The Georgia citizen. (Macon, Ga.) 1850-1860, May 02, 1850, Image 4
As—” •’ * i > -'A~ SlgrintlhttT, jMtmnfitcfurrn, fct. WHY I LEFT THE ANVIL: BY ELIIIU BURRITT. I see it, you would ask me what I have to say for myself for dropping the hammer and taking up the quill, as a member of your profession. I will he honest now, and tell you the whole story. I was transposed from the anvil to the editor’s cliair by the genius of machinery.. Don’t smile, friends, it is even .so. I had stood and looked for hours on those thoughtless, iron intellects, those iron-fingered, so ber, supple automatons, as they caught up a bale of cotton, and twirled it in a twinkling of an eye, into a whirlwind of whizzing shreds, and laid it at my feet in folds of snow white cloth, ready for the use of our most voluptuous antipodes. They were won derful things, those looms and spindles; but they could not spin thoughts; there was no attribute of Divinity in them, and I admired them, nothing more. They were excessively curious, but I could estimate the whole compass of their doing and des tiny in finger power, so I went away, and left them spinning—cotton. One day I was turning my anvil beneath a hot iron, and busy with the thought that there was as much intellectual philosophy in my hammer as there was in any of the enginery agoing in modern times, when a most unearthly screaming pierced my cars; I stepped to the door, and there was the great Iron Horse! Yes, he had come looking for all the world like the great Dragon we read of in Scipturo, har assed to half a living world and just landed on the earth, where he stood braying in surprise and indig nation at the “base use” to which he had been turn ed. I saw the gig.tnrie bexapid move with a pow er that made the earth tremble for miles. I saw the army of human beings gliding with the velocity of the wind over the iron track, and droves of cattle travelling in their stables at the rate of twenty miles an hour toward their city slaughter-house. It was wonderful. The little busy bee winged machi nery of the cotton factory dwindled into insignifi cance before it. Monstrous b ast of passage and burden! it devoured the intervening distance and wedded the cities together! But for its furnace heart and iron sinews, it was nothing but a beast, an enormous aggregation of—horse power. And 1 went back to the i rg ‘ with unimpaired reverence for the intellectual philo ophy of my hammer. Passing along the street one afternoon I hoard a noise in an old building, as of someone puffing an old pair of bellows. So without more ado, I-step ped in, and there, in a corn tof n room, I saw the chef-d’oeuvre of all the machinery that has ever been invented since the birth of Tubal Cain. In its con struction it was as simple as a cheese press. It went with a lever—with a lever, longer, strong r than that with which Archimedes promised to lift the world. “It is a printing press,” saiil a boy standing by an ink trough, with a cm less turban of brown pa per on liis head. “A printing press ’” I queried to myself. “A printing press ? what do you print.” I asked. “Print ?” said the hoy staring at me doubtfully, “why wo print thoughts.” “Print thoughts!” I slowly repented after him; and we stood looking for a mar., nt at each other in mutu al Admiration; lie in tli ■ ab< -lie * of an Idea, and 1 in pursuit of one. But I looked at him the hardest, and he left another ink mark on Ids forehead, from a pathetic motion of his 1 ft hand, to ■quicken liis apprehension of his meaning. “Why, yes,” here iterated, in a tone of forced confidence, as if assort ing an idea, which, though having been current a hundred years might still be counterfeit, for all lie could show on the spot, “we print thoughts to be sure.” “But my, boy;” I asked in honest soberness, “what are thoughts, and h<w can you get hold of them to print them I” “Thoughts are what come out of people’s minds,” he replied. “Get hold of them indeed ? Why minds am’t nothing you can get hold of, nor thoughts either. All the minds that ever thought and all the thoughts that minds ever made, wouldn’t make a ball as big as your fist. Minds, they say, are just like air; you can’t see them; they don’t make any noise, nor have any color; they don’t weigh anything. Bill Dropout, the sexton says that a man weighs jiv-t as much when his mind has gone out of him as he did before. No sir, all the minds that ever lived would not weigh an ounce troy.” “Then how do you print thought ?” I asked.— “If minds are thin as air, and thoughts thinner still, and make no noise and have no substance, shade or color;, and are like winds, and more than winds, are anywhere in a moment, sometimes in heaven, mid sometimes on earth, and in the waters under the earth; how can you get hold of them ? how can you see them when caught, cr show them to oth ers ?” Ezekiel’s eyes grew luminous with a now idea, and pushing his ink-roller proudly across the medd le page of the newspaper, he r pli and. “thoughts work and walk cm things what make tra Its: and we take them tracks and stamp tie m on paper, or iron, or wood, stone, or what not. This is the way we print thoughts. Don't you unci i land !” The pressman let go the lever, and looked inter rogatively at Ezekiel, beginning at the patch on his stringless brogans, and follow ing up bis eye to the top of “the boy’s brown paper buff cap. Ezekiel comprehended*the felicity ot bis illustration, and wiping bis hands upon liis tow apron, gradually as sumed an attitude of earn, . t exposition. [ gave him an encouraging wink, t 1 so in* went on. “Thoughts make tracks,” he continued impress ively, as if evolving anew p-ha>e <>: ii ■ idea’by re peating it slowly. Seeing we a--seated to the pro position inquiringly, he stepped to the type case, with his eyes fixed admoni: kingly upon us.— “thoughts make tracks,” lie repeated, arranging in his left hand a score or two of metal slips, “and with these here letters wo can take the exact im pression of every thought that ever went out of the heart of a human man; and we can print it too, ’ giving the inked form a blow of triumph with his fist, “we can print it too, give us pap i r and ink e nongli, till the great round earth is blanketed over with a coverlid of thoughts as much like the pat tern as two peas.” Ezekiel seemed to grow an inch at every word, and the brawny .pressman looked first at him and then at the press, with evident as tonishment. “Talk about the living forev er!’’ exclaimed the boy, poii mg patronizingly at the ground, as if minds were lying there incapable of immortality until the printer reached it a helping hand, “why the world is brimful of live, bright, and industrious thought, which would have been dead, dead as a stone, if it hadn’t been for boys like me who have run the ink-rollers. Immortality,indeed! why people’s minds,” he Continued with his climb ing into the profanely sublime, “people’s minds wouldn’t be immortal if’twasnt for the printers, at any rute, in tills lu re planetary burial ground. \\ e are the chaps that manufacture immortality for dead men,” he continued, slappingtlie pressman gracious ly on the shoulder. The latter took it as a dubbed knight of the legion of honor, for the boy had put the mysteries of his profession in sublime apocalypse. “Give us one good healthy mind,” resumed Ezekiel, “to think for us, and we will furnish a dozen worlds, as big as this with thoughts to order. Give us such a man, and we will ensure his life; we will keep him alive forever among the living. He can’t die, no way you can fix it, when once we have touched him with these bits of inky pewter. He shan’t die nor sleep. We will keep his mind at work on all tin 1 * minds that live on the earth, and all the minds that shall come to live here as long as the world stands.” “Ezekiel,” Ia ked, in a subdued tone of rever ence, “will you print my thoughts, too ?” “Yes, that I will,” he replied, “if you will think some of the right kind.” “Yes, that we will,” ech oed the pressman. And 1 went home and thought, and Ezekiel has printed my ‘thought tracks’ ever since. RAISING MULES. Mr. Parham : —1 desire to call the attention of farmers to the importance of raising Mules. I have been informed by those competent to judge, that a mule colt can be reared to two years old, on the same amount of corn that a two year old hog would consume. Os course the mule would require some grazing in good pasture. An acre of clover, I suppose, would suffice for the head. Put the season of a mare at $4 —the corn for colt at at $4 —pasturage at $10 —the time and trouble at $‘2 —the whole cost of the mule at two years old would be S2O ; and $lO of the twenty is for labor performed on the farm— in others words, it is turning into money that much labor. I think all will agree with me that mules at two years old, never bring less than S4O. At two and a half years old they are more generally worth SOO. Now these are plain figures. Any one can i make the calculation himself, and he will sec that my estimate is a fair one. Mules are always salea ble—cotton can't be made without them. The gene ral price for good mules in Georgia and Alabama is from SBS to sllO. Almost every farmer can raise one or two mules annually, and instead of relying upon his hoes and corn alone, he will have from SBO to SIOO at the end of each year more than he now lias. Nor need he raise hogs less than he now does, for the mule is raised principally on grass or clover. Horses. —l notice that the most of our farmers are generally very careless about what kind of horses they raise. Or rather they raise very sorry horses. Now a good colt costs no more than a had one. A rme horse will sell for 25 or 50 per cent, more than a common one. They had better pay a little higher for the season of a good horse than to have a sorry colt given to them. The best policy is always to raise good stoek, and the best prices will then always be obtained. —Chattanooga Gaz ite A Widow worth Having. —Mrs. Miranda Hines, who has been a subscriber for twenty years to tbe Greenfield (Mass.) Gazette, without giving the Pro prietor any trouble about pay, shows herself, in the following extract, a most notable Dairy Woman : 1 bare five Cows, and have sold tbe past season, 1300 ll>s. of butter, 1 resides milk, cream and butter for family use. Our family will average eight. I raised seven calves last spring ; some of them I got of my n eighbors. I have fatted 768 lbs. of Pork, mostly on sour milk. Now let us leave out one of the cows for family use and set the credit for the other four, —say 1300 divided by four makes 335 lbs. to each cow ; the butter sold, averaging 1 G 1-2, makes $53 02 to each cow. The seven calves were worth S3O, say $25 to the four cows ; and five hun dred of the pork at SO, will be 30 ; and the $25 for the calves makes $55, divided by 4, leaves $13,75 to each cow ; this added to $53,61, viil make $07,37 to each cow. My cows are about middling sized, an A of the na tive breed. They have a good pasture in summer, and good hay in winter, I sometimes give Old Brin dle a few smail apples and potatoes, parings, and the like, to make her hold her milk till some of the others come in. “When I see anything in the butter line in your paper that beats the above, I will try again. Miranda Hines. Monroe, Feb. 18, 1850. €\)t Imlwjier. To make Table Jellies. —Use at least two oun ces of refined Isinglass, two quarts of cold water, one and a half pounds of sugar, put in it the white of three eggs, the juice of three good sized 1 ;mon , the peel of one, a stick of cinnamon, a little nutmeg, orange pec-1, or other spices to suit the taste; Gir all the ingredients well together while colei, let them soak for at least one hour, then boil the whole ma s five or ten minutes, and pour it through a Jelly Bag, when it may be put into glasses or moulds, and when cold will be fit for use. The moulds should be first wet with a little white of egg and water, just before tbe jelly is put in them, in- order to make it easy to turn them out on plates. The Jelly Bag is made of flannel 8 or 10 inches across the opening, and about half a yard deep, nar rowing at the bottom. The liquid that runs through first, should be poured back in the jelly bag until it runs through clear. Blanc Mange may he made by uring at least one ounce of Isinglass for two quarts of milk or j cream, the peel of two lemons, sugar and spice to suit the taste —bring the whole to a boiling heat, strain it, and when m arly cool stir it well to mix the cream that will raise while cooling, pour it in moulds, and when perfectly cold, it may be turned out and ready for use. The moulds should be first wet w! tli cold water, which will prevent it from stick ing to them. ■wsiunr? -rrsr.Vfa-.jna To Refine Liquors.—Dis olve four ounces in four quarts of Cider, Beer or Wine, (it should not be boiled though warmed sufficient ty dissolve it,) put it when dissolved into a barrel of liquor and leave tbe bung out that the surface may be exposed to the air; it should be well stirred, and when clear, rack, and off. It should be put into Cider as soon as it is drawn from the pres and be racked soon as it is el ar: ii it be not racked oil at a proper time, a fix will form and cause the sediment to min gle again with the whole mas*. uxrzzzjaß-yarn a Draught for tiie Heartburn. —Drop fifteen or twenty drops of water of ammonia (not the strong est preparation) into two ounces of almond mixture, or of common water. This is a powerful remedy for heartburn, and other cases of morbid acidity of the stomach. nT.Tnn Scarlet Die. —Cream of tartar, one and three quarters of an ounce; water, one quart; boil in a block tin vessel, and when dissolved, add solution of tin, (made by dissolving two ounces of grain tin in a mixture of one pound each of nitric acid and wa ter, and one and a half ounces of sal ammonia,) three quarters of an ounce; boil it for three minutes, then introduce the cloth and boil it for two hours; drain and cool. Next take cream of tartar, a quar ter of an ounce; water half a pint; boil and add pow dered cochineal, one ounce, stirring well all the time; lastly put in the goods and dye as quickly a> possible. For Removing Wrinkles. —Take two ounces of the juice of onions, 2 ounces of the white lilly, 2 ounces of Narbonnc honey, and 1 ounce of white wax. l’ut the whole into anew earthen pipkin un til the wax is then take the pipkin off the fire, and continue stirring briskly until it grows cold. This should be applied on going to bed, and allow ed to remain on until morning. To Pickle Red Cabbage adopt the following method: Take a fine large closely grown Tli 33 © m ft. IJL •€ Tll slt . j strip the outside leaves off, cut it across in rather thin slices, and lay them on a dish, strewing salt equally all over them. Cover with a cloth, and let them remain so for twenty hours. Then drain the cabbage, and put it in a jar with allspice, whole pepper, and a little ginger, sliced; pour cold white wine vinegar over it, and tie closely from the at mosphere. Mock Brawn. — Boil a pair of neat’s feet very tender, cutoff the meat, and have ready the belly piece of pork, salted with common salt and salt pe tre fora week. Boil it almost enough, take out the bones, and roll the meat of the feet and pork to gether. Roll it up very tight with a strong cloth, and tie up with tape. Boil till very tender, and hang it up in the cloth till cold. Cosmetic Juice. —make a hole in a lemon, fill it with sugar candy, and close it nicely with gohl leaf, applied over the rind that w r as cut out, then roast the lemon in hot ashes; when required, squeeze out the juice, and wash the face in a napkin dipped in the li quid. It is said to cleanse the skin and brighten the complexion. Palma Chrtsti Oil.— Take one ounce of Palma christi oil; add oil of b wgamotte, or lavender to scent it. Let. it be well brushed into the hair twice a day for tw o or three months —particularly apply ing it to those parts where it may be most desirable to render the hair luxuriant. This is a simple and j valuable oil, and not in the hands of any monopo list: Bath Cakes are thus made : Mix well toge th er half a pound of butter, one pound of flour, five eggs, and a cupful lof yeast. Set the whole before the tiro to rise, which effected, add four ounces of finely powdered sugar, and one ounce of carra ways; roll the paste out into little cakes. Bake them on tins. Arn.ES are Preserved by wrapping each in a piece, of clean dry paper, and filling small w ide mouthed ja;s or honey pots with them, packing the pots one upon the other, and filling the space be tween them with a sort of Blaster of Paris made into ] a t ■ w ith water, thus making them air-tight. Cowr well the mouth of the jars. €\)t Utanrist. ‘•T.et dim]i!e<l mirth liis temples twine, With tendrils of the laughing vine.” From the Methodist Expositor. The Mormon ant! the German. The following incident, which is said to have oc curred in Louisiana, was related to the writer by an old Methodist itinerant, who traveled in that coun try at a very early day. A Mormon elder, one of Joe Smith's thorough bred disciples, engaged in bis miscellaneous peregri ! nations over the southern portion of our country, found himself in a neighborhood, where the people, drawn out by anything that carried novelty upon its face, were w illing to go out and listen to him every | day for a week. Among liis hearers was an elderly, venerable German, whose eye flashing keenly from out its walls of ehufty cheeks and heavy brows, be spoke that mi sluggard mind slept there only half awake. He was the leader of the Methodist class in the neighborhood. Every time the Mormon would hold forth his enlightening speculations, like many other petifoggers in divinity, he would, in the most pompous manner possible, call for any ques tion that any might w ish t-> ask—any objections to anything lie had advanced—and as a farther trick upon his auditors, would challenge any one, lie cared not who, to controvert any position he had as>uml knowing very m il, that tin re win no person any where about him, who would with any likelihood at all, think of accepting it; and after lie had finished his lecture, reiterating liis call, he w ould add, that if there was any passage of scripture at all, which anv of his hear is did not understand in accordance with liis theory, if they would call upon him, he would gladly explain it to them. After lie had been there about a week, the old German became heartily tired of him, and concluded to try his hand on him; so, in the morning, after the people assembled, and before the Mormon had be | gun his lecture, he ro.-c up, and addressed the Mor i moil thus: “if 1 da h unterslitant you, you dash vant any of us to ar k you any questions bout vat you ses.” “i eg certainly any que- tion you may w ish to pro pound, I will answer with pleasure.” “Veil, if I unterriitants you right, you ses you dash believe in languages an dc iutarpretation of languages.” “Yes, exactly.” “Also in dreams an do iutarpretation of dreams.” “Just so; so far you understand me exactly, sir.” “Yell den, Iliad a dream last night; vi!l you be so kind as to intarpret it for me an my neighbors, if 1 viil tell it to you ?” “Certainly, sir. I vrill give you the exact inter pretation; and 1 am sure 1 will be enabled by it to convince you all fully.” “Yell, my neighbors,” said the German turning around and facing the congregation, “you must al l listen gout to do dream, and see if se dash give a goot intarpr. tation.” “\ ell, I. dreamt last night dat 1 vasli very sick; an dat at last, 1 vasli so sick dat 1 diet. An ven 1 diet, 1 goes avay oif, an off very far; an ven I did go a gi (at vays, I come to do gate of heaven; an ven 1 got (I re, 1 did knock; den Gabriel, from do inside, ses, ‘\\ ho comes dero ?’ I told him. ‘Vat du-Ji you vent A I told him I vauts to come in. ‘You cannot come in here:’ Yat for l cannot come in ? ‘You is not gate enough.’ Yell den, vat inusht 1 do, if I cannot come in here? ‘You see avay offyouter ish te gate of hell. You go dere an knock, an dey mu ht let you in due.’ So I goes avay otT, till 1 Comer, to do gate of hell; an veil 1 gets dere, I dush knock at u • gate. ‘\\ ho comes acre ?’ ses one iti . ide. 1 ufld him. ‘Vat dusli you vant ?’ 1 v.mts to come in. ‘You cannot come in here.’ Yat for I cannot come in ? Gabriel ses 1 must, come in. ‘Yel den, 1 vil see vat Be lzebub ses bout it’ So lie goes avay off into bell, to sec Belzebub. After a vile lie com* s back, an I ses, vat did Beelzebub say ? ‘Beelzebub ses you cun not come in.’ Yat for, (be coming quite excited in his tone of voice, at the thought of being so pertinaciously denied an en trance,) ‘Yat for l cannot come in ? ‘Beelzebub sis pecause be expects Choc Smit an all liis company here in a few days,’ an ve will bo crowded out /’ 1 he uproarious laughter which followed, can bet 1t be imagined than described. Suffice it to say, tlie Mormon mysteriously disappeared, some said through the back window-, before silence was restor ed, and has never been heard of since. L. D. N. ‘Lezar ! Lezar! you are a fool.’ ‘I know I am a fool,’ answered Eleazar, Vlrawing in bis hanging tongue; but Blnlemon, you are a tool, and don t know it.’ Philemon, is one of a nu merous class. Epitaph “Writing, —On tbe death of General WMf, a premium was offered fertile best written epitaph on the brave officer. A number of poets, of all descriptions, started as candidates, and among the rest w as a poem, ot which the follow ing was one of the stanzas : “ lie mnrclied without dread of fears At tlie bead of liis bold Grenadiers: And w hat was more remarkable—nay, very particular , ■ He dim'd up rocks that were perpendicular.*’ Receipts.—To have Music at Dinner.—Tell your w ife she is not as handsome as the lady across the way. To save Butter. —Make it so salt that nobody can cat it. To lighten your Worldly Troubles.—Punish your child w hen it is naughty, and caress it again if it cries. To make Superior Bread. —Make it of flour in which mice have played. A man who had a long score at his grocer’s, com plained of suffering from the ‘tiek-dollar-owe.’ ■a—WMna Hard Boiled Eggs—‘Go thou and dream,’ a* the vender of hard boiled Eggs said to his customer, was once considered a very fine bon mot. It is not equal in raciness to a little incident that happened a few days since, in the private office of a crabbed old phy sician of our acquaintance. Enter a tall, gaunt, haggard individual of the masculine gender. “Oh, Doctor! I had such terrible dreams last niglit! 1 dreamed that I saw-my father and mother! ’ ‘What did you eat before going to bed ?’ gruffly asked old Burdock, raising bis glasses and peering at the bed ridden hypochondriac w ith bis big green eyes. ‘Oh, Doctor, I cat nothing at all! ’ * ‘You eat nothing! Then it is strange you should dream ! ’ and the Doc tor lowered his glasses and continued perusing the work on diseases of the spinal column, in which lie had been interrupted. “Oh, yes, T eat nothing! absolutely nothing! ’ drawled out the miserable w retch, ‘liothcn but a Welsh rare bit, and a half a-dozen hard boiled eggs, and yet I saw my father and mother.’ ‘Half-a-dozen hard boiled eggs and a Welsh rare bit! ’ growled old Burdock, ‘well, to night, eat a Welsh rare bit and a dozen hard boiled eggs, and you will see your grandmother, and very likely all your ancestors.’ — N. 0. True Delta. e-ww***® mm iiiira A scamp who used to raise a particular purgatory about Middle bury College, had ‘taken a shine’ to the daughter of a staid old deacon, who, used fre quently to invite him to dinner. The deacon called upon him one day to ask the customary blessing, and not wishing to have it understood that there was any one thing he could not do, he made T he effort. Hastily recollecting all that he could of the usual form, he began, and made an excellent start of it, but for his life he could not tell how to close it. — It was easier to go on than to stop. Finally, ma king a desperate dafli after the period, he closed thus : “In conclusion my dear sir, 1 remain very re spectfully and truly your obedient servant! ” lie has not dined with that deacon since. Stripping to it. — A Western New York corres pondent of the New York Spirit of tlie Times, does not think ‘that any of the lost stories,’ for which that capital journal is so famous, ‘can beat one told by Justice G of the Sixth District. He was holding the summer circuit in Chenango county. — The day was very hot and sultry. Avery fat old lady was called upon the stand as n witness. She took a scat, pulled.out a handkerchief, and tried to w ipe off the perspiration from her face, but the more she rubbed, the redder her face grew, and the faster the great drops of sweat rolled down. At length, in a perfect agony of heat, she began to untie her bonnet-strings but her ‘fingers were all thumbs,’ and she only succeeded in tying a hard knot. Finally she turned to the Judge, who is celebrated for liis urbanity and kindness to the sex, and asked him to untie it for her, which of course he did. ‘There, thank ve. Judge,’said the old lady, with a profound courtesy ; ‘when 1 have any thing to do, 1 always like to strip to it!’ r ihe court immediately took a recess. BT 3 n 1 - Love Geography. —‘Bob, where is the state of Matrimony ? ’ ‘lt is one of the United States. It is bounded by bugging and kissing on one side, and cradles and babies on the other. Its chief products are popu lation, broom sticks and staying out o’nights. It was discovered by Adam and Eve w hile trying to find a northwest pa-sago out of Bartulise. Tiff cli mate is rather sultry, till you pass the tropics of housekeeping, when squallv weather sets in with sufficient power to keep all hands as cool as cucum bers, For tlie primitive roads leading to tins in teresting state, consult the first pair of blue eyes you run against! ’ Kt-SLAage; vc C.lfM 1 TH Expounding the Law. —A Scotchman called at the house of Fletcher, of Vermont, to consult that legal gentleman professionally. “Is the squeer at home ‘. ’ he enquired of the law yer’s lady who opened the door at liis summons. He was answered nega tively. Disappointment was now added to Scotia’s son, hut after a moments consideration, anew thought relieved him. ‘Mebby yourself can gie me the neces sary information as well as the Squeer —seeing as ye’re his wife.’ Hie kind lady readily complied to do so, if on learning the nature of his difficulty, she found it in her power, and the other proceeded to state the ca e as follows: ‘Spoze ve was an null white mear, an T bony ye to gang to mill, with a grist on yer back, an’ we •should get no farder than Stair hill, w hen all at wonce, ye should back up, and rear up, and pitch up, and kneel down backwards, and break yer d* al lied neck, who’d pay for ye ? not 1, dearn me if 1 would! ’ The lady smilingly told him, as she closed the door, that as he had himself passed sentence on the case, advice would he entirely superfluous. , v s*rra*sn Filing cpthe Agony. — “Well, Anne, have you consented yet to be tlie wife of Mr. W bite ?’ ‘No, •Sally, L didn’t quite consent.’ ‘Why not? 1 think he loves you.’ ‘Yes, but he didn’t pile up the ago ny high enough. When I give my hand to a wooer, 1 w ant him to call upon the gods to witness his deep devotion to me. 1 want him to kneel at my feet, take olio of my hands between both of liis, and with a look that would melt an adamantine rock to pitv, to beg me to take compassion on his dreadful suffering; and then 1 want him to end by swearing to blow his brains out on the spot if I do not com passionate his miseries.’ The heart-broken individual supposed to be the au thor of the follow ing lines, was seen last Sunday with a “ card of ging-rim ml’ under his arm, walking rap idly towards tlie river. He has not been heard ot since: Hut sickness and affliction is trials sent By tlie will of a wise creation, And always oiiflit tobo underwent With fortitude and resignation. Then mourn not for your pardner's death, But to submit, endevver; For sposen she liadent died so soon, She eouldent a li\od forever. The Brooklyn * Advertiser is responsible lbr the following outrageous paragraph: Dip the Atlantic ocean dry with a .teaspoon — stop this journal from going ahead, twist your heel into the toe of your boot—make postmasters per form their promises, and subscribers pay the prin ter —send up fishing hooks with balloons and fisli for stars —get astride of a gossamer and chase a comet —w hen a rain storm is coming down like the cataract of Niagara, remember w here you left your umbrella —choke a musquito with a brickbat —in short, prove all things hitherto considered impossi ble, to be possible, but never coax a woman to say she will, when she has made up her mind to say she won’t. GREAT ATTRACTION!! attention of every man, woman and child in Georgia and adjacent States, is specially directed to the following PROSPECTUS of the UJ& yai Sii a 1 & if1 An independent and racy Weekly Journal, jest commenced in Ma-* con, Ga. under the exclusive control of L. F. W. Andrews, Editor and Proprietor, \\ ho for five years past, had the charge of the JYlflSCOgcc l>CllloCratf of Columbus: Ist. His motto will be —■“lndependent in all things, neutral in nothing.' 1 ' 1 This is indicative of the position winch the Editor designs to take in relation to men, princi ples and measures—a position above the influence of party or sect, and which will reserve to himself the largest liberty of speech and most unrestrained latitude of criticism upon all matters, moral, social and political, winch may pass in review before him, as a public Journalist. id. As the paine imports, the Editor’s aim will be to de velope the resources of Georgia and advance the interests of her people in the pathway of true greatness and prosperity. I ruler this head, the agricultural and mineral capabilities of the state—its commercial facilities—its varied industrial pur suits, and the educational enlightenment of every class of its citizens, will be embraced, as leading objects of concern ment. dd. Hie “Georgia Citizen’’ will lie the foe of moiiojx-ly an l exclusive privilege, in their every phrase and feature, and the special friend of honest industry of head and hand.— W iiile “every form of tyranny over the mind of man” will be strenuously opposed, the ‘‘Citizen” will ever be found en forcing the constitutional requirements of toleration towards every Guide of opinion which may be entertained “for eon s.ienee’ sake,” and defending the rights of the humblest from abuse or infringement. 4th. The “Citizen” will contain a weekly transcript of the current news of the day, gleaned with care from every a vailable source, foreign and domestic. Cud or this head the Editor will introduce anew and interesting feature —that o special correspondence from the prominent cities of the State and Union, in which all that is rich in incident and racy in thought, will be garnered, weekly, for the reader's information and amusement. 3th. The “Citizen” will have its Literary Department, where will be found the gem of poetic inspiration and the ftP li IMS; OF Xm PRESS;* The folio wing unsolicited end unbeught opinions <_( the Frcss, of Georgia and Alabama, ol both parties, as io the character of the “Georgia Citizen** and the abil ity ot the Editor to make it one of the most readable and valuable FAMILY JOURNALS now published in the Union, arc only a part of the many flattering testimonials which have greeted the Editor since the appearance of his first Number, lie submits them to the public, as the unbiassed evidence of a far-see ing and enlightened Fraternity, who must, from their vocation, he qualified to ren der a just verdict in the case, and whose united and disinterested opinions are certainly entitled to respectful consideration; from the reading community : The Georgia Citizen. Independent in all things—neutral in nothing. The above are the title and motto of anew paper just com menced at Macon, Ga., by Dr. L. F. W. Andrews, late Ed itor of the “ Muscogee Democrat.” If .No. 1, now before us, is to be taken as a specimen, the “ Georgia Citizen,” will be a valuable paper. We like his motto, and hope the Doctor will maintain his present high position. We. have long dr tested the devotion of the strictly party press to stereotype sentiments, manufactured for them by interested politicians. | We go ior the “ freedom of the press” always, and under a!! j circumstances. \\ e welcome the Georgia Citizen to our ex- I change list.— So. Fain. Journal. Tun Georgia Citizen.—The publication of anew paper, under rliis title, has been commenced in Macon, edited bv Dr Andrews, the first number of which is before us. “ lu j dependent in ail things—neutral in nothing,” it appears to i have for its object the dissemination of truth, the advance : ment of literature, and the fostering of the arts and sciences. From the experience, zeal and energy of the editor, and his knowledge of the wants of the reading community, we may j salely predict that a well deserved patronage will be bestow ; ed upon it. Terms, per annum— Aug. Republic. The Georgia Citizen.—The first No. of the “ Georgia Citizen,” published by Dr. L, F- W. Andrews, Macon, Ga., lias been received and contents duly scanned. It is a taste fully gotten up sheet, and the specimen number does credit to the able editor, in a literary point of view. Dr. Andrews is well known to the public as the former editor of the “ Mus cogee Democrat,” and the interest he imparted to that pa per, is sufficient guaranty that ‘The Citizen’ will he worthy of public patronage. — Forsyth Her. The Georgia Citizen.—This is the title of anew paper just started in Macon by L. F. W. Andrews, formerly of the Muscogee Democrat. Its motto is — “independent in all i tilings—neutral in nothing”—from which we may infer, it is devoted to no party or sect. The Editor is a warm friend ; of State improvement and of our own sea-port, and as such, we cordially welcome his re-appearance among the corps editorial.— Stir. Republican. The Georgia Citizen. —We have received the first No. of the Georgia Citizen published in the city of Macon, and edited by Dr. L. F. \V. Andrews, former Editor of the Musco gee Democrat, liis motio is, “ independent in ai! things— neutral in nothing.” The first No. of the Georgia Citizen is printed on good paper, and is an interesting sheet.— Sar. Georgian. The Georgia Citizen.—We are pleased to find on our ta- \ ble the first number of this paper lately established in Macon, under the editorial management of L. F. W. Andrews, for merly of the Mus. ogee Democrat. The editor is already so well known throughout the tState as an able writer, that comment from us is unnecessary. The first number of the Citizen opens rich, with a large stock of original and inter- i esfing matter. — Atlanta Intelligencer. The Georgia Citizen.—We have received the first num ber of a paper bearing the above title, published in Macon, Ga., by l)r. L. F. W. Andrews, formerly the Editor of the “Muscogee Democrat.’’ It is a large sheet and well filled with an unusual amount of original matter. The Dr's, well known capacity in this line gives promise of a popular and readable sheet. —Columbus Sentinel. Tiik Georgia Citzf.n. —V.'e have received the first num ber of the Georgia Citizen, anew paper just started in the city of Macon, under the editorial management of our late fellow-townsman, Dr. Andrews. The specimen sheet before us is one that will bear inspection. It is well filled with orig inal and sole ted matter, and presents itself with a fair and comely face. We v\ ish the Doctor all the success in his new enterprise which his industry and ability command. It lias been our fortune to break a lance, or rather to have his occa sionally splintered over our pates, and we give the fraternity fair notice that he will hold his hand in the ordinary skir mishes of the brotherhood.— Columbus Enquirer. TtiK Georgia^itizen.-- -Well, our old friend, Dr. Andrews, has got tip steam again, and commenced his new paper at Macon, “ The Georgia Gitizen.” Ills motto is “ Indepen dent in all-things—neutral in nothing,” from which the rea der can form a pretty good idea of the character of the pa per. From a hasty perusal of the first number, we are in clined to think well of it.— Athens Whig. The Georgia Citizen. —The above is the title of new paper which we find among our exchanges. It is published in the city of Macon, by Mr. L. F. W. Andrews, former ed itor of the Muscogee Democrat. The number before us, is a large imperial sheet, neat in its nn-chanical execution and replete with interesting matter. It abounds in original arti cles, and correspondence from different sections of the coun try, among which, we notice Marietta is represented. Who is “ Kennesau) ?” That's the question. Its motto is, “ In dependent in all things—neutral in nothing.” Price tjsti.iiO per annum in advance. We congratulate onr brother An flreics upon the appearance of his paper, and wish him abun dant success in business.— Marietta Helicon. The Georgia Citizen. —This to the title of a large and interesting independent (taper just started at Macon, Ga., by L.F. W. Andrews, formerly editor of the Muscogee Democrat. Mr. Andrews is a very strong amt racy writer; well qualified l'er his present post. —EuUtw (.Hu) iJriiun rat. The Georgia Citizen. —This is the title of anew weekly paper is sued in this citv, on Thursday last, L. by F. V,. Andrews, Esq., late of the filuicoerg Vernier at. It to a neatly printed and spiritedly edited ADVERTISEMENTS. Professional and Business Cards, not excecdings (>lines, per annum, $5 00 Transient Advertisements per square of 12 lines, one insertion, - 100 Each subsequent insertion, - - - 50 Yearly Advertisements, per square, 10 00 A Liberal arrangement made with those who advertise by theyeiu\ choice excerpts of a chaste anil instructive Miscellany, togeth er with original contributions from some of our most gifted writers. Otli. There will bq a Department of Science, Art ams Domestic Economy, in which useful diets and improvement* will be recorded, for the benefit of the artizan, the housowif* and the man of Science. 7th. A corner will be devoted to the passing facet ice of the age, in which will be preserved the piquant anecdote,- the lively bon-mot and sententious epigram, together with the quirks and comicalities of these who are, by nature, Son* of Mom us—or the laughing Philosophers of the times. From the Editor’s experience in the business of Nawspd* per publication—his new and central position—and his thor ough appreciation of the wants of the reading public, he flat ters himself that he will be able to make the “Georgia Citi izcii” a welcome visitor to the fireside of every denizen of our noble old Commonwealth. At least, he will enter upon the work* with a just sense of the magnitude of the task be fore him, and with an ardor of zeal and energy in the honor able vocation, which shall know no abatement until succaaa be won, or failure inevitable. CONDITIONS. The Citizen xcill he printed on a large imperial sheet , icith new type and materials, and furnished at the follow ing rates : One copy per annum , in advance. - - $2 50 ” “ If not so paid, - 300 7'iro copies per annum, in advance, - - 450 Five “ “ “ “ “ - - -10 00 One copy of the Citizen and one copy of Godey's La dy's Booh-, for a year. - - - - - 500 ’ Address, free of Postage, L. I'\ H r . Andrews, Macon, Ga. she<i and wc liave no doubt, will command a full share of public pat ron.!™.—.l tr.cn M'Stcsgcr. The Georgia Citizen. —We have received the first num ber of a large, beautiful sheet, bearing the altove title. To use the Editor’s language it will be “ Independent ill all things—Neutral in nothing!” It is edited and published by L. F. W. Andrews, a gentleman well known to the reading ! public of Georgia, as the late able editor of the Muscogee I Democrat. Friend Andrews is a spirited writer, and w ill make a paper worthy the patronage of every “ Georgia ('it izen.’’ Success to you, Doctor. Terms, § 50 ]>er annum, in advance. Macon, Ga. — Ringgold Republican. ITiik Georgia Citizen.— We have received the first nnni berof a m w paper under the above title, just commenced ia the city of Macon, Georgia, by Dr. L. F. W. Andrews, for merly of the Musccgee Democrat,Columbus. The Georgia C'it zcn is handsomely gotten up, and the first number shows that the Doctor 4s determined to lavish upon it all his indus try, energy, an 1 talent. We doubt not that ihe “Citizen” will bea well-behaved individual, and, we hope, eminently eus , cessful.— M con (Ala.) Republican. 7i:e Georgia Citizen.—Me take much pleasure in in forming the reading public, that Dr L. F W. Andrews, lato ofihe “ Muscogee Democrat,” has established himself in ths chair editorial, of a very neat and spirited bheet, bearing ibe above caption, the receipt of the first number of which we nro happy to acknowledge. I lie •“ Citizen decidedly lu-ars the i impress of the Doctor’s genius, and we predict for it a very prosperous and useful existence. —Central Georgian. The Georgia Citizen —ls the title of a large and hand somely printed sheet, just issued in Macon, by Dr 1,. F. W. Andrews, formerly of the Msscogec Democrat. The motto !is “ Independent in ail things—neutral in nothing.” We are ’ pleased with the general appearance of this number, and doubt not the paper will lie liberally supported The editor, we are glad to see, takes up the cudgels against the South ern Convention.— Cassrille Standard. The Georgia Citizen. —Wc have received the first nnni j her of the Georgia Citizen, edited and published in Macon i by L. F. \\ . Andrews, former editor of the Muscogee Dem- I ocrat. It is a neatly printed and well filled sheet. —Albany Patriot. The Georgia Citizen.—We have received a number of a I paper bearing the above name, published at Macon, Ga.., and | edited by L. F. W. Andrews, former Editor of the Muscogee | Democrat. The appearance of the Citizen is neat and iaste i ful—the matter choice and interesting. Wc wisli the newly launched bark, in its perilous voyage, ! prosperous gales and many returns.— Fed. Union. Tue Georgia Citirbn, — IVe have received the first num ber of the “ Georgia Citizen,” edited and published in Ma con by L. F. IF. Andrews, former editor of the Muscores Democrat. It is a beautifully printed sheet, and filled witft fresh, racy and interesting matter. The editor is possessed of taste ami i lent to make a most acceptable paper ; and as he promises to da his devoirs iu this behalf, we doubt not will make the Citizen eminently so.— Milicdgeville Recorder. Tys Georgia Citizen —Is the name of a paper started at Macon, < la., the first number of which is on our table. Dr. Andrews—the editor and proprietor—formerly of the Musco gee Democrat, is a man of very fine talents, and will make file Citizen one of the most readable papers in the country. Ala. Commonwealth. Ti;e Georgia Citizen.—We have received the first num ber of a paper bearing this title, published in Macon, Ga., by Dr. L. F. W. Andrews, formerly editor of the Muscogee D.*u -rat. The paper is to be an imh pendent sheet, and if we are to judge by the editor’s past history, it will be oue in every respect. Dr. A. is a strong and racy writer, and we expect to derive ranch pleasure and information hereafter from the “ Citizen.” If our readers desire to subscribe io n good paper—one that posessess that clement so uncommon, originality, we would advise them to subscribe to the Georgia Citizen, instead of bestowing their patronage upon the hum bug weeklies, (or rather iceakWes) and tinsel monthlies of the North. The mechanical appearance of the Citizen is equal to any in the country. —Dallas {Ala.) Gazette. The Georgia Citizen. —This is the title of anew paper, just started in tins city, the first number of which, was pub lished on Thursday last. The Georgia Citizen is edited and published by I* F. W. Andrews, Esq , late of the Muscogeet Democrat. The first number of the Citizen is handsomely printed and a well filled sheet. —Macon Telegraph. The Georgia Citizen istlietitle of anew paper just started at Va con. (by our o[(J friond. l)r. Andrews. The Doctor is a tan and pointed, as well as nrgumentat ivc writer. He has long been in the edito rial field, and has boci me so used to the threats of the scaup* he has lashed, that he don't mind the sight of a bowie, or the crack of a re volver.—r tyV. H.) Democrat. Muz Georgia Citizen. —The first number of anew paper bearing this title.hasjust been received from Macon,Ga. It has a brand-new appearance, and in typographical neatness and bcauty.it is unsuqiaus ed. Dr. Andrews, formerly of the Muscogee Democrat, is the editor, whose name alone is sufficient to give it an extensive circulation. Tha Doctor is a well-known democrat, though as “mA-pendent as a wood sawyer,” and sometimes quite as saucy,"—Jfcx'rwry (.11a.) Atlas. The Georgia Citizen.—Dr. 1,. F. YV. Andrews, for several years the editor and proprietor of the .Muscogee Democrat, published in Co lumbus, Ga„ has s‘arted a paper in Macon, Ga„ entitled -Tt> Georgia I'itiim."’ Dr. A. wields a racy and ready pen, and understands thoroughly the business in which he is engaged. The motto of his sheet is alike novel and forcible—“• Independent in nil things—neutral in nntA tng.” Th** paper is of good size, neatly printed, and well tilled.—Greens boro>’ (.h’a.) Beacon.