The Southern museum. (Macon, Ga.) 1848-1850, September 01, 1849, Image 1

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THE Will is published every SATURDAY Morning, In the Brick Ruihling, at the Corner of Cotton Avenue and First Street, IS THE CITY OF MACON, GA. BY Witt. B. IIA IS KI SOY. T E II M S : For tlio Papftr, in advance, per annum,'s2. if not paid in advance, §2 50, per annum. If not paid until the end of the Year .<:3 00. (Tj" Advertisements will be inserted at the usual rites —and when the number of insertions de sired is not specified, they will be continued un til forbid and charged accordingly. TT Advertisers by the Year will he contracted with upon the most favorable terms. i[j*3ales of Land by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required by Law, to be held on thelirat Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten o'clock in the Forenoon and three in the Af ternoon, at the Court House of the county in which the Property is situate. Notice of these Sales must be given in a public gazette sixty uits previous to the day of sale. O’ -Sales of Negroes by Ad ministators. Execu tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction on, the first Tuesday in the month, between the legal hours of sale, before the Court House of thecounty where the Letters Testamentary, or Administration or Guardianship may have been granted, first giv ing notice thereoffor sixty days, in one ofthe pub lic gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Court House where such sales are to lie held. O’Notice for the sale of Personal Property must bo given in like manner forty days previous to the day of sale. fj* Notice to the Debtors and Creditors ofan Es tate must be published for forty days. fy Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne groes must he published in a public gazette in this Slate for four months, before any order absolute can be given by the Court. kT* Citations for Letters of Administration on an Estate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must be published tiiirtv and ays -for Letters of Dismis sion from the administration ofan Estate, monthly for six mon riis—for Dismission from Guardian ship FORTY DAYS. Lj’llui.F.s for the foreclosure of a Mortgage,! must be puolished monthly for four months — for establishing lost Papers, for the full space of three months —for compelling Titles from Ex ecutors, Administrators or others, where a Bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of THREE MONTHS. N. 13 All Business of this kind shall receiv prompt attentionat the SOUTHERN MUSEUM Offiue, an l strict care will he taken that all legal Advertisements are published according to Law. (O’All Letters directed to this Office or the Editor on business, must be post-paid, to in sure attention. CJ! •'.i LH i Lli lUOitE GItAPE.” rjVIE undersigned, hue to Ins promise, again |_ presents to the Public more data on which they can safely base their calculations relative to the respective merits of the depleting system ofthe disciples of Esculapius, and of that invig orating and phlogostic one of which lie is proud to he the advocate. Leaving the stilts of egotism and shafts of rid icule fur the use of those who have nothing bet ter to stand on, and no other weapons for attack or defence, lie selects bis standing on truth, and Uses such support 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 the ludicrous effect they produce in causing certain individuals to laugh, as it is expressed in homely phrase, “on t’other side the mouth.” Tlio Mexicans arc not the only people, these ti n s, whom vanitj has blinded to their own de li- n ; neither can they claim much superiority in the way of fancied eminence and blustering bravado over many that live a great deal nearer homo. A salutary lesson lias latterly been giv en the former by the Americans, and the loiter mav ere long take “ another ofthe same ” a In. iiunlc ilc Tailor. After the following there will still bo “a few more left.” Georgia, Tones County, 1848. This certifies that for more than four or five years my wife was affiicted vvilh a disease pecu liar to her sex, and notwithstanding ali that we could do, she still continued to got worse. The Physicians in attendance had exhausted their skill without rendering her any assistance till, in 1811, when she was confined to her bed in a very low condition, I got Iter last attendant to go with me to Macon and lay her case before Dr. M. 8. Thom son, who, without having seen her, prescribed and sent her medicine that soon re lieved her, and in the course of a short time re stored her to permanent health. She has now been well about four years and rejoices in the recovery ol her long lost health FRANCIS 13. lIASCAL. M .icon. June *22d, 1848. Du. M. S. Thomson — Dear Sir :—Dooming it a duty I owe to yourself as well as to the afflicted generally, I have concluded to give you a short statement ofmycase, which you are at liberty to publish if you think that the best mode of thereby subserving the interests of suffering humanity. In May 1841, after considerable exposure to cold, I was attacked with Asthma, which pros •fated 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 u very nevere cough, which led some of the physicians •a whom 1 applied to believe that I had consump tion. 1 applied to physicians of both the min eral and Botanic schools, of eminent general qualifications, hut all to no benefit, for 1 contin ued to gut worse,so much so that 1 had reduced from being a strong, fleshy man, down to n mere fckeleton and could hardly creep about.—When I applied to you, I had hut little faith in being cured, though 1 had witnessed some wonderful results following your treatment, especially the cure of that crazy woman you bought of Aquil lu Phelps, in Jasper, yet they gave me confi dence ami by persevering in the use of your remedies, and as it were hoping against hope, am much gratified in being able to announco tuat I have got entirely well, for 1 have bud but "oc light attack in twenty months, and that was •ught months ago. 1 have now regained about •uy termer weight, and feel as strong us almost uuv man of fifty-one, which is my age.. Without disparagement to the cliaracteroftlie other cures •bat have so frequently resulted from your prac kcc, I do not think that any of them can beat • us, for confirmed Jisthma combined with a oi'mimpliee cough, especially where the flesh wasted, has long been classed among the im ‘•cables. Most respectfully,yours, li. UGHTFOOT. •J '"’l 'rsignml still continues to treat Ohro (j"' 1 ,ls< " from, a distance at his office,or either of ' l l! > boarding houses, and at a distance " "‘-b t| lo Hmii or ||y private hand. Those tit ‘ “ 1 11 ire personal attention, are treated n "'' birs per month, those who do, at the i ' n ""derate rates. Those who tire able to oo i" '" i l , °ct to do so, without variation front tli' ' "! ls ’ ""less a distinct bargain is made, "ho urn not, will he treated gratuitously. rs must he post-paid, and add essed M. rt. THOMSON, M. !>. Macon, Ga. THE SOUTHERN MUSEUM. VOLUME I. 4 j o r t r 2 . THE FRIENDLY DEFIANCE. PY CHARLES MACKAY. Thou shall not rob me, thievish Time, Os all my blessings, all my joy ; I have some jewels in my heart, Which thou art powerless to destroy. Thou may’st denude my arm of strength, And leave my temples seam'd and bare’ Deprive mine eyes of passion’s light, And scatter silver o’er my hair; But never while a book remains, And breathes a woman or a child, Shalt thou deprive me, whilst I live ; Os feelings fresh and undefiled. No, never while the Earth is fair, And reason keeps its dial bright, Wh ate'er thy robberies, oh Time, Shall I be bankrupt of delight. Whate’er thy victories o’er my fame, Thou canst not cheat me of this truth— That though the limbs may faint and fall, That spirit can renew its youth. So thievish Time, I fear not thee ; Thou art powerless on this heart of mine; My jewels shall belong to me ; ’Tis but the settings that are thine. Woman and IVlavriagc. BY WASHINGTON IRVING. I have speculated a great deal on mat rimony. 1 have seen young and beauti ful women, the pride of the gay circles, married, —as the world says—well!— Some have moved into costly houses, and their friends have all come and looked at their splendid arrangements for happiness, and they have gone away and committed them to their sunny hopes, cheerfully and without fear. It is natural for the young to bo sanguine, and at such times I am carried away by similar feelings. I have to get unobserved into a corner, and watch the bride in her white attire, and wi:h her smiling face and her soft eyes moving in their pride of life, weave a wa king dream of their future happiness, and persuade myself that it will be true. 1 think will sit on the luxurious sofa as the twilight falls, and build gay hopes, and murmur in low tones the unforbidden ten derness, and enjoy the allowed kisses* and the beautiful endearments of wedded life will make even their patting joyous, and how gladly they will come back from the crowd, and the empty mirth of the gay, to each other’s quiet company. 1 picture to myself that young creature who blushes even now at his hesitating caress es, listening eagerly for his footsteps as the night steals on, and wishing that he would come home ; and when he enters at last, and with an affection as undying as his pulse, folds her to his bosom, I can feel the very tide that goes flowing through his heart, and gaze with him on her grace ful form as she moves about him for the kind offices of attention, smoothing all his unquiet cares, and making him forget even himself, in her young and unshad owing beauty. 1 go forward years, and see her luxu riant hair putsoberly away from her brow, and her girlish graces ripened into dignity, and bright loveliness chastened into affec tion. Her husband looks on her with a proud eye, and shows her the same fer vent love, and the delicate at'entions which first won her, and fair children are grown up about them, and they go on full of honor and untroubled years, and arc re membered when they die ! I say I love to dream thus when I go to give the young bride joy. It is the natural tendency and feeling touched by loveliness, that fears nothing for itself; if I ever yield to feel ings, it is because the light of the picture is changed. lam not fond of dwelling upon such changes, and I will not minute ly now. I allude to it only because 1 trust that my simple page will be read by some of the young and beautiful beings who move daily across my path, and I would whisper to them, as they glide by joyously and confidently, the secret of an unclouded future. The picture I have drawn above is not peculiar. It is colored like the fancies of the bride, and many, oil! many an hour will she sit, with the rich jewels ying loose in her fingers, and dieam thus. She l elieves them too—and goes <nifor a vvl; e undeceived. The evening is too long while they talk of plans I>>r happiness, and the quiet meal is still pleasant with delightful novelty of mutual reliance and attention. There conies soon, however, a time when personal topics become bare MACOY, (GA.) SATURDAY MOBBING* SEPTEMBER 1, IS 19 and wearisome, and slight attentions will not alone keep up the social excitement. Ihere are intervals of silence, and detect ed symptoms of weariness, and the hus band first, in his manhood, breaks in up on the hours they were to spend together. I cannot follow it circumstantially. There come long hours of unhappy restlessness, and terrible misgivings of each other’s worth and affection, till by and by, they can conceal their uneasiness no longer, and go out separately to seek relief, and lean upon the hollow world for support, which one who was their lover and friend could not give them ! Heed, this, ye who are winning by your innocent beauty the affections of a highminded and thinking being! Re member that he will give up the brother es his heart, with whom he has had ever a fellowship of mind—the society of his co temporary runners in the race of fame* who have held with him a stern compa nionship—and frequently in his passion ate love, he will break away from the are na of his burning ambition, to come and listen to the voice of the charmer. It will bewilder him at first, but it will not long; and then think you that an idle banish ment will chain the mind that has been used for years to an equal communion ? I liink you he will give up, for a weak dalliance, the animating themes of men, and the search into mysteries of knowl edge. Oh ! rio, lady ! believe me—no ! 1 rust not your influence to such light fet ters ! Credit not the old fashioned ab surdity that woman’s is a secondary lot— ministering to the necessities of her lord and master! It is a higher destiny I would award you. If your immortality is as complete and your gift of mind as ca pable as ours, 1 would charge you to wa ter the undying bud, and give it a healthy culture, and open its beauty to the sun, j and then you may hope, that when your I life is bound with another, you will go on equally, and with a fellowship that shall pervade every earthly interest! Old Spanish Proverbs. He is a rich man who hath God for his friend. He is the best scholar who hath learned to live well. A handful of mother wit is worth a bushel of learning. When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray. Change of weather finds discourses for fools. A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt. The sorrow men have for others hangs upon one liair. A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. That day on which you marry you either mar or make yourself. God comes to see or look upon us with out a bell. You had better leave your enemy some thing when you die, than live to beg of your friends. That’s wise delay makes the road safe. Cure your sore eyes only with your el bow. Let us thank God for what we have. The foot of the owner is the best meas ure for his land. He is my friend who grinds at my mill. Enjoy that little you have while the fool is hunting for more. Saving and doing do not dine together. Money cures all diseases. A life iilspent makes a sad old age. ’Tis mony that makes men lords. We talk, but God does what he pleas es. May you have good luck, my son, and a little wit will serve your turn. Gifts break through stone walls. Go not to your doctor for every ail, nor to your pitcher for every thirst. There is no better looking glass than an old true friend. A wall between both best preserves friendship. The sum of all is, to serve God well, and to do no ill thing. The creditor always has a better memo ry than the debtor. Setting down in writing is a las ing memory. Repen ence always costs very clear. Good breeding and money make our sons gentle men. As you use your father, so yourchil* dreti will use you. There is no evil but some good use may be made of it. No praise is great enough for good counsel. Examine not the pedigree nor patrimo ny of good man. 1 here is no ill thing in Spain but that which can speak. Praise the man whose bread you eat. God keep me from him whom I trust; from him whom I trust not, l shall keep myself. Keep out of a hasty man’s way for awhile ; out of a sullen man's all the days of your life. If you love me, John, your deeds will tell me so. I defy all fetters, though they were made of gold. Few die of hunger, « hundred thousand of surfeits. Govern yourself by reason ; though some like it, offiers do not. It you would know the worth of a ducat, go and borrow one. No companion like money. A good wife is the workmanship of a good husband. The fool fell in love with a lady's laced apron. The friar who asks for God’s sake, asks for himself too. God keeps him who takes what care he can ofhimself. Nothing is valuable in this world, except as it tends to the next. Smoke, raining into a house, and scold ing wife, make a man run out of doors. There is no to-worrow for an asking ftiend. God keep me from still water ; from that which is rough I will keep myself. Take your wife’s first advice, not her second. Tell not what you know, judge not w’hat you see, and you will live in quiet. Hear reason, or she will make herself heard. Gifts enter everywhere without a wim ble. A great fortune with a wife is a bed full of brambles. One pin for your purpose and two for your mouth. '1 here never was but one mau who nev er did a fault. He who promises runs into debt. He wild holds his peace geathers stones. Leave your son a good reputation and an employment Receive your money beford~you give a receipt for it, and take a receipt before you pay it. God doth the cure, and the physician lakes the money for it. Thinking is very far from knowing the truth. Fools make great feasts, and wise men eat them. A gentle calf sucks her own mother. The Devil brings a modest man into a court. He who will have a mule without any fault must keep none. The wolves eat the poor ass that hath many owners. Visit your aunt, but not every day in the year. Go up Head ! —“Napoleon Alexis Dobbs, come up here, and say your lesson. “What makes boys growl” "It is the rain, sir.” “Why do not men grow ?” “Because they carry umbrellas, which keep off the rain.” “What makes a young man fall in love V’ “Because one of them has a heart of steel, and t’other has a heart of flint, and when they comes together, they strike fire, and that is love.” A Sad Mistake. — A young exquisite, who was anxious to raise up a ferocious crop of whiskers, being told that bear's oil would facilitate their growth, went to a druggist and procured a bottle of oil, which he put profusely on his face when going to bed. Next morning, on looking in the glass, he was horrified to find either side of his face covered with a thick coat of white feathers. The druggist had made a mistake, and given him .goose oil instead of bear’s oil. BoVs, Behave. —“An old man” com plains that boys come to see liis darters, hut say nothing about marrying them— this he does not like. He says “gals must get husbands when they are young, if they ge them ; and therefore those ; ti lers who have no notion of being married, have no business to tike up the gals' time for nothing, and thereby keep better boys away.” NUMBER 10. The Poet ami his Litile Daughter. There they are, of a June morning, where roses and yellow jesamine covered the old wall and the black bird, aloft in the broad-leaves sycamore, was singing as if he was out of his senses for joy—and na ture and art conspired to make all glad.— It was the poet’s own garden. Was he happy I Did content smile upon and bless him I Was his spirit in harmony with his place ? It was clouded with sad and bitter thoughts ; his heart was oppressed ; he had been disappoint ed ; where lie had hoped for good he found evils. And as his little daughter raised up to him to tell him about the charity children, full of sympathy herself, and sure of finding it in him, she heard him say to a neighbor: “No I have no hope of human nature now; it is a poor miserable thing, that is not worth working for. My best endeav ors have been spent in its service ;—my youth and manhood’s strength—my very life—and this is my reward ! 1 will work for money’s sake as others do—and not for the good of mankind !” The poet’s words were bitter, and tears came in the eyes of his best friend. Nev er had the child heard such words from her father before ; lie had been to her hitherto as a great and good angel. “I will work,” said he, “for money’s sake, as others do, and not for the good of mankind.” “ My father, if you do,” said the child, in a voice of mournful indignation, “I will trample all your writings under my feet!” Large tears rolled down her cheek, and her eyes were fixed upon her father’s face. The poet took the child in his arms and kissed her; an angel had touched hisheart, and he could forgive his bitter enemies. “ I will tell you something, my child,” said he, in his usual mild voice. The child leaned her head against his breast and lis tened “Once upon a time, a man lived in a great wilderness; he was a poor man, and worked very hard for his bread ; he lived in a cave of a rock, and because the snn shone burning hot into the cave, he twined roses, and jesamines, and honey suckles all around it; and in front of it, and iu the ledges of the rock, he planted flowers and sweet shrubs, and made it ve ry pleasant. Water ran gurgling from a fissure in the rock into a little basin, whence it poured in gentle streams through his garden, in which grew all kinds of fruits. “ Birds snng in the tall trees which na ture herself had planted, and little squir rels, and lovely green lizzards, with bright* intelligent eyes, lived in the branches and among the flowers. All would have gone well with the man, had not evil spirits ta ken possession of the cave; they troubled him night and day ; they dropped canker blight upon his roses, nipped off his jesa mine and honey-suckle flowers, and in the form of a caterpiller and blight, ate his beautiful fruits. It made tho man angry and bitter; the flowers were no longer beautiful to him, and when he looked at them ho thought only of the canker and the caterpiller, “I can no longer take pleas* ure in them,” said he, “I will leave the cave and go elsewhere.” He did so; and he travelled on and on ; but it was a vast wilderness in which he was, and so it was many a day before he came to a place of rest, nor did he know that all this time the evil spirits who had plaged him so in his own cave, were still going with him ; but they were; and they made every place where he came to worse till at the last— their very breath cast a blight upon every tiling. “ He was foot-sore and weary, and ve ry miserable. A feeling like despair was in his heart and he said, he might as well die as live ; he lay down in the \vilderness f and scarcely had he done that, when he heard behind him the pleasantest sound in the world ; a little child singing like a bird because her heart was innocent and full of joy ; the next moment she was at his side. The evil spirits that were about him, when they saw her coming, drew back a little, for she brought with her a beautiful company of angels and bright spirits, little chedibs, with round, rosy cheeks, golden hair and laughing eyes, stuck between two dove’s wings as snow. The child had not the least idea that these beautiful spirits always were about her; all she knew was, that lie was full of joy, ami that she loved above all things to do good. When she saw the poor man lying BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, Will be executed in the most approved stye and on the best terms,at the Office of the. SCUTHEB.IT MUSEUI£, -BY— WM. D. HARRISON. there, she went up to him, and talked so pityingly and yet so cheerfully to him that he felt as if her words would cure lym.— She told him that she lived just by, and that he should go with her and rest, and get well in her cave. He went with her, and It was just such a cave as his own, on ly much smaller. Roses and honey-suck les and jesamines grew all around it, and the birds were singing, and gold and sil ver fish were sporting about iu the water, and there were such beds of strawberries all red and luscious that filled the air with odor. “It was a beautiful place; there seemed to be no canker or blight on anything; and yet the man saw how spiders had woven webs like the most beautiful lace, from one vine branch to another; and butter flies that had once been devouring cater pillars, were flitting about; and just as in his own garden, fat yellow frogs were squatted under the cool leaves; but the child loved the frogs as well as the green lizzards, and said that they did her no harm, and that there were plenty of straw berries both for them and for her. “The evil spirits that had troubled the man, and followed him, could not get in to the child’s garden ; it was impossible, because all these rosy-cheeked cherubs and white angels lived there, and that which is good, be it ever so small, is a great deal stronger than that which is evil* be it ever so large. So they sat outside and bit their nails for vexation ; and as the man stayed a long lime with the child they got so tired of waiting, that some of them flew away forever. “At length the man kissed the child, and went hack to his own place, When he got there he found that owing to the evil spirits having been so long away, the flowers and the fruits had in a great mea sure recovered themselves; there Was hardly any canker or blight left, and as the child now came very often to see him, and brought with her all her bright com pany, the place was /reed, at least while she stayed from the evil ones. That is a true story. There are many men who, like him, live in a wilderness, and it is happy for them when they have a child for their neighbor.” The poet was silent, the child kissed him, and then without saying a word about the little charity children, ran off to sit down beside them, and perhaps to tell them the story which her father hud just told her. And, children, do you see how you may teach fathers and mothers, and your eld ers, when wrong how to do right ? A word kindly spoken, when they are an gry —a sweet smile when they are unhap py, the right thing done in the right way, will chase away the evil spirits and make them good again. 05” Among all the pointed things of Junius there is nothing superior to this: “Private credit is wealth—public honor is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird, supports its flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.” A Toad. —An Irishman describing a toad, said it was a very queer bird : when it stood up it was no taller than when it sat down, and when it flew, it went with a and 1 of a jolt. Worth Remembering. —He that is passionate and hasty is general!}* honest. It is the mild, dissembling hypocrite that should be shunned. There is no deceit a bout a bull-dog. Tt’s only the cur that sneaks up and bites you behind your back. The t*iv of Newspapers. 1. Subscribers who do not give express notice *o the contrary,are considered as wishing to con tinue their subscriptions. 2. If the subscribers order tho discontinua. tion of their papers, the publishers may continue to send them till all cash charges are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse take their papers from the offices to which they are directed they are held responsible till they have settled their hill, and order their paper discontinued. 4. If subscribers remove to other places with 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 periodical from the office, or re moving and leaving it uncalled for, is “ prirmc fatie evidence of intentional fraud. Postmasters are requested to keep a copy of the above rules, and show it to persons who may de. dine taking their papers out of the respective offices, without having-paid up all arrearages for he same.