo
du ces vita exotics, et ab übere rap
tos abstulit atra dies, et funere mersi
■icerbo.’—Hie Tartarean Phlegelhon.
t trquetquc sonantiu saxa-—Tsiphone
que sedens pullu succmcta crucntn
vestibulum insomnis servat noctcsque
idiesque Hint exavdiri gemitus, et
seva smiare verbera: tunc stridor fer
ri tractarqcc catena.'’
At length my landlord, unknown
to ine was already up, and entering
my room on a sudden, and seeing me
standing by the window, enquire!
'what was the matter.’ The sud
den bursting open of the door had
already perfectly aroused me fron
the stupefaction of what I had heaid
and seen, and from the state of im
perfect wakefulness; and I replieo
I had been listening to that strange
and melancholy noise.’ On my doo
being opened, I had no difficulty in
ascertaining the true nature and
cause of what had so much disturbed
my repose, presenting iny imagina
tion with so many terrific and mel
ancholly pictures, and inspired my
understanding, struggling forth* free
use of ifs powers, with the belief of
their tangible externality. It was
nothing more nor less than a long
and severe lecture, on the first rudi
ments of duty, addressed by one ol
the villagers to the sensibility, rather
than the understanding of the negro,
which, and Bering from all other animal
in this respect, is corporeal, & seated
the skin. This poor fellow was in
so animited by the profound and
sublime truths on the science of duty
unfoulded to his ravished under
standing. by his very able and elo
quent lecturer, that, for the space of
something like half an hour, he con
tinued to shake the humid vault,
from which night was retiring with
the continued and repeated explo
sions of his Voice. So well as I
could judge by the articulation of
the speaker, which was clear and
distinct, this lecture was delivered
in a s'vle at once sober and dignified.
Disdaining equally alike the subtle
hypothesis, the fine spun theory, and
the gaudy parade of metaphysical
refinement of other philosophers,
who deal in abstractions and ideali
ties he bore down and
with great pathos upon the tangible
truth- of practical life, making im
pressions and raising emotions in hi
susceptable and docile pupil, for
which human language could find no
utterance, ami which would be alt> -
gether marvellous to on« uuaccus*
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tomed to the operations of this spe
cies ofliteiature, which is so prompt,
iy absorbed by the skin.
My landlord expressed his disap
probation at the great length and
heated vehemence ofthis lesson, and
at the zeal and enthusiasm of the
philosopher, which prompted him
in unfolding and propagatin'*' the
exioms and great truths of his practi
calsystem, to commence hiscourseof
’instructions at so early an hour inter
rupting the public tranquility, and
banishing sleep before he had fully
executed his office.
He came to notify me it was the
hour of his morning devotion, and
cordially invited me to join his fami
ly in it, which I did. Breakfast was
soon on the table, and after itwas
served, I sat off to join my fellow
travellers, from whom I had parted
the day before, loaded with provi
sions; ham, biscuit, and some sturdy
pones of Indian bread, and bid adieu
to Forsyth.
The road this day lay through a
hilly country and generally harm
We occasionally passed large blocks
ol granite which irom appearance
abounded much beneath the surface
Sandstone,Slate. Mica, and silecioii3
quartz constituted the leading Min
urological features of the country.
We passed a hill to day covered over
with these quartzs, which had all the
appearance of having been carried
and deposited there; the hill, we
were informed, was of many miles in
extent. I had before seen one or two
ridges of rock similar, but could loiin
no satisfactory theory of their won
derful accumulation, whether by nat
ural formation or mechanical con
vevance. To be continued.
statesman
MONDAY APRIL 23^827.
OakmulgteNavigation Company.— lt is sta
ted in the Macon Messenger of tin* 17th in-;,
that the citizens of that town will assemble
in a few days to appoint a Committee for the
purposeof instituting a Company under Ihe
name and style above mentioned, and that
application will be made to the next Legisla
ture for corporate powers tec.—We wish them
success.
A nameless Editor in this Suite, observes,
“For reisons wc have before stated, and
which appear to us to lie sound, we think
here will be no opponent to Mr. Forsyth.’*
Now the soundest and best reasons in th e
world induce us to believe that Mr. Forsyth
will have an opponent, and precisely such au
one as Mr. F. will dislike to encounter.
IC’p’We learn that the Post-Office at Fort
Gaines, in Early comity, is again in oppeia
tion. Tiiis circumstance wili very much fa
cilitate intercourse with the New county of
Lee—a body of Territory nearly as large as
lie State of Connecticut.
The Classical Tour. —Wc crave pardon of
the author of '* An abridgement of a Classical
Tour to Troup and Muscogee counties,” for
not having earlier paid him our editorial re
jects. Wc beg the reader who sits down to
ibis day’s continuation ot ihe subject, will re
fcr himself to our author’s first essay iu our
’ist paper, where lie will find the utile ct Juice
blended very much (to his own gratification,
no less than to the credit of the writers genius.
He will occasionally meet with strokes of sa
tire, wit and elegance that far surpass the
oemmon-plaee fugitive pieces of the day. If
there is less of the unity of design in these
columns than the jus et norma scribcr.di op
the Epics require, there are sentences never*
heless—original images, and forms of phrase
ology which for their richness and splendor
ire rarely, if ever, excelled, by any writer of
our language.
We select an example from Issadore.by the
same pen.
—“Where had nature reposed her guardian
powers ? In what dense cloud lay her unkind
led th' nders—the lightning’s red shaft —her
combustible sulphurs!”
We intend no disrespect to the tomb of
Goldsmith in applying to our author the lan
guage of the Poet’s biographer;—
** Qui nullum sere scribendi genus
Non tetigit,
Nullum quod tetigit non nmavit .-”
We return to the “ Tour,” not to criticise,
Out to drop a few desultory thoughts, as the
writer does his earminacybela.
“ Few men,” says Sterne, “ know how to
take a walk.” Bred in the “gardens of phil
osophy,”or in “academic bowers,”the Classics
alone, nor yet the religion of Egyptian My
thology is ali that is necessary to constitute a
tourist; it is the Georgies of the heart which
impart inspiration to natural objects and cna
bl him to contemplate them as the constitu
ents of ineffable wisdom and fitness. Thu*
capacitated, our friend seems |to have found
on his way to Troup county, “ Tongue*
in trees ; Books in the running brooks ; Ser
mons in stones ; and good in every tiling.”
There is an interest and originality in this
few day’s journal which will afford a local,
and perhaps a general amusement. We have
not time now to thread up all the incidents.
Arrived at Forsyth, our weary iraveller sleeps
quietly all night, until “ Aurora began to lash
her panting steeds up the steep East,” when,
startled from his dreams by some iiucarthly cry,
lie is liwcrrl -in Whether the “ evcrhrtiag
■hades, or the parietal atmosphere of Elysi
um are hung about him. lie straitway be
thinks hilurcif of the descent of Ulysses and
.Eneas, and while he compares the objects
■ml noises around him with those whtdf tjwy
describe, he hears the prolonged, WSMf
thriek of the dead, lashed by the EuWnMH
It* Furies, who day and night, perpetually
hip them through sleepless years with »er
-1 putts t ln # ihat nether world,we doubt wbelh