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mHE undersigned, true to bis promise, again
1_ presents to the Public more data on which
they can safely base their calculations relative
to the respective merits of the depleting system
of the disciples of Esculapius, and of that invig
orating and phlogestic one of which he is proud
to be the advocate.
Leaving the stilts of egotism and shafts of rid
icule for the use of those who have nothing bet
ter to stand on, and no other weapons for attack
or defence, he selects his standing on truth, and
lo.'t sllcfi annnnrt only- as merit gives him; and
for weapons,"he chooses simply to assail the
ranks of the enemy occasionally with “a little
more grape,” in the form of facts,which are evi
dently the hardest kind of arguments since they
often administer to ins quiet amusement by the
terrible destruction they cause among the stilts
and tlie ludicrous effect they produce in causing
certain individuals to laugh, as it is expressed in
homely phrase, “on t’other side the mouth.”
The Mexicans are not the only people, these
days, whom vanitj lias blinded to their own de
fects ; neither can they claim much superiority
in the way of fancied eminence and blustering
bravado over many that live a great deal nearer
home. A salutary lesson has latterly been giv
en the former by the Americans, and the latter
: may ere long take “ another of the same ” ala
I mode dt Taylor.
After the following there will still bo “a few
I mote left.”
Georgia, Jones County, lß4B.
This certifies that for more than four or five
years my wife was afflicted with a disease pecu
liar to her sex, and notwithstanding all that we
could do, she still continued to get worse. The
Physicians in attendance had exhausted their
skill without rendering her any assistance till,
in 1844, when she was confined to her lied in a
vory low condition, I got her last attendant to go
with me to Macon and lay her case before Dr.
M. S. Thomson, who, without having seen her,
proscribed and sent her medicine that soon re
lieved her, and in the course of a short time re
l stored her to permanent health. She has now
j boon well about four years and rejoices in the
I recovery of her long lost health
FRANCIS B. IIASCAL.
Macon. June 22d, 1848.
Du. M. S. Thomson— Dear Sir : — Deeming it
a duty I owe to yourself as well as to the afflicted
generally, I have concluded to give you a short
statement of my case, which you are at liberty to
publish if you think that the best modeofthoreby
subserving the interests of suffering humanity.
In May 1841, after considerable exposure to
cold, I was attacked with Asthma, which pros
trated me very much, and notwithstanding all
that could be done to prevent it, it continued to
return about every two weeks till in 1846, I ap
plied to you. Between these attacks I had a very
severe cough, which led some ofthe physicians
to whom I applied to believe that I had consump
tion. I applied to physicians of botli tho Min
eral and Botanic schools, of eminent general
qualifications, but all to no benefit, for I contin
ued to get worse,so much so that I had reduced
from being a strong, fleshy man, down to a mere
skeleton and could hardly creep about.—When
I applied to you, I had but little faith in being
cured, though I had witnessed some wonderful
results following your treatment, especially the
■cure of that crazy woman you bought of Aquil
la Phelps, in Jasper, yet they gave me confi-
I dense and by persevering in the use of your
remedies, and as it were hoping against hope,
| am much gratified in being able to announce
| mat I have got entirely well, for I have had but
I °. ne . 'B"t attack in twenty months, and that was
| eight months ago. 1 have now regained about
I turmer weight, and feel as strong as almost
I any man ol fifty-one, which is my age. Without
I , . ls P i ] la 8 eln ent to the characterofthe othercures
I , ) e so frequently resulted from your prac
■ til°’ r ° not lb* l '! 4 that any of them can beat
■ lls i or confirmed Asthma, combined with a
H h a l' SM,,t P*j Be con ßl | t especially whore the flesh
I cureabf ' las been classed among the iti
-11 es - Most respectfully, y'ours,
11. LIGHTFOOT.
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fcb 3 M. S. THOMSON, M D.
Macon, Ga.
THE SOUTHERN MUSEUNL
VOLUME I.
J3 o r t r j?.
CHAPTER ON MISSES.
The dear little Misses we meet with in life,
What hopes and what fears they awaken ;
And when a man’s taking a Miss for his Wife,
lie is Miss-led as well as Miss-taken.
When 1 courted Miss Kidd and obtained the kiss,
I thought, in the w-armth of my passion,
I bat Id made a great llit 'in thus gaining a Miss,
But it was only a Miss-calculation.
For so many Misses surrounded Miss Kidd,
With me and my love interfering ;
A jealous Miss-trust put it into lier head
That she ought not to give me a hearing.
There’s a certain Miss-chance that I met with
one day,
Almost sent my hopes to destruction,
And she felt a suspicion of all I might say,
And allotting to one Miss-construction.
Deceived by .Miss-information, I wrote,
The cause of her anger demanding ;
Miss-dircction prevented her getting the note,
And introduced Miss-understanding.
When to make her my wife I exultingly swore,
Miss-belief made her doubt my intention,
And I nearly got wed to Miss-fortune before
1 could wean her from Miss-apprehension.
But when she no longer would yield to Miss
doubt,
Nor be led by Miss-representation,
She had with Miss-like a most serious fall out,
And to wed felt no more hesitation.
But when at the church to be married we met,
Miss-take made the parson to linger,
And I sot so annoyed by an awkward Miss-fit,
I could not get the ring on her finger.
Having been so Miss-used 1 now kept a strict
watch,
Though I still lived in fear of Miss-carriage,
And I found, when too late, an unlucky Miss
match
Interfered with tiie joys of my marriage.
Miss-rule in my dwelling put everything wrong,
Miss-management there took her station,
Till my cash, like the time I take singing my
son g,
W as all wasted by Miss-application.
EXECUTION OF MART STUART.
The Sth of February, 1557, is memora
ble as the Jay of tbe execution of Wary,
Queen of Scots, in tbe great hall of Foth
eringay Castle, in Northamptonshire.—
The outlines of the history of this unfortu
nate princess are so generally familiar,
that we shall here only recapitulate a few
dates, in order to place its course more
clearly before tbe mind of the reader.—
She was the daughter of King James V.
of Scotland, by his second wife, Mary of
Lorraine, sister of the Duke of Guise,
and widow of Louis of Orleans, Duke of
Longueville ; and site was born at tbe pal
ace of Linlilhgow, on tbe 7th of Decem
ber, 1512. On the 141li, by the death of
her father, she became Queen of Scotland
in her own right. On the 21st of August
following she was crowned at Stirling.—
Even before this an active contest had
commenced between Henry VIII of Eng
land and his partizatis on the one hand, to
procure the young sovereign in marriage
for his son Edward ; and the Queen Mo
ther, Cardinal Beaton, and their faction
on tbe other, to preserve her for a French,
or other continental alliance. To protect
her from Henry’s attempts to obtain pos
session of her person, she was soon after
removed by her mother, from Stirling to
a monastery, situated on an island in the
Locli of Monteith. In this asylum she re
mained till the year 1548, when it was re
solved to send her to France ; the fatal re
sult of the battle of Musselburgh (or Pin
kie), fought on the 10th of September
preceding between the Regent Arran and
the Protector Somerset, having excited a
stronger fear than ever of her falling into
tho hands of the English, should she re
main in the country. Accordingly, hav
ing been brought for that purpose to Dun
barton Castle, she embarked on the
Clyde, and arrived safely at Brest on the
13th of August. At the court of Fiance
she received a careful education, not only
in all the accomplishments, but in all the
learning of that age ; and the fine capacity
with which she was gifted by nature ena
bled her to make the happiest return to
the efforts ofher instructors. On the 24th
of April, 1558, she was united in marriage
to the Dauphin, afterwards Frances 11.,
the prince being a few months younger
than herself. The death of her father-in
law, Henry 11., on the 10l li of July, 1559,
raised her to the throne of France; but
she only enjoyed her elevation about a
year and a half, her husband dying on the
Sth of December, 15G0. Having also lost
her mother, who had hitherto re
gent in Scotland, on the 10th of June pre-
MACON, (GA.) SATURDAY" MORAIIG, JUKE », 1849.
ceding, and the affairs of that country hav
ing fallen into great confusion, Mary now
determined to return to her hereditary do
minions ; and with that view she embark
ed at Calais on the sth of August, 1561,
and, after a voyage of five days, lauded in
safely at Leith, having escaped the Eng
lish fleet in a fog. On the 29th of July,
15G5, she married her relation, Henry
Stuart, Lord Darnley, the son of the Earl
of Lennox, and, through the countess, his
mother-, the grandson of Margaret, daugh
ter of Henry VII. of England, from whom
Mary herself was also descended in the
same degree. It was in virtue of this de
scent that she claimed during the life of
Elizabeth to be considered the heir pre
sumptive to the English crown. That
crown actually devolved eventually upon
her son James VI. The assassination, in
her presence, of her Italian secretary, Da
vid Rizzio (or more properly Riccio), by
Lord Ruthven and other conspirators in
stigated by her husband, took place at
Holvrood House on the 9th of March,
156 G. On the 19th of June following she
gave birth to a son, afterwards James VI.
On tho 10th of February, 1567, Darnley
was killed by the blowing up of tho house
called Kirk of Field, iu the vicinity of
Edinburgh, where lie lay ill, —an event
which was unquestionably the result of
design, whoever were the guilty parties.
On the 15th of May, Mary became once
more a wife, by giving her hand to the
Earl of Bothwell, the man who was uni
versally accused of having been the contii
ver of the murder ofher late husband, and
who indeed may he said to have been
since proved to have been the author of
that crime. We are not perhaps warrant
ed to conclude, as some writers have been
inclined to do, from this act alone, taking
all things into consideration, either that
Mary herself had been a party to the mur
der, or even that she was cognizant cf
Botlnveli’s guilt ; hut it seems impossible
to acquit her of a most indecorous and
profligate indifference as to whether he
was guilty or no. Her imprudent con
duct, to call it by no harsher name, bro’t
its punishment after it, in a life henceforth
of almost unmixed trouble and sorrow.—
She was soon after shut up by her
gent subjects in the Cast le of Loch Leven,
where she was compelled on the 21th of
June to sign a renunciation of her crown
in favor of her infant son. From tnis im
prisonment she made her escape on the
2d of May, 15G8, and fled to Hamilton
Castle, in Lanarkshire, where she was
soon joined by some thousands ofher ad
herents. But the result of the battle of
Langside, fought on the 13th, in which her
forces wet p completely defeated by the
Regent Murray, suddenly left her again a
helpless fugitive. After concealing her
self for a few days in the house of Lord
Herries iu Galloway, she look boat at Kir
cudbright on the 16th, and putting across
the Solway landed at Workington in
Cumberland. She never again set foot on
the soil of her native country. Queen
Elizabeth, who, from their relative polit
ical pnsition and certain feelings of a more
private nature, was her rival and her irre
concilable enemy, had now got her victim
within her grasp, and was not the woman
to permit her again to escape. Mary had
arrived iu the English territory in a state
of nearly entire destitution, without a shil
ling in her pocket, or an article of dress
except what she wore on her person.—
After a few days she was conducted by
Elizabeth’s order to Carlisle, from whence
on the 16th of June, she was removed to
Bolton Castle, the house of Lord Scroop
Warden of the West Marshes. The ho
nors due to her regal rank w r ere punctili
ously paid to her. Here she remained
till the beginning of the next year, when
she was transferred to Tutberry Castle, in
Staffordshire, and committed to the custo
dy ofthe Earl of Shrewsbury. This con
tinued to be her principal place of confine
ment during the remainder of her life, al
though she spent some short periods at
Whinfield in Derbyshire, at Chatsworth
in the same county, at Coventry, and oth
er places. In 1584 the Earl of Shrewsbu
ry was succeeded in the office of her jailer
by Sir Drew Drury and Sir Amias Pow
lct. There seems to be conclusive evi
dence that Elizabeth, through her minis
ters, Walsingham and Davison, proposed
in almost direct terms to these persons ‘‘to
find out some way to shorten the life” of
their prisoner. They however firmly de
clined to act upon this atrocious sugges
tion. “.My answer,” wrote Sir Amias
Powlet, “I shall deliver unto you with
great grief and bitterness of mind, in that
I atn so unhappy as living to see this un
happy day, in which I am required, by di
rection from my most gracious sovereign
to do an act which God and the law forbid
detli. God forbid I should make so foul
a wreck of my conscience, or leave so
great a blot to my poor posterity, and shed
blood without law or warrant.” It was
then resolved to destroy the unfortunate
Queen under the forms of the law. In
1555 the Parliament passed an Act decla
ring that whosoever “should endeavor to
raise a rebellion in the kingdom, or at
tempt the Queen’s life, or claimed any
right to the crown of England,” should be
tried by a commission appointed by the
Queen, and, if found guilty, put to death.
It was well understood by everybody, at
the time, that this Act was expressly lev
elled at the Queen of Scots. According
ly, after her papers had been seized and
she had been removed to Fothcringay
Castle, on the 25th of September, 1586
forty-two commissioners, with five judges
of the realm, were appointed by letters
patent under the great seal, on the author
ity of this Act, to meet at the latter place,
to try her on the charge ofher having been
a party to the conspiracy of Antony Ba
bington and his confederates, who, to the
number of fourteen, had just been execu
ted for a plot against the Queen’s life.—
Thirty-six of the commissioners assem
bled on the 11th of October, and after va
rious adjournments, pronounced sentence
on the 25th, in the Star chamber at West
minster, against the accused. This trial
exhibited perhaps as an extraordinary an
accumulation of substantia] injustice and
oppression as w-as ever witnessed. It was
the fit conclusion of an illegal and tyran
nical imprisonment of twenty years. Not
being a subject of the English Crown,
Mary could not be brought to trial on the
existing statute of tfeasons. But just as
outrageous defiance of all reason, he
made amenable to the provisions of anew
act specially framed to comprehend her
case, while she was detained a prisoner
in the country by force. Among the most
active of her judges were Elizabeth’s min
isters themselves, Lord Burleigh, Sir
Francis Walsingham, and others, tlie very
men who had been laboring for years to
effect her destruction, and who, at all
events, ware the acknowledged origina
tors and directors of the present proceed
ings. It was not even pretended that any
ofher jury were her peers. She was al
lowed no counsel. The letters and other
papers, forming the principal evidence
upon which she was convictnd, were not
only all of them the compositions of others,
but were not even originals. Os the wit
nesses, some, such as Babington, had been
previously put to death, merely the testi
mony which had been extracted from them
before they suffered being exhibited ; oth
ers, such as her secretaries, Naue and
Curl, although alive, were never confront
ed with her—their written depositions on
ly being produced. Having obtained her
easy object by the verdict of the commis
sioners, Elizabeth thought it necessary to
go through a melancholy farce of dissimu
lation, without a parallel for elaborate and
at the same time transparent artifice. At
last, in the midst of her hypocritical lam
entations, she affixed her signature to the
warrant of execution. She could not at
the moment conceal the exultation with
which her heart was palpitating. “Go,”
she said jestingly to Davison, as she de
livered him the fatal document, “tell this
to Walsingham” (who was then sick,)
“though I fear he will die for sorrow when
he hears it.” She afterwards pretended
that the execution took place contrary to
her intentions; and Davison, whom she
and her advisers had made their instru
ment, suffered severely for the part which
lie had been befooled to play. The Earls
of Shrewsbury, Derby, Kent, and Cum
berland, to whom the warrant was direct
ed, arrived at Fothcringay on the 7th of
February, 1587, and immediately inform
ed Mary that she must prepare for death.
She heard the announcement with courage
and resignation, and asked to have a con
fessor. Even this favor was not granted ;
but they offered to send to her Dr. Fletch
er, the Dean of Peterborough, whom she
refused to see. She then supped, drank
to her servants, who pledged her on their
knees, perused her will, adding certain
bequests, and retired to rest. Having
slept some hours she awoke, and spent
the rest ofthe night in prayer. The mor
ning being come she dressed herself in a
robe of black velvet, the richest in her
wardrobe, and then retired to her oratory,
where she remained till the sheriff came to
summon her to the scaffold. She declar
herself innocent of thsse charges and of
the murder of her husband.
NITIBER 28.
CHARMERS OP SERPENTS.
The reader is aware that there are sev
eral passages in Scripture which allude to
the commonly-received opinion in tlie East
thatserpentsare capable of being rendered
docile, or at least harmless, by certain
charms or incantations. The mostremark
able of these texts is that of the 58th
Psalm, where the wicked are compared to
“the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
which will not hcaken to the voice of char
mers, cbarmjng never so wisely
ofthe Bth chapter of Jeremiah, “I will
send serpents, cockatrices, among you (
which will not ho charmed.” Dr. Shaw
says that a belief that venomous serpents
might he rendered innoxious by songs or
muttered words, or by writing senlnnces
or combinations of numbers upon scrolls
of paper, prevailed through all those parts
of Barbary where he travelled. In India,
at the present day, the serpent-charmers
are a well-known division of the numerous
caste of jugglers that are found in every
district. Mr. Forbes, in his ‘Oriental
Memoirs,’ appears to attach some credit
to their powers of alluring the Cubra-di-
Capcllo, and other snakes, from their hi
ding places, by tho attrabtion of music.
Mr. Johnson, however, in his ‘Sketches
of India Field Sports,’ says, “The profess
ed snake catchers in India are a low caste
of Hindoos, wonderfully clever in catch
ing snakes, as well as in practising the art
of legerdemain ; they pretend to draw
them from their holes by a song, and by
an instrument somewhat resembling an
Irish bagpipe, by playing on it a plaintive
tune. The truth is, this is all done to de
ceive. If ever a snake comes out of a hole
at the sound of their music, yoif may be
certain that it is a tame one, trained to it,
deprived of its venomous teeth, and put
there for the purpose ; and this you may
prove, as I have often done, by killing the
snake, and examining it, by which you
will exasperate the men exceedingly.”
The account of Mr. Johnson certainly
appears the more probable version of this
extraordinary story ; yet enough remains
to surprise, in the wonderful command
which these people possess over the rep
tiles that they have deprived of their
power of injury, and taught to erect them
selves and make agentle undulating move
ment of the head, at certain modulated
sounds. There can, we think, be no doubt
that tho snake is taught to do this, as the
bear and tho cock of the Italians are in
structed to dance, as described in our last
number. The jugglers are very expert
in the exercise of the first branch of the
trade, tliqt of catching the snakes. They
discover the hole of the reptile with great
ease and and certainty, and digging into it
seize tho animal by the tail, with tho left
hand, and draw tho body through the other
hand with extreme rapidity, till the finger
and thumb are brought up to the head.
The poisonous fangs are then removed,
and the creature has to commence its
mysterous course of instruction. Accor
ding to Mr. Jonson, however, the business
ofthe snake-charmer is a somewhat peril
ous one. In catching the reptiles, they
are generally provided with a hot iron to
sear the flesh, should they he bitten ; and
the following anecdote, given by Mr. John
son, would show that the danger is not
completely avoided, even when the vene
mous fangs are removed :—“ A man ex
hibited one of his dancing cobra-di-capellos
before a large party. A boy about sixteen
years old was teasing the animal to make
it bite him, which it actually did, and to
some some purpose, for in an hour after
he died of the bite. The father of the
boy was astonished, and protested it could
not he from the bite ; that tlie snake had
no venomous teeth ; and that he and the
boy had often been bitten by it before,
without any bad effect. On examining
the snake, it was found that tho former
fangs were replaced by new ones,not then
far out of the jaw, hut sufficient to bite
the boy. The old man said that he never
saw nor heard of such a circumstance
before.”
A Maiden Lady’s Soliloquy.— ’T s
wondrous starnge how great the change
since I was in my teens ; then I had beaux
and billet-doux, and joined the gayest
scenes. But lovers now have ceased to
vow; no way they now contrive to poison,
drown or hang themselves—because I’m
thirty-five. Once if the night was e’er so
bright, I ne’er abroad could roam.without
—“The bliss, the honor Miss,of seeing you
safe home.” But now I go, through rain
or snow; fatigued aud scarce alive; through
the dark without a spark ; because i’m
thirty-five.
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING,
Will be executed in the most approved styl
ctnd on the best terms,at the Office of the
SOTXTHEB.IT mtjsetjm,
-BY—
WM. B. HARRISON.
.HARRIED LIFE.
The following true sentiments are from
the pen of that charmifig writer, Frf.de
ricka Bremer, whose observations might
well become the rule of life, so appropri
ate are they to many of its phases :
“ Deceive not one another in small
things, nor in great. One little single lie
has. before now, disturbed a whole mar
ried life. A small cause has often great
consequences. Fold not your hands to
gether and sit idle. Laziness is the dev
il’s cushion. Do not run much from your
home. One’s own health is worth more
than gold. Many a marriage, my friend,
begins like the rosy morning and then falls
away like a snow wreath. And why 1 —
Because the married pair neglect to be as
well pleased with each other after mar
riage as before. Endevour always, my
children, to please one another, but at the
same time keep God in your thoughts.—
Lavish not all your thoughts on to-day,
for remember that marriage has its tomor
row, and its day after to-morrow, too, —
“spare,” as we may say, “fuel for the win
ter.” Consider, my daughter, what the
word wife expresses. The married wo
man is the husband’s domestic faith ; in
her hands must he be able to confide house
and family, be able to trust her with the
key of his heart, as well as the key of his
eating-room. His honor and his home
are under her keeping—his well being is
in her hand. Think of this! And ye
sons, be faithful husbands and good fathers
of families. Act so that your wives shall
esteem and love you.”
lloosier Wedding. —The ceremony of
tying the nuptial knot is Very much sim
plified in the lloosier state, as the follow
ing scene will show:
“What is your name, sir V *
“Matty;”
“Any relation to Van Buren V*
“No.”
“What is your name, miss 1”
“Polly.”
“Matty, do you love Polly 1”
“Wall I does.”
“Polly do you Matty ?”
“No mistake, squire.”
“Well,then you want to be tied V’
“I rekon so.”
“Well, then, I pronounce you man and
wife.”
“Thank you sir !”
Good Speculation. —A yankee trans
ported a couple of hogs to the “diggins”
to root for the “precious ore,” and obtain
ed every niglit from six to eight ounces of
gold trom their snouts.
A certain son of St.‘ Crispin, recently
called on a blacksmith to get the steel
corks of his horse’s shoes sharpened, and
being in groat baste he asked, ‘Can’t yon
doit without taking his shoes off!’ *1
don’t know,’ said Vulcan, ‘but if you will
hold his feet in my forge I’ll try.'
A merchant, examining a hogshead of
hardware, on comparing it with the in
voice, found it all right except one baml
- ‘Oh, don’t be troubled, my honey,'
said the Irish porter, ‘sure the nager took
it out to open the hogshead with.’
A captain, one ofthe old school, being
at a ball, had been accepted by a beauti
ful partner, a lady of rank, who, in the
most delicate manner possible, hinted to
him the propriety of putting on a pair of
gloves. ‘Oh !’ was the elegant reply ;
‘never mind me, ma’am ; I shall wash my
hands when I’ve done dancing.'
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•o the contrary, are considered as wishing-to con
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2. If tho subscribers order tho dmcontinua
tion of their papers, the publishers may continue
to send them till all cash charges are paid.
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papers from the offices to which they are directed
they are held responsible till they have settled
their bill, and order their paper discontinued.
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out informing the publishers, and the paper is
sent to the former direction, they are held re
sponsible.
5. The Courts have decided that refusing to
take a paper, or periodica! from the office, or re
moving aud leaving it uncalled for, is “ print®
fatie evidence of intentional fraud.
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above rules, and show it to persons who may de
cline taking their papers out of the respective
offices, without having paid up all arrearages for
he same.