About The Athenian. (Athens, Ga.) 1827-1832 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1831)
P03T.T/J". *.\n hi:r From ihe Hartford Review. the stranger. I Ufv, only once -as dmvn the lighted lull Ul . moved to music playfully -» «lra -C"*o us all— A stranger with « p»l«, white brow, and darn and meaning eve, , , , Which flashed 'ike lightning on my own whenc er he passed me by. That soul-like eye! it haunts me still!—so pissionate- fy deep, . . . r l.ike those which so.netimeB beam on us in visions or our sleep— . So sad ns if "o ne shadowing grief had oer hn spirit y H , brightening strangely a- it caught the anawer of my own l I knew him not—yet even when I turned me from the dunco l S aw his dark eye follow inc—it could not be by Hianc.e— I kn-w him not—and yet his tones were breathed up- on mv ear # Sr> c* .-rtly low and musical I could not chooso but hear. lie spoke ofeunnv Italy—of Venice and her isles— Of daik mustachioed cavaliers and fair Signora’s smiles— Of music melting on the sea -of moonlight upon bow- era, Of fair hands wreathing silken curls with gay and plea sant flowers! And when he spoke oflovely onei—or praised a soul- ■ikoeve, Ilis deep full glanco was fined on mine, os if it sought reply, , , The flush was deepened on my check—my voice grew taint and Lw, , I trembled at his earnest gaze—’twas foolishness I know! We ported at roy father’s door—the moonlight sweetly shone, And 1 was standing nt bis side—my arm was on bis own, He sighed, dear t.ney, hoio he eighedl—my eyes grew strangely dim, . . . ,, , It pained mV heart to hear him sigh—I could have wept for him I He spoke of disappointed hope—of dreams that faded soon, The dew-dr >ps of life’s joyous morn, which vanish ere if« noon... 11c spoke of loneliness of heart—of weariness and pain— And murmured that a lifelike his was desolate and vain! lie said his father's castle frowned upon a foreign shore— (A ensile, I.ucy, think of that— lie is a Count morel—) That solitude was in its halls—chill, priton-likc and lone, . Unghtdnned by the sinile of love or woman's kindly tone. And then, dear Lucy blame me not, wo wept with one another, You would yourself have pitied liimand loved him as a brother. So handsome and so sorrowful—so hanglity, yet so kind. Oh dear- .1 cannot keep hit look one moment from my mind. He pressed my hand at parting, and to-night ho will lie here, While Pn is at his game of chess, and Ma is nowhere near; Yreuse me, dearest Lucy, now—imlet d I cannot write, To-morrow I will tell you more--he will he hore-tu night, V. S.—Oh, dearest Lucy, pity me—l really think I'm My heart is*likc a heart of lead—my eyes are ted with crying- to oo for hi. country what Scott had done for bis ; dcliiii-.ito the cliuracler of its people ; to point i is scenery ; to exult in its acquire- mi nis and prospects; but, above all, to usscrl us glory and independence. If some portion of the success of our Trans atlantic Novelist was referable to circumstan ces, and to llie peculiar attractiveness of bis subjects, a still greater portion was atiributa- lile to himself, and to the energy and enllinsh usm which bo brought to bis labours- We never met with novels—(and wo have read all that were ever written since the creation of the world,)—of •* morn absorbing character, or more fatal lo the female propensity of skip ping tilt- digressive portions. Every word of Mr. Cooper’s narratives is efleclivo, or »p- penrs so while you read : and yet he does not scruple to desenbe an object, in ihe most ela borate and uncompromising terms, three nr four limes over in the same work, if it bo ne cessary that tho reader should have an accu rate outline of it before his eyes. Ilia sca- scer.es are unique. Hu does not give ynu a '• painted ship upon a painted ocean.” All is action, character and poetry. You sec, in the images which lie conjures up. every accesso ry of tins scene; however insignificant ; you hear, in the terms in which lie describes them, the. roaring of tho surge, the voices of llio sea men, and the flapping of the sails. Amidst such scenes as these, whero " His inareh is o’er the mountain waves, Ilis home is on the Dee," wo lose sight of land altogether; and arc startled, n few chapters farther on, at finding j JOHN THE BAPTIST AND CHRIST. Extract f.ooi an unpublished Sermon of Mr. Pox, a celebrated I nilurian Preacher. 11 The character of John the Ilaptist is o| high worth, and a fine model for a reformer. His austere simplicity of manners, especially of his years, was adapted to strike w till rever ence. Such a man preaching in the wilder ness, could not be hoard by the crowds which resorted thither without n deep impression. His manner was fearless and vehement. He dealt in no measured terms nor gentle insinu ations. His rebuke was indignant and even awful; its force was not frittered away in gene ral declamation. Me classed bis hearers and their vices, and spoke to each of his own en ormities. He camo like an accusing spirit from another world, untouched by men’s frail ties, and unexposed to their retorts, to brand the guilty, and humble ihc proud, and reform the nation. His preaching passed over the land like a thunder storm, while the ministry of Christ came like the gentle shower Ilia! follows it. In the contrast between tho cha racter of John and that of Jesus, and the se lection of such an ono as the latter for the Messiah, we trace the wisdom and the benig nity of Providence. lie had all the firmness of the Baptist. He lacked nothing of his love of virtue or hatred of sin. But ho showed more pity for tho sinner, moro tenderness for the erring, more brotherhood towards man. lie was not less pure, ond it was not the pu- rily of separation, but that, moro illustrious, which mingles with the erring, yet is unpollu ted. John pitched bis tent in the remote ivil- ourselves in n wild, bnrren, wintry region, the ' dorness, but the Evangelist says of Christ that antipodes of that we had left. “ The Water | ‘ he tabernacled among us.’ Their clinrnc- Wilch," his last production, has several sea j ters woie marked by differences analogous to scenes, not inferior to any that preceded them, those of llie scenery in which their years were It is moro wild and experimental in parts, but it locks nothing in point of freshness and cn- ergv. From nil that we can learn of this gifted American, from those who have had the best and most recent opportunities of personal ob servation, wc should judge th-.t his general bearing indicules a mail of strong natural pow ers, great derision of character, and observant habits—more, perhaps, of tilings limn tnen. He is rather above than under tho middle height, his figure well ami firmly set, and hi movements rather rapid than graceful. All his gestures are those of promptness and en ergy. Ills high, expansive forehead is n plirc nologicnl curiosity ; a deep indenture across its open surface throws the lower organs of eventuality, locality, anil individuality, into fine clTcet ; while those immediately above — comparison, casually, and gayety—are equal ly remarkable. His eyes, which are deeply sol, have n wild, stormy, and restless expres sion, ns if they scorned sleep, and were per petually hi search of something. But it is his mouth that Inis the strongest pre'ensiuns lo singularity of character- An inflexible firm ness forms its expression when silent, but when lie speaks, it seems as though lie held all (ho passions and feelings of the heart tin dor Ins command, and could summon them to bis lip at pleasure. It is then (Imt lio rivets the attention moro than uny living writer— not excepting Wordsworth. David,(ho French sculptor, in Ilis fine bust of the novelist, lias given (Ins character admirably. His head al together is strikingly intellectual 1 Ms severity is relieved by simplicity- Nature moulded it in majcsiy, yet denied it nut the gentler gra ces that should ever adorn greatness. His manners arc a pleasant mixture of the mariner and Ihe gentleman. He is an Amc- jltit vcst'i-niay' the Bank was robbed, and of a largo i rien, even in our English sense of tho term ; amount, (he amor palria: is in him u passion that never My fiilhor tried the robber, and, oh God !-i( trei my {subsides ; lie is devotedly attached to his .Gaunt. country, to Ms institutions, and (ns is apparent from Ins works) to its r< gged hut magnificent scenery. Tho fumtly of Air. Coopor, was origmully from Buckingham in England, soilled in Ame rica. in 1C70, nod about u century afterwards became established hi Ihe State of New York, lie WHS Imrn »l Burlington, on thn Delaware, in 178!), and was removed at an early ago to Cooper’s Town—a place, of which he has given an intcresling account in “ The Pio neers.” At thirteen, he was admitted to Yalo College, New Haven, and three years after wards, went to sea—an event that gave a character and a color to his after life, and pro. duced impressions, of which llio world has ul- ready reaped the rich result. On his marriage with a daughter of John Peter Do Enncy, of West Chester, New York, ho quitted tho na vy, and devoted himself to cotnpusi'ion. Mr. Cooper's first work wus published in 1821, and every yeur smeo that period has brought its new novel. He has already printed and become popular in many cities—in London, Paris, Florence, and Dresden. In 1826, his health having suffered consi derably from n fever that attacked him two years before, lie was induced to visit Kurnpo ; this has restored him, and ho now thinks of returning to a home which his heart has never abandoned. Wo had omitted to mention, that Mr. Cooper was appointed, chiefly to protect mSCBLLAMY. From tho London New Monthly Magazine. LIVING LITERARY CHARACTERS. JXMKS fknimosc conrm. (The following article is hut an sb tract of that in tb- New Monthly, which is accompanied by a h.mt- Soioa engraved portrait of Cooper. J Among lha frequenters of circulating libra ries and indeed in literary enterics of all kinds, Mr. Cooper ii generally designated "Tho great American Novelist.” Whon the nuino of a writer becomes identified in this manner w ith that of his country, ho may fcal sufficient ly assured of the permanency of his reputation, lie may, with perfect safety, leave his fame lo take care of itself. Ilis is no fleeting or nur- row renown; it is associated with his " land’s language.” We are not hazarding much in saying, that no writer ever possessed the advantages en joyed by tho author of *• The -Spy.” on his first outset in literary life. The very peculia rity of his situation rendered it next lo impos sible for him to fail in rlianuiiig that large portion of the English people denominated the novel readers. An Esquimaux poet, brought over by .Captain Parry, could hardly have ex cited more wonder than the “ great Ameri can Novelist,” when he made his first appear ance in Europe. Tho world fell into a fit of | admiratiuu at the first sign uf a genius on the' his papers, to the Consulship at Lyons—a bnnren waste of Amorica, and tlared at M. u the bewildered Crusoe did at Friday’s foot mark on the sand. But in addition to these lesser advantages, the Novelist enjoyed the grand and all sufficing one that arises from an enure originality of subject. The field thar opened before him was not merely of immea.au- ral-le extent,bui he had ihe ftlieuy <H having it all to himself. Like ibo Ancient .Manner, " He was the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.” He suddenly found himself recognized aa the Sir II alter* of the New World,—one who was Mf : Cwpw’s appreeation of his if. just nous rival occurred while ha w«« sitting for the PJ'« l «hs« sjeompan... on, .ketch. TL.r,,.,, Madame Mirbei, requested him, as la usual is such ea ses. lo fix his eye upon s particular point." •• Look at th- [ucture." said she, pointing to otic of. distin e »ish cd ■talesman," No." said Coop-- •- |f | -oust l?ok at an>, II ahall be at ny master,"ilu-rii.,- his dance a iittlo hither, toa portrait of Sir \A alter Scot!. b nominal post, which he resigned about three rears ago In Pans, where Mr. Cooper at present re- sidea. on man is moro sought after, and few so much respected. Under the old regime R might have been different. Tho whisperings of pr judicc, jealousy, and national dislike that were occasionally audible here, do not reach him there. He appeara to be perfectly at his case.—sensible of tho estimation, but not over-estimauon, in which he is held by oil sects and parlies. Yet he seems to claim lit tle ennsidi ration on tho score of intellectual greatness ; lie is ev idently prouder of his birth than of his genius; and looks, speaks, and walks as if he exul’ed mo-e in being recogni zed as an American citizen, than as tho au thor of "The Pilot" and "The Praine.” He to w hom nature has given the necessary talonts, needs no instructor. passed. John was the child of the wilderness. He was brought up at a distance from society, and more familiar with the face of nature than with that of man. The rock was his couch, and the woods were his shelter, and the ele ments his companions and playmates, and be- .neatli the naked heavnns was the sabbath tem ple of his solitary worship. It is probable that lie was, nt an early age, an orphan, and loved the desert which rcce'ved and sheltered him in its dreariness, and it became a conge nial homo 'o Im; stem and lofty mind. Jesus wns nurtured‘In a family > und that family lived in society. A mother’s arms were around him, a fitlliur’s care was over him, and breth ren (near relations at least, if not brethren lite rally,) accompanied Ilis youthful progress. The nation in which he lived was subdued and softened and fertilized by man. And he had youthful companions and aged monitors, and the people of the village knew him. and he communed with humanity, and felt Ihe touch of sympathy, and heard the voice of praise, and went with the multitude lo tho syn agogue and the temple, and he grew in favour with God and man. And when public view was fixed on tho Baptist, it beheld one who seemed to scorn men’s effeminacy, and not to feel some of their wants, and not heed others and have no depondancc on his fellow-crea tures—und his food and clothing, his vest of camel’s hair, his lonthcru girdle, his locusts and wild honey, were all such as the wilder ness readily supplied; while Jesus adopted the more usual food and rzimeut of his country- meu, ns neither .superior to their infirmities nor imiifiurent to their enjoyments. And while John only came over society like a co met, filling with dismay, not seeming to belong to tho system which he threatened, and huv ing intercourse with men hut to denounce their vices und alarm their fears; Jesus roso upon their dwellings like the daily and nightly lights of heaven. AVIien marriage spread tho feast of gladness in their halls, ho was there ; and when anxiety prepared the couch of sickness, or death made a house of mourning, still he was there. John’s language partook of his ownstorn simplicity; his discourses were brief, impassioned, full of denunciation ; while the general character of our Lord’s was a melting compassion, winning the sinner to relent, and tho penitent to hope; and often was there thrown over his doctrine a lovely veil of alio gory, which, while M hid nothing from the un derstanding. would spare tho feeling much of irritatmn. John wrought no miracles; if lie hud, to hiivo comported with his character, they must have heon miracles of judgment : Christ did, and his were miracles of mercy. In tho Buptisl was personified ihe sternness of ihe Law, in Christ the benignity of tho Gos pel.” < Sepulchres of Thebes.—The whole sido of the Lylnaii mountain near Thebes is pierced even from its base to three quarters of its ele vation, with sepulchral grottos. Those near est the base are the most elevated and spa cious; those which tre found in the most ele vated part of tho mountain aro tho poorest, and most badly executed. Thu grottos be tween thesu two extremes hold a middle rank in execution ns wo 1 as position, which last in dicates order and richness; and in examining them, tho poor offer the most interest, because here can be seen the advancement of the arts and trades ot this period. A door opening lo the east conducts to a gallery about twenty paces long; this is sustained by columns or pi lasters, which vary in number from four to ten. At the extremity of this gallery is a pit which conducts to the catacombs; w here the mummies are deposited. The depth of these pits is from forty to sixty feel. They meet long subterranean alleys, roughly hollowed from tho rock, and which terminate in a hall about thirty fuel square. This hall is suppor ted by pillars, and still contains many remains of mummios.. There aro also found a great number of subterranean passages, which pro bably lead to other hqlla more concealed from view. jn the upper gallery are carved in has re lief, or impressed upon the plastering of the walls, while frejh and moist, a crowd of sub jects relative to the female ceremonies. The most interesting pictures there found, arc those which offer the details which appertain to the aNs of the ancient inhabitants of the country. There muy be discovered their first occupa tion, such as hunting ond fishing; there the progress ofcivilizatiun inay be traced; there may he seen the arts of the saddler, of the whcclrighl, and the potter ; pictures of their exchange and of commerce, rustic scenes, marches of troops and a cause of the punish ments in usage among them. Each grotto is ornamented with ceilings, upon which arc painted subjects of fancy, llie design of which is exactly the same as that of the papers which fashion lias caused to he adopted in France for the last thirty years. The tombs of the kings are moro than a mile from the river. They have been dug in the side, straight to the centre of the I.yhian mountains; the palli which conducts to them is frequently unknown, and they can ho en tered only by a forced passage. The plan of ono of llie tombs is sufficient lo indicnle the general dispositions of the others. Each grot to communicates with the side of the moun tain by a large gale, this conducts to a gallery hollowed in the rnrk. The breadth and height of this is generaMy twelve feet, its length to the second gate twenty paces. Tho second gate conducts to a second gallery of tho same breadth and 24 paces long. To the right and left of this, are chambers 5 feet broad by 6 deep. Here are found designs of arms, such as Imtclicts, poniards, carved sabres, short swords, lancets, javelins, hows, arrows, qui vers, coats of mail, bucklers, instruments of all kinds; and the details of preparing food are also there represented. A third gallery fol lows this, its height and breadth arc the same. It conducts to a hall along the level of the oth er apartments, which is eighteen feet square, This has a filth gallery, the length of which is 28 paces. At the extremity there is a corro- dcr of sixteen feet, it conducts to a saloon eleven feet sqare. Froin this there is a pas sage into a second imll of the same size, from w hich it is separated by a gallery of six feet. This ends in a saloon sustained by eight pil lars, length, 65, breadth 20 paces. This hall contains the sarcophagus which encloses the mummy of the king. The Romans made at tempts to bear away the sarcophagus from the grotto where it wns deposited. They hnd be gun to level (ho earth to lucilitato the attempt, but they very soon gave up the enterprise Near llio hall of the sarcophagus, there is a second, 35 paces in breadth, by 40 in length The height of ihe tomb is 7 feet, its length 8, and its breadth 6. The total of tho gallery is 225 paces. Tho tombs of the kings nro co vered, in their whole extent, by pictures and hieroglyphics. The greatest part aro repre sented in the fresh plastering. (‘ leints a Pres que.’) These pictures represent subjects and objects of the “rentest oddness and funla-Mical- riess, of which no idea could be obtained, ex cept by observing the drawings of them. It appears that here the Romans derived ihe idea of the grotesque, which their artists and painters endeavored to imitate during the second and third centuries ofthis empire. Tho rcscnrclios in Herculaneum, havo discovered a great uuuiLer of pictures executed in this style. The most interesting grotto is lliat which contains tho sarcophagus, still entire, and its place; its length is 16 feet, its height 12, and Ms breadth 6; it preserves the covering upon which is the effigy of tho king; it is of a single block of granile. The surprise, occasioned by beholding this enormous mass at the extremity of a lane 200 paces in length, can no longer ho limited, when it is considered that this block could not have been wrought on tho spot. M'hat diffi culties must have opposed the transportation of a mass weighing many hundreds of thou sands, through the almost impassable passa ges of the mountain. Many human sacrifices are here observed. Two pictures were disco vered, representing a man sowing soed, and children instantly springing up from this seed. Thero is a tomb near Alemnon, excavated at Ihe base ofn mountain, in the enclosure of of seventy. Instead of a rorkmlo. each m&j. wore a piece of black crape, ns n mark at , row liir being obliged, at so advanced a r»..<J of life, to bear arms: “ But,” said the iue- rnns, “ we should he deficient in iMiiturU. if we did not act in defence of a country who|, afforded us a generous asylum, and prr.’e. us from tyranny nnd oppression." v a bund of soldiers never before, perhaps, appear ed in any fluid of battle. An Old Acquaintance.—Lord Chief Justice Holt, when a young man. was very disMpa'i-d and belonged to a club of wild fellows, n.net of whom took an infamous course oflife. When his Lordship was engnged at the Old Bnilcv.a man wns convicted of a highway robbery, whom the Judge remembered to have been one of his old companions. Moved by curi osity, Holt, thinking tho fellow did not know him, asked what had become of his old ne«o- ciatos ? The culprit, making a low bow, un d fetching a deep sigh, replied, " Ah, my Lord, they are all hanged,hut your Lordship and I.” It was a saying of Fisher Ames that 11 a falsehood will travel from Alainc to Georgia, whilo (ruth is pulling on her boots.” OHIO REFORMED MEDICAL COLLEGE, which a number aro found. The entrance to Term*—'The price <f qualifying a person to prat many is concealed; almost all have been. The * WpWi, nml access to all tlu- advun Egyptians, who were faithful to worship, en deavored to conceal tho knowledge of their tombs from conquerors, and from thoso who professed a different religion from their own. Two grottos had never been finished. A third Ilis been entirely deprives! of its sepulchres, and somo others still offer imperfect things. Here the magnificence of the Egyptian is dis played with tho greatest grandeur. It must havo required not less than the duration of the reign of one man, to undertake and accomplish a work of this kind, where only a very limited number of workmen could be employed at a time. All the Egyptians, from the monarch to the subject, took tho greatest care of tho se pulchres, in tho belief that their souls would, after many thousand years, come to re-inha bit the body, in case it should he preserved untroubled and entire ; hence embalmments, and the position of sepulchres in places inac cessible to the inundations of the river. When the Arabs who regard the grottos as the pro perly of each family, discover that they can be visited by strangers, they put fire to the mummies, whirl) they contain, to save them from the gaze of the curious. A few caverns remain untouched* but they are generally un known to travellers. “ Thrir doors seated tin and silent as night, The du ellings of tho illustrious dead/' IVOR THING TON. B Y, and with the consent of the reformed Medics! Society, of the United States, the new Reformed Medical Institution has been located in Worthington, an interesting and flourishing town un the Whetstone Itiver, 8 miles north of Columbus, on the Northern Turnpike. This site has been chosen because it pre sents the greatest advantages to facilitate the research- es of the Botanicul student; the country around it abounding with every variety of medical plants ; and the situation being the most healthy and delightful in the Western country—and because the occupancy cf the large College Edifice, together with ground of eve* jy variety of soil fm an extensive botanical garden, has been presented to us by the board «.f trustees of Worthington College. There will be attached to the institution, a Dispen sary for analyzing and preparing Vegetable Medicines; and m Infirmary, where persons from the neighborhood or a distance laboring under fevers, consumptions, di?- pepsia, liver complaints, gravel, ulcers, fistulas, can cers, &c. &c. will be successfully treated without bleed ing, mercury or the knife, nnd from which the student will acquire a correct knowledge of the nature, opr ra tion anu superior efficacy of vegetable agents in re moving disease. Thu necessity for an institution of this kind in the west,to be under the direction of competent Professor?, is strikingly evident. It is nn institution that is designed to concentrate, and disseminate all the knowledge of Doctors of Medicine and ctnpyrice, sages and savages; und that will demonstrate to the student and the hick that vegetables alone nflord the only rational, salr and effectual means of removing diseases without impairing the constitution, or endangering life or limb. That the present system ofnructicc which treat* disease* ofeve- ry form with rnctulie minerals, the lancet or knife, i6 (!angerous?incfficicnt, the lamentable fuels which c ve ry day presents, too fully illustrate. Nor is this truth more clearly exhibited than tho fact that vegetable sub stances alone, arc void of danger, and pow erfully effi cient whi*n administered; a reference to the success of our New York Infirmary, and the success of ignorant botanical physicians, proves this fact. The College and Infirmary will be opened the first week in December, w here students from nil paits may enter and complete their Medical Education, and when* persons laboring under every species ufduruM’, shall receive prompt and faithful attention. The course of study to be pursued, nnd which ui-i be taught according to the OLD and UEl'GUUER systems by Lectures, Recitations, Examinant .h and suitable text hooks, is, 1st. Anatomy am) Phistol .py. 2d. Old and Reformed Surgery. 3d. Theory and Prac tice of Medicine, dth. The old and improved system of Midwifery, with the discar-cs of women and child ren. 5th. Materia Mcilicn with practical and general Botany. 6th. Medical and Botanical Chemi-tr;. a.-.d Pharmacy. 7tli. Stated Lectures on collateral 'M-.ec —Moral and Mental Philosophy- Phrenology- Godi- enl Jurisprudence—Comparative * Anatomy— History, &c. By attending this Institution, the student will nrqoirc a correct knowledge of the present practice of physi cians—a knowledge of the use and abuse of ruir.fials, the I.nnect, Ohstcrica! Forceps and the knife, and a knowledge of the new nnd improved system that su persedes their use with tenfold more safely and suc cess. There will be no specified time to complete a course of study; whenever the student is qualified, he may graduate and receive a Diploma—some will pass in ono year, others will require more. Requisition* for admission. 1. A certificate of good moiu! character, 2. Good English education. artier, i ptagcp of llie institution, will be $150 in advance, or $75 in ad vance, nnd $100 at the close of his studies. Every advantage given and some allowance mode to those in indigent circumstances. Board will be hud at $1 per week, and books at the Western city prices. Every student on entering Worthington Colleg* wilt become an honorary member of the reformed Medical Society of the United States, from whom he will rereive a diploma, and annual Report of all the doings and dis coveries of its different members, and be entitled to ali its constitutional privileges and benefits. Those wishing further information w ill please ad dress a letter (post paid) to Col. G. II. Griswold,oi the undersigned, and it shall receive prompt attention. Students and others had belter beware of the slan ders of the present physicians, who know no more about our institution, than they do about Botanies! medicine. J. J, S1EELE, President. Worthington, O. Oct. 1830. April 19. —16—w12iii. Anecdote.—During tho revolutionary war, eighty old German soldiers, who after having long served under different monarchs of Eu rope, hud retired to America and converted their swords into ploughshares, voluntarily formed themselves into a company, and dis tinguished themselves in various actions on the side of liberty. The captain was nearly one hundred years old, and had been in Ihe army forty years, and present in seventeen battles. The drummer was ninety-four ; and the youngest man in the corns on thn verge Clayton Hotel. Subscribers hnve opcnnil a House of ■ Entertainment in Clavton, Rabun county, for (be oecominuflalinn of Travellers. The house lias recently beery rcfiiie.l up in a neal and commuili- us style, and with due regard tn Ihe comfort and conven ience of those who may favor them with their patron- age. Their fable will be furnished with tho heat tho country affords, and their stables well supplied. \\ Lite they would refrain from those pledges and promises, usual in such annunciations—no exertions will be spared to five entire satisfaclinn to those, whom ihc calls of bmsiness, Ihc promptings of curiosity, or lb’ pursuit of pleasure, may induce lo call. CARRUTH lit BROWN. May 3.— IS—It. P:.i.XTTEr.S ECT3*. ojiwesville; CF.ORGU. ■.HIE subscriber is aboul building an addi '1 lion lo his l!ou*e in Gainesville by which hr will bd enabled lo accommodate double the num ber of persons that hecanat present with convenience. He will as heretofore refrain from making any pro mises whatever, and wishes only for that patronage which hif. house may merit. He takes ibis as the first opporiunity of tendering to his fiiends and the public generally, hi* acknowledgment*for hbcisi a share f the passing pafrvtiage. L. CLF.VELAND. Oa»n<j*vi!le t May 3.—!7—tf.
