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TOE MOODILY ©OR©!L[E o
To form a vigorous mind. —Let every
youth settle in his mind that if he would
ever be any thing, he has got to male him
or in other words, to rise by personal
application. Let him always try liis own
strength, and try it effectually, before he is
allowed to call upon others; send him back
again and again to try the resources of his
own mind, and make him feel that there is
nothing too hard forindustiv and persever
ance to. accomplish. In his early and timid
flights,let him knowthatstronger pinions are
near and ready to sustain lr.m, but only in
case of absolute necessity'. When in the
rugged paths of science; if difficulties im
pede his progress which he cannot surmount,
let him be helped over them, but never let
him think of being led when he has power
to walk without help, nor of carrying his
ore to anothei’s furnace, when he can melt
it in his own.
Effort of habit on the infant mind. —1
trust every thing to habit; habit, upon which
in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the
schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance:
habit, which makes every thing easy, and
casts all difficulties upon the deviation from
the wonted course. Make sobriety a habit,
and imtemperance will be hatefid and hard;
make prudence a habit, and reckless profli
gacy will be as contrary to the nature of the
child grown an adult, as the most atrocious
crimes are to any of your lordships. Give
a child the habit of sacredly regarding the
truth—of carefully respecting the property
of others —of scrupulously abstaining from
all acts of improvidence which can involve
him in distress, and he will just as little
think of lying, or cheating, or stealing, as of
rushing into an*elemcnt in which he cannot
breathe. —Lord Brougham.
Early formation of good h'lbits. —If a
child is neglected till six years of age. no
subsequent education can recover it. If to
this age it is brought up in dissipation and
ignorance, in all the baseness of brutal hab
ifs, and in that vacancy of mind which such
habits create, it is vain to attempt to reclaim
it by teaching it reading and writing. You
may teach what you choose afterwards, but
if you have not prevented the formation of
bad habits, you will teach in vain.
An infant is in a state of perpetual en
joyment from the intensity of curiosity.—
There is no one thing which it docs not
learn sooner or better than at any other pe
riod of life, and without any burthen to it
self or the teacher. But learning is not all,
nor the principal consideration —moral hab
its are acquired in these schools; and by
their means children are kept out of the
nurseries of obscurity, vulgarity, vice, and
blasphemy. In tlu. establishment at West
minster, none but t Iren between tluee
and five years of i~gl* arc admitted, and
there they are kept out of the streets, and
taken care of by a paternal, indulgent dame,
while their mothers are set at liberty to go
out and work. Whether the children learn
less or more is of little consequence, she
moral discipline is the great consideration.
—Lord Brougham.
To make home happy. —Nature is indus
trious in adorning her dominions; and men
to whom this beauty is addressed, should
feel and-obey the lesson. Let him, too, he
industrious in adorning his domain—in
making his home, the dwelling of liis wife
and children, not only convenient and com
fortable, but pleasant. Let him, as far as
circumstances will admit, be industrious in
surrounding it with pleasant objects in de
corating it, within and without, with things
that tend to make it agreeable and attrac
tive. Let industry make home the abode of
neatness and order —a place which brings
satisfaction to every inmate, and which in
absence draws back the heart by the fond
associations of comfut and content. Let
this be done, and this sacred spot will be
come more surely the scene of cheerfulness
and peace. Ye parents, who would have
your children happy, be industrious to bring
them up in the midst of a pleasant, a cheer
ful, and a happy home. Waste not your
time in accumulating wealth for them; but
plant in their minds and souls, in the way
proposed, the seeds of virtue and pros
perity.
DULL BOYS.
We are not to conclude that those who
are at first exceedingly dull, will never make
great proficiency in learning. The exam
ples are numerous of persons who were un
promising in childhood, but were distin
guished in manhood for their great acquire
ments.
Adam Clark, D. D. was taught the alpha
bet with great difficulty. He was often
chastised for his dullness; it was seriously
feared by his parents that he never would
learn; he was eight years old before he
could spell words of three letters, lie was
distinguished for nothing but rolling large
stones! At the age of eight, ho was placed
under anew teacher, who, by the kindness
ot his manner, and by suitable encourage
ment, aroused tho slumbering energies of
his mind, and elicited a desire for improve
ment. It is well known that he became
even more distinguished for his various and
extensive acquirements, than he had ever
been for rolling stones.
Isaac Barrow, D. D., for two or three
years after he commenced going to school,
was distinguished only for quarrelling, and
rude sports. This seemed to be his ruling
{lassiun. His father considered his prospects
or usefulness or respectability so dark, that
he often said, if either child was to die, he
hoped it would lie Isaac. But Isaac after
ward 4 became the pride of his father’s fam
ily, and an honor to his country. He was
appointed master of Trinity college, at
which time the King said, “he had given
the office to the best scholar in England.”
The Rev. Thomas Halburton, formerly
Professor of Divinity at St. Andrews, had,
until he was twelve years old, a great aver
sion to learning. I might mention many
other examples to illustrate the same truth.
—Davis's Teacher.
It is the office of reason and philosophy to
moderate, not to suppress the passions.
A woman may be of great assistance to
her husband, in business, by wearing a
cheerful smile continually upon her coun
tenance. A man’s perplexities and gloomi
ness are increased a hundred fold when his
better half moves about with a continual
scowl upon her brow.
A pleasant, cheerful wife is as a rainbow
<et in the sky when her husband’s mind is
tossed with storms and tempests; but a dis
satisfied and fretful wife, in the hour of trou
ble, is like one of those fiends who are ap
pointed to torture lost spirits.
THE Fz&ram,
THE FARMER’S SON.
The time is not far distant, in our humble
opinion, when the farmer’s son w ill be the
man among the well-educated of his day.
Already has the spirit gone abroad. The
feelings of all are beginning to be enlisted
deeply in this honorable cause. No longer
is this profession viewed, by all, as fit only
for the poor and ignorant, but is beginning
to claim the rank to which it is so justly en
titled. Meg of learning and talents have
turned their attention to its investigation,
without the least compunction of conscience
of having acted below their dignity. r lhey
have learned that the occupation of the
farmer, humble as it may have been consid
ered, can call into action most of the powers
of the mind, and whatever may be the
amount of his knowledge, if useful, it can
be brought to bear directly or indirectly;
hence, the erroneous opinion that farmers
need not be educated, is fast passing away,
and ere long popular sentiment will consign
it to its legitimate abode, the shades of
oblivion. No occupation is better calcu
lated to call forth the learning of a man of
science than that of the farmer, and none in
which he can engage with more honor, or to
which more honor should be attached. \v e
believe that in time, instead of leaving the
poor and ignorant to fill the profession of
farming, we shall see young men turning
from practical institutions of learning, to
that of the ploughhandle, fired with a lauda
ble spirit to gain honor and amass wealth
from their occupation.
When such a state of things shall take
place, agriculture will be added as another
to the learned professions, considered as
honorable as any of them, and will prove
as profitable. Hills that are now barren
and neglected wastes, will he brought into
active and profitable cultivation, waving
with bountiful harvests, or set with the
heavy-eared corn—then gladdening smiles
of plenty will cheer our domestic circles,
and bloated purses fill our pockets.
From the Plough B"y.
Mu. Editor: On reviewing what I have
written, in relation to substitution of Cot
ton, for Hemp, I find that 1 have fallen into
the common error, of taking for granted,
what those, whose interest are alFected,
might.insist on being proved.
With regard to cotton being substituted
for hemp, in the manufacture of cotton
bagging, rope, canvass for sacks, and vari
ous other purposes not connected with the
naval service, there can be no doubt I appre
hend, unless the experiment in Columbia
has bgen delusory.
The question, whether cotton will answer
all the purposes of hemp in the naval ser
vice, is one of more difficulty; and although
it was brought to the consideration of Con
gress, I think, by the late Warren R. Davis
of South Carolina, 1 do not remember what
was the result. Certain it is, however, that
the question is still open, and if I am not
greatly mistaken, is destined to form a
prominent object of Southern enterprise, in
our efforts to resist the tide of events that
threatens to rob us of our rich inheritance
namely, the most valuable product in the
world, with the most appropriate and cheap
est labor to make it.
But to return to the main subject of dis
t'tission, which was to show that the planters
of the cotton growing region must, with
hearty good will, enter upon the work of
reformation which a combination of circum
stances both in the old and the new world,
has forced upon them. They have not>yet
gone quite to the absurd length of killing
the goose that lays the golden egg, but un
less they pause in their mad career, they
will produce a result equally fatal. It was
stated in a former article, that they had re
duced the price of cotton, by overproduc
tion, from 15 cents per pound to one half
that sum; it was also laid down as a proposi
tion not to be disputed, that the value of a
commodity depends in a great measure up
on the relation subsisting between the sup
ply and the demand. If experience and
observation have established any one prin
ciple of political economy better than an
other, it is this; and therefore the main
question about which we are now concern
ed is whether the production of cotton has
so far exceeded the consumption as to re
duce the price; and if it has, then what is
the remedy to be applied under all the cir
cumstances, to enable the American cotton
planter still to maintain his independence
and to compete successfully with the cotton
of the east.
Believing that no man in his senses can
doubt the existence of the evil of over pro
duction, we will proceed to the considera
tion of the remedy. By reference to the
cotton statistics of the country, it will be
found that whilst the production was less
than a million of bags per annum, the prices
range from 12 to lb cents, making an aver
age of 15 cents. Now suppose the crop of
1841 to be 1,600,000 at an average price of
7 J cents, it is obvious to the comprehension
of any schoolboy, that we are getting now
for 1,600,000 bags, the sum which we for
merly got for 800,000 bags; and it is a fair
inference that if the production of the Uni
ted States were reduced to 800,000, or 1,-
000,000 of bags, the same high prices would
be obtained as formerly. Let us consider
the only plausible objection to the proposi
tion, namely, that tho East Indies and other
countries of the East, will, in a few years,
so increase their production as to make the
whole quantity annually produced by them
equal to what it is now in both continents.
Grant that this will be the case, as it unques
tionably will, if such a result can be effected
by British capital and British enterprise,
stimulated on the one hand by the most in
satiable avarice, and on the other, by the
most inveterate prejudice against the pecu
liar institutions of the cotton growing region
of the United States; will not the same ob
ject be attained just as soon and with as
much certainty, if we continue our career
of suicidal folly by attempting to increase
rather than diminish, the production ? Sup
pose that, with all the energy, skill and capi
tal that will be brought into action, it will
require a period of ten years or fifteen years
at furthest, for the eastern continent and the
British possession in South America, to
reach that point of production when our
principal customers, the British Empire,
will have little or no occasion to look to this
country for supplies of the raw material,
vvliat will be the consequence to our cotton
planters? ’They will not only be without an
adequate market for their staple production,
but they will the very consoling reflec
tion that their best energies have been em
ployed in acccllerating the catastrophe of
cutting off their principal resource of wealth
and comfort, and that they have not even
thought seriously of a substitute. This
lamentable result is no picture of the fancy,
and must as inevitably follow from the pre
mises, as the shadow follows the substance.
No device, no ingenuity of man can stop the
progress of events tending to produce it.
It therefore becomes not only the part of
wisdom but of self-preservation, that the
cotton planters should atm themselves at all
points to ward off the blow; and with the
tact and versatility of the Frenchman, whilst
they are involuntarily resigning one source
of revenue, their energies are not to be ex
hausted in fruitless efforts to retain it, but in
inventing other sources moie permanent in
their character, and more certain in their
enjoyment* There are some things so plain
that every attempt to illustrate them is mat
ter of supererrogation. The course proper
to he pursued by the cotton planter is so ob
vious, that argument becomes empty decla
mation. If he cannot summon the courage
to look the impending evil in the face, and
lay his shoulders to the wheel, in vain may
he imprecate the assistance of Hercules in
extricating him from the doom that awaits
him.
I propose to show in a concluding num
ber that the remedy is not only practicable,
but for fear that others may not see what I
think I perceive so plainly, I will endeavor
to trace out some of its effects upon the ulti
mate prosperity of the country.
ABATOR.
CHEAP WAY OF RAISING CALVES.
With meal and skimmed milk, calves
may be raised at a trifling expense, com
pared to that of feeding on new milk; and
they will be less affected by weaning, and
in the fall will be in as fine condition as those
fed on the pure milk from the cow. In this
way two calves may be kept on the milk
that is necessary to keep one on milk alone,
and yet all the cream will be saved for but
ter. Boil the milk and meal, or if you have
not milk enough, use some water; then let
it cool to very near the usual temperature
of milk from the cow.
Most any kind of meal will answer for
this purpose, and if this food produces
looseness, which will sometimes be the case,
but not often if the feed be given warm, a
small quantity of rennet put into the food,
will stop the looseness; a little lime will
answer the same purpose. Calves should
have constant access to pure live earth. Put
a lot in their pen. They will eat freely of
carrots if cut into small slices and put into
their mouths; but from our experience in
this way of feeding we have not known
them to take up the pieces when they were
young. — Yankee Farmer.
_j3TO(§m@(yjß„
Anecdote of Admiral Freeman. —The fol
lowing anecdote of the late venerable Ad
miral of the Fleet, William Peere Williams
Freeman, whilst a youth, is extracted from
a late number of the Athemeum.
When a midshipman serving on a foreign
station, young Williams (for he did not take
the name of Freeman until late in life) and
a brother Mid, had each a favorite dog on
board their vessel. Williams’s dog had hv
some means given offence to the other youn
ker, who threatened to throw the animal
ovei board. ‘lf you do,’ rejoined Williams,
‘then yours shall follow;’ and he according
ly kept his word. Enraged at the loss of
his dog, the other Mid came up to Williams,
and demanded satisfaction, challenging him
to fight. ‘ Be calm, Sir,’ said Williams, cool
ly; ‘you have acted most brutally towards
my*)oor dog, and I have retaliated on yours,
as I promised I would do; you are entitled
to no satisfaction from me, but your unof
fending dog is: I therefore propose to save
the life of yours, if you will do so by mine.’
This proposal being acceded to, young Wil
liams instantly leaped overboard, swam to
his opponent’s dog, secured him in prefer
ence to bis own, returned to the vessel, and,
with the animal under his arm, was hauled
np by a rope which had been thrown over
the side for him to hold by. His comrade
then took his sousing in turn, to the high de
light of young Williams, and was equally
successful in saving the life of the other
poor brute. The matter did not rest here;
the youths had been guilty of a breach of
orders in thus risking their lives, and were
each sent to the mast-head by way of pen
ance. When far advanced in years, the
kind-hearted Admiral declared, that there
was scarcely any circumstance in his life he
reflected on with greater satisfaction than
that of having been instrumental in saving
the lives of these (logs: so true is it, that
bravery and humanity are closely allied.
‘Pa—what is that]’
‘An organ, child!’
‘What is it makes the noise, pa]’
‘The pipes—the pipes my son.’
*Pipes ? La, pa, will they smoke V
‘Hem! drink your milk, child, and don’t
talk so much.’
‘James, who was the first Whig ?’
‘Noab, sir.’
‘Why!’
‘Because he built the first log cabin!
‘Go to your seat, James: that accounts
for the milk of the cocoa nut.’
SAYINGS of the CRESCENT CITY.
j A sketch. —She was an angel in feature
and a goddess in gait. When her eyes were
turned to heaven, the sweet stars paled be
fore them, and when they were bent upon
earth, the blue violets shivered with envy.
Her lips were the incarnation of roses in
color, and of pinks in sweetness. The dim
ple in her chin was love’s cradle, and her
teeth those ivory bars which no sensible
tongue ever wants to escape from. Her
brown hair trailed upon her neck in curls
that mocked the grape for clusters, and her
eyebrows looked like two bows made for
Cupid, which she dared him to come and
take. She stood under the vine shaded
portico of a luxurious dwelling, rapt as it
were, in dreamy abstraction. She paid no
notice to the shifting crowd—the flash of
carriages dazzled her not—she was a wan
dering into the regions of mind and fancy.
Presently a noble, dark featured man came
up the street. Her eyes brightened—then
became tearful, l u: with smiles that marked
an April on her face. He steps quicker,
that noble man—he smiles—her heart pul
sates more rapidly—her blushes rise—she
sinks into his arms!
‘ What is it my dearest!’ asks that noble
man.
‘Husband— dear husband, the lamp oil is
out.’
Next day the grocer of the neighborhood
was possessed of a ‘book debt’ of three
dollars exactly.
There is a lawyer in Philadelphia whose
tongue is so oily that it is now used to lubri
cate the wheels of the locomotives on the
Columbia Railroad. If they don’t pay him
well he’ll ‘take the other side,’ and drop
‘ 5Gs ’ all over the track.
Irish wit forever —a fad. —The ready
wit of a true born Irishman however humble
his station, is exceeded only by his gallan--
try. The Brother Jonathan relates a case
in point. Asa lady was walking down
Broadway in New York, a sudden gust of
wind took a parasol out of the hands of its
owner; and before ‘Deacon Weld’ had a
chance to recollect whether it would be
etiquette to catch the parasol of a lady he
had never been introduced to, a lively Em
erulder dropped his hod of bricks, caught
the parachute in the midst of its Ellsler gy
rations, and presented it to the loser with a
bow which reminded one of poor Power.
‘Faith, ma’m,’ said he as he did so, ‘if you
were as strong as you are handsome it
wouldn't have got away from you.’ ‘ Which
shall I thank you for first, the service or your
compliment,’ asked the lady, smiling.—
‘Troth, ma’am,’ said Pat again, touching
the place where once stood the brim of what
once was a beaver, ‘that look of your own
beautiful eves thanked me for them both!?
TANARUS, ue love ! —The greatest case of love
that we heard of lately, is that of a blade of
Kentucky, who got into a hollow tree,
where he lived a whole week peeping thro’
a knot hole at his true love, as she sat sew
ing her bear skin petticoats.
Absent-minded, rather. —A lady in New
I York laid the mop in the cradle, and wiped
up the floor with her baby. She discovered
heir mistake by its squalling when she came
to wring it, but in the meantime the head
was off!
Oh don't. —We learn by the Philadelphia
Chronicle, the carpets, the real genuine car
pets, used at the christening of Vic’s little
baby, were ‘invented l and manufactured by
an America!’ O, we shall faint with a sur
feit of national vanity.
The New York Aurora tells of a fellow
who ‘boards at our house,’ so all fired ‘soft’
that the flies daren’t light on him, for fear
of sinking in!
’Excellent fun. —Capt. Marryatt, in one of
liis pleasant magazine articles relates the
following anecdote: ‘I recollect,’ says he,
‘once a Canary bird died, and my young
people were in a great tribulation; so, to
amuse them we made a paper coffin, put the
defunct therein, and sewed on the lid, dug
a grave in the garden, and dressing them out
in any remnant of black we could find for
weepers, made a procession to the grave,
where it was buried. This little divertise
ment quite took their fancy. The next day
one of the youngest came up to me arid said,
‘Olt, papa, when will you die 1 ?’ A strange
question, thought I, quite forgetting the pro
cession of the day before. ‘Why do you
ask my tlaar]’ ‘Oh, because it will be such
fun in burying you.’ ‘Much obliged to
you my love.’
A good rehuhc. —Sir William B, being at
a parish meeting, made some proposals
which were objected to by a farmer. High
ly enraged, ‘Sir,’ said he to the farmer, ‘do
you know that I have been to two universi
ties, and at two colleges in each university?’
Well sir, said the farmer, ‘what of that]’ 1
had a calf that sucked two cow's, and the
observation I made was, the more he sucked
the greater calf he grew.”
Rabbits understand Lath).. —A company
of scholars going to catch conies carried
one with them who had not much wit; anil
gave in charge that if he saw any, he should
be silent for fear of scaring them: but he no
sooner espied a company of rabbits, but he
cried aloud, ‘Ecce multi cuniculi,’ which he
had no sooner said, but the conies ran to
their burrows; and he being checked by
them for it, answered, ‘Who would have
thought that the rabbits understood Latin]’
Bacon.
Dialogue. —George what are you study
ing now]
Practical Geometry', and 1 had one of the
finest lessons this morning I ever heard of.
Who from]
Old Grammer.
First rate was it]
Indeed it was, triangles, circles,segments,
and all sorts of diagrams may be found up
on my back now. I really thought the old
chap was surveying a ten acre field.
A truce to your Practical Geometry’.
Shun the tooth ache as you would a bear.
Anecdote of the great Napoleon. —At the
combat of Monterean of Schwatzenberg at
the head of the Austrian and Wetermburg
troops, was defeated, Victor, duke de Bel
lutie, rendered inactive by age, or by the
loss of his son-in-law, a general officer who
was slain on the morning, failed to support
the attack of the bridge where the Austrians
were posted. Napoleon was grievously
olfended at the old Hero’s defection and de
prived him of his command, which he gave
Gerard; Victor confessed his fault, but said
he could not desert his master in the decline
ot his fortunes; ‘I will take a musket,’ said
the Marshal, the tears coursing down his
war-worn face. Napoleon with all his stern
ness could not withstand this appeal; he
embraced his Lieutenant and restored him
to command.
Indian marriage promise. —A young In
dian failed in his attention to a young squaw.
She made complaint to an old chief, who
appointed a hearing or trial. The lady laid
the case before the judge, and explained
the nature of the promise made to her. It
consisted of sundry visits to her wigwam,
‘many little (indefinable attentions,’ and
presents, a bunch of feathers, and several
yards of red flannel. This was the charge.
The faithless swain denied the ‘(indefinable
attentions’ in toto. He had visited her
father’s wigwam for the purpose of passing
away time, when it was not convenient to
hunt; and had given the feathers and flan
nel from friendly motives, and nothing fur
ther. During the latter part of the defence,
the young squaw fainted. The plea was
considered invalid, and the offender sen
tenced to give the lady ‘a yellow feather, a
broach that was then dangling from his nose,
and a dozen of coon-skins.’ The sentence
was no sooner concluded, than the squaw
sprung upon her feet, and clapping her
hands, exclaimed with joy, ‘Now me ready
to be courted again.’
A toast. —The wits (says Addison) assert,
that the word had its rise from an accident
at the town’ of Bath, in the reign of King
Charles 11. It happened, that on a public
day, a celebrated beauty of those times was
in the cross hath, and one of the crowd of
her admirers took a glass of water in which
the fair one stood, and drank her health to
the company. There was in the place a
gay fellow, half fuddled, who offered to
jump in, and swore, though he liked not the
liquor, he would have the toast. He was
opposed in his resolution; yet this whim
gave foundation to the present honor which
is done to the lady we mention in our liquor,
who has ever since been called ‘a toast.’
Not qualified. —A lady looking woman,
entered a school house, in a great hurry one
morning to enquire of the teacher if he
could tell her where a Mrs. Thompson lived,
who had emigrated from England aboutsix
years before.
“I really do not know such a lady Ma
dam,’ replied the teacher to her interroga
tory. • •
‘Dont know?’
‘No Madam, I do not!’
‘Then I should’nt suppose you were fit to
teach these children.’
. So saying, the fair inquirer turned wilier
lip and cm her heel and departed.
BOASTING.
I really think in sober truth
I can trounce almost any youth.
That is—l say it without boast—
-1 can trounce any youth almost.
Now most sincerely I do pray
You’ll understand the words I say,
I mean, —(from lying I’d he free—)
Most any youth that cant trounce me.
TOI PUZZLER.
Answers must accompany all Enig
mas intended for publication to entitle them
to notice.
When a solution is furnished us by
“ Cop” to his Geographical Enigma, it will
be considered.
Answer to Enigma of last week : QUEEN
VICTORIA. Solutions : Quito —Union —Eric—
Etna —Nice--Vienna—Ivica—Connecticut—Trenton—
Onion —Rouen—lonia—Ararat.
For the Southern Miscellany.
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA.
ACROSTICAL.
I am composed of sixteen letters.
My 1,4, 6, 14, 12, 13, 4,2, 6, 12 is a place long cele
brated in Scotland.
My 2,4, 11, 6is a city in the Middle States.
My 3, 10, 11, 3 is one of the United States.
My 4, 11, 13, 8 is a Gulf in Russia.
My 5,4, 3, 12,11, 12,5, 6, 12 is a city in Europe.
My C, 12, 8,4, 2is a Lake in Lapland.
My 7,8, 4,9, 8,7 is a capital city in Europe.
My 8, 13,4, Bis a city in flindoostan.
My 9, 11, 10, 15, 16 is a river in Asia.
My 10, 8, 14,14, 2, 4,8, 9is a Cape in the U. States.
My 11, 15, 7, Bis a Territory in the United States.
My 12, 3,4, 14, 10, 9,2, Bis a sea in Europe.
My 5,4, 2,6, 12 is a river in Kentucky.
My 14,2, 12, 12, 2,9, 9,2, 6is one of the U. States
My 3, 12, 14, 8,4, 11, 15 is a Lake in the U. States.
My 12, 11, 5,6, 4is a river in Africa.
My whole is the name of a distinguished Statesman
and General. S. & C.
Madison, Georgia.
BCr Answer next week.
Alfred A. Oveiten,
• Attorney at Laic,
MADISON, GEORGIA.
Office, one door north of the American Hotel.
April 5 lyl
A Card— I To I lie I.adies !
ITRS. C. HOFFMAN, at Augusta, respectfully in
ill forms the Ladies that she has returned from New-
York with a splendid assortment of French MILLIN
ERY, and other articles in her line, and invites them
to call and examine her Goods.
A fidl assortment of B O N N E T S can be found at
Madison at all times, at the Clienp Cash Store of C. F.
Hoffman, and all orders entrusted to his care will be
promptly attended to.
All kinds of Millinery, Dress-Making, altering and
Blenching Straw Bonnets, done in the best manner, nt
the shortest notice.
Augusta, April 12th, 1842. 4tv2
C. Fi Hoffman,
AGENT for Princeton Factory, keeps constantly on
hand a splendid assortment of Stripes, Yarn, Bed
ticking. Nankeen, dec. which he offers at Factory pri
ces. Aprd 12 4w2
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dT** Professional and. Business Cards, not
exceeding four lines, will be published one
year for Five Dollars, in advance.
American Hotel,
MADISON, GEORGIA.
THE subscriber, grateful for the patronage tie hag re
ceived since the above establishment has been open
respectfully informs his friends, and the Travelling pub!
tic, that he is prepared to accommodate all who mav
give him a call. J. M. EVANS
April 5, 1842. 1 ‘
tlcncrnl Stage Office,
GLOBE HOTEL,
McDonough, Georgia.
TUIE subscribers would respectfully inform the Trav
clling public that this House, situated on the West
corner ol the Public Square,is still open, under the su
perintendunee of Janes W. &. David F. Knott, whose
attention to business, and experience, entitle them to
some claims on the travelling public.
This being the General Stage Office, seats maybe
secured on either Pilot or Defiance Dines ol Four Horse
Post Coaches fir the East or West— the Back Dine
from Covington or Newnnn, East or West, or Hugh
Knox's Dine from Forsyth to Decatur, via Indian
Springs, or vice versa.
The subscribers would most respectfully tender their
thanks to the public for the very liberal patronage here
tofore extended, and Wist rospecfully solicit a contin
uanceof the same, pledging themselves, on their part
to use their best exertions to accommodate and pleasa
those who may call on them.
J- W. & D. F. KNOTT.
April 19 * iy3
ID I>. William* die Cos.
Auction and Commission Merchants,
MACON, GEORGIA,
HAVING taken the Fire proof Store, next below thnf
of Messrs. Rea & Cos ton. Commerce Row, is now
prepared to offer every facility in their line Their de
voted attention will be given to all business entrusted
to their care, arid correct returns made as early as pos
sible. They solicit cousi „iments, and a share of the
business generally.
April 5 ly 1
Crowrit * and Staple Dry Good,
At the Depot of the Georgia Rail-Road !
TI7E offer for sale, for Cash, or in exchange for Cottrn,
” Clarified and West India Sugars, all qualities,
Java, Cuba and Rio Coffer, a large assortment,
All siz< s IKON, n large quantity,
Nails, nil sorts ; Weeding floes; Trace Chains,
10,000 IDs. Uco. Bacon Hams, Sides and Shoulders,
3,000 lbs superior Dard,
Castings, Black smith’s Tools, Mill Saws, &c.
40 sacks Hopping’s and Henderson’s and Wilson's
Flour, No. 1,
Corn and Corn Meal, in any quantity.
Bagging of all kinds, and Bagging Twine.
Bale Rope, Molasses, Salt; Paints, assorted,
Dinseed, Damp and Train Oil,
Mackerel, Venison Hams, Irish Potatoes,
Hard-ware, Carpenter’s Tools, Axes, Files,
Docks of all kinds ; Washing Tubs,
Buckets, and all sorts of Tin Ware,
Chairs, Spinning Wheels,
Candles, snap and Tallow, &e. &.r.
Also n line assortment of BRO AD-CDOTHS and
SATTINETTS ; Prints and Calicoes,
All kinds of bleached and unbleached Homespuns,
Jaccortett Muslins, Hobbinetts,
Leghorn, Straw and Willow Bonnets,
Mens’, Bovs’ and Ladies’ Shoes, assorted,
Factory Yarns and Coarse Cloths.
Our assortment of Goods—f>r Family use —both in
flood and raiment, comp rites every article usually kept
m a store, necessary for daily consumption. Call nnd
see us ! We pledge ourselves to put ail our stock of
goods at prices to suit the times.
JOHN ROBSON & CO.
Madison, April 5,1812. 1
Jat.t Received,
A LOT of Superior FLOUR, from Henderson's Mills.
J. ROBSON & CO
April 19 23
Prospectus for publishing in Madison, Mor
gan County, Georgia, a weekly Family
Newspaper, to be entitled the
SOUTHERN MISCELLANY;
And devoted to Literature, the Arts. Science,
Agriculture, Mechanics, Education, For
eign tis Domestic Intelligence, Amusement,
Ocr almost entire dependence upon Northern peri
odicals fi>r Scienlilic and Literary improvement, has
sui'jrested to us the expediency of n “SOU THERN
MISCELLANYas a channel through which
the rich and abundant productions of Southern intel
lect may be conveyed to the public. It is a lamentable
fact, that this state of dependence hits “grown with
our growth,” until it has become almost impossible to
throw it off. VVe are aware that ons. attempt in the
South to escape from this literary vassalage has proven
eminently successful; but much rt mains yet to be ac
complished. The South is not deficient in intellect,
nor is her History barren of incident. Her legends,
and her traditions—the “accidents by flood and field”
—the “ hair-breadlh ’scapes,” and perilous adventures
of her early settlers have yet to he narrated: and we
have amongst us those who can conceive “thoughts
that breathe” and clothe them in “words that burn.”
VVe, therefore, propose a publication in w hich we niny,
from time to time, present articles from the pens of na
tive writers of distinguished merit. In short, acting
upon the policy of our Northern brethren, we propose
to encourage “ Home I’RonrcTtoty.”
Our paper shall he entirely Literary and Scientific in
its character; and, as its name imports,shall contain a
Miscellaneous collection of whatever is calculated “to
raise the genius and mend the heart ” Party Poli
tics wc will carefully eschew ; and will dip into their
turbid stream no farther than may be necessary to give
a brief summary of the current events of the day.
We have the assurance of übie assistance in our
Editorial Department
The Agricultural Department will occupy a con
spicuous part in the “ Miscellany,” and will be made
up principally of selections from the most approved
works in the country. Every exertion will be made to
render it a complete Text Book for Southern Agricul
turists. Original Communications, from some of our
oldest Planters nmPFarmers, are promised us ; and we
flatter ourselves they will he found both interesting and
useful.
The Commercial Department of our paper shall re
ceive particular attention, and will be under the super
vision of an intelligent Wholesale Dealer. A correct
PRICES CURRENT may lie expected weekly; to
gether with a carefully compiled synopsis of the Augus
ta, Savannah, Charleston, New-York and New-Or
leans Markets Arrangements will also he effected by
which we will he enabled to furnish our patrons with
an accurate EXCHANGE TABLE.
We deem it unnecessary to enter more fully into the
plan of our paper—an outline of its character, &c. being
considered sufficient, at this time—suffice it to say, how
ever, that wc intend to make it just such an agent os
the South peculiarly requires. In all the Union, south
of Philadelphia, there is but one strictly Literary paper,
(the “Augusta Mirror,”) and not one (hat may, with
propriety, be termed a Family paper, whilst Northward
of that city, there are some forty or fifty !
Some of the best Literary talent in our own State ha
already been enlisted in behalf of the paper. It now
only remains to be seen whether the South will extend
sufficient patronage towards our undertaking to place
it upon a firm arid permanent basis. Our terms are
such ns will place it within the reach of every citizen
of the Southern Siaten; ami we confidently rely on
commencing the “Miscellany” with n subscription list
of from Fifteen Hundred to Two Thousand subscri
bers. Shall we be disappointed ? Citizens of Georgi*.
answer! * ’
TERMS i
The “Southern Miscellany” will he neatly printed
on a fine Imperial sheet, with fair Type, every Satur
day Morning—embellished with a benuiiful ENGRAV
ED HEAD—and furnished to subscribers at the very
low price of TWO DOLLARS and FIF I’Y CENTS
per annum, always in advance. Twenty Dollars will
pay for nine copies, when ordered at one lime- No
abatement in prices, and far money only received for
subscription.
Distnnt subscribers may rely on having their paper*
strongly and neatly enveloped, legibly directed, ana
mailed on the day of publication.
All letters, communications, dec. must come FREE or
postage, or they will not be taken from the Post-Office.
These rules will be strictly adhered to, to ennble ua
carry out fully our plan and determination. We shall,
in no instance, deviate from the CASH principle.
C. It. HANLEITER.
Kr Editors friendly to the undertaking will confer*
favor by giving the above one or two insertions.
Job Printing, in all its branches, neatly
expeditiously executed at this office.