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Sign to a young man, who, proudly de
lighted to go its such ao equippage,
started off with the Countess *l, M
She drove to the Doctor’s door. She
whispered the doctor, this is iny son.
I leave him wiih you. To the yeuog
man she said, toy husband is in his
study* Walk in. lie will pay you.
The young man went in. The coun
tess and the carnage went off, at first
slow and noiseless, soon after the hor
ses galloped.
Ah, well yotmg man, said the phy
sician, you, understand the business 1
suppose. Let us see. How do you
feel. What is going on in this young
head? What passes in my head, sir’
nothing, except settling for the set of
diamonds. We understand all that,
■said Ihe doctor, gently pushing aside
the bill, 1 know, 1 know. If the gen
tleman knows the amount, no more re
mains but to pay the cash. Indeed!
indeed! becalm. Where did you get
your diamonds? What his become oi
them? Ssy as much as you will; I
will listen patiently.’ ‘The business
is to pay me, sir, ninety thousand
francs.’—‘Wherefore?* ‘How! where i
fore-?’ said the young man, wlios
eyes began to glisten. ‘Yes, win
should I pay yon?’ Because Madame.
the Connies i. has iust nnrehaaed the
-niamonns at our house. •Good! then
we have you. Who is the Countess?’
♦Your wife’—a.d ho presented th;
bill. ‘lfut, young man* lio you lino*
that I have tin* honor to be a pin*
nan, and a widower?* Here the youn
man became transported; ami the !>-■
•tor called his domestics, & bade them
*\ze him hy the hands and fet, which
raised the transport of the young man
to fury. —He cried ‘theft ! murder!
Wilful mnrd-‘r!* But at the end of a
t>e rter of an hour he calmed down,
explained every thing soberly, and a
fen hie light began to dawn upon the
Doctor. Notwithstanding all tliej
search that could he made, this singu
lar theft, so witty, so original, from
the scene which took place between
the physician and the young man,
was never punished. The intrigante
had taken good care to conceal every
trace off erself. The driver and lac
qurys were her accomplices. The
carrirge was hired; and this history
remains a monument iu the memoirs
of jewellers.
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One man sucks an orange and is choa
ked by a pip, another swallows a penknife
and lives; one runs a thorn into his hand
and no skill can save him, another has
the shaft of a gig passed completely
through his body and recovers; one is
overturned on a smooth common and
break his neck, another is tassed out of a
g> over Brigton cliff and survives; one
walks out a windy day and meets death
in a brickbat, and another is blown up in
the air, like lord Hatton in Gurenscy
castle, and comes down uninjured. The
escape of this nobleman was indeed a
miracle. An explosion of gunpowder,
which killed his mother, wife, some of
■his children, and many other persons
and blew up the whole fabric of the castle,
lodged him in his bed on a wall over
hanging a trenr.endious precipice. ‘Per
ceiving a mighty, disorder, (as well he
might,) he was going to step out of his
b*d to know what the matter was, which,
if he had done he had been irrecoverably
lost; but in the instant of his moving, a
flash of lightning came and showed him
the precipice, whereupon he lay still till
.people came and took hun down.
A fellow shad make a fortune by tos
sing a straw from his toe to his nose; one
is found in partuular has found in eating
fire is the most ready way to live; and
another who jingles several bells fixed
to his cap, is the only man that I know of
who has received eaiolument from the la
boura of his head. A young author, a man
of good nature and learning, was com
plaining to me some nights ago of this
misplaced generosity of the times.—
Here, says he, have I spent the greater
part of my youth in attempting to instruct
and amuse my fellow beings, and all my
reward has been solitude, poverty and
reproach; while a fedow possessed of
v n the smallest share of fiddling merit,
or who perhaps learned to whistle double,
II rwarded, applauded, and caress
od. Prythee, young man, say alto him
fare you ignorant that in so large a city a§!
this, it is better to be an amusing than an
useful member of society?*?Can you leap
up aud touch your feet four times before j
you come to the ground? No sir. Can j
you stand upon foil#, horses at full speed?
No, sir. *an you fallow a penknife?
No Sir; I can do none, of these tricks
Why then, cried I, there is no other
prudent means of snbsistance left, but to
apprise the town that you speedily intend
to eat up your own nose by subscription.
('citizen of the WitrUL__
GARRET VON* OCT. 17, 1h29
I’he returns ot- the General Election
have not fully cmne in. There is not the
smallest doubt that Gf.okoe ft Gilmer
is elected Governor by a very large ma
jority; and that Henry G. Lamar iselec
,ed Representative to Congress to supply
(he vacancy occasioned by Mr. Gilmer -
re*ignation. In our next, we hope to tn
•ble to give a full state<ef*fh*i poll of these
elections; and a complete list of the ifierii
ieis of the ensuing General Assembly.
SENATOR IN CONGRESS.
A simultaneous, if not a preconcerted
movement, in relation to a successor ob
John M. Berrien, has been made in th*
ignsia t hronicle, the Statesman & P<
shed oh the 10th insf.
A writer over the signature, of Tai.boi
ii the Chronicle, -ays
♦'ll is generally understood throug
-0 tlt* State, that Mr. Forsyth w
<ave opposition, at the apjiroucbin
4Hon of tho Legislature, for Judg
Berrie t’ < ‘ey in the Senate of ti
Fnited States. Opposition seems to bt
called for; and allow me therefore t
suggest the names of Col. Tattnall,
Eli S. Shorter. Esq. Judge Clayton*
or Seaborn Jones, Esq. as men of
great .talents anti worth. Either ot
those gentlemen possess talents tha*
could not be disparaged by a compar
iaon with Mr. Forsyth's; and either
would ably represent the State in the
Senate of the United States.”
Now with all due deference fur Uncle
N it , we beg permission tmplace his asser
tions in the doubtful genitr. That the
gentlemen he mentions * l possess talent*”
in their way we heartilv agree—but that
either of them could be the compeer of
Johm Forstth could certainly never en
ter the cranium of any, the most prejudic
ed, not disposed to ask - . •,
‘ Why Jove‘9 satellites are less than Jove.*
The Editors of the Statesman and Te
legraph take advantage of no masked bat
tery—they come out in propria persona.
The Statesman says
“The first efforts at an organized
opposition to the Executive Govern
ment will be seen at the next election
for Senate of the United States, and
for State House officers. The pledges
given by several of the new members
to support Mr, Forsyth against all
and every opponent, will not suffice.
The Unionists will say who shall fill
the high places of their trust ”
Is thi* the trump of 11825, sounding the
shril blast of proscription; nr is it one
announcing • jubilee—ushering in a
political millennium? The term Un
ionist sounds like the latter—but the ex
pressions organized opposition to the
Executive Government , in reference to
the election for Senator and State House
Officers, smaks of the former. Who are
The Unionists? Mr. GiLMEn himself has
publicly denied all combination and com
promise. Erskiv, who appears to be the
prime minister of the nominors of that
gentlemen for the Executive Chair, has
notified the new friends of Mr. Gilmer.
that they will be expected to keep at a
respectful distance, at least. Who then
can The Unionists be? Can it be that the
Martyrs of IBgs, who have had a politi
cal resurrection, have become one- in
heart with their immolators? It cannot be
—this would “ out Herod, Herod” Hen
ry Clay’s combination with John Q,
Adams would be vestal purity, when com
pared with such a Union. Who .tfceD can
The Unionists of the’ Statesman be, but
Reckless Ambitionists, Office Seekers and
Treasury Leaches? From all such Union
ists, spirit of unsophisticated Patriotism,
deliver the. State!
And now let us bear this Telegraph
l *‘With respect to the character of
the approaching Legislature, it is
evident, that an overwhelming ma
ijority will be friendly to Mr. Gilmer;
i and that the old parlies of Clark ana
| Troup will be nearly equally balanced.
We trust however, that no question
will arise m which it will be necessary
to recur to old party distinctions, ex
cept it be in the election of Senator
to congress. We do uot know who
besides Gov. Forsyth, will be candid
ates for that office; but we ventun
to predict, that that gentleman will
not be elected.”
How complacent all this— no recur
rence to old party disunct ons—O no—not
a word abo 11 he Old dp New Treaty , not
a wotd about State Rights or Troup , the
Traitor , &c. &c. to ilie end ol the ckarptn
of the wrongs of Georgia — except it he
in the election of Senator to Congress
When the Ethiopean changes his km oi
the Leopard his spots, then will the
Clarkitcs, and the co-adjutois of the iac
key9 ol John Q Adams, (Gains, Crovveh,
Andrews, Cos ) forgive JOHN FOK.*
Y I’H for being “ always ready” to vin
dicate lilt; rights of Georgia.
How finely do these three harmonize—
ai! on the same key, though fifty miles as
under—and nicely chime iu full choru*—
.vvn with Forsyth AH tins, however,
natural enougn, when we recollect they
• e all Fullers of the Old Cl4< k .School
iat draw the Bow, Gentlemen “ lay not
e rtattei.ng urction to your Hum,”— the
i.ace *l I he People will t>e heard in
ip. tune, through thrir Representative*,:
>i strains over powering, chanting ho&Jr
ud promotion to the Statesman wh&.&is
always ready ” to assert ‘.he wrongs and
vindicate the rights of Georgia.
For the CABINET,
Mr. Robinson ,
When travelling across the country,
last Summer, not a hundred miles dis
ant, on a visit to some friends resid
ing on the borders of that settlement
which takes its name from Sir James
Wright, one of the ‘Colonial Gover
nors of Georgia, *nd where may yet
he found some of the substantial log
nooses, built some sixty years .-idee,,
with windows calculated alike for tue
admission us light and loop holes of
defence, while the slender population
of the whites \v.;B in coustant danger
from their red neighbors—l came to a
pathway slightly traced with wheel
marks, and having pursued it for
some halt mile or mile, came to a spot
rude and wild as the loneliest corner
of the Iron ties of Georgia,
The hand of m,.n seemed not to
have broken the uniformity of the for
i ©Bl, nor Ins foot to have marked it with
its tread, until two or three sequester
ed lodges burst upon my view. Jour
neying weariedly along, 1 soon reach
■ed the nearest, whiih 1 found occupi
ed as a Summer retreat, and finding
its inmates were some of the friends i
was seeking, 1 immediately enquired,
.lor the Fort, as the rude pallisadea &.
blockhouses of the ufdeu time were
called. Ihe lady 1 accosted, who had
never heard the war who* p or deemed
herself in danger of the tomahawk or
sc a I ping knife, answered my enquiry
with the astonished response of “what’
Fort sir? ’ Having satisfied her by re
feriug to the desolate wildness of the
scene, I alighted and shared tne true
hearted hospitality of the backwoods
for the night. So strong was the im
pression made upon my mind, by find
ing on the border of one of the oldest
settlements iu middle Georgia, a scene
so wild and unbroken by ihe hand of
civilization, that I was easily prevail
ed on to spend a day or two with my
hospitable hosts—nor was I aware,
until further enquiry, that there was
so much at hand to excite my curiosi
ty. The lodges just mentioned, are
situated un a slope which breaks off
abruptly near them, and following the
declivity, leads rapidly to a brook of
unusual character in this quarter of
the country. The w ? ater, dear as the
mountain stream, passes alternately
oyer irregular beds Ac broken masses
of rock of that kind, which is l be
lieve called by geologists Feld Spar,
after passing gently in its course of
j SODa ® distance, it is crossed by a mass
of rock of the sa#e character, anfi
tu mules over a fall of some eight or ten
feet, into an irregular stone basin ( >f
equal depth with tine,fall ad then gp ?1 _
ily ripples away. The stream junt
mentioned may be some ten feet a*
cross, at ordinary water, and the cir.
□ inference of the ba);iir is probably
uot less than sixty. O.u either side of
the brook, the ground breaks pff into
rude, irregular and abrupt ailmties
probably reaching, within a few hun.
deed yards, tl:c height of one hundred,
or an hundred and filly feet: Covered,
particularly near the summit, with &
mass of rough Feld Spar of various
sizes. What increases the interest of
this region, there are to be found, at
the distance of some mile or two
miles oQeucli .other, 1 u ge i ircular eo!-' f
lei tions *hf stone, hearing no resem
bUnCi* to any of the works of eivili
ed man on this continent; and equally
unlike what is said if Druidicai mo
nomer] sos the oid. Tin sc are evG
dently the work of a former age and a
different rsce—Vnd what race is the
natural er.qeir;.? The r.dde and bar
barous one \vni-;h the white man hag
supplanted, would semi to be the an
swer.
ff we ask where is this race, may
not e< ho answer— vcher* L
“ Like the dew on the mountain,
L-ke the <roam on ihe river,
Like tli?, ijuoble on The Fountaiv,
T G'p'tie *rd forever.”
V iMr .n-r r liiesrfir e ground late*
‘3 < found the path fisst mentioned
‘■Fad been worn jmo surprising smooth
n**ss, and us 3 hr and the lodge*
of my friends, that lb hand of lahof
hid busy v*oth .the forest; The
tree tons, embrowned with the suns of
summer *.d autumn, scattered
in every direction. O reaching the
suHi'Rii oi the hill, on the slope ot
which the summer mw fs Sure situat
ed, anew scene opened h fore me. A
plat of ground,*laid on* in regular
lines, had been nearly enclosed with
lodges not altogether unlike those
first mentioned—near tl r centre was
an extensive arbor. w y l i ( fi bad evi
dently beer* erected for the temporary
protaclibn of a large congregation.
To the eyeuf one long acquainted
with the interior of fit t.rgia, it was
manifest thaf these prep ration* had
been made for that enjoyment, the
birth right of every one in this favor
ed land, of God according
to the dictates of his own consciences
I involuntarily ex< (aimed-*-hero in*
deed may every man sit under hi*
vine and fig tree—and here, where the
CHtinibai roasted his vi- tim and tho
savage performed his hellish rites in
days long past, Ins ihe penit* nt pour
ed out his prayer, and songs of praise
and adoration ascended o the living
and time God. IBZOF'T.
(communicated.)
GEORGIA ASSOCIATION.
This Association closed on Monday
evening last at Sardis, Wilke* (younty.
The number cf preachers was piy.bably
greater than usual, and the congregation
equally as large. The ample provision
made by the neighborhood for the accom
modation ot those who attended from a
distance,deserves the highe.-t praise. To
those who are not accustomed to attend
Meetings of this kind, it would seem that
so tna.iy people could not got acc.ommoda ,
tion in one neighborhood; but wheiv.3oor
40, aud even 70 or 80 persons lodge ’at al
most each .house, the difficulty not
Bogr-at. Probably in the vicinity of the’
Church there were at least a dozen- ser'-*
mons preached every night.
The number added to the church by
Baptism since the last association.
about 720. There are about forty church
es in this association. There are 2c>
Sunday Schools, and more'than UOGOytu
dents. Several flourishing Temperjpee
Societies exist, and are doing much g °‘l
by their counteracting influence.
To the friends of literature and scierv:?,
and to in tel ligejjt Baptists art least, it must
be gratifying to learn, that great and la. •
dable exertions were made to tel eve’t n
Columbian College from its emb 1
and sinking state. Three thousand i
lars were subscribed by the delegates f
the Churches principally. More th> \
8600 dollar# were also subscribed to tin