Southern post. (Macon, Ga.) 1837-18??, December 23, 1837, Image 2

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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.