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The Western Herald. VOL. I. PUBLISHED -EVERY TUESDAY MORNING BY O, P. ShaVV, AND Edited by A. G. FAMBiIJUGH. Terms. —Three dollars per annum, payable within six’ months after the receipt of the first number, or four dol lars if not paid within the year. Subscribers living out of the state, will be expected m alleases, to pay in advance. No subscription received for less loan one year, unless the money is paid in advance; and no paper will be dis continued until all arrearages are paid, except at the op tion of the publisher. Persons requesting a discontinu ance of their Papers, are requested to bear in mind, a set tlement of their accounts. Advbrtisements wilMic inserted at the usual rates. \CJ a All Letters to tho Editor or Proprietor, on mat ters connected with the establishment, must be post paid in order to secure attention. IQS Notice of the sale of Land and Negroes, by Ad ministrators, Executors, or Guardians, must be published sixty days previous to the day of sale. The sale of personal Property, in like manner, must bo published forty dats previous to the day of sale. Notice to debtors and creditors of an estate must be published forty days. Notice that Application will bo made to the Court of Ordinary for Leave to sell Land or Negroes,must be pub lished FOUR MONTHS. Notice that Application will be made for Letters of Ad ministration, must be published thirty days and for Letters of Dismission, six months. PBOSPSSS'iJS Oi. a iIE riTlii first Number of which is this day published, M. and will be continued weekly, at Auraria, Lump kin county, Georgia. The recent settlement and rapid lmpioveingnt ot tins highly interesting section of Georgia, is deemed a suffi cient apology in the estimation of the Proprietor and Edif >r of this paper, for establishing an additional source o iritcllfoence to the one already in operation, in that part of the State, known as the Cherokee country. The arrange ment first entered into by the Proprietor, the annuncia tion of which, has been, given, is now totally abandoned, and tlie undersigned has taken upon himself the respon sibility of managing theeditorial department oftlie Wes tern Herald. . . . , In entering upon the discharge of the important duties incumbent on him in that capacity, he is only consoled with the reflection, that his feelings are well understood by all those who have gone before him, beating their way through the labarynths of political life. In the assump tion oTtliis responsibility, he is conscious of the difliculties which await him at the threshhold of his career, and the impossibility of administering successfully to the various wants and inclinations of the great mass of those, who may from time to time, look to tins harbmgcr, lor pleas ing intelligence of tho passing times. In his labours, “ not a particle ot malice shall intest a comma of the course he holds,” and “the truth, the w hole l ruth, and nothing but tho truth,” shall adorn lus course, Andlfolit Ids way through the dismal vale in which he may be destined to wander in bis present pursuit. Ihe ilerald i? intended to convoy the usual newspaper m trilfocnee, together with such other imormuiioiirelation to tlTe mining operations in this, and the surrounding country, as the Editor may bo able to gather from sour ces thatcan be relied on, and such literary original cs says as his time and talent may enable him to furnish. ■rhe space of the paper set apart for political matters will be devoted to the advancement of the doctrines in culcated in the Jeffersonian school, and cherished in Georgia in 1825, by vvliat was then known here as (ho Troup part)’. Looking alone to the object of the forma tion of the Government, he will not be unmindful ol the exercise of its constitutional rights; nor can he be blind to the rights of the respective states, those reserved rights upon the preservation of which, the present government must be continued and the liberties ol the people so 03 sentially depend. . . c The Western Herald will contain a regular synopsis oi all the Sherifl'Sales in the Cherokee Circuit, which may be advertisedin other papers. The price of the Herald to subscribers, will be three Dollars in advance, or Four Dollars,at the expiration ot foe vear. Advertisements inserted, and Job work done at customary prices. No paper will be sent out oftlie state unless the subscription is paid in advance. All communications to the tidilor or Publisher, must cme free of postage to ensure attention. The undersigned will continue to practice Law in the Cherokee and Western Circuits. His Office is in Aura ria, Lumpkm county, G FAMBROUGH. the Prospectus of the Herald of •die Gold Region, will confer a favor by giving the above a few insertions. ... SCpThc following named gentleman are requested and authorised to act as our Agents, in their respective counties. „ ~ In the county of Baldwin, Thos. F. G reene, Esq. Bibb, TheHon.C.B. Strong. Bulls, L. A. Erwin, Esq. Columbia, L. Flemming, Esq. Crawford , Hiram Warner, Esq. Coweta, James A. Abraham, Eso. Campbell, Thomas A. Latham, Esq. Carroll, Thomas McGuire,and John A. Jones, Esqs. Chatham, John Boston, & Cos. M. H. McAllister, Esq. Clark, Col. Joseph Ligon, and O. P. Miaw, Cass, Thomas \V. Bolton and John Dawson, Esqrs. Cobb, J. R. Brooks, Esa. Cherokee, John P. Brooks, Esq. JkKalb, William T. Howard,and Josiah Clioice,Esqrs. Decatur, James Bell, Esq. Fayette, N. Blanchard, Esq. Franklin, Col. James C. Icrrcll. lltad of Coosa, Geo. M. Lavender, Esq. Floyd, Alexander TANARUS, Harper, Esq. Forsyth, Thomas J. Golightly, Esq. Gilmer, Benjamin .T. Grifhtli, Esq. Glynn, Col. S. M. Burnett, Gwinnett, Dr. T. W. Alexander, - Greene, Col. Y. P. King, and F. S. ConeJ.sq. Habersham, Maj. T. H. Trippe, and Col. r. J. Rusk, Hall, W. Harben, and J. \V, Jones, Esqrs. Henry, William Crayton, Esq. Hanis, Gen. Daniel McDougald. Hancock, Col. N. C. Sayre, Heard, Col. Wm. H. Houghton. Jackson, W. E. Jones, Esq. Jasper, E. Y. Hill, Esq, Laurens, Col.-Kcllum. Liberty, C. Hines, Esq. Lee, Maj. Thomas. Mclntosh, Col. D. H. Erailsfora. Morgan, W. J. Pearman, Esq. Madison, William Maroney. Monroe, Col. A. H. Chappell, & Wm. L. Famhrotigh. Muscogee, W.T. Colquitt &S. W. Flotimoy, Esqrs. .Yet cton, Messrs. Hopkins & Sanders, Oglethorpe, John Moore ,Esq. Paulding, Joel Hicks, Esq. Putnam, James A. Mcrnwether, Esq. Pike, Dr. J. S.Long, and A. IV. Pryor Fhq. Pulaski, Dr. Hlhbtßr. AURARIA, LUMPKIN COUNTV, GEORGIA. MAY 14 1832 • Richmond, Messrs. Randall &. Mason. Randolph, Gen. H. Jones. Scriven, Jacob Bryan, Esq. Twiggs, The Hon. Lott Warren. Talbot, Ors. Phillip’s & Bugg, Troup, Col. J. C. Alford. Taliaferro, Bradford Thompson Esq. & Col. Janes, Upson, Col. John Thomas, and Thomas Bell, Esq. Wilkes, Danici Chandler, Esq. Warren, Gray A. Chandler, Esq. Walton, Col. E. G. Bell, and John T. Morrow, Esq. aanitjj'street’s Address, To the Graduates of the Medical Institute of Georgia, on the 17 Hi inst. Gentlemen :—The relation which you have hitherto sustained to the medical institute of the State of Georgia is now dissolved, and I am about to present you the testimonials of your qualification to practice in the line of that pro fession which has been your peculiar study, while members of this institution. Upon this occasion it is made my duty to close the connexion between us with a parting address. 1 could have wished that the duty had devolved on one, more competent to improve it to your benefit, and to the honor of our infant Seminary. I enter upon tho discharge of it, however, with as much confidence, as an ear nest desire for your prosperity, and an ardent zeal for the success of the institution, when blended with a consciousness of my own inabil ity, can inspire—assured that you will readily find in the novcly of iny situation an ample apol ogy for the sterility of my remarks. In taking leave of you, gentlemen, I am com missioned by the Faculty under whose immedi ate charge you have been, to bear public testi mony to the dignity of your deportment, the as siduity of your studies and the promptness and fidelity with which you have discharged all the duties enjoined upon you, while members of this Institution. Os your final examination, they speak in terms highly creditable to you, and en couraging to themselves. In all this, wo ilatter ourselves that we discover, an earnest of your future usefulness and elevation in the profession of your selection. We need scarcely add, that as you are the first fruits of the experiment which we are now making to biing the means of a liberal education in the science of Medicine to the doors of our own sons,wc shall sensibly feel a disappointment of the expectations which you have awakened—and on the other hand we shall feel with equal sensibility, the honor of their ful filment. In behalf of the faculty removed as I am from all participation in their labors and their honors I think I may be permitted to assert that they have spared no pains to furnish you with all the means of improvement which lay within the compass of their power. By a sacrifice of private interests seldom exhibited,- and more rarely equalled they have given you tile advan tages of many of those artificial aids iri the pro secutions of your studies, for which other insti tutions of the kind arc exclusively indebted to Legislative munificence,or widely extended pub lic patronage. Their industry in preparing them selves for your instruction has been unremitted, and your own proficiency is the highest compli ment to their fidelity in imparting to you the fruits of their labors. Still we have to regret that their means are not commensurate with their zeal. It is, however, due to the Legislature of your State to remark in this place, that they have given the most encouraging assurances that the Institute will not be much longer left to the unassisted support and protection of its own officers. Nothing but a train of adverse circumstances which that Assembly could not control, prevented the last Legislature from ma king an appropriation in behalf of the Medical College of Georgia, which would have raised it at once to a‘dignified rank among the rival in stitutions of the Country. Its claims were zea lously pressed upon the attention of that Body, and with equal pride and pleasure I bear testi mony, that from the Chief Magistrate down, they were invariably received with the kindliest feelings and the most flattering respect. Gentlemen, the profession upon which you have embarked, is one which embraces within its range some of the most delightful, instruct ing and interesting branches of Science. It in troduces you to all the wonders of the human frame —its complicated yet grand and bcautilul machinery. It bids you trace the mutual rela tions and dependencies of body and spirit. It invites your research through the whole extent of the animal, mineral and vegitable kingdoms, for those agents which a beneficent Creator has kindly thrown around his master work, to re lieve its sufferings and to rectify its derange ments. Its office is, to solace affliction, allevi ate pain, chasten disease, lighten sorrow, and quiet fears. That must be a callous soul which can contemplate such a profession without some thing like a feeling of moral sublimity. How ; rich its stores of knowledge—how fruitful of grand discoveries, how vast its compass—how elevated its aims! Over all its space, through ’ all its windings, in all its triumphs, the Supreme Being shines gloriously forth in his attractive at- [ tributes of wisdom, goodness, mercy and love. Tire man who denies his being is denounced as a fool by sacred writ—the Physician who de nies it, would be complimented by so mild a de nunciation. Such, Gentlemen, is a hasty sketch of the profession to which you belong. Can you en ter upon a field so spacious, so rich in trea sures, with no higher ambition, than to taste the fruits which your predecessors have gathered from it! Can you send your eye over its invi ting and diversified surface, and be content to consume your days in cultivating someone of its narrowest borders l Do you feel that such *St co in cs, the Herald of a Golden World. a profession imposes on you no duty to your country, no debt to science, no obligations 10 humanity? The first sons of the Medical In stitute of Georgia do you feel no ambition to render it illustrious by your names, and at some future dayto shed the lustre of your names more directly upon itfrom the the very flutering testi mony which you have already given of your pro ficiency in the several departments of medical science, we arc encouraged to hope that you duly appreciate your high calling, and that you will dignify and adorn it by your conduct and your talents. And here, as they come nat urally in place, you will perhaps receive in kind ness a few suggestions in reference to your fu ture conduct, which seem to mo worthy of your consideration. With all its attractions, yours is a profession of vast and serious responsibility. It necessa rily introduces you to the confidence of the fam ilies who honor you with their patronage. This | confidence is often the most sacred and deli ; cate character, forced from your patients only i by insufferable agony, or the perils of approach j ing dissolution. To elicit an enlargement of this confidence in the smallest conceivable de gree, beyond what is necessary to direct you to tho proper prescription, is to trifle with the feel- I ings of your friend and benefactor, from nohigh- I er motive, than to gratify a base and crim.nal curiosity—openly to violate that confidence, is to avail yourself of the disease of the body, in order to inflict a cureles disease upon the soul. lam happy to say the fault, or rather the crime, of which I am now speaking, is not com mon among your order, and I entertain no fears that you will come within its censures. It is sometimes, however, committed in a way rath er less offensive than that to which I have refer red, but not less criminal. I mean by oblique but intellgible hints, and allusions—by exposing the particulars of a nameless case, the promi nent features of which have from necessity been made public, and the like. Against this fault in all its shades and complexions wc most ear nestly entreat you to guard with unwink ing vigilance. So long as you hold yourselves out to the world as practising physicians, you give an im plied pledge that you will be obedient to the calls of all who may require your services- Those calls will often meet you at unseasonable hours, but they should always be cheerfully and prompt ly obeyed—first, in charity to your patients, and—2ndly, in duty to yourselves. To light en the irksomeness of this branch of your pro fessional duty, direct your thoughts *- the dis tresses of the family to which you may be called. Compute the long train of ills which be entailed upon it by your delay, and you must be strange ly constituted if you do not forget yourself in your desire to hasten to its relief. Placing this matter upon the score of duty. I hold you l )ou ;;d by all its obligations, either to notify the world thru j'°' u practise only when it may suit your convenience, f>r to obey the calls upon you, at all times with promptness and fidelity. The dead hour of night, when life is imperiled, and alarms are high, is no time tor a man to change his family physician. Your practice will sometimes lead you to families in which long settled and perhaps very absurd notions prevail in relation to the treat ment of diseases. These will often be very unccrcmoniusly and perhaps rudely obtruded ; upon you. You should receive them with mild- i ness, and in pity, rather than in anger. To suf fer them to inflame you, is to give signs of a weak head, or a proud heart. More unpardon able will it be in you to engage in controversy upon these opinions. This would be compli menting ignorance, by bringing science to its level, and arguing where victory is hopeless, and bootless if gained. And here a remark is ; suggested to me which I think worthy of your j attention. It is fashionable, and for the most ’ part with good reason, to ridicule the opinions of old women in relation to diseases and their remedies; but it not unfrequently happens that their opinions proceed from an excellent judge ment, enlightened by the most instructive expe rience. They should not, therefore, be indis criminately rejected, nor should they ever be re jected without examination; lest in so doing you shut your ears to some of the most valua ble hints, in the line of of your profession. My acquaintance with you, gentlemen, ren ders caution against the pedantry and garriluli ty ofthe profession unnecessary, and I bring them to your notice here, only to remind you, that there is a very harmless habit (it cannot be called a foible) among physicians, which is sometimes mistaken for those faults, and there fore should be corrected. The language of your profession is peculiarly technical, and un intelligible to the people at large; but with phys icians it is perfectly familiar, natuial and appro priate Hence it is I presume, that some of the fraternity, of good sense and good breeding, confound their hearers by speaking in an un known tongue, and thus undeservedly incur the consures of professional pedantry. Physicians often err in this respect in delivering testimony in Courts of Justice.—Their testimony is ad dressed exclusively to the jury, not unfrequent ly composed of unlettered men, wha feel a dif fidence in asking explanations; and if the coun sel engaged in the cause deem no explana tions necessary, the jury maybe left entirely in tho dark upon matters which the physician has most clearly explained. If carelessness in speaking is to be avoided, carelessness in writing is to be guarded against with much more caution. This may be follow ed by the most serious consequences, as you readily admit when you are reminded that the physician’s prescriptions are most commonly, and should always be, delivered in writing. IV rite your prescriptions, gentlemen, in a plain legible hand; give your weights and measures in both words and signs, that knowledge of ei ther may explain the others, and avoid all abbre viations. In administering to your patients avoid pomp, ostentation, petulance and authority; your pa- ; tient is not your slave, and therefore, you have : no right to address him in the tone of command, j The favor between you and him is reciprocal, and the reward with which he compensates your visits, leaves him free to follow your advice or not as he may choose. There are always around a sick bed, witnesses enough to relieve von from the responsibilities of his disobedience; and you should always remember that a patient is often much better acquainted with his own con stitution and the effect of particular medicines upon it, than his physician can possibly be. Ex perience may have taught him, that self-preser vation, requires him to reject your prescription. Having noticed those errors which are of less common occurrence among you, and the conse quences of which are visited chiefly or exclu sively upon the profession itself; I beg leave in the next place, to call your attention to one of a more common and more serious character, the penalties of which fall almost exclusively upon the community ; It has grown into a proverb, “that lawyers are always quarrelling anil always ! friends, while physicians never quarrel and are always enemies.” Making the proper allowan ces for a maxim so general in its terms, and it must be admitted that it contains too much truth. The first member of it, I think 1 can explain— when quarrelling is made a duty, friendship be comes a recreation. The last member of it, is left for physicians to explain. Be the cause what it may, the rivalships, jealousies, and con tentions of physicians, are so many dark spots upon the character of the profession. Were this all, they might be left to the undisturbed enjoy ment of the fruit of their own raising; but as I have just remarked the bitterest portion of it is forced upon the community.—Contending phy sicians refuse to unite their counsels over the fevered couch of their mutual friend, and he in his agony and alarm is required to weigh ques tions of delicacy with golden balances and with a steady hand. At a moment when he requires all the lights of the profession he is given to un derstand that he can have but one, without com mitting an irreparable breach between himself i and his friend. The physician who exacts so much from nim, considers his life of too little consequence to justify the condescension to which he would have to submit in exchanging a lew ideas upon his friend’s case with an ene my. Thus an afflicted fellow being is compell jcd in the hour of extremity to choose between the hazardsof fife on the one hand, and of friend | ship on the other. A justification of this course of conduct on the part of physicians is not to he found in any code of law’s, human or divine. It is at war with all our conceptions of courtesy, justice and humanity. Let me entreat you, Gentlemen, by all the obligations of self-respect, and by all the claims of benevolence and chari ty to cultivate a spirit of friendship with your brethren. In all professions there are some w’ith whom it’is impossible to be at peace, and you will doubtless find such in yours ; but upon j n o consideration refuse to counsel with them, if jit be required by an afflicted fellow mortal. Surely your good rignse will teach you that it evinces no distrust of your abillly, to call to your assistance others of equal opportunities. Finally, if skill, industry, punctuality, patience, mildness, dignity and humanity, be duties ol i your profession, every voluntary act of yours which has a tendency to impair or destroy these qualities, becomes a positive crime. Excesses which unsettle the mind; irregularities which weaken the physical energies; amusements which interfere with your hours of rest; vices which lead you frequently from home ; low com pany which lessens confidence and injures char acter, are all to be renounced as a necessary consequence of the truths which have been de livered. Thus, Gentlemen, have I hastily thrown to- | getlier such thoughts as it seemed to me might be useful to you in future life.—l’erhaps they had all passed through your own minds long be fore they were suggested by me—and perhaps you had already resolved to conform your char acters to them. I would be far from disapprov- j ing of good resolutions, much farther from cen suring them—-but permit me to assure you, Gentlemen, if you rest your hopes of a truly re fined, dignified and elevated character upon the unassisted strength of your own resolutions, you place them upon a foundation extremely unsure. The stain of original sin is too deeply imprint ed upon the human heart, to be removed by a power less efficient than that, which Omnipo tence has provided essentially for the heart’s j pollutions.—Religion alone can raise you to j that point of moral elevation, w here true dignity 1 reigns.—This gained, and all the duties of life,: public, private and professional, become easy, natural and delightful.—This gained, then be it your endeavor, to blend in your own charac ter the suavity of Sydenham, the enterprizc ot Hunter and the holiness of Paul; and however far below your standards you may fall, you will not fall below the love, admiration and respect of an enlightened community. Contentment. —Few men seem to be entirely happy in the situation in which they are placed. The poor man imagines that it ho possessed riches he should be contented and happy. The rich, in tho midst ofbispossessions is often wea- ry ol'a world that has no new excitement to of fer ; fretted by ten thousand claims on his gene rosity, embittered by ingratitude, and sickened by the heartless flattery of contending The uneducated man envies the idel of literary j fame ; every thing seems bright and golden in [ his path, and h> does not know how often the darling of popular lavor mourns for the peaceful j spirit of the unambitious, and the untroubled ; faith of the ignorant; how often he despises the. friendship which he sees but of temporary im portance —and how in very heart-sickness ho sinks from th publicity which tho world will heap upon http, and the rancoroHs animosity it ta sure to bring in its train.—Content is the whole of wisdom, the amount of all philosophy . Every class of mankind has an equal share of 1 happiness, and if wc do not believe, it is a more distinct knowledge .>f cur troubles than any others. \\ e believe that if we would change places with the wealthy and celebrated, we should avoid restlessness and languor; but wo deceive ourselves. Mortals cannot escape a mingled destiny. For wise purposes theie is a drop of bitterness at the fountain—it mixes with all the waters of life, whether we drink from a:i earth, n or a golden cup, wc cannot escape our portion. The Village Preacher. —‘Farther, forgivn them.’—Go, proud infidel—search the ponder- I ous tone of heathen learning, explore the works ’ ofConfucious—examine the precepts ol Sene- ‘ | ca, and the writings ot Socrates—collect all the excellencies of the ancient and modern moral-’ j ists, and point to a sentence equal to this sim i pie prayer of our Saviour. —Reviled and insult ed—suffering the grossest indignities—(downed with thorns and led away to die ! no annihilation curse breaks from his tortured breast. Sweep and placid as the aspirations of a mother for her nursling, ascends the prayer for mercy on his enemies. * Father forgive them.’ Oh !it was worthy of its origin, and stamps with the bright est seal of truth that his mission was from Heaven. Acquaintances, have you quarreled? Friends have you differed? If he who was pure and perfect, forgave his bitterest enemies, do you well to cherish your anger 1 Brothers, to you the precept is imperative .* You shall forgive—not seven times, but seven ty times seven. Husbands and wives you have no right to ex pect perfection in each other. To err is the lot of humanity.—lllness will sometimes render you petulcnt and disappointments ruffilc the smoothest temper. Guard I beseech you with unremitting vigilance, your passions ; controlled, they are the genial heat that warms us along the way of life—ungoverned, they arc consu ming fires. Let your strife be one of respect ful attentions, and conciliatory conduct. Cul tivate with care the kind and gentle affections* of the heart.—Plant not, but eradicate the thorns that grow in your partners path: above all, let. no feeling of revenge ever find harbour in your | breast, let the sun never go down upon your I anger. A kind word—an obliging action—if | it be a matter of trifling concern, has a power superior to the harp of David in calming the bil lows of the soul. Revenge is as incompatible with happiness as it is hostile to reason and religion. Let him whose heart is black with malice, studious of revenge, walk through the fields while clad in verdue and adore the fiow’ers: to his eye there is no beauty, the flowers to him exhale no fra grance. Dark as his scul, nature is robed in the deepest sable. The smile of beauty lights not upon his bo om with joy ; but the furies of heii rage in his breast, aud render him ns mis erable as he could wish the object of his hate. But let him lay his hand on his heart and say, Revenge, I cast theo from me—Father l'ur give mine enemies’ and nature will assume a new and delightful garniture. Then, indeed, are the means verdant and the flowers fragrant —then is the music of the groves delightful to the car, and the smile of virtuous beauty lovely to the soul. The following anecdote was related to us a so w days since, by an esteemed female friend, and should there be any thing in it w hich would seem to imply the want of a proper regard to what is due to the better half of creation, we hope that the ladies will hold the authoress, and not the editor responsible, whose name we shall cer tainly give up, should any aged maiden lady demand it, and state her reason for so doing pro ceeded from a belief that she w as personally al luded to. “ An aged “spinster” w ho “ —never told her love. But let concealment like a worm i’ the fold, Feed on her damask cheek.” growing weary, amongst the olher “ills that flesh is heir to',” of “a life of single blessedness” betook herself to the silent recess ofthe grove, and there prayed most fervently that Providence would provide for her what forty years of smi lintr,simpering and rougeing had tailed to entrap, viz*: o husband!. She had no sooner got through with her devotions than an Out, (of tho largcr species, says our informant,) hooted from the top of u tree, over the head of the “hap less maiden,’’ —VVhoo—ho- hoo!” To which she replied, with eyes reverently fixed on tho earth, and supposing that he whom she implored had come “to the rescue,” ‘■‘■any body good lord. ‘ —Jlbbcville JVliig. “He that is without name, without friends without coin, without country, is still at least a man :and he that has all these is no more ” NO. 6.