Southern post. (Macon, Ga.) 1837-18??, December 23, 1837, Image 2
any xrtrk, caul they were o*Ji of 4ill patience
keeping Sunday.—Do what she would to keep
’mem quiet, they would bounce up, now and
then, and go through the motions, in spite ot*
The fourth commandment. For 1113' part, 1
sat looking very much like a fool. The more
{ tried to say something the more my tongue
stuck fast. ’ I put my right leg over the left
and said “hern.” Then 1 changed, and put
the left over the right. It was no use; the si
lence kept coming on thicker and thicker.—
Tne drops of sweat began to crawl over me*.
I got my eyes upon my hat, hanging upon a
peg, on the road to tire door; and then 1 eyed
the door. At this moment, the old Captain,
all at once sung out “Johnny Becdlc!” It
sounded like a clap of thunder, and I started
right up on eend.
” Johnny Beedle, you’ll never handle sich a
drumstick as your fatlrer did, if yerlive to the
age of Methusaler. He would toss up his
drumstick, and while it was whirlin’ 111 the air,
take off i gill er rum, and then ketch it as it
come do wii, without loosing a stroke in the
tune. What d’ye think of that, ha ? But
scull your chair round, close aiong side er me,
so yer can hear. —Now, what have vou come
a’ter ?”
I—1 —a’ter ?O, jest takin’ a walk. Pleas
ant walkin’ I guess. I mean jest to see how
ye all do.”
“ I lo.—That’s another lie. You’ve come a
courtin’, Johnny Beedle; you’re a’ter our Sal.
Say, now, d’ye want to marry, or only to
court ?”
This is what 1 call a choker. Poor Sally
'made but one jump and landed in the middle of
the kitchen ; and then she skulked in the dark
corner, till the old man, after laughing himseli
into a hooping cough, was put to bed.
Then came apples and cider; and the ice
being broke, plenty of chat with mammy Jones
about the minister and the sarmon. I
agreed with her to a nicety, upon all the points
of doctrine ; but I had forgot the text and all
the heads of tiic discourse but six. Then she
teazed and tormented me to tell who I account
ted the best singer in the gallery, that day.—
But mum—there was no getting that out of
me. “ Praise to the face is often disgrace,”
says I, throwing a sly squint at Sally.
At last, Mrs. Jones lighted t’other candle;
and afrer charging Sally to look well to the
fire, she led the way to bed, and the Squire
gathered up his shoes and stockings and fol
lowed.
Sally and I were left sitting a good y r ard
apart, honest measure. For fear of getting
tongue tied again, 1 set right in, with a steady
stream of talk. 1 told her all the particulars
of the weather that was past, and also made
some pretty cute guesses at what it, was like to
"be in future. At first, I gave a hitch up with
my chair at every full stop. Then growing
saucy, I repeated it at every comma, and semi
colon ; and at last, it was hitch, hitch, hitch,
and I planted myself fast by the side of her.
“ I swow, Sally, you looked so plaguy hand
some to day, that 1 wanted to eat you up.”
“ Pshaw, get along you,” says she.
My hand had crept along, somehow, upon
its fingers, and begun to scrape acquaintance
with hers. She sent it home again, with a
desperate jerk. “ Try it again” —no better
luck. “ Wii\ r , Miss Jones, you’re gettin’ op
stropulous, a little old madish, I guess.”
“ Hands off is fair play, Mr. Beedle.”
It is a good sign to find a girl sulkev. I
knew where the shoe pinched. It w T as that
arc Patty Bean business. So I went to work
to persuade her that I had never had any no
tion after Patty, and to prove it, I fell to run
ning her down at a great rate. Sally could
not help chiming in with me, and I rather guess
Miss Patty suffered a few. I, now, not only
got hold of her hand without opposition, but
managed to slip an arm round her waist. But
there was no satisfying me; so I must go to
poking out my lips after a buss. I guess I
rued it. She fetched me a slap in the face that
made me see stars, and my ears rung like a
brass kettle for a quarter of an hour. I w r as
forced to laugh at the joke, though out of the
wrong side of my mouth, which gave my face
something the look of a gridiron. The battle
now began in the regular way.
“ Ah, Sally, give me a kiss, and ha’ done with
it now.”
“ I won’t, so there, nor tech to.”
“ I’ll take it, whether or no.”
“ Do it, if you dare.”
And at it we went, rough and tumble. An
odd destruction of starch now commenced.
Tiie bow of my cravat was squat up in half a
shake. At the next bout, smash went shirt
collar, and, at the same time some of the head
fastenings gave way, and down came Sally’s
flair in a flood, like a mill dam broke loose, —
carrying away half a dozen combs. One dig
ij of SallyV elbow, and my blooming ruffles v. lit
led down to a dish cloth. But she had 110 time
I I to boast. Soon her neck tabling began to
1 1 shiver. It parted at the throat, and, whorah,
came a whole school of blue and white beads,
scampering and running races every which
wav about the floor.
By the Hokey ; if Sally Jones isn’t real grit
there’s no snakes. She fought fair, however,
: I must own, and neither tried to bite nor scratch;
and when she could fight no longer, for want
of breath, she yielded handsomely. Her arms
foil down by her sides, her head back over her
chair, her eyes closed and there lay her little
plump mouth, all in the air. Lord! did ye
ever see a hawk pounce upon a vreung robin ?
; Or a bumble-bee upon a clover top ?—I say
nothing.
Consarn it how a buss will crack, of a frosty
night. Mrs. Jones was about half way be
tween asleep and awake. “ There goes my
yeast bottle,” says she to herself—“ burst into
twenty hundred pieces, and my bread is all
dough agin.”
The upshot of the matter is, I fell in love
with Sally Jones, head over earn. Every Sun
da)” night, rain or shine, finds me rapping at
Squire Jones’ door, and twenty times haw I
been within a hair’s breadth of popping the!
question. But now I have made a final resolve; j
and if I live till next Sunday night, and I don’t
get choked in the trial, Sally Jones will hear
thunder.
Ladie's Companion.
Specimen of Maryatt’s Diary of a Blase.
Here we arc, and for a time at re it. Rest!
no, the wheels of the carriage may rest, even
the body for a time may rest but the mind will
not. We carry our restlessness with us wher
ever we go. Like a steam-engtne, tire mind
works, and works, and works, sometimes, in
deed, with less rapidity of motion, but still it
goes on, goes on in its ever continued labour;
waking or sleeping, no repose; until the body,
which is the mechanical part of the engine, is
worn out by constant friction; br the steam of
the mind is exhausted. And people tell you,
and believe that there is rest in the grave.—
How can that be ? The soul is immortal, and
cannot exist, without conciouness. If not
concious, it does not exist, and if cone ions, it
must work on, even beyond the grave, and for
ever. To assert that there is rest in the grave
is denying the immortality of the soul. And
what a contemptible, base slave the body is to
the sold ! I was going to sn\ r , that he could
not call his soul his own, but that would be a
Catachresis, and I hate and abominate a cat,
and every tiling which begins with cat. It is
singular that they arc all unpleasant, or unluc
ky, or unsafe; for instance—
Cat-acombs remind you of death, funerals, and
mummies.
Cat-alogue “ “ sale of effects, some
poor devil done up.
Cat-aplsam reminds you of a bile poulticed.
Cat-aract “ “ sore eyes, Sam Patch,
and devastation.
Cat-arrh reminds you of head stuffed, running
of the glands.
Cat-echism reminds ) r ou of equally unpleasant
in 3011th and marriage.
Cat-egorical reminds you of argument, which
is detestable.
Cat-erpillars “ “ beasts who foal na
ture.
Cai-erwaul “ “ horrid variet} T of love.
Cat-gut “ “ street music, hurd}’-
gurdy.
Cats-paw “ “ a calm, with a prize
in sight.
As for cat itself, I cannot say too much against
it; and it is singular, that the other meanings
of the single word arc equally disagreeable, as
to cat the anchor, is a sign of going to sea, and
the cat at the gangway is the worst of all.
Newspaper Publishing.
We are of those who do not believe that the
cheapness and multiplicity of newspapers, is a
blessing cither to the public or the publishers.
Competition past a certain point in this matter,
as in some other—theatres, for instance—is
apt to result, not in the production of a bet
ter article, but in furnishing the community
with one at a less price, and of an inferior na
ture ; while the producers, in their anxiety to
recommend themselves to favor, may perhaps
succeed in beating down rivals, but are sure to
inflict proportionate injuries upon their own in
terests. Were newspapers less numerous,
they would of course be more profitable—a
11 greater amount of talent and labor could be
concentrated on each, and they would attain a
degree of influence, usefulness and respecta
bility. which is now out of the question, when
the establishment of anew paper is of frequent
1 occurrence, and when they rise and fall so ra
pdly that their aj pcafance and disr,p\xara\ice
are scarcely noted.
i The editor of t,re heeling Times has the
following article upon this subject, which vivid-
Jy portrays tiie consequences of \ ielding to the
I mania for newspaper publishing. It should
l>c published on account of the lesson it con
veys, in every paper in the country, for the
benefit at least of the rising generation;.
“ There is a mania for publishing newspa
pers in this world of ours, that is more fatal
than the small pox, the cholera, or tire fellow
i fever. Ninet}’ in a hundred meet their de
strution in it; 3 r ct as last as one dies another
takes his place, gets innoculated with the writ
ing fever, thinks of gold and glory, turns
newspaper publisher, drags 011 a worthless life,
| half-fed half-clothed, toils da} r and night, heart
[sick and weary; the public slave, }*et yielding
an engine which, properly restricted, would
move the world, or make its inhabitants trem
ble.
“ The press cannot be free or useful while it
is trammelled with poverty and dogged with
duns. So situated, it will, it must be, at the
bo'-k of ever}* whipper-snapper who has money
euough to keep tire printer’s soul and body to
gether. This state of things will not do. We
move that the printers of the United States di
vide off in halves, and ‘ jess ’ to see which shall
go to digging ditches or picking stone coal for
a living. It would improve the situation of
both halves mightily. We look upon every
new paper that is started, very much as we do
upon every new murder that is committed.—
We think there is another man lost to every
thing useful, lost to himself, lost to the world,
and doomed to a purgatory from which salt
cannot save him. We think that the last da}*s
of that man will be worse than the first!—but
all must live and learn. We have become a
little hardened to tire business, but if wc had
life to go over again, vve should rather adopt
the trade of fishing for minnows with a pin
hook, than that of publishing a paper in the
United States.”
Pennsylvanian.
Eclipse of the Sun in 1838.
The Sun will be eclipsed visibly throughout
the United States, on the 18th of September
next, between 3 and G o’clock, P. M. The
eclipse will not be total, but annular; that is,
the Moon being too near the Sun to hide it en
tirely from our view, will leave its margin visi
ble, like a luminous ring (annulus,) to those
beholders whose place makes the Moon pass
directly between them and the Sun’s exact
centre.
The tract of country, to which the eclipse
will be thus central, is stated in the American
Almanac to be the following:
Beginning to be visible in the Unknown re
gions near the North Pole, the central annu
lar eclipse will pass thro’ Kamschatkain Asia,
the British possessions in North America, not
far west ot Hudson’s Ba} r , Lake Superior,
Wisconsin Territory, Michigan, Lake Erie,
the N. E. part of Ohio, the S. E. part of Penn
s}*lvania, the west part of Maryland, northern
part of \ irginia, southern part of Maryland,
eastern .shore of Virginia, and into the Atlan
tic Ocean; its course being from N. W. to
S. E. The eclipse will Ire annular, over a
space of 4110 miles wide.
The ring, in the places where it may be seen,
will continue onl} T from four to about six and a
half minutes.
At Baltimore, the eclipse will begin at 6 min
utes past 3P. M. The ring will be formed
at 25 minutes past 4 ; and be central at 27 1-2
minutes past 4. The eclipse will end at 40
minutes past 5.
At W ashington city, and Richmond, the sev
eral phases will Ire within a small fraction of a
minute, of the same time as at Baltimore.
At Raleigh, within about 2 minutes of the
same time. But there, no ring will appeal’.
The Sun will be a very slender crescent.
This crescent will he wider and wider, with
horns less and less sharp, as we go south and
south west, or north and north east, from the
path of the central eclipse.
This path first touches the earth at a point
near the North Pole, a little east of the meridi
an of Greenwich. In a few seconds after
wards it attains its greatest northern latitude
88 deg., whilst for the first 8 minutes it moves
rapidly westward, until it is 98 0 west of that
meridian. In ten minutes after passing out of
\ irginia, into the Atlantic Ocean, it leaves the
earth, at a point about 34 w north lattitude, and
58 0 west longitude; just one hour, 48 min
utes and 32 seconds after its first touching
the earth; having traversed a somewhat circuit
ous track, of 5000 miles in length: and (as
we said before) the whole annular path being
420 miles in breadth. It reaches, in width
from Fairfield county in Connecticut, nearly
to Raleigh in North Carolina.
I The counties of Virginia, through which
The eNact centre of the eclipse will pass, ai e
j Morgan, Bcrkly, Jefferson, Loudoun, Fairfax,
and Accomac.
This will Ire the last central eclipse of the
Sun visible in the United States until that of
May 2Gth, 1854; which will be also annular.
The next total eclipse of the Sun will be in
August 7th, 18G0.
Let ever}’ thing in domestic arrangements
| i>e neat and orderly; and this may be effected
withou irritating }*our own temper or the tern,
pers of those who may live with you. There
are few things, to my mind, more unladylike,
j »ot to say unchristian, than to hear a lady at
I the head of her family constantly descanting on
the faithlessness of her domestics. If domes
tics were treated differently, there would be
little cause of complaint. We should be chris.
tiansin all our thoughts, feelings and actions,
jand this would place the relation of master and
I servant on its true foundation. I deeply regret
that this great branch of Christian morality
seems to be so superficially understood.
The value of a Public Library.
Some idea may be formed of the great im
portance and vast value of a well selected Li
brary, to a community, from the fact that dur
ing the }’ear ending November Ist, 1837, one
hundred and twenty-nine thousand fire hundred
and fifteen volumes were taken from the Libra,
ry of the New York Mercantile Library Asso.
ciation. On this the Providence Journal ap.
I propriately remarks, “ how mam* young men
were in all probability thus kept from the snares
of vice, who, without such means for instruc
tion and amusement, as were thus offered them,
would have been ruined in health, and reputa
tion, and brought to an untimely, perhaps an
ignominious end. Better would it he were
there more of these admirable institutions in
our country than are now to be met.”
OFFICE TINDER THE CENTRAL HOTEL, THIRD DOOR A DOVE
THE ROST-OFFICE, AND IN THE REAR OF (ADJOINING)
THE MACON LYCEUM AND LIBRARY SOCIETY’S READING
ROOM.
MACON:
Saturday KTorninj, December 23, 1837.
Cotton 3larket.
Prices continue about the same as last week—little
or no change—from 5 to 9 1-2 cenls.
We have had continued rains for several days past,
and vve understand that our River is higher than it has
been since 1826.
53“ The failures in the Mails, in consequence of the
quantity of rain that has fallen within the past week,
have been greater than at any previous time recollected,
during the present year. For two days no mail North
of Milledgeville, and for three successive days no mail
North of Augusta. The Western mails have been
equally behind hand.
fICT” The continuation of “ Recollections of a Medical
Student” was received too late for to-day’s paper.
Sherwood’s Gazetteer of Georgia.
This highly interesting and valuable statistical work,
has been handed us for examination, by the Rev. A. T.
Holmes. It is now in its third edition, greatly enlarged
and improved—and attended with an accurate Map of
the State, well adapted to the uses of Travellers, Survey
ors, &c. The work condenses more of information in
its history’of the State, from its foundation, than can be
found in any other of its convenient dimensions; and
will be found useful and interesting to every reader.—
It contains a history of the early settlement of the State,
Literature, history and progress of Education, Summer
Retreats, &c, a chronicle of important events from 1829
to 1837, history of Rail-Roads, list of Post-Offices, list of
Roads, of Stages, &c. &c. Together with a general
description—and an Appendix, which will be found to
contain much useful and valuable biographical infor
mation of loading men, from the infancy of the Stale
down to our own times.
W* know of no work which we can so cheerfully re
commend to our readers.
The bill authorizing Limited Partnerships has
passed the House of Representatives by a vote of US
to 42. The Governor’s signature makes it a law.
The bill providing for file call of a convention to re
vise and amend the Constitution on the subject of the
Judiciary, and the reduction of members of tire Legisla
ture has failed.
An appropriation of 84000 has been granted by the
Legislature to defray the expenses of an Agent to be
sent to Great Britain to examine the Colonial records
relating to this State.
Tiie New-York Daily Express, of the 12th in
stant, has a Map of the seat of War, in Canada, which
S will be found beneficial to those who take an interest in
! the insurrection.