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#vas in the yafrd with the little children.—'’
No one was in the inoidqjof the house ei*
cent the little boy who asked the ques
tion#. The reasons why he wa9 |>ut
time to ask questions was, because for
some time it hud ceased to speak to any
but the children. There were also in the
hen, about twenty paces distant, a ne-
and an uliot girl, spinning
end weaving, who could not have heard
what passed in the house. The two old
er sons were absent, at work in the farm.
Mr. 8 and Mr II alter the conversation
ended, examined the house and found no
thing. Doling the time of the conversa
tion it was asked to sing a song—it said
it did not know any Mr. 11. wmsiled a
SB red tune, but it said that would‘nt do.
It tin n whistled Yankee Doodle very (iis
ti nelly.
XX hen Mr. 11. first heard of the circum
stance he very natorally was led to sus
pect that it proceeded from someone in
the neighborhood, or family, who possess
ed the art of ventriloquism* Hut against
that niiinton lie the following objections,
viz: Ist. It is certain that it is no one,
not of the family, as no such person ha.
been seen theie ahoiits at the times whe.
it was heard, and no person could Ue
there always without being seen especial
ly in the day time, i’ll Mr Burnett an.
wife, whose word will he taken, by a I
who know them, state that no one individ
ual of the family who could possibly In
suspected ol such a thing is always pre*.
ent at such times. I hey slate positively
it has been heard when the negro womu
(the on servant about the house) was n
the fiehi at wp'k. 1 1. has been hea •<
when tin* two (liter Mins, who are rh ail
grown, were ab.-en', as was the fact whe
Mr. 11. heard it. It has been heard'whe .
all the other children were at school, e.\
cept the two yonYigest one of which n
about three years old the oilier an infant
The idiot gnl has not the intellig mu
which this irivisd le being manifests, ac
cording to the testimony of ail who have
heard it. Furthermore, even supposing
any of the children possessed this faculty,
and had the disposition to cany on m.
deception, lor so long a time, to the e\i
dent disquietude and distress ol the fami
ly, is it a rational supposition, (fiat tin*
c< uhi be done Without being suspected In
the parents/ Or would not the individu
al lie disposed to try its pranks at school,
cr an ong other children to f ighten them,
a< well as at home? “There is anothei
cin umstance which contradicts this sup
po-itinn. About two months ago, Mr B.
ai the suggestion of someone, put a'Testa
ment in the place whence the voice ap
poured to proceed If instantly left the
place, came down into the house, and
s :, id it was going away. They a.-ke
wiy it was going away. It replied, it wu
obliged to go, it could stay there no lon
ger,and bade them farewell. It wasth n
absent about two weeks, during which tun
it was heard at Mr. lingers’, Mr. Dicks’,
and Mr. Nickoll's, in the same neighbor
hood, as they believe. ‘They had heard
it at Mr. Burner's and believed it to be
the same* but did not converse with it.
V ben it returned, it was a-ked and said it
had been to those places. None of Mr.
Burnett's family were at those places,
when it was heard. Since its return it has
occupied no particular part of the house,
but is heard in various parts. It is now
seldom heard, as Mr. B. does not allow
the children to talk to if—they do not pay
much attention to it These are the most
material circumstances connected with
this strange affair, for the confirmation of
which, and lor further information, the
public is referred to Mr. J. Shepherd,
Dr. E. Andrews,and Mr. G. Slappy, who
Jive in the neighborhood and who have
all heard it.—Mr. Burnett lives about 12
miles below Cambridge, and about 3 miles
west ot the road leading to Hamburgh,
near Mr. Wiley Berry's.
INFLUENCE OF B AD COMPANIONS.
Another unhappy cause of failure in
moral education, too common to be passed
over in silence, is the influence of bad
companions. 1 here refer to lhe compan
ions ot childhood . 1 hrnugh their urliap
py agency, your best instructions and
most assidious efforts may be entirly de
feated. Guard your dear children, to
every practical extent, against such perni
cious influence. He needs but a few as
sociates out of your own family—choose
those tor him—and il you cannot make
him worthy ol such as are good, it were
better then that he should have none.
No parent o'l&hi ever to b( ignorant where
ami with u-so m is child spends his hours
ol recreation, uuless he wishes to educate
him for perdition. It is task enough to!<
train up a child in the way of life, without <
having him otten encompassed with a <
thi ong, whose example and entire mllu- 1
ence is calculated to entice him from duty, i
and hurry him down the broad road ot i
distruction. Strive to make home pleas
ant to your children. l)o not needlessly
interrupt or discourage their innocent a
musements; but strive to raise their
minds above undue attachment to them,
by exciting a taste for books, and furnish
ing them with such as are roost interest
ing and tno-t instructive, and wisely ad
apted to their age and attainments. No
person can imagine how much may be
done in this way, till he has made a
thorough trial. The difference in effect
upon the mind and heart, between spend
ing an evening in perusing an interesting
book, and spending it with not
to say wicked associates in lolly, and in
vain, perhaps corrupting conversation, re
■iiispeak Id v great. — bin step.
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MKL X \t HOLY ACT IDEM'.
On Xlondav last, n**ar this place, a*; a
Mr. Bowel and his brother Johnson, a In*:!
about 11 years ol age, and sorts of Mr.
Johnson Bowel, of Henry county, wen
• eturnihg fib*fi August i in company with
•overal waggon-. ao unfortunate accident
occurred. Tfie little boy Johnson, in at
tempting to got in one ol the waggons th i’
oas very heavy loaded, fell uT n r the
lore wheel which passed over Ids breast,
—He was brought to town and medical
i im ■, and ately obtained, but. to no pur
pose—he expired in a lew hours.
I- • the CABINET.
(ILIP'-E 7 IL
BOOK OF DAD SIGNS.
Tt is a bud sign to see ar o ! gr\lva(!-1
ed old father busily ern;>!oved m labor at
home, while his sons are out on a /'.v!
hunting party, or riding from place to S
place in their flne'Mottles.’ It is a -ijgn ‘
that when lie shall have gone to !,is longi
home, his honest earnings will soon Uke
wings and ffy away.
It k-> a bud sign to see a professor of re
ligion, walking in the counsel id the un
godly, s anding in the way o! sinners, arid
sitting in the seat of the scornful, em-i
ployed in ‘foolish talking and jesting,’
which are not convenient.’ [Kph. 5. -4. | i
It is a bad sign *lllOll a young man
leaves a community £to find that nobody
laments his removal.
Il is a bad sign Ur see a young lady
talking and laughing in the house of
prayer—surely she has been poorly raised,
and don’t know where she is. If she has
kept good company she has not profited
V it. versa.
It is a bad sign for a man to fail pay
ing his debts punctually—\VJvt i the
matter? is it because others will not l>o
punctual? If so, pay your debts, evehy
boi>y, and let us all start even again.
/( is a bad sign when a man swears to
almost every thing he say! 4 . It is a sign
he is fearful people will flunk lie tells lies j
unless he usps strong language.*
It is a bad sgn, young lathes, when you j
can catch the fumes of ‘gin’ from your
beau, as von trip along by his side.
I It is a bad sign to see a candidate!
drunk. It is a sign he will not be elect
ed, by sober men at least.
It is a bhd sign to see a member of a
church withdraw himself from his breth
ren. It is a sign there is something the
matter. I’robably he has an idea of go
ing to heaven another way,
It is a bad sign to see aft individual pul
ling down another person's reputation to
build bis own. He is a poor man who
has not ground to build on.
BAK-SAMUEL.
For the CABINET.
LEISURE HOURS.
No. I.
TRAVELS AT HOME.
During a short excursion through the
western section of the state, I stopped
for a few days at the far famed village of
known as the great Emporium for
Commerce, Wealth and Beauty, on the
west of the Ocmulgee. “The local itua
tion of this town, its commercial advanta
ges and increasing population (in this re
spect unparallelled in the southern coun
try) render it ol considerable importance
to a large ua.t, ol the most fertile part
of Georgia, just emerging from a wil
derness where but lately ttie savage roam
ed in uncontrolled freedom. Aheyoy w* see
the forest bow before the axe id the hardy
woodman, and'Temples ot religious m
---ship occupy the site of the wigw am w here
the horrid orgies of savage baiLaiityb ui
lately resounded through the loiesl.
Already are the pleasures and en
joyments of refined society highly culti
vated in this little town. Uibauity and
hospitality pervade the ini a lilants in
their intercourse with strilngeis .it.d it is
but doing them an act of justice to sa>,
1 have no where int;t a mote cordial ie
eeption than during mv \isit here.
Among several early acquaintances 1
found here, was my former sebum himw,
and bosom friend Duct. M—— lhlough
whose : p. 1: e attention, I soon became ac
quainted with some < I the nre-t oireiu
guished citizens el the village, aid had
been introduced to irevi rai unrig buiii s
seme residents and o;heis visit Vats Ut the
place, among (he number weie two 01
three temmkabk* for beauty, wit, and
gruied accomplishments. Mn u verv
■leusiuit evening ore It tend called to let
me know that he bad mallo arrangements
with several *>( the ladies, lor a walk to
the inound, in this mi indy and lequcsted
my attendance, to which 1 cheeifuily as
ended, < ’idling <Ol the ladies., m , Fiend
led tHe wav ane.-s the bridge thrown
over the liver at, tin.- place, ai.-u | i.rsufcd
a winding pathway <1 .• n Us banks. Nev
er imve t i tm ssoti a i.ner tveoiiq i?-. our
,* :| ial cSii ade—nature was robed in the
mi ivalkci splendor ol tho seasc it —the
fragrant lu.udeun ovcrs-hu-ds.g our
pat'll was adorn and 1 itii the la.i ;! tnaotn
<d rich gM-eii. .!'!<: and ckM v; i> \slule
blooming flowers, the sweetest treasure
of the forest—the river running near us,
:n placid ser.•.,y , its tiaiii,ovcrshailed
uiti beacli, \-. \U\- ook and tiape with
other vines, rendered the scene truly ani
mating and interesting. A winding path
! soon led us from l.te river—the little
igurgling brooks over which we passed,
! were shaded with the alder anti gum in
i fei twining their blanches so as to cum el v
; exclude the rays ol the sun, beneath
‘which grew wot* r lillr sand many other
{lowers of peculiar beauty.
Alter an agreeable walk of probably
hall a mile from the river, we reached the
first mound, standing on a level plain,
covore . with pine and oak and a thick
| undergrowth of shrubbery. “l itis plain
I was evidently once cultivated. The
| trees are much smaller than the usual
! growth of the forest in the vicinity—the
■ hawthorn is frequently found standing in
i regular rows, aonareutly intended for
| hedges, or planted for some ornamental
purpose—tl* soil is much more light and
I fee than is usual in lands where the hand
of cultivation has never appeared, readily
j yielding to the pressing looDteps. XX e
ascended the mound by a pathway wind
ing half round its sides, it 1* a mass ul
earth a work of art, about one
hundred and fifty yards in circumference,
at its base; eighty or ao hundred at the
(op and rai-ed forty or fifty feet in height
with an area on the top perfectly level,
shaded with forest trees of large size, a
round the edges of which the hawthorn
grows in flourishing abundance—a small
paling, ten or twelve feet -qunre, in the
centre of the urea, encloses two graves,
where, tissaid, are buried two brothers,
officers once attached to the military es
tablishment at Fort ******* a kou? half a
mile distant—no monumental marble un
folds to the stranger tin ir names, lire |
time, circumstance or manner of then
death —a rude grey stone at either end
mark the extent of the graves, and per
haps even in tradition, will be lost, tin
story of those tvLo doubtless were one*
the pride of msnv fond friends and the
sharers of their country’s glory.
After preparing a rude scat ibr our fair
companions to recover from the fatigue of
ascending the steep acclivity, the Doctor
and tnysell examined the palings covered
with the names of many visitants traced
in the wood with knife or pencil, we ad
ded the names of our company, to the
number of votaries at this romantic sanc
tuary of the dead—on one of the paiimgs!
but very recently cut, appeared tire names \
of two young ladies, sisters, one but lafelv
married and the other yet single; near,
and apparently in .-illusion to them, I
found these lines plainly written with a
1 pencil—
The names engraven on this tomb,
Effacing time will soon decay,
And like die summer roses bloom,
1 he fair engavers pass away.
Thou tender wife—thou virtuous miad,
I In all tire charms of beauty drest,
Thy charms they soon c.Him must fade,
‘J by spu its i.y to htavei ly 1 ts(.
This little mound,dui ing the springm -J
summer, w hen nature is robed m Ik r
richest gaib, is one of the most ret ired and
! beautiful spots l have ever seen—the
jscoiching lays of (he sun are entirely ex
; eluded by the thick foliage of the luge
• forest trees overehi.dowing it. Aher
! spending tm l.*i( hour or more 111 ex-mitre
I ing this mound, we walked to another a
! bout a quarter ot a mile distant, this ig
the principal one in the vicinity, and is
probably three hundred yards in cucum-
IkreiH.eat its base; sixty cr sevent feet
in height, and contains on the top an are a
of about one fouitli of an acre covered
with young pines oi seven or eight years
giowtii, affording a refreshing shade to
visitants in a warm summer evening; i£
was once cultivaied as a flower garden by
an officer in command at the fort, as far
’ back as the year 1817 or 18, the furm
ct the beds, arbors, walks, Lc. are stiil
plainly to be seen, and seem to have been
decorated with much taste and elegance.
i 0 v iiat nation hr people, or foi what
purpose these great woiksof art are to
be attiibuteii, is now only a matter of
conjecture, they torm a connecting link
of a chain oi mounds, of similar construc
tion, reaching across the country, from
the sea coast to T ennessee; 110 history or
tradition can be found relative to them,
that they are a work ol art 19 apparent
from their cousti uction and situation, nor
can it be supposed they originated with
the aboi igmes of the country, unless we
had mere satisfactory information that
this barbarous people, are the degenerate
iiecendants of a more cultivated race.
After satisfactorily examining this de
lightful scenery, we returned to the
village where 1 am engaged for an even
ing party, which uuli account for (lie bre
vity of this communication. T here ate
said to be several other mounds in (Ins
neighborhood, vvhi h I shall visit as early
as l have an opportunity, and will com
municate the result of my observation at
an eai !y pei iod.
EUGENIO.
LEG.EL DECISION.
Tits subjoined decision, by Irs honor
Judge Clayton, upon a rule brought be*
foie him at the last term of ILbershatn
Court, we insert for the special informa
tion of Sheriffs, Bruners, and other con
ed lied';
E. H. Buruitt,
vs.
I’ke Sheriff.
I his wasain An n for the SlierilT to
shew cause why he did not ay over to the
plaintiff* in the rule, certain ml verbs ing
b e* which had been collected by virtue of
executions in sundry
ment and consultation with the Judge of
(he Ocmulgee Circuit, the court deter
mines that the above rule must be dis.
charged, and (he party pbmtiffTeft to hi*
remedy at law; because the claim of trie
pianuii was the subject matter of, and
accrued by virtue of contract, and (he
niixle of collecting such claims, at the
time of the cohtract, must regulate and
govern it. and all new constructions of
law ought to operate prospectively.
But the Court has been informed, and is
satisfied of the fact, that a practice pre.
i vails among some Sheriffs, in (he Circuit,
to exalt of I refer dents, by virtue of Exe
cutions placed in their hands, a larger a
! mount for advertising fees than they acta
•ally pay to the Printers —l’his course is
i illegal and grossly improper, and in future,
from and after the promulgation of this
re u!e, Sheriffs are *iii e;tid to require from
defendants no more than the fair and reg*
ill! r charges of adveitising their levies,
which inu-t be returned to Court with
’ the executions raising the same that the
( ourt may judge of the reasonableness
thereof, and have the same paid over to
whom it rightfully belongs, and in failure
thereof Snenffs will be subject to a rule as
iu other cases of costs.-— Athenian.
New-York, July 1.
The weather continues remarkably
!c*.l for the season. At 12 o'clock to-davy
tl e Mt icuiy at Lynch and Cltirk’s stood
Ino higher than C 5, and this is probably
tbe max is 11 mi lor the last fortnight. We
: learn In to tire* neighboring farmers, that
great a; prehensions are entertained lest
The maize crop should he destroyed
,'i hoie was fiostat Barelo ; ,a I -t week and
a few flakts ot same b* vui.u tire i’a.Jisa
cloes;.
Rule Ni-i
In Ilabershana
Superior Court,
April Term,
1829