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il was never tociijoythe balmy influence I
•cf sleep again, till lie slept in the stillness and
darkness of death. My mind was led to some
ouch n ./lections as these alter I had retired to
rest. To night, thought 1, decides the fate of
poor R ; if perchance ne may get a liar
tv slumber, it may yet be well with hinj, otlier
wwea raving delirnim must seize him, which
Esculapian skiil can never cure. Thus mus
ing sadiy l tell into a disturbed slumber at first,
and finally the leaden furies so completely be
witched all my faculties, as lo wrap mo in the
proibundest depths of the emblem of death.
At a late time of tiie nig.tt, long after the
city ciock had tolled tne midnight, hour, I was
aroused iroinmy sleep by the sudden flashing j
of alight between the folds of my curtain.— I
Asioaisucd at this strange and unusual occur- j
mice, 1 looked out to see from whence it pro
ceeded, and discovered R with a candle
in his hand and but one garment on, though it
was bitter cold, engaged in an earnest search
for something he laid seemingly lost. lie
would stoop down and look intensely at one
spot and then say. “ Ah, here she is,” but upon ‘
feeling with his hand, he would find it all an il
lusion, and continue to seek in some other place,
with all of the anxiety and earnestness depict
ed in nis countenance, that posibly coidd be,
at t ie same tune calling in an affectionate tone
of voice, “ Mary, Mary.” At length, after ni
fruitless search in every corner of the room,
fie came to the bed and looked under it., con
tinually saying, “ where is she ?” and calling
his wife by name, or half whistling a medley
of Irish airs, which might have been his favor
ites when the sun of prosperity shone upon
him and iiis lost Mary. Occasions Illy he
would fancy ho had found her, and then seem
for a moment in ccstacy ; but as soon as the
allusion was proven to him, he would lapse
back info iiis former plaintive melancholy,
w ac 1 was enough to have started tears from j
•the eyes of the most hardened sjiectator. i
l lay and oh erved his maneuvers all this
time, with mingled sensations of mind. At
ouc time 1 was amused at him, at another 1
w is sorry for linn, and then I was afraid of
him. At length he came to the tied side, and
gently opening the curtains gazed upon my
countenance for a moment with thrilling inter,
terst and delight. For now he seemed evi
dently sure oi his prize, although so many
former disappointments had tended to make
him fear tiie result. At length lie moved his
hand gently toward my face and called in a
m Id and affectionate tone of voice, the same
oil repeated and dearly cherished name, as if
to elicit from her some token by which he
rnig.it be assured there was something real
ti out the affair. At that moment oi' his great
est anxiety, I would have given almost any
thing that Marv might have been there, to re-
Jieve moot the painful necessity of telling him
that I was not sire. After a moment of awe
ful stance, I ventured to speak, calling him by
name and telling him it was time to go to bed.
He liiccuped a significant interjection and smil
ing with a disappointed air, he said, “O, it is
tiie Doctor!” and without taking further notice
oi me. pursued his untiring occupation about
the room, in quest of one, who was many a
long mile distant from him. I was afraid to
drop to sleep again while he was in the room,
-lest he might set the curtains on fire and place
me in a most dangerous situation. I accord
ingly took him to his own room, and with
much ado, pursuaded him to lie down. Re
turning then to my room, I safely secured the
door and reclined once more on my pillow.—.
But scarce had I fallen into a slumber before I
heard him making an unusual loud noise among
the servants below stairs.. The paineful anxie
ty of mind under which 1 labored, would not
sutler me to close my eves again, lest some,
thing-serous might happen. It was not long
before he came running lmost breathless up
S>t sand knocktng at my door, he called out
as if .n an agony of fear:
“ O Doctor do let me in. or come and help
me kill that wretch that wants to murder me.
He is down stairs now, and he’ll be up hereaf
ter me directly.”
I went to t ie door and opened it, and tried
to calm him and pursuade him it was all folly,
but it was to no purpose; he kept trying to
cone in beside me whether or no, until I told
him with a stem voice, he must go to bed.—
This seemed to humble him some, and lie start-
C' 1 down stairs again, while I threw myself once
more upon my bed, and as all was as still ku
the hour of death during the remainder of the
nig it. I soon fell asleep and woke no more till
the breakfast bell started me from the sweet
re. ose which I was enjoying so well.
Tiie first thing after I had dressed myself.
was to find out what had become of R ,
for whose safety ! had began to entertain some
aprehension, as I had heard nothing from him j
during the latter hours of the night. T called;
up all tiie servants, but not one could tell me
any thing about him, except that he had gath
ered up u blanket and started out somewhere
several hours before day. I immediately came
to the conclusion that lie had secured his ra
zors and killed himself, or else had gone out
somewhere in the cold, and froze to death.
We searched in every room m the house, from
the gaiTelt to tne cellar, in quest of the poor
man, ail about the kitchen and back yard, un
til we wore fully convinced that ho must have
gone to some other place, and met with his fate
by a suicidal hand. .
(to be continued.)
Sketch of Woodworth's Life.
At this moment it will, perhaps, Ire especial
ly interesting, to present tne following brief
sketch of the life of Mr. Woodworth, which
tiie News of New York has gathered in abridge
ment from the tiles of an old periodical.
Mr. Woodworth was born at Scituatc, Mass,
on the 18th of January-, 1785. His father
I had served in the Revolutionary war, and like
! many others, was doomed to pass the closing
'years of a busy life in neglect and poverty, up
ion an exhausted little farm. .Samuel was the
youngest of four children. Early indications
of genius, in verses written at a meager coun
try free school, excited the attention of the
clergyman of the villiage, the Rev. Nchemi
ali Thomas. Mr. Thomas at once took much
pride and pleasure in superintending the pro
j gross of young Woodworth, then fourteen.
; Some of tiie wealthy persons in the neighbor
: hood, on nearing the worthy parson’s praises of
j his protege, encouraged him to hope that they
j would unite in raising funds lor his support at
(college. Like many such schemes, the pro
j.ject expired with the momentary excitement
j which prompted the oiler. Young VVood-
I worth remained suddenly unfriended by ail
j but Mr. Thomas, whose means and other en
gagements, ere iong rendered it necessary for
I the relations of the youth to advise him that he
must look out for some way of establishing
himself in future life. He determined forth
! with to Ire a Printer. He found his way alone
and on foot to Boston, and was bound appren
tice to Mr. Benjamin Russel, at .that time edi
tor and proprietor of the Boston Ccntinel.—
b rom that moment till 1800 he devoted his
days to setting types, and evenings to study
and making verses. His term of service be
ing over, he attempted a speculation, in which
tie failed. He now bent his nayto N. York,
but his supply of traveling funds failing, he was
compelled to stop at New Haven. Here he
found employ, both mechanical and literary, in
j the office of the 1 lerald, a weekly miscellany.
lAt the end of nine nionts, having saved a lit
’ tie money, he brought forth a ladies’ miscelh
| ny of his own, entitled the “ Belies Letters Re
! positorv,” of which he was editor, author, pi b
| lislicr, proprietor, printer, and very often car
rier. He broke up his camp there in. about
two months, and in greater destitution than
before, returned to Boston ; tiicn revisited his
native town, and left it, determined never
again to return thither without a fortune. lie
returned his course, on foot, to Baltimore.—
; Here he remained about a year. In the fol.
| lowing spring he came to New York. About
i this time he married. He has since edited nu-
I mcrous litterary miscellanies: for example, the
j War, the Casket, the Halcyon, the Luminary,
j the Parthenon. He also published various es
i says in prose and verse, and several plavs. In
lblß, he published “ Poems,Odes, Songs, and
other Metrical Effusions,” and afterward j
“ Woodworth’s Melodies.” On the 2d of!
August, 1823, appeared the first number f
“ The New York Mirror, and Ladies’ Litera
ry Gazette,” “Edited by Samuel Wood
worth,” in large letters under the title, and in
the imprint, “ published every Saturday, at 214
j Broadway, (nearly opositc St. Paul’s,) by Geo.
|P. Morris : J. Seymour printer, John Street.”
I The work appears to have been a repetition of
! the plan previously attempted by Mr. Wood
worth at New Haven, but which there did not
prosper.
i Tor a year or two since he has had the post
of Secretary to the Commodore, at Charleston
N<iv\ \ ard, until paralysis rendered him una
ble to fulfil his duties.
Nevr Havener.
The telegraph from Liver|>ool to Holyhead,
144 miles, communicates intelligence in the in
credible short space of 27 seconds.
“ How are you. To nkins ? IVe got a note
to take up—have you fifty dollars about yo\
to spare ?”
No 1 iiav nt—l was about asking the sanu
favor of you.”
Tar. aurdvcr. ary of otrr birth-days k always j
an interesting p. riou, and should Ire noticed)
accordingly-. E.icii of such days is a mile-stone \
on the road oflifc, reminding us of tire rapid j
rate at w hich we have been advanciug on its j
journey, and approaching its close. It is true J
taut in life’s mo riling, there mile-stones appear'
to be further apart t.ian they do in latter years; j
still, they are days of hope and promise.— j
Thousands are then rejoicing that they are one j
year nearer to the boasting age of twenty-one, (
when a young man feels himseif lord of his j
own actions, and glories in his liberty. To:
thousands of the fairer part of creation, these!
annual mouitors are welcome, as harbingers oi‘
the day when they shall shine in the ball-room!
or circles of fassion; attract all eyes, and j
command all attention; or perhaps fasten
some silken chain around the heart of an indi- j
vidual admirer, and lead him in delightful cap
tivity. 'To other thousands of the same sex,
the anniversary will tell a tale of sadness; of
departed hours and departed charms; of with
ered roses and withered hopes; when the look
ing-glass has lost its magic power, and speaks
nothing save in the plain langdage of unwel
come truth and soberness. Thousands arc
reminded that many of the intervals between
one mile-stonc and another were distinguished
by lovely landscapes and countless beauties;
by health and enjoyment—by joy and glad,
ness of heart. To thousands of others, such
intervals have been gloomy and cheerless;
w ithout the consolations of friendship, the
comforts of society, or the flattering promises
of hope. Surrounding prospects have only
increased the gloom of the mind, and made
the heart sic!:.
Vet in all these recollections, we may find
instruction and nourishment for our better feel
ings. If our course has been checkered with
good and eivcl, we may profit by tracing con
sequences to their proper causes; and thus
learn how many miscalled rife fortunes are tne
offspring of folly, or imprudence, or wrong;
the natural results of our own wanderings
from the path of innocence and duty ; or else
have been so fortunate as to have discovered
by experience, that our happiness and duty are
intimately connected, and that wisdom’s ways
are always ways of pleasentness and peace.
In both cases, this annual review of the days
and years that have taken their farewell of us,
will be salutary in its effect, and teach us the
value of virtuous resolutions of amendment,
when we have gone astray, and the peaceful
feelings and sweet anticipations of those whose
desire it is to preserve their moral health in the
bowers of innocence and purity, and amid the
green pastures and still waters of' life.
Courage. —lt is not in the daringness of
kicking a waiter at the tavern ; it is not in strut
ting with a cockade dressed in scarlet; it is not
in using oaths and imprecations at every word,
which forms the characteristics of true courage.
That man only is brave who fears nothing so
much as committing a mean action ; and un
dauntinglv fulfils his duty whatever may lie tiie
dangers that depend on his way.
An eminent modern writer beautifully says,
“the foundation of domestic happiness , is a faith
in the virtue of woman; the foundation oi'politi
cal happiness , is confidence in the integrity of
nirin ; the foundation of all happiness, tempo,
ral and eternal , is reliance on the goodness of
God.”
Many young persons think it something like
disgrace, or at least, it is ungenteel to work.
This is a very mistaken notion. God made
us to be useful, and what he made us for, must
he for honor, for dishonor he wills not to his
creatures. Strive to he, in truth and simplici
ty what God has given you power to be, and
you never need fear for your respectability.
SWALLOWING BEEF STEAK.
The Eastern Argus says that Valentine Cook,
Dearborn, choked to death while eating his
supper, at Mr. Philbrick’s tavern in Sidney, on
fee 18th ult. On making an incision into his
iroat, near the root of the tongue, a large piece
of beef steak, three inches long, inch and a half
wide, and a half of an inch thick, was discov
ered ; and in such a situation as to form a com
plete valve over the passage to the lungs and
stomach.
The dinner to Mr. Forrest at Philadelphia, on
F *idav. was one of the most splendid affairs of
the kind ever wot up there. Speeches were
made by the Hon. J. R. Ingersoll, President,
'm place of Mr. Biddle, indisposed,) Recorder
Conrad. Alderman Mo Michael Mr. Chandler
md Col. Page., and by Mr. Leggett, of New.
York.
gtowfgaia&gy iposu*,
OFFICE UNDER THE CENTRAL HOTEL, THIRD poop. Aliovv;
TI'S POST-OFFICE, AND IN THE REAR OF (ADJOININ’ )
TUF. MACON LYCEUM AND LIBRARY SOCIETY S SEU/INO
ROOM. *
MACON: ~
Saturday Xflorn December 30, 2327T~
Our thanks arc due to our correspondent “
M. P.” for a' New Years Address.
3Cr The Georgia Legislature adjourned on Monday
nighr last, at two o’clock.
Mr 8. Rose lias declined being a candidate for
Alderman of the second Ward.
We are authorized to say, Charles W. llare is not
a candidate for Sheriff.
We request, that our readers will give an atten
tive perusal to the correspondence of the Baltimore
American, copied in our paper of to-day—and also, that
ox the Charleston Courier. They will discover that a
erisis is at. hand, the termination of which none can
know or ted. That abolitionist sue determined to 'oir
islate for them, that an insolent majority are bent uuon
j depriving them of a part of their property, which the
| laws of their country have guaranteed to them by the
j :n0!?t so * e,lin acts of legislation—(a property which has
I met the seal and sanction of Heaven itself, if v.e are
accredit revelation or the divine language of inspiration)
will no longer admit of a doubt. The South has tor*
long sat still, calmly depending upon the justness of her
cause —or utterly disbelieving it possible, that a question
should ever be brought to discussion, in an American.
Congress, whether $800, 000,000 of private property
should be confiscated to please “ a few families at the
j North. ’ They are now no longer a few, but a host,
i arrayed and panoplied for the contest—prepared to do
|or die with much of the same zeal that causes the hec
j then to prostrate himsolt before the ponderous wheels
|of Jugernaut, or to throw himself into the flamiug
pr\e of Moloch. It 13 r.eara-kin s o the same spirit.—
M ith a sword in one kand, and a fire-brand in the other,
they will soon attempt to enforce the imperial law of the
j all-imperial majority. Like the Mahometan, they would
j "'ith fire and sword, force you to do as they do, in order
that, your aoui’s salvation may be secured. Oh! most
wonderous chanty ! most marvellous solicitude ! ! !
What would have boon the emotion, the feelings, the
thoughts of the great Washington and his illustrious rc
temporarie?—had they thought that such n discussion
would have arisen in the legislative hull of tha* great
republic, scarcely fifty years aiier they had founded It, at
the expense of their beet Mood and treasure; arid v. hich,
if carried out on flip principles of its foundation, would
have fu’filled the earnest desire of l!ie ; r hcni+r, rxto per
petua. And laughed to scorn the vaunting hoes* ov '*;»
onom.es, that itself, if let alone, would soon he i:s own
destruction. No, no, it is not good enough as it Is, nr
was ; it must be refined, and refined again, to suit tha
squemish scnsibilir'es of these mincing sticklers fora
piynt —a name. Thn; nre willing to be martyrs in t 1 «
glorious cause of redeeming us from our wo'.,! igno
rance—our barbarism and inhumanity. They, to es
tablish the principle that Slavery ns now re cognized in
the South, is contrary to our Republican insiiaU'Vnf,
the laws of God, and *he principles of Justice, ard to
deprive us of our just rights, would take from ns he
right of conscience, or the privi’edgo of worshiping as
seemed best to'us, under our own vine end fig tree: and
that which we possesses under sanction of'he consti
tution of these United States. Chafe on hut a linio
while longer, ve restless Beckers of disturbance, and a
BA LL rpill be put i.i motion, that will roll on until an
impassable barrier he fixed forever between thee and
us. And though its track lie marked bv desolation and
the blood of innocent thousands, it will no* cease to
move until all shall be accomplished, and its fury spent
upon the hc-ads of its movers.
J HCr We have received from Messrs. Dark & Edson,
! the December number of the “ Knickerbocker, or New
i ork Monthly Magazine.” It is ihe concluding num
ber of the tenth volume, and contains much imprest! ng
i matter, both to the curious and the lovers of light-plea
sant reading ; a fine specimen of which will be found
i under the head of “ OUapodiana,” whose quaint fane
| tiousness is well qualified to afreet the risible faculties of
the most grave and serious ; and is not otherwise de
void of interest and instruction. Among the graver mid
more substantial viands of this “ feast of reason,” arc to
be found the articles under the heads “American An
tiquities,” “ Nurseries of American Freemen,” “ Ged
graphical Distinctions of Color,” &c., and so on to such
articles as “ Our Birth-dors,” “Random Pm® ages,”
“OUapodiana,” “Wilson Con worth,” “the Poor Re
lation” “ Mr. and Mrs. Tompkins,” &c. &c.—ail of
which will well repay the reader for the perusal.
Festival of St. John.
J On Wednesday last, the Festival of St. John, the
. Evangelist, was celebrated by the Masonic fraternity,
at the Episcopal Church, in this place. Alk rutiftd e.J
appropriate address was delivered by the Rev. Dr. An
drews. The occasion was one of impressive interest to
the spectators, who were very numerous—and tljp mu
sic of the Choir, good to a degree, fur surpassing our ex
pectations.
Cotton Market.
Prices have not varied since our last. Put smell
quantifies have been in the market. Our Rivet is in
fine busting order.