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WILLIAM L. CLARK ,
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STAPLE AND FANCY
DRV GOODS,
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4 RE receiving nnd opening a Inrse nnd desiraMe
A assort me nt of seasonable FOREIGN and A*
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<sooUte’.
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themselves Nov 8. S3
.Yew Dry Goads, Hat and
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at ialdwin’s conwen, cotton avencc, macon, ga.
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Also, * few DRESS PATTERNS, rich Mouslin de
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AT
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May 24. 2
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AHD A STRICT ADHERENCE TO THE CONSTITUTION.— J. C. C.ICHOU.Y.
M.SCELL: NICUS.
A Pleasant Lunatic.’
In the appendix to the report of the
Ohio Lunatic Asylum, we find among
others the following description of one of
the inmates:—
“ We most not omit a passing notice of
an incurable, but occasionally useful,
and on many accounts amusing and in
teresting patient, styling himself “the
cattle drover, sportsman and financier
extraordinary to the institution and man
kind at large.” He also claims to lie
clerk of the new buildings, superintend
ent of public works in the state, proprie
tor of the steamboat Lehigh, mineral and
botanical doctor, See., whose mosaic de
lusions are as numerous and capricious
as his character and qualifications are
unique and surprising. He is a stout,
active, well built man, with a handsome,
sincere countenance, who is sure to be
the first to meet you on entering the gal
lery, and endeavor to slide into your
good opinion with a sly wink, a coaxing
smile, and gentle voice. Wishing im
mediately “ to buy sixteen hundred head
of fill cattle, four years old,” or ready to
loan any amount of money that can be
desired, which is forthwith produced, in
large packages of bank bills, manufactu
red by himself and made payable to his
order, at every corporation in the Union,
from Florida to Maine. He is never sup
plied with a less sum “than a hundred
and seventy-five millions, upon the best
specie paying banks.” But if you do
not need money, he is very entertaining
wi.h a description of his extensive farm
ing and pasture lands—wilh accounts of
his milling and steamboat operations—
his droving expeditions—horse racing—
blooded cattle—and roulette’ of his own
invention ; or, as a physician, he is al
ways willing and ready to attend to the
most difficult cases ; will exhibit his lan
cet of wire and prescribe infallible cures
for every disease, from a sore eye to the
gout or consumption.
Notwithstanding his singularity, he is
kind and attentive to those needing assis
tance around him, taking great interest in
the affairs of the house, and constantly
talking about the expense of providing
for so many patients; the difficulty of
keeping them in order, and the necessity
of employing more help, <fcc. He also
excels in complimentary notices of the
ladies, and is always ready either to
dance a jig, or hold the candle, sing a
song, or preach a sermon, and, if need
be, take a fight, or run a foot race.
This is but a hasty sketch of the most
active, singular and clever character in
the care of the institution. One, whose
unfortunate disease has hitherto resisted
every remedial effort in our power, and
being unsafe to go at large, must, in all
likelihood, find a permanent home with
in these walls. He was a very respecta
ble and intelligent mechanic, who, previ
ous lo his insanity, was strongly exerci
sed in mind upon the subject of religion,
which is thought to be the cause of his
disease. His general character was
peaceable, but, under the excitement of
insanity, lie proved to be malicious and
quarrelsome, threatening tlje iivesof per
sons, and to destroy property, nnd burn
the buildings of his friends and neigh
bors.
At this time he is cheerful and pleas
ant, in comfortable bodily health, still
fond of sport, and always ready for a
joke. Seeing a person in the hali a few
days since with a black eye and scratch
ed face, he very quaintly asked him if lie
had been “attending a meeting of the
owl-creek association.”
But it is probable he will be most ad
mired in his character of u practising
physician, in which he claims a success
ful experience of twenty years. His
medical opinions are so very strong and
clear, and his prescriptions so mild and
efficacious, especially in consumption,
that we cannot better conclude this im
perfect account of his case, and, at the
same time subserve the great interests of
humanity, and our marvellous profession,
than by giving a statement of his prac
tice, in this alarming disease. It is but a
short time since, he was regularly con
sulted by a very consequential and in
quisitive gentleman, who appeared anx
ious to be recovered from a consumption
of unusual severity. The doctor looked
wise, as doctors will, and then commen
ced his directions as follows : “Take of
white puccoon root and red puccoon root
equal quantities, white Solomon’s seal
and red Solomon’s seal each ten grains,
and of sulphate of quinine ten grains;
make them all into pills, and take one
three limes a day for a year. The qui
nine will operate upon the sweet breads
of your stomach ; the solotnon seals will
roar up the kidneys, and the puccoon
roots will knock the knots off the flaps of
your liver, and rout out the consumption
just as the leaves are coming out on the
trees in the spring of the year.”
The Family.
if there are any joys on earth which
harmonize with those of heaven, they
are the joys of the Christian family.—
When the snow flakes fall fast in the
wintrv evening, and the moaning winds
straggle at the windows, what is so de
lightful as to see the happy little ones
sporting around the blazing fire. Look
MACON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1844;
at that little creature in her night-dress,
frolicking and laughing as though she
had never known or never would know
a care. Now she climbs the chair—now
she rolls upon the carpet—and now she
pursues her older sister around the room,
while her little heart is overfiowingly
full of happiness. Who does not covet
the pleasurable emotions with which the
parents look upon this lovely scene?
But with these joys are associated re
sponsibilities. All the inmates of this
family are immortal. This home of
their childhood must be either the nurse
ry of heaven or the broad gate of destruc
tion.
The infant prattlers are acquiring hab
its and feelings, which are to control
them through life, and to guide their
destinies forever. How necessary then
that purifying influences should sur
round them in their early home ! How
important the duties devolving upon
those who have the control of the fami
ly ! How soon will this household be
scattered ! This little boy, now so tim
id and susceptible to every impression,
may soon be breasting the storms of a
distant ocean, or controlling the decis
ions of justice and law, or mingling in
the conflict of armies. He may be hon
ored for his virtues and his influence, or
be an outlaw, pursued by justice, and the
hopeless victim of wretchedness and
crime. This little girl may live to lie, in
her turn, trie happy parent, rejoicing n
the opening virtues, and increasing love
of her children : or a wretched outcast,
strolling in shame, a disgrace to herself,
her friends, and her sex.
Around the fireside they are, probably,
acquiring unchanging characters for
good or evil. They will probably go
on through eternity in that direction, up
on which they enter the first few years
of life. The stamp is in your hand, with
which to place upon their characters that
impress which can never be effaced.
Astro omv—The Physical Constitution oi
Sun.
When viewed with a telescope, the
Sun is often found to have black spots
on its disc, surrounded with a kind of
border, less completely dark, called the
penumbra. They are not stationary or
permanent: they appear to enlarge or
contract from day to day, and even from
hour, to change their forms, and at length
to disappear altogether, or to break anew
in parts of the surface where none were
seen before. In such cases of disappear
ances, the central dark spot always con
tracts into a point, and vanishes before
the border. Sometimes they separate or
divide into two or more, and offer every
evidence of the extreme mobility which
belongs only to fluids, and that very vio
lent agitation which seems to Indicate a
gaseous or atmospheric state of matter.—
The scale is immense on which their
movements take place. A single second
of angular measure, as seen from the
earth, corresponds with the Sun’s disc to
465 miles ; and a circle of this diameter,
containing nearly 22,000 square miles,
is the least space which can be distinctly
discerned on the Sun as a visible area.
Spots have been discovered, however,
whose linear diameter has been upwards
of 45,000 miles, and according to some,
of still greater extent. That such a spot
should close up in the space of six weeks
(and they sekom last a longer time), its
borders must approach at the rate of 1000
miles or more in a day. The diameter
of the Sun is estimated to be 882,000
miles, while thatofthe earth is little more
than 9,000. The Sun is supposed to re
volve on its own axis in twenty-five
days, nnd in the same direction as the
earth, from west and east.
There are other circumstances which
confirm this view of the subject. The
part of the Sun’s disc not occupied by
spots, is far from uniform brightness.—
Its ground is finely mottled with an ap
pearance of minute, dark spots, or pores,
wliich, when attentively observed, are
found to be in a constant state of change.
There is nothing which so nearly repre
sents this appearance as the slow subsi
dence of the flocculent chymical precipi
tates in a transparent fluid, when viewed
perpendicularly from above ; so nearly,
indeed, that it is hardly possible not to
be impressed with the idea of a luminous
medium intermixed, but not confounded
with a transparent and non-luminous
atmosphere, either floating as clouds in
our air, or pervading it in vast sheets or
columns like flame, or the streams of our
northern lights.
But what are the spots ? Many fanci
ful notions Lave been broached on this
subject, but only one seems to have any
degree of physical probability, viz : that
they are the dark, solid body of the Sun
itself, laid bare to onr view by those fluc
tuations in the luminous regious of its
atmosphere, to which it appears to he
subject. Respecting the manner in which
this disclosure takes place, different ideas
again have been advocated. Lalande
suggests, that eminences in the nature of
mountains are actually laid bare, and
project above the luminous ocean, ap
pearing black above it, while th ir shoal
ing declivities produce the penumbra,
where the luminous fluid is less deep.
A fatal objection to this theory is the
perfectly uniform shade of the penumbra
and its sharp termination, both inwards,
where it joins the spot, and outwards,
where it borders on the bright surface.
A more probable view has been taken by
Sir William Herschell, who considers
the luminous strata of the atmosphere to
be sustained for above the level of the
solid body by a transparent elastic me
diuin. carrying on its upper surface (or
rather, to avoid the former objection, at
some considerable lower le re within its
depths ), a cloudy stratum which, being
strongly illuminated from above, reflects
a considerable portion of the light to our
eyes, and forms a penumbra, while the
solid body, shaded by the clouds, reflects
none. The temporary removal of both
the strata, but more of the upper than of
the lower, he supposes effected by pow
erful upwa.d currents of the atmosphere,
arising, perhaps, from spiracles in the
body, or from local agitations.
Singular Costums in Switzerland.
There can he no more striking of the
pertinacity with which the people cling
to their old habits, and of the little inter
course between different parts of even the
same country, than the circumstance
that each of the twenty-six Cantons of
Switzerland has a very peculiar and dis
tinct costume of its own, never varying
within its limits, and never found beyond
them. The greatest oddity is seen in
the head-dresses of the peasants. In
Berne, they wear around their heads a
circle of wings of black lace, spreading
out from their faces like the sides of a
windmill. In Freyburg, they have flnp
pingstrrw hats, with rims broad enough
for Lilliput. In Schwitz, they wear on
the back ot their heads a white lace cap,
shaped like the magnified flower of the
sweet pea. Tn Appcnzell, two ornaments
like eagles’ wings, shoot out from each
ear, and are kept together by a glittering
band of beads. In Tessen, a dozen small
daggers, with gilded and carved handles,
project from the head, wliich they sur
round like a radiating halo, while a sort
of round carving knife passes through
the knot of hair behind. In the Orisons,
a green hat bears a plume ot tile lammer
geyer, or vulture of the Alps. Each
varies thus, and each has a correspond
ing dress, equally peculiar and gaily pic
turesque, nnd each is so distinct from the
other, that nil experienced eye can tell at
once to which of the twenty-six Cantons
the wearer belongs.
Rains of Indian Greatness.
The surplus wealth of India that used
to be employed in building extensive
towns crowded ghauts, magnificent stone
or brick sertees, some of them capable of
containing from six to eight thousand
people: enormous massive bridges,
splendid mosques, and temples, is all
gone—it has disappeared entirely. All
the towns in India, with a very few ex
ceptions, are in ruins. Delhi is surroun
ded by ruins. Agra, Booranpore, and
Aurutigabad, have immense suburbs in
ruins. The Deckan is a heap of ruins.
Many towns in Central India, that had
their hundreds of thousands of inhabi
tants, are now literally without one, and
are swarming with leopards, tigers, elks
and buffaloes. In deep forests you stum
ble upon Hindoo temples, Mahotnedan
gate ways, stone tanks eight hundred
yards square, brick walls of large dimen
sions scores, of acres of burying grounds,
and all the other concomitants, and
proofs of wealth, and power, and popula
tion. Malthus would never have writ
ten his too celebrated work, nor Goodwin
ever written his too little valued nuswers,
had they been in India. India is a large
forest with agreat many cultivated spots.
India—l say it after due consideration
—could maintain nnd support five times
its present population, with ease; and
yet it is unquestionably the poorest coun
try in the known world. To the state
of the wealth and resources of theoriginal
Hindoo nionarchs, imagination can as
sign no limits.
Very Curious I‘ntpit.
The pulpit in the Church ofSt. Peters,
at Wolverhamptom, England, is formed
wholly of stone, and consists of one en
tire piece, which supports it; the flight
of steps leading to it, with the balustrade,
<fcc., without any division, the whole
having been cut out of a solid block of
stone. The church was erected in the
year 996, at which time it is said this
remarkable pulpit was put up, and not
withstanding its great age, wliich ap
pears to lie 847 years, it is still in good
condition, and continues in regular use.
At the foot of the steps is a large figure
intended to represent a lion couchant,
but carved after so grotesque a fashion
as seems well calculated to puzzle the
naturalist in his attempts to extern line
its proper classification. In other re
spects, the ornamental sculpture about
the pulpit is neat and appropriate, and
presents a curious specimen of the taste
of our ancestors, at that early period.—
This is a collegiate church, and was ori
ginally dedicated to the Virgin, but the
name was altered in the time of Henry
111, to St. Peter.
In a discourse in behalf of an asylum
for the blind, the speaker began by grave
ly remarking. “If all the world were
blind, what a melancholy sight it would
be!”
Below we publish an article from the
Dublin Nation, in which the subjects al
luded to are treated truthfully and graph
ically :
Prom the Dublin Nation.
The Pnnjanb Swag.
Falstaff. —l must give over this
life, and I wil give it over, by the Lord,
an’ Ido not, I’m a villain. I’ll be damn
ed for never a King’s son in Christendom.
P. H i:nry;— •» here shall we take a
purse to-morrow, Jack ?
Falstaff. — Where thou wilt, lad!
Til make one ; an' Ido not, call me vil
lain, and baffle me.
P. Hexuy.— l see a good amendment
of life in thee; from praying to purse
taking.
Falstaff-— Why, Hal, ’tis my vo
cation, Hal; ’tis no sin for a man
to labour in his vocation.
[King Henry the Fourth.
An article lately imprinled in a san
guinolent London print (properly called
‘the bloody old Times,) respeciing the
meditated seizure of the Punjaub, and
the consequent absorption of its territory
and revenues into the Anglo-Indian Em
pire, gives us an opportunity of express
ing, ns Irishmen, our national disgust
and abhorrence of the mingled hypocrit
ical humbug and desperate lust of plun
der that seems to characterise the Eng
lish people, and does certainly stamp
with infamy the columns of many of the
leading Ehiglish journals.
“ Where shall we take a purse to-mor
row, Jack?” is the constant inquiry of
those shamelc a caterers for bleed: ‘who
shall we rob next V is the never-ceasing
howl of those jackalls of the British lion.
Nor is the sound at all unpleasing to all
devouring Bull ; he smells a “swag” in
the eastern breeze; he hears the chink
of silver high over the desolated villages
of Scinde : he sees flames like molten
gold rising over the plains of the Pun
jaub; the descendant of tire sea kings,
John Bull continues a sen-king, ami is
as easy to rob as ever; the instinct of
plunder and massacre is strong within
him; he is ripe lor murder and robbery
in any quarter of the globe where mur
der and robbery will pay ;
“ Pride in their | ort, defiance in their eye,
I see the prigs ol’human kind |iass hy”
from province to province, from sea to
sea, in search of “swag” and glory ; they
go forth plundering all nations.
One rapacious outrage upon humanity
does not wait upon another, with this
mammon-worshipping people. Success
or failure seems to be equal to them ; no
sooner had they evacuated AffghanisLtn,
because they got no money, then they
fell like Tigers upon Scinde, where there
was money to lie got. Hardly have the
bones of the unburied dead upon tho
plains of Hyderabad been picked by the
vultures, than the British pant to let
loose their blood hounds upon the territo
ry of and its two and a half mil
lions of annual revenue. Let who will
blame them for this, plunder is nothing
unless it is well followed; but wliat
amuses us is, that Exeter Hall stands
where it did all this while ; that the An
ti-Donkey-Big-Stick-Wallopping Associ
ation is thriving; that the Quakers’ An
ti-Cut-throat Society ; and the Methody
Missionaries Land-Jobbing and Tract
Shop are going ahead ; that cant, and
crime, nnd poverty rule at home, while
rapine, blood-guiltiness, and plunder lost
rage abroad.
And this is moral England-—this the
palladium of liberty—this the envy of
surrounding nations and the admiration
of—pish—pshaw—humbug !!
There must be something hopelessly
wrong in the moral condition of a people
whose politics resolve themselves into
“ who shall we rob next?”—whose sol
diers and sailors are careering the globe,
eager to pick a quarrel with any liody
that has any thing that they can steal—
whose messengers of civilization are al
most invariably heralds of war—who
find or make excuses to cut the throats
of people who dislike cant and cottons
and reject Bishops and bombad r rs—who
force Christianity and hardware upon
nations from the mouths of their trims —
and introduce printed calicoes und Bibles
at the point of the bayonet.
What is the Punjaub to them, or what
the intestine quarrels, assassinations, and
reprisal murders of its infamous rulers ?
Are the poor tillers of the soil to.be at
tacked and robbed because the black
guard aristocracy of the laud tails to log
gerheads ? If two thieves come to blows
in the street, shall a man be justified not
only tti robbing them, but also in robbing
the honest men they have robbed before V
But you will see how it will be. Any
stick will do to beat a dog, and any ex
cuse will serve to beat the People of the
Punjaub. Two millions and a half is a
splendid revenue, besides prize-money
and plunder, promotions for the officers
of the Army, and for the Generals, Cros
ses of the Bath. Altogether, it will be a
splendid “swag,” and, as the blood
hounds of the press say, tee must have it.
John Bull will take the purse of the
Punjaub; “ in’ he do not, call him a
villain and baffle him ; 'tis his vocation
to rob, and 'tis no sin for a man to la
bour in his vocation." Then, when the
blood ts shed, and the money clutched,
he will appear at Exeter Hall, in due
i NO. 39.
course, saying, “/ must give over this
life, and 1 will give it over ; by the
Lord, and Ido not, lam a villain ; I'll
be damned for never a Punjaub in
Christendom."
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
Eruption of Bit. Etna.
Great Devastation—lnhabitants fly
ing in Alarm —Destruction of Hu
man life.
The following particulars of a recent
eruption of Mt. Etna are given in a let
ter from Palermo.—
Anew eruption took place on the wes
tern side of Alt. Etna, on the 17th of No
vember. The crater opened near Monte
Rosso, not far from the eruption of 1832:
Three rivers of lava are formed, and are
flowing rapidly in the direction of Ma
lette, Bronre,* atfd Aderno. At the date
of the last account, November 22, the la
va, which is flowing across the Bronte
is of considerable thickness, and had ar
rived within a mile of the town. The
inhabitants were flying in alarm, carry
ing off their portable property. Bronre
was enclosed in two streams of lava, nnd
the position of its inhabitants was fright
ful. The lava took as its lied the high
road from Palermo to Messina, nnd it is
feared that it may fall into the torrent of
Simeto, which is quite close to the road
from Aderno to Leon Forte, and which
falls into the Gulf of Catania, where it
might catise great accidents. The rood
from Palermo to Catania is intercepted
by the lava; All the cantons around
Etna are afllicled with an atmosphere of
ashes, which obscures the sun’s rays.—
The subterranean rumblings of the vol
cano are heard as far as Catania, and the
ground Ims a sort of quivering motion,
which leads the inhabitants to fear ati
approaching earthquake. A curious cir
cumstance took place at Catania, the
night before the eruption. A fine rain
fell which changed the color of the silk
in the umbrellas and burntjit. A profes
sor of chemistry having analyzed this
rain, found that it contained a large
quantity of muriatic acid. Thecruption
commenced, as already stated, on the
17tli of November, about half past two
o’clock, in the desert region of Monte
Rosso. A thick smoke, mixed with
sand, was sent forth, and rocks hurled in
to the air, showing that the force below
was most active. A constant undulating
motion was soon perceived to make its
nppenrence, and it descended rapidly to
the woody region, w here it divided into
three streams, the somnern one proceed
ing towards the wood of the Malettc, the
south one towards the Bronte, whilst the
third menaced the district of Aderno.—
During the day the smoke increased tre
mendously, and, being collected above
Etna, covered it completely. A quanti
ty ol sand fell from it continually on the
eastern part of the mountain, and did
much injury to the shrubs and crops.—
A strong smell of sulphur was percepti
ble even at the bottom of the mountain.
On the 19tb, the lava continued to make
its way towards Maielte, and the tilled
grounds of Bronte. The whole popula
tion was alarmed. The southern branch
approached Basilliani, four miles from
Bronte. An excessive activity continu
ed to prevail in the crater, and sand still
fell over the whole southern and eastern
sides. On the 20th, the stream of lava
which had threatened Bronte, appeared
to direct its course towards the south,
over the old lava of Mount of Egitto.—
The other two currents pursued their
course, one towards Aderno, and the oth
er towards Malette. On the south and
east Etna is covered with smoke.
Another letter, dated Palermo, 4th, in
the Augsburg Gazette, states that the la
va had swept away several houses, and
destroyed 67 persons.
Palermo.— lntelligence from Bronte
has been received, stating that the erup
tion of Mount Etna still continued on
the 2Sth of December. The lava has
reached the decline of the mountain, and
approached the river Simeto. Consider
able damage has been done to innumera
ble fertile fields and vineyards. Seven
ty men, who were employed at some
works, are said to have fallen victims to
the descent of the lava.
A Friendly Act.
It has been mentioned by us already,
that while the whigs of Richmond were
putting up a club loom, calculated to
contain some two thousand persons, tho
floor gave way, and about one hundred
and sixty persons were precipitated into
the cellar,—many of them being serious
ly injured. At a meeting of the Rich
mond Democratic Club on Friday last, a
series of resolutions were passed to assist
the whig sufferers. The mover of the
resolutions contributed twenty dollars,
and his example was followed by nearly
all the other persons preseut. The Whig
observes:
“ Our brethren have acted like men.
They have shown that we all belong to
the same family; and that, though polit
ical views may separate us in one sense,
yet, when suffering is presented to our
eyes, we are all united. They merit our
warm acknowledgments, and we make
them in the name of the whig party. —