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THE Hill be published entry SATURDAY Morning, In the Txo-Story Wooden Building, at the Corner of Walnut and Fifth Street, IN TIIE CITV OF MACON, GA. IIY WM. IS. HARRISON. TERMS. For the Paper, in advance, per annum, $2. if not paid in advance, $2 50, per annum, if not paid until the end of the Year $3 00. XT Advertisements will be inserted at the usual rltes an d when the number of insertions de sired is not specified, they will be continued un til forbid and charged accordingly. jj’.Advertisers by the Year will be contracted with upon the most favorable terms. jj’Salesof Land 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 of these Sales must be »iven in a public gazette sixty days previous to the day of sale. U’Salesof Negroes by Administators, Execu tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction on, he first Tuesday in the month, between the legal hours of sale, before the Court House of the county where the Letters Testamentary, or Administration or Guardianship may have been granted, first giv ing notice thereoffor sixty days, in one ofthe pub li e gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Coilrt House where such sales are to be held. O’ Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in like manner forty days previous to the day of sale. L/’Notice to the Debtors and Creditors olan Es tate must be published for forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne groes must be published in a public gazette in this State for four months, before any order absolute can be given by the Court. jJ’Citations for Letters of Administration on an Estate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must be published thirty days —for Lcttersof Dismis sion from the administration ofan Estate, monthly for six months —for Dismission from Guardian ship FORTY DAYS. £j*Rules for the foreclosure of a Mortgage,! must be published monthly for four months — for establishing lost Papers, for the full space of three months —for compelltng Titlesfrom Ex ecutors, Administrators or others, where a Bond basbeen given by the deceased, the full space of three months. N. I). All Business of this kind shall recciv prompt attentionat the SOUTHERN MUSEUM Oifice, and strict care will be taken that all legal Advertisements are published according to Law. (Q’AII Letters directed to this Office or the Editor on business, must be post-paid, to in sure attention. O 1 ** A LITTLE nOHE CjIKAPE.” PTVIE undersigned, true to bis promise, again I 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 ler to stand on, and no other weapons for attack or defence, he selects his standing on truth, and uses such support only as merit gives him ; and for weapons, be 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.” The Mexicans arc not the only people, these days, whom vanity 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 ” a to mode de Taylor. After the following there will still ho “a few mote left.” Georgia, Jones County, 1848. 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 bed in a very low condition, 1 got her iast 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 has now been well about four years and rejoices in the recovery of her long lost health FRANCIS B. lIASCAL. Macon. June 22d, 1848. Dr. 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 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 me very much, and notwithstanding all that could be done to prevent it, it continued to return about every two weeks till in IB4G, I ap plied to you. Between these attacks I had a very severe cough, which led some ol’tlie 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 general qualifications, hut 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, 1 had but little faith in being tured, though 1 had witnessed some wonderful results following your treatment, especially the cure of that crazy woman you bought of Aquil •a Phelps, in Jasper, yet they gave me confi dence and by persevering in the use of your remedies, and as it were Imping against hope, am much gratified in being able to announce that I have got entirely well, for 1 have bad but one light attack in twenty mouths, and that was Cl gbt months ago. I have now regained about nty former weight, and feel as strong ns almost any man of fifty-one, which ismyage. Without disparagement to the cliarncteroftlie othercures *.'« have so frequently resulted from your prnc- ! c . e > I not think that any of them can beat * us ' *" or confirmed Asthma combined with a ("isumptiee cough, especially where the flesh as wasted, has long been classed among the itl arcitbles. Most respectfully,yours, 11. LIGHTFOOT. Un d' ! rsig n nd still continues to treat Cltro tlie HfN a distance at his office,or either of ,i ( j hoarding houses, and at a distance v 'ho mail or by private hand. Those uV. ,r ". require personal attention, are treated ii s , ‘ 'iinrs per month, those who do, at tile "od, Tate rales. Those who are able to l( „ niNt expoi-t to do so, without variation from 'ln r ' ns ’ unless a distinct bargain is made, ,' v ' l<> i,r e not, vill In- treated gratuitously. " c " rs must be post-paid , and add eased ■ . M. 8. THOMSON, M. D J ‘" ,J Macon, Ga. THE SOUTHERN MUSEUM. VOLUME I. $ o r t r g. Summer’s Farewell. BY ELIZA COOK. What sound is that? ’Tis Summer’s farewell In the breath of the night wind sighing; The chill breeze comes like a sorrowful dirge That wails o’er the dead and the dying. The sapless leaves are eddying round, On the path which they lately shaded ; The oak of the forest is losing its robe ; The flowers have fallen and faded. All that I fook on but saddens my heart, To think that the lovely so soon should part. Yet why should I sigh? Other Summers will come, Joys like the past one bringing ; Again will the vine bear its blushing fruit ; Again will the birds be singing ; The forest will put forth its “honors” again ; The rose be as sweet in its breathing ; The woodbine will climb round the lattice pane As wild and rich in its wreathing. The hi ves will have honey', the bees will hum, Other flowers will spring, other summers will come. They will, they will ; hut, all! who can tell AVhetlier I may live on till their coming ? Tlii s spirit may sleep too soundly then To wake with the warbling or humming. This cheek, now pale, may be paler far, When the summer sun next is glowing ; The cherishing rays may gild with light The grass on my grave turf growing ; The earth may be glad, hut worms and gloom May dwell with me in the silent tomb. And few would weep, in the beautiful world, For the fameless one who had left it; Few would remember the form cut off, And mourn the stroke that cleft it ; Many might keep my name on their lip, Pleased with that name degrading ; My follies and sins alone would live, A theme for their cold upbraiding. Oh ! what a ciiange in my spirit’s dream May there be ere the summer sun next shall beam ! She .Harried Him. Sometime in the month ofJunitary,lS4o I was a passenger on board the Washing ton, bound to New York : there were others, and among them a lady named A . She was an English woman, but had married an American, a merchant of New York. Though neither handsome nor accomplished, she was yet a very agreeable woman : she had good sense and good feeling. Although there was something of what the French call cm pressement in her manners, it was untitic tured with coarseness or forwardness.— Her children accompanied her, two fine healthy boys, whose gambols afforded amusement to all on board. Asa matter of course, travellers by sea do everything in their power to abate the irksomeness of their situation. Mighty are their efforts to kill time : on all sides and with all kinds of weapons they assail him; but in vain. Time will not be killed by them. Old though he be, he has the strength of Hercules in his prime. When they think they have him fast, and are about to administer the coup de grace, he escapes from their hands, and laughs them to scorn. On board the Washington, as on board other vessels, the passengers talked a great deal, and on a great many subjects. One day, the conversation turning on medicine and its practitioners, I asked Mrs. A what she thought of those in New York. “Very highly,” she replied. “Hut amongst them is one of whom I think more highly than of all the rest put together; that is Dr. B , a native of Baltimore, and the gentleman who attends my fami ly.” And then she commenced a panegyric on Dr. B , which would have been appropriate enough if bestowed on a Sy denham, but on nobody else. Amused at her warmth, I jokingly remarked, “Doubtless, Mrs. A , were you to become a widow, you would marry this Dr. B , of whom you speak so highly]’ “I become a widow !” she exclaimed.— What an idea ! Why my husbaud is on ly thirty-five years of age, and a remarka bly healthy man: he never had a day’s illness in his life.” “Possibly not,” I rejoined, “hut remark ably healthy men are often cut off espe daily in the United States, where the cli. mate, being always in extremes, is unfa vorable to heahh.” With that the conversation ended !he Washington was a clipper : in twenty-’. 'e days after leaving the port of Liverpool she entered that of New York. There MACON, (GA.) SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1819. the passengers separated : some went to Canada, some to the Far West, others (and J was one of them) to New Orleans. I had been in that city some seven or eight weeks, when one day, as I was reading the New York Herald, in the cof fee room of the Planter’s Hotel, the fol. lowing announcement met my eye. “Died yesterday, of inflammation of the heart, Mr. Robert A , merchant, of this city v He has left a widow and child ren to deplore his loss.” “What!” I said to myself, “can this bo i the husband of Mrs. A , the lady I knew on board the Washington ? Surely not !” Soon, however, I was compelled to think differently, for I found, oil reading a second time, the obituary in the Herald that every particular therein was applica ble to Mrs. A.’s husband. Uncertain, in deed, is life ! True the saying, “In the midst of life we are in death !” Months passed on, and I was still living in New Orleans, when an event caused me to leave it sooner than I had intended ; that event was my illness. In July, 184-, the yellow fever, was prevalent in that month, more so than usual, and also more fatal. In former years, the proportion of deaths to the recoveries, was as one is to five, in tin’s, as one is to four. I was one of those whom the disease attacked.— Deeply it struck its fangs in me. For a fortnight the poison rioted in my veins— death seemed inevitable—yet I recovered. How I By (as I verily believe) drinking common salad oil! A bottle thereof lay on a sideboard in my room ; delirious I seized it, and drank off the contents ! From that moment the fever began to abate! But although I had triumphed over the enemy, 1 had suffered in the con flict ; my hollow cheeks and attenuated limbs testified to its severity. My doctor said I was consumptive, and advised my Immediate return to England. I acted upon his advice. Behold me once more in New York, that great city—the Liverpool of the Uni ted States—destined, ere long, to be its London. The journey from New Orleans, inland, is fatiguing, even to the strong—to me, an invalid, it was killing. I felt so ill, the day after my arrival, that I deci ded on sending for a physician. Recol lecting what Mrs. A had said in praise of Dr. B , I sent for him. He came : and 1 found him—if not the paragon Mis. A had represented him—a physician of more than ordinory abilities, and of ve ry good manners withal. After prescri bing for me, and receiving the customary fee of two dollars, he was about to leave the room, when a few words from me nail ed him to the spot. They were these : “Pray, doctor, is Mrs. A still in N York ?” He colored slightly—looked first at me, then at his boots—at length said, “She is, and in my house: we were married a month ago.” I was thunderstruck. “Many a true word is spoken in jest!” ICP “My wife has made my fortune,” said a gentleman of great possessions, “by her thrift, prudence and cheerfulness when I was just beginning.” “And mine has lost my fortune,” an swered his companion bitterly, “by use. less extravagance, and repining when I was doing well.” What a world does this open of the in fluence which a wife possesses over the future prosperity of her family. Let the wife know her influence, and try to use it wisely and well. IC?* The human heart is subject to strange caprices ; it knows neither hatred nor love in moderation ; and too often, if we were carefully to examine the hidden motives of both our hatred and our love, we should find their source in either wounded or gratified vanity. Spider’s Web. —The body of every spider contains four little masses pierced with a multitude of imperceptible holes, each hole permitting the passage of a sin gle thread ; all the threads to the amount of a thousand to each mass, join tohether when they come out, and make the single thread with which the spider spins its web; so that what we call a spider’s thread con sists of m re than four thousand united. following line is fraught with instruction, and includes the secret of final success—be prudent, be patient and be persevering. The Erasivc-Soap Mail. BY J. J. HOOPER. The itinerant fellows who frequent our villages, during the sessions of the Courts, and on all other occasions of popular as semblings— vending their small wares, ala the Razor Strop matt—are sometimes ve ry amusing. We noticed one of’em, last week, crying his evasive soap to as simple a crowd as we have observed in some time. He was a sharp-eyed fellow, with a sanc tified look, black whiskers, and a still blacker and enormous straw hat. “Gentlemen,” he said, or lather sang, “gentlemen, I offer you a splendid article, a superb article, an incomparable article— magical, radical, tragical article.” [Here lie displayed a cake of his soap.] “Magi cal, radical, tragical, evasive soap ! Yes, in its effects upon its inventor most tragi cal ! Shall I tell you how ? It was in vented by a celebrated French chemist, after twenty years of toil, labor and priva tion. In just fifteen minutes, two seconds and a half after the discovery befell into the arms of death, and his name became immortal! You can draw your own con clusions, gentlemen ! “ Magical, radical, tragical, e-ra-sive soap! Dime a cake! Hand me the money ! —served me right!—there’s the soap ! Yes, there’s a man has got a cake of the incomparable, inappreciable, infalli ble, invaluable, magical, radical, tragical, e-ra-sive soap! “Gentlemen, you’d open your eyes, if I were to tell you half the wonders perform ed by this in-com-pa-ra ble article. It cleans oil-spots, removes stains, hides dirt, brightens good colors and obliterates ugly ones ! —such is the virtue of the all-heal ing, never-failing, spot-removing, beauty restoring, health-giving, magical, radical, tragical, e-ra-sive soap!” The vendor wiped his brow, heaved a sigh, and re commenced, standing at ease against a piazza post. “Why, gentlemen, when I first became acquainted with this inextollable gift of Divine Providence to erring man, I had an obstruction of the vocal organs, an im pediment. of speech, that bade fair to des troy the hopes of the fond parents who in tended me for the bar or the pulpit. 1 was tongue-tied —but I came across this precious compound—swallowed just half an ounce, and ever since, to the satisfac tion of my parents, myself, and assembled world, 1 have been volubly, rapidly, suc cessfully, interminably, unintermittingly, and most eloquently sounding the praises of the incomparable, infallible, inimitable, inappreciable, never-failing, all-healing, spot-removing, beauty-restoring, magical, radical, tragical, e-ra-sive soap ! “Ah, gentlemen, a world without it would be nought! It takes the stains from your breeches, the spots from your coats, removes the dirt, restores the gloss, and diffuses a general cheerfulness over the character of the whole outer man ! True, gentlemen, I’ve worn the fore-finger of my right hand to the first joint, in illustra ting the efficacy of this ineffable compound —but I told you that the fore finger of one man—yea, or the fore fingers of ten men— are as notiiing, when compared with the peace and welfare of society and the world !” “Oh, magical soap ! oh, radical soap ! oh, tragical soap ! What wonders thou dost perform ! The frightened locomotive leaves its track (as it were) on thy ap proach ! The telegraphic wires tremble and are dumb in thy presence ! “Why, gentlemen, it clears the com plexion of a nigger, and makes a curly beaded man’s hair straight ! It removes the stains from the breeches and the spots from your coats —in like manner, it puri fies the conscience and brightens the char acter! If you’re a little dishonest or dirty, try it! If your reputation or clothing is a little smutted, I’ll warrant it! For ladies whose slips—l mean those little, brown, yellow, white, blue and many-colored slip pers—have become soiled, it is the otdy cure, panacea, medicamentum, vade-me cum, in all globular creation. Then come up, tumble up, run up, and jump up, like Hung’ry patriots, and buy my incompara. hie, infallible, ineffable, inappreciable, coat-preserving, beauty-restoring, dirt-re moving, speech-improving, character pol ishing, viitue-imparting, all healing, never failing, magical, radical, tragical, com pound. E-RA-StVK SOAP !” Here Hard-cheek’s oratory was inter rupted by a shower of dimes from boys, men and hobbledehoys, and the “show’ was considered “closed.” NUMBER 46. From the Industrial Agent. Early Kialiits cf industry. There is no truth more clearly confirm ed by the universal experience of man, than that habits, whatever they may be, when once fixed, are very difficult to erad icate, so difficult, indeed, that most per sons are disposed to pronounce it practi cally impossible. It is no matter whether these habits are good or bad, or by what means acquired, when once formed they cling to character with a tenacity so vital, that to extirpate them seems like disloca ting the very elements of individual be ing. The time in which most of our habits are established, is during the period of extreme youth, while the nature is yield ing, pliant, impressible, and susceptible of being Ltoulded and directed by the slight est effort. All will, therefore, concede the necessity of watching with unremitting vigilance, the developements of those ear ly qualities and dispositions by which the complexion and fortunes cf after life are determined. Habits of industry arc among the first that should receive attention, as there are few more all important than these. It is, however, quite needless to dilate upon their importance ; the only question being as to the best method of inculcating them. How can children he best taught the practice and love of industry! Before answering this question directly, we must j be allowed to say, that children are natu rally industrious by a law of their consti tution. They are necessarily active; when not asleep, they are always in mo tion, putting forth exertion as if by in stinct. We are not, then, to create the material out of which these habits are to be fabricated. We are not only re quired not to repress a natural teuderi* cy ; but, on the other hand, to encourage and train its free and exuberant growth.— But how is this to be done ? We answer briefly, by placing before the child those natural stimulants to action with which the Creator’s works everywhere abound’ Curiosity and imitation are perhaps the strongest tendencies of the young mind. Curiosity inspires that unceasing flow of questions which is so common a characte ristic of infantine years, and the love of imitation excites to continual action. Most children, through the strength of this pro pensity, acquire a language before they are four years old, learn to pronounce innumerable words and affix to them dis tinctive ideas, simply by imitating others. We think the plan adopted by that inde fatigable friend of youth, Mr. J. Holbrook, of this city, respecting the formation of early habits of industry, to he unsurpass-1 cd in its experience, the correctness of its : principles, and the success of its results, lie has demonstrated in innumerable ca ses, many of them so refractory as to re sist all other modes of influence, that small lads may be excited to voluntary and per severing exertions by simply taking ad vantage of their natural fondness for know ledge. Once arouse a desire of accomplishing something noble, and the child will work with a heroism which he will never sur pass in after life. Children are untiring in the pursuit of all those objects which in terest them. The elements of natural science, when properly unfolded, pro duce this effect : they fix their attention,! kindle enthusiasm, and it is now only ne cessity to connect physical labor with the acquisition of knowledge, and habits of industry will be soon permanently estab lished. When a boy or girl has some dar ling purpose to gain, if order, close ob servation, and industrious efforts are in dispensible to the attainment of this pur pose, they arc of course in the best con dition to cultivate these fundamental attri butes of character. Mr. Holbrook makes it an essential feature of his system, to con nect physical with mental labor, and to render them attractive by giving play to curiosity, and by adroitly converting to his purpose those perennial springs of ac tion which control the unfolding intellect. One thing is clear : children will never contract industrial habits so long as parents and teachers are too indolent to deviate from the beaten path of education now in prevalent use. Flogging is still largely recognised as the most potent stimulus which can be brought to bear upon the young mind ; and is so recognised, be cause it is the easiest, most summary, least troublesome, and most readily resorted to in all contingencies, and as a consequence> BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, Will be executed in the most appvorcd style and on the best terms, at the Office of the scttthep.it mttsettm, -BY— WM. B. HARRISON. the most congenial to laziness on the par of the instructor. The unnatural modes of study at pres ent in use, owe their perpetuity simply to the fact that they dispense with any great amount of effort on the part of the teach er. He has only to pass mechanically through a prescribed routine of exercises. The task of a teacher, if rightly executed, is arduous and toilsome, and it can never be expected that young pupils will form industrious linbits with examples of indo lence constantly before them, and no out lay of effort to render the road to knowl edge attractive and pleasing. Reformation: ©fir Milam Wirt. A TRUE INCIDENT IN IIIS HISTORY. The distinguished William Wirt, with in six or eight months after his first mar riage, became addicted to intemperance, the effect of which operated strongly oil the mind and health of his wife, and in a few months more she was numbered with the dead. Her death led him to leave the county where he resided, and he moved to Richmond, where he soon rose to dis tinction. But liis habits hung about him, and occasionally he was found with jolly and frolicsome spirits in bacchanalian rev elry. His true friends expostulated with him, to convince him of the injury he was doing himself. But he still persisted.— | Ilia practice began to fall oft’and many looked on liim as on the sure road to ruin. He was advised to get married, with a view of correcting his habits. This he consented to do if the tight person offered. He accordingly paid his addresses to Miss Gamble. After some months attention he asked her hand in marriage ; she replied “Mr. Wirt, I have been well aware of your attentions for some time back, and should have given you to understand that your visits and attentions were not accept able, had 1 not reciprocated the affection which you evinced for me. But I cannot yield my assent until you make me a pledge never to taste, touch or handle any intoxi cating drinks.” This reply to Wirt was as unexpected as it was novel. His reply was that he regarded the proposition as a bar to all further consideration on the sub ject, and he left her. Her course towards him was the same as ever—his, resent ment and neglect. In the course of a few weeks he went again and solicited her hand. But her reply was, her mind was made up. He became indignant, and re garded the terms she proposed as insult ing to his honor; and vowed it should be the last meeting they should ever have.— He took to drinking worse and worse, and seemed to run headlong to ruin. One day while lying in the outskirts of the city, near a little grocery, or grog-shop, dead drunk, a young lady, whom it is not neces sary to name, was passing that way to her home, not far off, and beheld him with his face upturned to the rays of the scorching sun. She took her handkerchief, with her own name marked upon it, and placed it over his face. After he had remained in that way some hours, he was awakened, and his thirst being so great, he went into the little grocery and grog-shop to get a drink, when he discovered the handker chief, at which he looked, and the name was on it. After pausing a few minutes, he exclaimed—“ Great God ! who left this with me ? Who placed this on my face ?” No one knew. He dropped the exclaiming—“ Enough ! Enough !” He retired instantly from the store, forgetting his thirst,but not his debauch, the handker chief, or the lady, vowing, if God gave him strength, never to touch, taste, or handle intoxicating drinks. To meet Miss G. was the hardest effort of bis life. If he met her in her carriage* or on foot, he popped round the nearest corner. She at last addressed him a note .. -5 «L - F, n m V* » Iy e~% f* UtIUCI IJCI VJIVU tumt, au *IW4 house, which he finally gathered courage enough to accept. He told her if site still bore affection for him, he would agree to her own terms. Her reply was : “My conditions are now what they ever have been.” “Then," said Wirt, "I accept them.” They were soon married, and from that day he kept his word, and his affairs bright ened, while honors and glory gathered thick upon his brow. His name has been enrolled high in the temple of lame ; while his deeds, his patriotism and renown live after him with imperishable lustre. How manyjtoble minds might the young ladies save, if they would follow the example of the heroine-hearted Miss G., the friend of humanity, of her country, and the relation of Lafayette.