Southern miscellany. (Madison, Ga.) 1842-1849, May 14, 1842, Image 4
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A MORNING INVOCATION.
Wake, alumberer! Summer’s golden hour*
Are speeding fast away ;
The sun has woke the opening flowers,
To greet the day f
The deer leaps from his leafy haunt;
Fair gleams the breezy lake ;
The birds their matin carols chaunt,
All nature cries,. “ Awake!”
Oh! lose not in unconscious ease
An hour so heavenly fair;
Come forth, while yet the glittering trees
Wave in the purple air:
While yet a dewy freshness fills
The morning’s fragrant gale ;
While o’er the woods and up the hills,
The mist rolls Irom the vale.
Awake! too soon, alas! too soon,
The glory must decay:
And, in the fervid eye of noon,
The freshness fade away.
Then seize the hour so swift of flight
Its early bloom partake—
By all that's beautiful and bright,
I call on thee—awake !
WRATH DISARMED.
A man of my acquaintance, who was of
a vehement and rigid temper, had, many
years since, a dispute with a friend of his, a
professor of religion, and had been injured
iy him. With strong feelings of resent
ment, he made him a visit, with the avowed
purpose of quarrelling with him. He ac
cordingly stated to him the nature and ex
tent of the injury, and was preparing, as lie
afterward confessed, to load him with a train
of severe reproaches, when his friend cut
him short by acknowledging with the utmost
readiness and frankness, the injustice of
which he had been guilty, expressing his
own regret for the wrong which he had
done, requesting his forgiveness, and prof
fering him ample compensation. He was
compelled to say lie was satisfied, and with
drew, full of mortification that he had been
precluded from venting his indignation, and
wounding his friend with keen and violent
reproaches for his conduct. As he was
walking homeward, he said to himself to
this effect—“ There must be more in religion
than I have hitherto suspected- Were any
man to address me in the tone of haughti
ness and provocation with which I accosted
my friend this evening, it would be impossi
ble for me to preserve the equanimity of
which I have been witness, especially with
ao much frankness, humility and meekness,
to ockrowledge the wrong which I had done;
so readily ask forgiveness of the man whom
I had injured; and so cheerfully promise a
satisfactory recompense. I should have met
anger with at least equal resentment, paid
him reproach for reproach, and inflicted
wound for wound. There is something in
the religion which he professes, and which, I
am forced to believe, he feels; something
which makes him so superior, so much bet
tar, so much more amiable, than I can pre
tend to be. The subject strikes me in a
manner to which I have hitherto been a
stranger. It is high time to examine it more
thoroughly, with more candor, and with
greater solicitude, also, than I have done
hitherto.” From this incident, a train of
thoughts and emotions commenced in the
mind of this man, which terminated in his
{irofession of the Christian religion, his re
inquishment of the business in which he
was engaged, and his consecration of him
self to the ministry of the gospel.— Dr.
Dwight.
INGENUITY OF TWO BROTHERS.
About forty years ago. two brothers vent
to Jamaica; they were, by trade, black
smiths. Finding, soon after arrival, they
could do nothing without a little money to
begin, but that, with sixty or eighty pounds,
they might be able, with industry, to get on
a little, they hit upon the following novel
and ingenius expedient. One of them
stripped the other naked, shaved him close,
and blacked him from head to foot. This
being done, he took him to one of the negro
dealers, who, after viewing and approving
bis stout, athletic, appearance, advanced
eighty pounds currency upon the bill of sale,
and prided himself on the purchase,.sup
posing him to be one of the finest negroes
on the island. The same evening, this new
manufactured negro made his escape to his
brother, washed himself clean, and resumed
bis former appearance. Rewards were in
vain offered in hand-bills, pursuit was elu
ded, and discovery, by care and precaution,
rendered impiacticable. The brothers with
the money commenced business, and actual
ly returned to England, not many years
since, with a fortune of several thousand
pounds. Previously, however, to their de
parture from the island, they waited upon
the gentleman from whom they had receiv
ed the money, and recalling the circumstance
of the negro to his recollection, paid him
both principal and interest, with thanks.
STERNE’S LEGACY.
Soon after Sterne had been presented to
the valuable living of Coxwould, in York
shire, on the presentation of the late earl of
Fauconberg, a poor widow of most unblem
ished character, being at the point of death,
expressed a wish to receive the holy sacra
ment in her last moments. The sentimen
tal pastor was immediately sent for; Sterne
obeyed the summons, and, the ceremony
being over, he said, with a most benignant
smile, “Whatdo you intend to leave me in
your will for this trouble!” “Alas! sir,”
replied the dying woman, “I am too poor to
give the smallest legacy, even to my nearest
relations.” “That excuse,” cried Sterne,
“shall not serve me: I must insist on in
heriting your two children; and in return
for this request, I will take such care of them
that they shall feel, as little as possible, the
Toss of an affectionate and worthy mother.”
She expired, blessing the benevolent deed,
and Sterne most religiously kept his pro
mise,
ONE THING CERTAIN.
Death is the theme of the universal inter
est! The lightest heart, the least thought
ful mind, has no disbelief of death. The
distance of the dark cloud in which he
comes, sailing through the bosom of futuri
ty, may be miscalculated; but the world un
hesitatingly owns that he is coming, and will
at last be here. In almost every particular
of existence, the fortunes of men differ;
bat to die is common to all. The stream
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of life runs in a thousand various channels;!
but, run where it will—brightly or darkly,
smoothly or languidly—it is stopped by
death. The trees drop their leaves at the
approach of winter’s frost; man falls at the
presence of death. Every successive gen
eration he claims for his own, and his claim
is never denied. To die is the condition on
which we hold life; rebellion sickens with
hopelessness at the thought of resisting
death; the very hope of the most desperate
is not that death may be escaped, but that
he is eternal; and all that the young, the
careless, and the dissipated attempt, is to
think of him as seldom as they can. No
man, therefore, will deny, that whatever can
he * said of death is applicable to himself.
The hell that he hears tolled may neve? toll
for him; there may be no friend or children
left to lament him, he may have to lie thro’
long and anxious days, looking for the com
ing of the expected terror; but he knows
that he must die; he knows that in whatever
quarter of the world he abides—whatever
be his circumstances —however sttong his
present hold of life—however unlike the
prev of death he looks—that it is his doom
to die. •
CHRISTIAN DUTY.
When the sun of prosperity beams upon
us, and our cup of enjoyment is full, w-e are
too much disposed to forget the fountain
whence all our blessings flow. Hence God
chastens us in mercy, to wean our affections
from some idol, to awaken us to some ne
glected virtue, to make us look to himself,
become partakers of his holiness, and meet
for a happy immortality. “Whom the Lord
loveth he chasteneth, and if we endure
chastening, God dealeth with us as with
sons.” Often have the sbujects of GoJ’o
moral government had cause to say, “it is
good for us that we have been afflicted.”
We cannot always avoid trials; but we may
always apply them to wise purposes, as in
struments of spiritual education, end means
of preparing us for future glory. Pride or
insensibility may affect to disregard afflic
tions: it is the province of wisdom to im
prove them. They are inflicted by our
Father for a gracious purpose, and that pur
pose it should be our constant aim to pro
mote. The excellence of the end to be at
tained may reconcile us to the means em
ployed to bring it about. The weary pil
grim travels cheerfully through a thorny
path, when he knows it is short, and w ill
soon conduct him to the object of all his
desire, and all his hope. And shall not the
Christian bear with steady fortitude and
pious resignation the transitory ills of life,
seeing that they are the steps by which he
is ascending to the mansion in his Father’s
house! “Our light affliction, which is but
for a moment, worketh for us a fir more ex
ceeding and eternal weight of glory.”
EDUCATION OF YOUTH.
There is a most admirable lesson con
tained in the following extract from Miss
Hannah Moore’s “Strictures on the Modern
System of Female Education:” “Since,
then, there is a season w'hen the youthful
may cease to he young, and the beautiful to
excite admiration; to learn to grow old
gracefully is, perhaps, one of the rarest and
most valuable acts that can be taught to
woman. And it must be confessed, it is a
most severe trial for those women to lay
dow-n their beauty, who have nothing else
to take up. It is for this sober season of
life, that education should lay up its rich
resources. However disregarded they may
have been, tliey will be wanted now. When
admirers fall away and flatterers become
mute, the mind will be driven to retire with
in itself; and if it finds no entertainment nt
home, it will be driven back again to the world,
with increased force. Yet, forgetting this,
do we not seem to educate our daughters
exclusively for the transient period of youth,
when it is to maturer life we ought to advert?
Do we not educate for a crowd, forgetting
thatthev aretolivenl home? for a crowd, and
not for themselves! for show, ami not for
use? for time, and not for eternity ?”
LOVE OF COUNTRY.
Notwithstanding all the differences of
climate, almost every individual, from habit
and sentiment, is disposed to give a prefer
ence for his native land. The Greenlander
will not abandon his icy coasts and the man
agement of his frail kojuk, for any other
countiy or employment. To the Icelander
no other spot on the globe lias such charms
as Iceland. The Kamtschndale in his jovrt,
surrounded by deserts and tempests, be
lieves bis native laud to be the most eligible i
part of the earth, and considers himself the
most fortunate and happy of human beings.
The Laplander in the midst of mountains
and storms, enjoys good health, often reach--
es old age, and would not exchange Lap- j
land for the palace of a king. The native 1
of Congo believes that every other part of
the world was formed by angels; but that i
the kingdom of Congo was the workman
ship of the Supreme Architect, and must I
therefore have prerogative and advantage 1
above the rest of the earth. Although
every other tie were broken, the oust of
their fathers would bind most men to their
native land. Let not the cold skeptic deride
the thought. The native of Asia frequent
ing the tomb of bis ancestors, or the afflict
ed wanderer of the American wilderness
piously pulling the grass from the grave of a
departed relative, will awaken sympathetic
emotions in every ingenious and affectionate
mind.
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ILL-HEALTH.
Disease is not unfrequently the means of
leading to the path of virtue; it has a salu
tary operation on our moral constitution, and
Eares us for the rewards of obedience.
h is a departure from the present scene;
and we have good reason to conclude that,
with respect to those who have acted virtu
ously here, it is a transition to a more exalt
ed state of being. No virtuous person,
then, lias reason to complain: the vicious
ought to direct their murmurs and com
plaints, not against-the Author of their exis
tence and their enjoyments, but against their
own folly and perversity in disobeying the
dictates of reason and conscience, and so
forfeiting that happiness which the bountiful
Creator has placed within their reach.
THE IF AR M E R -
From the Agriculturist, j
THE WONDERS OF CULTIVATION.
The practicability and importance of im
provement, are asclearly set forth, in a speech
of Col. Knapp, in delivering the premiums
awarded by the American Institute, as we
have seen; and therefore a few extracts can
but be entertaining.
“ Every tiling in this country, (said he)
has lieen brought forward by protection.
In this bleak dime, but few of the sustain
ing fruits of the earth were here indigenous,
or in a perfect state. • Even the Indian corn,
so often considered as a native here, was
with difficulty acclimated. It was brought
from South, and by degrees was coaxed to
ripen in a northern latitude. 1 he aborigines
who cultivated it taught the pilgrims how to
raise it; they plucked the earliest ears with
the husk and braided several of them to
gether, for the next year’s seed, and their
care was rewarded by an earlier and surer
crop.
“ The pumpkin brought from Spain, was
first planted in Rowley, Massachusetts, and
it was several years before they came to a
hard knotty shell which marks the true
yankee pumpkin, such as are selected for
the golden pies of their glorious thanksgiv
ing festival.
“Our wheat was with difficulty acclima
ted. That brought from the mother iountry
had grown from spring to fall, but the sea
son was not long enough here to ensure a
crop; it was then sown in the fa!!, grew un
dersnows in winter, anil catching the warm
est growth of spring, yielded its increase by
midsummer.
“Asparagus, which is now the delight of
ail as an early vegetable, and for which
many millions of dollars are paid our gar
deners yearly, is of late culture in this coun
try. At the time of the revolution, aspara
gus was only cultivated on the seaboard;
this luxury had not then reached the farmer
of the interior.
“ The history of the potato is a singular
one. Rees’ Encyclopedia, states that the
potato was brought from Virginia, by Sir
Walter Raleigh, to Ireland.
“ The writer should have said from South
America, in the latter part of the sixteenth
century. He had no idea of its ever being
used as an esculent, at that time. It was
pointed out to him as a beautiful flower, and
its hard bulby root was said, by the natives,
to possess medicinal qualities. He took it
to Ireland, where he had estates presented !
to him by Queen Elizabeth, and planted it -
in his gaiden. The flower did not improve
by cultivation, but the root grew larger and
softer. The potato, in its native bed, was a
coarse ground nut. The thought struck the
philosopher to try the potato as an edible,
and boiling and roasting it, found it, by eith
er process, excellent. He then gave some
of the plants to the peasantry, and they soon
became, in a measure, a substitute for bread
when the harvest was scanty.
“The potato was successfully cultivated
in Ireland before it was thought so little of
in England. It grew into favor by slow de
grees. and was so little known when our
pilgrim fathers came to this country, that it
was not thought of for a crop in the New
World. It would have been an excellent
tiling for them, if they had been acquainted
with the value of the potato. It was not
until 1710 that the Irish potato reached the
country. A colony of Presbyterian Irish,
who settled in Londonderry, in New Hamp
shire, brought the root with them. This
people found their favorite vegetable flour
ished well in new grounds. By degrees
their neighbors came into the habit of rais
ing potatoes; but many years elapsed before
the cultivation of them was generally known
among the yeomanry of the country. Long
after they were cultivated in New England,
tlnjy were held in contempt and the master
mechanic often had to stipulate with his
apprentice that he should not be obliged to
eat potatoes. An aged mechanic mice in
formed me that lie raised nine bushels, hav
ing at that time (174 G) a dozen apprentices,
but did not venture to offer them a boiled
potato, with the meat, but left them in the
cellar for the apprentices to get and roast as
they pleased; he soon found that Lc should
not have enough for seed, and locked up
what was left. The next year he raised the
enormous quantity of thirty-six bushels;
the neighbors started—but his boys devour
ed them during the following winter.
“About this time, some of the gently
brought this vegetable on their tables, and
the prejudice against them vanished. Thus,
by degrees, a taste for this food was formed,
never to be extinguished. The cultivation
of the potato is now well understood—a
crop ameliorates, instead of impoverishing
j the soil, and the culture can be increased to
; any extent. Thus, by the cuiiosity of one
lover of nature, and his experiments, has an
, humble weed been brought from the moun
-1 tains of South America, and spread over
I Europe and North America, until it iscm-
I pbatieally called “the bread of nations.” Still
the country from which it was taken, has
been too ignorant or superstitious to attempt
its cultivation, until within a few years.—
1 Now, the lights of science are chasing away
the long, deep shadows of the Atides.
“Rice was brought from India in 1792,
and cultivated by way of experiment in
South Carolina. It succeeded well, and
was for many years the staple article of the
State. It seems strange, but it is not more
strange than true, that a vegetable should
have a moral and religious influence over
the minds of men. Brahma could never
have enforced his code of religious rites,
with an hundred incarnations, if India bad
not abounded in the rice plant. His follow
ers would have become carnivorous, not
withstanding nil the rays of bis glory and
the awful exhibition of his might, he had
not driven the animals away and secured
the vegetable kingdom for his worshippers.
Man is, in spite of his philosophy, a crea
ture of the earth—and in a common mea
sure like the chamelion, takes the hues of
his character from his position and his food.
“The cotton plant was at first cultivated
as a flower our gardens, and a beautiful
flower it is. I his plaut alone has made a
revolution in the finances of the world.—
Look at the growth and consumption of it
in the United States, and the immense man- :
i
ufacture of it in England, where it cannot
be grown, and you will find my asser
tion true in its most extended sense,
j Until our purchase of Louisiana, this
’ country was indebted to the East and West
Indies for sugar. In this country —the
thirteen United States—sugar and molasses
were made in small quantities, from corn
stalks, sweet apples, pumpkins, and maple
sugar trees ;*put all together, furnished but
a small part of the sugar demanded by the
great mass of people. Our people are fond
of saccharine, or sweetening, to use our
peculiar term for it.
“ The cornstalks, the pumpkin, and the
sweet apple, are given up for sugar cane
alone, unless we'can substitute, as in France,
the sugar beet. The culture of the sugar
beet has been commenced with us and pro
bably will be successful.”
The age of Cattle as shown by their teeth.
—My attention has been drawn to this sub
ject ever since our Winchester fair. One of
the judges appointed upon that occasion
examined the teeth of several of the cattle
that were presented there, and pronounced
them to be older than represented.
Some of these cattle were bred in this
country, and I know that their ages were
correctly stated.
At Paris, the treatise upon cattle with the
plates was introduced by one of the judges,
and the teeth of some of the animals were
examined to see if they corresponded. This
led to suspicion that ther“ tiau been imposi
tion in of the cattle presented.
Since that time I have examined the teeth
of a number of thoroughbred Durhams,
whose ages I know to a day, and have found
that in this stock their teeth would make
them appear to be about four months in
each year older than they really are. A
three year old will have the teeth that in the
treatise upon British cattle is said to belong
,to a four year old.
I attribute this to the early maturity of
the Durham stock. It is reasonable to sup
pose if they get their growth sooner than
other cattle that they will also shed their
teeth sooner. I have said about four months
to the year, which was the case generally.
Some showed even a greater diffetence.
S. D. MARTIN.
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Music. —T wo Irshmen, travelling through
a wood, by chance, found a gun which was
.loaded, when one addressed the other with,
| “Larry, what’s that!”
“Wisha, the devil a whit do I know what
it is; but it’s for all the world like Tom Sul
livan’s kay bugle.”
“Arrah, then, we’ll have a small bit of a
tune, if you’ll blow on the muzzle, and I’ll
play with the kay.”
“Faith 1 will so, and that nately, too;”
and he put his mouth to the muzzle of the
gun, while the other pulled the trigger: the
gutt went off, and he fell, when the other,
letting the gun fall, exclaimed, “Arrah, Lar
ry, me honey, give over yer skamiu, for
faith the music hasn’t enchanted you.”
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Servant, Friend, and Master. —l will
mention an anecdote, which I heard related
by old James Ferguson, of Pitfour, many
years member of Parliament for the county
of Aberdeen. He had just turned away a
servant, and being asked the reason, he said,
‘The fellow lived with me three years—
during the first year he was a capital Ser
vant; the next, a middling good Friend;
but the last year he became a very bad Mas
ter, and sa I sent him about his business.’
Mr. Ferguson was a cozy, ‘canna be fash’d’
old bachelor. I have been told that it was
this very servant, who being asked by his
master, on leaving a friend’s house where
he had been on a vist, ‘have you packed up
all our baggage, Donald?’ ‘Yes, Pitfour, I
have got our own, at least!’ •
Magnificent idea. —Observing an original
character ‘laying it down,’ as the phrase is,
to a neighbor the other day, we stopped to
hear the tenor of his remarks. All we heard
was this: ‘Why, deacon, just look here—l
have one solemn reflection for your consid
eration. Suppose all the axes in the world
were mad? into one great axe—all the men
into one great man—-and all the trees into
one great tree—and suppose th?t great man
should take that great axe, and cut down
that great tree, and it should full into the
ocean— what an infiarnal splashing it would
make you, would'nt itV
Anecdote. —lt is a very just rematk, that
people in general arc in the habit of using
terms, in common conversation, which ap
pertain to their particular calling or profes
sion. For instance, the blacksmith, when
things go smoothly, will say, that he has a
good heat; the tailor that he has taken a
‘stich in time;’ the shoemaker, that he has
accomplished his end; the barber, that he
has sheared close; and the printer, perhaps,
that he has got a good proof. But after all,
we do not recollect to have ever met with a
more neat witticism on the subject than the
following, which we believe was first pub
lished in a New J ersey paper, ten or twelve
I years ago:
To view Pasaic Falls one Jay,
A priest and tailor took their way ;
“Tny wonders, LorJ,” the parson cries,
“ Amaze our souls, delight our eyes!”
The tailor only made this note—
“ O ! what a place to spunge a coat!”
Scene in a school room. —‘What studies do
you intend to pursue?’ said an erudite peda
gogue one day, as Jonny Raw entered his
school room.’ ‘Why, I shall study read,
I’spose, would’nt ye?’ ‘Yes, but you will
not want to read all the time; are you ac
quainted with figures?’ ‘lt’s a pity if I
aint, when I’ve cyphered clean through
adoption.’ ‘Adoption! what rule is that;’
said the master. ‘ Why, it’s the double rule
of two”; you know that twice two is four;
and according to adoption twice four is two?’
‘You may take your seat, sir,” said the mas
ter, ‘and you may take yourn too,’ said the
pupil, ‘for it’s a poor rule that won’t work
both ways.’
In the book of Nature, an eccentric man
is—a dash.
Legal question on tail*. —The Sunbury
American proposes the following question
to the young lawyers of Northumberland.
We think it would puzzle one of Philadel
phia: ‘Suppose the plaintiff A, brings his
action against the defendant B, for a dog,
and sets forth in his declaration, as descrip
tive of the animal, that he had the end of his
tail cut off, —is it not incumbent on the plain- j
tiff, in order to support his declaration, to
show that the dog had no end to his tail; or, 1
in other words, that he had an endless tail,
or a tail without end V
Taking it coolly. —A correspondent of the
Skeneateles, (N. Y.) Columbian, giving an
account of the successful abstraction of a
cent from a boy’s throat, winds off with the
following good one: ‘Painful and afflicting
as were the sufferings of the boy, we were
amused to hear the interrogatories of his
little brother, who asked repeatedly, during
the operation, ‘Haint he got that cent out
yet? maint I liave that cent?’ But he was
disappointed, for as soon as the boy felt the
copper in his mouth, he graped it, exclaim
ing, ‘That’s my cent, by jingo!’
Corpulency. —ln Edinburgh resides a
gentleman who is as huge, though not so
witty, as FalstaT. It is his custom, when he
travels, to book two places, and thus secure
half the inside of the coach to himself. He
once sein his servant to book him to Glas
gow, The man returned with the follow
ing pleasing intelligence: ‘l’ve booked you,
sir; but there weren’t two inside places left,
so 1 booked you one in and one out!’
Consoling promise. —The following naive
lover’s promise was offered as an irresisti*
ble temptation to a finally-given inamorato:
‘1 like you,’ sighed the girl, to the suitor,
‘but I can’t leave home. I am a widow’s
only darling; no husband can equal my par
ent in kindness.’ ‘She is kind,’ pleaded the
wooer, ‘but be my wife—we will live to
gether, and see if I don’t heat your mother!’
Neck and Heels. —A young man named
Neck, has recently been married to Miss
Heels. They are now, therefore, literally
tied neck and heels together!
YUE PW%ZLE\SL
85” Answer to Geographical Fnigma of last week :
UNITED PROVINCES. Solutions: Portorico—E
rie—Connecticut — Red—Vesuvius— Indus—Concep.
lion —Dove-—Spencer—Corricntes—Venice—Severn—
T u nis—V erd—Dnieper.
For the Southern Miscellany.
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA.
For Young Students in Geography.
ACItOSTICAL.
I am composed of nineteen letters.
My I, 9,5, 11, 8, 19 is a lake in North-Carolina.
My 2,3, 11, 14, 13, 3is a city in Spain.
My 3, 13, 5, 19,19, 12 is a city in Russia.
My 4,10, 2, 2,11, 5, 12, 11, 2, 12, 7is a mountain in
Asia.
My 5,18, 19, 2, 12, 2, 10, 12 is an island in the West
Indies.
My 6,12,19, 18,11, 10,16,12, 2,12,6 is a city in Asia.
My 7,12, 15, sis a college in the United States.
My 8, 12, 10, 19, 4,5, 7is a city in the British Isles.
My 9, 12, 11, 11, 5 is a city in the German States.
My 10, 2, 12, 4, 7 is a country in Europe.
My 11, 18, 11,14,12 is a river in Sweeden.
My 12, 11, 5, 16, 16, 3 is a city in Asia.
My 13, 5, 11, 17, 10 is a city in Hindoostan.
My 14, 6, 19 is a river in Europe.
My 15,10, 15,15, 14 is a city in France.
My 16, 11, 7,6,3, 18,2,9 is a city in the British Isles.
My 17,10, 6,6, 12,15, 5, 17 is a mountain in Asia.
My 18.16,19,12,15 is a city in Sweden.
My 19, 12, 15, 5, 6 is a city in North America.
My whole is the name of a noted personage in An
cient History. E. H. S.
Madison, Georgia.
Answer next week.
W. G. BALLARD DENTIST,
INTENDS visiting Monroe, Walton County, on the
I 4th and remain until the 14ih of May ;
Covington, on the 21st nnd remain until the 30th of
May; arid
McDonough, on the 30th of May, and remain until
the 15th of June.
He expects to be in Madbon, from the 14th to the
20th of May. -
Madison, May 3, 1842. 7w5
Alfred A. Overton,
Attorney at Law,
MADISON, GEORGIA.
Office, one door north of the American Hotel.
April 5 lyl
American Hotel,
MADISON, GEORGIA.
fPHE subscriber, grateful lor the patronage he has re-
J- ceivt.d since the above establishment has been open,
respectfully informs his friends, nnd the Travelling pub
lic, that he is prepared to accommodate all who may
give liiin a calf J- M. EVANS.
April 5, 1842. 1
Groceries and Siaple Dry Goods.
At the Depot of the Georgia Rail-Road !
WE offer for sale, for Cash, or in exchange for Cotton,
” Clartfi ‘d nnd West India Sugars, all qualities,
Java, Culm and Rio Coffee, a large assortment.
All sizes IRON, n large quantity',
Nails, all sorts ; Weeding Hoes; TrnceChains,
10,000 lbs. Geo. Bacon Hams, Sides and Shoulders,
3,000 lbs superior Lard,
Castings, Black-smith’s Tools, Mill Saws. &c.
40 sacks H tprti tig's and Henderson’s and Wilson’s
Flour, No. 1,
Corn nnd Corn Meal, in any quantity,
Bagging of all kinds, nnd Bagging Twine,
Bale Rope, Molasses, Salt; Paints, assorted,
Linseed, Lamp and Train Oil,
Mackerel. Venison Hams. Irish Potatoes,
Hard-ware, Carpenter’s Tools, Axes, Files,
Locks of all kinu’s; Washing Tubs,
Buckets, and all sorts of Tin Ware,
Chairs, Spinning Wheels, ,
Candles, Soap and Tallow, &,c. &c.
Also a line assortment of BROAD-CLOTHS and
SATTINBTTS: Prints nnd Calicoes,
All kinds of blenched and unbleached Homespuns,
Jaccottett Muslins, liohhinetis,
Leghorn, Straw and Willow Bonnets,
Mens’, Bovs’ and Ladies’ Shoes, assorted,
Factory Yarns and Coarse Cloths.
Our assortment of Goods—f ir Family use—both in
food and raiment, comprises every article usually kept
ill 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 Si CO.
Madison, April 5,1842. }
New €>ood, at Ebenezer!
THE undersigned offers for sale, at hia old stand, in
Ebenezer, Morgan County, a good assortment of
Dry G<K>ds, Hats and Caps, Bonnets, Shoes, i
Hardware, Cutlery, Powder, Shot and Lead,
Crockery, China and Glass Ware, t
Patent Medicines, Nails, Copperas, Indigo,
Pearlash, Suleratus, Sugar, Coffee, Molasses,
Liquors, Candies, Raisins, Saddlery, . >
Together with a general assortment of
Japanned and plain Tin Ware, Sic. Sic.
which are offered very low, for cash- •
„ . JOHN DURDIN.
May 3 4w5
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TO THE LADIES !
TUST OPENED, at C. F. HOFFMAN’S Cheap Cash
” Store, Madison, Morgan County, the following:
Irish Linen, for 50 to 87 1-2 cents; Russia Diaper,
52 50 per piece; 5-4 and 4-8 brown Shirting, 15 to 18
3-4 cents; 5-4 and 4-4 bleached Sheeting for Pillow
Cases, 15 to 20 centß ; 3-4 and 4-4 brown Homespun,
9 to 16 cents; t-leached Shirting, 10 to 18.3-4 cents;
Calicoes, 10 to 25 eents; Bedticking, superior qualities,
16 to 20 cents; colored Shaljey, 62 1-2 cents; Bom
bazine, 1 50 to 81 87 ; superior black Silk, figured, 87
1-2 cents; Gros deNaples, black Mnrinoe, black and
white Crape and Liese, Cotton and Thread Edging and
Lace ; plain and figured Lace for ladies’ Caps; Linen
Cambric Handkerchiefs, from 371-2 cents to 82; Lin
en Cambric, Cambric, Jacconett Muslin, Swiss and
Book Muslin*, check and dotted Muslins, Muslin Need
le work, Edging nnd Insertings, Bobbi->ett and Silk
Quillings; Ladies’ Silk, China and Embroidered Mitts;
Pick Ntc Gloves ; Misses’ long Gloves, assorted ; Cot
ton Stripes, Diaper, Damask ; Corded Skirts; French
needle-worked Co'lars nnd Capes; checked Silk Cra
viits, fancy China Shawls, Pic Nic Shawls, Scarfs, era
broidi-red 6-4 Creese Shawls, black and white English
and French Silk Hose nnd half Hose ; English and
German ladies’ and misses’ Cotton Hose, Apron Check,
Holland Tape, assorted. Cotton nnd Linen Braid. Cot
ton Corde, Reticules, ladies’ and misses’ Lawn and
Silk Bonnets, ladies’ Dress Caps, black Itolinn Lasting,
Poult de Soie.Gros deAtrique, fancy Ribbons, Bel’ings,
Pins, Pocadee, Pearl Buttons, Cotton Thread, Sewing
Silk, Lace Veils, green Bnrrege. Parasols, plain and
fancy China Silk, Garters, Baby Shoes, Silk Cord, Per
fumery, Boston and English Straw Bonnets, Leghorn
Bon nets, childrens’ Leghorn Hats, French printed Cam
bric, Law ns ; 5,6, 8 and 10 Factory Yarn; Cotton
Flannel, Hooks anil Eyes, narrow Ribbons,ladies'Ktdi
Slippers, nnd numerous other Goods.
Ladies, please call and examine for yourselves. . 4
ALSO,
A full assortment of Fresh GARDEN SEED, MED
ICINE, &c, &c.
May 3 4w5
E. D. Williams A Cos.
Auction and Commission Merchants,
MACON, GEORGIA,
TTAVING taken the Fire proof Store, next below that”
II of Messrs. Rea &. Cos ton. Commerce Row, is now
prepared to offer every lacility in their line Their de-’
voted attention will he given to all business entrusted’
to their care, and correct returns made ns early as pos
siblo. They solicit consignments, and a share of the*
business generally.
April 5 , Iyl’>
GENERAL -TAGE OFFICE.
GLOBE HOTEL.
McDonough, Georgia.
THE subscribers would respectfully inform the Tray.
oiling public that this House, situated on the West
corner ol the Public Square, is still open, under the su
perintendence of James W. & David F. Kxott, whose
attention to business, and experience, entitle them to>
some claims on the travelling public
This being the General Stage Office, seats may be
secured on either Pilot or Defiance Lines of Four Horse
Post Coaches for the East or West— the Hack Lino
from Covington or Newnan, East or West, or Hugh
Knox's Line from Forsyth to Decatur, via Indian
Springs, or vice versa.
The subscribers would most respectfully tender their
thanks to the public fur the very liberal patronage here
tofore extended, and most respectfully solicit a contin
uance of the same, pledging themselves, on their part,
to use their best exertions to accommodate and please
those who may call on them. .
J. VV. & D. F. KNOTT.
April 19 ly3
Georgia, i To the Superior Court
Morgan county, j of said County :
THE petition of Ephraim Trotter sheweth that here
-*■ tofore, to wit: on the eighth day ol February, in the
year eighteen hundred and forty-one, Edmund Wheat
of said county, made and delivered to your petitioner
his certain mortgage deed, in writing, of that date, and
thereby, for and in consideration that your petitioner
was security for the said Edmund on two promissory
notes—one for three hundred and fifteen dollars, due-
December twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and forty,
payable to 11. Wade, or bearer, nnd dated November
twenty seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and
one other note for the same amount, due on or before
the twenty-fifth of December, eighteen hundred and
forty-one, and bearing date with said last mentioned
note, and payable as above—as well as for nnd in con
sideration of the sum of five doilnrs in hand paid by
your petitioner to the said Edmund, the receipt where
of in said deed is acknowledged, did grant, bargain,
eell and convey unto the said Ephraim, his heirs and
assigns, the following property,to wit: one certain tract
of land containing three hundred acres, more or less,
adjoining land of Dr. 11. Wade, Matthew Cor.kran.andi
others, also the crop now growing, or to he grown up
on the same, to have nnd to hold said bargained pre
mises, or property, to the said Ephraim, his heirs nnd
assigns, to liis_ and their own proper use, benefit and
behoof; and the said Edmund, for himself, his execu
tors and administrators, the said bargained property or
premises unto the said Ephraim did wnt rant and forev
er defend against the claim of* himself, his heirs, and
against the claim of all other persons whatever: pro
vided cevertheless, that it the said Edmund, his heirs,
executors and administrators shall nnd do truly pay, or
cause to be paid unto the aforesaid Wade, or bearer,
tlie af irementioned sum of six hundred and thirty dol
lars on tne days and times mentioned sot the payment
thereof in the said promissory notes mentioned, with
lawful interest u|>on the same, according to rhe tenor
of said notes, then and from thenceforth, ns well ns the
present indenture and the right to the property thereby
! conveyed, as the said promissory notes shall cease, de
termine and be void tj all intents and purpqses. And
it being further show * to tlie Court that the said Ed
mund Wheat has not complied with the condition ol
said deed of mortgage, nnd that your petitioner has been
compelled to pay on said notes said sunt of money, with
lawful interest thereon. It is
Ordered by the Court, that the said Edmund Wheat
show cause, on or before the first day of the next term
of said Court, why the equity of redemption in and to
the said mortgaged premises, or property, should not be
forever barred and foreclosed. And, it is further
Ordered by the Court, that a copy of this rule be
served up.in the said Edmund in person three months
before the next term of this Court, or published in one
of the public gazettes of this State four months previous’
to the next term of said Court.
A. A. OVERTON,
Attorney for Mortgagee.
True Extract from th-s minutes Superior Court, given*
under my hand at office, 26th April, 1*42.
JNO. C. REES, Clerk.
May 3 4m5
Georgia— TKorgan County :
UTHEREAS, Wilson Watley, Jr., applies to me for
” Letters of Administration on the estate of Ornon
Watley, deceased t
These are |herefore to cite and admonish all and
singulnr the kindred and creditors of sa ; d deceased, to
be nnd appear at my office within the uw prescribed
by law, to show cause, il any they have, why said let
ters should not be granted.
Given under my hand, at office, in Madison,
t JAMES C. TATE, CiokC.O.
1 May 7 6
Morgan Sheriffs Sales.
WILL lie sold on the first Tuesday in June next, be—
” ~ ore *he Court House door, in the Town of Madi
son, in said County, within the usual hours of sale,
Four Negroes, to wit: Peter, a man, 2 i years of age,.
Ephraim, a man, 23 years of ace, Lucy, a girl,2l years
ol age, and Anderson, a boy. 7 yenraof age, all levied
on as the property of John Magee, ttuu pointed out by
Mid Jolm Magee, to satisfy 39 fi fas. from a Justices’
Cjßtrt of the 396 h Dist. G. M. of said County, in favor/
of C R. Zachary, vs. John Magee a.id R. J. Butts.
’ °oe Buggy, levied on to satisfy n fi. fa. in favor
r j ir nni Bacon Si Cos vs. Jacob E. Roll and Sand
-Cliirk, and pointed out by Isham S. Fannin/.
Plninttn'a Attorney.
Also, one trnct of Land, containing two hundred a
cres, more or less, as the property of Srnnuel Stovall, .
it being the plane whereon the said Samuel now lives,
adjoining the lands of Alexander A wtry, David McMa
han, Julius Skinner, and others, ond pointed out by Mr*.
Stovall, to satisfy a H. fa. from Morgan Superior Court,
September Term, 1839, in favor of the Justices of the
Inferior Court, by their Attorney, Wm.F VanLand
ingham. vs. Edmund Duke, principal, Wilie A- B. Mo
horn and Samuel Stovall, securities.
Also, a Negro boy, by the nanto of Alfred, about 15 ■
years of age, levied on as the properly of John C. Rees,
toaatisfv a fl. fa. in fever of John C. Moore, vs. Hugh
Woods, John Woods ond William Woods—John C.
R May*7 CUnty ’ LEWIS GRAVES,Sheriff.
MORGAN SHERIFF’S SALES will.
iAEEr hereafter he published in the ‘'Southern
„ “ecor er,” Milledgeville, nnd the “South
ern Miscellany,” at Madison.
M _ LEWIS GRAVES,Sheriff
May 7 g
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May 7 *w6