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'n its mercy grant, that the power o!
this great and rising country ma\
never fall into hands that woul<-
abate a single jot oi its rights or
just interests, in favour of a nation
which, if fairly or in any way repre
sented by the daring and insulting
assumption oi its minister lor foreign
affairs, is, at this very moment, un.-
tingto 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 ofthis transac
tion, J feel that we shall ultimate!}
get out of it without any injury even
©fa less affecting nature.
THE CALM OBSERVER.
[From the Greene co. Republican ]
The defeat of the Naval School
bill in the United Slates Senate, by
the single vote oi Martin Van Buren,
after having voted in its favor, am',
his conduct in rdatiou to the Geor
gia affair, as developed in the recon'
publication of a correspond- nee be
tween Governor Troup and Mr. Ber
rien, a Senator from the state of
Georgia, vr di, it we mistake not, be
reprobated by the people of thi->
State. It is universally conceded
that Georgia is (he aggressor in this
contr- v riy,and that the course pur
sued by her executive m surveying
tin' Indian lands, is an invasion ol
the sovereignty ofthe United Stales
in as much as it is a violation of a
sacred treaty made with the Creek
Indans called the treaty of Wash
j,, (~n. —Without any partiality foi
Joi.’, Q. Adams, it appears to us that
while ne constitutionally holds his
present place in the gt vernment, h<
liiiist and will be sustained in the ex
ercise of his constitutional (unction ,
am' the delegated authority of the
l-’er era! Government will be support
ed by the peopl , the true source
ofall legitimate authority ordained
for ihe government of civil society.
s<> happily recugntffcl in our social
compact. They wm not stand pas
sive spectators in witnessing the de
molition of their governme. t, nor
will they be penuries of a little
blood in the maintenance ot a fabric
that has been reared at tho expense
of so much. From the views we
have ent< riaim'd ol Mr. Van Buren’'
Capacity and fitness for the place he
Dow fills, and the rank he holds «
mot-" the statesmen ol our country,
we lad indulged hopes of better
things for the honour of our stat
than an abandonm id ot her mtei
ests, in seeking to promote that ol
Georgia rebellion. We subjoin tl
concluding pai laraph o' Governor
Troup’s letter to Mr. Berrien :
*• Do metl.e lavor to pr sent my
REST THANKS to G< 11. ILirri-oU, Co'.
Ibiym , Ami Mu Va.x Buren, and
Judge White, fur THEIR HILE AND
Xibi ral Co Operation with roe
in the cause oi the weak against the
strong; and, as I trust, ol the just
against the unjust
From the Halifax Acadian.
Gov. Troup mid the Georgians
gi v- lair promise ofan internal strug
gle, in the maintenance ol principles
Winch, it established, will strip the
g neral government ot all real au
thority, and leav it but a shadow
ot power; it may then, in the lan
guage ol Burke, posses? all the kno
dosities ol the oak, ” but without any
of its strength. The citizens ot one
State have never yet been brought
into direct hostility with those o’
another; and should the experiment
be tried, we have no doubt that it
Would furnish sufficient proof ot the
little power the general governm nt
possesses to control the individual
parties ol which it is composed
We do not dwell on these inti rnal
difficulties ofthe Uni’ed States with
exultation although the example
oft he American Pro s, in reiterating
the occasional disturbances in Ire
land, the distre-ses in England and
the differences in Canada, might
amply excu-e us if we did. As the
happiness of so many millions ot oui
fellow-beings is in the peace and
tranquility of this Republic, as citi
gins ol the world wo would pray
that the torch of discord might nev
er be kindled within its bosom ; but
We cannot shut our eves upon facts.
We cannot but look forward to tin
period when the coming • vents, the
shadows ot which are everv dav be
coming ilarker and more indistinct,
will divide the power ofthe Union
A writer in a New York paper ob
serves, that, ‘ It is the interests of
Great Britain that we should be a
divided people ; anti that th ■ Fed
eral government should not hat <
the power to prot ct our national
interests In conformity with this
view, we find Gov Troup declaring
war against the Gem ral Govern
meat and calling upon the "Ilancmb
troop of horse,” and the 6th ami 7th
divisions of Militia, to resist the I
States officers. Ido not apprehend
anv serious result from" this whirl
pool m a mustard pot;” but the sanc
tion which his measures have receiv
ed from the opposition senators, tor
which Mr. Vai Buren, m particular,
has received his hearty thanks ; ami
the determination to which tb« Vir
gn ian legi .lature has come, not
"To support the government ot
the United States, in all measure
warranted by the Constitution ofllu
United States,” lest the state gov
eminent vs Georgia should think its
Course condemned by such a reso
ipvlmg ofthe country against au op-
•ution ; ought to rouse the public
position alike selfish, unprincipled,
<md treacherous to the best interests
of the country. B.
From the Philadelphia Dem. Press.
Extract of a letter dated “ Charleston
(S. C.) March 23.
I have, by one of those chances
which sometimes befall lucky trav
ellers, obtained a copy of a handbill
wh ch is privately, but as I am assur
ed, extensively circulating through
out the southern states. I impute
it wholly to the modesty ofthe Pa
tentee that it has not been publicly
announced. The effects already
produced are so satisfactory ; and
the character of theCertifmrs 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 be
made km wn. This Panacea has
been for some time in use, to the
South, and has performed some a—
tonisbing euros. It is, lam inform
ed by the friends ot the Patentee,
about to be introduced into the Mid
dle States. It is with that view the
Certificate of a Member of Congress
is published. It is not contemplated
to attempt the introduction of this
Panacea into the N England States;
the prejudice against the Patentee,
and other prejudices would, it is
feared prevent its success in those
Slates. I send you a copy and hope
you will give it publicity.”
NEW PATENT POLITICAL PA
NACEA
Martin Van Buren, Cabinet-mn
ker and Joiner, No. 1. Albany-street,
New York, informs his friends and
the public that lie has with great la
bour and sagacity succeeded in the
composition ot a now Panacea which
orodiizes the most important, valua
ble, & truly unheard ol effects upon
(ho human system. Il i-well known
that some ofthe nio-t difficult disor
ders to be treated in the system of
political men are those which arise
from their opinions being supposed
to lie committed on certain point?,
s that when it is become conven
ient to adopt other views, (he old
doctrines are found to be m the way.
tiie digestion, becomes impaired, and
the general health and character of
• m' path rd are gi it viously aflreted.
The i.io-t obvious symptoms of
the disorder are a ditficulty of swal
'ozving the new doctrines, am! a gen
eral tremor and flushing ot (he face,
v hen the patient tir-t publicly an
nounces his conversion, togethe
wah many other distressing symp
toms and circum dauces.
To remove these complaints has
iong employed the eilorts ol di.-tin
guisin d politic d physicians, but hith
erto then labours have proved gen
eral y unsuccessiul.
Mr. V. B. Congratulates himself,
and the Amr rican public in general,
upon the complete efficacy ot bis
Panacea, which has succeeded to tlm
utter astonishment ot all who have
witnessed its magic operations
Some of the most inveterate cases
Qipparenth ) have been so success
fully treated that the nearest friend
ot the patients have declared their
liability to recognize tham agaiuu
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 himself.
Terms.
’Fhe new Patent Panacea is sold
in bottles, each containing printed
directions for its use, signed by the
pr< prietor —and may be had ofthe
following persons:
Boston, The Statesman Office.
New York, The Enquirer do.
Philadelphia, The Palladium do.
Washington City, The Telegraph do.
Richmond, The Fnquir r do.
Charleston, The Mercury do.’’
Several other agents, it i- said, in
our own State, arc very anxious to
get a few bottles for private use with
authority to vend the same. The
following we btlievo nave been al
ready established , in
Savannah, Two
Augusta, Two
M illedgevillo Two;
—each to have a Sub-agent in Da-
rien, Athens, Macon <kc.
'Fhe Patentee, having arranged bt
business in Augusta, passed up, we
learn, on Sunday last, to exchange
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 ot Geor
gia. It may be proper, for the ben
efit ot those who use ‘ Van Buren’s
Panacea, ’ to remind them that he
manufactures different kinds, suited
t> rcl mate circumstances —to pre-
vent the danger ofmistake.thoseonly
are genuine, w hich are countersign
ed G. M. T. We also advise anv of
our particular friends of sicV y habits,
who may fe<.l disposed to trv a few
drops of this nostrum, that it ma\
be ha ! of either ol the agents abovt
mentioned free y,—the poor will be
served grai/s.
Certificates.
• The following are selected from a
.umber of certificates m thc tposses
aiou ol the proprietor.
GEORGIA STATESMAN, MONDAY APRIL 23, 1827.
Samuel D. Ingham, of Bucks coun
ty, Pennsylvania, agent, late appren
tice to the Turning business, cert:
ties, that he was in 1823 ai d 1824
one ofthe stoutest advocates for tin
Tariff, and like his preceptor, con
tended earnestly for a liberal expo
sition ofthe constitution of the Uni
ted States, but having lately receiv
ed orders from Tennessee and Soul I
Carolina for the manufacture of .
new set of opinions, he found himself
exceedingly embarrassed and agita
ted in his nerves by this operation,
and felt at one time, serious
doubts about his political diges
tion, until he was recommended
to try" Van Buren’s Panacea ;” a sin
gle spoonful of which had the desir
ed effect, and he now finds himself
strong 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 inconsequence ofthe
fundamental change in his opinions,
he will not be able to keep his sfcat,
which, in the business he follows,
would be entire ruin
Wm. B. Giles of Virginia, (farm
er,) deposes, that in the year 1824
he was violently opposed to the elec
tion of General Jackson, because, I
He repeatedly violated the constitu
tion ofthe U. States, by suspending
the writ of Habeas Corpus, irnpris
oning a Judge, invading a friend!v
country, &.C. II Because he caused
six Militia men to be executed by
the regular troops, after their term
of service had expired. HI. Be
cause he recommended the destruc
tion ofthe Democratic party.
Because, when in the Senate of the
Unit d States, he advocat d doc
trines decidedly opposed to the Vir
ginia system; and for divers other*-
good reasons, as they appeared to
the deponent, nt the time. That
since the election of the present in
cumbent the deponent has felt anx
ious for particular private reason
to relieve himself of these opinions,
and was fora long time unable to d<
<o by any course of medicines, al
though he employed the ablest po
litical physicians ; at loangth having
heard of “ Van Buren’s Panacea,”
he procured a few bottles of it,
which almost immediately brought
awav tho offensive doctrines and re
stored thedeponent to perfect health,
and he can now declare that he is
opposed to the re-election ot’ John
Quincy Adams. I. Because he is
i native of N w E igland. 11. B< -
cause ho does not hold slaves. 11l
Because he is friendly to Domestic
Manufactures IV. Because he re
commodcd Internal Improvements.”
From the increasing popularity of
this mixture in this State, the public
may soon expect many other Certif
icates of like import.
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An abridgement of a classical Tour
to Troup and Muscogee Counties:
Cun tin tied.
ARGUMENT
The vanity of Men manifested in the hight of
Fences and the length of Lanes—the uni
versal lave of distinction —general state of
civilization—the fate of Man—in what it
consists —aspect of Forsyth—Orcus—the
Elysian Fields —accidents, which betel the
author at Forsyth—the mind of the negro
corporeal and seated in the skin —anora-
tion addressed to him—its eloquence and
profundity —Minirological aspect of tlie
country.
Leaving Clinton for the next town,
we passed through a country gener
ally beaut iful, but not quite in so
high a state of cultivation, as the
one, throusrh which we travelled
pridic. We remarked to day as we
rode along, several bold specimens ui
Chat vanity and of that love of fame,
which arc universal in the human
heart, in the groat and unnecessary
length of l ines, and in the unu-u ii
and superfluous height ot lences ot
i wentv sturdy rails high Thex
-eemed to speak to the traveller
from the lips of t uinid pomposity to
olify turn, . lives here, am!
Mr. —lives there. —lt is nece-s.iri
vou should know these facts; we are
here for that purpose; expect th
tribute of admiration: our Master
enjoy a reputation through u-, and
fling their neighbors in the shade.
One piles up the rails on his (cnee,
another extends his lane, claims dis
tinction of his fellow men, and from
posterity, after death, everlasting
f. me.
On what narrow basis docs vanity
erect her throne, and look proudlv
down upon the contemptible medi
ocrity, from which she imagines sin
has extricated herself. All hate the
z uiTus ignobile as deadly poison, and
never 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
dofmatically some frivolous opinion
peculiar to themselves, or doing
some trifle in away no one evei
dreamed of. One lives in a tub, an
other in a splendid mansion, ami are
equallv secured from Mediocrity.—
The Greek Philosapers went in
-hreds 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
• njoy that state of seme civilization,
which philosphcrs generally have
conceived to be most conducive to
human happiness. They neither
-iifl'cr from the pains of high and
,>oh-hed life, nor t?oni the hardships
aad cruelties ci the savage state.
In the individual, who put us
tcross the river, we witnessed a
rare example of the Temperamen
uni Segnitiec. Although in a soum
state of health, all his motions were
slow and feeble like those ol a man,
who had just recovered from a long
and sevt re spell of sickness. '1 iie
least exertion seemed extremely
■rksome, and the state ot rest th
only one congenial to his nature. —
llisspetch corresponded with the
motions of his body, dropping irom
his lips per saltern
I had before seen this inaptitude
to motion, not only in men, but in
inimals, which seems to depend up
on a deficiency of contractiltiy, and
the other moving powers of the or
ganic system. Upon what a wide scale
ofdifferer.'*’; has nature fixed*tin
coMtitutions of men in the modifica
iioncf tnese powers, and thus deter
mined, even before their birth, the
parts which they are to act on the
theatre of society and ofthe world.
In vain may men attempt to rise
above the level of these original ca
pabilities, stamped upon, and inter
woven in ti e stamina of their consti
tutions. It was this modification of
the energies of man’s physiological
frame, which the ancients called
Fate, and which they poetically re
presented in the occupation ofthe
three sisters the Parcae, o«e of
which turned the wheel, another
drew out the thread of human hie,
and tlie third .pipped it with her
scissors. It is rms modification too
which gives a man a taste for Heav
en and impels him thither, or shoots
him more or les- furiously to th,
realms below. It is just that tapering
point, on which is suspended the
doctrine of election so much and so
bitterly contested by Christians, like
the Magnetic needle in the great
equator ofthe world. VV ill the rea
der pardon mo,
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, and
some neat private dwellings. The
Court House is built with considera
ble taste and elegance, and dispro
portionate, in these respects, with
she ballance of the village, all ol
which is new. Considering tho seat
of this place, which, but the other
lay was the wilderness «i the savage,
die arts and comforts of social and
civilized life, are con-idcrably ad
vanced, though civilization itself, it
must be 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 ofthe desert.
Lodged under the roof of a vener
able and respectable old mm, I en
joyed the hospitality and co iver-a
tion of’ his family until a late hour of
the nig! t, when 1 retired, and fell in
to a most refreshing a. d pr- found
sleep--that sleep which an am ien
Pact has so well described.— ‘Num
Placida compos"tuspare.' —Sopor quie
tus membra sujfusus est.’ At the
dawn of morn a sound came ru lung
mto mv chamber, which discomposed
but did not entirely break this slun -
her, and the image of things deform
ed and ghastly wreaked their ven
geance and corroded my imagination
with pain. The -omni mcrea-i d—
it was the sound of human uhilation
portentiovs ot extreme suffering, and
at length it awoke me. I sprung up
on my feet and looked around mo
md out at the window. The gray
clouds, as the Poets and Novele-t
--arc wont to express it, were drifting!
-lowly along before the first beams]
of morn, Aurora was lashing htr,
panting steedsup the steep Ea-t,i
which whitened as she advanced,]
the fowl- were crowing intensely]
throughout the whole Milage, and
a! the neighboring (’arm-houses the
-tars -till shone, but with fainter
briliancy, and the mixture of light,
4'darkii ss and of noise altogether
confused the incipient ideas of
mv first waking. I continued at the
window straining my eyes through
the gloom; the image oi things im
perfectlv seen, resembling shadows,
computed and doubtful occupied ami
seemed to extend beyond the utmost
In und of my vis-ion; ail above and
below were girdled by darkne-s, the
Ea-t only w as less opake, and looked
bke the frontier ot day. Still stupi
fi"d with sleep I was doubtful of
w hat 1 saw , and of where I was.—
whether this darkness was the arch
of night still resting on the earth, and
that brightness the fight of advanc
ing day, or wnether this gloom was
the everla-ting shades of death, and
the brightness, the prospect of the
Elvsian Fields This doubt and this
uncertainty galvanised my whole
thinking frame, all my thoughts were
phosphorescent, and I trembled, in
, corporeally. If these are the realms
below, I reflected that I must be
lead, and that 1 expired last night
in mv si ep, for pone but ghost are
• ■ermited to visit the -badcs 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 mv limbs, and they seemed
orporeal, I exerted the power ot
volition, and they obeyed its impulse
I compared all my feelings with these
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 ai
ar the manner and nature of its per
ceptions, and the airy limbs ol 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 but the bo
dy of a ghost may feel infinitely more
firm and corporeal to the mind, which
n.Bibits it than a living man’s body,
may, to his miud. It is further rea
sonable whether among the living or
the dead tint the soul and body
must be in harmony, and correspond
with each other, and the feeling ci
corporeal and incorporeal depends
. n’y on circuit stances, being mainly
the mere mode of preception.
I again gazed on the prospect be
fore me, and distinctly heard the
sound, the plaintive ululation oi hu
man pain, and the corresponding
strokes ofthe thong, which proceed
ed each doUful scream, and which I
before had not heard. This last cir
cumstance dissolved all doubt, and
determined my true situation of ex
i-teuce This sound is the cry oi
the dvad lash d by the Eummides,
the Furies, who, day and night per
petually whip them through sleep
less years with serpents. These
shades I silently and horrificably ex
claimed are the abode oi the dead,
the gloomy empire ot Pluto and his
brother, not the pleasant village situ
ate beneath the orb oi the sun and
filled with life, in which I lay last
•ight; & yon bright space obleekely
above walled in by those beautiful
marble looking clouds, is the E
lyssian Fields, the delightful and
happv residence and empire ot Rha
damanthus. The broken pieces of
these clouds swiming separately and
suspended on a tranquil sea of dis
tant orbicular light, seemed so many
lit and splendid mansions tor th< - res
idence ofthe Divinities, who preside
over these happy realms.
Ar» then the Christians in the dark
respecting the civil and physical ge
fgraphy oft his land beyon tiie 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
ofthe human race, covered with the
rust and rubbish of time?
The same hornsonant cryofhu
matt wretchedness and paia still con
tinued, and the reverberations of th»
lashing thong ro-e clear and shrill,
preading far around through the
liquid darkness of this humid an *
dreary region. This is indeed I ex
claimed,the fabled region ofthe dead
realized—the land known to z\m
phy-ia, where the sceptre of Pluto
rests on a throne of eb->nv.—“Um
hrarum hie locus est, Som ti. N ctisque
soporur: corpora viva ttefas St igia
vectare carina Hie ‘continuo audi-
tir v >ces, vagitus ingens enn'aniumqiii
aiiinae tlmites in lumme primo'. ipms
dutces vitir exort'S, r t ub uherc rap
tos absiulit atra dies, et funere mer it
acerbo.’—-Hie Partareus Pldegethon.
f irquetque sonanha saca - -Esipuone
que sedens pulm succt tela cru- nta
vestibulum ins i..mis servat noctesque
idiesque Hine exaudin gemitus,el
seva sunarc verbera: tunc stridor. Jer
ri tractarijir catena’.”
At length my landlord, unknowi
to me was already up, and entering
my room on a -udd n, and seeing rm
-tinding by the window, enquired
‘what was the matter.’ The sud
den b’lr-tm: op'-n ot the door had
alre.idv perfectly aroused me from
the stupefaction ofwh.it 1 had bean)
and seen, and from the state oi im
perfect w’akefulness; and 1 replied
I hid been listening to that strange
an I melaucholv noise.’ On my door
being opened, 1 hail no ditficulty in
ascertaining the true nature and
cause of w hat h id so much di-turbed
mv repose, presenting my imagina
tion with so many terrific and mel
ancholly picture.-, and inspired my
un ler-tandmg, struggling for the free
use of its powers, with the belief of
their tangible extern dity. It w’as
nothing more nor les-, than a long
and severe lecture, on the first rudi
ments of duty addressed by one of
the villagers to the -audibility, rather
than the understanding oi the negro,
which, duT’rt'ig from all other animal
in this respect, is corporeal, seated
the skin. This poor f low wgsin
•o animated bv the profound and
-nblirne truths on (be science of duty
unfoulded to h*s ravished under
standing. bv his very able and elo
quent lecturer, that, for the space oi
-oinething like halt’an hour, he con
tinued tv -hake the humid vault,
from which night was retiring with
the continued anil repeated explo
sions of his voice. So w ell as I
could judge bv the articulation of
the speaker, which was clear and
distinct, this lecture was delivered
tn a s’vie at once sober and dignified
Disdaining equally alike the subtle
hvpothesi-, the fine spun, theory, and
the gaudy parade ot metaphysic >
refinement oi other phdosopher
who deal in abstractions and ideali
ties he bore down energetically, an .
with great pathos upon the tangibl
truths of practical lite, making im
pressions and raising emotions in In
-usceptable and docile pupil, to
which human language could find no
utterance, and which would be alt -
ge’.ber marvellous io due unaccus-
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tomed to tbe operations of this -per
cies of liteiature, which is so prompt
ly absorbed by the skin.
My landlord expressed his disap
probation at the great length and
heated vehemence of this lesson, and
at the zeal and enthusiasm of the
philosopher, which prompted him*
in unfolding and propagating the
exioms and great truths of his practi- ’■
cal system, to commence his course of'
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 proviso
sions; ham, biscuit, and some sturdy
pones of Indian bread, and bid adieu
to Forsyth.
The road this day lay through a
hilly country anil generally baren,.
We occasionally passed large blocks
of granite which from appearance*
abounded much beneath the
Sandstone, Slate. Mica, and silccious
quartz constituted the leading Mm*
erological features of the
We passed a hill to day covered oves
with these quartzs, which had all thc»
appearance of having been carried
and deposited there; the hill, wc*
were informed, was of many miles ii>
extent. I had before seen one or two
ridges of rock similar, but could fornx
no satisfactory theory of their won-,
derful accumulation, whether by nat-.
oral formation or mechanical con*
veyance. To be continued.
Statesman
MONDAY APRIL 23, 182 L
Oiiknmlgte Jdavigution Company.— lt is sta- 5 ’
ted in the Macon Messenger of the 17th inst.
that the citizens of that town will assemble
in a few days to appoint a Committee for rhe'
purposcof instituting a Company untlet the
name and style above mentioned, and that
ipplication will be made to the next Legisla
’ure for corporate powers kc.—~We wish them
success.
A nameless Editor in this Slate,
"For reasons we have before stated, and
which appear to us to be sound, we think
• here will be no opponent to Mr. Forsyth.’’
Now the soundest and best riasons in tb e .
world induce us to believe that Mr. Forsyth
will have an opponent, and precisely such an
one as Mr. F. will dislike to encounter.
learn that the Post-Office at Forf.
•L ines, in Early county, is again in oppera
tion. This circumstance will very much fa«*
cilitate intercourse with the New county of
Lee—a body of Territory nearly as large us
the State of Conn., client.
The Classi, a! Tour.— We crave pardon of
the author of “ An abridgement of a Classical
I’our‘o Troup and Muscogte counties,” for
not hav ; ng earlier paid him our editorial rc
q ects. < !>cg tbe reader who sits down tx>
: is d'iv’s continuation ct he subject, will re
r hiinsnlf to our author’s first c-say iu our
' paper, where he will find the utile et dulce
'ended very much to his own gratification,
no less than to tin- credit of th writers genius.
He w ill occasion Jly meet with strokes of sa
tire, wit and elegance that far surpass the
cemmon-place fugitive pieces of the day. If
there is b-ss of the unity of design in these,
columns than the jus et norma scribendi
the Epics require, there are sentences never
theless —original images, and torn, s of phrase*
ology which for their richness and splendor
are rarely, if ever, excelled, by any writer of.
our language.
We select an example from Issa<lore,by tbe
same pen.
—‘‘Where had nature reposed her guardi.au
powers ? In what dense cloud lay her unkind-,
led.thunders—the lightning’s red shaft—her
combustible sulphurs!”
We intend no disrespect to the tomb of
Goldsmitu in applying to our author tlie latt—
guage ofthe Poet’s biographer;—
“ (pti nullum sere scribendi genusr
.Van tetigit,
Nullum quod tetigil non ornavil.'*
We return to the “ Tour,” not to criticise#,
but to drop a few desultory thoughts, as the
writer does his carmina cybela.
"Few men,” says Sterne, "know how. to
take .a walk.” Bred in the "gardens of phil
osophy,”or in “academic bowers,’’the Classics
alone, nory< t the religion of Egyptian My.
thology is all that is necessary to constitute a,
tourist; it is the Georgies ofthe heart which
impart inspiration to natural objects and ena
ble him to contemplate them as thejeonstitu
ents of inelf able wisdom and f.tn -ss. Thun
capaj:itated, our friend seems io have found
his way to Tioup county, “Tongues,
in trees ; Books in the running brooks; Ser
mons in stones ; and good in every thing.”
rtiere is an interest and originality in tiiis
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 traveller sleeps
q aietly all night, until “ Aurora began to lash
h» r panting steeds up the steep East,” when,
startled from his dreams by some unearthly cry,
;>e is uncertain whether the “everlasting
shades, or the parietal atmosphere oi Elysi
um are hung about him. He straitway be
thinks himself of the descent of L lysscs and
J-lneas, and while he compares the object*
.nd noises around him with those which they
(escribe, he hears tf.e prolonged, hoarse
shriek of tbe dead, lashed by the Eumenides,
the Furies, who day and night, perpetually
. hip tbt-m t..rougn sleepless} years with ser
penis j Injihat nether wurld,we doubt wfeeif