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THE omismm'sa Will be published every SATURDAY Morning, fit the Brick Building, at the Corner of Co'.ton Avenue and First Street, IN THE CITV OF MACON, GA. BY WJI. B. IIAKItISOY. TE R M S ~~ For the Paper, in advance, per annum, st». If not paid in advance, §2 50, per annum. If not paid uiitil the end of the Year $3 00. LQP Advertisements will be inserted at the usual Tatas —and when the number of insert ions de sired is not specified, they wili be continued uu til forbid and charged accordingly. (FT*Advertisers by the Year will be contracted with upon the most favorable terms. (FTdales of Lin l by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required by Law, to be held on the first 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 ofthese Sales must be given in a public gazette sixty days previous to the day of sale U* 3alei of Negroes by Administators, Execu tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction on, the first Tuesday in the month, between the legal hours of sals, before the Court House of the county where the Letters Testamentary, or Administration or Gilr lianship may h ive been granted, first giv ing n mke tltereoflbr sixty days, in one ofthe pub lic gazettes of this Btate, and at the door of the ■gEwmid-HnuwrWhere such s ties are to be held. O* Notice for the sale of Person il Property must be given in like manner forty days previous to the day of sale. L7*Notice to the Debtors and Creditorsof an Es tate mud be published lor forty days. T 7 Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordimry for leave to sell Land or Ne groes mast he p ihlished in a public gazette in this State for four months, before any order absolute can be given by the Court.’ Ly* lira rioss for Letters of Administration on -in Estate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must be published thirty days • for Letters of Dismis sion from the a I ninistr itionofan Estate, monthly for six months —for Dismission from Guardian ship FORTY DAYS. lj*ilui.K.s for the fireclo=ure of a Mortgage, must he puulished monthly for four months — for establishing lost Papers, for the full space of three months —for co npelltng Tittes from Ex ec itors, A 1 ninistrators or others, where a Bond hasheen given by the deceased, the full space of thrf.f. months. N II All Bidness of th'S kin I shall receiv prumpt attention at the SOUTHERN MUSEUM O Ran I s'rict care will he taken that all legal Advertisements are published according to Law. •O* Ml Lelters directed to this Office or the Editor on business, must be post-paid, to in sure afen'ion. 11 .4 dj 4*’ It'Sa o >oi AV* tL* •’ * f|VI E undersigned, t' lic to Ins promise, again 1. presents to the Public more dura 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 bo the advocate. Leaving the stilts of egotism and shnf sos rid icule f r tlie use of those who have nothing hel ler to stand ott, and ttt> »ttrrr capons f-Tattnrt; •or defence, he selects his 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 his 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.” 'rite Mexicans arc not the only people, these days, whom vanity has 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"’ a In mode dt Tin,lor. After the following there will still he “a few more left.” Georgia, lones County, 1848. This certifies that for more than four or five years my wife was a filleted with a disease pecu liar to her sex, and notwithstanding all that we could do, she still continued to get worse. The Pnvsiciaus in attendance had e Jiausted their •skill without rendering her anv assistance till, in 18-14, when she was confined to her bed in a very low condition, ( got her last attendant to go with me to Macon and lay her case before Dr. M. S. Thomson, 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 luis now been well about four years and rejoices in the recovery of her long lost health FRANCIS 15. IIASCAL. Macon. June 22d, 1848. Dk. M. S. Thomson Dear Sir: —D< -'emmg it a duty I owe to yourself as well as to the afflicted generally, 1 have conc'uded to give you a short statement of my case, which you are tit 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 trated mo very much, and notwithstanding all that could ho done to prevent it, it continued to return about every two weeks till in l»4(i, I ap plied to you. Between those attacks I had a vcr\ severe cough, which led some, of the physicians to whom I applied to believe that I had consump tion. 1 applied to physicians of both the Min eral and Botanic schools, of eminent g< neral •q >alideations, but nil to no benefit, for 1 contin ued to get worse,so much so that I had reduced f om being a strong, fleshy man, down to a mere skeleton 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, espeeiallv the cure of that crazy woman you bought of Aquil bt Phelps, in Jasper, yet they gave nrie confi dence and by persevering in the use of your remedies,and as it were hoping against hope, am niuclt gratified in being able to announce that I have got entirely well, for I have had but cue light attack in twenty months, and that was eight months ago. I have now regained about lay former weight, and feel as strong as almost any man ofafly-one, which is my age. Without isparagement to the cltaraoterofthe otherctires tat have so frequently resulted from your prac ice, I do not think that any of them can beat ns, for confirmed Jisthma combined with a cough, especially where the flesh has long been classed among the in n-itbles. Most respectfully,yours, 11. LIGHT FOOT. "adorsignnd still continues to treat Cliro the , tSes t r,,m a distance at his office,or either of p. ''Y boarding houses, and i,t a distance W l 'Y" lc "»aii or hv private hand. Those atfi M j ,t .. r<,, l' , i r c person il attention, are treated „ s | ,llais per month, those who do, at the p a ‘ '"'.derate rates. Those who are able to "Ur n!t ! ,o, 't t° do so, without variation from those' r 'i' S ’ " nl,! ' is 11 bargain is made, in are not, will he treated gratuitously ers must be pust-paiil, and odd n M. 8. THOMSON, M. I) Macon, Ga. THE SOUTHERN MUSEUM. VOLUME I. sor 1 r g \ From the Saturday Etenmg Post. Tlie Widowed Home. by henry morford. The old church bell bad ceased to toll, And the holy words of prayer For the long repose of the parted soul Were dying on the air ; The coffin lid was moved aside And friends with sottened tread, Who bad known the sleeper in bis pride Dressed up to see -him deqj. v Most culm, most beautiful lie lay In bis narrow dwelling now, But the first faint traces of decay Already spanned bis brow ; And ns we looked fell many a tear, And many a red lip paled To see the eyes, once bright and clear, In death’s cold shadow veiled. But with pitying awe the crowd fell hack, And colder grew the blood, As the weeping wife in her weeds of black Beside the c.dfin stood ; And in our hearts this many a year Shall sound her saddening moan, “How can I lesvo thee buried hero And go back to live alone !” Tl icy shut the coffin o’er bis clay— I heard, I saw them not, For my heart on the word was borne away To a fur and desolate spot ; Is ood in the house whence the spirit gone Had past beyond tlie tomb, I saw the weary days roll on Afar in the Widowed Home. I saw her in her daily toil, Forgetting this adieu. Turn round to meet him with a smile And burst in tears anew ; I saw Iter veil his picture round Where his image still was warm, I saw her take the garments down That mocked Iter with bis form. I saw her on her couch of sleep, That ever lonlicst seems, Forget her sorrow long and deep And clasp bis form in dreams ; 1 beard her, at the morning hour, Her sense o’ertasked and dim Pray God for death's oblivious power To join her again to him. An hour bad past, and sadly tolled Again the old church hell, And I heard the sound of the crumbling mould That on the coffin fell, > 15ut gadder far upon the ear , Came again the widow’s moan, — “How can I leave thee buried here, And live my life alone !” For all of life 'tis a hitter thing To speak of parting breath, And touched wi It a sad and solemn wing Is every thing of death ; Dot saddest of all is the empty place In the weary years to come : Great God ! who watchest the human race, Save us from n Widowed Home ! ICislcy ia a Balloon. We find tit the London Sunday Times of the sth ult., says the Model Courier, our countryman, Professor liisley’s own account oFhis ascent with Mr. Green in the great Nassau Balloon. The Profes sor is very graphic in his description, and although somewhat peculiar and Ameri can in his expressions, will be found most amusing : Until Wednesday last I never went up in a balloon. I have been sky-high on the top of the Catskili Mountains, and have lunched in the snows of Chimborazo; but I never before made a gas-ascent into a/r-shire. We on the other side of (he Atlantic have so much to do with sublu naiy affairs that we have no time for cas tle-building in the clouds. The milky way yields no butter ; the moon don’t furnish us with cheese ; the dog star don’t fol’ow game ; Charles’ wain tills no ground ; Venus is not half so bright as the dazzling eyes of Kentucky ; the shooting stars never bring down anything worth having ; the comets are not come-at-able ; the silvery lustre of Luna is all moonshine, the golden rays of Sol aint worth a clod of California earth ; the fleecy clouds pro duce no hosiery ; ‘‘the blanket of the night” is not a marketable commodity—don’t keep one warm ; while sheets of light ning are too hot for any climate. A rail way from one planet to another w; uld l*e in practicable, seeing that they are al ways on the move themselves ; and. in short, the s arry hosts : esemble some hosts in our own planet—nothing is to be got out < f ’em. Yet 1 have always nourished a desire to go “a-ballooning.” “Mount 1 must,” has ever been my motto. 1 have braved MACON, (GA.) SATURDAY MORItIUG, SEPTEMBER 2J, I*l9. the dangers of earth and water, having es caped the earthquake of Guadalupe, and stemmed in safety the rapids of the Mis sissippi ; but I have never gone ahead skyward. I have travelled by means of fire and steam, but t’other element is an unexplored region. “I am not Green, yet go in a balloon T must, if l make my way into the car at the tail of a sky-rocket.” Such have often been my reflections. It true that the fate of Icarus, has often recurred to memory during their indul gence ; but then I remembered that Dae da’us managed his flight withot tm ulting a feather, and why not I ? H, vitig once i “screwed my courage tothe sticking-place” I began to revolve in my mind the proba ble advantages. Might 1 not learn to nav igate the air, and prove the Columbus of the skies ? What was to prevent me from hereafter attaching a few dozen Nassaus tothe Isle of Wight, and carrying Cowes itself to Taunts, the hull 1 Anew name would of course be necessary, and bor rowing Gulliver, Laputa would an-wer thepurpise. Then the results! Com mercial relations might he established throughout the zodiac ! At Ariis the sol. diery of the world might furnish a depot for rum -rods ; the Bui might be turned into on office of record fir all the blunders o' mankind ; in Gemini might be reared a few monstrosities, in tlie shape of Siam ese twins, for exhibition at the American Hall; to Leo we might send the intended lions of he day for education ; in Virgo it might be advisable to rear a few virgin ab igails, to supersede the “horrid creatures” who now hold place in our domestic es tablishments ; in Libra young lawyers might learn how to hold the balance of justice, and the butchers of oar markets to adjust their scales ; in <S, orpi > I hoped to effect little, save by converting it into a vast receptacle for the scorpions of society; in Sagitarius I proposed in my own mind to erect, an asylum for the reception of those archers who are fond of drawing the long how ; in Capricornus I thought of founding an academy for teaching swim ming in all its branches ; in Aquarius 1 resolved to construct a reservoir for the supply of pure water to persons residing on the banks of the '1 hames; and in Pise s l lelt I should confer a boon upon society by permitting all anglers to exercise “the gentle art,” unimpeded by those legal en actments which prove scourges tothe rods •<f the earth. Thoughts more serious now entered my mind ; 1 began to calculate the probability of establishing a system of aerial naviga ti n, and of man sharing the territory of the eagle, as he has long since the domin ions of the whale. “We swim,” thought I, “and we have taken the conceit out of the Salamander. Why not fly ? Shall we he outdone by a schoolboy’s khe ? Forbid it human progress ! As fur dan ger!—with the veteran Green there is none. He is as old as Widdicombe, and as proof against the darts of death. Now that punishment by aid of the tight rope is being abolished, there is no telling what death he can die. Water don’t drown him ; air don’t suffocate him ; so mersets from the clouds don’t break his neck ; gas don’t burn him up ; and so cap ital is his constitution, that capital pun ishment only can shorten his life. That’s the man toffy with. He’s as good as an insurance office.” Thus med'tating, I hastened to the ad miral of the air, and soon struck my bar gain for a flight. There were a couple of cars attached to the balloon ; eight passen gers, occupying the first, and two the low er one. Amidst my companions was my protege, the young Hernandez, and a cou ple of ladies. No sooner had I vaulted into the car than 1 felt as if already in some new element, and unable to keep my po si ion, I squatted, like a sailor on a cross tree, upon the hoop that unites the lash ings of the car, and in that elevated posi tion had an opportunity of telegraphing tokens of good will with all my friends.— I can only liken my feelings at the mo ment to those I used to experience in my hobbledehoyish days, when I left the uni versity at vacation for home, and I have a smut i lculaii n that the machine mu*t have been infl<v. •! f r the occasion wills oxygen that had effervesced ft am a tun of j champagne. Af dr com pug non. de voyage asked me what l would take f< r supper in tny elevated lodging, and 1 answered, "a broiled squab and a brandy smash !” “Boom !” wen the signal gun fir s art ing as 1 spoke, and the stays were cast off. 1 leaped to my feet upon tny perch j and saw every hat in the gardens waviug Off went my own beaver, and I ascended with the lightest heart 1 ever felt in my life. Mr. Ferrars, the worshipful secre tary of the gardens, was asmuchexcied as myself, and leaped to the opposite side of the hoop. His enthusiasm kept pace w th my own, and each of us rigged out roarers as if we were abaut to join a jubi lee of the gods. W e wenl ahead as if impa ient to singe our pates against the sun, or as if old mo ther Ear.h was playing at foot-hall, and wished to try her strength on the Nassau b&lfcgn. Up we went, walking into the upper regions like an opossum up a gum !*£e, while the. dice sos our friends, and the clash of the hand benea h, produced a volume of sounds not unlike the thun ders of Niagara. Talk of sensations ! I felt as if my soul had sloped sick away from its clay, and was going a holiday ma king with my heart in its hand. A young gentleman in the car thought it as nice as a swing at a country fair. “.More like a jaunt to Paradise,” said one of ibe ladie a cry likely,” quoth the gentleman, “fqi we are hovering over one of its riv ers.” “How can that he I” said I. “Yonder stream is the Thames.” “Very well,” said my young friend; “and aint that identical with the river *Pisan V" I should have gone down speechless hut for a glass of the immortal sherry of my friend Green. It was a drop out of the same bottle he broached for the ladies on his last ascent after tilting their protectors on the parapet of a house that hadn’t the manners to step aside when it found itself in the way of the balloon. We now began to clear the gardens flying above the birds, who piped a fare well, like so many Jenny Linds. It wa; Up—uji —soar —soar—till the pleasure grounds we had quitted appeared like the garden plot in front of a Camberwell cot tage. The Thames twined over its shal lows like a silver cel in a sand basket.— Houses became bird-cages, oaks dwindled into cabbages, men became specks, wo men dew drops, and I began to lliink that ti e genus homo was in the habit of think ing a little 100 much of itself. To be se rous, when I saw the great globe swing ing at my feet, and the mightiest metrop olis 1 oking like a village down east at the foot of a ranger of hills, it struck me as a thorough going eternal truth that it mat tered little whether the Andes or the Grampian Hills were the chief scenic sea turesufa nation, as it was only necessaiy to fly a little higher than a kite, to reduce the mightiest mountain in the world to a mere mole-hill. We now neared a bank of clouds, and I saw what 1 never thought of seeing as long as 1 lived—the moon beneath my feet. She was just topping the horizon, and we were at least a mile above the highest point of the surface. A bank of clouds surged beneath us, and catching sunlight on one side of us and moonlight on the other, gave a notion of a sea with waves washing silver from the east and gold from the west. I thought what a panorama the scene would make, and, as we floated past a vista of clouds, I thought what an extensive bowling alley the di vinities of heathen mythology might have constructed there, plating with thunder bolts for halls, and using lightning instead of gas to illuminate the place. But, as we coutinued to mount, iny terrestrial imaginings gave way to ideas of another i kind. I was moving through that which ] forms the principles of both life and death I —of that which nourishes and which de cays—that which wafts the pleasure boat to its destination, while nurturing an elec tric force sufficient to shatter our entire planet into fragments. Here we were piercing the elements of destruction, with no oilier intimation of their presence than the zephyrs that fanned our foreheads. Little Hernandez was as delighted as I was, and made us all smile by exclaiming “lfthisbethe pleasure of riding in tl e air, I don’t wonder at Phaeton borrowing his fathet’s horses to take a gallop in the clouds.” A merrier, happier party never congre gated at the banquets of royalty. We were many of us str angers to each the and yet we fraternised without high ti a son or revolution, in the most amiable spi rit imaginable. Wby was this? On lives hung on the chance •fa moment, and the best thing vve could do while in the NUMBER 13. enjoyment of vitality was to gild the pill of existence as brightly as possible ; had I read the Bible from Gen esis to the Revelations, I could not have learnt a better lesson ; national animosi ties and human prejudices subsided before it. I felt that if the great family of man would but fancy itself in the cars of a bal loon, and make the best of mattets as we did, all would go slick and straight, and the moment I arrived at that conclusion, 1 resolved to preach the doctrine, and said, “Now, Mr. Green, I want to go mission arizing ; put me down if you please.” We landed at Sydenham—landed in ;-afety; and having made our acknowledge ments to those who crowded to our assist ance on reaching terrafirma, we returned to the gardens, where a spirit of the kindest welcome displayed itself in an nut. burst of those huzzas which Britishers turn to the two-fold purpose of welcoming their best friends and dismaying their foes. CuatosiTv.— One of my friends, before we left Boston, as if determined that no. thing should surprise me, related many diverting anecdotes to illustrate the inqui sitive turn of his countrymen. Among other stories, he gave a lively description of a New Englander who was seated by a reserved companion in a railway car, and who, by way of beginning a conver sation, said : “Are pnu a bachelor ?” To which the other replied, drily, “No, I’m not.” \ou are a married man V’ continued he. “No, I’m not.” “Then you must be a widower 1” “No, I’m not.” Here there was a short pause ; but the undaunted querist returned to the charge, observing, “If you are neither a bachelor nor a married man, nor a widower, what in tlie world can you be 1” “If you must know,” said the other “I’m a divorced man !” Another story, told me by the same friend, was that a gentleman being asked in » stage coach, how he bad lost his leg, made his fellow travellers promise I hat if he told them they would put no more questions on the subject. He then said, •‘lt was bitten off.” To have thus preclu ded them for the rest of a long journey rom asking how it was bitten off, was a truly ingenious method of putting imperti nent curiosity on the rack. A Great Man’s Patronage.— The Prince of Conti was embarrassed for want of money—would to Heaven that the want were confined to the Prince of Conti! People refused any longer to trust him.— His coachman came to him one morning and said : “ The horses, my lord, want hay and corn !” “Give them hay and corn then !” said the Prince. “But, my lord, the farmers and corn chandlers refuse to supply me any more till their accounts are discharged.” “All, that alters the matter,” quoth the Piince, very gravely. “But, your highness, what shall the hor ses have I” "Have !—call my steward.” J he steward appears. 1 -5o the corn chandler and the farmers refuse us credit—the rascals—do they ?” said the Piince. “Yes, my lord ” “Humph ! who does give us credit 1” “No one, your Highness.” “No one ?” “Yes, now I think of it, my lord, the pastry cook does.” "Honest fellow, we must encourage him!” cries the Prince. “Coachman, your affair is settled —give the horses cheese cake and custard /” Caleb Cushing. —Cist’s Advertiser tells the following anecdote of our late Ambassador to China, Caleb Cushing.— He had taken dinner with Commissioner Keying, and discovering something on the table he judged to be duck, ate of it with •esnarkab e appeti e. Not speaking Chi le;,e, and wishing to know what it was, ho pointed to it, after he had finished, aying to his host interrogatively— “ Quack, quack, quack?” The Mandarin, with equal brevity, re plied, with a shake of his head— * Bow, wow, wow!” Mr. Cushing’s feelings can be imagined. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, 1177/ be executed in the most approved sty't and on the best terms,at the Office of the SC*JTHE?.IT XOTSE’JM, -BY— WM. B. HARRISON. The Mother’s Lesson. A mother sitting in her parlor, over heard her child, whom her sister was dressing, say repeatedly, “ No, I don’t want to say my prayers.” “Mother,” said the child, appearing at the parlor door. ‘Trood morning, my child!” “I am going to get my breakfast.” “Stop a minute, I want you to coma and see me first.” i lie mother had laid down her work upon the next chair, as the boy run to her. She took him up. He kneeled in her lap and !aid his face down on her shoulder, his cheek against her oar. The mother rocked her chair slowly backward and for ward. • —. “Are you pretty well this morning V’ said she, in a kind and gentle tone. ‘A es, mother, lam very well. I am well, too, and when I waked up this morning, and found that I was well, I ihaiiKcd God for taking care of me.” Did you 1” said the boy, in a low tone half a whisper. He paused after it—conscience was at its vvotk. “Did you ever feel my pulse ?” asked his mother, after a minute of silence, at the same time taking the boy down arid sitting him on her lap, and placing his fin] gers on her wrist. “No, but I have felt mine.” “Well, don’t you feel mine, now—how it goes beating ?” “\es,” said the child. “If it should stop beating, I should die.” “Should you I” “Yes, 1 can’t keep it bealing.” “Who can 1” A silence. “You have a pulse, too, which beats here in your bo som, in your arm, and all over you, anti 1 cannot keep it beating, nor can you—no, body but God. If He should not take care of you, who could V’ “I don’t know,” said the child with a look of anxiety, and another pause en sued. •So, when I walked out this morninsr, I thought I’d ask God to take care of me and all of us.” “Did you ask Him to take care cu met “No.” “Why not V “Because I thought you would ask him yourself.” A long pause ensued—the deep and thoiightful expression of his countenance showed that his heart was reached. “Don’t you think you had better ask him yourself!” “Yes,” said the hoy, readily. He kneeled again in bis mother’s lap nnd uttered in his simple and broken lan guage, a prayer for the protection of Heaven. Washington. —The reserve and taci turnity of Washington were proverbial; but as the one was the result of diffidence and not of austerity or pride, so the other proceeded from his habitual prudence ra ther than coldness, or want of the sensibil ity that inspires eloquence. In proof of this, it is related of him that when the fa mous meeting of officers was held at New burgh, to consult upon measures to be ta ken in consequence of the disbandment of the army by Congress, without securing the reward due to its services, Washing ton, who was known to disapprove of the proceedings, though he sympathized with the feelings which gave rise to it, resolved, nevertheless, to be present. Unwilling to trust to his powers of ex tempore speaking, he reduced what ho meant to say to writing, and commenced reading it, without his spectacles, which, at that period, he used only occasionally. He found, however, that he could not pro ceed without them. He stopped, and. took them out, and ashe was preparing to place them, he exclaimed, “I have grown blind, as well as gray, in tlie service of my country.” This sudden burst of nat ural eloquence produced, as may be sup* posed, more effect than anything in his premeditated address. CtCrA lawyer, not very young nor hand some, examining a young lady witness in court, determined to perplex her, and said ‘.Mias, upon my word, you are very pretty.* The young lady very promptly replied, “I would return the compliment, sir, if were not on oath.” L^ = ‘“I wonder what makes my eyes so weak ?” said a 1 afer to a gentleman. “Why they are in a weak place,” repli ed the latter.