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I had heretofore entertained of his fate, was too true. 1 knew it would be folly in me, to in. ierqike to vt»u vince him of its absurdity, and so permitted him to have his own way. (to be continued.) Sketch from the Romance of Rory (V3lore. Tnecveiling was closing as Pneiini O’Fkuia gin strolled up t.i eborecn ieauing to the widow U More’s cottage. On reaching trie house, he saw t ie widow sitting at, the door knitting. God save you, Mrs. O’More !” said Phelim. “ God save, you ! 5; kindly answered hie wid ow. “ Faith then, it’s yourself is the industhcrous • woman, Mrs. O’Morefor, it is working you ;.uv airly and iate: and to think of your being at the needles now, and the evenin’ closai’ in !” “ On, I don’t call this work,” said the widow; “ it is only jisi to have some thing o do, ■ .<■ no" be lost with idleness, that I’m keepin’ my, Kurds gom’.” ‘ An i your eyes 100, faith—and God spare them to you.” “ Am. !, dear,” said the widow. “And where is too co'k n, that she isn’t .he! run' you?” Oil, sec s jist gone beyant ti e meadow there, to cut nap les for chicken—•siiee’l be in in a m. .i. Won’t you sit down, Mr. O’Flaua . g tu ?—you 1 hettner diimw a sate.” - {in • afe soisdiii’, Mrs. O More, —thank vou ti! toe smile, ma’am. And where would r > -• be r "Y/ /, indeed, the Scholar wint out shoot in’ a 1 Ro w win* wid him. —ft’s fond of tee report he is, Mr. O’Flanagan, as you know.” ‘•Throe for you, ma’am; —it’s hard if I wouldn’t, men 1 sot over him for five years • and betther: and hard it was to keep him und liorl for lie was always food o’ sport.” “Rot not ihe taste o’vice in him, Pnelim dear.” said the mother. “No, no, Mis. O’More, by no inane nothing bat heart and fan in him but not the sign o’.mischief. And wav wouldn’t he like! to go a start w tii the young ghftleman a snoot in’? —the (log and the " guu s temptin’ to man ever since t-.c day o’ Vergil himself, who says wifi great bexuty and chscrimiuat on, armi vi r uipic cano ; whiciimuucs A mis men, and dogs,’ w iic i is t iree things that always goes to ..'other si,nm t ie world began.” “ T.fnk o’ rout now uv i the w low: “ and SO V irgo o e 1 to to dioo :Ti” “ Not e.v.ichy, Mrs. O More my dear; be st les tie m i’.s name w;; ot Vo o but V:r. g> 7 . Varya, Mrs O''.Moore, manes lire Vur- n ‘ “Gol iorg ’ me'*’sal 1 the widew.; “is it the b'e-w! Vurgiii I said wint shootia’?” and she wo S lorsclf. No M" O’More, my dear—by no manes. V • jo nisr.es only vargin ; v hies is not bless eb ,v tjiou: you join it to something else. But V !w is the man’s'name; iie was a great R.» irn pote.” “ O.i the darlin’!” said the widow ; “ and was he a Roman ?” “Not as you mane it, Mrs. O’More, my dear :he was not a goo-1C aholie—and inore’s the pi y, and a sore loss to him ! But he did n’t know belt ie:\ for they were lost in darkness in them days, and had not the knoledge of uz. But w hi 1 say ho was a Roman, I mane he was of that famous nation—(and tarin’ fellows theywor!) — Romm’ pipit 7, as we say, his nativity be ig car in Mantua, wliicii is a fa ln > i ■ port of fiat counth v, vou persaive, Mrs. O Mom.” Mere M s. O’More dropped her ball of worst-* e 1 • an I P leiim, not wishin a word of his ha ra igue to be lost, waited till the widow was re ee ate 1 and in a state of attention again. “ Mantua-1 -?ay Mrs. O’More, a famous port of the Romani populi —the port of Mantua— which retains to this day the honor of Vargil’s nativity bein’ east in that place, you persaive, Mrs. O’More.” “ Yis.yis, Mr. O’Flanagan, I’m mindin’you, s : r. Oh, what a power of lamin’ you have! Well, well, but it’s woiidherful —and sure 1 never heerd afore of any one bein’ born in a portmantia.” “Oh! !io, ho ho' Mrs. O’More. No, my dear ma’am,” said P.elim laughing, “ I didn’t say be was born in a portmantia: I said the port of Mantua, which was a territorial possession, or domain, as I may say, of the Romani populi, where Vargil had his nativity cost,——that is to say, was born.” “ Dear, dear! what knowledge you have, Mr. O Flanagan !—and no wondher you’d laugh at me ! But sure, no wondher at the same time when I thought you wo- talkin’ of a por* muutia, that I would wondher at a child be ’ sent into the world hi teat manner.” “Quite nath’ral, Mrs. O More, my dear—— quite nath’rai,” said Pncliuu “ But can you tell rr:c ” “To be sure I can,” said Phelim: “ what is it?” “I mane, would you tell me, Mr. G*Flana gan, is tnat t ie place portmantias comes from ?” “ Way, indeed, Mrs. O’Moie, it is likely from the deny wation, that it is : but you see, these is small tnrifles o’ history that is not worth trie while o’ great mm to notice; and by rai son o’ tiiat same we are left to our own con jectures in siteii manners.” “Dear, dear! Well—but, sir, did that gin tlcman you wor talkin’ about go a shootia’— that Mr. Varjuice?” “ V argil, Mrs. O’ More —Var-gil,” said Plie lim wkh authority. “ l beg his pare hi and yours, sir.” “No ofiincc, Mrs. O’More. Whyf'ma’am -as lor goin’ shootink he did not—and for van. ■ i raisons : guns wa i scarce in thim time and gunpowci;* r was not in vogue, but w as, by .til accounts, attributed to Friar Bacon posteri orly.” “ Oh, the dirty divils!” said the widow, “to fry their bacon v ith gunpowdher!—that bates ‘all l ever heerd.” Pile m could not help laughing outright at | the widow’s mistake, and was a. boa? to cr,-plain, ibut si.ui was a I,trie annoyed at lieing laughed j at, and Rory O' .More and the Scholar, as Le !was called, having returned at the moment, she took tie orortunity of retiring iifto t!ie house, and left P ref-in, his explanation and the sportsmen all togei or. Dreams. The subject of dreams is one of the prob lems which continually baffle human inveMiga ition. Every one dreams, yet no man solves ithe phenomena. Every man is conclous that ;the strangest imaginable deviations from die |common tilings and thoughts of life pass be fore him in sleep, vet the most philosophical hire still totally at a lo ss to discover the cause, the instrument, or the law of those: mort singu lar, exciting. and perpetually recurring motions of the mind. A 1 attempts to account for t’rern by peculiar actions of live brain are idle. W <o can .sec or know t ie actual state of the org si ? Ail attempts to account for them bv association of ideas are equally idle. What does any man l no woven of the nature of that association ? Every theory which hopes to determine t lem by external impulses has equal ly failed. That external im . ires will often influence the dream is novv on;; but this •■corns to occur ouiv in nr* imperii. -at condition of slumber, \\ hen the ' enses are . ■ wtly wake. T.iat bodily pain wilt indueueo them .To there' is no doubt. Still this uan i;n eriect con i tion, and on the verve oi‘ waking. No theory, hitherto accounts for tne simple n fate of the i dream —that in whreh the mind, undEtnrbe-T by cither bodily pain or external impulse, tbl ilows its own free course of enjoyment; flies iall round the world ; lives in the moon, the sun, the stars; plunges in: > too dept us of ocean * gives serenades under the wall of Chi ! nu, or sits under the perfumed groves of Cey lon. No theory accounts for the existence of images to be full as vivid as those of the wak ing senses, and muon more vivid than tho-re ol memory, when the senses are wholly closed, land tne body represents but amass of helpless ' inaction. If memory is the sole agent, whv lis it that the images of dreams have such su perior clearness? If invention be the sole ! agent, why is it that multitudes who, in their w king hours, have not the power of combin ing half aHozcn ideas together in the shape of j a story, and who would no more think of fab ricating an adventure, than thev would of fab ricating a palace, yet follow idea after idea in ! all the windings of story every night of their lives, and wander in the wildest and most cu rious adventure through every region of the globe. A Committee Man. “Well Zcb,*’ said a coloured “gemnicn” the other day,to another, “what business are you prosecutin, now-a-days ?” “Oh! nuffin much, ’ceptin dat I ’casionally acts as ’mittee man, down to de ralerode.” “ Oh! hush nigger, you don’t say so.— Waea did you ’rive at such extinguishment?” “ Why, I’se been follerin it less or more all dis se son, especially since de ralerode went into corporation.” “ Weil. Zeb, what composition do you get for your services ?” “Oh! nuffin to mention, ’ceptin dat I’ca sionally hab de disagreable honor of sisting to; put away de locurmotur into de establishment, ! which ye know may sometime or anoder exalt metode extinguished kcpacito of inginneer.” The papers are barren of news. Constanune is taken by the French. \i imal ?rn netbnu Monsieur Poyen (-n; vcrctia lecture on the subject of Animal Magnetism at Dediiam last week. Tne Dedham advertiser tnus ahuaes to it:— “ T .e time arrived ; expectation was on tip toe to see tiie wonderful performance. Tne Doctor prefaced his remarks by stating that he had with him a subject who hau been magnet ised, but he would put it to vole whether lie should operate on Ins own subject, or anew one. Tne “Democracy of Numbers” decid ed t e latter. The candidate was selected. — Dr. Poyen commenced pa win like a swiming frog, and continued for the space of twenty live minutes, at the end of which, his subject was as “Wide awake” as ever. Tiie whole affair was a complete failure.” Teaching Music. A Highland piper having a scholar to teach, disdained to rack his brain with the names ot semibreves, minims, crotchets, and quavers. “ Here Donald,” said he, “tak your pipes, lad, and gle’s us a blast. So, verra weel blawn in deed. but what’s a sound, Donald, without sen e' ! Ye may blaw forever without making a tune on’t, if i dinua tell ye how the queer i things on the paper maun help. You see tiiat big ;Elow wi’ a round open face, (pointing to a semibreve between the two lines of a bar,) he moves slowly from that line to this, while ye bent nnc wf your fist and gie a long blast; if ;row ye put a leg to him, ye mak’ twa o’ him, i and he’ll move twice as fast, and it* ye black 'his face, lie’ll run four times faster than the fel low wi’ the white face ; but, if. after blacking nis face ye’ll Trud his knee or tie his legs, lie’ll hop eight times faster than that white-faced chap that 1 showed you first. Now whene’er you : blaw your pipes, Donald, remember this, that the tighter these fellows’ legs are tied, the fast er t' 'ey’ll run, and the quicker they’re sure to dance.” A gentleman who had a snuffbox that play’d “Drops of Brandy,” and “The glasses spar kle on the board,” went to dine with a friend a few miles out of town, one Sunday, tak linghis box in his pocket. He accompa i ned the family to the parish church, and by isomc accidental pressure he, about the middle of tlie service, touched the spring of the box, which struck up ‘ Drops of Brandy,” mo >t merrily. Every eve raid every ear was direct red to the spot, to the great dismay of the gen -1 tinman, who endeavored to stop the box, but in doing so he only caused it to char ge the frere o 1 lie hastened out of the church, die box rattling away while he marched along f re isle. orncs UNDER tut: central hotel, third door above • TVL POST-OFFICE, \ND IN TIIE REAR OF (ADJOINING) THE MACON LYCEUM AND LIBRARY SOCIETY’S READING ROOM. MACON: Saturday Morning", December US, 1337. We are authorized to announce ft. P. Robinson and S. Rose as candidates for Aldermen, in the second Ward. The Herald and Sentinel, of Columbus, have merged into one paper, and will be conducted by B. V. Iverson and J. B. Webb. The connexion promises a valuable paper. Sir “ ftorv O’More” is the title of anew work, which can he obtained at Griffin &. Purse’s Book Store. The lovers of Irish wit and anecdote will find a treat in its perusal. {Er* Dr. Thomas W. Alexander, of Gwinnett, has been appointed, by the Governor, Keeper of the Peni tentiary. Canada Affairs. The nrcounts from Canada are so confi'efing that. we find it dimoulr to arrive at any thin" positive, on which to rely as truth. It appears however, evident, that the Royalist press are desirous that the truth should not be known ; fearing that, the success of the patriots be ing known, will induce many others to join their cause. It appears that the patriots were defeated at St. Charles, but have since returned and occupied that station— which is said to be very advantageously situated, and a commanding position. The Royalists have retreated back upon Montreal, which place they are fortifying.— The whole country is in the possession of the patriots. Pirates. Numerous accounts we daily see in papers concern ing Pirates. It seems as if the seas was thronged with them. The “long low black schooner,” will soon have as much notoriety as the “ Flying Dutchman” or “ Sea Serpent f ’ seen by all and approached by none. Cotton ATarkef* Will done far Macon ! live present and pre cedin'/ week, there has been brought to this place la-.-® quantities of Cotton from Counties ofHerd, Troup, Har ris, and Muscogee, in this State—and Chambers coun ty, in Alabama ; all of which, has brough t a good mar ket price. And we also learn ilia : Riere i3 a great deal more on the way from the same, and other more distant counties. Hard as tne times are, Macon still keeps up her head with the highest; her Merchants are too en terprising, and her citizens generally have too much or the pride of home, to suffer her to be injured for trilling pecuniary interest. They take a deeper insight into • these matters, than thus to suffer her to be injured; they they know that the interest of one, in this regard, is the interest of the whole, and consequently her increasmo (growth. j Since our last, there has been but very little, if anv, i variation in prices. There has been a good demand for i the article, and prices range from sto 9 1-2 cents. Say, j Choice, 91-2 cents —Prime, 9 a 9 1-z —Good,S 1-2; Fmr, 8 ; Inferior, 5 a 7. Freights to Savannah, 63 *25, by boats. We have had plenty of rain of late, and now a fine boating river. Congress. Tribute to the late Governor Kent, Se nator in Congress from Maryland. In the Senate, on Tuesday, alter the reception of the President’s Message, Mr. Clay arose and made some very appropriate and complimentary remarks in rela : tion to the deceased, and concluded by offering the fol lowing resolutions: Revolved, unanimously, That the members of the Senate, f oin a sincere desire of showing every mark of respect due to the memory of the Honorable Joseph Kent, deceased, late a ; member thereof, will go into mourning by | wearing crape on the left arm for thirty-days. Resolved, unanimously, That as an addition al mark of respect tor the memory of the Hon. Joseph Kent, the Senate do now adjourn. The resolutions were accordingly adopted, and the i Senate adjourned. £CT Captain Mnrryati passe 1 through Albany (says the New-York Express, of the 6th,) on M inday las', on jhi3 way to Canada. The spirit of adventure which this gentleman posse-.-es will probabb lead him into ithe thickest of the mCee, to be hereafter graphically illustrated in his diary of a blaze. DST The Editors in Augu -ta have entered into the following resolve, which ve think is highly credit-able j and jus!, and hope that their cvample will be generally ! followed throughout the country. Hereafter we will publish no advertisement for any man, advertising his wire, unless ft is accompanied with jifty dollars in cash. Tne object is to exclude such advertisements alto gether, for they are often t!ie mere ebulitio is of intoxication or unfounded suspicion against innocent, unoffending, and helpless females.— Iu two thirds of such instances, the husband receives his wife back again, and lie presents tiie spectacle of living with a woman as his wife, whom he has attempted to disgrace in the eves of the world, in tiie most public manner. The above rule has been agreed to by all the Editors of this city. We learn from a passenger in the schr. Em. pi re, from St. Augustine, that a letter received in that city from Gen. Jesup. at Fort idellon, states that Micanopy, Cloud, Ocinthiola, Jump er, and several other Chiefs and about 30 or 40 warriors had come in at Fort Mellon. Also, a nephew of Sam Jones, bringing a message from him, stating that he would come in and surrender if Gen Jesup would promise to treat him well, and apologise for having used t ie "Indians as cowards. Gen. 1 lesnandez had just reriared to St. Augustine from an expedi tion to the South, he discovered no Indians.— Gen. Jesup was momently expected at St. Au gustien. Charleston Courier. Washington, Decmber. 8. Both Houses of Congress having adjourned over till Monday, there remains but little of in terist on the tapis. Perhaps a sketch ot the features of Mr. Grundy’s Steam Boat Bill, which has not as yet seen the light, but which I have been permitted to glance hastily over, ! might, from circumstances of recent occur j rence,p articuiarly interset a portion of your ; readers. This bill, as you will reeollcc, is now, to gether with all matter appertaining to the sub ject, contained in the message and documents in the hands of a select Committee of die Sen ate, consisting of Messrs. Grundy, Wall Clay ton, Benton, Calhoun, Webster and Walker. Its principal provisions, if wholly, or even par. tiallv adopted will have doubtless a salutary effect to prevent the recurrence of those fright ful scenes, which of late, the press of our coun try have been forced to record, and over which.