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VOL. I. ia published, very Friday morning, in -Macon, Ga. on the follow. CONDITIONS : If paid strictly in adcnncc * * r K>r ann,ln > If not so |>aid - * ” - 300 “ “ Lt iial Advertisements will he made to conform to the following pro visions of the Statute:— >/<-. of Land and Negroes, by Executors, Administrators and Guard ians arc required by law to be advertised in a public gazette, sixty days previous to the day of sale. These sales must be held on the first Tuesday in the month, bet ween the hours f ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court House in the county in which the property is situated. The rales of Personal Property must be advertised in like manner for ty days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must bt published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary foj leave to sell Land and Negroes, must be published weekly for four mouths. Cit itiims or letters of Administration must be published thirty days f or Dismission from Administration, monthly, six months —for Dis mission from Guardianship, forty days. Holts for foreclosure of mortgage, must be published monthly, for four months —for establishing lost papers, for thr full spacr of thru months—sot compidling titles from Executors or Administrators where a bond has been given by the deceased, thrfull spare of three months. Professional and Uusincse Cards, inserted, according to the follow ing scale: for 4 lines or less per annum • * *• 00 in advance. “ 6 lines “ “ * * * i 00 “ “ „ 10 U u - §lO 00 “ “ £3?“ Transient Advertisements will be charged sl, per square of 12 lines or less, for the first and 50 cts. for each subsequent insertion. — on these rates there will be a deduction of 20 [lercent, on settlement, when advertisements are continued 3 months, without alteration. .VII Letters except those containing remittances must be post paid or free. Postmasters and others who will act as Agents for the “Citizen” may retain2o percent, for their trouble,on all cash subscriptions for warded. OFFICE on Mulberry Street, East of the Floyd House and near the Market. €lji v Ipßffs Ctinirr, IDOLS OF LODE. iVo. 1. ATALA’S PRAYER. BY T. 11. CHIVERS, M. D. ‘•Alas! to die so young, when my heart is so full of love!” ChvTaubriand. Abba! when the morn is breaking Through tlte Portals of the sky, AnJ the dappled Fawns are waking In the Reed-Isles where they lie; When the Roe-buck gazes wildly At the hunter in the even, And the milky Moon looks mildly From the azure depths of Heaven; When the Turtle Doves are mourning Jit the R me-Isles of the sea, And the stars above are burning— Lift my spirit up to Thee 1 Abba! when the Fowls are laving In the Fountains faraway. Where the Purple Hills are waving In the Sunny Isles of Day; When the Mocking-birds are singing By the river-banks at noon, And the Violet bells are springing From the Rosy-llills in June; f When the Pigeon.-, all are feeding On the beach-mast by the sea, And my bosom shall lie bleeding— Lift my spirit up to Thee ! Abba ! when the Reed is broken That lias borne me up when young, And the last sad word is spoken That shall tremble on my tongue; When the Roe-back comes to wander From the Green Hills far away, And my breaking heart grows fonder For the Sunny Isles of Day; When my Forest Home is taken, And the Stranger bids me flee; Abba! call me, Thy Forsaken— Take my spirit home to Thee ‘. Villa Allegro , Ga. March 13, 1810. (Original papers. EDICATION. As promised in my bust, I proceed to give you a copy of a letter from Gov. Johnson, of the State of South Carolina.— After the address, the Governor proceeds: ‘"Sir :—I have received your favor of the 10th inst. enqui ring whether there was any particular mode of Education adopted in this State for a part or all of the people, etc. ‘‘Four enquiry, I infer, was intended to be directed to the education of the masses, and I need not refer you to the S. Carolina College, at Columbia, of which the State is justly proud, further than to remark, that the professors arc all paid by annual appropriations of the Legislature. In addi tion tothis, the Legislature, about 3.) years ago, established what is called a Free School system, desitrued mainly to aid in the education of the poorer classes, and have from that time, appropriated annually $36,000 for its support. This sum is distributed amongst the different Circuit Court Dis tricts in proportion to the number of delegates in the House of Representatives of the State Legislature, and is p’aeod at the disposal of certain Commissioners appointed by the Le gislature in each District, who are required to put to school and pay the tuition of children whose parents are poor and reside in the neighborhood, established there, and who arc willing and can spare their labor from the field, but these are so widely scattered and their labor so necessary to their pa rents. that they derive no essential benefit from it. The fund is therefore, for the most part, appropriated by the Commis sioners in aid of Schools that neighborhoods establish, with out any reference to the ability of the parents to pay for tui tion. ‘“lt does not work well, unless it be in Charleston and in the larger towns where there is a concentrated population. ‘“I have never known one instance in which an individual of the class for which it was mainly intended, derived any benefit from it, and it is universally agreed that it is money imprudently spent. In the hope to improve the system, the Legislature, at its last session, raised a committee who are instructed to examine the subject during the recess, and re port at the next sitting. “The system, I know, is badly, very badly administered—but 1 believe that the great evil is inherent in the system itself. “Instruction can’t be carried to the doors of all the poor, and they are, for the most part, indifferent about the eduoa* tion of their children, nor have they the means of subsisting fliein from home. The sum is wholly inadequate for the ed ucation of the whole mass, and if that be the object, I can hot sec any system to raise a sufficient sum to maintain “ohools in each neighborhood [but] by a tax on the inhabi tants at large, Heavy as this burthen would be, the sum would not mueh exceed the gross sum now paid for educa tion, including the subsistence of children sent abroad, and would have the advantage of making a motive for every one to send their children to school. If the education of the poor be the object, tlien there is no means of attaining it amongst our sparse population, but by providing for them subsistence, concentrating them atone place, and making it compulsory on parents—a measure, I think, of very doubtful policy. If •Georgia is about to move in the matter, let me advise against the adoption of our system, for nothing can be worse.” Thus, as before stated, I think the above letter is only an other testimony of the defectiveness of the plan of education now in practice in this State. This letter also denies that any plan can be adopted of rais ing a fund to educate, alone, the children of the poor which will be successful, unless they be congregated together in one place. Again, in this sentiment, I concur with the writer.— J >ut the writer admits that plan can be made successful to ed ucate the entire mass under sanction of laic, by taxes col lected for that purpose. And here I remark, that the mass can thus be educated, and even by taxation, as the Governor supposes, though I totally dissent from the opinion that the method of taxation is the best way. Nevertheless, better, far better by taxation than not at all. OBSERVER. (to be continued.) THE VALLEY OF DIAMONDS. BV T. 11. CHIVERS, M. D. XXXII. I have not been able to read the index containing my- ani madversions upon the article entitled “A Child's Thoughts oj Burial, ’ until this morning. I see that you have appen ded a portion of the loth chapter of Corinthians as an an swer to it; but it coines very far short of answering the ques tion propounded in my letter, for this very especial reason, namely, that St. Raul does not teach the doctrine of the ger mination ot the body to which I object. I perceive also that you have adopted the theory 7 of the writer of the article in ’ the Myrtle. “ It was my abhorenee t i see an error inculca | ted, which caused me to write the letter against the theory advocated by him. You, doubtless, know how to appreciate I this feeling. It appears to me that you seem, also, to pre sume that I do not understand the purport of the Apostle’s sublime descantation upon the resurrection of the dead; but you are greatly mistaken—as can be very easily proven to you. Suffice it for me to say, on the present occasion, that he does not teach a solitary syllable, in all liis logical reason ing upon the resurrection, which goes to support the theory advocated by the writer in the “iVyrl/e,” He does not teach that a material germ shall spring up, like grain when sown in to the earth, from the defunct body. You know that Tom I nine called St. Raul a fool because lie supposed that the Apostle taught that the grain of wheat must first die before ; t could spring up out of the ground and live. Bishop Wat son, in his answer, boldly asserted that St. Paul taught no such thing —which forever silenced the Infidel. But here is the very kind of germ-doctrine taught in the “Index" 1 simi lar to that to which Bisli. \A atson objected. I repeat again that the quotation of the 15th Chapter of Corinthians, entire , would not show that the doctrine advocated by the writer in “Myrtle ” is correct; because St. Paul does not teach any such thing in any of his writings. He positively tells us that “ corruption shall not inherit incorruption.'’ How, tlien. can an immortal body spring up from a mortal one ? It is a “spiritual body” that is to be raised- -but not out of the defunct bo ly laid in the grave, because the Apostle does not say so. That you are entirely mistaken in the meaning of the word “sown" — : just as tile writer in the “Myrtle'’ was mistaken in all the Apostle says upon the subject. 1 ou quote with the belief that the word ‘'sown'’ means being laid in the grave. But this is not so. For what anal ogy is there between a dead body’ being laid in tlte grave, and the sowing of wheat? Plainly, none at all. Why ? Because the wheat is ulice when it is “sown-,” but the body is dead when it is laid in the grave. This annihilates the an alogy, and shows that the Apostle did not mean to teach the doubting Corinthians that an immortal body was to spring up out of the earth from the mortal one. The fact is, St. Paul does not teach any where in his writings that the body that is laid in the grace will be resurrected out of it. XXXIII. Mr. Poo, in criticising Brainard’s Pixans, very appropri ately objects to his moralizing upon the grandeur of the Cat aract of Niagara, because ho basis its superiority over Man in the greater noise that it can make. XXXIV. There never was, perhaps, a more obstreperous or assinine speeim ne of exuberant bathos ever presented to the world, than the following passage from a Poem on Niagara, by Jas. Rodman Drake: “As if the vast and sheeted sky In thuinter fell front Heaven.” The palpable inappropriateness of this passage consists in comparing one of the sublimest operations of Nature, ill one j of her most, unsophisticated moods, to what would be consid [ ered. in itsdnost legitimate sense, the awfulest of all catas ! treplies. It originated in not knowing tliat the sublimest of objects, to be writ'en about sublimely, ought to be described in the least metaphorical language. The above lint's will ap|>ear more bathetic to the intelligent reader when it is known that the Cataract does not fall from a great altitude above the eye, but rushes over the brink pret ty nearly on a level with it. XXXV. Ih the August Number of Graham’s Magazine, is a beau tiful Engraving called The Origin of Music. The Author of it is a genius. It is, no doubt, intended to represent Tubal Cain making his first instrument lie displays not only a great knowledge of Scripture History, but considerable geni us in representing him in the attitude of inventing a wind-in strument—as this is the kind of instrument which anyone would be the most likely to invent under the circumstances, or in the kind of civilization which ho enjoyed. He holds his knife in his right hand, with which he has cut several holes, and has just applied the instrument to his mouth to see how it will sound. The little boy, on the right hand of the picture, is the beautifulest creature that ever was created, and looks i upon his father, as he progresses in his work, with that de : lqh ful intensity which is the true characteristic of genius.— In contemplating the delight which will follow the consum mation of his father’s design, beseems rest with the inspira tion of the pure Poet, when he first tastes of the Nepenthe of immortality from the hands of the Queen of Heaven. But what a beautiful simplicity and tender intensity of delight rays out from his Angelic countenance as he gazes upon the work. Tiiis very mental delight has taken possession of his entire frame, and manifests itself in the muscles of his limbs. Nothing ever surpassed the unsophisticated beauty of this simple and affectionate creature. In the middle of the picture, and in the foreground of the father, is a little Urchin sitting on the ground trying to see what progress he can make in music by blowing in a reed.— liis lips are protruded and his cheeks dilated with his breath, in attempting to fill the reed and make sounds similar to those made by his father. There is nothing but music in him. His very looks arc full of music; and the way he sits on the ground is musical. I know very’ well how the little fellow feels, for I have been all along that road. On the left of the Picture, is a little girl listening while looking up at her father and hugging her right arm around the neck of a familiar and gentle dog. It is no use to say that that child is full of music, and that the dog does not know, by the countenances of the whole company, that something unusual is going on, when the whole Picture seems to be bap tized in the divine radiance of Music. The little goats seem to be effected by’ the new-day-dawn which lias just arisen upon the infant world, as if another Sun of melody had just been erected in Heaven, and show that they are people ot a Nomadic life. I never saw any Picture that ever took such a hold upon my’ aflfections—except one by Etty, called voutii and rLLAsuiiE. The fact is, nothing ever surpassed this, in “Jubcpcnkut in all tljings—Neutral in No tiling.” MACON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUG. IG, 1850. - the wide world of Art, in regard to design; and, although nothing to be compared with some of the Engravings in the London Art-Journal, yet, the execution of the little boy’s ; countenance, on the right hand of the Picture, is the beauti fulest and most natural thing that I ever saw in my life. There is a greater degree of languishing voluptuousness in the countenances of the females of Etty’s Picture, which for ever haunts you with their y'outhful mellowness of virgin passion; but nothing of that intellectual intensity’ of divine joy—os if he were one of God’s Archangels receiving the golden Message of liis glorious Mission to mortals before de scending to the earth, —which characterizes the countenance of that little boy’, and stamps bis image indelibly upon your memory forever. He looks as if there lingered, in liis soft soul, a pleasing and perrennial reminiscence of the music which he heard in Heaven before lie came down upon the i earth. For the Georgia Citizen. Railroads—iticir Rules, Travellers and the Public, Ac. Mr. Editor : —Some few weeks ago it was a part of my luck to be present at quite a disappointment to some travel lers from New Orleans, who said tliat they had through tick ets from that place to Charleston. The place of their disap , puintnient was Griffin, Ga. where it seems that the cars stop long enough for passengers to take a bite of something to stay their stomachs. W bile our travellers were attending to the j dinner, the seats in the passenger cars on the Macon A West | era Railroad, on the up train, were filled, and over filled, some were standing up for want of room in the seats. Near the time for departure, notice was given by the car-man (by ringing the bell,) that he was about to roll his iron wheels; ; “ hen a crowd of persons were seen issuing Irom the doors of the Georgia Hotel, among whom were the travellers above referred to, who had arrived rather late for dinner by the stage line connecting the Alabama Rail Road with this Rail Road. By means of their late arrival to dinner by the stage line, and the haste of the notice by the Rail Road Agent, the time allowed for our travellers to satisfy their appetites for the good things of this life'spread before them on the table, was I quite limited; mueh too short to suit their taste, as was quite i visible upon each of their countenances, as they made haste to reach the car before its departure, to take their scats , which they thought themselves entitled to above all others who had no through tickets. In they rush, (by no means as well pleased with half a dinner as they might have been with a whole feast,) and Lo! to their astonishment, all the seats were filled, and no one manifested any disposition to give pre ference to holders of through tickets. Immediate enquiry was made by the owners of through tickets for the conductor, who upon being found, appeared as unconcerned aVout the matter as though he had been we(l seated himself. Where upon our travellers pressed their claim in loud and plain terms, that holders of through tickets were entitled to pre ferenee—that it was the duty of the company to furnish seats for all the passengers—and more especially for this class— that this was a fraud practiced by the Rail Road Company upon them—tliat the Company had held out inducements for travellers to come this route—that they would publish the transaction in every paper in the Union. While this complaint was being uttered our travellers were standing up l in the baggage car, on their way to Atlanta. The Condue . tor heard but a part of this eloquent appeal, and had busi ness another way; but on returning into the Baggage car the claim was again pressed, with as little success as before, ox-i , cept that that the Conductor decided that such rules as they* | spoke of might do on stage lines, but not on Rail Roads:— whereupon most of them laid themselves down against or up on the baggage, complaining of fraud, hunger and hard treat ment, till most of them were rocked to sleep by the jostling lof the car. So much for the decision against the priority or privilege of through tickets on Rail Roads. Travellers look to it, that you do not gormandise till all the seats are filled, for ifyoudothe Baggage ear is your portion. Yours, truly, TROCHANTER. For the Georgia Citizen, Shehanc-s second Letter to Mr. Strobel. Dear Sir, —Your reply to my first letter is now ! before me, and I hasten to review such parts as I deem necessary. The point between tts is very plain. I asserted incidentally that Dr. Tholuck of ; Germany was a Universalist. This you denied, but said you knew not upon what authority my asser ! tion was based. I gave you as my proof, a conversation which Prof. Sears had with Dr. T.— You think “there is at least a possibility that Prof. S. i misapprehended Dr. T.” But you suppose there is no room to doubt, when we take up Dr. T’s. com mentary. Unfortunately, however, for your side of ’ the question, your quotation from Dr. T’s. works, ido not sustain endless punishment. As an offset to the whole of them, 1 here present you with a key to Tholuck’s intepretations of the Bible. I refer to his commentary on Hebrews, published in 1830,-- on c. 10 —13: “Henceforth expecting till his ene mies become his footstool “ The doctrinal sense of this passage must bo sought in 1 Cor. xv. 24, 28, where the same senti ment is more fully expressed. Hitherto, this pas sage (in Corinthians) has not been explained with sufficient care. Though I have often made it a sub ject of reflection, I have not been able to come to a final decision, especially as the conclusion stands connected with several other difficult passages, such as Phil. ii. 10. Nevertheless, as this passage in He brews can best be explained by tliat of Corinthians, I cannot avoid giving, briefly at least, my present views of the latter. The expositors down to the la test times, have not bestowed sufficient attention upon the question, whether the ‘ subduing ’ is not one effected by ‘ faith,’ and consequently the restoration of all who do not acknowledge Christ, to that ac knowledgment. The conclusion, ‘that God may be all in all [men ’] clearly intimates this view. Greg ory Nysson, the talented defender of a ‘Restoration,’ speaks in an interesting manner on this point, in his excellent discourse ou 1 Cor. xv. 28. For our purpose, the following will suffice. ‘The leading sentiment, in ver. 24 —28, is that the kingdom of Christ will one day come to an end. This, howev er, cannot take place till all enemies are subdued. — l nder these, Paul includes, first, evil spiritual pow-; ers ; yet he does not limit it to persons, but extends it to unconscious powers, such as death. In other words he would say, everything which has thus far operated as a hindrance to the progress of the king dom of God, evil, both moral and natural, must, in all its manifestations, be abolished, before Christ shall surrender up the kindom to the Father.’ If this is the meaning of the passage in Corinthians, then we are to attach to this in the Hebrews the fol lowing sense: It is not yet manifest, that that exercise of the Redeemer’s sacerdotal office has abolished ! sin with all its consequences } but Christ w ill not oease to be ruler of mankind, till he has subdued all resisting powers.’ ” Further, Prof. Sears states that in a Public Lec ture, Prof. Tholuck explained liis sentiments thus : “ The ultimate salvation of men would be ac complished by their conversion. The Gospel woulff be preached in hell (1 Pet. iii. 19, 20,) and not on ly the heathen and others who had never heard it before, but also, all who had heard it and rejected it in this world, would in hell, have it preached to them, under such circumstances that they would ac | cept it..,’ remember, Air. Strobel, that Prof. speaks of what he heard, while he was two gears a theologian in Germany, and ask yourself whether , liis statement is not more to be relied on, concem- I ing Prof. Tholuck, than those of your friend and brother, Kurtz, of the Lutheran Observer, of Balti more, whose bigoted hatred of Universalism is so | well known, as to discredit any statement he might choose to make on the subject. Indeed, his false j representations of Universalism as held in tlie U. S. are supposed to have given rise to any qualification which Prof. Tholuck may, afterwards, have given to his views, in reference to the “ final restitution of all things.” Prof. Sears, also conversed with Professors Xean der Yon Gerlech; his brother, Lewis Von Gerlech; 1 Baron Von Tholtawitz, (Tholuck’s spiritual father,) { Pastors Doring and Oncken, of Hamburgh; all of whom confirmed his observation on the subject of | Prof. Tholock’s views, during tlie two years lie was resident among these German theologians. But you say Dr. Tholuck has changed his opin ion since 1839. Upon this, I will only remark, that if lie has, you have not proved it. The three points of w hich yuu speak, are not the leading doctrines of j Universalism. Why sir, there is at this time, a j company of men editing a Universalist paper in Eng land, called “ The London Universalist," 1 who be lieve those points, and yet they are Universalist*.— , Such, I believe, is or was the situation of 1 >r. T.— ! If he has changed his hope, I do not wish to claim him as a Universalist. Your countryman, Dr. 01- I shausen, says that Universalism is “ without doubt, ; deeply rooted in noble minis and I think from the ; facts stated by Dr. Henry E. Dwight, who travelled i in Germany, in 1827, tliat it will live, ever in tliat i old country of anarchy, dreams and w itchcraft, as long as there are any noble minds and warm hearts. ; The facts to which I refer are briefly these, Dr, ! Dwight says lie conversed with many German theo logians, and found only two who believed in endless punishment. And yet for piety and hatred to sin, lie never knew them to be supassed. Mr. Strobel, —You have very adroitly evaded my questions. I asked you “ how you reconciled Rom. xi. 36, and 1. (’or. 15, 24, 28, with the dogma of ! endless cruelty, of which you seem to be an advo cate ?” I also asked you, if you could find tlte doc trine ck arly taught by Tholuck, or in the Bible. I insist on an explicit answer. For you say, that you are ever ready to defend your opinions, when dispu ted. If you believe in tire endless reign i>f Satan, sin and misery, you must have seen from the Pierce controversy, that your opinions arc disputed. And as the secular papers will probably exclude our theo logical notions after this, I hereby inform yon, or any other gentleman who may wish to break a lance with a Universalist, that the Universalist Herald, a semi-monthly sheet,is published at Notasulga, Ala. and will give you line for line, and column f r col | uinn, you contending for the triumph <>f your per ; sonal devil, and I for the complete triumph of good over evil. Do you accept of the invitation ? If so let me know soon, if you please. I suggest that w e exchange some 15 or 20 letters, none to exceed more than two columns. Hoping that you w ill find it convenient to c m; ly with this request, I subscribe myself vour sincere well-wisher. C. F. R. SIIEIIANE. JBisrfllirai}. The Groat Fat and Dos Question. FROM DICKEN’S HOUSEHOLD WORDS. Between the rivers Kistnah and Bcchma in the Deckhan, surrounded by wild rocky bills, lies the town of Shorapoor, capital of a State of that name, inhabited by a people who have generally been con sidered lawless, superstitious, and quarrelsome. Os late years they have been more industrious and peaceable, and though still an excitable race, may be said to be advancing in the arts of peace. It was during a more remote period, when few strangers ever ventured to penetrate the country, that a weary looking traveller, covered with dust, entered one of tlte gates, and sat down for a while at the side of a well. He then proceeded to take oft’ his w aistband and turban, washed his head and liis feet, drank of the cool refreshing water, combed bis beard and moustachios, and spreading a small car pet on which he laid his trusty sword, drew from liis wallet a neat little muslin scull-cap; then seated him self cross-legged, lighted his pipe, and began to look very comfortable indeed. * In tlie meantime there were not wanting many idle and curious people, who having first at a dis tance observed the movements of the stranger, ap proached him nearer and nearer. But he ?cmed to take little notice of the crowd, and appeared absorb ed in a sense of his own enjoyment, taking long whiffs of his pipe, and looking as if he had made a considerable progress tow ards the third heaven. At length a respectable-looking man, who had come up, drew nearer than tlie res', and asked him from w hence he had travelled, and w hither lie was going ? “What he was seeking in Shorapoor, and whether he was a merchant, or merely came to look about him ? But the questions ended in smoke, being answered only by whiffs. Then came another still bolder man, and said, “Sir, the heat is great; be pleased to come with me to my house, and repose yourself there, and I will give you a nice cool place in which you may sleep.” Upon this tlie stranger drew his pipe from his mouth, and replied, “You are extremely kind, good sir, and lam really grateful to y T ou for your proffer ed hospitality ; but the fact is, I don’t believe you would wish to have me in your house, did you know what I really am! ” And thus saying, he rolled his eyes about, twist ed up his moustachios, stroked his beard, and as sumed such a mysterious air, that an indescribable terror seized the bystanders ; so mueh so, that in falling hastily back, some of them tumbled down, and others tumbled over them in a very ridiculous manner. “He’s a thief,” whispered one. “Or a Thug,” said another. “Or an ex it spirit in the form of a man,” observed a fourth. “At all events, does’nt he look like one who had killed another In short the alarm became general, and several deemed it prudent, first to sneak oft’, and then take j to their heels. A few, however, of the bolder spir its kept their ground ; and seeing that the stranger did nothing but take long w hiffs from liis pipe, send ing the smoke peacefully curling over his beard and moustachios out of both liis nostrils, they regained their confidence, and began to think that after all he might be some important personage; who could tell ? So after a little pushing and elbowing among themselves, a man was thrust forward, under an idea that something might come of it; but no, the stran ger appeared as unmoved as ever. Then another, who had screwed up his courage to that point, boldly advanced, and thus spoke— “Do pray, sir, tell us who upon earth you may be ? ” No answer. Then the man who had offered a sleeping place ! in his house chimed in, and said, “Aye, sir, do let us know who or w hat you may be ? I assure you we are none of us at all afraid of you !” And w ith 1 these words he twisted up his moustachios, and tried to look as fierce ami bold as possible, w hile bis knees were knocking together, and liis heart flutter ing all the while. <in a repetition of these questions, however, by both these men, the stranger, with in finite gravity, took the pipe from liis mouth, and thus spoke : “Are you too much frightened to hear ? The runaways, however, had departed, and those left behind seemed determined not to follow them ; more especially as the stranger had made no sign as if he would draw liis sword ; neither did they think he looked at all so horrible now. They therefore one and all called out, “No! we are not a bit afraid, let us bear! ” “ Well then,” exclaimed the stranger, taking a long puff at liis pipe, “strange as it may appear to you all, my name is Mischief-Maker! And what is very extraordinary, whatever I do, wherever I go, wherever 1 am, I always create mischief, 1 always have created mischief, and shall continue to do so to the very end of my life !” And upon this he rolled his eyes, and puffed away at his pipo harder than ! ever. \( >h, is this all,” cried the party, “Is this all ?” “For the matter of that,” said an active little man with twinkling eyes, “you need be under no uneasiness whatever. I defy you to invent more mischief here than we have already, for we are all more or less at enmity with our neighbors ; and as i our fathers and grandfathers were the same, w e con clude it must be ow ing to something tliat can’t be changed ; for instance, the air or water of our town; so set your heart at rest, and come along with us, and we’ll take care of you.” “ Well,” rejoined the stranger, “I am very glad indeed to hear what you say of your own town ; for to be candid with you, it’s exactly w liat I heard of you all as I came along, and this made me think that in a place where all were mischief-makers and busy bodies already, I could have nothing to do but (for once in my life) live in peace. However, don’t trust me —that’s all I have to say —and if any evil arises from my visit, turn me out, and I’ll seek a home elsewhere.” An old Brahmin had come up in time to near this avowal. “’Tisvcry strange,” said tlie wise man. “This fellow is surely a Magician, and may set all the rocks of Shorapoor dancing and tumbling about our ears, some day. Turn him instantly away, or it may be tlie worse for us all.” “ No, no,’’ shouted tlie multitude. “ That would be inhospitable. Let him remain, and we shall soon see wliat lie can do.” The little active man now came forward again, 1 and said slyly, “Sir, if you really are such a mis chief-maker as 3'ou describe yourself to be, suppose you were to give us a little specimen of your power, just some trifling matter to judge by. “ What, now ? ” said the stranger. ; “Aye, now ! ” exclaimed all; and the sooner the ! better. “ Well, be it so,” said lie ; “let me put up my things and come along!” And with this lie arose, packed up, girded on liis sword, and strode majesti ’ cally forward, followed by a crowd, continually in creasing as they advanced further into the town. “ Now don’t push or press upon me so much,” said tlie stranger; “but observe what I do, and watch the consequences.” So they let him proceed, and as lie advanced, they soon perceived that lie was forming some deep plan, particularly as he paused every now and then, with his forefinger be : tween bis teeth, and nodded, and wagged his head, as much as to say, “ I have it! ” Upon which lie made straight for a shop kept by a man who sold flour and such like tilings, and accosting the dealer, inquired with great civility, whether he had any honeg ? —“ That I have sir,” replied the shop-keep er, “plenty fresh from tlie comb; only taste it, and I’m sure you’ll buy. Here, sir; look at this beau tiful jar, full of the finest honey that was ever seen in Shorapoor.” “ It looks well,” replied the stranger, dipping his hand in ; “and does not taste amiss: ” saying which lie gave his finger a careless kind of shake; but lie knew right well what lie was about, as a little lump stuck upon the outer-wall. “It really is good,” said the Mschkf maker. “ Give me a small pot of it, that I may take it home to my children.” While the shopkeeper was filling a small new pot, over which he tied a fresh green leaf, tlie people w’ho had been following, came up, and said, “ Sir, 1 you are only making game of us; you are giving us no proof of what you said. What mischief is there in buying a little pot of honey ?” “Be quiet, ray good people, and content your selves for a couple of minutes, while I get my change, and put my purchase in a safe place, and you w ill soon see something—wait here, and I’ll be back to you directly. The Mischief-maker vanished in an instant! Now it happened that this shop was aim re shed of a place, projecting into the street, from the wall j on which the honey had been thrown; nor had the tempting bait been long there, before it was smelt out by a large hungry fly, w hich had bt en spending many fruitless hours buzzing about tlie dealer’s jar, so carefully was it always covered. Here was a glo rious opportunity for a fine supper, and down lie came upon it with eager appetite —without looking about him as he ought —for over his head, under the cover of the wall, among old chinks and cob webs, there dwelt a wily, dust-colored lizard, who en joyed a fly beyond everything else in the world, and had been particularly unsuccessful in fly-catching all day. Watching, therefore, till the fly had buried his mining apparatus pretty deep into the honey, he crept down quietly, looking as like a bit of old plaster as possible, but for those bright eyes of his, which in his eagerness for the capture, were intent ly fixed upon the fly. Unlucky wight! Little did he think that those very eyes had attracted the at tention of a fine tabby cat, who but a few’ minutes before, with blinking eyes, presented a perfect pic ture of contentment, but now roused by a sudden temptation, was crouching stealthily clown as she j beheld the lizard, for whom she had so often watch ed in vain. Down stole the lizard—on stole the cat; so that here at the same moment were three creatures so bent upon indulgence, that they never even thought of looking about them! But were these three all tlie parties to be engaged ? Alas! no. There was a sworn enemy of the cat's ap proaching also (under cover of a large ba-ket,) in the shape of a mischievous white dog, kept bv a very quarrelsome man on the other side of the street. 1 his dog was the terror of all the cats in the neudi* borhood, and most of all, of the Hour dealer's ;°so often had he chased her, and so often experienced the bitter disappointment ot seeing her climbing tip the posts of the shop, and then spitting at him from the top of the shed. Infatuated lizard ! Wretched fly ! Betrayed pussy ! She heeded not the sly creep of the dog, so intent was she upon the successful issue of her spring upon the lizard. The fly was gorging him* selt with honey, lie alone partook not of the in tense anxiety of the lizard, the cat, and the dog. ■ He partook only of — Acn'y ! Jhe crisis at length arrived. The lizard made its , nimble pounce at the fly. The cat sprang at the lizard. 1 lie lizard missed its looting in consequence, and would have been the cat’s portion—fly, honey, and all but for the dog's sudden attack upon puss. Here was a scene ! The lizard falling to the ground, was at once involved in the consequences of the quarrel between the dog and cat. What were fly or honey to him at the moment, when in a state be tween life and death he crept back sore and wound ed to h;s chinks and cobwebs! The llv might or i might not have escaped. Aotso the cat, now sore ly worried by the dog, in spite of all her outcries and all she could do in the way of biting and elaw i hig; for it was an old score the dog was paying her ott, and that might soon have cost her her life, if ; her master had not rushed out of his shop with a ; broom-stick, with which lie began to belabor the ! dog. .Now the owner ot the dog had been as long at enmity with the man of flour and honey, as the dog had been at enmity with the cat.and probably longer, iOt course, therefore, when he heard his animal's cries, and saw the punishment inflicting, lie armed himself with a broom-stick also \ and rushing : across the street, gave the flour dealer such a crack upon his head, as knocked him down as flat as a pancake. “ Take that you villi.ni,” said lie, “for it's a debt I’ve long owed you !” “ Have you .’ ” said the flour dealer’s son, as he rushed out with a cudgel in his hand. “Then tell me how you like that" —giving him such a hearty whack across the shoulders, that he was fain to drop his broomstick. \et the blow had hardly been given, before a j friend ot the dog s master ran up with a drawn sword, .and would have made mince-meat of the flour dealer’s son, but for a soldier who cried out, t “Shame, thou coward, and son of a coward, who would attack a youth with only a stick in his hand, 1 and you armed w ith a sword! * Shame on you ! It’s just like you rascally Hindoo fellows, who pretend to be soldiers, and are as much like soldiers as that poor eat. Why dont you try me ?” | “ Why not ? ” replied the man. “Do you think jI m afraid ot such a bully as you ? Conte on you ; scoundrel, and I’ll show you w hat difference there is between a cat and a Hindoo! ” J L pon this the soldier drew his sword, and both be -1 gan to cut at each other in good earnest, i On this all the people cried out, “Murder! Mur der! and a great many soldiers running to the spot, were soon engaged, always attacking the Hin doos, who were on the dog’s side, and the Hindoos l the Mussulmans, who were on the side of the cat; and wherever a Hindoo and a Mussulman were lighting, the Hindoos aided the Hindoo, and the Mussulmans the Mussulman ; and the consequence was the death of many on each side, and the wound ing ot most ot the foolish quarrels* me jieople en -1 gaged. < )t course such a hubbub as this could not lo con tinued long without its being reported to the Rajah, who forthwith hastened from his palace with his body-guard and some horsemen, and soon put a stop to this terrible fray; and all the ringleaders were forthwith seized and tied together, and marched oft to prison, there to be kept closely confined, till the sad business should be fully enquired into, and the cause of so dreadful a riot ascertained, and fixed up on the guilty. All that night, therefore, were the magistrates and police-officers hard at work listening to evidence, but they did not advance a single step in the busi ness ; no, nor for several days after, notwithstand ing the great impatience of the liajah, to whom they could only report from time to time the hear ing of nothing but the words, “fat, Dog,”—“Cat and Dog,” — “j >og and Cat,” —“Dog”—“Cat.” Avery similar feeling also, was entertained by the lawyers who were called in, and who, af ter intense application, declared themselves doubt ful, very doubttul, —so much was advanced and real ly to be said and supported by various precedents, both on the side of the cat and of the dog, and, con sequently, of the owner of the cat, as w ell as the owner of the dog, and the partizans of the own ers of the dog and cat, —insomuch, that the whole city was split into most determined cat aud dog fac tions, and all strangers that entered the gates were instantly absorbed in the dog and cat vortex, and whirled actually round and round in this terrible fray, which every now and then broke out with fresh fury, notwithstanding all the vigilance of the Rajah’s guards. And yet even these valiant heroes were in some degree infected, giving sly cuts at dog or cat men, just as they themselves inclined to supjort the cat and dog question. j And so matters might have remained, either to the day ot the final depopulation of Shorapoor, or Doomsday itself, but for the wise old lha'iinin who had given such timely warning to turn out the stran ge. ’ He had, in reality, been quietly chuckling a lit tle, as many are wont to do who have lived to see their prophecies first despised and then fulfilled; but his heart relenting, he hastened to the palace, and prostntiing himself before the liajah, w ith hands joined together, he thus spoke : “ May 1 be your sacrifice, oh, thou cater of moun tains and drinker of rivers! I have a petition to make in this matter of the cat and do <r ! ” “Itshall be heard,” replied the Rajah. “Thou art a wise man ; w hat dost thou say !—dog—eat— dog and cat, or cat and dog ? For my own part, I still reserve my decision, though somewhat inclin ing to the opinion that the cat caused all the mis chief, and lor this reason, —because if the dog had not seen the cat, lie very probably would not have chiised her—‘out of sight out of mind’ being one of our oldest as well as truest proverbs.” “Alas! that I should differ with your Highness —Brave Falcon, terrible in w ar- the most valiant in the State —the Tiger of the Country,” replied the Prime Minister. “ How could the cat help being worried by the dog —and did not nature give her the right to go where she pleased 1 ” So the whole court took at once different sides, and matters might have come to a serious explosion, even within the acred walls of the palace itself, but NO. 21.