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Tlie Coquette generally meets with the
most constant attention ; such is the perver
sity of human affairs—love affairs especially.
The writer of the following seems to have
hail proof of the mclancholly truth :
I know her fulso, l know her base,
1 know that gold alone enn move her;
I know she jills me to my face.
And yet, ye gods, 1 know 1 love her.
I sec too plain, and yet am blind.
Would think her true ; while she, forsooth,
To me and to my rival, kind.
Court him, court me, and jilts us both !
Lore is but a solitary leaf, hut neither
storm nor blight can faile it; like the per
fume that a deal flower sends forth, it is
sweet when all the gay sunshine has depart
ed ; when all its bloom is past, it has the
fragrance of memory ; it is the last lingering
beam,that glows long after the sun and stars
havessea refuge from the tempestuous
and bereaving storms of life.
Cigars. —lt appears from the subjoined
advertisement, copied from an old Boston
newspaper, that cigars first came into fash
ion about the year 1700: “Brought from
Havana, a box of cigars, a very tare article!
The best of tobacco rolled up to the size of
a small finger, and of about, five inches in
length, for smoking. They are preferred
by the Spanish dons to the pipe. Those
who may wish to enjoy such a luxury, will
please cull and try them.
WILLIAM STOCKTON.”
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A CHILD’S PRAYER.
11Y SAMUEL C. PRAY, JR.
Heavenly Father, Guide and Friend,
At thy throne this morn I bend ;
Grant a blessing to my prayer —
Grant the kindness of thy care ;
Make this little time with thee
Full of sweet tranquility;
Hear me as in prayer I bend—
Hear and bless, O Guido and Friend !
Through the day—its every hour,
lie around me with thy power;
Guide until my life is run —
Guide and watch thy little one.
Not a sparrow flies o’er earth,
But thou spreadst its pinions forth ;
Thus, my Father, guide me now,
While in praise to thee I bow.
Teach the world to learn, O Lord,
All the blessings of thy word ;
Glad the isles that gem the deep—
Glad the pagan climes, and keep
Ever in thy “Idrious reign
All that tempt in ships the main ;
O’er the world thy spirit send—
Aid mankind, O Guide and Friend !
“Young men, be cautious with whom you
associate, and never give your company or
your contidence to persons of whose good
principles you are not certain. No person
that is-an enemy to God, cad be a friend to
man. He that has already proved himself
ungrateful to tlie author of every blessing,
will not scruple, when it will serve his turn,
to shake off a fellow worm like himself.—
lie may render you instrumental to his own
purposes, but be will never benefit you.—
A bad man is a curse to others, as he is se
cretly, notwithstanding all his boasting and
affected gaiety, a burden to himself. Shun
him as you would a serpent in your path.—
Be not seduced by his rank, his wealth, his
wit, or his influence. Think of him as al
ready in the grave—think ofliim as already
standing before the tribunal of Almighty
God. This awful reality will instantly strip
off all that is now so imposing, and present
him in his true light, the object rather of
your compassion and of your prayers, than
of your wonder or imitation.”
SONG OF THE DYING.
Disease had well nigh done its work—
the flame but glimmered in the socket—one
moment more, and it would be out. The
dying girl called, by lier waving band, her
sister to her, and faintly breathed forth the
wish that she would sing—sing some sweet
melody, that she might leave earth with the
tones of inspiring music lingering on her
car. “And what, dear sister, would you
choose for me to sing?” “Sing, Harriet,
my favorite—l leave earth willingly,” said
the dying girl. The sister well knew her
choice, and she sat down to the instrument
and brought forth its softest, sweetest tones;
they were, indeed, born of heaven, and
never had music a holier influence than
when it breathed forth the elevated thoughts
of a dying one, dying in the beauty of lier
youth, and yet willing to depart. We look
ed on her with sacred awe; we felt we were
in the presence of a being of another world,
who was soon to know the mystery of death.
What a calm and beautiful expression was
on her countenance! What a glow was on
her cheek, and a brilliancy in her eye, as the
notes of the favored song rose sweet and
clear, and seemed to float around the couch
of the dying ! Oil! is not that religion worth
possessing, that enabled her to wear a
heavenly smile at the last moment, and show
that she felt tlie words that were uttered,
though she could not speak them! And she
died as the sister repeated—
“ I would not live nlwny, nwny from my God,
Away from yon heaven, that blissful abode.”
There was much to wean thee away, fair
sister of the gentle speech and tender eye!
“Stormafterstoiin” did, indeed, “risedark
o’er thy way,” and heaven was fairer to thee
titan earth. And when the pale conqueror
cometh to bear me froth this shadowy world,
may thy 6weet cheerfulness he mine, ami
some gentle one sing me to death’s sleep as
thou weit. Sw’eet sister! we part from
earth’s melody, for the purer and nobler
harmonies of heaven! The strains that
greet us as we linger on the shores of mor
tality are not the last, for there are harps
and voices in that home which awaits us all,
and everlasting songs will be sung to the
praise of our Father and our God!
Society. —No one living in society can be
independent. The world is like a watch
dog, which fawns upon you, or tears you to
pieces.
[ SUCCESS IN LIFE.
Few persons conversant with the world
have failed to remark that, in the race of
life, men of moderate means and attain
ments frequently outstrip competitors, en
dowed equally by the smiles of fortune and
the gifts of genius. It is told of Chancellor
Thin low, on being consulted by a parent as
to the best means bis son could adopt to se
cure success at the bar, that he thus address
ed him: “Let your son spend his own for
tune, marry, and spend his wife’s, and then
go to the bar; there will be little fear of his
failure.” Whence this recommendation ?
The man of certain independent, means,
Thurlow’s observation had taught him, does
not lay his shoulder to the wheel as he who
is urged on by the “res august a domi ,” and
hence, as the simple result, ho is distanced.
The illustration of this truth may he observ
ed every day, particularly in the learned
professions. It should he ever home in
mind, that success in life is not regarded by
the wise man as an end, but as a mean of
happiness. The greatest and most continu
ed favors of fortune cannot, in themselves,
make an individual happy; nor can'the de
privation of them render altogether miser
able the possessor of a clear conscience and
well-constituted mind. The sum of human
enjoyment is not, cannot he, derivable from
one source; many circumstances must con
tribute to it. “One principal reason,” re
marks Bentliam, “ why our existence has so
much less of happiness crowded into it than
is accessible to us, is. that we neglect to
gather up those minute particles of pleasure
which every moment offers to our accep
tance. In striving after the sum total, we
forget the ciphers of which it is composed;
struggling against inevitable results which
we cannot control, too often man is heedless
of those accessible pleasures, whose amount
is by no means inconsiderable when collect
ed together. Stretching out his hand to
catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his
feet, so beautiful, so fragrant, so various, so
multitudinous.” In conclusion, another
most fertile source of human disappoint
ment arises from having entertained ’ views
of life altogether incompatible with the im
perfect character of human nature, or the
declared end of our probationary residence
on this earthly planet. “What is it,” in
quires Goethe, “that keeps men in continual
discontent and agitation? It is, that they
cannot make realities correspond with their
conceptions—that enjoyment steals away
from their hands—that the wished-for comes
too late—and nothing reached or acquired
produces on the heart the effect which their
longing for at distance led them to antici
pate.”
Thales, one of the wise men of Greece. —
A sophist, wishing to puzzle him with diffi
cult questions, the sage of Miletus replied
to them all without the least hesitation, and
with the utmost precision.
What is the oldest of all things ? ’ God,
because he always existed.
What is the most beautiful ? The world,
because it is tho work of God.
What is the greatest of all tilings? Space,
because it contains all that lias heen created.
Wbat is the most constant of nil tiling ?
Hope, because it still remains in man after
he has lost every thing else.
What is the best of all thing; ? Virtue,
because, without it, there is not!iing?gno(l
What i3 the quickest of all things ?
Thought, because in less than a moment it
can fly to the end of the uni vet so.
What is the strongest ? Necessity, be
cause it makes men face all the dangers of fife.
What is the easiest ? To give advice.
What is the most difficult ? To know
yourself.
SUPERIORITY OF CHRISTIANITY.
A FABLE.
A Jew entered a Parsee temple, and be
held the sacred fire ; “ What!” said he to
the priest, “ do ye worship the fire ?”
“ Not the fire,” answered the priest, “ it
is to us an emblem of the sun, and his geni
al heat.”
“ Do you, then, worship the sun as your
God ?” asked the Jew ; “ know ye not this
luminary is but a work of the Almighty Cre
ator ?”
“ VVc know it,” replied the priest; “hut
the uncultivated man requires a sensible
sign in order to form a conception of Ihe
Most High. And is not the sun, the incom
prehensible source of light, an image of that
invisible being who blesses and preserves
all things ?”
The Israelite thereupon rejoined, “Do
your people, then, distinguish the type from
the original ? They call the sun their God,
and descending, even from this to a baser
object, they kneel before an-earthly flame !
Ye amuse the outward, byt blind the inward
eye, and while ye hold to them the earthly,
ye withdraw from them the heavenly light.
Thou slialt not make unto thee any image
of any likeness.”
“ How then do you desigt ate the Supreme
Being ?” asked the Parsee.
“ We call him Jehovah Adonia, that is,
tho Lord who is, who was, and who will
be,” ‘answered the Jew.
“Your application is grand and sublime,”
said the Parsec, “ but it is awful too !”
A Christian then drew nigh and said, “we
call him Father.”
The Pagan and the Jew looked at each
other and said, “Here is at once an image
and reality ; it is a word of the heart.”
Therefore they raised their eyes to hea
ven, and said with reverence and love, Our
Father ! And took each other by the hand,
and all three called one another brothers!
A newspaper taken in a family seems to
shod a gleam of intelligence around. It
gives the children a taste for reading; it
communicates all the important events in the
busy world ; it is a never-failing source of
amusement, and furnishes a fund of instruc
tion which will never be exhausted. Every
family, however poor, if they wish to hold a
place in the rank of intelligent beings, should
take at least one newspaper. And the man
who, possessed of property sufficient to
make himself easy for life, surrounded by
children eager for knowledge, is instigated
by the vile spirit of cupidity and neglects to
subscribe to a newspaper, is deficient in the
duties of a parent or a good citizen, and is
I deserving of the censure of his intelligent
neighbors.
. From the Plough Coy.
Mr. Editor. —ls the East India experi
ment in relation to Cotton, should prove a
splendid failure,and turn out to be the greatest
humbug of the age, the reasons for curtail
ing our production, though not so cogent,
still address themselves, with great force, to
every planter, who desires to see his profes
sion established upon a solid basis. \Y r e
will not stop to inquire, whether the argu
ments for or against the probability of its
success preponderate ; nor do we regard it
a matter of much importance to the Cotton
planters of this continent, to go into abstract
speculations, about the capacity of the East
to drive us ultimately out of the European
market ; our business is to treat the subject
as though the success of the experiment
were placed beyond the possibility of a
doubt.
We promised to show that the remedy
for overproduction and consequent low
prices, was practicable, and wo now pro
ceed to redeem the pledge. The whole
matter is resolved into the simple question,
iiow is the production of Cotton to be cur
tailed, anil the capital and labor diverted
from it, to he more profitably invested ?
Let it be taken for granted—as I am
sure the proposition cannot be successfully
controverted —that half the quantity of Cot
ton now produced in the United States, sup
posing the production to bo reduced one
half, would yield to the planters as much
money as they now realize for the whole;
it follows that one .half their capital and la
bor employed in the production of Cotton,
is most improvidently thrown away. How
could it he profitably invested ? In the first
place in reclaimin'; exhausted lands, and
making substantial improvements. Second
ly, in raising every horse, mule, hog, cow
and sheep, uecessary for the utmost com
fort of the planter. These suggestions are
so common place, that a stranger to the
ruinous system heretofore practiced in the
Cotton region, would be apt to discredit
any evidence but that of his own senses,
going to prove that any people upon the
face of the globe, could neglect such cardi
nal virtues in the wild pursuit of filthy lucre.
But the catalogue is not yet complete. Be
sides being dependent on Kentucky anil
Tennessee, for a large proportion of the
stock used and consumed, we are tributary
to North Carolina for flutter, apples and
cabbages ; to Virginia for tobacco ; to the
New England States for shoes, hats, negro
cloths, butter, cheese, Irish potatoes, pickled
beef and pork ; to New York, Pennsyl
vania, Maryland and Virginia for flour. In
this enumeration I have purposely men
tioned those articles only, which may as well
beiaisedin the Cotton region, as in the
States respectively, from which they are
brought to us ; and it will be. recollected,
that for every article purchased from the
four first named States, we pay cash instead
of produce in exchange ; and that the
amount of southern produce consumed by
the north, is nothing like an equivalent for
the amount of northern produce and manu
factures consumed at the south.
But the capital to be diverted from the
production of Cotton, may be profitably in
vested in various other ways. Should Cot
ton take the place of Hemp, iti the manu
facture of bagging, rope, See., the number
of factories should he increased. The plan
ter may devote a portion of his skill and
capital to making Silk Our soil and cli
mate are admirably suited to the production
of Indigo, and it is the opinion of an excel
lent writer in one of our sister States, that it
might lie profitably cultivated. More might
he said upon this branch of the subject, but
let us see what would be the effect of the
course suggested, upon the ultimate pros
perity of the country. R would make us
an independent people, by throwing us on
our own resources. We should form ha
bits of economy, which would soon free us
from debt, and cure the propensity for wild
and reckless speculation, liy withdrawing
tho facilities and temptations to its indul
gence—a propensity more dangerous to the
prosperity of the country, arid one which
has already been more destructive to its best
interests, than all other calamities besides.
It is not extravagant to say, that t’ e unpa
rallelled embarrassment and distress, which
the country is groaning under, are wholly
attributable to it; for although other causes
operated to produce the calamitous results
complained of, yet they were auxiliaries.
The expansion of Bank issues has heen one
of those auxiliaries, and not the sole induce
ment to speculation. If the remedy which
I have proposed lie applied with any rea
sonable hope of success, it must be applied
to all classes ; t; i the Banks as well as to the
people ; and the effect will be to give us a
sound currency —to make economy a car
. dinal virtue—to make us independent of all
foreign supplies of those commodities which
we can produce ourselves, and for the pur
chase of which we have been compelled to
pay money, instead of an equivalent in our
staple productions. In short, it will enable
us to avail ourselves of the benefits of our
position, which benefits have hitherto been
pocketed by our sister States. Maintain
ing as we should the excellent doctrine of
free trade, we should encourage it, only on
its true principles, those of reciprocal bur
thens and benefits ; otherwise, we shall con
tinue to be hewers of wood and drawers of
water, to a pampered monied aristocracy,
instead of being a people, proud of our in
stitutions, our fields, our flocks, our firesides
ami our altars, and nobly aspiring to an im
perishable name among the nations of the
earth. AItATOR.
NEW MODE OF GRAFTING.
Mr. Downing ofNcwhurg has lately prac
tised with success, anew mode of grafting,
the object being, to test the quality of fruits
raised from seeds in a shorter period than
■ would l>e possible by permitting such seed
lings to stand until their natural time of
bearing. The method is, to put the top of
a shoot from a seedling tree, of - a new varie
ty, when it is desirable to procure a speci
men of the fruit immediately, upon the top
of a thrifty shoot of a middle aged and fruit
bearing tree; the process being simply to
take thrifty shoots about a quarter of an
inch iu diameter, and cut them in a slantcn
manner clear through, so as to detach about
four inches of the top from the rest, making
the line of the angle about an inch—being
cut in the same manner. The backs are
then to be carefully united and bound'up
with yarn, covering the whole with grafted
clay to exclude the air. By this mode, fruit
may be obtained in a short period, so as to
test its value at any early day; the opera
tion being simple, with scarcely a fear of
failure.— Horticultural Magazine.
From the Southern Planter.
NEW GROUNDS.
From a conversation with out friend Mr.
Thomas S. Dicken, whose practical knowl
edge of farming is equal to that of any gen
tleman with whom we are acquainted, we
derive the following hints for the manage
ment of new grounds:
Cut down your trees in spring or summer,
whilst the sap is in full flow; this expedites
extremely the decay of the stumps and laps.
Great advantage is obtained by cutting your
trees as close as possible to the ground:
your swingletree then passes over the top of
the stump, and you can plough much closer
to it; besides, the saving of fire-wood is
considerable, and if the tree is a timber one,
every body knows the most valuable part is
that next to the ground. After removing
your fire-wood, never burn the laps and
leaves but permit them to remain upon the
surface of the land two years, if possible;
by that time if they were cut when the sap
was up, they will be greatly decayed. Pro
ceed then, to fallow your ground, turning
in every thing that the plough can manage;
if any large sticks remains undecayed, they
must of course he removed by hand. This
fallowing must be done during the fall or
winter. In the spring, plant your corn and
take a little pains to cover it with dirt as
free from trash as possible. The process of
decay still goes on, and a quantity of decom
posed vegitable matter is obtained, much
greater in quality and quantity, than could
have beeti derived from the ashes of the
burnt trash.
Mr. Dicken, whose experience is very
great, and who attends to every operation
on his farm in person, informs us, that this
system was once accidentally pursued, be
cause it was not convenient to follow the old<
and favorite plan of burning. He was as
tonished at the result; he of course continu
ed it and he assures us that lie has never
seen such crops of new ground corn as it is
sure to produce.
Here, again, is the cover afforded to the
land for two years producing extraordinary
effects. Mr. Dicken gave no credit to this
fact; but we'are satisfied that the office of
covering and sheltering alone,-which the
.trash had performed for two years, would
have been worth more than any benefits
that could have been obtained by burning.
From the Gennessce Farmer.
RELIEVING CHOKED CATTLE.
Messrs. Gaylord <s* Tucker: —Having seen
in the October number of the Cultivator for
IS4I, an article from the pen of David F.
Lott of this State, on the subject of choked
cattle, I wish to give you my remedy for
that difficulty. Last spring one of my milch
cows fed on turnips was discovered to be
j choked, and on examination, we Pound that
! a large and somewhat long piece of ruta
’ bagahad lodged about half way down the
throat. To relieve her the cow was cast, a
small device was put in her mouth, and
several young lads from 10 to 15 years of
age were urged to put their hands down her
throat and endeavor to remove the root.
They refused; seeing the cow must soon
die, my wife (it was one of her favorite
cows,) passed her arm down to the shoulder,
and drew forth the obstruction; not, how
ever, without having her arm much bruis
ed either by the teeth of the animal or the
iron.
I immediately set about devising some
easier and vet safe way of relieving cows,
or other cattle similarly choked. 1 went to
work and made what I shall call a piston,
for freeing the throat of cattle from sub
stances that may lodge in them. I made a
rod of tough white oak, (l should prefer
hickory,) three feet in length, with a knob
on one end 1 1-2 inches in diameter; the end
made hollowing while the other was of the
same size for a handle. The middle part
was worked down to 5-8 of an inch, so that
it might be flexible, or spring, in case the
animal should struggle.
I made and placed my implement in my
garret, and in a short time I had an oppor
tunity of testing its merits. A poor man, a
neighbor, had his cow choked with a potato,
and when I learned her condition, those who
had endeavored to relieve her had left her
and gone home, satisfied she must die. On
my arrival, the cow was much swelled, and
breathed only with the greatest difficulty.
The owner held her by one horn and the
nose, while I took the under jaw in one hand,
and with the other passed the piston gently
down, shoving the potato about six inches;
then drew out the rod carefully, and the
cow walked away and began to graze.
The whole was done in less than half a
minute. The piston should he well oiled
before using, and every owner of cattle
would do well to have such a rod made •
’ against the time of need.
JACOB VREELAND. j
Houston co., N. Y.
- -
From the Southern Planter,
j My dear sir: As you request communi- 1
cations upon the subject <rf household re
ceipts and domestic economy, 1 take the
j liberty of informing you that 1 have been
I for several years substituting the flowers of j
■ the well known weed, called “life everlast
, ing” for hops. Five or six years ago I was
travelling through the county of Amelia, and
observed an old negro woman in the field -
by the way-side very busily employed in
gathering these flowers. To my inquiries
concerning the use to which they would be
applied, she told me that her mistress used
them instead of hops in making yeast. I
laughed, and thought people must be put to
it indeed when they gathered such weeds to
make bread of. As I approached home I
happened to observe a largo field of the
“ life everlasting,” I gathered a quantity of
the flowers, and carrying them home, rela
ted the circumstance to my wife; she tried
them, and from that day to this 1 have never
bought a pound of hops. These are in no
respect inferior, and I have never seen more j
’ beautiful bicad than that made up with the
yeast of these flowers. Every year we
send out and gather a bag of them, which
is hung up and keeps as well as a bag of
hops. Hoping this communication may be
the means of saving some expense and a
little trouble to many of your numerous
leaders, I remain,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN TURPEN.
Manchester.
A MAN OF FEW WORDS.
A young man some time since arrived at
a certain inn, and after alighting from his
horse went into the traveller’s room, where
lie walked backwards and forwards for some
time displaying the utmost self-importance.
At length lie rang the bell, and upon the
waiter’s appearance, give him an order near
ly as follows:
. “ Waiter 1” “ Sir.” “ I am a man of
few words, and don’t like to be continually
ringing the bell, and disturbing the house ;
I’ll thank you to pay attention to what Isay.”
“ Yes, Sir,” replied the waiter. “In the
first place, bring me a glass of brandy .and
water (cold) with a little sugar, and also a
tea-spoon; wipe down this table, throw some
coals on the fire, and wipe down the hearth;
bring mo a couple of candles, pen, ink, and
paper, some wafers, a little sealing wax, and
let me know what time the post goes out;
tell the ostler to take care of my horse, dress
him well, stop his feet, and let me know
when lie's ready to feed ; order the cham
ber-maid to prepare me a good bed, take
care that the sheets are well aired, and put
a clean night-cap and a glass of water in the
• room; send the boots with a pair of slip
pers that. I can walk to the stable in ; tell
him I must have my boots cleaned and bro’t
into the room to-night, and 1 shall want to
be called at five o’clock in the morning ; ask
your mistress what I can have for supper,
tell her I should like to have a roast duck,
or something of that sort; desire your mas
ter to step in I want to ask him a few ques
tions about the drapers of this town.” The
waiter answered, “Yes, Sir,” and then went
to the landlord, and told him a gentleman in
the parlor wanted a great many things, and
amongst the rest he wanted him, and that
was all he could recollect.
A Sailor's Anecdote . —‘ Talking hack’ we
all know is a thing not allowed to 1 men be
fore the mast.’ They do not ship to think,
-! and consequently • obey orders if they break
| owners.’ In a recent colloquy between two
of those worthy children of Neptune, the
following discourse took place :
i Jack, what church do you sail in when
f you’re ashore l The Episcopal, to be sure.
( Why so ? Because there they give a man
a chance to ‘jaw back.’
No time to grow. —Some one asked a lad
how it was that he was so short of his age ?
-He replied, “Father always keeps me so
busy, I lia’n’t time to grow !”
—
A good story is told of an old boatman
from the Schuylkill, who repaired to the me
nagerie in Philadelphia, and seeing all its
wonders, thus addressed the chief exhibiter,
“ Well, friend, I’ve seen all your big beasts,
and zephyrs, and liienoes, and them things;
. now where’s your menagerie ? where’s his
j cage ? I want to look at him !”
[ The Doctor is right. —A Dutchman, who
| had been a long time in the use of spiritu
’ ous liquors, was at length persuaded to give
■it up and join the temperance society. A
• few months after, feeling quite unwell, he
; sent for a physician, who prescribed for his
1 use one ounce of spirits. Not understand
-5 ing what an ounce was, he asked a friend,
i who told him that eight drachms make an
: ounce. “Ah,” exclaimed the old Dutch
; man, “the doctor understands my case ex
i actly. I used to take six drachms in a day,
i and I always wanted two more.”
A little fellow came mice to a tanner with
a dog skin which he desired to sell, when the
tanner enquired whether the skin had been
taken off a fat dog l Ob, yes,exclaimed the
hoy, it was taken off the fatest dog you ever
saw; he was dreadful fat. O you never did
! see any thing like him ; he was as fat as—
as fat as —O he was tarnation fat! But, says
the tanner, I do not like the skin ot a fat
dog ; it is in general too tender for service.
Oh—but—well—l dotit know as I can say
lie was so thunderin fat, after all!
t
Conscientious. —An English paper men-!
tions that a magistrate at Cheltenham, on j
taking his seat one morning not long since, j
gravely announced that his dining-room j
chimney had caught fire from not having !
been regularly swept, and he had in conse- j
quence sentenced himself to pay half a
crown, which he handed over to the clerk.
This reminds us of a circumstance which
was related to us as having occurred in the
west not long since. A judge, one day dur
ing the session of his court, after the ad
: journment for dinner had taken place,
j marched boldly up to a distinguished law-
I yer, who had treated him somewhat cava
lierly during a short time previous, and with
i oat ceremony ended his ears and pulled his
nose. On the meeting of the court in the
’ afternoon, he announced in the course of
business, that he had committed a breach of
the peace —which ought not to go unpunish
ed—otherwise the person of no individual
| would be safe. He therefore fined himself
two dollars.
Dernier resort. —After the representation
of Atree, a tragedy full of horrors, one of
Crehillon’s friends asked him why he had
adopted such terrible representations:—
“There was no choice left me,” says he,
“Corneille has taken heaven, Racine the
earth: you sec, sir, that nothing remains for
me but hell.”
Leanness. —When- the Duke de Chosen,
a remarkably meagre man, went to London
to negotiate a peace, Charles Townsend
being asked whether the French govern
ment had sent the preliminaries of a tretjty,
answered, “ He did not know, but they had
sent the outline of an embassador.”
(t/®* Prqfessional and Business Cards,'not
exceeding four lines, will be published one
yearfor Five Dollars, in advance.
A Lilt of Letters
T> FMAINING in the Post Office at Madison, on the
ft Ist of April, 1842.
A.
Adams, Nipper Aldredge, James F.
Adair, William Allen, Nathaniel N.
Adair, Mary A. Autry, Philip
Adler, Julius
B. •
Ball, James Boggess, Bennet
Benefield, Emily Brewer, Drury
Ball, Jeptha Boswell, Elijah
Bail, Eliza * Brown, Henry
Buits, Jacob C. Bogle, Tar belt & Cos.
Barrington, John
C.
Crim, John Chamberlain, Charles V-
Coleman, Mrs. Chapman, Anderson
Oabiness, John C. Cushing, J. TANARUS., 2
Clark, Seaborn J. Cunningham, Jesse
Caldwell, Janies, 2
D.
Dewitt, A. 11. Daniel, John 7VT ,2
Dearrnand, William * Davis, Samuel P.
Douglass, Asa Davis, Ebcnezer
Dawson, John E, 2
F.
Floyd, William IFielder, Willian!
Foster, Mrs. Francis, 2 I Fuller, R. M.
G.
Garner, Samuel Gibbons, William
11.
Hendry, Samps"n, 2 Holden, Kaly
Hndawav, Thomas L. Harris. E. L.
Hungerford, John F. Hearn, Willianl
Hearn, Frances Head, J. J.
iianson, Richard
Jackson, Cavil, G Jay, Zack
Johnson, Marlha Jackson, Daniel C.
K.
Kernodle, Richard, 2 |King, A. W.
L.
Lane, Henry B. I Long, Joseph
Lane, S. W. lLawrence, Hugh
M.
Mustir, D. R. Moody, William L., 2
McNeal, John T. McCalpin, Alexander
Moody, John L-, 3 ‘ McMayhand, Woodard
McCay, J. R.
” N.
Nolan, Thomas
P
Pucket, Sarah R. IPace, Elizabeth
Pryor, Garland
* R.
Reed, Hugh IC, .2 Robey, Miss Jane
Robertson, M. M. Raney, Mrs Elizabeth
Ragland, A. M. Reason, Rebecca *
Uadsky, J. Rogers, William P.
S.
Slaughter, Mrs Thursey Spruce, George
Sewel, William Seats, Thotnas
Stafford, Reuben Slaton, Elisha
Stanton, James Shaw, Robert J.
She, Mrs. Mary
T.
Trotter, Hinson, 2 ITomlin, Hezekiah
Thomas, William R. I
V.
Vason, Miss Martha E., 2 iVeats, A. P.
Vason, J. M. |
W.
Ward, Mrs. Ann Watts, James J.
Wade, John W. Woods, James
Wright, John C. Woods, John
Weaver, Albon Woodley. William
Walker, Tabitha, (colored Wade, Mrs. Mary
woman,) Whitfield, William
Warring, N. E. Wilkins, Thornton &C<r.
Wilson, James F. Wright, John S.
Persons applying for letters contained in the above
list, will please say tlia’ they are advertised.
JOHN S. WALKER, P. lVf.
April 5 3wl
Groceries aiiil.Slaplc Di y.GoiMB,
At the Depot of the Georgia Rail-Road f
WE offer. for sale, for Cash, or in exchange for Cotton,
‘’ Clarified and West India Sugars, all qualities,
Java, Cuba and Rio Coffee, a large assortment,
All sizes IRON, a large quantity.
Nails, nil sorts; Weeding Hoes ; Trace Chains,
10,000 lbs- Geo. Boron’ Hams, Sides and Shoulders
3,000 lbs. superior Lard,
Castings, Black-smith’s Tools, Mill Saws,.&c.
40 sacks Hopping's and Henderson’s and Wilson'i
Flour, No. I,
Corn and Corn Meal, in any quantity,
Bagging of all kinds, and Bagging Twine,
Bale Rope, Molasses, Salt; Paints, assorted,
Linseed, Lamp and Train Oil.
Mackerel, Venison Hnni=, Irish Potatoes,
Hard-ware, Carpenter’s Tools, Axes, Files,
Locks of all kinds; Wa-hing Tubs,
Buckets, and nil sorts of Tin Ware,
Chairs, Spinning Wheels,
Candles, Soap and Tallow, &e. &c.
. Also a fine assortment of BROAD-CLOTHS and
SATTf NETTS; Prints and Calicoes,
AN kinds of bleached and unbleached Homespuns,
Jacconett Muslins, Bohbinetts,
Leghorn. Straw and Willow Bonnets,
Mens’, Bovs’ and Ladies’ Shoes, assorted,
Factory Yarns and Coarse Cloths.
Our assortment of Goods—for Family use—both in
food and raiment, comprises every article usually kept
in a store, necessary for daily consumption Call and
see us ! We pledge ourselves to put all our stock of
goods at prices to suit the times.
JOHN ROBSON & CO.
v Madison, April 5,1842. 1
Monumcnla, Tomb Ac Head Stoues.
THE subscriber is prepared to furnish to order Mon
-*- aments. Tomb Stones, Head Slones, nnd Slabs of
every description, carved and letferod to suit purchas
ers— all of which will be made of the best Marble, and
delivered in Madison at prices suited to the times.
Letters addressed •<> the subscriber in relation to the
same, and left at the Post Office will meet with atten
tion. H. PRESTON.
Madison, April 5,1842. sw*l
American Hotel,
MADISON, GEORGIA.
THE subscriber, grateful for the patronage he has re
ceived since the above establishment has been open,
respectfully informs his friends, and the Travelling pub
lic, that lie is prepared to accommodate all who may
{ give him a call. J. M. EVANS,
i April 5, 1842. 1
E. D. Williams & Cos.
Auction and Commission Merchants,
MACON, GEORGIA,
TTAVING taken the Fire proof Store, next below that
lL of Messrs. Rea & Cotton, Commerce Row. is now
prepnred to offer every facility in their line Their de
voted nltcntion will he given to all business entrusted
to their care, and corrso* remans made asearly ns pos
sible. They solicit consignments, and a share of tho
business generally.
April 5 , lyi
Alfred A. Overton,
Attorney at Law,
MADISON, GEORGIA,
Office, one door north of the American Hotel.
April 5 lyl
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