The federal union. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1830-1861, July 31, 1830, Image 1

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//fSftrr x ' ■«*, THE FEDERAL UNION. JOHN G. POLHIH'J - ——--= \ EDITOR. MIL.EEDGEVIL.EtB, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1830. — - VOLUME 1, NUMBER 4. 4^ . TBS FEDERAL UNTOJKT Is nuWished every Saturday al A URke dollars per an- iwoi in advance, or Four if not pawl before Ihe end of the fvear.’ The Office is on tVayne-Sinet, opposite Me- ' Combs* Tavern. . Ail Advertisements published at the usual rates. ICP Each Citation by (he Clerks of the Courts of Or* i dinary that application has been made for Letters of Ad ministration, must be published Thirty days at least. Notice by Executors and Administrators for Debtors and Creditors to render in their accounts must be publish ed Sis weeks. Sales of negroes by Executors and Administrators must |>e advertised Sixty days before the day of sale. Sales of personal property (except negroes) of testate and intestate estates by Executors and Administrators, must be advertised Forty days. Applications by Executors, Administrators and Guar dians to the court of ordinary for leave to sell Land must be published Four months. Applications by Executors and Administrators for Let- era Dismiasory, must be published Six months. Applications lor (^closure of Mortgages on real Es tate must be advertised ouce a month for Six months. L Sale* of real estate by Executors, Administrators and Juardians must be published Sixty days before the day sale. These sales must be made at the court-house Moor between the hours of 10 in the morning and four in [ the afternoon. No sale from day to day is valid, unless 150 expressed in the advertisement. ! Orders of Court of Ordinary, (accompanied with a copy I of Jie4)or.d, or agreement) to make title* to Land, must | be advertised Three months at least. Sheriff’s sales under executions regularly granted by | tbc courts, must be advertised Thirty days. Sheriff’s sales under mortgage executions must be ad- ertised Sixty days before the day of sale. Sheriff’s sales of perishable property undef order of 3ourt must be advertised generally Ten daYA. All Orders for Advertisements will be punctually at tended to. All Lcfteradirected to the office, or the Editor, f must be post-paid 10 entitle them to attention. MILLEDGEVILLE MASONIC HALL LOTTERY. On Thursday, the 4th day of November next, TMTHE THIRD DAY’S DKAVVING will positively g take place—at which time, the Wheel will be in eudi situation, as for holders of Tickets to reasonably calculate on some respectable prizes. A nobler chance for a fortune, in the way of Lottery, was never present ed to the public. Ail who may feel disposed to purchase Tickets, would act wisely, to buy, in the Milledgeville Masonic Hall LalUry before the next drawing. This Lot tery is athom*, and though you should bo unfortunate, k there is still the advantage that the money will be in cir- nhtion amongst us, and added to this, the chance is cer tainly very good to realize ten or fifty times the amount f vpended fur Tickets. On examination of the different drawings, it will be seen that the small prizes are very much diminished, leaving in the Wheel nearly all of the . iluable ones—It will also be recollected, that the prizes under two hundred dollars, were deposited in the wheel it the commune.ment cftlie drawing, and that there are yet to be deposited, prizes from two hundred up to 33,000 DOLLARS! ' w hich certainly holds out the strongest inducement to pur- c ..jEers. At die next Drawing the following Splendid Tri bes will be flouting I PRIZE OF glO.vOO I I PRIZE OF $500 1 do 4C 10.000 1 da Ci 500 i do it 5,000 I da ii 400 3 do it 1,000 l da it 400 t do it 1,000 i do it 400 1 do it soo * do it 300 1 do it 900 t do i c 300 Y do 11 800 1 do a 300 1 da U SOO 1 do ii 2i)0 1 do cc 800 1 do •c 200 1 do Cl 700 19 do it 100 1 do cc 600 37 do ii 50 i do ii 500 besides 20*s anil 10’s. FIUCE OF TICKETS. Wholes $10—Halves S-5—Quarters $2 50. ’Zjr’ ORDERS addressed to Wyatt Foard, Secretary to the Commissioners, post-paid, will meet with prompt | attention. WYATT FOARD, Secretary to the Commissioners. Milfedgcvillc, July 17 2 tf PENITENTIARY, 24th June, 1330. NOW ON BAND, A ND FOR SALE nt tins place, the follow tog ARTI CLES, to wit: Road Wagons and Gear, Two-horse. Wagons and Harness, Gigs and Sulkeys, Horse and OxCarts. Jersey Wagons, Cotton Gins and Family Spinning Machines, Wheat Fans, Windsor and Twist-bottom Chairs, Clock Reels and Spinning-wheels, 1 sett Mahogany Dining Tables, A Sofa and Bureau, High and Low-post Bedsteads, Pine Folding Tables and Side-boards, Candle and Wash-stands, Ladies’ Prunnella and Calfskin Shoes, Gentlemens’ Boots and Shoes, Negro Shoes, Gig and Carriage Ha r rcss, Jersey Carriage and W agon do. Gig and Carriage Braces, And a variety of other articles too tedious to mention, —And all kinds of REPAIRING in any of the above de scribed articles, dene without delay. TAILORING- Executed with neatness, and at very low prices, with dis patch. The above article will be sold low for cash or ap proved paper, payable at the Fall. Cash will be p • id for a few Cart-toads of Cedar or Ju niper STAVES, and for Green or Dry XKEOSS< de livered at fair prices. PHILIP COOK, P. K. July 3 235 6t LAW 1T0TIC3. T HE Copartnership in the PRACTICE of the LAW, heretoexisting between Samuel Lordlier fy Al fred Iverson, is |hU day dissolved by mutuul consent— A. Iverson having transferred his interest in said Part nership to John L Lewis.- A Copartnership has been this day formed between Samuel Lowtiiek & John L Lewis, v ho will attend to the Practice of the Law in the Ocmulgte, Flint and South ern Circuits. Tfcey will generally be found at their office in Clinton, when not absent on the Circuit. A. Iverson will, during the present year, remove to Columbus, and practice Law in all the counties of the Chatabaochie Circ ;■( o nu in H ose of the Southern Cir cuit where iiis struces r< iy be required. The services of A. Iverson will be rendered in winding up the business of Lowlher & Iverson in the Oemulgee Circuit. SAMUEL LOIVTHER, ALFRED IVERSON, JOHN L. LEWIS. Clinton, June 19, 1830. 234mdm ZOXSCSLLASrBOVS. NOTIGS. D URING the temporary absence of the subscriber from Georgia, Col Samuel A. 'Vales of Clarks ville, will attend to his Professional business. JOHN R. SI ANFORD. July 3, 1830 285 Executive Department, Ga. j Mi’leilgeviUe, June \7lh, 1S30. 5 lTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Sealed Propo I sals will be received at the Department until the 15th day of August next, for printing and binding Two Thousand Copies of a Compilation of the Laws and Res olutions of this State, from ti.e year 1820 up to 1829, in clusive, in quarto size volumes, with marginal notes and Index. The type and paper to be similar to that of th'* Digest of the Laws of the United States, published by Thornes F. Gordon, Esq. in 1827. The Binding to be of good sheep, (b )W binding,) lettered and filleted A must be plain and explicit, and must embrace all expen ses attending the execution and delivery of the work at the State-House in this place, and also the time of delive ry, for which good and sufficient security will be required, as well as for the re-deli' ery of the manuscript Attest, M1LLLER GRIEVE, (233—91) Scc’ry Executive Department. [rg^HE SUBSCRIBER is preparing a Defence of the BL f *Howing Doctrines: 1. Tbc Docti inc of Election, which is fail ly proved ty scripture and its use show n. 2 Tift Doctrine of the Covenant of Redemption, proved hy scripture and reason, and its use shown. 3. A:i answertothe Rev. Cyru3 White on the Atone- f 'MENT, in which his “views” are fairly refuted by scrip ture and reason. 4. The Author’s Views on Associations—in whichhe designs to shew that Associations are not conducted ac- l curdiiig to scripture—All which will shortly be published i by LUKE ROBINSON, of Newton co. Ga. A fay 29, 1S30 . 230 FOUND. |*jB^IGlIT miles above Milledgeville on the Eatonton ruad, a sheep-skin POCKET ROOK, somewhat Isoiled by using—containing notes and other papers. The >iotes are given to Senborn»J. Thompson; five signed by Lt iicl Evans, four of them dated in July, 1830 and one In Nov-1829; there are also other notes—one signed by ~> words, one by H. J. Thompson, one by Charles Thomp son, one by U'm. B. Grainger, one by a name taken to be [Taylor, with other pap< rs. The owner can have the ‘.auie by upphcation to John B. Dyer, on the Sheffield Fer ry Road, leading from Milledgeville to Grceuesboro’, by having for this advertisement, and a reasonable compen sation to the finder. JOHN B. DYF.R. July 17 2 2t NOTICE. I HE Justices of the Inferior Court of Gwinnett coun ty, Ga. have appropriated $4000 for the purpose of IUILDING a Crick or Stone Jail, said county—to consist of not less than five apartments >r prisoners. Sealed Proposals will be received for luiidiug the same until the first day of October next. The Proposals will embrace plan and price, and be addressed to William Maltbie, Esq- Clerk of said Court. JOHN BREWSTER, s. «. c. J. VVARDLAW. j. i. c. CLIFFORD WOODROOF, j. I. c. ASAHEL R. SMITH, j. i. c. June 26 234 I4t IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Thursday, December 17th, 1829. HERE AS the cumber of members, which, under the present provisions of the Constitution of this State, compose the General Assembly, is considered by many of the good citizens of the State, by far too nu merous, and sonsequently unnecessarily expensive, for an economical People.—For the purpose therefore, of as certaining the voice of the People on this all important and interesting subject— Re it therefore resolved, That all the voters of Georgia who feel for the interest and prosperity of the State, and who wish to reduce the number of the members if the General Assembly of Georgia, be required on tbe first Monday in October next, to say, on their ticket, if in fa vor of a reduction—“REDUCTION”—if against it, “NO REDUCTION.” Resolved further. That the Superintendents of Elec tions on that day keep a poll of the same, and certify it to the Governor, a statement of ihe poll, and that he cause the same to be laid before tbe next General Assem bly; and that he cause these Resolutions to be published once $ month in the Gazettes of Milledgeville, until the election. Approved, December 21,1S29. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. March 9, 183b 227- 5m NOTICE. LL persons are hereby forewarned from trespassing in any m inner, upon the following LOTS in Car- Dll county—Nos. 140, 173, in the 2d—203, in the 6tb -139 and 271, in the 7th District. Persons wishing to irehase cither of the above lots, will apply to Mulfurd lir»h, Esq. Jacksonboro, Striven county, or ThomasF. jireiui in MilledgjlKille. July 10 1 3t Notice to all Persons ! HEREBY forward all persons, from trading with Elb ridge Harris, for lot No. 272, in the 6th district Carroll county, because ( have pui chased the same of, from said Harris on the 26th of June last past, and |M him for the same, and am determined to hold it. kis notice is therefore given for the. benefit of ali per? is. JOSHUA HOLDEN. labenham county, July 13th. IS3Q> < 3 44 A N ACT to extend the time for fortu nate drawers in the Land Lotteries of eighteen hundred and eighteen, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and eighteen hundred and twenty-one to take outgran’s for the lands thus drawn, and alter the time therein specified, to vest the same in the state. Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That every person who was a fortunate drawer in the land lotteries by the authority of the acts passed qn tbe fifteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighteen, on the six teenth day of December, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and on the fifteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, shall have untill the first day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty, to takeout his, her or their grant upon paying into the Treasury the sum of eight dollars. •Sec- 2. And he it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the first day of November, eighteen hundred ami thirty, the lands so drawn as afore said, and not granted, shall revert to and become the property of the State. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not extend to any lot or lots of land drawn by orphans until three years after tbe said orphans shall have arriv- cd'at tbe age of tivenl}-one years; nor to any lots drawn by idiots or lunatics or persona who have departed this life since they gave in for a draw or draws in said lotteries of 1818,1819 & 1821, and whose estates are unrepre sented, nor to any lots number ten and one hundred set apart for the purposes of public education. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be ana the same is hereby repealed. Sec. 5th. And be it further enacted by the authority a- fore said, That it shall be the duty of his Excellency the Governor, to cause this act to be published in all the pub lic Gazettes of this State, once a month, until the first day of November next, and that he cause the expenses of such publication to be paid out of the contingent fund, WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker Qf the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. Assented to 9th November, 1829. GEORGE XL GILMER, Governor. Not. 14, ■ —w202tr"Hal2a Conjugal Affection.— Julius Salunus having engaged the interest of the Gaul9, caused himself to be proclaimed Emperdr of Rome ; but being defeated he fled to his country bouse, and set it on Are, in order to raise a re port that he had perished. This scheme an swered his end, for he was there believed to have suffered a volun’ary death. But, in the mean time, he lay concealed with his treasures (for he was immensely rich) in a cave which he had caused to be dug in a solitary place, and which was known only to in his shop, as thongb the whole building was in one general flame. He ran with the great est precipitancy, and on flinging ope a ihe door discovered a man standing erect in the midst of a widely extended silver colored blaze, bear ing as he described it, exactly the appearance of the trick of a burning candle in the midst of its own flame. He seized him by the shoul der, and jerked him to the door; upon which the flame was instantly extinguished. There was no fire in the shop, neither any possibility of fire haying been communicated to him from .any external source. It was purely a case ol spontaneous ignition. A general sloughing came on, and his flesh was consumed or remov two of his freedmen, upon whose fidelity he, ed jn th ;Messing,leaving the bones and a few could depend. He might easily have with drawn to Germany; but he could not prevail on himself to abandon his wife, whom he pas sionately loved. Sabinus, that none might doubt his death, did not for some time, even undeceive his wife, who solemnized his obsequies with great pomp, bewailed him with many tears, and at last, no longer able to hear the loss of an hus band for whom she had the siucerest affection, resolved not to out-live him, and began to abstain from all food. This news alarmed Sa binas; and therefore, by means of Martialis, one of his fresdmen, he informed her that he was still alive, and acquainted Iter with the place where he lay concealed, desiring her at ihe same lime to suppress her joy, lest the se cret might be thence betrayed.—Empena heard the relation with inexpressible pleasure, and pretending business in the country flew to her husband. The cave to her was then pref- ferable to a palace, for there only she was hap py. She went frequently to see him and sometimes contrived to stay whole weeks un suspected. She had even two children by him, who were born & brought up in the cave. When at Rome, she continued to bewail him as dead—and concealed the whole with exemplary fidelity and wonderful address; nay she found means to convey him to the city, up on what motive wo know not; and from thence back to his cave, so well disguised he was by no one known. But after he bad passed nine years in this manner, he was at length discov ered by some persons who narrowly watched his wife, upon her frequently absenting herself from her own house and followed her to the cave without being: discovered. Sadinus was immediately seized and sent to Rome loaded with chains, together with his wife, who throwing herself at the Emperor’s feet, and presenting to him her two infants, en deavored with her tears and entreaties to move to compassion. Vespasian, the Emperor, could not help weeping at so affecting: an ob ject; nevertheless he condemned both her and her husband: &, caused them to be executed!- Cruel tyrant! humanity blushes for thee. The following humorous argument was ad vanced by a canal stockholder, for the purpose of putting down railways: “He saw what would be the effect of it; that it would set the whole world gadding—twen ty miles an hour, sir! Why, you will not be a- ble lo keep an apprentice boy at his work, every Satur Jay evening he must take a trip to Ohio, to spend the Sabbath with his sweet heart. Grave, plodding citizens will be flying about like comets. All local attachments must be at an end. It will encourage flighti ness of intellect. Various people will turn in to the most immeasurable liars; all their con ceptions will be exagerafed by their magnifi cent notions of distance—‘only a hundred miles off! Tut, nonsense. I’ll step ^across, rpadam. and bring your fan!’ ‘Pray, Sir, will you dine with me roday, at mv.little box on the Allegany?” ‘Why, indeed, I don't know— I shall be in town until 12—^weU, I shall be there, but you must let me off in time for the Theatre.’ And then, Sir, there will he barrels of Pork, and cargoes of Flour, and chaldrons of coal, and even lead and whiskey, and such like sober things, that have always been used to sober travelling—whisking away like a set of sky rockets. It will upset all the gravity of the nation. If a couple of gentlemen have an affair of honor, it is only to steal off to the Roc- kv Mountains, and there no jurisdiction can touch them. And then. Sir, think of flying for deht! A set of bailiffs, mounted on bomb shells, would not overtake an absconded debt or—only give him a fair start. Upon the whole, Sir, it is a pestilential topsey turvey, harum scarum whirligig Give m ■ the old, so lemn. straight-forward, regular Dutch Canal-— three mil^s an hour for expresses, and two for jog or trot journeys—with a yoke of oxen for a heavy load! I go for beasts of harden; it is more primitive and scriptural, and suits a moral and religious people better. None of your bop skip, and jump whimsies for me.” Spontaneous Combustion of a Drunkard.—Dr. Peter Schofield, in a late address delivered at the formation of a Tenperarce Society in the township of Bastard, in the District of John stown, in the Province of Upper Canada, states a case of spontaneous combustion, which oc curred in his practice. “It is w'ell authentica ted, says the Doctor, that many habitual drink ers of ardent spirits are brought to their end by what is called “spontaneous combustion*! By spontaneous combustion, I mean when a per son takes fire, as by an electric shock, and burns up without any external application.— Trotter mentions several such instances. One happened under my own observation. It was the case of a young man, about 25 years old. He had been an habitual drinker for many years. 1 saw him about nine o'clock in tbe evening on which it happened. He was then as usual, not drunk, but full of liquor. About eleven on the same evening, 1 was called to see him. I found him literary roasted from the crown of his head to the sole of his ftet— He was found in a blacksmith’s shop just across the way from where he had been. The own* all pf a sodden/ discovered an extensive light of the larger blood vessels standing. The blood nevertheless, rallied round the heart, and maintained the vital spark, until the thir teenth day, when he died, not only the most noisome, ill-featured and dreadful picture that was ever presented to human view, but his shrieks, his cries, and lamentations were e* nough to rend a heart of adamant. He com plained of no pain of body—his flesh was gone. He said he was suffering tbe torments of hell; that he was just upon itsthreshhold. and should soon enter its dismal caverns: and in this frame of mind he gave op the ghost. O the death of a drunkard! Well may it be said to beggar all description. I have seen other drunkards die, but never in a manner so awful and affect ing. They usually go off senseless and stupid as it regards a future state!”—Kingston, (Can ada) Gazette. The first duty of a Statesman is to build up the moral energy of a people. This is their first interest; and he who weakens it, inflicts an injury which uo talent can repair, nor should any splendor of services, or any momentary success, avert from him the iDtamy which die has earned. Let public men learn to think more reverently of their function. Let them feel that they are touching more vital interests than property. Let them fear nothing so much as to sap the moral convictions of a peo ple, by unrighteous legislation, or a selfish po licy. Let them cultivate in themselves the spirit of religion and virtue, as the first requi site to public station. Let no apparent advan tage to the community, any more than to them selves, seduce them to the infraction of any moral law. Let them put faith in virtue as the strength of nations. Let them not be dis heartened by temporary ill success in upright exertion. Let them remember, that while they and their contemporaries live but for a day, the State is to live for ages, and that Time, the unerring arbiter, will vindicate the wisdom as well as the magnanimity of the pub lic man, who, confiding in the power of truth, justice, and philanthropy, asserts their claims, and revereutiy follows their monitions, amidst general disloyalty and corruption.—[Channing. The way to patronize a Newspaper. 1st. Subscribe: it costs you nothing just to write your name. 2d. Send in, now and then, an adver tisement for insertion with tf at the end of it. 3d. Send your paper away, when received t6 some distant friend, and dispatch a messenger post haste to the printer, or go yourself for an other of tbe same date. If you think it too small for your gentlemanskip to ask for a second gratis, say, orjdirect your messenger to say, that the carrier left you none: and just give the printer a significant reprimand, thereby to show your own dignity and to make him tee I his dependeuce.-All this is encouraging It is patronage. What is one extra newspaper a iveek to a printer who has your patronage? It is true your single subscription may cost bim one hundred papers a year; but that is nothing: he has your patronage, ^.-.id he ought to pay you for it. 4th. When your bill is sent in, stare at it; say, “I don’t know about this; I never received more than fifteen or twentypapers in the whole year. Besides I subscribed merely to patron ize the paper. 1 sha’nt pay it.” Mr. Patronage, to,Timothy Typesticker, Dr. To Advertisement, in the Orinoco,—squares —weeks, $ “What does this mean? I never advertised in the Orinoco in my life.” ‘ Your clerk, sir, handed in the advertisement, and it was inser ted as directed ” “Let me think. O, yes, 1 remember now! I remember I told him be might carry it, just to encourage the paper, as I wished it well. But 1 had no idea of ever being called on for pay for it. And now sir, as I sent it merely to patronize the paper, it is not right that I should pay and I will not pay.” Mr. Patronage s Soliloquy. ‘Good! five dol lars sa\ r cd already this morning! I’ll set that down on the Company’s book, to my own cred it. The poor devil is gone, and he knows too well to sue tne. Five dollars saved! Money saved is as good as money earned. The fel low’s bill was reasonable enough to be sure and be ought to be paid. But it is my busi ness to t*ke care of number one; and it is his look out, not mine, about his losses. It would require a good many such patrons as I am to support a Newspaper, true enough. One thousand such would keep from the prin ter’s purse jive thousand dollars; quite a round sum for one man to lose. But I presume his other subscribers don’tuqderstand the get-offs quite so well as 1 do; so that he don’t lose all. Down, conscience; money-making and money saving is my trade. And for a man to follow his trade is no sin. Therefore keep quiet. It is only.five dollars, that 1 have quibbled out ot the printer. The world owes bim a livingland he can’t starve in this land of plenty. So keep still conscience. I’ll go to church three times next Sabbath; that will pay you for all your aches.—Orinoco. Envy is a passion whose characteristic is a cowardice, so less tfcas malice aod detraction I central. NEW MIRACLES. A new sect of believers have lately sprung up in Gareloch, Scott land, whose faith and works are beginning to attract C e attention of the learned, as they have for aotne time ex cited the warmest feelings of the ignorant.— About a twelve month ago, a volume was pub lished, entitled, “Peace in Believing, being the Letters and Memoirs of Isabella Campbell,” a young person who died of consumption. This volume acquired great popularity among kind red minds, both from the interesting character of the writer, and the natural eloquence of her letters. About tbe period of tbe publication, a brother and sister ol the deceased were ta ken ill of the complaint of which she died.-— The similarity of the circumstances, character, and acquirements of the two sisters, excited a considerable interest among those who consi dered themselves the true believers. Every Word the apparent dying sister spoke was lis tened to as inspiration, and she spoke with fer vor and fluency truly wonderful. Miss Camp bell was of the sect who lay claim to direct in spiration, and being listened to wRh such re verential feelings, she probably regarded «w she poured forth to her admiring auditors with such facility, as in reality the outpourings of the spirit. Contrary to ali expectation, she some months ago began to recover, and deter mined, in gratitude to Heaven, to devote her life to £he conversion of the heathen. It was obviously necessary to the success of the work, that she should understand the heathen lan guage. The difficulty was overcome by « new miracle, and Mary Campbell received the gift of tongues, in which she became, quite as flueut as in her native speech. It is true, no one who has yet listened to the voice of her in spiration can understand one word she utters when she quits her mother tongue; but their faith is not shaken in the reality of the miracle which is to ha manifested, ever, to unbelievers, which Mary visits the heathen. Every time she opens her mouth, the sounds she utters are different, but this only proves the greatness of the miracle, the language being that of many nations. The fame of Mary Campbell’s inspiraliou, and the divine influence as it was called by the true believers, was felt by others of the faithiul. The shape it in general took, was the miraculous cure of diseases. When the miracle did not work well, it was always owino* to want of faith in the subject. An inspired brother approached the bed of bis sister, who had been confined to it a long time, and comr manded her, in tbe name of the Lord Jesus, io rise and walk. Her faith was perfect: she a- roseand walked about her room, and slept bet ter that night than she had done a longtime be fore, and has continued well ever since, though thin and emaciated—a circumstance which causes a want of faith in many, who cannot be lieve that God would work half a miracle, but think he would at once remove all (races of Ihe complaint. Other similar miracles have been performed, and some have failed for want of faith. The effect of the imagination in the cure of many diseases is well known. Miss Mary Campbell’s miraculous tongue, under stood by no one, can be accounted for: but the real miracle is, that men of education, that members of the Scottish bar, and ministers of the Scottish Church-— should be found among the believers. Their number exceeds two thousand, and it is still increasing, f Abridged from an Edinburgh paper.] ° The Great Eclipse oj 1831.—The eclipse, which will happen on the 12lh of February, will be one of the most remarkable that will a- gain be witnessed in the United States for a long course of years The apparent diameter of the sun will be 32 1 2 minutes of a degree; that of the moon 31 1-2. Of course tbe e- clipse will be annular; that is, in all places where the sun will be centrally eclipsed, at the moment of greatest obscuration, it will exhibit tbe appealanfie of a beautiful luminous ring around the moon. Eclipses ot this kind are of less frequent occurrence than those which are total. The centre of the eclipse will first touch the earth's disk in the great Pacific Ocean, on the morning of February 12th, in latitude 31 degrees 55 minutes N and longitude 140 de grees 3 minutes west from Greenwich. At this point the sun will rise centrally eclipsed, at 34 minutes past 6 o’clock, or at 3 boors 54 minutes P. M. apparent time at Greenwich-— Thence proceeding by a gentle curve to the South and Easi; in 16 minutes it will enter up on the coast of California, in Latitude 27 de grees 30 minutes N. Thence carving north wardly, 47 minutes more, it will enter the U. States near the S. W. corner of Louisian.:, and in six minutes will cross the Mississippi, near St. Francisville. Passing through the States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, in 27 minutes more it will arrive at a print in Pen dleton county, South Carolina, in Latitude 34 degrees 37 minutes N. Longitude 82 degrees 28 minutes W. where the sun will central e- clipsed on the meridian. Thence passing over North Carolina into Virginia, in 14 mmufes i will cross Jame’s River, near Richmond; jrui continuing in nearly a direct line, in 8 minute* will leave the Jersey shore at Little Egg Har bour, passing a few miles east of AlontauK Point; in 8 minutes it will leave the shore ci Cape Cod at Wcllfleet, and in 6 minutes will enter upon South Western extremity of Nuva Scotia. Thence passing over the Island of Newfoundland, and increasing in velocity as it approaches the verge of the earth, in 19 min utes more it will leave its disk in- Latitude 57 degrees, 28 degrees, 10 minutes,. W. at which point the sun will set centrally eclipsed at 4h. 30m. or 6h. 25m. Greenwhich time. The eclipse will have been 2h. 31m. in cros sing the earth’s disk, and about one hour trom its entrance to the time of its leaving the Unit ed States. A line drawn through the abovo points on a map of North America, will pass through all those places where the eclipse is Two othey litres oii qtch side of the