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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 ♦ ■ 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.